The Dragon Tamer

Summary: Charlie has a secret; his family doesn't know, his friends don't know, only he knows...he and the beautiful Rai Higurashi...who was now dead. His secret? He had a daughter...her name, keeping his beautiful Rai's last name, Kagome Higurashi. He has raised her with all the love and care that a Dragon Tamer can, now...it's time she goes and lives her own life, but, can he let her go...or will his need to protect her keep him from letting her go?

Anime/Book/Movie: InuYasha/Harry Potter

Pairing: (Slight Harry/Kagome) – Draco/Kagome

Genre: Romance/Adventure

Rated: M for Mature Content

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Kagome drew her wand and pointed it at Lockhart, yelling as the spell he fired backfired and hit him instead, she watched him hit the wall and waved her wand, "Impedimenta~" She watched the light come from her want and hit the already unconscious Lockhart, his body snapped together as it became immovable and he was forced to remain frozen until she or someone else said otherwise. She smirked but it was short-lived as the wall began to fall around her and crumble. She was taken in someone's arms, and judging by the muscle, she assumed it to be Snape. When the dust ell and cleared, Kagome glanced around to see that Kagome, Snape, Ron and Lockhart were all stuck on one side, while Draco and Harry were left alone on the other.

"Draco! Harry!" Kagome yelled, "Can you hear me? Are you two okay?"

"We're fine, how are you lot?" Harry called back.

Kagome looked around and her eyes widened in horror, "Snape is down, and bleeding really badly!" Tears started to form at the corners of her eyes, "Ron and I are alright too, and I have Lockhart in a body binding charm, so he's as good as dead to me right now."

"I'm going on ahead with Harry, you two try and dig us a way out, and we'll come back when this is all said and done, be safe, Kagome, take care of Snape until we get back!"

"Be safe Draco~! You too Harry!"

There wasn't a reply back, and Kagome was left on her knees next to Snape, his head resting against her legs as she tore her cloak and put some of the torn off fabric to his forehead which was bleeding profusely due to a direct hit from a rock. Kagome assumed that that was why he'd suddenly grabbed her and held her close. She had almost been hit, and he'd saved her.

"...why did I not where the necklace..." She cried softly.

"That one he got you?" Ron asked curiously, "How could that have helped?"

"...it had a blood-replenishing potion...I could have given it to Snape, he's losing so much blood...Ron, we need to find a way to get a teacher down here...can you think of any spells?"

"Mm...I'm not Hermione; I don't know...I can't remember anything right now."

Kagome placed her forehead on Snape's and closed her eyes, trying think over the spells in the books that she'd read, the one Neville had gotten her, a Book of Random spells. "...Avis...casts birds from the wand..." Kagome lifted her wand, unsure if the spell had a particular motion, but all the same, she waved her wand and yelled out, "AVIS!"

Both Ron and Kagome watched as bright yellow and pure white birds shot out from Kagome's wand, flying out towards the path they'd taken and hopefully in the direction of McGonagall...hopefully...

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Draco walked beside Harry quietly, wand out, ears open, eyes alert.

"Why do you let her follow you around?"

It was out of the blue and not exactly appropriate, considering what was going on, Draco looked surprised, but answered all the same. "I let her follow me, for the same reason you let Granger follow you."

"So she's your friend," Harry scoffed, "How can I believe that,"

"She's the first person to sit down and listen to me...and I don't mean me the Slytherin or me Malfoy...I mean Me...Draco...I'm Draco...she was right, and I was so blinded by my fathers words and reputation, I couldn't see past my own nose, until she stole my tie and yelled at me." Draco turned to Harry and held out his hand, "You don't need to trust me, hell you don't even need to like me, but for today, while in this snake hole...lets call a truce."

Harry stared at his hand and nodded, taking it in his, "Until we get out of this snake hole."

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"Think those birds made it to someone?"

