Forever Darkness, Forever Lonely
I don't have a lot to say for this one. I guess the only reason I wrote this was because it seems to be quite popular, these kinds of fics, so I'm trying it out myself.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or Harry Potter.
Warnings: OOC, Violence, mild swearing, a wrong info
"That, Shuichi guy was cute," Hermione muttered, but Ron and Harry heard it all the same.
"A guy!" Harry and Ron shouted in unison, "That couldn't be a guy!"
"Well he is!" Hermione objected, "Didn't you hear his voice?"
Harry just gave her a shrug as Ron looked at her dumbly. Hermione sighed at their stupidity and just gave up all together as they headed back to Mrs. Weasley.
Chapter Three: Sorting
"Hn, I don't like those people and why are they so upset over a damn broomstick?" Hiei grumbled.
Kurama seemed thoughtful for a moment, "Well I think they use broomsticks to fly and play a game named Quidditch."
"Quidditch? Such a stupid name," Hiei muttered.
Kurama sighed when he heard this, but didn't say anything about it. They silently walked the rest of their way back to the Leaky Cauldron. They booked a room and stayed there for the rest of the day.
Kurama was currently reading a book about plants on his bed, while Hiei just stared aimlessly out the window, his mind wandering to his sister, Yukina. Soon the sun has set and it was night. Kurama offered Hiei the bed for the rest of the night, but the fire demon refused, saying he liked the windowsill much better. Kurama frowned, but then shrugged and went to the bathroom to change into his pajamas.
"Hiei, are you asleep?" Kurama said from within the covers.
"I was about to when you suddenly spoke to me," Hiei grunted.
"Sorry, but I'm just a bit nervous about this school. I don't know what's got me feeling this way, but something tells me that it wouldn't be a regular day at school with magic," Kurama said.
"Hn, you aren't the only one," Hiei said.
"I hope we're just wrong about it," Kurama said, slowly falling into asleep. When Hiei turned around to say something, he found Kurama already asleep. The fire demon sighed and turned back to staring out the window. 'Kurama is right. This feeling, it doesn't feel natural. Something big is going to happen and I don't like it, at all,' Hiei thought, 'I'll think about all this tomorrow, I need sleep to keep my strength up tomorrow.' Hiei soon fell into a restless sleep, his mind still thinking about the feeling. Slowly, he began to have the worst nightmare he's ever had.
Hiei found himself in a very dark room, there were no doors, no windows, and the ceiling seemed so far away. He began to pound on the walls, trying to break it into bits, but it did nothing. "What the Hell is going on!" he shouted. His voice echoed in the bare room. Suddenly, he heard and sensed something, or someone, behind him. He immediately turned around, only to find a sight so horrifying, he nearly fainted. "Yu- yukina?" he called out. There in front of him was a young girl with aqua hair, her red eyes were opened, but they held nothing in them. Her face was chalk white and held an expression of shock. The kimono she was wearing was stained with a crimson liquid that Hiei never thought he'd hate to see. "Yukina?" Hiei's eyes were wide and held an emotion that was never shown in his eyes,. Fear.
Hiei ran to Yukina's small fragile body and carefully lifted her head to his chest, crying black gems on to the young maiden's silky hair.
"Hiei," a distant voice called out to him. Even thought it sounded far away, Hiei could clearly tell who it was.
"Kurama? Where are you?" Hiei's voice cracked.
"Hiei, help, please," Kurama's voice sounded desperate and in pain.
"Where are-" Hiei stopped in the middle of his sentence when the seen changed and Yukina's body was no longer there. He looked around and saw a room with whips, daggers, ropes, chains, and so much more, that can frighten the bravest of the brave, lining the walls of the dim room. "Kurama, where are you?"
"Help, Hiei, I'm right-" Kurama couldn't finish his sentence when a loud and sickening smacking sound filled the room. Kurama's scream followed it.
"Kurama!" Hiei began to run to where he heard Kurama's voice. Hiei stopped when he found Kurama's delicate form nailed to a cross. The sight brought a bitter taste to his mouth as he bend over and began to spill out his meals he's had for the day. He took a deep breath and began to calm himself before looking back to Kurama who was giving him a pleading look. Hiei, now, saw clearly that Kurama was literally nailed to the cross. The fox's wrists were pierced down onto the cross with two long nails, so were his ankles. Blood poured from the wounds, it dripped on the marble floor and created a puddle. His neck was bounded to the cross by a strap of leather that was tied around the cross and his neck. Half of Kurama's face was covered in blood, his hair was matted with dry and fresh of that same red substance. Hiei felt another urge to puke, but he held it in.
