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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…
Yami's frustration was leaking through the link to Yugi. Yugi could feel the desire to do something about it, but everything thing that he wanted to do was not anything that would be allowed.
As they stopped in front of the half-angel half-devil Yugi watched as Minerva turned around to look at them.
Yugi looked deep into her eyes and took the intuitive to tell her exactly how she had been treating them rather unfairly.
"Minerva," Yugi said. "Please can you treat Yami and myself like the adults that we are? Just because we are short in stature and our hair naturally looks like what you would call a punk look. This however dose not mean that you have the right to treat me like a delinquent child. We are twenty-four years old and deserve to be treated as adults."
Chapter 10
Minerva looked at the two short young men that she had escorted to their rooms in a bit of shock. She on first thought was shocked that they would say such a thing. She was nothing but kind to all people and tried to deal with all people with an even hand. Even if they dressed like punks…. Looking over what had happened since they had first been introduced by Dumbledore, she realized that indeed Yugi was right. She had been treating them rather unfairly considering that he was a colleague now and he was not one of the students that she could send to detention for bad behaviour.
Bowing her head is shame and to hide the embarrassment which was creeping across her face in the form of a bright red blush against her pale skin.
"I'm very sorry and slightly ashamed to admit now that I look over the way that I have treated you that you are indeed right. I meant no harm and apologise profusely," Minerva stated
"Don't think too much about it," Yugi murmured unhappily. "It happens quite often."
"While we may appear young and carefree, together Yugi and I have seen a lot of the world and the evils that inhabit it. Indeed we have probably seen and faced more evils of the world than you will ever have the pleasure of meeting or possibly imagine in your wildest dreams," Yami added sullenly.
With a slight glint in her eyes, Minerva was about to retort to the suggestion that someone so young could have seen more evils of the world than a person who had been alive for more than twice his own years. She was stopped only once she had looked up and into his eyes.
In the red pools of Yami's ruby eyes she could see the pain and suffering that was only brought about by extreme situations. Most people never experienced such and pain and suffering, but the amount that seemed to want to pour out of his eyes was an unimaginably large waterfall.
"Hikari," she mumbled just loud enough so that the portrait would respond and open.
With a quick and uttered goodbye, Minerva left them to their own devices.
Entering through the opening that the portrait had revealed, Yugi and Yami looked around the rooms that they were going to be staying in for the next nine or so months.
The first room consisted of a fireplace with a small coffee table, a couple of chars and a couch. A plain rug had been placed on the floor under the coffee table. It was comfortable and homey, if nothing else. Leading from this room was two doors, one lead to a beautiful black and white marble bathroom with a large bath tub, and shower. The toilet was sectioned off by another door. Leaving the bathroom through a second door they entered a bedroom that consisted of a pair of queen sized beds, each with their own beside cabinets. The beds were covered in gold coloured material.
They were quick to notice that all of their stuff was sitting at the end of each of the beds. Opening the next door, they could see that it was the other door that led from the lounge room.
Yami looked at the beds for a moment and let the decision of what bed they would share to Yugi. To him it matter not which bed they slept in as long as Yugi was beside him during the night.
Yugi looked to Yami as he sat down on the bed of his choice. Yami joined him moments later, wrapping his arms around Yugi's waist they lay down on the soft covers of the bed.
From the corner of his eye, Yami watched Yugi carefully, he could feel through the bond that Yugi was thinking about something that bothered his obviously quite a lot. He would wait until Yugi was ready to tell him. Everone enjoyed their privacy sometimes and you had to respect that.
Leaning into Yami, Yugi let the mind link open up to allow telepathic speech.
/Oh Yami, I wish that Remus had not told me why I could see the Theastrals./ Yugi whispered.
\Why not Yugi?\ Yami asked concerned about his little light.
/Because… when I was younger, I lived with my parents. We lived in a nice little house, one night a couple of thieves came into the house. One of them had a gun. Mum and Dad had pushed me away into a hiding spot so that the thieves wouldn't see me. I watched as the thieves paniced and the one with the gun shot my parents./ Yugi explained.
\Oh, Yugi,\ Yami replied unsure what else to say.
Staying silent, sensing that that was the right thing to do, Yami pulled Yugi closer into a comforting and reassuring cuddle. Petting at his hikari's hair with gentle and supportive touches, Yami tried to make his distraught hikari feel better.
Yugi leaned into the touches enjoying the feeling of the hand petting his head.
A smile shined through on Yami's face at Yugi reaction and kissed his forehead.
"Come on Yugi," Yami encouraged. "We have to get up at a decent hour tomorrow morning to meet Minerva. It's going to be a busy day as it is the first day of classes."
Yugi agreed and slipped out of the hold that Yami had on him. Yami let him go, happily watching as he stripped down to his boxers while being totally unconcerned about the presence behind him watching with enthusiasm.
"Yami, don't sit there and watch me. You have to change into your nightwear as well," Yugi admonished him.
Yami shook his head amused by the tone in his hikari's voice, but none the less did as he was told. As he stood, Yugi slid into the bed and under the covers waiting for his other half to come and join him there.
