Seto, Yami and Mcentee looked over and saw a crowd of kids gathered around. They all went over to investigate. Seto and Yami were shocked to see Maura was one of the two kids fighting. Yami and Mcentee ran over and each picked a kid up. Seto spotted Mokuba and walked over to him. Then he placed his hand on his shoulder. Mokuba jumped but then sighed when he looked up to see his brother. He then wrapped his arms around him.

"Maura how could you?" Yami scolded.

"Royce you know better than to fight, especially with girls." Mcentee said.

"It's not my fault, she started it! She hit me first!"

"Maura, is this true?" Yami asked.

"Yes, it's true. I hit him."

"Maura…"

"I only did it after he hit and pushed Mokuba!"

"Royce, did you hit him?"

The boy looked away avoiding eye contact. "No, of course not father, I'd never do that."

"Really then look me in the eye and tell me that."

"Why I told you, I didn't do it!"

"Yes, but when you avoid eye contact like that, it pretty much tells me you did it."

"He got in my way."

"How?"

"He got in front of me and I hit him and pushed him down. Then that girl jumped me."

"That's what you get for picking on my little brother!" Maura said with Yami keeping her from going and beating up on him more.

"Mokuba, is this true?" Seto asked.

Mokuba nodded his head.

"My apologies, my king. He's been a real trouble maker lately." Mcentee said.

Seto nodded. "Keep him in line and teach him not to go around hitting others. Yami, the same goes for you."

"Me?"

"Yes, you. You can't let that girl of yours go around hitting other people for whatever the reason."

Yami sighed and took Maura to the side, while Mcentee was scolding Royce and then spanked him.

Mokuba winced a little seeing the kid getting spanked like that. Then he pulled away from Seto and tugged on his shirt. Seto bent down next to him.

"What's up kiddo?"

"I-if I'm ever b-bad will you s-spank me like that?"

"At one time I might have but I couldn't do it now. You've had enough beatings and punishment to last for a lifetime. No Mokuba. I don't believe you could do anything wrong. But if you insist on an answer then no, I won't spank you, I'll just ground you and send you to your room."

Mokuba nodded. "S-send me to my room without supper. T-thanks big brother."

"No, Mokuba." Seto said sternly, causing the little boy to look at him in confusion. "Yes, if you do something bad I will send you to your room and ground you from going outside or do anything but school and your room. But you will not now nor ever, if I have any say in the matter, go to bed hungry!"

Just then, Yami and Maura returned.

"What's wrong, Seto?"

"Yami, Mokuba thinks that if he ever gets into trouble that we would send him to his room without supper."

Yami gasped and bent down next to him. "Never sweetheart. You were practically skin and bones when Seto brought you home. We're just now beginning to fatten you up." Yami teased him by poking his stomach, getting a giggle.

'You mean those people that mistreated him, starved him? They'd better hope they don't run into me. Even my stepmother wasn't that cruel. Sure she'd yell and scream and make us eat salad for a month if she thought we were getting too fat or just for reasons she'd serve something small like a sandwich but she'd always feed us.'

"Come on, let's go do that slide you wanted." Seto said.

"Are y-you going to ride with me big brother?" Mokuba asked.

Seto sighed, the answer to the question in Seto's mind was no. "Yes, I'll ride with you." Of course, what he thinks and what he tells Mokuba are usually two different things.

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At the same time in a tent not too far away.

"The kids did see you the other day didn't they?"

"Yes, Riva, but what difference does it make?"

"They've seen you and know you as a clown, yet you didn't go near them. That's established at least partial trust. They won't think of danger if you were to approach them again."

"But Riva, what good will that do? You can't expect to grab them up in here, do you?"

"Look Wolfgang you promised you'd back me up on my plan. Brenne and that idiot screwed up. But we wont. My plan is flawless! Trust me. Those two brats will be dead before they leave this park. One way or the other I will find a way to get rid of them!"

"Why kill the boy? I've heard the people that hired us to kill him are all in jail and the others are lying low. It's not likely they're still going to pay us if we do the job. Plus didn't Malka say she wanted the boy? "

"Right I forgot about that. As you said the creeps who were supposed to pay won't be able to now, so we'll just take him and let Malka do what she wants with him. Besides the money that the girl's stepmother is paying us is more than the normal. Which means we'll be paid twice as much as Ita and Malka normally pay us. Maybe we can nudge those two creeps out of hiding and force them to pay us once Malka has the boy!"

"I still don't understand this plan of yours or believe it'll really work."

"Trust me it'll work! Here's what my plan is again, this time I'll go slow."

"I'm not a child Riva, I just don't understand all your fancy terms for saying things."

"Sorry, I sometimes forget you didn't graduate 3rd grade."

"That wasn't my fault! My father wanted a worker, he didn't care if I got schoolin or not."

"Fine like I said. Here's the plan again."