Hakubi Potter Harry
Disclaimer & Author's Note: I do not own the Harry Potter franchise, or the Tenchi Muyo! series, or any possible characters from any of their spinoffs. I also do not own any mentionings of anime and mangas that may pop up here, as well as Japanese songs from around the 90s era. Also, any mentionings of video game titles and/or references, I do not own, either.
Chapter Ten
"Aha! I finally got it to work!" announced Washu, as she had used Harry's computer (after storing every single bit of data on its hard drive), to create a world scanner using the satellites of today, one she has hidden in space, and then the scanner she had fused with the new one. Basically, this machine would be able to detect any Soul Fragments within the vicinity of the detected item of interest. And right now...
"And it looks like we have found one already... strange... it's inside the school," she murmured, looking at the screen inside her room. One was directly over Hogwarts, and there were a couple more signatures, one of which was moving.
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Harry grumbled, as he left McGonagall's class. Just because he was five minutes late doesn't mean he had to serve three night's detention. That was just absurd. Then again, the rules at the school were a bit different than Imperial. Oh well. Suck it up and get used to it... that and the whispers from Hogwarts' majority of the student body. Thanks to Daphne, he managed to hear the latest batch of rumors, and most of them came from Ravenclaw, by some Chinese witch named Chang Cho.
"Dementor hybrid, my ass," he muttered. If he was a Dementor hybrid, he would be expelling the coldness of a Dementor's aura every waking moment. Only a few younger students wanted to see him fly, but he didn't allow them the privilege. And once again, he had to defend Luna from a group of Ravenclaw students who tried to bully her. All we can say is that the five boys found their wands lodged right up the rear ends in a dark dingy corner of the dungeons.
As Harry turned the corner, he bumped into Remus.
"Oh, sorry Harry," he said.
"It's okay... I was just deep in thought," he replied.
Then he remembered something.
"Oh yes, I forgot... I promised that I would help you tame your inner wolf," he said, before grabbing the man's wrist and dragging him off towards Gryffindor Tower.
"Wait, what?"
Remus had also somewhat forgotten about the whole deal with his werewolf curse.
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"But you are the one in control, Lupin-sensei," Harry explained to Remus once they arrived at Gryffindor Tower, and in his dorm's living room, "you are the human, the dominative side. You must make the wolf the submissive side. Assert yourself and your authority. Stand up to the curse, and its urge to control your basic motor functions. Only then can you be in control of the wolf."
"But Harry..."
"No. I won't take no for an answer. Now, I will keep track of the moon phase, and tomorrow will be the full moon. So we will start there by negating your potion intake. I didn't wish to show my other magical skills, but you saw it as well as Black-sensei did," Harry told the panicking man, "so again, I will not take no fo ran answer."
I could just let Kaasan take Remus back home, lock him up in the lab, and let her have fun messing with his DNA, but even that would be too messy, and a werewolf curse on a human is still something we haven't begun to tackle.
Then Harry had a thought play in his mind. Remus was strapped to a steel gurney in Washu's lab, and he was panicking, trying to break free from the titanium restraints. The man's face paled as Washu then walks up to him, and laughing as she brings up a chainsaw-
"Harry?"
"Eh?"
"You spaced out there for a bit," said Ayeka, "Lupin-san had left while you were spacing out," she informed the teen.
"Oh... hm, just had this weird thought of Washu standing over Remus, who's strapped down, with a bloody chainsaw."
She sweatdropped.
"Oh Ayeka?"
"Yes, Harry?"
"When do you have to leave again?"
She sighed. "Tomorrow. My family, mother especially, is visiting, so I must return to greet her. Sasami is reluctant on leaving you though," she chuckles a bit, "but mother misses us much."
Harry grinned. "I know. Do give her my regards," he tells the Juraian Princess, as he left. Ayeka sighed.
"I will, Harry," she said quietly, I wonder what Tenchi is doing right now? she thought.
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In Japan, Tenchi sneezed as he was helping Yosho with preparing for their guests' arrival (Tenchi had left an hour after the first task was concluded).
"Tenchi," called Yosho, "are you okay?"
