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The Sweetest Gift	By : RyokoBlue Category: Yu-Gi-Oh > Het - Male/Female Views: 7343 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own YuGiOh!, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

Chapter List
- 1-The Sweetest Gift
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Disclaimer: No way do these characters belong to me, I’m
just borrowing them for my own sadistic pleasure, I will return them
unscathed…maybe…

Summary: Pairings: Y/T/YY- Yugi wants to get Téa a special gift for Christmas, he doesn’t know
that he has already given her the best gift, and can Yami make up for a
terrible mistake?

A/N: This is a one-shot threesome fic, two guys and one
girl, (no Yaoi), if this type of situation offends you, then turn back now.
The full version without editing can be found adultfanfictionnet, and Mediaminerorg,
you can find the link to my story section there here in my profile.

The Sweetest Gift

Christmas Eve day was the most
horrendous shopping day of the year; everyone will be out getting that last
minute gift. It had begun lightly snowing the night before, a soft blanket of
white settled over Domino giving the crowded city a beautiful makeover.

The sign on the Turtle Game Shop
had yet to be switched over to the open side. It was only seven thirty in the morning and the shop didn’t even open until nine o’clock sharp. Yet the bells on
the door wrung indicating that someone had used the door, a voice from the
stock room shouted out: “We’re not open yet.” A small figure with a huge box
blocking their face came from the backroom as the hanging beads parted allowing
entry into the shop.

“Well if the shop was not open
yet, then why was the door unlocked?” A familiar deep voice asked.

The box dropped from the arms of
its carrier in alarm to the linoleum floor with a loud ‘thud’, and a teenage
boy with tri-colored spiky hair stared, his violet eyes bulging out. “Oh, wow
it worked.” He was staring at his other self, no wait, this was not his other
self, he was his own person, and here he was in his own human body. They still
looked much alike except for a few differences now. The darker skin color, the
taller hei— Yugi scowled for a moment, it wasn’t fair! “You’re huge! Yami how
did—”

Yami gave a good hearty chuckle.
“I guess that I am this tall, sorry Yugi.” He saw the teenage boy roll his
eyes, “Isis was definitely very helpful, who knew that I could get a whole year
in my own body, hopefully we can find my memories before I have to return to
the puzzle box.”

Yugi was still happy that his
darker half was finally able to have a body of his own, last night he had left
the Millennium Puzzle with Isis Ishtar per her request and was able to find a
spell that would give Yami back his body, but only for one year. Yugi wasn’t
sure if it was going to work or not, but it turns out that the ancient magic Isis
used worked perfectly.

“Yugi!” Solomon’s voice shouted
from the stock room. “Téa’s on the phone!”

“All right, I’m coming! Guess
what Grampa, Yami has his own body!”

“That’s great Yugi, tell him to
come and get something to eat, breakfast is ready.”

Yami nodded. “I heard,” He smiled,
happy that he can finally do things for himself and not have to wait for Yugi
to give him use of his body. The two of them went into the stock room, to the
door on the left that was still open. That was the entrance to the living
quarters above the shop; there the two of them climbed the stairs into the
warm, comforting home that Yugi shared with his grandfather.

Yami immediately went over to the
old man and enveloped him in a huge embrace, lifting the man off the ground and
shaking him up and down playfully. Solomon couldn’t help but laugh.

“Wow, Yami my boy. Look at you.”
He fixed his hat that had gone askew with the large hug he had received from
the puzzle spirit turned human, he went to get the boy a plate full of waffles,
as he saw Yugi grab the portable phone and go into the living room.

Yugi sat down, the Christmas tree
sitting a few feet in front of the white sofa, its multi-colored lights
twinkling prettily, the decorations of bulbs and keepsakes, which included a
small picture ornament in the shape of a star of Tea and Yugi, when they were
around seven years old and it was their second Christmas with one another. In
the photo their cheeks were pressed together and were both smiling brightly, it
was ornaments like that which gave the tree a very warm feeling.

Yugi cleared his throat. “Ah, hey
Téa.”

“Good morning Yugi!” She sounded
so cheerful. “Sorry to call so early.”

“It’s no problem.” He looked
behind himself briefly, seeing Yami talking with his grandfather as the old man
piled at least six waffles onto a festive holly plate for him, he saw Yami
signal for two more. That boy could sure eat!

“Are you still coming tonight?”
Yugi asked Téa quietly.

“For our traditional Christmas Eve
sleepover, you bet! I can’t wait. I have your ticket for my performance this
afternoon, are you still coming to that?”

Yugi smiled, turning back around
while his face tinted pink, he spoke even quieter, “You know I never miss your
performances.”

“Yugi, what’s wrong, you’re
practically whispering.”

He sighed, not wanting to tell Téa about Yami, that he was going to be here too now
and in his own body. She probably wouldn’t want to come if she knew about
that. Yugi remembered when Téa had taken that
brave chance to tell the puzzle spirit how she felt about him, and it didn’t go
well. Yami said that he did not return those feelings for her, he was awfully
cold about it that it would even put Kaiba to shame. Yami didn’t even try to
break it to her gently, which was a bit painful for Téa;
of course she ended up calling him a big jerk for being so mean about it, which
resulted in him saying just because he didn’t feel the same way he was a big
jerk? Yami indeed missed the whole point that she was trying to make. And
that resulted in an even bigger fight, with her giving him quite the hand print
across his face, which at the time he was using Yugi’s body. Yugi knew she
felt bad for that, because she did not intend to hurt her best friend he saw
how she regretted causing him pain, but Yami on the other hand she did not
regret it.

The two hadn’t spoken to each
other since the ‘incident’, Téa would refuse
to be near Yugi if Yami was going to use his body. It took her months to get
over the heartache she suffered, and Yugi didn’t want to expose her to
something that might trigger her pain once more.

He was actually kind of glad that
Téa wasn’t talking to his dark anymore,
because that meant that he could go ahead and try to win her heart now. He’s
always had a crush on his best friend, but he wanted to do the right thing and
step aside for his dark half and Téa if they
chose to be together. But Yami had refused her, so that meant Yugi was now
free to go for it without feeling guilty.

“Yugi? Are you still there?”

He blinked, brought back from
inner thoughts. “Uh, yeah sorry.”

“Something is wrong isn’t it?
You’re acting funny even for being on the phone.” Yugi could hear her as she
clicked her tongue which meant she just made a decision… “That’s it, I’m
coming over.”

“No, wait Téa—” All he heard was a dial tone, and he groaned, resting his
face in his hands.

“Something wrong Yugi?” Solomon
asked, seeing his grandson looking worried.

Rubbing his face with his hands,
Yugi stood, slapping them to his sides. “Téa’s
coming over.” He glanced at Yami who’s fork had stopped in midair for a few
moments before descending down on the delicious sugary syrup covered little
square. “I’m going to go and meet her down in the game shop.” He was still
looking right at Yami. “I want you to stay up here, Yami please?”

The former spirit nodded,
understanding. “Of course, Yugi,” he watched as Yugi made way for the stairs
that would lead him down into the game shop, after a few moments Yami stood.

“Yugi asked for you to stay up
here.” Said the old man who was currently in the kitchen putting together
another plate of waffles for Téa, knowing that
she’d probably come up.

“I know that. I will not be in
the way, they will not see me.” He couldn’t resist the urge to find out why
she would come over here so early, and the fact that he hadn’t even seen her
since their fight. He did feel a little bad after the fact, and he would often
think about apologizing, but she wouldn’t let him since she refused to be
around him, at least that’s what Yugi had told him. It did sting just a little
that she wanted nothing to do with him, she was after all a good friend, it was
such a shame she was letting such a ridiculous thing as a fight to come between
friendship; and maybe he did miss her. He knew it was true, Yami had never
appreciated her when she was around, she was just always there and supportive,
and then when she left him basically…he never really realized what he had until
she was gone.

Solomon smirked. “Spying is very
unbecoming.” He heard Yami snort, before the young man’s footsteps carried him
to the open door that led down stairs.

Yami heard the bells hanging on
the door chime and he pressed himself as close to the wall as possible, still
able to look into the shop and see them. Yugi was on the other side of the
counter and Téa had just come in, she was
wrapped in a white fluffy scarf with a matching hat on her head.

Yugi smiled seeing her, her cheeks
were rosy from the cold nip in the air and she looked adorable bundled up in
her white scarf, she lifted her hand which had matching mittens and pulled off
her hat, her short chocolate hair looking a little messy as she swatted the
snow flakes off her hat. Yugi saw her azure eyes searching for something that
usually hung around his neck- the upside down pyramid that he constantly wore,
which he promised he wouldn’t wear around her anymore. He saw her nod and then
smile as if satisfied.

“S—so what brings you by so
early?” Yugi asked while jumping onto the counter so he could sit. He waited
as she came forward from the door, unzipping her light blue coat, she pulled it
off revealing a soft white cashmere sweater, she sat her coat on the chair
along with her scarf, hat, and mittens next to the door that was used to string
up decorations around the store, she flattened her hands against the jeans she
was wearing a little nervously. Her white Sherpa style boots then raced across
the floor as she hurried to her best friend where she looped her arms around
his neck, hugging him tightly.

Téa’s
eyes were closed as she embraced her best friend tightly, she was looking for
any excuse to see him, falling for one’s best friend could be considered wrong
but it was an emotion she could not stop. Téa
felt his arms curling around her in return. “Can’t a girl come and see her
best friend?” She said into his ear. “And you sounded upset on the phone, is
something wrong?”

If his face wasn’t already red, it was even more so
now. Yugi knew she was always affectionate, but this caught him off guard a
little, especially since he was sitting on the counter and she was now standing
between his legs. He couldn’t help but react to the female body that was
pressed so tightly against him, and the soft scent of berries that surrounded
him. He felt his eyes roll in delight and then close as he inhaled her lovely
scent. He was probably in for a beating if she felt exactly what was ‘coming
up’. “Uh, n…no, nothing’s wrong Téa.”

She pulled back from him shivering
lightly from the loss of body contact and heat, smiling brightly before jumping
onto the counter herself so that she could sit next to him. Leaning back a
little, Téa reached into her pocket and pulled
out a green piece of paper, holding it out to him. “This is yours.” Her eyes
twinkled as his fingers brushed hers in taking the paper.

Taking the paper from Téa’s hand, Yugi read it, discovering that it was the
ticket to her performance this afternoon. He smiled down at it, knowing how
proud she was to have gotten the lead in this year’s production of The
Nutcracker Suite. “You worked hard Téa, and I
am sure you’ll be beautiful on the stage.” He saw her cheeks heat as she
looked down at her fingers which were resting in her lap. “I can’t wait to see
it.” And without thinking he blurted out: “Do you want to come up? Grandpa as
usual made breakfast, waffles this morning.” He grinned, loving American
breakfast foods.

“Sure, why not.” Téa jumped off the counter and went to retrieve her
items, as Yugi heard what sounded like a scuffle from behind him, and then he
remembered about Yami just as Téa passed him.

“Uh wait…” He shouted out, but Téa was already to the stairs. He then shrugged;
well she was bound to find out sooner or later. He hung his head briefly
before walking the same path she did. Not even a second passed when Téa’s shriek filled the air which made Yugi run up
the stairs as fast as his short legs could carry him and he collided into Téa’s back, who was standing stark still pointing to
the presence in front of the dinning table, Yugi had knocked her forward
slightly. “Now Téa don’t…” He saw her whirl
around to face him, her shock being replaced by that of anger.

Téa
leaned closer to Yugi’s ear. “Why didn’t you say anything to me about this?” Her
voice low and tipped with hostility.

He shrugged, “I didn’t know how to
tell you.” Yugi replied just as quietly while looking down at his feet feeling
bad for not being honest with the one that mattered to him the most. He saw
her take a deep breath and nod, her eyes softly closing.

“I’ve gotta go, uh you know things
to do before the performance, your gift to pick up.” Téa
sighed, now she wasn’t so sure about coming tonight. “I’ll probably give you
your gift after the performance, I don’t think I’m coming to stay with you
tonight.”

Yugi’s eyes widened, and he looked
over Téa’s shoulder at Yami who looked like he
was trying to hear what they were talking about. Yugi’s eyes narrowed slightly
at the fact that his other half was trying to eavesdrop. Grabbing her hand,
Yugi started pulling her down the hall so they could have a bit more privacy.
“Téa you have to come, it’s our tradition.”

She leaned the back of her head
against the wall, eyes closed ever so lightly. “I don’t think it’s a good idea,
Yugi.” Téa didn’t want to be anywhere near
that ‘guy’, even in the same air space was bad enough to her.

“I know that you’re uncomfortable,
but Yami, he can stay in my room and we’ll camp out by the tree, like every
year.” He moved closer to her. “Please don’t change our traditions because of
him.” Yugi’s voice dropped a notch so that he was practically whispering. “He’s
not worth it. Our friendship is important and worth so much more, please
don’t back out of years and years of traditions because of him.”

Téa
felt that Yugi was right, there was a lot of sense in what he said. She
shouldn’t change her traditions because of some silly guy, besides Yugi was
important to her as well as their friendship. So she must come to their
Christmas Eve tradition. Smiling, Téa
groaned. “Ah, you’re right.” Lowering her head, she looked him right in the
eye. “All right, I’ll come. But only if ‘he’ stays in your
room.”

Inside, Yugi jumped with joy, at
least she was still coming tonight. He glanced to his left where his
grandfather and Yami had sat down at the table once more, then feeling fingers
in his hair, Yugi looked out of the corner of his eye seeing Téa, she was playing in his multicolored hair, with
this strange far off look in her eyes while quietly humming to herself. What
she was doing…felt really good. Her fingers soft and gentle would stroke up
from his scalp to run through his darker hair and tug a little in his crimson
edges in a soft massage.

“I’ve always liked your hair
Yugi,” She even sounded like she was in a far off place. Then suddenly she
stopped, probably because Solomon had started talking to her.

“Are you hungry, Téa? There’s plenty here for you.”

With a disappointed sigh, Téa dropped her hand from Yugi’s hair and stepped
towards the table. “Actually I can’t, I gotta run.” She bent and picked up
her coat, scarf, hat, and mittens that she had dropped on the floor in her
moment of shock and started to put them on. “I have a few errands to run
before the performance, but I’ll be back tonight.”

Solomon smirked. “Your parents
aren’t concerned with you staying here over night, especially on Christmas
Eve?”

Téa
planted her hands on her hips and arched her brow. “I have been coming here for
quite a number of years now; they really don’t think much of it. Except my dad
never fails to give me ‘The Talk’.” She saw Yugi’s grandfather hold in a
chuckle as his face turned red from trying to hide his laughter. Téa knew that Solomon also knew that ‘The Talk’
consisted of her father going on a murder plot if anything were to disrupt his
little girl’s innocence. “We’ve been doing this for so long that I guess my
parents understand that it is our tradition. Plus you’re going to be here, if
you weren’t then they’d probably tell me to forget it.” She put her fluffy
white hat onto her head and smiled at Yugi’s grandfather and not even giving
the former puzzle spirit a glance. “I’ll see ya.” And then she waved and
hurried down the stairs.

“So Yugi, what did you get Téa for Christmas?” Solomon asked his grandson who
came towards him and sat down at the other end of the table.

“My presents to her always suck,”
He complained. “But this time I think I did good - I think it’s really
special.” Yugi smiled to himself, but it was showing on his face. “It’s just a
simple blue stone,” ‘it kinda made me think of her eyes,’ “I hope she
likes it.”

Solomon smiled. “I’m sure she’ll
like anything you give her, Yugi.” It was then he noticed how quiet Yami had
been, he usually talked up a storm when he was the one in charge of Yugi’s
body. He watched the former spirit closely, he was certainly concentrating on
something, for he seemed rigid and tense, and he had an idea what it was that
kept Yami’s attention. Clearing his throat, he turned to Yugi. “Did you finish
putting out those board games from the stock room, Yugi?”

The teenager jumped to his feet.
“Oh no, I forgot.” He truly did, since Yami came in, in his own body, then the
phone call and Téa’s sudden stop over. “I’ll
get to it right now.” He raced towards the stairs that lead down into the game
shop.

