Author's Note: Ah, sorry about the delay, I'm back in my home country and like last time totally lost my muse. I was in Singapore for around two months, and totally loved the country, I was there for the National Day Parade and it was fascinating. But anyway about the story, it was hard thinking up new ideas for the story, and I've thought of two ways this thing can go, but I'm not telling you.

I was listening to the old tracks of Tenimyu, specifically 'This is the Prince of Tennis' and somehow it brought back my ideas, and other things.

I also want to thank everyone for reviewing, and yes I always research things so that what I put down in accordance to history is true (more or less). Some of the Japanese Clans were somewhat confusing to look through and it felt like I was in a history class, but there are two clans listed in here that are famous throughout history, so I was happy.

If I can get more than ten reviews I'll be really happy and might put up a chapter quicker.

Secrets and Magic IV

Fuji Syuusuke was staring at the other person across from him in a state of deliberation about the things he was hearing. His sister was still sitting next to him and inwardly Fuji thanked his sister for being there. It was amazing to hear about the Wizarding world, the many things that went on there, and surprisingly to hear about the other side, the darker side of the Wizarding world.

It was also amusing to hear about his family name.

" The name Fuji came from the line of the Fujiwara Family a long time ago. Your ancestor was born with fumeiyo or dishonor around the Nara Period," Ryoma said calmly drinking his sake, while Fuji frowned, " He was a child born without magic. The English call them squibs, but the Japanese call them fumeiyo, but anyway the clan head at that time decided to make a sub-clan and shortened the name Fujiwara to Fuji, and from then on, any child who was born with fumeiyo was given to the new Fuji clan."

" So I'm related to you in a very distant way right?" Fuji said now vaguely amused. Yumiko chuckled, but nodded.

" Yes Syuusuke, Ryoma-kun in fact a relative, because the Fuji clan sometimes marries into the Fujiwara clan, and it was a fact that grandmother's brother is Ryoma-kun's Grandfather."

" Fascinating." Fuji breathed.

Ryoma smirked and stood, " It was nice talking to you again Yumiko-chan, but I need to get going, it's getting late and I need to get home. Sometimes I think that stupid old man forgets I'm not really his son."

Yumiko laughed but nodded as she stood up, Fuji stood up as well and they escorted Ryoma to the door, " I'll see you later Yumiko, Fuji-san I'll you tomorrow." Ryoma said as he stepped out the door.

" Goodnight Ryoma-kun." Yumiko said as she waved to Ryoma. Ryoma waved back and was gone.

" Nee-san, I was wondering, who is the current clan Head of the Fujiwara clan?" Fuji asked as he helped his sister clean up the sake cups and bottles in the washitsu, taking them to the kitchen.

Yumiko smiled, " He was sitting here not even five minutes ago. It was Fujiwara Ryoma."

Ryoma sighed as he read the letter that he had received from the hawk courier a minute ago. It was a summons to the council meeting that the five ancient clans was to hold three days from now, concerning the matter of the Dark Lord in the European Nations, specifically England.

" And it all falls down." He muttered, he clenched his fist crushing the paper.

He remembered what Yumiko had said about Voldemort, he was cruel, and evil man in the extremes, Voldemort made that wizard that Japan had allied it self with in World War II look like a teddy bear. But specifically he remembered her talking about the black haired boy with green eyes, eyes that almost looked liked they glowed as they looked at you.

The pain Yumiko had felt from the boy, made him frown, what where those idiotic British wizards thinking! Calling the boy insane, a boy that was clamoring for attention, for one whole year, and then turns around and call him their savior the next! The boy Harry had been clamoring for attention all right, attention for them to listen to him about the return of Voldemort, a man that they could've prepared themselves for after that fiasco of a Triwizard Tournament.

" I'm interesting in meeting you Harry Potter."

Already, Ryoma thought, it's already been three days.

The Council meeting was to be held this day after tennis practice. The five ancient clans consisted of the oldest and stronger clans of Japan. The Council had been established in Heian Period, after the fall of the Emperor of Magic in Japan. In the court of the yakutatazu (which meant good-for nothing, or non-magical people), the Fujiwaras had lost power near the end of the Heian Period, but in the magical world the Fujiwaras remained strong and despised the yakutatazu.

