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A New Experience

Chapter 4
First Times

Harry woke up early the next morning. He sat up in his bed, reached over and grabbed his glasses and then proceeded to pull the hangings open. Looking around he could see he was not the only one up early. Hiei's bed was empty and looked as if it was undisturbed. Yusuke was snoring loudly in the bed next to his and Kurama was also sleeping peacefully, although a lot quieter. Harry turned his head to the left and saw Ron, Neville, Seamus, and Dean all still sound asleep. Trying to be as quiet as he possibly could, Harry leapt from his bed and bulled on his robes and grabbed his school bag before heading off down the stairs to the common room.

The common room was empty except for one person sitting on the ledge of the window staring out into the sky. It was Hiei, and he seemed deep in thought.

"Um, good morning?" Harry asked uncertainly.

"Hn,"

"Are you going to be going to breakfast now?"

"No. I'm waiting for Kurama."

"Here I am, Hiei."

Harry jumped in surprise and turned around to come face to face with none other than the red head himself. He could have sworn that when he had seen Kurama earlier he had been in a deep sleep. 'There was no way he could have gotten up and dressed in under five minutes' Harry thought to himself.

"Well, shall we go down? Harry, are you coming with us?" Kurama asked pulling the young boy out of his thoughts.

"Wait, what about you're other friend?" Harry said as he tried to remember the other exchange student's name; he thought it was something like Yous-kay but he didn't want to say anything just in case he got it wrong.

"You mean Yusuke.He'll be down later."

"But..."

"A nuclear war can't even wake that kid; do you think we'll be able to?" Hiei growled impatiently near the portrait hole. "Are you coming or not?"

"Sure, I'm coming." Hermione and Ron could meet up with him later, right now Harry was rather eager to start the day and get to know these strangers better.

As Harry expected not many people were in the Great Hall eating breakfast yet because it was so early. Looking around he could see about ten to fifteen students sitting at each table talking to their friends. As he took his seat next to Kurama and across from Hiei, his eyes instinctively looked up at the staff table in front of him. Instead of an empty seat like last night, there was a stranger bent low over his coffee and undoubtedly reading the Daily Prophet. He must be the new teacher; Harry made a mental note to mention this to Hermione and Ron when they got here.

"So, Harry, what do your classes look like?"

"Er, what?" Harry, who was startled out of his train of thought ounce again by Kurama, looked down just in time to see Professor McGonagall drop a piece of paper in front of him. It was his schedule for the school year. Realizing that Kurama was expecting an answer he quickly read over the classes for Monday, "I have History of magic, double Transfiguration, and double Potions. You?" Harry groaned inwardly. He had potions today. Surprisingly Harry had done really well on the OWL's for potions class, which was a good thing since he would need it in order to become an Aura.

"Exactly the same thing." Kurama answered looking past Harry with a look of confusion on his face.

Harry noticing this turned around and started to say something and then stopped when he saw what Kurama had seen. Yusuke was walking into the great hall-dripping wet with what looked like red handprints all over his body. A fuming girl with blue hair was standing behind him, who Harry had recognized as another exchange student.

"What happened?" Harry asked finally breaking the silence.

"It seems that someone doesn't trust me to get up in the morning," Yusuke answered through gritted teeth looking behind him at Botan. Completely ignoring him she walked over to the Hufflepuff table where Kuwabara sat staring at his schedule.

"It was awesome, Harry, you should've seen it. Botan came into the room with Hermione and when she saw Yusuke still sleeping she got really mad. Anyway to make a long story short she beat him up and poured water on him to get him to wake," Ron said almost breathlessly as he came up behind Harry and sat down next to him.

"She said something about Yusuke always skipping school and how he wasn't going to do that here," Hermione said as she sat down at the Gryffindor table.

"Harry, Ron! We're having Gryffindor team tryouts next week for the new Chasers and Beaters," Katie Bell yelled to them from across the table. Now that Angelina, and Alicia had left they would need new chasers, but beaters Harry thought they had two already.

"I thought we had beaters from last year when Fred and George got banned," Harry asked aloud.

"They don't want to do it, said they might try out for chasers or something," Katie sighed.

"About the team, Katie, I'm not going to be keeper anymore. I want to tryout for chaser."

