Well I'm on the bus...again...this time on the way home v.v North Bay was
awesome...yes even the snow...I actually played in it! I surprise myself
sometimes lol...here is chapter 12...started in North Bay on Saturday
night...finished...at least that's the plan...on the way home to Hamilton on
Sunday afternoon...enjoy!
hino: ok so I lied...it's now March 1st ...like a week later...and I'm a terrible person, forgive me *shoves Yugi in front of her* give them the puppy look and ask for forgiveness
Yugi: *gives puppy look* forgive hino...she tries, she really does
disclaimer: hasn't changed...I know, shocking lol ---------------
//Wow you got out of bed this morning all by yourself, I'm impressed.// Kaya smirked in her soul room.
/Shut up,/ Nami hissed.
Once down stairs, Nami made her way over to Tom and half asleep grabbed the plate from him. Still in her slumber, she stumbled over to the way to cheerful and awake Yugi, Ryou and Malik. She plopped into the chair with a groan.
"What's the matter?" Yugi asked with a huge smile on his face, "Isn't it a beautiful day!"
"I think it's simply splendid," Ryou added cheerfully.
//Oh god, don't tell me...//
"Oh dear...it can't be...please tell me you aren't...MORNING PEOPLE?!?!"
Yugi giggled, "What's wrong with morning people?"
Nami looked at Yugi with disgust, "Morning people are a vile sub-species of humans."
Malik looked up and added, "Oh how very true."
Ryou smiled, "I don't believe I'm vile."
Yugi nodded his agreement and then added, "We leave today, are you guys packed?"
A look of panic crossed Malik's face as his mind wandered back to his room, to the pants thrown all over the room, the school uniform discarded over the chair, the opened and already detested school books overflowing from his trunk and best yet the duel monster cards he kicked off his bed as he slept still littering the floor.
"Umm," Malik played with his collar nervously, "When do we leave?"
Realisation hit the three Japanese students; they had no idea how they were getting to King's Cross. They nervously exchanged looks.
/Yami, how are we getting to King's Cross?/ Yugi inquired.
//The letter said that a friend of Dumbledore would help us.//
/Ya, and he would be where?!/ Yami just chuckled at Yugi's sheer panic.
"Oh that reminds me," Nami said suddenly, "I met Dumbledore's friend last night," at that precise moment, Mr Weasley walked through the door, "and speaking of the devil, there he is."
Mr Weasley had gotten up early that morning along with the rest of the Weasley troop for their journey that morning to King's Cross. Once he had woken up, Mr Weasley realised that he had yet to meet and inform the other three of his new charges that they would be leaving at half past nine. He entered the dinning room of the Leaky Cauldron and was relieved to see Nami with three other boys. He made his way over quickly.
"Oh I'm so very glad you are awake," Mr Weasley exclaimed with excitement, "it completely slipped my mind to introduce myself. I am Arthur Weasley, I will be escorting you to King's Cross. Good morning Nami," he added on a side note.
"Well I'll admit its morning but I wouldn't call it good," Nami smiled, "this is Yugi, his friends Ryou and Malik. When do we leave Mr Weasley?"
"In an hour."
Malik jumped up suddenly and high tailed it in the direction of his room. "I guess he had to go clean and pack up his stuff," Yugi giggled.
"Speaking of which, I need to do that myself," with that Nami excused herself and disappeared upstairs. Yugi and Ryou soon followed.
...
Harry and Ron sat in their room at the Leaky Cauldron, looking at the state of their shared room. Over the last day and a bit it had gone from clean to a disaster area, clothes strewn everywhere, books in tottering piles and candy wrappers in large clusters on the floor. They had one hour to eat, shower and pack.
"You two better get a move on, we're leaving soon," Hermione's voice filtered through the two boy's room, "how did you ever get it this messy in less then two days?"
Harry and Ron smiled and shrugged off their friend's questions, and then proceeded to clean up their clothing and such. Harry was so excited to go back to Hogwarts, his home. He missed playing Quidditch, talking to friends and going to some of his classes. But before he could get there, he had to finish cleaning up this sty.
