A/N YES! I AM ALIVE!

Sorry I haven't updated…hehheh…

I planned to write and post this chapter before I went on vacation, but, I didn't…so your getting it now ENJOY!

Dedication: Hmm…I'd have to say Emily, my bestest friend. Mainly because she's an amazing friend as well as having helped me A LOT in writing romance for past fan fictions. All I have to say to her is: YAY FOR SPONTANEOUS SLEEPOVERS!

Now that THAT'S over with…

Disclaimer: Nope: don't own. Not. At. All.

IMPORTANT: This takes place a month and a week into the school year! (meaning it's around October 10th)

Chapter 6: Mother and Son

Kagome sighed, following her friends to Defense Against the Dark Arts. The morning had been uneventful, except of course for another threatening wake up by Hermione; it seemed the girl had turn into her new alarm clock in the past month. Once everyone was up they'd headed to breakfast, where the boys ate like pigs once again. This then lead them to where they were: heading to Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Kagome was rather glad since she'd been feeling a weird connection from the teacher ever since the year started. She let out another sigh, which caused for Harry to look back at her, "What's wrong, Kagome?"

"Nothing," She shook her head, "Just lost in thought," The two let out a chuckle, and walked through the door to the classroom.

Harry walked over to Ron, whom he took a seat with, leaving Kagome to look around the room. Her eyes fell upon Hermione, and with a smile, she walked to her friend's table just as their teacher walked through the door.

The teacher for the new school year stood at about six foot, with bright teal eyes, along with long bright auburn hair, "Hello class, I'd like to start off by saying I hope we achieve much this year," he flashed a wide smile, full of youth, as he spoke the line he spoke every morning. It seemed to be his catch phrase, or something he at least found amusing.

Kagome smiled back, although quite surprised with herself; for the past month she felt as if she and the teacher shared a special 'bond'.

All the other students in the Slytherin/Gryffindor combined class nodded back. "Today we're going to be doing some book work…" at this many students let out a grown, causing their teacher to chuckle, "Yes, yes, I know how annoying it is, but it must be done!"

The students still protested letting out small cries of "C'mon Professor S.!" and "That's so unfair!"

"Hush," He let out in a demanding voice, "you may not enjoy the class work but it must be done! If anyone else protests still, 5 points will be taken away!"

The students nodded quickly, hurrying to pull out their books, parchment, quills, and ink. As the Professor surveyed the room while they got prepared, his eyes lingered on Kagome for a few seconds.

Kagome shook her head, thinking she just misunderstood the look, then hurried to tune back into the teacher's lesson, "…and do the review." Kagome gave out a frustrated sigh; she missed what chapter they were supposed to do! Quickly, she turned to Hermione, "Hey Hermione, which page again?"

Hermione gave her friend a glare silently meaning 'GET TO WORK!' but hastily answered, "190," Kagome nodded thankfully and opened up her textbook so as to begin.

Silently, unbeknownst to his students, Professor S. let out a chuckle towards how the miko was acting…

"Hey, I'm gonna go see if Severus has a class now, I need to talk to him," Hermione just shook her head, still not knowing the two's connection, even after being together for the past month. Although she cared, the boys didn't. They were just glad to not have a crude Snape anymore. Kagome laughed, and walked towards her Uncle's classroom for her free period.

'I really do hope he doesn't have a class…I think he should know about my past adventures since I've kept it from him for so long,' Kagome thought as she walked down the corridor, heading to the dungeons. As she walked closer to the classroom, the only voice that was heard was Severus' mutterings, though they were very low.

Kagome smiled, glad he wasn't in the middle of teaching, and knocked on the door. She pushed it open slightly, so as to peak in, and saw the sight of a rather curious Snape starring back at her.

"Hey!" she greeted and let herself in, "I thought we should talk…"

Severus nodded, and walked away from his desk and sat down in one of the seats, across from where Kagome also grabbed a seat, "What about?"