"Make that goalies, chasers, and a decent keeper. This captains stuff is tough I wonder how Wood and Angelina managed."

"Its alright Katie, you're doing fine. Besides, now that I have my broom back I'll still be the seeker." Harry promised her.

"Thanks, Harry, I'll see you guys at tryouts next Friday," Katie said as she grabbed a corn muffin and proceeded to leave the Great Hall for an early start on the day.

"Tryouts?" Yusuke said interestedly as the subject of the conversation finally reached his ears. "Hey, Hiei, let's go out for the team," Yusuke said, elbowing Hiei playfully in the side resulting in a glare from the latter.

"Hn. I don't think so, detective, flying's not my style."

"From what I heard there's a lot of violence involved. People get seriously injured."

At the sound of violence Hiei rethought his answer. "Hn," which in Hiei's terms meant that he was going to try it.

Yusuke punched the air victoriously and let out a whoosh of happiness, 'this place might not be that boring after all,' he thought grinning to himself.

"Man, that was the most dullest, boringest class I have ever been in." Yusuke yawned and stretched his arms above his head as he walked with his friends to the next class.

"Most boring, boringest isn't a word." Kurama corrected.

"Yea whatever, History of magic; who needs it?"

"Don't worry about that. We just copy the notes off of Hermione," Harry mumbled groggily, as soon as Binns starts to speak even the most wide-awake person would become sleepy.

"Besides there are worst classes then that," Ron said.

"This is going to be a long year," Yusuke grumbled as he entered the next hallway towards the transfiguration classroom.

"Alright class put your books away, the only thing you'll be needing today are your wands." Professor McGonagall stood in front of the desk silently taking roll while she spoke. "We are going to start transfiguring bigger things. Today you will transfigure a globe into a simple rabbit." She walked around the room handing them what they needed for the class and then proceeded to help the students who needed it.

The golden trio sat quietly in the back of the class chatting amongst themselves. When they had classes like this they could always talk without having to worry about being overheard.

"So what do you think of the new students?" Ron asked them while spinning his globe and trailing his finger lightly on it, so that it traced from North America to Asia and back again.

"They areok, I guess." Harry replied simply, twirling his wand in his hand. The truth was Harry didn't really know what to think. He didn't even know what side they were on.

"The short one with the red eyes is quiet, he hardly speaks which is suspicious enough. However, the red head seems nice and genuine."

"What about the other one?"

"He seems like a normal delinquent," Ron shrugged.

"Yea but they're all in Gryffindor so they must be good. Besides, why would Dumbledore invite them to the school if he knew they were bad?" Hermione stated logically as she pointed her wand at the globe and mumbled the incantation. The globe suddenly got skinnier, shorter, and whiter as it transfigured into a perfect snow-white rabbit.

"Very good Mrs. Granger, ten points for Gryffindor." Hermione blushed as she moved her hand along the rabbits beautiful soft fur.

"They were talking about us," Kurama said without turning his head to look at the three sitting at the table in the back. He hadn't made a move to transfigure his globe yet in fact none of the three Reikai Tantei had.

"What were they saying?" Yusuke asked as he started to poke the globe with his wand stupidly.

"They don't know what to think of us yet. It seems they don't trust you two but they like me well enough."

"Is that all?" Yusuke said. "I wish this Voldermort guy would just show up right on the spot so we could get this mission done with and go home."

"I don't think it will be that easy, Yusuke."

"Hn. The class is leaving." Yusuke, and Kurama looked up just in time to see the last few students rushing out the door. Yusuke grumbled as he saw the homework assignment scribbled over the board in front of the room. They all packed up and headed for their next class, Potions.

"Today you will be making a healing potion." Snape said to the class. "It is strong and very useful when made correctly. However, if made wrongly it can become dangerous an even deadly. I am very sure a few of you will fail at the attempt." Snape glared down at Harry and then turned back to the to the front of the room. He flicked his wand and the directions appeared in white chalk over the green surface of the black board. "Begin." He hissed through clenched teeth, he sat down in his desk occasionally peering over it at the students hard at work.

Hermione, Ron, and Harry all sat in one table while Yusuke, Hiei, and Kurama all sat at the table next to theirs.

"Hiei, you mind helping me with the fire?" Kurama asked as he began to chop up his roots for the potion.

"Hn."

