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WELCOME BACK SNAKEY!
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As soon as the carriage stops (too harsh for Dazai's liking) They don't waste time and collect and organize their things.
Apparently most of the students and some invited adults get off the carriages,I wonder... is Snape here? Or maybe he's already retired?
the itch that bothers him so much under Dazai's skin is still present but not as bothersome as before, he takes the time to observe the crowd, there are still no signs of anyone from the gang.
There's a crowd forming huh... better try to avoid it
His mind quickly returns to get his luggage as he sees Blaise and Draco with their own, he didn't really bring much. He brought a blue bag small enough to only fit a few essentials, it was a gift from kunikida, In it he really only had two changes of clothes and other things like the charger for his cell phone, laptop for work and that, while he had a small suitcase but much larger than the other bag, in it he had the gifts for his gang and... paperwork..
Right. The deal with the president was that he would do his paperwork, How boring! im sure kunikida had something to do with this! (He didn't he was just being dramatic but hell he was not gonna admit it!!) He came here to escape work but i guess you never really escape responsibilities, but okay I guess? it's really a lot of paperwork but it's nothing that he hasn't dealt with in the port mafia before.
Ah poor little naive me with the amount of paperwork that Mori forced me to do, I really think that he gave me so much on purpose, it was so fucking much for it to not be on purpose, not even Kouyou or Chuuya had that much paperwork!...
Fuck Mori let's stop thinking about him.
If only he had little Atsushi for this, he would actually save me!...
As for the gifts for the gang, he would actually give each of them two gifts, he really spend a lot on these gifts, why? Because his subordinates (friends.) deserve the best.
. . .
The brunette just moved the paperwork aside, he'll do it when he finds time he supposes?
In the suitcase were also Riddle's diary and his old wand, probably one of the only things he managed to keep after leaving Hogwarts.
After a while, at about 17 years old, he managed to perform spells without feeling a horrible headache! Of course, it was still uncomfortable because of NLH, but at least he managed it! Chuuya had no idea what was going on. (he thought it was just Dazai's nonsense as always)
Apparently Mori thought it was funny to just burn all his stuff after his mission was over.
apart from featherbrain of course.
I mean, it was with Blaise during all that time!
. . .
A thought came to dazai's head.
Egg.
Draco took care of Egg right? Where is the dragon now? Probably being an adult dragon now it became horribly big, right?
"Draco." Dazai says a little more seriously than he intended "Mhm?" Draco turns to look at Dazai with a raised eyebrow
"do you still take care of egg?" Dazai points him with his hand waiting for an answer, huh, he would really like to see the dragon again.
"Oh, yes I suppose, it got awfully big but I got a license to keep it and hired a trained dragon keeper for it" draco would look back at his luggage. "Clearly my father wasn't happy about that but he decided it might be useful to have a dragon I guess?"..."If you want we can go visit him in his stable where he is now?"
Would he really like to see Egg again? Sure, but is it appropriate? Did egg even remember dazai? He can probably find time after this is over.
He could probably even tear him to death if he's that big!! (probably not because NLH but bleh who cares.)
I wonder how the Ada and chuuya (Or Akutagawa maybe both?) would react to Egg! That would probably be one of the best reactions he would ever see in his life.
That thought made him giggle.
Draco raised an eyebrow, "What are you laughing at?" Literally Dazai looked so serious a moment ago and then started giggling?
"Nothing~ I'll probably find time to visit Egg after this ends!" Dazai gives him a smile.
Blaise watched the whole interaction and it made him give a warm smile as well.
Dazai adjusted his coat and his hair still looked messy but at this point nothing could be done to save his hair. (or at least that's what he thinks).
They turned to look at the window to try to find a route to avoid being swallowed by people, "this way is easier" pointing to where the Slytherin children were gathering, "Most likely will go away because Draco, since he is Malfoy" Blaise and Draco nodded and opened the carriage door, going down.
Purebloods or any kind of discrimination of that type or sm.
