AN: So I totally originally planned on doing Negi Springfield next, but then I wrote this in like one day after some inspiration! So I really hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I do not own the series, plot line, or characters from Harry Potter or Inuyasha.
Draco's Pen Pal
Hogwarts' Great Hall was bustling with students of all ages as they gathered for breakfast. Couples sat cuddling with one another to discuss future classes or the previous day. Owls flew in and out to deliver the latest news and messages to those expecting it.
Draco Malfoy sneered.
He hated mail time. Not even his own parents bothered to write him or send him packages of their own free will. They simply sent him to school with enough money and supplies so that he could simply buy what he wanted. Money was power after all.
When he was younger he was always jealous of those who got to write letters to friends and family. So when he was eight, he went through a muggle school program and found himself a pen pal. Her name was Kagome Higurashi and she lived in Japan. Her only shortfall was that she was a muggle.
To this random girl in Japan he could be anything and anyone. He could be the son of the richest person in the world, or the smartest person in all of London. He chose nothing and simply let her write whatever she wanted towards him, sending back short letters revealing very little about who he was.
Her letters were very long and very descriptive. He felt as if he knew every little thing about her. She described her mother, her brother Souta, her crazy grandfather that attempted to exorcize any of the houseguests that came to their shrine, and even their fat cat named Buyo.
She constantly included pictures in the letters she sent. She sent one every year, usually her school photos. He had to admit that for a muggle she was quite attractive. Her sapphire blue eyes always held his attention along with her dazzling smile.
Sending back pictures was rather difficult for him. He always had to find a muggle camera, for his parents would be furious if they found him keeping one, to take his picture. All the wizarding cameras took moving pictures, and he was ready to freak her out. But nonetheless he sent a new one every year.
He secretly kept all the letters and all the pictures she sent in an envelope hidden away in the trunk in his room. All were kept in order based on the date he received them. He always kept her latest photo in his robe pocket. They generally wrote one another every other month, so as not be too much of a bother, but deep down, he counted down the days until around the time he would usually hear back from her.
Through her he learned about muggle schools and traditions. As she entered into high school, he learned that she absolutely hated math, but had quite the love of history. He hated that there was a boy named Hojo that would hit on her and the three friends that tried to set her up with him.
He always made sure to write back with haste, to insure an equally swift reply. To her, he was a sweet gentleman that cared about everyone. She didn't know that his family was full of death eaters, or that an evil dark lord was on the rise as she happily went to school.
During his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he stopped receiving letters from her. He wondered if she finally realized having a pen pal at their age was stupid, or if she just didn't care anymore. But Kagome always cared. She cared about everyone and everything.
Truth be told, he cared about her. Through the letters and pictures they exchanged with one another over the seven years they'd written one another, he had fallen in love with the muggle girl. But he would make sure no one found out about it, not his parents, not Voldemort, especially not Potter and useless friends.
So the fact that he was now in his sixth year at Hogwarts and he had yet to hear from Kagome actually broke his heart deep down. He was devastated and was afraid to show it, fearful of anyone noticing.
He took most of his frustrations out on Harry Potter after he discovered the rat hiding out in their compartment on the Hogwarts Express under his invisibility cloak. After his friends left, he stunned Potter and proceeded to stomp on his face. Kagome would have been disappointed in his behavior. But he didn't care, because obviously she had forgotten about him.
Draco sat down at the Slytherin table and sat quietly as he waited for Crabbe or Goyle to get there. Even those brainless thugs were better than sitting by himself with just his thoughts.
Suddenly, a familiar gray owl landed in front of him with a large envelope in its beak. He looked around; making sure the letter was in fact for him and saw Potter and Weasley watching him at the Gryffindor table.
"Mum miss you already Malfoy?" Ron smirked.
"At least someone cares about me enough to write, Weasley." Malfoy was offended at how bad an insult Weasely threw at him. But it was to be expected.
He opened the envelope and dumped its contents onto the table. It was another envelope and a note that read: "This was at the house. – Mom"
He felt his heart skip a beat when he picked up the smaller envelope. The front was addressed to him from Kagome Higurashi. He stared at it a few minutes longer, debating on whether it was real or just a trick.
