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Rating: Ma for later chapters

Pairing: Seto/ Mokuba. That means man on man also this is incest no like no read!

Summary: Mokuba loves Seto in a way he's not supposed to. Yet he loves him that way anyway. So he tries to tell Seto but when he was about to, Seto introduces him to his "girlfriend." What will Mokuba do now?

A/N: Thanks Afiong Bassey for getting me going again. It might take awhile to get chapters posted but they will get there. I hope you're not so angry for the long wait that you won't review! Lemon Scene is now here!

Trying Times

Chapter 12:

Seto's Pov

I groan as light begins to filter in through the blinds. I must have forgotten to close them last night. Well, considering what happened who could blame me. I sigh as I start to sit up. I hiss slightly as pain shoots up my spine. I take a deep breath and try again, more slowly this time. I walk slowly to the master bathroom and grab the bottle of extra strength bear and take three of them at once. I turn on the hot water and step into the shower. I smile as I remember what happened last night. God, he's beautiful. I can't believe he chose me. I wash my hair and body then step out and dry myself. I head back into the room and grab some boxers and toss them on along with a pair of joggers and a white tee.

Mokuba was already down stairs with the kids. It's kind of like when Mokuba was younger and I was taking care of him. I walk down the stairs and enter the kitchen just in time to see Mokuba hand Nana some money. He smiles and thanks her before rounding up the two youngest kids and leading them over to me. I raise my eyebrow and he hands them over to me.

"What exactly are you going to be doing?" I ask somewhat annoyed that I got handed the babies.

"Well, I've got Nana going to get them some supplies for school. I forgot to tell you yesterday, but I called the doctor over to check them over and make sure there was no serious problems. He said they have a sore throat, but with the cough syrup they should be fine with in a week or two. They're all under weight too, but other than that they're fine." He said before walking over and pressing a kiss to my lips.

"Plus I called the school and have them all enrolled. They all have to go take a test to see where they should start off, and that is where I'm taking them. Then on the way home, I'll get the cough medicine, ok." He told me as he pulled on his jacket.

"That's fine. While you're gone, I'll get Maya to get ready to come over to take measurements for some clothes when they get back. Plus I'll look into a preschool for these two. I can get the cough medicine since I'll be heading that way anyway. Leave your cell on in case I want to call." I said and grab his arm and pull him into a kiss. He smiles into it and kisses me back a bit before pulling away and herding the older kids into the limo and taking off.

"Well, what are your names?" I ask realizing that I didn't know them.

"I'm Ume and this is my Usagi." Ume told me and then grabbed her sister's hand and pulling her close.

"Yeah I know she's your sister." I say with a smile hoping to get Ume to warm up to me. She shook her head no.

"She's my Usagi. MY Usagi!" Ume told me stomping her little foot in anger. Usagi just stood there holding onto Ume's hand for dear life. I nod my head finally understanding what she was saying. Nobody was to separate the two.

"Don't worry I'm not going to take her away. I'll make a few calls and get you both into the same class." I say as I pull on my own jacket and hold the door open as Ume leads Usagi out the door and into the limo waiting for me.

I make a phone call to Damien's Décor. After all, I would need about seven rooms refurnished to the twin's liking. I'm almost scared to know what it's going to look like when it's done. I tell him the kids ages so he knows what kind of magazines to bring they can choose from. After that I call Maya, an old friend of ours. She owns a clothing shop. She would be down later tonight to get sizes and measurements in order to get them some proper clothes. I won't have them living in rags under my care. Last I made a call to our Lawyer Keiko. I gave her all the information I had about the parents and had her start making their home with me and Mokuba permanent.

I was surprised at how well behaved Ume and Usagi were. They had crawled off into a corner and were talking quietly about something. By the time I was done with all the phone calls and making all the arrangements for that night we had arrived at Mooney's Precious Preschool. I climbed out of the limo and held my hand out for Usagi but Ume grabbed onto her hand before she could touch me and helped her out. She was defiantly possessive. I sighed and waited before closing the door behind us after I told the driver to wait for me to return.

We walked into the building and headed to the main office area. It was more like a room with too many files and a desk in it. Still this is rumored to be the best preschool there is. I walk up to the desk and ask for the person in charge. The lady behind desk nods before walking into another room and coming out with an older lady, maybe in her late forties or early fifties.

"Hi, I'm Ms. Midori how can I help you?" She asks as she points to her office for us to enter.

