Yami walked in and looked around.
"Can I help you with something?" Yugi asked.
"Oh well something seemed wrong with Mokuba when I asked him to bring the book I promised you could borrow down, while I went to collect the magic rocks." Yami said holding up several medium sized sacks.
"Ah, you-you shouldn't have done all that alone." Yugi said avoiding the first question. He hated to lie to his friend but Mokuba hid when he found out it was Yami so Yugi didn't want to lose the boy's trust by telling on him.
Yami smiled and said, "Oh no, I didn't do all of this alone. Maura came with me and she was a great help."
"Wait," Yugi said confused, "How long between the time you wrote the spell out on paper and the time you used it? You know it's dangerous to write spells on anything but magic paper for a long length of time."
Yami waved away the concern, "I just finished copying the spell when Maura came in. She asked to go with me so I went ahead and opened the portal. I barely had time to regain my senses after opening the portal before Maura had jumped into it. But she was waving and seemed okay. I then noticed Mokuba standing there," Yami gave a chuckle and said, "Actually I had forgotten he was there but I asked him to bring the book to you. I became concerned after I asked, cause for some reason he didn't seem happy. But then Maura yelled at me to hurry and when I turned Mokuba was already almost out the door, so I figured I'd deal with it later."
"I see."
'I guess that explains why he was so upset. Hell I would be too, you knew he was there and I'm going to bet he asked to go before Maura showed up, but the moment she did and asked, you suddenly forgot him and only took her!' Now Yugi liked Maura and like Mokuba he didn't feel this was her fault. He just couldn't believe his friend so callously ignored the boy and sent him off to be an errand boy while he spent time doing something with Maura that he promised him he could do! 'So that's why you refused to tell me.'
"Yugi you okay, you space out."
"Oh, uh yeah."
Mokuba was surprised that Yugi hadn't told Yami he was here. Now that he knew why he was here he figured Yugi would hand him over to Yami any time now to try to get them to make up.
"He was here."
"Really did he say where he was headed?"
"No, I never actually saw him."
"But you said…"
"No, you said he came down here to deliver the book. I said he was here because I had the book on my desk."
"Oh, well do you need any help finding the spell, I still have time."
Mokuba blinked in surprise, Yugi hadn't told Yami he was here. He couldn't believe it.
Yugi knew if Yami took up the rest of the time then he couldn't keep his promise to help Mokuba. Once the shield was up, it would make it twice as hard to try to retrieve the boy's toy and he had to have the boy with him in order to get a sense of what the object is and looks like and where it was last seen. He didn't have to know last seen but it helped a lot and though he knew the boy had a baby dragon things like its color and size are things the boy would know better than him and he could incorporate those things into the spell for finding it faster. He knew that Mahaado would probably laugh at him for not being able to work around a shield when most likely even a child in his world could do it. But for all of his years at practicing he'd only recently truly started to get a lot better at it.
"No, really it's fine. Shouldn't you be looking for Master Mokuba? I mean if he was as upset as you said he was and he still is when dinner time rolls around won't the King be highly upset."
At that Yami paled and said, "Damn and Mahaado is insisting on having dinner with us tonight. Well let me show you a couple of things in the book I think might help."
"Uh, yeah sure." Yugi said hoping Yami would just leave.
Yami walked over to the desk and said, "I thought you said it was right here."
"Oh, yeah…."
"Could it have fallen on the floor?"
"NO!" Yugi practically shouted, causing Yami to raise an eyebrow. Yugi hadn't meant to say it so forcefully. He just didn't want Yami to look under the desk and find Mokuba. Yugi rubbed the back of his neck nervously, "Well you um you see it's really dusty under there and you wouldn't want to get all dusty."
"Okay."
Yugi was sure he didn't buy it. But then he said, "I was uh looking through it, I must have left it in my chair."
Mokuba looked up as he saw Yugi reach down for it and he quickly handed it to him knowing that's what he wanted. After going over a few of the spells Yugi looked at the clock and said "Uh there's about a half hour till dinner and you don't seem to be worried about looking for Master Mokuba." Fearing any minute now he'd say 'Well I don't have to, he's just under your desk.'
Yami blinked then looked up at the clock, "Wow time sure flies by fast."
Yugi was relieved.
"Well here," Yami handed him a piece of paper. "I forgot to burn the spell to the portal. Would you mind? I've got to go to my room and find that magic paper with a finders spell on it."
"I don't mind," Yugi said but then trying not to panic or have it shown in his voice he said, "A finder's spell?" Afraid of Yami's reaction if he finds out he knew Mokuba was here the whole time.