Throwing the clothes onto the second bed, Yami then joined Yugi under the covers, wrapping his bare arms around his other halves waist, spooning him gently from behind.
"Good night Yami," Yugi whispered.
"Good night Hikari," Yami replied.
The reply was not heard as Yugi had already fallen into a serene, deep sleep.
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Horus circled around the large city in Japan looking for his destination to give the letter that he had been given to the receiver. With a noisy cry out, he spotted the little game shop that Yugi's grandfather owned and ran.
Luck was with the falcon as he swooped downwards to the shop, the door was sitting open. Gliding through the open door, he landed on the edge of a shelf with amazing balance and cawed to the only occupant of the shop to take notice of him.
An elderly man with a broom that was sweeping through the isles while there were no people in the shop to keep it tidy.
Noticing the large non-native bird that was sitting on a shelf, he wondering with amazement where he thought that he had seen this breed of bird before. It looked familiar, as if he had seen it before, but couldn't remember exactly where it was that he had seen it.
Walking across the shelf that he had landed on, Horus tried to get closer to the man, to see if he would take the package without too much of a fuss.
Unsure what was with the bird, the elderly man didn't see the letter that the bird was carrying and wasn't too keen on having the bird come closer to himself than was necessary. Picking the broom up, he tried to shoo the bird towards the door.
Horus cawed and managed to scramble away from the broom before it got too close, not particularly wanting to be hit by the weapon.
Shaking out his claw, he tried to show the man that he wasn't there to cause harm or by some accidental mishap.
Seeing the piece of paper like envelope being shaken at him, the elderly man slowly lowered the broom a bit confused. What was such an interesting species of bird flying around his shop with what appeared to be a letter or note of some sort.
Cautiously, the man walked towards the bird, just encase he startled it with a sudden movement and made it fly away.
Horus just watched on amused as the man practically crept forward at the pace of a snail. Once he was in range of getting the letter, Horus shoved his foot out and waited till the man had grasped hold of the letter and then let it go.
Opening the letter while watching the bird out of the corner of his eye, the old man read the letter, seeing almost instantly that it was from his grandson and his lover Yami, the ancient spirit of a Pharaoh of Egypt.
Reading through the letter he looked a little shocked for a moment. They were now working in a magic school in England it appeared to be. They had their own type of magic, although it may have been around for a while it was obviously less potent that that of the Shadow Realm that the Millennium Item holders used.
"Yugi, what have you got yourself mixed up in now?" the old man spoke his thoughts to the empty store.
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Waking up to the morning light of dawn breaking through the window, Yugi blinked lazily wishing that he didn't have to get out of bed. It was warm and extremely comfortable. Not to mention that Yami was also with him in it.
He groaned lightly and turned over to get out of the warm and inviting arms. Minerva would be left waiting for a while if he didn't get out of bed and get dressed some time soon. Especially if he went back to sleep. Yami would prefer to sleep in on any day of the year so he would be no help and would only encourage Yugi to stay in bed with him.
Slipping out from under the covers, Yugi was grateful that their was mats on the stone floor, as even through them he could feel how cold the stones were.
Yawning, he walked across the room and into the bathroom, finding a towel and everything he needed in there, he turned the shower on and dropped his boxers before entering the warm spray of water.
Getting out from under the warm spray, Yugi turned the shower off and went back out into their bedroom to dig through their trunk. Yami was still fast asleep, but had replaced a pillow for where Yugi had been lying.
He couldn't help but shake his head at his Yami's antics. Getting out his usual clothes, Yugi dressed and sat down on the bed beside Yami.
"Yami," he called out.
A mumbled response came from the sleeping man.
"Come on Yami, you have to get up now. I'm already up and dressed. We have to meet Minerva in the Great hall in half an hour," Yugi told him.
"I don't want to get up. Do I have to?" Yami complained.
A smiled spread across Yugi's face, as amusing as Yami's antics were, he was going to have to get out of bed earlier from now on.
Finally sick of the mumbling's coming from the bed, Yugi just dragged Yami out from under the covers and let him fall to the floor, letting his bare skin touch the cold stoned floor. Yami yelped and jumped up off of the floor rather quickly in response.
Grumbling about nasty tricky hikari's, Yami disappeared into the bathroom where Yugi heard the shower start up.
Searching through the trunk, Yugi found Yami's clothes for the day, since he would no doubt jus t jump back into bed otherwise. Once Yami came out of the shower, he dressed and decided to disappear into the Millennium Puzzle for a while. He could watch where they were going from inside the puzzle. Also he didn't particularly want to be seen this early in the morning since he was in a rather grumpy mood.
Yugi shrugged and shook his head, no matter.
Walking through the halls of Hoqwart's, Yugi wondered how early they were. He had only seen five students walking towards the Great Hall this early.
Setting foot into the Great Hall, Yugi spotted that only five of the teachers were at the front table, Minerva was sitting beside Dumbledore and speaking with him quietly, since noise seemed to reverberate through out the hall. Taking his seat, Yugi ate a light breakfast while watching the large doors to see who was entering.
