HEEY!!!! HAPPY EASTER!!!
So yeah, I tried putting up a chapter up for easter, but I kinda got distracted...
Then, stuff has just been focused around Leap, and Ileap and such,and its been crazy.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed that little peak into Inuyasha's mind, just too see how very jealuous/sensative/and conflicted he can be. Anyway, yeah...I have a poll someplace on my profile, though I'm not sure if it's showing so go check it out. If it isn't there just P.M./Comment me and I will try and fix it. :) PLLLLLLLZ DO THE POLLS...I need to get votes
Well, heres to a longer chapter.
We made our way quickly back to the common room, avoiding anyone who saw or heard about the little stunt at dinner. We sighed, full of relief, as the portrait hole closed behind us.
"How many times do I have to say that I forgot?" Inuyasha pouted. It was like this the whole way here, up the full seven stories.
"I told you, it's okay!" I said for about the tenth time, I was starting to get annoyed. I didn't even understand why he forgot in the first place, he usually doesn't mess up like that. Something's distracting him. I wondered if it was Naraku.
"You're still mad." He stated. Uh!!!! My moment of concern evaperated.
"No, I'm not."
"Yeah, Kagome. You are. I'm not an idiot...." He muttered, though right now I would disagree. Baka. He crossed his hands in front of his chest.
"I told you, I'm not mad." I said, trying to sound calmer. It wasn't working very well. I took a deep breath.
"But-" He objected.
"I'm not mad, you just keep bringing it up!" I interupted.
" 'Cuz you're still mad!"
"No, I'm not!" I yelled, not able to control my temper any longer.
"Then why are you yelling?!" He yelled back, almost growling.
"Because you are making my nerves bad! I told you I'm not mad!" I yelled once again.
"Well excuse me for trying to apologize!" He said, almost in a yell, it struck a nerve, making me feel guilty. Hermione, Harry and Ron were sitting on the couch, out of the way of the battlefield.
"I'm sorry." I told him. "It's okay, lets just drop it." I said finally, wanting to just move on. I was tired of arguing about something so pointless.
"No, don't be. I'm fine." He said, and really I wanted to hit him or something. What did he want me to do? Be mad? Apologize? Neither one was working.
This is when Hermione decided to intervene, answering my silent wish. "Well, classes are over, so I think we should make our way to the meeting. Luna and the others will be waiting."
"Oh, that's tonight, isn't it?" I asked, though it was more of a statement than a question. She nodded and I grinned, trying to forget the whole fight altogether.
"Where exactly are we going anyway?" Inuyasha asked as we scurried quietly down the hall. He still looked pouty from earlier.
"Shh!" Hermione hissed, ducking behind a statue. Ron and Harry hid behind the curtain to left of it, Inuyasha and me in the right. I was grateful that they were long. Not a few seconds later did Professor McGonagall and Umbridge come walking down the hall, bickering back and forth.
"....don't care what you say, Minerva." said Umbridge, an unconcerned look set firmly on her toad like face. "It is my detention and I will decide how the students are to be punished."
"That may be, but still, the students are not to be physically harmed, Dolores." Professor McGonagall countered, her voice raising a few octaves as she said Umbridge's first name. "Imagine what the parents-"
"They already know. I sent word by owl to each parent and told them that if they have objections that they may withdraw their child from Hogwarts and take the matter up with me and the minister himself." She said acidly, enjoying her power. "I've received none back."
They were now standing directly across from us and I glared at the toad, though I could hardly make out her puffy, pink image through the one-way curtain.
"Of course you received no objections. A parent, especially at a time such as this, would be a fool to pull their child out now." Professor McGonagall told Umbridge.
"Well then, there should be no objection. If a parent is all right with me disciplining their child in exchange for a spot at this school there should be no room for argument. Besides, you, as well as the children, know deep down that they deserve what punishment they receive." She finished, a smug grin on her face. I almost ripped through the curtain and confronted her, but I couldn't blow our cover.
