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Notes:
Gomen-I'm sorry
Daijoubu-Are you all right?
Kami-Sama-God
Chapter 10: This is why I am here…This is why I had to leave Tokyo
"I think it's so great that you are actually going to do this." Lavender states in admiration for her perch on her bed.
"Yeah, there hasn't been a girl beater on the Gryffindor team for forever!" Parvati chimes in.
"I'll find out when the last beater was." Hermione adds, "I am rather curious to find out when the last beat was a female beater was."
"Guys this is crazy, I mean why should I even try out? I'm not going to be any good at it, and I am going to make a fool out of myself." Usagi sighs sitting on the top of her chest.
"Come on Usagi you're going to do well and you are going to get that position!" Parvati states enthusiastically.
"She's not going to get anything if she doesn't leave right now." Hermione states, "You better get going Usagi, now."
"Right." Usagi nods, "I'll see you all later and then we will know if I got it or not."
"Good luck!" Everyone chorus' after Usagi as she walks out of the room.
"Hey Usagi-Chan!" Seiya's call causes Usagi to turn from her steady pace towards the Quidditch fields.
"Hey Seiya-kun what's going on?" Usagi asks.
"Not much, I just wanted to wish you good luck." Seiya states.
"Thanks Seiya-kun, I better go." Usagi starts to turn back towards her path but when Seiya doesn't move away she asks, "Was there something else?"
A thoughtful and painful look crosses Seiya's face before he says anything, "No, it's nothing."
"Seiya, are you sure…that wasn't a nothing look." Usagi states.
"Usagi go to your try-out, right now isn't the appropriate time to talk about it." Seiya states, "Go."
Taking a deep breath Usagi shrugs it off and continues on her way, she knows Seiya wants to talk to her about something important but deep down she also knows she isn't going to like whatever Seiya has to say.
"Your sister is crazy dude." One of Draco's roommates states throwing the door open.
"What's going on?" Draco asks looking up from his homework.
"She tried out for the Gryffindor team, and made it." He states.
"*My* sister is a beater?" Draco breathes, "On the Gryffindor team?"
"I told you she was crazy!" The same roommate states.
Draco shakes his head but returns to his homework, knowing full well that if he doesn't support his sister in this he could case her to hate him forever.
"So," Harry whispers as he and Usagi dance to a slow song, "How are you liking your first Hogwarts dances?"
"I love being here." Usagi responds, "I mean at my other school I felt so out of place, but here I feel so comfortable. And my friends are great! And I don't want to ever leave."
"What was your other school like?" Harry asks, "I don't think I've ever asked you."
Usagi bit her lip, glad Harry couldn't see her face, "Nothing like this, it was so small that we didn't live at the school and lived at home…I don't know. It's more muggle oriented, I guess. There are more people from muggle families there than there are here."
"Really? I've heard of the small schools, but they can give a good education obviously, you came to Hogwarts completely caught up with everyone."
"Yeah, it's as if I went here." Usagi replies softly pulling away from Harry as the dance ended.
Harry and Usagi walk back towards their friends and as Harry gets caught up in conversation with Hermione and Ron Usagi takes the chance to slip away.
Seiya approaches her at the refreshment table, "What's wrong Usagi-Chan?"
"It's everything, I hate lying to everyone here. I mean Harry, and Ron, Hermione everyone. For the first time I feel more comfortable, I'm in my element, it's like I never should have gone to muggle school in the first place. But I have to lie about that, I have to lie about who I really am. I hate lying."
"I'm sorry Usagi-Chan." Seiya states handing her a drink.
Suddenly Usagi remembers her odd conversation a week before, "Seiya-kun what were you not telling me before I had my Quidditch try-out?"
"Usagi-Chan you won't like it." Seiya states reverting back to Usagi's native Japanese.
"I didn't think I would." Usagi states in her native language also, "Shoot Seiya, you might as well get it over with."
"I don't want to ruin your dance."
"Seiya if you don't tell me now it will be ruined because I will be thinking up the worst case scenario, please Seiya just tell me."
Seiya took Usagi's elbow and led her to a set of two chairs in a quiet corner, "Taiki, Yaten and I have been sensing trouble brewing. We didn't know what it was but it felt familiar…"
"Chaos…" Usagi whispers closing her eyes and getting a far away look on her face.
