Yami turned, surprised not knowing anyone was there. Mokuba whimpered and quickly ran behind his swing seeing Noah there.
"And you are?"
"My name is Noah and little JJ there is my brother."
"Oh I see. I am sorry if my brother caused any trouble by kidnapping him."
Noah stared at Mokuba. "No, no trouble at all." Then he walked over to Mokuba who started to back away.
Yami thought that was strange. 'If this kid really is his brother then why is he backing him away from him?'
Noah grabbed Mokuba's wrist and gave him a wicked smile that terrified Mokuba even more than his normal look. Then he bent down and gave him an awkward 'brotherly hug', all the while holding onto his wrists tightly.
Yami thought that was strange also. 'Why does it seem like this is his first time hugging him? And why is he still holding his wrist so tight?'
Noah stood up and, tightening his grip even more on Mokuba's writs, it was starting to hurt. Noah ignored that and started to pretty much drag Mokuba towards his horse.
This really surprised Yami. 'Okay this is weird, why is he taking his wrist instead of his hand. It looks like it's hurting the kid but he doesn't seem to care about that.' He couldn't shake the bad feeling he was getting from all of this. He kept telling himself this was for the best. The kid should be with his real family. Seto had no right to kidnap the kid because he told him he was mistreated.
Noah in a voice just above a whisper enough that Mokuba could hear. "I warned you what I'd do to you when he ran from me, didn't I?"
Mokuba just nodded, crying.
Yami couldn't help but feel sorry for him. 'I don't understand this. It's obvious, the kid knows him, so he's probably telling the truth about who he is. But why is the kid so terrified?' Yami wondered to himself.
"You just wait till I get you home." Noah said this time a lot louder enough that Yami could hear him. "You be good on the way home and I promise that we'll play with the new toy I got for my birthday, just like we did yesterday. It'll be a whole lot more fun if you know what I mean."
Mokuba gulped, he knew what he meant. 'I get it, you're going to beat me with that thing you got again! The new big ugly one you used just before you tried to… well I don't know what you were going to do but I think I'm better off not knowing. But I do remember how badly that thing hurt, it hurt a hell of a lot more than the whips ever did!'
With that Mokuba pulled back forcing Noah to slow down. Then he took a chance, leaned forward and bit his hand. "Ow, that hurt you little jinx!" he raised his hand to slap him but quickly dropped his hand. 'No, mother will be angry if I slap him and it leaves a mark.'
Yami was shocked by that. 'What? I know he had a tight grip but still and was he really going to hit him?'
Noah glared at him. He reached out to grab the kid's hand again but Mokuba quickly started to back up till he hit a fence. There was nowhere to turn. There was a small fence with bushes on it, on one side, a fence to his back and he couldn't go the other way Noah would catch him before he got two feet.
'I can only imagine what Noah will do to me once he gets me home, I do know it's not going to be good. I know I shouldn't fight Noah, after all what's the point, there's no longer anyone around who cares about me. Ryo's gone; Seto's gone, what's the point really of fighting back? Noah will get what wants one-way or the other.' Mokuba thought. He badly wanted to be anywhere but here, but there was nowhere left to go. The only people who wanted him seemed to be the ones who mistreated him. Ryo wanted him but said more than once he could take him in. Seto wanted him but his brother obviously didn't, seeing as how he's standing there throwing him back to Noah. He obviously didn't care what happened to him. 'Oh well, even if I get beaten to the point that I won't be able to walk for a week, I'll at least have my own satisfaction knowing I didn't just let Noah do what he wants. I know that's what Seto and Ryo would want me to do.'
Noah was angry and walked over to his horse and grabbed a riding crop.
Yami's eyes went wide, "What the hell is going to do with that."
Noah cornered the boy, got down on one knee then grabbed and held the boy's chin firmly and placed one knee on the kid's stomach to keep him from moving. Then he whispered. "So kid, you thought you could escape me, did you. I told you once you're mine. There's nothing you can say or do that will change that!" Then he kissed him. Mokuba bit his tongue as he felt it enter his mouth. "Ow, you insolent little…"
Yami couldn't exactly see what Noah was doing from where he was standing; he just had his face and body a little too close to the kids for Yami's liking. But Yami's eyes went wide seeing Noah stand up holding his mouth. He knew the boy didn't hit him, he could see that there'd be no way with how close Noah was to the boy. So he wondered what happened.
Noah was outraged and forgetting about Yami, he roughly grabbed the kids face again and bent down and kissed him again.
Yami's eyes practically bulged out of their skull at that. "Oh my…that, that must be what he did a minute ago and the kid bit his tongue."
Then Noah broke the kiss and turned the kid around.
Yami saw him raising the riding crop and realized what he planned to do. He couldn't believe he was really going to do it until it happened. Yami's eyes went wide at the first hit. Then ran towards him at the second hit.
Noah got three swats in before Yami had quickly ran over and grabbed Noah's arm as it came down for a fourth.
"You claim to be his brother and yet you're doing this!"
"You're still here? Mind your own business. I'll do what I please with him. He belongs to me and I'll do what I want to him!" Noah said, yanking his arm away from Yami.
"I think not!"
"What?"
Yami kicked him in the stomach and said, "If I catch you anywhere near this kid again you'll regret it! I haven't been in one of my best or most trusting moods lately. I guess I was stupid to just believe that you actually cared about that kid."
"You're not taking him away from me! He's mine and I do care for him!"