Dazai took a last look at the "invisible" magical horses that drove the carriage, they were beautiful, but he didn't wish anyone he knew to see them, although he could probably name more than twenty people who could see them back in Yokohama. (Also Blaise and draco for a reason i don't want to know right now for my non-existant sanity.)
...
He approached the horses with his gloves on, petting them quickly before catching up to Blaise and Draco who gave each other a worried look and making their way through the children with black and green robes.
The children walked away from the three of them exactly as Dazai said, probably because of Draco's status and probably Blaise, Draco kept a serious and threatening face, as soon as Dazai realized he thought.
Draco is really only soft with friends huh?
They made their way through the students entering Hogwarts. "We have to go to the Great Hall, They will welcome us and then probably let us leave or something. " Blaise said, a little bored. "I feel lost." Dazai sighed and Blaise looked at him and smile "It's not that far boss, let's just keep going"
"Anyways what is your job Blaise? Draco probably works for his family but what about you Blaise?" Dazai pointed turning his head to see Blaise as they walked through the halls "ah.. I have a potions shop, it's one of the biggest ones that exist for what is known "
"and probably one of the most famous" Draco pointed out.
Blaise had a potions shop? He's definitely going after this.
"That sounds like fun, I should go visit Blaise one of these days!" Dazai said with a smile and Blaise smiled back, Visiting Blaise's shop would be a beautiful catastrophe that he is not willing to miss, do you know how many pranks he can play on Kunikida?! Even blowing up that slug's car for a second time! Imagine how many possibilities with the potions he will have at his disposal!
"I'd be delighted." Blaise continued to smile at the thought of Dazai visiting him.
...
They walked chatting through the hallways Probably with some Slytherin kids following them because of the very famous Draco Malfoy and Blaise Zabini but still a very good talk, "Actually I brought you all some gif-"
Dazai was about to almost run into someone but quickly moved to avoid them, while Draco who was behind him had the bad luck of crashing into the person.
"What do you think you're doing?!" Draco would get up angry Dazai takes a moment to see who it is..
"Oh Pansy" Blaise would say as he helps Draco up. Pansy! PANSY! Dazai hides from Pansy's vision as he stands behind Blaise and Pansy waves and apologizes to Draco, she's grown a lot! She looks pretty good too, even good enough to ask her to commit double suicide! Her hair is still as short as when she was a child, she comes dressed elegantly in a black dress with a long, thin black sweater with small white touches and black boots.
"I'm sorry draco" pansy says lightly shaking her dress discarding the dust that got on it "Oh, blaise! how have you been?" she would ask with a smile and blaise and draco would turn around a little confused, hasn't she noticed Dazai or something? "Fine, thanks Pansy" pansy would nod and blaide turns to look behind him to see if dazai hadn't escaped or something like that, he was behind blaise and slightly camouflaged in the shadows.
"you should get out of there" blaise would tell him with a smile and dazai just frowns "Who are you talking to?" pansy would say trying to look behind blaise looking at a figure half hidden behind them, he was dressed in a cream colored coat and messy hair, she couldn't identify who it was until he spoke "Fineeee, Blaise is so annoying!"
Dazai would step out of the shadows giving Pansy a full view of who he is "Hey Pansy! you look good!" Dazai would say smiling at her with his hands in his pockets
Oh damn it's Dazai.
What.
"The hell-" Pansy would say looking up and down at Dazai, was he really here? Wide eyes, she had already given him up for dead since he stopped sending letters.
"Oh- to be honest i thought you were dead!" dazai just gave a small giggle "i wish!" This made the three snakes frown. Does he still have that suicidal humor or something?
Pansy is more mature now and over time she realized the stupid things she did as a child after Dazai left, she doesn't hold much resentment towards the man. "I guess it's nice to know you didn't die or anything, the Weasleys will probably go crazy seeing you here." Pansy pointed out, "This is not at all what I expected to happen today."
"We're on our way to the Great Hall, do you want to join us?" Blaise asks, with Dazai at his side, still a little nervous about this whole situation, while Pansy probably had a million questions in her head, but just gives up and sighs, she'll ask him later she supposes, Pansy nods and they all go back to their way to the Great Hall.
