Years have passed now and people's minds are willing to forget the tragedy that had taken place so long ago… Still, in the mind of some people it seems only a week since the terrible tragedy in World of Magic happened… Indeed in both Muggle and Magic world people think with the same way…

They choose to close their eyes and trying to forget of things they do not like, or things they are not proud of. So now, years after the fall of Dark Lord Voldemort and the terrible pogrom of Muggle wizards, people pretend it never happened. As if they had never turned against their own kind…wizards and witches like themselves. And they put their minds at ease since the darkness was defeated and peace got back to both Worlds…

Unfortunately though, nothing is permanent in either Muggle or Magic world. The darkness was defeated thanks to the bravery of the Boy Who Lived, Harry Potter and his brave friends, thanks to the guidance of the teachers of the famous school Hogwarts of Witchcraft and Wizardry, however all forget that darkness is part of our soul, like when they see in the sky of the endless universe even if there are small breaks of light, what usually remains is…

Darkness…

Umbra…

Yami…Yami…Yami…


"Yami! Yami!"

A pair of violet eyes opened sharply and looked around, as though it was the first time they checked the environment around. After that, soon, some calming breaths followed and some drops of sweat that was covering that young face.

"Yami!" the thin, child's voice was heard again from somewhere afar.

Yami Muto slowly sat up on the bed and wiped the sweat from his forehead. His face, for sure, wasn't one of those easily forgettable. His hair was unique tri-colored and spiky in golden, black and purple and the soft characteristics of his face harmonically fitted his appearance. What was most captivating about the thirteen-year-old young one was, for sure, the pair of levanter eyes. They were sharp and seemed able to see deeply in someone's soul, and were making him look older than the thirteen years of his age. Oh, yes. Yami Muto was not a child that could pass by someone, unnoticed.

"Yami!" the voice called again

"I am coming!" finally Yami called back and threw the bed sheet off him and got out of the bed.

He looked at the mess he had made in his sleep. The pillow was so pressed by his head during the night that now looked like an unspecified mass of rags. He sighed feeling his head heavy from the strange sleep as if a heavy wet rug was still on it and was pulling his neck down bit by bit by the weight. He fixed his bed a little and removed his vest to start wearing his blue school uniform.

It was the beginning of one more boring day at school, Yami supposed. One year now he entered into secondary school, so his pants were long.

"Yami! We'll be late! And breakfast is getting cold!" the thin voice from downstairs was growing impatient

"Just a second!" Yami called back and finished his dressing by putting on the jacket of his blue uniform

He looked at the corner of the small room. The room didn't have much. It had a small night table with a lamp on it and a window at the ceiling to allow the light going in. Right at the other corner of the room there was another bed. It belonged to the person Yami shared his room with. He noticed the bed was clean and fixed.

"Yami!"

"Right away!" immediately snapped out of his thoughts

Quickly grabbed his school sack and stormed out of the room heading downstairs…


He entered a small kitchen that was also dining room. The table was set and a boy was already there, eating breakfast. He was small-sized for his age and his feet weren't touching the floor as he was sitting on the chair, but his legs were hanging from it, constantly swinging playfully.

The boy resembled him greatly. He had the same tri-colored spiky hair and the same color of eyes. The great difference between them was that the boy's eyes were two sweet and caring orbs of purple while Yami's were sharp and full of determination. The boy was dressed in a school uniform as well but in a baby-blue color and short pants (proof that he was still in elementary school). At the cooker there was an old man making breakfast.

When the noise of the door opening was heard the boy looked up at Yami and gave him a playful glare.

"What?" Yami protested defensively, "I wasn't THAT late this time!"

"You were!" the little boy said pouting, "And we will be late again!"

"Yugi is right" the old man took part in the brotherly talk, "Besides your breakfast is getting colder"

"Yeah, yeah…" Yami said taking his seat as well to the table

He started eating his breakfast and drinking his milk and tea. Now that someone could observe the two brothers better, then he could see they were polar opposites. Yugi was shy, collected and more consistent. Yami was more outgoing (even if he never had too many friends), brave, rushing and more temperamental than his eleven-year-old brother.

They had lost their parents in a car accident and ever since, they lived with their grandfather, Sugoroku Muto in that small town of Japan, Domino. Their grandpa was running a Game Shop named Kame (Turtle) and this is how they earned their living.

