A shattered set of silverware, 8 no longer recognizable forks (three of which could not be removed from the walls), two broken chairs (Lupin and Tonks discovered that they are very good at dodge ball...chair), and one very bloody nose later, we were all sitting in the living room as Mrs. Weasley took Lavi into another room to inspect his injuries. It was pleasantly quiet (as it usually is without Lavi) while we all waited for dinner to begin.

Taking advantage of the situation, I rested my head on Yu's shoulder with the intention of taking a small nap. I was just drifting off when I felt a light pressure on my leg, thinking it was Crookshanks (Hermione's ginger cat) I reached over to rub his head...which was smaller than a grown cats usually is...odd, but I shrugged it off as drowsiness and continued to pet him. As the voices around me faded I stopped petting the cat, only to hear a rather demanding mew...What? Forcing myself awake, I found a rather odd kitten (actually it looked more like a very small lion cub) sitting in my lap; the fur on its head and front half was a light blue, each front leg bearing one golden ring, while the fur on its back half was a very dark blue, huge golden eyes stared at me in a pout. Twitching its tail (which had fur in the shape of a star on the end), the cub mewed at me again, nudging my hand with its face.

Its so...cute! I squealed as I began to pet the kitten (it purred at me!). While at the sudden high pitch sound Yu (who had also been dozing) jumped, making the card tower Allen and Lenalee were building fall to the ground as they too were startled. As my total attention was on Odd Lion Cub, I didn't notice that everyone had turned to watch me, that is until a certain voice caught my attention.

"Blackie-chan...did you just squeal?"

Heat rushed to my cheeks as I saw Lavi's grin (curse his ability to appear out of nowhere!), and I tried my best to melt into the couch and vanish.

"You did! Aww don't hide your face! You look so cute~! Just like that time at the beach when I un-"

"That was you?"

"Did you guys just say that at the same time? And you're not gonna call jinx? What a waste." We were not amused. "...Aw c'mon Blackie-chan, Moyashi-chan, it's not like anyone saw right?"

"Saw what?" Yu leaned across me to better glare at Lavi, placing his hand on my leg, on to jerk it back at the sound of an angry hiss. He turned his gaze to Odd Lion Cub (which had been hiding between my leg and a pillow before) with that look of surprised anger that only he could pull off. "What the he-"

"Allen, dear, could you come with me please? I asked Lavi to send you back, but it seems he's busy talking." With everyone's attention focused on Molly Weasley I took the opportunity to attack Lavi. The thud he made when he hit the floor was rather satisfying. "Owww...Blackie-chan,what was that for?"

"You didn't think I would just let you get away with untying me bikini top do you?"

"WHAT?" My smug expression faded as I remembered Yu's temper. He was on his feet in seconds, as was Lavi who had grabbed Lenalee and Allen to use as human shields. "Now Yu-chan,"

Kanda didn't bother to reply as he shoved Allen away and lunged at Lavi, I decided that it was past time to intervene and hurried to Yu's side...only to get caught in a bear hug by the recliner that crushed us together.

I was wondering when the furniture had began coming to life when Mrs. Weasley began talking, "That is quite enough. Arcane, Kanda, there will be no more fighting in this house. I do not tolerate violence," Is she giving us orders? "Lavi, I do not want to hear of you annoying them anymore. Kanda, next time you will keep your temper in check, and neither of you are going to start anymore fights."

Five pairs of eyes stared at incredulously at the small women in the doorway, no one had given us orders but our generals (excluding the head nurse-she was scary) for years(1). As Yu began struggling to get out I heard Master's voice in my head

'Never let someone order you about. If you are given orders from someone you must obey, never do so without question. To mindlessly obey is to submit your will to their own, admitting that they are superior to you.'

Anger began to seep into my being, building slowly as Master's words bounced around in my head. "Are you ready to solve your problems calmly now? Like adults instead of toddlers?" That did it. Baring my teeth I activated my innocence, using my beads to rip apart the recliner and separate it from Yu and myself. Now activated, my beads began to darken into black, reflecting the anger I was feeling. I turned to Mrs. Weasley, giving her the best 'Kanda Yu' glare I could, before turning on my heel and stalking up to the room Lenalee and I were sharing, destroying the last moving piece of recliner on my way as my innocence darted around and after me like angered bees.

