Chapter 28

Harry felt like he had been running forever. His breath came out in ragged, knife like stabs. The demons around him showed no sign of weariness; Koga and Inuyasha were even carrying Hermione and Kagome. Harry saw Ron glance at Koga who was holding a sleeping Hermione on his back.

Just as Harry was about to think they must have been getting close, the tunnel stopped. Harry remembered the age long stairs and they were all about to climb. Hermione and Kagome had awoken and slid off their demon's backs. Hermione and Ron stared at Harry, because they both knew he was the only one who had been down there before.

"We're all the way to Hogsmeade. It should be fine to set up the tent now." Hermione and Ron nodded but Inuyasha seemed doubtful.

"You mean we're setting it up underground? Why can't we go outside?" The hanyou seemed intent on challenging Harry every step of the way.

"Because we're under a wizard shop, right?" Kagome said turning to Harry. He nodded, "And it's the middle of the night, they will probably have some kind of defenses, and we would be stupid right now to let the whole of the village know where we are, right Inuyasha?" Kagome's voice got deadly, because behind her back Inuyasha was making a face at her.

"Right."

At that moment Hermione, Ron, and to Ron's displeasure Koga had finished putting the tent together.

They all went through excited to see what the inside of the tent looked like now. Harry thought the tent hadn't worked when he walked through the flap. Inside it was a giant cave, near the back there were five small boulders.

"OH Yeah!" Koga shouted, his voice echoing on the cavern walls. "I pictured my cave, back home, and this is exactly like it, well except for those over there." He said pointing to the small boulders.

Hermione ran over and started to try and push one of the stones, Koga ran quickly to help her and when he reached the stone he stopped Hermione and held her hand.

"Please lady, allow me." Hermione turned beat red and backed away, but before she could get her hand back, Koga bent down and kissed it.

Harry glanced back at Ron who looked livid, Kagome was muttering something like "oh dear," and Inuyasha looked elated. Harry was just about to ask when he heard a grinding noise behind him.

Koga had moved the small boulder and behind it was a bedroom, Hermione quickly went to the bed and started to push it aside. Koga started to run in, but was stopped when Ron rushed past him and started pushing the bed along with Hermione. Together they were able to move the bed and they found the trapdoor underneath.

Everyone started to pile in and when they were all through the door Harry pulled the canvas through and closed the flap above them.

The scene that met their eyes when they when up the stairs was pure chaos.

When Shippo woke up he found that the perfect place to play was in a joke shop. There were mounds of bright things for him to push and squeeze. He got into the pigmy puffs, glue gum, cement string, and all various kinds of noisemakers. He was stuck inside a gulping jar when Fred and George found him.

The small kit had been playing with what seemed like an empty glass jar until it started to swallow his arm and then his legs and then the rest of his body followed. The jar seemed full, because it couldn't swallow Shippo's head. So there the tiny demon was, stuck inside a jar and yelling at the top of his lungs.

When Fred and George arrived, they couldn't stop laughing. Here was what Harry and Ron called a demon, something very frightening, and it was stuck inside a jar.

The jar proved itself very stubborn. Fred received two bites. One was when he came to close and the jar snapped at his fingers. The other was when Shippo bit him in the leg because he wouldn't stop laughing.

The twins were finally able to extract Shippo from the jar by bribing it with a pigmy puff. When the Kitsune was free he tried to run, but George was able to catch the little demon by the back of his robes.

"We were told to protect you, so you're not going anywhere." Shippo looked at George at first with great innocence, then later with great contempt. When the twins saw what Shippo had done to their shop they decided they would make the kit clean it up.

"Who made all this stuff?" Shippo said, a small bit of awe escaping him, he had never seen a place like this before.

"We did." Fred said, as moved to the back room.

"Then you know how to clean it up!" Shippo yelled.

"Yup, but why should we, you were the one who made the mess." George said with an evil grin. "If you be a good little boy then maybe we'll let you play with some toys." George ended with a singsong chant. Of course he didn't know better and stared swinging his finger in Shippo's face.

Fred saw nothing of what had been going on, his fingers still hurt from the jar but he told himself all in the line of duty. He was putting the jar back, as he heard the scream from the front of the shop.

Fred fell to the floor when he reached the place where the scream happened. George was holding on to his wrist as Shippo was holding onto George's finger, with his teeth. Both George and Shippo stopped what they were doing when they heard a grunt behind them.

George turned, with the Kitsune still attached to his finger and looked at his brother. Tears were rolling down Fred's face when he looked up at the pair.

"I have never seen anything, oh you were holding…." Was all Fred managed to choke out between laughs. George dropped his wrist and lunged at his brother. Within seconds the two were wrestling on the floor.

Shippo took the opportunity to look at more things that interested him. When he found and entire barrel with strange writing on it he decided to investigate. Inside there were thousands of different colored candies.

Shippo was delighted, he unwrapped one and popped it into his mouth. The small demon felt strange, he stared out at the mess around him and then became violently sick over the side of the barrel. Then as soon as it had come it stopped. Shippo shook his head, he felt fine, but then why did he get so sick? He shrugged and started to eat another candy. This time blood poured from his nose and then it instantly stopped. Before he popped another candy in his mouth Shippo grinned evilly, this candy made you sick and then better (A.N. he ate both sides of the candy so he got sick and then already had the antidote), the kit grabbed handfuls of the candy and stuffed it into his pockets. Oh Inuyasha you're going to pay he thought.

He found another barrel but this time it was filled with sticks. He grabbed one and it turned into a duck, another was a sword, another a paper hat. Shippo giggled and never noticed the two fighting at his feet again.

Needless to say when Harry and Ron led the others to the front of the store they didn't expect to see, the two wrestling twins on the floor. Harry and Ron were able to break them up and when they did all four of them burst out laughing.

"Tell us truly, brother," said George, who Ron was holding back, "who was winning?" They all laughed even harder, Fred wiping tears from his eyes.

"Where's Shippo, I can only guess this was his fault." Kagome said her hands on her hips.

"Uh," both twins stared at one another.

The room went silent, until Harry could hear a bang and then someone giggling. They looked over and inside one of the barrels of merchandise Shippo was sitting on top of a thousand different objects ranging from a toy rocking horse and a squeeze doll. The kit was holding a wand and with a bang it turned into a tiny javelin.

Kagome grabbed the Kitsune from the back of the neck and hugged him.