A/N: Greetings friends and associates!! I didn't get half of what I wanted
to get done in this chapter done
-___- ah well. Re-reading that I still think it makes sense =P. ANYWAY! NEWS: I think I'm gonna change the name of this fic! It's annoying me as it is! Any suggestions put into your reviews, I'm having trouble deciding! ^^;; Well it's finally the summer holidays and less than a week into it I'm bored senseless. Thank Suzaku for the internet ^____^ Ooh that reminds me, I'm now officially into Fushigi Yuugi. I've been reading the manga and it's sooooo cool! (*drool* Tamahome...) But other than sitting in Borders reading FY, I've been watching the end of the Shishio Arc for Rurouni Kenshin. Waaahh Soujiro!! He's so kawaii!! *glomp* But enough of that, time to RESPOND TO MY BELOVED REVIEWERS!!!
gimeGohan: Thankyou to you, Shin and Legolas ^^;; *turns around and sticks out tongue* Aragorn is better =P Legolas: *twitch* Nay, you are mistaken.
Midnight Fairy: Nah, not a Snape as such. More of a...mild tormentor? And yeah, not so much to Yugi ^^;;
Tyger and Darkdracofire: Cheez TV!! ^_^ Bring of lame but much loved anime. Ya, now that school's out and I'm bored senseless I recon I'll get more done! Hope you did well on your exams!
Despairing Angel: It was...interesting...? O_o That's a good thing right? O_O
wild-filly: I went to look and I've read your DBZ/HP fic before ^^ it inspired me to write one of my own once but, unfortunately, mine was really bad -__- but yours is really good so it's all ok!
Rune-Rune: Oooohh yummy! Is it true that the way to an authors heart is through their stomach? I'm not complaining! My reviewers feed me ^_^ The Malik tormenting shall continue but I'll try to tone it down =P And he'll do some tormenting of his own!
Oklina: Origo means beginning in Latin. Like origin, you know? I figured Kaiba would call him something slightly out of the ordinary. Ori is just a nickname for that really ^^ I think it's a cute name!
JadedKatrina: You'll have to. Wait. And. See!! ^_______^ sorry! And yes, Shadi will torture him to at least near insanity =P
DMCat15: w00t! Me update! You've become an encouragement so you get a special place here! And thankyou for putting me in your story =D
Peter Kim: Good point...I haven't really thought about it but now that you've mentioned it I'm gonna have to soon!
Althe: Happy Belated Birthday! : ) Think of this as a present from me to you! And don't worry about him, download it anyway =D oh and btw, no sticking needles in my eye! =P
dun have an accout yet :P : ICT = Information and Communication Technologies aka Computer class! ^^
labyrinth of chaos: Nyan Leesy has updated nyan! You = Inspiration = Me has updated quicker!
And to: DarkPuck, Setine x2 =P, rogue solus, Amber of Heart, RainOwl, Eternal Dreamer, Ryou Bakura Obsessor, Wolf Youkai Queen of Chibis, Crystal, Mavelus, ultimate-animefan25, reaper-from-heaven, BabyBakura, Millenium Dreamer, Ice-Spirit Phoenix and Curtis Zidane Ziraa!! I love you guys with a special love reserved for those whom read and like my fanfiction!
On with the story!!
Listening to: Asian Kung-Fu Generation from Naruto
CHAPTER 13. Predictions of Certainty
"I swear that man gets more creepy every day..." Yugi sighed
"Yugi, what exactly did he mean about studying spirits trapped in objects..." Ryou asked quietly, so that the others wouldn't hear. They were walking down a long corridor, following Harry and Ron to Divination.
"I think it means exactly what it sounds like it means...but I guess we'll have to see." Yugi said carefully, so as not to alert their two friends that something was amiss.
