"Sit my, children, sit." Trelawney said. Just as she said that Haku appeared in the room. When did she come in? No seriously? Was she always there?

Zabuza left and headed back toward their room, as he stated he had other things to do. Trelawney told Haku to sit before she sat down herself; looking over the students, before she spoke. "Welcome to Divination, I am Professor Trelawney. Some ..."

Students gave their undivided attention including Harry, Ron and Hermione. "Some no, none of you have ever seen me before. I find descending from the hustle and bustle of this school clouds my inner eye."

No one said a word to the strange proclamation. Was she a genjustu user? Haku thought.

Trelawney continued on, "So you have chosen Divination, the most difficult of magical arts. If you do not have the sight, then there's little I would be able to help you with. For books can only take you so far and in this field...books."

Hermione looked horrified.

"Many witches and wizards talented, though they are in the area of loud bangs, smells and disappearing's they are yet, unable to penetrate the veiled mysteries of the future," Professor Trelawney went on, her enormous eyes looking from person to person. She exchanged a few words with Neville, before continuing in a placid tone. "We will be covering the basics of Divination this year. The first term will be devoted to the tea leaves, then the second term we will advance to palmistry."

Trelawney eyes landed on, Parvati Patil. "Beware of Red-Haired man, my dear."

At that statement said mentioned girl scooted far, far away from Ronald Weasely, who was sitting across from her.

Trelawney continued not missing a beat. "We will also cover the crystal ball- If we finish fire omens, that is. Unfortunately, in February classes will be disrupted by a nasty bout of flu. And around Easter we will lose two of our numbers."

A tense silence followed. Trelawney was right in her Easter predication; because she would be losing two students one was going to be a Gryffindor the other one a Slytherin.

She spoke unaware of the tense atmosphere. "My, dear can you pass me the largest silver tea-cup?"

Lavender sighed in relief and stood, took an enormous looking tea-cup from the shelf and handed it to Professor Trelawney. "Thank you," Professor Trelawney said, and then continued. "Incidentally the thing you are dreading- It will happen on the sixteenth of October."

Lavender wasn't pleased with this information and felt disturbed.

Haku inwardly frowned. This course indeed sounded fascinating, but some events didn't need to be known –it might change what was supposed to occur if they are known. And wasn't fortune teller's a one-time thing? Meaning you only meet them once, then never again.

Trelawney spoke breaking, Haku out of her musings. "I want you all to go into pairs. Collect a tea-cup from the shelf, bring it to me and I will fill it. Then sit down and drink, drink until only the dregs remain. Swill it three times with your left hand, and then turn the cup upside down on its saucer, wait for the last remains of the tea to drain away. Then pass it on to your partner to read. You will interpret pages five and six of Unfoggging the Future. I will move along, helping and instructing you."

Neville indeed had to use one of the blue tea-cups. Once he and everyone had a tea-cup they started the assignment.

Harry and Ron were partners. "Let's see." Harry said trying to read through the perfume. "You have a cross… trials and errors….A sun. Hang on... Suffering and happiness. So, you're going to suffer, but be very happy."

"You need your inner eye tested if you ask me," Ron said, the two friends peered at each other stiffing their laughter, as Professor Trelawney's eye landed on them.

"Right, my turn..." Ron said, looking over Harry's tea-cup. "A hat….. You might work at the Ministry of Magic…" He turned the tea-cup the other way up. "But, this way it looks like an acorn… Wait. What's that?" He scanned Unfogging the Future. "A windfall….. Gold. Excellent maybe you can lend me some…"He turned the cup again. "An animal…. A sheep, a hippo…. a monkey. A-"

Harry laughed.

Trelawney whizzed over towards their table. "Let me see that." Everyone went quiet. "Oh, dear you have a falcon…deadly enemy."

"Everyone knows that," Hermione said in a loud whisper. Everyone excluding, Haku and Harry were surprised by, Hermione's outburst. She never talked back to a teacher!

Parkinson was Haku's partner. "Professor?" She called in a sugary tone. "If he has the bad omen does that mean Haku has it too? I mean they are the infants that lived?"

Trelawney placed Harry's cup down for the moment causing Harry to sigh in relief, but that soon went downhill as he glared. That was just wrong, just because …

Parkinson explained. "Her readings were very achieving."

Pansy Parkinson didn't like how Haku's readings were so strange yet, achieving. While her readings were: of the gun, hawk, a broken necklace, and pig. The only good ones were… rose, star, and man.

