Chapter 2: - Regrouping
Healer Akata looked flustered as she rushed back into Harry's room. Harry and Luna were just starting on their lunch while Dr Hoshigawa took some notes and Serenity finished some paperwork. Akane lazed on the mantelpiece, quietly eyeing up Luna's sausages.
"Mutou-San's missing!" She told them in something of a panic.
Harry frowned, confused. He was easily able to sense Atem, though he'd had to close the link to Yugi temporarily to allow the heir to recover properly. He turned instinctively in the Pharaoh's direction.
"Which one?" Dr. Hoshigawa seemed less concerned then he should have been, considering everything. He slowly finished his notes as Akane stalked out of the room, her tail twitching.
"Mutou Yami."
"He's in Yugi's room." Harry and the Doctor spoke at the same time, causing Dr Hoshigawa to chuckle and Harry to sigh.
"Where you find one you'll generally find the other. I swear that link of theirs allows them to hone in on each other." The Doctor continued as he nodded to the pair of teens and left the room with Serenity and Akata in tow, "If anything I'm surprised that Potter-San's not in there with them."
"Potter-San appears to have some sense," The Healer muttered, "I take it Mutou-San doesn't?"
"There have been far too many people over the years who have tried to kill the Mutou twins and steal their power." The doctor explained, "I don't know the full details, but they're stronger when they're together so they don't like being apart."
"So that's why you recommended they have the same room." Akata nodded as Serenity bit her lower lip, knowing the full reason Yugi and Yami didn't like being apart, and Dr Hoshigawa's explanation was only half of it. "That reminds me, we must speak to Mutou-San about stopping the..." She trailed off as they entered the room only to find Atem was fast asleep in an armchair next to Yugi's bed.
Dr Hoshigawa hushed his colleagues as he made his way around the room, being careful not to startle the Pharaoh, having made that mistake before and not wanting to do it again.
"Mutou-San." He shook the Pharaoh's arm gently, "Mutou-San, wake up."
Atem started awake, bolting out of the chair as the Doctor backed up swiftly, putting his hands up apologetically as Atem growled at him in a language none of them could understand for a few seconds before freezing up, gaining an odd look as he turned to look in the direction of Harry's room before he turned back to them with an apologetic expression.
"I apologise." Atem said with a sigh, having been shocked out of his ancient memories by Harry speaking to him over the link, "That wasn't Japanese was it?"
"No." Dr Hoshigawa shook his head, "What was it?"
"Egyptian. I apologise if I slip..." Atem started apologising to the Doctor before pausing and blinking at Serenity as the fact she was there seeped into his head. "Serenity?"
"Hi Yami." She giggled, having had a similar reaction from everyone that had woken up so far today, wondering if it had really taken that long for her presence to sink into Yami's mind and watching as Akane jumped up on Yugi's bed and settled at the foot of it, "Don't blast the Shiragiku."
"What's a Shiragiku?" Atem asked, confused as he watched the twin tailed cat who was watching him back with an intrigued look on her face.
"A Japanese Auror, Mutou-San." Akata informed him. Something flickered across Atem's face, but none of them were fast enough to read it. The Healer continued speaking without giving him a chance to comment. "You're not supposed to be out of bed." She scolded him, earning herself an amused look from the Pharaoh and a chuckle from Dr. Hoshigawa.
"You appear to have me at a disadvantage." Atem said calmly, hiding his amusement, irritating Akata further by doing so, "You know my name but I don't know yours."
"Healer Akata Yuna." She told him sharply, casting the more detailed diagnosis spell over the Mutou twins with a wave of her wand as she did so and letting out a soft sigh as she read the kanji that floated above Yugi's unconscious form. "I see you've stopped the energy drain."
Atem nodded, remembering preventing Yugi from draining himself any further only to fall asleep in the chair next to him almost instantly.
