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AWWW he looks so sweet when he's asleep! Tasuki grinned evilly, and pounced on the unsuspecting Harry Potter. She landed on his stomach, her knees by his side, but not actually harming him.
It was morning, and Tasuki was still in her PJ's.
Harry woke up to a chest full of Tasuki. He yelped and jumped back. Green surrounded him. That was all he knew.
Tasuki sneezed as she felt green sway into her view. She felt Harry disappear. "HARRY!?" She shouted waking up Hermonie and Ron.
Tasuki smiled seeing he was still there, green eyes back in place, on seeing Hermonie's face.
Tasuki shouted again when Harry fainted. She realized this was NOT her Harry, and NOT part of her Herd.
"HERMONIE?! RON?! HELP!" Tasuki screamed, panicking.
"WHAT THE HELL!!! DID HARRY JUST SAY MOM!!! FOR? TASUKI! WHAT'S HAPPENING?" Ron said, for he just heard Harry thinking about his mother.
"Hey guys? He just fainted." Hermione said, worried about her betrothed. "That's no good. Enerviate." Tasuki woke Harry up.
"Hey, Harry. It's all right. Your love is here." Ron teased.
"WHAT?" Harry shot up, right back into Tasuki's bosom. He quickly scooted back. Tasuki grinned with her fangs showing.
Hermione growled, "That's MY guy!"
"Oh sorry!" Tasuki quickly apologized, leaping up and snogging a now very happy Ron.
"Umm, aren't you upset by that?" Harry asked Hermione, confused, because yesterday Ron and Hermione said they were going out.
"Yep. It's absolutely disgusting. " Hermione then proceeded to pull Harry into a long kiss.
Max stepped into the room and said lightly, "Oh, a kissing fest. TALIM, COME OVER HERE. I NEED YOU FOR A MINUTE, or maybe two, or ten, or twenty…" He was then cut off by Talim's kiss.
When all the kissing stopped Harry asked in a baffled voice, "What was that all about?"
"You didn't like it?" Hermione sniffed.
"Yeah, 'cause he liked mine better!" Tasuki challenged.
They then forced Harry to be the judge by kissing him until he fainted.
"Opps."
"I think we over did it."
"I'll be the judge!" Ron and Max offered immediately.
Harry woke to see Ron and a strange male vampire floating in bliss.
Tasuki finally got serious. (A/N: Not Sirius you pervs. Nasty! That's her dad! *shivers and mutters about how stupid would a person be to name their son Sirius! Seriously!*)
"You know, I think I've been kissing a total stranger. Who are you?" Tasuki's eyes went purple in suspicion.
"Um, Harry Potter."
"STOP LYING TO ME!!!" Tasuki now looked distressed and her silver eyes were far more reproachful than tears could have been. "What have you done to him?"
"NOTHING, I am Harry Potter!"
"Well, If you are Harry Potter, why aren't you wearing your engagement ring to Hermonie, where are your earrings? The Harry Potter I know wouldn't lose the necklace I gave him, or the one Hermonie willingly gave to him! He also wouldn't be confused right now! ALSO HE HAS A SCAR ON HIS WRIST DO YOU?!" She was holding out her wrist, but it no longer glowed in the golden star as it used to. All Harry saw was an X shaped scar on it.
Sirius charged up the stairs. "Where is HARRY? HE'S DEAD! My earring went OUT! HE'S GONE!!!!" He thundered.
"Hold up Sirius, I'm right here."
"Why did you change your hair back? And your glasses? I really liked what you did to them. Where are all the stuff we got you for your birthday?!!! You're in Harry, if you lost what my oathsib gave you…"
Hermione screamed, "YOU'RE A FAKE!!!! A DEATH EATER WITH POLYJUICE POTION!!! AND WE'VE BEEN KISSING YOU!!!"
"Kissing?" Sirius inquired mildly.
"Don't ask." Said Max.
Harry was thinking furiously. "OH MERLIN, WHERE DID SALAZAR DROP ME? YOU AREN'T MY FAMILY!!!!"
"Drop you? Green light? Slytherin's colors! Something's familiar… But how can we be sure you aren't a death eater? Or Slytherin's equivalent?"
Hermione suggested, "Let's test him."
Ron asked, "Who's Shirley?"
This was closely followed by Tasuki's, "What pranks did we play on Dudley?"
Max added his own, "Was it me or Talim who tried to kill you last night?"
Harry said, "I'm seriously freaked out right now. Am I still in danger from him?"
"No more than you are from the rest of them if you're a death eater!" Ron pointed out grimly.
Harry turned to Hermione and desperately said, "Come on, you remember us becoming animagus, right? And Ron, you remember telling me yesterday that you and Hermione had just become an item, don't you?"
Everyone laughed themselves sick at this, even Remus, who had just come through the door.
Ron sauntered over to Tasuki and put his hand possessively around her hips. "No. I am engaged to Tasuki. She is mine and mine alone." Tasuki looked as if she was going to protest part of that statement, but decided better of it. "And you're with Hermione. You're engaged too. Don't you remember?"
Harry shook his head negatively. Hermione looked as if she was going to cry.
Tasuki punched a hole through the wall in frustration. "WHY CAN'T YOU REMEMBER?"
Harry wide eyed and said, nervously, "I don't know, but I'll try really hard. Just don't punch me."
