Raised by a Kami

Sigh. Another long day of boring reality. A nice trip to the park would be nice. And there I'll find my friend shouting at and my friend laughing her head off at the scene. Sigh. I hate you God.

Please note that I do not own Harry Potter or Petshop of Horrors. Cause if I did, Sirius and Dumbledore would not be dead and the poor souls of the magical world would run for their lives when they saw my crazy friend.

"………" talking

'………' thoughts

"……." Parseltongue

/ ………/ Chinese

……… Japanese

Chapter Three

Haru was sitting in a compartment near the end of the train that was taking him to Hogwarts. Reading Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander, Haru made sure that Kira, the King Cobra, wasn't trying to eat Trevor the toad that had been hiding in the compartment from his owner. Haru was wearing a grey and smoky blue kimono-like cheongsam with white cherry blossoms embroidered onto it in painful detail and grey and smoky blue slippers with it, leaving his hair to be braided all the way down.

Ame, the Iriomote Wildcat, was sleeping peacefully with her head on his lap as he ran his free hand through her hair. Ame, in the eyes of D and Haru, was a Japanese beauty. She had dark blue eyes with slitted pupils and long black hair that was either tied in a braid or left loose and her ears were pointed and furred. She wore a light blue kimono that had silver snowflakes embroidered onto it with a dark blue sash and light blue socks.

Kira looked like an American despite the fact that he came from Africa. He wore black leather pants with a brown sleeveless leather jacket with black army-like boots that had silver buckles on the outside. Kira had yellow, slitted, slanted eyes with shoulder length dark brown hair that was tied back leaving some to hang in front of his face and patches of scales on his bare arms and on his revealed chest.

He was currently trying, unsuccessfully; to get Trevor to understand that being eaten by him would be the easiest and most painless way of going to Heaven. Trevor merely replied that he was not as dense as he believed him to be.

Trevor had pitch black eyes and green hair that was so dark that it looked black with a dark green tinge. He wore the Australian fashioned light blue board shorts that had a wide white stripe on either side with thin dark blue strips on the edges along with a black t-shirt and sandals on his webbed feet.

"Come on," whined Kira as Trevor glared at him. "It ain't gonna hurt. Just a lil' prick with me fangs and ya off ta Heaven." Trevor's glare upped another notch. "Hell no dammit!" snapped Trevor in a strangely Australian accent despite his origins from England. "Even if Heaven's as good as you said it is, I ain't gonna be eaten by some bloody snake!" Kira then pouted in disappointment as he folded his arms like a petulant child.

Ame opened an eye and glanced at the sulking Kira. "Baka," muttered Ame as she closed her eye again and went back to sleep as Kira gave an indignant cry. Haru chuckled in amusement as he scratched a spot behind Ame's ear that made her purr.

There was a knock on the door of the compartment and the round-faced boy that Haru, his father, Ame and Kira saw on the platform came in. he looked tearful but his tears disappeared when he saw Trevor on the seat opposite to Kira. "TREVOR!" cried the boy as he hugged Trevor fiercely. Trevor sighed in resignation as his owner hugged him even though to anyone looking through the door, the boy was really only holding the toad close to his chest.

Haru smiled slightly as the boy turned to him with grateful eyes. "Thank you so much," said the boy with a thankful smile. "I thought I had lost him." Haru marked his page before responding. "Not at all," murmured Haru as he looked up again. "I'm Haru and you are?" queried Haru curiously. The boy smiled sheepishly as he realised he had forgotten to introduce himself to the 'girl' in front of him.

"I'm Neville. Neville Longbottom," he said as he held out a hand for Haru to shake. Haru took the proffered hand and shook it. "Nice to meet you Mister Longbottom," said Haru sincerely as Ame yawned and stood up to stretch before sitting on her haunches. Neville suddenly gasped as he remembered something.

"I'm sorry but I have to go," said Neville as he turned to leave. "A girl was helping me look for Trevor and I need to go and tell her that I found him." Haru merely nodded as Kira watched mournfully at his lost meal. "See you at the feast then," said Haru with a mysterious smile on his lips. "Oh, if you want Trevor to stop running away, I would suggest that you don't pet him between the eyes and to not rub his stomach, especially if you don't want him to upend his last meal, again." Neville gaped at the still smiling Haru as Kira and Ame snickered silently.

