Chappie Seven. Wow, who ever thought I would get this far!
Ryou: I never did.
Kenshin: YEA!! I THOUGHT EVERYONE ELSE LEFT, RYOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ryou: v_v yeah, I kinda can't leave. I'm in this fic.T_T
Twilight Mysteries
'I don't get it.' Ryou thought to himself. 'They trust him. it's all I've wanted these last few weeks, but now that I have it. why do I feel so nervous? Is it because I don't trust him myself? Why does it feel so weird to think about this? All I've wanted is peace and trust, but now that I truly have it, why does it kill me to think that my best friends know that I truly have it? Why do I feel like I was better off with the small suspicions and the jumpy conclusions. Why?' Tears streamed down his face as he thought about this. He didn't have to worry right then about Bakura intruding on his thoughts, or calling him a wimp. They had spilt earlier so Bakura could spend some time out to the ring, and was eating dinner right now. Ryou, for the simple reason of secrecy, had skipped supper and sat in his four-poster and simply thought. He wiped his tears away.
"Cut it out!" He scolded himself aloud. Ryou laughed softly to himself. "Heh. I must be going insane." He added. He shoved these thoughts away and picked up a book he had brought along.
As he cut through the dense woods-- cut. His old wound, it had opened again!-- Kayo didn't see the fiend watching his every move-- fiend. No, Bakura could never be the old Fiend he once was, it would never happen again!! --up in the trees. He stalled for a moment, stopping to take in his surroundings. The demon took his chance and pounced!-- Demon. Those soulless, demon eyes. they overtook him, his world encased in shadows. He couldn't see, the darkness had engulfed the light, there was nothing but black all around him.
"Safe, are we Ryou?" A deep voice so unlike his own called out to him. He felt he had no other choice. He opened his mouth wide and screamed,
"BAKURA!!!"
~BAKURA!!!~ Bakura jolted with a start.
"Something's wrong." He put down everything he was eating and ran as fast as he could to the Gryffindor common room, followed quickly by Yami and Malik.
"What was that all about?" Seamus, who was seated nearby, asked Harry. Harry shook his head.
"No idea whatsoever." He answered, getting up, grabbing Ron and Hermione to follow the other three.
"Wait! Harry, we can't follow them, it could be private!" Hermione cried, but Ron was just as curious as he. Together, they managed to drag her along almost as quickly as the people ahead of them.
"Is it Ryou?" Malik gasped between breaths. Bakura nodded as he ran, and then replied a simple 'yes' upon realizing no one was looking directly at him.
"You better hope he's okay, tomb robber!" said Yami, who had no need to gasp with the energy he had built up with some of the candies at dinner.
"You've been watching me, how could I do anything to him!"
"Soul room." Yami answered simply. Bakura rolled his eyes. He would probably never get Yami off his back.
"Ryou! Ryou, are you okay!!" The three item holders burst into a room, where a not-very-pretty sight met them. Ryou, sprawled on the window seat, was covered in blood, protruding from a cavity in the chest. "No, Ryou, you can't be hurt!" He cried. Naturally, it didn't take long for Harry, Ron and Hermione to come rushing in.
"See- I told you so." Hermione panted before fainting dead.
"Two.two Ryou's?" Ron blinked a few times. Harry, on the other hand didn't seem too surprised.
"Oh. well, that explains a lot. Come on, Ron, we need to get these two to the hospital wing." Together, they scooped up Ryou, who was immediately snatched up by his twin.
"I'll take my hikari, thank you very much!" He snapped. Harry shrugged calmly, and took Hermione instead.
"Each to his own, I suppose." He muttered. "Come on, we can't let him bleed all over the place like that!" He instructed. He tested his strength and put Hermione down. "Stay here with Hermione, we'll get her later." He told Ron, and motioned for the rest to follow. "I hope you can run with him, he already could have died from blood loss. Don't worry, he's still breathing!! Here she is, I'm going to get Professor Dumbledore, he can help." He pointed to the wing, and ran off in the opposite direction.
"Pomfrey!" Bakura ordered upon entering. "Do something about this, he's going to die if he isn't already dead." He said, a mask of coldness covering his true emotions. The nurse looked at the two in confusion, but didn't bother asking any questions.
"I'll go get Isis, Bakura. You two, no bickering. You and I both know it wasn't Bakura, so cut that theory right now!" Malik sneered at Yami as he ran off.
"Professor!" Harry bust in the headmaster's door. It had taken him quite a while to figure out this year's password (jelly slugs), and didn't plan on wasting anymore time. What he saw inside almost shocked him as much as seeing Ryou's blood splattered all over the room. There appeared to be a meeting going on, including a few people he knew, but more he didn't, that included Remus Lupin, Mad-Eye Moody, almost all of his teachers, and Sirius. He wanted to greet them all, but knew he didn't have time.
