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Hikari - Light

Yami - Dark

Aibou - Partner/Soul mate (not in a lover type way, this isn't yaoi)

Yadounishi - Landlord

Mon Hitorio no Boku- Other me/My other self/My other half

Baka - Idiot (Don't know if I'll use it, but it's here any way)

Gomen Nasai- I'm sorry/very sorry

Ano-Umm

Daijoubou- I'm alright (also can be, if I'm not mistaken, are you alright)

Nani- What

{Ryou to Bakura}

{{Bakura to Ryou}}

(Yugi to Yami)

((Yami to Yugi))

"Japanese"

"English"

"Egyptian"

"Arabic"

New Places, New Faces

Chapter 2: Questions and Answers

Last Time:

"She's coming this way. We need to stay on our guard and be prepared for anything." Ryou offered a stiff nod and Bakura growled silently in his soul room, itching for a fight. He was on the verge of knocking Ryou out of control, only holding back because he was waiting for the threat. Ryou's eyes took on a greater reddish hue as Bakura came closer and closer to controlling the body. Yugi had merged with his Yami, his eyes becoming an eerie crimson color as his yami's overprotective habits took over.

The woman stopped in front of them and gave them a calculating look. "Are you Ryou Bakura and Yugi Mouto?"


Ryou could feel Bakura relax slightly, this was obviously their guide, but he also felt a tinge of regret coming through the link. His yami had clearly wanted to kill someone this morning. Next to him, Yugi blinked and cocked his head to the side, looking at the woman curiously.

"Ano… Ryou? Do understand this woman? I don't speak English, that is what she's speaking right?" Ryou looked slightly confused for a moment and then his eyes brightened with insight.

"Oh! Goodness Yugi, I had forgotten! Of course you wouldn't speak English! Give me just a second, I'll tell her, and, yes, she is here to pick us up." Ryou turned from his slightly less confused friend toward the pink haired woman. "Yes, we are. I'm Ryou Bakura and my companion is Yugi Mouto. Umm, Yugi doesn't speak English by the way, but I have no problem interpreting for you until he can learn how to speak it. Who are you?" Bakura had asked the last part of the question, effectively cutting his host off from conversing any further. The woman blinked as Ryou hastily spoken words sunk in and she blushed slightly.

"Oh! I'm sorry about that! I always forget to introduce myself, I can be a bit scatterbrained at times. Wotcher, I'm Nymphadora Tonks, but please just call me Tonks. No one calls me Nymphadora." Tonks held out her hand with a warm smile on her face and Ryou took it, smiling pleasantly as well. Yugi took her hand next, inclining his head briefly in respect. Ryou took this time to tell Yugi her name quickly before returning his attention to Tonks. "No need to worry about translating or anything. Professor Dumbledore made these just for you guys." She pulled out a simple clear adhesive patch that rather looked like a band-aid. "This is a language patch, it will allow your friend to speak English along with any other language he might already speak. It should last for about three to four months before it needs replacing." Tonks handed Ryou the patch and he examined it in awe. He didn't know magic could do things like this. He quickly turned to Yugi.

"All you have to do is wear this patch, Yugi, and you will be able to speak English. It doesn't feel very dangerous, but you might want to have Yami run over it with the shadows quickly to make sure it's completely safe." Yugi nodded as he took the patch and Ryou thought he saw the slightest hint of darkness run it's way across the patches clear surface before Yugi smiled and peeled it off, pulling off the shoulder of his jacket and applying it to his upper arm.

"It is very nice to meet you Tonks, I'm Yugi Mouto." Yugi said in perfectly unaccented English with a warm and trusting smile that had won over just about everyone he had ever met, and Tonks was no different. She smiled brilliantly and both Yami's relaxed more and returned to their soul rooms. One content, the other unhappy. Neither one could sense evil from this person, fortunately and unfortunately.

"Professor Dumbledore sent me to fetch you two and he offers his sincerest apologies that he wasn't able to come and meet with you himself. So, if you're ready-"

"Sorry to interrupt," Ryou began, blushing at his rudeness, "but how, exactly, are we getting to the host family?" Tonks' jaw dropped and she smacked her forehead.

