Yami quickly grabbed up the toy and ran after her.
"Maura, wait! You don't understand!"
As he got outside, he looked around, "Great! She's worse than Mokuba! At least he never ran from me like this. I have the worst luck with kids." Then he spotted her halfway down the street. He quickly ran after her. It wasn't easy, the crowd was slowing him down, but it was slowing her down too. He finally caught up with her, grabbing her arm.
"No, please! I can't, I can't go home!"
"Maura calm down!"
"Please, I don't want to die, I don't want to get married, till I'm older."
"Maura, calm down." Yami said slowly.
"We can't go to the castle the moment the king learns he'll send me back."
Yami gave a huff laugh. "You may know a lot about royalty little princess. But you don't know our king." Then he handed her back her toy. "Trust me, he wont send you back."
"How can you be so sure?"
"Trust me."
'If he can kidnap Mokuba he should have no problems with her.'
"Come on, I promise everything will be fine." Yami said, standing up and offering his hand.
She was still a little unsure but took his hand. They went back to the horse and started out.
Sugoroku spotted them as they passed the store. "Master Yami, I believe you forgot this." Sugoroku said holding up the cat toy.
Yami stopped and took it. "Thank you. I appreciate it."
"You're quite welcome, you wouldn't want to return home without your present for Master Mokuba, now would you?"
Yami smiled, "No, he's probably still upset with me. The toy would at least be a start to make up with him."
Then they soon started back towards the castle.
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Later that night, Seto and Ryo took Mokuba to his first night of new treatment.
"Seto, d-do I have to?" Mokuba asked.
Seto kissed his forehead, "I'm sorry, sweetheart. But the dragons said that this is a lot more effective. If there was any other way around it, you know I'd do it don't you?"
Mokuba sighed and nodded his head.
"You do want to be completely healed don't you?" Ryo asked.
"Yes, b-big brother." Although secretly if it meant no more treatments he was fine without being completely healed.
"Are we ready to start?" Dr. Solomon asked.
"Who do you want to hold you?" Seto asked.
"R-Ryo."
So, Ryo held him while Seto would sit next to him rubbing his arm and telling him a story to help distract him. About the fourth strip down, Seto and Ryo were about at their wits end with the boy's screams.
"Just stop." Seto told the doctor.
"My king?"
"Just wait." Seto said. Then he kissed the side of the kid's head. "Ryo, could you start to rock him a little, maybe we can get him to sleep."
Ryo nodded and started to very lightly rock him. While he did that, Seto started to hum a lullaby rubbing his shoulders. It didn't take long before the kid had passed out.
"All right, you can resume treatment." Seto said.
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Yami and Maura walked into the front room. Maura was clinging to Yami's arm, still afraid that the king would order her returned to her own kingdom.
"Is it always this quiet?" Maura asked.
"What? Oh, I guess it is. I never noticed it before."
Just then, Ryo walked past them.
"Ryo."
Ryo stopped and looked back in surprise. "Master Atemu? What are you doing here? According to both Seto and Mokuba you weren't coming back."
"Yes, I know but things change."
"Who's your friend?"
"This is Maura. Maura, this is Sir Ryo."
Maura did a curtsy bow, "It's an honor, Sir Ryo."
Ryo was like Yami, slightly taken back by this. But then he bowed back. "It's an honor to meet you too."
"Do you know where Mai or Isis is?" Yami asked.
"No, sir, I don't. I'd be happy to look for them for you in a few minutes, but I promised Seto I'd get Mokuba's room and things ready so he could get him into bed. The doctor is finishing with the bandages now."
"How's he doing?"
Ryo looked away, not wanting to answer.
"Ryo look at me!"
Ryo sighed and looked at him, "The new stuff is a lot worse. It took all we both had to comfort him. After about the fourth strip Seto couldn't take anymore."
"He stopped the treatment?"
'Treatment? Bandages? He never said anything about his brother being sick.' Maura thought.
"Only long enough for us to comfort him more. I rocked him and Seto hummed a lullaby. After a minute or two, the poor thing passed out. The doctor resumed treatment."
"I see, well you better get going." Yami said.
"It was nice to meet you, Maura."
"Nice to meet you too." Maura said.
After Ryo left, Yami and Maura walked into the living room; then they heard a door and looked up to see Seto carrying Mokuba.
Seto looked up to see Yami and he glared at him. Then he noticed the girl and was confused. First Yami says he wants to be on his own now he not only returns but returns with a girl.
"You mind explaining, what you're doing here and what's with the girl?" Seto asked.