Review Answers:
Jessica )
Ok... but that will probably happen either in the next chapter or the one after it...
HieiKuramaGirl
Yeah, it will be an interesting year... And Jin will come in later, in a stunt that involves four detentions in the forest, and a 'natural talent' for flying... Also, yeah, Yusuke has jet lag, lack of sleep, and he just drank a whole...thing... of something alcoholic... so he's a little tipsy... wait until you see the daily prophet...(Headline: 'Crazy Homicidal Teens With Psycho Powers Walk Among Us', complements of Rita Skeeter...).. Nope, Kurama didn't pay... ooh! Naughty little Shuichi!!! Bad for using the lower life forms(coughYusukecough)...
mistressKC
I know... I want it too... And the whole Jin being Yusuke's brother... this is my story on it... Jin is a descendant of Raizen(I think his direct son by what I've heard, but if it isn't, just twist the truth a little), and I'm using logic that confuses me here... Jin technically is a lot older then Yusuke, and if he's a direct desendant of Raizen then he's like Yusuke's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great uncle or cousin or something... but, and this is very controvercial on most sites, Yusuke himself is a direct desendant of Raizen and Jin is too, that would make them(half) brothers... But, seeing as in the series(by what I've heard), Raizen is more like Yusuke's great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather or something...yeah... so, to save myself the trouble, we're just going to say that both Yusuke and Jin are direct desendants of Raizen and stop confusing myself... Of course, if Jin isn't an offspring of Raizen... oh, never mind...
Minakara
Thanks!!!
Icy Tears
Well, I don't really want it to be Genkai because almost everyone uses her...
RBMIfan
- yeah...
Tbiris
Yeah... unless Kurama can come up with a good save...
Robin Autumn
- Yeah, but that's for later, with certain potion teachers and teachers pets...
Magnus Black
Thanks...
Anya Observian
- I want one!!!
"You know, Yusuke, you have to keep your temper under control." Kurama said. They were all walking in Kings Cross station, Kurama lecturing Yusuke. "You can't transform into your demon form every two seconds like you do at home."
Yusuke sighed as he looked up at the ceiling. "Fine. Now, will you stop nagging?" he asked, feeling a little stupid following what seemingly was a dog. Soon they approached the barrier between platforms nine and ten. Black just walked right through the barrier, closely followed by Hiei and Kurama. Kuwabara looked at the barrier in horror until Yusuke, bored, just pushed him through it.
Kurama looked around at the scarlet train that stood in front of them. "Well, I guess that we get on." He said, walking towards the train.
They got on just as the train pulled out. When it started to move, it took Kurama, Yusuke, Black and Kuwabara to stop Hiei from slicing the train to bits. They walked around the train, carrying their luggage on their backs (Or in Sirius's case, his collar), looking for an empty compartment. Finally, they found one.
Closing the door to it, Kurama turned to Sirius. "Black, you're going to have to go back to your human form." He said. Black gave a bark then began transforming, Hiei using his jagan to shield him from prying eyes. Everyone took a seat in the compartment, Yusuke and Kuwabara sitting on one side, Hiei, Kurama and Black on the other. They sat in semi-silence, Yusuke and Kuwabara seeing which one of them could make their wands levitate with spirit energy the longest. So far, it was a draw and both of them were bored. Kurama was conversing quietly with Black about wizards, and Hiei was looking out the window.
The door slid open, causing both Yusuke and Kuwabara to lose concentration. Kurama looked up from his conversation to see the boy from Diagon Alley walk in.
"Can I sit here?" he asked. "All the other compartments are full." Kurama nodded.
"What was your name? I didn't quite catch it earlier." Kurama said politely.
"I'm Harry, Harry Potter." Harry said as he sat down as far away from Hiei as possible.
"What's Hogwarts like, Harry?" Kurama said, glaring at Yusuke and Kuwabara, who had decided that now was a great time to see which one of them knew more...impolite... words.