With the lights off, I lay on the bed, playing absentmindedly with the watch Harry had given me all those years ago, anger slowly subsiding. I wasn't alone for long, however, as moments later the door was opened and a tall figure stalked into the room. I shifted to a sitting position on the end of the bed as Yu sat beside me. "...She fixed the chair." I only nodded, my gaze fixed on the floor. "Want to tell me why you were angry?"

"Not really."

"Arcane." I glanced at Yu to see him looking at me seriously, lips in a frown. I sighed, "Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon used to..order Harry and I around a lot. I always hated it."

"Is that all?"

I bit my lip, still not looking at him. Why must he be so perceptive? "...We got in trouble if we didn't do it exactly as they wanted..." His hand took hold of my chin as he forced me to look at him, "What kind of trouble?"

When I looked away from, refusing to answer, he growled. I sighed again before moving away from him and taking off one my arm-warmers to reveal a long scar on the underside of my arm. Yu traced it with cool fingers as I began to talk.

"Harry and I did most of the work around that house. One day a shelf in our...room collapsed and something heavy managed to hit Harry in the head." (They were always putting their crap in our closet) "Later when we were working in the yard he got really dizzy, so I made him go rest in the shade. Harry was still sitting there when Vernon got back from work, and when he saw Harry just sitting there he got angry. He started yelling at us...but..." I had to take a deep breath here, forcing myself to calm down, this was one of my worst memories. I was fifteen, damn it! I shouldn't be so upset over something that happened years ago.

"But, even when Vernon started hitting him, Harry wouldn't wake. I stopped what I was doing to see if Harry was alright when Vernon went inside...I was stupid, not paying attention and Vernon caught me slacking off when he came back out. He started yelling at me to 'mind my own business', but since I was already in trouble I just ignored him. He started to force me to go back... Harry wouldn't wake up...I didn't know what to do...When I saw Petunia come out I panicked. I fought Vernon to get back over to them, and that's the last thing I remember before waking up in the hospital with a bunch of stitches in my arm."

I heard Yu take a few deep breaths as I put the arm-warmer back on, when I looked at him his free hand was clenched into a fist (the other gripping my hand gently) and eyes closed. We simply sat like that for a while, the sound of his deeps breaths and gentle grip reassuring as I battled emotions from my memory.

It felt like forever before Yu broke the silence, asking in a semi-calm voice what had happened. I shrugged, adjusting the arm-warmer self consciously before answering, "Apparently when Vernon knocked me out, I fell on the rocks that we were supposed to be placing in the garden and cut my arm. A neighbor came over later for some reason, and when no-one answered the front door they went to the back. They saw my arm bleeding, and couldn't wake Harry. Turns out Vernon and Petunia had taken our cousin and went out for dinner, so the neighbor took us to the hospital."

"If I ever see them..." He didn't need to finish his sentence for me to begin feeling (slightly) sorry for the Dursleys, Yu tends to fix problems with violence, though it also made me feel a bit better. I had talked about my past very little, the most being with Allen whenever something happened to send him into trauma as he remembered his time with General Cross, but I had never brought up this particular incident. It felt nice to get it out to someone. I leaned against him, finally beginning to relax somewhat as he wrapped an arm around me, holding me close as he rested his head atop mine.

That was one of my worse memories for a reason, and it wasn't because of a trip to the hospital. Before that happened I had always held the small hope that the Dursleys cared at least a bit for us. That maybe if we did as they said long enough, they might finally accept us, maybe even like us. That hope left me after that, if they cared they wouldn't have just left us as they did. I had 23 stitches and Harry a mild concussion, if ever they had cared it would have been then.

