Ryo and the others found Varon.

"Varon I was hoping you could tell Seto and Yami we need to see them." Ryo said.

"They asked not to be disturbed. They said they had plans over the weekend and they could only do that if all their paperwork was done." Varon said.

Just then, Alister walked up. "Problem?"

"They want to see the king and Master Atemu." Varon said.

"Sorry, they said short of an emergency not to disturb them." Alister said.

"I'm aware of that. But I'd say both Mokuba and Maura's almost being killed qualifies." Ryo said.

Varon gasped and bent down, "Are you all right, Master Mokuba? Are you okay?"

"F-fine, thanks to Yugi." Mokuba said.

"All right, I'll go tell them." Varon said.

"Forget it!" Alister said. "The brats are fine now. No reason to tell them."

"I'd think they'd want to know and I plan on telling them and letting them decide if it's important or not." Varon said.

"I still think it'd be better if you didn't disturb them." Alister said.

"Their kid's were nearly killed, Alister! I'd think they'd want to know!" Varon said.

Hearing shouting outside Yami walked outside to check it out and the first thing he saw was Maura's torn and blood stained coat. He quickly ran to her and grabbed her arm. "Maura, what happened, are you all right?"

"I'm fine, Yugi here healed me." Maura said.

"How did it happen? What happened?" Yami asked.

Hearing the panic in Yami's voice and something about blood got Seto's attention and he walked out. "What's going on out here Yami?"

"That's what I'm trying to find out. Look at Maura's coat." Yami stood up and faced Seto.

"Let's hear it, what happened to your coat." Seto said.

"Well this creep told us this morning you and Seto wanted to see us, we thought it was strange but we couldn't prove him wrong, so we went with him. Then something happened to make Mokuba no longer want to go with him. The man then said something to him and upset him. I didn't like it; I felt that whatever it was he said wasn't nice, if it upset Mokuba that much; so I kicked him, grabbed Mokuba and left. We found Ryo and stayed with him."

"That doesn't explain the blood on your coat." Yami said.

"Well Ryo told us to stay in the sunroom, he was going to talk to Bakura. But I was hot; I wanted to go outside and play. It was a mistake."

"Well you really shouldn't have when Ryo told you to stay put, but I can understand the need for air." Yami said.

"What happened outside?" Seto repeated.

"That same creep from before happened. He showed up while we were playing. I didn't think we should go anywhere with him, so I grabbed Mokuba's hand and we went into this tower. Ryo said to stay away from there, but it was either go in there or face that creep. I didn't see another choice."

"Get to what happened to your coat." Seto said.

Maura sighed. "I'm almost there. We walked into this room and these two ladies said that they were hired by my stepmother to kill me."

"What? They really said that?" Yami asked.

"Yeah, then the creep that was following us said that they wanted to get rid of Mokuba."

"I have a feeling you're going to be doing some teleporting, Yami." Seto said.

"Seto, I know what you're thinking but you can't." Yami said.

"This is the second time the bastards have sent someone to kill Mokuba. He's been lucky so far. But his luck can only run so far."

Mokuba leaned back against Ryo more than he had been. Ryo, understanding wrapped his arms around the boy pulling him closer.

Maura was surprised to find what those men had said were true about trying to kill Mokuba since neither Seto nor Yami seemed surprised by it.

"As for my coat, well I'm lucky it was just my sleeve."

"Why is that kid?" Seto asked.

"Well…" Maura started a little hesitant after what Ryo had said about Seto's temper and the way Joey wanted to back out of being here and the look on Yugi's face.

"Spit it out!" Seto said.

That made Maura all the more nervous but knew she had to say it. "It's because they planned to stab me in the heart. The woman lunged to stab me."

"So you used your sleeve to protect yourself, right?" Yami asked.

"No, I was too shocked to move."

Seto and Yami were confused until Seto noticed Mokuba had been clinging to Ryo and not coming near him since they came out and the fact that Ryo seemed to already know all of this. Since he'd not asked any questions or seemed surprised by any of this.

"Mokuba, come here." Seto said.

Mokuba knew Seto was going to be mad and shook his head no grabbing onto Ryo's hands.

This surprised everyone.

Seto bent down. "You're not in trouble kiddo, I promise no one is going to punish you for anything. We just want to know what happened."

'W-why would he think he'd get into trouble. It wasn't his fault they tried to kill us.' Maura wondered.

Mokuba looked up at Ryo for reassurance. He nodded and turned the boy around.

