The demons and Harry gave a cheer wondering who they chose "Who Is it Professor,Yasha or Alison?'
"Doesn't say...but The Lord and Lady have agreed to name a Heir at the Winter Ball." Shippo answers
Harry just smiles knowing that he was not the heir but at the same time he knew who ever got chosen they wont get as much time as they have to train every day.
The people at Harry's table began to ask him what does that means for him and who he thought was the new heir. "Look, I don't know who was picked or what that means for me I'm just going to have to wait till the winter ball."
Kikyo stood up, and left the hall without eating but a few bites of her chosen portion.
Harry saw her leave and thought about following her but something told him not to.
Kikyo went back up to Gryffindor Tower, and lay across the couch, with her arm over her eyes.
"Priestess what seems to be the matter."
"Nothing, I am always from my temple, away from the peace and serenity of what I know." Kikyo replies
"Hmmm, I think i may know a place for you if you wish?"
"There is nothing here, without nosy children." Kikyo answers
"No there is one place if you would follow me."
"Don't take no for an answer." Kikyo states "I do not know you, so I am not going."
"When you been around as long as I've been no lost a lot of meaning."
"How about leave me alone, before I purify you off this earth." Kikyo threatened
"Very well my lady, I'll leave you be but if you ever change your mind let me know."
Kikyo continued to lay there when she heard the rest of Gryffindor House returning. She heard harry move to a far corner of the room and set his bag down and get his papers out to start his homework.
The priestess felt eyes on her, "Thought of more questions to ask of me, Granger?"
"Well some manly what were those thing holding those souls and how did they even found you?"
"Shinidamachū, English translation; Dead Soul Insects, or you could call them Soul Collectors, it matters not what you refer to them as, they serve a purpose." Kikyo answers
"Really thats amazing but how do they find you and what was that ritual you did to those souls?
"They always know where to find me. Those souls were in need of cleansing, to move on to the netherworld." Kikyo answers, "I purified them of their sins."
"Purify a soul, netherworld what those?"
"She means the afterlife, heaven, whatever you want to call it." Harry spoke up.
"Many different places have their own view on what happens after you die, but I shouldn't be speaking of such things with children." Kikyo explains
"i guess your right but anyway we need to get our homework done before lights out, Harry do you think we could work together on some of this?"
"Kikyo, could you look over my potions?" Harry questions
Kikyo sat up, and nods, "Very well."
the small group continues to work through there work Harry found that Hermione reminds him of Mr. Lupin.
Sakura watched them from her own study group, she was working on plotting with the Weasley Twins, who weren't has good with pranks as she was as a fox half-demon.
Finally the work was done and The quartet were satisfied with all that was done and Harry then pulls out a fresh pad and began a letter to write to his family.
Kikyo shook her head, she wasn't close with her biological father, that that is mostly her doing, because she felt she wasn't going to be alive after her eighteenth birthday.
The next morning all the students were excited because this afternoon they were going to start their flying lessons.
"Have fun, this is one lesson, I will be ditching." Kikyo states as she watched Harry bouncing off the walls.
"Come on Kikyo are you not gonna at the least watch ands what your gonna do then?
"I don't know, and I do not care." Kikyo answers, "If we were meant to fly, we would have been born with wings." she left the room.
"actually if you think about it some of us were born with them." Harry teased as he grabs his bag and heads down to the great hall for breakfast.
"Yeah, demons with wings, I am not a demon." Kikyo retorts.
"True your right on that point but think about it to be able to fly like a bird. and maybe fly with mom and dad instead of just hanging on."
"Dreams are nice, but I rather have my feet on the ground." Kikyo answers. "What's Sakura doing, she doesn't have Shippo's class, this hour?"
Sakura looked around before going into Shippo's office, she smirked as she found his wallet, and got his credit card out and slipped it into her back pocket of her jeans.
"what is she planning this time and will Uncle Shippo notice or should we warn him?
"Warn me about what?" Shippo questions coming up behind them.
Harry just stiffen in shock.
"If you're referring to the fact, that I'm going to have one missing credit card, then I am not worried." Shippo states
"Oh well i should know better by now, right Uncle Shippo?"
