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GUEST AUTHOR ALERT! My dearest dear deary Kyia-chan :D contributed a chunk of the chapter:D she wrote Draco insulting Usagi, can you tell the style shift i wonder?
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Japan is a long way away from England
"Hello, I am here to see Dr. Mizuno."
"Sorry dear, she's with a patient. Can I give her a message?" The nurse didn't even look up to acknowledge the girl in front of her.
"I'm her daughter."
The nurse looked up startled to see the blue haired girl with a serene, with a hint of haughtiness, smile looking down at her. "Oh! Oh my, I am terribly sorry Miss Ami, I'm sorry. You may go ahead to her office, dear." The flustered nurse motioned down the hall towards her mother's office.
"Thank you." Ami nodded and started down the hall. The past couple of days had been spent trying to get to the CLAMP school campus, but that side of Tokyo was experiencing an abnormal amount of earthquakes and a high amount of building damage causing most ways of transportation to shut down. So, here she was to sulk in her mother's office and get her to excuse her absence from school. Hopefully.
She stopped to look out a window over looking the small courtyard the hospital had for patients to get fresh air in. she flinched at her thoughts of school. The Senshi were going to skin her alive for worrying them; her voice mail had a dozen messages from Makoto, Usagi, and Rei wondering where she was. She thought about calling Minako to catch up on all the gossip she must have missed.
Ami stood there in the hall contemplating a few things until a familiar face caught her attention in the reflection of the glass. Ami turned sharply: she could hardly believe her luck! There, standing forlornly in the hallway, was Kamui, the very object of her pursuit.
"...Kamui?" Ami breathed in.
Kamui looked up to see the short blue haired girl that he had run into a few times now. She looked amazed and startled at once. "Ami, right?" He gave a small smile.
Ami nodded and walked towards him. "What are you doing in the hospital?" She asked curiously. "Oh, sorry, that's a horrible question for me to ask, it was so insensitive."
"No, it's all right, my friend Subaru is here, but he's okay now, nothing life threatening." Kamui smiled and leaned against the wall. "But now it's only fair to tell me why you are in a hospital."
"Oh, my mother works here. Doctor Mizuno." Ami shrugged and smiled back. "Nothing exciting."
"Ami Mizuno! I'm glad you're here." The two teens turned to see Ami's mother walking towards them. She looked just like Ami, except older and even shorter hair. "Your school called me this morning to tell me about all the classes you have missed! And you landed a detention earlier!"
"Mom!" Ami blushed. "Everyone landed in that detention, even Quatre!" This was a weak spot on her mom, Dr. Mizuno absolutely adored Quatre. Every time she saw him she just had to hug the sweet boy. "And Usagi was having a crisis! ...Her... her dad! He called from America and it set Usagi off, she was a wreck!" Ami lied cleverly, playing on another weak spot, Usagi. Her mom also adored Usagi, and felt so horrible that she was going through such a tough time with her parents getting divorced.
"Oh, is Usagi all right now? That man, if I had time I'd fly to America and give him a piece of my mind, making his kids suffer through this awful time. Men." Dr. Mizuno fumed.
"Yes mom, she's okay now. Did I tell you that Mrs. Tsukino, err, Miss Ikuko, is dating another man?" Ami effectively got her mom to forget all about her ditching school.
"Good for her! Ikuko, the poor dear, deserves some happiness after that despicable Kenji." Her mother sighed and shook her head. "Well dear, I've got to run and check on a patient, but wait for me in my office please, and then we'll grab some dinner and head home."
Ami nodded. "Sounds great mom." Her mother nodded and continued on down the hallway.
"You just lied to your mother." Kamui spoke up. He had a small smile on his lips.
Ami blushed at being caught. "Well, not all the way! Usagi's dad is evil for doing what he is doing to poor Usagi! It's just she wasn't a wreck... It was a small fib." Ami defended herself.
Kamui laughed. Ami never heard such a beautiful sound in all her life. "Don't worry, you secret is safe with me." He grinned at her. Ami couldn't reply, she was too stunned. "I never do this and I hope this doesn't seem too forward of me... but, can I get your number? You seem like such a fun girl."