"About what I've been doing in these past few years…why I didn't come here sooner…all that stuff," Kagome smiled.

Severus smiled a soft smile back and let out a small laugh, "Finally, I thought you'd never tell me,"

His niece nodded, and began her tale of how on her fifteenth birthday a demon had attacked her. She told of Inuyasha, then the Thunder Brothers, which was followed by having the orphaned Shippou travel with the two. She told of Miroku, although he glared intensely when he learned he had 'harassed' his precious niece, and Sango. She also told of Kikyou, Onigumo, and Naraku along with all the enemies the group had encountered in the one year alone.

As Kagome told about what she'd done in the past year, she couldn't help but feel she was reliving every single memory, it flashing through her mind as if it were a movie of its very own. At times she'd glare intensely, hands glowing a soft pink for a few seconds, then she'd become incredible sad, were Severus made sure to be very comforting.

Kagome showed a wide range of emotions, leaving her surprised that her Uncle hadn't made her stop talking, being unable to stand the emotional attacks his niece was having.

A few minutes before she'd have to leave for Charms, the story had ended. Kagome took a deep breath, and starred at Severus, "and that's what I've been doing…"

Severus pulled his late baby-brother's daughter into his arms, "I'm glad you told me, despite the emotional pain it caused you…" Kagome just laughed sadly as she hugged the man back. As they pulled apart, Kagome wiped her tears slightly, knowing that if she didn't try and stop them soon, she'd be crying a river.

"I hope we can talk some more, but for now you have charms to attend to," Snape spoke, ushering his niece out of the classroom, "Wouldn't want Flitwick to come shooting charms at me…who knows WHAT they'd do…" Snape let out a rather uncharacteristic shudder, though it caused Kagome to laugh. She embraced her Uncle once more, and walked out of the room down to the next class' classroom.

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"So, Charms was fun," Hermione commented as the four walked through the Great Hall's doors, walking towards the Gryffindor table. Kagome nodded a full smile on her face. During charms, her enthusiasm and joy had returned, diminishing any depressing thoughts she had from her chat with Severus.

"Especially when that one spell backfired on Draco!" Kagome exclaimed, leading both girls to let out a loud giggle. It seemed just about all of their classes were combined with Slytherins; more importantly, Draco.

Said Slytherin had tried to 'show off' in Charms, and instead of following Professor Flitwick's specific instructions, ended up making the spell backfire, leaving him wearing a hot pink tutu and a cherry blossom pink leotard, and his hair in two small ponytails with matching pink pom-pom holders. The spell being taught was one that was supposed to 'distract, yet humiliate' the enemy. Well…humiliate was for sure.

The two witches laughed some more, taking their seats across from Harry and Ron. Hermione spoke something to Harry, causing Ron to enter their conversation leaving him and Hermione arguing and Harry trying to stop the two. Kagome would have helped Harry, but she'd zoned out.

Her gaze drifted towards the Staff table. Her eyes fell on Hagrid and smiled, looking down the row once again, past teacher's she didn't have. As her gaze flew across the table, Severus caught her eyes and smiled softly and nodded, as she did in reply.

Once again she began her look, and soon found her eyes connected with Professor S., who she'd noticed had been starring at her quite often. Soon as their eyes met, Kagome gasped as he just smiled in a half smirk type of playful way.

Quickly looking away, Kagome's gaze fell on her plate. She couldn't believe it…the Professor…how…?

Ron saw Kagome's look and questioned her about what was wrong. When no answer came, Hermione softly pulled on her arm, "Kagome?"

Kagome looked up, coming out her daze, yet still very much confused. "What's wrong?" Ron questioned. Kagome just shook her head, "I'll tell you later, I myself don't quite comprehend it," Harry nodded in understanding, he knew how that felt.

Minutes later, the three were back to their arguing and Kagome quietly eating her lunch. They understand her want to be alone so as to think through her thoughts, and left her to it. Once lunch was over, Kagome excused herself from her friends, and walked down to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, where Professor S. had headed when finished his own meal.

