Chapter 4
Tokuisei
(The title means "idiosyncrasy" in Japanese. I don't know where it really came from......I guess because the characters are all getting to know each other and they've all got different idiosyncrasies......)
Disclaimer: WB owns it all. But......they don't own Kaya, Aneko Matsu, Lindsey Mansfeild, Adara Mina, or Professor Leorian! : P
Mojobubbles: I'M SO SORRY FOR THE LACK OF UPDATES! I've got some excuses, they really suck, but here goes: ¼ is my fault, ¼ is my l.a. and my math teachers' faults, ¼ is Inu-Yasha's fault, and ¼ is other people's faults. Ok, the Inu-Yasha thing: IT'S COMPLETELY TAKEN OVER MY BRAIN!!!!!!!! *clears throat* The teacher thing: My l.a. teacher has this habit of going a couple weeks with very little work, then out of the blue she throws a whole bunch of crap at us and it's all due the same week, while my math teacher will NOT STOP GIVING US HOMEWORK. So.....my l.a. workload was pretty heavy, and so was my math workload. ¼ is my fault, because after all the snow days and sick days I got kinda discombobulated and I would put off my homework till late and poke aroundon the internet and then I'd rush to get it all done and that crap. Then there are the other people............one thing is that Kirstie took a long time to e-mail me the stuff about the character she made up, I had lotsa plans this weekend, and then there are those boys.........
Yami: They are so damn /MEAN/! *hugs Mojobubbles*
Mojobubbles: Yeah. I got a call from this one popular boy who I barely know, and he wants to know if I want to go to the mall with him and a bunch of popular people I don't know. So I lie and say I've got something to do then.
Bakura: That's not the worst part, though......
Mojobubbles: Yeah. As it turned out, they didn't mean it. They called Kirstie and asked her the same thing. They were just pranking us.
Y. Bakura: Ra, that's really low. I'm a freaking tomb robber and I think that's low.
Mojobubbles: Yeah. So I was a bit bent out of shape over that. V_V But I'm ok now.
Kamilah: And then the other day, a different boy called, asking the same thing. So if someone calls again, aibou is telling them she knows they don't mean it.
Mojobubbles: Ok, now that all my pathetic excuses are out of the way..........and I promise that I'm gonna try and update more......I'm just a bit stuck........I AM OFFICIALLY OBSESSED WITH .HACK//SIGN! Go watch it! It's cool! *pokes readers*
Kamilah: Hikari, .hack//SIGN isn't everyone's bowl of ramen, you know.
Yami: "Bowl of ramen"?
Kamilah: Yah. Like, if you say, "Oh, that's not my bowl of ramen" it means "Oh, that's not my cup of tea."
Voice from some other room: Ramen? Where?!
Mojobubbles: *blinks* *realizes who it is* I KNOW WHO THAT IS!
Voice: Oh Gods........is that Mojobubbles?
Mojobubbles: *runs in the room* SQUEE!!!!!!
Voice: NOT YOU!
Mojobubbles: *comes back in, dragging.....Inuyasha!* LOOK!!!!! IT'S INUYASHA!!!!
Inuyasha: Of all the damn fanfics I could've stumbled in, I stumbled into hers. ^ -_,__,_- ^
Mojobubbles: ^_^ *glomps Inuyasha*
Yami, Shogo, Tsukasa, and Bakura: *to Inuyasha* Welcome to the club. -_-
Mojobubbles: Inu-Yasha is one of my favorite animes, even though I've only seen, like, 5 episodes. Moving on, MALIK HAS A MOTORCYCLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Malik: Mojobubbles, I think they already know that.......
Mojobubbles: *not listening* I thought it was Tristan, then I realized it was Malik and I was on the phone with Kirstie, and we totally laughed our asses off. Then my dad had to come in and tell me and my sister to stop shouting. T_T
Kamilah: But we completely missed whatever Malik was talking about, cuz we were laughing so hard. ^_^U
Review responses:
BMMW: Actually, Kirstie, I'd rather do that when there aren't impressionable minds around. *points to Shogo, Yugi, Bakura, and Mokuba, who has joined my cast* And no, he is not your character. Unless your character is twitchy and speaks in third person........They just have the same name so nyeah! :P
Penny: Angel of Darkest Dreams: COOLNESS PENNAME! Well actually, I'm doing it so that after Battle City they stayed in Japan. Glad you like the story!
AngelsKitten: Delighted you think it's that good!
Daricio: LOOK EVERONE IT'S DARICIO!
Yami: Oh, you mean the one who wrote "Where's Yugi?"
Mojobubbles: YEAH! HI DARICIO!!!! *waves*
Kamilah: Hopefully the PDM (Pokeduelsmon) trilogy will be better with parts 2, 3, and the epilogue. Although there are no more Pokemon things after that. ^_^U Anyway, she's honored you think that highly of her stories, she's just to hyper to show it.
