Inuyasha: OY! Girl! Hurry up!
Candy: Sheesh! So impatient!
Inuyasha: Shut up! And I don't belong to anyone, not even that Takahashi woman! I belong to myself!
Candy: (rolls eyes) You know you do, she's the one that created you, you moron!
Inuyasha: What did you call me, bitch? Why you… Iron Reaver Soul…
Kagome: SIT!
Inuyasha: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I'm sorry Kagoooome!"
Shippou: You were too late…
Inuyasha: (mutters into the dirt) Stupid little runt…
Chapter One - Enter Sakura: Royal Protector of Inuyasha!
"Damn you, gay-ass bug!" Inuyasha yelled as he leapt up in the air with the Tetsusaiga raised high above his head in a slicing position. The weird centipede demon made high-pitched squealing noises that only seemed to annoy Inuyasha more. Then it advanced at Inuyasha with its poisonous pinchers clicking wildly. "KEH! Like that could stop me!" With that, Inuyasha unleashed his wind scar that sliced through the thing, dissipating it into nothing but dust. The dust showered down on Inuyasha and the bright sparkle of a Shikon Shard slowly floated down only to be caught midair in Inuyasha's grasp. Humphing to himself about demons that underestimated half-demons, Inuyasha landed gracefully on the ground and hoisted the Tetsusaiga onto his shoulder before he marched over to where his friends were, cheering for him (and backing him up when necessary, as usual) as they rushed towards their hero.
The first to come was a girl dressed in a short green skirt with a white and green school uniform. Unlike the rest, she wore socks that came down several inches below her knees and brown loafers. "Inuyasha!" She shouted as she rushed towards the now triumphant Inuyasha. Her midnight black hair sparkled under the moonlight as it swayed from the wind and the momentum of her running. Her chocolate brown eyes sparkled with stray tears. Those same beautiful eyes also showed how proud she was with her companion. She grabbed onto Inuyasha had hugged him tightly. "Thank Kami you made it!" She cried. Startled, Inuyasha took a step back as the girl collided into his chest sobbing uncontrollably. The reason why Kagome was crying was because the Centipede youkai had taken a liking in puncturing holes in Inuyasha's stomach and nearly punched his heart out, scaring the miko senseless.
"Ah… I believe lady Kagome wishes to bear your children…" A calm male's voice came from in front of the disoriented half-demon. Inuyasha glared at Miroku, the second person to reach him. Miroku was dressed in indigo and purple monk robes and carried a staff that jangled as he moved. He had black hair with a tiny ponytail tied at the base of his neck along with indigo eyes. "Inuyasha, you are one lucky man, if only there were plenty of women willing to bear my children like you… nothing can go wrong in my life…" But Miroku's little reverie-speech was cut off by the sound of a dull thud: The fourth person had bonked him on the head with her boomerang. "Why Sango! You need not to…"
"Shut up!" Sango snapped swinging her boomerang down on Miroku's head once more, creating a large lump on his head. The woman had long brown hair that was tied up on her head. She currently wore her demon-exterminating outfit of black and pink. Her silver mask hung around her neck, shining under the moonlight. Sango narrowed her brown eyes at Miroku who had now taken to whimpering and backing away from her. Luckily for him, Sango had placed her giant boomerang on her back. But that didn't stop her from keeping her glare at Miroku, who grinned uneasily as he slowly backed away from her.
"Adults… I just don't get them… right Kirara?" Piped a fifth voice that was followed by a soft mew of agreement. At that moment, a red-sleeved fist landed on the kid's red head making him wail: "WHAT DID I DO?" The kid had pointed ears and green eyes; he wore a fur vest along with a turquoise haori with white sunflower seed patterns on them. He was wearing navy-blue pants, but no shoes, especially since he had the most adorable little fox feet. The kid landed on the floor sobbing, and now his large bushy tail was vulnerable to abuse. Inuyasha didn't hesitate to stoop over and grab the poor kitsune by his tail and shake him slightly.
The sixth companion was a small neko that tilted her head in confusion, her red eyes blinking in confusion. She had yellowish brown fur with tiny black paws and a ring of fluffy fur around her neck. She also had one black ring on each of her two busy tails that swished and made the cutest noise ever. She had black ears and a black diamond pattern on her forehead. "KAGOME!" The kid wailed desperately as the small neko blinked her red eyes again and cocked it to the side half in confusion and amusement.
"Inuyasha! Put Shippou down NOW!"
"KEH! Why should I? That annoying little brat always makes wise-ass comments!" Nonetheless, Inuyasha hastily dropped Shippou upon seeing the look of murder in Kagome's eyes. Then he stuck his hands into his sleeves and snapped that he got no freedom. Shippou scampered away from Inuyasha, lest he got hit again.
"Whew! That was a close call right Kirara?" Shippou had crawled over to the neko's back and was asking her a question. Kirara mewed a response. Satisfied with her answer, Shippou turned to Kagome to ask her a question. "Kagome? Why is Inuyasha always grumpy and mean?"
"I don't know Shippou."
"I heard that! And I have reasons, you know!" Inuyasha barked from afar. The rest of the gang rolled their eyes in annoyance. Inuyasha was using another one of his lame excuses, and didn't come up with anything else.
"Well… what's your reason?" Shippou asked innocently. Shippou immediately hit behind Kirara when he got a murderous look from Inuyasha. "You don't have a reason, don't you? HAHAHA! Inuyasha's stupid! Haha!" Inuyasha looked bummed and shot a glare at Shippou who didn't notice him because he was too busy laughing at Inuyasha's misfortune. Inuyasha raised a foot to kick Shippou as far away as he could when a familiar nasty scent came under his nose. Inuyasha wrinkled his nose in disgust and growled, showing that he was clearly annoyed.
"Look, Inuyasha, I'm really sorry…" Shippou started, he had stopped laughing and was nervously twiddling his thumbs.
"It's not you, you runt, even though you always annoy me. Sesshoumaru's here! That bastard seems to show up every time! I'm getting sick and tired of it."
A flash of green sliced through the ground, but Inuyasha had managed to dodge it in the nick of time, grabbing onto Shippou to take him out of the face of Danger. Inuyasha settled Shippou down somewhere safe and went to confront his older half-brother. "So am I." Came another calm cool voice. Inuyasha landed in a tree and glared at the direction of the voice. The voice came from a man with similarly long silver hair as Inuyasha, only it was longer and came down past the back of his knees. He wore a white Haori with red hexagon prints with flowers embedded in them. He also wore an armor that wrapped around only one arm and he had a fluffy white pelt over his left shoulder that covered most of his left body and trailed along on the ground. His golden eyes were fixed on Inuyasha's own golden eyes and showed little or no signs of emotion.
"Sesshoumaru…" Inuyasha snarled, clearly annoyed with the prospect of seeing his half-brother again. "Let me guess why you're here… you couldn't be here for the Tetsusaiga because you're just as disgusting as your Tokijen, so that leaves only one reason."
"And what might that be, dear brother?" Sesshoumaru half-sneered.
Inuyasha tapped his chin in mock confusion, which proved quite different from the usual Inuyasha Strategy. The usual Inuyasha Strategy was to dash at Sesshoumaru without first thought. This time, Inuyasha seemed more interested in a small talk with his annoying older "brother". Kagome, Shippou, Sango, and Miroku also noticed the change in Inuyasha's fighting strategy. "Ah! I daresay, you're here to rid me of this world so to save our father from humiliation. Well, sorry to burst your bubble, but dad wanted me to be born, otherwise I wouldn't be here, so technically, killing me would only make him mad… that is, if he were still alive."
