A/N: Chapter 2 finally. This is still like an introduction hence the name of the chapter but chapter 3 will be more interesting. Enjoy, now!

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Chapter 02

Introduction

Hermione had safely transported from Dumbledore's office, after giving a farewell, and to the outside of Goukaku Magic School. However, as she stood in front of the school, her bags littered all around her, she realized the supposed "school" didn't look at all like a school.

What is this? She thought as she advanced on the small, broken down looking shack that was covered by deserted land. Surely there were a few random things like small trees and bushes around it, but otherwise it looked horribly, and even frighteningly deserted.

She made sure her luggage was fallowing closely behind her as she observed the place. Her wand was ready in her hand as she pushed open the shack door, possibly getting a splinter in her hand in the process, and a large main entrance gladly greeted her. It was as big as Hogwarts, if not barely bigger, but very different looking. Instead of the usual hard, cold stonewalls she was used to, there was plaster on the top half of the wall of a mid-brown color, fallowing up to the ceiling with a large chandelier hanging from it, and mahogany wood covered the bottom half of the wall.

So far, thought Hermione. This doesn't look very "Japanese-ish".

She continued to observe as she made her way passed the large, rounding staircase and to a hall, where she passed a few students who simply ignored her and kept walking. She was searching for the Headmistress' office when she somehow managed to bump into someone.

Oof! How could I not have seen someone coming my way? She thought, and quickly apologized, bowing (as she heard was only polite in Asia) to the person though not looking at the face as of yet.

The girl, or so the person sounded, only laughed lightly in response and said, "It's all right, I wasn't watching where I was going." Her accent was "Engrish" as most would call it, but not amazingly so that Hermione could not understand.

"I'm Hermione Granger." She said and held out her hand politely. "Nice to meet you."

"I'm Keiro Zeller. Nice to meet you as well." Keiro said politely as she shook Hermione's hand gently and smiled widely.

Now Hermione could see the girls' features clearly. She had tanned skin, and slanted eyes as were the Asians trademark, and she was on the thin side. Her face was round, though not as round as say, Neville's, and her smile pushed the extra meat on her face up, giving her a cute chubby look.

She wasn't wearing the school uniform, as Hermione was which contained a blue tie, a white shirt that tucked into a short black skirt, and she had received shoes that looked nearly identical to Hogwarts', along with the knee-high white socks.

But instead, Keiro wore a fitting black shirt and casual jeans, making Hermione feel a bit "over-dressed" as she stood face to face with the Asian girl in the hallway.

"Are you in need of assistance?" Keiro asked, as her smile dropped from her face though she was far from frowning as she clasped her hands together in front of her.

"Uhmm…Yes, I need to find the Headmistress' office. Do you know where that is?" Hermione knew virtually no Japanese, but Keiro seemed to speak English well anyway, so she wasn't too worried about it.

"Oh, hey," Keiro said in a surprised way, pointing at Hermione, almost as Seamus had the day before. "You're that transfer student from…what was it? Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry?"

"Yes, that would be me." Hermione replied quietly.

"Oh, then of course I'll guide you to Headmistress Amura's office!" She said excitedly and quickly added, "This way!" After that, she walked down the hall further, and took a right. It was only a few doors down after that.

"Good luck, Miss Granger! Hopefully we'll see each other soon." Keiro said and bowed, smiling as Hermione bowed back and then left Hermione to heave a sigh before slowly knocking on the wooden door.

Hermione heard a deep, but still feminine sounding voice say something in Japanese, leaving Hermione bewildered and standing there. The Headmistress could've been busy with something, for all Hermione knew. But it seemed that she didn't have to dwell on what action she should take much longer, for the door opened and before her stood a woman barely taller than Hermione who had dark brown, wavy hair that was passed her shoulder. She was definitely darker than most other Asians, it seemed, the casual black robe probably complimenting that fact.

"Oh, Miss Granger. Please come in." She said calmly, letting a small smile spread on her lips before leading Hermione into her office. "Take a seat, please." She added. She had the same Engrish accent that Keiro had.

Hermione sat in the dark brown leather seat in front of Ms. Amuras' desk, which was made of wood and had many different trinkets placed on it, thought Hermione didn't recognize them.

"So you just arrived?" The Headmistress asked as she now frowned. Hermione nodded in response. "And you have your schedule for your first day?" Another nod. "Good then. Japanese Language with Professor Raiel will be one of your main courses, so that you won't have trouble with students that don't speak Japanese. As for your other classes, the professors' will speak Japanese in front of the class, however you will be specifically confronted in English until you understand the Japanese language. Do you understand?"

