Yusuke sighed. These Gryphindors were annoying as hell. How many of them were going to ask him how he had touched the ghost? And that Granger girl was particularly annoying. Why didn't she just look in her course books, the answer was right there.

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The Slytherin room was silent for a few seconds, a few seconds where everyone stared at the window that wasn't there last year.

"What just happened?"

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Kurama and Hiei jumped out the window, landing 20 feet below on the ground. Kurama threw off his cloak, revealing a Silver Yoko, and made a dash for the forest, Hiei not far behind him. As soon as the two hit the forest, they stopped. For a few seconds the two stood in silence, before both demons took off at the same time.

Kurama, slightly behind Hiei, silently stopped in front of a plant. In less than a second, the plant had grown to its full size and was depositing seeds into the Yoko's empty hands. Kurama placed them in his hair.

He proceeded to walk at a fairly quick pace around the forest, occasionally reaching out with his energy, collecting more plant seeds and stowing them in his hair. Hiei watched him from the above trees with crimson eyes, before he jumped down and unsheathed his katana. At the same time, Kurama had drawn his rose whip.

A figure stepped out of the shadows, followed by others. "Demons, what do you want here?" the centaur said.

"We wish you no harm." Kurama said, still holding out his rose whip in front of him.

"Who are you?" the centaur who had talked earlier demanded.

"Yoko Kurama and-" Kurama said, cut off by Hiei

"Hiei." Hiei said, his expression staying the same.

"We help Yusuke Urameshi, the former Spirit Detective."

That caused some murmurs in the group. The centaur stepped forward again. "Then you are not welcome here, if you serve a human."

"Do you know not of Yusuke Urameshi's heritage?" Kurama calmly stated.

"And what of it?" The centaur said.

"Of Raizen. Urameshi's current living status is in Raizen's Castle, in fact."

"And when you thought him human, why did you stand by him?"

"We had no choice. It was either that or jail. We were caught after stealing valuable artifacts from Reikai." Kurama stated.

The centaur stared up at the stars for a bit. "The stars have said that we may trust you, but we will not tolerate it if you unleash any dangers upon the forest. For now, though, you have the centaurs as your allies."

With that, the centaurs trotted away.

"You handled that well." Hiei said, before jumping back into the tree.

"I've dealt with centaurs before."

They kept walking, every now and then Kurama adding more seeds to his collection.

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The next morning found Kurama in his dormitory, preparing for school. He waited for Black at the exit to the common room, then made his way downstairs.

He was greeted by whispering, which his hearing picked up some of.

"I heard that Minamino's going out with Yuki!"

"You mean that?"

"Yeah!"

Kurama froze in his tracks, as he heard the rest of his conversation.

"Who'd you hear that from?"

"Urameshi."

Kurama immediately broke into a brisk jog towards the Great Hall, where he found Yusuke avoiding Hiei's punches, and not very well at that.

"Listen guys!" Yusuke said as Hiei punched him in the stomach. "It" punch. "was" punch. "a joke!" punch. punch. punch.

Kurama put his hand on Hiei's shoulder. "Not a very good joke." Kurama said, glaring at Yusuke.

"But I felt both of your energy in the forest last night, so what were you two doing out there?"

"We'll tell you later" Kurama muttered, as a smirk crept onto Yusuke's face.

"Anyway-" Yusuke said, but was cut off when a cloud of owls flew into the room. Immediately he did something both very obvious and very stupid. He fired his spirit gun.

A blast of red spirit energy appeared above Yusuke's blue one and 'absorbed' it. "Bakayarou." Kurama muttered as he sat down at the Ravenclaw table. Immediately, a bird landed on his shoulder.

Another one landed on Hiei's, and one more on Yusuke's. Immediately, the three recognized them. Who could mistake the large green bird for one not of the Makai? Kurama opened his letter, Hiei pocketed his letter, and Yusuke was apparently having a wrestling match with the Makai bird over his letter.

Ignoring Yusuke, Kurama read his letter.

'Kurama-

I was informed by Koenma of your latest mission. However, I request your presence in an important meeting of the three lords. It will be held a week from your human Saturday, at Lady Mokuro's palace. If Hiei or Yusuke's invitation is lost, as much mail usually is when we use Makai carrier birds, inform them of it.

-Yomi'

Kurama sighed before pocketing the letter. He took out a crisp sheet of parchment and a pen from his bag and began writing a reply in brisk, neat handwriting.

'Yomi-

Yusuke and Hiei both have received their letters. I shall attempt to make it there, although means of transportation from England to the Makai will have to be arranged. Please prepare a package of some of the more brutal Makai plant seeds, I have a feeling that we'll need them.

-Kurama'

When he had finished, he realized that the Chinese girl, Cho Chang, was looking over his shoulder.

"Yes, miss?" Kurama said, glancing up at her as he handed the letter to the Makai carrier bird. The bird took off, back to the Makai.

"What was that bird? I've never seen it before." Cho Chang said, batting her eyelashes.

"It was simply a species of magical bird from Japan." Kurama replied without skipping a beat. He then walked up to Yusuke, who had won the wrestling match, but was now getting poked over and over by the sharp beak of the Makai bird.

Kurama grabbed the letter from Yusuke and wrote, 'Received' on it with his quill, then gave it back to the bird. The bird immediately took off, heading back to the Makai.

"I had the situation under control!" Yusuke said, glaring at Kurama, who just raised an eyebrow. "By the way, what were the carrier birds about?"

Kurama pulled his letter out and handed it to Yusuke, who snatched it from him.

"Makai writing?" Yusuke asked, glancing up at Kurama.

"From Lord Yomi." Kurama replied simply.

"Ah." Yusuke said, glancing over the letter before handing it back to Kurama.

"By the way, Yusuke, why is your hair wet?" Kurama asked, glancing up at Yusuke's hair as he pocketed his letter.

Yusuke grumbled a reply. "I wouldn't get up this morning, so the red head decided that it would be a great time to try out one of his brothers' new inventions, 'waterfall in a can'."

Kurama smiled, before returning to the Ravenclaw table.

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There… a little shorter then the other chapters, in fact, almost like a filler chapter… Oh well, thanks for OVER 70 REVIEWS!!!!!!! You guys are too kind… By the way, this might be the last time I update this year, so, Happy Holidays(whether it be nothing, Hanukkah, Quanza, Christmas, or anything else!) and happy new year(even Chinese New Year, which my friend celebrates! You know who you are, E-chan!)!!!!!