Prayer to the Moon

Author: cosmicrose

Rated: PG

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Genre: Drama/Romance

Summary: The Death Eaters under orders of Voldemort attack Harry. Praying for strength & hope, he goes through a dark portal accidentally. To see a world filled with friendly and cautious people. To experience what it is like to have a family and love. Usagi/Mamoru Harry/Hotaru Senshi/Generals

Disclaimer - I do not own Sailor Moon or Harry Potter.

Warning: This story continues from Harry Potter's fifth year and contains spoilers. Don't flame me because of them please.

Chaper Five: Unraveling of Few More Mysteries

Readers: Note that I decided to answer any questions that you have. And you will be happy to know that in some questions there are, you could say, spoilers although I tend to not say too much in case I think of better things to write instead of my original plan. So review, write questions and read above answers.

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Chapter 5

"Alright Endy! Which room do you want to see first?" Usagi smiled cheerily.

Harry glanced around the living room and noticed a few beautiful doors he didn't get a chance to see before. "How about we start with the dining hall and continue around the living room?"

"Good idea! Well, come on guys. What are you waiting for, the room to come to you?" Chibi-Usa laughed joyously and skipped into the kitchen followed closely by Harry and Usagi.

They entered the royal blue dining hall first.

Chibi-Usa held an imaginary microphone and introduced the dining hall rather loudly, "Well minna-san, here is the dining hall where everyone we know comes to eat Makoto-san and Nephrite-san's delicious cooking. Better die than miss their cooking, I always say." Chibi-Usa laughed uproariously caught up with the imaginary role she played while Usagi joined her enthusiastically.

The two dragged a surprised yet very-entertained Harry into the emerald kitchen that was connected to the royal blue dining hall.

This time Usagi took the imaginary mike from Chibi-Usa. "And here is the famous kitchen of the Kino's where every tasty dish is made especially by its rulers, The Kino's." Usagi and Chibi-Usa displayed the famous imaginary couple, The Kino's, to Harry as he clapped in respect for the Kino's. Immediately, Usagi and Chibi-Usa dragged him out of the kitchen and dining hall into the living room and made their way to the following room with a crimson phoenix perched in a nest of red fires.

"This is one of the many guestrooms in this castle that King Mamoru and Queen Usagi don't use so they oh-so-generously gave it to the pyro and her husband, The Hinos." The room was furnished in red and bluish-gray colors ornately with a simple fireplace with exotic symbols adorning the sides.

"Yeah, since Rei-san is the head priestess of the Shinto Temple, she has to take care of chibi-Vesta, the tourists, and the customers. Jadeite-san can't help her usually because he is a business partner of Daddy. So, whenever they visit us for food, they give chibi-Vesta to Mama and Daddy so that they can spend some quality time privately in this room. Just ask Rei-san if you want some protection or luck and you will get it from the fire reader herself. Add to that, if you are in need of quick cash just ask the serious pranker himself as long as you tell Jadeite-san it's for a prank. Now let's hear another round of applause gentleman for the rulers of the fire, the Hino's." Usagi and Chibi-Usa displayed an imaginary Hino's while Harry had nothing to do but clap enthusiastically, although he did wonder why Chibi-Usa described them as "rulers of the fire". He dismissed it when he remembered the hot temper of Mrs. Hino showing itself during the breakfast.

The mother and daughter dragged him again out of the room and into the next room that was standoffishly simple in decoration of white.

When Harry saw the inside of the room, his curiosity was sated. It was a bathroom for guests. The inside was elegantly furnished but revealed no insight of personality of any person since it was mainly for the guests. Yet, he had to say; it was large room fit for the use of five people seeking privacy and relief.

Harry noticed a blue door on the other side of the room and asked, "Usagi, what does the blue door lead to?"

"Oh that's just a door leading to the library, Endy. You want to see it?" She smiled sweetly and they again dragged him quickly into the library.

Harry looked inside the library. When Usagi said, "it was just a library", Harry immediately envisioned a dusty, dark room with large formidable shelves of books but when he walked inside this library, 'this can't be a library! It's a dream-heaven of Hermione!'

The room was several times larger than the library at Hogwarts and contained volumes of books that were handled neatly with love. Even though it contained no books of the wizarding world, it had fiction, nonfiction, and a model of every type of art there is in the world.

The room was a little bit chilly but the fireplace warmed the whole room to certain degree that one never felt the chills unless they concentrated on it.

