The tall, burly man raised a gigantic fist and knocked on the castle door three times.
The door opened at once and a tall, black haired witch in emerald green robes stood there. She had a very stern face and Akito sneered at her. He decided right away that he didn't like her at all.
"This is all the firs' years, Professor McGonagall," Hagrid said.
The stern witch nodded and pulled the doors open wide. "I'll take them from here," she said. "Thank you Hagrid."
The students followed Professor McGonagall across the flagged stone floor and up a flight of stairs. She stopped after entering a small, empty chamber off the hall.
They all crowded in, everyone Souma or not avoided crowding Akito, and no one dared to get to close to Hana either. Of course the Jyunnishi were careful not to have anyone run into them either.
"Welcome to Hogwarts," said Professor McGonagall. "The start of term banquet will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the Great Hall you will be sorted into your houses. The Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family - "
"I hope not," Yuki muttered softly with a slightly look towards Akito. It the house that he was sorted into was anything like the head of the family he was determined to commit Seppeku on the spot.
McGonagall didn't seem to hear him talking. She continued as if she hadn't been interrupted. "You will have classes with the rest of your house, sleep in your house dormitory, and spend free time in your house common room - "
At that point Kyou muttered something about their free time being directed making it not free time, but Hatori silenced him before anyone heard.
"The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Each house has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards. While at Hogwarts your triumphs will earn your house points while any rule breaking will have points taken away. At the end of the year, the house with the most points is awarded the house cup, a great honor. I hope that each of you will be an asset to your house.
The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest that you take a couple of moments to smarten yourselves up."
Her eyes fell to Momiji who was bouncing up and down beside Tohru and Kyou who had several visible bumps and bruises from when Kagura had caught him the day before.
"I shall return when we're ready for you," she said. "Please wait quietly."
She left the chamber and Aya and Shigure began to talk. "This is going to be soooooooooooooooo fun, don't you think Tori-san?" Aya asked.
He had changed from the required black robes into a flamboyant purple robe that accented his silver hair.
Shigure hadn't changed, but he was smiling and coming up with awful plans, Hatori just knew it.
Momiji was cheerfully talking about which house he wanted to be in. Haru started to doze off. Yuki and Kyou had an argument about Kyou's intelligence that ended with the orange haired boy being plowed into the ground by Kagura. Kisa paced back and forth, hoping against hope that Frost was okay, and hadn't gotten attacked by anyone yet.
Then it happened. Through the wall floated several pearly white people. Momiji screamed like a girl and leaped towards Tohru's arms only to be knocked to the ground by an irritated looking Kyou.
"WAHHHHHH! Kyou's picking on me!" he wailed as usual.
The ghosts stopped in the midst of their conversation to stare at the strange blond boy crying on the floor.
"There, there," a fat, little monk ghost said kindly. "Everything's all right. Some people are just nasty like that."
Some of the other ghosts cast glances at a spooky looking ghost with a gaunt face and robes stained with silver blood. The ghost didn't seem to pay them any attention. Instead it floated over towards Akito.
Hatori stepped in front of it. "What do you want?" he demanded coldly.
The ghost blinked slowly at him. "Get out of my way. . . . ." he warned darkly. He stopped moving towards Akito though.
"Who are you?" Haru demanded, drawing the bloody ghosts attention to himself. In response the ghost floated through another wall and was gone.
The fat ghost answered. "That's the Bloody Baron, and I'm the Fat Friar." The ghost turned back to Momiji, who looked like he could use some comforting still. "I hope that you get into Hufflepuff. That's my old house and I know that you'll like it there."
Momiji looked up at the ghost. "Really?!" he asked in surprise.
"Yes, and I'd give you a hug, but alas, I'd pass right through you. . . . " the Fat Friar answered.
Then Professor McGonagall returned. "Now, form a line," she ordered. "And follow me." She motioned for the ghosts to move along which they reluctantly did.
The Main Hall was huge. It was lit by thousands of tiny candles and had four table stretching out and a fifth table for the teachers that over looked the rest. Their were hundreds of faces staring at them like pale lanterns in the flickering light.