Mrs Weasley sighed, no matter how early she tried to get her children moving, they always managed to be running late to catch the Hogwarts Express, always. This morning was no exception. Fred and George were still in their pyjamas, Ron and Harry needed to finish packing and Mr Weasley had disappeared somewhere. The only two ready to go on time were Ginny and Hermione.
"Molly dear," Mr Weasley said as he approached his wife, "I found the students we're taking with us, and the cars Dumbledore arranged will be here in fifteen minutes."
"Good thing Dumbledore got us those cars, or else how on earth would we ever get to the station," Molly shook her head, "I have to go and get Fred and George ready, can't leave those two alone for a moment."
In fifteen minutes miracles happened, everyone was ready to go, packed and all. Mrs Weasley did a head count, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred, George and Mr Weasley were all there, now they just needed these new students that Mrs Weasley had yet to meet.
"Arthur, dear," Molly turned to her husband, "where are the other children?"
Arthur smiled as he saw Nami and her three friends coming down the stairs, bags in tow, "Right there dear."
....
Kaya went after packing to pick up Malik from his room, which was the closest room to hers, they had been told to meet the Weasley's downstairs in fifteen minutes. Kaya knocked softly at the door and then poked her head in and was greeted by the sight of a sleeping Malik on the bed with his trunk almost completely packed on the floor beside him.
"Malik," Kaya whispered as she entered the room slowly, "Malik we have to leave soon, this is no time for a nap."
Malik just snorted in his sleep and turned away from Kaya. Rolling her eyes, Kaya crept across the room to the bed and grabbed Malik by the shoulders and shook him violently while yelling, "Wake up!"
Malik shoot straight up from his slumber at the sudden sound and felt hands on his shoulders, panicking he grabbed his attacker by the throat and held them down on the bed, without even opening his eyes. When he did open his eyes, Malik realized he was holding down a very frightened Nami, the fear evident in her eyes. Malik felt a cloud of rage pass over him and forced himself to calm down. Slowly he released the terrified Nami.
Once released Kaya lightly placed a hand at her throat, the terror in her eyes changing to anger. Before she could say anything Malik cut her off.
"I'm," he started slowly and awkwardly, "sorry," he sounded as though he wasn't used to apologies, "I'm sorry, did I hurt you?" A look of concern graced his face.
Kaya was about to snap at him in anger when Nami cut her off, /Be nice to the guy, tell him you're fine,/ Nami ordered from her soul room, she had watched the episode from there and felt the panic Kaya had felt.
//But you aren't, I can feel that it is going to bruise.//
/I don't care, just tell him it's not a problem./
Malik just looked at the ground, "Sorry," he muttered.
Kaya gave Nami a glare and then added, "Its alright, I'm not hurt. I came to see if you were packed, which obviously you aren't," Kaya gestured towards the trunk, "need some help?"
Malik shook his head, "No, I'll do it, you can go and check on Yugi and Ryou."
Kaya stood from the bed and took her leave, heading in the direction of Yugi and Ryou's room. Once outside the door, Kaya let her hands wander back to her neck, her cold hands felt nice against the reddening skin. She knocked on Yugi's door and waited for a response before entering.
"Just seeing if you two are packed and ready to go," she smiled and noticed that they in fact were and were passing the time by playing some kind of card game.
Ryou looked up from his hand and smiled, "Yup, pack and ready," he tilted his head to the side, noticing the red marks on his new friend's neck, "what happened Nami? You're neck is all red."
Kaya just smiled, "Its nothing. Well if you're ready, I guess we should go downstairs, we're leaving soon."
Yugi smiled, "Yea, I'm so excited, lets go!"
With that the three friends left the room, doing a quick last check to make sure they hadn't forgotten anything, and were met by Malik on the landing of the stairs. And together they descended, ready to face the challenges of this new world.
At the bottom of the stairs they were greeted by Mr Weasley who in turn introduced them, "Ah, these are my sons, Fred and George, Ron, his friends Harry and Hermione, my daughter Ginny and my wife, Molly. This is Nami, Yugi, Ryou and Malik." Mr Weasley guided the bunch outside, where two vans awaited them. Arthur rubbed his hands with excitement. "Alright, Professor Dumbledore arranged for these vans, so now, in van number one we have Fred, George, Ginny, Hermione, Molly and myself. And in van number two, we have Harry, Ron, Yugi, Nami, Ryou, Malik and some of the luggage. Pile in!"
