Sorry this took forever...i was suffering from the worse case of writers
block ever...but being back at school I guess helped...i now have something
to procrastinate doing...stupid readings *gives textbooks an evil glare*
Anyways...the disclaimer: i do not own YGO or HP...*sniff sniff* and I didn't get ownership of them for Christmas...oh well maybe next year
And now...chapter 9
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Kaya stood by the nightstand beside the bed, looking over the piece of paper in her hand. It was the list of supplies that been given to her. Most of the things had been crossed off yesterday, it may have taken all day to find everything, but it was well worth the effort. Nami had done a very good job; the only things still on the list were her schoolbooks, her uniform and her dress robes.
//What did you think of Yugi and Bakura?// asked Kaya curiously. From what Kaya understood Nami never had any friends, only Nathaniel, her father's friend, so he didn't really count. Kaya was a little worried, she didn't want Nami becoming so introverted that she wouldn't make friends. It had taken Kaya many months to create her relationship with Nami and it was a good one, but she needed more than just one friend that no one else knew existed.
From inside her soul room Nami shrugged, /They seemed nice, I don't know, I just got this feeling, like something was out of place, they just didn't seem right./
Kaya raised an eyebrow, //Really? Because I think you're just afraid to have friends,// Nami tried to object to this, but Kaya stopped her, //No, let me finish. I think you're frightened of people not liking you, this is different, you've never had a friend before, a lot of people don't like change. You're one of them.//
/I'm not afraid, true I don't like change, but I'm not afraid. I'm going to make friends at Hogwarts. I'm just glad that you are here with me Kaya, everything seems so much easier with you here,/ Nami smiled from the comfort of a big blue chair.
Kaya snorted, //Yes, you like having me here to fight your battles.//
Nami pretended to be shocked, /Fight my battles! Never! Name one occasion!/
Kaya laughed, //This morning, yesterday morning, the morning before that and every other morning since the day you put on the necklace.//
Nami grinned from ear to ear, /Without you I would never get out of bed./
Kaya rolled her eyes and continued to read over the list and double-checked what Nami had purchased yesterday with it, to make sure she didn't buy the same things, or forget something. Just because Kaya could see through Nami's eyes when she was in control didn't mean she did. When each was in their soul room they tended to let the other be, they had an absolute trust in each other.
//Are you sure you don't want to do the shopping? This is your last chance,// Kaya offered.
/Nope, I figure you'd better stay out, you just met Yugi and Bakura, no need confusing them with personality differences. They might get scared and never talk to us again./ Nami continued reading her book.
//Nami! We're like two peas in a pod, but more so than other people who say that, we also share a body, even Nathaniel can't tell us apart! Yugi and Bakura will not notice a difference.//
Nami looked up from her book, /Well I don't want to take that chance, do you?/
//You are the laziest excuse for a person ever! You just don't want to have actually do something!// Kaya was still shocked at how much Nami liked just sitting around her mind doing nothing at all. Kaya much preferred to be out of the room and doing something, which worked out quite well.
/I'm not lazy, think about it, once we're at school I'm going to have to be in control most of the time, you know to do my school work and such. I am merely allowing you to get all this movement out of your system. I'm being a kind and considerate person, not lazy./
Kaya snorted, "Lazy," she said as she grabbed Nami's money, her strange wizard money, put it in her pocket and left their room.
....
Usually early in the morning at the Burrow was slow paced and fairly relaxed, but not this morning. Mrs Weasley stood at the foot of the warped stairs; hand on her hips and a look of annoyance on her face.
"Would you two get out of bed and come down here and eat so I can finish cleaning up!" she hollered up the stairs in the direction of Fred and George's room. "Don't make me come up there," she threatened, shaking her fist.
Today was the day that the Weasley clan, Harry and Hermione would leave the Burrow for Diagon Alley, where they would stay until September first, when they would depart for King's Cross Station. Naturally everyone was hurrying around, looking for lost socks, trying to find old books, wondering where oh where they had put their wand and praying that when they found it that it was not one of the twin's fake wands. Mrs Weasley stood in the middle of the house yelling this way and that, trying to encourage her children to hurry.
