I'm SOOO sorry! I've been so busy! AND I've had writer's block! But that's all about to change as I unleash... Chapter 6! Chapter 6! Look how far we've come! Hurrah! Alright, folks, lessee here... The entire cast of Inuyasha characters have come to Hogwarts because of an unfortunate time travel well accident thingy! The result is that Kagome's just recovered from Happy spell influence, Malfoy got chased out of professor Trelawney's room by Kirara, Sango has discovered Miroku's flying talents (no really, he's great at broomstick flying) and Inuyasha and Shippou have discovered their own potions talents... A bit too well, might I add, because Snape has fallen for Inuyasha due to a very well made love potion- which Inuyasha is currently taking to use on Kagome at this very moment, but Snape still loves him... Where did we go wrong here? Poor Inuyasha. So now it's fourth period!
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, but I sure as heck like using them in my twisted fan fics. I also don't own perfume or Febreeze.
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Neville blinked. The hall was strangely empty. Unknown to him, the rumor of Dead-Alive Neville had spread quickly and people had raced to their dorms. And still, there was that awful funky smell. Dang, if only he could spray perfume or Febreeze or something everywhere...
Sango sat in the Hufflepuff dorm, new black robes and all. Shippou was trying to sit on her head, except there was a problem with the pointy hat. There was a mild floppy noise as her hat fell off, and Shippou finally got his spot on her ponytail. Sango let him wear her hat instead.
"Why do you think Neville's... Alive again?" Shippou asked, the hat sopping over his eyes- and the rest of him, for that matter.
"That hat's too big for you, take it off. And I don't really know why," Sango answered. Her mind was preoccupied with the fact that every single pair of eyes was on the midget and girl-with-the-enormous-scary-dangerous-pointy-object-type-boomerang-thingy-weapon-made-of-creepy-bone. She shifted around nervously. Miroku sat in a chair nearby, and noticed Sango's obvious discomfort with the stares. He was quite glad that all three of them had ended up in the same house. It probably meant he shared some sort of connection with Sango's mind.
"Come on," he said quickly, as Sango started to dance on her toes in a swort of Scottish jig. "We should still head for our next classes... I have Potions, what about you?"
"H-history of Magic," Sango answered. Shippou grinned. A History class with Sango. What fun!
Kagome was heading back from the Gryffindor common room for an odd sounding class with Inuyasha. Yes, another class with him! What was it called again?
"Care of Magical Creatures," she read off her timetable. "That sounds like fun. What do you think? Inuyasha? What are you... Oh, for the love of-"
Inuyasha was down on the floor sniffing. He hadn't bothered to put on his new robes, but he had at least put on the hat. He looked up. Kagome, of course, looked absolutely smack-dab fabulous in those sweeping black clothes... The hat fell so perfectly over her hair, and that wand wasn't bad either...
"What are you looking at?" Kagome asked suspiciously.
"What? Nothing. And for your information, I smell that greasy guy from Potions."
"So? What about him?"
"Erm..." Inuyasha stood up and tried to explain, but at that very moment Snape raced around the corner.
"InuYashaaaaaaa!" he called happily. "Come back! I... I love you! Come back!"
"Henh?" Kagome squeaked, but Inuyasha had already grabbed her wrist and taken off at top half-demon speed down the halls.
"Don't you love me?" Snape asked the empty hall, completely devastated. "Ah, how love hurts..."
Meanwhile, another teacher stood at the front of another class.
"And... Sir Groveleigh... Ogre... Stabbed... 1984... Dragons... Blah... Blah... Sheep... Blah..."
Sango caught only half the monotone words. Was this some sort of enchantment? Sleep, sleep was a good thing... There were drowsy waves rippling across the classroom. Shippou was already snoring. Her eyes closed and she dropped her head on her desk, letting her quill loose on the page so that it drew a nice clean line diagonally across her parchment. She flicked it around lazily, keeping her eyes closed...
Miroku sat in class, just as confused as everyone else. Professor Snape didn't seem to exist, it seemed. Finally, in a slithering sort of motion, Snape appeared at the front of the class, his eyes very red.
"Today, class... We will be learning sleeping draughts. It is a very difficult potion, but also very useful..." His eyes flashed. At what, nobody knew. For the rest of the class, Miroku toiled over the cauldron, trying to make a thin grey, smokey sort of potion. He ended up with a thick black gunk that sort of resembled demon blood. Perhaps he could make it look like he was dying and could escape this horrible class before he inhaled too much sleeping draught. He spooned a thick pile of gunk onto his hand and splattered it all over his arm, then dipped his chopping knife into the liquid as well.
"Auuugh!" he shouted. He had meant for the scream to be fake, except for the fact that some sort of asparagus was now blossoming from his robes. There were giggles. Professor Snape whirled angrily.
"What... Are... You... Doing?" he seethed.
"N-nothing, Professor," Miroku answered innocently, holding off the green weeds which were now sprouting across his hair. They started to blossom little purple flowers.
Kagome stared in putrid shock at the disgusting demon before her. It sort of resembled a scorpion, crossed with a spider, crossed with a firecracker, crossed with a chrome Ford car. The blast-ended skrewt looked at her innocently, except for the fact that it was the size of a horse.