Everyone is returning to their way to the Great Hall with now Pansy.
It's strange to see Pansy so calm, she seems to have matured I guess, at least I won't have to deal with her being a nuisance! This day is getting better and better!
Wait, that would be boring.
I'll find a way to annoy her! Hehe~
....
Pansy was on her way to the great hall, she was invited by hogwarts for a visit of probably 1-2 weeks? she's not sure, she decided to come with blaise and draco, we were invited as sponsors of the big Quidditch game that was going to take place, she still talks to the hell hounds sometimes anyway, but literally after pansy joined dazai just disappeared without saying anything! the following year at least after a while of worrying he sent them a letter saying he was okay, this continued for some time before he just stopped answering letters. Pansy thought he died or something to be honest, she felt a little remorse after he graduated from hogwarts she wanted to at least give dazai an apology, she never got a chance anyways, hogwarts became more boring without him and probably everyone who knew dazai as friends or close acquaintances could confirm to that, even professor Snape! who seemed very worried?
Apparently there will be a big Quidditch game at school and some other activities, like a huge festival of sorts. why didn't hogwarts ever do this while i was still studying here? it would have been fun! uhg.
The students will still have classes so I won't have much of a worry about being bothered by kids during my time here.
In the end I didn't get the chance to accompany Draco and Blaise on their way to Hogwarts, Blaise wanted to show or introduce someone to Draco, not that I cared much, I'll meet them around Hogwarts eventually, Pansy was walking through the halls deep in thought as she headed to the great hall, she heard familiar voices and turned around to check who it was, and before she knew it she felt like she bumped into someone but it felt like the person moved quickly, but she still bumped into someone, or maybe the same person?
She got up to apologize before seeing that it was Draco "Oh Pansy" Blaise would say as he helped Draco up. Pansy apologized to Draco and talked a bit with Blaise before noticing something behind Blaise.
"you should get out of there" Blaise would tell whoever was behind him, she couldn't quite identify them but they seemed familiar, before hearing a familiar voice.
Huh?!
I was literally standing in front of Dazai, DAZAI! who I thought was dead until this moment I guess not.
How are you here?! What's going on?! A million questions fill Pansy's head, almost making her dizzy. She quickly frees herself from her thoughts and decides to maintain a more appropriate composure. The questions can be for later.
But oh god she was panicking in her head.
Fuck.
. . .
The group starts walking towards the Great hall, it was a good talk about some of their interests, did he have any interests? He suppose that during the mafia he took a liking to astrology and things about the planets and that... does that count as an interest? He supposes that also during his sessions of doing-nothing at the agency instead of working, he started learning to draw out of boredom and he thinks he's become pretty good at it! Do you suppose that those are his interests? Oh, I almost forgot! His biggest interest is committing a double suicide with a beautiful girl! Hehe~
before dazai realizes it they arrive at the Great hall. They are quickly pushed by an avalanche of children running to the Great hall, damn these children are fast, before Dazai and the rest of his little group could contemplate their decisions in life they are basically dragged inside by the children.
apparently they are not the only ones, apart from them some members of the staff that he does not recognize seem to be dragged inside, at least they share the suffering
"Damn, these kids" Dazai would say a little dizzy and the others don't seem to be much better than him. "Who do these kids think they are?" Draco would say a little angry and dizzy while Blaise helps Pansy get up since the kids basically knocked her to the floor. How funny.
The lights in the place are overwhelming, he adjusts his vision enough to recognize the scene in front of him, as many children as in his first year! and everything seems remotely okay apart from the fact that it seems that now the place is a little bigger? Uh.
Probably his mind is playing with him, the magic is not doing him any good in his head. (yes that is definitely it)
Dazai mentally prepares himself to see the teachers, some are new, he doesn't pay attention to them, what he really notices are the 2 horribly familiar faces...
