REWRITTEN (Again, sorry for caps, but I put it in bold for you all to notice!)
Pika: Enjoy the rewrite :)
Disclaimer monkey: Pika DOES *Kurama glare* Err… I mean does NOT own YYH or HP.
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Chapter 2: Forced offers
Yusuke and Kuwabara sat in Japanese history, this time listening to the drones about the history of samurai and their origin. While Kuwabara listened to and believed every single vital word, Yusuke had stopped paying attention five minutes into the lesson. He knew all this seeing as he was alive back in the samurai days and had learned many things about it. He resisted the urge to snort in amusement when he noticed Keiko, who had also stopped paying attention, was looking over the equipment list he had received form Hogwarts. She still wasn't too sure about the idea of a magic school, but they were seeing Genkai after this, so hopeful there would be new details.
Kuwabara, unlike Yusuke and Keiko, was taking detailed notes and was listening with intensity. Yusuke was lucky to be smart, Kuwabara decided, he didn't have to worry about his grades dropping anytime soon. Keiko as well, Kuwabara thought, noting both their disinterest and lack of attention.
The bell rang suddenly signaling the end of school. "Class dismissed," the teacher said and everybody packed up and left. Kuwabara and Yusuke headed for the train station that would take them to Genkai's temple, waving goodbye to Keiko as they left.
They met Kurama at the station before boarding a train headed for the country side, where Genkai's temple was, hidden in a forest that kept humans, and demons out unless Genkai let them herself.
"I have a bad feeling we cannot back out of this," Kurama said to the others as he stared absentmindedly out of the window.
"What do you mean?" Kuwabara asked.
"He means that we may not have a choice about whether we go to this school or not," Yusuke explained with a distant voice, he too, remembering all that Wizards had done.
Both were wondering why the Magical world had contacted then and was even more worried about the outcome.
Kuwabara had no idea why Kurama and Yusuke were worried about going to a magical school, it didn't sound that bad but had he known of the past, and of the plot they would be dragged into, kicking and screaming, perhaps he would have re-evaluated his judgment.
The train finally arrived at their destination, pulling into the station. Only four people got off. Yusuke, Kurama, Kuwabara and an odd looking man in a black cape with a bright orange robe and a Sunshine yellow pointy hat or rather that's what it looked like to the others. Despite this, no one had pointed this out on the train, and he walked along the station without being stared at. A notice me not charm, at maximum strength.
The man watched the group of teenagers walk into the countryside along a footpath that lead to a temple in the distance. Nothing out of ordinary, from the looks of it they were just heading for their school. To make sure that he wasn't seen the now established wizard cast an invisibility spell on top of his notice me not charm and followed.
"Hey guys, did you see that strange guy at the train station?" Kuwabara hinted.
"Yes, we did," Kurama replied.
"Do you find the forest strangely quiet today?" Kuwabara asked.
"Yes, I do in fact." Kurama said with a wink. Kuwabara nodded, Kurama had got the message. Yusuke gave Kuwabara a nod. So had Yusuke, Kuwabara thought. You see the man tailing them had made quite a few errors.
One: he had used spells to cover his appearance, rather than swallowing his pride and wearing muggle clothes. He was in the presence of two who possessed demon blood and a human whose spiritual awareness outstripped most demons.
Two: He cast an invisibility spell and didn't hide the magical spike, anyone with any spiritual awareness could sense that a mile away.
Three: He forgot to cover his magical trail, again easily followed by anyone with even the simplest grasps on spiritual awareness.
Four: He was scaring the animals away and thus making himself known. The last one was just amusing, even the animals sensed he did not belong.
The three smirked at the thought of the poor man. Up ahead were over a hundred stairs and an out of shape wizard who relied heavily on magic, this was a lot. And if that wasn't enough, if he survived the stairs he had to face Genkai before going anywhere. Genkai didn't take too well to strangers and this wizard was going to find out the hard way. On the other hand, it confirmed that the letters were indeed, real and not a elaborate prank by Koenma.
The three made bets as how long the wizard would last. Kurama reckoned about three-quarters, Kuwabara one quarter and Yusuke half.
The three started to climb the stairs with Kurama smirking at about half way as he heard the wizard following them pant from exhaustion. Then at about three-quarters of the way there was a large magical spike and then a huge layer of magic settled, disrupting the wards around the temple. "The guys given into using magic, I see," Yusuke whispered to Kurama who nodded in reply before smirking and opened his hand. Kuwabara and Yusuke past him some yen, grumbling about foxes and how lady luck favoured Inari.
