A/N: Hi guys! My mom finally bought me more tea!!!!!! I shall now do my happy dance.

For a solid 5 minutes Kioko just stared at the Daily Prophet in her hand, Hotaru got the feeling she wasn't even breathing. Shakily, Kioko set the paper down and sighed. 'It's starting.' She said.

'What is?' Hotaru asked as she munched a bit on her biscuit.

'Several Death Eaters have broken out from Azkaban. Several very famous Death Eaters. It's only a matter of time before Voldemort makes his move. Then I'm gonna just laaaaaaaaaaaugh.' She said. 'All those people who clam he's still dead, pah! They're only proving my theory that the world is full of idiots.' She added, looking over at Umbridge.

'Let me see.' Hotaru said. Kioko handed her the paper and she opened it up to read what was inside. Most of it was gossip and junk, so she merely scanned it, hoping that if she didn't find what she was looking for the first time most people would by-pass it. No such luck. There she was on the second page, a picture of her smiling pleasantly and waving up at herself. Once again she had appeared in the Daily Prophet. "The young and talented Miss Hotaru Tomo has yet to gain anything but a good reputation. More interviews with the teachers indicate that she has been succeeding in all they give her, faithfully turning in her homework no matter how much she has, and getting straight Os in everything. We've yet to gain permission to interview her personally, but don't worry, we will keep trying." Was all it said.

The next few days were rather…odd. Everyone was talking about the breakout, and Hotaru was now feeling subject to what Harry must have been feeling. She could tell people were talking about her, she always could tell that because the back of her neck prickled when it happened. But now, it seemed that every time she was around people she didn't know her neck was constantly prickling.

But, according to Kioko, she was handling it very well. Those who thought ill of her because she was getting attention she was able to soften by merely saying "Hello, how are you today?" in the hallway and then talking a little bit with them. She wasn't letting the pressure get to her, she refused to let it get to her and merely smiled.

Though she could handle all that pretty well, and all the more complicated homework her teachers were giving her, it seemed as though all these little things were trying to choke her again. She had been able to resist Mistress 9 so far, it seemed as though she was either getting stronger or Mistress 9 was tired. But now she was being bombarded with depression. She would sit down and try to relax but then she'd think of how exhausting everything was making her. She didn't much like attention, and she was currently getting a lot of it. Being in the paper, being on the Slytherin Quidditch team, being able to cast spells without a wand (she was still getting a lot better at that). And on top of that Haruka-papa was not helping with her constant badgering about Malfoy. Only when Michiru was in the area or when Madam Hooch needed her did Haruka leave Hotaru alone. Malfoy himself was no trouble at all, in fact Hotaru could have only wished that he'd at least say hi once and a while. Though the one time he did say hi Haruka was in the area and she ran him off with a beater's bat.

After a few days, though, people started walking up to her and asking her what she thought about 'He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named'. They seemed to start confiding in her about fears and such. Hotaru couldn't help but see the similarities in this and what Kioko had said about Rune, people were now coming to her with their problems and it seemed that what she told them really made sense and made them feel better.

But this became a bit of a problem, because Umbridge noticed Hotaru's popularity. She had brought the girl to the side once and said, though vaguely, that if Hotaru would like to talk to her about some things that were going on in the school she could, meaning that she wanted Hotaru to spy for her. She also asked a bit about her relationship with Galaxia, that's when Hotaru excused herself by saying, "As I told you before, professor, it is really none of your business how we met or how close we are to each other. Now if you will excuse me, I must go finish my homework." As politely as she could, though Umbridge probably caught the little bit of apprehensiveness in her voice.

It was only two days before Valentines day when Malfoy finally caught Hotaru alone in the hall. "Are you ever alone nowadays?" He snorted. That was when Hotaru finally figured it out, he hadn't been paying much attention to her because she was normally surrounded by people who were discussing their problems with her, Kioko, or Harry and his friends. And of course he wasn't about to walk up to her and ask to speak to her alone in front of everyone.

"I'm sorry," Hotaru sighed, "I've been busy."

"Yeah, taking care of everyone else's problems. Don't they know you're troubled enough without their stupid chattering to add to it?" He grumbled irritably. Though Hotaru suspected he was angrier at the fact that he couldn't have a moment alone with her because of it. "Anyway, Valentines Day is this coming Hogsmaede weekend and I found this place called Rings. Nice and quiet, not much blasted talking either, and there's little light as well. Any way you could tear away from your schedule to come with me there, alone?" he asked, though she saw his eyes wander over to Kioko who was chatting with one of the portraits currently.

