Harry Potter and the Ginzuishou

Chapter Four

"UGH!!!" Harry groaned as he struggled with his geometry. It had been six years since he'd been in a muggle school. And boy had it messed him up big time. He'd found he could barely remember how to do simple mathematics and then he'd been thrown headfirst (although voluntarily) into the horrors that was geometry and algebraic equations. "Why can't I get this! It can't possibly be this hard!"

He wished Hermione was with him. Hermione would be able to help him with this. He stared off into space, thinking of his friends, back in England. He had no idea if they were safe or not. Had Voldemort taken the bait? If he had, then he was here in Japan, and far away from his friends, and they were alright. But if not….

"Can't think about that, got to do my homework…" he returned his attention to the textbook.

A half-hour later, he was still on problem six when the doorbell rang. Harry was grateful for the interruption and he got up to answer. "Hello?" he called through the door, not taking any unnecessary chances.

"Harry?" it was Lita. "It's me, Lita."

Harry opened the door. "Hey, what's up?"

"Oh, nothing, just me and my friends are going to the arcade, do you want to come?" she asked him.

Harry turned and looked at his homework. He remembered how Ami, the blue-haired girl, had answered nearly every question the teacher had asked. Maybe she could help him. "Sure, hold on just a second." He hurried and packed up his things. At her questioning look he shrugged. "I'm hoping Ami can help me with this." He had no problem at all with asking a smarter person for assistance. After all, he'd had to get help from Hermione on numerous other occasions. So his pride wasn't suffering at all.

Lita smiled understandingly. "Oh, I'm sure she can, and will. She loves schoolwork."

"Sounds like a friend of mine back in England." Harry said, laughter in his voice.

A little while later…

"NOOOOO!" Serena wailed, hitting the game console as yet another of her lives were put to an end. The others sat in a booth in the little café across the way from the videogames.

Ami was helping Harry with his homework. "See, that's not so hard is it?" She asked him, much like a teacher would.

Harry shook his head. "No, thanks by the way for helping me out. You know, you should be a teacher, you're really good at it."

Ami blushed and shook her head. " No, I want to be a doctor, like my mother."

Just then a little girl with bubblegum-pink hair ran in. Harry wanted to laugh. She looked almost like Tonks with that hair color. Was she a metamorphmagus? Behind her trailed what he supposed was an electronic kitty ball.

"HEY SERENA!!!" she cried out looking for the blonde at the game machine. "Serena!" She ran right past the other girls.

Serena growled at the game screen as she lost again, then glared at the little girl. "Reenie, you little spore! You made me lose! What do you want?"

The little girl, Reenie, looked indignant. "Well, Darien's outside and he wants to talk to you but if you're gonna be like that…"

The meatball-head perked up. "Darien!" She jumped up from the machine and ran outside to where a man with black hair and green blazer waited on a motorcycle.

Harry now turned his attention to his History of Japan homework. He was completely unprepared for what would happen next.

"May I take your order?" came an all too familiar drawling voice.

Harry took a gulp, hoping beyond hope that what he'd heard was just his imagination. He looked up from his homework and stared into the coal-eyes of….Severus Snape.

Snape's eyes widened as he recognized the patron sitting with the group of girls who frequented this place often. Harry stared back, in complete and utter shock. Before he burst out into laughter. The situation was extremely humorous.

AN: SO sorry for taking so long to update this. Yes, I brought in Snape. And I think several of you are going to be angry with me come the next chapter.