“What about your breakfast?”
Solomon quickly shouted, he heard a faint: ‘I’ll eat it after I set out the
board games!’ from down stairs. Shrugging his shoulders the old man moved over
to the far, far, far, distant ancestor of his and Yugi’s. He picked up the now
empty plate that sat in front of Yami. “You know, Christmas Eve is a magical
night, if there is something that you possibly regret, this is the night to
make up for mistakes and forgiveness.”

Yami looked up as the old man
carried the plate to the sink with a whistle on his lips. Shaking his
tri-colored head and letting out a sigh, his plum colored eyes drifting lazily
to the side where the Christmas tree was. “I do not know what you are talking
about.”

With his back to the former
spirit, Solomon cracked a tiny almost non existent smile. “Hmm, perhaps.
There’s nothing that you need to make up for, I was just speaking about
Christmas Eve since you’ve never experienced it before.” He heard the chair feet
scrape against the hardwood floor. “Hmm, I wonder if I should move the dance
performance ticket which ‘reads’ The Nutcracker Suite- December twenty fourth-
one thirty pm - admit one- from that place on my dresser which is sitting right
on top of my deceased wife’s old jewelry box that features white cranes that is
in my room.” He scratched the back of his head. “Of course I think I might
just keep it there, my memory has been a little dodgy lately, so it is best I
don’t move it around too much.”

Yami’s brows furrowed, people only
gave out that much information when… Oh! He understood what the
old man was doing, how very considerate in offering up his own chance to see
the performance. He really was a generous man, perhaps he should pay a quick
visit to the…bathroom, yeah…the bathroom.

****

Téa
glanced at her reflection in the mirror; the nightgown styled costume was a
pretty white sequined form fitting bodice which curved around her full bosom,
then flaring out a little at the hips in a sheer pink and purple multi-layered
calf length skirt. She glanced down at her nude colored nylons to the white
pearl-escent toe shoes. Her not quite shoulder length milk chocolate hair was
pulled up on one side where a red poinsettia was pinned snuggly in her tresses.
Her hair wasn’t exactly long enough to put it in a bun, and one of her dance
coaches, Michelle-san said this would be okay since she was the lead and all,
besides it was pretty even though the red flower did not exactly go with
costume.

Walking out of the girl’s dressing
room, Téa made her way to the backstage area
of the auditorium, and she found her dance group all stretching out. Finding
her leading man, a boy the same age whose name was Kaoru, he too was
stretching. “Kaoru-kun!” She shouted over the chatter and he looked up from
his leg stretches. Téa smiled and waved him
over, quickly the boy jumped to his feet and hurried to her.

“What can I do for you Téa-chan?” He asked with a smile.

Téa
returned his smile. “Do you think you can help me stretch?”

“Certainly,” he clapped his hands
together once, rubbing them as Téa began her
set of stretches with his assistance in some poses…

Kaoru had grabbed her ankle and
stretched her leg straight up, while she leaned towards him putting her weight
down. “Are you seeing your family for the holiday, Téa-chan?”

Taking a deep breath and pressing
down more as Kaoru stretched her leg higher. “Well tonight I usually stay with
Yugi and we camp out by the Christmas tree.”

Her dance partner chuckled.
“Waiting for Santa?” He wiggled his brows.

She giggled. “We do that every
year, it’s our tradition. On Christmas day, we get together will all our
friends and family and go over to my house for festivities. It’s always so
fun.”

“Yeah, tonight my girlfriend Yumi
and I get together with our parents and we go to my father’s annual Christmas
Party at his business, it’s a pretty fancy thing so we gotta dress up and
stuff.”

“Sounds like fun.” Téa then sunk down into a series of splits,
horizontal and parallel.

A midnight colored haired girl who
was known as Keiko she was costumed in a pastel purple which was glittery -she
was a sugar plum fairy- hurried over to Téa
and Kaoru. “Hey you guys.” She waited till Téa
stood up. “I’ve got a few questions for you.” Keiko saw the look on Téa’s face indicating for her to continue. “Now we’ve
only been out of school for the holiday for four days, and I well I’m just a
little confused, you see.”

“Keiko just spit it out, you’re
starting to get annoying.” Kaoru said pinching his sinuses, that girl always
gave him a headache.

“All right! You don’t need to be a
jerk about it Omaro.” Keiko snapped, then turned a smile in Tea’s direction.
“Your friend Yugi didn’t happen to sprout oh I don’t know five to six inches,
or run over to Bali getting a tan and coming back in oh four days has he?”

Tea looked at her like she was
nuts. “No, that is virtually impossible, well not the trip to Bali, I would
know if he had done something like that. But the sprouting height in only four
days like that, no way.”

“I didn’t think so.” Keiko said,
pointing over her friend’s shoulder, “but then who is that if he’s not Yugi?”
She saw Téa turn her head, “He said he was
looking for you.” Keiko thought she heard a growl come from Téa.

‘Gah! What is he doing here!?’
Her inner thoughts demanded! She did not need this irritation fifteen minutes
before show time.

“Téa,
just who is that? And he shouldn’t be back here.” Keiko complained.

“He’s uh, Yugi’s…uh…cousin.” What
else could she say, they wouldn’t believe the truth. She barely heard Keiko
say that he was hot as she made her way over to him. She tired to keep her
anger down to a simmer. “What are you doing here Yami? How did you even get
here?”

“Well I paid attention to
locations while being stuck in Yugi’s body.” Yami cleared his throat. “I think
we should talk, you did not even so much as give me a glance except for that
moment you stood there shocked.” He really didn’t know what he was going to
say.

She crossed her arms over her
breasts, careful not to crush her sequins. “I don’t want to talk to you, you
need to leave.” Téa turned determining not to
speak to him at all. She took maybe two steps when she felt a large hand wrap
around her arm, hauling her back. Turning a furious hot glare upon the owner
of that hand, she yelled: “What do you think you’re doing!” And she ripped her
arm from his hand sneering at him. “You have no right to grab me like that.”
She spoke low and threatening.

“We are not done speaking yet.” He
stated rather calmly and if not innocently.

Growling, Téa clinched her fists at her sides. “I don’t talk to people I
hate.”

He snickered softly. “You do not
hate me, it is not in you to hate anyone and you know it.” He saw her eyes
shift to the side before returning to his violet.

“Fine, I don’t hate. So I
extremely dislike you, how’s that?” She was sarcastic and she was still mad
about the whole grabbing thing. “You can’t go around grabbing people.”

“How else was I to get your
attention? You clearly are bent on ignoring me, which means you still must be
pretty bitter about what happened all those months ago.”

Téa
snorted rather unladylike. “I am not still bitter; I just don’t associate with
jerks.”

Crossing his arms over his chest,
Yami looked at her with an arched brow. “If you were not still bitter then that
clearly means you still feel strongly towards me.”

“You wish.” Téa spat scathingly. “It just so happens that I have
strong feelings for Yugi. It was him that has been here with me all the while,
in my moments of heartbreak, and in friendship.” She took a deep breath. “And I
am going to tell him…tonight.” She gulped in nervousness while the thoughts of
her plan in telling her best friend how she felt crept into her mind. “So I
couldn’t possibly have any such remaining feelings for the likes of you.” She
glared at him.

He was about to respond when an
effeminate voice shouted.

“Clara, where’s my Clara?”

Téa
whirled around. “I’m here Guybrush-san.” She waved her hand in the air, and
her teacher came forward and clasped both her hands tenderly in his.

“Now, I want you to do your best.”
Guybrush was grinning. “I didn’t want to say anything until after the
performance, but there is a scout in the audience. He’s looking for dancers
for his summer dance program in Hawaii in the United States, it is very
prestigious.” He saw her eyes light up and Téa
clutched his hands tighter.

“Oh you really think he could
choose me?” She smiled so brightly that it cause stars to dim. “I will do my
best, Guybrush-san. I won’t let you down.”

“That’s my girl.” Guybrush gushed.
“It’s a few minutes till show time, time to center yourself.”

Téa
closed her eyes and took in a deep breath and let it out slow and smoothly, she
felt so relaxed. When she opened her eyes, everything exuded peace and ease;
she was ready to go on.

“Téa,
is that a friend of yours?” Guybrush suddenly seemed to purr as he gazed at the
impressive figure- he was sure Téa was talking
to that man. “He is a remarkable piece of candy that I could just eat up.” He
giggled.

Glancing over her shoulder, she
found Yami to still be there. “Ugh.” She groaned. That darn guy! He just
wouldn’t go away! “That’s just Yami, and I don’t think he’d be interested
since I think he’s s—” Wait a minute, she had the perfect idea to get rid of
this guy…her eyes narrowed deviously. “Shy, yeah that’s it, but I know for a
fact that he responds well to aggressive come-ons.”

“Can it be that he is interested
in men?” Guybrush asked quietly, it was almost too good to pass up.

Téa
shrugged. “I don’t know, I think he could very well swing that way. Why don’t
you go and find out.” She patted him on the shoulder, holding in a snicker as
Guybrush crossed the floor to Yami. Téa
watched out of the corner of her eye, she really couldn’t hear what Guybrush
was saying since he was speaking in hushed tones, that was until Yami’s sudden
voice exploded.

“I beg your pardon!”

“Now, it’s really no big deal. I
am so attracted to the shy silent types.” Guybrush wagged his brows
suggestively, and trailed his finger up and down the young man’s arm.

Yami felt his face pale, this guy
was a pervert! What he had suggested and with himself…Yami shivered. “Uh…I
gotta go.” He turned on his heels and started walking away.

“Oh come on, don’t be so coy.” Guybrush’s
voice teased. “It’ll be fun! Really, I’ve never had any complaints before, I’ve
been told I have an amazing—” He was cut off by the young man’s strange
strangled sounding noise, he actually saw the young man speed up to an actual
run as he dodged away from him. “Oh how cute, he’s playing hard to get.”

Téa
tried hard not to laugh, it was almost impossible not to snort out loud in fits
of laughter, the look on Yami’s face…the way Guybrush responded. She suddenly
felt a whole lot better. It was almost time to go on, she could hear the
theater crowding up…

Joey scooted into the middle of
the aisle, sitting in the fourth row. Mai slid in beside him and then
Serenity. Tristan was next and as soon as the two of them sat down, Tristan
stretched his arm up and placed it over Serenity’s shoulder in a false yawn.
Serenity looked over at him and smiled adoringly.

Tristan returned a devastatingly
sexy smile in her direction and was about to cuddle her more when—“OW!” He
yelped not very dignified at all. There was a sudden pinch against the tender
flesh of his hand, he pulled his arm back and rubbed the sore spot on his
hand. Looking up he found Joey glaring at him.

“Stop puttin’ the moves on my
sister.” Joey threatened, anger heating his brown eyes.

“Oh leave them alone.” Mai said
with a roll of her eyes.

A tall man with strawberry-blonde
hair, holding a clip board was walking down the aisle and was going to take the
seat next to Tristan but all four of them shouted.

“That seat is taken!”

The stranger jumped, startled. “Geeze,
sorry.” Speaking in a very weak accent, indicating that he was from another
country. Feeling a little irritated went to find another seat one the other
side of the theater, thinking: ‘this better be worth it.’

Walking through the entrance of
the theater, Yugi held a bouquet of pretty red and white roses swaddled in red
tissue paper in his hand. Earlier, when he had asked his grandfather for a
little bit of cash so he could Téa a flower,
or a small gift when his grandfather threw all this money at him. Yugi had
tried to give it back but his grandfather was having none of it.

When the gang had met Yugi at the
game shop, he informed them of Yami’s new condition, and they were very
surprised. Just as they began the walk downtown, Yugi had told the gang to go
on ahead that he had to make a stop along the way. He didn’t want to tell
them what he was doing that he felt the need to get Téa
flowers since this was her big day and all. He had seen the bouquets Téa’s parent’s got for her, man this one paled in
comparison, they had lilies, gardenias, violets, and other beautiful flowers in
their bunches.

Yugi had decided that since he
wanted to show his affection that roses would be better suited as a gift from
him. Red signified passion, which his face flamed at that idea, he didn’t have
any experience when it came to that, but he knew how he felt when she would
simply touch him. The white signified pure love - and that is definitely
something he felt from the very core of his heart and the eternal bonding of
his soul to hers, or so he hoped. He hoped she didn’t refuse him…

Now here he was standing at the
top of the theater looking around for his friends, he spotted them instantly.
Joey and Tristan were in some kind of argument as Mai was simply shaking her
blonde head back and forth. Serenity was leaning forward resting her face in
her hands. Yugi smiled, thinking they’ll never change. He headed down towards
their aisle and found an empty seat on the end.

“Is this seat taken?” Yugi asked
interrupting the argument.

“Yugi, thank Kami-sama!” Serenity
gasped looking up at him, if anyone could calm the mood it was him.

“We were saving it for you.”
Tristan said, patting the cushioned seat with a firm hand.

Yugi heard a snicker and looked
over to see a smirk on Mai’s face. “Why are you looking at me like that?” He
asked with a half grin.

Mai shrugged innocently. “Oh, no
reason.” Her tone taking on a sly hint, “It’s just those flowers are awfully
nice.”

Serenity giggled. “Yeah, just who
are they for, hmmm?” She leaned over Tristan and grinned, knowing exactly who
they were for.

Tristan looked up towards the
ceiling and clapped his hands together once, this truly was a glorious day. Serenity
was leaning forward - and in his lap! Oh happy day!

Hearing Serenity giggle again,
Yugi felt his face flush. “Uh…they’re for Téa.”

A rather lecherous grin adorned
Joey’s face. “Ah ha! You’re finally gonna make the moves! Good for ya, Yug!”
There was no wiping that perverted look off his face. “I was just thinkin’ ta
myself what was takin’ ya so long? Man she’s so ready for ya to give it to
her.”

“Shh! Joey, not so loud.” Yugi
said feeling really embarrassed and didn’t want to alarm her parents of things
that he would rather keep quiet; Téa’s parents
were in the row in front of them. But did Joey’s comment have to come out
sounding so dirty? Of course knowing Joey well and what he said was exactly
how it sounded.

A familiar figure caught the
corner of Yugi’s eye and he turned towards the top of the theater and saw Yami
standing there. The taller now human Yami waved lightly at him before taking
the last seat on the aisle. Yugi now realized what happened to his
grandfather’s ticket and why he wasn’t going to the show anymore. Solomon had
told Yugi that he had donated it to a good cause. Yugi sighed, wondering if
his grandfather was going to try and get Yami and Téa
to be friends again. He felt a little uncomfortable with that, he didn’t want
to seem selfish but he didn’t want to share her with him, and if his dark was
having second thoughts concerning himself and Téa,
it could ruin everything.

Yugi felt very insecure at that
very moment, he wasn’t even sure if Téa could
ever feel anything more than a friend for him, but he wanted the chance to
prove that he could be the one she depended on and could love. Yugi did not
want to give Yami the opportunity to reclaim what he so easily threw away.

“Yugi, sit down the show is about
to start.” Serenity said to him, seeing his eyes glaze over as he drifted away
from reality and into the inner workings of his mind.

Blinking once, Yugi nodded and
took his seat, where he proceeded to remove his dark navy blue jacket,
revealing a very warm white long sleeved shirt with a thick red stripe going
across his chest. The lights dimmed and the audience grew quiet, the music
from the orchestra pit started up and the curtain rose. The scene set before
them was a living room with a tall Christmas tree, presents beneath the pine,
and guests standing around, starting to dance in celebration of the holiday.

Yugi set the flowers in his lap
and he leaned forward as Téa followed by a
young boy of eleven danced out, holding pretty wrapped boxes, she was upon her
toes and moving so gracefully about the stage. A much older man wheeling a
table with a large castle sitting upon it followed after Téa and the young boy. Yugi felt a small smile curve
against his lips as he watched her, she really was so beautiful up there.

****

Back in the dressing room family
and friends surrounded the performers, all saying what a wonderful job they did
and expressing their joy. Téa’s situation was
no different, as she was crowded by her parents and her good friends.

“You were so beautiful and
graceful, Téa.” Serenity praised.

“Thank you Serenity.” Téa was slightly flushed still from the exhilaration
of being on the stage moments ago, she barely heard the praise from her other
friends since she was scanning the room for a particular someone. “Uh, hey,
where’s—” She was cut off by Joey.