Harry searched for the ceiling only to find it as far as the sky and brilliantly illumined by the sunlight. The ceiling was made of colorless glass so that sunlight reflected around the room to create beautiful swirling rainbows across the books that were filled everyplace around the room. The sight of books followed his eyes to the very top as he wondered if Hermione would just wring his neck or curse him to death for not telling her soon about her heaven.

Usagi grinned at his expression as he took the beautiful sight around him. She said, "Yes, my dear Endy, this room is a beauty of heaven. I wish I could develop an interest for reading just to be in this beautiful place but that's like saying pigs could fly. But I am very happy that some people find this room a real heaven though. Ami-chan, Zoicite-san and Mamo-chan are passionate about reading books and since this room also has books about medicine, you can't tear Ami-chan away unless you are immortal and have the strength of 10 Jupiter-s and Uranus-s. Still, the others sometimes come to this room and read a book sometimes because it's so peaceful here."

Chibi-Usa grinned at Harry, "Yeah like me. So far, I finished reading most of the literature like Frankenstein and Romeo and Juliet but Daddy and Ami-san want to me to finish everything. I don't mind reading books because I like reading them and finding out new things from them."

Harry praised her as she blushed modestly under him; it wasn't an everyday that you find a 9-year-old girl that read most of thel iterature and still wants to read some. He would rather read the history of potion-making than read muggle literature that was of no use to him.

Usagi smiled at both of them and quickly ushered them out of the room to tour the second floor of the house.

"Well, Endy which side do you want see first? You are the guest."

Harry glanced at both ways and decided on the sophisticated purple door that belonged to the mysterious black-haired girl. He can't wait to get more information on her.

"That side!" The trio ran to the purple door. Usagi ushered them inside the room.

It disappointed him. Harry thought it would be one of those dream-like rooms he kept seeing since the tour began but the room was clad in plain lavender with lots of exotic lamps, and was very disorganized. Harry viewed the room dumbfounded as his eyes slid back to an item on the floor that quickly gladdened the atmosphere for him. It was a private cloth that the owner probably wouldn't share with him in a million years but he thanked the lady of luck nevertheless for the disorganization of the room and obviously the owner.

Usagi and Chibi-Usa thankfully didn't notice the item as they stared around the room in wonder.

Usagi snapped out of her trance first and laughed with nervous embarrassment, "oh I'm so sorry, Endy. Hotaru always keeps her room clean but I don't know what happened today."

Chibi-Usa added, "yeah, the room usually is beautiful especially during the night when all the lamps are on but Hotaru-chan must be in a real hurry today for everything to be a mess."

"That's quite alright, I suppose. Everyone has a bad day some time."

The two agreed, grateful for his tolerance, and quickly ushered him out of the room much to his displeasure; he wanted to see that private clothing item once more.

They strolled to the next room and Harry was amazed since it was the top part of the library. There was a thick, transparent glass in place of a floor underneath them as they walked gingerly on the glass, looking at the awfully long library underneath their feet. Harry felt a deja vu as he recalled a similar situation in his fourth year at Hogwarts at the Triwizard Tournament. That time though, he recalled he had to walk upside down in darkness as his round spectacles were in danger of falling down into the nothingness. Harry figured this situation was loads better than his previous experience, although he wouldn't like to try it.

Chibi-Usa smiled nervously as she continued walking on the glass, "you know, even though I walked loads of times in this room, I always have a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach that says 'I wish I ate that carrot stew one last time'." Everyone laughed mirthlessly.

Usagi led them to the other side of the room and when they were on the solid part of the room once more, she flipped a switch to reveal the glass breaking and backing away. Usagi and Chibi-Usa backed into the wall and clutched Harry's hands tightly as they looked down at the long library.

"Mamo-chan made the glass work like this so that people below could just climb up the ladders to get a book on the upper section of the library. There are loads of switches around the room just below this concrete part of this floor to do the same so that people don't have to come up the stairs and switch the glass off to go down the stairs again."

Usagi quickly flipped the switch again to reveal the glass coming forth to join once again. When they deemed it safe, Harry led them onto the glass and glanced up to the ceiling to see the glass allowing rainbows of colors into the room. He glanced at the books to notice... wizarding books? He went to one of the books and opened it to see wizards and witches of different time periods. Usagi came up to him and smiled, "yes, that's Mamo-chan's favorite book of all, 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'."

