Prologue of Behind Bright Eyes
Me: I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK! How many missed me? Let's see a show of hands!
-crickets chirp as no one raises their hand-
Me: Right then… so anywhoosle! I'm back with my sequel to New Professors, called Behind Bright Eyes! It's all about Harry's last year at Hogwarts… oh boy! I've changed my mind and decided that this is the second, NOT last, in the Path of Memories Trilogy! However, there is a prologue to New Professors called Ancient Pasts, Present Futures, which explains how the YGO gang got involved with everything. As for that, I need to work on it... so don't read it! Anywhoosle, on to a summary!
Summary: Sequel to New Professors, New Adventures, this takes place in Harry's last year of Hogwarts. Now that Hogwarts is aware of the professor's – and Voldemort's –powers, they prepare to learn new things to aid Harry in his long-winded quest against Voldemort. But just how long is it going to be? Rated PG-13 for violence and for language. Yu-Gi-Oh!/Harry Potter crossover. Pairings: Seto/Hikari (OC), Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, Mokuba/Wendi (OC). (By the way, Arina and Joey were never actually dating. It was all a cover-up to hid Joey's true personality. See future chapters of "They Want Me To Keep Fighting" – references will also be made in this fic.)
Disclaimer: In addition to not owing YGO or HP or anything else copyrighted in this fic, Hikari and her alter-egos also don't own Marie Blackfelt or Wendi. Marie is owned by Random Person number three and Wendi is owned by Torina Archelda. Both have given her permission in using their OCs in this fic. Both also made up the age and the description, and Random Person number three also made up Marie Blackfelt's history. Random Person number three also owns Arina Arono.
Seventeen-year-old Harry Potter yawned and scratched his head with his quill. He was writing a letter to his god-sister Marie Blackfelt – or, he idly remembered, Marie Black – when he heard his name being called.
"HARRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" yelled Uncle Vernon Dursley, Harry's caretaker for all of his life. He had recently switched to calling Harry by his first name, because of the event on the last day of school:
"Who was that?" asked Aunt Petunia, peering around her husband at Yami and his very noticeable hair. Out of the four of them, only Harry noticed the blonde spikes sticking out disappear, and the man grow shorter as Yugi took over.
"That…" he said, with a grin, "was my father."
There was a silence, and then Aunt Petunia said, "What?!"
"He's my dad."
"He is not! Your father is dead," snarled Uncle Vernon.
Harry shrugged. "Whatever. After all, we're learning how to raise things from the dead at school." Inwardly, Harry smirked – sure they were learning how to revive beings. After all, wasn't that what Monster Reborn did?
His relatives stared at him in shock and fear. Harry moved his cloak by brushing against it to reveal the Millennium Sword and his wand. Flouncing by, he couldn't help but think that it was going to be a wonderful summer.
"WHAT?" yelled Harry, feeling to lazy to go downstairs.
"GET DOWN HERE!" roared his uncle.
Sighing, Harry stroked his owl Hedwig, put her in her cage, and went downstairs.
When he reached there, Uncle Vernon brandished a letter in front of him. Harry, remembering the letter Mrs. Weasley, his best friend Ron's mother, had sent three years previously. He bit back a laugh. However, he saw the envelope was perfectly normal looking and in a very familiar script.
"Kaiba!" he yelled, snatching the letter. He tore it open, but before he could read it, his aunt snatched it from him.
"Kaiba?" she said. "As in Seto Kaiba?"
"The one and only," said Harry.
"What would multi-billionaire Seto Kaiba be writing to you for?" she said snidely.
"The letter is addressed to us, Petunia!" said Uncle Vernon eagerly. "Listen: Dear Mr. and Mrs. Dursley: Do not be alarmed at receiving this letter. It is merely a request. A request, by Seto Kaiba! I was hoping that your nephew…" Uncle Vernon's voice faltered. Harry smirked. "…Hoping that your nephew Harry was available for the rest of the summer to come over to Japan. I will arrange for someone to pick him up and for a jet to be there on the third of August at three o'clock in the afternoon your time. Please respond by either emailing me at or by other means. Sincerely, Seto Kaiba." Uncle Vernon's face grew red. "I – I – is this an insult?!"
"Nope," said Harry, putting his hands in his pockets. "Mokuba – that's Kaiba's younger brother – said that I would be invited to their place over the summer. This is the invite." He yawned. "So… can I go?"
Aunt Petunia took Uncle Vernon aside before he could say anything. Using his Shadow Magic, Harry eavesdropped.
"This might be your big break, Vernon."
"I know, but… still."
"I say let the boy go, but keep contact with the Kaibas… after all, he did give you his email… Dudley would let us use his…"
Uncle Vernon nodded, and turned to Harry. "Alright. You can go use that bloody bird of yours to write to him. But he'd better take you to that damn school of yours!"
Harry nodded solemnly and went to his room. Once inside, he punched the air and screamed, "YES!"
He grabbed a quill, a new parchment, and wrote, hurriedly, "Kaiba, Mokuba, and whoever else is there (more than likely Hikari) – I CAN COME. See you two days from now at three!" Harry took the letter, concentrated on finding Seto Kaiba's Shadow Magic halfway across the globe, and sent it through the Shadow Realm.
Meanwhile, back in Domino City, Japan, twenty-three-year-old Seto Kaiba sat on a couch in his living room. Across from him sat his younger eighteen-year-old brother, Mokuba. Hikari Daeron, his almost twenty-one-year-old girlfriend sat next to him.
"Worried about Harry?" she said sympathetically. Seto sighed.
"I haven't heard from him. I can't help but feel sorry for him."
Mokuba nodded. "Damn straight. After all, he did a lot for us last year."
"I wonder if – ah, here comes his response." Hikari snatched the letter that popped out from a portal. "Using Shadow Magic again? Tsk, tsk, Harry…" She opened it and grinned.
Seto took the letter from her and read it. He allowed a soft smile to come to his face. "He's coming."
Me: TA-DA! End of the prologue!