"So are you going to open it? Who's Kagome?" Theodore Nott had sat next to him without him realizing it and was already loading up his plate with food.
"Of course I'm going to open it you stupid git," he muttered. He gulped nervously as he opened the sleeve and pulled out two things. In front was a new picture of Kagome. She looked as gorgeous as ever, but her smile looked a little weak and her eyes seemed a little dull.
"She's hot," Theodore said loudly. He was always eavesdropping and nosing into other people's business.
Draco turned away from Nott so he could read his letter in privacy. It was on her usual stationary but this time it smelled… woodsy. It only contained one sentence: "Do you believe in demons, Draco?"
After a year, that was all she had sent him? He glanced at the picture. It wasn't full of life like all her other ones. It was as though she was missing a part of her soul. Had a dementor caught her?
He shook his head. Kagome was just a muggle. There was no way she could know about dementors or any magical thing. But then again, she had asked him that strange question about demons.
He immediately went through his bag and pulled out a small piece of parchment and a quill. Something had caused this change in her. He himself was a wizard, so who was he to deny the existence of anything else. He wrote back one word: Yes.
After attaching the parchment to his owl's leg he told it to just take it to her instead of putting in the mailbox. She might be a bit confused at first, but he needed to talk to her.
Now he waited. It had been a week since he replied to her letter. He wasn't sure how long it took an owl to travel to and from Japan but he was hoping it would return soon. She was his top priority right now despite the other things he needed to deal with in his life. He subconsciously touched his right forearm.
Sighing, he gathered his belongings together and slowly walked towards his Defence Against the Dark Arts class with Professor Snape. He had an announcement for the class and did not want to be late for his last class of the day.
Turns out he was the last one to arrive. He had been so lost in thought that he had taken a wrong staircase to the DADA tower, which caused him to be late. Snape frowned at him. "Thank you Mr. Malfoy for joining us. Please take a seat."
He dropped his stuff on the floor and sat next to his ex-girlfriend, Pansy Parkinson. She smiled at him, still obviously mooning over him. He rolled his eyes in response and listened to Snape.
"It is to my great displeasure, to announce that we have a new student arriving here by port key to the Forbidden Forest. Since you all received a score of Outstanding on your O.W.L.s for this course, we will all be making a quick lesson on the horrors of the Forest as we wait for Dumbledore to arrive with our newest addition." He sounded annoyed at their task.
The students whispered and chattered amongst one another as they walked as a group out of the castle and across the field toward the forest. Most of the students had never been in the forest before. Draco had the pleasure of getting partnered with Harry Potter and Hagrid's dog Fang the last time he was there.
The students cringed in fear as they passed by some of the creatures that resided there. He heard Weasle-Bee shriek in fear as they passed close by the colony of Acromantula.
Their class stopped when Professor Snape stopped. He stood still watching the small clearing in the forest, obviously uninterested in the lesson he described in the classroom. The class was starting to get anxious.
"Must be something special to be accepted in the middle of the year," Pansy said.
"Or absolutely brilliant," Hermione Granger responded obviously hoping for someone to be just as big of a bookworm as she is.
Draco hung near the back of the group unconcerned with the arrival of the new student. What did he care about yet another annoying person that was going to join this ridiculous school? Voldemort and the Death Eaters would just be taking over soon anyway. He wasn't excited about seeing Dumbledore either.
Their chatter was interrupted by a soft popping noise and what sounded like two sets of feet landing on the ground. Whispering started up once again.
"She's our age? This is ridiculous." Pansy sneered out.
"Yeah but she's foreign." Lee Jordan high-fived the boys around him.
Draco immediately turned around interested in their new student. His heart stopped when he saw the girl he thought only existed in the letters and pictures she sent him. Her sapphire eyes looked up and made eye contact with him.
"Kagome?" He whispered. All eyes in the class turned and looked at him, but theirs didn't matter, because hers were filling with tears. His mind stopped working and his body took over.
He ran to her. He wrapped his arms around her and she cried. She buried her face in his chest, and he ran his fingers through her ebony hair. Even in tears, she was the most beautiful girl in the world.
Draco kept his back turned to the class. But Dumbledore stood facing him. The headmaster smiled at Draco. The old coot had known about their pen pal relationship. But Albus Dumbledore knew everything.
