Osiris Red was easily the smallest dorm in the school. There were a little less than twenty members, and they were mostly divided up three to a room, except in the case of Manjoume and Jounouchi, who each had their own room, and two groups of students that were only two to a room.

Even with that, it still irritated Jounouchi to find that Cronos had approved Manjoume to have renovations done to his own room.

"Wait, what do you mean that Cronos approved this?" Jounouchi looked over the paper that Manjoume had gleefully shoved at him.

"I hereby grant Jun Manjoume permission to have his room renovated as long as he is responsible for the cost of it. -Cronos de Medici" Jounouchi read out loud. He gave the paper back to Manjoume. Cronos was the acting headmaster, so there wasn't really anything that Jounouchi could do. "Just make sure that those guys don't work after dinner." Which Jounouchi was so confused how those guys got here so fast anyways, but then again, he really didn't understand rich people. At that time, the workers started, and the doors all opened, so partially some all the way, for the dorm residents to see what was going on. Most closed the door without further investigation, but Judai Yuki and Sho Marufuji both ran out.

Jounouchi frowned at them. "Sorry, guys, it seems that Cronos has approved for Manjoume to do a room renovation."

"Never mind that. Jounouchi, is Osiris really gonna close?" Judai asked him.

The man blinked. "Close, of course not. Why?"

"Sho overheard Cronos and Napoleon talking about them."

"Were they now…" Jounouchi looked over at the main building. It made sense, but it just made his job a lot harder. "Well, I'm not sure what they plan to do, but if they want to shut down this dorm they'll have to go through me." And Mokuba, though hopefully it wouldn't have to come to that.

Because of that, Jounouchi had been on his guard around the two for the next few days, but they had not seemed to be making any moves to shut down the dorm. Instead, their attention was more focused on a duel disk thief. Only four of the Red students had been targeted. Most of the victims were Blues.

"I'll send some students to go fetch the duel disks later." Cronos announced. "In other news, we've picked a new star duelist. Asuka Tenjouin will become our idol!"

Jounouchi, who was finally starting to remember student's names, wasn't particularly surprised that she was chosen.

It must have been the first time that Ayukawa heard as well, since she actually loudly laughed, the first time that Jounouchi had heard her do so, instead of her usual snorts of amusement.

Cronos seemed taken aback as well. "Is that your approval, Ayukawa?"

She smiled in amusement. "If you could get Tenjoin to agree to it, sure. But there's a bigger chance of Jounouchi here being the school idol."

"Hey, why do you gotta bring me into this?" Jounouchi interjected. He hadn't even said anything.

Cronos ignored that. "Well, I'll ask her either way. But first, I need to get the situation with the duel disks settled."

And that had been that. He didn't even give any thought when he signed off on Judai and Sho's detention slip from Cronos to go get more duel disks.

Until he heard the shouts of Sho later that night and walked up stairs to investigate.

"Hey, are you even listening?" Manjoume interjected.

He poked his head in the open door. "Hey, guys let's keep it down… What are you doing?" Inside, were Sho, Judai, Manjoume, and a student unloading a knapsack full of stuff. Jounouchi recognized him as a Ra first year, who always had a group of Ra students around him wearing similar dinosaur hats.

"Jounouchi! This guy is moving himself into our room, and I don't want him here." Sho called.

"I don't mind." Judai argued. "We need a lot of people on our side if Cronos wants to shut down the Red dorm."

"You three," he looked at Judai, Sho, and Manjoume "don't worry about Cronos and Napoleon. Focus on your classes and I'll keep him from tearing down the dorm."

"I wasn't worrying." Majoume boredly added from the top bunk.

"And you, Kenzan, right?" He looked at the Ra, who nodded. "Don't you have your own private room to go back to? Why do you want to live here?"

"It's because I want to learn from my big bro Judai."

"What did I say about calling him 'big bro'? He's my big bro, not yours! Jounouchi, can't you send him back. I'm sure he's breaking the rules!" Sho started.

Sensing another round of shouting, Jounouchi interrupted before Kenzan could respond.

"Actually, the only dorm rules are that students can't go out after midnight or alter their dorms without permission." He gave Manjoume a look. Those workers of his shook all his papers off his desk working. Twice. "Besides that there are no set rules. So, I'm gonna leave this to the two of you to decide. I have no personal problem with you stay here, but if they're not comfortable with it then I'll send you back to Ra, where you have your own room. But you'll want to talk to your own dorm head as well."

Sho looked annoyed, but sighed after Judai gave him a look. "Fine he can stay." Kenzan looked triumphant and began unpacking his bag.

"Also, Manjoume, when will your room be completed?"

"Three days at the latest. But, where is dino brat gonna sleep?" Jounouchi left, but heard Manjoume's shout of "I'm not sharing a bed with him!" a few seconds later.

"Huh. It seems those guys will be the ones to keep things interesting around here." Jounouchi said to himself, thinking of his own days of constant excitement back when he was in high school.


End CH8

A short chapter that I was going to originally combine with Sho's duel, but I couldn't think of a good transition and am trying to keep the chapters separated by episode. So, next chapter, expect Sho vs. Bug girl and Jounouchi dealing with the dorm becoming a hub of activity. Poor dude. Then Edo comes back(he's a favorite of mine) so I'm super excited. And my house has no internet right now due to renovations (I feel Jounouchi's pain so hard), but I'll still be writing even if I don't get to update.

Also, I'd like to announce a contest of sorts. The series name (We Still Press Forward), the title and summary for this summary are all things I threw together because I'm awful at naming, and couldn't properly shorten the summary I have for this story over on AO3. So, if you guys would submit series name, title, or summary (or all three) recommendations, I'd hold a poll and have them voted on. If you win, I'll write a K-T rated Yu-Gi-Oh one-shot for a prompt you submit or a character. So, please submit titles/ summaries/series name (or all) by putting them in a review or PMing me.