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Title: School...who needs it?
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Rating: PG-13
Author: Yours truly, Lyn!
Summary: Kagome Higurashi is a transfer student from Beauxbatons to Hogwarts. She has a hard time trying to fit in when she is suddenly placed into Slytherin. What happens when the Shikon no Tama shows up, and demons along with it?
Chapter 18
Lovers Spat?
Kagome was trying her hardest to pay attention in Potions but she just couldn't seem to focus. As soon as she started to listen, her mind started to drift off again. It was hard for her to seem like she was listening when she really wasn't. Snape was good at spotting people who were doing that.
Surprisingly enough, every time he looked at her daydreaming face, he turned away and seemed as if he was pretending not to notice. Even though she wasn't an expert at psychology or anything like that, she could tell that he was trying to avoid her gaze. Could Dumbledore really have that much power? He had told every teacher in this school to go a little easier on her because of her little "problem," and it seemed to be working.
Unfortunately, InuYasha was also avoiding Kagome's gaze as well. Had she done something wrong? Every time she glanced at InuYasha, he gave her a nervous look and turned away. Snape had noticed this.
"Well, well, well, what have we here? A little lovers spat? How quaint. I prefer to keep all romantic procedures out of my classroom, if you please." Snape grinned. It never ceased to amuse him when his students were embarrassed.
"Yea, like you have any romance in your life anyway," muttered InuYasha. "You need to embarrass us just to find something that has to do with romance."
Snape's nostrils flared. "What did you just say, InuYasha?" said Snape in a threatening voice. "20 points from Gryffindor for back talking."
The class still snickered and Snape hammered his wand on the chalkboard, demanding attention. Luckily, his wand didn't break. This caught everyone's attention. It was very dangerous for a wand to snap and they all knew it.
"What are you waiting for?" growled Snape. "Get started on your potions! If you mess up, you will receive an F and you can thank Higurashi and InuYasha here for their incompetence."
The class groaned and Kagome felt guilty. Just a little bit. Snape hadn't even told them what to do for the potion yet. All he had said was the name of the potion and what it did. This would be hard...
"Ah, that was torture!"
"I agree..." sighed Harry. Everyone had gotten F's with the exception of Draco and Hermione.
"I'm really sorry, you guys. I'm sure InuYasha is sorry too, right InuYasha?" said Kagome in a threatening voice.
"Keh. Whatever. I'm sorry too, I guess."
"Oh, look at the sunset!" Hermione squealed. "It's so beautiful. The perfect end to a rotten day, wouldn't you say?"
InuYasha's eyes widened. It was sunset already?! Time sure flies by when you're making fun of a teacher. He quickly made up an excuse and ran off, feeling time was running out already.
"Okay, does anyone else think there's something suspicious about that guy?" asked Ron.
"I don't really know. He won't tell me anything," said Kagome softly. "But Ill find out."
"Haha, yea, what kind of an excuse is 'I gotta feed my fish' anyway?" laughed Harry. "I'm pretty certain he doesn't have a fish."
Hermione just stood there with a grim look. "There's something weird about him. You know how werewolves have to change when there's a full moon?"
They all nodded, not really seeing Hermione's point. It wasn't a full moon tonight and if she was trying to say that InuYasha was a werewolf, they were fully prepared to prove her wrong. What she said next threw them off though.
"Well, tonight is a new moon. I'm thinking he could be something else. I know I've read something about this before. A demon, maybe. A half demon."
O.O
"Herm, are you feeling alright?" asked Ron worriedly. "You might be a little overworked or something."
"I'm feeling just fine, Ron!" Hermione shot back testily. "Go ask Fred and George! Ask them if they'd ever noticed InuYasha disappearing on new moons."
"Hermione, I really don't think that--"
"Just do it! Just to confirm my suspicions. If I'm wrong, we'll just leave it at that and never say anything about it again. If I'm right, it'll call for more investigating."
"C'mon, guys, let's just leave him alone," said Kagome softly. "It's his personal life and if he chooses to tell us, he will. Let's not pry."
Hermione looked at Kagome uncertainly and hesitantly before nodding. She might not be able to pry into his life specifically, but maybe she could just do some background research. Privately, secretly; without Kagome's knowledge.
InuYasha hissed as he went through his transformation. These little things looked like they wouldn't have hurt at all but they did. They hurt a lot. Just think about it, things growing out of your head, mouth, and hand that normally weren't supposed to be there in the first place. Not for a normal person anyway.
Long fangs replaced his canines [1] and his other teeth grew sharper. His fingers grew a little longer and his nails grew into claws that glistened in the dark. His normal human ears drew back and shrunk; they looked like they were being pulled back into his head until they finally disappeared.
Momentarily, InuYasha was deaf. He couldn't hear a thing. Replacing what had once been there, two white and furry dog ears grew on the top of his head. Instantaneously, he could hear again. Not only could he hear again, he heard better than ever before. He had the hearing capability of a dog.
