Hi, hi! I know that that greeting sucked but it'll get better. Promise. I think I'll only let the contest continue till I update the next chapter. Which means this is the last review to take a guess. The dream is in chapter 1 and as I said, a special prize to the first one that guesses correctly. Oh, the disclaimer, I own it all. YYH, Charmed, Inuyasha and Harry Potter. That is why I'm writing a fan fiction and not getting paid for it. I always owned Aya, her pendant and staff, the spheonix, and the story line. This takes place in Harry's 6th year so there are many spoilers. And for those who were kind enough to review:
YumeMonoGatori- Thanks, I don't know why no one will. But you did so you get something. *Gives you a batch of Sake sugar cookies* Hope your of age. Another one that doesn't participate in my contest. u_u
DemonicPyroElf- I guess that's good for you. A first time reviewer huh? *Just gives you Hershey Kisses* The longer I know a reviewer, the better the thank you gifts. But thanks for saying it was excellent. WHY DIDN'T YOU GUESS ABOUT THE DREAM?!
I'm sorry if there are characters that are OOC, I tried my best to put them as close to it as possible. It takes place right when Kurama and Hiei step out of Ollivanders. As usual, enjoy minna-san.
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**Outside Ollivanders**
The two youkais walked out with wands in hand to see an entertaining sight. Yusuke and Aurora were arm wrestling, and much to the dismay of the detective, he wasn't winning. He wasn't losing either, they were in a deadlock. Hiei and Kurama sat down to the closest table to watch. "This is interesting"
"Hn." This time Hiei "hn"ed in agreement. The state of the contest wasn't what Kurama was talking about, it was the look in both of the participants eyes. Though normally they had different color eyes, Yusuke's being a brown and Aurora's a dark blue, both had light blue glowing eyes. At the sight, both made an interesting observation. "They actually look like brother and sister."
"So you've noticed that as well. They also have the same attitude, but Aurora's seems to be more mature. It's highly unlikely though. The possibility of them sharing the same mother is impossible, and having the same father is just as unlikely." The match between the two ended, Aurora won. Thing is, her maturity wasn't shown, she was sticking her victory in Yusuke's face. What made it worse was that Yusuke used all his strength. "Guess I was wrong about the maturity concept."
"God, I get it already!" Yusuke yelled, causing Aurora to stop celebrating. "I bet you used magic to cheat anyway" was heard under his breath by the two watching youkais and Aurora. In anger, she grabbed him by the collar to his face, which was fuming.
"I do not, nor have I ever cheated in anything. It would be wise for you to remember that." With a gulp and a nod from Yusuke, she let him down. She took a few steadying breaths and sat back down and drank her butterbeer from before their little match. She finally decided it would be best to change the subject. "So where are you staying? Maybe we could talk, get to know each other. That kind of thing."
"Hn."
"What he means is that we're staying at the Leaky Cauldron, from what Tom read out of his guest book, so are you. As for the talk, I thought we were doing that just now." Aurora laughed a little bit and stopped as if it was new to her, turning a bit red, she looked down. "How about I start by asking what brings you to London."
Aurora was in deep thought of whether or not she should answer this guy, after all, she just met him. Considering everything, she felt no harm in telling him at least a bit. "Only if you answer that yourselves." Kurama nodded with a little smile she couldn't help but notice. Mentally slapping her self to reality. "This is going to sound a bit stupid, but, I'm trying to figure a dream out, it lead me here. And I guess at the same time, I'm learning a bit about my mothers past." Yusuke cracked up pounding at the table, repeating the part about being led by a dream. Kurama punched him in the head, which successfully shut him up, besides a few curses in Japanese under his breath that Aurora only heard. "I don't get it. Why did he say all that stuff and call you a fox?"
"So you understand Japanese?" This got Kurama's attention, he felt the need to push the subject even more. "I wasn't aware that America's educational system included Japanese. I know that they'll teach European languages, but not Eastern language."
"That's because they don't, but whatever you say I'll understand and can speak just as fluently as you. The secret to how is a secret of my own that I do not feel like sharing." Aurora put her feet up on the nearest chair and leaned back. "Now that I've told you why I'm hear, it's your turn." She looked directly into Kurama's eyes expectantly, the gaze was so great Kurama had to look down. Hiei could be heard with a very low growl.
"I'll answer that." Yusuke piped in, he remembered everything Koenma told him to say if this question was brought up. "We're going to Hogwarts on an exchange program, and lucky us, we start in the sixth year instead of the first."
"Hmmm." Aurora took this into great consideration. At her final thought she gave a quick smile that only Hiei caught. "Are you going to meet the headmaster anytime soon before the term starts?"
"Tomorrow. Why?"
"This is great, then I could ask the headmaster if I could continue my studies there. If I'm right, I should be at a sixth year level as well." Aurora was smiling to the point that everyone was able to see. The excitement quickly died down when one thought popped in her head. What if they say no. I had my O.W.L.'s at least by their standards is what it would be called. She slumped deeply into her chair. "Fat chance."
