Author: AngeloftheDesert
Disclaimer: If I owned Harry Potter, then Severus Snape would be a sex symbol, not Gilderoy Lockhart. I probably took some influences from Ah! My Goddess, and I don't known that Anime/manga either.
Rating: PG-13 to R
Pairing: SS/OC - main, secondary pairings will come as my muse kicks me.
Summary: It's the sixth year at Hogwarts and a new Potion's apprentice is brought to the school. Is there more between this new student and Professor Snape than meets the eye?
Chapter Three
The buzz followed them all the way down to Potions. Harry couldn't help but cringe as he remembered that they had Double Potions...also with the Slytherins. But something else caught his attention as the voices died down. It was a soft voice coming from the Potions classroom, singing softly from behind the closed door. Harry couldn't make out the words, and he went to press his ear against the door when it suddenly opened, causing Harry to come face-to-face with the red-haired girl he had seen sitting with Snape in the Great Hall. The girl's blue eyes blinked for a moment before her face split into a kind smile.
"Konnichiwa," the girl smiled, her voice sounding like an angel's. She stepped back from the door, allowing it to open further, "Snape-sempai has asked that you all take your seats and remain quiet." The class filed into the Potions room, watching as the girl stepped away from the flow of students and continued setting up the cauldrons. She was wearing pretty, pale rose-colored robes cut to end just below her knee, black slip-on shoes barely making a sound as she went about her work, her ponytail accented by rose-colored beads. The students watched as she slipped easily around the classroom, setting up the ingredients that they would be using today.
"Who do you think she is?" Hermione hissed at Harry as they slid into their seats towards the back of the room. This was the only class which Hermione volunteered to sit in the back for, the others she was adamant to get good, front-row seats. Harry shrugged slightly and continued to watch as the girl walked around the room, making sure that everybody was set up.
Harry was watching the girl so closely that he jumped when Snape made his usual banging entrance into the classroom, glaring at all of them, but Harry in particular. Snape had been livid when Harry had made an "Outstanding" on his Potions' O.W.L.s, therefore allowing Harry to take the N.E.W.T. class. While Harry had been hoping that he'd be able to ditch Potions after fifth year, he knew he needed a good N.E.W.T. in order to become an Auror, which was the career he dreamed about. The only good thing about the class was that, while Malfoy had managed to make it, Crabbe and Goyle had gotten the lowest grade possible for their O.W.L.s, so Malfoy no longer had his bodyguards in the class anymore.
"Kimi," Snape called the girl's attention, motioning for her to join him at the head of the classroom, he then turned the girl towards the class and introduced her, "Class, this is my new assistant, Kimi Miyazaki. You will respect her in the same degree you respect me, any disrespect towards her will earn you a weeks worth of detention, and further punishment as I see fit." There was a definate threat in his voice, but Harry also picked up a degree of protectiveness over the girl. Snape then turned back to Kimi, "Kimi, you may take your seat."
"Hai!" Kimi smiled, lifting herself off the floor and floating over to a desk next to Snape's. There was an audible gasp as she did this, for she didn't have a wand and didn't cast a levitation charm on herself. Those who didn't have sixth year DADA were even more shocked by the display. Snape huffed slightly, rolling his eyes at the gaping class, before he turned to Kimi, who was already sitting in her desk.
"Kimi, would you refrane from using your powers in the classroom?" Snape arched an eyebrow at Kimi, who blushed a pretty rose color and nodded, looking throughly embarassed.
"Gomen-nasai..." Kimi whispered, looking down at her hands clasped on the desktop. Snape looked at the girl for a moment, then returned his attention to the rest of the class, giving them a dark glare.
"Well, it seems more of you dunderheads made it to my N.E.W.T. class than I expected," Snape levelled a dark, piercing glare on Harry before he spoke again, "And you will now discover that the past five years have been...as Muggles say...'a walk in the to the next two. These next two years will prepare you for your N.E.W.T. examination. First off, we will me learning to make the Draught of Living Death. Your instructions-" he waved his wand at the blackboard, the instructions for making the potion appearing on the blackboard "-follow them exactly or else your Draught of Living Death will become a real death. We will be testing them once they are ready. Begin!"
"Where do you think she's from?" Harry asked Hermione as they ground their asphodel roots for the potion. The class was busy with their work, but each pair was whispering to each other, no doubt talking about Snape's new assistant, "When she greeted us, she said something I didn't quite understand..."
"She's Japanese," Hermione replied as she pinched the powdered asphodel roots into her cauldron, watching as the liquid turned a pleasing shade of periwinkle, "I read a book on Japanese magical creatures a few years ago, that's how I suspected Claudia was at least part Tenshi."
"What is a Tenshi?" Harry arched an eyebrow at Hermione, carefully measuring newt saliva before adding it to the mixture. The lovely periwinkle color slowly faded into a blood red.
"A Tenshi is an amazingly-powerful Japanese magical creature," Hermione told him as they allowed their potion to simmer, "'Tenshi' is Japanese for 'angel', which is what they closely resemble. They are supposed to have amazing magical powers, but they have one flaw: their Heart Stone."
"Heart Stone?" By now, Harry could see Malfoy straining to hear the conversation from his cauldron in front of them.
"Yes," Hermione nodded, "When a person discovers a Tenshi's Heart Stone, they can perform a binding spell and bind themselves to the Tenshi. The person bound to the Heart Stone is called the Tenshi's Holder and can command the Tenshi to do almost anything they want. I'm thinking that Kimi is a Tenshi and Snape is her Holder, since she showed up all of a sudden and seems to be very obedient to Snape."
"Poor girl..." Harry muttered, pouring the wormwood into the mixture, the blood red turning into a smoky blue color. Snape then instructed them to leave the cauldrons simmering, which they would need to until the next full moon, which was two weeks away, at which they would add the last ingredients. The students packed up their ingredients and began filing through the door. Harry cast a look over his shoulder and saw Kimi and Snape floating the simmering cauldrons into a cabinet. He felt sorry for Kimi, having to obey Snape's every command, he didn't know if he'd be able to live like that.
To Be Continued.
Author's Note: Well, hope you enjoyed this chapter! Thanks to DarkNevilKitty for the review!