Author's notes: I AM SO, SO, SORRY for being away so long and not updating
for a reallah reallah long time! I went to Europe for two weeks (did I
already mention that? Nevermind) and it was a blast! But now my time zones
are out of wack. Stupid jet lag....
Anyways, here's the next chapter. I leave in the middle of August (again,
not to Europe though ) and I hope to have Chapter 15 up by then. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I own ABSOLUTELY nothing. Except for the Sorting Hat's song. Which is bad, and short. You don't have to tell me about it ONWARDS!
Chapter 14: Hogwarts
The big wooden door opened and a lady with some wrinkles in a black cloak and matching pointed hat stepped out. "Welcome to Hogwarts 1st years!" she announced. "And later years," she added as she glanced at the Inuyasha group. "My name is Professor McGonagall, I teach Transfiguration and I am Deputy Headmistress. Now a start of the term banquet will begin shortly.
"Now there are four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. The Sorting Hat will sort you into your proper houses. The houses are named after our four founders; Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, and Salazar Slytherin. Your house is somewhat like your family and while you are here at Hogwarts, you will be rewarded house points for things you do, depending on what it is, but then you will lose points if you do anything against the rules, understand? And at the end of the year, whichever house has the most points wins the House Cup."
"Now I just want all you to follow me into the Great Hall where all your other fellow students will be waiting for you. I will call you by name, one at a time so wait your turn. Follow me." She walked off into the castle.
All the students followed her, with Hagrid at the back, and they all looked amazed at the site of all the staircases that twisted and turned in all directions. Every wall is covered in a massive heap of paintings that moved and talk!
"AAHHH!!!"
Everyone looked for where the sound came from. It emitted from a boy that was floating in the air. "HELP ME!"
Professor McGonagall dashed over and took out her wand. "Flipendo!" she pointed the wand at the hovering boy.
Everyone gasped, thinking she was going to hit him, but the spell actually revealed a pearly white ghost holding onto the boy's ears and hovered in the air.
"PEEVES!" the professor yelled at the top of her lungs. "PUT THE STUDENT DOWN OR I'LL HAVE TO GET BLOODY BARON!"
The ghost snickered. "Just playing," he dropped the boy then disappeared into a wall.
The boy fell and was caught by Hagrid. Hagrid put him down.
"Ok, now lets keep going!" Professor McGonagall headed to a door and opened it. As she opened it, light streamed out of the room, blinding everyone's eyes for a few seconds.
As the door opened, the light came from candles that hovered a few feet above. The ceiling, well, at least everyone thinks it's a ceiling, looks like a starry sky at night. The stars twinkling down on everyone. Once the light flooded from the doorway, four long wooden tables arranged vertically in front of them piled with students seated on the benches. Then all the way in the front lay a table just as long as the others, but arranged horizontally to them. Everyone at that table is part of the staff of Hogwarts, and in the center sat Professor Dumbledore.
The headmaster showed an old, crinkly grin at all the new students, and then nodded towards Professor McGonagall, telling her they may walk down.
She saw the message and walked down the aisle between the two middle tables. All the new students followed, but bumped into each other for they kept staring at the students seated at the tables, since they stared at them.
Inuyasha and the others did so as well, though Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, Kagome, Sango, and Miroku got the full blast of it, since they stood out of the sea of new students like sore thumbs. Also, Shippo's tail bobbed behind him for everyone to see, same with Inuyasha's ears.
Inuyasha almost yelled out, "WHY ARE YOU STARING, HUH! GOT A PROBLEM?!" but clenched his fist and controlled his temper. Sweat trickled down his face from all the tension.
While Sesshomaru dealed with the situation coolly, he merely ignored everyone and just stared at the back of Professor McGonagall's head to keep himself from giving a death terroring look at everyone.
Prof. McGonagall came to a stop and signaled all the new students to stay where they are. She walked up to a stool in front of the Head Table. Laying on the stool was a dull black, ragged hat with ripped edges. The rip above the brim formed a mouth and it began to sing:
Your founders started this school
To complete a certain goal
To help control your tool (author's note: just to say that tool is your wand)
To help complete your soul
A magically school for one and all
Is what they merely wished for
But only for the ones they call
With magic deep in their core
Now the founders have their houses
With all their different traits
For you'll be sorted into them
Along with your fellow mates
First is Godric Gryffindor
The bravest of them all
So courageous, so bold,
Are each of them, one and all
Then comes Rowena Ravenclaw
The smartest, or maybe the best?
Maybe you will you join her
Once you take my test
Third comes Salazar Slytherin
The slyest one of all
So cunning they all are
That maybe they'll never fall
Last is Helga Hufflepuff
She merely took the rest
United as one, the four of them
Did there very best
And they worked hard to build it here
They went to the most dangerous places to do so
And they didn't have one ounce of fear
Now we're ready to go -
Finally I've explained the houses
So, in a moment you will come
Right up to me so I can sort you
Into the house you shall become
To the end, through and through,
But listen here, closely now
I'll go even farther
This year at Hogwarts will become
Something you all may fear
Part we know, part is hidden
Which may make us tear
Let me tell you all now,
Something very dangerous is getting near
From some deadly foes
Then soon it will get here
We'll have to get down low
Unless you all get ready for
That moment to arrive
So stay in this school, forever more
And you may all survive
If we don't all crumble within
I have told you, I have warned you...
Let the Sorting now begin
(another author's note: last three lines I used from the 5th book, just to say)
"Wow, what a wonderful school," Inuyasha said sarcastically.
