Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter

AN: Just an idea that popped into my head when reading about Blood Brandy's Vegas challenge, first this isn't me taking the challenge, it's just inspired by it, second, well... actually there is no second.

Also a thanks goes out to Takeshi Yamato for proofreading this and many more of my stories nowadays.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Spells"

'Books/Letters'

Chapter One: What the Fuck Did I do Last Night?

Las Vegas, Nevada, Bellagio Casino and Hotel

A groan emanated from the rather large bed in a luxurious room, as a mess of crimson hair peeked out from under the covers. "Damn you Padfoot... damn you to hell..." The feminine voice of one Jade Potter, AKA The-Girl-Who-Lived. groaned in obvious pain.

After a few more minutes of groaning Jade slowly brought herself up to a sitting position where she quickly brought her left hand up to press against her throbbing forehead. Her emerald green eyes looked around the unfamiliar room groggily as she wiped the slight sweat off of her forehead her fingers brushing over the lightning bolt shaped scar on her forehead. 'Where the hell am I?' She asked mentally as she swung her feet over to the carpeted floor pulling the blankets off of her, idly noting she was stark naked. 'This isn't the room we rented...'

Carefully she slowly eased to her feet using the night table as a brace to pull herself up. Her figure was definitely an attractive one, with her rather large C-cup breasts that led down to a trim, toned, waist that showed some muscle and hips that flared out slightly and legs that 'went on forever' as one of her schoolmates said, Jade was one of, actually voted to be the, most attractive girl of Hogwarts Academy of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

"Note to self, find Padfoot and kick his ass." Jade grumbled as she moved slowly, being mindful of her raging headache, towards the 'living room' of the large hotel room she was in.

She brought her hand down from her forehead only to freeze as something gold glinted off of it... no... it can't be... no fucking way is that there.

Jade stared at the simple gold band wrapped snugly around her ring finger... Jade Lillian Potter, the teen girl who swore she wouldn't get married till she was good well and ready to, in a fit of drunkenness, had gotten married. A throb in her nether regions informed her that not only did she get married, but it was consummated as well.

A male voice groaned back at the bed making Jade whip around to the bed ignoring her head's cry of protest from the movement. The first thing she saw was a mop of brown hair cut in a typical soldier's style that was quickly followed by a figure rising from under the covers, his back was to her as if he had been sleeping on his stomach showing a rather broad, scarred back that had quite a few bullet scars near his heart. "What the hell happened last night?" The man with a strong Canadian accent asked, unaware of Jade's presence as he brought his left hand up to his face.

Jade shifted her hands instinctively to cover her bare bits biting her lip, unsure if she should speak up yet or try to sneak out and pretend this night never happened. The man groaned again as he unsteadily rose to his feet "I shoulda stopped after the shots dammit," He groaned. Pulling his hand away from his head he froze in an odd parody of Jade only moments earlier. "Either I'm still asleep or I shouldn't have even started last night."

"I'm going to go with the second option," Jade stated suddenly, causing the man to freeze and look over his shoulder giving Jade a clear look at his green eyes a few shades darker than her own with a rather prominent scar running along his jawline on the left side of his face starting at his ear and ended at his chin. "Because I don't think I'd be standing here if you were dreaming."

The man blinked as his eyes swept her over, making her blush and try to hide her naughty parts even more "I... I don't know what to say," The man stated, turning his head away politely. "Um, are our clothes lying around anywhere?"

Jade blushed as she looked around and spotted a pile of clothes "Hold on," She said as she darted for her own clothes. "I'm going to get dressed in the bathroom."

Jade darted into the bathroom and once the door was safely closed she leaned against it, her mind swimming. 'Well, at least we were mutually drunk when it happened...' She thought in relief before looking down at the band on her finger. 'Where the hell did these come from though?' She had to ask mentally before bringing up another hand to try and pull the ring off only for it to stubbornly remain stuck. 'The Fuck?' She wondered. 'Why won't it come off?'

After a few minutes of trying to get the stubborn ring off Jade gave up and got dressed in the clothes she wore last night, consisting of skin tight, low cut jeans, a tube top shirt under a jean jacket that stopped just above her midriff, and a pair of sneakers. Personally, she never wore such an outfit regularly, did it bolster her confidence to cause men to turn into drooling idiots whenever she walked by, and Tonks, who was to act as her chaperone with Remus acting as Sirius' to make sure the Dog Animagus didn't get into trouble, had dragged Jade off to get 'properly dressed for Vegas' resulting in the outfit she was currently wearing.

"Um, I'm coming out now," She called out half expecting the man that was in there earlier to have disappeared.

She was surprised, however, as his voice filtered through. "I'm decent," He called out, making her open the door to see him in a tight black muscle shirt that clung to his muscular frame and a pair of woodland camo pants tucked into what seemed to be a pair of combat boots. "I hope you don't mind, but I ordered up some breakfast with room service," He informed looking slightly sheepish "Something to help with our hangovers."

Jade gave a slight smile and a nod a brief memory of her in the night club spotting the man before her standing at the bar drinking shots of tequila. "Well I can say we met at the nightclub," She announced making the man blink. "But that was just a flash..."

He smirked and shook his head and shrugged. "I guess we should start off with the most obvious," He said before holding out his hand. "My name is Ryu Hisanaga."

"Jade Potter." She announced gripping Ryu's hand and shaking it getting a curious feeling running through her body, and from the expression on Ryu's face he felt it too. "Um, do you remember anything from last night?"

Ryu frowned in thought "Er, I remember going into the bar, ordering the drinks," He recalled "I briefly remember meeting a rather tired looking older man with a young, very clumsy woman and a shaggy black haired man who really liked to laugh."

"Remus, Tonks and Sirius," Jade announced sounding slightly relieved "My... uncle I guess you could say, a friend and my Godfather. I really hope we can find them..."

