When Mokuba woke up it was to the sound of clattering plates. The sound meant dinner was almost ready. He sat up and rubbed his eyes, reaching back for Spike and pulling him into his grip. He looked around the room- no one was there but him. Yugi and his friends were nowhere to be found. Whimpering at the thought of being alone, he set out to find them. It wasn't until he heard laughter coming from Joey's room that he found them. Yugi and Joey were dueling on the bed. Mokuba walked in without saying a word and sat in one corner of the room, sucking his thumb and cuddling Spike. As anticipated, Hobson came in not long after to say that dinner was ready. Everybody went out to the table to eat, but Mokuba just wasn't hungry. He barely touched his food. All of them noticed at one point or another, but never said anything. There was dessert after dinner, but Mokuba didn't want that either. When dinner was over, Mokuba went into the nursery and played sullenly with his dragon and colored in his coloring books. He got tired easily and fairly quickly was ready for bed. He called his Daddy himself for a bedtime story and then quickly fell asleep.

The next morning, Yugi decided to go wake Mokuba up. When he peered inside of the door, he saw something that made him pause. Mokuba lay huddled under several blankets. His face was pale and he was sweating, and yet he was shaking so much he was shaking the whole crib.

"Mokuba?" He asked, quietly. Mokuba's eyes opened, he took his pacifier out, and moaned.

"I don't feel good." He whimpered. Yugi moved over to the crib and let down the side to check his temperature.

"You're burning up. I'll go call your Dad."

"Okay." He said meekly.

Yugi came back and handed Mokuba the phone.

"Daddy?"

"Hey buddy. I heard you aren't feeling too good today."

"Yeah. 'M not."

"What's going on with that?"

"I'm really cold and all stuffy and not hungry."

"You have to eat something, bud."

"I don't wanna." He whined.

"Please? Will you do it for me?"

"Please don't make me, Daddy. It hurts!" He cried.

"Please Mokie? Please?" He pressed.

"Okay." Mokuba sniffed.

"That's a good boy." He praised. "You just get some rest and feel better, okay?"

"Okay. Daddy?"

"Yes, buddy?"

"When are you coming home?"

"I'm going to try my best to get there tonight, okay?"

"Okay. Bye bye, Daddy."

"Bye buddy."

Mokuba handed the phone back to Yugi and, after giving Yugi instructions on what to do in any situation, Kaiba hung up the phone in hopes of catching a plane back home. Yugi decided to stay behind from school that day so that Mokuba wouldn't have to be alone. The day wasn't very interesting. Yugi spent the whole doing things that Kaiba probably would have had he been there. He gave medicine, took his temperature, and tried to get him to eat as much as possible. The eating was more or less a lost cause, but Yugi persisted on. When his friends got there, Yugi took a break to do his homework while Tèa looked after Mokuba, who had barely made a peep all day long.

When everyone had finished their homework, they all came together in hopes of making Mokuba feel better. Each of them tried their best, but it didn't make a difference. When dinner rolled around, Mokuba hardly touched his food again, but that wasn't surprising, considering he'd only taken a few bites of his food all day. When dinner was done, Mokuba dragged all his blankets out onto the couch and huddled under them to wait for Daddy to come home. He was incredibly tired (despite having slept for much of the day) and fell asleep waiting for him.

Seto Kaiba had finally caught a plane back home two hours after his morning talk with his son. He had chosen to leave early from his trip in favor of being with his son. When those he was helping protested, he reminded them that the rest of the work he was doing could be completed by the most inexperienced IT person, and if they couldn't do that, why was he even paying them in the first place? That shut them up pretty quickly. His plane touched down in Domino at nine o'clock at night. He got lucky and got into his limo just before it started pouring rain. When he finally pulled into the winding driveway, he could hardly contain his excitement to see his child at last. He ran through the rain but was extremely careful to open the front door as quietly as possible in case Mokuba was sleeping. After shedding his jacket and putting it on the coat hanger. His eyes immediately flashed to his son who was sleeping under a pile of blankets. He couldn't help the huge grin that broke out on his face and went over to him, gently rubbing circles on his back.

Mokuba's eyes slowly opened, and it took him a minute to focus his vision. When he did, he smiled.

"Daddy." He said, reaching up to his father. Kaiba picked him up happily and Mokuba hid his face in the crook of his neck. Kaiba bounced him up and down gently.

"Hey buddy. How are you feeling?" He asked, cradling his son in his arms and kissing his hot forehead tenderly. Mokuba nuzzled his father happily, but let out a gregarious yawn.

"I sweepy, Daddy." He said, trying to furrow into his father for warmth. Kaiba sat down on the couch where he was laying and started covering his son in blankets. Mokuba was still cold, but now it wasn't as bad as it was before.

"You can go to sleep, bud. Daddy's right here, and I'm not going anywhere." He promised. Mokuba smiled blearily up at him, started sucking his thumb, and fell asleep.