Kenshin Wizardry Chapter….God, I dunno!

LDB: Sorry about the looooong wait! But hey, you guys get a new chapter!! Weeee!!!!

Soujirou: Woah…O.o no Christmas candy for you, kid!

LDB: Okaaayyyyyy. :p Notes will be givin through the fic. TO THE FIIICCC!!!

Kenshin: …That was short. ^_^x;

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   " Okay, and the last part of the tour is…" Ron acted like a game show model showing off the prize in the direction of the portrait of the Fat Lady. " The Common room of the best house in the school!" Hermione groaned while rolling her eyes. " Let's go, drama queen," she muttered while walking past Ron. The other three smiled a bit.

     " Pumpernickel Loaf!" Hermione said the password. Kenshin raised an eyebrow. What a strange password. " Alrighty, dear," the Fat Lady swung open. Everyone stepped into the all-warm and cozy common room of Griffindor. "Ah, nuthin' like home," Ron smiled.

     Hermione turned to Soujiro. " Oh, won't you at least give us a hint on what you're going to teach us?" she pleaded sweetly. Soujiro smiled. " Well, let's just say that I'm combining classes. Less homework that way."

    " Less homework? Yes!" Ron did a little victory jig. Harry sweatdroped. " Ron, could you not do that…" he muttered. Kenshin laughed. They reminded him of the others back home….

     Say, how are they doing anyway?

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         Dear, dear Kenshin. If only you knew of the mayhem you left behind…

    Sano shook his head while treading behind the missy and the squirt. He had a very bad feeling about all this. They should just stay put until Kenshin calls for them! But no, Miss. I-Want-To-Be-Within-fourty-feet-of-Kenshin-or-I'm-Gonna-Go-On-A-PMSing-Rampage won't have it. " Are you sure about this?" Sano asked. " I mean, Kenshin took the letter with him, so we have no lead on where the meeting place is!"

    Kaoru ignored him and kept walking.

  " Hey! Listen ta me when I'm talking!"

   Still walking.

     " Kenshin doesn't want us at the moment! Get it through your thick, blonde skull!!" She turned around and glared at him. " I'm NOT a blonde!"

  " You sure act like a blonde teeny bopper to me!" Sano spat. (N/A: Sorry to all of the already mentioned. I'm one too, so dun hurt me! ^_^;)

  "Sanoskue! Quit being such a Shimmata!" Kaoru stomped her foot down. Yahiko scooted out of firing range of the two, and hid behind a corner of a house.

      Sano snorted. " Well, at least I'm not obsessed over someone who doesn't have any romantic interests in anyone!"

   " I am not! And he does too!"

" Does not."

 " Does too."

" Does not!"

 " Does too!"

 " Hey! I'm his buddy, here, and I KNOW these things!"

 " Well--!" Kaoru thought for a second, " –I've known him longer than you have!!" They both glowered at each other as sparks flew out of their eyes.

    Poor, little Yahiko stayed in his little safety zone with a big sweatdrop on his head. " This search is going to take forever with these two…" He sighed out a mushroom cloud.

       " HEY!!! WE HEARD THAT, YAHIKO!!"

    Yahiko froze. " …Kenshin, where are you? You're getting me in trouble!"

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        Kenshin yawned while stretching out on his bed. He needs to get to sleep soon for the big day! …. Even though he has no idea as to what he's actually going to do. He sweatdroped. Snape never did give him a lesson plan or anything to go by. He's just been trying to teach him magic.

     He sat up as a wrapping sound started up. He looked around, then went to the door. " Hello?" He looked outside. Nothing there. He heard the sound again. " Where is it coming from?" he asked himself as he shut the door. He looked over to his window, and saw a screech owl banging on the window. He went over and opened the window. The owl fluttered in and landed on his bed.

   " Well, hello there," Kenshin greeted. The owl held something in its beak. It dropped it, and fluttered out of the window and into the night. Kenshin blinked. " Hmm, odd…" He looked down at what the owl dropped off. It was a letter.

    He sat down and opened up the letter. " Who sent this?" He checked the envelope, but there was nothing. Shrugging, he started to read the letter.

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       Soujiro hummed to himself lightly as he set up some boxes and cages about the room. The students watched him quietly, whispering to each other once in a while.

   " What is he doing?" Harry asked Ron. The Weasley shrugged. " Gone off his knocker, I reckon." Harry shook his head.

