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, wrong info, bashing
"Help! Kurama!" Hermione's frightened voice was heard once again. "Please! Help me!"
Kurama gave a small sigh and began to move forward, but Hiei stopped him. "Stay. I'll try to get her out of his grip." Kurama wanted to protest, but Hiei raised his hand to the fox's face, telling him to just be quiet and not say anything. Kurama sighed again, but obeyed.
And so, Hiei charged at Toguro, but...
Chapter Ten: Suspicion
And so, Hiei charged at Toguro, but Hermione suddenly got in the way with her struggling. The fire demon immediately halted. As much as he wanted to kill her, he couldn't. Koenma would probably lock him up for at least five hundred years... 'Damn onna...'
Toguro quickly took the opportunity to attack Hiei when the fire demon suddenly stopped. Fortunately, Hiei was fast enough to dodge. He muttered some curses under his breath and tried to attack Elder Toguro once again. The attack missed and ended up scratching Hermione's shoulder.
"Hiei!" Hermione shriek. "Watch where you're hitting! It hurts! If I die I'll-"
"No one would miss you," Hiei muttered under his breath as Hermione finished her sentence. "Listen onna. The only reason I'm actually doing this is because I don't like, no, loathe him and want him dead. It's not because I want to save you, so you better not think I won't kill you to get to him."
Hermione glared weakly at Hiei. "Kurama won't let you! Tell him Kurama! Tell him that you won't let him hurt me!"
Kurama looked at Hermione straight in the eyes. "Well, I would, but that would be a lie. The only reason I won't let him kill you is because we'll go to prison, but if everyone keeps a secret, or I mind wipe everyone, we would be undetected."
Hermione gaped at what Kurama had just said. "Bu- but! I thought you cared! After that night, I thought you had feelings for me!"
Hiei looked at Hermione, then gave Kurama a questioning look.
"Then you thought wrong, Hermione. I have no feelings for you. None that concerns love. I perhaps like you as a friend, but nothing more. My heart is already taken by someone else," Kurama calmly stated. 'Hiei, I hope you feel the same for me. 'Cause sooner or later, I would end up spilling my heart to you.'
Hermione gave Kurama a pleading look, but it was ignored by the fox. "Wait! You can't kill her! We are will tell Dumbledore! You will be expelled and probably put to Azkaban for it!" Ron decided to voice out his thoughts at that moment. "All of us will see you kill her and when we do, we'll immediately report to Dumbledore! You can't catch us all at the same time!"
"Stop your foolish bickering!" the slightly annoyed Toguro said. This got everyone's attention back to him. "Good, now, what will you do? Let me kill her? Kill her while trying to kill me? Or will you just surrender and let me end your little inner battles?"
Hiei looked at Kurama, waiting for the fox to tell him what to do. Kurama closed his eyes. "Hiei, there is only one option that's reasonable for us," said the thief. "We need to try and kill him. Even if Hermione gets in the way. It's better than letting him lose, but we have to think of a plan. He will not die like any other demon and we can't have a Sinning Tree in the common room like this. There will be a lot of explaining, more so than right now." Hiei growled in annoyance. "But don't worry. I'll think of a way."
Suddenly, professors began to fill the room. Hiei and Kurama snapped their heads and looked at them. Both had the same thought in their heads. Not good. A few of the Gryffindor students who had ran away hid behind some of the professors. The professors had a confused look as they saw Toguro.
"Help me, please!" Hermione shouted.
"What is the meaning of this?" Professor McGonagall said, looking from Harry to Kurama and Hiei, then to Toguro.
"This is beginning to become annoying," Toguro said. "We should take this elsewhere. Somewhere where there aren't as many stupid humans around to interfere."
"I agree. Now, let her go," Kurama said.
"I didn't say no more humans, I just said no as many. She will be following as my human shield, who knows what you'll cook up this time, eh Kurama?" Elder Toguro flashed him a disgusting smile.
"You will not leave this place!" Professor Snape said. He took out his wand and pointed it at Toguro.
"No, it's far too risky to aim any spells at him. It might accidentally hit Ms. Granger," Professor McGonagall said. Severus Snape put his wand away with a huff. "Do you have any way to free Hermione, Albus?" Dumbledore looked thoughtful, but he couldn't think of any way. Every plan had a very high chance of harming or even killing Hermione.
"We won't be doing anything, Minerva," Dumbledore stated. Minerva McGonagall gave him a shocked look, as did most of the professors. "We will have to hand it to these two young wizards to get rid of this creature and save Hermione. They seem to know this person and will probably have a higher chance in defeating them. All we can do is to have faith." With that said, he sat down on an armchair, away from the fight, but close enough for him to watch.
Toguro turned his attention back to Kurama and Hiei after the professors settled down around Dumbledore. "Now, where do you think is a good place to fight?"
"The Quidditch field," Kurama said immediately.
"There it is, now lead the way," Toguro said, getting ready to leave.
"Noo! Let me go! Please! I have nothing to do with this! Please, just let me go!" Hermione screamed and begged, but Toguro refused to release her.