Ryoma didn't view the yakutatazu as animals, but he looked at them with distrust and weariness

The other Clans Oshitari, Date, Sanada, and Useugi, were prominent clans that had prospered for a time out of the magical world, but lost power and went back to the magical world. The Date clan is a branch of the Fujiwara clan that that was founded in the early Kamakura period and still existed to this day. The Oshitari clan was known for it's prodigies and their weird hair coloring, like the current clan head's son which had bluish hair, and didn't attend Kanrin'in no Jujutsu, instead the boy went to a yakutatazu school called Hyotei.

It was because of that fact that the clan head of Useugi - which nobody liked on the council - taunted Oshitari Yushita by saying that the man had a fumeiyo as a son. Ryoma had to stop them several times from coming to blows, when the taunts got more and aggressive. The clans of Sanada and Date were clans that only wanted to better their people and stayed more on the light side of magic, and thus mikos and priests were a prominent fixture in their ancestry.

" Hey Echizen want to go get some burgers after practice?" Momoshiro asked while swinging his tennis racquet onto his shoulders, " Kikumaru-sempai is treating."

" Hoi! I never said that Momo!" the red-haired boy said coming out of nowhere.

" Yadda," Ryoma said before they could get started, " I have to get home afterwards."

" Where you grounded ochibi?"

" Yadda. Just need to do something." Ryoma said curtly as he walked away.

" But ochibi…" Kikumaru said sounding sad.

" Saa, maybe we should leave Echizen alone right now Eiji, he's probably going through something right now." Fuji said smiling softly, but inwardly he was saddened that by Ryoma leaving the life that he had made as Echizen Ryoma he was leaving behind the friends he had made.

Seiichi watched his husband put on the traditional kimono and kataginu as he got ready for the meeting. The look on his husband's face was tensed and weary, stress lines could already be seen on the man's face and his eyes were tired, " I hope that everything goes fine tonight." Ryoma said softly, " The war in the west is changing things around the world and now I have to admit, that Dark Lord is more than I thought."

Seiichi frowned, " That is true. The Asian countries are tightening their security, but I heard that not many of them are volunteering themselves for the war. Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan are some of the few Asian countries sending aurors to England. China is not getting involved, but they are tightening their borders, as is Korea, north and south."

" I wonder what the hell the European Nations are doing! Letting that Voldemort get that much power in such a little time! It's ridiculous!" Ryoma hissed.

Seiichi nodded his agreement and looked at the clock, " You better go the meeting is going to be starting soon."

Ryoma nodded, he was heading to the door when he turned around and looked at Seiichi with a fond smile, " Have I ever told you that I love you?"

Seiichi smiled, " I love you too Ryoma-kun." Seiichi leaned upwards and met Ryoma's lips for a kiss.

The Council members stepped into the room, they bowed to each other some lower than the rest, like the Date clan head that bowed lower to Ryoma than he did to the other clan heads. Then they sat in their respective seats around a large round table facing one another.

" Now for the record this council meeting is to be discussing the war that is happening in the west." Ryoma started out, " We will also be discussing the matter of sending aurors to help in the effort."

" Thank you Fujiwara-dono," Clan head Sanada said softly, " The war is something that is indeed affecting the rest of the world with this man that calls himself Voldemort leading the Dark forces and killing innocents with his campaign-"

" Isn't that what happens in a war?" Useugi said sneering, " And the people that he's killing are only yakutatazu."

" It does not if they are!" Oshitari roared at Useugi, " He's killing children, innocent children that have no place in a war!"

Ryoma looked at Useugi and glowered at him shutting him up for now, but Useugi continued sneering at Oshitari who looked at him murderously. Incredible, Ryoma thought, not even ten minutes into the meeting and they're already at each other's necks.

Date sighed softly, " It is true that the European Nations are trying Useugi, but they need someone to rally behind, someone like-"

" Like that Potter brat?! He can't do anything to help even himself!" Useugi raged, " That old man that fashions himself as the most powerful wizard in the world can't do anything, what can a gaki do!"

Ryoma who had remained silent spoke up, " It is true that the boy is just that a boy. But if everyone wants the boy to become someone to save them all, why aren't they training him?"

Sanada agreed, " What Fujiwara-dono has said is true, why aren't they training the boy so that he can help them in the future?"

" From what my contacts in England say is that Dumbledore thinks that the boy should have a normal childhood." Oshitari said shaking his head, " I too think that Dumbledore is a fool. That boy is anything but normal."

Useugi snorted softly and before Oshitari could rise to the bait, Ryoma held his hand up making him pause, but he sent a furious glare at Useugi who smirked at him.

" From what Sanada-dono, and Fujiwara-dono has said," Date said, " why don't we have one of our aurors train him. Our ministry even without our consent agreed to send two aurors to England in September, why don't we purpose that one of them is stationed in Hogwarts."

Ryoma nodded, " That idea has merit. That way the auror in question may train him, in secret if need be. Sanada-dono please write an official document concerning the placement of the auror to the Ministry. Head Auror Kurosaki will take it from there."

" Hai."

" Now," Oshitari said, " What about the rest of the European Nations?"

" The European Nations can handle themselves." Useugi said dismissively.

" The European Nations are falling apart!" Oshitari spat.

" There is nothing we can do for the European Nations right now Oshitari-dono," Sanada said calmingly, " Right now the only thing we can do, is to help the Potter boy. We must work from the inside, and that is where Potter-san is. To help the boy means that maybe the war will be over sooner, and less people will die."

Ryoma and Date nodded, Oshitari nodded as well, Useugi looked mutinous but nodded his head.

" Are there any ideas as to who the two aurors might be?" Ryoma asked.

Date, Sanada, and Oshitari looked uneasy at that moment and didn't look at his face, but Useugi looked decidedly gleeful, " You're one of them Fu-ji-wara-dono." He said in a sing-song voice.

Ryoma's face went blank and hissed, " What!"

Seiichi woke up at the slamming of the front door and stayed in bed, he knew that whatever happened at the council meeting must have been bad if Ryoma slammed doors. And then before he knew it, Ryoma was in the bedroom yanking off the kimono and throwing them in a pile, " Those stupid, idiotic…" And the furious hissing went on making Seiichi raise his eyebrows in amusement. It seems the meeting did go well at all.

But as the whispered curses went on Seiichi sat up and got out of bed and wrapped his arms around Ryoma, hugging him softly, " Is everything all right?"

" No Sei-chan," Ryoma said, " I fear that a vision of Yumiko-chan's may come true now."

Seiichi tightened his hold, " What vision?"

" She had a vision of me in the snow, protecting a black-haired boy with green eyes," Ryoma turned around in his hold and sighed softly, " I didn't want it to be true, because that meant I'm going to be leaving for the war in England."

" This war it's going to be something big isn't it?"

Ryoma closed his eyes sadly, " I don't want to leave you."

" Maybe you won't have to."

Ryoma looked down at him and smiled.

Head Auror Kurosaki looked at the young-man in front of him and then at the letter sitting on his desk, which held a letter from the Council of the Five Clans practically making it an order that Head Auror Fujiwara is be one of the two aurors that they were sending to England in Septemeber, and now the person that he expected to see was here, " I take it that you're going as well Head Auror Iwamoto Seiichi?"

Seiichi smiled demurely, " Of course Kurosaki-san, I've been away from my husband far too long, and you know that we work well together."

Kurosaki chuckled, " Of course." Kurosaki signed a letter and held it out to Seiichi, " You are now assigned to the two person auror team leaving to England in September Iwamoto-san."

" Thank you." Seiichi said smiling.

Kurosaki waved dismissively, " I'm a wise man, I know not to tempt fate. Especially with that homicidal smile on your face."

Seiichi smiled at him again and then left the office, bowing to him as he left. Kurosaki shook his head, " I hope that England is prepared for you." He mused silently.

TBC…

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