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Notes: I'm working on my other stories, too, don't worry. I just have very little time, and I'm a very lazy person.

Those two things don't mix so well!

Warning: Bit of shonen-ai flirting (not much) and one single long line of swearing. All from one contributor, too.

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Keeping Quiet

Chapter 1

The Summons

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Kurama gave a light sigh as his foot took the last step, arriving on the landing of the temple stairs. The heat was exquisite that day, dampening his skin. His loose clothing hung to him uncomfortably, sticking to his skin and catching with every movement. Sweat occasionally rolled down his skin, inviting his bangs to plaster to his forehead.

The thought of getting to the temple and out of the ridiculous summer heat was enough motivation to get him walking towards the holy grounds. His brow furled as he neared, however. Koenma had been here (been being the key word) and Genkai was no longer. The fox sighed. He'd come all the way up the damn steps, right through the very heart of the woods that had given him some desire to come through the blazing heat and all for nothing it would seem.

But the temple still offered some relief despite the absence of his journey's purpose. So Kurama continued on his way towards the temple, feet silent on the stones beneath his shoes. He headed for the courtyard garden, the entrance closest to Genkai's kitchen.

He didn't think the old master would mind him entering unannounced.

Besides, if his senses weren't fooling him, he'd find company there.

He rounded the corner to find his senses true; Yusuke was sitting on the edge of the porch, legs bent and supported by the side of the wood. With his legs bent up, he was hunched over, arms lying loosely atop his knees and a cigarette fingered idly in his right hand.

Looking up, he gave a nod in Kurama's direction, included with a smirk, before he took a long drag of the cigarette. The fox sighed and walked over to him, not approving of the habit. He stopped in front of the detective and jumped up beside him, sitting in a similar position that held much more grace and a lot less slouch.

"That habit of yours will be the death of you, Yusuke," the fox lightly commented as Yusuke blew out a puff of cloudy smoke. Kurama gave him an annoyed glance and waved it away.

"Eh, I'm sure Koenma'd let me come back," Yusuke replied jokingly as he lazily took another drag. He smirked at the explosion Koenma would display if Yusuke simply expected a resurrection. Kurama raised an eyebrow as he leaned over and snatched the cigarette from his friend's hand.

The detective blinked at his smoke-less hand slowly.

"Don't push your luck," the fox replied, crushing the butt out against the wooden slats of the porch. Yusuke only shrugged and managed to pull another out of his pocket, sliding it into his mouth. Kurama gave a scowl and grabbed the new offending object before it had even been lit. "Speaking of Koenma…He was here, ne?"

Yusuke glanced over to him, eying the unlit tobacco he wanted back. After a second, he smirked and nodded. "Yeah, Diaper-boy stopped by about ten minutes ago. Though, I doubt that's the real reason you're here."

Kurama chuckled lightly, the sound still amazing Yusuke in it's own lightness. "Not precisely. Is master Genkai present?"

"Nope." The answer was quick and easy, and Kurama gave a raised eyebrow once more. "And stop calling her master. She has enough ego as it is."

Kurama hid his smile politely behind his hand. "Well, do you know where I might find her?"

"Yeah," Yusuke gave a soft sigh, hand twitching slightly. Kurama didn't notice. "Koenma said something about needing her help in 'discussing the details of an upcoming mission with a foreign advocate,' whatever the hell that even means."

This time Kurama's raised eyebrow was joined by its twin before both furled in confusion. "Foreign advocate? That's…odd…that's very odd."

"So…" Yusuke began idly, his fingers fiddling with something in the pocket of his gray jacket. "What'd you want to see Grandma for?"

Kurama's frown turned to a look of barely concealed worry as his emerald eyes wandered to the forest. Yusuke's gaze turned from curiosity to interest at his friend's odd behavior.

He held back the urge to interrupt as Kurama slowly began, "Everything is in pain…" His voice was saddened and suddenly seemed exhausted. "The very energy of the earth is churning angrily, as if ripped from its roots. The plants' whispers have grown dark; their voices hushed and hissing with unseen strain."

The fox's eyes drew skyward. "It has been worsening all summer." He glanced at Yusuke and the detective was surprised and taken back to see that his voice now matched his appearance; exhaustion of both physical and emotion strength was evident. "And I have been suffering its effects."

The raven-haired teen was silent for a long time, contemplating his friend's words. When he could not come up with a comforting reply, he let out a long, low whistle and instead answered with, "You've got problems."

