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New Semester

The students came back two days before the second semester was to start. Hermione was unpacking her trunk when her friends walked into the girl's dorm. Momoko and Miyako ran over to her and gave her a hug, while Kaoru stood back and waved at her. She noticed that there was something different about Kaoru, after about a minute she said, "Kaoru, when did you start to wear earrings?" The earrings Kaoru had on were small, shaped like stars, and inlayed with jade.

Kaoru was blushing as she turned her head "T-They were a Christmas gift."

Hermione looked at her other two friends for more information.

"They were a gift from Neville" Momoko whispered to her.

Hermione's eyes grew wide with shock.

"Umm…how about we go down to the common room and wait for the guys?" Miyako suggested, while trying to change the subject.

They all agreed and headed downstairs. When they got there they saw Harry, Ron, Takaaki, and Neville talking by the fire. The girls headed over to them catching the last part of their conversation.

"Grandma had me send them to her" Neville told the other boys.

The girls looked at Kaoru, she had turned red with rage. Kaoru walked over to Neville, who was smiling when he saw her. She then slapped him so hard across the face that he did a three hundred and sixty degree spin before he hit the ground. Kaoru then ran back upstairs to the girl's dorm, followed by Miyako.

Everyone in the room was either starring at Neville or the direction of the girls dorm.

Neville looked up at Hermione and Momoko "W-Why d-did s-she d-do t-that?"

"It's because of what you said. The gift you sent her actually being sent by your grandmother" Hermione explained to him with a scowl.

Neville had a look of revelation on his face "My grandmother only helped me pick them out. It was my idea to send a Christmas gift to Kaoru. I wanted to show her that I was happy to have a someone like her as a friend."

"Neville, let us explain things to her and you should give her some time to calm down," Momoko told him before running up to the girls dorm with Hermione.

Over the course of the next few weeks Kaoru avoided Neville and stopped speaking with him. They only thing unusual was the fact that she continued to wear the earrings he gave her.

Also during this time Harry and Ron told them all about their late night excursions during the few days after Christmas. Harry then told them that Professor Snape would be referring the Quidditch match that weekend. They all had about the same reaction.

"Don't play" said Hermione at once.

"Say your ill" said Ron.

"Pretend to break your leg" Momoko suggested.

"Really break your leg" said Takaaki.

"He can't break his leg, that would be horrible," Miyako said with concern.

"Besides he's the only Seeker the team has. The way I see it he'll just have to grab the Snitch as fast as possible to make sure Professor Snape doesn't try anything" Kaoru said with determination.

Just then they heard a thud come from the common room entrance. They turned and saw that Neville was on the ground struggling against the Leg-Locker Curse. Everyone started to laugh at him except Kaoru who ran over and took it off of him.

"Neville, who did this to you?" she asked him very concerned.

"It was Malfoy, he caught me outside the library. He said he needed a practice dummy" Neville told her while rubbing his legs.

"I'll teach him what happens when people mess with my friends" Kaoru told him as she headed towards the portrait hole.

Neville jumped up and grabbed her hand "Kaoru, stop please. I don't want you to get into trouble, because of me."

Kaoru looked at him as her face started to turn as red as a tomato. She then looked away from him "A-All right, I'll leave Malfoy alone for now. But only if you promise to let me teach you how to defend yourself."

Neville was a little startled by her reaction and what she had said "Um…okay Kaoru, as long as it will keep you from going after Malfoy." He just then realized that he had been holding her hand.

All of their friends were completely taken aback by the conversation they had heard. They then watched as Neville let go of her hand and headed up to the boys dorm room.

Kaoru then walked back towards them, trying to avoid looking at their faces. Before she sat down she grabbed a chocolate frog and opened it. She then jumped back up startling all of them "I've found him!"

"Found who, Kaoru?" Hermione asked in a scared and confused tone.

Kaoru looked at her and shoved the card from the frog at her while pointing at he the back "I've found Nicolas Flamel!"

Hermione's eyes grew wide, she then ran up to her room and back down again, carrying a large black book. When she was next to them again she opened the book to show them that Nicolas Flamel was a famous alchemist who was over six hundred years old and the only known person to have a sorcerer's stone. An item that could turn any metal into gold and produce the Elixir of Life, a way to become immortal. They all realized that the three-headed dog was guarding Nicolas Flamel's sorcerer's stone.

They all then decided that it was time to go to bed after all the surprises they had had that day.

That weekend they all wished Harry good luck in the up coming match. They then found some seats in the stands; unfortunately Malfoy and his cronies were sitting behind them. Throughout the time they sat watching the match Malfoy took turns insulting Harry, Ron, and Neville.

Within five minutes of the start of the match Harry had spotted the Snitch and grabbed it winning Gryffindor the match.

At the same time Ron, Neville, and Kaoru were fighting with Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle. Ron was pummeling Malfoy's face, Neville had somehow twisted Crabbe's arm behind his back pinning him to the floor of the stands, and Kaoru had flipped Goyle over her head with a German Sueplex.

When the others turned to get them to join in the cheering for Gryffindors victory, they realized they had to separate them from Malfoy and his buddies.

Malfoy ran off saying that they would pay for this.

After that they left the stadium and waited for Harry in the Entrance Hall of the castle. It was about thirty minutes before they even saw Harry approaching the castle. When he got close to them, he started ranting about how he had over heard Professor Snape talking to Professor Quirrell. He told them that Professor Snape was trying to bully Professor Quirrell into telling him about how the stone was protected. They all agreed that the stone was as good as gone by Monday.

A/N: I hope you like this chapter. Still trying to develop the relationship between Kaoru and Neville. It's kind of hard for Kaoru because she has been such a tomboy most of her life. Besides Kaoru, Momoko, and Miyako are all two years older mentally than everyone else, other Takaaki.

The kind of self-defense that Kaoru is going to try to teach Neville is Karate and Wrestling. This is because if you watch the series her father is a professional masked wrestler and she is a black belt.

That's it for now please review and check out my new fanfic Darkness Before the Dawn.