Of course, nobody stared at Hana for too long. She gazed at them wearing what for her had always been typical clothes - a black cloak like robe. The pointed black hat was new, but there was nothing that about her that said she was different from before.
Professor McGonagall set down a four legged stool. On top of that she put a pointed wizards hat. For a few second there was silence then a tear opened up at the brim of the hat and it began to sing.
Oh, you may not think I'm pretty,
But don't judge on what you see,
I'll eat myself if you can find,
A smarter hat then me.
Shigure wrote something down. "Find a smarter hat then him," Hatori read. He shook his head and listened to the song.
You can keep your bowlers black,
"Is he talking about me? I'm always bawling," Momiji whispered to Tohru.
"He's talking about a hat," Yuki interrupted. "Pay attention before we get in trouble."
Your top hats sleek and tall,
For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat,
And I can cap them all.
Shigure clarified that he wanted the Hogwarts Sorting Hat to eat itself as soon as he learned what it was called.
There's nothing hidden in your head,
The Sorting Hat can't see,
So try me on and I will tell you,
Where you ougta be.
Akito sneered when the hat mentioned that their was nothing hidden in his head that he couldn't see. He was full of secrets after all.
Haru started to get mad. Was the hat implying that he was stupid? That he didn't have anything in his head? It would be sorry if it was.
You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring nerve and chivalry,
Set Gryffindors apart:
Well, Akito will never be in there," Hatori muttered softly.
"What about you?" Shigure asked.
Hatori didn't answer.
You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true,
And unafraid of toil;
**And that's where Shigure will go** Hatori thought.
"Ewww. . . . I don't want to be a Hufflepuff. They sound to much like dogs with all that loyalty stuff," Shigure said.
Hatori hung his head. "You are a dog. . . . " he whispered.
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind;
**There' absolutely no one in the Souma family like that. Everyone's crazy,** Hatori thought.
Or perhaps in slytherin,
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folks use any means
To achieve their ends.
At that point, Hatori decided that there was going to be a fair amount of Soumas living in Slytherin.
So put me on! Don't be afraid!
And don't get in a flap.
Your in safe hands (though I have none)
For I'm a Thinking Cap!"
Everyone cheered, especially Aya who thought it was wonderful to have a hat that could talk. "Bravo! Bravo!" He called out excitedly.
"When I call your name you will put on the hat, sit on the stool and wait to be seated," Professor McGonagall called out.
She began calling name after name. The first member of their group to be called was the first student to be called. "Arisa Uotani!"
The tall, blond Yankee walked over and put the dirty hat on her head. After a second the hat spoke. "GYRFFINDOR!" it exploded.
The table on the far left burst into applause and the tall girl put the hat down and went and joined them.
Kisa looked the table over, but didn't see any traces of Harry, Ron, and Hermione. She hoped that they were all okay.
For a while no one from their group was called. The Honda Tohru, was announced.
Tohru went up to the hat and put it on her head, a swirly expression on her face. She sat down beside the stool with a thump just as the hat declared which house she was to be in. "HUFFLEPUFF!" it shouted.
Tohru put the hat back and staggered to the table on the far right that was cheering. The other tables were laughing at her seat taking skills as she sat down beside the chair that some of the veteran students offered her.
"Saki Hanajime," McGonagall called out finally. The electric girl stood up and started walking towards the hat.
"SLYTHERIAN!" the hat said before she had even taken two steps. She turned and walked to the silent Slytherian table and sat down beside Malfoy.
"I believe that you laughed at Tohru Honda. You had better not do that again if you don't want to get an electric shock," she warned, taking an immediate disliking to him.
Her voice carried throughout the entire room and Malfoy's face paled. Several of the teachers looked worried, and Tohru was blushing furiously.
The Sorting continued. Finally it reached the first Souma.
"Souma Akito," was called and the head of the Souma family strolled to the stool and reached for the hat.
He had barely put the hat on his head before it was screaming Slytherian. He went to the table with Hana and sat down.
He was feeling quiet light headed and feverish. He blinked and focused on the Sorting as best as he could.
