Now, I know that everyone's eagerly waiting to find out who the DADA teacher is, but before we do that, I have to add this filler chapter! You'll find out who the DADA teacher is next time… mainly because I can and that chapter's on my dad's computer…
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Shiori looked around the house. It was so much quieter since Shuichi had left for that private school. She pulled the letter she had received from him earlier out of her pocket and glanced at the owl that had brought the letter before reading it again.
'Dear mother,
How are you? Today my friends and I went shopping for school supplies, such as books and our uniforms. We will be heading to school tomorrow on a train. I will write more later, but I must go now because I have to watch my friends.
Sincerely,
Shuichi'
She smiled and stared at the letter when she was done, lost in thoughts. Her train of thought was broken when something crashed into the window. She quickly opened the window and an owl flew inside, dropping a package as it perched on one of the bushes Shuichi had managed to grow inside. Shiori opened the package and pulled out a letter and a newspaper. She ignored the newspaper for a second as she opened the letter and read it.
'Sister,
Here is the daily newspaper. I think you should pay special attention to the article on page four, it might spark your interest.
Sincerely,
Taree'
Shiori then glanced at the newspaper. At the top, in neat Kanji, it read 'The Daily Prophet'. Shiori ignored that and turned to page four.
'Hogwarts Hosts Exchange Students
By Rita Skeeter
For the first time since the time of the founders, Hogwarts will be hosting exchange students. Four students who, apparently, have never had formal magical schooling before, will be joining the sixth years at Hogwarts. The students were all sorted into different houses; Hiei Yuki into Slytherin, Kazuma Kuwabara into Hufflepuff, Yusuke Urameshi into Gryphindor and Shuichi Minamino into Ravenclaw.'
Shiori stopped reading she stared at Shuichi's name for a few seconds, before giving a giggle. Leave it to her sister, the witch in the family, to pick out the important parts of an article. She put the paper down to read later and took out a pen and paper. If she was going to visit her sister and son, arrangements would have to be made.
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There! Finished chapter! Have fun figuring out who the DADA teacher is… oh, who am I kidding? Here's the rest of the DADA part!!!
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"Shizuru? What are you doing here?" Yusuke exclaimed. Shizuru just shrugged, pulled out a cigarette and lit it. Leaning casually against the desk, she blew a few smoke rings before replying.
"Well, the Royal Toddler of Hell decided that I should come here, so I'm teaching." She shrugged. "I didn't know that my baby bro would be here."
Kuwabara blushed as Yusuke chuckled. "Our year just got a hell of a lot more interesting."
Hiei scowled, but didn't say anything.
"It appears that Hiei approves." Kurama says with a chuckle. "And if you really didn't know that we were going to be here, then that would explain the books."
"Wait. Let's back up here." Hermione said. "You're saying that you're his older sister?" Shizuru nodded casually. "And that neither of you knew the other was coming here?" nod. "Do your parents know that you're here?"
Shizuru and Kuwabara glanced at each other. "That's private" Kuwabara muttered. An uncomfortable silence lingered.
"Anyway kid, trust me, we have our family situation under control." Shizuru said. "Now, let's talk about school. We're going to start by studying about Yoko Kurama-
At this, Yusuke burst into hysterical laughter. Shizuru glared at him, before continuing,
"I changed my mind." She said, pulling a book out of her desk. "Instead of starting with Yoko Kurama, we're going to start with the Mazuku. I don't think anyone has this book, though. I'll order it for you."
Yusuke's laughter immediately stopped. "That's not fair!" he shouted. "Why start with Raizen and m-
Kurama cut him off. "What Yusuke is getting at is that I think we should start with simpler lessons, such as the three worlds, then work our way up to demons, the Mazuku, the Dark Tournament, Sensui, Spirit Detectives, Spirit Energy- did I miss anything?"
"Yeah, you did. You forgot King Enma, the idiot who tried to kill his own Spirit Detective, his royal pain-in-the-ass kid, Koenma, Gouki, Mukuro, Yomi, me-
"That's enough, Yusuke." Kurama said warningly.
Shizuru shrugged. "Fine. Who can tell me about demons?"
"Excuse me." Hermione said. "Why are we studying mythological creatures? Shouldn't we study something based on fact and not legend?"
"So kid, you're saying that you don't believe in demons? Well, that's going to be a problem then, Who else in this class doesn't believe in demons?"
Everyone except Kurama, Hiei, Yusuke, Kuwabara and a few Slytherins raised their hands. Yusuke looked around before standing up.
"I'm leaving." He announced as he began to walk towards the door.
"Why?" Shizuru asked, leaning casually against the desk.
"Because this seemed like it was going to be a great class until I figured out that nobody in the whole damn class-" at this point, Yusuke switched to Japanese. "Believes in me, or any other demons for that matter! Now we have to start with the stupid basics before we get anywhere close to actually fighting or learning about stuff I don't know about demons and the Makai!"
Kuwabara stood up "You aren't walking out on my sister's class!" he shouted.
"Watch me." Yusuke replied, still walking towards the door. Unfortunatley for him, Kuwabara had token his seat in the back, so he was much closer to the door then Yusuke. So when Yusuke reached the door, Kuwabara was already standing in front of it, blocking the exit.
"Out of the way!" Yusuke shouted. Kuwabara shook his head and opened his mouth to speak, but was cut short when Yusuke punched the wall inches from Kuwabara's face. The wall cracked.
"Next time I won't miss." Yusuke hissed as he pulled his hand back from the cracked wall. What Yusuke did next made Kurama's hand go immediately go towards his hair.
"Kurama! Tomeru!" Shizuru shouted as Yusuke, now glowing blue, began to rapidly punch Kuwabara. Kurama immediately jumped up from his seat, scattered a few smoke bombs around the room, rushed towards Yusuke and pulled a seed out of his hair, all within a few seconds of Shizuru's half-sentence order.
As smoke filled the room, Kurama threw the seed at Yusuke's feet, and it immediately sprouted. Long vines grew and, wrapping themselves around Yusuke and Kuwabara, pulled them apart.
Kurama grabbed Yusuke as the vines released him and shrunk back into a seed. "shizuka ni naru." He muttered, keeping a firm grip on the hanyou
The smoke cleared eventually, to reveal Shizuru talking into what appeared to be a compact mirror. She was talking rapidly in Japanese, so only the tantai could understand her. "yes, Yusuke's here. I-
She was cut off by a loud screetching on the other end. Yusuke groaned as he rrecognized the voice, the blue glow around him fading almost instantly. "Oh crap." He muttered, grabbing the communicator from Shizuru after somehow freeing himself from Kurama's grasp. "Hey Keiko."
"Yusuke Urameshi! How dare you run off without telling me! You-
Yusuke shut the top of the communicator, and immediately the shouting stopped. He sighed and handed it back to Shizuru, before looking around the room at the gaping students.
"Well, I'll take Kuwabara to the nurse, you teach them about demons." Yusuke said, picking up the uncontious Kuwabara and slinging him over his shoulder as he began to walk towards the door.
"Kurama, go with him." Shizuru said. "And I want you to bring him back."
Kurama nodded and followed Yusuke as he reached the doorway, Hiei materialized next to him.
Shizuru ignored them as she continued to 'teach'. "So, what do you guys know about demons, besides the fact that most of you don't think they exist."
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Meh… I fixed the cliffie!!!(not that it was broken…) - will continue soon… right after I figure out why my internet died… Who can imagine Shizuru teaching? I can hardly myself... It's gonna be a really interesting year... By the way, you'll learn a little more about Shiori's sister next chapter, she doesn't have a big important role in the story or anything, but I needed some way for Shiori to get to England...