Tasukete!
(a.k.a. Pebbles and Tsuki go to Hogwarts)
By Pebbles (Tennyo Yurika Kei) and TsukinoDeynatsu (Tamashii Tsukino Deynatsu)
Warning: This story is littered with Japanese phrases. There will be a section at the end of each chapter with the translations.
Authors' Notes:
Firstly - Harry Potter belongs to neither Pebbles nor Tsuki. This story was written for 3 main reasons - 1) for the hell of it, 2) We like Harry Potter! and 3) to see what would happen to Malfoy if Tsuki went to Hogwarts (Tsuki: Run and hid, cherub..... Oh, isn't he just the cutest!! *eyes glint evilly*)
Secondly, uhm, is there a secondly? Yeah! This is our first Harry Potter fanfiction so some of the characters may be a little OOC (Tsuki: Malfoy will be ALOT OOC.. At least when I'm through with him. ^_^)(Pebbles: Oh God... If you really do exist, help him now.)(Tsuki: DON'T RUIN MY FUN, KEI-CHAN! ;_; *sulks*) and don't be too hard on us!
Chapter One - Monogatari ga Hajimeru
(a.k.a. The Story Begins)
Staring up at the ceiling, one could almost imagine being outside. Almost, especially considering the fact that the ceiling was blocked from sight by a very tatty, talkative black hat. Said hat was currently trying to make sense of a language it couldn't understand and therefore not talking much, leaving the wearer to stare blankly at what she could imagine of the ceiling.
"As you all know, last year we put forth nominations for the International Magical Schools Exchange Program." Albus Dumbledore stood up and addressed the assembly, sweeping his eyes over the grand decorations and rows of robed pupils. "Two of our students, Pansy Parkinson and Lavender Patil, left to go to Beauxbatons this year. In return, we recieved two students from the Japanese Mahou no Jinja - Yurika Kei Tennyo and Tsukino Deynatsu Tamashii. Both are in their 5th Year and will be participating fully in Hogwarts daily school life. Now, Mahou no Jinja teaches a different sort of magic to special witches called "mikos" as well as standard International Magic, and the two girls we recieved both have extraordinarily strong miko powers. I'm expecting you all to welcome them wholeheartedly, and I will tolerate no uneccessary comments. Any questions?"
After several moments of silence, Draco Malfoy's hand shot into the air. "Ah, yes Malfoy?"
"Sir, why is that girl on the stool wearing weird clothes?" At the sound of his voice, said girl's head perked up.
"Ah..." Dumbledore turned to face the two exchange students. Indeed, the one on the stool was wearing strange clothes - a baggy red skirt and baggy white top, folded over in a kimono style. On her feet were wooden sandals. The girl leaning against the wall was wearing the Hogwarts uniform and was looking around with undisguised interest. Dumbledore sighed slightly, and turned back to the assembly. "Tsukino Tamashii is wearing the traditional Japanese miko costume. When the two girls transferred, they were given the option of wearing their own uniforms, or ours. Yurika Tennyo picked to don our clothes, and Miss Tamashii preferred her own.
"Yeah, it's a costume alright," Malfoy muttered quietly to Goyle, a big, beefy boy seated beside him before turning back to the girls onstage. Much to his surprise, Tamashii raised her hands and lifted the Sorting Hat off her head. She glared at him for a moment, then her face broke into a smile that was a little *too* cute and sweet and innocent, before placing the hat back on her head, leaving a rather disturbed Malfoy and a hall buzzing with excitement.
Yurika sighed. She was starting already...
Dumbledore turned back to the stage and nodded towards the Sorting Hat. "Go ahead."
There was silence for a moment, and then the hat spoke up. "I can't understand her thoughts."
"..........." The school took a moment to process this.
Yurika sighed again before turning to her friend. "ei-go, Tsuki-chan."
"hai!!!" The girl on the stool cried happily, and switched her thought process to the English laguage.
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"Thank you, m'dear. Hmmm... now what've we got here? Let's see..." The friendly voice reverberated throughout her (mostly empty) head, and Tsukino nodded happily again. "How about Hufflepuff? You've certainly got the uhm.. *cough* loyalty."