Tasuki's eyes softened. "No, you're too girly to punch."
Harry saw a blur, and the next thing he saw was Hermione wrestling with Tasuki.
Talim stared at the two, and then muttered to herself, "Oh screw it!" She started wrestling with them too.
Max stared at this and so did everyone else. As one Ron and Max cheered, "ONE POINT TO TASUKI!" As Tasuki pulled on top both of them, made herself comfortable and pretended to sleep.
"GET OFF ME!" The indignant elf yelled pushing Tasuki off her. Hermonie did the same.
"Now, we really have to figure this out. Let's start with the basics. How about listing every life threatening situation up to the 4th year." Ron suggested.
"Does that include you fighting with Hermione, because that is life threatening you know."
"I think he's just stalling for time. Let's kill him now." Max said baring fangs again, eyes glinting wickedly.
"Aww, you just want to kill anyone that looks like him." Tasuki teased.
"What's that guy got against me anyways?" Harry asked the people around him quizzically.
"Start talking, buddy and I'll tell you after, if I decide you can live." Max threatened grinning, showing his very nice long canines.
"Um, first year, sorcerer's stone, and everything leading up to it."
"That doesn't count, as Voldemort knew all about that from Quirrel, but go on." Ron said critically.
Harry was slightly nervous now. He knew just how strong his friend was was, and everyone else in the room looked. He also wondered how many events of his life Voldemort didn't know about.
"Okay, second year, Aragog. Hermione was petrified, and gave us the information on the basilisk. She wrote pipes at the bottom of the page of a piece of parchment. Oh, let me check if I still have that basilisk scale. I've been carrying it around for magical purposes recently." He handed it to Tasuki.
"Can I eat it?" she asked innocently.
Harry snatched it back and looked at her like she was a five-year-old child.
"Is that anyway to treat your sister?" Remus said disapprovingly.
"Sister?" Harry sounded incredulous.
"DUH. That's why I have this on my wrist you idiot!" Tasuki screamed in exasperation.
"He is not an idiot," Hermione quickly defended her boyfriend.
Harry just blinked. "Do you still need more?"
"Yep." Was Ron's only reply.
"Third year. What the HELL did you do to your hair? It actually looks nice."
"You sound surprised!" Ron growled. "And how about you. Your hair is ugly again, and you still have those dorky glasses. What happened to those bloody contacts?"
The next thing Harry knew was Tasuki pushing him down and was smelling right under his left ear. Harry stood perfectly still, trying not to laugh at Hermonie's expression of 'I wish I could do that!'
"His scent's the same, but he has been in some interesting places. What's with the basilisk smell?" questioned Tasuki from under Harry's neck.
"HEY! He hasn't answered all the questions yet! WE COULD BE FRANTERNIZING WITH THE ENEMY!!!!" Hermione shrieked.
"Interesting line. Where did you get it?" Ron asked, curious.
"Later."
"Third year," Harry said quickly, seeing the renewed suspicion on all seven faces surrounding him. "We thought you were after my blood, but all you did was break Ron's leg, and we saw the evil git Pettigrew. Me and Humsnow, er sorry, Hermonie," Hermonie had a feeling she didn't even like that nickname where he came from, in the quickness of which he took it back, "The only really life threatening danger came from the Dementors."
"Anything else?" Hermione asked in a deceptively sweet voice.
Harry thought for a second and then quickly blurted out, trying not to get murdered on the spot by his suspicious friends and people he didn't really know, "The time turner! We saved our selves with it!"
Fenix came in and blinked at the commotion. "Can I join the party? What are you guys doing?" That's when a great idea hit Harry.
"Hey. Ron? Are you still a psychic here?"
Ron nodded. "Yeah."
Harry then took all his memories and shoved them into Ron's brain. They overflowed into everyone else in the room's brain, so none of them had quite a complete picture.
"Okay, that's really odd." Fenix said. "What ARE you doing?" Having received the one where he was in a Girls restroom.
Remus said, "Harry? Why are you kissing this person? Cho maybe?"
Harry blushed.
"Harry, please don't tell me that's how me and Ron got together. Because that's just…so sad!" Hermonie pleaded.
Ron said, "Hey I want that memory!"
"Me too! I need To know! He's MINE!"
"No, you don't. It's really lame. And embarrassing." Harry said cringing.
Sirius then said, "Then I want it too!"
Harry said, "Hey guys, I know a spell, so that I can tell you all this stuff, but if you have any barriers, or objections, against certain dark magic it won't work."
Tasuki said, "Nope. I'm all good."
Max, Talim and Fenix repeated her.
Ron, Hermione, Sirius and Remus, however, protested.
"Yep, definitely not MY Harry." Hermione said flatly. Ron, Sirius and Remus nodded.
Tasuki proceeded to give them a lengthy speech about the differences of Evil and Dark magic. At the end, the girl had them feeling sheepish, for thinking that Dark magic equated to Evil magic.
: Seriously oathsib... : Fenix looked at Sirius in amusement. Her oathbrother tried to hide a blush by chuckling.
Tasuki then said, "They'er Okay with it now. Go right ahead."
"Don't think of anything you don't want everyone else to know." ~Percipio Percepi Perceptum~ Harry said. He was good enough at the spell now so that he managed to do what he wanted with it. A bright white picked up all the info on the first circuit of the room, hitting everyone in turn, and then departed all of the knowledge on the second round, so that everything that everyone was thinking, everyone knew.