Ryu chuckled when the door knocked and a voice announced room service, Ru answered the door letting the busboy in, she didn't miss the fact that Ryu kept his body away from the doorway and the entire time the busboy was in he didn't show his back to him, it... was very paranoid really.

The breakfast he had ordered consisted of Sunny side up eggs, toast and bacon with a jug of orange juice. "For me, personally, I've always found this kind of breakfast to help with hangovers," Ryu explained once the busboy was gone. "How about we get to know each other while trying to figure out what the hell happened."

"Sounds good," Jade said as they sat at the table and started to dig in. "Well, to be honest I'm not actually 21, I turned fourteen not too long ago, I was using a fake ID that my Godfather got for me. See, I'm from Britain, as you can probably guess from my accent, and my Godfather had recently had gotten out of a wrongful imprisonment and wanted to celebrate with me, and after my last year in my boarding school he decided that I needed to live life a little."

Ryu chuckled after he got over his initial surprise of her age. "Seventeen myself," He admitted surprising Jade, as he looked older. "Not in school... can't really talk about what I do though. Originally grew up in Northern Canada, now I travel the world and just finished something for work, found out some crazy shit and needed to deal with said shit."

Jade couldn't help but giggle at his introduction a large part of her wondering what it was he did. She didn't doubt that he was lying, she actually had developed a fairly good sense of when someone was lying over the years and he didn't have any of the tells of lying. Obscuring the truth certainly, she was doing the same with her own story.

In truth, Sirius had actually chosen to fake his own death without Dumbledore's or anyone else's knowledge and had somehow convinced them to let him take her to Vegas to 'Live Life a Little' allowing two chaperones to be placed on them. Jade briefly wondered if Dumbledore realized just how much control he had given them by placing Remus Lupin and Nymphadora (Not that you'd be allowed to use it) Tonks as their chaperones.

She wasn't certain about the specifics on Sirius' 'death' but from the grins on the faces of the two Prankster Weasley Twins it was pretty apparent they were involved, and that he had made use of her Invisibility Cloak. Shaking those amusing thoughts out of her head she focused back on the male across from her. He certainly was attractive, even before you took in the dangerous allure his scars and demeanor had, he certainly had a sense of humor which actually helped make this rather... embarrassing situation less so.

"So what do you do in your spare time?" Ryu asked, cutting into her thoughts "Play any sports or anything?"

Jade thought about the best way on how to answer that question without revealing her magical abilities and the magical world in general. "I play Football in school, or Soccer to you most likely," She amended, her eyes twinkling in amusement, another half-truth, she did play soccer from time to time when Seamus Finnigan brought out his ball. "Hmm, me and my friends do a lot of exploring of the school and the school grounds, we're in this large, old castle, you see, and there are a lot of secret passageways. You?"

Ryu shrugged. "For the most part I watch sports, not much of a soccer fan to be completely honest, I like Hockey," He answered smirking. "I have a few buddies that I'd hang out with if I'm nearby, but for the most part I guess you could say my personal life is quite boring."

'Bullshit,' Jade thought, but didn't call him on it, chances are he didn't have much of a personal life because whatever he did for a living took up so much of his time, she let a smile slip onto her face as she took a sip of her orange juice, she had to admit that he was right on the breakfast helping with the hangover. "I have to admit, for waking up married I think I lucked out," she said, jokingly, making Ryu laugh before wincing, his head not quite recovered.

"You're telling me," He said looking her over. "If I got married to someone like you I'd consider myself the luckiest man in the world. So, where do we go from here?"

"First I think we need to find my Godfather and Uncle," Jade announced. "They might know where we got married so we can get the papers for annulment."

Ryu nodded in agreement. "A sound plan," he agreed. "So where do we start looking for them?"

"Well, we had a room rented at the ARIA Hotel," Jade said as she looked around for her purse, which she quickly found under the couch. 'How the hell did it get there?' She idly wondered. "That would probably be the best place to start."

Ryu nodded his agreement as he looked around the room finding his wallet and a set of keys "I hope to god that these are to my car and not to someone elses." he prayed, making Jade giggle as he opened his wallet and found a valet ticket. "But at least we have a vehicle."

The two left the room and headed down to the checkout desk doing their best to rein in their embarrassment, apparently the two had paid for the room in full last night so all they had to pay for was the room service breakfast. Heading out they handed the valet the ticket and keys and patiently waited for him to drive the car up, Ryu's sigh of relief informed Jade that the car was indeed his, Jade's jaw dropped as she saw a black 1967 Shelby Mustang roll up with the Valet hopping out holding the door open for them. "This is your car?" She asked as she climbed into the passenger side, looking over the leather seats and classic panelling.

Ryu chuckled as he revved the engine. "She's my baby," he stated. "Got her last year and made some... adjustments to her."

Jade's eyebrow rose as she clipped her seat belt into place. "Adjustments?" she asked curiously, making Ryu's grin widen.

"If you're lucky, you'll get to see," he teased as he shifted the car into gear and rolled into the Las Vegas traffic. "So what about your parents?"

Jade's expression saddened. "They passed away when I was only a year old, been living with my mom's sister and her husband and son," She unintentionally put such spite into the sentence that Ryu looked over to her in concern. "I would never consider them family..."

"What about Remus?" Ryu asked, looking over at Jade from the corner of his eye. "Couldn't you go live with him?"

Jade shook her head idly wondering why she was being so honest with him "Circumstances out of his control prevent him from being able to take me in," She said bitterly. "Despite everything he tried he couldn't convince the idiot that placed me where I am that he was the better choice."

Ryu winced slightly as he shifted lanes smoothly. Turning his head, he got a better look on the expression on Jade's face and saw an incredible pain laying there. "What happened, Jade?" He whispered soothingly.

"My... my parents were murdered by a serial killer," She said, glossing the truth over. "And an old man who meddles far too much placed me with my Aunt and Uncle, saying I would be safe there until I was of age to start at the Boarding School."

