(Lilo: All right. Well, I didn't update cuz I had a problem with a network adapter and school gave me a couple of nasty hw assignments but I am serious about updating every week. I will try as hard as I can to squish the 'chapter typing' in between my hw -__- anyways, some of you seem to complain and not like Harry's attitude but I can't do a thing about it right now because it is one of the main conflicts in the story. What happens to conflicts in the story? They get solved! ^_^ lol, also, there might/will be more Yugi and Ryou but further into the story and not as often. They will appear in this chapter as well. Just bare with me, okay?  Yami has this kind of attitude because he regained his memory about his past (this story takes place after the battle in Kuru Eruma) and he knows what will happen to him in 'months' to come. I am not going to tell you what, because this is another conflict and I would also like to point out that in this story, Harry's scar is in the MIDDLE of his forehead. Why, you ask? For the purposes of this story.

Marikue: Lilo doesn't own any of the characters or blah blah blah. She doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh or Harry Potter. She wished that she could own Sesshoumaru  ... *WHAM!!!*

Lilo: *standing over a fallen Marikue with a hammer in her hand* get onto the story already!)

~Terrible Gift~

"I won't go to the headquarters."  Harry repeated himself, staring straight into the eyes of his third year's teacher. It was then that he met Sirius and agreed to stay with him when all of this would be over but everything that he had hoped and dreamed off crashed in one day. He wanted to have a normal family, a normal life but he couldn't have both. His destiny was cursed and his path hidden from him. He could no longer tell what was right or wrong. He couldn't tell anything.

"Harry, think about it! Yo-"Lupin began but was rudely cut off by Harry.

"I don't want to think!" Harry practically yelled. He was getting pissed. Everything that happened today was too much for his already unstable nerves.

"Harry, stop acting this childish! Think strategically!" Lupin exclaimed.

/Yami/ Yugi said quietly

//Yes?// Yami asked impatiently

/can I take over? / Yugi asked in a pleading tone. He was only able to stay around for mere minutes before his yami took over due to Isis's rage.

//Will you be able to handle this?// Yami asked in a slightly mocking tone.

/Yaaaaaammmmmmmiiiiiii/ Yugi whined, making his best puppy dog eyes.

Yami glanced in Bakura's direction and noticed that the ex tomb robber had a disgusted expression plastered all over his face. It looked like he was also having an inner battle with his hikari.

/Yami, I want to get to know Harry. Please, maybe we can help him with whatever that is making him like that/ Yugi said quietly, watching as the boy from the next door house was glaring at the elder who was saying something that Yugi didn't quite understand, like Voldemort, Prophesy, Dumbledore and Yugi also noticed that the man kept on saying 'Black' and whenever he did that, Harry's eyes would close up a bit until they were all but slits, looking extremely scary with that greenish glow coming from them.

//Yugi let me handle this! And you lost your opportunity when you told on us! Besides, there is something …..// Yami trailed off, look at Bakura who gave a small, almost invisible nod.

/Yami …../ Yugi said but was stuffed into the depth of his soul room by Yami who looked extremely serious, while shutting the door right into Yugi's face.  What's with them? It's like … these days are their last. Yugi mused, saddened by his yami's behavior.

"I said no" Harry said through gritted teeth but his facial expression remained freighting calm while his voice held so much rage and hater that some might have thought that the Voldemort himself stood before them. Lupin was taken aback by the change in Harry's appearance. Also, to his shock, Lupin noticed that the blood was slowly sipping from the bolt-shaped scar right in the middle of Harry's forehead. It was the scar that Voldemort gave him when he tried to kill him. Harry, himself, was aware of this as well, but he did nothing to stop it. Recently, Harry discovered that whenever he would get really angry, his scar would bleed, even open ever so slightly.

"Harry! What's wrong? Your scar … it's bleeding!" Lupin said and made a move to touch Harry's scar but Harry's reaction wasn't what he expected it to be.

"Don't touch me!" Harry jumped back to the door, his entire body shaking with rage.

"Harry  ..." Lupin never finished his sentence.

"I SAID STOP!" Harry screamed, his vision becoming blurry. It was only seconds after did he realize that he was breaking the windows and shaking the entire house. Glass was flying everywhere, things were moved from their original places and smell of burnt wood was coming from downstairs. Lupin was terrified, vaguely remembering what Dumbledore told him before he went after Harry.