"Well, it's a huge castle." Harry said, then continuing to explain the four houses and the moving paintings to Kurama. He finally got around to the lessons, which caused him to say, "I wonder what all the books on demons are for." The tension in the room seemed to rise a few notches, as if raised by an invisible thermostat.
"Well, I personally don't know." Kurama said. "But I'd like to find out. Have you looked through the demon encyclopedia?"
Harry pulled the book out. "Yes. I skimmed most of it. I think the most interesting one is Raizen. What about you?"
"Why do you like Raizen? That old man's nothing but trouble!" Yusuke said, sniggering slightly.
Kurama glared at Yusuke before replying to Harry's question. "I like Yoko Kurama the best." Approximately five seconds later, Yusuke was rolling on the floor, laughing, banging his head on the seat legs.
Kurama frowned. "Yusuke, just how much alcohol did you have at the Leaky Cauldron this morning?"
Harry looked at Kurama. "But he can't be old enough to drink." He said.
Kurama kicked Yusuke in the ribs, causing him to shut up. "Yusuke's very- convincing when he wants to."
Yusuke got up and returned to his seat. He thought for a second before groaning, then muttering, "Keiko's gonna kill me."
Kurama looked at Yusuke. "You didn't tell her you were going?" Yusuke shook his head.
Hiei just smirked and made a mental note to watch the 'reunion' when they got back to Japan.
"You know, maybe she won't be mad. I mean, it's not anywhere near as long as after the tournament." Yusuke said thoughtfully.
"Yusuke, just because she didn't mind too much when you went off for three years to play 'lord' doesn't mean she's not going to mind you going to a wizarding school without telling her." Kurama said. "Though I wish I could have gotten a picture of you and her kissing when you did get back." Yusuke turned slightly red at the thought of that.
"Well, Mr. Perfect, I don't think I've ever seen you kiss a girl." Yusuke said.
"Not in this lifetime. But before- I'm not going to tell you because it might taint your innocent mind." Kruama said, smirking.
"That's it, fox boy! Outside, now!" Yusuke said.
"Uh, Yusuke? We're on a train." Kurama said.
"Oh." Yusuke said, sitting back down. "I have a feeling I'm going to hate this place."
"Why? It's a school." Kurama said. "Oh, and you're not skipping any classes."
Yusuke groaned. "Now I know I'm going to hate this place!" he said as the compartment door slid open, revealing a pale blonde haired boy surrounded on either side by oafs who appeared to be bodyguards.
"Well, well. If it isn't Potty." The boy said, sneering. "Where's Weasel and the Mudblood? Not here?" Hiei rolled his eyes. The boy turned to the other occupants of the room. "And what's this? A punk, an idiot, a pretty boy and a shorty? Potter, even for you this is low."
Hiei looked just about ready to kill the boy. You know what I mean, jagan eye slightly glowing, aura slightly visible around him as the room became increasingly hotter, eyes twin pits of fury, katana partially unsheathed, bandages starting to burn off. That 'almost killing someone'.
"What makes you so superior?" Kuwabara said, for once not being as much of an idiot as usual.
Malfoy scoffed as he replied, "I am a pure blood wizard. Not one bit of my blood is tainted by a filthy muggle."
Yusuke looked puzzled for a second, before whispering to Kurama, "what's a muggle?"
Kurama sighed, then whispered back, "A non magical person. Someone whose reiki is too low to even channel it through a wand."
"Ok, now I'm ticked!" Yusuke all but shouted. "My girlfriend is a muggle! And so is everyone else I know at home!" the words, 'except for the demons' lay unspoken after that.
The boy just smirked. "So you're all mudbloods? How pathetic."
Suddenly, Yusuke and Kuwabara cracked at the same time. Approximately three seconds, one spirit gun and two reiki-enhanced punches later, the boy and his two bodyguards lay on the floor in the hall. Kids were whispering things from other compartments that could just barely be picked up. 'Woah, did you see that?', 'Was that magic?', and 'That was bloody awesome!' were just some of the various comments heard from the compartment the tantai were in.
