By Aiko Hotaru

Chapter 1: Kiki?

I don't own SM or HP. except Hotaru's really long name belongs to the one and only me!

Hotaru smiled softly as she gave Setsuna a last wave before turning to the area. "See you next summer Setsuna-mama" She told the woman and rushed toward the wall. In a flutter she raced out and appeared in a strange station. She grinned, noticing a train's man loading up the packages of student's items to the train. She walked to him. He looked at her once and visibly flinched. "Kiki?" He whispered shocked. She blinked and looked at him again curiously and nervous at the same time. He broke out in a smile and told her what to do. In a few minutes she was aboard the train and ready to go in her new school uniform for first years. As the train began to move after about 5 minutes, the young girl hurriedly tried to find a seat. She came across a room just in time to hear "Wow!" from one of the compartments. She looked in. Shyly she came to see two faces. "Hello." She waved. "Hi, oh its you again." She recognized the boy from the wand shop. She grinned and sat down. "Do you mind? No other ones left." She shrugged as the two boy grinned. "Mind? We're bloody honored!" One laughed. The other grinned. "You know. I never caught your names." She said. "I'm Harry." The dark haired one from before spoke. "Harry Potter." He finished. She blinked, then remembered the name. "Oh…" Her violet eyes widened. "And I'm Ronald Wesley, Ron." The other boy with reddish hair and greenish colored eyes grinned at her. "My name's Hotaru Tomoe." She smiled. "Hotaru? Strange name… Where you from?" Ron questioned.

Ron and Harry grinned at their new companion who broke the mellow conversation. "Japan." Came her reply to Ron's question. Both had wide eyes. "Wow! Bloody wow!" Ron whispered. "Muggle word too?" He gulped. Hotaru nodded. "Cool. You both have a great deal in common." Ron pointed at the quiet set of new friends he got on this train ride.

The rest of the train ride was like a blur. Hotaru saw Harry get his glasses fixed by a frizzy headed girl with blue colored eyes named Hermione Granger. Hermione and Ron and Harry talked, while Hotaru worked in her notebook sketching a picture of the scenery they passed. A boy interrupted their conversations and Hotaru's doodling. He was tall, with short glazed blonde white colored hair and piercing eyes that sort of frightened Hotaru. "Is it true Harry Potter is in this compartment?" he asked. "Yes." Harry answered for his small group. "I'm Draco Malfoy." The boy smirked at him and spoke in a cold tone. Ron giggled and got a glare from Draco. "You think my name's funny do you? No need to ask who you are. My father told me about the Wesleys have red hair, freckles and more children than they can afford." He sneered. Draco turned to face Harry. "You'll soon find out that some wizarding families are better than others, Potter. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort, although I'm sure that one of your friends appears to be of the better sort." He glanced at Hotaru, eyes full of hunger.

Hotaru shivered slightly under the gaze Draco was giving her. Her fear and anger grew to a harsh height as he glared darkly at her. His blue ice cold eyes watching her carefully looking at each of her features. She clutched onto her sketchpad and pens tightly, a cold sweat beginning to form on her hands. Her body inwardly moved to lean towards Hermione for protection. "I think I can figure out whose of the bad sort by myself." Harry coolly stated, brown eyes glaring at the icy boy. Draco's eyes left Hotaru and he sneered. "We'll see Potter." He turned and walked from the room. Hotaru felt faint and once he was gone she sighed relieved. Though the girl was silent an evil smirk came to her mind. She began to draw something that would break the others into laughter.

"Man…Spooky guy." Harry shuddered as his two talkative friends spoke about Draco. Hotaru was drawing on her sketchpad. "Guys…" She smirked, giggling slightly. The group turned to look at her. "What Firefly?" Hermione asked. The group looked at her. "It's what her name means in English." She sighed as Hotaru nodded in agreement. Hotaru turned the parchment toward them and the group broke out laughing. There on the picture was an image of Draco with a devil like appearance. She giggled, a soft smile running on her lips.

"Hey Firefly! Tell us about yourself." Harry commanded after they calmed down. "Everyone's heard about me, and you learned of Ron from the beginning and Hermione in 10 seconds flat." He stopped to chuckle at Hermione's red face. Hotaru blushed slightly. "I don't know what to say. My dad and mother are both gone, but my dad was a Muggle. All I really know about magic is everything the family that adopted me has told me. Like my super huge name." She grinned. The talking of Hotaru Tomoe had finally begun…

TBC…