Demon Contract

Summer/Year Three

9foxgrl

A/N: I solemnly swear that I do not own Harry Potter or Jigoku Shojo. If I did that would be awesome!

Harry was wandering around the small town in southern Japan. Rynder had brought him here to assist the Jigoku Shojo (Hell Girl), Ai Enma, who had been getting a flood of requests from the people in Lovely Hills over the week. So many that she and her team were having a hard time keeping up. Harry thought Ai was alright. A girl who was permanently a few years older them him with emotionless red eyes and face. It was as if she forgot what it was like to smile.

Rynder assigned Harry a job to do while they were in Lovely Hills. Rynder would work with Ai on ferrying the souls across to Hell. Harry was helping Ai and Rynder split up the requests when they came in. Some of them over trivial matters. Harry scoffed at the fact a girl sent her mother to Hell because she refused to let her buy a pair of tacky heels that were for roughly $210.99.

Normally this would not be so bad, as Rynder said it was a business boom. But the mass disappearances had gotten media attention. In the philosophy of cowardice the townspeople blamed it on a boy named Takuma Kurebyashi, whose family had just moved to the area. They dubbed him Devil's Child since they started spread the lies that it was his coming to the town that start the mass disappearances.

Harry immediately decided that he would work with the boy to escape Lovely Hills. Since he was technically still a human he could do that as long as he didn't try to take his soul out of Hell.

It was a day after they had arrived when Takuma tried to escape the town when they cornered him. One of the men was about to send Takuma to Hell when Harry stepped in.

"How pathetic you are."

The people turned to see Harry standing there dressed in all black. He had on an emerald green jacket on that was buttoned only at the collar so it would billow behind him as he walked. He stared coldly at the people as he approached with a menacing aura around him.

"To think that humanity has fallen so far that they are afraid of a child. To go as far as to sell their souls in order to get rid of people they once called their neighbors. And for what purpose? Just what kind of satisfaction are you idiots getting out of this? You lose your friends and have sold your eternal soul into the flames of Hell."

Harry stood in front of Takuma and the woman trying to shield him. "Can you answer me that? Can you tell me that selling your souls was worth getting rid of them?"

Harry stared directly at a woman near him. "Can you honestly tell me you don't feel any remorse for sending your daughter to Hell after she told you her stepfather was molesting her?"

"She was lying!" the woman screamed.

Harry snapped his fingers causing her to go flying. "Predictable. You believe that abusive lout instead of your own daughter. Just another sign of how far humanity has fallen."

"Just who the Hell are you?" one of the men holding a club yelled.

Harry made his eyes flash with power. "Shi no Kage."

Harry felt Takuma stiffen behind him. The townspeople seemed to suddenly paled and start backing away.

"What's wrong? Afraid if you stay I will kill you? If I do I can only hope Jigoku Shojo has enough room in her boats to carry you all across the river of Death." Harry called out as they ran. "If you try to send another innocent to Hell there shall be consequences!"

"Thank you." Takuma said as Harry walked away.

"Don't mention it."

"He is a strange one." Ai commented as she watched Harry walk away from Takuma. Hell Correspondence and Rynder were across the river on a hill. Hone Onna reappeared as the man who had her doll dropped it.

"That he is." Rynder commented. "I've tried so many times to turn him completely over to the powers of Hell, but his soul remains balance in terms of Light and Darkness."

"What will this mean for when his time comes to be released from your contract?"

"He will come to work for me for the rest of eternity."

Rynder and Ai nearly jumped fifteen meters in the air as turned to see a feminine looking man in a black suit with a skull pin on his tie. He had sleek white hair tied back into a pony tail. The rest of the Hell Correspondence team, who had never met the being, was confused as to who he was.

"Damn it Death!" Rynder said as he massaged his chest. "Trying to give use all heart attacks?"

"You don't have a heart Demon Prince." Death replied.

Ai was trembling as she bowed to the man. "Greetings Death."

"Enma, Ai. Been keeping me busy as of late I see."

"Yes sir."

Death turned to Rynder. "I am very tempted to tell your father to shut his project down, AGAIN, but luckily you condemn more wicked people to Hell then innocents right now. "

Hone Onna bent down near Ai's ear. "Is he really the God of Death?"

Ai nodded. "He is not visible to mortals, so you never seen him before now."

Death smirked as Harry approached. "A perfect combination of light and darkness in one's soul…is the making of a Reaper. Keep training him Rynder."

And with that the being disappeared. Rynder shuddered.

"Now I feel bad about this."

"About what?"

"Nothing!" Rynder and Ai yelled. Both of them were terrified of Death, the only being who could erase their existence with a single touch. Who wouldn't be scared of him?

-0*Kyu*0-

The flight back to Italy was a quiet one. When they arrived at the villa they were living Harry went to visit Draco in the guest house. The Malfoys still there as they were waiting until Corona turned five months old before traveling by magically means. Narcissa didn't trust airplanes at all.

Harry smiled at the sight of little Corona playing with her favorite toy; a stuffed albino tiger in her play pen. The little girl was doted upon by her family and lived up to her name of a crowned jewel. Even Harry and his friends spoiled her. In her play pen there was also a yellow blanket with otters stitched on it from Hermione and a stuffed coyote from Neville. Harry's contribution to her growing collection of gifts was stitching protective runes into all her toys and blankets, as well as in her nursery at the villa and Malfoy Manor so she would always be safe. He didn't bother with using something akin to his animagius form because he didn't want to scare her.

No one understood why until they saw his form.

It was during the first week of summer Harry agreed to show everyone what his form was. They didn't understand why he absolutely forbade Corona or Narcissa to be in the room until he shifted back to his human from. It lasted less than two minutes before Harry quickly switched back to normal. They were speechless.

Anyone would be. After all…it wasn't everyday a human could turn into a Dementor.

Shi no Kage: Shadow of Death