Strange Magic

Chapter 13: The Prison

By yllom21

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or Inuyasha. Sorry to disappoint.

Mission: Let's-save-Professor-Inuyasha-and-be-back-before-breakfast had totally failed.

Hell, they hadn't even started it yet.

The only thing on Kagome's mind was the rescue of Inuyasha, and hell it was on the top of Ron's and Harry's minds as well, but Kagome, in her attempt to get Back-Up-Plan #2 rolling along, had forgotten one important thing.

Harry and Ron were famous members of the Golden Trio. A trio, which, when defined in a Hermione-type fashion, meant a group of three people or things joined or associated.

They were currently missing their third member; and there was no way in hell they were going without her.

The Golden Duo didn't sound nearly as cool.

"We're not going anywhere without Hermione!" Harry said in a defiant manner, trying desperately to dislocate Kagome's iron grip on his wrist, although how she was even touching him when she was a ghost was anybody's guess, "You haven't even explained what's going on! Hell, you could be a Death Eater, using Professor Inuyasha as bait to kidnap us!"

Ron, who had been transfixed on Kagome's mini-skirted ass, looked stunned at that moment, and forced himself not to stare at her ass, no matter how insanely short her skirt was.

"Yeah, how do we know you ain't some Slytherin up to something? Professor Inuyasha might not even be kidnapped!" Ron pointed an accusing finger in Kagome's direction, just stopping himself from making a rude gesture. Death Eater or not, not many girls wore skirts that short, "How could he even be kidnapped? And why would he be in Australia? Did you forget he's Japanese?"

"I'm not a Death Eater!" Kagome looked practically insulted, although Ron and Harry couldn't really blame her, who would want to admit to wearing the Death Eater's totally not bad-assed costumes? "I'm a ghost! Voldemort doesn't have ghosts in his army, what good are they to him?"

Ron and Harry looked pointedly at her hands which were currently pulling Harry and Ron in the random direction of Australia.

Kagome sighed, let go of the teens' wrists and showed them her upper arm, which was totally Death-mark free, "I'm not a Death Eater, see? Now hurry up! If we don't hurry up and save Inuyasha who knows what they'll do to him!"

Harry, who had temporally decided she was not a Death Eater, decided to partake in a previous discussion. "What about Hermione? We can't go around saving ass without her!" he informed Kagome, deciding to forget his second year.

Kagome practically sighed, at this rate Back-Up-Plan #1, which was moving at a snail's pace, was still going faster than them! At this rate Inuyasha was doomed.

Well, Inuyasha could always go samurai and commit suicide; it was a bit lonely up in heaven without him anyway.

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Inuyasha didn't faint. Really.

He merely took a break after a period of strenuous activity, and in said break he closed his eyes and fell to the ground. He didn't swoon like a lady. He… was… a… man. Once you ignored the long assed hair and the fruity kimonos, it was completely obvious that Inuyasha was the most masculine thing on earth. Really.

And Inuyasha wasn't in a cell right now, because men never got kidnapped, ever. That had always been Kagome's job, and other girls (most noticeably princesses) that just could not stay free, they always had to be threatened with death, or kidnapped, or something; because that made life a hell of a lot more interesting. What was more fun than saving the same girl day in and day out? Huh?

And Inuyasha was a man.

So, no, he was not kidnapped nor was he located in the bad-ass lair of Lord Voltage, although it was not nearly as bad-assed as Inuyasha himself. After all, what was more bad-assed than a kimono-wearing long-haired hanyou turned demon?

Absolutely, positively nothing; well, next to the shit-bombing action of seagulls, or bitches that were bleeding out of their asses, or Sesshomaru and his I-am-the-bad-assed-lord-of-the-western-lands-and-you're-a-hanyou attitude, or Naraku and his entire I-am-wearing-a-baboon-costume-even-though-I'm-totally-hott-because-it-is-totally-bad-assed attitude.

But Inuyasha was totally up there.

And that was why Inuyasha was refusing to admit that he had been kidnapped by Death Munchers, when he was saving snot-dripping munchkins from complete doom, and was later transported who knows where with his kimono ripped in complete smithereens.

He didn't even want to know how that happened.