"Have you tried talking with the authorities?" Ryu asked, his eyes split between his companion and the road. "Because I'm pretty sure that if you wanted to move somewhere else, or even get emancipated by the courts."

"Unfortunately, that meddling old fool is also deep in the government," Jade explained, sounding bitter. "And with the serial killer still on the loose, he refuses to tell me anything that may help me defend myself!"

Jade started slightly as she felt a hand rest on her leg comfortingly, and looked over to see Ryu looking at her with warm eyes. "Jade, should you need anything, just ask," he informed in an assuring manner. "I have many contacts in many countries, if you need information I can get it for you."

"But... why would you?" she asked in confusion. "I mean we just met!"

Ryu shrugged as he removed his hand and placed it back on the gear shifter. "Because I like you," he admitted. "You're a nice girl, didn't panic, accuse me of anything, try to slap me around. You calmly took the situation in, understood that I myself was blitzed out of my mind and accepted that yes, it's a very awkward situation to wake up to, but very solvable. A rare quality you have, Jade. A very rare quality."

Jade blushed at his compliment and the smile he sent her. "I... uhh... thanks," she said finally, smiling at Ryu. "And... I'll let you know if there is anything you can do."

Ryu smiled as he pulled the car into the parking lot for the ARIA Hotel and headed in with Jade. The witch moved up to the secretary. "Um, me and my family rented a couple of rooms here yesterday," she started, looking a bit nervous. "And... well I ended up somewhere else last night and I'm wondering if any of them came back here?"

"Of course miss," The secretary said understandingly, looking between her and Ryu. "Do you know what room you were given?"

"Uh, room 504." Jade answered reading the number off the card key.

The secretary typed a few commands into her keyboard and looked up the room before smiling. "Yes, the room your group had rented had been opened this morning around 5 am." she informed with a smile before leaning in. "You made quite the catch yourself."

Jade blushed darkly and mumbled her thanks to the giggling secretary and led Ryu into the Hotel and up to the room. "Just fair warning, I have no idea what we're going to find in there," she announced, prepping herself "So, sorry in advance for any mentally scarring incidents."

Ryu chuckled as he nodded his readiness, and Jade opened the door before freezing at the sight before her. Sirius lay stark naked on the floor, thankfully face down, passed out while on the bed, cuddling very close to one another was the naked pair of Tonks and Remus. "Well... surprising to say the least..." Ryu announced, politely turning his head to face the wall as Tonks rolled onto her back, revealing her rather impressive chest to the world.

Jade gave a small sigh of relief that Tonks wasn't shapeshifting in her sleep, that would have been hard to play off to Ryu. Jade thought for a minute, trying to think about what to use to get them up before a sly smirk spread across her face, they always did say that she sounded like her mother when pissed, hopefully Tonks will keep her form. "JAMES, LUPIN, SIRIUS! WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO!?" She roared causing the three of them to start out of sleep, while Tonks simply jumped out of bed, Sirius and Remus' reactions were the real gold.

Remus had leapt from his bed falling onto the ground with a hard thud, during flight he had panicked and reached for the side table to stop said flight only to drag it down ontop of him during his fall. Sirius on the other hand, from instinct thought long forgotten, leapt to his feet and apparently tried to dash away from the angry 'Lily', running headfirst into the wall and leaving a sizable dent in it as he slid to the ground, groaning in pain.

"What the hell Jade!" Tonks shouted to the laughing witch, before holding her head in pain "What the hell did we drink last night?"

"That's what we'd like to know," Jade stated gesturing to Ryu who was still politely looking at the wall, although from the shaking of his shoulders you could tell he was restraining his laughter. "Why don't you three get decent, we have a guest. We'll meet you downstairs in the restaurant."

Jade led Ryu out of the room, leaving the three to come to their full senses. "Did... did Jade just prank us?" Sirius asked as he slowly got to his feet shaking his head in an attempt to alleviate the pounding pain in his head.

"Yes... yes she did, she did so very effectively..." Remus stated as he got himself out of the mess overtop of him. "I don't know if I should be proud or very angry."

"Uhh, guys, did either of you catch the part where she said we have a guest." Tonks stated as she quickly wrapped a sheet around herself. "I think something happened last night," Her eyes caught a glint of gold on her finger as she looked down. "Yeah, something definitely happened last night."

The males looked over to her to see her raise a ring bearing hand causing them to jerk their heads to their own hands, Sirius let out a sigh of relief, seeing ring free hands, while Remus paled even further. "No... no this can't be happening!" He shouted looking over to Tonks. "We have to get this annulled, you can't marry me I'm a monster!"

Sirius took this chance to slip off into the bathroom as Tonks rounded on the Werewolf. "You know what Remus, I've had it up toherewith this crap!" She shouted angrily. "Who fucking cares that you have a fuzzy problem once a month, I have a bleeding problem once a month and you don't see me complaining about it and use it as an excuse to be unhappy for the rest of my life! You take the potion when you need to! You deal with it! So why can't you be happy! I know you'd never hurt me, why the hell do you think I fell in love with you you moron!?"

Remus flinched away from the angry Metamorphmagus. "I don't want to hurt you! Look at Jade's third year though, I almost killed, her, her friends, Sirius and Snape because I forgot to take the potion!" He shouted back at her. "What if that happened with you? I would never be able to forgive myself!"

"I would never let you forget to take your potion Remus!" Tonks countered angrily. "Because I know you wouldn't forgive yourself if that happened! I fucking love you Remus Lupin, why can't you accept that!?"

Remus opened and closed his mouth several times trying to find an argument against being married to her when Sirius stepped out of the bathroom, cleaned up and dressed in a simple shirt and jeans. "You lost the argument Moony," he stated with a chuckle seeing the determined flame in Tonk's eyes. He then took out his wand and waved it with with a mutter and two seconds later their rings glowed causing everyone's eyes to boggle out. "And since you decided to do a magical union you can't back out of it..." Sirius finished slowly. "By Merlin, how blitzed were we?"