"You know," We all turned to Lavi somewhat dreading the answer, it was no secret that he had been bored the past two days, the wizard children were busy with their homework (with the exception of Hermione, but she had been roped into helping them) and we hadn't seen them much since we were introduced (which I'm a little grateful for, as they weren't there when I nearly lost my temper). The adults too were busy, which meant there were no others to entertain Lavi. That in turn meant one of two things:

#1) Lavi was going to annoy Yu until he tried to kill him (until he was made to stop actually)

#2) Lavi was going to annoy Allen until it annoyed Yu, who would then attempt to kill them both.

Lenalee and I exchanged nervous glances, our thinking along the same line. Lavi waited until he was sure he had all attention to finish, "We really should look around here, this is a magical house after all, to just sit around would be wasting an awesome opportunity."

"You just wanna know the best place to set up a prank," Lavi looked at me with a stricken expression, and grasped the area of his heart dramatically.

"Blackie-chan! How could you even think such a thing?"

"Though I agree with Arcane," Lavi widened his eye and fell out of his chair, moaning and twitching (drama queen...king). Allen ignored him as he continued, "It would be a good idea to know the house a bit better. There are no akuma right now, but that doesn't mean there won't be. We should know the areas they are most likely to come in, and the closet exits."

Lenalee and I nodded, and at Yu's silence (which was as close to an agreement as we were going to get) began to divide up the house among the five of us. "Heeeey! Guuuuuyyyyss, this is supposed to be for fun! You can't turn it into something for the mission!"

"So you were looking for a place for pranks." Lavi shut up, I continued. "So I get the top floor, and we meet back here for lunch. Use Lavi-whistle number four if you need help or find anything that requires immediate attention."

"Lavi-whistle?"

"On second thought just yell." And with that I hurried up the stairs as we scattered. Lavi did not need to know we had specific whistle patterns to warn others of his approach, nor did he need to hear the whistle itself (stupid Bookman memory). Don't get me wrong, I do like Lavi, but sometimes he can be a bit much. The whistles were mainly for warning others of his pranks, or when he was in a ridiculously hyper mood and would GOS (glomp on sight) randomly.

Once up the stairs I began looking around curiously, hoping that the lion cub thing might have run up here (the others had agreed to look for it as well, after many odd looks that is) as it had vanished when Yu attacked Lavi. So far there were only a few paintings covered by curtains and I was about to enter a random room when a thumping sound caught my attention, I listened for it again and was able to follow the sound to the source to a room at the end of the hallway. Seeing that it was unlocked, I opened the door and my jaw did nothing short of hitting the floor. There, standing in the middle of the room as if it BELONGED there was a large creature with the front legs and head of a eagle, and hind end (complete with tail) of a horse. Not to mention wings, very large wings. Just like the very large talons on the front legs.

My breath caught as the creature turned to look at me, brilliant orange colored eyes staring into mine above a steel colored beak. Feeling as if this was some sort of challenge I stood straight and stared back, the thing blinked, but never moved its eyes from mine. I could see intelligence as it seemed to study me as I had done when I first entered. Not thinking, I began to move toward it (a wiser person would have went out and shut the door) talking in a soothing voice, letting it know I wasn't going to hurt it. My hand was fairly close to Eagle-Horse's beak when it struck out, and it was only thanks to years of fighting that I didn't lose that hand. "Now that's not very nice, here I am trying to let you get my scent and you go and attack me?" It glared, stomping it's hind feet. I sighed, but backed off a bit. It was obviously a magical animal, which meant that it was probably smarter than 'normal' ones, which gave me an idea. Not breaking eye contact I bowed and told it my name, hoping it would at least stop giving me the evil eye, and was about to leave it be when it surprised me by bowing back.

Feeling utterly amazed, I walked over to it, reaching my hand out gingerly and rubbing it's head when there was no attack. Letting a smile come across my face I moved my hand along its body slowly, savoring the feel of soft feathers and fur. "You look really scary you know that?" When Eagle-Horse looked back something in its gaze told me to explain myself, so I did. "Like these flowers my friend Allen told me about, very big and very pretty, but deadly if handled wrong." Giving it one last pat I made my way back to the door, "I'll see you later, big guy, maybe I could bring some kind of treat next time? Fish, or maybe a rat if I see one. That is, if you'll tolerate me, see ya." And with that I re-entered the hallway, though nothing I found was as interesting as Horse-Eagle, though the sparkly curtains and random objects that tried to bite me when touched were close.

