That night a storm hit, rattling the walls. Seto was out with Natalia that night. He assumed Mokuba was with Ryo. However, Seto had forgotten to inform him that he was going out. He only did two to three times a week on days Mokuba didn't have treatments.

"I've really enjoyed our time together Natalia."

"Me too, but I guess we should be getting home. Steffi's going to kill me for being out so late."

"Then I guess you should get home."

"Yeah, but at least she won't yell at me too badly tonight."

"Might I ask why?"

"Angela is spending the night. I'll be happy if they didn't tear the house down or have junk scattered all over the place."

Seto laughed. 'I wish I had that to worry about. It might be a change of pace. But Mokuba doesn't even keep the playroom messy if he can get out of it.'

"I'm sure you know what I mean. I'll bet you worry when Mokuba has friends over too though."

Now that Seto got to thinking Mokuba hadn't even had any of his friends to stay over, ever since he'd learned Muran was once friends with Noah, he'd tried to limit the time the boy spent with him. The only real time he allowed Mokuba to spend time alone with him was at the castle. Unless a lot of the others were going to be there too Mokuba, wasn't allowed to go to his house.

"Seto?"

"What?"

"Are you all right?"

"Yeah, actually Mokuba's never had any friends over. So I can't say."

"Has he ever asked if they could?"

"No, I'm not sure if he'd even ask. There are times when he acts just as a normal kid should and then other times when he goes back to being a shy, scared kid."

"Well maybe you should let Muran spend the night or something. It might help bring him out of that a lot more."

"Yeah, maybe." Seto said. He couldn't deny the fact she could be right after the way he was with Princess Rebecca yesterday. "Come on, I'll take you home."

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Mokuba winced at the thunder wishing someone were home. He hugged Anzu, the blue-eyes white dragon, dark magician and baby dragon close to him trying to feel safe. He sometimes was able to have Anzu with him to comfort him from the storm. His family rarely bothered him during storms.

Before he realized it, he was asleep. Then a crack of lightning and a boom of thunder really rocked the castle, causing the lights to blink and Mokuba to jump with a start. Mokuba then got up and got dressed, went downstairs to go outside and check to be sure things were secure. When Mokuba learned about his sleepwalking, he and Seto had both hoped that the more time he spent with friends and family that they would reduce the odds of this happening anymore.

As Mokuba started outside Varon happened to be passing by and noticed this. His first thoughts were that the king or Ryo was home and he was going out to greet him. He found it odd cause he'd never done it before but then the kid was changing all the time. But when the boy didn't return within a minute or two with either the king or Ryo like he was expecting he went to the door and looked out. He was worried now. He couldn't see the child anywhere. He felt like basically when no one was home the boy was his responsibility and he knew the king would be furious if he learned the boy had gone outside and he didn't see what he was doing out there. So, he went to the roll top desk in the living room and found the flashlight. Then he went to the closet, put on his rain gear and set out to find the boy. He found him in the barn checking to be sure the horse's stalls were secure before pushing Varon out the door and locking the barn up tight.

"Mokuba, what are you doing out here?" Varon yelled to be heard over the heavy rain.

Mokuba just ignored him and started towards the chicken coop; Otogi, who was in charge of things like that, had secured both earlier.

Varon was totally confused.

Seto hadn't told anyone except Yami about Mokuba's sleep walking since he'd only had three since he'd known him and not one that he was aware of since his return he felt it wasn't important.

Varon grabbed the boy up who of course started to fight him since in his mind he wasn't finished yet. He took the struggling child into the house. He set him down and Mokuba noticed he was standing in the door. His mind being back at his old home thought that this man had to be Noah. He started to shake.

Varon noticed his shaking and figured the boy was just cold. Not totally understanding what was really happening inside the child's head. He placed a hand on his shoulder causing Mokuba to yelp out of fright. "Why don't you go to your room and get dried off."

Mokuba nodded, shaking more, fearing what he thought was Noah, had plans to do. He turned and started towards the basement, which is what he had always known.

Varon had turned around at Mokuba's nod and started to hang up his wet things. He then put the flashlight away and went to get a quick snack.

Mokuba was confused; he couldn't understand why it was taking him so long to get to his room. When he finally made it to the lower landing he started to hear voices, echoes and moaning. Then loud clanging noises which lead to hearing cussing.

This was the reason few liked seeing the doctor because you could hear the patient's moan. And the doctor had a new apprentice since Yugi was focusing on his magic. His name was Randy Bara and lately it seemed like everything he touched either broke or hit the floor. Dr. Solomon was sure it was just a phase or at least he hoped so.

Mokuba was now frightened beyond words, suddenly not knowing where he was. All he did know was that he was in a long dark tunnel. There were several rooms ahead of him with lights on and he could see shadows. He'd always ever since he was little had a fear of storms, dark tunnels and for some unknown reason there was always like a dark shadow of someone looming over him. He never could make out who the person was. He was only a small child and Noah at that time was just a few feet taller than he was, so who could the man have been. As he got older the shadow of the man and the screams, he'd sometimes hear from Noah's room stopped. He walked away from the lights and sat huddled in a corner shivering and shaking before his head fell on his knees and he passed out.

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Seto had just returned from his date with Natalia, when he ran into Samantha coming down the stairs. He felt it best to open with them both and just tell them that he was seeing both. Though neither one was happy about it, they had no choice but to accept it.

"Hi, Seto. I was thinking that maybe we could spend the day together tomorrow."

"I don't know; I've got a tight schedule. Not to mention I want to spend more time with Mokuba."

Just then, Varon came in. "My king, you should check on Master Mokuba."

"Why?" Seto questioned.

"For some reason he was out in the rain. When I went out there I couldn't tell what he was doing in the barn. All I know is when I got out there he was finishing whatever it was he was doing in the barn, pushed me out then locked it up. I brought him in before he could go anywhere else. For some reason he was fighting me the entire time I tried to bring him in."

Seto's eyes went wide. 'Oh no, not again.' Seto thought, closing his eyes.

"Is something wrong?" Samantha asked.

"What?" Seto asked. "No, no it's nothing." Then he raced upstairs and was shocked when he didn't see Mokuba anywhere in his room. So, he quickly checked his room, then Ryo's, then Yami's but still no signs of Mokuba. He came back downstairs and was happy there were no signs of Samantha. Varon however was still there concerned about Mokuba.

"Is he all right?" Varon asked.

"No, he's gone."

"What?"

"He's not in his room. Where did he go when you last saw him?"

"He was shaking when I brought him in and I told him to go to his room. I went to put my rain gear away; when I looked back, he was gone. I assumed he went to his room. I put the flashlight I had up and went to get something to eat. I'm sorry I should have made sure he went to his room."

"No, don't blame yourself." Seto sighed. "Sometimes when he's asleep and he hears a loud noise or is woken suddenly, sometimes that causes him to sleepwalk."

"You think that's what happened here?"

"It sounds like an incident that happened once before."

Seto then got to thinking about that. 'If he was sleepwalking then when he was told to go to his room more than likely his mind wouldn't register going upstairs, it would…he would go downstairs to the basement!'