"Wicked! Do you think that the Chamber of Secrets here will open for us, or me?"
"Not unless you know Parseltongue."
~No problem there!~ Tasuki hissed brightly, making everyone jump.
"You never told us you could do that," Max and Ron accused at the same time.
"You never asked." They both grunted, unintelligently.
Harry noticed a familiar scar on Tasuki's neck.
"Hey, you survived a killing curse too, didn't you. Are you famous, too?"
After getting up from 2 minutes of rolling on the floor laughing, Tasuki said, "No, before you, or the other you, no one knew I lived. I'm not even registered as being alive, or born."
"What happened?" Some might think that Harry made that statement out of pity, but those in the room knew that he was just sad that Voldemort had managed to impede another's life, and probably their family and happiness too.
Tasuki requested, "Could you do that thing again, and this time I'll think of what happened." Edited, of course. The Demon thought nastily to Tasuki.
Ron frowned, feeling a little confused at the implications. He really hoped one day she would trust him enough to tell him…
"No problem. Clear your minds again guys." ~Percipio Percepi Perceptum~
What actually happened the night his parents died flashed through his mind. He saw Shirley killing Orion, Sirius's wife, and Sirius went to James for help. Peter told Voldemort where they were. Voldemort killed Lilly and James. Voldemort erased Sirius' and Lupin's memories. Tasuki was temporarily forgotten in the confusion and crawled away. Voldemort tried to kill Harry and disappeared.
About one year later Voldemort came back, resurrected by a death eater, who was now dead, and tried to finish off Tasuki. But Voldemort, over ambitious and weakened by Harry, shot Tasuki with the killing curse. Tasuki, having been protected to the death by Orion had the same immunity as Harry and so the spell rebounded and she got the same type of scar Harry had.
After the light from the spell died Harry asked, "So, do you have the same bad dreams as me?"
Tasuki grinned and responded cheerfully, "Nope! Actually, you and me have been sleeping together this summer to prevent you from getting them."
"Hey, Ron, aren't you upset by this? She's YOUR girlfriend!"
"No, I understand. And she did sleep with me once when you were occupied with Hermione."
"For some reason, I feel this is a very dirty loose world." Harry commented in a preoccupied manner.
"EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW" Ron said making a grimace, finally understanding Harry's train of thought. "NO! Just SLEEP, NOTHING ELSE!"
"Oh. My bad. Then how did that help me?"
Tasuki grinned finally getting it. "You do have a sick mind. I wonder if my Harry," Hermione growled, so Tasuki quickly corrected herself, "Our Harry, has the same mind. And it's my magic. I can block dreams for some reason."
"So, the mighty Slytherin messed up, eh?" Max snorted.
"I think he dropped me, and yeah, on accident. Clever, but probably has a one tract mind." Harry replied, laughing.
Fenix said, "Goodness Gracious," The Fire Master was unaware that her exclamation was going to set off several minutes of utter randomness.
Talim and Tasuki exchanged a glance.
The elf suddenly broke out into song, as Tasuki joined only a second later.
"You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
Too much love drives a man insane
You broke my will, oh what a thrill
Goodness gracious great balls of fire"
At this point a piano appeared, and Hermonie started to play it, singing along with Tasuki and Talim's randomness.
You kissed me bayba, woo.....it feels good
Hold me bayba, learn to let me love you like a lover should
Your fine, so kind
I'm a nervous world that your mine mine mine mine-ine
Fenix smiled and Harry just stood their gob-smacked at the complete randomness, unused to it.
I cut my nails and I quiver my thumb
I'm really nervous but it sure is fun
Come on bayba, you drive me crazy
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
At this point Max stopped pretending to be embarrassed into Ron's shoulder, and sung along, dancing with Talim on top of Hermonie's piano.
Well kiss me bayba, woo-oooooo....it feels good
Hold me bayba
I want to love you like a lover should
Your fine, so kind
I got this world that your mine mine mine mine-ine
Ron decided to joined Tasuki too. Why not? He thought casting a look at the gold-fish version of Harry Potter.
I cut my nails and I quiver my thumb
I'm real nervous 'cause it sure is fun
Come on bayba, you drive me crazy
Goodness gracious great balls of fire
I say -goodness gracious great balls of fire...oooh..."
In the end they realized Sirius and Remus were dancing with Fenix, constantly cutting each other off, in order to dance with Fenix alone, temporarily. Somehow Harry now had Hermonie on his lap. His fiancée still playing the piano. All in all it was a random thing to do.
Molly came up the stairs, "What in MERLINS NAME ARE YOU DOING! Are you aware of how much NOISE you are making?" She turned the corner to see three 'responsible' adults dancing, before she took in the rest of the scene.
Hermione stopped playing the piano, and everyone stopped dancing and as one turned to stare at Mrs. Weasley.
"Well, Fenix started it. She said 'Goodness Gracious'. Talim couldn't resist bursting out into song with me, when someone says such a good song line!" Tasuki said very effectively, making Mrs. Weasley smile.
Mrs. Weasley then looked around for an excuse to change the subject, and found it immediately, "HARRY! WHAT have you DONE to you HAIR? I love it! I have been wanting Bill to cut his for ages..."
Tasuki took a good look at it. "It's ATTROCIOUS! Honestly Mrs. Weasley."
