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After dinner Kagome waved goodbye to her friends and headed towards the library. Harry had filled Ron and Hermione in on his plan over dinner while Kagome was talking animatedly with Ginny. Ron had thought it brilliant while Hermione had given him a disapproving frown, saying nothing. Harry didn't really care, he was going to do it whether they thought he should or not. He left the Great Hall after Kagome, pulling the invisibility cloak on as he reached a deserted corridor. Properly hidden, he headed off towards the library to find out what Malfoy was really up to.

Chapter 9

"Find a historical legend and discuss the differences and similarities between it and that of Glomlori the Great." Kagome said reading what she had copied from the board.

"Compare a legend to Glomlori the Great?" Draco said with a raised eyebrow. "Why doesn't he teach actual history instead of this Goblin war crap?" Draco didn't even know why he'd taken this course again, though the reason he didn't drop it was sitting next to him now.

Kagome giggled, "Atleast we can find something interesting to read for this assignment. We can pick whatever legend we want to compare it to." Draco still didn't look relieved. "How about we look around and grab a few books that look helpful and then come back and compare?" Kagome suggested before getting up to do just that.

Kagome was walking down a random aisle glancing at the titles on the bindings she passed. All the books seemed very interesting and she wished she had time to look at a few more in depth but she had to get this assignment done first. Hearing a noise behind her Kagome paused and looked around. Seeing nothing she looked back to the shelf only to have one book catch her eye.

"The Legends of Ancient Japan," she read aloud, pulling it out with a smirk. 'Let's see how accurate you are' she thought as she continued to look for other books of legends.

After picking out a few more books she headed back to the table only to see that Draco hadn't come back yet. She shrugged and decided to check out the book about Japanese legends. After a few minutes of skimming she found the one she was looking for.

"Hm, accurate, but general. No names or anything…" she murmured seemingly to herself.

The book held the basics of the legend of the Shikon No Tama. It was accurate enough in it's explanation of how it came to be and even told of Kikyo, Inuyasha and Onigumo's roles in its initial destruction. The book didn't seem to know names though and only referred to them as the priestess, the half dog demon, and the bandit. The next part was the part she had wanted to read though. She was curious about how history told her part in the story. The scrolls at her own shrine only ever told that first half.

"What did you find?" Draco's voice interrupted her thoughts making her jump.

"Oh I was just looking at a book on Japanese legends." She said, closing the book before he could see.

They spent the rest of the time looking through random legends, Kagome choosing one about a wizard who lived in the early days of England, and Draco choosing one about some strange magical being who controlled a mysterious forest. Every now and then Draco would make a sarcastic comment causing Kagome to laugh and look at what he was reading before going back to her own work.

Draco found he liked it when she laughed.

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Harry was bored. So far nothing interesting had happened. At one point he thought Kagome had heard him in the aisle, but other than that all he had been doing was sitting here watching them read. It was strange seeing Draco being nice to someone and for some reason it made his stomach curl whenever Kagome would laugh at something he'd say. Just as he was ready to leave he saw Kagome jump up alarmed.

Kagome had just looked around for the first time to notice that the library had emptied. Jumping up quickly she yelped. "I didn't realize how late it had gotten! I should be getting back!" She said hoping she hadn't worried the others too much. Madame Pince shot a glare her way for being so loud. Blushing, she began putting her things back in her bag. Just as she was picking up her Japanese Legends book and the book that contained the legend for her essay she felt a hand grab her wrist.

"Wait," Draco said not letting go of her wrist. He had stood up by now and as she turned to face him she realized just how close he was. His stormy grey eyes held hers before he lowered his gaze. He'd never noticed just how pretty her lips were. "Uh…" Draco said intelligently, forgetting what he'd been about to say. Kagome's eyes widened as he started to lean even closer…

Harry had seen enough. Tearing off the invisibility cloak and stuffing it in his pocket he called her name.

The two jumped, Kagome breaking from Draco's grasp and backing away before looking around. She was shocked to see an irate Harry standing a few feet away glaring daggers at Draco.

"Harry!" she said feeling slightly ashamed at what that must have looked like to him. "What are you doing here?" she asked curiously.

"We were worried about you since it's getting so close to curfew so I came to find you." He lied easily not tearing his eyes off Draco.

