NARU-NO-SLYTHERIN: A Sailormoon-Harry Potter crossover.
Disclaimer: Very few of the characters in this story are mine. The rights to characters in Sailormoon belong to their creator, Naoko Takeuchi.
The world of Harry Potter belongs to J K Rawling. The only ones that are mine are "Andrea MacRandall" and "Gruoch and Girric MacFergus".
Oosaka Naru, of Juuban District, Toyko, Japan, finds herself in a magical-school somewhere in Scotland! Her responce: "Why?"
Chapter 04: Meeting Spirits, Testing Spirits.
Naru could not help but feel a bit freer out in the open-air! Although she remembered the warning about the Forbidden
Forest from Orientation, she could not help but feel friendlier-spirits, here! The aura came not only from the animals, she
guessed, but - also - from the Half-Giant Teacher-Groundskeeper, Rubeus Hagrid.
It also helped that - to the surprise of many of Hogwrts' students (although, surprisingly, not to Hagrid) - Naru
came to the class barefoot! She explained to the Alytherins and Gryffendors present that it was a better way to communicate
with the Spirit of Hogwarts, the spirit of the land itself.
"'Ello, students!" The giant form (especially to Naru) boomed out in welcome. "Welcome t' day one of 'Care of Magickal
Animals'! I'm yiur teacher, Rubeus 'Agrid, an' this is where yiu'll learn about the livin' wonders of the magickal world.
This semester, WE are in for a real treat! A royal one, I'd say! A rare visitor from The East, though they 'ave been known
to wander 'ere, occasionally. Turn to page 435 in yiur Beastealogy, an' yiu'll meet yiur subject to the semester! Now, this
is the Kappah! It is said the firs' Kappah found there way to Europe with the Shaman o' the 'uns!"
After the half-giant continueded the introduction to the Kappah, Naru turned to page 435:
"Kappah.. kappah..."
Then, Naru looked up from her beastiary, and into the small pool in front of her:
"KAPPAH!"
In front of the young witchling, reaching no more than to her shin and knee, was a creature that looked like a strange
combination of frog and turtle, with long webbed hind legs and short but nimble-looking webbed forelegs, a turtle's head and
shell, and a strange, almost-dragon-like, tail!
"Bein' the water-sprites they are, Kappah 'ave been used t' protect from drownin' and t' protect from thirst. Conversely,
they 'ave been known to cause drownin'! Being water-spirits, they ARE known f'r bein' tempermental!"
"We... are.. just.. careful...", Naru thought she heard a slow, methodical voice speaking to her, "in... who...
we... put.. our... trust... in... yes..."
Naru opened her mouth to ask if anyone else had heard the slow-speaker, then, thinking better of it, closed her mouth!
"Arigatou... nisai... for... keeping... silence... descendent of... Oo.. sa.. kaaaa.. Aki.. yuki."
"You - knew - my hiijiji?" Naru whispered down to the small creature.
"Iyaa." The Kappah answered. "Jiisan... told meeee... taless... of... Mahau..tsukai... who.. went...
to... Bri.. tan... nia... long... ago.. hai... yourrrr.. aurrrraaaaaaaa.. is... remi.. niscient.. of...
ojisan's... pic... tures.. of.. Aki.. yuki... you... can.. not.. be... from... anyone.. else'.. egg.. yes..."
"Arigatou nisai, Kappah-Sama!" Naru smiled. "For remembering my family! Hai!"
"Searrrrch.. pouuuuch... Oooo.. sakaa.. sannnn..." The Kappah smiled like the Buddha. 'Hii.. jiji.. shaaaarrrred.. part..
of.. himssssellllf.. toooo.. younnnng.. A.. ki.. yu.. ki... yessss scaaaalllle frommmm .. shellll... why.. Iiii.. goooo..
wesssst... Fiinnnnd.. jisouuuu."
"Hai, Niisan!" Naru hissed and bowed sharply. "I will search!"
As class was ending, Naru reached into Akiyuki's pouch, the image of a shell-scale in her mind:
"Feel kappah. Smell kappah. Hear kappah. See kappah.."
The young witch suddenly felt s scale in her fingers and wrappped it safely in her hand. Then, wide-eyed, she
fought not to squeal too loudly - and disturbe the instructor - as she pulled out her treasure and showed it to
the kappah before her:
"Find kappah!"
