The Christmas decoration had been put up all over the castle, Harry had been on his way back to the Gryffindor common room while avoid his rabid fan girls. He stepped out of one of the secret passage ways only to see Professor Namikaze.

"Hello Professor," Harry said she stopped and turned to smile at him.

"Hello Mr. Potter, are you excited about the party tonight?" she asked smiling at him.

"Yes," he said then he noticed that she was standing under mistletoe, his heart skipped a beat, "umm…Professor," he said nervously.

"What is it?" she asked tilting her head making her look even cuter if it was possible.

"You are standing under mistletoe," he said pointing at the plant above her head.

"So I am… does that mean anything?" she asked as she glanced up at the plant above her head.

"Well…when someone people stand under it…well you are…" he said looking away his face slightly red. She just looked at him confused.

"Tell me I am curious," she said looking at him.

"You are supposes to kiss…" he said softly. His face turned a deeper shade of red.

"Well then," she said walking up to him a kissing his cheek, "does that work?" she asked smiling at him. He was unable to speak; all he could do was nodded, "I will see you later Harry," she said waving as she started for her office.

Harry made it back to the Gryffindor common room unable to hide his glee, "did something good happen, mate?" Ron asked as he walked in. And again all Harry could do was nodded.

"Well do you want to play chess until we get ready for the party?" Ron asked. He nodded unsure what he was agreeing to his mind still back in the corridor. As they played Harry was getting beat worse than usual.

When it was finally time to go they both got dressed and headed out of the common room neither of them saw Hermione as they left. It wasn't until they reached the great hall that had been had been decorated for the occasion. The room was full of small tables covered in white linen with small white Christmas trees with gold decorations and there was one large table that had a gold table cloth, red linen napkins. There was a large tree behind this table that was also white but along with the gold ordinates there were also red ones that match the napkins. Harry had a feeling this is where the 'Slug club' was sitting. Luna was waiting outside the great hall for Harry; she looked rather pretty in her silver robes. Ron had met up with Lavender a little while ago and Harry had left the two to their snogging.

"Hello Harry," she said in her dreamy voice.

"Hello Luna…you look pretty tonight," he said.

"Why thank you Harry and you look very nice as well," she said smiling at him.

"Shall we go in?" he asked offering his arm. She took it and nodded. The first thing that Harry noticed was Professor Namikaze talking to Hermione along with the two girls friends Ms. Hyuga the dark haired girl with the rather creepy eyes, even with that said Harry couldn't help but to think she was very pretty. And then there was Ms. Hanuro she had short pink hair and jade green eyes and she too was very pretty, it seemed almost unfair to think that such beautiful people came from one place. And all the girls seem to be in love with the two men, Mr. Nara and Mr. Hatake. But to him they both seemed very lazy.

He noticed the two men ignoring Cormac Mclaggen as they sat at the head table. Harry and Luna made their way to the table and sat down beside Ginny and across from Hermione. Then Snape sat down next to Kakashi who continued to read his book while Snape looked as if he didn't want to be here. Soon the tables filled and they all sat making pleasant conversation while enjoying the meal provided.

A lot of people watched Mr. Hatake to try to get a look at his face and despite the fact that he had food on his plate that seemed to disappear they never saw his face or his left eye for that matter.

"Mr. Hatake, why don't you always have your face covered?" Ginny asked.

"I don't I take it off when I wash sleep and do a few other things," he said reading his book. They all stared at him wondering why he didn't show his face.

"Why do you cover your left eye?" Hermione asked.

"I lost my eye," he said in the same bored tone.

"How did you do that?" Harry asked.

"It is a long tale that will make you laugh make you cry and dry your eyes with the same line," he said rather dramatically.

"Come on then tell us," another student said.

"I was taking the road of life on my way to meet up with my beloved students when a black cat crossed my path as I was helping a an old lady across the street so, I had to talk the long way around and that is way I was late," he said in the same dramatic tone before going back to his book.

"Baka-Sensei, why are you giving them one of your lame ass excuses for whenever you are late?" Naruko shouted at Kakashi.

"What were we talking about?" he asked in his bored tone. Everyone just looked at him not sure what to make of him. Music started to play and people started to get up to dance.

"Shika-kun, dance with me," Naruko said turning to him.

