I have found conflicting evidence saying when Jou's birthday is. One site said it was the 1st January and another said it was the 25th. I went with the first one because that way I could make it a big party instead of coming up with any party game ideas. If any of you have any other games I could use please tell me in a review because I'm not sure what I'm going to do for the last two birthdays.
Chapter 21- Happy Birthday Jou!
Since the gang weren't very good at keeping traditions exactly the way they were meant to be, they decided to hold a New Year's Day party instead of a New Year's Eve party. The reason behind this change in tradition was that Jou's birthday was on the 1st January. Instead of getting wasted on New Year's Eve and not being able to have a party the next night they decided to get doubly wasted on the 1st!
This was the reason why food had 'mysteriously' disappeared from the kitchens; the local pubs were sure they had ordered more alcohol than what they had, and there was extremely loud music emanating from the common room of Hogwart's Japanese guests. The last part was courtesy of Seto's new CD player and the others were thanks to Bakura and the Ishtar's sticky fingers. Said fingers were literally sticky when they arrived at the common room with half the number of sweet things they had set off with.
Everything in the common room had been moved to the sides to create a dance floor. Yami had created something resembling a disco ball that had the same purpose but ran on magic instead of electricity. The colourful light that emanated from it was beautiful and bright enough to see by but not so bright that the edges of the room weren't hidden in shadow. This little feature would most likely be needed when they had gotten bored of dancing and wanted to do something a little more intermit with their boyfriends.
At the moment nobody was in that position. They were all either: dancing, not dancing, or trying to coax someone into dancing. Seto was one of the people not dancing and Jou was one of those trying to get him to dance. Seto had been fine at the Yule Ball because it was orderly dancing. This was not orderly and he refused to make a fool of himself like the other losers were. Jou was running out of patience with his uncooperative boyfriend.
"Seto if you don't start dancing right now I'm going to pound you into a bloody pulp!" Jou shouted.
"And what would that achieve?" Seto asked, having to raise his voice to be heard over the music.
"I don't know but it would make me feel better!"
Seto rolled his eyes. "You're getting far too agitated; go eat something."
"I will!"
Seto's eyes widened. He hadn't meant for him to really do it. He had forgotten all about the snacks that the little gang of thieves had provided them with. Seto sighed. He was never going to be able to drag Jou away from the desert table now.
Meanwhile, Yugi was showing Yami how to dance. In contrast to Seto, Yami actually found this type of dancing better than ballroom. He could dance how he pleased and not worry about standing on Yugi's feet. Plus, if he was daring enough to do the very sexy moves Bakura and Ryou were doing (again with Bakura somehow being a good dancer!) he could get very close to Yugi. Yami hid his evil smirk so that Yugi wouldn't catch onto his plan…yet.
As Yami had pointed out, Bakura and Ryou were doing some very controversial dancing moves. From the way things were going it looked like they would be the first to utilise the shady corners of the common room.
This assumption was proven wrong however when Malik and Marik stopped prancing about doing something that looked like a cross between dancing and having a seizure. They moved away from all the other couples and knelt down, looking like the conspirators they were. "Have you got the bomb?" Malik asked. Marik nodded. "Good, but remember not to detonate until I give the signal." They both nodded and moved into position.
When Bakura and Ryou were close to the edge of the room Malik grabbed Ryou's shoulder and dragged him back against the wall, Bakura being dragged along as well. Malik was then shoved up against the wall by an irate Bakura. "What do you think you're doing? We were about to get to the best part," he growled.
Malik held his hands up defensively. "I was only getting you out of the line of fire."
Bakura turned his head and noticed Marik still crouched by the tables. He turned back to Malik, a smirk on his face. Ryou sighed. "Must you ruin Jou's party with your pranks?
"Do you really need to ask?"
Ryou hung his head. "I suppose not."
Malik nodded then turned to Bakura. "Will you let go of me now?"
Bakura let Malik go, still smirking at the idea that he was about to see some chaos. Ryou just shook his head forlornly as Malik passed him and leaned against Bakura. Bakura put his arm around Ryou's waist and together they stood in silence.
They watched as Malik slinked back over to Marik, whispered something to him, then prepared to let all hell loose. Unfortunately this plan never came to fruition because it was at that moment that Professor McGonagall stormed through the portrait whole shouting, "Turn off that music immediately!" Yugi rushed over to the CD player and pressed pause. Everyone's attention was then turned to the irate professor. "They can hear you down in the dungeons! You have disturbed everyone's sleep and I will personally have you kicked out of the Triwizard Tournament if you do not break up this party immediately and go to bed!"
"Why should I care that Bakura no longer gets to compete in the Tournament?" asked Yami.
"Because all of you will have your memories erased and be taken back to Japan."
"If we have our memories erased will we forget everything that has happened since we arrived here?" queried Yugi.
"Yes."
Yugi looked horrified. "But that means that I'll forget that Yami's my boyfriend!"
Yami realized the truth behind this and decided that it was best to do what the professor said. "Party's over! Everyone get to bed!"