"Yes." Hermione replied, still in a shy way as she fiddle with her skirt, trying to calm her nervousness. Though she was definitely excited to be in an elite school such as Goukaku, it was still a bit unnerving to be in a school she'd never been to before, seeing as she'd gotten so used to Hogwarts.

"Good. Now, you will share dorms with the rest of the 6th years, and here's the number." She handed Hermione a small sheet of white paper, which folded itself as it touched her hand, making it even smaller than it had all ready been. "There's no telling when you meet your roommate, I must say." She added in an almost agitated way, as she slightly rolled her eyes. "She's a bit of an…insomniac, in the least. But, she's kind. I hope you'll enjoy her presence."

Hermione nodded. "Of course."

"Now you may go settle yourself in your dorm room. You might also want to search around the school. Would you like a guide?"

"No, thank you. I'll manage." She replied with a smile.

"Good. Off you go then!" The Headmistress smiled lightly as she shooed Hermione off. So, as Hermione stood outside of the office, she opened the folded paper. There was an "X" on "Headmistress Amuras' office", and then it seemed to be, otherwise, an average map. Just as Hermione suspected, as she moved up the hall further, the X moved with her, making Hermione smile at the simple magic as she made her way out of the certain hall, and up the rounding staircase.

Stopping at the top, she realized yet another set of stairs and sighed. As if she felt like climbing who knows how many stairs to get to her dormitory, however just as she thought so an arrow appeared on the paper, the map disappearing behind it in the process. Looking behind her, Hermione saw what looked like one of those old fashioned elevators, with the bars for a door and the inside walls covered with the same mahogany, as seemed the rest of the school.

Smiling, and her luggage still levitating, she quickly walked into the elevator, barely fitting her luggage inside the small thing in the process. Now looking down at the paper, the number "6" had appeared onto it. So it seemed that it was the main floor, containing the lunch hall and a sitting area and some other rooms, such as the Headmistress' office, and then a few other floors containing other things like the library, then the dorm floors sorted by the students' certain year, perhaps?

Pressing the button, Hermione observed the paper more. It showed an elevator moving up, before showing the map of a floor again when the elevator had stopped and the door had opened for Hermione.

She stepped out and fallowed the map easily to "Room 55, Floor 6". But as she placed her hand on the knob, she was only greeted with a horribly painful shock in her hand. So, retreating her pained hand she grabbed the paper again, which had been poking her relentlessly and it read, "Smugdrops."

Oh… Hermione thought dumbly and repeated aloud what the paper said. The wooden door swung open, and revealed a cozy looking dorm with two twin beds across from each other and a bathroom off to the side. A very large closet, which would surely fit both Hermione's and her roommates' clothes, was set across from the bathroom door, below the foot of the bed off to the right. The walls were as they were on the first floor, half plaster, half mahogany wood, and the curtains on the window, which was located before the two beds, were a maroon color along with the carpet. Hermione remembered that the carpet in Headmistress Amuras' office had also been maroon.

So, she concluded this building was more like a five star hotel than a school.

But instead of dwelling on that thought much longer, she decided to take Headmistress Amura's advice and toured herself around the school. First, she went around the fourth floor and then the first floor. After that, she'd been lounging in the sitting area when Keiro showed up again, and agreed to show Hermione around. She was actually a year below Hermione, but Hermione didn't mind that. As long as she had at least one person to trust around this place, that seemed to be enough, even as she introduced Hermione to her friends, Shiori, Kara, and Shiko.

Of course they were nice, and seemed to want Hermione to put her input in whatever their various conversations were about, though half of the time she didn't really know what they actually were about. Mostly it was gossip, and Hermione didn't care much for that.

That night there hadn't been many in the lunch hall, and Hermione had eaten with Keiro and her friends, who she couldn't consider her own friends just yet but they were getting there.

After that she simply walked with Keiro to her floor and then took the elevator to her own. Repeating the password and seeing that there was no one else in the room, though it was surely getting late, she did her usually nightly routine and fell asleep amazingly easily.

The night after it had been nearly the same, except Hermione had woken from someone entering the dorm very late at night, or early in the morning to be specific. Obviously, it was Hermione's roommate but she couldn't see the features in the darkness, so she ignored the girl for now, figuring she would meet her eventually.

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So that's it for now, I'm working on chapter 3 now and that's when you'll be able to meet two or three of the couplings. Yes, kiddies, this is indeed a love square! So until then, thanks for reading xD