“Yug’s out in the hall, it was too
crowded and you know how he feels about gettin’ lost in a crowd.”

Téa
nodded. “Oh okay, excuse me a moment.” She said politely heading for the door
and pushing her way through the many bodies.

Joey turned to his friends. “See I
told ya she’s wants him ta give it ta her!” He exclaimed exuberantly forgetting
about Téa’s parents.

Rolling their eyes Mai and
Serenity groaned.

Tristan was trying to apologize to
Maelee and Gouku Gardner about his friend’s outburst. “…Really he just doesn’t
have a brain.” He could see that it was doing little good to calm Téa’s father who looked ready to kill Joey, and the
blonde buffoon would deserve it!

Téa
opened the dressing room door and poked her head out, and there was Yugi pacing
back and forth. “Yugi?” …She saw him snap to attention and look in her
direction. “What are you doing out here, why aren’t you inside with everyone
else?”

Yugi sighed. “It seemed like
everyone in Domino was in there.” He held the flowers he had gotten her behind
his back, having second thoughts about giving them to her. What if she threw
them back in his face and laughed at him?

Stepping out, Téa closed the door behind her. She saw his arms
extended backwards and a flash of red behind his back. Smiling, she asked:
“Whatcha got there?”

His eyes widened slightly and he
cleared his throat, she spotted them…might as well get his torture over and
done with. Yugi slowly brought the bouquet of red and white roses from behind
his back and held them out in front of him. “J—just flowers, uh…for you.”
Looking down shyly at his feet, he extended the red tissue wrapped flowers
towards her.

She gasped in awe, stretching her
hands forward and taking them from his shaking hands. “Oh Yugi, they are just
beautiful.” She held them to her nose, and closed her eyes inhaling the
heavenly scent.

Hearing her comment he looked up
at her, she actually liked them and didn’t make fun of him. She was just so
great and beautiful; she could never like a short, shy guy like him.

The flowers were simply
breathtaking, but it was because they were from Yugi that it made her heart
flutter. She wanted to touch him, or hug him or something. But…hm she had an
idea. “Stay right here, I’ll be right back.” She hurried towards curtains of
the stage and grabbed an empty plastic crate in the hand that she wasn’t
holding the flowers in and rushed back to where Yugi was standing. She sat the
crate on the floor.

“What’s that for?” Yugi asked,
confused.

Téa
was smiling, her cheeks sprinkling crimson. “Uh, can you stand on that?”

Not really knowing why she would
have him do that, he shrugged and did what she asked. Yugi stepped up onto the
crate, now he was actually looking straight into her breathtaking blue eyes.
“Why am I up here?”

Without saying anything more, Téa stepped right to him and threw her arms around
him in a tight embrace. “So I can do this.” She whispered and burying her nose
into his shoulder. ‘Heavens, he smells better than the flowers.’ She thought
to herself as she took in the soft cinnamon scent of her best friend.

Yugi’s face was flushed at least
three shades of red. He was a little shocked at what she had done. He didn’t
really expect a hug, but one where he was a little taller than her by standing
on the crate, sure he felt a little foolish at first, but after he realized
that she wanted to hug him all the feelings of him looking like a fool flew
from his mind. He felt her arms tighten more around him, and he swallowed
hard. Yugi tingled with warmth and he circled his arms around her waist,
holding her so close.

“Thank you for the flowers Yugi,
they’re beautiful.” She softly spoke into his ear.

Gulping down a rather difficult
bit of air, Yugi nodded. “I…I’m glad you like them.”

Once she stepped back from him,
Yugi wanted to reach out to keep her where she was, why did she have to stop
and step away? She felt so good there in his arms. Yugi felt her fingers slip
into his and she pulled him off the crate, opening the door she led him inside
the dressing room with everyone else. If Yugi had seen her face, he would have
seen her flushed as well. The door closed and Yami stepped out of his hiding
place.

Why did he feel bad? Didn’t he
tell her that he didn’t care for her like she did for him? At least that’s
what it had felt like at the time. Was he just jealous or did he truly and
honestly regret his decision all those months ago? She wouldn’t even talk to
him, not one decent word towards him. Yami did not want to appear to Yugi that
he was going to take Téa away from him, that’s
not what he wanted…or was it? Gah! He was so confused! Why couldn’t he and
the girl just be friends again, was it really so hard? She just had to forgive
him, isn’t that what this holiday season was all about? Sure he didn’t know
much about Christmas, but Solomon had told him it was a time for forgiveness.
That settles it; morning would not come until he had been given forgiveness for
his stupidity and cold indifference towards Téa.
He would make up for it; that was a promise!

****

Téa
and Yugi had both learned that her parents had already dropped her stuff of over
at the Game Shop for the night. They were currently walking down the street
towards the establishment with the gang. Joey and Tristan decided to have an
all out snow war; and as usual Téa and Yugi
got caught in the crossfire and belted some back at the two. Mai’s threat to
Joey was well taken: if one drop of snow from a ball had even hit her any where
on her person then there would be no Christmas Surprise for Joey, and since he
seemed to know what that was…he kept his snowballs away from the easily
aggravated blonde beauty. Serenity was caught in the fun as well, trying her
hardest to nail Tristan. But he being a master snowball strategist left her
efforts in snow combat to a dull minimum.

After waving good bye to the gang
and a promise to see them tomorrow at her house, Téa
and Yugi entered the shop. Only one word could describe this very
scene….Chaos… The shop was still very full of customers finding that last
minute gift. Everyone looked rushed, but happy. The two teenagers looked over
at a swamped and stressed Solomon who was trying to talk to one customer, while
another one was trying to throw money at him, where another customer kept
trying to get his attention asking about a price on a particular game for ages
three and under.

“Why don’t we help him out for a
few hours?” Téa offered, feeling sorry for
Yugi’s grandfather.

Yugi was pleased with her
suggestion; she was such a sweet and kind girl. “That sounds good to me.” He
went right into the crowd after the two of them removed their coats, mittens; Téa had her hat and scarf too - which Yugi took to
the back and hang them up on the coat rack. He hurried as quickly as possible
back into the fray of customers and announced: “I can answer any questions.” He
was rapidly surrounded by a frantic crowd, all talking at once.

Téa
walked to the back of the counter and smiled at the customers, while standing
next to Solomon. “Don’t worry, help has arrived.”

A merry twinkle glittered in
Solomon’s eyes. “Thank you so much, you two. I really appreciate this.”
Reaching under the counter, he pulled out a metal box which was used to store
money, along with a calculator. “This can work as a second register, are you
game?”

“Bring it on!” Téa announced proudly with a curled determined fist
and a sparkle in her blue eyes. She then turned to the customer who was second
in line. “I can help you over here.” She said with a smile and soon a second
line had formed.

The massive throng of customers
had finally dwindled down to a few, as the bells on the door jingled and in
walked a young boy.

Yugi turned around and saw Mokuba
Kaiba standing there looking cold but cheery, “Hey Mokuba; Merry Christmas!” He
announced cheerfully.

Mokuba beamed with joy, “Merry
Christmas to you too, Yugi.” He held two red envelopes in his hand. “I had
already made my card rounds with the rest of your friends and all that is left
is you and Téa, do you know where she is?” He
extended the red envelope that read Yugi’s name toward him.

Nodding with a smile on his face,
Yugi pointed to the stock room. “Yeah, Téa is
here. She always spends Christmas Eve with me.”

“Like she’ll be here with you all
Christmas Eve?” His young cheeks seemed to tint pink.

“Yep, she sure will.” Yugi opened
the envelope and found a card which depicted sparkly penguins ice skating
around a tall decorated Christmas Tree. It was a cute card. Opening it, he
found the words. Merry Christmas, Yugi. Have a great holiday season!

Hearing Téa’s
voice, Mokuba turned around and saw her coming from the back stock room. “Hi Téa!”

She grinned upon seeing the little
Kaiba standing there in his green festive coat, and a knitted scarf around his
neck. His long unruly hair just as messy as ever; most people would pay big
bucks for that look.

“Happy Holidays, Mokuba.” Téa came out from behind the counter so she could
greet him properly.

“Yes, Yes, Merry Christmas.”
Mokuba with a smiling cheerful face held out her envelope. “This is for you,
from me.”

“Did you like the present I sent
you?” Téa asked as she opened the envelope.

Mokuba looked over at Yugi. “She
mailed me a gift.” He turned his attention back to her, “I haven’t opened it
yet, I wanted to wait till tomorrow. But guess what big brother opened the
gift you got him.”

Yugi just about choked on thin
air, not that it was a bad thing, but why would she send him a present when all
he refused friendly gestures all together. “You gave Kaiba a present?”

The smile never left Téa’s face, “I sure did, no one should be left out on
Christmas. Even cold hearted jerks deserve a bit of holiday cheer.” She had mailed
it so the gift wouldn’t get thrown back in her face instantly. At least he
would have had time to think about opening it if it was mailed to him, before
shoving it back at her the next day at school.

Téa’s
card was the same as Yugi’s but when she opened it, there was something
inside. It was a picture of the Kaiba brothers. Mokuba was smiling brightly
into the camera while a disgruntled looking sleepy Seto who was some how
wearing reindeer antlers and ears, and not the thin ones but big fluffy brown
ones. He was glaring into the camera. The sight of that picture made Téa laugh out loud. “Hahahaha, how did you get him to
wear that thing?” She turned the picture around to show Yugi who snorted and
then laughed out loud.

Mokuba snickered. “It was
classic!” His face was all aglow as he recounted the grand tale. “You see, he
was asleep on the sofa when…

Mokuba silently peered over the
side of the white fluffy sofa seeing his big brother sleeping, his arms were
crossed over his chest and his ever present scowl upon his face, even in sleep
he was unhappy. Seto snored a little and tried to turn over on his side, the
large folder falling from his chest to land on the floor in a messy pile of
documents and charts.

Mokuba held the plush antler-
ear head piece in his hand as he quietly moved around the side of the sofa,
moving so silently it would make a burglar envious. He placed that antler-ear
combo head piece against the top of Seto’s head and reached down to Velcro the
straps together underneath his chin. Mokuba covered his mouth with his hand to
keep himself from laughing out loud as he made his way to the hall where the
digital camera on its tripod stood. Carefully and oh so sneakily, Mokuba
carried the tripod into the living room and placed it in front of the sofa. He
looked for the timer settings and found it, setting it; he quickly raced to the
sofa and sat down next to his slouching older brother.

Moving his mouth near Seto’s
ear, Mokuba yelled. “SETO WAKE UP!”

The older Kaiba brother
suddenly bolted upright as if the world was coming to an end, he felt his
little brother snuggle into his side and smile straight ahead, “What are you
doing?” Seto asked groggily.

“Look straight ahead!” Mokuba
said through smiling teeth.

Not knowing what his little
brother was up to, Seto with his trade mark scowl looked straight ahead and he
saw a flash as a picture was taken. He rolled his eyes, why would his brother
want a picture of him? They saw each other every day after all.

Mokuba giggled hard as he
jumped up from the sofa and picked up the camera off the stand. He whirled
around and with a beaming face said: “So which reindeer are you?”

“Huh?” Seto groaned. “Mokuba, I
don’t have time for this right now. Run along, I have important work to do.”
Getting up, he moved towards the beautiful rose engraved archway that led out
of the living room. Hearing his brother snickering, Seto passed a decorative
bronze edged mirror hanging on the wall. Seto almost didn’t think anything of
it, until he realized…he backed up and took a good look in the mirror. There
was a ridiculously fuzzy antler- ear head piece strapped to his head… “MOKUBA!”
He heard laughter and running through the halls and Seto took off after him...

Téa
snickered. “Why you devious little rascal you.” She ruffled his hair.

The little trickster shrugged. “I
try.” Mokuba sounded so modest and looked so innocent. But then he suddenly
grabbed her hand and started pulling her towards the door. “Come on.”

“Wait, where are we going?” Téa asked as she allowed herself to be dragged to the
door by the small boy.

“Big brother has a present for
you.” Mokuba said with a smile, and he pushed open the door and pulled Téa out into the snow. “He’s not about to give it to
you in there, he refused to come inside.”

She shivered when the cold air
tackled her body as she wasn’t wearing a jacket. “Mokuba this really isn’t
necessary, I don’t need a gift.”

“Don’t be silly.” Mokuba pulled Téa towards the black limo that was parked by the
curb.

Téa
looked back at the shop door and saw Yugi’s face plastered to the window; she
silently shrugged as the smaller of the Kaiba brothers brought her to the car door.
Mokuba opened it and stuck his head in the open door.

“Seto, come out of there and give
Téa her gift.”

Hearing an annoyed groan, Téa witnessed Mokuba stepping out of the way as Kaiba
stepped from the vehicle. His tall intimidating form was now standing in the
snow, where he regarded Téa with a coldness
that could rival the frigid air. Téa crossed
her arms in front of her, trying to keep herself warm.

“What are you stupid Gardner, what
are you doing out here without a jacket?” Seto responded in a rough tone but
the underlying meaning expressed concern.

She shivered again. “It’s not
really my fault; your brother just dragged me out here.”

Seto felt an elbow in his side and
he looked down to find Mokuba’s angry face. “What?”

“Be nice to her…or else.” Mokuba
threatened.

Rolling his eyes, Seto let out a
small puff of air. Without speaking a word, he turned around and bent down
into his limo where he grabbed the wrapped gift off the seat. He was getting
right down to business no since in prolonging this torture. Standing upright,
he turned back around to face the shivering girl. “Now don’t get the wrong
idea here Gardner, I am just returning the gesture. After all you started
it.” He extended the shimmering blue wrapped box towards her.

The gift she got him was actually
really nice, it was a silver card holder with a blue eyes white dragon painted
on the front. She will never know the real gift he had gotten for her; it was
actually Seto that had organized the talent scout to attend her dance
performance earlier this afternoon. Seto had actually seen her on stage in the
past and even he had to admit that she really was very good, but he would never
say that to her.

“You know I sent you a gift
because I’m nice and it’s Christmas. Not because I expected to get one in
return.” She accepted the present though.

He crossed his arms over his chest.
“Just open it.”

“What, right now?” Téa looked up at him in shock.

“Yes, right now.” Seto replied in
an annoyed tone; he had wanted to see if she liked what was in the box. He
liked his gift and she would never know, but he wanted her reaction.

Téa
sighed and started ripping the wrapping paper from the box, which was brown.
There was a little tab and she pulled it back, opening the box. Her eyes lit
up with what she saw. “Aww, it’s lovely.” She reached in and pulled out a
small figurine wrapped in tissue paper. Pulling the tissue away from the
figure, she smiled prettily at ballerina in pastel purple who was in the
beginning pose of doing a pirouette - a classic ballet pose for most
figurines. She looked up and found him staring, with a far off look in his
eyes. “Thank you, it’s wonderful.”

Seto blinked and the look was
gone. “This doesn’t change anything, you realize that it’s just because—”

She waved her hand in the air, her
smile changing to that of a half smirk. “Yeah, yeah, because I started it. I
get it.” She put the figurine back into the box safely. “But it’s still nice
and thank you.”

“Now that this whole holiday
exchange business is finished, I am leaving.” He growled. “Let’s go Mokuba.” He
got back into his limo, while Mokuba smiled and ran up to Téa.

Mokuba giggled and signaled for
her to bend down so he could speak quietly into her ear. “Seto picked out your
gift all on his own, he didn’t have someone else shop for it like he usually
does with company employee gifts. Even though he doesn’t show it, he really
wanted you to like it.”

“Well I do, it’s really nice.” Téa answered with a smile, reaching up trying to
straighten his unruly hair. The two of them heard snow crunching and turned a
little to find that Yugi had come out.

The window in the limo rolled down
and Mokuba could hear his brother.

“Mokuba, its time to go now.” Seto
ordered emotionlessly, rolling the window back up.

Rolling his eyes Mokuba nodded.
“Well looks like I really gotta go, Merry Christmas Téa
and Yugi.”

“Merry Christmas to you!” Both Téa and Yugi said at the same time, causing the both
of them to laugh and giggle.

Mokuba opened the door to the limo
and got in. “Seto, why are we leaving now? We could have hung out with them
for a little bit. I’m sure they would have invited you to join them.”