"Man, that guy really needs to take a shower, maybe even cut his hair." Yusuke grimaced as he looked back at Snape, who was now bent low over his desk. Harry, and Ron both started sniggering loudly at the comment. Snapehearing this, looked up from his work glaring at them with loathing. "Ten points from Gryffindor."

"Bloody hell," Ron whispered angrily, while Harry threw some of his roots into his potion a bit forcefully.

"Harry what are you doing? Your not supposed to add those yet." Hermione whispered. "Your going to mess it up and get a bad grade."

"What else is new?" Harry mumbled--he looked down at his potion, which was now a bright orange, when it was supposed to be a dark red.

The class went on for another hour in silence. Well almost silence. Occasionally Yusuke would break out laughing at something the other two exchange students said, and Hermione would hiss at Ron and Harry whenever they did something wrong.

"Alright class, bottle your potions and bring them up here to be graded." Snape said taking the bottles from the students' hands and scribbling down a mark on the parchment lain down in front of him.

After getting their grades, which for the most part were bad except for Hermione's and Kurama's, they packed up their things and made for the door. Once they had stepped out of the door to the dungeons Malfoy and his cronies, Crabbe and Goyle, walked up to them.

"Well if it isn't the girly man and his bodyguard," Malfoy snarled referring to Kurama and Hiei. They had humiliated him on the Hogwarts Express and a Malfoy does not get humiliated without getting revenge.

"Shut it Malfoy," Ron said rolling his eyes.

"Manners, Weasley. I was talking to the other red head and his shadow." Malfoy glared back at the two of the menacingly.

"Hey, don't ever talk about my friends like that," Yusuke said angrily as he pushed Malfoy into the wall while Hiei glared at Malfoy so threateningly that even the toughest demon would run away screaming. Draco seeing this started to back down slightly. However, he still wanted to cause them pain for what they did to him.

"Yusuke release him, he's not worth our time." Kurama smiled, obviously undaunted by the rude outburst.

Yusuke looked back at Kurama and then turned once again towards Malfoy whispering in his ear. "I'll be watching you." he then released the kid and walked back towards the hall where the others were standing.

Malfoy, recovering quickly from the threat, stood up straight and beckoned for the two Slytherins to follow him. "We will finish this later. Crabbe, Goyle let's go." Malfoy said with such superiority that Hiei snorted. 'How could any human have such a big head, it is even bigger than Kuwabara's' He thought as he watched the three idiots head towards the Great Hall for dinner.

"What was that all about?" Yusuke asked Kurama as they all walked towards the Great Hall to get dinner themselves.

"Oh, nothing. He's probably just upset because Hiei kicked him out of the compartment on the train for hitting on me."

The Great Hall was full of noise and laughter as people ate their dinners talking excitably about the first day of school.

"We are going to be up all night with the amount of homework we got today." Ron speared a piece of chicken from his plate and stuck it forcefully in his mouth, chewing loudly.

"Honestly Ron, it's not like they haven't done it before." Hermione said her face hidden behind a book called, Witches, Demons, Goblins, and Creatures Alike, which she had taken out of the library earlier this morning.

Yusuke, Kurama, and Hiei all sat around the table near them talking low in Japanese occasionally glimpsing at the staff table. Harry moved his eyes to the staff table also and noticed something strange. The strange sandy brown haired, blue-eyed man that had been there before at breakfast was sitting at the staff table again. Except unlike the other teachers, who were chatting quietly amongst themselves and eating a hearty meal, he was not. He wasn't even touching the food on the table and he just seemed to be staring off into space. Seeing this reminded him of something, he had not yet told Hermione or Ron about the man.

"Hey you guys, look the new DADA teacher is here today," Harry said now looking at the two bickering teens.

"Oh, Sorry Harry we weren't listening. What did you say?" Hermione glared at Ron and then looked at Harry for him to repeat himself.

"Look up at the staff table, the man not eating. I thought he might be the new DADA teacher."

"He is. Kuwabara and I just had him."

"Botan don't do that!"

"Do what Yusuke?" Botan answered innocently.

"Sneak up on me."

"Anyway Botan, what is it that you were saying about that man." Kurama asked politely while Hermione, Ron, and Harry all listened in.

"His name is Professor Griffin and he is indeed the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher."

