"Japanese" (Only used when speaking Japanese in a usually English speaking setting)

'Thoughts/Mindlink'

"Normal speak/English."

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By now the group who had actually managed to get on the train had noticed that they were missing a few members. After tossing around some ideas, they realized that there wasn't much they could do to help the missing trio.

"We'll just have to hope they don't get themselves killed on the way to school." Seto said his tone of voice making it seem as if he doubted that would happen. Though at the moment he was too busy working on something on his laptop to care about what had happened to them. He was sitting near the open window.

Hermione sighed and leaned back in her seat across from Seto. "I suppose I have to agree." She looked around the compartment, which also held Neville and Yugi. She had an open book sitting in her lap.

Yugi shook his head; he was sitting on the ground and working on a complicated looking wooden puzzle. Yami was sitting across from him offering help. "Those guys have worse luck then the rest of us combined!" Yugi couldn't believe that they had gotten into trouble, and school hadn't even started yet. They had to be breaking some kind of trouble making record.

Neville shrugged, he was sitting next to Hermione and flipping through a book on magical plants. "Harry is the living definition of; um what's the Muggle phrase I'm looking for? Oh right, 'Trouble Magnet'. It's not that big of a shock. I just hope they don't do something stupid on their way to school. I mean, it's kind of obvious they'll turn up at some point. But how they turn up is probably going to get them in serious trouble if they aren't careful." Neville had a point. But no one was all that worried. Harry had the devils luck. He'd be fine, for the most part.

But that didn't stop Hermione from planning on ripping of Harry and Ron's ears if they did something stupid like she guessed they had.

Conversation quickly moved to more mundane things like classes. No one was all that worried about the Trio who were probably on their way to school just like they were.


Ryou was shaking in terror. The last four hours had been horrible. Ron had lost control of the car twice, they had done four flips, and nearly crashed into things so many times he had lost count! If he hadn't been traumatized by that horrible adventure back in Nocturne Alley, he was certainly traumatized now! Hogwarts was only just coming into view, and the train wasn't that far behind them. At least they wouldn't be late for the feast. At least that's what Ryou told himself to block out Bakura's laughter. Bakura seemed to find this whole situation very amusing for reasons Ryou would rather not try to figure out.

Suddenly the engine started making a sickening sputtering noise. Ron froze in horror as the car started to fall from the air. Harry yelped and lunged for the steering wheel and jerked it to the left. Ensuring that the car barely missed hitting a tree, the tree was a rare breed called the Whomping Willow. Ryou recognized it from when he read Hogwarts a History. It was mentioned in one of the chapters.

The car crashed into the ground, though due to the sheer number of safety charms put on the inside of the car. They were unharmed. But the car was dead. It had no more gas and wouldn't move. Even Ryou, who knew nothing about cars, knew this. That was going to be a slight problem for them later.

Harry was the first to move. Harry got out of the car, followed quickly by Ryou and Ron. Ryou felt as though he could kiss the ground. But didn't because that wouldn't have been very sanitary. Suddenly the car roared to life and the trunk popped open, all of their things were launched out by some force, which Ryou suspected was the car itself. It then drove off into the forbidden forest.

"Well, that was unexpected." Harry blinked. His astonishment only lasted for a few moments. Harry then turned to go and make sure Hedwig was okay, and to pick up his trunk.

Ron was pale. "Dad's going to kill me, we just lost the car!" From Ron's tone of voice you'd think he had just lost an important family pet, not the car. But Ryou figured that Ron had every right to be freaking out. Even if his dad was the least of his problems, Ms. Weasley was much more terrifying then her husband when angry.


Harry, Ron, and Ryou had managed to find the room where their trunks and pet cages were stored until they were taken to their common rooms. Thankfully they had found the rooms before the trunks were moved. They were a tad bit early, the rest of the school would be arriving from the train station any moment, or that's what Ryou assumed.