"But Mom," Ginny complained, very muffled, from under a load of clean Hogwarts uniforms, "why are we going so early? I mean it's not even nine o'clock yet!"
"Oh, Ginny," Mrs Weasley sighed as she piled more clothes onto Ginny's already huge pile, "wont you please hurry and give those out. Make sure you give everyone the right ones now."
As Ginny stumbled away, distributing uniforms to random people as she went, Fred and George finally made their way downstairs, running at full stride, and nearly managed to knock over poor Ginny as she climbed up.
"Oh wait Fred," she pulled out a bunch of robes from inside her pile, "these are yours," Ginny handed them to him. "George," she paused, "I don't know where yours are."
Fred checked the tags inside his uniform, "There aren't mine, their George's!" He tossed them at his brother, "Honestly Ginny, you call yourself our sister."
Ginny glared, "Does it really matter! Both you're uniforms are the same size!"
George nodded that it did matter, "It's the principle; I'm Fred."
"And I'm George," added Fred.
"But we're not each other," they said in unison as they bounded off into the kitchen with huge grins plastered across they're faces.
Harry, Ron and Hermione were up in Ron's room packing their things. It wasn't much of a task for Hermione, seeing how she had just arrived at the Weasley's not that long ago, for Harry it was another story, his clothing somehow ended up all over Ron's room, practically everywhere but in his trunk.
Mrs Weasley seemed to abandon her post at the centre of the main floor, and had taken over Ginny's job of handing out uniforms. She entered Ron's room, using her back to open the door, as her hands were full of clothes and other odds and ends.
"Oh, Harry dear, I meant to tell you, don't bother packing most of your muggle clothes, you wont need them, and they'll take up space in your trunk. Leave them here, we'll send them over to your aunt and uncle's house while you're at school." She smiled kindly at Harry. "There you go, nice and clean," she handed Harry and Ron their uniforms, "mind you don't wrinkle them now," she added on her way out the door.
Ron threw his clothes into his trunk and then turned back to his schoolbooks, putting aside the ones he didn't need and tossing the ones he did into his trunk. The only one he didn't throw around was his Care of Magical Creatures textbook, the Monster Book of Monsters, that one he picked up gently, held at arms length and then placed it tenderly into his trunk.
"Crazy book," Ron muttered under his breath. He turned to Harry and Hermione, "Did you know that just before Harry came over I woke up one night and it was chewing on my curtains!" Ron pointed to his bright orange curtains, and sure enough in the bottom right corner they were ripped slightly.
Harry and Hermione laughed together, but nervously eyed their own copy of the book, just in case it got any smart ideas.
Hermione looked around the orange inferno that was Ron's room as Harry and Ron began grabbing random things that needed to go to school with them. "I wonder who the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher will be?" Hermione pondered this as she handed Ron his chess set.
Harry, who was laying on Ron's bed, bent over it so he could look under it for missing clothes articles, snapped his head up, "So long as its not Snape, a follower of Voldemort," Ron and Hermione shuddered, but Harry didn't seem to notice, "a blundering idiot like Lockhart and they are who they claim to be, I will be happy."
Ron snorted, "Seems that we'd be asking for too much, Hogwarts have a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher who might stand a chance of lasting more than one year? Never!"
"Ron," Hermione began, giving him her 'I-look-just-like-Professor- McGonagall' look, but then thought again, "never mind, I think you're right. I agree with Harry."
Harry threw his last bit of stuff into his trunk, "I just hope they know what they're doing," with that Harry closed his trunk, followed by Ron.
"All appears to be in order here," he said dusting off his hands.
....
Kaya stood in the little courtyard that led into Diagon Alley waiting to see if her new friends would join her. After awhile she was beginning to lose hope and thought she would have to go alone, when suddenly she heard someone mention her name, well Nami's name. She turned around and there stood Yugi.
"Nami," he started, "sorry we're late, Bakura and Malik are coming," and as he said this Kaya saw two more boys enter the courtyard.