"Hey, what are you two whispering about?" Ron asked, turning back to the Millennium holders
"Oh, we were just wondering what Divination is going to be like." Yugi covered quickly
"It's nothing to get excited about really." Harry said
"Yeah, the Professor is just a big fake. She just predicts Harry's death several times a year." Ron said, rolling his eyes empathetically
"Predicted Harry's death? That's horrible!" Ryou said, taken aback
"Don't worry, I guess she just thinks that it's likely to happen eventually and some day she might get it right. Unless Harry lives forever. Oh! Do that just to spite her Harry!" Ron grinned, punching his friends arm
"There's no particular reason that you'd die though, right Harry?" Yugi asked
"You don't know?!" Ron stopped suddenly, turning around
"What? Are you sick or something Harry?" Yugi said, his worry rising slightly
"No! No no no no no. You really don't know?" Ron asked incredulously
"Ron, don't make such a big deal about it." Harry said, looking slightly erked
"About what?" Ryou asked
"About Harry! He's the boy who lived!"
"Forever?"
"No!! He is the only person who has ever survived an attack from He- Who-Must-Not-Be-Named!"
"His name is He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named? What were his parents thinking? Did they want their kid to grow up with a complex or something?" Yami Bakura asked, doing his best to keep up the appearance of still being his Hikari.
"Ryou!! It isn't a joke! He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is the most powerful dark wizard of all times!!" Ron gaped at the white haired boys audacity
"Ron, don't make a scene!!" Harry was starting to get rather angry. They were already late to class and here Ron was, making him out to be a big hero,
"But Harry, he..."
"Stop it." Harry said, gritting his teeth as he walked briskly down the corridor
"I...Harry! Wait up!" Ron ran after his friend
"We'll have to ask the others about this..." Yugi said as he and Ryou took off after the two
By the time they had reached the rest of their class, Harry seemed to have cooled off considerably, though he still shot Ron a dirty look or two. A few moments after they arrived, a silvery rope fell gracefully down for a trap door in the ceiling, which they all climbed up slowly.
As soon as Yugi and Ryou had pulled themselves up through the trapdoor, their senses were overwhelmed with the scent of perfume that hung almost visibly in the air.
"Are we *cough* really supposed *cough cough* to learn *choke* in a place like this?" Ryou managed to wheeze out, seating himself on a small poof alongside Yugi and their friends.
"I think she's gone overboard a bit this year." Ron said, his nose twitching
"Good morning class..." a lady draped in...what looked like drapes and glasses that were just that big that they gave the impression of bug eyes. "Last night a saw a vision. In the vision I have foreseen that two new students have joined our ranks recently."
"The entire school knows..." Ron whispered, rolling his eyes
"To the two in question, my name is Professor Trelawney. I would just like to inform you both that the art of fortune telling is not something that can be learnt or conjured. Most simply do not have the gift to succeed in this field so don't be disappointed if..."
"It's easy though." Yami Bakura said, one of his eyebrow's cocked
"I beg your pardon?" the Professor looked shocked
"Fortune telling. It isn't hard at all." Bakura rested his head on his hand in a bored gesture
"My dear, I fear that you have no knowledge of what you speak of..."
"My dear, I fear that you are wrong." Bakura said sarcastically
"Bakura! Stop it!" Yugi hissed
"Whatever." Bakura looked away, not being in the mood to get into a scuffle with the Pharaoh
"Yes, well to continue;" Professor Trelawney shook herself slightly, "This term we shall be studying the subconscious and it's ability to communicate with the other side."
"The what?" Seamus asked
"The other side dear. The world beyond, where those who have passed on dwell..."
"They dwell right here." Bakura said, looking back towards the teacher challengingly
"Dear, I don't appreciate you talking out of turn. If you have a question please raise your hand and I will..."
"I don't have a question, I have a fact. The dead dwell right here in this world alongside us. The world which you speak of is only a world of shadows which..."
"Do not speak out of turn Mr..." Professor Trelawney gave her class list a quick scan, "Motou."
