ocChapter Five

"Mum, I want to go too." The youngest daughter of the Weasley family whined for the fifth time at King's Cross. All of them stood in front of the brick pillar between platforms nine and ten. Fred and George Weasley had become quite fond of Hinata and stood on either side of her. The youngest boy, Ronald Weasley, seemed to keep his distance. He gave off the slight sense of fear of her eyes. The oldest brother that was there, Percy Weasley, was polite and a gentleman towards her. Ginny nearly idolized her and loves to talk to her since she always listens. Mr. Weasley was absolutely fascinated by Hinata, especially after she showed him Japanese Muggle Money. Mrs. Weasley was as kind as she would be to anybody.

Hinata stared at the brick pillar with a great deal of confusion. What were they supposed to do now? She looks back at Mrs. Weasley with a look of confusion.

"Er……Um…….. Mrs. Weasley?" She asks looking at her then at the brick pillar. Mrs. Weasley chuckles fondly at Hinata, then looks at Percy.

"Percy, Show Hinata how to go through the barrier." She tells her oldest son. He sighs lightly and walks towards Hinata. He points at the brick pillar with one of his hands.

"Run at it." He says simply. Her eyes widen and she clenches the handle of the trolley. They make what seemed like a pathway for her. She runs towards it, preparing herself for the impact of the hard bricks. But it never came.

Opening her eyes, she looks around. They land on a black steam train and the sign with the numbers nine and three-quarters on it. A exuberant smile spread across her face as she pushed her trolley towards the train. Once she reached the entrance to the train, she pulls her trunk and owl cage off the trolley and onto the train.

She had passed many people in the hallways as she searched for an empty compartment; she finally found one on the opposite end of where she entered. Hinata drags her trunk into the compartment and shoves it under one of the seats. She sets her owl cage in the seat and sits down next to the window, her pockets filled with wizarding money.

It was only a couple moments till the compartment was opened again. She turns her head for her lavender hued eyes to lock with icy blue eyes. Then she took in the rest of his face. He was very familiar. Then his name came to her mind.

"Draco?" She asks him softly as she tilts her head to the side with a look of curiosity, she didn't even take note of the body guards on either side of him. She could easily take them down.

His eyes flicker from the icy look to a look of familiarity.

"Hinata?" He asks her as the heat rises up on his neck. She gives him a soft smile and nods.

None of them had bags in hand, so they must've already found a compartment. He gives her a small wave before leaving her compartment, as if he was looking for something. Hinata shrugs a bored look comes of her face as she bent down to retrieve her bag, which had her spell books in it. She wanted to read one of them. Out of pure boredom.

She pulls out 'The Standard Book of Spells' by Miranda Goshawk and opens it to the first page with an odd sense of eagerness. The way things were here, it just seemed so…. Odd. But that was what fascinated her to no ends. As she read, she didn't even notice that the compartment door slid open.

In walked a handsome boy with blonde hair, not Draco, he looked maybe one or two years older than she was.

"Excuse me." He says, getting her attention and she looks up at him from the book. He was a little startled by her eyes, but got over it. He points to the empty seat across from her, "Is that seat taken?"

Hinata shakes her head no and smiles gently at him. A light blush took over his cheeks, she was really cute when she smiled.

"You know, your cute when you smile." He comments and a flush of dark red took on her cheeks. She looks up at him with her lavender hued eyes, an embarrassed edge to her.

"Th-Thank you." She stuttered, "What's your name?"

"Cedric. Cedric Diggory." He says as he sat down, shoving his trunk under the seat with his owl cage sitting on the seat beside him. She holds her hand out for him to shake, she had learned that this was the custom.

"Hinata Hyuuga." He shakes her hand and both withdraw from each other. Hinata looks at him curiously, she could tell he was older than she was, so she drew from that fact that he had already been to Hogwarts. He looks at her from the window he was staring out of, to notice that she was looking at him with an odd intensity. A light flush took over the base of his neck.

"What?"He asks, snapping her out of her daze. An embarrassed flush took over her cheeks and she looks up at him shyly. That's when he decided that he liked to make her blush, she was so cute when she did.