"Shh!" Kagome elbowed Inuyasha then looked up at Pro. McGonagall who just walked up to the stool.
"Now when I call your name, I want you to come up and you shall be sorted. Afterwards, head to your new house." She unraveled a scroll and held it open in front of her.
Students were steadily called. The last first year to be called was Shippo.
"Shippo!" Pro. McGonagall called out, not saying any last name.
Shippo became all nervous and jumped when he was called. He hopped up and had trouble getting onto the tall stool, he had to climb up to reach the top!
Prof. McGonagall plopped the Sorting Hat down onto his head.
"Hm..." the hat began to talk to him, "different from the rest I'll say. Oh, many emotions, the energetic type, eh? Oh and quite some bravery for someone your age. Let's see..." the hat paused as it thought for a moment. "How about...GRYFFINDOR!!!"
Students from the table all the way to the left from Shippo began to applaud. Shippo jumped off the chair and gave the hat to Prof. McGonagall, then skipped over to the applauding table, sitting in a vacant seat.
"Now the next students are going to be late comers. They will not be first years, because of their age, so first the new 6th years. Now these new students may seem different to all of you, but they are just the same as us, they breathe, eat, and talk, just like you do, so please treat them equally."
"First, Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha grumbled and stood where he was until Kagome shoved him hard in the back that he practically fell over. Inuyasha jumped onto the seat while the hat was placed on his head.
Students craned their heads and shoved others out of their way to take a good look at Inuyasha. Mostly because his silver hair and dog-ears.
"Inuyasha, interesting name. Very, very courageous I'll say. Bad temper though."
Inuyasha grinded his teeth at the remark.
"Oh, seem to be getting angry now, too. Well, seems you've been through lots of difficult times. Wait a moment, seems like you're from a different time area as well." The hat whispered this since he hear Inuyasha's thoughts saying not to say it out for everyone to hear. "I know exactly where you belong, very obvious. It mostly certainly shall be GRYFFINDOR!!!"
The Gryffindor table cheered for having the ones with dog-ears, just like how to were glad to have the one and only Harry Potter join the house. Shippo screamed and cheered for Inuyasha.
Inuyasha dearly wanted to strangle Shippo for yelling, but he didn't want to cause a commotion, knowing the two words Kagome would say to control him. 'Sit, boy!' he shuddered at the words, knowing the pain those words caused him, and the taste of dirt as well.
Then Kagome was called next, last name included, and got into Gryffindor as well. She took a seat next to Inuyasha. Then Sango joined them as well. Last called for 6th years was Miroku.
"Sly one, eh?" the hat hissed into Miroku's ear.
Miroku remembered how Slytherin people were sly and so he wished not to be in Slytherin to himself, but the hat seemed to be able to listen to his thoughts.
"Don't want to be in it? Ok, then. Oh, looks like you always have the urge to massage one's—." the hat substituted the next word with a, "ahem."
Sango, Shippo, Inuyasha, and Kagome looked at each other as it happened with faces that were held back from laughter.
"Ok then, suit yourself, you'll be in GRYFFINDOR!!!"
Miroku gave a sigh of relief as he got off the stool and grinned at the thought of all the fun he'll have being in the same house as Kagome and Sango. (author's note: ::sweatdrop:: lol)
"Last, but not least, Sesshomaru for his 7th year, his first and his last year at Hogwarts!"
Sesshomaru strolled over to the stool and calmly sat on the stool. The hat was placed on his head.
"Lets see, very cunning and clever you are. Oh, nasty situations for you though, seem like you should be in Slytherin. But wait, no, something in you tells me you should be in... RAVENCLAW!!!"
Sesshomaru stood up and placed the hat back onto the stool. He walked over and took a seat at the table next to Inuyasha and the others.
Prof. McGonagall picked up the Sorting Hat and stool and set it aside.
Then Professor Dumbledore, sitting at the center of the Head Table, stood up and got everyone's attention.
"Welcome to another school year! I'm sure everyone is excited for another year! Now remember, no electronics allowed, either way if you have them here, they will not work because all the magic here won't allow it to. And no toys, which are all listed at Argus Filch's office. Now I welcome you here at the beginning of the school year and wish you luck in your grades. Now let the feast begin!" he raised his arms.
All the main plates at every table filled with delicious, scrumptious foods, from steaming stuffed turkey legs to cherry clotted cream and high stacking cakes.
All the first years and Inuyasha and the others eyes went wide as all the food magically appeared.
All that was heard was laughter in the Great Hall and the clatter of forks, knives, and spoons being picked up.
Inuyasha ripped off a turkey leg and stuffed his face. "I fink I'm fonna loik it fere," his mouth full of food. He took a goblet of pumpkin juice and washed the food down.
"Inuyasha! Don't speak with your mouth full of food!" Kagome scolded.
Shippo hopped up and down excitedly at all the food. "Wow, I've never seen so much food in one place in my life!!" He wolfed down some bread smeared with thick butter.
Miroku and Sango joined in the food.
"Hello mates!"
George and Fred took a seat next to Inuyasha.
"Oh, hello, Fred, George!" Kagome waved to them.
"We wanted to ask you something," Fred said.
"Yes, indeed, didn't want to on the train, just in case mum might somehow be listening but—," George said but was interrupted.
"Are you demons?"
The whole group went quiet for a moment.
"We were kinda wondering, since we saw the little guy's tail and your ears," Fred said to Inuyasha, casting glances at his dog-ears.
