Summary: Main character is Jade Hamasaki (JH), Japanese witch sent by Albus Dumbledore's best friend in Asia to teach Defense Against Dark Arts (DADA) to students in Hogwarts. She is also the newest member of Order of the Phoenix (OoP) who saved Sirius Black from the veil in the mysterious arc.
Gonna form a love triangle relationship between Sirius Black (SB) and Severus Snape (SS) with another guy loving her in secret... Another triangle relationship would be Hermione Granger (HG), Ron Weasley (RW) and Draco Malfoy (DM)... Another pair would be Harry Potter (HP) / Ginny Weasley (GW)…
Prologue
"Oyagi-san! Don't force me to go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to teach!" A high-pitched but sweet voice came out of pouted lips from a lady who wore a white tube and a dark blue knee-length-skirt on her body and using her blue-green eyes to stare at an old man in front of her. The old man at one look does not look old given his muscular form but wrinkles on his forehead gave his age away.
"Even if I do not teach, I can still stay in London and help out with OoP to kill Voldemort and save my distant cousin right? Then why would you force me then?" She creased her eyebrow, eyes sending questioning glares at her mentor's grey ones. A puff of smoke was blown by this man out of his cigarette as he thought hard of how to explain to her his bet with his best friend just days ago.
If Jade Hamasaki knows that she had to do this because of a bet between Albus Dumbledore and Toshiba Kaede, she would surely blow her temper at him. From young, she had been entrusted to his care by her parents after their death at the hands of a dark wizard from England, Tom Riddle a.k.a Lord Voldemort.
In her, there are two personalities… One has a hot temper which can really blow people away from her shrilly scream at their ears and another emotionless female who rarely shows off her emotions to other people. These two personalities will come out in different settings. The first is when she is with people that she knows and is close to while the other would come out whenever she is with strangers…
But she also has a deep pool of potential in magic. She can even perform wandless magic from baby!
But Toshiba does not want her to learn how to control it thoroughly to stop other people from wanting to attack her. So he taught her wand magic, and she mastered all magic easily in a short span of three years. More amazingly is that at the age of just seven, she finished her education in magic – a prodigy in magical abilities…
Then, she entered a muggle high school in Japan, learning muggle subjects like science and mathematics, having the qualities in becoming a doctor. Talented in magic, she also has a higher IQ then most normal muggles, getting a PhD in medical science at just the age of 25 while studying abroad in London...
And for the next 10 years, she worked as a doctor in Japan's top hospital, rejecting multiple invitations to teach university students for even an hour. And Toshiba knew of her fear for teaching but also made a silly bet with his best friend regarding this… So how can he explain to her?
"Jade… impart your magical skills to youngsters this day… if not what can you do there? Do nothing? You must be boring to do that all day… ya know"
"No!!!!!!!!! I have rejected so many proposals in teaching so how can I snap this streak out of me?" Jade Hamasaki growled sharply, shooting Toshiba's hands up to his ears and he recklessly blurted out the truth.
"I made a bet with Albus to let you teach DADA to his school's students if I lose to him in drinking white wine!" His grey eyes widened shakily as he looked into the cold green eyes of Jade… she can change her eye's colors in regard to her feelings at a point in time…
Her clenched fist trembled, her red lips sucking in a breath deeply as her green eyes closed sharply, finally erupting like a burst volcano. "How could you have bet on this?" She screamed in a shrilly voice, folding her arms in haste, pacing the grassland irritatingly….
Toshiba remained silent as he watched her walking round the floor hurriedly, his mind getting dizzier and dizzier with every step she took. Jade turned her head towards Toshiba, her voice decreasing its volume to her normal one, but high-pitched voice still on…
She stared straight into his eyes and then continued pacing round him, eyes returning to its blue-green shade and glancing at him once in a while. Toshiba knew her punishment for his silly bet is this… but this is really confusing to him literally!!!
"What is the first thing I would need to do for OoP?" She questioned, finally stopping on her track, her arms placed on her mentor's shoulder as he rubbed his eye temples.