Seto shook his head, looking out
the window at Yugi and Téa; she was showing
him the gift. Yugi was holding it up looking at it thoughtfully, the boy’s
lips were moving indicating that he was speaking, and Téa
blushed at whatever was said to her. “They would not want me to intrude on
their happiness.” Seto said uncharacteristically soft. He watched them through
the window as the car started to pull out onto the street. It was hard for him
to be unselfish; he usually just took what he wanted. But in this case he
could not do anything that would cause Téa to
be unhappy. It was true, he had developed a huge emotional attachment, - he
wouldn’t dare call it by name- towards Téa
Gardner. Yet, the attachment was only one sided…his side. He saw how much Téa cared for Yugi; he saw it in her eyes, in her
mannerisms. Those looks the two give to one another when the other wasn’t
looking was undeniable. It was…love… Who was he to stand in the way of that?

“You like her, don’t you Seto?”
Mokuba asked in a soft, quiet voice.

Reaching up, Seto ruffled his
brother’s hair. “If only things were different.” Was his reply - it wasn’t
really a no, but an implied yes. The rest of the way home was bathed in
silence. Yes, if only things were different like if Téa
wasn’t in love with Yugi, or if he himself wasn’t such a cold hearted bastard.
No he would not dwell on it, something positive had come out of this, he was
able to feel an emotion for someone other than his brother, that gave Seto the
idea that there was hope for himself yet, perhaps he could change and become a
better person.

****

Ah, American style pizza was what
Yugi and Téa were currently feasting on, while
sitting on the living room couch. They were both sitting Indian Style and
facing each other with plates resting in their laps. Two and a half slices of
the cheesy covered saucy bread, with their own choice of toppings upon it.
Yugi was enjoying a classic Pepperoni while Téa
went for a more exotic choice of pineapple and ham with cashews. They were
talking about their day - Téa’s performance
and Yugi helping out his grandfather in the game shop before the performance.

Finally the two teens were full
and sat the plates on the coffee table; Téa
looked over at the kitchen counter-bar eyeing the pretty vase which held the
roses that Yugi had gotten for her.

“You know Téa; this year has gone by so fast…and…” Yugi looked down at his
fingers that he was twirling together in his lap. “I want to tell you
something. Well…” He cleared his throat.

Uh oh, Téa
thought. He was starting to babble; hopefully what was going to come out of
his mouth was going to be good, or what she wanted to hear. She leaned closer,
forward more. “Yes Yugi, what is it?”

His face was heating, why did he
have to get so nervous? Why couldn’t he just tell her? This was a very special
night, why couldn’t he be brave. “Téa…I.”
His palms were starting to sweat and he clinched his fingers into them.

“Yes?” She asked carefully.

Out of the corner of both their
eyes, which the back of the couch was in their line of sight, they saw a green
plant on the end of a stick lifting higher into the air over their heads. If
there were such things as sound effects in real life it would have gone
something like this… ‘roooooo’ until it was hanging above their heads. Both
teens looked up at the dangerous sprig of mistletoe hanging teasingly over
them. Téa and Yugi flushed a bright red
before hearing a not so quiet snicker from behind the couch.

Both of them looked over the side.

“Grampa!” Yugi shouted seeing his
grandfather squatting there trying not to laugh. “What do you think you’re
doing?”

“YIPE!” Solomon shrieked startled.
“Yugi, heh, heh. Uh, just trying to help?” He wiggled the stick with the
mistletoe hanging on the end a little bit. Solomon saw his grandson’s innocent
eyes narrow.

Téa
giggled.

“Gimmie that!” Yugi reached over
and grabbed the stick from his grandfather’s hand hearing him ‘aww’ in
disappointment. Yugi took the stick and snapped it into three pieces and
threw them across the room. Yugi could hear Téa’s
beautiful laughter as she continued to giggle.

That was really funny. Téa couldn’t keep her laughter inside. The way Yugi
looked and how guilty Solomon appeared as her best friend destroyed the stick
and threw the pieces away.

Solomon pouted. “Hey, it took
forever to find a long enough stick.” He got up and went after his stick.

Yugi was so embarrassed. This was
hard enough as it was without his grandfather trying to ‘help.’

“So what did you want to tell me?”
Tea asked once she settled down?

Great now the moment of truth was
completely ruined, he couldn’t tell her now… “I…I have a gift for you.” Yugi
got up from the couch and went over to the tree and grabbed the small box that
was wrapped in sparkly snowflake wrapping paper.

“Oh?” She sounded a little disappointed.
“Is that all you wanted to say?”

Yugi’s face was flame red as he
nodded and brought the present back to her, placing it in her lap. “I hope you
like it.”

“I have a gift for you too, but
you’re waiting till tomorrow to open it.” She tugged on his ear a little
causing him to laugh.

He shrugged. “Yeah, well you’re
opening this one right here and right now.” Yugi replied firmly. “So, get
tearing.”

Giving him a salute Téa grinned. “Yes sir.” She then ripped into the
paper and found a pink velvet box. Why was she suddenly nervous as to what was
in this pretty box? Taking in a deep but subtle breath, Téa lifted the top.

Her jaw dropped. ‘Oh wow.’
her mind softly commented. It was so beautiful! A pretty sapphire on a silver
chain was resting atop a white piece of plush lining. Lifting it up with
fingers she held the delicate object up, the sapphire catching the light and
giving off a sparkle.

Yugi was rubbing the back of his
neck nervously. “So um…what…do you like it, or hate it?”

She looked up at him, trying hard
to will back the tears that were filling her eyes. “It’s perfect, Yugi. I
love it.”

Smiling, Yugi sighed with relief.
“I didn’t want to get you something stupid, it took forever for me to find
something that made me think of you.” His cheeks were starting to tint pink.

Téa
laughed. “I don’t know what to say, it’s just so…” She simply smiled, clasping
it around her neck. The little jewel hung down against her breastbone.

Clearing his throat, Yugi glanced
up into her eyes. “It looks good.”

There was a strange silence
between the two best friends, until Téa
slapped herself on the knee. “Hey, how about we change into our pajamas and
watch the videos I brought?” Getting up, Téa
went to her duffel and unzipped it, pulling out two videos and held them both
up for Yugi to select the first movie. “In my right hand we have ‘The Grinch’
with Jim Carey, and in my left hand we have Jingle All The Way, with Arnie.”
She wiggled the boxes back and forth.

“Hmm,” Yugi pointed to ‘The Grinch.’

“Ah, good choice!” Téa exclaimed with a bright smile, which made Yugi
feel warm and cheery.

“Is there a subtitle selection, I
just hate Japanese voice-overs. They make them sound so wrong.” Yugi asked as
Téa moved over to the player to pop the disk
in.

Téa
nodded, “Yeah, I’d rather hear the English actors as well.”

“Well time to go change.” Yugi
jumped up off the couch by going over the backside and raced towards his room,
while Téa got back in her duffle and fished
around for her holiday sleepwear.

Solomon who had walked in the
living room from his room, approached Téa.
“Hey, Téa, can we talk about something?”

Standing upright with a light
smile on her face, Téa cradled her pajamas in
her arm. “Sure, what about?” She walked towards him.

“It’s about Yami.” Solomon saw her
face darken. “Now before you leave in a rush, just hear me out.”

Crossing her arms over her chest,
Téa nodded her head once. “All right, what?”

“Now I’m not saying how he behaved
towards you months ago was correct, he could have been a lot nicer about it.
He’s had lots of time to think since then, remember he hasn’t really had a lot
of person to person contact in a very, very, very long time. Can’t you just
put this whole messy business in the past and forgive the guy? He really does
feel bad, he’s been trying to apologize but whenever he tries you want nothing
to do with him.” He saw her chew her bottom lip. “In the spirit of the
season, this is a time for forgiveness and peace. He wants you two to be
friends again. So, Téa please?”

Téa
shifted from right foot to left as she hugged herself a little tighter.

“You have always been kind and
understanding Téa, please don’t harbor these
terrible feelings and having that horrible scowl on your face; it will give you
premature wrinkles.” Solomon teased with a smirk.

Laughing lightly, Téa shook her head. “All right, all right. I’ll
try.” She started to walk towards the bathroom.

“You and Yugi should invite him to
your little party in the living room; I think it would mean a lot to him.”

Téa
didn’t answer, but what he said did register in her mind. Perhaps she could
forgive him. After all it was no good to be angry. So what, he didn’t feel
the same way. In all honesty, she should be thankful because she wouldn’t have
fallen for her best friend if Yami’s reaction had been positive. Téa didn’t want to think how empty her life would be
if Yugi wasn’t the one filling her heart with joy, she could have been missing
out on a great thing.

Heading into the bathroom for
privacy, she changed into her blue tank top with a giant sparkly white
snowflake on the front, and her dark blue cotton pants with smaller sparkly
white snowflakes. Running her fingers through her hair she straightened out
any tangles. Opening the door, Téa stepped
out into the hallway where she came face to face with Yami.

“Were you waiting for the
bathroom?” Téa asked in a quiet voice.

He shook his head. “Actually, no,
I was waiting to talk to you.” Yami was leaning gently against the wall with
his arms behind his back, he had something held in his hands and if he didn’t
bring it out now, it would make itself known and then it would spoil the
surprise. “I have brought a peace offering.” From behind his back he extended
a real live white and brown spotted kitten, which was now mewing since he was
holding it up with its two back legs dangling in the air, and not cupping it
securely anymore. “I remember hearing you saying something about liking
animals and this poor little one was lost in the snow.”

Téa
accepted the kitten and cradled it in her arms, it squirmed for a few moments
before settling down comfortably. “It’s cute.”

Nodding, Yami crossed his arms in
front of him. “Look, I really want us to be friends again. I understand now
that I could have been nicer, but I just…I have been locked away for thousands
of years, the world has changed and people are more polite. I made a mistake
in how I treated you and I am sorry for that.”

She could see in his violet eyes
that he really was sorry, perhaps it was silly to keep not liking him, it was
exhausting for one. They really were good friends before her confession, it
would be nice to go back to the way things were. “Maybe I have been a little
too hard on you; after all I am known for being stubborn so perhaps we both
made mistakes. It would be nice to go back to being friends.” Out of the
corner of her eye, she saw Yugi coming from his room to stand beside them.

“Why don’t you watch the videos
with us, Yami?” Yugi’s voice suddenly said, reaching over the scratch the kitty
on the head. It was him who had talked Yami into giving Téa the stray kitten.

“You two do not mind? I thought
this was your special night?” Yami asked, looking between both Téa and Yugi.

Téa
shrugged. “It is, but we can include one more. Unless you don’t want too.”
She was surprised at how easy she was able to forgive as if nothing bad had
happened, and they were talking like there was never that time apart between
them.

“No!” Yami shouted, realizing he
didn’t need to shout. “I mean, it is nice of you to include me and I would love
to.”

Yugi realized that when he saw
Yami and Téa talking that he too had been
selfish, Téa was a good friend, to both of
them. It was wrong in wanting to keep her all to himself like that, besides
Yami wasn’t interested in Téa as a girlfriend.
Not like how Yugi wanted her. Loved her. Practically worshiped the ground she
walked on, and would do anything to make her happy. He could tell she wanted
his Dark’s friendship back, and it just wasn’t the same without the whole group
together, even though Yami had spent most of his time utilizing Yugi’s body, he
was still a part of them, now and forever.

The three of them, plus the kitten
hurried into the living room where Yugi grabbed the control for the disk player
and sat himself on the couch next to Téa. Yami
took her other side, trying not to sit too close. She had just forgiven him
and he didn’t want to crowd her. Yami looked over at Yugi and Téa as they settled down comfortably, sitting side by
side, hip to hip, and legs touching one another’s. He inwardly smiled for his
light half, what those two had was special and he couldn’t see anyone coming
between them. Sure earlier that day Yami had been jealous of their closeness -
he realized he wasn’t jealous that Téa had
chosen Yugi, but that they are able to share themselves with each other so
easily and naturally…that even when he had noticed another –tall CEO icy young
man- wanted to stake a claim on the girl that he too saw the closeness Yugi and
Téa shared, and Yami was surprised that the
guy had backed off so willingly. The two of them…Téa
and Yugi had a very strong bond, Yami was sure it was even stronger than his
and Yugi’s. No one would ever dare come between that bond they shared or there
would be hell to pay…

****

“Would you like some coffee or
tea?” Seto offered Mr. John Reynolds who sat in the office in Seto’s mansion.
He didn’t mind the eight o’clock visit of the talent scout.

Reynolds shook his hand politely.
“No thank you, Mr. Kaiba.” His Japanese lacked a proper accent since he learned
it in college back in the United States. He opened his briefcase and pulled
out some documents. “I went to Miss Gardner’s performance this afternoon and I
must say we are impressed with her talent, she would be a great asset to our
summer program.”

“You doubted my word?” Seto asked,
surprisingly soft.

Reynolds ran a hand through his
strawberry-blonde hair. “Sir, I do not mean to offend, but when it comes to art
we are very critical, we only want the best.”

Seto understood completely, for he
only wanted the best in his employ as well. “Let me see the contracts.” He
reached over and took the papers from Reynolds’ hand and looked them over
thoroughly.

“Now I noticed the Japanese school
system does not coincide with the American system where as our students get a
two to three month break in the summer. Your school system only gets two
weeks, so she will have to miss some school if she wanted to attend this.”
Reynolds cleared his throat. “We only want dedicated career oriented dancers.
Now comes the matter of payment of twelve hundred American dollars.”

Lifting his eyes from the contract
and giving Reynolds a hard stare, Seto replied in a cold unfeeling tone. “I’ll
take care of it.”

“Sir, do you realize how much that
is?”

This man was starting to annoy
him. “I said, I’ll take care of it.” How dare that man treat him like an
idiot, of course Seto knew how much money that was. “I’ll take a proper look
at these and you’ll have them mailed out to you once I’ve had a talk with Miss
Gardner. Good evening Mr. Reynolds.” Seto stood from his chair and went to
his door, holding it open. It was a universal sign for the guest to leave.

“Thank you for your time.”
Reynolds said, closing his case and hurrying from the room. He had never met
someone so cold and well young and successful in his whole entire life, the boy
was only seventeen years old and running a multibillion dollar corporation, and
suddenly Reynolds felt like an idiot when he asked him if he knew how much
twelve hundred dollars were.

Closing the door, Seto went back
to his desk and placed the documents aside. He opened his laptop and began
working out a design problem that one of his employees had brought to his attention,
that if Seto couldn’t fix it, then no one could.

Hours seemed to pass by and Seto
was so close to a solution, but his eyes were tired, he blinked a few times but
it was doing no good, his body was crying out for rest. Closing the top of his
computer, he stood and stretched. Grabbing his empty coffee cup from off his
desk he left the office and headed down the hall, down the stairs and started
to pass the living room where he heard some shuffling around. What if it was a
thief? Seto’s eyes narrowed as he pressed his back to the wall, no idiot would
be foolish enough to rob him! Grabbing his cell phone from his pocket, he was
about to dial for his own personal security when he looked around the corner
and saw a large man wearing a red suit. Seto blinked and rubbed his eyes…no…no
he had to be dreaming. Closing the phone he rubbed his tired eyes and looked
again. Yep that same man was there, and he was putting gifts under their tall
fat decorated Christmas tree.

This was unbelievable! No way!
Seto stepped into the open. “Hey, what do you think you’re doing?” He demanded
fiercely. The man turned around slowly. Seto noticed his beard of white and
cheeks of rosy red. “No, this is…”

The man laughed, a ‘ho, ho, ho.’
“Surprised?” ‘The Santa Claus’ said in a comforting voice.

“I must still be in my office,
that’s it. I’ve fallen asleep at the computer and I’m dreaming.” Seto said,
talking to the figure of myth. “But why would I dream of an old man in a red
Santa suit?”

The Santa laughed again. “It is
not a crime to let your mind go into fantasy mode, Seto.” He said with a smile.

Seto groaned. “Fantasies are for
children, and I’m not a child.” Damn his adopted father, Gozaburo, he had
forced into Seto’s mind over and over again at a young age that it was stupid
and a waste of time to believe in fantasies that Seto hadn’t dared to dream
anything of the sort. “I’m looking at you, but I don’t believe it. I can’t
believe it.”

