Sunday Ryo and Nosaka again agreed to give Tristan another chance. The main reason is if they wanted to go out they didn't have a choice on such short notice there'd be no way to find anyone to care for him. Yeah Ryo trusted the kid to stay by himself since he'd been forced to do just that for years. However, without explaining all of this to Nosaka which he didn't really want to do he'd have to depend on Tristan to watch him.

Ryo rented a carriage so that he could use it rather than having to depend on Nosaka's carriage. He and Mokuba left early enough that he could pick up Nosaka. They arrived at her house and as they approached the door, they heard yelling.

"Get out!" they heard Nosaka yell.

"Look pal you heard my sister now get out!" Tristan said.

"I'm not leaving, Nosaka we were meant for each other. We were meant to be!" Said another voice that Ryo knew but couldn't remember where he knew it from.

"Oh yeah, so meant to be that you go around screwing every woman you meet."

"I can't help it if women find me attractive."

Ryo took the chance and knocked.

"Go away." The man's voice yelled.

"Come in." Nosaka said.

Ryo looked down at Mokuba. "Mokuba I don't know what's going on in there, but I want you to stay close behind me. I don't want you getting hurt."

"Okay, b-big brother."

Ryo carefully opened the door and was surprised to see Amelda standing there.

"Amelda, what, what are you doing here?"

Mokuba peaked out around Ryo to see what was going on.

"The question really is what are you doing here rookie?" Amelda asked.

"We've been seeing each other for the past couple of days." Nosaka said.

"What! How could you just cheat on me like this?" Amelda asked.

"Cheat on you? How can I cheat on you when we dated less than a month and I broke it off with you two weeks before Ryo came to town." Nosaka asked.

"Is everything alright, Nosaka?" Ryo asked.

"Everything will be as soon as Amelda leaves." Nosaka said.

"Why should I have to leave? He should leave, I was here first." Amelda said.

"The reason is I want you to leave, I have a date with Ryo." Nosaka said.

Amelda was not happy and walked up to Ryo. "This isn't the last you've seen of me rookie."

Then he walked out the door. Mokuba came out from behind Ryo and held his hand tightly.

"I'm really sorry about all of this Ryo. What are you doing here? I realize I'm a little late but…"

"I just felt it would be better if I was the one who came to pick you up. If you don't mind, that is?"

"No, no it's all right. I just thought that Mokuba would feel better in his own room. This way you won't have to carry him back to your place." Nosaka said.

"I don't mind; he's not that heavy." Ryo said, stroking Mokuba's hair.

"Well then shall we get going?"

"Yes, let's." Ryo said. "You be good kiddo."

"I w-will big brother."

"The same goes for you Tristan!" Nosaka said.

"Me what did I do?" Tristan asked.

"No drinking." Nosaka said.

"Look once this kid's in bed I'll do what I want!"

"Just stay sober enough in case this kid needs you for something you can help him." Nosaka said.

"It'll be okay, Mokuba's a pretty self sufficient kid." Ryo said. "Isn't that right kiddo?"

Mokuba nodded.

"Well you can sleep in my room when you get sleepy." Nosaka told Mokuba.

"Okay." Mokuba said.

Later that night Mokuba was having trouble sleeping. He walked out to see if he could get a drink, when he heard noises coming from the next room. The door was closed but the moans and other noises he heard made him shiver. It brought back memories of Noah. Noah made noises a little like those when he'd touch him and kiss him the times in the house when he felt he could get away with it. He remembered his last day in that house when he was trapped in the barn with Noah and he started to really touch him more than he ever had in the past he was making noises similar to that. He shook his head again and ran back to his room. He could still hear them. He slept in his clothes since he wasn't at home so all he had to do was put on his shoes. Then he got up and ran outside. He couldn't stand to hear anymore. Once outside he started to walk around.

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At the same time, not far away Marik decided to have a little fun of his own. He had managed to seduce a girl into an alley. Once there he started to come on to her when she resisted he got a little rough and started to rape her. About that time, Mokuba froze hearing screams. Then the screams suddenly stopped. Mokuba was frozen with fear he wasn't sure what to do. Then Marik started out of the alleyway, he was mumbling to himself.

