trueyamigirlfriend- GOMEN GOMEN GOMEN GOMEN! I had actually writtend a note to remind me to reply to your review, but I think my sister closed it before I saved it.;;; Gomen gomen gomen GOMEN! I didn't know you would be so mad. Um, Miho knows because well, if you're talking about the Miho from the first anime series (which I am,) she's kind of… stalkerish, fangirlish. And, so, yeah. Besides, she's best friends with Tea, it was bound to come out.

(My God, how could I have posted something up that had the word "writtend" in it? Geez…)

2nd draft
(I had to take the song lyrics out)
Updated May 6th

It was lunchtime, that glorious period of repast and repose in the schools. It was also Joey's best subject. The fair-haired gourmand was guzzling down his food and the food of anybody else who happened to leave their seat for a moment, while Tristan leafed through a Love Hina manga novel. Bakura sat, not next to Tristan, but next to next to Tristan, to avoid looking social. Unfortunately, the new kid was sitting next to him, so it didn't really work very well.

He said his name was Gatawata-or-whatever and that he was from some prefect or another that was near Mt. Fuji. (He was actually Otagawa from Nara prefect, in fact, near the famous Hyoruji Pagoda!) The naïve character wouldn't leave Bakura alone. This didn't really have deterred the robber by itself, but Otagawa kept talking to him, too, despite Bakura's I-pod being hooked into his ear visibly. He talked about go and compared his old house-versus-his new apartment in the city, raved about how his bratty baby sister pushed him down the stairs earlier that morning, and talked about various other things.

"Who was that girl yelling at you?" Otagawa asked him finally. He nudged Bakura with his elbow, and on instinct Bakura grabbed his arm roughly, baring his teeth slightly in a wolfish manner. "Eh?"

Bakura stared at him blankly, finally letting go of his arm with a bored look on his face. "Oh… Miho. She's Nosaka Miho."

"Is she your girlfriend?"

Bakura sipped his chocolate milk quietly, wondering what it would taste like if it had been adulterated with blood. "No. I'd rather I die than date her."

"Then why did you call her Miho?"

It was a very intimate thing to call somebody by their first name with no honorific. However, without proper permission, calling a person by their first name sans an honorific at the end would be considered very rude.

"I like being rude to her," Bakura said thusly, and that was that.

Or so he thought. "Why?" This kid was full of questions.

"She's saucy, impudent, and she won't leave me alone." Before his new 'friend' asked why, or even suggested that Miho had a crush on him, Bakura added, or perhaps even blurted: "It's because she thinks its my fault my cousin broke up with her."

"Oh. I see. Is it?"

"Nope. Can't say I didn't tell him that I hated her, though."

"It would've been funny if you said 'Can't say I didn't tell her…'"

Bakura stared at him. Otagawa shut up, but grinned unabashedly. Was this guy a moron?

"Ryou looks like a girl, though," Tristan supplied cheerfully. He turned the page of his manga. He had started it that morning and was already about half-way through it. That shows that he really hadn't been paying attention in school that morning… Too bad he'd missed an important lesson.

"Ha ha ha, maybe that's because Bakura looks like a girl and somebody told me they look alike." Otagawa grinned as Bakura growled. "Hey, hey! I jest, I swear! After all, we're friends now, right?"

Bakura's face fell. "Sure," he said apathetically, turning the volume of his music up. A song by Smashing Pumpkins was playing. It was one of Ryou's favorite songs, for some reason that Bakura could not fathom. It was, as far as Bakura could gather, about a person loving a person "inside where's it warm", but not showing it, and instead the secret crusher would "fight himself in two".

Bakura sighed in annoyance as he saw Miho pass by, giving him an evil eye. "Why won't you go away?" he snapped.

"I sit here," she said simply, "most of the time, and you don't deserve it," she said. She sat across from Joey and immediately started gossiping.

Bakura sighed. Gee, I seem to be doing a lot of that today, he mused angrily. It's all that rotten girl's fault!

Another thing that was Miho's fault was, now he had missed the end of the chorus. He replayed the song and waited patiently for it to repeat.

"Hey Bakura," Tea said casually as she sat across from Tristan, giving him a tactfully fearful glance. Bakura snarled back at her. She gulped very quietly, and turned to Tristan to say hi.

"Hi," she said.

Tristan turned the page of his manga. "Hi, Tea," he said right back.

Right when he was about to rediscover the chorus' lyrics, he was interrupted again. Bakura felt like howling in frustration, so he did.

"You're funny, Bakura," Otagawa claimed.