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Dee was clearly too upset to deal with Corrigan at the moment after hearing what her son had done, and she felt that Terry pretty much summed up what she would have said. She then said to Iori, "Take Corrigan back to the Castle and teach him well of the lessons you taught me. Not that I did anything as risky as Corrigan, but you get what I mean."

Iori was happy to hear that he didn't have to do any more work on the mansion and took Corrigan by the hand before realizing he still needed to find Yumi. Then he said, "Corrigan, find Yumi and bring her here. I am taking the two of you home as ordered by Dee. Okay, Yumi wasn't ordered to go home with me, but I still need to talk with her about Sasuke. If Sasuke is there with her, bring him too. Now get going!"

Corrigan didn't need to be told twice and did what Iori had asked of him. He was relieved that his mother was forgiving of what he did, but he also knew that he punishment was going to get was going to be much worse. He knew full well that you had to be 13 years or older to get the lessons that his mom had learned and knew from what he had heard from the younger customers that Iori is the scariest teacher there and they hope that someday he won't teach there anymore.

The young Bogard knew that as long as his mom was in power that Iori was still going to teach at Southtown Finishing school because he is so strict and his lessons get through to everybody unlike every other teacher the kids brag about.

Iori smiled at Corrigan, but it wasn't the kind that people warm up to or smile back from. "Very good, Corrigan, now lets head back to the castle and it will be there that Corrigan, you will be doing some hard labor around the castle. You seem to think that just because the castle is closed and not getting any business that no work is available. This is where you are wrong. When it is completely empty, you take that advantage to make the steakhouse better. Dee has many people in this lounge, that is true, but Corey...think about this while we are on the way back home, how many customers do you serve all by yourself and compare that to how many people Dee needs to serve her little place. Just remember, our lounge is much bigger than hers and she is trying to catch up to us. Lets take this down time of the steakhouse to out-class her."

Corrigan now felt sick to his stomach. Iori was absolutely right. If Corrigan would have used that opportunity to awesome up the steakhouse, then...

All of a sudden, Corrigan raced to a nearby bush and let the reversal food affect take hold of him. Yumi and Sasuke both wanted to race to see if Corrigan was okay, but Iori held them both back with one hand. "Don't either of you move. Corrigan is sick simply because he is guilty. It will pass."

(Time for a common pregnancy symptom to take affect)

Sasuke growled for the push, but quickly laughed as Iori got some much needed just desserts. "Serves you right, Iori, "Sasuke said, "You should have just let us help Corrigan."

Iori would have said something about that, but knew then that he had to get the two children back to the castle. Sasuke would be coming too, but he wasn't Iori's responsibility.

Sasuke lifted Yumi in a rather romantic way, and then smirked, "I propose a race, Yagami. If I beat you to your castle Yumi doesn't get the lecture you were going to give her, but...if I lose, I gotta help Corey renovate the castle instead as a punishment for being overconfident with my speed."

This contest piqued Iori's interest. "Very well," he said, "In addition, to if you lose and having to help Corrigan, Yumi will be forced to lose the baby that is to be your child."

Yumi slapped Iori on the face. "Nobody can tell me whether or not to have this child! Leave me out of any bet you two make."

Iori growled, then said, "Correction. If you lose, you have to not only help with repairs to the castle, you will be forced to guard the castle after normal business hours for any intruders. When those back gates to my castle lock for the night, your shift will start."

"You're on!"

Yumi counted down. 3....2.....1....go!!!!!

Sasuke used his ninja skills to vanish as he headed North east towards Iori's castle.

Little did Iori know that Sasuke was already at the castle and tending to Yumi by feeding her soda crackers that he baked himself earlier in the week. Yumi rather liked being treated by Sasuke this way, but she knew it was only a temporary thing, so she was just gonna savor the moment.

Yumi smiled as she said, "That was the best piggy back ride ever! Now since we won, I am off the hook when it comes to the lecture. I know what happened now even though at first I was really skeptical about it. I think I would have been more worried if it would have been Naruto's child that I was carrying. At least I know that Sasuke is responsible and he doesn't back-talk unless its needed. And...may I add that Sasuke doesn't do sneaky pranks like Naruto. Naruto would set stink bombs on this floor or have water buckets filled with who knows what substance from half open doorways, he'd take full advantage of his pranks just to get back at you. In a way, I am happy that Naruto chose Violet instead of me. Because it will be up to Vegeta, Terry, and Dee to handle him and not you or us."

Sasuke was stunned at the point she just made. She was absolutely right! If it had been Naruto...Sasuke shuddered just thinking about the alternative. Then he said, "Yumi's right. And as far as her and I are concerned, I took every possible usage of protection. I even double checked the condominium for tears or snags and there weren't any. So, with Yumi getting pregnant has everything to do with saving this galaxy. By me being still here, doesn't that prove that I at least care for her? I won't run from what happened. If it were Naruto, he would have run."

"What part? The part that I knew about Yumi's pregnancy or is the question directed at why I summoned Jonathan?" Corrigan asked, confused by what Iori meant by "all this".