. To be Loved
By Cynthia M.
Chapter 2: Fear the Fluff!!!
I bet that you're wondering why Draco's suddenly become nice. Well, you know, a Slytherin can never let another Slytherin suffer, right? Wrong. Because they can. But that is one reason that Draco's doing this, and I won't tell you the other. It's got a lot to do with Tori and Naraku, though. Now, I shouldn't say too much, so…On with the story!
Draco paced the room, thinking. What could Naraku want with Fitzpatrick? Besides the fact that she had a nice body and a great face…Holy crap, Draco thought. But why her, and where was she when he did this, anyway? She was probably in a secluded area and he just wanted it to be easier. He is a screwed up pervert! A million thoughts flew through Malfoy's mind while Tori slept. She kept trying to get up like there was something holding her body down and moaning in her sleep, she was replaying the events in her dreams. Pretty soon she should wake up, hopefully, without more seizures. She'd have one hell of a headache, though. Draco looked at the clock and realized they were missing dinner, maybe he should go and get something for him and bring her something for when she woke and medicine from Madam Pomfrey's office. He got his shoes one on and looked towards Tori, who was now still and the blankets were pushed to the bottom of the bed, her hair still covering her cheek. She had slight stains under her eyes from the eyeliner running. He was getting a bag when there was a loud pounding at his door. "Malfoy, open up!" It was Zabini, and Crabbe and Goyle were probably with him. He yelled it and he looked to Tori, seeing that she still wasn't awake, opened the door slightly, but Zabini slammed it open playfully and stopped in his tracks, and grinned perverted, staring at Tori, in DRACO'S clothing, in DRACO'S bed, the sight would give you the wrong expression, too. He whistled. "Holy shit, Draco, you just met her and you're already-"Draco, frustrated, stopped him angrily. "No we didn't. It's too complicated to explain, but there's a good reason she's in here." Draco said, putting the bag down and sitting down, rubbing the area by his ears with two fingers in frustration with his friend. Zabini raised an eyebrow. "And wearing your boxers?" Malfoy glared at him intensely and he stopped, backing away.
"Listen, I need you to get medicine for aches and infections, and bring back some food. Got it?" Draco asked him. He nodded and left, saying, "Wait till Pansy finds out!" and laughing. Draco locked the door again, and sat in his leather desk chair, a foot propped on his desk. He leaned back and sighed, gazing at the young girl who was suffering things no one should. It would have been better if Naraku was a regular human, in a way…but no. Naraku was supposedly helping his father with something, and Draco wanted to know why Naraku and his gang of demon friends were at the school. They weren't attending it, right? He got lost in his thoughts and peered out the window, seeing the sky darken. At exactly 7:10 P.M. Zabini came back with the things. Draco mixed the medicines and propped Tori's head up with pillows, pouring the mixture into her mouth and getting her limp form to swallow it while the other teenage boy sat, waiting for an explanation. "Soo….?" Draco sat in his chair again, and faced the dark skinned boy across him. "She was raped." His eyebrows rose. "By who?"
"I can't tell you who. He hurt her, and I'm just guessing that she lost her virginity. She fell on the stairs trying to get up to her room, and I found her. But N…he came back, trying to find her, so I had to come here with her." Draco explained. Zabini asked how she was hurt. "He broke her wrist, pierced her arms and back with his..nails, gave her a concussion or three, and screwed up her cheek." He didn't mention how the skin was probably torn up in her vagina, but she'd need to go to a muggle hospital to confirm that, especially since she probably wouldn't go to Madam Pomfrey because she'd ask too many questions and Naraku would seek revenge big time. Tori stirred, and she rolled over, the hair falling from her face, to show the dark bruise and cuts. Zabini's eyebrows rose yet again and he told Draco he was going to go now. They said their goodbyes and Draco had to lock the door again. Draco fell asleep in his chair/recliner, his head dropping forward. ……………Hours later, Tori stirred from her sleep, frightened. She could hardly remember anything after Naraku banged her head against the concrete wall purposely. So of course, she thought this was his room and started panicking. She couldn't see Draco then, seeing as the back of his chair was toward her. He woke to the sound of her whimpering softly, and walked to her, but she backed away. 'She doesn't remember does she?' He sat on the bed. "Its okay. Naraku won't hurt you again." He comforted her. She finally remembered what happened and broke down, aching all over and nearly blinded by the headache. Draco put an arm around her, trying to comfort her, and she cried into his shirt. "Why did he have to choose m-me?" She sobbed. It was awkward for Malfoy. She forced herself to stop crying and wiped the tears from her face. "He will pay." She said more to herself. She leaned up against the headboard, her head tipped back and knees hugged to her chest.