Kicking off his shoes, InuYasha stretched out his new body. His muscles were more toned and his eyes were narrow with anticipation. He needed to do something. Something else that had changed was his sense of smell. Dogs could smell incredibly well and now, so could he. Luckily, his sense of smell changing wasn't something he could feel.
What to do now was the thought that had crossed his mind. Deciding he was hungry, InuYasha leapt out of the window; into the forbidden forest. He grinned, feeling his fangs cut into his bottom lip. He didn't bleed though; he rarely did in this form.
At dinner, InuYasha was absent. Kagome had noticed this specifically. Worry crossed her mind at the moment and she sighed, pushing her food around her plate. What was so important that he could miss dinner because of it? From what she knew, eating was one of his favorite hobbies.
"Kagome, why don't you come and eat with us?" asked Sango from the Ravenclaw table. "Maybe you'll actually eat something."
"I'm just not hungry," murmured Kagome as she pushed her plate away and walked over to the Ravenclaw table.
"Does this have anything to do with InuYasha?" asked Sango teasingly. She stopped when she noticed that Kagome had completely frozen. "K-Kagome-chan? Are you aright? I was just joking..."
Kagome seemed like she had just woken up from a dream and stared at Sango blankly. "Don't worry, Sango! I'll be fine by tomorrow. Right now, I think I'll just take a little walk. Not very far, okay?" she promised.
"If you're sure..." Sango said unsurely. She watched worriedly as Kagome walked away, swaying slightly like she was sleepwalking.
Kagome was worried. No, worried couldn't' even begin to define what she was feeling. She was worried, concerned, anxious, apprehensive, nervous, bothered, troubled, vexed, upset, afraid, disturbed, alarmed, fretful, uneasy, restless, and whatever else there was to describe it. Those words were just the beginning. You just don't have to hear them because you'd be pretty bored.
Each time she took a step, she felt eyes watching her. She felt as if there was someone following her. Each time she turned around, she saw nothing. Every time she looked walls or windows, [2] she could swear she had seen a flash of white somewhere.
Maybe she was hallucinating. This day had really taken a toll on her. As she walked to her dormitory, she looked outside and stared back at someone. Someone with golden amber eyes that were so familiar. Familiar...before they disappeared.
Running outside was the only thought that crossed her mind at that moment. She had to run outside fast-- there was no telling how long that person would stay there. Run, run, run, run as fast as you can. Before times runs out. Before he's gone.
She ran past familiar faces, concerned people, disgusted looks, hollow empty shells of people who she thought were never real. She shook her head violently as she kept running. These hallucinations were really becoming a bother. She only knew these empty shells were hallucinations because they were people she knew. People she really knew.
She had seen her family.
That couldn't stop her now. She wouldn't let them stop her. All she was concerned with now was finding that person outside. The one with the eyes that were familiar.
Kagome ran for what seemed like forever. Her determination grew as she slipped past a couple of teachers guarding the exit/entrance to Hogwarts. She had just made it out safely but that didn't mean that she would stay safe. From what she could remember, the eyes had stared at her with their back towards the forbidden forest. Maybe that was where the person was now.
It was dangerous, she knew. She also knew that maybe, just maybe, that person was who she wanted it to be. She wanted to find him and make sure of her suspicions. The suspicions that she had forbidden others to confirm.
The suspicion that InuYasha was a hanyou. A half demon.
"I guess this means that there are no Japanese lessons today," sighed Hermione. "Oh well, this is for the better."
"How so?" asked Sango. "It seems as though InuYasha got his wish, though. I'm sorry I can't help you but I'm just as good at explaining things like Kagome is."
"Don't worry, it isn't your fault, really. Yes, it does seem like InuYasha has gotten his wish, doesn't it?"
She stood up abruptly and stalked off to the direction of the library. Harry and Ron had high certainties of where Hermione was heading and they decided to follow her. They were going to make sure she didn't do anything that she wasn't supposed to.
"Hermione!" Ron called out to her. She barely glanced at them before answering.
"It's about time you two got here. I went in the direction of the library so you guys would follow me. I knew that you two would know where I was supposedly going. I'm not really going there. I'm going to my room. Wait for me, will you? I have to get something."
Hermione disappeared in a flash and reappeared before any of the two could figure out what had happened. When she had gotten back, the only thing they had confirmed was that they had been tricked.
When she came back, she was holding a book. A rather large book at that.
"Hermione, what the hell is that?" groaned Ron. "Don't tell us you had that for a little bit of light reading again?"
"No, of course not. My parents had given it to me for my birthday and I had merely skimmed through it before tossing it aside. The things they say in here is merely a bunch of lies."
Harry and Ron gaped at her. Hermione? Tossing aside a book? Had hell frozen over?
"Oh, don't be so shocked. This is the book I was telling you about. The one that I had read that said that some demons--"
"Wait a second, Hermy," interrupted Harry.
Hermione scowled at the nickname but made no other gesture that stopped him from talking.
"Didn't we promise Kagome that we wouldn't look for anything about InuYasha?"