Ami nearly died! "Of course!" She beamed.
oOo
"You're SUSPENDED? For FIGHTING? Oh Kami, I knew your father was a bad influence on you, I should never have let you train with him. I can't believe you were fighting. Haven't I taught you to be better than that?" Chichi paced in front of the kitchen table, where Gohan sat looking extremely guilty while Goku and Goten ate their dinner.
"Mom, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to–"
"Gohan, I don't want to hear anything out of you." Chichi glared at her oldest son. "Goku, what do you have to say for yourself?" She turned on her husband.
"What? Say for myself?" Goku was confused about the question aimed at him.
"Yes, it's your fault that Gohan was fighting at school!" Chichi wailed. Goku, Gohan and Goten looked at her like she had lost her mind.
"My fault?" Goku asked. He wasn't the one who got suspended, how did this woman process that one?
"Yes, I never should have let you train him when he was so young."
"Mom, even if I had never been trained to fight, I'm sure I still would have fought Squall, besides, he threw the first punch. Technically it was self defense." Gohan defended his innocent father.
"Gohan, you don't have to stick up for your father, he's been a terrible influence on you ever since you were four years old." Chichi cuddled a serving spoon as her eyes started to tear up.
"What? That's ridiculous!" Gohan sputtered. "Why is it always me? You never get mad at Dad for training Goten, if fact, you encourage him to train Goten, but I am responsible for saving the world against Cell and you think that he's a terrible influence?" Gohan had enough. First Usagi dating Squall, and now Squall just being... Squall, and now his mother? Why did his life suck so much? "I've had it! I'm going to Trunks' house!" Gohan stood and stormed out of the house before powering up and taking off for Capsule Corp. before Chichi could stop him.
oOo
Squall was stretched haphazardously across the floor in his father's office, his feet were touching his father's desk, and his head was under one of the guest chairs. He was pinching the bridge of his nose with one hand while the other was flung out in the middle of Laguna's pacing path. Laguna had to be mindful of his son's hand as he talked over the phone with one of his ambassadors. Kiros, who happened to be sitting in the chair over Squall, sighed again and poked him. "This is your own fault, you know."
Squall sighed. "... I know." Laguna had called Squall while he was over at Usagi's apartment and Squall came home to receive his punishment from Laguna and (well, mostly from) Kiros.
"I will agree that three days is an awfully long time for a first offence." Kiros eyed the brooding boy.
"... you will?" Squall asked surprised. Kiros never took his side. He tried to act like a mom (or at least the parental figure that disciplined) for him since his mother died in childbirth.
"But let this be a warning to you that fighting will not be permitted at this school. The principal isn't as tolerant as the last and your father's money isn't going to help you out of any messes anymore."
"His money never has in the past." Squall muttered.
"Money, influence, I think you understand what I mean."
Squall nodded, and Kiros, even though he didn't see it, was satisfied enough.
The two men sat in silence as they watched Laguna pace and rant at the poor soul on the other line until Squall's Mobil phone rang. Squall lazily picked it up since he knew it wasn't Usagi–she had a programed the song 'Eternal Flame' as her ring–and saw CStrife on the display.
Squall sat up swiftly, forgetting that he was under a chair, and slammed his head against the underside. Kiros jumped at the unexpected jolt and Squall scooted out cursing the poor chair.
"Arg! Shit! No good piece of crap–Hello?" He finally answered his phone while rubbing the top of his head.
"Squall!" The greeting was loud enough for Kiros to hear.
"Cloud!" Squall greeted. "How are you?"
"Fine. I'm in town and I heard that you're suspended from school again, so I thought we could catch up."
"You're... In town? Do you have a mission?"
"No, a bit of vacation time. The government owes me quite a bit."
"No shit. How do you know that I am suspended?"
"Laguna. Fighting again?"
Squall sighed. "...Yeah, not with Seifer though."
"Oh really? That's a first."
"It was over my girlfriend, do you want to meet tomorrow for lunch?"
"Sounds good. Girlfriend worth fighting over? It better not be that Rinoa girl. She found out I was your cousin and stalked me for a week until Tifa delt with her."
Squall shuddered. "Sorry about her. Head over here tomorrow and I'll take us to a restaurant."
"Sounds good, I head over at noon."
"Great."
"I have to go, I'll see you tomorrow."
"Ja mata."
"Ja."
Squall closed his flip phone with a click and turned to Laguna (who was finally off the phone). "How come you didn't tell me Cloud was in town?"
