Camp was fun, but now I'm BACK! WOOHOO!

Leona Saclat- I used the glorious Internet to determine the times. If it's wrong, it's my own fault, and you may spank me if you wish (but you probably won't want to!) Bakura DOES have a little sister, in fact. She is mentioned in the manga. Also mentioned in the manga is that fact that she dies. Ryou and her were very close… her name is Amane.

Akio the Dragon Master- Arigatou Akio-chan:) :) I missed you at camp a lot. We must plot for you to come with me next year… .

"…And so, since Newton was the first to 'define' gravity, we measure gravity in newtons. The force of gravity on Earth is nine-point-eight newtons. Yes Bakura?"

The weary class lifted their heads to hear what Bakura had to say. Since he rarely contributed to the class, unless he had taken a Benadryl or was trying to kill Seto Kaiba. Mimochi Bakura raising his hand was a surprise that muffled that monotony of their usual morning Physics lesson.

"Why?"

Ms. Jono blinked. "Why what?"

"Why didn't they just label the force of gravity as one newton?"

"Um… dunno."

"Why don't you know? Aren't you a teacher?"

Ms. Jono sighed exasperatedly. "Bakura…"

"Sorry, sorry." Bakura settled down. This caused him to get more stares than ever. He glared evilly at those around him. "What the #&#$ are you looking at?" he yelled. Three classrooms down, a teacher dropped his test tube during a chemistry demonstration and burned a hole in his foot.

"Bakura, please don't yell anymore and I won't give you detention," Ms. Jono said wearily. Her best friend had broken up with her boyfriend, and had been leaning on her for a lot of support. This meant staying up late eating ice cream. Now, even an evil teacher like Ms. Jono loved her ice cream, but three nights in a row was enough of that.

"Thank you ma'am."

Miho glanced at Bakura oddly.

"This has to stop," he hissed. "Before this week is over… we are going to… work this out."

Was this a part of "working it out"? Did Bakura really want to be her friend? Well, Miho was indignant. She wasn't going to make this easy… She turned back to her sheet on physics formulas…

…and turned back around again. Bakura was gazing out the window, like most of the class was. Turning his head boredly, he caught sight of her. Instead of turning away, Miho gave him a cool, cold stare. Bakura just waved hello at her.

Miho turned away, wondering why she was blushing. Turning back, she glanced at Bakura hopefully. Maybe he was plotting to throw something at her?

…Hey, he WAS tossing something towards her… Jerk. Wait, no. Miho caught it in her left hand. It wasn't a crumpled up wad of paper; rather, it was a neatly folded sheet of paper. She unfolded it.

Hi.

Her eyeballs bugged out. She looked back at Bakura, but he was once again regarding the Outside Realm—aka, the world outside the window. Taking out a pen, she wrote back.

Uh, hi?

Since there was nobody in-between the two of them (Miho and Bakura were separated by two desks) she leaned back and placed the note on the desk in front of Bakura. He grabbed it and, making it a point to look bored, (especially when he saw Hanasaki look up to see what was going on,) unfolded it.

He gave it back to her a few moments later.

Has Ryou called anybody you know lately?

Miho wrote back, No, why would he? He's probably in England having a grand old time with people that AREN'T us.

When she handed it to him, she glanced at Ms. Jono—her back was to her—and so she turned around and watched Bakura open it. He looked amused. He took out a pen—Miho noticed it had a skull design on it—and wrote on it. It was a weird little pen. The top of it was a translucent skull, and it lit up whenever one wrote with it. Just perfect for a psycho like him, she thought.

He gave her back the note.

Oh, but surely you know the high and mighty Ryou is so lofty and high above us! Besides, he had to take care of his mom.

Miho's curiosity was piqued now. Not only was the thing about Ryou's mom interesting… but Bakura had said "us"… so he was speaking for both of them. That was something that had never happened before. Why was Bakura passing notes with her?

What's wrong with his mom?

She's sick.

Sick, how?

She's really, really, really sick, and Ryou had to go home to take care of her. Ryou's new girlfriend was the daughter of one of the nurses that worked at the place.

Hospital? Why hadn't he written hospital? Was it not a hospital? What was wrong with Ryou's mom?

Oh. Okay. We better stop passing notes before Ms. Jono sees.

When he read this, Bakura smiled cruelly. Crumpling the paper into a mess, he tossed it at her head. However, she caught it.

"Bakura!" she yelled. Ms. Jono whipped around.

"Detention Bakura," she stated with a business-like cruelty in her tone.

"Yes ma'am."

Bakura flinched. Seto stared. Miho wondered.