The Wolf Miko
Chapter Four
The Attack, The Meeting, and the Japanese feast
In the headquarters of the order of the Phoenix, The Golden Trio sat at the kitchen table with Myoga.
"So when are they getting here I want to meet them." Ron said hopping up and down excitedly; desperately hoping they would be pretty, and drooling all over him. "Ron! You haven't even met them and you're drooling." Harry laughed. "What, I like girls butts." Ron said defensively. "Ah just like Lord Miroku." Myoga said dreamily remembering the old days when he used to gaze at young attractive women. By the way that was a really, really, really long time ago. Unfortunately for Myoga, he was forced to marry Shouga, the flea, by Nanako and Kagome five hundred years ago.
"Who was Miroku?" Ron asked preoccupied with his question. "That's Lord Miroku he was a Buddhist monk you see and he was quite the Letcher." Myoga corrected. "So in other words he was a pervert." Harry said hopelessly. "Quite right."
"So any idea on when their going to get here?" Harry asked looking out the window the sun had been setting and he was eager to meet these new girls. "If they are not held up they should be here soon." Lupin said coming into the kitchen. "SOMETHINGS OUTSIDE IT LOOKS LIKE AN ARMY OF SOME KIND!" Tonks came storming in with blood on her robes. "What do you mean?" Lupin said pulling out his wand. "They look like, well I don't quite know what they are but they look like the demons from books from five hundred years ago. I don't think that our magic won't work on them." Tonks tried to explain without showing too much of her fear.
Just then a boy in a demon slayer's fuku came running down the steps with his weapon and ordered everyone to stay inside. "My dear boy, Kohaku what do you expect from this? You will surely be killed!" Miss Weasly said in a mother like town but still firm. "I won't be killed I've dealt with demons before, if you haven't figured it out yet, I'm a demon slayer, and this is my duty, and I'm your only hope."
Kohaku ran out the door and there where many shrieks and screeches heard from the demons, but of course no one listened to Kohaku's warning to stay indoors. They saw him slice many of the creatures with his chained weapon and were startled by one of the creatures speaking to Kohaku.
"Kohaku give us the sacred jewel shard!" The demon said "I don't think so." Kohaku attacked the one who speak slicing his big ogre like head in half, killing him instantly. "WATCH OUT KOHAKU!" Tonks shirked. Kohaku was being attacked from behind and his weapon was far from reaching distance, and now was left defenseless. "HIRAIKOTSU!" Suddenly a huge boomerang came swooping down and sliced the demon in half. When the thing presumed as the "Hiraikotsu" came into its returning journey it came to a young girl about the same age as Harry.
Ron was freaking out seeing a huge spider demon coming at them. "Harry what do we do? I really think we should have listened Kohaku." Ron whimpered.
"I agree with you Ron but there's nothing that can be done now." Harry said now back to back with Ron and watching helplessly as the spider demon came closer to the pair, when the spider came close enough to kill, a blue light engulfed the spider and it was instantly disintegrated at contact of the score of the weapon, what ever it may be. After the spider disappeared a girl in jeans and a T-shirt was revealed to have attacked the demon. She then turned to the ones coming at them from the sky.
"I THINK THESE ARE SOME OF NARAKU'S DEMONS!" Kagome shot another arrow. The arrow shone the pure light only to those with spiritual power as it traveled the distance to its target, then and only then did it show the power to disintegrated the horde of demons still pending. It seemed like just an ordinary arrow to those of the wizarding community, meaning, Harry, Ron, Tonks, Lupin, Fred, George, Ginny, Miss Weasly, Mr. Weasly, and the already graduated minority of the Weasly family.
