Fruits Basket Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ Fruits Basket meets Harry Potter ❯ The Beginning ( Prologue )

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It was the start of Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts. Ron and Hermione had sent him lots of letters, but Harry could not bring himself to read them. He knew that they were worried about him and kept saying that Sirius' death was not his fault. Harry knew that it was not his but Valdemort's fault.

That summer his family had left him alone, the same with the Order. What few letters he got from Remus told him that he did not blame Harry.

Now Harry sat all alone in a compartment on the Hogwarts Express. He had not seen any of his friends, which he was thankful for. He did not want to hear one of Hermione's lectures about how he should not blame himself for other people's deaths. Harry sat looking out the window thinking about how he was going to kill Voldemort. He was so deep in thought that he did not hear the compartment door open, nor did he see Draco enter with a seventh year Slytherin and sit across from him. But he did hear someone clear their throat.

"Pay more attention to your surroundings, Potter. If I really wanted to, I could have attacked you." Draco said when he finally got Harry's attention.

"What do you want Malfoy?" Harry glared at him.

"I want a truce." Draco whispered so softly that Harry almost did not hear him.

"What was that?"

"Never mind Potter you're just wasting my time." Draco got up to leave but a person, that Harry had never seen before, grabbed Draco's arm just as he reached the door.

"Get back here Draco." Draco was pulled back to his seat. The Slytherin turned to Harry. "What Mr. Snuck-up here was trying to say was that the both of us want to be your friends."

"Why?"

"Draco here wants to be his own master. As for me, I don't want power or anything the Dark Lord is offering."

"You just want to get to know the werewolf." Draco mumbled, though only the seventh year Slytherin could hear him. The older Slytherin blushed.

Harry thought it over in his head. He didn't know if they were telling the truth, yet they seemed sincere. But then there was the fact that they were Slytherins and Slytherins could not be trusted. And he only knew Draco, and had never seen the other Slytherin before.

"Fine, I accept, but just two things." Harry finally said after a long silence.

"And what are they Potter?" Draco said.

"One, call me Harry. And two, who are you?"

"I'm Draco, or have you forgotten Po-Harry."

"Not you Draco, but you." Harry pointed to the seventh year.

"Oh." was all Draco could think of to say.

"Sorry about that. Guess I forgot to introduce myself. The name's Kaoru Sohma." Kaoru had a small smile on his face as he looked between Harry and Draco. He was the only one caught Harry calling Draco by his name before and knew that Draco had a crush on Harry. Maybe Harry also liked Draco, yet he had not realized it yet.

 

~@~

 

By the end of the train ride, Harry, Draco, and Kaoru became really good friends. As the three of them were heading towards the carriages, Hermione and Ron showed up.

"Harry, why are you hanging out with Slytherins?"

"Harry, are these Slytherin scum bothering you?"

"Why did you not write?"

"Did your family mistreat you again?"

Both Hermione and Ron kept throwing questions at Harry, who did not have time to answer any for they were going so fast.

"WILL YOU TWO JUST SHUT UP!" Kaoru shouted after loosing his patience. Once the two Gryffindors became quiet, Kaoru turned to Harry. "How did you become friends with such annoying people? It's more like they are your parents or keepers and not your friends."

Harry just shrugged. He was about to speak when both Hermione and Ron drug him away and into a carriage.

Once the carriage started moving, Hermione started into her lecture mode.

 

~@~

 

By curfew that night, Harry lost his two best friends, but he did gain two new friends. Harry wasn't sure how he lost Hermione and Ron. He had thought that they would be happy that he was making new friends. But they had been upset about it and were even more upset that at the fact that his new friends were Slytherins.

The rest of his house mates were fine, since Draco did treat them kindly and was not acting the way he use to.

As for Kaoru, Fred and George knew him. It seemed to be an unspoken rule that nobody, not even the Weasley twins or Peeves, messed with him. And because Draco and now Harry were his friends, nobody messed with them either.

As for the two goons that used to follow Draco around were now following Pansy. Throughout the fest, she kept glaring at Draco and Harry.