"Nah, Sakura doesn't realize, that I got those credit cards for her to use." Shippo answers, "I wish she just ask first before deciding to sneak then, as if I was going to say no."
"Well i think that it might be a bit of teen rebellion on her part."
Shippo shrugged before Kikyo looked at him.
"You're the one, who she's in love with, aren't you?" Kikyo questions
"Say what? Really you're her betrothed?"
"Yes, her father was one of my closet advisors, in my tribe. Her mother came to me after Hiroki's death, and asked if she could arrange for her daughter's marriage, I agreed, little did I know her mother had the fire of a vixen, and decided that it would be me." Shippo answers.
"Well I think it's about time mom told how you were growing up." Harry got to Demonology class and saw that it was set up different than normal.
Shippo sniffed and made sure there wasn't anything amiss, he was a prime target for the Weasley twins.
Kikyo's back was toward the door, as she wrote on the blackboard.
Harry saw what she was writing and saw that it was a chart of some kind. "Kikyo, what ya writing?"
"You're find out soon enough." Kikyo answers
As the other students file in all confused as to why Kikyo was at the board.
"What section did I say we would going over to learn the basics this year?" Shippo questions "Other then demons."
Hermione raised her hand faster than anyone."The human development to battle demons and the supernatural threats."
"Yes, as Kikyo doesn't really need to be in this class, as a student, she has kindly agreed to cover the part that I do not know about as I am a demon." Shippo replies
"Cool will one of the slayer clan show up as well?" Harry asked.
"I'm still looking for one who was trained as a slayer but also as magic to see past the wards surrounding Hogwarts." Shippo answers
"Which I believe that type is hard to come by as most slayers are not from England or Scotland." Kikyo surmises.
"Umm what about Sara, she might?"
"Sara isn't a witch, she does not process any such abilities that are not part of the Slayer tradition." Shippo answers
"Are you done asking questions that are not a part of what you are covering now?" Kikyo questions
They shook their heads no and got right to work with the lesson plan Kikyo made for the class.
"There are many different classifications for someone who was born abilities that are able to destroy a demon or supernatural threat. Depending on which faith they practice."
"Like the shamans, and the old druids? " one student asked.
"Yes." Kikyo answers, "Also those who follow the Shinto, and Buddhist faith as well. I follow the Shinto faith, however where I was raised practices all faiths."
"But my brother Bill also told me that there are some wizards now trained to deal with some of the rouges as well he's one of them taking the training." Ron points out.
"Could your brother kill a demon without breaking the law himself?" Shippo questions
"I really don't know so far in his letters, he just learned way to restrain them and ward them away. " Ron answers "He just a journeyman still."
Shippo was sure, there was no such class that wasn't approved by the Lord and Lady.
"Only a sacred arrow can kill a demon. Isn't that right, Malfoy?" Kikyo questions "He seen a sacred arrow in flight."
Draco quickly nods looking a bit green at the memory.
"Now, there are only three powerful Shinto Priestesses that are now legendary, can anyone name them?" Kikyo questions "Aside from Harry, who already knows, because he's been listening to me for years."
Hermione and Draco raised their hands, most of the students were shock that Draco raised his hand since he barely paid attention in class.
"Malfoy." Shippo nods
"The priestesses were lady Kagome, lady Kikyo, And lady meriko?" He said the last name unsure.
"Midoriko." Kikyo answers, she wrote down the names, with Midoriko's name first. "Now the strangest thing about this whole triangle of priestesses, is that Kagome was not born in the Feudal Era."
"One one thing connects all three together." Shippo comments "Any guesses?"
Most of the class was confused Harry knew the answer but didn't raised his hand. Hermione raised her hand and took a guess. "Is it because they all guarded the jewel of four souls? "
"Not that way, Midoriko's the creator of the Jewel of Four Souls, she fought against a powerful demon, and was forced to seize the demon's soul with her own and forced it out as the Shikon Jewel. Many years passed, the jewel returned to the Slayer's village, but it was horribly defiled, it was given to a priestess who had the ability to purify the jewel. Which would be Priestess Kikyo." Kikyo answers, "Who I was named after, by the way." Kikyo closed her eyes allowing memories of that time to flow, "But even she would pay the price for holding the jewel in her keeping."