"Professor Dumbledore! Ryou, well, two of them, is in big trouble! It looks like a knife wound, and I don't think anyone knows who did it." He shouted across the room, receiving a few looks from the other people. Dumbledore, however, got up with no questions and followed Harry, who was also followed by a few others, including Moody, Lupin, and a great black dog. "He was still breathing when we found him. But there was blood everywhere, it looked like he should have died twice over from blood loss. The other Ryou was howling, he snatched the first Ryou back away from me, like I would hurt him more or something. Hermione passed out, and Ron's with her." He explained as he ran along. "See!" He pointed into the hospital wing, where they could see Madam Pomfrey hunched over her patient.
"Isis, get your butt over here, I need you, Ryou needs you! Come on, I know you're in there!" Malik banged on the locked door.
"What the bloody hell are you doing! Certainly you know how to pick a lock." Malik turned around at the voice.
"Isis!" He looked as though he had never been happier to see his sister in his life. "Come on, put that stuff down, Ryou's in the hospital wing, he's out of it, and can't tell us what happened. No, it wasn't Bakura, he was down at dinner with us." He took her stuff and threw it somewhere nearby the door before dragging her along. "Please say you know where the hospital wing is, this is only my third time down there." He added pathetically.
"Now, tell us once more exactly what happened." The headmaster instructed calmly, despite the panic that rushed through the room. "And who this young man is."
"Well." Ryou started, blushing slightly from the attention. "Well, his name is Bakura." He looked to Yugi for help.
"It's a really long story." Yugi told him. "I don't know if we should tell you. Not without I- I mean, Professor Ishtar here. just in case. er, do you think you could wait a few minutes, we have to ask her if Ryou being seriously injured counts as a problem? Heh, knowing her, who knows. " He trailed off, seeing an extremely puzzled Isis being pulled along by her younger brother.
"And here she is. Isis, we got caught. should we just make them forget everything or tell?" Bakura asked in a impertinent tone. He was getting bored, with several people having seen him and not one of them in the shadow realm. Isis's eyes widened.
"FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL AND YOU ALREADY GOT CAUGHT, TOMB ROBBER!!!!" The Egyptian woman roared.
"Well, Yami here and Malik didn't contribute much to the secrecy, and technically, it wasn't my fault. Ryou was locked up in the four-poster, hiding so we didn't get caught. It doesn't really help much when something like that happens, I think it was the Witty Phantom." He said, fiddling with a pocketknife. "Besides, you and I both knew it wouldn't last long with Malik bumbling around it." This obviously didn't help much, as the girl's face went a bright red.
"Well, spill it then. Just leave me out of it, until you get to the tauk." She shrugged and sat down in a chair.
"Well," Yugi started. "It all started about. er, five thousand years ago, I believe. There was a tomb robber, an assassin, and a pharaoh. Egypt, obviously."
"They were all dark spirits." Malik added unnecessarily.
"Yes," Ryou interjected. "Anyway, there was a big war going on right then between. well everyone, really. It was over power, but if you were there, you'd know, it was over the power of the shadow realm rather that of the actual land. These three, these dark souls, were the three most powerful at the shadow games."
"Yup!" said Bakura energetically. "We could use it whenever, wherever. I'd say it was pretty useful for some of those traps. Yeah, especially Yami's dad." He paused for a possible explosion. The fact that one never came put a slight damper on his outlook, but he nonetheless continued. "Anyway, that smart pharaoh decided that the 'shadow creatures are too powerful to use! They could kill innocent people!' I believe were his words. Knowing of course, that we wouldn't put up with that, he trapped my unwilling soul in that ring around Ryou's neck, and made Marik go insane k, and trapped his own self inside that puzzle 'round the pharaoh's hikari." He managed to cut his thumb somehow, and licked the blood off. " As for the shadow games, those went inside all seven items, including random powers."
"Yeah, only Yami knows all the powers of them, but he forgot." Yugi added.
"Yes. There are seven items in all, and five of them are safe here with us. The other two belong to Shadi, and he can take care of himself." Ryou said.
"Five?" Yugi asked. Bakura rolled his eyes and dug in his pocket for the Sennen Eye, showed it to the boy, and shoved it back into it's place. "Oh."
"Marik somewhere in Malik's head. He was the assassin, if you didn't figure out. Bakura was the tomb robber, and Yami seems somewhat secluded, because he would have gotten bored in the puzzle by now." Ryou explained. "We're, I guess you could say, their light side. Two halves of a whole person."
"Anyway, what does that have to do with Ryou's injury, right? And I'm not being quiet, Yugi just didn't have the energy!" Yami split and snapped at Ryou. "Well, when Pegasus got a hold of the Sennen eye, he opened up the shadow realm again. We're working on trying to close it without a big three- soul sacrifice. Well, every once in a while, there will be a rogue or perhaps a monster on orders, that isn't particularly happy to see me. So, they attack. Doesn't matter who, to them. Ryou just happened to be the victim this time." Yami answered.
"Now, could you erase those kid's mind again, I don't want them remembering us. If you don't, I will." Bakura threatened, earning a look from Ryou. "What, I have every right to, they saw me. " He told his hikari stubbornly. Yami rolled his eyes.