Yusuke's answer briefly surprised Kurama before a smile spread across his weary features, lighting them back up again with his laugh. The comfort of such a thing was enough to dispel his fears. "Thank you, Yusuke," he managed as his chuckles subsided to giggles hidden by a hand. "You are most helpful."

The detective smirked and lit the cigarette he had snuck out of his jacket pocket during Kurama's sorrowful explanation. He drew in a long breath of smoke before letting it out slowly. "It's what I'm here for," he began, noticing Kurama glaring at him again. He smirked. "But seriously, you think something's up?"

Kurama closed his eyes in brief agitation as he reached over and snatched the cigarette yet again. He held it between his fingers and opened his eyes to stare down at the drug. "Of course I do. It is well known that Flora and Fauna are the first to sense danger when it is on its impending way."

Yusuke, using (once more) his friend's distraction, grabbed the cigarette triumphantly and held it to his side, away from the fox who was once again glaring. "Who are Flo-whatever and Fa-whoevere? They two Shinto gods or something?"

Kurama gave an exasperated sigh and leaned behind Yusuke to steal back the damn drug with a thief's quickness. Yusuke blinked. He could easily follow the speed, but he rarely had to deal with a master thief's abilities.

"'Or something would be correct,' Yusuke. The words mean plants and animals. Have you ever once learned anything in school?" the fox asked, moving the cigarette to his far side, keeping it from Yusuke. The teen snorted and gave up, once more reaching into his pocket.

He pulled out a pack of cigarettes as he replied, "When I did go? Nope, and I don't plan on changing that any time soon…" he frowned, trialing off as he turned the carton upside down, shaking it.

Nothing came out.

He turned to a smug fox and glared. Kurama only smiled as he reprimanded, "Ever think it's trying to tell you something?"

Yusuke growled with his scowling glare in place as he leaned over, trying to grab the unlit cigarette Kurama still held. The darker haired teen repeated his growl as he tried to grab his supply of nicotine back. "Yeah, it's telling me that an annoying fox is stealing all my smokes!"

Kurama was in mid laugh when a deep, distinguished voice suddenly cut through the light, bell-like sound. Its owner stood in front of them, having arrived unnoticed. "Will you two idiots stop fooling around like lovebirds?"

The comment immediately pulled the two apart, though more was attributed to the redhead than Yusuke, who just leisurely pulled away, smirking at Hiei the entire time, as if he knew something the fire demon didn't.

Which, of course, he did.

Hiei just rolled his eyes at the raven-haired leader of the tentai and turned to Kurama, who had seemingly found a very interesting rock to stare at somewhere near the fire demon's feet. Upon feeling the intensity of the youkai's glare, however, emerald green eyes glanced up and a small smile, boosted by a forced smile, was shown to the short hiyoukai.

"Hello, Hiei. Are you here to check up on Yukina?" Kurama asked politely, starting off the conversation as always. The fire demon stared at him for a long, hard moment, never blinking or moving those red hard orbs away.

Just as the fox was growing slightly nervous and self-conscious under that stare, Hiei glanced towards the forest and, ignoring his question, replied bluntly, "You look ill, fox."

Kurama just widened the smile a fraction of an inch, more so with the addition of more force then actual smile. "Yes, I wasn't aware if you could feel it too or no-"

"I feel it," came the fire demon's curt reply and Kurama's smile shrank slightly, showing more signs of strain. "But the effects are showing strongly on you…Hn, I should have known they would. You are a plant manipulator after all."

The youko only nodded, not sure how to reply to that and feeling like somewhat of a weakling under Hiei's scrutiny. Yusuke could feel the tense waves flowing off of Kurama in the form of nervousness and the fire demon, as always, seemed oblivious to it.

"Hey, lighten up man," Yusuke interrupted the two's silent warfare of, well, silence. "Kurama can't help what he is. Besides, if both of you feel it, then I know something's up. We should probably go see Koenma when we can."

The reincarnated fox nodded and lightly jumped from the porch, landing beside Hiei and tossing the cigarette to the floor where Yusuke mourned for its loss. Kurama turned to the fire demon beside him, who had once more gone back to regarding the youko's face with his hard red eyes.

"I agree," Kurama began. "Hiei, if you would just open a p-"

The fox never got to finish his sentence as he suddenly vanished, just like that. Without sound or warning, but for the slight widening of his emerald green eyes, Kurama disappeared before them as a mark erased off a paper.

