"Order! Order!" Oikawa banged on the desk, looking far, far too pleased with himself. "The first meeting of the Keep Hinata Alive To Graduation Society has officially begun! Thank you all for coming!"

Hinata groaned, burying his face in his hands.

Yamaguchi offered him a comforting smile. "Don't worry, Hinata."

"I'm no worried!" Hinata gave the room one last piteous look. "Do we have to do this? It's probably not that bad!"

The entire room-literally the entire room; Oikawa, Iwaizumi, Kuroo, Suga, Bokuto, Kenma, Yachi, Kageyama, Yamaguchi, Tsukishima, Daichi, Asahi, Ennoshita, Noya, Tanaka, and even Lev-all collectively decided to ignore him.

Hinata groaned louder.

Oikawa beamed. "Moving on-"

"Excuse me," Tsukishima interrupted dryly, "how do we even know someone's trying to kill him?"

Hinata sighed in relief. "Exac-"

"Don't get me wrong," Tsukishima continued, "I'm sure many, many people would love to kill him. Merlin, there's probably even be a line by now."

Hinata frowned. "Um."

Tsukishima shrugged. "Me, included. And I'm sure there's a multitude of reasons, starting with general annoyance and ending with abject hatred of his very being. And that's not even going into the fact that he's a morning person or his habit of-"

"Okay, you can stop helping me now!"

"So, how do we really know someone's trying to kill him this time," Tsukishima finished, shooting a smug look at Hinata.

Hinata glared back.

Oikawa nodded, smiling brightly. "An excellent point, Tsukishima!"

"Was it, though," Lev muttered to Kageyama, who shrugged.

"Which brings us to our first order of business!" Oikawa waved his wand at the chalkboard. "Videtur!"

'The Evidence' appeared, written in chalk across the board.

"Who put Oikawa in charge of the meeting," Ennoshita leaned over to whisper to Daichi.

Daichi laughed. "Do you want to stop him?"

Oikawa ignored them pointedly. "The Evidence! Kuroo, my dear friend, if you could start us off."

Iwaizumi rolled his eyes as Kuroo stepped forward, all but bowing to the assembled group.

And then, Kuroo cleared his throat, grin falling off and setting his shoulders as he walked to the board. "Right, so, the first evidence is the broken stair."

"I thought that was an accident," Asahi asked cautiously.

"Nearly impossible," Kuroo answered, writing 'stair/charms' on the board. " I spent most of yesterday in the library reading up on the charms that are used to hold up the staircases. They're old enough to date back to the founding of Hogwarts. The chances that they break now and under Hinata when they've never even cracked before are slim."

Iwaizumi nodded. "I finished checking the charm matrix on the rest of the stairs last night. Except the one that broke, every other stair in the entire bloody castle is still hooked up just fine to the matrix."

Yachi frowned. "Matrix?"

"Yep," Kuroo took back over. "The stairs matrix was designed by Ravenclaw herself. Just simple stuff, really. A moving charm, a few detection ones, stability and protection, some more for self-cleaning, and-of course-like a chunk of them for durability. Like I said, simple stuff. The real beauty of it is someone was smart enough to figure out how to separate one step from the matrix, work out how to take out the durability, and add in a completely different detection charm to catch Hinata."

"We're looking for someone dedicated and smart," Oikawa said seriously. "Plus, someone committed to making it all look like accidents."

Hinata shivered, Kageyama's hand gripping his shoulder just a second before Yachi's. He smiled up at both of them.

Oikawa turned. "Suga, you're up. Find anything new?"

"Not particularly." Suga addressed the group. "Last semester, someone swapped out Hinata's holly leaves for mistletoe before he was supposed to use it in a Babbling Potion." He winced. "Obviously, the results are deadly but close range so we think whoever's behind this is only targeting Hinata. Other than that, we know it's someone in the school that apparently knows enough about potions, knows the third year Potions syllabus, and had access to Hinata's potion kit at some point."

"That's not much to go on," Ennoshita pointed out. "Professor Irihata hasn't changed his syllabus in generations. Anyone third year and up would've known they had Babbling Potion coming up. That says hardly anything about who's actually behind it."

"On the contrary." Tsukishima hummed.

Yamaguchi perked up. "You have something."

"I'd rather wait." Tsukishima nodded to Oikawa. "Go on, what's next."

Oikawa gestured to Bokuto.