"Yeah. I'm fine, grandfather," he replies.
Wonder who's thinking of me, he thought.
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Ryoko, Ayeka, Washu, Mihoshi, and Kiyone all sneeze.
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The next morning after a stressful yesterday after the first task (and struggle with Remus after his transformation), Harry woke up to a near empty private dorm room. Ayeka and Sasami had left to return back to Japan, to properly greet their visiting family at home where Tenchi was for the rest of yesterday. His mother currently was off gallivanting across the country with Ryoko and Minagi (having left somewhere in the middle of night when the school and visitors were asleep), and he knew that Kiyone and Mihoshi were still on some undercover assignment for the Galaxy Police. Haku's father requested to return home after being able to spend some time with his daughter, and Yumiko-sama provided the man with Portkey transportation as she did with Tenchi.
The altered dorm room remained the way it was after Washu's tampering of the room's dimensions. Luna moved into Ayeka's bedroom for the time being, and Daphne and Tracey were getting harassed more and more by their own house, that they sought refuge elsewhere. Like he and Haku granting Luna asylum in their presence, they were granted the same privilege despite a few Gryffindors saying that they did not belong in their common room (i.e. Ronald Weasley and a few other guys). Grabbing spare clothes, a towel and his bath robe, the teenager left his room and towards the bathroom. And after his shower, he decided that he will deal with making breakfast. He didn't feel like going all the way to the Great Hall just to eat.
As the bathroom door closes shut, Haku entered the living room with a soft yawn escaping her. He blinked sleepily when she heard music coming from the bathroom. Then she remembered the title of the song and its music. Karupii! was one song off the new hit music CDs from Juraian space that Harry ordered online through Washu's computer. In fact, there were quiet a few Gryffindors outside in the common room that jumped when the loud beat of the song began to play from the waterproof-runed stereo Harry had in the bathroom. With the shower head spraying the hot cascade down on him, Harry was smiling. And when the lyrics start up, he sang along to the song, prompting Haku to giggle at Harry's singing.
DEETO no owari sabishii kaerimichi
Modotte konai konyaku no aji
Kinyou no yoru uPUnushi ga kiiteru RAJIO wo kiita
KalP wa nozomi
Jikan no muda ka, nanimo umaranai
Dainasoo hadeni abarete!
Maguro *karupii
Kyou mo oyoguyo
Nozomi *karupii
Hageshi deshou?
Sabishisa wo keshite! Wasuresasete!
Kimi ga inai koto
Sakana taberu
Kimi ga suki nya
Sake ni makenu otoko no ko ne!
Hitori ni shinaide donna toki mo
Omou no yo! Aitai nya!
And as Harry would continue to sing in the shower, Daphne and Tracey walk into the living room of the separate dorm room (which had surprised them when they came to Harry the first time around. Hey, you'd be surprised too if you discovered a broom closet held a living room, mini kitchen, bathroom with working plumbing, and several bedrooms with one room baring an onsen--minus one hot-springs flying turtle).
"... Is that Harry singing?"
"Yup. He likes to sing sometimes. Whenever I would come to his house during the summer months, I would sometimes hear him sing to some of his favorite songs. Though lately he has been getting interested in this band called Daft Punk."
The two girls both wondered what kind of musical group would be called Daft Punk.
"You know, I really expected to wake up back in Slytherin Tower, expecting this to be but a dream," said Tracey, sitting down and accepting the cup of green tea that Haku had brewed. Daphne was adding a bit of sugar to her tea, and Haku returned to her seat after pouring her own cup.
"Harry sounds a bit good," Tracey spoke.
"He does best at Karaoke," Haku replies with a shrug, and sips her tea.
"Muggles come up with the weirdest music," Daphne admits.
Haku giggled. "We have a wide range of musical genre if you give them a chance. I mean, sure the Weird Sisters are good and all, but they haven't got much flavor according to most wizarding music critics in Japan and China."
Now the music had changed to its next track: Issho Janai...
Harry had stop singing by now.
"So, are we going to the Great Hall for breakfast?"