"Since when did you change your fighting strategies? Usually, you'd just swing the Tetsusaiga uselessly at me without thinking. Hmm… I wonder." Sesshoumaru asked, his eyes narrowing to slits. "Well, if you don't attack first, then I shall!" Without further delay, Sesshoumaru drew the Toukijen and dashed at Inuyasha.
Inuyasha shrugged. "Do whatever you want, bastard." With that he unsheathed the Tetsusaiga from its sheath; as he did so, it transformed into a huge broad-bladed sword. Just as he did so, he barely managed to block the blow of Sesshoumaru's Toukijen. Sesshoumaru released the Toukijen from its contact with the Tetsusaiga and swung it at a different angle with impossible speed aiming for Inuyasha's stomach. But had the world turned upside down, or had Inuyasha gotten a bit more agile than before? Inuyasha gracefully, yes gracefully, blocked Sesshoumaru's blow and twisted it around so that the two swords broke contact once more. As he did that, he swung he Tetsusaiga at Sesshoumaru, who had barely managed to block the blow with the Toukijen.
The two siblings braced their feet in the ground trying to push each other back. Finally, Sesshoumaru won the struggle and managed to fling Inuyasha back. Smirking, he jumped up in the air the Toukijen ready to take its aim, but Inuyasha swiftly lifted the Tetsusaiga up blocking Sesshoumaru's blow single handedly. Alas, because Inuyasha was only half-demon, he had to press his palm on the flat end of the Tetusaiga to keep from losing control. Letting out a roar of frustration, he shoved with all his might, and barely managed to get the Toukijen off his sword. But that was only enough for him to jump out of Sesshoumaru's way. Sesshoumaru's eyes widened slightly. How had Inuyasha blocked that blow, especially single handedly?
The thought frustrated the demon as he swung his sword with all his might. The Toukijen came in contact with the Tetsusaiga; and this time, Sesshoumaru had disarmed Inuyasha. "INUYASHA!" Kagome screamed from the sidelines, wishing she could help. He smirked. Of course, Inuyasha was only half demon; he couldn't be that powerful as himself, Sesshoumaru. Satisfied with his job, Sesshoumaru raised the Toukijen ready to use its immense power. He raised the blade in the air and brought it down in one mighty swing. This was the end for Inuyasha…
But suddenly, out of nowhere, a glowing arrow sliced through the air and hit the bullet-like energy that Sesshoumaru had just released. The pink aura seemed to grow bigger and bigger until the energy released from the Toukijen shattered into a burst of pink light and sparkles. The arrow itself landed in the ground. When it hit the ground, a sparkle of pink flashed and the arrow vanished. Kikyou? Inuyasha wondered. Sesshoumaru angrily turned around to face the intruder and Inuyasha looked up from his position on the floor. No, the scent was not Kikyou's but who saved him? Definitely not Toutosai, since Toutosai didn't use arrows, the old fart usually used his staff-like hammer or his fire-breathing mouth. It wasn't Kagome, since she wasn't holding up her bow.
Obviously, Sesshoumaru did recognize the intruder as soft steps rustled out from the forest. Yet the face of the intruder was unknown, provided that she was still standing in the shade of the forest. Nonetheless, the fact that she was holding up a bow convinced Inuyasha that she was the one who had interfered with Sesshoumaru's Toukijen, which wasn't a very good sign. The bow glowed white and vanished onto the woman's wrist, which was still in the position of holding the bow, her index finger still pointing. Her wrist glowed white before she lowered her arm and stepped out into the field, the moon's soft rays falling over her face.
If the situation hadn't been grave, then Miroku would have definitely seized the chance to grope her. Inuyasha put on a confused look. The woman was strange. She had the scent of a half-demon, but she used priestess powers. As far as he was concerned most, half-demons born with priestess powers died before the age of ten, or they lost either their demon powers or their priest powers. This woman seemed to hold both the powers of a demon and a priestess. What was stranger was that she was more demon than human, and beside the scent of human and demon, she had another alien scent about her.
Her black hair was fixed into a high ponytail that was tied up with a red cord with loose brush-like ends. Her hair swept down her back in a long black sheet and close to her ankles. Her eyes, like his own eyes, were of a brilliant golden color and she had three blood-red dots on her forehead, the middle one being the largest and one slightly smaller one on each side. She wore a red haori over a white one underneath. Her haori was printed with gold circles and these fork-like patterns inside the circle. The red haori was short-sleeved and the collar of it was a slightly darker red that also had gold patterns on it, the same went for the hem of the haori. As for her undershirt, it was white and the sleeves were long so that it completely covered her hands and swayed in the breeze. The tips of her sleeves were the same color as the collar of her red haori and had the same pattern as it. Around her waist was a bright turquoise and Persian blue ribbon tied into a huge floppy bow slightly off to her right. The red haori probably reached down to slightly about her knee; underneath that was a long white dress that crumpled slightly on the floor. At her hip were four swords tied securely down. Other than the fact that she had a snow-white pelt (quite similar to Sesshoumaru's own one on his shoulder) that was draped around her waist and hung limply on her arms, Inuyasha wouldn't have noticed that she and Sesshoumaru somehow knew each other from somewhere.
"Sakura…" Sesshoumaru snarled coldly, "I thought you were dead."
"Me? Dead? HA!" the Sakura woman snorted, "Like I said before, you can't kill me with your wimpy Dokkasou."
"Humph, well maybe this would work." Sesshoumaru said coolly. He lifted the Toukijen in the air and swung it at Sakura in a wide red arc. Sakura humphed back at him and lifted her arm so that a plain, but beautiful silver bracelet showed. It was cuffed around her wrist and bore a simple red stone. Her delicate clawed hand glowed green, which meant that she was able to use the poison light whip like Sesshoumaru. Sakura swung her arm, and as she did so, a long green whip formed. The whip flew out in the opposite direction of her hand; she flicked the whip, so that it smoothly changed its direction. The whip suddenly changed colors from green to pink starting from the tip of her fingers and ending at the bulb-like end of the whip. Sakura sliced through the red blast that neared her and it dissipated into nothing but sparkles.
Sakura calmly pulled her arm back so the whip pulled back and swirled around her before shortening and disappearing into her hand. It glowed pink at first then changed to green and that disappeared. "I see Inuyasha has cut your arm off. It's a pity that you didn't die. I would have been glad to see you dead."
"How do you know me?" Inuyasha barked, whilst raising one eyebrow.
"Let's just say that I was your personal protector until you were able to… somewhat fend for yourself." Was all Sakura said, shifting her stare from a shocked Sesshoumaru to an equally as surprised Inuyasha, the only difference was that they had different reasons to be shocked.
"Woman, you couldn't possibly be alive. I killed you remember?" Sakura shrugged oblivious to Inuyasha's friends, who stood along the sidelines, now very confused.
"Yes, you did kill me, but I'm still standing here solid as a rock." Sakura shot back curtly. With that, she walked straight up to Sesshoumaru and tapped him on his forehead with one delicate clawed finger. "See?" With that she swung her arm back and slapped him across the face. "Like I said before, solid as a rock, and don't think about trying to fight me because you know you'll lose like you always do, whenever we fight." Sesshoumaru growled at the woman before him.
