Author's Note: I do not any of the Harry Potter characters. All original characters belong to me.
This is the story following Acceptance; where Remus meets a she-wolf. This is also technically a crossover, too, of characters from Harry Potter and Ninja Turtles. Because this is before the Turtles' time, they are not in my fictions yet. I do hope that you enjoy the following
Chapter One
Her eyes opened at the feel of lips softly touching her cheek and a hand gently upon her upper arm. Kiara turned her head to see Remus looking over her.
"Good morning," he said, before lowering to place a kiss on Kiara's lips, which she accepted. "Happy birthday, Okami."
"Mmm, thank you," said Kiara, with a smile. Her voice was small, but more due to her just waking up than anything.
"You're welcome."
Kiara didn't stop him from Remus from kissing her lips again.
"What does my girl want to do?" he then asked her.
Kiara shifted on her back to look up at Remus better. "Right now? I just want to stay here for a little while with you."
"I believe I can do that," Remus replied with a little playfulness in his tone, before lowering once again, Kiara once more not stopping his kiss.
While it had taken Kiara – and Remus – number a days to come to accept that she was a born she-wolf and having blood-ties to Fenrir Greyback, as well as to an ancient line of wolf, neither she, nor Remus could deny that, despite of it all, their love was still running further and deeper within their veins.
Kiara was not at all thinking of that, right now. Too much concentrating on Remus and his embrace and kisses.
"Mmm … as much … as I … would love to continue …" Remus then says, in between kissing his mate's neck, cheek and lips. "I seriously … need to take a leak!"
"Well, go pee then!" Kiara playfully pushes him.
Remus lowers and whispers; "Join me in the shower after?" Placing a last kiss on her cheek, before getting out of the bed.
It was a good while before the pair made their way down to the kitchen, where Sarah and Terence were.
"Good morning," said Remus.
"Morning," Sarah replied. "And also happy birthday, Kiara."
"Thank you."
"What are your plans for today?"
Kiara shook her head. "I really do not know."
"We could always spend the day in London?" Remus suggests.
"Why not Diagon Alley? Since you are still yet to get your school things," Sarah put in. "Both of you, do."
"Yes, Mum," says Remus.
Hamoto Yoshi and Albus Dumbledore both wrote a few days before, to confirm that Kiara was, indeed, to be a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
"Just saying, as you leave in seven days," said Sarah.
"I know, Mum!" Remus groaned.
Terence not saying a word, while Kiara laughed.
During the serving of breakfast, an owl came flying in and dropped a small parcel on to the dining table in front of Kiara.
It was from Severus.
Welcome to where scarves are a must have accessory, was upon the card he wrote, and I couldn't think on what to get you this year. Sorry.
A smile, when she opened it to see what it was.
"Going to be interesting on having that in the Gryffindor tower," Remus raises an eyebrow.
It was a scarf in Slytherin's green and silver.
"Doesn't have the Slytherin emblem," Terence pointed out.
"True," says Remus.
"Is Severus coming by later?" Sarah asks.
Kiara answers; "Not sure. He's stuck in between a rock and a hard place with whatever is going on on his end."
Remus knew Kiara was telling a half-truth, as it wasn't really for Sarah and Terence to know of Severus's business, unless he requested for them to know.
"Shame. At least you'll be seeing him soon, at school," said Sarah.
Eventually somewhere after ending breakfast and getting ready to go, Kiara and Remus soon arrive in Diagon Alley.
"Where should we head to first?" asks Kiara.
"Madam Malkin's would be best to start. My robes have shrunk since I was last at school. You also need a set of your own."
Upon entering the store, they were pleased to see Severus Snape.
"Well, at least I can thank you for the scarf, face to face," Kiara comments, with a grin.
"If I could think of something better before the day is out, I'll send it," Severus replies. "Also, I have heard that He Who Must Not Be Named is trying to recruit werewolves."
"At least that is what the Daily Prophet and whispers from the Ministry has been," said the seamstress tending to Severus's robes, though she had no clue as to why Severus was telling Remus and Kiara.
"Thanks for the update," Remus simply said.
Severus waited until the witch was in the other room, before speaking in low tone; "I also have moved out of home! Mum and Dad asked why I was doing just that. I didn't go into too much detail, but it was enough for them to be utterly shocked and try and turn it on to me! Simply called Mum a big fat liar and left."
"Why didn't you say anything in your letters?" Kiara asked, frowning.
"I'm saying something now, aren't I?"
"Not the point."
"Where are you staying?" Remus asks.
"The Leaky Cauldron," Severus answers. "At least until Hogwarts starts."
"You could have sent word to Master Yoshi," said Kiara.
Severus shrugged; "I didn't want to be a bother. Plus he'd like to be at Hogwarts getting whatever ready for the year."
"Still should have said something!"
"What are you doing after this?" Severus decides to divert the conversation.
The witch had come back.
"Just getting the latest additions of school books and replenish potion ingredients," Remus answered. "Going into London after."
