The next morning Yami opened the curtains of Seto's room.
"Time to rise and shine Seto."
Seto grumbled a little but got out of bed.
"Come one Seto, we have a lot of work to do today."
"Yeah, about that."
"What?"
"You're going to kill me."
"Tell me anyway."
"Let's skip work."
"What? But Seto…"
"Yami it seems all we do is work at times."
"I know but…"
"But what? Do you know how painful it was for me the day Mokuba found out about his swings and hugged me and told me how much he loved it only then to be told that I had more work to do? That I couldn't stay and watch him play even for a few minutes? That I couldn't stay and maybe play with him?"
"No, but I can imagine it was hard."
"You're damn right it was hard. We have not had that kid in our lives for more than 8 years! We've screwed up more than once and only been able to keep him in our lives for a few months. I say we skip work till next week and spend the rest of the week with him!"
"I don't know Seto. It'll mean little to no time at all with him next week."
"Fine, have it your way." Seto said, turning to the restroom and slamming the door.
Yami sighed but as he turned to leave, he looked at Mokuba's closed door and remembered just yesterday, how he thought Maura was replacing him. "Seto."
Seto opened the door. "What now?"
Yami turned to him with a smile. "Let's go."
Seto looked at him confused. "But you just said…"
"You know there are times you're worse than Mokuba." Yami said as he met Seto halfway into the room.
"What do you mean by that?"
"I mean I asked him to ride something with me and because I had said no before he was arguing with me over what I had said."
Just then, Mokuba opened his door and walked out only to sigh. 'Don't those two ever stop fighting?' Then he moved closer to see what it was about this time.
"He told me that he's afraid Maura is going to replace him in my heart."
"He told you that?"
"Well not in so many words but you know him when he doesn't agree or disagree…"
"It means yes." Seto finished.
"Exactly so, let's go. We never really looked that hard into the games section anyway and I remember it was one of your favorite places."
"Yes, but you're changing the subject. This is precisely why I didn't want that girl here!"
"Seto, I still think it'll be better for Mokuba to have a full time playmate. He already said he likes her."
"But if he's feeling left out…I don't want to risk losing him!"
Mokuba understood now they were talking about him and walked in. He then tugged on both Seto and Yami's shirts. They looked down to see Mokuba smiling up at them and his arms up.
Seto and Yami smiled and bent down and hugged the kid tightly.
"I'm n-not l-leaving Seto. T-this is m-my home. Unl-less you d-don't w-want me anymore."
At that, Seto and Yami hugged the child even tighter.
"Of course we want you, Mokuba!" Seto said.
"We will always want you, Mokuba. Never ever think that we don't!" Yami said.
"We've told you before kiddo but we'll tell you till you understand how much we love you. When you were gone, you were all we thought of. I slept with your dragon every night." Seto said.
Mokuba giggled. "Y-you did."
"Yes, he did. We both felt lost and alone, I didn't lie when I told you, you made us a family. When you left we fell apart. We need you probably more than you need us."
Mokuba hugged them both tighter. Yes, this is his home and he can't forget that ever.
Seto and Yami were both surprised at how well the kid adjusted to going from slave no one gave a damn about to a non-working well loved little kid, always being independent never depending on anyone then starting to depend on them. Yami figured it was because this is what the kid always wanted, someone to care enough about him to take care of him and look after him.
"Okay kid, go get ready to go." Yami said.
Mokuba pulled back. "R-ready to go where?"
"Yami and I have talked it over and we're taking the rest of the week off to spend with you. We're going back to the fair." Seto said.
"R-really…s-so c-can I…"
Yami sighed. "Yes, you can ride it. I'll even do it with you."
At that, Mokuba brightened up. "R-really? P-promise!"
Yami closed his eyes, sighing, "Yes, I promise."
Mokuba squealed and hugged him super tight.
Yami didn't have to hear what the kid was going to ask to know he was going to ask to ride his favorite ride. Though he and Seto could never figure out what he saw in it. He made an internal promise to ride more rides with Mokuba. Of course, he knows Seto's going to protest a little over having to ride with Maura.
"Go on, hurry up and get ready." Yami said nearly choking to death.
Mokuba let up and turned to leave.
Seto looked at Yami and smiled thinking he was a softy when suddenly he was tackled to the floor.
Yami had to stifle a giggle.
Seto was slightly winded but hugged the kid back. "Okay kid, go on. Go get ready." Seto said, patting his back.
Mokuba giggled, got up and ran out the door.
Seto sat up, "That kid gets stronger everyday."
"Yeah, I know." Yami said smiling. "He's getting bigger, too. Someday he'll be as tall as you."
"I doubt that."
"You never know." Yami said getting up to leave.
Mokuba walked outside and spotted Maura and ran over to her.
"M-Maura w-we're g-going back to the f-fair!"
"What?"
Just then, Yami walked out.
"What's he talking about?" Maura asked.
"What did he say?" Yami asked.
"Something about the fair."
"Seto and I decided to take more time off and spend the rest of the week with you."
"Really?"
Yami nodded. "Get ready to go, you too Mokuba."
Soon both kids took off to go get ready.