A Bigger Issue

Chapter 4: Naturalist? Ha as if!

Disclaimer: Shinythiefxblast does not own anything regarding either Yu Yu Hakusho or Harry Potter unfortunately. All I do is write fanfiction and dream of royalty checks that will never come –sniff-.

Hermione: Actually, you could buy the rights from J.K Rowling it says so in article akjhskdfsdhfshd of copyright laws.

Shiny-chan: And even if that were true, where would I get that kind of money?

Hermione:-shrugs- You're a bit stuck there.

Shiny-chan: I will have to survive on my lovely reviewers words then!

Hermione: You can do whatever you want. I need a head start on studying for my NEWTs. See you around.

Shiny-chan: No! Wait! Don't leave me here alone! Darn she's already gone. I would like to apologize to all my fans out there. It occurred to me that I haven't updated since I started going out with my boyfriend on

April 5th! Sorry about that but I've been getting to know him and I love it! I just wanted to explain myself a little. Oh well I suppose it's time for the story! Oh before I forget, I always pair guys from the same

universe together so for this fic the pairings will eventually be Kurama/Yusuke, and Harry/Draco. I may or may not pair Hiei with someone but I can't read or write a fic with a Kurama/Hiei pairing. I just don't think

they're very compatible. Sorry!

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"English dialogue"

/Japanese dialogue\

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Hermione left the boys room, humming under her breath as she headed for the stairs. She paused when she heard a rhythmic tapping of feet on the wooden floor behind her. She turned and saw a young, redheaded man coming out of one of the rooms at the end of the hallway. He looked up and she saw that he had beautiful green eyes that rivaled those of Harry's in brightness. He smiled tightly at her and bowed slightly.

"Hello there." Hermione couldn't help but smile at the polite man.

"Hi. I'll take a wild leap in logic and guess that you're one of the Japanese Aurors Mrs. Weasley is hosting?" He chuckled slowly and walked towards her, hair swinging behind him. Hermione hadn't noticed its length before, just the bright color flashing across her vision. She had to suppress a snicker at the idea of Mrs. Weasley fingering her wand and offering to cut it like she had with Bill. He stopped in front of her and she had to swing her eyes upward since he was about eight inches taller than her.

"Yes my dear you'd be correct. My name is Kurama Minamino and my associates and I are investigating the escape of some dangerous magical creatures that have been tracked to this area. How they ever got this far without being caught I have no idea but I believe that just shows how incompetent our magical creature squad is anyway." Hermione grinned.

"You have no idea how refreshing it is to talk with someone as intelligent as yourself. I'm used to dealing with teenage slackers." Kurama sweat dropped.

"Unfortunately so am I. I was just going to look for my friend Yusuke; he was supposed to be back from his bath an hour ago. Knowing him he fell asleep and drowned himself." Stomping footsteps came down the hallway. Yusuke appeared around the corner, flashing his trademark grin and most of the rest of his body as well. He wore a towel that barely clung to his waist and slipped lower and lower with each jarring footstep.

"Oi Kurama! You'll never guess what happened while I was in the bath!" Kurama turned to Hermione.

"Ahh here he is." When Yusuke reached Kurama, he sharply slapped Yusuke on the back of the head.

"Itai! What the hell was that for?! I didn't do anything!" Kurama shook his head at Yusuke.

"Yusuke, it may be okay for you to run around my house with nothing but a towel, but it's extremely bad manners to do so in a house with ladies present." Yusuke swiped his hand through his hair and hiked up his towel.

"Oh just bite me Kurama! Isn't Shiori kaa-sama a lady?" Kurama shook his head again.

"Kaa-sama doesn't count Yusuke. Go get some clothes on." Yusuke grinned.

"Ahh Kurama, you know you love this sexy body!" Kurama blushed slightly and turned towards Hermione.

"Anyways this kid walked in on me in the bath! His face turned redder than your hair! It was hilarious! He stared so hard it woke me from my sleep!"

"So you were sleeping in the bath! One of these days you'll drown yourself. Who was this kid?" Kurama asked coolly. Hermione sighed.

"I'm sorry. That was my friend Harry. He went to use the loo and he saw you naked. It embarrassed him a lot." Yusuke shrugged.

"Ah well, no harm done if he was just takin a look-see. Who're you anyways?"

"Oh! I'm Hermione Granger. It's a pleasure to meet you!" Yusuke smirked.