"Perform the Soul Spell needed to bring up a soul stuck in the arc veil… that is your specialty right?" He smiled brightly at her, anticipating a unique reaction from someone invisible to the eye... And it did indeed…
A man in his dark blue tank top and blue-green jeans with a hole in the knee area appeared out of thin air, looking at his father shockingly. "Dad, do you mean that I have to go with her? To bring back the soul's body? If not how would a soul get stuck there?"
"When will we do this spell?" The two of them exclaimed together, staring straight at Toshiba-san who nodded his head calmly, different from his normal look. He rolled his eyes and answered their question.
"Let's go to London first and Albus will tell you two the details…" He clapped his hand, pulling out his wand and muttering words of a Teleportation spell. A bright light surrounded the three of them, whisking them away…
A long blonde haired lady coupled with a grey-haired and another dark brown hair man appeared out of thin air, bright light dissipating from the trio. The lady and the younger man looked around their surroundings, taking in the view of a dark, overgrown garden in front of them.
The lady's eyes lit up, "Isn't this the Shrieking Shack in Britain's Hogsmeade?" She asked as the younger man before her looked at his father questioningly. "We are going to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry through this haunted house?"
The blue-green eyes of the lady slowly turned to a dark aura of blue color, her voice mellow and expressionless, "This house's secret has been broken out to the prophesized boy and his friends right, Toshiba-san?" She started to go forward towards the dilapidated hut without waiting for any signal from the old man behind her.
"Kahiko… Jade is cleverer than you…" Toshiba Kaede laughed softly, following her footsteps, "And please do not be afraid of that house that is full of ghosts…" Toshiba Kahiko's green eyes widened, biting his lips gently, hands shaking and pointing to his father. "How can you guys look down on me?" He ran after his old man, clutching his wand tight in his right hand.
Jade Hamasaki took out her wand slowly, opening the door of the hut and stepping into it, silence greeting her ears with the often soft sound of shrieks coming out from a tunnel behind the staircase.
The trio walked right into the long tunnel slowly, finally reaching a huge crimson colored door. Jade pushed it but it did not budge one bit. Slowly, she walked back a few steps. And before Toshiba Kaede could stop her, she blasted open the door with a blasting curse.
Seeing down at the floor, a dust-colored cat greeted her sight. It meowed loudly and a nasty looking man appeared from behind a corner of the wall, he looking at the trio in interest.
Toshiba spit out a mushroom cloud annoyingly, rising up his magical aura to lure his best friend to meet them. The nasty-looking man snarled rudely at Jade, "How can you destroy the door? You want to compensate?"
Jade's dark blue eyes took a glance at him quickly, her head tilting up but not saying any thing.
The cat stretched out its arms and its claws, preparing to scratch her leg, only to be stopped by a silver-waist length hair old man who stepped from the corner where the nasty man also came from. "Thank you for your help, Oyagi-san." Jade's cold mellow voice came out of her mouth, she folding her arms and looking at him curiously.
Toshiba hit her shoulder with his wand, "Don't be rude to the Headmaster of this school!"
"Okay!" Jade's cold blue eyes turned ablaze blue-green, "Sorry for being rude, Dumbledore-san."
"My greetings to Dumbledore-san." Toshiba Kahiko spoke while bowing down, "I can fix the door, Oyagi-san." He turned to the nasty man, relaxing his grip on his white wand and pointing at the destroyed door, red light coming out of the tip and the splinters of the door healed itself. "There…" He smiled.
"Baka Hiko!" Jade scowled, "My masterpiece fixed by you?"
"Hmm." Toishiba cleared his throat and Jade with his son looked back at him together.
"Albus, my son and disciple want the details in saving little Black…" He fixed a glare at his two companions.
Albus Dumbledore's blue eyes twinkled and he laughed, "Let's go to my office to meet someone that you would need." He started to walk to his left.
Walking to a tower, they climbed up to the second floor spotting a stone gargoyle resting in front of a door. Albus Dumbledore muttered, "Sweet babe." Jade Hamasaki snorted unfemalely and followed him through the door. Toshiba Kaede's eyes rolled around with Toshiba Kahiko covering his mouth to laugh into his palm.