"O-K so how many of these suckers do I have to slice up?" Takara asked spinning the Hiraikotsu over her head like a windmill to prevent any demon guts from falling on her, as well as protect her from down pouring demons. "OK I'VE HAD IT I'M THROUGH WITH THIS WARM-UP I'M TURNING THIS PLACE INTO A SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FOR DEMONS!" Nanako shouted, her temper getting the better of her. "Tikara calm down we just have a hundred more to go it'll take five minutes if Kohaku helps."Point taken, Kohak-" Nanako was cut off mid sentence by Kohaku jumping in front of her and on to the newly transformed Kiroru killing 1/3 of the demons leaving the rest of them for Kagome and Nanako to divide amongst themselves.
Kagome shot arrow after arrow, shooting at the demons that where airborne, while Nanako killed those who where on the ground. "Ha no demon or human can defeat the great and powerful Wolf Girl! HA HA HA HA HA!" Nanako went into her hyper mode and finishing off the last of the demons.
"Did you steal cookies from mom's cookie jar?" Kagome asked scolding her sister. "Um I could have, what I love mom's co- I SMELL GYU-DUN, PICKLED RADISHES, EGGS, RICE BALLS, BACKON, SOSAGE, AND GREEN TEA!" Nanako said sniffing the air and coming closer to the door. "HUH DID YOU JUST SAY GYU-DUN?" Kagome shrieked. "If you didn't, I'd think you would be either deaf or imagining things." Nanako laughed "Race you?" Nanako offered. Kagome nodded. "I'M COMING SWEET FOOD; I'M COMING TO EAT YOU!!!!!!!!" Both girls bolted off. Leaving a very shocked Ron, and Harry.
Though the girls where disappointed they couldn't get in without the secret password. "COME ON YOU STUPID THING I WANT MY GYU-DON NOW!" Kagome shrieked pulling on the door. As if that weren't enough in the blink of an eye a flying cow with three eyes came face to face with Harry, and Ron.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Ron screamed. He was really on the edge ever since the attack on them from demons. "TOOK YOU LONG ENOUGH TOTOSAI! I WANT MY FOOD! TRAVLING HALF WAY ACROSS THE WORLD ISN'T GOING TO HELP MY GROWLING BELLY AND SHORT TEMPER!" Nanako (Maybe now I should call her Tikara.) screamed pulling on the door knob of number 12 Grimauld place.
After the situation of the two girls going crazy over the food and trying to break into Harry's newly acquired House of Black, it became calm, for the most part, but there was a lot of explaining to do.
"So tell us. Who is this guy?" Ron asked stuffing eggs into his mouth. "Well this is Totosai, he's a great sword smith, however cowardly he may be, he..." Myoga replied while on the shoulder of Ron, and then suddenly being interrupted by Nanako "Oh yeah, Myoga just as you always abandon people during fierce battles or danger!" "Well uh, that is to say." He stumbled on his response. "Oh can it Myoga. There's no point in making excuses." Kagome said taking a bite of a rice ball. "By the way you two never introduced yourselves. What are your names?" Lupin said taking interest in the elevating conversation. "Oh I'm sorry sir. My name is Tikara Stukumi-Higurashi, or that's so no one gets confused between us being called Higurashi. You see Ka- , ahem-mm, Sango here is my sister." Nanako said catching herself and gesturing in the direction Kagome. Looking at Nanako in complete relief she bowed politely at her introduction. "Hello." Kagome said as she began on her desert.
"Um Miss Weasly was it?" Kagome said looking at the ice-cream and pie. "Yes Sango." Miss Weasly said serving everyone some butter beer. "Did you know Japanese deserts aren't sweet?" Kagome replied informatively. "Uh no I did not know that dear. I am truly sorry for the mix-up." Miss Weasly said preparing to take Nanako's ice-cream bowl. "NO, I love ice-cream and it's been a while since I've been to America and had it as an actual desert." Nanako said pulling the bowl out of Miss Weasly's reach.
"Oh so you've been to the states?" Kingsley Shacklebolt asked, really getting interested. "What state?" He asked. "Yes, I have been, and Colorado." Nanako said piling lots of Cherries on her ice-cream. "I myself have been there before for some business." Tonks said as matter-of-fact. "On the vacations I used to go and visit my old friends, we used to play this great sport called Goal ball, it works better with blind people, you see, and we won a lot of games during tournaments." Nanako said scooping up more ice-cream into her bowl. "This sport, Is it a muggle sport?" Mr. Weasly asked. "Yes but it's a lot of fun."
