"Yeah, don't worry I made sure it was on magic paper. I wrote it so that when I had time I could try it. I've been itching to use it, but so far I haven't had the chance. Mokuba was missing earlier and I wanted to use it then, but Seto's forbidden me to use it."
"Why?"
"He didn't want Mahaado to get wind of it."
"Won't he still catch it?"
Yami sighed, "What choice do I have? If I call out even a few guards to help first they'd bitch and moan the entire time, second Mokuba might get frightened especially if the guards looking for him are whining or cursing or maybe both and even if they're calling for him he'll never come out. Plus I'd never hear the end of it from them wanting to get paid to do it."
"How do you know for sure, that Mokuba won't approach a guard calling for him?"
"When Mokuba disappeared that one morning there were guards everywhere looking for him while Bakura stayed close to his horse as a base. No guard looking for him saw him till he approached Bakura."
"He was frightened by all the guards whining about being out there?"
"That's the only explanation I have."
Mokuba wrapped his arms tightly around his legs. Yeah everywhere you look people are bitching and moaning and cussing. He wasn't about to approach one of them and have them literally drag him over to Bakura all the while listening to them yell or softly yell at him. He never understood why some did that. It's not like he wasn't not used to being yelled at. Why did they feel they had to yell at him quietly?
"I'd ask the maids, they would probably help and I could only hope Mokuba would come out for them. But that would most definitely cause Seto to catch wind of it." Then he sat down and laid his head back. "I am so stupid! I remember now, Mokuba came to me because Seto told him to. Then what do I do? Me? I turned around and lost him. AUGH! I know he's going to find out about what happened somehow, he always does!" Yami sighed, "Maybe I should just confess. It is my fault anyway, for some reason with Maura already in that world I just was reluctant to take him too."
"Even though you promised him first?"
Yami sat up and looked at him. "How did you…?"
"Mmm…let me see, Mokuba walks in and you tell him you're going rock hunting. Now if I told you that, what would your first guess be?" Even if Mokuba hadn't been here and was so upset Yugi didn't think it'd take a genius to figure out that if the boy had been in the room first and learned the mission that he wouldn't have asked to go.
Yami sighed and laid his head back again staring at the ceiling, "You're right. Don't ask me why I did it, Yugi. Truth be told I don't know. I think I might have lied to Mokuba the other day and I hadn't intended to."
"You did? How?"
"I promised if he and Maura were both in danger I'd always save him first. At the time I said it and looked into his eyes I meant every word of it."
"And now?"
"Now? Now I'm beginning to question that. I mean I love Mokuba and would do everything I could to save him…"
Mokuba smiled. He could forgive Yami for this. When he made the promise he had meant it even if later he realized it was a mistake. Asana said sometimes things like this just happen and you should ultimately forgive them. Their stepmother did that a time or two. She was forced to make a promise to someone and at the time intended to keep it but then something happened and she had to break it.
"But then you feel the same for Maura."
"Yeah, and she's what I think we both always dreamed our little brother would really be like. I don't mean the royal training or anything, I just mean how happy and smiling and forthcoming about things and understanding things. You don't have to repeat what you say several times."
Mokuba silently started crying. He knew he'd have to work harder at school and from now on even if he doesn't understand something just nod and pretend he did, at least around Yami. Most everyone else, Seto, Mai, Isis, Ryo and even Bakura never seemed to mind explaining, though he could tell it sometimes annoyed Seto he never complained. But even with them he decided to try not to ask questions if at all possible even if he was totally confused. He might try asking Maura maybe she'd help him or maybe Zariah might have a feather or something he could talk to her though no matter where she is!
'That's it! Tonight I'll place a note on my clock and maybe somehow she can get it. This way when I'm confused I can leave and hide somewhere and keep whatever object she gives me on me and then I can call and ask her. If she's busy she can tell me that and I can try later!'
Yugi however was angry, "So, do you regret allowing Mokuba to stay or taking him back? Do you ever wish Ryo had just taken him far, far away or after he recovered to take him far away? Or wait, I heard you should have rightfully been King, not King Kaiba and he was planning to leave, perhaps it'd have been better if he had done that and left with Mokuba."
At that Yami sat up and looked at him, "Of course not! Why are you saying such things Yugi?"
"The way you talk about how you'd prefer Mokuba to be more like Maura sounds like you don't like him."
"Of course I like him! I love him!"
"Yeah, from what I've heard from rumors and what you've just told me it really sounds like you care. Listen, I saw a personality changing spell once. You write down what you'd most like to be like and the spell is supposed to be able to do that."
"Have you ever tried it?"
Yugi laughed, "Sometimes I wish I had used it. But no and I've never met anyone other than Master Dartz that has done magic, no offense, so I can't say if it's ever been done. Krystyn might know."
"I see. No thanks, I may complain but I think even if I could go back in time and rescue Mokuba and have him like in his nightmare world or have him like he was in any of my visions, I think…no I know I'd choose our Mokuba."
"Why?"
"I guess because in a way it made us closer, when we first met I scared him to death and for the longest I wasn't sure he could talk. But then when he did it showed he was finally going to try to learn to trust me! Then after he first started treatment he asked me to carry him afterwards. But since I brought Maura home it's like a rift has formed between us. I didn't mean for one to but I think if Mokuba hadn't ran to Ryo's that night, Seto and I both would have probably started ignoring him in favor of Maura. But because he did, Seto learned a lesson I didn't."
"A Lesson?"