"Sure you did Potter." Draco bit out, more pissed off than usual at his rival. "Sure you weren't just spying on us the whole time? Convenient timing, isn't it?"

Kagome frowned at the two boys. I mean, she knew what it must have looked like, but there had to be another explanation, right? Before she could think of one though, Madame Pince had shooed all three of them out of the library.

Once in the hall the two boys continued to glare at each other, wands clutched in their hands.

"Would you two stop! I don't know why you're so mad at each other, but it's almost curfew anyway so if we don't all want a detention it would probably be best to save your glaring contest for tomorrow." Kagome said, frustrated.

"Fine. I'll see you in History of Magic, Kagome," Draco said with a nod to her before walking away. "Better watch your back Potter," he called over his shoulder.

Only Kagome's hand on his wrist stopped Harry from shooting a curse at Malfoy right there. She turned and practically dragged Harry with her towards the portrait.

"What was that all about!?" Kagome yelled the second they were out of hearing range.

"What do you mean 'what was that all about!?" Harry yelled. "You nearly snogged Malfoy and you ask me what I'm mad about!?"

"For your information I was NOT about to snog Draco and if I was it would be none of your business anyway!" Kagome yelled back getting angrier with every word.

"OH! So it's 'Draco' now huh?" Harry wasn't sure why, but her using Malfoy's first name made him even angrier. "What happened to calling him Malfoy, you know, since he's the enemy and all. I'm glad I followed you! You're just asking to be-"

"Followed me!?" Kagome interrupted him as they reached the portrait hole. "Oh this is rich, so you were spying on us! Well, for your information I can take care of myself!"

Harry snorted, "You were doing a real good job of it from what I saw," he muttered.

She let out a strangled yell before turning her glare to the fat lady. As soon as the portrait hole opened she stormed into the common room, past the surprised faces of Ron and Hermione who had waited up for them, and into her room.

Ron and Hermione turned their shocked faces towards Harry as he came in after her and stormed up the opposite staircase without saying a word.

"What do ya think happened?" Ron asked, finding his voice.

Hermione shook her head, for once at a loss for words.

The next morning the two found themselves playing mediator for Harry and Kagome who seemed to not be speaking to each other. In fact Kagome had decided not to speak to either of the boys involved in the argument, as Draco discovered in History of Magic. She placed all her energy into taking notes and cracking jokes with Dean who seemed all too happy to have a distraction from class.

Malfoy, however, was left to plan ways to slowly kill Potter. The reason for his anger was naturally because his plan had nearly been ruined, he told himself. There was nothing else to it, because there was no way he'd actually started to like being friends with a Gryffindor, especially one who was practically the embodiment of all things good. No, there was no way at all.

Harry wasn't faring much better. He was angry, not at Kagome, no, he'd never actually been angry at Kagome. He was angry at Malfoy. He had been so pissed off the night before that he'd taken it out on Kagome, and now she wasn't talking to him. All Harry knew was that it was all Malfoy's fault. If Malfoy hadn't decided to trick Kagome into thinking he was nice then she would have never gone to study with him, and she would still be talking to Harry now. Yes this was all Malfoy's fault and Malfoy was going to pay.

"You know, if you hadn't followed her you wouldn't have seen anything and she'd still be talking to you," Hermione told him when Kagome wasn't paying attention. She and Ron had been filled in earlier.

"Yeah? And then what? Malfoy would have snogged her? No I'm glad I was watching," he replied stubbornly, refusing to take the blame. He couldn't stop himself wondering though, if he hadn't interrupted would she have actually let Malfoy kiss her, or would she have stopped him herself?

"She probably would have stopped him anyway," Hermione said, unknowingly following his train of thought. "I mean even if they are friends I doubt she'd take it that far. Especially when I'm pretty sure she likes someone else." She said watching Harry from the corner of her eye.

She liked someone else? That was news. While Harry was glad it wasn't Malfoy he was curious as to who it was…"Who?" he asked out loud without realizing it.

Hermione grinned, "That I can't tell you," she turned to pay attention as Professor Sprout walked into the green house.

This was a hard chapter to write. I rewrote it several times before I was happy with it. Let me know what you think! I read every review and love hearing what you have to say. You guys are why I keep writing :-).

We know what's going on in the boy's mind's, but what does Kagome think about all this?

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