He should have known his peace wouldn't last. Akito was going to call in their wager, so Kyo had to beat Yuki before he turned eighteen again.

So he called Yuki out over something trivial, and in full view of half the Zodiac, actually beat Yuki in a fair fight. The shock was palpable. Finally Momiji reported it to Akito, who agreed it fit the requirements of their wager.

Tohru was passing the bathroom with the mirror when she noticed the door was open. Looking inside, she saw Kyo standing over the sink with a contacts case open. He was taking out two contacts and putting them in the solution when he finally noticed her.

A pair of the clearest emerald eyes turned to her. She gasped in shock.

"Tohru?"

"Kyo! Are you okay? What's wrong with your eyes?"

"I've always had bad eyesight. I just got tired of having to repair my glasses. I finally broke down and bought colored contacts."

Kyo put on a pair of blue rimmed metal glasses, and went to his room to read. His case in his pocket.

Yuki had to do a double take when he saw Kyo wearing glasses.

"Why are you wearing glasses?"

"My eyes were starting to hurt from wearing contacts all day. I need to go buy some more eye drops before I can wear them again."

That was when he realized something else. Kyo's eyes had turned from brown to a clear green.

"Before you ask, I wear prescription colored contacts. My eyes tend to get remembered."

That was when Yuki remembered the description from the English people who were looking for someone with emerald eyes. Something clicked.

"Those English..."

"Were looking for me. Knowing my luck it was to clean up after a mess they created. Again."

Yuki decided to drop it. It was too early in the morning for questions. Though Kyo raised more when he did something to shut Shigure up without hitting him. He said something that sounded vaguely like 'silence'.

Kyo seemed annoyed that everyone kept bothering him about his glasses. Finally he had enough and went to the roof.

(Kyo later learned his actual eye color had gained him more members of his fan club. Even more than Prince Yuki, which thoroughly annoyed him.)

Maybe it was time for another journey. He file a leave from high school, and got his supplies ready for a camping trip alone. He was gone for a full month, and found things were the same as ever.

But his contacts were missing. When he finally found them, he knew he had to get new ones. Apparently Kagura tried to wash them with soap, and ruined them. Kyo cursed silently, and then reluctantly went to Hatori to get a new prescription.

When Kyo originally needed to get glasses, everyone took it for granted. After all, he had just come out of the emergency room from a major accident. The same accident that took Tohru's mother. Afterward he was slightly different. Like he would sometimes cock his head as if listening to someone.

Since he was the cat, they assumed it was the cats in the area.

Then his eye color changed, and he started getting prescription color contacts to turn them back. His hair turned darker in the right light.

Only Hatori knew something was up, so one day he confronted Kyo. Kyo actually took out his contacts and spoke in a voice that definitely wasn't his. It had an English accent for one.

"Who are you?"

Kyo sighed.

"I should have known it would be the doctor to notice. I always did have bad luck."

His mannerisms changed almost completely. But the one thing Hatori noticed was that Kyo seemed older, worn out. Like a piece of rubber stretched too thin and on the breaking point.

"My name is Harry Potter."

"Why are you in Kyo?"

"I was tired of my life. I felt a tug towards Japan, like someone was calling me, so I followed it. When I found Kyo, he was close to death. So I made a deal with him, and he agreed."

"What deal?"

"I would save his life if he let me share his body. In exchange he got a few more abilities and I got to escape my past."

"Why?"

"Everyone in England knows my name, and either wants to worship me or crucify me. I was so tired of it all. I was famous for something I can't even remember when I was in school, and I hated every minute of it."

"Who got the better end of this deal?"

"Kyo did. I'll only come out if he needs me to. Your precious family will get something out of it too, and it should arrive pretty soon."

Kyo came back, and looked at Hatori.

"I won't tell Akito unless something comes up and he needs to know. But I want to know what he meant when he said the Sohma family will get something out of the deal you two made."

Kyo shrugged, and Hatori sent him off to the eye doctor for his prescription. A pair of red contacts and cleaning solution (and eye drops) and Kyo was almost back to his old self.

What the Sohma got out of Kyo's deal was all their debt taken care of by a mysterious benefactor. Akito had no idea who pulled it off, but he suddenly found the clan having more of a say in important affairs. The Sohma had always been aware of the Wizarding world, but they had mostly forgotten it in recent years, and the magical world did the same.

