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Title: Traces of Mistakes

Author: Leenie Chan

Chapter five: It Begins

Sighing to herself heavily, Usagi leaned her head back against the trunk of the tree and allowed her eyes to clash with the setting sun. She loved to watch the sunset. Whenever she could escape her school work, or training, or her friends in some cases, she liked to come out here and just watch day turn to night. She found it a wonderful way to escape the responsibilities of her life, not to mention her most recent problems.

Unfortunately, this spot couldn't be claimed as hers wholly. On occasions, Harry used to do the same thing, sitting under the same tree by the lake. They used to come out together even before they had become a couple. Harry enjoyed the privacy they had here, and whenever he had something on his mind, he would take her out to watch the sunset, unleashing his problems onto her to ruin the beauty of nature.

But much to Usagi's delight, Harry was no where to be seen. In fact, Usagi had been expecting to see Harry out here when she walked out to check if her spot was free. She'd heard Haruka had gone after him, and he was in need of a good hiding place to escape her clutches. One she didn't already know about at that. That is why this spot seemed so perfect. Nobody knew it was their little corner of the world.

Usagi threw her head back and closed her eyes. She had to stop thinking about him. It was eating her alive, sitting with the image of him and Ginny running through her head whenever she thought of him.

Ginny sitting on his knee…

Her pale fingers standing out so well as they ran through his messy black hair…

Harry's glasses magnifying her face from the angle which Usagi had stood…

A shudder rippled through Usagi's body as an unexpected voice filled with coldness shattered her thoughts. "What are you doing?"

Usagi managed to suppresses the gasp trying to break through her lips, her eyes moving to clash with the icy grey ones she had least expected to meet. Draco Malfoy towered over her small crumpled form, looking down on her with one of his trademark scolds of disgust.

"N-nothing," Usagi's voice hitched in her throat. She straightened up and quickly whipped away any stray tears that had fallen.

Draco allowed his mouth to twist into a smirk, as he leant up against the back of the tree, ceasing her movements to get up and leave. "Then if you're not in the middle of anything, you won't mind if I join you."

Usagi's brows knitted together in annoyance at the way his tone left little room for her protests. She didn't really want him out here with her. She didn't want anyone out here with her, hence the reason she came out here in the first place. And of all people to be out here with, it had to be Draco Malfoy. The son of one of the Dark Lord's most trusted servants.

Harry flashed through Usagi's mind again, the bewildered look on his face as his hair stood up even more than normal after Ginny had been using combing her fingers thoroughly through its softness. His voice calling out her name in heavy gasps from the lack of oxygen as she made to leave… why couldn't she just forget it?

The blonde sighed again and slumped back against the tree beside Draco's legs. Her mind raced to retrieve another memory she wanted to never see again containing Harry's face.

Usagi leaning up against the tree as the sun was colliding with the horizon.

Harry resting his head in her lap as her fingers toyed with his hair affectionately.

The last time the two of them would ever watch the sun set together.

Harry's mouth moved the words never leaving his lips and Usagi's face flickered to life with a smile. Her mouth moved wordlessly as well and in a moment she was leaning forward, bringing their mouths together to savour their unknowing last kiss as boyfriend and girlfriend.

"I've never watched the sun set before…" Draco's voice pulled her from the memory and dragged her carelessly back to reality. His eyes however were not focusing on the descending sun but on the defeated girl below him. Slowly without warning, Draco slid down to the base of the tree to rest as comfortably as he could be on the hard earth beside the Mudblood girl.

Draco noticed the way her body tensed up as his came crashing through her personal space barrier. He was disgusted with himself. Sitting out in the cold with a Gryffindor Mudblood was not something he wanted to be seen doing. Nervously he cast glances back to the entrance of the castle, wanting more than ever to rush back inside and forget about the heartbroken Muggle. What was one less Muggle to the Wizarding world anyway?

Usagi's eyes never left the scene in front of her as she whispered back her disbelieving response, "How can you not have ever watched the sun set?"

"I don't express any interests for common Muggle activities," Draco brought his fingers up to his face and began examining them carefully, a note of boredom playing in his voice, "And there are no windows in the Slytherin common room."

