I didn't say this last chapter, but this is Ryou/Bakura centered. No
romance yet, though. I'm loosely considering some fluff with Ginny, though.
*laughs evilly* Oh, and if you reviewed me, and I didn't give a response,
then it's not my fault! I just haven't checked my email for the last three
weeks. Anyway, a lot of it may have a bit of shounen-ai fluffiness, so if
you don't like it, either get over it or stop reading! Until the end of
this chapter, ja ne!
"Hello, how nice of you to join us, Ginny." Mrs. Weasley said coldly. "I'm sorry, Mrs. Weasley, she and I were talking and I think I might have made her a bit upset. I'm sorry. " Ryou stood up and apologized. Ginny nodded once. "Yes." She agreed as she sat down. Malik was just ignoring everything in sight except for the food, whish he was scarfing down quicker than Jounouchi or Honda would. Noticing this, Ryou whispered something quietly in Arabic. "Yugi, Ginny saw Bakura." Yugi choked on his food. "WHAT!!" He exclaimed, his mouth still stuffed with mashed potatoes. Ryou nodded fervently. "Yeah, well, don't let the whole world know." Ryou said sarcastically. "But what if she tells someone?" Yugi asked, alarmed. "Well, I don't think she will, she was threatened." Ryou answered calmly. "I don't know. what if she does? I mean, she doesn't seem the type to really care about threats if she thinks it's dangerous." Ryou rolled his eyes. "Is that your line or Yami's." Yugi laughed a bit. "It was pretty lame. We'll talk later, when Malik isn't absorbed in his food." He said with a slight grimace on his face. "So tell me," Mr. Weasley asked once he saw the two boys were done talking. "How did you get from Japan to England?" Harry smiled. "It was an airplane." Ryou answered. "An aero-plane? I've heard of those, the kind that fly?" Ryou smiled. "Yeah." "Just like a broom, dad." Said Ron.
"Where's Ginny?" Ron asked curiously. He hadn't seen her since dinner, and considering Harry was here, that was amazing. "I haven't seen her. Have you checked outside?" Fred said uninterested. Ron sighed. "Fred, can you keep a secret?" Fred thought for a moment. "No." He finally answered truthfully. Ron rolled his eyes and went back upstairs to talk to Harry instead. As he walked into the room, he saw Harry sitting on the bed, his face as though he was arguing with himself. "Harry, anyone home?" Harry blinked a few times before answering. "No, I'm at Hermione's house. It's a lovely place, really." He said sarcastically. "Ron just rolled his eyes for the second time in the last five minutes. "You know your cousin, that Ryou kid?" Harry nodded. "Don't you think it's a bit weird, that they didn't send you to live with them. From what I see, he's a better cousin than Dudley would ever be." Harry took a deep breath. "That's what I was thinking about. But, from what I heard the other day back at the Dursleys kind of made me think too." Ron raised his eyebrows. "Yes?" "He was talking to himself. Well, more yelling at himself. But there were two different voices, a nicer one, and a more vicious one too. It was scary, the evil voice was threatening the light." Harry replied, a bit hasty. "And what do you think of the other two. They already know one another, and they're constantly talking in some odd language to each other." Harry asked Ron. "It's Arabic, I heard it when we went to see Bill in Egypt. I'm just trying to figure out where they learned it."
"Ryou Thomas Bakura! Where in the world did that bruise come from?" Yugi accused, pointing to a bruise on Ryou's left shoulder. Ryou glared at Yugi, knowing what he was assuming. "It was a cookbook, as if it matters to you!" He answered hotly. "Okay, okay, sorry!" Yugi held up his hands. "I have a reason." Ryou sighed. "I'm just tired of being jumped at every time I get a little scratch, okay!" Malik frowned. "Well, you wouldn't have to deal with it if you didn't try to keep what he does to you a secret." He pointed out. "But he doesn't do anything to me! Not anymore, anyway, so just cut it out!" Ryou cried. "Okay, whatever, now what's this about Ginny?" Malik got to the point. "Ginny knows about Bakura, that's all. Bakura already threatened her with the shadow realm, though, so I really don't think we'll have a problem." Yugi explained. "And if we do?" Malik inquired. "We can't send her to the shadow realm, what will anyone have to do with an empty shell?" He went on. Yami split from Yugi. "Well, as I see it, we could teach her to wash dishes and send her to Egypt." Yugi rolled his own eyes. "Stick to the present, Yami." Ryou frowned. "Well, I really don't think we have anything to worry about. She blabs, we'll just convince whoever she told that she was lying. How many people will believe that there are two souls in one body?" He asked. "But we don't know that much about this place! What if it's like, a sign of evil or something? What if they think we're possessed by ghosts or something?" Yugi pointed out. "Well, technically it would be true." Malik said. "Not helping!" Ryou and Yugi told him at the same time. "What about telling her how important it is? It might help." Yami suggested. Ryou sighed. "I already told her a bit. I said she could talk to the two of you if she wanted, but no one else." Malik yawned. "Why don't you go get her, then. Right now would be a perfect opportunity." He recommended.
"Ryou?" Harry called timidly when he saw the white haired boy walking down the stairs. Bakura, who had just split from Ryou to go get Ginny, screwed up his voice and his face before turning around. "Yes?" He copied his hikari's voice perfectly. "Have you seen Ginny? We've been looking for her." He asked. "Actually, I'm going looking for her right now. Yugi and Malik need to meet her." He said, being careful not to say 'Ryou'. "Okay," Harry said. "Just let her know we were looking for her." Bakura nodded.
"Ginny, oh Ginny. 'Kura is getting impatient here." Bakura hummed. "Oh, hello." Ginny looked up from her little hiding spot under a tree. Bakura's eyes brightened when he saw the small hut. It reminded him of something else. "Ryou and the other hikaris want you." He said, still looking around the getaway. "Okay." She replied calmly as she put down the book she was reading and led Bakura back up the stairs. "How did you find me? Not even Fred and George have found me there." She asked casually. Bakura cringed at the memory of constantly getting Ryou out hiding. "Experience, I guess." He answered lamely as he held the door open for her.
