DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter or Sailor Moon... I am merely using the ideas to try and create an entertaining story...
Chapter 4 - New School, New Friends, New Feelings
With The HP Gang.
Harry, Hermione and Ron were chatting happily, waiting for the Hogwarts express to come to a complete stop, "I can't wait to find out what house those exchange students are in!" Smiled Hermione as she slid the compartment door open, and they walked out
"Yeah... hope they're in Gryffindor" said Harry, thinking of a particular ebony haired girl.
"Definitely." Grinned Ron, as they got off the train and into one of the carriages.
In The Great Hall.
"Oooo I'm getting nervous." Whispered Hotaru as they saw all the students getting out of the carriages and going into the school, from an empty classroom.
"Me too... Look how many of them there are... How on earth are we going to be able to train without one of them noticing us!" Rei whispered beginning to show how nervous she was.
"Well we still have the other realm, but the hard part will be getting into it without being noticed..." Sighed Mina
"We'll worry about that latter... For now, we better hurry to the Great Hall, before we are late..." Hotaru sighed moving towards the door.
By the time they reached the Entrance Hall, most students were hurrying to the Great Hall, so they waited until the crowd died down a bit, before making their way through the gigantic doors. They stood in the entrance looking around shyly, effectively gaining the attention of most students, though the noise level never dropped, as heavy murmuring started at the site of new students.
All three smiled nervously and made there way quickly to Gryffindor table. Rei and Mina's hair flew out behind them while Hotaru's just continued to glimmer beautifully in the candlelight. Nearly all of the guys in the room were wide-eyed and staring at the three beauties.
When Harry noticed they were walking to their table, he stood up and motioned them to join them. The girls smiled making most guys' breaths' catch in their throat, including Harry's. He just smiled back as they all made room for the three girls, "Hey Mina, Hey Rei. Um and..."
"Hotaru. Just call me Hota though." She smiled sitting down in between Rei and Mina.
"OK, um guys, this is Rei," he pointed towards the girl with the long black hair and dark amethyst eyes (A/N: not sure if that is right... please, if someone know their proper eye colours tell me! PLEASE!), "Mina," and he pointed to the blonde with bright blue eyes, "and Hotaru." And he pointed to the girls with short black, that surprisingly shimmered purple when the light it in the right way.
"Hi." All three said brightly.
"OK and um these are, Well Ron, Hermione and Ginny you already know... and this is Dean, Seamus, and Neville."
"Hey." Everyone else said with a friendly smile
"So do you know what house you'll be in yet?"
"Actually yes... we were put in Gryffindor... all three of us." Smiled Mina, folding her arms on the table
"Although I almost wasn't," mumbled Hotaru
"Nani Hota?" asked Rei
"I'll tell you later Rei. I think it best that everyone doesn't hear." She smiled slightly when she got a confused and worried look from the fire senshi.
"Ok Hota..." and then all of them turned their attention to the head table as Professor Dumbledore stood up with a huge smile and his arms wide open,
"Welcome to another year at Hogwarts." As he spoke the first years made their down in between the tables and stopped in front of the head table looking extremely nervous. "First years please note that the dark forest is strictly forbidden to all students-"
"Damn." Breathed Rei, getting looks from a majority of the students around her.
Dumbledore, not hearing her, continued like normal, "And Professor Filch, has asked me to inform you, that there are a number of new items that are now forbidden at the school. There is also no magic to be used in the halls, and all students please note, that walking around the school, after hours, is STILL NOT aloud... to anyone... Now let the sorting commence."
Then one by one, all the first years went up and sat on the stool, placing the sorting hat, and one by one, they were sorted into the appropriate house.
"Thank god we are already sorted." Whispered Hotaru seeing the looks on the first years faces
"Mhm." Answered Mina and Rei.
When all the students were sorted, Dumbledore stood again beaming at everyone, "Ok now I have a surprise for you... well it may not be a surprise anymore, since most of you saw them come into the hall, but we have some new students that will be starting their 6th year here at Hogwarts." At this he motioned for the girls to stand so the nervously stood and turned to the rest of the school, they smiled and bowed slightly before Dumbledore continued, "They are from Japan and I expect each of you to be kind and courteous to our new guests." With smiles, the girls sat back down, "Now enough said, let the feast begin." And the food magically appeared before them. Ron immediately began to dig in like he'd never eat again. Everyone stared at him then at the exchange students who were wide eyed then they laughed nervously until Hotaru spoke up
"You know what? He eats exactly like Sere-hime used to."