Laguna was leaning against his desk with an amused expression. "He wanted to tell you himself."
Squall grinned.
"Laguna, I don't think Squall should go with Cloud, he's supposed to be in trouble." Kiros frowned at his friend and president.
"Aw, spoil sport." Laguna pouted at the dark skinned man. "Squall was just defending Usagi's honor like a proper man. I can't punish him for upholding the values I taught him." Laguna pouted.
Kiros sighed at his long time friend's dramatics. "Fine. He can go."
oOo
Ikuko was happily cooking dinner for the night, she was sad that Squall couldn't stay, she really did like her daughter's boyfriend. She hoped that Shingo, when he starts dating, could be as lucky. Ikuko looked up from the dish she just put in the oven to notice something that she hadn't previously. She glanced at her daughter, who was sprawled out beside Shingo watching him play videogames.
"Um... Usagi... we have a bird in the house." Ikuko eyes the colorful bird that was perched on the back of one of the dinner table chairs. Rin was giggling under the table, she had a box of crayons and a drawing pad and was attempting to draw the majestic bird.
Usagi looked up at her mother and then glanced at Admetus. "Um... I found it?"
"What, at the zoo?" Shingo joked.
Usagi glared. "It was ... a bit of an extracurricular activity field trip. I found him and he wouldn't go back to his nest." Usagi offered a feeble smile.
"Rin like pretty bird!" Rin giggled and rolled out from under the table. "What does Sesshomaru think?" It had taken Sesshomaru two months and four days to get Rin to stop calling him 'Lord Sesshomaru', in this time it looked odd to humans and he didn't want to go about advertising that he was a demon lord.
"Honey, this makes two pets for you." Ikuko gave her daughter the 'eye'. The Mother scolding The Daughter eye. The Mother won't let The Daughter buy the overpriced shoes eye.
"Mom! Luna isn't a pet, she's a member of the family! She takes care of herself!" Usagi gestured to the black cat sitting on the counter and paging through a newspaper and occasionally sipping a tea cup full of Earl Grey. Luna looked up at Ikuko and let out a partial 'meow'.
"And Admetus can take care of himself too!" Usagi then gestured to the colorful bird. "Admetus, find food!"
Admetus looked up at Usagi before stretching out his wings and flying to a kitchen cupboard. He opened it with his beak and walked awkwardly inside. He then kicked out a box of Kixs cereal and trilled happily.
Ikuko sighed and shook her head.
Sesshomaru glanced up from the Newsweek that he was reading. "Taking care of more than one pet can teach her responsibility." He told her.
Ikuko looked over at Sesshomaru and then back at her daughter. "... Fine. You can keep both animals... as long as Luna doesn't work the stove unsupervised anymore, that worries me."
Luna looked up from the newspaper and bristled, she could work the stove just fine!
Usagi squealed happily and hugged her mother. "Thanks mom!"
oOo
The Next Morning at Ken High found an unusual (more so than usual) sight in Principal Knives's office...
Knives surveyed the four British teens in front of him. Terry Boot, Justin Finch-Fletchley, Draco Malfoy, and Harry Potter–according to his piece of paper.
"When I spoke with your Headmaster he informed me that not all of you get along, and that you might argue or fight. But fighting will not be tolerated in my school. In fact, if caught fighting, it will result in loss of limbs. Am I understood?" He glared at the four sixteen year old boys sitting in front of him. A demonic grin that cause Legato and the Gung-Ho Guns to follow him.
The four boys were in awe of this principal, they couldn't tell if he was joking or if he was actually serious. Loss of limb? The four boys gulped nervously. "Yes sir!" They agreed hastily.
Nakago frowned as he watched the new Principal, Knives, talk to the exchange students from England. Damn him. Damn him to the darkest pits of Hell. After all his careful plotting to get rid of the last principal, that damn Souma, the school board had to go and hire this psycho to fill the much coveted position instead of promoting him. Damn him indeed.
He watched as the four boys stood up and bowed slightly–the blonde seemed to be uneasy at bowing–typical foreigner–and file out the door. He stood tall and glared down on them as they walked past him on their way out. The boy with glasses, who seemed to be the elected leader of them, paused and nodded to him. "Good morning, sir."
Nakago nodded in response. "I have your schedules here, Ami Mizuno will bring you four to your home room."
