K well this chapter starts out with Harry, Ron, and Hermione as they serve their detention.
"Blah" = English [Blah] = Telepathically {Blah} = Japanese /Blah/ = Thoughts to self
Chapter 16:
Harry and Ron followed Hermione as she complained about the detention she had gotten. They just ignored her following her as they made their way to Filch's ((SP?)) office.
The followed Filch to Hagrid's hut. He was also complaining how walking through the forest was not punishment.
Why was everyone complaining was the thought on Harry and Ron mind as they walked to Hagrid's. They were so happy when Filch finally left and left them with Hagrid.
"Hello you three, in trouble again are we. Well come along we better get this over with." They followed Hagrid into the forest they had walked around for several minutes in silence.
"Hagrid what are we looking for here?" Harry asked hoping they weren't looking for dead unicorns again.
"Nothing really but we can't stay at my house otherwise Filch would complain that I am not having you serve your detention. So we are just going to stroll around the forest." Hagrid said
"Great well I hope we don't run into anything on our little "stroll"." Ron said.
"Ron would you rather be with Snape I am sure we can go drop you off for detention there." Hermione said. Ron paled and kept quiet.
They hadn't seen anything and their time was almost done. They started to head back when a small rabbit bolted out of the bushes. Hagrid quickly pulled back the bushes and smiled.
Well 'ello there." Hagrid said. Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked from behind him.
A fox was crouched behind the bushes growling and hissing. Its tail was jerking back and forth. Its five tails Hermione noticed with a start. She also noticed that its' coat was silver and had gold eyes.
"It all right go on home now I won't hurt ya." Hagrid said. The fox backed up slowly, the plants around it seem to be moving as if trying to protect the fox. Quickly it turn and fled in the other direction deeper into the forest.
"Hagrid was it me or did that fox have five tails." Hermione asked as they continued their way back.
"I don't know Hermione I wasn't paying attention." Hagrid said. Hermione didn't say a word the rest of the trip back she was deep in thought. She had research to do tomorrow.
When they finally got out of the forest they bid Hagrid farewell and headed to the Gryffindor tower and went strait to bed. The fox still on Hermione's mind as she fell asleep.
The next morning Hermione wasn't at breakfast.
"Where is she?" Ron said. In a way he was glad she wasn't there to bug him but he did wonder since both he and Harry needed help in one of their classes.
"Mornin' Harry, Ron." Yusuke said.
"Good morning Yusuke." Harry replied.
"Who are you looking for Ron?" Kurama asked. He was tired from the night before and he was a bit grumpy when they woke him up. 'Thank goodness today is Saturday.' He thought to himself. He planned to go back to bed later.
"Oh it is just Hermione she hasn't showed up for breakfast yet." Harry said. He stifled a yawn. He was tired too from detention.
"Detention was hard was it?" Yusuke asked laughing as Ron started to yawn too. They both nodded their heads. "Well we are going to go we have a few homework papers to do so might as well get them done." Yusuke said the others got up and went with them leaving Harry and Ron. (well that was the world's shortest breakfast lol.)
After a bit Harry and Ron got up and wandered the halls. Hermione still hadn't showed up but they found her soon enough. Well actually she found them.
"Harry, Ron come with me I want to show you something." Hermione said.
"Hermione you didn't come to breakfast and now your demanding us to come with you. Where are we going anyway?" Ron asked as Hermione dragged them both down the hall.
"We are going to library now come on."
Harry and Ron groaned, not the library. That was the thing they hated after potions. Hermione dragged them to the table that had several books on it.
"You know that fox we saw last night." Harry and Ron rolled their eyes. "Well I thought it was strange that it had silver fur."
"It could have been old."
"Gold eyes."
"Many animals have gold eyes."
"And five tails."
"Hermione we are in the wizarding world you know, many animals have many tails or eyes or other strange things." Ron said
"Well read this."
Harry and Ron read what was in the book that Hermione held open. Their eyes widen a bit as they finished.
"I think we should go to Yusuke and the others about this."
Yusuke and the others were quietly talking in Japanese to each other when Harry, Ron, and Hermione walked in.
"What can you tell me about kitsunes?" Hermione asked. The five looked at each other mostly looking at Kurama. He sighed and answered.
"Well what do you know already?" he asked.
"Well I know that they are Japanese spirit foxes that come in many color. Depending on the color depends on their rank. Silvers being the servants of the god Inari ((Sp!?!))." She said. She continued to tell them what she knew which was quite a lot.
After a pause Kurama thought a bit to himself. "And what, may I ask, got you interested in the kitsune?" Though he had already figured it out to himself. He mentally yelled at Youko for being so careless, who just snorted back at him.
"Last night before we left the forest where we were serving our detention, Hagrid found a fox. It was silver with gold eyes and five tails." Hermione said.
[Fox] Hiei thought
[Shut up Hiei] Kurama growled back.
"You mean you actually think you saw one." Yusuke, Hiei, Touya, and Kurama looked surprised when it was Jin who spoke. He was laughing. "Only farmers actually believe in them."
"But I thought everyone in Japan did?" Hermione said confused.
"Well not everyone in Japan are farmers so those who aren't have no reason to believe in them. We don't grow rice." Jin said with a huge grin on his face. He knew Kurama was probably going to rip him to shreds.
Hermione seemed to accept the answer and left dragging Harry and Ron with her.
When they were gone they all turned on Kurama who turned on Jin.
{You let them see you?} they all seem to yell. Kurama just growled.
{It wasn't my fault. I was chasing a rabbit and they pulled the bushes back to fast for me to react. I didn't know they saw my tails.} Kurama's voice went deeper and they all knew it was Youko talking.
{Well what do we do know?} Touya asked
{We can't goof up again that is for sure or someone might find out. We have to watch Hermione I think she suspects something.} They all just sat in silence each with their own thought. Kurama planning on ways to kill Jin. (poor Jin but it had to be done him lying to them not Kurama killing him.)
As soon as they left the common room Hermione dragged Harry and Ron to Dumbledore's office. She wanted to see what he thought of it. She wasn't sure but she knew that Yusuke and them were hiding something. She was going to try to figure it out.
Uh-oh now they have Hermione on their case, things aren't looking to good for them is it oh well. K well to let you guys know I fixed most the spelling issues and changed around some of the things in the other 15 chapters. I know for sure chapter 3 I added more to Hiei and Kurama's conversation. You guys might want to read the other chapters again but you don't have too. Ok well to answer some ppls question yes I speak some elvish though not a lot just the stuff from the movies and a couple other things. Yes I am going to do a LOTR story it is the sequel to this one. Well it isn't technically a sequel but it is in this series of stories. There is going to be 3 or 4 stories. Well hoped you enjoyed thanks for all the reviews they mean a lot.