"Very, very blitzed," Remus agreed before a thought struck him. "Wait... Jade has a guest with her."

The other two adults looked at him blankly. "Yeah.. and?" Tonks asked.

"She didn't wake up here... She woke up in bed with someone else... after a night of getting blitzed..." Remus spelled out. "Tonks and myself got magically married... and she has a guest who she probably woke up with..."

The other two suddenly had their eyes boggle out as Sirius started cursing. "Sonnavabitch!" he shouted in a panic. "This is not good! James is going to haunt me for this for sure!" He froze his eyes going even wider. "LILY'S GOING TO MURDER ME!"

"H...Hang one, maybe they didn't get married," Tonks offered in a strained voice. "Maybe she just got lucky last night?"

The two males directed their gazes to the Metamorph. "Tonks, think for a second, take in the situation when taking Jade's 'Luck' into account." Remus said, causing Tonks to freeze. "She got married, she definitely got married, we may be lucky enough for a simple non-binding marriage though."

Sirius was close to hyperventilating. "I'll murder him first..." Sirius announced, drawing his wand. "... I'll kill him and hide the body..."

"NO!" Tonks and Remus shouted in unison tackling the Dog animagus to the ground before he could leave the room. "If Jade actually magically bonded to him that would harm her!" Remus shouted to his friend. "Let's just do this calmly, he probably has no idea what happened! Hell, he's probably a normal muggle!"

They finally managed to get Sirius off of his attempt to 'save' Jade's virtue, and himself from her parent's wrath and Tonks and Remus got changed into a fresh pair of clothes. "What do we do if it is a magical union?" Sirius asked seriously. "What can we do if it is a magical union."

"We'd have to explain everything," Remus said after a minute of silence. "I'm not so worried about the guy she was with, I'm more worried about Dumbledore and what he'll do..."

"Not even Dumbledore can annul a magical union, no one can." Tonks pointed out, pulling on a dark t-shirt and jeans. "I doubt that there's anything he can do."

"What I meant was, he'd never let Jade out of his control again," Remus said pulling on a white button up with a dark sports jacket and jeans. "And Jade... she'd fight against him even more than she does now, you remember her reaction to the fact that Dumbledore ordered Hermione and Ron to not write any letters to her."

"I think Voldemort heard that reaction," Sirius agreed with a downcast expression. "I think the fact that the guy is with her right now speaks highly to his character, even if he wants to just get the marriage annulled."

Remus snorted as a sudden thought struck him. "Can you imagine if he's a male, muggle version of Jade?" He questioned. "A serial killer after him with something setting him apart from everyone else."

The others chuckled in amusement as the thought struck them. "Or if he was a super-agent or something trained by a super secret organization," Tonks joked. "Can you imagine?" The males descended into laughter as they all started proposing more and more preposterous ideas on the male's identity.

Hotel Restaurant

Ryu sneezed rather violently several times at the table he and Jade had gotten for their group causing Jade to look at him curiously. "Allergies?" She asked, curiously.

"Not likely," Ryu denied, wiping his nose "I'm not allergic to anything... that I know of at least."

Jade shrugged as she looked over to the entrance anxiously, wondering what was taking the trio so long. "Where are they?" She asked aloud. "How long are they going to take?"

Ryu shrugged sipping on a coffee "Who knows? So, what was that about?" He asked with a slight smile. "Why did the two guys panic like that?"

"Well, apparently I sound just like my mom when I'm pissed off," She revealed blushing slightly. "I just thought that it would be a quick way to wake them up by causing them to react to old memories. They and my dad were notorious pranksters back when they were in school and my mom was the only one they truly feared."

Ryu laughed at her explanation. "Sounds like a fun group to be with!" He said mirthfully. "But do I have to worry about being murdered for what happened?"

Jade giggled. "Not quite sure to be honest," She admitted, fingering the ring idly, wondering if Ryu tried to take his off yet. "Sirius might, although he might just make fun of us for what happened, perhaps both."

Ryu chuckled at the thought of the black haired man strangling him while teasing Jade. "It would make for an interesting scene to be sure." He admitted chuckling again, looking over to Jade he seemed to marvel her. "I know you probably hear this often, but you really are quite beautiful Jade," He informed, tilting his head slightly and making her blush heavily.

"Um, thanks?" She replied uncertainly, she wasn't sure why his words were affecting her so much, 'Is it because he doesn't know the fact that I'm famous?' She wondered mentally remembering the number of propositions she had gotten for dating, every single male, and a couple females, all wanted to be able to say they 'bagged' the Girl-Who-Lived. "You're not too bad looking, yourself." She pointed out with a sly grin on her face.

Ryu grinned slyly back at Jade as the trio of adults entered the restaurant and upon spotting the pair they made their way over to them. "I don't think we got a chance to be properly introduced yet," Remus stated politely, holding out his hand for Ryu to shake. "My name is Remus Lupin, and this is my new wife Tonks apparently."

"Ryu Hisanaga," Ryu returned, shaking the man's hand. "And I really am sorry about all of this, I really have no clue what happened last night."

"I think that that's shared by all of us," Sirius said as he sat down next to Jade "I'm Sirius Black." He held out his hand for Ryu who accepted it. "We don't remember much about last night either."

"Well, we woke up in a rather embarrassing situation..." Jade explained with a blush on her face. "Waking up naked in bed with a stranger with a hangover and rings on our fingers... not the greatest way to wake up in the morning."

"Tell me all about it, me and Moony woke up the same way," Tonks explained showing her ring to Jade, who's eyes boggled. "But you didn't have some upstart kid yelling you awake."

Jade couldn't hold back her giggle before looking at Remus. "About time you two got together Moony," She stated mirthfully. "You need to be happy in life." Her expression turned serious again. "Do you know where we got married, 'cause we'd both like to annul the marriage." She asked hopefully. 'If we even can.' She added mentally.

