AN: Hey! FINALLY! a new chapter is up!!! i'm soooo sorry! i know i usually
update once a month (at least) but for some reason i can't even remember
anymore...oh yea...exams n hw...i couldnt get anything up in May...n then i
hadda get ready for my trip to CA, where i find out that my internet is
messed up so i couldn't update, had i wanted to, n then i hadda get ready
for ANOTHER trip, this time to the East Coast, where i am now.
ok...enough with the excuses...thats all true, but the main reason i hadn't updated was cause i didnt have a chapter. I mean, I knew what i was going to do, and it was all in my head, but i never found ( or made) the time to type it up. i just did.
The Best Western i'm staying at doesn't have internet connection, so i can't update this RIGHT THIS MOMENT when i finished writing. This update is up when i got to summer camp...=) once again, i'm REALLY sorry about the super long wait and i hope you didn't forget what was going on... I put in a brief summary, just in case you did...
Disclaimer: YYH and HP dont and never will belong to me.
languages in this chapter: ="Japanese"= "Makai-nese" "English"
Hiei to Kurama telepathy [somethine that will be explained later in the story]
---------------------------- Summary of what was going on ------------------ -------------------------
Mosathor insulted Hiei right before the class, so Kurama got revenge by turning him blue. (=D) Snape started testing those who finished the potion on how well they did. Kurama took his and Neville's and then a cloud of dust went 'boom' and now, everyone's waiting anxiously to find out what happened... [AN: this is really short and really bad...if you want to be in the right mood, go back and read the last bit of the previous chapter...this is for those of you too lazy to do that...ppl like me ]
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Instead of slowly clearing, the cloud got thicker and thicker, then slowly started to turn a pale blue. The tension mounted in the room, and Draco could sense that Hiei was getting tense, and he tentatively rested a hand on Hiei's shoulder. He wasn't suprised when Hiei shoook it off, irritated. The fire demon's eyes were fixed on the cloud where Kurama had been standing, and his gaze was getting darker and darker.
Hiei, though not showing it outwardly, was getting worried. Kurama's ki had spiked, subsided, and has been climbing, slowly, but steadily, when it suddenly flared. "Hiei!" A desperate voice rang out from middle of the cloud. It was a rich baritone, unfamiliar to all but Hiei, and before anyone realized it, Hiei had disapeared into the midst of the cloud, ignoring Snape's shout of caution. Draco and Blaise caught a glimpse of silver before the cloud closed behind Hiei.
Seamus, Dean and Hermione started to move foward, but were caught by Snape. Neville hung in the back, uncertain and frightened. "What do you think you are doing?"
"Harry's in there! And somethings happened!" Dean said, trying to keep from snarling. "Would you have us wait here while who knows what is happening to Harry?" Hermione nodded, frantic.
"Please Professor!" she added hysterically.
Snape sneered, "Do you really think that I would let a student of mine get hurt intentionally?"
"You might," Seamus muttered darkly, not really trying to avoid getting heard, "it is Harry after all. You great greasy git..."
Severus' eyes narrowed to slits of black stone. Snape said in a soft, steel-laced voice, "Watch your tongue, Mr. Finnigan. Twenty points from Gryphindor for a blatent show of disrespect to a teacher. I have my reasons for preventing you from going in, and Minamino is stupid for entering a situation he is ignorant of. I do not know what Potter or Longbottom did to create that cloud or what is going on inside it. If I did, I would be the first to remove a student from danger. That cloud may have effects that are irreversible, harmful, or potentially fatal. I have never, in all my time as Potions Master of this school, seen this happen when someone was making a potion." Snape slightly lowered his head, so that his hair formed a shadow over his face. A candle flickered and went out near the door, plunging that area into complete darkness.
"Believe me, Mr. Finnegan, I have seen more than you can ever imagine. A word of advice: rushing into an unknown situation may cause you to become a victim as well. I am not an idiot and will not send others to become victims when the situation is uncertain." By the end of his speech, Snape's voice had dropped to a low, deadly hiss.
Seamus stood, paralyzed and unable to tear his eyes from Snape's darkly glittering orbs. He knew, as well as the rest of the trembling class, that Snape's words were not only about the mysterious cloud hanging in the middle of the lab, but also the war they were in the middle of.
Draco shook himself slightly, and snapped out of the state of shock that Snape's voice and words had placed him and the class into. His godfather had been born with the power of...persuasion, so to speak, and he used it to ingrain fear into the hearts of his students. Severus enjoyed scaring people far too much, in his opinion. The situation reminded Draco of the opinion that he was a teacher's pet, but that wasn't true. Draco really enjoyed Potions, and he had grown up with Severus around, so he was able to counter Sev's 'powers' more easily than most.