Inuyasha kept eating without looking at them.
"Sure eat like a dog, oh, are those dog ears?!" the twins' eyes went wide.
"Feh," is all Inuyasha said.
"I'll take that as a yes... So are you demons?"
"Fred! Nice question to ask the newbies!" Ron comes over, followed by Hermione and Harry. They all take a seat with the group. "You just go up to the bloke and say 'Are you a demon?' Really Fred, have you got any common sense?"
"Common sense isn't that common," George commented. (A.N.Got that line from my pre-algebra teacher: Mr. Testa!)
Shippo snickered at the comment.
"OK, you want to know?" Inuyasha said. "Just try not to annoy me anymore!"
Fred and George saluted in agreement.
"I'm half demon, half dog, half human, alright?" Inuyasha snapped. "Oh and Shippo there is pure demon, he's a fox (kitsune) demon."
"Bloody brilliant!" Fred, George, and Ron said in unison.
"Wow, first Volde-, uh, I mean You-Know-Who, the basilisk, dementors, dragons, now demons," Harry chuckled.
"So are the rest of you, well, uh, demons as well?" Hermione said, trying to hurt anyone's feelings.
Sango shook her head. "No, Kagome is sort of a priestess, least reincarnated one, Miroku here is a perverted monk," gives a glare at him.
He just shrugged. "It's the hand!" he said as he pointed to it.
Sango continued, "And I'm a demon exterminator."
Hermione gasped.
Sango shook her head. "No, I don't kill these two demons, just ones that cause trouble." She smirked.
"Glad I'm not you guys, especially that Sesshomaru person, you have to make up everything from the last years you weren't year, all from 1st year stuff to 6th!" Ron said.
"I'll be happy to help you all!" Hermione said.
Harry said, "Hermione is really smart. So where are you all from?"
Kagome said, "Japan," not saying anything about how the others are from Feudal Era Japan.
"Have you all known each other for a while?" Harry asked.
Shippo nodded.
"How 'bout him?" Harry nodded towards the back of Sesshomaru at the other table that was wolfing down food like some crazy maniac who had been shipwrecked for months. "Wow, he sure can eat."
"Just like our pal here," George slapped Inuyasha's shoulders. "You two related? Look alike to me."
Inuyasha just kept eating with an annoyed look on his face.
Kagome sighed. "Well, uh ::sweatdrop:: they're sort of brothers, but, uh—."
"Shut up!" Inuyasha stood up and banged the table. "Don't call him my brother! He's no brother of mine!!" He practically yelled and everyone went quiet to listen.
Sesshomaru, of course, heard him, and got up. Everyone watched him. He walked up to Inuyasha, Inuyasha's back was facing him, and he was still steaming and angry. "So, little brother, don't want to admit I'm your big brother, eh?" He showed his claws.
Inuyasha turned around. "Dammit," he muttered, "Don't have my Tetsusaiga, stupid train person took it and stuck it in my trunk! Oh well, I'll have to use my claws!" He curled his fingers, his long claws gleaming.
Ron gulped, "I'm guessing you don't get along?"
Sesshomaru glared at him and Ron squeaked and went quiet. "No fighting in school, but with you, little brother, I'll make an exception."
Everyone panicked.
Kagome kept trying to think of something to stop them, before matters get worse. "Uh, uh, sit, boy!"
The prayer bead necklace Inuyasha is wearing glowed then he was forced to the ground. The goblets on the tables shook.
Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow, "Maybe next time..." he went back to sit at his table.
Inuyasha got up. "What was that for?!" he was really steaming now like a hot oven cooking soft chocolate cookies. (Yum, oops, I'm going off the subject aren't I? Anyway...)
Kagome stared at him. "What do you think? What kind of first impression are you giving, they're going to question us about the fighting, and they can take house points away, remember?"
Inuyasha snorted then sat back down. "Whatever."
Once everyone finished eating, everyone followed the prefects. Now in their 6th year, Ron and Hermione are no longer prefects, since they were already ones last year, so Dumbledore is giving the chance to other people.
"Thank goodness I'm not a prefect anymore. Can't stand Fred and George nagging and imitating Mum's reaction to it." Ron walked up the stairs along with Harry, Ron, and the Inuyasha group (now its all of them, but Sesshomaru) right behind them.
Hermione frowned, "How can you say that? Being prefect is very important!"
"Woah!"
Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked behind them.
Inuyasha seemed to have fallen through the step in the stairs that disappears on certain days.
"Stupid stairs," Inuyasha muttered, he was really having lots of fun! (sarcastic)
The Gryffindor prefects halted at a portrait of a very fat lady in a large dress. She was chatting with the portrait next to her.
"Now," the prefect began, "so first years know, and new late years, this is the entrance to the Gryffindor Common Room, and there is a password to get in so remember them or you'll be locked out until someone comes to your rescue." He faced the portrait. "Password's Snicklewits." (a.n. I just made that up, it just popped into my head so don't make fun of me!)
The portrait spoke, "You may enter," she swung open in front of them. Everyone headed inside.
The prefects explained where the Girls and Boys Dorms were and that all their belongings are already there.
Miroku snapped his fingers. "Looks like we're in separate rooms."
Sango and Kagome stared at him suspiciously. "What did you say?"
Miroku waved his hands, "::sweatdrop:: Uh, nothing, nothing!"
Inuyasha and Shippo rolled their eyes.