"Souma Kagura," was called out. Several students began to whisper as Kagura marched over to the hat and jammed it down on her head. There were two Soumas! "Slytherian!" the hat called out.
The girl pulled the hat off and sat as far away from Hana and Akito as possible. She didn't want to get to close to the head of the family.
"Souma Ayame," McGonagall called out, frowning as she realized that her list wasn't in alphabetical order like she had thought it would be.
Aya pranced over to the hat and stuck it on his head. "Wish me luck 'gure-san!" he called out. "I'm going to be in Slytherian."
Sure enough, within a couple of moments, the hat declared him a Slytherian. He pranced over to the table and dropped down beside Kagura.
By the time that Kyou's name was called, "Souma Kyou," almost everyone was certain that he was going to be in Slytherian. Everyone except the hat that was. "GRYFFINDOR!" the hat declared.
Kyou moved to the table on the far left, thankful to be as far from Kagura as possible.
"Souma Kisa," McGonagall said. **How many more Sohmas?** she wondered. **Are they all directly related?** She hadn't read the list all the way through yet and didn't know about this many children from one family at one time.
The small girl placed the hat on her head. "GRYFFINDOR!" the hat shouted. She stood and quickly hurried to Kyou's side once the hat was taken off her head.
"Souma Shigure!" McGonagall exclaimed.
Shigure bounced up to the chair and put the hat on his head. "GRYFFINDOR!" the hat shouted.
"Oh no! 'Gure-san, we'll have to sleep apart."
"But no fear, Aya, for in the daylight hours we will be together!" Shigure called out.
"And we'll strengthen the bound between me and Yuki-kun my younger brother!" Aya shouted.
They were moving towards each other with happy smiles on their faces. In the yet-to-be-sorted-group, Yuki's eyes narrowed in rage. How dare his brother act like that!
"Go sit down, both of you!" McGonagall ordered. Neither of them listened, they were still talking about what a wonderful time they were going to have.
"Sit down, both of you," Professor Dumbledore said. Neither of them listened.
"Ha'ri! Make them shut up!" Akito finally shouted. He sprang to his feet and shot mental lasers at the two of them. Neither of them noticed.
All of the teachers tried to make them sit down, but none of them could succeed.
Hatori quickly moved past Professor McGonagall. "Ayame go sit down," he said sternly.
The silver haired boy turned towards Hatori with a smile on his face and bounded over to the Slytherian table. "Shigure, don't get him going. At least wait until the term has officially started at least. . . ." he added.
McGonagall stared at him in surprise, but Hatori turned and walked back to the assemble group of first years. There were only Soumas left in that group. Everyone else had already been sorted.
"Soh -Souma Yuki," McGonagall finally managed to say.
Yuki walked over to the hat and set it on his head while sitting down. After a few seconds the hat declared his house. "Slytherian!" He stalked to the table and sat down as far from Akito and Aya as humanly possible.
"The gap! The gap brother. Each and every moment that we spend together will help us bridge this gap!"
"I hope. . .that it becomes a chasm!" Yuki snarled.
"Souma Hatori," she called out. The boy who had made Aya sit down walked over to the hat and calmly placed it on his head.
The hat screamed out, "RAVENCLAW!" for the first time with a Souma. He walked over and sat down by himself. The other Ravenclaws cheered loudly. He was actually the only new Ravenclaw that they had gotten that year.
"Souma Momiji," Professor McGonagall called out.
"That's me, right!" the young boy said exuberantly. He ran over to the chair and tripped over it in his excitement. Falling onto the floor, his head landed in the hat.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" the hat called out in a slightly muffle voice.
"Gomen ne," Momiji apologized to the hat as he righted the chair and ran to join Tohru at the Hufflepuff table.
"Do you think that we can sleep in the same bed?!" he asked her happily.
Kyou shot across the room and dropped his fist on the blond boy's head. "Don't be perverted," he ordered.
"WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Kyou's picking on me Tohru!" he wailed. She patted his head and he fell silent.
"They just got to sort Haru-san and then we can eat," she said.