He glanced over to his right and noticed and Pansy was in the same state as everyone else. Her eyes were fixed on their Head of House, glazed with fear and some other similar emotion. Her face was pale, and her hands were shaking slightly.
On his other side, was Blaise. He took a look, and then did a double take. Blaise's face was filled with an indescribable emotion, his eyes were clear, and he was restlessly shifting from one foot to the other, rubbing his arms uncomfortably. His face was deathly pale, and his hair seemed all the more dark. His eyes were not fixed upon Snape, as everyone else, but on the cloud hanging omniously in the middle of the dungeon classroom.
Draco took a look around and hissed as softly as he could, "Blaise!" The dark haired boy looked over, cocking his head in question. "What are you doing, Blaise?" Draco demanded quietly. "Why...?" He trailed off and gestured to the rest of the class who were slowly sliding out of the shock they had been in and the different one Blaise was in. Severus was not able to instill this type of emotion in people.
Blaise shook his head, his ponytail swinging back and forth across his back and replied, just as softly. "Don't you feel it, Draco?" Draco blinked at him, confused. Blaise shivered, and continued, more to himself than to his friend and confident. "No, of course you wouldn't. This ki...its unsettling. So powerful and dark...slightly familiar..." Blaise looked up at Draco and forced a grin. "Don't worry your blonde little head over it. You wouldn't have any clue what I'm talking about anyways."
Draco 'mmm'-ed and nodded his head, vaugley wondering if what Blaise was talking about had anything to do with the strange feelings he'd been getting from Hiei and that time when Harry had red hair and did weird and creepy things with plants that listened to him. The thoughts were quickly pushed to the back of his mind, though, when the cloud suddenly burst outwards.
"Get DOWN!" Snape bellowed, and no one needed to be told twice. Everyone hit the floor. A wave of nausea washed over many of them, and when the cloud cleared, everyone pushed themselves up or helped each other up unsteadily. Snape was on his feet almost instantly, wavering a bit, before gaining his bearings. His wand was out and his face was closed.
Out of the filmy haze, two shadowly figures slowly became visible. One was tall, the other, not. As the dust finally dissapiated, everyone got a glimspe of long silver hair before everything went flashed and the world went dark. Draco faintly heard Blaise breathe out, unbelievingly "Kurama..." and saw him hit the floor unconcious, before he too went unconcious.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- draco...DRACO!"
Draco awoke to the sound of someone calling his name and shaking him. He blearily blinked his eyes and Blaise's still slightly pale face came into focus, with Kurama looking over his shoulder, both worried and obviously relieved when he sat up, holding his head.
"My head..." Draco moaned, cradling it in his hands. He had a pounding headache and from the looks of everyone else who were in various stages of conciousness around the dungeon floor, he wasn't the only one. He blinked and took a look at Kurama. And looked again.
"Harry?" He asked increduously. "Your hair...its red again..." Kurama laughed grimly and ran a hand through his hair a bit self-conciously.
"Yea...I suppose its an aftereffect of the potion...maybe..."
"Harry." The name was bit out from Hiei's lips. Kurama turned to him, eyes questioning. "He knows something...and his ki..." Hiei glared at Blaise, who returned the look uncomfortably. "He can sense it...and he knew you. Before." The last bit was snapped out, and with one last vemonous look at Blaise, Hiei retreated into the deep shadows of the dungeon.
"Minamino, Potter! Report to the Infimary immedietly!" Snape snapped. "Touch no one and nothing...don't even breathe until you've been cleared by Madame Pompfrey. She can deal with your...hair." Hiei stepped out next to Kurama, an annoyed look on both their faces, though it was quickly masked.
"Professor," Kurama started, "we're..."
"No. I don't want to hear whatever lame excuse your pathetic brain has come up with. You could have harmed any possible number of students as well as myself. Go. To. The. Infirmary. NOW." Snape snarled out. As the two demons turned to leave the room, Snape added, "Ten points from Gryphindor for the blundering the potion. And another ten for creating an unknown, potentially dangerous effect. And five from Minamino for venturing into a situation you had no clue about."
Kurama and Hiei paused and turned, the former outraged and suprised, the latter simply because Kurama did. "Professor! Hiei is not part of Gryphindor house! You don't have the authority to remove points from Gryphindor for something he did!" The other students murmmered their agreement.