Yugi-Closet-fan: Um......what about Draco? I'm glad you like the story, but you keep submitting really confuddling reviews!
Europa: Hello! Yah also I thought that would add a bit of humor to the story. It's going to be pretty light and humorous most of the way, but the ending is pretty dramatic, cuz Voldemort comes and there's a big showdown thingy.
The Legendary Centurion: You wanted a new chapter, here it is!!!! ^_^
Symbol thingies:
~blah~ Kaya to Yami or Yugi
++blah++ Yugi to Kaya
~~blah~~ Yami to Kaya
/blah/ hikari to yami
//blah// yami to hikari
[blah] someone thinking to themselves
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"They're Muggles?!" Ron gasped.
"That's what Malfoy meant when he said he thought Dumbledore could sink no lower," Hermione said.
Harry looked over at the Slytherin table, who were looking at the Muggles from Japan as though they were a dog that had been rolling in garbage.
"The new kids look friendly enough," said a Gryffindor fifth year girl that Harry had never noticed before.
"Who's that?" Ron muttered to Hermione.
"Lindsey Mansfield," Hermione replied quietly. "She's pretty nice; I've only talked to her a few times, though."
Then the Sorting began. It ended with Zimmerman, Ashley, and as it turned out, Gryffindor hadn't gotten many first years. The school was busy talking, but Harry was watching Dumbledore lean over to the new students and ask them something. Harry looked the 8 of them, deciding which ones he wanted to talk to, and which ones he thought he might want to avoid. The tall one with the reddish-brown hair and blue eyes looked pretty anti- social. The rest of them looked pretty friendly, other than the fact that they all had weird hair. Especially that kid with the red, black, and yellow spiked up hair.............
Harry's eyes widened as he recognized that one. It was the boy from the train station! With a slight sinking feeling in his stomach, Harry remembered the dream. So......Voldemort /could/ have something to do with the boy if he had been invited to Hogwarts.....
Harry was yanked out of his reverie when he noticed the new kids coming toward the Gryffindor table. "Huh?" he said, rubbing his head. "What-?"
"There's extra spaces at the Gryffindor table, so they're coming to sit with us," said a different Gryffindor fifth-year girl, one with dark green eyes and long dark hair, which she flipped over her shoulder. "I don't like that one with the lavender shirt, and the pale blond hair. Oy ve.......he's strutting around like he owns the place!"
Ron raised his eyebrows up at the girl, and Hermione said quietly, "That's Adara Mina. She's not that bad to the Gryffindors, but she's really eccentric."
"Like.......?"
"Well she enjoys throwing rocks at small animals and has a collection of stone dragons next to her bed."
Ron blinked.
"Exactly," Hermione said.
"Um, hi?" said one of the girls, one with brown shoulder length hair and violet eyes.
"Hi," Hermione said brightly, trying to make conversation.
//Aibou, can I come out now?//
/No way, Yami; you'd completely freak them out!/
Just then, Yami felt Yugi tense up in surprise.
//What is it, Yugi?//
/Yami......it's that boy from the train station!/
//Of course, I sensed something magical about him.....//
"Um, didn't I see you at King's Cross Station the other day?" Harry asked Yugi.
Yugi nodded. "I think so......I tripped and you pulled me up......who was that guy who started yelling at you?"
"My uncle Vernon," Harry replied, rolling his eyes. He glanced around at the others. "Looks like your friends are fitting in just fine......what's your name, by the way?"
"Moto Yugi......or I guess here it would be Yugi Moto......" Yugi said, reaching out to shake Harry's hand.
"I'm Harry. Harry Potter."
"You're Harry Potter?" said Bakura, joining the conversation. "Dumbledore mentioned your name when he was explaining everything."
Harry nodded. "Yeah, I guess he would've." The conversation went on, and finally Dumbledore clapped his hands, signaling that the meal was over.
"So.......I guess we're Gryffindors now?" Kaya shrugged.
"I dunno about you guys, but I'm just gonna follow them until they lead me to a bed," Tristan yawned. Kaiba made a face and hung back. He wanted to make it clear that he was NOT their friends. As he stepped backwards, a girl tripped over his foot. He reached out and grabbed her arm and pulled her to her feet.
She looked a lot like him, with reddish-brown hair and blue eyes. "Um, thanks," she said quickly, and Kaiba noticed she had a Slytherin badge.
Just then another Slytherin with bleached hair and cold eyes said to the girl, "Aneko, what are you doing associating with /Muggles?/" (I told ya she'd be in this chapter, Marissa!)
"I really don't know, Draco. I wonder what came over me," said the girl, flipping her hair over her shoulder and walking off with the Slytherin. Kaiba raised his eyebrows, then walked off with the rest of the Gryffindors to go to bed.
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That morning, it took Kaya a moment to realize where she was. Then it hit her.
Hogwarts.