"Mhm... He even acts like she used to." Giggled Mina, putting a few things on her plate
"Used to? What happened? Why'd she change?" asked Seamus, not knowing the story. Instantly the three girls faces darkened and their smiles fell "oh I'm sorry." He said noticing the tension.
Rei shook her head slightly and began to push her food around her plate. "No... It's not your fault... don't be sorry." She sighed, poking a small piece of potato and bringing it to her mouth.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny's faces' darkened in realization when they remembered the story, the old innkeeper told them. This girl... Sere-hime... must have been one of the 5 that were killed.
"Ok subject change." Said Hermione, with an apologetic look on her features. "So any idea's who the new defence against the dark arts teach is gonna be?"
"Not a clue." Sighed Harry, All three girls were very grateful for Hermionie's perceptiveness, "Have you guys seen them?"
"No... Sorry... Dumbledore told us that they were arriving half way through dinner."
"Oh ok dam it! Ten galleons say they don't last 3 terms."
"Your on" Seamus laughed shaking hands with Ron. Seeing the questioning looks he was getting from Rei, Mina and Hotaru. "Oh well ever since we started at this school we haven't had a teacher, for D.A.D.A, last longer than 3 terms." He explained
"Let me guess... You had something to do with that." Said Rei with a weak smile.
"You could say that..." trailed off Harry, then with an evil grin he added, "But hey, what can a student do?"
At this, Rei let a small giggle slip; as did Mina but Hotaru continued pushing her food around her plate, not really paying much attention.
It continued like this for a while, until the large doors opened and in walked a beautiful woman, looking no older than 25, with long, flowing green hair, and deep dark red, almost garnet, eyes.
Rei, Mina and Hotaru stared wide-eyed at her as though they were seeing a ghost. Harry, and Draco noticed this quite obviously and they got a little suspicious and a little worried.
"Is. Is that Setsuna-mama?" asked Hotaru watching the woman make her way to the head table
"Impossible. She'd never become a teacher at a 'wizarding school.'" Reasoned Mina
"No. That is Setsuna and she is gonna get an earful from me the second I can get close enough." Growled Rei
"Teacher or no teacher... I'm helping." Added Mina eyes narrowed at the woman.
"We can't do anything yet. We don't know if she knew before hand or not." Hotaru said trying to calm her two angry friends, "Calm down or you'll know what will happen." She hissed at them
Dumbledore stood up and beamed, "Ok quiet down everyone. I'd like to introduce you to your new defence against the dark arts teach. Professor Meioh." There was loud clapping cheers, but all Rei and Mina did was sit and glare at her. Hotaru clapped happy to see Setsuna again but when she looked over at Mina and Rei her eye went wide and she elbowed them hard
"What!" they both hissed
"Look!" she growled pointing at their hands, which were clenched and glowing their planets respective colours. "Cool it! Or your going to blow it!" both girls took deep steadying breaths calming down a little, but enough so the glows disappeared.
But the rising energy levels full of anger did not escape Setsuna's sensitive senses, and she looked over at the three girls, in time to see Hotaru elbowing them, pointing at their hands, and then Rei and Mina taking a few deep breaths. When the turned around to look back up at her they saw her wearing an apologetic look.
>Setsuna.> Growled Reitelepathically at the time guardian, >you have some MAJOR explaining to do>
>And you better have a good one too.> Mina hissed as well.
>Girls, I'm very sorry. Please don't go to your dormitories after the feast. We'll go to my office.>
Setsuna-mama how come you didn't come for us when the others were killed+
>I will explain later. Now is neither the time, nor the place, or way to discus these matters.>
"Are you guys ok? You seem pissed off about something..." asked Ron attentively
"Yeah." sighed Mina, giving him a warm smile. He was a really considerate guy. Not to mention, had a great body and a rather sweet face. She blushed slightly at her trail of thought as she turned to Hermione and struck up a conversation. "So anyways... what sort of things do we study in Mythology?"
