Author's Note: Okay, so I know for a fact that it's been a while since I las updated though it wasn't my fault! I've been swamped with so many things and on top of that, I had to deal with moving, settling in, and no internet access for a while. But, here I am and I have a new chapter ready and waiting for you all!
Note: I sincerely thank all those who have reviewed this story - and thankfully, I haven't received any flames and for that, I am happy. (I am very sensitive and hateful reviews tend to send me to tears. Lol. I gotta work on dealing with rejection more.) Anyways, I remember some - or maybe just a couple - expressing their thoughts on how Kagome is in this story and I will tell you now, it will be a while before she turns into a somewhat sweeter person. She will be helpful and eventually - though not for a long while - part of the good guys. Though she stays on the light side, she will still have Slytherin qualities and the way she acts will be completely different than what other stories. Our dear Gome-chan is usually portrayed as someone sweet and heroine-like and though she will be a heroine, some of her characteristics will lead her to be questioned by others.
Information for a need-to-know basis: Kagome is going to be slightly mischievous in this chapter and some scenes and characters will be changed to fit Kagome. There will also be a part or two that Kagome replaces Draco or any other character in a certain scene or situation. (This is for any other future chapters as well.) You have been forewarned, so no flames stating that the scene wasn't how it was supposed to be. Again, this is a fanfiction. As such, not everything is how it should be like in the movies, books, series, ect. Thank you.
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Disclaimer: As much as I think it would be awesome, I do not own Inuyasha or Harry Potter. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi and J.K. Rowling, respectively. Any and all quotes borrowed from the books/ movies/ series are not mine. I take no credit what's so ever besides the story line of this fanfiction.
Chapter Three: Interactions Come in Different Forms
Seamless chatter filled the Great Hall as students of all houses worked diligently on homework - well, some of them at least.
"Psst, Gome?" Silence. "Kagome~" Poke. "Come on, answer me." Lead breaking. "Oi, Kags!"
"Ah, Draco I don't think -" Pansy tried interrupting as she noticed the growing annoyance on the usually stoic Ice Princess.
"What?" Kagome hissed at Draco who had stopped in his poking. She watched as he grinned at her - obviously happy with gaining her attention.
"I was hoping you could help me out with this essay." A groan and a glare. "Ah, you know what? I just gained an epiphany! Looks like I won't be needing your help after all!" Draco proclaimed as he nervously laughed before sighing in relief as Kagome returned back to her work.
Suddenly, a loud explosion sounded causing Kagome to sigh and drop her head onto her textbooks causing the group around her to laugh slightly before they turned to where the sound came from. When they took notice of one of the Gryffindors with soot and ash all over his face, the Slytherin table erupted in laughter.
Draco smirked at them as the Gryffindor table looked to them in slight annoyance and anger. "Bloody idiots. The lot of them. Can't even seem to get a spell right before causing trouble for themselves."
"Can't be helped, Draco. They are Gryffindors, after all." Kagome stated, never taking her eyes off her paper.
The sound of owls caught the attention of all the young witches and wizards.
"Looks like mail is here." The ever silent Daphne spoke in her quiet voice. The sound of packages dropping onto the tables and the incessant talking caused Kagome to give up on homework and to close all her stuff, intending to finish later in the library.
A package fell in front of Kagome causing her eyebrow to raise slightly. 'Hmm, looks like Father decided to send me something after all.' Kagome reached over and decided to see what she got before something caught her eye. Looking over, she saw Blaise - who decidedly sat next to her - pluck a newspaper from his mail before opening it. 'Believing to be the work of dark witches and wizards unknown, Gringotts goblins, while acknowledging the breach, insist that nothing was taken. The vault in question, number 713, had in fact been emptied earlier that same day.'
Kagome vaguely heard Harry Potter say something about going into that certain vault. "Maybe that was where he was headed with that big oaf before the year even started." Kagome mumbled to herself as she remembered passing by a boy entering the bank beside Hagrid, the school's key and ground keeper.
Flashback
"Mother, where was it that Father said to meet them?" Kagome asked her mother as they were leaving Gringotts.
Kagome turned her head to look ahead as she listened to her mother answer her question. The doors opened before she and her mother managed to get halfway across the room. She watched as a large man walked in and behind him came a rather small boy. Kagome tilted her head a bit as she concluded that he was most likely a first year at Hogwarts like herself. Taking a look at his clothing, a sneer appeared upon her face before she looked forward once more - dismissing the boy and turning her attention back to her mother. 'No use paying attention to him, he is nothing more than a poor blooded wizard. Not even worth my time.'
