Konnichiwa, Sokono here, I just wanted to thank-you for reading in advance!!! Just putting in my disclaimer here, and quote "I do not own and will never own any of the Harry Potter and Yu Yu Hakusho characters, cries even Hiei. Nor do I own the inserts form the fifth book I may put into this story." But the plot is mine, mostly. Like I mention you may be seeing lines right out of the fifth Harry Potter book. That is because I am trying to go with the events in the fifth book as closely as possible. But at chapter thirty-two in HP5 and on, all hell will break lose! For Yu YuHakusho the story takes place some time after the Dark Tournament and the incented with Yakumo
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KittyDragonPhoenixFox
Chapter Ten
Dear Father,
My apologies for not writing to you sooner, as you had warned me during my fifth year at school I have received the most homework during the first two weeks then I have ever received before in past years. Professor Umbridge, as you have surely already read in the "Daily Prophet," has been inspecting the other teachers. From what I have seen and heard I believe that over half of the staff, including Dumbledore will be kicked out of the school by next spring. Just as youhave predicted.
I know you wanted me to inform you about any thing "odd" at the school, and there is one oddity in the school this year you may want to know of. A foreign boy, by the name of Hiei Jaganshi, has come to the school this year to "study the teaching methods of the West." I have heard that he is from Japan, and that his grandfather is an old friend of Dumbledore's. Though he hasn't been placed into a house, his personality seems to fit into Slytherin, but I have seen him around Dumbledore to many times for my taste. He shows no respect for the status of a pure blood, but he walks about the school as though he has the complete right to be there and holds himself and speaks as if he is one.
But one of the oddest things about him is the way he appears. He doesn't wear the school uniform but instead black muggle pants and a black muggle shirt under an oriental style cloak. He has obviously charmed some of his black hair white in an odd star shape and his eyes red. The boy, though he claims to be older then myself, looks as if he could barely make thirteen. With his personality one would think he would be fairly large, but he is actually fairly thin and under five feet tall. He barely seems to be anything to worry about; though his attitude is the only problem, he has insulted several teachers, Professor Umbridge mostly. Though I can tell he is all bark and no bite
I will send you any new or important information that I may come across here. I await any instructions you may send me.
Sincerely,
Draco(1)
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A few days had gone by since the standoff in the last Care of Magical Creatures class, and like any other school, Muggle and Magical; when something interesting happens the gossip spreads out over the school like a flu epidemic. The different versions of the story varied greatly with Hiei cutting his hand open to Professor Umbridge cursing him for speaking out of turn. The only thing that was consistent was the fact that Hiei had mentioned that Umbridge was having students cut their hands open and writing with their own blood, though the specifics of how that was done was twisted with each student's imagination. Students usually kept their conversations about what may be happening in that pink room after hours at hushed tones for fear of being heard by the wrong person and finding out for themselves first hand.
Despite the attempts to keep the teachers out of the loop, one (rather frightening when angered) Professor had found their way into it. She left terror in her wake as she marched down the corridors hunting for students that had taken part in Professor Umbridge's detentions to see if the rumors were true. By the level of her angry aura one could tell she wasn't happy with the results of her search.
As she turned around a corner three unsuspecting boys gathered along the side of the hallway fell under her raider. Unaware of the hawk coming nearer as they huddle together inspecting a piece of a parchment with the latest plans of testing a new product out and the popularity rates of the ones they have already leaked out onto the market. The Weasley twins and their friend Lee Jordan had spent the last two days in detention for a prank they had pulled on the old toad, and they were one of the last few that she had to inspect.
"Mr. and Mr. Weasley, Mr. Jordan." The group of boys jumped and turned around to face to old women clad in emerald robes.
"Ah, Professor McGonagall,"
"What a lovely surprise."
"What can we do,"
"For you today?"
The twins said switching off to each other to finish their sentences. They smiled at her slightly shielding Lee who was cramming their papers back into his bag.
"You can show me your hands for a start." She said her mouth receding into a very thin line. The boys shared a look before raising their left hands. "Your right hand, please." Her nose flared angrily. They shared another look and lifted their other hands. The words 'I will not pull pranks on the Professors' shined back at her in the bright pinkness of a new wound on all three hands.
If the three boys thought they had seen their Head of House at a full blown rage before, it was nothing compared to what they were seeing now. Her eyes had narrowed to slits, her nose was flaring so badly you would think she was about to breath out smoke, and her mouth had reached a new level of thinness.
"Um, Professor, if you want,"
"We happen to have a calming solution,"
"You might want to take some."
