A/N: MY SPELLING REEKS LIKE NO TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!! But please enjoy the fic anyways.

Journal Entry, Practice: We basically played Quidditch together for a while. Kioko and I were one team while Harry and Ron were the other. Kioko decided she wanted to be keeper and I really didn't care so I was the chaser of our team. I'm really not good at throwing things, but Kioko didn't let one goal past her, so we one by the one point I managed to score. Then we decided to try helping Ron practice his own game and each of us took turns getting the quaffle through him. Well, I never got it through, Kioko always got it through, and Harry only got it through 1/4th of the time, so I guessed that it was a little up in Ron's department. Kioko is just a natural at the on-the-field type of stuff while it looked like I'd only be good as a seeker and nothing more. Needless to say Ron was asking if I could have double turns 'to get more practice'. But then Kioko said, "Hotaru's a seeker, why don't you give me double turns so that you get better?" and that shut him up.

Then it was lunch time and the two would be needing to get to their actual practice. I stopped by their table after Kioko and I ate all the edibles from our dishes, needless to say I got stared at by nearly every Gryffindor who noticed I was there.

"Hermione, would you please look up some books for me while I'm watching Ron and Harry?" I asked.

"Why of course Hotaru, what are they?" Hermione asked.

"Um, well I'd like something pretty advanced pertaining to developing magical objects, and a couple on Herbology and Ancient Runes. I'm a little behind on those classes." I told her.

"Okay, Composition of Magical Objects, Herbology, and Ancient Runes. I'll see what I can find." Hermione answered me smiling.

"Thanks, I'll return the favor." I told her before walking off. I thought of getting her a quick pen when we went to Hogsmeade. For some reason I heard a surrey of giggles that sounded a lot like Hermione's. When I got out of the great hall I had my own giggling fit until Kioko came around. I had just made a scene and, even though I didn't like drawing attention to myself, it was rather amusing. Kioko certainly thought so as well.

"Did you see the looks on their faces?!" She demanded laughing almost hysterically.

We found Malfoy and a good deal of others on the Slytherin team as well as tag-alongs on the Quidditch field, sitting in the stands. "YOU CAN STAY THERE WHILE WE GET THE BEST VIEW OF THE GAME." Kioko yelled at them. We had decided to sit on our brooms and watch near the commenter's box. I sat across my broom while Kioko decided to practice her balance by standing on her broom as if it were a surfing board. Which was why she was lower to the stand than I was.

When their team came out the first thing Malfoy did was yell, "What's that Weasley's riding? Why would anyone want to put a Flying Charm on a moldy old log like that?" The rest of them started howling in laughter.

"Considering the thing that is always riding on your broom, Malfoy, you have little room to talk." Kioko yelled, unable to resist. Fred and George visibly busted out into a fit of laughter while everyone else was merely snickering normally, even some of the Slytherins laughed. Malfoy turned scarlet and looked as though he wanted to lash out at Kioko again, but for some reason he unconsciously rubbed his right arm and said nothing directed at her. Instead he turned his attention back to the Gryffindors.

"Hey Johnson, what's with that hairstyle anyway? Why would anyone want to look like they've got worms coming out of their head?" Pansy Parkingson shrieked.

"If you conceder her hair a collection of worms I'd hate to think what the mess upon your own head could be related to every morning." Kioko yelled back.

"Night!!! We're your own team, your own house, stop insulting us and round on the Gryffindors!!!" Millichent called.

"Oh, but it's just so fun!!! And easy too, you people leave yourselves waaaaaay to open!!!" Kioko replied. She turned her attention back onto the field as did I.

The game began. Angelina threw the Quaffle to Fred, who threw it to George, who passed it to Harry, who threw it to Ron, who dropped it.

"Oh dear." I said as Malfoy lead the chorus of laughter.

"Come now Ron, you can do better than that!!!" Kioko yelled.

"Kioko, those aren't the most encouraging words." I said as the team tried another round.

