The Miracle Mutt
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Yu-Gi-Oh › Yaoi - Male/Male
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Chapter 1
Author Corner: Before you read, I want you to understand the premise of this challenge. The authors were giving 25 items in which we had to use at least seven. I had used all 25. ^^ So here are the list of the items and I hope you continue on enjoying the fic.
A large green basket full of gold and red bows.
A small Red Eyes Black Dragon wearing a Santa hat.
A lost elf.
An uninvited guest with a gift.
Mokuba hunting through the mansion trying to find where Seto hid his Christmas presents and discovers Seto's secret hidden stash of: (the writer fills in what Mokuba finds
A winter storm.
A puppy wearing reindeer antlers.
An explicit holiday themed manga.
A gold rose with a red bow.
Exploding chestnuts.
A well sculpted, over endowed, anatomically correct blue eyed snowman, wearing one of Seto's old trench coats and duel disks.
A vibrator that looks and smells like a peppermint stick.
An anonymous gift of an adult themed advent calendar that has anatomically correct chocolates and other small items like sample packs of lube, cock rings, silk blindfold, massage oil, body paints, etc inside of it.
Someone receives a plastic lump of coal and a wooden paddle in a stocking.
A singing, dancing Christmas tree.
A five pound fruit cake that everyone keeps rewrapping and passing on to someone else in an attempt to get rid of it.
A four foot Christmas card.
An old wrinkled misplaced letter to Santa discovered in the back of someone's closet.
Someone accidentally gets locked out of the house ( or apartment or hotel room, ship cabin, etc.) while wearing nothing but a bathrobe or a towel.
A sleigh stuck in the snow or mud.
A flaming chicken.
A traffic jam caused by a moose wearing a red and green jingle bell harness.
Seto is jumped by a crazed fan girl (or boy) holding a clump of mistletoe.
An invitation to go to a Christmas play.
A Christmas tree stuck in a doorway.
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Title: The Miracle Mutt 1/9
Author: Mizumiblu
Rating: NC-17
Pairing (s): Jou/Seto
Beta: Rroselavy
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: Me No Own Yu Gi Oh
Summary: One Kaiba Seto learns that just like money, neither happiness nor Christmas miracles grow on trees It’s actually more in the form of a mischievous blond name Jou.
One week later…
A series of laughter rang out in various places within a noisy classroom as students began to file in after hearing the bell. Eyes occasionally strayed to the cut out shapes of bells, snowflakes, and Christmas trees hanging from the ceiling that went along with the wreaths, bows, and holiday-colored bulletin boards, which had student-drawn holiday themed pictures hanging upon them.
Yet as impressive as the classroom setting was; the main attraction however, was the decent sized Christmas tree that sat in the far right hand corner beside the chalk board. It had been adorned with so many types of decorations and ornaments that it was difficult to see the branches. Students every now and then would get up and place a gift either under it, and if possible, on the tree, which made the holiday symbol all the more interesting.
It was always good to have a teacher, who was sensitive enough to be very much into the holidays.
Well one particular blond thought so, as he looked hungrily at the growing pile of food on a large table that students were also walking to and away from. It sat on the left wall under the window, where the light was pouring in and onto the delicious treats making them even more tempting.
A pink tongue slithered out mischievously to lightly caress tanned lips.
Hell, one missing cookie wouldn’t hurt anybody…
“Jou!”
The scheming boy jumped a few feet into the air before looking wearily into chibi purple eyes.
“Yug…”
The said teen grinned broadly as he tightly grasped to a gift wrapped in shiny gold paper with figures of the Dark Magician scattered about it.
“Did you bring your gift to contribute to the tree?”
“Ummm, yeah.” The blond drawled as he reached under his desk to grab a black bag with a flat, but somewhat large box that was wrapped in plain red paper and a black bow.
Yugi cocked his head to the side as he examined the gift. “Gosh Jounouchi, I think someone will be happy with your gift. It looks rather…interesting.”
“Well, I should hope so…whatevah it is,” The hazel-eyed teen takes a moment to remove the box from its plastic prison and observes it as if for the first time. “I jus told dad ta pick somethin’ up on his way home from work. He said it was already wrapped when he got it but nevah exactly told me where he got it from.”
“If that’s the case, then let’s just hope it’s legal.”
Both boys whirled to their right to gaze upon a certain dice master, who wass smirking in amusement.
“Otogi…no one asked ya a damn thing.” Jounouchi growled as he huffily stuffed the mysterious present back inside the bag.
“Did you bring a gift?” the smaller teen asks curiously.
“Sure did,” the raven-haired teen beamed proudly as he looked to his brunet koi, who had just walked up. “Honda and I had already put ours under the tree.”
“Yup and isn’t it just great, O-chan, to know that two people are going to be happy with the gifts we KNOW they’re getting?” Honda snickers as he elbows his also snickering boyfriend.
“Ya know what Honda? I—“ Jounouchi’s rant quickly died as a brunet walked stiffly through the classroom door effectively, catching the blond’s attention.
Cunning blue eyes looked tersely around the room in disgust before settling on the Christmas tree.
“Hmph. Well look who it is, it’s Scrooge McKaiba.” Otogi rolled his eyes before taking his seat beside Jounouchi and in front of his lover.
The blond didn’t say a word but chuckled as he witnessed the CEO robotically takes out a Christmas stocking from his briefcase, and, rather than hang it on the tree, threw it unceremoniously underneath it.
Scrooge McKaiba indeed.
“Well I guess I’ll go put mah present undah da tree…” Jou stood up and grabbed his bag while taking note of the uncomfortable brunet coming his way. Now if he could just time it right…
The young billionaire grunted as he felt a shoulder slams roughly into him. He then in turn stared into waiting pools of amber, that silently challenged him to do something.
“Damn Kaib, someone hasn’t been drinkin’ dere coffee dis mornin’.”
Without so much as a twitch, the CEO continued to gaze, unnerved at his archrival. He just wasn’t in the mood. He hadn’t been in the mood for quite a while now and not even mutt torture could temporarily change that.
“Sorry…” The brunet muttered instead as he quickly moved away from the blond, bug-eyed carp that he left in his wake.
Jou slowly frowned. Despite the fact that the great Kaiba Seto had apologized, that certainly was anti-climatic. He was hoping for something more he was hoping for something more.
And yet…
The hazel-eyed teen casts a fleeting look at his unsuspecting enemy sitting down in his usual seat in the far corner.
Other than the fights and arguments they share; there’s hardly ever anything more.
“Ohayoo Gozaimasu!”
A rather petite yet, perky woman came in, smiling as brightly as the North Star. She was dressed in a big red clunky sweater that had reindeer all over it, white slacks, and a dorky pair of reindeer antlers adorned her head.
The students snickered at her appearance, but also loved it at the same time. Yukiko-sensei was the funniest teacher within all of Domino High. In any other classroom, they would’ve probably been doing work on their last day of school before winter break.
“Ohayoo Gozaimasu, Yukiko-sensei!”