"So how do you play?" Mr. Weasly was really getting into this. "It's better to show you. Maybe on a vacation we could go to America and I could show you." Nanako said trying to find out more about these people. "SOOOO! How old are you two." Ron said trying to attract attention from the newcomers. "Sixteen." Kagome said. Not thinking much of the question. "And how about you." Ron said elbowing Nanako on the arm. "I'm only six months younger than Sango and so I'm sixteen too." Nanako said elbowing Ron hard on the ribs instead of back on the elbow. "Oh and first mistake, don't ever elbow me. I can really make people hurt." Nanako said winking at Kagome who winked back.
"So what's it like living in Japan?" Mr. Weasly asked while getting hit on the head by Miss Weasly with a spatula. "Well, haven't you asked Kohaku?" Nanako asked thoughtfully. "Oh no I haven't. Wait a moment, he's gone." Mr. Weasly said looking at the empty seat that Kohaku had occupied. "Mmm I guess that means it's time to turn in. Come on Niruki, Sango, and Kirara." Nanako was ready to leave before being interrupted by Lupin.
"Hang on you still didn't tell us how you got here." Lupin said grabbing the sleeve of Nanako's Kimono. "We flew to London, and then we flew here. Is it that hard to comprehend?" Nanako stated coldly. Immediately seeing the girl's change in character he let go, deciding he would ask Dumbledore. A while after the girls left for bed Dumbledore walked into an extremely quite room. "Professor? Why do you think Tikara acted oddly when we asked her how she got here?" Harry asked looking at his empty plate.
"Well Harry I believe it has something to do with the fact that her and her sister have recently had a terrible hardship, one that might even be worse and more terrible than your own. I believe you should ask professors Totosai and Myoga. He knows the girls better and it'll give you an opportunity to get to know your new teachers." Dumbledore said wisely and stood to leave. "Good night professor." Harry said rushed to go see Totosai.
"Excuse me? Totosai?" Harry asked knocking and getting no answer, slowly peered through the door. "Sir, Are you in here?" Harry said waling in the seemingly empty room. "Close the door! It'll put out the fire." an ancient sounding voice came through to Harry's ears, and he looked at the floor.
Seeing an open door, he closed the door to the dark room and walked down the steps to a sword smith's lair. "So what do you want to know?" Totosai said not turning and hammering on what seemed to be piece of metal. "I would like to know more about Tikara and Sango." Harry said sitting on the floor. "Ah well I heard you ask how they got here. I should say yes they flew with me to London and unfortunately I can't give you more on that subject." Totosai said continuing his work and trying to keep the girl's secret.
Flashback
"So who's picking us up?" Nanako said pacing by the front steps of the shrine. "I don't know." Kagome said getting frustrated with the girl pacing before her. Kagome was wearing a T-shirt saying 'Hello Kitty' on it and a pair of torn up jeans, her hair was in a high ponytail. She had only packed a duffle bag and her big yellow backpack that held all her cloths and things she though might be necessary. Her bow and quiver of arrows were on her shoulder, Kirara curled up in her arms.
Nanako on the other hand was dressed in all her cloths, consisting of her demon slayer's uniform, her formal miko pants(what are they called), her robe of the fire rat, over that, her miko horai, and last but not least, Sesshomaru's old horai. If that weren't enough she had her sword, dagger, poisons, remedies, bow, arrow, and Hiraikotsu all strapped to her body one way or another and Niruki on her shoulder. Nanako unlike Kagome had a single Hiking backpack and a straw had and rain coat, from the feudal era. "So you look ready for a battle."