"Heavily armored like usual." He spat in an annoyed tone, not making any moves to touch his cheek, which was flushing furiously red from the slap. He glowered at Sakura, who put on a simple smile of satisfaction. "I see you still haven't removed the swords of the four elemental souls. Afraid I'd pop out and slice you to ribbons like the bogey man?"
"No, these are the inheritance from my mother, much like the Tenseiga, your father, Inutaisho-sama gave to you. Upset that he didn't give you the Souuna and left the Tetsusaiga to Inuyasha. Frankly speaking, the Tenseiga doesn't suit your nasty personality."
"You are treading on thin ice, woman." Sesshoumaru said softly.
"I know."
"Vain and conceited like always."
"Speaking of vanity, Sesshoumaru, aren't you the arrogant one?"
"WHAT IS GOING ON?" Inuyasha snapped standing up.
"Stay out of it, hanyou." With that, Sesshoumaru lifted the Toukijen to kill Inuyasha, but as fast as he was, a wrist with a silver bracelet caught his wrist, and squeezed releasing the green poison that smoked as it stung Sesshoumaru's wrist.
"Don't even think about it, Sesshoumaru." Sakura growled, "You don't want to lose your other hand. Without it, you'd truly be weak." Grumbling, annoyed, Sesshoumaru lowered his arm and Sakura released his wrist.
"Don't touch me with your filthy hanyou hands." He snarled. Sakura glared back at him.
"SESSHOUMARU-SAMA!" Sesshoumaru sighed as a green toad-like youkai came running into the field backed by a two-headed dragon with a little girl on their back.
"Jaken," He said coldly, "I thought I told you to keep Rin out of danger."
"B-b-but…"
"Ah… imp, so we meet again." Sakura stated calmly. Upon seeing the strange mixed-breed inuyoukai, Jaken's bulbous eyes widened. "I hope you don't make the mistake of taunting me again, or are you going to be stupid like usual so I could use the earth-sword on you?" Jaken started to back away and fell on his bottom. Never had Inuyasha seen the imp become so afraid upon seeing another half-demon. Usually, Jaken would sneer at them, then compare them to Seshoumaru, but obviously, this Sakura woman had done something to Jaken that made him fear her.
"So, you said you were my personal protector, well I don't need you now. I can fend for myself."
"No, you cannot fully fend for yourself until you have regained all five parts of your soul."
"What?" Inuyasha spat clenching his fists so hard that they cracked. "My soul is perfectly fine!"
"Inuyasha, Inuyasha, Inuyasha… you were meant to be more powerful than you are now. It was your father who asked to have your soul separated into six parts. You hold the six part yourself. Unless you gather all five parts of your soul, you really cannot fend for yourself properly without the Tetsusaiga by your side. With all your souls fully stored in your body, you would become even more powerful than me."
"Wait, so why did dad split my soul up? So I don't tear Sesshoumaru to shreds?"
"That's a part of it. The other reason was because you were too young to handle these powers that follow with each of the five souls that float somewhere out there. Being a hanyou child, you would not have been able to control those powers and would have ended up killing yourself instead. Now that you are older and have better control over these powers, you may have your souls returned to you."
"Humph, there's no need for me to be here, especially with fools such as yourselves. Come, Jaken, Rin, we're leaving." With that Sesshoumaru turned away from the group and was about to walk away when they were engulfed in a blast of orange and red energy. When the winds died down and the energy finally disappeared, nothing was left of the eleven beings. The blades of grass blew softly in the winds as if nothing had happened.
"Neville, you fail to keep yourself from causing accidents." Snape snarled as he hung over the trembling squib before him. Neville gulped and shrank in his chair. "Well, today you will be partnering with Wonder boy, be glad that I am feeling nice today so I didn't pair you with Mr. Goyle." Neville gulped once more while Crabbe and Goyle snickered as they cracked their knuckles. "Now get to work." Ignoring the rest, Snape made his way back to the front of the classroom. "Today, you shall be making a curing potion. If you so much as stir in the wrong direction, it has a great potential to become a summoning potion. The summoning potion will bring people from another world or whatever's going on through your mind. The ingredients are up front, please take them, and you may be able to see the quantities up on the board, you may begin."
With a whirl of his robes, Snape set himself at his desk. Sighing, Harry got up from his seat to get the ingredients from the front, while Neville set up the cauldron and the stirring spoon. "Don't worry Neville, I'll do most of the work, so when we get in trouble, I'll get the blame." Neville nodded. Harry came up to the front of the class to pick up the ingredients. Once he collected what he needed, he returned to his spot in the classroom.
When Harry returned to his spot, Neville had already set everything up, without any mess. "Okay, so now we should start. Neville, can you read the instructions out to me?" Neville nodded and started to read out the instructions. Harry carefully measured out the water so that the cauldron was three-quarters full, and started to add in the ingredients as Neville instructed him to. In fact, everything seemed to go fine, until they had to stir. Harry was too preoccupied with thinking about how they had somehow miraculously made it through potions without melting, blowing up, shattering, or spilling. And for some unknown reason he started thinking about the new classes that Dumbledore installed for all students: Demonology, Defense against Demonic Energy, Hanyou Studies, and Youkai History. This also meant that they would be laving another extra-year, so instead of staying in Hogwarts until he was seventeen, he would stay longer until he became eighteen. Harry had been wondering who the teachers were when Neville's strangled cries brought him back into reality.
"No, Harry! Not counter-clockwise, clockwise." Muttering a curse under his breath, Harry abruptly changed the direction of his stirring, but the two knew it was too late, for the potion had changed from its blue color to a brilliant white color and started to glow. Hmm… that's interesting, there was always melting cauldrons, explosions, squirts, and whatnot… this is the first time our accident happened to glow… Harry mused to himself, trying his best to act normal. The other students seemed to have a nice midnight blue potion, but theirs were white and starting to glow brighter and brighter. Snape had noticed it and was swiftly making his way towards them. But Snape had only walked half a pace when the glow intensified and the cauldron exploded… as usual; so maybe not everything was entirely different from the usual accidents.
All the students were covered in the potion, and once the blobs hit the other potions, they glowed white as well and exploded. By this time, all fourteen cauldrons had exploded leaving nothing but a mess of bright blue potion on the floor, students, Snape, and the seats. Everyone blinked, frozen in their spots. Apparently nothing had happened… so far. They all wondered what had happened until Snape snapped out of his shocked state. "Potter!" He snapped, "Which ones of your fantasy land did you bring?"
"I don't know… I was um… wondering who our new Demon-course teachers were before I realized that…"
"TAKE THAT YOU BASTARD! DIAMOND BLAST!" A voice yelled. Everyone put on expressions of shock. Where was the voice coming from? Suddenly, from out of Harry and Neville's cauldron a shower of shimmering and GIGANTIC spikes shot out and slammed into the ceiling. Snape glared up at a bunch of gigantic spikes that made a mess in the ceiling.
"You fail to aim properly, dear Brother…" came a cool reply that seemed to be coming oddly from Dean and Seamus' cauldron. Before anyone could move, a boy, man, or whatever with long silvery hair with white dog-ears on his head shot out from Harry and Neville's cauldron. The two boys yelled in surprise and fell over their stools. The boy was wearing red Asian garments and had no shoes. In his left hand was a huge sword that was as large as himself, it was crystallized and looked a lot like diamonds.