And not only was his kimono completely ruined, but somewhere along the line while he was being transported and viciously man-handled (seriously, when this entire fight between the Order of the Sparrows and the Death Hackers was over, he was totally suing), his illusionary magic had failed and his true form was revealed. Inuyasha, in his white-haired, yellow-eyed glory had finally arrived.

He was totally screwed.

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Kagome decided to let them get this Hermione girl, maybe then they'd actually put some effort into saving the ass of a professor who wasn't up to something.

"Okay," Kagome nodded permission, "Go get this Hermione girl, but hurry! If we don't hurry up Inuyasha will be kidnapped before we even get there!" The two boys just stared at her, like she was swearing in Japanese or something.

"We can't," Ron explained meekly, almost like he was expecting Kagome's wrath, "She's a girl, and the stairs to the girl dormitories disappear if a boy is walking up them," Happy that Kagome had yet to lash at them, he added, "Could you get her?"

Kagome stared.

"Let me get this straight," Kagome said in a mocking tone, staring Harry into the face, "You are the savior of the wizardry world," her gaze turned to Ron, "And you're his side kick," she took a long break, wishing she had skipped Back-up Plan #2, and had gone with Back-up Plan #3, "And you're afraid of a staircase,"

Harry and Ron stared right back.

"Not just the stair case," Harry corrected her, "If we managed to make it up, then we have screaming girls to deal with. And that's worst that Voldemort, believe me,"

"Fine, I'll go get her!" Kagome practically yelled, wishing she was still alive as she no longer possessed the ability of foot-stamping. It was quiet for a minute, as Kagome struggled to remember what this Hermione girl looked like.

Five minutes later Hermione was pulled down the stairs, wearing a pink nightshirt and green panties.

Harry gasped, Ron stared and Hermione shrieked. While Kagome, standing in a corner, acted like nothing had happened.

It probably covered more skin than her green mini-skirt.

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Half-way through a half-hearted attempt to fix his kimono, Inuyasha realized something.

The Sacred Dagger, which he had hidden behind the sash of his kimono, was gone.

The Sacred Dagger was gone, the thing that caused Voldemort to come out of hiding and officially start the war. Inuyasha had no idea what it did, but it could not be good. And personally, he didn't want to find out. But the absolute worst part wasn't the fact that there was a strong possibility that this dagger would lead to the destruction of mankind. Hell, it didn't even matter that this dagger could destroy the entire world. The only thing that mattered was that the dagger had disappeared from inside his kimono. Inside, not in a pocked or anything, it had been buried deep inside his kimono.

"Fucking perverts!" Inuyasha yelled, not caring that it wasn't exactly intelligent to remind your kidnappers that you were there and currently awake.

After he swore in many languages, impressing many rats with his bilingual abilities, Inuyasha slumped to the ground. Well aware, that for once in his life, yelling and screaming won't do any good. He was going to have to be intelligent, think wisely, and develop a plan to steal back the Sacred Dagger and hightail it out of there.

Aw, screw that.

"Hey, Death Shit! Ya too afraid to take me on? Have to hide behind Lord Van's skirts? This place is a crap factory filled with shit and I'm the only one who hasn't seen the intestines of a cow!" Inuyasha was yelling so loud he knew somebody had to hear him, and if they didn't, well, it always improved his mood, "Come on and take me buttercups! That's right, buttercups, pansies are levels above you!"

Inuyasha was so busy yelling his rant, filled with plenty of swears, that he almost missed the sound of a door opening. But he heard it, and he stopped yelling.

Did these Death Squeakers honestly think they could challenge him? Him, the great Inuyasha?

Time to kick some major ass.

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Hermione was furious.

She woke up in time to see a girl with long black hair with an insanely short skirt in her dormitory. She was about to tell the girl that she accidentally went into the wrong dormitory, and perhaps she should wear a longer skirt, they weren't in a whore house after all. But, before she knew it, she was before Harry and Ron in her night shirt and panties.

Mini-skirt was totally going down.

"It's past midnight!" she practically screeched, not caring at all about the possibility of waking up other Gryffindors, "You don't drag someone down the stairs at this time of night, especially when they aren't wearing pants!" pausing, she practically gave a Malfoy-sneer, almost causing Ron and Harry to freeze in terror, "Not that you'd know anything about pants, what are you wearing anyway? A kindergartner's skirt?"

Kagome looked offended, like no one had bothered to question her outfit before.

