Kagome ran her hands consistently along her robe and around her neckline feeling nothing there and instead using it as an excuse to straighten her tie. Her eyes took in the image of the courtyard well as she walked along the grass her boots scratching annoyingly against the long stems yet she continued walking none the less. Taking a tighter hold of the book bag slug over her chest she turned suddenly returning into the school seeing the disgruntled Harry running along the corridor. She furrowed her eyebrows in amusement as she heard along the grapevine the all too amusing story of Harry and Lockhart exchanging in actions only the famous would do. Malfoy was only to leanest to share such information.
She stopped tapping insistently onto Harry's shoulder yet gently whispering while leaning forward, "Why hello Harry may I ask what you are working so hard to escape?"
Her eyes slid into his as he turned quickly a little flustered stepping away from the wall almost to think that it made him seem insecure. Smiling she stopped leaning her shoulder against the wall carefully turning back down the hall seeing a 1st year Gryffindor run around the corner calling insistently "Harry!" she felt a smile twitch at the side of her lips while Harry asked in confused stutters, "K-Kagome! What are you doing here?"
She smiled shrugging her shoulders her hands behind her back, "Same thing as you are, hiding."
He looked away as his glasses seemed to fog up. He took them suddenly acting as if he was inspecting them but only using it as a maneuver not to look into her eyes while asking, "Hiding? From who if I may be as bold as to ask"
She pressed a simple finger to her chin laughing soothingly, "The person you have been dodging also, our new Defense against the Dark Arts Professor."
He grunted as they both shared a laugh for a moment. Kagome leaned around the corner then turned back smiling to him earnestly, "Well it seems we are both in the clear, I'll see you at dinner than Harry."
He nodded to her more anxiously then he intended hearing a voice suddenly call in that all too familiar boisterous voice, "Awe, there you are Miss Higurashi!"
Her face came to a look of resentment and utter despair as Harry sighed in sadness muttering a few words of knowing he would never have been able to escape him long. Turning he saw that she skidded around the corner stopping him in his tracks and waving with her hand noticeably for him to head off. He turned back seeing Hermione and Ron turn just into his direction. They prepared to call his name yet with a hand on the cold stone and a finger to his lips he ushered them to be quiet. Ron instantly seeing Kagome's face around the corner nearly fly across the room only to have Hermione annoyed stomp on his foot.
He glanced back one more life a thrill of having a friendship with this girl rushing through his veins but then he over heard Lockhart's loud dubious voice rush in, "That was rather crude of you Miss Higurashi! That test was very important I could very well take away points from Slytherin for such an act of vulgarity."
She chided temperamentally, "Really I do dare you to try you see my life is too written into parchment what if I am to give you a test of my own, Professor what does the question" and so she quotes word by word, "What is Glideroy Lockhart's favorite color have anything to do with the dark arts unless your favorite color Professor is…"
Before she could finish he had managed to pretend a voice calling to him and run off with a waning good-bye. Harry was surprised by the flustered look and the embarrassment he just went through having to only resort to the depressing and rather amateur effects of acting; though he had come to believe that he had become very skilled in that department.
Harry hadn't noticed the sudden presence of Ron appearing and currently blushing just at the sight of Kagome. Hermione though wore a stubborn look of uninterested taunt though through the corner of her eye she stole furtive glances. Kagome whispered walking over with a smile, "I see you chose not to escape, I am glad his courage is not as he says it is."
Hermione instantly jumps to his defense as Ron and Harry both knew she would saying confidently, "He is a powerful wizard Kagome! I am thinking he was simply exhausted!"
Ron and Harry roll their eyes while Kagome sustains a never waning smile speaking calmly her star attribute, "I am sure your confidence in him is ever thanked and yet I see no proof but words written by him, do excuse me in saying so but I do not trust words said by someone so arrogant. Pardon me please, Loz is calling me, dinner is to begin. Ron, Harry, pardon."
They nodded quickly while she slid by easily walking or rather striding besides her fellow Slytherin their cunning venom filled smiling failing to break her pure and truly cheerful one. Ron and Harry found themselves awakened from their daze with a hard slap. Instantly their hand lifted to their face as they turned quickly yelling loudly in shock, "Hermione!"
She grunted turning fast on her toes pacing off into the dining hall. Harry and Ron turned to each other in shock the sore feeling from their faces remaining as they followed quickly on her heels calling desperately, "Hermione! Wait!"
She turned to them her hand on the frame of the giant corridor leaving a snobby look on her face. She called to them each by name almost to taunt them then spit out, "Pigs!"
Ron turned to Harry asking suddenly, "Why is she getting all angry with us? We didn't do anything now did we?"
He shrugged running into the hall after her.
Kagome shifted her head her legs crossed discreetly while gossip trailed through the table like a worm her eyes faltered for a moment as she glanced to her food. She never felt as ill as she looked over the food in front of her and kindly excused herself from eating deciding instead to sit and simply to speak. Loz continued to tell her of the teachers and how disgusting it was to be near any other people. He spoke of the jokes he played and how his summer had been.
Without noticing it she had taken quite a liking to him, he was quite a person to her, someone she treasured and just as she said those words she regretted them knowing fully well the effects of those words on someone from her life. Turning her head she looked to see Dumbledore staring right in her direction besides Snape and Hagrid. A smile crept up her lips as she turned back to Loz and Trinity another girl from Slytherin smiling, "Excuse me, I am sorry but I do need to go speak to the teachers."
They nodded to her for a moment while she slid her legs over the bench with ease. Her arms stretched behind her back while she walked towards the teacher's table respectfully stopping near the stairs before setting right up to the table. Dumbledore looked to her instantly in a confused manner lifting his hand instinctively to stroke his beard asking in his raspy old voice, "Kagome, how may I help you?"
She smiled with a curtsy whispering, "I must speak to you in confidence Professor."
As if on cue he stood with Professor McGonagall besides him and Snape rising also only to be called my Dumbledore to remain seated, "Please remain seated this matter does not concern you."
He instantly spoke as if to find excuse while Kagome walked by him slowly, "She is of my class it is only proper to do such, stay by her side and hear of any misgivings."
Snape gave Kagome a warning look to which she became startled at and turned her attention back to that of the bustling students. Dumbledore called, "Very well, Hagrid please do look after things for me if you well."
He nodded for a moment as Kagome followed them out of the room her hands placed at her sides. Stopping as they entered the den for the teachers she turned her head back to them. Dumbledore took a spot beside the mantel of the fire while Professor McGonagall took stand near Kagome Snape standing against the chair facing the fire. Kagome set her hand to her waist running her fingers through her hair seeming uninterested, "Something dreadful is awakening,"
Dumbledore seemed untouched as Snape turned away also. Kagome turned to Professor McGonagall, "Professor…"
Dumbledore spoke, "Do you wish to fight it as it comes? What else do you know?"
She raised her head slowly running her finger through her hair once more taking a seat crossing her legs and leaning forward, "I do not know when it is coming, I do not know what its weakness is but I do know who it is after and I do know how to sense it."
They seemed impressed as Snape asked softly, "What else have you learned while gone?"
She stood for a moment smiling lightly then turned her head with a curtsy, "That is for another day I shall do my best to stall any attacks or misgivings I bid you a fine night."
Snape jumped to continue but the other two stopped him. Dumbledore stroking his beard smiled, "She has grown more than I expected."
Professor McGonagall nodded smiling, "Yes."
They slid out of the room leaving Snape to fume.