Souma Ran

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The Truth About Him:

Vernon's face turned red. 'There's no Harry Potter here!', he growled and slammed the door in their faces. Shigure turned to Hatori.

'What did he say?'

'I don't know. You're the one with the book,' came the blunt reply.

'Oh yeah', Shigure started to check the book when Harry came into their view. 'Ask.' It was not a request. Shigure pouted and gave him a 'why me?' look but went up to him anyway. He repeated what he had said to Vernon to Harry.

He just blinked and gave him a blank look. Shigure was getting nervous and was on the edge of forgetting the whole thing and go back when Harry nodded and pointed to himself. Question marks appeared above Shigure's head. Hatori watched the scene unfold and sighed. 'Idiot', he thought. 'He's Harry Potter, you dote', he said. Shigure's lips moulded itself into an 'O'.

'Can you cun (come) with us?', Harry gave him that look again and nodded.

After half an hour of cab (15 minutes of which the driver was trying to make out what the 2 were saying), almost an hour of the duo's failed attempts to communicate with the airport staff and Harry just watching them from his position from the pole with his arms crossed and a faint amused smirk on his face and several hours of flight, the trio have finally reached Japan where a limosine was waiting for them.

As Hatori drove to the Main House, Shigure, who sat next to the cursed dragon, said to him, 'it was creept, that look he gave me. It's like he can look through me and read my mind.' Hatori didn't comment. He understood what Shigure is on about. The look on his face was, for the lack of better word, unnerving and it reminded Hatori forcefully of the Yuki before that girl came along.

Before long, the have reached the Main House. Hatori motioned Harry to follow them and they walked to Akito's room. Inside, Akito gave them his most unpleasant smile and waved them out. If Harry had found the smile just like Severus Snape's, he didn't show it.

'Hello Harry, I am Souma Akito, Head of the Souma Family. How have you been? Has life been good?', Akito asked in a drawling voice once Harry had sitted. The translator in the room translated it and Harry shook his head to both questions. Akito smirked knowingly.

'No? Well then, would you like to know why?' Not giving Harry a chance to answer, he continued, 'Let me tell you something, Harry. Your real name is Souma Ran and you are, like the idiots I call family, cursed.' The emotionless look on Harry remained. 'That fool of a father took you to England 16 years ago and left you with those useless fools who couldn't keep themselves alive. He placed a, what do you can it? A Glamour Charm was it? Anyway, he got himself killed after admitting what he did with you. Stupid fool who didn't understand the situation. No Souma can escape the fate of being cursed.' He paused. Appearance-wise, Ran (from now on I'll refer to Harry as Ran) was expressionless, but inside, he thought that Akito had overused the word 'fool'.

Akito continued with the unpleasant sneer of his. 'Your curse is different from the rest. Every generation, one will be blessed with the ability to do magic but cursed with the fate of a horrible life should that person love or care. This generation, it's you.' He stood up and faced the window where his bird flew around freely.

'Nothing and noone can break the curse so don't hope for a way to break it.' Then, he changed the subject as he turned to face Ran with his smirk. 'You will stay at Shigure's and attend Yuki's, Kyou's, Momiji's and Haru's high school, Kaibawa (or was it Kaibara?) High School. But after you have graduated, you will stay here.' With that he and the translator, after translating the last sentence in English, left the room, leaving Ran to his thoughts as he tried to took all the new information in.

End of Chapter

A/N - Yes everyone, I am still alive. Sorry for not updating for so long and sorry for forgetting to do the disclaimers the last 2 chapters. I have written an extra paragragh for this chapter as I had missed a point which Neo Koneko-chan had kindly pointed out to me. For those who were confused like him/her as to how the 3 can drive to the Main House which is in Japan when they are in England, the paragraph should help you understand.