InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Learning to Love Again ❯ Chapter Four ( Chapter 4 )

"…particular dragon was only found in Japan five hundred years ago. I was there when the last on of its species, Ryuukotsusei, was slain by a… a…" tears stung at Kagome's eyes as she struggled to continue her lecture on dragons. "Well, it doesn't matter! He was a lying, cheating, back-stabbing jerk anyway!"

The class stared in confusion at their new teacher's outburst. Finally, after many long minutes of teacher and students ogling each other, Draco raised his hand. Kagome sighed as she saw his extended appendage, not anticipating what his smart mouth had to say about her slipup.

"Yes, Malfoy?" she sighed irately.

"So what you're saying, grandma, is that you're five hundred years old?" the blonde boy asked with a smirk. Crabbe and Goyle sniggered from their kneeling positions beside their 'leader.'

Kagome growled audibly, which seemed to somewhat settle the majority of the class that was now tittering. "I'm not even going to dignify that with an answer." She gritted, turning her nose up at Draco.

Everyone's attention turned to Draco to see what his reaction would be. He seemed to becoming a bit red in the face, but got his rage under control. He opened his mouth with another mocking retort when Hermione cut in.

"Where did you get that beautiful outfit, Miss Kagome?" she asked, trying to avoid a confrontation.

Kagome reluctantly pulled her attention away from the fuming Draco to smile kindly at Hermione. "Oh, this old thing? Well, it was actually given to me as a gift of thanks by a princess that I saved in the Sengoku Jidai. You see, her husband had been possessed by a frog demon that wanted to devour her soul. I nearly lost my own in the process. Anyway, I got a little tiny torch that was in the hall of the mansion and doused it in hairspray which, of course, made the flame much larger so that I could throw it onto the princess' husband and purge the demon from his body. Fire will kill a frog demon, you see," she finished breathlessly.

"You beat the shit out of a demon with hairspray?" Draco asked with a grin.

Before Kagome could rejoin, though, a huge crash was heard outside followed by screams of terror. Everyone froze momentarily before rushing over to the nearest window to look outside to the quiditch field. Pulling the black curtains back, Kagome, along with some other students, watched in confusion as Madam Hooch's students rushed around screaming, some flying on their brooms and some just running for shelter on the ground.

"What in the world is going on down there?" Hermione asked from beside Kagome.

"Hey, look at that!" Harry shouted from another window, pointing down to somewhere around the middle of the field.

All the students complied and turned there probing gaze to a black blur in speeding through the middle of the field. The figure stopped for a moment, long enough for everyone to get a glance at the creature, and then it darted into the Forbidden Forest, disappearing from sight in a small whirl of crimson smoke.

After a stunned silence, Draco's smooth voice broke the eerie hush. "What the Hell?!"

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