Yugi walks up behind Jounouchi and gently elbowed him in the side. “C’mon, Jou, class is starting. Let’s put our gifts under the tree and sit down.”
The blond silently nodded in agreement and they both approached the tree together.
“Okay, class, before we can start with the festivities ,” the teacher pranced behind her desk, pulled out a blue folder and handed it to the first student on her left hand side in the front row. “Please turn in your history term paper on Santa Claus and also any late homework that you might have.”
The class groaned in response.
“I know, I know but I have to be a teacher first!” explained Yukiko-sensei as she clasped her hands together in excitement.
“So has Anzu already gone to Nagoya for the holidays?” Otogi asked as he watched the violet-eyed teen coming back towards him.
“Hai!” Yugi exclaimed as he sits down in front of Jou’s desk, just in time to take the folder that’s being passed. “She said that she’s sorry for having to miss out on helping with the Christmas play this year but her grandmother is really sick.”
The dice master shrugged. “Well I’m sure we could find someone to replace her. There are plenty of volunteers.”
“Yup, those kids at da orphanage won’t know what hit ‘em!” Jou exclaimed as he took the folder from Yugi and sat down in his assigned seat. “Now where is dat report, and shit, she can forget about late homework, it was late fer a reason.”
The Yugi-tachi chuckled while Otogi took the folder from the flaky blond.
“Hey I have a great idea!” the cheerful instructor squealed as she jumped up and down, smiling from ear to ear. “Let’s sing some Christmas songs while we’re waiting!”
The classroom broke out in indecisive murmuring with a few shrugging nonchalantly.
A certain brunet snorted rather loudly as he calmly put on his reading glasses and booted up his laptop. He took off of work for this?! He could’ve made another couple of million with that contract he has yet to sign! Besides, who would notice him being gone any damn way?
Kaiba never noticed a pair of hazel eyes that were constantly looking in his direction…
“I heard my all-time favorite Christmas song on the radio recently and I think it’ll be fun to sing it. I’ll start…” Yukiko-sensei cleared her thought before she broke out in song with a surprising soothing yet upbeat voice.
“Just hear those sleigh bells jingling ring ting tingling too…”
The cranky CEO froze in place at the melody and he gave out a low groan. Ever since he had broken his radio in the mist of that damnable song, he’d been hearing it everywhere! If he were like those friendship-loving fools that he had the misfortune to know, and believed in that magic bullshit, then he would say that it was a curse. But, he was a man of logic and thus it was ruled out as a tortuous coincidence.
By now the majority of the class had immediately brightened up to the lively tempo and began singing in cacophonousy unison, much to the brunet’s displeasure.
“Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling ‘Yoo Hoo!’”
“YOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!” screeched Jou, Otogi, and Honda, and the class broke out into a fit of giggles.
“Come on, it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you!”
Kaiba growled irritably as he tried to focus on the Solitaire game currently taking control of his laptop screen.
Solitaire, Solitary…alone.
Pale hands immediately rose up to fist through tufts of brunet hair in a feeble attempt to stop the abrupt rush of heavy sadness and despair.
It was his own fault that he was this way and why he would never be happy like the rest of the idiots in this classroom. Friendless, heartless people such as himself were destined to die old and lonely.
Or just destined to die.
Suddenly the room began to whirl, causing the joyous voices and smiling faces to blur as he, Seto Kaiba became trapped within his own darkness.
“Giddy-yap, Giddy yap, Giddy yap, let’s go!”
“YEEEEEEE HAAAWWWW! LET’S LOOK AT THE SHOW!” The class clown trio again intervened much to the amusement of their peers. “WE’RE RIDING IN A WONDERLAND OF SNOW!”
In the midst of laughing and singing, Jounouchi coughed a bit violently as he heard the distinct screeching of a chair. He didn’t have to exactly look to see who it was, since a good deal of his attention went in that general direction anyway. However, when he did look, the sight nearly tore him in two.
The blue-eyed billionaire seemed deeply hurt as he walked in an unusual broken stride with a slender arm shielding the world from his…tears?
No, that can’t be right.
But if the blond knew any better, he would indeed have said that there were tears on that pretty face.
No, not pretty, what was he thinking?
It was sheer beauty that comes to mind when he thought of that face.
He had blissfully fallen hard for the arrogant bastard. There was really no point in denying it, wasting time and energy. If there were anything that time and energy should be wasted on, it should have been on how to capture the heart of pure elegance that had just made a hasty exit through the door.
However that would certainly be a Christmas miracle for this holiday season if he in fact pulled that off.
Heh, speaking of which, Kaiba would be anyone’s Christmas miracle, but what if HE could actually be a Christmas miracle to Kaiba?
Jou straightened himself a bit in his chair at the wonderful thought, a thought of which warmed him up like his grandmother’s caramel apple cider.
It could very well be the break he’d been constantly searching for.
Sure, yeah, it was going to take A LOT of work, but it was way better than just waiting for absolutely nothing to happen.
So deep that he was in his notion of being the blue-eyed god’s Christmas angel, he didn’t register the claps signaling the end of the singing nor did he feel the tiny hand hovering over his own to get his attention.
“-u”
“-ou”
“JOU!’
Hazel eyes snapped to the awareness of worried violet eyes.
“You…You weren’t singing anymore…”
The blond fisted through his mane sheepishly. “Heh, Gomen, Yug. I guess I had mah head in da clouds fer a moment there.”
“He did look a bit sad didn’t he?” the smaller teen bit his bottom lip in thought as he gazed toward the previously occupied chair.
Jou gave a feeble nod before taking a quick glance again to find to his relief that the brunet hadn’t taken his things with him.
As he turned back to his small friend, self-consciousness rapidly hit the love-sick teen, making him realize that he had just shown concern over his alleged enemy in the eyes of another.
Well it wasn’t like he wanted his friends to know…
Okay, so maybe he didn’t mind if Yugi or even Anzu knew.
Otogi and Honda on the other hand…
“Hey where did da infamous butt buddies go?” Jou eyed the two other empty seats but then noticed that a good deal of the seats in the classroom were also unoccupied.
“Yukiko-sensei said that we could eat and…” Yugi grinned as he twiddled his thumbs while nudging his head towards the now crowded refreshment table. “Not only weren’t you the first one at the table, but you’ve haven’t even gotten up from your seat. I got worried then.”
The blond gave a wayward grin before replying with a smirk. “And I’m worried about dat growth spurt buddy; maybe dat’s somethin’ ya should ask Santa about.” He then burst out laughing at the cute scowl and blush that adorned the smaller teen’s face. “But ya right, I bettah get a plate before da food get’s gone.”
“Well, that was never a problem but I guess now that you’re going…” Otogi took a long sip of his fruit punch, halfway hiding his amusement behind the red plastic cup.
“Ya know what ya can do fer me, Togi?” the hazel-eyed teen retorted as he pushed the dice master, effectively causing some of the liquid to go up his nose and down his chin. “Ya can just kiss mah as—“
“As for the lovely gifts under the tree” The festive teacher chimed in as she wandered to the tree. “I will randomly pass them out to you. Of course you can trade amongst your peers but ONLY before you open them. So choose wisely in your decision and Merry Christmas to you all!”
