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{AN: while I have this here I have this on a second site as well, under a different name. the votes were as follows 17 to 21. I wont say which was 21, however, know that I preferred this one to the other one. This one was much more fun and the pairing will probably be funner as well in the long run (and don't let the obvious one fool you. I doubt anyone knows which one im leaning towards!) so, I hope you like the update and REVIEW PLEASE!}
Kagome yawned and rubbed her eyes as the light in her compartment came on. "Oh, I'm sorry." She looked over as Hermione came into view. "I didn't mean to wake you."
Kagome looked at Kiki briefly before looking back to Hermione. "It's okay." She said softly before sitting up fully.
Hermione looked at Kagome with surprise before smiling. She was about to say something before Kagome took off her jacket. "Oh, you've already changed." She said with surprise and Kagome looked at her curiously.
"Of course I have. Why would I wait until the last minute? Only idiots wait until the last minute, and then they run around like frantic little birds." Her point was made as a dark hair boy ran by their compartment. "Like that."
Hermione glanced to the door before looking back at Kagome with a smile. "Yes, I couldn't agree more." She said softly before reaching for her bag. "We will be arriving at the school soon, or so the older years are saying." She said while pulling out her jacket. "You might want to put your jacket back on. From what I've read there's a lake by the school, and air by big bodies of water are usually really cold." Kagome nodded slightly to show she had heard her before turning and looking at Kiki again.
'Jeez, she's sleeping.' Kagome thought to herself with consternation. 'Some companion…'
"So, what's your cat's name?" Hermione asked while tying the top of her robe.
"Kiki." Kagome answered while tying up her own robe.
Hermione was about to ask another question when their door was thrust open by a tall red headed girl. "We're here, first years exit and go to your left." Then the girl turned and left to repeat the order to the next room.
"I didn't even feel the train stop moving." Hermione commented before getting up and going to the door, her bag over her shoulder. Kagome silently followed after Hermione, Kiki's carrier in her arms.
The followed the rest of the students as they exited the train.
"First years! This way! Firs Years! Hurry up now!" Kagome blinked. That was a burly voice if she ever heard one. As soon as she stepped off the train she spotted, quiet easily, the owner of the voice. A large man with a huge beard and a lantern. 'Oh jeez.' Kagome thought, her mouth slightly open.
"Alrighty then, follow me!" Kagome quickly followed him until a woman in black stopped her and Hermione.
"No items are allowed on the boats. Give us your things and we will place them with your trunks. They will go to your rooms as soon as you're sorted." Kagome glared at the woman who wanted to take her things but her glare did no good. The woman took Kiki, who was still asleep, and Hermione's bag, despite her protests.
"There we go. Now hurry along girls, lest you miss the boats." The woman said as she placed their things on a carriage behind them.
Kagome didn't stop glaring at them until Hermione grabbed her sleeve and pulled her away. "Come on, I don't want to be late." Kagome relented and walked along beside Hermione to the boats. They had to separate when it became apparent that only 4 people could fit in the boats at a time, and there were two boats with 3 people.
Kagome climbed into a boat and then watch silently as Hermione copied her. As soon as they cast away from the shore Kagome noticed an odd shape moving in the water. 'It's huge…' Kagome thought to herself as she watched it move in languid movements before swimming towards them. A tentacle reached out towards them and Kagome didn't move an inch. 'An octopuse?' Kagome thought to herself before shaking her head. 'No, I think it's a squid. The tentacle ran along side their boat and Kagome reached down to run her hand along it.
As soon as she touched it the squid pulled away and moved to deeper waters. Kagome laughed softly before looking up and then froze. "It's….huge." she whispered, and her traveling companions agreed softly.
Kagome carefully got out of the boat and followed the rest of her class up a series of stairs. At the top of the stairs a strict looking woman stood waiting for them.
Kagome found herself standing behind Hermione, and she smiled slightly. 'Being near water is worse for her frizzy hair.'
She looked up as the strict woman spoke of houses and rules. 'So, I'm going to be sleeping with a certain group. I wonder which one.'
As the woman left a blonde boy stepped forward to stand infront of a dark haired boy. 'I think he's the one who almost sat on me. He's kinda cute, in a bad way.'
She watched with veiled curiosity as the two interacted. She smiled slightly as the woman came back. "Ruined their fun." She whispered to herself before starting forwards to follow the woman into the large dining room.
Kagome blinked with surprise and looked over at Hermione as she talked about a bewitched ceiling. And then she breathed in as she saw Dumbledore again. 'Wearing the same clothes too.'