As he spoke the blue haired girl breezed into the administration office. She looked a little ruffled, the Senshi had pounced on her the second she walked into the locker bay that morning. "Good Morning Vice Principal." She greeted with a huge smile on her pretty face.
"Miss Mizuno, you mother called this morning and excused your recent absences. I expect that it will not happen again, unless hospitalized with injury or illness." He glared, ice blue eyes flashing in contempt.
"Of course sir. Never again." She smiled unaffected up at him. She then turned to the four English exchange students. "Hello, my name is Ami Mizuno, it's nice to meet you." She bowed slightly.
"Harry Potter." The boy with glasses introduced himself first. He stuck out his hand in greeting before remembering he was in Japan and quickly bowed. Ami smiled and shook his hand anyway. Nakago knew that the girl had been overseas plenty of times and nearly went to a German Academy for school, she was the best person to deal with foreigners.
"Draco Malfoy." A snobbish looking blonde stuck out his hand, he seemed as if he was refusing to bow unless absolutely necessary.
"Justin Finch-Fletchley." Ami frowned at the difficult name for the Japanese tongue and repeated it slowly. The boy nodded nervously and smiled.
"Terry Boot." The last boy bowed correctly, his speech was smoother than the other three boys. He seemed to be the studious one of the four.
"Well, now that you're all acquainted, no need to loiter in the office. Be off." Nakago ushered them out with a wave of his hand. He then turned to glare at the man with HIS job. Knives look up at him and sneered back, just to spite him. Damn him.
Ami lead the four boys to the tenth floor with little problems and rattled off where everything was and who to ask for help if they got lost. Which bathrooms to avoid and who to be wary of. Harry felt dizzy with all the knowledge presented to him. Ami gestured to the room and told them to sit anywhere the pleased. Ami went to talk to a girl with blonde hair pulled back in a red bow.
Harry sat in one of the only empty seats in the class and tried to block out the cheerful chatter of the students around him; he frowned and continued to ignore Draco tossing glares at him and Justin's constant wary glances. When was school going to end? He looked at the clock. In seven hours and fifty minutes. Why was time moving so slow? Did Hermione decide to play with her time-turner again? He looked back at the the clock- a minute had passed- the teacher wasn't there. Argh! The door opened again and he glanced at it, hoping for the oddest thing in the world: the teacher. The blond that entered the room most certainly wasn't the teacher. What was with those balls on the top of her head? They looked like meatballs. Or dumplings, he thought to himself. Finally someone who had stranger hair than him! He took in her features, noticing the delicate bones that made up a pretty face. Large oval blue eyes smiled as she looked around the class and her pouty lips grinned.
"Koneko-chan."
"Good morning Haruka, Michiru, Hotaru." She smiled at the girl who bounded down the aisle and into her arms.
"Usagi-hime!"
"Usako!"
Usagi looked up at Rei and Minako as they made their way towards her. "Hi guys. What's up?" she asked.
"Squalls up, and deep."
Usagi flushed. "What!" she squeaked.
"Yeah and Gohan too!"
Usagi's face burned even more. "Wha..."
"They been suspended! Both of them!"
Usagi's face lost the redness. "Oh. Oh that. I thought you were–never mind, I'm not going there, I've been hanging out with Minako too long. Yeah, I know, Squall was over last night, he told me about the entire fight."
Harry groaned silently. Just what he needed, a soap opera. It was official, someone up there just didn't like him.
"Keep it down," a harsh, lofty voice ordered. "The last thing I need is to listen to pathetic mudbloods like you screaming!"
Shit, Harry thought. Why, oh why did Malfoy have to open his big mouth?
The room went silent. Harry suddenly realized that all eyes had been turned to Draco. And most of the looks just weren't friendly.
"You dare to tell Koneko to shut up?" the short-haired blond asked.
Draco noticed the looks too. He paled and stammered out an excuse that just didn't seem to mollify the angry people. Harry grinned and sat back in his seat. One good thing about right now: watching Malfoy get a dose of his own medicine. It wasn't every day that you saw an idiot insult the most well-loved person in class. He just wished he had popcorn.
Usagi and Michiru each grabbed one of Haruka's arms before she could do serious bodily harm to him. Haruka snarled at both Draco and her captors. Rei marched up to the paling blonde but was beaten by Duo.