"I forgot! I'm so sorry! You two have never traveled like wizards before. We will take a portkey. It's basically an ordinary object that's been magicked to transport witches and wizards from one place to another in an instant. As for your host family… well, I'll explain that somewhere more private, these days you never know who might be listening in and watching." Tonks looked over her shoulder, her face the picture of paranoia. "If you'll just follow me…" She trailed off.

"One minute. How, exactly, are we supposed to know we can trust you? Surely you don't expect us to follow you without proper proof? That would be unbelievably naïve of us." Yami Bakura had knocked Ryou out of control, which hadn't been a surprise to the hikari. What had been a surprise, however, was that Ryou could feel genuine protectiveness flowing from Bakura's side of the link. Without any coherent thought in his head, Ryou sat dumbly in his soul room and watched the scene before him unfold.

"Strangely, I must agree that Bakura has a point. How can we be sure that we can trust you? You don't seem evil to us, but you could be leading us astray." Yami commented, taking control from Yugi after asking. Tonks frowned, a nervous look in her eye.

"I don't know of any spell that can prove that I am trustworthy, but I can assure you that I mean you no harm." Bakura narrowed his eyes slightly, unlike the Pharaoh, he had never been able to see the potential for good or evil on people, it was simply not in his, or the Ring's, power to do so. He would have no way of knowing if he should protect his hikari or not. The spirit allowed his eyes to widen. Protect? Where had that come from? He had never cared about his yadounishi before! He was changing into a carbon copy of the blasted Pharaoh! He forced back a growl and hazarded a look over at the puzzle spirit. Yami met his eyes and walked forward to stand in front of Tonks. He tilted his head slightly to the side and looked into her eyes. After a split second he looked away.

"I don't sense any evil from her. Her soul is clean. We have nothing at all to fear from her or any of her cohorts I believe. However, we still need to keep our guard up; I'm not sure how much to trust them yet. I am giving control back to Yugi, and I suggest you do the same with Ryou." Yami had turned about to walk back and stand beside Bakura and had whispered this to the shadows, willing them to take it to Bakura who rolled his eyes, but nodded nonetheless.

{{Yadounishi.}}

{Yes Bakura?} Ryou had answered carefully, keeping his tone open and light and smoothly tucking away his feelings.

{{Whatever you felt was a lie. It was simply lack of judgment and nothing more. Do you understand?}} The ring spirit asked in a menacing tone. In the back of his mind, Ryou felt his spirit drop, he had hoped that this would be a breakthrough.

{I understand.}

{{Good.}} Bakura swiftly pushed him back into control and retreating to his soul room, keeping a unconcerned vigilant. Ryou pushed thoughts about his yami from his mind and turned to Tonks instead.

"Uhh… I do believe we can trust you, you seem honest enough, right Yugi? Just lead the way." Tonks blinked rapidly at his sudden personality change, but shrugged it off quickly and both hikaris had to wonder if she had been told that her charges were slightly… different.

"Right this way boys. But hurry please, we're running rather short on time." She turned and started to walk briskly deeper into the park and away from the entrance.

Ryou and Yugi stood up and tripped quickly after her as they dragged their bags behind them. Tonks did not stay to the regular walking path very long, but strayed into the green grass and toward a heavily wooded area of the park. The two hikari glanced at each other, but followed her none the less. Tonks weaved her way easily through the trees not burdened down with luggage like her company was.

"Quickly now!" Tonks said as she ushered two out of breath hikaris into the clearing behind her. She looked around for a moment before pulling a rumpled and used looking handkerchief from one of her pockets and holding it out. "Now grab onto this, there isn't much time left!" Ryou's face paled as he gave the handkerchief a dry look.

"We're supposed to touch that? Who knows where it's been? Why would I want to touch it?" Ryou gave the handkerchief another scathing look and took a small step backwards as if it would bite him. Tonks moved closer to him anxiously.