"Okay, so, next's the exploding broom." Bokuto pulled out the vial with the splinter. "Oikawa tested it; someone used a potion to take off the charm against ice. That's another point towards potion and charm knowledge, I guess, but not that much since a lot of Quidditch shops sell stripping and refinishing potions for old broom models. I've just never heard of anyone doing something so terrible to a brand new Nimbus 500!"

Noya and Lev both made abjectly pained noises.

Bokuto nodded sadly, looking at the martyred broom shard. "Poor broom barely got to live a life." He cleared his throat. "And, of course, bad for Hinata, too!"

Kenma rolled his eyes hard

"Anyway," Bokuto continued. "Before all the Quidditch games, Professor Oiwake keeps the game brooms locked away overnight to check them in the morning for cheating spells." He gestured to Kageyama and Hinata. "The night before all the Hufflepuff team was practicing and the weather was already pretty bad then so no way we wouldn't have noticed if Hinata's broom started cracking. Which means whoever did it probably waited until after Oiwake locked it away."

"How hard is the lock to break," Yachi asked.

Bokuto shrugged. "Not too bad. I checked it out last night. Probably a bit more advanced than an Alohomora." He paused. "For Quidditch, the real part's checking for cheating spells in the morning."

"...so, someone on the Quidditch team," Yamaguchi asked. "Maybe one of the older students? Someone who knew where the brooms were stored?"

Hinata beamed proudly up at Oikawa. "Ha! I said it was because of Quidditch!"

Oikawa rolled his eyes. "Not necessarily, all it would take is basic familiarity or observation skills to find out where the brooms are stored. But, yes, it might be someone in Quidditch." He gestured to the board. "Which brings us to the second question."

He muttered the spell and 'Culprits' appeared in a column next to Evidence.

"The Slytherin Quidditch Team," Tanaka, Noya, Kageyama, and Ennoshita all said at once.

Suga and Oikawa exchanged a look before Oikawa snorted.

"It's definitely not the Slytherin Quidditch Team," Oikawa dismissed, almost lazily. Suga frowned but nodded, surprisingly joined by Tsukishima.

"How can you possibly know that," Ennoshita demanded.

"Because it's nothing near their style." Oikawa rolled his eyes, smiling in that particular sharp way of his. "Trust me if the Slytherin team had finally stepped up to murder, I'd be much further up the list than Hinata."

Iwaizumi glared at him. "How is that at all reassuring?!"

Oikawa pointed to Suga.

"If it was a group as big as the Slytherin Team or….even just one member actually, they'd have bragged about it by now." Suga's lips pressed together. "They...tend to take our House's 'pride' and 'ambition' to the absolute worst extreme. If they said something, even just a pointed comment like they normally do, Oikawa or I would have heard about it by now….At the very least, Matsukawa or Hanamaki would've mentioned it."

Yachi and Kenma both looked at Lev, who winced. "Yeah, no, they're probably right. The team's, um, kinda loud once they're back in the common room."

"Assholes," Tanaka muttered.

Oikawa turned back to the board. "So, we've got someone at least moderately skilled at Charms and Potions, dedicated, highly intelligent, with access to the Hinata's potion kit, probably third year or above if they're aware of Professor Irihata's syllabus, and with at least some knowledge of Quidditch. Plus, with a level of interest in making all the attempts appear like accidents and avoid getting anyone else hurt."

Tsukishima hummed again, smirking smugly. "You're missing something, of course"

Kageyama leaned over to Hinata. "Why does he always have to say things in ways that make me want to punch him?"

"Talent," Tsukishima said succinctly. "Now, on to more important things."

He took the chalk from Oikawa, going to the board.

"Not even counting the broom, that's two previous attempts with a nearly insane amount of premeditation either to just target one step or to avoid bystanders in a Potion explosion." Tsukishima raised an eyebrow. "The Slytherin team's made up of a bunch of trust fund brats that haven't seen passed 'ambition' to basic planning skills and things beyond instant gratification."

Tsukishima narrowed his eyes, looking at the board. "It's not them. It's not anyone like them. Whoever it is doesn't mind taking time between attempts. They're not rushing, they're not being sloppy." Finally, he frowned. "Whoever's behind this is acting on more than just a crime of passion or blind hate. There's a reason they're after Hinata. Something….honestly, it almost seems impersonal."

There was a moment of silence.

"...what do you mean 'impersonal'," Asahi asked. "I...I mean it's murder, right?"