"He's given me far too much of his energy in the last couple of days." The Pharaoh murmured softly, as he watched Yugi's chest rise and fall, still surprised they'd all made it out of the World of Memories alive and grateful beyond words for his hikari, without whom he wouldn't have done, "I just wish I had enough to reciprocate."
"That's not necessary." Serenity said, checking with her mentor that she was grabbing the right potion out of a bag at her side before passing it to Yami, who looked at it and then her in turn, "Energy Restorative, a mild one. It's not safe to have more than one strong one a day, you can get addicted to the high they provide."
Atem nodded his understanding and swiftly chugged the potion. He woke up a bit as the potion hit his system and looked around - he'd been a bit out of it both when he'd first gotten here and when he'd staggered from his room to Yugi's, not being quite aware of anything except that he was in a strange place and his hikari was draining himself. He hadn't taken in quite how large their rooms were or how lavishly decorated.
Somehow he'd thought Seto would have been more circumspect than to flaunt his wealth in their faces, but then it wasn't like Seto had had much time to get the place organised and Atem recognised the tactic that having the guest rooms this poshly decorated really was, having improved relations with foreign dignitaries by impressing them with Egypt's wealth in much the same manner.
A knock on the door caused all of them to jump and Serenity darted over to the door, opening it to reveal Joey laden down with a tray full of food, "Afternoon, Atem." Joey grinned at him, "Seems like I'm a waiter today." He commented as he slid the tray onto the desk at one side of the room and pulled a chair over, "Sleep well?"
Atem nodded, keeping a sharp eye on the doctors as they treated as he wandered over, having not realised how hungry he was until he'd caught the smell of a cooked meal.
"Am I this predictable?" He asked Joey who just chuckled.
"You and Yugi are as bad as each other." Joey snorted, not informing Atem that Tobias had informed him the moment Atem had started wandering the halls, more asleep than not. "At least Rich Boy's got a good cook. Hospital food is horrendous, even from the canteen."
Atem nodded his agreement as he tucked into his plate of food.
"I'm just glad you're not calling me Nen again." Joey shrugged as he sat down next to him, grinning at the Pharaoh when the smell of the food made Atem's stomach growl.
"When did I...?"
"When we were settling everyone in last night. I take it you don't remember."
Atem tried to think back to the previous day only to find that he did remember now he'd been reminded, but everything was a little hazy after he'd spoke to Luna, mostly because he'd been drifting in and out of sleep pretty much constantly and it probably didn't help that his soul room had changed rather drastically while he'd been asleep either.
The Puzzle's maze was still attached to it, somehow Atem didn't think that was ever going to change, but there was now a room between it and the corridor to the three rooms, a room that looked rather like his bedroom in the palace but had the balcony that he'd often visited when he needed to clear his head attached to it.
It was an unexpected, but pleasant surprise, as it gave him an excuse to go through his memories properly and meant that he finally had a proper Soul Room.
"Kind of," Atem shrugged, "I was so tired I wasn't really thinking straight. Did it again when Dr. Hoshigawa woke me up." He shot an apologetic look at the doctor who'd looked over when he'd heard his name and who smiled at him before turning back to his patient, "Only snapped out of Egyptian because Harry called me using the link."
"That bad?" Joey asked, concerned.
"We've," Joey knew that Atem meant Yugi too, "just had fourteen years worth of memories flood our minds. It's made a mess of our Soul Rooms." Atem paused and chuckled, "Not that Yugi's room hasn't always been disorganised but once we've worked out which items are which and tidied up a bit, we should stop pulling from the wrong set of memories."
"Wait, so Yuge's gunna have the same trouble? I thought you were the one who was supposed to get the memories, not him." Joey scowled, confused.
"Pharaoh Atem's memories were returned to him." Atem sighed, "And unfortunately we were both Pharaoh Atem, light and dark," He indicated each of them in turn, "Remember?"
"So you both got the memories." Joey nodded, understanding, but didn't get the chance to ask anything else as Mokuba entered the room, watched the doctors for a moment, then spotted them eating and came over.