"No, but he can." Kioko said, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Hey, Potter, how's your scar feeling? Sure you don't need to lie-down? It must be, what, a whole week since you were in the hospital wing, that's a record for you, isn't it?" Malfoy called. I jerked my head and looked at him with disbelief.

"Would you like a visit to Madam Pomphry, Malfoy? If so, please, continue to talk." Kioko hollered.

"You really really don't like him do you?" I asked.

"I could stand him before, now I'd like to see him drop dead. Not sure, but I'm a bit protective of my friends and all he's been doing since you came around is snip at you left and right. Now, this can be excused with an FD sized crush (A/N: Heheh, inside joke, don't ask), but only to an extent." She said, though I get the feeling she only added that to watch me blush.

"What? He hates me!" I protested.

"That's what he thinks." She said, jerking her thumb over towards the stand with all the Slytherins, though she meant Malfoy. We then turned our attention back to the field, I was glad for a change of subject/directed attention.

Ron let another one fall.

"Oh, poor Ron." I moaned. I could feel his embarrassment from here and it was rather strong too. He was really nervous too, which was a problem. And Malfoy was not helping. Well, of course he wasn't, he didn't want Gryffindor to win.

"I don't get it, he could have caught that one easily during practice." Kioko said.

Ron caught the third one, but hit his teammate in the face giving her a bloody nose. His emotions changed from relief to embarrassment once more. Fred and George gave the girl something and then they released the rest of the equipment.

Too soon afterwards Angelina blew the whistle to bark at Ron. Katie's nosebleed seemed to be getting worse, obviously it was that thing the twins had given her because they looked a bit horrified. Well, Katie had to get to the Hospital wing, and the twins escorted her out of guilty conscience, so there was nothing left to do but quiet trying to practice. Kioko and I flew over to them, even though Angelina looked like she was going to lash out at us almost instantly, then she saw who it was that were coming.

"Weasley! What's wrong with you!? You're better than that!!!" Kioko exclaimed.

"It's okay Ron." I said smiling, "If you just learn to get over your nervousness you'll be a lot better. Try to have fun, isn't that what games are about?"

"Yeah," Ron nodded, "I guess you're right. I'll try to loosen up, at least you're not with them." He said, jerking his finger towards the other Slytherins.

"Tomo, I have a question." Angelina said.

"The hat got confused and that's why I ended up in Slytherin. Everyone seems to be asking me that." I answered before she could ask.

"Okay, that was actually going to be my second question. I was just wondering if you were going to accept the seeker place on the Slytherin team." She said.

"Oh, I don't know yet." I told her.

"Ah." Was all she said before flying off.

"Well, shall we finish your homework?" I asked the two.

"Only if we can borrow your quick pen again." Ron said sighing. Anything to get off the subject of Quidditch, I suspected.

I nodded, homework went along so much faster with that tool, it was no wonder everyone wanted to borrow it.

We were able to finish up after dinner, the last being Galaxia's essay on Jupiter's moons. I decided to let them look over and rewrite mine in their own terms. They then had me quiz them on the study papers Glandria gave us so they might be able to earn Gryffindor more points in that class. They wanted to stop in the middle of the essay to play more Quidditch, but Hermione and I wouldn't have it, though I wasn't as outspoken as Hermione, Kioko helped with her usual, "Don't make me help you as well, you do not want my help, trust me." And it works too, every time.

After we got them finished up we still had an hour or two of daylight left so Kioko took it upon herself to drag Ron out to the field and started throwing the Quaffle at his goals while he tried, note tried, to block them. And that's what they're doing now. Ron's not having much luck, but I can tell he's getting a bit better. He nearly got her last one. I guess there's not much more for me to write down so I suppose I'll start reading some of the books Hermione found for me.

Hotaru exchanged that book for another, the one on advanced Arithmancy to help her in CMO. Amazing how much the two went together, and yet Kioko had still asked to take a class in it. Perhaps with a more motivating objective she'd pay more attention in Arithmancy.