"No," he said in a lazy tone. She pouted at him; Harry couldn't understand how anyone could say no to her.

"Why not?" she asked her arms crossed.

"That is too troublesome," he said in the same lazy tone.

"Fine, Hinata dance with me," she said pulling her dark haired friend up and pulling her to the dance floor. Harry noticed that Ms. Hyuga's face was the brightest red he had even seen anyone turn in his life, which was rather impressive considering he had lived with Uncle Vernon for many years and had seen him turn an impressive shade of red a few times in his life. Harry also noticed that Mr. Nara kept his eyes on Professor Namikaze as she danced. He turned to see Luna busy talking with Ginny, then his eyes fell no Ms. Hanuro, she was also watching her friend with a strange expression. It was a look of pity and sorrow. The idea struck him he wasn't sure if it would work but he had to give it a try.

"Mr. Hanuro, would you like to dance," he asked as confidently as he could. She fixed him with a stare as if she was trying to read him, it was a different way than Professor Dumbledore or Namikaze or even Snape, who seemed to looked thru you into your mind and your very soul. She seemed to be studying his feature as if his body langue would tell her everything that she needed to know.

"Very well," she said after a moment, she stood up and he followed suit. Once they reached the dance floor she eyes fixed upon him again, "what is it that you want?"

"I just…" he started.

"Please don't lie to me, you are very bad at it," she said coolly.

"Well," he said feeling even more nervous, "I was wondering what is going on between you and Professor Namikaze?"

"We are just friends," she said looking guilty about something.

"I don't believe that there is something going," Harry said. Her expression hardened for a moment.

"Why do you care Mr. Potter?"

"Well…I," then an evil little smirk crossed her face.

"You like her," it was a question.

"Well…" he said again nervously.

"Very well Mr. Potter. We went to school together and… I wasn't very nice to her…no one was for the most part…but she always went out of her way to help others, just to see them smile no matter how much pain it may cause her."

"But she always seems so happy," Harry said looking over at his Professor dancing with her dark haired friend.

"She will never let people see her weak…she has always been like that for as long as I have known her."

"Who is Sasuke?" At this she looked absolutely horrified.

"How do you know that name?" she asked trying to keep her tone level.

"Professor Namikaze let it slip," he said quickly.

"I would recommend you never say that name again and just forget about him," she said.

"But…" he started.

"No buts just drop it," she snapped at him. Harry knew when he was defeated and dropped it. At the end of the song she smiled at him it was quite unsettling to see such a drastic change so quickly. She walked back to her seat and Harry started to but he noticed Snape talking to Malfoy and neither of them looked like they were in a good mood and soon left for the hall. Harry decided to go see what they were talking about, so Harry pulled out his invisibility cloak and followed. They were in a deserted class room

"…cannot afford mistakes, Draco, because if you are expelled…"

"I didn't do anything to do with it, all right?"

"I hope you are telling the truth, because it was both clumsy and foolish. Already you are suspected of having a hand in it."

"Who suspects me?" Malfoy said angrily. "For the last time I didn't do it. Okay? That Bell girl must've had an enemy on one knows about- don't look at me like that! I know what you're doing, I'm not stupid, but it won't work- I can stop you!"

"Ah…Aunt Bellatrix has been teaching you Occlumency, I see. What thoughts are you trying to conceal from you master, Draco?"

"I'm not trying to conceal anything from him, I just don't want you butting!" Harry continued to listen he became more curios as the conversation went on, but this did prove one thing he was right about Malfoy he had been right the whole time. He decided to return to the party, and when he returned he saw that Professor Namikaze had gotten Mr. Nara to dance. Mr. Hatake was staring at Harry his expression no longer bored but cold as if he had known something about him that he didn't like. Had Ms. Hanuro told him what they had talked about? But this only last for a second and Harry might have just imagined the whole thing.

It was nearing the end of the night Professor Namikaze was in a hushed conversation with her friends in a corner as the people started to leave. Harry took his eyes off them for a second then he turned back to see they had all vanished.

He tried to push the thoughts of the night to the back of his mind as he took Luna back to the Ravenclaw common room.

"Thank you Harry I had a lovely time," Luna said in her dreamy voice and did something Harry never expected she gave him a swift kiss on his cheek before leaving him. He turned touching the spot on his cheek that she had kissed wondering what was going on.