"Malfoy, are you—?"

"Yes, Tomo, I am asking you out." He stated plainly, "So what's you're answer?"

"Er, yes of course." Hotaru answered, a bit shocked and taken back. She really hadn't expected this, and the way he said it was just so…Draco. He wasn't going to waist his worrying energy on asking her out, he was just going to do it and if she refused he could always kill whoever she said yes to. That's pretty much a round about way of how Kioko put it.

"Good, I'll see you then." He said before leaving.

"He asked you out didn't he?" Kioko asked abruptly.

"H-how can you tell?" Hotaru asked.

"You're blushing and there's a small dreamy smile threatening your lips." Kioko teased, her own grin trying to split her face. "So, where are you going?" She asked.

"A place called Rings." Hotaru answered.

"Ah, I've been there before. It's a great place when you want some peace and quiet." She said.

********

At first it didn't seem as though Malfoy was even going to show up. Hotaru waited at the door for him, Kioko had gone on, and she even saw Cho Chang and Harry go on, probably off on their own date.

Hotaru sighed and rubbed the sleeve of her dress. Setsuna had put a spell on her nice black dress so that it'd be warm enough for her, but for some reason she still felt a bit chilly. Maybe she was just nervous, or maybe she hated the cold so much the chill was mental. Whatever it was, it still made her shiver.

"Haw haw, look at poor little Tomo!" Crabbe taunted. "All dressed up for a nice date Tomo?"

"He doesn't seem to be showing up, and no wonder. So who's the lucky Mud Blood?" Goyle sneered. Man, if Kioko were there she'd be lauuuuuughing so, hard.

Hotaru covered her mouth and tried with all her might to keep down her giggles as Malfoy came in, "That would be me." He snarled. The two looked at him, looked at each other, and then ran.

Hotaru was no longer able to hold it down, she started giggling frantically. Malfoy was not going to let them get away with that. Draco looked as though he was about to start laughing as well, though he was fighting it.

"They're idiots, both of them." He said and he started walking down the road. Hotaru pulled up beside him. "Too bad you can't have brains and bronze at the same time, well, obviously Night can, but she's an exception." He added. He really wasn't nervous, at all, he was just talking to her as he normally would now that he was being civil. She didn't expect him to hold her hand, or offer her his arm of course, so maybe it shouldn't be such a surprise. "So did you hear? Hagrid's on probation, and it's about time too." He said.

"I happen to like Hagrid." Hotaru told him.

"Doesn't mean I have to. I mean, he's just so…reckless. Doesn't give a care that his creatures might hurt the students." He stated.

"If I remember what Kioko told me correctly, you disobeyed his directions when the hippogriff attacked you. Otherwise no one has been hurt." Hotaru returned.

"Oh come on, Tomo. You can't tell me you weren't a bit scared by those thestrals." Malfoy said rolling his eyes.

"I wasn't, they were very tame. Oh look, it's Millichent." Hotaru said pointing.

"Who's he with? Bulstrode? I saw those two go to the Yule Ball together last year, hu." He said indifferently.

"You went with Pansy Parkingson didn't you?" Hotaru asked, curiously.

Malfoy snorted, "I'm still paying for that mistake. Parkingson's a thorn." He said glowering a bit. Hotaru left it at that, though she still wondered what had happened.

The way to Hogsmaede was a collection of comments, short conversations, and comfortable silences. Once the two passed bye Fred, George, and Lee, who stopped dead in their tracks to stare dumbly. Hotaru was really gonna hear it next time they had a study group. She could see it now, Fred and George both standing there, yelling at the top of their lungs and at the same time, "I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WENT OUT WITH DRACO MALFOY!!!"

When they finally reached the gate the road became a street and the street became a good deal more crowded. But then they turned down a few streets and the crowd seemed to thin a bit. Draco directed her towards a rather secluded area where a building with no windows named "Rings" stood. It looked rather uninteresting, gloomy, as if it only wanted to attract a certain type of people. For some reason Hotaru felt a bit of foreboding just before they entered.

And no wonder, as they walked through the door the whispering she'd been hearing before stopped and it seemed everyone was starring at her. The room was dimly lit with candles here and there, but it was mostly illuminated by what looked like fireflies, blinking here and there. Though they weren't real because they were too bright. The room had a bit of a bluish violet tent to it because the candles seemed to burn with a violet flame. So there was still enough light that she could faintly see all the heads in her direction.