Tsukishima shrugged, still facing the board. "It's like I said, how do we know someone's trying to kill him? Sure, we have the evidence; that's part of it. But, there's no why." He rolled his eyes. "General disposition aside, the idiot's only been here three years, he's hardly had time to inspire this big of a grudge. Especially not without any of us even able to guess at a culprit." He ran a hand through his hair, frustrated. "Oikawa's right if it was about being a muggleborn, Hinata wouldn't be the first target, definitely not the only target. So, it's not that. Other than being a disaster magnet, the only real hobby Hinata has is Quidditch and we've already established it's not them. Pretty much everyone else he's around frequently is in this room and it's not us. So…."

He finally turned back from the board, facing the group. "So, it means that either somehow, someway Hinata's gotten a highly motivated and dedicated enemy that we aren't even aware he's interacted with or….it's not about Hinata, at all. Killing him's just part of a larger goal."

There was a long pause finally broken by Hinata letting out an attempt at a laugh.

"Um," Hinata spoke up, "if it helps, neither of those options makes me feel particularly better."

Tsukishima huffed, bored expression falling back into place as he tossed the chalk back to Oikawa. Tsukishima rolled his eyes as he went. "You don't get an opinion."

Hinata let out an indignant sound halfway between a yell and a squawk while Yachi patted his back sympathetically.

"I've got it." Bokuto stroked his chin, nodding sagely. "I've got a prediction."

Kuroo, Suga, Oikawa, and Iwaizumi all tensed.

Bokuto looked at the room seriously. "It's….Professor Takeda!"

At least three people gasped before Kuroo face-palmed, stepping in and literally dragging Bokuto to the side. "Nope, no, that's it, we're banning you from predictions for the entire meeting." He bowed to the rest of the group. "Forgive him, it is definitely not Professor Takeda."

"No, hear me out," Bokuto shouted from the headlock. "Takeda's like the nicest, most perfect person ever! That's why no one would suspect him! No one!"

"Yeah," Iwaizumi said dryly, "that's generally what happens when you're innocent."

"So, what do we do," Asahi asked, fidgeting nervously with the ends of his sleeves as all eyes turned to him. "I mean...if we don't know who it is and we don't know why they're after Hinata, then what's next?"

"We make sure it doesn't happen," Daichi said firmly. "That's why you asked us all here, right? You need our help."

Suga smiled back at him as Oikawa just nodded.

"Among other reasons, yes," Oikawa agreed. "We know whoever's after Hinata is both avoiding bystanders and wants it to look like an accident, that means we need someone around Hinata at all times, preferably multiple someones so one person can focus on protection while the others observe the surroundings."

Yamaguchi cocked his head. "You think whoever it is stays around the scene?"

"Nah." Kuroo shrugged. "If they were, they wouldn't have chosen a bloody blizzard to blow up Hinata's broom. Plus, all the other methods-mistletoe leaves, a detection charm on the stairs-all things they didn't need to be around to see work. I doubt they were even close."

"But it doesn't hurt to see if there's anyone unusual around Hinata," Suga said. "Anyone out of place."

Oikawa grinned. "And that's why we're here. Other than Hinata, we've got five first years in three Houses. That puts at least three people with him for every class except Herbology and Charms, where hopefully at least the professors can try to keep Hinata alive even though Herbology is a terrible, awful subject that I'm fairly positive was designed to murder people."

Iwaizumi snorted. "Which is another way of saying you can't grow a-"

"Yes, yes, well, we can't all be freaks of nature, Iwa-chan." Oikawa waved him off. "The main problem is outside of classes."

"I have Hinata's Potion's tutoring, of course," Suga said. "But, I wouldn't mind a-"

"I'll do it," Daichi called out.

"What a shock," Kuroo drawled before scrawling both of their names on the board next to Potions tutoring.

Bokuto swung an arm around a frowning Kageyama. "And Kageyama and I've got Quidditch practice; but, probably could use a few extra guys just to make sure."

"Ooh, me!" Lev immediately raised his hand.

Kenma sighed. "And me so one of us is at least paying attention to something besides Quidditch."

"Awesome and neither of you are Gryffindors!" Bokuto winked at Noya, Tanaka, and Daichi. "No offense, guys, just the team would kill us if we had you watching practice this close to the game."

Tsukishima rolled his eyes. "Yes, because far be it attempted murder comes before Quidditch."