He knew that at some point he could find this but he mentally denied it to be honest, who was there was the new (not so new) Headmaster McGonagall, she must have become Headmaster after he... he killed the old man of Dumbledore... anyway! the director seems to be in a good mood and chatting with someone that Dazai probably wanted the most and didn't see at the same time. Well who else if not his favorite teacher, SNAPE!!
before the two of them have a chance to see him he subtly hides behind Blaise, "everything okay?" he asks with a raised eyebrow, "uh yeah, the light is just killing me!" Blaise sighs and basically pulls the small group to a more secluded spot near where the little snakes eat.
dazai is basically searching horribly for his friends at the tables, and that's when he sees them. is that all of them? OH!
most of everyone is talking happily near the griffindor table without noticing dazai for the sake of his sanity.
Hm, should I make it a surprise? Definitely yes, their faces will probably be one of the best things he will ever see in his life! But what if they really don't want to see him? He couldn't stand it, Dazai saw them as his family for too long along with Oda, and that was after only knowing them for two years and a half!
he's struggling not to go and throw himself on top of them... they seem happy, the Twins talking to each other sometimes annoying ron a little bit who is with hermione, they are awfully close, are they dating or something? if so dazai is happy for them, while ginny is talking to someone that he recognizes as luna! the revengeclaw who helped him during his second year!
ughhh his impulses don't leave him alone and he just hides more in Blaise nervously, while Draco and Pansy talk why is he nervous? he shouldn't, they're just old friends. "Hey Blaise" subtly pulling Blaise's sleeve "Hm?"
"Do you think the rest of the gang-.." Dazai would say, looking at them gently but equally nervously. "You didn't tell them anything, right?" Dazai would ask Blaide, who just shook his head. Dazai sighed, calming his nerves. Well, he could still surprise them? "I have a plan for a cool reunion performance!" Dazai would say excitedly.
He never changes, huh? "Okay, what's the plan?." Blaise asks, then while the Headmaster called everyone's attention.
McGonagall stands up from her chair making a coughing sound to get everyone's attention in the room, "Ahem- Welcome students and ex-students once again to Hogwarts! I hope you all had a happy holiday," with that the students and most of the adults present applauded.
"Well, as you know we will have a competitive Quidditch game against other schools, in which the best players from previous generations of students will represent our school, at the same time that Hogwarts was assigned as the place where the game would take place." Most of the students cheered and applauded, Dazai doesn't really care about Quidditch, but it's still his favorite sport so far, It's brutal! And it seems way more fun than all the muggle sports!
"Let's give a round of applause for the players who will represent us, which are..." McGonagall began to name some students that Dazai didn't know, at some point she named Fred and George as well as Ron, every time someone was mentioned the person stood up and introduce making everyone clap, how boring. (He also clapped when his friends were announced but nobody cares anyways!)
"Also a shout out to our sponsors for the game, a round of applause for! Draco Malfoy!.. Blaise Zabini!.. Pans-...." she continued with probably 4 people which Dazai paid no attention to, but he got awkward when Blaise,Draco and pansy had to introduce themselves since everyone turned to look at them, they clearly weren't looking at him but it felt like they were looking at him anyway, although some people DID notice! Something he certainly didn't want, but then he notices someone that actually recognized him.
Snape.
Dazai could look at Profesor Snape (who is obviously a bit older, HAH! fascinating) staring at him with his eyes wide open
Snape almost choked on the coffee he was drinking, Calm down old man!
. . .
Dazai was already praying to leave at this point.
"And with that said, our guests are welcome to stay or leave as they prefer. I hope you have a great time at Hogwarts!" McGonagall returns to her seat as the tables fill with food. Ugh, the smell makes Dazai a little dizzy, but not as much as it used to, which is a relief.
What was not a relief was that Snape, still seemingly on the verge of a panic attack, told McGonagall about Dazai's presence. He noticed how the Headmaster was looking for Dazai and as soon as she saw him, her eyes opened just as wide as Snape's.
She says something to Snape and the two of them start to get up from their seats, .... I don't want to meet them now! I have to think of something quick!
Dazai takes Blaise's hand "I have to get out of here now!" Dazai says loud enough for Pansy and Draco to hear "Why what's wrong??" Draco asks as Dazai starts to walk out of the room, Dazai doesn't have time to waste right now if he doesn't want to run into Snape and McGonagall right now.