Malfoy didn't seem to notice though, he lead her along down the left side of the wall where there were areas shaded with transparent curtains colored violet. They looked to be so that you could still see the people inside of them but couldn't see them very well. They took the second to last one because it was the only empty curtain on that side. The whispering started up again, Hotaru didn't think she wanted to know what they were all talking about. She found that she could see through the curtains from the inside pretty well.

There was a medium sized table, and around it was one of those half-circle sofas that could probably fit 7 people comfortably. There was a violet flamed candle in the middle of the table and beside it on a pedestal was a firefly globe like the one she got from that man in the hospital. The little lights gently flickered like real fireflies all around them.

Hotaru found the seat very comfortable, in fact she felt as though she was sinking into it. And it was soft too, like cloth you'd wear in the winter.

Hotaru and Draco picked up their menus, they had letters that practically glowed in the darkness so you could actually see them. "What are you waiting for?! Go serve them!" A female woman hissed to someone. Nervously a male waiter entered their curtain.

"M-may I take you're drink orders?" He asked quietly. Hotaru felt a bit sorry for him, it must be his first night on the job because he seemed so nervous.

"I'll have some of the green tea please." Hotaru answered smiling, hoping to comfort him. It seemed to work, slightly.

"I'll have some Black Grape." Draco said normally. When Hotaru gave him a questioning glance he explained, "The curtains have silencing wards around them so no one can hear us but we can hear them."

"Oh." Hotaru said. So it was a visual and audio type thing as well.

The waiter then left with their orders, stumbling on something as he walked out. "Oh dear." Hotaru said sympathetically.

"He's probably having an off day today. He's normally not so clumsy." Draco said laughingly.

"Do you come here often?" Hotaru asked.

"Oh yes, my mother and father take me here a lot when discussing…business. It's one of the safest places to discuss things with others no matter who you are or what it is. Good thing Umbridge doesn't have the sense to forbid us from it." He laughed. "Though you only seem to see certain people around here, some you see all the time. The owners live in the house area on the bottom floor downstairs, and there's a sort of inn on the floor just below us. I believe it's more like a collection of houses as well as temporary bedding rooms. They don't discuss exactly what people here do for most of the day, mostly keep to themselves." He explained.

"Oh, I see. What do they do when fights break out?" Hotaru asked.

"They don't. No one gets into a fight because everyone else will move to end it quickly so they can have their peace and quiet. They wait until they're outside." He explained. "Besides, the atmosphere is to silent and still to try fighting." He said.

'Silent and still…' Hotaru thought, wondering what that wording reminded her of. (A/N: Yes, I know what you're all thinking, 'well DUH!!!') "Kioko said she had been to this place before and liked it." She commented, looking up at the ceiling, which had been made to look like a starry night sky.

"I imagine she would." He said uncaringly. "So how are you're lessons with Snape going?" he asked as their drinks came.

"Er, okay I suppose…He's trying to teach me Occlumancy now." Hotaru answered when the waiter left.

"Has it helped?" Draco asked.

"I suppose so, I haven't had another trip to the hospital since I went to visit my Papa…" she said, rather quietly.

"Oh." He said, sipping his drink.

"Though I can't clear my mind too much, I leave myself open for attack then. It happened the first time and several times afterwards. She doesn't take complete control, but enough so that she speaks through my mouth." Hotaru practically whispered. "So…how did you learn about Mistress 9's outright attack?" She asked, the question had been bugging the back of her mind for a while, but it just hadn't seemed very important with everything else going on.

"Hm, to tell you the truth I got tipped off about your little D.A. meetings and was going there to bust them out when I saw…" He started talking quietly, "Well, everyone else was on the ground while Potter was backing up into a table with…that woman speaking to him. I heard only a whisper though, and she wasn't moving her lips….She did something, with her hands, I'm not sure what it was, but the next moment she had this crystal, this glowing crystal in her hand and Potter was on the floor. Then…she saw me…." He straightened up and fixed his mask back onto his face. "The next thing I remember, or rather want to remember, Madam Meiou was helping me up on my feet and we all gathered into your Hospital room." He said. "Night made me swear I wouldn't tell anyone about the D.A., though I suspect if I told anyone I saw it I'd have to tell them what was going on and such. I don't really think it'd be a good idea to say, 'Yeah, I found them out. All but Potter and an evil incarnate worse than a dementor were on the floor knocked out.'" Dispite the delicate subject they were talking about Hotaru giggled, wondering how Umbridge would react to that information. She'd probably try to issue a decree saying that the Stars were under her command as well, then she'd get quite a few notoriously powerful attacks heading up her…oh great, Hotaru was starting to think like Kioko now.