"Oh, dear you have the goat," Trelawney said, she then gasped, but said nothing. "My, boy…" She addressed Harry bring me your cup."

Harry obliged somewhat reluctantly. Professor Trelawney gave Haku's cup to Harry to hold. When she was done with Harry's, she screamed.

Neville broke his second cup.

The professor looked pale. "Poor, poor children. Do not ask me... It, it is too much just to say it."

"What, professor? What is it?" Dean Thomas asked.

"Trelawney opened up her eyes in a dramatic flair. "You two have the grim."

"What?" said Harry, he wasn't the only one who didn't understand; many students didn't, but.

Haku muffled her laughter as if she founded something amusing. Trelawney didn't look pleased, "The Grim. Dear, this is no laughing matter!"

Haku placed her hand down and still smiled. "I understand what you are saying Trelawney-sensei, but don't you think that's taking it too far?"

Many students looked baffled. "To say that to a student is unwise. That would just cause them to end their life earlier on."

Trelawney spoke shocked to no end. "That is…. The giant spectral dog that haunts the churchyards… It's a bad omen of death!"

Harry felt as though he would be sick. Haku however, didn't look perturbed. Something was very wrong with that, Harry thought as he remembered seeing a book with the cover of a massive black dog, but on first he didn't know what it was so he just putted it off to the side. Thinking that it was a foolish thought, I mean why would a massive dog be considered an omen?

Well, now he knows what that dog was…..a grim. The only fortunate thing is he never encountered it.

"Death?" Haku repeated. "Death is an everyday occurrence although; this grim you speak of pertains to such a spectacle…"

'Are you saying that, I a seer have prophesized the tea-leaves wrong?!" Trelawney cried feeling rather insulted. She was a re-owned seer!

Haku didn't reply just walked over and picked up her tea-cup; peering in it. "No not at all. You are an excellent seer, but this doesn't look like the grim at all."

Trelawney didn't like that at all.

Hermione walked around her to look at Harry's cup. "Harry's doesn't look like the grim either. I'm sorry to say porfes-"Hermione was saying, but.

Trelawney spoke displeased, as she was speaking to both girls. "Forgive me for saying, but neither of you girls have the aura and very little receptivity to the resonance of the future."

No one answered. Harry just couldn't take it anymore, but before he could shout in outrage however, Professor Trelawney spoke in her usual misty voice. "We will leave the lesson at that for today…Yes, it is for the best. Pack up your things."

Students left in silence, no one uttered a word. Harry and his friends made it to Transfigurations with one minute to spare. Harry sat to the far right of the classroom, suddenly wishing he was far, far away. He didn't hear McGonagall's speech on animagi and didn't even watch when she turned into a tabby cat with spectacle eyes.

The class was silent as ever. "Really, what has gotten into all of you?" Everyone glanced at both Harry and Haku before turning back around facing forward.

A frowned mirrored Haku's features and she got up from her chair; walked over towards Harry's seat.

"Brother?" She called gently. Everyone turned back around in Harry's direction. The boy didn't respond.

"Harry?" Haku called in a firm tone, but yet it was still gentle.

Harry looked up. Why was she smiling? Harry just wanted to wipe it off. "The future is not determined by simply reading from leaves. It is the person himself, who determines their future."

"So..." Harry started feeling somewhat relieved by what Haku just proclaimed. "So, I-" He closed his eyes as he felt pressure on his forehead. He opened them only to see Haku's smiling face and two fingers on his forehead.

McGonagall was moved just as everyone else was in the room. "Exactly now, class has started I believe McGonagall-sensei was giving some important information that you would need to know." Haku said, and then walked away heading back towards her own seat.

Hermione raised her hand to speak. "It was in Divination class, and..."She trailed off; if Harry didn't have Haku then he would have been feeling for the worst for the rest of the day.

"I see." McGonagall said frowning. That explained why Ms. Potter gave her small yet, optimistic speech, it was to cheer up Harry's mood and to give more of an insight of her own wisdom. "Mr. Harry Potter, I shall inform you that Sybill has predicted many deaths. Mainly of one student each year, but none of them come true. Seeing death omens is her favorite way to greeting a new class. If it wasn't for the fact that I never speak..." McGonagall trailed off.

Students listen. Haku however, 'A lioness that waits patiently, gets the meal, but a lioness that rushes gets nothing.' Meaning, Haku liked McGonagall, she was wise as there was more to her than meets the eye. "Divination is an impressive subject, I will not lie I myself have little patience for it. True seers are rare, and Sybill Trelawney- I must say however, I will not excuse you from homework. Shall, you die; you are not required to turn it in."