They head to their separate dorms. Inuyasha, Shippo, and Miroku's bed were all next to each other, and their belongings in front of the beds, same with Kagome and Sango.
They all changed into their sleeping clothes and went to sleep. Then woke up in the morning, changed and headed back to the Great Hall to eat some breakfast. While they were eating, a large flock of owls swooped in the Great Hall and flew around, looking for someone.
Before Kagome could ask what was going on, Harry explained, "Those are just the owls, they're here to send mail to people, like how Muggles have postmen."
"Oh," Kagome nodded in agreement.
"Hey!"
The Inuyasha group and Harry and his friends turned around.
Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle were walking up to them. Malfoy was the one who spoke. He walked right up to their table and sneered at them. "So let me get this straight, according to some people, that shrimp over there," he nodded towards Shippo, "is a fox demon?"
Shippo fumed, "Hey! Don't call me a shrimp!"
Malfoy continued, "And you," to Inuyasha, "are a half breed? Half dog demon? And you're so called brother is a dog, but pure?"
Inuyasha grinded his teeth, "Oh you're gonna pay! Taste my claws" he was going to pounce on him, but Miroku and Harry sitting on both sides of him managed to hold him back.
"Sod off, will you, Malfoy!" Ron yelled.
Malfoy just smirked and walked off, Crabbe and Goyle following him back to the table.
Inuyasha's temper went down and he sat back down. Harry and Miroku loosened their grip then let go.
"Don't let him get to you," Harry suggested. "Yeah, he is a brat, but the head of his house is Snape, and Snape hates us, so better stay out of their way, or we'll lost house points and get detention."
"Head of the House?" Sango said as she sipped some orange juice.
Hermione explained. "There's a Head of every house, Prof. McGonagall of ours, Snape of Slytherin, Prof. Sprout of Hufflepuff, and Prof. ? (I don't know who, please tell me so I can fix it.) of Ravenclaw."
"Wait a sec," Inuyasha kept sniffing.
"Uh, why are you sniffing?" Ron questioned.
"I smell another," Inuyasha said.
Harry had a puzzled look on his face. "Another what, exactly?"
"Demon..."
Everyone looked surprised. "Really? What kind?" Kagome asked.
Inuyasha took another whiff of the air, "Cat," he said promptly.
Miroku has a suspicious look in his eyes, "Is something in your bag, Sango?"
The bag next to Sango was moving. "Well, uh," Sango tried to explain, "it's just nothing, nothing at all!"
Then the bag meowed. Everyone heard it.
"Kirara! Shush!" Sango said to the bag in a whisper.
"We can hear you," Ron said, eyebrow lifted up.
Sango shrugged then sighed. "Well, I brought Kirara..."
"Who?" Hermione said.
Sango lifted the flap of her bag and a small adorable cat with three tails comes out. The cat has yellow-whitish fur, like cream (or something...), a black patch of fur shaped like a diamond on her forehead, black ears, and black paws.
"Oh, it's so cute!" Hermione said. "Why does your cat have three tails?"
"Kirara is a demon cat," Sango answered. "I know you can bring a cat, rat, or owl to school, but I wasn't sure about a demon cat..."
Hermione thought then said, "Should be ok, she is a cat, just with three tails is all."
Sango sighed. "Hope so."
Then they all left to their classes, and said good-bye to Shippo who wasn't in their class because of his year. And as usually, they had double potions with Slytherin.
"Half-breed!" Malfoy walked up to Inuyasha. "Think you're tough, huh?"
Inuyasha looked annoyed. "What do you want, brat?"
Malfoy was shocked by the remark. "Brat, eh?" He took out his wand. "Petrificus Totalus!"
Inuyasha want straight and fell to the floor, his arms and legs snapped to the sides of his body. Hermione rushed over and calmed everyone down when she said she could fix it. She merely waved her wand and said some words, then Inuyasha was able to stand upright again.
"Malfoy!" Harry got up, he wanted to murder him.
"What is going on over here?" Prof. McGonagall was heading towards them with a strict look on her face.
"Um... nothing Pro. McGonagall, we were merely talking," Malfoy answered in an innocent tone.
Ron coughed. "Ferret!" Prof. McGonagall didn't notice, but Malfoy sure did. Everyone else, but Malfoy and his two henchmen snickered.
"It better be!" the professor answered, then walked away.
Malfoy stuck a finger up at them and waved it (No, not his middle finger...just in case that's what you thought I meant). "I'll be back for you!" Then he and the other two walked off.
"Come again and I'll rip your body apart!" Inuyasha curled his claws.
"What was that spell?" Kagome asked.
"A spell that freezes your whole body," Hermione answered.
Kagome hit Inuyasha on the head. "What?!" Inuyasha yelled.
"You should say thank you to Hermione! If it weren't for her, you would still be on the floor, frozen solid!" Kagome answered.
"Fine," Inuyasha said. Kagome was surprised to see him give in easily. "Thank you for being a know-it-all!" Hermione felt hurt, but also proud, because it could mean she knows everything, which is good to her.
"That's not what I meant!" Kagome snapped. "Oh you're hopeless! This was only breakfast, there's still the whole year to put up with."
"Oh, great," Inuyasha answered with so much enthusiasm, not.
Hello readers! I'm surprised at how much I wrote, I never thought I would write this much again, but hey! It's good for you, or is it? Well I don't know since I'm the writer not the reader, and no I'm not going to take my English teacher's suggestion of being the reader and writer (ahem, that's Mrs. Maney). I'm just joking, well review and enjoy! If not many more reviews come, I might stop writing this so do it please! Oh, and sorry again for not writing in so long...I hope the length makes up for it!