Malik stopped when he entered the courtyard, when Yugi and Ryou said they had met a friend he didn't think it would be a girl. But there she stood, her long dark hair, which reached her lower back, was down and the breeze played with it a bit. Her cold green eyes lightened a touch when she greeted Yugi and Ryou. She seemed vaguely familiar.
"Malik, this is Nami," Yugi said bringing Malik into the conversation, "Nami, our friend Malik."
Nami smiled and shook Malik's hand, "Are we ready to go?" she question, once all nodded she continued, "Then off to Gringotts we go!" Nami turned around and counted the bricks like Tom had showed her, tapping the right one with her new wand, purchased from Oliveranders the previous day, and slowly the door to Diagon Alley opened before them revealing the marvellous shops on the other side.
....
Finally, after nearly two hours of running in circles and wildly throwing clothes and books in trunks, the Weasley's, Harry and Hermione were ready to go. At about 10:30 they all crowded into the living room around the fireplace with their trunks and all of their school things with them.
"Alright," sighed Mrs Weasley, "are we ready to go?" Once everyone nodded she took a pot of the mantel of the fireplace. "We're going to the Leaky Cauldron until the first, then we'll go to King's Cross, so make sure you have everything. You first Fred, then George, Ron, Harry, Hermione and then Ginny and I will follow."
Fred grinned, picked up a small handful of the strange powder from the pot, and walked over to the fireplace, throwing the powder into it, "The Leaky Cauldron," he shouted as he walked into the now green fire and disappeared from sight.
Everyone else followed suit, until only Mrs Weasley was left. She took a note out of her handbag for her husband, placed it on the coffee table and left the same way her children did.
....
It didn't take long for Malik, Yugi, Ryou and Kaya to cover all the ground Nami did yesterday. In just under and hour and a half each of them had parchment, quills, ink, potion supplies, a cauldron, a set of glass phials, a set of brass scales, wands, school robes and dress robes. All they needed now was their books.
The four walked up to the bookstore, tilted Florish and Blotts, and slowly entered, each pulling out their book list.
"Hmmm," Yugi mused as he looked over at Ryou's list, "looks like Ryou and I have Divination together." He looked over Malik's shoulder at his list, "But not you Malik, looks like you have Muggle Studies."
Malik looked at his list, "What the hell is Muggle Studies?" he spat in disgust.
Kaya looked at Nami's list, "I don't know, but I have it too. Muggle History: History Through the Eyes of Non-magical People, I guess it's the study of people who aren't wizards."
"Why on earth would anyone want to take that?"
Kaya smiled, "Well, I don't know, but think of it as an easy mark, you were a muggle until recently, correct? You shouldn't have a problem studying them."
As much as Malik hated to admit it, she had a point. "True," he replied a little coldly and stormed off to look on the other side of the store.
Ryou saw the puzzled and slightly hurt look on Kaya's face, "Don't mind him, he has a lot of issues," he told her reassuringly, "he's like that with everyone."
"His issues have issues," added Yugi.
It took them nearly another hour in the bookstore, they had spent a great deal of time looking at the strange and unique books, the strangest of all of them was in fact on their booklists.
Kaya held hers up outside the bookstore, "The Monster Book of Monsters, I wonder why they have it bound shut with rope," she mused.
Yugi shrugged, "Who knows, but I'm famished, is it almost lunch yet?"
Kaya put the book back in her bag, "We can go back to the inn and have lunch, I think Dumbledore arranged it so that we have three meals a day," she smiled hungrily, "no need to waste them."
They all agreed and were heading back to the Leaky Cauldron until Kaya stopped in front of a strange shop with all kinds of cages and owls hooting softly.
"Nami, what is it?" Yugi asked as he stopped and faced the store that had caught his new friend's attention.
/Kaya, I want one,/ Nami told her friend.
//Yes, but is it necessary?//
/No, I guess I could live without one, but think, this way Nathaniel can send us, well me, stuff too./
//You make a good point, you win, which one do you want?// Kaya secretly wanted one too, who wouldn't want a pet owl?