"You feel it too?" Seiya asks surprise written in his voice.
"I don't know how to explain it, deep down I did. But I didn't realize what I was feeling until you said something." Usagi wraps her arms around herself rubbing her hands up and down her bare shoulders.
"Gomen Gomen Usagi-Chan. I thought we were long over this." Seiya states softly.
"We will take care of it." Usagi states.
"Shouldn't we alert the other senshi?" Seiya asks.
Usagi shakes her head slowly, "Nope, this is why I am here. This is why I had to leave Tokyo under Setsuna's orders. This isn't senshi business Seiya, this is our business, this is magic business."
"Hey Cassi!" Draco's voice causes Seiya and Usagi to jump and turn to face him.
"Oh hi Draco, what's going on?" Usagi asks quickly.
"Am I interrupting something?" Draco asks looking back and forth between Seiya and Usagi.
"No of course not, we were actually just talking about the upcoming Quidditch match between Slytherin and Gryffindor." Seiya lies resulting in Usagi shooting Seiya a look, "Which I'm sure isn't a topic we all want to be involved in so I am going to be going." With Seiya's quick words he walks quickly away from the twins.
"You OK?" Draco asks concerned, "You look upset, what were you and Seiya really talking about?"
"I'm fine." Usagi brushes it off, "We were just talking about old times, I just got kind of homesick that's all."
"Oh well I can understand that." Draco agrees, "This is your first time away from home for such a long time."
"Yeah that's it." Usagi nods smiling brightly.
"Don't worry about it Cassi, your time here will fly." Draco assures.
And for the most part the time towards the end of the semester did fly. Usagi spending her time practicing Quidditch, and then games, and hanging out with her friends. But things were getting more complicated also, things between Harry and Usagi were heating up, gone were the promises for 'just friends' and in it's place was more than a friendly relationship. Usagi felt guilty for nearly 2 weeks when Ginny walked into the Common Room to find Usagi and Harry kissing on the couch. Things with Draco and Seiya were less confusing though, Draco stopped pressuring Usagi into being "her" evil side and Usagi came to realize a relationship between Seiya and she would never work for numerous reasons.
Usagi knew though, as the Christmas holiday approached that things were coming to a boiling point with Chaos. Whispers in the hall of Voldermort getting stronger were turning into whispers that parents of children had sworn that despite the fact that Hogwarts was safe their children would not be returning after the Christmas break. And as the last class before everyone was to go home for the holiday came around Usagi's world exploded…
"I feel it." Usagi states in Japanese standing in a circle in Seiya's classroom with Taiki, Yaten, and Seiya. "Something's going to happen and it's not going to be good."
"I feel it took." The three men agreed.
"Something nasty is moving in and it's not going anywhere." Seiya adds.
"Professors I'm so glad I found you." Lavender burst into the classroom out of breath and looking fearful, "All the other professors are at a meeting and no one knows where to find them."
"What is it Lavender?" Seiya asks.
"There's a monster in the Gryffindor common room, no one knows how it got there and it's got Hermione and it's going to kill her!" Lavender cried.
"Lavender stay here." Usagi orders as she follows Seiya, Taiki and Yaten out of the classroom, when they reach the common room they find it completely empty. With the exception of Ron and Harry who have their wands held out, reciting spells at the slimy green monster that had hold of Hermione.
"I need my crystal." Usagi exclaims racing past everyone and towards the girls' rooms pulling out her trunk she grabs as the false bottom grabs her necklace and wastes no time transforming before she is standing next to Seiya, Taiki and Yaten who are ready to transform.
All four senshi take position but the guys transform first and immediately begin attacking the monster and finally Usagi calls out her transforming words.
The Starlights were surprised to find that it was only their combined attack that dusted the monster but before they could ponder the easy destruction of the new enemy they turn to face three very stunned students.
"What was that?" Harry asks as Ron hurries to Hermione's side.
"What you guys just saw you can't tell anyone." Taiki states immediately.
"A select few professors know, only the ones who need to know do. It needs to be quiet, we will explain it all but first we need to get Hermione to the hospital wing." Yaten states.
