Disclaimer: I do not own No. 6

A/N: Thank you so much PrincessTutu22 for the very kind review! As promised, here's another chapter where Rikiga causes problems.

Since no one wanted a repeat of the last lesson, in which they had spent nearly two hours driving around trying to figure out where they were and how to get home from there, they decided to bring a map along from then on.

But perhaps they shouldn't have left Rikiga in charge of it.

In their defense, he had said he was a master at reading maps, and that he'd been using them for years and had never had problems before.

Anyway, they had figured, now that they had a map, it would be okay if they went to an area they weren't too familiar with. If they did get lost, they'd be able to find their way back easily, at any rate. Besides, if Shion never practiced driving in places he wasn't familiar with, how would he be able to after getting his license? At least that was what Rikiga had said.

Thinking back on it, Nezumi really should have realized that it was a bad idea, and that they should have chosen a location that at least one of them was familiar with. Again, Rikiga had thought that it would prevent Shion from figuring it out on his own if he could just turn to one of them for help.

Why on earth did they listen to him?

Now they were in a small residential area that none of them had ever seen before, with absolutely no idea how to get back to a road, let alone anywhere they recognized. Seriously, this place was like a labyrinth.

It was only after an hour of driving aimlessly around the maze and then a further half hour of trying to convince Rikiga to just give them directions for how to get out of there that Rikiga finally opened the map.

"Fine, fine. Go left."

After following Rikiga's directions for a further ten minutes, they eventually came across a road leading out of the area. This caused them to think that Rikiga had been telling the truth earlier. What they didn't know at the time was that Rikiga had gotten confused by the map and just said random directions until they reached a road. Somehow, no one had noticed they went around in a circle before then... twice.

Once they were back on an actual road, Rikiga was able to find where they were on the map and stopped giving fake directions. Though they might have been better off if he'd continued.

Nezumi had felt like they were probably not going in the right direction, but he thought maybe they had to take a road a little farther in that direction before they could go onto a road that would lead back home. And a few roads later, he wasn't even sure what direction they should be going in anymore.

Inukashi had fallen asleep at some point while they were driving around in the residential area, which was why she hadn't noticed Rikiga not using the map to guide them out of it.

And Shion was too busy trying to follow directions to consider whether they seemed to be right or not.

Finally, they seemed to be even more lost than they were in the residential area (which was saying something), and Nezumi had to ask. "Rikiga? Are you sure this is the right way?"

"Of course, of course!" Rikiga waved off the question. "Okay, take that road for two more blocks, then turn right."

It was when Rikiga announced they were "almost there" and Nezumi still had no idea where they were that he began to get seriously worried. This feeling only grew when Rikiga gave the last direction and they turned into a high school parking lot.

"I'm pretty sure this is not where we're supposed to be," Nezumi deadpanned.

Rikiga looked honestly confused when he looked up from the map at this comment. "What? But the map-"

"Can I see the map, please?" Nezumi asked. When Rikiga handed it over, Nezumi took one look at it and sighed. "Rikiga. The map was upside down."