Chapter 9: The Sorting/Let's have a talk.

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A/n: So, I lived up to my promise? I got there in one chapter and now, the sorting!

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Soon he found himself in the Great Hall, same as all the other years (that he had a chance to get to the Great Hall at least). The first years entered the Hall, some of them looking scared and a bit damp, others looking just plain cocky. And the hat began its song.

"Children new and children old,

Have come to us since times not told,

Since I saw my very first day,

Since I passed my very first May,

Lots of times, I have seen,

Those same children are not keen,

Some of them are spoil't rotten,

Few of them are not forgotten,

Eversince those times ago,

When the school was not of ol'

Ever parted, never together,

To compete against the 'ether,

Gryffindor, of purest heart,

Hufflepuff, of loyal start,

Slytherin, of large ambition,

Ravenclaw, of good transition,

Friends that thought never to part,

Friends that never thought too dark,

Some friendships that may never end,

Start right here, after the end,

Of this song,

But don't forget, even before,

This whole sorting goes aboard,

Maybe houses may not matter,

Maybe we should not scatter,

So I leave you with my song,

Resting in your open arms,

All divided, don't think that's bad,

Maybe it COULD drive you mad,

I don't know, I'm just here,

So keep together, heed my word,

Lots of kindness could not hurt,

Be though I may seem that picky,

I really am not just that,

Really I am just a hat,

Magical I agree,

So I leave this song with thee." Applause was scattered, as it was the year before, but a bit stronger. Tiny seemed to wave back and forth on her feet until Ryou pinched her arm and woke her up, she started cheering too, a few whistles were thrown in too.

"Perhaps it didn't have as much to work with this year." Hermione whispered as McGonagall called out the first name.

"Ah no, Hermione," Ron said. "You've got bigger things to worry about." He pointed to the teachers table where the older women that they had met in the Leaky Cauldron were sitting at the end.

"Aide, Ian." she said. A small, scared looking boy made his way up to the hat.

"HUFFLEPUFF!" the hat yelled. The Hufflepuff table cheered as the small boy hobbled to their table. As "Takamura, Jamai" was called up, the small heavily tanned boy that Tiny had introduced as Hamako made his way up to the hat, which swallowed his head almost. Harry guessed that the hat was talking to him because the boy kept on trying to look up at the hat. After about a minute it yelled "GRYFFINDOR!" Harry clapped along with the rest of the table as boy came to join the table.

After "Zaas, Peter." was sorted into Ravenclaw, Dumbledore rose from his seat, seeing as all of the late starters were still standing up.

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"Welcome, and welcome back..." Bakura almost fell asleep standing (much like Tiny almost did) while Dumbledore began to talk about the forest, and the corridors, and the curfew. He had more fun luring that huge squid thing to tip over the boat (too bad they reached Hogwarts in time) or cursing out that ghost dude for dropping egg whites in his hair, not that you could really see the difference.

In fact, it did seem that Bakura fell asleep while Zaliki was being called up and sorted into Gryffindor (Lord knows why), so Ryou took this chance to repossess him.

"Tiny, Tiny." Tiny turned around.

"What?" she asked. Ryou handed her the Sennen Ring. "What's this for?" she asked.

"Keep it until I get sorted, I don't want He-who-shouldn't-be awoken to influence what house I get into, I would hate a house where everyone was like him." he said. Tiny looked at Ryou, then at the Ring, she nodded and slipped the Sennen Ring around her neck. Yugi heard their conversation and handed Tiny the Sennen Puzzle.

"Can you take care of mine too?" he asked. "Yami doesn't care what house I get into." Yugi said, just as McGonagall said his name.

"Yugi Moto, Domino City, Japan." the woman at the front said. Yugi walked up to the creepy talking hat and sat on the stool while the lady manuvered his hair to put his hat on.

"GRYFFINDOR!!" the hat yelled.

"Ryou Bakura, Domino City, Japan." It seemed she was more calling out city names rather than last names. Ryou walked up to the hat and tugged it a bit violently onto his head.

"Easy on the brim!" the hat said. "Hm, room for more than a person in here? Am I right? But you're loyal, just like the other one, and willing to do anything that it takes to help your friends. I'd say, GRYFFINDOR!" the Gryffindor table clapped as Ryou tried to get the Sennen Ring back from Tiny but was re-routed to Gryffindor table by McGonagall. He ended up looking at Tiny with an apologetic glance as she began to twitch from what must have been "spirit overload".