  " Alright kids!" Everyone jumped when Soujiro exclaimed this. He laughed at this. " We're going to combine two of your classes with this one, Herbology and Potions!" Everyone stared in disbelief for a moment, then started cheering and whooping. Mostly because of the potions part. With Soujiro, they're bound to get a good grade on whatever it is that they're doing! " We love you, Soujiro!" Lavender exclaimed.

    Soujiro smiled. " Alright, settle down now! This doesn't mean you won't have those classes…you'll just be doing basically nothing in them though, just reading," he chuckled.

   " Oh, I bet Snape is pissed about this, mate!" Ron chirped. " He sure is, Mr. Weasley," Soujiro said. " But hey, The Headmaster thought it was a splendid idea, so what the big guy says goes." He, Harry and Ron smiled. " Alright! So, back to business. As you can see---or should I say, not see in these cages, are what are called the little people…" Soujiro stopped to giggle to himself. He thought the "little people" name was just so funny. " To see certain types of little people--" he chuckled, " –Like some fairies and Leprechauns, you need to make a certain potion with herbs."

     Neville looked around the room for a moment, then shyly raised his hand. " Yes, Mr. Longbottom?"

  " Well, a few years ago at the Quidditch World Cup, everyone could see the Leprechauns there…So how was that possible?"

 " Ah! An excellent question!" Soujiro, again, smiled. " You see, there are certain wee folk who, like them, wanted to be seen, or were told to make themselves seen. They can make themselves invisible and visible to us anytime they please. Which can be a nuisance if you're trying to catch one. They just love to toy with Muggles and wizards." He then picked up what looked like an empty jar and looked at it carefully. " But, if you make this potion, you can see them no matter what they try to do. Which that annoys them so much, isn't that right, boys?" He looked over to some of the crates. Harry thought he heard some grumbling from them, but wasn't very sure.

     " Alright now, we can't do this in the daytime, unfortunately. So after dinner, everyone is to meet me at the front gates. We're going to take a little field trip, since what we need cannot be found in the green house. So, at seven 'o clock, we leave. Then tomorrow, I'll show you some spells to use when they try to use their tricks."

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    " Oh, come on, Mr. Himura! You'll love this! It'll be so much fun!" Soujiro tried to coax Kenshin into coming along for the field trip. " Well, I'm not sure…" Soujiro closed his eyes and put his left hand under his chin, in deep thought. Kenshin blinked. " Um, Soujiro…?"

     Soujiro then opened his eyes and gave Kenshin the cutest, puppy dog eye look he could muster. (God, that's cute…:p) " Oh, please Mr. Himura!" Kenshin sweatdroped. He hated it when people gave him "the cute look". He then heard girls from the nearby house tables sighing at Soujiro's cute expression. " What other choice does this one have…" Kenshin muttered to himself.  

   " Yes! I won!" Soujiro held up his goblet in victory. " Cuteness of the Soujiro shall prevail!"

 " …I think you've had too much Pumpkin juice for one night, that I do," Kenshin carefully grabbed Soujiro's goblet and sat it down out of his reach. Soujiro laughed.

     Dumbledore, who just so happened to be watching them, smiled. " Those two are going to liven things up around here," he said. Snape snorted. " If you ask me, they're going to be nothing but trouble."

   " Are you still sore about the combining classes thing, Severus?" Snape said nothing and drank from his goblet. The headmaster smiled again, then looked back at the two Japanese men. " Indeed, things are bound to be interesting with those two…and are going to become far more interesting soon…" he tilted his head so that his glasses gleamed.

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  " Hey, guys! I got Mr. Himura to come with us!" Soujiro announced happily. Kenshin looked down while rubbing the back of his head. " Why did I let him talk me into this…?" he mumbled. He, Kenshin and Professor Sprout where there, and were about to take roll before leaving. Professor Sprout took a step forward with her clipboard. " Alright, when I call your name, please say 'here. Harry Potter?"

   " Here!"

   "Neville Longbottom."

  " Here."

   " Her--" Soujiro put a hand on the clipboard. " I know of a much faster way of doing this, Professor. Allow me…" He then turned to the students and cleared his throat. " Anyone who is not here, please speak up now!" Everyone started to giggle; even Kenshin thought it was silly. Sprout rolled her eyes. " Aright, let's get this over with. Come along children!" She led everyone outside. Soujiro had a big smile on his face.