"Hotaru, it's the weekend and you're nose is in a book on Arithmancy?!" Harry exclaimed riding over to her. He looked at the back of the book, "I thought only Hermione could read stuff like that."

"Well, if you think about magic as being fun and not a reason for school it's actually pretty easy." Hotaru replied.

Harry shook his head, "Not sure I understand. Oh well, I guess for someone like you it's easy. I get to distracted by my broom." He said.

"If you, Ron, and Hermione will meet us in the library after classes we can all get the day's schoolwork finished, have a little free time for that day, and the weekends completely free." She told him. "Look at Sunday, you have that free now thanks to all the time we had you spend on your missed homework." She said.

"Which would have been a lot more had you not helped us out during the week." Harry stated a bit grimly. "I don't even want to know what grade I got in Potions. Even if we did have help from you on it."

"Maybe you should take Advanced Writing, that's one of the extra classes I'll be taking next week. It's not too late to sign up." She said.

"Thanks, but I have enough homework during the week as it is, that'd be just one more subject to neglect." He said.

"Tell you what, I'll buy you your own quick pen next Hogsmeade day if you'll take Advanced Writing with me." She said closing her book.

Harry considered and hesitated for a moment, then he said, "Deal."

"RON YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS, NOW BLOCK ONE!!!" Kioko yelled from above them as she threw another goal.

"All I can say is I'm glad she's a beater and not a chaser." Harry said jerking his head up to see what she was yelling about.

"Congratulations Ron, you finally blocked one!" Kioko said as they landed.

"We've been out here for a long time haven't we?" Hotaru asked looking up at the sky from her book.

"And it would have been longer, I was waiting for him to block one of my goals." She said.

"Well if you'd go a bit easy on me and let me work up to the level…" Ron suggested.

"In your dreams. I prefer shoving it down your throat." Kioko said.

"Which is why Hotaru is helping us with homework and you aren't." Harry said snickering a bit.

"Yeah, be happy you have an encourager and not a butt-kicker helping you." Kioko said in a sarcastically sweet voice.

"So, what are we doing Sunday?" Ron asked as they walked back towards the castle.

"Same thing we were doing just a moment ago." Kioko said, an evil glint in her eye. Ron groaned.

"Kioko, why are you helping us?" Harry stopped them.

"Why do you think? To give the Slytherin team a run for their money. I mean, we need some kind of challenge, and if he doesn't get better we're not gonna have it." Kioko said jerking her thumb at Ron. "And besides, I can chew Millichent out for being unable to get one past him." She said grinning. "Because, by the time I'm done, he won't."

"But don't you want Slytherin to win?" Harry asked.

"I don't really care, but yes, I do like to win. However that's going to be Firefly's job when she accepts the spot. Oh don't give me that look; you know you want to play." Kioko said grinning.

Hotaru sighed, "I haven't decided yet." She corrected. Kioko only rolled her eyes.

"Okay, if we're done with the 'why the heck are you helping me' thing, can we go now? Mom was sending my pets down today and they're probably still in their cages." She said.

Harry nodded awkwardly and they went their separate ways when coming to the door.

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Journal Entry, Before bed: I don't have much to write, I guess I'd just like to take notes on Kioko's pets. She apparently has two Lileeths, a tiger and a jaguar, both so big they reach up to my waist, and a raven instead of an owl. Her pets seemed to take to me, abnormally though. "They normally don't like anyone but me." Kioko had said marveling.

Kioko's decided to stay up and read or play with her sub-space pocket, I kind of want to get to sleep soon so I can get up bright and early again. Haruka-papa, Michiru-mama, and Setsuna-mama are all coming down to visit me after all.

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Hotaru woke the next morning with a big lump of albino tiger snuggling up to her tiny form. She rolled over a bit and started petting her before getting up. Shiva, the tiger, let out a deep sounding 'meow' as protest. Hotaru scratched her neck and then started getting dressed. Tight black pants, black shoes, and a black dress with a mini skirt. The usual, she didn't have to wear her robes today so why bother?