/I'll look around, go into the store and when you're in the back corner, I'll come out./
Kaya smiled to Yugi, Ryou and Malik, "I want one, so I can send letters and stuff to Nathaniel."
Ryou looked confused, "Nathaniel, is he your father? Why do you call him by his first name?"
Kaya looked startled, "Oh, no, not really, he is my legal guardian though." Nami didn't like to talk about her father being missing, but it didn't bother Kaya, "My father disappeared just over a year ago, Nathaniel has been taking care of me ever since," she told them as she walked into the store. "I wont be long, I promise."
Once inside Kaya and Nami switched places, no one noticed the faint glow from her necklace because Nami always wore it out of sight, just to be sure Nathaniel never saw it. Nami snaked her way around the store and quickly found an owl that she liked. She looked into its deep gold eyes, it was quite elegant and hooted softly to her.
"I'll take this one," she told the man behind the desk as she quickly ran a finger over its dark brown feathers.
After paying for her new pet, Nami went back outside to join the rest of the group, holding the cage in one hand and her bags in the other.
Ryou smiled upon seeing the bird, "You know, if it had green eyes you would look identical, he's nearly the same colour as your hair."
Nami smiled, "She, it's a girl. Now lets go, I'm absolutely starved!"
The three boys laughed and they and Nami headed back towards the inn, however they didn't get very far before a pale boy with very blonde, almost white, hair and an evil sneer on his face walked into them because he wasn't looking where he was going.
An evil grin crept onto his face as he took in the group that was standing in front of him, "Oh, I didn't realize it was drag day," he sneered glaring at Malik, "you ladies should really watch where you're going."
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Anyways...the disclaimer: i do not own YGO or HP...*sniff sniff* and I didn't get ownership of them for Christmas...oh well maybe next year
And now...chapter 9
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Kaya stood by the nightstand beside the bed, looking over the piece of paper in her hand. It was the list of supplies that been given to her. Most of the things had been crossed off yesterday, it may have taken all day to find everything, but it was well worth the effort. Nami had done a very good job; the only things still on the list were her schoolbooks, her uniform and her dress robes.
//What did you think of Yugi and Bakura?// asked Kaya curiously. From what Kaya understood Nami never had any friends, only Nathaniel, her father's friend, so he didn't really count. Kaya was a little worried, she didn't want Nami becoming so introverted that she wouldn't make friends. It had taken Kaya many months to create her relationship with Nami and it was a good one, but she needed more than just one friend that no one else knew existed.
From inside her soul room Nami shrugged, /They seemed nice, I don't know, I just got this feeling, like something was out of place, they just didn't seem right./
Kaya raised an eyebrow, //Really? Because I think you're just afraid to have friends,// Nami tried to object to this, but Kaya stopped her, //No, let me finish. I think you're frightened of people not liking you, this is different, you've never had a friend before, a lot of people don't like change. You're one of them.//
/I'm not afraid, true I don't like change, but I'm not afraid. I'm going to make friends at Hogwarts. I'm just glad that you are here with me Kaya, everything seems so much easier with you here,/ Nami smiled from the comfort of a big blue chair.
Kaya snorted, //Yes, you like having me here to fight your battles.//
Nami pretended to be shocked, /Fight my battles! Never! Name one occasion!/
Kaya laughed, //This morning, yesterday morning, the morning before that and every other morning since the day you put on the necklace.//
Nami grinned from ear to ear, /Without you I would never get out of bed./
Kaya rolled her eyes and continued to read over the list and double-checked what Nami had purchased yesterday with it, to make sure she didn't buy the same things, or forget something. Just because Kaya could see through Nami's eyes when she was in control didn't mean she did. When each was in their soul room they tended to let the other be, they had an absolute trust in each other.
//Are you sure you don't want to do the shopping? This is your last chance,// Kaya offered.
/Nope, I figure you'd better stay out, you just met Yugi and Bakura, no need confusing them with personality differences. They might get scared and never talk to us again./ Nami continued reading her book.