Claps and whistles soon fill the light-hearted atmosphere as students quickly sat in their seats, waiting excitedly for what was to come.
“Man, I sure as hell can’t wait to get my pair of socks!”Honda grinned sarcastically as he sat down and took a bite of his cupcake.
“Shit, you should count that as a blessing.” Jou guffawed coming back through the crowd, rubbing his shoulder where a certain dice master had just punched him.
The brunet in turn simply gave the blond a rather nice holiday birdie while continuing to munch on the junk food.
“Arigatou,” Yugi suddenly exclaimed as he received the first gift coming their way. He then examined the rather flat Christmas stocking with great curiosity.
“Hmmm, so ya gonna keep dat one?” The blond asked with his mouth full of food.
“I don’t know…” the tri-haired colored teen continued to eye the object in his hand. “I did say to myself that I was going to keep the first gift I received but…”
“Ah, no need to act so honorable about this.” Otogi twirled a lock of his hair around his finger. “I guarantee you that honor is as worthy as the dollar gifts under that tree.”
The smaller teen nodded hesitantly, still a bit unsure.
The dice master sighed at his overly caring friend as he continues. “Let me have it. It’s not like anyone could satisfy me with anything anyway.”
“Hey!”
“No one’s talking about you, koi.”
Honda nodded and grinned, turning to his right to grab hold of a nice medium-sized box. “Say, this one seems like a keeper.”
Green eyes twinkled in mirth as the raven-hair teen reached over to get his gift from Yugi. “Go for it.”
Jou chuckled as he quietly observed his friends’ antics. He placed a few chips in his mouth in thought. Kaiba is a lot like Otogi in a way. There’s nothing that would possibly satisfy the stoic CEO, either.
A barely noticeably click of the door had the hazel eyes immediately shifting to that direction, just in time to see a certain brunet walk in a bit more gracefully now. However, the usually calm teen stopped short as his blue eyes witness the chaos that was presently going on in the room.
A slight crease of contempt appeared on the otherwise smooth features as one Kaiba Seto slowly made his way back toward his assigned seat.
With his chin now resting on his hand, the blond continued to observe deep, in thought.
It wasn’t at all a surprise that a holiday such as this one didn’t tickle the brunet’s fancy but what he had just seen earlier wasn’t at all a typical Kaibaesque reaction…
“Merry Christmas Katsuya Jounouchi!” squealed a very excited Yukiko-sensei as she shoved a huge five foot plushie into the blonde’s face, effectively blocking his vision of interest.
The hazel-eyed teen winced as the gold cellophane that the super-sized toy was wrapped in, scratched him a bit across the cheek.
Slowly pulling it away, he looked in confusion at his friend, and Yugi looked back at him with huge glazed violet eyes, gleaming with expectation
Expecting him to do what, Jounouchi wasn’t sure but he gave a closer look to what he was holding.
It wasn’t just a five-foot plushie…
It was a five-foot Dark Magician wearing a Santa hat and holding a four-foot Duel Monster Christmas card in one hand, along with the trademark green staff in the other.
Shit, more than one dollar had certainly gone to THIS particular gift.
“So…um…Jou. A-are you gonna…keep that one?” The smaller teen asked timidly, his huge chibi eyes never once leaving the treasure in the blond’s hands.
Otogi snickered over some cake before replying. “I wouldn’t give it to him and it would be for his own good.” The raven-haired teen grabbed a napkin and wiped his mouth, still snickering. “There’s a lot to be said when you have a gift that’s just as big as the receiver.”
The blond smirked as he cradled the gift more closely to his body. “Gee, I hadn’t thought about dat, ‘Togi. It would be a real shame ta lose a friend ta a plushie.”
Yugi’s mouth gave a slight twitch in irritation much to the hilarity of his close friends. “Well I-I’m certainly not pressuring you to give up anything, Jou-kun. I w-was just wondering since, you know, you’re more of a red-eyes black dragon kinda guy….um…in my opinion.”
Otogi gleefully slapped Honda on the back, which caused the poor brunet to choke on his candy cane.
The hazel-eyed teen smiled warmly as he held out the prized object for the smaller teen to grab. He was more of a Seto Kaiba kinda guy, actually.
“Ya right Yug’. Dark Magician is definitely not mah style, and besides what kinda friend would I be?”
Huge violet eyes sparkled in gratitude as small hands quickly, but hesitantly, took the large duel monster from the blond and then cuddled it. “Gosh Jou, Arigatou! I hope you’ll get what you want for Christmas.”
The blond sighed heavily and cast a discreet look over to his object of unrequited affection, whose beautiful face was being block by some book. It felt more like what he had always wanted, since birth.
“Aw, Jounouchi-san, you’ve given up your gift?” asked the perky teacher in slight disbelief as she walked back toward him.
“Hai, sensei. It’s not exactly what I wanted.”
“Pity, well here, maybe you’ll find this last one more promising. It’s a little heavy.” Yukiko-sensei handed the gift over with a slight grunt.
The surprising weight almost had his arms crashing painfully towards the desk below. “Da hell?!”
Otogi chuckled as he rotated the Christmas stocking in his hand. “Well, since we all have some rather interesting gifts, I say we open them. The suspense is killing me!”
“Hai!” Everyone exclaimed in unison.
The sounds of cheap wrapping paper giving way to questing fingers made up for the lack of conversation.
Abruptly however, the dice master stood up, livid. “Hold the party! Hold the fucking party!”
The sounds of excited laugher, disappointed groans, and murmuring voices indeed stopped as all eyes focused on his fiery green ones.
“Ryuuiji-san !” Yukikio-sensei looked up from her desk in shock.
“Gomen nasai, sensei but I want to know who’s the comedian and that thought it was oh so funny to put THIS in a stocking.”
Yugi immediately put a hand over his mouth to stifle his laughter as relief flooded through him, while Honda bit his tongue in an attempt not to erupt.
A slight, muffled crack of laughter, however, did invade the stillness of the room and the students turned their attention to the hazel mischief in Jounouchi’s eyes.
Jou snorted. “I guess I wasn’t da only one dat thought you haven’t been a good boy dis year.”
“THAT IS NOT THE POINT!” Otogi screeched, holding the plastic piece of coal in a tight right fist and gripping the elongated wooden paddle in the left one. “I put a lot of thought into my gift, and the least some asshole could’ve done was give me a bit of effort in return. I would’ve taken a pair of socks!”
A quiet dark chuckle floated behind a hard bound book in the far corner, and azure eyes peeked out from over the top.
What an idiot, Seto thought. Just because he was rich didn’t necessarily mean he had to feel obligated to turn in a good gift. HE sure as hell didn’t. As far as he was concerned, NO ONE should be put on Santa’s good list and that was theoretically speaking, as if the fat bastard existed.
The calculating brunet continued to stare at the raven-haired teen’s ranting and raving while satisfied, knowing that he was the cause of the whole ordeal.
Thank goodness for those those now what were those stores that poor people go to for quality items that only last a few days? Oh yes, the dollar stores. Thank goodness for those!