"I'll stay here. The rest of you start working on a good lie on how we got rid of the monster." Ron offers before scooping Hermione into his arms and walking out of the common room.
"Usagi!" With the detransformation of the Starlights Harry is finally realizes that his girlfriend was in the common room. And rushing to her crumpled form he asks, "Are you OK?"
Harry's only response is sobs, hearing the noise Seiya, Taiki and Yaten rushed to where Usagi is kneeling with her hair covering her face.
"Usagi-Chan what's wrong?" Seiya asks.
"Was the power to much? It's the first time you've transformed for awhile." Taiki points out.
Harry reaches forward and pushes back Usagi's long hair, tucking it behind her shoulders. Usagi's face takes everyone aback fear, anger, and most of all pure despair is written across her face.
"What's wrong Usagi?" Harry asks trying to decide whether or not to take his girlfriend into his arms.
"What's wrong? Daijoubu Usagi-Chan?" Seiya asks in a mixture of English and Japanese.
"The power was just to much for her." Yaten states obviously to everyone around him that he doesn't believe what he is saying, "Right Usagi-Chan? Nothing's wrong. Right?'
Seiya moves to kneel in front of Usagi, "What happened?"
"I couldn't transform." Usagi whispers hoarsely before sobbing loudly and grabbing Seiya's robes tightly and burying her face in them. "It's over, my world is over. My everything…what am I supposed to tell Mamo-Chan and Haruka and…and everyone? I've done something wrong, I had to have. Moon eternal make-up." Usagi's body goes tense in Seiya's arms as she said the words but as she finishes the sentence and nothing happens she goes limp again.
"Usagi-Chan it's fine, I'm sure we will figure out what is wrong." Taiki states.
"Right." Usagi pushes away from Seiya taking position and holding out her crystal she calls the words out again and again and again.
"Stop it damn it Usagi stop it." Yaten exclaims grabbing the crystal away from Usagi.
"My power, it's gone. All gone." Seiya catches Usagi before she hits the floor in a dead faint.
"I think that is about it, do you have anything to add?" Seiya hopes his question will draw Usagi out of whatever world she was in. Hermione, Ron, Taiki and Yaten also turn their attention to Usagi. But she ignores the group and stays curled in a ball staring out the window of the train.
"So you think this Chaos is helping Voldermort?" Harry asks after everyone exchanges sad expressions.
"Exactly, we didn't destroy Chaos just set it free."
"You set it free? Why would you do that?" Ron asks his voice rising.
"We couldn't stop it, nor could we know that it would gather together again in such a large form." Taiki responds.
As the door slides open everyone falls silent, "What do you want Malfoy?" Ron asks in disdain.
"Relax Weasley I'm here to see my sister." Draco responds in the same tone, but the instant he sees Usagi's form his facial expression changes, "Cassi what's wrong?"
Usagi doesn't even turn to look at her brother, and Draco turns fierce eyes on Harry, "Potter if you did this to her I swear…"
"Draco calm down." Seiya orders standing up, "This has nothing to do with Harry, she got caught in the middle of the battle with the monster we had in the Gryffindor common room earlier today, she's just a little shook up."
"All right." Draco says his face relaxing only slightly. Walking back over to his sister he takes her hands into his, "I can't really come to Japan right now, OK? But I'll see you when we get back from vacation OK? I'll send you owls." When Usagi doesn't respond Draco turns his attention back to his professors, "Is she going to be OK?"
"She's going to be fine, disappointed she is so spaced out and she missed you but she will be fine." Seiya assures before Draco leaves the train compartment.
"Mom Usagi-Chan is going to be fine. She's going to walk off of that plane and be a barrel of smiles and hugs and you'll see. Nothing bad could have happened to her." Shingo assures his mother as he waits with his parents outside the airport.
"Shingo-kun's right Ikuko Usagi-Chan is going to be so happy to be home with stories about who she met at school and everything." Kenji agrees shooting a thankful look at his son.
"I know but until I see it for myself then I won't be so sure." Ikuko states just as Shingo catches sight of Seiya, Taiki and Yaten. "Oh Kami-Sama." Ikuko whispers as she catches sight of the lump in the wheelchair Seiya is pushing.
