Blowing Sand
Chapter 3: Why you should never wander around in the dark...
Written (mostly) by Lady Inari
Beta-ed (a little) by Anime-Luney
I am updating on my birthday, so yous people better be happy! I had to open my presents yesterday night 'cause my mom won't be home tonight, and I got a katana (Japanese sword) in a blue sheath with dragons on it and a woman's longbow and arrows, with a target! I'm so happy! When I get home from school, I am going to practice with my bow and arrows!
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Kurama stuttered, "But… How is that possible?"
"It's very possible. The impossible can happen, and it happens every day."
Kurama turned bright red, "But that doesn't answer my question! Why would your own brothers try to kill each other?"
Sasuke was confused. He had heard the entire conversation, but he couldn't understand it. There never was a set of twins in the Uchiha clan. Itachi didn't have any older siblings, not that he knew of, at least.
"My younger twin brother and I killed the rest of our clan when we were thirteen. Now we're nineteen, almost twenty."
Sasuke burst out. He couldn't stop himself, "But Itachi didn't have a twin! I would have known!"
Kagome turned and sneered at him. "Of course you didn't know! Nobody knew except for your mother and Itachi! She said I was cursed, that no firstborn of hers could be a girl! So I was cast out into the wilderness. Then Yuki's parents found me. They took care of me until I learned to hunt. I first used my Sharingan at the age of three." Now she was shouting.
Kurama, Yusuke, Hiei and even Gaara had to cover their ears to block out the sound. She shot them an apologetic look, and then dropped her voice back down to a tolerable level.
"Itachi found me when I was hunting one day. Somehow, we instinctively knew that we were twins. We were ten. Three years later, we went on a rampage in Konoha, killing all of the Uchiha clan except for you. I personally killed your mother. Then I left you to Itachi." Kagome stopped talking. The rest of the story told itself.
Professor Dumbledore was the first to speak. "Ahem. Well, I think we should all go to bed."
Kagome and Gaara turned to Dumbledore, bowed slightly, and blew themselves away to their room. Sasuke walked out quietly. The teachers dismissed themselves some ten minutes later.
Yuki looked up at the portrait in front of him. He had done as Kagome asked, and followed Harry Potter. But the boy had gone into the room behind this portrait of a fat lady in a pink silk dress, and now it wouldn't let him in without a password. Growling, he rolled his eyes and left for Kagome's room.
Kagome and Gaara's room
Gaara paced the room in frustration. "What the hell did you tell them for? It could ruin this entire mission!"
Kagome stared back at him with her normal brown eyes. "Don't freak out, Gaara. They believed the story. Well, the made-up part about Yuki's parents being killed by Death Eaters."
"How did they die?"
"Thunderstorm. They got wet in the rain and lightning struck them. Yuki knows and accepted the lie that I told. He also agreed to react the way he did when he hears the words 'Death Eaters'. Kagome unbound her hair from the chopsticks and took off her shoes and gourd.
"You should patrol at might, Gaara. You can give students that stay up at night detention. I got a letter from the Headmaster saying that we can punish the students, as long as we do it fairly."
Gaara sighed, and slouched out of the room, pausing to let in Yuki.
The sand in Gaara's gourd and on the floor spread out to give him better sight and layout of the halls. A few days passed, and nothing happened, so it was a surprise when he came upon a student at around three in the morning coming around a corner on the seventh floor.
Gaara squinted in the sudden brightness from the black-haired student's wand tip. His eyes had been adapted to the darkness for the six hours since the lamps in the hallways were turned off. If he had a mirror, he was sure that his eyes would be pure black with no hint of their natural teal.
"Turn out your light…" he hissed at the boy. Startled, the boy did as he was told. After a few seconds, when he could see again, Gaara looked at the boy. It was the one that he and Kagome had been sent to protect.
"You should be in bed, Potter."
"So should you." Harry's eyes were searching the darkness for Gaara's face.
Smirking, he thought, 'So this one thinks he's going to be a punk.' "I do not need to sleep. But you do. Go back to bed before I give you a detention."
Harry yelped. "But you can't do that. You're not a teacher, or a prefect."
