I feel so grown up right now but it's so tiring! =-=!
WARNING: Contains DEATH, Violence, and a bit of…puppy love!
Disclaimer: I do not own HP or INUYASHA!
Previously~
Harry felt the patter of a hand, gently smoothing out his hair. The sound of a beating heart right next to him, Harry began to feel a little calmer and felt as though a thousand problems had been lifted off his chest. Naraku must have sensed that he was getting tired because the man had stopped patting the top of his head and was now sharing a large blanket-like quilt with his son.
In all the years he had spent with his fake family back in London, Harry had never felt so reassured like he was right now, with his real mother. Maybe things wouldn't be so bad having a mother like Naraku. Harry rested his head on the older man's shoulder and went to sleep, forgetting all about his questions.
The ground shook and the small, wooden house trembled with each demon that had barely scraped the shingles of the top of the roof. Sango and Kilala were already killing off a dozen of the Tora demons but the young woman was finding it harder and harder to figure out what their next move might be. Her instincts had only told her to keep them away from the house as much as possible.
Looking over the battle grounds now, she could see that the young half demon, Inuyasha, who had joined in the fight just a while ago, was barely able to make a scratch on their furry faces. The man who had been standing guard was doing all that he could to prevent the demons from attacking Naraku and his child.
A few of the beasts went down with one blow and the man who caused this, Bankotsu, was now standing over their bleeding corpses with his giant blade in his right hand. He grimaced at the sight of how many there were altogether, and as exhausted as he felt, Bankotsu wielded his sword over his shoulder and tried to walk off the extra running and jumping he had done.
Mean while…
Harry Potter, the boy who could not recall his past with his original parents, found out from Naraku that they had to erase the boy's memories before sending him off to another world. That left one question answered but a dozen more in its path. He was still a bit sleepy but remained quiet and still in Naraku's arms, his head gently laid against the man's chest.
Kana-Hoshi was content. The boy was reunited with his original family and his new friends were now battling evil on the outside of their temporary home. Dust from the ceiling fell as often as the ground shook. Feeling a bit curious as to what kind of fuzzy and furry creature was crawling over his hands, Harry looked down and nearly jumped at the sight of a lion's tail sprouting out from his own buttocks!
"What's wrong, my child?" The older male asked as Harry settled down again.
It was like he was back at Hogwarts again; just not being human anymore. A lion's tail and fuzzy, round ears that looked almost half triangle and half of a circle. But not only did he sprout a demon's accessories, his vision began to get blurry but as soon as Harry took his glasses off, his vision was perfect. Was this a sign that his memories were returning?
"Mother, I have ears!" Harry did not know why, but his voice had changed from his regular and low voice to a more high pitched one that sounded like a squeaking noise.
Naraku smiled down at Harry and brushed the back of his head gently. Another feeling pulsed in Harry's chest. Something that was not felt when he was with his adoptive parents, Lily and James. Without thinking, Harry nuzzled up against the man's hand and began to lick his wrist. His tail swished back and forth like a rope being pulled from a puppeteer.
"Yes, you do, Kana-Hoshi; now that I have my boy back, KAGOME!" A woman dressed in a white long sleeved top and red bell-shaped pants, that nearly covered the top of her toes, came out into the hallway.
The girl lowered herself to the floor and bowed her head in respect, closing her eyes as she did so. Her black hair flowed with her movements and covered her face while her hands lay in her lap.
"You called for me, Lord Naraku?" The girl's voice told Harry that she must still be in her teen years.
Harry clung to Naraku like a lost child and could feel the man's heart beating in sync with his own. The girl, Kagome, raised her head and waited patiently for the man to speak. Was his birth mother really that powerful that he could be called a lord? If so, Harry was looking forward to some of the world's outstanding demons.
'I wonder what Inuyasha is doing. Is he really fighting?' Harry thought as he fiddled with the tip of his tail and finally noticed there were claws on his fingers.
"Summon for the demon, Inuyasha. He should be fighting right about now. Be careful." Kagome bowed her head again in respect and left the house as quiet as a mouse.
Harry began wondering what his mother could be thinking on sending the young girl to such a dangerous field. Wouldn't she just get eaten? Forgetting about the girl for now, he had more important questions as to why his parents had decided to erase his memories. He looked up at Naraku, feeling the sleepy sensation he had been feeling for most of the night.