"Cut it out, tomb robber. Yeah, go ahead and do that, with Harry at least. I don't think Hermione would remember anyway, and we can convince Ron it was all a dream." said Yami.
"I imagine we're pretty good at that by now, Yugi. " Ryou commented.
"Yes, I must agree. I mean, how often do three people have the same dream. And yet they still sucked it up. It was actually rather pathetic, even for Anzu."
"Heh he. lady of faith. What, three hundred attack points, it's rather pitiful." Ryou laughed softly.
"Better than a silly half-angel magic card!!" Yami defended out of nowhere.
"Watch out, Yami's getting angry." said Bakura sadistically. "No, you really should. He can like, play a batsu game on you or something. I really don't like the shadow realm, and I doubt any of you mortals could stand it for more than five minutes. Or he could 'mind crush' you. That's one of his freakier things though, cause it comes out of nowhere and hardly anyone can survive it, mm-hmm." He added, causing the hikaris to laugh harder.
"Okay, Yami, you'd best shut up." Ryou warned halfheartedly.
So, about two hours later, they managed to get Harry's mind erased, convince Ron he had to be dreaming, and bring Hermione around, who didn't remember anything anyway. Ryou had to spend the night in the hospital wing, accompanied by his Yami, who had disdainfully given up his physical form and looked slightly transparent to the few who could see him. The cut wasn't deep, but even so, he lost a lot of blood, and was forced to take a potion that tasted worse than skele-grow, a Blood-Replenishing concoction.
"Oh well." He choked after swallowing several glasses of water. "Still better than caviar." But up until then, he had felt fine. It wasn't until now that he had really thought about what had happened. It wasn't Bakura's fault. was it? Wasn't that who he was thinking about right before it had happened?
"Yami?" Ryou whispered softly. Bakura's form jolted with a start.
"You aren't asleep yet? What's the matter, you don't look too good hikari." He looked down at his light, his eyes shining with concern. Ryou smiled.
"I wish everyone could see this side of you, Bakura. But. I was wondering, Yami. well, I was thinking about you. right before it happened. And then I was reading, and I was worried that it would change again. and then it went black. and a voice. it said 'Safe, are we Ryou?'. Yami." Bakura's eyes widened.
"Aibou. I can't change the past.and I can't say I regret it all, I won't lie.. But I promise, it won't be like that again. And as for you being safe? I won't let you be hurt anymore. I promise."
"You. going to classes. in Ryou's place. that's just freaky." Malik summed up after Bakura told them.
"Well, no one else knows that Ryou's hurt. And it's not like I've been absolutely horrible at pretending to be him. I've got the accent and everything. And I've been watching him from the inside, and know how he reacts to most things. All I really have to do is sit down and shut up." said Bakura, shrugging. "Besides, it's not like Ryou was really looking forward to these classes, look, Care of Magical Creatures, Charms, he took an extra Arithmancy course, wasn't required, think I'll skip that, and Ancient Runes, whatever that is." He added, glancing at his schedule.
"I didn't take Arithmancy, sounds too much like math. We all got Ancient Runes though, Yami convinced me to. Look, quidditch tryouts, I heard about it at the Weasleys. Some sort of flying game, on brooms. You would enjoy that, Bakura. Only one open for Gryffindor, though. Keeper, whatever that is. " Yugi pointed out.
"Ryou was looking at a book called 'Quidditch Through the Ages'. A keeper blocks the goals. I may try it, it sounds pretty interesting. have to learn how to fly though." He added.
"Kaoru!" Bakura cried upon reaching Care of Magical Creatures. Seto was no longer taking classes with them, he had been moved up to the seventh years due to his age. But the rest of them had remained with the fifth years, seeing as they weren't quite as old as Kaiba. For there first Care of Magical Creatures lesson, Hagrid had somehow gotten a sphinx. And it just happened to be one that both Yami and Bakura were familiar with, as she had guarded Yami's father's tomb.
"Yeh know her?" The giant of a man asked. Bakura nodded.
"Yes, back in Egypt." He answered. Hagrid wasn't aware of the Pharaoh, nor the Tomb Robber, so he was slightly confused when the boy added, "I had to get past her a few times. rather hard riddles then."
"Say what?" He asked, slightly alarmed.
"Oh. Dumbledore didn't tell you. oops." He whispered, earning a whap from both Malik and Yami, who had taken over upon seeing the sphinx.
"I'm sure he'll explain later!!" Malik told him, dragging a somewhat dazed Bakura along.
"What'd you have to go do that for.?" Several minutes later the Slytherins arrived, and Malik hid behind the other two.
"Just use that thing you have stuck in your pocket to send a message. Say like, 'you don't know me.' or something freaky." Yami advised. Malik quickly obliged, meanwhile adding quite a few threats. Bakura laughed as he glanced over at Malik, a terrified look on his face.
"I hear Harry and his friends have trouble with him. Add that too." Bakura told him. Malik smirked as he did that as well.
"This is fun!" He commented.
"Yugi said that he'll kill you if you go through with those threats." Malik stuck his tongue out.