Haru then blinked innocently. "Don't you have to find someone Mister Longbottom?" questioned Haru with such child-like innocence that Neville snapped out of his daze and thanked Haru hurriedly before running out, closing the door after him. Kira and Ame then started laughing as Haru opened his book again. "You just love messing with the minds of humans don't you Haru-kun?" remarked Ame as she took out her fan from a hidden pocket in her sleeve and snapped it open.

Kira grinned ferally at Ame. "Why wouldn't he?" said Kira as he crossed his long legs. "They abandoned him in an alleyway to die, starve or be picked up by creepy old men with strange sexual tas-Aak!" Was what Kira cried when Ame hit him with her fan, her metal-ribbed, lady fan. "What was that for!" shouted Kira as he held his head with tears of pain leaking from his eyes.

Ame glared at him. "For being a bigger baka than I gave you credit for," was what Ame said as she opened her fan again and fanned her face gently. Kira's eye twitched as he glared at the wildcat that ignored him. Haru watched this all from his seat near the window with mirth in his eyes. He then looked out of the compartment window.

The sun shined merrily as some clouds drifted by quickly. "Such nice weather today," murmured Haru as Ame and Kira traded insults in the background. "Perfect for some late afternoon fun." Ame and Kira heard and their eyes flickered over to Haru who now had a slightly sadistic smirk on his face. Ame smiled slightly despite the feral glint in her eyes and Kira gave a feral grin, showing off sharp teeth and small notches where his fangs were. "Definitely," said Kira as he rubbed his hands together.

The rest of the trip was peaceful, interrupted only around half-past twelve when there was a great clatter outside the compartment. A smiling, dimpled woman slid back the door and said "Anything off the trolley, dear?" Haru was about to say 'no' when he saw all the different types of sweets, candy and chocolate on said trolley.

With hearts in his eyes and a happy smile, Haru said 'yes' quickly and pulled out his money pouch as he stood up. Looking at all the different sweets, Haru decided to buy double of everything so that he could send half to his father and keep the other half for himself. Hoping that Hedwig had made it safely to Hogwarts, Haru munched on the candy happily as Ame and Kira sorted the Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans into two piles and made sure to put the normal flavours and non-meat ones in one pile, leaving the rest to be thrown into the nearest bin.

The sky soon grew dark and Haru got up to change. Taking down his trunk with the help of Kira, Haru opened his trunk and pulled out a black robe before placing all his candy in neatly. Soon a voice echoed through the train. "We will be arriving at Hogwarts shortly. Please leave your luggage on the train; it will be taken to the school separately."

Closing his trunk, Haru carefully placed Kira on his shoulders and Ame stood up and followed Haru out of the train as it stopped at the station. As they stepped out of the compartment, they were soon overwhelmed by the moving crowd in the corridor. Though many had stopped to let Haru go first, smiling charmingly, since they wanted to get on the good side of the pretty 'girl'. However they paled when they caught sight of Kira staring at them with his unblinking yellow eyes.

Ame and Kira snickered silently as Haru gave them a charming, if empty, smile in return. Sweeping away from the dazed boys, Haru went onto the small platform as Ame followed at his heels, weaving expertly through the legs of the many students there. The masses unconsciously made a pathway for him as he walked, or glided in the view of some, down the platform.

Then a lamp came bobbing over the heads of the students and Haru, Ame and Kira head a booming but kind voice. "First years! First years here!" A large man with wild black hair that covered half his face, leaving only the top half of his face showing small black beetle-like eyes. Haru, Ame and Kira could easily tell that the man wasn't fully human. "Ready? Right, follow me- any more first years? Mind your step now! First years follow me!"

Slipping and stumbling, except for Haru, they followed Hagrid down what seemed a steep, narrow path. It was quite dark though should anyone look near Haru, they would see three pairs of glowing eyes. The turned round a bend and got their first glimpse of Hogwarts. There was an exaggerated noise of amazement which caused Haru to sigh slightly at the simple minds.