The adults shared a look as Sirius subtly cast the spell he used with Tonks and Remus, causing the rings to glow. Jade cursed as Ryu's eyes widened. "Unfortunately, I don't think that's possible..." Remus groaned, rubbing his temples as Tonks cast a privacy spell around them. "Welcome, Ryu... to the world of magic."

"Oh my god, just my fucking luck," Ryu groaned, palming his eyes and getting confused reactions from the others. "I should have never even considered taking that Brazil job!"

"Umm... what?" Tonks asked intelligently.

Ryu removed his face from his hands and looked at them all. "First off, I just found out about magic not even a full week ago," He answered, getting startled looks from them all. "All right, this is how it goes, I am not normal, I am a gun for hire, mercenary, soldier of fortune, whatever you want to call it. I recently took on a job from the CIA to assassinate a dangerous revolutionary, as they were calling him, in Southern Brazil. I took on the job, it seemed simple enough, but he wasn't a revolutionary... he was what you guys call a Dark Lord, went by the name of Mal. I found out about magic when I observed him doing some sort of ritual or something that would allow him to control the minds of others... or something like that. Well I took my shot, killed him, and when I went for my debrief with the CIA they decided that I was a good enough asset that they would fully brief me on the magical world."

"So wait... you, a non-magical person, killed a Dark Lord?" Remus asked in shock as the others tried to keep their jaws off the ground. "How?"

"One and a half miles away with a Barret M82 Anti-Material Rifle," Ryu stated. "It fires really big bullets at a very long range, by the time they figured out where the shot came from I was already gone."

"That... that is awesome, first," Sirius stated, pointing to Ryu who merely smirked. "Second, that makes things so much easier in so many ways. Okay, so you know about the magical world, did the CIA brief you on Britain's situation?"

Ryu shook his head "Not really, they said that the British Magical world like to believe they were the best in the world, when in reality they were stuck in the middle ages. They were willing to admit that their schooling was pretty good and that they produced some good new theories and researchers." He informed, getting some embarrassed and knowing looks from the listeners. "And that the majority of the upper-class were all inbred in an attempt to keep the bloodlines 'pure'."

"An... apt description," Remus said with an embarrassed cough. "Well, see the thing is that you and Jade have entered into a magically binding marriage, meaning... it's breakable only through death, and even then we have no idea how that affects the surviving spouse..." He explained to Ryu, whose eyes were getting even larger by the second. "That's not all, however..."

"You remember the story I told you about my past?" Jade asked getting a nod from Ryu. "Replace the Serial Killer with an insane Dark Lord named Voldemort, and switch the meddling old man with government connections with a meddling old Headmaster with too many titles and overseer of the magical version of the UN. The reason I'm with my aunt and uncle is because of the fact that my mother sacrificed herself to protect me, leading to ancient blood wards to erecting around me, which means I must be at my aunt and uncle's on my birthday for them to remain erected."

"Well... that's fucked," Ryu stated, blinking a couple of times before looking at adults. "And none of you ever questioned why this guy has such control over not only the government, but the future leaders of your country?"

The three shared a look with one another. "Many have," Tonks said, finally. "The thing is... Dumbledore is a very influential individual who saved the world from a dangerous Dark Lord during WWII. Not to mention being very powerful himself."

"That's not the end about Jade's story, however," Sirius pointed out, making Jade glare at him slightly. "When Voldemort attacked Jade's parents, he also attempted to kill her, the curse he used on her backfired on him because of Lily's Blood Wards, killing him instead. Because of that, many call Jade the 'Girl-Who-Lived' and praise her as the slayer of Voldemort."

"So you're a celeb, then?" Ryu asked Jade, who nodded with a scowl. "Better make sure that there are no pictures of your Vegas adventures then, the paparazzi will eat that up."

Jade blinked and looked at the smirking Ryu before breaking out into giggles. "I can see the headlines on the Prophet now," she announced "'Girl-Who-Lived' is now the 'Girl-Who-Drinks-Underaged'!"

The adults burst out into laughter with the younger pair. "Molly would throw a fit!" Sirius announced. "She's been planning on you marrying Ron for all this time, she's even got your gown picked out!"

"Dear god, NO!" Jade protested vehemently. "He's a decent friend but marrying him? Fuck no!"

Laughter swept the room again. "So what do we do now?" Ryu asked as he calmed his laughter. "Because if me and Jade are with each other now, I'm going to do my best to help her."

The adults looked at Ryu in surprise as Jade blushed. "Really?" Sirius asked in surprise. "You don't want to just brush this aside and try to hide from it?"

Ryu shook his head. "Some part of me liked Jade enough last night to marry her," He announced. "And talking and spending time with her today I've grown to like her. As a man named Carl Reiner once said: 'Lust is easy, love is hard, like is the most important'."

Remus and Tonks shared a knowing look as Sirius looked at Ryu, obviously impressed as Jade smiled at Ryu who smiled back with a nod. "Well, I guess the only thing we can do is return like planned and hope for the best when we explain what happened." Remus stated finally. "And pray that Molly doesn't try to murder us."

Before Ryu could reply a ring was heard causing him to pull out a cellphone. "Hisanaga here, make it quick I'm busy," Ryu said answering the phone, sighed suddenly "Sorry Smith, not taking on any jobs right now, I don't care what Langley wants I am not taking on any jobs at the moment," He suddenly snorted casting an eye over to Jade. "Figures you'd know about that, you try that Smith and I will release a file to the UN about a certain CIA operation in Canada... yeah I thought so, tell Langley if he wants to talk to call me directly and not to send lackeys next time."

"Ryu?" Jade asked as Ryu snapped his phone shut in frustration. "What was that?"

Ryu looked around and landed his eyes upon a seemingly normal couple who looked right back at him flinching slightly. "Nothing, just a CIA lackey who thought he could get the advantage over me with my recent marriage," He stated making the other's blink. "Me and the big boss of the CIA have an understanding, he leaves me alone and gives me access to a couple CIA assets, and I help him resolve potentially dangerous assets. It's been working for a good couple years now and neither of us want it to change."