"Ah, if it isn't the oh so famous Ginny Weasley." Yami half-sneered half smiled, making Ginny nervous. "Yugi has another half too?" She asked Ryou. Yugi nodded for him. "We all think it's important for you to know why they're here." Yami said. Ryou pulled his ring out from under his shirt, and Yugi simply took his puzzle off. Ginny looked amazed as she put her hand out to touch it. "Look, but don't touch. I'm not responsible for what happens whenever someone pisses him off." He said quite frankly. Ginny giggled, looking at the serious Yugi look-alike in comparison to the innocent-looking real Yugi. "I'll keep that in mind." She said as she sat down next to Ryou on the bed, making Bakura glare. He picked her up and sat in between the two. "My hikari." He mumbled. Yugi laughed, knowing that Yami probably would have done the same thing. "So what is it you wanted to tell me?" She asked. Yami looked somewhat surprised that she was so calm. "Uh." He started. "You see, it's really complicated. but uh. well, you see, there are two of us, except for Malik because first of all, his Yami is a murderer, and secondly, because he's in a different situation than the two of us." Bakura cut him off. "Blah, blah, blah, ya da, ya da, ya da. Anyway, what this excuse of a pharaoh is trying to say is that we're five thousand years old, and have been sealed in the millennium items until Ryou and Yugi freed us by being destined or whatever for the items. Yugi, though, only has one." He smirked at Yami. "I, on the other hand, have two." He took the millennium eye out from his pocket. "Hey!" Ryou yelled. "I was by no means aware that he stole that, so don't blame me." He said, more to Yami and Yugi than to Ginny, who he was looking at. "Now, now, Ryou. Certainly you didn't think that I would pass up the opportunity for a perfectly good Sennen Eye!" Ryou rolled his eyes. "Whatever, hand it over." Bakura pouted as he gave it to his light, who stuffed it in his backpack. "You just wait till Isis gets a hold of this one!" Malik sighed. "She probably already knows." He said as though it were the most obvious thing in the world. "Anyway, for the sake of the thief and the overprotective pharaoh over there, I will now explain further. You see, five thousand years ago, Bakura over here was a tomb raider, and Yami there was pharaoh of all Egypt." He explained. "You see, times then were tough. Not only was Egypt in economical terror, a place called the shadow realm was wreaking havoc everywhere. Back then, according to Isis anyway, there was a thing called shadow games. Only certain people could ever play them, though, because it required an incredible amount of spirit energy. In other words, you pretty much had to be destined to play. Anyway, thanks to a certain high priest, the games had to be sealed away in the seven millennium items." He passed the mental baton to Ryou. "Yeah, and Yami had to give up his soul. So did Bakura, somehow, but he might have already been dead, not even Isis knows. But anyway, my dad gave me the ring, and Yugi's grandpa gave him the puzzle, which he solved, which was incredibly amazing because it hadn't been solved in five thousand years. Get it?" Ginny's eyes widened. "What other powers do those items have?" Yugi thought for a moment. "Well, my puzzle allows either me or Yami to play a batsu-game on any person we please. But if we lose. well, we're destroyed and sent to the shadow realm. And Ryou's ring points to whatever he's looking for, whether it be a person or a thing or just a place. And he can send anyone he wishes straight to the shadow realm. And Malik's millennium rod can take over a mind." Malik held up his item. "Anyway, someone finds out, and we could be in great danger. I don't know how many death threats I've had from people trying to get their grubby hands on this puzzle." Ginny thought for a moment. "And Professor Dumbledore?' She asked. "We will tell Dumbledore-sensei, of course." Yami said. Ginny smiled.
"Yami's hyper." Yugi commented sadly as he sat down for breakfast that morning, making Malik giggle like crazy. "Coffee is a perfectly normal drink, Yami." He quoted Yugi from earlier. "Poor Ryou, he had coffee last night too. can you just imagine how much energy Bakura's using up?! He must be horrible to share a body with." Yugi shook his head in mock pity before bursting out in laughter. "Don't you hate the time change? It's three am, and we're on a coffee high. We're pathetic." Malik yawned. "Yup." Yugi replied as he took another sip of coffee. "What are you two doing up so early?" Ryou asked as he walked downstairs. "Time change." They replied in unison. "Go ahead and let Yami out. No one will be up for another three hours at least." Ryou suggested. "You look like he's using up a lot of energy inside you." Yugi shook his head. "He's a new Seto now. A coffee addict." He explained. "So are you two, I see." He said, acknowledging the almost empty coffee can. "Why not, this stuff is good!" Malik exclaimed. Ryou sat down at the table in between the two. "Ryou, your hair!" Yugi eyes widened. "It's blue! I mean, in the front it isn't, but in the back. it's bright blue!" Ryou nodded. "Yeah, I know. I just didn't feel like waking up Fred and George. Yami 'll convince 'em later though. Told him he could, but just this once. Can't let him get out of hand. again." He laughed softly before sinking completely into thought. ~~What are you doing up at this ungodly hour!! What's more, why in the world am I awake!~~ Ryou smiled inwardly. ~I don't know, why don't you go back to sleep then.~ Bakura growled. ~~But I'm hungry!~~ He answered pathetically. Ryou laughed out loud. "What joke did I miss?" Yugi questioned sleepily. ~Eat then!~ He laughed as he walked into his soul room, leaving Bakura in control. "Oh, hello." Malik yawned as he downed another cup of coffee. "Food." Bakura focused on the pantry. He opened it and looked through the random cartons of some sort of wizard foods. "Finally! NORMAL FOOD!!" He cackled as he tore open a box of Cheerios and seemed to eat it all in one swallow. "Mm." He said before his 'horns' and other features softened. "Why do I suddenly feel like throwing up?" He asked before running straight to the bathroom. Malik just shrugged before making another cup of coffee.
