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'...' thoughts.
"..."talking.
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Why me?
Chapter 6
Hearing three voices yell in sync had Harry jumping up and he ran into the living room "What's wrong?" he asked as he got into the room to see his so-called family scrambling to the other side of the room in panic.
There was a scraping noise coming from the boarded up fireplace.
"What is it?" Petunia gasped out in fright, back into a corner.
Vernon patted her arm to calm her and glared at the fireplace.
Dudley gulped and tried to hide behind his father.
"Ouch!" came the voice that Harry recognised as Arthur Weasley, his eyebrows shot up behind his hair line.
"Fred! No, go back...go back! There's been some sort of mistake" he sounded perplexed.
"Go and tell George not to -Oww! George there's no room, go back and tell Ron befo-"
There was a yelp and a hushing noise.
"Fred be careful with Kagome, okay we need to-"
"Maybe someone will be able to hear us?"
There was some more banging and scraping.
The Dursley's and Harry stared at the fireplace in shock.
"What is the meaning of this? What's going on?" Vernon growled out, glaring at Harry.
"They've travelled by floo powder, it's where you can travel by fire but the fireplace in blocked..." Harry tried in vain to hold in his snickers, finding the whole thing hilarious, though he was curious as to who this Kagome was.
Approaching the boarded fireplace he knocked on the boards "Mr Weasley? Can you hear me?"
The banging stopped and everything went silent.
"It's Harry, the fireplace has been blocked up...you won't be able to get through..."
After a short bout of silence "Damn!" rang out from Arthur "Why on earth did they block it up for?"
They have a electric fire" Harry explained amused.
"Really?" he asked in awe " I have to see that...now let's see...Ah! Ron!"
"Huh, what's going on? Has something gone wrong" came Ron's confused voice.
"Oh, no" Came Fred's voice "We want to be here, this is where we wanted to end up" he said sarcastically.
His brother pitched in "Yeah, having the time of our loves here!" whose voice sounded muffled as if he was squashed against someone or a wall.
There was some growling which confused Harry it sounded like an animal. "Shh it's okay we'll get out of here soon" cooed Fred.
"Boys...I'm trying to think, hmm, what to do...oh I know! Harry stand back!"
Harry moved back and away from the fireplace, while his Uncle moved forward.
"What are they going to d-?"
BANG.
The electric fire and the boards shot across the room, startling everyone and expelling the Weasley family.
The Dursley's gaped as the dust and rubble revealed the red headed, freckled family and some animal.
"That's much better!" Arthur said as he brushed off the dust from his green robes, seeing the Durley's he walked up to them his hand out stretched to Vernon in greeting "Ah, you must be Harry's Uncle, Aunt and Cousin" Vernon back away with Petunia in his arms, angry yet scared.
His best suit was ruined!
"Er... sorry about that" he said as he gestured to the mess as he kicked a piece of board "My fault, it didn't occur to me that we wouldn't be able to get out the other end. I have a fireplace connected to the Floo network you see, just for now, you know? So we could get Harry. It's not meant to be connected to a Muggle's fireplace, but a contact of mine fixed it up for me".
He gave a smile to the Dursley's "Don't worry I'll light a fire and send my boys back then fix it up before I leave" he said with a pleasant smile rubbing the back of his balding head.
Dudley left to go to the kitchen nervous around the Wizard, clutching his rear the whole wayas he shivered in fear.
Harry and Ron shared a look trying not to laugh at Vernon and Petunia, while Arthur was confused and somewhat worried about the boys odd behaviour.
Giving a shrug he turned to Harry "Hello Harry, got everything ready?" he asked brightly.
"Yeah, my trunks upstairs"
"We'll get it" Fred and George said with a grin. Fred handed Kagome over to Ron who perched herself on Ron's shoulder, and followed George upstairs.
Harry stared at the fox perplexed with wide eyes, the fox seemingly to sense his look, stared right back at him with azure blue orbs.
He felt something jolt through him as looked deep within the creatures eyes, like electricity, but it was warm. The warmth jolted to his scar and it began to warm up, he brushed his hand over his scar, cringing, expecting the pain that usually followed when his scar would warm up, only to feel the warmth slowly disappear as a wave of calm came over him.
Kagome felt her eyes widen at the boy that she presumed was Harry, he had an odd power surrounding him, it centered, oddly, at his forehead, she let her aura mingle with his to determine what the power was.