"Atem, hi, the servants are in the process of setting up a twin room so you don't have to sleep in a chair," Mokuba said, looking a little harassed, "but it won't be ready till this evening."
"You don't have to..."
"There's a reason we used to insist on you and Yugi sharing a room in hospital, if you don't one of you ends up permanently sleeping in a chair," Mokuba waved it off, "Besides it's not a big issue, we have plenty of huge rooms and the servants are just pleased to actually have someone to look after. Seto and I aren't around very often and they get bored."
Atem let out a soft snort. Idle servants made for the worst gossips imaginable, so he could imagine that Seto was pleased that they finally had something to do too. "Thanks for letting me know."
"That's not all I came up here to tell you." Mokuba sighed, "There's a meeting going on in an hour and the Ministry want you there. Seto would have gotten you more time but they insisted that one of you Mutous have to be there."
"The Ministry?" Atem frowned, already wondering if he'd remembered to pack a bag with some clothes in and if so where he'd put it, since he had no intention of going into an important talk in sleep rumpled clothing.
"The Ministry of Magical Japan. They've been nothing but reasonable since this happened. Unlike the English one who..." Mokuba trailed off, his shoulders sinking and grief flickering across his face, "Seto told them what happened in the Game," Mokuba's eyes flickered to the medics who were trying not to listen to the conversation, hinting that Seto might not have told the Ministry everything, "But they want to speak with you. Only you and Yugi know everything that happened in Egypt."
"Why do they have to know that?" Joey demanded.
"Because this all stemmed from Egypt."
"No." Atem shook his head, "There were Shadow-Touched long before Egypt."
"What?"
"I remember everything." Atem told them, "And while the Millennium Items came from my father's time on the throne, the Millennium Tome they came from was written a long time before then and there were stories of Kings and Sorcerers who could summon monsters, right back as far as the days before Atlantis's fall."
"You're not seriously telling me that Atlantis existed and you knew where it was." Joey gawped at him.
"No." Atem's tone was incredibly derogatory, "Of course not. They were stories, Joey. Tales you told kids to get them to sleep at night. I'm just pointing out that there were tales of those who could call Ka beasts long before I could summon." He hesitated, not wanting to leave Yugi's side, "However I can share what I know and Mahado would..." Atem trailed off, a pensive look crossing his face for just a moment.
"Yami?" Mokuba asked, concerned.
Joey watched as Atem drew the top card from his deck and considered it carefully, "You alright, Atem?"
"Yes, but..." He looked at the healers then back to Joey, "Keep an eye on Yugi for me?" He asked, though Joey could see that he didn't really want to leave the side of his other self, "I'll be back in a few minutes."
"Sure, it's not like I have plans or anything. Not until all this gets sorted out." Joey shrugged, not really sure what was going to come from the events of the last couple of days and unsure what he'd be doing by the end of it, "I'm just the muscle after all, I don't have a say in this."
"You're not just the muscle." Atem growled at him, meaning every word of it, "I need you with me when I speak to the Ministry."
"Me?" Joey looked surprised, "Why me? I'm not..."
"You're Shadow-Touched," Atem replied, "And you're from this time. It won't matter that I've been around for nine years, they could still dismiss my comments as belonging to a past age, I need you with me. You know how it feels to be dropped in the middle of this mess. You can speak for the new summoners where I can't. I chose this, they didn't."
Joey looked shocked, but he nodded his understanding and brushed some crumbs off of his top, frowning slightly when he realised he had nothing smart he could wear.
"I'll be right back." Atem darted back into the room that had his name on the door and closed the door, taking a deep breath before calling out with both voice and magic, "Mahado, come forth."
The Purple Dark Magician appeared in a swirl of Shadows and bowed to him. "My Pharaoh, how can I help?"
"Rise, my friend. We need to talk."
Mahado tilted his head at the Pharaoh, curious, "How is Prince Yugi?"