After several minutes of chaos, which was not induced by Bakura or Malik for once, everyone was piled into the vans and was on their way to King's Cross Station. In the first van the conversation was mostly Mrs Weasley reminding Fred and George what they could not do and making sure no one forgot anything. But the second van was much more interesting.
Nami found herself between Harry and Ron, while Ryou was stuck between Yugi and Malik, although Nami couldn't see them, as her owl's cage was on her lap.
"That's a beautiful owl, what's her name?" the boy named Harry asked, his own owl's cage resting on his lap.
Nami blinked at him, "She doesn't have one."
Ron looked over at her with a funny look, "Why not?"
"I never got around to it I suppose," Nami answered.
Ryou turned around in his seat, hitting a very quiet Malik in the ribs with his elbow, "Why don't you call her Eameeru?"
Nami smiled, "That's a really pretty name, what does it mean?"
Ryou returned the smile, "Its Japanese for 'air mail'," Ryou giggled.
Nami nodded, "Eamerru it is."
Ron looked at Ryou, "You speak Japanese?" he inquired.
Ryou smiled again, "Its my second language, English is my first."
Now Yugi turned around, accidentally bumping into Ryou, who then accidentally bumped into Malik, "It's my first language though," he giggled, "obviously, since I live in Japan."
"You're English is very good, you only have a slight accent," Harry complemented.
"Well, Tom at the inn used some kind of spell so I could speak English, really my English is horrible," Yugi admitted.
Harry seemed impressed, "I didn't know that they could do that."
Ron just smiled, "I've heard of it before, its fairly new. Just be glad Hermione isn't in here or else we'd have the whole history of it," Ron joked.
Harry laughed along with Ron, and seeing Ryou and Yugi's confusion explained for them, "Hermione is our friend, she knows everything about everything."
"I think she has all of Hogwarts: A History memorized," Ron added.
"But don't get us wrong, we don't mind, she's saved our butts numerous times."
"She's best in our year," Ron put in proudly, "I reckon she'll be head girl," he thought for a moment, "I'd die of shock if she wasn't."
Yugi smiled, "Looks like you have some competition Ryou. He's always been the smartest in our class."
Ryou blushed in modesty, "Not true, Kaiba always does better than me."
Yugi thought for a moment, "True, but you always come to class, whereas Kaiba hardly ever does, so you're better than him," he smiled brightly.
Harry scratched his head, "He never comes to class, but always does better than everyone else? How does that work? Wouldn't the teachers fail him for never being there?"
Ryou let Yugi field Harry's question, "Well, Kaiba," Yugi thought for a moment, "Kaiba has a lot on his plate and if the teachers give him too much trouble it gets messy."
"Messy?" Ron questioned.
"He'll have them fired," Ryou explained.
Malik snorted, "Seems like a Kaiba thing to do, his way or the highway."
"How could he get them fired, he's just a student?" Harry questioned further.
"Oh, he's one of the richest people in Japan, he runs Kaiba Corp.," Yugi added off-handedly.
"He named a corporation after himself?" Ron asked puzzled.
"No, it was his step-father's before his," Ryou added to the confused Ron.
"His step-father named the company after his step-son?" Ron asked again.
Yugi gave Ron a funny look, "Kaiba was his step-father's last name."
Ron gave Yugi a funny look, "So your friend's name is Kaiba Kaiba?"
Yugi gave Ron another funny look, "Of course not."
At this point Ryou realized where this was coming from and decided to clear up the confusion. "In Japan you refer to people by last name and then first name, so we say Kaiba Seto and you would say Seto Kaiba." Realization dawned on Yugi, Harry and Ron's faces.
"Oh," Ron mused, "so you would be..."
"Bakura Ryou."
//Make sure you tell them to call you just Ryou,// Bakura added rather harshly, //wouldn't want to ruin the terror that the name Bakura can instil.//
"But, you can just call me Ryou, I never did get used to be referred to by last name, its so impersonal," Ryou added to the group, and merely shot his temperamental yami a half hearted glare.
