At the same time Mokuba still felt guilty about forgetting the time.
"I r-really am s-sorry, big brother. I r-really meant to be home sooner."
"It's all right. As long as your safe and sound that's all we care about." Seto said.
"Its all right that you have friends Mokuba. We want you to." Yami said.
"Now, after breakfast I'm going into town. I have a meeting. I need you to be good and listen to Yami." Seto said.
"Okay, big brother, I p-promise."
"I thought your appointment was at noon." Yami said.
"It is why?"
Yami glared at him. "Maura you go on back to the breakfast table, Mokuba get cleaned up and go on in to breakfast. Seto and I will be there shortly."
"I c-can keep my c-cloak can't I big brother?"
Yami smiled and leaned over and kissed his forehead. "Of course you can, kiddo. It was a present from a friend; we wouldn't want to take that away from you. Now run along, you too Maura."
"Okay big brother." Maura said as she and Mokuba left.
"Well I best be going too." Ryo said leaving.
"Why do let her call you that?" Seto asked standing up.
"I told her she could. She asked if she could call you that too."
"What did you tell her?"
"I told her she'd have to ask you. She only wants to feel like a part of the family Seto. I think you'd make both kids happy if you accepted her."
"I'll think it over. Now what did you want to discuss?"
"If your appointments not till noon why are you going so early?"
"That's the time I told her I'd met her. But she may show sooner, depending on her traveling time. If she's not there I thought I'd do a little more shopping."
"Seto you're not thinking of buying more presents for Mokuba are you?"
"Maybe."
"Seto, the kid will be here all day as it is we got him so much. What are you planning to do spoil him rotten or what?"
"That's exactly what I plan to do."
Yami blinked "Excuse me?"
"Yami when I first held that kid in my arms feeling him snuggle up wanting the kind of love and affection he's never known and craving more of it. All I thought of was how by the time we got through with him he'd be so spoiled rotten that he'd have an even bigger ego than Noah's!"
"You didn't actually tell him this did you?"
"What do I look like an idiot? Of course not, the kid probably wouldn't understand what I mean and I'm not sure how I'd explain it if he did ask. Now you tell me that you haven't felt like spoiling him with not just love but toys. Why else would you bring him a toy when you brought Maura here."
"I wanted to make up with him over not coming home. Plus I felt that if he saw Maura with a new toy he'd want one."
"No, you didn't. You know as well as I do the kids still slightly afraid of toys. There's no way he would be jealous with all the toys we've already told him he could have. You did it because you want to spoil him too. I know in all your child-raising books they'd probably say we're wrong. But I want him to be at least a touch spoiled. Especially at Christmas and his birthday."
As much as Yami wanted to argue with him he couldn't. Seto was right. That was part of the reason he brought the toy home. He wanted a gift for the kid. "Fine, but I thought you promised not to see your girlfriends again."
"I'm not. I didn't lie to you. I'm not meeting either one."
"Then who are you going to see?"
"That's my business. But I will tell you it concerns your little girl. I'm getting her Christmas present from her, then inviting her back here as another present surprise."
"Who is this person?"
"That's for me to know and you to find out big brother."
Yami didn't like it when Seto did this. But when he wanted to be Seto could be stubborn. He could if he tried hard enough get him to tell. But he decided it wasn't worth taking the time at the moment. "Well if you have time, I'd like you to do me a favor."
"What's that?"
"I'd like you to talk to you martial arts instructor to take on Maura." Then he lowed his voice some and turned away and said. "Mokuba too, if he will."
Yami was half hoping yes and no on whether or not Seto caught it.
"Forget it!"
"Why not? Maura was taking judo before her father died. I haven't found anyone who teaches judo. I'm sure she'd like martial arts just as well as she did judo."
"I don't care about your little girl. If you want me to ask that's fine, you can take her or arrange a ride, it doesn't matter to me. I'm not sure if sensei will take her on but I will ask."
"Then what did you say no for?"
"I wasn't saying no to her, I was saying no to Mokuba going!"
"Why? Seto isn't that the reason you go? So you don't always have to have your guard around you. To give you confidence when you're around people like Noah. I think it would help Mokuba. Besides it would thrill Mokuba to spend more time with you and give him confidence in himself to be able to do something like that. I think it would help him greatly. I don't want him to end up like my vision."
"Why what was wrong?"
"He and Bakura were sparing. But they were doing it in secret. They didn't want you to know."
"I'd kill Bakura if he did! Mokuba's too little for that. It'd probably scare him!"
"No, Seto, you don't understand Mokuba was 15 in my visions."
"Oh, well then someone was defiantly messing with your visions. At that age if Mokuba were to come and ask me if he could learn to spar with a sword. I can't say I'd like it, but if that's what he wanted to do and with someone as skilled as Bakura, I'd allow it."
Yami was surprised. "You would?"
"I'd watch it the first few times, but after that if he wanted to continue and if everything was going okay then yeah, I'd allow it."
"Well we'd better get to breakfast before the kids start to worry."
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Mokuba had walked into the dinning room for breakfast without his cloak and sat down.
"Where's your cloak?" Maura asked.
"I l-laid it on m-my bed. I d-didn't want it to get dirty."
"I wish I had one, it's so pretty."
"M-Maura, d-do you think Seto and Yami are m-mad at me?"
"What? No, of course not. They were just scared something happened to you. Trust me if they were mad, I think you'd know it. They were just worried."
After breakfast Seto headed off into town.