Cheeto: Heya peeps! WOW I GOT A LOT OF REVIEWS! Crickey!! WOW!!!!! THIS IS SO PIMP!!! W00T!! ONTO 100!!!
Oh, my heck . . .-.-; . . .Sorry peeps, I would have updated when I said, but . . I was just being lazy. . . but I did get heart surgery! And I got a huge purple bruise where they stuck a thingy up my leg into my heart and it huuuuurrrrrttttsss!!!!
Laughing gas is fun. But it sucks when you wake up . . . x.X
Anyways, I don't own it, I never will . . .blah blah blah . . .
Oh, I got another question in a review!:
Nips Q: 'How does Kurama know about wizarding history?' Well, I like to think that the wizards and demons (though wizards think them mystical creatures) are very familiar with each other. So I would think that pretty much anything major they teach in a classroom about wizards would have something to do with 'mystical creatures' (aka demons) as well, and therefore Kurama would know about it. Did that make any sense? .
General comments to a couple of reviewers:
tbiris: Not good? Like . .the story not good? Or, . . .the chapter not good? Or . . .something like "Oh no, Hiei's in Slytherin Malfoy's going to die" not good? I'm confuzzled. T.T Thanks for the review, though.
Chibi Pyro Duo: Thank you for the criticism, my friend, bows as well as the praise. Yes, Yukina was a bit neglected in the last chap, ne? I will try to fix that from now on! Thankies much!
(Oh, yes, thanks to everyone else too. You guys all give me a warm fuzzy feeling! - I would love to respond to you all individually, but I'm afraid of the FF.Net Gods and their strict rules about author notes! v)
Oh, and as you can probably see ff.net has changes a bit and revoked my little star things. T.T So here's the new thingy's:
Italics - Thought
- scene switch thingy . . . v
- end chap
::::::::Chapter 5::::::::
Hiei flitted through the dark, starry night, landing on a top branch of a bushy evergreen with little difficulty. Something was wrong here; the façade of the peaceful forest foreshadowing a welling feeling of dread, an unsettled anger. He reached up and pulled his white bandana off his forehead, revealing his glowing Jagan.
"Hn." He muttered. Definitely something not right. His Jagan, who's vision could usually see through this dimension and any other with perfect clarity, was muddy and grey, as if the surrounding territory was shrouded in a massive dark cloud; objects appearing as little more than foggy silhouettes. Pushing for visibility, Hiei tried to focus on a single blackish flame-like splotch that had invaded the center of his vision, the smoke around it skulking away. He furrowed his brow in concentration.
Blinding pain shot between his eyes and scorched through his skull. Hiei cried out and nearly toppled off the branch, a hand flying over the eye to shield it from the invisible attack. As fast as it appeared the pain was gone, leaving the Jagan with even more questions.
What the hell was that? Retying the bandana over his third eye, Hiei felt something he did not like. The faintest glimmers of . .fear.
Quickly tossing away the 'foolish emotion', the fire demon disappeared deeper into the limitless night, intent on finding one of the few things that had caused him pain. Finding it, and killing it.
Not surprisingly, neither Yusuke nor Hiei showed up for class the next day. Or the next. Or the next. In fact, no one had seen either of them all week, except for Yusuke, who showed up for food and a place to sleep. Ron and Hermione, well, mostly Hermione, had given him a firm talking to about attending class (As was their duties as prefects), and McGonagall had threatened him with a month's detention. Also not surprisingly, Yusuke didn't listen to either and continued with his delinquent behavior.
Nobody had been able to locate Hiei to give him a 'firm talking to.' Apparently, Hiei had decided to drop off the face of the Earth, and had done so without a trace. A unanimous vote amongst the detectives elected Kurama to be the one to find him.
The next Monday morning, Yusuke sat in the dining hall, wolfing down his breakfast. Kuwabara, Ron, Harry and Hermione watched him, appalled, yet fascinated at how much he could shove down his gullet.
"Yusuke, slow down. That's gross." Botan said, wrinkling her nose is disgust. Yusuke grinned.
"Sorry." He garbled, spraying food across the table. Botan greened in horror and picked a fleck of scrambled egg off her cheek. She got up and moved over a seat, out of the line of fire.