"Shut up, Sesshoumaru!" The boy snarled. From Seamus and Dean's cauldron, a man with the same silvery-colored hair shot out. He had golden eyes and wore reddish-pink eye shadow for some crazy reason. He also had a navy-blue crescent moon on his forehead complete with two purple stripes under each cheek. He wore white and red patterned Asian garments and wore black boots. Over his white shirt, he wore an armor and had two sword scabbards tucked into his side. One of them was drawn and another one was still there. What probably was the most characteristic about this other fellow was the huge fluffy pelt on his shoulder. This other person also had pointed ears much like a house elf (but he looked quite Handsome for a house elf) and his hair was much longer than the dog-eared boy. "Take THAT, and THAT, and THAT!" The dog-eared boy swung his humungo sword at the elf-eared man. The man swiftly jumped out of the way, but looked like a blur. A set of spikes slammed into the area where the strange man once was. "Dammit!"
"Hmm... Your lethargic movements will nevermatch up tomy ownspeed, seeing that you are nothing more than a filthy hanyou. You are the dirt in my delicate claws and are not worth even the blade of the Toukijen… you are a disgrace to father in every way, die!" With that the man sheathed his sword and swung his hand. Shockingly enough, a glowing green whip-like thing came out. The dog-eared boy grunted as he blocked it with his sword. As the whip arched and swung around the room, it sliced up everything it touched, leaving nothing but sizzling green goo and smoke.
"Shut up! At least I didn't end up looking like a girl!" And so the fight was on. Somehow, the man had disarmed the dog-eared boy and was about to start slicing and dicing when a long similar-looking pink whip came out from Ron and Hermione's cauldron. It sliced the elf-eared man's whip in half and end he seemed to be holding onto dissipated… into his hand? The part that was severed simply fell to the ground and smoked as it sunk into the ground before dissipating into a shower of pink and white sparkles.
"What did I tell you, Sesshoumaru?" A woman came out of Hermione's cauldron, the pink whip swirling gracefully around her before disappearing into her hands as well. Her hand glowed pink, and faded into the same green color as the Sesshoumaru-guy's whip before the light faded from her hand.
"Sakura, that's your name, right? Or whatever the hell it is, stay out of this. This fight is between Sesshoumaru and me!"
"Inuyasha, I had no choice, Sesshoumaru would have killed you, had I not interfered. After all, I amyour royal protector."
"Royal protector, KEH! That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!"
"Inuyasha!" The class now heard a new voice, "SIT!" Inuyasha went screaming into the ground now holding onto his huge sword. From Malfoy's cauldron a girl dressed in a school uniform jumped out. She was holding onto what Harry thought was a doll, but then the "doll" moved and laughed at Inuyasha, he realized it was just a child. "I understand you being rude to Sesshoumaru, but Sakura? She didn't do anything! Besides shouldn't we be thinking about trying to find your five scattered souls?"
"KEH! I don't need them!"
"But they're… MIROKU, YOU PERVERT!" The girl screamed as she whirled around to slap another man, who had started to come out from Malfoy's cauldron. He had black hair and was holding onto a staff. The man ended up with a slap mark on his face. "How dare you touch my butt!"
"MIROKU! GET YOUR PERVERTED, CURSED HAND OFF OF KAGOME… I'LL SLICE YOU TO PIECES, YOU SICK BASTARD!"
"Inuyasha… I'm fine, really, Sango just took care of him." The Kagome girl gestured towards the Miroku guy who was kicked out of the cauldron and another girl emerged from Malfoy's cauldron. Malfoy looked horrified as Crabbe and Goyle cracked their knuckles to pound the Sango girl to pulp. Obviously, Sango's reflexes were good because she slammed a gigantic boomerang into their heads knocking them unconscious. Ron looked pleased, but Snape didn't. He stalked over to the group, and was about to stupefy them, when a giant cat-thing with two tails hoped out of Pansy's cauldron growling. It had rings of fire around its black paws and huge fangs that hung down over its chin.
The cat-thing pounced on Snape ready to snap his head off like a child snapping a Barbie Doll's head off. "Kirara! Stop!" The Kirara cat thing stopped and jumped off Snape to shrink down to the size of a normal cat, in fact, it looked very cute, cute enough for Lavender and Parvatti to coo. A blast of greenish-blue electricity shot out from Pansy's cauldron, blasting a huge hole in the ceiling and another one on the floor above them until they could see the sky. A two-headed dragon creature emerged from the cauldron. Pansy shrieked in terror.
"Yeah, Kirara, stop, I'll do the interrogating!" Inuyasha had sheathed his sword and stomped over to Snape, grabbing him by the collar and lifting him up with ease. "Alright, smelly bastard, tell me, who the fuck are you?"
"How dare you treat a professor like this? Release me at once!" Snape's comment only made Inuyasha shake him back and forth while growling. It wasn't Sirius's growl of annoyance, or Moody's occasional growl, but a real one like a true dog or wolf. Inuyasha bared his teeth showing sharp canine fangs that glinted in the light of the candles. At the same time, the door opened and in walked Dumbledore. Upon seeing the sight of the nine strangers, he smiled broadly.
"Ah… so my new teachers have finally arrived! I am pleased."
Sesshoumaru's emotionless face flickered slightly in discomfort. He calmly reached under his huge pelt and withdrew a strange creature that looked like a cross between a toad-thing and a house elf. It definitely was ugly and small enough to be a house-elf, but it was dressed in maroon Asian garments that looked like a Lord's outfit compared to those of a house-elf. Also, the strange thing was green and house-elves weren't green. "Jaken…" He started coldly, "Who asked you to stick yourself under my pelt and give me discomfort?" Jaken shuddered under Sesshoumaru's grip. Without another word, Sesshoumaru dropped Jaken on the floor and planted his foot right into Jaken's back. "Don't do that again… and, Jaken?" Jaken immediately stood up.
"Yes, Sesshoumaru-sama?"
"Where is Rin?"
"RIN IS HERE, SESSHOUMARU-SAMA!" A little girl jumped out from his pelt, and Harry swore he thought he saw Sesshoumaru roll his eyes and smile slightly. The little girl looked oddly similar to Kagome and was wearing an orange and white checked Kimono, with a green obi across her stomach. Her long black hair was down, but off to the side, she had a small ponytail.
"Rin, get off me."
"Yes sir!" The girl piped happily as she slid down Sesshoumaru's back and onto the floor smiling cheekily. Jaken scowled about ruining Sesshoumaru's reputation, but was silenced when the black booted foot of Sesshoumaru squashed him in the face. Harry had to admit that it was sort of amusing to watch Jaken cry waterfalls.
Kagome had pushed past a very protective-looking Inuyasha to face Dumbledore. "Excuse me sir, but we do not understand what you mean by new teachers. None of us had had a proper education…yet."
"I suppose your deep knowledge in demons, priestesses, monks, and half-demons would be very helpful. Please follow me to my office. I have much to discuss with you there. Harry, Ron, Hermione, please follow us. I suppose your servant and Rin may follow as well." Sesshoumaru's eyes narrowed as he glared at Dumbledore.
"This Sesshoumaru does not follow anyone's order except his own."
"Stuff it, Sesshoumaru." Came Sakura's voice as she kicked him out of her way. Sesshoumaru lashed out at her with his own sword, but Sakura simply grabbed it with her hands and threatened him that she would release her poison. Growling, Sesshoumaru jerked his sword out of her grasp and a few drops of blood fell onto the floor. Much to everyone's surprise, Sakura did not wince even once, and when Harry saw her hand again, the gash that Sesshoumaru had made was gone completely.