While the rest of the group was busy discussing the method of addressing people in Japan Kaya and Nami decided to swap places, sort of a last minute free for all on Kaya's part. Kaya shifted in her seat wedged between Harry and Ron.
"I sure feel close to you guys right now," Kaya smiled to Ron and Harry, jesting about the lack of room in the back seat, "and as much as I enjoy it, are we almost there yet?" she whined playfully, just as Nami did to Nathaniel on their long car rides.
Harry and Ron looked out the window, "We'll be there in about five minutes," Ron informed the rest of the van happily. "You're right Nami, there isn't much space back here, especially with Hedwig and Eamerru," Ron rolled the second owl's name off his tongue funny, making Yugi and Ryou laugh.
"Hey Malik," Ron demanded suddenly, "Do you speak Japanese?"
Malik didn't turn around but simply answered, "Hai."
"That means yes," Yugi added merrily looking out the window.
"Is it your first language too?" Ron inquired again.
"Third," Malik answered, still facing forward in his seat.
"Which other languages do you speak?" Ron asked again, unaware of the looks of discouragement he was receiving from Yugi and Ryou.
"Do you always ask so many questions?" Malik shot back nastily, sending Ron an evil glare, causing the red haired boy to sit back in his seat and be silent, exchanging worried looks with Harry and Nami.
Suddenly the van came to a stop, and the driver jumped out and opened the door. All six of the students fell out and collected their luggage, thanked the drivers and headed towards the other van to where Mrs Weasley was standing, handing out sandwiches to all of the children, including Yugi, Nami, Malik and Ryou. Without further words she ushered them all into the train station, straight to the pillar between platform nine and ten.
"Alright dears," she started fondly, "onto the platform, Fred, George you first." The new students watched in amazement as Fred and George ran straight at the wall in front of them and disappeared. "Ok, Ginny and Hermione, you're next." The same thing happened to them, as soon as they got near the wall a group of people would walk by and then the girls were gone.
"Hey, Harry," Kaya asked quietly, "Where did they go?"
"Onto the platform of course, you just jog straight at the wall and the platform is on the other side," Harry explained. "It isn't hard," at Nami's doubting face he added, "I'll go with you."
Harry and Kaya walked up to where Ginny and Hermione had been standing and they began to jog towards the wall, as it came closer Kaya closed her eyes and when she opened them she and Harry were standing on the platform for a large red train labelled the Hogwarts Express. As they moved out of the way the rest of the group filed into the crowded platform and the new students gazed for a second time in awe.
"Welcome to Platform 9 ¾," Harry grinned.
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ok, thanks for reading! I hope you liked this chapter...and next chapter I promise they'll get to Hogwarts lol...this is going to be a long story ^_^ not that I mind...hope you guys don't mind either! So thanks to:
Serryn – yay! I'm do glad that you like! That makes my day ^_^ I hope you liked this chapter as much as the others!
Sugaricing – I added the stuff about Seto for you...I needed something for them to talk about so I put Seto in there...cos I don't think he's going to make an appearance while they're in fifth year ^_~...but maybe some other time
Anime Lover – nope I don't think I'll be using Umbridge...I'm in denial over the fifth book...I refuse to believe she did that! As for Bakura...rules were made to be broken lol *evil cackle* lol thanks for the review! ja!
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Misuto – no Kaze has yet to review...however she already read this chapter...and pointed out that I forgot to put Nami in a van...I fixed that lol...hey I want to read the rest of your essay...email it to me or something! Ok? Ja!
For all of you still reading FYI its my birthday on March 4th!! I'm so excited cos you see Kaze gave me a present for my bday...but she gave it to me like 13 days ago....finally I get to open it!! yay! so since you're still reading this...birthday cake all around *hands out cake*
Ok one more thing before I go...I'm stuck on a DADA teacher...I just don't know what to do...so if you leave some suggestions I'd love to hear them! I wont promise that I'll pick one...but if you help me think of something I'll dedicate the chapter to you! ok? Ok! If you don't want to leave it in a review you can email it to me at hinotama85@hotmail.com...put And Then There Were Eight in the subject box if you don't mind! Thanks!! JA! --hino
hino: ok so I lied...it's now March 1st ...like a week later...and I'm a terrible person, forgive me *shoves Yugi in front of her* give them the puppy look and ask for forgiveness
Yugi: *gives puppy look* forgive hino...she tries, she really does
disclaimer: hasn't changed...I know, shocking lol ---------------
//Wow you got out of bed this morning all by yourself, I'm impressed.// Kaya smirked in her soul room.
