Here's the next chapter. Thankyou for all the reviews. My sister is so jealous that I hit the 30 review mark.
Disclaimer- It's not mine, though I own all the pets that they get, as well as their wands, and Yuri and Erin and Riara. *Amber Dream starts to point at things randomly* And I own that and that and that and that and that and that. *Amber Dream places a hand over her mouth.* Oops sorry. This is what happens when you stare at a computer screen for nine hours straight, trying to get things perfect on all your fics.
Chapter Twelve-
*SEPTEMBER 1*
They sat in a compartment on the train, staring at Platform 9 ¾. At first this had confused the gang.
Platform 9 ¾? Who had ever heard of such a thing?
Sakura and Yuri stared at their tickets, trying to remember how to get onto the platform. They all walked up to Platform 9 and Platform 10. They stood there, staring for a few minutes, when Tomoyo said something rather hesitantly.
"Ah… I know I'm new to magic and the sensing of auras, but can anyone else feel something coming from that barrier?" She asked, pointing to the barrier between Platform 9 and 10.
Everyone else stared at her, before realising that she was right.
"I had been sensing that all morning, but I thought it was the wizards and witches." Jamie said.
Sakura looked at the barrier, a look of concentration on her face. Suddenly the look lifted and she laughed.
"Now I remember!" She cried. "That's how you get to the platform. You walk through that barrier. Oh, and a warning. You're not going to be able to sense the wizards and witches, as they don't have a aura to speak of. They're far too weak."
Everyone except for Yuri stared at Sakura. They had never heard her talk like this before.
Yuri laughed. "Ah.. My imouto chan is
showing us some of her confidence. Don't worry minna san, Sakura doesn't do
this very often."
Sakura blushed, then stuck her tongue out at Yuri.
Yuri giggled, "Very mature Sakura."
Eriol, sensing a impending argument, quickly suggested that they get onto the other platform and onto the train.
Slowly the train pulled away from the station, and the gang began to get comfortable.
"I wonder where this Hogwarts is." Meiling said, as she lightly petted her new pet, Lin. Lin was a black bear cub that she had bought in a shop in Diagon Alley. Lin had ruby red eyes that stood out against her coarse black fur.
The others had also bought pets.
Tomoyo had bought a cougar cub with brilliant violet eyes. She named it Lavender, but called her Lavi for short.
Eriol, much to the protesting of Spinnel once he had gotten home, had bought a black panther with dark blue eyes. The panther also had a personality similar to Nakuru's, so Eriol had named it Genki.
Syaoran had a wolf cub, and aptly named it Kuro, because of its black fur. Kuro also had forest green eyes.
Jamie had gotten a falcon with beautiful dark red/black feathers and sea green eyes, which made a startling combination. He had named it Hinode, (which means 'sunrise' in Japanese) only because Nakuru wouldn't leave him alone till he did. Now the falcon, after having two days of being called Hinode, refused to answer to anything else.
Sakura got a snow leopard cub, but this wasn't your average snow leopard. Instead of having the usual brown/black spots, the spots were a soft pink, like her aura. Its eyes were also the same colour as her aura. Sakura had named it Momoyuki. (I combined the words for pink and snow together. If this offends anyone, please e-mail me and I shall edit it.) Momoyuki also had a pink marking on her forehead. It was a cherry blossom.
Yuri had gotten a white tiger cub. It had pink stripes, the same colour as Yuri's aura, and matching eyes. On its forehead was a lily, done in pink. Yuri named her Milaya. (which means 'lily' in another language. I think its Ukrainian, but I'm not entirely sure.)
"I really don't know." Tomoyo said, answering Meiling's question.
"Where did Touya, Yukito, Nakuru and Erin go?" Naoko asked.
"I think they went up front, with Touya mumbling something about the gaki and the twerp staying away from his imoutos." Eriol said, causing Syaoran and Jamie to glare, and Yuri and Sakura to burst out laughing.
Suddenly there was a commotion from Sakura's bag. Out burst a very disgruntled Kero.
"Sakura!!!!!!!! You left me in there!!!!! How could you forget about me?" Kero cried.
There was a movement from behind Sakura, as Momoyuki leapt at Kero.
Yuri, seeing what was going to happen, grabbed Momoyuki out of the air and handed her back to Sakura.
"You really should put down some rules with her or you may not have a guardian anymore." Riara said, rising out of Yuri's bag to sit on her shoulder. "Keroberus, why do you complain? You weren't suffocating or anything. Is this just another attempt to bring attention to yourself? It really is rather demeaning to us other sun guardians." Riara said, a teasing lilt in her voice.
Kero hung his head in shame. "I'm sorry Riara." He apologised, and turned to go back into the bag.
"Kero, wait. Riara was just teasing you. She didn't mean anything, did you Riara?" Yuri said, sending a look to her sun guardian.