She felt a very dark, sinister power from his forehead, she tilted her head and noticed a slight scar from under his messy bangs, where the dark power came from.
She felt around with her powers, it was deeply infused and seemed to be a connection to the being that placed it there. It was strong...but she could get rid of it, but it would take a lot of concentration and it was not something she could do at the moment, being a fox and all, plus she hadn't worked with her powers for quite a while, she would need to develop them further.
She stared back into his blue-grey orbs, hoping to find and answer as to why he had the mark, only to see him somewhat cringing her eyes widened fractionally 'Was she hurting him?' she withdrew her probing powers and sent a wave of calm to him, hoping to make up for whatever she caused.
He gazed back into the foxes eyes, seeing her gaze leave his forward and look into his eyes once again, tilting her head at him.
Ron seeing Harry's look mouthed to him 'I'll tell you later'. Harry nodded giving one last look to the fox, what happened? H e furrowed his brow and traced his scar with his index finger, relieved that it didn't hurt.
A bout of silence fell upon the room, Arthur rocked somewhat nervously on his feet and tried to break the silence. "Nice place you've got here"
Silence.
He coughed into his hand and looked around in unveiled curiosity, he really did love everything to do with Muggles.
He eyed the TV and VCR, wanting to examine the objects. "They run off eckeltricity, do they?" Harry felt laughter rise inside him once again at the way he said the word.
"I can see the plugs" he nodded "I collect plugs. Batteries too, I have a large collection of them, the Wife thinks I'm mad, but you know" he finished with a shrug of his shoulders.
Vernon's face just reddened further and didn't make a sound.
Harry watched, amused as Dudley's skulked back into the room after having disappeared into the kitchen, probably due to the sounds of his trunk coming down the stairs. Inching his way along the wall to try and conceal himself behind his father.
Fred and George came back into the room with Harry's trunk and spotted the terrified Dudley. Grins stretched across their faces.
"Alright , let's get going then" Arthur stated with a nod of his head. Pushing up the long green sleeves of his robe, he took out his wand.
Harry watched carefully as the Dursley's backed away as far as they could, he gave a small smile of amusement, before looking back over to the Weasley family, looking at the new addition once again with slightly narrowed eyes, he knew that the fox did something, how did it know about his scar?
All these thoughts swirled around in his head, suspicion settled in his mind, what if it was working for Voldemort or something? He would have to get his answers later. He couldn't take any chances.
"Incendio!" Flames erupted from the fireplace, crackling merrily. Arthur took a small pouch from his robed and opened the small bag and took and pinch of powder and threw it into the flames.
Kagome gave a silent gasp, was she right? Were they witches? She pondered on her thoughts, well she never had believed her Grandfathers stories of youkai or any of those strange happenings, heck she didn't even believe that was a Miko, when her Grandfather said Holy power ran through the family. So why couldn't Witches be real? She shook her furry head in amazement, where had the Shikon taken her now?
The flames roared higher and turned a lively emerald green. Kagome looked at the flames with an odd fondness, they reminded her of her Kits eyes as well as the twins who, now that she looked at them from Ron's shoulder, seemed to be conspiring something.
"Alright, off you go then Fred" Arthur said as he gestured to the roaring flames. Fred nodded his head "Coming!" he let go of the trunk and moved towards the fireplace "Oh no...hang on...". A bag of sweets feel out of his pocket, the large toffees in brightly covered wrapping scattered everywhere, Fred bent down to frantically pick them all up.
Kagome narrowed her eyes at the boy and rolled her eyes with a smirk, this was going to be interesting.
He crammed them back into his pocket and stood, brushing off imaginary dust from his pants and gave a cheery wave to the Dursley's and strolled to the fireplace, he gave Kagome a wink and in a clear cherry voice gave the fireplace his destination "The Burrow" and was gone in a whooshing sound of the roaring fire.
"Right then, your turn George, you and the trunk" He nodded and made his way to the fireplace with the trunk, he gave Kagome a questioning look, she tilted her head at him, with a small shrug "The Burrow" he too vanished.
"Ron, you next"
Ron bobbed his head and turned to the Dursley's "See you!" and gave a grin to Harry, he felt a wait lift from his shoulders and watched as Kagome leapt to his father's shoulder and perched herself on their, he gave her a look of confusion before shrugging and shouted "The Burrow" and vanished in a flurry of green flames.