"It's just a portkey, a wizard's way of traveling quickly from one spot to another. It's perfectly clean, but we have to make it look like something common and ordinary, but it's about to leave in thirty seconds so you need to grab your bags and touch it now or it will leave us behind." Tonks said holding out the offending item again. After a quick look to each other, Yugi and Ryou gripped tightly onto their bags and took hold of the offered item just as time ran out.

Yugi and Ryou felt a tug from somewhere behind their navels as their bodies were lurched forward, the trees blurring around them. Both quickly shut their eyes and tried to ignore to feeling of nausea in the pit of their respective stomachs.

Both Yami's clung to the conscious of their light as they each felt the panic that drowned out the other feelings. Neither had to worry for as suddenly as the rapid spinning started, it stopped. Ryou and Yugi fell to the ground, shaking, and trying to keep down breakfast. Despite the sick feeling, they noticed quite quickly that it was colder than it was when they left and the sun was not shining in-between the tree branches of the current clearing. Clutching his head, Ryou cautiously took in his surroundings, cataloguing that they were still in some wooded area, but definitely not the same one as before. Streetlights were barely visible in the distance, but neither heard any noise that would confirm that a populated area was around the corner. It was far too quiet.

That is until a high pitched pop made both hikaris and their yamis jump.

"What the hell was that you Ra-damned idiot?" An indignant voice hissed out from their right. Both hikaris stumbled to their feet, that voice was easily recognizable.

"Malik!" Both called, grabbing onto the tanned blonde who had managed to remain standing after his experience with the portkey. Malik hadn't visited Domino or his friends in over six months, and both were ecstatic to see him safe and sound. The Egyptian stopped ranting at the red haired man standing before him and focused his attention on his two, tightly squeezing, friends.

"You know, it's great to see you guys too, but this is awkward and I can't breathe." The other two item bearers quickly released Malik and blushed lightly, stepping back. "How have you both been?" He asked, a smile on his face as he surveyed the Ring and Puzzle with lilac eyes. Ryou offered a weary smile.

"Slightly better I thin-"

"You guys can catch up in a few minutes, the world is far too dangerous right now to stand about chatting outside." Malik's guide said quietly, cutting off their conversation. From the small amount of moonlight that was filtering through the trees, Ryou could see that this man had vibrant red hair pulled back into a smooth ponytail that hung down his back, a gold earring with a long fang dangled and twinkled from one ear. Malik glared at him, obviously still not happy about his trip to England, if that was truly where they were.

"Right you are indeed Bill." Tonks said quite brightly, not noticing the tension that was originating from the blonde Egyptian, she silently dug through her pockets before she presented a scrap of paper with a flourish. "All of you read and memorize this quickly!" She handed the piece of paper to Yugi, who happened to be the closest to her, and Ryou and Malik read the message over his shoulder.

The headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix may be found at

Number twelve, Grimmauld Place, London.

"What the hell is the Order o-" Malik began, his voice and language clearly letting his irritation shine through, only to find that his mouth was covered with Bill's leather gloved hand.

"Not out here! All will be explained once we get to headquarters! Have you got it memorized yet?" All three nodded, Malik with a scowl on his face and Ryou with the laughter of Bakura ringing in his ears. Tonks swiped the paper from Yugi's hand and set fire to it with the tip of her wand (which she, apparently, kept up her sleeve), before she banished the ashes to someplace unknown. "Follow me quietly." Bill murmured as he, too, pulled his wand from his sleeve and quietly stalked through the woods and toward the streetlamps. Malik rolled his eyes and crossed his arms, but followed after him anyway. Within minutes, they had emerged onto a street that left the transfers to wonder if they truly were safe with the wizards. After surveying the street, Bill turned to them.

"Think about what you just read on the paper and look between houses eleven and thirteen." The three exchanged quick, unbelieving glances, but thought about the flowing script on the paper. As they reached the end of the last line, numbers eleven and thirteen started to shake rather violently, but it seemed that their occupants could not feel the erratic motions of their houses, and a house like the ones on either side seemed to grow in between. Ryou's eyes grew wide and Bakura struggled not to let his jaw drop in his soul room.

