An: it works... it really works! WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
YAY! THE WORD PROGRAM REALLY WORKS!
Thanks to my father for fixing the computer! This chapter is dedicated to him!
... Oh if you're just noticing I have gotten the ability back to continue writing and I'm naturally happy about it. Now here is where I can pick up where I unintentionally left off, and there will be a slight repeat of the previous scene.
Thanks to my father for fixing the computer! This chapter is dedicated to him... Again.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, Harry Potter, Kingdom Hearts, or R.O.D the anime.
Chapter Ten
The End of summer... (ALREADY?)
"Hello Arthur, hello Molly, It's nice to see you." The Ministry Witch said as she turned to the two adult Weasleys.
"Why hello dear, is it Aine or Keisha am I speaking to?" Molly asked pleasantly.
"Aine, Molly. Lye is some where around here too." Aine answered back.
"Aine, I've noticed that you've dyed your hair to that of a dirty blonde." Arthur observed.
"Hai, yeah, I decided to go for a little change and I had to look for a color that both Keisha and I agreed on." Aine continued.
"But you looked so beautiful with your black hair." Molly protested slightly at the British Japanese woman.
"I know Molly, I know, but I felt that a change was in order." Aine smiled at the two Weasleys.
"Aine? There's a man trying to sell ofada's from Japan I think you might want to examine." A silky feminine voice replied.
"Lye?" Molly questioned as she looked at the silky tall companion of Aine. "Great Scott! Lye dear you've dyed your hair red!"
"Is that all your worried about Molly?" Lye remarked calmly and coolly as she always had in the past.
"What style did you use?" Arthur asked his curiosity piping up, "Magic or Muggle?"
"Muggle." Aine replied. "What was it you were trying to say about that Japanese man Lye?"
"Only that he has been babbling about how they come from the Sun Set shrine in Japan and how he seems to be so proud of their origins... apparently he had gotten excited from all of the marketing here." Lye said her silky voice staying in serious mode. Her red hair was cascading down for the day, much like that of Aine.
"Alright, Lye." Aine bowed slightly before she vanished in the crowd leaving Arthur and Molly to question Lye about how she was and what she was up to.
"Get your ofada and sutra supply here! Fresh from Japan! Protects against evil spirit and oni as well as any dark creatures! Antidote for miasma and symoshio repellent!" Kagome's grandfather cried out in the streets. The witches and wizards in the streets would look at the strange little man yelling out in Japanese before looking away and continuing their hurried shopping.
"Gramps are you sure people are going to buy that stuff?" Souta asked his grandfather while clutching his brand new wand and books.
Next they had to convince Inuyasha that it was safe to enter that shop where there was a huge crowd gathering for robes and another that said Weasley's Wizard Wheezes in English on the front of the store. The Hanyou seemed to be hugging that little Tessiga charm on his belt like it was his life line, especially the hilt of the mini sword.
"Of Course they would Souta, why not? Do you even see any one selling every useful item for protection? This is a charitable offer I'm giving these good people." Gramps replied as if to state and justify a completely reliable fact that was a clear as fogged up glass in his elderly mind.
"Excuse me sir, but do you have permission from the ministry to sell those items?" A quiet cool low feminine voice replied in fluent Japanese.
Gramps and Souta turned toward the book shop Souta had earlier purchased his text books when they saw a woman with long dirty blond hair that was hastily pulled back in to an elegant bun, not a hair dangling in an undignified manner. She wasn't tall to say, but she seemed to only match Kagome in height. Locks of hair hung down the sides of the woman's face, hiding her jaw structure and ears before dangling back in to the bun. Cold eyes sharpened from years of hardship and seriousness, she also wore the formal robes of a ministry witch.
Grandpa froze at the sinking feeling that he was caught smuggling some illegal snacks in a movie theater before stashing the ofada and sutra from sight before acting innocent to the crimes he had just been accused of.
"Items, what items?" he said sheepishly.
"Sir, I could arrest you and your grandson for selling those items with out permission from the ministry if I..." The adult woman paused for a moment as if she was listening to another voice from far away before she sighed and lied. "However seeing as I'm off duty, I will let you off with a warning; if I even so much as hear a report of a second offense I will arrest you." These words were dead serious and seemed to be dangerous to those caught unprepared.
"Keisha!" Lye whispered in rabid English amongst the crowd the second she noticed something. "They're coming!"
"Good day gentlemen." Keisha said with a Japanese bow which the elder and boy returned before she turned away and disappeared in to the crowd. Seconds later Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, and Ai reappeared from almost the exact same spot.