They entered a huge circular room, a lot of funny little things greeting their eyes. Jade's blue-green eyes really sparkled as she dashed to a crimson feathered phoenix with a long golden tail. She raised her hands and stroked the fur of the phoenix with a small smile on her face even as her eyes changed to dark blue…
Toshiba thought, 'They both are comfortable in Fawkes presence.' He removed his eyes from Jade and saw a greasy black shoulder-length hair leaning on a big claw-footed desk, him looking at the beautiful and cheerful picture of Jade with Fawkes.
Wings seem to have sprouted from Jade's back as she chuckled softly at the phoenix closing its ruby eyes and then opening to look at her happily.
A blush formed itself on Kahiko's cheeks, turning his head away from his father at his father's amused gaze at him and then to Jade.
The stranger in the room cleared his throat forcefully, looking at Jade nastily with his beetle-black eyes. Jade snapped herself out of her stupor with Fawkes and huffed out disliking at the stranger. "You have some history with the man that I am going to save? Wah… do not need to look at me with dislike like I do right?"
Severus Snape felt his mind being bridged into by a female as he looked into blue-green eyes of Jade. He shook his head vigorously, staring into her face. "Hmm… so it is just a jealousy feeling against the man ah? But you two did not get her…" Jade snickered.
Toshiba smiled guiltily at Snape whose eyes really turned as cold as ice. "Forgive my disciple… she likes to speak out her mind…"
"Oyagi! I am just saying out the truth wah… right?" Her eyes lit up brightly, walking past Snape and settling herself down on a chair just beside Snape. "And I think I can know more about bringing Sirius Black from the veil right? Since I would be the one performing the Soul spell..." Her eyes widened as Snape caught her neck by force and pulled her up from the chair.
Toshiba and his son widened their eyes at the Potion professor's action but they both knew that this man brought trouble upon himself. The blue-green eyes of Jade turned dark blue immediately as her feet left the ground. She kicked her feet backwards at the chair and slapped Snape's hands that grabbed her neck, grabbing his wrist and turning the flesh clockwise, her other hand slashing Snape's waist.
The wizard groaned in pain as he was brought down onto the floor by full force, Jade jumping away from him, her cold dark blue eyes glaring at him in a freezing kind of feeling... Her hand soothed down her wand, and then her left hand pulled a circular tube from the end of her wand, showing a blink of reflected light. She looked at him expressionlessly, raising the knife high...
Snape's eyes closed in pain, waiting for the blow to come that he thought she would be inflicting upon him...
"Jade!" Kahiko cried out, hugging her from behind. "Stop this... this knife was supposed to be used to save muggles and wizards alike... not killing anyone of them! Understand?!"
"AH!" Jade screamed, her knife dropping onto Snape's stomach, her right hand punching Kahiko's tummy hardly. Falling back onto the chair, she covered her eyes with her left hand. "Jane... you have gone quite too far, you know?" Her voice high then the voice mellowed down quickly, "You know the reason why, sis..."
Dumbledore and Snape looked on shockingly. She is two persons in one body?
"Sigh... Albus, when will her mission to bring back little Black begin?" Toshiba glanced from Dumbledore to Snape who gently rubbed his twisted wrist, wincing in pain. Jade's heart stopped beating temporarily. Then she got up from the chair and stretched her hand to the phoenix called Fawkes, inclining her head towards Snape.
Fawkes flipped its wings without any warning, its feathers glowing a faint pink aura as its ruby eyes glinted in the faint light. Tears threatened to drop down on the floor, but it opened its wings and levitated above Snape's hand from below the elbow. The water droplets landed on the wrist in a fine line, sending a chill down his arm.
Jade touched his wrist and softly turned it anti-clockwise. "Forgive me for your injury, can?" She looked up at Snape as the wizard's heart turned warm unlike normal. He felt that a blush would be uprising on his cheeks from her gaze and so walked past her, "I can't believe the new DADA idiotic teacher knowing white magic this well..." "Oh yeah? White magic is the only magic that can counter dark magic completely wah..." Her shrill voice pierced his ears itchily, her blue-green eyes threatening to burst with anger.