"He's..." Atem sighed, causing Mahado to give him a concerned look, "He'll be fine, but he sacrificed almost all of his Ba to revive me. I'd be dead if it wasn't for him." Atem's shoulders sank momentarily and Mahado put a hand on his shoulder reassuringly.
For the very first time Atem flinched away, guilt obvious on his face, "Mahado, I didn't... I should have..." Atem hesitated for a moment, then, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."
"My Pharaoh?" Mahado asked, confused and concerned by the Pharaoh's tone of voice, having never heard Atem speak with that much emotional pain and guilt in his voice.
"You...I..." Atem didn't know how to put what he wanted to say to the man who had been his childhood friend and guardian and who had become the Dark Magician in order to continue to help him even after death. He'd had it all planned out in his head just moments ago, but now he was face to face with Mahado, he'd forgotten it all and in the end he settled for, "I'm sorry."
"You have nothing to apologise to me for."
"I do." Atem shook his head, "You surrendered your eternity for me and I forgot you..."
Mahado considered his friend and Duelist carefully before speaking, having wondered how this conversation would go thousands of times over the last five thousand years. "You had no choice but to forget me. The whole world would have been destroyed by Zorc if you hadn't." Mahado gave him a small smile, "Besides, you didn't truly forget me. How many other monsters stronger then I have you passed up in favour of keeping me in your deck and at your side?"
Mahado's question didn't ease Atem's concern. In fact it just added to the problem. "I had no idea you were who you were and..." Atem's tone gained hints of betrayal, "You didn't tell me either."
"I didn't tell you because I couldn't tell you what you were so desperate to know." Mahado admitted, looking ashamed, "Not when time and magic had ripped the answers from me. If I could have done so, I would have, believe me, my Pharaoh."
Atem stared at him for a few moments, then his shoulders sank and he nodded, accepting Mahado's words. Five thousand years was a very long time after all.
"Mahado, I was hoping..." Atem said when he finally spoke again, trailing off towards the tail end of his sentence, looking half embarrassed and half like he wasn't sure it was a good idea.
"My Pharaoh?"
"Would you call me Atem?" Mahado stared at the Pharaoh in shock, "Please?"
"I'm..."
"We're friends, aren't we? And friends use each other's given name."
"It's not proper..."
"We're not in Egypt Mahado, and the throne isn't going to be mine for much longer. It'll be Yugi's soon." Mahado frowned slightly but nodded at Atem's comment, remembering the Capsule Monsters game all too well, "Besides, you've more than earned the right to use my name after everything we've been through together."
Confusion crossed Mahado's features for a moment, then his expression changed, becoming an odd combination of happiness and uncertainty, "I would be honoured, my Pha... Atem."
"Thank you Mahado." Atem smiled at him, "I have another favour to ask of you..."
"If I can help in anyway, I will, you know that, m... Atem."
"I do." Atem nodded, "Here's what I need you to do..."
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"Kame Game Shop, Sirius Black..." Sirius trailed off, his eyes widening as he listened to who was on the other end of the phone, "Arthur, give me a second..." Disconnecting the portable phone from its charger cable, he waved at Solomon and indicated that he was heading out to the stock room.
He headed out the back when Solomon nodded, unconcerned since there were very few customers who were actually here to buy things and the ones that only wanted answers, answers that those at the shop didn't have or were unwilling to give, were generally easily scared off by Airo, who was patiently hovering just inside the doorway, keeping a sharp eye on Mai, who could have really done with having a rest like the rest of the Shadow-Touched but had come here to help instead. Also, Tobias was curled up on the roof, having been sent to guard the shop by Joey. His sharp, red eyes watched the people coming and going – it was rather unsettling to potential customers.
"Okay, I'm available now." Sirius said, shutting the door behind him and watching a beetle scuttle along the floor. Something about it seemed odd, but he couldn't quite work out what. He went to step on it as he continued speaking only for it to dart under a box, he dismissed it for the time being as he turned back to his conversation, "I need to ask you a question before I answer any of yours."