"She was cursed by a jealous priestess because she was chosen and not her right?"
"Part of it, she was cursed to fall in love, thus her power would grow weaker, she met a half-demon." Kikyo states
"she fell in love but i thought you can't fall in love.'
"That is the main rule, but some times, things happen." Kikyo replies, "She fell in love with a half-demon, that was after the jewel to become a full demon."
"I remember this story Dad told me it when i asked about Yasha's name."
"The half-demon's name was InuYasha, but something happened both lovers were tricked into betraying one another."
Kikyo continued the tale of the tragic priestess most of the girls in the class were wiping there eyes or holding the boy next to them.
Shippo looked at Kikyo, and seen the shudder that was hidden from the rest.
"The priestess chose to take the jewel with her into the afterlife. She chose to follow Inuyasha."
"Till it was returned by aunt Kagome.'
"Yes, she was Kikyo's reincarnation." Shippo confirmed
"Wow that's incredible but i read she was for a while the walking dead?" Draco questions, he had read up on the tragic priestess.
"That part of the story will have to wait." he looked at each and everyone, "I watch a two parchment essay on what you would have done in Kikyo's place." he looked at Ron directly, "If I do not get that essay, You will stand in front of the class, and tell it aloud."
Most of the class paled at the thought of being in front of the class.
Kikyo watched as everyone left, she had the feeling once she told of her past as the walking dead a few would bridge the past and the present together.
Harry sat at his table eating lightly since he didn't want to throw up flying in front of the others.
Kikyo walked into the hall, slowly, her memories were plaguing her as she had to force herself to interact with others, she sat down by Harry. "You seem to think you will be flying all of the grounds? You are not going too."
"I know but still i don't want to look stupid in front of the class." Harry looks over to his friend "Are you okay Kikyo I know talking about your past life is hard sometime."
"Just the memories are strong, when I think about them to much and talking about myself in the past is bringing them to the forefront of my mind. Do not worry, except worry about Hermione figuring out who and what I am." Kikyo answers.
"Yeah I can see her figuring out who you really are but if she does what will you do?"
"Answer more questions?" Kikyo guessed
Yeah thats a fact " harry laughs "well you could threaten her with a set of beads"
"Thanks for reminding me." Kikyo replied as she took a rosary out of her sleeve, "Aiden!"
Aiden hops over "Yes Kikyo are they ready?"
Kikyo began the prayer to place the rosary around Aiden's neck. White light encased the beads, one by one they formed around Aiden's neck. Kikyo thought long and hard about the word for this one, and Aiden requested it as well. "Behave." with that the half-demon slammed into the ground.
"what the heck, why?" Harry questions
"He asked for it." Kikyo replies, as she knelt beside the body shaped hole. "Isn't that right, Aiden?"
a muffled 'yeah' came from the hole.
"Okay But why the heck would you do that to your self ?"
"Yeah most demon try to avoid that, don't they?" Hermione asked
Aiden pulled himself from the hole, shaking his head. "Remind me to apologize to Prof. H. I didn't believe his stories about Inuyasha's rosary." he looked at the two first years, well three if you counted Harry, who was staring in confusion as well. "I'm only half-demon, I don't have anything to seal my demon blood."
"Right I understand but still why the heck did you have Kikyo make that for ya." Hermione questions
"Can you make the Kotodama no Nenju?" Kikyo questions, before sighing the English translation "Language Power Rosary"
"No,I wouldn't even know where to start and I don't even have the power to start prepping the beads."
"And who do you think has the power and the knowledge to make one?" Kikyo questions
"Well you do, Kikyo?"
Aiden looked at Hermione, "I asked Kikyo to make me one, I heard stories of Inuyasha's rosary, and how his priestess could control his behavior with a simple phrase. I do not want to loose myself to my inner demon."
"Ahh i see that makes sense now, cause mom told me how a she saw one lose it, not a pretty picture." Harry commented
The half-demons who were in the Hall stood up and came together to mutter in a group.
"Hey, What's up guys" Ron questions
Sakura looked up from the group. "Doesn't concern you." she and the others went back and continued their group meeting.
Harry looks over at the group and then turns to his friends "Come on this is not about us and we need to head out to the practice pitch."
Sakura was voted to approach Kikyo. "The others and myself have decided on something."