"Come on! It's not that bad, or that good!" Harry said, to Tasuki and Mrs. Weasley in turn.
"Yes it is!" The laughed after they said the same thing at the same time.
"Well, anyways, come down for breakfast." Mrs. Weasley merrily as she managed to get her laughter under control. She looked around. "Well… At least Harry and you three can come down. The rest of you… Get Dressed!"
"Okay!" Tasuki said. She started to undress right there.
Hermione noticed and yelled in horror, "ARG! NOT HERE! IN YOUR ROOM!" Tasuki continued to undress while heading for the door. Hermione and Ginny tried to shield her from sight, but it didn't help much.
Harry slowly noticed claw marks across her hips. "What's that?"
Ron, having no clue, stayed silent. It was Talim who said, "A scar."
Harry rolled his eyes in aggrivation. "I know that! What is this particular scar from? She has so many… Three…"
At this everyone who knew Tasuki and how many scars were visible when she was mad, which was everyone in the room but Harry, rolled on the floor laughing. Except for Remus, Sirius, Fenix, and Mrs. Weasley, they are adults after all. (A:N or are they?? Opps never mind me!)
"I have a feeling I'm missing something... But for right now I'll settle for what that one scar means." Harry said stubbornly
Talim and Max sombered quickly, making everyone look at them. Max, in a deadened voice said, "She got it after leaving Hermione's. It's not my place to say how. But if you ask really nicely she might tell you."
Talim snorted holding Max's hand, "Or she might just bite you." All of the sudden they heard the noise of breaking objects in the next room and Hermione yelling at Tasuki.
Talim said, "Excuse me," as she left to examine what the commotion occurring in the next room over was.
She had quite a train as everyone followed her anyways.
The two girls were fighting on the floor.
Harry was in shock. What the Hell! These people are friends! And in their boxers no less! Without Shirts! Tasuki must have jumped Hermione! Must save Hermione!
At this, Ron grabbed Harry's collar, keeping him from launching into the fray. A perfect reverse of roles.
Tasuki landing on top of Hermonie pinning Sunshine down as she screaming, "5, 4, 3, 2, 1! I WON AGAIN I WON I WON IWON! Genrou beat Sunshine! Sunny lost AGAIN!! WOOT!"
Talim almost crushed them in the process of pinning both of them down, and getting shirts on both of them. That was an extraordinary feat that only a very determined elf could pull off.
Max said laughing, "Now I know we need to eat breakfast!"
Hermione replied a bit defensively, "We were just letting off a bit of steam!"
"And breaking all the furniture in the room while we're at it!" Tasuki replied cheerfully.
Hermione stood up with her wand, she softly muttered, "Reparo," several times. She looked smugly at Tasuki, "No we didn't!"
Harry wisely stayed silent, still slightly shocked. Ron, Talim and Max were holding in laughter.
Talim grabbed Tasuki by the collar and dragged her down the stairs all the way to the table. The whole time Tasuki was screaming stuff like, "This ISN'T DIGNIFIED!" and "TALIM DON'T BE RIDICULOUS!"
Hermione, much to her embarrassment got carried out of the room, bride style, by an overly-gallant Max.
The rest managed to get down to the table by themselves... Luckily not dying of excessive laughter.
They ate breakfast. Tasuki said remarked a mouthful of hash browns. "Well, I guess I won't kill you. You obviously are not a death eater."
"Why do you say that?" Harry said.
"You smell nice." Tasuki said.
"Huh?"
"You smell nice."
"Huh?"
"I can smell your honesty"
"Huh?"
"Not very bright, are you?" Ron commented to his eggs. Sirius roughly cleared his throat, but the redhead pointedly ignored the wizard.
Hermione recited to the pitcher, "Guys are like lava lamps. Fun to look at, but not very bright."
"Hey!" All the male in the room exclaimed at the same time. This would include: Sirius, Remus, Harry, Ron, Max, The Twins, Bill and Charlie, Mr. Granger, and Mr. Weasley.
"You picked a very dangerously guy-filled area to say that, Sunshine." Remarked Tasuki to the air.
"Oh well. You have to admit, the simultaneous reaction of eleven guys was hilarious!" Hermonie said as brightly to the same bit of air.
"Too true chum!" Tasuki chimed.
"Don't call me chum, chum!" Hermonie said scowling.
"Don't call me chum!" Tasuki said, voice raising, a smile creeping on her face.
Max cleared his throat, impolitely.
Tasuki leaped over the table, knocking Harry and a piece of toast to the floor. Tasuki sniffed his clothes, and then sized up his muscles.
"You will never kill him in this shape! Do you know how to fight with swords knifes, axes, and other weapons? Any karate? Weight lifting, agility drills? ANYTHING?!"
Harry looked positively stunned, and said sheepishly, "No..." There's lots of stuff I have left to learn obviously... Maybe that's what Salazar is doing... Delegating my teaching. But this place is just a mistake... Right?
Tasuki felt a grin creep across her face, making Harry worried. "Do you want to learn?" she said slyly, while everyone else at the table watched them like an interesting movie.
Harry almost said no, worried about living through Tasuki Training. But then he remembered the list; she probably could teach him dead useful things that could keep him from being the murdered one. "Okay, but don't hurt me too much."
"Maybe guys aren't as dull as we thought, eh Hermonie?" Talim said contemplatively. Hermonie shrugged in replay, smiling wolfishly.