"Nah. If I know Harry, he'll just want to cook breakfast on the stove. Just wait until he's out of the shower," Haku told the two girls, who remained sitting drinking the tea slowly.
"He can cook?"
"Yeah. He's a good enough chef in the kitchen, though most of the culinary arts come from Sasami. Now she cooks and bakes the best food."
The three sat, just making small conversation, before eight minutes later Harry stepped out of the bathroom. The steam from the shower wafted out into the cooler room and Harry, all robed, was drying his wet hair with his towel. Daphne blushed when she saw Harry's light muscled frame which was exposed partly.
Oh Merlin, I wan to run my hands over his chest, she thought.
Haku smiled to herself. And I get to be by that everyday, she thought with a mischievous grin replacing her warm smile, with ecchi thoughts emerging forth.
Tracey herself was surprised. Only those who played Quiddich would, somehow, get good looking muscles like that. But most of the Slytherin boys on the Slytherin Quiddich team seem to have family traits that would otherwise clash with their personality and ideal looks... that and she didn't find any guy from Slytherin attractive. But, upon seeing Harry... well... her mind betrayed her with some rather provocative images.
Harry, oblivious to the looks, looked up after running his damp towel through his now drying hair, and slinging it around the back of his neck. "So... Haku, can you take out the bread, milk, and eggs for me, please? Oh, and don't forget the chesses."
"Sure, Harry-kun," she said, getting up as Harry retreats to his bedroom to get dressed. Taking a glance at Harry before he disappeared beyond the hallway, she focused on bringing out the requested items from the refrigerator.
In his room, Harry looked to his communicator that was beeping silently. He grabbed it, and straps it to his wrist before pressing down a button.
"Kaasan?"
"Harry, took you awhile. I was trying to contact you for five minutes."
"Oh. Hi Ryoko. Sorry I was in the bathroom," he apologized, "What's wrong?"
"Nothing too serious," she told her adopted brother, "But you wouldn't believe the trouble we went through to get these soul fragments… sheesh."
"What happened?"
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Haku looked over as Harry walked back into the main dorm room.
"Something wrong?" she asked, seeing the bit of concern on Harry's face.
"Nothing much. Just a message from Ryoko. The family will be back in Japan and will return in time for that Second Task."
Haku nodded, knowing there was more than meets the eye. He would tell her later. Harry went on with cooking breakfast. They were simple egg omelets with shredded cheddar, provolone, and swiss with a dash of bacon bits, salt, pepper, with some diced tomatoes, green pepper, and minced onion. Daphne and Tracey were both floored by the deliciousness of the egg omelet they were served, along with three slices of toasted bread. Harry finished quickly and excused himself, before leaving the room, and exited Gryffindor Tower.
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Harry ducked again when he heard students walking past him. And when they turned the corner to the school's small garden by the trees and fountain of a one-eyed witch, he peers out again from the wall. Looking at his detector, the signal still pinpointed to the castle itself. The question is... where is that soul fragment?
Two hours of searching, and still not much luck. He decided to phase through the floor. But, when Harry finally exited through solid mass, he blinked when he found himself inside what looked like a watery chamber. The floor was made of a marble-tiled rock, and the water just barely covered its surface like the froth of a soup. What surprised him however was the carcass of a giant-ass snake, with its eyes missing, and a puncture wound through the roof of its snout.
"Holy mother of Tsunami..."
Harry didn't know it yet, but he had stumbled upon the elusive Chamber of Secrets where one Neville Longbottom risked his life to save Ginerva Weasley in his second year in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Forget the elusive soul fragment hidden in the school somewhere; showing his mother this large serpent-like creature was more important. Maybe she would know what kind of monster this thing is?
I have been busy for awhile, but then over the weekend (January 16), I had a stroke and was rushed to the hospital. I survived, but this stroke had somewhat changed my life. I have a fear of death, and I hate the fact that it keeps reminding me thus slowly decreasing my hours of possible sleep. I'm doing fine now, but yeah. Apparently, my stroke was the result of a lot of stress in my life, so I'm doing my best to take it easy, and to be on the safe side, take better care of my overall health. Other than that, life got me bogged down. Please forgive me.