After a long day Ryo and the others who'd met up and ate lunch and walked around more together soon decided it was time to headed home.
"So, um what do we do with this crate?" Joey asked.
"There's a small room I saw we could put it in." Ryo said.
"What's in it anyway?" Maura asked.
"A s-statue for Yami."
"Wow I can't wait to see it!" Maura said.
Ryo and Joey took the crate with Mokuba's statue and place in a small spare room.
"W-why are we putting it in here, big brother?"
"Well it'd be to hard on us to carry it up stairs. Why he put it in such a large crate is beyond me. It wasn't that big of a statue."
"Yeah, well from the looks of this here box I'd say it was huge." Joey said.
"I know but I'm telling you it wasn't that big."
"How am I suppose to g-give it to Yami?"
Ryo bit his lip. "I'll see about helping you with it tomorrow. Now go on upstairs I'm sure it's close to supper."
"I can't wait till Christmas." Maura said.
As Mokuba looked between the three of them discussing it, he could only wish he was as excited. But to him it was more frightening than scary. How can you get that excited over something you don't ever remember being a part of; something that you were forbidden to be a part of. A small part of him was excited but he wasn't exactly sure what he was supposed to do. Seto did explain a little. He had wanted to ask Ryo what you're supposed to do at Christmas. Maybe he'd go into more details than Seto did. But he chose not too. Mostly cause Maura was usually talking. He could tell she wasn't happy at the fact that he wasn't excited. He tried to be but it was hard. The way Seto had described it sounded like his birthday but everyone gets a present.
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Koi and Yami were talking when suddenly Koi's ears perked up and he smiled. "He's here."
Yami blinked in surprise. "Who's here?"
"Your little one of course." Koi said then turned into a shadow and left.
Yami quickly realized what he was going to do. "No, Koi wait! Mokuba's not good with strangers!" Yami quickly ran after him.
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Koi however either didn't hear him or ignored him. He reappeared in front of Mokuba and Maura.
Mokuba quickly moved behind Maura.
"Who are you? How did you get here? What do want?" Maura demanded to know.
"My you're a feisty one aren't you?"
Maura didn't say anything just glared at him.
Koi reached out his hand towards Mokuba. "So, you must be Mokuba."
Maura however bit his hand. Koi pulled it back crying out just as Yami showed up.
"What happened?" Yami asked.
"That brat bit me!"
"Well it was your own fault! That will teach you to try to touch my brother!"
"Koi I tried to warn you that Mokuba's shy and spooked easily by strangers."
"Yeah well you didn't warn me he had a vicious guard dog!"
At that Mokuba giggled. Maura however wasn't amused.
"Sorry, I didn't realize Maura was with him. But even so, you shouldn't have tried to talk to him without me." Yami said. Then he bent down. "Come here kiddo."
Mokuba didn't move from behind Maura and just looked between him and Koi.
Yami sighed realizing Mokuba was frightened. "It's okay kid, he's a friend of mine. Come here." As he held out his arms Mokuba still a little weary about Koi quickly ran into Yami's awaiting arms. Yami hugged him tight and rubbed his back. "It's all right kid, I've got you." Then he picked him up and looked at Maura. "Where have you guys been anyway? When you didn't show at lunch, we were told Ryo took you to town."
"Oh um, well…"
"Well what?" Yami asked having a feeling he wasn't going to like this.
Maura gave a brief explanation on what happened between Ren and Nydia's cousin and Mokuba.
"Honestly big brother, I didn't know the doll was Mokuba's!"
"But you knew it came from his room right?" When she didn't answer and was staring at the ground he knew the answer but wanted her to say it. "Maura I asked you a question."
"Yes, they told me that they found it in his room."
"How would you have liked it if Mokuba's friends started to play with your dog toy and throw it around?" Yami asked.
At that Maura gulped she hadn't thought of it that way. That toy was precious to her. Not only was it one Yami gave to her it was also one of the first toys she'd ever owned. She had a couple when she was real little and her mother was alive. But her stepmother took away those. "I'm sorry, it wont happen again, I promise!"
"Fine, Mokuba."
"Yes, big brother."
"Let's try to keep this from Seto. It will only upset him and that's the last thing we need."
Mokuba nodded. "Okay big brother, I promise."