When we met up I told the others about Eagle-Horse (no luck with the lion thing), and brought them back up to be introduced. After an incident when Lavi tried to hug it (he is lucky I caught him in time), and a brief stay no more interest was shown.

As I really liked all kinds of animals, I made it a habit to go up to Eagle-Horse's room everyday before lunch. I would talk to him (I assumed it was male) and even stole a towel and brush to clean his feathers and fur. I always bowed when entering, but after a few days Eagle-Horse actually came to me before I was able to, and rubbed his head on my shoulder. I took this as a sign that I could approach freely and was not disappointed.

It was about a week after the almost fight with Mrs. Weasley, and I was heading to Buddy's (as I had taken to calling Eagle-Horse) room for our daily meeting when I heard crying coming from down the hall and went to investigate. I was surprised to see it was Mrs. Weasley sitting in an empty room, face buried in her hands and an open envelope at her feet. Wordlessly I picked the letter up and sat beside her, reading the contents before frowning and retrieving my lighter from my pocket. At the 'flick' sound it made she looked up in time to see me set the paper aflame, not turning away from it until there were only ashes in my hand. I made sure to look her in the eye as I spoke softly, "He has no right to speak in such a manner, nor to act in such a way. He will realize that he is wrong."

"Arcane your hand." I shook my head as I let the ashes fall to the floor, crushing them with my boot. Mrs. Weasley looked at me teary-eyed before catching me in a hug as she cried into my shoulder, I managed to pat her awkwardly on the back. "Oh Percy he...he hates me."

"I'm sure he doesn't hate you." She only shook her head as she continued to cry. We sat there for what seemed like hours before she calmed down, giving me an embarrassed smile as she pulled away. Sighing, I handed her my handkerchief as she began to talk. "Sorry about that, its just...he hasn't responded to my letters all summer, and when he finally does...well you read it."

"You're his mother, he doesn't hate you. I'm sure he'll realize his mistake soon enough." I sat there not really knowing what to say as she used magic to clean my handkerchief and shoulder.

"Sirius does."

Well that was random. "Does what?"

"Hates his mother, that's her portrait in the hall you know. The one he keeps covered, and doesn't want anyone to see."

Or maybe it wasn't random. "That's funny, I didn't know Percy and Sirius were the same person." With that I got up, intending to find Allen and send him back to make sure she was alright (he was way better at this stuff than I am) when her voice stopped me at the door. "You do too don't you? Hate me. You've been avoiding me this whole time and ignore me when you can't."

I sighed, leaning against the door frame, "I don't...hate you..." I closed my eyes, taking a moment to find the words I needed. "...I thought you would still be angry about what happened last week, and I was trying to give both of us some time to calm down."

"I was never really angry with you two, you know."

We endured another few minutes of awkward silence when I realized that she probably had no idea what had set me off in the first place, I sighed, knowing I had to explain myself before we could put this behind us. "It sounded like you were giving us orders."

"Well I-I didn't mean for it to sound like that, but there have to be rules you know. And I can't just let you lot do whatever you want and not let the others. That wouldn't be fair, and there are so many things that could get broken or-"

"I know," The woman had the same habit her son did, they rambled when nervous. "And I understand that, and everyone else understands that. But I will not take orders from you." I held up a hand when she started to talk again. "If you would tell us where we should be more careful, or explain your rules calmly, I know I can speak for all of us when I say that we will keep that in mind and do our best not to break your rules. But unless you can beat me in a fight, I will not take orders from you. I may do what you ask of me, but I will not do as you tell me."

Mrs. Weasley pursed her lips, but nodded, "Fair enough. Now, I'd say you're hungry aren't you? It is time for lunch." The woman smiled at me as we both walked down the hall, though I stopped at Buddy's door, intent on our pre-lunch visit. Mrs. Weasley stopped too, "Arcane what are you doing? Buckbeak will have your head if you go in there without Sirius,"

"Who's Buckbeak?" The only thing in there was Buddy (aka Eagle-Eagle)...wait was that his real name?