~~It's about time you got up, Kaya.~~
~Shut up, Yami. Me and the other girls were up late last night.~
~~Oh, so that's why you cut off the link. What did you talk about?~~
~None of your beeswax.~
Yami mentally rolled his eyes as Kaya cut off the link.
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"Oh /joy,/ Ron said sarcastically that morning at breakfast.
"Good morning to you too," Hermione said, but she was smiling. Ron, however, didn't return the smile.
"Look at our schedule!" he groaned, shoving it at Hermione and Harry.
Harry groaned too. "Double potions with the Slytherins........first thing, too........"
"Well, then we have ancient runes after that....." Hermione mused.
"No, /you're/ the only one who takes ancient runes," Harry corrected.
"You're studying ancient runes?" Isis asked Hermione eagerly. Hermione nodded, and began to describe what she was learning.
"Oh Ra........." Malik muttered.
"What?" Tea asked, looking at him curiously.
"If there's one thing you never wanna do, it's get my sister started on ancient runes," Malik replied, earning a sweatdrop from his friends.
"While we're on the subject of stuff you should never do, never ask Hermione about, well, anything school-related," Ron said.
"So........she's got really good marks, is that it?" Tristan asked.
"Unlike you," Tea muttered under her breath.
"That's kinda an understatement, to say she's got 'good marks'," Harry said. "For example, Hermione's in seventh year ancient runes and sixth year arithmancy."
(What the hell is arithmancy, anyway?)
"Hey wait a minute, what the heck do they expect /us/ to do the whole day?" Kaya asked suddenly.
"Oh yeah, these are for you guys," Ron said handing them all a piece of paper.
"Oh I get it," Yugi said. "We'll be going to classes with some of the Gryffindors, but we'll be in the back learning about what we'd normally learn about back in Domino."
"Dang!" Joey shouted, causing several to stare at him.
"What's wrong with that?" Bakura asked, perplexed.
"I thought we were gonna have the year off!" Joey moaned.
"Skip a /whole entire/ year?!" Hermione gasped, joining the conversation.
"Can't imagine that, huh?" Ron grinned, putting an arm around Hermione, who blushed. Tea, Kaya, and Isis all smiled knowingly. The boys rolled their eyes.
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For the most part, Yugi-tachi's first day at Hogwarts went well. Of course, they did manage to get on Snape's bad side, and there was Malik's encounter with Adara Mina in Potions.
Isis, being seventeen, followed the schedule of the seventh year Gryffindors, including Fred and George, Ron's older twin brothers, who kept calling her Cleopatra.
The rest of the gang headed to Potions, while receiving vehement warnings from Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
"Just don't give him any reason to be mad at you, and you'll be fine," Hermione assured.
"Although, if something does happen, don't worry, 'cause all us Gryffindors are kinda united against Snape," Ron added.
"Same deal with the Slytherins," Harry piped up. "They hate Muggles or Muggle-borns, so you guys are probably gonna take a lot of heat from them."
"I'd like to see them try," Malik said smugly, and Kaya noticed his unusually tight grip on the Millennium Rod, which was safely tucked in his pants pocket. (Oh Ra that did NOT come out right.......) Hermione, Ron, and Harry all looked at him questioningly, but they didn't pursue the matter.
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The group took seats in the back of the classroom, looking apprehensive. Snape came to the back, and handed them all a sort of packet, telling them this must be completed by October 5. (*shrugs* I just picked a random date.....) For a while, they worked in silence, while Snape explained that the rest of the class would be making a potion that would restore jewelry. (o_O Where did that come from???)
Just then, Bakura looked up and put down his quill. "This is boring," he declared, but just loud enough for the others to hear.
"Bakari....? Does Bakura know you're out?" Malik asked his friend, a grin slowly spreading across his face.
"Yes......." Bakari replied, doing the lil shifty eyes thing. They all sweatdropped.
"I agree with him," Tristan sighed, putting his quill down too.
"Hey Malik, whattya say we add a little excitement?" Bakari said, his eyes glinting mischievously. Malik returned the look.
"I hate it when they get like that......" Kaya said, rolling her eyes.
"Hey, we'd always include you, right?" Bakari said, putting his hands up in defense. Kaya nodded.
"True......and Yami would've killed us......" she said, glancing at Yugi.
"And he's planning to kill you now!" Yugi said cheerfully, smiling.
"Anyway......what are you two gonna do?" Tristan asked. Kaiba, sitting at the end of the table, rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"Well," Malik said innocently, glancing at the cauldrons. "I was wondering........what would happen to their potion if there was gold jewelry already in it?"
"You're not going to........"
"Just watch him, Tea," Bakari grinned. Malik, snickering, unhooked his earrings and, making sure Snape wasn't watching, slinked over to a nearby cauldron.
"Hello," he said brightly to the girl at the cauldron.
