The forgotten son
The week after the meeting at the Hog's Head went well, Kai could even say he made a friend.
After showing his face at the meeting, Hermione Granger saw it necessary to get to know him. That was probably why every time they were in the library at the same time she always seeked him out and sat with him. She never really spoke to him other then a short greeting before sitting with him. It had eventually become a habit, By the end of the week, he had started seeking her out, always looking for his bushy-haired study-partner as soon as he entered the library.
This 'Friendship' made it easier while taking-part in the group-meetings, seeing as his Slytherin uniform pointed him out as an outcast; no questions asked. That's exactly what happened at the first meeting, it was around 8 at night when he met up with the rest of the group, Hermione had come to get him and said they had found a place to have their meetings without getting court by Flinch. The rest of the 'Army' were walking nervously in front of the bluenette as they made their way up to the seventh floor; nervous of the idea of getting court and because of the cold Slytherin following them.
Once they arrived at the secret meeting place they decided that Potter should be their leader before starting. The first spell Potter subjected they started with was Expelliarmus.
Kai was paired off with a short, red-haired girl that he suspected was a relative of the Weasley boy from his year and the older twins across the room. "Hay." she nodded, a light blush dusting her cheeks as she looked up at him "I'm Ginny"
"Kai." he nodded, tacking a defensive stance "Would you like to go first?"
"Um- yeah." she smiled, tacking the same stance before beginning.
Once they had both performed the spell a couple of times without messing up Kai decided that a short brake was in order. Walking around the room, watched silently as the others practiced, stopping when he came to the Longbottom guy Malfoy always made fun of.
Neville seemed to be having trouble, he tried it again and again, but his wand went flying back out of his hand and everone had to duke quickly so they didn't get hit in the head, Kai included.
"I'm hopeless" Neville sulked.
"Your just flicking your wand back to much, try like this" Harry suggested and demonstrated the spell with a smooth flick of his wand coursing the dummies wand shot out of its hand. Neville copied the action, everyone flinched; ready to dodge, but the wand didn't fly out of his hand, but the dummies. Nodding, Kai smiled very slightly at how well Potter was actually a good teacher; maybe he could learn something worth wild in this group.
It was a week after their first meeting when Kai realised something; he was slacking on his training. The very thought shocked and disturbed him, he had never in all his life skipped his 3 hour blade training, but with all that had been going on recently with class's, defence meetings, homework and his own personal research it wasn't a that unbelievable. With this knowledge Kai got himself up an extra hour early the next morning and went for a long jog around the castle grounds and did some strength exercises before heading off to his classes for that day.
Later that day in Defence Against the Dark Art's Umbridge had them copying a page out the textbook again. Luckily Potter didn't loose his cool, which had Malfoy sulking the entire lesson.
"Stupid, good for nothing…" he grumbled under his breath as he scribbled the text off the book into his personal, leather bound note book. Kai couldn't help but roll his eyes at the blonds childishness, he had even chosen not to sit next to the brat today and Kai could still hear his whining.
Looking across the room Kai saw Hermione was boredly jotting down the information that she probably already knew. Glancing up, she sent him a small smile which Kai responded to with a slight nod. In the last DA meeting Granger had handed out fake Galleons out to everyone and told them they were charmed to show the date of their next meeting, this way no one would overhear something they shouldn't. Kai had to admit it was a good idea and he regularly checked it seeing as he hated to miss anything important.
At the end of the lesson Kai was just leaving when he noticed Malfoy giving him a unusual look as he passed. 'Shit, he must of noticed me looking at Granger-san' he thought, hurrying out of the classroom 'I'm going to have to keep an eye on him'.
Weeks later the DA had already learned many useful spells such as 'Stupefy' which stuns ones enemies. They had learned many others, but Kai really couldn't really be bothered to recount them all. The DA lesson they had just completed was to deflect Dementers, Kai had honestly had problems with coming up with a strong happy memory to make the spell work, but in the end he had managed to make it work using a very old memory of his mother.
The plan was for the DA to stop the lessons over Christmas break so no one missed a thing, plus, their leader/teacher was leaving for the holidays. When the last lesson before Christmas ended Kai walked up to Potter, Granger and Weasley-chan's older brother "Hay, thanks this has been fun" Kai nodded making Harry look up at him.
"Your welcome…um, sorry, I don't think I know your name" Harry smiled awkwardly, scratching the back of his head. "Are you in Slytherin?" Harry asked shocked that he never noticed him before.
Before Kai could answer Hermione jumped in "He's Kai Hiwatari, we're study-partners and yes he's in Slytherin." she explained, flashing Kai a smile before turning a disapproving frown on Harry "Don't you remember him? He was the guy who got to choose which house he was placed in." Hermione said rolling her eyes "Honestly!"
"What? Him?" Ron yelled looking at Kai "Hay, why did you choose Slytherin?"
Kai just blinked at him with a blank face "I'm not good with people" he stated like that explained everything. Noticing the look on Ron's face he decided to elaborated further "From what I new nether were the Slytherin's."
"Kai, don't I know you from somewhere? other then school, I mean." Harry asks, raising an eyebrow as he looked the bluenette over.
Hermione gave Harry a shocked look "Harry, don't you even have a T.V? He's the leader of the worlds best Beyblade team! The BladeBreakers!" she raised her voice in frustration.
Realising who Hermione was on about, Harry turned his gaze back to Kai as he nodded his head before he realised that Cho was about to leave, "Sorry, got to go" he waved, turning around and rushing after his crush.
Before he left the room he heard "What's Beyblade?" form Ron.