{{Well that's quite useful. Wizard's grow their own houses, wonder how they did that?}} The spirit wondered aloud, and rhetorically, but didn't seem to mind all too much when Ryou answered him.

{No idea.} Ryou answered faintly as the house reached it's full size. Bill and Tonks started to make their way towards the door, moving briskly and checking back and forth as they crossed the empty street. Malik, Yugi, and Ryou followed after them once they had gotten over the shock of seeing a random house grow out of no where, Malik somewhat cautiously as he fingered something in his deep pockets which Ryou could only guess was the Rod.

Upon reaching the front door, both Bill and Tonks visibly relaxed, the former tapping his wand on the door which answered with a satisfying click as the door unlocked. Bill stowed his wand somewhere in the robes he wore and opened the slightly creaking door. Bill and Tonks ushered all three transfers in ahead of themselves, sparing a last look at the street before moving into the cramped entryway behind them and effectively cutting off the last source of light.

The only thing Ryou could hear was breathing and the clicking and grinding of multiple locks being shut. Bakura, already on edge around the wizards, contemplated pushing his host into his soul room, but thought better of the idea when Bill lit up the tip of his wand with some spell moments later.

"Try not to make any noise, you'll thank me for that advice later." Bill commented softly with a wry grin on his face as if he enjoyed his own inside joke. Tonks lit up her wand behind them and the combined light illuminated all corners of the room. Even Malik, who was never known for keeping the tidiest place, frowned at the layers of dust and cobwebs on the wall. Whatever this place was, it didn't look like it had been lived in long. At the other end of the entranceway, Bill opened up another door and brought them all inside, putting out his wand as they entered the main house.

"May we speak now?" Malik asked, irritated. He truly hated being ordered around, especially by someone dressed akin to his old Ghouls, and quite a bit of ordering had come about within the last hour. "And I do believe that you said you were going to be explaining a few things for us? How about we start with: 'Where the hell are we'?"

"I do believe that I did say something of the sort didn't I?" Bill smiled and nodded, "Come down with me to the kitchen and meet your other housemates, they can help explain everything. As for your first question, you already know the answer to that. You can leave your bags in here, the kitchens right down these stairs." Bill tossed them a smirk and exited down the aforementioned set of stairs with Tonks following behind him (the latter offering a wink as she exited). Malik glared at the duo, but followed his friend's example and placed his bags on the ground next to theirs.

{{I'm taking over hikari.}} Bakura said firmly as he pushed his host into his soul room. Ryou blinked in surprise, the malicious spirit had never warned him before he took the body.

{Please don't stab anyone or play a shadow game or something! We just got here and I really don't\'t want to be sent back to Japan so quickly.} Ryou pleaded with his yami who rolled his eyes in a bored manner.

{{Whatever yadounishi. Just go to sleep, I don't want the body tired again the next time I get it, understand?}} Ryou nodded and went to sit on his bed in the corner of the room. Bakura closed off the connection, leaving only enough for Ryou to barely understand what was going on outside. Bakura rolled his shoulders, they were still tense from Ryou controlling the body. He smirked as he saw Yugi bristle, clearly he had seen the switch as well but the Pharaoh had obviously decided to stay away as Yugi kept control. Malik smirked at him, it had been quite some time since they had last seen each other and there had been a distinct lack of chaos as of late. Before either could speak, Bill stomped up the stairs and gave them an odd look before he walked over to another staircase on the other side of the room before stopping.

"You guys can go ahead down to the kitchen, we're about to have a bite of dinner. My mom can whip up just about anything you could possibly want. And as an added plus, the people in the kitchen can answer all of your questions. I'm just heading up to get everyone else and I'll be right back down. Go on, everyone is anxious to meet you." Bill hurried up the staircase, yelling and beating on doors on his way up. Malik looked at the other two.

"Well then my fellow gentlemen, shall we?" He offered his arm to Bakura, who scoffed and smirked before heading for the doorway. Slightly put out, Malik sighed before grabbing Yugi's arm and leading him down the stairs in an exaggerated manner, Yugi turning a bright red. There was another door at the bottom and they could vaguely hear muffled voices. Bakura, being the first to reach the door (and as Yugi was shaking Malik off) twisted the knob and pushed the door open.