It was Adara Mina. She gave him an you-are-such-a-freak look (heh.......me and my friends get those all the time) and turned back to her cauldron. "So.....you like Hogwarts?" Malik asked, trying to distract her.
"I liked it fine until you showed up," Adara snapped.
"Well, you're a little ray of sunshine, aren't you?" Malik retorted, and the others saw him slip the earrings into her cauldron. "Been lovely chatting with you!" he said, smiling just like this: ^_^
Malik sauntered back to his seat, just as a loud bang echoed in the cauldron and it's contents sprayed all over Adara.
It took all of Malik's self-control not to burst out laughing.
But he sobered up when Snape came over to the cauldron.
He used his wand to calm the contents, and fished out Malik's earrings. He held them up, examining them. Ron, Hermione, and Harry were all looking directly at them, their expressions both admonishing and admiring.
Snape came over to the group of Japanese Muggles. "These look extremely Egyptian," he said, his oily voice dangerously low. The group nodded, unable to say anything else. Man, this guy was /creepy!!!/
"Do they belong to one of you?" Snape continued, his voice still soft.
"No sir, we've never seen them before," Yugi said quickly, looking innocent, which wasn't that hard.
Snape glared at them, but as he had no proof, stalked back to the front.
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The group was leaving the classroom, along with Ron, Harry, and Hermione, when Adara came up and whacked Malik over the head.
"You did that, didn't you!?" she shrieked.
"I have no idea what you are talking about," Malik said solemnly.
"You are such a bastard!!!" she yelled.
"Ama," Malik retorted, switching to Japanese, meaning Adara had no idea he had just called her a bitch.
Or did she?
"Think you're pretty clever, huh? Switching to Japanese, so you think I won't know that you just called me a bitch," Adara finished, flipping her hair over her shoulder and stalking away, leaving the group to stare open- mouthed after her.
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That day, at lunch, Harry received a letter. It was quite startling for his new friends when the multitude of owls swept into the Great Hall, delivering packages and letters to their owners below.
"Who's it from, Harry?" Tristan asked.
"Hey, that's none of your business!" Tea said, smacking him.
Harry took out the letter and saw who it was from. He read it silently, Ron and Hermione reading over his shoulder. "It's nothing," he said quickly, so that everyone knew it wasn't "nothing", but Tea was right, the letter was Harry's business.
That night, Harry, Ron, and Hermione sat in the common room, discussing something.
"D'you reckon we should've told them?" Ron asked.
"You mean about the letter from Sirius?" Harry asked.
"Maybe we should have," Hermione added. "I mean, they're obviously special Muggles.......and they seem awfully nice."
"Maybe," Harry said, "we'll tell them later." The others nodded.
(Gets a bit serious now......)
Things tensed up for the fifth year Gryffindor boys that night while they were changing for bed.
(Mojobubbles: *holding back fangirls who wanna see their bishies naked*)
"Whoa, Malik!" Ron gasped. Malik froze, then tried to quickly throw his shirt on. "Where'd ya get those cool tattoos?!"
Malik stiffened. He had been wondering when this would happen........
Our favorite group of exchange students watched, wondering what would happen next.
"It's nothing," Malik said quickly.
"Wow, how much did that cost?" Ron continued.
"I said drop it, ok?!" Malik said, half shouting, as he grabbed a jacket and made his way out of the dormitory.
"God........what's he so touchy about? I just asked a simple question," Ron said crossly.
"Actually, it's not so simple, Ron," Yugi sighed.
"Malik's had it rough, man," Tristan added.
"He's got a good heart, but his past was very hard," Bakura said sadly, shaking his head.
"Whatever," Ron said, still angry. "I guess I'll just trust you guys."
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Malik didn't really know where he was going, he just knew he needed to get out for a few minutes. When he got to the common room, he found Isis having a late night chat with one of her new friends. Malik flopped down on the couch in front of them.
"Um, Isis? Can I-?"
Isis nodded, then turned to her friend. "I'll be there in a minute, Holly," she said, and her friend left. Then she turned to Malik. "So," she said, eyeing her brother. "They asked, didn't they?"
Malik just stared at her for a moment, before asking, "Can you, like, read minds or something?" Isis shook her head, smiling slightly. "Isis," Malik said, voicing the question that had been on his mind the whole day, "d'you think we oughta tell them? About the yamis, I mean, and about the Items?"
Isis sighed, thinking. "Maybe........" she said slowly. "After all, Harry did defeat Voldemort.....and Voldemort is the one after us and our Millennium Items......"
Malik shook his head. "Sister, I don't think the time is right," he said, his voice serious, like in Battle City. "But you are right, we should tell them.........sometime."
Isis got up, nodding, and went up to the girls' dormitory, squeezing Malik's shoulder. He sighed and realized he was alone - just him and his confused thoughts.
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Mojobubbles: Ugh......that turned out more serious than I wanted it to be......gotta go, huge project to finish......
