The Burglar of Tokyo.

As he sat in the comfortable and beautifully appointed back garden of the Dursleys now deserted home in Tokyo, Harry was trying to think; he had been impressed with the garden when he'd first seen it. Petunia hadn't liked it because of the foreign style, and the plants, but Harry liked it even more because it was more serene, and full of personality compared to the boring gardens of Little Whinging.

In any case, the sweet sound of the water fountain pooling nearby was better than the boring sounds of silence you found in Little Whinging's garden and the serenity of the garden gave him the chance to think about what he was going to do now while he was still numb with the very clear fact the Dursleys had left him.

But what made him even more surprised was this had obviously been planned. Harry wondered how long the Dursleys had had it in mind, but he knew he would probably never find out, and even if he confronted the Dursleys then he would likely not really care how long it had taken for them to plan this scheme in the first place.

What insulted him the most was they had done it all when he'd had his own plans to escape, but now it appeared those plans were redundant. It didn't make any difference and Harry truly did not care when the Dursleys had decided to come up with this, but he knew they had come up with it when they had still been in Little Whinging. He had no doubt the Dursleys had already bought another house in Britain somewhere since he knew they had moved their stuff into storage, and it was there waiting for them to come back.

It was just so strange the Dursleys would come up with a plan on this scale without blabbing the basics, but he guessed they must have known if they hadn't they would likely not make their getaway.

But now Harry was left with a fresh problem, and he had no idea how he was going to solve it.

What would he do now?

The Dursleys had abandoned him in Japan. They had taken his passport meaning he couldn't leave the country himself, but he didn't know enough about Japanese law to know what the Japanese would do if they found out what had happened.

A part of Harry was tempted to get in touch with the authorities to let them know what had happened anyway, but his long distrust of the police and social services back in Britain made him wary of doing that. No-one had helped him in the past, who was to say the Japanese wouldn't be the same? What if they sent him back to Britain after making sure the Dursleys were there at the airport?

But what could he do? He was here, alone, trapped in a different country and while he was getting progressively better and better at Japanese than Dudley had ever been, he was aware of the gaps in his knowledge of life here. It was just such a mess.

But as Harry sat by the pond with the fountain, he became annoyed because he guessed the Dursleys had figured his own knowledge of Japanese was awful. They had clearly thought his inability to survive here in the long term could mean anything happening to him. The thought angered him, but it did not surprise him in the least. The Dursleys had always been focused on themselves, seeing the world from their own perspective without thinking about what he could do for himself.

But he could he survive if he didn't tell the Japanese authorities what had happened to him? He knew if he went into school, and told the headteacher or one of the other members of staff he would need to bring them here to show them what the Dursleys had done. There was plenty of physical evidence to support his story, after all.

Harry knew his distrust and uncertainty stemmed from his poor experiences with authority figures, but he wondered what would happen if he did tell the Japanese about what the Dursleys had just done. He hoped if he did tell them they would have the common sense not to tell the Dursleys about what he'd done, or at the very least he could have them arrange alternative living arrangements in the UK.

But the most tempting option was to simply not say a word to the Japanese at all, and find a different way out of the country while he used his own wits to survive without depending on others. It was certainly more attractive, and at least he would have some plan on how to make it a success despite the obvious dangers. But at least he would be on his own, and after he had worked out the particulars, it would be child's play to work on.

No, the more he thought about the matter, the more attractive it was to simply leave this house behind. With a bit of luck, the Japanese authorities would conclude he had simply left with the Dursleys, and that would be the end of the matter rather than just going to them, as was logical, and hoping they could send him back to the UK and expecting the Dursleys to help him.

The only problem he had with that was where he would find shelter, food…

Harry leaned back and groaned. While he thought the idea of simply disappearing into the city was a good one, especially since it was no different from his original long term plan to escape from the Dursleys, and yet it was tempting to just go to the Japanese and hope they were kind enough to send him back to Britain without alerting the Dursleys, but he knew it was likely it would happen like that. He was out of his depth; in London, he would have had the luck of still being in his home country, but here he was at the mercy of the Japanese if they found him. He sighed and rubbed his eyes, wishing he could scream at his own mind for the blessed miracle of silence. He knew he needed to find a solution quickly, preferably by morning….

And then it struck him.

He could leave tonight, head into the city. He would leave everything in the Dursley house and take his chances alone in Tokyo. He would research ways of returning to Europe, and then Britain. In the meantime, he would learn what he could in order to survive on the streets, and if he was caught by the authorities in any country, he could just give them a truthful story he had been abandoned and that he hadn't come forward because he had been afraid of the potential consequences.

He preferred the idea of simply finding a way of getting out of the country without anyone realising it, but still, it would be a good idea to prepare for the worst.