"Yes Sakura, what is this decision."
"Make us one too. As long as we have the say in who subdues us?" Sakura questions
Kikyo thought about it and nods. "it will take some time."
"I doubt we're getting into anything that will have us near death." Sakura agrees
Kikyo nods, and decided to go see what she could explore the grounds, while she was at loose ends. Kikyo was walking across the grounds and was just looked around.
'Something tells me, I will regret my personal vows.' Kikyo thought as she found a view that was worth looking at for awhile. she spent most of the evening just sitting there till she heard someone call her name. Did she really want to go and answer who called her, did she wish to stay for awhile, and enjoy the moment of contentment? The voice called her name once more she recognized the voice as Harry.
Kikyo sighed 'back to work for me, how many days left to freedom?' she stood up and went to where she heard Harry.
Harry found her coming around the far end of the field, he smiles and waves over to her.
Kikyo continued on her way, without waving back, it was such a useless thing to do.
"Hey Kikyo guess what just happened?"
"You found out your adopted?" Kikyo questions
"What I'm adopted? NOOOO tell me its not true. oh wait, i forgot mom and dad are demons and I'm human. but really I'm on the quidditch team."
"And that means what to me?" Kikyo questions
Harry's face fell "Well it just means I'm on our house team and i get to have my own broom i have to write mom about this.
"I really don't see the point." Kikyo replies
"Well it's good news I'm the youngest seeker in over a hundred years,"
"and I am the reborn priestess Kikyo and Midoriko...so who is the messed up one now?" Kikyo asks
"Kikyo, your not messed up, your just who you are?"
"And who I am gets me in trouble, remember." Kikyo replies
"Well yeah true." Harry and Kikyo head back to the tower to do home work and rest.
Sakura was waiting for Kikyo, and bounced over to her. "You are some priestess, you know that right?"
Kikyo Looks over to her confused.
"Aiden, he's been talking a lot about you. I think he's going to be on the wrong end a few wands soon. If he keeps it up in Slytherin." Sakura giggled, she then smiled "Shippo caught me and gave me a five thousand limit on what I can spend in the muggle world."
"That boy, I wish he would just stop." Harry states
"Why? Do you think I took vows at the temple to be forever alone?" Kikyo questions
"No but if he keeps it up and you get mad, he'll get hurt in more ways than one."
"More like I get to see if you're going to be jealous?" Kikyo questions "The trick to subdue someone, is to know the word only works for one person."
"Me Jealous of Aiden no way, why would you even think that." Harry's face had a slight blush to it.
"Come on, Kikyo, help me pick out the perfect dress for the Winter Ball." Sakura states as she grabbed Kikyo's hand.
Harry just heads up to his dorm room "Me jealous of Aiden ha not gonna happen" he mutters as he walks in to his room.
"Sure, it isn't." another half-demon only this one had a feline-like features, as he hung upside down on a bed, looking through have lidded eyes.
Harry gave a yelp. "Rich, I really hate that and yeah why would I be She's my friend and a priestess."
"One, she's a female, and going to be attractive when she gets older, two, you're 'first' in line." the cat half-demon grinned
"I am not "first' as you say she's made it clear, she just my guard plus Aiden just looks better than me."
"Don't be to sure, Time is a funny thing." Richard states, as he rolled over. "You're not so bad looking, but you're not fully grown yet."
Harry rolled his eyes thinking. 'What if she does get involved with everyone else, would she forget me?' he got in to his normal sleep wear and climbed into bed.
As he slept that night, Harry had a very strange dream.
Kikyo on the other hand, couldn't sleep. She still had on her white horai and slipped out of bed, she crept to the stairs and went downstairs, she sat on the couch.
As she sat in the common room on of the perfect finds her "Kikyo why are you down here its after lights out ?"
"So you just assume, I am going to stay in bed when I can't sleep? And disturb everyone else's sleep? Then what a fool you are." Kikyo answers
"You are a very strange girl you know that even strange for this school."
"You have no idea, Weasley." Kikyo agreed
"Yes indeed well try not to stay up to late or else you'll be a wreck come the morning."
Kikyo didn't answer, she had to much energy pent up, she had no release, there was nothing for her to do here.