Draco felt Kagome shift in his arms. He looked down at her where she met his eyes once again, tears still brimming from them. She weakly smiled up at him. "It's nice to finally meet you Draco. I see now why you were so discreet in your letters." Her English was good, but she still had a distinct accent.
"I'll never be discreet with you again. I'll tell you anything you want to know." He whispered softly to her.
Dumbledore stepped towards them. "Not to interrupt your chance meeting, but we have a special sorting ceremony to bring Miss Higurashi to."
Kagome immediately grabbed Draco's robes. He was glad to know that she didn't want to leave him. He was the only person she knew here after all. "I promise I will see you again really soon. We'll be going to school together now."
She smiled and let go of his robes. Reluctantly, he walked back over to the class where he was immediately bombarded with questions as they made their way towards the castle to get ready for dinner. But he ignored every single one of them.
In reality, Draco loathed leaving Kagome alone for even one minute. He was worried of all the people that might get to her and try to convince her of his evil status. Sure he had made some mistakes in the past, but he was ready to make some changes if he needed in order to keep her by his side.
His worst nightmare would be her getting sorted into Potter's house. If she were sorted into Gryffindor, they would surely tell her that all Slytherins were evil, including himself. Her being a muggle born almost insured that she would not be sorted into his own house.
His foot tapped anxiously against the floor as he sat in the Great Hall. All the students chattered amongst one another excitedly once again as they waited for Kagome's arrival. His back was turned to the Gryffindor table, but no doubt Potter was suspicious about his and her relationship with one another.
But since when did he ever give Potter any sort of explanation. Nor did he give one to his own house that continued to question how he knew the new student.
His head snapped to the front of the room when Dumbledore's amplified voice asked for everyone's attention. He was certain that the headmaster winked at him as he summoned for Kagome to join him at the front of the room.
"As most of you know by now, we have a new edition to our school. Due to some things she needed to get done up until now, she was unable to start at the normal age of eleven. Please welcome Kagome Higurashi to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."
Applause erupted throughout the Great Hall causing her to blush. He felt a small smile grace his facial features for the first time in a long time. She was absolutely adorable and acted almost exactly how he always imagined she would.
"Now then, let the sorting begin!" With a wave of his hand the sorting hat appeared on a stool in front of where she stood. She glanced around the room confused, and Dumbledore picked up the hat and indicated for her to sit down.
Hesitantly she did and he placed the hat on her head. Her eyes got wide in confusion as the hat undoubtedly began speaking to her, as it did to most students. Draco felt his foot speed up as his nervousness increased.
"GRYFFINDOR!" The hat bellowed out.
The announced table immediately began to cheer out loud. Kagome's eyes were fixed on him. She sat frozen on the stool knowing that since his table wasn't the one going ballistic, it wasn't his house she was sorted into.
The cheers died down when Kagome didn't happily go skipping over to their table. She was nervous. He could see it in the stiff way she continued sitting on the stool. Whispers began flying around the room.
Draco's eyebrow twitched in annoyance. He slammed his hands on the table and quickly stood up causing all eyes to go towards him. Walking as quickly as possible he made his way to Kagome and grabbed her hand.
"Draco, what are you doing?" She asked quietly. Her fingers interlaced with his nonetheless and she followed him down the aisle.
"Taking you to your table," he whispered back to her. He walked over towards where most the first years sat at the Gryffindor table. He glared at a couple of eleven year olds and they quickly scooted down the bench to clear some space.
Both Draco and Kagome sat down at the table and were surrounded by not only first years but everyone else's stares as well. He squeezed her hand reassuringly. "I know we've only really spoken through letters in the past, but I need you."
Draco looked into Kagome's eyes causing her to blush. "I've had an extremely rough and horrible past year Draco. That's why I never wrote. I need a new start." She looked up at him with hopeful eyes.
Draco leaned forward and gently kissed her on the forehead. "Me too, Kagome."
He never believed in fate, destiny, or anything really. But he needed a savior from being a Death Eater and she came in the form of a pen pal. She couldn't have come at a more perfect time.
For once he was truly happy and it was all thanks to Kagome Higurashi.
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AN: Thanks for reading guys. I've always loved the Draco/Kagome pairing. So I hope you read and review. Thanks!