The fire demon looked around, trying to find who was doing this to his best friend, but found no one there. Suddenly something hard hit him on the head with such force, he fell on to the ground, his world started to blur and soon, he was out cold.
Hiei's eyes suddenly snapped open as the sunlight shone on to his eyes. He closed them, trying to relax by taking a few shuddered breaths. Hiei opened his eyes again and found Kurama reading on the same place he was yesterday night. He breathed a sigh of relief, which caught Kurama's attention.
"Something wrong?" Kurama asked with his pleasant smile.
"Nothing," Hiei muttered.
"I can smell you're lying," Kurama said, putting his book down and tapping his nose with a smile.
"Hn, it's nothing you should get your pretty head worry about," Hiei grumbled.
Kurama shrugged slight, "Alright then, but if you want to talk about it, I'm always here to hear it."
"Hn."
And so, the two demons made their way out and towards to King's Cross.
The place was crowded with all kinds of people, short, tall, Asian, English, Spanish, you name it, and they're there. Hiei was starting to mutter about a fox dragging him to a human infested place. Kurama only shook his head when he asked to leave. The two demons soon started searching for the platform nine and three quarters, but like any other people who are new to the wizarding world, they only came to the conclusion between the platforms nine and ten. Hiei decided to start kicking on it after a while of inspection.
"Excuse me, but are you looking for platform nine and three quarters, dear?" a woman with hair similar to Ron's asked with a kind smile when Kurama began to knock on a variety of different bricks on a wall.
"Yes, ma'am, do you think you can show us where it is?" Kurama politely smiled at her, making the woman blush slightly.
"Well, you just need to run through that barrier over there," the woman said, pointing at the only solid thing that they didn't inspect or knock on, besides the people wandering of course.
Hiei gave Kurama a look of disbelief as the fox just shrugged and began to run to the barrier at his full human speed. When he disappeared through the barrier, Hiei continued to look at the barrier before running through it himself. When he appeared through the other side, he saw Kurama waiting patiently for him, smiling when he noticed his fiery friend had decided to go through it as well.
"Come on, the train is about to leave," Kurama said before turning around and went toward the train with his trunk in tow. Hiei just followed silently behind Kurama, glaring at everyone that even tried to stare at his fox friend in a lustful way.
After they put their trunks away, they went to search for a compartment to stay in for the time being. They found none that had room or with people that are actually willing to share it with. Finally, they opened a compartment door with only Harry, Hermione, and Ron in it.
The three well experienced wizards and witch looked up to find Kurama asking if they could share the compartment with them. Their answer was quite obvious, they let them join them in Kurama sat down on the empty seat beside Hermione while Hiei sat beside Kurama, near the window.
"So how are the three of you?" Kurama asked.
Ron and Harry shrugged as Hermione gave them a look that clearly told them to not do anything stupid. "Well, we've been doing fine. It's nice to meet you again Shuuichi! How are you?"
"Likewise," Kurama smiled at Hermione. As he was doing so, he didn't notice Hiei started glaring at the muggle born witch. He didn't stop glaring till it was time to change into their school robes. Hermione had left a while ago to go to the girl's washroom to change, while the boys just stayed in the compartment.
Kurama had to bribe Hiei ice cream to get the fire demon to wear his robe. When they all changed and Hermione came back, they waited silently, once in a while chatting about random things, until the train stopped and they all went off to the carriages.
"What are those?" Kurama asked, pointing to the creatures that were waiting impatiently to move.
"You can see them!" Harry was surprised.
"Well, yes. They are quite," Kurama paused to figure out a word to describe it, "Large and they stand out quite a bit."
"Well, they're threstrals," Harry explained, "But, you can only see them if you've seen someone die. Not to be rude or anything, but who have you seen dead? I mean, you don't have to answer that if you don't want to."
Kurama shook his head, "No, it's alright. I've seen my," Kurama paused for a moment, "My best friend die."
Harry frowned, "Oh, I see. I've seen one of my school mate die." Harry looked down at the ground. Then, a question popped up in his head, "But I thought Hiei was your best friend."