"I am in charge of your safety. But I have a very short temper, Mister Potter. I'll arrange for your detention." Gaara stepped forward and grabbed a fistful of the front of Harry's robes. He snarled, revealing unusually sharp, pointed fangs; then dropped him onto his butt and stalked away in the direction he had come, and was swallowed up in the darkness.
Harry scrambled to his feet and ran back to the common room, stumbling in the dark. He climbed into bed, and lay there, shaking until Ron and the others woke up.
He didn't speak a word until Transfigurations after breakfast. As the teacher had not entered the room yet, Hermione and Ron were talking. "Harry," Hermione began, "Why have you been so quiet this morning? You hardly ate at all at breakfast."
He looked at her, then explained what had happened the night before. He finished and put his head down on the desk.
About thirty seconds later, the door burst open so suddenly, everybody jumped. Yusuke had entered, tailed by Yuki in human form. Yusuke snapped the door shut and sat on his desk.
Cheerily, he said, "Good morning, class! You're all looking… uh… happy." Yuki muttered to the class at large, "Aw, shut up, Yusuke. You're tired, just admit it." The class laughed.
Hermione raised her hand. Yusuke looked intently at her. "Yes, miss…?"
"Granger, sir. Why isn't Professor McGonagall teaching us?"
"Ah, well. I'll just be teaching the 6th and 7th years. I know very much about a subject that Professor McGonagall doesn't. This year, we'll be studying forms." Looking at their confused faces he said, "All humans have a mortal form, an animal form, and a select few have a demon form, like me. Now, some people's forms you can tell right away. Other's might be a mythical beast not heard of. Who wants to see my animal form?" Without waiting for a reply, he abruptly changed into a huge, pure white (not albino) male lion.
Yusuke sat and flicked his tail around his legs. - Now, any questions? -
Hermione spoke up again. "But isn't this just like being an animagus?"
- Not quite. Say, for instance, your animal form was a dragon, which I doubt any of you are, but your animagus form has to be a known animal, and not a mythical beast. So then, possibly, your animagus form might be a cat, or a dog. My animagus form is a regular tawny lion, but my demon form is the representative of my clan, which is completely none of your business. -
Harry looked interested. "So will you show us our animal forms?"
- Certainly. - Yusuke placed his front (huge) paws on Harry and Ron's desk. Harry felt a pressing presence press against the inside of his head. Then the feeling was gone.
- Interesting. This is different. - Yusuke shifted back. "You, Harry Potter are a phoenix."
"What's so great about that, Professor?" Ron had to know.
"He is a phoenix. There has been one other phoenix. But in the myths, they were known to be the harbingers of doom, death, and destruction. I want to see how this boy is supposed to save the world." Yusuke looked at Hermione and Ron. "But even more interesting is that I know that Voldemort (he ignored the shudders) is a Valkyrie, who are said to be the saviors of the world."
"But how do you know that?" Again, Hermione had to interrupt.
"My dear girl, that is of no real importance, is it? Now, open your books to page 5, and read the first chapter. Come up when I call your name, and I'll mark down your animal and possible demonic forms."
Ron muttered something obscene under his breath. "Detention, Mr. Weasley. That was not a polite thing to say." The class sniggered, and Ron turned red.
After five minutes of silence except for the sounds of people moving as they were called, Yusuke said, "Draco Malfoy."
Malfoy swaggered up to the desk in front of the class. Yusuke looked into Malfoy's eyes, and then shuddered as he felt Malfoy's consciousness. "Please meet me after class, Draco. Go back to your seat." Yusuke made a hurried note on a piece of parchment then gave it to Yuki with instructions to take it to Hiei, Kurama, Kagome, and Gaara and Sasuke and show it to them.
"Harry, I need to talk to you after class, too."
After classRight after the bell rang and the class left, Harry and Malfoy stood in front of Yusuke's desk. He continued working for another minute. Then piled his papers to the side of his desk, and stood as Hiei, Kurama, Kagome, Gaara, Yuki, and Sasuke entered the classroom.
"We have a problem, guys. These boys are part demon."
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Muwahaha! Cliffies are so much fun! Dances around in a circle I'd better get at least two reviews, or there won't be another chapter for a while. But I just dug two graves at the bottom of the grave that I just dug! I'll probably just have to spend a week or two just trying to untangle my mess.
Luney's been mysteriously absent, so I apologize if there are mistakes.
--Signing off, Lady Inari