The First Snow 3

Title: The first Snow


3. Adventures in the snow


Yugi took his Yami by the hand to drag him out of the house before he had any more 'stupid' ideas to torture his fellow Yamis.
”One of those days I'm going to hurt him seriously, if he keeps this shit up!
And then I wouldn't care if Ryou is your friend, or if he's oh so sad!
I don't understand why Ryou doesn't say anything when his boyfriend is always flirting with others before his very eyes!” growled Yami darkly while he pocketed his cards securely, before he took Yugis hand in his.

Yami was very relived to get his lighter half away from that crazy tomb robber and his sick jokes and gave his hand a quick squeeze.
”You know he just want to annoy you, Yami. And Ryou know that as well, he doesn't mean it for real, that's why Ryou doesn't say anything at all. And if you would ignore him as well, he would shut up sooner or later, because it isn't funny. After all, it is just funny as long as it gets you mad!”
”I don't care if he means it or not! The fact alone that he even thinks he could possible touch you is enough for me to kill him slowly and painfully! I'm much too soft with you, Aibou, you know that!? I shouldn't give in to you every time you ask me to ignore him, not to kill him, than he wouldn't be such a trouble!
And this 'snowmen' of his! They are an insult on its own! As if I would ever let it happen that he touches you that way!...”

But by now, Yami got into gear and told him all about his plans for the cheeky thief who can't keep his hands to himself.
//You don't even need to be okay with it, you just have to turn around and look away, Aibou//
Yugi couldn't help but giggle as Yamis thoughts where getting more and more violent, and he leaned his head on the taller ones shoulder.
”You know that you don't really mean that, Yami...” he whispered and snuggled a little more in his arms.

”Like hell I mean it! I will get him sooner or later. Someday, when you are not looking, and Ryou is also not looking either, then I will strike!” the spirit promised, and Yugi shivered as hot breath washed over his ear.
”And no one will ever know what really happed to that stupid, brainless thief... I make it look as if a tomb collapsed over his head, as he was busy plundering it. Nobody will know that it was my doing!...” warm lips where traveling down Yugis slender neck, nipping and kissing the soft skin as Yami told him all about his plots. ”I think it's called an 'accident at work' these days...”

Yugi giggled a little as he reluctantly let go of the other and took a step back to look deep in burning red eyes of his darker half:
”You know that it would draw attention, do you, my dear? There aren't that many pyramids around to bury him under them...”
”Aibou, you are mean! You don't even want to grant me one tiny little murder once in a while!” whined Yami and acted as if he was upset. He pouted a little, a sure way to get a soothing hug and a sweet kiss from his adorable little Hikari.
And it worked as well as it always did, as Yugi stood at this tiptoes and cuddled him a little before he dragged him down to him for a brief kiss.

After that, Yugi took his pharaoh on a nice walk through the Park to calm him down a little and to get his mind away from his murderous plans (and others which have to wait until later)

As the clouds where gone they made way for the sun to shine down on them, weak but bright. It was icy cold, but the light made the snow glittering beautifully, and Yugi dragged his lover through the deep snow of the unclean paths.

They made a short break by the pond as Yugi showed his other half how well he could walk on water.
But Yami didn't found it as near as amusing as his Hikari, since he trusted the ice as much as he trusted the snow.
Even if everyone kept telling him that snow couldn't hurt anyone, he sure as hell would be happy when spring came again.
”Now, now, it isn't that bad, Yami!”
”No, its worse! I don't want the same thing happen to you as to the two psychos!”
All begging and pleading was in vain, Yami refused to make as much as a single step on the ice. He just runs at the edge back and forth, winking at the smaller one to come back to him where it was safe.
He couldn't forget what the water did to Bakura and Marik (even if it was funny) and he also remembered how he landed twice on his ass today (that was less funny)  

To his great relief Yugi came back as soon as he saw how troubled his Yami was, since he didn't want to worry him unnecessary.
A troubled Yami was just as bad as a mad Bakura or an excited Marik...

”You worry way too much, Yami. You know that I survived every winter so far, so why not this one, too??”
”Don't tell me that this shit happens often. I don't want it happen again! This is bad enough, I wont it to stop! I hate that cold, I like the summer way better!” and he made a dramatic gesture at the snowy landscape.

//You always wears really short shorts then and no shirt...//
/You know that I can hear you, Yami, don't you?/
//Sure, why not. And you know pretty well yourself how little you wear then...// leered Yami back, imagining Yugi with little to no clothes on, maybe wet from swimming...

Yugi took Yamis cold hands firmly in his and squeezed them as he looked seriously in his ruby-red eyes, as if he was about to tell him very bad news.
Now the former pharaoh starred back, a little worried what his Aibou is going to tell him, but also noticing the playful glint in his eyes.
”Yami! You must be very strong now. I don't know how to tell you that, because I know it is hard for you to accept this, but I have to.”
He stroked soothingly over the back of his hand, he silent for a moment, until Yami asked him:
”Yugi, what is it? You know that you can tell me everything...”

”Yami… That winter... it happens every year!”

Both starred at each other, and with each passing moment it was harder and harder for them not to burst out laughing, as Yami played along.
He made a shocked face and wide eyes, gaping at the younger teen:
”What?! Every year?! But how, how shall I survive that?” and with a melodramatic gesture he gripped at his hearth as if he had an attack and then fell backwards in a big heap of snow. He struggled with his hands and feet as if he was under power and moaned exorbitant.