The kitchen was much bigger than expected with a long table than ran straight down the middle of the room with benches on either side instead of chairs. Currently, the table looked rather empty as there were only three people sitting at it, three redheads, a man with long black hair and tattoos sitting next to Tonks and a pale man with graying brown hair sitting across from them. All six had drawn faces and were talking quietly and seriously about something, but all noise stopped as attention was turned away from the conversation and to the three who had just entered the room. Before anyone could so much as blink, a red-haired motherly looking woman was standing in front of them, inspecting them with a wary eye.

"You must be our three transfers! My name is Molly Weasley, this is Charlie, my son and my husband Arthur." The pointed to the two red-haired men, a younger one with a weather-beaten look and multiple burns and the other quite a bit older with a bald spot on his head and a time-weary look about him. "This is Sirius Black and Remus Lupin," the other two men at the table offered a wave, "and you already know Tonks of course. My! Your all so skinny! You must be famished! Everyone else has eaten but you three and Harry. We have a bit of leftover stew, but is there anything in particular that I can get for your dears?"

Bakura blinked as the woman's eyes raked over his hikari's thin body. It would take a few moments to absorb all of this new information.

"It's very nice to meet you Mrs. Weasley. I'm Yugi Mouto and these are my friends Malik Ishtar and Ryou Bakura. Thank you for the offer for dinner, we are starving." Yugi announced with a bright smile that had won over many people in the past and Mrs. Weasley was no different.

"It is quite wonderful to meet you all as well! Now, what is it that I can get you for dinner?" She smiled back at Malik and Bakura as well.

"Just a salad please if you have one," Malik announced with a smile of his own, "I'm a vegetarian." Mrs. Weasley nodded to him, seemingly unhappy with his choice of meal, no wonder he had no meat on his bones.

"And for you Ryou dear?" She asked kindly, hoping that this boy had a better appetite than his friend.

"I'm quite partial to rare meat myself if you have any." Bakura said in Ryou's weak and humble accent. Mrs. Weasley nodded.

"And how rare would you like it dear?"

"Just slightly warmed. I prefer raw steaks." Mrs. Weasley blinked at his order, but looked over to Yugi anyway who had turned slightly green at the spirit's order.

"And for you dear?" Yugi's face brightened and he flashed another bright smile.

"I'll just have whatever was left over Mrs. Weasley." She smiled kindly at him and ushered them all out of the doorway and over to the table.

"Coming right up! Now why don't you sit down and relax and introduce yourselves to everyone? Your trip couldn't have been pleasant as it was your first time." She started to bustle around the kitchen waving her wand and preparing the food. Malik shrugged and sat down at the table across from Sirius, Remus and Tonks with Yugi and Ryou sitting down on either side of him after a seconds hesitation.

"Mr. Black and Mr. Lupin right?" Malik asked, looking at each one in turn. They exchanged glances with a snicker and the man Malik had dubbed 'Mr. Black' extended his hand.

"Call me Sirius please. Mr. Black is far too formal for me." Malik grinned and shook his hand enthusiastically. He could almost sense and air of mischief about this man, the other man extended his hand as well.

"Pleased to meet you Malik, Ryou and Yugi," He said, shaking each of their hands in turn. "Call me Remus or Lupin by the way." By this point to two Red- haired men had moved closer to their end of the table.

"Charlie Weasley. Pleasure." The younger ginger said with a nod, shaking Yugi's hand first. It was rough and calloused and had all three wondering what his line of work was.

"And I'm Arthur Weasley. It is quite nice to finally meet you all." After this last round of handshakes, Mr. Weasley guided the group over to sit at the table where Charlie engaged Malik in a conversation about Egypt.

"You are from Egypt, correct?" Malik nodded. "You should get along well enough with Bill then. He works as a curse-breaker for Gringrotts, wizarding bank. Breaks the curses in old tombs and helps the goblins find lost treasures and su-" Charlie was quite lucky that a tremendous crack had interrupted him for as a tomb keeper (even one that didn't live in tombs anymore) Malik was protective of his homeland's secrets and was about to give Charlie his take on the invading of the final resting places of Egypt's royalty.