"He's Motou, I'm Bakura. Some seer you are." Bakura smirked
"Ten points from Gryffindor. Stop your interfering." the Bug-eyed Professor was giving Bakura a highly critical look
"Tomb robber. Stop it now." Yami appeared and gave Bakura his best 'All-Mighty Pharaoh Glare'
"This is ridiculous." Bakura gave a glare of near equal animosity before allowing his other half to take over. Ryou had the decency to look sheepish.
"May I continue the lesson now?"
"Yes." the white haired boy winced
"Good. I trust that won't happen again. But anyway, today we shall be starting with a simple exercise to tap into the spirit world. You shall each be given blindfolds, a sheet of paper and a quill." The Professor indicated to the objects, which sat upon the small tables. "Put the blindfolds on now. Go on."
Each student nervously grabbed a blindfold, getting their friends to tie them around their head.
"Now what you shall do is grab a quill and write whatever comes into your mind. Try not to think at all; just let the words go. This is a way that spirits can occasionally contact us if they have something to tell us. Now go to it and don't be disappointed if you don't contact anything first off."
"This will be fun." Harry said sarcastically, pulling up his blindfold slightly and starting to doodle in a corner of the paper
'You're a spirit Yami, how about a poem or something?' Yugi asked through his mind link
'I think you should attempt this exercise Aibou.' Yami said seriously, 'Meditative writing is an ancient art that isn't totally without its foundations.'
'I guess if you say so. Let's see how this goes.' Yugi, still very blindfolded, put his quill to the paper. After a few moments he began tapping it impatiently.
'Just relax, relax. See if anything happens.' Yami reassured. Suddenly Yugi felt as if he was drifting away from himself and his hand began writing on its own. In the brief moments that he still was in control, he was Ryou in a similar state to himself. Then there was...light.
"Yugi? Yugi!" from somewhere he heard a voice calling him back to earth.
"Wh...what?" Yugi's eyes snapped into focus
"Welcome back to earth mate. You had us worried for a second." Ron shook his head
"You looked like you were in a trance or something..." Harry looked worried. Yugi's eyes were casted downwards to his paper. His head turned suddenly to Ryou, who's eyes were glazed over as his quill scratched frantically at the page.
"Oh no, not him too!" Ron rushed over and began shaking the white haired boy, who suddenly stopped writing and came back as if from a dream. A dream that had ending rather abruptly.
"Wah!!" his head jolted forward, and he rubbed his temples. "That was..." he looked down to his piece of paper that now had scrawled all over it the same message that Yugi's did.
'The door will open. Your fate is sealed. The Pharaoh's own are rising.'
"Yugi..." he looked at his friend, panic rising into his eyes
"Well? Let's see what you wrote!" Ron tried leaning over to see the paper but before he caught a glimpse, the two had pulled them out of view. "Hey! Let me see!"
"No...I...um..." Ryou was looking slightly panicked, while Yugi was busy stuffing the sheet in his bag
"Leave it be Ron." Harry said, looking disinterestedly the other way
"But Harry..."
"Leave it."
"Ok..." Ron looked curiously at his friend, but let it go. Ryou gave Harry a thankful look and joined Yugi in putting the paper away. As soon as this happened, Harry leaned over to Ron and whispered very quietly;
"I saw it. Tell you later." Strangely enough, the rest of the lesson passed without incident.
Later that night in the Gryffindor common room, our favourite meddlesome trio were conspiring. That is Harry, Ron and Hermione were sitting in a corner of the room, talking in hushed voices.
"Well Harry? What did it say?" Hermione asked enthusiastically. She had been informed by Ron previously about the strange occurance in the Divination classroom
"It was very odd..." Harry muttered, not knowing whether he was doing the right thing in telling his friends. Something in his mind said that this shouldn't be discussed.
"Go on." Ron urged
"It..." Harry bit his lip
"Well?"
"It was nothing." Harry said, is resolve strengthening; but not the way his friends wanted
"What?!!" Ron and Hermione almost reeled in shock
"I don't think we should pry into it. Something tells me it could prove very wrong..." Harry, despite coming to a decision, wasn't feeling very certain. Since when did he care about prying anyway?
