AN: It's, once again, the update of a new chapter! Ten chapters, YAHOO! I finally made it to ten chapters, I'm so happy! …You want me to shut up? Lol…Anyways, I appreciate all the reviews I got for the last chapter, I hope you keep on reviewing my story. Enjoy this chapter!
Note-to-self: Must kill little brother. You know what he did! He reviewed me, while I was still logged in, and made it look like I reviewed myself, again! You know what…maybe I should just kill both him and my friend…
Disclaimer: …so I don't own them…that doesn't mean I never will! After I kidnap them, I will rightfully make them my! Evil music fills background MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA…sorry, I just had too much sugar…
SPOILERS (maybe)
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"Blah" Talking
Blah Thinking
Blah Telepathic
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Last time:
"Kitsune, you know I don't sleep on these." Hiei said, kicking the bed.
"I know, but the man may have become suspicious. Now sleep, and tomorrow, we will once again, get started."
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Yusuke awoke to hands gently shaking him. He opened his eyes and squinted to see a blurry outline of Kurama.
"Morning!" Kurama said, satisfied that Yusuke was now awake. "We need to hurry so you can eat breakfast before the others get outside for the meal."
"Mmm, 'kay…" Yusuke lifted his legs out of the bed, sat up, and rubbed his eyes. "Where's Hiei?"
"Taking a walk, I suppose. He should be back-ah, Hiei, you're back." Kurama said To Hiei, who was standing beside him now.
"Oh, and I forgot!" Yusuke exclaimed. "How are your cuts and stuff, Kurama?"
"Fine. I took care of them last night. And yours?"
"Okay." Yusuke rubbed his forearms ruefully. "A little sore, but okay."
"Hiei, you're fine, I presume?" Kurama turned to Hiei.
"Hn."
"That's good." Kurama smiled.
"Geez." Yusuke looked cross. "How do you understand these replies Hiei say?"
"That," Kurama said teasingly, "Would be a secret between us forever. Now get up, and we'll head out for breakfast."
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The rapping sound at the door woke up the sleepy wizard from a good night's rest. "Harry! Ron! Get up now!"
"Hermione." Ron groaned. "It's way too early to be up, so go back to sleep." With that, he slumped back into bed and pointedly ignored the frightful shrieks of the witch outside the door.
"Do you know what time it is?" Nov giving up, Hermione continuously shrieked at the boys' door.
"I dunno." Harry murmured sleepily. "Six a.m.?"
"WRONG!" Hermione shouted, voice slightly muffled by the door. "We overslept! It's already nine thirty!"
"Pity." Ron muttered. This was followed by a short period of silence. The two boys glanced at each other anxiously. They knew Hermione was too stubborn to leave now.
"Hermione, what are you doing?" Harry called, sleepiness gone.
Silence.
"Hermione?" Ron and Harry yelled at the door in unison.
"If you must know," Hermione said tensely. "I am trying to decide which spell I should use to break your door into a million tiny pieces."
"Fine! We're up!" Ron cried, throwing his hands up. He and Harry had both been a little alarmed at what Hermione threatened to do, with the amount of spells she knew.
Grumbling, the boys got changed and got ready to head out. Opening the door, they saw a disgruntled Hermione glaring at them.
"Finally!" She exclaimed. "Took you long enough!"
"Let's go get breakfast then?" Questioned Ron, trying to lighten Hermione's mood.
"Fine." She grumbled, not acting like her usual self.
Hermione turned around and walked towards the opening of the hotel and walked into the sunlight. The two boys followed behind, not wanting to fire her temper up once again.
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"So, what do you guys want to eat?" Glancing back at the two forms logging behind, she questioned.
"Something edible would be good." Harry replied. "You can pick."
"Well, I think-" Hermione suddenly stopped and looked around her.
"What are you looking for?"
"Oh, I thought I saw a flash of red…must have been my imagination." Hermione shrugged then continued on her way for something to eat.