"Moving on, that leaves the rest of us for setting up a schedule for between classes and meals," Oikawa said, gesturing to the rest of the group.

"Wait." Kageyama's frown pulled down even further. "I'm confused."

"Unsurprising," Oikawa muttered, just loud enough for Iwaizumi to hear and hit him.

"Why don't we just use the Invisibility Cloak," Kageyama asked. "You know, like last year?"

"...oh, right," Yachi said quietly.

"I forgot about that!" Hinata grinned, completely oblivious to how practically the entire rest of the room was now staring at them.

Tsukishima was the first to speak. "...you...you…"

"Seriously," Kuroo asked. "You have-"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVE AN INVISIBILITY CLOAK?!" Oikawa shouted.

Hinata cocked his head. "What?"

"You have an invisibility cloak," Oikawa ground out. "And you didn't think to mention it until now? Not say when I first told you. Or last year. Or, hey, maybe the year before that when you were attacked by a bloody professor!"

"Yeah," Hinata said logically, "it didn't really come up."

"I'm going to murder you!" Oikawa pointed to the board. "Iwa-chan, add me to the suspect list!"

"No," Iwaizumi said dryly. "You're not a suspect."

"Oh, I will be!" Oikawa glared at Hinata.

"To be fair," Yachi said quietly. "We didn't have the cloak until after everything first year."

"And we did have him use it last year," Kageyama added obstinately.

"Okay, new rule," Oikawa said in exasperation. "New, very important rule! If anyone else has a magical, nigh mythical object that would be exceedingly helpful in avoiding murder, please inform the group now."

"Huh," Noya looked at Tanaka, "I mean I guess there's the map, yeah?"

Oikawa's eye twitched.

Tanaka shrugged. "Yeah, but everyone already knows about that, right? From fighting the basilisk?"

"FIGHTING THE WHAT?!" Lev shouted, only to be hit with a Silencing charm a moment later.

Kenma pulled him off to the side. "We'll explain later."

Oikawa moaned, burying his head in his hands as Bokuto patted his back semi-comfortingly.

"I give up," Oikawa said, looking up at the ceiling like a dying man. "Well, have at it, anyone else up to anything spectacularly dangerous lately?"

"We're saving the boggarts," Noya declared cheerfully.

Iwaizumi frowned. "What? Like on purpose?"

"Unfortunately," Tsukishima sighed.

"Why," Ennoshita asked suspiciously, "what have you guys been doing?"

Suga winced. "Um...we'll tell you when we're legally able."

That definitely drew some suspicious looks.

"Plus, discovering an attempted murder plot," Oikawa added lightly.

"And making awesome predictions," Bokuto finished.

"Eh," Kuroo smirked, "well, two out of three isn't bad."

Bokuto pouted.

Yachi coughed lightly, drawing the attention of the room as she shifted on her feet to try and address them.

"So, do you think…," she began quietly, "between the Invisibility Cloak and...and the guard schedule, do you think we can keep Hinata safe?"

Bokuto's pout melted away, mouth turning up into a warm grin. "Absolutely. No prediction necessary, the Investigators' Club hasn't failed yet. No worries."

"Yeah," Tanaka said, slinging an arm around Bokuto's shoulders, "and plus you've got The Crows working on it, too! And we're great at sneaking through stuff without getting caught!"

Asahi sighed. "That really isn't the part to brag about."

"Anyway," Suga said softly, "with all of us, I believe we can make sure Hinata is safe and figure out the person behind this. We do...have a rather good track record for this."

Yachi smiled back, looking relieved.

Meanwhile, Hinata, the potential murder victim in question, leaned over to whisper to Kageyama. "Do we need a group name? Everyone else has a cool one?"

Kenma sighed from in between them. "No, names are pretentious. Trust me."

"Rude, Kenma." Kuroo grinned.

Ennoshita raised his hand. "Next meeting, can we also opt for a better meeting place than a cramped classroom?"

"We could always set up expansion charms," Suga suggested.

Tsukishima's eyes lit up. "You know expansion charms?!"

"Um, yes?"

"Not the point, Tsuki," Noya said, all but jumping in between the two before Tsukishima could pounce on Suga. "Ennoshita makes a good point! We need a cool meeting place! Something subtle yet awesome! Powerful yet mysterious! Something so epic no would would ever think to mess with it!"

"How about the Shrieking Shack," Oikawa suggested.