The group followed Dumbledore to his office. Once in his office, Dumbledore flicked his wand at a few squishy chairs and motioned everyone to sit and everyone but Sesshoumaru and Jaken sat (the strange cat and the two-headed dragon didn't, because they were animals… or whatever they were). "Now, the reason why I've called you here was to seek for your help." Inuyasha snorted and rolled his eyes while Kagome shot him a glare and mouthed a word at him that made him freeze in terror for a minute. "I'm sure all of you know Naraku. The demon that can shape shift."
"NARAKU!" Inuyasha yelled knocking his chair over, "WHERE IS THAT BASTARD, I'LL SLICE HIM TO A MILLION PIECES, THEN MELT HIM DOWN TO NOTHING AND THEN FEED HIM TO SESSHOUMARU… AND THEN BURN HIS REMAINS UNTIL THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF HIM BUT ASHES AND THEN…"
"Inuyasha?" Kagome said, glowering up at him, "Sit." A thump was heard as Inuyasha landed face-flat into the ground. Harry, Hermione, and Ron quickly scampered over to see what had happened. Inuyasha's legs were up in the air twitching slightly along with his fingers. "I'm sorry about his rude behavior… he's usually like that when we start talking about Naraku. Please continue." Dumbledore, looking slightly amused, nodded.
"As you can see, Naraku is in our own time causing a lot of trouble. He seems to have brought a horde of these strange demons with him. On top of that, he has joined forces with Voldermort, which means that Voldermort has seemingly become extremely strong. What's worse it that Demons seem unaffected when we use magic on them, even with the killing spell."
"The bastard probably absorbed your my-shit stuff. You should stop using it on him, or else he'll use those against you."
"See? You have extensive knowledge about this Naraku character as opposed to the textbooks we have provided to the students. These books give very little facts about this Naraku character since it has been about five hundred years since he had disappeared. Thus, I shall assign you to your classes. We have about ten different classes, which you are to cover. Demonology, Myths and Legends of Demons, Defense Against Demonic Energy, Hanyou Studies, Youkai History, Miko, Houshi, and Taijya Studies, Youkai Magic, The Legend of the Shikon Jewel, Youki, The Youkai Social Cast, Types of Youkais, and Naraku Studies."
"Naraku Studies? Who the hell in this world would want to study about that bastard?"
"Inuyasha," Kagome sighed, "It would be better to know more about Naraku. Please Mr… um…"
"Dumbledore, and since you are a professor here, I would like it if you all called me Albus."
"Okay… um… Albus, who would be teaching each of the classes?"
"Some of the classes such as Naraku studies, Defense Against Demonic Energy, and Demonology are to be taught by two teachers. At any rate, Ms. Higurashi and Inuyasha shall teach Naraku Studies, while Sakura and Sesshoumaru will teach Defense against Demonic Energy, and Demonology shall be taught by Miroku and Sango."
"I will not waste my breath in teaching a bunch of ningens on how to defend themselves against youkai." Sesshoumaru said coolly.
"Yes, but it's better you stay here since you might be able to familiarize yourselves with our world… even you Kagome." Dumbledore started, "Now, as for the rest of the classes, Youkai History, and Youkai Social Cast shall be taught by Sesshoumaru; Miko, Houshi, and Taijya studies by Sango, Myths and Legends of Demons, and The Legend of the Shikon Jewel shall be taught by Ms. Higurashi. As for Youkai Magic and Youkai Species shall be taught by Sakura, and Inuyasha shall teach Hanyou Studies. Miroku, you shall be teaching Youki, and Youkais at a Glance. We have already gotten supplies for you and they are in your rooms. Mivera shall take you to your rooms. Harry, Ron, Hermione, I wish to speak with you a little longer, and you too Shippou." The rest of the group grumbled as they followed Professor MacGonnagall out of Dumbledore's office. "The reason why I have asked you four to remain is because I must discuss something about Naraku with you. Shippou, I've understood you've seen him many times, and I will not question you about them yet. You are to be sorted at this moment to be a student in this school."
"But professor, this kid is too young." Ron whined.
"I only look young! In reality, I'm four years older than you are!" Shippou snapped.
"How is that possible?"
"You'll find out in Miroku's class, you moron." Shippou snarled, sounding very much like Inuyasha; the time spent with the hanyou was definitely visible. Dumbledore smiled and brought the sorting hat over to the small squirrel thing. He placed the hat over Shippou's head, but Shippou immediately rejected it, sneezing and coughing and also complaining that it stank of the different heads it was placed on. Harry found this Shippou interesting. Shippou had a huge bushy tail that twitched from side to side and fox feet. He also had fangs and claws as well.
"Please, Shippou, we need to see what house you should be in." Shippou reluctantly placed the hat over his head and immediately fell into a fit of sneezing and coughing. Finally the hat shouted, "Gryfindor!" And Shippou immediately tore the hat off his head. "Well Shippou, congratulations. At any rate, I must discuss Voldermort's current position right now. So far, he had gotten a very good advantage over the light side, seeing that he is with this Naraku demon…"
"Hanyou…" Shippou corrected. Ron glared at him.
"You don't even know enough to correct our headmaster."
"I'm afraid he knows almost as much as your new teachers. This bit of news is very interesting, please tell more about this Naraku hanyou." Shippou smirked and stuck his tongue out at Ron who was about to bonk him on the head but Hermione stopped him.
"Gladly." Shippou cleared his throat to sound professional, "Naraku has actually originated from a mass of youkai who were attracted to the dark heart of Onigumo, the creator of Naraku. About Onigumo, I will not elaborate on it since Kagome and Inuyasha will tell you more about him, but I will say that Naraku is hanyou because he still possesses Onigumo's heart. In addition to that, like most hanyou, Naraku has a weakened state, which again I will not elaborate on since Inuyasha will kill me if I told you the secret of hanyous on the night of a new moon…" Shippou immediately covered his mouth, "Oh no… now Inuyasha will really kill me!"
"Kid, you know a lot more than we think and we also think you're holding back some information as well."
"I'm only holding back Inuyasha's secret and the rest of Naraku's biography because (a) if Inuyasha finds out I ratted out his secret he'd kill me, and (b) because you'll learn the rest about Naraku in Naraku studies!"
"Anyway, about Naraku, he has been able to supply Voldermort with significant support, which means that we are in desperate needs of the help from other youkai who are against Voldermort. The first youkai we came up with were Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru…"
"Yeah… they get along quite well, in fact so well that they'd abandon their fight with Naraku to fight over who'd kill him…" Shippou grumbled annoyed. "They work separately from each other… Sesshoumaru claims that Inuyasha taints the land with his hanyou stench and Inuyasha calls Sesshoumaru a cocky bastard." With that Shippou yawned while Dumbledore had an amused look on his face.
"Well, that settles it. Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha hate each other. And may I ask you why?"
"Ask Inuyasha or better yet Sesshoumaru… you probably would get a glare from him… that is if you're lucky. If not, the only thing left of you would be the pulp where Sesshoumaru sliced and diced you into pieces." Shippou shuddered, "Or maybe Jaken would use his Nintoujou (staff of the heads) to burn you to ashes… who knows? As for Inuyasha, either he'd yell at you (that's if you're lucky by the way), or he's unleash the wind scar on you or send his diamond spikes at you or maybe he'd Iron-reaver-soul-stealer you… or whatever the hell he has. But it's likely that he'd smash his fist into your head and give you a giant bump. Don't bother asking Kagome or anyone else, they don't know… maybe you might be able to ask Sakura, but I don't know her… the only thing I know about her is that she is the royal guardian of Inuyasha until he gets the rest of his souls back."
