A Hogwarts Adventure Book 2: River of the Spirit
Chapter 4: Gryffindor in Slytherin
Merida frowned as Kura walked off.
"What's wrong with her?" She asked. The others, with the exception of Jack, Kura and Elsa, had gathered at the Gryffindor table shrugged.
Tsu placed her hand on her chin, "She's never been away from Sakura for long. Even last year, they managed to visit each other at night."
"WHAT?!" Merida, Ron and Harry yelled.
Tsu glanced at them.
"It's true," Estrella murmured, "it's a rare form of magic that can't be detected. Tsu and I can do it, and a few boys in Japan can as well."
Merida grumbled but nodded.
Sydney bit her lips and looked around.
Seeing the hall almost empty, she turned to the others, and said, "Do you think that's why she spends most of her time with the Slytherins?"
Tsu nodded.
They all glanced at the Slytherin table in time to see Kura walk in and sit next to Jack.
The brunette glanced at her and reached over.
He rested his hand on her shoulder and didn't let go.
Elsa walked in and sat in front of them.
Anna sighed. "I wish we could do something..."
It had taken some time for the Slytherins to accept Kura into their ranks.
They didn't know how, but the Gryffindor girl would always find a way into their common room.
Sakura's trunk and bed sat empty, and that's where they would find here.
The girl would often talk to Elsa, Jack, Mavis, and to everyone's shock, Draco.
The pale blond male would never say anything, when questioned.
He made no remarks.
No sneers.
No jabs.
Nothing.
Kura had basically become the first Gryffindor to enter Slytherin.
It wasn't a satisfying thought to many, but to the ones who knew WHY, it made perfect sense. She had taken to wearing either uniform with the opposite robes, she rarely smiled, her eyes seemed to become more violet each day…
…if only they could find out how to make Sakura return. Then things would go back to normal…right?
Zahra sighed as she woke up.
"Morning Zahra," Akefia said as he looked at her.
Zahra smiled, "Morning 'Kefi."
Akefia rolled his eyes at the childish nickname only Zahra could get away with. She chuckled and looked up at him.
She stood up and walked over to him.
She wrapped her arms around him, "I want to savor these moments forever…"
Akefia smiled and wrapped his arms around her, "What's gotten into you?"
Zahra bit her lips, knowing it would sound ridiculous to tell him the truth, and only said, "I feel as if we were apart for too long…but it was all a dream…"
'I wish it were only a dream…'
Akefia said nothing.
He just held onto his lover.
Harry looked at the sight before in awe.
He knew that Kura had basically moved in with the Slytherins on most nights, but he refused to believe that she would ever communicate or befriend Draco Malfoy.
But the sight before him couldn't be less than true.
The brunette girl, who they had discovered took on that appearance due to it being what Sakura looked like with her natural hair, was walking alongside the pale blond.
'I could accept anyone….really, but why MALFOY?'
He wanted nothing but to go over and rip the girl away from the git.
But he knew Kura had already snapped at several people, professors included, for trying to remove her from Slytherin or her green and silver clad companions.
The girl apparently knew some pretty nasty hexes.
She was more irate and she tended to adopt the traits of Slytherin, when she hung around them.
'She's changed…and I don't like it,' Harry thought as he watched the two walk to a tree.
Draco climbed it and offered Kura a hand.
Harry shook his head as she took it. 'He'll only hurt her later…I'm sure of it.'
He ducked behind a tree, when Kura turned around.
Kura looked down from where she sat on a tree branch.
"What are you looking at Yami?" Draco asked as he looked to where she sat.
Kura shook her head. "I thought I saw someone…it was nothing Draco."
The Malfoy heir nodded but said nothing.
They sat in silence, the occasional voice of a few students or professors, or the sounds of animals broke it a few times.
Draco stole a glance at Kura.
The odd combination of the Slytherin uniform with the Gryffindor robes was something he and many others were still getting used to.
And some were still questioning his "friendship" with the girl, despite the fact, that she and her sister, were in fact, muggleborns.
"Is it true?" Kura asked out of the blue, "that next year all students will be required to take Muggle studies?"
Draco groaned and nodded, "Blasted…Dumbledore thinks if we all understood muggled better, we'd get along better…"
"Say that to the Salem Witch Trials…"
"The…oh THAT…"
"So you heard of it?"
Draco rolled his eyes, "It's one of the reasons purebloods hate muggles."
Kura nodded, "I can understand that. People were accused of having magic and killed. Whether or not they really had magic."
She sighed and looked around once more.
She spotted raven hair and frowned.
Her eyes' violet tint grew a bit more. She and Harry locked eyes.
Harry's eyes were silently pleading, but Kura shook her head bitterly.
She didn't want pity at the moment, it seems as if that's all everyone's been giving her, all she wanted was for someone to talk to her and not make a big deal out of it.
That's what she got from the Slytherins.
Elsa filled in that sisterly gap Sakura's disappearance had caused. She and Kura had developed a bond, that not only helped the suffering brunette, but it also helped Elsa, who had hoped it would help her better her own relationship with Anna.
Jack was the only person to ever hear her laugh, if not smile, having taken her in as his new partner in crime. He knew better than to bring up Sakura. He knew that not only did Sakura leave her own wand behind, but Kura could somehow use it along with her own.
Mavis had been a shock to the others. The girl wasn't an old friend. They barely spoke to each other. But Mavis had this thing about her that just made you want to get to know her. Being a vampire, the girl knew what it was like to be alone.
She was an only child and had been among the first few Slytherins to welcome Kura into their ranks.
And finally…there was Draco. He treated her no differently than before. He still saw her as Kura Yami, or, well, Yami, she was still a mudblood to him, she was still the one who figured out he had ripped a page out of a book with the basilisk information on it…he saw nothing different other than her being in two houses due to her loss.
She was basically another Slytherin now.
Sure, she might be a Gryffindor, but she wasn't ready to go back. Not until Sakura returned.
But no one knew when that would happen.
And until then, she would do nothing, but remain in Slytherin.
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