In the dark you are the one I see 15
"What are you doing now?" Itachi asked with boredom in his voice as he was reading trough a pile of papers on his desk. Sakura, as usual, sat on his desk, making it even harder for Itachi to do his work, as she was actually reading a book.
"I'm reading…" she answered, with the sound of her tone as she spoke, he could easily tell that she was completely absorbed by the book she was reading. Though it seemed she was reading only one page of the book and no more.
"Then why are you reading the same thing over and over again?"
"Because it's just this that I need…"
"What's it about?" Itachi asked, deciding that he could work like this anyway. Sakura looked up from her book and starred into Itachi's death-black eyes with a mischiefing smirk.
"I'm going to get a Pensieve." Sakura whispered and set the book aside. "That's also why we're going to wait until Halloween, I want one.
"A Pensieve is a stone receptacle in which to store memories. Covered in mystic runes, it contains memories that take physical form as a type of matter that is described as neither liquid nor gas. A witch or wizard can extract their own memories or another person's, store them in the Pensieve, and review them later. It also relieves the mind when it becomes cluttered with information. Anyone can examine the memories in the Pensieve, which also allows viewers to fully immerse themselves in the memories stored within, much like a magical form of real world virtual reality."
Itachi simply starred at her in silence, it seemed as if he was going to say something though he didn't even open his mouth, she could see it in his eyes. "Oh! I have class soon; I'll see you later then!" Sakura said as she picked up her books and skipped away from the desk where Itachi was sitting, still not saying a word.
Sakura was on her way towards the Divination classroom as she stopped in the middle of the corridor. Why should I go to my classes when I don't even need to, I have no intention of learning any of it and I have already missed so many lessons…? All I need to do is see to it that Harry doesn't leave Hogwarts and is here when I need him here. Though people would get suspicious, if I didn't go to any lessons that is, to go or not to go. While she stood there waiting there was another person nearby who was also deep in thoughts.
"Ow!" Sakura said in a reflex as someone accidentally walked right into her. She turned around only to see Luna Lovegood standing there wondering what just happened.
"Sakura? What are you doing here in the middle of the corridor?" Luna asked with her as she still seemed quite dazed off somewhere in her mind, though, wasn't that normal for her…
"I'm…. on my way to my Divination class…" Sakura managed to say, thanks to that now she surely would be forced to go.
"Oh… Well you see, I'm doing this project on Diricaws in Care of magical creatures class and I have no interest at all about them. It's really hard to find facts about them like this. I only wish I could write about something more realistic and interesting."
"Diricaws? You mean Dodos? Aren't they extinct…?" Sakura asked but Luna didn't seem to listen as she continued rambling up a lot of different kinds of magical creatures that Sakura was sure didn't exist even in the wizarding world. Suddenly Sakura understood that this was her opportunity to set things right. "You know Luna, I would help you with that. There must be a lot of books in the library, let's go check."
"Yes, I was on my way there right now, it's very nice of you to help but didn't you have class?" Luna asked as they started going towards the library.
"It's nothing important, and I thought that it would be more fun to help you with you work." Sakura said and they gave each other a friendly smile.
When they came to the library they immediately started looking trough different kinds of books that maybe would be in any help to them. Sakura and Luna talked happily and at last found a lot of books that they decided to borrow. Though Sakura also earned a lot of different things with this, important things.
"I should be going now, I have to order an item with express mail, and I want it as soon as possible." Sakura said when they had borrowed the books.
"Oh, and what's the item?"
"A Pensieve."
"I've heard of those! They're really expensive, are you sure you'll afford them? You know, my father wrote about them once and you should be really careful because if you're in too long it will eat you without hesitation, it's actually an animal. It likes to run away-"
"Yeah Luna, that's nice. I have to go now, see you later!" Sakura said and ran off as Luna waved her goodbye.
Gosh that kid talked too much; surely she has something wrong in her head… Sakura thought and got a letter from her skirt pocket, it was the order she had for the Pensive.
The owlery was as dirty as usual when Sakura entered, she had only been there once before with Harry and Ron. She took a random owl that she could see the school owned and gave it the letter.
As she watched the owl fly away trough the sky the door to the owlery opened once again. Sakura spun around to get a look at the person who just entered only to see the three people she least wanted to see.
"What are you doing here?" Hermione asked with a disgusted expression.
"I'm having dinner while secretly deciding how to destroy the world with just a piece of paper, what do you think one does in the olwery?" Sakura said, her words dripping with sarcasm.
"Watch what you're saying, I could get you suspended!"
"Come on, both of you! Stop this, I don't want to hear you getting in a brawl every single time you see each other, think of all the classes we're going to attend to in this year and the next." Harry said and both Hermione and Sakura starred at him, Hermione looked troubled but Sakura's expression was more bored than anything else. "So can't we all just get along?"
I don't really care because I'm going to disappear at Halloween and Harry's going to die then but it would spare me some trouble if I didn't have this bitchhead-Hermione biting my neck as fast as she sees me.
