Yasha was at his mother's side for the next week, learning the ropes of the Council Session. Every day, Harry grew more depressed that he couldn't hang out with his brother. It was like his fears were becoming a reality, Yasha was to busy to spend time with him. Ron was getting worried about this change of mood.
Kikyo was over one day, while she and Ron spoke of the events over the last few days, since Kikyo was immersed in her own problems at the Temple.
"There's nothing, I can do about that." Kikyo replies, as she listened to Ron.
Ron sighed and looks over to the manor. "Harry needs to know Yasha is gonna be a busy person now that he's the heir maybe we can drag him some where?"
Kikyo went over to one of the benches, and sat down, she nodded next to her. "You don't seem to understand the inner workings of the government of the Demonic Realm."
Ron shook his head "Not a bloody clue of it."
"For right now, its just Yasha learning how to govern his Realm, but when he chooses a Lady, they will work together as a team, do you think Sesshomaru is just there for Maria to have pups? You do not see what he does, he does as much paperwork as she does, they both take turns in the Council chamber, but the Council mostly prefers Maria as she is the gentler of the two." Kikyo replies, "sometimes, its like the inner workings of the Temple, the Head or High Priestess is the one everyone looks to for guidance. However, our High Priestess recently crossed to the Scared Land."
"Oh I see, well yeah i can see he needs to learn the job per say, and I'm sorry about your head priestess,
"Once he's comfortable in his new role, he will be back to his old self, only with a title." Kikyo replies, "Harry doesn't like to speak to anyone of his personal thoughts or fears."
Harry came down the stairs and found his two friends talking. "Hey you two no talking about me, my ears are burning."
"Confession is between the person and his or her priestess." Kikyo replies, unphased by Harry's lecture.
"Fine. anyway good timing, Kikyo. I was wondering if you could help me with a project since you're a priestess, if you're not busy, of course." Harry sounded unsure
"The others aren't excepting me back for some time." Kikyo responds.
"Great please follow me to my room," Harry head back to his room and pulls out his jewelry kit, Kikyo saw that there was several stones that she knew were held as scared stones.
"Explain please." Kikyo states softly, confused.
"It's something a gift, I'm making for both Hermione, and Ron. However, I can't get the Sutra right and since your writing is so much better than mine."
"What are they supposed to do?" Kikyo questions
Harry picks up one of the half finished chains. "Well both are to offer protection but for Hermione, i want to give her calm of mind and for Ron, i want to give him more confidence."
Kikyo closed her eyes, "I dislike to disillusion you, however, I can not perform the task you want."
"Why not did i use the wrong stones or am i asking to much?"
"The stones have no power, and you are asking for the impossible. You are asking to change their character, which can not be done. I personally like Hermione's thirst for knowledge, as for Ron, no spell or Sutra can give him more confidence when he has older siblings, he is just like you are in that regard. How much do you wish to be a 'proper' child for Lord Sesshomaru and Lady Maria?" Kikyo answers
"I don't want to change them it was meant to enhance them but my wants are not important here can you at least do the protections on the chains please?" He move out of the way and pulls out his jewel box.
"No." Kikyo replies
Harry just nods knowing not to question her reasons "Thanks anyway for your help, Kikyo as to the other thing thats just my own thing, want to gather some herbs for the temple like when we were younger?"
"I am sorry, Harry but the temple isn't the place to be right now, we have no need for herbs right now." Kikyo answers, "I do not have the time, anything that we needed we have dried and stored."
"Oh sure so anything you want do."
"My time today is very short." Kikyo answers "I'm very busy these days."
"Yeah sure, I know you're busy since you're who you are, I'll let you to your work, see you later." they both left his room.
"Its not because of who I am, or are you selfish to not consider the fact I am dealing with the loss of my adopted mother!" Kikyo exclaims "My status as a priestess has nothing to with how I feel about the woman who raised me as her own for the past ten years."
"No of course not, she was your mother and you need time to grieve, I'm sorry i was being a jerk."
Yasha heard the exclamation, and came up behind them. "Priestess, I think you need to return to your temple, and oversee the preparations for the cremation." then he looked at Harry. "And you are coming with me."