"Are you done eating Harry?" Tasuki said as everyone at the table stared in interest, as if they were in a classroom, going to learn something interesting.
"Ummm..." He looked at his half eaten food, thinking he didn't want to throw it up later, "Yes, I'm finished."
"Oh good. Follow me outside." Everyone followed her; Harry was the last to step out.
Then Tasuki made the golden and blue swords appear. She tossed the blue one to Harry, to see his reaction to a sword. Does he know enough to catch it? I did throw it rather lightly...
Harry dodged it sloppily and lost his balance.
Tasuki threw the golden one, and she stopped it with her magic just a centimeter from his neck.
"Don't sneeze." Tasuki warned Harry, but all Harry could see was a 'nice' shiny white blade.
Well... She can definitely handle throwing a sword. But how well could a sword possibly work when fighting off magic? Harry wondered already doubting Tasuki. Most people did that.
Tasuki pulled the sword out of the air, and back to her hand. "Pick up my other sword please. First, I need to have you work on your falls and dodging; then we'll try it without letting go of the sword. Max, Talim, little help here?"
Max and Talim grinned, and a mat appeared to prevent a hard fall.
Tasuki was explaining how to fall controllably, and fight and wrestle briefly when Harry wavered. "Wait a minute, can YOU do all that? Effectively?"
Max choked. "I wouldn't question her if I were you, pirates, thieves, bandits, and Amazon women are MEAN!"
Unfortunately for Harry, the connection didn't click. "DO you want a duel?" Tasuki said slowly grinning, her eyes a mischievous green, with a touch of icy blue.
"Sure." Harry said sealing a death sentence. I wonder where my caution went... Oh well!
"Name your stakes and weapons then." Tasuki said as she stretching.
"Magic and Physical, so Anything-Goes?" Might as well see what she's capable of.
"Ron? Block your mind. Unless you want the HUGEST headache. Fenix, and Sirius will be the judges, with the help of everyone else." Tasuki erected a shield on the house, for safety reasons.
Harry stood the opposite of Tasuki. She was preparing herself for an interesting fight. Harry was in fact quite strong, magically; his chi (magical energy) was off her chart. Tasuki smiled and thought to herself, good makes. It that much more interesting.
"Ready GO!" Hermonie screamed.
Tasuki made fire explode all about her, burning her clothes off. She was a wall of fire. It was a shield, Harry realized.
Under the shield Tasuki thought, Strengthen shield, now... hmmm, lets see, how to do this...
Harry gawked for a while, until, "COME ON! ARE WE DUELING OR NOT!?" A knife came whizzing out of the shield and missed Harry by inches, hitting a shield somewhere behind him, and clattered harmlessly to the ground.
Harry shouted a high level blasting curse at the wall of fire.
Tasuki's firewall shield went down. Harry gawked. Forest brown fur covered her body like a suit. Stopping at her mid thigh, and cutting off at her shoulders and neck. More fur covered her arms elbows to wrists, and on her legs knees to ankle. Her hair was up in a ponytail, and tightly braided. She twisted it around her neck, like a flaming necklace, to keep it out of the way.
Harry dodged a fist coming his way, remembering it went through a wall once. Tasuki jumped onto his shoulders, and with her knees twisted his neck lightly, "Your dead, I snapped your neck." Tasuki said in bored tone. Harry did a roll, and Tasuki spiraled off of him. Harry shouted something in Parseltongue. It was a binding spell. Iron snake-like ropes bound themselves to Tasuki, squeezing tighter every second.
"You're dead, I-" To Harry's amazement Tasuki was struggling against the bonds, cutting herself in the process.
"Don't remove it!" Tasuki shouted, she concentrated and she spat out a mouth knife. She held in her hand, with it she started cutting the cords, and it actually cut through the cords.
Tasuki was out, but only for a moment. Harry was shocked (She actually got out...) out of his shock (She's actually trying to get out...). He rapidly snapped out of shock and sent another curse her way, forgetting about the sword in his hand.
Tasuki dodged curses left and right, leaping around the room agilely, a grin on her face. She likes fighting! Harry was dumbstruck.
Tasuki got her tessen out and flipped in the air. She brought it down on Harry's head, making him miss the last curse that would have hit her between the eyes.
Harry faltered. Tasuki backed away, and held out his wand, watch, and various other things that used to be in his pockets.
Harry laughed; he had never had THAT happen to him before. Being pick-pocketed in a fight. Too bad he knew how to do wandless magic, too bad for her that is. But now he would have a different sort of force behind the spells.
Tasuki got her bow and arrows out. She shot Harry in the chest; well she would have, if Harry hadn't cursed it to blow up. His reflexes are getting better, Tasuki then howled like a wolf, all the excitement was getting to the Wolf and the Demon.
Tasuki shoved both of them back, seeing she had frightened everyone save Fenix, Max and Talim. Harry blinked, and next thing he knew Tasuki was behind him, holding up a sword that would have run him through if he was one of the baddies. Another point to Tasuki. 2 to 0.
Tasuki then caught Harry's leg with hers. He was not anchored or balanced, and her legs were strong. Down he went.
Tasuki pinned him to the floor, and mocked a punch to his nose. "Dead again."
"WHAT!? From a punch to the nose?" Harry got up shoving her rudely off of her. He proceeded to throw hexes and curses at her.