"Are you hungry?" Draco asked her softly. She nodded. He heated the food and handed half to her and ate the other half himself. After a couple pieces of simple bread, Tori covered her mouth, and swayed, and Draco watched as her cheeks changed colors. She hugged an arm around her stomach and Draco helped her to the bathroom, holding her hair back as she vomited. Her breathe was dry and raspy, and she lay back down. "Do you want me to take you to your room?" She looked up at him with pained eyes.
"N-no! Just…let me stay here. He probably knows where my room is…I don't want this to happen again…" She sad softly. Draco nodded sympathetically. At that moment it was….3:00 in the morning and they were both exhausted. She got under the covers and Draco turned off the bathroom light, sitting on the opposite side of the bed. "You don't mind, do you?" He asked gently and heard a small 'no' as Tori drifted into a dreamless sleep. On the king sized bed, there was a 3-4 foot gap between them. Draco turned his back to Tori and fell asleep.
Draco's alarm clock went off at 7:30 AM and banged on the top with his fist, and got up. Tori sat up too, rubbing her eyes and blinking, sunlight streaming through the window onto her face. She stood, wobbling, and pulled her robe on over Draco's clothes. He asked where she was going. "TO my room…I'm going to my classes…" She said softly. She opened the window and asked to use his wand. "Accio wand! " Her wand flew through the open window and she handed his wand back, and started to walk out the door, stiff. "I'll come with you. Just hold up," He went in the bathroom and changed into his clothes and robes and got his books and such and followed her to her room, waiting for her to get out of the shower, sitting on her bed. She came out, dressed in loose jeans, a long sleeved black shirt and a short sleeved red shirt over it that said A Fire Inside. She pulled her robes on and applied cover-up to her face and neck so you couldn't see the…marks. She got her bag and they walked down to the Common Room. People looked at them strangely, and Pansy came up to Malfoy, latching onto him like a leech. "Dracy beau….Why is SHE with you?" She said in a high pitched, preppy-ass, whiney voice, scowling at Tori. Tori rolled her eyes at the girl. Draco looked at Tori in the corner of his eyes and rolled his eyes also. "She's just a friend, Pansy." He replied in a bored tone. Parkinson glared at Tori one last time and went over to her posse of girls, pointing at Tori and they all laughed high-pitched laughs, and Tori flicked them all of and mouthed, "Fuck you." They shut up, shocked, and she looked around the room to find everyone else shocked. No one besides the Gryffindors had ever bad-mouthed a Slytherin; not to mention a Slytherin doing it. She heard two boys snickering and gazed at them: their backs were turned, but one had longish tan color hair, while the other had spiked bright red hair. She furrowed her brows in frustration. They turned around and her thoughts were confirmed. They were Naraku's two guy friends. The brown haired one eyed her wrist in the wrist with a frown on his face while the red head did the same but instead, laughed a menacing laugh. She glared daggers at them and flipped them the bird as well, and walked off, while Draco waited outside for her. She made her way to the exit door, but it opened before she got to it and He walked through it, making his way swiftly to her, tipping her head up so she'd look at him, and kissed her, forcing her lips apart. She pushed him away, and he grabbed her hand. "I told you I'd be back…" Naraku laughed, and pushed her out of his way. She wiped her lips and scowled, running out the door only to bump into someone else. He helped her up, and she saw a boy looking her age with black hair that reached mid-neck in a ponytail. He was in Slytherin robes.
"I'm sorry, m'lady." He talked in a smooth voice, most likely using it when he was trying to get a girl. "I am the monk Miroku. And you are…?"
"Going to be late!" She ran off, finding Draco. She realized Naraku was in Slytherin robes when he'd came in. She sighed angrily, and Draco asked what was wrong as they walked into the Great Hall. "Naraku…was in the common room. He kissed me, and he was in Slytherin robes. They're not admitting new students, are they?" She asked nervously.
"Not as far as I know but…they might have been sorted last night and neither of us was there." He said, confused as well. They sat down at the Slytherin table, Tori not wanting to have Harry and them playing 20 questions about where she was. She didn't want to try and explain it right now. She downed a glass of pumpkin juice and that was it, besides a piece of dry toast. She didn't want to throw up again. A headache began and got more intense and she asked Draco "Is this how it feels to be hung-over?"
"Nah, a hangover would probably be way better…" Tori groaned and saw Naraku, his friends, and a bunch of other teens, a lot of them demons, walk in the giant double-doors with regular Hogwarts students. The black-haired boy from minutes before walked to the Slytherin tables and sat at the one behind her, and Naraku and his two friends sat nearer to Tori; he was trying to scare her and it was working. She tried not to show it though, because everyone would know something's up. Soon Naraku and the red-head boy went off to the Ravenclaw table to see the other demon girl, and the brunette stayed. "Are you going to be okay?" Draco asked Tori. She nodded and Draco left the Great Hall. The boy slid over to her, directly across from her.