"Go on."
"What was the first thing you said to me after I was cleared of murdering Lily and James?" He asked, needing to confirm it really was Arthur before he gave away any information that could be used against them.
"I'm sorry, I should have known better than to think you'd betray someone who'd treated you like their brother."
Sirius relaxed slightly when Arthur quoted himself word for word, "Is everyone alright?"
"Everyone's alright, but after what we heard yesterday, I should be asking you that." Mr Weasley replied, sounding concerned, "What happened yesterday?"
"Bakura bloody Malfoy summoned a demon that nearly destroyed the world and while the Mutou twins were fighting it, the rest of us were attacked by those bloody shadow creatures." Sirius informed him, his tone sharp and angry, quite understandable considering the circumstances, "Yugi and Hermione were nearly killed, Yami wouldn't have survived if Yugi hadn't gotten to him in time, Joey and Kaiba are knackered and Harry used up far too much magic and is currently recovering with the others in Kaiba's mansion, plus Luna was dropped off here by her Deck Leader because her father lost his soul during the Attack." Sirius listed off, "What about your lot?"
"Fred, George, Ron and Ginny gave us a shock, summoned monsters from their deck during the Attack, but other than the fact they're tired everyone's ok." Sirius's first words seeped into Arthur's head, "A demon, Sirius? Really?"
"Really." Sirius deadpanned, remembering the memory Ombre had drawn from Joey's head as he and Yami had tried to explain, "But Zorc wasn't anything like the Kelpies or Kappas, this was more like..." He didn't know how to describe it properly, "It was huge and incredibly dangerous and it was what summoned the Shadows to attack everyone. Yugi and Yami killed it though, nearly killed themselves in the process but..."
"And the Shadows just went away when Zorc died?" Arthur asked, thinking, though to Sirius it sounded like there were people speaking in the background, making Sirius wonder who else was there.
"No. Not really. They were sealed with Zorc but Bakura tore the wards down. The Shadows are still loose, but with Zorc dead, there shouldn't be another Attack like that."
"Can't new wards be put up?" Arthur asked.
"No. Not without..." Sirius trailed off. He had asked that question last night. In fact he'd repeatedly demanded the answer from the Pharaoh who had been so tired that he'd snapped and told Sirius exactly what he had given up in order to seal the Shadows the first time. Sirius hadn't liked the answer then either. "It was an extremely dark and powerful ritual that ripped the sacrifice's soul in two, trapping half of the sacrifice's soul in the dark for thousands of years and preventing the other half from moving on." Sirius heard Arthur's sharp intake of breath, "Without Zorc's rampage fuelling them, Yami told me that the Shadows should calm down. They only had to be sealed because of Zorc in the first place."
"Yami told you?" Arthur sounded confused, having been unaware that there were experts on the matter, "Yami Mutou? The twenty something year old? Brother to Yugi?"
"That's him. He knows more about the Shadows than anyone else alive. Probably because he and his brother have kept them at bay for the last nine years, no thanks to bloody Malfoy, who spent the last nine years trying to rip the wards down. Not that Dumbledore's offered them any help." There was no response to that and Sirius was semi-gratified to have silenced the Weasley patriarch, "What're your Shadow-Touched kids doing? If the ICoW want Harry and Hermione, I assume they want your kids brought in too."
"They're in hiding." Arthur responded, sounding like he wasn't sure he quite believed Sirius, "For now. We'll work something out."
"Find a way to send them over here," Sirius told him, "The Japanese Ministry's actually being useful. In fact I might move over here."
"Sirius!" Arthur sounded shocked.
"What?" Sirius was surprised that Arthur would be surprised, "It looks like my Godson won't be able to return to England anytime soon, and I see no need to leave him behind and return myself, not when I'm still treated like a criminal in England even though I've been cleared of all charges. Oh. That reminds me. Tell Dumbledore I quit would you?"