Duo's fist slammed down on the desk as he glared at Draco. "Listen punk, you're in our little pond now, not some fancy English prep school, you will not, and I repeat, not ever insult Usagi again." He spoke in English, with what Harry assumed was an American accent, to get his point understood better. "Especially if you don't want to be sliced in half by said girl's boyfriend. Understood?" Draco nodded hastily and slid down in his seat. Duo nodded, satisfied by the splotchy grey color Draco's skin was turning. "Do all of you understand?" Duo turned to look at the other three students.
"Of course, and thanks for the show." Harry grinned. He couldn't help it, any day Draco got yelled at was a great day for him. No Professor Snape here to coddle the little ferret.
Duo blinked in surprise at the answer and then grinned. "You and him aren't friends?"
"Ha! The day we're friends is the day pigs fly." Harry snorted. And then stopped himself. Luna had told him that the Quibbler ran an article on a magical breed of pigs that grew wings every full moon and flew like birds. She said that there were even photographs. But, it was the Quibbler, right?
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"I can't believe you wouldn't let me pound that little shit for insulting you." Haruka grumbled. "He called you a-a mudblood."
"Yeah, how dare he!" Rei fumed.
"What is a mudblood?" Usagi asked.
"I don't know, I don't remember it being used when I was in England." Minako tapped her chin in thought.
"And I could not find it in my computer. Unless it means muddled blood, but what kind of insult is that?" Ami mused.
Justin was following Ami to ask her where the bathroom was but decided to answer their question instead. "It means dirty blood. Draco is an aristocrat, you know, lots of inbreeding and how to be the best snob lessons. So basically it means you are in a lower class than him. Back in England we usually ignore him now."
"That's fascinating!" Ami jotted down the explanation to add to her database later on. "The English culture is intriguing."
Justin laughed nervously. He hoped none of them went to England and actually used it, the muggles wouldn't have the slightest idea what they meant. But they thought it was an insult, so why would they use it, right?
"Why, that little rat, I'll kill him! Little does he know that Usagi is really–"
"–Late for her next class!" Usagi shot a glare at Haruka to remind her that Justin didn't know what she was like the rest of their friends. It was getting easier to slip up around other people now. "I'll talk to you later, c'mon Ami."
Ami nodded. "Oh, Justin, I believe you're in our next class, you are a sophomore, right?"
Justin nodded. He had to get used to being called a 'sophomore' instead of a sixth year student. He quickly followed Ami and Usagi down the stairs to their next class.
oOo
Cloud sat back and studied his younger cousin. Squall reminded him of himself. Strong. A fighter. Same intense blue eyes. A loner but always attracting unique people. A penchant for getting involved in huge problems with apocalyptic results. And here he was now: mixed up in regular high school woes. He chuckled at Squall's brooding face.
"Talk about drama. Forget Days of our Lives, you've got enough problems."
"Days of our Lives?" Squall asked. He stabbed a french fry into some sweet and sour sauce before eating it.
Cloud shrugged and ran a hand through his spiky blonde hair. "Yuffie always watches it. It's a soap opera."
"I think Usagi and Minako watch it too." Squall mused.
"I want to meet your Usagi, the girl that muddled up my usually stoic cousin's attitude."
Squall glanced at his watch. "School gets out in a few hours... I'm picking her up after school, you can meet her then." He pulled out his wallet and pulled out a recent photo of them after one of Usagi's track meets. Squall was hugging Usagi from behind wearing only a grey t-shirt and a pair of jeans that sat low on his hips. Usagi was sweaty and her hair was in a messy pony tail but she wore a huge exuberant smile and her eyes shined with happiness. Squall thought she looked gorgeous.
"She's cute. Cute enough to get suspended over."
"Hell yeah she is." Squall mumbled.
Cloud barely heard him. "I hope you two are happy together. Keep her close."
"I will." Squall nodded.
oOo
It was Lunchtime in Ken High and poor Draco Malfoy wasn't fairing too well.
He stood nervously in line waiting for lunch. First, he was standing in a line where everyone was talking in a language that he wouldn't be able to understand if it weren't for Dumbledore's handy dandy translator spell. Second, news spread fast in this school and everyone was glaring at him and kept muttering about him being rude to 'Usagi'. And third, the girl from this morning, Haruka if he remembered correctly, and another tall girl with her brown hair pulled back into a pony tail just cut in line, one in front of him and one behind.