"Yeah, him and what army?" He sneered. It took a while for the rest of the class to arrive. Bakura had somehow managed to get in a heated threat-a- thon with one of the Slytherins whose name wasn't known. Even Malik was surprised at some of the ones he threw. Besides the obvious insinuation that his Man-Eater-Bug was in desperate need of a snack, he warned of death by whatever a bludger was, named several complicated curses that Ryou had obviously looked up, and, for good measure, sent out an illusion of a Morphing Jar. Of course, he realized he had to shut up, because everyone was staring at him in awe.
"I'll deal with you later. I have enough on my hands right now." He blew the other teen off.
"Er. all right then!" Hagrid continued the lesson.
"Ryou, you're trying out for quidditch!" Harry exclaimed when Bakura entered the quidditch field. Bakura nodded.
"Yeah, I've never played before, but I'll give it a try. It looks like fun, from what I saw." And with that, he jumped on his broom and took off. ~~Ryou. you don't mind, do you?~~ He asked at the last minute once he entered the air. He could hear Ryou sigh.
~A little late for that, don't you think? Go ahead, it's not like it really matters to me.~
"Wow, you're pretty good." He could hear Harry comment.
"Okay," A girl instructed. "Katie and I are going to be taking turns going after the goals. It'll be just like a game, so relax. Just Keep the goals, and we'll get you on that."
Bakura found this amazingly easy. With his thieving skills, it was simpler merely to take it from them than to catch it whenever they tried to toss it.
"Wow," The quidditch captain, Angelina Johnson told him. "You'd be pretty good as a seeker, too. But we've already got one of the best." She pointed to Harry. "You can probably count on hearing from us. You're the best we've seen all night!" She said excitedly. Bakura smiled, waved to Harry, and left quickly, heading for the hospital wing.
"Where are you going?" A slimy voice said from behind him. Bakura, not bothering to turn around, innocently said,
"Hospital wing." And kept on walking.
"You don't look hurt." The figure of Snape caught up and stood in front of him. Bakura pretended to look around on his body.
"Huh. Guess we'll have to fix that, won't we?" Bakura smiled, looked the professor in the eye, brought his wrist up to his mouth, and bit down. Hard. "Ah, that's better." He looked at his wrist. "See you!" He said cheerily as he skipped off, a tiny trail of blood following him. When he hopped into the hospital wing, Madam Pomfrey took a double take before realizing it was Bakura.
"Oh. He's back that way, he's been anxious all day, poor thing." She pointed to the beds in the back. Bakura nodded and moved on. Several minutes later, Snape came running in after him.
"Where'd he go!!" He demanded.
"Who?"
"That mad Bakura kid! Where is he!"
"Oh, he's back that way, but I don't know-" Snape didn't pay attention as he rushed past the nurse. He pulled back a curtain that had two shady characters behind.
"Oh, hello Professor." The one he recognized from earlier said.
"Yami!!" The other, who looked exactly like him, but somewhat less. evil, glared at the darker one. "What'd you get me into this time!! This was already the one you got thinking I was crazy!"
"Who me? Nah, you're confusing me with Malik, certainly. Professor, this is my light side, Ryou. You already know my name, I heard you yelling it up front. Bakura, no last name, just Bakura." He smiled a chibi-like smile.
Madam Pomfrey came rushing back. "Oh, I was afraid this would happen!" She cried. Bakura just smiled his little smile and went back to Ryou.
"I think you've got Keeper. We just have to teach you how to fly later. It's actually pretty easy. That was my first time on a broom, you know. It was pretty easy, I loved it. If you don't, I can take over for the games and stuff. It would be really great, you don't even have to pay attention." He told his hikari.
"Yami, there are greater matters at hand than Quidditch. Like whether or not to erase Professor Snape's mind." Ryou snapped.
"Nah, it'll be better for your teachers to know. Speaking of teachers, you should really quit Arithmancy, it's really boring. Yugi and Yami were right not to, it is a lot like the math they keep complaining about. That, and you have two years to catch up on anyway, it's a bit ridiculous to take extra classes." He kept on. Ryou resorted to simply whapping him over the head.
"Yes." Ryou muttered under his breath. "Peace and quiet. Now, cause you're a teacher and Professor Dumbledore was going to tell you soon anyway, I suggest you just accept it and let me catch up on homework, 'Kay?" Ryou winked and dove into the bag Bakura had brought with him. A muffled 'You broke three quills!' could be heard through the shuffling. Snape stared for a moment, turned and left, shaking his head.
"Yami, go get Yugi's notes, you didn't seem to take any."
Okay. I don't know if I can do the muttering in the sleep thing. but the other where moldy Voldie gets Malfoy. okay, I won't reveal just what I'll do with that yet. Don't worry, Harry, Ron, and Hermione will know sometime around Halloween. Something similar will happen- but to someone else. Ryou/Ginny coming soon!! God, I just finished chapter 7 and IT'S ONLY THEIR SECOND DAY OF SCHOOL!!!! Oh, and for those of you who have recently finished the fifth book. J.K. ROWLING IS ALMOST AS BAD AS JELL-O! I don't know if I'll kill him or not yet. But it'll be good, it would give Malik- chan a good reason to get angry and let Marik-chan out of that corner of his head.