”I'm dieing. I'm dieing. Ohhhh.. That pains, I'm dieing!... Someone help me, I'm dieing here…” he moaned, then he lay absolute motionless in the white coldness.
He opened one red eye slightly to look if Yugi was surly watching hem, them he said:
”I'm death.”
Yugi knelt down beside him and buried his face in his hands to grief for his recently 'deceased' Pharaoh.
”Oh no, oh no.. What shall I do now, now that he's gone? Do I really have to bury my lover? Have I really lost him to eternal darkness at this young age? He was just a couple of millennia old! Oh, what shall I do now?...”

And he scooped some snow over Yamis feet, who made a face, but otherwise laid there perfectly quiet, while Yugi was still grieving over him.
”What will happen to me now, all alone in this cold and heartless world without my beloved Yami? I guess I have no choice but go to Bakura....”

”Don't even say that out loud!” growled Yami and dragged Yugi on top of him down to the ground. "That noting to joke about!"
Giggling Yugi buried his face in Yamis neck: ”I was about to say 'go to Bakura and ask if Ryou will come to your funeral' but since you're alive, I think I can forget about that.”
”Damn right! I sure as hell am alive! I show you how alive I am!”

And with that, he rolled them over so his Hikari under him in the snow. Their eyes locked for an endless moment, before he leaned in to claim those tempting lips once more as his.
Yugis arms snuck around the taller ones neck to stroke and pet the black mass of hair. With a soft whimper, only heard by his lover, Yugi pressed up to rub slowly against him, creating delirious friction between them.

Yami had to use a lot of willpower not to sneak with his hand under the clothes to touch familiar smooth skin. He settled for stroking Yugis thighs slowly, since it was way too cold for anything else that required removing fabric.

”Wow, wow, now look at this!!”
”Don't you have a home, or what!?”
”Care if we join in?”

They where interrupt as they saw three well-known troublemaker heading their way.
”Why now, damn it!” uttered Yami against Yugis neck, wishing them not for the first time straight to hell with no way of ever coming back.
”Can't they just get lost, never to be seen again?” sulked Yugi without looking up at them.

//That's exactly what I tell you all the time, but you always have to hold me back from killing them, each and every time I want to try!//
/Someone sure is bloodthirsty today./ Yugi was clinging even more to him, to hold him (yet again) back from his violent plans for them.
//Today they especially are a nuisance// but he didn’t fight against Yugis hold on him. The small hands wandering over his back feel too good to loose them because of those psychos.

"Jo, guys, I hope we don’t bother you?!" waved Marik with a wide grin to them, as the three of them came to a stop just beside them.
"You bother always everyone, no matter where you are!" but before Yami could say anymore, Bakura noticed that his current pray was standing right beside him.
But sadly for him Malik noticed that too, and he dragged his darker half laughingly away, Bakura yet again hot on their heels.
"Stay sill, you two! You can't get away from me anyway, I will catch you soon enough! So just do yourself and me a favor and just let me kill you now! You will save us all a lot of work! Or chasing…"
"Just over my dead body!"
"But that’s exactly what I'm talking about!"

Yugi and Yami just blinked at each other for a moment
"What the hell was that?"
"Who cares, as long as they are gone!"
"Right, were did we stop?"
"We where about to get up, since my ass is freezing?" smiled Yugi hopefully up, and Yami stood up and pulled him with him. He didn’t let go of him immediately, but held him in his arms and looked deep in his violet orbs.
Slowly they closed their eyes, the grab between their faces was getting lesser and lesser, until they could feel soft breath fanning gently over their faces as they leant in…

”Yaaammiiiii!!!”
The romantic mood was yet again broken as a loud, piercing voice screamed somewhere near them.
Yugi was the only one who ever saw the short flicker of panic in ruby-red eyes, and Yami looked like he wanted noting more then to hide far away from the terror coming their way.

This 'terror' throws her arms around Yamis neck, ignored Yugis growl and squealed happily in Yamis ear, nearly making him deaf.
"Oh Yami, here you are, why didn't you open the door this morning? I was knocking really hard but I guess you didn't hear me, but I'm sure I heard Yugis voice. He wouldn't open the door for me so I can't see you, he is really jealous, I know that sure! You must talk with him about it, because that is very mean to me!!
But now I'm here and you are here, too, and we are both here.
Together.
Alone.
And I never and never and never ever let you go!!!” Anzu babbled even as neither Yami nor Yugi paid attention to her words.
But now, all of a sudden, Yami found the company of Bakura and the insane Egyptians not as bad as a few minutes ago.

"We could go ice skating, we go for a romantic walk, or we could go shopping to the mall...”
/Or we could send you to the shadow realm/ said Yugi through the mind link, causing Yami to smile at him fondly.
Of course, Anzu thought (yet again) that the smile was directed at her, and beamed hopefully up at him and ranted on and on.
"... or we can go to my house...”
"Yes!! I mean, yes, that's a very good idea, why don't you go home, and I drop by later.”

//As soon as hell is freezing over, pigs are flying around like birds, and we all are straight as a stick!// Yami told his lighter half with a dark glare at the brunette witch, who was still clinging to his arm with a death grip.
Somehow Yami managed it to struggle his arm free without loosing it.
Yugi chuckled as Yami showed him pictures of Anzu rooting in hell, pestering the devils and screaming for the rest of eternity, after pissing of the boss down there with all her friendship-speeches and decorating hell in pink with hearts and pictures from Yami.     

/I would love to help you making that dream come truth/ giggled Yugi and dragged Yami out of the way, just in time as Anzu tried to latch herself on his neck and probably choke him to dead.
But Yugi was faster this time when he saw her coming and he shoved his boyfriend behind a tree.
The monster didn't know what happen, but suddenly she found herself lying on the ground with her face in the snow. Confused she sat up and looked around, just to notice that she was all alone, her 'dearest' Yami nowhere to seen:
”Yami? Yami, where did you go?” of course, she didn't think about looking on the ground and following the footprints the boys left there. No, she just turned around herself a few times and shrieked: ”Yami! You don't have to hide! Come out to me, Yami, then we can get rid of Yugi and hide together, and the shrimp can search as long as he wants, and will never be able to find us!”