"Mother, why did you erase my memories? Was it because of the Tora demons?" Naraku closed his eyes for a few seconds before reopening them and looked down at his son.
"You were born a few years after Inuyasha and you were just the smallest cub I could hold in the palm of my hand. Your father, Bankotsu risked his human life to save the two of us. Koga, a demon of the wolf tribe, helped us escape and he is also the reason we had to erase your memories. I guess you could say it went something like this…" The man trailed off into memory lane and recalled the very day that Kana-Hoshi was born.
Flash Back~
Shouting and sounds of burning houses could be heard a mile away as a small hut that held five beings; a human who was the son of a leader of the Tora tribe, Bankotsu, Koga, a demon of the wolf tribe, Naraku, a half demon of the Shishi tribe, Kikyo, a human and priestess that had been summoned during the great war with the Tora demons.
And last but not least, a great lord demon who had taken in the couple, Naraku and Bankotsu. The small hut that was provided was not away from the danger but that did not mean they would be in any danger as of yet.
"Everyone should clear the room; I'll need enough space for the delivery." The priestess, Kikyo, set down her bow and arrows in a corner of the room while the three men, who had been standing around Naraku, left the small hut to stand guard.
The priestess knew that a birth in the middle of a war could be a dangerous time but there wasn't much time left as the baby was about to be born any second. She ripped the sleeves of her white and red robe off in order to use it as a blanket.
"Lord Naraku, I'll need you to take a deep breath and push. Keep pushing until I tell you to stop, we're running short of time!" Naraku scowled under his heavy panting.
But seeing as the woman was right, he had no choice but to force the poor baby out. God only knew how much longer the hut would hold still for. Naraku took another deep breath and pushed as hard as he could. Kikyo readied the blanket-like sleeves and caught hold of the baby.
"It's a boy, Lord Naraku." Kikyo spoke as she wrapped the infant in her ripped sleeves and handed the baby to its mother.
Naraku laid his head against the mat that was lying underneath his head and gazed at his newborn son. His body had returned to normal, a certain custom if a Shishi demon wanted to give birth, they'd take on the form of a woman and revert to their natural selves afterward. The boy's ears and tail were plainly visible and stuck out of the wrapped around sleeves.
"My lord, they're coming!" Kikyo ushered Naraku to make a choice. It was either leave the baby to the priestess or to die along with her.
Naraku was in no condition to move much less hold onto his son. She allowed the man to take the time to name his son and went outside to see what the situation was and how much time was left before the entire village was destroyed.
"Kana-Hoshi will be your name." Naraku, still a bit sore on the legs, tried to get up and walk him and his son out of the hut before it could cave in on them.
Koga and Bankotsu were still fighting off the Tora demons with Kikyo, the priestess, helping out every chance she got. The demon lord, who had helped them flee for safety just a few weeks earlier, was now standing guard over the hut.
"Bankotsu is…" Just realizing the man was up and walking about, the demon took a glance at the young infant in Naraku's arms and smiled warmly.
"He is alive. I doubt any beast could take him down. Your son is a half breed like mine, eh?" The man looked up to the full moon in the sky that had been shining all this time.
"Your son is too?" Naraku looked up at the man and saw the man smile for the first time since they had first ran into him.
"Inuyasha, my second born, he's still just a child. Back home with his mother." The man looked like he was about to say something to add to his sentence but stopped himself.
"I decided to name him after my grandparents, Kana-Hoshi, my powerful star." Naraku cuddled with the sleeping child.
"What if…you knew your son would be well off, away from these dangers? Inuyasha could teach him all kinds of things. He's not the best half breed a father would ask for, but he's certainly an interesting one." The man and Naraku looked on in the distance at the village that they were residing in.
"You mean as a mate?" Naraku asked as Koga of the wolf tribe, rushed towards them with Bankotsu at his heels.
"If you agree on it, I can assure you, my wife's home is probably the safest by far." Naraku had to think this through.
The demon who was offering made it sound like the last and only choice he had left. Did he really want his child growing up in this dangerous world of demons and humans, either fighting with each other or along side?
"If Bankotsu agrees on it, I can go now." Naraku said and looked at his mate as the man stopped in front of the two, looking down at the baby that was being held by Naraku.
"He turned out to be a half breed after all. Sorry Bankotsu." The young demon, Koga, apologized to Bankotsu but the other man did not appear to be listening.
