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Missing Friends

Kaoru stood in the living room of the Longbottom household next to Mrs. Longbottom tapping her foot impatiently "If he's not down here in the next five minutes I'm going up there and dragging him down."

"Patience Kaoru, dear. He's probably just going down the checklist you gave him this morning" Mrs. Longbottom said placing her hand on Kaoru's shoulder.

Just then they heard a thumping coming from the direction of the stairs before they saw Neville walking into the room dragging his trunk behind him.

Kaoru was about to say something when Mrs. Longbottom stepped forward and pointed her wand at his trunk shrinking it down to the size of a box of candy. "Neville I want, you and Kaoru to hold on tight as I apperaite us to the platform" she told them as Neville picked up his trunk and put it in his pocket.

Kaoru grabbed hold of Mrs. Longbottom's cloak at the same time Neville did. She then felt a tug from a spot behind her bellybutton before it felt like her entire being was being pulled through a straw. The next thing she felt was her feet hitting something before she bent over and started to gasp for air.

Mrs. Longbottom looked at her "Sorry about that dear. I should've warned you to hold your breath. Now both of you take your trunks out of your pockets while I get a couple of trolleys."

Neville watched as his grandmother walked away. He then moved next to Kaoru to try and help her catch her breath.

When Kaoru felt someone's hand touch her shoulder she glanced up to see Neville trying to help her "Thanks Neville. I don't think I'll ever get used to that. I can now say that between apperaition and floo powder, I prefer floo powder" she said laughing at the last bit. She then looked around to see where they were. As she looked she saw that they were on Platform 9 ¾ standing at the end of the platform near the front of the train. She then noticed Mrs. Longbottom coming towards them with two trolleys following her with her wand pointed at them. She quickly stood up and took her shrunken trunk out of her pocket "Quickly Neville, your trunk."

Neville removed his trunk from his pocket about to say something as he followed her gaze and saw his grandmother. He then smiled and whispered "Thanks."

When Mrs. Longbottom got to them she had the trolleys come to a stop in front of them "Place you trunks on the trolleys and I'll return them to normal. Then we can find a car for you two to wait for your friends."

After Kaoru and Neville placed their trunks on the trolleys Mrs. Longbottom pointed her wand at them returning the trunks to their original size. Mrs. Longbottom then had them follow her along the platform to the last car and waited for them to get done loading their trunks.

She then gave Neville a bone-crushing hug with a kiss on the cheek, before giving Kaoru a hug and whispering in her ear "Keep an eye on him for me."

"I will" Kaoru whispered back.

When Mrs. Longbottom let her go she stepped back smiling at them both "Now I want you two to behave yourselves at school."

"I will gran" Neville told her with a smile.

"I will as long as everyone else does" Kaoru said grinning.

Mrs. Longbottom frowned slightly "You better or Molly won't be the only one sending a Howler."

Kaoru's grin disappeared as her face paled remembering the one she got at the start of last year.

"I'll see you two for Christmas. Now get inside and wait for your friends" Mrs. Longbottom said with a quick smile before disappearing with a cracking sound.

Kaoru turned to Neville who she saw was trying to hide his laughter "What are you laughing at?"

Neville quickly stopped laughing knowing he had been caught "I'm sorry it's just the look on your face was a little funny. I mean from everything you've told me and how you act, to see you scared of my gran was hilarious."

"Yeah, I guess your right. I forgot how scary your grandmother could be with how nice she's been to me this summer" Kaoru told him as they found the compartment that they put their trunks in and sat down to wait for their friends.

They only had to wait about thirty minutes before Hermione came walking into the compartment with her trunk behind her "Hey Kaoru, Neville. How was your summer?"

"I spent the first half of summer with the Weasley's and the second half at Neville's" Kaoru told her smiling.

"I heard about that from Miyako when my family went to Diagon Ally with the Weasley's" she said as she sat down opposite her two friends.

"My gran told us something very unexpected this summer" Neville said with a grin.

Hermione looked at him curiously "As much as I would like to know, we should probably wait for the others before you tell us."

"The others already know" Neville said still grinning.

Hermione looked a little surprised "O-Okay, then could you tell me what it is?"

"My gran told me that Harry is my cousin and starting this school year he will be moving in with me and her" Neville told her continuing to grin.

Hermione stared at him before looking at Kaoru them back to him "Harry? As in our friend Harry Potter?"

"Yeah, I was surprised too when I found out. But it's all true, they're cousins. Apparently Neville's mom was the sister of Harry's father" Kaoru told her with a laugh.

Hermione just sat there not knowing what to do or say.

After a few more minutes Ginny, Miyako, and Takaaki came in with their trunks.

When Ginny saw Kaoru she immediately ran over to her and gave her a hug crying slightly "Kaoru, I missed you."

"Jeez Ginny, I was only gone a month and a half. Its not like I was gone years" Kaoru told her laughing and hugging her back.

"I know. Its just that I missed my big sister" Ginny told her slightly depressed as they broke their hug.

Kaoru chuckled "Ginny, I'm not your only sister now. You've got Miyako and Momoko too."

"You're right, but I don't share a room with them" she answered her.

Just then they heard the train whistle at the same time the train started to move.