"How can there be no windows?" Usagi murmured, still not believing what Draco Malfoy was telling her. Why would anything that came from his mouth directed towards her be true? It was no secret how much he loathed Muggleborns…

Mentally, Draco rolled his eyes. Mudbloods were so easily interested in anything, the weather… the windowless Slytherin Common Room… "The Slytherin Common room is located in the dungeons, correct?"

Usagi gave a brief nod of her head to urge him to continue.

"And the dungeons lead under the lake, hence the reason they're so cold and the walls are usually damp. Have you not noticed there are no windows in our potions classroom either?"

"I'd hate to not be able to see outside from my common room and dormitory…" Usagi muttered, pulling her legs into her chest and wrapping her arms around them to form a tight ball, "It would be so cold and dark,"

"We have fires to keep us warm and provide light, you know," Draco forced a laugh, "Then if you love your common room so much why are you out here?"

"I would rather see the sun set from out here than up there through a glass window," Usagi answered slowly, her voice becoming softer with every word. "And to get away."

Draco leant in closer to her tightly held figure to aid the travelling of her tiny whispers, "From?"

"Everyone."

The Slytherin prefect watched in silence as the sun finally descended completely into the horizon and all that was left to light their surroundings were the stars and full moon. Leaning back into the trunk of the tree Draco sighed heavily. He couldn't believe he was doing this. He was bursting to tell the Mudblood she was the most pathetic excuse for a person he had ever met, for the sheer reason she was still so clearly being bothered by Potter. How was he going to last until the end of the Christmas holidays?

But he had to. He wanted to beat Blaise in this bet and see his pointed snobbish face. But even more, he wanted to see Potter's face when he had Tsukino eating out of his hand. He already had Potter riled up the day he kissed Tsukino's hand… just wait. In a few weeks he'd be kissing more than just her hands. And that would be a sight Draco wanted to replay over in his mind forever.

The look of horror on Potter's face.

When Potter finally realises that he'd lost his girlfriend to his worst enemy.

And of course then there would be the big finale when he dumped the Mudblood and left her weeping in her own stupidity for ever thinking she had a chance with the great Draco Malfoy. Seventh year would by far be the best year of Draco's Hogwarts experience.

"You know, I could take a lot of points off you," Draco boasted suddenly, ripping through the thick silence. He had to make himself look good to her, let her know he was treating her well.

"What for?" She mumbled, "Its not past curfew yet, I'm allowed to be—"

"For being too beautiful," Draco easily overran her broken voice with his own, and stopped her instantly with his statement. For the first time since he had arrived her eyes met with his again and showed her confusion.

"What?" She breathed, knowing well she had not heard him correctly. The day he complimented her was the day pigs would fly…

Draco ran his fingers through his hair quickly, fighting off the urge to tug on it in frustration, "You heard me," He pulled a smile over his face which he hoped the fakeness of it was well covered by his incredible charm. In another swift movement Draco was on his feet and once again towering over her dominantly and making her nervous by the way he watched her, "Come on, we'd better get you back to the castle before they realise you're missing."

She watched as his arm extended down to her level, and she stared at it for a moment before placing her hand gently in his and allowing him to pull her to her feet. Perhaps he pulled a little too roughly, and ended up with her crashing into his strong chest. Usagi looked quizzically up into his mysterious grey orbs, making no attempt to move from him. They stood together under the tree with their bodies touching innocently.

Draco resisted the urge to throw her away from him, all the while yelling at her for dirtying his clothes with her Muggle filth. Draco titled his head forwards slightly in hopes she would do the same and he could lock her into a kiss that would secure his victory over Blaise and Potter.

Something wet collided with Usagi's nose, being enough to pull her back to her senses as she pulled away from Malfoy and she looked up to the sky to see many small balls of white floating down to earth. "It's snowing," she whispered, watching as the air from her mouth came out in a heavy mist.

Draco tilted his head up to the sky and watched uninterestedly as the snow descended down on them, "Yeah. I guess that means we should get back inside then."