"But Harry it could be very important!!" Ron insisted
"Harry...if you think we shouldn't...I guess we won't." Hermione said, worry still marking her features. Harry gave her a thankful look.
"This isn't like you Harry! We have to get to the bottom of this!" Ron said, in a voice that was just a bit too loud
"Get to the bottom of what?" Yami Bakura said casually, swinging a near-by chair around to the group. They hadn't even realised he was there
"Ryou!! I...uh...we..." the red haired boy stuttered
"We were just discussing...the Quidditch tryouts! We were trying to get to the bottom of who exactly is going to get picked this year!" Hermione covered. Bakura smirked; he had heard everything and knew better. Well if Harry wasn't going to say anything, he might as well play along.
"Oh really? Tell me more about this game."
"Well you already know that it's played on broom-sticks right?" And affermative nod, "Well the aim is to get as many points as you can..." Harry proceeded to explain the entire game of Quidditch to the white haired thief.
"Doesn't sound as dangerous as Duel Monsters...but it's better than nothing. When are the tryouts?" Bakura asked
"Isn't as dangerous as Duel Monsters? That's a card game though!!" Harry stared, perplexed at the Yami's words.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Bakura grinned, his fangs exposed
"The worst I can see is that you would get a paper cut..." Ron laughed, but not as humourously as he would have if Yami Bakura hadn't been giving him that look
"Anyway, you didn't answer my question. When are the tryouts?"
"Not sure yet, but we'll tell you when we find out. It'll be sometime this week in any case."
"That's good. I'd better go now. Oh and Harry?" he lent down so that only he and the black haired boy could hear, "Let's not do anything we might regret." Leaving Harry wide-eyed, the Tomb Robber sauntered out of the room.
A/N: Nyan! New chapter!! ^___________^ I really want to get to the Qudditch tryouts!! But...must....take....time........ Anyway, review and wish upon the fireflies that I shall update shortly!!
-___- ah well. Re-reading that I still think it makes sense =P. ANYWAY! NEWS: I think I'm gonna change the name of this fic! It's annoying me as it is! Any suggestions put into your reviews, I'm having trouble deciding! ^^;; Well it's finally the summer holidays and less than a week into it I'm bored senseless. Thank Suzaku for the internet ^____^ Ooh that reminds me, I'm now officially into Fushigi Yuugi. I've been reading the manga and it's sooooo cool! (*drool* Tamahome...) But other than sitting in Borders reading FY, I've been watching the end of the Shishio Arc for Rurouni Kenshin. Waaahh Soujiro!! He's so kawaii!! *glomp* But enough of that, time to RESPOND TO MY BELOVED REVIEWERS!!!
gimeGohan: Thankyou to you, Shin and Legolas ^^;; *turns around and sticks out tongue* Aragorn is better =P Legolas: *twitch* Nay, you are mistaken.
Midnight Fairy: Nah, not a Snape as such. More of a...mild tormentor? And yeah, not so much to Yugi ^^;;
Tyger and Darkdracofire: Cheez TV!! ^_^ Bring of lame but much loved anime. Ya, now that school's out and I'm bored senseless I recon I'll get more done! Hope you did well on your exams!
Despairing Angel: It was...interesting...? O_o That's a good thing right? O_O
wild-filly: I went to look and I've read your DBZ/HP fic before ^^ it inspired me to write one of my own once but, unfortunately, mine was really bad -__- but yours is really good so it's all ok!
Rune-Rune: Oooohh yummy! Is it true that the way to an authors heart is through their stomach? I'm not complaining! My reviewers feed me ^_^ The Malik tormenting shall continue but I'll try to tone it down =P And he'll do some tormenting of his own!
Oklina: Origo means beginning in Latin. Like origin, you know? I figured Kaiba would call him something slightly out of the ordinary. Ori is just a nickname for that really ^^ I think it's a cute name!