"If you punch someone hard enough, their skull will splinter up into their brain, killing them." She replied while dodging and studying all of Harry's quite interesting curses, and while formulating her next attack.
Harry nodded. She's really good, but I might be able to take her down at least once still. He threw curses in both languages, even setting some booby trap spells. Still she managed to dodge them all. She side stepped a few curses and threw a punch at Harry's side of head. He shoved a hand up, the one with a sword.
He cut Tasuki wrist deeply. He was horrified. Tasuki smiled and said, "Excellent! You're getting better at actually moving those limbs of yours!" Then she took her knee and threw it into Harry's stomach. Throwing him into a wall for a moments break, Tasuki licked the wound on her wrist clean, and then healed it.
Got to ask her how to do that healing thing... Harry thought as he started to stand up.
Oddly enough he lost his temper. He never liked being thrown away. He never wanted to be beat up. He never wanted attention. How was it right!? She got to be forgotten, and live a great life!?
Little did Harry know, he had run into one of his own spells. One to cloud and twist your rational thoughts into anger and hatred.
Harry got up and insulted Tasuki, "You think you're so good just because they have accepted you? You are nothing but an animal! They won't even tell me about one of your scars! What are you hiding!? Why? You are a monster. You should have never have come into their life!"
Harry continued on in the same line of ranting. Tasuki guessed it was a spell, but something was off, this spell had given him the exact words that made Tasuki lose it.
The scars appeared. Harry yelled, "What the bloody- you are a monster, you look like a murder!"
"I am a murder." Tasuki whispered. Black shame smoldered in her eyes, and then Red anger flared up. The fur left, and the hand formed on her chest once more.
Harry swung at her with a sword; Tasuki parried it, but made no attacks. "I HATE you! You deserve to die! You killed, but what about their families? You are just as bad as them."
Harry swung a punch, bringing down the sword at the same time. Tasuki blocked the sword, and turned slightly so the punch only hit her ribs. They made a small cracking sound.
Tasuki felt the metal spread throughout her entire body. Tasuki let it come. Starting from her head, a silvery metal shell climbed down Tasuki's body. It now looked like she was made of metal. Potions Tasuki decided along time ago were helpful, even if this metal was the result of an accident.
They fought. Harry's punches were ineffective, her being metal now, but his hexes were working. They were getting darker and darker as a result of the spell he ran into.
Finally, much to the audience's shock, he launched one of the Unforgivables. The one to torture. Tasuki's shield went down, and feeling that with the shield down she would be vulnerable, Harry launched it again, Tasuki didn't dodge, she had to show him. The spell hit, and Tasuki crumbled to the floor.
Tasuki thought of Ron. She got up slowly, her arms twitching slightly, a wince on her face, her skin writhing in pain. Tasuki closed her eyes, standing up now. The claw marks on her hip began to bleed slowly again.
Ron was hammering on the shield separating them, making his fist bleed in the contact. Everyone looked worried. Fenix was looking on at the duel with an expressionless face. The rest noticed that she had the same look when she was worried.
Only Talim and Max looked calm. Talim made Ron stop hammering on the shield by pulling him back by his collar. "Have Fenix or Hermonie heal that you dolt! You don't want Tasuki to feel worse than she already does... Do you?"
Tasuki concentrated. And then the curse broke, like glass into a million pieces. She glowed black, and successfully dodged the killing curse. Smiling and hit Harry on the spine, Hard. Harry slipped into unconsciousness, and all the spells he laid dissolved.
Tasuki flipped Harry onto her shoulder. "Well I think he should come about near dinner. Sorry about that. I think he ran into one of his own spells." She sounded relatively calm as if talking about the color of a flower.
The shield went down and Ron stood there. A second later he enveloped her into a hug. "Nice Job." Was all he said, though he looked very shaken.
Tasuki tossed Harry to Fenix, and the latter caught Harry by creating a net with her magic, because she would be flattened if she tried to do it the 'normal' way. Sirius gave his daughter a disapproving look for throwing his godson. Fenix laughed at Sirius' antics and started to heal Harry.
"This might take a while. I'm going inside and taking a shower!" Tasuki said.
"I'll come with you. Hermione, you'll heal the rest, Right?" Fenix said after critically examining the unconscious boy. She made sure that Harry was carefully shielded before she communicated with Sirius to take the boy inside.
Ron looked like he was going to protest, but then decided it was best if Tasuki had a shower. He didn't want an unhappy Tasuki… Especially after a major fight!
Tasuki spun around and yelled from the doorway, "That was NOT a major fight! I was going easy on the idiot of a-"
"TASUKI!" Hermonie interrupted.
"I didn't use any of my guns, or even one tenth of my knives." Tasuki broke off her list, seeing his uncomfortable face.
Ron muttered, "Memo to me, think quietly or not at all..."
Fenix laughed, and Tasuki asked in a suspiciously nice tone, "What was that? I missed it." Fenix snorted and dragged the girl to the showers.
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Hot water rushed down on Fenix and Tasuki. Tasuki sighed, letting the water carry away her guilt and frustration at the new Harry.
"Weird, just when I met one Harry, I get to met another." Fenix muttered, as she washed her hair.
Tasuki smiled and agreed whole-heartedly. "He is much more powerful than I thought. He shot off spells like a computer does instant math." Tasuki leaned on the wall with her hands supporting her body, letting the spray hit her back.