//Nami! We're like two peas in a pod, but more so than other people who say that, we also share a body, even Nathaniel can't tell us apart! Yugi and Bakura will not notice a difference.//
Nami looked up from her book, /Well I don't want to take that chance, do you?/
//You are the laziest excuse for a person ever! You just don't want to have actually do something!// Kaya was still shocked at how much Nami liked just sitting around her mind doing nothing at all. Kaya much preferred to be out of the room and doing something, which worked out quite well.
/I'm not lazy, think about it, once we're at school I'm going to have to be in control most of the time, you know to do my school work and such. I am merely allowing you to get all this movement out of your system. I'm being a kind and considerate person, not lazy./
Kaya snorted, "Lazy," she said as she grabbed Nami's money, her strange wizard money, put it in her pocket and left their room.
....
Usually early in the morning at the Burrow was slow paced and fairly relaxed, but not this morning. Mrs Weasley stood at the foot of the warped stairs; hand on her hips and a look of annoyance on her face.
"Would you two get out of bed and come down here and eat so I can finish cleaning up!" she hollered up the stairs in the direction of Fred and George's room. "Don't make me come up there," she threatened, shaking her fist.
Today was the day that the Weasley clan, Harry and Hermione would leave the Burrow for Diagon Alley, where they would stay until September first, when they would depart for King's Cross Station. Naturally everyone was hurrying around, looking for lost socks, trying to find old books, wondering where oh where they had put their wand and praying that when they found it that it was not one of the twin's fake wands. Mrs Weasley stood in the middle of the house yelling this way and that, trying to encourage her children to hurry.
"But Mom," Ginny complained, very muffled, from under a load of clean Hogwarts uniforms, "why are we going so early? I mean it's not even nine o'clock yet!"
"Oh, Ginny," Mrs Weasley sighed as she piled more clothes onto Ginny's already huge pile, "wont you please hurry and give those out. Make sure you give everyone the right ones now."
As Ginny stumbled away, distributing uniforms to random people as she went, Fred and George finally made their way downstairs, running at full stride, and nearly managed to knock over poor Ginny as she climbed up.
"Oh wait Fred," she pulled out a bunch of robes from inside her pile, "these are yours," Ginny handed them to him. "George," she paused, "I don't know where yours are."
Fred checked the tags inside his uniform, "There aren't mine, their George's!" He tossed them at his brother, "Honestly Ginny, you call yourself our sister."
Ginny glared, "Does it really matter! Both you're uniforms are the same size!"
George nodded that it did matter, "It's the principle; I'm Fred."
"And I'm George," added Fred.
"But we're not each other," they said in unison as they bounded off into the kitchen with huge grins plastered across they're faces.
Harry, Ron and Hermione were up in Ron's room packing their things. It wasn't much of a task for Hermione, seeing how she had just arrived at the Weasley's not that long ago, for Harry it was another story, his clothing somehow ended up all over Ron's room, practically everywhere but in his trunk.
Mrs Weasley seemed to abandon her post at the centre of the main floor, and had taken over Ginny's job of handing out uniforms. She entered Ron's room, using her back to open the door, as her hands were full of clothes and other odds and ends.
"Oh, Harry dear, I meant to tell you, don't bother packing most of your muggle clothes, you wont need them, and they'll take up space in your trunk. Leave them here, we'll send them over to your aunt and uncle's house while you're at school." She smiled kindly at Harry. "There you go, nice and clean," she handed Harry and Ron their uniforms, "mind you don't wrinkle them now," she added on her way out the door.
Ron threw his clothes into his trunk and then turned back to his schoolbooks, putting aside the ones he didn't need and tossing the ones he did into his trunk. The only one he didn't throw around was his Care of Magical Creatures textbook, the Monster Book of Monsters, that one he picked up gently, held at arms length and then placed it tenderly into his trunk.
"Crazy book," Ron muttered under his breath. He turned to Harry and Hermione, "Did you know that just before Harry came over I woke up one night and it was chewing on my curtains!" Ron pointed to his bright orange curtains, and sure enough in the bottom right corner they were ripped slightly.