Yugi had barely time to cover Yamis mouth before said spirit could scream at her and jump at her throat.
The monster just shrugged her shoulders, decided that Yami was most likely waiting at her house for her, and finally got lost.  

Both teens behind their tree let out a sigh of relief after she was gone, and Yami noticed that Yugis hand was still over his lips without him knowing it.
But Yami made sure to remind him as he licked lightly with the tip of his tongue over the soft flesh. With a startled squeak, the Hikari let go of him, but Yami grabbed him by the wrist and held his hand in place. He licked again over the warm skin with long, slow strokes, and Yugi smiled as the other leered down at him.
He sucked intently at each of the digits watching as Yugi closed his eyes in pleasure. He could hear Yugi moan through the mind link.
He gave a last, long lick flat over the palm and chuckled at Yugis groan at the loss of that talented mouth on him, even if it was just his hand.
"We can continue that later at home, if you want, my sweet Aibou."  


In the main time with Malik, Marik and Bakura:

Malik and Marik where still running from a violent Bakura. Now he, since he had the chance to annoy Yami, was in a better mood then before, and was chasing them more for the heck of it then to actually kill them.
Marik said something to his lighter half before they split up. Malik turned silently to the right, and Marik was running straight forward, laughing loud and insanely.
Bakura stopped for a moment to decide after whom he should go, before he chooses to go after the loudest target.
Marik run straight to the pond and nearly tripped as he saw the thick ice covering the water.

// HIKARI !!! The pond is gone! You can't drown him there; there is something hard over it, and more of this snowy-stuff!!// he whined to Malik as he saw his great plan not working out like he wanted it...
/This hard stuff is called ice/ he could nearly feel how Mariks eyes widen as he heard that
//Ice? Like in ice-crème, the tasty treat you gave me last summer, with banana and mint and vanilla and chocolate and strawberry and lemon and...//

/NO! You can't eat that, so don't even try it! But you can walk over it./ Malik cut in, since he knows how much his Yami liked everything sweet.
His list of flavors could go on and on to no end.
The insane one just shrugged his shoulder, slightly disappointed, and run on the ice. His Hikari said he could run on water now, so why should he doubt him?

He quickly found himself on his ass and sliding a short distance from his fast dash before he stopped.
For a moment he just sat there, blinking baffled around him, as he couldn't understand why he was all of a sudden sitting on the ground instead of running over the water like that Jesus-guy someone told him, before Marik killed him for ringing that early at their door...
But then he grinned broadly and clapped his hands happily like a little kid that discovered a new game.

//Did you see that, Hikari-Pretty?! Did you? Did you? Say that you did!//
/Yes, I see you the whole time, don't worry!/
//That was funny! Come, play with me, Malik, it is fun, I promise!//

Bakura run after Marik without noticing the change of ground under him, and managed to stand a little longer then the psycho. But in the end he too, meet the ground after an ungraceful fall on his backside.
"Just wait when I get my hands on you, stupid lunatic!”

Swearing and cursing he got back up on his feet, fully intend to catch and murder the other Yami.
But Marik was still ignoring him, his eyes and attention captured by a couple of ducklings near him.
They where trying to land on the ice, then they slided over the smooth surface and spun around themselves a couple of times. They seem to be dizzy as they got up on their little feet and where tripping carefully away, quacking the whole time loud.   

/NO! Leave the poor duck alone!/ came Maliks voice suddenly through the mind link, pictures of roast duck and duck on a spit running through Mariks mind.
/Go back and play with Bakura!/

And so found Marik a new game he could play with the white haired thief: He was taking a run, let himself dropping down on his stomach and slided giggling forward over the ice, while Bakura had a hard time to just stand up. His feet always tried to go in different directions, making him drop down again.

And just as he got it, Marik slithered against him and pulled his feet under him away.
He did this several times, always when Bakura got back on his feet, and slowly but surly he got really angry. And the fact that Malik did noting to call his darker half back in order wasn't helpful either.
course Malik was just standing there laughing at them and even cheered his Darkness on.
"Just wait when I get my hands on the both on you!” hissed the tomb robber angrily ”I know where you live!”

Marik blinked at him and laid his head to the side: ”And? I know where you live, too…”
Another treat lost at this Yami...
Unfortunately, none of the two noticed the cracks in the ice, like a spider's web, where they dropped down over and over again.
But luckily they had Malik to look out for them, and he dragged them from the ice on their    collars, before they could get soaked again.
Once a day was more then enough.
A couple of laughing children with ice skates run past them, and Bakura showed them the spot where he and Marik had played previously.
"Hey, shrimps, this is a great spot to play.”
"Thanks, sir!” they smiled innocently up at Bakura, not noticing the evil glint in his eyes, as they got on the ice.

Malik  eyed him skeptical, his hands on his hips: ”You know Ryou is not going to like that, right?”
Bakura copied his pose and said in the same tone: ”You know Ryou isn't here, right?”

Marik looked at his saner half and shrugged his shoulders: ”He's right, Hikari-Pretty, and besides, it's funny.”

Just then, they heard the first crack as the ice finally gave in under the children. But luckily for them they where still at the brink, so they where just waist-peep in the water.
"Damn it to hell, I thought it was deeper there!" pouted Marik sadly, before he and his Hikari used the opportunity to slip away and get rid of Bakura.
They went off to look if they could visit Kaiba for a bit.
They CEO had such a bad mood after Bakuras little thievery, he nearly was begging for a visit to cheer him up.