Kikyo's soul collectors came at her mental summons, and surrounded her, with that she disappeared with them.
Harry follows his brother wondering what he was going to do since he was the one in the wrong.
Yasha lead the way to his room, he held open the door. "Inside."
Harry did as he was told and walks over to the desk and waits for Yasha.
"You mind explaining why you're a storm cloud these days? If you say its about me, I will hit you upside the head." Yasha states, with a raised eyebrow.
Harry refused to look at his brother and began pacing the room. "I don't know why okay there just so much happening now and the at the ball, i had something pushed to my face and then.." Harry begins to explain everything to Yasha including his fear of what they found in the school.
Yasha pinched the bridge of his nose. "And I thought my new lessons were hard as hell." he flung himself on his small couch in his room. "So you disobeyed the rules and found large three headed dog and a trap door?"
"Yes, I did, however, the point is something thats being hidden in the school is in danger as well as anyone in the way and I'm sure as hell know that the dark arts teacher is involved some how with Voldemort."
"and you do not know what's being hidden at the school, right now?" Yasha questions, his golden eyes narrowed "Who else knows or suspects these incidents?"
"Not exactly but we know i has to do with Flammel but any work, we find is incomplete." Harry answers, " My group of friends for right now, I'm getting ready to tell Momma and Poppa "
Yasha sat up, at the name and his eyes flashed red. He stood up, and left the room. Harry quickly followed him worried about his brother.
Yasha was furious at the human who thought he could claim to be an immortal, he was snarling curses under his breath, as he slammed open the doors to father's study.
"Yasha, what is the meaning of you coming here now?"
Yasha didn't answer, he just climbed the ladder to one of the higher shelves to grab a book down, he jump down and went to the desk and flipped through the pages. "I'll end this guy's life myself."
"Son, what are you talking about who are you threatening?"
"Nicolas Flammel, that's who." Yasha answered with a growl.
"And why do you want to kill that old fart."
"Why would a disembodied spirit be attached to a professor at Hogwarts, at the same time something was stolen from a secure bank. That man wants the secret to being immortal. Like we are." Yasha states
"How did you come upon this information." Sesshomaru was slowly join his son in anger.
"Harry." Yasha answers, as reached behind him and grabbed his brother's shirt. "Read this, little brother."
Harry read the book and slowly put the pieces together for himself and he just lost it, his aura swept through the floor, his rage was so high. "That bastard is trying to find a way back after he took so many."
"Enough." Sesshomaru states, as his own aura overpowered Harry's weakened demonic aura.
Harry flinched but he didn't lose the rage in his eyes.
"Just what are you going to do?" Sesshomaru questions
"I don't know, I was going to tell you and Momma and asked for advice cause this is so far above me right now."
"Anger will get you killed faster. Which is why we won't teach you to fight the demon way." Sesshomaru states
Harry slowly calmed himself and lost all his anger"You right father anger won't do any good but this thing has to be stopped but how."
"There is no way to stop a spirit unless, you really want to endanger Kikyo." Sesshomaru states
"No! Never that."
"A priestess with active spiritual power, is the only way to cross over a spirit." Sesshomaru responds
"No if we can't cross him over maybe trap him or stick him to at tree like Inuyasha was?"
"Kikyo was the one who sealed Inuyasha to the scared tree, and she was dying at the time as well." Yasha pointed out, "And Voldemort is only half-way dead."
"So what can you do?"
"Other then destroy the philosopher's stone, Nothing." Sesshomaru answers
"Then make Dumbledore give it to you and destroy it?"
"If he were a demon and under our rule, then yes, that would be possible but he's not." Sesshomaru states
Can't you sent a slayer to deal with the possessed professor?"possessed
"No." Sesshomaru answers
"There are other ways for a person to come back to life." Kikyo's voice states, as soul collectors swirled around, and her image formed and touched the ground.
Harry sat but didn't look her way. "Do you have any ideas?"
"Just one. But apparently you're to possessive to allow me to purify Voldemort's spirit." Kikyo answers "Which I think Aiden might agree with you on that one."
"I am not possessive of you, your a person not a thing you made that perfectly clear to everybody."