"Geez Harry, it would be nice to talk to you and Ron but with man whore-Hermione here it'll take a while to really be-"
"Man whore?!" Hermione yelled so loud that the owl around them started flattering their wings in panic, some of them even taking flight. From behind her she could hear Ron sniggering silently and Harry trying to hold back his laughter. "I hope you're not stupid enough to seriously take it I'm a guy? I knew you where stupid but this just proves it."
"You're the goldfish if you really think I meant it seriously, though, now when you're denying it so much I start to wonder…" Sakura said and put on an innocent expression while placing her hand on her cheek with a wondering pose. "Just how much does man whores like you take? I mean, you hide the fact that you're a guy pretty well but you're boobs just give it all away."
Sakura could see how Hermione was boiling; her cheeks bright red from what Sakura could guess was both anger and total embarrassment.
"What's the matter, cat got your tongue?"
"You little-" Hermione started and quickly drew her want and got in dueling position.
"This is the… third time we've got in a real fight?" Sakura said but didn't draw her wand, much to Harry's pleasure. "I'm not going to do it again, every time something has happened, making us unable to finish and have a real winner. Though we could call it even and quite it here, I'm not in the mood today."
"Do you think I care? You wanted me to fight you last time and this time I'm ready for it! Draw your wand!" Hermione shouted in rage, reminding the other three of Sakura last time.
"I don't care what you say; I'm not going to-"
"Expelliarmus!" Hermione shouted but Sakura, without a wand simply with a gently movement with her hand changed the spells direction, making it hit the wall to her right.
"Didn't I say that I'm not in the mood?" Sakura asked and yawned. Harry, Ron and Hermione stood as if they where petrified. Thoughts where racing in their minds, how did she do that? Where did she learn something like that?
"W-What… did you just do?"
Of course they don't know how I did that, with my perfect chakra control I can easily dodge a blow like that.
"Just a little trick I was learned before." Sakura answered.
"Come on Hermione, I don't any fights here. Why are you fighting actually?" Harry asked, looking from one to the other for an answer. Hermione looked dumbfounded while Sakura determined.
"You don't know why you're fighting me?" Sakura asked Hermione while laughing unstoppably inside.
"I-" Hermione started but didn't seem to come any further, suddenly Sakura could swear she heard something click in Hermione's head. "What about you? Do you know why you're even arguing with me anymore?"
"I asked you first-"
"Trying to slip away from the question, you don't know do you?"
"If I would get a word in all this I would say that you're the one trying to avoid the question here. Though I could easily answer if it is so."
"Then what is it?"
"Simply that I don't like you at all, your personality the very least. The way you always think you're better than others just because you're smart and the way you want everything to be as always, new people and other changes are not acceptable to you." Sakura said without showing any kind of emotion, too long time with Itachi and that's something one simply can.
"I'm not like that! I can stand changes!" Hermione said and Harry sighed.
"Come on, I didn't mean for you to argue even more, Can't you two just drop it and try to see the positive things about the other?"
"Yeah, like… Sakura! You have great humor and Hermione, you're really smart." Ron said with a grin.
"So my only good point is that I'm smart?"
"No, I didn't mean it like that! It's one of your good points, you know, you're really brave too and so is Sakura."
"Yeah, Ron's right!" Harry said with a cheerful tone in his voice, trying to light up the tension a little.
"Sure, why not." Sakura said and yawned, shifting her weight to her other leg she wondered how long she would be forced to be here. "Can we go then? It's really chilly up here."
"You're just going on with it? Just because Harry said so you're just going to get along with me, so easily?" Hermione asked.
"Well, wouldn't you do the same thing?"
"Eh-"
"Our second fight in the cafeteria, you're where really like some kind of dog, obeying your master loyally…"
"Sakura! See, see, she's mocking me, totally! Harry, Ron, listen to me, she's not as much of a good person as you two think! She's really not, that's why I don't want her to be with us, because she's going to set us three apart and destroy us from the inside out." Hermione said gesturing with her hands. Sakura frowned, Hermione knew, She may not know who I am or what I'm after or anything of that but she knows that I'm not here for peace.
"Hermione, aren't you a little paranoid now-"
"I'm not, Ron!"
"I think Ron's right; it's actually kind of cruel to say things like that. You may not like her and I think all of us are ok with that as long as you at least try to befriend her."
"I've tried, then I noticed her fake smile that was so horrible that it could be from the devil itself!" Hermione shouted, trying to convince them was hard, no doubt. She almost felt as if she was going to
start crying soon, she just didn't want harry or Ron to get hurt by her mistake to befriend this person. "As far as we know she could as well be a death eater!"
Ron and Harry's eyes widened at her last words.
"Hermione, there is a line over how far you can go, I'm not a death eater and you know that!" Sakura said, keeping her voice steady. Itachi had told her about death eaters and how they stood loyal to their lord Voldemort. If they believed she was a death eater it would be the end for her.
"Yeah Hermione! You can't just say things like that without proof!" Ron exclaimed.
"Harry always suspects Draco to be one, how come you dismiss Sakura of all people?"
"Hermione, Draco's a Slytherin! His father's even a death eater! Sakura… she's from Gryffindor and she's our friend, I trust her but I don't trust Draco, he has always been proved as a bad person." Harry said, Sakura sighed out of relief inside, if Harry stood by her side it wouldn't be a problem.