"Wow. I like Ryou." Fred said to George, staring at their own new hairstyles. It was now longish, like Ryou's own, but more multicolored with random streaks of orange, black, pink, and blue all through their normally red hair. Needless to say to all you Ryou fans out there, it wasn't Ryou who had done this, but rather Bakura, who had looked through all their stuff to find the dyes, but not leaving a trace that he had been there. To Fred and George, it was sheer brilliance, but to their mother.
"FRED!!! GEORGE!!!" Mrs. Weasley yelled up the stairs after one glance at Ryou, who couldn't help but giggle at the twin's new hair, even though he knew it was wrong. "Yeah, mum?" They said innocently. Mrs. Weasley's face turned an odd shade of lavender. "No, really, it's okay, Mrs. Weasley. I actually like it. In fact, I practically asked for it, considering I did theirs first. It was only fair that they got me back." Ryou covered, giving her his best cute chibi smile. Mrs. Weasley calmed down a bit. "Well, I guess as long as you don't mind. but I swear, boys, one more incident like this and I'll set Percy on you!!" (A/N: Sorry, I just hate Percy. can't blame me though, he's perfect! *runs off sulking*) Fred and George winked at Ryou, motioning him along to their 'lab', which was actually just their closet. "How'd you find the dyes? And how'd you get our hair longer?" They asked. Ryou just smiled. "Just a bit of magic of my own." He grinned as he left. "Oh, and thanks for the laugh. I don't think I've ever seen Yugi Muto get so worked up at three am."
"Harry, I'm still a bit worried about those three foreigners. They seem to drive one another nuts constantly, and yet they're really secretive around each other. And that one Malik. Well, from the way his sister was talking to him, it seemed he was like in the wrong crowd. 'Just remember, keep your temper' I remember Bill saying that in Arabic, that's how I understood it. And she said Pharaoh several times, but that doesn't make sense either. Do you get any of it?" Ron took a deep breath, considering he had said all that in two breaths. Harry shook his head. "Maybe we should ask Professor Dumbledore when we get to Hogwarts." He suggested. "Or Hermione." He added.
"Who what?" Malik asked, extremely confused why Mr. Weasley was holding up a flowerpot of bright green sand. Harry explained. "It's Floo powder. Not my favorite way of traveling, but, hey, it normally works. All you have to do is take a bit of powder, yell wherever your going into the fireplace, toss it in and then just step in." Malik blinked a few times. "I'm a tomb guarder, not a coal walker." He said blandly. Ryou hit him upside the head. "You won't be either of those if you don't shut up and do what he says." He hissed inside his ear. Yugi just sighed and watched the battle commence between the two. actually, three, but nobody else knew that, so the numbers really didn't matter. The two twins went first, then Ron, then Harry, and then."Uh.are you sure they didn't just burn up?" Mrs. Weasley laughed. "No, of course not dear. Just be careful to say the name right, and don't hit the walls." She advised. Malik took a bit of the powder, tossed it carefully into the fireplace, and watched it turn an emerald green before stepping cautiously in and yelling quickly 'Diagon Alley!' .. and came out in the wrong place. He simply knew that Isis would by no means allow him here, no matter the circumstances. He brushed soot off him, and before he knew it, "BUFF!!!" Ryou had landed in the same place right behind him. "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." Ryou quoted after standing up and looking around. "Or England, for that matter." He said after a second glance. Noticing the horrid sights all around them, Bakura naturally got excited and took over. ~Oh, sure you can take over!~ Bakura smiled. ~~Ah, so this is the hikari way..~~ "Hi, Bakura, quit talking and let's move! Oh, if Isis sees this.." Malik started mumbling. Meanwhile, Bakura was going window shopping. He stopped at nearly every musty window, searching for that something he knew Ryou would never let him have. He finally saw it. It was a shop of thieving, and there were all sorts of different gadgets he could use at this 'Hogwarts' place. He grabbed Malik by the back of his shirt. "Look." He pointed at the display of different sorts of knives and daggers. He, being a obsessed tomb robber, literally dragged a cursing Malik inside. "See! Look! It's so small, I could use it and Ryou wouldn't even know I have it! Where's your money, I need money, you got money?" He asked excitedly. Malik rolled his eyes. "I don't know, you're the guy with the gold." He murmured. "Well, then, help me steal it!!" He whispered, as he stuffed it into his pocket and simply left with absolutely no complications. Malik just followed him, knowing he didn't have much of a choice. 'Isis is going to *KILL* me' Was what rebounded inside his head. "Okay, baka, we have to go before Yami comes running in here screaming something about his father's grave." He dragged Bakura along, looking for anything that could possibly be familiar. Or at least friendly. Being the klutz that he was, he ran straight into a man with long, greasy black hair. Bakura snapped right up. "What do you think you're playing at!!" He yelled right at Malik's face. "It was so kind of you to interrupt a rather important conversation! Do you know how hard it is to hide things from him! I had just gotten him back to sleep, too!" The black-haired man stared at the two, one of them screaming their head off in some sort of mad state. The blonde rolled his eyes. "Well, gee, tell the whole world!! Oh, god I am so dead!! I'm sorry sir, I'm just looking for Diagon alley. We used some sort of crazy powder and ended up in the wrong place!" The man nodded once, and motioned for them to follow. "What just happened?" Ryou had regained control, and was not aware of his surroundings. Malik pointed frantically at the man. Ryou nodded and went back into his state of unconsciousness. "Is he mentally unstable or something?" The man asked warily. Malik grimaced. "Only half the time." He answered before rushing off into the obvious madness of Diagon Alley.
