"Japanese" (Only used when speaking Japanese in a usually English speaking setting)

'Thoughts/Mindlink'

"Normal speak/English."

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Seto hadn't exactly known where they would be, but he did have a good guess. As it turned out, his guess had been a hundred percent correct. Ginny Weasley and Luna Lovegood had been found with Colin Creevey in one of the unused classrooms. They were teaching Colin how to duel. As much as Seto would rather not interrupt, he knew that Ginny and Luna were the last two people in the school that he wouldn't have to explain the game too. Plus, after seeing those two work together in previous games over the summer, Seto knew it was a good idea to have the two younger girls working with him rather than against him. He stepped into the room with the air of a businessman with a proposition that you would regret not hearing.

The three first years looked up from their game in surprise. They hadn't been expecting anyone to interrupt them. They had originally been planning to hold their lesson in the library, but since that was off limits today they had set up in an empty classroom. For a second year Slytherin to just walk in, it was the last thing they would have expected.

"I need to talk to you two." Seto said to the two first year girls. "There's a game going on. The teams are growing because the others telling more people about it. I want to crash it. Care to join me?" Seto was blunt and to the point. This was not his most tactful strategy but Seto was not going to dance around the subject when what he wanted was really quite simple.

The two girls shared a look. "What's in it for us?" Ginny asked trying to mirror Seto's Business like tone of voice. "Why should we help you?" She clarified just in case he hadn't understood. Seto wasn't as dense as her brother but she couldn't be sure if he had fully understood her or not. Ron didn't know this, but she had almost been sorted into Slytherin. Ginny was more cunning then any of her brothers, of course they knew this because she always beat them whenever they played anything other than chess. Ginny wanted to know what Seto had to offer them in return for their aid in what sounded like the start of a war, Aurors and Outlaws Style.

Seto was silent for a moment. He was somewhat impressed that Ginny was even asking. Most girls her age wouldn't think to get something out of working with him. But then again Ginny wasn't your average eleven year old girl. He had to think quickly or they'd lose interest. What would they be interested in that he could offer them? It hit him like lightning. He smirked. "Here's why you should help me. I can offer you one I owe you each. One free favor, no questions asked." Seto was quiet proud of himself for thinking of this. "But, if we win the game. I'll make it two favors." He added they'd need some initiative not to betray him later. He knew that the two girls could be rather self serving once the game really got going.

Ginny looked thoughtful. "Give us a moment to think about it." She ordered and pulled Colin and Luna off to the side. Seto couldn't hear them anymore, but he was sure that Ginny was apologizing to Colin and explaining the game to him while evaluating her options with Luna. Once Colin knew what the game was he just grinned and said something to the girls that Seto didn't catch and left excitedly. After a few more moments of hushed discussion they turned around and walked back over to him.

They were both grinning like the Cheshire cat. "Tell us where Ron hides his leftover sugar, and you've got a deal." Luna said in her usual dreamy tone of voice as Ginny held out her hand for him to shake.

Seto smirked and shook the younger Gryffindor's hand. "Deal," Seto was mildly impressed, these two might make good employees for Kaiba corp. if they were ever interested that is. Even at this age they had the makings of potential businesswomen.

Seto had sent Ginny and Luna off to capture Ron's team; he knew that any team with Ryou and Harry on it was bound to have a drastic advantage over the others. The thing that made the team more dangerous was that Ron was a great strategist. It came from being a chess player. Unless they took out that team first, they would have too much competition to handle. Though the other teams had more members at the moment, that was about to change. Seto had been searching for them for a while, but he had finally found the two other Second years Slytherin's who would be willing to work with him. Theodore Nott and Daphne Greengrass, despite both being purebloods were the most likely to ally with him and he needed every advantage he could get.

They had been more difficult to sway to his side the Ginny and Luna. They had only joined once he had grudgingly agreed to let them drag him into Wizard World Politics. Apparently they saw him as a Politian in the future. Seto managed to get them to agree to let him drag them into the Muggle world of business in return. He then sent them off to disrupt Hermione's team; around the same time he got word that Padma Patil had started her own team upon learning of the game from her twin.