"He's a hippogriff, Sirius has been keeping him in that room since we came here and he doesn't like strangers."

"So his name is Buckbeak? I've just been calling him Buddy..." I really need to be more creative, no wonder he had been giving me weird looks.

"You've been in there before?" At my nod her eyes widened, "SIRIUS GET UP HERE! Arcane you can't...why would you...did he hurt you? Are you injured?"

"I can and I did, because I wanted to, no and no." During this time Mrs. Weasley had healed the burn on my hand (which I had forgotten about), and was currently looking me over as best she could. "Don't be afraid now, the whole reason that thing is here is because it attacked a student. Now truthfully, are you hurt?"

"Don't you start with that, Molly, you know the story behind that and it was entirely the kid's fault. Now, is there a reason you're acting like this?"

"Arcane wants to go in there with Buckbeak." I caught Sirius' eye and he grinned broadly, causing me to give him a tiny smile back. "Wanna meet Buckbeak do you? Oh you'll love him, he might even give you a ride, course he can't give you a real one mind you. Nah, can't fly around with so many muggles watching. But-"

"Let me re-phrase that, she has already gone in alone with Buckbeak."

"What? Are you alright? He didn't hurt you did he? He can get a little mean with strangers-"

"No, I am not currently hurt, nor have I been hurt by Bud- Buckbeak. I know very well he doesn't like strangers, he made that perfectly clear to me the first time I went in." I frowned at them as I spoke, "I can look out for myself. So stop trying to coddle me." They both seemed a little surprised, but as I was quite tired of dealing with them I simply turned the knob and entered Buckbeak's room.

"You don't think you're going in alone do you?" I sighed (these people seem to make me do that a lot) as Buckbeak trotted over to me, not bothering to answer. "Hold it now, you have to-" Sirius stopped mid sentence as Buckbeak nudged my shoulder in our usual greeting, before turning to Sirius and squawking, he looked at me wide-eyed, "But he's so...strict with how he let's others approach him."

"Yeah I found that out the first time I came in when I nearly lost my hand."

"How did you find out what to do?" I was beginning to like Sirius, he seemed to encourage risk taking.

"Well he seemed really smart," Buckbeak gave me a mean look. "Is really smart, and Allen is always getting on to me about manners, so I just did what he usually does when we meet new people." Sirius and I continued to visit with Buckbeak, only leaving when Mrs. Weasley (who had left after ensuring that Sirius would not leave me alone) called us down for lunch.

"Would you like to come with me to feed him tomorrow? You could come today but I'm afraid I'm out of rats to give him, and by the time I'll have more you'll likely be asleep."

"That would be great. Ah, I've been sneaking him food actually," I grinned sheepishly. "I've found a few mice around. Oh, can I ask you something?"

Sirius sat down and gestured to the chair next to him, I looked to Yu and Allen (who were sitting on the other side), Allen smiled and Yu nodded. Still feeling as if I was somehow ditching them (and worrying that they would kill each other without someone between them) I took the seat next to Sirius. "Of course. You can ask me anything." So I asked if he knew of a place that would give us enough room to train properly. Our rooms were too small to do much of anything in besides basic exercises, and the only other large room I knew of was Buckbeak's. He said he would think about it, and from then on there was the usual lunch conversation, the kids were asked about their homework, Lupin asked if we were enjoying our stay, Allen drove a fork into Lavi's hand for attempted theft of his food, and Lenalee and I stopped a food war. Actually, the last two weren't very usual for the wizards, Mrs. Weasley had a fit when she saw what Allen done (Lavi really milked that all he could), and Tonk's nearly choked when Lavi declared war with his potatoes.

We were all about to go back into the living room when Sirius stopped us, stating that with a little magic the dining room could be used.