"So, and now to you two!" growled Bakura, just to learn that he was talking to himself.
He was all alone , except for the parents who where worried about their wet kids.
Bakura strolled away, disappointed that nobody drowned, and also that his prey was gone as well to some unknown place.

It was a coincidence that he passed by Kaibas mansion.
Pure coincidence.

(It isn't his fault that it is so much fun to torture all the little humans always running around there…)

Mokuba and Joey did a really great job and had built a small palace in the garden, even if Kaiba most likely ordered a bunch of servants to help them, just to get away from their whining and begging. They both could get ratter annoying when they wanted attention.
Alone they where lasting.
Together they where hell.

And now was their ice-palace in the garden.
All alone and unguarded.

(I know that they aren't that long gone from Ryou's house, so it doesn't work all to well with my time line. But please just ignore it, or Bakura can't have his fun now. And also, remember Kaiba has many peoples working  for him. And when his sweet, innocent little baby- brother wants something… Well, just let me say, he could pass as a Hikari with his puppy dog eyes.)  

Bakura rubbed his hands together, already plotting what to do next.
'Well, what should the king of thieves do with a palace: Take it over, kill the pharaoh, steal all valuables and then burn it down of course!'

Grinning happily, the tomb robber was climbing over the wall without  getting noticed from one of the many security cameras. He looked from the small palace to Kaibas large mansion and tapped his chin thoughtfully:
"Hmmm… small house… big house… decisions, decisions…"
But since no one was in sight, he decided for a little payback, after all it was Kaibas fault that his little Hikari was mad enough at him to throw with pans and knifes!

(Yeah, because how can it be his fault that the snowmen where melting in their bedroom…)  

And even if Bakura would never say that out loud, even under torture, he wouldn’t admit it, but Yami had for once a good idea.
The Yami found a garden hose and watered the way from the front door down to the irony gates to create a nice, slippery, sloping ice rink.
But before he could make even more traps for that cold bastard and his mutt, they found him out . Several security guards where running out of the mansion with Kaiba in tow to case him away.
And so he disappear in the ice palace (in the middle is an inner yard) and he grinned at the men.
"Move one step and I will destroy this thing!"
"Why can't you just fuck of and get away from Mokubas playthings!?" Joey yelled furiously at the laughing thief.
"Because it is so much fun to pester you all, and it is so easy!"
"Yeah, because when you do that to Yami, he will murder you at the spot!"
"I'm not afraid of that short idiot!" shrieked Bakura angrily.

To proof his point, he took out a lighter he 'borrowed' somewhere, with no intention to ever give it back, of course. He also found some firecrackers and throws them now at the security guards, who took a few startled steps back.
”I will show you what happen to you, if you mess around with the almighty thief-king”
The poor men where at a loss what to do, because normally burglars don't hide in the garden in the ice-palace of a child and throw around firecrackers while laughing like mad.

Sighing Seto turned around to one of his man: ”Release the dogs!”
The man talked in a little microphone on his sleeve, but noting happened.
He cast his boss a worried glance and tried again, but again there was no barking.

Irritated Kaiba rolled his eyes, why couldn't things go smooth for once!
Not even in his own home he could get a little peace and quiet!
'Why the heck do I pay them so much, if they are unable to deal with a single idiot!'
Roughly he grabbed the poor man by the collar and shouted in his microphone, but again noting happened.

”Just because you are screaming and raging like a lunatic will not help you the slightest bit, priest! I was so free and feed you dogs as I visited you for the first time today. Meat with sleeping pills! They are out for a few hours."
”We can go well without your visits in the future!”
”Yeah, many will say that, and in the end they miss me badly!”
”Sure, like pest and cholera!”
”I don’t know those guys, but I'm sure that I'm a lot worse then them!”
”Amen.” murmured Mokuba sarcastically, but made sure that his big brother was the only one to hear him.

And since it was so funny, and he didn’t have anything to say to that, Bakura throw more of these funny firecrackers. (The little green or red one, who just make noise.)

”HA! Now I am pharaoh of this palace, I have rightfully conquered it, it is mine! All mine, and I never give it up, you can't make me! So do yourself a favor and give up as long as you can! Bow before me, little mortals, because now I am the pharaoh here!”

But sadly, it was just this moment that he run out of monition, and Mokuba took advantage of that and throw a big snowball in his face.
Of course he hide behind his brother after that, just be sure to stay out of the reach of a not very happy Bakura. He peered around Setos back and yelled at him:
”That is my palace, and I don’t want to bow before you! Give it back to me, you mean, old thief!”

”What, you insolent dwarf...”
With a yelp Mokuba was behind his brother again, and Joey patted the black mass of fluffy hair comfortingly:
”Don’t worry, he will not bite you. He is always acting like he is oh so strong, but one finger snap from Ryou, and he moves!” They both giggled as Joey conspiratorially winked at the short boy.

Bakura crossed his arms over his chest with a pout, but then he saw two blond heads sneaking out of the mansion, and he couldn’t help but grin.
Quickly he decided to surrender for the time being and to back down, so he could watch the next events from a safe distance.
”Okay, I don’t want to play with you anymore, but don’t think that you have won! I'll be back!”
And with that he ran to the gate, slipped easily through the bars and was gone before anyone could react.

Kaiba, Joey and Mokuba got back in the mansion, this time through the front door, not the small door on the side his security guards always where using.
No one of them noticed Bakuras little trap he made for them, until Joey slipped, collided with Seto, who nearly dragged Mokuba down with him as well. Both slid down the path to the gates in a tangle of long limps.
With a heavy bang they where stopped by the irony bars, and Bakura chuckled gleefully from his seat on a nearby tree.