Ron shrugged as he pulled another rock from the pile. He picked up a small stone and threw nonchalantly at the bound Lockhart, accidently waking him up.

"Mm, Hello..."

Kagome looked to her left and glared, "Why did you wake him up, Uncle Ron?"

Again, he shrugged. "I was bored..."

"Who are you?" Lockhart asked Kagome who stared blankly at him, her hands mindlessly running through Snape's hair which was surprisingly silky for all the horrible things she heard about him.

"Kagome Higurashi,"

"And...Who are you?" He pointed at Ron who stared in confusion.

"Ron Weasley."

"Ah, wonderful, wonderful...then...who am I?"

Kagome laughed out contemptuously, "Of course, he has lost his memory! Uncle Ron, you need to get that malfunctioning wand of yours checked before you accidently turn yourself into needle in class or something else that's just as menial and useless with a wand."

"Again...who am I?"

"Gilderoy Lockhart." Ron said irritably as he picked up another rock.

"Oh, grand!" He glanced around, "Such a quaint little place," He looked to Kagome, "Do you live here?"

"No, you great git!"

~WHACK~

Kagome watched him fall unconscious again as Ron hit him with another rock before dropping it beside the out cold professor. "Get it out of your system while you can, he may have lost his memories, but this will also be the only time that you can hit a professor, no matter how daft they may be."

"Hm, could I get away with a kick or two towards our loving potions professor?"

"...you don't get it, do you..." Kagome locked eyes with her Uncle, "That was supposed to be me, I was supposed to be the one that got hurt, he blocked me from the rocks, he got hurt instead of me...why can't you see that these horrible Slytherin's, are nothing more than misunderstood. They are cunning, but cunning doesn't necessarily mean plotting to take over the Wizarding world, does it?"

Ron blushed fiercely, his ears turning bright red along with the rest of his face. "You're love for Slytherin's...is a little worrying...I am thankful for him protecting you, but that doesn't mean I like the greasy haired git."

"Well, considering his hair isn't in fact greasy, you must not be talking about Snape, so I'll ignore your rude commentary." She gave him a cold and icy look which silenced Ron from making anymore retorts about Snape.

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Harry walked up to a circular door with a couple snakes on it to keep them from continuing, not real snakes, of course...

"Well, what are you waiting for, say something," Draco urged.

Harry did so and little by little the snakes moved back and the door swung slowly open. Harry made to move forward, but was stopped by a hand.

"Let me go first," Draco whispered.

Harry frowned, "What?"

"If there is a Basilisk in there, like we all think there is, wouldn't it be best if I was to be the first to get hurt, you have to win, you have to save the day. You are Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived...you can't just die after just entering, right?"

Harry nodded, but with a frown in place, he didn't like the way Draco had worded that. But he also knew, Draco was sincere in his words. He wasn't brave, anything but brave in fact. He had seen him in the dark forest last year, and so he knew that the only thing...no...The only person giving him this incomprehensible strength to keep going...was Kagome, the need to see her again. He had to keep going forward, but he had every intention of returning back alive just as well. "Right!"

Draco walked towards the opening and stepped in, he could see that a little ways away the ground dropped, there was a ladder at the end which he silently walked up to and peered down from. He saw two people, but three eye catching things that happened to cause a frown to mar his features. He ushered Harry forward and Harry came up and crouched down to. "That boy...I've seen him before...an old...old picture..."

"His name is Tom Riddle, I've met with him in a memory."

"...great, you might actually be the heir of Slytherin if you're holding late night chatting sessions with him."

Harry glared, "What does that mean?!"

"Harry, the only reason I've seen his picture around, is because it was in my Aunt Bellatrix's room! She's crazy infatuated with the Dark Lord! You can't imagine what sick things that psycho woman could do to you. Tom Riddle is the Dark Lord...in his younger days. You were right about it being a Memory, it must have been his...he's the heir, he's the one who's been opening the chamber, but I think he's been using Ginny to do it...that book...the diary on the ground next to him, was also in her room."