Dumbledore and Toshiba cleared their throat together and Kahiko, Jade and Snape turned their attention to the two elder wizards.
"Don't worry, Professor Hamasaki. We will go to the Department of Mysteries four days later and shall meet at The Leaky Cauldron's entrance. How about it?" Dumbledore spoke calmly, looking at Jade Hamasaki waiting for an answer from her.
Jade only nodded faintly, stars greeting her eyes, knowing that the complicated white magic that she just did to be very tiring to the body but she cannot show her weakness towards this wizard who seems to think low of her. Kahiko's green eyes dimmed considerably, but noticed his crush's tired eyesight. But he also knew her inside her... She has a very stubborn streak in her which is very alike to her own half blood mother.
"Dad, do you think we should go back to Japan now then? Just use an airplane to travel from home here..." He spoke, his fingers touching her palm, sending a warm flow of energy through Jade's main artery. Toshiba felt his son's spiritual energy passing through her body, not feeling any surprise at his son's actions.
"Yar... I suppose we forgot to take our clothes with us... and I suppose Jade would need time to adjust herself to the surroundings here...."He started to walk out of his friend's office, inclining his head to tell his two companions to follow him. Jade and Kahiko both bowed down at the two professors of Hogwarts and followed their mentor and father figure... with a former Headmaster in a portrait to look at the back of Jade fondly...
"Professor Dumbledore, why do they need me to save Black's soul? And have to do so many days later?" Severus Snape asked, clutching both of his hands on top of his lap and supporting his head on itwhile sitting on a chair.
Dumbledore smiled, the twinkle in his blue eyes shining brighter than ever. "Do you know how a Soul Spell is cast?" He paused, stroking the feather of his pet phoenix Fawkes. "Soul spell is a spell that needs wand and wandless magic to be cast. Saving souls is a very sacred job to be done. She is a Japanese miko as well. She would need the blood of her victim's nemesis or close friend in order to lead her to the underworld to find the victim's soul and bring it back... and so you are chosen... Sev."
He smiled slightly, patting Snape's back, "And during the casting, she would need to tap into your memories in order to prove to the gatekeeper of the underworld... This is more than just magic but religion as well... Can you imagine how sacred she is? So, it would be better if you do not do occlumency when she barges into your memories... "
He stood near the window of his office, rubbing his long beard thoughtfully and Snape also stood up to be beside Dumbledore. On the floor below, Toshiba raised his wand above his head behind his son who is carrying his disciple horizontally as a bright light enveloped the trio in it, disappearing in thin air.
"What is that spell?" Snape exclaimed, him not seeing it being performed at all.
"Their magic is of Japanese origin... You can say that that is a teleportation spell which is a Japan ancient magic... even our magic here cannot stop them from casting those kind of spell in this ground..." He spoke, eyes smiling as well. He paused his glance at the spot where they disappeared, awe filling his eyes. "Sometimes I can say that Kaede is more powerful than me in magic.
"Why would they help us in saving Black and defeating Voldemort?" Snape asked, questions arising in his mind, not knowing their motive for helping them.
"If Voldemort killed your parents in front of your very eyes, how will you avenge for them? As for why they are saving Black, Kaede did not tell me in details... Only that Jade is related to Black as a distant relative... how distant is that? I do not know but Phineas can recognize Jade, right?" He turned his head towards a portrait painting hung on the right side of the wall whose eyes are red and full of memories...
The old man in the painting sighed heavily, closing his eyes and refusing to speak out his mind. Snape and Dumbledore looked at him sleep with different opinions in their minds...
Jade opened her blue-green eyes and stared at the ceiling of her white room tiredly and sat up from her blue futon, walking slowly down the stairs of their hiraya (Japanese word for bungalow) and stopped at the kitchen, her mind whirling faintly at its back. She took off a cup from the shelves and poured down water and gulped the water down her sore throat.
Memories at Hogwarts then came back into her empty mind and she carried herself to the living room to see her mentor sitting on a sofa in a relaxed way.