Hiei gave Kurama a look. The fox just nodded at him. 'The Forbidden Forest have too many trees and other plants, they will catch on fire when you attack. We have to risk being seen than killing something as innocent as the animals in the forest.' Kurama thought, knowing full well that Hiei heard every word that he had just thought. Hiei nodded back at Kurama and flitted to the windowsill, breaking it as he crashed out. A few screams were heard when they all saw him leap down at least fifty feet high
Kurama gestured for Toguro to go first, making sure he would follow and not kill everyone in the room when they left. Ani Toguro went out followed by Kurama. Everyone left in the room just sat there, shocked. Who in their right minds would just jump out the window of such a tall castle! After the shock wore off, many of them rushed to the window to see what happened to them. To their surprise, Kurama and Hiei, along with Toguro who was still carrying Hermione hostage didn't have a single cut or bruise on them. They were sprinting to the Quidditch pitch.
"Remember, Toguro," Kurama started. "Now that we're no longer with the humans, we will do what we have to, to defeat you, and that includes killing Hermione." A small whimper came from the Perfect as she heard how harsh Kurama's voice had become. "It will also be harder to catch us now that we are at an open area."
Elder Toguro didn't say anything. Perhaps catching the girl wasn't the best plan, but his master needed her for something. He had told him to capture her for some odd reason in which he had not said.
"Toguro! Whom are you working for!" Kurama shouted at Ani.
"Me? Why do you think I'm working for someone?" Toguro said in a sickly innocent tone. It didn't fit him or his voice. It war disgusting to hear.
"The person who freed you had to be quite powerful, and that person probably wouldn't let you go without something to repay him. You're working for Voldemort aren't you?" Kurama accused.
Toguro sighed dramatically. "Why are you always the one who knows what I'm up to? I knew you were a tough and intelligent foe, but I didn't expect you to even guess who my master is!" Another dramatic sigh followed this statement. "Other than the Dark Lord wanting me to work for him, I just thought it would be good to have a change. Always tagging along with my younger brother isn't the most interesting thing in the world."
Kurama nodded slightly. Hiei growled. "Can we get this fight started already! I'm quite bored of this little conversation the two of you are having!" Kurama closed his eyes. This was going to be tough. Defeating Toguro in the cave was easy, but now that they were in a school, he couldn't use the same method he had last time. Suddenly, his eyes snapped open. He took out his wand and muttered a quick spell. In his first few classes, he had learned to conjure jars. At least twenty pickled- sized jars appeared out of thin air and was currently on the ground.
Toguro looked at him as if he had just proven Earth was flat and anyone who traveled too far can fall off the edge. Then, his evil laughter filled the night air, when he finished laughing, he stated. "What are you going to do with those jars? Make a racket and try to break my ear drums?" More laughter rang in the open space.
'Hiei, slice him up from behind while he's distracted right now!' Kurama thought loudly for Hiei to hear. With a small nod, the fire demon flitted behind Toguro and sliced him to pieces. Hermione quickly scrambled to her feet and ran to the castle.
"Hurry! Put him separately into these jars! He won't be able to reform himself and if we hid all the jars into different places, he won't he able to do any more harm!" Hiei and Kurama quickly worked together to get the pieces of Toguro into the jars. It was a disgusting job, but someone had to do it. After they made sure every jar was securely closed, Kurama scattered some in the Forbidden Forest while Hiei quickly and quietly sneaked out of the school and hid it in the streets of London, England.
In ten minutes, the both of them made their way back to the castle. Kurama and Hiei were greeted by many questions from the professors and students, but Dumbledore silenced them with a raised of his hand.
"I believe these two are tired. They should rest and tomorrow, we can question them," the headmaster stated with a small nod. "Now, good night Mr. Minamino, Mr. Jaganshi."
Kurama and Hiei quietly walked away from the group of professors and students.
When they left, the professors told the other students to go to bed as well, but Hermione decided to stay behind and tell them what had happened to them. Harry and Ron stayed behind as well to give her support.
"Professor! They didn't care if they killed me!" Hermione half shouted. "Kurama even wanted Hiei or that... that monster to kill me!"
"Calm down, Ms. Granger," Professor Dumbledore said. "They could be saying that so the monster, as you put it, won't think you're significant enough to make them do anything."
Hermione had calmed down and was now silent.
"Professor, we heard them say human like they weren't one themselves," Harry said. "And Kurama said something about a Sinning Tree, whatever that it."
"I see... now, who is this Kurama you've been talking about?" Dumbledore inquired.
"It's Shuichi Minamino, professor. It's his nickname," Ron answered.
"I see," Dumbledore muttered to himself. "Being nicknamed after the infamous thief of Makai... Interesting..."
"Well, he said it was because he had stolen something from his friends and being sly, but I'm pretty sure that isn't true!" Hermione's crush on Kurama was shattered after the incident. "He kind of sounded like that monster if you asked me! Professor, I think Shuichi is Youko Kurama! I've done some research in the library about Youko Kurama. They said after he died, his spirit fled into the human world!"
Dumbledore's face was thoughtful, as were the other professors, except Snape. "This is ridiculous! The hat won't possibly put him in Gryffindor if he was that merciless thief!" Dumbledore still haven't said anything.