When the two professors parted ways we emerged slowly, checking first to make sure no other professors were in the halls. From there, we headed all the way up to the seventh story and stopped, catching our breath. When I looked around I was confused, where were we going? We were standing before a plain wall, nothing special about it.
"Wait here, I'll open the door." Hermione said and started pacing back and forth near the wall. Once, twice...I was about to ask her if she needed help, but as she paced the third lap near the wall, the door appeared out of thin air. Inuyasha cringed at the sudden appearance. Astonished, I could do nothing but gape at it.
"Well, Hurry up. Come on." Ron said, pushing our shocked bodies through the door quickly. I turned around and watched the door disappear once we were all safely inside.
"Well." I said, still looking at the now door less wall. "That's effective." There was laughter behind me.
I turned and got my first glimpse of the room and what could I say, it was perfect. It was spacious, providing us with more than enough room to move around freely. Best of all, it was stocked. There were test dummies, mirrors, and best of all...an armory. I grinned. Excellent.
"What do you think?" Harry asked as he walked closer to me, talking over the whispers that were beginning to spread through the students already here. Most were positive, but some, though quite few, were undecided. Wary even.
"This is great. Are there any more students coming?" I asked, looking over the students already here. There were at least a dozen, maybe more, though I only recognized a few by name. Ginny was here, along with Fred, George, Luna and...Neville who just walked in, followed by a few more students.
"No, this is usually it." He answered before walking over to the crowd of gathering students. As he approached they settled down. I figured by now that Harry was the leader. "Welcome back, guys." He greeted warmly, getting cheers from the crowd, which was now starting to disperse, walking nearer to the practice dummies. "Well, before we begin again today I want to introduce two very good friends and valuable comrades." He said before gesturing towards Inuyasha and I. "This is Inuyasha and Kagome, though I'm sure by now you already know. He smiled and I gave a polite wave. Inuyasha just crossed his arms, looking uncomfortable.
"They will be helping us with Voldemort...and another threat." Hermione said, adding the last bit carefully, getting curious looks from everyone beside Harry, Ron, Inuyasha and I.
"Another threat? Harry, what does she mean?" Ginny asked nervously, though a few students mirrored her words.
"Voldemort has a partner?" Fred guessed, causing looks of worry to take over most of the student's expressions.
"Maybe." Inuyasha answered. "Or maybe a demon has him." Inuyasha replied. There was complete silence. I'd never thought of it that way. Naraku is smart and powerful, maybe even powerful enough to control Voldemort.
Soon the silence was broken and filled by whispered words of disbelief.
"What?"
"Demon?"
"What's a demon?"
"Harry, explain this, please?" Cho Chang, who was pointed out earlier by Hermione, said.
Harry thought for a moment, trying to collect his thoughts, before sighing. The other members waited expectantly for his explanation. "Actually, I think Kagome should explain this." He said, and then all eyes were on me. I closed my eyes for a moment. Why was I always the one stuck to do stuff like this? Honestly, I wasn't the only one that knew what was going on.
"Okay, then. " I said, thinking for only a moment. "There's no easy way to explain this...but Ginny, do you remember what Inuyasha said a while back, about how Voldemort was acting like a certain demon he knew?" I asked and she nodded hesitantly. That was good, now I had some place to start. "Well." I continued, turning to Inuyasha. "He was talking about a demon, well, half demon." I corrected. "Named Naraku." I waited a while, but no one spoke.
"She's telling the truth." Harry said, which only seemed to make the silence worse. Eventually though, someone spoke.
"I still don't get where you're going with this, Harry." An Irish Gryffindor said. "When you say demon, you mean....like what, a monster or something?" He asked.
"Yeah. Something like that. Just add a bit about how he cut out his heart, separated it from his body in one of his reincarnations so we can't get rid of him, and has an annoying knack for getting on my last nerves." Inuyasha said bitterly, muttering "coward," under his breath. This only made everyone else even more confused.
"Cut out his heart. You're kidding? And how can this, Naraku, be half demon? It's impossible, isn't it?" Neville asked, his voice breaking a bit. This was followed by 'yeahs' and nods of agreement.
