A note before the fic—the chapter title was taken from the song 'Hello' on Evanescence's CD "Fallen"

Harry Potter and the Sennen Items
Chapter Six: Hello
Nachzes Black-Rider

Though the site which met Bill Weasley's eyes was highly amusing (or, at least it was to him), to his credit, he managed not to laugh; the only outward sign of his mirth being a slight twitching of the lips. Nevertheless, the furious glare that he received from one Seto Kaiba sobered him up a bit, and he unconsciously stood straighter as the brunet continued to scrutinize him.

"What are they doing here?" Set snarled, gesturing to the stunned-looking, pyjama-clad threesome that was Yuugi, Malik, and Ryö. "Did you kidnap the, too?"

Mrs. Weasley appeared affronted at the obvious disrespect of her eldest son, and opened her mouth to say something, but Bill shook his head and held up a hand to silence her. Seto glared harder; he wanted a fight, Bill knew, he wanted something to take out his frustration on—he needed someone to blame. The redhead could understand the feeling, having felt it himself when Fleur had been taken, but he wasn't about to be Kaiba's scapegoat. "Seto," he began, but the brunet cut him off before he could continue.

"Kaiba," he barked. Bill levelled emerald eyes at him, and nodded slightly.

"Kaiba," he conceded, "I assure you that we did not kidnap Yuugi, Ryö, or Malik. Every one of them came of their own free will."

"Well isn't that nice for them," Seto snapped sarcastically.

Now it was Bill's turn to glare. "Would you rather be in You-Know-Who's clutches?"

Seto exploded. "FOR THE LAST TIME, NO, I DO NOT KNOW WHO, AND IF IT MEANT THAT I WAS OUT OF THIS GOD-DAMNED HOUSE, THEN YES!"

The others—except for Yuugi, Malik, and Ryö, who clearly had no idea what was going on—looked taken aback, and Ron (who had previously been swaying on his feet, drooling) snapped awake.

"Huh?" he blurted. "Whazzat?"

Seto looked disgusted. Lip curling derisively, he said, sounding furious, "I will do whatever it take to get my brother back, Weasley. Anything." He paused, allowing the words time to sink in. "And Yuugi will testify to that." And then he left, stalking back in the direction he'd come from.

Once he was out of earshot, Ron turned to Yuugi. "What did he mean by saying he'd do anything to get Mokuba back?"

Everyone shifted their gazes to a pale and shaken-looking violet-eyed duellist. The sixteen-year-old lifted wide purple eyes to Bill's and said, quietly, "He would. He once threatened to throw himself off a tower if it meant he'd gain even a chance of getting to Mokuba." Bill felt a chill run through him at the deadpan words, and he shuddered slightly.

"Then we're in bigger trouble than I thought," Bill murmured, reflecting back on his conversation with Harry. "…Voldemort has a plan to be sure that Kaiba joins him. …Voldemort has a plan…. Voldemort has a plan…." Again, he shivered. "Much bigger."

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Mokuba shivered, hunching against the wall behind him as he heard the racous laughter of the men coming closer. Drunk, he thought, wincing in pain as pain raced like fire through his veins when he attempted to move. Tears prickled the corners of his eyes, and he scrubbed them away impatiently with a grubby fist. Stop that! he scolded himself Seto would want you to be strong! But the tears kept on coming, and Mokuba shifted despairingly as he found himself unable to stop them. Curling up tighter into a ball of misery, the raven-haired boy began to shake slightly with silent sobs.

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Four weeks, Seto thought, staring blankly at the ceiling. He's been missing for four weeks…. Twin tears slowly leaked from the corners of dim sapphire eyes, slipping down pale cheeks.

There's no way he can still be alive, Kaiba, a voice at the back of his mind told him, and Seto winced.

"No…" he said, but his voice was quiet—too soft to be a real denial.

Yes.

"No!" Seto sobbed, burying his face in the bed sheets.

You know it's true, Kaiba. You know it is.

All Seto could do was shake his head, shoulders shuddering with his racking sobs. "No…" he choked out, hands tightening into fists. But only silence met him. Eyes streaming, he raised his head from the mattress. "Mokuba is not dead," he said to the empty air. "He's not." His heart pounded in his ears, and his eyes flickered nervously, but the silence stretched onwards, seeming deafening. "He's not," he repeated in a whisper, as if saying the words enough would make it true. "He's not dead."

He is.

Seto screamed into the pillow, face turning red. "NO!"

Kaiba, he's gone. There's no point in fighting it.

"He can't be gone! I promised…I promised him…."

The voice was silent for a moment before it spoke again, You know what you have to do, Kaiba.

Seto shook his head again. "He's not gone, he's not gone, he's not gone. He can't be gone! I promised him…" he repeated like a mantra, eyes blank. "I promised him…."

Do it.

Seto sobbed again, and the voice took on a gentler tone when it spoke again.

Mokuba is gone. Blue eyes wavered slightly, and the light in them died. Do it.

And Seto reached for the knife.

To be continued….

Bwahahaha…yes, I am evil. Anyone know where Seto got the k-nif-ey from? Right—he snitched it when he was kitchen-snooping in the middle of the night last chapter. See! He was there for a reason! (Well…besides insomnia, that is.)

Oh, and there should be two time-changes in here—after Part One, and after Part Two; but the little symbol I usually use to show the passage of time looked really weird when it preceded the POV-change one right away. So I took them out.

And…Part Two is in the night on the same "day" as Part One, while Part Three is approximately three weeks after Part One. (Remember, Seto got to Grimmauld Place a week before Yuugi and the other two.)

Next chapter: 'Tourniquet' (yet another Evanescence song gacked from their album "Fallen"). Unfortunately, this won't be up for a while, because I have to work on my dad's Christmas present, and my friends' B-Day presents that have been on the wait-list for a while. For all you Opposites Attract fans, sorry; I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to make my deadline of the end of the month. One, I'm out of town and can't post, two, there's the reasons mentioned above. Thank you for your understanding, and I apologize again for the inconvenience.

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