"Souma Hasuharu," McGonagall called out. It was the last name on her list and she was really happy that it was. Even if there were a lot of them, they didn't take very long to be sorted.
Haru walked over to the hat and sat down, putting it on his head. The hat opened it's mouth. "GRY-" it started to say, but fell silent. A moment later it opened it's mouth again and started to say, "Sly- " but once again it fell silent.
Four hours, twelve minutes, and twenty-three seconds later it finally decided. "BLACK HARU TO SLYTHERIAN, AND WHITE HARU TO GRYFFINDOR!" the hat declared.
Kyou choked. "Don't you go be giving Black Haru a place to belong," he warned. "It's best when he's away!"
After that the room erupted in chaos as Black Haru objected to being told that he didn't deserve a place to belong. He objected by putting his foot in Kyou's face.
"What's the meaning of this" Snape hissed.
Of course on one really could explain. Hatori finally appointed himself with the explanation.
"Hatsuharu Souma has a split personality. One side, Black Haru, fits best into Slytherian, while the other half, White Haru or just Haru, fits best with Gryffindor."
"A split personality?" Madam Pomfrey questioned.
"Yes, we had a problem similar to this earlier when he purchased his wands. He had to get two of them - one for black Haru and one for White Haru. At the time I wasn't aware of the reasons behind that, but I suggest that you accept the decision of the hat and just adjust to having two different house claiming different pieces of the same person."
Dumbledore pulled at his beard thoughtfully. "But how will we be able to tell them apart?" he asked.
"Oh, I think that you'll manage. If you'll all clearly remember, Haru was quiet well mannered up to this point, correct?" Hatori pointed out.
The teachers and students nodded, keeping one eye on Kyou who was fighting for his life. None of the teachers seemed to be inclined to help him.
"Black Haru on the other hand is rather violent. He's in a word 'dark'. I suggest that you all try and avoid him but when he's here, he's a Slytherian."
"I agree," Dumbledore said. "Now if you'll all retake your seats, we'll eat quickly before bed."
Thanks for reading,
Kissa-chan
The door opened at once and a tall, black haired witch in emerald green robes stood there. She had a very stern face and Akito sneered at her. He decided right away that he didn't like her at all.
"This is all the firs' years, Professor McGonagall," Hagrid said.
The stern witch nodded and pulled the doors open wide. "I'll take them from here," she said. "Thank you Hagrid."
The students followed Professor McGonagall across the flagged stone floor and up a flight of stairs. She stopped after entering a small, empty chamber off the hall.
They all crowded in, everyone Souma or not avoided crowding Akito, and no one dared to get to close to Hana either. Of course the Jyunnishi were careful not to have anyone run into them either.
"Welcome to Hogwarts," said Professor McGonagall. "The start of term banquet will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the Great Hall you will be sorted into your houses. The Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family - "
"I hope not," Yuki muttered softly with a slightly look towards Akito. It the house that he was sorted into was anything like the head of the family he was determined to commit Seppeku on the spot.
McGonagall didn't seem to hear him talking. She continued as if she hadn't been interrupted. "You will have classes with the rest of your house, sleep in your house dormitory, and spend free time in your house common room - "
At that point Kyou muttered something about their free time being directed making it not free time, but Hatori silenced him before anyone heard.
"The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Each house has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards. While at Hogwarts your triumphs will earn your house points while any rule breaking will have points taken away. At the end of the year, the house with the most points is awarded the house cup, a great honor. I hope that each of you will be an asset to your house.
The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest that you take a couple of moments to smarten yourselves up."
Her eyes fell to Momiji who was bouncing up and down beside Tohru and Kyou who had several visible bumps and bruises from when Kagura had caught him the day before.
"I shall return when we're ready for you," she said. "Please wait quietly."
She left the chamber and Aya and Shigure began to talk. "This is going to be soooooooooooooooo fun, don't you think Tori-san?" Aya asked.
He had changed from the required black robes into a flamboyant purple robe that accented his silver hair.
Shigure hadn't changed, but he was smiling and coming up with awful plans, Hatori just knew it.
