Me: Hello there! This is my first collection of one-shots featuring Ryou and Bakura! I hope you guys enjoy them, and I will write more! This includes Tendershipping (RyouXBakura) and Bakushipping (AkefiaXBakuraXRyou) but only a little bit of that! So please enjoy this!

Title: Christmas Resolution

Genre: romance, mild humor, fluff!!!

Rating: T for mild language

Pairings: RyouXAkefiaXBakura, MalikXMarik (very mild however)

Summary: It's Christmas time and Bakura and Akefia are planning on heading back to ancient Egypt to visit their families for a few days, even if that means leaving Ryou alone. But with a few encouraging words from Malik, will the two spirits realize that their hikari needs them this Christmas, or will their ignorance be the downfall of poor little Ryou Bakura?

Me: This is just a fluffy little story that I'm writing!

Lucy: For a series of one-shots! This idea was taken from Fruits Basket!

Me: It's double is Puzzleshipping One Shots, which hasn't been placed up yet.

Lucy: Roll the story!!

Chapter One: Christmas Resolution

"Okay, Ry! We're gonna be gone for a few days to visit our parents' spirits back in Ancient Egypt," Akefia, the king of thieves stated. Bakura was busy putting on something warm, since it was winter time. Ryou was adding a log to the fireplace when Akefia announced the news. This made Ryou glance up quickly with shock written on his face.

"Y-you guys are leaving tonight?" the silverette asked in a confused voice.

Bakura nodded as he pried out a purple hat with ear covers and two pieces of string on the sides that fell to his chest when he wore it from a box in the corner. The silver-haired yami placed the hat on and nodded once again.

"Yeah. We have to go tonight or the portal will close for another year and we won't be able to get through until next Christmas Eve. I hope you don't mind, Ryou," Bakura stated as he put on a black longsleeve shirt and then placed on a pair of black pants. He pulled on some purple boots and then put on a white coat that came to his knees. Ryou smiled sadly and looked away.

"N-no... I don't mind at all. Please, go and enjoy time with your families, okay? I'll see you guys when you get back," the silver-haired hikari stated with a smile.

Akefia noticed the sad look on Ryou's face before he nodded and then placed on a black and orange version of the outfit that Bakura was wearing. Marik knocked on the door, holding the Sennen Rod in his hand. Akefia nodded to him and then he and Bakura walked over to the door and stared back at Ryou, who was sitting on the couch with his eyes lowered to the ground.

"Bye, Ryou. Be safe while we're gone, okay?" Bakura called to his other lover.

Ryou nodded once and then smiled at the three as they left the house to go to Ancient Egypt. Once they were gone out of the house, Ryou stood up and went to the other room, where the picture of his sister and mother was located.

"Do you think Ryou will be okay all by himself?" Akefia asked. Bakura nodded and glanced over at the falling snow with a smile on his face.

"Of course! He may act weak sometimes, but Ryou's actually a very strong person deep down. He'll be just fine by himself for a few days," the silverette stated in a calm voice. Akefia nodded once, but he seemed skeptical to the idea.

Marik sighed and walked behind the two. "Be careful, guys, or you might-"

Before he could continue, a figure with sandy hair and bronze skin appeared and stepped in front of Bakura, clothed in all purple snow gear, his purple eyes narrowed at the three people.

"Run into someone," the figure stated, scaring the crap out of Bakura.

"AAH!!! MALIK, YOU ASSHOLE! WHAT'S WITH YOU APPEARING OUTTA NOWHERE LIKE THAT!? GOD DAMMIT, YOU ALWAYS DO THIS TO ME!!" Bakura hollered, being held back by Akefia, who was trying to calm his lover down.

Malik ignored the hollering yami and glanced around with confusion in his purple eyes. "Where's Ry-chan? He isn't with you this Christmas Eve?" the egyptian hikari asked with an unknowing confusion in his tone.

Akefia glanced up from holding Bakura in a gentle and calming embrace with mild shock on his face that Malik had asked that question.

"He told us that we should go visit our parents back in ancient Egypt. So we went on and he said his father would come back to spend Christmas with him," the tan-skinned spirit stated in a simple voice.

Malik's eyes widened slightly and then he laughed sadly. "Sounds like something he'd say..." the egyptian hikari stated in a calm voice, sorrow lacing his tone. Marik bit his lower lip as Bakura stopped squirming in Akefia's hold and glanced at Malik in slight confusion, his brown eyes wide with mild shock.

"W-what do you mean?" he asked, confused as to why Malik knew more than he did about the silver-haired hikari.

Malik laughed slightly before lifting his head up and staring at the two egyptian theives with a sad smile on his lips.

"That sounds like something Ry would say. He's always spent Christmas alone ever since his sister and mother died. His father never comes home for Christmas, even if he does call once a month. Poor Ry has been alone every Christmas for 8 years," the sandy-haired hikari stated.