"Just like you." Fenix commented lightly.
"What are we gonna do?" Tasuki asked softly almost to herself. Fenix looked at her face, and found to her surprise, that the girls eyes had turned silver. (meaning sad, if you forgot.)
The Fire Master thought that it was a little weird seeing silver as Tasuki's 'sad' color, since she herself sported crystal-clear ones. "Train him I guess. He said something about Salazar going to move him somewhere else. I want to know where our Harry went." Fenix sighed, feeling a little apprehensive, for she knew complications were going to follow.
: Me too. : Tasuki sent, her throat trying to work again. Tasuki pushed the water temperature even hotter, hot as it could go.
You sure you can handle that? Fenix asked in a concerned voice.
: Absolutely, but only when I'm tired though. Heat gives me energy when I'm lowish. : The water went hotter still, and Tasuki shivered, freezing.
Fenix was starting to get worried. : Are alright? The heat doesn't seem to be helping too much. :
: It is. The Curse, its catching up to me. Seeing Fenix's look Tasuki elaborated, When I fight, I borrow strength from the Demon, and the Wolf, sometimes other things. When I stop, it all goes away, I'm drained, so I'm in worse shape after a few minutes has gone by when I stop fighting, then when I am fighting. :
: Oh. So,
Fenix was saying something, a question, Tasuki knew she should answer, but something was wrong. An unfamiliar scent wafted her way, the water, it wasn't swirling the way it should.
Tasuki's eyes snapped open as her lungs started to hurt, followed by a strange and harmful squeezing around her throat. Blood welled everywhere the invisible hands touched her throat.
Tasuki clawed at the walls, spluttering. Little closer, just a little more, come on, come on. Please don't tell me they removed it... THERE! Tasuki felt the bump of uneven wood she punched it, but the punch was off, and her strength was leaving, she only cracked the wood.
Fenix turned, and saw Tasuki. Instantly she knew that something was choking her. Her Hunter senses told her there were two people choking Tasuki, and three waiting to pounce on her. Blessed Rhiannon! How could they have slipped in? Oh great! This is just insulting! And us stark naked too!
Her sword appeared in her hand, and trying all her might not to blush, she cut down both attackers strangling Tasuki just as Tasuki punched through the wall. I guess I'm lucky the other are unaware and these blokes did not think of using magic while we were showing... Fenix thought to herself. Thank Phoebus for that...
Gasping Tasuki nodded a Thanks and grabbed the spare daggers from inside a small drawer inside the shower wall. She toed another piece of wood three feet down and an inch over from the small drawer and a hobbit-sized sword clattered to the floor, made out of the best steel money could buy.
Tasuki sniffed and Fenix cut down an attacker just behind her, twirling and making a full motion Fire Emblem sweep, cutting her attacker in two. The Fire Master was still thinking that sword fighting in the nude was too uncomfortable to her liking.
Tasuki threw the small daggers studded with diamonds at the last remaining invisible attackers. One died on contact, the other Fenix trapped to the ground, water and blood swirling around her.
"Who sent you?" Fenix hissed venomously, silver eyes daring him to smile at being pinned to the ground by a naked woman, murder was something Fenix would do happily at this point. There was just some things that made people pissed, and this was one of them.
The man just simply smiled, and green light surrounded him and he was dead.
"Did you?" Fenix started. Fenix asked as she got up to her feet. She stared at her sword for a moment and it disappeared. She gazed down at the body thinking furiously.
"No, Voldemort has a spell, if anyone wants say something about who they are connected to they die. Pointless really, Dark Mark and all says it, and the classical death-on-the-spot thingy, but oh well." Tasuki shrugged, and her eyes slipped back to a neutral aqua, away from the red the used to be.
"Where did you get those? How did you know where they were?" Fenix inquired, eyeing the diamond studded daggers, and the expensive small hip sword.
"What? Oh, these beauties are not mine, unfortunately," Tasuki said with a lop-sided smile, pulling some of the daggers out of the now dead, and visible attackers, all lower-ranked Death Eaters. "Every old house, and old families used to have them. They are stashed all around a house, in certain places, in case of an attack. I'm guessing someone died before they could pass the information onto the next generation in this case. Sometimes people will sell them, or store them somewhere else. They used to be used for emergencies, in case another house got mad, and started a war, or just dangerous creatures."
"How do you know all this?" Fenix asked, she knew already, but it was nice to get Tasuki's mind off of the pain. While Tasuki was talking, Fenix moved over and started to Heal her throat.
"Interesting what you pick up from Bandits, that's what the Weasley House used to be, Bandits, and Thieves, an example of Thieves is the Malfoys. They like to empower themselves, whereas Bandits like the outdoors, simplicity lined with luxury, a balance. They like mountains, warmth, and families. That's probably why the Weasley's live in such a house as this, whereas the Malfoy's house is a cold luxury."
"Hmm, Interesting options. There! All done!" Fenix said and started rinsing herself once more. Tasuki set aflame the bodies and they vanished. Both women clothed, as Tasuki put the glorious knifes and sword back with half a mind to tell Ron they were there. After that, Tasuki drug Fenix outside with her.
: Come on, I need some air. :
Salamanders followed the two, drying Fenix's hair. Into the afternoon, they wandered. The day was a little overcast, just the way Tasuki loved it, it was even better than when it rained.