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"Look at that, Kurama!" Yusuke hissed. "Hermione saw your hair, so be careful will you? Your red hair doesn't really help in these stealth missions."
"Be quiet, Yusuke." Kurama rolled his eyes. "At least I'm not the one wearing a bottle of gel in my hair."
"I'm not wearing a bottle of gel in my hair!" Yusuke argued back. "It's only half a bottle!"
"Shut up, or I'll rip out your tongue." Hiei growled.
Yusuke grumbled. "You always take Kurama's side."
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Sitting around the table, the Hogwarts trio started discussing plans for their quest.
"Well," Hermione started. "I personally think we should go back to the wizard society, and work from there. His doesn't seem like a likely place to find the next Horcrux."
"Yeah, we don't really have any." Ron grunted back.
"I don't think it matters so much." Hermione shrugged. "As long as Voldemort and the Death Eaters don't obtain them, we should be able to find them eventually."
(AN: that's what they think! Oh, boy, how wrong was she! Shakes head at Hermione)
"So let's go back to the room with the floo powder and travel back!" Harry suggested.
"Yeah!" Ron agreed, nodding his head along with Harry. "Sounds like a plan to me!"
Getting up, Harry paid for breakfast and trotted towards the tow waiting at the door.
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While following the three humans, Kurama attempted to figure out the Horcrux.
"I wonder how you destroy the Soul Piece. Is there some way to extract it, then destroy it that you know of, Hiei?" Kurama asked, fingering the locket.
"Hn."
Kurama sighed, while Yusuke cocked an eyebrow. "You two are communicating in that language again!" He warned teasingly.
Kurama chuckled and cast an apologetic glance a Yusuke. "What Hiei means is no."
"Pass me the locket." Yusuke ordered. He caught the pendant as it was flipped through the air. "I think you're thinking too much, Kurama."
"Maybe Koenma would know." Kurama mused. "Or perhaps I have a plant that will-"
CRACK.
He whirled around in mid-sentence. Yusuke stood behind him, with a locket broken into three pieces.
"Yusuke, what did you do?" Kurama said, shocked, as he stared at the broken locket.
"I said you were thinking too much." Yusuke drawled. "So I just broke it, much simpler than whatever you were blabbing about."
"So you just broke it with your hands!" Still in shock, Kurama said in disbelieve. "Do you know how rash that was? You could have made the soul escape back to the host…or something!"
"Yeah, but did you fell anything coming out from the Soul Piece after I broke it? I didn't, Hiei didn't, did you?" Yusuke shot back at Kurama.
"Well…" Kurama looked thoughtful. "No, I did not." He admitted. "But, how do you know Hiei didn't?"
"I guessed." Yusuke admitted. "He didn't react."
"Hn."
"Well, you guessed right." Kurama muttered, still upset by Yusuke's actions.
Yusuke nodded smugly.
"The ningens are leaving." Hiei's voice penetrated Kurama's thoughts and dragged him back to reality.
"Oh!" Kurama said. "Of course, let's get going then."
Walking quietly, the three slipped out of the alley they were resting at and followed Harry, Ron, and Hermione quietly.
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"Onwards!" Hermione squealed with glee as she and the boys started to march towards the cottage to travel back into the wizarding society.
"Geez, why are you so happy today?" Complained Ron, expression not unlike someone who had just ate a lemon. "Is it 'cause you got to wake us up from our beauty sleep?"
"Why yes!" Hermione grinned back cheekily. "It would be my life's mission to-AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Hermione's body suddenly shot undergrounds after he huge leap she took forward into the pile of leaves on the ground.
"Hermione?" Harry and Ron cried out in unison and rushed towards the new black hole, discovered hidden under the leaves.
"I'm fine!" She called up. "It's a soft landing, so I'm not hurt…but I can't really distinguish where I am…" She trailed off, sounding puzzled, before muttering the lumos spell to help her see well in the pit of darkness.
