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Chapter 3

Today her cousin was coming home from Hogwarts. It had been about a week since Kagome had arrived at her Uncle Kenichi's. Her aunt had come home from work that first day exclaiming over them and apologizing profusely for not being able to get off work to greet them at the airport. After reassuring her that it was okay and that they had had a wonderful day, Kagome and her mother trudged upstairs to get some much needed sleep.

Now they were going to a train station. Since there was no nearby fireplace at the station, Kagome simply held tightly to her mother's arm as she apparated, taking them both. It was a very strange sensation and Kagome wasn't sure if she liked the feeling very much. Apparently she would be learning how to do it in the coming school year. Though her cousin didn't have an apparating license yet she would be getting hers this summer.

After peering out from behind the pillar with her family to make sure no one had seen them, they walked towards platform 9. Once there Kagome looked around.

"Which way is her train coming from?" she asked curiously wondering that a train full of witches and wizards wouldn't be painfully obvious to muggles.

"Over here Kagome," her aunt called from the wall between platforms 9 and 10. "Cho will be coming in on platform 9 and ¾" she said and pointed towards the wall. "We'll just wait out here until she comes out."

'I guess this isn't the weirdest thing compared to what I've seen.' Kagome thought to herself waiting patiently. Looking around she decided to see if she could tell who else was waiting for someone from Hogwarts. She saw many people that simply looked like muggles. Continuing to look she caught sight of a very grumpy looking couple with an obnoxiously large son. They seemed to be waiting like her family was though they didn't seem too happy about it. 'I feel sorry for that poor person.' She thought empathetically before continuing to look around her.

Her eyes stopped on the oddest looking group of people she'd ever seen. There, not more than twelve feet away stood a strange man wearing a bowler's hat and a large cloak, a man with graying hair and shabby clothes, and a girl with bright pink hair. Next to them stood what was obviously a family of at least four, all with bright red hair. The two younger ones looked like twins and both were wearing interesting jackets made of some awful green scales.

Kagome was startled from her observation as the plump red haired woman of the family called out someone's name. Looking back towards the wall Kagome was surprised to see a group of people walking through it. Looking around quickly she noted that none of the nearby muggles seemed to have noticed. She looked back at the group of people curiously as they all reunited. Two red headed kids who'd come through the wall obviously belonged to the family she had been watching while a girl with bushy brown hair and a boy with dark messy hair looked like friends. The entire crowd seemed to know each other well.

She suddenly had a strange feeling that she was being watched by the strange man in the bowler hat but shook it off. His visible eye was obviously on the dark haired boy.

She was distracted at that moment by her Uncle's yelled.

"Cho! Here dear!" and a blushing Cho let go of some boys hand to walk towards the family.

Kagome glanced over at the odd group again startled when she looked strait into a pair of gorgeous green eyes; eyes that tore at her heart with how much pain was hidden in them. Her eyes watered and the boys widened slightly before he looked away and walked with the rest of the group over to where the grumpy family of muggles stood.

"Kagome?" she jumped

"Sorry?"

"I said this is your cousin Cho," her mother repeated.

"Nice to meet you, Cho" Kagome said politely bowing as her cousin did the same. "sorry I was distracted. I'm just not used to being around so many magical people."

Cho smiled. "It's okay," she said as Kagome looked away again. Cho followed her eyes.

"His name is Harry."

"What?" Kagome said looking back at her cousin.

"The boy you were just staring at," Cho said with a grin. Kagome blushed, she hadn't realized she had looked back towards him.

"Oh, I wasn't...It's just…His aura is just so…" 'sad' she finished her rambling to herself.

Cho just nodded, deciding not to say anything else. A boy walked up to her then touching her shoulder.

"I just wanted to say bye before I left. I'll see you over the summer?" he asked. Cho nodded, kissing him quickly on the cheek before an obvious clearing throat was heard.

"And who might this nice young man be?" Cho's father said extending his hand to the boy.

"Michael Corner" the boy said shaking his hand.

"Nice to meet you," her uncle replied before "well we best be off then! Come on Cho, Kagome. It's getting late."

The two girls quickly looked at each other grinning, before following the over-protective father towards the large scraggly pillar. "Goodbye Michael!" Cho waved to him before turning back to her cousin happily.

Kagome didn't look back or she might have seen a pair of green eyes looking at her curiously before following his dreadful family back to their car.

1 month later…

Far away a young blond haired boy was given a mission. Determined grey eyes shone as he heard what he was to do. He thought it an honor to serve his Lord, no matter what the cost. How hard would it be to take out a simple girl anyway?

The Dark Lord laughed to himself once the boy had left with his mother. If the sixteen year old succeeded it would make his plans run much smoother. Failure would only mean death and one less worthless follower.

It would be tiresome now that the girl and her mother had returned. If he'd had the chance he would have hunted them down long ago and be done with it. Back then he had been more concerned with that damn prophecy, deciding to get rid of the Potters quickly before he finished his business with the Higurashis. Perhaps if he'd altered his approached he'd have one less nuisance now.

It was of no mind anyway; simply one more person to kill before he could rise to power unchallenged.

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