I'm Baaaackkkkk! *Tries to sound creepy and fails*

Okay, so anyways, Happy Thanksgiving, if you celebrate it!

icywarm-Yeah, I like it when I update, too, because then I don't feel really bad if I don't have time to work on an update that day. Make sense? I dunno. :)

scarletteaiden-Poor, poor Light. And I'm happy to be back, too. Even if it takes a little while. ^_^

Darquesse-I love the word glomp. Did I make you wait too long, or is the shinigami on it's way? *cowers in fear*

SharinganWeasel-Random is the world. :)

Josefin Tonks-haha funny!

CocoBunni96-Definitely!

Aya Toshu-That's one of the reasons I made him the villain, actually. O_O

yueli-chan=Thank you so much for the feedback!

HinaLuvLuvChan-Can't believe I did, either! Actually, I really like him. But every story needs a villain, right? :)

yaminokokorouta-Thank you. I don't now what my life would be like if creativity didn't exist.

darknesslover009-I'm going to work on updating more consistently. Hopefully, I'll get better on that.

AT HOUSE AT HOUSE AT HOUSE

"Up the tree again." I said to Ry.

How does this happen to me? I get stuck tutoring the new kid, and he's spending the night on the day Father's friend comes into town. What the hell? How did I get suckered into this?

Ry nodded back to me, and then climbed up the tree. I noticed he was barefoot. Just like Ryuzaki always was...

FLASHBACK

"Are you sure this is the way?" I glanced ahead through the floor. There were so many sharp things you could step on. I'm sure that most of them would hurt, even through the thin shoes on my feet.

Ryuzaki gave me a sideways grin, asking, "Why? Scared yet?"

I felt my face flushing. "No! Just wondering."

My answer had come too quickly, though, and was easy to see through. He smirked.

"Thought so. Come one! I won't let anything happen to you. Let's just get over there so we can have some cake!"

I rolled my eyes. Ryuzaki and his sugar.

He took my arm and pulled me through the prickly ground, full of gumballs and broken glass. (Okay, some plants have pinecones to disperse of their seeds. Some use gumballs, which are little round wooden balls with spike sticking out in every direction. They really hurt to step on. I used to have two of those trees in my backyard)

As we crossed the yard, I glanced over at Ryuzaki's shoes. Wait...not shoes, bare feet!

"Where are your shoes?" He paused, startled by my outburst.

"I just felt more comfortable without them." He had a scar on his heel, a jagged line. It was the first time I'd noticed it.

And then he was dragging me through the yard towards the kitchen once more.

End Flashback

Ry Ki...

"Hey, what's your middle name?" I called up softly.

"What's it to you?" His eye twitched on the last word.

I blinked, then shoved the startling idea out of my mind. Impossible. There was no way. I grinned at my childish though.

I'd given up hope of seeing Ryuzaki a long time ago.

But still...It couldn't hurt to investigate, right? Because who else didn't wear shoes? He'd even gone so far as to taking them off in the middle of one of the teacher's lectures ..and he definitely wasn't wearing them now.

Yeah, it's a shorter chapter. But I thought that was a good place to end it. And also, a thanks for Aya Toshu, who's giving me a little extra push in the right direction. Go you. You get a penguin.