Momiji was cheerfully talking about which house he wanted to be in. Haru started to doze off. Yuki and Kyou had an argument about Kyou's intelligence that ended with the orange haired boy being plowed into the ground by Kagura. Kisa paced back and forth, hoping against hope that Frost was okay, and hadn't gotten attacked by anyone yet.
Then it happened. Through the wall floated several pearly white people. Momiji screamed like a girl and leaped towards Tohru's arms only to be knocked to the ground by an irritated looking Kyou.
"WAHHHHHH! Kyou's picking on me!" he wailed as usual.
The ghosts stopped in the midst of their conversation to stare at the strange blond boy crying on the floor.
"There, there," a fat, little monk ghost said kindly. "Everything's all right. Some people are just nasty like that."
Some of the other ghosts cast glances at a spooky looking ghost with a gaunt face and robes stained with silver blood. The ghost didn't seem to pay them any attention. Instead it floated over towards Akito.
Hatori stepped in front of it. "What do you want?" he demanded coldly.
The ghost blinked slowly at him. "Get out of my way. . . . ." he warned darkly. He stopped moving towards Akito though.
"Who are you?" Haru demanded, drawing the bloody ghosts attention to himself. In response the ghost floated through another wall and was gone.
The fat ghost answered. "That's the Bloody Baron, and I'm the Fat Friar." The ghost turned back to Momiji, who looked like he could use some comforting still. "I hope that you get into Hufflepuff. That's my old house and I know that you'll like it there."
Momiji looked up at the ghost. "Really?!" he asked in surprise.
"Yes, and I'd give you a hug, but alas, I'd pass right through you. . . . " the Fat Friar answered.
Then Professor McGonagall returned. "Now, form a line," she ordered. "And follow me." She motioned for the ghosts to move along which they reluctantly did.
The Main Hall was huge. It was lit by thousands of tiny candles and had four table stretching out and a fifth table for the teachers that over looked the rest. Their were hundreds of faces staring at them like pale lanterns in the flickering light.
Of course, nobody stared at Hana for too long. She gazed at them wearing what for her had always been typical clothes - a black cloak like robe. The pointed black hat was new, but there was nothing that about her that said she was different from before.
Professor McGonagall set down a four legged stool. On top of that she put a pointed wizards hat. For a few second there was silence then a tear opened up at the brim of the hat and it began to sing.
Oh, you may not think I'm pretty,
But don't judge on what you see,
I'll eat myself if you can find,
A smarter hat then me.
Shigure wrote something down. "Find a smarter hat then him," Hatori read. He shook his head and listened to the song.
You can keep your bowlers black,
"Is he talking about me? I'm always bawling," Momiji whispered to Tohru.
"He's talking about a hat," Yuki interrupted. "Pay attention before we get in trouble."
Your top hats sleek and tall,
For I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat,
And I can cap them all.
Shigure clarified that he wanted the Hogwarts Sorting Hat to eat itself as soon as he learned what it was called.
There's nothing hidden in your head,
The Sorting Hat can't see,
So try me on and I will tell you,
Where you ougta be.
Akito sneered when the hat mentioned that their was nothing hidden in his head that he couldn't see. He was full of secrets after all.
Haru started to get mad. Was the hat implying that he was stupid? That he didn't have anything in his head? It would be sorry if it was.
You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring nerve and chivalry,
Set Gryffindors apart:
Well, Akito will never be in there," Hatori muttered softly.
"What about you?" Shigure asked.
Hatori didn't answer.
You might belong in Hufflepuff,
Where they are just and loyal,
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true,
And unafraid of toil;
**And that's where Shigure will go** Hatori thought.
"Ewww. . . . I don't want to be a Hufflepuff. They sound to much like dogs with all that loyalty stuff," Shigure said.
Hatori hung his head. "You are a dog. . . . " he whispered.
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind;
**There' absolutely no one in the Souma family like that. Everyone's crazy,** Hatori thought.
Or perhaps in slytherin,
You'll make your real friends,
Those cunning folks use any means
To achieve their ends.
At that point, Hatori decided that there was going to be a fair amount of Soumas living in Slytherin.
