PoT/HP cross: like snakes
no, no, and no again, I do not know how this came about, but I am dumping this in my journal because I don't know how to finish it. And to those who are actually doing the Prince of Tennis/Harry Potter RPG crossover, ahahaha, in no way do I think this is the way that crossover should work or anything. I was playing this idea in my head for quite a while, ever since tongari had this picture of Kirihara making Yanagi's book rise out of his hand. And especially since Tom Riddle was one of my favorite characters in the entire book, and Rikkai as Tom Riddle. Dude. R is for Riddle all the way.
People forget that the Death Eaters are called Death Eaters, and before that the Knights of Walpurgis, named for Walpurgisnacht, the nowaday May Day, celebrated to ward off evil spirits using noise and playing tricks, not to mention climbing manure piles.
The point is, the Death Eaters were made not to herald death and evil, but to ward it off, hence they "eat" death, not cause it. It's a fact often overlooked, but once they had been eight boys sitting in the commons room of the Slytherin dorms, watching the fire flicker, and one of them had opened a book of saints opened to the 'w' pages, and it had occurred to someone else that the W, like the S, looked like a various parts of a snake's anatomy.
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Yukimura was the only natural Parseltongue of the eight. He had known since he was five that he was destined to be in Slytherin and was pleasantly surprised when on his six birthday, he found he was able to communicate with his sister's pet snake quite well and convinced it to crawl down her back after he dropped it down her shirt. She had given it to him soon after, smiling and telling him that it really resembled him a lot. It was a small ashy and dusty green snake, Yukimura remembered years from then. A small one that could fit in his pocket and told him stories when he went to sleep with it draped on his pillow across his wrist.
The thing about snakes and Yukimura was that they trusted him. He was like them, venomous and bit at the ankles where everyone was weakest and bony. He was skinny. He moved smoothly across the ground when he walked, and he liked the curves of shapes, like curtains or bed sheets, and loved secrets and loved deception.
Yukimura was the only Parseltongue entering Hogwarts his year, but when he and the other seven boys graduated, there would be one more boy who would speak Parseltongue: Yanagi.
Yukimura was the only natural born Parseltongue of the eight boys who would go on to form both the Knights of Walpurgis and the Death Eaters, but Yanagi was the first person to ever learn Parseltongue. Yanagi was never as good at it as Yukimura was or any normal Parseltongue was, but he could get by, and sometimes in the early morning he sat up in bed watching Yukimura's sleeping face and tell him he was beautiful in Parseltongue, so no one but Yukimura could understand.
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"Snakes are forbidden love," Yukimura told Yanagi at one point, lying on Yanagi's bed with his hand on his eyes and knees up, and that night Yanagi traced that smile with his lips all the way down Yukimura's neck. His hands bound with Yanagi's green and silver tie, Yukimura had bit Yanagi on the shoulder when Yanagi was slowly and carefully fucking him later, and the mark was deep and almost a blood red even the next day, so that Yanagi, to avoid teasing in the shower in the locker rooms, cast a tiny healing charm on his shoulder to hide it.
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The book of saints was actually Sanada's, who loved obscure encyclopedias and was the only one out of all eight who enjoyed History of Magic. But beyond that, the book of saints was actually a gift from Yukimura to Sanada for his birthday.
Everyone, of course, knows the story of Yukimura, who died shortly after the first rounds of supporters had been initiated. The blood rites that had formally initiated the Knights of Walpurgis involved mixing certain amounts of one's blood with a divining potion that separated the blood into its elements which were then combined with the blood of the newcomer and reinserted under the skin as a tattoo on their shoulder. This blood rite, though, requires that all participants involved have the same kind of blood running through their veins; in other words, it assumed everyone there was a pureblood.
In fact Yukimura was the only one out of the eight who was half and half. He had never known this himself, that his mother was actually a complete Muggle and married into the family, and the Sorting Hat could of course only pick up things one already knew about oneself.
Yukimura was the first and last victim of the Knights of Walpurgis; Sanada changed their name to Death Eaters soon after Yukimura's funeral.
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But the skull and snake tattoo?
Oh, that's easy. It was Yanagi who first administered it, to himself, and he didn't mind. Snakes are forbidden love, and he had already been bitten once in the same place. If blood was venom, he already was sick and used to it and half a snake himself, speaking in Parseltongue and sleeping with Yukimura at night both of them wrapped up and entwined around each other like they were Tiresias's snakes in the grass.
After all, they were the Death Eaters, and before that they were the Knights of Walpurgis, and they cared because once, when they were eight boys sitting around the fireplace in the Slytherin commons room, the world had been beautiful and unchanging, and all of them had been alive, and they wanted it to stay that way always. The pain caused by the tattoo when any one of them summoned everyone else is nothing more than the pain of people left behind and days forgotten, nothing more, and nothing less.