With the crack, Yugi fell clean off the stool, landing in quite the undignified position on his head. Malik had turned around swiftly, gripping his Rod while Bakura had had the most severe reaction and had yanked a knife out of his pocket and was poised to throw it at the nearest threat. The two intruders paled at this reaction.

"Whoa there pal! We come in peace and all! You can put away the sharp, pointy object now!" One of the identical gingers said lightly, a smirk on the face of his double as they both held up their hands and snickered. "We're Fred and George Weasley by the way." They said in unison as Bakura grunted and stowed his throwing knife up his sleeve (easier access). Malik visibly relaxed as well and Yami refrained from taking control from Yugi.

{Yami, please don't be so abrupt! Yanking all manner of knives out of nowhere is not going to endear there wizards to us by any means! I don't want them any more suspicious of us.} Ryou spoke up from his soul room, this was a chance for him to start over and he didn't want to miss it.

{{Quiet hikari! While I am in control of this body I will do with it as I wish! I shan't kill anyone because fighting with the Pharaoh is tiring and I don't really feel like it at the moment. Learn to hold your tongue! Am I understood?}} Ryou flinched as the words struck him. In light of his yami's recent mood he had thought that he would have been able to speak out of turn.

{Y-Yes-s B-Bakura. I'm sorry.}}

Bakura cut off the connection. Giving this much leeway was quite unlike him, he would have to evaluate it later, but for now he had to appear as Ryou would.

Malik groaned inwardly as another set of introductions were made and they all had to smile and look pleasant as they greeted the twins. Bakura especially looked tense and he attempted to smile like his hikari and only succeed in looking slightly more psychotic than usual. This was covered by Yugi's normal enthusiasm, so everything was balanced in the end.

"Back when I was younger," Sirius began, looking Bakura directly in the eyes, "I threw knives for sport. Thought it was pretty cool, and so did the girls. Attracted them to me, made me seem all the more the daredevil and, if I'm not mistake, that you just had was a throwing knife. One of your talents?" He inquired curiously. Bakura nodded and pulled the dagger out again and held it out for Sirius to take and inspect. "Very nice," he commented, "Well taken care of, balanced, very sharp." Sirius briefly touched the point of the blade, cutting a small hole in his finger by accident.

"As a fellow knife-thrower, would you care to have a little competition?" Bakura asked in a challenging voice. He enjoyed competition, he enjoyed the thrill of the game and he hadn't been able to play one in quite a long time. Sirius grinned widely.

"I would indeed! It's been quite a while, so I'm probably rusty, but I'll give it a go." He flicked his wand at the far wall and a bull's eye drew itself at chest level, another flick provided a line for the two to stand on when throwing. Sirius offered Bakura his knife back, but he pulled another one from his inside pocket and Sirius smirked. "Well then, I'll go first." Taking his starting place, he focused on the wall and drew his arm back, flinging the dagger towards the bull's eye. He whooped when it hit dead center. "Beat that."

"No problem." He almost hissed out. He took his place next not even glancing at the target before he casually tossed his knife at the target. His smile grew with the satisfying 'thud' as his blade imbedded itself into the hilt of the other knife, a perfect shot.

Sirius had an appropriately flabbergasted look on his face while Malik and the Twins all had shouted 'no way' and had gone to inspect the two blades. Yugi had sat quietly at the table for a moment before returning to the conversation he and Tonks were having about her ability to change her features at will (at the moment she had a duck bill, one orange eye, one green eye and neon yellow hair). Sirius had quickly shook Bakura's hand while the twins and Malik argued if he had used some spell or not. However, everyone stopped talking when four more people walked into the room with Bill.

There were two more people with ginger colored hair (one girl and one boy) and another girl with bushy brown hair and bringing up the rear was a boy with a shock of messy black hair. Yugi immediately stood up (tripping much to Bakura's delight) and shook their hands, warmly introducing himself.

