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History Can't Help But Repeat Itself

Review: In case you forgot what happened last time…

"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.

Chapter 11

"Yes you did and don't think that you will get away with it. You will attend to your punishment or I'll make your punishment a lot worse. Just you wait and see. I'll find something that you will absolutely hate to do. If we don't hurry up we are going to be late for the first class of the day and what kind of example is that for a teacher to set for the class members. Not a very good one in my opinion. It will make them believe that they can show up late for class and get out of having a punishment as I am also late," Yugi ranted.

"Aibou!" Yami cried out unhappily.

Yugi just ignored the call as he suddenly came up with the perfect punishment for Yami if he should step even one foot out of line.

"Yami, come on now. Grab the book that I dropped. That or I'll make you sleep on the other bed tonight." Yugi threatened.

A cold shudder ran through Yami's body as the words reverberated in his head…sleep in the other bed…sleep in the other bed. He did not like the prospect of having to do that, no way was he going to give Yugi a reason to make him sleep anywhere except right beside him. Preferably with his arms wrapped around his body. Yami tried to remember back to when the last time that they had not slept with Yugi within at least arms reach. It had to have been about five years ago. Just thinking about sleeping with out the warmth and gentleness of Yugi beside him made him want to cling onto Yugi as if his life was about to end.

Seeing the colour disappearing from Yami's face, Yugi wondered how seriously Yami had taken his threat. He hadn't exactly meant it. Although the affects of saying it were at the least to say amusing. He knew that he could never do that to Yami though because at night he couldn't fall asleep without knowing that his protector and his love were laying right beside him holding him in his strong masculine arms. While it may have been an idol threat it seemed to be a very effective one and he catalogued it away in his mind to remember to use it only in extreme situations, it appeared to be a very good leverage to make him behave himself.

With the threat of sleeping alone, Yami quickly set to getting everything that Yugi had ordered him to retrieve. Within moments he had the bag of books ready in moments. Yugi smiled thankfully. Yami smiled back since he knew that he had made Yugi happy.

"Let's go," Yami said patiently.

Walking through the hall of Hogwarts, Yami was quick to notice the attention that both he and Yugi were receiving from the students. Mostly the girls, some of which who even swooned and fell to the floor unconscious. Even some of the male students were sending some awfully suggestive looks at both of them. Although most of the boys were glaring because they could see their girlfriends pining after their new teachers.

Yugi seemed to be oblivious to their gazes and walked on as if nothing had happened. Then again he hadn't seen any of the girls who had fallen to the floor yet.

Each wore a very similar ensemble of leathers. Leather belted top, with leather pants and a leather jacket. A heavy silver chain hung around each of their necks, supporting a gold upside down pyramid with the eye of Horus. Yami wasn't too amused by the girls ogling his beloved light, but he couldn't fault them for liking the way he looked. He felt more threatened by the few males that were looking at Yugi in particular.

Opening the door to the classroom, Yugi strode in and towards the front desk letting Yami close the door after he followed him in.

A gentle sigh escaped Yami's lips as the door shut with a click.

"It's my own fault I suppose," he muttered.

"Yes, it would be Yami," Yugi responded lightly amused tone. "If you want to dress me up in leather, and yourself too, then you are going to have to deal with the causes of this. You dress me up like this because you find me utterly adorable and irresistible. Unfortunately for you so does half of the population that we ever seem to be around. Deal with it or allow me to dress more conservatively."

Taking the bag out of Yami's hands, he laid it on the desk and pulled out a few of the books and some papers.

"It's kind of annoying," Yugi continued. "Since you are already mine, as I am yours. The real problem is that they don't know that and at the moment we can't tell them until we gauge what kind of response we would get. After all we could loose our jobs if the wizarding world is against gay relationships. So at the moment they think that we are open territory. We are young, beautiful and unfortunately their teachers so thankfully it will be easy to place a stopper on all and any proposals that they should try to put on us. Unethical and all that rot."

"Hmm, yes. Annoying I have to agree, but I wouldn't change the way that you dress, even you admit that you enjoy wearing plenty of leather, and not only to make me happy," Yami agreed. "I wouldn't want to have anything to do with them, after all what could possibly be better than having you. You are by far cuter, better looking, more intelligent and exactly what I want."

Used to Yami's unusual comments, he couldn't help but smile in return.

