"One bowl of tea on rice. Pickled plums, slivered nori, and leftover chicken from dinner. All doused in hot-pipping water then shovelled in with stated kelp."

"That doesn't sound very good," one student says with a disgusted look on his face. Another looks at him weirdly.

"It actually is, I just can't have it with kelp. I'm allergic."

A train passes by the incredible background of a rising sun. A man is seen. "That was so good. All those bowls of tea on rice I'd sneak into the kitchen to make at the orphanage." He collapses on the ground. "Damn it… I'm gonna die of hunger."

A first year Ravenclaw whimpers. He knew what it felt like to go hungary. He just hoped this man didn't have the same problem as him.

"My name is Atsushi. Due to certain circumstances, I'm about to die from starvation." The sounds of the train in the distance go once again.

"After being driven out of the orphanage, I have nothing to eat, nowhere to sleep, and, as one might expect, not a cent to my name. Yet I lack the courage to commit theft."

The boy's shoulders slouch, realising that it was exactly the same except he has yet to be kicked out of his orphanage. He wasn't sure what he would do if that happened, but he wouldn't be surprised if it happened sooner or later.

Harry, however, knew starvation well. He simply refuses to acknowledge that he was starved. If he acknowledged it, then he'd have to acknowledge why it felt so weird that he could eat however much he wants and whenever he wanted at Hogwarts and the Burrow. No, he could not handle that just yet.

"That is how I've arrived at my current predicament. However, if I wish to live, I have no choice but to steal and take from others!"

The Headmaster shakes his head, "The answer is never to steal."

Professor Snape stares at him with an irritated glare. The man knows that this boy did not have any money and there was no way for him to get food. What was the answer then according to Dumbledore? Let himself die? Doubtful.

The screen blurs before solidifying, only the edges stay blurred. Atsushi is kneeling on the floor with at least three people in white outfits with blacked-out faces staring down at him. Their postures are tense.

"Get out you good-for-nothing!"

"No orphanage would welcome the likes of you!"

"The world would be a better place if you'd just die in a ditch somewhere!"

Harry and the Ravenclaw boy flinch, their friends comforting them instantly. They may not know the extent of the abuse these two suffered, but the fact they have was enough. There were many who had a bad reaction to those shouts from the orphanage for one reason or another.

Atsushi stands up, shaking his head frantically trying to get those memories out. "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!"

"Die in a ditch? I'm gonna live no matter what it takes!"

"That's the spirit!" Some firsties stood up before sinking back into their seats with red faces from their outbursts. A few near them giggled at their fellow students.

"Okay… I'll rush the first person who comes along and rob them of everything they got!"

There's a small bell sound, and Atsushi whips around to the road to see a motorcycle pass by leaving behind a cloud of dirt.

"Woah," Ron mumbled. "That was so fast."

"Well, that was mission impossible, I can't catch him on an empty stomach. Next!"

He closes his eyes and after a moment he opens them with a determined look.

" 4." A group of military men are doing drills down the road. Atsushi loses some of the determination in his eyes, but it's not completely extinguished.

"I-I doubt military police'd be toting their wallets during training. But the next person who comes along… for sure!"

"What are the military police?" was whispered by a few. Of course they wouldn't know. Even if they took Muggle Studies they wouldn't have been informed on the subject.

"Military police are like Aurors," Hermione tells some of the people who had been confused near her. Looking around, Harry could see others doing the same.

He turns around, showing that he is by a riverbank. "I've got this!" His shoulders hunch when he sees a floating body. "Well… I can't possibly count him."

Why was there a body floating upside down, down the river? And why isn't the boy doing anything? Those thoughts run through the hall, no one knowing how to answer the unasked questions.

The floating body begins to spin from the current. "Y-yeah, I'll pass, please." The determination is almost completely gone. Crows start landing on the man's legs, clearly hoping to snag a snack once he is completely dead. "I… I'll pass…" Atsushi shakes his head, "Fine!" And jumps into the river.

Sighs of relief ring out around the hall.

The man wakes up, soaking wet and on the edge of the riverbank. Atsushi jumps when the man sits up.

"You were floating down the river, are you okay?"

"I made it. Damn."

"Damn?" Atsushi was confused. 'Did he just say damn?'

"Damn?" when the student asked he got a stern glare from Professor McGonagall. He could not see her, but he could feel the cold, icy glare on his back. He shivered in fear. It felt as if she wanted to murder him.

The man stands, not even looking at the boy in front of him. "Are you the one who interrupted my submersion?"

"I was just trying to help." He faintly growls before a look of horror enters his face. "Submersion?"

"You don't know what I mean by that?" the man gives Atsushi a look that asks 'are you stupid?'. "I was tryin to commit suicide."

"S-suicide?!"

"Great," Draco speaks. "He's that kind of person." He sneers.

"And what is that supposed to mean?" Ron faced the blonde with a glare.

Draco gives him the same look portrayed by the man in front of them. "Suicidal but can't actually complete the task. Clearly, not for a lack of trying, though."

Hermione pulled Ron back into his seat so that they can continue. She might not like Malfoy, but he wasn't wrong about the man.

The man frowns even more. "I was rying to kill myself. But you just had to interfere."

'Wait, is he scolding me for saving him?'

The man sighs, "Still, my priority is to commit a clean suicide without being a burden to anyone. Yet I did trouble you, so the fault lies with me at this point. I should aplogize in some way." Before Atsushi could respond, his stomach growls. "Are you hungry, boy?

Atsushi gets nervous. "Well… I haven't eaten in several days."

The mans stomach growls as well. "How odd. I'm also hungry."

"Then…" Atsushi starts but is interrupted by the man.

"By the way, the river seems to have taken my wallet."

"How is that going to help in this situation?"

"You've got to be kidding…"

Another man is heard shouting from the other side of the river. "There you are, blockhead!"

Many jump at the shout by the dark blonde haired man on the screen. The last time there was any shouting was when Atsushi had a small breakdown. Since he was talking so calmly with this man they never expected to hear a random yell. It startled them. Don't judge them.

The first man grins, waving to the other. "Nice work, Kunikida-kun."

'So, his name is Kunikida,' Snape commits this name to memory so that he won't forget it.

"Nice work? And just who caused all this work, you suicidal maniac?! I've had enough of you disrupting my schedule!"

The man decided to completely ignore Kunikida and turn back to Atsushi. "Oh, right. I have a great idea. He's a colleague of mine from work."

Kunikida begins to get angrier and shouts back to him, "Are you even listening to me?!"

A girl giggles to her friend, "I don't think he is." Her friend snickers with a small blush blooming on her cheeks.

The unknown man laughs a bit. "What's your name?"

"Nakajima… Atsushi."

"Well, come along, Atsushi-kun! What would you like to eat?"

Atsushi thinks with a small nostalgic look on his face. "Um… Well, if it's not too much trouble."

Now that was something Harry knows. The first time he went to the Burrow before his second year was uncomfortable. He always felt like he was intruding and taking things that he didn't deserve when Mrs. Weasley served them food.

"Oh, there's no need to hold back." Kunikida is faintly heard in the background yelling at the man, who continues to ignore him.

"I'd like to eat tea on rice."

The man laughs, which makes Kunikida yell more and Atsushi wonder if he is being made fun of. "So a boy on the brink of starvation wants to eat tea on rice? Very well, let's have Kunikkida-kun treat you to thirty bowls of that!"

This time, Kunikida rages. "Don't get all generous with my money, Dazai!"

"I don't think he's very happy with the idea," Blaise snickered.

"Dazai?"

The man, now known as Dazai, grins. "Yeah, that's my name. I am Dazai. Dazai Osamu."