There was no way in hell he would waste his money on any of these idiots. People around this time of year were jolly as they were fake. If they were all really this cheerful and charitable, then no one would have to wait until the end of the year to get such treatment! Oh and let’s not think about how this so-called Christmas holiday is suppose to celebrate a birthday but the tradition was that everyone ELSE received gifts. Utter. Bull. Shit.
Scowling at his self-induced anger, Kaiba slammed his book shut and moved to lay it on his desk. The red wrapping paper, however, stopped him from completing his action.
Temporarily forgetting his angst, the brunet slowly places his book on the floor before reaching over to lightly touch the black bow adorning the box.
Hmmm, he must’ve really been into that book to have not noticed when the childish instructor had placed the gift on his desk.
Curious, the blue-eyed teen picked it up and shook it.
A series of furtive noises met his ears and for the first time in his life, he became excited about a wrapped box and he gently put his hand on the bow.
The array of ribbons cascade off with a light pop.
“Koi, please calm down! You’re disrupting the party! What was all that shit you were saying about honor?” Honda gently but firmly tugged at the dice master’s arm in hope of persuading him to sit back down.
“YEA WELL FORGET WHAT I SAID! THIS IS UNEXCEPTABLE!” The green-eyed teen wrenched his arm away, literally pouting like a child.
Jou blinked for a moment before a smirk came across his face. He then reached over to Yugi and whispered something in his ear.
A very dark blush suddenly painted the doll-like face as a tiny finger proceeded to tap on the brunet’s shoulder.
The blond chuckled as he watched his friend, with much trouble, whisper into the taller teen’s ear what he had just said. He knew that his short friend had succeeded when he saw Honda’s face light up and in turn gave him a wink.
“You know, O-chan. You REALLY have been a naughty boy this year.”
Otogi immediately stopped his whining at the unusual sultry voice. “Nani?”
“You deserve to be over my lap instead of Santa’s knee, and I think I may have just the tool.” Brown eyes look to the flat object still clasped in a tight grip.
The dice master followed his boyfriend’s gaze to the paddle in a moment of silence before quickly sitting down. “Okay, so I’m happy with my gift.”
The classroom audience chuckled and snorted in unison as they went back to their respective tasks. It was never a dull moment with the Yugi-tachi.
“Oh, what you got there, Jou?” Yugi asks a bit weakly, hoping to change the subject.
“I dunno…” The blond mumbled as he picks at the tape on the white box now stripped of paper. “It feels like an oversized paperweight.”
Finally the box popped open and slowly the blond puts his hands in and pulled out his gift
“Shit, holy shit! It is a paperweight!” Otogi gave a hoot before collapsing over his desk. “Man, and I thought my gift was bad!”
Jou couldn’t help but stare at the fruit cake in his hand. “Dis thing must weigh a good fucking five pounds…”
Muffled laughter reached the blond’s ears, but the annoyed individual refused to comment.
“Ooooh, isn’t that the legendary fruit cake that’s been passed around through Christmas parties since, like, middle school?” Yugi looked at the distasteful-looking dessert with slight recognition. He suddenly realized that he had just come close TWICE to getting bizarre gifts. The tri-colored hair teen hugged his plushie all the more tighter.
“Dammit, so it is…” The blond trailed off, eyes still glued to the cake, particularly the huge cherries showing through the sides.
“Heh, I remember when it all started.” Honda snickered as he reminisced on that particular event. “Some guy, I forget his name, had given that to his girlfriend at the class Christmas party. She was so mad at him that she ended their relationship on the spot. However by the next party, our seventh grade year, they were back together and she had given it back to him as revenge. Since his best friend had given him the most shit about it, HE received the fruit cake the next year and it’s been going on ever since.”
“Well that tradition will finally be put to rest now that blondie has it.” the dice master smirked. “Will that replace your usual strawberry pocky for dessert, Jou?”
“Go ta hell, ‘Togi. I hope Honda uses da handle of dat paddle for ya ass instead. Maybe it’ll dislodge da stick dat’s already up dere.” the hazel-eyed teen angrily drops the cake back into the box with a blunt thud. “And anotha thing, at least I di—“
‘Jingle bell, Jingle bell, Jingle bell rock’
“Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring’
Horrified, Honda tried desperately to shut his gift up, namely a singing, dancing Christmas tree. It had a big dopey cartoon face and its mouth was syncing with the words as it swayed side to side like a penguin.
‘What a bright time, it’s the right time’
‘To rock the night awa—‘
“No, this isn’t the right time, shut up damn you!” The brunet flipped the animated Christmas tree over, hoping to find the battery door.
After a few more embarrassing seconds, Honda emptied the batteries out with a sigh of relief but then realized that every face is now looking at him with wide eyes.
Without missing a beat, the class erupted in joyous laughter.
“I think we should just pick names next year.” Otogi suggested, wiping a tear from his eyes.
Jou coughed, due to his raw throat from the excessive laughing, simply nodded for the moment.
“Good lord, Kaiba-sama, what is that you have?!” Yukiko-sensei shrieked as she spied the gift the brunet had unwrapped.
The blond’s breath suddenly hitched as he glanced over at his crush, who was blushing madly and looking wide-eyed at object in his possession. Various smaller items are scattered upon the desk, items that a very distraught instructor was currently picking up with shaky hands.
There were holiday colored condoms and cock rings, packets of lube, both peppermint and gingerbread flavored, chocolate-shaped naughty parts, some of contained nuts, packets of mixed berry scented message oil, and a red blind fold.
Jou smirked a bit at the image of Kaiba having such things in his hands but then he took a look at the floor.
“Oh…Kami…” the blond managed to croak out, painfully eying the red wrapping paper and black bow littered about the brunet’s briefcase.
Of all the people in the classroom…
“Class, I said to keep your gifts clean and reasonable! It looks like we going to have to change the rules for next year party since you guys aren’t mature enough to handle anonymous situations. This is disrespectful! Goman nasai, Kaiba-sama.”
The blue-eyed teen didn’t really hear a word of what was being said. He’d actually found the picture of a muscled Santa bending a male elf over doggie-style on the front of the advent calendar a bit…intriguing.
There were three more doors to open so that he would be officially caught up to the current date, but honestly, he was afraid to open anything else.
“Well…it…it seems our…b-buddy here has us beat…in…in gift giving.” Honda put a hand to his forehead as he felt his lungs burning for air that he couldn’t seem to get.
Otogi choked back a sob from laughing as he replied. “Kaiba, the lucky son of a bitch! He got the best gift and he doesn’t even know what to do with it!”
Yugi, who had been the one to hold back throughout the whole party, couldn’t take it any longer and howled for all he was worth; and it felt damned good. “I was right about your gift Jou-kun, even I would be happy with that!”
Jou groaned as he sank as low as he could into his seat.
Trust his dad to get his gift from the corner porn shop.
They were definitely going to pick names next year and he would be the first to suggest it.