Hermione laughed. Ron still looked worried, as he was unconvinced, and Harry, Harry looked like he was freed in a way, and its thanks to McGonagall's subtle humor and Haku's wise words.

Transfiguration was finished and many retreated to the Great Hall for lunch, many except one. Down in the Slytherin dungeons a soft hiss was heard, before the chambered snake doors opened. Haku entered the room.

Zabuza was standing upside down on his hands, as he was doing one arm pull-ups. He flipped and landed Indian style. His head focused toward the direction of Haku. "How was that loony's class?"

Haku smiled beautifully, "It similar to what I did in China, but I will not lie, she seemed to be an actual seer however, the more rare of its kind."

Zabuza probed Haku to continue so she did. "Her predictions only come in insight."

Zabuza scoffed. "In other words she isn't just a loony, but a fraud for the most part." Zabuza gave Haku a look. "Stay for just a few more classes, if nothing happens leave, but."

Haku waited. "What did your tea-cup say?" Zabuza asked he was quite interested.

Haku replied. "An eye….caution, a heart, a goat, a snake (both animals mean enemies) and for some reason I have two most un-expecting, which I'm sure-"

"Which two are they, Haku?"

"A bottom bell, a supposed grim….." Haku answered, her smile vanished. Zabuza didn't look happy one bit; in fact he was thinking who should he kill? Or whose miserable life will he have to throttle?

The grim, he wasn't worried about. As a shinobi, they've encountered death to many times to keep count. It was the unexpected news that, he wanted to throttle someone, because something just told him that they were the participants and that whatever the un-expecting news was, was going to come true.

"Zabuza-san..." Haku called worriedly. How could she not, be, if he was giving that look…then? "I have already taken care of it, but no the grim wasn't…."

"That's not it. Something tells me the old man is to blame."

Ay, they had the same thoughts. Haku smiled, bowing slightly. "Forgive me, Zabuza-san, but lunch is over with, I must go to my next class."

"Go," Zabuza said, gruffly. Haku bowed and exited the shared room.

Zabuza soon exited the room and out the castle; heading in one direction.

Maybe, just maybe the two...Zabuza and Haku were overreacting way too much.

Nah, not likely.


Harry walked with his two friends in silence. When they reached the sloppy meadow they were greeted once again by the Slytherin's. The trio passed Malfoy and his goons by,opting to ignoring their animated bantering.

Pansy and her gang weren't too far from Malfoy's own. She noticed Harry and his little group. "Sister has to save, brother again!" She cried to her friends. "Oh, look Potter, look behind you. It's-"

"It's considered low... to taunt one's brother especially when that brother is in the rivaling house."

Harry and the others stopped and turned around only to see Haku, who looked-well if you looked hard enough somewhat troubled and not in a good mood.

Malfoy croaked. "I tried to stop them, but they wouldn't listen, Haku." He said placing his head behind his head as if he was feeling terrible. "I and my friends just want to put away our differences since the-"

Haku's voice was cold as she scanned her fellow Slytherin's. Her eyes narrowed to the point that she was ready to kill something; "I 'm really in a bad mood…don't push it any further with your taunts to my, brother or-"

Pansy just thought- no in fact she was either brave or foolish. She placed her hands over her hips; "Or what? Potter, you're just like your brother here! Miss goody-good two-shoes. Always smiling, that's all we've seen of you since you've arrived! Even in that woolly class," she growled. 'Even with that stupid one Like any boy here would stoop so low as-"

No one knew what Pansy was referrring to, but Hermione summed it up to an extent.

Zabuza was watching the spectacle.

Zabuza raised a brow, but the ones watching gasped in surprise or shock. Pansy was being held by the collar of her robe. What Haku said next threw Zabuza in a loop and he nearly laughed. He could have sworn she got it from him, seeing that he only spoke like that when things were worth the time.

"What I do is none of your business. In fact nothing concerning me is your business. So, I appreciate if you back the (censored) off."

Gasped followed and Zabuza laughed jauntily. Oh, that was priceless, but if anything he would have to tell her the meaning of such a profanity after all; no one does anything to what was his.

Zabuza disappeared, following after an angered Haku. What in the world has her in a sour mood?

Hermione spoke up, breaking the silent atmosphere. "It seems that Haku was holding her emotions inside."