/Shut up,/ Nami hissed.
Once down stairs, Nami made her way over to Tom and half asleep grabbed the plate from him. Still in her slumber, she stumbled over to the way to cheerful and awake Yugi, Ryou and Malik. She plopped into the chair with a groan.
"What's the matter?" Yugi asked with a huge smile on his face, "Isn't it a beautiful day!"
"I think it's simply splendid," Ryou added cheerfully.
//Oh god, don't tell me...//
"Oh dear...it can't be...please tell me you aren't...MORNING PEOPLE?!?!"
Yugi giggled, "What's wrong with morning people?"
Nami looked at Yugi with disgust, "Morning people are a vile sub-species of humans."
Malik looked up and added, "Oh how very true."
Ryou smiled, "I don't believe I'm vile."
Yugi nodded his agreement and then added, "We leave today, are you guys packed?"
A look of panic crossed Malik's face as his mind wandered back to his room, to the pants thrown all over the room, the school uniform discarded over the chair, the opened and already detested school books overflowing from his trunk and best yet the duel monster cards he kicked off his bed as he slept still littering the floor.
"Umm," Malik played with his collar nervously, "When do we leave?"
Realisation hit the three Japanese students; they had no idea how they were getting to King's Cross. They nervously exchanged looks.
/Yami, how are we getting to King's Cross?/ Yugi inquired.
//The letter said that a friend of Dumbledore would help us.//
/Ya, and he would be where?!/ Yami just chuckled at Yugi's sheer panic.
"Oh that reminds me," Nami said suddenly, "I met Dumbledore's friend last night," at that precise moment, Mr Weasley walked through the door, "and speaking of the devil, there he is."
Mr Weasley had gotten up early that morning along with the rest of the Weasley troop for their journey that morning to King's Cross. Once he had woken up, Mr Weasley realised that he had yet to meet and inform the other three of his new charges that they would be leaving at half past nine. He entered the dinning room of the Leaky Cauldron and was relieved to see Nami with three other boys. He made his way over quickly.
"Oh I'm so very glad you are awake," Mr Weasley exclaimed with excitement, "it completely slipped my mind to introduce myself. I am Arthur Weasley, I will be escorting you to King's Cross. Good morning Nami," he added on a side note.
"Well I'll admit its morning but I wouldn't call it good," Nami smiled, "this is Yugi, his friends Ryou and Malik. When do we leave Mr Weasley?"
"In an hour."
Malik jumped up suddenly and high tailed it in the direction of his room. "I guess he had to go clean and pack up his stuff," Yugi giggled.
"Speaking of which, I need to do that myself," with that Nami excused herself and disappeared upstairs. Yugi and Ryou soon followed.
...
Harry and Ron sat in their room at the Leaky Cauldron, looking at the state of their shared room. Over the last day and a bit it had gone from clean to a disaster area, clothes strewn everywhere, books in tottering piles and candy wrappers in large clusters on the floor. They had one hour to eat, shower and pack.
"You two better get a move on, we're leaving soon," Hermione's voice filtered through the two boy's room, "how did you ever get it this messy in less then two days?"
Harry and Ron smiled and shrugged off their friend's questions, and then proceeded to clean up their clothing and such. Harry was so excited to go back to Hogwarts, his home. He missed playing Quidditch, talking to friends and going to some of his classes. But before he could get there, he had to finish cleaning up this sty.
Mrs Weasley sighed, no matter how early she tried to get her children moving, they always managed to be running late to catch the Hogwarts Express, always. This morning was no exception. Fred and George were still in their pyjamas, Ron and Harry needed to finish packing and Mr Weasley had disappeared somewhere. The only two ready to go on time were Ginny and Hermione.