Yusuke was on his feet in seconds and beside Hiei, who had already thrown his bandana to the winds, scourging where their friend had been not to seconds before.

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Kurama gasped out, or tried to as he was shoved roughly to the ground. His stomach turned at the avid feeling of having someone take their clawed hand, shove it right behind the navel, and pull as hard as physically possible.

His chest muscles were convulsing, tightening on his lungs and making it harder and harder to breathe. He scrunched his eyes, only filled with flashing white and black lights, as he fought to grab in some more oxygen, to feed his screaming brain.

Hands grabbed at his arms, dull nails through thick gloves digging into his soft flesh. He cried out as he struggled against them, but his movements were weak and unappreciated, as seen by the tightening of his captors' grips and the harsh words spoken.

Kurama frowned; he recognized those words. They weren't Japanese, but he knew them…yes, they were English. As the pain of his navel slowly faded he focused his mind on ignoring his staggering breathes, his dragging captors, and ciphered through those words, remembering his years in school.

He got most of it, though he couldn't remember some of the words, and the sentence came out fragmented. "--, this girl is really piss-- me off!"

Before he could stop to ask himself why they were in an English-speaking location, or even why he was being referred to as a girl (which really wasn't that odd,) Kurama cried out in fear as something was placed over his face. He kicked out and received his kick back in the solar plexus. A groan stuck in his throat as his body went limp in reaction to the pain shooting through his nervous system.

A ribbon or some form of tie was pulled tightly behind his head, his crimson hair pulled sharply back in order to tuck the tie beneath his silky strands. It was apparent as he forced his eyes open, despite the disorienting spots flickering in his vision, that a mask had been put over his face.

There was no mouth piece, it seemed smooth from the inside and the eyeholes were covered by a black cloth, making it impossible to see anything while submerging him in a world of porcelain darkness.

Kurama cried out in anger and slight fear as the two holding him hoisted him up, pulling him up to something cold and hard. He cried out in frustration, kicking and pulling, doing everything to keep the two holding him from clasping manacles around his wrists.

The harsh clang of metal closing onto metal and the rusty, cold touch of its unwelcome grip on his wrists told him he had failed to stop them. Those hands released him and his entire weight fell upon the cuffs on his wrist. He screamed out as one cut into his skin, blood dripping down his left arm.

He screamed for them to release him as he kicked out, hoping to find someone with his blind shot. Cloth connected with his foot and he prepared for another kick but stopped as an angry cry ripped through the air around him.

He knew that cry.

"Kuwabara!" He shouted past his mask, his voice oddly muffled as his own breath, hot against his skin, was pushed back at him from the lack of an airway.

The cries silenced for a minute before an excited voice responded, though still clearly pissed at, what Kurama assumed, were men chaining him to a wall as well. "Kurama! Kurama, what's going on!"

The fox fought against the chains suspending him off the ground. "I don't know, Kuwabara, there's a mask over my eyes! Can you see?"

Kuwabara struggled as manacles were clasped around his wrists as well and he looked up, through porcelain eyeholes. Across the way from him, chained to a thick, rectangular rock stuck in the ground was Kurama, or what he assumed was Kurama.

The fox was clad in a black, plain robe. His red hair fell around either of his shoulders and around a pure white mask. The mask was oval in shape and bore the resemblance of a soft-faced human with gently pursed lips of pure porcelain, unpainted. The eyes were covered by a black cloth, ending at the edge of the mask to fall down to his chest in loose ribbons. Black markings of an ink of some sort swirled under the covered eyeholes, and were matched by the twisting patters on the sides of the mask and the center of the forehead.

Kuwabara didn't recognize them, if they were meant to mean anything at all.

Around the fox were other stones, various sizes but all mostly rectangular in shape, some forming doorways by two stones topped with a third. Kuwabara frowned slightly. He thought he recognized the place, but he couldn't quite remember where he had seen it.

Men were all around them, clothed in dark black, slightly iridescent robes. Hoods pulled up into cones, bending slightly at top, covered their heads and connected to the masks over their faces. Skulls of an oddly real imagery were placed over their eyes, ending as they bridged over the nose.

Kuwabara had no idea what the hell was going on, but he had a feeling that they had stepped into the middle of some sort of freakish, gothic cult without knowing it.