"The names Yusuke Urameshi! Good ta meetcha!" Kurama bowed to her.

"I'm sorry for my friend's bad manners." Yusuke scowled.

"I don't have bad manners Kurama! I just forgot to bring a change of clothes into the bathroom with me." Kurama sighed and grabbed Yusuke's ear and begun to drag him towards the room at the end of the hallway.

"I'm sure we'll have more of an opportunity to talk later Granger-san, but I need to talk to Yusuke."

"Shit Kurama that hurts! Let go of me! I'll tell Shiori kaa-sama how you're treatin me!"

"I don't think that will do you any good, Yusuke." Kurama pushed Yusuke into the room at the end of the hallway and shut the door behind them. She winced as she heard a muffled crash from the room and shook her head as she continued down the hallway to the stairs. She fought a laugh as she descended the stairs and retired for the night to Ginny's room.

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Kurama woke while the sky was still dark and descended the stairs from the room he shared with a still-snoring Yusuke. The old wood creaked as he walked across the kitchen floor to the door. He opened the kitchen door, wincing at the loud screech it let out, and stepped out into the early morning air. He looked around at Mrs. Weasley's impeccably kept garden and noticed an area of the grass that would be soft and perfect for a seat. He sank into the soft grass with a small sigh and moved into his meditative position. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath to center himself and slowly let his reiki become one with the plants in the garden. One by one he felt the plants fall under his thrall until he reached what seemed to be an old, nearly dead rosebush in the back of the garden. Out of place, Mrs. Weasley had attempted to deal with it by placing a beautiful rhododendron in front of it. This rosebush resisted and pushed Kurama's energy away malevolently, causing the shockwave of energy to return to him. Kurama frowned and opened his eyes. He silently made a nearby tendril of ivy extend and push tentatively towards the recalcitrant plant. The rosebush grabbed it and squeezed until Kurama made the mutilated ivy retreat. Kurama rose from his seat on the cushiony grass and made his way toward the old bush. He reached out a hand to touch it and he heard Mrs. Weasley screech from the open kitchen doorway.

"Merlin's beard! Don't touch that!!" He turned around and the plump matron was advancing quickly with concern in her motherly eyes. Kurama waited until she reached him before bowing slightly in her direction and smiling at her.

"Good morning Molly-san. What are you doing up so early?" She eyed him and relaxed slightly.

"The wards went off and woke me when the kitchen door opened. I saw you meditating in the garden and didn't think anything of it until you went to touch that rosebush. Thank Merlin I stopped you because that thing has been known to eat any limbs that come near it!" Kurama brushed his hands on his pants and smiled at her.

"I really don't think it would have harmed me Molly-san. I have an affinity with magical plants and I was admiring your garden. I was letting my energy flow over the plants to learn about them and I was surprised to find a plant that resisted my 'touch' so to speak. I'm sorry my actions alarmed you." Mrs. Weasley sized him up quietly.

"I didn't know you had such an ability. That must be useful. Why don't you come and tell me about it while I make up some breakfast? The rest of the house will wake soon anyways." Kurama followed her back into the kitchen and shut the door behind them. Molly took out a frying pan and a mixing bowl and levitated various ingredients from their places in the kitchen.

"So what else can you do with this ability Kurama?" Kurama grabbed the eggs floating in front of his face and cracked them into the mixing bowl and broke the yolks. He began to whisk them silently before answering.

"Well my affinity with plants covers a broad horizon with what I can do really. If the plants I 'touch' are sentient, I can have them give me information about what has happened in its surroundings. If they are not sentient, I can manipulate their growth or utilize any special abilities they have. I prefer to duel this way instead of using my wand in my line of work. I don't even know where my wand is at this point." Mrs. Weasley dropped the towel in her hand in shock.

"So this is wandless magic? You must be very powerful! Here dear sit down at the table I can make those pancakes." Kurama stirred some flour and milk in the mixing bowl before continuing.

"We weren't even allowed wands by our sensei before we had mastered the usage of our energy. It was in her opinion that if we were strong when we didn't have a focuser like a wand then we would become ten times more powerful with a wand. It really isn't a big deal to help you Molly-san, I must do something to earn my keep. Besides, I helped Kaa-san by making breakfast and doing household chores while she was bedridden a few years ago." Mrs. Weasley pulled a rasher of bacon out of a cooling charm equipped cupboard and turned to him.