Tokuisei
(The title means "idiosyncrasy" in Japanese. I don't know where it really came from......I guess because the characters are all getting to know each other and they've all got different idiosyncrasies......)
Disclaimer: WB owns it all. But......they don't own Kaya, Aneko Matsu, Lindsey Mansfeild, Adara Mina, or Professor Leorian! : P
Mojobubbles: I'M SO SORRY FOR THE LACK OF UPDATES! I've got some excuses, they really suck, but here goes: ¼ is my fault, ¼ is my l.a. and my math teachers' faults, ¼ is Inu-Yasha's fault, and ¼ is other people's faults. Ok, the Inu-Yasha thing: IT'S COMPLETELY TAKEN OVER MY BRAIN!!!!!!!! *clears throat* The teacher thing: My l.a. teacher has this habit of going a couple weeks with very little work, then out of the blue she throws a whole bunch of crap at us and it's all due the same week, while my math teacher will NOT STOP GIVING US HOMEWORK. So.....my l.a. workload was pretty heavy, and so was my math workload. ¼ is my fault, because after all the snow days and sick days I got kinda discombobulated and I would put off my homework till late and poke aroundon the internet and then I'd rush to get it all done and that crap. Then there are the other people............one thing is that Kirstie took a long time to e-mail me the stuff about the character she made up, I had lotsa plans this weekend, and then there are those boys.........
Yami: They are so damn /MEAN/! *hugs Mojobubbles*
Mojobubbles: Yeah. I got a call from this one popular boy who I barely know, and he wants to know if I want to go to the mall with him and a bunch of popular people I don't know. So I lie and say I've got something to do then.
Bakura: That's not the worst part, though......
Mojobubbles: Yeah. As it turned out, they didn't mean it. They called Kirstie and asked her the same thing. They were just pranking us.
Y. Bakura: Ra, that's really low. I'm a freaking tomb robber and I think that's low.
Mojobubbles: Yeah. So I was a bit bent out of shape over that. V_V But I'm ok now.
Kamilah: And then the other day, a different boy called, asking the same thing. So if someone calls again, aibou is telling them she knows they don't mean it.
Mojobubbles: Ok, now that all my pathetic excuses are out of the way..........and I promise that I'm gonna try and update more......I'm just a bit stuck........I AM OFFICIALLY OBSESSED WITH .HACK//SIGN! Go watch it! It's cool! *pokes readers*
Kamilah: Hikari, .hack//SIGN isn't everyone's bowl of ramen, you know.
Yami: "Bowl of ramen"?
Kamilah: Yah. Like, if you say, "Oh, that's not my bowl of ramen" it means "Oh, that's not my cup of tea."
Voice from some other room: Ramen? Where?!
Mojobubbles: *blinks* *realizes who it is* I KNOW WHO THAT IS!
Voice: Oh Gods........is that Mojobubbles?
Mojobubbles: *runs in the room* SQUEE!!!!!!
Voice: NOT YOU!
Mojobubbles: *comes back in, dragging.....Inuyasha!* LOOK!!!!! IT'S INUYASHA!!!!
Inuyasha: Of all the damn fanfics I could've stumbled in, I stumbled into hers. ^ -_,__,_- ^
Mojobubbles: ^_^ *glomps Inuyasha*
Yami, Shogo, Tsukasa, and Bakura: *to Inuyasha* Welcome to the club. -_-
Mojobubbles: Inu-Yasha is one of my favorite animes, even though I've only seen, like, 5 episodes. Moving on, MALIK HAS A MOTORCYCLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Malik: Mojobubbles, I think they already know that.......
Mojobubbles: *not listening* I thought it was Tristan, then I realized it was Malik and I was on the phone with Kirstie, and we totally laughed our asses off. Then my dad had to come in and tell me and my sister to stop shouting. T_T
Kamilah: But we completely missed whatever Malik was talking about, cuz we were laughing so hard. ^_^U
Review responses:
BMMW: Actually, Kirstie, I'd rather do that when there aren't impressionable minds around. *points to Shogo, Yugi, Bakura, and Mokuba, who has joined my cast* And no, he is not your character. Unless your character is twitchy and speaks in third person........They just have the same name so nyeah! :P
Penny: Angel of Darkest Dreams: COOLNESS PENNAME! Well actually, I'm doing it so that after Battle City they stayed in Japan. Glad you like the story!
AngelsKitten: Delighted you think it's that good!
Daricio: LOOK EVERONE IT'S DARICIO!
Yami: Oh, you mean the one who wrote "Where's Yugi?"
Mojobubbles: YEAH! HI DARICIO!!!! *waves*
Kamilah: Hopefully the PDM (Pokeduelsmon) trilogy will be better with parts 2, 3, and the epilogue. Although there are no more Pokemon things after that. ^_^U Anyway, she's honored you think that highly of her stories, she's just to hyper to show it.