Scowling the fallen teens got up and stomped back to the door through the knee-deep snow beside the path.
Mokuba was the only one who saw a glimpse of Mariks wild mane before from the corner of his eyes. He tried to warn his brother and his friend, especially after Bakuras sudden exit, but it was too late.
Joey opened the door and was barley able to dodge the can of... something... swinging down from nowhere. But Kaiba was not that lucky, he got hit with the gross, slimy stuff.

The blond didn’t notice the thin string on his way, since he was way to busy with laughing at his lovers state, and so he tripped. That string triggered a big heap of feathers to fall down and attach themselves to Kaiba, who was attempting to glare Joey into silence.

No such luck, Joey doesn’t even notice it.
Kaiba was foaming, Joey was laughing, and Mokuba rolled his eyes...

Joey (still) didn’t look where he was going and walked in the next room, where the insane couple had set up the next trap for them.
Countless balls of wool where everywhere like the net of one gigantic, overactive spider.
”Joey, no!” Mokuba tried to hold him back, but it was too late. Briefly he wondered how someone could make such a trap in such a short time.
But then again, Bakura as well as the insane duo are very good at making the most possible damage in the shortest amount of time....

Mokuba could only watch as Joey got all tangled up and struggled until he looked like a fly caught in a spider's net.
But the short boy also got his share of the pranks. He didn’t notice the smear of oil on the floor, slipped and also slided down to the gates through the still open door.
He feels like he is on a water slide, lying on his belly like he was.
But unlike his brother, he found it quite funny and would like to do it again.

But a tarred and feathered Kaiba grabbed his collar and dragged him back in the mansion, forcefully slamming the door shut behind them. Said door protested against the harsh treatment by falling out of its hinge. But Kaiba couldn’t care less, since he was sure he could hear an Albino laugh in the distance...

”But why not, Seto, it is so much fun!”
”Don’t argue with me, Moki. I don’t want to drive you into the hospital because you break you neck with this foolery.”
He freed his boyfriend from his cocoon and shoved them through another door, before more could happen to them.
They stood root to the spot.

All of the room's furniture was glued to the ceiling, making it look as if the room was upside down.
Or as if you where standing in Yamis soul room...

And all three of them had the same question running through their head: How the hell did they do his in such a short time, when always someone was in this house.
And also, where the hell are all those workers who where supposed to run around here.
Well they got an answer at the last one, since they found the staff bound and gagged in the wine cellar, with no clue how they got there in the first place.

Kaiba was boiling with rage.
”That goddamn thief will pay for that. I'm going to mess him up that bad, he wouldn't recall his own name! I want the police to show up here, now! I expect them to collect fingerprints, footprints, everything to get that bastard in jail! For what do I pay them, when they are never there when I need them!?”

”I really doubt that a spirit will leave fingerprints behind...” Mokuba was the only one who could talk to Kaiba when he was that angry, and not loose his head for it.
For a moment the CEO stopped pacing and looked at him, considering his protests:
”Then we take the surveillance tapes and get him arrested.”
Mokuba shook his head and showed him some tangled-up tapes one of the guards just brought in.
”That is also quite impossible.”

"Then I want to get a restraining order against him!"

"If you are lucky, he ignores it. If not, he will make a paper plane for you."

”We have witnesses, who will bear evidence against him.”
”And Bakura will scare them that much, they don’t even tell you the time when he's done with them.”

”Then I hire a goon squad...”
”... who will get a trip to the Shadow Realm, sponsored by Bakura.” interrupted Joey his ranting lover.
Kaiba slumped down in a chair and growled:
”Then I go and strangle him with my bare hands. I cement him in quick cement and dump him in the deepest part of the ocean!”

Joey did his best not to laugh as he petted the others brown hair:
”I hate to crush your dreams, but I don’t think that that will be enough. He was locked up in a ring for 5000 years, buried by tons of sand and it still wasn’t enough. He's here now.”
”I don’t even want him gone permanently,” the brunette sighed, ”just as long as I life! That would be good enough for me.”
He leaned his head on Joeys shoulder: ”Is that really too much to ask? Just a little peace and quiet, and no thief going on my nerves. And maybe Yami defeating in a duel.”

Bakura still sat on his tree with field glass he also had 'borrowed' somewhere, and had his fun watching as Kaiba got more and more irritated with each passing moment.
'I should watch this movie Marik found so funny, what was the name? Oh, yes, Kevin-Home Alone... '

(Malik and Marik where setting up the traps while everyone was busy outside with Bakuras revolution. Just wanted to clear that.)

Finally content he got down to make his way home to his lovely little light.

Yami was gone, Kaiba mad and the two psychos on the run.
'My job here is done!'


And back to Yugi and Yami:

After their little encounter with Anzu, they decided to go to MacDonald for lunch, even if it was a small wonder that they still could think about food after meeting that thing.

Sadly they passed on their way back to the park by a certain house and garden, to see something awfully, something frightening, something absolute terrible:

Marik and Bakura where not the only one to make a Yami-snowman today.
Anzu was very busy herself, but hers was only recognizable because of the unique hairstyle, with something that most likely should be herself right beside that scary thing.

//Wähhh, then rather Bakuras work.// said Yami with a green tinge on his face //At last they where well done.//

”And I was right after all! Snowmen are monsters!” Yugi hadn't seen Anzus garden so far, and Yami would rather keep it that way.
”What? But why, Yami, I thought we are through with that?” the lighter half of them couldn’t understand why Yami suddenly was back to his 'Snow is a monster and want to bite you'.
”The one in the morning was starring at you! And Bakuras where evil by nature, as everything he touches is. And I don’t even want to start with THAT ugly thing!”

