Author's Note
Sorry everyone for the lateness of this chapter Work and moving got in the way of completing this on the time schedule that I was hoping for. It might still be a little rough around the edges because it hasn't been fully beta read yet, but I couldn't wait any longer to see what people thought of where the story is heading. Please review and let me know if there is anything blaringly wrong with it still and I will update with a fully corrected version soon.
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Chapter Four
Green Eyed Guest
Harry was the last to appear at dinner. He saw the red haired man from earlier sitting with Master Genkai and Yukina. Even though all three people were deep in conversation they stopped talking as one the moment they saw Harry enter the room. Their expressions all changed instantly, both Genkai and Kurama had nearly matching mirth filled grins on their faces, whereas Yukina was just one of near disgust.
"What?" Was all Harry managed to get out before Yukina launched herself at him and began undoing his kimono. She made Harry blush bright red, because she flashed the others in the process of undoing and redoing his green kimono.
Harry could hear her muttering under her breath in Japanese, and the others talking to her in Japanese.
"Don't blame him for not putting it on right you put on the last 4 when he was still asleep." Genkai scolded her.
"It's not like he was a little girl being taught how to put on her kimonos from a very young age." Kurama chimed in.
"There all better. Doesn't he look great in kimonos?" Yukina asked Kurama as she finished retying it.
"Yes he does certainly does have the right figure for them doesn't he."
"Will someone tell her I'm not a dress up doll? Will someone also please give me a straight answer? Am I dressed in women's clothing?" Still bright red Harry is quite upset being the centerpiece of dinner entertainment in that fashion. "And who the hell are you?" he said looking at the red haired man
"I am Kurama. And to answer your other questions, I think you look better in that Kimono than Yukina does." Kurama said to Harry trying hard not to laugh still. "My figure could never pull it off."
"We honestly don't have any male clothing that is your size." Genkai said with a very amused look on her face.
"That's all fine and dandy something that is too big can be altered to fit me or if not, I'm used to wearing clothing that is too big for me." Harry said in a stressed tone of voice. "Or better yet, do you have a way to get a hold of Professor Snape? He could bring me some of my stuff. Then I wouldn't have to wear Yukina's clothing anymore, because I would have my own. Anything, besides going naked, would be better than wearing women's clothing."
Kurama breaks out in a very sly grin, "You really want to wear something else? I might have something that would fit you if you are sure anything else would be better than woman's clothing."
Harry without hesitation or thought said "Yes, anything! Can I go change into it now?"
"So long as you promise to wear it, you would hurt my feelings if you don't follow through."
"That's fine. Just get me out of this kimono."
Kurama stands up and walks over to him to guide him to where he has the clothing.
Harry had gotten used to being of average height in comparison to the people he had been around lately, but when he saw Kurama's tall stature he sighed and slumped a bit in defeat. "I thought people in Japan were all supposed to be short, Master Genkai sure is."
As soon as those words left his mouth there was tea cup flying at Harry's head and without having to think Harry plucks it from the air before it is anywhere near hitting him. "I meant no disrespect Master Genkai." He said meekly letting his head droop as he waited for more punishment.
Yukina said to Kurama, "I would have never thought that he could catch that for how fast Genkai san flung it at him."
"Yes it was most surprising, there is more to this boy than meets the eye,"
After a few moments
Genkai mumble under her breath "More like there's more to his green eyes then we realized."
'Oh really, green eyes' thought Kurama.
Kurama reaches for Harry's chin, but Harry quickly flinches away. Kurama then says "Harry, look at me."
Harry still expecting punishment of some form is slow to respond, but finally looks him in the eyes. At that moment Harry starts when he realizes that Kurama eyes are a near reflection of his own. Harry gazes in wonder as he's never seen anyone with eyes that were quite the same vibrant green as his own.
Kurama suddenly catches Harry's chin even though he flinches again and moves in closer to investigate the nuances of Harry's face and eyes. What intrigues him more than his emerald green eyes is that there was an appealing scent to the boy that makes his own eyes contract to cat like slits and his nostrils flare. It is obviously a part of his scent and not a part of something on him. He lets Harry go.
Harry saw the change in his expression. "What? Do I stink or something?"
"No it's not that, I just… You smell quite good actually. Now I have some clothing for you let's go."
Harry isn't so sure now that he really wants this man to be helping him try on clothing even if it meant not wearing women's clothes anymore.
Reluctantly Harry remembered what he said and not being one to go back on his word he followed Kurama back to another room.
Kurama reaches in to the closet and pull out a pink and purple outfit that could only be described by Harry as a dress that had been slit up the sides and synched around the middle by thick ribbon like band of fabric. Harry looks at the rest of the clothing in the closet and sees that a large majority of it is made of purple, red and pink.
Harry asked "Why do you wear so much pink?"
