Chapter 4
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Harry ran down the hall in the direction where Draco was going, he stopped and looked around quickly hoping to find Draco, he was now at the main entrance of the school. Looking around desperately, Harry found that the front doors were opened a bit; he sprinted to the door and looked out and saw Draco hurrying down the steps. Harry then quickly threw the door open and ran out and down the steps shouting, "Draco! Please stop!".

Not listening, Draco kept on going. Since Draco was wearing his robes it slowed him down enough for Harry who was wearing his muggle clothes, to catch up with him and he tackled Draco down at the waist making them both fall onto the muddy grass. Harry then got up and flip Draco over onto his back, while Draco was struggling to get out of Harry's hold and away him.

"Draco, Draco! Listen to me."

But Draco just keep on struggling, so Harry did the only thing he could think of for calming the blond down. He lean down and kissed Draco fully on the lips and the Slytherin finally slowed down his struggles and eventually stopped and started to respond. Seeing the blond had stopped, Harry pulled back looking down at the Slytherin with a worried expression who now looked shock and scared.

"Draco?" Harry said worriedly.

"Please don't do this, Harry. We can't do this." Draco eyes full of tears, he started to sob and cried.

"Why?" Harry asked with a hoarse voice as he got off of Draco and sat beside him.

"Why?, you know why. You were there, you heard my reasons." Draco replied still sobbing.

"So? Is thats all? Those aren't good reasons at all."

"Not good reasons!" Draco looked at him disbelievingly.

"One, even we have been enemies for five years its still not too late to change. Two, who cares if your father is a Deatheater. Three, even if your father did come up with a crazy plan to hand me over to Voldemort I won't blame you, if its going to happen then it happens. Four, I don't want you to even think of risking your life for me, if you die I wouldn't know what to do with my life. And five, well we already accomplished that." answered Harry.

"No, no we still can't."

"Why not? You love me and I love you, since we love each other why can't we start a relationship?"

Draco mumble something that Harry couldn't hear clearly.

"What was that?" asked Harry kindly.

"I'm scared."

"Of what?"

"I'm scared that I will hurt you." Draco whispered.

"Oh, Draco....You won't hurt me as long as you love me, beside in love you're bound to get hurt sometimes, right? So please, give us a chance?" Harry giving Draco a sad puppy look. Draco sighed giving up, he just couldn't stand that kind of look from Harry.

"You're signing your own death warrant, you know."

"Well at least I die happy." Harry joked trying to lighten the atomsphere.

Draco looked up at Harry with his puffy red eyes then he threw his arms around Harry's neck in a tight embrace. He buried his face into Harry's rain soaked sweater and mumbled.

"Don't you ever say that ever." even it was muffled Harry still heard it, he smiled and wrapped his arms around Draco's waist and tuck Draco's head under his chin.

As both students sat there on the muddy grass in the pouring rain, they were being watched unknowningly by two people who hoped they will work things out.

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Up in Neo's room stood Neo and Jade who was looking down at the new couple from one of the windows in Neo's room.

"You know if they keep staying in the rain like that, they're going to catch pneumonia. Can't you do anything to stop the rain." said Jade as she turn towards Neo.

"The weather isn't in my department you know, its more in Tony's. But you're right, they're going to get sick if they keep staying out there. I just hope Tony won't be mad if I change the weather without his permission."

"Why do you need his permission?"

"Because as you know since Tony is an asian water dragon, if you have read any books on them, they are in charge of the world's weather both on Earth and Illusa. They also look after the four oceans, North, South, East and West. His father the sea dragon king had just given him the duty of looking after the world's weather this summer. I just don't want to mess up his work and all."

"Don't worry!, he won't be mad. Besides you are his fiance after all, hes marrying you because he loves you, changing a small part of the world's weather here won't do much anyways."

"Yeah, you're right." Taking a pure white feather out of nowhere, Neo threw it out the window and into the air. The feather flew right into the dark rain clouds and exploded into white dust. Immediately it stopped raining and the clouds started to disappear, leaving a clear star filled night sky.

"Now with that done, why don't we finish our game?" stated Jade as they both walked back to the table they were playing at.

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Harry and Draco just sat there on the muddy grass, when the rain stopped and the dark clouds started to clear up.

"It stopped raining you know, as much as I like sitting here with you in my arms, I think we should head back inside. Its getting late and my cousins might get worried." said Harry as he looked down at Draco.