With her out of the way, Yusuke could see Kurama and Hiei approaching. The fox had somehow managed to locate the Jaganshi and coaxed him into at least come to breakfast. Hiei did not seem the least bit happy about the arrangement.
Kurama yawned into his hand and sat down, Hiei scowling behind him. The fire demon sat down across from Yusuke, the punk grinning.
"Long time no see." Hiei's expression twisted into repulsion as food sprayed across the table towards him.
"Don't force me to rip out all your teeth, detective." Yusuke clapped his mouth shut. Suddenly, a huge cloud of owls burst through the massive windows into the hall, swooping down over the tables and dropping packages and letters before circling back to the rafters overhead. Yukina's owl dipped down, dropping three envelopes onto the table before landing next to the ice maiden, nibbling at the un-eaten bacon on her plate.
The owl was a magnificent creature, her feathers the color of dirty snow, down as white as clouds adorning her chest. She was not large by any means, but medium and powerful, required traits for making the trip back to Japan. Yukina had made a fine choice on which to owl to buy, and Kuwabara regularly reminded her of this.
The owl, having eaten all of Yukina's bacon, waddled on its small talons over to Botan to feast on her leftover toast. Botan giggled, stroking its soft coat. Puu glared up from the deity's lap jealously.
"I never did ask what you decided to name it, Yukina." The deity commented.
Yukina smiled. "Her name is Hina." Kurama felt the air next to him go cold and glanced over at Hiei, who had frozen in place, staring at the owl. He snapped out of it a moment later, uttering a low 'Hn' before looking down at the letter that had landed in front of him.
"What the?" Yusuke looked down at his syrup stained plate, where two crimson envelopes rested. He picked one up, eyeing it strangely.
"I wouldn't-" Ron began, but Harry stopped him. "He might as well get it over with." Yusuke eyed the both of them, shrugged, and tore the packet open.
"YUSUKE URAMESHI HOW COULD YOU NOT TELL ME YOU WERE GOING TO SOME SCHOOL IN ENGLAND FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR?" Keiko's voice screamed from the envelope. "AND NOW I'M JUST SUPPOSED TO WAIT FOR YOU?! TAKE CARE OF ATSUKO FOR YOU?! BAAAAKKKAAAAA!"
Yusuke had long since clapped his hands over his ears, much like the others, who had their ears plugged with their fingers and their faces twisted in pain.
"Make it stop!" Botan wailed. Moments later, the envelope shriveled up and disappeared, along with Keiko's shrieks.
The two looked down at the other two envelopes in horror. Hiei extended a hand out over his red letter, and seconds later it burst into flames.
"How-?" Harry began to ask, but was cut off by a raspy shriek. "SHRIMP, IF I HEAR YOU'VE CUT CLASS ONE MORE TIME, A CERTAIN SOMEONE IS GOING TO LEARN A CERTAIN SOMETHING ABOUT A CERTAIN SECRET THAT SOMEONE DOESN'T WANT THE OTHER TO KNOW! USE THAT LUMP TWO FEET ABOVE YOUR ASS FOR ONCE!" Hiei glared at the little shoot pile that used to be a letter, grinding his teeth. Yukina blinked, looking at the others.
"What was Genkai talking about?" Botan blanched.
"Oh, don't worry your pretty little head about it-!" She babbled, sweat dropping and waving a hand.
But she was drowned out by the earsplitting screech of "DIMWIT!"
Yusuke wailed. "Not another one!" Moments later Genkai's voice again disappeared after five straight minutes of screaming.
Yusuke groaned and pulled his fingers out of his ears, checking them for blood. His ears were ringing so loudly he almost didn't hear the voice behind him.
"Hiei, why are you hanging around the Gryffindors? You may catch whatever they've got that makes them such losers." The entire group looked turned around to glare at the trio that had approached from behind.
A boy with platinum blonde hair and a smug smile led the group; behind him stood two thuggish boys who looked as if their brains put together couldn't beat a tomato at a spelling bee.
"Malfoy." Harry growled. The blonde smirked, his eyes trailing from the wizard over to Ron and his glimmering prefect badge.
"Weasly, how much did your family have to pay off the school to get you that thing? Oh, wait, I forgot it was you I was talking about." The two thugs behind Malfoy began to snicker loudly. Ron's ears burned red.