"It's possible, though I can't really explain it. There isn't enough time to go into detail about what Naraku did to become what he is now." I said, shuddering at the thought.
"I just still don't see-" The Irish boy began, but was interrupted by Inuyasha.
"Well then, open your eyes!" He said sarcastically. "We don't have time to argue about what you think is possible or not." Inuyasha yelled.
"Back off! You don't have the right to tell me what to do. Besides, you can't expect us all to just believe something like this. It doesn't make any since. There's no proof."
"Now, Dean. Sure there is." Luna inquired, a dreamy look in her eyes and a smile on her face. "I'm sure he has more to tell us, right Harry?" She asked and he nodded.
"Just tell us this. How did you get your hands on this information? Dumbledore told you?" Dean asked, starting to really get on my nerves.
Before Harry spoke I answered, "No. We did. And we happen to know exactly what we are talking about."
"How-" Another student asked, but Inuyasha interrupted.
"This is getting us nowhere!" Yelled Inuyasha, growing even more impatient. "Lets just tell them!"
"Not yet!." I yelled, my nerves making the words seem harsher than intended.
"Why not?!" He yelled. "Just get it over with!"
"We can't just rush into something like this!" I told him, trying to control my voice.
"Tell us what?" Someone asked.
"THAT I'M A HALF DEMON!" Inuyasha yelled. I slapped my hand to my forehead and sighed. So much for easing our way into this.
"You're a what?" asked Neville, shock, concern and fear was playing with his features.
"A half demon. A Hanyo." Inuyasha said again, annoyed.
"No you're not. You're human." Ginny said in denial.
"Yeah." Dean agreed, crossing his arms over his chest. "There's no way. You can quit the act."
"Dean, he's telling the truth." Harry said, and when Dean didn't budge he added, "We have to trust each other."
"Yeah, and we would know." Dean countered sarcastically. "Especially considering what's been going on recently."
"Drop it, Dean." Hermione said, her voice demanding, defending Harry.
"Kagome." Inuyasha sighed, "Just let me take off this dang necklace." His eyes were pleading.
Sighing, I answered, "Fine, go ahead." I hoped that I wouldn't regret it. Inuyasha grinned.
"What's it do?" Dean was the first to ask, echoed by the others.
As Inuyasha gripped the stone of the necklace he answered, "It conceals my demonic energy, making me appear human." At this said, the bigmouth, Dean, cringed.
When no one objected to what he said he took off the necklace. A slightly smug smile played at my lips as he reverted back to his white haired, golden-eyed former self. White dog ears and all.
The girls squealed, some frightened and some thinking he was adorable.
Dean just gaped at him. "Believe us now, Dean?" Hermione asked, smug. Inuyasha glared at him, daring him to say something else.
After questions started erupting and some tried going for Inuyasha ears, we started to explain what exactly we were and how we got here. Jaws dropped and eyes widened just like when we first told Harry, Ron and Hermione.
"So, it wasDumbledore then." Ginny said, though she didn't sound surprised.
"Yeah, and imagine the surprise we felt when we climbed out of the well and saw the old man standing there, staring down at us." I paused, and then remembering something I added, "Toto, we're not in Japan anymore." Those that followed the joke laughed; Inuyasha just looked confused.
Eventually, all the explanations and questions were out of the way and we were finally able to get started on the actual meeting.
"Alright." Harry began. "So, Kagome and Inuyasha aren't very good at magic yet and I'm sure that we wouldn't do too well in combat." Harry paused, getting confused looks everyone, including me.
"Combat?" I asked. "I thought this was just magic training."
"It was, but that was before we found out that demons aren't very much affected by our magic." Harry answered. I remembered that Dumbledore said we needed to help each other by using our strengths to cover each other's weaknesses and he was right.
"Wait, our magic doesn't affect demons?" Luna asked, staring wistfully at Inuyasha. After a moment she added, "So, if I do this...?" She asked, taking out her wand. She pointed it at Inuyasha, who looked extremely confused, and said, "stupefy," sending out a wave of energy from her wand. It hit Inuyasha square in the chest and he stumbled back, glaring angrily at Luna.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" he growled.