To be continued…
Items used in chapter one:
Four foot Christmas card
A plastic lump of coal and wooden paddle
A rewrapped five pound fruit cake
A singing dancing Christmas tree
An anonymous adult advent calendar
Word Count For Chapter 1: 5,222
A large green basket full of gold and red bows.
A small Red Eyes Black Dragon wearing a Santa hat.
A lost elf.
An uninvited guest with a gift.
Mokuba hunting through the mansion trying to find where Seto hid his Christmas presents and discovers Seto's secret hidden stash of: (the writer fills in what Mokuba finds
A winter storm.
A puppy wearing reindeer antlers.
An explicit holiday themed manga.
A gold rose with a red bow.
Exploding chestnuts.
A well sculpted, over endowed, anatomically correct blue eyed snowman, wearing one of Seto's old trench coats and duel disks.
A vibrator that looks and smells like a peppermint stick.
An anonymous gift of an adult themed advent calendar that has anatomically correct chocolates and other small items like sample packs of lube, cock rings, silk blindfold, massage oil, body paints, etc inside of it.
Someone receives a plastic lump of coal and a wooden paddle in a stocking.
A singing, dancing Christmas tree.
A five pound fruit cake that everyone keeps rewrapping and passing on to someone else in an attempt to get rid of it.
A four foot Christmas card.
An old wrinkled misplaced letter to Santa discovered in the back of someone's closet.
Someone accidentally gets locked out of the house ( or apartment or hotel room, ship cabin, etc.) while wearing nothing but a bathrobe or a towel.
A sleigh stuck in the snow or mud.
A flaming chicken.
A traffic jam caused by a moose wearing a red and green jingle bell harness.
Seto is jumped by a crazed fan girl (or boy) holding a clump of mistletoe.
An invitation to go to a Christmas play.
A Christmas tree stuck in a doorway.
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Title: The Miracle Mutt 1/9
Author: Mizumiblu
Rating: NC-17
Pairing (s): Jou/Seto
Beta: Rroselavy
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: Me No Own Yu Gi Oh
Summary: One Kaiba Seto learns that just like money, neither happiness nor Christmas miracles grow on trees It’s actually more in the form of a mischievous blond name Jou.
One week later…
A series of laughter rang out in various places within a noisy classroom as students began to file in after hearing the bell. Eyes occasionally strayed to the cut out shapes of bells, snowflakes, and Christmas trees hanging from the ceiling that went along with the wreaths, bows, and holiday-colored bulletin boards, which had student-drawn holiday themed pictures hanging upon them.
Yet as impressive as the classroom setting was; the main attraction however, was the decent sized Christmas tree that sat in the far right hand corner beside the chalk board. It had been adorned with so many types of decorations and ornaments that it was difficult to see the branches. Students every now and then would get up and place a gift either under it, and if possible, on the tree, which made the holiday symbol all the more interesting.
It was always good to have a teacher, who was sensitive enough to be very much into the holidays.
Well one particular blond thought so, as he looked hungrily at the growing pile of food on a large table that students were also walking to and away from. It sat on the left wall under the window, where the light was pouring in and onto the delicious treats making them even more tempting.
A pink tongue slithered out mischievously to lightly caress tanned lips.
Hell, one missing cookie wouldn’t hurt anybody…
“Jou!”
The scheming boy jumped a few feet into the air before looking wearily into chibi purple eyes.
“Yug…”
The said teen grinned broadly as he tightly grasped to a gift wrapped in shiny gold paper with figures of the Dark Magician scattered about it.
“Did you bring your gift to contribute to the tree?”
“Ummm, yeah.” The blond drawled as he reached under his desk to grab a black bag with a flat, but somewhat large box that was wrapped in plain red paper and a black bow.
Yugi cocked his head to the side as he examined the gift. “Gosh Jounouchi, I think someone will be happy with your gift. It looks rather…interesting.”
“Well, I should hope so…whatevah it is,” The hazel-eyed teen takes a moment to remove the box from its plastic prison and observes it as if for the first time. “I jus told dad ta pick somethin’ up on his way home from work. He said it was already wrapped when he got it but nevah exactly told me where he got it from.”
“If that’s the case, then let’s just hope it’s legal.”
Both boys whirled to their right to gaze upon a certain dice master, who wass smirking in amusement.
“Otogi…no one asked ya a damn thing.” Jounouchi growled as he huffily stuffed the mysterious present back inside the bag.
“Did you bring a gift?” the smaller teen asks curiously.
“Sure did,” the raven-haired teen beamed proudly as he looked to his brunet koi, who had just walked up. “Honda and I had already put ours under the tree.”
“Yup and isn’t it just great, O-chan, to know that two people are going to be happy with the gifts we KNOW they’re getting?” Honda snickers as he elbows his also snickering boyfriend.
“Ya know what Honda? I—“ Jounouchi’s rant quickly died as a brunet walked stiffly through the classroom door effectively, catching the blond’s attention.
Cunning blue eyes looked tersely around the room in disgust before settling on the Christmas tree.
“Hmph. Well look who it is, it’s Scrooge McKaiba.” Otogi rolled his eyes before taking his seat beside Jounouchi and in front of his lover.
The blond didn’t say a word but chuckled as he witnessed the CEO robotically takes out a Christmas stocking from his briefcase, and, rather than hang it on the tree, threw it unceremoniously underneath it.
Scrooge McKaiba indeed.
“Well I guess I’ll go put mah present undah da tree…” Jou stood up and grabbed his bag while taking note of the uncomfortable brunet coming his way. Now if he could just time it right…
The young billionaire grunted as he felt a shoulder slams roughly into him. He then in turn stared into waiting pools of amber, that silently challenged him to do something.
“Damn Kaib, someone hasn’t been drinkin’ dere coffee dis mornin’.”
Without so much as a twitch, the CEO continued to gaze, unnerved at his archrival. He just wasn’t in the mood. He hadn’t been in the mood for quite a while now and not even mutt torture could temporarily change that.
“Sorry…” The brunet muttered instead as he quickly moved away from the blond, bug-eyed carp that he left in his wake.
Jou slowly frowned. Despite the fact that the great Kaiba Seto had apologized, that certainly was anti-climatic. He was hoping for something more he was hoping for something more.
And yet…
The hazel-eyed teen casts a fleeting look at his unsuspecting enemy sitting down in his usual seat in the far corner.
Other than the fights and arguments they share; there’s hardly ever anything more.
“Ohayoo Gozaimasu!”
A rather petite yet, perky woman came in, smiling as brightly as the North Star. She was dressed in a big red clunky sweater that had reindeer all over it, white slacks, and a dorky pair of reindeer antlers adorned her head.
The students snickered at her appearance, but also loved it at the same time. Yukiko-sensei was the funniest teacher within all of Domino High. In any other classroom, they would’ve probably been doing work on their last day of school before winter break.
“Ohayoo Gozaimasu, Yukiko-sensei!”
Yugi walks up behind Jounouchi and gently elbowed him in the side. “C’mon, Jou, class is starting. Let’s put our gifts under the tree and sit down.”
The blond silently nodded in agreement and they both approached the tree together.