The nice Hikari blinked at the wretched thing:
”Maybe it was never meant to resemble you?” but he didn't believe his own words
'If she keeps that up, Yami will murder someone today. And I always try so hard to prevent that...'

Yugi tried to drag his fuming darkness away, but said Yami decided just this moment, that he wants to play again the knight in shining armor and kill the dragon.. Ähh- monster.
Well, both..
And with that thought he shoved Yugi in the direction of the park to wait for him there:
"I have something important to do, and I really don’t want you to see that, it would not be a pretty sign. Be careful, and tell me when something isn't right, or when someone is mean to you or is looking at you funny! I will come and murder him then."
He didn’t want to let Yugi go all alone, but he couldn’t let an insult like this snow… whatever-it-is… slip. And even less so when this thing was made by… her.

As soon as Yugi was out of his sight, Yami jumped over the fence and was looking around if someone was at home.
'Very well, no one is there…'
He was not worried about breaking in or trespassing and getting caught (even if Bakura would find it hilarious, if he ever finds out…), he just didn’t want to meet her.
Because he still wants to be able to hear tomorrow, and he was ratter found of his arms, and would like to keep them, and not getting them ripped out with all the clinging she does always…
Not to mention that he really preferred to have Yugi all over him.
Kissing him, stroking him, licking him, caressing him, and letting him do all sort of things to him…
Yami shook his head and shoved that away, before his pants could get any tighter. Sadly now was not the time to think about that.

He circled around the two snowmen before he knocked the one with his and Yugis hair over. It was made not even nearly as well as Bakura and Mariks, and it crumbled down to noting so easily, it was a wonder it didn’t gave in under Yamis intense glare before.
Then he turned around to think about something to do with the other snow-thing. Just crushing was way too easy, he wanted to do something more to it. And to Anzu as well…

Slowly he crept to the open garage with a very cruel grin and rubbed his hands: 'And now let us take a look what we have here…'

And so he took a gas can and then noticed an open box full to the brim. Full with a lot of papers, books and photos.
And on all of them where red hearts, stars and also Anzu+ Yami written all over them, hearts around Yamis face on the pictures…

"She's really insane!" growled Yami after a closer look at the box, before he took it also out with him. He emptied it out around that remaining monster Anzu dared to call a snowman. The same went with the gas can, and he wrote a note in the snow for her never to forget.
"YAAAAMMMMIIII!!"
"Is not here!" yelled the former pharaoh back, as the monster dashed to him.

The alive one, not the snowy one.

"Yami, there you are, I hope you didn’t have to wait too long! What do you think about my snowmen, aren't they great?"

Puzzled she stopped as she saw, what Yami was using for the stake around it.
"That’s was I think about it!" and he let a match fall down. The gas burned both monster and pictures down in a matter of moments.
"You are right, my dear Yami, now that I have you I don’t need the pictures of you anymore!" and she tried again to latch at his neck. But Yami was faster and took a step aside, suppressing the urge to simply mind-crush her.

"Ähhhh… yes, and Kaiba is a happy and social guy who always just thinks about chilling and doing noting."
"Whatever you say, Yami-dearest! After all, you are always right, no matter what!…"
And once more she was proving that she didn’t understand the slightest bit of sarcasms, and all Yami could do was shaking his head:
'How is it possible for any living thing to be THAT hopeless stupid?'

Anzu noticed the letters in the snow as Yami pointed them out to her: "Ähh, yes, whatever. This is a little note for you, so you never ever forget it again in your lifetime…"
"What? A love letter, how romantic!"
"Yes I know, or I wouldn’t have done that!"
With wide eyes the witch starred at the worlds, tears in her eyes:
"You can't mean that! WE are supposed to be together, and you are supposed to marry ME, and we should be together forever…"

Anzu looked at him, hoping that it was just a joke to scare her. With a grin Yami lit another match, since the snowman and his bonfire where long gone to the afterlife.
But this was not a normal fire like the other was, this was made with the help of shadow magic, with many different colors and impossible to put out, no matter what.

For the next few weeks is a heart will burn under her window, with the words 'Yami + Yugi forever', and especially bright and high at night, so she can't forget it.
(But we all know she will ignore it anyway…)

Happy and content Yami run to the park to meet his light, while Anzu stood there in shock and starred at the hearth, with changed this moment from blue to red to green. She couldn’t understand why Yami would do such a thing to her, when it was oh so clear that he loved her with all his hearth? Oh, that was surely all Yugis fault, maybe he disguised himself as Yami, and the true Yami was at home and was dressing up to ask her out for a date…
(She will never get it)

Yugi used his time alone in the park to build a small waist-high wall right beside the path. Behind his wall he made two mountains of snowballs, just as high as his wall, perfect in form and shape.

Proudly he grinned at his darker half as he strolled cheerfully in his direction, as always knowing where to find the smaller one. But Yamis smile vanished as soon as he saw the snowballs and the ambush, and he gave Yugi a worried glance:
"I hope you don’t expect me to make another snow fight with you, Aibou. I have enough from that damned stuff, it bothers me! Everyone things he must make a snowman looking like me…"he complained unhappy. "Can't we go home? Where it's warm, and we are alone…"

Yugi laid his head to the side and blinked cutely at the older one, a sweet smile on is lips. He made his way to him slowly and with swaying hips, before he lazily threw his arms around Yamis neck:
"Don’t worry, my pharaoh, I don’t was to play wit you. At last, not this and not there…" he whispered suggestively and rubbed against him, earning a shudder as red eyes fogged over with lust and desire.
"Just look at it as a little Thank-you-gift, for saving me from Bakura and his crazy ideas. That was really sweet from you…"
"You're welcome, Aibou." Purred Yami, and his hands where wandering down to hold on Yugis hips. He pressed him more against him and placed little nips and kisses all over his face.
"You don’t need to thank me, little one." And Yugi gave a startled yelp as he felt a hand suddenly groping his ass lovingly.