"Thank you Yami," Yugi said. "Compliment will get you somewhere. Anyway you have also got your own problems to deal with. Having been the Pharaoh in your first stage of life before your spirit was locked away, you have a problem with authority figures. If experience has taught me anything, women like to be the figure of authority where possible. You'd never get on well with a woman at your side."

A crackle of laughter floated through the room, a nice sound that Yugi enjoyed listening to.

"Yes," Yami answered. "Remember Téa. She was always trying to make attempts on me. It didn't even stop after we told her that we were together. It took her a while to actually listen to us and realize that together we were happy. Remember for the first few months after we told her, she tried to get us to break up in almost anyway that she could think of."

"Come now Yami, that's not very nice," Yugi warned. "She settled down after that thankfully, but the good side of what she was trying to do, it brought us closer together. We have a class about to arrive, let's not talk about our personal history, but go back a lot further, since it is our subject. The class is waiting outside the door for us."

Walking through the desks, Yami was amused to see that the inlays on the desks were hieroglyphic, sayings for good luck, mostly from the gods. Taking the door handle in his hand, Yami turned it and was presented with a group of about twenty to twenty-five small year one students. They all looked a little unsure and some ready to study.

"Please come in and sit down," Yami told them.

They instantly complied when Yami moved out of the doorway. Streaming into the room and filling up the empty desks quickly. Yami and Yugi were quick to notice that the mixed class of Griffindors and Slytherins had sat in small groups on different sides of the room. Not a single Griffindor sat with a Slytherin.

Yugi called the role, marking all of the students down, then turned to Yami who had come back up to the front desk. Casting a sharp eye over the class, Yami waited for Yugi to begin.

"How many of you have actually read a part of the textbook, even if only the first few pages?" Yugi asked, not really expecting that many people would have.

Out of the whole class two Slytherins and one Griffindors hand went up.

Yami sighed, if anything like this had happened in his time, they would have been punished most severely. But then again, to get an education in his time you had a private tutor and quite a fair bit of money.

Yugi stood and walked around his desk and picked up a copy of their text book and flicked to the page that he wanted them to read.

"Turn to page twelve, The Beginnings of Magic. Does anyone know when magic was first created?" Yugi asked.

Yami quickly noted that several hands went up. It was doubtable that any of the ones with their hands up would give the right response.

"Laura," Yugi called to the girl in the fornt row and on the third desk.

She sat up straight and you could almost see her blow up like a peacock at being called on.

"Magic was first around in Ancient Times, The most prominent was in Ancient Egypt," she answered.

"No, that's only sort of right. While magic was most prominently recorded in Ancient Egypt, it had been around far longer than that. It is known as a fact that magic was around when the planet Earth was created…" Yugi paused as Laura's hand went up.

"Yes, Laura," he asked.

"How do you know that for a fact?" she snottily demanded.

Ignoring the tone in her voice, Yami answered her before Yugi could.

"Magic is integrated into the centre of this planet, and throughout all of nature. Even before the Ancient Egyptians, cavemen had been using magic. There have been discovered species of dinosaurs which have the indications of being able to use magic," Yami explained.

"Read from page twelve to page twenty-one. Then we will have a class discussion on the origins and theories of how magic was created," Yugi told them.

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The first weeks of school went by quickly enough without out any major incidents. Each class was different.

The first years were fairly good, as they had only begun school that year, they didn't want o be in trouble.

The second years were rather rowdy, no doubt having passed the first year and over the first year anxiousness.

The third years were more well behaved, and each year after that only seemed to get better and better.

Though in particular, Yugi and Yami noticed that it was the Slytherins who were getting a bad wrap from all of the other houses. While the houses didn't interact very often at meal times, in classes with two houses that were not Slytherin, the children would mingle. But when Slytherin was in, they stuck to their sides of the room. Almost as if there was a line in the middle of the classroom dictating where a student should sit.

Yami stayed out of the Millennium Puzzle and joined most of the classes, which to Yugi was kind of strange, but then again, Yami was protective and territorial when it came to Yugi, particularly when they had entered a new location. Then again they were in a potentially dangerous location this time. Last time they had been in a normal school and the threat of getting hurt was minimal. Here in a magic school a stray curse could get you sent to who knows where and cause who knows how much damage. There could also have been some other reason, but Yugi wasn't going to ask. If Yami was going to stay out more often, thus being with him more often, why would he want to question it?

