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Warnings - Blah. Go read the warnings for chapter seven.
Damn. Irony /sucked./
"What do you MEAN we're in a Death Eaters hideout?" Bakura looked annoyed. "Like Malik'll care."
"Dunce. Malik called them the /Ghouls./"
"Damn, really? That sure explains a lot." A moment of silence met Bakura's inquiring.
With Harry and Ron standing at the fore-front of the room and the other three set off to the side in silence, it was obvious indeed that they had chosen a very bad place in order to play their little card games. Hushed voices outside in the dark streets of Diagon Alley could be heard talking animatedly about this and that, most of it revolving around a topic that kept getting danced about and refusing to reveal any details (Harry could just feel the adventure that was soon to occur coming on). Eventually, Seto gave up with any elaboration about to come to him from the sky, and addressed a one Hermione Granger.
"You, girl; what're these 'Death Eaters?'" he demanded rudely. He was suddenly met with the concern the girl was going to faint from flattery. Good God, must he have this type of effect on everyone? Glowering downwards at the shorter Fifth Year student, he tapped a foot impatiently as the voices seemed to get louder.
He recieved no explanation, as Ryo chose now to take reign over his body.
"Huh... what did I miss?" Blinking awkwardly, he cocked his head vaguely in the direction of Harry and Ron. "What's wrong with him?" And then he chose to break out into a string of Japanese swear words at someone evidentially not there. As much as Harry would have liked to get an explanation for the mild-mannered boy's sudden need to swear at an apparently alternate personality (That would explain the attitude throughout the duel), he honestly believed that their lives were a bit more important than their little mystery.
"Guys, c'mon! We saw a door around the back here from outside - Hermione, do a spell and we'll get out of here," Harry order in his typical take-charge-and-save-the-day manner-of-speaking, finally managing to get Hermione out of whatever reverie the CEO choosing to speak to her might have possibly spawned. She swiftly nodded and fumbled around for her wand, managing to fling it out with a sort of lopsided-look of pride across her face (Which turned to disappointment, as Seto was more interested in examining the wall for his supposed door - there appeared to be absolutely nothing there), and trotted over to the indicated location in the room.
Mumbling a few words beneath her breath, a nod bobbed her head up and down as her spell apparently worked as intended. A small, brass doorknob had erupted from the side of the wall, though there was no other indication of a door sitting right there - and, with a frown still over his features, Seto inspected the doorknob suspiciously.
"Nothing comes out of the wall," he stated decidedly, "Unless Motoh's suddenly got that Rod-thing Malik has up his ass and is doing some saving-the-world-mojo." (1)
"Oh, really?" Ryo looked more curious than cyncical, glancing over at the doorknob, anger at the invisible person evidentially forgotten. "Touch it, Kaiba-sama, please? I want to see it was it doooooes."
"No," he snapped. "/You/ touch it. Unless someone else opens that door, I'm not going through until a proper examination has taken place. For all I know, it could electracute me. Or pull a Noa."
"Oh, shut up!" Harry, finally sick of the bantering going on, dragged Ron behind him as he stomped off past Hermione in order to get their business taken care. He gripped his fingers around the doorknob, turned and pushed it open. Cracks in the wall became noticable, suddenly, as the door was revealed suddenly - and, with Ron and Harry in the lead, Hermione scuttled off after the pair with Ryo close in tow. Seto, looking annoyed, mumbled something about fruity monkeys and finally walked in close behind.
The front door smashed open at the very front as the door disappeared back into the wall, doorknob gone.
"I thought you boys were going to be dead! Not that I blame you, Seto dear - nor you, Bakura - but going out in the middle of the night like that just isn't safe!"
Ron and Harry had long tuned out the insistent motherings of Molly Weasley, who looked absolutely flabbergasted at the mere thought of her son and his friends being wandering around and about Diagon Alley, and with some sort of limp, even! She finally huffed as she realized that her crooning was getting her no farther than Hermione's embaressment and Ryo's attempts at being sympathetic for the older lady.
