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6

The next morning, Mokuba knocked on Seto's door.

"Enter." Mokuba opened the door and couldn't believe his eyes. Seto was sitting on his bed, laptop turned on and beside him, Bible open in front of him and notes spread all around him. His eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep and strain from reading.

"What are you doing?"

Seto blinked a few times and rubbed his eyes. "Right now, I am putting this project away. Then, I will go downstairs, eat some breakfast, drink some caffeine, and then spend the rest of the day with you." He laughed at the excited look on his brother's face. Seto stuffed his notes into a folder, shutdown his laptop and marked his place in the Bible.

They made small talk as they ate breakfast, but Seto noticed Mokuba kept looking around like he had lost something.

"Let's take a walk around the grounds."

"Whatever you say, Big Brother."

The sky was a dazzling and brilliant blue, but off to the west was a line of storm clouds, still hours away. They sat down on some rocks overlooking the grounds and watched the storm slowly move their way.

"You were up all night reading the Bible, weren't you?"

Seto nodded. "I'll be honest, it interests me, but ..." He looked at his little brother, who was smiling at him.

"But what, Seto?

"How can I deal with the change it would bring? I would have to give up my independence and everything that goes with it. I can't see myself doing that." Seto frowned, but Mokuba chuckled.

"Funny. I had the opposite problem. I had to give up my 'dependence' – on you. I had a little card with the Bible's 10 commandments ..."

"You mean that this is yours?" Seto interrupted, pulled the card from his pocket and handed it to his brother. Mokuba's face lit up.

"Thank you!" Mokuba pointed to the first commandment. "This one stopped me dead in my tracks. It meant something to me, but I didn't know what. I had to call my friend," he turned the card over and pointed to the name (Kirii Reed) on the back, "to understand what it really meant. After speaking with her, I realized that I had made you my god, but that you are only human. And some day, you would fail me. That was wrong of me, Seto, and unfair to you. I'm so sorry."

Seto reached over and ruffled his brother's hair. "It's okay. I helped put myself in that position by always facing your problems for you, never showing you any weakness or dependence, never letting you grow some independence of your own." Then Seto realized what Mokuba had said, "I had the opposite problem." "Mokuba? You are a follower of Jesus."

"Yup!" He pointed to the bracelet on his left wrist. "Kirii told me the Gospel by using this bracelet, but it was then time to leave the park. She gave me this card with her name, number and the 10 commandments on it. Said if I needed anything to just call, so I did. Made myself a pest too, but she didn't care."

Seto listen to his brother talk on and on about what happened in the park: the brothers, the pitiful duel between two novices, and the friendly banter between friends. Mokuba went on to talk about his thoughts and feelings about becoming a follower of Jesus, the conversations between him and Kirii, and the loss of David. It amazed Seto the change that had come over Mokuba in such a short time. He was not looking to Seto for approval of his new friend, nor acceptance of his new belief. He was actually telling Seto that he was becoming less dependent on him, that he did have opinions of his own and that he was willing to share them with his big brother.

A cool breeze sprung up and Seto looked off to the west. The storm was less than an hour away. Where had the time went? He found that he enjoyed listening to Mokuba.

"We had better head back to the house before we end up wet." Seto and Mokuba walked slowly to the house. Later, as the storm raged outside, they spent the rest of the day just enjoying being brothers and being together.

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Tony was extremely thankful that Seto could not see the big grin on his face. Seto was on the phone and telling him about the great time he and Mokuba had this past weekend. Seto had actually done some work on Sunday, but included his brother by bouncing some ideas off him. Some of Mokuba's suggestions were quite extraordinary and well thought out; others were downright silly. All in all, Seto got some work done, he and Mokuba had some fun, and, most importantly, the brothers got to know each other a bit better.

"Why don't you and Mokuba make plans to come over some Friday. It's the only day I don't have prior commitments after work." Tony listened for a second. "Okay, well, let me know when."

/Okay, back to work./ And Tony started packing files into boxes again.