Flashback

"Try not to anger him Remus" Dumbledore said, while sitting behind his desk, looking trough some papers.

"Why?"  Lupin asked, looking at Dumbledore with interest. In the previous year they figured that if they angered Harry, he would say or do what ever they wanted him to do only so that they could leave him in peace. McGonagall was the only one that disagreed with that technique.

"He is critically angry and is on the edge as it is." Dumbledore said quietly.

"Huh? What could be causing this?" Lupin asked, secretly thinking that his work was cut out for him.

"The family of his aunt is causing this." Dumbledore said quietly and then continued. "If we don't take him now, his  powers and anger that is bottled up inside of him right now will burst and I fear that it might kill everyone and everything in a couple of blocks."

"Only Voldemort is capable of doing such" Lupin said in disbelief. What was that Sirius promised Harry that the kid could hold so dear?

"Believe what you may, but heed my warning, do not anger him. Try talking to him, like McGonagall. She can communicate with him without much effort" Dumbledore said, starring at his phoenix.

"Then why don't you send her?" Lupin asked, thinking that he could be killing the death eaters off at this very moment, not getting a kid. Sure he cared about Harry, but after Harry's sixth year of Hogwarts, he doubted that Harry was as good of a wizard at heart as his parents …

"If we keep on sending her, Harry will get suspicious and isolate himself away from us. I don't want that to happen. We can't let that happen! Do you understand? Harry remembers more from his past then he lets on … that is my belief. "

"Yes professor"

End Flashback

Now Lupin stared as Harry grabbed the doorknob, preparing to leave. Nobody was exactly sure of what had happened, except of Yami who grimaced. He knew that this wasn't good and he knew that today, Harry would loose control again. You could just tell by the way the boy was breathing. He kept on gasping for air, as if what he took wasn't enough.  Harry, himself, could not believe what he had just done. He could still sense the darkness in his mind, but it was fading and with every second Harry knew that he had to get away. Away from death and sorrow. Somewhere where he wouldn't have to remember what happened in the past, somewhere where he could just rest in peace with nothing troubling him.

"Harry …" Lupin began awkwardly but Harry cut him off.

"Save it. I don't want to hear this." He snapped at his ex professor. God, to think, the day started out great for him and now this …

"Harry …"

"I said SAVE IT!" Harry screamed, rage building up and the blood in his veins boiling.

"Would Sirius want you to behave like this?" Lupin said quietly and knew that he had hit the spot when Harry's eyes saddened and he slide down the door to the ground. "He trusted Dumbledore, why can't you?"

"Because… trusting Dumbledore led him to death!" Harry shot back from his position on the ground. At that moment, Lupin wanted to say that it was Harry's fault that he believed Voldemort, Harry's fault for not listening to Dumbledore and taking Snape's courses seriously but he decided that it was better to just leave that for later because, now that Lupin finally had a normal conversation with Harry, he wanted to keep it that way.

"Harry, at the headquarters we would know that you are safe." Lupin said instead of saying what he originally intentioned to say.

"What? Is it because I am your only ticket of defeating Voldemort?" Harry asked in a mocking tone.

"WE CARE!" Lupin yelled, being tired of this dilly-dally. He watched as the son of one of his best friends lowered his eyes to the ground.

"Why can't I just stay here? I'll have no one to talk to in there …" Harry said slowly and then trailed off. Lupin, on the other hand, wanted to say that Hermione and Ron were there as well but held it back because something happened between the three and now they behaved like they didn't know each other, at least Harry and Ron did while Hermione was stuck between them though she then got into a fight with Harry as well but at least the two didn't completely ignore each other.

"Who do you have here?" Lupin asked, knowing that he was winning the argument.

"Well, I have them …" Harry gestured to Isis, Marik, Yami and Bakura who were a bit surprised. The kid sure was desperate to stay where he was. "And I have the Dursleys. It's fun to play with their heads." After saying this, Harry chuckled ever so slightly, remembering the 'Dudley Act' as he decided to call it that way. Taking Harry's distraction as an opportunity, Lupin shot Isis and the other three a quick glance, silently pleading with his eyes. Isis gave a slight nod as if understanding what Lupin meant and gave the other three a very evil glare which meant that they had to go with whatever she said or did.

