Chapter 7

Childish Memories and Rude Awakenings

Ron huffed angrily again. Harry had just come back from the small village in the new camping space declaring that Dementors were hovering around it and because of the Horcrux ( which I now wore) he couldn't produce a Patronus.

Ron growled under his breath. I ground my teeth together fighting the desire to rip off the locket and strangle him with the chain.

InuSuke was hungry… again. And Harry was debating my whispers of "Maybe tomorrow"… again.

Truly, this was all starting to get annoying.

'I still think that-' Harry started off.

'Yes yes you think a Horcrux is at Hogwarts.' I snapped losing patients. ' You've told us a hundred times.' I leaned back in my chair glaring at him.

'Well I'm at least trying to do something productive! Unlike you and Mr. Sulk over there!' Pointing to Ron.

Ron's ears went red 'If you don't watch your mouth Mr. Sulk going to stick his foot right up your-'

'Enough!' Shouted Hermione who had resurfaced from her book on Dark Magic. 'InuYasha, take off the Horcrux and give it to me!'

I glared at her. 'Who do you think you are little girl? You think I can't handle a stupid necklace?'

'Watch your mouth you ignorant bitch! Your nothing but a savage, half - breed!' Ron shrieked flying at the chain of the locket. I spit in his face, he back away and I stalked forward lethally.

'I'm going to kill you ginger.' I hissed through my locket teeth. Eyes not flashing red, but flashing black.

'InuYasha, Sit!' Harry bellowed as I slammed into the wooden floor. Kami that hurts!

Harry raced over to me while the magic still bound me to the ground ripping off the locket. I did not feel better. It pissed me off worse. I pushed him off me, feeling disgusted that a human could subdue me and spit. 'This is why I'll never mate you idiot.'

'Liar.' Spit Harry.

I laughed. It sounded more like a screech though. 'Not if you were the last man on earth you disgusting, weak, moronic JERK!'

I stalked out of the tent into the forest, not sure where I was going. Finally, when I was far enough away that I couldn't hear there whispers. And Harry's pain filled gasps I sat down on the ground.

I didn't realized that time was starting to flow by. The trait of an immortal I guess. Until I blinked and noticed everything had a purple ting to it. I had sat here for hours. Someone landed after a huge non human jump behind me.

'That wasn't very nice you know.'

InuSuke sat beside me. 'I think you might have put Harry to tears.'

' They think I'm an ignorant savage.' I hissed making "savage" sound dirty.

'They've been so many places, I guess it must be so.'

I looked at InuSuke. He was fighting a smile. I remembered Suddenly when we went to visit my Grandmother when we were very little, and our parents had to talk about adult things They put on a movie called Pocahontas. Kayla hated it, with a lot of other things, but InuSuke and I would always skip to the song called Colours of the Wind. We would always right after that song sneak out into the little forest behind the shine and Sing it pretending that it was the way we were explaining ourselves as Half-Demons. That the song would make them accept us.

A rattle snake and a coyote sounded their howl and tail. This was too perfect. Why not act a little like I was Four again? Where pain never existed, were I was happy. I sang 'But still can not see..'

InuSuke smirked ' If the savage one… is me?'

Harry walked up with Hermione all of the sudden. 'what are you two smiling about?' Harry asked interrupted by our beams. His voice sounded rough. Like he had been indeed reduced to tears.

Together InuSuke and I whispered 'How can there be so much that you don't know… you don't know?'

We took off walking. InuSuke after a moment turned to them and smiled. 'You think you own whatever land you land on.

The earth is just a dead thing you can claim.

But I know every rock.' He touched a rock.

' and tree.' he touched the oldest twisted tree in his reach.

' and creature.' He nodded to us.

'Has a life, has a spirit, has a name!' He sang so loudly that the birds soared above him like magic. It was.

I took over climbing a tree, as a bird perched on my should. ' You think the only people who are people look and think like you.

But If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

Joining in InuSuke and I sang together, 'Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the Blue Corn Moon?

Or ask the grinning why we grin?

Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?

Can you paint with all the Colours of the Wind?'

I looked at Inusuke. We hadn't realized we shifted to humans, Japanese humans. This fit much to perfectly. Together we whispered.

'Can you paint with all the colours of the.. Wind!'

We took off running. Harry and Hermione shouted out. But followed. Harry with a grin on his face. As we ran the lyrics played in our head. My brother and me in sync as we sang out.

'Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest

Come taste the sun sweet berries of the Earth

Come roll in all the riches all around you

And for once, never wonder what they're worth'

I stopped beside the river beside our camp, and took Harry's hand 'The rainstorm and the river are my brothers!' He picked me up and spun me in a circle. And as he put me down I sang 'The heron and the otter are my friends!'

I took his hand and spun around in a circle. He laughed as I my phoenix voice took over 'And we are all connected to each otherIn a circle, in a hoop that never ends!'

Looking up I saw InuSuke on top of a sycamore tree with Hermione in his lap. I suddenly forgot that he had a wife or child. He was just 15. And that he was capable of loving whoever he chose. Right now, that was Hermione. He shot her a dashing smile and Ron was completely forgotten.

'How high does a sycamore grow?' InuSuke asked. Hermione, being Hermione opened her mouth to answer. But InuSuke pressed his finger against her lips.

'If you cut it down, you'll never know.'

She laughed and he launched himself from the top of the trees with her in his arms. She squealed out a cried of fright and delight. He put her down and she took his hand as Harry grabbed my face and we sung together. InuSuke and My magic putting the story of why this song was so important to us in their heads. Suddenly they were magically apart of our story as well.

All four of us sung to the heavens. ' And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon!'

Inusuke and I silenced them. 'For whether we are white,' we pointed at them ' or copper-skinned.' He motioned to our selves.'We need to sing with all the voices of the mountainNeed to paint with all the colours of the windNeed to paint with all the colours of the wind!'

InuSuke went silent as I looked at Harry's face that glowed with Happiness. I went forehead to forehead with him. Just like the time in the Hospital Wing. And whispered as quiet as the wind. ' You can own the earth and still, All you own is earth untilYou can paint with all the colours of the wind.'

He pressed his lips against mine. I smelled Hermione and InuSuke off towards the camp. Inusuke had given Harry and I a gift. We were alone.

I smirked at a thought that popped into my head, one that was forbidden but blissful 'Maybe today…' I smiled as Harry kissed his way down my jaw… My neck… My collarbone… his tongue sweeping across my skin. His lips were open just a fraction, something a human wouldn't even notice.

For twenty minutes he did this over and over again. Electricity raging higher with each kiss, when I couldn't handle it anymore I locked my arms around his waist as I let him undo the button in his jeans. Finding my lips again he grabbed the sides of my sweats to pull down when…

I smelt a internal threat.

I growled under Harry's lips. In the fight between desire and danger. The threat was growing. But so was the desire.

I felt the heat of the threat trudging towards this direction, as InuSuke stood still. It was Ron.

'Ron.' I whispered as I suddenly realized Harry had stopped to look at me. I titled up off my shoulder on to the top of my head.

I saw Ron pacing back and forth back and forth at the edge of forest. He couldn't see me. His human eyes were to weak.

I twisted in Harry's arms. He moaned with Disappointment and kissed my neck trying to persuade me to forget about our "Mr. Sulk".

I wanted to quite badly.

He was muttering about Harry anyway. He would have waited. That I was sure of.

'InuYasha!' he barked. His face reddened completely. ' Harry!'

Harry sighed as he buttoned up his jeans and helped me up. I was having trouble tying up my sweat cord so it took me a moment longer to in the forest as Harry trudged towards his angry friend. The forest surrounded me with disappointment and silence as I shut off my ears to sound, I didn't want Ron to ruin this perfect moment. I sighed, my perfect moment was completely over though. ' Maybe Tomorrow…' I whispered to myself.

The sound was completely ripped apart by Harry's angry bellow ' My parents are dead!'

'And mine and InuYasha's could go the same way!'

'Then GO!' Roared Harry. This was all I need to hear. I was there in a second surprisingly on Harry side of a Shield Charm, where Harry looked at Ron as if he were a stranger and Hermione was holding a furious Inusuke back by the shoulders.

'Leave the Horcrux.'

Ron ripped off the Horcrux and through it through the Shield at Harry. Then turned to Hermione.

'What are you doing?'

'What do you mean?'

Are you staying, or what?'

'I…' she looked at InuSuke and me for help. I could think of nothing. ' Yes- yes, I'm staying. Ron, we said we'd go with Harry, we said we'd help-.

Ron's face went pale white and looked at my brother.

'I get it. You choose half- breed.'

InuSuke and I exploded into rage then ' WHAT DID YOU CALL US!'

Ron smirked at the rage he made. 'Half…' he drew out every syllable. 'Breed.'

I lunched for his throat.