"Hai.. friennnnd.. Oo.. sa.. kaaaa..." The kappah sniffed the scale. "Issss.. Hii.. jiji's... nowwww.. Iiii ..
give.. youuuu.. one.. of.. minnnne..."
Slowly, a shell-scale worked its way - by itself - off the back of the kappah, and into Naru's hand, joining
its elder.
And Naru placed both scales in the pouch.
"Beeee... safe.. Oo.. sa..ka... Sa.. maaaa... Goooo.. innnn.. peacccce..."
"Hai. Arigatounisai." Naru smiled. "Will see each other, again?"
"Weeee... shhhhaaallllllll." The kappah smiled, again.
After class, Naru and Andrea were walking back to the castle.
"Were you - talking - to your kappah, Naru-chan?" Andrea asked Naru.
"Only because it started to talk to me, first!" Naru nodded and smiled. "Hai."
"Did it know you, Oosaka-Sama?", Andrea asked, suddenly respectful of this girl who spirits seemed to converse
with.
"His Ojiisan - 'Grandfather' - knew my hiijiiji - 'Great-grandfather'! Hai." Naru then sing-songed. "Recognized
my aura from stories about hiijiji! Kukukuku."
After a quick mid-day meal, Naru raced-up to her dorm-room - then, raced down and out of the castle, broom over
her shoulder.
"Hooch-Sensei! Hooch-Sensei-Hooch-Sensei!" Naru huffed as she raced along the grounds.
"HOOCH-SENSEI!"
"And, welcome to the Quiddich-grounds, Naru Oosaka!" The old witch smiled. "You are on-time for your first-class
in flying! Out-of-breath, I see?"
"Hai." Naru panted. "Had to.. get my.. broom! Hai."
"And, why, pray tell the class," Hooch grinned, "was you broom still in your room?"
"I could not..", Naru explained as she sucked-in air, "afford to.. split attention.. between.. classes and broom! Hai."
"Good girl, Oosaka!" Hooch smiled. "Smart girl! Fifteen points for Slytherin!"
"Excuse me, Hooch-Sensei?" Naru dared to ask her teacher. "Why give us fifteen points?"
"Five points for remembering the bringing of your broom to class on the first day!" Hooch answered, trying not to giggle.
"COMMON first-day mistake among first-years!"
"Five points. Hai." Naru pondered. "Why other ten points?"
"For figuring-out WHY you keep your broom in your dorm until you need it BEFORE I have to teach it." Hooch growled.
"Class? Take notes, now! DESPITE what your elders MAY have told you over the years? BROOMS are sentient-beings! They
are not only an appendage of ours? They are, all too often, SOME witches' and wizards' most-INTELLIGENT appendage!
Ny the end of this class? We shall ALL know which is your smartest-member!" Hooch then gave an impish smile:
"Are you a flyer? Or a pedestrian?"
A minute later, Naru was standing at attention, trying to listen to Hooch' instructions AND the semi-combative spirit
of her broom:
'Iyaa!' Naru tried to keep herself under control. 'Why are you acting like you want to KILL me, broomstick? It is
because I am not western-witch?! Gomennisai. I am just jisou-no-sennin! I was only told to listen to spirits, NEVER told
to conquer them. So? Why do you fear me, so, that you feel need to toss me into open-air?'
Naru then stretched out her mind - as she could - to join her brooom's sentience:
'I will not harm you. Iyaa. We are upposed to be friends, I feel?'
A minute later, Oosaka Naru was straddling her broom, and balancing herself as they rose above the quiddidge-field:
'Have NEVER felt like this, before!' Naru thought as she cruised around the field. 'Like bird.. or, like wind! Hai!"
Then, instinctively, Naru began to feel the air - the winds - around her:
"Into... traffic? I think?" Naru spoke, then looked cautiously to her sides and glanced in back of her. "Traffic almost
as bad as in streets of Tokyo! Hai. Not ready to speed up, iyaa. If I move wrong? Injured by flying-broom! Ara..."
Oosaka Naru then closed her eyes, spread out her arms like the wings of a crane,and listened to her broom.
Then, she gracefully lifted her wrists and forearms:
"Arise."
Then, about fifteen feet above the other flyers, Naru linked with her broom - and sped-up!
"Welcome to the skies, Maru-chan!" Andrea McRandal giggled as she flew next to Naru. "Care to pick up the pace?"
Soom. two friends were laughing and playing tag as they flew around Hogwarts' quiddich-field.