"You kissed him and hit him with a riding crop!"
"So, what? I try to make sure he enjoys it as much as I do. I wouldn't have hit him if he hadn't bit me and fought me so much. It's his own fault!" Noah said, getting in Yami's face. He was a little taller than Yami and hoped he'd intimidate Yami by being taller.
Yami however wasn't about to back down. He now understood Seto's reasons for kidnapping the kid. "Bastard! He's a child! You have no right to push your sick fantasies off onto him."
"I told you before he's mine I can and will do what I please with him!"
"Not anymore!"
"What, what do you mean?"
"I mean I made a mistake in trusting you to begin with so I'm taking him back with me! There's nothing you can do to stop me!" Yami said kicking him in the stomach again and throwing him across the yard this time.
He turned the boy around and took his hand. "I'm sorry kiddo, if I had had any idea I wouldn't have let him near you!"
'You wouldn't?' Mokuba wondered. 'That's weird. A minute ago he hated me, now he wants to take care of me. This guy is too confusing. If I wasn't so afraid of him, I think I could learn to trust him.'
Yami finally sat down on a bench, Mokuba stayed close cause between Yami and Noah he'd rather stay close to Yami. Plus knowing Noah wasn't that far away he had the feeling from this guy's words he'd keep him safe. Well he was hopeful anyway.
"If it hadn't been for all the hassles with those royal advisor creeps and the hassles of trying to run a kingdom and keep people from believing the king is dead and not coming back I might have stopped and listened to Seto but no he chooses to disappear and then promises to come back in a few days and what does he do? He waits a week!" Yami said to himself frustrated.
Mokuba wanted to comfort him a little but wasn't sure how. He didn't even have a clue as to what this guy was talking about.
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While Yami continued to debate on what he'd planned to do about Mokuba, Seto was going crazy.
"Where is he? Any idea on where he is doctor?"
"Well the reports I got said he left."
"Left? As in, left the castle?"
"Yes it seems he had some kid with him."
"What?! I have to go after him! I can't let him take that kid back there!" Seto said, trying to get up.
"Calm down, you're not going anywhere in your condition. Now this brace on your knee and the medication I've given you should help it get better. But you'll need to stay off of it for at least another week." Dr. Solomon said.
"You don't understand, that kid will be in great danger if Yami sends him back to where I got him."
"Now My King, you should have more faith in your brother than that. He will do what he believes is best for the boy."
"I hope so doc but I just wish he'd let me explain some things to him."
"Now try to rest. I'll have them send you something to eat."
'Eat, poor kid he's probably hungry by now.'
"No thanks doc I'm not hungry right now."
"My king, you should eat something. You need to keep your strength up."
"Yeah I'll think about it."
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Mokuba and Yami were still sitting on the bench when Mokuba's stomach started to rumble.
'Great, now's a fine time for you to act up.' Mokuba thought.
'Great the kid's probably going to start bugging me to get him something to eat. What am I supposed to do with him! I know Seto said he wanted us to take care of him but we have better things to do with our time. Has he forgotten our quest to find the real Mokuba? How could he just give this kid our brother's name like that? I will admit he is a cute kid and well he does look a little like Seto's mother. It also doesn't look like this kid eats much. I don't know, I do sense a connection to him. But maybe that's just Seto's influence.' Yami wondered and stood up and stretched out his back.
'He's probably just going to leave me here. Maybe I should save him the trouble. It's obvious he doesn't want me around. I still don't understand why he saved me from Noah. Maybe I should…no, don't think like that! You're better off alone than with Noah!'
Mokuba watched as Yami left to go get his horse without a word to him. 'I guess I was right; he's just going to leave me here. I'm not even sad really, why should he be any different from anyone else. Besides Ryo and Seto, few others have ever really cared and nobody cared enough to want me with them.' Mokuba got up and just started to walk. He didn't know where he was going but it didn't matter.
'Who knows, maybe someday somewhere I can find someone who will care about me. But I doubt that. I'm nothing more than a double jinx demon. I guess Noah was right about that all along. He always told me they were the only ones who cared about me, after I met Ryo and then Seto I didn't want to believe that! But I guess he was right all along.'
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Yami returned with his horse and thought it was strange that the kid wasn't where he'd left him. "What the…where did he go? Great he must have thought I abandoned him and left." He then looked in the direction of where Noah was and panicked when he wasn't there. 'Oh god I hope I'm wrong about thinking that the kid went back to him!'
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Mokuba was walking careful to stay on the trail and not slip. He wasn't exactly afraid of the water below but he didn't like it either. The lake near his home went no deeper than his shoulders or at least no further than he'd ever been. He couldn't swim very well and always stayed clear of the deeper parts of the lake after a heavy rain. Then he heard a horse ride up behind him. He nearly had a heart attack seeing it was Noah! He wasn't sure what to do. Then he backed up a little, slipped and fell down the hill. He landed right on the edge of the water.
Noah smirked and got off his horse and went down to him. Mokuba tried to run but kept slipping in the mud. Just then, Noah looked up and glared at seeing Yami. When he looked back, Mokuba was gone!
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A/N: If you're new, welcome. If however you have read this before and rereading then don't worry this isn't some strange Mandela effect. The first half has been altered and changed. Going back over it I realized I never had been happy with that scene. But until now I didn't know how to fix it. I think it works better this way.
Also as you may have noticed Master Yami is now Master Atemu