With a sigh they parted after a heated, passionate kiss, and Yugi laid a finger on Yamis lips as he bend down for another kiss
"Sorry, my dark, but that has to wait until we're at home. It is way too cold here, and I made this especially for you. You should enjoy it." And he dragged his darker half behind his little wall. It wasn’t hard to make it in such a short time, since there was more then enough snow, and it don’t have to last forever.

"And what do you want me to do with that thing?" whispered Yami and seized him again.
"You can shoot at someone from behind it, when he wants to pass by." And he held one of the many snowballs out to him.

Yami also began to grin; for this time he would make an exception and get to participate in this snowball fight, after all that effort Yugi put into making all of this for him.
"And there comes your victim!" beamed Yugi and dragged the former pharaoh behind his hideout, as he saw Bakura coming their way.

(It doesn't matter how he knew that the thief would take this way, but if you absolutely need one: It was the shortest way. And because I said so….)

With a very un-Yugi-like smile he gave Yami the ball: "Would you be so good?"

Bakura was a little sad that he, yet again, failed to take over a palace, and he scuffled through that boring white homewards, so his Hikari could comfort him a little. Ryou always know what to say or do to make him feel better when his plans refused to work in his favor.

"Get him!" suddenly he heard the voice of the Hikari of that annoying pharaoh yell, and something cold and wet hit him (yet again) in his face! And he got hit several times before he even had the change to turn around.

"This is for always flirting with my Yugi!!!" yelled Yami behind his backing, and Yugi made even more snowballs to make sure they wouldn’t run out of them.

"You damn coward, come out of there if you dare!" Bakura run behind a tree and barked and tossed back.
"Why should I, when Yugi made this wall just for me to bother you?!" snapped Yami back, but it wasn’t so easy to hit the thief, now that he was behind his tree. So he gave Yugi a signal to go around and sneak up at him from the other side, while the tomb robber was busy with Yami.

"The midget get more and more sneaky!" murmured Bakura, as Yami hit him with yet another ball, while the thief could only hit the black spikes looking up from behind the wall.
"We could spare us all that trouble, you know, if you would just lend him to me for an afternoon or two! I even promise that we give him back to you unharmed and in one piece!"

And exactly like planned, Yami jumped up with his face bright red in rage, and Bakura took an extra big and heavy snowball, aimed at the angry pharaoh.
But before he could do anything at all, Yugi came up from behind him and pushed him face first in the snow.
"What do you take me for? A DVD that you can rent whenever you feel like it?" pouted Yugi and sat down on the tomb robber's back, pinning him effectively on the cold ground.

He crossed his arms before his chest and pouted cutely, as Yami kneed down beside Bakuras face.
"It looks like you have a little problem there, tomb robber." Yami mocked, and Bakura gave the Hikari happily sitting on his back a dirty look.
"Hikaris are really getting worse and worse…" he growled, as Yugi beamed at his Yami "I win!" he giggled happily, "You always win, little one."
Yami took the snowball from Bakuras hand and weighed it estimating in his Hand.

"You better be careful, so you don’t get a hernia, shrimp." mocked Bakura.
"Don’t worry about me, idiot. Yugi, you can get up from him now."

But before Bakura could take advantage of this chance, Yami shoved the ball down the back of his collar. With a loud shout, the Albino jumped up: "Holy hell, that's cold! Do you want to kill me?!"

"I just think you should cool down a little…"
Yami lead Yugi away with an arm draped around his shoulder, and Yugi waved sweetly at Bakura and said sweetly, as if nothing happened: "It was nice to meet you, Bakura. Until tomorrow than, and greet Ryou from us!"

Bakura didn’t look nor heard at them as he jumped around and tried at get that cold stuff out of his shirt. He could feel the melting water tickling down his back and he swore again at that damn stuff, like this morning wishing it to hell.
But that stopped as he fell over Yugis small wall, and he lost again his balance and landed in the snow.

// I'm cold!
   I'm wet!
   I'm hungry!
   The brats are bugging me to no end!
   And I have enough from your damn snow!
   Ryou!!!!
   I want go home, or someone will die for sure!//

Ryou gave a startled yelp in his kitchen as he heard the voice of his dark yelling and whining in his mind.
/Then come home already!/
// Come and pick me up!//
Ryou was glad that Bakura couldn’t see his smile, as he heard the light despair and begging in his Yamis voice, before he asked a little worried.
/Why? Are you all right? Shall I collect you from the police station again?/
//NO! Why do you think I am there? Why do you always think I'm there? I'm laying in the park and don’t want to get up!//
/Are you crazy? It is cold, you will get sick. What happened?/

With a sigh Bakura stood up while he was complaining all of his misery to his understanding light
//The whole word is against me. They are all mean to me! Malik and Marik don't let me beat them up, Kaiba was chasing me away, Mokuba refuse to bow before me, Yugi keeps pushing me in the snow and Yami don’t won't to lend him to us! Nobody likes me…//
/Poor Baku.. Of course I like you…/

He was already at their door and Ryou opened it and dragged him in with a smile.
"Na na, no need for self-pity..." The white haired Hikari murmured soothingly and took off one wet piece after the other.
He pointy ignored the wide, dirty grin on his darks face as he did so and pushed him upstairs.
"Better we get you warm, than you will soon feel better. And you will see, tomorrow you will catch the two psychos. You will rob Kaiba from all his values, and Moki will bow before you. And if you touch Yugi, I will kill you a second time. If Yami don’t get you first, of course." threatened the gentle Hikari without changing his tone even the slightest bit.

