"Honestly, I don't know how we're going to get through the school year." Kurama said. "If you're going to attack your best friend, we might as well give up on trying to stop some rogue demon."
"I was angry!" Yusuke replied.
"I've heard this before." Kurama muttered, turning the corner and almost running straight into Snape, who was still a sickly shade of hot pink. Of course, Yusuke was too, but that was beside the point.
"What would you four be doing out of class?" The professor asked, somehow managing to smile and grit his teeth at the same time he was talking, creating an odd expression on his face.
"What the hell does it look like? Carrying my friend to whatever hospital you have around here!" Yusuke shouted, glaring at Snape. His glare turned to an immediate look of surprise as he reached his free hand out to touch the professor's shoulder. Snape, of course, drew back. Yusuke's trance-like state ended and he turned to Kurama and Hiei.
Kurama nodded. "Human energy. But with demon mixed in." he muttered.
"So, whoever's behind that energy is part demon?" Yusuke muttered back.
"Baka." Hiei muttered. " A human being controlled by a demon. Truly pathetic."
Kurama glanced at Hiei, a neutral look on his face. "Do you have anything else to say, Hiei?"
Hiei glanced at Kurama, then turned to Snape. "You should be on your way. I'm sure your master would be angry if you were late." He spat.
Snape just scowled at them and, turning around, walked briskly away, his cloak fluttering dramatically behind him. Hiei scoffed at the display.
"Another jagan." He muttered when Snape had turned the corner.
"What?" Yusuke said, confused. Kurama just nodded.
"It would seem so, especially if he's controlling Voldemort. But you seemed to know about this before, Hiei. Care to explain?"
Hiei glanced at Kurama again, before replying. "Hn. Don't go down into the dungeons." Kurama raised an eyebrow, but said nothing.
"Guys? I Just realized something." Yusuke said, counting on his fingers, Kuwabara still slung over his shoulder. "I think I know or knew more demons then humans." While he was counting, he didn't notice Kuwabara slipping off his shoulder. At least not until Kuwabara fell off completely and, with a loud bang, his head hit the floor hard. Yusuke turned around and muttered, "Oops."
Kurama sighed and picked up Kuwabara, then continued walking.
"Hey, where's Black?" Yusuke asked.
"I thought he was with you. I did place him in your possession." Kurama said, turning around to search for the supposedly dead trickster.
"Well, I didn't tell you to give him to me, so it's your fault!" Yusuke replied.
Kurama sighed. "We're talking about him like he's a dog." He muttered.
"But isn't he part dog?" Yusuke asked.
Kurama sighed again and replied, "No. He's an animagus, so he can turn into a dog. That's common information in the wizarding world now."
Yusuke shook his head. "I'll never get these people. Someone dies, and they think they have the right to tell the whole world that person's secrets."
Kurama smiled. "At least we don't have people like that in Japan, or you'd be out of a job."
Yusuke glanced at him, before casually putting his hands behind his head and walking in the opposite direction the Kurama and Hiei were walking in. "I'm going to find Black." He said. Hiei zipped up to him, but Yusuke payed no notice, sure that Hiei wouldn't stop him. If anyone would, it would be Kurama.
Kurama sighed. That Yusuke was just so headstrong sometimes. There's a demon running around the castle? So what, I can take him. You might be killed. I know I can, it's happened before, no big deal. Yusuke was such a strange individual sometimes. And sometimes he was just a stupid and lucky soul.
So the group went their separate ways, Kurama to the hospital wing, and Yusuke, along with Hiei, to find Black.
Kurama, although he did not show it, was getting worried. He had last seen Yusuke and Hiei eight hours ago, and Black even longer. He sat in the Ravenclaw common room, working on his homework.
Just then, a second year came running through the entrance, screaming. Not a good sign. He immediately stood up as the girl's friends ran up to her to find out what was wrong.
"S-sirius B-black! I-in the h-hall!" If the girl didn't have Kurama's attention, she did now. Before the Ravenclaws could even start to make assumptions, Kurama was running through the halls of Hogwarts.
He stopped as he heard the sound of footsteps and silently pulled a rose out of his hair. He silently stepped up to the corner and peeked around it, before breathing a quiet sigh of relief. He walked around the corner, startling the assumed-dead prankster.
"Kurama! I-" Black stared, but Kurama covered his mouth and placed his hand over his lips, signaling Black to be quiet.
In a whisper, Kurama replied. "Everyone can see you."
"But- isn't Hiei's jagan covering me?"
