Yami returned a few minutes later, "Seto, I talked to the doctor and he said he hasn't seen Mokuba at all tonight. He promised that he wouldn't treat him without one of us or Ryo, there with him."

"Good."

"Has Ryo seen him?"

"He was asleep."

"So, how are we going to find him?"

Seto smirked, "Go look in Ryo's room."

"But Seto, you just said that he was asleep."

"Perhaps I should have said they were asleep."

"Why didn't you wake him?"

"You go in there and look. If you can honestly look at that cute little kid's sound to sleep and can wake him to simply to take him to hell, I mean treatments, I won't say a word."

Yami walked over and opened the door, as he did he heard whimpering. He looked over and saw Ryo's arm unconsciously pull the child closer. Then he watched the boy cuddle closer, sighing happily. Now he understood why Seto didn't want to wake him. He did go in and pull the covers up around the boy. He still couldn't help but be jealous of Ryo's relationship with the boy. Sometimes, it seemed that all he and Seto ever did was screw up and Ryo was always there to pick up the pieces. As he watched the boy snuggle closer, he soon realized the same thing Seto feared. Maura's presence will make the boy feel that much more left out and though he swore he'd never run away again, they didn't like taking chances on it. He left the room gently, closing the door behind him.

"What's wrong?"

"What?" Yami asked, being woken up from his daydream.

"Are you okay?" Seto asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Tell me."

Yami sighed. There was rarely a time he could hide anything from Seto. "I'm just a touch jealous that's all."

"Jealous of what?"

"Mokuba's relationship with Ryo. They're so close to each other, sometimes I think he's closer to Ryo than he is to us. Haven't you ever feared you'd lose him back to Ryo again?"

Seto sighed, "Times like this, yes. But unless Ryo were to leave this kingdom again, I know there's still hope of keeping the boy happy with us."

"You don't honestly think that Mokuba would leave with him if he did go…. do you?"

"I don't know. At one time, I would have said, no, never. Now… now, I can only try to keep him happy so that he'll want to stay with us."

"Maybe we should think about what all happened today and how Mokuba might have felt left out. Maybe we can prevent this from happening again."

"Yes, he and Maura can get to know each other more when she starts school tomorrow."

"You're putting her into school already?"

"Why not?"

"No, reason I just might have felt it a bit too soon. But perhaps you're right, the sooner she gets into a normal routine like school the more at home she'll feel."

"Come on, let's discuss this situation."

Yami only nodded and they went to the family room to discuss what all happened.

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Later that night the man that shines the knight's armor was pulling his wagonload when it hit a rock. When he tried to pull it up over the rock it suddenly turned over making a huge racket.

Ryo groaned and got out of bed to check it out. When he turned back around, he saw Mokuba putting on his pants and shoes. Ryo sighed. 'Great another sleepwalking episode, I could do like Seto does, but perhaps if I try a different approach I could hopefully break him from the habit.' So, he walked over and grabbed the boy's arm as he tried to change shirts. Mokuba struggled to get free, thinking he was trying to prevent him from doing his job. Ryo then roughly grabbed both the boy's arms. "Look at me, Mokuba, look at me." When that didn't work, he remembered his knights training. "I command you to look at me, now!"

The boy instantly stopped struggling and looked at Ryo. Ryo was a bit surprised that it worked. Then he quickly remembered why he'd stopped him, "Listen to me carefully, everything is already secure. You did that before you went to bed, remember, you don't need to double-check it; you know it's secure. Your only job now is to get undressed and get back to bed."

Mokuba simply nodded and did as he was told. Ryo was impressed and thrilled that it had actually worked! He crawled in next to him, snuggled in and pulled the boy close, kissing his forehead. It didn't take long before he'd fallen back asleep.

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Seto had also heard it and went to check on Mokuba. He saw what happened and had to admit that he too was surprised it worked.

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The next morning Ryo was already up, dressed and was starting to pack more when Mokuba woke up. Ryo looked up and smiled.

"Hey kid, sleep well?"

Mokuba nodded, rubbing his eyes, then decided to ask the question that had been bugging him. "Ryo, y-you're not leaving me, are you?"

"What? No, of course not kiddo, I'd never leave without talking to you first. Why would you think I was leaving?"

Mokuba pointed to his bags.

Ryo sighed and walked over and sat down next to him. "Is that why you stayed here last night? You were afraid I was going to leave you."

Mokuba nodded. 'That was part of the reason.'

Ryo kissed his head and squeezed him tight. "No, kiddo. I'm not leaving you. I am moving though."

"Are you m-moving in w-with Uncle Bakura?"

"What, oh, no. We tried that. Even though we're getting along better, I think living together would hurt more than help our relationship."

"T-then where are you going?"

"I'm going to move into the wing next to this one, where Varon and Alister are."

"Why?"

"I think Maura is a lot like you, she'd feel better closer to Seto and Master Atemu. So, I'm going to let her have my room. But this doesn't mean that if you want to sleep with me again, like you did last night you can't. Anytime you want to do that kiddo, my doors always open for you."

"Promise?"

"I promise kiddo. Anytime you need me I want you to come to me and I'll do my best to help you."

Mokuba hugged him tight. "I l-love you big brother."

Ryo hugged him back. "I love you too kid."