Hiei jumped down from a tree just before they reached the top and nodded to them before indicating the wizard with a shake of his head. "We know, the forest is unnaturally quite today," Kurama said. Hiei nodded in satisfaction when Kurama told him he knew they were being followed. They finally made their way up to the top where Genkai just so happened to waiting with slight glare aimed at the person behind the four.
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Before all this was happening
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Genkai's eyes snapped open as a sudden magical spike popped. It was normal to get a power spike now and then from stray demons or Yusuke and the crew but this one just caught her attention.
There were four kinds of spikes.
The first was demon energy, which was easy to tell as they were cold and quick.
The second spike happened to be a normal everyday spike that happened when humans used energy to for example lift a brick or kick a ball. Genkai and the others had learned to tune out the everyday buzz spike.
The third spike was spirit energy which was the opposite of demon energy. They were warm and gradual.
The last and the one Genkai hated the most was Wizarding energy, the twisted bastard form of true magic. This spike was a sudden increase in the unnatural magic in the area.
That was what she had just sensed and that was what she was worried about. Either a wizard was just visiting the area or they were here for her and the others. Normally, she was more than enough to handle stray wizards, but if it was one of those damned Ministry demon hunters, any stray spells could harm Yukina, and she would rather die than allow her to be hurt.
When sudden demon energy spiked up from Kurama, Genkai relaxed knowing that the others were coming. Then when she sensed the others were nearly there a sudden magic spike popped up followed by a sudden pour of magic which disrupted the wards in the area. Genkai went outside to great her friends and students, wand in her sleeve incase of trouble.
They could take the wizard easily however if the man was willing to use demon slayer magic, then extra help was more then welcome. Yukina popped out when she discovered Genkai wasn't in her room. "Oh Yukina, would you mind as to get some drinks for Yusuke and the others. I sensed they were coming," Genkai told Yukina. "Sure," the little ice apparition said and headed for the kitchen. That was when Yusuke, Kurama, Hiei and Kuwabara appeared.
Genkai got ready and glared at where she sensed the wizard. "Hi Genkai," Kuwabara said with a smile. "I'm sorry but we have brought some unwanted guests," Kurama said looking apologetically to the old woman.
The wizard's eyes widened when he heard this as he had just realized that they knew he was there all along. "Yes we know your there, get over it," Yusuke said to the person standing a few feet away.
The man stepped out removing the invisibility spell. Genkai glared at the man before starting to speak. "Change the color of your robes and hat boy, they're blinding me," The man changed it with a quick spell, flushing rather embarrassedly. "Now come inside and we can talk," Genkai grumbled and they all headed in.
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Inside, Yukina appeared with a tray of lemonade and some biscuits. "Konichiwa minna," she said to the others. "Hi there, Yukina. How are you?" Kuwabara said with a smile. "Kazuma-kun!" Yukina smiled and set the tray down. "Thanks, Yukina," Yusuke said as he grabbed a lemonade. Hiei nodded a thanks and picked up a lemonade as did Kurama.
"Here, you have to taste your own master piece," Yusuke said picking up a lemonade and handing it to Yukina. "Ok," she said and took a sip. Her eyes light up and she smiled. "I never knew lemonade was this good!" She cried in joy before drinking more. "We have to get her some ice-cream!" Yusuke said. Hiei nodded in agreement remembering the first time he had the sweet snow.
The wizard sat there watching all this in amazement at how normal they acted. He had expected then to be very strict or uptight like Genkai but they were just normal teenagers. "Now then, can you explain what you are doing here?" Genkai snapped at the wizard. She had been pestered recently by the wizarding community and this man had made it worse, his very presence making her grumpy mood worse. "My name is Thomas Windsor. I was sent here to convince your students to accept the request to go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." Thomas explained in Japanese.
"And if they refuse?" A new voice asked coldly. Koenma, in his teenage form, wearing his usual clothes plus a head band stepped from the shadows.
"So now you decide to tell us you know what's going on?" Kuwabara yelled.
"I know what's going on however I didn't get the notice until just now." The prince of spirit world explained. "Now I believe this good man was explaining what would happen if you refused." Koenma said turning to face the said man.
"Well, the government doesn't wish to do this however it is necessary. We will send aurors and demon hunters after you students with full intention of taking them in by force." Thomas explained in a business like voice. "Good luck, you're going to need it if you think for one second that you'll be able to bring that lot in with sticks," Genkai said with a smirk.