"Malik! Ryou! Thank god you didn't screw up too much!" Yugi ran up to the two boys frantically. "Uh. you see, there you're wrong." Yugi sweat dropped. "Tomb robber?" Malik nodded. "You take him, I'm tired." He tossed Ryou to Yugi, who amazingly caught him and set him down on a bench. "Uggh. Isis is going to kill me!" Malik whined. "Don't worry about it." Yugi comforted. "Ryou! Malik!! Thank goodness you didn't get too far off!" Mrs. Weasley came running up, followed by the rest of the Weasleys, Harry, and a bushy-haired girl they didn't know. "Oh dear. Ryou, are you alright?" She waved a hand in front of the boy's unblinking face. "He's okay. we just had a bit of a shock. We landed in a big gloomy place, real dark. Didn't seem like a school supplies place, so I had to carry him out of there. Apparently, he wasn't ready for something like floo powder. " Malik covered creatively. Harry laughed. "Same thing happened to me first time I tried it. Landed in Knockturn Alley. Creepy place." He told them. "That was the place." Malik replied. "Cool!" Fred and George said at the same time. Ryou, for some odd reason, took this opportunity to wake up. "What. Malik, what happened?" He asked. "I don't know, ask him!" He answered in Arabic. Ryou rolled his eyes. "How much did he get?" Malik shook his head. "I don't know, ask him!" He said more strongly. Ryou sighed. "Money?" He asked. Malik eyes went red. "I SAID I DON'T KNOW!!!!!!" He yelled, making Yugi laugh. "Know what?" The girl with the brown hair asked. "Oh great. she speaks Arabic!" Malik said exasperatedly. "Oh, um, Malik, Ryou, this is Hermione." Harry introduced. Ryou smiled and waved, but Malik just sat and sulked. "He's mad because he thinks his sister is about to kill him." Ryou explained. "And because you speak Arabic. He hates it when anybody has something above him. Don't be surprised if he decides to set some mad animal on you." Hermione's face went white. Ryou laughed. "Just kidding! He's a very lovable brat, when he's not sure he's going to be killed, and especially by Isis, I sure feel sorry for him." Hermione raised an eyebrow. "Isis? The Egyptian goddess of Magic?" She asked curiously. "No, actually, the new defense against the dark arts teacher." Ron interrupted. "I know, Professor Ishtar will certainly be a change." Said Yugi, who was also rather nervous about Hermione knowing Arabic. "Okay, we'll go ahead and split up. You six can go together, Fred, George, you can see if you can find Lee and go off, but not a step down Knockturn alley, and we can all meet up at Flourish and Blotts in two and a half hours." Mrs. Weasley cut in and ordered. Ryou looked around for a moment. "What about Ginny?" Ginny blinked. This was the first time someone worried about her. "Can she come with us?" Mrs. Weasley thought for a moment. "Well, I suppose." She said after a minute of consideration.
"So, Yugi, what's that triangle pyramid thing around your neck?" The ever curious Hermione wondered. Yugi blushed and put a hand behind his head. "Well, actually, it's a puzzle." He was cut off. "I knew it! It's the Millennium Puzzle!" Yugi's eyes widened. How in the world did Hermione know that!?!? "Uh. yeah, how'd you know? Normally, you don't know that unless you're a collector." He hinted. "Oh, don't worry, I'm not. Are you? I've heard all sorts of legends about those. I went to Bulgaria over the summer, you know, and a little after my parents picked me up we went to Egypt. Anyway, I saw a picture of it in a set in a museum. Someone else there had one, I think it was called a tauk." For once, she was stopped short. "Oh, god! Now, I am absolutely positive I'm dead!!! Isis, if you can hear this, tell Rishid to close down the museum, that if 'Kura over here hears one more thing, he'll hop on the next plane back to Egypt and dig up the tomb again!!" He yelled out loud. " 'Kura over here is about ready to kill Ishtar over there!" Ryou hissed. Yugi sighed. "You two, cut it out!!! If you don't, I'll hop on the next plane back to Japan, and drag you two with me! Either that, or I'll shut you up myself!!" He shouted, at the end of his rope. The other four simply watched the three get into a huge screaming match. Finally, Ginny decided to pull the three apart. "OKAY NOW!!! IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP THOSE THREE OVER THERE WILL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT LEAVE AND TRY TO IGNORE THE MADNESS!!!" This got the three boys quiet. Ryou blinked a few times. "Is that.Mokuba?" Yugi and Malik turned to see the black haired boy, quickly followed by an obviously exhausted Seto. Malik shook his head. "Oh no." He said as Mokuba spotted them. "Yugi! Ryou! Malik! Malik, where's Isis? Or Rishid, I'm surprised they left you with these two to handle as well, gee what a job, what with." He was cut off by his older brother. "Mokuba, let's leave them to themselves, we have more things to get." Of course, being cut off by his brother was not uncommon, so by now he was practically immune to it. But Seto, on the other hand, would probably never be able to handle Mokuba's ultimate-super-puppy-eyes!!! (Learned from the puppy himself!!) (Who learned it from Yugi ^_^) Knowing this, all Mokuba had to do was give him those ultra-sweet eyes to do the job. "Oh, alright!!!" Seto answered frustrated. No one noticed, though, that Mokuba wasn't the only one giving him eyes. Hermione was already getting something out for him to autograph. "Seto Kaiba? *The* Seto Kaiba?" She murmured to Harry. Ryou, who was learning certain skills from Bakura quickly, overheard this. "Yeah, it's the guy I see everyday exchanging insults with Yugi. Big deal." He turned around and whispered to Hermione. "The two are like, arch- rivals. If you ever see Yu-Yu Hakusho, then you'd see the little Urameshi / Kuwabara thing going on. Kaiba's the anti-hero, while Yugi normally saves the day. or the world, in a few cases." He glared at Malik, who shrugged innocently and replied, "Who, me?" Ryou glared. "Yeah you!!" Of course, this started a whole new fight, and with the added fury of Seto and Mokuba, it came out into an all-out fistfight. "You know, and those three don't really seem the fighting type." Ron commented as he sat down on the nearest bench.
(note: Yes, it was Ryou who started the fight, but Bakura who ended up ending it. I just like to put Ryou in different situations and see how people react. Thanks for being my guinea pigs! *hands out Ryou plushies* )
Yeah!!! ____ words!! I rule!! Go me, go me!! Aritagou to everyone who waited so long for me to update. I'll try to update quickly, but I've got so many ideas, and I can't stuff them all in one chapter. You'll have to wait for the Flourish and Blotts disaster plan!! And for why in the world Seto and Mokuba are here. as if it isn't the most obvious thing in the world!! I have a habit of getting all depressed when I don't get any reviews, so if you want me to continue, PRESS THE PRETTY LITTLE PURPLE BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, yeah, and enjoy!!