Passing by the two, time seemed to slow down as Kagome and the boy passed each other. As she chanced a look towards him, she was slightly surprised that he too looked at her. Sapphire blue clashed with curious, dark blue. Kagome's eyes unconsciously took in the rest of his features before settling on the scar on his forehead. Her head snapped forward as distance was quickly put between them. 'That scar... Harry Potter. Hmm, this will surely be an interesting year.'
End Flashback
"Kagome!" Said girl snapped out of her memories and looked to Draco who was watching her curiously.
"Yes?" Kagome asked, sounding aloof as usual.
Draco just shook his head and sighed. "Come on. We got to get to our next class. It's flying practice!" Draco exclaimed, barely being able to hold in his mirth at the thought of being able to fly.
Kagome nodded and took hold of all her stuff before placing it messily within her back and standing away from her table before leading the Slytherin group of first years outside.
"Kagome." Looking up, Kagome smiled softly at seeing her eldest brother in front of her. "Where are you headed?"
"Ah, big brother. We are headed to flying practice! We get to try out the brooms today." She grinned at him as Sesshomaru placed a hand on her head before nodding. Before he could say anything, however, he was interrupted.
"Just don't fall on your ass, eh Kaggy? That would be completely embarrassing and would look bad for the Taisho family's Ice Princess." Inuyasha popped out of nowhere, grinning and winking at her before moaning in pain as Sesshomaru slapped the back of his head in anger of being interrupted while Kagome stamp her foot into his at the insinuation of messing up.
"You should learn to keep your mouth shut, Inuyasha." Both Kagome and Sesshomaru spoke at once in the same cold voice, clearly proving their relation as brother and sister.
Grabbing onto the back of Inuyasha's collar, Sesshomaru promptly began to drag Inuyasha away as he waved good-bye to Kagome without looking back. Inuyasha's cries and protests were slowly becoming distant as Kagome and the group that she was with rolled their eyes.
Turning around, Kagome continued on her way. "Let's go. We'll be late if we linger any longer."
"Good afternoon, class." Madam Hooch announced to the class and after gaining a response in kind, she stopped her walking and turned around to face them all. "Welcome to your first flying lesson." Watching as they all looked at her, she raised an eyebrow. "Well," She started, "what are you waiting for? Everyone step up to the left side of their broomstick."
Kagome looked to her briefly then did exactly as told. Not taking her eyes off the broomstick, she listened for the next part of the instructions.
Once seeing that the first years all stood on the left side, Madam Hooch nodded once before announcing the next piece of information. "Alright then, stick your right hand over the broom," Kagome and the others immediately place their hands over their respective brooms, eagerly waiting, "and say, Up!"
Kagome blinked at that simple command then said in an even voice, "Up." Without hesitation, her broom came flying into her hand and she smirks at it. Hearing Harry's exclamation, she looks up and sees that he too had no trouble. She then noticed that Draco managed to get his with little to no difficulty.
Deciding to watch the others attempt at the task, Kagome withheld her smug grin as she took notice of the mudblood's struggle. 'Pathetic. She may be all book smarts but she clearly has no real magic in her fingers if the broom doesn't even respond to her call.'
Faintly, Hooch could be heard. "With feeling."
Kagome snickered as she heard a sickening smack as she saw the broom hitting the Weasley in the face.
After a while, everyone managed to get their broom into their hands. Looking to Hooch, they waited impatiently for her to continue. "Now," Kagome's grip unconsciously tightened in anticipation, "once you've got a hold of your broom, I want you to mount it." Kagome immediately mounted her broom as excitement entered her sapphire eyes.
She was so into the thoughts of what it would be like to actually fly that she missed the beginning part of the instructions. "...kick off from the ground, hard. Keep your broom steady, hover for a moment, and then lead forward slightly and touch back down." Kagome narrowed her eyes as she tried to figure out what was said in the beginning. Noticing no one else doing anything, Kagome relaxed slightly as she waited for a signal. "On my whistle," Ah, that's what she missed, "three, two..." Hooch blew the whistle, though before anything can happen, a frightened voice sounded.
Looking over, Kagome noticed one of the Gryffindors already in the air looking quite frightened. Kagome's heart skipped a beat at the thought of the student getting hurt before she squashed the fear. 'Why should I care if the Gryffindor got hurt? It's his fault for not being able to control the bloody broom.'
"Mr. Longbottom." Hooch called out to the boy as others started exclaiming to him and calling his name. The broom then took off with Hooch calling out to him.
"Ahhh!" The Gryffindor - Neville, Kagome deduced from the other Gryffindors - screamed atop the broom, not knowing what to do.
"Well that has got to suck, eh Kagome?" Kagome took her eyes off the wild broomstick and turned to Draco.
The corner of Kagome's mouth twitched up into a smirk. "Yeah..." She turned her eyes back to the Neville as the broom gave him the ride of his life, literally.
