Masquerade
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Disclaimer – I don't own Naruto or Harry Potter or any ideas taken from L.Jane Smith's works.
Ryuujin no Hikari is my character creation.
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The remainder of the Christmas break continued uneventfully. Sasuke and Hikari rarely spoke with each other, avoiding each other as much as possible. Even once they had returned to Hogwarts, their actions towards each other didn't change.
With the masquerade coming up, Hikari was being hounded by Malfoy to accompany him. Hikari usually made some rude remark about his cowardice or the fact that he was a disgrace to the dragon name or just ignored him completely.
She was walking down the hall the day of the masque, headed for the library to do some more research on the dark arts, when Malfoy came from another corridor.
"Fancy meeting you here" Malfoy said, trying to sound as suave as possible, but failing miserably in Hikari's eyes.
"It's a hallway you dolt" Hikari rolled her eyes.
Malfoy put his arm around her shoulders "Come, now don't be like that. You know you want to go to that masque with me."
"Remove your arm, before I remove it from your body" Hikari said "and ew, seriously."
Malfoy removed his arm, but then proceeded to push her. Hikari was so stunned by his actions that she lost her balance and fell.
"What the hell is your problem anyways?" Malfoy shouted "I can give you everything!"
Hikari glared up at Malfoy, but before she could get up to kill him, Sasuke grabbed him and threw him into the wall. Hikari just stared.
"I thought I told you to leave her alone" Sasuke said darkly "Touch her again and I'll send your body piece by piece back to your family"
Malfoy turned white and then he ran not once looking back to see if Sasuke was following him.
Sasuke turned and helped Hikari up.
"Thank you" Hikari said.
Sasuke nodded and turned to leave.
"Wait" Hikari called out.
Sasuke half turned back, waiting for her to speak.
"Um, never mind…" Hikari said looking away, sadness in her eyes.
Sasuke walked away. Hikari cursed herself for no taking the opportunity to explain things to him. She couldn't wait to long, or she would lose him forever.
The girls were in their room getting ready for the masque. Sakura had on a gorgeous full length kimono, her hair was done up with jeweled styling combs and she was just putting on a full mask that was decorated with sakura branches and flowers. Harmoine was wearing a Victorian style dress, her hair done simply and had on a feathered half mask. Hikari had on a white kimono style dress stopping just above the knee and had long draping sleeves, ice blue lined the edges of the cuffs and the collar. The sash at her waist was also ice blue, tied into a bow at the back and the long ends trailing down to the floor. The back had an ice dragon scrawled across it, and she had on white knee high boots, the same dragon on the outside of each one. She had also preformed a henge, causing her hair to turn ice blue, with gold streaks. She left it down.
Hikari kept glancing out the window as they got dressed. She had an ominous feeling, and she didn't like it.
"What's wrong Hikari?" Harmoine asked looking out the window too.
"Not sure, just have a bad feeling" Hikari replied "I think I should double check the wards before we head out"
"You've checked them three times today already" Sakura said "They are fine"
"Just don't want to have any loose ends" Hikari sighed.
"It's fine let's go" Sakura said pulling Hikari out of the room.
Hikari grabbed her mask before they exited. She put her mask in place as they reached the landing above the common room.
"Wow you guys look great" Harmoine exclaimed as she descended the last few stairs into the common room.
Ron had on a jester's costume, with matching mask. Harry had a Victorian noble's costume on, with a black half mask. Naruto had on a reddish jester type outfit on, with a grinning fox mask and fox tail. Sasuke had on a black male kimono with a black and gold mask, a single tear painted in gold under the left eye.
"All ready guys?" Sakura asked linking arms with Naruto.
"We have to wait for Cho yet" Harry said.
"I'm coming" Cho called from the stair case. She too was in a Victorian style dress, and had a crown mask on.
They all headed to the great hall, where most of the people had already arrived. Hikari looked around nervously. She couldn't sense anyone that didn't belong, but she couldn't shake the feeling she had that something bad was going to happen.
Sasuke moved behind her, leaning close he whispered "What's wrong?"
Hikari reveled at his closeness "Not sure yet"
Dumbledore announced the first waltz of the evening, which everyone was to participate in. Sasuke held his hand out to Hikari's side. She took it turning in to him. The music started and they began moving in time with the song.
"I'm sorry about before" Hikari spoke suddenly.
"As am I" Sasuke responded.
Hikari leaned in so the top of her mask touched the bottom of his "Can I show you something?"
Sasuke nodded. Hikari closed her eyes, allowing the connection she had been blocking to open. The golden chord pulled their minds together. Hikari creating an image of a landscape full of sakura trees. Their spiritual forms dancing beneath the trees; pink blooms blowing around them.
"How?" Sasuke asked
"This is the connection I spoke of" Hikari said "It can be everything and anything. We can show each other anything we want about ourselves or just be as we are now."
"It's amazing, this feeling" Sasuke started. Ripples tore through the scene around them, distorting it.
Hikari gasped "The wards, they have been breeched!"
