"Hello Seto." Christ said.
Seto glared at the kid. "What do you want?"
The kid winced at Seto's cold tone. "I was wanting to know if you'd play with me."
"Forget it kid, I have better things to do with my time." Seto said walking off.
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As Seto was walking, he soon ran into Nezbit.
"My king how is everything going with your brother?" Nezbit asked.
"He's not my brother, I don't care what you say."
"My king I assure you he's the real thing."
"We'll see about that. Bring him to the throne room in 20 minutes."
"My king?"
"We'll prove if he's really my brother or not then."
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Twenty minutes later Nezbit brought Christ and his family to the throne room.
"Seto, are you certain you want to do this?" Yami asked.
"Yes. I'm going to prove once and for all that that brat is not our brother. There's no way he's related to us! We'll prove that with the millennium rod."
Yami understood and called forth the millennium rod. "Here you are Seto, I hope you know what you're doing."
"I know what I'm doing Yami trust me." Seto said. "Christ I need you to try to hold this."
Christ thought it was strange that he was being asked to hold this object but walked over to Seto and as he touched the rod, he was shocked.
"Ow that thing shocked me." Christ said.
"Well then I suppose that only goes to prove what I've suspected all along. You are not our brother in any way. I suspected it from the moment I saw you. You look nothing like me, my mother or my father, but that aside that could be explained by resembling another relative; however only people from my blood line are able to hold this rod."
"My king this proves nothing." Nezbit said.
"Really, would you like to hold it?" Seto asked.
"Umm, no, no thank you." Nezbit said.
"Good then I expect you to arrange a ride for them back to where ever they came from." Seto said.
"But sir." Nezbit protested.
"Would you rather Yami tried a teleportation spell? How are you coming with that?"
"I'm doing better I have a little more control but this many people I'm not certain how safely I can do it. I'm better but I'm still far from a master at it." Yami said.
"Well what's your choice?" Seto asked.
Nezbit grumbled, "I'll arrange a ride for them."
"Seto how were you so certain?" Yami asked.
"I felt warmth and love when I first held our brother. I felt it the first time I saw him, but I felt nothing from this kid! When you forced me to shake hands and spend time with him I still felt absolutely nothing." Seto said.
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Back with Ryo and Mokuba, Friday came and Ryo was nervous.
"Well kiddo how do I look?"
"Y-you l-look great, Ryo."
"Thanks kiddo. I'm not sure why I'm nervous. I guess after what happened with Shizuka I'm just scared of getting into another relationship."
"I-it'll be okay Ryo."
"I appreciate your support Mokuba, it means a lot."
Mokuba smiled, "That's what I'm here for big brother."
Ryo ruffled his hair. "Now we'll forgo treatments till Monday. But I do want you in bed and not waiting up for me, all right."
"Yes, big brother." Mokuba said.
'I hope this works out I'm not sure I can handle another breakup.'
Then there was a knock on the door.
"Oh, Nosaka, I thought I was picking you up?"
"Well I had to drag Tristan over here anyway."
"I was coming, I was coming." Tristan said.
"So are you ready?" Nosaka asked.
"As ready as I'll ever be."
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After the date, Nosaka took Ryo home.
"I'm not used to this I've always been told that the man takes the woman home." Ryo said.
"Well I wanted to be sure everything went okay. I also wanted to see if maybe we could do this again. Say Sunday?"
"Sure that'd be great." Ryo said.
They walk in to find Tristan drunker than a skunk. Ryo immediately went to check on Mokuba.
"Tristan you promised no drinking!" Nosaka complained.
"No you said no drinking while the kid was awake. He's been asleep for hours." Tristan said.
Ryo returned from checking on Mokuba.
"How is he?" Nosaka asked.
"Good, he's sound to sleep."
"I'm sorry about this Ryo."
"Hey I told you the kid was asleep before I started drinking." Tristan said.
"Well I'll see you tomorrow for the carnival?"
"Yeah I know Mokuba's looking forward to it." Ryo said.
"Well see you then." Nosaka said.
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The next morning Mokuba came into the kitchen as Ryo set a plate of eggs down for him.
"Hey kid, how did you sleep?"
"Fine big brother."
"Mokuba was Tristan drinking when he was here?"
"No, why?"
"I was just making sure. So you excited?"
"Yeah, I c-can't wait."
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They soon were heading out. Mokuba was just in awe of everything, the game booths, the rides that were created at the carnival along with all the items and things that were being sold at the bizarre.
"Ryo, I w-want to go on that r-ride." Mokuba said.
"I don't know kiddo, it looks a little dangerous."
The ride was you were strapped into a seat attached to a long wooden handle then several people use handles on the opposite end to spin you up and around.
"Please big brother!" Mokuba asked with puppy dog eyes.
Ryo sighed. "Your puppy dog eyes are a killer."
Mokuba giggled and led Ryo over to sign up. Ryo didn't like it but dozens of others had done it and made it okay so he reluctantly agreed.
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Ryo was nervous the entire time Mokuba was on that thing. Finally Mokuba was finished and came running over to Ryo excited.
"That w-was fun. Can I do it again?"
Ryo shook his head and took the kid's hand. "No I don't think my nerves could handle you doing it again." Mokuba giggled. "Lets do something safer like pony rides; it'll get you use to riding by yourself, I've been meaning to teach you but I've been so busy training I haven't had the chance. But I do need to look into lessons."
"Are you going to get m-me a p-pony too?" Mokuba asked.
"Maybe depends on how well your lessons go."
After the pony rides, Mokuba wanted to try something new called, a merry go round.
This ride Ryo felt better about it looked a lot safer.
Basically, it was a large round circle with wooden carved animals placed on it. Then it was all placed on wagon wheels. Then they had a horse move it round and round. Since it was heavy and low on some ends it tended to wobble. But the kid's seemed to enjoy it that way so they never bothered to correct it.
Then they headed to the bizarre half. And Nosaka bought a couple of quilts and some cookies. Ryo bought a cake, basically cause Mokuba asked him too. They bought several other things as well.
By the time the day was done Mokuba was practically falling asleep. Ryo carried the boy who fell asleep on his shoulder home.
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Meanwhile Marik had just made it to town.
"I can't believe I agreed to do this! I hate having to travel. I try to avoid traveling far if at all avoidable. This carnival/bizarre thing will just make things that much more complicated to find the targets and accomplish my mission so I can go home and collect my reward!"