Nez: This chapter introduces the character of... -dramatic drum roll- ZANBATO!

Zan: -hops up and down like excited schoolgirl- Really?!?!?!

Nez: Yes. You were there when I wrote it you baka.

Zan: -revelation- Ohhh... yeah... that's right... cool.

Nez: Just don't take anything in here too personally.

Zan: -reads fic over- That is going to be very hard. –punches Nez-

Part Six: Enter the Zanbato

Later that Christmas Day, Sirius, Nehszriah, Fish-chan and Remus were hanging out in the common room. James and Peter had left; preferring dueling with Peeves the Poltergeist rather than be around the combinations of Remus with Nehszriah and Fish-chan with Sirius. (He, of course, had also wished to leave, but Fish-chan wouldn't allow it. ) They were all sitting about like bumps on a log, when the Muffin Laptop beeped again. (Yes, it has been dubbed "The Muffin Laptop". You don't like it, tough salami. Like it, kudos to you.)

"This better not be your bloody friends again," Sirius grumbled as he tossed Nehszriah the computer. She opened it to a huge scream of "SIS!!!"

"Hello Zan. How are you?" she growled with the most irritated look she could muster. This was her younger brother Zanbato, whom she found to be highly annoying at times. (Zan: I'm also the co-author! Nez: Shut up, muse. –bops over head-)

"How ya doin' Nez?" he said happily. Remus looked over into the screen to find a gangly boy of about thirteen with shaggy, dirty-blonde, bed-head ridden hair and scratched glasses. He seemed rater oblivious to the fact that the girls from before were right behind him, timing every precious second he took up on their sacred computer.

"Alright, I guess. Why are you talking to me? Can't I have some time to myself half a world away or is that too difficult of a concept for you to grasp yet?" Large tic marks started to form on her forehead and right fist. Remus backed away slowly (at the discretions of Sirius, Fish-chan and himself of course.)

"Well all of your alone time lately has been spent with Remus, so I don't know what your talking about," Sirius grumbled. Nehszriah shot him the death glare and he recoiled in fear.

"What was that?" Zanbato asked. "Is someone else there? I wanna see! Hello!?!?!?!"

Fish-chan dragged Sirius over towards the camera and waved.

"HIIIIIIIIIIIIII ZAN!!!!!!!" she yelled. Sirius just kept his "Help me get away from this psycho freak" look on, which seemed to get through to Zanbato.

"Fish-chan, please let go of him for a second," Zan requested. Sirius caught his breath, whispered "Invisoti", turned invisible and ran out the portrait hole to find James and Peter.

"ZAN! What'd you do that for?" Fish-chan yelled as she ran out of the common room, Maraurder Map in hand, yelling for her Sirius to come back.

"Heh... poor chap. She's been stalking him for quite some time now. Thought she'd never let go until bedtime," Remus sighed.

"Well, he had the "Help me get away from this psycho freak" look on so I decided to help.

"This stupid map's busted," a flustered Fish-chan grumbled as she stomped into the common room. "It says that some black dog that one of the Ravenclaw students has is my Sirius. Not fair."

Remus and Nehszriah just looked at her and giggled.

"What?"

"Sirius is an Animagi. He can change into a black dog. The dog with that Ravenclaw boy is Sirius."

Fish-chan raced out, clutching the map.

"Neat. He can do that?" Zanbato asked as soon as Fish-chan left.

"Yep. He's been able to do that since third year."

"Cool." –mutters- "Heheheh... that's revenge for taking my seat..."

"You're still holding a grudge about that stupid movie? Get over it. It was your own fault anyway," Nehszriah snapped angrily.

"Sis," Zanbato asked sheepishly as the Muffins were getting ready to boot him off. "How long are you going to stay there? I miss writing stuff with you."

"Probably longer that you obviously would like. –sighs- Can I go now?"

Zanbato's head sunk and muttered a low "Yeah."

-laptop slams shut-

"Now that was rude," Remus commented. "I wanted to talk to him. He seemed like an interesting kid."

"Oh, he's a kid alright, that Zan. More of a kid than you can imagine," Nehszriah sighed. She looked around the room and stood up and faced the young werewolf. "We're all alone. We're all alone in the common room." A smile crept across her face and then Remus's.

-SLAM-

James, Peter, Fish-chan and Peeves burst in through the common room door in this big, huge mess. James and Peter were still dueling and Sirius had taken to joining in on the duel every few seconds and then scuttling to a different spot in the room to avoid Fish-chan and the Japanese Ai Potion that she nicked off Nehszriah.

Nehszriah and Remus could only stand there and angrily watch their friends ruin the moment with the horrible timing that they had been 'blessed' with.

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