"Are you okay?" The boy asked. Tori looked down, not sure whether she should trust him or not. She figured that if he'd had enough decency not to…join in…so maybe she could at least hear him out. He never even laughed…the other guy did. He smiled a meek smile, and she looked at him: He seemed sincere enough.
"Yeah…Can I ask you a question? Well- first off, what's your name?" She asked. He looked across the room briefly. "Mathew. You?" She sighed and wished she could tell him her real name. Yeah, she conceals a lot of things about her self- and she's only 15. "Tori." Well, that part wasn't lying. Her real name was Tori- but her last name wasn't Fitzpatrick, it was Furaru, and she was half Japanese. Her middle name wasn't Carry, it was Rene, her mothers' first name. Dumbledore had advised her to change her name when she came to Hogwarts, so she did- to Tori Carry Fitzpatrick. She had also changed part of her appearance- the eyes, for instance, were really violet colored, but she wore golden brown colored non-prescription contacts. "Okay, question two is why do you follow Naraku?"
"I got…involved with him a year ago and tried to quite working for him, but he'd take my life if I quit. So yeah…I kind of have to." Mathew scoffed. "He's screwed up, and I can't believe he'd actually go that far and...You know. Apparently he hurt you; bad."
"How'd you know?" Tori questioned. "Oh wait, you're a demon, you can…sense things or whatever the hell it is right?" He grinned at her and nodded. She laughed and stopped quickly; it hurt her sides. "You should go to one of those muggle doctors, because the wizard doctors will be no good for you." She nodded. "I probably will. I don't know, I'm supposed to go to my boyfriend's Quidditch match tomorrow, then there's probably going to be loads of homework…I hate school." She looked behind her and saw the redhead and Naraku turn to come over here and she whispered it to Mathew and he went back the proper place. Soon it was time for her first class with the Gryffindors. She had noticed that Harry wasn't at breakfast or Hagrid's class, and Hermione was in Ancient Ruins or something, while Ron was in some class. So she was there alone with the Slytherins and no Gryffindors she was friends with in 5th Year. This sucked. And to add to it, Naraku's there too. She still stayed with the Gryffindors, and some demons and other kids had gotten in Gryffindor: A girl with jet black hair, and boy with silver hair and…dog ears…the boy from earlier, and a girl with dark brown hair. The black haired boy came over to her during class, leaning against a tree and looking in her eyes. "So, what's your real name?"
"Tori." She said flatly. "What do you think of me so far?" Miroku asked in a sugar-coated voice, smiling a fake smile. She looked at him, an innocent-like face on, and said "Well, let me think…I think you're a womanizing pervert. Good enough for you?" She said sarcastically. His friends walked up and the girls hit him over the head. "You got it right. He is a womanizing pervert. My name's Sango." They shook hands and smiled.
"I'm Kagome." The black haired girl said. "And this is InuYasha." She said, pointing to the silver-haired teenage puppy. She had a strange urge to feel his ears. "Don't mind Miroku- he does this to every girl. And InuYasha is usually- more like always- grumpy." AT this the dog-boy looked up and scowled at Kagome.
"Hey! That's not true!" Kagome, Sango, and Tori started giggling and talking to each other, leaving the boys alone as they went off. They became friends quick. Hagrid asked Tori to stay after class.
"Yeah? Oh, wait…This is probably about last night's detention, right?" Tori said, sighing.
"Sorry, Tor, Snape already knows 'bout ya not comin'." Hagrid said. Tori lifted her arm. "I broke my wrist and had to get medicine and a cast. Bloody hell, does it hurt!" Hagrid patted her softly on the shoulder sympathetically, not knowing she wasn't talking about her wrist alone. Hagrid gave her a pass for being late to her next lass, which was Divination with Ravenclaw. She sat with Miroku, despite the fact that he wasn't exactly perfect, Naraku, Mathew and the other guy only two tables away. Naraku kept blowing air kisses at her and she wanted to puke. They were doing tea leaf reading again. Tori hating this subject, it was stupid and pointless. And Professor Trelawney was really creepy and bug-eyed. She had a lot of weird shapes in her tiny blue tea cup, and had no idea what they were because she didn't study. She set the cup down, rolling her eyes as Trelawney stalked about the room, peering into peoples' cups every once in a while. She looked into Tori's, and gasped. Peoples' heads turned. "The grim….You shall face extreme misfortune, and deaths!" The professor's droning voice said. "You have faced danger and there is more-"Tori threw the cup on the ground, standing up and knocking her chair over in the process, and glared at the woman angrily. She stormed out of the room, muttering profanities to herself, and knocked into something that felt like a wall but softer. She stumbled backwards, her bag falling from her shoulder, and she kneeled down to pick it up. When she looked up, she saw a handsome and familiar looking man glaring down at her. He had long, down-to-his-waist long, silver hair and golden-brown eyes. He was tall; there were two crimson marks on both cheek, and a blue crescent moon in the center of his forehead. He also had a boa of white fur draped over his shoulder- maybe it was a tail or something. Her jaw went slightly slack, and she stood. "S-sorry." She muttered, and walked past him quickly. 'Another demon! He was a youkai, though. Why the hell is Dumbledore letting new students in- halfway through the year? He's kinda cute, actually. ' The man told her to hold on and she stopped, the man walking up to her. He appeared to smell the air, and suddenly his expression was no longer vacant, but dark and foreboding. She gazed up at him, attempting to figure it out, but found nothing. Why did he look so…EVIL all of a sudden, and who the hell is he? Tori thought to her. "You…! YOU'RE Naraku's new mate!" He growled, his sharp canines showing. She stepped back, alarmed, and realized 'he must smell Naraku on me, from…last…night…' she choked back tears, and he grabbed her wrist. Her broken wrist. She winced, and he breathed through his teeth. "I WILL NOT LET HIM BRING ANOTHER him INTO THIS WORLD." He said fiercely, and Tori glared up at him meekly.