"What do you mean?"
"You know exactly what I mean." Sirius snorted, "Tell Dumbledore I quit and before anyone accuses me, no I'm not going dark, I'm just fed up of not being told anything."
"But but but..."
"Were you aware that Yugi and Yami were the only line of defence between us and what happened yesterday?" Sirius asked, "Or that Dumbledore's been putting the entire world at risk by letting someone who wanted them both dead share their classes for the last four years? How about the fact that there have been Shadow Games regularly played at the school with souls on the line? And not just between the Item Holders? Harry's been caught up in one of them and Dumbledore never said a word to me about it."
"But what about the Order?" Sirius watched the strange beetle from earlier scuttle under the door to the shop as Arthur asked his question.
"What, exactly, was I going to be able to do? I don't have any say in the Ministry, Wormtail's probably already told the Death Eaters I'm an Animagus so I can't sneak around that way, no light family will listen to me..."
"That's not fair..."
"Arthur, you may listen to what I have to say but your wife dislikes me. A lot." Sirius growled, getting fed up with the conversation. The ones in the shop were more productive, "And most of the light families trust me about as far as they can throw me, except Andy's."
Arthur found he couldn't deny it, he did have a question though, "What about Voldemort?"
"What about him? James told me there's a Prophecy about Harry, but I don't know what it is and until I do I am not forcing my godson to return to England when there's people there who want to put him through some kangaroo court just for helping his friends out."
"Prophecy?" Arthur sounded confused.
"You didn't know about it." Sirius commented rather than asked. "Try asking Dumbledore. It's not like keeping it a secret is helping anyone. Voldemort already knows it."
"Does Harry know it?"
Sirius paused for a moment then... "I never thought to ask."
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Luna was sat on the edge of the fountain in the middle of the Kaiba Mansion's huge back garden when Mokuba found her, dangling her fingers in the water to entice the fish up to the surface.
Instead of speaking, Mokuba sat down next to her. The whole Clan was still grieving for Kari, so he could kind of understand what she was going through, but it was a very different kind of grief, to lose a parent then to lose a close friend. Mokuba had been too young to really remember his parents properly when Gozabora had adopted him and his brother and there had certainly been no tears shed by the Kaiba brothers for him, so he wasn't really sure what to say.
"I think they're hungry." Luna finally spoke up, having come out into the gardens when the medics had asked for a little privacy while they did a few final checks and that if they were all clear, Harry would join her shortly.
"Huh?" Mokuba asked intelligently.
"The fish. They're nibbling at my fingers."
The normalcy of Luna's comment threw Mokuba for a moment. Then the younger Kaiba brother looked around for the groundskeepers, whose job it would be to feed the fish, hoping that they hadn't been outside during the Attack when he didn't spot them.
"It's easy to forget the little things when the whole world gets turned rightside up." Luna continued, "But that doesn't mean we should." She indicated the fish food tub that was on the floor next to Mokuba's foot.
Mokuba started, having completely missed it when he'd sat down and the pair of them fed the fish. It took him a moment or two to actually take in what she'd said.
"I'm not sure this counts as rightside up." He told her, well versed in Luna's oddities since she had been in his study group for the last couple of years, "Not when everything's going to change."
Luna didn't reply for a few moments, instead she stood there watching the fish as they darted to the surface to eat, then, with an odd, dreamy expression on her face and a completely flat tone Luna spoke.
"Recover Guardians, recover fast,
The peace you have now will not last.
Another foe so dark in tone,
Seeks to steal the Shadowed Throne.
Though new age comes with allies true,
Not all will live to see the view.
Trust heart and soul when battles come,
Both will start the new Kingdom.
Without Clan at hand and support from all,
Into darkness this world will fall."
"Luna?" Mokuba asked when she trailed off, concern obvious as he tried to go through what she'd said in his head. This wasn't the first time that Luna had just spouted something seemingly random, in fact he had a copy of the self updating diary that Rebecca had designed, after they'd worked out that Luna was a Seer, that wrote down what she was saying as she said it.