"No more than four to a boat!" Hagrid called, pointing to a fleet of little boats by the shore. Haru decided to follow Hagrid into the same boat as Neville followed. A girl with bushy hair had followed Neville but had to leave to sit with someone else as Hagrid had taken half of the boat space. Ame leapt onto Haru's lap after he sat down and Kira was staring at Neville's pocket since he could taste Trevor there.

"Everyone in?" shouted Hagrid as the boat sank before bobbing up again. "Right then-FORWARD!" the little fleet of boats all moved at once across the expanse of the lake, reflecting the view of the castle and the starry night sky. Everyone was silent as they stared at the looming castle. Haru merely looked at it with slightly glazed eyes as he heard the whispers of Nature call to him.

Kira and Ame made sure that no one noticed as Haru listened to the advice that was given to him. He ducked before Hagrid gave the warning. And as they went through a curtain of ivy, no one noticed the plant move slightly to caress Haru gently and the gentle smile that Haru had on their face. They were all to busy gazing at the dark tunnel that they were taking which seemed to go under the castle itself.

Hagrid checked the boats as people were coming out of them before they climbed up a passageway in the rock after Hagrid's bobbing lamp. They soon reached onto a stretch of smooth damp grass right in the shadow of the great castle. They walked up a flight of stone steps and crowded around a huge front door made of oak and iron hinges.

"Everyone here? Good." Hagrid said before raising a gigantic fist and knocked on the castle door three times. The door swung open at once to reveal a tall, black-haired witch in emerald-green robes. She had a very stern face and Haru knew that she was not one to cross. Haru also noticed a strange type of aura around her. "She smells of felines," murmured Ame from his arms as Kira gagged slightly. "I can taste it from here man," grumbled Kira as he had his arms around Haru's shoulders. "It reeks." Ame's eye twitched. Suddenly, Kira had another bump on his head as Ame held onto her fan. "Baka yarou," muttered Ame as she put away her fan again. "Don't insult my family."

"The first years, Professor McGonagall," said Hagrid. McGonagall nodded sharply. "Thank you, Hagrid. I will take them from here." She then pulled the door wide to reveal an entrance hall so large you could almost fit the whole pet-shop in it. The stone walls were lit with flaming torches but their natural light couldn't reach the darkness above the ceiling which was too high to make out. In front of them was a magnificent marble staircase leading to the upper floors.

They followed McGonagall across the flagged stone floor to a small empty chamber off the hall. Haru's ears pricked up slightly when he passed a doorway to his right, hearing the drone of hundreds of voices in the room. McGonagall opened the door and the new students crowded in, huddling together closer than they would have usually. But Haru made sure to stay away from them, lest they annoy either Ame or Kira into attacking them.

"Welcome to Hogwarts," began McGonagall. Haru then drifted off as he looked around him, petting Ame as he did so. He only came to focus when McGonagall had reached the ending of her speech.

"The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting." Her eyes lingered for a moment on Neville's cloak, which was fastened under his left ear, and a smudge on a red-headed boy's nose.

"I shall return when we are ready for you," said the professor. "Please wait quietly." When she left the chamber, the others all started talking at once. Haru sighed silently again. 'So loud,' he thought as he gazed around the room. They all sound like a bunch of monkeys from the shop. muttered Haru in Japanese as he stroked Ame. Ame meowed in agreement as her tail waved back and forth. Haru never noticed all the looks he got, most were in awe of how he could look so regal without effort and the strange mysterious air he had around him.

Haru noticed that Neville had fixed his cloak and was moving towards him. He gave him a small smile. "Hello again Longbottom-san," said Haru as nodded in greeting. Neville smiled back. "Hi Haru," replied Neville, not noticing all the jealous looks. "Thanks again for finding Trevor for me."

"Not at all," murmured Haru as Ame wriggled slightly out of his arms and leapt lightly onto the floor before weaving in and out of Neville's legs, purring. Neville smiled and crouched down to scratch her behind the ears. Suddenly there was a shadow and Haru and Neville looked from their respective positions to see the red-haired boy.

