A Controlled Experiment

By: Alesca Munroe

Chapter Three (WARNING!!!: Slash content, KxH)

Day Two: The Morning

During the next part of this study, and for most of the rest of it, the test subjects will be closely monitored using enchanted tape recorders and camcorders, as the normal electronic version will not suffice in this highly magical area. Day Two begins in the entrance hall of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where the test subjects have gathered before breakfast.

* Start Video Recording *

All the test subjects are gathered around in semblance of a circle.

Kuwabara: This place is freaky. I don't like it.

Botan: He got stuck on one of the staircases while it was moving around on the way here.

Kuwabara: Hey, it's not my fault, how was I supposed to know? And unlike you, Botan, I can't just pull a rice paddle outta nowhere every time something happens.

Yusuke: Well, we all got here, so let's go in and eat breakfast. I'm starved.

Touya rolled her eyes and said: You were like that the entire way here so don't talk. At all.

Keiko: Yusuke, we're miles away from home. It wouldn't kill you to wear the right uniform.

Yusuke: I don't care; those things are uncomfortable. But still, nice skirt.

Keiko: Yusuke you jerk! She proceeds to slap the poor boy senseless.

A new person arrives on the scene, Professor Alesca Munroe: Ten points from Slytherin. All of you should be eating breakfast, not loitering in the halls. Classes start in half an hour.

Yusuke starts laughing: Keiko, it's your first day and you're already losing House points.

Alesca: Twenty from Gryffindor, Mr. Urameshi. If you insist on wearing the wrong uniform on a daily basis, I will insist on taking House points on a regular basis. Now scat, all of you.

Another teacher appears. Professor Delena Hupp: A little harsh, aren't we?

Alesca: The sooner they learn the rules, the better. It could have been worse.

Shampoo Cat 08 joins them. Shampoo: Yeah, Snape could have found them. Or worse, me.

Yusuke: Hey, aren't all of you those weird scientist people who are running this thing?

Alesca: You must be mistaking us for other people. I am Professor Alesca Munroe. I teach Defense Against the Dark Arts. Professor Hupp teaches Mythology. Her twin, also Professor Hupp, teaches Drama. All are staple classes in Hogwarts curriculum. Seiung-Leikuu Ming is a fifth year. She is a prefect, and therefore capable of taking House points when she sees fit, and also giving them. I don't suggest you mess with prefects.

Ming: Not Seiung-Leikuu. Ming. I'm a Slytherin, so you poor Gryffindors have no hope of gaining House points when I'm around. Draco Malfoy is the other one, and is much worse.

* End recording *

From this point on, all of the events taking place will be in story format, and with little embellishing on our part. We know what they're thinking because we have a psychic on our team of scientists. Information as to who the psychic is will not be disclosed at this point.

Yusuke stared at the 'teachers' as the headed into the Great Hall, followed closely by Ming. "Those people are not normal," he declared, annoyed that the teachers were already on his case. "It's not like they have spirit energy, they're just…weird."

"Who isn't?" Kurama asked, smiling a little. "We are in the wizarding world, after all."

They entered the Hall. "Um, so where do we sit?

"We're supposed to sit with our Houses," Touya said with a scowl. "They are identifiable by the colors of their ties. Yusuke, you and I sit- where are you going?"

"To go sit with my buddies, of course." He pointed to the end of a table where the others all sat, Jin included. "C'mon, Icy, sit with us. Or are you going to be a party pooper?"

"What are you all doing?" a voice asked incredulously from behind them.

A girl with mouse brown frizzy hair was looking at them from the Gryffindor table. "Touya, that's the Slytherin table. You're not honestly going to sit there, are you?"

"I sit with my friends, Hermione, and you with yours. Is there something wrong?"

"Touya, Gryffindors never sit with Slytherins. They're enemies."

"If this is about the spat between Godric and Salazar, I think it's moronic."

Everyone in the Great Hall suddenly stopped talking and turned to stare at the blue haired girl/boy/thing/it. "It's not moronic, it's tradition," a boy with dark hair and a lightning scar said.

"It's a stupid tradition. You shouldn't hate people just because of their House-"

Touya would have gone on to say much more if Jin hadn't led her to her seat. "No use in arguing with humans," he told her. "'Specially if they're like Urameshi here. Hard headed lot."

"Shut up, Jin, and try the food," Yusuke said. "It's better than it looks."

"It is," Kurama agreed, sampling some of the food. "Not like what we have at home."

"What's your password, Touya?" Jin wanted to know. "So I can visit ya."

Touya was about to reply a negative, when Yusuke butted in. "Chichiri. Yours?"

"Chiriko. What are the other two passwords? We can all visit each other."

"No you most certainly cannot!" Professor McGonagall towered over them. She was livid. "People from one House may not go to other Houses! It's against the rules."