"I would like to enroll Ume and Usagi here until they can attended elementary school. I've just got them and their brothers about two days ago. All the official paper work should be done by the end of the week. Payment is no problem with me." I say telling her all the facts. She nods and starts to record what she's being told for their records.

"Normally we want the paperwork with you when you get here, but seeing as it sounds like their arrival was a surprise to you, I'll allow it to be here at the end of the week, but if it's not here, they will not be able to continue to attended here next week." Midori tells me in a no nonsense kind of voice. I nod thankful she's going to allow them at all.

She goes on asking me questions and I tell her everything I know about the girls. I don't really know much about any of the kids. I was about to say that they had no allergies when Ume spoke up saying that they weren't allowed to have nuts of any kind or fish. Ms. Midori nodded and asked a few more questions like the girls' ages and if they know their numbers and colors and ABCs. Ume said Usagi could count to five.

"Really? Usagi will you count for me?" Midori asked her. Usagi looked to Ume for an answer, and only did so when Ume nodded yes.

"One, two, three, four, five." Usagi counted out for Ms. Midori. She nodded and smiled at them while saying how high that was.

"Mr. Kaiba what level of education did they have from their parents?" Ms. Midori asked somewhat worried about how far behind they were.

"I have no clue, I told you I only got them two days ago. They were homeless, now they're not. I don't know much of anything about their actual parents besides that their mother is dead and their father is too, so I stepped in as their official caretaker. Far as I know I'm starting them off on any actual education they'll ever have." I tell her letting her know all the facts ahead of time.

"That's lovely dear, really, not many people would do that. I'll have them tested and put in the appropriate class. Now as for payment, it's 75.00 dollars every day for each child. You can either pay daily, weekly, or monthly. You choose, it doesn't really make a difference so long as the money is in on time." She tells me. I nod and tell her to send me a bill every month.

"One last thing Ms. Midori, as you can tell Ume and Usagi are twins, and as such are naturally very close, then add in that they were homeless and that makes them inseparable, they will have to be in the same class." I tell her as I stand to leave, she nods and makes a note of it in their file. I head towards the door, but so does Ume and Usagi.

Ms. Midori comes over and holds their hands. I start to walk out and Ume and Usagi start to struggle getting scared that I won't come back for them. I couldn't just walk out leaving them terrified, I really couldn't do it after I heard Ume start to beg me, telling me that they'll be good, just let them come back to their brothers. So I turn and walk back over to them and kneel down.

"Ume, Usagi. I'm not leaving you here for good, I swear I'll be back for you at 5:30 tonight, alright? Then you can go see your brothers and sisters again. You need to behave while you're here though. Listen to Ms. Midori and have fun." I tell them hoping that'll calm them down enough so I can leave and get things going. Ume clings Usagi to herself and whimpers as I walk away.

I get into the limo and have them drive me to the nearest store so I can buy some cough medicine when my cell goes off.

"Kaiba speaking." I say into the cell and hear my lawyers voice on the other end.

"Mr. Kaiba I've found them. You're right; both parents are dead. They were supposed to be living with an aunt. Thing was I found it odd that they would be missing for two days and she hadn't reported them missing, I checked. So I went over there. It was a pig sty. The women was half drunk!" She nearly yells into my ear. No wonder the kids ran away. She probably beat them!

"Well, make her a deal. Offer her some money to give up her guardian rights to me." I say knowing that with a couple hundred dollars they'll be in my custody.

"Way ahead of you. What I saw in that house Mr. Kaiba, you wouldn't even see in your nightmares! I told her I knew what she did to those kids, she got worried and signed over her rights to them without questioning it. So as long as you leave her be, they can be in your life, no questions asked." She tells me. I'm just glad that's over with, without a fight.

"Anyway I've got copies of there birth records and I've faxed you a copy of each of them to keep in your house in case you ever need them. Also, I'm on my way over to the court to get them proper social security numbers right now. Within the next 48 hours they will become your charges until the age of 18 when they can leave of their own free will if they no longer wish to stay with you." She tells me before saying she has to leave and hangs up.

I get out of the limo and get the cough medicine that the doctor prescribed. I buy it and leave. Thinking everything over I know that the kids are going to need some things to fill their rooms up besides furnishings. Most likely they would need some sort of things to keep them amused when they are at home. Well, I can always send them out with Nana and Mokuba to do that kind of thing tomorrow after all their new beddings and things arrive.