The seamstress ducks away again.
"You could always put your stuff in the room I am staying in, until you're set to get back home?" Severus offers.
"Or, you, Kiara could spend a few hours with Severus, while I get the rest of what we need?" Remus suggests, putting an arm around Kiara's shoulders.
"Are you sure that is safe?" Severus asks, ensuring the seamstress doesn't hear him, looking between Kiara and Remus.
"Yes," said Remus.
Kiara looks at Remus.
'What are you up to, Moony?' she telepathically sent to him.
Remus just grins.
Severus caught this grin on Remus's face.
"What would you like to do, Kiara?" he then asks his sister.
"All I can say is, typical Starscream," Kiara said, upon exiting the cinemas much, much later. "And why did they do that to Prime?"
"You still do realise that I never once watched Transformers until just now," Severus made to point out to his sister.
"Well, I did try to tell you who was who … until some moron kept shushing us," said Kiara, her eyes looking straight to a slightly pudgy woman with a pair of boys who looked to be between ages ten and six. "Never mind her own brats were being just as disturbing."
The woman looked around at this and narrowed her eyes before leading her boys away.
"Never mind about it, Kiara," said Severus. "Come on, let's get us a bite to eat."
Two went to a nearby casual restaurant and seated at a table outside with an umbrella. The waitress came by and gave them a menu each, telling them she would be back shortly for their orders.
"The steak looks pretty tempting," Severus made to comment.
Kiara couldn't help but feel that she was being watched somehow, Severus noticing the frown on her face.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"Is there anyone looking this way?" Kiara asked in a sharp low voice.
Severus looked past Kiara and saw straight bang to a man with short dark brown hair, who just moved his gaze to the newspaper he was holding open a few tables away. "There is a man – don't look around!" he said, Kiara stopped straight away from going to see for herself. "Bloke over there, by your five o'clock, with the paper, he's watching us … I don't know if it's both of us, or just one of us."
Kiara made a quick turn around and the man Severus was referring to had just, once again, put his head into his paper again. As though trying to ensure that the small group wasn't taking any notice.
"What do you think he wants?"
"Don't know," said Severus.
The waitress came back and took their orders.
Lunch went well enough. Apart from the man still making a very poor attempt in making it as though he wasn't watching them, Kiara and Severus spoke of how they were feeling to go back to school. Of other stories that hadn't been shared yet and more. It was just after one thirty by the time they decided to leave the restaurant and figure out how to spend the last remaining time left.
"Well, what does the birthday girl want to do?" Severus then asked.
Kiara thought about it. "I still do not know London very well, so I do not know what there is to do. Apart from movies."
"There's arcades? Dare I say it, clothes stores?" Severus threw out suggestions. "Anywhere so the guy who is following loses us!" Looking over his shoulder.
The man who had been watching was now following them.
Kiara frowned and turned to see this man for herself.
"Who is he?"
"I don't know, but I am not liking what he's probably intending, whatever it is," said Severus, taking Kiara by the upper arm gently.
"I think we need to find Remus, if he's making his way to us."
The man was tall, lean and wearing khaki coloured pants and lighter coloured coloured shirt. His shoes looked more like thick boots made for hiking and across his left shoulder and down to his right hip was a sash of brown and gold.
"How? This is a big city?" Severus questioned. "Unless you have some sort of bloody beacon to track the other down."
Kiara sort of found the whole idea of a beacon amusing. "Yes, and we go 'ping' when we get closer to the other."
Severus stared at her for a moment, before laughing before he could control it.
"Well, until we find them, we'll keep looking," he said.
All the while they walked, the man was still in hot pursuit. Trying to lose him was very frustrating, Severus making in a point to keep a hand close to his wand. He didn't care if he got in trouble with the Ministry at the moment, he wanted this man to leave them alone. He could tell this person was up to no good.
"Remus is close," Kiara then piped up.
"We'll just wait at that ice cream parlour," Severus suggests, pointing at white, pink and blue shop with ice creams and goodies all over the front.
Upon entering Severus and Kiara to sit down at the first available table. Kiara looked out the window and saw that the man was now crossing the street toward the parlour and then stood right at the window … staring right at her with eyes of pure greed upon them! It unnerved her.
"Try and ignore him," Severus told her.
But Kiara just couldn't, not even when the door opened. Severus shot his gaze over to see that Remus Lupin, James Potter and Sirius Black had arrived into the shop. At once Remus caught sight of the man and Kiara's unbreakable stare. Remus quickly turned to his friends;
"Go and punch that guy and grab that charm he has on him!"
Not even so much as questioning this, James and Sirius turned right back around and out of the store to rush around the corner. Remus waited until he saw Sirius grab the man from behind, before rushing over to Kiara, putting his hand over her eyes and started speaking quietly in her ear in their language. Not taking his eyes off the man, who saw Remus's glowering expression straight at him, before finally managing to get free from James and Sirius and flee.