With a sigh, she quietly knocked on the door. Less than a millisecond later, though, the teacher pulled the open and grasped Kagome in a hug, "Kagome!"

Kagome quickly pushed him away, but soon regretted it when she saw his sad face. "I'm sorry, but, I'm still confused. Care to explain?" Professor S. nodded.

"As you know from that little connection, I'm Shippou," Kagome nodded smiling slightly, "but you want to know how I got here, right?"

Kagome nodded, and he continued, "Well, I lived through the five-hundred year difference, growing up with the hope to be a teacher since I wanted to make it more fun ever since I saw how distressed you got over it…" The young miko let out a laugh, finally understanding why he winked at her in class on the first day. He had been explaining the rules, and when he brought up homework and how distressing it was, he'd winked at Kagome.

"Anyway, I followed that dream, ended up going to a muggle school to learn, but after teaching for a bit, I came across Professor Dumbledore. He said he knew about my demon powers, which I'd learned to disguise with an illusion spell, and told me about the Wizarding World. He also mentioned how they needed a teacher, and I gladly obliged. I didn't know you'd be attending this year, but, I suppose that was just an added bonus," Shippou let out a laugh, full of heart.

"But how did we have that connection…?" Kagome questioned.

"Ahh, something I learned in my years of life. It seems us kitsune have the ability to connect our minds to others if we lock eyes together. Of course, it takes a lot of energy, but, I supposed this was a good enough reason to use it," Kagome nodded in understanding, and then proceeded to jump up and hold Shippou tight.

"I've missed you so much, Shippou," Kagome exclaimed, then realization dawned on her, "Wait—why didn't you tell me before?"

Shippou let out a laugh, "I couldn't really find a way to get you to come and see me. I knew that if I did try, one of your friends would come too, which we both know would be a bad thing. So I then decided to use the mind connection, but, you wouldn't look into my eyes! Sure, you noticed I starred at you, and you'd glance my way, but never a full one-on-one look in the eye happened 'til today," he let out an exasperated sigh, "you know how HARD it is to get your attention?"

Kagome let out a sheepish grin and laugh, "Yeah…sorry about that,"

Shippou laughed once again, "It's nothing to worry about! Besides, YOU shouldn't be apologizing to me! I'm your son, remember?" Kagome nodded, "How could I forget,"

Shippou glared playfully, "You wouldn't be able to, I'd just come and make you remember," he picked her up in a hug and twirled her around, "I've missed you, mama,"

Kagome grasped onto her son, laughing, but finally responded to him once he put her down, "I've missed you, too,"

He let out another laugh, something she came to realize that he liked to do a lot even as an adult, "It's only been two months for you, but it's been five-hundred years for ME!" Kagome grinned at her son's response and embraced him into a hug, "Doesn't matter, I'll always miss you when we're apart,"

Shippou smiled, and wished that the two could always be like this.

Well, his wish came true…only for one period but, they were still together. Once their hug ended, Shippou had pulled Kagome along and brought her outside towards the lake. They spotted a tree where no one was standing by and raced each other to get to it. Of course, Shippou won, even without his demon speed. Kagome laughed as he did his own little victory dance, a humorous sight in all honesty.

Shippou sat down under a tree, and Kagome plopped down next to him. They were still slightly laughing, as they did this. "Oh, how I've missed having fun with you, Mama," Shippou softly spoke, still laughing.

Kagome nodded, but then suddenly stood up, "C'mon! I haven't seen you in two months, and you haven't seen me in five-hundred years, it's time to have some fun!" Shippou just smiled and stood up, but was taken by surprised when Kagome lightly tapped him and yelled out "TAG!" whilst running away.

The Professor just glared teasingly, and chased after her. They'd begun to run uphill, and although Kagome was soon running out of energy, Shippou was still going fast. "GOTCH'YA!" He shouted, and tackled Kagome to the ground. He'd grabbed her by her sides, one of her most ticklish spots.

