Forever Darkness, Forever Lonely
I don't have a lot to say for this one. I guess the only reason I wrote this was because it seems to be quite popular, these kinds of fics, so I'm trying it out myself.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or Harry Potter.
Warnings: OOC, Violence, and mild swearing
Chapter One: Joke?
It was a typical day for Kurama; he laid on his bed, reading a novel he was supposed to finish for school. The sunlight shone brightly through the window of his bedroom. Everything was calm and perfect for the former Makai thief. Suddenly, he heard tapping from the window and assumed it was Hiei.
"You know my window is never locked and when did you-" Kurama had stop reading for a moment and looked at the window, expecting to see Hiei, but he only found an owl tapping softly at him window. "Oh... I didn't know owls take flight in the broad day light." He, then, noticed the owl carrying a letter in its claws. Kurama placed his book on his nightstand, but not before marking his page, and opened his window wide for the owl to fly in. The fox untied the letter from the owl and expected it to leave, but it stayed put, so he decided to see what was in the contents of the letter.
On the front of the envelope, written in emerald green was To S. Minamino, The Bedroom, Second one to the Right, Tsukami St.
'That's odd,' Kurama thought, 'Why would anyone write this info on the envelope, but more importantly, how does this person know?' He opened the envelope and pulled out a paper that read:
HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY
Head Master: Albus Dumbledore
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf Warlock,
Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)
Dear Mr. Minamino,
We are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.
Term began on 1 September, but since we have informed you late, we await your owl
by no longer that 1 October. We understand that you are sixteen and will be placed in the level
that is for you. You'll be starting at sixth grade.
Yours sincerely,
Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress
P.S. A ticket to London is enclosed with this letter as well.
"Interesting," Kurama murmured to himself.
"So I guess you have one of those damn letters as well?" a voice from outside Kurama's window asked.
Kurama didn't need to look at the person to know who it was.
The four feet and nine inch fire demon leapt onto Kurama's bed and sat there, leaning on the wall.
"Yes, it seems so," Kurama said, "Hiei, do you think this is a prank from either Yusuke or Kuwabara?"
"Hn, I doubt that," the fire demon, Hiei, glared around him, "The detective and the idiot would never have thought of such a thing."
"Then possibly Koenma?" Kurama asked.
Hiei seemed to be in thought for a moment before answering, "I don't think that toddler will have much time doing that with all the paper work he's been receiving from Makai."
Kurama thought about what Koenma had said to them.
"Demons has been mysteriously killed by an unknown power, but those only happen to the weaker demons. The S class and possibly high B class demons has been disappearing all over Makai! You must do something about it!" the demi- god sucked on his pacifier pensively.
"Yeah, yeah, so what do you think is causing that demons to disappear and mysteriously being eliminated?" Yusuke asked.
"Hn, when did you start learning long words such as disappear, mysteriously, and eliminated?" Hiei smirked.
"Why you-!" Koenma, who didn't look all too happy to be ignored, cut off Yusuke.
"Yusuke!" Koenma shouted, "Be serious! This is no joke. If you don't do anything about it, all of Makai may be doomed! Doomed I tell you!"
"Okay, okay, pacifier breath. Sheesh, you didn't have to be go dramatic!" Yusuke said, "Well, what do you want us to do?"
"Well, I want you to investigate this case before you do anything drastic," Koenma stated.
"Fine, when do you want us to start?" Yusuke inquired.
"As soon as possible, which means NOW!" Koenma shouted.
"Calm down! It's not like it's going to be the end of the world or anything," Yusuke said, but now that he thought about it, it may be the end of the demon world.
Hiei saw Yusuke's face and couldn't help but say, "And you were saying?"
"Shut up, shorty," Yusuke said. Hiei just smirked, brushing the comment off like it was nothing.
Kurama sighed, "Do you think this letter is real, Hiei?"
"Hn, how should I know?"
"Maybe, this has to do with the disappearance and murders of the demons in Makai," Kurama stated.
Hiei shrugged, then flitted out the window.
Kurama, once again, sighed and shook his head, 'Might as well ask Koenma about this.' and so, the fox made his way to the park, where there's a portal to Reikai that was unknown to all the humans. The portal was made especially for the Reikai Tentai. On the way there, he sensed a familiar ki.