"Stupid whore if she'd only just kept her mouth shut and agreed to spread her legs for me I wouldn't have had to do that. It's always such a waste when one so young has to go like that. But it's the bitch's own fault. All I asked was to spread her little legs for me but no, she had to start screaming and fighting back. We could have had a very nice time and we could have both gone our separate ways. But no, she forces me to do this!" Marik said. Then he turned and saw Mokuba. "Well, well if it isn't the little one I've been looking for." Marik said with a smile.

Mokuba whimpered and backed away.

"It's all right little one I won't hurt you…much." Marik said, staring towards him.

Mokuba then turned around and ran back towards Nosaka's house.

"Get back here you little brat!" Marik said, running after him.

Just then, Ryo and Nosaka returned from their date. Mokuba ran towards them and quickly wrapped his arms around Ryo's waist. Seeing this, Marik stopped.

"Just you wait kid, we will see each other again." Marik said. Then he licked his lips seeing Nosaka. "Well, well that's a mighty nice piece of ass if I do say so myself. I may just have to get me a taste of that." He said with a smile before turning around and leaving.

Ryo looked down surprised to see Mokuba. "Mokuba what are you doing out here?"

Mokuba didn't say anything, he just whimpered and clung to Ryo tightly.

"What is it Mokuba, what's wrong? Why are you outside instead of in bed?" Ryo asked.

"I'd better go check on Tristan." Nosaka said.

Ryo continued to try to comfort Mokuba but the kid had such a tight grip on his waist he was having a hard time.

Nosaka looked around the house and couldn't understand why there were no signs of Tristan. "I will kill him if he left that kid here alone!" Then she came to a closed door and tried it but it was locked. She started to bang on it! "Tristan, get your ass out here!"

Tristan slowly got up, grabbed a bathrobe and put it on. Then he opened the door. "What do you want?"

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Nosaka asked. "I told you to watch the kid. What are you doing and why is the door locked?"

"Tris, honey who is that?" A voice called out.

"Who the hell is that?" Nosaka asked.

"No one." Tristan said.

"Oh really!" Nosaka said, pushing open the door and seeing a naked woman lying in bed. "You son of a bitch! I trusted you! Whenever you ask me for a favor, I do it no questions asked! I do it perfectly with no strings attached. I ask you to do two favors, nothing too hard or too stressful for the poor baby just watch over one little 10-year-old. That's all and you can't even do that right!"

"Hey look, the kid was asleep, I didn't see the harm."

"The harm! I excused the drinking, like you said he was asleep so that I could forgive. But this, this is unforgivable!"

"What's the big deal?"

"The big deal is we came back to find the kid not only outside but traumatized by something."

"So what? You think I had something to do with that?"

"Never mind, just get your little chew toy and get out of my house!" Nosaka said returning back outside to Ryo. "Well how is he?" Nosaka asked.

"Well I was able to pry him off my waist long enough to pick him up. Whatever happened must have been bad." Ryo said, rubbing the boy's back.

"Poor thing. Well I can't say what traumatized him to this extent but at least I know now why he's outside."

"Really why is that?" Ryo asked.

"Well it seems Tristan's betrayed my trust in him a second time. I caught him in bed with some woman. He must have heard them. Tristan at least had the decency to lock the door so I'm sure he didn't see anything."

"Oh, that's just great. He's been adjusting fine till now. Now, he'll probably start having nightmares again."

"Again, what do you mean?"

"Basically his step-brother had been touching him for years and just a few months ago attempted to rape him."

"My god, I-I'm sorry."

"It's not your fault you had no way to know."

"I know but I should have. Tristan's pulled stunts before but I wouldn't have thought he'd stoop so low as to do something like this. If I had asked him just to house sit or something I could understand but you know the truth is this is part of the reason he's never made guard. He either screws around all night and is late or is so hungover he can barely see straight."

"Well I'd better get Mokuba home." Ryo said.

"I'm really sorry about this Ryo."

"It's all right. I'll see you tomorrow."

"Okay, bye." Nosaka said sadly walking back into the house.