The Santa just smiled and extended
a gift. “Seto, seeing isn’t believing. Believing is seeing. A part of you
wants to believe so let it.”

Stepping into the living room,
Seto looked curiously at the present in the man’s hand. It for was him.
Reaching out he let ‘Santa’ put the present in his hand. Looking down at the
tag it read: For thinking of others before yourself; Merry Christmas Seto. From
Big S.C. Lifting his head, Seto found himself all alone in the living room. The
man in the red suit was no where in sight, in fact it was as if he was never
there to begin with. The only evidence of the man of myth’s presence was the
tons of gifts under the tree, all for Mokuba, except for one in Seto’s hand, which
was specifically for him. It was a little box, and he wondered what was in it…

****

The screen was black except for
the Japanese kanji indicating the brand of disk player that flashed in
different places on the screen. The room was silent except for the light
snoring of the once puzzle spirit, he of course wasn’t the only one asleep. Téa and Yugi had fallen asleep half way though the
movie, but the two of them ended up snuggled together.

Consciousness swirled in Yugi’s
mind, the feeling of no longer being in the land of dreams as he realized he
was still sitting on the sofa. His legs hanging down the front of the couch as
his back rested against the cushions, there was a weight pressing against his
side and soft puffs of air gently caressing his neck. Groaning softly, Yugi
opened his eyes. He reached around for the control to turn off the disk
player; he patted the spot next to him to find that he wasn’t patting the couch
cushion but Téa’s cotton pant clad leg. He
turned his head to find that it was her pressed against him, her face ended up
buried in his neck and that was where the soft air puffs were coming from. She
was so close! His face flushed and he moved back a little.

Yugi tried to sit up, but Téa shifted and ended up throwing her leg over his,
her thigh pressing so tightly against his as her calf came to rest in between
his. And her arm coming to land around his waist where she hugged him to her.
Yugi swallowed hard, hearing her sigh contently after pushing herself more
against him. He looked at her peaceful sleeping face, she was so pretty and
anyone could come and sweep her off her feet. But here she was cuddled to his
side, almost a little too intimately that it caused his face to heat.

Lifting his hand slowly, his hand
shook with his nervousness as he lightly pressed the pads of his fingers
against her cheek, oh her skin was soft. Did she treat him nicely because she
felt sorry for him…no he shouldn’t think like that, they were best friends, she
was his best friend. He loved her. Yugi move his fingers into her hair and he
heard her softly sigh, pressing the side of her face against him more. He
needed to stop being a wimp, Yugi needed to tell her how much she meant to him,
tomorrow during Christmas he would confess all.

Since she was asleep, she would
never know…Yugi leaned forward a little, trying not to squish her and pressed a
soft, lingering kiss to her forehead.

Of course he didn’t count on her
eyes to slowly open while in the process of giving into his emotions for that
one split second.

Téa
had been lost in the land of dreams her mind calling out to her waking her
sweetly as she came back to the world of reality, a soft, wonderful pressure
against her forehead. She’s always been a very light sleeper to begin with,
the semi dark world around her was still a little blurry, but she’d still
recognize Yugi anywhere - his smell - the way he felt as she was cuddled
against him. He was kissing her on the forehead?

“Yugi?” Téa
spoke softly, “What are you doing?” She asked groggily.

Yugi’s eyes widened in alarm! Busted!
‘Please don’t kill me, Tea, please!’ his mind begged wildly, he wasn’t
even doing anything perverted…she was the one that had her leg wrapped around
his in a very provocative way. He pulled back instantly. “I…uh…”

She sat up, her half lidded eyes
still tired from being asleep. Téa leaned
forward as he was backing away. “You just kissed my forehead, didn’t you?” She
yawned, and moved closer as he moved back more, in fear. There was no where
left to go as he backed into the cushioned arm of the sofa.

“Don’t be mad, I didn’t…Please
don’t be mad.” Yugi whispered in rush.

Her mind chuckled. ‘He thinks
I’m mad, he thinks I’m gonna kill him like I would do to Joey or Tristan for
them being perverts. But Yugi wasn’t a pervert, at least not on purpose.’
She had him cornered, and Téa stared into his
eyes. Leaning forward more she lifted her arms and trapped him between her
self and the sofa arm. “Why would I be mad? Unless you were doing something
wrong, and being a pervert? Were you being a pervert, Yugi?” She asked moving
her face closer to his; she saw his normally wide innocent eyes, enlarge even
more.

“No, no, no! I wasn’t being a
pervert, honest Téa, I would never.”

Téa
cracked a smile that looked more like a smirk. “Oh that’s too bad, because in
your case I wouldn’t have minded.”

Yugi blinked. ‘What? Did she
just say that?’ “Téa I don’t—” He didn’t
get to finish speaking for Téa had covered his
mouth with hers. Yugi’s eyes enlarged even more at the sudden move of his best
friend; that it caused his whole body to freeze in shock. His best friend, the
love of his life was sitting there, not killing him, but kissing him.

There was nothing…not getting a
response from him for her sudden bold move. Téa
backed off, feeling the ache of pain burry thickly in her heart. Perhaps he
didn’t feel the same way she did about him, this would be the second time she
had made a terrible mistake. Téa lowered her
head as she sat on her knees, twisting her fingers together. “I…I’m sorry,
Yugi. I…I don’t know what came over me.” She couldn’t look at him; this was
even more heartbreaking than the last friendship she’d ruined. Téa started to get up to go be alone when Yugi
grabbed her arm.

“Where are you going? You can’t
just do something like that and then run off.” Yugi said softly, but to her it
probably sounded like scolding since she seemed to flinch.

“I said I was sorry, and I know I
shouldn’t have done that.” Téa replied
regretfully, her voice full of hurt.

Yugi felt bad, now here she
thought she had done something wrong. He was just shocked that’s all, he
wasn’t expecting that Téa would ever even
think about kissing him, it took a few minutes for his mind to catch up telling
him that he was who she wanted.

It was time to stop being a
coward.

It was time to confess.

Yugi let go of her arm, but not so
she could get away, because he was sure that she was ready to bolt any minute
now. “Téa…you…I.” Gah! Why was this so hard!?
Groaning inwardly, Yugi, with his mind racing and his pulse rioting reached up
and cupped her face softly, turning her more towards him. He saw her brow furrow,
and Yugi knew he was never very good with words. This should be easy; she had
already made a huge bold move. Trying not to think about it, he moved in
closer. “Téa…I…

There was no more trying to make
coherent sentences, it was just too much. So Yugi timidly pressed his lips
against Téa’s, and all her tenseness seemed to
melt away.

Oh, he wasn’t mad and did this
mean she wasn’t rejected? …that he…felt the same way? Téa’s mind softly pondered. Or was it just out of pity, she had
to know. Téa pushed him back a little and he
blinked at her. “Yugi, you didn’t just kiss me now because you felt sorry for
me, right?”

A soft blush stained his cheeks
and he shook his head. “No, Téa…I care about
you, a lot…more than a lot.” He whispered sincerely, surprised that his words
were coming out so easily now…well he did feel a bit more relaxed. Reaching
down he took her hand in his. “For a long time now, even before I recognized
what my feelings were, Téa it’s always been…I
mean my heart has always been yours.” He watched the silent all telling
emotions cross her face. “I know I don’t have much to offer you, I’m short and
shy…not to mention really strange things always happen around me, but I want to
be the one you can depend on. I want to make you smile and laugh, to protect
you from danger like you do me. I want—” He was cut off when Téa suddenly flung herself at him, wrapping her arms
around his neck; he landed back against the sofa’s arm with a soft grunt.

Téa
couldn’t believe it; her best friend who was usually bad at confessing any kind
of feelings just opened his heart and soul to her. Her mouth was close to his
ear when she next spoke softly. “Yugi, you’re my best friend, and you’ll always
be my best friend, even if my feelings have changed…For I…love you.”

She kissed him right there,
again. Yet this time it wasn’t a shock, it felt natural and simply perfect.
Her body sculpted against his as he leaned against the sofa’s arm, his hands
moved up her back and holding her tightly to him. They both were
inexperienced, but that still didn’t stop hands from wandering albeit shaking
and uncertain.

Leaning against the arm rest was
very uncomfortable, so without really noticing they ended up shifting in
position slightly so that Yugi was now lying on top of Téa, with her pressed into the soft of the couch. Yugi lifted his
head and realized they were only inches for a still sleeping Yami; his legs
were hanging down over the front of the sofa with his arms crossed over his
chest and a peaceful look upon his face. Yugi wondered how could he still be
asleep through all that talking and moving around, surely it would have disturbed
him.

Framing Yugi’s face with her
hands, Téa brought his attention back to her.
“Yugi, what’s the matter?” She asked in a soft whisper, softly tracing his
right cheek with her finger tips.

Shifting his eyes downward so he
was looking at Téa, he shook his head
lightly. “Nothing, but you realize that Yami is sleeping less than a foot from
us?”

She moved her head so she could
see Yami and sure enough he was asleep, Téa
shrugged. “So what, he’s asleep.”

“Téa
don’t you think it’s a little strange?”

Leaning up a little she pressed
her mouth against the side of Yugi’s neck. “No, he’s probably a heavy sleeper.”

Yugi shivered pleasantly, his arms
almost giving out so he allowed himself to be pulled back against Téa’s soft, warm body. His eyes held hers for what
seemed like an eternity, her beautiful blue eyes shinning with a light of love
and affection for him. Everything felt a little easier now, why was he so
afraid before? It didn’t make any sense now. Leaning in he kissed the side of
her mouth gently, and feeling her wrap her arms tightly around his back, he
nuzzled into where her shoulder and neck met.

Téa
felt so warm, her heart was soaring and her pulse was racing. Damn she felt
good. She would never have believed that she would be lying here cuddling with
the boy she grew to love so very much. It was like a dream…a wonderful,
exciting dream. She could tell he was a little unsure, heck she was too.

Was it okay that Yugi wanted to
hold her, feel her, touch her…he gulped down a breath of air… in places that
she wouldn’t normally allow. He was tired of thinking, was he a man or
a…little man…he frowned.

“Yugi?” She whispered seeing his
conflicting thoughts expressed on his face. “Are you okay, is this okay?”

He blinked. “Oh, Téa. I just don’t want to do anything that will make
you upset, or that I’ll get beat up for.” Yugi’s face flushed.

She giggled. “Oh, Yugi always thinking
of others.” Téa hugged him tighter, pushing
their bodies together and hearing him such in a deep breath… “Stop thinking.”
She teased.

Yugi cracked a small grin. “Well
okay…then no beating me up for being a pervert.”

Téa
kept her laughter in, even though it was threatening to come out loudly, it was
definitely shining in her eyes. She felt his hands touch her face, his fingers
softly tracing her lips, and then covering them with his own.

Perhaps that’s what was keeping
him from really letting loose, his worry about offending the girl he loved.
Trying to keep rather normal wants out of his mind was becoming more and more
difficult, sure it didn’t help matters that here he was lying on top of her; he
felt her wiggle a little which made her beautiful body rub up against him, Yugi
bit his lip trying to stifle a moan. But they had just confessed their
feelings for each other. Was it right to be doing this so early?

“Téa,
is this…okay? We just went from best friends to…this.”

She could understand his concern;
Yugi was always a very considerate person no matter the circumstances. “I know
it’s a big change in a short amount of time, but it doesn’t really bother me
because I have felt this way towards you for a while now.”

Yugi felt his heart swell. “I
think I understand; time doesn’t matter, just how we feel right?” He gently
cupped her cheek in his palm, and felt her lean into his touch.

“Yes…” She replied through a wisp
of air. “That’s exactly how it is for me.”

“I admit that I have no idea what
I’m doing?” He rubbed his nose against her cheek.

“Neither do I, we can learn
together.” She softly smiled.

There was no more holding back as
Yugi leaned forward claiming her lips, her mouth falling open where Téa felt Yugi timidly test the waters by lightly
sweeping his tongue into her mouth tasting the sweetness of her. He had never
done this before and he was just moving on feeling now. Hearing her small
sound of approval, he felt Téa cling to him
more. She was so soft and oh so sweet.

All thought had stopped,
sensations were all that they knew now, hands touched and explored, mouths
fused hot and hard, growing in a fiery intensity.

Yugi felt her fingers lightly
traveling up under his green pajama shirt, across his smooth back and he seemed
to purr into her mouth. She was touching his skin! Oh her fingers felt so
great and he moaned into her mouth and she swallowed it up like it was the
water of life. He didn’t realize himself that his hands were traveling up her
sides beneath her own shirt, until he noticed the satin softness of her skin,
his finger tips lightly brushing against the outer swell of breast, she gasped
loudly which kind of alarmed the poor boy and he pulled his mouth away.

She blinked up at him and gave him
an adorable crooked smile, letting him know that it was all right, her fingers
tracing the side of his face. “I…I don’t mind.” And she kissed him, bringing
him back into their flurry of hot sensations. Téa
felt his fingers moving slowly up and down her sides and across her flat
stomach as much as he could without moving off of her. She shifted her lower
body so that her thighs opened and he fit right in between them.

The two of them were unaware of
the pair of first shocked eyes upon them, the two of them were so fortunate.
Yami saw a hand move and then disappear and his eyes widened slightly, he never
would have pegged Yugi for making any bold move like that, but when it came to
sex all rational thought seemed to fly out the window. He was getting a little
uncomfortable and figured it was best to disturb them, that was until he saw
Yugi’s fingers trail up over her tummy and rest almost shyly against her breast
under her shirt.

Yugi moved his mouth from hers and
pressed soft kisses to the side of her neck, as his fingers lightly padded over
her right breast and she squealed pleasantly, clinging to him hard. He smiled
against her skin, this was a beautiful reaction she gave him and he was no
longer really feeling shy, the more they touched each other, the more he grew confident.

They shifted again, but this time
didn’t realize how close to the edge of the sofa there were and went rolling
off. Téa ‘eeped’ and Yugi groaned in slight
pain because he hit the carpeted floor first. He felt Téa vibrating above him, and opening his eyes Yugi realized that
she was laughing, silently. Also that she was the one now lying on him, he
must have turned in the last second so that he would take the force of the
fall, not that it was that far from the ground, but it was a natural move on
his part.

Maybe it was a sign that they
should stop what they were doing…

Téa
placed her hands on both sides of his head and leaned in, pressing her mouth to
his. Yugi’s arms wound around her, and his hands slid up her back as she
nipped and tugged on his lips with her own taking away all his rational thought
once more.

…Then again maybe not…

Their unknown audience shifted his
position on the sofa, he lied down on his side, getting more comfortable. He
really had no intention of staying there while they expressed themselves
through this physical contact, but…Yami just couldn’t help himself, he stayed
glued to his spot and ever so silent.

Yugi’s hands ran up her sides,
causing the girl to shiver most pleasantly as the sensations his fingers were creating
raced through her. His fingers were beneath her pajama top, and she shifted
her position bringing her knees up and open so that she was straddling him, and
lifting her upper body off of his. She gazed down into his eyes.

His eyes widened slightly at the
feeling of her lower body pressing deliciously against his. The cotton pants
were now feeling much too small, and without really knowing what he was doing,
his hands slipped down to her hips were he gripped them tightly, pushing her
more onto him. He heard Téa’s gasp and Yugi
opened his eyes. Her face was shadowed by the multicolored Christmas tree
lights, but he could see her eyes clearly, her normally bright blue eyes were
darker like the deepest part of the ocean, more wild.

Téa
felt her blood boiling hot, and she leaned over clutching Yugi’s face in her
hand and at the same time pulling his mouth to hers. Their kiss was hot, hard
and all consuming. Yugi’s hands shakily trailed up from her hips to the sides
of her breasts, but he was avoiding them or trying to at least. He pulled his
mouth from hers, panting hard.

“Téa…I…”
His face reddening, “I want to…to see you.” He tugged at her snowflake tank
top. “Please?”

Feeling her own face flush, the
crimson was spreading down her body. Téa gave
a silent nod as her permission.

