After that day it was soon the three of them together most of the time save for the classes Kikyo refused to go to , Harry later that week sent a letter to his mother telling her about his first quidditch match.
Harry's letter from his mother, informed of new family members from his birth mother's family. And her concern about him flying on broomsticks, at his age.
Harry groaned at his mothers concern "Well Harry your mother does have a right to be concern,"
"I guess you're right however she never said anything when i rode Kiyoko."
"That is one big difference between Kiyoko and a broom." Kikyo comments
"But I'm a great flier, i wouldn't made the team if i sucked right?"
"Beginner's Luck. Kiyoko is a nekomata, who has a mind of her own." Kikyo answers
"True but you'll see at the game I'll be fine i just hope mom and dad came come for the game?
"Write them and see?" Kikyo suggests
"I did, Momma said she will. However, dad wasn't so sure and maybe the twins will come as well that will make it great?"
"I doubt the twins will come, no parent would yank their child out of school for a sporting event." Kikyo answers "Why are you asking me, I do not read minds."
"I don't know about that part you read me pretty good."
"That's because I know you." Kikyo answers, "And servants like to gossip, and I like to listen."
"You make it sound like I'm a trouble maker back home."
Hermione sat next to him" Well aren't you, Harry? You told me about some of the trouble you got into at home."
Kikyo looked smug, "See told you. First time, I met you, you were up to your ears in trouble?"
"I was attack by that rouge all i wanted to do that day was get a game and my jewel kit." Harry huff his cheeks red.
"You were attack how awful but you were fine right."
"Yeah, you went out on your own, knowing you're leverage against Sesshomaru and Maria." Kikyo reminded him. "Yeah, he was, since I purified the demon."
"Mom and dad said it was okay and it wasn't like i didn't have a guard even it i didn't know it."
"Now you have me acting as your guard and part time instructor, who you don't even listen too." Kikyo retorted
"What I do listen to you."
"When I tell you not to do something, you go ahead and do so anyway?" Kikyo questions "whatever, you say, but I got to get ready for finishing up the story, I was telling you about in Demonology. Since its Thursday."
Harry watched her walk off and he gave a short growl of frustration, mad at himself and grabs his bag and leave the room.
Aiden watched them leave, and left himself. He caught up with Kikyo, "May I escort you, fair lady."
"Your flattery will get you no where." Kikyo answers
"why must you think I'm flattering you, when any person can see you deserve the title." Aiden said as he walks besides her.
"Because the last time, I heard such nonsense, was a monk, and I ended up killing him." Kikyo replies
Aiden stumbled but caught himself. "Well Kikyo, i won't call you that then but you're still a beauty of the school and one must blind not to see even the Prince knows it."
"Then I am blinded to see myself as such. No one in the temple looks at my outer shell, they see my souls within my being." Kikyo replies
"Well then won't you let me show you how lovely you are?"
"No thank you, you resemble Him to much." Kikyo answers, as she walked into Shippo's classroom.
Shippo looks up as she walks into the room "Good afternoon Kikyo your day has been good i hope, where's harry, he was with you at lunch?"
"I am not his Keeper." Kikyo answers
"I know that be usually you two walk in together after lunch."
"Not really." Kikyo replies, "He might be in an empty classroom, mad at himself again."
"Ah the sweet joy of youthful angst."
"Get over yourself. I'm technically Five hundred and fifty years old." Kikyo states
"Now I wasn't even talking about you, Priestess."
"I know." Kikyo replied as she went and sat down, rather knelt down waiting.
The rest of the class walks in talking about many different things no one noticed Harry wasn't there.
Shippo slipped out of the room, and went to track down Harry. He quickly found the boy tossing a ball at a wall the ball moving faster with each toss.
Harry heard the door open as he tossed the ball. "Who ever this is please just leave me alone."
Shippo caught the ball, "You have two choices, Get up yourself and go willingly to class, Or I will pick you and carry you there myself."
Harry turns to face his uncle. "Really just one time i ditch and ya go and hunt me down."
"You are ditching my class, and I would love to see you get a letter from home. Grounding you for winter break and summer break as well." Shippo grinned
Harry grabs his bag and walks out stomping his way back to the class. "I think it might be just winter break and I'm heading back."