I was electrocuted then. And I understood why. Hermione had put up this Shield Charm to protect Ron. He knew that. He wanted me to try and kill him.

Bolts of electricity raged through me, it was so painful I thought I was an instant crisp. Through my screams of pain and rage I heard Ron stalk off with Hermione begging him to stay on his tail.

'He's g-g-gone! Disapperated!'

Hermione ran over to me releasing her Shield Charm. I flopped still, with the pain. Instantly gone. The anger as well had disappeared. I felt pain now. Ron had been one of my best friends. And he acted like any person who hated us would. I stared incomprehensibly at the place he disappeared. I suddenly felt the rain drops on my face. No didn't care though. Five had been withered down to Four.

'It's my fault.' Hermione said without emotion.

'No matter how many times you say I'll keep saying it wasn't.' I said again. I had pretty much stopped caring at this point. Two days we had been here and for two days Hermione was convinced that it wasn't her fault Ron left.

'No matter what you say I'll be right. I always am.'

I rolled my eyes giving up. My head hurt and I didn't want to have this argument anymore, so it was almost a relief that a cranky Harry ( it was his turn to wear the Horcrux) and jerk his head towards the door. No "Goodnight, my love." tonight I guess.

I walked out into the bitter cold, sitting down on a little stool as the winter air took my breath away. Everything smelled so clean. The trees, the berries, the pick pieces we had for supper still scented the air with the smell of bacon, and the perfume I missed at home…

My perfume?

I got up following the scent. Stalking the scent silently and swiftly through the woods. Could tell that the perfume was moving at a human pace.

I would have understood if it had been any perfume I owned other then this one, many people bought this perfume. Not this one, because my mother made it only for me.

I walked up behind the figure. She looked my height and my build. So she couldn't be my mother of Kayla. I was taller.

The human seemed to sense my presence. Because her long crimson cloak whisked against the forest faster. I kept pace easy, reaching out towards this unknown women's shoulder making her stop. Defeated. I pulled her to my face slowly…

'That's Impossible.' Identical voices whispered together.

I looked at her… Me? Her hair was the same. So was her face, if not a little older. Everything, Except the eyes. Which were black.

'How can we be in the same time?' Yashie… me.. Asked her.

'I was sent her to retrieve you for a moment.' InuYasha… her voice business like. Confused she took my hand. Kami it felt exactly the same. She led me through the forest, towards my destination.

Suddenly a glowing tree came into view. Where Kiyoto came into view.

I understood. InuYasha was an illusion. She melted into the glow of the tree as Kiyoto moved forward. I fought against the fuzz this time. Not letting myself forget who I was.

'No I supposed you aren't.' Kiyoto smile. Wow, I had forgotten how much he looked like a brown eyed Harry. He sounded the same too. They were like my Mother and Kikyo. Bound by soul. Twins in their own way. Though completely unrelated.

Kiyoto's smile turned into a frown. I also forgot in his shield of souls he could read your mind. 'Sorry.'

He smiled. 'No problem.'

'Why did you call me here?'

'To stop you'

I looked at him confused. 'Kiyoto, Stop me from doing what?' I gave a hint of a smile, trying to be nice. I was also keeping tabs on the scent near the tent. I didn't want Harry, Hermione and InuSuke captured because I dropped the ball.

Kiyoto waved his hand and souls circled and made a kind of screen 'There in the middle lay Harry and I. Two days ago in the forest.

We were laying on our backs as Harry kissed his way down my face. I was grabbing the legs of his jeans. ( I hadn't released I had been doing that)

The scene blanked out again. I looked back at Kiyoto. ' You were going to mate the boy.' He accused. A dead voice ringing through the night air.

I puffed out with pride. 'So? How is that your business?'

Kiyoto walked over and put his fingers under my chin, his thumb rubbing against my lips. ' I won't let you.' He smiled a wicked smile. Something that never would have crossed Harry's face. ' You will be mine.'

I tried to mumble Go to hell but it was to late. He sucked the spirit from me causing me to be unable to move. My knees hit the ground as I looked up at him. Completely immobile.

He grabbed the bun in the back of my head, and ripped off my shirt and my bra. The night air pieced my skin like cold knives.

He forced me onto my back as he felt no resistance to what he had begun to do. I was getting raped.

And I couldn't stop it.

Suddenly a powerful scream broke the surface and it rang out through the forest.

Harry:

'Harry wake up!' Hermione crowed shaking him violently. He opened his eyes to see InuSuke, who was wearing the Horcrux looking as terrified as Hermione.