"Because it goes well with my hair and I just like the color." Kurama answered plainly. "Do you need any help changing because I don't mind helping you if you need any?"
"Umm… No thanks I think I got it I'll be down in a few." Harry said after considering the clothes he was handed
"Well hurry I'm sure the food isn't going to stay warm much longer." Kurama called out to Harry as he hurried down the hall.
Leaving Harry to fend for himself Kurama went to let Master Genkai know the tidbit he had learned.
"Master Genkai had you realized that Potter-kun has a demon taint as well as protection about him? I got a good whiff of it when I looked at his gorgeous green eyes." Kurama said
"I thought I smelled something like that when I first brought him in, but I wasn't sure and forgot to say anything." Yukina spoke up.
"I wondered if that was the case, but I hadn't looked into it since I haven't had much opportunity to do any deep scans of his spirit yet." Genkai muttered. "I'll look into that after dinner."
Harry walks back into the room tugging at the clothes in hopes that it will continue to cover everything properly.
Yukina asks, "Don't you usually wear pants with that type of top?"
Kurama answers "Yes, but on him my pants would just look even more comical because they would be 15 centimeters too long and I don't want my pants to be rolled up."
"Did you at least give him some underwear, because as you might have seen earlier he hasn't been wearing any?"
"Umm…" A sweat drop forms on the side of his face. "No. I guess I wasn't thinking about that."
Genkai "Perhaps he should have some clothes of his own, also some necessities."
Forgetting his lack of under garments for a moment Harry jumps in the air in excitement over the prospect of having some real clothes of his own choosing. "Thank you!" He quickly realized that in the process he had flashed everyone again. He turned a bright shade of red and ran back out of the room trying to hold the flaps in place.
Kurama smirks, "Well that was entertaining."
"I wonder if he needs my help changing again" Yukina says
Genkai's eye twitches. 'I need to make plans to let Kurama or one of the other boys take his measurements and then shop for him as he cannot leave the protection of the wards. Yukina would not be allowed to shop for him, because he still wouldn't have any male clothing when she got back with many overflowing bags.'
"Harry should be a lot bigger for being 16 years old" Genkai said "Yukina go get Harry to come back out here he needs to eat. Then I will test his spirit because I think something is very wrong."
Yukina takes off to go find Harry
"What, he's 16? I thought he was 10 or 11, he is so small, stunted even!" Kurama exclaimed.
"My point exactly he's still stunted there." Genkai states giving Kurama a meaningful look at his crotch.
Kurama blushes slightly and crossed his legs. 'Master Genkai sure doesn't miss much. The poor boy I wonder if he has ever tried to be with anyone. I doubt it if his hormones haven't even hit, yet!'
Yukina drags Harry back into the room fully clothed in the green kimono he had originally come to dinner in. She sat him down in the open seat and pointed at the plate which was still full of food waiting for him to eat it.
Harry stares at his food and then looks for a fork only to find a pair of wooden hair ornaments in their place. "My hair isn't long enough to need being put up with sticks. What am I supposed to do with these?" he asked
Kurama snickers. "Those are chopstick and if you had been out here while we were still eating you would have seen us using them to pick up the food with. Here let me show you how to use them." Kurama picks up his set of chopsticks and uses them to snag a piece of food off of Harry's plate. "Now you try to do what I'm doing."
Harry picks them up and looks at them then tries repeatedly to get them to work, only once getting a noodle to stick to them long enough to make it to his mouth. After a number of minutes working up a great appetite, he scowls at his dinner plate; it explodes sending shrapnel and food all over the room.
"Well that's quite the temper you have there." Genkai said while pulling a shrimp from her forehead and a noodle off her nose.
"Sorry." Harry blushed, but ate the food that had attached itself to his hands and face because he was starving still.
Kurama still startled began to pluck the noodles from his hair. He has never before seen such a show of untamed power. 'Who would have thought that such a small boy would have that type of an explosive nature when frustrated over not getting food?'
Yukina had managed to duck at the first sign of the power building and avoided soiling her precious clothing.
"Yukina go get a spoon and another plate of food for him, because he must still be hungry." Genkai said.
When Yukina returned with more food Genkai told him, "After you are done eating I need you test you and your abilities it won't hurt and I will learn a lot about why that just happened."
"That was just accidental magic it happens to me now and then. It has all my life." Harry shrugged casually.
"It shouldn't still be happening. That is what happens to someone whose magic is largely untrained and by now you should have learned enough control that would not still be happening if there wasn't something wrong." Genkai told him.
"Oh?" Harry said intrigued. For once someone was giving him answers, truthful ones.
"That is why I am going to be scanning your spirit energy to find the cause and what can be done to help you work things out."
Harry is only able to finish about half the food that was set in front of him. When anticipation got the better of him and he had to stop. He asked, "Master Genkai what exactly are you going to do to me?"