"More like Professor Scary, I get this weird feeling every time I see him. It almost as if something bad is going to happen when he's around." Kuwabara said rather seriously.

Yusuke, Kurama, and Hiei all glimpsed back at the teachers table. Even though Kuwabara wasn't the brightest crayon in the box, they learned from experience to always listen to him and most of the time his feelings were right. Harry, Ron, and Hermione just sat there with a confused expression on their faces staring at Kuwabara as if he was mad.

"We'd better get back to our table, they might catch us." Botan said to them after a few minutes of silence. She smiled brightly and left waving goodbye. Kuwabara also said goodbye to them and followed Botan back to the Hufflepuff table.

The rest of dinner went on in silence for the six students who were now contemplating over the new teacher.

"Hiei are you going to sleep in your bed tonight?" Kurama asked quietly as not to disturb the others who were already sleeping peacefully. "Or perhaps you could sleep in mine?" Kurama grinned happily at the thought, but sighed sadly because he knew Hiei would say no.

"Hn." Hiei closed his trunk, locked it and walked over to his fox. Hiei smirked as he pushed the unsuspecting fox onto the bed and closed the hangings around it. He then climbed onto the bed himself and rapped his arms around Kurama's torso and dug his hands in the mass of red hair. Kurama smiled and rolled over to face him, in turn he rapped his own arms around Hiei's torso and sighed happily in the muscular chest.

"Hiei I miss laying with you." Kurama whispered quietly in Japanese just in case there were eavesdroppers still awake in the room.

Hiei remained silent as he bent his head down and touched his lips to Kurama's wet ones. Kurama let out a moan as Hiei's tongue licked across his lips begging for entry and there was no way Kurama was going to deny it. After what seemed like minutes they finally parted breathing heavily.

"I love you Hiei." Kurama whispered into the night. He pulled Hiei closer to him as best he could.

"Hn. Ai shiteru, fox." Hiei whispered back as sleep swept over and claimed them both.

Two more weeks of classes, homework, teachers, and Malfoy came and went. It was now Friday afternoon and Harry, Ron, Yusuke, and Hiei were all standing on the Quidditch pitch, brooms in hand (Hiei and Yusuke had to borrow school brooms) waiting for the tryouts to begin.

"Alright now break up into three groups, whoever wants to be chaser stand over there, goalies over there, and beaters right there. First we will have chaser, and keeper tryouts. Three chasers at a time will be placed against one keeper. The object, to get the Quaffle..." she pointed at the big red ball, "…past those three goal hoops." She finished.

The first to go were three 2nd years and a 5th year keeper. The chasers didn't do so badly but the keeper missed ever-single ball except one that was thrown right at his hands. Next to go was a 3rd year girl and two boys Harry didn't know. The keeper was a tall 7th year. The chasers all dropped the Quaffle at least once, and the keeper kept dodging the ball instead of catching it. Harry sighed, 'this was going to be a long night.'

"Next." Katie yelled across the pitch as she scribbled notes onto her clipboard that she had borrowed from one of the muggle-born Gryffindors.

Hiei got onto his broom and pushed up sharply from the ground. From what Harry had seen during his flying class with Madam Hutch, Hiei was a pretty good flyer.

Hiei flew up towards the goalpost where he took his position as keeper. He looked down at the three humans who were going to try to score on him. As he sat waiting for them he looked around some more. To his right were the stands where the students and teachers could sit to watch the game. Today the stands were practically empty except for a few stray students, who were watching the tryouts and giggling to their friends. Among them was Kurama. Hiei looked down at his fox, who sat talking to the noisy bushy haired girl he had come to know as Hermione.

"READY?" Hiei heard Katie shout against the wind. He straitened his broom out and looked at the three people who were now hovering in front of him. One was a small girl who looked about 15 or so. She had red hair and lots of freckles and resembled Ron greatly. One of the other chasers was a big, blond haired, blue-eyed thug who looked as if he was 17 years of age. The last chaser was Ron who grinned at Hiei and mouthed a good luck, which Hiei did not return. Hiei smirked they were not going to score on him. 'They should just go back down to the safe ground below them and say I quit' Hiei thought inwardly to himself.

"GO." Katie blew her whistle loudly as someone threw the great red ball high into the air.