"D-did you see…a black star on her forehead?" Hotaru whispered, looking at her hands.

"A black star? No, there was nothing on her forehead. Oh wait, there was this small crystal etched into her skin right there," he said putting his finger onto his firehead. "Strangely enough, it reminded me of Sapphire's Black Crystal from Saturn now that I think about it." He added putting his hand back down.

"Oh…" Strange, and then again it wasn't so strange. The black star was Pharaoh 90's symbol, now that he wasn't helping her it'd be something else, but why black crystal? Hotaru picked up her menu to see what she wanted to order.

"So, I don't suppose you'll tell me the real reason you kept wearing headbands a while back." He said.

"Oh…Well…did you see the symbol on my forehead after Mistress 9 took over?" He shook his head, "Well, that symbol was there for a while before, only it's usually carved into my forehead. Setsuna-mama had me put an illusion over it because too many people were asking the same thing and trying to take it off for fun. Here, I'll show you." Hotaru pushed back her bangs and allowed the illusion to fall for long enough that he could see, and then she put it back up.

"That would make sense. I hear demons normally have their marks for people they…clam. That could be yours." He said.

"I think I'll get the Ramen." Hotaru commented, she then nodded to him. "Could be." Though she knew for a fact that it wasn't. Though, now that she thought about it, why was she bleeding like that? It wasn't particularly normal to have a cut in the shape of your planet's symbol. She'd have to ask Setsuna about it, or bring it up. It could be another one of these 'mysteries'. Hotaru suddenly perked up, "Wait, who tipped you off about the D.A.?!" she asked.

"I can't remember, oh well. If they ask I'll just tell them I never found a D.A." He answered uncaringly.

"It's important. They could tell Umbridge!" Hotaru said with a hushed voice.

"And we wouldn't want that now would we?" The side of Draco's lip started to twitch into a smirk. Hotaru could hardly believe him. Okay, the absolute lack of outward signs to indicate he cared about her was one thing, but to totally disregard her thoughts and opinions as something he doesn't need to be concerned about was another. Didn't he care that she was a member of the D.A.?! Did it even cross his mind that ratting them out just might get her a little upset? "What?" Draco asked, she was probably giving him an expression to match what she was considering.

"Nothing." She huffed, trying to keep her voice still quiet. She turned her head to look out the curtain at those around the other tables, but her eyes didn't take in what she was seeing. She was starting to feel depression weighing down on her again, like a large rock in her chest. Dismal and morbid thoughts started coming into her mind again. Maybe he didn't really care, maybe he was just going out with her because it would raise his status in some way. Maybe…he'd lied to her, maybe he was just going out with her to get her on their side…maybe he didn't really care if he was a Death Eater…

"It sure doesn't sound like nothing. Oh come on Tomo, you know how much I hate Potter. It's hard enough that you're friends with him, I keep feeling as though I should be slightly civil to him because of it. It is really hard passing up an opportunity to get him completely expelled, though at Night's wandpoint and with you're input on the matter I'll settle for a detention." He said.

Strangely enough, as well as ironically, Malfoy knew just what to say at that time. Hotaru looked back at him and smiled, so her opinion did matter to him, to an extent, but it still did. Malfoy took another sip of his coffee, "I suppose you'll be wanting me to hold hands down the hallway now?" he asked, a little bit of disgust in his voice.

"You don't have to. Actually, you might not want to because if Haruka-papa saw…" Malfoy cringed.

"Yeah, I'll be the one in the hospital wing." He said, making Hotaru giggle. "Seriously though, what are you going to be expecting? I've seen too many guys blow it because they didn't meet up to the girl's standards, or they went over in several ways." He asked.

Hotaru felt a bit taken back once again, she found it a bit odd for someone to ask that. Normally you try and guess or find out with round about questions. And once again she found it non-too-surprising after thinking it through. Malfoy's not going to spend his time worrying about all that. "Er…I suppose you could at least say hi now and then. It's nice when you come to visit me in the hospital. Maybe a date now and then, but it doesn't have to be often." She said truthfully.