"Ah! Shippou! That tickles!" Kagome exclaimed as she rolled away from her son. Shippou just laughed along with her, and pulled away. They both lay down on the hill, starring at the passing clouds. "Ahh, I miss doing this," Kagome breathed out.

Shippou nodded and smiled, "As have I," Kagome laughed again. She always knew Shippou could make any dull situation eventful, and so was glad to have her son at school with her.

The two wished silently that they could lie in the moment forever, but when Kagome caught a glimpse at her watch, she lat out a gasp, "Crap! I've got to get to Herbology!"

Shippou chuckled at the exclamation, "The green house is just over there," He pointed across the vast green terrain. Kagome sweat dropped, "All the way over THERE?!" she exclaimed.

Shippou nodded, smirking. "Of course, with my demon speed, I could always carry you over…" He trailed off, knowing what her response would be.

Kagome jumped up, and pounced on top of her son, "THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!" This caused for him to gasp slightly for air.

"Get off of me mom! If you keep pouncing on me like that, you won't ever have grandchildren!" Kagome pouted but nevertheless, got up. Shippou also stood, and let her get on his back like she once did with Inuyasha.

In seconds they were a couple feet away from the green houses, and Kagome stood on the ground, "Who knew I'd miss that so much," She pondered. Shippou chuckled and turned to his mother.

"I've got to go, I have classes starting soon, and your other classmates are quickly arriving," Kagome nodded and hugged him, "Now you be nice to the other kids,"

Shippou chuckled at her motherly tone, and hugged back. "Sure, sure" and with a slight peck on the lips, he was off. Kagome chuckled as she walked to the green house. Just as she was there, Hermione, Ron, and Harry also showed up.

She waited a few moments for them to catch up, and smiled, "So, how was your free period?"

Hermione glared at the two boys, "They would not stop bickering!" Kagome laughed, and the two guys blushed slightly. What could they do? They'd been arguing about Quidditch, after all.

The four headed into the makeshift classroom a moment later, and took their places at different stations, waiting for class to begin.

A/N AHHHHHHHHHHH! THIS IS SUCH A SHORT CHAPTER!! I began this on vacation, and look what happened?! It's almost OCTOBER! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I'M SO SORRY!!

…I blame TV, fanfiction, and internet.

Lol

I don't know much about Herbology, so I didn't include that class, nor did I feel the need to include dinner. I think I'll tie that into next chapter, cause I don't wanna leave a cliffhanger (Yes, something major IS going to happen)

As many of you know, I love to write humor. This story hasn't had much of it, so I'm glad that I was finally able to write some in THIS chapter.

The chapters keep on getting smaller, but trust me. They WILL get longer as the original plot comes into play a lot more.

Anyways, on a good note. I LOVED the way that Shippou and Kagome 'met' in this version, rather than the old. And their interaction, before Herbology. It…fits them, or so I believe.

I hope you'll all forgive me! It's thanks to the movie Accepted that I continued to work on this chapter today, cause when they have the concert? AY OH, LET'S GO! Reminded me of the original version of this and im like "CRAP! NOW I WANNA UPDATE AND WRITE ALL THE WAY TO THAT POINT!" So just beware. I'm gonna try and write more soon..

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT!!

Chapters 4 and 5 have been edited, and Transfiguration Class's class schedule for the year has been CHANGED! Just read over that some, and I believe that'll fit the story MUCH more.

I WANT AT LEAST 13 REVIEWS FOR THIS CHAPTER! 17 and more of you have me on your alerts, so, REVIEW!

1: There was a lot of time breaks, sorry about it. I just think it had to be done with the chapter. SORRY!

TOTAL WORD COUNT EXCLUDING AUTHOR NOTES: 2,675 words

SORRY FOR THE DECREASE IN NUMBER!