It's already 12:45pm; most likely Mokuba's home already. I wonder where all the kids ended up. After all, I'm sure that wench of an aunt did nothing for them! If I wasn't worried that they could be taken to a foster home and split up I'd have charges against her so fast! I wonder how I'm supposed to tell Mokuba about all this. It'll kill him to know that they might have been abused! He seems to have taken a liking to them after all. I can't say I haven't myself, but not as much as he has. After all we both can remember just how worried we both were that we would be split up and never see each other again, and then everything we had to go through with Gozaburo.

I tell the limo driver to take me home. Better to tell Mokuba face to face than over the cell. We're home within fifteen minutes and I know we have till about 4:00 when everybody should get back home from school. I get out of the limo and head into the mansion. I find Mokuba sitting in the living room in front of the fire reading a book. I stand there a minute trying to prolong the conversation were about to have. He finally notices I'm there and gets up to greet me.

"Hey, I didn't notice you get home. All of them managed to get into the correct level for their age, but just barely. I think we're going to need to get them a tutor or something to help them along. Hey, what's wrong?" He asks when he sees me just nodding and looking at the floor. I sigh, I can't not tell him about this.

"I've found out where they were suppose to be, and I think I found out why they left, Mokuba. The only living family they have is their aunt, and she's a drunk who our lawyer seems to think beats them. When she told the woman about what she thought was going on in her home, she readily signed over her rights as guardian as long as no charges were filed." I told him all in one blow. I watched as anger and pain passed over his face at the injustice of it all.

"We have guardianship over them then?" He asked me with no emotion in his voice what so ever. I didn't like that one bit so I pulled him to me and held him to my chest as his shoulders started to shake slightly. I nod to answer his question as I remember what we went through when we were younger.

//Flashback//

Gozaburo hasn't been hitting me lately, and I can't figure out why not. Every time I seem to make him angry at me he just says "You're going to wish you never did that young man", then walk away. I didn't get it but I wasn't about to question it, plus I hadn't seen Mokuba in a few days so I wanted to go see him. I went down the halls that I knew would lead me to Mokuba, my beloved little brother, but he wasn't in his room. I figured he'd be back soon so I decided I could wait. After about an hour I gave up. I put down the book of his on Egypt that I had been reading to pass the time and was about to leave when the door opened.

I looked up and what I saw made me want to throw up!! Mokuba was standing there looking like a deer caught in the headlights. He was covered in bruises and blood. There were cuts all over him, and he was favoring his left leg and right arm. He looked like he just up and walked out of a car accident! I whimpered out his name and lifted my hand out towards him. He turned as if to run but the pain was too much and I was able to grab his hand before he got anywhere.

"Mokie, gods, what happened to you??!" I demanded to know as I tried to get a good look at all his wounds before I started to try and clean them. He didn't say anything and I didn't push, at least not at the moment. When I was done cleaning him up I would get it out of him. So we sat in silence as I cleaned and bandaged his wounds. I was sure I already knew what had happened. That in hopes to control me better Gozaburo decided that he was going to start using Mokuba as a punching bag.

"Mokuba, I want you to tell, and I want the truth, Gozaburo did this to you because I wasn't listening to him, didn't he?" I asked, and all I wanted to do was bawl when I seen him flinch away from my hand. Still he shook his head no. I knew he was lying but I'd let him tell me what he wanted first before telling him I already knew the truth, that he didn't have to protect me.

"I, Seto I asked Gozaburo to hit me instead of you! I swear it was my idea not his. I saw what he was doing to you and I couldn't take it any more. So I told him if he really wanted to get you to listen to him he'd have to use me, because hurting you would only make you rebel more. He thinks you know about all this already, but I was keeping it from you. I'm so sorry big brother, but I didn't want you to hurt any more!" He cried launching himself into my arms even though it had to hurt to jar his wounds like that.

"Gods Mokuba what were you thinking! You did all this for me? Oh Mokuba you didn't need to, I told you I could take care of it! Don't worry, I'll fix this Mokie." I tell him as I pull him closer planning on holding him all night long.

"No, don't try to fix it! I want it this way! I would rather die than see you harmed again Seto! I, I'll run and, far away and never come back if you try to talk him out of using me, then you won't have a reason to stay here in the first place, and then you won't see me ever again! I mean it Seto!" He cried trying to make sure I didn't get hurt again. I just pulled him to me again.