"You talk too much." Ron grumbled, "You remind me of Hermione." The response he got from Hermione was a kick in the shin. Ron winced and rubbed his shin glaring at his friend.
"Well, that settles it, off to dinner now. You must be hungry. I must go introduce the new teachers to the students along with the new classes."
By the time Harry and the rest of his friends came into the great dining hall, the place was filled with students that had already started eating. But they were not eating, only holding their forks to their mouths while gawking up at the staff dining table where the new teachers sat. Harry, Ron, and Hermione took a seat at the Gryfindor table with Shippou, but the moment Lavender and her friends saw Shippou, they pounced on him and hugged him to death. Shippou looked utterly horrified as one of them stroked his tail, while some others had taken interest in his tiny fox feet or his pointed ears. Parvatti had even forced his mouth open to stare at his milk fangs. "HKAH-GOH-EEH!" The poor thing whined. Hermione rolled her eyes at the group of excited girls and yanked Shippou out of their grasps.
"Leave him alone, he doesn't like it." She snapped.
"So? He's too cute to resist!" Lavender shot back, she managed to pinch his cheek, but Shippou's youkai side got the better of her because he clamped his fangs into her hand the moment she released his cheek. Lavender let out a shriek and hobbled backwards clutching onto her wound. Shippou continued to glare malevolently at her while he rubbed his cheek with his tiny hands. When Lavender reached over to sooth the still-angry Shippou, all she got was a hiss and a glare from him. She immediately recoiled from his reaction and returned glumly to her spot on the Gryfindor table.
"Thanks Hermione…" He muttered as Hermione set him on his spot at the table. The doors of the great dining halls were thrown open and in marched Inuyasha, barefooted an all. Several fitters were following him begging him to at least put some shoes on, but he brushed a pair of black boots away.
"There's no way in Naraku's butt that I'm going to wear those! First off, they're uncomfortable and secondly, they make me look more like Sesshoumaru, and that is the last thing I want in my life! Other than Naraku gaining all the Shikon Shards!" When the students heard Naraku, they all flinched. Somehow, Inuyasha caught all that and snapped, "What? What's wrong with Naraku? It's just the name of that disgusting, filthy, hypocritical brat that likes to absorb things!"
Meanwhile, the rest were seated up front with the professors. Harry noticed that Snape had a particular dislike for Sesshoumaru. Sesshoumaru looked disgusted and annoyed. He even turned to glare at Snape. The glare he gave the potions master sent shivers down Harry's back and the hairs on his neck stood up. Sesshoumaru looked utterly creepy when he glared. He made a mental note not to make him angry. Sakura sat calmly in her seat, her long black hair swept down to the floor and spread out; it must have been very long. Finally, she simply swept her hair in front of her so that it lay on her lap and near her foot so nobody would tread on it. Miroku had a fresh handprint on his face and Sango was next to him, practically burning with anger. For whatever reasons, Harry didn't know, he also noticed that her boomerang was gone. Kagome sat next to Sango and also looked very upset, as Inuyasha continued to brush the woman off him with rude comments and nasty epithets.
Harry was surprised how he swore without batting an eyelash. Even when he wasn't angry he swore as if it were his everyday language. Inuyasha had finally managed to brush the woman with the boots off and stomped up to the dining table. When he couldn't find the stairs to it, he threw his hands in the air and crouched down on the floor. He sat very much like a dog and even lifted his leg to scratch the back of his ears with his foot. All the girls squealed with delight, which forced him to flatten his ears against his skull, another round of squealing, that made him glare around him before he snapped: "KEH!" and looked away.
Finally, Kagome came down from the stairs and pointed out which way to go. Inuyasha shrugged and stomped up the stairs. He landed with a soft thud in his chair scowling about something Harry couldn't make out. Inuyasha muttered some words as Kagome said something to him and placed her hand on his shoulder. Inuyasha took a deep breath to regain his composure. Once Dumbledore was satisfied that everything was calm now (the shoe woman was gone), he stood up and magnified his voice.
"Only two days have passed since classes have started," He started, Harry noticed that Inuyasha glared at Dumbledore while Sakura and Sesshoumaru cringed slightly, "I am pleased to say that we have our teachers for our new classes. This year has been extended to during summer time and next year, which means that you seventh year students shall complete the rest of your regular courses this year and take a whole load of these new classes I have installed. Speaking of new classes, I have employed new teachers who have extensive knowledge in the courses, provided that very little is known about creatures known as Youkai and Hanyou in the magic world. Now, I would like to introduce you to Professor Sesshoumaru." Shippou whined slightly as he clamped his small hands over his ears.
Harry and the rest of the students expected Sesshoumaru to stand up, but he didn't. Instead he stayed rooted to his spot with a look of distain upon his face. Harry swore he saw him wrinkle his nose slightly in disgust as his golden orbs swept down across the room to survey the students around him. "Erm… Sesshoumaru is the man with the moon on his forehead. He shall be teaching Defense Against Demonic Energy, Youkai History, and the Youkai Social Cast. Please give a round of applause to our new teacher, and please save your questions regarding youkai for his classes. Next to him we have Professor Sakura. She shall be teaching Defense Against Demonic Energy along with Sesshoumaru, Youkai Magic, and Youkai Species." The dining hall erupted in clapping, but most of the girls seemed like they were melting in their seats while Sesshoumaru ignored them. Meanwhile, the boys goggled up at Sakura who also wore an impassive look.
Sakura stood up and bowed. Most of the students in the class gawked at her. Her cold, stony look melted as she smiled at all of them and sat back down. It was only then when Harry noticed she was wearing a red outer garment with golden patterns on it, along with a white undershirt. She also had a fluffy boa or pelt that she had arranged around her like a shawl. The hall erupted into claps and many catcalls from the boys. Harry swore he saw Sesshoumaru flash a glare at anyone who made catcalls. "Next to Professor Sakura is Professor Miroku. Miroku shall be teaching Demonology, Youki, and Youkais at a Glance. First years, I hope you notice that it is a basic class reserved just for you." Miroku stood up and gave all the girls a charming smirk before taking a seat. He also received a glare from Sango. All the girls seemed to drool in their plates.
"Next to Professor Miroku is Professor Sango, who shall be teaching Demonology alongside Miroku, and Miko, Houshi, and Tajjya studies." Sango stood up and also got a round of catcalls from the boys. She shot daggers at Miroku. At first Harry didn't understand why, but he noticed that Miroku's hand was posed ready to touch her bottom. He also noticed that she had kicked him under the table before flouncing down in her seat. "And the gentleman, who had made his grand entrance here, is Professor Inuyasha. Inuyasha shall be teaching Naraku studies, and Hanyou Studies…"
"I heard that, you bastard!" Inuyasha yelled standing up with his hand on the hilt of his sword. All the students gasped wondering why Inuyasha was so offended by what Dumbledore had to say. But when Sesshoumaru glared blankly back at Inuyasha, they understood. Inuyasha, despite Kagome's desperate attempts, had proceeded to jump on top of the table as he unsheathed his sword. "Just because I'm a half-breed doesn't mean that I didn't hear you call me a filthy hanyou, you cocky bastard! DIE!" His sword was rusted and old looking. Sesshoumaru had also jumped out of his seat, unsheathing his own sword. The Slytherins laughed at Inuyasha, thinking about how little he could do with a rusty sword.