Each of the three boys said their line as they took a step back form the enraged woman who was scanning the hallway. At that time the Charms class had just gotten out for dinner, and unluckily it had been the mixed fifth year Ravencalw and Gryffindor class. She watched the class in a hawk like fashion until her next prey was spotted.
"Professor?" Fred or George asked when she had spaced out, but she didn't answer instead she went over to the class room where a group of three were emerging from the door.
"Potter!" She snapped catching the eye of the three, she marched up to them.
"I haven't gotten another detention, Professor I swear!" Harry said defensibly.
"Let me see you hand!" The people in the corridor had stopped to watch what was going on.
"Um alright," the Boy-Who-Lived lifted up his left hand.
"The other one." She hissed narrowing her eyes on the boy as he slowly and unwilling lifted the other hand; she looked at the words 'I must not tell lies,' for a second before she stormed off down the corridor. The anger she was emitting was so thick you cut it with a knife. No one moved, then after ten seconds they flooded after her, knowing somewhere in the school a dead man (or women) was walking.
"What was that about?" Ron asked as they followed the group down the corridor.
"McGonagall found out about Umbridge's quills." Fred said jogging to catch up to the golden trio.
"Bet it was Hiei who told her, a Slytherin if I ever saw one." George chirped. "But a bloody brilliant one at that."
"He would have just told her see her get at Umbridge," Lee said from the other side of George.
"Most likely." Fred said as they got to the top of marble stair case. They could hear yelling from below. "It's started!" The crowd threw themselves at the rail to look down below at the confrontation, Professor Umbridge and Professor McGonagall were about five feet apart and both were very pink in the face.
"Professor McGonagall, are you questioning my judgment of how to punish my students?" Professor Umbridge said sweetly.
"Yes, I believe I am." Professor McGonagall snapped. "What in the world are you thinking using quills like that on the student? When it comes to discipline all teachers are to follow the regulated disciplinary guidelines!"
"Minerva, if a student knows when they do wrong and that there is not a great punishment awaiting them for their wrong doing then that student would not learn from their actions." Professor Umbridge said in a very sickening sweet voice that caused Professor McGonagall's nose to flare violently as if she was surly about to breathe fire.
"May I take a note out from Mr. Jaganshi's book," Professor McGonagall bit out. "Are those flesh cutting, blood using quills Ministry regulated?"
Umbridge continued to smile sweetly. "That is none of you concern Minerva. But by questioning my authority, you are questioning the authority of the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, and by questioning the authority of the Hogwarts High Inquisitor, you are questioning the Ministry of Magic, and by questioning the Ministry of Magic you are questioning the Minister of Magic himself."
"Dolores, I am not questioning the Minster nor the Ministry." Professor McGonagall said bitterly. "I am in fact only questioning your own sanity!" The area was filled with a loud "Oooooh," and a few "burn,"'s , these sounds caused the two teacher to become aware of the nearly hundred and fifty students watching them.
"Very well Minerva," Professor Umbridge said digging into her flowery hand bag and pulling out her clipboard and quill. "I will take your thoughts into consideration and will get the Minister's hand written approval it you would like, though I must warn you that I doubt that there will be any change in my disciplinary tactics." She said sweetly making a note on her clipboard. "Now, if you will excuse me," she walked into the Great Hall.
Professor McGonagall stood there watching her leave still heaving. "WELL? Get to your tables!" She yelled to the students still staring down from their positions on the stairs and banister. It was a split second thing, they were looking down still in aw, the next second the crowd was flooding down the stairs like there was a mob of lions behind them.
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Hiei stretched out his arms as he walked past the tall stone pillars topped with winged boars and turned left onto the road into the village of Hogsmeade. It was the first weekend of October and the Hogwarts students that were in their third year and up were allowed to spend their day in the village. But that wasn't why the fire hybrid was going to the village today, no he had the right to go whenever he pleased, today he was going because of a conversation he had over heard between Hermione and Ginny. He had been sitting in the library reading a book on advance Transfiguration when the two girls had sat down at a table on the other side of the book shelf he was leaning against. He hadn't meant to listen to them, but the library was always so quite and his ears were so sensitive that he 'accidently' picked up on what they were saying.
Today at the Hogshead at eleven o'clock a group of students that were interested in a Defense Against the Dark Arts "Study Group" were going to meet. The ideal had sparked the demons curiosity, granted he didn't show it but by nature his curiosity was easily sparked and he couldn't help himself until it was quenched. It was for that reason why he had stayed with Dumbledore for ten years, and why he had agreed to take part in Koenma's little experimental Spirit Detective team. His curiosity has already nearly gotten him killed several times; thankfully he didn't have the fox's luck when dealing with his pursuers. And thank goodness he wasn't a cat.