Harry came downstairs sometime after midnight looking like he had a bad sleep with him, he had a small case.
"You want to tell me why you're up?" Kikyo questions
"Hmmm, Oh Hey Kikyo, I could ask the same about you but i know better, as to why can't sleep weird dreams, figure i work on Keiko's and momma's gift for a bit."
"Not at two in the morning." Kikyo replied "Back to bed."
"you don't think i tried just can't fall back to sleep," Harry sits down in a corner and sets his case on a table.
"Have detention with Snape, I don't care." Kikyo states
Harry thought about it and shook his head detention was not worth it "You should get some sleep as well, Kikyo." he heads back up stairs to his dorm.
"I would if I had something to do during the day to wear myself out." Kikyo muttered to herself.
"You could volunteer to do some work in the hospital wing or maybe gather herbs on the grounds around here."
The next few weeks went pretty much normal but Harry found himself glaring at Aiden and found that he was developing a friendship with Hermione even if he had to remind her some questions should not be asked.
Kikyo shook her head, she felt something was off, during Halloween night. she could barely eat her dinner, which was nothing but sweets, she didn't want to eat anyway.
Harry noticed that Hermione still hasn't shown up to the Great hall after Ron insulted her, he was telling the boy off when the dark arts teacher came running in.
"Troll, Troll in the Dungeon...thought you should know.." he passed out.
Dumbledore called for order in the great hall and told the perfects to take everyone to their dorms.
Harry was following the others when he thought Hermione didn't know about the troll. "Kikyo, did you see where Hermione run off to after Ron shot his mouth off."
Kikyo looked at Harry, and took off running toward the girls' lavatory, where she felt Hermione's aura.
Harry ran with her in case half way to the lavatory harry smelt it. "Kikyo, look out, I smell something really bad and not like snape's room bad."
"Yes, I know, I have been sensing something off, its not human and its not a demon." Kikyo replied as she continued her flight to the Lavatory.
Harry looks around "Gods its times like this I wish dad taught me how to fight better." he followed close keeping an eye out for what ever made the smell.
"Only thing you'll do in a fight is get yourself killed." Kikyo states, as she dashed into the lavatory to find the troll swinging its club at the sinks where Hermione was hiding, as she had crawled under there to hide.
"Shoot, What should we do that thing is huge."
Kikyo didn't answer, she just rushed under it, and formed a barrier between the troll and Hermione.
Harry growled then grabs a sink and toss it at the trolls head. "Oi Cat droppings over here."
The troll grunts and turns it's head to face Harry. "Thats right I'm talking to you, Dung brain."
Harry just kept dodging and throwing things at the troll while telling the girls to run.
"You idiot. I can't move." Kikyo states, as she kept up the barrier up. "Try to knock the thing out or something!"
Harry looks around and saw the troll's club and used the levitation spell to raise it up above him and dropped it on his head the troll fell over on its back with a great crash.
Kikyo lowered the barrier, and fell to one knee.
"Hermione help her up, i can't touch her, we need to get out of here before big ugly wakes."
"What is going on here?" McGonagall questions coming into the lavatory.
Hermione stepped up, "I went looking for it, I read all about them, and I thought I could handle it, I was wrong. If Kikyo and Harry hadn't shown up, I would be dead."
Harry was about to talk to tell the truth but the look that tells him shut up. everyone heads back the tower once inside Harry waits for the worst
"Why would you tell the truth? Are you stupid or something?" Kikyo demanded
"Mom and dad both always said to tell the truth you seen how they react to one of us lying."
"Telling the truth in this case, is a one way ticket to trouble, we were supposed to be in here!" Kikyo exclaims "One word from your parents, I would not a priestess but a Temple Servant!"
Harry looks down "Yes ma'am, I try to use better judgment."
Hermione walks over to the two "Thank you both for saving my life I really wouldn't know what would have happen if you and Kikyo saved me."
Harry just waves it off "Don't worry about it it was the right thing to do."
"He's right." Kikyo agrees
"still thank you both but for right now lets go to bed"
Kikyo nods, and follows Hermione to the Girls' dorm.
Harry grabs Ron and pulls him to the side. "Listen Ron, first thing in the morning, you will say you're sorry to her, do you understand me?"