Minerva stole his attention from the doorway as he finished eating.
"Yugi, where's Yami?" she enquired.
"Oh, he's still asleep. When he gets up later, I'll show him around. We will enjoy getting ourselves lost throughout the entirety of Hogwarts," Yugi responded.
Frowning, Minerva nodded and indicated to follow her, while handing him a piece of paper. Looking at the paper he read it quickly. It was his schedule for the year.
He nodded and showed it to Yami, who quickly memorised it so that they wouldn't have to look over it again.
Safely tucked away in the Millennium Puzzle, Yami enjoyed watching the quick tour of Hogwarts that Minerva gave them. The moving staircases seemed to like his energy and seemed to take joy out of responding to where he wanted to go through the levels of the castle.
Finishing the tour in a hallway, Minerva opened a door.
"This is the old History of Magic classroom. You may use this room or you may pick one of the may empty rooms that are down this hallway. It was left as the History Hall when the founders when they made the castle around a thousand years ago," Minerva informed them.
Thanking her profusely for the tour, she left Yugi to fin his classroom and set it up to his liking.
Leaving the Puzzle, Yami stood beside Yugi and looked down the hallway trying to decide which room they should use. It wouldn't do to use the last teachers room considering the reaction that had been given when students had heard about their new teacher.
The castle seemed to sense their turmoil and let a door that had been hidden beneath shadow realm magic come to life and reveal itself to them.
Feeling the pull of the Shadow Realm magic, Yugi and Yami spun around and were stunned to see a gold plated door appear in the wall where there had only been a bunch of shadows only moments before. In the middle of the door were a few hieroglyphics.
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Kings of Upper and Lower Egypt
May you prosper
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Yami looked at the door in amusement.
"I think that the sentential castle likes us quite a lot dear Yugi," Yami stated.
"Yes, it would seem that way. I think that this should be our classroom," Yugi replied faintly.
Yugi placed his hand on the doorknob hesitantly, not really sure if it was safe or not. A warm pulse of Shadow Realm Magic emanated throughout his body, sending a warm and happy feeling to radiate over his body.
Yami also feeling the warmth through their link and sent a quick approval through the link. Yugi opened the door.
Content that the energy that had radiated over them was not going to hurt Yugi, Yami watched from a shadow that he was leaning into.
The door to the room swung open easily, not making a sound, even when it hit the wall of the classroom gently. Yugi looked inside only to see total darkness for a moment before two torches near the doors blazed alight. Around the room, other torches began to light up in random order.
Unable to say anything, Yugi moved into the room observing his surroundings in awe. Yami followed behind him, wanting to see what had evoked this kind of emotion in his hikari.
As he looked around, Yami was hardly impressed, although he did like the artwork. It was after all from his homeland.
A smile trailed across Yugi's face as he looked from wall to wall to wall to wall. Each one covered in Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Behind the front desk stood a copy of the tablet that Ishizu had shown them all those many years ago. It was the exact same tablet except that it appeared to not have aged a day since it had first been created. None of the wear and tear of time that the one that Ishizu had kept had shown.
The Pharaoh Atemu and his High Priest Set.
The teachers desk and the desks event he walls in the correct places had gold inlaid or in the case of the front desk it appeared to be actually fully gold.
"This is going to be perfect," Yugi stated grinning. "Not exactly what we need for the first topic, but none the less necessary for the later topics. After we do a bit of minor work on the true beginnings of magic, since no one really seems to remember that anymore. Magic is just a force of nature that we the poorly humans have been able to manipulate to our own use."
"Indeed," Yami responded, already knowing this, having been taught it when he was a child.
Taking a quick look towards his magical watch, since they couldn't possibly used a muggle one since the magic in the air would interfere with its internal mechanism. Recalling the schedule that they had, he realized that they probably only had enough time to get up to the rooms and back down to the classroom just in time for the class' arrival if they left very soon.
Grabbing hold of Yami, Yugi took the quickest route that the castle could give him back up to their rooms. Taking the books out of their trunk, he left them on the bed to let Yami pack them away in the bag that he had tossed out first.
Yami, not really wanting to do anything to do with school work, scared Yugi by hugging him from behind. Yugi gasped and dropped the book that he had in his hand back into the trunk.
"Yami," he responded reprimanding.
Not at all deterred by the telling off that he was receiving, Yami responded with as innocent a voice as he could, "Yes Yugi."
Spinning him around, Yami gave Yugi a quick kiss to make up for scaring him. The innocent look on his face, not deceiving Yugi for even a moment.
"Yami, since you did that, you will have to be punished. I think that a suitable punishment for this is that you have no choice, and have to help teach in every class today," Yugi responded.
"But I didn't do anything wrong," Yami responded in an almost whinging tone, as Pharaohs don't whinge.
To Be Continued…
Thank you to all of my reviewers for Chapter 9, sorry for the wait. I know that it has been months since I last updated. (Hangs head in shame)
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