"Should we wake him up now?" Yusuke asked, looking at the sleeping Carrot top. They had gotten into the Hufflepuff dorm room with a little help from Kurama, who had apparently decided that it was his responsibility to figure out all the passwords to the school.
Yusuke took a can out of his pocket, courtesy of Harry. Kurama nodded, and Yusuke opened the can. Water gushed out of it and landed on Kuwabara, who immediately sat up in bed.
He glanced around. "What are you guys doing?" he shouted at them.
"It's time to get to class, Kuwabara." Kurama replied.
"Yeah, you wouldn't want Yukina learning that you're skipping class!" Yusuke said, before 'mimicking' Yukina. "Oh Kazuma, how could you skip class?"
Kurama chuckled at Yusuke's feeble attempt at mimicking Yukina, before turning around and walking down the stairs. "I'll see you three later." He called back.
"Wait, where are you going, Kurama?" Yusuke asked.
"Herbology. You two have Potions, and Kuwabara has Divination." Kurama replied as he continued to walk down the stairs.
"Well, he must be feeling lucky. He gets the class on plants first. But I feel sorry for you, Kuwabara. From what I've heard, the Divination teacher is about as sane as Sensui. Without the killing all humans part." Yusuke said. "Although she apparently predicts the death of a student each year."
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"Now class, look at how Shuichi is doing." The Herbology teacher, Professor Sprout, said.
Indeed, Kurama seemed to be having the most success with repotting his demonic rose bushes. The plants here were so washed over by magic that their defenses had weakened from the versions of them that Kurama had found in the Makai. He fed the plant a thin strand of his spirit energy to keep it from moving as the others did, as he repotted his twelfth one.
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"Good morning class." The professor said as she swept out of the dark corner of the room. "I see we have a new member. Me inner eye has seen you, but I am glad to meet you in person."
Kuwabara abruptly snorted. Inner eye? He much preferred sixth sense.
"Perhaps you should show your skill with the crystal ball." The professor, Trelawney, said as she produced a crystal ball and set it down on the table. Kuwabara stared into it, feeling stupid. That is, until the fog cleared within the ball, and a startling scene was revealed. He gasped in surprise. His eyes lay transfixed on the ball for no less them five minutes, before he managed to tear his eyes away.
"Well? What did you see?" A girl who stood next to him asked.
"Uh, nothing! Absolutely nothing at all!" Kuwabara shouted. Half of the class raised an eyebrow, the other half sighed. Only Trelawney believed him.
"That's alright, dear. Not all of us are gifted with the inner eye."
Now, all but two or three students gave exasperated sighs.
The Professor glanced over the class, her eyes stopping on each of them in turn. Finally, she turned around, and began to pace the room.
"I have spent most of the summer looking in my crystal ball, and I am sorry to say that-
A student cut her off. "What? That someone's going to die this year?" Trelawney glanced down at him, before continuing.
"One of you will leave us when the flowers bud." Two girls that sat on cushions at the front of the classroom gasped.
"Who?" he girls asked at the same time.
Trelawney looked around the room, before she pointed her finger dramatically at Kuwabara. The two girls in the front gasped again.
Kuwabara sighed. The one class where he could definitely excel in, the teacher's a crackpot. If anyone was going to die, it would most likely be Yusuke.
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Yusuke was not having the most pleasant experience in his life. The potions master apparently hated him. As soon as they had entered the classroom, he had made a quick speech about how he expected the best out of everyone, then set them to work on making a potion.
Yusuke was having just about as much luck in making his potion as that Nevelle kid. Between the two of them, he was pretty sure they had set a record for 'most potion explosions in one class'.
"Don't add those yet." A voice behind him muttered. He turned around to see Black standing there, inches from his face.
"Don't do that!" Yusuke shouted, and the rest of the class stared at him. Black shrugged and stepped back, just as the potions master came up to Yusuke. Yusuke looked Snape in the eye, glared, then went back to work on his potion.
"Twenty points from Gryphindor." Yusuke just shrugged. He didn't care about points, whatever they were. Snape was apparently expecting something different. He opened his mouth to say something, just as an explosion came from behind Yusuke. About half a second later, all the potions in the room exploded.
Yusuke turned around to find a completely pink Black holding his wand. Looking around, he realized that everyone and everything in the room was pink. He looked down at himself. Pink.
Hiei zipped up to Yusuke, glaring at his now pink hair and clothing. He grabbed Yusuke's wand from Black's hand and handed it back to Yusuke, who was currently yelling at Black.
"-Again! You know that each of our wands are adjusted to our power level because a part of our heritage is within each of them! You don't go using them! They won't work for anyone else! By the way, does this pink stuff come off?"
Black shook his head slowly. Yusuke's eyes bulged. "I'm finding Kurama." He muttered. "One of his plants has got to get this stuff off."
"After what you said this morning?" Hiei stated.
"Well, I'll beg! I can't go around looking like this!" Yusuke replied as he ran off down the corridors.