'What Hermione?' Harry barked. He was having a dream of, if Ron had not stopped it, what could have happened in the forest two days ago.

' Yashie's gone!' Hermione cried. Harry sat straight up. InuSuke, smiling slightly at his sister's boyfriends terror that was apparent on his face, walked out the tent door.

Once outside Harry knew InuSuke could smell the air. 'I smell Kiyoto! But it disappears as soon as you hit the forest!'

Harry jumped out of the tent pulling his jacket over a random white button down shirt. 'Well let's go find her.'

They trudged through the forest yelling her name. A feeling crept up Harry's spine, something was defiantly wrong. Yashie had always coming running to him when he called for her.

Just then a loud terror filled scream broke through the surface of the night silence like a stone breaking a calm lake.

'YASHIE!' InuSuke screamed looking around to find where InuYasha's scream came from.

They all ran different ways screaming her name more then a thousand times. After searching what seemed like that whole forest they met in the middle out of breath.

'How do we find her?' Hermione wheezed, as InuSuke pressed his eye lids together as if not to cry.

'I don't know our mother was always good at finding shields and so was InuYasha. That gene is passed to the women side of the family.

Harry's head shot up. He remembered the time he fell into that well where he met the six year old InuYasha and Kagome had taught him how to use his Shikon no Tama sight to shoot arrows perfectly towards his target.

What if his Target was to find InuYasha?

He stood up a pulled an arrow off of InuSuke's back. ( Harry was relieved that he had brought them.) and InuSuke's arrow.

Harry pointed the arrow head to the moon. Where he thought. ' Find her!' And the arrow flew up and then dropped towards the earth.

The wind picked up making the arrow fly to the north. They ran after it. Harry could see it's path. And see it had broken through a shield. Running through the shield he heard a cry out from behind him. Hermione and InuSuke couldn't get through.

'I'll find her.' Harry whispered then ran forward. He ran passed trees and rocked when a light glow came into view. It grew larger and larger. When finally…

'WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!' Screamed Harry as he caught sight of Kiyoto putting on his kimono top and InuYasha completely still, and naked, lying in the snow.

Soul collectors picked up Kiyoto and carried him towards the sky. As he began to disappear his voice, like an echo, reached Harry's ears. 'What you waited to long to do.'

He was gone. Harry ran to InuYasha, still with her eyes closed and tears frozen on her face. 'Got to cover her up…' Harry muttered to himself because what were her clothing were now scraps of fabric.

He took off his white buttoned down shirt. The cold hit his chest bitterly and his chest muscles stiffened. He picked InuYasha up by the shoulders. Her still frozen he got her arms through the shirt and buttoned it up. It went to her mid thigh. It was long enough.

Sure Harry would have been ecstatic to see InuYasha naked and touch her naked body. But not now, not after she had just been…

Harry was visited by a unknown yearning. It was so powerful it felt like he would burst into flames from the anger. He wanted to kill Kiyoto. And slowly. As painfully as possible.

He hugged InuYasha's frozen body to his naked chest, trying to warm her. His chest stiffened even more where her ice cold body touched.

InuYasha's eyes opened slowly. Looked up at his face and screamed, flinching away from his touch.

He struggled to hold onto her, he didn't want her to run off and get anymore hurt… though he doubted that was possible.

InuYasha fought him and pushed her onto her back locking her wrists to the ground. Sitting on her stomach. She thrashed and scream louder tears soaking her face again. 'InuYasha! It's okay1 Yashie, love it's Harry! It's Harry…' His voice got thick as spoke the words trying to calm this ruined version of InuYasha. He couldn't bare it. Her face was in agony and she screamed bloody murder.

Harry stopped fighting her and sat still. 'please open your eyes love. Please… look at me.' She paused tears and sobs breaking through her frozen face. A then slowly she opened her eyes. The whites of her eyes were so red the almost matched her Irises. 'Yasha-Bella…' she seemed so weak. So human. He had always seen her as something more, like a goddess.

'Harry…' She spoke in a voice as broken as she was. Tear ranking down her face. Then as suddenly as the wind she was sitting up, curled up into his arms. Sobbing and shaking like a child.

Harry knew then that he could never ask her to mate him. To replay the horror that had just took place. It wasn't right. That dream had to fade. There would be no Maybe Tomorrow whisper today or ever. For she was broken, another life ruined by this journey.

They sat in the snow weeping painful tears, holding each other as if the other was life itself, till the sun colour the sky with a pale rose. To a crimson. To the colour of pain and blood