Fenix and Tasuki inhaled as the cool breeze blew softly around them. Tasuki loved the feel of grass under her feet, and was happy just to find a spot of quiet just off the house.
Tasuki found her hill, climbed on top and laid back in the grass. : I've always wanted to daydream in a field of sunflowers in the summer, have someone call my name, and then eat dinner. : Tasuki confined to Fenix, and sighed contentedly.
Fenix smiled, and sat down next to her. That is until Tasuki hooked her arm, and pulled her down to the grass on her back.
Before Fenix could say anything Tasuki pointed to the sky, "The moon is out, I'm gonna have to leave again." Her voice was laced with regret and worry. "What if they notice? What if something happens to them while I'm gone. I'm not scared of them, not anymore. I just don't wanna leave. I hate being alone." Tasuki winced, as cold hit her again, and again when she realized how whinny and hypocritical she sounded.
: Ohh, shoot me. : Tasuki said rolling over twice.
Fenix looked at Tasuki : Anything I can do to help? :
: Actually, Yes. Don't move, I won't hurt you. : Tasuki lifted up Fenix, and placed her on top of herself. Fenix's back on top of Tasuki's front, both looking up at the sky.
Tasuki smiled, feeling Fenix's body warmth combine with her own. The weight on top of Tasuki felt oddly comforting, but then again, it always had. The constant reminder someone was there and cared about you, never ceased to please Tasuki immensely.
"Right there, see that?" Tasuki pointed to the sky yet again, "That's the same cloud that will rain on us tomorrow, it looks like a rabbit."
Fenix, adjusting to her new position, smiled, "Sorry to say, you are Terribly misinformed, that's a Duck!"
They argued on what different clouds were for a while. "So, what are we planning to do when they go to school? Assuming we get our own Harry back? I know that I have to follow Sirius wherever he may go. Our oathbonds... make it rather difficult for us... if we are separated for long..." Fenix asked, picking a piece of grass idly.
"I was deciding whether or not to teach there, or pretend to be a student, and study the students. Find new ways to train. Sunshine says they have an excellent library." Tasuki said flatly, without any emotion, making Fenix automatically tense.
"What's wrong? We could teach together... maybe even be normal for once... stay with us, what could be better?" Fenix kept her voice light and joking, though inside she knew she wanted to help Tasuki.
Fenix didn't think she could stand if Tasuki had to leave, and be all alone with virtually no one, to make a new Herd, and leave all over again, with the same bitter tears, the same horrid feeling. Fenix wanted to make Tasuki part of her Family, so Tasuki would never have to run again. Gods she just found Sirius...
"I don't know. I always think settling down, making a permanent home, permanent family, means forgetting everyone else I have meet, and what Volie did to them. I think I would suffocate at the school, not training, not preparing. At the same time, me and Harry promised to stay together... And you, and everyone else, and Ron. I think I could have left if it was just Harry or Ron, or you and everyone else, but I can't give up all of you." Tasuki laughed humorously, "I guess that's my selfishness for you."
Fenix relaxed, "Don't worry, we'll make it so you will never leave." She teased, turning slightly to poke Tasuki in the ribs for emphasis.
"Damn right she is!" A man's voice said with so much conviction, you knew it was Sirius.
Tasuki smiled, "Hi Dad! That's so cool! I can finally say dad! Someday I will be able to say 'Mom' too!"
A pang ran through Sirius thinking of Mimi (Orion) but shook it off.
Fenix blinked and formulated a thought quickly to Tasuki : Tasuki dear, Please don't mention the fact that we had been ambushed by invisible Death Eaters while we showered... : Tasuki grinned rather evilly, but promised she wouldn't all the same.
He raised an eyebrow looking at the two reclining females suspiciously. He finally said, "Mind if I join?" He picked both of them up, and put them on his stomach. Fenix protested but after a staring match with Sirius, she quieted down, and Tasuki grinned even wider.
They all talked and joked, while the rest slowly joined them, Ron being the first after Sirius.
Dinner was meet by a thoroughly miserable new Harry Potter.
Tasuki knew how to right this though.
Walking over to him she hugged him and said, "I am really sorry about that! I shouldn't have blown up. I think you ran into one of your own spells. If you don't want to talk to me anymore, than, then I won't, I can go away." Tasuki stared to turn, jolting Harry, leaving him no room to apologize.
Harry grabbed Tasuki's arm. "I would LOVE for you to teach me more."
Tasuki grinned at that. Bouncing around the room, she kissed everybody. Coming back to Harry, she pushed him to the table, where the dinner so invitingly sat. Everyone was sitting there, smiling, eating, laughing talking, and in Max's case being glared at by a slightly pissed Hermonie for making a less than flattering remark about Libraries.
"Harry welcome to your new Family, My Herd. You are apart of us now, and we too you. This will be interesting for all of us. Don't leave too soon." Tasuki hooked her leg around a chair, and pulled it out for Harry, right next to Hermonie. Tasuki sat on Ron's lap, only to be pushed teasingly by Sirius and Remus while Talim made 'nener ne ner ne ner' faces at her.
Tasuki sniffed proudly, regally got up from the floor and sat down next to Ron this time and started to eat, refusing to speak to them the rest of the dinner in mock anger.
Harry smiled thinking, 'I could get used to this. Yes, I could.'