"Perhaps he had changed, maybe that's why the hat put him there. But there is hardly any evidence that says that he is Youko Kurama," Professor McGonagall stated. A frown made its way to her face.
Murmurs of ideas and opinions filled the nearly empty room. Some of the ideas were from Ron and how Hiei could be an alien in disguise. Dumbledore once again raised his hand to silence them. "Well should all rest for the night. There are classes tomorrow. We will discuss about this the next day." Dumbledore turned to Harry, Ron, and Hermione. "I want you to stay out of their business, alright?" The three of them nodded at their headmaster. "Now off to bed with you three."
Harry, Ron, and Hermione left for their dormitories as the professors all filed out of the common room. All of them hadn't noticed the shadow at the corner of the room. The 'shadow', which turned out to be Hiei, informed Kurama about what he had just heard.
"Blimey, what was that chill, mate?" Ron asked right when Hiei had flitted past him. "Did you feel that?"
"Yeah, and I had thought it was my imagination," Harry said.
The rest of the night was peaceful. No one was aware of the different coloured- eye creatures looking at the castle from the Forbidden Forest.
"Is it time yet, master?" A scratchy voice questioned.
"No, we will wait a week more," their master stated before all of them retreated back to their hiding spot.
The next morning, Harry woke up from another nightmare. He was at the Great Hall with his two friends, Ron and Hermione, but something happened. They were suddenly taken away by a nine- tailed silver fox. Hiei was suddenly in the dream. Blood covered his whole body as he glared at Harry, or so the boy- who- lived thought. Then everything went black. The ret of his night had been dreamless, peaceful, and undisturbed.
'What was that about?' Harry thought.
Surprisingly, a voice in his head answered him. 'That is what will happen.' the voice was cold and oddly familiar. 'Your friends will be taken away from you. What will you do then?'
Harry froze in shock from the sudden voice and from the questions. 'They... will be taken away from me?'
An evil chuckled filled Harry's head. 'Yes, and someone from this school will be the cause of it.' Harry tried to ask it more questions, but he no longer received any answer from the voice in his head. Confused, Harry changed out of his pajamas and into his school robes. He, then, walked down to the Great Hall, with many thoughts and questions in his head. Harry sat down and just stared at the food he had placed on his plate.
"Harry!" Ron greeted Harry. "Good Morning." When Harry didn't answer, he repeated what he had just said. Harry looked at him as if seeing him for the first time in years. "Are you alright, mate? You seem... You don't seem like yourself. Is it about yesterday?"
Just when Harry was about to say 'no', Kurama and Hiei joined them. "Good Morning Harry, Ron."
Ron shifted uncomfortably on is seat. "Go- Good Morning." Harry just continued to stare at his plate of food.
"Is he alright?" Kurama inquired.
Ron looked at Harry again. "I don't know. He hasn't said anything to me yet. I have a question about yesterday... Umm..."
"Didn't the professor tell you to mind your own business?" Hiei grunted at Ron. Ron shrank back in fear, but then another question came to his head. Though, he was unable to asked as another person came and sat down across from Harry.
"How did you know he said that?"
"Ah, well you see, Hermione. We were just-" Kurama was cut off when Hiei decided to answer the question in his own way.
"We knew you would be talking about us, so we thought we had the right to know what it was," Hiei said with his eyes closed.
"Well, you didn't need to eavesdrop," Hermione glared at Hiei, then at Kurama. Glaring was a very... unusual thing for Hermione, and she knew that, but after yesterday, she couldn't help it.
'You're right, but I do think we had the right to know. Besides, talking about someone else behind their backs or while they are sleeping isn't very pleasant," Kurama stated with a smile. He really didn't want to make any enemies at the moment. Yesterday had affected Hiei and him as well. They were thinking about how Voldemort freed Ani Toguro. The Sinning Tree wasn't the easiest thing to cut down or be defeated. They came to a conclusion that Voldemort was stronger than anyone had said. Perhaps he isn't who he seemed to be, Looks could be deceiving after all.
After breakfast, the students all went to their classes, but Harry had wandered off to the Forbidden Forest for some odd reason. Kurama and Hiei noticed and decided to follow him. When they were in the forest, Kurama tripped on something.
"Are you... are you okay?" Hiei didn't quite know why he asked that question since he would've cared less if it had been someone else.
"Yes, I'm quite alright, but what did I trip on?" Hiei held out his hand for Kurama to hold, the fire demon gave a small tuck and helped Kurama up. They both looked down and saw a human arm. No blood was detected in the arm, so it must've been there for a long while. The only thing left of the arm was skin and bones, no flesh was left either. There were bite marks on some parts of the dead limb.
"Wha-" Kurama was suddenly struck on the head. Hiei abruptly turned around, but saw nothing. He frowned, then knelt down to see if Kurama was alright. There was a nasty looking gash on his head.
"Kurama! Kurama! Wake up!" Hiei growled slightly. He was worried about the fox. "Kurama! Wa-" He, too, was struck on the head by something...
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...I hate this chapter! Argh! I haven't updated in a long time also, I'm so sorry! I kept opening and closing word pad! I couldn't think of ANYTHING to write...
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