"What the hell are you talking about?! I didn't do it with HIM!" She said to the youkai. He replied 'liar.' "I didn't!!! oh…"
"Why do you have his stench on you, then, wench?" Not exactly a question. He was practically beckoning her to lie.
"B…because he raped me! Good enough for you?!" He let go, and she ran away, despite the pain in her abdomen, and finally stopped, looking at her watch. Time for other class- POTIONS. Ah well, she thought, at least it's with Gryffindors. She headed towards the dungeon, along with the slouching Gryffindors and pompous other Slytherin. She sat with Harry and he asked what happened to her. "I fell, and broke my wrist. It totally sucks. Nothing big, really." He rubber her back comfortingly and she winced, trying hard not to. They started the class, with Professor Snivellus glaring strangely and familiarly at Tori and Harry, then glancing at Draco sympathetically. Wait, sympathetically? What the hell is going on here, Tori thought to herself. Draco didn't looked sad, or angry or anything, so why the look from Snape? The let it go, not particularly WANTING to know about whatever was going on between the two. She and Harry got an A, since Snape show bias towards a Slytherin- he had told them to pair and since it was a Slytherin-Gryffindor…well, what could he do then? Ron, however, was not so lucky. Seeing as he sucked at potions AND he was a Gryffindor, too bad for him…Pretty soon it was lunch time, and they ate, then it was History of Magic with the Ravenclaws- Hermione. Tori ended up falling asleep in the class, due to the other night and the Professor's droning, boring voice. She wondered how bad it had been when he was actually ALIVE. On their way out, she asked Hermione if she could use her notes for the homework and she hesitantly obliged to it. Tori walked off to double DADA with the Hufflepuffs and Professor R. Lupin, one of her favorite teachers. She loved this class, it was usually really fun for her, since she exceeded in it.
Only, it wasn't Professors Lupin in the classroom at the teacher's desk. It was the demon from earlier, she gasped and glared at him- when he saw her glaring daggers at him, he looked away, flicking his wand…hi wand? WHAT THE HELL? At the chalkboard, writing 'Take your seats with your house and get out yesterday's homework.' Once everyone had done that he collected it with a wave of his wand. His hair was now in a pony tail and he was dressed in a black suit, his face stern. He paced the room while talking. "I am your new Defense against Dark Arts professor, Shesshomaru Taisho. You will call me Sesshomaru-sama, Sesshomaru-san, or Mr. Taisho. Not 'professor.' Tori rolled her eyes at him, and she heard him growl lightly at her, while she merely smirked at him. "Fluffy-sama, where'd Professor Lupin?" Tori interrupted him. He walked briskly towards her and she stared up him, one eyebrow cocked and a little 'I'm a perfect little angel' smile on her face. She was, of course, referring to the tail/boa draped over his shoulder. He folded his arms and growled at her, leaning in to whisper something to her. "Human, if you do not respect me, I will make you pay."
"For what? So you can get that tail thing a perm?" She smiled sweetly at him. 'That's what he gets for thinking I'd do it with NARAKU!' She thought violently. "So, fluffy-sama, what happened to Lupin?" He just glared at her sharply and she heard him rack his knuckles, clearly annoyed, which was what she was aiming for.
A/N: So, fluffy and Tori have apparently gotten off to a bad start. Hope ya liked the chapter! Anyway, Naraku might come into the next chapter, and you just might be surprised at what….Never mind, I shouldn't tell you that, now should I?? REVIEW NOW MY LITTLE MINIONS!