"Molly dear," Mr Weasley said as he approached his wife, "I found the students we're taking with us, and the cars Dumbledore arranged will be here in fifteen minutes."
"Good thing Dumbledore got us those cars, or else how on earth would we ever get to the station," Molly shook her head, "I have to go and get Fred and George ready, can't leave those two alone for a moment."
In fifteen minutes miracles happened, everyone was ready to go, packed and all. Mrs Weasley did a head count, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Fred, George and Mr Weasley were all there, now they just needed these new students that Mrs Weasley had yet to meet.
"Arthur, dear," Molly turned to her husband, "where are the other children?"
Arthur smiled as he saw Nami and her three friends coming down the stairs, bags in tow, "Right there dear."
....
Kaya went after packing to pick up Malik from his room, which was the closest room to hers, they had been told to meet the Weasley's downstairs in fifteen minutes. Kaya knocked softly at the door and then poked her head in and was greeted by the sight of a sleeping Malik on the bed with his trunk almost completely packed on the floor beside him.
"Malik," Kaya whispered as she entered the room slowly, "Malik we have to leave soon, this is no time for a nap."
Malik just snorted in his sleep and turned away from Kaya. Rolling her eyes, Kaya crept across the room to the bed and grabbed Malik by the shoulders and shook him violently while yelling, "Wake up!"
Malik shoot straight up from his slumber at the sudden sound and felt hands on his shoulders, panicking he grabbed his attacker by the throat and held them down on the bed, without even opening his eyes. When he did open his eyes, Malik realized he was holding down a very frightened Nami, the fear evident in her eyes. Malik felt a cloud of rage pass over him and forced himself to calm down. Slowly he released the terrified Nami.
Once released Kaya lightly placed a hand at her throat, the terror in her eyes changing to anger. Before she could say anything Malik cut her off.
"I'm," he started slowly and awkwardly, "sorry," he sounded as though he wasn't used to apologies, "I'm sorry, did I hurt you?" A look of concern graced his face.
Kaya was about to snap at him in anger when Nami cut her off, /Be nice to the guy, tell him you're fine,/ Nami ordered from her soul room, she had watched the episode from there and felt the panic Kaya had felt.
//But you aren't, I can feel that it is going to bruise.//
/I don't care, just tell him it's not a problem./
Malik just looked at the ground, "Sorry," he muttered.
Kaya gave Nami a glare and then added, "Its alright, I'm not hurt. I came to see if you were packed, which obviously you aren't," Kaya gestured towards the trunk, "need some help?"
Malik shook his head, "No, I'll do it, you can go and check on Yugi and Ryou."
Kaya stood from the bed and took her leave, heading in the direction of Yugi and Ryou's room. Once outside the door, Kaya let her hands wander back to her neck, her cold hands felt nice against the reddening skin. She knocked on Yugi's door and waited for a response before entering.
"Just seeing if you two are packed and ready to go," she smiled and noticed that they in fact were and were passing the time by playing some kind of card game.
Ryou looked up from his hand and smiled, "Yup, pack and ready," he tilted his head to the side, noticing the red marks on his new friend's neck, "what happened Nami? You're neck is all red."
Kaya just smiled, "Its nothing. Well if you're ready, I guess we should go downstairs, we're leaving soon."
Yugi smiled, "Yea, I'm so excited, lets go!"
With that the three friends left the room, doing a quick last check to make sure they hadn't forgotten anything, and were met by Malik on the landing of the stairs. And together they descended, ready to face the challenges of this new world.
At the bottom of the stairs they were greeted by Mr Weasley who in turn introduced them, "Ah, these are my sons, Fred and George, Ron, his friends Harry and Hermione, my daughter Ginny and my wife, Molly. This is Nami, Yugi, Ryou and Malik." Mr Weasley guided the bunch outside, where two vans awaited them. Arthur rubbed his hands with excitement. "Alright, Professor Dumbledore arranged for these vans, so now, in van number one we have Fred, George, Ginny, Hermione, Molly and myself. And in van number two, we have Harry, Ron, Yugi, Nami, Ryou, Malik and some of the luggage. Pile in!"