"No time to answer you! I have to get out of this dining room Draco~"... "Uhg Fine but let's explain ourselves outside! OKAY?" The group walks quickly from the exit while Dazai tries with all his sanity to contain his laughter at how comical (?) the situation he is in is.
. . .
Clearly the scene of the great Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini and Pansy Parkinson leaving the room almost running with someone else? while what appears to be the great fearful Professor Snape and Headmaster McGonagall subtly try to go after them is not left behind by some people.
"Yo George!" Fred grabs George by the shoulder getting his attention "Look! It's Draco, Blaise and Pansy! Are they running away?" he would ask as George turns to look at them "Seems like it bro!" The two of them look at McGonagall and Snape "Sounds interesting should we go check it out?" And with that the two of them seem to speak in their twin telepathy before getting the attention of the rest of the gang "Hey guys!" Fred yells getting their attention, "The snakes are doing something interesting!" Hermione turns to look at the trio of snakes and someone unknown trying to leave the room in a hurry "They seem in a hurry? I wonder what they're trying to do". . . "I think Snape and McGonagall are trying to catch up to them!" Ron would say pointing at Snape and McGonagall walking towards them without trying to get too much attention literally failing at that. "There's someone with them holding Blaise's hand.." Ginni would say equally curious "Then let's help them and see this great mysterious man!" the twins declared before standing up.
"I don't think that's the best idea... They're probably doing something important.." Hermione protests and Ginny nods. "Probably! But I have a feeling that we should definitely go!" Fred would say amused while George points at Blaise. "Look! Even Blaise is giggling as he leaves!" And yes, Blaise was giggling?! He almost never shows emotion so this definitely has nothing to do with bussines or anything.
"Okay, but you better not get us into trouble!" says Hermione frowning as she stands up at the same time as Ron. "I'll stay with Luna, you can go," Ginny would say smiling and waving them away with her hand. "Okay! See you later you two!" the twins would say as they said goodbye to Luna and Ginny.
Fred, George, Hermione and Ron stand up watching as McGonagall and Snape are looking for their friends. "Looks like we need to give our friends some time to escape!" Fred would say with a sly grin as he hands George a hand-sized fart bag. quickly rushing to catch up with the teachers who still hadn't noticed the group of snakes leaving the room.
"Wow! Where are you in such a hurry, Professors?" Fred would say with a smile while George discreetly puts something in his hand.
"Ah, young Weasleys, and Hermione, how good to see you here." McGonagall would say, still somewhat in a hurry to catch up with Dazai to wherever he was. "Thank you for inviting us and we appreciate everything!" George would say before putting his hand out for a handshake, Snape turned to see this, those two troublemakers are never so polite, something is up with them.
"Of course it's a pleasure to have two such good Quidditch players like you tw--" McGonagall takes Fred's hand, but as soon as she squeezes it...
a fart like sound echoes throughout the place, It was probably even heard around school!
"Hah! got you!!" George would say giggling at the same time as Fred. Everyone in the room would laugh at the joke that they were just beginning to notice.
"Ah, of course, what would Hogwarts be without a joke from you two!" McGonagall would say with a smile still looking for Dazai, while Snape frowned and grabbed the bridge of his nose.
"Clearly! We don't want this place to turn into a boring school, do we?" the twins would say while each holding Hermione and Ron's hand. "See you later, professors! We have somewhere mega-super important to be right now!" the twins would say before waving goodbye and walking towards the exit.
"These two will never change" Snape says with a sigh before turning his attention back to where Dazai used to be, who is no longer there. "What?.." Snape looks around the room for Dazai but doesn't find him nor does Blaise, Draco and Pansy who are all gone. "Damn it!"..
"We'll find them, eventually..?" McGonagall sighs, putting a hand on her face, she never thought she'd see that boy again to be honest!
. . .
Apparently Blaise understood why they were leaving the Great Hall so suddenly, which made him giggle, and as soon as they managed to get out of the there and walk around the corridors a few times they finally stopped at the sound of a... Fart?