"Hello, how nice of you to join us, Ginny." Mrs. Weasley said coldly. "I'm sorry, Mrs. Weasley, she and I were talking and I think I might have made her a bit upset. I'm sorry. " Ryou stood up and apologized. Ginny nodded once. "Yes." She agreed as she sat down. Malik was just ignoring everything in sight except for the food, whish he was scarfing down quicker than Jounouchi or Honda would. Noticing this, Ryou whispered something quietly in Arabic. "Yugi, Ginny saw Bakura." Yugi choked on his food. "WHAT!!" He exclaimed, his mouth still stuffed with mashed potatoes. Ryou nodded fervently. "Yeah, well, don't let the whole world know." Ryou said sarcastically. "But what if she tells someone?" Yugi asked, alarmed. "Well, I don't think she will, she was threatened." Ryou answered calmly. "I don't know. what if she does? I mean, she doesn't seem the type to really care about threats if she thinks it's dangerous." Ryou rolled his eyes. "Is that your line or Yami's." Yugi laughed a bit. "It was pretty lame. We'll talk later, when Malik isn't absorbed in his food." He said with a slight grimace on his face. "So tell me," Mr. Weasley asked once he saw the two boys were done talking. "How did you get from Japan to England?" Harry smiled. "It was an airplane." Ryou answered. "An aero-plane? I've heard of those, the kind that fly?" Ryou smiled. "Yeah." "Just like a broom, dad." Said Ron.
"Where's Ginny?" Ron asked curiously. He hadn't seen her since dinner, and considering Harry was here, that was amazing. "I haven't seen her. Have you checked outside?" Fred said uninterested. Ron sighed. "Fred, can you keep a secret?" Fred thought for a moment. "No." He finally answered truthfully. Ron rolled his eyes and went back upstairs to talk to Harry instead. As he walked into the room, he saw Harry sitting on the bed, his face as though he was arguing with himself. "Harry, anyone home?" Harry blinked a few times before answering. "No, I'm at Hermione's house. It's a lovely place, really." He said sarcastically. "Ron just rolled his eyes for the second time in the last five minutes. "You know your cousin, that Ryou kid?" Harry nodded. "Don't you think it's a bit weird, that they didn't send you to live with them. From what I see, he's a better cousin than Dudley would ever be." Harry took a deep breath. "That's what I was thinking about. But, from what I heard the other day back at the Dursleys kind of made me think too." Ron raised his eyebrows. "Yes?" "He was talking to himself. Well, more yelling at himself. But there were two different voices, a nicer one, and a more vicious one too. It was scary, the evil voice was threatening the light." Harry replied, a bit hasty. "And what do you think of the other two. They already know one another, and they're constantly talking in some odd language to each other." Harry asked Ron. "It's Arabic, I heard it when we went to see Bill in Egypt. I'm just trying to figure out where they learned it."
"Ryou Thomas Bakura! Where in the world did that bruise come from?" Yugi accused, pointing to a bruise on Ryou's left shoulder. Ryou glared at Yugi, knowing what he was assuming. "It was a cookbook, as if it matters to you!" He answered hotly. "Okay, okay, sorry!" Yugi held up his hands. "I have a reason." Ryou sighed. "I'm just tired of being jumped at every time I get a little scratch, okay!" Malik frowned. "Well, you wouldn't have to deal with it if you didn't try to keep what he does to you a secret." He pointed out. "But he doesn't do anything to me! Not anymore, anyway, so just cut it out!" Ryou cried. "Okay, whatever, now what's this about Ginny?" Malik got to the point. "Ginny knows about Bakura, that's all. Bakura already threatened her with the shadow realm, though, so I really don't think we'll have a problem." Yugi explained. "And if we do?" Malik inquired. "We can't send her to the shadow realm, what will anyone have to do with an empty shell?" He went on. Yami split from Yugi. "Well, as I see it, we could teach her to wash dishes and send her to Egypt." Yugi rolled his own eyes. "Stick to the present, Yami." Ryou frowned. "Well, I really don't think we have anything to worry about. She blabs, we'll just convince whoever she told that she was lying. How many people will believe that there are two souls in one body?" He asked. "But we don't know that much about this place! What if it's like, a sign of evil or something? What if they think we're possessed by ghosts or something?" Yugi pointed out. "Well, technically it would be true." Malik said. "Not helping!" Ryou and Yugi told him at the same time. "What about telling her how important it is? It might help." Yami suggested. Ryou sighed. "I already told her a bit. I said she could talk to the two of you if she wanted, but no one else." Malik yawned. "Why don't you go get her, then. Right now would be a perfect opportunity." He recommended.
"Ryou?" Harry called timidly when he saw the white haired boy walking down the stairs. Bakura, who had just split from Ryou to go get Ginny, screwed up his voice and his face before turning around. "Yes?" He copied his hikari's voice perfectly. "Have you seen Ginny? We've been looking for her." He asked. "Actually, I'm going looking for her right now. Yugi and Malik need to meet her." He said, being careful not to say 'Ryou'. "Okay," Harry said. "Just let her know we were looking for her." Bakura nodded.
"Ginny, oh Ginny. 'Kura is getting impatient here." Bakura hummed. "Oh, hello." Ginny looked up from her little hiding spot under a tree. Bakura's eyes brightened when he saw the small hut. It reminded him of something else. "Ryou and the other hikaris want you." He said, still looking around the getaway. "Okay." She replied calmly as she put down the book she was reading and led Bakura back up the stairs. "How did you find me? Not even Fred and George have found me there." She asked casually. Bakura cringed at the memory of constantly getting Ryou out hiding. "Experience, I guess." He answered lamely as he held the door open for her.