"Hi! I'm Yugi Mouto, it's very nice to meet you." He said with a slight bow. Malik was the next to approach, when he wasn't in a bad mood like earlier, he did have quite a lot of nervous energy. Bakura brought up the rear, holding out his hand and grunting 'Ryou' when inquired about his name.

The bushy haired girl took this as her signal to introduce her group, and soon Ginny and Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger and Harry Potter had joined the large group of people sitting and talking at the dining room table. Bakura sat in-between Malik and Bill as the former was sending unbelievably dirty looks at the latter and, as much as he loved chaos, killing the host family probably wasn't the smartest idea at the moment. Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny sat across from the three transfers and grilled Yugi (who was the only one who was truly paying attention) about life in Japan. Bakura and Malik were conversing quietly in Egyptian about nothing in particular when Mrs. Weasley cam over to the table with three bowls and a plate floating in front of her.

Two bowls of steaming stew landed in front of Harry (who had arrived a few hours before themselves) and Yugi (who thanked Mrs. Weasley profusely for dinner). The last bowl landed in front of Malik and held a large salad ("No wonder you're so thin dear. If you ate more than salad, you would have more meat on your bones.") and the plate landed before Bakura and he felt his mouth water at the sight of the large piece of raw steak before him.

"What are you eating?" Ron asked with a disgusted look on his green face, cringing when Bakura cut the steak a a bit of blood leaked onto the plate.

"Raw steak. I'm quite partial to it." Next to him Malik's face paled before it turned green as well and he sent Bakura a withering look. Seeing this, Bakura licked his lips and took his first bite, his pale lips reddening from the slight amount of blood left on the meat. "Thank you Mrs. Weasley, this is perfect."

"Your welcome, dear." Mrs. Weasley smiled at him from the sink where she was magically washing dishes. Malik wrinkled his nose.

"Honestly Bakura, how can you eat something that used to be a living creature?" Bakura's eyes glinted a demonic red for a moment as he took another bite and smiled straight at Malik, blood on his teeth.

"Like that." His fangs glinted lightly as Malik blanched and turned back to his salad, a sick look on his face. Yami took over from Yugi and stared him straight in the eye.

"Didn't anyone teach you not to play with your food thief?" He inquired with a smirk on his face that Bakura bristled at.

"Mind your own damn business Pharaoh." He spat back with a glare. The few at the table who were paying attention to the exchange looked puzzled.

"Not to interrupt," Mr. Weasley began, "but what language was that?" Yugi, who had taken back control, turned to Mr. Weasley.

"It's an old form of the current day Arabic." He answered. It was a blatant lie, but no one needed to know that he and Bakura could speak in the language of the Ancient Egyptians.

"Wow, it's quite something to be bi-lingual so fluently at your age. If you don't mind me asking, how many languages do you speak." Remus asked curiously as he looked at the three transfers. Yugi fumbled here and Malik quickly picked up where Yugi left off.

"Currently we all speak four. Arabic, Japanese, English and the one you just heard." He answered quickly and the other two nodded to agree with him.

Sensing that more questions were about to be asked of them, Bakura cleared his throat, drawing all attention at the table to himself. "I just recalled," He began, "that someone promised us some explanations." He glanced at Bill. "And I do believe it's time that we received them."

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A/N: And here's revised chapter two. This took for freaking ever to finally get out, it just seemed to drag on and on! Sorry if it's a little boring, I just couldn't find anything to do with this one to make it any better short of improving the sentence structure, grammar, spelling and characterization.

To put this out there, I don't like cursing, but after re-reading this chapter… Malik and Bakura are not two that are just going to sit around and say 'gosh darn it' (like us country folk here in the southern part of the US) they're going to cuss like sailors. I do, however, draw the line at f-word and other choice words. The two present are really the only two I will be using, so it won't go above a 'T' rating.

Keep in mind that the other chapters might not have been revised yet, so characterization does not match.

I'm still looking for a beta if someone is interested.

Happy Reading!

EdElricFan1001

Revised: February 2, 2010