He gulped.
They grinned.
The line moved forward a bit and as Draco stepped forward as well, the girl behind him (Makoto) stepped on the back of his shoe and he went sprawling all over the floor at her deliberate trip. The two girls, plus everyone around them, laughed. Draco blushed a dangerous color of red. He pulled himself off the floor carefully and brushed himself off.
"Watch your step kid." Haruka sneered over her shoulder.
Draco stood nervously behind her for the next few minutes as the line moved steadily and Draco gratefully took his tray of soba noodles. As he took another step Haruka jabbed his arm with her elbow and his tray went flying. Flying all over Trunks Briefs, possibly the biggest and most muscled man Draco had ever seen.
Trunks turned around to glare at the small pale blonde boy. "What. Was. That?" He asked.
"It was an accident I swear! I tripp–"
But the word 'accident' was the wrong thing to say to Trunks. "Accident? Accident? Just like it was an accident that my brand new speeder was CRASHED into a BRICK WALL?" Trunks roared.
Draco squeaked in fright.
Ed, who was standing in line some bit away, flinched and tried to look innocent and cute.
"Um, Harry, do you suppose we should help Malfoy?" Justin asked. They were sitting at a table not too far away and were avidly watching the whole scene.
"Well... we should... but c'mon! It's Malfoy!" Harry gestured to the scared looking boy. "This is a once in a life time moment!" The two boys nodded in agreement and sat back to enjoy the show.
Meanwhile, at the usual table where a few of the senshi plus Duo, Shampoo, Ranma, Van and Hitomi were sitting and oblivious to the mayhem their friends were wrecking...
Duo, Ranma and Hitomi were in a fierce debate over their favorite disney movies while Van wondered what a Disney movie was. Minako was reading, what else, but Tokyo Girl Magazine. And Usagi pulled out her cell phone out of her school bag as it vibrated to alert her that she had a text message. She flipped it open and squealed happily after reading it.
"What's up?" Ranma asked curiously.
"Squall is picking me up after school and I get to meet his cousin Cloud!" Usagi grinned.
"Cloud? Cloud Strife? Squall's cousin? OhmygodUsagiyouhavetointroducemetohimhespracticallyacelebrity!" Minako gushed and hugged her friend tightly.
"Um... what?" Usagi blinked.
"Now, what I want to know is... how the hell are you affording a cell phone? I thought your paychecks go to your mom?" Rei asked with a curious glance.
"Um, yeah they do... Squall and his dad added me to their family plan." Usagi blushed.
"Wow, now that's all kinds of serious." Rei let out a low whistle. "Does Gohan know?"
Usagi shook her head. "No. And I want to keep it that way! Gohan, I love him dearly but lately he blows up at anything Squall, so please don't tell?" Usagi begged.
"Senshi honor." Rei and Minako nodded.
"Speaking of Gohan... he got in a fight with his mom last night." Rei told Usagi.
"Really? That doesn't surprise me. That woman is psycho. I think he threatened me with a frying pan one time." Usagi mused.
"Well, this was a bad fight Usagi. Gohan stormed out of the house and spent the night at Trunks. He's refusing to speak to his mother at all costs."
Usagi gasped. "No! Oh poor Gohan, I need to call him..." Usagi trailed off and thought about the mess with her, Squall and Gohan. "This is all my fault." She sighed.
"No it's not, Gohan and Squall have been looking for a reason to fight since they met." Minako pointed out sensibly.
"Yeah, but still... I'll call him tonight to check up on him." Usagi poked her lunch forlornly. Her appetite was gone.
Draco plopped down at an empty table in the corner of the lunch room and sulked. He had a new tray of soba, and to appease Trunks he paid for his lunch as well. Haruka and brunette girl, Makoto he thought, had sneered and laughed at him. What a miserable day.
No one would talk to him in any of his classes either. He was shunned where ever he went except when people were trying to trip him so that they could laugh at him. All because he insulted one girl. Merlin, you would think SHE was Harry Potter or something.
Draco threw down his fork in frustration. He didn't even want to be here! Dumbledore randomly selected (random my ass) a student from each house and decided that they were going to get the best experience of their lives: a trip to Japan. Blaise and Pansy really wanted to go, hell, even Crabbed and Goyle wanted to go more than him. But he was selected and his mother signed the slip and off he was on a muggle airplane. Snape had given him a crash course in muggle studies but already he slipped up. He was trying to follow what Justin, Terry and Potter were doing without trying looking obvious, but this was hard! And didn't want to be here!