"Ah, if it isn't the oh so famous Ginny Weasley." Yami half-sneered half smiled, making Ginny nervous. "Yugi has another half too?" She asked Ryou. Yugi nodded for him. "We all think it's important for you to know why they're here." Yami said. Ryou pulled his ring out from under his shirt, and Yugi simply took his puzzle off. Ginny looked amazed as she put her hand out to touch it. "Look, but don't touch. I'm not responsible for what happens whenever someone pisses him off." He said quite frankly. Ginny giggled, looking at the serious Yugi look-alike in comparison to the innocent-looking real Yugi. "I'll keep that in mind." She said as she sat down next to Ryou on the bed, making Bakura glare. He picked her up and sat in between the two. "My hikari." He mumbled. Yugi laughed, knowing that Yami probably would have done the same thing. "So what is it you wanted to tell me?" She asked. Yami looked somewhat surprised that she was so calm. "Uh." He started. "You see, it's really complicated. but uh. well, you see, there are two of us, except for Malik because first of all, his Yami is a murderer, and secondly, because he's in a different situation than the two of us." Bakura cut him off. "Blah, blah, blah, ya da, ya da, ya da. Anyway, what this excuse of a pharaoh is trying to say is that we're five thousand years old, and have been sealed in the millennium items until Ryou and Yugi freed us by being destined or whatever for the items. Yugi, though, only has one." He smirked at Yami. "I, on the other hand, have two." He took the millennium eye out from his pocket. "Hey!" Ryou yelled. "I was by no means aware that he stole that, so don't blame me." He said, more to Yami and Yugi than to Ginny, who he was looking at. "Now, now, Ryou. Certainly you didn't think that I would pass up the opportunity for a perfectly good Sennen Eye!" Ryou rolled his eyes. "Whatever, hand it over." Bakura pouted as he gave it to his light, who stuffed it in his backpack. "You just wait till Isis gets a hold of this one!" Malik sighed. "She probably already knows." He said as though it were the most obvious thing in the world. "Anyway, for the sake of the thief and the overprotective pharaoh over there, I will now explain further. You see, five thousand years ago, Bakura over here was a tomb raider, and Yami there was pharaoh of all Egypt." He explained. "You see, times then were tough. Not only was Egypt in economical terror, a place called the shadow realm was wreaking havoc everywhere. Back then, according to Isis anyway, there was a thing called shadow games. Only certain people could ever play them, though, because it required an incredible amount of spirit energy. In other words, you pretty much had to be destined to play. Anyway, thanks to a certain high priest, the games had to be sealed away in the seven millennium items." He passed the mental baton to Ryou. "Yeah, and Yami had to give up his soul. So did Bakura, somehow, but he might have already been dead, not even Isis knows. But anyway, my dad gave me the ring, and Yugi's grandpa gave him the puzzle, which he solved, which was incredibly amazing because it hadn't been solved in five thousand years. Get it?" Ginny's eyes widened. "What other powers do those items have?" Yugi thought for a moment. "Well, my puzzle allows either me or Yami to play a batsu-game on any person we please. But if we lose. well, we're destroyed and sent to the shadow realm. And Ryou's ring points to whatever he's looking for, whether it be a person or a thing or just a place. And he can send anyone he wishes straight to the shadow realm. And Malik's millennium rod can take over a mind." Malik held up his item. "Anyway, someone finds out, and we could be in great danger. I don't know how many death threats I've had from people trying to get their grubby hands on this puzzle." Ginny thought for a moment. "And Professor Dumbledore?' She asked. "We will tell Dumbledore-sensei, of course." Yami said. Ginny smiled.
"Yami's hyper." Yugi commented sadly as he sat down for breakfast that morning, making Malik giggle like crazy. "Coffee is a perfectly normal drink, Yami." He quoted Yugi from earlier. "Poor Ryou, he had coffee last night too. can you just imagine how much energy Bakura's using up?! He must be horrible to share a body with." Yugi shook his head in mock pity before bursting out in laughter. "Don't you hate the time change? It's three am, and we're on a coffee high. We're pathetic." Malik yawned. "Yup." Yugi replied as he took another sip of coffee. "What are you two doing up so early?" Ryou asked as he walked downstairs. "Time change." They replied in unison. "Go ahead and let Yami out. No one will be up for another three hours at least." Ryou suggested. "You look like he's using up a lot of energy inside you." Yugi shook his head. "He's a new Seto now. A coffee addict." He explained. "So are you two, I see." He said, acknowledging the almost empty coffee can. "Why not, this stuff is good!" Malik exclaimed. Ryou sat down at the table in between the two. "Ryou, your hair!" Yugi eyes widened. "It's blue! I mean, in the front it isn't, but in the back. it's bright blue!" Ryou nodded. "Yeah, I know. I just didn't feel like waking up Fred and George. Yami 'll convince 'em later though. Told him he could, but just this once. Can't let him get out of hand. again." He laughed softly before sinking completely into thought. ~~What are you doing up at this ungodly hour!! What's more, why in the world am I awake!~~ Ryou smiled inwardly. ~I don't know, why don't you go back to sleep then.~ Bakura growled. ~~But I'm hungry!~~ He answered pathetically. Ryou laughed out loud. "What joke did I miss?" Yugi questioned sleepily. ~Eat then!~ He laughed as he walked into his soul room, leaving Bakura in control. "Oh, hello." Malik yawned as he downed another cup of coffee. "Food." Bakura focused on the pantry. He opened it and looked through the random cartons of some sort of wizard foods. "Finally! NORMAL FOOD!!" He cackled as he tore open a box of Cheerios and seemed to eat it all in one swallow. "Mm." He said before his 'horns' and other features softened. "Why do I suddenly feel like throwing up?" He asked before running straight to the bathroom. Malik just shrugged before making another cup of coffee.
"Wow. I like Ryou." Fred said to George, staring at their own new hairstyles. It was now longish, like Ryou's own, but more multicolored with random streaks of orange, black, pink, and blue all through their normally red hair. Needless to say to all you Ryou fans out there, it wasn't Ryou who had done this, but rather Bakura, who had looked through all their stuff to find the dyes, but not leaving a trace that he had been there. To Fred and George, it was sheer brilliance, but to their mother.
