Kittenn: Hey! This chapter is out faster than the last.

Elmo: Actually, we were really stuck on whether or not we should put this up, because there was a whole 1,500 words of the original between the last chapter and this one, and it was supposed to make a chapter…

Kittenn: What I did forage from it was like, a single paragraph of things with any significance.

Elmo: Let's just say that Kurama is no longer and "animangus" like in the original, and then you're caught up.

Kittenn: And what I did forage will appear next chapter as the opening, because I tried it and it works.

Elmo: Now, I'd say that was the longest disclaimer so far!

Kittenn: This is the longest chapter, though!

Elmo: Well, we don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or Harry Potter.


Murphy's Law

YYHHP: Kurama always thought his human family were normal, that was, until his step-father got a job offer for Hogwarts! As a "muggle" though, he ends up a Smeltings. There, the unthinkable happens!


Adopted from Kait1991


VII: In Which Hiei Accepts a Lower Life Form


"It is official; the people who created these things are insane!" Hiei muttered angrily to his companions on either side of him in low tones, gripping the sides of his chair forcefully. "If humans were supposed to fly, the gods would've given them wings! Yuusuke, does it look like Kuwabara has wings?"

"Relax Hiei; the plane will get us to England!" Yuusuke laughed, folding his arms behind his head sleepily.

"Hn." He growled loudly in distaste, not releasing any pressure.

"Attention passengers!" A cheery voice said over the intercom, "We will be landing shortly, please put all trays and seats in the upright position and buckle your safety belt. I hope you enjoyed the flight."

Kuwabara grumbled, "That guy way too perky for having just gone on a twelve hour plane ride."

The plane landed and the three guys got off it. While they walked out into the damp London night Yusuke scoffed at Hiei and said, "See, it got us here, we're on the ground!"

"Shut up, detective." Hiei barked back in response, setting his hand where his katana should be, but found only air. Hiei sneered, "Yet another reason why I dislike that damned flying machine."

"You'll get your deadly knife back when we get to the motel. What do they call it, the Leaky-Something-Or-Other? Isn't that a strange name for a motel? I mean, it really won't draw business." Yusuke gave his two companions a goofy grin. Hiei rolled his eyes

Kuwabara gave him a swift smack on his head, "It's the Leaky Caldron, you idiot." Kuwabara told his best friend, "Even you could remember that, Urameshi!"

"Oh, yeah," he grinned again, "I think I remember that!" Hiei closed his eyes, irritated. The trio walked to the place where Koenma had told them their motel was located, and found an empty alleyway.

"Well, that's weird. Koenma doesn't make mistakes." Kuwabara said, squinting like something would appear if he looked more careful.

Hiei looked over to Kuwabara, and then Yusuke. "There's something there… but it seems like if it's being hidden. I'm not familiar with the frequency it's running on."

Yusuke and Kuwabara blinked. "Frequency?" They questioned at the same time. Hiei looked back irritably.

"It's not reiki or youki." He snapped. Both boys nodded in unison. Hiei closed his eyes again, and the Jagan gave off a faint glow under his headband. "I think I can temporarily override the cloaking, but because of the humans, I can't guarantee anything, because they might see something."

"Ouch," Kuwabara mumbled. Hiei's eyes snapped open.

"We've got ten seconds. If either of you mess up, I won't come back for you." Hiei paused, "NOW!"

The three ran for the momentarily visible building. Hiei was the first in and Yusuke made a close second. Kuwabara was there at the eight. Inside it looked just like any pub, a bar and a bunch of tables. Hiei snorted.

"It doesn't seem like much to be hiding under that complex of an illusion. These are some of the most disgusting humans I've ever seen. Including Kuwabara."

(Though ignored by both Hiei and Yusuke, Kuwabara had yelled, "Hey!")

Yusuke chuckled and responded, "Maybe that's why the building is hidden."

"Hn."

"C'mon, Hiei! That was funny! Don't just, HN, at me!" Yusuke yelled.

Hiei faced Yusuke and smirked, taunting him with a, "Hn."

"Can I help you?" a man called from behind the bar as they got closer.

"Hai, er, yes. We 'ave… rooms ," Yusuke said, in broken English, being the supposedly brave speaker of the trip. In actuality, he was the only one who knew any English at all. Kuwabara never had a grasp on languages besides his own, and Hiei was Hiei.