Magic is pure and beautiful and could kill; they knew that already. Later when Yanagi was at Hogwarts and trying to lecture his students, he would call potions a way to creep through veins, bewitch the mind, ensnare the senses, bottle fame, brew glory, stop death. He would try to get all the children to understand that potions wasn't just the liquid they brewed in the cauldrons and bottled later for a grade. It was a kiss, too, and a bite, and a smile. It was in their blood when they were born, it was in their memory when they died, it was in all the people they had loved or touched or spoke to.
Yanagi would think of Yukimura, and he would touch his shoulder.
A/N: Does anyone want to see the parts that I cut out? Okay, even if you don't, here it is:
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The teachers remembered Yagyuu and Niou the most when all of them had been long gone.
It was Niou who was born a Metamorphmagus, and the only ones in the entire school who knew that Yagyuu wasn't born as one were the Slytherin eight of that year. The pair had met and hated each other instantly in the particular way one does when meeting oneself in real life, and it was Yanagi's secret belief that they never got over that initial hate and kept trying to impress each other into a comfortable ambivalence but never quite got there.
Despite being the one not born a Metamorphmagus, it was Yagyuu who pulled the switch off the first time. No one knew the reason why, something to do with a bet and a certain sum of money and strip poker, perhaps, but Yanagi had suspected at that time it was probably one of those "I know I can but can you?" arguments Niou and Yagyuu had at least once a week. But whatever it was, it worked perfectly. Yagyuu managed to confuse almost half the school into think that Niou had split himself in half and was on two sides of the school at once before Niou caught up with them.
They were the team's Beaters when they got to their second year. Traditionally, Slytherin always puts either twins or siblings as their Beaters. Even though there were a pair of twins that year, the Kisarazu twins who were a year older, but just as it turned out, it was that very fact that impaired them. Ryou and Atsushi were twins in every sense of the word and did everything together; Yagyuu and Niou were twins in looks only and were seamless together.
Yagyuu used to say that resemblance was always a matter of superficiality.
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They called Marui "our little Seeker", even though it was Kirihara who played that position and Marui was only a backup.
yes, see, this is a DUMP fic, which means I do not in the least want to finish it because it SUCKS and I don't know where I am going with it anymore. *weeps* Don't hate me. In case anyone is wondering, yes, Rowling really did say that before they were Death Eaters, they were the Knights of Walpurgis. I just did a little research on my own.
People forget that the Death Eaters are called Death Eaters, and before that the Knights of Walpurgis, named for Walpurgisnacht, the nowaday May Day, celebrated to ward off evil spirits using noise and playing tricks, not to mention climbing manure piles.
The point is, the Death Eaters were made not to herald death and evil, but to ward it off, hence they "eat" death, not cause it. It's a fact often overlooked, but once they had been eight boys sitting in the commons room of the Slytherin dorms, watching the fire flicker, and one of them had opened a book of saints opened to the 'w' pages, and it had occurred to someone else that the W, like the S, looked like a various parts of a snake's anatomy.
*
Yukimura was the only natural Parseltongue of the eight. He had known since he was five that he was destined to be in Slytherin and was pleasantly surprised when on his six birthday, he found he was able to communicate with his sister's pet snake quite well and convinced it to crawl down her back after he dropped it down her shirt. She had given it to him soon after, smiling and telling him that it really resembled him a lot. It was a small ashy and dusty green snake, Yukimura remembered years from then. A small one that could fit in his pocket and told him stories when he went to sleep with it draped on his pillow across his wrist.
The thing about snakes and Yukimura was that they trusted him. He was like them, venomous and bit at the ankles where everyone was weakest and bony. He was skinny. He moved smoothly across the ground when he walked, and he liked the curves of shapes, like curtains or bed sheets, and loved secrets and loved deception.
Yukimura was the only Parseltongue entering Hogwarts his year, but when he and the other seven boys graduated, there would be one more boy who would speak Parseltongue: Yanagi.
Yukimura was the only natural born Parseltongue of the eight boys who would go on to form both the Knights of Walpurgis and the Death Eaters, but Yanagi was the first person to ever learn Parseltongue. Yanagi was never as good at it as Yukimura was or any normal Parseltongue was, but he could get by, and sometimes in the early morning he sat up in bed watching Yukimura's sleeping face and tell him he was beautiful in Parseltongue, so no one but Yukimura could understand.
