15Disclaimer: Do I still have to right this, or is one time enough? Oh well… Harry potter is the property of J. K. Rowling and hers alone unless she sells the rights to it…. Okay there's that.
Author's Note: Thank you reviewers! I feel so loved Okay, I'm going to make all of Sakura's wandless magic just words in Japanese. You can look the words up if you want to, but that wouldn't be too necessary since I'm going to be explaining the after effects of the spell right after wards which should basically outline what the word means.
Chap 7 Friendships, Rivalries, Relationships
Omniscient Point of View
… He froze. Ron just stood there, as if frozen, but he wasn't cold. Harry thought someone had incanted 'immobulus' on Ron, but all he had heard was, "Gyou," and recognized the voice was Sakura's. She knocked over Ron's frozen body that fell into Harry's arms. As Harry looked at the frozen body, he noticed that Ron's red hair was frozen in motion from Ron's sudden rise from his kneeling position. His freckles were arranged on his face like a crumpled up connect the dots paper. Harry chuckled at this, noticing that Ron's frustrated expression was also stuck on his face. His robes were still flowing around him, though stopped in motion, as if time had just stopped around the boy. Harry felt a bit more relieved when he noticed that Ron's heart was still beating inside his frozen chest.
"Quiet, and stay out of sight, but make sure you can still see me," Sakura said. Her voice contained a tone of order, one not to be disobeyed, yet her face still held that cheerful smile.
Harry nodded and moved back behind the rock he and Ron were just hiding behind a few moments ago. Looking back to the clearing, Hermione and Draco had heard something. 'Merlin, please tell me they didn't hear us!' Harry thought desperately, watching Hermione look up at Draco worriedly.
"Who's there?" Draco asked, his voice held anger and annoyance, but inside, fear was all he knew. 'Please let it not be a Gryffindor, or a Slytherin, wait, please let it just be some mindless animal who won't, and can't, tell anyone of what it saw!' That was what both Draco and Hermione were thinking as someone stepped out of the shadows.
"Chill out, guys, it's just me!" Sakura said smiling, seeing the couple lowering their guard with relief. "If you don't hurry up, we're going to be late for Herbology! Harry and Ron are waiting just outside the forest. Drake smelled your scents here, so I came looking for you," Sakura explained.
Ron and Harry
Mentioning Ron and Harry, she looked over at where Harry was hiding. Harry took this as a sign to leave, noticing Drake for the first time at his side. As he reached the school grounds outside the forest, Harry pondered for a moment. 'Herbology, I thought it was Charms… Now I remember! We had Charms this morning, yeah…' Harry hit himself on the head at his own forgetfulness.
"Finite Incantatem," He whispered, pointing his wand at Ron. Strangely, the spell didn't wear off.
Drake walked out of the woods in his human form. He had to transform there so that no one would see him. Waving a hand over Ron, Ron came back to life. He walked forward, well tried to since he was on the ground, and then fell back on the ground straight out confused. It was as if time had been cleanly stopped, and then continued as if nothing else had happened for Ron. Noticing he was out of the woods, he was even more confused.
"W-what happened? Where's that stupid git!" Ron demanded, getting off of the ground.
Harry took Ron's shoulder in his hand and turned Ron to look at him with a violent push. "Sakura stopped you before you did something stupid!" Harry yelled. Sighing deeply, he looked down at the green grass beneath his feet. His hand in his hair, he shook his head slowly, trying to think of something else to say to his stupid friend. This action caused his hair to become more ruffled than it already was. "Gee, can you be any more selfish?" he asked, watching his friend calm down. "Just think about what we just heard they met even before they knew their blood lines and have fallen in love! I for one do not want to take that happiness away from her no matter who or what gives her that happiness. Sure, it is that stupid ferret Malfoy, but he in turn seems to love her. I doubt that he's messing with her since they were kissing," at that comment Ron began to tense up, "but Hermione looked happy, and that's what matters," Harry concluded.
Ron calmed down again at that concluding sentence and sighed as he looked down at the wolf sitting at his feet. "Yeah, that is true, she did look happy. If I truly love her that should be what matters most…"
"Ron," Harry tried to comfort his friend, but was quickly interrupted by his friend.
"Don't say it, Harry, this doesn't mean I'm giving up. I'm just waiting until she sees how worthless that ferret is," Ron replied. He used all he had to smile, for inside his eyes were begging to overflow with tears.
"Yeah, after they've been madly in love for possibly over seven years," Harry muttered.
"I heard that, you stupid git!" Ron replied, looking at his friend angrily. After meeting each other's gaze, they started to laugh.