After several minutes of chaos, which was not induced by Bakura or Malik for once, everyone was piled into the vans and was on their way to King's Cross Station. In the first van the conversation was mostly Mrs Weasley reminding Fred and George what they could not do and making sure no one forgot anything. But the second van was much more interesting.
Nami found herself between Harry and Ron, while Ryou was stuck between Yugi and Malik, although Nami couldn't see them, as her owl's cage was on her lap.
"That's a beautiful owl, what's her name?" the boy named Harry asked, his own owl's cage resting on his lap.
Nami blinked at him, "She doesn't have one."
Ron looked over at her with a funny look, "Why not?"
"I never got around to it I suppose," Nami answered.
Ryou turned around in his seat, hitting a very quiet Malik in the ribs with his elbow, "Why don't you call her Eameeru?"
Nami smiled, "That's a really pretty name, what does it mean?"
Ryou returned the smile, "Its Japanese for 'air mail'," Ryou giggled.
Nami nodded, "Eamerru it is."
Ron looked at Ryou, "You speak Japanese?" he inquired.
Ryou smiled again, "Its my second language, English is my first."
Now Yugi turned around, accidentally bumping into Ryou, who then accidentally bumped into Malik, "It's my first language though," he giggled, "obviously, since I live in Japan."
"You're English is very good, you only have a slight accent," Harry complemented.
"Well, Tom at the inn used some kind of spell so I could speak English, really my English is horrible," Yugi admitted.
Harry seemed impressed, "I didn't know that they could do that."
Ron just smiled, "I've heard of it before, its fairly new. Just be glad Hermione isn't in here or else we'd have the whole history of it," Ron joked.
Harry laughed along with Ron, and seeing Ryou and Yugi's confusion explained for them, "Hermione is our friend, she knows everything about everything."
"I think she has all of Hogwarts: A History memorized," Ron added.
"But don't get us wrong, we don't mind, she's saved our butts numerous times."
"She's best in our year," Ron put in proudly, "I reckon she'll be head girl," he thought for a moment, "I'd die of shock if she wasn't."
Yugi smiled, "Looks like you have some competition Ryou. He's always been the smartest in our class."
Ryou blushed in modesty, "Not true, Kaiba always does better than me."
Yugi thought for a moment, "True, but you always come to class, whereas Kaiba hardly ever does, so you're better than him," he smiled brightly.
Harry scratched his head, "He never comes to class, but always does better than everyone else? How does that work? Wouldn't the teachers fail him for never being there?"
Ryou let Yugi field Harry's question, "Well, Kaiba," Yugi thought for a moment, "Kaiba has a lot on his plate and if the teachers give him too much trouble it gets messy."
"Messy?" Ron questioned.
"He'll have them fired," Ryou explained.
Malik snorted, "Seems like a Kaiba thing to do, his way or the highway."
"How could he get them fired, he's just a student?" Harry questioned further.
"Oh, he's one of the richest people in Japan, he runs Kaiba Corp.," Yugi added off-handedly.
"He named a corporation after himself?" Ron asked puzzled.
"No, it was his step-father's before his," Ryou added to the confused Ron.
"His step-father named the company after his step-son?" Ron asked again.
Yugi gave Ron a funny look, "Kaiba was his step-father's last name."
Ron gave Yugi a funny look, "So your friend's name is Kaiba Kaiba?"
Yugi gave Ron another funny look, "Of course not."
At this point Ryou realized where this was coming from and decided to clear up the confusion. "In Japan you refer to people by last name and then first name, so we say Kaiba Seto and you would say Seto Kaiba." Realization dawned on Yugi, Harry and Ron's faces.
"Oh," Ron mused, "so you would be..."
"Bakura Ryou."
//Make sure you tell them to call you just Ryou,// Bakura added rather harshly, //wouldn't want to ruin the terror that the name Bakura can instil.//
"But, you can just call me Ryou, I never did get used to be referred to by last name, its so impersonal," Ryou added to the group, and merely shot his temperamental yami a half hearted glare.
While the rest of the group was busy discussing the method of addressing people in Japan Kaya and Nami decided to swap places, sort of a last minute free for all on Kaya's part. Kaya shifted in her seat wedged between Harry and Ron.