"How do you duel without a wand? And, if you don't mind me asking, what happened to her?" Kurama whipped the pancake dough into froth while he talked and then poured a portion into a frying pan.

"About five years ago, my mother was deathly ill with a disease we knew nothing about and could not cure. We ended up curing her with an experimental magical artifact that was supposed to kill the user but somehow malfunctioned and didn't kill me. She is perfectly fine now and back to working at her job as a paralegal. About dueling, it depends on the situation really Molly-san. I can either pull out a blade of grass and morph it into a sword, or I do what I usually do, and morph the rose I keep hidden in my hair into a thorny whip." Molly didn't even pretend to be anything but amazed.

"How do you do that?!" Kurama shrugged and pulled his rose from his hair. He flicked it and it extended into the thorny whip as the blood red petals floated through the air. The whip fell to the floor with a chink and made a slight dent in the floor, which luckily for Kurama, Molly didn't notice. Kurama shrunk his rose and put it away right before people started coming in the kitchen. Fred and George apparated right beside their mum and she shrieked and wacked their bums with the spoon in her hand. She scowled at them and shooed them to their seats at the large table as Ron, Hermione and Harry walked into the kitchen and took their seats. Kurama sighed and sat down beside Harry and waited for breakfast to be finished since Molly hadn't wanted any help in the first place. Yusuke stumbled sleepily into the kitchen just as Molly began to levitate finished dishes onto the table. They all started reaching for the food until Molly smacked Fred's hand away and cleared her throat.

"We are still waiting on someone! Honestly didn't I teach you lot some manners?" Kurama shrugged.

"Molly-san, if you are waiting on Hiei, I assure you he has already eaten. He is a naturalist and he stays outside whenever possible. He even sleeps out there." George snorted.

"What does he do, sleep in a tree?" Yusuke looked up for a moment and met Kurama's gaze for a moment before returning his gaze to the food.

"Yes." Kurama and Yusuke spoke in unison, and then laughed slightly before filling their plates with food.

"Oh yes, well if Hiei-" said Fred.

"Likes the outdoors so much-"said George.

"Maybe he'll like-" said Fred.

"Our Portable Swamp!!!!" They finished in unison.

"You two, it's not very wise to try and prank him since he treats any surprise as a threat. He'd be more likely to kill you than thank you." Kurama stated this calmly as he cut into an omelette.

"Not that I've ever seen the midget surprised." Yusuke muttered quietly. Everyone silently watched the look exchanged between the two. Kurama's mouth twitched to a slight smile.

"All you have to do is observe Yusuke. The last time you were too busy beating up Kuwabara after the tournament to notice. It was highly amusing." Yusuke's face fell.

"Why do I always miss the good stuff?" Yusuke whined piteously.

"You don't pay attention. He also fell from a tree once." Yusuke's face was comical.

"No friggen way! When did this happen!?"

"When you were kidnapped by the territory children. " Yusuke crossed his arms and pouted in Kurama's direction, annoyed by the amused smile on his face. Harry looked back and forth between Yusuke and Kurama and a light bulb went off in his head. He leaned near Hermione and whispered in her ear.

"Is it just me or are those two flirting?" Hermione nodded slightly and Kurama, having heard the comment grinned before turning to Molly Weasley.

"Molly-san, may I speak to you and Arthur-san after breakfast regarding why we're here?" Arthur Weasley smiled and nodded. Ginny, who up until that moment had been half asleep and half-heartedly eating her breakfast, looked up and appraised Kurama.

"Auror Minamino," she purred, "Do you need someone to show you around? I would be happy to help you with whatever you needed." Ron looked at her askance while shoving the last bite in his face, and Kurama looked slightly put out as he declined. Yusuke smirked.

"No thank you Weasley-chan, we have colleagues at the ministry like your father for that." Yusuke snorted.

/And the pretty boy shoots her down!\ Yusuke commented. Kurama turned and glared at him.

/Shut it Yusuke, I get enough fan girls back at home.\ Yusuke raised his hands and backed off the subject gingerly.

/Sorry Kurama, I'm gonna go see if Hiei's found anything yet.\ Yusuke strolled out the door towards Hiei's energy signature and Kurama sighed. He picked up his plate and took it to the kitchen where he placed it in the sink. Molly followed him to the kitchen with several empty plates floating behind her. Arthur came in and closed the door behind him.

"Now what can we do for you Mr. Minamino?" Kurama sighed and then started.

"Tell me, have there been any strange murders or disappearances lately?"