The day was fairly bright and horribly windy; the sky was covered with bright fluffy white clouds that at times would allow the sun to sneak through. Because of this acceptable weather the streets were full of Hogsmeade residents and Hogwarts students. People were going in and out of Zonko's Joke Shop, the Three Broomsticks, Honeydukes, and all of the other stores and shops along the road. Hiei looked at them with little interest, he had no tasted for any of it really and any curiosity he had before he had already spent going through each and every store. They were always crowded to the point that you had to touch someone to get through it and Hiei did not like being touched. He wouldn't even go in Honeydukes to satisfy his sweet tooth; the elves had enough sweets in the kitchen for him.
As he walked he carefully avoided bumping arms with anyone and getting the attention of any of the street vendors, his plan for the day was to go and hear what his charges were going to say and then to go and train in his clearing and nothing was going to change that plan. He pasted an alleyway that three small boys were huddle down messing around with something on the ground.
"Stupid cat! It scratched me!" One of the boys yelled. There was a loud cry of a small animal as if something had just hit it and hard.
"Wanna throw it in the river and see what it does." Another of the boys asked.
"It'll probably drown." The third boy said.
"Perfect! That'll teach it not scratch us!" The first boy said cheerfully as the loud cry echoed down the alley again.
Well, almost nothing.
"What are you doing?" Hiei yelled down the alleyway at the boys glaring hatefully at them, he already knew what they doing. He started to walk down towards them when the first boy he had heard yelled to the others.
"RUN!!!" The three ran past several trash cans making them clatter to the ground with a loud crash, they separated on the conjoining road, two going right and one left. Hiei sighed as he continued down the small alley between to shops whose names he didn't catch.
It wasn't until he was just in front of the trash cans the boys had knocked over that he found what he was looking for. It was just a small little kitten, possibly only a few weeks old, the little fluff ball was the darkest of black and trembling with fear as Hiei neared it. Dull light blue eyes glared back at him as the kitten growled and snarled as he kneeled down by it. Now he could see the little brown bags wrapped around its paws that were most likely filled with rocks at the best, the creature looked ragged and starved to the point of falling over. But it held a defiant look in its eyes that it refused to fall before its weakness and just lay down and die.
Not really aware of what he was doing he held his hand out to the little creature who took the opening and dug its little teeth into his hand as far they would go. As Hiei watched the kitten's attempt to protect itself he was over come with a sense of familiarity. It was just like him, having had been abandoned at an extremely young age and left to fend for themselves. He too had literally bitten any offered hand; the bandit leader who had taken him in he had bitten; when Dumbledore had offered to help all those years ago he had bitten him as well, heck if had been conscious when Kurama took him to his house to tend to after their first meeting he probably would have bitten him as well.
"There's no need fight now, you're safe." The kitten was hissing through the flesh in its mouth. "Anatawa Kinko desu." Hiei said softly looking at the kitten, he leaked out a little of his aura to warp around the fluff ball as he touched its mind. 'You are safe. Anatawa Kinko desu.'(2)
After a second the creature seemed to get his message as it slowly let go of his hand and licked at the bleeding wound as it healed. The kitten started to purr as it rubbed its head against the fire demon's hand trying to get that strange warmth that had suddenly flooded over it. Hiei watched it for a few seconds before sighing.
"Damn it, I've been in the Human World for too long, I'm starting to become infected with their pitiful attachments and emotions. No wonder the fox fell to their ways, their contagious." Hiei snarled as the kitten licked his fingers clean any drop of blood that it may have missed before looking up at him with its bright blue eyes now shining with the hope of having someone to look after it. "I can't believe I'm doing this. Fine, I'll take you." It mewed happily as if it understood him.
"You're going to want a name aren't you?" It mewed again and Hiei snorted as he untied the bags that were wrapped around the cat's paws, as he had guessed they were filled with rocks. He growled making the little creature looked up at him with it's head tilted slightly to the left. The fire demon lifted his new pet up on it's back legs to see what was or wasn't there at it's private area much to the creature's protest.