Some men moved about with a purpose, and two stood on either side of Kurama's stone, as well as two on either side of his. Others were in a circle around a giant black…pot which stood in the middle of the circle of stones. Kuwabara frowned at its bubbling, clear liquid and the dark green fire burning beneath it and the men standing around them with half raised arms.

Last time he checked, and that was last night when he made dinner, fires didn't burn green.

"Kurama, there are men…and…stones everywhere and…and a fire that's burning green!" Kuwabara shouted back even as he pulled against his own chains, his wrists becoming sore from the weight of his own body.

Kurama frowned, both at the weak description he was given as well as the sudden scream of another being. The fox's eyes opened wide behind the mask as the most foul-mouthed swearing he had heard in some time suddenly graced their presence.

"Let go of me, bastards! Fucking dipshits! Let go! Assholes, release me! Cock-sucking mother-fucking halfbreeds! Let me go!"

"Yusuke!" Kurama and Kuwabara shouted out at the same time. The cussing abruptly halted as his name sunk in and Yusuke spun in the arms of his captors, taking in both Kurama and Kuwabara dangling from a bunch of rocks.

"Kuwabara!" he shouted out as he was hauled up, kicking and screaming. "Fox-boy! Use your plants, damn it!"

Kurama nodded as he closed his eyes and concentrated. He should have been doing just that to begin with; freeing himself. He was sure that Yusuke would use his rei-gun if he got the opportunity. Summoning a plant to lengthen it's thin vine from his hair, he kept his position unmoving in hopes that no one would notice the green plant snaking down his neck and up around his arm to his cuff.

Yusuke was hauled up and chained in time to see Hiei suddenly appear and stumble back away from the cauldron. He watched in surprise as he realized that the men were standing in a circle and chanting in a language he wasn't familiar with. It dawned upon him as two men grabbed the shaken fire demon before he could fall to the floor; the men in the circle had summoned him and his three friends.

The chanting died down even as Hiei's outraged screams ripped around them.

Yusuke took the moment to glance around again as they strung Hiei up. His friends and he were dressed in black robes and masks, all four hanging on stones in a circle of them. Kurama hung across from Kuwabara, while Hiei hung across from him.

They all bore masks of a similar fashion; soft-faced human design with ribbons and odd inked designs. Kuwabara's mask of an off-white color bore dark green symbols of sharp contrast to Kurama's. While the fox's swirled in a rather gothic, almost eerie manner, Kuwabara's held harsh, sharp angles and cornered spirals, no line curving but rather full of sharp contouring angles. These symbols wrapped over the chin of the mask as well as the bridge of the nose to just under the eyes.

Green ribbons matching the color of the painted symbols hung from the sides of his mask, just before his ears. There were three ribbons on either side that hung down to his chest. Unlike Kurama, these ribbons did not obscure his eyes, which could be seen from behind the porcelain cut outs.

Hiei, who was across from the raven haired detective, bore a mask of a cream color covered in deep, blood red markings. Drawings that bore a similarity to those in Makai, and truly confused as well as frightened Yusuke, were scrawled in an inky splatter under the two eyeholes as well as above each of them, evenly spaced. Slightly above the two scrolled markings on his forehead but in the very center of them, forming a triangle, was a scrawled mark for the demon word, Evil Eye.

Yusuke didn't know what he looked like, but he was almost afraid to find out. He didn't like what was going on and it was pissing him off beyond what he could contemplate into words that his friends were being harmed and chained up like objects.

He rattled his own chains as the men in the circle around the center cauldron parted to let through what appeared to be the leader of this little cult.

His skin was icy pale and gave off a sort of slimy appearance upon the first look. From out of flowing, somewhat unnatural robes of a translucent black was a face contorted to be comparable to a snake. His nose had been flattened so that the only rise was in his nostrils, which were slit thin to once again copy that of a snake. Eyes of a cold, threatening presence narrowed as he stepped into the ring of what Yusuke supposed were his followers.

This man sent shivers down the well-trained detective who had fought many a demons and "creepy" men.

As the man before them raised his arms to speak in that foreign language of theirs, Yusuke glanced over to Kurama, trying to keep it inconspicuous. He watched as his teammate popped one hand out of his manacle in perfect silence.

Without being able to see Kurama's face, he could only imagine the pain the fox was going through to keep himself perfectly quiet as he hung by one arm, managing to keep his movement to a minimum.