Notes:
Gomen-I'm sorry
Daijoubu-Are you all right?
Kami-Sama-God
Chapter 10: This is why I am here…This is why I had to leave Tokyo
"I think it's so great that you are actually going to do this." Lavender states in admiration for her perch on her bed.
"Yeah, there hasn't been a girl beater on the Gryffindor team for forever!" Parvati chimes in.
"I'll find out when the last beater was." Hermione adds, "I am rather curious to find out when the last beat was a female beater was."
"Guys this is crazy, I mean why should I even try out? I'm not going to be any good at it, and I am going to make a fool out of myself." Usagi sighs sitting on the top of her chest.
"Come on Usagi you're going to do well and you are going to get that position!" Parvati states enthusiastically.
"She's not going to get anything if she doesn't leave right now." Hermione states, "You better get going Usagi, now."
"Right." Usagi nods, "I'll see you all later and then we will know if I got it or not."
"Good luck!" Everyone chorus' after Usagi as she walks out of the room.
"Hey Usagi-Chan!" Seiya's call causes Usagi to turn from her steady pace towards the Quidditch fields.
"Hey Seiya-kun what's going on?" Usagi asks.
"Not much, I just wanted to wish you good luck." Seiya states.
"Thanks Seiya-kun, I better go." Usagi starts to turn back towards her path but when Seiya doesn't move away she asks, "Was there something else?"
A thoughtful and painful look crosses Seiya's face before he says anything, "No, it's nothing."
"Seiya, are you sure…that wasn't a nothing look." Usagi states.
"Usagi go to your try-out, right now isn't the appropriate time to talk about it." Seiya states, "Go."
Taking a deep breath Usagi shrugs it off and continues on her way, she knows Seiya wants to talk to her about something important but deep down she also knows she isn't going to like whatever Seiya has to say.
"Your sister is crazy dude." One of Draco's roommates states throwing the door open.
"What's going on?" Draco asks looking up from his homework.
"She tried out for the Gryffindor team, and made it." He states.
"*My* sister is a beater?" Draco breathes, "On the Gryffindor team?"
"I told you she was crazy!" The same roommate states.
Draco shakes his head but returns to his homework, knowing full well that if he doesn't support his sister in this he could case her to hate him forever.
"So," Harry whispers as he and Usagi dance to a slow song, "How are you liking your first Hogwarts dances?"
"I love being here." Usagi responds, "I mean at my other school I felt so out of place, but here I feel so comfortable. And my friends are great! And I don't want to ever leave."
"What was your other school like?" Harry asks, "I don't think I've ever asked you."
Usagi bit her lip, glad Harry couldn't see her face, "Nothing like this, it was so small that we didn't live at the school and lived at home…I don't know. It's more muggle oriented, I guess. There are more people from muggle families there than there are here."
"Really? I've heard of the small schools, but they can give a good education obviously, you came to Hogwarts completely caught up with everyone."
"Yeah, it's as if I went here." Usagi replies softly pulling away from Harry as the dance ended.
Harry and Usagi walk back towards their friends and as Harry gets caught up in conversation with Hermione and Ron Usagi takes the chance to slip away.
Seiya approaches her at the refreshment table, "What's wrong Usagi-Chan?"
"It's everything, I hate lying to everyone here. I mean Harry, and Ron, Hermione everyone. For the first time I feel more comfortable, I'm in my element, it's like I never should have gone to muggle school in the first place. But I have to lie about that, I have to lie about who I really am. I hate lying."
"I'm sorry Usagi-Chan." Seiya states handing her a drink.
Suddenly Usagi remembers her odd conversation a week before, "Seiya-kun what were you not telling me before I had my Quidditch try-out?"
"Usagi-Chan you won't like it." Seiya states reverting back to Usagi's native Japanese.
"I didn't think I would." Usagi states in her native language also, "Shoot Seiya, you might as well get it over with."
"I don't want to ruin your dance."
"Seiya if you don't tell me now it will be ruined because I will be thinking up the worst case scenario, please Seiya just tell me."
Seiya took Usagi's elbow and led her to a set of two chairs in a quiet corner, "Taiki, Yaten and I have been sensing trouble brewing. We didn't know what it was but it felt familiar…"
"Chaos…" Usagi whispers closing her eyes and getting a far away look on her face.