"Oh, you misunderstood," Thomas said with a sudden sinister smile. "We won't go after the students themselves. Aurors are more than capable of taking care of their families and from what we can gather your students do know a few demons. That little girl there is a perfect example of a helpless demon that is a perfect target for our demon hunters," Thomas said with a nod towards Yukina. Hiei's eyes narrowed when he heard that.
"Harm one head on that child or any members of my student's families or friends and I will personally make sure that Japan plus the all of demon world,-" "and spirit world," Koenma added. "Yes and spirit world is at war with your country. Heck, we'll even ally with Voldemort if we have to," Genkai spat.
"You don't scare me," Thomas said, "Dark Lord? Please, if you are believing Dumbledore and his pathetic lies, you're more batty then I first thought. Besides, the Ministry will see this as treason to the British Ministry of Magic".
"No. Not yet anyway and if you think that we will stand for this then you are surely mistaken," Kurama said suddenly. He had about enough and was just about ready to kill the man on the spot. The only thing stopping him was the fact that he would go to jail. But judging from the look on Koenma's face he reckoned Koenma probably would have got there first seeing as despite what he had said in the dark tournament, as they found out in the demon tournament Koenma could hold his own against an opponent.
"Your country will declare war on Britain if we harm you families and friends but however you look at it we are still stronger and the damage will be done, your families will be dead." Thomas sneered. Kurama, Yusuke, Kuwabara and Hiei all glared at the man with equal hate. Despite this what the man had said was true as they all didn't want to endanger their family and friends for something as petty as high and mighty British wizards with a superiority complex.
"Fine," Kurama hissed "We'll go to the school but anything happens in Japan and it will be an act of war, understand? And trust me, we WILL find out if you do." Kurama asked with colder eyes then ice, golden flesks appearing in his emerald eyes. "Completely," Thomas nodded with satisfaction and got up to leave, truth be told, the air was starting to suffocate him. Everybody in the room with the exception of Yukina glared at the man as he left. If looks could kill that man would be a dead pile of charred remains.
"Now that he is out of the way I can talk to you privately," Koenma said turning to the team. "Do you mean about this school?" Kuwabara asked. Koenma sighed. "Yes. I just got this today. In this week alone we got about ten different distress calls from demons living in Britain. From what I can gather demons are being hunted by them and unless something is done Britain will soon be a demon free zone and which will upset the balance of energy greatly." Koenma said with a serious look.
"I was going to get my father to send out the SDF to hold back the ones responsible but then this came up. It seems that Hogwarts is one of two main points that this problems is coming from. I have contact with a friend of ours, you all remember Tom Riddle, who recently returned to life courtesy of yours truly,"
"Tom died?" Yusuke yelled suddenly, not believing what Koenma had said.
"Yes, it's…complicated," Koenma sighed, a headache forming from just the thought of that situation.
"I didn't think anything could kill Tom," Kuwabara muttered, thinking about the man who possessed insane amounts of power. The team had met Tom on a mission, having found the young man stumbling through the hideout of a group of renegade spirit world thieves, claiming to have no knowledge of how he got there, or where he was for that matter, before promptly fainting onto the ground.
Later, the team found the entire group of thieves they were catching unconscious further in, the energy in the air suggesting that it had been Tom who had done it. They had ended up taking him with them, and while Koenma worked to find out who he was, the team had gotten to know Tom, from the library's worth of knowledge he seemed to possess, to the dormant spiritual power inside him. To find out he had died somehow, was a shock to the system, who could kill someone with spiritual power to rival Shisui?
"I think its best Tom explained it to you himself, rather then I do, since he has a better knowledge of what happened then I do," Koenma explained.
"So basically, your mission is to infiltrate and discover who or what if responsible and if the need arises shut them down. I know stealth missions aren't your forte, but getting invited to Hogwarts is too golden an opportunity to miss. There are some things I have to tell you though,"
Koenma suddenly felt far older than he ever had before, the thought of how to tell him team the next bit of news on his mind.
"We have evidence to believe, that the Wizarding world, may have caused certain events in your lives,"
"Certain events…?" Kurama echoed, his eyes more piercing than usual. Koenma nodded, frowning at the thought of how to explain.
"Events that wasn't aimed at you specifically, but affected you indirectly, and in some cases directly, especially in your case Kuwabara. Your parents were Guardians, magical policemen, and their deaths, along with many other guardians are somehow linked to the events that happened 17 years ago. I don't know what happened exactly yet, but I do know something is amiss,"
"Hopefully, we can get to the bottom of this," Koenma said.