"Why you?" Sirius asked, his eyes narrowing. "What is it that makes you special..."

Ryu looked around cautiously "I take it you have some sort of privacy thing around us?" He asked getting nods in return. "Add more... please, this is... sensitive information." The three adults looked rather surprised but waved their wands layering up even more privacy spells. "The thing that makes me so special to the CIA, and many other such organizations, is the fact that I am... putting it bluntly, a Super Soldier," he revealed, getting surprised looks as Ryu sighed, running a hand through his hair. "I was never born, I was created using the DNA of certain individuals who had a high aptitude towards warfare, then till I was twelve I was trained to be a spy, soldier, assassin, you name it. At that time a joint task force of the CIA and various other intelligence agencies attacked and destroyed the facility, in the end it was decided I was to be allowed to live as I really had no choice with this." He let out a gusty sigh. "A SEAL operative took me in for a few years helping me assimilate to normal living and I struck out on my own becoming a gun for hire leading to the understanding I told you about."

"That's... big..." Sirius said finally, his eyes wide, as were everyone else's. "A Super Soldier? Jesus, who would do that?"

Ryu shrugged. "Can't quite remember to be honest," He admitted, his eyes going distant. "A lot of those years are a blur really, kinda glad they are, made it a whole lot easier to become who I am now." He looked over to Jade his eyes regaining their bearings in the present and smiled apologetically. "Sorry you got stuck with a frea-"

"Finish that sentence and I will smack you," Jade growled pointing her finger causing Ryu to blink in surprise. "You are no more of a freak then I am, it's what made you who you are and in all honesty... I... like you... you're a great guy. You were polite about the fact that I was naked and didn't ogle me like a pervert, you yourself kept calm through the entire situation and remained in the room when I went to get dressed in the washroom, had it been some other guy, he would have ran off within seconds. You want to help me... and... you make me feel normal..."

Remus suddenly laughed slapping the table "A right good bunch we are aren't we Sirius?" He asked to the Black who had a grin on his own face. "We have a Super Soldier Mercenary married to a girl who's being targeted by a Dark Lord and has some pretty bad luck at times, A werewolf married to a Metamorphmagus and an Animagus who faked his own death to take his goddaughter to Vegas!"

Laughter swept the table as the situation settled upon them. "I hear a bad three people walk into a bar coming on," Ryu said between his chuckles. "So you guys don't mind that I'm a Super Soldier?"

"You kidding?" Sirius asked with a wide grin. "James and Lily would've found this hilarious, after they got over the fact that their daughter essentially eloped." He chuckled at the thought. "You're a decent kid if Jade likes you, not to mention there's not much we can do about this now. One this though, did you two... Y'know... get it on?"

Ryu and Jade blushed slightly "Ah, well... we did wake up naked, I think there was a bit of a bloodstain on the sheets..." Ryu said actually stammering a bit.

"And my... you know was a bit sore..." Jade finished her face going as dark as her hair.

"Ah, right, might want to check to ensure there are no... 'accidents' with that..." Sirius said in embarrassment as Tonks casted a quick charm.

"No worries, you're safe Jade." She announced "No pregnancy."

Jade let out a sigh of relief as the privacy charms were lifted and a waitress was flagged down for a brunch to be ordered. She looked across at Ryu who looked back at her and a small smile crept onto her face 'Well, could've ended up worse,' she thought to herself 'I could've ended up married to Snape.' And with a shudder from the thought that went through her head, Jade focused on the waitress to make an order.

Later, Outside the ARIA Hotel.

Ryu sighed as he leant against his car, looking up into the sky and waiting for the Magical quartet to finish gathering their things, he was thankful that he mostly lived out of his car, meaning he had a duffle bag full of fresh clothes to change into which he did changing into a dark green t-shirt with a pair of black jeans and switching his boots out for a pair of sneakers, combat boots were not suited for desert weather.

His phone rang catching his attention as he picked it up. "Hisanaga here," He answered in a drawl.

"Hello Ryu," A male voice returned, sounding rather amused. "I heard about your recent nuptials, are congratulations in order?"

Ryu smirked as he heard the voice. "Hello Langley," He greeted the Head of the CIA casually. "I'm surprised that Lackey actually passed on the message."

"Yes, quite sorry about that, he was recently promoted to a Handler and someone forgot to inform him of your 'no touch' status." Langley explained making Ryu chuckle, the one responsible for that little oversight was in for a talking too. "So you're married to Miss. Potter, sorry Mrs. Potter."

"Apparently, yes," Ryu answered, looking up at the Hotel. "So, I doubt you're just calling me about getting married while drunk, what's up Langley?"

"This Voldemort situation," Langley stated, turning serious "We doubt he is really dead, we need you to confirm this, and if possible end the threat he poses because, we of the international community have serious doubts that he'll stop at just Britain... and we'd rather not have to think up an excuse for nuking our neighbours across the pond."

"I see..." Ryu said his eyes narrowing "I'll get it done, he's going after my wife after all." He shared a chuckle with Langley. "I have a request of my own in return."

"Shoot." Langley said making Ryu smirk as he imagined the man cringing ahead of time.

"Any and all information you can get on Albus Dumbledore," He informed. "Something tells me that man is either dabbling in something he shouldn't, or is keeping a lot of information to himself and I need leverage on him."

"It's yours, I'll have the folio sent to you in the usual manner, they'll find you in Britain." Langley informed. "Good hunting Ryu."

"Eyes to your back Langley." Ryu returned with a smirk before closing his phone.

"Ryu!" Jade's shout called his attention to the Magicals as they walked up to him, Jade had apparently taken the opportunity to change into some fresh clothes herself wearing a pair of bluejeans and a white spaghetti strap shirt under an open denim jacket.

Sirius let out a low whistle at the sight of Ryu's car. "That is a nice car, what model?" He asked looking the vehicle over.