"So you're a female," the cat let out a very loud and angry 'meow' but Hiei ignored it. "… Kinko, there you have a name. Happy?" He picked Kinko up and wrapped her up in his arms as to shield her from the wind as he walked back to the main road. The cat mewed happily again. "You better not make me regret taking you in, got that?" Another happy mew was his answer. (3)
After several odd stares from Hogwarts students that past by him and saw the cat he finally reached the Hogshead, a battered wooden sign hung from a rusty bracket over the door with a picture upon it of a wild boar's severed head leaking blood onto the white cloth around it. The sign creaked in the wind as he approached, he could feel a great amount of auras inside the bar, five of which he didn't recognize, but the other, what? Twenty-eight people he recognized as Hogwarts students, few of which he knew the names of. The small demon chuckled as he felt Harry's stunned aura, apparently he hadn't plan on so many people showing up.
"Oh, no. Make that twenty-six butterbeers." Hiei heard Fred saying, he turned to see the twin looking at him as the barman irritably passed up brown longneck bottles from under the bar. The small and dingy and very dirty room was packed with the human teens that were taking their seats or paying for their drinks.
"Cheers," Fred was saying as he handed out the bottles. "Cough up, everyone, I haven't got enough gold for all these…"
Hiei snaked his way around the room to get to the bar, he took the bottle handed to him from Fred as he looked over to the bar man. "You wouldn't happen to have any to eat, do you?" The man grunted but nodded. "Good, all I need is a little meat and a bowl." Hiei moved Kinko up to his shoulder where she draped herself over it as the man went to the back of the room. He dug around in his cloak to find Malfoy's money pouch, as he pulled it out Fred caught a glance of the snake on it.
"Ron told me you stole Malfoy's money pouch, is that it?"
"Yes."
"Good man." Fred said patting Hiei on the shoulder with a broad smile on his face despite Hiei's small twitch at the touch. "I've got to know, were you the one who told McGonagall what Umbridge was doing?"
Hiei tilted his head to the side which Kinko mimic. "Now why would I do a thing like that?"
"To see her reaction."
"Her face was quite pink, wasn't it?" Both of them smirked. The barman came back with a small plate with a few pieces of what looked like ham and a small bowl. Hiei paid and found a place to sit down, he was at a good angle to see his charges and most of the others faces. Harry looked as if he was about to be sick. Hiei put Kinko on the table and she attacked the plate of meat and he poured a little of the butterbeer into the bowl which the little kitten attacked as well.
"Er," Hermione said, her vice was slightly higher than usual out of nerves. "Well – er – hi." The group focused its attention on her, with a few of them darting regularly to Harry. "Well… erm… well, you know why you're here. Erm… well, Harry here had the idea – I mean" Harry had thrown the bushy haired girl a sharp look that was not missed. "I had the idea – that it might be good if people who wanted to study Defense Against the Dark Arts – and I mean, really study it, you know, not the rubbish that Umbridge is doing with us. Because nobody could call the Defense against the Dark Arts" – "Hear , hear," one of the boys in the crowd said. "Well, I thought it would be good if we, well, took matters into our own hands."
She paused, looked sideways at Harry, and went on, "And by that I mean learning how to defend ourselves properly, not just theory but the real spells – "
"You want to pass you Defense Against the Dark Arts O.W.L. too though, I bet?" Another of the boys in the room said watching her closely.
"Of course I do," said Hermione at once. "But I want more than that, I want to be properly trained in Defense because… because…" she took a great breath and finished, "Because Lord Voldemort's back."
The reaction was immediate and predictable. One of the Ravencalw girls shrieked and slopped butterbeer down herself, one of the boys gave a kind of involuntary twitch, Padma Patil shuddered, and Neville gave an odd yelp that he managed to turn into a cough. All of them, however, looked fixedly, even eagerly, at Harry. Hiei smirked at the reactions, Dumbledore had told him that nobody liked hearing or speaking that particular name, but he never told him how most people would react to hearing it, though now that he knew, he found it quite enjoyable to watch.
"Well… that's the plan anyway," Hermione said. 'If you want to join us, we need to decide how we're going to – "
"Where's the proof You-Know-Who's back?" the blond boy said in a rather aggressive voice. Hiei gave him a dull look he had thought that the girl who had ruined her shirt was going to be the one to ask. Though it was about time someone said something, over half of the people in the room were wondering the exact same thing.
"Well, Dumbledore believes it – "
"You mean Dumbledore believes him," said the blond boy over Hermione as he nodded at Harry.
"Who are you?" said Ron rather rudely.
"Zacharias Smith," said the boy, "and I think we've got the right to know exactly what makes him say You-Know-Who's back."
"Look," said Hermione, intervening swiftly, "that's really not what this meeting was supposed to be about – "
"It's okay Hermione," Harry said with a slight edge to his voice. "What makes me say You-Know-Who's back?" he repeated, looking Zacharias straight in the face. "I saw him. But Dumbledore told the whole school what happened last year, and if you didn't believe him, you don't believe me, and I'm not wasting an afternoon trying to convince anyone." The room was silent, everyone seemed to be hanging on every word Harry had uttered, even the other wizards and witch in the room.