Bankotsu looked to be in another world of his own with only him and his family as though the demons in the Tora tribe did not exist. Naraku had to snap him out of his trance. "Bankotsu, this man is asking if we can journey to his mate's home and settle down there for a while. Also…Kana-Hoshi will be his son's mate."
"That should be fine then. Koga, please take care of them." Bankotsu smiled and ran off again like a torpedo, leaving Koga behind to watch over his family.
"We can't afford to waste time, let's go!" The young demon, who had offered his assistance in bringing them to his wife's home, ran ahead of them to clear the path of any dangers.
Koga, being the gentleman that he was, without warning, took Naraku in his arms and ran off after the young man; holding on to both Naraku and the baby. Tora demons struck at them from both sides, demolishing the village as they did. All the commotion surrounding them woke the baby up, causing the infant to cry its eyes out.
The Tora demons, a dark shade of blue in color and massive fur that covered their bodies, made the beasts look a little scarier than they were when being fought against. Their leader, Bankotsu's uncle, had just finished picking up a few houses, crushing them between his large jaws.
Naraku tried to rock the baby back to sleep but the sudden movements caused Kana-Hoshi to cry all the more. The baby's crying got the attention of Bankotsu's uncle and he didn't need to sniff the air to know where they were. He was looking right at them.
Kikyo and Bankotsu had gotten at least 50 of the demons down but there were still more coming. They stopped their mission only to catch their breaths and were about to start up their defenses again until the sound of a crying baby reached their ears.
"Do not stop! We must hold these ones off before we can guide them away from here!" The priestess had taken charge and was blasting out as many arrows as she could.
Bankotsu was stumped as to what to do now. His family was about to be murdered by his own tribe and he was stuck dealing with the ones that were attacking the village. He would have given up his humanity if he were able to see his family again. But the young female was right; he could not afford to stop after coming so far.
The two of them continued to keep the others at bay while some of them went chasing off after Bankotsu's family. Kikyo was wise not to use all her arrows on each individual but instead, made sure that most of the Tora demons were lined up and used that to strike all of them at once.
But this wasn't the end and Bankotsu knew this as soon as he heard his lover's voice bouncing off the cliff walls, echoing to his ears. His lover was calling for him and it sounded desperate.
Feeling no sense to stay in the area any longer, the man fled to be with his family while Kikyo was left to fend off the demons by herself.
Gripping the soil that he had fallen upon, Naraku was a couple of feet away from Kana-Hoshi and was inching his way as fast as his fingers would let him. In his weakened state, Naraku was not sure whether he would be able to transform into a full demon or not and told himself that it was best not to try. So as a last resort, he called out for his mate.
"BANKOTSU!" His voice had echoed through out the area just as Koga, the man who was carrying them, finally got up from the ground, grabbing his head.
An attack from the Tora demons that specialized in fire, who knew the demons, could be this powerful? The demon, who had been leading them, helped Naraku to his feet while Koga quickly grabbed hold of the baby.
The Tora demon that had shot the fire ball at them was now calling for the others to their location. The last thing Koga saw before all went black was the look on Naraku's face of horror as both Koga and the baby were blasted by another fireball.
The young demon who had been showing the way to his home had acted as a shield to prevent the fireball from hitting Naraku.
"Koga!" Bankotsu had finally caught up with them but a minute too late as Koga fell to his knees, with the baby still firmly in his arms.
The demon's eyes went blank and he collapsed, the baby had stopped crying. Bankotsu and Naraku were both too shocked to move another inch towards the bodies. In a range of anger, Bankotsu managed to chase his tribe away with his mighty sword, dealing damage to the soil along with the Tora demons.
But the only one who was not shocked about this event was the young demon who had been kind to them all through out the war. The man pulled out one of his swords and walked toward the dead infant in Koga's arms.
"Stop, don't, he might be alive!" Naraku pleaded with the man but Bankotsu knew what the sword was and smiled reassuringly at his mate.
"He will be, my sweet." The grounds stopped shaking and Naraku was able to stand again but with the help of Bankotsu.
The demon with the sword, swung away at something in the air, just inches away from the infant's face. He muttered something and both Bankotsu and Naraku were amazed to see their baby boy alive and this time in a laughing mood. Naraku ran to the infant and held the boy in his arms, feeling his heart beating once more.