Tsukino frowned, and sent a mental message to the hat. "I'm not stupid, you know." The hat sighed, and moved onto its next choice.
"How about Gryffindor? I think you'd do great in Gryffindor. Yes, I think that's where I'll pla-"
"NO!!!!!!!"
The hat paused, momentarily stunned into silence. "Whyever not?"
"I wanna go to Slytherin!!"
The hat blinked - if hats can do that. "Why would you wanna go there?"
Tsukino paused for a second. "Because."
"But you won't do well in Slytherin at all. You're not crafty enough. I think you'd do better in Gry-" An image of a young Japanese boy getting hit in the face by a fireball cut it off, and it shuddered. "Okay, but that was only once. And your other memories aren't as *cough*bad*cough*, Tsukino."
"I'll improve! I'll work on it!"
"No, listen, *I* pick where students go, and I'm going to place you in Gryffindor."
Tsukino hardened. "Listen, kisama, I'm a *miko*. I don't *need* a wand. Now, if you don't put me in Slytherin, you won't survive to test out my friend - wakatte'ru?"
The hat thought for a moment, then decided that 1) She *wasn't* joking, and 2) This was all the evidence of 'evil' he needed. "SLYTHERIN!!!!!" He yelled out to the crowd.
The hall erupted in sounds of disapproval - "She looks so innocent, how can she be in Slytherin?" Hermione Granger said to Harry Potter - while the Slytherin table (minus Malfoy) jumped up and started cheering. Dumbledore seemed to disapprove though, and spoke anxiously to Hagrid before looking hopefully at Yurika, who had begun to walk forward. The entire staff table seemed to disapprove of the hat's placing of the first girl, and Snape couldn't help noticing a worried look on the face of the second.
Tsukino, on the other hand, was completely ecstatic. She threw the hat into the air and yelled out "Yatta!!!!!!" before jumping off the stage - so what if there were stairs? - and running over to the Slytherin table, yelling "Wai, wai! Slytherin ni! Wai wai!!" before stopping behind the chair opposite Malfoy.
Ron Weasly leant over the table. "How *did* she get in that house?"
Tsukino suddenly quieted and looked up at Yurika, who was watching her with a *very* worried look on her face. At witnessing this, the noise in the hall subsided, each face turned towards the "crazy girl from Japan" to see what she would do next. Of course, nobobody expected what she *did* do next.
Tsukino bowed low. "Konnichiwa, minna-san. Douzoyoroshiku - I hope we get on well!" She smiled serenely and sat down, before turning her smile on Malfoy and making it a little *too* serene. Malfoy squirmed uncomfortably.
Snape turned his attention back to the (seemingly sane) girl from Japan, who was now seated on the stool with the Sorting Hat over her eyes. Maybe it was just his imagination, but he could have sworn he heard her say something like "Oh, Kami-sama, what have you done?"
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The hat's aura radiated happiness as he went through the English thoughts of Tennyo Yurika. After delving through her memories, he frowned slightly, perplexed. "Where to put you now, hmm?" He raised his voice so the whole hall could hear him. "Gryffindor, Ravenclaw or Slytherin?"
Said hall gasped collectively. Tsukino lit up. Upon noticing this, Malfoy turned several interesting shades of blue and purple. Only Harry, Ron and Hermione noticed this - Could Malfoy be scared of the exchange students? No, that was impossible... Wasn't it? Then again, Hermione could see.. reasons.. for him being slightly disturbed by Tsukino.
The hat lowered its voice again so that only Yurika could hear it and continued. "Well, you're certainly clever enough... And you definately have some tricks up your sleeve. Ravenclaw would be good... hmm... well... I think you should go to Gryffindor."
Yurika sent a mental message back to the hat, with a slight tint of menace. "Please put me in Slytherin, boushi-san."
The hat paused. "Boushi-san?"
"It's a polite way of saying 'hat'."
The hat appeared to nod. "Okay, but why do you want to go to Slytherin? You'd do much better in Ravenclaw..."
"Maybe, but who's gonna control Tsuki-chan?"
The hat seemed to process this for a minute. "SLYTHERIN!!!!"
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The noise that followed this was unlike anything anyone had ever heard before - matched only, perhaps, by Tsukino's loud voice. Said girl had taken it upon herself to climb onto the table and scream out "Wai! Wai! Kei-chan, Kei-chan, wai, wai!" happily.