"But I can sense it from her! She's not a good person and she's not here to help us…" Hermione broke into tears, she just couldn't stand it. "…rather hurt us."
"Hermione-" Sakura said, putting on a concerned look.
"Shut up! I just can't stand it! I-I... the thought of you hurting Harry and Ron... it's unbearable!" she said, whipping off her tears with her with the sleeve of her uniform. "I won't allow you to hurt them, never, not Harry and Ron…"
"I'll reassure you that I won't hurt them, they're my friends, my dear friends." Sakura said using her soft voice.
"I don't trust you… I will never be able to trust you-"
"Hermione, I'll take you to the Hospital wing…" Ron said and took Hermione's hand, dragging her away but she didn't seem to notice even though she willingly followed, her eyes where steadily on Sakura.
"Sorry about that…" Harry said, blushing slightly. It had been a while since they last talked and that time wasn't the most flattering.
"Don't worry about it, I guess I hurt her really badly though. I really didn't mean to, I should've stopped taunting her earlier, no; I shouldn't have done any of that at all… I should be the one saying sorry." Sakura said and put on a shy smile.
"But she said all those things-"
"I surely said thing that to her sounded just as bad."
"But calling you a death eater… that's really something she would never do, ever! I wonder if she's feeling well."
"Well Ron's taking her to the hospital wing now so there shouldn't be a problem, if we're lucky she may be out this evening."
"Yeah, you're right." He said, he seemed a little more cheerful now and they gave each other a warm smile.
"Now let's go down, it's freezing up here!" Sakura said he let out a slight laugh. "You haven't eaten lunch yet right?"
Harry shook his head as they walked down the stairs from the owlery. "Let's eat together; I think Ron'll find us easy enough."
Later that night, when everyone had gone up to bed in order to sleep, it was only Sakura left. Hermione hadn't come back from the hospital wing yet but it was just as good, or even better without her crying and sobbing and screaming that just gave Sakura a serious headache. She was reading a scroll of forbidden justus when she heard a tap on the window. On the other side of the window stood an owl, carrying a big package in its peak. Sakura opened the window to let the bird in; it landed on the table and gently put down the package. She didn't expect the pensive to be this little but as she opened the package she could see it was much bigger than the package it was in. It must have been some kind of spell or charm that made it so.
It was hard to the pensive, no normal shop would provide her with one so she had to check the more… dark shops. She was lucky to pick the right place, she needed to buy it from someone who would give it full protection on its delivery trip, the ministry where checking mail at random. If they
would check her delivery she would draw people's attention, that's the last thing she needs right now.
Here in Hogwarts no one will care whether she has one or not, it's just expensive, nothing from the ordinary.
"Out to train then!" Sakura whispered to herself, powered up. She has just entered her first memories to check how it was, she has to admit that it was for more real then she had expected it to be. She left the memories in the Pensieve as they where some she wanted there anyways. Now she only wanted to do some training, it was a while since she had time to go and train in the night. She silently sneaked out from the Gryffindor tower; no one would wake up at this time of the hour so she left the pensive there without any protection charm or anything.
But only a few minutes after Sakura was deep in the shadows of the forbidden forest the entrance to the Gryffindor common room opened and a cheerful voice broke the silence in the room.
"Sakura? Are you here?" the voice asked, the person walked into the moonlight the entered through the window, her long dirty-blond hair covered her shoulders and her eyes scanned the empty room, her gaze spotted the pensive on the table and she walked up to it. "Oh! This must be Sakura's then! Seems as if she already has put memories in it…"
Luna stretched out her hand without a second thought, she just wanted to see what Sakura's past was like. She needed to know.
"Where am I?" Luna asked herself as she stood up. "Oh yeah! The pensive, I must be in Sakura's memories then!"
Luna looked around, she has expected to end up in a school somewhat like Hogwarts, however, why was she in a forest? She took a few steps in the grass; the sun was shining brightly and birds where singing. It looked peaceful, though she had a bad feeling as she saw someone lying in the grass against a tree. The person looked seriously ill and her body was covered with cuts a bruises. Luna could easily recognize who it was, of course, it wasn't everyday one saw a girl with pink hair.
"Sakura!"
A/N: OH YEAH, it's here! I'm here! I'm home at long last! Gosh I've missed my internet… I've been in Finland, that's why I have yet to update. Though here I am, with a new chapter that's slightly longer than the rest. Hell yeah! Questions about how Luna got into the Gryffindor common room is not something you need to ask, you will have an explanation in the next chapter. Also about the Hermione Sakura meeting and the whole friendship thingy… It wasn't planned to be there… As usual I just started writing lalalalalala and Oh shit! Hermione? Why did I put her in there? Should I take it away looks in my summery over all the chapters until the end of the story It won't ruin… then it was be there, I don't give a shit. Hahaha
Please leave a review! 100 reviews BTW! Fucking awesome! Or something… I mean… I would be more if I didn't happen to delete the story in chapter 7… I still hate myself for that...
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