"Then how come you're afraid of losing me, when you know at any moment that Death will take me away to the Sacred Land?" Kikyo questions. "I was reborn to guide the Boy Who Lived. Voldemort will find a way to return to life."
"I know death will take you someday,' he looks over to his father and and brother "I just don't want you leaving me behind because you have better friends than me.?"
"You think I have friends?" Kikyo asks confused "Hermione and Ron aren't my friends, they are your friends, they are drawn to you. Not me." she looked at Harry, "Everyone is afraid of me, the residents of the Temple look to me for spiritual guidance because I am Midoriko and myself reborn."
Harry listened to her, knowing that she was right. "Poppa is there any way to get a guard to watch Kikyo as she deals with that half live thing?"
"Oh sure, if I want to keep replacing guards. They are lower level demons, they wouldn't stand a chance against Kikyo's power." Sesshomaru answers
"No, your right wasting lives like that won't do any one any good."
Kikyo thought about something. "Its a amusing thought as to why the third floor was so easy to get into with a first year spell. Unless Dumbledore is trying to get Harry to confront someone."
"Your saying he's trying to make my son a lamb of some kind over my dead body."
"Its just a theory." Kikyo states
'Well i think we should have a talk with the Headmaster."
"Have fun. Because he won't listen to 'children'" Kikyo replies
"I was going to let Maria talk with him."
"His funeral." all three younger people in the room replied
Sesshomaru just smiles and walks out of the room.
"Kikyo, I'm sorry about before I was being a world class jerk." Harry apologize to her.
"You're a male, they're all world class jerks." Kikyo answers
"No argument there."
Maria and Petunia were getting ready to shop in London, for some Christmas gifts.
Keiko chased after Maria, "Up Up."
Petunia smiled at the little girl's antics she thought about how Dudley was at that age.
Maria bent down to Keiko's level, "Keiko, Momma's going shopping, you get to stay here with Daddy, Ali, Yashy, and Harry, and with Aunty Sara and Aunty Nori."
Keiko gave a sad whine wanting to go with her.
"This is your warning, Keiko. You are staying here." Maria states, calmly with authority.
The girl stopped and went to where Yasha was. "Incredible if that was Dudley, he would have thrown a fit."
Maria grabbed her car keys and purse. "Perhaps, I know how to discipline my children."
Petunia didn't argue with her and got to the car as they saw Dudley running with Sara behind him yelling.
"Well, at least he's getting some exercise." Maria states, as she drove out of the gate.
"Are you sure its safe to have trained killers in charge of this?" Petunia questions
"Trained killers?" Maria questions, The two women drove to London making small talk, Petunia laughed at the story of Harry's first try at tackling his father.
Once they entered London proper, Maria drove to a small market place, Petunia was curious she never knew this square was here.
"Most people go for the high scale shops, Yasha and Ali have vastly different tastes when it comes to fashion." Maria explains,
"Yes I saw they do rather like to dress in plain clothes or in almost traditional clothing."
They both exited the car and began to walk around the market, Petunia was shocked that most of the items sold here were handmade.
Maria went into the nearest shop, and began her browsing.
Sesshomaru gritted his teeth as he tried to do some work, and couldn't, he stood up from his desk and stalked out of the room. He went to the gate where that annoying human nephew-in-law was trying to break down the gate to chase after his mother. "If you continue to make such nonsense, I will be forced to stop you."
The boy ignore the demon and continued to slam the gate with all his weight.
Sesshomaru snarled and grabbed the boy by the back of the neck and seat of his trousers and frog matched him back inside the manor.
The servants moved out of the way of their master and the fat human boy. "Let me go! you have no right to do this."
"Silence, human. I only put up with your race because of my son and my wife. You are nothing but scum to me. I will do as I wish to stop your annoying temper tantrum." Sesshomaru snarled
The boy began to struggle more as they reached the back gardens, where the children sat reading or playing games.
Sesshomaru lifted the boy up and pitched him into the semi-frozen pond.
Dudley came up cursing in such a way Harry had to cover Keiko's ears and get her out of the garden. He made his way back to the shore still cursing and shivering.