Draco shuddered and sank lower in his chair. And not a moment too soon as a piece of food went sailing over his head and planted itself on the wall. He heard laughing behind him.
That was it. He needed to do something and fast. He had to do something that he really didn't want to do, but he didn't see any other way of surviving. He needed to ally himself with Potter. Shit.
oOo
Some time after lunch found Draco cornering Harry in front of a bathroom. Both Terry and Justin were with Harry, they felt safer in numbers in this strange school. Just swore up and down over Merlin's grave that he saw a pig and a cat running through the halls earlier. And someone shouting "Prepare to die Ranma!"
"Potter, I want to talk to you." Draco announced in a determined voice.
Harry sighed and looked at the pale blonde boy. "What is it?" He asked. This better not get them in trouble, Principal Knives was scarier than Hell and he liked all of his limbs thank you very much.
Draco cleared his throat. He looked rather nervous. "Well, Potter, as you know... Japan is a long way away from England... so I suppose we should have a truce. You know. I don't fancy losing any limbs because of you. And, well, we only know each other..."
Terry and Justin were in shock. No one back at Hogwarts was going to believe that this happened. Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter get along? No way! Impossible!
Harry was also in shock. He was sorely tempted to refuse Malfoy and watch him flounder in the muggle world eons away from home where he already made more enemies than friends. But... he was a Gryffindor and his morals (damn) got to him. How would he feel if he were Malfoy? In a country with muggles were he knew nothing? His comfort zone ripped away from him. Harry sighed and looked at the nervous blonde saw Draco for what he really wanted. A friend.
"Sure."
Draco stopped in his long winded speech in surprise. Never in a thousand years did he think that Potter would agree to a truce so quickly. Not with out severe humiliation on his part and a huge apology to his friends (which was never going to happen). "Really? I mean. Good." He held out his hand.
Harry shook it.
Well... LizBethy likes to mess with everyone's characters don't i? i'm interested to see what people's reactions are to the Harry Potter characters:D
ehem- THANKS KORNER:
dragonrider90 (your email got cut off! do you have aim/yahoo im?), LadyKatherine16 (OMG! i'm saving your review forever and ever you made me think and remember to write stuff:D thank you thank you!) Princess004, Poison Ivy16 (yay for fruits basket), Chibi Michi Reese-chan, SilverAngelCosmos, Chibiusa (knives is from Trigun. great anime), Emilygrl1248 (inu yasha was in for a bit! he'll make small cameos), DragonballCompton, Kitty Kat-chan, fan004, PrincessLesse (-GLOMPS- :D Thanks! I do love your reviews!), dragonrider90 (i love both you and your brother!), Usagi no Megami, Moonlight Shadow1 (FFX was in for a bit, and no telling what will appear in the future...), RougaZell (2 days! wow! I don't even know if i could do that:D and yes, i'm sure more clamp characters will appear sometime...), Alicia, Princess004 (um, again :D i'll keep it in mind... usagi/tidus), lalala (mayber after anime high .), Callisto Star, The Setra Prince (a lot of characters are ... OOC... but i think that just goes with the story ), Kyia Star (-GLOMP- :D I'm here! and we've talked recently:D yay! thank you for you contribution to the story, with out you and BS-chan, i'm not sure where Anime High would be! -sniffs-), Chibi Pyro Duo, Deathblade Prime (I'll check it out :D), datajana (yay! I'm glad you like the intermission! the lunch scene REALLY amused me for some reason ), Ginny Starwind (Happy Belated Birthday:D), Jeffrey, Vegnagun (hopefully my beta caught my grammar this time, and intermissions are supposed to be short! eh heh. ;;;), Riru-chan (yeah... it was... oopsy?), ArikaMorance/AnimePrincess, Repori, Tsuki Yume (it's both, actually, insight and filler, and thanks for pointing out the mistakes), Dassa Mudruffin, shinotenshi, Flame Ivy Moon, and BabySerenity (-Glomps- i love Tohru too, she just might be my favorite girl anime character! think of lots of ideas still! and how did that picture ever turn out:D -huggles-)
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Review please!