Hey! Okay, I think I may have misled people... I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! This is not the last chapter! There is a total of 12! Each Saturday I have been releasing them as from the 1st October which was 12 weeks until Christmas Eve! This is now Chapter 9, so there are 3 more chapters in 3 weeks, which means Christmas Eve is the last date I publish the last chapter. 3 more weeks to go people! :D Anyways this is a pointless chapter, but trust me, it's a lot better than the original chapter 9, this was going to be chapter 11, but I cut out the original chapter 9 because it was totally pointless. Anyway, I hope you like it. ^^

Many thanks and cookies to WolfMidnightSky, soreceress of the nile, Waterlillyx 2, Frailty Abounds, Shadow fairy princess and 3R! ^^ All your reviews keep me going and you are all my reason for continuing to write stories! I hope you find I did the ending justice for Ryou and Bakura! =D

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Yugioh or a Christmas Carol

WARNING: Shonenai

Chapter 9

Ryou looked at the kitchen and smiled. It was time to do the turkey! He set the oven on a low temperature 50 degrees so the turkey can cook slowly for the night and waited for the light to turn off so he knew when the temperature was just right.

He unwrapped the turkey and removed the giblets from the neck and rinsed it inside and out with cold water. The light went off on the oven and Ryou finished preparing the turkey with seasoning and placed it in the oven. Ryou straightened up as he glanced around his home. It looked warm and inviting now that he redecorated it. He got a small plate from the cupboard and placed a couple of cookies and a fresh carrot and made a glass of milk and placed it on his coffee table before turning the lights off, leaving just the Christmas lights on and made his way upstairs.

When he got to the top of the stair case, he looked at the closed door that was Bakura's room. Ryou bit his lip. The peaceful person he was wanted to go in there and see if they can talk their argument through, but the sensible side said that Bakura was probably asleep and Bakura would ignore Ryou anyway. Ryou frowned. When had it become like this again? His heart ached for his dark's touch, but he knew that wasn't going to come anytime soon. Ryou sighed and turned to his bedroom, his sensible side winning. He wondered if Bakura would ever notice him and not push him away constantly. He always called him weak and he was really starting to believe him. He shrugged off his t-shirt and looked at himself in the mirror; he didn't have the muscles his dark had. Ryou tilted his head as he traced the scar on his right arm that he received courtesy of Malik and Bakura. Malik had apologised to him when they met for the first time after battle city, but Bakura has never apologised for anything, and the fact that Ryou just welcomed him back into his life strongly supported Bakura's view of Ryou being naive and weak. Ryou sighed and went into the bathroom and turned the shower on. He took off the remainder of his clothes and rinsed his body. The minute the water touched Ryou's skin, he immediately relaxed. He loved showers because they made all his worries and stress go away.

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Once he was done with the shower, he got out and wrapped a towel round his waist, his wet hair dripping down onto his back and on the towel; he dried quickly and put on clean boxers and a loose t-shirt that he always wore to bed. He dried his hair with a smaller towel that was waiting for him on his desk chair and dried his hair with it. When he was finished, he looked at himself in the mirror again. His breath caught his throat. His normally neat, tidy hair was messed up and the spikes were sticking up ever so slightly. This was one of the reasons he liked having showers; as every time he dried his hair with a towel, he always managed to look like Bakura. He once thought about scaring Malik with it, but he always shrugged off the idea. His eyes would give him away anyway, he could never master the evil look that Bakura gets in his eyes. Ryou sighed and picked up his hairbrush and started making it look tidy again. He wondered if he brushed Bakura's hair, would he look like him? Ryou giggled to himself at that, which vanished as quickly as it came. He wished Bakura would just appreciate him, even if he didn't love Ryou. Just being there for him would make Ryou happy. But he couldn't force Bakura to like him.

Ryou put his brush down and stared into the mirror. He wondered what it would be like if Bakura did return his feelings... Ryou shook his head, making the thought go away. Not that it would ever happen, but he couldn't help but wonder who would be Bakura's type. There was no doubt that Bakura was gay because Malik himself told him that, and Bakura has never seemed interested in girls. Nah he would have thought someone like Malik would be his type, because he was submissive but tough and not weak, unlike himself. Ryou shook his head. What was he doing? It was Christmas Eve! Why was he thinking depressing things? Maybe he should have gone to Yugi's; at least it would have taken his mind off of Bakura. He glanced at the clock and gasped.

'01:30?' It was Christmas Day! Ryou grinned as he couldn't help it. Finally! The one day of the year he always had a good time without any troubles was here! Ryou went to his bed and laid down. He had a feeling it was going to be a better Christmas Day than all the ones he had in the previous years, he had no idea why, but Ryou could just sense it as he never let anything get him down on Christmas Day. Ryou closed his eyes and fell instantly asleep; unaware what the object of his thoughts and darkness was going through.

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