"I sure feel close to you guys right now," Kaya smiled to Ron and Harry, jesting about the lack of room in the back seat, "and as much as I enjoy it, are we almost there yet?" she whined playfully, just as Nami did to Nathaniel on their long car rides.
Harry and Ron looked out the window, "We'll be there in about five minutes," Ron informed the rest of the van happily. "You're right Nami, there isn't much space back here, especially with Hedwig and Eamerru," Ron rolled the second owl's name off his tongue funny, making Yugi and Ryou laugh.
"Hey Malik," Ron demanded suddenly, "Do you speak Japanese?"
Malik didn't turn around but simply answered, "Hai."
"That means yes," Yugi added merrily looking out the window.
"Is it your first language too?" Ron inquired again.
"Third," Malik answered, still facing forward in his seat.
"Which other languages do you speak?" Ron asked again, unaware of the looks of discouragement he was receiving from Yugi and Ryou.
"Do you always ask so many questions?" Malik shot back nastily, sending Ron an evil glare, causing the red haired boy to sit back in his seat and be silent, exchanging worried looks with Harry and Nami.
Suddenly the van came to a stop, and the driver jumped out and opened the door. All six of the students fell out and collected their luggage, thanked the drivers and headed towards the other van to where Mrs Weasley was standing, handing out sandwiches to all of the children, including Yugi, Nami, Malik and Ryou. Without further words she ushered them all into the train station, straight to the pillar between platform nine and ten.
"Alright dears," she started fondly, "onto the platform, Fred, George you first." The new students watched in amazement as Fred and George ran straight at the wall in front of them and disappeared. "Ok, Ginny and Hermione, you're next." The same thing happened to them, as soon as they got near the wall a group of people would walk by and then the girls were gone.
"Hey, Harry," Kaya asked quietly, "Where did they go?"
"Onto the platform of course, you just jog straight at the wall and the platform is on the other side," Harry explained. "It isn't hard," at Nami's doubting face he added, "I'll go with you."
Harry and Kaya walked up to where Ginny and Hermione had been standing and they began to jog towards the wall, as it came closer Kaya closed her eyes and when she opened them she and Harry were standing on the platform for a large red train labelled the Hogwarts Express. As they moved out of the way the rest of the group filed into the crowded platform and the new students gazed for a second time in awe.
"Welcome to Platform 9 ¾," Harry grinned.
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ok, thanks for reading! I hope you liked this chapter...and next chapter I promise they'll get to Hogwarts lol...this is going to be a long story ^_^ not that I mind...hope you guys don't mind either! So thanks to:
Serryn – yay! I'm do glad that you like! That makes my day ^_^ I hope you liked this chapter as much as the others!
Sugaricing – I added the stuff about Seto for you...I needed something for them to talk about so I put Seto in there...cos I don't think he's going to make an appearance while they're in fifth year ^_~...but maybe some other time
Anime Lover – nope I don't think I'll be using Umbridge...I'm in denial over the fifth book...I refuse to believe she did that! As for Bakura...rules were made to be broken lol *evil cackle* lol thanks for the review! ja!
Curtis Zidane Ziara – oohh don't bang your head...you'll get a headache lol! Well drop a review to clear that headache right up lol ^_^ glad you liked ^.^
Brendan – well I'm talking to you as I write this...so I don't have much to say...review this chapter too! Stop making fun of my typos lol ^_~
Misuto – no Kaze has yet to review...however she already read this chapter...and pointed out that I forgot to put Nami in a van...I fixed that lol...hey I want to read the rest of your essay...email it to me or something! Ok? Ja!
For all of you still reading FYI its my birthday on March 4th!! I'm so excited cos you see Kaze gave me a present for my bday...but she gave it to me like 13 days ago....finally I get to open it!! yay! so since you're still reading this...birthday cake all around *hands out cake*
Ok one more thing before I go...I'm stuck on a DADA teacher...I just don't know what to do...so if you leave some suggestions I'd love to hear them! I wont promise that I'll pick one...but if you help me think of something I'll dedicate the chapter to you! ok? Ok! If you don't want to leave it in a review you can email it to me at hinotama85@hotmail.com...put And Then There Were Eight in the subject box if you don't mind! Thanks!! JA! --hino