Inuyasha paused for a second as a scent caught his nose... He could almost swear he smelt... but it couldn't be, not here and defiantly not now in this era. Besides a second sniff confirmed that the scent disappeared and was replaced by Kagome's scent so he couldn't really track it.
"Well now that we have our Text books, why don't we go buy your new school uniforms." Ai said when she met up with her son and father.
"Hai!" Everyone agreed.
The Leaky Caldron was a very welcoming sight for Harry as he gently scratched an area on his scalp for the second time in one day... He was slightly worried that he might have picked up some sort of lice, however all evidence seemed to prove contrary every time he used a very fine toothed comb and a magical mirror to find these little pests.
How ironic, the Boy-Who-Lived had lice. That was surely something Rita Skitter would loved to have her little green quill dance on some parchment for the Daily Profit. Then again, it might have been something so common that no one would dare use on a boy whose public image changed from someone who was a miracle child, to one of a raving attention starved bloody lunatic, to the highly praised potential savior of the wizarding world.
Myoga sighed as Harry's hand just missed squishing him for the second time in one day. He had to be more careful, his host was starting to become suspicious of the flea's actions. It would not do him any good to be rediscovered by the young wizard now.
Every night –wither Harry woke up or not—the young wizard would keep muttering things about the doings of Voldemort and Naraku in his sleep. Some nights it disturbed Myoga listing to tactics the two villains would compare and contrast.
For example Naraku would describe the process that he used to contain the former wind yokai Kagura until her untimely murder by a witch—that same witch, Myoga found out later, was Voldemort's ancestral mother—and how Voldemort explained how one of the unforgivable curses, which Myoga was certain started with a 'C', worked just as well with out having to do all that mucking about for the heart, or having to make the underlings become one of his flesh.
This was surprisingly brave for Myoga, but he felt that if he had to inform somebody the secrets of Naraku and Voldemort's doing he might as well understand what those secrets were... with out fainting or fleeing of course.
Ginny was scanning down her school supply list before a young man about Harry's age or even older looked down at her from the entrance to Diagon Alley before he bowed slightly and flashed a charming smile at her. The boy wore muggle clothing and had his short black hair held back in a tiny ponytail with small hoop earrings on one ear.
"Herro" He said in a heavy Japanese accent which ended as abruptly as it started "Would you kindly consider bearing my children?" He asked in Japanese which left Ginny as clueless as possible.
"What?" Ginny voice before she was interrupted.
"HOUSHI-SAMA!" A girl about her age, or maybe even older came up and grabbed him by his mini-ponytail before ranting off in Japanese and dragging him away, looking a mix of irritated and angered.
"Oh, I am sorry about that." Another girl who was exactly Ginny's age, the wizarding girl noted, but only this girl was wearing a muggle tee shirt with a tiny yellow chick running across a pink background and a jean miniskirt to match. "Please ...excuse ... Miroku-sama and Sango-chan." The new girl said as she bowed to Ginny pausing as if she were struggling with her wording.
"Oi! Kagome!" A gruff voice called from some where else in the Leaky Caldron. The voice belonged to a boy with long silver hair that was held back in a high ponytail clutching a book that had a DNA Spiral on the front and pea plants sprouting on the cover while the title read Biology for the Beginners: Volume 7; Genetics for Dummies.
Not knowing what this By-o-low-gee or jen-eh-ticks was Ginny decided she would ask Hermione about it later in their room, but for now she watched the strange looking oriental girl—judging from her almond shaped eyes, heavy accent, and black hair with a texture that only came from the far east, from what Ginny knew—disappear in to the crowd with in a blink of an eye. Odd, very odd indeed.
Rin followed Sesshomaru for a few steps before she paused. She still had yet to talk to him about how the world around her looked. Frankly she was nervous, very nervous.
Sesshomaru was also tense. For weeks now the lesser yokai who roamed the forest have vanished, like small game before a hunter or an eruption. The woods were silent with a feeling of tension of a rock being thrown to the deepest depths of the sea.
Normally Sesshomaru wouldn't worry about these signs if it weren't for the strange odor in the air. It had a tang, and it smelled strongly of humans. The odor was enough to have the inu-yokai's yoki squirm and in away pull itself back in to Sesshomaru's body. The air felt like weak acid on Sesshomaru's skin. It didn't take an imbecile to know that danger was near.
He wasn't a coward, but he wasn't a fool. They required a place to hide or face the unknown danger with Rin and Jaken at risk. They needed his protection and exposure was a threat they could not afford.