Ron however, laughed. "But, it was funny. Don't know what she said, but look at their faces!"

"Shut up," Malfoy sneered. Harry was surprised himself that didn't sound at all like his sister, a sister, who had a caring heart who never really spoke her problems, a person who didn't lash out until provoke. He blinked.

"Can it, Malfoy. Let's go guys, Hagrid's waiting for us." Harry and his friends were soon followed by the shock Slytherin's.

Pansy cursed, lowly. "She humiliated me, she'll pay." She said to her friends and they nodded in agreement, but didn't say a word.

They all soon reached the hut where the half –giant was waiting. "C'mon you're movin slowly!" He cried out. Harry and the others scurried over towards were he and some students were starting class.

"Now, around the fence here. Make sure you can see-"Hagrid said. "Now, the first thing you'll want to do is open your books'-"

"How do we do that?" Malfoy asked some of his coldness gone out the window for now. Courtesy of a plan forming in his head, mainly one of revenge against the Potter's for making him seem weak.

Perhaps picking on the loser would pick up his mood, "Giving us witty, books that would bite our hands off! Yeah, great idea, maybe we should have gone with the dogs, instead?"

Hagrid looked crestfallen. "Malfoy shut it," Harry whispered.

"But, then the dogs, wouldn't work either! Maybe the cats, then?"

Snickers from his fellow Slytherin's. Harry, Ron, and Hermione clenched their fist. Draco's hand went up with the book, but it was grabbed by…

Everyone went quiet, as Hagrid looked troubled. His eyes going towards the trio for help, but they too seemed just as shocked.

Haku held Draco's hand in a grip, causing him to drop the book. "You seem not, to listen to warnings." She put more force.

Draco bit his bottom lip.

"I may be a Slytherin, but what you are doing is just adding more to the flame. Now, apologize to Hagrid-sensei."

Who in the hell pissed off Haku? The thing is no one did. Or, did someone? Maybe, a student or teacher or maybe she was mad at herself, no one knows.

"Argh! You're going to break it! Let..."

"Let go, Haku." Haku did as she was ordered and everyone turnedtowards the voice.

"Zabuza-san..." Haku said, letting Draco's wrist go. The latter rubbing his wrist in a soothing manner.

Malfoy or anyone for that matter didn't say word. "Come, let's go Haku."

"Wait a minute! You can't just-"Hagrid started, but.

Haku headed over towards Zabuza who glanced in Hagrid's direction.

"It's best you don't worry about little things. Continue with your class," and when Haku was by his side, Zabuza and his companion disappeared.

Hagrid frowned. "Now," He awkwardly said, getting back to starting his class again. "Come follow me. I'll show ye' the creatures…"


Zabuza took off his cleaver and placed it on the wall. He then took out his wand casting very strong silencing charms and wards, before turning to face Haku. "You have a right to be angry at those brats, after all; you are enjoying the concept of having the boy as a brother, but-"

Both Haku and Zabuza looked towards the door. Who was trying to break in?

An old man's voice reached their ears. "I have some unfortunate news."

"Zabuza tilted his head. "Looks like I was right in assuming, you'd be the one to deliver our misfortunates."

"Ay, come now." Dumbledore said smiling. "It isn't really a bad thing."

Haku placed a smile of her own. "It's best you don't keep us in the dark, old man." She said, one hand reaching for her wand; the other holding hidden senbon needles.

Dumbledore held out one finger and smiled as he aimed at the ninjas. "If you say so, then…."


In a crystal brick-like tower; two women watched the screen, then suddenly paused it. Beauty stood. "Let's go, we can't have him do that to our experiment."

Love laughed childishly, "We can't forget her companion."

Tsume got up and followed, licking his lips. "Oh, goodie. I want the old man."

Beauty made a face of disgust as she opened the portal. "You can eat later. Let's go."


I know short! But, more next chap-D! Review; tell me, I mean it, if anything needs to be improved or if you are still confused. But, you shouldn't be anymore! However, if you are let me know!

Yes, this is a second chapter for the week on this story and yes, it will still be up-dated sometime again next week along with...'I Trust Only You.'

Hagrid speaks broken English , so if you see some words broken like ter' get movin...' It's his way of talking, I'm not going to change that to much, but I will put some of his speech in proper English.

Oh, Dumbledore's planning something, what is it? Why did he attack Zabuza and Haku? What will happen next? Well…. Until next chapter, I'm out!