So while the wizards were fixing up the room we journeyed to our rooms to change. I merely switched my pants for a pair of shorts and replaced my arm warmers with duct tape. Once down stairs again, we began to decide who would spar who first. "Guuuyyyys, do we have ta? I like this relaxing we've been doing. Must you relate everything to the mission?"

"This is the mission baka." I stepped between the two before Lavi could cause Yu to do anything more than twitch. They could save that energy for their spar. "Nu-uh, we don't have to do anything till we get to the school."

"Lavi, you don't have to do this if you don't want to," Ah Lenalee, the voice of reason. "So how are we going to decide?"

"I wanna go first!" Lenalee giggled at me, knowing that I loved a good fight almost as much as chocolate (which was saying something). "Who shall be my victim?"

"I'll fight you."

"...Not fair Yu, it is the other way around now." The wizards called that they were ready and we walked to the center of the room, Yu smirking at me.

"Oi Arcane, BaKanda, there's a few rules you need to know!"

"Shut up Moyashi! I'll do as I wish!"

"You shut up BaKanda! Just because your tiny brain is incapable of higher thinking doesn't mean Arcane is handicapped as well!"

"What was that Moyashi! Why don't you come over here and say that to my face!"

"I would, but I might get the urge to punch you, and I'm afraid you remind me so much of a girl that I would be unable to do so."

"I'll make you a girl you stupid moyashi! MUGEN HATSU-"

"YU STOP IT! You're supposed to be fighting me, not Snowflake!"

"Snowflake?" Sorry Allen, it was either that or 'moyashi'.

"Che. You can go next, that stupid bean needs to learn its place." Yu looked over to me, which was a mistake, as I was doing the best 'kicked puppy' face I could, he turned away sharply, face tinted with red and mumbled a 'fine'. "Allen, what rules are ya talking about?"

Allen pulled out of his Dark State when Lenalee hit his arm and called them out, "One, don't use an attack that will destroy anything. Two, activate only up to the second level. Last, don't use an attack that will also hit the spectators."

We nodded activating our innocence, and were about to begin when Tonks stopped us, "Shouldn't you have a rule about when to stop?"

"First blood." Yu nodded, and Allen called start. I felt everything fade away as we began to circle each other, looking for an opening in the others defense. My innocence, Manes Imago(2), separated and between my fingers as I clenched my hand into a fist. My innocence could be used for either close, mid or ranged combat, as I saw fit. I looked closely but saw no flaw that I could easily expose in Yu's defense, so I waited. Yu was impatient, if he got into enough of a hurry there was a good chance he would make a mistake.

I didn't have to wait long, not moments after we had circled each other Yu came at me fast. It was difficult to defend against his sword like this, his strikes were quick and packed with enough force to slice the wooden wall behind us (which is what happened when I chose to dodge), I could go for a while defending like this, or I could make my own opening in his defense. I chose the latter, as defending is little to no fun (unless that is, you are doing it to anger your opponent), so I began taunting him. A well fought battle is only half physical, if you can get your opponent into a state of recklessness or even better, hesitation, then you will have an advantage.

Yu frowned as I managed to catch Mugen, moving it away slightly to use my secret weapon, and I whispered a few choice words in his ear. His grip on Mugen loosened ever so slightly while he stared at me wide-eyed, I smirked. His grip had loosened only slightly, but it was enough to allow me to hit a particular spot on his wrist and cause him to drop the sword.

I quickly kicked it away from him, now going on the attack, while Yu was forced to dodge (as defending would have given me an easy win). It went on like this for a while, Yu trying to get to Mugen, while I forced him in the opposite direction. Soon though, he was backed against the wall, and I shot my remaining beads, using them to keep him pinned to the wall by his sleeves, while I ran in to end it. At the last moment Yu threw his foot up, forcing me to block it, and used that moment to rip his arm out to hit me on the shoulder. The force of it knocked me down, and Yu made a beeline to Mugen, I shifted my weight to my shoulders and spun, bringing my legs up to hit him in the stomach and causing him to fall as well.