"Did I say something odd again?" Luna asked, curious.
Even with the tone of Luna's prophecy Mokuba couldn't help the amusement that flickered across his face. A lot of what his friend said was odd, even when she wasn't prophesying.
"Was it odder than usual?" Luna asked when she saw Mokuba's emotions shift from amusement back to worry.
"It was more worrying than usual; we're definitely going to have to tell the others this time. Let me go and get the diary and I'll show you." Mokuba started to dart towards his room, only for Luna to catch up with him as he reached the stairs.
"I'll come with you." She smiled at him reassuringly, "And we can work it out together."
"It's pretty clear this time." Mokuba informed her as he heard voices further down the corridor speaking in rapid and fluent Japanese, grateful for Luna's coherency this time. Some of Luna's prophecies were more like random collections of words then rhymes, while others were nothing more than simple sentences that would make sense after the fact, "But I can't remember eep!"
Mokuba squeaked as he careened around the corner only to bounce off of Harry, causing both of them to land on their butts on the floor.
"Ouch." Harry complained as the man he'd been talking to offered Harry a hand up while Luna giggled as she watched Mokuba get to his. "Is there a reason you're pretending to be a human bludger?" Harry asked the younger Kaiba brother as his companion chuckled at Harry's dead pan tone. Obviously Harry had been taking lessons from the Pharaoh.
"Yes... no... uhh..." Mokuba watched the Shiragiku that Harry had been talking to carefully. Not because he didn't think that he could do his job, but because he wasn't sure how much the Shiragiku knew and wasn't sure what the Japanese Ministry thought about Seers, since the English one seemed to be rather dismissive of them.
"Satomi Ichiro." The Shiragiku bowed to Mokuba, "Potter-San was just telling me about your 'awesome' theme park." Mokuba preened slightly at that, "I've been meaning to take the kids."
Mokuba made a note to get some complimentary tickets for the Shiragiku before he turned to Harry, "I need to talk to you, Harry. Privately."
"Excuse me Satomi-San." Harry bowed to the Shiragiku, as Mokuba realised that Harry had been speaking in Japanese and while he definitely had a gaijin accent, his fluency and shortcuts spoke of the language being his first, probably because he'd picked it up from someone who had been raised speaking Japanese.
"Of course Potter-San." Satomi bowed back, "I'll speak with you later. Kaiba-San, Lovegood-San." He nodded to each in turn before heading on down the corridor.
"So what's wrong?" Harry asked the moment that Satomi was out of sight, pausing to watch Akane walk past, tail in the air and a bug in her mouth, following her partner down the corridor.
"You know Luna's a Seer?" Mokuba asked.
Harry nodded, giving his girlfriend a worried look only to receive a small smile in return.
"You might want to come and read this, but try and keep a lid on your emotions till Yami..."
"Atem." Luna corrected him.
"Till Atem," Mokuba stressed the Pharaoh's name, "Comes out of his meeting."
"Why?" Harry asked, both concerned and curious.
"Because he isn't going to like this one bit." Mokuba said with a certainty that worried Harry.
Before he could reply though one of the servants found them and bowed to the group before looking at Mokuba, "Master Mokuba, the twin room's ready for the Mutous and there's a Taylor Tristan at the door to see you?"
"Tristan?" Mokuba asked, surprised. "Let him in and set up a room in case he needs a rest. In fact send him through to the library, I'll meet him there." The servant nodded and darted off, leaving the rest of them stood there. "I'll go and get the diary and meet you there." He told Harry and Luna, "It's on the ground floor, second door from the right in the entrance hall. If you need any more directions ask one of the servants."
With that Mokuba darted off.
"Diary?" Harry asked Luna, confused.
"Rebecca thought of it..." Luna started to explain as she ushered Harry towards the stairs.