Yusuke started to stand. "Hey, as-." But before he could say anything more, Malfoy was on the ground, the gleaming blade of Hiei's katana pressed almost lazily against his quivering neck.
The fire demon glared down at him. "If you value your life and your head, you will leave. Now." Draco, pale as a sheet, swallowed thickly and nodded.
"Mr. Jaganshi!" A voice screeched. McGonagall hustled down the isle between the two tables, face contorted in rage. "Step away from Mr. Malfoy this INSTANT!" What students that hadn't noticed the disruption now turned to watch the scene unfold. Hiei glared at the woman, clearly asking 'Why should I?'
"Hiei." Kurama muttered lowly, so only his friends could hear. "We do not need this attention now. Sheath your weapon."
Hiei glared at the fox for a moment, then replaced his katana in it's holster with an irritated 'Hn.'
"Fifty points from Slytherin! What have I said about weapons in Hogwarts?!" McGonagall's voice was a shrill screech, echoing through the silent hall. She helped Malfoy to his feet, glaring angrily at the group. "Get to class before I report this to the Headmaster."
Hiei returned the glare before turning to the other detectives, who began to stand. "Where is this 'class'?" he growled, the others blinking in disbelief.
"Wait . .you're actually coming to class?" Kuwabara babbled in disbelief.
"No, I'm asking for my health, you baka."
"Shut up shorty!" Kurama and Botan rolled their eyes and started for the first period of the day, Double Charms. Hiei scowled and followed, ignoring Kuwabara's feeble comebacks. No way in Kami did he want to go, but he wasn't going to risk that hag letting out his little secret over a refusal to go to ningen classes. He could always kill the owl to hinder any letter's arrival that might 'spill the beans', but that thought was quickly dismissed when he imagined his sister's heartbroken face when she learned of 'Hina's' demise.
Genkai had really thought of everything.
Damn that wench
Yusuke on the other hand, ignored Genkai's threats. He had started walking toward the class with the group and slyly slipped away, heading for a random hall.
To say Harry, Ron, and Hermione were disturbed by the events that morning was a gross understatement. Well, at least Harry and Hermione were.
"Did you see that guy?!" Ron breathed in disbelief as they headed towards their class, taking the scenic route so they would have more time to talk. "I didn't even see him MOVE! One minute he was sitting there and the next Malfoy was on the floor! How did he DO that?!"
The same question was on the other twos' minds. "More importantly, why is a fifteen year old carrying around a sword?" Hermione looked at the others. "And did you see what he did to that letter this morning? He set it on fire without even using a wand."
They elapsed into a strained silence.
"Harry, you said your scar's been hurting more since we arrived at Hogwarts." Harry nodded, unconsciously reaching up to touch the throbbing lightning-shaped mar on his forehead.
"It all just seems so strange . . the last minute transfer . . students from different houses being in the same classes as us . .using magic without a wand . .it just doesn't make sense . ." Hermione chewed her lip.
"What if . . What if these students are working for Voldemort?" The last part came out as a whisper, and the two boys had to lean close to hear. "I mean, Hiei looks about as close to a Death Eater as you can get."
"But what about the others?" Harry demanded, "I mean Kurama and Kuwabara seem okay . ."
"So did Quirrell." Harry immediately remembered the 'meek' first year teacher that had served as a host for Voldemort and went silent.
"I don't mean we should go around accusing people." Hermione said quietly as the bell rang overhead. "But let's keep an eye out. This all seems a little too suspicious."
The two boys nodded and they all hurried to class.
"DIMWIT!" Genkai crumpled Botan's letter in her hand, her spirit energy disintegrating it.
"Why did I have to pick such a MORON for an apprentice?!" She yelled, her hoarse voice echoing through the woods surrounding her temple. She stomped out of the room, fuming, and reached for her phone.
"This calls for drastic measures." Picking up the receiver, Genkai swiftly dialed the Yukimura residence.
"Keiko? It's Genkai. Start packing."
"Are we ready to begin yet, my Lord?" A low voice mumbled, almost incoherently.
"Patience, there are yet a few more pieces that must fall into place."
Sorry for the long wait and the short chap, peeps. Thanks for being patient with me . . . v.v . . . I SUCK! T.T
Next chapter will be much longer than this, I can at least promise that. - And the action will definetly pick up, I can assure that too! :D
Oh, and if anyone didn't understand the Hina thing, Hina was the name of Hiei and Yukina's mother. v Review please!