Thankfully, the men on either side of his stone prison had not yet noticed the fox's attempts towards freedom.

Yusuke kept his breath from taking in, where he wanted to hold it in hope for his teammate. He gathered his power slowly into his finger, not sure whether the men that had captured them knew of their abilities with youki and reiki or not.

Seeing as none of them were warded, he had a feeling they did not, but that did not stop him from being cautious as he gathered enough energy for a point-precision shot with his rei-gun.

Kurama looked up, though he didn't know where to look up to in hopes of finding Yusuke, so he simply looked up as a signal. Yusuke got it, even if the fox was unaware that he did.

So when Kurama suddenly dropped from his stone confinement, screaming at Yusuke to fire, the detective raised his wrist as best he could around the cuffs and shot.

Blue light engulfed the clearing, sending shadows from the stones all around the ground in a circular pattern. The shot fired through the clearing and hit the hooded, masked man right in the chest, sending him back with a cry of pain. Kurama took the other one out with a side sweep kick, knocking him off his feet, and using only his hearing to locate him.

Kurama was up, pulling the mask to the top of his head with his hand, and sprinting across the circle. Men shouted as he easily took them out, one by one, and headed directly for Yusuke.

The fox ducked as Yusuke screamed for him to do so as a red light flashed by him. All eyes opened wide as the edge of the stone beside him exploded, chipped off by that red light.

"Oh my fucking god." That one comment uttered as calmly as that was all that was needed. Kurama reached up and began pouring acid onto the chains, using the juice of a seed and ignoring the acid that got on his own hands in the process.

The men in the odd cult outfits and masks were freaking out, half of them keeping the circle, a fourth remaining in the circle but pulling out sticks from their black robes. The last fourth went running towards Kurama and Yusuke.

"Fox!" Hiei screamed out as he began chucking fireballs, manacles clanging as he hoisted himself up enough to move his wrists before falling back down. "Detective, get moving!"

Kurama moved to his other chain to pour acid as Yusuke pulled his wrist and manacle free, breaking the last chain. The fox cringed as acid drops began to run down his hand again as he rubbed the seed onto the second set of chains.

"Watch it!" Yusuke shouted as he screamed out his shotgun attack. Half the men, including the one that was mere feet from Kurama, went down and both Hiei and Kuwabara narrowly avoided being hit. Kurama was just about done with the last bit of acid when two words caught his mind and he spun to stare at one of the robed men who had managed to avoid the shotgun blast.

"Avada Ked-"

"Stop, you insolent fool!" the creepy, snake-leader screamed, pulling his own stick out and shouting a Latin command. A green light flared out among them but when it cleared, all four tentai froze in their movements to stare at the man twitching on the ground.

"Kurama…Get out of here!" Yusuke screamed as he pulled his second arm free, causing the manacle to cut into his wrist as he had to pull harder than normal in order to break the half melted chain.

The fox was already up and running, but not to where Yusuke had in mind. The detective gave one strangled shout as he dropped to the floor, throwing his mask to the side of his head, only to find that Kurama was sprinting right through the half unconscious, half firing men.

Red lights sprung around them as Kurama turned and raised a kekkai around him, bouncing the dangerous lights off to shoot elsewhere. He turned and kept running towards Hiei, expecting Yusuke to go after Kuwabara.

The detective didn't disappoint; as soon as he realized that not only was Kurama not going to do what he said and get out of here, but he could block those stone-exploding lights with a kekkai he was up and after Kuwabara.

Leaping over the unconscious men and raising a kekkai around him, he made it over to his orange-haired companion and shot his first chains off. He turned in time to see Kurama reach Hiei, the fire demon covering him with fireball after fireball.

One of those lights sent forth by the leader himself, who was yelling at the incompetence of his men, cracked and shattered Kurama's kekkai and sent the fox stumbling forward with a yell as the first of Hiei's cuffs dropped off. A second light sent by one of the lesser hooded men collapsed Kurama entirely as he fell to the ground before Hiei with a cry of surprise.

The fire demon's red eyes widened in surprise as he was tearing off his mask and he suddenly screamed in outrage, melting the metal of his last manacle and dropping to the ground beside Kurama.

Yusuke's eyes widened as he shot the last of Kuwabara's confinement and the orange-haired teen dropped to the ground. "Watch it!" Yusuke shouted as he grabbed his best friend and shoved himself and Kuwabara into the ground by the stone.