"I'm done!" said Yami taking his plate and glass to take them to the sink

"Already? Big brother you must not eat so fast! It will affect your stomach!"

Yami turned around and smiled

"We're in a hurry aren't we?"

Within a couple of minutes the two brothers were at the door putting their shoes on

"Hurry, Yami! Hurry!" Yugi said putting his shoes on in a second and he was already at the outside door.

"Alright, alright! Jeez!" Yami sighed rolling his eyes

However his little brother's enthusiasm in the morning was the best thing to him to wake up with. Chuckling he put his shoes on. Soon his brother would turn eleven. He was already planning of what to do for his birthday. He was ready to go when he felt grandpa's hand on his shoulder. He turned to look at him

"Yami…" he seemed worried like every morning they left for school, "…Please…take care of your brother…"

"I will" Yami nodded

It was their morning routine. Grandpa was always worried and was asking from Yami to take care of his little brother and Yami was assuring him of that. Like every morning, Sugoroku smiled a small smile and patted Yami on the shoulder.

"Alright! Off you go now!"

Yami nodded and ran out of the door where his impatient little brother was waiting…


It was their morning routine. Yami was taking Yugi to school before heading too, to his own school and then, when his classes would be over, he returned to Yugi's school to pick him up and take him back home. Unfortunately, Yami was the only friend Yugi ever had. He was more than just his brother. He was his friend, protector, parent, his company…his help in tough times. Yami was always acting carefree and happy with his brother but when he was protecting him, he was strong and determined. Unfortunately (for poor Yugi) his little brother was picked on a lot and bullied at school, especially from older guys that were for second year in the last grade of elementary school. He was bullied for his small size and the lack of guts.

Yugi was taking it calmly most of the time and when he was alone in the room, he was crying alone. Only Yami was "allowed" to be with him at those times of personal grief, that was the reason the two brothers were so close.

However there was something else… Yugi was a special kid, even if others didn't want to admit it. He was special…in a way Yami could never specify nor explain. He was a little jealous of him for that (not in a bad way of course). That "specialty" of his was Yugi's shield against all that, or else the sensitive little guy would cry himself to sleep many nights.

Yugi knew that his loved ones thought he was special. He needed nothing more… Also the two brothers spent much time into playing games together, competing each other in friendly way, trying surpassing one another. They were calling themselves "King" and "Prince" of games. Yami was the King Yugi was the Prince.

They kept on walking on the silent road. The sun had risen for good. Yugi was as always walking around and giggling as he was enjoying some trip instead of a walk to school. Yami could never understand where that enthusiasm came from! When they reached the front gate of Yugi's school, Yugi's smile didn't leave his face. There, he stopped and hugged Yami tightly and Yami hugged him back.

"Don't be late to pick me up okay?" he told him in his small voice

Yami smiled.

"No. I promise"

Yugi smiled and left running towards the school. He was assured. Yami always kept his promises… Yami remained to the gate, waiting for Yugi to get lost inside the building. He then rolled his eyes smiling and, putting his hands in his pockets, started leaving too, hoping he wouldn't be late for the first period of classes.


The sun was already going down while Yami was walking in the street, heading to Yugi's school once more. His steps were slightly faster than the morning, as if it was really important to him to reach Yugi's school in time. Practically it was. He knew that Yugi's older classmates usually bullied him on the exit. Not always, however Yami didn't want to risk it. Not only because he didn't want Yugi to be hurt physically but also because he didn't want him hurt emotionally.

Yugi was special, and at times of stress, special and strange things happened. Well, usually most people thought it was pure coincidence when, for example, a fruit fell from a branch straight onto the attacker's head even if there was no wind to push it, or when the bully running after Yugi suddenly fell to the ground stepping over a root that wasn't supposed to be there the moment before, or when a water puddle appeared out of no where in the middle of the street and the chaser fell straight into it with the face and so Yugi had time to escape.

However Yami was a boy that didn't believe in coincidences and also was overprotective. He had no further information for Yugi's…"abilities" except the fact that they were special…as a result he would prefer if Yugi didn't use those abilities too often. He had no idea how powerful they were or whether they did damage to Yugi as well. He'd rather not find out in the hard way if his fears were true or not.