Oh, my heck . . .-.-; . . .Sorry peeps, I would have updated when I said, but . . I was just being lazy. . . but I did get heart surgery! And I got a huge purple bruise where they stuck a thingy up my leg into my heart and it huuuuurrrrrttttsss!!!!
Laughing gas is fun. But it sucks when you wake up . . . x.X
Anyways, I don't own it, I never will . . .blah blah blah . . .
Oh, I got another question in a review!:
Nips Q: 'How does Kurama know about wizarding history?' Well, I like to think that the wizards and demons (though wizards think them mystical creatures) are very familiar with each other. So I would think that pretty much anything major they teach in a classroom about wizards would have something to do with 'mystical creatures' (aka demons) as well, and therefore Kurama would know about it. Did that make any sense? .
General comments to a couple of reviewers:
tbiris: Not good? Like . .the story not good? Or, . . .the chapter not good? Or . . .something like "Oh no, Hiei's in Slytherin Malfoy's going to die" not good? I'm confuzzled. T.T Thanks for the review, though.
Chibi Pyro Duo: Thank you for the criticism, my friend, bows as well as the praise. Yes, Yukina was a bit neglected in the last chap, ne? I will try to fix that from now on! Thankies much!
(Oh, yes, thanks to everyone else too. You guys all give me a warm fuzzy feeling! - I would love to respond to you all individually, but I'm afraid of the FF.Net Gods and their strict rules about author notes! v)
Oh, and as you can probably see ff.net has changes a bit and revoked my little star things. T.T So here's the new thingy's:
Italics - Thought
- scene switch thingy . . . v
- end chap
::::::::Chapter 5::::::::
Hiei flitted through the dark, starry night, landing on a top branch of a bushy evergreen with little difficulty. Something was wrong here; the façade of the peaceful forest foreshadowing a welling feeling of dread, an unsettled anger. He reached up and pulled his white bandana off his forehead, revealing his glowing Jagan.
"Hn." He muttered. Definitely something not right. His Jagan, who's vision could usually see through this dimension and any other with perfect clarity, was muddy and grey, as if the surrounding territory was shrouded in a massive dark cloud; objects appearing as little more than foggy silhouettes. Pushing for visibility, Hiei tried to focus on a single blackish flame-like splotch that had invaded the center of his vision, the smoke around it skulking away. He furrowed his brow in concentration.
Blinding pain shot between his eyes and scorched through his skull. Hiei cried out and nearly toppled off the branch, a hand flying over the eye to shield it from the invisible attack. As fast as it appeared the pain was gone, leaving the Jagan with even more questions.
What the hell was that? Retying the bandana over his third eye, Hiei felt something he did not like. The faintest glimmers of . .fear.
Quickly tossing away the 'foolish emotion', the fire demon disappeared deeper into the limitless night, intent on finding one of the few things that had caused him pain. Finding it, and killing it.
Not surprisingly, neither Yusuke nor Hiei showed up for class the next day. Or the next. Or the next. In fact, no one had seen either of them all week, except for Yusuke, who showed up for food and a place to sleep. Ron and Hermione, well, mostly Hermione, had given him a firm talking to about attending class (As was their duties as prefects), and McGonagall had threatened him with a month's detention. Also not surprisingly, Yusuke didn't listen to either and continued with his delinquent behavior.
Nobody had been able to locate Hiei to give him a 'firm talking to.' Apparently, Hiei had decided to drop off the face of the Earth, and had done so without a trace. A unanimous vote amongst the detectives elected Kurama to be the one to find him.
The next Monday morning, Yusuke sat in the dining hall, wolfing down his breakfast. Kuwabara, Ron, Harry and Hermione watched him, appalled, yet fascinated at how much he could shove down his gullet.
"Yusuke, slow down. That's gross." Botan said, wrinkling her nose is disgust. Yusuke grinned.
"Sorry." He garbled, spraying food across the table. Botan greened in horror and picked a fleck of scrambled egg off her cheek. She got up and moved over a seat, out of the line of fire.
With her out of the way, Yusuke could see Kurama and Hiei approaching. The fox had somehow managed to locate the Jaganshi and coaxed him into at least come to breakfast. Hiei did not seem the least bit happy about the arrangement.