Disclaimer: I own ABSOLUTELY nothing. Except for the Sorting Hat's song. Which is bad, and short. You don't have to tell me about it ONWARDS!
Chapter 14: Hogwarts
The big wooden door opened and a lady with some wrinkles in a black cloak and matching pointed hat stepped out. "Welcome to Hogwarts 1st years!" she announced. "And later years," she added as she glanced at the Inuyasha group. "My name is Professor McGonagall, I teach Transfiguration and I am Deputy Headmistress. Now a start of the term banquet will begin shortly.
"Now there are four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. The Sorting Hat will sort you into your proper houses. The houses are named after our four founders; Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helga Hufflepuff, and Salazar Slytherin. Your house is somewhat like your family and while you are here at Hogwarts, you will be rewarded house points for things you do, depending on what it is, but then you will lose points if you do anything against the rules, understand? And at the end of the year, whichever house has the most points wins the House Cup."
"Now I just want all you to follow me into the Great Hall where all your other fellow students will be waiting for you. I will call you by name, one at a time so wait your turn. Follow me." She walked off into the castle.
All the students followed her, with Hagrid at the back, and they all looked amazed at the site of all the staircases that twisted and turned in all directions. Every wall is covered in a massive heap of paintings that moved and talk!
"AAHHH!!!"
Everyone looked for where the sound came from. It emitted from a boy that was floating in the air. "HELP ME!"
Professor McGonagall dashed over and took out her wand. "Flipendo!" she pointed the wand at the hovering boy.
Everyone gasped, thinking she was going to hit him, but the spell actually revealed a pearly white ghost holding onto the boy's ears and hovered in the air.
"PEEVES!" the professor yelled at the top of her lungs. "PUT THE STUDENT DOWN OR I'LL HAVE TO GET BLOODY BARON!"
The ghost snickered. "Just playing," he dropped the boy then disappeared into a wall.
The boy fell and was caught by Hagrid. Hagrid put him down.
"Ok, now lets keep going!" Professor McGonagall headed to a door and opened it. As she opened it, light streamed out of the room, blinding everyone's eyes for a few seconds.
As the door opened, the light came from candles that hovered a few feet above. The ceiling, well, at least everyone thinks it's a ceiling, looks like a starry sky at night. The stars twinkling down on everyone. Once the light flooded from the doorway, four long wooden tables arranged vertically in front of them piled with students seated on the benches. Then all the way in the front lay a table just as long as the others, but arranged horizontally to them. Everyone at that table is part of the staff of Hogwarts, and in the center sat Professor Dumbledore.
The headmaster showed an old, crinkly grin at all the new students, and then nodded towards Professor McGonagall, telling her they may walk down.
She saw the message and walked down the aisle between the two middle tables. All the new students followed, but bumped into each other for they kept staring at the students seated at the tables, since they stared at them.
Inuyasha and the others did so as well, though Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, Kagome, Sango, and Miroku got the full blast of it, since they stood out of the sea of new students like sore thumbs. Also, Shippo's tail bobbed behind him for everyone to see, same with Inuyasha's ears.
Inuyasha almost yelled out, "WHY ARE YOU STARING, HUH! GOT A PROBLEM?!" but clenched his fist and controlled his temper. Sweat trickled down his face from all the tension.
While Sesshomaru dealed with the situation coolly, he merely ignored everyone and just stared at the back of Professor McGonagall's head to keep himself from giving a death terroring look at everyone.
Prof. McGonagall came to a stop and signaled all the new students to stay where they are. She walked up to a stool in front of the Head Table. Laying on the stool was a dull black, ragged hat with ripped edges. The rip above the brim formed a mouth and it began to sing:
Your founders started this school
To complete a certain goal
To help control your tool (author's note: just to say that tool is your wand)
To help complete your soul
A magically school for one and all
Is what they merely wished for
But only for the ones they call
With magic deep in their core
Now the founders have their houses
With all their different traits
For you'll be sorted into them
Along with your fellow mates
First is Godric Gryffindor
The bravest of them all
So courageous, so bold,
Are each of them, one and all
Then comes Rowena Ravenclaw
The smartest, or maybe the best?
Maybe you will you join her
Once you take my test
Third comes Salazar Slytherin
The slyest one of all
So cunning they all are
That maybe they'll never fall
Last is Helga Hufflepuff
She merely took the rest
United as one, the four of them
Did there very best
And they worked hard to build it here
They went to the most dangerous places to do so
And they didn't have one ounce of fear
Now we're ready to go -
Finally I've explained the houses
So, in a moment you will come
Right up to me so I can sort you
Into the house you shall become
To the end, through and through,
But listen here, closely now
I'll go even farther
This year at Hogwarts will become
Something you all may fear
Part we know, part is hidden
Which may make us tear
Let me tell you all now,
Something very dangerous is getting near
From some deadly foes
Then soon it will get here
We'll have to get down low
Unless you all get ready for
That moment to arrive
So stay in this school, forever more
And you may all survive
If we don't all crumble within
I have told you, I have warned you...
Let the Sorting now begin
(another author's note: last three lines I used from the 5th book, just to say)
"Wow, what a wonderful school," Inuyasha said sarcastically.
"Shh!" Kagome elbowed Inuyasha then looked up at Pro. McGonagall who just walked up to the stool.