Noya frowned. "Um-"

"How about no," Iwaizumi crossed his arms. "Actually, how about absolutely not and don't even think about it. Only an idiot would go in there."

Oikawa hummed, blinking up innocently. "Scared, Iwa-chan?"

Iwaizumi rolled his eyes. "No, I just have somehow miraculously come to the conclusion that a dilapidated, decrepit old shack is possibly not the best place to fit in seventeen people." He flicked Oikawa's forehead before he could argue. "We're trying to keep Hinata alive, remember? Not have him die because he fell through some rotted floorboards."

Asahi shivered. "Plus, um...plus, isn't the Shrieking Shack supposed to be haunted?"

"Asahi," Ennoshita shook his head, "we go to a school with ghosts. How can you be scared something's haunted?"

"It's creepy," Asahi said defensively, scooting closer to Daichi.

"So, that's a definite no," Noya piped in, smiling up at Asahi. "Someplace other than the Shrieking Shack. Huh, you know, I guess this classroom might kind of work. If we made it just a little bit more awesome. Right?"

"Definitely," Tanaka agreed, high-fiving Noya.

Oikawa huffed, turning back to the group.

"Then, we're agreed," Oikawa said. "We keep to the schedule, watch for anything suspicious, and try to meet again let's say the next Hogsmeade weekend. And until then," Oikawa narrowed his eyes at Hinata. "You're going to be the most protected person on the face of the planet! Or else!"

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"And nothing….and nothing…..and still nothing," Tanaka reported before flopping back on his bed. "For some reason, I thought this would be more interesting."

Ennoshita rolled his eyes. "It's night, Hinata's already back in his dorm room with both Bokuto and Kageyama there. What did you expect to happen?"

"I don't know!" Tanaka shrugged. "Oikawa told me and Noya to check the map for anything 'unusual or suspicious' around Hinata! I thought it would be more exciting! I'm not even sure what to look for here?!"

"Yes, somehow I doubt a student named 'would-be-assassin' will randomly pop up in the middle of the night," Tsukishima said dryly.

Yamaguchi sighed. "Poor Hinata. I can't imagine how it would feel if someone wanted to kill me. He has to be terrified."

"I wouldn't worry too much," Tsukishima drawled. "Idiots have more luck than average people."

Yamaguchi glared. "Tsuki…."

"What? We've already raised a veritable army around him! He'll be fine," Tsukishima said back stubbornly. "Might as well worry about something else."

"Like the boggarts," Noya suggested cheerfully.

Tsukishima groaned. "...or preferably anything else."

Noya pouted. "Aww, come on, guys, we've only got about two months before the Ministry committee gets here! That's two months left to come up with an absolutely perfect defense on why the boggarts should be allowed to live!"

"Even though a committee has literally never sided in their favor before." Ennoshita sighed. "Alright, let's get to work. Noya, what should we expect for the committee!"

Noya immediately brightened. "See, the committee's at least there's some good news! So, right, since boggarts are technically defined as magical beings rather than magical creatures-"

"Why," Yamaguchi asked curiously.

Noya huffed. "Because the Ministry is stupid and if they gave boggarts 'creature' status, they'd have to give it to 'dementors', too. And that would mean they wouldn't be able to use dementors as Azkaban guards because they'd fall under the basic creature protection guidelines which prohibits the long term use of creatures in long term employment roles without detailed supervision or status as magic familiars. So, basically, the Ministry's covering their own as- "

"He's never this interested in school," Daichi moaned to himself. "Why is he never this interested in school?"

Asahi coughed quietly. "Noya, the committee..."

"Right!" Noya snapped. "So, other than receiving the original request and being in charge of the banishment if we lose, the Department of Magical Creatures don't have much control over the case!"

"And that's good for us how," Tsukishima asked.

"Because they don't know as much about magical creature law," Tanaka answered for him. "It's a blank slate, basically. We don't have to convince the experts, we've just gotta convince whoever the Ministry had time to send."

"And who did they have time to send," Ennoshita questioned.

"Well," Noya winced. "Okay, so, um, it's a bit of a weird group but…."

The room waited.

"Ah, it's the Head of the Being Division so that makes sense and then...the Ministry Attorney General, Three Unspeakables, the Speaker of the Wizamagot, and….um, the Deputy Minister."

The room stared.

"THAT'S HALF OF OUR BLOODY GOVERNMENT," Tsukishima shouted.