"It's really not their fault - we should have known not to go out, and we kinda got them a bit over-excited with the idea of some new muggle technology... any other wizard without as much sense as you, Mrs. Weasley, probably would have done the same thing." Flattered out of her fustration, Mrs. Weasley gave Ryo a soft pat on the head and scampered off to inform her husband that the children were in one piece (Despite some questionable goings-on).
Standing around Harry's room at the Leaky Cauldron, the odd little collection of characters glanced questioningly at one another. Finally, Seto - who had been inspecting a talking mirror only moments ago, trying to find the speakers - chose to make a statement. He was more interested in tonight events than the fact that Ryo had just sucked up terribly towards an older, slightly round woman whose life meant very little to him.
"So, what exactly are these 'Death Eaters?'" he inquired, frowing. "Obviously, they aren't the most popular denizens of your world."
"Death Eaters," Hermione started to explain, frowning as she searched for a proper definition, "Are ghastly creatures who work for You-Know-Who. They're mostly made up of purebloods, and they attack other people - mainly muggle-borns, and they want to conquer the world for You-Know-Who. They were supposed to have disappeared fifteen years ago, but since we started attending Hogwarts, they've been causing a lot of... problems," she stated delicately, downplaying the 'problems' comment.
Ron gave her a questioning look at the lack of depth, but Harry stepped in before the red-head could open his mouth. "They've been getting a lot bolder. Voldermort's come back."
"Voldermort?" repeated Ryo, furrowing his brow.
"You-Know-Who, you dunce," stated Seto irritably, and he shrugged nonchalantly. "All right. So we saw something we weren't supposed to. Big deal. Like they'll be all that interested in a bunch of teenagers that didn't appear as if they were actually there." Content with his own explanation of the situation, no one bothered to question him (Hermione would have if she wasn't too busy eye-raping him).
"Say, Ron," Ryo spoke up, changing the topic of conversation, "How did you hurt yourself outside, anyways?"
"Er, well, I sorta..."
FLASHBAAAAAAAAACK.
"C'mon, let's hurry. I want to see what out's here..."
Scurrying together out of the small, relatively empty building was Harry and Ron. Before they could inspect whatever the source of noise was, Ron ran smack into the alley wall they had hidden in in order to get a better view. The wall also happened to possess a trash can. Which loathed poor Ron's leg.
"Dammit, Ron, what have I told you about 'looking before you leap'?"
END FLASHBAAAAAAAAAACK.
Hermione blinked stupidly at the boys she called her best friends.
"You're kidding me."
"I always knew there was something wrong with you two," Seto sniffed in a dignified fashion. Harry just smacked himself in the face with the palm of his hand. This was going to defnitely be a very interesting year at Hogwarts, and he doubted it just was going to be because Ron's brain didn't seem to be functioning correctly as of late.
Foreigners always seemed to make things turn out so much differently. Now, that called for a new type of plan to survive.
Plan One - Hide all of the magazines in his trunk that glorified Kaiba Seto.
Plan Two - Hide all of Hermione's magazines in his trunk that glorified Kaiba Seto.
Plan Three - Stop caring about the fact Ryo was really weird.
(1) Malik still has the Rod. I have no explanation, and it's likely Malik won't even show /up/ in this xD But, Hell, who knows, with the way my brain works.
yamisgirl13 - Oh, Bakura sure will give them some Hell. Haha, and agreed. He sure does deserve some more attention.
kenmeishouri - .:snicker:. Okay, I won't worry any more xD And, well, Kaiba isn't Kaiba without making everyone feel like crap, or at least trying.
Kurayami-no-Izou - Ah, yes, I most definitely have read it. It was brilliant, I must say. I'll probably need to put 'Half-Blood spoilers' in the warnings if things go the way I plan to have them go... Muahaha...
Jasmine Reinier - .:snickerdoodle:. Hermione gets more attention this chapter xD Yaaaay. And how many times have you voted, anyways, my lufferly? xDD
Lily of the Shadow - I've gotten my card situation taken care of, but thank you. : ) I'll let you know if I need anymore help.
HellFireChan - Hot damn, it is Makazi. I've been calling her by that last name for the longest time. Thanks for the correction!
cantdueldontaskme - Ah, really? I'm not a massive fan of duels, myself, but it was just so /tempting/ to write...!