Seto decided to ignore Yami for the moment. "What did Ryo say when he said that?"

"H-he t-told him no. T-that if I w-went anywhere h-he'd g-go with me. B-but t-that it was too close to bedtime and t-treatm-ments to go."

"What did he do?" Yami asked.

"H-he left."

"Okay now when was this other time you said he talked to you?"

Mokuba just looked away.

Seto gently lifted his chin. "I'm not upset with you, Mokuba. I'm mad at them for driving you away from us. It's true that we were partially to blame for this but that's beside the point. When did this happen and what did he say to you?"

"H-he w-was s-scarey b-but it w-was before m-my party."

"Where were you so that he could talk to you without anyone knowing?" Seto asked.

Mokuba again looked away.

Yami kissed the top of his head. "Mokuba, please tell us. We wont be mad or upset. We just need to know."

Mokuba sighed. "I t-took b-blue eyes and w-went outside to play early t-that m-morning. H-he asked I-if it c-came down t-to it w-who would you k-keep m-me or y-your b-brother."

"What did you tell him?"

"I d-didn't talk to him."

"Okay, then what did you think? Who did you think?" Seto asked.

"You shouldn't ask him that, Seto."

"Why not?"

"Because we already know the answer."

Seto looked at Mokuba who was staring at the ground and realized Yami was right. There was no point to the question. The boy felt they would choose their brother over him. "Mokuba what else did he say?"

"H-he s-said t-that you w-wouldn't w-want me anymore. T-that you'd send me back. T-that everything I had b-belonged to y-your brother."

Seto and Yami were both fuming at that moment.

"Mokuba, look at me." Seto said.

Mokuba looked at him.

"Even if someone else had been our real brother, we wouldn't have sent you away. And as for your toys and everything else we gave you…"

"Those would have always been yours to keep Mokuba." Yami said, interrupting Seto.

"Yami's right it wouldn't have made a difference if someone else had come in. If we gave it to you then it was always yours to keep." Seto said.

"Mokuba is that why when you left with Ryo you didn't take the dark magician or blue eyes white dragon or even your baby dragon after we gave them to you and told you they were yours?" Yami asked.

Mokuba nodded. "H-he also s-said w-what I alr-ready t-thought."

Yami knew that one. "That all the presents we hid in the closet were for our brother and not you?"

Mokuba nodded.

"I knew it was a mistake not to tell him." Yami said.

"I know, but I still stand by my first decision that we handled that the right way. Though if we'd thought when he saw us one of us should have gone to talk with him. But at the time neither of us foresaw a problem. By the time either of us thought about how sensitive he was and might be feeling left out we were getting ready for the party. I mean we both agreed that it wouldn't be long before we thought we'd be giving him the gifts."

"True."

"Why do you think it mattered so much to them whether or not we adopted Mokuba? I mean it's apparent they were trying to drive him away from day one. There is no way they could have possibly known the truth about Mokuba when you brought him home. I mean from what we understand they didn't even realize the truth till they saw him holding the millennium rod. So if they didn't know till then what possible reason could there have been?"

"I wish I knew. It's very strange. If anything after they found out the truth I'd have thought then more than ever they'd want to keep him." Seto said standing up.

"Why?" Yami asked.

"Simple, with us out of the way it'd been easy for them to scare Mokuba into doing what they wanted. I mean he was raised to be someone's slave. I'd have thought that they'd kill us and just use him as their way of getting the throne."

"Mmm…yes. I see what you mean. But perhaps there's a reason why they didn't."

"Any ideas of what that might be?"

"One, perhaps it has something to do with the fact that Mokuba is like you."

"I still don't see anything about him that resembles me."

Yami smiled, "Oh, he's exactly like you…in more ways than one. You may not see it and I can't say if anyone else sees it, but I see it." Then Yami bent down close to Mokuba. "Sometimes that's a pain." Then he growled into his neck delighted in the squeal he got out of him.

Seto glared at him. "Why would that be a pain?"

"What, you don't think having two of you's a nightmare?"

The others in the room did their best to stifle their giggling.

Seto turned insulted.

"Oh come one Seto don't be like that. I'm only teasing. You should feel happy knowing how much Mokuba's like you."

Seto shook his head. "If what you said is true then that's the reason the big five didn't want him."

"How do you figure?" Yami asked.

"They were afraid that if he was too much like me then someday he may turn on them. They'd lose their control over him."

"Yes, I suppose that's true."

Seto ruffled the kids' hair, "I guess they couldn't handle trying to control us kiddo."

Mokuba giggled.

Seto thought about the run away note. "I still can't figure out who wrote that run away note though."

"Yes, I suspected at first the big five wrote it. Like they did the fake letter saying that our brother had been found."

"I don't think so. It was too nice. If it hadn't been for the fact that Mokuba couldn't read or write at the time I'd have sworn to you he did it."

At that Mokuba's eyes went wide. "W-what did it s-say?"

Seto and Yami looked at him. They never thought of the possibility that he could have gotten someone to write it for him. Mostly because he refused to tell them what was happening and almost never trusted total strangers. They couldn't imagine him telling someone he didn't even know what he wouldn't tell anyone he did. But what else could it mean? After Mokuba returned and they learned that neither Mokuba nor Ryo had written the note, they questioned the entire castle. The few that had met Mokuba all swore he didn't even talk to them. They suspected maybe Otogi since the boy had spent some time with him. But he swore he didn't and even wrote a few words of the letter down to prove he couldn't hardly write much less in cursive. Now they had to pry out of Mokuba who this mystery person is!