*
"Snakes are forbidden love," Yukimura told Yanagi at one point, lying on Yanagi's bed with his hand on his eyes and knees up, and that night Yanagi traced that smile with his lips all the way down Yukimura's neck. His hands bound with Yanagi's green and silver tie, Yukimura had bit Yanagi on the shoulder when Yanagi was slowly and carefully fucking him later, and the mark was deep and almost a blood red even the next day, so that Yanagi, to avoid teasing in the shower in the locker rooms, cast a tiny healing charm on his shoulder to hide it.
*
The book of saints was actually Sanada's, who loved obscure encyclopedias and was the only one out of all eight who enjoyed History of Magic. But beyond that, the book of saints was actually a gift from Yukimura to Sanada for his birthday.
Everyone, of course, knows the story of Yukimura, who died shortly after the first rounds of supporters had been initiated. The blood rites that had formally initiated the Knights of Walpurgis involved mixing certain amounts of one's blood with a divining potion that separated the blood into its elements which were then combined with the blood of the newcomer and reinserted under the skin as a tattoo on their shoulder. This blood rite, though, requires that all participants involved have the same kind of blood running through their veins; in other words, it assumed everyone there was a pureblood.
In fact Yukimura was the only one out of the eight who was half and half. He had never known this himself, that his mother was actually a complete Muggle and married into the family, and the Sorting Hat could of course only pick up things one already knew about oneself.
Yukimura was the first and last victim of the Knights of Walpurgis; Sanada changed their name to Death Eaters soon after Yukimura's funeral.
*
But the skull and snake tattoo?
Oh, that's easy. It was Yanagi who first administered it, to himself, and he didn't mind. Snakes are forbidden love, and he had already been bitten once in the same place. If blood was venom, he already was sick and used to it and half a snake himself, speaking in Parseltongue and sleeping with Yukimura at night both of them wrapped up and entwined around each other like they were Tiresias's snakes in the grass.
After all, they were the Death Eaters, and before that they were the Knights of Walpurgis, and they cared because once, when they were eight boys sitting around the fireplace in the Slytherin commons room, the world had been beautiful and unchanging, and all of them had been alive, and they wanted it to stay that way always. The pain caused by the tattoo when any one of them summoned everyone else is nothing more than the pain of people left behind and days forgotten, nothing more, and nothing less.
Magic is pure and beautiful and could kill; they knew that already. Later when Yanagi was at Hogwarts and trying to lecture his students, he would call potions a way to creep through veins, bewitch the mind, ensnare the senses, bottle fame, brew glory, stop death. He would try to get all the children to understand that potions wasn't just the liquid they brewed in the cauldrons and bottled later for a grade. It was a kiss, too, and a bite, and a smile. It was in their blood when they were born, it was in their memory when they died, it was in all the people they had loved or touched or spoke to.
Yanagi would think of Yukimura, and he would touch his shoulder.
A/N: Does anyone want to see the parts that I cut out? Okay, even if you don't, here it is:
*
The teachers remembered Yagyuu and Niou the most when all of them had been long gone.
It was Niou who was born a Metamorphmagus, and the only ones in the entire school who knew that Yagyuu wasn't born as one were the Slytherin eight of that year. The pair had met and hated each other instantly in the particular way one does when meeting oneself in real life, and it was Yanagi's secret belief that they never got over that initial hate and kept trying to impress each other into a comfortable ambivalence but never quite got there.
Despite being the one not born a Metamorphmagus, it was Yagyuu who pulled the switch off the first time. No one knew the reason why, something to do with a bet and a certain sum of money and strip poker, perhaps, but Yanagi had suspected at that time it was probably one of those "I know I can but can you?" arguments Niou and Yagyuu had at least once a week. But whatever it was, it worked perfectly. Yagyuu managed to confuse almost half the school into think that Niou had split himself in half and was on two sides of the school at once before Niou caught up with them.
They were the team's Beaters when they got to their second year. Traditionally, Slytherin always puts either twins or siblings as their Beaters. Even though there were a pair of twins that year, the Kisarazu twins who were a year older, but just as it turned out, it was that very fact that impaired them. Ryou and Atsushi were twins in every sense of the word and did everything together; Yagyuu and Niou were twins in looks only and were seamless together.
Yagyuu used to say that resemblance was always a matter of superficiality.
*
They called Marui "our little Seeker", even though it was Kirihara who played that position and Marui was only a backup.
yes, see, this is a DUMP fic, which means I do not in the least want to finish it because it SUCKS and I don't know where I am going with it anymore. *weeps* Don't hate me. In case anyone is wondering, yes, Rowling really did say that before they were Death Eaters, they were the Knights of Walpurgis. I just did a little research on my own.