I wasted no time in jumping on him, intent on winning. Yu grabbed my wrists preventing me from bringing my innocence closer to him. Well this sucks, if it is a fight of brute strength like this Yu will undoubtedly win. Thinking quickly I called the rest of my beads, but not before Yu turned us over. Still fighting against his hold I glanced to the side and saw that Mugen was in reach, Yu then lifted me up by my wrists, and slammed me into the floor hard enough to knock the breath out of me. Taking advantage of that, he let go of my wrists to launch himself to Mugen, bringing it up just in time to knock away the beads I sent at him. I jumped up as well, attacking directly after the beads had been forced away, he blocked my first strike, and countered by knocking my arm away with one hand and slipping his blade between the beads of my innocence, cutting a line into my arm.

We both stopped at that, breathing heavy and deactivating our weapons. Yu was looking me over critically, making sure he hadn't hurt me too much I guess, and I took the time to observe him as well. He had lost a sleeve to his shirt, and the other didn't look much better, his hair had also come out of its band at some point, I looked back to his face and- he was smirking. Smugly, might I add.

Still breathing heavy, I bowed my head to him, taking the loss with dignity. If you can't accept defeat, you will never earn victory.

"Blackie-chaaaan who won? Who woooon?" I showed my arm, and Allen called out the winner as we walked back to them. There were words of praise, a few 'you'll get him next time' phrases used, and some chairs and glasses of water were brought over. Allen and Lenalee were in a heated discussion deciding if they would fight each other, Yu, or if I would be able to fight with them after our small break. "That was bloody brilliant!" I looked to my right to see one of the red heads looking a me excitedly.

"Thanks, Ronald but-"

"Ron." Ah I see what the other girl meant about manners now.

"Excuse me?"

"Call me Ron, not Ronald. Even Mum does, well except when I'm in trouble that is," He grinned at me, I smiled back slightly.

"Right, Ron. Well thank you, but Yu did better. He won after all." Said winner was currently tuning us all out as he sat on the chair beside me.

"Oh, well you did good anyway. Say, er, how did you determine the winner anyway? You guys just kinda stopped."

"We fought till first blood." Seeing his confused expression, I held up my arm, "Whoever drew blood first was the winner." Suddenly my arm was moved down and there was a tight grip on the cut.

"Don't just sit there and let it bleed, baka."

"It'll stop." I tried in vain to remove my arm from Yu's grasp, alas he was too strong, I stopped my attempts when he glared, opting to pout at him instead. He rolled his eyes, "Oi Moyashi, give me the bandages." They were thrown at his head. I used my free hand to give Allen a thumbs up (clashing with the finger Yu gave him), these small insignificant acts of revenge always made me feel better when Yu bullied me into doing what he wanted. He had just began bandaging my arm when Ron brought Mrs. Weasley over, "What's this about needing to be healed? And why is he wrapping that cloth around your arm?"

"Cause Yu is over reacting." He twitched, but otherwise ignored me.

"Though you shouldn't be hurt in the first place," She gave us a stern look. "Show it to me and I'll heal it for you."

"You can do that?" True she had healed the small burn I had, but the treatment of burns and cuts were totally different.

"Of course, hurry up now, your friends are about to start I believe." I tugged my arm from Yu (who frowned), letting Mrs. Weasley look at it. She brought out her wand, looking over it a bit before frowning. "That was hardly over reacting with a cut like this. I'll have to get a potion, wait here."

"Doesn't it hurt?" I turned my attention to Ron, who was looking at my arm with concern.

"It stings a little, I guess. Geez, you should have seen what Master done..." I trailed off as I remembered my time with Master, my expression darkening as I recalled an incident in Venezuela...only to be pulled out of my thought when a glass full of a...green liquid was shoved in my face. "That should take care of it, your arm will still be a little sore, so take it easy for a bit." I stared at the drink...why was it green? Mrs. Weasley put it in my free hand, "Hurry up now, the sooner you drink it the sooner it will stop hurting." I gave her an odd look, sniffing it...This was too much like the stuff Komui makes. Beginning to shake a little I handed her back the glass, "It's fine, I'll just bandage it." She was about to say something else when I cut her off. "The last time I drunk anything green I got cat ears, couldn't say anything but meow, and was unable to eat anything except tuna." I shuddered, those were dark days indeed.

