" I must not tell lies." Seto read what he now saw was carved into the back of his brother's hand, giving Haru a look he saw his brother flinch slightly and about his head in shame/ embarrassment. "Haru?" silence. "Haru James Kaiba." Seto dropped his brothers hand and moved to grab his face, the tilted up to pier in to those emerald green orbs.
"What happened this school year, Haru?"
Chapter 3 scars
The room was silent as the three occupants Sat staring at one another. Haru sighed as he fiddled with his Duel Monsters card shaped locket that held a picture of him and his two brothers.
He continued to settle with it as he spoke: " well, you remember how in my 4th year I was entered into that tournament, right?" Seto and Mokuba nodded. " and how I was used in that ritual to bring Voldemort back to life?" he asked, he smiled as neither one of his brothers reacted when he used Voldemort's name unlike most of the people he knows.
"Well the ministry sent one of their own into the school to fill the DADA position." Haru took a breath, "Dolores Umbridge was a..." he struggled to find the right words so Seto would not want to smack him upside the head for using foul language, ..."horrible Woman, she was sent into try and shush Dumbledore and I from spreading that Voldemort was back." He kept fiddling with his locket. "She wasn't going to teach us how to defend our selves instead she was just going to have a sit and read ministry approved text, but to defend ourselves? No! "
Haru glanced at his older brother before returning his eyes to his hands that were still playing with his locket, " so um... Me and my friend Hermione, the brilliant which she is. Formed a secret" Seto's eyebrows rose, "Dueling class to teach the students the spells they would need to defend themselves." he said blushing, knowing he was going to get an earful later. His brother hated when he did stupid things.
"Okay but that still doesn't explain why you have those scars on the back of your hand." Haru rubbed at the back of his neck, "yeah. Well the pink toad as the students secretly started calling her, started more or less torturing the younger students during the tensions with something called a blood quill." Mokuba frown, "And because I was so vocal in my rebuttal that I wasn't lying about Voldemort's return she enjoyed giving me detentions." he said raising his scarred hand for us to see. But before anybody could say anything more there was a knock at the door.
Seto stood as he said: "Enter." the door opened and Roland stood there, " mister Kaiba I thought it best to inform you that the eighth finalist arrived just before take off." Seto nodded and said: " please go make the announcement for all the finalists to make their way to the hall." Roland nodded as he backed out of the doorway.
After a few minutes they heard.
"Attention all Battle City finalists, please make your way to the Hall so we may start the preliminaries for the Battle City finals." and with that Seto motioned for Mokuba and I to follow him.
Haru followed his two brothers into the Hall, as soon as he entered his nose was bombarded by the delicious smells of all the tasty food, he walked over to one of the tables and looked at all of the different types of Japanese cuisine laid out.
But he skipped all that and went right to the dessert table, his eyes and knows honed in on his favorite treat, treacle tart, grabbing a big slice he made his way back over to where his brothers were standing, he did nothing but smile as Seto gave him a look and then glanced down at his plate. He smiled as he saw behind Seto's back as Mokuba grab two cookies and ran off to one of the corners where there older brother would not be able to see him.
"What are you smiling at?" Seto asked him. "Oh nothing." he responded as he took a bite of his treacle tart.
As he was chewing he was considering getting another piece when the blonde male ask a question. " Hey Kaiba!" three heads turned to his direction. "Hmm..." 'oh yeah there's three of them' Joey thought. "When are we going to find out who duel's first."
"You're in a hurry to lose Wheeler." Haru rolled his eyes at his brother.
"Let's get this started." his brother said into the microphone he wore. The Kaiba Corp employee quickly responded, "sorry Mr. Kaiba but they are only 7 out of the 8 finalists hear." Haru rolled his eyes whoever this foolish 8th finalist was who doesn't even have common courtesy to show up when they're supposed to, focusing back on his brother he heard the employee ask about going to fetch the 8th finalist and his brothers informative.
With a snap of his fingers he has the referee get started. The lights went out and a spotlight shine on to the raised platform. " Finalist and guests may I have your attention please?" I took another bite of my dessert. "The first to duelist will be chosen by lottery." the ref said. " to guarantee fairness each duelist has been given a number, so the pair of opponents will be completely random." Haru rolled his eyes at the dramatics.
"So that way you will not know who you are going to be dueling until just before you duel." He pull the lever to start up the machine, "And our first to duelits are..."
Author's note; sorry guys cliffy. I have no idea who I want to go first. So should I have to first?
Seto Kaiba, 1
Joey wheeler, 2
Yugi moto, 3
Mai Valentine; 4
Namu; 5
Ryo Bakura; 6
Odeon ;7
And no I'm not forgetting one I dunno I don't want the 8th to list to go first.
And any tips for somebody who's never wrote a duel before?
Please review and let me know.