"See you later." She said to the animals before quietly shutting the door behind her.

Hotaru skipped down to the common room, found it empty, and then made her way on towards the great hall to pick up some biscuits. But as soon as she entered, "HOTARU!!!" Squealed Michiru. Hotaru found herself being hugged, tightly, by her foster mother and foster father.

"Hr, I can't breath Haruka-papa and Michiru-mama." She chocked out.

"Oh, sorry." They said letting go.

"Now for my hug!" Setsuna said, she the wrapped her arms around Hotaru, though she didn't squeeze so much.

"Did you get all your homework done dear?" Michiru asked.

"Yes Michiru-mama." Hotaru answered.

Setsuna had brought a basket and food so they could go out and have a picnic breakfast, Hotaru felt a little guilty about leaving Kioko behind, but then Kioko'd sooner eat the eggs on the breakfast table than get up this early on a Sunday… Ok, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration.

"It's so lovely out today." Michiru sighed.

"GET THE STUPID QUAFFLE! WATCH OUT FOR THE BLUDG—ouch that has to hurt." Haruka yelled watching a collection of students playing Quidditch.

Michiru sighed and turned to Hotaru, "So what's this about you being the Slytherin Seeker?" She asked.

"Do tell." Haruka said, suddenly turning her attention on Hotaru. "You're accepting it right?!"

"Haruka, are we forgetting to be an adult?!" Michiru exclaimed sighing.

"So I like Quidditch. Besides, Hotaru needs some kind of activity. Right Setsuna?"

"I am staying out of this." Setsuna said putting her hand up.

Haruka rolled her eyes. "Okay then, she can drag race."

"ABSOLUTLY NOT!!!" Michiru practically yelled.

"Er, on brooms?" Haruka shrank.

Hotaru giggled, Haruka was definitely not being as serious as usual, but that could be a good thing. She was more fun this way. "HOW CAN YOU MISS THAT GOAL IT WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!!!" Haruka yelled back at the match.

"HARUKA!!!"

"Okay okay, I'll stop." Haruka said shrinking back again.

*******

"So where's this friend of yours Hotaru?" Haruka asked stretching as they walked down the hallway.

"Either still asleep, in the library, or helping Ron practice his Quidditch." Hotaru answered.

"Good morning ladies." Said a new, yet familiar, voice.

"Why Dumbledore. How have you been?" Setsuna asked. Hotaru turned as her foster parents began a conversation with the Headmaster.

Hotaru giggled just a bit, "I'll meet you out in the Quidditch field." She said, they had arranged for Haruka to give Hotaru some pointers.

"Okay Hota-chan." Michiru said.

Hotaru turned back around and proceeded down the hallway. It was nice to have them over for the weekend, she'd missed them. Even though it had only been a week, there's just some things that you can't replace. Maybe Kioko was in the library, she could meet her parents.

"What is that black thing you're wearing Tomo?" Sneered a very familiar and recognizable voice.

"They're called clothes, by now you'd think that you would know." Hotaru said softly, she would have proceeded on had Malfoy not stepped in her way. "Excuse me." She said, and tried going around him, but he moved to block her.

"I've been a bit too lenient with you, Tomo. Don't think that just because you have Night as a shield you'll be able to hide behind her all the time. You're not that tough on your own are you?" He growled, grabbing her wrist and squeezing it.

"Malfoy! Let go, I have to—Ah!" Hotaru gasped as Malfoy jerked and pulled her down making her fall face-flat onto the ground. Hotaru scrambled back up only to have Malfoy grab her arm.

"Isn't so easy without Night around is it?" He hissed, pulling her down the hallway, and he wasn't being very gentle about it.

He suddenly released her arm and cried out for some reason. When Hotaru got a hold of her senses she found out why. "H-Haruka-papa?!" She gasped. Haruka had Malfoy pinned to the ground with her left hand and was using her right fist to smash him in the face and in anything else that might cause some painful damage and also had Malfoy screaming.