"Also, Kurama, Yusuke, please try to keep a lid on it and don't kill the first wizard you see." Koenma lectured the two.
"You might have to tell Hiei as well," Kurama said with an amused look. "You're right. Hiei," Koenma said turning to Hiei "Don't kill any wizards unless with no other choice and please keep a low profile." Koenma added.
"You have four years worth of knowledge you need to catch up," Genkai said, "And while I'd rather beat the knowledge into you, we don't have the time, therefore I'm going to use a forbidden dark arts spell, that will transfer copies of my knowledge into you," Genkai said, as she pulled out her wand.
"So…you do a spell and the next morning we will know the things we need to?" Kuwabara asked.
"Not exactly," Genkai said, as she smirked, before waving her wand and watching in amusement as the four suddenly clutched their heads.
While the knowledge processed itself, being stored into various parts of their mind, the team muttered random pieces of knowledge, such as the ingredients, brewing process and general properties of various potions, the proper wand movement and incarnations, as well as information on magical creatures and such.
Kurama had finally processed the information, and Hiei soon followed, the two sat there watching the other two. While Yusuke had processed the information, he had a rather stubborn look on his face, while glaring at a single point on the floor.
"Stop resisting and let your brain process the information already, dimwit." Genkai said, smacking Yusuke across the head. Said dimwit glared at her, before finally letting the process finish, muttering all the while about wizards and how he didn't need any of this garbage to be lodged into his head permanently, and finally he to, was done, leaving only Kuwabara to go.
Poor Kuwabara was still sitting there going through information until finally 2 hours later he managed to work everything out. Kurama nudged Yusuke awake for he had fallen asleep from the boredom.
"Huh? Oh you done?" Yusuke asked Kuwabara with sleepy eyes. "Yep, I think so. Hard to tell though," Kuwabara said with a thoughtful look. "Does this mean that we won't have to work as hard to catch up?" he asked Genkai.
The old lady nodded before turning to the whole team. "O.K listen up people. I'm taking you to Diagon Ally in two days. Be here at about 4 PM. We should be in England at about 7 AM then. Also bring your equipment list and also some form of money or valuables that can be exchanged into Wizarding money, understand? Good." Genkai nodded with satisfaction. "Oh wait, before I forget." Yukina said running to the others.
Pulling out a small bag she pulled out four tear gems. "This should pay for your school equipment. They are the all the gems that was returned to me by Koenma, the ones I cried during the time I was imprisoned," Yukina explained.
"No I can't," Kurama said returning the gem. "Besides, I have a large stash of…valuables," Kurama said with a sly look.
"Loaded," Was all Yusuke said and returned the gem.
"I never use these gems anyway," Hiei said and returned the gem.
"I'll keep mine, but only as a symbol of our love. I vow to never spend it." Kuwabara vowed.
Yukina blinked. "Are you sure? This can help repay all the kindness you've shown me," she said looking at the three gems she had in her hand. "Don't worry about it, there's nothing to repay," Kurama said, smiling at the ice apparition, before turning to leave.
"Good bye Genkai," Kurama said with a pleasant smile. "See you in two days, Keiko says Hi by the way," Yusuke added and followed Kurama out the door. Hiei nodded to them and left. Kuwabara however stayed. "Genkai can I ask you something?" he asked turning to the old lady. "What?" Genkai asked.
"Do you know about someone called Kuwabara Tanaka or Zaki Melina?" Kuwabara asked. Genkai looked into his eyes before sighing. "I am not the one you should ask. If you are looking for your parents then perhaps your sister would know?" Genkai said. "No, all she would say is that they were wizards." Kuwabara said with a down face.
"Your parents, as Koenma said, were Guardians, the Japanese magical police, they handled rogue wizards, dangerous magical creatures that had wondered into the city by accident and one of their most important tasks was negotiating with the local demon population. They would have been the first to protest to the demon hunts 17 years ago, that's the only lead I can give you. Hogwarts will have more imformation, Britain was at the centre of those hunts years ago." Genkai said.
Kuwabara nodded before heading out where Yusuke and Kurama were waiting.
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Hiei glided from one tree to the next with ease keeping his guard up and his senses alert for danger. This mission wasn't to his liking and from the looks of the others neither did they plan on this development.