"Then, why don't we take the three transfers as well? Beside, at the headquarters, the ministry can't spy us out and you can teach them a couple of simple spells to prepare them for their upcoming year at Hogwarts?" Lupin suggested merely, a big smile plastered all over his face. "Beside, I am sure they would love to come!" He added while Isis shook her head as a yes and four jaws hit the ground. The owners of those jaws were Harry, Marik, Yami and Bakura all together. Yami had a very striking suspicion that Isis wanted to get rid of them more than anything or this was some sort of punishment. Looking up at the ceiling, Yami sighed in defeated and silently asked Ra for the reason that he had to this.

"Sure" Yami said half heartedly, looking in Harry's direction as Harry smiled one of his now very rare smiles. It was small and discrete but it was an actual smile, not a forced one.          

"Then it's settled!" Lupin said merrily. Harry raised one eyebrow but stood up from the floor nevertheless.

"Come on! Moody is waiting outside." Lupin said, making his way to the door he came through. "Oh, and Isis" he said when he paused "we will fix the house a bit later"

"Don't we have to pack our stuff?" Harry asked.

"We will pack it for you, just bring your wand" Lupin said and was out of the room in no time. Now Harry knew for sure that they counted on his agreeing to come. This angered him but he tried not to show it.

"Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan" Marik wailed but Isis elbowed him and that shut everybody up and any and all complaints that were about to come with it.

While walking down the hallway, Harry thought about his three new 'friends' were forced to stay at the headquarters because of him. He didn't really want to force them but at least now he will have someone to talk to other than himself. He sighed, looking at nothing in particular as he descended down the stairs. Upstairs, however, Lupin was thanking the others countless amounts of times while Isis said that it was nothing and the boys looked grim. They always did, it was their trademark glare when they didn't like something or someone or … well, Isis didn't even want to think about it.

"What do we have to take?" Yami, being the 'brains' of the group, asked calmly while keeping eye contact with Bakura and sometimes looking at Marik who was silently pouting in the corner of the room.

"Oh, just take your wands. We will get your stuff in later … we just have to get Harry to headquarters. The accident with the Death Eaters cannot happen again." Lupin said in a rush, sprinting to the door. "Oh, and your house will be fixed just a little later because my main goal, as I already said previously, is to get Harry to the headquarters as soon as possible" he added over his shoulder to Isis and disappeared into the darkness of the hallway that Harry took.

"Tell me again the reason behind us going there?" Marik asked when the 'weird' guy left.

"I – I talked to professor Dumbledore and we both think that Harry is extremely strong" Isis stated.

"So?" Bakura asked while examining his wand. It was originally a staff that the priests used when summoning shadow monsters but he could get used to it.

"You – have to look after him, make sure he doesn't go on a rampage or … loose his sanity." Isis said and the other three laughed.

"With us, his sanity will be gone in no time Isis. Is there anything else?" Yami pried.

"No, that's all" Isis said after a short pause as if debating something. She looked at her three 'responsibilities' and sighed.

"There will be no punishment since you agreed to go freely." Isis said with a slight smirk.

"Not all of us!" Marik protested.

"Would you rather face me?" Isis asked her little brother and knew that she won the battle instantly. He may be a tough guy, but being his sister, she knew all of his weak points and embarrassing moments that she could use anytime against him.

"Come ON!" Marik said in fake cheerfulness, throwing Yami and Bakura a nervous glance. The two yamis smirked and followed, not wanting to remind Isis about what they started. This, indeed, was a very long day for all of them.

The trip to the headquarters was extremely long and boring. Harry wanted to entertain himself and out of bored he practiced his mind skills on birds that would fly beneath their group now and then. He would just stun them for a second but that was as far as he went. He needed more time and practice to be able to do a certain spell telepathically but all of his hard work and practice sometimes paid off. Sometimes, even if it was extremely rare, he could catch a word or two of what the other was thinking. What made it more interesting was that he could do that with practically anybody, except the four that he met a couple of days ago. He remembered, while starring at the roofs of the houses underneath the group of wizards that he was flying in, that once and only once had he caught a word from her thoughts, and it made no sense to him what-so-ever. 'Eye' was what he heard when he lost control back at the Private Drive. As for the other three, it was like they were impenetrable and he was really that surprised. One of them, after all, was the all feared leader of GHOULS…. 

(Lilo: aw, I wanted to add another scene into this chapter but then it was getting to long and I think that this is somewhat less of a cliffhanger than it would have been. Ah, well, wut can I possibly say?

Marikue: don't say anything. Also, plz R&R

Lilo: c ya next chapter!)