"Well basically any Myths that have something to do with magic... which is all of them." she grinned looking dreamy, "I can't wait to do the myth about the Silver Millennium. I saw it in our textbooks and I read it all. It is such a cool story... Wish it was real..."
"You have no idea..." mumbled Rei
"Pardon?"
"N-nothing. Sorry I was off in my own world." she lied.
"Ok, well anyway it is such a sweet story though it hardly says anything about the princesses from those outer planets... You know, ummm I think they were Michelle was from Neptune..." she paused thinking, "Oh Amara was from Uranus... Setsuna was supposed to be the guardian of time and from Pluto... oh and Hotaru from Saturn..." she stopped and looked at the younger girl sitting between Mina and Rei, "You know what I just realized Hotaru has the same name as the Princess of Saturn... Come to think of it... Rei, you got the same as Mars, and Mina you got the same as Venus!" she giggled enthusiasm showing clearly on her features.
"Yeah... what a coincidence." muttered Hotaru, although this did not escape Harry's perceptive hearing and he shot her a questioning look that she didn't notice.
"Why the blue face?" asked Seamus, looking at Hotaru's expression.
She was saved from answering as the food vanished, and Dumbledore stood with a large warm smile on his features, "Well I think it's time we all went to bed. Prefects please show your first years to the common rooms... Everyone else, goodnight." he smiled and sat back down talking to McGonagall who sat on his right-hand-side.
Everyone got to his or her feet, preparing to go up to the dorms for a good sleep, but Mina, Rei and Hotaru made their way to Professor Meioh, before following her out of the Great hall.
"Where're they going?" Hermione wandered out loud as she saw them exit the hall through the door behind the teachers' table.
"Beats me... We'll ask tomorrow... Right now, I have a very comfy bed waiting for me up in Gryffindor tower and I don't want to keep it waiting too long," mumbled Ron drowsily getting a glare from Hermione.
"Cool it you two. It's only the first night. Don't get started-"
"Well, well, well. Look it's Potty, Weasley, and Mudblood." came a Drawling voice from right behind them. All three groaned openly before turning around to face the one and only, ever so annoying, Draco Malfoy.
"Get lost Malfoy, or your face will suddenly become very close friends with my fist," growled Ron menacingly.
"Oooo I'm scared Weasley. Exactly how dumb do you think I am?"
"VERY DUMB." growled Hermione
"Shut up Mudblood. No one was talking to your scum."
"Why you little son of a b-"
"Is something wrong here?" came the familiar voice of one blonde exchange student. All eyes turned to Rei, Mina and Hotaru as they walked up to the scene that was surrounded by students from both Gryffindor and Slytherin houses. They parted to let the three girls into the brawl.
"Hey guys..." said Hermione
"Hey..." answered Hotaru, pausing to look over everyone in the little verbal fight, "You still haven't answered our question guys." she stated looking more at Draco than the others, with a confused expression. Draco shook his head and signalled for Crabbe and Goyle to follow him
"We'll finish this later." he threw over his shoulder. The three girls just sighed... Draco had told them about his little dispute with 'Potty and his little gang' but they hadn't believed him until now.
"Let's go up now. I'm dead tired," sighed Rei, ignoring the wide-eyed looks they were getting. Half way up to Gryffindor tower Ron finally voiced the question that was on everyone's' minds,
"How the hell did you get Malfoy to listen to you! He didn't even act like a smart$$ to you guys!"
"Simple." grinned Rei and Mina looking at Hotaru who blushed slightly, then glared at her two closest friends,
"Don't even start." she growled menacingly, "I'm NOT in the mood for your boy crazy, hyper-drives tonight. It's far too late."
Mina and Rei both looked putout but recovered quickly grinning at their new friends "We'll tell ya later. Hotaru is just about sick of hearing it, but we know she loves the idea."
"Then you 'KNOW' wrong." she hissed, muttering something about a silence glaive, that only Mina and Rei heard. Immediately their faces turned pale as they both rounded on Hotaru,
"DON'T JOKE ABOUT THAT!" both yelled at the same time making Hotaru take a step back in surprise.
