Diamonds and Pearls
Summary: A new Slytherin has come to Hogwarts, and in the grand scheme that is Draco's life, she doesn't seem to care about the mayhem and gossip that is floating chaotically around him. When insulted, she smiles, when scolded, she scoffs, when yelled at, she laughs. Life is just a game, and she's playing everyone the fool...and her father is loving every minute of it.
Anime/Book/Movie: InuYasha/Harry Potter
Pairing: Draco/Kagome
Genre: Romance/Adventure
Rated: M for Mature Content
R.I.P – Alan Rickman
(Severus Snape)
Remember
The Half-Blood Prince
~ALWAYS~
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Pansy didn't know what to do, watching the tension between Draco and her...friend?... grow. It made her nervous.
"So Pansy, what happened between you and Kagome?"
She raised a brow as she looked at Blaise, "what do you mean?"
"Well, since school stared, you two have been mere seconds away from killing one another, now...you are friends? Did she threaten you? Imperio you? Maybe she's blackmailing you or-"
"Or we set aside our differences during that duel. Stop overthinking things, Blaise."
Blaise and Pansy both turned to see Kagome walking down from the girl's dormitories.
"Come on Kagome, can you blame him for being curious?"
"You too, Theo?" Kagome sighed, "then how about the two of you join me in the forbidden forest for a duel, and you can find out for yourselves, just...what...happened."
Pansy's face lost color as she forced herself to take a seat, looking into the fire as the boys laughed.
"Will you give us the same treatment even though we aren't your enemies?"
"If you keep asking questions? Certainly."
"Did it just get cold in here?" Blaise brought his hands to his arms as he rubbed them in exaggeration before laughing.
"Well, I'm satisfied." Theodore smirked, "Suffice to say, Kagome scared Pansy Parkinson into submission...but I only wonder how."
Pansy stood up suddenly with a look of anger heavy in her eyes. "will the two of you drop it!"
Watching silently as Pansy took off upstairs, Kagome gave a cold look to Blaise and Theodore, "perhaps a walk wouldn't be such a bad idea." The temperature truly felt like it dropped in that moment, her tone having turned colder than they'd ever heard it. Not a second after they fell into silence, the portrait to the Slytherin Dungeons opened and Draco walked in. Standing, Kagome excused herself as she walked past him, her shoulder hitting his as she walked by.
The three boys watched her leave to the halls, neither stopping her, neither speaking once she'd gone.
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Kagome stopped, finding a spot to settle in, she started looking over the book she'd grabbed on the way in. The sound of a page turning caused her to look up, not that she was surprised to find anyone in the library, but she still liked to know who was around her. "...Granger."
Hermione Granger's head snapped up and she stared with a cautious frown. "...you are...one of Draco's friends."
"He doesn't have enough money to buy my friendship, Miss. Granger."
"Enough money?!" Hermione narrowed her eyes, "so you are telling me that your friendship can be bought? How cheap can you be?!"
Kagome rolled her eyes; standing up, she walked over to the table where Hermione was glaring at her now. "I figured you would have appreciated my stance on Malfoy. That someone would use the name Mudblood, he loses all value to me."
"Value? What do you look for in friends? I mean," Hermione sighed and shook her head, as if trying to clear her mind. "Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to hear that a Slytherin hates that name as much as I do, but...value?"
"Miss. Granger, I'm not a goody two shoes like yourself. I don't go out of my way to help the weakest link, nor will you find me galivanting around with the poor and awkward kids of Hogwarts just because they have a "nice personality". I am not interested in such trivial things...I simply, like money. However, even I have standards, Miss. Granger."
"Please, stop calling me Miss. Granger. You start to sound like a professor. Call me...Hermione?"
"Are you asking me, or telling me? You don't seem sure."
"Telling...yes. Hermione. Um, what was your name?"
"Kagome is just fine,"
Hermione smiled, the idea that she might make a friend in Slytherin was a shell shocker of an idea, but an intriguing one all the same. "So, were you looking for something in the library?"
"Not really, no. However, if you don't mind talking, I'd love some company."
"Even though I'm a Gryffindor?"
"I'm not offering my friendship, Hermione, you couldn't afford me either..." Kagome sighed, "You look like you need to talk to someone, I'm merely offering to listen."
Bowing her head lightly, Hermione took a long look at her nails, they were short, plain. "How do I get him to stop using that name? It's the second time he's called me that..."
Grimacing, Kagome wondered what could possibly garner Malfoy's respect. "Really, he only respects those of the sacred twenty-eight, power and money...hm...well, actually, there might be something else..." she thought of how he'd acted with her when he first met her. "Perhaps, the key to his respect is in gaining everyone else's respect, and theirs is so much easier, I'd wager."
"How?!"
"Shh~!"
"Relax," Kagome said, her eyes on Madam Pince as she glared at the two of them. She watched the woman until she disappeared behind a column of books. "How attached are you to your looks?"
"I'm not changing the way I look!"
Chuckling, Kagome stretched and stood up, "not really changing, just...a makeover. Let's call this a... social experiment. Surely you are curious to find out if simply by altering your hairstyle, makeup and clothes a bit, you can change the way people view you."
"...what if...it changes me?"
"Changes you? What, you don't think a smart and sensible girl like you can handle the transition? Let me play psychic for a moment…you do this experiment with me, enjoy it, and along the way you develop a more confident and poised demeanor...while branching out with your friends. That's my prediction. Now...does that sound so bad?"
"No...not really, but..."
"If you start to become cocky and arrogant, I'll toss you in the Dark Lake, I promise."
Smiling, Hermione stared at Kagome for a few seconds more before her smile widened and she nodded, "then let's do it! I...I don't want him to just see me as a Mudblood."
"Meet me in the Potions Classroom tomorrow at five in the evening." Kagome said, standing to leave, before she left the library, she paused and glanced over her shoulder, "also...leave your dodo birds. I don't particularly care for them."
"R-right..."
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Me: Here is chapter seven and I'm surprised this story is coming along so well. I hope we are enjoying the story and I will see you all when I wake up~ Good night!