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Chapter 1: Who's Ami Mizuno?
"Black! Wake up!" Professor McGonagall yelled as she zapped his hair into an electrifying sight to wake him up. Sirius groaned groggily as he opened his eyes. His sight was a bit bleary and rubbed it away. He felt his usually smooth hair stick up and tried to pat it down. Now he knew what James felt like with his untidy locks. Then again, James didn't really mind the untidy locks.
"I'm here, Professor," Sirius raised his hand, sleep still evident in his voice. The class of 6th Years laughed, but was quickly silenced with a stern look from McGonagall.
"Mr. Black, I do not appreciate laziness in my class. Detention tonight after dinner," she announced. The seventeen year old just yawned and nodded nonchalantly. A perfectly good nap was put to waste.
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"I can't believe I have to get detention for napping in McGonagall's class!" Sirius exclaimed huffily, now fully awake. James Potter, his best friend laughed.
"That's what you get, mate for getting caught," James grinned at him. Remus Lupin, a weary looking friend of theirs sighed and shook his head.
"Did you really have to take a nap, Sirius?"
"Yes! I already know it all. Maybe, they should just let me graduate and be done with it," Sirius still brooded. James patted his back.
"W-Wait! I-I'm coming!" a squeaky voice came from behind. The three boys turned. It was the last one in their group, chubby Peter Pettigrew. He breathed hard as he finally started to regain his breath.
"There you are, Peter. Where were you?" Remus asked. Peter finally looked up, though his cheeks were stained with red from huffing so much from his run.
"I have to get tutored," came the answer. James rolled his eyes.
"Even I could have told you that, mate,"
"James," Remus elbowed him.
"What? It's true," James defended, "Of course, Wormtail could have just asked for help,"
"Who're you getting tutored by?" Sirius asked.
"Is it Evans?" James asked eagerly. It wasn't any new news that James liked Lily Evans, the pretty red headed Gryffindor that hated his guts. His friends were still trying to figure out how James could fancy someone who hated his guts. They would laugh if by some tangle of fate, James Potter and Lily Evans did get together. More or less, it would be even funnier if the two got married.
But Peter shook his head, his mousy brown hair waving slightly.
" N-No, it's Ami Mizuno,"
"Who's she?" Sirius questioned, "This Ami Mizuno? Never heard of her before,"
"Isn't she the one with blue hair? She's friends with Evans. I've seen her," James interjected, "Good one, Wormtail! See if Mizuno has any info on Evans that could help me get her,"
"Leave her alone. You'll scare the poor girl," Remus stepped in. He knew Ami very well since her arrival at Hogwarts. She had transferred from her Japanese Wizarding school and was put in Gryffindor. She was exceedingly shy, but it was easy to become friends with her. Remus pictured James scaring the petite girl into a coma with a thousand questions about Lily. Sometimes James could be a little too much.
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Sirius shut the door behind him. It was already 11:30, almost midnight. He hadn't expected to stay so long for detention. But McGonagall had come up with a way to keep him occupied. Not only did he have to clean the Transfiguration room without magic, but also organize all the History of Magic parchments, and clean the used cauldrons from Potions in the Dungeons. He had been working since 8:00 and his muscles ached. As soon as he reached his bed, he was going to fall right asleep.
A clatter of books and parchment snapped Sirius from his thoughts.
"Oh dear," he heard a soft voice. Sirius found himself curious to whom the voice belonged to. He turned around and found a girl picking up her things.
Deciding that helping her would be the best thing to do at the moment, Sirius forced himself to walk over and picked up two of her books.
"Arigato," she said to him. Sirius raised a brow.
"Excuse me?"
The girl blushed.
"I'm sorry. I sometimes forget that I'm not in Japan anymore. Thank you," she told him sincerely. Sirius noted a slight Japanese accent in her English, but only slight.
"No big deal. What's your name?" Sirius asked her. The girl blushed a little. She wasn't used to talking to boys so much.
"I'm Ami Mizuno. You're Sirius Black, right?" she replied.
"Er, yes. How'd you know?"
"I'm in your House,"
It was true. The tie to Ami's uniform displayed the much revered color of red and gold, Gryffindor colors. Sirius felt like an idiot. He didn't even recognize somebody from his own House. How dense could he get? But the name rang familiar.
"Your Peter's tutor, aren't you? He was talking about it earlier this morning," Sirius shrugged, "Isn't it a bit late to be tutoring now? It's almost midnight,"
Sirius watched as Ami's grip on a book tightened slightly.
"I stayed behind to get in some extra studying," she confessed faintly, the blush never leaving her cheeks.
"Strange girl," Sirius noted to himself. But it could have been worse. At least she didn't yell angry things like Evans did or giggled incessantly like other girls who liked him. Ami was just shy. And Sirius found himself liking the girl for it. But really, who in their right mind actually liked studying?
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(Present time)
"Sirius?" Molly Weasley repeated patiently. Sirius snapped out from his thoughts and looked at the mother of seven Weasley children.
"Hmm?" he finally answered. He was sitting in the kitchen at the Burrow. Remus and Arthur were drinking tea peacefully beside the ex-convict. However, he didn't catch the shared glances of thought between the two.
"Would you like any cream in your tea? A biscuit to eat maybe? Have you eaten?" Molly probed gently as if she was talking to one of her own children(when they weren't racking at her nerves). It wasn't that she saw Sirius as a child, but Sirius was in a state in which he didn't seem to pay attention to the things going around him. At this, Molly's motherly nature kicked in.
Sirius shook his head.
"Don't think so, Molly. I think I'll fancy myself to go out. Get a bit more fresh air, you know?" Sirius retorted as he stood up. Remus and Arthur got up as well.
"Sirius, you're in no condition to go out, again. Just stay here for the night," Arthur recommended. He was met with a sudden heated glare from Sirius.
"I'm a grown man, thank you very much, Arthur. I don't need a babysitter. And I certainly don't need a lecturing on what I can and cannot do. I'll be going,"
Before anyone could stop him, Sirius had Apparated with that familiar 'pop.'
"He's doing more damage than good to himself," Molly groaned restlessly.
"He left again, didn't he?" questioned a voice, "Dad left?"
The three looked at the owner of the voice, Sunny Mizuno-Black. She stood somewhere in the middle of the stairs. Her long dark blue hair was put up messily and her black eyes were baring a mix between irritation and sadness. Sunny was every ounce and pound the daughter of her mother.
"He went out for awhile, Sunny, that's all," Remus tried to comfort her. Sunny shook her head as she went to the bottom of the stairs.
"No, he's being an idiot, that's what he's doing," Sunny muttered. She marched over to the Weasleys' fireplace. "Dad's out getting himself drunk, again," she thought to herself. She proceeded to grab a handful of Floo powder near the mantel.
"I'm going to the house. I'll be back in the morning," the fifteen year old announced. She'd done this a lot since school ended.
"Sunny, I'm going to accompany you," Remus told her as he also approached the fireplace and got himself a handful of the Floo powder.
"Suit yourself, Uncle Remus. I don't know if you want to see dad in the state he'll be in when he comes to the house,"
"There are a lot worse things I've seen your dad do and the states he's been in since we've been friends. They're not all very pretty, I know. But he needs help,"
Sunny gave a shrug before they entered the fireplace, threw the Floo powder on themselves and yelled, "GRIM CORNER!"
In a flash, they were gone.
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