#should kagome ever try to make friends with the basilisk

[zefyre]

Hey there, big fan of your work! I was just looking through your de tag and saw a bit about Kagome going to the Chamber of Secrets and it made me think... what if she befriended the basilisk? I remember seeing this recount once upon a time about squib!Harry and in that it involved him befriending the basilisk. I mean Kagome's befriended people/creatures who tried to kill her before, so why not a big snake who she can actually talk to?

Oh scratch the squib!Harry, that was a different story. The one where Harry befriended a basilisk was the one where he grew up in Hogwarts because Petunia didn’t take him in.

Aaaa, thank you friend!! ^^

But j e s u s, can you imagine if she has a fucking basilisk on her side during the final battle?? It could swallow up a line of death eaters, or even werewolves in one fricking gulp. Maybe take down a giant without much of a sweat.

But the basilisk – it’s loyal to Salazar, and isn’t Voldemort his descendant?? I think that was how he was able to gain control of the snake, bc it was loyal to Salazar’s line and could only be controlled by his true heir. So would Kagome actually be able to reason with it? To befriend it??

[more under the cut bc this got loooong]

It wouldn’t be easy, if the snake is compelled to listen to Salazar’s true heir. Maybe Kagome ventures into the chamber with Kirara at her side, and tries to talk to it but it turns out it’s no good. It won’t listen to her, instead tries to attack her, and it’s only because of Kirara that she escapes. Maybe that’s how it goes for a long while. Until the summer comes and Kagome has to leave it alone for a couple of months.

When she is back, the snake does not immediately attack her, but is definitely still hostile. Demands why she has returned after all this time, why she persists. *This one will not allow another to control it. This one will only listen to master’s true heir.*

And of course Kagome immediately goes, *I don’t want to control you. I want to… befriend you. I’d like to be your friend*

And the basilisk, it smells no lies. However, it does detect the faint smell of another snake – of Siki, who had visited Kagome before she had left for Hogwarts. And maybe that and Kagome’s sincerity is enough for it to listen, if only for a small time. Though it is still quick to hiss and snap at her.

But over time, Kagome grows on the basilisk. Why not? This is the only company it has had in decades and Tom Riddle doesn’t seem the type to take the time and chat with the snake and consider it as another intelligent being. Oh, he respects it’s power, but first and foremost sees the basilisk as a tool not an equal, not anything close. Maybe even Salazar did not consider the basilisk as such either, or perhaps considered it only a pet – for he left it locked away in the chamber to be used by his heir to clear the school of muggle-borns (if the legend is to be believed. maybe the basilisk devoted its life to salazar and agreed to stay for him. maybe it was protection if muggles ever discovered and took over bc he was paranoid that by taking in muggle-born children, it raised the risk of the magical world being revealed to the world. who knows)

Either way, the basilisk is a little bitter about it. If Salazar treated it kindly, maybe it had been waiting so long for his true heir to release it so they could meet, only to meet this little shit that wanted it to murder human snakelets (salazar had talked about muggles one day ransacking the castle and destroying everything he and the founders had built, these are just human snakelets wanting to learn magic, not doing any harm. it only petrified kids until myrtle after all – maybe bc voldemort said to get rid of muggle-borns at first so it was like, well he didn’t specifically say kill. and took to indirectly looking into the children until mrytle discovered voldemort speaking to it in the bathroom and he ordered it to kill her.) 

So yeah, the basilisk grows to become fond of Kagome and her visits, eventually arriving without Kirara, which to the basilisk is a show of trust. (one that the basilisk questions the wisdom of the first time it happens, to which kagome answers – you don’t bring protection to talk to a friend. The basilisk is kind of touched, but still tells kagome it doesn’t mind bc it’s also fond of the furry beast. maybe because kirara brought some food down to it as a treat lol – the basilisk lives of the magic provided from the castle, but appreciates food all the same, misses it too.) 

And sometimes Kagome comes down to the chamber to escape, because this place isn’t on the map so the boys can’t find her. No one but Kirara can find her. The basilisk of course smells the scent of tears and is furious – who dares make it’s favorite snakelet cry? Demands to know who so it can eat them. Kagome laughs and says it isn’t necessary, probably thinks it’s only joking and finding it weirdly comforting – until realizing it’s not and oh, the basilisk is a her and now her motherly instincts have been agitated. 

Anyway holy shit this is getting so long /cries – but the years pass and Kagome takes to visiting the basilisk (who needs a name of course, and man, imagine how long since the basilisk has heard her name? has been asked that?) at least once a week, even allowing her to roam the forest freely, as she won’t attack snakelets of her own will. 

Until the final battle happens and, because Kagome had left the door to the chamber and therefore to the pipes open, the basilisk comes out to fight those that dare attack the snakelets of the castle and the real test of loyalty comes when Voldemort finds her. Here is the true heir of the man she vowed her loyalty to, and maybe once upon a time she would follow his orders without question, maybe his words compel something in her, but she either smells or hears the snakelet that has been a constant companion to her over the years, that has treated her not below like some animal or tool, but an equal as an intelligent being, that has been a friend when for so long she had has none, and it destroys whatever compulsion or loyalty that is tied to him.