Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Yu Yu Hakusho, but I do own Usagi. The others are loosely based on people I know. Animals were not hurt in the making of this story; minds are another thing. Once again, I do not own anything. If I did, I would be trying to find a way to live there. If I do find a way, the rest of you can kiss my butt because I an't bringing you; or your dog... or your friend bob.

All names used are fake to protect identities.

I groan inaudibly as light pierces my eyelids. My senses come slowly. First my sense of smell, not as good as a full demon, but still better than a human's, it picked up the scents of Torau, Rei, Jirou and Ryu along with the sent of an ill human, a werewolf and a shape shifter's descendant. The next was my sense of feeling. I can feel the residue from someone attempting to use magic on me and chains holding me by my foot as I shift slightly, trying to find any broken bones or sprains that would hinder my running, if it comes to that. I can feel a headache coming on and pain in my arm. I can feel the terror that has been backing up behind my mental barriers coming from half of my doors. I can feel the pulse of energy coming from just inside the door. My taste comes now. A bitter flavor is in my mouth. It is that of a sleeping potion that I have brewed for Ryu before. Suddenly, I can hear the conversation over in the opposite side of the room from me.

"…working for you-know-who"

"Then she will be let go with the others"

"Has that one healed yet?"

Their words meant nothing to me yet a small feeling in the back of my head was telling me that what they were saying should mean something, but I couldn't remember. I cautiously opened my eyes to the light of a small room. It was old and dusty with only one window to my left. Other than that, there was a picture on the wall and two people at the door with their backs to me. One was a severely scared old man with a peg leg while the other one had long blue hair. They were both wearing robes; witch and wizard robes.

I let out another groan, louder this time. The one with the peg leg turned around and sent a spell at me, a stunner if those dream lessons the pack had were right. I quickly sent up a shield from my position on the floor, one of my specialties, and absorbed the spell; my body automatically changed it back into pure magic. I sent it into my reserves, most of which were depleted from the exhaustion of healing Ryu. I also took down my mental barriers, allowing my memories to come rushing back. I suddenly detected another scent that had evaded me before: burning pumpkin.

"What did you do to her?" I could feel my inner demon coming to the surface. After a brief tickling sensation behind my eyes, my sight became sharper. I could see the sweat running down the sides of the female's face and the slight shake in the male. i too a second to look around the room. it was your average storage room with many boxes and only one window. the floor was made of old, decaying wood and it smelt like magic both in spell form and in the wild form that very few could harness.

my ears elongated into slight points at the top and i could suddenly hear heart beats coming from those in front of me as well as a few more from the room below. I threw up a shield behind the two in front of me before standing up to my full height. "What did you do?" I asked again, but they still held strong. I let out some of my aura, filling it with my 'anger'. i wasn't really that angry, more like i was still tiered after having a long nap, but they couldn't know that.

"I already know what you did to her, so why don't you tell me for what reason," I asked, cooing as if I was talking to a young child. That set them off, a bit less violently that i would have expected. The older one started hexing me, unknowingly upping my reserves, while the other one tried to get out the door. Of course, she bounced back and landed right on the other one. I could see her shaking.

a knock came at the door. I let down the door's barrier, but still stood up. I could see their confusion, but they hadn't smelled what I did. It was the werewolf that i had smelled before, but this time he had a special sent from Torau that he got when he was showing off after i haden't been around a while.

He probably knew that it meant something to me, judging by the way he came in, what he probaly didn't know, was that it meant that he wouldn't hurt me. He was a skinny fellow and had a tired look to him. He had on shabby robes and a gaunt face, but he still managed to make the more demonic side in me recognize him as an Alpha of more experience then myself in this life and backed down, but I continued to stand, even if he wouldn't hurt me, it didn't mean the others wouldn't if they saw that my guard was down.

the energy spike that had kept my exaushtion at bay ebbed away slowly. my eyesight dulled a bit, no doubt going back to the plain brown they usually are from a blood red that they go to when i get mad.

"Where are they and what did you do to them?" I asked quickly and quietly, without losing the intensity behind the question. singing can do wonders.

"Who do you work for?" he shot back.

"I work for no one. I am a free youkai and my freedom is not something that I will just give up willingly," I answered without really giving him an answer.

"Now for the last time, where are they?" I let out some of my energy again, just to show him just how serious I was. The room instantly cooled and you could see every single breath taken hanging in the air.

With the rest of them…in the past a few hours.