If Yukina wasn't involved then he wouldn't care about this but she was and he would do anything for her. That included going to a ningen school with ningen everywhere.
Oh if only Yukina knew about the things Hiei did for her…
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Kurama sighed at the turn of events. With the threat of hurting his mother over his head he had no other choice. Now, how to break the news to his mother. Deciding on waiting until tomorrow morning he headed for home and his nice warm bed after a stressful day.
"I'm Home," Kurama called and headed for a beeline towards his room. His mother looked from the kitchen with a smile. "Hello there dear, how was your day?"
Kurama looked at his human mother. "To be truthful, stressful." Kurama sighed and headed for his room. If was after he had finished most of his homework that he heard a crack come from the living room. Sneaking down he placed an ear to the door and with his heightened senses he heard ever word.
"Severes Snape! It had been a long time!" Kurama heard the unmistakable voice of his step-father.
"Yes, to long Kazuya," the man named 'Severes' said. "So, what brings you to my home? After all you're not the type who does visits. You're always on official business so what is it this time?" Kurama's step-father asked. Kurama put a neutral face on despite the urge to charge in and rip them to shreds courtesy of his rose whip. There was also something else that was wrong. It suddenly hit him that there was an aura of dark magic around Severas' left arm.
"The order needs you to help with demons siding with Voldemort." Snape said with a serious voice. "Demons in Britain? Severes, are you sure?" Kazuya asked with shock in his voice. "Yes, reports have been popping up everywhere. It was so bad that Albus hired three people to teach Defense against demons," Snape said.
Kazuya nodded. "Smart guy, so anyway you want me to come to England?"
Snape nodded looking serious. "But I can't leave my wife and kids," Kazuya said. "You got a new wife?" Snape asked. "Yes, she's such a lovely woman and she's so kind but she's a muggle, so I have kept a lot of my past hidden from her." Kazuya said.
"To bad about Madoka, she was a lovely woman. Too bad that demon Youko Kurama got her. Real pity, she was a tough one," Snape said.
Kurama nearly gasped at that revelation. Now it was even harder for him to tell his mother and step-father his secret. He listened back into the conversation.
"Take your wife with you. It's safe at the Order headquarters and your son is going to Hogwarts anyway," Snape said. "But what about Shiori's son?" Kazuya asked. "He can go to school through a portkey," Snape said.
Kazuya nodded. "O.K. I'll go but only because innocent lives are at risk. I saw enough with the demon hunts 17 years age. Some like Youko Kurama deserved it but other ones who looked so innocent, so helpless… it was horrible." Kazuya said. Kurama's eyes filled with shock but mostly betrayal, this man…it was most likely this man that had caused his previous demise.
It was when Snape was about to go when he cast a radar spell to check for spies. He found one. Going to the door Snape opened it to show Kurama starting up at them with an emotionless gaze and a rather cold look.
Kurama was shocked inside but didn't show it on the out. Snape stared at the young man or was it woman in front of him. He had long pinky red hair and green eyes, plus he was in a pink suit. Snape raised an eyebrow at the attire, after all what was with that…suit.
"Shuuichi, what are you doing here?" Kazuya asked in Japanese. "I could say the same about him," Kurama said pointing to the hook nosed, greasy haired man. "He's an old friend of mine." Kazuya explained. Kurama nodded slightly before narrowing his eyes. "So you must be a wizard?" Kurama asked. Snape narrowed his eyes.
"You speak English? There's a surprise, but to answer your question, yes, I am a wizard, what are you going to go about it?" Snape asked with a glare.
"I do speak English, do not take me for a fool, I am far more intelligent then you give me credit for. If you are a wizard you should know this, I do not welcome foreign wizards who barge into another's house unannounced. You are not welcome here, especially if you are here to talk about the murder of demons." Kurama said in English and headed for his room.
He locked the door, got onto bed and stared at the ceiling. It was his step-father's wife that had killed his best friend and he had killed her in retaliation. He hated wizards for that for they not only killed his partner and best friend they also trespassed in Makai to do that. No human was allowed to do that, no matter what the excuse, and they had even killed demons while there, making the hunter into the hunted.
Rolling over he fell into a troubled sleep.
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Kazuya blinked at where Kurama had been standing. "What just happened?" he asked. "Your son overheard our discussion, and somehow, he is a demon sympathizer. Plus he has to live in a house full of wizards who are planning demon raids as we speak, bad combination," Snape said. "Well, I'll see you soon," and with that he apparated out.