"Then shut up about this," answered Hotaru defiantly, noting the lost looks on Harry, Ron, Hermione, Seamus, and Neville's faces. "You don't want to know..." she sighed, walking off on her own to the tower.
"Hota, we're sorry... wait up!" called Mina and Rei, and in a flash, they both had her in a one armed hug apologising like crazy. Everyone else just sweat dropped and followed the odd trio.
Next Morning.
As the sun rose into the sky, Mina, Rei and Hotaru crept out of their beds, and into the bathroom. Hotaru attempted to summon up the portal to the ethereal realm but it wasn't working.
"What the hell is going on?" whined Hotaru as her head ache grew by the second
"I think Hogwarts' wizarding magic is interfering in ours. We need to get away from here...even if it's for a little while," declared Rei
"Ok, let's change, and go pay Setsuna a visit." sighed Mina, " We'll get her to send us to the time gates for an hour... by then, everyone should be getting ready to go to breakfast, and we can train there... I don't think we'll have to go there again... we just haven't been away from wizarding magic for 3 days straight... It's officially taking its toll on us." she sighed.
"Yeah." and they went back into the bed room and pulled out their training clothes from the subspace pockets...
Rei's training clothes were simple. She had a red sports bra with the symbol of mars on the front in black, and black short shorts with a small flame on the left side.
Mina was wearing an Orange sports bra with the symbol of Venus on it and also had black short shorts but with a heart instead of a flame.
Hotaru's was a purple sports bra with the symbol of Saturn in white, and she also had black short shorts but instead of a heart or a flame, the picture on her shorts was an explosion (you know... think of a nuclear explosion... you know... the big spurt of fire going up and the weird cloud thingy up the top...like a mushroom) and inside it was the picture of baby.
When they finished changing, they helped each other to tie up their hair into ponytails and used a little spell they learnt, to hold them in place. Then they swiftly made their way to Setsuna's office, missing the fact that 2 people had seen them leave, with puzzled yet dreamy looks on their faces.
2 hours later.
The portrait hole swung open to reveal the three new students, very sweaty and tired. It was now 7 o'clock and a few students were in the common room, lounging about, waiting for friends to wake up. Heads turned as the Mina, Rei, and Hotaru came in... Small towel draped around their necks, while they chatted animatedly. They smiled at everyone who said hi to them, not missing the stares most of the boys had locked on them. As they were passing the couch, Harry Ron and Hermione were on, they stopped and leaned over the top of it, from behind...
"Hey guys." giggled Hotaru, leaning over Hermione and smiling tiredly
"Where were you!" she answered looking at how they were dressed. But then laughed when she noticed how most guys and girls were staring at the group, with a mixture of envy, jealousy, lust, and surprise.
"Is it a crime to go for a jog in the morning?" asked Rei, leaning against the back of the couch, behind Harry, and smiling even though it was sort of a lie... sorta...
"Dressed like that?" Harry said as he motioned to the short shorts and sports bras each was wearing...
"Well..." Rei said with a sly grin on her face. "It's so damn funny seeing their faces when we walked in..." she paused and saw Ron, staring at Mina, and Harry staring at her... She just had to giggle, "You two sure as hell don't seem to mind..." she pointed at both Harry and Ron
Both blushed crimson at what she said and Hermione just let out heavy laughter, "She got you there!"
Mina giggled at their faces then turned around, looking at everyone else..."As amusing as this is... I think we need to change and shower... breakfast starts in half an hour and I don't know about you two..." she paused and sniffed the air... "On second thought... I do know that we ALL need a shower... " She giggled,
Hotaru sniffed and giggled..."You're absolutely right!" she turned to make her way back up the stairs to the girls' dorms... "See ya in a few!" she waved and jogged up the stair getting stunned looks from the other two
"Damn! After all that! And she still has energy! I must ask her secret! She eats the least out of all of us!" Sighed Mina... jaw slightly a-jar.
"Tell me about it... See ya later guys." Rei sighed as both made their way up the spiral staircase.
"They are something eh?" said Ron... A dreamy look plastered on his face
"Yeah..." added Harry... mind plastered on Rei, and the way she looked in the extremely skimpy outfit.