Harry stared at her in surprise; the book was definitely about the history of famous, powerful Wizards and Wiches. It even had moving pictures of the magicians as they smiled or looked merely stern.

He tried to say, "Usagi, it has-"

"I know, Endy, it has a nice dusty smell and everything doesn't it? Mamo-chan said that it was the first published version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. That's why it smells like it's ancient. Apparently, Mamo-chan's grandfather had a passion of collecting books and bought this one for quite a sum although his wife was a little miffed about it."

Usagi giggled at the recollection of the tale oblivious to Harry's surprise. He searched for Chibi-Usa to see if she can see what's he's seeing but she's already out of the door calling them slowpokes.

Usagi ushered him out of the room to the next one. Harry decided he would ask Chibi-Usa later about the mysterious book.

The next room was of a couple, Mr. Tenoh and Ms. Kaioh. It was a beautiful bedroom rich in colors of aquamarine and deep blue. Harry never thought that the two colors could mix so well when together but he was proven wrong by this place. The furniture was clad in golden yellow and the color of the sea while the walls were speckled with beautiful paintings of castles of ocean and the sky.

"Michiru-chan is a great painter and painted all these paintings just for decoration. She has loads more somewhere in the room, Endy. If you want to see her paintings, just ask her and I'm sure she won't say no to you, Endy."

Harry nodded gratefully; he would like to do that sometime. He passed a grand, black piano that was definitely loved by the color of rich blackness.

Chibi-Usa volunteered an answer for his unasked question. "Oh that's Haruka-san's. You should come and hear her sometime since she's a great pianist. Oh I know, when she plays piano for Hotaru and me to pass her time and I'll be sure to tell you."

Harry thanked her as he pondered over her words and it hit him like a ton of bricks. "Wait, you mean Mr. Tenoh is a she?"

The mother and daughter stopped their motions and blinked their large eyes at him for a moment only to burst out in laughter the next moment at him.

Usagi said through her laughter, "I'm sorry Endy, I don't mean to laugh at you but yes, Haruka-chan is a she. Don't worry, Endy, everyone mistook her as a he first. You should've seen Minako-chan, Rei-chan and Mako-chan when they found out that he was a she." Usagi laughed harder at the recollection while Chibi-Usa only laughed with her mother since she seemed to have heard it from her mother.

Usagi led Harry to an elegant violin that was leaning against the piano, "Michiru-chan is not only a great painter; she's a great violinist too. You can even forget you haven't eaten for a month just listening her and Haruka play their instruments."

The trio stayed a bit longer in the room, noticing the paintings that spoke of cool waves and chilly air. Reluctantly, they left the room to the next one.

They went inside the room, noticing its dark wall speckled with golden crescent moons and sharp red roses. The room was neat much to the pleasure of Usagi. Since Harry stays in this room, they decided to show him the balcony that he didn't view yet.

The door to the balcony was dark and camouflaged neatly by the color of the rest of the room so that he didn't notice that there was a door at all. Now that he's in the balcony, he wished he had found out sooner.

The view was incredible. There was crystal clear lake visible that had carefully placed natural stones just visible on the lake so that people could skip around to the other side of the lake and the swans and other birds would not seem out of place from the lake. Not only the stones made the lake look natural; any form of bridge on top of the lake would have destroyed the beauty of the place. Thick bushes and trees covered the view behind the lake but a few strategically placed roads suggested a maze. On either side of the lake lied two natural paths that led inside the thick trees to mysterious places. All in all, Harry's curiosity was piqued to dangerous levels.

His bright green eyes turned happily to the other two, "Usagi, Chibi-Usa, can we check out the lake and see what other beautiful places you've been hiding from me?"

They laughed at his enthusiasm, "of course, Endy. We can give you a tour of the garden as soon the tour of the house is finished. What do you say, Endy? Shall we continue the tour?"

Harry couldn't agree more; this place has beauty and mystery everywhere. He couldn't wait till he sated his curiosity and eyes fully.

They went to the next door, tinged with dark green and garnet crystal. Inside, Harry was surprised to see beautiful pieces of clocks everywhere, each telling a different time, place, and story.

Chibi-Usa smiled happily, "well, this is the room of Puu. She told me that she has a clock for every place imaginable here. Not only that, she told me that each clock has a story to tell and Puu told me stories of almost every one. You like it, don't you?" She questioned Harry as he stared around the room in amazement.