"HOW DARE YOU TOUCH MY FIREFLY!!!" She yelled throwing him into the wall.

"What's going on!? Who's dieing?!" Kioko suddenly busted into the hallway along with Harry. "Oh, it's just Malfoy…MALFOY?!" She exclaimed.

"Malfoy? YOU'RE A MALFOY!? YOU'RE REALLY GONNA GET IT NOW!!!" Haruka screamed as she continued to kick, punch, and throw Malfoy so fast that his brain was being raddled and he couldn't think.

"Er, that's Haruka isn't it?" Kioko questioned Hotaru, who was still a bit dizzy herself from the whole thing.

"Um, yes." She said nodding.

"And that's Michiru isn't it?" She asked, pointing over to the stalking sea senshi.

"HA-RU-KA!!!!!!!!!!" Michiru yelled.

Haruka paused in mid punch and slowly turned her head towards Michiru, who had a glare on her face, her arms crossed, and was tapping her foot onto the ground.

"Miss Tenhou, as much as Malfoy may, 'deserve it', I'm going to have to ask that you do not kill my student." Dumbledore said. By the way he said 'deserve it' you could tell that he'd gotten on to Haruka about beating up the other kids before. And of course the wind senshi's response would be 'he deserved it'.

"Haruka, put the poor boy down!" Michiru ordered.

"But, Michiru he was bullying Firefly. And he's a Malfoy too!" Haruka defended, but she still let Malfoy drop to the ground.

"That is still no reason to go off like you did!!! The boy is going to be in the hospital wing for weeks!!!" Michiru exclaimed. "Now pick him up and carry him over to the Hospital Wing." She said.

"But…!!!"

"I said, PICK HIM UP!!!" Haruka didn't hesitate, she scooped Malfoy up and then started running towards the Hospital Wing with Michiru at her heels.

"So, what exactly happened? Hey, where'd Dumbledore go?" Kioko asked.

"He had something to do." Setsuna said smiling.

"You must be Setsuna. I'm Kioko Night." Kioko said extending her hand. Setsuna took it.

"You must be Hota-chan's friend. Pleased to meet you." She said.

"Why are you looking at me like that? You know something I don't, don't you? What is it?!" Kioko demanded.

"She does that to everyone Kioko. This is Harry Potter Setsuna-mama." Hotaru introduced.

"Ah, how nice to see you." Setsuna shook his hand. "Well Hotaru, Madam Pomphry asked if I would be willing to help her in the Hospital Wing so I'll be staying." She said.

"What? Really!? YAY!!!" Hotaru exclaimed, giving her Setsuna-mama a hug.

"So, what happened to Malfoy?" asked Harry.

"Well, my guess is Malfoy was being Malfoy to Hotaru in front of Haruka, who is a very protective and territorial father figure, and therefore earned the right to get beaten into submission by Haruka herself." Kioko said.

"She should visit more often." He said.

"Don't like Malfoy do you? Well, neither did Haruka. She was Gryffindor and Lucius Slytherin, the two could never keep from getting at each other's throats. Though Haruka would actually go for his throat and, well, you know Haruka. She always won the fights, but never could stay out of detention." Setsuna said snickering.

"What happened to Draco Malfoy?" Asked a smooth, rather cold voice approaching them.

"Why hello Severus!" Setsuna said.

"Meiho! I didn't think I'd see you here again. After all these years you don't seem to have changed much." He said, the words sounded like they'd be bright and cheerful, but somehow Snape made them sound still gloomy and not-really-caring without being completely insensitive.

"The years have let us keep our youth, fortunately." She said. "I'm sure you've met our little Firefly." She gave Hotaru a little hug on the shoulders.

"Yes I have. But you're ignoring my question." He said.

"Ah, well, you know how it is. Haruka saw Malfoy doing something a bit off to Hota-chan and proceeded to bust his lip." Setsuna explained.

"She hasn't changed much either has she. Too bad she isn't still a student and I could finally give her detention." He said.