JadedKatrina: You'll have to. Wait. And. See!! ^_______^ sorry! And yes, Shadi will torture him to at least near insanity =P
DMCat15: w00t! Me update! You've become an encouragement so you get a special place here! And thankyou for putting me in your story =D
Peter Kim: Good point...I haven't really thought about it but now that you've mentioned it I'm gonna have to soon!
Althe: Happy Belated Birthday! : ) Think of this as a present from me to you! And don't worry about him, download it anyway =D oh and btw, no sticking needles in my eye! =P
dun have an accout yet :P : ICT = Information and Communication Technologies aka Computer class! ^^
labyrinth of chaos: Nyan Leesy has updated nyan! You = Inspiration = Me has updated quicker!
And to: DarkPuck, Setine x2 =P, rogue solus, Amber of Heart, RainOwl, Eternal Dreamer, Ryou Bakura Obsessor, Wolf Youkai Queen of Chibis, Crystal, Mavelus, ultimate-animefan25, reaper-from-heaven, BabyBakura, Millenium Dreamer, Ice-Spirit Phoenix and Curtis Zidane Ziraa!! I love you guys with a special love reserved for those whom read and like my fanfiction!
On with the story!!
Listening to: Asian Kung-Fu Generation from Naruto
CHAPTER 13. Predictions of Certainty
"I swear that man gets more creepy every day..." Yugi sighed
"Yugi, what exactly did he mean about studying spirits trapped in objects..." Ryou asked quietly, so that the others wouldn't hear. They were walking down a long corridor, following Harry and Ron to Divination.
"I think it means exactly what it sounds like it means...but I guess we'll have to see." Yugi said carefully, so as not to alert their two friends that something was amiss.
"Hey, what are you two whispering about?" Ron asked, turning back to the Millennium holders
"Oh, we were just wondering what Divination is going to be like." Yugi covered quickly
"It's nothing to get excited about really." Harry said
"Yeah, the Professor is just a big fake. She just predicts Harry's death several times a year." Ron said, rolling his eyes empathetically
"Predicted Harry's death? That's horrible!" Ryou said, taken aback
"Don't worry, I guess she just thinks that it's likely to happen eventually and some day she might get it right. Unless Harry lives forever. Oh! Do that just to spite her Harry!" Ron grinned, punching his friends arm
"There's no particular reason that you'd die though, right Harry?" Yugi asked
"You don't know?!" Ron stopped suddenly, turning around
"What? Are you sick or something Harry?" Yugi said, his worry rising slightly
"No! No no no no no. You really don't know?" Ron asked incredulously
"Ron, don't make such a big deal about it." Harry said, looking slightly erked
"About what?" Ryou asked
"About Harry! He's the boy who lived!"
"Forever?"
"No!! He is the only person who has ever survived an attack from He- Who-Must-Not-Be-Named!"
"His name is He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named? What were his parents thinking? Did they want their kid to grow up with a complex or something?" Yami Bakura asked, doing his best to keep up the appearance of still being his Hikari.
"Ryou!! It isn't a joke! He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is the most powerful dark wizard of all times!!" Ron gaped at the white haired boys audacity
"Ron, don't make a scene!!" Harry was starting to get rather angry. They were already late to class and here Ron was, making him out to be a big hero,
"But Harry, he..."
"Stop it." Harry said, gritting his teeth as he walked briskly down the corridor
"I...Harry! Wait up!" Ron ran after his friend
"We'll have to ask the others about this..." Yugi said as he and Ryou took off after the two
By the time they had reached the rest of their class, Harry seemed to have cooled off considerably, though he still shot Ron a dirty look or two. A few moments after they arrived, a silvery rope fell gracefully down for a trap door in the ceiling, which they all climbed up slowly.
As soon as Yugi and Ryou had pulled themselves up through the trapdoor, their senses were overwhelmed with the scent of perfume that hung almost visibly in the air.