But now they were forced to come together again, and this time the Sohma family had more influence for some reason. Especially in the British government. And they didn't have a clue why.

Years passed, and things settled down. Kyo was back to normal, mostly. Sometimes he acted out of character, but people tended to forget about it. So after he started living in Shigure's house, things changed.

Kyo was on the roof, remembering. But it wasn't his life he remembered, but his older brother's. Harry was always there after the accident, so Kyo just pretended he was an older brother. It helped that Harry treated him like a younger one, so it worked out. So what if they happened to share the same body now?

Thanks to Harry, he was alive today. Harry also helped him with small things, like when he was looking for something or on tests. He rarely used magic unless he actually needed to, and it worked out fine. The first time Harry showed him his past, he understood his need to escape. Harry had been turned into a scapegoat for those who should have taken care of the problem on their own.

So yeah, he wasn't going to let the magical world intrude on his world if he could help it.

Though the letter may have been a bit much. After Ron and Hermione came to Japan, he sent a letter to the Prophet saying he wasn't going to come back ever, and to clean up their own damn mess. He had his own life, and damn anyone who said he owed them!

So Harry was a bit vindictive? After losing Sirius he deserved it. Which is why Kyo let Harry use him to transform into his animagus form, a rare Shadow Wolf which could phase through solid objects, and take runs in the woods. They had a peaceful coexistence.

Remus and Tonks were on the run with their son. Apparently the Ministry expected them to succeed where Ron and Hermione had failed. Andromeda had already gone to another country, so there was nothing to hold them back.

Remus felt Japan would be a good place to start over. He wasn't going to look for Harry at all, since he overheard from Tonks what the Ministry planned to do with his other pup once he came back.

Force him to take down the new Dark Lord, then arrest him and throw him away in Azkaban. Harry was better off where he was. Tonks was taking over the English at the local school, since Hermione left the position open for her.

Which is where he caught the scent. It was fairly recent, and almost unrecognizable. But it was unmistakable.

Harry went to the high school where Tonks worked. But why hadn't Hermione found him if that was the case? How had Harry avoided her?

An orange (orange, really?) haired boy with brown eyes was giving him a once over. Something made him glad he wore a muggle outfit and left his robes behind. The kid went inside and left him alone. The wind brought the scent to Remus, and he stopped.

That was Harry's scent, mixed in with the scent of a cat and something else. Something foul. Tonks would know who the boy was.

Tonks had no clue who the kid was, since the only other boy matching that description had been exempted from her class before she even got there, and didn't show up for the assembly. Though she did mention a large fan club for an orange haired, naturally emerald eyed boy named Kyo Sohma. Seems his fan club out numbered the numerous Prince Yuki one.

Remus went to get groceries and met the kid again getting prescription eye drops and contacts. Apparently the kid knew he was there, and stopped.

"I know you're there. And I'm not going back Remus."

He knew? How? He looked nothing like Harry!

"I'm not here to take my cub back. Especially with what the Ministry plans to do with him. I just wanted to escape."

The kid turned to him. His eyes were emerald, though he obviously had his spare contacts on earlier.

"Harry?"

"I'm Kyo Sohma now. If you really aren't here to drag me back, then I won't tell the Japanese Ministry to take you away. Hell, they have a suppression bracelet for werewolves here that turns the wolf into an animagus form!"

Remus hadn't heard about that. He made a note to see if that was true.

"Until you can get one, I'll help on full moon nights. You know that private forest at the edge of town? Go there on full moons and I'll keep Moony from biting anyone."

Kyo asked if Harry believed Remus, and he said he did. So Kyo was willing to help the poor wolf on transformation nights. He idly wondered if Shigure could talk to Remus when he was wolf. Remus was in a clearing, and transforming. Still painful.

Kyo took off his bracelet, and transformed into the cat's true form. His scent carried to the wolf, who whimpered. Odd.

(Remus caught the scent of a dark creature nearby. He whimpered, then decided to keep Harry...no Kyo away from it. That is, until he realized the creature WAS Kyo.)

Harry was reminiscing more often now, and it bothered Kyo. Kyo loved him dearly, and would be devestated if the older boy left. He suspected it had something to do with the English coming to the town in droves trying to find him. They seemed to bring up old memories.

"Would you leave me?" he finally asked.

"Never. They would have to tear us apart. I would never leave my goofy younger brother alone to Akito."

"Then why?"

"I guess you could call it regret. People often wish they could do things differently all the time."

