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Hogwarts

Chapter four-

Kikyo

After Care for Magical Creatures Inuyasha went to his next classes. And unfortunately for him in every single class there was a project that required partnership and every single class he was forced to be partnered with Kagome, no matter how much he pleaded.

What made the day even tougher was the fact that Kuro was with them. And like a parent trying to keep a toddler in check in a grocery store, Inuyasha found that he was often in trouble due to the Worg's teething.

After the last class Inuyasha was anxious to get away, after all it was Snape's class. He was planning on going to Dumbledore's office and complaining about the injustice of having to be Kagome's partner.

It wasn't the fact that she was a horrible person, in fact Kagome was a very pleasant person, but was unable to make friends. People whispered behind her back about a 'witch gone bad' and as she walked down the halls with Kuro, they threw nasty remarks at her.

Inuyasha knew. He was never too far away.

Kagome kept her chin up, but Inuyasha could tell that by the end of the day, and the angry rants coming from Malfoy, that Kagome was beginning to wear down. She would blow if she wasn't able to get back to her dorm soon. In fact he thought the only thing keeping her sane throughout the day was Kuro, who was always at her heel, having abandoned Inuyasha for the hopes of a treat.

But perhaps Kuro had sensed Kagome's stress, or perhaps not.

As Kagome took Kuro back to her dorm to feed him Inuyasha went as quickly as he could to Dumbledore's office, so that he could get his meeting over with before the dinner, he was very hungry.

He had to wait outside only a few minutes before Hagrid exited the doorway, seeing him he grinned and stepped aside, as if he had been expecting him.

Inuyasha went in and when he came to the office he could see Fawkes sleeping on a perch and Dumbledore peering through his spectacles at the Journal Inuyasha loathed.

"Aw, Inuyasha, sit down." Inuyasha sat in the horseshoe chair Dumbledore indicated. "What seems to be the trouble?"

Inuyasha remembered to keep his manners. "Sir, I think there has been some kind of mistakes of the professors, I have become Kagome Higurashi's partner in every singly class."

"And this is a problem because…" the head master urged him to continue.

"Well you see, people are beginning to think that I'm choosing to be her partner, or perhaps I shouldn't be in Gryffindor, or perhaps I'm linked to her somehow." Inuyasha said crossly, slightly angry with himself.

Dumbledore closed the journal and stood silently, "But you see, you are." He said simply. "And I think you know what I mean."

Inuyasha stared at him in disbelief, "no I'm afraid I don't know what you are talking about."

"Inuyasha, don't make me mention it out loud, for you know that your enemy has many prying ears, and even the most unsuspicious of objects could seal your fate." Dumbledore leaned over. "And also, I would like to tell you that if you have read Ms. Higurashi's journal you are well aware that she is in just as much trouble as you are, and together you might be able to stop that. It will make more sense later, but please give her time."

Inuyasha didn't know what to say, he had just been told that his life had been connected to a girl he had only met yesterday, and who had been mad at him ever since, also a girl who had wanted to kill her self, and a girl that was friends with Worgs, of all creatures.

Dumbledore laid a hand on his shoulder. "Protect her well my friend." He said softly and then mention for Inuyasha to exit and leave for the feast, but not before handing him the journal and giving him instructions to return it to Kagome with a deep apology.

Inuyasha mumbled as he left and headed for the middle of the school, where Kagome's dorm was.

When he was about to knock on the door he heard some sniffling. He opened the door in curiosity and stuck his head in.

Kagome had taken it rougher then Inuyasha thought. All the rough comments she had been receiving all day had been tearing her to shreds and now it was taking its effect.

She was sitting on her bed, crying heavily, Kuro curled up at her feet supportively. Kagome didn't seem to notice him entrance.

Inuyasha put the journal on one of the dressers and stepped closer, it really made him uncomfortable to see a girl cry. "Kagome? Oy! Kagome?" Inuyasha requested as he sat down next to her.

Kagome looked up at him with soggy eyes. "Inuyasha?" she looked shocked and quickly tried to wipe away her tears. "What are you doing here?"

Inuyasha looked at her unbelievingly. "I want to know what's wrong first."

Kagome slumped and let one more tear roll down, but didn't let herself start weeping again. "I should never have come here. No one is accepting me, I can't even get into a house, and I'm just too different. This happened at my old school no one liked me and I had to move, do I have to move again…" she kept rambling on, trying to answer her own question, Kuro shook and leapt up to Inuyasha lap, his chin on Kagome's leg.

Inuyasha sat and listened to about half of her rants before he shook her by the shoulder. "Hey you are making friends here. There's Sango, you seem to be the best of friends, and Miroku thinks you are pretty nice, Hermione and Ron think highly of you and even the famous Harry Potter considers you a friend."

Kagome's words faltered and she fell into a silence.

"Heck, your not a bad person Kagome, it's the other people, they are the ones that treat you like you are nothing, but it's not your fault. It's theirs, they are just jealous." Inuyasha was late for the dinner. Oh well, he would make an entrance.

"Thank you." Kagome said, her bangs shadowed her face. "Thank you for bringing back my journal also." She murmured also. "I forgive you."

Inuyasha was surprised that she knew that he had returned the Journal but didn't say anything. He was glad that she forgave him.

