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I do not own Yugioh, and never will.
History Can't Help But Repeat Itself
Review: In case you forgot what happened last time…
Bakura growled lowly at Yami as he returned to eating, then turned to Yugi who was watching a little intrigued.
"No! You two, couldn't you have had any decency and have been any louder. I swear that somewhere half-way around the world was the only place that didn't hear it!" Bakura exclaimed.
Turning away from Bakura, Yugi blushed lightly, momently abashed for being so loud.
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Yami in the meantime was smirking at the scowling Bakura.
"Serves you right Bakura, I believe that it was also your fault that I was awake for the night before last due to the noise coming not so inconspicuously from your room," Yami replied calmly.
A light blush appeared on Ryou's face and he turned away from the pair of spirits.
Shaking his head at the pair, the blush gone from his face, Yugi watched as they started to get into the real heat of their 'argument', it was nothing new.
"Ryou, grab your breakfast, let's go into the other room so that they can say their goodbyes, in whatever style they want to. If you can even call it a goodbye," Yugi said.
Grabbing the edge of his plate, Ryou nodded and walked beside Yugi out of the kitchen and into the living room. Having already finished his breakfast, he left his plate on the bench as they left the room.
"I'm going to miss having you and Yami around, Yugi. I'm sure that Bakura will too, not that he would actually eve admit that to anyone, except maybe me. He certainly would never say it." Ryou said.
Yugi nodded smiling sadly. "Thanks Ryou. It was nice staying here with you and Bakura, even with the occasional fights from them," Yugi pointed in the general direction of the shouts. "I'll miss it here, and both you and Bakura. I'm sure that Yami will too. Though I don't think he would ever admit to missing having Bakura around."
The shouts coming from the kitchen were short lived and had gone silent. Their argument having come to an end, they came into the living room.
"Yugi," Yami called for his attention. "We have to leave soon if we want to get to the station and catch the train to London. Otherwise we'll miss the train to Hogwarts."
"Okay," Yugi replied. "Is everything ready to go?"
"It will be in a moment, I'll go up and check that we haven't forgotten anything."
Yami disappeared into the hall and thumped lightly as he went up the stairs.
"Best that I go make sure that Bakura isn't too angry," Ryou murmured.
"Yeah, I'll go help Yami, I have to go and get a few things and put them away before we go," Yugi stated.
Leaving the room, Yugi quickly went up the stairs and into the room that he shared with Yami during their stay as Ryou's. It looked like Yami had already finished putting everything away, and the trunk was closed with Horus' cage sitting on top.
Horus was sitting on the trunk next to his cage, not really wanting to go into it. Almost as if fearing that if he went in that he would not be allowed to every get out again. Freedom to be once more stripped away.
"Ready?" Yugi asked.
"Almost, Horus won't go into his cage," Yami said.
"I'll get it," Yugi said.
Moving to the side, Yami let Yugi have a go with Horus.
"Horus," Yugi said catching the bird's attention. "We just need you to get into the cage until when we reach the train for Hogwarts. You are a predatory bird and people in general do not believe that you would not hurt them. If you get in the cage now. I promise that when we get to the Hogwarts train, I will personally open the door for you."
Horus cocked his head to the side, as if taking a moment to think. Appearing to nod his head, he slowly made his way into the cage, allowing Yugi to close the door to it behind him with no complaints.
Beside Yugi, Yami was shaking his head slightly.
"Should have known that he would respond to reasoning," Yami muttered.
Ignoring the mutter, Yugi looked over at Yami, "So have you and Bakura said your goodbyes?"
"If you can call it that," Yami replied repeating Yugi's own words from earlier.
An amused laugh fluttered past Yugi's lips.
"You know us too well my Hikari," Yami said laughing.
"Good," Yugi said giving Yami a light kiss on his lips. "Come on then, let's go."
\Love you too\
/Who can resist you when you are laughing me Yami/
\Obviously not you my Hikari\ Yami quipped.
With a snort Yugi cut the mind link to Yami. Snagging the top of Horus' cage, leaving Yami to take the trunk.
Careful not to bother the half-asleep falcon, Yugi tried to make the cage remain fairly steady as he made his way down the stairs to the main hall and the front door.
Ryou and Bakura came out of the kitchen as Yami and Yugi reached the bottom of the stairs.
Yugi placed the cage down on the carpet gently as to not startle Horus. Yami placed the trunk down, and took down their coats from the coat rack. Yugi meantime hugged Ryou who looked like he was ready to start crying almost.
Yami handed Yugi his coat as he was released from the hug. Taking the intuitive, Yami walked up to Bakura and stiffly shook his hand, as they quickly exchanged a quick goodbye.
"We'll be back for Christmas if we can," Yugi said to Ryou.
Bakura groaned, then shut up as Ryou hit his arm with decent force to make it hurt.
"Alright," Ryou said.