"Who was he?" Severus demands.
"A Werewolf Hunter …" Remus said slowly, as he carefully removed his hand from Kiara's eyes and getting her to look at him. "Are you alright?"
Kiara nodded warily.
"What was he doing?" Severus asked. "I told Kiara to ignore him, but she looked like she couldn't look away."
"That's because she couldn't," said Remus, as James and Sirius re-entered the store and joined the small group.
"Why?"
Remus turned to his friends. "Did any of you grab the charm that would have been around his neck?"
"Right here," said Sirius, holding up the bronze chain in his hand, dangling at the end was a large round garnet looking medallion encased in a bronze backing and in the middle of the garnet was silver slit that looked like an eye, with a single onyx where the 'pupil' would be.
Immediately, Remus grabbed a napkin and wrapped the medallion with it, cupping it with his hand and instructed Sirius to let the chain go. The chain slipped and fell from Sirius's hand and it dangled about in the air.
"Hunters use these charms to sedate she-wolves," Remus explained, carefully uncurling his hand to show them. The medallion was looking quite harmless upon the napkin. "I cannot touch it directly with my bare skin, hence my using a napkin."
"What would it do to you?" James asked, Severus shifting along so he could sit down, while Sirius took the seat on the other side of Remus.
"Anything harmful," Remus said bluntly. "Hunters usually come from family who were Hunters before them and these charms are passed down or along through the male line, unless no son is born, then it goes directly to the eldest daughter. Each family has their own unique 'curse' that can torment, or even, kill a male, while it will allow a Hunter to use it's seductive advances to go for the female."
"When you say go for the female … you mean?" Severus dared to start asking, looking at Kiara with worry.
"Wait … why was he so brazen on what he was doing?" James questioned with deep frown.
Remus shook his head. "To be honest, I really do not know. I am going to go on the theory that he was sent as a warning. The Hunters know Kiara is here, in the United Kingdom and they won't stop until she is …" he stopped himself, his eyes at this medallion and disgust upon his face. "These charms are dangerous to us both. Also each charm, while looking the same, are different."
"Different?" Severus asked.
"How?" was Sirius adding to that question.
Remus, not touching the gem pointed at the eye. "The eye will always be silver on a garnet, yellow topaz, orange sapphire or white jade. However the pupil is what represents the family, the Hunter is from. This one is has an onyx, meaning that Hunter was from an ancient Hunter family, and there have been two who been in the game since the beginning that use an onyx as their representative gemstone. The Gottfried Household, who are German and the Southall Household, who are British-based."
"How can you tell who's family he was from?" Kiara asked, rather quietly.
"The bronze chain and backing, plus the garnet," said Remus. "Southalls, use bronze with garnet, Gottfrieds use leather, with yellow topaz."
"Lupin, I suggest that you give us a list of these families and their charms," Severus suggested. "I can only assume that your friends here would want to know too."
"Why assume?" said Sirius, making a face.
Severus raised his brow. "I thought that perhaps that you give a damn for Kiara and Lupin's safety -"
"I get the picture, Snape!" Sirius cut the other teenager off.
"Enough!" Remus quipped. He covers the charm again with the napkin. "I will give you the list when we get to Hogwarts. I do not wish for the list to accidentally fall into the wrong hands."
"What are you going to do with that charm in the mean time?" James asked.
"Back at home I have a special box for these. Until I am of age, I cannot destroy them."
"Why you?" Severus asked. "Why not one of us? I mean, I believe Black turns seventeen in November, does he not?"
"How do you know when my birthday is?" Sirius shot.
"I have my ways."
Remus shook his head. "The one thing the Hunter seemed to be sure of is that no other can destroy their charm. Only they didn't count on a loophole. The very thing they created to destroy werewolves must destroyed by either the Hunter, himself, or a male werewolf."
"Why only the male?" James asked, who had the same frown as Severus.
"Because it's too powerful for a female. The sedation in this bloody thing will backfire and can knock Kiara out completely if she tries, opening her up to being extremely vulnerable. Doesn't matter on what amount of Ninja training she has under her belt. Yet, for whatever reason, I can destroy it. Pitfall is I must be seventeen to do it."
"So if we find these things?" Sirius went to ask.
"Try and get a hold of them, then wrap them, seal them, give them to me," Remus said straight away.
"What is to say that they won't try and get to Kiara, while you're at Hogwarts?" James asks, looking at his Kiara, then at Remus.
Remus expressed that while he wasn't sure, he was certain that Dumbledore would see to it that he would do what he could to insure the safety of his students. Even a pair of werewolves.
With that all said and done, it was best that they moved on and that Kiara got to the safety of Lupin's homestead, in case the Hunter decided to come back.
Shortly, they departed to the ice cream parlour.
Disclaimer;
Well, what can I say?
I reckon it's kinda funny that Severus and the Marauder have a common interest, though it is safe to say that Severus still hates James and Sirius, and they in return.