"Names?" he asked in his deep accent.

"Urameshi, Kuwabara, Hiei." Yusuke replied. Tom nodded as he picked up a paper with room numbers and dates written on it.

"Follow me." The man led them down a hall and handed Yusuke a key. "The room will be crowded with three. It's only got two small beds."

Yusuke glanced over to Hiei, and then to Kuwabara. "We be good."

The next morning the three stuck out like a sore thumb, Yusuke wore a t-shirt and a pair of blue jeans, Kuwabara a white polo and khakis, and Hiei wore what he always wore. Were you expecting otherwise?

"So, now that we're in England, and we know the language and accent were English, where are we to go from here? And why did Koenma send us to a cloaked motel?" Yusuke pondered. Hiei grunted in agreement.

"Maybe there's something we're missing. Something he knows about Kurama's whereabouts that he's not telling us." Kuwabara suggested, "And this pub's cloaking has something to do with it."

"We're going to have to figure out what this mystery thing is," Yusuke decided, "Hiei, tell us exactly what you told Koenma about the dream. Maybe if we pinpoint what made him send us here…"

Hiei cut him off, "I drew out what was on the book cover. I described both Kurama and the other boy in detail, and the language Kurama was mumbling in." Then he went back to picking at the food in front of him.

Yusuke and Kuwabara both began to think.

"Do you still remember what the book cover had on it?" Kuwabara asked. Hiei nodded and the redhead handed him a piece of paper, "write it. And stop picking at your food if you're not going to eat it."

Standard Book of Spells Grade Seven

"Spells?" Yusuke asked after he read the words out loud and translated. He struggled, of course, but he managed.

"Grade seven? I may not be an expert on English people, but I'm pretty sure grade seven is pretty low on the ladder." Kuwabara commented.

Yusuke pulled out a pink compact which the rest recognized at once.

"We haven't used those since Botan took them after my first mission," Kuwabara stated, "Where'd you get it?"

"I snitched it from Botan's detective tool case."

Yusuke flipped it open and Koenma appeared on the screen. He jumped.

"Yusuke?" He asked.

"So little toddler, explain and tell us where the hell to go!"


"I spoke to Tom; we need to 'floo' to Hogsmead's pub, Three Broomsticks. That's the closest place to the wizarding school, Hogwarts." Yusuke told them.

"Well, then, lets go!" Kuwabara answered.

"I figured you'd say that, Tom 'owled' the owner and got us rooms there for the week, after that if we haven't found him we might as well get an apartment and look." Yusuke sighed, glancing at Hiei and Kuwabara, "But before we go there, we need to buy clothes like what these people wear. We stand out to much, Tom tells me."

"Ok, let's go then." Kuwabara said replied, "I just hope that place isn't as musty!"

Hiei just spat him usual "hn" and followed the pair to Diagon Alley. About an hour later the three walked out of Madam Malken's dressed like real wizards, Yusuke in green, Kuwabara blue, and Hiei in black.

Then they all headed to a contact of Koenma to get some fake wands.

"Well then," the trio stood around the fireplace at the Leaky Caldron, "Just drop the powder and say very clearly 'Three Broomsticks', do you boys got it?" he asked, and Yusuke quickly translated the best he could.

When the other two nodded, he went back to the bar.

"Three Broomsticks!"


Yusuke sneezed as he climbed out of the fireplace at Three Broomsticks. A woman stood over him.

"You here from Tom?" she asked him.

"Yeah," he said shortly, backing away from the fireplace as a very angry Hiei appeared, and next came Kuwabara

"I'll show you to your room. I close the doors at midnight, so be back by then." They followed her down the hall, "here's room 10. Have a nice stay." She left them a key and walked off.

"Well, that was interesting!" Kuwabara announced as they entered the room. "But I never want to do it again."

"Too bad, Kuwabara! We're going to have to get back to London eventually, and I don't see any towns nearby." Yusuke snapped and gestured towards the window. All that the eye could see was empty land and a castle in the distance.

"His mother is supposed to live around here, so be on the look out, and avoid her at all costs. She still thinks he's dead. And if we don't find him, it has to stay that way. Do whatever, be back by midnight." Yusuke dumped his bag and passed out on the left bed. The other two left and split up immediately.


