Uh... Sorry for the wait? This chapter's actually been done for a while now, it's just the fact that I haven't wanted to post it for the fact of editing it. Again. And Again. And Again. And Again.

This chapter has Bakura in it! ^_^

I will be using english names, and all the characters will make short appearences, though who stays as a major part is still up for debate. Besides Ryou and Bakura, of course.

Now the chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh

A girl leaned over the edge of a boat, looking down into the murky depths of the water. She held something grasped in her fist as she leaned, glaring at her reflection in the water. Her reflection smirked at her, knowing that she couldn't do what she wanted so desperately to do.

She raised her fist and pulled it back. The girl threw it first, but just as she went to uncurl her fingers and send the item flying, something stopped her. She brought her hand back over onto the safety of the boat, and unclasped her fingers as she stared guiltily at the item. As much as she wanted to get rid of it, she couldn't.

She just couldn't.

Chapter 2: Suspicions

Bakura lingered in the hallway in spirit form, watching the girl his hikari had just met watch him walk down the hall. There was something off about that girl- what had her name been? Hell-something? Bakura hadn't really been paying attention.

Whatever her name had been, Bakura could tell something was off about her as he vanished back to his soul room to think more.

Had Bakura been anybody else, he would've thought nothing of the girl. But, being him, Bakura knew better than that. She had attracted the attention of the Ring, and it took very powerful magic to do just that on its own. The Ring normally only reacted to the Items, or somebody's name when Bakura told it specifically that he was looking for someone. The Ring rarely ever acted up on its own.

Thus, Bakura's suspicion.

Yet, there was nothing Bakura could do without arousing the attention of the Pharoah, so he had to settle for waiting in his soul room and peering out of Ryou's eyes, waiting for a glimmer of the mysterious girl that had attracted the attention of the Ring.

Lucky for him, he didn't have to wait all that long.

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They were halfway through Algebra when there was a knock at the door. As it was just a review lesson, most of the kids had been half asleep, so the sudden knock at the door had startled them. Other's who had been paying attention weren't so startled but they were just as curious as to who was knocking in the middle of class.

The teacher told whoever was at the door to come in, and the door slid open to reveal a girl that looked very familiar to one Ryou Bakura, who was sitting in the fifth row of the second column of desks.

"Um, excuse me," She asked. "I'm a bit lost. May you please direct me to Class B?" Snickers erupted through the class as Ryou looked a bit closer at the person.

Helena. That was Helena! Ryou realized as he looked at the girl. She was definitely Helena- Ryou had only seen her for those few moments in which her bracelet had gotten stuck onto the Ring, but he still recognized her. That was Helena.

"This is Class B," The teacher responded. "Why?" Helena nibbled on her lip.

"Well, I'm new here and I was told I'm in Class B. I haven't been able to find Class B." She answered, blush dusting her cheeks as kids in the class snickered.

"You're Helena Keisei?" The teacher asked, and she nodded. "You're very tardy Helena." Helena hung her head, ashamed.

"I know." Helena replied meekly. "It's just the school is so big- the last school I went to was a lot smaller." The teacher ignored her.

"You'll be sitting next to Yugi Muto for the semester Helena. Yugi, stand please." The teacher requested and Ryou heard a chair just behind him scraping as the person at the desk stood up. That was right- Yugi sat almost directly behind him.

Helena walked down the aisle of seats, her bracelets jangling as they bumped against the desks. The teacher muttered something about 'kids and their ethnic jewelry' before starting the lesson again after Helena had been seated.

Partway through the second half of class, whispering met Ryou's ears from behind. It was Joey. He should've figured that Helena would get picked up into their group.

"Hey, Helena, right?" He whispered to her. Helena nodded absently, her hands moving her pencil as it aimlessly doodled in her notebook.

"Yeah?" Helena answered absently, flicking the tip of her pencil absently through one part of her drawing.

"What's up with all those bracelets you wear?" Helena's eyes flickered to her bracelets, but before she could reply back the teacher had heard him.

"Joey! Pay attention!" She reprimanded. Joey flashed the teacher a sheepish smile and scratched the back of his head as he apologized.

"Sorry teach." He told her, and she gave him a look that clearly read, 'don't-talk-again'. Helena stifled a giggle as she went back to her work, trying her hardest to concentrate on her work.