So put me on! Don't be afraid!
And don't get in a flap.
Your in safe hands (though I have none)
For I'm a Thinking Cap!"
Everyone cheered, especially Aya who thought it was wonderful to have a hat that could talk. "Bravo! Bravo!" He called out excitedly.
"When I call your name you will put on the hat, sit on the stool and wait to be seated," Professor McGonagall called out.
She began calling name after name. The first member of their group to be called was the first student to be called. "Arisa Uotani!"
The tall, blond Yankee walked over and put the dirty hat on her head. After a second the hat spoke. "GYRFFINDOR!" it exploded.
The table on the far left burst into applause and the tall girl put the hat down and went and joined them.
Kisa looked the table over, but didn't see any traces of Harry, Ron, and Hermione. She hoped that they were all okay.
For a while no one from their group was called. The Honda Tohru, was announced.
Tohru went up to the hat and put it on her head, a swirly expression on her face. She sat down beside the stool with a thump just as the hat declared which house she was to be in. "HUFFLEPUFF!" it shouted.
Tohru put the hat back and staggered to the table on the far right that was cheering. The other tables were laughing at her seat taking skills as she sat down beside the chair that some of the veteran students offered her.
"Saki Hanajime," McGonagall called out finally. The electric girl stood up and started walking towards the hat.
"SLYTHERIAN!" the hat said before she had even taken two steps. She turned and walked to the silent Slytherian table and sat down beside Malfoy.
"I believe that you laughed at Tohru Honda. You had better not do that again if you don't want to get an electric shock," she warned, taking an immediate disliking to him.
Her voice carried throughout the entire room and Malfoy's face paled. Several of the teachers looked worried, and Tohru was blushing furiously.
The Sorting continued. Finally it reached the first Souma.
"Souma Akito," was called and the head of the Souma family strolled to the stool and reached for the hat.
He had barely put the hat on his head before it was screaming Slytherian. He went to the table with Hana and sat down.
He was feeling quiet light headed and feverish. He blinked and focused on the Sorting as best as he could.
"Souma Kagura," was called out. Several students began to whisper as Kagura marched over to the hat and jammed it down on her head. There were two Soumas! "Slytherian!" the hat called out.
The girl pulled the hat off and sat as far away from Hana and Akito as possible. She didn't want to get to close to the head of the family.
"Souma Ayame," McGonagall called out, frowning as she realized that her list wasn't in alphabetical order like she had thought it would be.
Aya pranced over to the hat and stuck it on his head. "Wish me luck 'gure-san!" he called out. "I'm going to be in Slytherian."
Sure enough, within a couple of moments, the hat declared him a Slytherian. He pranced over to the table and dropped down beside Kagura.
By the time that Kyou's name was called, "Souma Kyou," almost everyone was certain that he was going to be in Slytherian. Everyone except the hat that was. "GRYFFINDOR!" the hat declared.
Kyou moved to the table on the far left, thankful to be as far from Kagura as possible.
"Souma Kisa," McGonagall said. **How many more Sohmas?** she wondered. **Are they all directly related?** She hadn't read the list all the way through yet and didn't know about this many children from one family at one time.
The small girl placed the hat on her head. "GRYFFINDOR!" the hat shouted. She stood and quickly hurried to Kyou's side once the hat was taken off her head.
"Souma Shigure!" McGonagall exclaimed.
Shigure bounced up to the chair and put the hat on his head. "GRYFFINDOR!" the hat shouted.
"Oh no! 'Gure-san, we'll have to sleep apart."
"But no fear, Aya, for in the daylight hours we will be together!" Shigure called out.
"And we'll strengthen the bound between me and Yuki-kun my younger brother!" Aya shouted.
They were moving towards each other with happy smiles on their faces. In the yet-to-be-sorted-group, Yuki's eyes narrowed in rage. How dare his brother act like that!
"Go sit down, both of you!" McGonagall ordered. Neither of them listened, they were still talking about what a wonderful time they were going to have.
"Sit down, both of you," Professor Dumbledore said. Neither of them listened.