Dazai could no longer contain his laughter and began to laugh subtly.
"Wha... oh wait. The twins." Pansy would say with a frown, "Now Dazai, why did you make us leave in such a hurry?". . . "Ah McGonagall and Snape noticed my presence and I really didn't want a meeting with them right now, and I wanted to walk away as soon as they started getting closer! But that doesn't seem to be a problem now!" Ah the twins, they are helpful even if they are unconsciously, great!
Draco and Pansy sighed, Dazai seems to be just as immature as before..
"Well where do you want to go now Dazai? We have a few free hours before we leave..". . ."Hmm.. we should go visit the gang's room!" Dazai points his hand up as he says, "It's the perfect place for my reunion plan!"
"And how do you know they're going to go to that room?" Pansy crosses her arms with a raised eyebrow. "I just know, trust me!" she would say as she starts walking in the opposite direction to where the gang's room is. "Dazai is on the other side.". . . "I already knew it"
Sigh..
Dazai already knew that the twins would try to follow them, which leads to the rest of the gang, so he purposely tried to draw attention for them to notice that they were trying to get away, and with McGonagall and Snape trying to find them it probably increased their curiosity.
I know they will use the map to find us, if they still have it, which Dazai thinks they do, if they don't have it they will probably go to the gang's room to check anyway.
How much Dazai would want to see their faces when he saw his name on the map! But now that he thinks about it... they probably don't have it right now, they only came for McGonagall's announcement and all that, so they shouldn't need the map here.
Boo! tomato! tomato! boring!!!!
It doesn't take long for the snakes to reach the gang's room, it has some changes but it's still mostly the same. "It doesn't seem like anything has changed." . . . "We wanted to leave it like that since we mostly used it to meet up in secret sometimes and save things, like test answers or Fred and George jokes" Draco would say walking inside to sit down in a nearby chair.
"We continued with our activities, but Blaise being the second in command became the leader and managed to keep us from moving away over time" with this Blaise nodded "Blaise!! You are the best second in command I could have had!" Dazai gives Blaise a hug, before everyone sits down.
"Anyways, Dazai how the hell are you here?" Pansy looks at Dazai curiously "my head has been swimming with questions ever since I saw you!"
"Aww did Pansy worry about me?~" Dazai teases, making Pansy blush in embarrassment a little "Of course not! But do you know how weird it was to just not come back? Everyone worried about you!". . .""Sigh, if Pansy insists I guess I can silence her prayers!" Dazai points his hand at Pansy with a mocking smile "But!! She has to wait until the rest of the gang is here! I can't repeat myself twice!!!" The brunette would say before sitting back down.
"Ugh, fine!" he would say while crossing his arms "But you better promise!" "Sure!" .....
. . .
"UHGG... I wish we had brought the map!!" Fred taps his feet in frustración, "Come on everyone! Think about where our favorite snakes possibly went!!" George would say before putting a hand on his face making a thinking face, "hmm... Can we try the gang's room, they were always there anyway?" Hermione would point towards the direction where the door was "Good thinking! We should go find them now!" the twins would say together before running off in the direction of the door, leaving Ron and Hermione sighing following them.
"What do you think they're doing mione?"
"I don't know but I hope it won't be too much trouble to have Blaise giggling like that"
. . .
The snakes were talking to each other while Dazai was lying on the couch with his face hidden in the pillows, he was counting until the exact second that the rest of the gang would arrive in the room, his plans are always correct without fail, so he was quite confident that everything would turn out quite well.
"Three.....two......one.." the moment Dazai finished, footsteps were heard towards the door, Dazai smiled happily and stood up to sit on the couch "It seems they are here!" He says while pointing with one hand towards the door and everyone turns to look at the door.
"I wonder what they're doing?" "Ohh, probably something interesting!" Whispers are heard outside and Dazai doesn't waste any time and takes out his cell phone and starts recording. "I'll show Kunikida that I had friends who like me!" He quickly places the cell phone on the table to record his subordinates reaction.
and then the door opens!.