Kagome said casually. "Yup. Hey is that Totosai?" Nanako said looking up "Yah! It is. HEY TOTOSAI!" Kagome said franticly waving. "Oh hello Kagome, Nanako. I'm here to get you." Totosai said landing in-between the two girls. "Great! We never expected you." Nanako said trying to drag her bag. "Um Totosai. Do you mind calling us Sango and Tikara?" Kagome said sheepishly. "Well who's Tikara and who's Sango." He asked the two. "I'm Tikara and Kagome is Sango." Nanako said kicking at her bag. "Ah I see, and will you give me your bags pleas." Totosai said holding out his boney hands to the girl's luggage.
"What'll you do with them? Nanako and Kagome asked in unison. "Watch and I'll show you." Totosai said pulling out a wand. The girls looked at each other, blinked and let go of their bags. "Teleportus." Totosai said waving the wand over the girl's belongings and then all three bags disappeared. "What did you do with them? Kagome asked looking down at the place where her bags just where and looked at Totosai. "I sent them to our destination, where we will be staying till first term starts." Totosai said getting comfortable on his steed.
"Ok so how will we get there?" Kagome asked, thinking there was another way. "There are other ways of getting to London, Like flo powder, apparition, port key, but since those take an extreme amount of magic and clearly you two don't have the skill nor the wands to do them, we will be flying." Totosai said scratching his chin.
"So like broomsticks?" Kagome said excitedly clapping her hands together. "No you will learn that when we get to school, I think we'll stick to the things we know. And I certainly don't want you two to be falling off your brooms due to bad skill. Not only that, but if I fell that there be some problems soon. Also, I trust Niruki and Kirara to do the job of transportation better than some old pieces of wood." The girls looked at each other and started laughing. Never have they heard Totosai talk so much, and in such strong English. If that was a surprise for them then there was still the way Totosai spoke, once so wise, and full of knowledge, well he still had all that stuff, but didn't sound like it now.
"What happened to you Totosai? The years catch up to you?" Kagome laughed. "I suppose so." Totosai said looking inquiringly at the two girls.
"Well, we should get going." said Totosai taking off at full speed. "HANG ON YOU BAKA! ARE WE JUST SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW YOU? CUZ KNOWING YOU WE'RE PORBABLY GOING TO END UP IN SOME SORT OF PIT WITH A FLAMING LAVA DEMON!" Nanako screeched jumping on Niruki with her Hiraikotsu on her back not knowing she would soon need it.
"Not many demons exist now. Probably just Niruki, Kirara, Myoga, you, myself and well the one I'm riding on of course." Totosai said with his thick British accent, and then he look back to the girls who were far behind. "Tell me you're referring to Nanako the Wolf Girl." Kagome teased. "I am young Kagome. You are both in great danger. This situation will be explained as soon as possible, but now I do not have the knowledge of the situation to do so myself. As we get your things for school, your predicament will be explained to you in due time."
When, at last, the three old friends came to London it had been light for quite some time since the sun was a little past midday. They came to a confined area where Niruki, and Kirara could change back into their innocent forms and Totosai could leave his cow thingy with other cows. (is the animal Totosai has a cow?) The two girls fallowed Totosai into an old pub where they soon met a man with such a long beard, it nearly reached the floor, and hair that was so long and silvery Kagome and Nanako would have almost thought this man be a demon or Sesshomaru gone old, really, really, really old. "Greetings to you. I am Professor Dumbledore and this is Minerva McGonagall, and pleas call her Professor McGonagall. It would be highly appreciated." The man now known as Dumbledore gestured to a middle-aged looking woman with a tight bun and a stern looking face, but her eyes said she was kind. "Hello Professors." Kagome and Nanako said bowing politely. The two professors acknowledged their response with a nod.
"Won't you tell us your names?" Professor McGonagall asked politely gesturing the two girls to follow them. "My name is Tikara Akiko Hiroshi Stukumi Higurashi." Nanako said adjusting her Hiraikotsu on her back and Niruki in her arms. "Yes and I am Sango Kikitsuko Higurashi." Kagome said with a friendly smile and doing the same thing with her bow and arrows as Nanako did with her Hiraikotsu.