Yugi-Closet-fan: Um......what about Draco? I'm glad you like the story, but you keep submitting really confuddling reviews!
Europa: Hello! Yah also I thought that would add a bit of humor to the story. It's going to be pretty light and humorous most of the way, but the ending is pretty dramatic, cuz Voldemort comes and there's a big showdown thingy.
The Legendary Centurion: You wanted a new chapter, here it is!!!! ^_^
Symbol thingies:
~blah~ Kaya to Yami or Yugi
++blah++ Yugi to Kaya
~~blah~~ Yami to Kaya
/blah/ hikari to yami
//blah// yami to hikari
[blah] someone thinking to themselves
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"They're Muggles?!" Ron gasped.
"That's what Malfoy meant when he said he thought Dumbledore could sink no lower," Hermione said.
Harry looked over at the Slytherin table, who were looking at the Muggles from Japan as though they were a dog that had been rolling in garbage.
"The new kids look friendly enough," said a Gryffindor fifth year girl that Harry had never noticed before.
"Who's that?" Ron muttered to Hermione.
"Lindsey Mansfield," Hermione replied quietly. "She's pretty nice; I've only talked to her a few times, though."
Then the Sorting began. It ended with Zimmerman, Ashley, and as it turned out, Gryffindor hadn't gotten many first years. The school was busy talking, but Harry was watching Dumbledore lean over to the new students and ask them something. Harry looked the 8 of them, deciding which ones he wanted to talk to, and which ones he thought he might want to avoid. The tall one with the reddish-brown hair and blue eyes looked pretty anti- social. The rest of them looked pretty friendly, other than the fact that they all had weird hair. Especially that kid with the red, black, and yellow spiked up hair.............
Harry's eyes widened as he recognized that one. It was the boy from the train station! With a slight sinking feeling in his stomach, Harry remembered the dream. So......Voldemort /could/ have something to do with the boy if he had been invited to Hogwarts.....
Harry was yanked out of his reverie when he noticed the new kids coming toward the Gryffindor table. "Huh?" he said, rubbing his head. "What-?"
"There's extra spaces at the Gryffindor table, so they're coming to sit with us," said a different Gryffindor fifth-year girl, one with dark green eyes and long dark hair, which she flipped over her shoulder. "I don't like that one with the lavender shirt, and the pale blond hair. Oy ve.......he's strutting around like he owns the place!"
Ron raised his eyebrows up at the girl, and Hermione said quietly, "That's Adara Mina. She's not that bad to the Gryffindors, but she's really eccentric."
"Like.......?"
"Well she enjoys throwing rocks at small animals and has a collection of stone dragons next to her bed."
Ron blinked.
"Exactly," Hermione said.
"Um, hi?" said one of the girls, one with brown shoulder length hair and violet eyes.
"Hi," Hermione said brightly, trying to make conversation.
//Aibou, can I come out now?//
/No way, Yami; you'd completely freak them out!/
Just then, Yami felt Yugi tense up in surprise.
//What is it, Yugi?//
/Yami......it's that boy from the train station!/
//Of course, I sensed something magical about him.....//
"Um, didn't I see you at King's Cross Station the other day?" Harry asked Yugi.
Yugi nodded. "I think so......I tripped and you pulled me up......who was that guy who started yelling at you?"
"My uncle Vernon," Harry replied, rolling his eyes. He glanced around at the others. "Looks like your friends are fitting in just fine......what's your name, by the way?"
"Moto Yugi......or I guess here it would be Yugi Moto......" Yugi said, reaching out to shake Harry's hand.
"I'm Harry. Harry Potter."
"You're Harry Potter?" said Bakura, joining the conversation. "Dumbledore mentioned your name when he was explaining everything."
Harry nodded. "Yeah, I guess he would've." The conversation went on, and finally Dumbledore clapped his hands, signaling that the meal was over.
"So.......I guess we're Gryffindors now?" Kaya shrugged.
"I dunno about you guys, but I'm just gonna follow them until they lead me to a bed," Tristan yawned. Kaiba made a face and hung back. He wanted to make it clear that he was NOT their friends. As he stepped backwards, a girl tripped over his foot. He reached out and grabbed her arm and pulled her to her feet.
She looked a lot like him, with reddish-brown hair and blue eyes. "Um, thanks," she said quickly, and Kaiba noticed she had a Slytherin badge.
Just then another Slytherin with bleached hair and cold eyes said to the girl, "Aneko, what are you doing associating with /Muggles?/" (I told ya she'd be in this chapter, Marissa!)
"I really don't know, Draco. I wonder what came over me," said the girl, flipping her hair over her shoulder and walking off with the Slytherin. Kaiba raised his eyebrows, then walked off with the rest of the Gryffindors to go to bed.
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That morning, it took Kaya a moment to realize where she was. Then it hit her.
Hogwarts.