"You don't know Maria, like I do." Shippo replies, as he 'escorted' Harry back.
Harry just keeps walking to the class and grabs a seat to the rear of the class and starts writing, while listening to Kikyo words.
Kikyo didn't bother finished her lecture and waited for questions, she was going to do something about her charge even if she had to fire an arrow at him to prove a point.
Harry just waited till Shippo dismissed the class and made to leave the room and not see the priestess.
"What is the meaning of going to a boarding school?" Kikyo questions as she blocked Harry's path out of the classroom. "When you're just going to skip a class?"
"I didn't mean to skip i just lost track of time." Harry told her truthfully.
"Yeah right, You said you were going to ditch class." Shippo states
"Shippo, I just decided that when you found me." Harry figured he was in trouble no matter what he said.
"Give me one good reason not to punch you in the face?" Kikyo questions
Harry looks down "A reason I don't have I acted like a spoiled brat I take my punishment as I deserve. "
Two weeks left of November, Harry got a letter from his parents, with the Royal Wax Seal. Not just a normal, 'we care about you and miss you' letter, as he thought of them.
Harry gulped and removed the seal and read the letter.
'Winter Ball will be held in celebration of our Realm's birth as normal, but it will also be the Coronation of our Realm's New Heir.' was the letter, with tickets for the ball to get into the gate.
Harry looks at the tickets and saw that it was enough to bring several friends.
Sakura stood up, "Yes, yes, Yes, my dress for the Winter Ball is finished." she ran out of the Hall carrying a large package.
Harry nods and turns to Hermione and to Kikyo and in a formal tone he invited them to the ball as well.
Shippo groaned at the mention of the dress, that he didn't get to see or even view on the night of the Ball. "What I wouldn't give to have her Seventeenth birthday come soon." he muttered as he speared a piece of beef.
Hermione while flattered by the invite, had to refuse since she was going on vacation with her parents. Ron's parents were going to Romania to visit his brother Charlie, so he would go to the Ball to avoid staying in Hogwarts.
"Maybe for the summer i can ask Mother and Father if you can visit." He tells Hermione.
"I would like to learn more and ask the source of the Demonology Books." Hermione answers
"How can my Father agree to this!" Draco snarled
"While I don't like him this might put the brat in his place. " he whispers to his table mates.
"I believe that is the point of the Lord and Lady inviting 'High Society' of the wizarding world." Kikyo comments
Harry agrees giving a wolfish grin.
"Remember, Harry that boy is mine." Kikyo states
"Of course Kikyo he is in your debt I would never disregard that fact." Harry nods.
"Yes, as debts go or should I say the ones for life, are repaid without the first person's knowledge. He might save my own life one day, but I doubt that." Kikyo states
"You never know as mother would say he may just yet be redeemable."
"Maybe that is my true destiny, or might not be, other then he fact I am here to ensure you survive." Kikyo answers
Harry nods and gets ready for his classes for the day.
One such day, there was a shock was the person, sitting at Shippo's desk cleaning her nails with a dagger.
Harry walks in and felt his hair raise up in warning. He waits outside the room in view of the slayer.
"You have good senses, my cousin was right about you, Young Prince." the Slayer states "The Fox demon enlisted me since I am the only Slayer that is also a witch."
Harry nods and slowly enters the room.
"What do I look so bad?" the Slayer questions, "Good lord, boy. You act like I'm going to throw my nail file at you?"
"No ma'am it's just Sara always told me when meeting a slayer be wary."
"That's Sara for you, never properly explain a damn thing." the older girl laughed
The rest of the class walk in noticing how Harry and Richard react to the woman in the room.
"Harry why are you so tense." Hermione asked.
"They are tense because of me and my profession." The woman answers, "Name's Noriko."
The two half-demon nod and sit down as the rest of the class looked on confused.
"I will be here after your holiday as well." Noriko states "Since these two are so pleasurably frighten of me, care to enlighten your classmates to what I am?"
"She's a demon slayer used to hunt down rouge demons and other threats to the realm." Richard explains in a nervous voice.
"Awe, did I hunt down some of your family members?" Noriko questions, "Good Lord man, I am not here to kill a thing unless, I get attacked first."
Richard shakes his head " No ma'am it's just well your like the boogie man but more real."