"Now when I call your name, I want you to come up and you shall be sorted. Afterwards, head to your new house." She unraveled a scroll and held it open in front of her.
Students were steadily called. The last first year to be called was Shippo.
"Shippo!" Pro. McGonagall called out, not saying any last name.
Shippo became all nervous and jumped when he was called. He hopped up and had trouble getting onto the tall stool, he had to climb up to reach the top!
Prof. McGonagall plopped the Sorting Hat down onto his head.
"Hm..." the hat began to talk to him, "different from the rest I'll say. Oh, many emotions, the energetic type, eh? Oh and quite some bravery for someone your age. Let's see..." the hat paused as it thought for a moment. "How about...GRYFFINDOR!!!"
Students from the table all the way to the left from Shippo began to applaud. Shippo jumped off the chair and gave the hat to Prof. McGonagall, then skipped over to the applauding table, sitting in a vacant seat.
"Now the next students are going to be late comers. They will not be first years, because of their age, so first the new 6th years. Now these new students may seem different to all of you, but they are just the same as us, they breathe, eat, and talk, just like you do, so please treat them equally."
"First, Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha grumbled and stood where he was until Kagome shoved him hard in the back that he practically fell over. Inuyasha jumped onto the seat while the hat was placed on his head.
Students craned their heads and shoved others out of their way to take a good look at Inuyasha. Mostly because his silver hair and dog-ears.
"Inuyasha, interesting name. Very, very courageous I'll say. Bad temper though."
Inuyasha grinded his teeth at the remark.
"Oh, seem to be getting angry now, too. Well, seems you've been through lots of difficult times. Wait a moment, seems like you're from a different time area as well." The hat whispered this since he hear Inuyasha's thoughts saying not to say it out for everyone to hear. "I know exactly where you belong, very obvious. It mostly certainly shall be GRYFFINDOR!!!"
The Gryffindor table cheered for having the ones with dog-ears, just like how to were glad to have the one and only Harry Potter join the house. Shippo screamed and cheered for Inuyasha.
Inuyasha dearly wanted to strangle Shippo for yelling, but he didn't want to cause a commotion, knowing the two words Kagome would say to control him. 'Sit, boy!' he shuddered at the words, knowing the pain those words caused him, and the taste of dirt as well.
Then Kagome was called next, last name included, and got into Gryffindor as well. She took a seat next to Inuyasha. Then Sango joined them as well. Last called for 6th years was Miroku.
"Sly one, eh?" the hat hissed into Miroku's ear.
Miroku remembered how Slytherin people were sly and so he wished not to be in Slytherin to himself, but the hat seemed to be able to listen to his thoughts.
"Don't want to be in it? Ok, then. Oh, looks like you always have the urge to massage one's—." the hat substituted the next word with a, "ahem."
Sango, Shippo, Inuyasha, and Kagome looked at each other as it happened with faces that were held back from laughter.
"Ok then, suit yourself, you'll be in GRYFFINDOR!!!"
Miroku gave a sigh of relief as he got off the stool and grinned at the thought of all the fun he'll have being in the same house as Kagome and Sango. (author's note: ::sweatdrop:: lol)
"Last, but not least, Sesshomaru for his 7th year, his first and his last year at Hogwarts!"
Sesshomaru strolled over to the stool and calmly sat on the stool. The hat was placed on his head.
"Lets see, very cunning and clever you are. Oh, nasty situations for you though, seem like you should be in Slytherin. But wait, no, something in you tells me you should be in... RAVENCLAW!!!"
Sesshomaru stood up and placed the hat back onto the stool. He walked over and took a seat at the table next to Inuyasha and the others.
Prof. McGonagall picked up the Sorting Hat and stool and set it aside.
Then Professor Dumbledore, sitting at the center of the Head Table, stood up and got everyone's attention.
"Welcome to another school year! I'm sure everyone is excited for another year! Now remember, no electronics allowed, either way if you have them here, they will not work because all the magic here won't allow it to. And no toys, which are all listed at Argus Filch's office. Now I welcome you here at the beginning of the school year and wish you luck in your grades. Now let the feast begin!" he raised his arms.
All the main plates at every table filled with delicious, scrumptious foods, from steaming stuffed turkey legs to cherry clotted cream and high stacking cakes.
All the first years and Inuyasha and the others eyes went wide as all the food magically appeared.
All that was heard was laughter in the Great Hall and the clatter of forks, knives, and spoons being picked up.
Inuyasha ripped off a turkey leg and stuffed his face. "I fink I'm fonna loik it fere," his mouth full of food. He took a goblet of pumpkin juice and washed the food down.
"Inuyasha! Don't speak with your mouth full of food!" Kagome scolded.
Shippo hopped up and down excitedly at all the food. "Wow, I've never seen so much food in one place in my life!!" He wolfed down some bread smeared with thick butter.
Miroku and Sango joined in the food.
"Hello mates!"
George and Fred took a seat next to Inuyasha.
"Oh, hello, Fred, George!" Kagome waved to them.
"We wanted to ask you something," Fred said.
"Yes, indeed, didn't want to on the train, just in case mum might somehow be listening but—," George said but was interrupted.
"Are you demons?"
The whole group went quiet for a moment.
"We were kinda wondering, since we saw the little guy's tail and your ears," Fred said to Inuyasha, casting glances at his dog-ears.
Inuyasha kept eating without looking at them.
"Sure eat like a dog, oh, are those dog ears?!" the twins' eyes went wide.