“Okay, class, before we can start with the festivities ,” the teacher pranced behind her desk, pulled out a blue folder and handed it to the first student on her left hand side in the front row. “Please turn in your history term paper on Santa Claus and also any late homework that you might have.”
The class groaned in response.
“I know, I know but I have to be a teacher first!” explained Yukiko-sensei as she clasped her hands together in excitement.
“So has Anzu already gone to Nagoya for the holidays?” Otogi asked as he watched the violet-eyed teen coming back towards him.
“Hai!” Yugi exclaimed as he sits down in front of Jou’s desk, just in time to take the folder that’s being passed. “She said that she’s sorry for having to miss out on helping with the Christmas play this year but her grandmother is really sick.”
The dice master shrugged. “Well I’m sure we could find someone to replace her. There are plenty of volunteers.”
“Yup, those kids at da orphanage won’t know what hit ‘em!” Jou exclaimed as he took the folder from Yugi and sat down in his assigned seat. “Now where is dat report, and shit, she can forget about late homework, it was late fer a reason.”
The Yugi-tachi chuckled while Otogi took the folder from the flaky blond.
“Hey I have a great idea!” the cheerful instructor squealed as she jumped up and down, smiling from ear to ear. “Let’s sing some Christmas songs while we’re waiting!”
The classroom broke out in indecisive murmuring with a few shrugging nonchalantly.
A certain brunet snorted rather loudly as he calmly put on his reading glasses and booted up his laptop. He took off of work for this?! He could’ve made another couple of million with that contract he has yet to sign! Besides, who would notice him being gone any damn way?
Kaiba never noticed a pair of hazel eyes that were constantly looking in his direction…
“I heard my all-time favorite Christmas song on the radio recently and I think it’ll be fun to sing it. I’ll start…” Yukiko-sensei cleared her thought before she broke out in song with a surprising soothing yet upbeat voice.
“Just hear those sleigh bells jingling ring ting tingling too…”
The cranky CEO froze in place at the melody and he gave out a low groan. Ever since he had broken his radio in the mist of that damnable song, he’d been hearing it everywhere! If he were like those friendship-loving fools that he had the misfortune to know, and believed in that magic bullshit, then he would say that it was a curse. But, he was a man of logic and thus it was ruled out as a tortuous coincidence.
By now the majority of the class had immediately brightened up to the lively tempo and began singing in cacophonousy unison, much to the brunet’s displeasure.
“Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling ‘Yoo Hoo!’”
“YOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!” screeched Jou, Otogi, and Honda, and the class broke out into a fit of giggles.
“Come on, it’s lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you!”
Kaiba growled irritably as he tried to focus on the Solitaire game currently taking control of his laptop screen.
Solitaire, Solitary…alone.
Pale hands immediately rose up to fist through tufts of brunet hair in a feeble attempt to stop the abrupt rush of heavy sadness and despair.
It was his own fault that he was this way and why he would never be happy like the rest of the idiots in this classroom. Friendless, heartless people such as himself were destined to die old and lonely.
Or just destined to die.
Suddenly the room began to whirl, causing the joyous voices and smiling faces to blur as he, Seto Kaiba became trapped within his own darkness.
“Giddy-yap, Giddy yap, Giddy yap, let’s go!”
“YEEEEEEE HAAAWWWW! LET’S LOOK AT THE SHOW!” The class clown trio again intervened much to the amusement of their peers. “WE’RE RIDING IN A WONDERLAND OF SNOW!”
In the midst of laughing and singing, Jounouchi coughed a bit violently as he heard the distinct screeching of a chair. He didn’t have to exactly look to see who it was, since a good deal of his attention went in that general direction anyway. However, when he did look, the sight nearly tore him in two.
The blue-eyed billionaire seemed deeply hurt as he walked in an unusual broken stride with a slender arm shielding the world from his…tears?
No, that can’t be right.
But if the blond knew any better, he would indeed have said that there were tears on that pretty face.
No, not pretty, what was he thinking?
It was sheer beauty that comes to mind when he thought of that face.
He had blissfully fallen hard for the arrogant bastard. There was really no point in denying it, wasting time and energy. If there were anything that time and energy should be wasted on, it should have been on how to capture the heart of pure elegance that had just made a hasty exit through the door.
However that would certainly be a Christmas miracle for this holiday season if he in fact pulled that off.
Heh, speaking of which, Kaiba would be anyone’s Christmas miracle, but what if HE could actually be a Christmas miracle to Kaiba?
Jou straightened himself a bit in his chair at the wonderful thought, a thought of which warmed him up like his grandmother’s caramel apple cider.
It could very well be the break he’d been constantly searching for.
Sure, yeah, it was going to take A LOT of work, but it was way better than just waiting for absolutely nothing to happen.
So deep that he was in his notion of being the blue-eyed god’s Christmas angel, he didn’t register the claps signaling the end of the singing nor did he feel the tiny hand hovering over his own to get his attention.
“-u”
“-ou”
“JOU!’
Hazel eyes snapped to the awareness of worried violet eyes.
“You…You weren’t singing anymore…”
The blond fisted through his mane sheepishly. “Heh, Gomen, Yug. I guess I had mah head in da clouds fer a moment there.”
“He did look a bit sad didn’t he?” the smaller teen bit his bottom lip in thought as he gazed toward the previously occupied chair.
Jou gave a feeble nod before taking a quick glance again to find to his relief that the brunet hadn’t taken his things with him.
As he turned back to his small friend, self-consciousness rapidly hit the love-sick teen, making him realize that he had just shown concern over his alleged enemy in the eyes of another.
Well it wasn’t like he wanted his friends to know…
Okay, so maybe he didn’t mind if Yugi or even Anzu knew.
Otogi and Honda on the other hand…
“Hey where did da infamous butt buddies go?” Jou eyed the two other empty seats but then noticed that a good deal of the seats in the classroom were also unoccupied.
“Yukiko-sensei said that we could eat and…” Yugi grinned as he twiddled his thumbs while nudging his head towards the now crowded refreshment table. “Not only weren’t you the first one at the table, but you’ve haven’t even gotten up from your seat. I got worried then.”
The blond gave a wayward grin before replying with a smirk. “And I’m worried about dat growth spurt buddy; maybe dat’s somethin’ ya should ask Santa about.” He then burst out laughing at the cute scowl and blush that adorned the smaller teen’s face. “But ya right, I bettah get a plate before da food get’s gone.”
“Well, that was never a problem but I guess now that you’re going…” Otogi took a long sip of his fruit punch, halfway hiding his amusement behind the red plastic cup.
“Ya know what ya can do fer me, Togi?” the hazel-eyed teen retorted as he pushed the dice master, effectively causing some of the liquid to go up his nose and down his chin. “Ya can just kiss mah as—“
“As for the lovely gifts under the tree” The festive teacher chimed in as she wandered to the tree. “I will randomly pass them out to you. Of course you can trade amongst your peers but ONLY before you open them. So choose wisely in your decision and Merry Christmas to you all!”
Claps and whistles soon fill the light-hearted atmosphere as students quickly sat in their seats, waiting excitedly for what was to come.