"Actually, Professor McGonagall, nowhere in the rules does it say that we can't go to other Houses," Touya interjected. She smirked triumphantly. "The idea that people from one House would want to associate only with the people of the same House is out-dated."

"She's got a point," a boy with silver blonde hair said. "Want to sit with me, Potter?"

The boy with the lightning scar smiled. "Sure, Malfoy," he answered and sat with the Sytherin before turning to Hermione and a tall boy with red hair. "Care to join us?"

They and several other students began moving to other tables. Kurama turned to Touya. "I do believe you've started something very life- changing for some students here."

She shrugged. "They needed the change. Half the people in my House hate each other."

Botan smiled. "This is wonderful. The password to Hufflepuff is Nuriko."

"Slytherin's password is Nakago," Keiko added, sighing in defeat. "We are going to get in SO much trouble, and school hasn't even started yet. I haven't even been to class yet."

"Why again are you a Slytherin?" Hermione wanted to know, sitting near her. "You seem like you would do better in any of the other Houses. I'm Hermione Granger, by the way."

"Keiko Ukimura. Why would I do better in other Houses?"

Touya took a sip of her tea as Hermione replied. "Slytherins just have a bad reputation for doing underhanded things to achieve their ends, that's all, really."

Yusuke snickered and slung an arm around Hiei. "Looks like you'll be right at home."

Hiei removed the spirit detective's arm and scooted ever so slightly towards Kurama. Yusuke smiled sheepishly. "I forgot. Home is where Kurama is, right?"

Hiei gave him the finger while Kurama blushed slightly. Touya smirked.

Jin grinned. "Where do we get our schedules?" he wanted to know.

"Accio Schedules," Hermione said, pointing her wand at a stack of paper and their

schedules flew over to them. "You go to classes with the rest of your grade in you House," she

explained, passing them out. "Some classes are doubles."

Kurama glanced over his schedule. "Ravenclaw doesn't have any classes with

Slytherin," he noted, suppressing a sigh. "It looks like we won't get to see each other that

often, Hiei." He brightened a little. "I have Herbology first thing today."

"Lucky you," Hermione said, looking at her own schedule. "I have History of Magic

first. You can walk with us," she added, turning to Yusuke and Touya.

They nodded their thanks and followed her out as the bell tolled. Hiei started to follow

Kurama. "And where are YOU going?" Ming asked from behind him.

"I'm going to class," he said, daring her to say otherwise. She did.

"Wrong way then. Slytherins have Potions first thing." Ming proceeded to drag the

demon all the way down to the dungeons, lecturing him on the school's layout.

History of Magic wasn't as bad a class as Yusuke thought, but it was so boring. He

didn't get how Touya managed to stay awake, much less copy down everything the ghost

teacher was saying in his droning voice. "Oy, aren't you bored?" he asked the girl.

"No," she replied, writing what Professor Binns was saying as if it was the most

interesting thing in all three worlds. "You should pay attention, Yusuke."

"No way," he said, getting up. "I'll be on the roof if you need me."

"Detention, Urameshi, and fifty points from Gryffindor. It will be one hundred if you set

foot out of this classroom while I am still teaching." Professor Binns was not joking.

Yusuke rolled his eyes and began leaving. "Petrificus Totalus."

Touya had her wand out and was pointing it at Yusuke. He was frozen in the doorway, almost out of the classroom. She dragged the boy back to his seat. "Continue please."

Everyone just stared as the teacher continued. The transfer students were NOT normal.

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Disclaimer/Notes: You're joking, right? You actually have the audacity to believe that I, one of The Omnipotent Authoresses of Everything and All, don't own something as miniscule as the Harry Potter and Yu Yu Hakusho universes? …Well, actually, I don't, but you can just pretend that I do because, seeing as I am omnipotent, I can blast you into complete nothingness if you dare to say otherwise. That includes Delena/Aneled Hupp and Fade to Black, who still does not count as reviewers. I don't much care what classes each Houses take together or the ones that they don't. I'm in charge here, and the classes seem to change around anyway, so don't flame me about it. Flame me about something else, like Professor Hupp or S.C.08.

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PS: Thanks to all who reviewed, including Gentimarra, madcat, Hedi Dracona, Jaynee Bubbanee, Kitsune Rose, Aniyu, Little-Kitsune, Jennifred and Forsaken-in-death. ::Nibbles on sugar cookie, getting a high look on her face.:: And then there's Kaeru Soyokaze, Fire-Queen1, Madame Arrow Foxfire, TsukiTenshiP, Cheeto, KathyHime85, and oOKeairaOo. ::exasperated sigh:: and we can't forget Delena/Aneled Hupp. Well, actually, we can.

Kuwabara: I thought this was going to be a straight fic.

Yusuke: Not with Hiei and Kurama around

Hiei: I'm leaving now.

Go for it, we're finished anyway. Next chapter: Kurama's Herbology experience.