"Feh," is all Inuyasha said.
"I'll take that as a yes... So are you demons?"
"Fred! Nice question to ask the newbies!" Ron comes over, followed by Hermione and Harry. They all take a seat with the group. "You just go up to the bloke and say 'Are you a demon?' Really Fred, have you got any common sense?"
"Common sense isn't that common," George commented. (A.N.Got that line from my pre-algebra teacher: Mr. Testa!)
Shippo snickered at the comment.
"OK, you want to know?" Inuyasha said. "Just try not to annoy me anymore!"
Fred and George saluted in agreement.
"I'm half demon, half dog, half human, alright?" Inuyasha snapped. "Oh and Shippo there is pure demon, he's a fox (kitsune) demon."
"Bloody brilliant!" Fred, George, and Ron said in unison.
"Wow, first Volde-, uh, I mean You-Know-Who, the basilisk, dementors, dragons, now demons," Harry chuckled.
"So are the rest of you, well, uh, demons as well?" Hermione said, trying to hurt anyone's feelings.
Sango shook her head. "No, Kagome is sort of a priestess, least reincarnated one, Miroku here is a perverted monk," gives a glare at him.
He just shrugged. "It's the hand!" he said as he pointed to it.
Sango continued, "And I'm a demon exterminator."
Hermione gasped.
Sango shook her head. "No, I don't kill these two demons, just ones that cause trouble." She smirked.
"Glad I'm not you guys, especially that Sesshomaru person, you have to make up everything from the last years you weren't year, all from 1st year stuff to 6th!" Ron said.
"I'll be happy to help you all!" Hermione said.
Harry said, "Hermione is really smart. So where are you all from?"
Kagome said, "Japan," not saying anything about how the others are from Feudal Era Japan.
"Have you all known each other for a while?" Harry asked.
Shippo nodded.
"How 'bout him?" Harry nodded towards the back of Sesshomaru at the other table that was wolfing down food like some crazy maniac who had been shipwrecked for months. "Wow, he sure can eat."
"Just like our pal here," George slapped Inuyasha's shoulders. "You two related? Look alike to me."
Inuyasha just kept eating with an annoyed look on his face.
Kagome sighed. "Well, uh ::sweatdrop:: they're sort of brothers, but, uh—."
"Shut up!" Inuyasha stood up and banged the table. "Don't call him my brother! He's no brother of mine!!" He practically yelled and everyone went quiet to listen.
Sesshomaru, of course, heard him, and got up. Everyone watched him. He walked up to Inuyasha, Inuyasha's back was facing him, and he was still steaming and angry. "So, little brother, don't want to admit I'm your big brother, eh?" He showed his claws.
Inuyasha turned around. "Dammit," he muttered, "Don't have my Tetsusaiga, stupid train person took it and stuck it in my trunk! Oh well, I'll have to use my claws!" He curled his fingers, his long claws gleaming.
Ron gulped, "I'm guessing you don't get along?"
Sesshomaru glared at him and Ron squeaked and went quiet. "No fighting in school, but with you, little brother, I'll make an exception."
Everyone panicked.
Kagome kept trying to think of something to stop them, before matters get worse. "Uh, uh, sit, boy!"
The prayer bead necklace Inuyasha is wearing glowed then he was forced to the ground. The goblets on the tables shook.
Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow, "Maybe next time..." he went back to sit at his table.
Inuyasha got up. "What was that for?!" he was really steaming now like a hot oven cooking soft chocolate cookies. (Yum, oops, I'm going off the subject aren't I? Anyway...)
Kagome stared at him. "What do you think? What kind of first impression are you giving, they're going to question us about the fighting, and they can take house points away, remember?"
Inuyasha snorted then sat back down. "Whatever."
Once everyone finished eating, everyone followed the prefects. Now in their 6th year, Ron and Hermione are no longer prefects, since they were already ones last year, so Dumbledore is giving the chance to other people.
"Thank goodness I'm not a prefect anymore. Can't stand Fred and George nagging and imitating Mum's reaction to it." Ron walked up the stairs along with Harry, Ron, and the Inuyasha group (now its all of them, but Sesshomaru) right behind them.
Hermione frowned, "How can you say that? Being prefect is very important!"
"Woah!"
Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked behind them.
Inuyasha seemed to have fallen through the step in the stairs that disappears on certain days.
"Stupid stairs," Inuyasha muttered, he was really having lots of fun! (sarcastic)
The Gryffindor prefects halted at a portrait of a very fat lady in a large dress. She was chatting with the portrait next to her.
"Now," the prefect began, "so first years know, and new late years, this is the entrance to the Gryffindor Common Room, and there is a password to get in so remember them or you'll be locked out until someone comes to your rescue." He faced the portrait. "Password's Snicklewits." (a.n. I just made that up, it just popped into my head so don't make fun of me!)
The portrait spoke, "You may enter," she swung open in front of them. Everyone headed inside.
The prefects explained where the Girls and Boys Dorms were and that all their belongings are already there.
Miroku snapped his fingers. "Looks like we're in separate rooms."
Sango and Kagome stared at him suspiciously. "What did you say?"
Miroku waved his hands, "::sweatdrop:: Uh, nothing, nothing!"
Inuyasha and Shippo rolled their eyes.
They head to their separate dorms. Inuyasha, Shippo, and Miroku's bed were all next to each other, and their belongings in front of the beds, same with Kagome and Sango.