Usagi nodded, watching as Draco pulled off his cloak and wrapped it around her shoulders as any gentleman would. "What are you—"

"Come on," He whispered in her ear as he led her off towards the Entrance. Draco pulled the doors open and allowed her to move inside first before closing the door after him. "Well, we should defiantly do that again some time, Tsukino,"

"Usagi," She corrected quickly flickering a smile over her face, and watching as Draco returned it. He took her hand in his once again and kissed it gently, moving past her towards the dungeons.

"Sweet dreams, Usagi," He called over his shoulder before disappearing completely from her view.

Usagi stood shocked in the Entrance Hall for a few moments, a puddle beginning to form from the dampness of her dripping clothes and hair. The smile pulled back over her face and she whispered back, "Sweet dreams, Draco."

Harry ran a hand through his hair out of growing habit and stared down at the wizard's chess board in front of him, while ignoring the pressure from Ron's eyes for him to make a move. Sighing quietly he breathed, "Bishop to B5."

Ron leant back in his chair, his eyes scanning the board thoroughly for a strategy to win. Harry had given up all hope of ever betting Ron in a game of chess. Sure, Ron would have his days where his mind was somewhere else and couldn't properly focus on the game, resulting in Harry to win, but today defiantly wasn't one of those rare occasions.

In fact, its was Harry's mind that was wandering from the game. He hadn't seen Usagi in almost two hours. He figured she was out by the lake again watching the sunset, but the sun had been down for more than an hour now and she had yet to return. Not knowing where she was made his stomach churn with the possible thoughts of what could happen to her. Voldemort knew how he felt for her, whether he knew they had broken up or not was another story. Anything could happen to her and he wouldn't know.

Nobody else seemed to be stressing too much over Usagi's disappearance though. Minako sat curled up in a corner of the common room leaning against Seamus as they talked casually. Harry shouldn't worry until she did, because by the looks of things Minako wasn't worried at all.

The creaking of the portrait being swung open grabbed Harry's attention immediately and he watched as an absolutely soaked Usagi drifted across the common room with the first smile he'd seen in weeks. Minako noticed her and called out to her, springing from her position on Seamus and rushing to her best friend.

"Usagi—hey why are you wet—why the hell are you wearing a Slytherin cloak?" Minako bombarded her with questions, noticing quickly the robes draped around her best friend.

Harry's eyes widened when he too noticed it, and a seething jealousy swept through his body like he'd never felt before. Usagi had been outside all this time with some guy! Not to mention any guy… but a Slytherin! How could she betray her house like that? How could she betray him like that!

"Harry!" Ron demanded, "Move it—what the hell is that on Usagi?"

"It's snowing outside Minako!" Usagi giggled excitedly.

Minako's eyebrows disappeared into her hairline as she stared dumbfounded at her best friend. Seamus appeared at Minako's side and dropped his mouth in horror at the sight of the cloak.

"Is that a Slytherin cloak?" Seamus asked breathlessly.

"Oh shit… I forgot all about it." Usagi cursed and quickly removed it from her drenched body, draping it carefully over her arm.

"Usagi… who does that belong to?"

Half the common room had stopped all conversation and held the blonde firmly in their eyesight. "It's Draco's."

"MALFOY!" Ron roared, springing from his chair with such a force it swung backwards and hit the ground with a silencing crash, "How can you bring that—that—thing into our common room? What if it's a trap for Harry or something?"

Usagi's eyes snapped over to slash with Ron's, "Shut up, Weasley," She barked in a tone that sounded foreign to Usagi's normally sweet nature. They watched helplessly as Usagi's good mood was dampened and she stormed off up the stairs towards her dormitory slamming the door as she went.

Wow I'm alive! YES I AM! My ears are itchy… thought you guys should all know that! Well heres another chapter finally done. Hope you like it… and think its good and all that. Everyone should be happy with Draco's appearance. Hope it seemed realistic… because I don't want to rush things with him and Usa. I almost made 100 reviews! Only 2 reviews off! Lol… oh well… hopefully I make it with this chapter or else I swear I will stop writing forever… hehe. REVIEW!

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