"It's a high school uniform," Kagome informed Hermione, "The kindergartner's skirts are blue and…" Kagome paused to stare critically at her skirt, "And, okay, so maybe their skirts are longer, but I didn't choose the uniform!"

Hermione looked smudge, glad at the opportunity to outsmart this girl that had harassed her in her panties.

"But why are you wearing it now?" Hermione questioned Kagome, "You aren't in high school, you're at Hogwarts. And what's a witch doing in a muggle school anyway?"

"I'm not a witch, I'm a priestess and I'm dead," Kagome pointed at herself, pointing out the transparency of her frame, "I didn't choose what I died in!"

"Oh," Hermione looked confused, Kagome did look transparent, but she did pull her down the stairs, "You died in school? Was in a shooting?" she looked a bit sympathetic by now, but still curious. What was she even doing here, anyway?

"No," Kagome shook her head, "I died when I saved my friends' life. And one of them was Inuyasha," Kagome didn't seem to mind at all that they were questioning her death, unlike some of the other ghosts.

"You saved Professor Inuyasha?" Hermione looked pretty skeptical at this point, "He's the Defense teacher, he doesn't need saving! And even if he did, why would you be wearing a miniskirt if you were fighting?"

"I always wear mini-skirts while fighting!" Kagome cried cheerfully, not seeming to realize that impracticably of wearing such an outfit when one was fighting. Hermione raised an eyebrow, and was about to retort back, when Ron decided to interrupt the conversation. What was wrong with mini-skirts anyway?

"Have you guys forgotten the reason why we're all standing here, anyway?" Ron practically yelled in an attempt to get rid of the tension surrounding Kagome and Hermione. Kagome and Hermione stopped arguing, and stared at Ron, whom they both had forgotten was there.

"It's time to save the world… again,"

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Two seconds after Inuyasha heard the door open, he realized something.

He was missing his sword, and his magic was bound.

"Crap!" Inuyasha stage-whispered to himself, wondering what in the lands of hell caused him to challenge people when he was their prisoner, not the other way around. He should have noticed his disabilities the second he woke up, but instead he decided to threaten the very people that had kidnapped him the first place.

Okay, so his intellect wasn't exactly the best, but he could still fix this!

These people absolutely sucked when it came to hand and hand. Sure, he was a lot better with his sword that he was with his fist, but at least he actually knew how to punch correctly. He could still beat the crap out of these guys, all he had to do was make sure he dodged most of the spells they flung at him, and knock them unconscious as soon as possible.

No more ranting about how he was much better than they were, they should already know that. And no more, you're evil and killing people was wrong and all that crap, because they were probably told that before and it didn't help, anyway. And no more arguments about what the name of the Order of the Robin was, because the Death Eaters were stupid and would keep insisting that it was the Order of the Phoenix.

Why in the lands of hell would the side of light call it the Order of the Phoenix? Were the Death Eaters stupid or something?

So Inuyasha prepped himself for battle, promising himself to nock these guys out as soon as possible and not rant to them about how stupid they were, despite temptation. But before he could properly prep himself, he caught sight of who was walking towards his cell.

One of the Death Eaters was carrying something white… something nonhuman… someone Inuyasha knew quite well.

"Sesshomaru,"

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This was not good.

Several minutes had passed before Hermione and Kagome stopped their idiotic conversation, and several more minutes were waved goodbye to when Hermione got dressed. Ten whole minutes had passed before Kagome had remembered her ability to transport herself and other objects.

And wasn't Kagome the one who had been telling them to hurry?

By the time they made it to Australia, nobody was there, although it was quite obvious that a battle of some sort had taken place. The sand was in disarray (although with sand one could never be sure) and blood was splattered around. With dismay Harry noticed a piece of cloth located near a rather big blood puddle, and realized it looked suspiciously like the cloth Inuyasha's kimonos were made up of.

They were too late.

"What do we do now?" Ron questioned, although his voice was filled with despair, it was also full of hope. Inuyasha's body was nowhere to be found, and although it was possible that they destroyed it, to get rid of the evidence, they would have gotten rid of the blood stains as well. And the Death Eaters had no need for a carcass.

There was a good possibility that Inuyasha was still alive.