Yet, her thoughts always found their way parading back to a certain albino she had met that morning…

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Helena sighed as she walked down the halls, trying to find the lunch room. In the rush of students trying to get to lunch, she had been swept away from Joey, who had announced himself as her self-proclaimed 'tour guide' so she wouldn't get lost anymore. Naturally, as was her luck, she had not been able to find Joey again.

Or the albino boy from earlier- Ryou, had that been his name? Yes, that was it. Ryou. After seeing him in the classroom, Helena had sorely regretted not asking him for directions to Class B. But, there was no use crying over spilt milk.

Wrapped in her thoughts again, Helena didn't notice the person in front of her until it was too late and she was on the ground. Shaking her head and blinking, she found herself looking up at the person she had just been thinking about.

"Sorry," Helena apologized, accepting Ryou's hand as he helped her to her feet. "I wasn't paying attention." Ryou shook his head.

"It's alright. I wasn't paying attention either." Ryou offered a small smile, which Helena returned serenely.

"I should go now…" Ryou said after what seemed to be a few minutes, and started to walk past Helena. She was just about to let him past when Helena remembered her predicament, and she whipped around and snatched Ryou's wrist.

"Wait!" Helena called loudly, even though it was useless seeing as Ryou had already stopped and she had a hold of his wrist.

"Yes?" Ryou answered patiently, surprising Helena as she let go of his wrist. Normally people would get mad at someone for doing that to them… Maybe Ryou was different? Anyways.

"Well, um," Helena blushed. Ryou raised an eyebrow and Helena sighed. "I'm kind of lost. Do you think you could take me to the lunch room?" Ryou looked a little startled at the request, but nodded. He started past Helena, and the girl turned around and followed after Ryou.

The walk was silent and could almost be called awkward. Neither one seemed to be the one who wanted to engage conversation. Finally, Ryou spoke.

"What happened to Joey?" Helena blinked.

"Joey?" She repeated, and Ryou nodded, slowing his pace a little so they were walking side by side.

"Yeah, the guy who said he'd be your 'tour guide'?" Ryou reiterated. "Did you get separated?" Helena nodded and threw her arms behind her head, bracelets jangling as they hit each other.

"You could say that," Helena answered. "When we got released for lunch I kind of got pulled away by the crowd." Ryou 'hmmed' and nodded and the silence was back again.

Ryou opened his mouth to speak again, but he was interrupted by the bell, signaling lunch was over.

"Darn," Helena pouted, stomach grumbling. "I missed lunch." Ryou laughed a little at Helena's reaction, and Helena giggled a little too.

"Oh well," Helena shrugged it off, before clasping her arm around Ryou's. "Mind walking me to class? I don't think I'd be able to find my way back."

If Helena had noticed the surprised look on Ryou's face, or the red starting to gracefully dust his cheeks, she took no heed of it.

"N-no not at all," Ryou stuttered softly, leading the way back to the classroom.

Meanwhile, one yami was mulling new thoughts over in his soul room.

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Helena Keisei. That was her name, Bakura acknowledged as he went over the things he had learned over the past hour.

Keisei… Didn't that mean something like 'Sire' or something in Japanese? Oh well. Bakura had never been very good with foreign languages, like Ryou or the Pharaoh's mini-me.

Bakura assumed the girl was alright, so he raised no protest when his hikari met up with the girl for the second time that day in the hallway. She seemed innocent, and Bakura found no reason to think otherwise about the girl, much to his dismay.

To be honest, the only reason Bakura was skeptical about the girl was because of her bracelets. Yes, that may seem silly, but it was because of those bracelets. There was something unsettling about them, something that seemed familiar. It was like Bakura knew what they were, but at the same time he didn't.

As his hikari retreated towards his seat in the back of the class room, it could've been a trick of the light, but Bakura could've sworn the girl stared straight at him.

Vanishing back within his soul room, Bakura decided to keep an eye on this 'Helena Keisei'.

For now, anyways.

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That was Chapter 2, And, I do realize they are in Japan, I'm just editing things for this story to work. At the end with Bakura- sure his hikari knows Japanese, but Bakura's knowledge is limited. I'll eventually tell you guys what Helena's last name means, but if anybody wants to guesss you can.

I have no clue when Chapter 3 will be up because I have a ton of other stories to work on, as well as the fact that I'm starting school tomorrow and Tennis opens for me tomorrow as well.

Please read and review and tell me what you think!

~~Paw-Chan Signing Out~~