A/N: As you can see and read, I took a random/interesting idea and ran with it. I ran all the way home…

Just A Day In The Life…

Day 6 (Pt. 1)

(The Missing Briefcase)

It was a cold rainy morning, outside the campus of Western Legacy Academy. It poured like a Niagara rainfall since the night before, and for the most part, it did not show any signs of letting up. Outside the male's dormitory, a luxury car pulled up towards the gate as the driver screeched to a halt at a bus stop. The driver, who was dressed down for the part, stepped out the car with a black umbrella hovered above him. He stepped to the far end of the car to let his passenger out. Out of the jet black vehicle stepped a young man with fair skin. His shimmery silver was his prominent feature due to the fact he was too young for gray hair. His pristine blue eyes glared at the dormitory behind the gate as disgust sank in.

"Hmph, quite dreadful, actually. I guess this will do." The boy said in an English accent.

"Here, mastah. Take this umbrella while I grab your bags." The driver said as he proceeded to grab the young man's bags. He then escorted him towards the dorm room building.

-xxx-

"You cheated!" JP yelled as Kouichi whooped in a first person shooter game.

"How could I have cheated?"

"I don't know but… you just did."

"Will you keep it down? I'm trying to finish my Literature homework." Kouji yelled.

"I told you, Kouji. You should have done it as soon as she gave the assignment out," Kouichi, reprimanding his brother

"Don't lecture me. I was busy."

Meanwhile, Takuya came out of the bathroom, ready for school, but class would not start in another 30 minutes.

"Well this is a shock. Since when do you wake up early?" Kouichi wondered.

"I don't know. I guess the rain soothed me to sleep last night. It always does." Takuya walked over to the cabinet to pull out his favorite morning cereal, Krazy Krunches, Which were wafers glazed in 100 grams of suger…per a bite. He poured himself a bowl and walked over to the fridge to pull the carton of milk.

"How 'bout best two out of three?" JP said, hoping that Kouichi would take the bait for another round before it was time to go to school.

Takuya opened the carton of milk and attempted to poor its contents into the bowl, but nothing came out but a drop.

"WHAAAAA?!"

All the guys snapped their attention at Takuya who was acting like a total drama queen.

"What's the deal man?" JP asked.

"Theres… no more… milk!"

The guys in the entire room gasped. All hell was about to break loose.

"I need milk in order to enjoy this cereal!" Takuya lashed out. As soon as he said that the guys went back to what they were doing as if he did not say anything of urgency.

"Fine…I'll go get some milk from the school cafeteria." Takuya pouted as he walked over to door and placed his shoes on. "I'll be right back!" the young man said as he sprinted out the door like a bullet. "No thanks to you guys!"

Takuya forgot about the rain as he jogged outside. "Crap! I should have brought an umbrella."

As he jogged he reminisces on how his morning was going so far.

"Those lousy friends of mine can't even tell when we're out of stuff like milk. Now they got me out here running in the rain like a crazy idiot. Man, I need that milk…"

As he passed through the girl's dormitory he noticed something that caught his attention. It was a silver briefcase lying out in a bush with no one attended.

Takuya's curiosity got the better of him as he slowed down to a halt. He walked over to the briefcase with a pensive attitude. He surveyed his surroundings to make sure no one was watching, and that no traps would capture him in his devious act. As soon as everything checked out, Takuya snatched the briefcase from its lonely spot. He tested its weight by weighing it up and down in his hand like a balance. It was substantially heavy. He cracked it open a small amount, just in case there was a detonating bomb. Instead, it was something else that blew his mind. He hastily rushed back towards the dorm rooms. Wait till the other guys find out what he discovered.

(Meanwhile at the guys dorm…)

"OK that was the best 3 out of 5. I'm done. I need to get ready for school."

"I swear, Kouichi, your cheating. You know some secret to this game that I don't."

"Will you guys shut up? I need to concentrate. I only have ten minutes to finish this homework …"

Both JP and Kouichi glared at Kouji.

"Dude, just copy of Kouichi."

"How dare you insult my integrity?" Kouji lashed out.

"Wha…?"

"I would never settle to the means of cheating in order pass any class. It completely goes against my code of ethics."

"You have a code of ethics?"

Suddenly the door flew open, banging against the wall. Takuya stood in the doorway panting as heavy as a jogger who ran a hundred mile race.

"Takuya? What's up with you?"

Still breathless, Takuya pulled the briefcase from behind his back. "Look what I found!"

"A briefcase?"

"Yes, and not just any briefcase." He slammed the thing on the counter and flipped the case open. A golden light blazed out of the briefcase accompanied by a heavenly symphony. Inside was a plethora of money bundled together by the hundreds.