"Ha'ri! Make them shut up!" Akito finally shouted. He sprang to his feet and shot mental lasers at the two of them. Neither of them noticed.
All of the teachers tried to make them sit down, but none of them could succeed.
Hatori quickly moved past Professor McGonagall. "Ayame go sit down," he said sternly.
The silver haired boy turned towards Hatori with a smile on his face and bounded over to the Slytherian table. "Shigure, don't get him going. At least wait until the term has officially started at least. . . ." he added.
McGonagall stared at him in surprise, but Hatori turned and walked back to the assemble group of first years. There were only Soumas left in that group. Everyone else had already been sorted.
"Soh -Souma Yuki," McGonagall finally managed to say.
Yuki walked over to the hat and set it on his head while sitting down. After a few seconds the hat declared his house. "Slytherian!" He stalked to the table and sat down as far from Akito and Aya as humanly possible.
"The gap! The gap brother. Each and every moment that we spend together will help us bridge this gap!"
"I hope. . .that it becomes a chasm!" Yuki snarled.
"Souma Hatori," she called out. The boy who had made Aya sit down walked over to the hat and calmly placed it on his head.
The hat screamed out, "RAVENCLAW!" for the first time with a Souma. He walked over and sat down by himself. The other Ravenclaws cheered loudly. He was actually the only new Ravenclaw that they had gotten that year.
"Souma Momiji," Professor McGonagall called out.
"That's me, right!" the young boy said exuberantly. He ran over to the chair and tripped over it in his excitement. Falling onto the floor, his head landed in the hat.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" the hat called out in a slightly muffle voice.
"Gomen ne," Momiji apologized to the hat as he righted the chair and ran to join Tohru at the Hufflepuff table.
"Do you think that we can sleep in the same bed?!" he asked her happily.
Kyou shot across the room and dropped his fist on the blond boy's head. "Don't be perverted," he ordered.
"WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Kyou's picking on me Tohru!" he wailed. She patted his head and he fell silent.
"They just got to sort Haru-san and then we can eat," she said.
"Souma Hasuharu," McGonagall called out. It was the last name on her list and she was really happy that it was. Even if there were a lot of them, they didn't take very long to be sorted.
Haru walked over to the hat and sat down, putting it on his head. The hat opened it's mouth. "GRY-" it started to say, but fell silent. A moment later it opened it's mouth again and started to say, "Sly- " but once again it fell silent.
Four hours, twelve minutes, and twenty-three seconds later it finally decided. "BLACK HARU TO SLYTHERIAN, AND WHITE HARU TO GRYFFINDOR!" the hat declared.
Kyou choked. "Don't you go be giving Black Haru a place to belong," he warned. "It's best when he's away!"
After that the room erupted in chaos as Black Haru objected to being told that he didn't deserve a place to belong. He objected by putting his foot in Kyou's face.
"What's the meaning of this" Snape hissed.
Of course on one really could explain. Hatori finally appointed himself with the explanation.
"Hatsuharu Souma has a split personality. One side, Black Haru, fits best into Slytherian, while the other half, White Haru or just Haru, fits best with Gryffindor."
"A split personality?" Madam Pomfrey questioned.
"Yes, we had a problem similar to this earlier when he purchased his wands. He had to get two of them - one for black Haru and one for White Haru. At the time I wasn't aware of the reasons behind that, but I suggest that you accept the decision of the hat and just adjust to having two different house claiming different pieces of the same person."
Dumbledore pulled at his beard thoughtfully. "But how will we be able to tell them apart?" he asked.
"Oh, I think that you'll manage. If you'll all clearly remember, Haru was quiet well mannered up to this point, correct?" Hatori pointed out.
The teachers and students nodded, keeping one eye on Kyou who was fighting for his life. None of the teachers seemed to be inclined to help him.
"Black Haru on the other hand is rather violent. He's in a word 'dark'. I suggest that you all try and avoid him but when he's here, he's a Slytherian."
"I agree," Dumbledore said. "Now if you'll all retake your seats, we'll eat quickly before bed."
Thanks for reading,
Kissa-chan