Said Kei-chan made her way to the Slytherin table in the same manner as one would make their way to a funeral.
Draco Malfoy just sunk lower into his seat.
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Do we really need to describe the Welcoming Feast to you?
Yes?
Well, the Feast went as feasts usually go. Harry, Ron and Hermione were eating, talking and bitching about the new girls and Slytherin. In fact, every table was bitching about the new girls and Slytherin.
Oh, right, except the Slytherins.
The Slytherins, on the whole, seemed interested in Yurika and, although they were slightly wary of Tsukino, they were, in fact, as friendly as Slytherins get.
Yurika and Tsukino were polite and well-mannered during the feast, muttering (well... Tsukino yelled it) "itadakimasu" before eating, and complimenting the food at set intervals.
Yurika had found herself surrounded by idiots who, in all honesty, seemed to be preaching "love and justice between Slytherins and fuck the rest of the world", as well as a high opinion of themselves - and an equal opinion of her and her friend, as they were now Slytherins. Being surrounded by idiots, Yurika simply answered their questions with the shortest possible answer and tried to ignore them.
Tsukino, of course, was in her element. She was surrounded by idiots who a) didn't speak a word of Japanese, b) were highly amusing and c) appeared to be rather stupid. Although she was having alot of fun making "conversation" with the other members of the table, she seemed to have a rather nasty habit of smiling brilliantly at Malfoy at 5 second intervals.
Malfoy seemed to have lost his appetite.
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Dumbledore sighed. The Welcoming Feast had ended two hours ago, and the students were all safely in bed. He looked around his office at the Hogwarts staff and sighed again. "Things are not going as well as planned."
"Who would'a thought - those two innocent li'tle girls, both Slytherins! It don't make sense, I'm tellin' yers now.." Hagrid shook his head and sat down next to Professor McGonagall.
McGonagall looked from Hagrid to Dumbledore. "It certainly doesn't make sense. Nobody thought those two young girls would be Slytherins - from the records we recieved, they're both perfect students! Well, Tamashii had a knack for getting herself into trouble, but nothing serious - they can't be Slytherins! Something must've gone wrong."
"Are you sure you're not just jealous, Professor?" Snape looked at her, amused. "After all, Gryffindor *did* get the famous Harry Potter, why should you get the two Japanese girls?" He spat out Harry's name as if it was an old sock. Then again, maybe it was - judging by his expression, he might just find them tasty.
Professor Trelawney ignored them and turned to the Headmaster. "I must admit, Dumbledore, even my crystal ball failed to show me this. Although I did see a disturbance, and I fear for the safety of one..." She trailed off.
Dumbledore just shook his head and sighed again. He was getting too old for this. Suddenly, Professor Flitwick spoke up. "Why don't you ask the Sorting Hat, Albus?"
The room fell silent, and everyone stared at him. Finally, Dumbledore spoke up again. "You're a genius, Flitwick." He stood up and crossed the room on silent feet, pausing in front of the cabinet upon which rested the hat. He hesitated a moment before picking it up and crossing back to his desk, placing the hat upon it and sitting down himself.
"Now," he began. "What happened with Tamashii and Tennyo? They were supposed to go to Gryffindor."
At this, the other teachers exchanged looks of surprise. No student had their house decided for them before they came...
The hat seemed to sigh, before opening it's 'mouth' to speak. "Well... The first one seemed to *want* to go to Slytherin."
"Want to? Why would she do that?"
"Because."
Professor McGonagall frowned. "Don't speak to the Headmaster like that!"
"But that's the reason she gave me!" The hat protested.
Dumbedore shook his head. "Still..." he continued, "That's no reason to place her there. You had orders to place her in Gryffindor."
The hat seemed to pause, considering its answer. "Well..." it said slowly, "She threatened me with her miko powers."
The teachers stared as Dumbledore hit his head on the desk - repeatedly. Hagrid tentatively leaned forward and placed his hand on his shoulder. "Uhm... are you okay?"
Dumbledore nodded and turned back to the hat, exasperated. "And Yurika?"
"She seemed to find it neccessary to control the first."
"........." The teachers took a moment to process this.