"Dude? Where'd you find this?" JP asked.

"Outside in a nearby bush."

JP and the other two could not believe that answer. "That's crazy. How much is in there?"

"A LOT! A WHOLE-FREAKIN-LOT!"

"Do you have any idea whose it is?"

"Nope… that's why we're going to keep it."

"Sweet mama jamba!" JP walked over to the case of money to get his hands on it, but Takuya swatted his hand away.

"Hey…That's my money. Hands off."

"Your money? Don't you think you should at least share it?"

"Hell no! I found it. I keep ti!"

Kouji silenced the two. "You idiots. Place money before men and they show their true selfish nature."

Takuya and JP faced the wise Kouji Minamotto. There beady eyes blinked at Kouji's remark.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"I don't need to repeat myself. All I'm saying is we should share this thing evenly, but before that we should at least attempt to find its rightful owner before claiming it."

"Yes, Kouji's right. Rule of thumb is that you wait three daysfor the rightful owner to return a lost item is rightfully yours." Kouichi informed the lot.

"Says who?"

"It's in the finder's keeper's handbook on page 67 section C.2." Kouichi pulled out a handbook from thin air, behind his back.

"I don't even want to know where you got that book from just now." JP said, baffled by Kouichi and his mysterious handbook.

"Alright, fine we'll split it even." Takuya said. He succumbed to the peer pressure.

"Yes we will, and in the meantime it should be hidden in a place only we should know until it's rightfully ours." Kouji suggested, stepping away from the group towards the window. He noticed the rain stopped but was still gloomy outside.

"What about Zoe and Tommy? Are we going to tell them?" Takuya asked.

"It's better if few people know about this until the dust has settled. Now let's go to class before were late."

The guys hid the briefcase in one of the cabinets and walked out of the room. It was only a matter of time before the money would belong to them.

-xxx-

(Meanwhile in Homeroom Class)

Takuya's stomach grumbled loudly like a gargling lava pit. During the morning's fiasco, he forgot about the milk and his cereal. He would have to go half of the day without food.

"Man I knew I was forgetting something." Takuya mumbled as he tightly clenched his stomach.

Meanwhile, Ms. Avery walked through the classroom door as the students began to settle down.

"Alright class. I hope you had a good and productive weekend."

"Yes!"

"No!"

"My weekend sucked!"

All the students went on about how their weekend was either great or horrible.

"That's good to hear. Now will you all please hand in your assignments from last week?"

Just about every student groaned as they pulled out the homework sheets from the bag.

Takuya dug through his bag for his assignment. His bag was disorganized and hard to locate anything of importance. Once he finally located the packet of paper, Kouichi, whom was sitting behind him, lurched over to ask him about the briefcase.

"So do you think we should tell the school principle about the briefcase? Or maybe Mr. Hitoyoshi could be of assistance?"

"Sssh! Now's not the time to discuss that. People could here you."

"Whats this I hear, about a briefcase?" Zoe asked. She was sitting diagonally behind Takuya and overheard the boy talking to Kouichi.

"O-oh… nothing… nothing at all. It's not like there was any money-" Takuya was cut off by the teacher who was now starring at the boy.

"Takuya? Is there something you want to discuss with the class?"

"NO MS. AVERY! NOTHING AT ALL!"

She had to admit. Takuya was acting peculiar.

"Good! Alright class now that you've handed your assignments in, please turn your books to page 123…"

As she was instructing the class a loud knock on the door echoed.

"Who is it?" asked Ms. Avery.

In stepped a young man dress in a white gakuran trimmed with light blue edgings. His shimmery silver hair was in the shape of an anime mullet; short and well groomed in the front and pointy in the back. His piercing blue eyes scanned the classroom before he entered.

"Hello! My name is Derrick Florence Dartmouth, but please call me Florence. I believe I'm your new transfer student," Said the young man with an English accent.

The class erupted in excitement. He looked like he came from a prestigious family line.

Ms. Avery was baffled by the news. In fact, she complete forgot about it this morning since she was informed of it the day before

"That's right! They mentioned you were the new student. I completely forgot." Ms. Avery adjusted her outfit slightly, as if she were trying to make a good impression in front of the boy. "Well class, say hello to our new student."

"HIIIIIIIIII!" Everyone greeted.

"I swear we keep getting new students every other day!" one random student muttered.

"Now how 'bout you take a seat over there In front of Takuya for now."

There just so happened to be an empty seat in front of the goggle-less boy. Florence walked over to Takuya and stared at him. It was as if he was analyzing him for any flaws.

"High there! My name's Takuya." Takuya introduced himself, but the new student sneered with a soundly "hmph" before he took his seat.

What's his problem? Takuya thought.