Hiei was jumping between the tree branches. He finally stopped when he located the home of Shiori Hatanaka. He saw her tending a garden in the back. He could help but let a small smile escape his lips. He understood why Kurama loved her so much. She was a sweet hearted woman.

Shiori was humming softly as she weeded her garden. It was filled with the plants her son had given her and that which had been in his room, (which probably wasn't the safest thing around). The entire back wall was roses. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked out into the forest where Hiei had been until a split second before.

She could've sworn somebody was watching her.


Kuwabara wandered around Hogsmead aimlessly.

He had wandered into Huneydukes earlier and purchased some chocolate frogs to harass Hiei with later. But now, he was just taking in the sites. He stopped by a pet store to pet the kittens before he went back to Three Broomsticks.

"Sir; would you like to buy one?" asked a voice behind him as he was holding a small calico cat with green eyes. He looked down at her.

"I no speak English. No understand." He said sheepishly in his heavy accent as he rubbed the back of his head. He went back to petting the little cat.

After a while he walked up to the man who spoke to him and held out some money with a questioning look on his face.

"Five sickles," he held up five fingers with one hand and showed Kuwabara a sickle with the other. Kuwabara reaching into his pocket and handed the man five sickles.

"Idiot, what are you doing?" Hiei asked from behind Kuwabara when the redhead exited the store, causing him to jump.

"Don't do that! I was just getting a cat…" he trailed off as the little calico started to rub herself on Hiei, "Oh look! She likes you!" and Hiei hit him over the head with his katana.

"Didn't Yusuke confiscate that? I don't remember him returning it…"

"I stole it back!"

Hiei picked up the cute kitten and looked at her, "She'll do." He muttered and Kuwabara smiled.


Yusuke sat at the bar, absently stirring his drink when Kuwabara and Hiei entered the tavern, bickering. This time, Kuwabara had been teasing him about the cat, Hina, (for his mother).

"You two get anything substantial? We've been here nearly a week, and have very little to show for it." Yusuke sighed, glancing at the pair. The bickering stopped and they both shook their heads.

"Still nothing." Hiei retorted like he always did. This was the fifth time they'd had this conversation, and they had two others very similar.

"I got something useful; that school's sending its kids here tomorrow, perfect time to ask about them about him. According to Koenma, Hatanaka teaches there, and Chibi-Shuiichi gets taught there." Kuwabara said, using his old pet name for Kurama's little brother.

"We'll have go on that, then. Hopefully we'll get a lead." Yusuke sighed, digging through his pocket for the gold to pay for his drink.

"Well," Hiei spoke, "the human was wearing robes with a crest on them, so I could bet that it's that school's crest or something."

"Point out the people in those robes."

"Excuse me." the bar maid, Madam Rosmerta said. "I couldn't help but over hear you talking, you're looking for someone?"

"Yeah, but I doubt you'll have seen him around here, nobody else has." Yusuke told her, perturbed at the eavesdropping.

"Well, if he's a fourth year or higher, I've more than likely met him on at least one occasion if he was around here. Describe him to me; I'll keep a look out for him for you."

"Well," Kuwabara started to speak but was interrupted by Hiei.

"He's about 155 centimetres tall, green eyes, bright red hair, and he's fairly soft spoken. Seventh year, we think," He grumbled out.

"155 centimetres?" she asked, used to standard measurements, as opposed to the metric system.

"5'1''," Hiei snapped back before stomping towards the rooms mumbling about ignorant fools.

"Sorry about him," Kuwabara smiled, "He's just angry we haven't found him yet. Thanks. I mean, for looking for our friend."

"What's his name? If I know I can ask around with the students."

"Shuichi, though he sometimes goes by Kurama." Yusuke told her, placing the gold on the bar counter, "Keep the change."

He grabbed Kuwabara's arm and dragged him to their room.

"Wait," Kuwabara said as they began to change, "she was speaking Japanese!" Yusuke rolled his eyes.

"Apparently, she can speak a lot of languages. I learned that when I accidentally ordered in Japanese. It's useful, having somebody other than you two to talk to!"

They were asleep almost as soon as they were in the beds.