Twilight Mysteries
'I don't get it.' Ryou thought to himself. 'They trust him. it's all I've wanted these last few weeks, but now that I have it. why do I feel so nervous? Is it because I don't trust him myself? Why does it feel so weird to think about this? All I've wanted is peace and trust, but now that I truly have it, why does it kill me to think that my best friends know that I truly have it? Why do I feel like I was better off with the small suspicions and the jumpy conclusions. Why?' Tears streamed down his face as he thought about this. He didn't have to worry right then about Bakura intruding on his thoughts, or calling him a wimp. They had spilt earlier so Bakura could spend some time out to the ring, and was eating dinner right now. Ryou, for the simple reason of secrecy, had skipped supper and sat in his four-poster and simply thought. He wiped his tears away.
"Cut it out!" He scolded himself aloud. Ryou laughed softly to himself. "Heh. I must be going insane." He added. He shoved these thoughts away and picked up a book he had brought along.
As he cut through the dense woods-- cut. His old wound, it had opened again!-- Kayo didn't see the fiend watching his every move-- fiend. No, Bakura could never be the old Fiend he once was, it would never happen again!! --up in the trees. He stalled for a moment, stopping to take in his surroundings. The demon took his chance and pounced!-- Demon. Those soulless, demon eyes. they overtook him, his world encased in shadows. He couldn't see, the darkness had engulfed the light, there was nothing but black all around him.
"Safe, are we Ryou?" A deep voice so unlike his own called out to him. He felt he had no other choice. He opened his mouth wide and screamed,
"BAKURA!!!"
~BAKURA!!!~ Bakura jolted with a start.
"Something's wrong." He put down everything he was eating and ran as fast as he could to the Gryffindor common room, followed quickly by Yami and Malik.
"What was that all about?" Seamus, who was seated nearby, asked Harry. Harry shook his head.
"No idea whatsoever." He answered, getting up, grabbing Ron and Hermione to follow the other three.
"Wait! Harry, we can't follow them, it could be private!" Hermione cried, but Ron was just as curious as he. Together, they managed to drag her along almost as quickly as the people ahead of them.
"Is it Ryou?" Malik gasped between breaths. Bakura nodded as he ran, and then replied a simple 'yes' upon realizing no one was looking directly at him.
"You better hope he's okay, tomb robber!" said Yami, who had no need to gasp with the energy he had built up with some of the candies at dinner.
"You've been watching me, how could I do anything to him!"
"Soul room." Yami answered simply. Bakura rolled his eyes. He would probably never get Yami off his back.
"Ryou! Ryou, are you okay!!" The three item holders burst into a room, where a not-very-pretty sight met them. Ryou, sprawled on the window seat, was covered in blood, protruding from a cavity in the chest. "No, Ryou, you can't be hurt!" He cried. Naturally, it didn't take long for Harry, Ron and Hermione to come rushing in.
"See- I told you so." Hermione panted before fainting dead.
"Two.two Ryou's?" Ron blinked a few times. Harry, on the other hand didn't seem too surprised.
"Oh. well, that explains a lot. Come on, Ron, we need to get these two to the hospital wing." Together, they scooped up Ryou, who was immediately snatched up by his twin.
"I'll take my hikari, thank you very much!" He snapped. Harry shrugged calmly, and took Hermione instead.
"Each to his own, I suppose." He muttered. "Come on, we can't let him bleed all over the place like that!" He instructed. He tested his strength and put Hermione down. "Stay here with Hermione, we'll get her later." He told Ron, and motioned for the rest to follow. "I hope you can run with him, he already could have died from blood loss. Don't worry, he's still breathing!! Here she is, I'm going to get Professor Dumbledore, he can help." He pointed to the wing, and ran off in the opposite direction.
"Pomfrey!" Bakura ordered upon entering. "Do something about this, he's going to die if he isn't already dead." He said, a mask of coldness covering his true emotions. The nurse looked at the two in confusion, but didn't bother asking any questions.
"I'll go get Isis, Bakura. You two, no bickering. You and I both know it wasn't Bakura, so cut that theory right now!" Malik sneered at Yami as he ran off.
"Professor!" Harry bust in the headmaster's door. It had taken him quite a while to figure out this year's password (jelly slugs), and didn't plan on wasting anymore time. What he saw inside almost shocked him as much as seeing Ryou's blood splattered all over the room. There appeared to be a meeting going on, including a few people he knew, but more he didn't, that included Remus Lupin, Mad-Eye Moody, almost all of his teachers, and Sirius. He wanted to greet them all, but knew he didn't have time.
"Professor Dumbledore! Ryou, well, two of them, is in big trouble! It looks like a knife wound, and I don't think anyone knows who did it." He shouted across the room, receiving a few looks from the other people. Dumbledore, however, got up with no questions and followed Harry, who was also followed by a few others, including Moody, Lupin, and a great black dog. "He was still breathing when we found him. But there was blood everywhere, it looked like he should have died twice over from blood loss. The other Ryou was howling, he snatched the first Ryou back away from me, like I would hurt him more or something. Hermione passed out, and Ron's with her." He explained as he ran along. "See!" He pointed into the hospital wing, where they could see Madam Pomfrey hunched over her patient.