"And now we are going to sort you to your houses." Kagome nodded to herself and then smiled as Hermione was called up.
"Mental that one." Kagome frowned and discreetly kicked the red headed boy in the back of his leg. He yelped and everyone stared at him, but Kagome just continued to glare.
"Gryffindor!" Kagome looked up in surprise before smiling. 'I might want to be in her house then. Since I already know her…'
She looked up as a silence befell the room again. 'His name is Draco?' she thought to herself with a chuckle. 'That's a kinda funny name!' she said, and then, as he was placed quickly, Kagome's mind changed. 'I like him, would Slytherin be better?'
"Wasn't that evil witchjob from Slytherin?" Kagome looked at the red head again. 'Evil?' she thought in confusion.
Kagome zoned out for a moment while she thought about which one she would prefer to be in. Slytherin or Gryffindor, such a hard choice. 'Oh jeez, his name is weasly?' Kagome thought incredulously.
Suddenly, while she was laughing mentally, a deafening silence befell the room. 'Who is Harry Potter anyways? Its such a weird name, Potter. And he doesn't want Slytherin. Is it really that bad?' She looked to Dumbledore as he was placed into Gryffindor and quirked an eyebrow. 'He seems happy.'
"Kagome Higurashi!"
Kagome blinked and looked quickly to the older woman before weaving her way through the crowd of kids her age. Slowly she made her way to the stool and sat down. The hat was placed on her head and she silently gazed out at the room. Hermione's gaze caught her eye and she inwardly frowned at her worried expression. "Smart, but not overly loving of books, and kindness. You're brave but also cautious. Your almost as hard as the Potter boy." Kagome felt the air tense up as all the houses slowly comprehended what the hat had said.
"Hm….this is harder in fact. Where to place you…Slytherin would be perfect for your strategist mind, your very bright as well. You want to protect friends…" Kagome mentally told the hat she didn't care, as long as she fit in. "Hm…leaving it up to me I see. Very well. You shall belong into…Slytherin!" Kagome smiled and waited as McGonagall removed the hat from her head and she moved to sit at her table as they clapped happily.
'They don't seem so bad.' Kagome thought to herself. She saw that Hermione was depressed but shook her head. 'I'll see her in classes.'
"Welcome to slytherin." Kagome looked up and saw a dark haired boy holding his hand out, he looked to be a few years older than her.
"Hello." Kagome said, shaking his hand and smiling as he shook her hand and smiled. A dark haired girl patted her back and Kagome smiled at her as well.
"I'm Sarah, and that's Derek." The dark haired girl said, smiling at Kagome.
"Nice to meet you." Kagome said releasing his hand and moving to sit down on the opposite side of Draco.
"Its only polite to say your name as well." Another dark haired girl with a pig face said. Kagome could tell that they were in the same year. Kagome blinked before her dark blue eyes narrowed slightly.
"In case you weren't listening, McGonagall introduced me already. If you aren't smart enough to listen, then I'm not going to repeat it as I will probably have to do that quiet often." Her tone was condescending and snooty, but she didn't care.
Everyone was silent before Derek and Sara started laughing. "She's going to fit in just fine!" Derek said, patting Kagome on the back.
Sara smiled and patted the girls hand. "Good job Pansy." She said before smiling at Kagome. "I was worried. You look so sweet and innocent we thought perhaps the hat had made a mistake. But you'll do Slytherin proud!" Kagome smiled softly before moving to grab some of the food that had materialized.
Kagome sighed and looked up as the feeling of being glared at persisted. "Look, I'm sorry. But, I don't like people belittling me. For some reason it makes me really angry. I wont hold it against you. Okay? So stop crying." Pansy continued to glare at Kagome before turning away. Kagome shrugged and continued eating, oblivious to a certain blonde's eyes staring at her. Her dinner passed by uneventfully and she left to her room with the rest of the class, a little shocked they lived in the dungeons, but uncaring.
Kagome groaned as she sat up to get ready for class. "I hate early mornings." Others around the room agreed with her but Kagome didn't know which girl was which yet. Shrugging Kagome stood from her bed and watched as Kiki prowled up to her, purring. Kagome giggled and rubbed her back before moving to dawn her shirt.
"You talk to your cat?" Kagome waited until she had her shirt down before looking around the room. All the girls were staring at her.
Kagome blinked before nodding. "Why wouldn't I? she understands what I say, so does it really matter if I talk to her?"
