"You guys need to come out for the try outs tomorrow morning!" James insisted at dinner on Friday night. Ichigo, Orihime, and Chad had been practicing all week with Uryu flying a little, or reading on the benches. Ichigo grinned.
"You bet!" Ichigo said with a grin. Uryu looked over his book again.
"You should come too Uryu!" Albus said.
"You only want him there because of the popularity he gained from him against Lestrange." said Lily, Albus and the others laughed. Uryu shock his head.
"I'm not interested." he said. Rose looked up at him.
"Well I'm going to Hagrids in the morning, you should join me." she said. Uryu nodded, he would like to talk to Hagrid, he hadn't spoken to him since they arrived at the school. He had been reading everything he could and maybe Hagrid could elaborate on some things. Rose smiled at his acceptance, where Orihime gave a small huff of annoyance.
"But Uryu, you'd do good!" she pouted. Uryu gave her a smile and shock his head.
"I wouldn't do anywhere near as well as you Orihime." he said. She grinned.
"Your right, i'll do my best!" she said. He tried not to laugh. Finally it was time for bed.
"Are you sure? I mean you can still come!" Albus said as tehy climbed into their beds. Uryu nodded.
The next morning Uryu woke u before the others and headed down to breakfast. He sat down and pulled some food on his plate when Rose came in. "Oh, morning Uryu!" she said coming over and sitting with him. She then tock a large serving of food. "Just a tip, when we get to Hagrids, he'll offer you his rock cakes, don't take them, tell him you'll eat them later, then toss them in the trash." she said. Uryu gave her an odd look.
"That bad?" he asked. She nodded. "Sounds like what we do for Orihime." Uryu said truthfully. Rose laughed. They set out for Hagrids.
"Hagrids an old friend of the families. Our parents and grandparents used to come to see him when they were here for school. He's nice but he loves animales and his idea of safe animals and our idea of safe animales are greatly different." said Rose. Uryu nodded, keeping in mind not to forget that. He followed her down the path to a small hut in front of a huge forest.
"I wonder why no one goes in there." Uryu said, realizing that he had never seen anyone go in there.
"That's the forbidden forest, it's out of bounds to all students. Hagrid will even tell you that there are dangerous creatures in there, and that's saying something." said Rose. Uryu nodded, noting that too. They went up to the door and Rose knocked hard on the thick wood.
"COMIN!" boomed a voice and a loud but deep dog bark came out of the room. The door opened and an enormous black boarhound came leaping out of the building. Uryu recoiled as it jumped up on him and started licking him. "DOWN FANG!" barked Hagrid, pulling the dog off of Uryu, then his face lit up at his guests. "Rosie! And the foreign boy. Sorry, I can't remember yer name." Hagrid said, pulling Uryu to his feet.
"Uryu." Uryu said fixing his glasses.
"Well come on in, I'll fix ya some tea." said Hagrid with a smile, pulling the dog into the hut. Uryu and Rose followed. Hagrid released the dog and it bounded to Uryu to sniff his hand. Uryu patted it's head and sat down in a chain by Rose. Hagrid placed three large bucket like cups on the table and put a large kettle on a small fire. Uryu looked around. It was like a kitchen, a dinning room, and a bed room all in one room. It was a cozzy little home he had to admit, with a beautiful fire next to the table that kept the whole place warm.
"So Hagrid, how are you?" Rose asked. Hagrid smiled.
"I'm doin' fine Rosie. Where are the others?" Hagrid asked. Usually when they came around his home it was all of the kids, not just one.
"They have Quidditch try outs today." she said. Hagrid nodded to show he understood.
"This' year's yer cusins last. It's 'bout time. James is nearly as big of a trouble maker as Harry's father was, and yer uncle George." Hagrid said. Uryu knew Fred must have been in that group ass well as the maruders, but for some reason Hagrid omitted them. He didn't say anything though.
"So Hagrid, I've been reading up on the history of Hogwarts." said Uryu, trying to find a good start to the subject. He wanted to know whatever he could about the castle so he could start looking in on those two boys and find out what was going on.
"Really now, most students don't care to do that anymore, unless it's the battle of Hogwarts from a good few years back." Hagrid said. Uryu nodded, not really caring about that.
"I understand. I wanted to know a little more about the actual structure of the building." he said. Hagrid gave him an odd look.
"Look, I an't telling you about the secrite passageways, I have enough trouble chasin' James threw them, I don't need to add you to the list. How he even learned about them dang thing's i'll never know." Hagrid growled. 'So there are secrite passages?! I need to find those, they may be useful!' Uryu thought. Hagrid started to pour tea into the cups from the kettle and Uryu decided to change the subject.
"So you teach Care of Magical creatures?" Uryu asked. Hagrid nodded.
"Yeah. Luna helped a lot by finding new species and sending me some of them for class." Hagrid said. Then he started going on about many different species of creatures that Luna had discovered. 'Luna Lovegood?! Like Harry, Ron, and Hermionie's friend who was in the D.A. and served in the battle at Hogwarts?!' Uryu thought. He didn't know how long they had gone on about the differnt species when another knock came at the door, the dog leaped from his side and Hagrid opened it. James, Ichigo, Albus, Orihime, Lily, Hugo, and Chad spilled into the hut. They all had huge smiles on their faces.
"We made the team Uryu! I'm a chaser!" Orihime said with a huge smile.