He reached the school and even from fifty meters away he spotted…Yugi in the middle of the yard with around four older guys around him, laughing and trying to hit him and take his sack (in which usually he carried toys and games with him to play alone in the school breaks). Yami immediately ran there. He approached the gate and saw even clearer what was going on. Yugi was holding his back in his arms, clenching it to his chest tightly as if it was a lifeboat that was saving him from drowning and the boys were around him daring him to hand the bag over "if he were a man"

"OI!" Yami yelled and pushed a couple of boys that were about to hit Yugi, "Cut it out! Four against one and you dare to call yourselves men!" Yami bellowed

Most of the children usually stepped back seeing him because he was around an inch taller than them (even Yami was getting taller slowly for his age) and older and his feisty eyes were in a way scaring them.

"Well, well, well…look who's back!" Fujita Shoji said

Fujita was around the same age with Yami but he had skipped school a lot the year before so he was forced to stay and repeat the class. He was two inches taller than Yami and better built. He had blonde hair that as usually he had them up, held by a two-colored ribbon.

"You came to pick a fight, Yami?"

Yami looked at him with anger in his violet eyes. He knew that as long as Fujita was with them, the little brats would keep coming at him. That's why he only said:

"Back off, Fujita!"

"Oh! Or else what? Are you going to beat me up? Guys!"

Yugi's scream came to Yami's ears and he saw the four children going to Yugi again. Yami screamed Yugi's name and ran at them, he punched one of them and avoided to be kicked by another. Of course they were more, and around the same height as he was so he got some hits during the fight

"Yami!" Yugi called

"Yugi stay back!" Yami yelled

The last thing he wanted was yet another thing to happen. He could have taken them on his own, at least that was what he believed, if they hadn't showed up at the gate...Fujita's older brothers. The two of them were around two meters tall and for sure they wouldn't escape "alive from their hands".

"Uh, let's go Yugi!" Yami grabbed Yugi's wrist and they started running out of the gate running past the two "bodyguards" as fast as they could

"After them!" Fujita shrieked

The children along with Fujita started running after them. Yami was looking over his shoulder constantly to see how closer they were coming. They were gaining ground all the time. Yugi looked back too and gasped…and then…something happened. One of their chasers flew in the air backwards as if some unknown force had pulled an invisible rope behind his knees. The boy flew and fell comically on his butt in the street inside a pond with dirty water. Yami and Yugi couldn't help but giggle at the comical fall.

They turned to the next block and then, somehow, someway, a cloth fell from its rightful place on the ropes where it was hanging from to get dry and covered completely the two out of the remaining chasers, as though it was one old-fashioned ghost costume. The two boys knocked on each other, since they couldn't see where they were going and fell on the ground, tangled into the white bed sheet. The sight gave some shivers down to the remaining two boys (Fujita included) but seeing the two boys giggling again over the fall of two more members of his gang, Fujita barked once again to his friend to move faster. Yami had started getting irritated but still he couldn't allow anything more to happen. Unfortunately for his expectations, while they ran under a tree, one of the branches moved as if it were some human arm and "grabbed" the remaining friend of Fujita's.

"Yugi! Stop this" Yami said to his brother rigidly while he kept dragging from the wrist and they kept on running

"Stop what?" the boy asked but something in his eyes showed that he knew exactly what his brother was talking about

They ran into a narrow alley, hoping that Fujita would give up however they found themselves trapped in a dead end and Fujita was now approaching slowly.

"So you two, smarties thought that could ran away like that without paying for what you've done to my companions?" Fujita barked enraged, as his nostrils were constantly flattering as if he was some crazy animal.

"Leave him alone, Fujita!" Yami exclaimed and he seemed ready to hit him on the face

"Yami, don't!" Yugi screamed and suddenly…

… Fujita tried to make a step closer to the two brothers but his foot slipped into something invisible and as if someone had worn him roller-scares he started spinning fast towards outside the alley, while panicked Fujita was screaming his lungs out for help and soon…slipping like that reached the riverbank that was close, where he went flying into the river from and a loud "splash" was heard as his body fell in the center of the river… Yami gasped, for he wasn't expecting something like that. When Fujita emerged out of the water with a loud gasp, Yami found the opportunity to grab Yugi's wrist again and drag him away from the spot, running fast, with Fujita's curses echoing behind them all the more distant…


Somewhere away from the spot, the two brothers stopped to catch their breath and make sure that no one was following them anymore. After that they looked at each other, panting for a couple of seconds. Then, as if they had agreed to do it together, they scoffed and then burst out laughing. They laughed for long, not being able to stop. Yami's ribs hurt from laughter and their previous running and he was feeling that he was still out of breath but now that he recalled back to everything that had happened during their mad chasing, he felt as if he had watched a good comical show. Yugi too was laughing holding his stomach with both hands, red-faced from running and out of breath as well.