Although, Harry realized, that wasn't always a good thing. Harry wasn't exactly sure why they would kidnap Inuyasha in the first place. They could try to mind-control him, so they could have a pet on the inside, but Inuyasha was way too stubborn to submit to such a spell. He probably wasn't going to be ransomed or anything, because Japan was still neutral in this war, and if it became known that a Japanese professor was kidnapped there was a possibility that it would end their neutrality.

Harry could only see one reason why they would bother to kidnap such a pretty and exotic young man, and it was not pretty.

Although, Harry thought as he remembered his dream Kagome said she had sent him, there was a possibility that they had kidnapped him because of his lack of humanity. Although what he was, Harry was not sure, it did give the Death Eaters a motive as to why they kidnapped him. But why in Australia, near a Magical school no less? And what was Inuyasha doing their in the first place?

Harry was sure of one thing and one thing only; they had to rescue Professor Inuyasha.

"We have to save Inuyasha," Kagome stated, repeating Harry's thoughts, "Although I'm sure we could have saved him had we been a time," she paused mid-rant, glaring at he trio as though they were to be blamed, when they only heard of said kidnapping half an hour ago, "I'm pretty sure their hideout is in Siberia, so let's go save his ass already!"

The golden trio stared at her like she was crazy.

"Let me get this straight," Hermione spoke, as though she was speaking to a simpleton, "You knew where the Death Eater's hideout was, yet you never told Professor Dumbledore. And you want us, a group of kids that haven't even gotten the full extent of puberty, to invade Voldemort's lair, in Siberia, which I'm sure at least one of us isn't even sure were it is located. Then you want us to save Professor Inuyasha, and escape with are lives in tact? What exactly will you be doing during this insanity?"

"I'm dead," Kagome reminded Hermione, "I can't get myself involved in mortal affairs. I'm only here because Inuyasha was captured, and it's my fault he got involved in the first place. Besides, don't you guys go around saving ass all the time?"

The trio looked defeated; why weren't they normal again?

Oh yeah, cause Harry was the savior of the wizardry world.

"Nice going," Ron snorted at Harry.

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Fleur wasn't exactly sure what she was doing.

One second she was dreaming of her perfect wedding; her dress was going to be strapless, show off her boobs, and still look elegant, when a mini-skirted apparition appeared out of nowhere. Fleur was going to tell her that she didn't swing that way, thank-you-very-much, and even if she did she didn't go for whores, but it was sweet of her to try, when she got interrupted.

"Inuyasha's in deep trouble!" the brunette screeched, and Fleur had a sudden urge to clog her eardrums. Before they stopped ringing she remembered Inuyasha, he was the young and pretty Japanese boy that helped her get her immigration papers. She wouldn't have mind seeing him again, although she had no idea why this mini-skirted girl was here, and what she wanted with her.

"Inuyasha's in trouble?" she replied in a thick accent, glad that she could finally pronounce all her letters, "How do you know that I even now who this Inuyasha is? And if he was in trouble, why are you asking me? Shouldn't you go to the authorities?" Glad that that was over with, she began to dream about her dream wedding, should she had white lilies, or pink roses?

"It took the authorities a year just to realize that Voldemort really was a threat again! I'm not entrusting Inuyasha's livelihood with them!" Kagome began to wildly throw her arms in the air, not seeming to care that she looked half-insane, "Besides, you owe him, and even if you didn't, wouldn't you want to help your fellow half-breed? I'm asking you to alert your veela family of what happened to Inuyasha, and to please ask them to help him!"

Then the girl, Kagome was her name, began to inform her about how he was kidnapped in Australia, although she never bothered to explain what a Japanese boy was doing in Australia, and informed her that Voldemort's headquarters was in Siberia. Then, after much persuasion, Fleur decided that perhaps Kagome was telling the truth, and decided that perhaps she should alert her family about the current kidnapping of a fellow half-breed.

And that was why, in a confused state, Fleur was heading to France to alert her family of Inuyasha's current situation. She owed Inuyasha, and even if she didn't, she'd still consider helping. Half-breeds help each other, after all, because a lot of humans would never consider helping them.

And she'd get to see his pretty face.

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After he and the others saved Inuyasha's ass, they were never coming back to Siberia. Ever.