"How do you know this?"

"...ever play hide and seek with a house elf? They can all apparate to wherever you are, but they were always to afraid to go into my Aunt's room, like I said, she's crazy, evil, twisted, and all around wicked. My father gave Ginny that book, I'm sure of it, it must have been while in the book shop."

"It was, I saw it well enough, two books come out, three books go in...Your father is truly cunning in his endeavors."

Draco rolled his eyes, "I hope that wasn't a slur towards all Slytherin's, I'd like to think I'm nothing like my father, but Harry...I don't think I can help you...if he finds out...I'm a Malfoy..."

Harry nodded; he understood well what his new...acquaintance...was getting at. His father was a follower of the Dark Lord, if Draco was found playing hero with Harry, he would most likely be killed or tortured for his betrayal. "Then stay here and I will try to get Tom away from Ginny, when I do, grab her and go!"

"...I'm twelve, neither of us can 'grab her and go'...but...I'll do what I can," Draco twirled his wand about between his fingers. "Also, you've seen the Slytherin Portrait, that statue, is Salazar Slytherin, I'd be willing to bet my life that the Basilisk is inside it. I know that Tom is somehow connected to the Diary, but that won't help you with the Basilisk, don't look it in the eyes, there's water on the floor, so use that as best as you can."

"Right,"

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Ron who had been clearing stones away, tiredly looked over to see Kagome crying silently.

"What's wrong? He isn't dead, is he?"

Kagome shook her head, "No, I just...I'm so scared, I want Harry and Draco to be safe, I want Hermione to get better...and Colin, I'm so scared, what if something happens? What if they don't come back, I can't stop thinking about them, about us, and Ginny! Oh Merlin, I should have gone to someone, I should have told someone, poor Ginny...poor Ginny..."

"..." Ron clenched his fists tightly as she made his way to Kagome, pulling her into a hug, he allowed himself a couple tears of his own, "Don't think that this is all your fault. She's my sister, and I didn't notice anything was different, if anyone should be blamed, it should be me, not you."

Kagome said nothing as Ron returned to the stones, he was just near to making a hole in the wall. Hopefully, Harry and Draco would be coming back soon as well.

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Honey looked out the window with his sister beside him, they sat in the Ravenclaw Tower, and although he was a Slytherin, he was wanted by the majority of the female populace, due to his good looks and charming personality, so they really had no quarrel with his being there.

"What do you see?"

"...Ginny..."

Ginger smiled, "She's safe,"

"She's not moving..." He corrected, although he was staring out the tower window, he saw nothing of the outdoors. "She's loosing a lot of her energy; the one next to her is feeding off of it."

"You mean...him?"

He rolled his eyes, his sister wasn't really a dramatic person, but she could be. "Yeah...him."

Ginger stood up and ran her hands up and down her arms to rid herself of the chills she was getting. "What of Kagome, is she alright?"

"From what I see, she's fine...there are no serious injuries to be noted."

"I'm so glad, we should find McGonagall, and let her know."

"No, there isn't much need of that, Kagome used the Avis spell, a flock of birds coming from the bathroom is bound to attract someone's attention," Honey sighed, "We will wait, it's too soon for us to step in any further than we already have."

Ginger frowned, "While I agree that we shouldn't get too deeply involved in there adventures yet, I don't feel that watching them get her while idly sitting by is the right thing for us to do."

Honey took his sisters hand in his and closed his eyes, hers widening as he showed her the things he saw. "Can you see her, she is fine, Harry and Draco will come back safely with Ginny, you have seen their futures...all of their futures..." His visions ended with Snape lying on the ground, bleeding.

Tears fell from Ginger's eyes as she thought of the dark future that lay ahead of the Potions Master. "Merlin knows his future is bleak, I hope things turn out well..."

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Me: So here is the next chapter, I'll get started on Chapter 22 now! Review for me guys!