"So Hiei, I guess you've decided to ask for Koenma's opinion as well?" Kurama asked.
"Hn," Kurama smirked and leapt through the portal, knowing that Hiei was going to follow him there.
Kurama and Hiei landed gracefully on their feet and opened the door to Koenma's office, not bothering to knock.
"Now, what brings you here?" the prince asked, sucking on his pacifier.
"We've just decided to ask you about this letter," Kurama brought his letter out and showed it to Koenma.
The prince seemed to read it over several times, "Well it seems the two of you are wizards."
Hiei glared daggers at him, "We're serious, you damn infant. This prank has gone on long enough!"
Kurama stepped behind Hiei and held on to his shoulder, preventing the fire demon from doing something that may throw him to spirit prison, "Hiei, calm down. Perhaps we should listen to Koenma until he finish."
The said prince cleared his throat, "Yes, well, this school is quite real. It's no prank. Hogwarts has been here for centuries."
"Then how come we haven't heard of it?" Kurama quickly asked before Hiei could do anything stupid.
Koenma seemed to think about it, deciding whether to tell them or not, but now that they're wizards, he decided that they have the right to know, "The wizarding world has been here for quite a long time, but they didn't want the people out side their world to know of such magic. They believed if muggles, which means non- magic people, know about this, the world will become a very lazy and dependent place. Everyone would be using magic to do chores, transportation, communicating, and a whole lot of mumble jumble the humans do."
"That seems reasonable, I guess..." Kurama said.
"I still don't believe in such a place," Hiei reluctantly said.
"Can't you at least check it out?" Koenma asked, "It's only in London and-"
"It's WHERE!" Hiei and even the, always calm, Kurama shouted in surprise.
"Just let me finish," the prince glared at the two demons in front of him, then cleared his throat, once again, "Like I was saying, it's in London and it may concern the case that you and the other spirit detectives are doing. From what I have heard there's an evil wizard roaming the grounds of the human world, killing mercilessly. This evil wizard has been rumored to be a demon because of his ability to keep coming back to life."
"That's a very interesting story, Koenma, but one thing I don't understand is that, it what you say, or other people say, is true about this wizard, how did it get pass the barrier that separates Makai from Ningenkai?" Kurama, always the one that wants to know all the information before jumping into any conclusions.
Koenma sighed, "I guess I haven't been telling you everything over the years," this part was when Kurama coughed and in between it was suspiciously the word "Sensui", "Anyways! Over the years, people, not only Sensui, have been trying to break the barrier. Now, after centuries, this wizard was able to rip a hole large enough for demons to go through it."
"I see, so you want us to go to London and attend this school, so we can investigate farther into the case and even try to solve it, but it may be hard considering we don't have Yusuke here," Kurama stated.
"Yes, well, the two of you are quite powerful if you work together, so just go out there and try to stop him," Koenma said.
With a nod from Kurama and a grunt from Hiei, the two of them left Reikai and made their way to London.
Kurama had sent the letter back to Howarts, surprisingly the owl stayed put in his room and waited for him to tie the letter to its claws before it set flight once again.
'How will I tell Shiori that I have to go to London?' Kurama thought over and over again, trying to form a plan in his head while playing with a Rubix cube. "I know!" Kurama suddenly stood up from sitting in the hard wooden chair and went downstairs to speak with his human mother.
"Mother?" Kurama called out from the living room.
"I'm in the kitchen!" was his answer as he made his way to the direction of the voice.
"Ah, Suuichi, is there something the matter?" Shiori asked, while scrambling some eggs for dinner.
"Yes, well, you see, there's this letter from London and I was invited to go to a school there. It's a boarding school and there are no expenses, it's free of charge. They even sent me a plane ticket to get there," Kurama explained.
"Is anyone else going with you?" Shiori inquired.
"Yes, my friend, Hiei, will be going with me," Kurama told his mother.
"Good. It's not that I don't think you can't take care of yourself, but please be careful. It's quite care away from here and I want you to be safe," Shiori said.
Kurama could tell that she was on the verge of tears, but was trying to keep it in. "It's alright mother. I'll be careful. You'll have to take care of yourself as well."
Shiori smiled at his son and nodded. "Now, will you mind setting the table for me, Shuuichi?"