Haru raised an eyebrow. "How may I help you Mister…?" trailed off Haru, giving the boy a chance to introduce himself. "Ron Weasley," said the boy as he attempted to give a charming smile. Kira lifted his head as Ame flexed her paws. "What's your name, my lady?" Haru's eye twitched as he glared at Ron. Trevor pooped his head out from Neville's pocket to watch the show.

"First of all," began Haru icily, still smiling though in a more sinister manner, as the chatter stopped and everyone turned to watch the event unfold. "Name is Haru. Second of all, I am a boy; as such I am not called 'lady'. Thirdly, you really should learn to not judge a person by their looks alone Mister Weasley." The boy, Weasley, went red and opened his mouth to speak when McGonagall came back.

"Move along now," she said in a sharp voice. "The Sorting Ceremony is about to start." She glanced suspiciously at Weasley before addressing them. "Now, form a line," said McGonagall to the first years. "And follow me."

Haru calmly picked Ame up before getting in line behind a boy with sandy hair with Neville behind him. They went out of the chamber, back across the hall and through a pair of double doors into the Great Hall. Haru was mildly impressed with the place as Ame and Kira decided to leave now. With Kira around her, Ame leapt down and hid underneath the nearest table which happened to be full of Slytherins.

McGonagall led them up to a long table that was placed in front of four long tables, so that they came to a halt in a line facing the other students with the teachers behind them. Haru glanced up at the ceiling and saw the starry night sky looking back down at him. He then glanced at the professor as she silently placed a four-legged stool in front of the first years. On top was a pointed wizard's hat, which was patched, frayed and extremely dirty. To his amusement, the hat twitched slightly before a rip near the brim opened wide like a mouth. It then began to sing.

Haru then drifted off as the hat sung about the four houses, only coming back to focus when the whole hall applauded as it bowed to each of the four tables before becoming still again. Haru heard Weasley mutter "So we just have to try on a hat! I'll kill Fred, he going on about wrestling a troll." Haru mentally shook his head at the gullibility of the Wizarding world. Not to mention their strange obsession with hogs and their idiotic racism and prejudice.

McGonagall then stepped forward holding onto a long roll of parchment. "When I call your name, you will put on the hat and sit on the stool to be sorted," she said. "Abbott, Hannah!" A pink-faced girl with blonde pigtails stumbled out of the line and put on the hat as she sat down on the stool, the hat covering her eyes. A moment's pause-

"HUFFLEPUFF!" shouted the hat. A table to the right cheered and clapped as Hannah went to join the Hufflepuff table. Harry saw a ghost of a monk wave happily at her.

"Bones, Susan!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!" Then Susan scuttled off to sit next to Hannah.

"Boot, Terry!"

"RAVENCLAW!" The table next to Hufflepuff clapped this time and several Ravenclaws stood up to shake hands with Terry as he joined their table.

'Brocklehurst, Mandy' went to Ravenclaw too, but "Brown, Lavender' became the first Gryffindor. The table next to the Ravenclaws exploded with cheers and Haru could see the twins that helped him earlier catcalling. 'Bulstrode, Millicent' became the first Slytherin and Haru studied the house under Snape's care. They looked unpleasant but he could tell that it was only a mask. After all, he and his father wear mask when dealing with most humans anyway. The Sorting went on as the group became smaller and smaller.

Haru noticed that the hat sometimes shouted the house at once and sometimes it would take a while to decide. The sandy-haired boy that was in front of him, 'Finnigan, Seamus', took a whole minute before going to Gryffindor.

Then a 'Granger, Hermione', was called and Haru remembered that her family had bought a talking cockatiel from them earlier this year. She almost ran to the stool and jammed the hat on eagerly. "GRYFFINDOR!" shouted the hat as Weasley groaned. Then Neville was called and Haru smiled at him encouragingly and he smiled back. When the hat was placed onto his head, it took a long time before calling out 'GRYFFINDOR'. Haru had to laugh when Neville ran off with the hat before, running back, amid gales of laughter, to give it to 'MacDougal, Morag'.

Haru zoned out again as the Sorting went on, the group now losing more and more people. He snapped out of it when McGonagall announced his name. "Potter, Haru!" as Haru stepped forward, he could hear the awed and confused whispers.

"Potter, did she say?"

"Isn't his name Harry?"

"The Harry Potter?"