Yugi took in a deep breath as his
fingers gripped the hem of her shirt and started lifting it up, first her flat,
firm tummy where he could see some muscle definition there. He sat up a little
and Téa’s breath hitched as he continued to
pull the material up passed her tight middle, the bottoms of her breasts, so
rounded and perfect. Yugi’s heart was pounding and he was growing almost
painfully hard, but the pressure of her heated core pressing against him seemed
to lessen the severity. His body knew what it wanted, and he was actually
listening to it for once instead of trying to control himself.

Téa’s
hands reached around and covered his where she took the bottom of her shirt out
of his hands and hurriedly lifting it up and over her head, tossing it behind
her. She closed her eyes tightly not wanting to see his reaction, because it
would embarrass her.

“Can I…touch you?” He asked in a
quiet, strained voice.

“Mmm.” Téa
said in more of a noise rather than words, she felt soft finger tips caressing
the outer swell of her breasts and she jumped a little. No one else but
herself had ever even seen her body before. What if he didn’t like it? “Yugi,
do I…look okay?”

“More than okay.” He whispered
breathlessly, letting his eyes roam all over her, down her flat tummy, wanting
to go lower but couldn’t because she was still wearing those pajama pants. He
sucked in a breath. “God Téa, you have the
most beautiful body I have ever seen.” And he timidly placed his palm against
her chest and let it slid down slowly to cover over her right breast.

There was only so much a person
could take, and Yami couldn’t stand it anymore. “Yugi, Téa, stop that.” He said, scaring them. Yugi
immediately without thinking jumped forward hugging Téa
to him tightly protecting her from prying eyes.

Looking over Yugi’s shoulder as he
was protecting her, Téa saw Yami’s head down
on the sofa; his arms were covering his head. ‘Ohmygod!’

“I am sorry; I did not want to
disturb you two, but…”

“Yami, why aren’t you asleep?”
Yugi asked, then feeling really dumb for asking that since they weren’t exactly
being super quiet.

Yami groaned, shifting his
position. Watching them was really getting to him, affecting his body in ways
he hasn’t been familiar with in so long. “I am sorry, really. I did not mean
to spy; I just could not help myself. You two are so, and I…” Great he was
stuttering now, that wasn’t very becoming of who he was. He lifted his eyes
from the circle his arms made on the sofa, looking at them. “Are you having a
good time?”

“Well we were until you ruined
it.” Yugi accused sharply and then immediately felt bad for it. “Oh I’m sorry,
Yami. I didn’t mean that. I just, I have waited so long and…”

Yami leaned his head against his
arms and smiled at them. “It’s all right; I’m the one that should be sorry. I
should have left quietly…or stayed silent.”

“How long have you been awake?” Téa asked, clinging more to Yugi as he seemed to
tighten his hold around her.

Yami thought a moment. “I do not
really know, before you two hit the floor, I know that much at least. So are
you going to continue or what?”

“What?” Yugi growled. “You’re not
going to stay there are you?”

He shrugged. “Why not? I was
racked with guilt before you knew I was awake, and now that you know…I do not
feel so bad anymore.” He grinned lecherously. “So go ahead, continue.” He
signaled for them to continue with a wave of his hand as he propped his head up
by his hand, his elbow resting on the cushion.

“Oh God, don’t tell me you’re a
pervert?” Téa’s brow was arched in disbelief.

Yami smiled at her earning him a
blush. “No, I would not say I was a pervert, just someone who does not mind
watching on occasion, and besides you two are my friends so it is not unheard
of to share yourselves and experiences with another friend.”

“Oh yeah in what century?” Téa bit back a little embarrassed, “Sorry to
disappoint you, but this has become a more personal thing over the
centuries.”

Getting more comfy, Yami sighed.
“Well I am from a different era. So just behave as if I wasn’t here.”

“Sick.” Téa
murmured.

Yugi groaned and shifted so he was
blocking Téa from Yami’s watchful gaze. “Just
forget about him.”

Yami sighed and stood up,
approaching them. He touched both the backs of their head and tried pushing
them together, but they were resisting. “Less talking, more action.” This
actually made all three friends bust up laughing.

“Oh great God, Yami; You are such
a pervert don’t deny it, it’s rather useless.” Téa
giggled, resting her forehead against Yugi’s shoulder.

“No kidding; and I thought Joey
and Tristan were bad.” Yugi’s hands were flattened against Téa’s back as he cuddled her close and into his
chest.

Yami’s laughing fit came to an end
and he sat down beside the two love birds, he wasn’t sure if they were ignoring
him or not, but he watched as Yugi framed Téa’s
face with his hands and lifted her from his shoulder and brought her mouth to
his, where he caressed her lips with his own, pressing them open and thrusting
his tongue inside.

“You two should actually be
unclothed for this.” Yami said, earning him a growl from both participating
parties. “Now I know Téa’s only half
undressed…he ducked escaping the light backhanded slap that came from Téa’s hand. Perhaps he was talking too much. “Here
I’ll help you out.” They must not have really heard him, but he didn’t care.
Her body really was beautiful and even though he wasn’t really participating,
he did want to see it. Yami moved around behind Téa
and scooted just so he wasn’t exactly touching her, his fingers immediately
going to the bow that kept Téea’s pants up
around her waist. Pulling the little string he heard her squeal, as she pulled
her mouth from Yugi’s and looked behind her.

“Hey! Do you mind, that area is private.”

Yugi’s brain finally caught up
with him and he dropped his gaze to Téa’s
waist seeing Yami’s hands and fingers on the waist band of her cotton pants.
For some strange reason he didn’t stop him, his own fingers glided down to
assist him. They both gripped the material and started to slide it down as
much as it would go. Yugi could see the top of Téa’s
red satin panties, and he felt his mouth run dry.

“Come on you two, you can’t do
this.” Téa complained, and not letting them slide
her pants down any further.

“But I want to see you Téa, please.” Yugi asked, desperate to see her
beautiful body, all of it. “Just forget about him, okay.” He looked over Téa’s shoulder and saw Yami wink suggestively. “I
know it’s difficult, but just ignore him.”

“All right…but just because this
is you here.” She lifted her backside and let her pants slide down over her
hips while she leaned forward a little, pressing her mouth to the side of
Yugi’s neck as he gazed at her. She trailed her lips up the side of his throat
to cover his mouth with hers, where Yugi drank her in like much needed water.
One of his hands gripped her arm in a gentle caress as it moved up and over her
chest to cup her breast in his hand. She moaned delightfully into his mouth.
Yugi’s heart pounded hard in his chest, but he felt fingers on his fingers and
pulling his mouth from Téa’s he looked over
her shoulder at Yami.

“Do it like this.” Yami offered
cupping his hand around Yugi’s and showing him what to do. Yami soon let go
and watched as Yugi’s hand touch and caressed the sensitive mound of flesh,
Yugi’s thumb grazed her sensitive peak, and she cried out into his shoulder.

Yugi rather enjoyed that sound she
made, and he was the one causing her to make them. He felt Tea pull away from his
shoulder and straighten her posture more, and there he attached his lips to her
throat, moving downward…he wanted…his tongue slid down the side of her neck.

Téa
couldn’t keep her head level, all these feelings Yugi was creating with his
mouth and his tongue as he explored her body, caused her to feel a little light
headed and she started to sway from the fierce attacking of nerves and
pleasurable sensations coursing through her untouched body. She felt another
pair of hands on her shoulders, steadying her, and she felt herself falling and
landing against…

Yami spoke into her ear. “Allow me
to assist you.” His hands on her shoulders lowered her back so that she was
resting against his chest. He saw her close her eyes as Yugi moved with her,
the sight of his unsure move, but the boy was growing more sure since the rush
of desire was taking over his normal mannerisms.

Yugi’s tongue lightly ventured out
and experimentally caressed Téa’s breast, it
flicked lightly against her nipple and she mewled and threaded her fingers in
Yugi’s hair, as he grew more bold and took her breast into his mouth, nibble
and suckling, causing the girl to writhe and squirm in the intense sensations.

“Uh…” She breathed out, clinging
to Yugi’s head as if keeping him there and she pushed her breast more into his
hand, his mouth. Oh Gods she was flying so high, and she barely felt the
soothing sensation of Yami’s hands pleasantly rubbing up and down against her
sides, oh gods she didn’t care anymore all she wanted was more.

Moving back up, Yugi scooted
forward wanting to kiss her so hard and deep, no longer caring who was in the
room. His mouth seized Téa’s in a feast of
almost starved hunger, wanting to devour her completely; she returned the fiery
kiss with just as much passion and lust that he was giving her.

Téa
felt warm fingers caressing her tummy, moving up and down in slow, sensual
lines and circles. She shifted a little because she was sure it wasn’t Yugi
doing that because he had his hands curved around her face, holding her to him
as he molded and sculpted his mouth against hers.

“Don’t think about it, Téa.” Came Yami’s deep but soothing voice. “Just
enjoy what you are feeling.” He felt her settle against him.

Yugi pulled back from Téa, and she immediately felt the loss of contact and
reached for him, he smiled at the way her arms extended outward toward him. He
started undoing his buttoned up green pajama top, and she gazed longingly at
him, his eyes rested on Yami’s hands lightly caressing her tummy and, middle,
but it didn’t seem to bother him right now, he was more curious than anything.
Shouldn’t he be mad that Yami was touching her and like that?

“Come on Yugi, do you want to keep
her waiting?” Yami asked with light humor.

Pointing to what Yami was doing,
Yugi sucked in a breath, not really able to form coherent sentences right now,
“you…hands…uh.”

Yami simply smiled and glanced
down at what he was doing, “Come, Yugi, pay attention.” He offered and moved
one of his hands a little lower, over her panty clad sex, the v that separated
her thighs, she jolted a little.

“What are you going to do?” Yugi
had some idea but it was still all new to him, so he leaned forward watching
Yami’s fingers traveling ever so lightly across the satin garment. He heard Téa suck in a deep strangled breath as two of his
fingers dipped lower and moved in between her thighs to stroke up a little.
She whimpered and slammed her eyes shut feeling her body erupting with all
these new overwhelming sensations.

A rather pleasant scent caught
Yugi’s nose and he leaned forward more, it was Téa.
That was her beautiful scent. He lifted his eyes and saw Yami’s hand disappear
beneath the satin, Yugi heard her sharp intake of air and then cry out, her
hand came up and gripped his Dark’s wrist. It was then Yugi noticed that Yami
was breathing harder.

Yami pressed a kiss to her temple.
“Open your legs a little more for me.” He asked; his voice deep and sultry. He
felt her hesitate. “it is all right,” He soothed.

Her eyes ablaze with hot fire,
glanced up at Yugi, what would he think? How could she do… she heard his
voice…

“Téa,
please I want to see.” Yugi leaned forward more, gripping the sides of her
panties and sliding them down, there he saw nearly made him lose it. Yami’s
fingers were nestled right in between Téa’s
thighs. He squeezed his eyes shut for a brief moment trying to will back some
sort of control, he wanted to see this, he wanted to see it so badly that he
pressed his hands against her thighs and started pushing them to separate.

Téa’s
eyes were glazed over as she let Yugi push her thighs apart, and Yami’s hand
cupped her center completely, his fingertip pushing inside a little causing her
to whimper. Yugi got really close and watched in awe as Yami moved more
quickly now, stroking one finger in and out of her and she made another noise a
beautiful noise.

“This…” Yami explained as he
pressed the pad of his finger against the jewel of her body. “Yugi…is an
important spot. Remember that, he circled his finger around the little nub of
flesh and it made Téa’s whole body shake and
writhe. She cried out louder as he lightly pinched it between two fingers,
before circling it with his index finger. Yami’s fingers and had was coating
with the warm wetness and Yugi lifted his hand touching.

Téa
couldn’t stand it, too much…too much. She was so hot and felt so heavy with
want that she could not even see straight. She bit her bottom lip to keep from
making an even louder noise.

“Does she like that?” Yugi asked,
seeing that it almost looked…painful.

Yami smiled. “Oh yes.” He was
trying to control his own breathing, Yami suddenly stopped his movements and
pulled his finger and hand from her sex and Téa
sobbed she just about died now, her body was shaking with indescribable sensations.
She ached. Needed…it was so cruel! Yami gestured with his free hand for Yugi
to move forward. “Come on, Yugi, she needs you now.” His fingers were
glistening from the heat of her body. He gestured for Yugi to come forward as
Yami resumed stroking her tummy and middle.

“What do I do now?” Yugi asked
seeing her in what now looked like total agony.

Yami gave a strangled sigh, if
Yugi didn’t take care of this now, he would and he knew they wouldn’t really
appreciate that, but he’s right on the edge of his own control. He wanted this
girl, so bad right now and even though he did not show it. He was fighting
hard with himself from just taking her, which is why he stopped so abruptly, he
knew it was cruel but there was no other way. “Don’t think Yugi.” He bit his
lower lip as he let his fingers caress her breasts a little. “Just do what you
feel.”

Yugi saw his love, his girl lying
there looking up at him, her brow was furrowed and she looked well lonely. He
moved closer to her upon his knees and placed a hand on her hip as he leaned
forward taking her mouth in a sweet, passionate kiss. Their kiss grew more
wild and uninhibited as he lowered himself to lie between her open thighs. He
wanted to touch her now, he’d seen it done and perhaps he can do a pretty good
job too.

His hand slid down her hip, moving
slowly over her thigh, which was so very smooth. Yugi’s fingertips grazed her
center and she hissed, making Yugi think that he had hurt her. He felt hands
on his head.

“Do not pull away from her Yugi,
you are not hurting her she is just really sensitive right now. I basically
left her on the edge.” Yami had said, hopefully making sure Yugi understood
that she wasn’t in pain because of what he was doing. He was sure the boy
wasn’t going to pull away and he lowered his hand, back to Téa’s shoulder where he continued a light massage,
his fingers trailing up and down her neck, over her breasts to her tummy.

Yugi couldn’t believe how hot she
was as his finger moved inside her, she jumped a little.

“Yugi!” She cried and clung to him
harder, her hands gripping his shoulder. Téa
sucked in air. She was so slick and wet there, and he loved it. He was
startled a little when he felt her hands slid down his sides to his hips. Yugi
supposed she wanted her turn to touch him, and boy did he not mind in the
least.

He felt her hand move around his
middle, her palm slowly sliding down his stomach to
the tie of his own green pajama pants, he groaned feeling her there; no one has
touched him there before. Yugi couldn’t take it anymore, she caused his pulse
to riot hard and the thin material was preventing her wanted touch. Téa
wanted to feel him without this garment in the way and she quickly undid the
bow and slipped her hand inside. Yugi gave a loud strangled gasp when her hand
n contact with his hard member that it almost caused him to lose his balance
and crush her, he held himself up on either side of the girl’s body on shaky
arms as her hand closed around him. His eyes slammed shut as the intense feelings
of her fingers and palm lightly caressing in an unsure way, but was slowly
growing bolder. He buried his face into her neck. “Téa…” He gasped again.

Yugi gripped her face in his hands
and kissed her, sealing his mouth over hers in a demanding need. There was a
tugging at his pants now and he pulled his mouth from hers seeing her other
hand wanting them off. He obliged by helping her slide them off his underwear
went with the pants.

He moved closer to her eat. “Téa, can we? I want to…to be in you, please?” He
begged, feeling himself throb and ache, she was probably in just as much
discomfort.

Téa
nodded vigorously at Yugi moved forward to lie in between her open thighs, his
hardened tip pressing against the very center of her heated core. She groaned.
“Gods, Yugi, I want…uhhh.” She closed her eyes feeling him press into her, her
opening starting to stretch.

Yugi did not know what he was
doing, just the need and wanting to be buried in her is what was driving him.
He felt himself slipping inside her warmth slowly, inch by inch, he gasped and
his mouth dropped open in complete awe, having never felt anything like this
before. She was so tight and hot around him, he looked at her face and she
looked a little uncomfortable. “A..are you all right Téa.”
He saw her nod, but it looked forced. “Am I…hurting you?”

She whimpered, “No…not yet.” It
wasn’t pain on her face but uncertainty, this was so new the feeling of being
filled was much different than how it looked on Television or described in
books and her inner walls were starting to stretch to accommodate her size of
the wonderful intrusion. “But you will because—” Téa
was interrupted.