"I see. So being as you are both in the same year, what shall we call you? By last names, am I correct?" Dumbledore said turning and his eyes glinting with their familiar warmth that they both recognized as the look Inuyasha and Sesshomaru once gave them. "Well just to make things easier on you all I'd like to be called, Higurashi as my last name so if we have the same classes, of which I don't doubt for some of them, and Tikara can be called Stukumi-Higurashi, OR Akiko-Higurashi." Kagome said seeing the annoyed look that Nanako was giving her. "That will work mine Miss. Higurashi. I think Akiko-Higurashi is better. Your other name seems too complicated to pronounce." Dumbledore said walking into the back area.
Professor McGonagall taped the bricks and expecting the shocked face of the two girls to reveal their amazement. Seeing both girls act as if it were a normal thing to see such things intrigued the professor, never had a student reacted in such a way. "Have you two been to Diagon Ally before?" Professor McGonagall asked. "No ma'am we haven't. Actually we've never even thought wizards and witches to be in existence till our letters came." Kagome said looking wonderingly at all the stores and shops containing odd things that she never saw before, though not to the point of being amazed, she had seen most of the things in the shops. The few things that the two girls never laid eyes on before were the candies and treats, dark magic detectors, a flying broom, though it didn't really interest the girls, Wheazly's Wizard Wheeze, and such things that wouldn't be found in the feudal era, or something they'd fought before. "Well it seems you both don't need a pet. So we shall carry on the Gringots Bank. I do think there is much more things left to be desired." Dumbledore said in a cheerful voice.
"But sir we don't have an account here." Kagome said panicking. "Ah but you do Miss. Higurashi, You do indeed have one, it has been in saving for about five hundred years." Dumbledore said handing to Kagome, a small beautiful gold key that had small jewels that looked like the Shikon No Tama that was resting warmly around Kagome's neck, it brought her sweet and painful memories.
"I don't suppose you have one for me? Well you see it was sort of recently, I was adopted into the Higurashi family and so I don't think there would be enough money for me would there?" Nanako said finding her feet interesting. "Ah yes I see, but I must inform you that you are in, for some reason in a vault that once belonged to the Great Nanako Stusokei herself you must be a descendent of her, she was a great empress who ruled over the lands of your country of Japan about five hundred years ago if not a bit longer." Dumbledore said handing a very beautiful silver key to Nanako. "Let us be on our way now." Dumbledore said walking to a troll and announcing the girl's and handing the troll their key to prove admittance.
As the two girls traveled down deep into the depths of the bank there were lingering thoughts left in Nanako and Kagome's head.
I don't remember setting up an account here, Maybe I set in up after this year, yah get this thing over with, go back and set up an account so I'll have an account to have here… wait, that doesn't make much sense." Nanako thought hard and had the "Leave me alone" face that Kagome knew so well.
"I wonder how I got an account into the Higurashi family. Is any of my family part of this weird wizarding community? Or is there something more? Did Kikyou set this up as a trap? Is she even alive now? If so where is she? Is she still after my soul?" Both girls jumped out of their thoughts when the cart jerked and stopped in front of Kagome's Vault. Kagome got all she could fit in her sack and prodded Nanako to speak to her finding no reply Kagome found her sister was much more depressed and touchy than she was, even when she would be mad at Sesshomaru or Inuyasha for something and sit them for wrong doing. Once Nanako got what she needed the four went to Ollivander's wands.
"Hello?" Kagome said shyly. "Ah So Miss. Higurashi and Miss Hiroshi what a pleasure to see you both." Ollivander said coming to the counter. "Actually it's Akiko Higurashi sir. I'm now part of the Higurashi family you see." Nanako said in a quiet voice. "I see well we'll get started on your sister and then your up."
