They arrived at the toyshop and they were surprised to find it was fairly crowded. Shizuka was reading a story to a bunch of little kid's, while Sugoroku was waiting on customers.

"Mokuba why don't you go over and listen to the story for a few minutes, till Sugoroku is available. Yami and I are going to look around some." Seto said.

Mokuba was a touch scared but he nodded in agreement, walked over and sat in the back to listen to the story.

Seto and Yami walked around and discussed several toys they wanted to get for Mokuba. Every year it had always been just talk, talk about what they could get, what they wanted to get. But now, now, they could actually get the toys, cause now they had a real little kid to spoil and love. Of course, that didn't stop them from having the normal sibling rivalry now and then. This time it was over what Mokuba would like best.

Sugoroku had seen them come in and went to talk to them and found them arguing over which toys to get. "If I might make a suggestion."

"Oh Sugoroku it's nice to see you, again." Yami said.

"The two of you should be ashamed. Fighting like this! You go through this every year."

"Its not my fault he wont listen." Seto said.

"Me, not listen! Look whose talking!" Yami yelled.

"Boys! Is this the way you wish Mokuba to see his big brothers, fighting like this?" Sugoroku asked.

"Sorry." They mumbled together.

"That's better. Now why not chose the best ones and show them to Mokuba. Then let him decide what he wants and no coaching or disappointing looks. You do want him to be happy don't you, that is the point to this isn't it?" Sugoroku asked. Seto and Yami had grown over the years to look to Sugoroku as a grandfather. So, his opinion meant a lot to them.

"Yes, sir." They said together neither one wanting to agree to it but both knew he was right.

"Good now I have a couple of things in the back for him, you two behave and each go your separate ways and chose what you like best. Then allow Mokuba to chose what he likes best out of them." Sugoroku said leaving.

Seto and Yami each wanted to stay to see what toys Mokuba choose. However they also knew Sugoroku was right if they stayed, he was bound to catch a disappointing look now and then when he rejected a toy. They also knew he was extremely sensitive and might not chose anything if he thought it would hurt one of them. They made a pact that they would put the toys behind the side counter next to the counter where the cash register was then let Mokuba go through them and decided what he wanted.

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By the time Shizuka had finished her book, half the kid's were asleep. Several others were anxious to get up and run around, while others were like Mokuba trying to keep awake.

Seto and Yami put the last of the ones they collected up and Seto went to go get Mokuba.

"Hey kiddo, did you like the story?" Seto asked.

Mokuba smiled and nodded his head but rubbed his eyes at the same time.

"Come on, pick out some of the toys Yami and I chose and then we'll go home and you and I we'll take a nap. Deal?" Seto asked.

Mokuba nodded he liked that idea; Seto took his hand and led him over to the stack of toys they created.

"Okay kiddo, sit down here and pick out the ones you want. Put them into two separate piles what you want to keep and what you don't want. Seto and I will be in the back with Sugoroku if you need us. We'll be back in a little bit, all right?"

Mokuba nodded and started to look through the toys. Mokuba had never thought he'd see this many toys all for him. It was going to be hard to choose which ones to keep.

As Mokuba started to go through and sort the toys Seto and Yami felt it best not to let Mokuba see what they wanted. This was for him and though they desperately wanted to stay, they didn't want to influence the kid to choose one toy over another because of them.

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While Mokuba was going through the toys Noah caught up to his family in town. Asana and Noah had always had a fairly close relationship. Noah had a knack for knowing when Asana was telling the truth and when she was hiding something.

"Hello mother, Asana."

"Hello dear, have a nice time?" Ivera asked.

"It was alright." Noah said.

"Noah why don't you go see the movie with us tonight?" Asana suggested.

Noah looked at her and glared. "What aren't you telling me?"

"What?" Asana asked.

"You know as well as I do that you couldn't keep something from me if your life depended on it." Noah told her. "Now what is it you don't want to tell me?"

"Well, it's just that…"

"That what tell me!"

"You don't need to look for JJ anymore. He's not missing."

"You found him? You know where he is?"

"Well Noah, honey you see it's just that…" Ivera started.

"Tell me!" Noah said.

"It seems someone's taken him in and taking care of him. We yelled at them to give him back but they refused."

"That punk he was with the other day kept him! I didn't think the brat would have trusted him enough to stay with him."

"You knew where he was?"

"This man had him and said something about his brother kidnapped him. He told me he was going to give him back to us. I told him we held no hard feelings towards his brother and I'd bring the brat home. Then I started to take him to my horse but before I could leave with him, he suddenly changed his mind and snatched him away. Apparently, the brat didn't trust him either at the time cause I saw him walking down the road later. But again, when I tried to bring the kid home that man showed up again and threatened to kill me if I didn't leave the kid with him." Noah told them.

"We met them both and they said you tried to rape the kid." Asana said.