"Oh Blackie-chan~!" Lavi's grin put me on edge. "Can you come over here for a minute?"

"No." Yu answered for me, not even looking up from bandaging my arm.

"Ehhh? B-but why noooot?" Oh Lavi, you know that pout doesn't work on Yu. I was proved right when Yu told him to shut up, again not looking away from me. What I didn't expect was Lavi tackle-glomping him as soon as Yu was done with my arm. They both fell into the floor, the task of getting Lavi off turning into a wrestling match, and the wrestling turning into a fight when Mugen was called upon.

I watched them for a moment, wondering how Lavi was able to dodge and block like that when he usually just goofed off all day, and trying to keep myself out of it...which lasted about two minutes before I had reactivated Manes Imago in the form of a whip and began attacking Lavi.

"Gah! Blackie-chan! Why me? NOOO YU-CHAN DON'T LEAVE ME!"

"Because I already fought Yu~" With that we were mostly quiet. I kept my distance, knowing that it was stupid to get in range of Lavi's hammer if he enlarged it, waiting for a chance to strike. The chance came when Lavi extended his hammer I sidestepped it and jumped on, as long as I could run faster than it can retract I'll have a good shot at Lavi.

Unfortunately (for me), Lavi saw my plan and started shaking the hammer, making me lose my balance. As I was already quite close I merely continued my path (after nearly falling when I hit the floor). When Lavi predictably blocked, I used the handle as a spring board to jump behind him. Pretty sure I had won this one, I turned around in time to see a snake made of fire speeding toward me.

"Fio thee meus contego"(3) Manes reformed itself into a shield just in time for Hi-Ban to collide with it.

Wolf: You guys just do NOT know how bad I wanted to end it here. But as I ended it with a fight last time, I gave you a bit more. 8]

The fire cleared minutes later. "Ohhh Laaavi~" The grin that I was told rivaled my Master's made its way onto my face.

Said rabbit began backing away slowly.

"That was a second level activation Laaavi~" I advanced slowly.

"Oh c-come on Blackie-chan...it was..I..er..Your shield! Its a second level activation too! So we're even!"

My grin didn't fade. "Ah, but you attacked Laaavi~. That means I get to as well~" I was just about to do so, when a golden feather burst into existence in the middle of the room. It fell slowly, becoming a piece of parchment in a burst of flame when it hit the floor (4). Postponing the unexpected fight with Lavi, I picked it up when I felt no heat from it, and promptly becoming confused at the contents. "Sirius, What's a dementor?"

"A demon of sorts," He shivered. "Why do you ask?"

"It says Harry was just attacked by them."

(1): Komui doesn't actually give the exorcists orders that they have to obey. He merely gives them the missions, as I have gathered from the chain of command page in the manga.

(2): This, as you could have guessed is the name of Arcane's innocence. Like the fact that she wears arm warmers, I didn't see a good time to reveal it name before now. Its in latin if you wanna find the translation!

(3): Roughly translated, this means 'Become thee my shield'

(4): I have no idea if that actually happens when Fawkes sends a message.

Wolf: Okay! There is the 7th chapter for you guys!

Kanda: Why do you even keep this up? Its horrible.

Wolf: Wha? B-but I like it! And the people that have reviewed like it!

Kanda: I don't care.

Wolf: Do I NEED to turn you into a Panda again?

Kanda: ...

Wolf: Ah thought so. Well, I wrote about 9 pages for you guys! Sorry it took so long, with school and all there's not much time for anything, thank the huge snow storm and Christmas that I was able to get this done. Speaking of school, I am up WAY later than I should be. Which means there may be some errors that I didn't catch-

Kanda: This whole thing is an error.

Wolf: OH MY GOSH! Kanda what in the name of all things chocolate, did I EVER do to you?

Kanda: Exist.

Wolf: ...Well I'm going to go ask Lavi for some blackmail on Kanda. Be sure to review and feel free to point out any errors! I wish you all a belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!