Kait: you know, I hate people like me. I disappeared for like a 2 months and I didn't even start to type anything. God I'm an idiot. Well, I will waste no more time. No wait, I will. The contest thing has been removed. My scanner has died and my mousse art sucks, so, it will resurface in a later chapter, maybe… Now, I shall right.
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Yusuke sneezed as he climbed out of the fireplace at Three Broomsticks. A woman stood over him.
"You here from Tom?" she asked.
"Yeah," he said shortly, backing away from the fireplace as a very angry Hiei appeared.
"Well, then, where is the third? Never mind" Kuwabara suddenly got there, "I'll show you to your rooms. I close the door at midnight, so be back by then." They walked down the hall, "here, rooms 10, 11, and 12. Have a nice stay." She nodded and left them.
"Well, that was interesting!" Kuwabara said.
"Shut up, you idiot!" Yusuke snapped. "We are in the closest area to his flicker of power, his mother is supposed to live around here, so be on the look out, avoid her, but if she sees you, be kind. She still thinks he's dead. And if we don't find him, I want it to stay that way. Do what ever, be back by midnight." Yusuke dumped his bag in his room and left. The other two did the same, splitting up immediately.
With HieiHiei was jumping between the tree branches. He finally stopped when he located the home of Shiori Takanaka (AKA Minamino). He saw her tending a garden in the back.
Shiori was humming softly as she weeded her garden, it was filled with the plant Shuichi had given her or that had been in his room. The entire back wall was roses. She wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked out into the forest. She was startled to see her oldest sons friend sitting in one of them.
"Hello, Hiei." She smiled softly at the memory from when she met him. Shuichi had dragged him into the house with the promise of sweet snow. "Are you going to come down?"
He gave her a small nod and jumped into the garden.
"I didn't know that you're a wizard." She gave him a soft smile, "It must have been strange, being friends with a muggle."
"Shuichi's not a muggle." Hiei said, turning to leave.
"He wasn't," she paused "but why didn't her tell us he was a wizard!" she demanded, "He wouldn't have been at that school if he did!"
Hiei turned to glare at her, "He wasn't a wizard, and he wasn't a muggle. Good bye." He said shortly, walking away from her as she began to cry.
With Kuwabara
Kuwabara wandered around Hogsmeade, 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 met the owner of Zonkos, who seemed keen on selling him pranks. 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.
"Umm… Yeah!" He said sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his head.
"None of those cats have magical abilities, so I will sell any of them to you for 5 sickles. They're all she-cats, I hope that doesn't bother you!" the voice turned out to be an eight or nine year old kid, probably the child of the owners.
"I'll take this one," he held up the calico, "And the black and white one, if you don't mind selling them both?"
"Oh, that's great! I was hoping I wouldn't have to separate them all into different homes!" she giggled, "That will be ten sickles!" she kissed the kittens good bye as Kuwabara counted out the silver. "Thank you! Have a nice day!"
"Idiot, what are you doing?" Hiei asked from behind Kuwabara, causing him to jump from shock.
"Don't do that! I was just getting some pets…" he trailed off as the little calico started to rub herself on Hiei, "Oh look! She likes you! Though she has no account for taste… OW!" Hiei hit him over the head with his katana.
"Idiot." Hiei picked up the kitten and looked at her, "She'll do."
"Wow, he accepted a lower life form…" Kuwabara laughed softly.
TBC
Sry, I need to get this up, I am very ashamed of its lack in length, I pray this will not happen again. I'm not getting this one betaed, cause I'm too lazy to look up Labouren's e-mail address, so, pardon spelling and such! Please review, and deepest apologies for not updating sooner!