"Ano…. What's it like at Hogwarts?" She asks him softly as she pointed her fingers together with a look of curiosity towards him. He gently smiles at her, he should have figured that she was a first year.

"It's great. There are four houses: Hufflepuff,"-he draws himself up proudly-"Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Slytherin." He said the last house with a note of distaste. None of the houses liked Slytherin for some reason. Maybe it was because most bad wizards and witches came from there.

He began to tell her everything about Hogwarts, the ghosts, teachers and the staircases. Hinata found herself laughing at the thought of Cedric getting lost in Hogwarts. Which he had done several times during his first year and once during his second year. Both were laughing and teasing each other as they talked more. The way he talked about Hufflepuff, it made it seem like it was the best house out of all of them and she couldn't help but smile at the thought of being in one of the houses. He talked about the qualities of each of the houses, but he still boasted about Hufflepuff. She giggled as he described the feeling of how it felt for a ghost to go through you and shivering at the very memory.

Then she felt an urge down in her lower abdomen and a light pink blush coated her cheeks. As she looked up at him shyly, he stared at her curiously. Her opinions on things and the way she listened were so different from what he was used to.

"Ano…… I have to use the restroom." She says softly and Cedric chuckles. She looks down at her lap, embarrassed.

"Just walk out of the compartment then turn left and go straight." Cedric instructs her to do. She looks up at him with a shy smile, gets up and walks out of the compartment. It was quite hard to walk down the isle as people were running up and down it and it seemed much more rickety than it had felt inside of the compartment.

The train seemed to hit a bump on the track and she stumbled. One of her hands landing on a compartment door, sliding it open and she fell in. Hinata fell so fast, she didn't have time to catch herself.

"Hinata!" Two familiar voices said at the same time and she looked up to see the slightly frightened face of Ronald Weasley and the delighted face of Harry Potter. She pushed herself up to her feet using her hands with an embarrassed blush crossing the bridge of her nose.

"Ah! So-Sorry! I was going to the restroom." Hinata said in a rushed fashion. She stood up and was about to walk out the door, when Harry called her name.

"Hinata, Which compartment are you in?" Harry asks her quickly, she looks at him with a curious look. Then she steps out of the compartment to count how many far away her's was.

"Five, step out and five to the right."

Then she continued on her way towards the restroom, the restrain on her bladder was loosening every minute. Once she reached the restroom, she used it and got out as quickly as she could. It was like every women's restroom she had entered, at least one group of gossiping girls.

Once she was walking on the isle again, the train hit another bump, this one sent her flying into a different compartment. She slammed into the window since no one blocked the way. A pain filled grunt erupted from her soft, pink lips. She opens her eyes to see frightening familiar faces. This compartment had four of the boys from Diagon alley that tried to… the thought made her gulp.

The boys stared at her for a moment before a malicious grin spread across one of their faces.

"Well, Well, Well, Look who we have here. It's that cute girl we met in the alley." One of them say with a sneer that sent shivers down her spine. She began to get up from the position she was in, but two of the boys held her down. She struggled against their vice grip.

"Let-Let me go." She stuttered out as she tried to pull away from them. They didn't head her soft voice as another one slid the compartment door closed. Her eyes widened with fear and she let out a scream of despair, not wanting to hurt anyone. But her lips were soon covered with someone else's.

Hands were soon roaming her body, going underneath her shirt, pulling and ripping at the bandages. A couple tears slipped down her cheeks as it was very painful for the bandages to be pulled at. His hands began to wander lower….and lower….

Her eyes widen and she kicked her legs up and down, resulting in kicking him off of herself. She quickly ran towards the compartment door and yanked it open, but this jolt made her stumble and hit the other side of the isle. But her slight escape didn't make the boys stop, two of them grabbed her ankles and began to pull her in and she let out shrill screams. This actually caught the attention of some people, some people actually ran out of their compartments when they heard it.

Hinata kicks away the hands with tears rolling down her face. She stood in front of a compartment two away from the one she was just in. A frightened look was marred on her face as she seemed absolutely petrified. Some of the boys walked out of the compartment to surround her. They weren't going to give up so easily. After all, if they let her go so easily, she would snitch and they wouldn't be able to fix her memory.