Zacharias said dismissively, "All Dumbledore told us last year was that Cedric Diggory got killed by You-Know-Who and that you brought Diggory's body back to Hogwarts. He didn't give us details, he didn't tell us exactly how Diggory got murdered, I think we'd all like to know – "
"If you've come to hear exactly what it looks like when Voldemort murders someone I can't help you," Harry said with a growing bitterness that he didn't seem aware of. "I don't want to talk about Cedric Diggory, all right? So if that's what you're here for, you might as well clear out."
But none of them left their seats, not even Zacharias Smith, though he continued to gaze intently at Harry, even Hiei. Hiei's head was slightly tilted to the side, Dumbledore had never told him that the boy had seen someone die. He had been informed about him witnessing this Voldemort's return but not the death of this 'Cedric Diggory.' What else had the wizard left out?
"So," said Hermione, her voice very high-pitched again. "So… like I was saying… if you want to learn some defense, then we need to work out how we're going to do it, how often we're going to meet, and where we're going to – "
"Is it true," interrupted a girl with the long plait down her back, looking at Harry, "that you can produce a Patronus?"
There was a murmur of interest around the group at this.
"Yeah," said Harry slightly defensively.
"A corporeal Patronus?"
"Er – you don't know Madam Bones, do you?" He asked.
The girl smiled. "She's my auntie, she said. "I'm Susan Bones. She told me about your hearing. So – is it really true? You make a stag Patronus?"
"Yes," said Harry.
Hiei's eyebrows rose up under his headband, from what he had heard it took a lot of concentration and effort for one to produce a corporeal Patronus, it was a high level spell. And nearly impossible for a child to cast, at least that was what in said the books over seven decades ago, maybe it has changed, but then with the reactions of the others maybe not.
"Blimey, Harry!" said Lee, looking deeply impressed. "I never knew that!"
"Mum told Ron not to spread it around," said Fred, grinning at Harry. "She said you got enough attention as it was."
"She's not wrong," mumbled Harry and a couple of people laughed. The veiled witch sitting alone shifted very slightly in her seat.
"And did you kill a basilisk with the sword in Dumbledore's office?" demanded another boy. "That's what one of the portraits on the wall told me when I was in there last year…"
"Er – yeah, I did, yeah," said Harry. Several people made their amazement known.
"And in our first year," said Neville to the group at large, "he saved that Sorcerous Stone – "
"Sorcerer's," hissed Hermione.
"Yes, that, from You-Know-Who," finished Neville.
"And that's not to mention," said Cho. "All the tasks he had to get through in the Triwizrd Tournament last year – getting past dragons and merpeople and acromantulas and things…" There was a murmur of impressed agreement around the room.
"Look," Harry said and everyone fell silent at once, "I… I don't want to sound like I'm trying to be modest or anything, but… I had a lot of help with all that stuff…"
"Not with the dragon, you didn't," said another boy whose name Hiei thought was Michael, at once. "That was a seriously cool bit of flying…"
"Yeah, well – " said Harry going a little pink in the face.
"And nobody helped you get rid of those dementors this summer," said Susan Bones.
"No," said Harry, "no, okay, I know I did bits of it without help, but the point I'm trying to make is – "
"Are you trying to weasel out of showing us any of this stuff?" said Zacharias Smith.
"Here's an idea," said Ron loudly, before Harry could speak, "why don't you shut your mouth?" It was as if something the other boy had said a sort of effect on him in an odd way. He was looking at Smith as though would like nothing better than to thump him. Smith flushed.
Hiei looked at the red head for a second before turning back to Harry. He had learned a lot of interesting things about his main charge within the last two minutes, things that Dumbledore must have felt were not his to speak about. Hiei made a mental note to ask the boy about some of those things later. Kinko mewed and started to rub her head against his hand. It is amazing how much some offered warmth and food would change a creature's mind about someone.
"Well, we've all turned up to learn form him, and now he's telling us he can't really do any of it," Smith said.
"That's not what he said," snarled Fred Weasley.
"Would you like us to clean out your ears for you?" inquired George, pulling a long and lethal-looking metal instrument from inside one of the Zonko's bags.
"Or any part of your body, really, we're not fussy where we stick this," said Fred.
"Yes, well," said Hermione hastily, "moving on… the point is, are we agreed we want take lessons from Harry?"
