Kisara walked over to Mokuba's stepmother and asked, "Hello, are you Ivera Yamaki?"
"And you are?"
"Kisara Gardner. I understand this is your son."
It was then that she noticed Mokuba.
"Why yes, it is; how did you know?"
"Someone told me the king kidnapped him. He had no rights to take your son. I am here by returning him to you."
Mokuba's eyes went wide. He couldn't believe what he'd just heard. He frantically tried to pull away.
Asana felt bad about forcing Mokuba to return. She was sure what Seto and Yami had said about Noah were true. Though he denied it, she wasn't so sure.
Ivera however refused to believe Noah would do anything wrong. She just smiled and reached out and grabbed Mokuba's arm. "It's time to come home JJ."
"I'd suggest you might consider moving. I mean the king obviously knows where you live. I'm sure he'll come back for the boy."
"Thank you, I'll take it under advisement."
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Varon had finished helping the girl and was about to start back over to Mokuba when several big guys stalled him and refused to let him leave. Which of course cued him into Mokuba possibly being in danger, a fight ensued and everyone ended up hurt.
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Alister was waiting for the wagon to be finished when he learned of the fight. He ran and was just in time to see Mokuba's adopted family throw him in a carriage and take off with him. Unlike Varon, he didn't much care what happened to the kid. His job was to protect the king, not some kid. The king ordered him to stay and guard the kid from danger, not peruse anyone who might have taken him.
Varon came limping over. What happened where's Mokuba?"
"Gone."
"What the hell do you mean gone?"
"I mean someone just took off with him." Alister said.
"And you just stood there!" Varon said.
"What exactly did you have in mind?"
"I don't know maybe grabbed your horse and went after them! The kings already going to have our heads for this, you know that right?"
"I have an idea who's really behind all of this." Alister said.
"And just who might that be ole wise one?" Varon said.
"I'd say the other members of the big five. This was too planned and too well executed; we will drag that teacher back to the king. If anyone can get her to tell who was really behind all of this and why she did this he can. Though I don't want to be her when the king finds out."
"Her, I don't want to be us. When the king finds out we left Mokuba alone."
"Look at you all you have to do is tell the king what happened and I'm sure he'll forgive us. However he wont forgive her and or the other big five members."
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Kisara had not been happy when Alister and Varon grabbed her and insisted on taking her back to Seto.
"My king I am so sorry. I heard a girl being attacked and I went to save her. I just couldn't ignore it. Then when I started to go back to where Mokuba was I was attacked." Varon said.
"It's perfectly understandable. Alister where were you in all of this?"
"I didn't know there was going to be trouble. I stayed with the wagon. I was told that this happens at random to a lot of people. So, I thought nothing of it. You agreed to the trip so I saw no trouble. However, once I saw what was happening…" Alister said,
"You stood there and watched! I am giving you an official reprimand. You should have done something, anything! But you did nothing but watch. You will be denied pay for one month and when you're in down time from me for two months you must take up a post on guard duty. You may choose what to guard."
"My king, I respectfully request you reconsider. My job is to watch over you, not that kid."
"Your job is what I say it is! If that means watching Mokuba, then that's what you do!"
"Sir what about Master Mokuba?" Varon asked.
"That will be easy. Kisara here will tell us exactly what she did to him, how she found out and who helped her with this. Then if she cooperates we may go easy on her. If she refuses then we may go a little harder on her."
Though Seto had a pretty good idea as to who most likely had Mokuba, as king he couldn't just go charging into houses without proof or a confession from a member of the kidnapping party. And since he was, certain Mokuba's family had him. Whether or not they knew about this plan or not didn't matter. They sighed away custody that they never truly had. His father may have given Mokuba too them but they chose not to file for legal custody. As such he didn't really need the paper of them giving up custody. As his father is dead and Mokuba is his blood brother, legal custody falls to him, which made Mokuba's stepfamily the kidnappers now.
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Joey meanwhile was desperately trying to find Mai and talk to her.
"What are you looking for Katsuya?" Bakura asked.
"I'm looking for a maid. Her names Mai."
"Suicidal are we?"
"What do you mean by that?"
"I mean Mai is the kings personal maid. I wouldn't want to be you when he finds out you've been fooling around with his personal maid."
"Why should he care? Unless he's got a thing for her."
"As far as I'm aware he doesn't but if he did then you'd really get it!"
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Joey finally caught up with Mai. It wasn't easy but after a long talk, though she still wasn't totally convinced that the girl came on to him, she forgave him and agreed to dinner.
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Mokuba wasn't happy about being back at his old home again. A part of him felt like he was betraying Seto and Yami, breaking his promise. But he promised he wouldn't run away and he didn't, he still felt bad about it though.
Later that night he was sitting on the steps leading outside in his old basement room. He had tried and tried to get the door open with no luck at all. The door had been reinforced or something. He knew it swelled when it rained but as he examined the door more, he realized it wasn't the same door. That was why he couldn't get it open. The paneling, the door, everything had been replaced. His old door there were ways even with it stuck that he could get it open!
He sat there alone, sad and depressed, when he froze hearing an all too familiar voice upstairs, it was Noah's!
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"Mother, are you serious, JJ's really just downstairs?" Noah asked.
"Yes, this nice woman returned him to us." Ivera said.
"Then perhaps I should just go down and say hello." Noah said starting towards the door.
Asana quickly stepped in front of it. "Perhaps we should give him readjustment time. After all he was spoiled for six months."
"Yes, perhaps Asana is correct. We will give him the night. Let's get to bed it's late." Ivera said.
Asana reluctantly left the door and started upstairs but Noah stayed behind.
'I will have my way with that kid tonight and no ones going to stop me!' Noah thought touching the door handle.
"Noah dear, are you coming?"
Noah sighed. "Yes, mother I'm coming."
'I will be back kid, mark my words.'
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That night Yami was so exhausted he fell asleep the moment he hit the bed he didn't bother to change or take off his shoes. He started having visions of Mokuba crying and begging for help. Yami wasn't sure if these were real, dreams or more visions of the future.