Neville looked around the compartment and noticed that they were missing some people "Umm... guys, where's Harry, Ron, and Momoko?"

The others looked around and saw that their friends weren't there just like Neville said.

Miyako went to the door of their compartment followed by Takaaki "Stay here. Me and Takaaki will check the rest of the train."

They waited about twenty minutes before Miyako and Takaaki came back with looks of worry on their faces.

"Did you find them?" Hermione asked though she was fearing the answer.

Takaaki sat down before he answered "I'm afraid not. We asked everyone if they've seen them and even checked every compartment, but we found nothing."

"What are we going to do?" Ginny asked in panic.

Miyako took a deep breath the spoke up "We should send a letter to Professor Dumbledore. Kaoru can we use Glimfeather to send it?"

"Sure, let me get him out of his cage while you guys get the letter prepared" Kaoru replied before getting up to let Glimfeather out.

Hermione pulled a piece of parchment out of her trunk with a quill and ink. Then Hermione with Miyako and Takaaki's help wrote the letter before handing it over to Kaoru, who gave it to Glimfeather. She then opened the compartment's window and let him go to deliver the letter.

After that they all sat in silence until a voice announced "We'll be arriving at Hogsmeade Station in fifteen minutes. Please get changed in to your school robes."

They all got changed quickly before the train stopped. When the train stopped they got off of it and stood on the platform with the other students. They then heard Hagrid calling for the first years.

"Go a head Ginny. Remember Hagrid's a nice person, so don't be afraid" Kaoru told her before she went to follow the other first year students.

After Ginny left they followed the rest of the students headed to the other end of the platform. When they got there they saw around eighty horseless carriages. They watched as the older students got into the carriages and when the carriage was full it started off towards Hogwarts. The five friends got into one carriage and headed off to the school.

When their carriage arrived at the doors to the school it stopped. They got out of the carriage, walked up the steps, through the double doors, and the entrance into the Great Hall where they sat down at the Gryffindor table.

As they waited they looked around the hall and saw the Hagrid, Professor McGonagall, and Professor Snape were missing. They also saw Professor Lockhart talking with Professor Sprout and Professor Flitwick, who were sitting on either side of him and looking very annoyed with the conversation.

After all of the students were seated Professor McGonagall came in followed by the first year students, She led them to the front of the hall to stand in front of the teachers table were she placed a stool with the Hogwarts Sorting Hat on it. The Sorting Hat startled the first years when a rip near the brim opened and started to sing.

Through the hat's song, the sorting of the first years, and Professor Dumbledore's beginning of the year speech Hermione, Neville, Kaoru, Miyako, and Takaaki were busy chatting amongst themselves. The only thing that they did pay attention to was when Ginny was sorted into Gryffindor.

When Ginny sat down with them she saw their still worried faces. "They still haven't shown up?" she asked just as worried as they were.

"No and I'm getting really scared that something terrible might have happened" Hermione said in despair.

"We know that they can't be in danger, since our belts haven't begun to flash" Kaoru said trying to cheer the others up.

The others realized that she was right. If their missing friends had been in any great danger Momoko would have transformed, which would've alerted Kaoru and Miyako.

As they started to eat their dinner now that they were a little less worried Professor Dumbledore stood up to address the Great Hall and dismiss the food "Now that we've all been feed I think it's time for everyone to get a good nights rest for your first day of classes tomorrow. First years if you would please follow your house prefects to your dormitories."

They all got up and watched as Ginny went over to Percy to follow him to their dorm.

Takaaki realizing something quickly ran over to Percy and talked with him for a few seconds before coming back to them.

"What was that about?" Neville asked him.

Takaaki smiled "I asked him what the password for our house was. I remember how last year he was bragging that only the prefects and the teachers are given the passwords at the start of the new school year."

They were all smiling as they left the Great Hall and headed through the halls to their dorm. When they got near the entrance to their house's common room they saw Harry, Ron, and Momoko standing there talking with the Fat Lady, who was the guardian of the entrance to their dorm.

Hermione quickly marched ahead of the others. "Where have you three been?" she asked in a cold voice.

Their friends turned around with Harry answering "We don't want to talk about it. We just want to get to bed, so what's the password?"

Hermione was about to tell him off but Takaaki cut her off "It's 'Wattlebird'."

"Thanks mate" Ron said as he, Harry, and Momoko climb through the portal into the Gryffindor common room.

Hermione turned on Takaaki "Why did you do that? We could've held them out here until they answered us."

"For a few reasons. First, their our friends so we don't need to force them to answer us right now. Second, if we keep them out here with us we risk all of us getting detentions for being out of bed after curfew. And finally, me and Neville can try to get Ron and Harry to talk to us while you three try to get Momoko to talk to you. That way if one group of our friends doesn't tell us and the other one does we'll find out what happed." Takaaki said while listing the points off on his fingers.

"He's right. Let's go see if we can get them to tell us" Miyako said leading the others through the portal.

The group of friends separated near the staircases to the dorms. When they got to their dorm rooms each group started to try and persuade their friends to tell them what happened. Their friends after constant prodding finally gave in and told them about their entire adventure with the Weasley's flying car.

A/N: I apologize for taking so long to update this story. I promise to try and update this one more often and not take more than a month to do so. I'm also pleased to say that this story as over 1800 hits.