"Isis, get your butt over here, I need you, Ryou needs you! Come on, I know you're in there!" Malik banged on the locked door.
"What the bloody hell are you doing! Certainly you know how to pick a lock." Malik turned around at the voice.
"Isis!" He looked as though he had never been happier to see his sister in his life. "Come on, put that stuff down, Ryou's in the hospital wing, he's out of it, and can't tell us what happened. No, it wasn't Bakura, he was down at dinner with us." He took her stuff and threw it somewhere nearby the door before dragging her along. "Please say you know where the hospital wing is, this is only my third time down there." He added pathetically.
"Now, tell us once more exactly what happened." The headmaster instructed calmly, despite the panic that rushed through the room. "And who this young man is."
"Well." Ryou started, blushing slightly from the attention. "Well, his name is Bakura." He looked to Yugi for help.
"It's a really long story." Yugi told him. "I don't know if we should tell you. Not without I- I mean, Professor Ishtar here. just in case. er, do you think you could wait a few minutes, we have to ask her if Ryou being seriously injured counts as a problem? Heh, knowing her, who knows. " He trailed off, seeing an extremely puzzled Isis being pulled along by her younger brother.
"And here she is. Isis, we got caught. should we just make them forget everything or tell?" Bakura asked in a impertinent tone. He was getting bored, with several people having seen him and not one of them in the shadow realm. Isis's eyes widened.
"FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL AND YOU ALREADY GOT CAUGHT, TOMB ROBBER!!!!" The Egyptian woman roared.
"Well, Yami here and Malik didn't contribute much to the secrecy, and technically, it wasn't my fault. Ryou was locked up in the four-poster, hiding so we didn't get caught. It doesn't really help much when something like that happens, I think it was the Witty Phantom." He said, fiddling with a pocketknife. "Besides, you and I both knew it wouldn't last long with Malik bumbling around it." This obviously didn't help much, as the girl's face went a bright red.
"Well, spill it then. Just leave me out of it, until you get to the tauk." She shrugged and sat down in a chair.
"Well," Yugi started. "It all started about. er, five thousand years ago, I believe. There was a tomb robber, an assassin, and a pharaoh. Egypt, obviously."
"They were all dark spirits." Malik added unnecessarily.
"Yes," Ryou interjected. "Anyway, there was a big war going on right then between. well everyone, really. It was over power, but if you were there, you'd know, it was over the power of the shadow realm rather that of the actual land. These three, these dark souls, were the three most powerful at the shadow games."
"Yup!" said Bakura energetically. "We could use it whenever, wherever. I'd say it was pretty useful for some of those traps. Yeah, especially Yami's dad." He paused for a possible explosion. The fact that one never came put a slight damper on his outlook, but he nonetheless continued. "Anyway, that smart pharaoh decided that the 'shadow creatures are too powerful to use! They could kill innocent people!' I believe were his words. Knowing of course, that we wouldn't put up with that, he trapped my unwilling soul in that ring around Ryou's neck, and made Marik go insane k, and trapped his own self inside that puzzle 'round the pharaoh's hikari." He managed to cut his thumb somehow, and licked the blood off. " As for the shadow games, those went inside all seven items, including random powers."
"Yeah, only Yami knows all the powers of them, but he forgot." Yugi added.
"Yes. There are seven items in all, and five of them are safe here with us. The other two belong to Shadi, and he can take care of himself." Ryou said.
"Five?" Yugi asked. Bakura rolled his eyes and dug in his pocket for the Sennen Eye, showed it to the boy, and shoved it back into it's place. "Oh."
"Marik somewhere in Malik's head. He was the assassin, if you didn't figure out. Bakura was the tomb robber, and Yami seems somewhat secluded, because he would have gotten bored in the puzzle by now." Ryou explained. "We're, I guess you could say, their light side. Two halves of a whole person."
"Anyway, what does that have to do with Ryou's injury, right? And I'm not being quiet, Yugi just didn't have the energy!" Yami split and snapped at Ryou. "Well, when Pegasus got a hold of the Sennen eye, he opened up the shadow realm again. We're working on trying to close it without a big three- soul sacrifice. Well, every once in a while, there will be a rogue or perhaps a monster on orders, that isn't particularly happy to see me. So, they attack. Doesn't matter who, to them. Ryou just happened to be the victim this time." Yami answered.
"Now, could you erase those kid's mind again, I don't want them remembering us. If you don't, I will." Bakura threatened, earning a look from Ryou. "What, I have every right to, they saw me. " He told his hikari stubbornly. Yami rolled his eyes.
"Cut it out, tomb robber. Yeah, go ahead and do that, with Harry at least. I don't think Hermione would remember anyway, and we can convince Ron it was all a dream." said Yami.