Pansy, the girl who had first spoken, made a snorting sound. "Your cat understands you?" she asked, and it was then Kagome realized the snorting sound was her laughing. All the girls started laughing with her, and Kagome narrowed her eyes.
"If you don't believe me, then let her show you she understands." Kagome said, and her tone of voice made all the other girls freeze. It was so cold and uncaring, it made shivers run down their spines. "Kiki, please show them what I mean." Kagome said, standing and grabbing her skirt. Kiki hissed slightly before jumping off the bed and running at Pansy, who shrieked and scrambled back on her bed.
Kagome watched as she pulled on her skirt, and emotionless mask on her face as Kiki leaped onto the bed, claws extended, and landed on Pansy's chest, one paw at her throat. "Kiki doesn't like you." Kagome said casually, and Kiki growled in agreement. "I don't know why, but she really doesn't like you. The only reason she isn't tearing open your throat is because I'd get in trouble and she would get her claws dirty with your filthy blood." Kagome said, walking forwards, fully dress, with the exception of her robe. She opened her arms and Kiki leaped into them, claws still extended.
"Ha." Pansy muttered, glaring at Kagome. "She just clawed you, where's your big talk now?" the other girls remained quiet as Kiki crawled up to perch on Kagome's shoulders, her claws digging in.
Kagome rolled her eyes before moving her sleeve up to her elbow, showing pansy her arms. Bloody puncture marks were visible on her pale skin. Before pansy's eyes the holes grew smaller and soon disappeared, the only proof of them was the blood. Pansy gasped and then looked up at Kagome, horrified. "What are you!"
Kagome sighed and rolled her sleeve back. "Its called magic moron. I cast a spell somehow when ever I get hurt. Its why I'm at this school, so I can learn to control it." Kagome turned and walked away, Kiki glaring over her shoulder at all the girls they passed, her eyes glowing red.
Walking down a long hallway Kagome noticed that the boys were exiting their rooms as well. The light haired boy, the one she assumed was on the train, was just leaving his room when she walked out of their house portal.
~D~
Draco arched an eyebrow before motioning Crabbe and Goyle to follow him. An outraged yell made him pause and turn only to see Pansy walking out of the girl rooms, with her group of girls following behind her trying to calm her down. "Something wrong Pansy?" he asked calmly, his voice cold.
Pansy paused abruptly and turned to launch herself into him. "Oh Draco! Its horrible!"
Draco sighed and Goyle grabbed Pansy and pulled her off of him. Draco nodded to Goyle before looking at the pouting Pansy. "And what is so horrible?"
She glared and turned to fold her arms over her non-existent chest, and Goyle released her to wipe his hands on his pants. "It's that Higuarshi girl! And her damn cat!"
Draco blinked. "She has a cat?" he asked, his curiosity plainly visible.
"It's a demon!" one of Pansy's friends put in, and all the girls around them agreed. "It hurt Pansy!" One of them said, and Draco looked at Pansy with an arched brow.
"I don't see any blood." He said casually, but Pansy took affront.
"It tried to bite off my head, Draco!" Pansy exclaimed, her eyes wide and nose flared.
Draco chuckled at the image and soon he and all the boys were laughing. "Stop exaggerating!" he exclaimed, and all the boys agreed with him. "Cat's are weak little things! If her cat hurt you, then your nothing but a pussy pansy!" Derek said from beside Draco. Draco nodded in agreement to the head boy and walked past an outraged Pansy, smirking as the boys behind him started calling her "Pussy Pansy".
Once he and his two 'friends' were out of the house portal he looked around the dungeons. They had a nice appeal, dark and bare, but a confusing amount of turns and bends. "this way." He muttered before setting off down a hall. Goyle and Crabbe wordlessly followed him, making sure to stay far enough back.
Draco led them to the dining hall quickly. He was hungry and he had a feeling that, since the girls hadn't tried to kill the cat, that must mean Higurashi had it with her. He walked to their houses table, scanning it for the dark haired girl with blue eyes. He found her easily enough, but was disappointed that her cat wasn't with her, until her noticed a slight pinch in her shirt that refused to smooth down.
'What-' he thought, a confused expression on his face as he made his way to her. 'Is her cat…it is.' He gaped in shock as he realized that her cat was invisible. "How in the world…" he muttered, making his two lackeys look at him confused. 'Of course they haven't realized that her cat is still with her. Idiots.'
Draco looked up and down the table before deciding to sit across from her.
Kagome looked up in surprise as the boy she had been thinking about sat across from her. Kiki hissed but when Kagome shifted her shoulders she quieted down to a small meow of warning. While Kagome had somehow made her invisible, she had no idea how to make her mute. Mentally laughing at the image that presented Kagome blinked to focus on the boy.
