"Did you see anything?", Mokuba asked.

"Nothing but shrubbery," Kaiba answered.

"Huh," Mokuba said, shoving his hands in his pockets. "But, Yugi said..."

"Mokuba, in what world do you take advice from a starfish?"

"This one!", Mokuba yelled back.

"You know what? Shut up, Mokuba!"

"No, you shut up!"

Kaiba just turned around and walked off. Instead of trying to catch up with his brother, Mokuba stayed where he was.

And he's not a damn starfish, Mokuba thought, He's a human being.

Mokuba and his brother had very different opinions on Yugi. Kaiba thought he was stupid, Mokuba thought he was sensible. Kaiba thought he was a jerk, Mokuba thought he was kind. Mokuba thought he was a softie, a sweetheart, and Kaiba thought he was... a bitch. The two brothers did not have the same opinions, although, this didn't ever lead to conflict, verbally or physically.

Mokuba walked forward, but stopped when he heard a crash from behind him. He froze for a few seconds, then turned around to look. Before, there had been a tower of tall, metal canisters, but now, the tower was knocked down. Mokuba's basket, filled with apples that he had picked off of a nearby apple tree, was now toppled over, the apples rolling out of it.

Mokuba walked over to the wreckage, and got on his knees to look. Inside his basket, nibbling on the apples, was a small creature. It had red eyes with white pupils and scleras and pointed, ear-like structures on top of its head. Its snout was short and blunt, and it had a wide mouth. A pair of small, pointed teeth were visible in the upper jaw when its mouth was open. Each of its thick legs ended with three sharp claws. On its back was a green plant bulb.

It was very small, so small that when Mokuba picked it up, it fit into the palm of his hand. Mokuba felt a jab on his hand; the little creature was biting him. Mokuba picked up the apple it had been eating seconds ago. It stoppped nibbling on his thumb, and started chewing on the apple. For such a small creature, it ate really fast, finishing the entire apple in almost thirty seconds.

"You're kinda cute," Mokuba said to it.

"Bulb, Bulb!", it shouted.

Mokuba laughed. He put the fallen apples back into the basket, and put the creature in there with them. "You can come home with me," he told it.

It stopped eating the apple it was working on now, and looked at him with what seemed to be a smile. Mokuba smiled, too, as he got off the ground and walked out of the alleyway he was in. As he walked outside, he saw his brother right in front of him.

"Come on, Mokuba," he said, grabbing his brother's wrist.

Mokuba said nothing in acknowledgement, he just followed his brother. Kaiba didn't see the tiny creature in Mokuba's apple basket, and if he did, he hadn't asked questions about it. When Kaiba got home, Mokuba stayed outside of it. He pulled the little creature out of his basket, and held it in between his two hands. The thing was still only big enough for one palm, but it had plenty of room in both of Mokuba's hands.

"I need to name you. What about... 'Sprout'?", Mokuba asked it.

It shook it's head, it didn't seem to like that.

"Do you like 'Leafia'?"

It shook it's head again.

"I like 'Tangler."

It stuck it's tongue out at that one.

"Hmm. Oh, I know! 'Ivy'! I could call you 'Ivy'!"

It started jumping up and down, smiling. Mokuba put it on the porch, and two vines came out, protruding from under the bulb on it's back. It picked a flower from a nearby patch of grass, and gave it to Mokuba. Mokuba took it, and tied it around Ivy's neck, like a necklace. He picked Ivy back up, and it rubbed the side of his hand with it's vine.

"I can tell that we're going to be good friends," Mokuba told Ivy, as it walked up his arm, and onto his shoulder.