Ryu-

It is a mad house down here; everyone was chained to the stinking wall for not talking about their alliances because, of course, the only organized one was Usagi who had who-knows-how-many years of experience. Anyway, it should be known that I am currently the only sane one here. After I was shoved out of my cousin's mind, I told my little Sisel to go hide, hopefully somewhere safe. Then, Ichirou came back, we shall now call him ichy, because I keep forgetting how to spell his name?... anyway, they had been taking us out one by one to question us since we got here, because following Ichy was a band of wizards, one of which was Moody from DADA last year and we all know how sane he is…

Moving on. I surrendered due to the fact that I can't fight right now, and the fact that I also had two knocked out demons on my hands.

we are currently in a small room that barly fits us all in here. i bet they didn't enlarge it so that we would have troube because they think, as most do, that demons are blood thirsty monsters who can't work togather worth a crap and it's a fifty-fifty chance that they are correct. Most demons are very sane-thank you very little.

My turn is coming up next after Rei. Jirou, who went first, is still knocked out with Ichy right next to him, also knocked out. we are lined up along the wall with Jirou closest ot the door, Ichy right nex to him-somehow the to take up a whole wall-, Torau's empty spot next to that then comes me-also in a corner- then Rei.

The only thing that is constant right now is the smell of burning, even the heat in here isn't constant, one minuet it is cold and the next it feels like a freacking desert! so they are apparently trying to burn the information out of us.

I still don't know where my little kitten is and I can feel the strain on our uncompleted bond which means i wont be able to hold my form very long after the sun comes up. This is a problem for two reasons.

1. I was currently one and a half times the size I normally am while my wounds stayed the same size so they will really hurt when I change back.

2. the only wounds healed were the internal bleeding, broken bones, and concussion all of the random cuts that can still bleed, are still there.

Well, let's hope this is not my last entry.

Ryu finished writing his messy entry before manipulated the floating book and quill in front of him into closing. He then hid it under Ichy (not easy) just as an extremely scorched Mad-Eye Moody came back in with a very smug Torau. "Okay, he said before pointing at Rei, who was just waking up from her nap, and saying, "You're next." She hadn't been up long enough to recognize the sent of burning, but Ryu and Torau were and they tried trying to get from the wall they were chained to the whole time she was being led out.

Suddenly, a scream issued from the room that had been sound proof for everyone else. The two gave each other a long look that screamed their shame in failing the other girl. once more, something bad happened, Ryu blacked out, his transformation finally coming on. Torau watched as the ten foot tall, half dragon child turned into a four foot-five kid who looked no older then 9, give or take a few years. the manacles that had been tight on him now only held on by the magic that held them in place. Manipulating the currents of magic with his mediocre skills, Torau made glamor around him, hiding him from non-family, and embedding it with the little healing powers that he held.

Torau P.O.V.

After Draco, I like calling him his given name more than my sis, fainted, I tried to contact Usagi or, as I like to call her, Amanda. Really, I was looking at all the little connection pathways and the only one open and awake was Uncle Hiei's. All of us call him Uncle, but really, I am the only one who is actually related to him. I am the son of his eldest sister who left the Koori Island at the same time as Grandma.

All of us, but Amanda, are from this dimension, just different parts of it. I was born in Makai with Kevin, my best friend who is also called Ichy, and sometimes, fluffy-butt by the girls, and Ryan, my second best friend. They were born to the same parents in this life. Amanda says that they Rei was one of the workers in Reki, but neither of the girls will explain why they shiver when the name is brought up, but we, meaning Me and Kevin and Ryan, all believe it has something to do with the two weeks it took to get her out.

Draco is the last one in this dimension and Amanda has been saying that after this school year, if we don't find his mate before it is up, we will have to look later and go to the next dimension, apparently the two living there, Kage and Kyuu, have been having problems and If my small memories from one of my past lives and the mental meetings we have serve me correctly, those two have never been very good mates... After I connected to Hiei, and sent him the very detailed message," tell Dumbledore to come free us from his stupid order," Lizzy was brought back by a werewolf. She was all burned up and she smelled like she was a pumpkin instead if a demon.

"I can't believe that Moody would do such a thing," he mumbled, putting her down by the door.

"If it makes you feel any better, he did it to everyone," I spoke up. His head rose sharply, as if just realizing that we were in here.

"You don't look burnt at all," he said, staring. Shifting around, Torau, or Brandon as he preferred to be called, freed up a hand and held it out in front of him. His youkai immediately reacted to the loss of his opposite and sent out a sickly sweet smell that marked the werewolf in front of him as a friend.

A look of understanding dawned on his face as the flame in Brandon's hand morphed into different shapes without the young teen so much as twitching. Brandon, sensing his willingness to help, asked one thing, "When my sister wakes up, can you let her come get us?"

"Where is she?" he asked, giving no answer, yes nor no.

"She was captured with the rest of us, but she was put in a different room," he answered, but he didn't need to, for as soon as he finished, a large source of youkai caused him to look straight to the right corner of the room, nearest to the door.

"She's up."

sorry. my muse is messed up. it was making me think of the end before this story was done. -_-'

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