"We'll figure it out together in the morning Mokie, just get some rest for now alright. I'll even stay with you tonight." I whisper into his ear. He seem to be alright with that. He shifts slightly try to get as comfortable as possible before laying his head on my chest and starting to doze off. Wrapping my arms around him, knowing he's safe even if only for now, I doze off, too.

//End Flashback//

And that was one of the better nights! Mokuba had refused point blank to let me try and get it changed back, where he wasn't touched. In fact one time I had found Mokuba unconscious and bloody, I lost it. I told Gozaburo that if he touched my brother again I would leak it to the news that he was a child abuser. Mokuba had seen him raise his hand and ran out and took the blow. He got back up and looked at both of us, broken, bruised, and bloodied and said 'I told you, both of you, I'd leave if it ended up between the two of you again. You Seto would lose your brother and you Gozaburo can lose your company if I tell the police who it was doing this! I wasn't lying!'

Then he took off running. He always was faster at running than I was. It took both of us, and Gozaburo only helped because he was worried who would find out about what he did to us, a week to find him. That alone had been by pure chance, for the only reason we had been on the outskirts of town was because the stupid old factory needed a release signed in person by the boss. If it hadn't been for that I might not have seen as Mokuba ducking down an ally way. We both had jumped out of the car and ran after him. When we finally caught up, he still refused to come near us, let alone come back to the mansion with us.

More than anything I just wanted to hold him. I had been terrified I had finally pushed him away for good, and that I really wouldn't see him ever again. My brother means the world to me. It took the promise that Gozaburo could still hit him, but had to leave me alone, to get him to even let me just hold him. I broke down in my little brother's arms crying, not wanting to lose him again. So I did the only thing I could at this point; I begged him to forgive me. It took two days and me and Gozaburo swearing that there wouldn't be another bruise on me to get him to return with us. Gozaburo would still hit Mokuba, and I would clean the wounds and hold him at night time, but I was too afraid of losing him forever to do anything about it. Two months later I took over the company and Gozaburo committed suicide.

"I know love, I know, I'm so sorry. I wish I could have been there to protect you from him better, but I wasn't. Still, now we both have a chance to protect them from her. You know I'm so proud of you, the way you stood up to him for me, right?" I ask having to make sure he knows he didn't suffer all that for nothing. That he knows that I love him. Mokuba nods his head yes before lifting it and pulling me in for a kiss. He nibbled gently on my lower lip asking for entrance. I opened my mouth and kissed him back with everything I have.

"Why don't we play for a bit humm, we have a few hours till the kids come home." I said with a smirk before pulling him down on top of me.

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Ume's Pov

"And that, Seto, is why I named you after him. He and Mokuba took on life's problems and then selflessly took on your mama's and your aunts and uncles so that we might all have a better life than they started out with. If it weren't for them, you and your sisters and cousins might not even be here right now!" I say to my eight year old boy, explaining why it is that I'm forever grateful for what those two brothers did for us. He jumps down from my lap and runs into the other rooms of the mansion. I looked down at the album that holds all our pictures from when we were just kids. I see the picture of Usagi and my sixteenth birthday where Brother Lei and Kai promised to start teaching us how to start driving after they come home from a date. They had loved each other like Seto and Mokuba had. It was thanks to Seto and Mokuba that they came out to the rest of us.

I look up and see Usagi walk in with a smile on her face. I hold out my hand for her to come take and she does. I'm still as protective and possessive of her as I've always been.

"Telling Seto of our trying times again, sister?" She asks softly. I smile and nod my head yes.

"Well perhaps one day you'll tell your kids of our childhood, and how they came to save it, and our lives." I tell her. She looks down sadly, I squeeze her hand, I know she feels guilty for not saying anything of them yet.

"I will one day, when I know they will be able to understand when they ask why they're not here with us now, after all they died to protect us, sister." She says quietly to me so the children don't over hear.

"I know Usagi, but that's a story for another day." I say as I close the album and put it back up on the shelf to collect more dust until Mokuba is old enough to hear the story of our trying times.

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Hey I'm SO sorry that it took so long to get this last chapter up! Really I hope you forgive me! I understand if you don't, and I hope this chapter at least makes up for the long wait somewhat! I might add a sequel to this, to talk of how the kids grew up and how Mokuba and Seto had died and why Ume names her children after them. Only if you guys think it even deserves one though so please review and let me know what you think alright!