A New Adventure

I don't own 'Harry Potter' or 'Katekyou Hitman Reborn'

Crossover: 'Harry Potter' x 'Katekyou Hitman Reborn'

Warning: genderbent character (Harry)

Magic was supposed to be the weirdest thing she'd ever seen, so why the hell were there random muggles running around Italy with their hands and weapons on fire?

And more than that, why the hell was the fire multi-coloured? Seriously, she'd seen every colour of the rainbow appear when the mafia decided to fight in public – it was disturbingly easy to figure out they were organised crime – though some were a lot more destructive than others. Aster vividly remembered some guy with waist-length silver hair screaming and shouting while waving around a sword covered in light-blue fire.

What the actual fuck?

It didn't help that Luna kept dropping hints with that dreamy smile of hers telling Aster she was in the right place for it to happen. For what to happen? Didn't Luna realise all she was doing was giving Aster high blood pressure? Here she was, not even a year past the war and living in Italy for no apparent reason.

At least she had a fun job, even if it didn't use magic. Despite being made to cook non-stop for the Dursleys for years, Aster actually really enjoyed cooking and had managed to get a job working in a restaurant where she waited tables and learned from the head chef, a round and cheerful old man that seemed to love teaching others how to make food. Giorgio was clearly a family man and delighted in regaling Aster with stories of his eight children and twenty-five grandchildren.

She couldn't tell if the idea of that family reunion made her jealous or stressed.

One of her fellow waitresses wandered over with a panicked look. "Aster! You need to be careful!"

"Ella? What's wrong?"

"You have a mafioso in your section, he's dangerous!"

Aster warily peered around the taller woman and looked over at her table in the back corner which was currently being given a wide berth by everyone else. The man was clearly tall, several inches over six foot if she was right, dressed in a plain but expensive white shirt and black trousers, with calf-high lace-up boots and a black jacket casually hanging over the back of his chair. His skin was olive-toned and scarred, though no place more than his face which was covered in angry welts. The man's hair was black and spiky like hers was when it was short, and he had the most intriguing shade of scarlet eyes set in a stern face.

If she was being honest, he was hot.

"If anything, I'd say he looks more hungry than anything," she replied dryly. "This is a restaurant, Ella."

Ignoring her pale colleague, Aster confidently strode through the tables towards the criminal with a calm smile on her face, thinking of nothing more than this man was indeed very good-looking and how she really needed to start dating again and soon. (This man might be mafia but she'd killed a Dark Lord at seventeen, she had a different idea as to what constituted 'dangerous' than most.)

"Good afternoon, sir! Welcome to Giorgio's! Can I get you anything to drink?"

The man turned to her with a faint look of incredulity as his eyes subtly looked her over, though not in a leering way which immediately won him points with Aster. No woman liked being eyed up like meat. (McClaggen had never learned, even after having his nose broken several times.)

"Hmm."

While he wasn't much of a conversationalist, years of playing Seeker had sharpened her peripheral vision and she noticed his fingers twitch towards a certain listing on the menu out the corner of her eye.

"Certainly." She jotted down the expensive wine before looking up once more. "Would you care to order now, or would you prefer a few moments to decide?"

"… Steak."

Aster beamed at him. "As you wish, sir!"

The woman turned and once more made use of her extraordinary vision, though this time she noticed a squat man unsubtly making his way towards her newest customer, reaching into his jacket pocket and pulling out something that glinted in the sunlight.

Now, while Aster Potter might have been small and slim like the perfect Seeker, Oliver Wood had discovered that she was also surprisingly suited towards being a Beater when she almost broke his arm by launching a Bludger at him from over forty feet away at breakneck speed.

So Aster took one look at the heavy bust in front of her – which she knew wasn't a collectable, thankfully – and used her tray to whack the thing hard towards the man who was trying to commit murder in broad daylight, and watched with delight as it hit him square in the face.

There was a loud crack where the ornament made contact with the idiot's face, then a subsequent shattering sound as the bust broke apart, and a satisfying crack as the man fell backwards and smacked his head on the wall, knocking himself out before he fell to the floor unconscious.

Aster grinned. She loved it when things went to plan.

A few seconds later there was pandemonium as people were running around screaming, and she had to calmly explain she'd seen the idiot try to pull a gun in a family restaurant, which was confirmed when someone searched his pockets. Seeing as how one of the customers was both a Police detective and a friend of Giorgio, the unsuccessful gunman was soon being pulled away to Aster's satisfaction.

She smirked for a second before paling rapidly. "Oh shit, I forgot his order!"

A rumbling laugh emanated from behind her and she spun around before craning her neck back to see the supposedly 'dangerous' mafioso laughing at her from just inches away.

Aster pouted. "Why are you laughing at me?"

The man grinned showing too many teeth to be friendly as his eyes glinted. "You're an interesting woman."

She cocked her head to the side. "I am?"

He smirked and she noticed it was a very nice expression on him.

"Xanxus."

It took her a few seconds before she realised it was his name and she grinned, holding out her hand.

"Aster."

One thing she noticed when he took her hand was how much his dwarfed hers, his fingers wrapping around her slim digits entirely. The other thing was the strange and overwhelming sensation emanating from her core and forming a quick but rather solid bond to the man in front of her, and she gaped when she could feel him intimately and entirely.

A similar look of shock entered crimson eyes before Xanxus smirked dangerously.

"Hello, Cloud."

What.

She had no idea what had happened and what he meant by that, but if there was one thing she knew it was this.

Aster was going to murder Luna when she got the chance.

A/N: Hello!

Personally I love HP x KHR crossovers, and I'm thinking about doing my own at some point. I also love the idea of any version of Harry just attracting craziness no matter how much they try otherwise.

Remember, I've posted five chapters today and this is the second, so check them all out if you want.

Happy reading!