"Yes, we did. As a matter of fact, I was the one who promised her. Not you two. Anyway, this is just a bit of research. It's not about InuYasha specifically, although he is part of it. Here, read this page."
"What is this, anyway?" asked Harry.
"It's a book on ancient Asian magic. This page is on Japanese magic, sorcery, and demons."
Harry only hesitated slightly before he began reading aloud.
"[3] In Ancient Japan, there existed demons. Demons roamed Japan and they were no secret. They attacked as they pleased and they were not rare at all. They were almost more common than man itself.
"There had been demon hunters and exterminators that worked for the good of mankind but most had failed. Nevertheless, the demon population decreased a little. Most demons are immortal and the oldest living demon recorded is 974 years old. He still lives quite healthily today in Japan, writing novels."
"Hermione--"
"Just keep reading, Harry," snapped Hermione.
"...In Japan, there was a specific kind of demon that was rare. Demons themselves were not rare at all but this one was. They were known and classified as hanyou. Half demons. (These are the results of a human and a demon mating.) They were shunned by humans and demons alike, being only half of each species.
"Hanyou either appeared in demon form, human form, or half human/half demon form. On the night of the new moon, the ones in demon form would change but it was never known what they had changed into. The half human/half demon form changed into a full demon on the new moon, weakening it. The one with the human form changed into a demon. Not fully, for this would result in killing itself.
"...as it changes, it relies more on its instincts and hunts. When they hunt, they like to be in a forest, woods, or any place with camouflage. It has an indescribable urge for blood when hunting and what it loves and craves most is--"
"Well? Harry? Why'd you stop?" asked Ron.
"That's all there is. The next page talks about Japan's great herbs..." explained Hermione with a distressed look on her face. "Do you understand now?"
"Not really..." Ron blushed. He didn't like feeling stupid and out of the box.
"Ah! Do I have to explain everything?"
The silence answered for her.
"Okay! InuYasha is obviously a hanyou in human form. Tonight is a new moon so that means he has changed into a demon-- or at least part demon. Don't you understand? Right now, InuYasha wants blood and where can you get blood? This IS a school full of students, you know."
"But that doesn't mean that InuYasha is a hanyou or whatever. Just because he's gone tonight doesn't mean he's always gone on new moons," reasoned Harry.
"Oh, honestly, you two are so--" she cut herself off before she said something...rude. "Go ask your brothers, Ron. I'm dead serious. If we don't find out soon, I fear that something terrible will happen."
The desperation in Hermione's voice convinced them enough to at least talk to George and Fred. Luckily and coincidentally, George, Fred, and Lee Jordan happened to pass by them at that exact moment.
"OI! FRED! GEORGE!"
George and Fred grinned at being called over by Ron.
"What do you need, ickle Ronnikins?" asked Fred, pinching Ron's cheeks. "Did you wet your pants again?"
"Cut it out. I want to know something about InuYasha."
"Wow, Ron, I never knew you went that way. Wait 'till I tell mum that you're a queer--"
"GEORGE!" shouted Hermione, startling everyone around them. She wasn't much in the mood for jokes. "Go ahead, Harry. Ask him."
"Eh, George, have you ever noticed InuYasha leaving on nights like this?"
"What do you mean by 'nights like this?' You have to be more specific," replied George.
"Like on the new moon. Like tonight," explained Hermione exasperatedly.
"What? Oh, yea. He's always gone when it's really dark outside. That's when there's no moon, right? The new moon?"
This set Hermione off. She grabbed Harry and Ron by the sleeves and ran off towards their dorm. She had to get the invisibility cloak for her plan to work.
"InuYasha?" asked Kagome nervously. As soon as she had set foot in the forest, her determination had dissipated. She didn't feel anything right now, nothing except for fear and the cold.
Something rustled in the bushes and Kagome turned around quickly. Whatever was moving in the bushes was coming towards her. She couldn't move. It was like her feet were planted on the ground and she couldn't move even if she had wanted to.
She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw who it was that stepped out from the bushes and the trees.
"InuYasha, I'm so glad you're here. Let's--" she stopped talking mid-sentence. Something about him just didn't seem right. It seemed...wrong.
"Kagome..." he growled. No, seriously, he growled. A real growl, like a predator that had just caught its prey. InuYasha circled Kagome a couple of times and Kagome could finally see what was so different about him.
He had ears on top of his head, he had claws, fangs, and he just looked menacing. InuYasha smirked and leapt on top of Kagome, causing her to let out a blood-curdling scream.
[1] Canines are those pointy teeth that you have. Some people call them "vampire teeth" and they really do look like it. Hehe, anyway, yea. InuYasha's canines turned into fangs. Oh my good-golly-gosh! LOL
[2] LOL Okay I'm going to make up the fact that some of the walls at Hogwarts are enchanted and you can see outside but not all of it. It's kind of blurry but you can still see. Yes, I'm stupid, but that's how Kagome saw InuYasha's eyes so just deal with it.
[3] Just so you know, almost everything in the book is entirely made up. LOL I though it would be fun to add...
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