But as per their luck, they were caught just before they could enter the great hall, Filch was intending on taking them straight to Professor Snape. But suddenly Ryou found himself in his soul room. 'What in the world?' Ryou thought in confusion. Before it dawned on him, Bakura had taken control. What was Bakura going to do? Ron didn't know about Bakura yet! Ryou had made Harry swear not to tell anyone because Ryou had wanted to be the one to tell them when the time was right.

Harry raised an eyebrow. He would have to be an idiot not to notice the change between Bakura and Ryou. Now that he knew what to look for at least. The changes in appearance were surprisingly subtle. The change in hair could easily have been caused by one of the drafts let in from the window near them. The eyes changing from brown to red could have simply been a trick of the light.

It was the non-physical changes that made the most difference. Bakura held himself with an arrogance that Ryou could never pull off. Cruelty and darkness came off of Bakura in waves. As well as that odd type of magic that came from the Millennium Ring. It felt different then the magic used at Hogwarts, It felt Darker, but at the same time lighter. A mixture of the two he supposed.

"The sorting is about to begin. You two should go on ahead. I'll. . . . Deal with Filch." Bakura's smirk made Harry nervous. But he supposed Filch deserved whatever Bakura had in store for him. And Ryou would stop Bakura from being anything too bad. At least, Harry hoped he would, or could. Harry still wasn't clear on the details of how their soul swapping or whatever they called it worked quite yet.

Ron looked confused but didn't have time to ask what was going on. Harry had dragged him back towards the steady stream of students entering the great hall. They slipped into the room and into seats on either side of Hermione.

Hermione raised an eyebrow at them. "And where have you two been? Where's Ryou, he was with you I believe." She whispered frowning in disapproval, ignoring the fact that the sorting had begun. In her eyes, interrogating them was much more important than the new first years. Even if one of them was Ron's little sister and the other was Ron's little sisters best friend.

Harry shrugged. "Ryou's busy. He'll be back when he's done with whatever it is he had to do." Harry wasn't going to rat out Bakura, only because Ryou asked him not to. He hated keeping secrets from his friends. But Ryou might be his brother soon if Seto knew what he was doing. And Family came before friends Harry supposed.

Ron blinked but didn't call Harry out on the lie, besides it has enough of the truth in it for it to not be a total lie. Ron wasn't as stupid as most people thought. If Harry was hiding something, it was for a good reason. But if Harry didn't tell them what was up soon, Ron would have to try and get it out of him. But if Harry was really determined to keep them in the dark, he'd have a hell of a hard time trying to get Harry to reveal whatever it was he was hiding.

Just as the feast began Bakura slipped into the hall and sat down across from Harry. His seat was actually next to Neville, who was sitting across from Hermione. Bakura had arrived so stealthily that no one had even noticed him sit down until he was right in front of them.

Hermione raised an eyebrow in question. But on seeing that she wasn't going to get an answer reluctantly let the matter drop. She would weasel it out of them later anyway. None of her friends could keep secrets from her for long when she was truly in the mood. The feast began and Hermione tried to subtly trick Harry and Ron into telling her what had really happened.

The feast ended on a very cheerful and mundane note as the students were sent back to their common rooms for a good night's rest before classes began the next morning. Hermione was unsuccessful in getting information from Ron and Harry, but she wasn't too concerned. It was only a matter of time after all.

The two boys fell asleep wondering just how they would keep their secrets from Hermione. They didn't come up with any decent idea's before they succumbed to slumber.

Note!

And their finally back to school! This year is going to kick off with a bang I can assure you~

You're all curious about the Dairy I'm sure. And I hope you enjoy what I've done with it and with this story in general. I really really love my plans for this story X3

And Yes. I made it so they didn't get caught by the teachers. Why? Because I didn't feel like writing that part XD So I changed it.

Thanks for reading! Drop me a review and I'll see if I can have the next chapter up in the next few days!

Seeya next time!