Kurama chokes on his tea and coughs because he nearly laughed while drinking; his mind was in the gutter over what Harry had unknowingly said.
"Are you okay?" Questioned Harry, he starts over towards him, but is quickly waved off.
"I'm fine pay attention to Master Genkai."
"The technique I am going to use is called spirit wave. It has many uses it can be a strong attack or it can heal nearly any injury. Along with being a healing technique I will be able diagnose what is wrong within your body that would cause you to be underdeveloped.
Also it will tell me what is making your magic go haywire even though you have had a considerable amount of training."
"Do I need to do anything to make it work?" he asked.
"Just sit still and be quiet." Genkai ordered.
She raised her hands towards Harry and Rippling waves of yellow energy spread out over his body as Genkai began her scan.
Harry felt a kind of pressure and tingling sensation as soon as she began. It didn't hurt at all although it was kind of annoying and made him want to shift in hopes of relieving the feeling, but he withstood it without moving as she ordered. After a few minutes it stopped and she moved away.
"You can move now, I'm done." Genkai said, "Aside from my student Yusuke who has died twice and been in hundreds of major fights you have the most injuries and abnormalities I have ever seen in one person. Most recently you have had 6 fractured and 3 broken ribs along with a partially crushed collar bone and fractured cheek bone. At the time of these injuries you received a concussion, split lips, black eyes and internal bleeding. All of these were taken care of during your healing coma and with the potions you took just before showing up here. Over your life time you have broken more than 50% of the bones in your body and many have been broken more than once. You were malnourished and emaciated for most of your life which has been a major factor in your petite size. Other things of interest you have had your entire left arm bone re-grown."
Kurama's eyes go very large at this and he interrupts her exclaiming, "What…? How?"
"Magic of course, now let me finish. A long knife wound on your arm and a large pierce wound on the other. Burns from dragon fire and acidic potions have covered your body over the last few years. You have basilisk venom and phoenix tears running through your veins as well as vampire blood."
Harry's eyes dilate this time as he asks, "Vampire's blood I don't know any vampire…s." He trailed off for a second and then as if struck by lightning, the idea occurred to him. "Snape, we always called him the dungeon bat but we never thought he might actually be a vampire."
"Now can I finish?" Genkai pauses for a second and then continues, "Your body is covered in an assortment of smaller scars, from regular whippings and from fights, from some sort of writing cut in to the skin of your hand to the claw marks of an owl. The oldest scar you have is the one in the middle of your forehead in the shape of a lightning bolt which you received while you were still a baby. Now you knew of most if not all of those things what you may not know is that there have been binding spells and magic blocks placed upon you keeping your magic from progressing stronger as it should. With preventing your magic it has also affected your hormones keeping you from truly going through puberty. If left in place past your 17th birthday you may never be able to gain any more magical strength than what you are working with right now, preventing you also from ever developing as a man."
The windows nearest them shattered with the coming of this information. Harry has a strained look on his face causing everyone to know he was the source of the broken glass.
"Sorry."
"Replacing the windows will be your one of your chores now as well." Genkai said as she looked at Harry.
"As the blocks are removed your appearance will likely change dramatically, because your own blood is not entirely human. So, with the blocks there were a number of very strong charms making your hair and features look exactly as they do now and to remain unchanging for many years to come."
"I'm not entirely human? What am I mixed with?"
'I had always wondered why my hair would grow back exactly the same in record time whenever it was cut.' Harry thought.
"I don't know what you are exactly just that you were born with mixed blood, mostly human but of something completely different as well. If I'm not mistaken one of the lesser bindings has been loosened by something and you might have a change in your appearance as well as your magic soon. As to what caused it to loosen you're guess is as good as mine perhaps the vampire blood Snape's potions had something to do with it." Genkai looked around for a second and told Harry. "It's getting late you should rest you had a long day and I need you up early tomorrow to start on your chores and we can work on training you a little on what spirit energy work is like. Strictly theory of course, we can't train you with spirit energy until all the blocks are off."
Now having a lot to think about decides she is probably right. He goes over to Kurama and asks him, "How do you say good night in Japanese?"
"Oyasuminasai." Kurama said.
Harry tried to say it to everyone, "Oh-yah-soo-mee-na-saw-ee."
Yukina smiled and said, "Oyasuminasai."
Harry headed to bed though he didn't know how quickly he would actually be able to fall asleep because he had so many things to think about.
"Will you keep an eye on the boy for me? He has so much to learn before I will feel safe leaving him alone for more than a few minutes at a time now that I know just how frail he really is. Not only are his bones weak from malnutrition, but his mental health as well from years of childhood abuse." Genkai asks Kurama.
"I will, at least until one of the others comes along that he'll feel a stronger connection to." Kurama says.
"Good. If he ever does bond to anyone without fear of being abused it would be a miracle. That is all I ask and try to keep him from breaking more windows." Genkai sighs as she walks off to her room.