"There seems to be a tunnel of some sort…" Sounding curious, Hermione informed the other two. "I don't know where it leads to, though."
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"Harry? Ron?" Hermione called anxiously. "Don't come down h-" Thud. Thump. She whirled around to see Harry and Ron grinning up at her from below the ground.
Hermione smacked the palm of her hand against her forehead. "I was jus t going to tell you not to come down here! Now we're all trapped here without anyway to get out!" She glared down at the tow boys, her shadow looming over the two on the ground.
Ron grunted as he picked himself up from the ground. "Look Harry, we come down here to save her and this is what she does. How ungrateful!" He said, shaking his had at Hermione.
"Oh, really?" Hermione accursed. "What were you going to do after you get down here? Jump back up?" She shrieked. "You guys need to think before you do anything!"
"I think that I liked her better when she was happy." Ron whispered to Harry, trying to block out the complains dished out by Hermione, standing in front of them.
"Hsst."
Hermione stopped in mid-sentence. "What was that?" She said anxiously.
"What?" Harry and Ron asked, looking around.
"Hsst."
"There it is again!" Hermione curled her fingers on top of her wand, unsure if the mysterious sound was dangerous.
"Get your wands ready." She ordered, "I don't know what it is, but it doesn't sound friendly."
"Well, you're right, little girl." A voice floated from deep in the shadows, where the lumos spell did not reach.
A claw-like leg stepped out from the shadows, and following it, emerged a huge, lizard-like demon. It had a lizard's had, with it's tongue flicking out and back. It's bare chest and arms were covered with scales, and a flimsy piece of fabric covered it's body from the waist to the knees.
The demon raised a clawed hand and made the motion to grab the Golden trio. "I haven't ssseen a ningen around here in agesss." It hissed out. "Thissss will make a excellent meal for my commradesss and me."
Hermione's hand flopped down uselessly against her side. Her mouth had opened at the sight of the grotesque figure in front of her. It was unlike anything she had ever seen before. Before she or her friends could do anything, they felt themselves bounded by a long, sticky, …tongue.
The creature smirked before slicing it's own tongue. It quickly went back into his mouth as if nothing had happened.
"I will wait for them to come back, and then we will feast!" The youkai said, half to himself.
"He's gonna eat us?" Ron whispered fearfully.
"Oh, how are we going to get out of this one?" Hermione muttered, eyeing their wands that were lying just out of their reach. "Are we done for already?"
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Kurama, Hiei, and Yusuke surrounded a dark pit in the ground.
"Apparently, they fell in." Kurama stated, raising an eyebrow. The hole really had been hidden badly. The humans had just seemed to walk on a pile of leaves in the middle of the ground.
Hiei snorted. "Fools. They probably broke their necks." He sounded half hopeful. Then his expression changed. He sniffed the air above the hole carefully. "Demons. There are demons down there. They've walked into a lair."
Yusuke cursed. "How are we going to explain this to them?"
"No time." Kurama said. He dropped down into the hole, followed by Hiei and Yusuke.
Kurama gently placed down a small seed, which quickly grow into a huge plant, which gave off an enormous, powerful light.
"Let's go." Following the scent of the demon, the demonic trio leaped through the hole, in search of the three humans.
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Hermione, Ron, and Harry sat in the middle of a dimly lit pit, trapped by the tongue of the huge creature that had captured them.
The trio could only see the faint outline of the creature, but then, the pit suddenly grew bright with light.
"Hmm…" The creature thought out loud. "What wassss that? I'll have to go check it out." Turning to three, the giant lizard ordered them to stay put, and leaped away.
"Like hell we'll stay still!" Whispered Harry. "If he really thinks that we'll stay here…"
"Everyone stand up together!" Ordered Harry, attempting to move from the ditch.
Grunting, the three slowly picked themselves up and looked around at the surroundings.
"Which way should we go?" Hermione murmured.
"Well," Ron suggested. "I think we should break apart from this giant, slimy tongue first."