Sesshomaru paused for a second before he noticed that he had left Rin a few steps behind on the trail and turned to see her looking at the ground wringing her hands like a worried middle aged mother. Jaken sputtered and protested the second he bumped in to his lords legs before he landed in an undignified heap. Sesshomaru paid the toad retainer no notice.
"What is it Rin?"
Rin looked up to see Sesshomaru looking at her with Jaken snapping his attention at her too from the forest floor.
"A-ano..." Rin stuttered for a second. Did she really want her lord to know? Did she really want gamble away the things that meant the most to her? What if he thought she was crazy or responded like Jaken? Each question formed in her mind, making the option of telling Sesshomaru seemed difficult. What if he left like her family did!
"It's nothing Sesshomaru-sama." Rin lied with a sigh and ran to catch up. Sesshomaru looked at his human ward for a moment before he decided to question her again later. He had other things to worry about.
Sango bounced on her train seat as she petted a loose Kirara on her lap. The fire cat purred in contentment as her eyes, and those of her five other train travelers were plastered on to the greenery movement of the English countryside.
Being on a train was strange for Sango, strange yet slightly exciting at the same time. The sounds of the engine, the sounds of the wheels on the 'tracks' and the sounds of teenagers running from one point to another with some of the older students walking from place to place to stifle the trouble makers.
Inuyasha spent this whole time sitting on the seat as if it were made of pins and spent time trying to decipher this mystery book he at bought. Some times he would mutter stuff like "Pro-taeen Sin-ta-ces" as if testing out the words.
Souta had his game boy out and was playing a game which seemed to involve a little human and a dog and duck –both of which looked surprisingly human—and a giant key battling monsters.
Miroku would try and pickup any of the Hogwarts girls over the age of fifteen if Sango wasn't on duty. Some one had to keep an eye on the lecher.
Kagome was trying to listen to the C.D. her friends had given her and smiled when she realized that some of the songs were in English. Shippo was sitting on the seat next to her drawing a picture that looked like it was a drawing of a brave little hero kitsune and colored it in with exact detail.
The sounds of a cart filled the hallway outside the little compartment, causing Shippo to take the form of a little stature as an elderly witch walked in to the room and said very slowly "Any thing from the trolley dears?"
"Sure." Kagome said in very slow English as she got up and purchased six chocolate frogs and paid for them with the sickles she had revived from her mother before she left her children and their friends at the station before she and Gramps traveled back to Japan.
With the money placed into the trolley and the change given back to Kagome the trolley woman smiled and walked off to the next compartment.
Hogwarts Castle was just like Ron, Harry, and Hermione remembered, the familiar castle with the Thestrals pulling on the carriages in to place. The black lake glimmered on this night of the new moon with the stars in the sky and the castle seemed to glow in the night. The forest waved its branches restlessly and swayed with the wind.
"Firs' years, firs' years over here!" Hagrid called as he did every year only this year there was something different, standing right next to him was a woman with long black hair and thick square glasses calling out the same thing in Japanese only she had a book tucked in to her arm as she called. She was a short looking witch with a brown muggle vest and a light cream trench coat and a business skirt with tights and high heel shoes. Her voice was light and high pitched and seemed similar to that of a child.
"Hey look at that, Blimey; do you know who those are?" Ron asked the second they had gotten close enough to Hagrid and the carriages. He was pointing at the students who were responding to the Japanese woman's call. There were four teenagers and a boy who looked old enough to be a first year dressed in robes. They all had dark hair and from the distance it looked like there were three girls and two boys, one of the boys being a first year. Not to mention to the foreign eye it looked as if all of them were identical.
Those "foreigners" followed the woman's call in their own language and she smiled. "Hello I'm Yamiko Readman, follow me and Professor Hagrid and we will lead you to the school."
"Thank you." Kagome said.
Inuyasha glanced around and surveyed his surroundings with a weary eye as the students walked from the train on to the carriages being pulled by the black bat-winged horses with glowing white eyes. It was the night of the new moon and that meant that he was in his human form. All the more reason to be extra careful in this foreign country away from home in the far future, not to mention that when things go wrong he'd have to be the one to protect everyone else.
"Alright Firs' years, let's go to the lake and get to the school!" Hagrid called out after waving and calling a greeting to Harry Hermione and Ron, telling them about someone called Grawp.
It was then that the two adults lead the frightened eleven year olds and the tense new Japanese students to an uncertain turn of events... and a new school year.
An: Finally I've finally gotten them to school! ... AND just in time for a new school year for both me and my fic... My senior year... Well I am going to an anime convention with my sister and our school friends before we start school.
Is summer over already? So I'll update as soon as I can. I'll let you know soon enough.
R&R Please I want to see what you guys think.