(Disclaimer: I do not own YST nor RW, they are owned by Sunrise. Neither do I own the characters of the original series.)

(Author's Notes: The SECOND CHAPTER is here! Yay! You know what I mean! Please still continue to R&R! Sorry if there are some mistakes, just tell me, okay? PLEASE NO FLAMING, just bear with me, kei... sorry...)

SAMURAI PHANTOM REKKA: HANA JUNIOR HIGH'S INVISIBLE THIEF

Episode One: A BEAUTIFUL MONDAY!... OR IS IT?

One beautiful Monday morning.

Exactly 6:30 and almost everyone in their Hana uniforms were about to come in to their respective classrooms, or somewhere else that they have to go to. Only minimal rooms yet have a handful of early worms to monitor the cleanliness of their rooms today. Some were very early to start their day on their trainings in various fields, like the Track and Field Club who were doing this routine ever since. Some just ate their breakfast of their choice in their own rooms, chatting about their break-up with their boyfriends or girlfriends, or their laments about their terror teachers or their parents who were stingy enough to get hold of their allowances for being a bad son or daughter for reasons that only adults could understand. Or some loverbirds that it was so early that they were strolling around the campus garden together holding hands and smiling, indeed fitting for a beautiful start of another whole day of books, Japanese and English language, numbers, formulas and P.E. classes. And to add the beauty of the early rising sun, every student of Hana would greet their friends and classmates with the happiest of their hearts...

"GOOD MORNING!"

"Hey, man, mornin'!"

"How's yer sleep?"

"Good morning, applepie!"

"Mornin', too, cheesecake!"

"Hey, good morning!"

...Or is it?

An eighth-grader girl was about to get her key in her bag to get a few things from her locker. Humming to her favorite tune, she opened her locker with a big smile, but something surprised her.

What is surprising, anyway? Some of her books were placed there and was arranged in neat order. Her P.E. uniform is also there. Her notes, too. But no caterpillar nor a mouse nor even a spider to frighten up her beautiful Monday.

But willher Monday be actually that beautiful if...

"Oh no... my favorite blue ballpen... IT'S GONE!"

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Another student came in and opened his shoe locker to get his indoor shoes.It isa Japanese custom in school to wear proper indoor school shoes provided by the school itself to maintain the cleanliness of the building and also a sign of respect, as to removing any footwear before entering a house. But when he opened the locker...

"Hey... WHERE ARE MA' SHOES???"

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Almost seven. In Ryo's classroom 2-B, almost everybody was talking about this morning thief case.

"I SWEAR it!" it was the girl in the locker a while ago, who happened to be a classmate of Ryo, "I'm sure that my locker's securely closed! And I'm also sure that I placed my favorite ballpen in it, then it's gone! My boufriend gave it to me on our first monthly anniversary! And if he learned about it, he will surely become upset to me..." almost in tears.

"So do I!" another joined in, "My P.E. uniform's gone, too, but my locker's just closed when I came in! What should I do? Our practical test is scheduled today..."

"Me either! My badminton set has just dissappeared, too! So I've no choice but to cancel my trainin' at Badminton Club!"

"An' ma' cherish'd bask'tball with Jord'n's signacha also dissappear'd!"

"Ma' favorite book, too!"

"An' ma' new bat!"

"So with my sewin' kit!"

"My guitar's gone, too!"

Until the whole class joined in. As if all of them were victims of this morning's celebrated case.

Ryo was then eating his favorite breakfast of cheese crepe in the classroom, still watching at the chirpingbirds perching in the cherry blossom tree, when...

"Ei, Ryo!" Jumbo called him.

"What?" he turned around, still munching his breakfast.

"D'ya lost somethin' this mornin'?"

"...Well... no... nothin', not yet..."

"Lucky for ya," Chibi chat in, "There's a big case of theft happ'nin' here in our school only this mornin'!"

"Really?" he wondered, his mouth still stuffed with crepe.

"I've heard from other classes that their things were also stolen by an unknown culprit..." Yukari came, "Most of the stolen things were very important to most of the students..."

"An' not just the students!", Yukaru also joined in,"Teachers and other non-teaching staff as well! I've heard that our Mathe teacher's purple purse was also stolen! Inside of that are all his ATM and credit cards and cold cash worth 200,000 yen! And come to think of it, he had just bought it while on his vacation in Barcelona!"

"Where the hell IS Barcelona?" Jumbo asked with stupidity.

"In SPAIN, you jerk!"

"That STINGY professor?" Chibi cleared out, "Hah, serves 'im right!"

"Oh, come ON!" Yukaru voiced out, "Don't ya have a heart? He's also a victim like us!"

Ryo just blinked at his classmates' conversation, seeming that he doesn't understand anything, being busy with his breakfast. Until Jumbo turned to him.

"Ya hafta be careful now, Sanada. Who knows, ya might be his NEXT victim! So keep an eye on yer things or you'll be like us!"

Ryo, a bit emontionless, just nodded. Until...

BANG!

Everyone was surprised at the bang of the door, thinking that someone is now carrying a gun (which is definitely NOT ALLOWED in school) trying to find the culprit to 'kill' him. But the noticed that it was just Luna, who is obviously had a very BAD day today.

"Um, Miss President..." Yukari called, "Is there somethin'..."

"YES, THERE'S SOMETHIN' DAMN WRONG!"

Everyone went blank. She is possessed! Never that they had seen Luna Williams beenso pissed off like that.

Only Ryo had the courage to talk to her, "Lemme guess: somethin's stolen from ya, am I right?"

Luna stared at him, "How'd ya know?"

Ryo just scratched his chin with his finger, "Well... it's just that the people here are talkin' 'bout the big theft case happen'd only this mornin'. An' by the way you're actin' today, it looks like ya wanna kill that thief, whoever he is..."

It seemed that Luna had given up. She sat on one of the chairs and rested her chin on both hands, "Yeah, right..." she snorted, "Ma' dictionary that I bought only yesterday has just stol'n in ma' bag minutes ago while takin' ma' otha things from ma' locker... Well, everythin's in a zap, then!"

"Oh, no..." Yukari exclamed.

"Even Miss President?" Yukaru cannot believe it.

"THIS is gettin' worse," Chibi sighed, "Don't ya think, man?"

Luna stood in rage again! "AAAGH! I swear by the heav'ns I'll get that outlaw! Whoeva he is, I'LL MAKE 'IM PAY!!!"

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Silence came as the teacher came in.

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(Episode one FINALLY! Sorry for the LONG delay for my choir rehersals and our nearing exams kills my time! But at least I was able to do it! Hope ya would understand! And PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, R&R! Till then, episode two is up next in no time!)