A/N: okay... yeah... i prob should of updated sooner but hey... sue me. enjoy... and i don't know how much longer i intend on pursuing writing for the fact that i'm getting into novel writing.

Wicked Fiends

Chapter Three

"Are you absolutely sure that you have to join us on this trip?" Yusuke asked for the millionth time since they had left the robe shop and the wand shop and the pet shop and... well let's just say since they left just about any shop you can imagine in Diagon Alley. At the moment, the four were heading through the woods looking for Kurama's portal that he so assuredly guaranteed they would find.

"Detective, if you do not want me to knock you through the nearest tree, I would pull that lip of yours over your head and swallow it!" the Captain raged arrogantly. "I won't tolerate anything from any of you."

"Why did Koenma send you here?" Kurama inquired.

"He said you would need the help of a demon slayer, other than that, I don't know what to tell you," she shrugged and jumped through the portal they had just found.

"Oh, dear, I do wish I had had the chance to tell her that that portal doesn't lead to the outskirts of London and that that is the wrong portal," the red head mused. "But, it does lead to London."

With Yusuke gawking loudly and Hiei gawking in private, the kitsune followed the Captain through the portal and into King's Cross Station in London.

"Um... guys..." Yusuke's voice drifted off as he, Kurama, and Hiei stood staring about the bustling King's Cross Station full of its British people. "We seem to be missing the Captain. And may I be the first to inform you that she is a crazy psycho in need of a mental hospital that electrocutes its craziest patients."

"Don't sound so crude, Yusuke," Kurama muttered though he, too, was thinking something along the same lines and was scanning the crowds to find the psycho Captain. His eyes widened as he saw the female Captain talking roughly with a man dressed in uniform and although he was quite unsure of what was going on between the two but he was very sure that it couldn't have been very good. "There they... I mean, she is."

"Gods! She's talking to a human! She's going to kill him!" Yusuke nearly shouted and ran after her. A moment later did not find him dragging her back... but her dragging him back by the ear, a scowl on her face and her eyes flamed with anger. "I didn't do it! I didn't do it! I swear! Don't turn me into anything... unnatural! Don't do anything unnatural!"

"You mean you don't want me to rip your arms out of the sockets?" Misha growled.

"Yes!" Yusuke exclaimed in horror.

"Or drink you dry of your blood?"

"Yes!"

"Or tear you limb from limb?"

"Yes!"

"Or damage your heart and watch you suffer the ten seconds before you die?" she snapped.

"Please, gods! Koenma! Oh, Koenma! Spare me! Spare me!" the detective cried out, covering his face and cowering away from her as she let him go.

"Then, don't- may I repeat, do not!- interrupt me at any time. Do not, make me mad," she ordered. ("I hardly think that is possible," Kurama commented on the side to Hiei, who snickered.) "Do not say or do anything stupid while in my presence!"

"I hardly think that is possible," Hiei sneered to Kurama, who stared at him ludicrously. "What? It's the truth!"

"Here," the Captain held out four tickets. "These are tickets for Platform Nine and Three Quarters, the Hogwarts Express is the train we will be taking." Seeing their doubting confusion, she sighed. "Oh, just follow me!"

"Here, you three stay in this compartment and I'll get my own," Misha forced Yusuke into a seat of the train compartment. After staring them down for a very nervous moment on the boy's behalf, she left them and settled herself in a compartment two away from theirs.

"She's scary," Yusuke moaned, beating his head against the window as they waited for students to board the train. "I can't stand having her around."

"I keep remembering how she tried to kill me and nearly succeeded," Kurama murmured solemnly. "But looking at her now... I sense something different and there's this different look in her eye than the night she nearly did kill me. It almost makes me wonder if Koenma was right when he-"

"Baka, Kitsune!" Hiei snapped loudly. "Don't even think about it. There was no way in all seven hells that she was only possessed that night. This is not a time to think about trusting her."

"Yes, but, Hiei, you didn't see the look in her eyes that night," the red head protested fiercely. "She looked crazed!"

"She always looks crazed, kitsune!" the fire youkai shot back roughly, his arms crossed over his chest and his eyes closed.

"Lover's spat," Yusuke muttered. It was a well-known fact to the Spirit Detective, only to the Spirit Detective, that Hiei and Kurama were lovers. At first he was disgusted and put out by the idea, but over time he learned not to care so much. "I'm outta here before it gets ugly."

"Get back here, Yusuke!" Kurama tried to grab the tail of Yusuke's shirt but missed and the raven-haired boy left. "I need someone to defend me!"

"I ain't taking sides here," Yusuke called over his shoulder. "If I agree with you, Hiei will incinerate me. If I agree with Hiei, you'll send killer plants after me while I'm sleeping. I ain't takin' no one's side."

"Hn," Hiei growled. "She is and always will be crazy."

"She is not!" the kitsune responded so frostily that Hiei's eyes shot open and he looked taken back. "I know what I'm talking about. She isn't crazy."

"Hn," was Hiei's only response as he left the compartment to wander on his own.

'You had better not love her, kitsune,' Hiei's thoughts invaded the kitsune's head.

'I only love you,' Kurama answered back with innocence that quickly turned to a wicked idea. 'Besides, I wanted your help to set up Misha and Yusuke on a date, or at least to try.'

'Interesting...' the fire youkai sounded amused. 'Very interesting... what can I do?'