Seto walked into breakfast and as he saw Yami and Maura talking, he then realized something that he hadn't last night that might have been one of the factors that had upset Mokuba. He walked over to the end of the table and pulled out a chair. "Maura move over here. This will be yours from now on."

"Why do I have to move?"

Though Yami didn't say anything, the look on his face was asking the same thing.

"That's Mokuba's chair and I think he'd like to keep it."

Yami's eyes went wide. That was not one of the things he thought might have upset him. But since the kid was sensitive about things that belonged to him, like that, he might have felt unwelcome or pushed out. That told him they'd really have to work on paying more attention to things like that.

"We should have realized that last night. He might have come in to dinner if Maura hadn't been in his spot." Yami said.

"It's no one's fault, we knew he was overly sensitive about where he belongs and we screwed up plain and simple. We'll work that much harder next time."

'He couldn't have just come in and sat here. That's silly. There were times when we'd have company and yeah I was mad that they took my spot but I still came in and sat down to eat. But then again my father or stepmother would have looked for me if I hadn't.' Maura thought, switching chairs.

Seto pushed Maura's chair in and decided to make sure Mokuba was coming. He had just turned the corner when he ran into him. Mokuba was knocked to the floor, while it only knocked Seto back a bit. He walked over and held out his hand to the boy.

"Here kiddo, let me help."

Mokuba looked up, took Seto's hand and let him help him up. Seto then bent down next to him.

"Look kiddo, I need you to be stronger for me. I know there may be times in the future that we might be paying more attention to Maura and you may feel left out. I need you to be strong and brave. We're not leaving you out intentionally or if we are there's a reason for that. But we still love and care for you. Always remember this is your home." Seto said, then he hadn't wanted to use this analogy but felt it was the best way to get him to understand. "Mokuba, you know how you always fought Noah so that he wouldn't hurt you."

Mokuba nodded.

"Well this isn't all that different. You have to learn to stand up and maybe not exactly fight but stand up for what's yours. I know now, that you were probably upset that Maura took your chair. We have fixed that but next time come to me and tell me."

"B-but y-you'd alr-ready s-start-started d-dinner." Mokuba said, his voice cracking a little trying to keep from crying.

Seto sighed, "I'm sorry, kiddo. That was wrong and totally insensitive of us to do that."

"What?" Mokuba asked, not understanding the word.

"I'm going to have to talk to Samantha about upping your vocabulary some. It basically means we were wrong and shouldn't have done it."

"Okay."

"Forgive me, for neglecting you last night?"

Mokuba hugged his neck.

Seto hugged the boy tight, taking that as a yes. "I will try my best not to do it again, I promise." Then he pulled the boy up and cleaned his face up, then they went to breakfast.

After breakfast, Seto took Mokuba and Maura to tutoring. Seto knocked and waited.

Samantha opened the door and smiled. "Seto, what are you doing here? It's a bit early for us isn't it?"

"No, I'm sorry, but I haven't had much time for dating since Yami returned. I've been working more on bringing and keeping my family together."

"I see, but did you tell her that yet?"

"Who, Natalia?"

"Yes."

"No, I haven't had the chance. Why?"

"Can I tell her?" Samantha asked with a strange glint in her eye.

Seto didn't much like the way she said that. He knew Samantha didn't like Natalia and he didn't believe she'd hurt her but then again there was no telling what exactly she'd tell Natalia. Whether she'd tell the honest truth or tell her part and say that the two of them were still seeing each other. Other than seeing each other once in a while in the halls or something that's about the only times they've seen each other. "Uh, no, I'll tell her."

Samantha was a bit disappointed. "So, what brings you here then, just to tell me that?"

"No, I came to introduce you to someone." Seto said, pulling Maura in front of him.

"Hello there, little one. My name is Samantha, what's yours?"

Maura did her curtsy bow and said, "I'm pleased to meet you, I'm Princess Maura."

"Yami's hoping to try to break her of the habit of doing that all the time. He's also yelling at the same time to teach the same things to Mokuba. Now I'm going to have to find someone who won't scare him and can teach him."

"I have a better idea."

"What's that?"

"Maura can teach Mokuba all that she knows and I'll try to help her learn who is and isn't important enough to bow to. Try to help her loosen up a bit like little Mokuba here." She was going to say Mokuba could teach her but she didn't think he would know what to teach her but figured there were still some things that the boy could teach her.

"Are you sure you can handle it?"

"Well if you or Master Atemu aren't happy with the results you could always still hire someone. I just thought that well… I believe I can do it and it'd save you the trouble of having to find someone new who will work."

"I really appreciate this."

"It's my pleasure. Come along now kids, let's get started."

Mokuba walked over and sat down in his chair and then Maura sat down in a chair next to him.

"Oh one more thing." Seto said.

"What's that?"

"Can you try to work more on Mokuba's vocabulary? You know, teach him more words. I know there are a lot of words but I mean more common ones."

"Such as?"

"It doesn't matter, I'm not the only one. Varon told me he's had to explain a word or two, to him a time or two."

"What did you say?"

"What difference does it make?"

"Seto I can't help him, unless I know what you said."

"Fine I told him Yami and I were sometimes insensitive to his feelings. I'm not sure exactly how much he understood but he seemed to when I explained it more."

"All right, I'll see about teaching him the meaning of more words."

"Thank you."

Samantha started Maura on one of her average tests. This test was the same one she gave to Mokuba. The questions ranged from super easy to super hard. The more you're able to do, the more advanced you were. While Maura was doing that, Samantha was helping Mokuba with more of his reading.

Maura glanced over curiously. 'That's strange, Yami told me that Mokuba was about my age, but he can barely read. Why not? Is he stupid or something?'

"Do you need help on something, Maura?" Samantha asked seeing her watch them.

"Oh, no sorry." Maura said going back to work.

'No, most of the questions are a bore.' Maura said blowing threw most of the questions.

When Samantha graded the test, she found that Maura was not at the grade level she should be for her age, but about two levels ahead. She'd have to give more tests and things to see if she's really that smart or if she'd just had advanced schooling.

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Deep in woods behind the castle one of the big five members was meeting up with someone that was hired by Maura's stepmother's advisor.

"Greetings, my name is Malka, my partner Ita couldn't make this meeting. She's finishing up another job. I was hired to take out a girl that's now residing in the castle. I was told to talk to you so that you would be willing to help."

"Isn't it unusual for a female to be a hit man?" Leichter asked.

"Perhaps, but few people would suspect us right away. So, are you willing to help us get the girl into position for an unfortunate accident."

"No."

"What? I was told that…"

"I don't care what you were told. We've tried to kill the boy that currently lives here. Every hit man we've hired has failed. Why should we help you, kill this girl?"

"Is that the only reason you're refusing to help?"

"You got a problem with that?"

"Perhaps we could help each other."

"How do we do that?"

"Give me some details on your kid, perhaps there's a way we can get rid of both and make everyone happy. We can discuss payment later."

"We'll discuss payment only if you succeed in killing that kid! We already paid half in advance on the last hit man and they both failed! There's no way we're giving you a dime till the job is done!"

"Agreed." Malka said.