Throwing the coat on, Yugi felt the keys jangle from when they went out yesterday still in his pocket. As he went to take them out and give them back, Ryou smiled and shook his head.
"We might not be here when you come back, keep them, you never know you might come back earlier than you thought," Ryou commented.
Nodding, Yugi let the keys drop back into he pocket with a slight cling.
Picking up their stuff, they went to the door Ryou going first so that they need not drop their stuff to open the door. Exiting they both waved to Ryou and Bakura, who then walked back inside to where it was warmer.
The walk to the train station was quick and uneventful. Yugi left Yami with the trunk at a seat then went to buy the train tickets.
Coming back with two tickets, he sat down next to Yami.
Both of them once more received some strange looks from other people on the platform both for their choice of clothing and their hair.
Yugi was wearing his usual ensemble of leather clothing, with his leather jacket slightly flaring out as usual.
Yami was meanwhile wearing a very similar ensemble though his sleeveless top had four belts looped around his waist going upwards. His jacket was a bit longer.
As the train came to a stop, they got up and boarded along with a rush of others going to London.
Finding a free seat, they sat down and tried to ignore the stares they were receiving from all the people around them. A mother in particular was sending some nasty glares there way.
"Blooming Punks," the woman hissed. "Can't stay in their own country and have to come to ours to destroy it!"
Hurt by the comment, Yugi leaned into Yami's embrace. It provided a double use as Yami could no longer get up and attempt to kill the woman for insulting his hikari. And Yugi was getting comfort that he needed from hearing the scathing remark. It was not his fault that he had tricoloured hair, and that his Yami liked to dress him in leather. Not that he was complaining at all, no he loved every minute of it.
The train ride went by quickly, only the woman who had mentioned the scathing remark had been noticed by the pair of teens during their train ride. She had walked past them to go to the bathroom. Unfortunately for her, to do so she had to go past Yami and Yugi.
She moved as quickly as possible past them, not even looking in their direction. When she exited the bathroom and came back, she accidentally caught the eye of Yami who was glaring as soon as he knew he had caught her. He hissed lowly at her so only she could hear along with Yugi.
"You will refrain from degrading my aibou and myself woman, or suffer the true hell that I can easily place you in with no guilty conscious," he hissed angrily.
/Yami! Be nice, two wrongs don't make a right you know/ Yugi whispered through their link.
\I know my aibou, you know that I don't like anyone hurting you in any way or form.\ Yami responded.
The train began to slow down and the London stop was announced over the transmission.
Yami lifted his arms from around his aibou and let him grab the lighter bags from the rack above them. Yami waited for the train to stop then stood beside his love and followed him off of the train and onto the platform.
"Aibou, you go and retrieve a trolley while I get the trunks, and be careful," Yami said.
"Yes, of course I will be careful," Yugi responded smiling.
Dragging the trunks from where they had been left, he awaited the arrival of his aibou and did not have to wait long. Yugi returned moments later with a trolley, quickly making his way through the crowds.
Stopping the trolley by the trunks, they both got the trunks onto the trolley. From the top of Yugi's trunk, Yami fished around to find the tickets for the train to Hogwarts.
Finally pulling out the two tickets, he smiled and wondered what the hell when he saw the Platform they were supposed to be leaving from.
"Yugi, is there even a Platform named 9 and ¾?" Yami asked slightly confused.
"Well not in the muggle part of the station there won't be. The Platforms are all while numbers," Yugi replied.
Yugi followed the platform numbers with his eyes and saw the general direction that the numbers were following. Yami took control of the trolley and began pushing it after Yugi who was beginning to wander.
Reaching the Platform 9, Yami and Yugi looked curiously to the next Platform, only to see that it was Platform 10.
"Ah, they could have given directions on how to get to the Platform with all the other crap that we got in that first letter package," Yami growled. "The entrance must be protected by magic so that the muggle's can't get through to it. Why can't I sense it?"
"Yami," Yugi responded calmly. "In all your frustrations you didn't feel out for the magic barrier that is protecting the Platform, did you?"
Yami sheepishly looked down, frustration was an annoying pain for magic detection, made it almost impossible to feel magic that would otherwise be more than plain obvious.
"I didn't think you had," Yugi peacefully quipped. "That nice pillar between Platform 9 and Platform 10 is emitting magical protection like you wouldn't believe."
As the frustration slipped away from Yami, as he could never stay frustrated for long around Yugi. Yugi genuine happy attitude seemed to invade everything around it, including Yami.
"Yes," Yami answered. "I can feel it now."
He could almost see the magic, which was interwoven throughout the brickwork of the pillar. Magical residue seemed to have collected into a thick layer over the surface.
"The only question now, is what exactly do you have to do to get through the barrier?" Yami stated.
"I assume that you are supposed to just walk on through. After all a first year muggle born, would never be able to get through if they had to already know some kind of magic." Yugi suggested.