"I imagine we're pretty good at that by now, Yugi. " Ryou commented.
"Yes, I must agree. I mean, how often do three people have the same dream. And yet they still sucked it up. It was actually rather pathetic, even for Anzu."
"Heh he. lady of faith. What, three hundred attack points, it's rather pitiful." Ryou laughed softly.
"Better than a silly half-angel magic card!!" Yami defended out of nowhere.
"Watch out, Yami's getting angry." said Bakura sadistically. "No, you really should. He can like, play a batsu game on you or something. I really don't like the shadow realm, and I doubt any of you mortals could stand it for more than five minutes. Or he could 'mind crush' you. That's one of his freakier things though, cause it comes out of nowhere and hardly anyone can survive it, mm-hmm." He added, causing the hikaris to laugh harder.
"Okay, Yami, you'd best shut up." Ryou warned halfheartedly.
So, about two hours later, they managed to get Harry's mind erased, convince Ron he had to be dreaming, and bring Hermione around, who didn't remember anything anyway. Ryou had to spend the night in the hospital wing, accompanied by his Yami, who had disdainfully given up his physical form and looked slightly transparent to the few who could see him. The cut wasn't deep, but even so, he lost a lot of blood, and was forced to take a potion that tasted worse than skele-grow, a Blood-Replenishing concoction.
"Oh well." He choked after swallowing several glasses of water. "Still better than caviar." But up until then, he had felt fine. It wasn't until now that he had really thought about what had happened. It wasn't Bakura's fault. was it? Wasn't that who he was thinking about right before it had happened?
"Yami?" Ryou whispered softly. Bakura's form jolted with a start.
"You aren't asleep yet? What's the matter, you don't look too good hikari." He looked down at his light, his eyes shining with concern. Ryou smiled.
"I wish everyone could see this side of you, Bakura. But. I was wondering, Yami. well, I was thinking about you. right before it happened. And then I was reading, and I was worried that it would change again. and then it went black. and a voice. it said 'Safe, are we Ryou?'. Yami." Bakura's eyes widened.
"Aibou. I can't change the past.and I can't say I regret it all, I won't lie.. But I promise, it won't be like that again. And as for you being safe? I won't let you be hurt anymore. I promise."
"You. going to classes. in Ryou's place. that's just freaky." Malik summed up after Bakura told them.
"Well, no one else knows that Ryou's hurt. And it's not like I've been absolutely horrible at pretending to be him. I've got the accent and everything. And I've been watching him from the inside, and know how he reacts to most things. All I really have to do is sit down and shut up." said Bakura, shrugging. "Besides, it's not like Ryou was really looking forward to these classes, look, Care of Magical Creatures, Charms, he took an extra Arithmancy course, wasn't required, think I'll skip that, and Ancient Runes, whatever that is." He added, glancing at his schedule.
"I didn't take Arithmancy, sounds too much like math. We all got Ancient Runes though, Yami convinced me to. Look, quidditch tryouts, I heard about it at the Weasleys. Some sort of flying game, on brooms. You would enjoy that, Bakura. Only one open for Gryffindor, though. Keeper, whatever that is. " Yugi pointed out.
"Ryou was looking at a book called 'Quidditch Through the Ages'. A keeper blocks the goals. I may try it, it sounds pretty interesting. have to learn how to fly though." He added.
"Kaoru!" Bakura cried upon reaching Care of Magical Creatures. Seto was no longer taking classes with them, he had been moved up to the seventh years due to his age. But the rest of them had remained with the fifth years, seeing as they weren't quite as old as Kaiba. For there first Care of Magical Creatures lesson, Hagrid had somehow gotten a sphinx. And it just happened to be one that both Yami and Bakura were familiar with, as she had guarded Yami's father's tomb.
"Yeh know her?" The giant of a man asked. Bakura nodded.
"Yes, back in Egypt." He answered. Hagrid wasn't aware of the Pharaoh, nor the Tomb Robber, so he was slightly confused when the boy added, "I had to get past her a few times. rather hard riddles then."
"Say what?" He asked, slightly alarmed.
"Oh. Dumbledore didn't tell you. oops." He whispered, earning a whap from both Malik and Yami, who had taken over upon seeing the sphinx.
"I'm sure he'll explain later!!" Malik told him, dragging a somewhat dazed Bakura along.
"What'd you have to go do that for.?" Several minutes later the Slytherins arrived, and Malik hid behind the other two.
"Just use that thing you have stuck in your pocket to send a message. Say like, 'you don't know me.' or something freaky." Yami advised. Malik quickly obliged, meanwhile adding quite a few threats. Bakura laughed as he glanced over at Malik, a terrified look on his face.
"I hear Harry and his friends have trouble with him. Add that too." Bakura told him. Malik smirked as he did that as well.
"This is fun!" He commented.
"Yugi said that he'll kill you if you go through with those threats." Malik stuck his tongue out.