"Uh…yeah." He then heard his stomach growl. "Say, are you hungry?"

Kagome heard his stomach too and smiled. "Well, I'm okay but you are, so I guess I will go with you." Kagome shrugged.

Inuyasha and Kagome went to the main all, Kuro following at their heals.

When Inuyasha entered every eye took one side-glance but quickly flickered to the person who was next to him, Kagome.

The hall erupted in whispers and Kagome looked quite frightened. But when she saw Sango and Hermione waving for her she relaxed slightly. She moved over quickly and sat across from them, the other Gryffindors giving her more then enough room. Inuyasha sat next to Fred and Miroku, who were deep in conversation about something unimportant.

The hall was still looking at her and whispering, most likely talking about how such an evil person would of course have such an evil Worg at their side.

Kagome did her best, and managed to ignore them, but Inuyasha couldn't help but to flinch whenever he heard Kagome be called something fowl and dirty.

Sango obviously felt the same way because the volume of her voice grew louder and louder and she began to shoot awful glares at the insulters.

Harry and Ron where looking at chocolate frog cards. Harry held up one and placed it near Kagome. "Hey you look a lot like this professor is she a relative?"

Ron leaned over. "Hey this one is very rare! She's from Japan too, you have to be a relative!"

Harry thought for a second. "Though I don't know, this was so long ago I don't think she would remember."

Hermione had become intrigued. "What year?" she asked as she looked at the picture.

"It doesn't say for sure but it does say that they think she died in the 1400's." Harry informed them as he looked at the back of the card.

Kagome eyes suddenly widened and she found the card far more interesting. She took it from the table and looked at the picture then at the back. When she spoke now her voice was high and scared. "Can I please have this?!"

Ron looked at her like she was crazy. "But this is a really rare card!" It was Harry's card so Kagome ignored Ron and stared with pleading eyes at him.

Harry looked slightly unwilling but the look on her face made his mind waver. "Yeah okay." He said finally.

Kagome gave him a curvy smile and quickly stood and ran from the dining hall, without a bite to eat, and without Kuro.

Inuyasha stared after her, along with everyone else in the hall. He then turned back to Harry. "What was the professor's name, anyways?"

"Kikyo Hishima, Professor Hishima." Harry said unknowingly, and Inuyasha didn't know the value at the name, it was just another name right?

Suddenly Kuro nipped at Inuyasha calf and hungrily chewed. "Ow you little brat!" he exclaimed as he picked up the pup by the neck.

Kuro continued to chew on Inuyasha's arm, it seems he was once again hungry. "Well I got to go give over the runt here, looks hungry."

There was a chorus of goodbyes as Inuyasha left the hall, barely anyone noticing his exit as much as they had noticed Kagome's. He made his way back down the hallways to the guest dorm.

He knocked and waited until Kagome let him enter until he stepped inside. He tossed Kuro on to the bed. "He needs to be fed again." He stated plainly.

Kagome was sitting at a roll-top desk at the side of the room, the Kikyo card sitting face down on its surface. She was twisted around so she was facing Inuyasha. "Why don't you feed him then?" She raised one curious eyebrow.

She pointed out the tiny little muggle fridge that rested below a muggle blender.

"Why do you have all this stuff?" Inuyasha asked curiously, he had never taken the time to learn about the muggles, since his own family was rather wealthy to begin with.

"Because they allowed me to import stuff so that I might make myself a bit more comfortable, I'm kinda thankful I have this dorm to myself if you look at it in that sort of way." She stated and rose to help him fix a meal, teaching him how to use the different buttons and how the lid was suppose to stay on at all times.

After the gross fatty liquid had been chopped to a runny meaty mush Inuyasha poured it in a bowl and placed it on the floor where Kuro could get at it from the floor.

As Kuro ate, Inuyasha took a look around the dorm, he never cared to look before. "So who is Kikyo?" He asked causally.

Kagome's back went rigid as she stared blankly ahead. "Just someone…I've heard of. She was killed a long time ago."

Inuyasha saw the nervousness in this topic and left it at that.

"How bout you, tell me about your life." Kagome suggested, relived to be changing the subject. She sat on the bed next to him.

"No." he said flatly, and Kagome swore she heard a small tone of panic in his voice.

She smiled slightly. "You don't have to tell me about…you know what, just about your family."

Inuyasha was flabbergasted, did she know? How could she? Only two people in the whole of the school knew, Him and Dumbledore.

Slowly though, he began to talk. "My family is rich, I don't know how, and I don't think I want to. I never see my father because he is always on business trips, and my brother is a prick, so I don't like talking about him."

Kagome nodded sadly, it sounded pretty bad to her. "And your mom?"

She was startled when Inuyasha quickly stood up and left the room, shutting the door hard behind him. Touchy subject she guessed.

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I did this chapter rather quickly, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are a lot of mistakes. I'm sorry that Sessy of Kouga weren't in this one, they probably won't enter for another two chapters. The next chapter has a lot of surprises and answered questions, like, what is Inuyasha trying to hide? Also a lot of eight legged friends, oh and of course action!

I'm running a fever now and I'm supposed to be in bed, but I wanted to get my new chapter out, I hope you enjoy!