"Sorry, but Michiru would have beaten you to it." Setsuna chuckled.

"Well, excuse me Miss Meiho, but I have things I must attend to." He looked down at Harry who glared right back up at him.

"May your future be pleasant." She said waving him goodbye.

"Setsuna-mama, were you a Slytherin?" Hotaru asked.

"Oh no, I was Ravenclaw. Severus and I mere had a bit of an…understanding with each other." She said.

"By the way you say 'understanding' it sounds like a bit more than that to me." Kioko said smirking.

"Miss Night, would you, Harry, and his two friends like to join us for a game of Quidditch?" She asked.

"Yeah!" Harry piped up.

"Sure, we can help Ron practice being keeper." Kioko said, an evil glint in her eye.

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Journal Entry, More Practice: For almost the entire day we played Quidditch. Ron and Michiru were the keepers, Hermione, Kioko, Setsuna, and Haruka were the chasers, and Harry and I were the seekers. Kioko, Hermione, and Michiru were on my team while the other three were Harry's.

When they released the snitch it sped around a bit and then zoomed to the far side of the field. I'm not sure what it is, but I found that if I concentrait on finding something or someone wherever they are I'll figure it out, and then I'll be able to feel where they're going and such. I think it has something to do with using Silence to beat Malfoy in that seeker match, it kind of stuck. So when the snitch was released I was able to tell exactly where it was and where it was going. I feel like a real cheater, if I hadn't let Malfoy get to me to the point that I'd use Silence just to prove myself I would have to search for the snitch myself and not use Silence to do so.

Well, once the whistle was blown I merely started flying around the area it was in as if looking for it while watching the match. Whoever heard of a snitch having a taunting personality? It practically flew into my face in a 'you can't catch me' kind of way. Well, I'm not strong, but I am fast. My hand shot up to my face and grabbed it. I snickered to myself, imagining that it was now saying 'well, this isn't the first time I've been wrong' as it rested in my hand. Well, it was too soon to end the game, so I merely held it in my hand and got into a nice position to watch the others play.

Each team had their star player, Kioko for my team and Haruka for Harry's. Kioko was the one getting most of the goals, Haruka would sometimes hesitate at the last second because it was Michiru being our keeper and in doing so gave Michiru time to block her goal. So for a while she didn't score many. That is until her competitive spirit kicked in and she was the best player on the field, even Kioko couldn't keep up with her.

After a while Harry flew up to me and asked, "Why aren't you looking for the snitch?"

I held the snitch up to his face, "Too soon to end the game." I told him, not taking my eyes off the action below me. Though now I regret it, his face must have been quite amusing.

"Dah-abh-h-how?!" he studdered.

"Try syllables and sentences, Harry." I suggested.

"How'd you get it without…without…"

"Without letting you know?" I questioned and he nodded. "Simple, it flew in front of my face and I caught it before it flew away." I said. "It was pretty much luck."

"Oh…" was all he could add.

Well, eventually we decided to let the snitch loose again and start a new game. Fred and George joined us, Fred on my team and George on Harry's team. So we let loose a bludger to make the game a bit more interesting. Of course I got the snitch again, though it was still too soon to end the game so I just watched from a comfortable height.

"Don't tell me you got the snitch again!" Harry exclaimed coming over to me.

"Okay I won't tell you." I said holding the winged ball up to show him.

Harry sighed, "How are you doing that?" he asked.


I shrugged, "I guess I'm more apt at spotting moving objects in the distance." I said. "It's okay Harry, it's only a game." I told him.

"To you it's just a game." He said. I merely shrugged.

After that match we all decided to have a picnic lunch as well. Inviting Fred and George to come along as well. Though that might not have been the best of ideas, but I'll get to that later.

"I don't suppose Tenho would allow me to join you?" Glandria asked, oh why oh why did she come within seeing range of Haruka?

"When pigs fly Miss Sapphire." Haruka hissed, death glare on her face.