"What! How could he say that! I'd never have raped that kid." 'How could they accuse me of wanting to rape him! We'd have had sex, but it'd be far from a rape. By the time, I was through teasing and loving on him, that kid would have gladly spread his legs and begged me to take him!' Noah thought with a smile.

That smile gave Asana the creeps. She was beginning to wonder if what they were told was true about Noah and JJ. She couldn't believe he'd have really have raped the kid, despite how strange and obsessed he'd seemed lately. But that didn't shake the strange feelings she was getting from him.

"So where did you see them? I'll make sure they give us back that kid or I'll take him."

"Well they were looking through clothes when we last saw them but…"

"But what?"

"They threatened to show the woman of my society club the marks on that brats back. If those old bats were too see that no matter how much we try and deny it we'll be shunned. I knew the moment your father accepted that brat from that stranger he'd cause us nothing but trouble."

"Mother if you felt that way why did you accept him?"

"With Noah's illness and the doctors predictions he wouldn't live to see 10, your father reasoned that as the brat got older he'd be more useful and eventually could help us by planting crops. Since Noah was the only boy in our family and your father hurt his back he couldn't do a lot. He could do some things but not a lot. Then things just kept getting worse as the crops failed more and more. Even when your father left to look for work in the next town, there were still the hopes that someday the kid would be old enough and strong enough to be a true farmer. Even after your father died, I strongly wanted to throw that brat out on his ear! But I realized your father's dream of this kid being a true farm hand and helping us with the crops didn't have to die with him. The brat just needed some discipline to make him stronger." Ivera said.

"Well never fear mother I shall get him back!" Noah said.

"Mother maybe, maybe we should just forget it. I mean it seems to me that the kid is becoming more trouble than he's worth." Asana said.

"Hmmm…you do make a valid point Asana." Ivera said.

"Mother I promise I won't fail, I will get that kid back!" Noah said.

"Very well Noah you may go." Ivera said moving on to look around.

Asana approached Noah, as he was about to get on his horse. "Noah you, you didn't really try to rape him did you?"

"What do you think?"

"I…I don't really know. I mean I know there was a time or two in the past year or so when I walked into your room to see if you'd seen him and I thought I saw you kissing him but I wasn't sure. Plus I saw the way you were looking at him on your birthday there was something evil in your eyes. It was almost like you were possessed!"

"If you felt that way why didn't you tell mother?"

"She's blinded by you! All she sees is a sweet innocent little angel. Even if I told her, hell even if she saw you she would just think it's a phase! You're still just a child a growing boy; you can do no wrong in her eyes! I think if she ever actually saw you raping that kid she'd still think nothing of it! I could have showed her and it'd just be 'Noah's going through a phase.' Or 'It's his illness its playing tricks with his mind he wouldn't do anything wrong.' It makes me sick at times to know that she'll practically let you get away with murder but the rest of us get yelled at!"

"You're just jealous!"

"For JJ's sake I hope you never get him back! I saw him, he actually looked like he could be happy."

"Really I saw you taking pleasure in beating him when he broke your precious plates."

"I know but I felt bad about it later. I was going to go cut him down but he was gone."

"What! I saw that he was gone but I figured your weak side got the best of you and you released him and he just crawled off somewhere."

"No, I didn't I don't think mother did either."

"Then just how did he get free?"

"Well one of the men that was with JJ, had said that they would see him when he was in his room in the basement. Maybe one of them freed him."

"They were spying on us!"

"I don't know. All I know is one of them they called themselves brother's, he said that JJ would come down to the basement and he'd see him."

"That explains why the brat started spending more time in the basement rather than off to who knows where he went."

"Leave it be Noah, find someone who wants you. The kid was terrified to come back and he shook even more at the mention of your name!"

"Stay out of this Asana, you're my favorite sister and I don't want to have to hurt you! So just but out and stay out of my business!" Noah said riding off.

"I know I was right now to hide and protect you the few times I did from Noah, JJ. I just hope your new family will keep you as safe as I tried to from him." Asana said to herself as she watched Noah ride off.

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Back at the toy store, Mokuba was still looking though the toys. Seto and Yami collected a lot. Now they were sitting in the back waiting for him to finish!

"So how much longer do you think he'll be?" Seto asked always impatient.

"Probably not too much longer."

"Boy's I have a present I've been saving since after I met Mokuba." Sugoroku said.

"What's that?" Yami asked.

"I had a feeling it would come down to this and that the two of you would have disappointments over what he did and didn't chose. So, I found a way to make certain he'll have at least one toy from both of you that I know he'll treasure as much as that baby dragon toy he was given."

"What would that be?" Seto asked.

"These." Sugoroku said making both Seto and Yami's eyes go wide when they saw what he was holding.

Now they just had to wait till he finished and show it to him.