15 minuets later.
Hotaru came down the stairs, fully dressed and ready for breakfast. She sighed, seeing Harry Ron, and Hermione still lounging around, "Any of you heading down to the hall yet?"
"Nah... Too early..." Ron said with half closed eyelids.
"Ok tell Mina and Rei that I've already gone down." but Harry stopped her before she could leave,
"You'll get lost." he stated uncertain.
"No I won't... There was a reason we came here a day and a half in advance." she offered him a soft smile before proceeding to the great hall.
Swiftly going down the flights of stairs, and through the corridors, Hotaru slowed down as she reached the entrance hall. Upon entering the Great hall, there was a hush and murmur as she made her way to Gryffindor table. Quite a few catcalls were heard from Ravenclaw, Slytherin, even the Hufflepuffs... and many heads turned to her. She inhaled deeply, and exhaled as she sat down next to Ginny, Seamus, and Dean.
"Hey Hotaru." Ginny smiled tiredly
"Morning." she smiled back taking a piece of toast, and a glass of pumpkin juice.
"You're sure full of energy," grinned Dean "I'm not tired since I was up since dawn." Hotaru shrugged and groaned as a few more cat-calls were sent her way, "I'm not in the mood for this." as she scooped up another 2 pieces of toast, drank down her pumpkin juice and made to get up,
"They love ya!" laughed Seamus as Hotaru groaned hearing even more catcalls but this time a few comments were thrown in.
"Unfortunately." was her only reply before she made her way to the head table, and to McGonagall, "Professor, can I have my timetable. I think I'm going to eat outside. I'm not in the mood for..." she paused hearing more whistles and whispers. "Well, for that." she pointed her thumb over her shoulders so only McGonagall could see.
The old professor smiled, laughter filling her eyes, "Of course Ms Tomoe-"
"No Tomoe. Just Hotaru."
"Very well... but I will only call you that, out of class. Here's the sixth year time table."
"I still don't understand why I'm being put in sixth year if I'm only 15..." she said, more to herself than to the teacher in front of her.
"I'm not sure myself. But you are, so be happy. Its not everyday Dumbledore allows this to happen."
"I guess..." she sighed looking down at the time-table in her hand, "But more is expected of you in higher grading..."
"You speak as though from experience..." trailed off McGonagall
"You have no idea," she mumbled not really thinking the professor had heard it. "I know exactly how it feels to have TOO much expected of you..." she continued with the same low voice. She sighed and looked over the timetable again, and smiled, "Looks like I have you first up. See you in class professor..." she smiled and noticed Setsuna come in and sit beside McGonagall. She nodded at the age-old professor, with a smile before turning and leaving the hall for the Quidditch pitch.
As she closed the Great hall's doors behind her she noticed the familiar hansom face of Draco Malfoy, being followed by two big lugs that appeared to be very stupid by the dumb expressions on their faces. She heard him tell the two something, and they passed her without him.
"Hi Draco." she smiled walking to the top of the stairs he was currently climbing.
"Hey Hota. Where are you going? The Great Hall is that way." he joked lightly.
"I'm not in the mood for them. I just grabbed some toast, and my timetable. I'm going to eat outside. They are SO annoying!"
He cocked his had to the side with a cute questioning look on his face, "How so?"
"You'll find out at lunch." she sighed, "Your Slytherin right?"
"Yeah..."
"I got second period, Care of magical creatures with you." she smiled looking at the timetable.
He walked up the rest of the stairs and looked at the timetable from her side. "Do too." he smiled looking at the rest of the time table, "You got potions with Slytherin as well...no surprise there... we've had potions with Gryffindor ever since I started here...hang on... that's a first... we got divination and D.A.D.A with you to, as well as Mythology and Charms. Cool!" he gave her a boyish smile, which made her blush slightly, just noticing how close he was to her...
"Ah... yeah." she smiled back. As if just noticing how close he was to her, Draco blushed and moved back,
"Mind if I join you outside. I'd rather not listen to Slytherins so early in the morning."
"Sure." she gave him a warm smile. "I'll meet you by the lake, go grab something to eat and your timetable first." she giggled," see ya in a few..."