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Kurama was just finishing with potting his thirtieth rose bush, when Yusuke burst into the green house, obviously mad. He stormed in, and Kurama noticed what color his hair and clothes were and gave a chuckle. Hiei appeared next to Kurama, fuming, his hair and clothes also pink.
"What happened down in potions?" Kurama asked, smiling.
"The detective let Black take his wand." Hiei muttered darkly.
"Didn't you tell Black that our wands only work for ourselves?" Kurama asked.
"Apparently not." Yusuke said. "So, I figured that you could use you 'skills' over all things plant to help me get this stuff off."
Kurama frowned. "After what you did this morning?"
Hiei growled. Kurama glanced at him and sighed. "Fine. I'll make one for both of you."
He walked around the greenhouse, occasionally picking leaves, flowers and other things off plants gently. Producing two empty bottles, he placed the plant parts in them, closed them and shook. Then he handed one to Yusuke and one to Hiei. What Yusuke didn't notice was that his was a few shades lighter than Hiei's.
"Don't you two have to go back to your double potions class?" Kurama stated, already potting his next rose bush.
"Oh yeah! We kinda ran out of it!" Yusuke said, running towards the door. Hiei just zipped out.
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Yusuke ran back into the potions room. Hiei zipped in a second after him.
The potions master walked up to them, scowling. "Fifty points from Gryphindor and a months detention for Mr. Urameshi. For Mr. Yuki, a weeks worth of detention."
Harry stood up instantly. "That's not fair!"
Snape scowled. "Another fifty points from Gryphindor, and a weeks worth of detention for you, Potter. Now please take your seat."
Harry glared at Snape, but sat down. He glanced over at a pink Malfoy, and saw that Malfoy was trying hard not to laugh out loud.
Harry sat down, glaring at Snape. Yusuke was shooting him a questionable glance, but he didn't notice. Hiei did, though.
"A bit headstrong, detective." He muttered just loudly for Yusuke to hear.
Yusuke nodded, then shifted his gaze to Harry's friends. The brainy girl, Hermione, was apparently trying every spell she knew to get the pink stuff off herself. The red head, Ron, was trying to brush the stuff off himself. He wasn't very bright, was he. "Hard to believe that we're here to pro-
Hiei jabbed Yusuke in the ribs, and hissed a warning. "Don't say anything concerning that, especially at a noise level loud enough for everyone to hear."
"Sorry." Yusuke muttered back, sliding back into his seat. He sighed as he looked at the sad remaints of his potion. He glanced over at Hiei, to see that he was just plain ignoring his cauldron. Suddenly Yusuke remembered something. Turning to Black, he 'calmly' asked, "Why the hell aren't you with Kurama?"
The Slytherin sitting next to him visibly flinched.
Black's face lit up and he pulled a note out of one of his pockets. As he handed it to Yusuke, he muttered, "This is from Kurama."
Yusuke took the note and began reading it. "Great, now I have to babysit too? As soon as I get home, the royal toddler brat is going to get a pacifier stuck up his throght!" He shouted, slamming the note down on the table. Snape took that moment to grab the note, but before he could begin to read it, it burst into flames.
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"So Yusuke, how was your Potions class?" Kurama asked.
"Let's see what I can compare it to. I know! Remember the whole me dieing the second time thing?" Yusuke said.
Kurama nodded.
"Well, lets say that I didn't come back to life that time. Or if Puu hadn't saved me. Potions was slightly worse then that."
"I figured as much. What exactly is your punishment?"
"Well, I lost about two hundred points, and got two months worth of detention, not to mention about fifty enemies because everyone thinks it was my fault for the pink explosion! Do you think I want to go around looking like your school uniform? By the way, what did you and Kuwabara have while we had our second Potions period?"
"I had Muggle Studies and Kuwabara had Charms."
"Muggle studies? That crazy class where you have to learn about humans? Why take it?"
"Because it would be fascinating to see what wizards think of 'muggles' compared to what demons think of humans."
They walked into the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom to find most of the students already there.
"So where's Kuwabara now?"
"He has Defense too, but it appears he's late. He's most likely trying to lighten his book bag by only carrying the books that have information that he doesn't know already. Hiei apparently also has Defense, but he's probably drinking the potion I gave him. It's something best done in private. It's odd, really. From what I've heard, the four classes are rarely together for one class. What's exceptionally odd is that the only time that all the classes meet together in this subject is on Monday, like today. The other times they're split up into two class groups. From what I've also heard, many of the other classes have their schedules changed from what they were last year."
Just then Hiei zipped in, hair and clothes black again. Kuwabara ran in soon after, carrying about half of the course books.
The gang sat down in the available seats, which were, unfortunately, scattered around the room. They looked to the front of the room, just as a familiar figure walked out of the door, most likely the new teachers office. The person stepped out of the shadows to reveal…
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Cliffie, I know, but it had to be done… Next chapter soon…