Riara blushed. "Of course I didn't. Can't you remember how much I used to tease you?" Riara asked Kero.
Kero smirked. "Sure I do. I was just playing on their sympathies to get you to apologise." Kero's smirk widened. "And it worked."
Riara's head snapped up and she glared at Kero. "I'm gonna get you for that!" She cried as she flew off Yuri's shoulder and after Kero.
"Kero!"
"Riara!" Both the twins cried simultaneously.
The two guardians stopped and looked at their mistresses.
"What?" They both asked.
Yuri shook her head. "Riara, come down here now. What would you have done if someone had come in?"
Riara floated down to her mistress and landed on her shoulder. "Can I get him later?"
Yuri nodded.
Riara smirked at Kero who was looking apprehensive.
"Kero, please come down here." Sakura said.
Kero complied immediately, landing on Sakura's shoulder. He then poked his tongue out at Riara.
Yuri and Sakura shook their heads at their guardians' antics.
Suddenly, the door opened and in walked three people, about their age. There was a girl and two boys.
The girl had bushy brown hair and brown eyes, while one of the boys had red hair and hazel eyes (am I right?) The other boy had black hair and jade green eyes, behind black glasses. What really stood out about this guy though, was the unusual scar on his forehead. It was shaped like a lightning bolt.
"Hey, can we sit here?" the girl asked.
"Sure." Replied Yuri.
"Thanks. By the way, I'm Hermione Granger."
"I'm Yuri Wei."
"I'm Sakura Kinomoto and this is Syaoran Li." Sakura said introducing both herself and Syaoran.
"I'm Meiling Li, Syaoran's cousin."
"I'm Tomoyo Daidouji, Sakura's cousin."
"I'm Jamie Imada"
"I'm Naoko Yanagizawa." Naoko said, stealing a quick look at the dark haired boy. Something was very familiar about him.
"And I am Eriol Hiiragizawa. Pleased to make your acquaintance." Eriol said, bending into a low sweeping bow.
Yuri laughed. "Ignore him. He fancies himself a real charmer, but my otou-sama is nothing of the sort. One word from Tomoyo and he's history."
Eriol blushed. "That's not very becoming Yuri."
"Stop Eriol." Tomoyo said, grinning.
Eriol looked at Tomoyo just as her grin changed from a grin to a pleading look. Helplessly he lifted his arms in a shrug. "Only for you." He said.
"KAWAII!!!!" Sakura and Yuri screamed. They had again brought out their video cameras and had been recording the whole thing.
Tomoyo and Eriol sweatdropped.
"And who are those two?" Meiling asked, pointing to the boys.
The red haired boy stepped forward. "I'm Ronald Weasley, but call me Ron."
"And I'm Harry Potter." The other boy said, then waited for the gasps of surprise, awe or anything like that. Surprisingly they didn't come.
Ron stared, his mouth open. How could these people not know Harry Potter?
"How can you not know who Harry Potter is?" He asked, incredulous.
"Isn't he that boy?" Meiling asked.
Ron nodded, maybe it had just slipped their minds for a moment.
"Then why are you asking us who he is?" Meiling said, confused by this boy's behaviour. "Are all English people like this?" She asked Eriol.
Eriol snorted. "I'm not." He said.
"You don't count."
"I do to."
"Do not."
"Do to."
"Do not."
"Do to."
"Do not."
"Do to."
"Not."
"To."
"N…"
"STOP! How old are you?" Yuri asked, sick of the childish bickering. She then thought of something, "You're both older than you look and you still act like this?" Yuri asked in Japanese.
Meiling and Eriol turned from each other, sulking.
"Hermione, can you explain why Ron seems so shocked that we don't know Harry." Sakura asked.
Hermione stared at the group for a minute before answering. "He's the boy who lived." She said simply.
The others still looked confused so she decided to elaborate. "Fifteen years ago, there was a dark wizard by the name of…" Hermione broke off, unable to say his name. She looked at Harry pleadingly.
"Voldemort." Harry supplied.
"Yes, him. Anyway, he went around terrorising people, killing them, both wizards and muggles, non magic people." She added this last bit seeing as they didn't know who Harry was. "When he made up his mind to kill you, you didn't survive. No one did, till one night, he came to Harry's place. He killed Harry's parents, then tried to kill him, but his spell turned back on him and he was banished from his body, becoming a spirit. He recently came into power, last year in fact. That's why Harry is famous." Hermione finished.
The others nodded, showing that they understood.
"How come you've never heard of him before?" Ron asked.
"We're from Japan, and China." Meiling said shrugging. "We didn't have to worry about him. The Li Clan would have taken care of this Voldemort so easily."
"The Li Clan?" Hermione said, her eyes lighting up. "Do you know something about the Li Clan?"