“Man, I sure as hell can’t wait to get my pair of socks!”Honda grinned sarcastically as he sat down and took a bite of his cupcake.
“Shit, you should count that as a blessing.” Jou guffawed coming back through the crowd, rubbing his shoulder where a certain dice master had just punched him.
The brunet in turn simply gave the blond a rather nice holiday birdie while continuing to munch on the junk food.
“Arigatou,” Yugi suddenly exclaimed as he received the first gift coming their way. He then examined the rather flat Christmas stocking with great curiosity.
“Hmmm, so ya gonna keep dat one?” The blond asked with his mouth full of food.
“I don’t know…” the tri-haired colored teen continued to eye the object in his hand. “I did say to myself that I was going to keep the first gift I received but…”
“Ah, no need to act so honorable about this.” Otogi twirled a lock of his hair around his finger. “I guarantee you that honor is as worthy as the dollar gifts under that tree.”
The smaller teen nodded hesitantly, still a bit unsure.
The dice master sighed at his overly caring friend as he continues. “Let me have it. It’s not like anyone could satisfy me with anything anyway.”
“Hey!”
“No one’s talking about you, koi.”
Honda nodded and grinned, turning to his right to grab hold of a nice medium-sized box. “Say, this one seems like a keeper.”
Green eyes twinkled in mirth as the raven-hair teen reached over to get his gift from Yugi. “Go for it.”
Jou chuckled as he quietly observed his friends’ antics. He placed a few chips in his mouth in thought. Kaiba is a lot like Otogi in a way. There’s nothing that would possibly satisfy the stoic CEO, either.
A barely noticeably click of the door had the hazel eyes immediately shifting to that direction, just in time to see a certain brunet walk in a bit more gracefully now. However, the usually calm teen stopped short as his blue eyes witness the chaos that was presently going on in the room.
A slight crease of contempt appeared on the otherwise smooth features as one Kaiba Seto slowly made his way back toward his assigned seat.
With his chin now resting on his hand, the blond continued to observe deep, in thought.
It wasn’t at all a surprise that a holiday such as this one didn’t tickle the brunet’s fancy but what he had just seen earlier wasn’t at all a typical Kaibaesque reaction…
“Merry Christmas Katsuya Jounouchi!” squealed a very excited Yukiko-sensei as she shoved a huge five foot plushie into the blonde’s face, effectively blocking his vision of interest.
The hazel-eyed teen winced as the gold cellophane that the super-sized toy was wrapped in, scratched him a bit across the cheek.
Slowly pulling it away, he looked in confusion at his friend, and Yugi looked back at him with huge glazed violet eyes, gleaming with expectation
Expecting him to do what, Jounouchi wasn’t sure but he gave a closer look to what he was holding.
It wasn’t just a five-foot plushie…
It was a five-foot Dark Magician wearing a Santa hat and holding a four-foot Duel Monster Christmas card in one hand, along with the trademark green staff in the other.
Shit, more than one dollar had certainly gone to THIS particular gift.
“So…um…Jou. A-are you gonna…keep that one?” The smaller teen asked timidly, his huge chibi eyes never once leaving the treasure in the blond’s hands.
Otogi snickered over some cake before replying. “I wouldn’t give it to him and it would be for his own good.” The raven-haired teen grabbed a napkin and wiped his mouth, still snickering. “There’s a lot to be said when you have a gift that’s just as big as the receiver.”
The blond smirked as he cradled the gift more closely to his body. “Gee, I hadn’t thought about dat, ‘Togi. It would be a real shame ta lose a friend ta a plushie.”
Yugi’s mouth gave a slight twitch in irritation much to the hilarity of his close friends. “Well I-I’m certainly not pressuring you to give up anything, Jou-kun. I w-was just wondering since, you know, you’re more of a red-eyes black dragon kinda guy….um…in my opinion.”
Otogi gleefully slapped Honda on the back, which caused the poor brunet to choke on his candy cane.
The hazel-eyed teen smiled warmly as he held out the prized object for the smaller teen to grab. He was more of a Seto Kaiba kinda guy, actually.
“Ya right Yug’. Dark Magician is definitely not mah style, and besides what kinda friend would I be?”
Huge violet eyes sparkled in gratitude as small hands quickly, but hesitantly, took the large duel monster from the blond and then cuddled it. “Gosh Jou, Arigatou! I hope you’ll get what you want for Christmas.”
The blond sighed heavily and cast a discreet look over to his object of unrequited affection, whose beautiful face was being block by some book. It felt more like what he had always wanted, since birth.
“Aw, Jounouchi-san, you’ve given up your gift?” asked the perky teacher in slight disbelief as she walked back toward him.
“Hai, sensei. It’s not exactly what I wanted.”
“Pity, well here, maybe you’ll find this last one more promising. It’s a little heavy.” Yukiko-sensei handed the gift over with a slight grunt.
The surprising weight almost had his arms crashing painfully towards the desk below. “Da hell?!”
Otogi chuckled as he rotated the Christmas stocking in his hand. “Well, since we all have some rather interesting gifts, I say we open them. The suspense is killing me!”
“Hai!” Everyone exclaimed in unison.
The sounds of cheap wrapping paper giving way to questing fingers made up for the lack of conversation.
Abruptly however, the dice master stood up, livid. “Hold the party! Hold the fucking party!”
The sounds of excited laugher, disappointed groans, and murmuring voices indeed stopped as all eyes focused on his fiery green ones.
“Ryuuiji-san !” Yukikio-sensei looked up from her desk in shock.
“Gomen nasai, sensei but I want to know who’s the comedian and that thought it was oh so funny to put THIS in a stocking.”
Yugi immediately put a hand over his mouth to stifle his laughter as relief flooded through him, while Honda bit his tongue in an attempt not to erupt.
A slight, muffled crack of laughter, however, did invade the stillness of the room and the students turned their attention to the hazel mischief in Jounouchi’s eyes.
Jou snorted. “I guess I wasn’t da only one dat thought you haven’t been a good boy dis year.”
“THAT IS NOT THE POINT!” Otogi screeched, holding the plastic piece of coal in a tight right fist and gripping the elongated wooden paddle in the left one. “I put a lot of thought into my gift, and the least some asshole could’ve done was give me a bit of effort in return. I would’ve taken a pair of socks!”
A quiet dark chuckle floated behind a hard bound book in the far corner, and azure eyes peeked out from over the top.
What an idiot, Seto thought. Just because he was rich didn’t necessarily mean he had to feel obligated to turn in a good gift. HE sure as hell didn’t. As far as he was concerned, NO ONE should be put on Santa’s good list and that was theoretically speaking, as if the fat bastard existed.
The calculating brunet continued to stare at the raven-haired teen’s ranting and raving while satisfied, knowing that he was the cause of the whole ordeal.
Thank goodness for those those now what were those stores that poor people go to for quality items that only last a few days? Oh yes, the dollar stores. Thank goodness for those!