~~It's about time you got up, Kaya.~~
~Shut up, Yami. Me and the other girls were up late last night.~
~~Oh, so that's why you cut off the link. What did you talk about?~~
~None of your beeswax.~
Yami mentally rolled his eyes as Kaya cut off the link.
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"Oh /joy,/ Ron said sarcastically that morning at breakfast.
"Good morning to you too," Hermione said, but she was smiling. Ron, however, didn't return the smile.
"Look at our schedule!" he groaned, shoving it at Hermione and Harry.
Harry groaned too. "Double potions with the Slytherins........first thing, too........"
"Well, then we have ancient runes after that....." Hermione mused.
"No, /you're/ the only one who takes ancient runes," Harry corrected.
"You're studying ancient runes?" Isis asked Hermione eagerly. Hermione nodded, and began to describe what she was learning.
"Oh Ra........." Malik muttered.
"What?" Tea asked, looking at him curiously.
"If there's one thing you never wanna do, it's get my sister started on ancient runes," Malik replied, earning a sweatdrop from his friends.
"While we're on the subject of stuff you should never do, never ask Hermione about, well, anything school-related," Ron said.
"So........she's got really good marks, is that it?" Tristan asked.
"Unlike you," Tea muttered under her breath.
"That's kinda an understatement, to say she's got 'good marks'," Harry said. "For example, Hermione's in seventh year ancient runes and sixth year arithmancy."
(What the hell is arithmancy, anyway?)
"Hey wait a minute, what the heck do they expect /us/ to do the whole day?" Kaya asked suddenly.
"Oh yeah, these are for you guys," Ron said handing them all a piece of paper.
"Oh I get it," Yugi said. "We'll be going to classes with some of the Gryffindors, but we'll be in the back learning about what we'd normally learn about back in Domino."
"Dang!" Joey shouted, causing several to stare at him.
"What's wrong with that?" Bakura asked, perplexed.
"I thought we were gonna have the year off!" Joey moaned.
"Skip a /whole entire/ year?!" Hermione gasped, joining the conversation.
"Can't imagine that, huh?" Ron grinned, putting an arm around Hermione, who blushed. Tea, Kaya, and Isis all smiled knowingly. The boys rolled their eyes.
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For the most part, Yugi-tachi's first day at Hogwarts went well. Of course, they did manage to get on Snape's bad side, and there was Malik's encounter with Adara Mina in Potions.
Isis, being seventeen, followed the schedule of the seventh year Gryffindors, including Fred and George, Ron's older twin brothers, who kept calling her Cleopatra.
The rest of the gang headed to Potions, while receiving vehement warnings from Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
"Just don't give him any reason to be mad at you, and you'll be fine," Hermione assured.
"Although, if something does happen, don't worry, 'cause all us Gryffindors are kinda united against Snape," Ron added.
"Same deal with the Slytherins," Harry piped up. "They hate Muggles or Muggle-borns, so you guys are probably gonna take a lot of heat from them."
"I'd like to see them try," Malik said smugly, and Kaya noticed his unusually tight grip on the Millennium Rod, which was safely tucked in his pants pocket. (Oh Ra that did NOT come out right.......) Hermione, Ron, and Harry all looked at him questioningly, but they didn't pursue the matter.
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The group took seats in the back of the classroom, looking apprehensive. Snape came to the back, and handed them all a sort of packet, telling them this must be completed by October 5. (*shrugs* I just picked a random date.....) For a while, they worked in silence, while Snape explained that the rest of the class would be making a potion that would restore jewelry. (o_O Where did that come from???)
Just then, Bakura looked up and put down his quill. "This is boring," he declared, but just loud enough for the others to hear.
"Bakari....? Does Bakura know you're out?" Malik asked his friend, a grin slowly spreading across his face.
"Yes......." Bakari replied, doing the lil shifty eyes thing. They all sweatdropped.
"I agree with him," Tristan sighed, putting his quill down too.
"Hey Malik, whattya say we add a little excitement?" Bakari said, his eyes glinting mischievously. Malik returned the look.
"I hate it when they get like that......" Kaya said, rolling her eyes.
"Hey, we'd always include you, right?" Bakari said, putting his hands up in defense. Kaya nodded.
"True......and Yami would've killed us......" she said, glancing at Yugi.
"And he's planning to kill you now!" Yugi said cheerfully, smiling.
"Anyway......what are you two gonna do?" Tristan asked. Kaiba, sitting at the end of the table, rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"Well," Malik said innocently, glancing at the cauldrons. "I was wondering........what would happen to their potion if there was gold jewelry already in it?"
"You're not going to........"
"Just watch him, Tea," Bakari grinned. Malik, snickering, unhooked his earrings and, making sure Snape wasn't watching, slinked over to a nearby cauldron.
"Hello," he said brightly to the girl at the cauldron.