Ollivander said handing Kagome a wand. The first thing that happened even scared Kagome and Nanako, the windows shattered, boxes fell everything looked as if Kouga had just come in and ransacked the place twelve times. "NO NO! That is not it." Ollivander said snatching the wand out of Kagome's hand. This went on for about three hours till. "Maybe just maybe." Ollivander said taking out a box formally decorated with a carving that looked like Tetsusaiga and the Shikon No Tama.
Kagome simply grasped the wand before being engulfed in blue and pinkish light, just as she did when she fell through the well and when she discovered the Jewel in her body. "It seems that this rare wand, one of a kind is destined to be with you Miss Higurashi. You see this wand contains a very strong core. I has a hair of a Hanyou as you may call them in Japan one that belonged to a half human half dog demon, the only one in existence, a hair of a fire-rat, and a single shard of The legendary Shikon No Tama, Not only that but the wood mad for this wand is from the Tree of ages." Ollivander said handing the wand to Kagome. The wand had vine looking carvings on the handle and on the end of the grip was a carving that looked like Inuyasha's beads of subjugation.
"Why does my life have to be followed by this stupid Jewel and Inuyasha? I know he's talking about Inuyasha's robe of the fire-rat and his hair, probably the strand Yura caught, And Inuyasha's Tetsusaiga. Why does my life have to be connected to him?" Kagome thought painfully, she was so deep in her inner questions she didn't even notice she was crying.
When it was Nanako's turn it was pretty much the same thing and when Ollivander was getting another wand for her she looked at Kagome's depressed look, the same look she had when she knew Inuyasha had gone to see Kikyou. It took a little shorter time for her though. The wand Nanako received was just as rare. Ollivander had said her wand contained a strand of the Hanyou's brother a full Inu-youkai or full dog demon, no doubt it was Sesshomaru she could feel it, but her wand contained the single magical cherry blossom in existence to side with and purify Sesshomaru's hair in the core of her wand, no jewel to go with it, just a magic cherry blossom and a strand of Sesshomaru's hair. Her wand was decorated with a demonic dog, the exact likeness of Sesshomaru. Nanako had the same questions going through her head as Kagome did.
Nothing too special happened after that, They simply got what they needed, learned the evils of Voldemort, and his Death Eaters and the Dementors that were on his side, and of course learned of Harry, but didn't think much of it, he was just a normal boy that had too much expected of him, or at least that's what Nanako thought, she didn't know what Kagome thought. They didn't fear saying his name either they knew he wasn't any different from Naraku and know basically what to expect, nor did they budge when they found they where in nearly the same predicament with the death eaters and their evil master as Harry and the rest of the wizarding community, it was the same as before with Naraku, Kagura, Hakudoshi, Kanna, and the rest of his demons.
It was just the same thing to them as it had been in Sengoku Jidai. Voldemort represented Naraku, Kagura, one of the death eaters, and Kanna would be this Wormtail person, and everybody else would be Naraku's detachments, his demons would be the Dementors. It wasn't any different from what they left behind.
It was now nearing sunset and they where on their way to this Number 12 Grimauld Place, it almost seemed like they where back on the battlefield, demons everywhere, creating havoc and mayhem. Kagome and Nanako knew it wouldn't be the best first impression to come riding in on two cat demons, so they dismounted a ways away from the actual battle taking place between human and demon.
This is where this chapter begins.
End Flashback
"Totosai? Totosai? TOTOSAI!" Harry yelled trying to get the old geezer's attention. "Huh? W-what was that Harry?" Totosai said stepping out of his thoughts. "I was wondering what Tikara and Sango's life was like before they came here." Harry said finally relieved he got Totosai's attention. "All I can say is that it might be wise to leave young Tikara alone till she feels like opening up, you see she has had a hard time, she's still trying to sort things out and as for Lady Sango she should be left alone as well though I highly doubt either of them will talk to anyone but Niruki and Kirara." Totosai said rather solemnly.
"Well where did they get Kirara and Niruki from?" Harry asked trying to get any information he could. Lady Sango received Kirara as a farewell gift and Lady Tikara the same from a dear friend only as a birthday present." Totosai said hammering harder on the hot metal like fang.