Harry and Hermione laughed together, but nervously eyed their own copy of the book, just in case it got any smart ideas.
Hermione looked around the orange inferno that was Ron's room as Harry and Ron began grabbing random things that needed to go to school with them. "I wonder who the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher will be?" Hermione pondered this as she handed Ron his chess set.
Harry, who was laying on Ron's bed, bent over it so he could look under it for missing clothes articles, snapped his head up, "So long as its not Snape, a follower of Voldemort," Ron and Hermione shuddered, but Harry didn't seem to notice, "a blundering idiot like Lockhart and they are who they claim to be, I will be happy."
Ron snorted, "Seems that we'd be asking for too much, Hogwarts have a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher who might stand a chance of lasting more than one year? Never!"
"Ron," Hermione began, giving him her 'I-look-just-like-Professor- McGonagall' look, but then thought again, "never mind, I think you're right. I agree with Harry."
Harry threw his last bit of stuff into his trunk, "I just hope they know what they're doing," with that Harry closed his trunk, followed by Ron.
"All appears to be in order here," he said dusting off his hands.
....
Kaya stood in the little courtyard that led into Diagon Alley waiting to see if her new friends would join her. After awhile she was beginning to lose hope and thought she would have to go alone, when suddenly she heard someone mention her name, well Nami's name. She turned around and there stood Yugi.
"Nami," he started, "sorry we're late, Bakura and Malik are coming," and as he said this Kaya saw two more boys enter the courtyard.
Malik stopped when he entered the courtyard, when Yugi and Ryou said they had met a friend he didn't think it would be a girl. But there she stood, her long dark hair, which reached her lower back, was down and the breeze played with it a bit. Her cold green eyes lightened a touch when she greeted Yugi and Ryou. She seemed vaguely familiar.
"Malik, this is Nami," Yugi said bringing Malik into the conversation, "Nami, our friend Malik."
Nami smiled and shook Malik's hand, "Are we ready to go?" she question, once all nodded she continued, "Then off to Gringotts we go!" Nami turned around and counted the bricks like Tom had showed her, tapping the right one with her new wand, purchased from Oliveranders the previous day, and slowly the door to Diagon Alley opened before them revealing the marvellous shops on the other side.
....
Finally, after nearly two hours of running in circles and wildly throwing clothes and books in trunks, the Weasley's, Harry and Hermione were ready to go. At about 10:30 they all crowded into the living room around the fireplace with their trunks and all of their school things with them.
"Alright," sighed Mrs Weasley, "are we ready to go?" Once everyone nodded she took a pot of the mantel of the fireplace. "We're going to the Leaky Cauldron until the first, then we'll go to King's Cross, so make sure you have everything. You first Fred, then George, Ron, Harry, Hermione and then Ginny and I will follow."
Fred grinned, picked up a small handful of the strange powder from the pot, and walked over to the fireplace, throwing the powder into it, "The Leaky Cauldron," he shouted as he walked into the now green fire and disappeared from sight.
Everyone else followed suit, until only Mrs Weasley was left. She took a note out of her handbag for her husband, placed it on the coffee table and left the same way her children did.
....
It didn't take long for Malik, Yugi, Ryou and Kaya to cover all the ground Nami did yesterday. In just under and hour and a half each of them had parchment, quills, ink, potion supplies, a cauldron, a set of glass phials, a set of brass scales, wands, school robes and dress robes. All they needed now was their books.
The four walked up to the bookstore, tilted Florish and Blotts, and slowly entered, each pulling out their book list.
"Hmmm," Yugi mused as he looked over at Ryou's list, "looks like Ryou and I have Divination together." He looked over Malik's shoulder at his list, "But not you Malik, looks like you have Muggle Studies."
Malik looked at his list, "What the hell is Muggle Studies?" he spat in disgust.
Kaya looked at Nami's list, "I don't know, but I have it too. Muggle History: History Through the Eyes of Non-magical People, I guess it's the study of people who aren't wizards."
"Why on earth would anyone want to take that?"