"Do whatever, dear brother, but remember, I shall be the one who will kill you and take father's prized sword from you." The Slytherins were obviously wondering why Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were fighting over a rusty sword, but they didn't need to laugh any louder.
Inuyasha ignored them and simply spat: "Oh, I forgot." Inuyasha squeezed the hilt of his sword and it immediately transformed into a giant sword again, but that didn't keep the Slytherins from laughing. "STOP LAUGHING YOU PIECES OF SHIT!" Inuyasha shouted, now directing his tantrum towards a group of now terrified Slytherins. Something that resembled blue colored winds swirled around his sword before he yelled: "DIE! KAZE NO KI—"
"INUYASHA!" Kagome yelled and she grabbed onto him. Inuyasha was now struggling against Kagome as she tried her best to pull him back. Miroku had picked up his staff, which was leaning against the wall behind him and gave Inuyasha a good hard whack on the back of his head. Inuyasha whirled around in a frenzy to scream at Miroku. By this time Sesshoumaru sheathed his sword. "Inuyasha, don't make me say it!" Whatever Kagome had threatened Inuyasha with, it worked, because Inuyasha immediately backed down.
"Adults… I really don't want to grow up… they're crazy." Shippou sighed next to Harry as he shook his head.
"Are they always like that?"
"Yeah. Miroku has a bad habit of asking every mediocre or beautiful woman: 'Will you bear my child?' and he has some gravitational problems, it always seems to go horizontally towards any beautiful woman's rear end. Sango, in the meantime, has produced a habit in slapping Miroku thanks to his butt-groping ways, Kagome and Inuyasha fight every ten seconds, but Inuyasha usually starts it."
"SHIPPOU! I HEARD THAT!"
"WHAT? He can hear us all the way from there, with lots of noise too!"
"Damn straight, you stupid squirrel!"
"I'm not a squirrel, dog turd!"
"What! Why you…" Inuyasha was stopped when Kagome mouthed something. But Inuyasha didn't seem to care and the two of them had gotten into a heated argument that seemed to last for hours upon ends. Dumbledore was silent as he calmly waited for both Inuyasha and Kagine to calm down. Luckily, their argument died down without her saying whichever word she kept threatening him with. When the two finally did calm down, Dumbledore continued on with his speech..
"Yes, that was Professor Inuyasha, he is, err, has quite the humor." Inuyasha jerked his head in the opposite direction of Dumbledore and stuck his hands into his sleeves before snapping: KEH! "Ah, and that is what you will hear from him often. The last of them is Professor Higurashi. She shall be teaching Naraku Studies with Inuyasha, The Myths and Legends of Youkai, and the Legend of the Shikon Jewel. Please welcome Ms. Higurashi." Kagome stood up and bowed to all the students, overall, she gained a lot of catcalls from the boys, which made Inuyasha push her behind him and growl at everyone. Sesshoumaru, in the meantime, rolled his eyes. "And now since our introductions have been made, you shall receive your new schedules now." With one wave of his wand, letters appeared before the group.
Harry looked down at his schedule, which read:
HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY SCHEDULESDAY A:
POTIONS (SLYTHERIN) -------------------------------------------------- PROFESSOR SNAPE
DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS (SLYTHERIN) ------------ PROFESSOR UMBRIDGE
DEFENSE AGAINST DEMONIC ARTS (SLYTHERIN) ------------- PROFESSOR SESSHOUMARU, PROFESSOR SAKURA
HERBOLOGY (RAVENCLAW) ------------------------------------------- PROFESSOR FRITZ
CARE FOR MAGICAL CREATURES (SLYTHERIN) ---------------- PROFESSOR HAGRID
LUNCH
HANYOU STUDIES (HUFFLEPUFF) ---------------------------------- PROFESSOR INUYASHA
TRANSFIGURATION (YEAR 7) ------------------------------------------- PROFESSOR MACGONNAGALL
HISTORY (RAVENCLAW) -------------------------------------------------- PROFESSOR BINS
YOUKI (HUFFLEPUFF) -------------------------------------------------- PROFESSOR MIROKU
MYTHS AND LEGEND OF YOUKAI (SLYTHERIN) ----------------- PROFESSOR HIGURASHI
MIKO, HOUSHI, TAJIYA STUDIES (HUFFLEPUFF) -------------- PROFESSOR SANGO
DAY B:
CHARMS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PROFESSOR FLITZWICK
DIVINATION (HUFFLEPUFF) ------------------------------------------ PROFESSOR FIRENEZ
YOUKAI HISTORY (SLYTHERIN) ---------------------------------------- PROFESSOR SESSHOUMARU
NARAKU STUDIES --------------------------------------------------------- PROFESSOR INUYASHA, PROFESSOR HIGURASHI
ARITHMECY ------------------------------------------------------------------ PROFESSOR LAWNY
LUNCH
DEMONOLOGY (RAVENCLAW) ----------------------------------------- PROFESSOR MIROKU, PROFESSOR SANGO
YOUKAI MAGIC (HUFFLEPUFF) -------------------------------------- PROFESSOR SAKURA
YOUKAIS AT A GLANCE (SLYTHERIN) ------------------------------- PROFESSOR MIROKU
LEGEND OF THE SHIKON JEWEL (SLYTHERIN) ------------------ PROFESSOR HIGURASHI
ASTRONOMY ------------------------------------------------------------------ PROFESSOR IGMUS
"Oh boy… we've got that stupid Umbridge again!" Ron moaned, "She's the most boringest teacher ever, not to mention the most annoying! And five classes with Slytherin as well!"
"Sesshoumaru? WHY Sesshoumaru?" Shippou whined.
"What's wrong with Professor Sesshoumaru?" Hermione asked, "And you forgot to add professor before Sesshoumaru."
"I don't know what you mean by professor, but Kagome told me that you use the surname when using the word professor or whatever. As far as I'm concerned Sesshoumaru is Sesshoumaru's name."
"Doesn't matter."
"Well, we've called Sesshoumaru, Sesshoumaru many times, and he didn't rip us to shreds…" Shippou shuddered again, his tail spiking slightly. "And… there is something wrong with Sesshoumaru… he seems to have the icicle disease or something! And, one wrong move, he'll slash you to pieces with his claws or his Dokkasou."
"Dokkasou?"
"Yeah, the translation for Dokkasou is roughly: poison light whip. It forms out of his hands when his poison extends from his hand… slices anything it touches since it's basically acidic. Imagine that on your skin… if Inuyasha can barely dodge it, I'd like to see you go ahead and try… don't think that running would be a good idea either. He'd be right in front if you before you took three steps."
"He moves that fast?" Harry asked surprised.
"He's not human you know. Well, technically, if I grow older I might be able to run as fast as he can, but I'll probably die before my hundredth birthday."
"That's a long way." Harry muttered.
"For humans, yeah, but for me, I'd appear about their age at a hundred." Shippou pointed to a bunch of fourth year girls who were giggling at Shippou. "Youkais live very long lives, they're almost considered immortal. I daresay, if Hiten hadn't killed dad, he's probably die after about a hundred thousand years. Won't even look old either, no gray hair, no wrinkles, no nothing. You'd probably think he died at 25 years for humans."
"A hundred-thousand years?" Ron asked weakly.