Arthur look in surprise at the fox, but just smiled, glad she was warming up to him, they were all a family now.
Harry directed his gaze from the Mr Weasley and the black fox, to the Dursley's "Well...bye then" he said with a small awkward wave.
They didn't talk or reply, just as he expected, he was used to it, with that he moved towards the fire, just as he reached it, Mr Weasley put his arm out and held Harry's elbow. Harry looked at the older man in confusion, who was looking the Dursley's in anger and amazement.
"Harry said goodbye to you, didn't you hear him?" Knowing they did, he furrowed his brows.
Harry shrugged "I t doesn't matter, I honestly don't care"
Kagome looked down at the mysterious boy, noticing his lie, she could feel the pain he held though his aura.
Arthur kept his hand gripping Harry's elbow "You won't be seeing your Nephew until next Summer, surely you're going to say good bye?" he asked with indignation, angered at how little these Muggle's cared for their own.
Vernon went red in face at being taught consideration by a man who blew up his fireplace, made and mess of his living room and ruined his best suit!
He bit back his rude retort as he eyed the wand in the Wizards hands warily "Goodbye then" he said resentfully.
Kagome growled at the Dursley's, making them cower slightly and Harry look up at her in shock.
Harry shook his head , "See you" and with that Harry, took his attention from the Dursley's and fox and went to the fireplace and felt the warmth from the flames, all of a sudden her heard someone gagging and whirled around to see Dudley now kneeling beside the table, rather than hiding behind his Aunt and Uncle, choking.
On a foot-long purple slimy thing.
Which happened to be his tongue.
Kagome looked at the large boy with wide eyes in disbelief 'What? Is that his...tongue? Really?'
Kagome tilted her head in utter confusion, then spotted the brightly coloured wrapper that lay empty on the ground and snickered.
So that's what they were planning, she took another look at the choking boy and gave started laughing, not able to hold it in anymore, which came out as raspy sounding barks and growls.
Harry covered his mouth to keep from laughing as his Aunt flung herself to the ground next to her choking Dudleykins and proceeded to try and pull the long purple thing out of his mouth, which made him start to choke and sputter more.
His Uncle was waving his arms about as he circled the two on the ground. Arthur coughed and tried to speak up over the shouting .
"Not to worry! I can fix it" he said as he advanced, his wand pointed at Dudley, Petunia seeing this screeched and tried to shield her son, making Kagome wince and lower her ears to head at the high pitched sound.
"No, really, I can help" He took a few more steps closer "It's simple, it was the toffee you see, my son Fred, real practical Joker, but it's only an engorgement charm, atleast I think it is, I can fix it!"
Rather the reassured and calming down the Dursley's went into the flurry of panic, Petunia was sobbing and holding her son to her chest and continuing to try and tug the thing out of his mouth. Dudley looked to be suffocating from his tongue and his mother incessant tugs to pull it out.
Vernon who was not lost in anger, grabbed a China figure and threw it at the Wizard, who ducked just in time, Kagome bristled in anger, having nearly been hit herself, but she wouldn't let someone hurt the family that took her in.
Kagome growled low in her throat, her eyes pinned to the large angry man, who was now grabbing another ornament to throw.
"Harry, go! I'll sort this out"
While not wanting to miss the fun, the ornament just whizzed past his ear, which gave him incentive to leave, he stepped into the fireplace "The Burrow!" with that the last thing he saw was Mr Weasley, holding his wand out to Vernon and the fox on his shoulder growling with its hackles raised as it leapt from his shoulder to his Uncle, when he grabbed a third object, before he spun really fast and found himself in the Weasley's kitchen.
Fred, George and Ron were there to greet him.
"Did he eat it?' asked Fred with an eager grin on his face, giving his hand to Harry to pull him out of the fireplace.
"Yeah" Harry said as he took the hand and got out of the fireplace "What was it? "
"Ton Tongue Toffee, George and I invented them, we've been looking for someone to test them on..." Fred said brightly.
George looked at Harry, getting his attention "Harry, where's Kagome?"
Harry quirked a brow in confusion 'Kagome? Isn't that an Asian name? I didn't see...' His eyes widened when he realised he must be talking about the fox.
"The fox? Well your father and the fox were stopping Vernon fro-"
He was cut off at the sound of a pop and Mr Weasley appeared out of thin air, by Georges side, with Kagome on his shoulder, blood dripping out of her maul.