"Haruka!!!" Michiru battered, "Of course you can join us Glandria." She said kindly.

"Thanks, but until Tenho no longer has the urge to kill me I think I'll just avoid you. Good day." Glandria said, she turned and walked back into the castle.

"Why don't you like Professor Sapphire?" Kioko asked.

"Never mind dear." Michiru said sweetly, "We'll talk about this later." She said to Haruka through clenched teeth.

"Sorry Michiru, but that woman nearly—"

"NOT in front of the children." Michiru-mama snapped.

"Okay, okay." Haruka shrank back.

"Let's go." Michiru said walking towards a bunch of trees. Everyone followed.

"What does your foster parent have against the Professor?" Kioko asked.

"It's personal and not really anyone's business so I wouldn't bring it up anymore if I were you." I said, "That goes for everyone." I added, those who heard nodded.

While we all sat down on Michiru's blanket I found myself in a Weasley sandwich. Fred on one side and George on the other, much to Haruka-papa's immediate displeasure.

"So, Hotaru, I hear you're good at Arithmancy." Fred said.

"And CMO." Said George.

"Er," Where were they going with this? I had already given them the band recipe, what more did they want?

I suddenly found Haruka towering over us, glaring at Fred, then George. "Ahem." She motioned Kioko over and then picked George up, moved him to the side, and sat down in between us while Kioko complied with her silent order and had Fred move so she could sit next to me on that side. Is it a wonder I couldn't help but giggle in the middle of my noodles? Needless to say the two were not going to mess with someone strong enough to pick them up like little kids.

Haruka practically stalked me for the rest of the day, "to visit" she said. "To beat the boys of with a stick." Michiru corrected.

Kioko couldn't help but bust out laughing several times, "I like your parents. Wanna trade?" she asked.

"No." I said shaking my head.

It was wonderful having them around, but too soon it was late and they had to leave. I gave them a kiss goodbye. But before they left…

"Look Haruka-san, it looks like Malfoy has some reinforcements." Kioko said pointing.

"Kioko!" I moaned as Haruka stalked over towards the Slytherins. Michiru sighed and started rubbing her temples.

"What?" She asked with a completely innocent look on her face.

"Back for another beating I see." Haruka said. Crabbe and Goyal stood in front of Malfoy in an attempt to take Haruka on.

"Ahem." Malfoy said, referring to his bodyguards.

"I'll hit them with you." Haruka said, she grabbed Crabbe and Goyal, threw them out of the way, and then grabbed a very comically scared Malfoy by the collar.

"HARUKA!!!" Michiru exclaimed just before Haruka was about to send Malfoy into another coma.

"Don't stop her, I'm enjoying this." Kioko said.

"Just one more punch!" Haruka begged.

"Put, Him, Down." Michiru ordered.

Haruka-papa grumbled something to herself and then dropped Malfoy like a sack of potatoes. Crabbe and Goyal had already vacated the area and Malfoy was then doing the same. It was very amusing to watch him run like that, though it's a bit mean of me to think so.

There were many goodbyes before they actually left, then Kioko and I separated from the group and went on into our room to read a bit before bed, and that's where I am now. Though it's getting late, and we'll be getting up early in the morning so I'd better go on to bed.

Hotaru put her book up and reached over to turn off her lamp. "Good night." She said.

"Mm, nigh. Pleasant dreams." Kioko mumbled.

"You too." Hotaru situated herself into a comfortable position and then Shiva jumped onto her bed and snuggled up beside her purring loudly.

"Tell that traitor to quiet down." Kioko grumbled. Hotaru giggled. Kioko's bed wasn't big enough for two cats of this size as well as herself and yet she still insisted that Shiva was being a traitor by sleeping next to Hotaru and not Kioko.

Eventually Hotaru's thoughts of the previous day died down into the odd twisting patterns of the dreamscape.

A/N: Who wants to bet that Hotaru's dreams aren't gonna be all that pleasant? *Everyone raises their hand* Well, I think that settles that.