Her information reached his brain finally as he asked, "I'm sorry, Chibi-Usa. Who's Puu?"

Chibi-Usa laughed, pinkness tinging her cheeks, "Oh I'm sorry. Puu is my nickname for Setsuna Meiou-san. You see, she's my best friend and aunt since I was small and I couldn't pronounce her full name at that time so I just called her Puu and it somehow stuck her even now."

Harry nodded at her answer although he didn't understand why she would call Ms. Meiou, Puu, when there was no syllable like that in Ms. Meiou's name. He figured it had to do with her not being able to say any of the syllables of Ms. Meiou's name fully.

They cleared off the room since all the clocks ticking continuously tinkered with their sense of timing.

The next door was peculiarly odd next to the sophisticated colored doors around the hall; it was pink with silver and yellow edges.

'I saw almost everyone's room except for Chibi-Usa and the Chiba's room. Since this door is pink, the room must belong to--'

Pink clashed Harry's eyes, as the whole room was adorned in pink and had silver unicorns flying around gracefully. The silver unicorns had ruby colored eyes, silvery purple manes, large diamond-shaped rubies on their foreheads and the short golden horns adorned their pure white heads. The inaccurate version of the magical unicorn persuaded Harry to not ask Chibi-Usa about the magical wizard book he found in the library. 'After all, she is hardly at the age of learning wizardry, since she seems to be only 9 years old. Considering that Usagi is a muggle, Chibi-Usa must be a normal muggle too. So, even if I ask her about the wizard side of the book in the library, she can't answer my questions since she, like Usagi, can't see them too. But, the book... how did it get here? Usagi said Chiba-san--' Harry thought deeply not noticing a little waving hand in front of his eyes.

"Hey, are you alright? Or do you need a witch to transport your brain to Earth?" Chibi-Usa asked annoyed that he didn't pay any attention to her.

Harry shook himself off as he looked around the room to see where they are. It was a beautiful room and definitely not in pink. The silvery walls gave way to black as it joined gradually around the room that there was light on one side while darkness consumed the other side. However, the union of the light and darkness was beautiful to see since they joined so perfectly.

The room was lavishly yet elegantly furnished to produce a sophisticated atmosphere although the many pictures of happy people and the smell of fresh roses flowed gently into the air to mingle a feminine side to the sophisticatedly masculine atmosphere.

Chibi-Usa opened the silver curtains to let in the sunshine when Harry asked, "Chibi-Usa, whose room is this?"

"It's Mama's and Papa's room and the last room before the tour of the garden begins." Chibi-Usa smiled at him, remembering his lively green eyes when he asked them about it.

At the thought of the beautiful lake and garden, Harry's mind eased a bit. He could think of solving the book mystery later; now he had the incredible beauty to discover.

"Wow! Come over and look at this view now." Chibi-Usa beckoned Harry to the window as he strode to her.

As he neared the window, admiration and curiosity piqued in him as he saw part of a lake and a maze-like path that led to an obscured vision the he undoubtedly knew would be a vision of beauty. Surrounding the lake and the paths were millions of tall, healthy trees that reflected their sweet greenfreshness to his untrained eyes.

Harry noticed a large area to west of the lake that lacked the trees and asked Chibi-Usa about it.

"You silly! You know you will see all of it soon. So, I'm not going to waste your surprise. Although I warn you; don't black out when you see everything like Mama did since there's more and larger secrets to discover in this place."

Harry was surprised at that bit of information; Usagi lost consciousness when she saw everything! The way she carried herself when he first saw her, he thought she was born and nurtured in this house. If it can be called one, this place was almost like a castle at the grandness and grace every item displayed proudly. Harry turned around to ask Usagi about this when he found that she was nowhere to be seen.

"Where's Usagi? I thought she was always with us."

"Someone called when you were meditating so Mama had to go and answer it. At the look of the things, it's most likely Papa since she's taking such a long time to come back and continue the tour for you."

Something stirred in Harry at her words as he thought about Mr. Chiba. He had been in this place for a day and still he couldn't see his savior. At this rate, he feared he might never see Mr. Chiba till the end of his life.

Harry and Chibi-Usa left the room in search of Usagi. After all, she had promised him a tour.

When they did find her, she wasn't in the living room, on the crimson sofa with a phone near her ear and giggling happily; they found her in the kitchen, trying to reach a packet of noodles in a high cupboard on a stool.