"Not half," Noya soothed. "Not even near half, really, just-"

"Just half the important ones," Tsukishima finished. "How? No, more important, why? What possible reason could they all have for hearing a case on boggarts!?"

Noya rubbed the back of his neck. "I told you they were already coming!"

"Why!" Tsukishima yelled again.

Ennoshita hummed. "What do you bet this is Suga's group's fault?"

"I'd put money on it," Daichi said as Asahi squeaked out a laugh.

"But," Noya rallied, "think about it like this, if we can convince them, that's basically convincing the entire Ministry, right? It's a precedent for boggarts everywhere!"

Tsukishima's head hit against the wall. "No, I was wrong. Let's go back to worrying about Hinata."

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Son,

As always, I hope this letter finds you in good health and sound mind. As we are two months out from what I hope to be your great introduction to politics, I am sure you can find time in your next Hogsmeade weekend to meet and discuss strategy.

I would prefer if you extend a later invitation to your friends for a tea as well since our last meeting was cut so dreadfully short. Remember, son, as a part of the Kuroo name, it is our duty above all others to foster competitive relationships and-

"What are you doing," Kenma interrupted him.

"Just fueling the fire," Kuroo announced cheerfully, continuing to rip the letter into tiny, minuscule fragments that would do just perfectly to litter the Ravenclaw fireplace. "It's technically still winter, you know, can't have the fire dying in the middle of the night."

Kenma raised an eyebrow. "It's a self-maintaing fire."

"Is it really?" Kuroo shook his head in mock amazement, throwing the last of the pieces like confetti and watching them burst into flame. "Well, I'll be, the things they think of these days! Magical, really."

Kenma rolled his eyes. "You know one of these days it's actually going to be something important."

"Kenma," he said seriously, "I truly do not believe my father has uttered something actually important in my entire life."

Kenma's lips pressed together and his hair did that little shimmer that Kuroo knew always meant he was biting back a laugh.

Kuroo grinned at him.

"Are you at least going to tell the rest of your friends," Kenma asked, sitting down in the armchair next to the fire.

"Tell them? Sure, of course, I will." Kuroo perched on the armrest of Kenma's chair. "Pity, though. I don't think they'll be able to make it. I'll be sure to break the news to Dad."

"He's not going to be happy about that," Kenma said in a way that didn't at all discourage the idea.

"Why no, I don't think he will be." Kuroo leaned in a bit closer. "Here's the thing, though. I'm starting to think the absolute best choices in life are the things my father has absolutely no control over. Maybe I should make more of those."

Kenma looked up and met his eyes, smiling in that quiet way that made Kuroo's heart beat faster.

"Maybe you should," Kenma agreed.

"Maybe I will."

Kuroo was grinning widely now even as Kenma blushed and finally looked back to his book, completely ignoring any of Kuroo's further attempts to distract him.

Kuroo didn't care much, though. Somehow, watching the fire burn away at the last memories of his father's letter and his heart still beating faster in his chest, Kuroo felt strangely invincible.

Possibly for the first time in his entire life.

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Her mother was coming.

Yachi looked down at the note in her hands. A simple thing really, just a brief notice from her mother that she'd be at Hogwarts in roughly two weeks time working on some official Ministry business.

Her mother was coming.

Yachi knew she had an interesting relationship with her mother. For most of her life, Yachi would define it as a mixture of admiration and envy and hero worship and a cold abject terror that Yachi knew she couldn't live up to her.

Her mother loved her. Yachi knew that.

But just because you loved someone didn't mean you could relate to them. It didn't mean you truly knew them. Yachi had found that out the hard way.

Her mother lied to her. Yachi knew that, too.

Her mother hid from her.

Her mother kept secrets from her.

Her mother couldn't even tell her how her father died and her aunt had saved her.

Her mother…

Yachi had spent a ridiculous amount of her life caught in worry and fear. She was self aware enough to know that she'd always be somewhat anxious.

But, Yachi wasn't scared of facing her mother anymore.

She couldn't be. Not with a father that tired to do the right thing and died by the wrong choices. Not with a godmother who loved her enough to sacrifice her own life.

Yachi was done being scared of the truth.

She turned back to her mother's letter, flipped it over and wrote one in return.

Dear Mom,

I know what happened to Dad and Aunt Kirika. We need to talk.

Hitoka

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A/N: Thanks for reading and for your support!

Next Chapter: The Quidditch Semi-Finals

Post Date: February 9th/ 10th