"Cousins? I never knew you have cousins here at Hogwarts..." Draco replied as he looked up at his love.

"Actually I just met them today, its Jade and Neo."

"They are your cousins?"

"Yeah, its a long story, I'll tell you later. Come on, let head back in." Harry got up and held out his hand to Draco. The Slytherin took hold of it and Harry pulled him to his feet, still holding each other hands they headed towards the school. They walked through the halls carefully hoping not to be found and headed to towards Neo's room. When they reached the door Harry knocked and a 'Come in!' was heard and Harry just opened the door and both of them walked in. As they walked into the room they see Neo and Jade sitting at a table each holding cards in their hands and had cards on the table in different places and positions, with white line markings of 2 rows of 7 rectangles in front of each person.

"Hold it! You two are not, getting my floor wet." said Neo and Harry and Draco stopped in their tracks. Neo than lift his free hand up and waved it at the soaking wet couple. Suddenly a gust of hot air rose up from under their feet, twirling around them drying them completely and cleaned their clothes at the same time. Harry and Draco looked at each other in amazingly then walked towards Neo and Jade.

"So I see you two worked things out?" asked Neo as he placed a card face down on the table in one of the rectangles.

"Yeah, we did." Harry said happily.

"So you two are together as a couple, I presume?" asked Jade this time.

"No we're not." was the reply from Draco before Harry could say yes.

All three pairs of eyes looked at him confusingly.

"What do you mean we're not, what about the thing that just happened outside between us!" said Harry, a little bit too loud.

"You didn't ask me out yet." Draco said quietly looking down at the floor. Harry just stared at him dumbfoundly and his cousins just snickered and returned to the current game they were playing.

"Well? What are you waiting for? Ask him out already!" exclaimed Jade as she took a card and placed it on the table.

Harry then had Draco face him and took both of the blond's hands into his and looked into his eyes.

"Will you go out with me?"

"Maybe..."

"Maybe? What do you mean 'maybe'?"

"Alright! Yes! Happy now?"

The Gryffindor just gave him a look and gave him a quick kiss on the lips, pulled back and smiled and turned back to his two card dueling cousins. The couple walked up to the table and curiously looked at what Neo and Jade was doing. There were numbers above each of the players heads, Jade with 1000 and Neo with 900. Neo had two cards on the top of his two rows of placements and Jade had one. Standing of top of the cards where the picture should be, stands an action figure size representative of the card which almost making it like it came to life. Above each figure also displays two set of numbers atop of each other.

"What are you guys playing?" asked Harry.

"Duel Monsters." replied Jade.

"Duel Monsters?" questioned Draco.

"Yeah, Duel Monsters. Its a muggle trading card game, where you use monsters of all sorts and battle it out with someone. Along with that you use things like magic, traps and equipments to help you out in a duel and your monsters. Its really quite a good game, I wonder why they never had it in the wizarding world." stated Neo.

"Oh, how do you play?" asked Draco interestedly.

"Just watch Jade and I, then see what you think about it."

Draco nodded, along with Harry and watch them go at it.

"I believe its your turn Jade?" said Neo.

Jade draw a card from her deck and placed it in her hand. She looked at her hand for a few seconds then taking a card, she started to play.

"First I play Elegant Egotist, which multiplies my Harpie Lady and become Harpie Lady Sisters and then equip them with Cyber Shield."

She placed the card face up on one of the placements, on the bottom of the two rows. The almost like it was alive Harpie Lady standing on the card started to change. The Harpie Lady glowed and split into three, each with a different hair style and the numbers above them changed from 1300/1400 to 1950/2100. Then a set armor appeared on each of them changing their numbers again from 1950/2100 to 2450/2100.

"Then I call on Harpie's Pet Dragon, in attack mode. With its special effect it gain 300 points for each Harpie Lady on the field."

Placing the card right next to the Harpie Lady Sister, an action size figure of a pink dragon came of the card picture with the numbers 2000/2500 which then automatically change to 2900/3400.

"Harpie's Pet Dragon attack the Dark Magician!" The dragon obeyed and using its special attack it attacked Neo's magician, destroying it which it shatter into pieces. The card then disappears off the board and reappeared on pile of faced up cards on Neo's playing field. The number above Neo started to decrease from 900 to 500.