Harry quickly caught her when she lost her almost eternal battle with the gravity; he was glad she weighed almost nothing otherwise both of them would have lost their battle with the gravity.

"Oh thanks Endy. I'm sorry for leaving but I felt hungry after the call and my legs just walked straight to here." She blushed as she laughed nervously at him. Harry smiled to ease her and asked her whom she talked with.

"Oh it's Ami-chan. She said that some accident happened in a factory so that they had more patients in the hospital. The doctors said that they needed her, Hotaru-chan and Zoicite-san, so of course they said yes. Now, it seems that they won't be coming to lunch."

"No lunch! That's horrible. So, chibi-Pallas is not going to come here for lunch, Mama?"

Usagi said sadly, "No, Chibi-Usa, she's staying with her grandmother now and she will probably eat there. I hope that they would come for dinner at least."

Both girls were crestfallen at the thought of their occupied friends. Harry reminded them about the snack to lift their moods, which worked quite nicely. As soon as the word snack left out his lips, both brightened considerably, forgetting at the moment about their friends.

As cooking the noodles, Usagi turned around to ask Harry about a possible lunch, "Endy! I just got a brilliant idea. Why don't we pack the noodles and have a lunch in the ga--"

"Gardens!" Chibi-Usa shouted, signaling Usagi to make the trip a surprise to Harry.

Usagi recovered from the surprise at her daughter's outburst but unfortunately for Harry, only talked about how wonderful it would be when Harry would see the gardens, and talked about nothing more.

Harry's interest was piqued to dangerous levels as Usagi talked on. He was so absorbed in imagining what else could possibly be in the gardens that he almost didn't hear when Chibi-Usa cried, "-ma! You burned the noodles! Oh God, why can't my mother be more graceful? Here let me help you!"

Chibi-Usa ran to the stove as her mother backed away quickly as she looked about to cry for messing up the lunch. Chibi-Usa tried to turn off the stove but in confusion, turned the stove up so that the shriveled black noodles caught fire. Both leapt away from the fire, screaming at the mess they both created when Harry, heroically, took the jug of water nearby and splashed it on the burning noodles and quickly turned off the stove.

Harry was stunned at what almost happened to them; all of them could have died from a fire in just a few moments as the fire would take hold of the stove and explode in reaction.

Pats and kisses came his way as the Usagi and Chibi-Usa seized Harry for his heroic act. They praised him extensively for his quick thinking, although he ended up making new noodles for all of them.

Harry's heart quickened its pace as he tied the lunch to a broomstick--it was Usagi's idea to go into the gardens as an adventure. They all tied their lunches to each of their broomsticks (Chibi-Usa found a few in the closet) and put the broomsticks on their shoulders to get ready for the adventure.

They laughed as they told jokes and walked into the living room as Usagi made her way in front of them to the gardens. It turned out that the door to the gardens was hidden behind the middle staircase.

Usagi and Chibi-Usa grinned at Harry's face when he unconsciously expressed his unexpected astonishment at finding a door behind the staircase.

They ran out of the door enthusiastically as Harry slowed down to behold a beautiful view. Before him was the crystal clear lake that reflected the sun's light as the water swirled, dancing rhythemically with the wind. The lake was such that its length surpassed the length of the large house. 'And I thought, the house was big!' Harry said to himself as he watched some swans and ducks take off at their intrusion.

"Well, Endy, it seems like we discovered a lake that's even bigger than our house. Now, the important question remains? Which way do you want to go first, Endy?" Usagi looked at him sternly, causing laughter from Harry and Chibi-Usa.

"What! I'm not such a bad actress, am I?" She whined childishly while stamping her foot, only causing them to laugh harder.

Harry recovered quickly, "I'm sorry Usagi, it's just that sternness doesn't suit your face."

Chibi-Usa recovered from her laughter and agreed, "yes, mama, you just don't have the face to look serious."

Harry felt a sharp pain in his heart as the last word dragged a shadowy man from the back of his mind. Usagi and Chibi-Usa started arguing at that point and didn't notice his flinch fortunately.

Harry plastered a smile and broke up their fight and pointed straight for the direction he wanted to go. The mother and daughter quickly forgot their petty argument and made their way towards the trees.

They made their way to the lake and Harry wondered why they were going straight when there was no boat or anything to take them to the other side of the lake.