Hiei watched as the girl caught the ball, she then passed it to Ron who passed to the other boy who passed it back to Ron who in turn passed it to the girl. Being close to the goal posts now the girl pulled back her arm that was holding the ball and thrust it forward as hard as she could to the far left goal post. Hiei swiftly moved his broom to the left and caught the ball easily. He threw it back to the three chasers who tried to score on him again and again but failed every time.

'The detective was right, this game isn't to bad.' Hiei thought as he landed on the grassy lawn in front of the Gryffindor captain, who stood with her mouth hanging open staring in disbelief at the short fire demon.

"That was the best goal keeping I've ever seen. You've defiantly made the team." She told him excitedly scribbling things down on her clipboard. "Alright the rest of the keepers may leave, better luck next time. The beaters may practice a little while we figure out which chasers made it." She walked towards the locker room motioning for Harry to follow so he could help her decide.

"Hey Hiei, your not going to be the only Reikai Tentai to make the team?" Yusuke grinned enthusiastically as he jumped onto his broom and sped into the air after the other beaters, who were now flying around the pitch swinging at the bludgers that had been released into the air.

Hiei said nothing as he walked across the pitch towards his fox.

"Hey Hiei, you looked really good up there." Kurama patted the seat next to him motioning for Hiei to sit down next to him.

"That was good, amazing even." Hermione said. She turned her head so he wouldn't see her blushing at her own reaction.

"Hn. I made the team."

"Congratulations Hiei." Kurama said to him happily as Hermione nodded in agreement.

Once the remaining chasers on the field heard the shrill cry of Katie's whistle they all ran up to her, eager for the news.

"Now as you all know being on the Gryffindor Quidditch team is a privilege not a right, and that it will take hard work and dedication in order to succeed. For that reason Harry and I have chosen whom we think is the best. We did not choose these two people because of family or friendship." She said looking at the waiting students, "The two new Gryffindor chasers will be, Ginny Weasley, and Ron Weasley. For the rest of you better luck next time," she said. She smiled at the two red haired people that she had chosen to be on the team and said, "Good job."

She looked up at the students who were practicing hitting the ball and watched silently.

"How are you going to do the beater tryouts?" Harry asked curiously as he followed her gaze towards the many Gryffindors flying overhead.

"Just like this."

"You mean your just going to watch them practice and then pick out of that?"

"Yep."

Hiei, Kurama, and Hermione all watched Yusuke who was sitting in the middle of pitch and flexing his fingers lazily.

"What is he doing?" Hermione asked, "He's not even looking for the bludgers."

"He doesn't need to. You can hear them, by staying quietly still Yusuke will know when the bludgers are coming." Kurama answered looking up.

"Oh my there's a bludgers coming at him from behind. He'll get hit." Hermione said worriedly leaning on the edge of her seat.

Yusuke sensed it before it came, at the right moment he turned around and swung his bat with all the force he had towards the other end of the goalposts. The little ball went through the middle hoop and continued to fly in the same direction over the forest and out of sight.

"Opps, guess I hit it a little to hard." Yusuke said rubbing the back of his head with his hand.

"See Hermione, he's fine." Kurama said over the loud sound of the whistle.

"How did he hit it that hard?" Hermione asked, "I've never seen someone hit a bludger that far."

"Um, Yusuke used to be on the baseball team at his old school. He's been playing since he was four." Kurama quickly covered up.

"Alright, I already have the new beaters figured out. Yusuke Urameshi and John Boot (a/n- made the name up) made the team." Katie waited for all of the other beaters to leave and for Hiei to walk back to the group of six, who were now the new team, to continue speaking. "Practice will be held on Monday evening after classes end. I'll see you then." With that she turned and left. She walked back up the Quidditch pitch towards the castle.

"Well I guess we should all get a start on the homework before we go to bed." Kurama said to the group, most of them groaned in response while the others glared or remained silent. They all picked up their broomsticks and trudged up the sloping lawn towards the front doors of the castle with one thing on their minds, 'Sleep'.

TBC-

a/n- wow that was the longest chapter I have ever written, I hope your all happy with it. By the way I love getting reviews-(hint hint)

This chapter was editted by kuramafan55 (Towards the end I myself got lazy and didn't correct it, so if anything is unedited or there are mistakes it's probably my fault not kuramafan55's fault)

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