"You don't require a lot then?" Hotaru shook her head, "Good because I don't either. I'm not going to try and keep you from your other…friends. But don't expect me to be nice to them, ever." He said.

"I still think that if you'd just set your distaste for muggles aside and really got to know Harry you two might not have such a bad relationship." She said. "After all, my Papa was 100% muggle before he was infected with that demon, and if you didn't like me you wouldn't be hanging around me would you?" Hotaru asked.

Malfoy considered a moment and shook his head, "No, you're pretty easy to like for some strange reason." He said. "But you're one of those people who'd make friends with just about everyone," he stated.

"Are you ready to order?" Asked the waiter as he peeked in the curtain.

"I am." Hotaru answered kindly. "Are you?" She asked Draco.

"Sure. I'll have the stake, rare." He said.

"What kind of sauce?" Asked the waiter approaching their table with a notebook in his hand.

"None." He said.

"Dark fruit or Albish?" The waiter asked.

"Albish."

"And you ma'am?" He asked.

"I'll take the Ramen noodles please." She said.

"What flavor?" he asked.

"Chicken." She answered.

"Side dish?"

"Um…" She looked at the side dishes.

"Get the Ebos, it's pretty good." Malfoy told her pointing.

"Okay I'll take that then." Hotaru said.

"Anything else?" He asked.

"No, that's about it." Hotaru said. He nodded and then left with their order.

"Perhaps if I'd met you the first year I'd have altered my outlook on Potter, but it's not happening. He's just too…Gryffindor for my tastes." He said.

"Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin use to be best friends." Hotaru reminded. When Malfoy gave her an odd look she said, "Weren't you listening to the Sorting Hat?" She asked.

"No, his rhythms mean nothing to me. Well that was fast." Draco said as their food came in. The waiter bowed politely and then left after they got their plates situated.

For most of the day they stayed in Rings, talking about this and that and sometimes not talking at all but watching all the little firefly lights and where they were going and such. It was a perfectly romantic atmosphere, unfortunately the last thing Draco wanted to do was be mushy, and as Kioko had told her, there was a fine line between 'mush and romance'. After a while Hotaru could no longer ignore the fact that their curtain was getting a good many curious looks. She had, in fact, seen a woman whisper something to a newly arrived waiter and point to them. Hotaru was beginning to get very suspicious, and a bit scared as well. Was there a slight possibility, that they might know about Mistress 9? But it was hard to make sense out of, they couldn't all know everything. Something clicked suddenly, they probably read the Daily Prophet, and according to Hermione she had an article, small or big, about her in there nearly every day. That must be it.

Their bill wasn't very high, in fact Malfoy couldn't understand why they were suddenly a lot more cheep. "The only explanation I can think of is they either know me from my Father or they read the Daily Prophet a lot." He said giving Hotaru a sideways glance. "The last article called you 'sweet, sensitive, caring, and a good friend'." He told her.

Hotaru blushed and got up, "I wish they wouldn't." She sighed smoothing out the creases in her dress, prepared to leave.

But suddenly Malfoy took her hand and stopped her, "Hotaru," He began, making her turn to face him. He'd never used her first name before, something must be wrong, very wrong. "There's something I have to tell you and this is the best place to do it in." His eyes lingered on the curtain, as if ordering it to stay closed. He then looked back at Hotaru. "He wants you on his side, The Dark Lord, he told my father this and I was in the room with him. He said, he said something about needing you. Hotaru, he's going to stop at nothing until he gets whatever it is he wants from you. I-I think it's that demon, I think he wants to revive her completely and have her work for him." He said cautiously.

"B-but he can't, Mistress 9…you heard Setsuna, she's more powerful than Chaos. She, she won't obey him unless she wants to. She's very dangerous, he could get everyone, including himself, killed if he tried." Hotaru said shaking.

"I don't know who this Chaos is, but—"

"There's a lot you don't know and you'll eventually find out. But just believe me when I say Chaos is more powerful, more horrible, than any witch or wizard could ever be, including Vol—him." Malfoy gave her a bit of a shocked/disbelieving look. "Trust me on this, there are different forms of power than your magic, just like what Setsuna said. If You-Know-Who ever revived Mistress 9," Hotaru shook her head, "it'd be worse than what she did at the D.A. meeting." She said in a hushed voice.