Meiling was about to say something when Yuri lightly jabbed her elbow into her ribs.
"All we know is that they're very powerful, and that they're descendants of Clow Reed." Sakura said.
"Oh, and that the future ruler of the Li Clan and Hong Kong is a real cutie. He's very serious, but a certain girl, by the name of Ying Fa changed that." Yuri said, watching as Sakura got mad.
Hermione looked disappointed.
"What year are you all in?" Harry asked. "You look to old to be first years."
"We aren't." Naoko said softly "We're starting the sixth year."
"But that's impossible! Hogwarts doesn't take anyone higher that first years." Hermione protested.
"We are going to be sixth years." Jamie said simply.
Suddenly the door opened again, and this time it was three boys their age. Two of them were big and brutish looking, as well as stupid. In between these two though, stood a smaller boy, with greasy blonde hair and cold calculating eyes.
"Well well well. If it isn't Potty Mouth, the Weasel and the Mudblood." The smaller boy drawled. He then saw the others. "What do we have here? How on earth did you manage to get all these beautiful women in here all at once Potter?" He asked, walking over to Yuri.
"Who are you?" Sakura asked, warily watching the boy who was approaching her sister. There was something about him that she didn't trust.
"I'm Malfoy. Draco Malfoy." He said.
"What do you want?" Jamie asked, his blood beginning to boil.
Malfoy looked at Jamie, then looked away, dismissing him as weak. "I wouldn't mind taking these pretty girls with me." He said indicating to Sakura, Yuri, Tomoyo, Meiling and Naoko.
Sakura took a step towards her sister.
Malfoy, noticing the movement, looked at Sakura.
"So you want to come too, huh?" He asked, lifting his hand to touch her face.
"I wouldn't touch her if I were you." Syaoran said, finally speaking. His voice was deadly soft.
Malfoy sneered. "What are you going to do?" He asked.
Syaoran simply stared at Malfoy. "Just don't touch her."
Malfoy brought his hand against Sakura's cheek, only to have it removed by Yuri.
"Stay away from her." Yuri said, her eyes flashing. "Momoyuki, come here." The snow leopard came forward from the back of the compartment, growling at Malfoy. Momoyuki positioned herself in front of Sakura.
"I suggest you leave." Syaoran said, his voice still deadly soft.
Malfoy turned to look at the two who accompanied him. "Crabbe, Goyle, get him." He ordered.
The two stared stupidly at each other before running at Syaoran. One of them threw a punch at Syaoran, which he ducked. Syaoran then kicked both of them soundly in their chests, sending them out of the compartment.
Malfoy stared in surprise.
Yuri smirked. "Its simple Malfoy. Leave us alone and you won't get hurt." Yuri then let go of Malfoy's arm.
Malfoy grabbed his arm, watching as his wrist slowly turned red. He was about to reach for his wand, when there were eight wands pointing at him.
"Don't even try it." Jamie said, walking up to Yuri and putting an arm around her waist.
"Leave, now." Syaoran said, as he walked up to Sakura to make sure she was alright.
Malfoy's eyes widened, then he ran away.
"Well that was entertaining." Naoko said.
"Yeah." Meiling agreed.
"The only person that I've ever seen run away as fast as he did just then was Syaoran. Remember? He used to bolt whenever he saw Yukito." Tomoyo said, smiling.
Syaoran blushed.
"I remember that." Eriol said, an evil glint coming to his eyes.
Yuri saw it and pointed her wand at Eriol's mouth. Mumbling a few words, a small pink spark flew out of her wand and it landed in Eriol's mouth.
Eriol opened his mouth to tease Syaoran, but nothing came out. He tried again, but still nothing.
Yuri began to giggle.
"I wish I knew that spell when Yamazaki started telling his lies." Sakura said, laughing at the look on Eriol's face.
"I'm sure Chiharu did too." Naoko agreed.
Harry, Ron and Hermione simply stared at the group.
*AT HOGWARTS*
The train pulled into the station near Hogwarts.
As the cardcaptors group stepped off the train, a man in robes, with a long silvery beard stepped forward.
"Ah. I've been waiting for you. You will accompany me to the castle where you will be sorted. You shall be sorted after the first years and before I introduce the new teachers and the new class." The man said. "Oh, and in case you are wondering, I am Professor Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts." The group followed Dumbledore to where two carriages sat waiting.
"All you luggage and pets are waiting for you up at the castle so don't worry. Once you're sorted, they'll be sent to dormitories."
Professor Dumbledore then got into the first carriage, followed by Tomoyo, Eriol, Meiling and Naoko. Sakura, Syaoran, Yuri and Jamie got in the second one.
As the carriages rumbled towards Hogwarts, Yuri looked at Sakura.
