A/N: Chapter 36!
I guess the last Chapter wasn't as funny as I thought and I apologize for it.
Anyways, on to the next Chapter!
Christmas was fast approaching and Yusei didn't have an idea on what to get Akiza.
Thanksgiving was almost here and Yusei knew he'd have to start looking for a Christmas gift.
He decided that he had to do the one thing that he didn't want to do.
Ask his friends.
It's not that he didn't like talking to them, it's just that they didn't have any real experience buying gifts for a girl. Plus, the conversions about girls never turned out the way he wanted. It usually turned into "did you see that really cute girl" or "doesn't she have a nice body" conversations.
He invited Crow and Jack to come over late at night, when Crow got off work, to talk about it.
They went and sat in Yusei's room.
"Okay Yusei, what's this meeting about?" Crow asked.
"Well, I needed help finding a gift for Akiza for Christmas," he said, "I thought you guys could help me."
"Why don't you get her some nice launderer?" Crow said slyly.
Yusei gave him an angry look.
"No way," he said, "Besides, I'm not asking for her sizes. She'll get suspicious."
He turned to Jack.
"What do you think?"
"Well, I think you should get her some type of jewelry," he said, "Women always go crazy for that."
"I don't have the money," Yusei said, "Plus, what jewelry would she want?"
"A necklace, ring, whatever. Like Billy Mays said, "It doesn't matter."
Yusei sighed.
"I still don't have the money," he said, "What other ideas do you got?"
Crow and Jack shrugged and shook their heads.
"Thanks for trying guys. I'll see you later," Yusei said.
Crow and Jack got up and headed for the door.
"Wait, we came over just for a 5 minute talk?" Crow said, "Why don't we talk about something else? Hey Jack, does Carly have any nice parts?"
"Oh yeah, she has a real nice..."
They close the door.
Yusei sighed again, put on his pajamas, and laid on his bed.
"No matter what," he thought, "I will find a present for her."
He closed his eyes and went to sleep.
The next day Akiza was in the shower. It was late morning and Yusei wondered if he could get some ideas by looking around her room.
He sneaked inside and started looking around. Some clothes were on the floor, but it was only a few. Her bed was sloppily made, like always.
He opened her closet. He started looking through her clothes.
"Warm weather clothes, cold weather clothes, and in-between clothes. She has enough clothes for every season," he said.
He then went to her dresser. He noticed all the make-up she had.
"I can't buy her make-up. I don't what brands she likes or what colors to get or not get," he thought.
He then noticed something else.
It was the necklace that she always wore. It was a green emerald with yellow bars sticking out of four sides.
Yusei picked it up and looked at it.
"I wonder where she got it and how old it is?" he thought.
He set it down back where he picked it up. He walked away and heard something.
He turned and watched as the necklace headed for the floor. He closed his eyes and heard a crash.
He gasped and then rushed over to it.
He flipped it over and the green emerald was smashed. Pieces were all over the floor and, two of the bars sticking out, were scratched.
"Oh no! What am I going to do?" he said.
Just as he wondered what to do, he heard the shower water turn off.
"Oh man! I've got to get out of here!"
He got up and ran to his room. A few minutes later, a fully dressed Akiza walked out.
Yusei watched as she headed for her room. He slowly followed her, when he heard her say, "Oh no!"
Yusei then peeked through her bedroom doorway.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"My necklace. It's broken," Akiza said.
She sighed.
"Oh well. Yusei? Can you go get the dust pan and broom?" she asked.
"All right," he said sadly.
He got the items she asked for and came back to her room.
"Do you want me to do it?" Yusei asked.
"No, it's fine Yusei," she said, "I'll clean it up. I put on the edge of the dresser, so it's my fault."
Yusei bit his lip.
"I should tell her," he thought.
"You can go now Yusei. I'll clean up the mess, " Akiza said sadly.
"Do you want to talk about it?" he asked kindly.
"No. It's fine. I'll be okay."
Yusei walked out and went to his room.
"I should try to find her something to replace that necklace," he thought.
He laid on his bed.
"I should go to the mall and see if there's something to replace it," he thought, "I should bring Akiza along too."
He got up and went back to Akiza's room. Akiza had just dumped the pieces into the trash.
"Hey Akiza. Do you want to go to the mall?"
Akiza shook her head.
"Why are you asking me Yusei? You don't like shopping and neither do I."
"Well, I thought you might want something to replace the necklace that broke," he said.
"I don't have the money," she said.
"Well, we can at least go out to eat for lunch while we're there," he said.
Akiza looked up and smiled.
"Okay," she said, "If it means I'm getting to lunch with you."
"Sure. Whatever you want," he said.
"Just let me get ready," she said.
Akiza got ready and they headed off.
When went to the mall, they headed for a retail store.
Yusei wanted them to split up, so that he could have a chance to look at jewelry.
"We can look at clothes," he said, "I'll go over to the men's department and you can go to the women's department."
"Okay," Akiza said.
Yusei walked towards the men's area. He knew the jewelry was sold there too.
When he got to the jewelry area, it had watches, necklaces, and other shiny things.
Yusei tried to look for something similar to Akiza's necklace.
"May I help you sir?" a man asked.
"Oh, hello. I'm looking for something that looks like this."
He showed a picture of Akiza wearing the necklace.
"I'm sorry sir, but we don't sell something like that here. You could go the jewelry store next door."
He pointed to it.
"Okay. Thanks," Yusei said
When got to the store, he looked around. He couldn't find the exact one that Akiza had, but found one very similar.
It had a darker green emerald, but still had the same gold colored bars sticking out.
"How much is it?" he wondered.
He looked at the tag.
"$200?" he said, "Who knew Akiza had such expensive jewelry?"
He sighed and walked out.
"How can I come up with $200 before Christmas?" he thought.
"Yusei!"
Akiza ran over to him.
"There you are. I was looking all over for you. What were you doing?"
"I was...uh...uh..."
He looks over and spotted an ad.
"Just looking at the jobs that are available," he said.
Akiza and him walked over to the ad.
"Aww man, the only thing open is being Santa Claus," he said.
"But look at the money you could make," Akiza said.
"$10 an hour just to sit and talk to kids?" Yusei asked.
"Yeah, plus they need girl assistants too," Akiza said, "Why don't we both go for it?"
"I don't know. I'm not big on kids and I'm not fat enough," Yusei said.
"Don't worry," Akiza said, "Check the fine print."
"Anyone who's not big enough, can wear a fat suit," Yusei read.
"Okay," Yusei said, "Lets go for it.
"The store that you can interview's right there," Akiza said.
She points to it.
As they walk, Yusei thought to himself.
"This is perfect! I can be with Akiza and make money for a Christmas gift!"
They smiled and held hands as they walked into the store.
A/N: Please Review! Sorry it's not Christmas yet.