It was Adara Mina. She gave him an you-are-such-a-freak look (heh.......me and my friends get those all the time) and turned back to her cauldron. "So.....you like Hogwarts?" Malik asked, trying to distract her.
"I liked it fine until you showed up," Adara snapped.
"Well, you're a little ray of sunshine, aren't you?" Malik retorted, and the others saw him slip the earrings into her cauldron. "Been lovely chatting with you!" he said, smiling just like this: ^_^
Malik sauntered back to his seat, just as a loud bang echoed in the cauldron and it's contents sprayed all over Adara.
It took all of Malik's self-control not to burst out laughing.
But he sobered up when Snape came over to the cauldron.
He used his wand to calm the contents, and fished out Malik's earrings. He held them up, examining them. Ron, Hermione, and Harry were all looking directly at them, their expressions both admonishing and admiring.
Snape came over to the group of Japanese Muggles. "These look extremely Egyptian," he said, his oily voice dangerously low. The group nodded, unable to say anything else. Man, this guy was /creepy!!!/
"Do they belong to one of you?" Snape continued, his voice still soft.
"No sir, we've never seen them before," Yugi said quickly, looking innocent, which wasn't that hard.
Snape glared at them, but as he had no proof, stalked back to the front.
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The group was leaving the classroom, along with Ron, Harry, and Hermione, when Adara came up and whacked Malik over the head.
"You did that, didn't you!?" she shrieked.
"I have no idea what you are talking about," Malik said solemnly.
"You are such a bastard!!!" she yelled.
"Ama," Malik retorted, switching to Japanese, meaning Adara had no idea he had just called her a bitch.
Or did she?
"Think you're pretty clever, huh? Switching to Japanese, so you think I won't know that you just called me a bitch," Adara finished, flipping her hair over her shoulder and stalking away, leaving the group to stare open- mouthed after her.
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That day, at lunch, Harry received a letter. It was quite startling for his new friends when the multitude of owls swept into the Great Hall, delivering packages and letters to their owners below.
"Who's it from, Harry?" Tristan asked.
"Hey, that's none of your business!" Tea said, smacking him.
Harry took out the letter and saw who it was from. He read it silently, Ron and Hermione reading over his shoulder. "It's nothing," he said quickly, so that everyone knew it wasn't "nothing", but Tea was right, the letter was Harry's business.
That night, Harry, Ron, and Hermione sat in the common room, discussing something.
"D'you reckon we should've told them?" Ron asked.
"You mean about the letter from Sirius?" Harry asked.
"Maybe we should have," Hermione added. "I mean, they're obviously special Muggles.......and they seem awfully nice."
"Maybe," Harry said, "we'll tell them later." The others nodded.
(Gets a bit serious now......)
Things tensed up for the fifth year Gryffindor boys that night while they were changing for bed.
(Mojobubbles: *holding back fangirls who wanna see their bishies naked*)
"Whoa, Malik!" Ron gasped. Malik froze, then tried to quickly throw his shirt on. "Where'd ya get those cool tattoos?!"
Malik stiffened. He had been wondering when this would happen........
Our favorite group of exchange students watched, wondering what would happen next.
"It's nothing," Malik said quickly.
"Wow, how much did that cost?" Ron continued.
"I said drop it, ok?!" Malik said, half shouting, as he grabbed a jacket and made his way out of the dormitory.
"God........what's he so touchy about? I just asked a simple question," Ron said crossly.
"Actually, it's not so simple, Ron," Yugi sighed.
"Malik's had it rough, man," Tristan added.
"He's got a good heart, but his past was very hard," Bakura said sadly, shaking his head.
"Whatever," Ron said, still angry. "I guess I'll just trust you guys."
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Malik didn't really know where he was going, he just knew he needed to get out for a few minutes. When he got to the common room, he found Isis having a late night chat with one of her new friends. Malik flopped down on the couch in front of them.
"Um, Isis? Can I-?"
Isis nodded, then turned to her friend. "I'll be there in a minute, Holly," she said, and her friend left. Then she turned to Malik. "So," she said, eyeing her brother. "They asked, didn't they?"
Malik just stared at her for a moment, before asking, "Can you, like, read minds or something?" Isis shook her head, smiling slightly. "Isis," Malik said, voicing the question that had been on his mind the whole day, "d'you think we oughta tell them? About the yamis, I mean, and about the Items?"
Isis sighed, thinking. "Maybe........" she said slowly. "After all, Harry did defeat Voldemort.....and Voldemort is the one after us and our Millennium Items......"
Malik shook his head. "Sister, I don't think the time is right," he said, his voice serious, like in Battle City. "But you are right, we should tell them.........sometime."
Isis got up, nodding, and went up to the girls' dormitory, squeezing Malik's shoulder. He sighed and realized he was alone - just him and his confused thoughts.
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Mojobubbles: Ugh......that turned out more serious than I wanted it to be......gotta go, huge project to finish......