“You need to break through her
innocence Yugi.” Yami said, giving Téa’s
temple another soft kiss. “And it is not pleasant for the woman.”

Yugi groaned and shifted forward,
oh she felt incredible as the he felt himself slide more into her and right up
against her barrier. “I…I don’t want to hurt you.”

Téa
reached up and curved her hands around his upper arms. “It’s all right, it’s
supposed to be this way. So come on just do it, please?” She nuzzled her face
into his neck. “Please, I love you, I trust you.”

Closing his eyes, not wanting to
hurt her but it was unavoidable in this situation.

“One sharp move should do it,
Yugi.” Yami wrapped his arms around Téa’s
middle, holding her tightly. As Yugi pulled out of her a little bit he gripped
her about the hips, and taking a deep breath before he thrust back into with a
little more force and he felt the barrier give way and he sunk all the way
inside, nearly losing his balance for the second time that night. He might be
short, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t be heavy. She had cried out at the
sharp pain that lanced through her every nerve, she was frozen as she had
gripped Yugi’s upper arms tightly, her nails digging into him.

Yugi was breathing hard. “I…I’m
sorry.” He wanted to retreat, he felt so bad that she was in pain because of
him.

Téa
was trying to catch her breath. “It’s…uh…all right.” She rubbed her hands up
and down as if he were the one that had gotten hurt, well in a way he was. He
moved probably to get himself more comfortable and her eyes widened. ‘oh…wow.’
Her mind commented breathlessly. Yugi seemed to feel it too for his eyes
expressed the same look as Téa’s did, she
curled her arms around his back and he curled himself into her.

The pain started to lessen until
it was no more than a brief memory, unwanted so it would vanish completely in
no time at all. Téa felt fingers caressing
her scalp and she seemed to purr lightly, closing her eyes as Yugi moved
himself once more, she gasped at the feeling of him buried inside her, the
sliding friction of his hardness moving in an unsure way, testing and learning.
Pulling himself out of her only to inch slowly back in.

This felt absolutely amazing, her
satiny walls gripping him so tightly and oh so deliciously, he was in awe, his
body was responding, his mind losing control. He moved again hearing her pant
in his ear. She was definitely responding favorably and she’d wiggle his hips
that would in turn press her onto him more and he would feel himself falling
into the delightful luscious heat.

Yugi moved again, this time a
little faster and he heard Téa’s gasp of
surprise.

“Oh…do that.” She breathed out.

Yami’s fingers kept threading
through Téa’s not quiet shoulder length brown
hair. “She will not break Yugi; just go with what you feel. Do not worry so
much.”

Yugi pulled his length out a
little and then thrust back in a little harder and she made another delightful
sound, so he moved in and out, again and again. His eyes glazed over, and he
started going on pure instinct alone as he drove himself forward harder and
faster into Téa’s warmth, earning him some
more of her beautiful noises and sounds. He felt Téa
pressing herself against him, meeting him thrust for thrust, hot and harder
they moved against each other, not knowing what they wanted, but desperately
tying to reach it.

His violet eyes widened as he felt
her warmth squeezing him, oh that was so hot, so uh…he groaned, and thrashed
his hips harder into hers.

“Uh…Yugi, I…this.” She gasped and
panted into his ear, clinging hard to him as she shoved her center against him
urgently, her lips finding his neck and suckling hard there.

Yami knew she was close he could
tell by the way she moved, almost desperately. He moved his fingers from her
hair and lightly cupped her shoulders before moving his hands to cover over her
breasts, where he caressed and curved his palms around them, she squealed in
delight again as she suckled harder on the flesh of Yugi’s neck.

Téa
threw lower body wildly against Yugi’s, “I…I…” She gripped Yugi’s back,
grabbing him hard as she stiffened and feeling her chest hitch, her heart
beating so wildly it threatened to tare from her chest. She arched high
curving herself upwards only mildly aware that someone was holding onto her.
Her entire body was shaking with the rush of nerves and feelings.

Driving harder and harder, Yugi
could feel her clinch so hard around him, it was…so…no words could describe how
it was, but Yugi could feel every inch of him, his every nerve was burning in a
hot, wild, devouring rapture of sensation and emotions; he plunged harder into
the warmth that commanded him, and he hit it! Yugi froze as wave after wave of
luscious bliss enveloped him in a mind numbing ecstasy.

When he was finally able to move,
he fell forward onto Téa where she circled her
arms around him, her fingers were in his hair and he was still breathing hard.
She pressed her lips to the top of his head.

Yami smiled at the two of them,
they were too drained to move themselves so he helped them to lie down on their
sides; he got up and retrieved a blanket from the other side of the couch. Téa’s sleeping bag was still on the other side and
Yami grabbed the folded blanket from off the bag and brought it back, covering
them. He watched as his two friends smiled up at him while he tucked them in.
“First times are quite strenuous, next time it will not be so exhausting…unless
you want it to be.” He whispered to them.

“Come lie down with us.” Yugi said
sleepily and with a yawn.

“I do not think I should, I really
should go back to your room.” He shifted a little so as to not make his current
problem obvious.

Téa
giggled. “Don’t be so silly, come on.” She patted the spot next to her. Seeing
Yami shrugged.

“All right then, but remember what
happened last time you invited me to your traditional evening.” That comment
caused the girl to laugh. “It’s just sleeping.”

Yami gave in, “Very well.” He
noticed that Yugi was already half asleep, as the boy clung to Téa, his arms around her waist and his face buried
against her chest. He did look so peaceful. So Yami took the only other place
available and that was on Téa’s other side.
She gave him some of the blanket and he cuddled underneath it.

It wasn’t long before he heard the
light snoring of the two beside him; he looked over to see very happy
expressions on both their faces. Boy was this uncomfortable, he was still
really anxious and the problem in his own pants had not gone away. Why did he
agree to sleep out here with them, he turned over on his side. He wanted to
turn towards the Christmas tree lights but really ended up facing Téa’s back, he opened his eyes a little. ‘It was
only sleeping, right?’ He shifted closer, and even closer so he was right up
against her.

It would be a very logical and
intelligent idea if Yami just went back to the room alone…of course there were
times when even he didn’t listen to his superior problem solving mind. He
cuddled closer against the girl’s lithe form; she really was so very soft. He
nuzzled his nose into her soft milk chocolate tresses, inhaling the scent of
berries, ‘mm, yummy.’

He lifted the hair off the back of
her neck and pressed soft kisses there, he heard her sigh. Yami lifted his
head a little to see if they both were still asleep, well they sure seemed to
be. It was different when Yugi wasn’t awake; the boy shifted and moved his
face out of her flesh. Yami almost felt sneaky and dirty - almost…he smirked
inwardly, and placed his hand upon Téa’s
shoulder and leaned closer to be able to watch what he was doing. Yami gently
caressed the swell of her breasts with his fingertips, as they grazed lower
over her abdomen, tracing the lines of muscle definition there. She really
does have a beautiful sculpted body; she works hard for her figure he
remembered. Yami loved the feel of her stomach, how tight and soft the skin
was, almost like stretched silk.

Téa
was surrounded in warmth, the light of joy caressing her heart as she slept
on. But her pleasant visit to slumber-land was being cut short as she felt
herself starting to wake, the gray and white lights of reality breaking through
the warm reds and purples of sleep. She felt it then…soft feather touches…her
eyes were starting to open, she hadn’t been in that deep of a sleep for her
vision to have gone blurry…she had just fallen she was sure if it. ‘Who’s
doing that?’ The feathers weren’t feathers at all, they were fingers and
they seemed to be stroking up belly and down, going further each stroke. She
looked in front of her, Yugi was asleep with his hand curled the blanket - how
adorable! Her eyes widened… ‘Hey!’ Her mind shouted. She lifted her
head and turned it to find Yami, he was smiling at her.

“What do you think you’re—” She
was cut off.

“Shh, not so loud.” He looked
over at Yugi, not stopping at all in what he was doing with his fingers.
“You’ll wake him.”

Tea humpfed. “Well maybe I want to
wake him.” She was indicating that his touching her was unacceptable.

He nuzzled his nose into the spot where
her shoulder and neck met. “You weren’t so against me touching you earlier.”

Her face flamed. “Well…that was
earlier. You can’t just do this kinda thing.”

“And why not? You like it.” he
said into her flesh, as he teased her belly again and dipped lower. He felt
her thighs slam shut even tighter and he chuckled. “What are you so worried
about?”

Téa
cleared her throat. “I know you don’t know much about interaction, but people
just don’t get it on with each other for fun. Well most people, nowadays sex
is between people who care for each other.”

Yami lifted his face from her
neck. “What, you do not care about me?” Genuine hurt was visible in his eyes.

She sighed, feeling a little bad
for him. “That’s not what I meant. Of course I care about you. It is you who
doesn’t care for me. Believe it or not a part of me will always care about
you.”

“That is not true, Téa. I care about you, you are important to me…just
like Yugi is; and Joey and Tristan. You are all important to me. I just can’t
fall in love like you have with Yugi. But just because I cannot love does not
mean I cannot care. Because that I do.”

Téa
understood him, and it was true. She did care about Yami, but her feelings had
changed, which doesn’t mean she stopped caring about him just her feelings for
Yugi had grown much deeper than they ever had with Yami. “It still is not
right.” She patted his hand which was still stroking up and down her front,
indicating they were back on topic.

“You will leave me to suffer
then?” Yami pouted and her brow arched. “You do not realize how much pain there
is.” He pointed to the problem in his pants.

“Ugh, that is such a typical guy
line.” Téa commented with a hint of disgust.

“It is very true though, come on Téa, please let me borrow you?”

Téa
choked. “Borrow me?”

He nodded and pressed his front
against her backside, Yami saw her eyes widen. “I am in serious need of you,
can you not feel it?”

“Ugh, stop being so dirty, Pervert.”
She scolded, trying to push him off.

“Just once, I will not ever ask
you again. You two got me all hot and bothered.” He just kept insisting,
hopefully it would wear her down and she would just agree. Yami’s talking must
be working, because he felt her thighs release in pressure and he was able to
slip his fingers between her legs. She was so very warm. “Come on Téa; be a friend a good friend.” He kissed the shell
of her ear and he heard her light moan.

“What are you two talking about?”
Yugi’s voice quietly said, he rubbed his eyes and saw Téa
who looked back over at him in alarm.

“Yugi, you’re awake.”

“Mm hmm.” Yugi said, there was a
strange grin on his face. “Yami, you’re touching her again?” He was sure that if
he wasn’t half asleep that he would be furious at Yami right about now.

He nodded. “I am, I could not help
it. I have a large problem of my own, which was kind of caused by my watching
and getting involved with you two, and her body was so nice and warm, and we
are all friends here so it is not big deal. Right?

“Yugi, do you mind, really?” Téa asked, because all he had to do was say the word
and she wouldn’t.

Yugi thought about it. ‘Yami
likes Téa, they are friends. But Téa loves me, Yami doesn’t love Téa like I do, but a part of him does he just
doesn’t recognize it. And its not like he’s a perfect stranger, we did share
my body for a long time. I know how he thinks and behaves.’ He supposed
it would be all right. “All right, but just don’t expect this to become an all
the time occurrence.”

Téa
was almost hoping he would tell Yami, no way! But the two were close so was
sharing between them really all that difficult, but why did the sharing have to
be of herself? She rolled her eyes as she felt herself being lifted. “Hey,
what’s going on here?” They didn’t answer her, but she found herself
straddling a shirtless Yami, and she sucked in a deep nervous breath. How did
he remove that shirt without her knowing, it must have been when she was so
deep in thought?

Yami was lying on his back
watching the unsure expressions crossing her pretty face, “Relax, you will like
this.” He reached up and placed his hands on her hips, caressing the soft skin
there with gentle fingertips, he moved them around her front and quickly down
between her spread legs, where he nudged the jewel of her body with his
fingertip. Téa moaned out loud, and she felt
her whole body sliding forward but that alarmed her. “What are you doing?” She
asked panicked.

“Shh, just trust me.” He saw her
eyes slam shut, and he inwardly laughed. Oh the innocent were so adorable.
Yami heard movement and he looked to find Yugi had wrapped the blanket around
his waist and sat down next to them to see what was going to happen.

“Oh I know what you’re going to
do.” Yugi said in a quiet voice.

Yami pulled her forward so that
her center was poised right over his mouth, and he gently let his tongue touch
the jewel of her body, she jolted and gasped, her eyes flying wide open.

“Ohmygod!” She blinked down at him
seeing humor in his eyes and he did it again, it made her jump. She nearly fell
over but he gripped her about the thighs holding her in place, she felt it -
his tongue slippery and wet delving into her heated core and she groaned, her
eyes rolling into the back of her head. He teased her button, a few times,
before thrusting his tongue back into her inner warmth.

Yami could taste the earlier
evidence of her and Yugi’s joining, but that didn’t bother him. Her taste was
truly the prize here, one of a kind and it was like heaven - sweet and so very
addicting. His tongue circled her jewel, probing it back and forth and her
soft cries giving him what he wanted.

She had never ever felt anything
like that before, it was so wet and…oooh boy… she bit her bottom lip to keep
from making too much noise. Téa shifted her
body a little but he clung to her, keeping her where he wanted her. She
whimpered feeling his tongue circling her button again and again, these
feelings were too intense, way too much, and he was not even being the least
big quiet.

Yugi was lying on his back,
looking up and getting a closer look at what Yami was doing to her. She really
seemed to be going crazy. Yami stopped and turned his head, seeing Yugi paying
very close attention. He suddenly had a good idea. He grabbed a hold of her
waist tightly and lifted her, flipping her over onto her back where he settled
in between her thighs. Yugi moved onto his knees hovering really close by.

“Did you see what I did?”

Yugi slowly nodded, and Yami
moved. “Well go for it.”

“What? Me?” Yugi pointed to
himself.

“Well you will want to eventually,
so surely right now.” Yami grinned, and pushed Yugi forward. “Do not fear
this, Yugi. It is not wrong or dirty, it is what people do to please each
other.”

Yugi looked at Téa and saw that she was certainly not going to mind,
but he had never done this before. Watching was one thing, but doing it was
another.

Yami planted a soft kiss on her
tummy and started working his way upward, his tongue tracing the lines in her
abdomen. He felt fingers stroking in his hair, and he lifted his eyes to find
Téa’s relaxed and pretty face. Looking
downward, Yami saw Téa’s thighs were spread
open, but Yugi was still hesitating, oh…wait never mind… he saw the boy lean
forward a curious look in his eyes as he lightly traced Téa’s inner beauty with his finger tips.

Yugi hadn’t really taken the time
to look at her, everything happened in such a rush, so now was his chance. He
was still a little nervous, but nothing like before. He saw the little pebble
of flesh at the entrance of her femininity and he placed the pad of his finger
against it, hearing her soft moan.

Her body seemed to come to life as
her Yugi started touching and caressing her intimately, her pulse seemed to
soar when she felt lips and a tongue sliding up her body in slow agony. She
continued to thread her fingers through Yami’s hair a gave a soft low whimper
feeling his tongue trace the very peak of her breast, his tongue gliding over
her nipple causing her to arch her back into him more. She heard him chuckle
as he closed his lips over the tip suckling. She moaned deep in her throat.

Yugi moved and laid down between
her open thighs. “So beautiful.” he whispered, before pressing a small shy kiss
to her opening. He felt her jump and heard her squeal and it made him smile
that he could cause these reactions in her. His tongue lightly tested the
area. Her taste was interesting and he traced the seam of her womanhood with
the tip of his tongue. Oh it was good, so good, like craving sweet hot
chocolate on a cold winter day.

“Ahh!” She cried out, feeling Yugi’s
tongue thrust inside her getting to her most sacred of areas. He licked up and
down, swirled and curled his tongue around her jewel making her thrash around.
She couldn’t take it anymore. She was so heated and wet as he continued his
exploration of her inner sanctum. “Yugiii, I can’t take it anymore.” Téa whimpered.

“All right, Yugi stop.” Yami’s
voice commanded. “When you get more experience you will realize when your woman
is ready, but for now it’s best you listen to me.”

She was panting so hard, Téa moved onto her knees her face flushed, her body
hot and on fire. “I want…to do the same thing.” She replied bashfully.