"Very well then, Mr. Potter," Snape sneered, "I shall take those five points back from Minamino," sighs of relief, "and transfer them to you for calling Minamino into a situation you were not sure about." Gasps of shock and horror. Kurama seethed inwardly, he had known what would happen! There was no way he was not sure about the situation! To everyone, Kurama seemed to calmly accept the rather large point deduction and turned with Hiei to leave the room on thier way to the Hospital Wing.
"Professor!" Pansy's frantic call stopped both demons in their tracks for a second time. Snape turned around, annoyance written all over his face. Annoyance, which quickly fled. Draco was kneeling next to Blaise, who was sitting on the where he had been standing, knees drawn up to his chest.
Blaise's face was pale, sweating lightly, and his breathing was ragged. He was huddled over and his handers were gripping his arms so hard, his knuckles had turned white and his nails were starting to draw blood. Blaise was biting his lip and his teeth had already pierced the skin. Draco was gripping Blaise's shoulders, trying to ease the younger boy's trembling. Pansy was standing over both of them, wringing her hands helplessly.
Snape ran over and kneeled down beside the two and tried to pry Blaise's hands from his arms. His attempts were in vain, and he turned to Pansy. "What happened?"
Draco looked up and was the one who answered. "During Harry's time in that cloud...thing...Blaise was already really pale and he seemed really uncomfortable and he kept shifting around. Just now, he suddenly dropped to his knees and started shaking. And then..." Draco gestured helplessly at his friend who suddenly let out a cry. "Blaise!" was torn from the thoats of the two Slytherins nearby, and the other students who were crowding around.
Kurama took one look and paled. The two demons stepped into one of the pitch dark alcoves near the door. He looked down at Hiei, who's face was expressionless. He whispered, "Hiei, do you think..." Hiei surveyed the scene, then frowned a bit.
"Perhaps."
"Please, Hiei. Help him." This too, was said so softly, that none but Hiei's ears could have caught the desperate plea. Hiei narrowed his eyes and stared up at the deep green orbs that were a sight for sore eyes, pardon the pun. He reached up and ran a hand through the red locks that he had missed, never breaking his gaze, searching for something from the 'windows to the soul.'
Hiei saw, within Kurama's eyes, the love that shone only for him, and would never again shine for someone else. The unwavering loyalty that lay in those he trusted. The golden flecks that meant that Youko Kurama was influencing the current Kurama to a certain extent. And the complete desperation that Kurama was feeling. Hiei let out a sigh, and pulled Kurama down for a quick kiss. K'so. If you were anyone but you, kitsune... "Alright. Do what you have to do, as will I."
Kurama hugged Hiei tightly, mummuring a 'thank you' into Hiei's neck. Hiei's arms came up awkwardly to hug Kurama back. He still wasn't used to showing affection. Kurama threw open the classroom door and dashed out. The sudden beam of light drew the attention of the class from Blaise to the now empty doorway, back to where Hiei stood at the edge of the circle that surrounded the three Slytherins and their Head of House. The other Slytherins formed the innermost crowd, and the everyone else peeked in from the spaces between their heads. Snape opened his mouth to speak, but Hiei cut him off,
="Draco. Move."=
Draco looked up and answered in the same language, a bit defensively. ="Why? What are you going to do to him?"=
Hiei snarled out in exasperation. "I'm not going to hurt him!" In the space it took to blink, Hiei had moved to stand next to Pansy, who shrieked in suprise. ="I'm going to help him, as per my koi's request. He is going to get the healer of this place."=
Draco blinked in suprise. ="Harry asked you to help Blaise?"=
"Eeh (AN: its a sound of agreement- stretch out the 'e' sound of 'bed')."
Draco looked uncertaintly between his friend and Hiei. He finally stood and moved away from Blaise, who's shivering had lessened when Kurama had left. ="Very well then. Please, Hiei-san, do all you can."=
"Hn."
"Draco," Snape hissed to the pale youth who walked over to stand beside him. Pansy, as well, had moved to them when Hiei had suddenly appeared next to her. "Do you know what you're doing? What did Minamino say to you? What is he going to do?"
"He's going to help." Draco said, softly and increduously, "because Harry asked him to."
"And if Potter cared, why did he just run? What did he do?" Snape groused.
"He's going to get Madame Pompfrey."
"Can we trust him?"
"We have no choice."
Hiei took a few steps towards Blaise. Blaise looked up at his approach, eyes not really seeing. "Blaise," Hiei called softly.
"He won't respond," Draco said, "He hasn't shown any recognition to anything any of us have said."