His answer was answered when Usagi took off her sandals and lifted her white dress a little to jump on the water. Harry almost thought she fell into the lake yet he was surprised to see only a little splash coming from the water. Usagi jumped another time and turned around questionably, "what are you guys waiting for? Jump on the rocks after me!" She smiled at them and continued skipping around.

Chibi-Usa skipped after her, leaving Harry to fend for himself. He pinpointed a form of a stone and jumped on it, barefoot. The lake water was cool to touch and surprisingly very refreshing to his feet. Happy that he didn't embarrass himself, Harry jumped on another one to find that his foot went lower than he thought it should. Just when he thought that he was finally going to fall into the lake, his foot touched a stone and he soon found out that there was zigzagged path of smooth stones all the way to the other side of lake.

He paced to Usagi and Chibi-Usa and asked them, "why did you two jump when you could've walked on the stones?"

Chibi-Usa turned around in surprise and experimented herself. She asked her mother crossly, "Mama, why did you jump around when you can just walk on these stones?"

Usagi looked sheepishly and answered, "I thought that jumping was better suited for our adventure. After all, you must have felt the refreshingly coolness bathe your feet fleetingly as you jump around. What's the fun in walking on these stones, anyway?"

Chibi-Usa and Harry shared a look and quietly put on their sandals. They made it out of the lake so far and now they have to choose a path that leads to God-knows-where.

Usagi explained to Harry as they saw different natural paths in between the trees. "You see all those paths, Endy. They seem to lead into darkness but really all of them lead to the same place and what that place is for me to know and you to find out." Her secretive smile piqued his interest. 'If Usagi thought this place is important enough to keep it a secret, then this place must be really important since Usagi doesn't seem to be the kind of person to keep secrets' Harry thought.

They made their way to the trees and Harry chose the middle one. As they walked gingerly inside the darkened path, they couldn't help but be peaceful when they heard sweet sounds of various birds on the trees. When reluctantly they were walking out of the path and the site of the birds, Usagi closed Harry's eyes, not letting him see the hidden place.

Harry tried to push her hand away when Usagi said, "it's alright, Endy, it's just me. Before you see this place, you have to wait for a little while. It's going to be a few moments now. Trust me."

Usagi led him towards the place and Harry could sense nothing from the place since all the noises stopped utterly to lend a hand to Usagi. She told him to jump properly and helped him not fall. Harry felt coolness surround his bare feet as if there's water under him. He wondered if they are back at the lake and Usagi was taking him to a different part of the gardens.

Almost out of the water, Harry was led up a sort of stairway that felt soaked cool yet the smoothness of the material was softly refreshing to his feet. Usagi led him till she suddenly stopped; Harry tried to sate his curiosity by feeling the surroundings with his hands. Surprisingly contrasting with all the cold surroundings, his hands felt a soft, warm material.

Harry said, "Usagi, can I see now, please? I can't wait anymore."

Usagi was relentless, "Oh just a moment, Endy, it won't be long now. It will take just a second. That's all I ask for, Endy, a second."

Harry counted a second and asked her again, "alright, one second is up. Now, take off your hands, Usagi."

Usagi shushed him, "Shh, Endy, it's almost ready. Just about... now!"

She freed his bright green eyes as he eagerly looking around. Usagi pointed in front of Harry and quietly shushed him. Harry looked down and was taken by the beautiful scene in front of him. In front of him lied a bed with a pure white mattress that reflected the colors of the stained glass of the gazebo. The mixture of colors revealed faces of everyone he met; only these were in couples. The Hinos, Kinos, Ainos, Mizunos took their individual places near the edges of the large bed. The lighting of the sun was such that it artistically showed their faces with crystal clarity while shadowing other couples such as Mr. Te... no... Ms. Tenoh and Ms. Kaioh and Ms. Meiou and the mysterious girl he met in the kitchen at night. The four of them were veiled from him carefully as if they will reveal their secrets when the time comes. Yet, the darkest of all the couples was the Chibas. The two, secure in the middle of all the couples, were almost covered to the point of the obscurity as the moon shone with blinding brilliance around them overpowering the sun's power as it shone casually around the other couples.

Harry asked Usagi why that was so before she answered, "You see the different kind of material of me and Mamo-chan, Endy. That material is specially made so that when the sun is here, our faces would not allow the light to pass but when the moon is here, they would allow the moonlight to pass. I don't know why Mamo-chan made it so but he just said that he liked the moonlight better than the sunlight."

Harry asked, "if that's the case, then why aren't Chibi-Usa and other children in the glass?"