Kurama smiled sadly at the boy- who- lived, "He is. A person can't have enough best friends in a life time." 'Or two life times for me,' Kurama thought.
"Oh." And with that said, the five of them went on to an empty carriage. The ride was quiet and uneventful. When they got off, they heard Hagrid, or in the two demon's point of view, a giant, calling for first years to go over to where he was. The five of them ignored them and went into the castle.
"Wait a minute, I don't think I've seen you here before," Hermione suddenly said.
Kurama blinked, "No, I don't think you have. This is our first time here."
"That's odd. You don't look like first years," Hermione said.
"Well, we were informed to start as sixth years," Kurama explained.
Hermione nodded mindfully. Harry and Ron looked at each other, grinning at their friend's behavior. The Gold Trio sat down in the Gryffindor table, while Kurama and Hiei went up to Professor MsGonagall. She told them to wait for the first years to finish getting sorted. Before they could ask what she meant by 'sorted', she brought out an old hat and sat it on a chair.
"Welcome to another year of Hogwarts," Dumbledore said, rising from his seat, "I hope you've all had a wonderful summer. Now, please let the Sorting Ceremony begin!"
Surprising the demons, the hat began to sing. An odd song it was.
When time was still at its early ages,
Four sorcerers found Hogwarts
Through books of many pages,
They taught with no heavy hearts
Four houses there were,
Unique and wondrous
Representing the students in there
Cowardice and courageous
Gryffindors were for the brave,
Daring and strong
Slytherins were the ones who crave,
Powerful and never admits they're wrong
Ravenclaw were for the ones who are clever,
Hardworking and brilliant
Hufflepuff were all the other's sever,
Loyal, but not always resilient
Together they thrive,
Through the darkest of time
The chosen five,
Shall ring the sacred chime
From there the demons will complete,
The prophecy of time
Wizards and demons shall compete,
For the power that can cause the biggest crime
Light will shine through
Only if they finish first,
What the darkness want to do
Resist the blood thirst
"Hn, that song was odd," Hiei muttered to Kurama.
Kurama seemed thoughtful thought, "It seems like a warning to me. A dark time, a prophecy, working together." Kurama sighed, "Perhaps it's saving the world all over again."
"Hn."
After McGonagall were finished with the list of first years, Dumbledore began to warn them about the rules, the Forbidden Forest, curfews, and a whole lot that Kurama and Hiei missed. When he finally finished, he called the two demons over.
"Now, please welcome Shuuichi Minamino and Hiei Jaganshi to Hogwarts," when Dumbledore finished, catcalls and wolf calls filled the room. The headmaster had an amused twinkle in his eyes as he noticed that most of his students think Shuuichi is a girl. "Now, let's see. How about you, Shuuichi, go first?"
Kurama nodded and sat on the stool that was quite small and put on the Sorting Hat.
"You know, I can't sort you if you don't let me see what's in your head," the hat said.
Kurama frowned, "Can't you just put me where Harry is? Besides, I don't feel very comfortable with someone, or something, knowing about my secrets or my inner thoughts."
"No, I'll have to at least see a part of your mind," it said. Kurama let his mental barrier drop a bit. "Hmm... you're very caring about your family and your friends. You are willing to risk your life for them. You're a very intelligent one, but sometimes your dark past gets in the way. Whatever it was. Now let's see. You'll be good in Gryffindor, Slytherin, or Ravenclaw."
"How about put me in Gryffindor?" Kurama suggested.
"Very well. So it's GRYFFINDOR!" the sorting hat shouted the last part as the Gryffindor table cheered, but the other tables seemed disappointed that they didn't get Kurama in their house.
"Alright, next is you, Mr. Jaganshi," Dumbledore smiled down at the fire demon.
Hiei silently put the hat one, not bothering to sit down. The hat seemed to sigh after it tried to see into Hiei's mind. "You're worst than the fellow with the red hair. Now, why don't you drop the mental block?"
"Hn, why should I?" Hiei didn't like the idea of having a talking inanimate object probing his mind.
"Well, so I can sort you, of course," the hat said.
"Just put me in Shuuichi's house," Hiei grumbled.
"That won't be," it said.
Hiei started cursing and sent the hat a mental image of it being burnt to ashes and Hiei feeding it to an ugly looking demon.