Kaya smiled, "Well, I don't know, but think of it as an easy mark, you were a muggle until recently, correct? You shouldn't have a problem studying them."
As much as Malik hated to admit it, she had a point. "True," he replied a little coldly and stormed off to look on the other side of the store.
Ryou saw the puzzled and slightly hurt look on Kaya's face, "Don't mind him, he has a lot of issues," he told her reassuringly, "he's like that with everyone."
"His issues have issues," added Yugi.
It took them nearly another hour in the bookstore, they had spent a great deal of time looking at the strange and unique books, the strangest of all of them was in fact on their booklists.
Kaya held hers up outside the bookstore, "The Monster Book of Monsters, I wonder why they have it bound shut with rope," she mused.
Yugi shrugged, "Who knows, but I'm famished, is it almost lunch yet?"
Kaya put the book back in her bag, "We can go back to the inn and have lunch, I think Dumbledore arranged it so that we have three meals a day," she smiled hungrily, "no need to waste them."
They all agreed and were heading back to the Leaky Cauldron until Kaya stopped in front of a strange shop with all kinds of cages and owls hooting softly.
"Nami, what is it?" Yugi asked as he stopped and faced the store that had caught his new friend's attention.
/Kaya, I want one,/ Nami told her friend.
//Yes, but is it necessary?//
/No, I guess I could live without one, but think, this way Nathaniel can send us, well me, stuff too./
//You make a good point, you win, which one do you want?// Kaya secretly wanted one too, who wouldn't want a pet owl?
/I'll look around, go into the store and when you're in the back corner, I'll come out./
Kaya smiled to Yugi, Ryou and Malik, "I want one, so I can send letters and stuff to Nathaniel."
Ryou looked confused, "Nathaniel, is he your father? Why do you call him by his first name?"
Kaya looked startled, "Oh, no, not really, he is my legal guardian though." Nami didn't like to talk about her father being missing, but it didn't bother Kaya, "My father disappeared just over a year ago, Nathaniel has been taking care of me ever since," she told them as she walked into the store. "I wont be long, I promise."
Once inside Kaya and Nami switched places, no one noticed the faint glow from her necklace because Nami always wore it out of sight, just to be sure Nathaniel never saw it. Nami snaked her way around the store and quickly found an owl that she liked. She looked into its deep gold eyes, it was quite elegant and hooted softly to her.
"I'll take this one," she told the man behind the desk as she quickly ran a finger over its dark brown feathers.
After paying for her new pet, Nami went back outside to join the rest of the group, holding the cage in one hand and her bags in the other.
Ryou smiled upon seeing the bird, "You know, if it had green eyes you would look identical, he's nearly the same colour as your hair."
Nami smiled, "She, it's a girl. Now lets go, I'm absolutely starved!"
The three boys laughed and they and Nami headed back towards the inn, however they didn't get very far before a pale boy with very blonde, almost white, hair and an evil sneer on his face walked into them because he wasn't looking where he was going.
An evil grin crept onto his face as he took in the group that was standing in front of him, "Oh, I didn't realize it was drag day," he sneered glaring at Malik, "you ladies should really watch where you're going."
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R&R please and thank you...it motivates me ^_~
Thanks to the following for reviewing chapter 8: Nefertiri Riddle - merry Christmas to you too! And a Happy New Year! hehe all the power of the pharaoh...let the boy dream is what I say
Destiny's Dragon - why thank you...hope this one lives up to the last one...i try ^_^
Target Zero - ^_~ originally it wasn't supposed to be kaze and myself...however it seems to be that way...what gave it away? was it the sleeping?? lol ^.^ as for your question about Kaya and her past...all in good time grasshopper all in good time...lol talk to me next time I'm on MSN...we'll talk I'll tell you what I have sketched out in my mind...oh and I meant to ask...how did school go on the 5th?
Anime Lover - my Christmas was wonderful! a present!? ooo what is it?!?! *hops with excitement* let me guess...it is...a pair of gloves?! cos my hands are cold right now...lol thanks for the review!