Yusuke glared at Malfoy. "I despise people who think that they're better then others for something as silly as heritage." He said, hair seeming to flicker white momentarily.
"Look who's talking, Mr. Demon Lord." Kurama said.
Yusuke looked up at Kurama. "I wouldn't be talking, Kitsune." He said. A low growl was heard from the depths of Kurama's throat.
Kuwabara, who was watching the exchange, muttered to Hiei, "Do you think we should break them up?"
Hiei looked at Kuwabara like he was crazy. "Baka. They're not going out." He said, before turning back to the bickering 'couple', who were arguing over who had the stupidest death.
"Get shot by a hunter! How pathetic!"
"Oh, and getting run over by a car to save some kid who would have been better off if you didn't save him isn't?"
"But by a hunter? At least I was noble!"
"Noble? You call that noble? And that other time! Just when we all think you're six feet under, you get possessed by some relative of yours!"
"Oh yeah? Well, I wouldn't be talking... uh, I mean, how tough could one hunter be?"
"It was a bounty hunter. And one of the best."
"Whatever. I can whip your ass any day."
"What does that have to do with dieing?"
"Well, I can." Yusuke said.
Harry looked at the bickering 'couple', following the argument, which went on for about thirty minutes until Hiei finally lost his patience.
"Detective! Shut your blasted mouth before I rip it off your face!" He yelled. Yusuke, startled, glared at Hiei.
"You know, you never do yell at Kurama. And you two do seem to hang out together a lot..." Yusuke said, a smirk working it's way onto his face.
Kurama turned red as Hiei gave Yusuke the patented death glare. "Yusuke! Me and Hiei are straight! And I wouldn't be talking about that type of thing. Remember that time you took a video camera in the girl's locker room and-"Kurama said as Yusuke cut him off.
"Ok, ok! I get your point!" Yusuke said. "Though that was fun. I never realized how developed some of those girls were."
Harry looked at the strange students. This was going to be a long year, that he was sure of.
----------Later----------------------
The hours of uncomfortable silence seemed to drone on and on, until Kurama decided to try to strike a conversation up. "So, has anything tragic happened to anyone recent?" Definitely not the best way to start a conversation, but you know Kurama. Sometimes he thinks a little too out of the box. A good three or four miles in this case.
Harry looked down at the floor. "Well, my godfather died." Yusuke looked on the edge of laughter. In fact, he was laughing so much he was crying... tears of joy. He began rolling around on the floor, half laughing, half happily sobbing from laughing too hard.
Kurama kicked Yusuke. Hard. In a place you don't want anyone to even touch, let alone kick. "Sorry about Yusuke, he's a little off on certain topics, such as death." He said. "Sometimes I think he's scared of the grim reaper."
Yusuke, who had recovered enough to speak, commented on Kurama's speech. "It's scary for the grim reaper to say Bingo!"
"Though sometimes I think he just likes to annoy her."
"Though it is fun to watch her grovel at the toddler's feet. And I did finally find out her measurements." Yusuke said.
"But we're getting off-subject here. How did your godfather die, Harry?" Kurama asked.
Harry looked down at the ground before replying, "He fell through the veil. I'll probably never see him again." Yusuke began laughing again, muttering something about how fun it was to hide the toddler's stamper in Botan's kimono. It was at that time that Kurama decided it would be easier if they just continued the ride in silence.
Finally, the train slowed to a halt, and Kurama, Black, Harry, Hiei, Yusuke and Kuwabara got off.
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...well...yeah... Oh, and I need ideas for who should be the DADA teacher. Genkai's almost always used, so I'm straying away from her. Jin and Touya are plot points later on, so they can't be used, Yukina's a bit too 'weak', Koenma's oldest looks like the students he's teaching, etc... Any suggestions? (And it has to fit all the books being assigned... maybe an old rival or foe or friend or something...) Although, the teacher probably won't be revealed for another two chapters... it builds the suspense(insert cheap dramatic music here)