-xxx-

Later on after class, the gang hung around Florence, trying to get to know him better.

"So how's it going?" Takuya asked, even though he knew he was getting bad vibes from the new kid.

The boy glanced at him then closed his eyes dismissively. He then lamented over his predicament.

"I swear if I did not know any better I'd say my father was trying to punish me of some sorts, by sending me to this lousy school. How wretched."

"Why would your father punish you?" Takuya asked.

"Because… I come from a long line of Dartmouths; well known for our royalty and excellent academics, yet here I am in the mist of buffoons."

"Hey, know need to call it like it is. I bet you'd fit right in, Derrick." Takuya was behaving a little too comforting and optimistic.

"How DARE you call me by my first name! Only my father calls me Derrick. You may refer to me as Florence," The boy closed his student bag and stood up from his seat, "Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be leaving now. Good day..."

With that he walked out the classroom door.

"Man, that guy has one rich personality, I must say." Takuya said with admiration. He seemed to have forgotten how rude the boy was behaving towards him.

"Yeah, right! Your just sucking up to him, so you can get close to his family and his wealth."

"Yeah, perhaps if he tries any hard he may fit in the family tree."

The guys chuckled.

"Yeah Takuya. Maybe if they give you some of his inheritance, you might share it with us." Zoe quipped.

Takuya glared back at the three friends of his. How dare they insult his integrity and good natured soul. "And by sharing, if you mean tossing it at you while you dance for me on a stripper pole, then yes! Yes I will share the hell out of it."

Takuya was entranced by the thought, while Zoe glared daggers at him. "You're such a slob Takuya."

(Yes, I stole a joke… sue me.)

-xxx-

Meanwhile at lunch, the gang sat at the same table as they usually do. Takuya was the hungriest since he missed out on breakfast. He wolfed down his meal as if it were going to escape his salivating lips.

"Geez, Takuya! You're eating more than JP." Kouichi remarked. He was on his third scoop of the green jello.

Other than his remark, the table was mostly quiet. No one had anything to say or speak of. It was then that Zoe remembered Takuya and Kouichi's conversation.

"So what were you guys talking about this morning? Something about a briefcase?"

"Disregard whatever you heard. I can assure you it was nothing but nonsense." Kouji intervened, trying his best to dissuade the curious Zoe.

"Yeah, but Takuya mentioned something about money before Ms. Avery interrupted him."

"MONEY?" Tommy's ears perked once those words escaped Zoe's mouth.

"Oh gosh now Tommy knows." Takuya exclaimed as he slapped his forehead.

"Knows what?" Zoe asked.

"Yeah, what do I know?" Tommy asked. He was clueless as ever.

Both the twins glared at Takuya's choice of words, causing suspicion from the others.

"You idiot! I swear you're horrible at keeping secrets." JP smacked Takuya across the back of the head.

"Hey, that's not true. I do a decent job of keeping my mouth shut, like that one time you ate Zoe's cake she baked for her mother…"

Zoe gasped. She had wondered who could have done such a thing all this time and know she finally knew. "How could you JP? That was for my mom?"

"Yeah, but it was an accident. I SWEAR!" JP defended himself before his eyes glared at Takuya. For a second he was possessed by rage and strangled Takuya by the neck. "I swear Takuya! You just can't keep your mouth SHUT!"

Kouji ignored the dispute between them and divulged the information he and the other three were trying to hide.

"Well I guess the cats out of the bag. Apparently, Takuya found a briefcase this morning, and we all decided we would keep it once it was ok to claim ownership. Afterwards we would eventually let you and Tommy in on the deal."

"Ah SWEET! I'm gonna be RICH!" Tommy exclaimed.

"Ssssh! You'll attract unwanted attention. We want the least amount of people to know about this as much as possible."

"Hey, guys?" Rosa, who had not been seen in some time, came across there table.

"Wow, Rosa? Haven't seen you in like two chapters now." Takuya said.

"Yeah, I've been around…" the girl replied.

There was an awkward pause.

"So I guess I'll be leaving now." The girl walked off, never to be heard from again till the next time she showed herself.

"So anyways… where's the briefcase.?" Zoe asked.

"It's back at our dorm room in a safe place where no one shall touch it till everything is cleared." Kouji informed.

"Well, shouldn't you guys at least tell someone in authority about this so that people would be aware that there's a missing briefcase full of money?" Tommy asked.

"That's the thing. If everyone knows about it, then everyone would claim it, and we would also be in jeopardy of getting hurt or robbed in the process by greedy bastards." JP replied, with his arms folded, and eyes closed.

"He's right. Plus giving it to the school principal or Mr. Hitoyoshi, doesn't seem right. For all we know we may never see the thing again…" It was Takuya's turn to shed some of his light on the situation.