"This gazebo is built before they were born, Endy, that's why the glass only shows the adults now but Mamo-chan and I are thinking about adding the children when they get a little older." Chibi-Usa smiled at her mother's words and asked Harry, "It's cool, isn't it? Do you like it?"

Harry nodded, preoccupied with discovering the beauty in his surroundings. The gazebo was larger than he imagined; it contained a large round bed so that there was place to walk inside the gazebo still. Harry strode towards the steps. The steps were really natural stone that were slightly out of water. The gazebo, Harry found, was near a pond that was deep enough for a quick swim and contained small fishes and even a few fearless ducklings. Few well-placed gray stones over the surface let passerby inside the little heaven. Yet with dark forest protecting the gazebo's back and thick trees covering its front, the gazebo was fully secluded to give peace to those who seek it.

Usagi and Chibi-Usa jumped on the white bed happily as they opened their little lunches from the broomsticks. They motioned Harry to join them as he smiled softly and joined the mother and daughter... for the first time in the summer, peaceful and blissful in people's companionship.

Darkness met with bright green eyes as a 15-year-old boy lied comfortably on his black bed. The air, with peaceful silence, was perfect for the reflections he seemed to be doing a lot lately.

Harry thought, 'today was a perfect day. I discovered so many things that I couldn't have done in one day usually, although there is still a lot more to discover in this place.

Usagi and Chibi-Usa only showed the rooms, the lake and the gazebo. Before they could show the entire gardens, we discovered that we spent most of our time chatting about things idly in the gazebo. We even forgot about Mr. Chiba who was supposed to come in the afternoon for lunch. Of course, Usagi reasoned later in the gazebo that he might have just ate and left since she left a message for him that we're going on a tour of the whole place. But still, Usagi felt guilty about laxly deserting Mr. Chiba for lunch even if she bravely tried to mask her guilt. Considering her weak acting skills, she was unsuccessful in the masking. She tried to appease her guilt by telling us that we could have dinner with Mr. Chiba and everyone in the night but that didn't work out properly since Mr. Chiba, Mr. Hino, and Mr. Aino had late work this night and might very well come home at midnight.

The Mizunos and Hotaru didn't come to dinner also because they were needed in the hospital and would spend the night in the Mizuno's house that was closer to the hospital. Mrs. Hino stayed at the temple because her family only had one car and Mr. Hino was using it. Mrs. Aino excused herself in the phone saying that she couldn't come because she has work that could take over most of the night for her. The children of the Mizunos, Ainos and Hinos either stayed with their parents or were sleeping over at Mrs. Mizuno's mother's house. In fact, the only people in the house this night were the Kinos, who made the dinner as usual, and the three women in the house who hardly made up for the chatter I experienced last night. If it wasn't for Usagi and Chibi-Usa, I don't know if I could've survived the boring dinner.' Harry smiled softly as he remembered once again the lunch he had with the two. It was the first peaceful one in his life that he knew he would cherish for years to come.

Bright green eyes took an idle way as the crescent moons and red roses blurred to mingle with the dark background. Images swirled in his mind as he thought of the beautiful sights he saw.

Thoughts screeched to a halt as the thought of library came to his mind. Harry now remembered the wizard book in the library. Curiosity piqued in him as he questioned how the book had gotten in the house. He remembered Usagi telling him that Mr. Chiba's grandfather buying it although she told him it was actually "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" instead of a book about Magical Wizards and Witches throughout the Ages.

'It was obvious that someone poured a disguise potion on the book to make Muggles think that it was a normal Muggle book but that would mean that someone in the house has or had been a wizard or a witch. Harry ruled out Usagi and Chibi-Usa since Usagi couldn't read the magical book and Chibi-Usa is underage but that left Mr. Chiba and the four women that, according to Usagi, had recently come to the house. Yet, Mr. Chiba's ancestors are not out of the loop too since, according to Usagi, it was Mr. Chiba's grandfather who had bought the book. So, that would mean Mr. Chiba's grandfather was a wizard, but Mr. Chiba? A wizard?'

Harry mulled over the last words carefully for a few minutes but finally his eyes dulled to let sleep take over him. The last bit of curiosity over the turn of his thoughts had lost the battle to tiredness and sleep as the silence watched over the slumbering boy.

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Cosmicqueen: I know too many descriptions of room and gardens but be patient and put these details in the back of your mind since the surroundings will play major roles in the future.

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