Book 1- Fill the Void

Strong Winds Equals Catastrophe

A/N-I hope this chapter was worth the wait!!

We stand and look at each other for five minuets, me trying to calm my erratic heartbeat and her seemingly trying to figure something out. Once my heart is calm enough, I turn around and go to open the door again.

"I never touched it."

"W-what?" I splutter, turning around to face her.

"The money. I never touched it. It came from your account, but I didn't trust that it came from you. I was scared so I never said anything. I don't know who gave it me, I just... I couldn't... You have to believe me. Please."

"H-how?"

"Your like a brother to me. Did you realy think that I wouldn't notice?"

"No one else has."

"Well they musnt have cared for you all that much then."

"Are you going to tell?"

"No!" She whips out her wand "I Hermione Gean Granger, swear upon my magic to not reveal or talk about Kobaru Kaen's identity or any secrets he may tell me to anyone who doesn't know or anyone he wishes not to know. I also extend this to any and all family members as well as anyone who does know so mote it be."

"So you won't tell anyone?"

"Of course not."

"You realy didn't touch the money?"

"Oh Kean, I would never."

"Hermiony" I whisper as a single tear of relief slides down my cheek. "Kobaru, call me Kobaru."

"Oh, Kobaru, my brother. I'm so sorry" she cries, rushing over to me and enveloping me in a hug. I flinch as she approaches and then tense when she hugs me. After a few moments I relax into it but I don't return it.

When she eventually pulls back from the embrace I see that her eyes are red and puffy, her nose is red and her cheeks are wet. "Will you join me in going to the Owlry?"

"Yes."

"Ok, I'll just let my brothers and sister know to meet us there. There is some things we should discuss" I step back and reach out to them with my mind. 'Asuka, Tori, Tsubame, meet me at the Owlry.' I come back to see Hermione at staring at me.

"Your eyes were glowing."

"It happens when we use our mind link to talk to each other."

"That is cool!"

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We escape the strong, bitter wind in the Owlry tower. It provides shelter from the continuos blasts of air, but not the cold that bites into our skin. Not that I feel it, but Hermione is shivering. I remove my cloak and put it over her shoulders. She thanks me with a sole for the the additional warmth. We walk through the stone passageway and up the stone steps that curve their way up into the dark. Hermiony loses her footing part way up and topples back. On instinct my arm shoots out and I grab her wrist. Once she is steady I move my hand from her wrist to her hand. She gives me a small smile as thanks and we proceed to climb the stairs. Once we finally reach the top, we go through a small, thick wooden door and into the room that houses the owls. It takes me a few minuets to locate my owl, Burakku because of her black plumage .

"Is that Hedwig?"

"Yes, she goes by the name Burakku now though."

"Ok, how did you change the colour of her feathers?"

"Some parsel spells."

"Spells in parseltongue?"

"yeah. The wind is picking up. I'm going to wait until morning to send the letters."