Suddenly, anger filled her and a long yellow line formed in the middle of her lavender hued eyes. A couple of the boys seemed frightened, but the others just took it as a trick of the light. One of them tried to grab her wrist and she kicks him in the stomach. This sent him flying back a couple feet.

Soon, her expression flickered back to frightened, "Pl-Please, Just-Just leave me-me al-alone. I don't want to hurt you."

"Ohh! She thinks she's gonna hurt us!" One of them mocked her. Another one of them echoed her and she reeled back against the wall, her eyes darting around. No one around her was willing to help.

"Hey! Leave her alone!" Three familiar voices called out. She quickly looked around to see Cedric, Harry and Draco (Crab and Goyle were with him of course). A wave of relief enveloped her, but this didn't stop the tears.

Cedric pulls his wand out and performs the bat bogey hex on one of them, pointing his wand at the one next to him (who was fumbling to get his own wand out of his pocket). Harry and Draco didn't even pull out their wands due to not knowing how to use them. Then an unfamiliar voice rang out.

"Perfectus Totalus!" The other one froze up, stiff as a board, and fell down. Hinata turns her head to look at the person who did it. The person was a girl with big front teeth and incredibly bushy, brown hair. She was already wearing her uniform.

The other boys ran back to their compartment, but Cedric wasn't finished with them. He was far more skilled than they were.

As soon as Cedric clicked the compartment closed, the bushy haired girl ran towards Hinata with a worried, motherly expression.

"Are you ok?" She asks her quickly. Hinata nods quickly and wipes away the tears from her lavender hued eyes.

"Ari-Arigatou." Hinata said softly, then the girl had a confused expression on her face. She didn't understand Japanese.

"Well as long as your alright… um.." She said trying to figure out her name.

"Hinata." She says and the girl smiles at her, "Hermione."

Hermione turns away from Hinata, with one last worried glance, she walks back to her compartment. This was the chance that made Harry and Draco rush towards her, both helping her up.

"I-I'm fine." She stuttered out as she started to hiccup. It was an after effect from the tears.

"Hinata, What did they try to do to you?" Harry asks her in a rush. Memories flooded back into her mind of what happened just moments ago and the bandages gave a rightful throbbing. She winces and her hand goes there immediately. She looks up at Harry and gets on her tip toes to whisper something in his ear. When she was done, his face showed nothing but anger. Then Draco asked the same thing and the same result came of it.

The two boys didn't even seem to notice the other one there. Then, Ron ran out of his compartment and towards Harry.

"Harry, What's going-" Then his eyes landed on Hinata and Draco, "The trains about to be there, we should get back to our compartment."

Ron excused as he glared at Draco and shot a nasty look at Hinata. She seemed to shrink back at his unkind gaze. Harry turned back towards Hinata with a worried, friendly look.

"See you at Hogwarts." He said as he followed Ron back to his compartment. Then she turned to Draco and bit her lip, she wasn't sure of what to say.

"I'm sorry for making you worry." She said without a stutter, which surprised herself on many levels. Draco's eyes seemed to widen, he had already had developed a soft spot for this girl. He didn't need to show any type of weakness.

"Hn. Just don't let it happen again." He said coldly as Crab and Goyle echoed his comment, with that, they walked back to their compartment. A slight look of shock and hurt revealed on Hinata's face, then she began to walk back to her compartment to change into the school uniform. Once she was inside her compartment, she locked the door so she could change. Something those boys were too stupid to do.

As she was changing, there was a knock at the compartment door, "Changing!"

"Okay!" Cedric called through the door, once she was finished, she opened the door. He walks in and sits down on the bench seat, she sat across from her.

"Are you ok, Hinata?" He asks her as he leaned forwards, absorbing her words carefully. She smiles sadly at him, her lavender hued eyes still swollen. She leans forwards and ruffles his blonde hair, a light blush dusts his cheeks.

"I'm fine."

WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW!

Kit: This took me FOREVER to type!

Harry: Does that matter?

Kit: -glomps-

Harry: -stands there with a dumbfounded look- I thought you said you were going to stop.

Kit: I lied. –hugs tighter-

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