Sorry it took so long... I actually feel kinda bad about this chapter... I have no idea what I'm doing after this... It'll hit me...

(Dodges large flying object)

NOT LITERALLY!

Bakura- (whistling inncoently)


Over the weekend, Miko tried very hard to forget what had happened. It must have been a dream. A crazy dream, but still…a dream…None of what Ryou had supposedly said to her made any sense. Except for that, the guy chasing her (The DREAM guy, she reminded herself) wasn't Ryou, even though he looked nearly exactly like him…

But never mind… it was just a crazy dream. And on Monday, she'd get her jacket back from Ryou.

By saying this enough times, she actually convinced herself it was true. Of course, that didn't last long. Only until Monday morning.

The Suzuto family all had got to school a little early that day. Rare for them, but hey, Merina and Jason had some homework they wouldn't do last night to do and were somehow motivated to do it now. Amazing.

Miko opened her locker and rummaged inside, looking for the spare school jacket she'd tucked inside there. She found it finally and tossed it over her arm. Grabbing several text books and dropping them into her bag, Miko finished in her locker and was about to close it when someone did so for her. Still facing her locker, she could only see their hand, still pressed against the locker door. It didn't look like they had any intention of moving it anytime soon. Miko turned around to thank them when she froze.

Bakura smirked.

"Miss me, Koneko?"

Miko bit her lip. She half wanted to answer truthfully with a loud and resounding no, but something inside her kept her from doing so. Her silence only egged him on. He leaned in closer toward her.

"If you want you jacket back, you'd better come home with Ryou today…" He paused to wrap a lock of her hair around his finger. "If you don't, I might get angry. You haven't seen what happens when I get angry, but I'm pretty sure you wouldn't like it…"

Leaning in toward her ear, he whispered lowly, so she almost had to struggle to hear what he said. When she did hear it, she wished she hadn't been able to.

"…And I know where you live."

Withdrawing backward, he gave her a fangy smirk and gave her hair one more tug before he left down the hallway, leaving her stunned. Sinking to the floor, Miko hugged her knees, repeating the same thing over again.

"It wasn't a dream, it wasn't a dream… it wasn't a dream… it wasn't a dream…"


Kisane continued staring at her locker, just as she'd been doing since she'd first noticed. First noticed that it had been meddled with. She'd been about to open it when she realized it showed signs of tampering.

Hn… probably the jerk Kaiba…

In anticipation of something horrible, Kisane flattened herself against the locker next door and opened her locker from the side. Bracing herself for a clatter, boy was she surprised when nothing came. Cautiously, she peeked around the door. Nothing. Maybe she was paranoid. Then she saw it.

A red box, and a… rose?

Carefully Kisane reaches in and pulls out the flower. It was definitely a rose. Peeking up at the box, she saw on the side it read "Chocolate."

Placing the rose gently back in the locker, she slammed the door tight as soon as she was sure it wouldn't fall.

She'd borrow someone else's books for today. She didn't like being the object of someone's joke. And this had to be a joke. A nasty one, but still a joke. The bell rang and she hurried to her first class of the day, wondering who had such a cruel sense of humor.


Emerylis smiled and was humming a happy song as she walked down the hallway. What reason did she have to be in a bad mood?

None whatsoever.

As she went around the corner, she ran into someone. The force of the collision made her fall backward, right on her butt.

"Ow…"

"Sorry, Emerylis…"

Emerylis opened her eyes and saw Mokuba was on the floor across from her looking a little embarrassed.

"It's okay."

She said still smiling cheerfully.

Mokuba stood and helped her to her feet. Afterwards he started shifting back and forth, almost as if he was embarrassed. "Um, Emerylis, I've got a question for you…"

"Okay, shoot!"

"I was wondering… I'm going to one of the video game arcades on Wednesday… and…I…was…wondering… if…maybe… You'd like to come with me…"

"Sure… I love video games!"

"You mean… you're not busy that night…or anything?"

"Not that I know of…"

"Great! I'll be at your house at 5:30. That's an hour after school gets out. Think you can be ready by then?"

"Sure…"

He smiled his (extremely kawaii) smile and took off down the hall. Emerylis smiled happily and smiled. The only downside was she had to wait ALL of today, ALL of tomorrow, and ALL of Wednesday…

How unfair was that?


Miko was still distressed and on the floor of the hallway when someone placed their hand on her shoulder and whispered her name softly. She jumped and backed away from the person before she even realized who it was. It was Ryou.

"Ryou…"

"I'm too late aren't I?"

"Huh?"

"I was going to try to get here first, to tell you to watch out for him…but he anticipated that apparently. This morning I woke up 5 minutes late because my alarm had been unplugged, and the door to the outside wouldn't open so I had to climb through a window to get out. By the time I got out, I was 10 minutes late… I'm so sorry…"

"I-I-Its okay…"

"You don't look okay…."

"Well…its just that I'd convinced myself that what had happened Friday night…hadn't happened…"

"And then Bakura-"

"-Showed up behind me and told me I'd better go home with you today, or he might get mad…"

She paused.

"And he told me he knew where I lived."

Ryou looked worried. "This isn't good…"

"I know, but what can I do?"

"I don't know… But you can start by getting off the ground. We have all day before we have to worry about what to do…"

"Good plan…"

Miko struggled to her feet before nearly toppling over. Thankfully, Ryou caught her by the shoulders.

"Are you sure you're okay?"

"N-N-No."

He sighed. "Come on, lets get to class…"

Miko nodded, still slightly leaning on Ryou for support. Merely having her safe little world rocked again for the second time in a week had left her drained of energy. And, she had a foreboding feeling, it was about to get worse…