Bakura couldn’t help it, he chuckled in Ryous soft hair and used their close proximity to undress him as well, since he had him so nice in his reach.
"Don’t worry, I feel a lot better now, since I have you here with me."
And he dragged him down onto him in the bathtub, and Ryou shuddered as he felt cold hands wander over his warm skin.
After the coldness outside was the warm bath just right to get Bakura back in a good mood, and not only because of the hot water, but also because of his hot companion.


Towards evening, after dinner, Yami sat down before the TV and was channel surfing through the programs, searching for something interesting to watch. Yugi was upstairs, so he was alone at the moment as something suddenly caught his attention.

With terrified, wide eyes he watched the news playing before him.
Why the hell didn’t anyone tell him that, he ought to have known this!

"A local school had to remain closed today, as the roof of the sports hall gave in under the heavy snow-masses. Thank god, no one was in there at that time. Because of the snow the school was supposed to say close during this week anyway."

(That happened really a few years ago, but there where dead and casualty.)

"Because of sudden ice on the road it came to a couple of incidents on our streets, including an ambulance and a fire engine, who crashed head-on together. The drivers are stable and conscious, with only light injuries and some broken bones."

Yami turned a bit louder to hear more of the news.

"Two hours ago it was reported, that for so-far unknown reasons a snowplow drove swerve around, while it was chased by a black-haired women, who yelled in an unidentified language at them. We have exclusive for you the recordings of a security camera."

The following pictures showed a recording of Marik, who apparently had his new favorite toy back and was driving it from one sidewalk to the other. Malik was sitting on the roof of it and held on the windshield with an equally crazy smile his Yami had on his face.
It looked like Marik had shared his chocolate-stock with the smaller one, and the havoc they caused together in Kaibas mansion was not enough for them.
The Yami was chasing cars and peoples and shoved them to the side when they didn’t get away fast enough.
Ishizu run after them with her trusted baseball-pat and a big knife and her face screamed murder for them.

'I don’t even want to know what they did this time to get her that upset.' thought Yami, but he got earnest again as he heard the rest of the news, which where a lot more serious then the Ishtars and their little bickering in public.

"Today there was a descent of an avalanche in a local ski-region and dragged several houses with it down. But luckily, the search dogs where able to find everyone alive in time. A few peoples are now in the nearest hospital with hypothermia, but will be able to get out soon."

(I know, unlikely, but I'm not in the mood for deaths.)

"Due to the lots of surprisingly fallen snow, a number of villages in the mountains where cut off completely from the outside world. They have neither food nor fresh water nor power or medical supplies. Helicopters where busy for the whole day to free the peoples! Now they are safe to go back to their houses as soon as the snow is melting."

After that Yami had heard enough and was about to run upstairs as he run into Yugi in the kitchen as he was drinking something.
"Hey, Yami, is something the matter?"
"You must come with me, now Aibou, and don’t argue at the moment, this is important."

Yami grabbed Yugis hand and dragged him in a hurry up the stairs in their room.
"What's wrong, is the washing machine after you, again? Our TV wants to bite and eat you, or is our Telephone possessed with an evil spirit?"

Yami stopped for a moment to shake his head: "No, of course not. It is far, far more worse, you have to believe me!"

"Yami, what's wrong?" the smaller Hikari asked a little worried as he was dragged along.
"I have just discovered how dangerous your great snow really is! No way I let  you ever out there again, I don’t want you to get hurt! Or killed!"
And with that he shoved him in the room and started to let down the jalousie, shut the curtains, and then he shoved the closet in front of the window.

Yugi sat down on his bed and watched the whole thing in silence, shaking his head: "Yami… Are you sure you don’t overreact?" Yami shock his head "Not even the slightest bit?"
Again Yami shock his head, and he was just happy with his barricade after he put the table before the closet and a chair on top of it.
He walked over to his little light and kneed down beside him. Gently he took his face in his hands and looked deep in the violet depths.
He rubbed with his thump over the tempting lips before he kissed first Yugis cheeks and then his lips lovingly.  

"I don’t let the snow get you, Aibou! You are not going out there as long as you are in danger!" he whispered softly in Yugis ear, stood up and closed the door behind him. The small Hikari could hear something heavy being shoved before his door.

// I'm doing this just for you safety, you know that, Aibou, right? You know that I do this just because I don’t want to see you getting hurt…// said Yami worried, he was really hoping that Yugi wasn’t mad at him for this, that he was not thinking that he wanted to lock him away or something.
All he wanted was to make sure his sweet angel didn’t get hurt like those peoples in the news.
Yugi was always so caring and gently and innocent, he always was looking at the good in everything.
'But I know the true, and I have to keep him save and sweet and all…'

All the more he was relieved when he heard a warm voice talking in his mind
/I know, Yami, don’t worry, I'm not mad, and noting will happen to me/ told him Yugi, and Yami walked downstairs with an small, reassured smile to make an important call.

Yugi looked around for a moment to decide what he will do now, since he was stuck in this room for probably the whole evening.
Yami had the whole room surrounded with shadow magic, so he would be save even if the house around him collapsed.
'Sometimes he can be terrible paranoid…'
Yugi lay down on his bed with a book and decided to wait and see. His pharaoh will calm down by tomorrow and they can talk when he sees that noting had happened to him the whole night.
And for now he will let him have his will, after all, what can go wrong?

TBC: