Hogwarts AU (Cause why not?)

This chapter is kind of a crossover, but I'm not putting it in that category because the rest of the chapters aren't. I'll just say I don't own Harry Potter Either, and all recognition for it goes to the original author. Also, I don't actually know that much about Harry potter, so if I get any facts wrong I apologize.

"Now be very careful with that spell there Alibaba," Yunan advised him as he pushed his wand down onto the table. "We don't want another explosion in the classroom this week." Alibaba sighed as he flipped the page of his spells book. While he was one of Gryffindor's best quidditch players, his skills at any kind of flammable spells always ended in disaster.

Yunan slipped through the desks of his students practicing various spells for the upcoming test. Yamu's blue scarf hung on top of Sharkkon's red jacket that was slung across his chair while she practiced turning water to ice. Judal teased Kougyoku by switching his green gloves with her yellow ones. Every time he did that Kouha would snatch them back after hitting Judal with his own red gloves. A regular day in Yunan's class of spells.

Ever since Hogwarts had added a university to their program, the classes had gotten much more…interesting. They had students in their last year of university, like the ravenclaws head student Kouen, in the same class as first year students like one of Gryffindor's newest comers, Aladdin. It had helped students to mingle outside of their houses (As long as it wasn't in the main hall of course) but depending on the classes, poor first year Aladdin could be partnered with a first year university student like Judal. As the head of the Ravenclaw house, he had agreed to the idea while knowing the repercussions were problems that would help the students grow in time.

What even Yunan hadn't anticipated was what the changes would do to his own personal suffering.

Walking over to the front of the class, Yunan frowned at the pair of black shoes crossed on top of the desk. "Sinbad, don't you think you should be working?"

A pair of golden eyes glanced lazily up at his teacher, the colour clashing with his dark green tie. Despite the uniform rules, he hardly ever wore the vest. Instead he wore black pants and a black button down shirt. His dark purple hair hung across his chair where his jacket lay with the Slytherin symbol on the crest. The golden hoop earrings were definitely a uniform infraction but no teacher could ever convince him to take them off. At his side Hinahoho was trying to find his yellow scarf that the other girl from his house, Pisti, had stolen and hid somewhere in the classroom. Sinbad tipped the side of his mouth up with a careless smile. "I already did the work."

Yunan held out his hand. "Well let me see it." While he chuckled to himself Sinbad reached over to his desk and handed him a stack of papers. Yunan flipped through the pages of formulas and spells, all done correctly.

He glanced over the papers at Sinbad, his hands crossed behind his back with a cocky smile on his face. "Did I complete it to your satisfaction?"

His teacher barely held back a scowl. "Take your feet off the desk," he ordered without giving him an answer.

Yunan did not understand him. He was intelligent, well-liked and had ambition. Everyone knew who he was and they all knew he was going to do great things when he got out of Hogwarts. Yunan knew that more than anyone, having been one of his tutors when he first got to school. But the boy was far too cocky, and his level of morals were the main reason Yunan knew the sorting hat hadn't even considered putting him in Hufflepuff. There was no doubt he was going to grow up to be a man with power. What he would do with that power when he got older worried him.

The sound of footsteps approaching drew his attention away and his anger slowly subsided. Hakuei Ren walked over to him, her spell book in hand and robe open to show off her long skirt and the grey cardigan over a yellow shirt. Her black shoes clicked on the floor above her black tights and the yellow rim of her skirt. The only visible infraction for her uniform were the small pink flower shaped earrings stuck in her ears. If he had asked Yunan knew she would have taken them out, but they were such a small thing he saw no point. Walking up to him she offered him a sweet smile that made her blue eyes twinkle in the light from the windows. "Mr. Yunan, I finished my assignment. But I wanted to ask you about the Amortentia potion if that's alright."

Returning to his regular mood his expression easily changed back to a smile. "Ah yes, of course. Let me see that book." She handed it to him so he could read over her research.

With a quick glance away from the book, Yunan noticed Sinbad wasn't turned in his chair to Sharkkon to talk about the latest quidditch match or sending messages to Tina from the back to make her turn bright red and started giggling much too loudly. Instead his focus was on him. By instinct Yunan glanced at his robes to make sure Judal hadn't played a prank and turned them pink without his knowledge.

It took him a moment to realize his focus wasn't actually on him. Instead he was focused on Hakuei, his gold eyes stuck on her yellow robes. Hakuei didn't notice, to busy questioning whether she was saying the spell wrong or if she had gotten the meaning of the spell wrong. But out of the corner of his eye, Yunan was able to see that Sinbad's eyes never left Miss Ren.

Shaking off his curiosity, he focused on her work. "You have all the proper research here Miss Ren, though I hope you understand this spell specifically was band from use inside the school." Ever since Pisti had made the love spell for Valentine's Day and spread it throughout the entire school, they'd made a rule that the spell could only be researched with paper and never used. That had been a messy day for everyone. Some of the female students still giggled when they saw him in the hallways.

"I understand," Hakuei nodded obediently. "It's for an independent project I'm doing for professor Baba of divination." Yunan kept himself from twitching. While he respected professor Baba, a teacher that many of the students had come to think of as a grandmother, the profession of trying to predict or even see the future was something that Yunan never believed in. "I'm not sure why she wanted me to research a love potion, but I promised I would look."

"Maybe she sees something good happening in your future." Both student and teacher turned to Sinbad, feet still on the desk and hands folded behind his head. Yunan noticed his smile was wider than it had been before, and the spark in his eye brighter and more mischievous. If that was possible. "Have you been getting any flowers from owls lately? Or chocolate frogs with red hearts on them?"

Hakuei frowned, but there was no distain in her face. Only a hufflepuff would be able to face someone like Sinbad without anger. "No, I haven't. I assumed it was because she had told me on quite a few occasions that I am far too…'emotionally detached' for a hufflepuff." Yunan knew that was the nice way of putting it. He had heard the rumors people had spread about both any of the Ren siblings that got into hufflepuff. The family was famous for hiding emotions and feelings had three of their more capable members in the house that was known for kindness and emotional control. Kougyoku was very open and loveable, which got her out of most of the student's radars. Hakuryuu had a harder time than her, but after he had become friends with Alibaba, Aladdin, Morgianna and others the rumors and names started to die away.

As for Hakuei however, while she was known for being very kind to others, she wasn't very open with her emotions or other people. The only close friends she had other than her family was Seisyuun and a few members of the Kouga family. Many thought it was a mistake that she was put in that house, or decided that the only reason she was there was because she didn't fit into any of the others. Hakuei hadn't said anything about it, but no one could have avoided the whispers that went around when she walked to class.

Perhaps that's why Sinbad's curious about her, Yunan hypothesised. "Sinbad, please don't listen in on other people's conversations. I'm sure you have other classwork you can be doing." Sinbad raised his eyebrow, but didn't say anything. Instead he raised his hands in defence, turning back towards the front.

"Whatever you say professor," Sinbad retreated. For a moment there was a pause, and they thought he'd left them alone. Just as they were getting back to work, he interrupted again. "But, Hakuei," he glanced back at her with a dark twinkle in his eye. "If you think you need help with that potion, I'd be more than willing to help you out." Hakuei showed no visible reaction to his words.

Instead she gave him a polite nod. "Thank you for the offer Sinbad. But I do believe I will be alright." Before turning back, she glanced at the desk. "You should probably get your feet off the desk." Sinbad raised his eyebrows, but the smirk remained on his face.

What surprised Yunan the most was that Sinbad complied. Slowly, he moved his feet off the desk and went back to the books on his desk. Keeping a close eye on Hakuei as she walked away of course. Yunan watched in awe as Sinbad went back to work, continually checking to see if Hakuei had noticed. While Sinbad had spent lots of his time sneaking glances at girls and flirting with them more than that, he'd never listened when one of them told him he should be paying attention or being more respectful. He'd never cared enough to listen to anyone other than his friends that intently.

More than that, Yunan could never get him to do anything that wasn't absolutely mandatory. He wouldn't wear the uniform properly. They couldn't make him stop using magic in the hallways. Once he'd even smuggled a dragon into the school and hid it in the dark forest. Most of the students were convinced that it was still there. Because of…arguments that Yunan and Sinbad had had in the past, Sinbad had absolutely refused to do anything that wasn't part of the lesson in his class. He'd been doing all he could without breaking his own rules to try and make him behave, but there was nothing he could do.

Out of curiosity, Yunan decided to test the situation again. "Miss Ren, do you know where the toad toes are by any chance? I've seemed to have misplaced them." Hakuei obediently slipped out of her seat and walked over to where Yunan was shuffling through the school supplies.

After checking a few spots, Hakuei shook her head. "I'm sorry sir, all I can find is the mandrake roots and unicorn hairs. Do you know who had them last?" Yunan pretended to ponder the question.

"I think it must have been Sinbad. Could you ask him if he knows where it is?" She nodded. Out of the corner of his eye he watched as Hakuei walked over to Sinbad's desk. He noticed Sinbad's eyes followed her until she got to the desk, but he didn't acknowledge her until she was right at his desk. Yunan couldn't hear what they said, but he saw the smile grew on Sinbad's mouth when he talked.

To his surprise, and anyone else who was listening, Sinbad got out of his chair. He led Hakuei over to a shelf on the other side of the classroom, grabbed the bottle of toad toes off the top and handed them to her with a smile. They exchanged a few more words that Yunan wished he could hear. Hakuei looked slightly annoyed while Sinbad's smile got bigger. After a quick thank you, Hakuei returned to Yunan. "They were in the back Professor," She told him with a smile as she held them out for him.

But the professor didn't take them right away. "What did Sinbad say to you?" Hakuei's eyes widened, caught unaware by the question.

"Um…He said if I ever needed help with finding anything in the class just come to him. Also he wanted to make it abundantly clear that he was helping me, not you," she added regretfully. Yunan wasn't fazed, having expected something like that. Instead he considered the fact that he had so willingly helped Hakuei out even though she had been sent by him. Sinbad hadn't done that for other students in the past when they were helping Yunan. It was a new situation…as the head of the Ravenclaw house, Yunan new to how to use new information to his advantage.

"Did you…want the toad toes sir?" Yunan glanced back at the glass jar in her hands. Than up at Hakuei.

Unless Yunan wanted to be dealing with Sinbad's attitude until he graduated, he needed to find some way to get him to be more respectful.

It was a longshot, but what did he have to lose?

…

"You want me to work with Sinbad?" Hakuei asked.

Yunan nodded, glancing at the door to make sure that all the students had left. Luckily they had lunch after that class, so there would be no students coming to interrupt. "Yes, if you don't mind. Sinbad has been having a problem with his studies in potions. You have been doing a very good job in the class, so I was wondering if you could help him out."

The student hesitated, glancing around to check and see if someone was hiding under an invisible cloak. "All due respect Yunan, but I don't think he needs any help with his classes," Hakuei argued hesitantly. "Most students actually go to him for help." Yunan frowned. He had been aware of that, but he'd hoped Hakuei hadn't. Her eyes narrowed when Yunan gave her no explanation. "But…you knew that…why are you asking me to work with him?"

He was tempted to lie and insist he was really worried about Sinbad. But anyone who knew their situation wouldn't have bought that. "Fine. As you have probably noticed Sinbad does have a…problem with authority and regulations in this school."

That answer, Hakuei was able to follow easily. "Yes, I noticed that the two of you don't get along…What exactly happened between the two of you?" Yunan kept this mouth in a firm line. He didn't trust himself to speak.

"That's not important right now," Yunan forced out. "What's important is that I need a student to help get Sinbad in order. He seemed to listen to you earlier, so I see you as my best chance." Again Hakuei hesitated. Any loyal member of Hufflepuff would have a problem with that kind of plan. Someone as bright as Hakuei would have multiple problems just with the idea of it.

"I'm not sure how I could convince Sinbad to work with me," she explained, deciding to appeal to the sensible side of him.

Yunan nodded, having already thought of that. "Do not worry about that. I have already told him that you will be working with him in the library later today. He's agreed, luckily." Yunan decided against his better judgement not to question why Sinbad had agreed to easily.

To his surprise, Hakuei was being more difficult than Sinbad had been. "So you want me to pretend to work with him while I'm really trying to get him to respect you more."

Cautiously, Yunan gave her a smile. "Is that too much for you?"

"No sir," Hakuei assured him. "It's just…Please forgive me for saying so Mr. Yunan, but if you weren't the head of the Ravenclaw house, you wouldn't make a bad Slytherin."

"E5."

The white knight moved to the square, trapping the queen and ending the game. Professor Scheherazade let out a long sigh as her queen fell to the ground. Shaking her head, she collected her things as Yunan smiled at the chessboard with pride. "It looks like you have won again Professor Yunan."

"Looks like I have," Yunan agreed, putting on a kind smile. "Don't worry about it Scheherazade. You are still a very good chess player."

"Oh, I'm not worried about that my friend," she told him as they stared down the hall to their perspective classrooms. "What I am worried about is my students. That's actually why I wanted to talk to you Professor." Yunan's eyes widened in surprise.

"What student is it you would like to talk about?" The two of them had to part for a moment to allow the ghost of a former king to get past.

"I would like to know," She started, glancing at a painting of a knight flirting with a prince. The knight glared at her for the intrusion, and she quickly turned away. "Why a member of my student has been paying quite a few visits to the head students of the slytherin house." Oh. That story.

It had been about a month since the arrangement between Sinbad and Hakuei had started. So far there had been no change to Sinbad's attitude towards his teachers or the rules of the school. He had seemed to enjoy Hakuei's company. Smiled more and had a cheerful attitude about him. At least the attitude meant that he didn't go out of his way to annoy Yunan anymore. It was a start.

Other people had begun to notice the odd arrangement however. "You know very well that typically hufflepuffs and slytherins either get along quite well, or not at all. Hakuei is not the exception to this rule, as she seems to like them the least since Judal had tried to deceive her brother into a plan that nearly got him expelled last year. Is there any chance you would know why she suddenly changed her mind?"

The professor wasn't surprised that she had been able to figure him out. Scheherazade had always made a point to make sure that her students were alright, especially the ones in her house. Because of her kindness, she was hard to refuse when she asked for anything. Help, advice, information was given to her freely. If she had been crueler, she may have had the power to rule the school if she wanted. "It was under my advisement," Yunan admitted. "Sinbad has been rather…difficult to handle in class lately. I thought that having a good influence around may have been good for him."

Unfortunately, Scheherazade did not see his plan in the same light. "Good for Sinbad? Perhaps. But did you think whether it would be good for Hakuei?"

Yunan sent a curious look her way. "Has Hakuei been having problems?"

"No," she admitted reluctantly. "Not that she has told me anyway. But the point is that I worry about if she will. Hakuei and Sinbad, a Slytherin and a Hufflepuff, those two usually don't work well together. Maybe nothing has happened yet, but I do worry for the future." She had to pause as the stairways shifted, taking them to a different path than they had intended. "You do know that many Slytherin's have taken advantage of Hufflepuff's good nature in the past. In fact, didn't Sinbad himself take advantage of Hakuei's cousin in order to win the house cup a few years back?" Of course Yunan remembered that. It had been a situation that the board had decided to keep under wraps, but they had been very careful to keep Kougyoku out of Sinbad's reach since then.

"I understand you have had trouble with Sinbad for…personal reasons," she suggested, clueless to the real reason for Yunan and Sinbad to not get along. "But please don't drag down one of my students in order to fix it."

That had never been Yunan's intention. All he had wanted was to finally get rid of the annoyance Sinbad had caused in his classroom. Hurting others' to do that was not what he wanted. However, that didn't mean there was any reason for him to retreat so easily. "I understand your concern professor, but I wouldn't have asked Hakuei to help if I didn't think she could handle it. She's much more resilient than the majority of your students, no offence of course." Other than the head student, Muu, of course, but Yunan didn't say that out loud. He still had some problems with that student as well.

As they walked, Yunan spotted an interesting sight out of the corner of his eye. When he recognized it, he paused in place and Scheherazade followed. "If you are really uncomfortable," he suggested, "We can see how it goes with our own eyes."

Turning to the balcony, Scherazade realized that they were standing above the outer court. Not many students were there at the time, most students preparing for an upcoming quiditch match. However, sitting on an otherwise vacant bench was Hakuei and Sinbad. They were surrounded by books, both their wands in hand and a cauldron sat in-between them. Sinbad was glaring at the cauldron like it was the evil inside of him manifested. Hakuei seemed perfectly fine, reading something in her potions book out loud.

Both the professors whisked their wands around in the air, using a spell so they could hear them easier. "…And that's why the mandrake root was needed," Hakuei explained. "And the unicorn hair-"

"-Is important to balance off the dragon claws and oak tree spices," Sinbad interrupted with a bored expression. "Is that all?" His fellow student glanced at him with a partially innocent surprise.

"What do you mean? We just got here." Sinbad smirked, leaning against the bench to stare at her from a different angle, instead of focus on the pot that separated the two of them.

"I'll admit I was hoping that for this study session we wouldn't actually be studying the WHOLE session." Hakuei raised her eyebrows, feigning nativity. But the spark in her eyes said she knew exactly what he had been hoping to do with their time.

"Huh. Well, this is a study session, so I don't know why you would have been expecting anything else." Without hesitation she turned her attention back to the book in her hand. Sinbad pouted in a joking manner as he leaned forward to get her attention.

"Aw, come on love. We studied what you wanted to yesterday. Don't I get to pick what we do today?" slowly Hakuei's eyes lifted from her book to meet Sinbads.

After a pause she let out a sigh and snapped the book shut. "Fine. What do you want to study?"

A wicked smirk replaced the silly pout on Sinbad's face. His eyes roamed over Hakuei like she was a helpless bunny and he was the wolf. "Want to study the effects magic has on the body?" Hakuei raised an eyebrow skeptically. Her house's head professor happened to be less than impressed.

"He's making fun of my students. I've seen him say the same things to other girls in the hallways." Yunan shook his head, a similar smile on his face.

"You shouldn't underestimate your student's professor." He tipped his head back to the two of them. "Keep watching." She raised her eyebrow, but obeyed. Below them, Hakuei hadn't answered yet, probably debating the best way she could have told him no.

Instead she smiled. "Alright."

Sinbad's eyes looked like they were going to pop out of his head. "R-really?" Hakuei raised an eyebrow with a smug smile on her face. After the initial shock wore off the smile that replacd it was ridiculously wide. "Alright then. If you insist." Sinbad tried to lean closer, but Hakuei instead went into her bag. When she turned around, Sinbad was face to face with her wand. With a wave of her wand she uttered only one word.

"Silencio."

Instead of a smile, Sinbad's expression was absolutely shocked. He opened his mouth to speak, but nothing came out. Hakuei's smile got even bigger. "I'm surprised I got that spell right. It's hard to complete without any practice." Returning to her book she flipped to the page with spells that effected the physical body. "So other than not being able to talk, what else are you limited to? You can hear me properly, right?" Sinbad raised his eyebrow but didn't respond. "Good. That's good to know." She wrote the information down. "You did want to study the effects of magic on the human body, right Sinbad?" the two professors at the top watched with mild amusement.

"Alright," Scherazade gave in, a rare mischevious smile on her face. "I'll allow this to continue. Hakuei is very capable. But if I see anything that I think will potentially hurt her, I'm going to stop this. Understood Yunan?" Yunan nodded easily. He'd been expecting Hakuei to be able to handle Sinbad, but even he had to admit he was pretty impressed.

What bothered him was that Sinbad looked impressed as well.

The next time Yunan agreed to help students with an after school project, he would pray for death.

Two first year students it would be a good extra-credit project to figure out how to make rainbows on their own. Instead all they had managed was to colour their skin blue, red and purple. Yunan had just finished washing off the green on his hands when he heard shouting coming from one of the corridors. Out of curiosity, he switched the stairs he had taken and followed the sound.

"How dare you try and hurt my brother Isaac!"

"Oh calm down, it was just an accident."

"They think he's going to lose his arm!"

"Well he shouldn't have gotten in the way of Isaac's and my practicing."

When Yunan finally found the source of the commotion, he was surprised at what he saw. A large crowd had gathered around a group of three people, two against one. The usual calm and collected Hakuei was just barely containing her anger, teeth clenched to hold back from shouting at her enemies. On the other side was a tall ravenclaw Yunan knew as Isaac and his younger friend from slytherin named Dunya. She glowered back at Hakuei with just as much anger as she gave her. "Your brother and his friends got in the middle of our experiment!"

"You shouldn't have been doing that experiment after hours anyway! Alibaba, Aladdin and my brother were just trying to find out what was going on, and you sent them all to the hospital wing!" There were a few murmurs in the crowd, some concern for the injured parties, others simply excited at the drama to distract them from their daily lives.

A hint of guilt shone in Dunya's eyes, but she quickly whipped it away. "We didn't mean for anyone to get hurt. They were the ones who interrupted our experiment because they had assumed we didn't have permission when Isnan had said it was alright!" Yunan made a mental note to talk to Isnan about giving students permission to perform spells that sent three to medical care. "It's not our fault that your brother couldn't handle the level of magic that we were using. I guess he just wasn't as tough as us."

That had been the wrong thing to say. Unless he was trying to start a fight. "If you think you're so strong, why don't you fight me and see if you could handle yourself in a real battle?"

"Gladly!" Dunya hissed back. In a flash her wand was in her hand, Isaac reaching for his in defense. Alarm bells rang in Yunans ears and he knew he had to settle things.

Just as he had pushed his way to the front, the fight was cut short by a third party. "Whoa whoa, let's all calm down here." All eyes turned to see Sinbad breaking through the crowd, with Jafar from ravenclaw and Masrur from Hufflepuff behind him. All students backed away from either admiration or a silent fear for one of the strongest students in the slytherin house.

Sinbad hardly glanced at Yunan as he headed to the middle of the circle. Things had been getting better with Sinbad, finally. He actually obeyed when Yunan asked him to do something for the class. His uniform wasn't perfect, but at least he had started wearing the robe once again. The two of them still were not on speaking terms, but at least Sinbad didn't glare at him as they passed through the hallways anymore. It was progress. More-so in Hakuei's department than Yunan had realized.

Sinbad risked a wink at Hakuei. "Milady." Some of the girls in the crowd swooned.

While Hakuei didn't look as annoyed as she used to, the frown didn't go away. "Not now Sinbad. This is my problem, and it is none of your business."

"Anything you do is my business love," Sinbad informed her while Yunan dwelled on the fact that he had given her a nickname. "That, and the fact that I am making it my business. Walking in the middle of an argument usually does that."

"What is this," Dunya questioned, hiding the spark of fear when she glanced at Sinbad. "What, you can't handle your own battles so you get your boyfriend to come and fight them for you?" Hakuei's cheeks turned bright red when murmurs and rushes of rumors spread through the crowd like a wildfire set by a baby dragon.

"He is NOT my boyfriend." She turned back to Sinbad. "Please just go away."

"Am I not allowed to offer you my assistance?"

"I don't need your help!"

"This is a waste of time," Dunya cursed as she spun around to face Hakuei. "Look here princess. You meet us after dinner in the dark forest, before it gets dark. Then we'll see who really can use their magic." The suggestion of a challenge raised the spirits of the crowd almost as high as a rally at a quiditch match.

"Ooh, a showdown."

"That's going to be good." Similar whispers spread throughout the crowd, edging the entertainment on.

With determination in every word she accepted. "Fine. Don't you dare be late."

"Of course not." In an instant the whispers came to a regular volume when they realized that was all they would see for the time being. Crowds dispersed, people continued either their own conversations or began to spread plans of going to see the match on their own. Yunan decided he could no longer stay idle and remind the students that fighting with magic in the dark forest was against the school rules. Pushing past more students, he hurried to retrieve both parties of the argument. Instead, he found Hakuei standing with Jafar and Masrur, while Sinbad had taken her spot with Dunya and Isaac. He had one arm around each of their shoulders with overly friendly smile.

"Look, I understand that you are mad at Hakuei for challenging the two of you for something that I'm sure was just an accident," Sinbad cooed. Isaac nodded, but didn't say a word. He didn't seem like a very talkative one.

"Exactly!" Dunya spoke for him. "Who does she think she-"

"However," Sinbad continued, so low that Yunan had to strain to hear him. "If either of you lay one hand on my dear Hakuei, I will personally guarantee that neither of you get to see the light of day ever again." It was like an avalanche of ice fell over them, as Dunya and Isaac froze and Sinbad's dark look maintained the cold. After the pause, Sinbad pulled back with a sickeningly sweet smile on his face. "Understand?"

Neither of them were able to move, stuck in the fear of what Sinbad could do to them. Only Isaac was able to respond when Dunya's mouth hung open in surprise. "Y…yes." Sinbad nodded. Calmly he patted them both on the back, making them both flinch.

"Good. I'm glad we had this talk." Spinning on his heels he walked back to Hakuei and his friends. "We should hurry if we want to get to our next study session on time Hakuei."

Hakuei nodded, glaring at Dunya and Isaac as she passed. "I'll see you later tonight then."

"Y-yeah," Dunya hesitated. "I-I'll see you there." Her eyes shifted up behind Hakuei. She looked stern, determined to avenge her brother and more personally effected. Sinbad on the other hand, looked absolutely murderous as he glared at Dunya and Isaac from behind her, his silent threat looming in the air.

Dunya gulped.

Later in the day, Yunan heard that Dunya and Isaac had been nowhere to be found at the time of the fight. The next day, both of them returned, seeming to have forgotten about the whole thing entirely.

But Yunan didn't miss the fear in their eyes whenever they glanced at Sinbad.

The dining hall was buzzing with energy that night. Exams were only a few weeks away, and the quiditch dup had just been handed to the Gryfindor team. Aladdin was still getting congratulations from his fellow students for catching the snitch just before the end. Even the losing team, Ravenclaw, was still in a buzz from the energy and hype going through the hall.

Ugo elbowed Yunan in the side gently. "Hey, are you alright?" Yunan blinked up at his fellow professor before turning back to the crowd. In fact, he had been looking for a few students with little success.

"Where is Sinbad from Slytherin?" Ugo glanced over the crowd as well, but could not see the regular pony tail of purple hair they all knew belonged to him. Yunan frowned, slumping in his chair in annoyance. He'd calculated the potential of the outcome of course, but he had never expected it to come to pass. And after they had had so much success!

After nearly half the year, Sinbad had finally started to behave properly. Did what he was told, respected the rules appropriately and only had a few minor infractions and rules broken to his name. Hakuei had been a good influence and if had started to show. Yunan's class had become much easier to handle, even enjoyable with Sinbad actually paying attention to the lessons.

After Sinbad had finally started to act like a regular student, he couldn't even come to the main hall for dinner?

He had heard that the two of them had had an argument about something a while ago. According to the students Hakuei had learned many more details towards Sinbad's private life and his romantic endeavours. Yunan had no idea why Sinbad's relationships would bother Hakuei, but nonetheless Hakuei and he hadn't spoken for a few days. In turn, Sinbad's schooling had also taken a turn for the worse. He wasn't purposefully causing problems anymore, but it was almost worse than it had been before. Whenever he was in class it was like his mind was in another world. His potions would go wrong because he hadn't been paying attention to his ingredients. It took forever to get him to answer a question simply because he hadn't heard it. Once he had even broken two cauldrons from walking into a student. It was a disaster!

With a sigh Yunan shook his head. "Nothing. I just realized an experiment I had has gone bad." Ugo raised his eyebrows at him, but said nothing. As a former member of Ravenclaw, he knew when it was best not to push.

After a few minutes of silent eating, the doors of the main hall opened with a loud creek. Hardly anyone paid attention, but Yunan glanced up out of curiosity.

Sinbad walked through the doors, flanked by a rather nervous looking Pisti of gryfindor, Drakkon of gryfindor and Spartos of hufflepuff. What was truly odd was the look on Sinbad's face. He didn't look smug or relaxed like he normally did. There was a set determination on his face, as if he had been given a mission that had to be completed right away. His friends hurried to their respective tables as they cast nervous glances back at him. Sinbad didn't go back to his table.

Instead he marched through the hall towards the hufflepuff table. As he walked people began to notice the odd sight of a Slytherin searching through a group of hufflepuffs. Yunan glanced at Ugo to see a flash of panic across his face. The rules of houses remaining at their own table was strictly enforced by all the teachers, not just him. Even Sinbad hadn't bothered to break that rule.

Until that day of course.

After some searching, Sinbad plopped himself down next to a bright eyed, raven haired girl sitting next to her brother and having been next to a blue haired friend who yelped a complaint when he was pushed away from Sinbad to have room. "We need to talk," Sinbad told her, sounding more like an order than a request.

Hakuei's eyes widened in surprise. "Wha-Sinbad, you can't sit here!" Already people had started staring, conversations dying down to see what was going on.

"You've been avoiding me." Immediantly Hakuei's surprise turned to annoyance. She turned back to her food, trying to avoid the stares of her fellow classmates.

"I don't know why you would think that. Maybe I just don't want to talk, okay?" Before she could take a bite, Sinbad snatched her plate away and pulled it towards him. Hakuei stared up at him incrediously. "Sinbad!"

"Maybe. But now I want to talk to you." She tried to yank her food back, but Sinbad held it out of reach. "Hakuei, how many times do I have to say I'm sorry?"

"What would you have to apologize for?" She grunted, her cheeks starting to turn red. While most students couldn't hear the two of them with their hushed tones and the rest of the oblivious students still talking about the last match, many were watching the two of them interact and waiting for the action to begin. The teachers all turned to the headminister, Solomon, for direction. To their surprise, Solomon did nothing. Instead he watched curiously, ignoring the rule that Sinbad had broken. He must have decided that the reason for breaking the rule was more interesting than the rule having been broken itself.

Scooping up her chin he forced her to look at him. "For what Polly told you. That was from long ago, I didn't think it would come up again." Hakuei glanced away, biting her lip to help her keep her calm.

"Why should it?" She questioned. "It's none of my business how many girls you've been with or what you did with them. We're just study partners, why should it bother me?" She told him, in a tone that said it really did bother her.

Sinbad must have been able to hear it, because he persisted. "You know that I want to be more than just 'study partners' with you." A few people started whispering at that, but the two of them ignored it. "I didn't mean to lie to you about it. I just didn't want you to know just how…flirtatious I can be.

Hakuei shook her head. "I already knew about that Sinbad. I just didn't realize it was that big until Polly," Hakuei nearly spat out the name, "just told me how many people you've dated. It just surprised me, that's all. And the fact that you lied when you said you had only been in a relationship with four others." FOUR? How naïve was the girl? Perhaps she had just had high expectations for him.

"Technically, I was only in a relationship with four girls, the others I just dated for a little bit!" That didn't seem to help the situation very much. "I'm sorry I lied to you, but I didn't want you to get upset. I don't care about any of those girls anymore, you know who I care about." Hakuei glanced up at him before quickly turning away.

"I-I just," She hesitated. "We're really different Sinbad. You know that. How could we possibly work?"

"We could," Sinbad insisted. "If I had you, I would never want to even look at anyone else. How could I when I've got you to look at?" Hakuei's face turned bright red when a few giggles went through the crowd. They all must have had super hearing because Yunan had to use magic to be able to hear them.

"S-sin I…How can I trust you? Take away your relationship with others, you still are a liar and very deceitful. How can I trust someone like that?" While Sinbad looked slightly relieved that the subject had shifted from his affairs, he seemed panicked over the seriousness of her worries. He must have known they would come up, but had secretly been hoping they wouldn't.

Gingerly, he took Hakuei's hand in his. "Hakuei, I get that I can be…dishonest, but I promise I will never lie to you again. We're really different, but we can make it work. Opposites attract, right?" Hakuei's mouth twitched with amusement, and Sinbad visibly relaxed a bit more. "Just one date. That's all I'm asking." Before Hakuei could say anything he added, "And no is not an option. I'm not leaving this table without a yes." Sheba, who had finally stood up and started towards the table, had a different answer for that.

Hakuei didn't seem to notice her as she frowned at him. "How can you say that? What if I just say-mmf!"

The poor dear was cut off when Sinbad grabbed her shoulders and yanked her into a kiss. There was a collective gasp of the fellow students, and whispers of excited reactions spreading quickly. Neither of the two seemed to hear them as Sinbad wrapped his arms around Hakuei like he would never let go and she twisted hers around his neck. It seemed like forever had passed when they finally separated for air. "So…yes?" Sinbad suggested while Hakuei struggled for air.

Breathing heavily, she nodded. "O-okay." Sinbad grinned wildly before kissing her again.

Some students called it a magical night.

Other than the part where Sinbad got detention.

"I just came by to say thanks professor." Yunan's eyes widened. That had been the last thing he had been expecting.

It was the last day at school, all the students were getting ready to head to the trains and Yunan was just collecting the last of his things from his classroom when Sinbad had walked in. While the experiment with Hakuei had gone much better than he had expected, getting a thank you was far beyond his expectations. "For what? For helping you with your potions?"

To his surprise again, Sinbad laughed. "No. for finally doing what I wanted."

Yunan frowned. "What you wanted?"

"That's right. I had been trying to get your attention for a while until you finally decided you were desperate enough to send her to me so I would behave. Honestly, I was considering sending her secret letter that you would find so that you would finally make her study with me." Slowly, Yunan examined his words as he tried to connect the pieces to understand what he was saying. When he did, his eyes widened.

"You," Yunan gasped, the disbelief hanging off his tongue and shock plain in his eyes. "You…you wanted me to send her." Sinbad's eyes twinkled while his cocky smirk seemed to somehow get cockier. Something Yunan had thought had never been possible.

"Hakuei never trusted me enough to approach me of her own free will," Sinbad informed him as his hands slipped into his pockets. "Unless she thought it was to help someone out. Since you asked her to help me out with my work, I had the excuse to see her outside of classes. She didn't want to see me, no matter what I did. You gave me that excuse that she couldn't refuse."

"Sounds like you did quite a lot of planning for this," he forced out as he began to realize what he'd done.

"I was highly motivated," Sinbad told him with a smug smile. "She's a great girl. Thanks for the help." Yunan didn't say anything, unable to believe that he, Ravenclaws head teacher, had been tricked by one of Slytherin's students.

"I got to go," Sinbad told him. "My girlfriend can't hold my seat on the train forever. Don't be expecting any more special treatment next year. I've got what I needed so there's no reason things can't go back to normal with us, right teacher?" With a wicked grin, Sinbad hurried off to leave Yunan in a mix of bewilderment and small amusement.

Well played Sinbad. Well Played.