Title: Lionhearted

Time Frame: Non-specific after Soul Society arc but before Harry's Trial

Summary: Hermione's reaction to their adventures in the Soul Society

Warning: A lot of profanity towards the middle/endish

Authors Note: I think this is personally one of my better ones. Of course, I can't really be the best judge of that. I guess we'll see by the number of reviews i get, if anyone is still reading this even.

Thank You: To everyone who has waited this long for a chapter


"So let me get this straight-"

"I know what you're going to say-"

"No you don't, so shut the bloody hell up!"

"Hey, that my phrase!"

"Shut up Ron!" Hermione spun around, spitting fire and breathing smoke. Her hair frazzled before their very eyes, enlarging to at least twice its size, even as her hands longed to string his, well, their necks. Of course before long, she'd turned back and was looking him square in the eye.

"So let me get this straight-"

"Look Hermione-"

"One more interruption and I will rip out your intestines!" Now she looked positively livid; her face turned an angry red and her eyes narrowed in a display of what, precisely, got her into Gryffindor.

"So let-" an annoyed look crossed her face, and she started over. "So, you went back to Japan, knowing Rukia would be captured, and then gave her to the enemy, killed yourself, forced yourself into a coma, trained to invade heaven, broke into its 'inner sanctum', faced off against several captains of the military, stopped her execution, and-" She took in another breath of air, "helped unmask a part-psychotic terrorist attempting to stage a coup to become god?" She was in front of him now, hands in front of his face squeezed in a strangling motion.

"Yeah, pretty much." He then proceeded to stare in horror as her face became redder than Ron's hair, and she grew to where she towered over him. It was all he could do to slump back and hope and pray that he would live.

"HARRY JAMES POTTER! What in the BLOODY HELL, were you THINKING!" And then his hoping and praying tossed into hell. Renji fell backwards in his chair, falling on top of Ichigo who was too scared to think about getting up. Rukia, while shocked, was more focused on the coughing fit her Taicho had gone into. Keigo and Mizuiro were both backed up into a corner with Hitsugaya, obviously nervous, and Tatsuki, who was practically picking dandelions. Meanwhile, Yumichika, Rangiku and Ikkaku were right as fucking-was Ikkaku laughing? He was gonna kill him; just wait until he was on the end of this! "No- Not only were you NOT THINKING, you've gone bloody well BRAIN-DEAD! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!" She flung herself at his chest and painfully punched. "After all that we went through last year-Cedric, Voldemort-" the wizards flinched, " Would you STOP FLINCHING AT A NAME! after all that we went through, you go and pull A STUNT. LIKE. THIS!" She stopped suddenly, the only thing punctuating the tension being Ukitake's coughing and Ikkaku's now boisterous laughter.

She spun around with an almost audible crack, her hair whipping him in the face. "So you think this is funny do you?" She shoved Yumichika and Rangiku aside, quickly striding across the room, and put her wand to Ikkaku's jugular. "So you think it's FUNNY! Just wait until you're the one stuck in THIS GODDAMN HOUSE, cleaning, and reading, and joking, and being berating by A BLOODY FUCKING PAINTING, while your BEST FRIEND is MISSING with a FUCKING MASS MURDERER ON HIS ASS!"

"Hermione-" Yumichika attempted to separate her from his partner, although from the look on his face he knew it was futile.

"'Mione-" he stood up from his chair.

"Don't flipping 'Mione' me, EITHER OF YOU!" her breathing came in ragged breaths, but none the less she lowered her wand and stalked over to him. After a couple of seconds of pure tension she slapped him, hard, then locked him in a hug that took the air out of him. "Don't you ever do that again Harry Potter, or I will personally hunt you down and castrate you, and anyone who helps you. AM I CLEAR?" Her finger jabbed into his chest, tears welling up in her eyes. There were several nodded heads before she ran out of the room in tears, Ginny, Orihime and a reluctant Tatsuki following her.

"Maybe I should go too? I mean it is my-"

"Don't finish that Rukia," Keigo started, "A) It's not your fault, really and B) Do you really think that's going to help right now?" Everyone admitted that Keigo had a point.

In the still open door way Byakuya and Kenpachi appeared.

"What happened in here? It looks like Frost Bite over there glued you to the floor with Bankai."

"Rukia? Abarai?" Byakuya's eyes turned to him; a clear warning. "Does this have anything to do with the shouting we heard? Who did they say that was, a Hermoni?"

"Hermione Granger, she's one of my-"

"Our." Yumichika butted in.

"One of our best friends. She's scary smart but sometimes-"

"But sometimes she's fucking mental." Ichigo finished.

"Well she has a point." Ron butted in, just because he could, "You guys were kind of stupid. Then again, she's been overreacting all summer long. I think it's the house personally, not the most cheerful place is it?"

Ukitake cleared his throat of congestion, rubbing the muscles above his heart tenderly. "Well your friend is, uh, very…"

"Mental?"

"Hormonal,"

"Tasteless"

"Psycho!"

"Uh, Lionhearted, I was going to say." He and Ron just waved his politeness off.

"Just wait, this wasn't even the half of it-"

"Says the one who was watching and not getting new bruises."

"Yeah, well, it isn't even close to her worst! Just wait until it comes time for OWLS, urgh, she's already talking about them, and school hasn't even started yet. What's she gonna be like when they're actually here?" He pointed out; everyone shuddered.

"Suddenly I'm afraid for my safety…"

"Then you might want to sit down Renji, cause it only gets worse from here." He warned, and then found at least a dozen eyes asking him to explain just what he meant.


I kind of picture this leading into 'On the Straight and Narrow'... of course there were people in that chapter that aren't stated in this one, and vise versa, but you can imagine they're there ;). Again, thanks to any of you still reading this. Remember, reviews constantly remind me of this, and when I'm reminded of something, I get inspiration, and when I'm inspired, I write, and when I write, you get more to read. So Reviews=More Reading, and that makes everyone happy. Until another day. Sayonara~