"But we didn't get to play our prank," Marik whined.
Seto turned on him with an icy stare. "Are you saying that you planned on ruining my Jou's birthday with one of your childish revenge plans?"
"Err…no?"
Seto's eyes narrowed. "You have five seconds to live."
Malik and Marik wasted no time in fleeing for their room. Five seconds later Seto was after them, banging on the locked door swearing to kill them if they tried to do that ever again.
Ryou turned to Professor McGonagall. "Don't worry Professor, I think the party is over for tonight."
"It better be," she replied severely before returning to her bed.
Jou walked over to Seto and put his arms around his waist, whispering soothing words in his ear to try to calm him down. It didn't take long to work. Seto stopped trying to break down the door and instead led Jou back to their room. Inside he leaned in close to Jou and said, "I think it's time I gave you your real birthday treat."
Meanwhile Yugi had coaxed Yami into helping him clear up some of the mess they had made. Ryou had even got Bakura helping, though he did more complaining than cleaning. In a few minutes the place was acceptable and they all went to bed.
Even though Yami and Bakura are too very different people, that night they both had exactly the same thing on their minds. Sex. Since they had not been able to have a good make-out session during the party they were going to make up for it now. Because Ryou had been with Bakura longer than Yugi had been with Yami he was ready when Bakura flung him onto the bed and mercilessly began assaulting his mouth. However Yugi was not anticipating Yami attacking him. That is not to say that he minded having his shirt ripped off though. In fact he was more than happy to submit to his dominating boyfriend.
It was a good night for all.
"Bakura, how are you going to complete the Second Task?"
Bakura turned his head to look at Ryou, wondering where this had come from. "I don't know."
"Well you should know. The Task is in February and it's January already. You should really start coming up with something," Ryou said with concern in his voice.
"There's still another month to go; don't worry about it," Bakura said casually as he pecked Ryou's cheek.
Ryou sighed. "All I'm saying is that you should really start to think about this. I mean, if you leave it to the last minute then you'll be panicking and then-"
"Ryou, the First Task was easy and the Second one will also be easy. Just relax; I know what I'm doing."
"I have no idea what I'm doing!" Bakura shouted a few weeks later.
Ryou shook his head sadly. "There's only a few days left Bakura-"
"I know! I know I'm in big trouble so there's no need to give me a long lecture about how screwed I am because I know!"
Ryou sighed. "Why not go to the library and see if there's anything there that will help."
"There won't be; there'll be nothing on Shadow Magic in there."
"Why not ask Harry what he's doing then? Maybe he can give you an idea about which card you need."
Bakura grinned. "That's it! That's a great idea! I'll find him now."
"I don't know how to complete the task."
"What!?!"
Hermione turned to Ryou. "Let me guess: Bakura only just started thinking about the Task?"
Ryou nodded. "By the sound of it Harry had the same 'it'll turn out alright in the end' attitude."
They both sighed sadly. They then grabbed hold of both boys and dragged them off to the library.
"Do you think that because I'm dead I don't need to breathe under water?" Bakura asked the room as he stared up at the ceiling.
It was the evening before the Second Task and nobody had found anything that could let a person survive under-water for an hour. It was late and everyone was tired but they were refusing to give up. Well, everyone except Ron who had fallen asleep while reading a particularly boring book.
"I wouldn't want you to take the risk," Ryou answered as he flicked through a book on aquatic life.
Bakura sighed miserably. "We are so screwed."
"No we're not," Hermione told him severely as she flicked through volume one of twenty of 'Useful Charms you never knew'. It was a difficult task since every volume had at least a thousand pages of the tiniest writing imaginable.
"What makes you think that?" Bakura asked, still staring up at the ceiling.
"One of us will find something; I know we will. The library has never let me down before and I'm sure it won't let us down now."
"If that's all the evidence you've got then I still say we're screwed."
"I agree with Bakura," said Harry. "We're screwed."
"Don't make me go find Yami," Ryou said testily.
"What would that accomplish?"
"He'll gloat about how big a failure you are and that'll get you pouring through these books to prove to him that you can do this."
Bakura considered this for a moment. "I'm too tired to care about the pompous pharaoh," he finally answered.
Ryou rubbed tiredly at his eyes. "Go to bed then. I'll keep looking and tell you in the morning if I find anything. I guess it would be best if you got some rest before tomorrow."
Bakura smiled slightly. "I love you," he said, giving Ryou a quick kiss.
Ryou smiled too. "See you in the morning."
"Don't stay up all night. I expect to find you in my bed in the morning." With that Bakura left the library and made his way up to his bedroom.
A few minutes after Bakura had gone Fred and George came into the library. "Professor McGonagall wants to see everyone here except Harry," they told them.
"Why?" asked Hermione.
"Don't know; she just told us to find you," replied Fred as George kicked Ron in the shin to wake him. It did the trick and the librarian glared at them all from her desk for making so much noise.
"Keep looking Harry; we'll see you later," Hermione said as they left.
"Don't worry I will," Harry replied.
Little did anyone know that the twins were leading the three friends into danger.
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