"1967 Mustang Shelby," Ryu explained smirking with pride "I've had some of my friends at the CIA put in some upgrades to it as well, they also recently added in some protection for Magical feedback."

"Nice," Sirius stated as they started to climb in, it was a tight fit with the adults in the back, but they managed to fit in as Ryu and Jade climbed into the front. "How fast is she?"

Ryu grinned as he started the engine and revved it "0-60 in seconds." He informed "God I wish I could do that right now. So where are we heading?"

"McCarran International," Remus answered "That's where our Portkey is at."

Ryu pulled out of the parking lot and started down the road "Do I have to leave my car behind?" He asked looking in the rearview mirror "Because if I do I'm shipping myself and the car to Britain."

"Don't worry, if you have Magical Protections on it I'm sure we can shrink it to carry." Jade assured grinning at his protectiveness of his car. "We just have to be sure Mr. Weasley doesn't try to take it apart with his obsession with everything Muggle."

The magicals laughed as Ryu narrowed his eyes at the threat to the car. "He better not... took me long enough to get it back into drivable shape when I got this car." He said before cracking a smile "If he asks nicely, though, I'll let him help me with maintenance."

Jade looked at him, her eyes sparkling in laughter. "You'd make a worshipper out of him," She warned jokingly. "You might want to keep an eye on the twins though, they're rather... prankish."

Ryu groaned making the other's laugh as he pulled into the airport. "Park up here, we can shrink your car out of sight." Remus said pointing out a rather shielded area.

Once they were parked and out Remus shrank Ryu's car with Ryu marvelling at his now tiny car "This is so surreal." He muttered carefully pocketing his car as he followed the group to an area just off the tarmac where Remus picked up a musty old sneaker. "So this is really going to bring us to Britain within seconds?" He asked skeptically.

"Yup." Jade confirmed watching Ryu's expression as he witnessed Sirius suddenly transform into a dog. "He's an Animagus," She explained pointing to Sirius who barked "A person who has trained themselves to transform into a certain animal, and my story about him being wrongfully accused was true, except he faked his own death rather than being cleared by the courts."

Ryu nodded his understanding, taking the information in stride. "I see," He said, sighing out gustily "I'm going to be getting one shock after another for a while, aren't I?"

Jade giggled as she placed a hand on Sirius and then grabbed the sneaker "Yup, hold on tight!" She said as Ryu grabbed onto the sneaker and with a tug at their navels the group disappeared.

Great Britain, near the Weasley Home

With a loud pop, the group appeared in great Britain with Ryu and Jade collapsing into a heap with Ryu on top in a rather compromising situation. The two jerked upright as the group laughed at the blushes on their faces. "This way, the Weasley home isn't far from here." Tonks stated as they gathered themselves together.

As the Weasley home came into sight Ryu's jaw dropped at the precarious looking home "How...?" He asked. "I... I just can't believe... how?"

"Magic." Jade answered, restraining her giggles as she remembered her own reaction to the home. "And just a heads up, Mrs. Weasley can be a little... overbearing."

Ryu rose an eyebrow at Jade as they approached the front door and opened it. "We're back!" Remus called out to the household as he stepped through the threshold.

"REMUS LUPIN!" A loud, booming feminine voice shouted, followed by Remus yiping in pain as Molly Weasley grabbed him by the ear. "YOU HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING TO DO!"

"Ow! ow! Molly, let go!" Remus said, "What is it?"

"You took Jade to Las Vegas, that's what!" She shouted, causing Remus's ears to ring "You told everyone else but me! I only found out when I overheard my own husband talk about it with one of my sons!"

"We just wanted Jade to be able to experience life a little Molly!" Sirius explained waving his hands placatingly. "Really, there was no harm in it all!"

"She could have done that anywhere in Britain!" Molly shouted, still not letting go to Remus's ear "But Nooo, you took her to an entirely different country! And out of all places, you took her to a place I have heard to be called 'Sin City'!"

"That's just people blowing it out of proportion Molly," Tonks butted in trying to calm the raging housewife. "Yes they are rather focused on certain... vices, but the entire city is about that."

Molly seemed to scoff "If there's one thing I've learned about the Yanks its that-" it was then that she looked at the group, and noticed that Ryu was also standing there. "Wait, who is that?" she asked, point at Ryu "Is he one of those Yanks?"

"I'll have you know ma'am, that while I work with the Yanks on occasion I was born and raised in Canada thank you very much," Ryu announced his eye twitching. "And if you believe that Canadians are anything like the Americans then are as foolish as you look right now, I mean seriously yelling at a Godfather and Pseudo-Uncle for taking her to someplace where she can just relax without anybody being able to recognize her? What's wrong with that huh?"

Molly blinked in surprise before she finally let Remus's ear go. "Oh, then I am dreadfully sorry sir," She said in a much more calm tone than before. "But you must understand, Jade is in a rather... difficult position, there are people who would stop at nothing to kill her if she is ever vulnerable. Being in an entirely different country could provoke them to attack her."

Ryu snorted as he folded his arms. "The Yanks are many things, but really, they take the protection of their country extremely seriously, the CIA knew who Jade was and who was after her before she even arrived," He announced, smirking slightly. "They also have Magical response units on standby 24/7 in case of magical terrorist attacks, actually now that I think of it there hasn't been a Dark Lord in the US for over 80 years now... something to do with the structure of their schooling system I think it was."

All of the others looked very surprised hearing that. "Wait, really?" Sirius asked, "I knew the American's Wizardry Schools were said to be better than Britian's, but by that much?"

Ryu grinned. "Well, I only know so much about the whole Magical System since I'm still pretty new at it," he said. "But from what I heard, America's wizardry world is much more Advanced than Britain's... I thought that was an exaggeration but, no offense Mrs. Weasley," he looked around the house. "You look like you're still stuck in the Dark Ages in the Medieval Era. Nice house either way... "

"I don't see how the American's could be better off than us," Remus said, rubbing the ear Molly had finally let go. "Doesn't magic disable most electronics?"