"That's great Orihime." Uryu said.
"So who's all on the team this year?" Hagrid asked.
"I'm the seeker and Captain. Orihime, Hugo, and Alana Bell are the chasers, Lily the keeper, and Ichigo and Chad the beaters. Albus is our reserve player." James said. The others nodded.
"That's wonderful!" Rose said.
"I think we're going to win the cup this year with this team!" James said. They all cheered in agreement. Hagrid pulled out more cups and made more tea as they went on about the tryouts, but Uryu kept his focus on James. 'He knows the castle better than anyone else. Does that mean he has a map?! If so I wonder if I can get it from him!' Thought Uryu. The group then left for the castle, with pocket's full of the rock cakes that only Orihime liked.
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The next day the group all slept in, but Uryu. He went down to the common room and sat in the chairs, waiting for a chance to talk to James. Suddenly a boy came tearing into the common room. "Help!" he yelled. Uryu jumped up.
"What is it?" he asked. The boy looked him over, then grabbed his wrist. The boy pulled Uryu out threw the portrate hole and down the halls towards the library. "What's wrong, where are we going?!" Uryu hissed. The boy said nothing. Finally they arrived at the hall with the portable swamp to see a student lying on the ground. Uryu was by his side in an instant. He scanned over the boy and gasped, the boy had no spiritual pressure! 'But that doesn't make sense! All of the students here have to have spiritual pressure unless...DAMN IT!' Uryu thought. He reached down and lifted the boy onto his back. "I'm going to the imfermery, go get McGonogall to meet us there." Uryu yelled. The boy nodded and ran. Uryu closed his eyes, remembering every twist and turn of the halls to the castle to the infermery, then gathering all the reshi the area had to offer, used his hiyenkyaku to dash threw the halls. It didn't take him long at all to arrive. The nurse, Madam Pomfry was sitting at her desk when he came in, startling her. "He was unconcious, I don't know what happened!" Uryu gasped to her. She nodded and tock the boy from Uryu, rushing him into her room, shutting the door behind her. Uryu stood at the door waiting until he heard loud foot steps behind him, then he turned to see McGonogall.
"Mr. Ishida, so your the one who brought the student here?" she asked. Uryu nodded.
"Professor, he's not hurt physically, but..." Uryu trailed off, she wouldn't understand what he would tell her and even if she did, she'd want to know how he knew that, and he didn't have time to explain that now. He had to figure out how that happened. He closed his eyes to sense spirit ribbions. Maybe if he acted quick enough he could use what was left of the boys spirit ribbion to sense what happened to his spiritual pressure. He concentrated hard, but couldn't come up with anything.
"Mr. Ishida!" McGonogall snapped. Uryu opened his eyes.
"Yes?!" he asked, forgetting that she was there.
"I understand your worried, but it's probibly nothing." she said. Uryu nodded absentmindedly.
"I have to go Professor." he said, leaving. He ran to the common room and dashed up stairs. Ichigo, Chad, and Albus were still asleep but that didn't matter. He tore into his trunk and pulled out some paper and a pen. Then he ran down to the common room. Taking a vacant table he quickly wrote a note to Kisuke before running to the owlry. He dashed in to collide into someone. "Sorry." he said looking up, then he froze. The person that he was looking at, was Cygnus. Cygnus pushed Uryu away from him.
"Watch it you dumb ass." he cursed at Uryu. Uryu wanted to fight him, but decided against it. He moved around Cygnus and started walking towards the owls. Uryu reached the owls and scrowled 'Kisuke' on the letter, then he tied it to a nearby one's leg. He let the owl go and it flew into the air, taking the letter for Kisuke. Uryu then sighed and looked behind him, but Cygnus was gone. 'Damn!' he thought.
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Ichigo and Chad came down for breakfast to find the common room packed with students yelling. "What the hell is going on?!" Ichigo yelled.
"Apperently a Hufflepuff student was found by one of ours passed out in a hall way!" a nearby student told him.
"Yeah, that Ishida guy, apperently he got the kid to the infermery in record time, then he just dissapeared." another said.
"Uryu!" Chad said.
"Yeah, he's a great guy!" a girl said.
"I don't like this, do you think this might be what Kisuke was warning us about?!" Ichigo asked. Chad nodded. They both closed their eyes, trying to sense Uryu's spiritual pressure, but there was so many different ones going threw the school they couldn't put a lock on it.
"Thanks!" Chad told the nearby girl. Then someone came into the common room and the noise got louder. Uryu made his way past the questioning people to find Ichigo and Chad. He gave them a pointed look and they knew the two were related. Kisuke's informant was spot on apperently.
"Where's James?" Uryu asked. Ichigo blinked to make sure he heard him right.
"Up in his dorm why...hey!" Ichigo called as Uryu tock off up the stairs. Uryu found Jame's dorm pretty easily and pulled open the door, startiling James who had thankfully been the only one in there.
"James...I need to ask you something, but it's important." Uryu said.
"Sure, what is it?" James asked.
"I need to know about how you learned to secrite passages." Uryu said.
Thankyou for reading, I hope you like it! Thank you flightstar, K.K.o.t.S.S, Phantom Claire, larslolxz, AnomalyLady, Cerith The Soul Reaper - 21, DDJ, Pirony, fluteprincess95, and psion53. By the way I am so sorry, I accidentaly updated a story that was in the works instead of this one! My bad!