But she wasn't the only one to start a new team. Word of the game was spreading through the first and second year students of Hogwarts like wildfire. The game was indeed turning into a small scale war as Hogwarts students from every house picked their side and formed teams. It seemed everyone was interested in joining the new and interesting game that had been introduced to them by accident. Seto knew this would complicate things greatly, but he did so enjoy a challenge. So he wasn't too concerned.

All that mattered at this point was winning, and he would win. No matter what the other teams tried, they couldn't beat him. Seto was sure of this. But if by some miracle he was beaten, he'd acknowledge that he had made some sort of mistake and strive to not make it again. Seto snickered softly; this game was going to quickly turn into a war, a war the likes of which Hogwarts has never seen before.

It was going to be interesting to say the least. With that thought, Seto set off to disable the team that Padma had put together.

Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown were almost given a heart attack when Hermione popped out in front of them from behind a tree. She was wearing a dark grey shirt and black cargo pants rather than her school uniform and her hair was up in a rather frizzy ponytail. She looked around as if they would be attacked any moment. "So glad I found you girls, I need to call in that favor you owe me." She sounded serious. Whatever she had in mind must be important. Though it was sort of strange how Hermione kept looking around as if waiting for something to appear. What was going on?

Lavender sighed. They owed Hermione after she helped them get ready for their exams last minute the previous year. They had completely forgotten to study and it was only thanks to Hermione that they passed their exams and made it into their second year. They had told her they owed her a favor, Lavender had hoped that Hermione would forget about it before they saw each other again. The bookworm was sort of annoying with her know-it-all attitude and it was weird how she hung out with only boys and one of them was a Slytherin no less! But Lavender knew that Parvati would never let her go back on her word. "Alright, what do you have in mind?"

"The boys and I are playing a little game." Hermione said stepping out fully from behind the tree and leaning against it. "It's called Aurors and Outlaws. My team, Yugi Neville and myself, are the Aurors. But you see, the enemy team, Ron's team, recruited Dean and Seamus. So they now have an advantage. I'd like you two to join my team and even out the playing field. You owe me a favor, and this is it. I can assure you that it is far more enjoyable then me asking you to cover for me for something." Hermione explained all in one breathe. She then ducked behind the tree again as Seto strode past.

Parvati looked thoughtful. "Well that sounds reasonable. How do you play? And why are you hiding from Kaiba? Is he on Ron's team too?" She asked. Parvati wasn't sure how this would turn out, but it sounded like a lot of fun either way. Plus, any game that could get Hermione away from her books for any amount of time had to be absolutely genius! Everyone knew how obsessed Hermione was with learning. But from what she was seeing, Hermione was taking the game way too seriously.

Hermione smirked. "Playing is easy. Winning is the hard part." Hermione launched into an explanation of the game, how it was played, who created it, all the rules, how the teams worked. Hermione basically told Lavender and Parvati everything they would never need to know about playing Aurors and Outlaws.

Lavender grinned once she was done. This sounded like it would be a blast! "Well Hermione, you've got yourself two new team members!" This was game sounded like it was definitely something to take seriously.

Hermione laughed. "I knew you'd say that! Come on, follow me back to our temporary base, we've got a lot of planning to do!" Hermione grabbed each of them by the arm and dragged them away. She ended up dragging them into a small close together grove a trees where Yugi and Neville were waiting. "We've got a lot of planning to do! Any idea's where to start?" Hermione asked ready to take suggestions and not wanting to waste any time. Ron was probably already planning something.

Yugi looked thoughtful. He looked off to the side as if listening to someone else speaking. "Well, we could set traps at some of the more obvious places. Or find out where the other teams are stationed and launch a full out assault on the one that's the biggest threat?" He suggested displaying a startling ability to strategize. Although Hermione and Neville both knew that most of the suggestion came from Yami the Spirit of the Millennium Puzzle.

Note!

Well, this is the start of a really fun part of the story.

I'm going to be honest here. Yes. This is filler. But I've been waiting to write this situation forever! Since I first created the game actually.

And there will be details in these chapters that advance the plot. But mostly, I'm doing this part just for fun.

So just sit back and laugh at the mostly Filler!