"You feel it too?" Seiya asks surprise written in his voice.
"I don't know how to explain it, deep down I did. But I didn't realize what I was feeling until you said something." Usagi wraps her arms around herself rubbing her hands up and down her bare shoulders.
"Gomen Gomen Usagi-Chan. I thought we were long over this." Seiya states softly.
"We will take care of it." Usagi states.
"Shouldn't we alert the other senshi?" Seiya asks.
Usagi shakes her head slowly, "Nope, this is why I am here. This is why I had to leave Tokyo under Setsuna's orders. This isn't senshi business Seiya, this is our business, this is magic business."
"Hey Cassi!" Draco's voice causes Seiya and Usagi to jump and turn to face him.
"Oh hi Draco, what's going on?" Usagi asks quickly.
"Am I interrupting something?" Draco asks looking back and forth between Seiya and Usagi.
"No of course not, we were actually just talking about the upcoming Quidditch match between Slytherin and Gryffindor." Seiya lies resulting in Usagi shooting Seiya a look, "Which I'm sure isn't a topic we all want to be involved in so I am going to be going." With Seiya's quick words he walks quickly away from the twins.
"You OK?" Draco asks concerned, "You look upset, what were you and Seiya really talking about?"
"I'm fine." Usagi brushes it off, "We were just talking about old times, I just got kind of homesick that's all."
"Oh well I can understand that." Draco agrees, "This is your first time away from home for such a long time."
"Yeah that's it." Usagi nods smiling brightly.
"Don't worry about it Cassi, your time here will fly." Draco assures.
And for the most part the time towards the end of the semester did fly. Usagi spending her time practicing Quidditch, and then games, and hanging out with her friends. But things were getting more complicated also, things between Harry and Usagi were heating up, gone were the promises for 'just friends' and in it's place was more than a friendly relationship. Usagi felt guilty for nearly 2 weeks when Ginny walked into the Common Room to find Usagi and Harry kissing on the couch. Things with Draco and Seiya were less confusing though, Draco stopped pressuring Usagi into being "her" evil side and Usagi came to realize a relationship between Seiya and she would never work for numerous reasons.
Usagi knew though, as the Christmas holiday approached that things were coming to a boiling point with Chaos. Whispers in the hall of Voldermort getting stronger were turning into whispers that parents of children had sworn that despite the fact that Hogwarts was safe their children would not be returning after the Christmas break. And as the last class before everyone was to go home for the holiday came around Usagi's world exploded…
"I feel it." Usagi states in Japanese standing in a circle in Seiya's classroom with Taiki, Yaten, and Seiya. "Something's going to happen and it's not going to be good."
"I feel it took." The three men agreed.
"Something nasty is moving in and it's not going anywhere." Seiya adds.
"Professors I'm so glad I found you." Lavender burst into the classroom out of breath and looking fearful, "All the other professors are at a meeting and no one knows where to find them."
"What is it Lavender?" Seiya asks.
"There's a monster in the Gryffindor common room, no one knows how it got there and it's got Hermione and it's going to kill her!" Lavender cried.
"Lavender stay here." Usagi orders as she follows Seiya, Taiki and Yaten out of the classroom, when they reach the common room they find it completely empty. With the exception of Ron and Harry who have their wands held out, reciting spells at the slimy green monster that had hold of Hermione.
"I need my crystal." Usagi exclaims racing past everyone and towards the girls' rooms pulling out her trunk she grabs as the false bottom grabs her necklace and wastes no time transforming before she is standing next to Seiya, Taiki and Yaten who are ready to transform.
All four senshi take position but the guys transform first and immediately begin attacking the monster and finally Usagi calls out her transforming words.
The Starlights were surprised to find that it was only their combined attack that dusted the monster but before they could ponder the easy destruction of the new enemy they turn to face three very stunned students.
"What was that?" Harry asks as Ron hurries to Hermione's side.
"What you guys just saw you can't tell anyone." Taiki states immediately.
"A select few professors know, only the ones who need to know do. It needs to be quiet, we will explain it all but first we need to get Hermione to the hospital wing." Yaten states.
