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Shopping, Sex and Fruitcake	By : DarkTemptations Category: Yu-Gi-Oh > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 2177 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- 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.

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Title: Shopping, Sex and Fruitcake 5/10

Author: Dark Temptations

Beta: Vash is my Angel

Rating: NC17 *smiles sweetly*

Summary: A week before Christmas, Seto has a scare. Underneath his tree is bare! The deadline's approaching, the gifts are in doubt. But Joey has promised to help Seto out. A week of shopping, chaos and more. How much trouble lies in store? Will a visitor be a foe or a friend? Will Joey and Seto find love in the end? Peppermint peckers and kisses so sweet. This fic has it all for a Christmassy treat!

Disclaimer: Since I am not a Japanese guy - I obviously don't own Yugioh or any of the Yugioh characters. Since I'm also not a 'comfortably padded' guy in a red suit with a white beard - I also obviously don't own Santa Claus. I do own a couple of elves... but they're not in this fic - since that would make it a crossover and they're not allowed at the Lair *smiles sweetly*. Merry Christmas to all and to all a... Oh wait - I don't own that line either.

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Dark Temptations Presents

Shopping, Sex and Fruitcake

Chapter 5

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The play really wasn't that bad.

A couple of the angels were less than angelic and ended up having a wrestling match on one side of the stage - but the child playing the role of the rear half of a horse gave them a nudge with a hoof and soon got them up and singing again, with only a drooping wing and a tilted halo to show that anything had happened.

There had been one rabbit in the choir of assorted forest animals who had decided that he felt like bellowing the words to 'Jingle Bells, Grandma Smells' instead of singing the usual version like everyone else - but one of the squirrels was observed hitting him over the head with her songbook as they went off the stage, so anyone who had been offended by it ended up being smugly satisfied.

When twenty boys dressed as Santa Claus had marched onto the stage and the last one's belt had snapped just as he stepped out of the wings... That had been an unfortunate costume malfunction. The boy tripping over his pants as they pooled around his ankles and falling into the Santa in front of him, knocking him into the one before him - and on and on until they had all fallen down in a row... That had been a very educational exhibition of the 'domino effect: Santa version'.

Finally, towards the end of the play, came the moment that Seto and Joey had been waiting for!

Although the row of singing and dancing plants that announced his arrival was more than a little disturbing - Mokuba's entrance was quite popular with the audience. It could have been because he made a rather cute Christmas tree... but it was more likely because in the process of singing and dancing his way onto the stage, he accidentally knocked into a particularly obnoxious little weed that had been poking his tongue out at the audience. Although there hadn't been a tumbleweed listed in the actors' credits - everyone agreed that he was better in that role than he had been as a regular weed.

The last act in the play was a Santa's Workshop scene that drew an admiring 'awwwwwwww' from about three quarters of the audience. It was somewhat unique, in that quite a few of the children in the scene had brought in their pets and dressed them up to play the parts of elven extras. It was hard to tell if the children or the animals were having the better time. But there was one animal that definitely had a marvelous time - much to his owner's embarrassment.

The puppy playing the part of Rudolph stole the show when he ran across the stage - his little reindeer antlers bobbing as the bells on his red collar jingled - and happily lifted his leg on one of the elves' workbenches.

As the curtain came down, Joey was not the only one still laughing. His laughter was cut short though when he turned to speak to Kaiba and saw him eyeing him very thoughtfully. "What?"

"I was just wondering what you would look like with..."

Joey smiled very sweetly as he interrupted. "Oh, I checked on our snow-Kaiba, by the way. I had to shore him up a bit where he was wiltin', but he's still hangin' in there."

"Touché" Seto's lips twitched and he nodded to Wheeler - knowing better than to finish his sentence.

He stood up. "Time to collect Mokuba."

Nodding, Joey stood up as well and stretched to ease the kinks that had come from sitting still for nearly two hours. "Where are we pickin' him up?"

"Around the back of the building. Mokuba should be waiting there already." Seto started to edge sideways along the row of seats towards the end. Joey followed him.

"Won't he need time to change out of his costume?"

Shaking his head, Seto continued along the seats until he was free to stop his crab impression and walk normally towards the door. He waited for Wheeler to catch up before heading out of the auditorium and around the side of the building. "No. The children were allowed to keep their costumes if they paid a fee. Partly the school's way of recovering the money spent on the costumes and sets and partly fundraising for whatever the school's current goal is." He frowned as he thought for a second. "I believe this year they are saving up for an extension to their library."

Joey nodded. "Good way of doin' it. The kids get somethin' to keep from it and it helps the school at the same time. So Mokuba's keepin' his tree suit, huh?"

"Yes. This is the second year that Mokuba has been in the play. He bought his costume last year too. He was a mouse." Seto smiled. "This year he is a tree. Looks like my little brother is... branching out... in his acting roles."

Groaning, Joey shook his head. "I can't believe ya just said that."

"I cannot believe you did not find it humourous." Seto smiled a little more as he rounded the corner of the building. Hearing some sort of commotion up ahead, he looked to see what was going on. "Although... it would appear that Mokuba is currently branching out a little too much for his own good." He bit his lip and fought back the urge to laugh at the sight of his brother - still in his costume - trying to wriggle through the door.

