So next week I have finals and stuff. Holiday shopping has yet to finish, unfortunately I have no time for that because it would be a whole lot more fun than taking tests! I figure I might as well get this chapter out before next weekend since I'll be busy and I've wanted to update. Yay for finally having time! One more concert left and then I will be off Band for a while, so maybe I can get another chapter up this year, no guarantees though.

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Reminders:

'Thoughts of a person are here.'

Voices

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Yugioh.

Ryou felt his body tremble and groaned wondering why he was shaking so much. Realization struck and Ryou opened his eyes. "Joey," his voice muffled by the pillow asked.

"Ryou, Harry is in the hospital wing! He been hit by a spell!" shouted the blonde as he quickly threw his school robe on.

Ryou looked at him in a daze. 'Harry was hit by a spell? But I just saw him last night; there's no way he could've been hit, right?' Ryou's thoughts were interrupted by a pile of clothes landing on top of him, "Argh!"

"Come, get ready, we have to find out what happened!"

"All right, all right, I'm coming," Ryou said as he dressed as fast as he could so Joey wouldn't get any more concerned. 'I don't know, maybe it's because Bakura is gone, but I don't know how to feel about this,' his thoughts wandered as he and Joey half ran through the castle.

When they reached the hospital wing, Hermione and Ron were already there. Hermione grabbed Ryou's hand and pulled him into the room farther away from Ron and Joey. "Do you think this has to do with that man," she asked quietly as Ryou surveyed his brother's unconscious form.

"I don't know," he began.

"What the matter with him?" asked Joey as he sat in a chair and looked up at the Mediwitch who had just entered.

"Hit with some sort of stunning spell I suppose. He has a bruise on his head, so I think he hit something when he fell. He was found in the hall last night after dinner," she said as she put a goblet on the small table next to Harry's bed. "Make sure he drinks that when he wakes up, he's going to have a terrible head ache." After the witch left the four arranged themselves around Harry's bed and waited for him to wake.

'A stunning spell,' Ryou thought as he stared off into space. 'Why would anyone want to stun Harry? Oh come on, Ryou, he is the 'boy-who-lived-and-then-killed-the-dark-lord-finally, he must have enemies. Yet…he hasn't had any problems with anyone lately, unless the cloaked man is after us both.'
Ryou sighed as he picked a loose string on his robe. His thoughts were going in circles and he could do nothing about it. 'I feel so alone,' he thought and sighed once again.

"Harry!" someone shouted causing Ryou to jump a foot in the air.

LALALA

Harry groaned as he opened his eyes and heard a shout. "Will you keep it down," he mumbled and cringed at the immense pain he felt when he sat up. "What happened?"

"You were hit by a stunning spell and hit your head on something causing you to become unconscious," Ryou said seeing as no one else wanted to answer.

'Blunt as always,' Harry thought as he registered his brother's voice.

"You're supposed to drink this," Ron held the goblet out to Harry. "Madam Pomphrey said it would help with the head ache." Harry gratefully took it and drank it in one sip. He waited a few seconds and the head ache began to fade.

"So I hit my head?"

"Yes, do you remember who stunned you?" asked Hermione.

"No."

"Do you remember anything?" Ryou was now urging him on.

"Just getting hit with a spell."

Ryou and Hermione shared a look. "Whoa, is it that time already?" Hermione jumped. "We have to get to class soon!"

"What," Ryou shouted. "What day is it?"

"Oh yeah, you've been out, too," she said sheepishly. "It's Tuesday."

"Oh no, I didn't finish my transfiguration essay," he slumped for a second before jumping to his feet. "I have to talk to Professor McGonagall!" Ryou practically ran out of the room.

LALALA

Ryou sighed as he walked to the library after his classes were done. He found an empty table and pulled out his essay. 'At least she gave me an extension,' he thought.

After finishing the essay as quickly as he could, Ryou looked over at the shelf full of books next to him and scanned the titles. 'I haven't read that many books lately, maybe I should,' his eyes widened as he remembered the book on exorcisms he had bought over the summer. Once again he bolted out of a room, but this time went straight to his dormitory. 'I'll grab the book and go to dinner and read at dinner.'

Ryou took the stairs to his dormitory two at a time and threw his trunk open. He began moving things over and his hand closed around a small ball. 'The millennium eye,' he stared at it, lost in thought for a moment before he shook himself free of its gaze and found the book. Shoving the eye in his pocket, Ryou walked briskly to the great hall for dinner.

"Don't tell me you're going to read at the table, too," Ron sighed as Ryou plopped down opposite him.

"I see no problem with it," he replied, noting that Hermione had also brought a book.

Ryou opened the book to the index page after spooning some food onto his plate.

'People or objects, which one would I look at?' Ryou turned to the page indicated for a spirit possessing a person and began to read. 'How to tell a person is possessed, by actions, by words, oh, how to exorcise the spirit!' Ryou read on and sighed. 'That can't be it; the cloaked man didn't shoot me with holy water from a squirt gun or wand or anything.'

Ryou turned to the section on objects and sighed. 'Last I checked the millennium ring wasn't a coffee cup or clock. This is getting no where.' He looked over at Hermione's book and his eyes widened. "Hey, Hermione, can I borrow your book?"

"No need, I think I found what you're looking for," Hermione showed him a page containing a complex ritual. "Let's go to the library and look this over." Ryou nodded and followed her out of the great hall leaving their confused friend's behind.

"It's almost like they can read each other's minds," Ron commented.

"I follow them," Joey said as he stood and ran to catch up.

"I think they all know something we don't," Harry said and Ron nodded in understanding before continuing his dinner.

LALALA

"Hey, guys, wait up? What is happening?" Joey shouted and Ryou and Hermione slowed to let him catch up.

Ryou looked at him questioningly, "Did I not…no I didn't tell you," he groaned. "Bakura well…Bakura has been exorcized by the cloaked guy."

"What!?"

"And we've been trying to find out how," Hermione said indicating the book. "I think I've found what he did."

They sat down at a table and looked at the page the book was open to. "It says here that the possessed person or item must be present to do this ritual. It involves the caster to take a potion that must be prepared prior to the actual exorcism or else it won't work."

"Hey, it says the potion preparation might cause some sort of explosion," Ryou looked more closely at the book. "That must be why the forest was on fire."

Hermione nodded. "The caster has to take the potion right before the incantation and wand movement is said," she turned the page. "Is that how his wand movements looked?"

"Yes," said Ryou. "And those look like they might have been the wording."

"A light will shoot into the person or object possessed. The color varies according to the possessing spirit. Red means they are evil. Yellow or Gold means they are a passed away loved one of the one they possessed. Blue means they are good…"

"Blue means good," Ryou asked in shock. "So he did actually change for the better. I told him he wasn't evil."

"Can I ask a question?" Joey cut in.

"Yeah, what is it?"

"Am I going to understand what you are saying any time soon?"

"Oh, sorry," Ryou grinned sheepishly. "I'll explain later."

I can't believe he would do that.

Ryou turned around quickly as he heard a voice in his head, "Ryou?"

"I thought I heard someone," he said confused.

"Weird," Hermione began, "Anyway, we should probably head back to the common room it's getting late."

Ryou nodded as they collected their things. 'Maybe I just want to hear a voice in my head,' he thought. 'But I could have sworn that it was a female.'

I hope he's okay; he really should get some rest.

Blinking Ryou looked over at Hermione who finished packing up. 'Okay, that was not a coincidence.'

Well, that's the update. I hope you liked it. Please review and tell me what you think? See you next update!

-Maki-sama-