It was freezing! How did the people here stand it? Did they enjoy freezing their asses off? Did they like wearing so many layers of clothing that they ended up looking overweight and ugly? What was Mother Nature's fucking problem? Did she have a spat with Father Universe or something?

Hermione looked just as cold as he did, but she did cast a nifty little charm and stopped the shivering. Harry hoped she was no longer mad about the panty incident and would spread her knowledge. Ron was freezing too, or so it looked, and he, just like Harry, knew nothing about heating spells, and could only freeze till Hermione cooled down. But what really pissed him off was Kagome.

She was standing their, mini-skirt and all, looking a little cold, but not shivering nearly as much as he or Ron were, and they were wearing sweaters and long pants.

Damn, why couldn't he be dead?

"Okay, we're in Siberia now," Hermione said, happier now that she was the only one of the trio not currently suffering, "Where is the Dark Lord's lair located?" she cast a look at Kagome, a smug look on her face, although unmentioned, she was proving another impracticability of mini-skirts.

Kagome didn't seem to notice.

"Oh, it's quite obvious were Voldemort's headquarters to located," she paused for a second to point in a seemingly random direction, "However, I'm afraid I won't be able to go with you. My time in the mortal realm is up,"

Wait, where the hell did she think she was going?

"I can only spend a certain amount of time in the mortal realm, and I wasted all of it," Kagome stopped mid-rant to glare at Hermione, who glared right back, "However, I have faith that you guys can save Inuyasha. After all, you wouldn't want to see the consequences if you can't, now do you?" she smiled, somehow managing to look like a devil and an angel at the same time.

Girls were the scariest things on Earth, Harry decided, especially ones with various mood swings. He felt sorry for any poor sap that had dated her.

And just like that, the mini-skirted girl that had sent him dreams that forced him to question his sexuality, pulled them all the way to Siberia, and had gotten into an argument with the clear-headed Hermione was gone.

Part of him was actually happy, if it wasn't for the fact that they had no idea where they were going.

"So…" Ron started, unaware of how to address the current problem they had managed to get themselves mixed into, decided to say the first thing that popped into his mind, "You wear green panties?

Hermione started to chuck snow at Ron and before Harry could stop another mindless argument, another thought popped into his head.

He hadn't been attracted to pant-less Hermione at all.

Oh, Crap.

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Inuyasha was screwed.

He had been kidnapped by people who called themselves Death Toddles, if that wasn't embarrassing, what was? And they were led by some evil dude, Lord Veldt, which was not even a tenth as scary as Naraku. The entire I-am-bald-and-ugly-and-wear-black-like-all-other-dark-lords didn't even compare to Naraku's I-am-a-hot-hanyou-that-wears-white-and-it-totally-bad-assed. He, the great bad-ass Inuyasha, had somehow got kidnapped by these 2nd rated bad guys.

And Sesshomaru was here to see it all.

Although, he mused, Sesshomaru had been kidnapped too, as one of the numerous Dark Venders was carrying him, white fluffy thing and all, down the halls of cells. Inuyasha was momentarily surprised that a wizard was able to carry the fierce Demon Lord, but figured they had placed a light-weight charm on his older brother and was holding him, instead of levitating him, because the Death People were complete perverts.

Ha! So he wasn't the only one who had been manhandled.

The Death Eaters, giving him curious looks, placed Sesshomaru in the cell located to the left of Inuyasha. This, Inuyasha mused, was really idiotic of them, because it was quite obvious that they were related, and it was intelligent to split up potential allies among their prisoners.

Ah, let the Death Moochers be stupid, it would be easier to destroy them this way.

Inuyasha would have been happier had it been Miroku or Sango in the neighboring cell, because he could be sure of their alliance. Sesshomaru had set forth a temporary alliance with them when they had defeated Naraku, but besides that incident, they had hated each other with passion that was usually not spared in family affairs. But Sesshomaru was smart enough to realize that another temporary alliance would only help them in their current position. And besides, Inuyasha was a full demon now.

Would this stop the feud that had always been between them?

All his life Inuyasha had wanted a family, and one of the reasons why he had wanted to be a full demon was to stop the hatred between him and his older brother. To be loved, to no longer be an outcast, had always been a dream. His demonship hadn't meant much in this time period, but it would mean a lot when he managed to return to the era he belonged in.

Could he and Sesshomaru finally be a real family?

It would be a dream come true.