"Now Harpie Lady Sisters attack Mystical Sand!" and the number above Neo decreased again from 500 to 150.

"Looks like I'm going to win this time, cous." smirked Jade.

"Don't start celebrating yet!" replied Neo and draw a card from his deck.

"I play the Pot of Greed." placing the card in its appropriate place on the table, he then draw another two cards from his deck.

"This match has been fun but its time to end this." said Neo and Jade just looked at him with a blank look.

"First I play Monster Reborn and bring back my Dark Magician." Putting the card in it correct space, the card of the Dark Magician appear back on the monster field with the magician itself standing on it's card again.

"You think you can beat me with Dark Magician, Ha!" mocked Jade.

"No but I also play.....Dark Magician Girl in attack mode. Because of her special effect, she get an extra 300 points for each Dark Magician that is either in the graveyard or on the field. And since you destroyed one of my Dark Magicians earlier and now I have my second one on my field, she gets an extra 600 point because of it. I also use Black Pendant to boost her power even further."

Placing the card on the field, the Dark Magician Girl came out with the number 2000/1700 which automatically becomes 2600/2300 then 3100/2300.

"Now Dark Magician attack Harpie Lady Sisters!" and Jade life points from 1000 became 950.

"Since your dragon is powered up by your Harpie Lady Sisters, it attack points have gone back to normal. And now to finish this match, Dark Magician Girl attack Harpie's Pet Dragon!" and Jade life points were reduced to 0.

"No! I lost again! I want a rematch!" Jade called out.

"Sure, but another time."

"Wow! That was great! Could you teach me how to play?" asked Draco.

"Yeah, me too." added Harry.

"Sure." replied Neo.

"I want to ask, how did you make the cards come to life anyways?" asked Harry.

"Oh, I enchanted the cards as well as the table so it will make it like a real battle of monsters, instead of just playing a flat out card game with no action." Neo walked over to his opened trunk and took out a book. He walked back to the table the book in one hand and he snapped his fingers, then out of nowhere two books exactly like the one he was holding appeared in his empty hand. He handed the two books to Harry and Draco, one for each of them. Taking the books in their hand and the title reads 'The Offical Guide to Duel Monsters'.

"This book will tell you everything you need to know about the game, its history, the rules and the list of cards, as well as tips and stradegies in the game. Take it and read it and when you totally understand everything then Jade and I will teach you how to play."

"Thanks." both boys nodded.

"Well its getting late, I think it time for you three to hit the sack. Hey, how about you guys come to my room tomorrow before dinner and eat here. That way we could learn more about each other lives and stuff, you can come too if you want Draco." said Neo.

"Sure." all three students replied.

"Oh yeah, can you guys keep mine and Draco's relationship a secret?" Harry asked suddenly.

"Why?" questioned Jade.

"We just want to keep it a secret for awhile until we're ready and its safe then we will tell people. Please?" answered Draco.

"I agree with Draco, with the time like these days, you don't know what will happen if Voldemort found out about it." agreed Neo.

"Fine..." said Jade.

"Then that settles it, we will have dinner here. Well see you guys tomorrow in class!" everyone said good night and left Neo's room.

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All three students walked through the hall until they stopped at the split path to the two different houses.

"Well I'll start heading back to the dorm. It was nice to meet you Draco and I'll see you in class tomorrow. Good night! And Harry, don't take too long!" Jade said to the couple and then turned around and started to head back the Gryffindor dorms.

"Yeah, you too. Good night!" Draco called back as the asian girl left the new couple alone to themselves for awhile.

"Well this is it, I just wish we could have this kind of night forever. No worries in the world, just you and me." sighed Harry as he looked lovingly at Draco.

"Me too, but you can't always get what you want."

"Well then, I'll see you tomorrow love. I'll be dreaming about you." Harry leaned in to kiss the blonde.

"Me too." Draco murmured against Harry's mouth as he kissed him fully on the lips which soon it became passionate. They finally pulled apart for some air and gave each other a tight hug and a quick kiss on each other lips.

"Good night and love you!" said Harry as he walked towards the towers.

"Good night and love you too!" also said Draco as he head towards the dungeons.

Both when they reached their dorms, changed their clothes and went to sleep with dreams of their new found love.

Note: For the Duel Monsters game I use the rules from the anime (Duelist Kingdom episodes), that means no use of tributes for 5 or more star level monsters.