In the Forest
"How did you know?" Hermione asked, walking alongside both Draco and Sakura as they strolled out of the forest.
Sakura's bright smile took on a playful smirk. "Living as long as I have, it was pretty obvious you two were far from rivals destined to kill the other…" she said, a small laugh escaping her lips.
"Wait, 'for as long as I have'…?" Draco stated questioningly, almost stopping were it not for Hermione's strong grasp on his hand.
"Not now, I'll explain later, Ryuukun…" Sakura said, Hermione chuckling at the nick name. "You know Japanese?" Sakura asked, confused at the bushy-haired girl's reaction to Sakura's words.
"I'm surprised you know it, but your look does show your Asian descent a bit," Hermione trailed off, leaving Draco pretty confused as various thoughts flooded his brain.
As the three reached the edge of the forest, Hermione moved to stand to the right of Sakura, leaving her former place between Draco and Sakura. Draco frowned slightly at Hermione's sudden leave, but noticed they were out of the forest.
The whole Group
"What were you doing with the ferret in the forest Hermione?" Harry asked curiously, acting like he hadn't heard anything in the forest.
Hermione's smart brain worked up a quick excuse that would've sent Sirius gazing at her in wonder in his Marauder days. "The stupid git told me there was a poor animal hurt that he had noticed after breakfast and tricked me into running into the forest. He had disappeared after a while, and scared the life out of me when he surprised me after I had gotten myself lost,"
"But then why did you take so long after you two found each other again?" Ron asked suspiciously.
'God, I hope his doesn't know, I hope he doesn't know,' Hermione's thoughts repeated over and over in her head, but were soon forgotten after Sakura saved them.
"This ferret as you call him got lost too, so I had to escort them out of the forest after I found them," she replied, her smile still bright, but her eyes looking straight into Ron's as if saying, 'push too far and you'll fall over'. Ron immediately shut up as the whole group walked to Herbology in silence.
"Well," Harry said, breaking the silence, "I heard that this year all of our classes are just reviewing everything we learned in the previous six years for the first half, but in shorter amounts of time it took the years we learned them. Then we're going to learn some new things and then take our Newts," Harry said, hoping someone else would talk too.
Seeing the Herbology green houses come up ahead of them, Sakura ran ahead. Drake trotted slowly behind her, watching in amusement at his master's sudden excitement to get to class.
'How Hufflepuff of her,' Draco thought to himself, shaking his head as the group walked towards the green house.
Harry looked at the green house Sakura was towards, and noticed it was the one they had used in second year. That meant they were reviewing Mandrakes today. Wait, Sakura was running straight towards the house just as the professor was about to pull out the mandrake. Harry soon realized it was too late. Sakura had grasped the handle to the door. "Everybody cover your ears!" Harry yelled. Even Drake had lain down on his belly, using his forepaws to close off his ears.
Sakura had walked into the room, the Mandrake screaming its head off. It was a young one, so Sakura wouldn't have been killed, but it would knock her out for at least a month or two. But she just stood there with an annoyed look in her eyes. "Can someone shut that baby up?" she asked.
Professor Sprout had stood there shocked when Sakura had burst in right after she had pulled out the Mandrake, and so was the rest of the class. She just stood there! A mandrake was screaming its head off and all Sakura was doing was stand there. The professor had been so shocked she had forgotten to put the Mandrake back into the pot. Dropping the Mandrake, everyone suddenly realized they weren't dreaming as the mandrake's cries stopped.
Whispers flooded the room with things like, 'you think she's a dark wizard?' 'she just stood there! Did you see that?' 'is she deaf?' Other rumors spread as Harry and the rest of them entered the green house.
Draco joined his classmates muttering something about 'stupid Gryffindors wasting his time'…
As the other members of the group stood next to Sakura at a table she had chosen, Professor Sprout continued the review lesson, though shooting quick glances at Sakura now and then, as if waiting to see if she'd fall unconscious at any moment.
"What happened, Sakura? How could you stand those cries?" Harry asked, whispering softly.
"When growing up in a practically dangerous-animal filled forest for your childhood and receiving many adaptations from your ancestors, my people are very immune to many dangerous animals, though only when the animal is not yet fully grown, for we are not perfect," Sakura explained, writing down notes since she wasn't here for second year.
Defense Against the Dark Arts
Just before lunch and right afterwards, the Gryffindors had DADA with the Slytherins. Remus had been accepted back as the DADA teacher after he had helped protect the school last year during the attack. No one except a small group of Slytherin cowards had cared about Remus and his condition since it wasn't exactly his fault anyway, though the Slytherins had accepted Remus since they thought that he could be used for the Dark Lord if they could earn the werewolf's trust.