"Malik Ishtar, Domino City, Japan." McGonagall said. Malik tugged slightly at his tie and went up to the stool, the hat was about two inches from his head when it said "SLYTHERIN!" Malik glared at it and grudgingly went to Slytherin table.

"Lestine Jones, Baton Rouge, Louisiana." McGonagall said. Tiny's eyes widened as she went up to the stool, she twitched again and scratched at her head as the hat was placed on her.

"Hm, crowded in here isn't it?" the hat asked. "There's a bit of a bad streak, a big bad streak, you've seen it all, death, robbery, muggings, even been killed at an early age." the hat said. "Oh no, that's not it, if it weren't for these qualities that you supress, you would be a great candidate for Hufflepuff, yes indeed. Hm, a strange one here, seems like one of you is loyal, one of you is a user, one of you is, well yes, another user, and the last one is just down right cocky!" the hat said.

[Watch it hat...] Yami hissed.

"Ah, yes, I know exactly where you're going, SLYTHERIN!"

"But-" Tiny tried to protest but McGonagall spun her around to the Slytherin table and gave her a little push. Tiny glared back at her, but walked to the Slytherin table to sit with Malik. She gave herself a little rap on the head to quiet all of those arguing voices. Bakura, apparently wanted steak, Yami wanted to get out, and Sagira wanted them out, and to watch TV.

[Steak!] Bakura yelled.

[Where's Yugi?] Yami asked.

[Steak!] Bakura repeated.

[I WANT THEM OUT!!] Sagira yelled.

[Even a T-bone would work in a time like this!] Bakura said.

[Shut up!] Tiny yelled. [Bakura, I can let you possess me so you can get this steak you want so much, Sagira, they're not getting out until the end of the meal, Yami, ditto!] she said.

[Thank you.] Bakura said, contented. Tiny gave him power over her for five minutes so he could yell at the cooks for not preparing the steak just right, then get his almost raw steak, then she gave Yami power for five minutes so he could sit there looking cool, so cool that apparently, he couldn't eat, and then Tiny returned so that she could eat, while Sagira floated around, invisible to humans, but since she was chatting with the Bloody Baron, not to ghosts. When the feast was over, Tiny met up with Bakura and Yugi to happily give them back their items.

"Me and Bakura have been talking." Yugi said. "We think that we should tell Dumbledore, so he won't be creeped." Yugi said.

"I agree." Tiny said. "When?" she asked.

"Tonight." Ryou said.

"TONIGHT?" Tiny yelled.

"Then he won't be able to blame us for anything because we DIDN'T tell him." Yugi said.

"Hm, good idea." Tiny said. "So, let's go."

"What?" Yugi asked.

"Let's go tell him." she repeated.

"But, actually, we were going to stay here for a few minutes, then go tell him." Ryou said.

"We should tell him now, he's leaving." Tiny said, trailing Dumbledore with her eyes.

"Fine then." Ryou said. They followed Dumbledore until they got to a stone statue, then they finally approached him.

"I thought I would be seeing you." he said when he saw them.

"Yeah, Mr. Dumbledore, sir." Tiny said.

"We need to talk." Yugi said. McGonagall came running up.

"Albus! Have you signed the fold of all of the decrees that Umbridge made?" she asked.

"Well, not yet Minerva, but I have to first speak with a few of the newer children." he looked at the three kids. "Well, if you wish you might come in, since this does concern your house." 'Minerva' nodded and Dumbledore led the kids to his office ('Through like, a bird statue thing! And it rose up! I swear it! When he said like this password! And then there was his office and a bird BLEW UP!! I swear man! Would I lie? Okay, don't answer that.') When they were in his office Dumbledore spoke again. "So what did you wish to speak to me about?" he asked.

"Well, Ryou." Yugi turned to Ryou.

"Well, I noticed that most of the kids who go here, they have powers from hereditary, and we, well we don't. We get our powers from items." Ryou pulled the Sennen Ring from under his robe.

"And what are the nature of these items?" McGonagall asked.

"Well, they were made in Ancient Egypt, when monsters ran wild, we know a bunch about the period of time that they were made in but we don't know who released the monsters again after the first batch." Ryou said. Tiny coughed a cough that sounded suspiciously like "Kai-bek".

"Apparently, she might." Yugi said.