They all changed into their sleeping clothes and went to sleep. Then woke up in the morning, changed and headed back to the Great Hall to eat some breakfast. While they were eating, a large flock of owls swooped in the Great Hall and flew around, looking for someone.
Before Kagome could ask what was going on, Harry explained, "Those are just the owls, they're here to send mail to people, like how Muggles have postmen."
"Oh," Kagome nodded in agreement.
"Hey!"
The Inuyasha group and Harry and his friends turned around.
Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle were walking up to them. Malfoy was the one who spoke. He walked right up to their table and sneered at them. "So let me get this straight, according to some people, that shrimp over there," he nodded towards Shippo, "is a fox demon?"
Shippo fumed, "Hey! Don't call me a shrimp!"
Malfoy continued, "And you," to Inuyasha, "are a half breed? Half dog demon? And you're so called brother is a dog, but pure?"
Inuyasha grinded his teeth, "Oh you're gonna pay! Taste my claws" he was going to pounce on him, but Miroku and Harry sitting on both sides of him managed to hold him back.
"Sod off, will you, Malfoy!" Ron yelled.
Malfoy just smirked and walked off, Crabbe and Goyle following him back to the table.
Inuyasha's temper went down and he sat back down. Harry and Miroku loosened their grip then let go.
"Don't let him get to you," Harry suggested. "Yeah, he is a brat, but the head of his house is Snape, and Snape hates us, so better stay out of their way, or we'll lost house points and get detention."
"Head of the House?" Sango said as she sipped some orange juice.
Hermione explained. "There's a Head of every house, Prof. McGonagall of ours, Snape of Slytherin, Prof. Sprout of Hufflepuff, and Prof. ? (I don't know who, please tell me so I can fix it.) of Ravenclaw."
"Wait a sec," Inuyasha kept sniffing.
"Uh, why are you sniffing?" Ron questioned.
"I smell another," Inuyasha said.
Harry had a puzzled look on his face. "Another what, exactly?"
"Demon..."
Everyone looked surprised. "Really? What kind?" Kagome asked.
Inuyasha took another whiff of the air, "Cat," he said promptly.
Miroku has a suspicious look in his eyes, "Is something in your bag, Sango?"
The bag next to Sango was moving. "Well, uh," Sango tried to explain, "it's just nothing, nothing at all!"
Then the bag meowed. Everyone heard it.
"Kirara! Shush!" Sango said to the bag in a whisper.
"We can hear you," Ron said, eyebrow lifted up.
Sango shrugged then sighed. "Well, I brought Kirara..."
"Who?" Hermione said.
Sango lifted the flap of her bag and a small adorable cat with three tails comes out. The cat has yellow-whitish fur, like cream (or something...), a black patch of fur shaped like a diamond on her forehead, black ears, and black paws.
"Oh, it's so cute!" Hermione said. "Why does your cat have three tails?"
"Kirara is a demon cat," Sango answered. "I know you can bring a cat, rat, or owl to school, but I wasn't sure about a demon cat..."
Hermione thought then said, "Should be ok, she is a cat, just with three tails is all."
Sango sighed. "Hope so."
Then they all left to their classes, and said good-bye to Shippo who wasn't in their class because of his year. And as usually, they had double potions with Slytherin.
"Half-breed!" Malfoy walked up to Inuyasha. "Think you're tough, huh?"
Inuyasha looked annoyed. "What do you want, brat?"
Malfoy was shocked by the remark. "Brat, eh?" He took out his wand. "Petrificus Totalus!"
Inuyasha want straight and fell to the floor, his arms and legs snapped to the sides of his body. Hermione rushed over and calmed everyone down when she said she could fix it. She merely waved her wand and said some words, then Inuyasha was able to stand upright again.
"Malfoy!" Harry got up, he wanted to murder him.
"What is going on over here?" Prof. McGonagall was heading towards them with a strict look on her face.
"Um... nothing Pro. McGonagall, we were merely talking," Malfoy answered in an innocent tone.
Ron coughed. "Ferret!" Prof. McGonagall didn't notice, but Malfoy sure did. Everyone else, but Malfoy and his two henchmen snickered.
"It better be!" the professor answered, then walked away.
Malfoy stuck a finger up at them and waved it (No, not his middle finger...just in case that's what you thought I meant). "I'll be back for you!" Then he and the other two walked off.
"Come again and I'll rip your body apart!" Inuyasha curled his claws.
"What was that spell?" Kagome asked.
"A spell that freezes your whole body," Hermione answered.
Kagome hit Inuyasha on the head. "What?!" Inuyasha yelled.
"You should say thank you to Hermione! If it weren't for her, you would still be on the floor, frozen solid!" Kagome answered.
"Fine," Inuyasha said. Kagome was surprised to see him give in easily. "Thank you for being a know-it-all!" Hermione felt hurt, but also proud, because it could mean she knows everything, which is good to her.
"That's not what I meant!" Kagome snapped. "Oh you're hopeless! This was only breakfast, there's still the whole year to put up with."
"Oh, great," Inuyasha answered with so much enthusiasm, not.
Hello readers! I'm surprised at how much I wrote, I never thought I would write this much again, but hey! It's good for you, or is it? Well I don't know since I'm the writer not the reader, and no I'm not going to take my English teacher's suggestion of being the reader and writer (ahem, that's Mrs. Maney). I'm just joking, well review and enjoy! If not many more reviews come, I might stop writing this so do it please! Oh, and sorry again for not writing in so long...I hope the length makes up for it!