"Hmm," Luna muttered. "I guess he is a bit more tolerant." She finished, still muttering, forgetting about Inuyasha.
"Answer me!" Inuyasha yelled, regaining her attention.
"Oh, sorry. What were you saying?" Luna asked airily.
"...what..you....DON'T PLAY STUPID WITH ME!" He yelled, sounding much like a two year old.
"Inuyasha..." I sighed, my hand going back to my forehead.
"WHAT!?" He yelled, my anger flared.
"SIT!" I yelled back. You can guess what happened next.
"...ow...not fair...Kagome." He mumbled. I smiled.
Eventually, things were settled and we were finally able to get started.
"Alright." Harry said, gaining everyone's attention once again. "So, we are going to do this a bit different today. We'll start out with a review of what we've done before the holidays and then take it from there." He said before looking at me. "Kagome, Inuyasha, just try to keep up." He said, grinning.
"Keh." Inuyasha grumbled, pulling out his wand. I chuckled. He pointed it at harry and said, "Stupefy." I was surprised when the spell worked and actually hit Harry, knocking him off his feet. Oh boy...
"Ha!" Inuyasha said, victorious. Harry got back up, grinning.
"Good news." Harry began. "You're a quick learner. Bad news, I'm better," He said and mumbled a spell I didn't catch. A purple wave shot out and raced towards Inuyasha, who panicked, though only for a second. He pulled out Tetsusaiga and slashed right through the spell causing it to dissipate, something I didn't think possible. It appeared that enough demonic energy could cancel out magic. Inuyasha chuckled.
"C'mon." Hermione said quickly before the fight continued. "We don't have much time left. I agreed. Harry and Inuyasha separated and we began doing drills.
We were split into small groups and I ended up with Inuyasha, Luna, Hermione, Ginny, and Neville. Once we settled we began doing simple spells.
"Wait, Hermione, do you think I need my wand?" I asked. She thought for a moment.
"Um...I'm not sure." She answered.
"What are you talking about? Of course you need your wand, you can't exactly do magic without it." Ginny said.
"Not exactly her case, Gin." Hermione disagreed. "Dumbledore said her magic isn't restricted like ours. She doesn't need a wand to center it." Everyone in our group was astounded.
"Try it," Luna encouraged. I smiled a nervous smile.
"Which spell?" I asked, going through the very few I knew already.
"Um, something simple, try Accio...on this quill, it should summon it. Just remember to say quill after Accio." Hermione said and then placed the quill she pulled from her robe on the ground next to my feet. I gulped, what if it didn't work on anything but my bow and arrows?
"Alright...here goes." I said nervously, moving my right hand towards the quill. "Accio, quill." I grinned as a soft pink light glowed around my hand and the quill flew up, towards me. I caught it effortlessly.
"I have to say it Kagome, I'm jealous." said Hermione and we laughed.
After about ten minuets I'd learned and memorized a few different spells, but now we were working on a protronous charm, something much more difficult.
"Expecto Patronum." I said, though I only managed to produce a small sliver of silver light. I frowned. Harry noticed and made his way over to me. I looked over at Inuyasha, it seemed he was having just as much trouble as I was.
"Are you thinking of something happy, like a memory?" He asked and I nodded, though I must not have looked to sure of myself because he added, "Not just something happy, but something powerful as well. Let it fill you up, then, when you're ready try it out again." He finished and I nodded once more.
I thought of something, though I wasn't sure if it would work, mostly because it wasn't exactly a memory, but I did what Harry said. I allowed it to fill me up and then whispered, "Expecto Patronum." My face lit up and I watched my reflection in the mirrored wall across from me in wonder. Silver slivers, much like the small one produced earlier, were forming quickly, though they were much stronger. They merged together quickly, forming an opaque figure of...
BANG!
We all turned our heads to where the noise came from, the wall where the door appeared. A few students looked panicked, but Harry took charge.
"Hermione, open the door. It's time to leave." He said quickly. "Everyone else, get ready, we leave as soon as the door opens."