     When they got onto the lawn, they saw an assortment of objects lying on the ground. " Everyone get into groups of five or six, then go to a port key," Sprout instructed. "And don't touch it unless instructed to!"

   Soujiro and Kenshin went to join Harry, Neville, Ron, and Hermione at one that looked like a toothbrush. Kenshin looked at it. " …Oro?" He looked at Soujiro. He shrugged. " Something to transport you with to one place to another, basically. I've never used one before."

   " We have," Ron said.

 " I think it's better than using Floo Powder," Harry said while scratching his head. Kenshin blinked. " Flue Powder?"

    " Alright! Everyone link hands now. One of you will grab onto the Port Key. When I say go, everyone, at the same time, touch your Port Key. Ready?" Everyone got into position to touch it. " Go!" When Kenshin touched his, he felt kind of dizzy, but he held onto it tightly, fearing he might fall into a black hole or something if he did let go.

    " It will be over with soon enough…Shinta! And you will fail…"

   Kenshin shook his head. What was that?

" Himura? Himura!" Kenshin blinked, then saw Soujiro standing in front of him. " Are you okay?" he asked. Kenshin nodded. " Just first time dizziness," he lied. Soujiro smiled. " I can relate. " Okay, people. People!" He looked around at the students to see they weren't paying attention to him. Most of them were talking about the Port Keys. " Ga…Himura, would you like to get their attention?"

   " Oro…sure." Kenshin cleared his throat. " Students!" No one listened, except for the ones that he traveled here with. " STUDENTS!" Still no one was paying attention. " Oro…" He then drew out his sword. "Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu…" he begun while putting both hands on his sword. " DO RYU SAN!!!" He then brought the sword down to the ground, making the ground split in half as it snaked its way to the nearest tree, splitting it in half.

    Everyone started at him with wide eyes. They were silent. Kenshin smiled. " Now, will you all follow me, Professor Sprout, and Soujiro in an orderly fashion?" Everyone nodded, still freaked out about what he did. " Good. This way!"

   Soujiro chuckled. " You have a way with children, don't ya, Mr. Himura?" Professor Sprout gawked at them. " Erm…yes….um…Shall we continue?" she stuttered. They all marched through the small meadow surrounded by dark, looming trees. " Almost there now…" Soujiro said to the others.

     " Oh man! What in the world did Himura do back there?" Ron asked Harry. " I don't know."

 " Maybe it's that style we'll be learning in the club!" Ron raised an eyebrow at Hermione. " What do you mean, 'we'?"

  " I signed us up."

  " You WHAT? Oh bloody hell…"

    " Ah!" There we go!"  They reached a groove with a bunch of Ash and Oak trees. It looked alluring in the light of the full moon. " Professor Sprout, care to explain what we're doing?" Sprout nodded. "Alright everyone!" Everyone hushed. " We are going to a Hawthorn. Can anyone tell me what they are apart of?"

     As you may have guessed, Hermione's hand shot up in the air. " Yes, Miss Granger?"

   " It is apart of a group called the Nine Herbs. Mostly used for Medicinal uses."

  " Fifteen points to Griffindor!" Soujiro smiled.
 " Correct. The other eight are catnip, coltsfoot, comfrey, Garlic, Ginger, Lobelia, Plaintain, Valerain, Vervain, Elder, Oak, and Ash. Hawthorn is a sacred plant of the fairies and is usually grown among ash and oak trees, it grants the ability to see the fairies and other 'little people' on a visit to the groove in the full moon. (A/N: This is from an actual book I read, just to tell ya'll.) The combined classes are to study all none of the Herbs."

   " And now, without further a due…" Soujiro took out a magical pocket watch. " Five…four…three…two…one!"

  Little lights all of a sudden came out of the trees and started to dance around the groove, there were all multi colored. The students started to ooh and awe at the sight. " Those, are the fairies that live here," Soujiro said. " Pretty, aren't they? They're harmless, so you can go up to them. Just be sure not to try to catch them, or squish them." The students then ran into the groove and danced around with the lights.

     Harry seemed to be attracting quite a bit of the blue and green ones. When he tried to move away, they started to follow. " Looks like you got yourself a fan club there!" Ron chuckled. " Ow!" One of the yellow ones pulled on a strand of his red hair. It giggled in a high-pitched voice, then zoomed off. " Little buggas…" he growled while rubbing his head. Everyone who saw that laughed.