The teachers, for the most part were kind and once they got used to him and their ages, they got along well with most of them. The only one who didn't seem to want to get on well with them was the Potions Professor, Professor Severus Snape. He made out to be a loner and didn't like people in general. Though he seemed to pick on the students that weren't in his house the most.

At stages Yugi had to wonder why he hadn't warned Severus that Yami was extremely dangerous and quick to anger. On multiple occasions he had stopped Yami from attacking Severus after he had said some rather cutting and harsh remarks. Taking these remarks to much to heart, Yami had attempted to attack him with Shadow Magic. Yugi had quickly diverted Yami's attention with any means necessary to stop him.

It was Monday once again, and first class had just finished. Thankfully, since Yami had been very unhappy when he discovered that while they had done their homework none of them actually remembered any of what they wrote about. And then the first years had the audacity to complain to Yugi that they didn't need to do homework to learn the information.

Yugi cleared up once all the students had left and consoled Yami, by telling him that they would take the time that they had from the next lesson which they had as a spare and go into the Forbidden Forest like they had been planning on doing since they had arrived. Leaving the worksheet for the next classes on the desks, he cuddled up to Yami who calmed down in his embrace. Stealing a kiss they walked out the door.

Yugi locked the door, as they walked away the door hid itself in the shadows that they had first seen it appear from and they walked out of the castle and towards Hagrid's Hut that was just beyond the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Have a quick chat about what sort of magical creatures they could expect to find in the Forbidden Forest. See if they were anything like the Duel Monsters they used in battle.

A steady stream of grey, white smoke was rising out of a chimney on Hagrid's Hut. A group of three students, undoubtedly going to class were just a bit ahead of them as they walked on. They were close enough to be able to hear them without them noticing they were being followed or heard. The group consisted of two boys and a girl.

Yugi watched them for a moment sure that he had seen them somewhere before. Smiling softly he remembered that they were the ones he had seen and talked to on the train and in the bookshop. Harry, Ron and Hermione from his third year Griffindor and Hufflepuff class.

Not purposely listening in to their conversation, they perked their ears up once they heard them talk about their class.

"Harry, what do you think about our new History of Magic teachers?" Hermione inquired.

"They're better than Professor Binns to say the least," Ron snorted.

Swelling up with a little bit of pride, Yugi was happy and he felt better inspired to teach when the children were willing to interact. It was especially easier when he could get them interested in listening to him. He was a bit deflated by the next comment.

"Though, almost anyone could be better than having Professor Binns. He made the goblin wars sound boring as lint in your pocket. I never even thought that that could be possible," Harry stated.

"Yeah it's more interactive now, did you see that tablet on the wall behind the front desk. I could swear that if I hadn't been in his class I would have thought that he was as conceited as Professor Lockhart. It's a perfect likeness of Professor Yami, and someone else. They both even have replica's of the pendant that the figure on the tablet is wearing," Hermione voiced her thoughts.

"Yeah and Professor Yami is always wearing all of that gold jewellery. It looks as though it's pure gold, must have cost a lot if it is. Especially all of those armbands that Professor Yami wears," Ron said wistfully.

"Yeah and they all have the look of Ancient Egyptian jewellery," Harry added.

"Nah, I'd say that they are really good fakes. Gold plated copies of what was worn back then," Hermione said.

A small growl escaped Yami's lips, the one through the mind-link was quite a bit louder. He was proud of his Egyptian heritage, especially since he had the blood of the pharaohs running through his veins. Yami would never even think of sinking to the levels of needing to have gold plated jewellery or wear fake gold. In fact, Ishizu had returned the jewellery that he was wearing to him. He had worn it in Ancient times when he had reigned as pharaoh. Ishizu's family had cared for them from his death till he had come back to earth. She had told him that they should be with their rightful owner, the one who they had been created for.

Yami stopped growling when they turned the corner of Hagrid's shack and saw a fenced inclosure. A group of creatures were roaming around in the enclosure in small groups. Hagrid had separated one of them and he had tied it with a rope around it's neck, the other end on the fence.

Not a single other person had arrived yet. The Creatures in question where a herd of Hippogriffs.

"Afternoon Hagrid," Yugi called.

Harry, Ron and Hermione froze and turned around slowly as they recognised the voice.

"Hermione, for your information," Yami scathingly stated. "You have absolutely no eye for jewellery. Not a single piece of jewellery that I wear is a fake, and they are all made of pure gold. No plated rubbish, and not a single piece is a replica. They have lasted through the past few millenniums well, have they not?"