"Thank you." Naraku said and watched as he did the same thing with Koga as he did Kana-Hoshi.
Seeing as the war was now finally over for the time being, Naraku, Koga, the demon lord, and Bankotsu, all traveled to the home of the young demon's wife.
"You've returned already?" A young woman with long, black hair and wearing a long, red kimono came walking out of the house with a small boy clinging to her leg and another boy who walked behind her.
The young demon that the woman was talking to, pointed to both his children. "This is my eldest son, Sesshomaru, and my second son, Inuyasha. I hope our boys will get along well." Naraku nodded and received warm welcomes from the wife who blushed at the sight of the baby that he held in his arms.
"Inuyasha, come on over here!" The father of the two children smiled as the said boy rushed over to his father's side.
"What is it?" The young boy asked, his floppy, white ears, flattening against his skull.
Pointing to the baby in Naraku's arms, his father said, "This child will be looked after by you, can I trust you to watch over him, Inuyasha? He will be your mate for life." As if it were a staged meeting, Naraku crouched so that the young boy could see the baby up close.
Fast asleep and almost hidden beneath the wrapped sleeves, the infant's ears and tail twitched upon Naraku's sudden movement. Curious as to what was looking at him, Kana-Hoshi looked back at Inuyasha with wide awake eyes that would have gotten any girl's attention.
"Father, what's a mate?" Inuyasha's father smiled and ruffled the top of his head.
"You'll see when you grow up, son. His name is Kana-Hoshi. Remember it, Inuyasha." The said boy looked closer at the infant and smiled as he put his hand to the baby's forehead.
"Kana-Hoshi, I'll protect you, no matter what!" Naraku, Inuyasha's father and mother all laughed at this and returned to the situation at hand.
"Now, Inuyasha, you'll have to say goodbye to your mate for the time being." The young boy looked up at his father with a questionable face.
But he had just met the young baby, why were they intending to send him off so soon? Young Inuyasha didn't know where they planned on taking his would-be bride but he shook his head furiously.
"You can't! Kana-Hoshi can stay with us, can't he father?" When the eldest son heard this comment, Sesshomaru went inside without a word to anyone.
"You know how Sesshomaru is, Inuyasha. He's…a bit different from you and your mother. Besides, it's not going to be that long." Naraku's face saddened at the word 'long' and he began to wonder just why he and Bankotsu had decided to let the priestess, Kikyo, take the baby away from his rightful place.
"Lord Naraku, lord Bankotsu, the child is safe, I presume?" Naraku and Bankotsu nodded and handed over the infant.
Kikyo examined the baby and could tell right off the bat that the child had previously died and had come back to life. But as it was still a newborn child, the baby did not posses enough power to stay alive for long, so Kikyo had a small plan. Sort of like a ritual.
"I will proceed to erase this boy's memories. Even a baby this small has the will to remember such events. If we don't erase them, they will likely eat up what is left of his strength and he will die before the night is done." This puzzled everyone listening.
But mostly Inuyasha's father, who could only stand helpless as the priestess began the small ritual. Naraku and Bankotsu held their son in their arms before letting Kikyo touch the boy's head with her glowing hands. Was this the power of a mighty priestess?
A glowing light surrounded the infant and as soon as the baby had awakened, he fell asleep again, his tail and ears disappearing along with what little memories he had. Quiet and in the arms of Kikyo once again, Naraku and Bankotsu agreed for the woman to take the child with her to another world.
'Kana-Hoshi, goodbye!' Was all that the small boy, Inuyasha could think of when he saw the infant and the woman carrying it, disappear in the shroud of mist that had covered the ground from all the damaged houses.
End Flash back~
"That was the last time I saw you or that woman, Kikyo. Her younger sister, Kaede, had informed all of us that she passed away while rescuing a baby from the jaws of a Tora demon. But seeing you alive and well…I am grateful for what she's done." Without realizing it, Kana-Hoshi had fallen asleep to the story.
If memory served, the boy was not one to stay awake for boring events. Naraku laughed to himself and let out a tear of joy stream down the side of his face as he held his son closer.
A/n: Just so you guys know, Koga is still alive; I just made him a bit quiet in this fic. As I have said, Koga is not a bad person! Sorry if I made this so long! Next time, we'll get to see how Sesshomaru deals with his younger brother's mate. Will they get along? RXR for another fun time!