Kazuya was still looking at Kurama's door. What am I going to do? He thought to himself.
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Yusuke arrived home wondering how to tell his mother about leaving.
Going to his mother he was surprised to find she wasn't drunk. She wasn't in the house!
Probably went out partying Yusuke thought and headed for the kitchen. Grabbing some leftovers from the fridge, he headed it up for dinner, taking it up to his room. He had no homework so he sat while remembering what had happened that night.
_Flashback_
A rather worn out Rico ran as fast as he could towards his lair with a small necklace shaped as a fox made out of Jade. He had planned on giving it to his friend Youko Kurama as a thank you gift for helping with an especially hard job. He hadn't expected to run into hunters, especially wizard hunters. The hunters were still a new and dangerous threat, no one knew how to counter their strange energy, and for some reason, the effect of magic was strong on demons. Not to mention, these wizards seemed to have had training from many different spirit masters. A team of them could easily take down one of the upper S-class, and to an A-class like him, even one could have been fatal, especially since their attacks all seemed to be ranged, a disadvantage for an in-fighter like him.
They had tried to fight them before, demons had speed and strength, yet the wizards merely cast slowing spells, and haste charms, and demons, who knew nothing about how their magic worked, ended up as sitting ducks. Times like this he really wished he had his father's speed and strength, however, there had been no motivation to boost up to the S-rank until it had been to late.
They weren't even after the stolen goods, they were after him. It was a hunt and he was the prey, something Rico didn't like, he was the hunter, not the other way around.
He suddenly stopped as he nearly ran into a toad like woman. Smiling a sickly smile she raised her wand and cried "ADVARDA KADVARA," Rico dodged the emerald green light as best as he could, recognizing the words she said as being some form of instant death magic. Growling the woman sent another shot at him, red this time, this one grazing his shoulder and causing it to bleed. The woman grinned at the sight of blood. She kept shooting until Rico had enough of dodging and charged her, catching the woman by surprise.
That was all it took, as even with their strangely powerful magic, they were still weak humans who had no physical training, and as a result, he had managed to take away her stick, the strange medium for their magic.
He was about to finish her of when a blast from behind caught his. Cursing, he tried to get away, calling himself a fool for forgetting his surroundings and letting his guard down.
Soon he was hit with dozens of spells before he managed to escape. Sending the necklace to a person (with a note of course) he knew would keep it safe he slipped through a natural rip in the Makai, the kind that humans accidently wonder through, passing through the barrier easily, as the humans had drained his strength down to below B-class, he let his spirit drift, until he felt a pull on his spirit coming from a pregnant woman, and with the last of his strength leaving him, he allowed the pull to drag his spirit into the soul of the growing child. There he slept, while the child that was known as Yusuke grew, Toshin Rico slept, and it was only years later, when Yusuke's soul had enough energy to absorb Rico, that he would awake again.
It had been the fact that Yusuke had the blood of a Toshin that had drawn Rico to his soul, and it was due to the demonic atavism that instead of being two beings Rico had Yusuke had merged the second time he had died, Rico's memories, personality and powers merged with Yusuke, making Yusuke himself and Rico at the same time, much like how Kurama was Shuuichi and Youko, being the same being, merely having different forms.
Yusuke remembered the feeling of every death he had experienced, and between all of them, being killed from magic still gave him nightmares, before they had been flashes of light, and as a child, he'd go crying to his mother who, despite being drunk, could understand her child was in distress, and would hold him in the night. It was after his second death as Yusuke, that the full memory returned to him.
He didn't like the idea of going into unknown territory, but for all their sakes, he was going to tough it out, because as Yusuke, he had more to lose then he ever had before.
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Hiei had issues to sort out before he went to England. His father, because he knew he had one, was thought to have left for the human world, specifically England, some years after he was born. Hiei had tried to find the demon before, with nothing but a name and his Jagan, but even then, he could find nothing. Perhaps he would find something in the wizard's files.
He was going to find his father and he was going to tell Yukina he was her brother. Mukuro had come to terms with her regrets and had been freed from her own burdens, and so he would settle his own, maybe then, he could start living the rest of his life.
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Harry James Potter sat staring out at the sky wondering what was happening in the rest of the world. It was late at night and he couldn't get to sleep so he had decided to stay up and read some more. When he had finished he was still awake so he headed for the window. Lowering a rope down he grabbed his jacket and headed out into the night with full intention of either getting something to eat or maybe partying, because quite frankly he was tired of the golden boy logo he seemed to have been branded with on the first day.