"Well, you're good for SLY-," the hat was cut off.
"You put me there and I will end your pitiful currier," Hiei growled at the inanimate object.
The hat began to get nervous, but didn't give up. "Then show me something good that you've done."
Hiei sighed in annoyance and mentally showed it the time he helped Yukina at the Dark Tournament, when the wall broke down and was about to fall on the ice maiden.
"Hm, yes I guess you can be put into GRYFFINDOR!" the hat shouted. More cheers erupted from the Gryffindor table as Kurama smiled at Hiei.
"I was afraid you would be put into Slytherin," Kurama whispered to Hiei when the fire demon sat down beside him.
:"Hn." Kurama smile brilliantly Hiei. Hiei turned away slight, a small tint of pink on his face. He wasn't used to having someone smile so brightly and beautifully at him, well except for his sister, of course.
"Now I have a few things to say before we begin the feast," Dumbledore's voice echoed through the room, "Love, friends, kuso. Now, please enjoy your feast!"
The food appeared so suddenly that it nearly surprised Kurama, but Hiei was not the slightest bit fazed about it. Kurama politely took some mashed potatoes and salad. He looked at Hiei's empty plate and decided to get some food for the Jaganshi as well. Hiei gave Kurama one of his infamous glares, but didn't do anything to stop him. Kurama gave the plate back to him when he was sure it was filled with all kinds of food. Hiei took the fork and began to poke it, then sniffed the food.
"What is this mushy stuff," Hiei said, looking with disgust at the mash potatoes.
"Ish mash potatoes," Ron said from across the table, stuffing his mouth all the food he can get, "'Aven't 'ou 'ad it 'efore?" Hiei immediately turned his disgusted look to Ron.
Hermione sighed from across Kurama. "He meant, it's mash potatoes. And the question was: Haven't you had it before?" Ron rolled his eyes and muttered something about knowing too much, but the words were muffled by the amount of food that was in his mouth.
"Hn, why would I eat this hu-" Kurama cut Hiei off with a small nudge on the stomach.
"Well, you see, we mash potatoes isn't really popular in Japan," Kurama said.
"Oh my gosh! You're from Japan!" Hermione beamed and leaned forward towards Kurama. The fox nervously leaned back, sending Hiei a pleading look.
One look at Kurama's look brought Hiei back to his dream.
Blood... the cross... Kurama...
Hiei looked around, "Where am I!"
He turned back and saw Yukina, in her bloody form. "No... NO! Not again!" "STOP! STOP! STOP!"
"Hiei, help... Help me... Hiei! Hiei! Hiei!"
Hiei immediately snapped his head to Kurama, who was looking at him with immense concern.
"Hiei, are you alright?" Kurama inquired, "You were starting to sweat and you looked disturbed."
"Hn, I'm fine. It was nothing to get your pretty head worried about," Hiei said. 'Damn, I have to get those thoughts out of my head. It wasn't real. Just a stupid dream!' he repeated these words in his head, not noticing the worried looks that were sent by Kurama.
Once everyone was done eating, the Gryffindors and the other house tables went to their common rooms.
Many thanks to:
Kirei Kiane
Quackabbott
sfahre
CEED
Uma Thermus
kuramaswife
ASweetKissFromPoisonedLips
Insane Chipmunk
Nayami- Zetsumei
Sam
Jessica
FindaHappyPlaceFindaHappyPlace
Cheysuli-Night
Response:
Insane Chipmunk: LOL I guess I was off by an inch. ;;; Woot! Hiei's in Gryffindor and sure! He can be in the Quidditch team! Thank for reviewing!
kuramaswife: Heh, I'm not quite sure if there will be pairings, but if there is. You have no need to worry about them But I won't tell you if there will be a strong KuramaXHermione pairing or not! Murahahaha! I'm so evil sometimes! ) Thanks for reviewing!
sfahre: Ooh! I've read that story! It's really good, I have it in my list of favourites, not the one on fanfiction 'cause I don't use that one very much, but it's on the one in my computer! Many thanks for your comments!
Quackabbott: Lol, your reviewwas great! I'm just putting the OOC warning just in case! P Thank you for reviewing!
Anywayz! I'm still not quite sure about the yaoi part yet, if there are ANY romance at all, other than stupid crushes. It's just that I usually end up forgetting there is romance and I mess up.