"Are we *cough* really supposed *cough cough* to learn *choke* in a place like this?" Ryou managed to wheeze out, seating himself on a small poof alongside Yugi and their friends.
"I think she's gone overboard a bit this year." Ron said, his nose twitching
"Good morning class..." a lady draped in...what looked like drapes and glasses that were just that big that they gave the impression of bug eyes. "Last night a saw a vision. In the vision I have foreseen that two new students have joined our ranks recently."
"The entire school knows..." Ron whispered, rolling his eyes
"To the two in question, my name is Professor Trelawney. I would just like to inform you both that the art of fortune telling is not something that can be learnt or conjured. Most simply do not have the gift to succeed in this field so don't be disappointed if..."
"It's easy though." Yami Bakura said, one of his eyebrow's cocked
"I beg your pardon?" the Professor looked shocked
"Fortune telling. It isn't hard at all." Bakura rested his head on his hand in a bored gesture
"My dear, I fear that you have no knowledge of what you speak of..."
"My dear, I fear that you are wrong." Bakura said sarcastically
"Bakura! Stop it!" Yugi hissed
"Whatever." Bakura looked away, not being in the mood to get into a scuffle with the Pharaoh
"Yes, well to continue;" Professor Trelawney shook herself slightly, "This term we shall be studying the subconscious and it's ability to communicate with the other side."
"The what?" Seamus asked
"The other side dear. The world beyond, where those who have passed on dwell..."
"They dwell right here." Bakura said, looking back towards the teacher challengingly
"Dear, I don't appreciate you talking out of turn. If you have a question please raise your hand and I will..."
"I don't have a question, I have a fact. The dead dwell right here in this world alongside us. The world which you speak of is only a world of shadows which..."
"Do not speak out of turn Mr..." Professor Trelawney gave her class list a quick scan, "Motou."
"He's Motou, I'm Bakura. Some seer you are." Bakura smirked
"Ten points from Gryffindor. Stop your interfering." the Bug-eyed Professor was giving Bakura a highly critical look
"Tomb robber. Stop it now." Yami appeared and gave Bakura his best 'All-Mighty Pharaoh Glare'
"This is ridiculous." Bakura gave a glare of near equal animosity before allowing his other half to take over. Ryou had the decency to look sheepish.
"May I continue the lesson now?"
"Yes." the white haired boy winced
"Good. I trust that won't happen again. But anyway, today we shall be starting with a simple exercise to tap into the spirit world. You shall each be given blindfolds, a sheet of paper and a quill." The Professor indicated to the objects, which sat upon the small tables. "Put the blindfolds on now. Go on."
Each student nervously grabbed a blindfold, getting their friends to tie them around their head.
"Now what you shall do is grab a quill and write whatever comes into your mind. Try not to think at all; just let the words go. This is a way that spirits can occasionally contact us if they have something to tell us. Now go to it and don't be disappointed if you don't contact anything first off."
"This will be fun." Harry said sarcastically, pulling up his blindfold slightly and starting to doodle in a corner of the paper
'You're a spirit Yami, how about a poem or something?' Yugi asked through his mind link
'I think you should attempt this exercise Aibou.' Yami said seriously, 'Meditative writing is an ancient art that isn't totally without its foundations.'
'I guess if you say so. Let's see how this goes.' Yugi, still very blindfolded, put his quill to the paper. After a few moments he began tapping it impatiently.
'Just relax, relax. See if anything happens.' Yami reassured. Suddenly Yugi felt as if he was drifting away from himself and his hand began writing on its own. In the brief moments that he still was in control, he was Ryou in a similar state to himself. Then there was...light.
"Yugi? Yugi!" from somewhere he heard a voice calling him back to earth.
"Wh...what?" Yugi's eyes snapped into focus
"Welcome back to earth mate. You had us worried for a second." Ron shook his head
"You looked like you were in a trance or something..." Harry looked worried. Yugi's eyes were casted downwards to his paper. His head turned suddenly to Ryou, who's eyes were glazed over as his quill scratched frantically at the page.