He went to the nearest fast-food place that was still open and ordered a box of fried chicken wings. He had found out a while ago that he could change wizard money into English pounds and had taken advantage of that to withdraw some money.
He had immediately taken advantage of that, especially this summer when his Aunt Petunia had decided to place Dudley on diet, which meant he had fast food and anything rich cut from his menu, leaving Dudley with fruit, vegetables, and cereals. The problem? Aunt Petunia had insisted everyone follow the diet, and while Uncle Vernon had lunch to escape the lack of food, he and Dudley didn't which meant that Dudley spent more time outside the house, usually using his money for rich, greasy fast food, and he alone had to suffer from the lack of any food that meant he had enough energy to do all his chores.
And he had a lot of chores, ones that required lots of him under a blazing sun with barely any food or water. Really, beating the 'freakness' out of a child, the wizarding world should see him them, their supposed hero, reduced to nothing more than a common house elf. He was only too glad that on one in the wizarding world had any clue, minus the Weasley twins, but they had seen the bars on his window in the summer before his second year, though he had sworn them to secrecy. Last thing he needed was for this to be leaked to the media.
Suddenly there was a hoot and he turned to see an eagle hawk? He only knew one person who had an eagle hawk and excited, he jumped up and took the package from the bird. Hooting it flew out the window into the night.
He opened the letter first. It said:
Hey Harry
How have you been? I'm sorry for not writing sooner but I was grounded for pranking the house elves but I couldn't help myself. You should have seen their faces! Tell the Weasley twins that their fireworks work just fine if not better than expected.
Anyway, I hope those muggles of yours have been treating you well (Honestly, this is just MORE proof that muggles are clearly the inferior beings…kidding! Though that doesn't mean those muggles you live with are any less filthy).
Harry could practically hear the snobbish tone used there.
Also I've sent you something you might like. See you soon.
From Draco
If you're wondering why the prince of Slytherin was contacting the golden boy then a little flashback is in order.
_Flashback (first year, in the robe shop) _
"Hello there, you for Hogwarts as well?" a pale faced boy asked. Harry turned and looked at him then nodded. "Me too, although wish this girl called Pansy wasn't going. She's a nightmare and to make it worse my father won't let me transfer. Pity really." Harry laughed causing Draco to glare at him. "It's not funny; if you ever met her you'd understand." Draco defended.
"I think I understand better then you think," Harry said, remembering the looks girls would give him at school, despite him being the self-dubbed 'freak' of primary school. Honestly, he couldn't understand why Dudley tried to stop it sometimes, he hadn't cared for others opinions before.
"We'll I have to go," Draco said as the lady gave him his robes. "Hope I see you at Hogwarts, by the way, my name is Draco Malfoy. What's yours?"
"Harry Potter," Harry said and headed out the store with his new robes leaving a shocked Draco behind him. He had heard that the boy who lived was a prat, but the boy he just met radiated kindness rather than arrogance, and he should know. For all purposes, Harry Potter was a child who was shy, kind and clearly had no idea he was famous in the wizarding world. He would be torn to pieces if he didn't have a friend like Draco, who understood the workings of pureblood society. His father's suggestion to try and make friends with Harry didn't seem so stupid now.
_End flashback_
Harry had forgotten about their first meeting when on the train, after Ron had been so nice to him, Draco had put on his 'pureblood prince' act as Harry liked to call it, acting the selfish brat that he could be at times.
It had been Harry's rejection, after Draco had tried so hard to find him on the train that had caused a rift to form between them, with Harry not remembering the open eleven year old child who he had been Harry's first real contact with anyone his age from the wizarding world, combined with what Draco thought was out right arrogance, after they had gotten on well in Diagon Alley as well, that had formed a rivalry that clashed between them for the whole year.
For most of first year, Harry had been at odds with Malfoy, with the incident with the wizards duel, the broom incident, Christmas...
The list went on, it didn't help that Professer Snape was Draco's godfather, when he had found that out, the feeling that Snape was being extra harsh on him had doubled.
It had been the detention in the forbidden forest together that had finally bridged the widening rift. Just after they had split up, when it had only been him, Draco and Fang, did the prince of Slytherin finally break down, and ask him why.
Why had he rejected his offer of friendship? Why had he, Harry, forgotten their meeting in the robe shop? Was Harry really the arrogant prick who thought a scar meant he could do whatever he wanted like his godfather thought?
Harry had been shocked at that, he had forgotten the meeting in the shop, any impression of Draco his mind immediately flashed back to the meeting on the train. It had been after Harry saved Draco's life, when they had encountered the unicorn, that they, sat together in the Hospital Wing, with Ron still asleep near them no less, did they rebridge what had been lost. I wasn't the most ideal friendship, but it had been a start.
What really knitted them together had been Second year, where Tom Riddle's diary, instead of ending up in Ginny Weasley's hands, had landed in Harry's, and Harry, who never had a close friend before, one who he could tell anything and wouldn't tell his secrets to the rest of the world, was absorbed by Tom Riddle, his charm, his kindness, everything that was Tom Riddle.
And then the attacks started, the beast petrified many people, Filch's cat, Colin…the list was endless. Chicken's turned up dead, the spiders were scared, and Harry had blacks in his memory, even now, about what had happened.
When it was discovered he was a parselmouth, the only one that hadn't pushed him away had been Draco. That was the final straw for Harry, and instead of Ron entering the chamber with him, it had been Draco Malfoy along with the ghostly Tom Riddle, who had admitted to taking control of Harry, to try and stop the attacks, hence the missing memories from Harry's mind.
The following fight had been enough to bond the two together, an insane Basalisk, Godric Gryfindors sword, Harry and Tom nearly dying multiple of times, and finally, the destruction of the one responsible, the leftover madness of a past heir of Slytherin, personified through the magic of Hogwarts. From then on Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy had been friends.
Draco had sent him three things, first had been his letter, the second had been another letter addressed to him, and the third had been a black journal, Tom Riddles diary. Looking at it, Harry's throat still stung, the thought of Tom no longer being alive, even if he had only been a fragment of a soul still hurt. He had saved Cedric, and had formed another bond with the Hufflepuff, but the death that was Tom Riddle hurt, as he remembered Tom being absorbed back into Voldemort, despite Tom's soul fragment having become stronger.
Rippling the letter, he read:
To my dearest Harry,
Should you be reading this, then Draco has done what I have requested and sent the letter I wrote, in case I should ever be reabsorbed back into the entity known as Voldemort.
Funny, when I first became Voldemort, it hadn't been for immortality, or some twisted sense to control all of magical society, however splitting the soul does that, sanity is split between each soul and smaller the piece, the less of the person each piece has, and as we both know, I had split my soul seven times.
I requested to Draco that this letter be sent to you a few months after I had in a sense, died. The reason for this is because that is how long it takes for two pieces of soul to fully rejoin, and in that sense, I will be revived. My soul fragment contained half the soul you know as Tom Riddle, whereas Voldemort was barely even a soul by the time he revived himself. As a result, I am the stronger soul.
Draco has sent to you my diary, my original container. You remember how it used to work, write and I would talk back to you, before I had gained a body and hence didn't need the Diary anymore. Use it like you did before, and I will be able to talk to you, it works a little like magic mirrors.
Best regards,
Tom Marvelo Riddle
Writing a quick letter he went to Hedwig and told her to take it to Draco as soon as possible, thanking Draco so much that he had used half a parchment just to write thank you.
Pulling out the Diary, he wrote the words with his quill…
My name is Harry Potter…
Hello Harry, my name is Tom Riddle, although you already know that… :)
And Harry laughed out loud.
_:-):-):-)_
End Chapter
How's the rewrite? Good, bad, needs to be longer?
Someone asked me how in hell Voldemort could be a good guy, so I've changed the first chapters to explain that, using the theory that as a soul is split, it becomes more inhuman, and by changing Harry's first four years at Hogwarts, such as instead of Tom Riddle being the one responsible for the Basalisk, it was instead, a previous Heir of Slytherin who was possessing the snake and instead of Cedric dying, Harry witnessed Tom's 'Death' instead. I might have said Cedric dies somewhere in a later chapter, so I have to go and change that too xD
I probably will mention the changes I made further, but next chapter should give a proper explanation for Tom Riddle, and how he knows the team, and this explanation will be different to what I wrote before. As a result, chapter three will make no sense to anyone who has not read the old chapters one and two, apologies, I will fix that as soon as possible.
On a side note, for those who have read the old chapters' one and two, I'm hoping that my writing has improved, and if it hasn't, well…I'd be highly disappointed. I'd appreciate if people are willing to point out any glaring flaws, other than the fact that until I post the rewritten chapter three, the current chapter three will make no sense and be filled with errors.