There was a murmur of general agreement, and Kinko let out a loud "meow" causing a few people to look over at her as she pawed the butterbeer bottle receive quite a few comments of her cuteness form a few girls.
"Right," said Hermione, looking relieved that something had at last been settled. "Well, then, the next question is how often we do it. I really don't think there's any point in meeting less than once a week – "
"Hang on," said Angelina, "we need to make sure this doesn't clash with our Quidditch practice."
"No," said Cho, "nor with ours."
"Nor ours," added Zacharias Smith.
Hiei rolled his eyes, here over two dozen students were gathering together for the soul purpose of training themselves for battle, or at least half of them were, but they were still more concern with a meaningless game? With that and the way their Ministry was behaving their kind should just kiss their behinds goodbye now. He would hate to see what would happen to their kind if a massive demon invasion were to happen. Kinko mewed again and Hiei poured a little more of the brown liquid for her, she happily lapped it up.
"I'm sure we can find a night that suits everyone," said Hermione, slightly impatiently, "but you know, this is rather important, we're talking about learning to defend ourselves against V-Voldemort's Death Eaters –"
'Maybe there is hope for them.' Hiei though the barest of a grin etching itself on his face.
"Well said!" barked Ernie Macmillan. "Personally I think this is really important, possibly more important than anything else we'll do this year, even with our O.W.L.s coming up!" He looked around the room as if waiting for someone to correct him. "I, personally, am at a loss to see why the Ministry has foisted such a useless teacher upon us at this critical period. Obviously they are in denial about the return of You-Know-Who, but to give us a teacher who is trying to actively prevent us from using defensive spells…"
"We think the reason Umbridge doesn't want us trained in Defense Against the Dark Arts," said Hermione, "is that she's got some… some mad idea that Dumbledore could use the students in the school as a kind of private army. She thinks he'd mobilize us against the Ministry."
Nearly everybody looked stunned at this news; Hiei had already knew of this from listening in on three trio's conversation with black, Umbridge's thoughts and from Dumbledore's explanation of his situation when he had arrived.
"Well, that makes sense. After all, Cornelius Fudge has got his own private army." Luna Lovegood piped up several people gave her an odd look.
"What?" said Harry sounding completely thrown by this piece of information.
"Yes, he's got an army of heliopaths," said Luna solemnly.
"No, he hasn't," snapped Hermione.
"Yes, he has," said Luna.
"What are heliopaths?" asked Neville, looking blank.
"They're spirits of fire," said Luna, her protuberant eyes widening so that she looked madder than ever. "Great tall flaming creatures that gallop across the ground burning everything in front of – "
"They don't exist, Neville," said Hermione tartly.
"Oh, yes they do!" said Luna angrily.
"I'm sorry, but where's the proof of that?" snapped Hermione.
"I don't know about heliopaths," Hiei said suddenly form behind Hermione causing her to jump, he was looking at Luna with his head tilted to the side and looking her over slowly. "But what you just described are called 'hi-horosha' or fire wanderer in English. (4) They're fairly powerful fire elementals that live in the lower levels of the Demon World; they feed off of the energy that fills the air there. So I highly doubt that they would come to the Human World were their substances would be greatly limited. And they are a very proud race so there is no way they would sub come to the will of a lowly wizard." Luna was looking at him like he was looking at her: as if they were inspecting a new found insect under a microscope.
"Maybe he signed some kind of contract with them?" Luna said intrigued with the demon.
"Unless he was offering them human souls on a daily bases I highly doubt that. 96 of the demon population would rather kill or eat a human than work with them with. 2 would tolerate humans to the level to be around them, less then 2 actually cares for them and would be glad to live with them, and what is left are in different. And the Fire Wanderers are defiantly grouped with the 96."
"You have got to be kidding; you actually believe that those exist?" Hermione said rolling her eyes. Hiei blinked at her in surprised, he was sure that the book he caught her reading would have mentioned demons like the one they were currently discussing.
"Haven't you finished reading that book yet? Surely it would have mentioned demons of the lower plans." He said now inspecting the girl.
"That was completely rubbish, granted they did a very good job trying to make demons sound real, but its basic fact that there are no such things." Hermione snapped back at him. Hiei mentally smiled, she was in complete denial there was no way that would figure him out to be a demon.
But before Hiei could speak Luna took her turn to snap at the Gryffindor. "There are plenty of eyewitness accounts; just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under you nose before you –"
"Hem, hem," said Ginny in such a good imitation of Professor Umbridge that several people looked around in alarm and then laughed. "Weren't we trying to decide how often we're going to meet and get Defense lessons?"