"If you could do things over, would you?"

"I would warn my past self about how badly he would screw things up. Like what happened at the Ministry with Sirius."

When they went to sleep, neither knew about the silent observer. Before Harry saved Kyo's life, he had fixed up a very old shrine that had been abandoned. He even left a proper offering to the god who's statue he repaired. Ever since then, people had been coming back to the shrine and leaving proper offerings.

He wanted to repay the favor. And now it had a way to do so. It was an old god with a lot of power, and happened to be a good friend with Time.

So when Kyo got the bizarre dream, he acted as though it was normal. Harry was there too for some reason. At least what he guessed Harry looked like.

Almost six feet tall, tidy black hair and clear emerald eyes, with an outfit matching his own. Harry once mentioned that his hair went everywhere before he started sharing his body. He also said he liked the difference. Harry also had a strange necklace with a cat on it. And his earrings never matched, one with a wolf, the other a stag.

Harry?

Kyo? What the...?

"Greetings, Englishman."

They turned to see a pavilion with drawn shades. A presence was behind it, and Kyo figured it had to be someone old, or someone with a love of the old ways. Who else would use the screens before people other than a Lord with old ties?

"I am..."

They never caught his name. If they did, they were made to forget.

What can we do for you, Milord?

The man seemed very pleased with Harry's question. Or at least his address. So he told them. Harry looked interested in the proposal, but had one condition if they did it.

If I get sent back, so does Kyo. I will never leave my little brother alone again.

"That can be arranged. As it is, in order to send you back and give you eight years, both of you would have to be together anyway. Otherwise you would be in a paradox."

Harry looked to him. His eyes said what he didn't dare voice. That it would be Kyo's decision whether or not they went through with this. Kyo thought long and hard, before asking the question that answered it all.

If we did this, would Harry and I split?

"No. What Harry has done is permanent so long as you two share a bond. His magic has formed a link between your minds. If either of you wants to separate badly enough, the bond will shatter and kill one of you. However, while in the past he can share his own mind and leave no trace of it behind."

So even if they went into the past to change things, Harry would always be with him. If it meant undoing a few things that had given him nightmares, despite Harry doing his best to keep the darkness at bay, then he would do it.

When they awoke the next morning, they were no longer in the room. They were somewhere else, a place that often haunted their collective nightmares. Privet Drive.

Only this wasn't the war torn place Harry remembered, but the hellhole where he lived for ten years. Seeing the day's newspaper, he read the date. It was a full year before he went to Hogwarts!

Well if he were actually back for eight years, best to make the most of it. Kyo allowed Harry to take over until they found a place to stay. He knew the time best after all. Kyo wasn't even born when Harry was his age.

So Harry found a nearby wizard, and asked for some help getting into Diagon Alley. He had left his wand behind by mistake, and all his money was in the vaults. The excitable wizard believed him, despite the fact that from what they could tell, they were only ten.

Kyo at ten looked about twelve. So while on their way to the Alley, Kyo had Harry ask all sorts of questions to fill any gaps in knowledge about the magical world. The tiny man proved to be a well of needed info.

After being dropped off into the Alley, Harry headed straight to Gringotts after fleecing a few drunks of several galleons in Knockturn. The denizens never looked twice at the obvious illegal activity.

So Harry walked into Gringotts to do an inheritance test. Imagine the goblins surprise to see two names and four parents!

He took off the contacts, and told the goblin what happened, and swore the small being to secrecy. All the goblin cared about was Harry's info about the vault being stolen from by his supposed magical guardian. Since the inheritance test proved beyond a doubt that not only was he Harry Potter but Kyo Sohma at the same time, they were at a bit of a loss on what to do.

Harry had the perfect solution.

Now in possession of three new vaults and half the gold being transferred to them under the name of Kyo Sohma, he set out to fix some other things. Like his gaps in defensive knowledge thanks to crappy teachers. He bought out several very useful books, and got a new potions kit. He debated on the broom, then decided against it. He could apparate if he needed to, though he had to make sure he still could in a younger body. Remembering the list of Potter mansions still unused, he had the Knight Bus drop him off close to the one with the stables.

Kyo didn't complain, since it meant he could go horseback riding. Too bad Harry never told him it was filled with Pegasi...and the family guardian who was temperamental.

The next month was filled with Harry and Kyo repairing the stables, and refilling the pantrys. The house elves there cooked all the meals, since they were usually too tired to do so.