"Kagome!" came the two voices as they rushed to their father and Fred plucked her from her spot on Arthurs shoulder and into his arms. He held her out for him and George to inspect her, she looked at them with wide eyes, unsure with what was happening and why they seemed to reek of anxiousness.
Arthur smiled at them calmly "She's fine, that's not her blood, she saved me from getting an ornament thrown at my head, she bit Vernon's hand" He went over and gave her a scratch behind the ear "Thanks girl!"
Kagome wagged her tail at the feeling of her ear being scratched 'Damn it, why does it have to feel so good?'
The twins both gave a sigh of relief and Fred hugged her to his chest, she gave a purr that rumbled easily through her chest as she felt them relax.
Harry was wide-eyed at the scene while Arthur was smiling, that is until he remembered the incident, he turned to his son.
"Fred that wasn't funny! What did you give that Muggle boy?"
"I didn't give him anything" he said with an innocent shrug of the shoulders "I just dropped it...it was his fault that he went and ate it, I never told him to." he said with an evil grin.
"You dropped it on purpose!" He yelled "You knew he-"
"How big did his tongue get?" George asked eagerly with excited eyes.
Arthur scowled "It was 4 foot long by the time they would let me shrink it!"
Every occupant in the kitchen roared with laughter.
"It isn't funny!" he shouted in irritation, why was no one taking him seriously, Kagome who sensed his brewing annoyance, nosed his hand that was next to her, he gave a look of surprise before giving her a small smile, trying to calm somewhat.
He gave his twin sons a look "I spend half my life campaigning against the mistreatment of Muggle's and my own Sons-"
"We didn't give it to him because his a Muggle!" Fred said indignantly
"-We gave it to him because he's a bullying git" George continued with a nod of his head "Isn't that right Harry?"
"Yeah he is, Mr Weasley" Harry confirmed thinking back to all the times his cousin and friends would bullying him at the Muggle school in the past and the constant teasing and bullying at home with his Uncle and Aunt.
"That's not the point! You wait until I tell your mother-!"
"Tell me what exactly?" came a voice from behind the group.
Everyone turned to see Mrs Weasley, her eyes narrowed in suspicioun.
"Oh hello, Harry dear" she said when she saw him and gave him a warm and welcoming smile, before turning to her Husband once again "Tell me what Arthur?"
Arthur gave a gulp at the look in Molly's eyes, he hadn't planned to actually tell her what had happened, he was just trying to scare his sons a little.
As he tried to work out what to say in reply to his wife, Hermione and Ginny came into the room, Harry gave them a bright smile in which Hermione returned and Ginny blushed a deep red.
"Well?" Molly asked, impatient.
"It was nothing Molly, I've had a talk to Fred and George now." He explained.
Molly opened her mouth to retort, which had Ron, Harry, Hermione and Ginny edging out of the kitchen.
"Wha-" Molly was cut off from her angry questioning when Kagome leapt out of Fred's arm and onto the older woman's shoulder nudging her face and purring.
Everyone was shocked at the act, even the Weasley Twins.
Molly shook off her shock and gave a small chuckle and brang Kagome into the cradle of her arms and gently stoked her fur.
"Why hello there, Kagome, are you hungry? Let's go and get you something to eat, hmm?" With that Molly turned away from everyone and went to the fridge with Kagome in her arms to get her some food.
Kagome looked to the twins before Molly took her away 'You guys owe me one...the things I do...' with that thought, Kagome was whisked away.
Fred and George looked at each other at the corner of their eyes in shock.
"Did she-" George started
"-Just save us?" Fred finished, both with an astonished looks on their faces, as well as the other members in the room.
Harry was the only one looking at the scene with narrowed, yet shocked eyes, that was no ordinary fox, that's for sure.
Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter!
Now just a few notes: I know that in the books Harry has green eyes, while Ron's are blue I believe, but I wanted the twins to have green eyes, and Ron being their Brother get's them too and I found it weird to then have another one who had green eyes...
So I guess just think of his eyes as they are in the movie? I'm sorry if this bothers anyone, It won't be mentioned much, so you can still think of everyone's eyes colour as you believe they are!
Anyway please review! ^^ They really get me in the mood to type this story, rather then completely slacking off, like I tend to do!
