Seto and Mokuba made their way to where Ryo was reading.

"Hello Ryo."

"Seto…I…I mean my king." Ryo said standing up.

Seto smiled. "It's alright were not in a formal setting, please call me Seto. Please sit down."

Ryo sat down on the edge of the bench. "If you wish, I insist you should sit here with me."

Seto sat down then pulled Mokuba on to his lap. "I'm sorry I never told you, who I was. It's just that I didn't want to be found out till I could get on my feet and get Mokuba out of there on my own. Yami wouldn't have let me go back for Mokuba before it was too late to save him from Noah. I wanted Mokuba to come home with me because he wanted to, because he trusted me." He said squeezing Mokuba's waist tight.

"But you had Mokuba with you when you showed up at my place. We talked quite a while, why couldn't you tell me then?"

"I wasn't exactly sure how too tell you. You told me you wanted to be a knight so I assumed that…"

"That what I'd take advantage of you, that I'd insist on being made a knight. Because I helped you and didn't tell anyone, you kidnapped Mokuba; you really think I'm that petty?" Ryo asked standing up outraged.

"Ryo I…"

"What? How could you think that! I thought we were friends! Friends don't take advantage of each other like that! As for Mokuba, I love him and would never do anything to hurt him! I've always regretted not doing something sooner for him. But I guess now I see there was a reason for that. He was meant to be with you and Master Yami. I know you will both love and care for him as much as I do."

"I'm sorry Ryo. I know you care for Mokuba a great deal. I'm sorry if I implied that you didn't. I apologize that I said you'd take advantage of my position."

"Seto when Mokuba showed you to me I didn't know or care who you were. Even if I had known, it wouldn't have changed the fact that I would have still cared for you. I was helping you not because you were the king or someone of importance but because you were hurt." Ryo said walking off.

"I'm sorry kiddo, I didn't mean to upset him. I was wrong." Seto said to Mokuba.

Mokuba hopped out of Seto's lap handed him his baby dragon and ran after Ryo. Mokuba grabbed Ryo's hand and arm and looked at him with his puppy dog eyes.

"Please c-come back, Ryo. S-Seto d-didn't mean it."

Ryo sighed and looked down at him, "You do know that's a lethal weapon don't you?"

Mokuba giggled and dragged him back over to Seto. Then took Ryo's hand sat him down and then sat down in his lap.

"You're going to have to watch this kid Seto, his puppy dog eyes are deadly weapons." Ryo said causing Mokuba to giggle again.

Seto smiled. "I'll have to keep that in mind. I'm sorry about what I said I was wrong to accuse you. But I have two things I'd like to do."

"What might that be?" Ryo asked.

"One if you would consider accepting knighthood and your first assignment would be to become Mokuba's personal guard. I had someone else in mind for the position but they turned me down. Yami told me he might, he also said that it would be better for Mokuba anyway if you were assigned his guard. I guess I need to listen to him more often. He was right Mokuba would be better off with someone he trusts and who trusts him."

"But I was under the impression that you couldn't be an official guard and a knight." Ryo said.

"Well that's true, however as I am the king, rules are made to be broken. I'll still have to clear it with Yami but I don't think he'll have a problem with it. But that doesn't answer the question on the assignment. There's a room next door to Mokuba's that would be your official room. They should be putting Mokuba's old mattress into that room to make room for his new one. The roof leaked one year and that mattress was taken out but never replaced since it wasn't in use."

"You're trusting me to look after and care for Mokuba full time?" Ryo asked.

"I can't think of anyone better suited for the job." Seto said. "I know that it would make Mokuba extremely happy to spend more than just the few hours before treatments and bed time with you. I have a guard that's been on punishment duty for the past 2 years or so for disobeying orders. I'll temporarily assign him to you both to help you move around better. By now, he knows the grounds and the castle from top to bottom. His name is Otogi, once you're more familiar with the grounds and the castle you won't need him anymore. It's nothing against you I just felt it'd be better if you had someone with you who knows his way around; I'll talk to him about it I hope tomorrow."

"It's all right, I understand. I'm more than happy to take care of Mokuba and move. Bakura has made it clear he doesn't want me around. I'd rather spend the time with Mokuba anyway."

"Good, I'm glad that's settle. Especially when Yami already told Mokuba I'd assign you and he asked if I would."

"Oh you did, did you?" Ryo asked tickling him.

Seto smiled hearing him laugh. "Well I'd better get back to work before Yami comes out here and drags me in." Seto said handing Mokuba back his toy. "You be good, I'll see you later." Seto said kissing his cheek.

Mokuba threw his arms around his neck. "Okay big brother."

Seto smiled and hugged back. "Okay kiddo. Be good and I'll see about getting us ice cream and maybe even cake for desert."

"R-really?"

"Have you had cake before?" Seto asked.

"Ryo's g-given me some before." Mokuba said.

"Well I'll talk to the cook. Thank you again Ryo."

"My pleasure."

"Now let's go see what kind of trouble we can get into." Ryo said.

Mokuba giggled and grabbed Ryo's hand and they started off to look around but making sure to stay close enough that they could still see the castle.

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Joey was making his way inside when he kept seeing people whispering and laughing at him.

"Honda, I was told to report to you for my first assignment as a full fledged guard."

"Yeah I heard." Honda said.

"So what's my assignment?"

"Well it's two actually. You first will be in the cellar."

"The cellar, why there?"

"That's where the armory is."

"What's an armory again?" Joey asked.

"You're defiantly not too bright. You turn down a choice assignment only to get yourself punished."

"Choice! How is babysitting some snot nosed little brat a choice assignment!"

"Simple you idiot, you do an overly good job then eventually someone new will come along and the king will start to pick on him and forget you and let you off to try to prove yourself worthy of knighthood while the new guy gets stuck babysitting!"

"Yeah well shows what you know I was made a guard anyway!"

"Idiot, Fine, you know where all the guns and canons ammunition is stored that is the armory." Honda told him.

"Right I knew that I was just testing you!"

"Sure you were. That's you first assignment your next one is the tower. About 50 yards from the drawbridge in front of the castle, you'll see a tower. This tower has a giant bell a few feet away form where you'll be stationed to sound an alarm should trouble arise."

"Don't sound too hard to me." Joey said.

"Well both assignments are full duty!"

"What's the difference between it and normal?"

"Normal is an 8 hours shift, first shift starts from 6 am to 1 pm and continues from there. Full duty first shift start from 6 am to 9 pm with only a 10-minute break, every 2 hours."

"What that's not fair! How am I supposed to prove I'm worthy enough for knighthood that way! They both sound long and boring!"

"They are and you're not!" Honda said.

"What!" Joey asked.

"Full assignments are only meant to drive you into quitting, almost no one has ever stuck it out and the few that have never could handle trying to prove their selves. They got assigned other things or quit. They never made it to becoming knights. No one has!" Honda said.

"Yeah well I'll prove it to the king, I'll prove it to everyone! I'll stick it out and someday I will become a knight! I swear it!"

"Well I wont hold my breath but good luck!" Honda said.

"Don't you worry about it none their Honda! Someday I will become a knight you just watch me!" Joey said crossing his arms certain he can do it!