"Yeah, ok, see ya then." and they headed in separate ways.
As Hotaru was opening the great oak doors she heard Rei's voice call out to her, "Hey Hota the hall's this way!"
"I know that baka! I'm not going in there until I absolutely have to."
"Huh? How come?"
"You'll find out the second you step one foot in there." she sighed, leaving through the door.
Rei shrugged as Mina joined her, with Harry and Ron, "Where's Hota going?"
"She said she couldn't put up with the people in the hall."
"Huh? Why?" asked Ron who was completely stumped.
"She said we'd find out the second we put one foot through those doors." -Rei-
"Righto... well let's hurry up! I'm starved!" laughed Ron and as if to emphasize his point, his stomach growled loudly making him laugh and pat his stomach, "Down boy"
Mina and Rei giggled happily as they made their way to the doors of the great hall, and stepping through. Just like Hotaru had said, one foot in, and the hall fell into silence, before catcalls, whistles and loud whispers erupted. Mina and Rei groaned loudly catching Harry and Ron's attention, "Now I see what Taru meant." -Rei-
"I think I just might follow in her footsteps." Mina sighed as they made their way to Gryffindor table, Mina saw Draco grab some toast and level, with a piece of parchment in hand, "on second thoughts maybe not." she giggled, Rei noticed the mischievous look in her eyes and she just saw Draco exiting the hall... She caught on and giggled a little too.
"What are you two up to?" asked Hermione noticing the mischief in their eyes.
"Nothing." they chimed innocently though no one believed them, so they pouted cutely, making Harry's breath, catch. "Fine... don't believe us."
At the Lake.
Hotaru eyes suddenly flashed with pain as she remembered her friends that were taken from her. She sighed... If only there was a way to prevent it from happening.
She nibbled at her second piece of toast as she lay back on the rock (It is hidden by a bigger boulder so you can't see her from the castle); gazing up at the clear, blue sky.
"What you thinking about?" came the familiar voice of Draco, as he took a seat beside her.
She took in a deep breath and sighed, as she looked over at him, "It. It's nothing."
"It's gotta be something if you look that sad." He reasoned
"Ok, yes it's something, but you really don't want to hear it." She took another small bite from her piece of toast.
"Hey if it's making you this sad, of course I want to hear it." He spun around so he was looking directly at her face, "Come on, tell me what's up."
"It's got to do with the dark lord. Still want to hear?" she got an immediate nod from him, as he appeared to be listening intently, "sigh Ok, well you know how I ran into you in Diagon Alley?" nod, "Well me, Mina and Rei had to stay in Leaky Cauldron because our home was literally obliterated." she paused as tears came to her eyes, while Draco looked on in complete surprise, which soon turned to pity. He felt a pang in his chest, when he saw her eyes glaze over.
"Hota. I'm sorry. I never knew..." he sighed pulling her into a loose hug.
"That is not the half of it." she sighed, Draco shot her a worried look.
"What else happened?" he asked softly.
Hotaru smiled though it was obviously a bitter one, "Well you would think blowing up my father's mansion wasn't enough... he has to go and killfive of my best friends to. And he didn't even use that stupid Avada Kedavra curse. You wanna know what he did?" at this point, tears broke free and began to roll down her soft cheeks. "He cut their heads off!" she exclaimed, a soft sob, escaping her lips, then she said more to herself than Draco, " Well he obviously did his homework... But how'd he know it was us!" Draco hugged her a little tighter to give her more comfort. He had heard what she said last, and he made a mental note, to go look in the library for anyone, or thing that was immune to the dark curse.
"Is that why you and the others were sent here? For protection?"
She snorted in a way that obviously wasn't like her normal self, "Fat lot of good being here is doing. As soon as he figures out we're here, he'll be back. And when he is, I'll be waiting. Everyone that knows has told me it's ok to be scared. They just don't get that none of us are scared of that pathetic excuse of a wizard, Voldemort." She felt Draco wince slightly at the name. "Sorry." she muttered softly.
"It's alright. Sometimes, it's even good to be angry." he gave her a warm, comforting smile that calmed her down.
She offered him a genuine smile, though it was rather small. "I don't want to startle you but when me, Mina or Rei get angry, people get hurt." she sighed only now returning the hug.
