Ch13

Disclaimer: No, I don't own Sailor Moon and nor do I own Harry Potter.

Harry walked through the hallways and stopped in front of the large portrait of the four houses' mascots; he spoke the password that Hotaru had told him and waited for the door to open. He saw Setsuna standing there, as if waiting to be let out. "Hello, Ms. Meioh," he said with a smile.

"Hello, Harry," Setsuna told him, "Your friends are waiting inside." She stepped out and began to explore through the hallways to find out more about the minister that made himself home.

Harry went into the dorm and saw that Hermoine and Ron were reading and going over the notes from class. "Hey guys, where's Hotaru?" he said, sitting down.

"She went into your sister's room," Ron said. His face was still scrunched up, trying to understand what was Hermoine trying to tell him. "Something about extra training lessons tomorrow. Hey, Mione, what does this mean?"

Hermoine sighed and threw her hands up in the air. "Ugh, I give up. I'm getting Hotaru to explain this to you. It's like the only way for you to get this is when she tells you."

"That's because she uses easier concepts to understand," Ron argued, causing Hermoine to roll her eyes at him and Harry to laugh as he say down.

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Hotaru watched as Usagi wandered about the room, tying her blond hair into a high ponytail. "Are you going somewhere, Usa-mama?" Hotaru asked her.

"Hmm," Usagi sighed as she headed over to the desk. "Uncle Albus asked Severus to take me to Diagon Alley so we could get some supplies."

Hotaru's purple eyes glanced down to the silver dress Usagi wore. "Is it a date?" she asked, teasing one of her mother-figures.

Usagi's face flushed a bright red color. "What are you talking about?" she said, turning around to grab her bag.

"Well, you're dressed nicely and going with Professor Snape, so I figured it must be a date," Hotaru said in a playful tone, "Does Haruka-papa know about this?"

"It's been a while since I went out, and just because I'm with a guy, it doesn't mean that it's a date," Usagi said, stepping out of her room. "Hey kids," she said to the Golden Trio as she walked passed them.

"You look nice, Professor Serenity," Hermoine said.

Ron nodded his head. "Yeah, ya going on a date?" he asked.

Harry stared at his sister with a confused look on his face. "I wasn't aware that you have a boyfriend," he said, none of them seeing Hotaru trying to stifle her giggling.

"Why does everyone keep saying this?" Usagi sighed, hitting herself on her forehead, "I'm just heading out to buy supplies, nothing more, nothing less."

"With Professor Snape," Hotaru added, sitting down next to Harry, "And wearing a nice dress equals to a date."

"No, me with Severus, eating dinner out at night and going for a romantic stroll would be considered a date," Usagi said. When she saw the teenagers stare at her, as if she had just went on saying how she wanted to go on a date with the potions master, she covered her mouth with her hand. "Don't think too much into it," she said, "We're just heading out to buy supplies, that's all."

Harry smiled and said, "It's all right, sis, hope you enjoy yourself." Usagi placed a kiss on Hotaru and his forehead and waved goodbye to the other two before heading out of the dorm. Harry stared at his opened book and glanced up to see his two best friends staring at him in shocked silence. "What?" he asked curiously.

"Dude, you just acted as if you're okay with your sister going out with Snape," Ron said, with his jaw dropped open wide.

"She's my sister," Harry said, turning back to the book, "If she's happy with Snape, then I'm happy for her. And in case you haven't noticed, Snape does seem to be much more lenient towards us than in the past years."

"He's probably just getting soft in the head," Ron said, shrugging his shoulders.

Hotaru glanced at her hands as a soft smile grew on her face. "Or he could be getting soft in the heart," she said, "Usagi-mama has the ability to make people change without them even knowing. Michiru-mama and Haruka-papa said it's her kind loving heart that attracts people to her."

Hermoine turned to Hotaru and said with a weak smile, "You make it sound like he's falling in love with her."

Hotaru shrugged her shoulders. "Who knows? He probably does love her. Setsuna-mama once told me that everyone she meets falls in love with Usagi-mama, whether as a sister, lover, or as a key for more power, but the difference is that sometimes people realize that they are in love with her and sometimes they don't."

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Usagi walked over to Severus' room and knocked on the portrait. The door opened and Severus stepped out. "Are you ready to go?" she asked with a smile.

Severus's black eyes trailed down the silver dress and inwardly sighed. "As if things weren't worse before," he said silently. He nodded his head and started to walk down the hallway.

Usagi watched him and couldn't help but see some similarities between this man who has been plaguing her thoughts and the man who has been plotting her demise. Both men were tall with black hair and both are known to be cold towards others. She sighed and rolled her eyes to the ceiling. "What is it with me and falling in love with dark haired men?" she asked herself.

Severus must've noticed that she wasn't following him since he turned around and asked her, "Are you going to stand there all day, Ms. Potter?"