"Hi." He said casually, reaching and grabbing a plate for his breakfast. "You caused a bit of a racket before you left the house room." He mentioned, and Kagome glared angrily.
"Well, she pissed me off." Kagome huffed and picked up a piece of bacon and bit off an end angrily. Draco chuckled making Kagome arch an eyebrow at him curiously. The two big boys on either side of him made him look smaller than he was, and Kagome got the distinct impression that they were guards. "So, you two his guards or something?" she asked, tilting her head much like a cat would do.
The three of them stiffened before Draco forced out a laugh. "No, they're my friends of course. We've known each other since childhood." Kagome nodded, though her doubts of this information was plain to see.
Draco determined that she had asked enough questions and instead decided to ask some of his own. "So, is your cat really a demon?" he asked, grabbing a piece of toast.
Kagome pulled back and snorted, almost an exact imitation of Pansy's laugh. "Hardly." She said, picking up a piece of toast herself and then putting some jelly on it. "She's a regular cat in my opinion. I'm sure you remember meeting her. It was you, right? The one who almost sat on me?" Kagome asked, biting into her toast.
He grinned and nodded. "She looked like a demon. She had red eyes." He said, putting raspberry jelly on his own toast before biting it, ignoring Crabbe and Goyle as they ate loudly beside him. Kagome sighed before standing.
"The lighting changes her eye color. But I have to go. The girl is here and I have no wish to be shrieked at by her." Kagome said biting her toast again and walking away, Kiki still invisible.
Draco watched her leave and noticed how, when the light hit her hair just right it shone blue. His eyes widened as she stopped to talk to a Gryffindor girl at the entrance of the great hall.
~K~
Kagome smiled as she spotted Hermione entering with two boys. "Hey." Kagome greeted, stopping and hugging her friend.
"Hey Kagome." Hermione greeted, hugging her back. "How is it in Slytherin?" she asked, wincing when she said the name.
Kagome frowned but smiled. She was about to answer when the two boys with Hermione interrupted her. "Hermione, what are you doing, talking to her!" the red headed boy asked, stepping forward and glaring at Kagome. "She's a slytherin! What are you thinking!" Kagome snorted and shook her head.
"And look!" she exclaimed, "Hermione is a Gryffindor!" she then turned a deadpan look on them. "So what? Whats the big deal?" She asked.
The red head gasped and then started waving his arms about, ranting about feuds and bad blood and hatred. Kagome sighed and turned away.
"I'll talk to you later Hermione. While you hold a good conversation, that one is nothing but a bumbling baboon." Hermione giggled and waved Kagome off, but there was a worried look in her eyes.
Within a few minutes Kagome was sitting down and waiting for her first class, potions, to start. Hermione was in this class, but she was sitting across the room, and Kagome really didn't want to get up and move. Draco sat beside her, and Kagome was tempted to start a conversation but then his two 'friends' sat beside them. From she guessed Crabbe was beside her and Goyle was beside Draco. She felt a tad uncomfortable and was about to stand to switch seats when a huge banging and a flourish of movement made her decide against it. 'Seems class is starting.' She thought with regret, watching as her houses head walked to the front, closing windows with his wand.
As he started talking about what they'd being doing in class, she noticed how he seemed to stare at their table. 'I guess it's easy to see he likes Draco.' She thought, and glanced at her neighbor out of the corner of her eye and noticed a small smile on his face. 'And the feeling is mutual.' She thought with amusement.
She huffed as he singled out one of Hermione's friends.
"Where would you look if I asked you to find a beasle?" Kagome frowned and searched her mind for the answer, annoyed that Hermione knew, but after a few minutes where the Professor asked more questions, she realized the answers.
"Does anyone know?" he asked after quizzing Potter.
Raising her hand Kagome ignored Draco looking at her in shock. Professor Snape looked at her and a gleam of satisfaction entered his eye. Ignoring Hermione he nodded to Kagome. "Yes, Ms. Higurashi?" he asked, and Kagome heard Hermione whine angrily, but she ignored it. "I know the answers to your questions, Professor." She said clearly, and noted with satisfaction that he was pleased with this information.
"Please, enlighten Mr. Potter then, Ms. Higurashi." He said, turning to walk back to the board. "If you add root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood you get a sleeping potion so potent it would almost kill you. A Bezoar is found by swamps hidden under lily flowers. If swallowed it nullifies any poison. And there is no difference between monkshood and wolfsbane. They are both from a sheeps stomach." Kagome finished, smiling as the professor nodded, satisfied.
