InuYasha Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ The Seventh Year ❯ Chapter One: A new Teacher and Job ( Chapter 1 )

Chapter One

After I arrived in my era I sealed the well with my miko powers. Now Inuyasha could never come and hurt my family of myself ever again.

I had only gone back to the feudal era to say good-bye to my friends. Shippo was now a grown teenager of some thirteen years and Miroku and Sango had finally settled their differences and got hitched.

Now they were expecting their first child and Shippo had a girlfriend that he was courting. I knew I'd knew see them again but it only saddened me for a moment. I had bigger problems.

I no longer went to school because I had dropped out before I could flunk. I had sensed a greater evil than Naraku in era after we had defeated him. Inuyasha had totally changed when the Shikon no Tama was completed. He once again became the uncaring soul that had tried to kill me when we first met.

He had made a selfish wish to bring back Kikyo and I had destroyed the jewel setting Midoriko's spirit free. The jewel had shattered in my hands and it had become nothing more that pretty fragments of jewelry.

Inuyasha had snapped and killed Kikyo's clay body and I had had my soul returned to me. He had thought Kikyo was I and instead of destroying me he had destroyed the clay doll that resembled his first love.

For awhile he had left and wasn't seen for over three months. When he had come back he tried to kill me. I knew my friends were safe because of a protection spell I had put around them to ward off demons. They of course didn't know about it.

Now though I had no ideal what to do. Deaths were increasing every day yet people just thought it was a serial killer. I knew better. If something didn't stop it we'd all be dead.

Just a couple days and school would start. There was no professor for Defense against the Dark Arts. Nobody wanted the job anymore. Ever since Voldemort had come back to his true power people were afraid.

I wondered how many students would come this year. I knew that all in Harry's year would come out of respect for him. I wondered if there would be many first years. I know that if we didn't stand united there would be many more deaths and we would fail. Having the phone ring startled me out of my thoughts.

Frowning I wondered who would be calling me at this time of night. Glancing at the watch only I could read I saw that it was past two in the morning. Shrugging I picked up the annoying thing Muggle's call a phone.

"Oh come on," I muttered at it rang a forth time. I knew my cousin was always deep in thought but even he knew how to answer a phone.

Scowling at the receiver I was about to hang up until I heard the unique voice of my older British cousin.

"Hello?"

"Great Scots!" I exclaimed sarcastically as I heard his voice, "You actually picked it up."

He groaned when he heard my Japanese accent, "Do you have any ideal what time it is Kagome?"

"Six in the afternoon," I answered smartly.

"Kagome! Here it is still two o'clock in the morning!"

"Well your up so quit complaining," I said crossly. I was in a bad mood and I wanted to take it out on someone but when I heard the weariness in his voice I had to swallow my next words.

"What's wrong?" I asked instead.

"So much and so little has gone right in the past few months."

"Tell me about," I said darkly as I remembered my own problems.

"You know I can't."

"What? Oh I didn't mean it literally. I was just thinking about all the deaths in the news that those idiots think is a serial killer."

"So you noticed?"

"Duh! I may not know exactly what is going on, even though I think you know, but I'm not blind nor am I stupid, Albus!"

I sighed as I pulled the phone away from my ears. Her voice was steadily rising and I knew she was pissed beyond belief.

"Kag I wish I could…" I broke off as Minerva came in. "Hold on Kag and I'll be right with you."

Setting the phone on my desk I looked at my friend. She looked flustered and angry.

"What's wrong?"

She looked so angry she could barely speak but the person that came in from behind her answered all questions. Fudge was there looking quite smug.

I pressed a hand against my forehead as I asked, "What?"

In his superior manner stated, "If you do not have the proper staff we will be forced to close your school."

I picked up the phone as I suddenly got an ideal, "Kag?"

"Yeah."

"How soon can you be at King cross in London?"

"I can be their tomorrow. Why?"

I looked directly into Fudge's eyes as I said, "Because I'd like you to be my new Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor." Then I hung up before she could question me further.