"Yes, it should be. Hiei wouldn't risk going back to Reikai prison. Something's happened. I want you to find Kuwabara and tell him to be on the look out for strange things. Then I want you to go straight to my dorm." Kurama whispered, doffing his cloak and handing it to Black. Then he took a vial out of his pocket and handed it to Black "Wear the cloak. And drink this, it's an invisibility potion."
With that, Kurama turned from Black and continued down the halls of Hogwarts, running slightly above what was normal for a human.
Black stared at the retreating Kitsune's back for a second before downing the invisibility potion and heading towards the Hufflepuff dorms.
Kurama ran through the castle, trying to locate the energy signature of his comrades, to no avail. He passed a window and caught a glance of the darkening sky.
Continuing to run, he was startled as his foot caught on something, almost causing him to fall. As he regained his balance, he whipped out a glowing seed from his hair and looked upon the ground, where he saw a small figure.
He bent down and identified the figure as everyone's favorite fire demon. He placed the seed on the floor and in seconds the seed had become a radiant plant, filling the hallway with a dim light.
A small gasp escaped Kurama's body as he eyed the small puddle of blood the dripped off of Hiei's head.
With a small sigh, he reversed his direction and sped down the hallway he had just come through.
He reached a picture of a fat lady. Might as well ask Yusuke's classmates, see if he could get any leads. Muttering the password, he rushed into the common room as soon as the portrait opened, although the fat lady didn't look very happy about the Ravenclaw's knowledge of the password.
Some Gryphindors turned their heads as Kurama practically screeched to a hault. Without even stopping to catch his breath, not that he needed to, Kurama voiced his question.
"Has anyone seen Yusuke?"
The girls, most of which were swooning, managed to snap out of their trance for long enough to give a few quick shakes of the head. The boys had a more visible response, as some muttered their replies.
Kurama sighed. So Yusuke hadn't been seen since this morning. He turned to check the upstairs, when he heard a familiar voice. He turned toward the hidden exit and the portrait swung open, to reveal a still shouting Kuwabara. Kurama grabbed him by the wrist and pulled him through the common room, towards the sixth year boys' dormitories.
He flung open the door and was slightly surprised to see a figure, Potter, looking through a photo album. Harry quickly closed his album and slid it under his pillow. There was a brief moment of silence, before Harry spoke.
"What are you doing here?"
Kurama, ignoring Harry's question, voiced his own. "Have you seen Yusuke?" Before the reply was even given, he was searching through Yusuke's possessions.
"No, why?"
Kurama once again ignored Harry's question and turned to Kuwabara. "And by the way, where's Black? I can't sense him in my dorm."
Kuwabara shrugged. "He said he had to make sure someone was safe." Kurama glanced at Harry.
"So he'll be nearby," Turning to Harry, Kurama said, "We must go, but if you find Yusuke, please tell him to contact me somehow."
Suddenly, Kurama and Kuwabara tensed up. Kurama grabbed Harry's hand and flung him toward the door, which Harry crashed through, just as the wall right next to where he was sitting seconds before exploded in a flash of blue light.
Kuwabara gave a shout, his hand extended, ready to summon his spirit sword. Kurama's hand moved towards his hair, and he pulled a single rose out of it.
Kurama quickly analized the situation. As far as he could tell, this was not good. Especially now, as the smoke cleared, he caught sight of a figure, his long black hair blowing in the wind, his eyes glinting in the moonlight. Red eyes. Possessed eyes.
The eyes met Kurama's, and narrowed in fury.
They had found Yusuke.
Meh… sorry about the wait… I would have updated sooner(this chapter's been sitting around, done, for a few weeks), but the chapter just feels like it's missing something…(it still does) But the good news is that I just got out of school! So I have more time to type. The bad news is that I just ended with a cliffie… well, the bad new is mainly the fact that my friend and I are trying to start a band, so I'll be putting a lot of my effort over the summer to organize the band, write lyrics(which we're both already doing), maybe find some more people to join the band, brush up on my piano and guitar skills, and learn how to play the drums. Plus, I'll be heading to overnight camp on the 27th for two weeks. So I'll try to update before then.
Thanks for the oodles of reviews, guys! Oh, and after I finish a few more chapters, I'll probably work no my other stories a bit more… Also, feel free to leave some ideas for what could happen and such. I have a bunch of ideas, but I'm always open to suggestions!(Yeah, I'm partially making this up as I go along, to get to certain ideas that I want to put into the story)
Well, I better start working on the next chapter before anyone hurts me for not updating soon enough… -runs off-