"Where is Kahiko?" She looked everywhere for her best friend whom she regarded as her brother as she is an orphan made by the dark lord Voldemort.
"You two's air ticket to London... and two OoP members will be welcoming you two as only they have muggle cars for transportation..." Toshiba Kaede laughed softly, continuing, "Can you imagine that?"
"Nothing is impossible in this world, Oyagi-san!" Jade spoke belatedly. "Things will be very interesting to see what kind of people he or she is for magical people to like muggle things like we do... Wait a second, only Kahiko and I are going? What about you, Oyagi-san?" She asked, a sinking feeling in her stomach as Toshiba's black eyes emitted a kind of sadness in it.
"It would be better to let you two live alone to adjust how to live in comfort when I die..." His eyes turned watery and Jade bit her lower lips in contemplation. "When will you die, Toshiba-sama?" Her shrill voice's quality trembled obviously, "Don't wish for your own death!" She cried out and embraced her mentor suddenly.
"We need to leave by tomorrow, right? Will you send us to the airport?" She spoke into his shoulder but he did not reply, just removing himself from her and patted her long blonde hair fondly. "I will try to make it a promise to you..."
"Nani?" Jade exclaimed, realization hitting her head hard.
"I am back." A dark brown hair wizard Kahiko opened the hiraya's door, his hands carrying bags of food. "Let me cook tonight's dinner, okay?" He asked with his light brown eyes a little watery, as if tears would be dropping down at any time. Toshiba nodded his head then took a step away from them and trudged to his room.
'He knows about the depressing thing that will happen to Toshiba-sama? We need time to accept this truth? Okay... I have never put my real feelings in front of me even in this form. Being strong is all this, am I right, Jane?' Jade thought, asking her other half and a mellow voice answered her question, "Right... A weakness is by thinking of gathering sympathy votes by being sad to let people treat you better? Haha, what a hypocrite thing to do...'
Jade nodded her head subconsciously, meeting the worried gaze of Kahiko on her. He put his arm around her shoulder, tightening his embrace on her, "Get ready for anything..."
"You too, Kahiko. He is after all your dad, not mine to love...right?" Without any warning, warm tears formed in her blue-green eyes in just seconds, a small sob escaping her lips and she covered them with her hand, turning away from Kahiko and dashing up the stairs to her room.
She shut her room door closely, more tears wrecking her whole body, trying to stop her screams from coming out. She remembered the day her parents died that this Toshiba-sama protected with his life, even with the prescence of Voldemort himself who has so powerful dark magic that it destroyed everything in its path, not even giving her back her parent's corpses... and even scarring her present mentor's back flesh permanently.
Therefore, she treats Kahiko as her blood-related brother even if they have no blood relations at all and his father as her own father and savior too. Respect and love can both be described when asked of her feelings towards Toshiba Kaede; this supposed to be the most powerful wizard in this world together with Albus Dumbledore.
The three of them ate their last dinner together in comfortable ambience, talking cheerfully to each other, throwing away any sad thoughts to the back of their minds.
And they chatted till late then an awkward feeling haunted the two younger magical people's stomachs while the old wizard took out his dragon quill and wrote his last words on a black parchment with white ink and placed his wand before him.
Writing the last word, all strength seemed to leave him gradually, forcing his mind into a total empty shell, flashbacks of his whole life before his very eyes... that his pretty wife died under the hands of a local dark wizard as she tried hard to protect her own village of folks... his son being sucked into a deep trench of agony over his mother's death... his two close friends dieing under the hands of a berserk Voldemort and then meeting Albus Dumbledore in his quest in defeating the dark lord...
The days of him teaching Jade magic and seeing her grow up to be a matured but hot-tempered and sometimes emotionless lady doctor who healed the psychological injuries of his son made him fully proud of her... and finally, his last meeting with Albus that he knew would be the last indeed...
Closing his eyes, he allowed himself to be taken away to the Underground world, a warm smile being left on his face even in the face of death...
TBC...
Okay, what did you feel in the beginning of this fic? That this would be a fic full of comedy right? But it got more and more angst as time passed... with a death finally in this fic...
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