"As many of you have heard from other school members, we shall start with reviewing boggarts, so as to see if you remember, and see if you have either gotten a greater fear of another object, being, whatever it may be, or if you have overcome your greatest fear and your greatest fear went down to the next in line," Remus explained, watching as the students went into a line. 'it seems they do remember the lesson' The professor thought to himself, smiling at his class. He also noticed the raven-haired transfer standing exactly in the middle of the line, smiling brightly forward.
Many people went, surprisingly almost in the same order as before. Parvati was still afraid of snakes, Ron afraid of spiders still, though the spider seemed a bit bigger… Lavender humorously had changed her fear to herself wearing absolutely ugly clothes, clashing in every single way imaginable, her hair a mess, and her face covered in acne, pimples and the messiest, sloppiest, poorly done make-up in the world. Lavender had screamed at the top of her lungs before quickly yelling "Ridikkulus!" at her fear. She was red as roses as the class laughed at the fear, though she knew they weren't laughing at her except for a few Slytherins, and went to the group of people who were already done.
The bell for lunch rang, and the people in line at the front were, in order, Draco, Harry, Sakura, and then the rest of the class in random order. Remus kept track of the first three, knowing people would try and cheat and get to the front, saying they were first; but he left the rest be random since it would be too hard to remember them all.
Lunch
More rumors had spread all around the school and people were just dying to know Sakura. Plus there was the rumor that kept changing; the one where people were guessing what Sakura's fear would be. The whispers were so plentiful that it sounded as if people were talking, not just whispering.
On the way to lunch, Hermione and Sakura were talking in Japanese, though reverting to English now and then. "Dakara, anata had Muggle Studies while anata also studied Ancient Runes, causing anata to gain an interest in foreign things, leading anata to learn the Japanese language after learning of our magical history desu ne?" Sakura asked, glad she could speak in her native tongue. Translation Below
"Un," Hermione said, along with the language, she picked up common 'slang'. "Atashi wa," Hermione didn't get to finish, however, as the boys walking alongside them suddenly interrupted them.
"Can't you just use English?" they, Ron and Harry yelled at the two, surprising a group of students passing by. Both Sakura and Hermione were surprised, but Sakura's smile never left her face, and Hermione became angered.
"I'm sorry, did we bother you?" Sakura asked innocently, receiving silent shakes of no from the two, regretting yelling at her.
This amused Hermione some, 'Sakura's smile is innocent, kind, calm, and yet, deadly…' "Wow, one second you're mad, but you melt into guilt after an innocent smile from Sakura? Interesting…" Hermione remarked while smirking at the boys as they looked up at her. Ron held anger in his eyes, as well as one her face. Harry had a deep red blush on his face, though his eyes said he was a bit angry.
Harry recovered first, and noticed Ron was about to yell back at Hermione, realizing Ron was about to say something bad, very bad. He stopped Ron before he could say anything. "Well, um, let's get on to lunch, we wouldn't want to be late now," Harry said hesitantly, dragging Ron towards the Great Hall.
Hermione checked her watch, 10:45. Luckily Lunch at Hogwarts was from ten to 11:15, the next class ending at 11:45. The next time Sakura would have to change would be before Potions.
Sitting down at the Gryffindor table, many people glared, looked over enviously, and stared at Sakura, Hermione, Harry, and Ron. It seemed even the Slytherins were envious of the little group, though some people weren't surprised that Sakura would hang out with the ever famous Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived. Though some wished that she had not heard of him since she was from a foreign land and was less likely to have heard of a boy from England, though he was considered the savior of the Whole Entire Wizarding World, not just England, they sighed, realizing the new transfer student was now another member of the Golden Boy's group of friends. But what they didn't know was that Sakura wasn't one of the group members entirely…
Author's Note
I bet you're all wondering what I meant by that… But whatever should I make Sakura's fear be? You can make guesses or suggestions; I may change my mind… Please review! I finally made it passed the number ten count on my reviews because of my dear friend Cosmic, here's a cookie to each of my reviewers! LoL… Now, little preview: Sakura, Harry, and Draco's fears! Noon comes and it's time for the transformation right before Snape's class, how will he handle an impassive, cold glaring, Sakura? Should've chosen an earlier time to have your seventh years, Severus, 'cause you're in for more than you can handle.
Translations
Gyou Freeze
Dakara So
Anata you
Desu ne makes the sentence a question
Un Yeah
Atashi wa I'm