"This has to do with that 'other world' you live in doesn't it?" Malfoy asked. Hotaru nodded, "I doubt you'll be allowed to tell me everything, but I'd like to know some more about it." He said.

"You just can't tell anyone what I told you." Hotaru said.

"Secrets I can keep, and I don't go back on my word once you have it. And you have my word I won't tell anyone." He told her. "Now let's go." He said, letting his voice go back to normal. He let go of her hand and then set the required money down on the table with a small tip.

"Oh dear." Hotaru sighed when they got outside. It was raining, pretty hard. And her without an umbrella. She took out her wand and weaved a spell so that the rain wouldn't hit her. Draco did the same and the two walked out. The rain stopped and then fell down another way a few inches above Hotaru's head, it formed a dome shape around her and kept her shoes from getting too wet.

Suddenly Hotaru remembered something she needed to do, "Oh, would you mind stopping by a shop called Saturn's Eye real quick?" She asked Draco.

He shrugged, "Fine with me."

Just as Hotaru suspected they found Kioko in there bending over something that was making some loud chirping noises. She looked up and grinned, "Oh, hi. Having fun you two?" She asked teasingly.

"Stuff it Night." Draco grumbled.

"Why Draco, you've picked up some of my slang." She said, looking very proud of herself. She then looked at Hotaru and put her hands together in a prayer-like position, "Hotaru? Best friend of mine, I know I haven't really paid you back for the amulet yet but…um…" She trailed off.

"Of course I'll buy the phoenix for you. Silver actually told me he'd have it next time we came here so that's what I was coming to do." Hotaru told her. She picked up the cage of the cute little royal blue and black phoenix.

"Hotaru, I love you." Kioko said as the two walked up to the counter.

"60 Galleons." Silver told them.

"60, you said you got yours for 80!" Kioko exclaimed.

"No, I sold it to her for the same price." Silver said as Hotaru started counting Galleons.

"I don't suppose you have another one of those." Malfoy came up.

Silver shook his head, "The Hybrid Illusion Phoenixes are only born for certain people, and the two that I have had so far I am only selling to their certain people. Namely Miss Tomo and Miss Night." He stated.

"Well I feel special now." Kioko said as Silver handed her the Phoenix. "Hm, I think I'll name her Calypso, don't know why, but I will." Kioko said. She raised an questioning eyebrow at Silver's smirk but let it pass.

*********

"Sooooooooo, how'd it go?" Kioko asked grinning as she moved to sit on Hotaru's bed.

"Well, something pretty funny happened at the beginning of it. Crabbe and Goyle were with him," Hotaru couldn't help but start grinning. "Well, I was wearing my nice dress, as you saw, and they," She snickered, "They started making fun of me, then Goyle asked, 'Who's the lucky Mud Blood?'." Hotaru said. As she had predicted, Kioko fell down laughing really hard.

"What did Malfoy do?!" She asked hysterically.

"He said in a dark voice, 'That would be me.'" Hotaru said. "They ran." Kioko started laughing harder.

Well, Pandora had taken the liberty of watching Calypso, the two were chirping in conversation with each other on Hotaru's curtain poll at the moment. Jade and Shiva were lazing in all the free space of the room. Ebony, the raven, was parched on top of Kioko's curtain poll sleeping, and the two snakes, Lilic and Anri, were anacondas at the moment and occupied another section of the room. They were all just kind of lazing in the large room space between the two's beds and the door.

"Oh I wish I had stayed with you for a bit longer then." Kioko said, "That would have been hilarious. Malfoy must be chewing them out."

Suddenly there was a sound that could have been a mixture of a boom and a crash down stairs. "Hm, sounds like a guy tried getting into the girl's dormitory. Let's go see who it is." Kioko said sprinting down the pathway between her pets. Hotaru followed her and several other girls were coming out to see who it was as well.

"Crabbe and Goyle?!" Kioko exclaimed and she busted out laughing. Malfoy looked irritated, slightly amused, and pleased at the same time.

"They were trying to get away from me by going into the girl's dormitories." He said smirking at the two as they fumbled up. Some of the other girls snickered and went back up to the dormitories.

"Why…were they trying to get away from…" Kioko looked at Hotaru and then collapsed into a fit of giggles.

A/N: Hm, looks like it's leaning pretty much towards Hotaru and Draco, don't worry, it'll change to Harry in later chapters though!!! Then I don't know what to do Liar!).