All this discussion of money was getting them more paranoid than cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

"How bout we tell our headmaster, Sgt. Colonel? He's a trustworthy guy, being a veteran and all." Takuya had an idea.

"Perhaps. But until then we keep quiet about this. OK?" Kouji insisted that everyone swear an oath of silence.

Everyone shook their head as a response. They were on board with the plan.

"Well guys, I got to get going. Don't want t be late for my next class." JP got up from his chair to put his tray away. It was shocking because JP's tray of food was hardly touched.

"Yeah, and I need to go use the restroom." Kouichi added. He too got up to take his tray away.

"Well I don't know about you guys but I'm gonna go get some more food…" Takuya leaped to his feet and dashed off.

Now Tommy, Zoe, and Kouji were alone staring at one another, with anxious looks as to what was going on. The sudden disbanding got to Kouji and his instincts as he slowly descended under the table. Zoe and Tommy watched him, confused as ever.

-xxx-

Takuya was halfway up the stairs in the guy's dormitory as he headed towards his room. He grabbed the door knob and slowly turned while looking around him to see if anyone was watching.

As he continued inside, he tip toed his way over to the cabinet where the briefcase was. It was then he heard a loud noise from the cabinet. It took Takuya back by surprise. Then fear set in. He thought there may have been a robber trying to steal the case full of money.

Suddenly the window opened as a large leg crept inside. Takuya shrieked louder than the human ear could handle as he reached for a weapon. It was JP that was trying to get in from the outside.

"JP? What the hell are you doing?"

"Me?" JP dusted himself off and adjusted his burnt orange sweater vest. "What the hell are you doing here?"

"Oh I was just checking to see if I locked the door this morning…"

"Mmmhmmm…. Really?" JP nodded his head with skepticism in his eyes.

Instantaneously, the cabinet opened and out stepped Kouji himself.

JP and Takuya shrieked together. It was like seeing a ghost from the past show up to their birthday party.

"What the hell, Kouji?"

"Yeah, when did you get in there?" How'd you get in there? Takuya emphasized the last question.

"Ssssh… I have my ways. Plus, I knew something was up when guys decided to leave us at the lunch table so early."

Kouichi was the last to show up when he opened the bathroom door. He was out of breath and clutching his chest. He looked at all three of the guys who were gawking back at him as if he had three arms and one eye.

"Man… how'd you guys get here so fast?"

"How'd you get inside the bathroom?"

"Oh, I climbed through the window in the bathroom…"

This was odd. Here they all stood in the same room with the same purpose of stealing the briefcase for their own selfish needs.

"So I guess we won't be touching this," Kouji tapped the silver briefcase in his hand as he held it up in front of him, "Just know that I have an eye on all of you and the other on this briefcase so no one get any funny ideas."

"Wait, won't that make you cross eyed?" Takuya wondered.

"Now dismiss this idea of trying to pull a fast one on each other. It won't work." Kouji replied, ignoring Takuya's dumb question.

The other three looked defeated, knowing their plans of sabotage failed, especially since Kouji found some secret way to teleport to places.

-xxx-

"Please?" Zoe begged the brunette.

"NO!" Takuya replied.

"Come on. Why not?" Zoe begged some more as she jiggled up and down.

"Because… we don't want too many people meddling, that's all." Takuya held his ground.

They where in the middle of Chemistry class and it was five to a group in a lab experiment. JP, Kouji and Kouichi were also there.

"OH so now I'm meddling?" Zoe cocked an attitude at the Takuya.

"I didn't mean it like that. It's just…"

"It's just that we can't trust people these days." Kouji said, arrogantly as he wrote some verbiage in his Chemistry notebook.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Zoe wondered, twirling a strand of hair in her finger.

Kouji looked up from his notes. His face was delirious due to the fact he looked weird with his goggles on. "It means we can't trust each other. Earlier after lunch I caught these three trying to get their hands on the briefcase."

Zoe gasped like a soap opera actress.

"Hey, don't give us that bull crap. You were there too…"

"In my defense, I was guarding the thing from you guys. I didn't want to see you guys fighting over such materialistic thing like money."

"Pssh whatever…" JP scoffed.

They continued with their lab as Kouichi pitched in an idea. "You know to make this go faster, we could ask around the campus to see if anyone is missing anything without telling them what it is."

"Not a bad idea," said Takuya as he placed his goggles on. This felt familiar.

It was after the last and final school bell the gang dispersed to see if anyone was in desperate search of a missing item.

-xxx-

TO BE CONTINUED…

A/N: Continue to the next chapter… and beware what awaits you in despairrrrrrr…