"Hey guys! uhm we were wondering what you three were doing! Beca--" Ron would say before looking at Dazai "Four....???" he would say before his eyes wided completely his jaw almost dropped to the ground "Yupp! We were bored and- wait, you said four?" The Twins says before popping his head inside.
As soon as the twins' eyes look at Dazai's, his eyes open wide in surprise with his mouth slightly open wanting to say something, Dazai smiles at them trying to hold back his laughter "Hey, how have you all been?" Dazai says waving at them with his hand.
"you-" .." i-"... "What's wrong? Hurry up so I can come in!" Hermione pushes the Weasleys into the room before she too looks at Dazai and is surprised almost as much as the rest, but she looked like she might even cry! "Wait Hermione don't cry-" Dazai would say a little worried waving his hands and shaking his head .
Before Dazai has time to react, the twins run towards Dazai, catching him in big hug.
"W-" The twins basically lay down on the floor with Dazai as soon as they wrap him in their arms, Dazai hitting his head, which made the cell phone move from the sudden hit, now it was recording them on the floor by coincidence.
"Ow! Calm down!" . . .
"Snakey!!! your okay!! we thought-- " and for the second or third time the barrage of questions that dazai can't understand at this moment began.
"Wait! Wait!" "Stop!" Dazai would try to calm them down, the questions were overwhelming him, he is happy to see his subordinates but he needs air to survive!... although dying in the arms of his subordinates does not sound so bad, but he can't do it! It would traumatize them!! And it would be painful!!
"Stop, I can't understand what you're saying!" Dazai would say, almost suffocating in the warm hug. Hermione, now a little calm from her tears, approached and grabbed Fred and George by the ears to get them away from Dazai. "Calm down! They'll suffocate him to death!" "Ow Ow! Fine!" they would say before standing up on Dazai, who stayed on the ground for a moment to catch his breath.
"Dazai! We're glad you're okay!" She would say while wiping the tear stains from his face, because everyone thought he was dead for some reason??? He was okay!
"Ah, why does everyone imply that every time they recognize me?" Dazai would ask while still lying on the ground questioning his existence and decisions in his life.
"We just worry Snakey.." "Mhm every time you talked about even the smallest thing in your life at home it was worrying, we really don't trust that place!" Dazai just frowns looking at the ceiling "Theres no need for yall to be so worried! i'm (sadly)alive anyways..! " he would say crossing his arms, he really doesn't want to talk about this right now! It only brings back horrible memories that he doesn't plan to remember right now.
Most of the room just gives him a worried look.
"Literally your last letter before you disappeared ended by saying that maybe you could never see us again because you were in a bad situation, Mate I really think we have reasons to worry" Ron frowns but still a worried, about his friend.
"Uh.. I forgot about that.." Dazai sits up frowning, what's happening to him? Why is he being so careless? He always has everything planned out, how come he's getting too distracted by this??
"Anyway, we're happy to know that our little brother is okay! You really scared us a lot!" Fred offers his hand to Dazai to help him stand up in an attempt to calm the atmosphere, Dazai takes his hand with a smile "Heh! It seems that not much has changed about you two!"
"Always! We did our best to stay together! Which was a resounding success in my opinion!" George happily gets up from his seat to give the amused brunette a hug.
"Mhm after everything that happened while you were gone we managed to stay together" Blaise also gets up from his seat before walking and joining the hug, Dazai doesn't even know if he should accept this hug, but... he's not in the port mafia anymore and there's no one to tell him what to do now, his Hogwarts gang always saw them as their friends (don't ask his past self) and at this point family, maybe this is okay..
Everyone joins in the warm hug except for Draco and Pansy, which was to be expected, but they both seem fine at the moment.
"I'm so happy we're all finally together..."
"We have so much to do!"
"We have so much to catch up on!"
"Hey! OW! Be careful not to squeeze us in too much!"
Dazai receives the hug with open hands, there is no one who can hurt him for this, there is no one who can cause him any kind of pain now, he can decide and decides to give himself the small moment of vulnerability... just this once, it is never good to maintain this so often.
Now he can choose.
and decide to enjoy this little vacation
With his family.
. . .