"FRED!!! GEORGE!!!" Mrs. Weasley yelled up the stairs after one glance at Ryou, who couldn't help but giggle at the twin's new hair, even though he knew it was wrong. "Yeah, mum?" They said innocently. Mrs. Weasley's face turned an odd shade of lavender. "No, really, it's okay, Mrs. Weasley. I actually like it. In fact, I practically asked for it, considering I did theirs first. It was only fair that they got me back." Ryou covered, giving her his best cute chibi smile. Mrs. Weasley calmed down a bit. "Well, I guess as long as you don't mind. but I swear, boys, one more incident like this and I'll set Percy on you!!" (A/N: Sorry, I just hate Percy. can't blame me though, he's perfect! *runs off sulking*) Fred and George winked at Ryou, motioning him along to their 'lab', which was actually just their closet. "How'd you find the dyes? And how'd you get our hair longer?" They asked. Ryou just smiled. "Just a bit of magic of my own." He grinned as he left. "Oh, and thanks for the laugh. I don't think I've ever seen Yugi Muto get so worked up at three am."
"Harry, I'm still a bit worried about those three foreigners. They seem to drive one another nuts constantly, and yet they're really secretive around each other. And that one Malik. Well, from the way his sister was talking to him, it seemed he was like in the wrong crowd. 'Just remember, keep your temper' I remember Bill saying that in Arabic, that's how I understood it. And she said Pharaoh several times, but that doesn't make sense either. Do you get any of it?" Ron took a deep breath, considering he had said all that in two breaths. Harry shook his head. "Maybe we should ask Professor Dumbledore when we get to Hogwarts." He suggested. "Or Hermione." He added.
"Who what?" Malik asked, extremely confused why Mr. Weasley was holding up a flowerpot of bright green sand. Harry explained. "It's Floo powder. Not my favorite way of traveling, but, hey, it normally works. All you have to do is take a bit of powder, yell wherever your going into the fireplace, toss it in and then just step in." Malik blinked a few times. "I'm a tomb guarder, not a coal walker." He said blandly. Ryou hit him upside the head. "You won't be either of those if you don't shut up and do what he says." He hissed inside his ear. Yugi just sighed and watched the battle commence between the two. actually, three, but nobody else knew that, so the numbers really didn't matter. The two twins went first, then Ron, then Harry, and then."Uh.are you sure they didn't just burn up?" Mrs. Weasley laughed. "No, of course not dear. Just be careful to say the name right, and don't hit the walls." She advised. Malik took a bit of the powder, tossed it carefully into the fireplace, and watched it turn an emerald green before stepping cautiously in and yelling quickly 'Diagon Alley!' .. and came out in the wrong place. He simply knew that Isis would by no means allow him here, no matter the circumstances. He brushed soot off him, and before he knew it, "BUFF!!!" Ryou had landed in the same place right behind him. "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore." Ryou quoted after standing up and looking around. "Or England, for that matter." He said after a second glance. Noticing the horrid sights all around them, Bakura naturally got excited and took over. ~Oh, sure you can take over!~ Bakura smiled. ~~Ah, so this is the hikari way..~~ "Hi, Bakura, quit talking and let's move! Oh, if Isis sees this.." Malik started mumbling. Meanwhile, Bakura was going window shopping. He stopped at nearly every musty window, searching for that something he knew Ryou would never let him have. He finally saw it. It was a shop of thieving, and there were all sorts of different gadgets he could use at this 'Hogwarts' place. He grabbed Malik by the back of his shirt. "Look." He pointed at the display of different sorts of knives and daggers. He, being a obsessed tomb robber, literally dragged a cursing Malik inside. "See! Look! It's so small, I could use it and Ryou wouldn't even know I have it! Where's your money, I need money, you got money?" He asked excitedly. Malik rolled his eyes. "I don't know, you're the guy with the gold." He murmured. "Well, then, help me steal it!!" He whispered, as he stuffed it into his pocket and simply left with absolutely no complications. Malik just followed him, knowing he didn't have much of a choice. 'Isis is going to *KILL* me' Was what rebounded inside his head. "Okay, baka, we have to go before Yami comes running in here screaming something about his father's grave." He dragged Bakura along, looking for anything that could possibly be familiar. Or at least friendly. Being the klutz that he was, he ran straight into a man with long, greasy black hair. Bakura snapped right up. "What do you think you're playing at!!" He yelled right at Malik's face. "It was so kind of you to interrupt a rather important conversation! Do you know how hard it is to hide things from him! I had just gotten him back to sleep, too!" The black-haired man stared at the two, one of them screaming their head off in some sort of mad state. The blonde rolled his eyes. "Well, gee, tell the whole world!! Oh, god I am so dead!! I'm sorry sir, I'm just looking for Diagon alley. We used some sort of crazy powder and ended up in the wrong place!" The man nodded once, and motioned for them to follow. "What just happened?" Ryou had regained control, and was not aware of his surroundings. Malik pointed frantically at the man. Ryou nodded and went back into his state of unconsciousness. "Is he mentally unstable or something?" The man asked warily. Malik grimaced. "Only half the time." He answered before rushing off into the obvious madness of Diagon Alley.