The last thing Haru saw before the hat covered his vision was the shocked looks of Neville and Weasley and the encouraging looks of Ame and Kira. He then saw the blackness inside the hat and waited.

"Hmm," said a small voice in his ear. "I must say that it has been some time since I have ever met anyone who was raised by D." Haru nodded mentally. "You mean my grandfather from the thirteenth century? He only adopted some half veelas when their mother died from depression at having betrayed her unfound mate." Haru felt the hat nod approvingly. "You know your family history well," replied the hat. "And since you are the adopted son of the youngest D and can see all of Nature as your father and ancestors have, you may call me by my true name, Maximillion." Haru mentally bowed his gratefulness.

"Thank you for allowing me this honour," said Haru mentally to Maximillion. "But can you sort me now please? The masses are getting restless." Maximillion chuckled in his ear. "Very well then," he said. "Since you seem to be a more like your adopted ancestors than your biological ones, it better be SLYTHERIN!" Maximillion shouted the last word as the hall fell silent in shock. "Good luck and good bye Haru," said the hat as Haru gave the same reply before taking the hat off.

No one reacted as Haru walked calmly to the Slytherin table where Ame and Kira were waiting for him. Then, the Slytherins that were already seated threw their composure and cheered. Haru glanced up to see Snape staring at him, before he gave him a small nod. Haru returned it before smiling slightly at his house mates. The last three people were finally sorted, 'Turpin, Lisa' became a Ravenclaw, Weasley a Gryffindor and the final Slytherin, a Blaise Zabini sat on the other side of Haru.

Haru petted Ame as he ignored the Headmaster when he stood up to give a message to the whole Hall. He snapped out of it when the Headmaster mentioned a Forbidden Forest near the castle. 'I wonder what creatures I will be able to find there,' thought Haru as he petted Ame absently. 'Maybe some of the people there would like to come to the shop.' Haru came out of his daze when he heard the last words of the Headmaster as the table was suddenly ladened with food. "Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"

Haru glanced at one of the older years. "He doesn't happen to have a mental illness does he?" asked Haru as he raised an eyebrow. "Maybe schizophrenia?" The boy shook his head. "Mental illness? Maybe. Mad? Definitely." Said the boy with confidence. "I'm Marcus Flint by the way; I'm captain of our Quidditch team." Haru nodded in greeting. "Nice to meet you Flint-san," murmured Haru as Ame pooped her head up over the table. "As you heard earlier, I am Haru Potter, and this is Ame and Kira." Haru pointed to the respective owners of said names.

"Please refrain from annoying Kira," began Haru as his other house mates stared at him for talking so calmly with a king Cobra around his shoulders. "While he can not bite anyone and pump them full of poison since he promised tou-san he wouldn't, I'm sure he isn't beneath snapping at you with his other teeth. And please do not insult Ame since she will gladly claw any bit of flesh she can get her paws on regardless of whether you're friend or foe."

Haru then turned to eat his meal in silence as his house mates chatted lightly around him. Ame and Kira merely talked as they ate, telling him what they could smell off of his house mates while they were hiding under the table. Haru then noticed a cold presence next to him and looked up. He saw the ghosts of what looked like a man from the medieval ages. He had blank staring eyes, a gaunt face and robes stained with silver blood.

/It's been some time since I've seen any child of D come to Hogwarts/ said the ghost in an older version of Chinese, surprising most of the Slytherins. Haru merely gave him a small smile. /I am merely an adopted child sir/ said Haru as Ame tilted her head. /The last ones you saw were most likely my half veela ancestors./ The ghost nodded thoughtfully. /Well, should you need my help call my name/ said the ghost. /It is Raphael. But most call me the Bloody Baron./ The Bloody Baron then went off, leaving Haru to deal with shocked students. Raising an eyebrow, Haru ignored them and went back to eating as Kira and Ame stared at them unblinkingly. Haru mentally sighed as he drank some soup. 'It's going to be a long year.' Thought Haru tiredly as the chatter built up again, allowing him to eat quietly.

Sigh. Sorry for the lame ending. I didn't know how ta end it so I left it there but in the next chapter it will start off with the next morning. Until then, ja ne.