And Dumbledore's desk would never be the same.
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Although all students were supposedly safely tucked away in bed, the 5th year Slytherin girls' dormitory would tell you a different story. The 3 original Slytherin girls were doing their best to ignore the arguement raging in the room around them and attempting to sleep.
The two Japanese girls were, of course, the combatants.
Actually, one of them *had* been asleep, until the other had taken it upon herself to jump on her bed, yelling "me ga sameru!!! kirei na yoru desu!!" and singing songs about 'hoshizora's' and 'yoru no sora's'.
Of course, the other one wasn't too pleased at being jumped upon, told to open her eyes and having songs of night sung at her, so she'd promptly told Tsukino to shut up.
Tsukino had then taken it upon herself to decorate the room.
Loudly.
"URUSAI!!!" The other girls looked from her to Tsukino, then, in one of those strange moments of complete understanding and unity, yelled:
"SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!"
Before drawing their bed-hangings and going to sleep.
Tsukino, of course, took a few hours to reply - those green windowpanes need painting! - and by that time, the others weren't actually *expecting* a reply, which made it, in her eyes at least, an even *better* time to talk.
"BUT I'M NOT SLEEPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Sorry, did we say talk? We meant yell.
A muffled "nnngg" and a pillow thrown from Yurika's bed was her answer.
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Japanese Phrases / Words
Tasukete! = Help!
Monogatari ga Hajimeru = The Story Begins
-san = A polite suffix added to names, can be comparable to Mr. or Mrs. Indicates respect.
-sama = An extremely polite suffix added to names, is sometimes translated as Lord or Lady. Indicates great respect.
-chan = An affectionate suffix added to the names of friends, more commonly used for girls. Also used for younger girls.
Mahou no Jinja = Literally means "Shrine of Magic" or "Magic Shrine" (Mahou = magic, no = of, Jinja = shrine)
miko = Shinto Preistess
ei-go = The English Language
hai = Yes, okay
kisama = An insult, comparable to bastard
wakatte'ru? = Get it? / Do you understand?
yatta! = Yay! / Alright! (literally 'Did It!')
wai! = Yay!
ni = A particle that is used for location, comparable to 'in'. So "Slytherin ni" means "In Slytherin". Since the subject is often dropped in Japanese, it would be translated as "I'm in Slytherin!"
konnichiwa = Good Afternoon, can be used as hello
minna = Everyone
douzoyoroshiku = Please treat me well / I hope we get on well
Kami-sama = God
itadakimasu = Literally a form of the verb "to recieve", is said before eating and is comparable to Grace Before Meals.
me ga sameru = Literally "open your eyes" but can be used for "wake up"
kirei na yoru desu = It's a beautiful night
hoshizora = Starry sky
yoru no sora = Night sky
urusai = Literally means "noisy" but is often used in conversation as "Shut up!"
Pronounciation
Japanese is a syllabellic language, and each syllabell is stressed evenly, though in 3 syllable names the middle syllabell has less stress.
r in Japanese is pronounced halfway between R and L.
tsu is pronounced like the 'ts' at the end of 'cats' - say 'cats', then 'catsoo', then drop the ka - you now have 'tsu'.
Yurika Kei Tennyo = Yu-ri-ka Ke-i Te-n-nyo
You-rie-kah Kay Ten-nyo (nyo is one syllable - not two. It's said as nyo, not nai-o)
Tsukino Deynatsu Tamashii = Tsu-ki-no Deynatsu Ta-ma-shi-i
(Deynatsu is not a Japanese word. It was taken from Sprite - A Pokemon Fanfiction and means 'Dragon')
Tsoo-key-noh Day-nah-tsoo Tah-mah-she
Yurika is just a name. Kei is Tsuki's nickname for Pebbles IRL. Tennyo means 'heavenly maiden' and is a creature from mythology.
Tsukino means 'of the moon' (tsuki = moon, no = of), Deynatsu is 'dragon' and Tamashii means 'soul'.
U's are often dropped between s and k. So can you say Tskino? =P U's are also dropped at the end of desu (desu = to be, is), so it's pronounciation is usually 'des'.
Sorry it's so short - it's only a prologue!!
And there won't be any more looooong Japanese notes, either.