"That is correct, Ms. Higurashi. Obviously someone has read her homework. Ten points to Slytherin." He said, then looked around. "Well? Why have none of you written this down?"
Kagome smirked and then wrote down what she said, while Draco and everyone else in Slytherin house smirked over at Potter. 'I don't get what the big deal is. But at least I got my house some points.' She thought with satisfaction. She felt a little worried that Hermione might be mad, but ignored it. She wouldn't get mad over something so trivial.
In that manner class passed, and Kagome sighed with relief as she walked to Transfiguration. From what she understood this one was mostly a writing class. The next few classes went by smoothly, but she never got the chance to talk to Draco. He sat by her in every class though, which freaked her out a bit.
As lunch came around she decided to skip it and head out to the courtyard instead.
Her next class would be out here, so she figured shed get used to it first. Kiki leapt off of her shoulder as soon as her feet touched the grass. "I almost forgot you were there." Kagome muttered, watching as Kiki's paw prints ran in circles on the grass.
Kagome waited patiently for a half hour and then smiled as their teacher came out. "Hello Mrs. Hooch" Kagome greeted, smiling as she greeted her back.
"Get to your broom. Everyone should be arriving soon enough." Kagome nodded and moved to a broom. Within moments she was joined by Draco and his two friends. Hermione glared at them before turning and talking to her two friends. Kagome rolled her eyes and watched as Mrs. Hooch walked down the line.
"Alright, everyone is here. I want all of you to choose the broom on your right. Stick out your right hand, and say 'UP' sternly." Kagome repeated the word and on her second try her broom shot into her and Kagome smiled as Draco's shot into his as well. Looking around she saw that everyone was having some trouble, but when the red haired boy got hit in the face she snickered softly.
Draco looked at her and she nodded to the red haired boy, and Draco joined in her humor as he got hit again by his broom.
"Alright, now straddle your brooms. When I blow my whistle you are to kick off the ground, hard. Levitate for a moment, then lean forward and touch back down gently." Kagome nodded to herself and straddled the broom, everyone copying her.
"Three, Two…" Kagome kicked off and hovered, but she dropped back down as a boy shot into the air.
"What the-" Kagome muttered, watching as he zipped around. "He's going to hurt himself." She whispered, but she quickly got off her broom as he started going towards them. She ran out of the way as he came towards them, watching behind him worriedly.
It ended quickly, he got caught on a point pole and his broom fell to the ground a yard or so away. "He's going to fall…" Kagome said, watching in fascination as he did just that, landing at an awkward angle on his wrist.
"Everyone out of the way!" Kagome watched with a frown as Mrs. Hooch ran to the boy.
"I think he needs to go to the hospital." She said to Hermione, whom she was standing beside.
"I don't think he's okay." Hermione whispered back, watching her friend worriedly.
Kagome went to follow them as Mrs. Hooch stood up, but Hermione grabbed her arm.
"Did you see his face?" Kagome looked around and saw that Draco had picked up….'A ball?'
Beyond confused Kagome blinked as Draco started a fight with Potter. "No, I think I'll leave it somewhere for Longbottom to find." He said, and Kagome watched as Draco kicked off the ground on his broom and zoomed into the air.
Kagome grunted and crossed her arms. 'If he wants to get expelled, let him.' She thought, only to be pulled from her thoughts by Hermione.
"Hermione. Let him do what he wants. He's going to wither you want him to or not." Kagome said, placing her hand on her friends arm gently. Hermione looked at her and it gave Harry the opportunity to get out of her grip and follow Draco into the air.
"I think he knows how to fly, by the way." Kagome said lightly, smiling as Hermione turned to glare at her.
"He's going to get in trouble!" she said angrily, and Kagome shrugged.
"Then it will be his own fault. It was his choice to follow Draco, not mine." Kagome looked up and watched as Draco threw the ball. "See? He's leaving so he wont be caught." Kagome said, then noticed that Draco was floating to the ground behind them as they watched Harry come back. Walking Kagome went to join him, the rest of the Slytherins already ahead of her.
"Nice throw Draco!" Pansy said, sidling up to Draco. Kagome sniffed and turned to walk away, deciding that since Mrs. Hooch left than that must mean class is over. She placed her broom on the ground and went to dinner, ignoring everyone.
{AN: ok, well that's it! I hope everyone enjoyed and that you PLEASE REVIEW! *grins*}