"Yeah, him and what army?" He sneered. It took a while for the rest of the class to arrive. Bakura had somehow managed to get in a heated threat-a- thon with one of the Slytherins whose name wasn't known. Even Malik was surprised at some of the ones he threw. Besides the obvious insinuation that his Man-Eater-Bug was in desperate need of a snack, he warned of death by whatever a bludger was, named several complicated curses that Ryou had obviously looked up, and, for good measure, sent out an illusion of a Morphing Jar. Of course, he realized he had to shut up, because everyone was staring at him in awe.
"I'll deal with you later. I have enough on my hands right now." He blew the other teen off.
"Er. all right then!" Hagrid continued the lesson.
"Ryou, you're trying out for quidditch!" Harry exclaimed when Bakura entered the quidditch field. Bakura nodded.
"Yeah, I've never played before, but I'll give it a try. It looks like fun, from what I saw." And with that, he jumped on his broom and took off. ~~Ryou. you don't mind, do you?~~ He asked at the last minute once he entered the air. He could hear Ryou sigh.
~A little late for that, don't you think? Go ahead, it's not like it really matters to me.~
"Wow, you're pretty good." He could hear Harry comment.
"Okay," A girl instructed. "Katie and I are going to be taking turns going after the goals. It'll be just like a game, so relax. Just Keep the goals, and we'll get you on that."
Bakura found this amazingly easy. With his thieving skills, it was simpler merely to take it from them than to catch it whenever they tried to toss it.
"Wow," The quidditch captain, Angelina Johnson told him. "You'd be pretty good as a seeker, too. But we've already got one of the best." She pointed to Harry. "You can probably count on hearing from us. You're the best we've seen all night!" She said excitedly. Bakura smiled, waved to Harry, and left quickly, heading for the hospital wing.
"Where are you going?" A slimy voice said from behind him. Bakura, not bothering to turn around, innocently said,
"Hospital wing." And kept on walking.
"You don't look hurt." The figure of Snape caught up and stood in front of him. Bakura pretended to look around on his body.
"Huh. Guess we'll have to fix that, won't we?" Bakura smiled, looked the professor in the eye, brought his wrist up to his mouth, and bit down. Hard. "Ah, that's better." He looked at his wrist. "See you!" He said cheerily as he skipped off, a tiny trail of blood following him. When he hopped into the hospital wing, Madam Pomfrey took a double take before realizing it was Bakura.
"Oh. He's back that way, he's been anxious all day, poor thing." She pointed to the beds in the back. Bakura nodded and moved on. Several minutes later, Snape came running in after him.
"Where'd he go!!" He demanded.
"Who?"
"That mad Bakura kid! Where is he!"
"Oh, he's back that way, but I don't know-" Snape didn't pay attention as he rushed past the nurse. He pulled back a curtain that had two shady characters behind.
"Oh, hello Professor." The one he recognized from earlier said.
"Yami!!" The other, who looked exactly like him, but somewhat less. evil, glared at the darker one. "What'd you get me into this time!! This was already the one you got thinking I was crazy!"
"Who me? Nah, you're confusing me with Malik, certainly. Professor, this is my light side, Ryou. You already know my name, I heard you yelling it up front. Bakura, no last name, just Bakura." He smiled a chibi-like smile.
Madam Pomfrey came rushing back. "Oh, I was afraid this would happen!" She cried. Bakura just smiled his little smile and went back to Ryou.
"I think you've got Keeper. We just have to teach you how to fly later. It's actually pretty easy. That was my first time on a broom, you know. It was pretty easy, I loved it. If you don't, I can take over for the games and stuff. It would be really great, you don't even have to pay attention." He told his hikari.
"Yami, there are greater matters at hand than Quidditch. Like whether or not to erase Professor Snape's mind." Ryou snapped.
"Nah, it'll be better for your teachers to know. Speaking of teachers, you should really quit Arithmancy, it's really boring. Yugi and Yami were right not to, it is a lot like the math they keep complaining about. That, and you have two years to catch up on anyway, it's a bit ridiculous to take extra classes." He kept on. Ryou resorted to simply whapping him over the head.
"Yes." Ryou muttered under his breath. "Peace and quiet. Now, cause you're a teacher and Professor Dumbledore was going to tell you soon anyway, I suggest you just accept it and let me catch up on homework, 'Kay?" Ryou winked and dove into the bag Bakura had brought with him. A muffled 'You broke three quills!' could be heard through the shuffling. Snape stared for a moment, turned and left, shaking his head.
"Yami, go get Yugi's notes, you didn't seem to take any."
Okay. I don't know if I can do the muttering in the sleep thing. but the other where moldy Voldie gets Malfoy. okay, I won't reveal just what I'll do with that yet. Don't worry, Harry, Ron, and Hermione will know sometime around Halloween. Something similar will happen- but to someone else. Ryou/Ginny coming soon!! God, I just finished chapter 7 and IT'S ONLY THEIR SECOND DAY OF SCHOOL!!!! Oh, and for those of you who have recently finished the fifth book. J.K. ROWLING IS ALMOST AS BAD AS JELL-O! I don't know if I'll kill him or not yet. But it'll be good, it would give Malik- chan a good reason to get angry and let Marik-chan out of that corner of his head.