"Just because you decided to become a pawn of Kai-bek's orders, Pharaoh, doesn't mean that everyone else liked him very much." the person who at least looked like Tiny, said.

"I agree with the small one." Ryou's vessel said.

"Lets try not to let our personal issues get involved in this discussion, shall we?" Yugi's spirit said.

"These objects have powers that "muggles" can barely dream of, the powers over the elements, over animals, to send people to what might be known as "hell"." Tiny's vessel said.

"I notice, that you are different, in personality." Dumbledore said. "Is this a power of the items?" he asked.

"Well, yes and no." Ryou's vessel said.

"I am Yami Yugi, this is my dear friend Ratri Sagira, we were raised from-" Yami Yugi was cut off.

"When he was wearing diapers!" Ratri said.

"I never wore diapers, well if I wore them when I was a baby they were made of the finest cloth availible." Yami said.

"The egyptian equivilent of the 99cent store diapers." Ratri said.

"Satin."

"Wool, Bakura, what do you say?" Ratri asked. The pale boy was silent.

"Bakura, show yourself." Yami Yugi said. The boy grumbled something that made Ratri gasp.

"What did he say?" Yami asked.

"Something in Egyptian." Ratri said.

"Real descriptive."

"I said, can we please stop this mamby pambling and get on with business?" Bakura said, his face changing more. "I am Bakura, in my past I was a grave robber, and I was damn good at my business. My various titles include, Yami Bakura, Dark Bakura..."

"Tomb Raider, Grave robber, ingenious yet sadistic pig..." Yami continued.

"Lets not forget our Lord here!" Ratri said. "Pharaoh, King of Games..."

"Not to mention little one here, beautiful death, double faced doom." Yami Bakura continued.

"So, what do these mean?" McGonagall asked.

"Well, we were known by these names," Ratri said. "Well you see, we pretty much all knew eachother in the BC, Yami was Pharaoh, Bakura was jailbait, I was pretty-"

"Cocky." Yami finished.

"Shut up!" Ratri yelled. "And as you can see, we were trapped in items, found our new lives, and are currently leeching off of them like a parasite. Sometimes we take control, sometimes we lie low, its just the way things are." she said.

"So, you say you have darkness inside of you? That has a bad meaning here." Dumbledore said.

"It just means we're dark in comparison to our lights, our hikaris." Yami said.

"So, what are your powers?" McGonagall asked.

"Well?" Ratri asked.

"You first Sagira." Yami Bakura said. Sagira sighed. She looked at Fawkes.

"Does he usually come over to people?" she asked Dumbledore.

"Not if he doesn't know them." The headmaster answered.

"Fawkes." she said, Fawkes swooped downed to her arm. "I have the power to summon any kind of creature I want, to do my bidding." she said. "Bakura?" Bakura did nothing. "Okay fine, he has the power to send people to the Shadow Realm, a place of eternal..." she tried to find a good way to put this. "Sleep." she said, even though all of the souls were still very much alive, just no in their vessels.

"And I can win at any game." Yami said.

"Not really a good power to have if you get sent to the Shadow Realm anyways." Sagira said.

"But I am good at gambling." Yami said.

"Point." she said. "Can I go now? I need to find out where the Slytherin dorms are and what the password is before curfew, I got school tomorrow."

"In a moment, what would set you three off though. You know, release anger and hatred enough to make your powers out of control?" Dumbledore asked.

"If someone hurt our hikaris." all three of them said.

"I depend on Ryou, if he's dead, then I'm stuck in that Ring again, hell is going to pay." Bakura said.

"I've grown on Tiny, Hamai too, Nara told you about Hamai in the letter? Okay, well, if they even get a hangnail when someone's near them, eternal damnation." she said.

"Yugi's my friend, and consequently, the only one I smile at aside from the ones that have Yami's like those two over there, if someone put a curse on him, I'm sending them to Bakura for guidance." Yami said.

"And I'll counsel them and send 'em back." Bakura said.

"Very well, you may go." Dumbledore said, and with that the kids were gone in a second.

"Albus, why can't you ever just admit only the normal wizards?"

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A/n: Okay, bit of a short one compared to the others. Hope you liked it! Have any suggestions then email or review them to me.

Nori: My brain hurts from musing so long.

Slaith: Two chapters in a row...

Mairi: Whooooweee!

Meche: Now lets start on chapter ten!

All muses: NOOOOOO!

EBs: YES!!!!

Muses:...where the hell did they come from?

JA NE!!!