After he fell and was taken to the infirmary - and the threat of being expelled from Hooch - the two houses were silent before Draco snickered.
They all looked to him. "Did you see his face?" Kagome looked down and noticed Neville's Remembrall. Reaching down, she picked it up and smirked. Draco noticed and reciprocated her smirk. "Maybe if the fat lump had given that a squeeze," he gestured to the remembrall in Kagome's hand, "he'd have remembered to fall on his fat ass." He, along with many other Slytherins, laughed.
Kagome looked to the Gryffindors before noticing Harry step forward. "Give it here, Kagome." That one statement caused them all to stop laughing.
Kagome narrowed her eyes. "Who gave you permission to say my name so familiarly, Potter?" She asked, her tone cold at the blatant disrespect. Her hand tightened on the ball.
Harry Potter just rolled his eyes and held his hand out before repeating the demand. "It doesn't matter. Just give it back."
Kagome sneered and narrowed her eyes into a glare. "No." A thought flashed into her mind before she smirked. "I think I'll leave it somewhere for your friend to find." She hopped onto her given broom before levitating a bit higher into the sky, no fear shown on her face. "How about on the roof, eh Potter?" She went up higher in the sky and looked down with a satisfied smirk. She snickered. "What's wrong, Potter? Scared of a bit of height?"
Draco and the others watched her in awe before snickering as well before looking to Harry Potter to see if he'll take the bait. They watched as he grabbed his broom before Hermione stepped in. "Harry, no! You heard what Madam Hooch said! Besides, you don't even know how to fly."
"Oi, mudblood." Kagome's cold voice broke through the sky as she locked eyes with Hermione. "Back off. You have no say in this conversation."
At hearing the insult and seeing Hermione's hurt expression, Harry took up after Kagome.
Kagome smirked and watched as he stopped in front of her. She listened as he threatened to knock her off her broom. "Threatening a girl. How pathetic. How about this. If you manage to get to this remembrall before I do, I will apologize to your mudblood friend." He glared at her for the insult once more.
"And if I don't get to it?" Harry asked, not liking what she was insinuating.
"Well," Kagome drawled out as she grinned at him, "you'll just have to catch it before it comes to that, eh? On my count, yes?" Seeing him nod, Kagome pulled her arm back and threw the ball as far as she could before counting off to three. "Three!"
At once, they both took off towards the remembrall with the sound of cheering from both houses following them. Weaving in and out of the buildings, both Harry and Kagome failed to notice the sight of two house professors watching them both.
Sighting the remembrall, Kagome and Harry both sped up their broom as they took off after it. They watched as the ball went over the building. Kagome and Harry looked to each other before separating. Kagome went to the right and Harry to the left.
Seeing the remembrall, Kagome decided to have a little more fun and so, instead of catching it, Kagome turned her broom abruptly and used the tail end of it to hit the ball through one of the loops of the building, causing Harry to gape and turn around swiftly.
Kagome smirked and allowed him to catch it as she followed at a subdued pace deciding that she had enough fun as is.
She watched as he caught it and headed back to the group. Upon landing, he was surrounded by the Gryffindors as they praised his skill.
As she landed, Kagome too was surrounded by the Slytherins as they reenacted the events of her flying and hitting the ball perfectly through the loop. She smirked before sighing a bit. 'Might as well get it over with. A promise is a promise and a Taisho never go against their word.'
She walked over to where the future Golden Trio stood. Stopping in front of the mudblood, Kagome looked to Harry in slight appreciation as she recalled how he managed to keep up with the fast moving ball. She then turned her attention to the girl with the bushy hairstyle. Raising a brow at it, Kagome deduced it to a muggle hairstyle. She took a deep breath and looked the girl in the eye. "I am sorry for the insult, mu- Granger." Changing the name at last minute, Kagome nodded to Harry Potter before walking back to her group.
Managing only a couple of steps, Kagome was stopped as a voice spoke out. "Harry Potter? Follow me." She turned around and saw Professor McGonagall motioning for Harry to follow quickly. She sighed before turning away and grinned at Draco. 'Why do I get this feeling that he isn't really in trouble?'
Aaaaand, there you have it! The third chapter to A Slytherin Love Story. Hopefully it satisfies you all! I tried my best to make it as good as a chapter could be but do not worry, this will be a long story and everything will get much more exciting!
Now, a lot of interaction between the Ice Princess and the Boy-Who-Lived. And fluff between our faved couple!
Yes, Kagome is cruel to Hermione but do not worry, it will change - though I do not know how soon that will be.
Anyways, REVIEW and let me know what you thought of this chapter, kay? Please and thank you! (:
