That night Mokuba walked into his brother's office. He didn't normally do it without knocking but the door was open.

"B-big brother."

Seto looked up and smiled. "Hey, kid isn't it close to time for your treatments?"

"Yeah."

"Is something wrong? Isn't Ryo taking you?"

"I w-was hoping you would take me big brother."

"You want me to take you?"

Mokuba nodded. "I-it's never been just you and me."

Seto smiled and reached out and caressed the boy's cheek. "I don't guess it has. Are you sure you want me to do it?"

"If y-you don't want to…"

"Who said I didn't want to; I'm just a bit surprised that's all. You usually prefer to go with Ryo."

"I overheard him s-say he was going to cancel his date with Shizuka to stay with me. But I didn't want that. T-then I remembered that we've n-not gone together. I have w-with Yami b-but not with you."

Seto stood up and walked over to him and scooped him up. "Then we'll change that."

Mokuba wrapped his arms around his neck. "Will you read to m-me too?"

"So this was all to get a story huh." Seto teased. "Well I guess I'll just have to teach you a lesson and start doing this more often then wont I."

Mokuba was afraid at first that he was mad at him but soon realized he was just teasing. He smiled and tightened his grip around Seto's neck.

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"Ryo, Bakura told me that you and that woman were in love. It's not true, is it?" Shizuka asked.

"In love? I did love her but I'm not entirely sure how deep it went."

'Yes, I knew he didn't love that bitch more than me.' Shizuka thought.

"I enjoyed her company and we both had a common bond."

"A common bond?"

"Yes, we both enjoyed spending time with Mokuba. I think you'd learn to like, even love him if you'd give him a chance. He's really a sweet kid. You spend time with kids all the time. Why don't you like Mokuba?"

"It's not the kid I dislike. It's just that, when I got a boyfriend I never imagined that there'd be baggage in the form of a kid always up under you and in the way of us getting to know each other and being with each other."

"Shizuka, you must understand at one time I was the only friend he had and we've both agreed we don't want to break that bond. Hell, even Bakura's gotten attached to the kid, though he would adamantly deny it."

"I…I thought Bakura didn't like anybody."

"He usually doesn't usually, but something about Mokuba must have broken through to him because he asked him to start calling him Uncle Bakura."

"I see, well then if he can get through to Bakura then, I guess we can start trying to get along better."

"Look Shizuka, I love you, but whether you like it or not Mokuba is a part of my life. Even Bakura said we shouldn't break up, that we need each other. I don't even know why I let you convince me otherwise. I mean I nearly died trying to protect that kid!"

"You mean when you were stabbed you were protecting him."

"I thought you knew that."

"I knew you'd been stabbed in a fight but I was never told it was to protect him!"

Ryo explained what exactly happened from the day Nosaka died to the day he was stabbed. Shizuka was greatly surprised.

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Kisara was anything but happy after studying Mokuba's test and where as he should be at a 6th grade level. He was more at a 1st almost 2nd grade level.

Determined to get the kid to the level he should be, Kisara gave Mokuba harder questions. More at a 3rd, 4th grade level sometimes even high school things just because she wanted to see if he could do it.

Mokuba studied it and neither one realized exactly how late it had gotten. They started just after breakfast. Mai brought lunch to them. Seto was concerned when Mokuba didn't show up for dinner. This had gone on for a week but Seto had rarely made it in time for dinner due to constant problems with a new kingdom that wanted to ally with them he'd not gotten to see the kid much.

"Mai have you seen Mokuba at all today?"

"Not since lunchtime."

"Where was he then?"

"With Kisara for school."

Seto got up and made his way to the office where he'd set Kisara up for Mokuba's schooling.

Kisara finished writing up the next test she planned to give to Mokuba. Then she stood up and stretched. She stepped outside the door and her eyes went wide seeing Seto coming down the hall. She immediately pinned him to the wall and started asking him all kinds of personal questions while she kept her body extremely close to his.

Seto was greatly annoyed; all he had wanted to do was find Mokuba. He was concerned since no one had seen or heard from him since breakfast. Mai had been the only one to see him and that was at lunch. As Kisara asked these questions Seto kept them short and simple. Not telling too much and not adding anything. He'd give a glare and ignore the question completely if he didn't want to answer. As he opened his mouth to try to voice his question of where Mokuba was, she leaned up and kissed him. He was so stunned at first he was frozen. But the moment she tried to stick her tongue in his mouth he snapped back to reality. He pushed her away. "What the hell do you think you're doing?"

"I'd say it's obvious myself; you want me, I want you. What more is there?" Kisara asked.

Before Seto could answer, Mokuba walked out rubbing his eyes. "I'm al-almost f-f-finished. B-but I'm h-having t-trouble w-with the l-last t-two q-questions."

Kisara glared at the boy. "First we've discussed your stuttering so much. You don't usually stutter that much. I've told you to slow down."

"B-but y-you y-yell even m-more w-when I g-go slow." Mokuba protested.

Seto pushed Kisara away, walked over and bent down next to Mokuba. "Have you been here the whole day?"

Mokuba nodded. "Kisara s-said I c-could g-go when I f-finish this p-paper."

Seto took the paper from the boy and glanced over it enough to see it had 60 problems on it. "When did you start this?"

"T-this morning."

Seto was mad now. He stood up and started to look over the paper more. There were a couple on it, that he himself was having trouble figuring out and she expected a kid that was still having trouble reading to do it.

"What the hell do you call this? I thought you told me his grade level was at or about the 2nd grade. If this is second grade level work then perhaps you should reevaluate his level, mine too while you're at it. Yami probably could do these with his eyes shut. I was never very good at chemistry. Why are you teaching him chemistry? He is nowhere near ready to start learning that complicated of things. I was 15 when I had to start learning chemistry and even then, I had Yami to help me. I helped him with Math and English; he helped me with Chemistry and Biology. We kind of helped each other along with the rest of the subjects. I can tell that all of these are wrong anyway, so there's no point in forcing him to try to do something that's way above his head."

"Are you telling me how to teach?"

"When it concerns my kid, yes; He can start learning all the subjects I mentioned when he gets to the point. You should be focusing on what he needs and that's reading, writing and spelling. Then work your way up to the rest. I want him to enjoy learning. Something I never got to do. I hated it when it came time for lessons. Since that's about all I did was study. He needs time to learn to be a kid." Seto said, placing his hand on the kid's head.

Mokuba smiled and wrapped his arms around Seto. Seto moved his hand around the boy's shoulder. Then they walked towards Kisara. Seto shoved the paper towards her. "Two more weeks and if I don't see something the kid has done that proves to me you're not that bad of a teacher after all you may keep your job. Otherwise, you're out of here. Then again, you dare touch me or kiss me again, you may find yourself not only out on the street corner but with a few injuries as well."

"How should I touch and kiss you then?"

"Try it again and find out."

The cold looking smirk on his face kind of scared her a bit so she didn't touch him.

"One more thing. I find out you've ever, ever yelled at him for his stuttering again well trust me it won't be pretty! Come on kiddo dinners getting cold. Then I think you should go to bed."

Mokuba remembered what Seto had said the other day when he took him to treatments. "But Seto, you p-promised to p-punish me every night by r-reading me a story remember."

Seto stopped and looked at him with a confused look. "When did I say this?"

"R-remember when we went to t-treatments I asked you if you'd r-read a s-story to me and you said…"

"I remember now; so you want that punishment again do you?"

Mokuba smiled and giggled, making Seto smile. He loved to hear the kid laugh. It only makes him even happier knowing he's the reason. He has never regretted bringing him home.