"Oh no, not him too!" Ron rushed over and began shaking the white haired boy, who suddenly stopped writing and came back as if from a dream. A dream that had ending rather abruptly.
"Wah!!" his head jolted forward, and he rubbed his temples. "That was..." he looked down to his piece of paper that now had scrawled all over it the same message that Yugi's did.
'The door will open. Your fate is sealed. The Pharaoh's own are rising.'
"Yugi..." he looked at his friend, panic rising into his eyes
"Well? Let's see what you wrote!" Ron tried leaning over to see the paper but before he caught a glimpse, the two had pulled them out of view. "Hey! Let me see!"
"No...I...um..." Ryou was looking slightly panicked, while Yugi was busy stuffing the sheet in his bag
"Leave it be Ron." Harry said, looking disinterestedly the other way
"But Harry..."
"Leave it."
"Ok..." Ron looked curiously at his friend, but let it go. Ryou gave Harry a thankful look and joined Yugi in putting the paper away. As soon as this happened, Harry leaned over to Ron and whispered very quietly;
"I saw it. Tell you later." Strangely enough, the rest of the lesson passed without incident.
Later that night in the Gryffindor common room, our favourite meddlesome trio were conspiring. That is Harry, Ron and Hermione were sitting in a corner of the room, talking in hushed voices.
"Well Harry? What did it say?" Hermione asked enthusiastically. She had been informed by Ron previously about the strange occurance in the Divination classroom
"It was very odd..." Harry muttered, not knowing whether he was doing the right thing in telling his friends. Something in his mind said that this shouldn't be discussed.
"Go on." Ron urged
"It..." Harry bit his lip
"Well?"
"It was nothing." Harry said, is resolve strengthening; but not the way his friends wanted
"What?!!" Ron and Hermione almost reeled in shock
"I don't think we should pry into it. Something tells me it could prove very wrong..." Harry, despite coming to a decision, wasn't feeling very certain. Since when did he care about prying anyway?
"But Harry it could be very important!!" Ron insisted
"Harry...if you think we shouldn't...I guess we won't." Hermione said, worry still marking her features. Harry gave her a thankful look.
"This isn't like you Harry! We have to get to the bottom of this!" Ron said, in a voice that was just a bit too loud
"Get to the bottom of what?" Yami Bakura said casually, swinging a near-by chair around to the group. They hadn't even realised he was there
"Ryou!! I...uh...we..." the red haired boy stuttered
"We were just discussing...the Quidditch tryouts! We were trying to get to the bottom of who exactly is going to get picked this year!" Hermione covered. Bakura smirked; he had heard everything and knew better. Well if Harry wasn't going to say anything, he might as well play along.
"Oh really? Tell me more about this game."
"Well you already know that it's played on broom-sticks right?" And affermative nod, "Well the aim is to get as many points as you can..." Harry proceeded to explain the entire game of Quidditch to the white haired thief.
"Doesn't sound as dangerous as Duel Monsters...but it's better than nothing. When are the tryouts?" Bakura asked
"Isn't as dangerous as Duel Monsters? That's a card game though!!" Harry stared, perplexed at the Yami's words.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Bakura grinned, his fangs exposed
"The worst I can see is that you would get a paper cut..." Ron laughed, but not as humourously as he would have if Yami Bakura hadn't been giving him that look
"Anyway, you didn't answer my question. When are the tryouts?"
"Not sure yet, but we'll tell you when we find out. It'll be sometime this week in any case."
"That's good. I'd better go now. Oh and Harry?" he lent down so that only he and the black haired boy could hear, "Let's not do anything we might regret." Leaving Harry wide-eyed, the Tomb Robber sauntered out of the room.
A/N: Nyan! New chapter!! ^___________^ I really want to get to the Qudditch tryouts!! But...must....take....time........ Anyway, review and wish upon the fireflies that I shall update shortly!!