He cocked his head to the side and gave her a quizzical look. She sighed again and shook her head, "I know you're confused but I'm not aloud to explain it further. Hell I think you know more about us... ME than even Dumbledore." she giggled as he grinned happily.
"I feel so privileged," he stated, playfully, making her giggle even more.
"You should be," she laughed, playing along with his joke. They then fell into a comfortable silence, each sneaking glances at the other. It was only then that Hotaru noticed their rather... 'close' position, and blush tinged her cheeks as she made to move back and lie down again.
Draco noticed this too and blushed as well. She was really one of a kind (A/N: LOL Funny how remarkably close to the truth he is, ne? ) She was truly unique in his eyes. He didn't think any girl he ever met was like her in the slightest. All the rest seemed to get under his skin in a matter of seconds. Hell even his mother annoyed him... but Hotaru was different. Not once had she ever irritated him. She had one of the nicest yet most mysterious personalities he had ever come across. And he felt as though he could understand her. He had been through rough times, similar to her's. Then there was the matter of her eyes... Every time he looked into them he felt as though he would drown in them. They were the most amazing shade of amethyst he had ever seen and from what he could tell... they were natural. She was beautiful...Mind, Body and Soul...
Hotaru stole a few glances at Draco as well. He was truly hansom... and he held that sense of authority around him, whereever he went. His cold, ice-blue eyes were mesmerising yet when they turned to look at her, they always softened, though she didn't understand why. He also had a well-built and toned body, though you could hardly tell, because of the school uniform... He was at least a head taller than her, probably around 5.9ft - 6 ft. In short he was EXTREMELY, for lack of a better word, hot. But Hotaru never liked a boy for looks alone, and Draco was no exception. He was extremely kind, considerate, caring, understanding, (though she was baffled at how that were possible), gentle, and generally one of the nicest people she had known so far.
Hotaru returned her gaze to the clouds and started making pictures from them. When she saw a cloud that looked like a duck malting, she let out a small giggle, catching her companions attention.
"What's so funny?"
She just shook her head, "The clouds..." when he shot her a quizzical glance she giggled even more, "Haven't you ever tried letting your imagination turn the clouds into pictures?"
Draco just shook his head, "why would I do something so childish?"
Hotaru pouted cutely up at him now shifting so her weight was rested on her elbows, "So you're saying I'm childish!"
He paused for a long moment, looking her over before he grinned "yes..." it caused her to pout again, making him give her a smirk and a little chuckle before continuing, "But it most definitely suits you." he grinned as she blushed
"Thanks... She sighed and dropped back, "Come on try it!"
"No way!"
She pouted again, giving him the lost puppy-dog look, "Please!"
He groaned, how could he say no to that! "No... Not the puppy-dog eyes." he groaned, "Alright, alright." and turned so he could lay down right next to her He looked up at the sky and all he could see is clouds... "Now what?"
"Well ok try and let your mind turn it into anything it may resemble." Draco stared at a few clouds for a moment until they began to take on amusing forms. He smiled, and they continued this for an hour, pointing out different pictures to each other and laughing at the stupidity in it, before Hota sighed and stood up.
"What's up?"
"We gotta get to class or we are gonna get the scolding of a lifetime." she giggled, imagining Professor McGonagall chucking a fit as she entered the classroom late...
"Shit class! Forgot..." he laughed, standing up as well,
"Wow! Am I that good of company!" she exclaimed, before giggling.
"Nope...you're better. You are actually the first and only person I'm ever like this, around..."
"I feel so special." they both laughed and made their way to the castle... Hotaru heading for transfiguration, and Draco to the common room, seeing as he had to grab his things for History of Magic...
Sooo... And before you get any idea's to flame me... I KNOW DRACO IS OOC! That is the point! He has to be like this... for now... Any ways next time, classes begin! Lol It is going to be fun. I won't give too much away... Oh and sorry for the delay with my other fic I Need You For More Than A Life Time... But I am seriously stumped on how to continue that one! Please help me out! I need suggestions! Please tell me in a review or Email me and pretty please right the name of the fic so I know not to delete it! My email is in my account OK... JA for now!
CHERRY