"Yes," said Hermione at once, "Yes, we were, you're right…"
"Well, once a week sounds cool," said Lee Jorden.
"As long as – " began Angelina.
"Yes, yes, we know about the Quidditch," said Hermione in a tense voice. "Well, the other thing to decide is where we're going to meet…"
This was rather more difficult; the whole group fell silent for a second before people started to suggest places to be shortly shot down. After a few minutes the group decided to think of that a bit later, once done they would spread the word out. Hiei took a sip of the butterbeer he had gotten; he made a face at the bottle before pouring out the rest for Kinko. "How can you stomach that junk?" He whispered as the kitten lapped it up again.
Hermione rummaged in her bag and produced some parchment and a quill, then hesitated, rather as though she was steeling herself to say something. "I-I think everybody should write their name down, just so we know who was here. But I also think," she took a deep breath, "that we all ought to agree not to shout about what we're doing. So if you sign, you're agreeing not to tell Umbridge – or anybody else – what we're up to."
Fred reach out for the parchment and cheerfully put down his signature, but it was easily noticeable at once that several people looked less than happy at the prospect of putting their names on the list.
"Er…" said Zacharias slowly, not taking the parchment that George was trying to pass him. "Well… I'm sure Ernie will tell me when the meeting is." But Ernie was looking rather hesitant about signing too. Hermione raised her eyebrows at him.
"I – well, we are prefects" Ernie burst out. "And if this list was found… well, I mean to say… you said yourself, if Umbridge finds out…"
"You said this group was the moist important thing you'd do this year," Harry reminded him.
"I –yes," said Ernie, "yes, I don believe that, it's just…"
"Ernie do you really think I'd leave that list lying around?" said Hermione testily.
"No, No, of course not," said Ernie, looking slightly less anxious. "I – yes, of course I'll sign."
Nobody raised objections after Ernie, though one the Ravenclaw girls, the one that spilt her drink gave her friend a rather reproachful look before adding her name. Hiei was the last to sign, and he scratched out his name in Kanji before handing it back to Hermione who looked the list over before slipping it carefully into her bag. There was an odd feeling in the group now. It was as though they had just signed some kind of contract.
"Well, time's ticking on," said Fred briskly, getting to his feet. "George, Lee, and I have got items of sensitive nature to purchase; we'll be seeing you all later."
In twos and threes the rest of the group took their leave too. Hiei squeezed out in the middle of the flood with Kinko perched on his shoulder; it seemed that the kitten has claimed that as her eternal stop. He walked down the street looking in a few of the shop windows, pausing every now and then, before entering a pet store.
"As soon as we get back to the castle you're getting a bath, understand that?" Kinko mewed softly as Hiei picked through the racks to find a few items for the little kitten.
KittyDragonPhoenixFox
Draco,
Very good, keep your eyes open for anything unusually and report it to me immediately. If a teacher is determined 'incapable' I want you to send me word before they even reach the front gates. I also want you to keep an eye on this "Hiei Jaganshi" if possible anything he maybe telling Dumbledore or writing to his grandfather. If possible try to befriend him. Though, I doubt that he will end up being a problem for us. But keep your eye on him.(5)
KittyDragonPhoenixFox
Hiei snorted in his sleep as he shifted on his branch moving a hand on to his stomach and on top of Kinko who was curled up on him. A bird jumped off of the branch above them and took flight, but the disturbance broke one of the light blue cherry blossoms off of it. The blossom floated downward and was about to land on Kinko's head when it was burnt to ash as a light violet aura that surrounded the kitten for a second before fading away as she rolled over on her back.
KittyDragonPhoenixFox
Translations:
1 – 5. Hopefully I did the letters well enough so that they actually sound like the Malfoy's are written them, if not, oh well.
2. Anatawakinkodesu Roughly translates to "You are safe." And "Kinko" means safe, so Hiei doesn't have that much of an imagination now does he?
3. Well, now Hiei has kitten, granted he doesn't like the fact that he has kitten, but he's not cold enough to lead it on like that leave it to die. Now let us see where this new pet will take us.
4. Okay, "Hi-Horosha" is a fairly bad translation, I'm not exactly sure how you would write "Fire Wanderer" correctly in Japanese, so I just put the word for fire and wanderer together. Though I'm pretty sure it's wrong.
- With the end of this chapter brings the end of chapter sixteen "In the Hog's Head" in the HP book.
Konnichiwa! Sokono here!