Yami shrugged his shoulders and walked confidently towards the pillar, pushing the trolley in front of himself.
Disappearing from sight, Yugi looked in wonder for a moment at the place where he disappeared, then followed at a brisk pace, not particularly enjoying being alone amongst all of the tall English people.
As he walked through the wall, he thought for a moment, he was going to get stuck as all he saw was more bricks, but calmed himself and walked through the last layer.
A steam train with a Plate reading Hogwarts Express, was sitting on a track, the Platform he had just walked out onto had a small sign above it reading Platform 9 ¾.
Spotting Yami quickly he moved out of the way as more people came through the brick wall. Groups of students were milling around speaking to their parents or friends who they probably had not seen since the end of the last school year.
Yugi smiled and listened in as Parents told their children to behave and were giving them advice or hugs before they said their goodbyes.
Yami smiled at the happy look on Yugi's face, although he wasn't completely happy at the level of noise that he was surrounded by. If Yugi was happy then he certainly could live with it. Hell it was not much different from the noise when they had been teaching in Japan.
"Come on, let's try and find an empty compartment before they are all taken by the students," Yami said loudly so he could be heard above the chatter of the students.
Yugi nodded to show that he understood and they made their way towards the train, trying not to bump into too many people on the way.
Yami shoved the trunks on the train and walked with Yugi down the train to find a place to sit. Unfortunately most students had already placed items in compartments as a means of declaring them theirs. Getting annoyed, Yami growled lightly as the next one had a couple of books, text books for school sitting on the seat with an old jacket.
"We'll find one soon Yami, stop growling, you'll scare all the kids," Yugi joking stated.
Coming to the last compartment on the train, and the door was shut, they noticed that there was a man sitting in there already, and no students.
Yami knocked on the door, and waited for an answer.
"Come in," a hoarse voice came through the door.
Yugi opened the door, and the man looked at them.
"What would you like?" the man asked politely in a tone that Yami recognised instantly.
He thought that they were students, no big surprise really.
"May we sit down here. All the other compartments we checked are already being used," Yugi inquired politely.
The man nodded his head.
Yami and Yugi took seats beside each other, and a silence enveloped them. Yugi was the first to speak up.
"Thank you, I'm Professor Yugi Mouto, and this is my assistant Yami Mouto," Yugi said hoping for small conversation.
"That's okay, I'm Professor Remus Lupin," the man said apparently a little shocked that the young man in front of him was a professor. "Aren't you a bit young to be teaching?"
Yugi sighed a little frustrated. Why did everyone have to ask him something like that whenever he told him or her what he did?
"Remus I assure you that I am actually a lot older than I look. Indeed while I do look like I am only sixteen or a little older I am actually twenty-four and I have been teaching in Japan for the past three years," Yugi monotonously announced.
"Oh," Remus was little short of words. "Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you."
"That's okay, I get it all the time. Most of the time it happens during parent-teacher interview nights. The parents think that I am a student imitating a teacher who has gone off for a coffee break, and trying to play a practical joke on them."
All talking seemed to end there, as neither was prepared to delve any deeper into the subject or continue on with another.
Remus decided to get some sleep, Yugi noted along with Yami that he was looking quite under the weather. His clothing also seemed to want to get the point across, being thin and rather ragged in some places.
It didn't fuss Yugi or Yami that Remus slept, they wanted to talk anyway. It would be better if they were not overheard by Remus.
\Yugi, something is not right about Remus. I don't think that he is fully human.\ Yami whispered through the link.
/Ys, I can feel it to. Silver Fang seems to also know something is up, she is trying to escape from the Shadow Realm to met him. I wonder why/ Yugi confessed.
Yami sat back and silently thought over what he knew about Remus from just meeting him and what they had together discovered.
\You don't suppose that he could be a werewolf. He has a very similar aura to that of Silver Fangs. She after all is an ancient werewolf before she was shut away into the Shadow Realm?\ Yami questioned.
/It's possible and most likely that Dumbledore would do something like that. He hired us without hesitation knowing very little about us. It would seem a little bit silly to allow a werewolf near children unless he already knew and had a way to control it. From the looks of it, he still suffers the strain of the wolf and has not accepted it into himself./ Yugi stated.
\Yes, that he did. Werewolves are curious creatures. Perhaps the magical community have finally discovered a way to help those that are still not in control of the were animal.\ Yami suggested.
/Probably, Dumbledore does not seem to be the type that would allow a potential threat into his school unless he could control it./ Yugi said.
Yami felt a little faint and knew that he had to soon return to the puzzle or be forcibly pulled back into it to allow the magic of the puzzle re-energize his own magic.
\I'm going back into the puzzle, I'm starting to feel tired.\ Yami told Yugi.
/Okay, I'll talk to you later/ Yugi said and watched Yami fade away until he had totally disappeared from sight.
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