"Did you see their faces!" Yugi said still laughing

Yami was still trying to catch his breath from laughing

"Yeah!" he had to admit it was hilarious.

However his expression changed after he took a few breaths to re-gain his composure.

"Yugi" he said, "I told you not to do that. Especially in public"

"But brother…"

"It might be dangerous! For you that is!"

"Dangerous? But how can it be dangerous? And besides I don't do this on purpose! I can't help it!" Yugi protested

"You need to learn how to control it, though" Yami insisted

"I can't! I simply can't! It just…happens!" now Yugi had panicked tears in his eyes

Yami touched his brother's shoulders

"Yugi, calm down…calm down… Look I…I am sorry. I am just worried about you…"

Yugi looked up and his eyes were teary. He looked like trapped animal now.

"Yami…? Is that true…? What Fujita yelled to us a little ago…? Am I really…a freak…?"

Yami's eyes widened for a second. He hadn't paid attention at all to Fujita's yelling before. However apparently Yugi did. And the word "freak" was told to him quite often.

"Yugi…no…no, no way! You are not a freak! You…you're brilliant! You are special! That's all!"

He softly caressed the younger boy's cheek and Yugi leaned to his touch like a kitten that needed petting and comfort.

"What you do… How many people can do that? You are special, Yugi and everyone knows it! Me, grandpa…all those who love you can see that and they tell you! Pay no mind to those idiots! They are jealous!"

Yugi swallowed once and leaned his head in Yami's arms who hugged him tenderly, petting his back comfortingly.

"It was…so…strange and overwhelming feeling…it was…like magic…" he whispered

"I know…" Yami whispered back

"If I cannot do that…then…I'll be a no one…just…a useless crybaby…"

"Don't say that! Don't even think about it! You ARE someone! And you are brilliant! You are…you! And also…remember I cry more than you do!" he smiled slightly when he said the last one, "I cry even when I am frustrated and angry"

Yugi smiled softly looking in Yami's eyes. Yami was really proud. He would never admit that to everyone if he didn't trust him or her. Yugi wiped his tears and nodded.

"Okay…" he said

Yami smiled back and helped his brother stand up again.

"Let's go. I am starving and Grandpa might be worried!"

Yugi smiled sweetly and nodded again. The two brothers took their way back home with Yugi having his arms wrapped around Yami's arm and leaning his head against his shoulder.

"Yami…you are the best brother I would ever ask for…" Yugi whispered

"Thanks…" Yami said with a smile, "You too…"

And then…he added:

"But don't get too excited! I'd rather not end up in the middle of a dirty puddle or with leaves and branches in my hair, if you don't mind!"

Yugi's answer was a small, childish and sweet giggle…


Hello guys! I just couldn't wait anymore and I simply HAD to post the first chapter of my Yami Muto story!

"Yami Muto" is parody-title for "Harry Potter"
The plot takes place many many years after the defeat of Voldemort. As you can see many adventures come again! More information seen in the journal at my DA profile and the...later chapters!

Anyway, as you can see it is pretty much similar to Harry Potter thing. Some of you might say that I am trying (and perhaps with no success) to mimik the writing of Harry Potter books and perhaps they are right. However I was really "enchanted" by the only book I have red in Eglish (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) and I simply wanted to make my writing look good to be red!

So...back to the story. As you can see, Yugi is the wizard and not Yami Surprise? Well you must wait and see!
I might be a little slow at this because I want to finish my Vampire Yami story first! However I just couldn't help it and I HAD to write this! I hope you like it!
At first I mentioned the word "darkness" in different languages with last one the Japanese to fit it with Yami as name

Fujita Shoji was NOT my creation. He appears in the manga … (however I came up with his sirname "Shoji")

I give this as a gift to all of my friends and especially to Kassandra-21 (for she loves Harry Potter) and of course SlytherinTonks (DA) who gave me permission use her creations as preview images

Please do not use or copy any part of this writing without my permission. If you want to create art of it (pics, one-shot comics etc...) please give me credit and come to me giving me a link of your art so I can thank you properly and admire your work

Please if you read this review me!
Enjoy!