Bakura's eyes widened. "What!? Then why didn't he say something!? We wouldn't have left if we had known that his father wasn't going to be there!!" Bakura hollered.

Malik laughed slightly louder this time, as if Bakura had suggested that the moon was made of cheese.

"Ryou has always been one to hide his tears until he's alone. Yugi and I offered to let him spend Christmas with us, but he told us to spend it with our families. Heh. No doubt Ry's at home right now crying his eyes out by the picture of his little sister and mother that he keeps on the hutch by the fireplace..." the smaller hikari stated.

Akefia's purple-gray eyes widened.

"What!? Why would Ryou tell us to go if he didn't want to be left alone!?" he shouted in disbelief while Bakura stared in shock at what he had just been told. He also wished to know why Ryou wouldn't bring something like that up.

Malik smiled warmly.

"Because Ry didn't want you to go through what he went through for so long..." he stated in a quiet voice.

Akefia and Bakura glanced down in shock before they both growled and spun around, heading back towards the direction that they had come from earlier.

"Where are you two going?" Marik called out after the two yamis who were storiming off in the direction of their home.

Akefia and Bakura spun around, determination and guilt on their faces, their teeth grit in anger at themselves, striking terror into the sandy-haired yami.

"WE'RE GOING HOME!!" they shouted before they both took off towards Ryou's house at lightning speed.

"Malik, did you plan that?" Marik asked once Akefia and Bakura had disappeared from all sight. Malik laughed lightly before glancing up at his yami with a smile on his face. He laughed slightly harder before looking up at the falling snow.

"I don't care what they do. I just... wanted them to acknowledge Ry's feelings... That's all," Malik answered in a calm voice. Marik laughed and wrapped an arm around his hikari's waist, holding him close with a smile on his face.

"You're so wicked, Malik..." he smiled. Malik laughed lightly before turning with his yami as they both walked towards their own home to spend Christmas together. Malik glanced back and smiled lightly in the direction of Ryou's home.

'Merry Christmas, Ry...' he thought with a smile before snuggling up with his yami.

//How could we have been so dumb!?// Bakura hollered through his mind link to Akefia. Akefia shook his head quickly, wipping the falling snow from his already white hair. His purple eyes were filled with rage at himself.

\/ I don't know! God damn it! We should have been able to tell that he needed us!\/ the thief king hollered via mind link. Bakura glanced up with determination in his eyes. He raced forward, noticing that the neighborhood was starting to look familiar.

'God damn it, Ryou! You should have told us that you didn't want to be left alone! Dammit! How could we be so blind and leave you alone!!' the silver-haired yami shouted in his mind. He and Akefia shook their heads as they noticed that they were on the street that lead to Ryou's home.

'I don't care anymore... I want to see him smiling...' Akefia thought as he and Bakura stepped to the door of theif home. They grabbed the door and threw it open, racing into the doorway and throwing themselves inside it.

'I WANT TO SEE HIM!!' they both hollered in their mind as they raced fully inside, which cause Ryou to spin around in shock.

Ryou had been sitting before a picture of his mother and his younger sister Amane that he had placed on the small table that rested before the fireplace. In the picture, his mother had her arm around Amane's shoulders, and Amane was smiling with her brown eyes closed happily.

Ryou choked out a sob as he stared at the picture. Once again, he was all alone for Christmas with only a picture of his sister and mother. His father had called a little while ago and said that he wasn't going to make it up for Christmas, and Ryou had told him that it was all right, and he'd see him when he got back.

"Dammit... What am I crying for?" Ryou whispered to no one in particular.

He started sobbing again, until he heard the door to his house slam open, and Akefia and Bakura come flying into the house before toppling over ontop of each other and slamming the door shut. Ryou spun around in shock.

"Y-you two... What are you guys doing here? What about your families in Egypt?" the silverette hikari asked in shock.

Akefia stood up and strode over to Ryou before reaching forward and wiping some falling tears away from Ryou's face. Ryou gasped and backed up a bit.

"N-no... I wasn't crying... I-I was listening to a sad report on the television and it made me emotional..." the silverette said as he tried to cover up what he was actually doing.

Bakura also rose to his feet before looming over the silverette hikari with a dark look on his face. Suddenly, both Bakura and Akefia were clinging to Ryou, holding him into a double embrace.

"G-guys? What are you doing?" Ryou asked while blushing violently, his tears completely gone by this point.

Bakura pulled back to stare into Ryou's brown eyes with his own, a solemn look on his face. He then embraced Ryou tightly again and then whispered into the boy's ear.

"Sorry we didn't see that you didn't want to be all alone..."

Ryou blushed and then hugged the two theives back, his brown eyes closed happily as more tears slid down his cheeks, but this time, out of happiness and joy. Akefia and Bakura sighed and clung harder to Ryou, tears of joy filling their eyes as well.

This was the best Christmas ever...

Me: Whelp! That's that!

Lucy: More to come later on!

Me: Yay! Please, please review!!