   " I guess that your not even popular with the fairy ladies either, Weasley. Ha!" Harry narrowed his eyes. " Great…I didn't know they let you trash come here, too, Malfoy." Harry turned around to see Malfoy, Crabe and Goyle. (The moment you all been waiting for, people!)

    " The new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher is just as bogus as that werewolf we had!" Malfoy sneered.

 " Hey! Shut up, Malfoy!" Ron snapped.

 " Professor Soujiro is doing a much better job than what Professor Snape would be able to do, if he had this job!" Hermione said. Malfoy laughed. " As if, Mudblood!" Ron was starting to shake with anger."  I dare you to say that again, git!" Malfoy smirked. " Mudblood, mudblood, MUDBLOOD!"  Harry and Hermione had to hold Ron back from tackling the Slytherin. Malfoy's two lackeys laughed stupidly. " Well, thanks a lot you two," Malfoy said to Harry and Hermione, " You got him all pinned down for me." He drew out his wand, and pointed it at Ron. " I wanted to try out this new hex that Father showed me this summer…" A lot of the nearby Fairies floated above them, squeaking worriedly to one another, and giggling at their new entertainment.

   " What's going on here?"

     They all turned around to see the Red haired ex-assassin walk up to them. " Nothing," Malfoy said innocently while quickly pulling his wand behind his back. " Weasley here was going to savagely attack me! And I did nothing wrong."

   " WHAT?!" Ron yelled, struggling harder to break free. Kenshin smiled. " Is that so? I don't think they agree with you there, that they don't." Malfoy raised an eyebrow. " They? They who?" Kenshin pointed up at some of the blue and green fairies that took a liking to Harry. Malfoy scuffed. " What did they say? ' Malfoy's being a meanie'?"

   " No, they spelled it out, that they did." The little fairies then got into a formation to spell, " Hehehe." Harry smiled as Malfoy sneered. " Well, what are you going to do about it? You're not even an actual teacher here!"

    " No. Not really…" Kenshin drew out his wand, and started twirling it in his right hand. " But I do have authority on the matter of harassment." He pointed his wand at a nearby rock. " Deletrius!" The rock then disintegrated into a pile of dust. Malfoy and the other two stared in horror. " And from this act, you three get ten points taken off from Slytherin. And if I catch you trying to pick a fight with them again…" He pointed to the pile of dust.

   " Run for it!" He and the other two ran away from Himura. He sighed, then quickly pocketed his wand, as though it was going to cut him if he had it out for a second longer. " Soujiro!!"

   Soujiro popped his head out from behind one of the trees. " Yes?"

 " I thought you said this spell would make them walk away!" Soujiro put his hand to his mouth while a sweatdrop slid down the side of his head. " Oopse, my mistake." Kenshin sighed. " Are you three alright?" Harry nodded while letting go of Ron.    

   " Good thing you didn't do that to Malfoy," Hermione said scoldingly. " It would've been bad on all our records!"

 " I wish he did though," Ron said. " It would make the world a happier, safer, and cleaner place to live in!" Kenshin sweatdroped. " Gomen…I'm glad I decided to see if it would make the rock walk off first, that I am…" he gave the younger swordsman a look.

  " Sorry already! I can't help it if I get my spells mixed up!" He then looked at his pocket watch. " Alright. Time to go everyone! It's time for the Heart of Swords and Wands Club to begin!"

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     Kenshin sighed a mushroom cloud. " How am I going to go about this? I don't know what I'm supposed to do!"

  " Relax, Mr. Himura," Dumbledore said. " All you do is teach them some swordsmanship, and maybe a spell or two. It shouldn't be too hard to keep them occupied for an hour, can it?" Kenshin sighed again. " This is going to be a long, long hour…"

LDB: That's it. What was that letter Kenshin got? And what did Dumbledore mean when things were about to get more interesting?

Kenshin: You know they're going to kill you for doing that…

LDB: ^_^; Don't remind me! *hides* I'll just work on the collaboration days to get the next chapter up! ^^;

Lupin: So that means you're putting it up next weekend then…

Kenshin: I wouldn't count on that, that I wouldn't.

LDB: -.- Oh shush! R&R And if I don't get the next chapter up by the 11th, you all can yell at me in e-mails and tell me to get to work like I told one person to do. ^^;

Soujiro: Don't worry, we'll try to get her working on it!

All: Bye!