"Remember Sakura. Hogwarts has ghosts." Sakura turned pale at the mention of this. "But remember how the only one you had to worry about was Peeves, the poltergeist? And remember how we taught him not to mess with us? He obeyed and respected us more than he did the Bloody Baron."
Sakura giggled at the thought.
"Also Sakura, don't think about the cards. Think about something else, k?"
Sakura nodded.
*AFTER THE FIRST YEARS SORTING*
Dumbledore stood.
"Now, we have something that rarely happens at Hogwarts. We are getting eight new sixth year students. I want you all to treat them with respect."
Through the doors walked eight people, each very confident.
Harry watched as the group he had met on the train walked up to the sorting hat.
"Guess they were telling the truth." He murmured to Ron and Hermione.
They both nodded.
"When I call out your name, I want you to come up and put the hat on your head." Professor McGonagall said.
"Daidouji, Tomoyo."
Tomoyo walked up to the hat, and gently placed it on her head.
Hmmm…. A voice whispered. Very smart, loyal too. Sometimes a little obsessive.
Tomoyo blushed.
And brave. Incredibly brave. I know.
"GRYFFINDOR!" The hat cried.
Tomoyo happily walked to the end of the Gryffindor table and sat down, waiting for her friends.
"Hiiragizawa, Eriol."
Eriol calmly placed the hat on his head.
The hat murmured about this and that, and finally it made its decision.
"GRYFFINDOR!"Eriol took a seat beside Tomoyo, and waited, knowing that the rest of them would be in Gryffindor.
Jamie was next and he too was sorted into Gryffindor.
Now it was Sakura's turn. She knew Yuri had told her not to think about the cards, but she couldn't help it.
Hmmmm…… What have we here? The hat murmured. You're loyal, brave and very powerful. But you seem to be hiding something. What is it?
Sakura closed her eyes, waiting for her secret to be discovered, when she heard startled gasps. Opening her eyes, Sakura saw petals falling from the enchanted ceiling. In front of her there was a nadeshiko flower in full bloom.
Suddenly there was a magical wind and in front of her appeared a beautiful woman with wings.
"Okaa san." Sakura said softly.
"Don't worry my daughter. Your sister and I shall forever look after you." Nadeshiko placed a hand on Sakura's shoulder. "Goodbye."
Suddenly the great hall's doors opened, and in rushed Touya.
"Okaa san?" He whispered, not believing his eyes.
"Touya, my dearest son. Try not to be so protective of your sisters." And with that, Nadeshiko was gone.
Sakura smiled
The secret, it's gone! The hat cried in her mind. Fine.
"GRYFFINDOR!"Sakura happily rushed to her seat, then watched as Meiling, Syaoran, Yuri and Naoko were placed into Gryffindor. The hat only seemed to have trouble with Yuri, as she was so much like Sakura.
Dumbledore stood again.
"Now I'd like to say a few more things before you can eat. This year, we shall have a new Defence Against The Dark Arts professor. Also, there shall be a new class, which shall be running only for as long as the professor stays here. This class shall be about types of magic. Also, there will be people assisting in these classes. Your new Defence Against The Dark Arts Teacher is Professor Yukito Tsukishiro, and to assist him in his class will be Touya Kinomoto." Out walked Yukito, since Touya was already halfway into the Hall. Touya and Yukito took their seats up at the staff table.
"I am Professor Tsukishiro, but you may all call me Professor Yukito as my last name my be a little difficult to pronounce." Yukito said.
Touya also introduced himself.
Someone, asked if he was related to Sakura, and Touya nodded. "If anyone dares try to harm my imouto, there will be hell to pay."
The students looked at Touya if he was slightly crazy, while Sakura groaned.
"Your new teacher for Types of Magic is Professor Erin Hinata, and assisting her will be Nakuru Akizuki." Erin walked out, followed by a hyper Nakuru.
Erin bowed. "I am Professor Hinata."
"And I am Nakuru." Chirped Nakuru.
Yuri looked at Eriol. "Simply can't take her anywhere, huh?"
Eriol nodded, blushing slightly.
Dumbledore cleared his throat. "I have only two things to say now. And they are 'Eat up'."
Suddenly food appeared before them.
Ron started eating like he hadn't seen food for a week.
Harry rolled his eyes at his best friend.
"Sakura, I think we better take some food back for Kero and Riara." Yuri whispered.
Sakura nodded.
Half way through eating, Harry looked up at the professor table. He stared at the new Defence Against The Dark Arts teacher. How could someone so young know enough about the dark arts? He wondered.
Harry then turned his gaze to Professor Snape. Snape hated Harry with a passion and coveted the Defence Against The Dark Arts position. Usually, when a professor got the position, aside from him, he would sit there and glare at them. But Snape had a hard time glaring at Professor Yukito.
Harry shrugged, then went back to his dinner.