Woot! Thank you all for reading! Hugs! Okay now that school is starting up again there is going to be bigger gaps between updates, so I'm sorry about that. And the reason why this chapter took so long to get posted is because I had to mail my computer away so it could get fixed and I've been forced to sneak in my sister's and brother's room to use their computers while their not home. Their so mean they won't let me use theirs! -- And since when a laptop goes away they never seem to come back within a month it'll take some time for me to post, unless by some miracle of the computer gods decided to return it to me earlier. So yeah.OH, and I'm really sorry for those of you who are waiting for "Mission: Anti-Emo Hiei" due to computer user errors I kink of….. lost what I had typed of the story…. So I have to redo it. So that'll be coming a little later! SORRY!!! And I just wanted to mention again that I've posted a new story and would love it some of you all read it. So please read it and review! I need like ten reviews before I post a new chapter! And now a shout out to my reviewers!!!
TrenchcoateMan: Yeah, Kurama has meet with wizards before, but his mind was sort of other things right now. And being as how Hiei was last seen in New Zealand his mind wouldn't jump to Hiei being in England, he needs to review a few files before that happens. Thank you for reviewing!
Anne Tanquam: No, I don't mind, the whole point of is so that other people can comment on others and them with their writing skills, so thanks for the input. The 63 years ago thing was when Hiei left to return to the Demon the World, Dumbledore was thinking about why Hiei would be trying to contact him now after he left 63 before then. It says in the chapter. Thanks for telling about the "ancient runes" and "prefect" thing, I'll be a bit more careful now. I might do something about when Hiei lived with Dumbledore later, but I'm not sure. And yes Mr. Albino will be getting a name soon and no, he is not a Malfoy. Thank you for reviewing!
The Celestial Anachronism: You will find out why the evil guy kissed Hiei in due time. (evil laughter) And I'm glad you like the OC's you'll see a little of them again in a few chapters. Thank you for reviewing!
ShibuNoNeko: Yes, I can't wait until I get to the part when Hiei finds out Yusuke spilled the beans, though that's not for a while. Yes, poor Kuwabara I think I might I over stressed him last chapter, oh well. Thank you for reviewing!
Otakubandgeek: I'm glad you love the story! And I'm glad to see a nightmare supporter as well. It's gonna be a while for "Mission: Anti- Emo Hiei" though. sigh Thank you for reviewing!
Sweetnsexy89: In the others defense they felt really bad afterwards and while it was happening they weren't really thinking. But yeah, Hiei'sgonna be mad at them for while once things get straighten out. And be warn Mr. Albino pedophile will be coming back later and (for a heads up) when you get to know his personality I think you might hate him a little be more…… I'm glad you like story though! I live for my readers! Thank you for reviewing!
Koolneko22: They may run into him by accident, the details are still a little blurry though. But they can't track Hiei like they did Mr. Albino, you see, Mr. Albino was using his energy to teleport from place to place so he left an energy single behind him. He didn't bother cleaning it up because he knew once he got to the Wizarding World core they couldn't track him any farther. Hiei on the other hand had been suppressing his energy until he met up with Dumbledore. He was traveling by foot, bus, train, boat, and airplane being as careful as possible not to leave an energy trail behind him. It's hard to find the little demon when he doesn't want to be found. Thank you for reviewing!
Angelkitsune-Naomi: I'm glad you like my girls. And hopefully I can enjoy the rest of my summer, though sadly for me school starts on the 30th at 7:55 am. -- well…. At least it starts half an hour later…. sigh any way, hope the rest of your summer is great too! Thank you for reviewing!
Rose of Shadows: Oops…… heheheherubs head in embarrassment) Thanks for telling me about that, I mess up stuff like all time. English is one of my worse subjects, with the grammar, and different ways of writing of words and words that are close to each other but completely different things….. ehh….. sigh curse you English language and your confusing rules!!!! Hopefully I won't mess up on that again, thanks for telling me though. Thank you for reviewing!
Ronin-N-Gang: 1) Yeah, that would be a big clue, but everything else pointed to Hiei and if they didn't think it was Hiei then I wouldn't have a story so… 2) Yup you can always relay on Yusuke to do something stupid, but that's why we love him. 3) I know, I've seen something like in animes and mangas, and it's always so cute and funny. 4) 5) Okay let me rephrase that statement in that case. "The emotion link thing between 'Hiei and Yukina' is my ideal.' Thank you for reviewing!
Gothic-Fire-Wolf: I'm glad you liked the chapter! Thank you for reviewing!
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Hieiko: I'm not so sure about them going to Hogwarts… but we shall see. Thank you for reviewing!
Psychicfiredemoness: yeah, that chapter was mainly information of their situation. Thank you for reviewing!