"Alright, mother," Kurama said.
The days past by, now it was the day to board the plane to get to London. Kurama and Hiei, well mostly Kurama, said their goodbyes and farewells to their friends and family.
"So are you ready for this, Hiei?" Kurama asked his fiery friend as they sat down on to the velvet seat in the well-constructed plane.
"Hn, when am I not ready for something?" Hiei grunted.
"Well, how about a certain someone's sister?" Kurama gave Hiei a sly look.
"Hn," Hiei turned away from Kurama and stared out the window.
After about six hours in a dreaded plane, Kurama and Hiei came out of it. Hiei was silently cursing and glaring.
"Oh, come on Hiei, it wasn't that bad," Kurama said, though he, himself, didn't like the ride either. There was this old woman was yelling mindlessly at a young child who was running around in the plane, a teenager with the music volume at full blast and singing along with it with equal the loudness, and how can Kurama forget at least half of the male population in the plane was hitting on him.
Hiei read Kurama's mind and smirked when the fox thought about the men in the plane hitting on him. "Want to back up what you wanted to say?"
Kurama sweat dropped, knowing that Hiei had probed his mind, but he didn't care. It happens quite often. Ignoring the question, Kurama continue walking, trying to find a place called the Leaky Cauldron, but so far he was unsuccessful.
"Where can it be?" Kurama muttered to himself.
"Hn, how about right there?" Hiei said, pointing to an old pub with large letters saying: Leaky Cauldron.
Kurama sweat dropped, "Yes, that's probably it." With that said, the two of them went inside and was immediately greeted by a man. Even by Kurama's standards, he was creepy, but Hiei was just... Hiei.
"I presume the two of you are the ones that Dumbledore has spoken to me about," the man said.
"Oh I see Mr..." Kurama had just realized that he didn't know this strange man's name yet.
"Ah, the name is Tom, now please follow me," Tom led the two demons to a... brink wall?
"Hn, so what do you want us to do? Run into it? Hoping it would break and reveal and secret world no one knows about?" Hiei didn't know that he wasn't all incorrect.
Tom tapped on three different places on the brick wall, then to Hiei's and Kurama's surprise, the wall seem to rebuild itself, but leaving a very big gap in the middle for at least two or three people to fit through.
"Welcome to Diagon Alley. You better get to Gringotts first if you don't have any wizarding money," Tom said before leaving the two demons to themselves.
"Well, I guess it's Gringotts first," Kurama said.
"Do we really have to go to this place full of humans?" Hiei said with a very strong disgusted tone in his voice.
"Yes, now come on," Kurama dragged the sulking Hiei to the busy community.
Finally, they reached a huge white building. Beside it's bronze door was some thing that was wearing a scarlet and gold uniform.
"What is that thing?" Hiei asked, clearly more disgusted than being with a place full of humans.
Kurama shook his head, not knowing the answer himself. As they walked in, the 'thing' bowed. When they were somewhat inside, they were met with another pair of doors. Engraved in it were words that was clearly a warning, it read:
Enter, stranger, but take heed
Of what awaits the sin of greed,
For those who take, but do not earn,
Must pay most dearly in their turn,
So if you seek beneath our floors
A treasure that was never yours,
Thief, you have been warned, beware
Of finding more than treasure there
Hiei snorted at the warning, "Pathetic."
"Yes, I agree," Kurama suddenly had the gold glint in his eyes that Hiei didn't quite like, "I think I just might want to try out their security here."
Hiei shook his head, "You better not get caught."
"Don't worry, I won't," with that said, the infamous thief opened the door and walked into the bank with Hiei trailing behind him, not wanting to get caught because a certain fox was careless.
Kurama quietly sneaked into a quiet place and changed into his demon form. Mist covered the place like a transparent blanket, and then disappeared. In the place Kurama once was, was now a tall figure. It's fluffy silver tail swished playfully, ready to break into the vault. The fox ears on its head twitch at every sound, its eyes were a beautiful colour of gold as it held a look of mischief. Finally, its clothes were somewhat of a loose tunic, fitting its form perfectly.
Kurama, or Youko now, smirked and quickly flitted to his first obstacle, the door in wish you have to have permission to go through.