"Malik! Ryou! Thank god you didn't screw up too much!" Yugi ran up to the two boys frantically. "Uh. you see, there you're wrong." Yugi sweat dropped. "Tomb robber?" Malik nodded. "You take him, I'm tired." He tossed Ryou to Yugi, who amazingly caught him and set him down on a bench. "Uggh. Isis is going to kill me!" Malik whined. "Don't worry about it." Yugi comforted. "Ryou! Malik!! Thank goodness you didn't get too far off!" Mrs. Weasley came running up, followed by the rest of the Weasleys, Harry, and a bushy-haired girl they didn't know. "Oh dear. Ryou, are you alright?" She waved a hand in front of the boy's unblinking face. "He's okay. we just had a bit of a shock. We landed in a big gloomy place, real dark. Didn't seem like a school supplies place, so I had to carry him out of there. Apparently, he wasn't ready for something like floo powder. " Malik covered creatively. Harry laughed. "Same thing happened to me first time I tried it. Landed in Knockturn Alley. Creepy place." He told them. "That was the place." Malik replied. "Cool!" Fred and George said at the same time. Ryou, for some odd reason, took this opportunity to wake up. "What. Malik, what happened?" He asked. "I don't know, ask him!" He answered in Arabic. Ryou rolled his eyes. "How much did he get?" Malik shook his head. "I don't know, ask him!" He said more strongly. Ryou sighed. "Money?" He asked. Malik eyes went red. "I SAID I DON'T KNOW!!!!!!" He yelled, making Yugi laugh. "Know what?" The girl with the brown hair asked. "Oh great. she speaks Arabic!" Malik said exasperatedly. "Oh, um, Malik, Ryou, this is Hermione." Harry introduced. Ryou smiled and waved, but Malik just sat and sulked. "He's mad because he thinks his sister is about to kill him." Ryou explained. "And because you speak Arabic. He hates it when anybody has something above him. Don't be surprised if he decides to set some mad animal on you." Hermione's face went white. Ryou laughed. "Just kidding! He's a very lovable brat, when he's not sure he's going to be killed, and especially by Isis, I sure feel sorry for him." Hermione raised an eyebrow. "Isis? The Egyptian goddess of Magic?" She asked curiously. "No, actually, the new defense against the dark arts teacher." Ron interrupted. "I know, Professor Ishtar will certainly be a change." Said Yugi, who was also rather nervous about Hermione knowing Arabic. "Okay, we'll go ahead and split up. You six can go together, Fred, George, you can see if you can find Lee and go off, but not a step down Knockturn alley, and we can all meet up at Flourish and Blotts in two and a half hours." Mrs. Weasley cut in and ordered. Ryou looked around for a moment. "What about Ginny?" Ginny blinked. This was the first time someone worried about her. "Can she come with us?" Mrs. Weasley thought for a moment. "Well, I suppose." She said after a minute of consideration.
"So, Yugi, what's that triangle pyramid thing around your neck?" The ever curious Hermione wondered. Yugi blushed and put a hand behind his head. "Well, actually, it's a puzzle." He was cut off. "I knew it! It's the Millennium Puzzle!" Yugi's eyes widened. How in the world did Hermione know that!?!? "Uh. yeah, how'd you know? Normally, you don't know that unless you're a collector." He hinted. "Oh, don't worry, I'm not. Are you? I've heard all sorts of legends about those. I went to Bulgaria over the summer, you know, and a little after my parents picked me up we went to Egypt. Anyway, I saw a picture of it in a set in a museum. Someone else there had one, I think it was called a tauk." For once, she was stopped short. "Oh, god! Now, I am absolutely positive I'm dead!!! Isis, if you can hear this, tell Rishid to close down the museum, that if 'Kura over here hears one more thing, he'll hop on the next plane back to Egypt and dig up the tomb again!!" He yelled out loud. " 'Kura over here is about ready to kill Ishtar over there!" Ryou hissed. Yugi sighed. "You two, cut it out!!! If you don't, I'll hop on the next plane back to Japan, and drag you two with me! Either that, or I'll shut you up myself!!" He shouted, at the end of his rope. The other four simply watched the three get into a huge screaming match. Finally, Ginny decided to pull the three apart. "OKAY NOW!!! IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP THOSE THREE OVER THERE WILL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT LEAVE AND TRY TO IGNORE THE MADNESS!!!" This got the three boys quiet. Ryou blinked a few times. "Is that.Mokuba?" Yugi and Malik turned to see the black haired boy, quickly followed by an obviously exhausted Seto. Malik shook his head. "Oh no." He said as Mokuba spotted them. "Yugi! Ryou! Malik! Malik, where's Isis? Or Rishid, I'm surprised they left you with these two to handle as well, gee what a job, what with." He was cut off by his older brother. "Mokuba, let's leave them to themselves, we have more things to get." Of course, being cut off by his brother was not uncommon, so by now he was practically immune to it. But Seto, on the other hand, would probably never be able to handle Mokuba's ultimate-super-puppy-eyes!!! (Learned from the puppy himself!!) (Who learned it from Yugi ^_^) Knowing this, all Mokuba had to do was give him those ultra-sweet eyes to do the job. "Oh, alright!!!" Seto answered frustrated. No one noticed, though, that Mokuba wasn't the only one giving him eyes. Hermione was already getting something out for him to autograph. "Seto Kaiba? *The* Seto Kaiba?" She murmured to Harry. Ryou, who was learning certain skills from Bakura quickly, overheard this. "Yeah, it's the guy I see everyday exchanging insults with Yugi. Big deal." He turned around and whispered to Hermione. "The two are like, arch- rivals. If you ever see Yu-Yu Hakusho, then you'd see the little Urameshi / Kuwabara thing going on. Kaiba's the anti-hero, while Yugi normally saves the day. or the world, in a few cases." He glared at Malik, who shrugged innocently and replied, "Who, me?" Ryou glared. "Yeah you!!" Of course, this started a whole new fight, and with the added fury of Seto and Mokuba, it came out into an all-out fistfight. "You know, and those three don't really seem the fighting type." Ron commented as he sat down on the nearest bench.
(note: Yes, it was Ryou who started the fight, but Bakura who ended up ending it. I just like to put Ryou in different situations and see how people react. Thanks for being my guinea pigs! *hands out Ryou plushies* )
Yeah!!! ____ words!! I rule!! Go me, go me!! Aritagou to everyone who waited so long for me to update. I'll try to update quickly, but I've got so many ideas, and I can't stuff them all in one chapter. You'll have to wait for the Flourish and Blotts disaster plan!! And for why in the world Seto and Mokuba are here. as if it isn't the most obvious thing in the world!! I have a habit of getting all depressed when I don't get any reviews, so if you want me to continue, PRESS THE PRETTY LITTLE PURPLE BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, yeah, and enjoy!!