"Yeah, but…" Hermione said, meanwhile thinking of their situation, "We don't have our wands!"
So the Hogwarts trio started to think up any plans to escape from their predicament.
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"Hey, fox-boy…" Yusuke started. "What are we going to do once we find Harry and the others?"
"If there's no other choice, then we have to tell them about our real identity, and why we are here." Kurama replied, glancing back at Hiei and Yusuke. "Is that alright with you two?"
"Hn."
"Fine, fine." Yusuke waved a hand in Kurama's direction. "And when they ask us why we're here, we can say we were sent by God." Yusuke snickered at the end, conjuring up a picture of Koenma. "That toddler really doesn't look anything like a God."
Sighing, Kurama turned a 180, and looked at Yusuke sternly. "Yusuke, save the joke for after we rescue those three."
"Sheesh, no need to be testy." Holding his hands in front of him to make Kurama ease off, Yusuke replied back.
"How stupid can the ningens get to jump right into the middle of the only pile of leaves on the ground?" Hiei pointed out.
"Yeah!" Yusuke's eyes twinkled towards Hiei. "Hiei's right, they were quite the bakas, I think."
"I didn't even know you could think!" Hiei exclaimed, putting on a great air of astonishment. "Now I officially name you smarter than the ningens."
"You little-um…short person!" Yusuke finally thought of the word to call Hiei and smiled at his 'brightness.'
"All of you are smarter than the baka back at home though." Hiei looked thoughtful. "At least you know when someone's insulting you…most of the time."
"Hiei!" Kurama scolded. "Quite teasing Yusuke, and Yusuke, don't be so easily angered. Now both of you concentrate on what we're doing now and pay attention."
"Hn."
"Whatever."
Rolling his eyes at their childish behavior, Kurama ignored them and started to focus his whole attention back to the scent of the demon they been following since they got here.
Suddenly, the stench of the demon grew stronger and a shadow slowly inched in sight.
"Well, what do we have here?" A slithery voice was heard. "Dessert?"
"Where are they?" Kurama asked smoothly. "Tell us and we will spare your pathetic life."
The demon cackled. "And I'll tell you?" It's tongue shot out at Hiei. Apparently, it thought Hiei was the weakest link, being the smallest and having no visible arms. It was a big mistake.
"You are a fool." Hiei growled. In a flash, the demon was felled, complete and utter astonishment frozen on it's face.
Yusuke grimaced. "Moving on!" He said, following Kurama deeper inside the cave.
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The three humans that were now covered in mud from their disastrous attempts to hop towards their wands, sat in a heap, straining to hear the faint noises coming from the far side.
"What now?" Harry groaned.
"Maybe the thing's 'comrades' are back." Ron muttered gloomily.
The three heard footsteps approaching. They braced themselves for the sight of more hideous creatures, and none of them were prepared for what they saw.
"You?" Harry and Ron gasped.
"Us. Yeah? Surprised?" Yusuke said flatly.
"Hsst." Hiei motioned for Yusuke to 'shut up'.
Kurama cocked his head, listening. It seemed as if the demon's comrades have returned. Finish them off quickly. It doesn't matter if the humans see. We will not be able to lie our way out if they have already seen a demon, as inhuman as it was.
Before another word was exchanged, Yusuke let loose three Reigun bolts, hitting the demons rounding the corner. So you don't need to do anything. Short and sweet. Yusuke thought, grinning at Kurama and Hiei.
Then, seeing Kurama staring intensely at the humans, Hiei and Yusuke also turned.
"Harry." Kurama said, softly but surely. "Ron, Hermione. We-" He gestured to himself, Hiei, and Yusuke. "-Are not what we seem…"
TO BE CONTINUED…
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AN: Well, there you go! I'll try to update every two weeks now, if you didn't know. (I wrote it in my profile.) I hope you like this chapter more than the last… 'Cause I didn't get as many reviews as before…but I did love those who reviewed! Thank you so much!
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