Number 12 Grimmauld place

As the world solidified around him Sirius heard screaming coming from right to his left- his mother? - No the screams were masculine to a certain extent. Covering his ears he opened his eyes to find yet another strange youth in close proximity and screaming at Bakura. Bakura on the other hand had settled back into a pose much like that he had had when he took Sirius to the Buckingham palace, staring calmly into the fiery red eyes of his adversary.

"And how are you pharaoh?" Bakura asked calmly sarcastic as the wordless tirade came to a screeching stop to collect air.

"You've turned up to kill everyone, haven't you?!" this new youth accused, his body rigid.

"Come on, get serious Yami." Bakura muttered. "Why in the world would I do that?" Sirius had to agree with this, but this Yami character looked like he didn't believe a word of it.

"Sirius?" this came as a gasp from the direction of the doorway as yet another onlooker fainted. Harry, no doubt attracted by all the screaming –who wouldn't be?- had promptly fainted upon site of his supposedly dead godfather.

"I really think you need your friends' blood tested." Bakura commented over Yami's shoulder. "This is, after all, the second person who has fainted on site of you."

"Harry doesn't have weak blood!" Yami protested. "He is actually very noble for a mortal." He added.

Bakura simply rolled his eyes. "Not another victim to add to your hero complex?!" he added with a groan. "This habit of saving everyone is getting on my nerves."

"Just about everything about me gets on your nerves." Yami pointed out.

"That is a good point." Bakura conceded, annoyed.

Tonks summoned a bucket and poured it over Harry's head. Harry quickly woke up spluttering.

"Tonks, I need to talk to Dumbledore, I'm having hallucinations! I saw Sirius!" Harry exclaimed.

"But he is here, you dolt." Bakura noted. "What do I have to do to have people stop dropping like flies when they see him? Buy billboards that blink 'Sirius is alive' on them all day long?" he continued in a frustrated manner.

"He is?!" Harry exclaimed jumping back up and sending Tonks reeling. Standing in shock for a few minutes Harry ran and tackled his godfather, tears coming quickly.

"I think I preferred the fainting." Bakura commented to no one in particular.

"You would." Yami responded disgustedly, rolling his eyes.

"What is going on here?" a voice boomed out from the front doorway. Dumbledore had somehow appeared in the middle of the anarchy, a particularly slimy professor at his side. Everyone froze in place out of surprise.

"Sirius, it seems, has returned Professor Dumbledore." Remus replied as no one else seemed to be about to.

Sirius who was stuck under Harry, a small sixteen year old but a sixteen year old all the same, gave a muffled cry and Harry hurriedly scrambled up and helped his godfather up.

Dumbledore, looking very much surprised, made his slow way over and looked Sirius in the eye probingly for a few minutes; no doubt checking the authenticity of the statement. "It would seem true." He commented a smile twitching at the edges of his eyes.

Severus hovering a few feet behind scowled at Sirius over Dumbledore's shoulder, clearly hoping that Sirius had in fact died.

"And how has this event come about; how were you returned to us?" Dumbledore asked clearly amazed.

"I was in the shadow realm." Sirius started, plowing into a long explanation of everything that had happened to him since the ending of last school year, glancing at Bakura once as he mentioned his part in the rescue to see a slightly troubled look. This look however was masked quickly as Bakura looked from Dumbledore to Sirius and noticed him staring as it were.

"Do you think they'll build a totem of me to worship me?" Bakura asked Yami sarcastically at the enrapt looks of all the occupants of Grimmauld place.

"You wish thief." Yami replied bluntly, glaring.

"I think though that since the Ministry has revoked its statements about you being a criminal Sirius that I shall make you and Remus the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers." Dumbledore commented out of the blue once Sirius had finished his explanations. No one could do anything but stare aghast at Dumbledore.