"Well, that's the minimum he could live up to… maximum, maybe two hundred thousand years. It all really depends on what type of youkai you are."
"Blimey… that's bloody long."
"How about half-youkai like Inuyasha?" Harry inquired out of curiosity as he watched Inuyasha shoot daggers at Sesshoumaru who had just pushed his plate away from him in disgust. Inuyasha had just sneezed very loudly.
"You mean hanyou? Well, they live half the life of youkai. Maximum a hundred thousand years, minimum fifty thousand years. Actually, that's a kitsune hanyou, I don't really know about inu hanyous… but I'm guessing that Inuyasha would live longer than a kitsune hanyou."
"So, that Inuyasha guy… is he nearly dead yet?"
"No… he's far form dead, hadn't even finished a third of his life." Shippou sighed as Sesshoumaru turned to glare back at Inuyasha. A crackle of lightening flashed from Inuyasha's eyes to Sesshoumaru's. "He's only about… let's see, right now he's about two hundred years old, and if we weren't transported here, he would have been seven hundred years old… but he isn't, so he's two hundred years old."
"Two hundred? That's old!" Ron cried out, "Why does he look so young? He looks only a little older than we do!"
"Well, what about the Sesshoumaru character?" Harry asked. Sesshoumaru sneezed and hiss head snapped in his direction. The hairs on Harry's back rose when he fixed his cold gaze on him. "He couldn't possibly hear us, could he?"
"Oh he can…" Shippou muttered shivering, "His ears are even sharper than Inuyasha's… not to mention his nose… it a little creepy and no, I don't know his age. He's much older than Inuyasha… I think he's about five hundred years older."
"God, what is wrong with all these people? Let me guess, the guy in the blue and purple robe's three hundred years old."
"Nope, he's human. The only youkai we have here are: Inuyasha (sort of), Sesshoumaru, Sakura (she's actually Hanyou as well, but has more youkai blood than human blood), Kirara, Jaken, and me."
"And how do you know is those three are humans?"
"First of all, they're my friends, so I should know them very well,and second of all, I have a nose you know!"
"Nose?"
"Yeah. All youkais have sharper vision, enhanced hearing and superior noses compared to humans. It's just that inuyoukais have sharper ears and noses than regular youkai such as a spider youkai."
"Spider?" Ron asked weakly; his once excited and flushed face paled considerably."How big?"
"Oh, they're huge. I spend most of my time hiding behind Kirara because they're way bigger than Inuyasha, maybe you could barely fit one of them in this room. They also have toxic thread they shoot from their mouths." Shippou shuddered once more, his tail spiking up,and this time Ron joined him. "They find a particular liking in eating humans and cute little youkai children like me!"
"They eat humans?" Hermione asked surprised, "But in the book…"
"Never rely on those stupid, inaccurate ningen books, ningen." Came a cold reply. The four of them slowly looked up only to come face to face with Sesshoumaru. Shippou squealed in terror and hid behind Harry. "Most of the time, we taiyoukais don't bother with lowly ningen such as yourselves, you stink the world up. But the low-class youkais love to snack on ningen, the smellier the better." With that, Sesshoumaru literally glided out of the room.
"See how scary he is? Well, there you have it. He's right actually. I remember mom and dad ate raw meat, and some nuts, but I've never seen them eat humans, they're taiyoukai as well, in case you were wondering. As for Sesshoumaru, he's almost as creepy as Naraku, when he's bored, he kills humans… but that was before Rin (she was that little girl with the orange and white checked yukata with the green obi)… and that's what I heard from severalother youkai before meetingInuyasha. Heck, I didn't even know that Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru were related!" Shippou shook his head to keep himself from ranting and continued, now back on track:"But I don't think he ate them… he finds them revolting."
"You guys seem to keep talking about this Naraku guy… why don't' you tell us about him."
"I don't know, Kagome might like to tell you about him more in depths, but I highly doubt she'd bring up Kikyou and Inuyasha's relationship."
"Kikyou? Who's that?" Harry wondered aloud. "Hermione, did you see anything on Kikyou in your book?"
"For once in your life, you actually enjoyed the textbooks?"
"Hey, it's like reading a story book, even better! Unfortunately, we have no record of names, not even descriptions. But they did have some pictures of a giant dog with dark purple stripes near its mouth and another one with a crescentmoon on its forehead."
"Crescent moon? That must be Sesshoumaru's real form. Luckily, I never got to see it. Inuyasha chopped his left arm off in that form with the Tetsusaiga."
"Sesshoumaru's real form?"
"Yeah. The human form he's in is just a mask. His true form is, as dad and Kagome told me, a giant white dog with huge, poisonous fangs with acidic saliva and breath. I alsoheard of the story of Inutaisho, and they say he was the biggest inuyoukai in the world. Kagome told me that Sesshoumaru's real form and Inuyasha once fought in his ribcage."
"Inuyoukai?"
"Look, just find out the rest from Kagome in her class. She'd give you an insight on it."
"Yeah, but you already started."
"Okay then, I'll tell you only this: Inutaisho is Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's dad."
"Whoa… a big dog… so how big is Sesshoumaru?"
"Never saw him in his real form, I did see his eyes glow red when he was super pissed, but the Tenseiga saved him from transforming." Shippou looked as if he were thinking furiously beforecontinuing on with his answer, "Umm... Ican say that Sesshoumaru's real form is about ten times the size of a spider youkai, so I don't think he'd even fit in here.Ah… I'm full and I'm tired, I wanna sleep."
"Then what is the Tense-age-a and the Tetris thing?"
"Ron," Hermione rolled her eyes, "It Tenseiga and Tetsusaiga!"
"Well what are those, Shippou?" By then Shippou was already asleep. So Ron made an attempt to get Shippou talking again, but Harry placed his hand on his shoulder and shook his head no. Sighing, Ron gave in on all his questioning.
"I've read in our textbook on this Inutaisho guy that the Tenseiga is a sword that can bring a hundred people to life with one swing and the other Tetsusaiga can kill a hundred youkai with one stroke. Of course there was also another sword called Souuna, which was able to kill two hundred things and turnthem into an army of zombies. This one, they never found either, all three swords vanished without a trace." Harry said thoughtfully, "But they don't know what the Sounna, Tenseiga, and the Tetsusaiga looks like, nor did they mention them being passed on to anyone.I would wonder, what did Inutaisho look like anyway?"
"A giant dog," Seamus put in calmly from across the table. Him, Neville, and Dean were listening in on Harry and his friends. Neville looked horrified, while Dean looked thoroughly amazed.
"Well, I mean his human form, whatthetextbookgives are theseoriental pictures of this huge dog with red eyes, I wanted to see what his human form looked like since Shippou over here," Harry nodded to a now snoring Shippou beside him, "Told us that these youkai things can turn into human forms, or at least the higher youkais."
"Harry… you actually read those legends?" Dean asked throughly amazed.
"Why not? And, I don't think they are legends, if a man with dog ears on his head is standing before us with a kid who has a tail and fox feet, why not human-morphing beings?""
"I'm so proud of you! So did you start reading about Naraku?" Hermione burst out tearfully. Everyone else sweat-dropped.
"I did, but there's like only one tiny paragraph on him telling that he was in search for something and liked to kill humans for fun and was very evil."
"You know Harry," Ron said draping his arm dramatically around his friend's shoulder, we're about to find out some more about this Naraku guy, I can feel it!"
A/N: Well, there you have it. Another story, another life. Hope you enjoyed it!