"Why is that? It sounds like a reasonable proposition. We could introduce you to Dumbledore when we meet him and then you could make your request." Kurama made this sound so simple. In disbelief and pure hope and joy she hugged Kurama and continued to thank him until Yusuke and Hiei pried her off Kurama's neck. She finally regained her self control and resumed to drinking her butterbeer. "Now that that's done, let's look around for something fun, we could finish shopping for supplies tomorrow after meeting the headmaster." Everyone nodded in agreement and headed off towards the end of Diagon Alley.
**Outside the Leaky Cauldron in Diagon Alley**
"Blimey, that was the first time I've seen an American wizard. Those staffs are bloody wicked. Can't wait till I get my hand on one of those." Ron kept on rambling about how his father always said that wizards from the Americas never went to England, except for the occasional quidditch matches. Finally changing the subject after seeing the annoyed looks on Harry and Hermione's faces. "How `bout we check Fred and George's place. We never been there before. Their faces lit up and they walked over towards the outer gates of Diagon Alley.
"Looks like some people think of strength in more ways than magic." Harry whispered to Ron and Hermione as they walked by Ollivanders seeing the American girl and a boy in a green jumpsuit with slicked back hair of the same color arm wrestling, and neither was winning. Both had a wand to the left of their arm and the silver staff was leaning against the back of the girls chair.
"Obviously she's recovered quickly from the blow to her stomach. C'mon let's go. I fell like one of those portable swamps in case that Umbridge woman decides to stay another year." Harry pushed Ron on to a store that had a giant sign with pictures of lit fireworks in the shape of dragons and swamps, and in flame shaped letters "Weasley Wizard Wheezes." Walking inside, the three saw the walls lined with a lot of the products they all seen before. Ton-ton toffee's, extendable ears, portable swamps and deflagration deluxe [spelling?] kits and many more. At the counter they saw three very familiar faces.
"Got Lee wrapped in this too, I see." Ron was excited at the sight of Lee, he knew all too well how much the twins and Lee could do in the mischief department.
**Back with Aurora and the Yu Yu gang heading down the alley**
"This looks like your kind of place Yusuke. 'Weasley Wizard Wheezes' is a joke shop by the sound of it" Aurora made a gesture with her staff to have Yusuke open the door, she had enough of doors for the rest of the day. And to her expectations, something came out the door into Yusuke's face. Aurora fell down laughing, she didn't know what just happened, but seeing Yusuke with a purple and boil filled face was enough for her. Kurama was stifling back some laughs, finding it very hard to do so. Hiei just smirked, but no one can really expect him to laugh now could they.
"Well, that one still works." one red head said.
"Not how it should though, his face should be bogey color" his exact double replied, helping Yusuke up and giving his a purple piece of candy. "It's not poisoned, but it will get rid of what happened to your face."
"Personally, I like him better this way" Aurora said after finally being able to control herself. She was holding a stitch in her side from laughing so hard and leaning on her staff. "I mean, what could really be worse than his real face. Now that's scary." Yusuke was scowling at Aurora. The two red heads were laughing a bit and noticed her staff.
"So your our American guest. At least your quite a looker."
"Better than any Veela, that's for sure. Name's George, that's Fred. And back at the counter is our partner in crime, Lee" They shook hands and went into the store instead of lingering in the doorway. Then Yusuke ran into a guy his age with messy hair, black rimmed glasses and a strange shaped scar that reminded him of Suzaku's storm of torment [Only because it's a lightning elemental attack]. Next to him was another red head that was taller than the twins, also appearing to be of the same age. Finally noticing a girl of the same age as well, with brown hair that looked like a `fro that was so heavy, it sunk down her back.
"Sorry, didn't see you there." The boy with the scar replied.
"Don't mention it. Urameshi Yusuke, transfer student from Japan to Hogwarts." Yusuke bowed down a bit, getting back up. "But for now, just call me Urameshi."
"Okay, Harry Potter." He uneasily repeated the same bow, "Just call me Harry though." Kurama's eye's grew to the size of dishes at the name. He knew they would run into him soon, but not this soon. The look on Harry's face showed that he was used to these kind of stares though.
"Oh, that's Kurama," Yusuke pointed to each one, "Hiei is the short one, and Aurora is the one with the staff. But she's not that important." Aurora pounced on him and started giving him noogies, eventually giving in, Yusuke got her off him and cleaned off his pant's to see all the people he just met laughing on the floor. With the exception of Hiei who was watching with great interest. "Fine, she's of some importance."
"I'm the one keeping you out of the ministry for attacking me in public." She was getting up too. Since her clothes were already dirty from age and traveling, she didn't bother cleaning them off. Grabbing her staff which she quickly set against the wall before attacking Yusuke, and hit him on the head with the jeweled end. In a matter of moments, a huge boil that looked like a mini replica of some mountain, maybe Mt. Fuji emerged out of the same place Yusuke was hit.