Not two seconds later the dragon of the darkness flame erupted in all its fury and wrapped around the stone, scorching the one Kuwabara had been attached to seconds before. Yusuke began soldier crawling away from the stone figurations, motioning for Kuwabara to follow, the latter busy yelling at Hiei to watch where we was aiming.

As the two crawled from the raging inferno of a fireball that used to be Stonehenge, the screams of the burning men behind them and shouted commands broke through the fiery crackling.

Yusuke climbed up as they made it out of the stone circle to see Hiei pulling Kurama out twenty feet from them. He pulled Kuwabara up and headed to his two teammates.

Kurama was conscious and seemed perfectly fine but for the fact that he could not stand. Hiei was supporting him with Kurama's arm wrapped around his shoulder. The fox and the fire demon didn't stop as their two teammates ran up beside them and kept running as fast as they could, expecting Yusuke and Kuwabara to follow.

"What the fuck is going on?" Yusuke screamed out as they ran, Kuwabara tripping over his long black robes twice. He managed to help his orange-haired companion as they ran through green, grassy fields.

Hiei didn't answer until he suddenly came to a halt, staring at the ground. Yusuke followed his gaze to the asphalt just before the fire demon's feet.

"Ningen," Hiei hissed at the road they were on, Kurama hanging onto him tightly as he tried to get his legs back but found it useless.

"Whoever, let's just go!" Yusuke shouted as he ran across it and back into the grassy fields. "Don't follow it; we have no idea where we are!"

"England." Yusuke turned as he ran to look at Kurama as the fox repeated his claim. "We're in England."

"What the hell are we doing in England?" Kuwabara shouted out as they continued running. There were shouts behind them as the dragon, less fiery and much smaller suddenly slammed back into Hiei, reforming around his arm.

The fire demon managed to hold on to Kurama as the dragon rejoined him, but the renewed shouts from the stick-toting, masked cult freaks heading after them caused the four to quicken their pace.

Unfortunately, due to Kurama's jelly legs and Kuwabara's human nature, they couldn't increase their speed past what Kuwabara could handle, which wasn't much faster than a human.

They hadn't run far when the shouts behind them began to fade and they glanced at one another, not sure where they were, how to get home, or even if they could contact Koenma.

"Okay…" Yusuke said as he began slowing to a walking pace. He turned around as he did so to look at the horizon behind them. The stones still stood out but were clouded over by a pillowing cloud of black smoke, illuminated by the flames still burning. "Let's see if we can get a portal open, okay?"

Hiei nodded, gently starting to lower Kurama to the ground but stopped, staring at him in surprise for a moment. The fox raised an eyebrow at him but the fire demon simply gave his one syllable answer and looked away.

He had though he saw Kurama shake his head at Yusuke's proposal.

"I'll open the portal," Hiei answered as he put two fingers together and sliced through the air. Sparks flew but no portal opened and all four backed away, Hiei picking Kurama up in a blur as the sparks began hissing like a malfunctioning computer someone just poured coffee on.

"What in Makai was th-" Kuwabara never finished his exclaimed mark as the sound of popping began all around them, with each one Yusuke and Kuwabara jumped slightly.

Within seconds there were twelve men surrounding them, clothed in cloaks and various hats with odd entities stuck around them, all pointing those damn sticks at them again.

Yusuke didn't look at his orange-haired friend, but he slightly inclined his head towards him. "You were saying, Kuwabara?"

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Chapter 1

End

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Okay, it's finished.

I hope you all enjoyed this and please review!

Oh, and let me now if there are any questions, since I didn't actually name anything in the wizard world.

Author's Notes

…as if he Yusuke knew something the fire demon didn't…
Okay, if no one got this: Yusuke knows that Kurama loves Hiei, but Hiei doesn't know, and he also likes to tease both the fox and the fire demon by "flirting" if you will, with Kurama when he knows Hiei is near.

green light flared…man twitching on the ground… Okay, Voldemort didn't use the killing curse. The green light was the misfire of the death eater's curse. Voldemort just…punished without killing.

Sparks flew but no portal opened… This will be explained in further chapters.

End Author's Notes

ALSO: I reread this and realized that from any one with even the slightest perversion (a.k.a.: Me) would notice that I used the words "pulled out" in a sentence with the word "stick" waaaaaay too many times.

Okay, just thought I'd give you all a last minute laugh. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and please review!