Sesshomaru raised an eyebrow, "You do not cease your cursing, I will throw you in the next county."
"I would listen to him right now he's being very patient with you." Yasha warned casually.
Alison looked up. "Father, with your permission, I think I have an idea that might change this behavior of his to a more proper behavior?" Alison may have gave up her title but she was still considered a Noble, a Taiyoukai.
Sesshomaru nods and turn back to the manor leaving them to their business.
Alison looked at her adopted cousin. "Come on, human brat. You are going to see what this behavior of yours will lead too."
Once Dudley was dried off and in dryer clothes, Alison took him to a Correctional Facility, in the Demonic Realm.
"What is this place?"
"You are a disrespectful, bad behaviored person." Alison states, "So I decided to allow you to look at future home of yours if you choose to be the way you are, since you did not learn from Sara and Noriko that some people are bigger and badder then you are, we're going to meet some humans, demons and even half-demons who have broken the law. Not so bad to end up with a death sentence."
The criminals jeered at the boy. "Hey princess is this a new play thing for us?" One large man said.
"At risk youth. You are not allow to play with him. Just scare him straight. You all had the chance to be a better and you chose wrong." Alison states, "unless you wish meet the gods. I wouldn't mind sending you there?"
"Ahh and he's such a pretty little boy i could have some fun with him." As Dudley moved closer to Alison.
Alison's eyes bled red, "I Said scare him not molest him."
"Of course, your highness." The man laughs and moved away, to be replaced by a weasel like man." Any word from my family your ladyship?"
"Not that I know of, I don't attend Council Meetings." Alison states, "Now, your guards will pick out some of you to share your stories and why you are here. I believe some of you will be challenged enough not harm him once you learn this young pup is disrespectful to his own Mother."
"What disrespectful to your own mum boy don't you know how many of us wish to still have theirs. "
Alison left Dudley in an empty room, with only a chair and a table.
One by one the guards brought various criminals to talk with the boy.
Alison watched and heard from a viewing room, as Dudley was white as her hair. After a hour of listening to various thugs, who got life in prison instead of death. Dudley was force to endure a lunch in jail that wasn't much but a Bologna sandwich without mayo, and various other nutritional foods without flavor.
Several hours later Alison found the boy crying in the corner. "Please let me out of here i don't want to be here anymore.
"Then do as you're told, do not get upset at little things, Life isn't fair, the world does not revolve around you." Alison replies, "Or you will be back here or somewhere else just like this place, and I'm willing to bet, that your mother will not visit you." Alison held out her hand.
He took it shaking as he stood looking not so sure as he was before.
"Don't piss off my father, there is a reason why his name means Destruction of Life." Alison states, as she help up Dudley.
Maria and Petunia were back before Dudley and Alison.
"She's What?!" Maria questioned as she learned that Alison had taken Dudley somewhere.
"She took the brat to teach him a lesson in proper manners."
"But where did she take him!" Maria exclaims
"I don't know where she took him after I threw him in the lake, she just said she was going to show him the error of his ways. "
"You threw..." Maria was at a loss for words, as her mind spiraled back a five centuries ago. She then started laughing.
"Would you prefer my old way of dealing with a brat?"
"That's not why I am laughing, you big great fool. I am laughing because its the same thing, I did to Rin." Maria states
He started to chuckle as well while Petunia had a worried expression on her face.
"Ali wouldn't do anything drastic, unless..." Yasha cut off as he thought of a place where his twin could possibly take a brat to change his ways.
"Where would she take him please tell me?"
"She took him to a prison." Yasha answers
"To a prison, oh my goodness, my son." Petunia turned pale at the thought.
Maria looked out the window, of the family room. As Alison's car came up, which she couldn't drive yet.
Alison and Dudley walked through the door, "Now I'm in for it."
Maria just gave her a stern look.
"What shall it be Mother, Hot oil or the rack? Cause if you don't give me a chance to defend my actions, I will be sleeping with one eye open." Alison states "Your ways weren't working, so I decided to step it up a notch."
After a few seconds, the family of dog demons heard the heartbroken howling of a wolf-demon, Alison gasped in horror as if she was being tormented. She sprinted from the room, intent on getting to the source of the howling.