"We got to find out how to do that!" Fred laughed at the same time, at least Yusuke thought it was Fred, couldn't tell the twins apart at all. She simply said that it just happens when she hits someone there. Disappointed, the twins went to something else, like their headless hats, which Yusuke bought almost instantly.
"Kuwabara will practically have a heart attack if he sees one of us without a head."
"They have a legend back in America about a rider without a head. Best part was finding out that the legend was mostly true, except for the fact that the rider didn't take other peoples heads as a replacement." Aurora brought that up for no apparent reason. As the rest of the group were staring at her, she shrugged stating that she didn't know why she just said that. After about an hour, the group started to die down. "Hey, let's get your pet's today and we can head back." The tantei nodded in agreement.
"We have to get back, moms gonna throw a fit for us staying away for so long"
"We said we'd be back in ten minutes." Hermione answered Yusuke's raised eyebrow. After saying their goodbyes, the Tantei and Aurora left and headed to a pet shop called "Madame Hawkins Magical and Rare Pet's" [A/N: Sorry, but I was thinking of a hawk my friends owns. I bet you were thinking they'd be at the Owl Emporium huh?] Inside, everyone headed a different direction, except Aurora, who followed Kurama when he headed over to the foxes. [I know it's been done a million times before] Hiei went over to the spheonix's [A cross of a phoenix and sphinx. It looks like a mini shpinx with flaming wings and 5 tails made of fire.], and Yusuke went over to the death hawks. About a half hour they all came out with a cage and headed over to the Leaky Cauldron. "Now for a nice soak. See you later or in the morning kay." They dismissed her with a "Get out of here already" in the joking sense.
Upon entering her room, after paying Tom of course for the room, she saw that her robes had arrived. Setting down her new pet [It's a secret for now], her staff, and her new wand, she headed into the bathroom. And since this is only a PG-13 fic, I'm jumping to the part where she's in the bubble filled tub. Gomen perv's, I'm not going into that. Starting to drift to sleep, she felt her consciousness drift the same way as with the dream that led her to London in the first place [That's the tree dream in Ch.1]. She couldn't hear what she was saying to a guy in purple robes with black hair pulled back into a ponytail, and carrying a gold staff with rings around a loop at the head. All she needed was to see was the guy groping her and her slapping him. Then she saw a unfamiliar group around them laughing their heads off. But there was one familiar face, or presence of a tall man with long silver hair and fox ears and tail get very angry and seem to threaten the guy in the robes. Then right when she was able to see the face she was awoken by a unpleasant banging on her door. "Hey Aurora! C'mon, let's get some grub. Harry, Granger and the Weasley's want to meet us all. Especially you!" Yusuke's racket was giving her a headache, she was finally relaxed until he woke her up. Making a mental note to hex him, she quickly got dressed in her clothes that were restored and cleaned and headed downstairs, without a staff or wand. She opened her door to see Hiei at the door, instead of Yusuke.
"You take too long." He noticed how long her hair really was, with it loose and wet, you could see that it would easily be at her thighs length when dry [Remember that she was rushing while still in the bath]. They both went downstairs and sat at a very long table. Most of the occupant's had red hair, she saw Harry and Hermione by Yusuke and Kurama. As she sat down, she was greeted by a thin balding man with red hair. Soon being told to call him Mr. Weasley, and properly introduced to everyone. On the right side she was introduced to Mrs. Weasley, Percy, Lupin, Tonks, and of course there was Harry, Ron, Yusuke and Kurama. On the left side was Mr. Weasley's chair, Mad eye Moody, Charlie, Bill, and she already knew Fred and George. She sat at the end across Kurama while Hiei filled in the space between her and one of the twins. For some reason he started thinking to himself, "She smell's nice, can't place my finger on the scent, but it's familiar." Mentally slapping himself, he put his mind to other things. And so, on went the dinner.
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I know, I'm evil for putting up another cliffy. But that's only because it's late and I wanted to do the dinner in the next chapter. Extra point's to who can guess who got what kind of pet, but only if you guess the meaning of the dream first. And just for fun I'll start another contest with the same extra point thing for guessing Aurora's latest dream. It's much easier than the first dream. As usual review, and flame if you must, I'll enjoy the flames by burning down my high school. Oh and check out "Things the Yu Yu cast will never do and other funnies" by LadyWolfMoon, "YuYuq's" by Nazomie, "MONKZUP's party" by MONKZUP which I'll be present at soon, and others by my friends, which I'll mention more of in the next chapter. ^_^
Well, Ja ne minna-san,
Aya, Dragon Ladysupreme, Owner of Bloody Sake, Lover of Sesshy-san, Student of Kurama and Hiei in terms of stealing and attitude, writer of this fic among others, eater of sweet snow, pyro and kleptomaniac and soon to flamed authoress for stupid titling of her own name.
Or simply, Aya ^_^ Don't you hate it when your led on like that?