Hermione blushed brightly and bowed her head with her hands on her face and turned away quickly.

"Yami!" Yugi hit his shoulder. "Leave Hermione alone, and for once can you keep your prinde under wraps. You didn't have to be so mean to her."

/That or I'll have to lock you up into the puzzle until you calm down/

Yami looked horrified.

Ron and Harry looked between Yami and Yugi a bit confused what was the something that to an unknowing person had passed between them that had Yami so horrified. Hermione was so desperately trying to hide the blush, which she found rather embarrassing in itself, and had missed the exchange. Yugi hadn't say anything to cause such a look and he didn't appear to have moved anyway out of normal to suggest a type of punishment. Well at least nothing out of the normal that they could discern.

"Yello, Yami, Yugi," Hagrid said warmly as he walked over. "Oh, sorry I didn't see you there, Harry Ermione and Ron."

Yugi looked at Hagrid and his gaze continued on until he saw the Hippogriffs.

"Hagrid, They are so beautiful," Yugi gasped. "Hippogriffs right?"

"Hippogriffs, you say," Yami cooly looked over at the creatures.

"Not going Senile now are we?" Yugi joked

"Not funny in the least little Hikari," Yami responded wryly. "No I am not. I used to have a flock of them. I would have only been a bout fifteen. They were the most loyal creatures that I have ever encountered, except for the Dark Magician." He whispered the last part into Yugi's ear.

Yami followed Yugi as he walked closer to the fence surrounding the herd of hippogriffs. Climbing over it with grace, they landed on their feet and moved closer to the nearest hippogriff.

"Be careful there, they are quite dangerous!" Hagrid warned going towards the fence in case he was needed to help subdue any of the hippogriffs.

Yami stood in front of one, who looked at him for a moment. Unblinkingly he stared at the Hippogriff waiting for a response. The hippogriffs eyes widened and it bowed very low to the ground, letting it's beak touch the ground. All of the others looked a little confused for a moment until they realized what the one hippogriff was doing and followed in its steed. It surprised Hagrid, Harry, Ron, and Hermione as the hippogriffs all bowed down lowly to the ground.

"Oh Great!" Yugi exclaimed. "Something else to add to your already abnormally large ego Yami." A small laugh falling from his mouth.

"Oh, Yugi, I don't see how that could be, you have half of them bowing just as low to you as well," Yami responded throwing a hand out to the group that was doing as he had said.

Yugi looked to where Yami was aiming and indeed Yami was right. Half of the herd were bowing to him and the other half were bowing to Yami.

"Please rise," Yami and Yugi said in synchrony.

The hippogriffs rose almost as if the group were one. Thye could tell from the tone of the voice that they were free to do as they wished.

One of the younger hippogriffs slowly came forwards towards Yugi and with his beak nudged it against Yugi's hand. Yugi didn't move his hand away, but gently petted the feathers on it's head and its beak. The hippogriff chirped happily and rubbed his head against the hand that was petting it.

A stunned Hagrid just watched in amazement at the sight. Blinking for a second, hardly comprehending what he knew he was seeing with his own eyes.

"Never in all my life…" Hagrid murmured.

"Off you go little one," Yugi told the young one.

It bowed and went back to the parents with a very satisfied look on its face.

"Hagrid," Yugi called.

"Yes," Hagrid responded almost as if he wasn't fully there.

"Originally we had planned on, perhaps attending the lesson, but as it is very clearly seen here, we would no doubt be a major distraction for the hippogriffs," Yugi mentioned off handedly. "SO instead Yami and I are going to go into the Forbidden Forest, to explore and meet some of the creatures that live in there."

Hagrid was about to argue, when he was cut off by a very stagnant Yami.

"We know that there are dangers going into the forest. It would not be called the Forbidden Forest if it were full of cute and cuddly nice things. Don't worry, Yugi and I are very able in the area of protecting ourselves. Be assured that we will come out before next lesson has begun."

"Yes, we would have come during the weekend, but we were unfortunately distracted by other duties," Yugi added. "We enjoy exploring and knowing about the Creatures in the forest could help us in the future."

Hagrid shrugged. They were teachers, if they wanted to go into the Forbidden Forest, who was he to stop them. "Just be careful, and beware of the centaurs, they do not usually react well to strangers and people in general."

"Thanks for the warning," Yugi said and with Yami headed towards the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

To Be Continued…

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