Chapter 6

He woke with a start, he had been lying underground trying to find her. When she had used her miko powers he had finally been able locate the aura surrounding her. His eyes opened and he stared around the dark dampness that surrounded him. It was the first time he really noticed what bounded him. He had been above ground for a while but decided to go below when he was being distracted too many times. People asking him for ridiculous things, he was getting sick of it. He would have to tell them all off in his search to find her. There was no use just sitting, she could be on the move and he would never find her again. And when he reached her, his mouth twitched into a small smirk, well there was time to think about it later.

"How did you do that?" Harry was at a loss of word for a while and his mouth kept opening and closing like a blowfish, after many trials he was finally able to force the sentence out. (It really didn't sound like that it sounded like "Howdidyoudothat?")

Kagome meekly stared down at her shoes, I have to break that habit, she thought. When Harry said his jumble of words she looked at him in question.

"I mean how did you do that without a wand?" Harry said much slower, he had so many questions for this girl, this mystery girl who showed up out of nowhere and then does a perfect summoning spell yet she had no wand and the objects appeared out of thin air. It was at times like this when Harry wished Hermione was there.

It was Kagome's turn to look like a blow fish as she was trying to comprehend what she just heard. Was this guy serious? He really meant there was such a thing as wands to wave about and you can get whatever you want? Kagome thought the whole thing selfish, using little sticks for their own personal….. She stopped in her silent rant, remembering that Kin had a small stick and he was waving it about.

Harry watched her face turn from a normal calm, to a pink flush to a pale sea green. Deciding not to press her Harry said something about following him and he gently took one of her bags and with his other hand he took hers.

She seemed to wake and looked at their intertwined fingers. She gave a soft smile and looked so fragile that Harry wondered if a strong wind came would she be blown away. After a few minutes of silence Harry wondered why he had offered to take her bag, it was so heavy and he decided a little more magic couldn't hurt since they were both wizards of some sort.

After he pulled out his wand and said a simple spell to levitate her bags, he looked over at her expecting praise. She showed no reaction whatsoever, her body was there in the present walking beside him, and her hand was inside his but her spirit was far away. She looked as if she was floating from thought to thought as a frog hops from pad to pad.

Before long they rounded the bend to find a large house welcoming them. Even Kagome stared out of her daze at the house. When Harry had arrived a few days before he had noticed there were extra rooms added on which made the house look even more lopsided. The house itself was three or four stories high, but when the Weaslys wanted to add on instead of adding the rooms in sensible places like on the ground floor, the rooms were heaped on as if the ground was a pizza and the toppings were just thrown on in random places. Overall the house looked like it was about to fall over, except for the fact there were many spells of different kinds holding the beams in place.

When they neared the house Harry could see the twins rushing towards them. He quickly turned to Kagome and said; "Sorry in advance."

"Harry! Did you like it?" Fred said rushing up to them.

"Yes tell us did it scare you? We tried it on Ginny but she didn't believe it for a second. Said something about never trusting us, wonder where she got that idea." George said with a confused air.

"Oh! Hello! And who are you? I'm Fred by the way, the better looking one." Fred said finally spotting Kagome. Harry spotting George glancing between Kagome and him and then realizing they were still holding hands, Harry dropped Kagome's hand as if it were nothing more than putting down the newspaper.

"This is Kagome, she said she had some business in the area and lost her way." Both Fred and George looked at Harry.

"Oh, well it is lovely to meet you Kaah-gomeee." Said one of the twins when he recovered from his surprise, Kagome bowed to both twins and when she looked back at them she could tell all three were trying to hold in their laughter.

"What?" She looked at all three of them as their eyes twinkled like stars.

"Well, Harry my boy, why did not tell us we had a proper lady in our midst? If you had I would have been on my best of manners." George said throwing himself in to the character of a lord.

"I told you sorry in advance." Harry said as they started walking toward the house with the twins following them asking Kagome if she liked tea and crumpets.

Kagome giggled, this was exactly what she needed right now, two guys who reminded her of Miroku except they didn't seem so lecherous.

When they got into the house, Kagome knew instantly she was at a home away from home. The house seemed to hug her, if that were possible. It said to her she would be accepted whoever she was. The auras were so powerfully pure Kagome felt any demon would have the evil expunged out of them after only a few minutes in this house. It was a mess of things; Kagome didn't even know where to look because everything was screaming for her attention.

She heard a voice calling from somewhere inside the house.

"Harry is that you? Did you find the place alright? Are you …" A woman had walked through the door, Kagome guessed she was either cleaning or cooking, because parts of her hair were sticking to the sweat on her neck and face. Kagome instantly saw her mother gazing back at her through mounds of red curly hair. This woman had the same kind of eyes that Kagome's mother had, emerald green, though this woman's eyes clashed terribly with her hair but they seemed to be the perfect match for her face. Some people had parts of their face that made you wonder which side of the family they got the trait from, but this woman seemed to fit her face beautifully.

"Oh hello, are you one of Fleur's relatives?" She said the name with so much disdain, Kagome was taken aback. How could someone with such a kind face even be harsh with anyone?

"No, I uh got lost in the woods and Harry offered to let me come back here." She gave a half smile and the woman smiled back, but she even though she was able to hide her surprise better than the twins, she still couldn't hide it well enough.

"Why don't you wait here; Harry, can I have a word with you? Ah good Ronald will you stay with Miss..?" She looked back at Kagome who was staring at yet another tall redhead who came down the stairs.

"Sorry, Kagome, my name is Kagome Higurashi." Kagome thought of bowing again but then when she thought of the reaction she had gotten from the other boys she thought better of it.

As the older woman and Harry were walking away, one of the twins said they would follow and the other grabbed the newest redheads hand and waved it back and forth to Kagome.

"Now be nice to Kagome, Ronald she is a lady." He said, Kagome still could not tell if it was Fred or his twin. The twin winked at Kagome and followed his brother into the kitchen.

Ronald threw a half smile at Kagome and asked her the strangest question she had ever heard.

"Ever been degnoming?"