"This 'ere is a blast-ended skrewt. This particular skrewt's called Hammy, an' don' forget, he likes his name tha way it is," Hagrid boomed. Kagome shrank behind Inuyasha, twitching with repulsion.
"Here," Inuyasha said, handing her a bottle of bright pink swirling liquid.
"Oh, gross. That's almost more disgusting than the skrewt. What is it?"
"It's... Um... Skrewt repellant," Inuyasha lied. "I found it in the potions storage box." Smooth. So smooth.
"Wow! Thank you, Inuyasha," Kagome answered happily. "What do I do with it?"
"Um... Drink it. They don't like the smell." It wasn't exactly a lie. He didn't like the smell, so the skrewt probably didn't, either. Kagome looked at the skrewt.
"Okay, Hammy," she challenged. "How do ya like this?" And she drank the potion on the spot.
"Kagome?" Inuyasha asked nervously. He had to be the first person she saw or...
"Hammyyyyyyyyy!" Kagome screamed, throwing herself at the skrewt. "You are sooo adorable! Come here, let me give you a scratch behind the ears!"
"Woah, calm down," Harry said, appearing from the crowd. "It's a skrewt."
"I know," Kagome blushed. "Isn't it absolutely gorgeous? I mean, look at that tail!"
"Oh boy." Inuyasha sighed. He had tried so hard... Why did his plans always turn out so... Wrong? "What do we do?" he asked Harry.
"What do you mean?"
"It... It's love potion."
"Oh boy. Um... Well, I guess if it died..."
"Right," Inuyasha said, grabbing the handle of his sword.
"No! Sit, boy!" Kagome commanded, noticing that Inuyasha was about to kill her precious foo-foo Hammy. Harry sighed, and stepped over the body which was currently going into some sort of convulsive muscle spasms.
"Ka...Kagome," Inuyasha whined, twitching.
Nao walked down the halls towards the library. It was her free period and she wanted to get something done. A noise behind her made her turn around.
"No screaming," Malfoy said smugly, pushing his wand against her forehead.
"Um... What are you doing?" Nao asked, not particularly bothered by the fact that there was a dangerous object against her head. "You've got nothing to do with me, Malfoy, so I suggest you leave." Her purple hair waved with her words, reminding Malfoy of what he had seen earlier.
"As a matter of fact... I saw you colouring your hair with..." He held up a little box. "Muggle dye... You're just a nasty little mudblood, aren't you?"
"Shut up, you yabberdoodle. And where did you get my hair colour?"
"Um... Nevermind. But I think you know already... I don't like mudbloods." For a moment, it really did look like it could be the end for our new friend Nao. But then, suddenly, there was a loud bang. Malfoy was whipped sideways down the hall, and crashed into the wall at the other end. Nao stood perfectly fine, protected by a strong knight statue.
The dust settled. Malfoy lay unconcious at one end of the hall... Kagome lay in tears at the other end.
"Hammy! How could you? Oh, Hammy! You didn't deserve to explode! Oh, I'm sorry! I should have protected you!"
"Stop blubbering," Inuyasha sighed, watching Harry lower his wand.
"Um... What's a Hammy?" Nao asked, unsure of whether she really wanted to know what just blew up.
"Hammy was a blast-ended skrewt," Harry answered, trying not to laugh.
"A very, very brave skrewt," Kagome sobbed, clutching the end of a very long dog leash with ash and dust all over it. "Oh, Hammy!"
"Oh, no," Nao said quietly.
"What?" Kagome asked suddenly, as she stopped crying. "Wait... What happened? Weren't we at Hagrid's class? What happened to the skrewt? And... Why am I holding a burned dog-leash?" The effects of the potion wore off quickly, it seemed. Inuyasha sighed deeply from relief... And also partially because of that disgusting smell he was trying to remember. Man, it smelled bad.
"Blast-ended skrewts," Nao said nervously. "If one explodes... It lets out a scent that calls other skrewts. We're going to be overrun..."
"By scorpion-Ford-firecrackers?" Kagome asked in horror.
"Yes. By... Erm... Scorpion... Ford... Er... Skrewts," Nao answered.
"And by greasy-haired nuts," Inuyasha said, walking backwards.
"Wait! I still love you!" Snape shouted from the end of the hall, completely missing Malfoy and the blasted skrewt, and dashing towards the group of stunned teenagers.
"So," Nao said cheerfully. "When's the marriage?"
"Oh, shut up," Inuyasha screamed over his shoulder, bounding away.
"Are we missing something here?" Sango asked, appearing around the corner with Shippou.
"I didn't know those chocolates were for Inuyasha," Miroku mused, also appearing, covered from head to toe in bright purple and flourescent pink flowers and some form of corn. Inuyasha pelted straight through them and dissappeared in a flurry. His hat floated, sadly abandoned, to the ground in front of Kagome.
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Yeah. I'm still nursing my writer's block. Please don't hurt me... Daaaah... Anyways, in our next chapter: It's dinner, and it's time for some cool rumors to be unleashed to stir things up a bit, I believe! Plus, numerous skrewt exterminations! Also, a new wizard has arrived at school- his name is Naraku, and he's got cool glowing red eyes! He's also really, really evil! So what happens when he encounters Harry? And what happens when Kirara meets Peanut, Nao's oh-so-cuddly little kitty? New problems, dillemas, and skrewt encounters in our next chapter, folks, so stay tuned for more random goodness!