Harry nods in agreement as he remembers what the other demon kids would tell him.
"Awe, did mummy and Daddy tell you if you misbehaved that a Demon slayer would come after you?" Noriko questions "Give it up, my people don't kill children demon or otherwise."
"She's right. I had the hardest time tracking her down because its hard to find a Slayer with a trace of magical blood." Shippo adds
Harry nods and Richard just sweat drops "But aren't most demons under the rule of the Taisho clan?" On Slytherin girl asked.
"Not all of them some of them are rogues who want nothing more to see you in a plate with a nice garnish." Noriko answers
"There are still rouges out there that refuse to follow Mother and Fathers rules and some that just go mad." Harry shudders at the memory of the spider demon.
Soon the class before asking questions about where she lives and what kind of training she received to be a slayer.
"Can't tell you where I live." Noriko answers, "but my training was and still is very tough."
'Like what kind of training what did you learn?"
Harry for the most part just sat and took notes paying very close attention to Noriko.
"Making and repairing armor, making and repairing weapons, one thing about Slayers' weapons, is that we form a bond with the demon spirits within our weapons. Sara has her Hiraikotsu and I have my chain sickle." Noriko answers "Slayers are slightly different since we're lacking in holy power like a priestess has. We have enhanced Strength and Stamina since we train from childhood."
One large Slytherin boy laughs "You don't look all that strong." Richard just groans and Harry shakes his head.
"Then stand up, little boy." Noriko states
The young man stood and walked over to where the slayer stood.
Noriko motioned for the boy to attack her.
"Don't kill him." Shippo sighed as he arranged pillows for a less then soft landing.
The boy smiled and went to throw a punch at her.
Noriko caught the boy's arm and hauled him over her shoulder into the pillows, "Want another taste, or are you going to shut your trap?"
The boy groans while the rest of the class just stared in awe while Harry laughs along with most of Gryffindor
"Slayers have a long history, We were taught by the Priestess Midoriko, we invented new ways of fighting such as using demonic bones as weapons." Noriko states, "We are nearly superhuman."
After that the class fell into a respectful silence and let her teach the lesson.
"Most our kind was nearly wiped out of existence by one vile creature." Noriko states as she lectured about the Slayer's in the Feudal Era.
Everyone listened and wrote notes till the end of class.
Noriko went and joined Shippo on a tour of the school before Dinner. "I have to say this castle is impressive."
Shippo just smiles as he guides her through the school several of the students stared and whisper to each other.
"Well this is the great hall where most take there meals and hold assemblies."
Noriko nods, but the whispers of the students were getting annoying.
Harry went back to the common room and got to work on his homework.
Kikyo stared out the window, barely listening to the chatter around her. 'Village Gossips, that's all they were...'
Harry finished his work and got ready for bed, he had practice for quidditch and knew he needs his rest.
The morning of Harry's first Quidditch match, the doors the Hall opened and the caretaker, Filch was tossed into the hall by a demon, with a frown marring his otherwise handsome features. "Fool."
Harry's head jerked up and smiled. "He's here, I'm surprised he took the time off?" He jumped up and went over to his father and gave a hug to him. "How is everyone at home, is everything okay will yu be staying long after the game?"
"Its either showing up to watch my son's first game or facing my mate." Sesshomaru answers, "And that creature better learn to watch his tongue. I am not as compassionate as my mate."
The rest of the hall was stunned into silence by Sesshomaru's power filling the hall.
"Impressive show, my Lord. But would you please consider not choking the rest of us lowly demons with your aura?" Shippo questions, as he struggled to remain upright.
Sesshomaru nods and took a deep breath and the pressure in the hall left. "And I thought when Harry got mad, he was powerful." Seamus whispers to someone else.
"That's because I am over nine hundred years old, I have a bit of more self-control then an eleven year old." Sesshomaru states, "My ears aren't for show."
Aiden sat shivering in his seat, his ears pressed flat against his head, staring at his relative.
Harry chuckled and brought his father over to his table and introduce him to his friends.
Sesshomaru cared less about such trivial matters, but a scent caught his attention, he looked at Aiden.
"And this is Aiden, he's been a great help here."
"You have the same scent as my half-brother." Sesshomaru states