There was no way in hell he would waste his money on any of these idiots. People around this time of year were jolly as they were fake. If they were all really this cheerful and charitable, then no one would have to wait until the end of the year to get such treatment! Oh and let’s not think about how this so-called Christmas holiday is suppose to celebrate a birthday but the tradition was that everyone ELSE received gifts. Utter. Bull. Shit.
Scowling at his self-induced anger, Kaiba slammed his book shut and moved to lay it on his desk. The red wrapping paper, however, stopped him from completing his action.
Temporarily forgetting his angst, the brunet slowly places his book on the floor before reaching over to lightly touch the black bow adorning the box.
Hmmm, he must’ve really been into that book to have not noticed when the childish instructor had placed the gift on his desk.
Curious, the blue-eyed teen picked it up and shook it.
A series of furtive noises met his ears and for the first time in his life, he became excited about a wrapped box and he gently put his hand on the bow.
The array of ribbons cascade off with a light pop.
“Koi, please calm down! You’re disrupting the party! What was all that shit you were saying about honor?” Honda gently but firmly tugged at the dice master’s arm in hope of persuading him to sit back down.
“YEA WELL FORGET WHAT I SAID! THIS IS UNEXCEPTABLE!” The green-eyed teen wrenched his arm away, literally pouting like a child.
Jou blinked for a moment before a smirk came across his face. He then reached over to Yugi and whispered something in his ear.
A very dark blush suddenly painted the doll-like face as a tiny finger proceeded to tap on the brunet’s shoulder.
The blond chuckled as he watched his friend, with much trouble, whisper into the taller teen’s ear what he had just said. He knew that his short friend had succeeded when he saw Honda’s face light up and in turn gave him a wink.
“You know, O-chan. You REALLY have been a naughty boy this year.”
Otogi immediately stopped his whining at the unusual sultry voice. “Nani?”
“You deserve to be over my lap instead of Santa’s knee, and I think I may have just the tool.” Brown eyes look to the flat object still clasped in a tight grip.
The dice master followed his boyfriend’s gaze to the paddle in a moment of silence before quickly sitting down. “Okay, so I’m happy with my gift.”
The classroom audience chuckled and snorted in unison as they went back to their respective tasks. It was never a dull moment with the Yugi-tachi.
“Oh, what you got there, Jou?” Yugi asks a bit weakly, hoping to change the subject.
“I dunno…” The blond mumbled as he picks at the tape on the white box now stripped of paper. “It feels like an oversized paperweight.”
Finally the box popped open and slowly the blond puts his hands in and pulled out his gift
“Shit, holy shit! It is a paperweight!” Otogi gave a hoot before collapsing over his desk. “Man, and I thought my gift was bad!”
Jou couldn’t help but stare at the fruit cake in his hand. “Dis thing must weigh a good fucking five pounds…”
Muffled laughter reached the blond’s ears, but the annoyed individual refused to comment.
“Ooooh, isn’t that the legendary fruit cake that’s been passed around through Christmas parties since, like, middle school?” Yugi looked at the distasteful-looking dessert with slight recognition. He suddenly realized that he had just come close TWICE to getting bizarre gifts. The tri-colored hair teen hugged his plushie all the more tighter.
“Dammit, so it is…” The blond trailed off, eyes still glued to the cake, particularly the huge cherries showing through the sides.
“Heh, I remember when it all started.” Honda snickered as he reminisced on that particular event. “Some guy, I forget his name, had given that to his girlfriend at the class Christmas party. She was so mad at him that she ended their relationship on the spot. However by the next party, our seventh grade year, they were back together and she had given it back to him as revenge. Since his best friend had given him the most shit about it, HE received the fruit cake the next year and it’s been going on ever since.”
“Well that tradition will finally be put to rest now that blondie has it.” the dice master smirked. “Will that replace your usual strawberry pocky for dessert, Jou?”
“Go ta hell, ‘Togi. I hope Honda uses da handle of dat paddle for ya ass instead. Maybe it’ll dislodge da stick dat’s already up dere.” the hazel-eyed teen angrily drops the cake back into the box with a blunt thud. “And anotha thing, at least I di—“
‘Jingle bell, Jingle bell, Jingle bell rock’
“Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring’
Horrified, Honda tried desperately to shut his gift up, namely a singing, dancing Christmas tree. It had a big dopey cartoon face and its mouth was syncing with the words as it swayed side to side like a penguin.
‘What a bright time, it’s the right time’
‘To rock the night awa—‘
“No, this isn’t the right time, shut up damn you!” The brunet flipped the animated Christmas tree over, hoping to find the battery door.
After a few more embarrassing seconds, Honda emptied the batteries out with a sigh of relief but then realized that every face is now looking at him with wide eyes.
Without missing a beat, the class erupted in joyous laughter.
“I think we should just pick names next year.” Otogi suggested, wiping a tear from his eyes.
Jou coughed, due to his raw throat from the excessive laughing, simply nodded for the moment.
“Good lord, Kaiba-sama, what is that you have?!” Yukiko-sensei shrieked as she spied the gift the brunet had unwrapped.
The blond’s breath suddenly hitched as he glanced over at his crush, who was blushing madly and looking wide-eyed at object in his possession. Various smaller items are scattered upon the desk, items that a very distraught instructor was currently picking up with shaky hands.
There were holiday colored condoms and cock rings, packets of lube, both peppermint and gingerbread flavored, chocolate-shaped naughty parts, some of contained nuts, packets of mixed berry scented message oil, and a red blind fold.
Jou smirked a bit at the image of Kaiba having such things in his hands but then he took a look at the floor.
“Oh…Kami…” the blond managed to croak out, painfully eying the red wrapping paper and black bow littered about the brunet’s briefcase.
Of all the people in the classroom…
“Class, I said to keep your gifts clean and reasonable! It looks like we going to have to change the rules for next year party since you guys aren’t mature enough to handle anonymous situations. This is disrespectful! Goman nasai, Kaiba-sama.”
The blue-eyed teen didn’t really hear a word of what was being said. He’d actually found the picture of a muscled Santa bending a male elf over doggie-style on the front of the advent calendar a bit…intriguing.
There were three more doors to open so that he would be officially caught up to the current date, but honestly, he was afraid to open anything else.
“Well…it…it seems our…b-buddy here has us beat…in…in gift giving.” Honda put a hand to his forehead as he felt his lungs burning for air that he couldn’t seem to get.
Otogi choked back a sob from laughing as he replied. “Kaiba, the lucky son of a bitch! He got the best gift and he doesn’t even know what to do with it!”
Yugi, who had been the one to hold back throughout the whole party, couldn’t take it any longer and howled for all he was worth; and it felt damned good. “I was right about your gift Jou-kun, even I would be happy with that!”
Jou groaned as he sank as low as he could into his seat.
Trust his dad to get his gift from the corner porn shop.
They were definitely going to pick names next year and he would be the first to suggest it.
To be continued…
Items used in chapter one:
Four foot Christmas card
A plastic lump of coal and wooden paddle
A rewrapped five pound fruit cake
A singing dancing Christmas tree
An anonymous adult advent calendar
Word Count For Chapter 1: 5,222