"I'll stay here. The rest of you start working on a good lie on how we got rid of the monster." Ron offers before scooping Hermione into his arms and walking out of the common room.
"Usagi!" With the detransformation of the Starlights Harry is finally realizes that his girlfriend was in the common room. And rushing to her crumpled form he asks, "Are you OK?"
Harry's only response is sobs, hearing the noise Seiya, Taiki and Yaten rushed to where Usagi is kneeling with her hair covering her face.
"Usagi-Chan what's wrong?" Seiya asks.
"Was the power to much? It's the first time you've transformed for awhile." Taiki points out.
Harry reaches forward and pushes back Usagi's long hair, tucking it behind her shoulders. Usagi's face takes everyone aback fear, anger, and most of all pure despair is written across her face.
"What's wrong Usagi?" Harry asks trying to decide whether or not to take his girlfriend into his arms.
"What's wrong? Daijoubu Usagi-Chan?" Seiya asks in a mixture of English and Japanese.
"The power was just to much for her." Yaten states obviously to everyone around him that he doesn't believe what he is saying, "Right Usagi-Chan? Nothing's wrong. Right?'
Seiya moves to kneel in front of Usagi, "What happened?"
"I couldn't transform." Usagi whispers hoarsely before sobbing loudly and grabbing Seiya's robes tightly and burying her face in them. "It's over, my world is over. My everything…what am I supposed to tell Mamo-Chan and Haruka and…and everyone? I've done something wrong, I had to have. Moon eternal make-up." Usagi's body goes tense in Seiya's arms as she said the words but as she finishes the sentence and nothing happens she goes limp again.
"Usagi-Chan it's fine, I'm sure we will figure out what is wrong." Taiki states.
"Right." Usagi pushes away from Seiya taking position and holding out her crystal she calls the words out again and again and again.
"Stop it damn it Usagi stop it." Yaten exclaims grabbing the crystal away from Usagi.
"My power, it's gone. All gone." Seiya catches Usagi before she hits the floor in a dead faint.
"I think that is about it, do you have anything to add?" Seiya hopes his question will draw Usagi out of whatever world she was in. Hermione, Ron, Taiki and Yaten also turn their attention to Usagi. But she ignores the group and stays curled in a ball staring out the window of the train.
"So you think this Chaos is helping Voldermort?" Harry asks after everyone exchanges sad expressions.
"Exactly, we didn't destroy Chaos just set it free."
"You set it free? Why would you do that?" Ron asks his voice rising.
"We couldn't stop it, nor could we know that it would gather together again in such a large form." Taiki responds.
As the door slides open everyone falls silent, "What do you want Malfoy?" Ron asks in disdain.
"Relax Weasley I'm here to see my sister." Draco responds in the same tone, but the instant he sees Usagi's form his facial expression changes, "Cassi what's wrong?"
Usagi doesn't even turn to look at her brother, and Draco turns fierce eyes on Harry, "Potter if you did this to her I swear…"
"Draco calm down." Seiya orders standing up, "This has nothing to do with Harry, she got caught in the middle of the battle with the monster we had in the Gryffindor common room earlier today, she's just a little shook up."
"All right." Draco says his face relaxing only slightly. Walking back over to his sister he takes her hands into his, "I can't really come to Japan right now, OK? But I'll see you when we get back from vacation OK? I'll send you owls." When Usagi doesn't respond Draco turns his attention back to his professors, "Is she going to be OK?"
"She's going to be fine, disappointed she is so spaced out and she missed you but she will be fine." Seiya assures before Draco leaves the train compartment.
"Mom Usagi-Chan is going to be fine. She's going to walk off of that plane and be a barrel of smiles and hugs and you'll see. Nothing bad could have happened to her." Shingo assures his mother as he waits with his parents outside the airport.
"Shingo-kun's right Ikuko Usagi-Chan is going to be so happy to be home with stories about who she met at school and everything." Kenji agrees shooting a thankful look at his son.
"I know but until I see it for myself then I won't be so sure." Ikuko states just as Shingo catches sight of Seiya, Taiki and Yaten. "Oh Kami-Sama." Ikuko whispers as she catches sight of the lump in the wheelchair Seiya is pushing.