Kurama yawned into his hand and sat down, Hiei scowling behind him. The fire demon sat down across from Yusuke, the punk grinning.
"Long time no see." Hiei's expression twisted into repulsion as food sprayed across the table towards him.
"Don't force me to rip out all your teeth, detective." Yusuke clapped his mouth shut. Suddenly, a huge cloud of owls burst through the massive windows into the hall, swooping down over the tables and dropping packages and letters before circling back to the rafters overhead. Yukina's owl dipped down, dropping three envelopes onto the table before landing next to the ice maiden, nibbling at the un-eaten bacon on her plate.
The owl was a magnificent creature, her feathers the color of dirty snow, down as white as clouds adorning her chest. She was not large by any means, but medium and powerful, required traits for making the trip back to Japan. Yukina had made a fine choice on which to owl to buy, and Kuwabara regularly reminded her of this.
The owl, having eaten all of Yukina's bacon, waddled on its small talons over to Botan to feast on her leftover toast. Botan giggled, stroking its soft coat. Puu glared up from the deity's lap jealously.
"I never did ask what you decided to name it, Yukina." The deity commented.
Yukina smiled. "Her name is Hina." Kurama felt the air next to him go cold and glanced over at Hiei, who had frozen in place, staring at the owl. He snapped out of it a moment later, uttering a low 'Hn' before looking down at the letter that had landed in front of him.
"What the?" Yusuke looked down at his syrup stained plate, where two crimson envelopes rested. He picked one up, eyeing it strangely.
"I wouldn't-" Ron began, but Harry stopped him. "He might as well get it over with." Yusuke eyed the both of them, shrugged, and tore the packet open.
"YUSUKE URAMESHI HOW COULD YOU NOT TELL ME YOU WERE GOING TO SOME SCHOOL IN ENGLAND FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR?" Keiko's voice screamed from the envelope. "AND NOW I'M JUST SUPPOSED TO WAIT FOR YOU?! TAKE CARE OF ATSUKO FOR YOU?! BAAAAKKKAAAAA!"
Yusuke had long since clapped his hands over his ears, much like the others, who had their ears plugged with their fingers and their faces twisted in pain.
"Make it stop!" Botan wailed. Moments later, the envelope shriveled up and disappeared, along with Keiko's shrieks.
The two looked down at the other two envelopes in horror. Hiei extended a hand out over his red letter, and seconds later it burst into flames.
"How-?" Harry began to ask, but was cut off by a raspy shriek. "SHRIMP, IF I HEAR YOU'VE CUT CLASS ONE MORE TIME, A CERTAIN SOMEONE IS GOING TO LEARN A CERTAIN SOMETHING ABOUT A CERTAIN SECRET THAT SOMEONE DOESN'T WANT THE OTHER TO KNOW! USE THAT LUMP TWO FEET ABOVE YOUR ASS FOR ONCE!" Hiei glared at the little shoot pile that used to be a letter, grinding his teeth. Yukina blinked, looking at the others.
"What was Genkai talking about?" Botan blanched.
"Oh, don't worry your pretty little head about it-!" She babbled, sweat dropping and waving a hand.
But she was drowned out by the earsplitting screech of "DIMWIT!"
Yusuke wailed. "Not another one!" Moments later Genkai's voice again disappeared after five straight minutes of screaming.
Yusuke groaned and pulled his fingers out of his ears, checking them for blood. His ears were ringing so loudly he almost didn't hear the voice behind him.
"Hiei, why are you hanging around the Gryffindors? You may catch whatever they've got that makes them such losers." The entire group looked turned around to glare at the trio that had approached from behind.
A boy with platinum blonde hair and a smug smile led the group; behind him stood two thuggish boys who looked as if their brains put together couldn't beat a tomato at a spelling bee.
"Malfoy." Harry growled. The blonde smirked, his eyes trailing from the wizard over to Ron and his glimmering prefect badge.
"Weasly, how much did your family have to pay off the school to get you that thing? Oh, wait, I forgot it was you I was talking about." The two thugs behind Malfoy began to snicker loudly. Ron's ears burned red.
Yusuke started to stand. "Hey, as-." But before he could say anything more, Malfoy was on the ground, the gleaming blade of Hiei's katana pressed almost lazily against his quivering neck.