Usagi's bottom lip was pushed out into a pout as she placed her hands on her hips. "I thought I told you not to call me that, Severus," she said, "When you call me that, it makes me think that you can't stand me like you couldn't stand my father." Severus stared at her in a blank way, but Usagi looked away so she didn't notice the slight flushed color in his face. "I never actually met someone who hated me for any other reasons other than I'm in their way towards power."

"I guess what Tenoh say about her looking like a kitten at times is right," Severus said silently with a quiet chuckle.

"Yo, koneko-chan, where ya heading off to?" Haruka asked, walking into sight with Michiru. She glared at Severus and sneered, "And what's he doing with you?" Michiru had her arm linked around Haruka's arm. Or rather, her trying to pull her lover back and refrain the Uranus soldier from killing the potions master.

"We're just gonna head out to buy some supplies for our lessons," Usagi said with a smile on her face.

"Oh, really," Haruka said, smiling sweetly back at her princess. She turned to Severus with a tight grin that quickly faded away. "I'm giving you ten seconds before I kill you." Severus stared at her as if wondering what the hell was going on as he listened to the count, "One…Two…Three…Four…Five…sixseveneightnineten," and jumped back when Haruka pounced forward with a feral look on her face.

Michiru held tighter onto Haruka's waist and tried to pull her back. "Haruka, you promised not to beat any guys up who go near Usagi-chan," Michiru said, letting go, allowing the tomboyish blond the freedom to kill the supposed threat to her precious princess' innocence. Only permitting Haruka to take several steps forward, Michiru then reached out and pulled her hard on the ear. "Take another step, and you're grounded to the couch of another dormitory, courtesy of me and the headmaster," she said sternly with one hand on her hip.

Severus watched as Haruka gave a dejected sigh and followed behind Michiru. Michiru waved goodbye to Usagi and walked away, still dragging Haruka behind by the ear. "You have some…interesting friends," he said in a monotone voice.

"You just figured that part out now?" Usagi teased. She began to walk as she smiled at him. "So, what are the balls like here?" she asked.

"The dances are okay…I guess," he replied, "I'm just there because I have to be. I have to make sure that my house doesn't embarrass me."

"You don't go there to have fun?" Usagi asked, "You're a pretty boring person." She glanced at the corner of her eyes to see him stare at her not amused. "Don't you ever just relax and have enjoy life?"

"We have a war coming up and all you can think about is having fun?" Severus asked with a slightly playful tone, "Just how in the world did you become strong just by relaxing?"

Usagi laughed and wrapped an arm around his and pulled him along. "I mean it's okay to worry about the war with Voldermort but you should learn to live your own life while you're at it. I mean, what happens after the war? Are you going to keep being an unemotional person who is closed off from everyone else?" Severus kept silent as he just allowed Usagi to keep dragging him.

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Setsuna was walking down the corridor when she spotted Usagi pulling a stoic Severus by the arm. A soft smile came to her lips when she saw him glance at her with an unknowing soft look in his eyes. "It seems that hime's love life may have a happy ending after all," she said softly. She turned around to only come face to face to the distrustful minister. With a single glance, she was able to access through his life.

Cornelius stared at Setsuna, wondering if she was with the new teachers. Judging by the strange color of her hair along with the hue of the teachers' hair, he came to the conclusion that he was right. "You must be a new teacher as well," he said, slightly…or rather, very rudely.

Setsuna felt her face tighten as she faked a grin towards him. "I'm afraid that I'm not a teacher," she told him in a forced polite tone, "I'm just here to visit my friends." Observing his behavior through the mirror and witnessing it first hand is two different things. Seeing it personally, he appears much more rude and arrogant. "No wonder Haruka wanted to castrate him, shove it down his throat, hang him hogtied naked to a tree branch and use him as a piñata with a metal spiked club," she said silently, shaking her head, "And that was the cleaner version of what she said."

"And I suppose those teachers are your friends?" the minister said. Setsuna frowned at the way he said that word, almost as if it was something really wrong with her friends teaching the students in this school. "I don't care what Dumbledore say, it's so obvious that those teachers are educating the children to go against me. What with all the weapon and defense lessons," he snarled.

"Or rather they're preparing to fight for their lives in the war against the dark lord," Setsuna said, "Even if you wish to continue deceiving yourself into thinking that he's not coming back, it's still better to be prepared for the fight. And if he doesn't come back, then the children here will had learned an important lesson in being able to defend themselves if they were ever attacked. Voldermort might not be here right now, but his followers are and they are willing to hurt anybody whether or not they're standing in their way."

Cornelius sneered at her, "You must really be related to that Potter's sister and her friends if you talk like that." He turned around and walked away as if he was the king of the earth.

Setsuna rolled her eyes and gave a mock laughter. "Yeah right, the only king of the earth would be who hime chooses as her soulmate," she said, "If Haruka actually manages to go with her threat, I might actually help her."

TBC