Ryou smiled to himself as he walked to school. He had gotten to play monster world for the first time in years without any mysterious comas occurring. The evil spirit that had possessed him without his knowledge had been expelled. Everything was perfect, well, except for the mysterious disappearance of his necklace, but that could be taken care of later. His smile widened as he arrived at school and then headed for his class.

"Good morning, Bakura-kun." greeted Haruhi.

"Ah, Good morning." Ryou replied. "How did your break go?'

Haruhi yawned, "It was tiring. The club made me go with them to the beach. How about you?"

"I made some new friends, and I was able to play Monster World." Ryou smiled.

"That's nice," said Haruhi, smiling back.

They arrived at the classroom, and chatted a few moments, before the teacher came in and started the class.

*-At lunch*-

Ryou followed the twins, who were dragging Haruhi, to lunch. Haruhi pulled out her bento and sat down, Ryou copying her.

"You brought your own lunch?" asked one of the twins, as the other went to get lunch.

"Yes." answered Ryou. "Why?"

"The cafeteria serves many exquisite dishes from around the world, you know. Most choose to buy something here."

"Well, I'm used to eating my own cooking. I wouldn't want to waste money buying something that I might not like."

Haruhi turned then, startled. "You can cook?" she asked.

The other twin sat down. "Waste money?" he asked.

"Well, of course I can cook. That's a pretty normal skill set isn't it?" he replied. "And of course I wouldn't want to waste money, father's spending enough money sending me here as it is."

The rest of the Host club had come up by this point, and they sat down. Kyouya made a notation in his book, probably about Ryou's money concern, and Tamaki stared at Ryou oddly. Hunny at his cake, and Mori sat by him.

The talk at the table devolved to a debate about the conservation of funds.

During a pause, Ryou smiled to himself. He could get used to being around these people for longer periods of time, though he should probably tell Nekozawa about the incident during break. Oh well, he thought, Nekozawa will be just as interested tomorrow as he would be today.

However, Ryou kept putting off his chat with Nekozawa, not bothering to search him out for the next week. He was reminded that he had yet to speak with Nekozawa, when he saw his cousin Kirimi heading to her limo from the elementary school.

On his way to the Black Magic club, he spotted Haruhi standing next to the stairs.

"Hello, Fujioka-kun."

"Hi." she replied, shortly. "Have you seen either of the twins since classes ended?"

"No. Why?"

"They told me to wait here for them, but they've been gone for almost half an hour. Maybe I should just head up to the Host club without them."

"I'm sure they'll be here soon."

"So, where are you headed?"

"Down to the Black Magic club, to speak with Nekozawa-kun."

"What about?"

"Well, it's rather odd." he began "While I was playing Monster World with my friends in Domino I blacked out, like usual when I play it with other people. I was very happy when I woke up and they were all awake, but I couldn't find my necklace. I wanted to ask Nekozawa if he might have a better idea what happened than I did."

"You lost your necklace?" Haruhi asked. "But, I just saw the twins with it. I figured they had borrowed it from you."

"Really?"

"Yeah,"

"Wow." Ryou was surprised that the twins had found his necklace and not alerted him to their knowledge of its whereabouts.

"If you see them," he began "could you ask them to come talk to me, so that I may ask them to return it."

"Sure." Haruhi smiled.

Ryou glanced at the clock. "Oh! I really need to be going now. I need to catch Nekozawa before he leaves!"

Ryou jogged off, leaving Haruhi behind. As he neared the Black Magic Club, he felt like he had forgotten something. Shrugging it off, he opened the door and entered.

"Nekozawa-kun!" he called "Are you here?"

"Yes." Nekozawa answered from behind.

"Ack! You surprised me!"

"I haven't seen you for a long time. Did you need something?"

"Well, I was going to ask whether you'd seen my necklace, but I just found out the Hitachiin twins have it, so I'll just ask them for it next time I see them."

"You don't have it, then?" Nekozawa looked worried.

"No. Why?"

"Ah. No reason."

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The next day Ryou found the necklace in his desk. He was surprised that the twins had returned it without further prodding. He put it on, tucked under his shirt, and got out his materials for his first class.

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Hi! Sorry this is so short and boring, next chapter should have some exciting things going on. I hope that I remember it... Oh well. Sorry I don't update very often, I'm not sure why I'm like this... See you next chapter!