Seto and Yami both gasped. Seto reached out and grabbed Mokuba causing him to whimper slightly. Old habits die-hard, especially, when you were beaten for the slightest break in the rules for almost 5 years. Deep down he knew neither Seto nor Yami would hurt him but it wasn't that easy. He wasn't sure why he never felt threatened like that around Ryo. Maybe in a way Ryo was his protector, the only person to ever care about him and to never betray him.

Seto looked over Mokuba's coat, then turned him around to ask a question but seeing the boy crying he just pulled him into a hug instead. Seto stood holding Mokuba and looked at Yami. It was an unspoken way they'd learned to communicate. They knew now that Mokuba was also obviously stabbed and they'd have to make Maura tell since they'd never get it out of Mokuba.

"Maura, what happened to Mokuba?" Yami asked.

"You sure you want me to tell you?" Maura asked looking down at her feet, "You're only going to hate me."

Yami gasped and bent down and pulled her close to him. "I promise sweetheart we won't hate you, right Seto?"

Seto only glared at the girl but said nothing.

Yami stood up and faced him. "Seto you can't blame Maura for this."

"Why not? She said it herself, it's obviously her fault Mokuba got hurt."

"Seto, she's just a little girl! She's not much different than Mokuba. The only real difference between them is Maura is emotionally stronger than he is. I'm assuming she was trained to be strong and Mokuba was trained to be the exact opposite. We've been through this before. I know it's hard for you to accept this. I know you're afraid we're going to lose him, but we can't blame others for our mistakes."

"My only mistake was allowing you to manipulate me into bringing her home!"

Mokuba sat up, "B-But s-she's m-my b-big s-sister, Seto. I w-wanted to p-prot-tect her."

"I think it stems from not being able to prevent Nosaka's death. She was killed trying to protect him, I think he saw Maura as his new protector and didn't want her to be killed because of him the way Nosaka was. I've told him till I'm blue in the face, her death wasn't his fault, but he won't listen to me." Ryo said.

"Maura exactly what did happen?" Yami asked.

"The woman lunged and Mokuba threw his arms around me. The knife went into his shoulder. Then the other woman took the knife and tried to shove it into his back. I wrapped my arms around him." Maura said intentionally leaving out parts of the conversation. She didn't think Seto would be particularly happy if he heard the whole story and he was angry enough as it was.

"That's how you got the blood on your coat." Yami said. "You were protecting Mokuba." He said directing the last at Seto.

"Fine, it's obviously two against one."

"You have to forgive him Maura. He's very overprotective of Mokuba." Yami said.

Maura walked up to Seto. "Seto, I want to be a part of this family. Mokuba is my little brother now, he protected me, I protected him. I will continue to protect him. I want to be your little sister too, if you'll let me. I can't be a part of this family if you don't let me in!"

"I'll think it over." Seto said then looked at Ryo. "Do you know who it was threatening them?"

"Yeah, it was that guy that took that object and you were strangling." Ryo said.

Seto growled then looked at Yami and said. "That's it! I knew we shouldn't have just let that creep off just like that! I want him thrown into an active volcano!"

"Seto I can't do that!"

"Why not! Fine, a lake full of sharks or alligators will work just as well."

"Seto I can't do it! You'll have to settle for the same cell as Johnson and Nezbit."

Seto didn't like it; he'd rather have him killed. "Fine, just do it."

Yami nodded and started to chant a spell. Before Leichter realized what had happened he was in a cell with the other two big five members.

"Now, I'm going to take Mokuba down and get his bandages changed." Seto said.

"But Seto it'll only be a couple of hours before they'll have to be changed again and you're not going to do treatments now are you?"

"Of course not! But he does need it changed."

"Well then I guess you won't be needing us, we'll just be going." Joey said.

"You can go for now, Katsuya. But we will discuss what you and Yugi were doing there and what you have to do with this later. Just be a good dog and don't stray too far." Seto said, causing Mokuba to giggle and wrap his arms tightly around Seto's neck.

"I've told you before I'm not a dog!" Joey protested.

"If you say so." Seto said leaving with Mokuba in his arms.

"Come on Maura let's get you changed. We'll have to get you a new coat." Yami said.

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As they were walking Maura decided to ask again, "Yami, why wont you tell me what's wrong with Mokuba?"

"Maura, it's not important."

"It is to me! I want to know!"

"Look, all you need to know is Mokuba once lived in a home where he was mistreated."

"Why did they do that? How did he end up there?"

"You don't need to know that, yet."

Maura sighed. 'I wish he'd tell me more. That's the most he's told me.'