"That's only if they are unprotected," Ryu said, shrugging "The Americans, along with most of the world, have found a way to use a EM shieldings on their electronics in the Wizarding world so they can work, Computers, T.V sets, all of those things work."

"Wow, so that's why you were able to use your phone even though we were surrounded by privacy charms," Jade said in realization. "They must really want you to continue to do work for them if they outfit you like that so quickly."

Ryu nodded, thankful of Jade's mindfulness of the fact that he wanted to keep his part-time employers quiet. "More in particular the boss wanting me to have up to date equipment more than anything," He explained "Langley and I actually go pretty far back."

"Wait, if technology can be used in the magic world, why hasn't anyone in Britain been told about this?" Jade asked in confusion. "I mean, there are a lot of things in the non-magical world I've been wanting to try out, but I can't because magic makes them not work, or my aunt and uncle would never let me get them for myself."

"My guess is that they know the tech exists, they're just too stuck up to change with the times," Ryu said with a shrug. "Too afraid to move on, try something new. Like I said I don't know enough about the Magical System, being made aware of it not even a week ago."

Molly blinked as her eyes widened at the last part of the sentence. "A... muggle?" She asked. "You're a muggle? Sirius, Remus, Nymphadora what are you doing revealing the magical world to a muggle! Don't you know that you could get your wand snap-"

"They were not the ones who informed me of the magical world, Mrs. Weasley," Ryu cut in, his eyes hooded "I was informed by a person who had the clearance to do so for very good reasons that right now I am not inclined to telling you as it seems you have a tendency to overreact to even things that someone else has no control over."

"Molly, what's with all of the yelling?" The voice of Arthur Weasley said, as he came downstairs. He was soon joined by Ginny and her brothers. "Ah! Jade, Remus, you're all back from Vegas! How was it?"

They all shared a look. "Surprising to say the least," Remus said finally. "How about we all go into the living room, we'll tell you everything that happened there."

A bit later

"WHAT!?" One Molly Weasley's yell tore through the house and surrounding countryside. "GET IT ANNULLED RIGHT NOW JADE LILLIAN POTTER!"

"IF YOU HAD BEEN LISTENING, YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD THAT WE CAN'T!" Jade's equally loud shout roared back, inside of the home everyone else was watching the pair as one would watch a tennis match as they yelled back and forth.

"WHY NOT?"

"IT WAS A MAGICAL UNION! AS IN IT WON'T BE ANNULLED UNLESS ONE OF US DIES!"

Ryu and the others looked over to Molly, who looked to be on the verge of hyperventilating, right before turning and pointing to Ryu. "And you! I bet you're a government agent of some sort sent to kidnap Jade, aren't you!" She shouted angrily, getting blinks of surprise at that leap to a conclusion.

"Now Molly," Arthur began moving over to his wife, only to be stopped as Ryu rose to his feet.

"You truly think I would have let her come back to the UK if I wanted to kidnap her, Mrs. Weasley?" he asked, his eyes darkening "I have been polite to you, I have tolerated your screaming at Jade for something beyond her control, but you questioning me on not having her best interests in mind?" he asked, his voice growing colder with each word. "You are really starting to piss me off..."

"Ryu, calm down, she's just being paranoid," Jade said, with a hand on his shoulder. "She doesn't really know you yet, you know."

Ryu blinked as he he looked over to Jade, his eyes regaining their usual luster as he gave a small smile. "True enough, I suppose," He relented with a sigh. "Remus, you mind unshrinking my car, I feel like doing some work on it."

"Huh, oh sure come, we'll do it in the driveway." He said, leading Ryu out of the house.

Once Ryu was gone, Jade turned to Mrs. Weasley. "You want to know the truth, Ryu had as little choice in this as I did," She revealed. "He was just as drunk as I was, and he'd just found out about the magical world through his work, seeing a Dark Lord perform sacrifices in a ritual and Merlin knows what else!" The Weasley brood blinked in surprise at Jade's announcement, their eyes wide. "And you know what, he could've just left when we woke up, but he didn't, instead he stuck around so that we could figure out what the hell happened and how to fix this. He really is a nice guy Mrs. Weasley, just... give him a chance... for me please."

Jade turned and left, following after Remus and Ryu, leaving a rather flabbergasted Molly Weasley behind with some shocked children and a husband, rather rare sight that someone talked down the Weasley Matriarch. "Molly," Arthur said as he stepped up next to his wife "Think about it for a second, do you really believe that Sirius, Remus, and Tonks would bring someone back who meant Jade even the slightest of harm?"

"But..." She started only to be cut off as Sirius stood, an unusually stern look on his features.

"Molly, I know you think of Jade as you daughter, but you fail to realize that she doesn't think of you as her mother," He stated bluntly. "While I will grant she is physically young, mentally and emotionally I personally think she is just as mature as we are. She survived the Dursleys when she was young, she has survived Voldemort three times, she can take care of herself and make her own decisions."

Molly nodded distractedly as she moved off towards the kitchen.

Outside

Ryu was bent over the revealed engine of his Mustang idly as Jade stepped out of the house. She watched him for a minute as he reached to the toolbelt he had strapped on and pulled a socket wrench out to tighten a bolt. "Sorry about that," Jade said, announcing her presence to Ryu who looked over his shoulder at her smiling slightly. "She really is a nice person... just has a tendency to overreaction..."

Ryu gave her an assuring smile. "Sorry about my own reaction," He said as he straightened. "I just don't like people questioning my motives. I may be a gun-for-hire, but I do have my own code I live by."

"Do you need any help?" She asked, changing the topic as she stepped up next to the car across from him. "'Cause I've always wanted to try working on cars before."

Ryu smirked as he handed her the socket wrench he was using. "Sure, I can teach you a few tricks." He agreed, he pointed to a particular bolt. "This here needs to be tightened..."

END CHAPTER