The Dragon Tamer

Summary: Three years have come and gone, each more perilous than the last...each ending with a promise of "worse to come". Kagome no longer staying with her father, has cut ties with Gryffindor House and her Gryffindor friends in order to uphold the image of a Slytherin Princess. With the Dark Lord's rise, dark times are ahead...things will only get worse, before they get better.

Anime/Book/Movie: InuYasha/Harry Potter

Pairing: Draco/Kagome

Genre: Romance/Adventure

Rated: M for Mature Content

R.I.P – Alan Rickman

(Severus Snape)

Remember

The Half-Blood Prince

~ALWAYS~

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A/N: I always block out the annoyance that is Umbridge...so I always get this headache when I re-watch the fifth movie and I'm reminded of the Pink Powder Puff Poodle that she is. Damn...this is going to be painful for me to watch/write.

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Kagome stared back at the barren path she'd just come from, turning her eyes forward, she took in the forest that lay ahead. Shadows clung with a deathly grip to crooked and broken branches. An eerie silence fell in a hush around the shadows, but a tantalizing pull seemed to beckon her towards the darkness.

"The shadows will call out to you, it's only natural, Kagome. The opposite of light is dark, and they need the other to exist. It's your job to protect the light."

Whipping back around, she took in the sight of her mother and tears swelled in her eyes. "Mama, I don't know if I can do this."

"You will be able to, it's in your heart to do so." The woman walked forward and wrapped her arms around Kagome, resting her head atop her daughters, she smiled. "Your strength comes from your heart, Kagome...never doubt it, and it will always come through." The woman began fading and Kagome's eyes widened when her arms vanished from around her. "Mama?"

"I'm watching you, Kagome...I've always been watching you...and I always will."

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"Mama!" Kagome shot up in her bed. The lights were off and a cold sweat had formed on her brow from the dream she'd just woken from. In her room upstairs, she could here Lance and her father arguing below, just barely making out their fight. It was Lance bearing down on her father, calling him a fool for letting her do something so dangerous. Yelling about how he was sending her to her death. She shook her head, letting her hand fall to the brilliant red and gold scales of the dragon beside her, she sighed. Lifting her hand from the dragon, she watched it raise it's head and she looked at the pink jewel that dangled from around her fire-breathing friends neck. Smiling, she leaned forward and kissed the dragon on it's head. "Come Fáfnir, let us go put an end to the squabble down below." Kagome made her way down stairs, her hand came up and she fiddled with one of the three potions on the necklace she wore. She'd looked them up years ago and had since kept the necklace carefully locked away, usually only wearing it on special events. However, after the end of her last term, she started wearing Severus's gift from her first year everyday. She was nervous, scared...it was justifiable though.

"Lance?" She called as she walked down stairs.

"Kagome, did...did we wake you?"

She raised a brow and laughed, "no, mama did. I heard you after I woke up."

"...your mother?" Lance frowned and looked to Charlie who nodded.

"She's been having...visions of her mother...talking with her and such. It started in her second year."

"You never thought to mention this?"

"Sorry hunny, but you're rarely home." Charlie closed his eyes and sat down with an annoyed look on his face. "Look it here, Lance. You are my best friend, and I'd be hard pressed to find anyone who's had as much of a hand in raising Kagome than you. I can't brush you off so easily, you're family, but this is bigger than me...and I don't know if I could stop her if I tried."

Kagome stepped up behind her father and placed her arms around his shoulders, "you can't..." laying her head on his shoulder, she hugged him tightly for a moment before smiling sadly when he brought a hand to hers. "However, I can't hide away in the safety of the Dragon Prefecture. It'd be too easy."

Charlie shook his head, "and what's wrong with easy!?"

Kagome let go of her father and moved in front of him, standing between him and Lance who looked lost as to what he should say. "Nothing is wrong with easy, but easy isn't always right."

Lance frowned, "where did you learn that?"

Kagome rolled her eyes as her disdain showed on her face, "not that I think it matters, but if you must know...Dumbledore said it after it was revealed that Voldemort was back. I believe his exact words were…."We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."...and he's right. I know what's right, and it's not easy."

"Kagome...it could be easy...just stay." His voice was broken, pleading with his daughter as he took her hands in his. "Don't go to the Malfoy's, don't go back to Hogwarts….you are my daughter, let me protect you!"

A shock of thunder sounded from outside, but no one paid attention to it as a slight pitter -patter began to sound against the windowpane.

Kagome felt tears burning in her eyes, "...but daddy, I don't think it's supposed to be easy. Doing the right thing, you know? I think it's meant to be difficult, to test us, and teach us. Daddy, I want to protect you, the way you have me...for the last fourteen years. You've protected me, loved me, and you've taught me everything I know..." She fell to her knees, her hands still in his as his own tears touched gently against her fingers, "I'm able to do this because you raised me to take on the challenges that would rise before me; I'm strong because of you! Because when I was little, you told me that I could either live my life afraid of the unknown, or I could face the unknown head on...and make it my own."

"You were such an irresponsible father." Lance scoffed with a look of pride held in his eyes.

Charlie chuckled loosely, but said nothing to argue the comment. He was starting to regret his teachings too.

"Do you remember what you told me, when you were teaching me to ride dragons?"

"...yeah..."

Lance pulled out a chair and sat down, "I'm curious, what other words of wisdom did you impart on this...clearly...impressionable child."

"...daddy..."

Charlie smiled, "every time you ride a Dragon, it's a different experience. Each flight is an adventure into the great unknown...and your destination? Your destination is irrelevant...because it's all about the journey." Raising his hand from his daughters, he pulled her into his chest, and sighed. "In my attempts at preparing you for the future...I forgot all about preparing me. You woke up earlier than I wanted you to...Kagome, you are the light of my life. I love you, and when all is said and done, I will always be there for you. When everything is done, I'll come find you."

Lance's eyes widened as he watched Charlie raise his wand to Kagome's head, the tip of which glowed a soft almost white blue.

"Faux Impressionem..."

Lance watched Kagome's eyes dim in a state of fog as her body fell limp against her father. Standing, the chair was thrown back with the force at which Lance stood. "Charles!"

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Me: So...without further ado...here is chapter one. Please review, and let me know what you think!