Yami chuckled. “I assumed you
would.” He signaled for Yugi to come towards them, which he did and the former
puzzle spirit patted the floor in front of Téa.

Yugi felt the prickling of nerves
again, but they were swept away when Téa
smiled prettily at him: especially when she had that adorable blush spread
across her cheeks. He felt his blanket being ripped away from him and Téa’s eyes widening and her mouth dropping open in
shock. She did not get any look at him before, sure she touched him but seeing
and touching are a little different. Maybe something could be said for shorter
boys. Her eyes took in the size of her sweet and innocent Yugi… ‘that’
actually fit in her? She gulped down a breath of air and moved forward.

“Wow, Yugi you’re like amazing.”
She praised, causing him to blush.

“Uh…thanks. I guess.” He rubbed
the back of his head nervously.

Téa
moved forward towards him as did Yami, she just really wanted to get down to
business, couldn’t wait to feel him once more. “He has a beautiful body.”

Yami nodded. “Indeed.” He cleared
his throat. “Now just like your body, Téa, we
guys are very sensitive here. You will need to be a little careful and watch
out for teeth, we do not like that.” He saw her chuckle, and Yugi blanched.

“Why doesn’t she try it on you
first?” Yugi suddenly said. “heh, heh, just in case.”

“Nothing doing, this is all for
you.” Yami answered with a grin and pushing the boy so he was lying on his
back. “Okay, Téa move forward a little, you
want to be comfortable.” He waited till she was in proper position and then he
continued with his ‘lesson.’ Yami explained in great detail what Téa should do to give her man the best oral
experience possible; she listened and watched, of course not without getting a
bit red in the face. “Now go ahead, see what you can do.” He winked over at
Yugi and felt very uneasy; he still worried about when Yami said something
about teeth! Yikes.

Shyly, Téa
reached out and curved her fingers around Yugi’s now growing hardness, she felt
it and her eyes expressed nothing short of awe. It was amazing… she wrapped
her hand around the base of his shaft and he moaned, his eyes rolling into the
back of his head from the joy of feeling her hand on him. She gently moved her
hand up and down, stroking him and he hummed.

Téa
hovered over him, lowered her mouth and gently closed her lips over the tip, he
groaned so loud that it made Téa’s heart
flutter and her blood boil. She slid he mouth down his hardness, her tongue
swirling and tasting him. Yugi resisted so hard of just plunging himself into
her out of instinct, he grabbed at the back of her head, holding her there as
she experimentally took him further into her mouth. Now she was addicted, she
felt his hands in her hair, urging her own as she sucked him more into her
mouth.

Yami moved around behind Téa, and held gripped her hips, pulling her up on her
knees a little; she wasn’t really paying attention and just went along with the
movements. Using his knee Yami pushed her thighs open and trailed his hands up
her legs, reaching her still wet center, where he rubbed and probed with his
fingers.

She gasped, still working her
mouth on Yugi but stopping and lifted her head, hearing him hiss from lack of
contact. “What are you doing?”

“Shhh, do not neglect your man.”
Yami teased playfully, but continued doing what he was doing.

Yugi whimpered and caressed the
back of her head. “Please Téa…” he urged her
on and he felt her closer her mouth over his manhood once more, making him purr
in delight. “Uh…so warm…” He murmured as she slid her mouth up and down, again
and again, drawing him into her.

Yami’s fingers were deep inside Téa’s body, oh Gods he wanted to be buried in that
lovely sea of warmth. Undoing his pants, he let them drop and he moved over to
her. Yami looked over at Yugi seeing him grab at the back of her head a little
stronger. She was distracted a little, but not for long. He pressed hard
member up against her opening and he saw and felt the girl tense up. “Do not
worry,” He has been saying that a lot this night. “You two worry far too
much.” He soothed, curving his hands around her hips, “Remember, Tea. No
teeth, so stop for a moment.”

Téa
paused as Yami started slowly inching himself inside her, he moaned low and
deep at the pure hot contact of her heat sheathing him as he sunk himself
deep. She made some kind of strangled squeal like noise as her fingers gripped
Yugi’s thighs. She leaned forward pressing her forehead against his stomach.
Yami let her conform to his size before he pulled back and thrust forward, she
whimpered and moaned as he thrust again, and again.

He grunted as he slammed his hips
forward into her, she was oh so hot and he was drowning in her. Harder he
entered her to only slowly and torturously pull out almost the whole length
before thrusting back in to the hilt. Téa
wrapped her arms around Yugi’s chest as he held her close to him.

She moaned, her strangled noises
indicating that this was a position that she would definitely be fond of in the
future. Téa was lost in the sensations, she
didn’t even know where she was, all she wanted was to be filled again and
again. Harder and faster. Opening her eyes she noticed Yugi, he was concerned
because she could see it in his eyes. “I…It doesn’t hurt me.” She moaned again
as Yami slammed harder into her emitting a groan himself.

Yugi still didn’t believe her, but
then he saw a light smile on her face when Yami withdrew only to plunge back
into her waiting heat. He felt her fingers on his still hardness, her hand
wrapping around himself. Yugi let his eyes fall closed when he felt her palm
stroke him up and down. She teased his skin with her fingers, his throbbing
manhood aching in her hand while she worked her talented magic. He could hear
her moaning and the slapping of a hard body into hers, but he didn’t care…not
when he felt her mouth on him again, drinking him in. slurping and sucking him
deep into her mouth.

There was a strange vibration when
she moaned around him, gasping when Yami urgently in sharper, quicker strokes
plunged into her. Harder and faster she moved her mouth taking him in easier
and deeper, the more she was feeling the more she made Yugi feel. He couldn’t
take…he gripped the back of her head, pushing it down wanting to fill her
completely with himself. “Oh God, Teéa I’m
gonna.” His body stiffened and his heart pounded and she was filled, with him
with the taste of him, she felt it on both ends, the explosion of body and
mind, mingling together in one perfect moment of harmony.

She felt fingers rubbing against
her center against her hidden jewel, as Yami moved his fingers faster. Téa felt it, the edge she was oh so close, and his
fingers working in circles rubbing and teasing, she groaned feeling her knees
start to give out but he pulled her upper body against the front of his chest,
which ended up parting her thighs more so her pebble was more profound. Her
brows squeezed together and her whole world fell away, as she melted in a sea
of white hot, glorious sensations crying out as the pleasure her heart and soul
uniting for that one ultimate feeling of utter bliss.

Téa
fell forward, no longer able to hold herself up, she was wrapped in the warmth
of beautiful sensations.

“Téa,
are you…”

“Hmm?” Téa
looked up lazily at him. “I feel…hmm wonderful Yugi, tired but…” She sighed
contently and he moved closer to her, snuggling into her body.

“I feel good too, you make me feel
good.” Yugi nuzzled his face into the side of her neck.

Yami cleared his throat, “Sorry, Téa. I think I was a little uh…hard on you.” He
grimaced at his choice of words.

She laughed lightly “Oh, that?
Well I didn’t mind.” Her face flamed. “I actually did uh…like it.”

The former Puzzle Spirit laughed
loud and hard. “Oh, I am glad. I would not ever want to make you feel less than
you are, it is just you are so lovely and your body is so ripe and I just could
not help myself.”

“Oh now you’re worrying.” Yugi
laughed. “I think that this was actually a great experience for us, it no
doubt it brought the three of us closer together.”

Yami tended to agree. “You do have
a point there, Yugi.”

Téa
nodded. “I don’t know about you two, but I am exhausted.” She pulled the
blanket over both herself and Yugi and then looked right at Yami. “If you can
behave yourself this time, then you can sleep by us.”

Snickering, Yami felt so light and
easy now. He really wasn’t worried anymore. “I think I can control myself
this time.” He crawled over to Yugi and Téa
where he fit himself against her back, throwing his arm around her waist and
nuzzling into her. “I am a bit sleepy myself.” He yawned.

Giggling, Téa didn’t really mind Yami sleeping in that position anymore.
Pulling the blanket over the three of them, she cuddled in close, wrapping her
arms around Yugi - the boy she loved. “I think our Christmas Eve tradition has
been changed, it has become even more special. I really love the gift you gave
me.” Her hand cupped his cheek and he stared lovingly into her beautiful blue
eyes. She leaned in closer. “I love you Yugi Mouto, now and forever.” She
whispered breathlessly.

Yugi smiled a little sleepily. “I
love your gift too.” He knew she wasn’t talking about the sapphire, but about
something deeper. “My heart is yours. I love you Téa,
I have always loved you.” He kissed her gently, softly. They had given their
hearts to one another on this Christmas Eve, and that truly was the sweetest
gift that they could ever receive.

****

Sitting around the table in the
Gardner’s beautifully decorated Dinning Room, was the entire group of friends,
Yami, Yugi, Téa, Joey, Mai, Tristan, Serenity,
and Solomon. Maelee was walking around the table putting cider in their
glasses, while she and her husband helped themselves to some Champagne.

Gouku Gardner, raised his glass. “How
about a toast?”

“To what, dear?” Maelee asked,
raising her glass as well.

Téa’s
father smiled. “How about to our daughter.” Gouku winked in her direction
making her flush embarrassed. “Now everyone say something.” He pointed to the
first person on the other end of the table which happened to be Yami.

Yami smiled and lifted his glass
and knew just what to toast to. “To life.”

Téa
lifted her glass. “To love.” She said in a sweet voice and reached under the
table and grabbed Yugi’s hand.

Holding her hand tightly beneath the
table, Yugi lifted his glass. “To friendship.”

Joey was next and he extended his
glass in the air, “To fun.” He grinned.

Looking over at Joey, Mai was
smiling. “To trust.” She glanced at the teenagers and they all knew how hard
she had it with trusting people.

Tristan was grinning, while
lifting his glass. “To adventure!” He exclaimed brightly.

Smiling prettily, Serenity raised
her glass. “To happiness.” She exclaimed gleefully.

Solomon stood up. “To you all, for
bringing so much joy into all our lives.” His by far was the best toast.

“Merry Christmas!” The entire
group said all at once, clinking their glasses together then drinking from
them. Chatter soon filled the room as they all started helping themselves to
the feast upon the table.

The front door bell chimed and Téa stood up. “I’ll get it.” Téa said, feeling Yugi release her hand. Her
adorable outfit was just begging to be viewed by the public. She wore a red
velvet long sleeve blouse, with white faux fir trim around the cuffs of the
sleeves. The blouse hugged her ample figure perfectly; and the red velvet and
white faux fur trimmed skirt, only reached about mid thigh. White tights with
sparkly smiling Santa Claus faces completed the outfit. She raced down the
hardwood floor hall way and across the granite tile entry way, rushing to the
door. Pulling it open and with a bright smile on her face that it caused her
eyes to squint shut she exclaimed a bright: “Merry Christmas, how can I help
you?”

Mokuba and Seto stood there
starring at a very happy looking Téa Gardner.

Seto sighed, why couldn’t he have
dreamed of her in that cute red suit rather than the old man? Since what she
was wearing was far better in his opinion. He noticed the pretty blue stone
hanging around her neck, it was such a change from the red she was wearing. He
silently wondered with a small flash of brief jealousy who gave that to her?

“Merry Christmas Téa,” Mokuba exclaimed cheerfully.

Opening her eyes, she was pleased
at seeing Mokuba at her door but curious as to why the elder Kaiba was standing
there too. “Oh what brings you two by?”

“Can we come in for a minute?”
Seto asked, he really did not want to barge in on her time, but he felt the
need to deliver this news himself.

Standing to the side, to allow
them entry to her house. “Sure, it is pretty nippy out.” She waited until the
stood in the entry way before she closed the door.

Seto now thought this was a bad idea,
he never should have come here. He felt his brother nudging him and he slowly
extended a manila folder towards Téa. “This is
for you.” He said a little coolly, and glanced at her expression as she
accepted the folder and opened it, finding a contract for a summer dance
program.

She stared stunned, most of the
paperwork was already filled it, all it needed was her personal information and
it would all be complete. Téa scanned the
rest of it and her eyes fell on the price. “This is nice and all, but this is
a lot of money.”

“Don’t worry about that, it’s
already taken care of.” Seto replied emotionless, but indicated that it was him
who had footed the bill.

Téa’s
eyes snapped up to his, her parents could afford it she didn’t have to ask him
for anything, but she wasn’t sure her parents would want her to go all the way
to the other side of the world for three months. “Why would you do this for
me? What do you expect to get out of this?”

Seto shoved his hands in his
pockets. “I know a good thing when I see it, I am never wrong.”

She felt like rolling her eyes.
“But you don’t have to this, I didn’t even ask for your help.”

“I know that, I want too. You
have dreams, and they shouldn’t be squished down with reality. Sometimes
dreams can become reality so I want you to go for it.” He never got the same
opportunities with dreams so he knew what that was like. He absentmindedly
reached up to the locket hanging around his neck. It was what was in the gift
that ‘Santa Claus’ had left him last night. It was a picture of him probably
around seven when Mokuba was a just born with their original parents. Where
ever that old man got that small picture of the four of them from he would
never know. But it was truly a special gift - during a time when he actually
believed in things like magic and fantasy.

Téa
sighed bringing his thoughts back to reality, his cold disposition returning
once more. Holding the folder against her breasts, she replied: “I don’t
really feel comfortable about this, so I’ll pay you back. I promise.”

“The only payback I want is to see
your name in lights all over the world.”

Mokuba was grinning brightly
beside him. “Téa, go for it. It’s your dream,
it’s what you want.”

Téa
never realized that Seto Kaiba would ever be so generous, especially with
someone like her, a friendship totting cheerleader. Maybe he has changed.
What more could she do, it sure sounded like he wasn’t going to take no for an
answer. “Thank you, Kaiba; this is really…well its shocking coming from you,
but thank you so much.” She heard her friends and family laughing in the
background and it made her smile. “Would you two like to join us?”

Seto was about to refuse, but he
saw the hopeful look in her beautiful eyes. “Yes, only because you want us
too.”

Mokuba cheered and jumped up and
down as he and his brother was led into the beautiful sculpted dinning room
with cherry wood furniture.

“Hey everyone, look who’s decided
to join us for the holiday.” Téa exclaimed
brightly. She saw Joey’s eye twitch.

“Kaiba, what has gotten in ta—” He
was suddenly interrupted with Mia’s hand on his leg and leaning over whispering
something in his ear. Joey sighed and crossed his arms over his chest scowling
silently.

Gouku smiled at their two new
guests. “Welcome, I shall go get two more chairs.” And he went to fetch them.

If Seto wasn’t a master at
disguising his reactions, he would have gapped openly at the sight of the Yugi
look alike sitting on the end of the table. There were a few differences, but
they were almost exactly alike and it was then he remembered something about
Yugi telling him after Battle City the truth, but he didn’t believe it at the
time. ‘Seeing isn’t believing, believing is seeing.’ Perhaps there was
some truth to that after all?

Once Gouku returned everyone sat
down to the glorious Christmas Dinner of ham and turkey, sides of pea salad a
fruit salad, garlic mashed potatoes, a creamy pumpkin curry soup, Christmas
cheesecakes, pies and cookies and other foods usually found in the Western
cultures during this holiday.

Solomon looked around the table,
noticing everyone engaged in conversation, there was laughter and fun, even
Kaiba cracked a smile or two. Yugi and Téa
were talking quietly to each other, an occasional giggle erupting from her.
Yami and Mokuba were discussing duel monster strategy. Serenity and Mai talked
about after Christmas sales and what stores they would hit. Tristan and Joey were
arguing, but also laughing and enjoying their time together… Soon life was
going to change, Solomon knew that it was only a matter of time before Yami
would have to find out his destiny and no doubt Yugi and their friends would be
there by his side to help him. Solomon smiled, for now life was good. He
shouldn’t dwell on the bad things; it was Christmas a time for celebration and
hope! Real life could wait…for now.

The end…

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Well I hope you all enjoyed this, its
was my first Yu-gi-oh threesome love scene, lemon center filled fanfiction.
There was so much more I could do, but it was so long already. 56 pages,
Yikes! ‘Grins’ Please review and let me know if you liked it, or hated it.

Thanks,

Ryoko Blue
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