The fire demon glared down at him. "If you value your life and your head, you will leave. Now." Draco, pale as a sheet, swallowed thickly and nodded.
"Mr. Jaganshi!" A voice screeched. McGonagall hustled down the isle between the two tables, face contorted in rage. "Step away from Mr. Malfoy this INSTANT!" What students that hadn't noticed the disruption now turned to watch the scene unfold. Hiei glared at the woman, clearly asking 'Why should I?'
"Hiei." Kurama muttered lowly, so only his friends could hear. "We do not need this attention now. Sheath your weapon."
Hiei glared at the fox for a moment, then replaced his katana in it's holster with an irritated 'Hn.'
"Fifty points from Slytherin! What have I said about weapons in Hogwarts?!" McGonagall's voice was a shrill screech, echoing through the silent hall. She helped Malfoy to his feet, glaring angrily at the group. "Get to class before I report this to the Headmaster."
Hiei returned the glare before turning to the other detectives, who began to stand. "Where is this 'class'?" he growled, the others blinking in disbelief.
"Wait . .you're actually coming to class?" Kuwabara babbled in disbelief.
"No, I'm asking for my health, you baka."
"Shut up shorty!" Kurama and Botan rolled their eyes and started for the first period of the day, Double Charms. Hiei scowled and followed, ignoring Kuwabara's feeble comebacks. No way in Kami did he want to go, but he wasn't going to risk that hag letting out his little secret over a refusal to go to ningen classes. He could always kill the owl to hinder any letter's arrival that might 'spill the beans', but that thought was quickly dismissed when he imagined his sister's heartbroken face when she learned of 'Hina's' demise.
Genkai had really thought of everything.
Damn that wench
Yusuke on the other hand, ignored Genkai's threats. He had started walking toward the class with the group and slyly slipped away, heading for a random hall.
To say Harry, Ron, and Hermione were disturbed by the events that morning was a gross understatement. Well, at least Harry and Hermione were.
"Did you see that guy?!" Ron breathed in disbelief as they headed towards their class, taking the scenic route so they would have more time to talk. "I didn't even see him MOVE! One minute he was sitting there and the next Malfoy was on the floor! How did he DO that?!"
The same question was on the other twos' minds. "More importantly, why is a fifteen year old carrying around a sword?" Hermione looked at the others. "And did you see what he did to that letter this morning? He set it on fire without even using a wand."
They elapsed into a strained silence.
"Harry, you said your scar's been hurting more since we arrived at Hogwarts." Harry nodded, unconsciously reaching up to touch the throbbing lightning-shaped mar on his forehead.
"It all just seems so strange . . the last minute transfer . . students from different houses being in the same classes as us . .using magic without a wand . .it just doesn't make sense . ." Hermione chewed her lip.
"What if . . What if these students are working for Voldemort?" The last part came out as a whisper, and the two boys had to lean close to hear. "I mean, Hiei looks about as close to a Death Eater as you can get."
"But what about the others?" Harry demanded, "I mean Kurama and Kuwabara seem okay . ."
"So did Quirrell." Harry immediately remembered the 'meek' first year teacher that had served as a host for Voldemort and went silent.
"I don't mean we should go around accusing people." Hermione said quietly as the bell rang overhead. "But let's keep an eye out. This all seems a little too suspicious."
The two boys nodded and they all hurried to class.
"DIMWIT!" Genkai crumpled Botan's letter in her hand, her spirit energy disintegrating it.
"Why did I have to pick such a MORON for an apprentice?!" She yelled, her hoarse voice echoing through the woods surrounding her temple. She stomped out of the room, fuming, and reached for her phone.
"This calls for drastic measures." Picking up the receiver, Genkai swiftly dialed the Yukimura residence.
"Keiko? It's Genkai. Start packing."
"Are we ready to begin yet, my Lord?" A low voice mumbled, almost incoherently.
"Patience, there are yet a few more pieces that must fall into place."
Sorry for the long wait and the short chap, peeps. Thanks for being patient with me . . . v.v . . . I SUCK! T.T
Next chapter will be much longer than this, I can at least promise that. - And the action will definetly pick up, I can assure that too! :D
Oh, and if anyone didn't understand the Hina thing, Hina was the name of Hiei and Yukina's mother. v Review please!