Joey rounded the corner behind Kaiba and looked to see what he was talking about. He arched an eyebrow and grinned. "He's not..."

"Yes. I very much fear he is." Seto traded 'we really shouldn't laugh even though it is pretty funny' glances with Wheeler before heading over to the struggling and obviously frustrated Christmas Tree that was well and truly stuck in the back door of the school's Performing Arts Auditorium.

"Of course... ya realise it's your duty as his big brother to never let him forget about this, right?" Joey muttered to Kaiba as they approached Mokuba.

The look on Seto's face was almost frightening in its serenity. "Yes, Wheeler, I do indeed know that. The real question is... have you any experience in freeing a tree from a doorway? I must admit, it is somewhat out of my field of expertise."

Joey grinned. "Tristan's family get a huge tree every year. Of course I have experience in it."

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Mokuba was still being teased about 'the tree incident' an hour later - Joey was still laughing over the boy's need to get out of his costume before fitting in the car - when the limo slowed down about fifty metres from the estate's front gate. Seto frowned and leaned forward to speak with the driver. "What is going on? Why are we stopping?"

The chauffeur nodded towards the uniformed men surrounded the gate. "We're being waved to a halt by the security detail, sir." His voice was puzzled. "It looks as if there's been some sort of trouble."

As soon as the car came to a stop, one of the men came over to them. Seto put the window down and frowned at him. "Jenkins. What is the meaning of this?"

"We have a potential threat, sir. The guard on the gate reported a suspicious-looking... er... vehicle... in the vicinity half an hour ago. The driver of the vehicle was even more suspicious in his actions. He drove off when the gate guard approached him, however all of the perimeter alarms have gone down since then. We're lookin into the situation, but so far it looks as if there's some sort of electrical interference."

Seto arched an eyebrow. "Are you saying someone is jamming my security devices?" He shook his head. "That is impossible. Or supposed to be, at least." He scowled and thought for a minute. "Is it only the perimeter alarms down?"

"Yes sir. We have confirmed that all the security cameras on the estate are still functioning. The internal motion sensors are also operational, as is the mansion's alarm system. Due to the potential threat, I have an armed escort ready to accompany you to the house and make sure it's secure and I must ask that you all remain inside the house until we have the alarms back online." The man was obviously not at all happy about the situation.

Pleased with the head of his security team's brisk efficiency, Seto nodded. "That is acceptable. Please proceed and I wish to be kept informed of any developments."

"Yes, sir." Mr Jenkins nodded once before moving away.

As the car started off again, Joey looked at Mokuba, then at Kaiba. "Can I get a translation of all that?"

Mokuba piped up before his brother could reply. "The guard on the gate saw someone loitering around outside and went to chase them off, but then the motion-activated alarm system around the walls stopped working. So the security team came to make sure there was no one trying to get into the estate and some of the guards are going with us up to the house so they can keep me from being kidnapped. Or big brother from being hurt," he added as an afterthought.

Joey's eyebrows vanished into his hair. "This sort of thing happen often?"

"About once or twice a month. More if there's a major board meeting coming up." Mokuba shrugged at the shocked look Joey gave him. "Not all of the board members approve of the way Seto does things."

Seto smiled wryly. "It is not as bad as Mokuba is making it sound. They are not serious attempts. More along the lines of some of the members of the board trying to keep me in the line they believe I should be in."

Joey grinned. "As if you'd ever keep to a line. I've seen ya colour outside them enough to know that."

Mokuba giggled and Seto smiled a little. "True."

While they'd been talking, the limo had passed through the gate and driven along the driveway to the mansion. The car pulled to a stop and Joey had the door open before Seto thought to tell him not to. "Wheeler! You were supposed to wait for the area to be secured!"

"Sorry, Kaiba." Joey sheepishly started to close the door again, but Mokuba stopped him.

"It's all right, Joey. Nothing happened when you opened the door, so we might as well get out now."

"Mokuba!" Seto frowned at him. "That is not at all logical."

Mokuba pouted at his big brother, his eyes looking impossibly large in his small face. "Big brother..."

Seto sighed. He knew that look and it explained the hurry his little brother was suddenly in. "Honestly Mokuba... you should have gone before we left the school." He nodded to Joey, who opened the door wider and got out of the car.

"I did. But they had this really delicious fruit juice backstage that we could help ourselves to." Mokuba smiled sweetly at his brother before wiggling out of the car. He bounded up the front steps and had the security code entered and the door open before Seto was even out of the car.

Joey and Seto traded amused glances as they followed Mokuba towards the front door.

The escorts pulled up and began to get out of their car, looking tense and unhappy because Mokuba had gone inside and Seto was standing in the open before they'd checked to make sure it was safe for them to do those things.

Something large and red suddenly jumped out from behind one of the shrubs planted near the front door and hurtled towards Seto with a loud cry, "Surprise!"

The boys' smiles turned to looks of horror as they froze - staring at their worst nightmare.

tbc
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