A few seconds later, Hermione said, "Got it, lets go." I looked towards the opposite wall that we came through the first time and saw another door form, though it was much smaller and lead to a tunnel. We fled the room quickly, Inuyasha staying close to my side.
Once everyone was through and the door closed, leaving us in complete darkness, a few students whispered, "Lumos." At least we could see now.
"Harry, what happened?" I asked. "What was that?"
"Probably Umbridge and Draco, they've been trying to catch us for weeks." He answered quickly and I should have known the toad had something to do with it.
"Don't worry though, this tunnel should lead us all to our common rooms, there's a splitting point up ahead." Hermione said, easing some of my nerves. "If we get separated, take the furthest one right." She explained and I nodded.
Once we reached the split, Harry stopped us. "Just one thing before we go." He began and I hoped it would be quick. I had a feeling that time wasn't on our side at the moment. "Since this meeting was cut short, we will meet again in one week. If that changes, I'll notify one person of every house to spread the word." There were nods and goodbyes and finally, we were able to get out of the tunnels, arriving right next to the portrait where the fat lady hung.
"That was close." I said as we climbed through the portrait hole.
"Yeah." Inuyasha agreed. "Let's not do this again.." I turned to look at him, the faint smile I had turning quickly into frown.
"Inuyasha!" I nearly yelled, panicked. I shoved him out of sight of the few students that were still out of bed.
"What!" He snapped, annoyed and confused. He glared at me.
"You're necklace!" I said, his face went blank for a second before he looked at his hands. He cringed, realizing his mistake and dug through robe.
"Uhhhh..." He muttered, still searching.
"..no...please don't tell me..." I started, horrified. I heard snickering from behind me. I turned around, my anger flaring yet again, to see an amused redhead.
"Lost something?" He asked sarcastically, swinging the necklace back and forth in his hand. If I were capable, I would have growled at him.
"Hand it over." I demanded and his expression went from humored to terrified. He held it out quickly and I jerked it from him, placing it quickly over Inuyasha's head. Once he looked human again I sighed. Once crisis averted. "Inuyasha..." I said quietly.
"Yeah???" He asked nervously.
"Please...try not to loose it again." I said, trying to force calmness in my voice. He looked relieved, happy that I wasn't going to use sit. The truth was, I was far too irritated to even utter the word.
"Oh...kay..." He mumbled.
"Come on." Hermione giggled and grabbed me by my arm. I snapped out of my irritated haze and looked at her, confused. "Time for bed, it's late and you're hard to wake up." She said and dragged me upstairs.
Normal P.O.V.
The boys watched, confused, as Hermione dragged Kagome up the stairs. Inuyasha was still in shock from what happened earlier, though glad that his head wasn't implanted in the stone at the moment.
"Girls." Ron muttered. "I'll never understand them. Especially their mood swings."
"Oh..." Inuyasha said, causing Harry and Ron to look at him.
"What?" Harry asked.
"So that's what that is." He muttered, still staring blankly at the steps even though they were now empty, his mind off in another world, recalling memories of all of Kagome's and Sango's 'mood swings'. He flinched, recalling a few memories in particular... "...I don't like them." He stated simply. Harry and Ron laughed.
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Inuyasha: I can't believe you are making me do this...
Me: Just do it.
Inuyasha: Do I ha-
Me:YES
Inuyasha: Okay..okay...*gulp* ....thank...you...for reading..and stuff.
Me: Now, was that so hard?
Inuyasha: Yes. *Evil Glare*
Me: *angry* Fine....sit!
Inuyasha: *Flinch* HA! IT DIDN'T-
Kagome: Sit
Inuyasha: Mhhhmmph...ow...*wattery, puppy dog eyes.*
Me:*GUILT* awww...I'm sorry... *Rumages through cabinet...pulls out a cookie.*
Inuyasha: *Catches cookie*
Kira: *Snatches cookie before Inuyasha can eat it.*
Inuyasha: NOOOOOOO *Watches Kira eat the cookie in horror*
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Inuyasha: *Looks at me expectantly*
Me: Sorry, last one...
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