Hiei frowned and muttered, "I thought as much." Hiei called out again, still the single call of "Blaise," but this time, the name was barely recognizable. It was spoken in the strange language that Hiei spoke to Kurama, and Draco shivered at his friend's name coming out in such a strange way.
Blaise's head raised a bit, and he looked around, a bit frantically. Hiei's face darkened, and he called out again, this time in a third language, one that none had ever heard before...[Blaise.]
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AN: i tried to make this chapter longer to kinda repay you for the super long wait! i'm not really sure if it really is longer, but i think it is! =) the place with the "-----------" is where i was going to end the chapter, but i felt bad for doing such a short and unsatisfactory chapter that i put the would-be next chapter together with this one...hope this pacifies you who threw the rocks and pointy objects at me...=)
ill explain what was going on with blaise and what happened in the cloud in the next chapter, probably...maybe not the blaise issue...that might come up later, but almost defintely what was going on in the cloud...=) i promise the next wait wont be this long...i hope! ;
Did I spell 'gryphindor' right? o.O????
ok...enough with the excuses...thats all true, but the main reason i hadn't updated was cause i didnt have a chapter. I mean, I knew what i was going to do, and it was all in my head, but i never found ( or made) the time to type it up. i just did.
The Best Western i'm staying at doesn't have internet connection, so i can't update this RIGHT THIS MOMENT when i finished writing. This update is up when i got to summer camp...=) once again, i'm REALLY sorry about the super long wait and i hope you didn't forget what was going on... I put in a brief summary, just in case you did...
Disclaimer: YYH and HP dont and never will belong to me.
languages in this chapter: ="Japanese"= "Makai-nese" "English"
Hiei to Kurama telepathy [somethine that will be explained later in the story]
---------------------------- Summary of what was going on ------------------ -------------------------
Mosathor insulted Hiei right before the class, so Kurama got revenge by turning him blue. (=D) Snape started testing those who finished the potion on how well they did. Kurama took his and Neville's and then a cloud of dust went 'boom' and now, everyone's waiting anxiously to find out what happened... [AN: this is really short and really bad...if you want to be in the right mood, go back and read the last bit of the previous chapter...this is for those of you too lazy to do that...ppl like me ]
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Instead of slowly clearing, the cloud got thicker and thicker, then slowly started to turn a pale blue. The tension mounted in the room, and Draco could sense that Hiei was getting tense, and he tentatively rested a hand on Hiei's shoulder. He wasn't suprised when Hiei shoook it off, irritated. The fire demon's eyes were fixed on the cloud where Kurama had been standing, and his gaze was getting darker and darker.
Hiei, though not showing it outwardly, was getting worried. Kurama's ki had spiked, subsided, and has been climbing, slowly, but steadily, when it suddenly flared. "Hiei!" A desperate voice rang out from middle of the cloud. It was a rich baritone, unfamiliar to all but Hiei, and before anyone realized it, Hiei had disapeared into the midst of the cloud, ignoring Snape's shout of caution. Draco and Blaise caught a glimpse of silver before the cloud closed behind Hiei.
Seamus, Dean and Hermione started to move foward, but were caught by Snape. Neville hung in the back, uncertain and frightened. "What do you think you are doing?"
"Harry's in there! And somethings happened!" Dean said, trying to keep from snarling. "Would you have us wait here while who knows what is happening to Harry?" Hermione nodded, frantic.
"Please Professor!" she added hysterically.
Snape sneered, "Do you really think that I would let a student of mine get hurt intentionally?"
"You might," Seamus muttered darkly, not really trying to avoid getting heard, "it is Harry after all. You great greasy git..."
Severus' eyes narrowed to slits of black stone. Snape said in a soft, steel-laced voice, "Watch your tongue, Mr. Finnigan. Twenty points from Gryphindor for a blatent show of disrespect to a teacher. I have my reasons for preventing you from going in, and Minamino is stupid for entering a situation he is ignorant of. I do not know what Potter or Longbottom did to create that cloud or what is going on inside it. If I did, I would be the first to remove a student from danger. That cloud may have effects that are irreversible, harmful, or potentially fatal. I have never, in all my time as Potions Master of this school, seen this happen when someone was making a potion." Snape slightly lowered his head, so that his hair formed a shadow over his face. A candle flickered and went out near the door, plunging that area into complete darkness.
"Believe me, Mr. Finnegan, I have seen more than you can ever imagine. A word of advice: rushing into an unknown situation may cause you to become a victim as well. I am not an idiot and will not send others to become victims when the situation is uncertain." By the end of his speech, Snape's voice had dropped to a low, deadly hiss.
Seamus stood, paralyzed and unable to tear his eyes from Snape's darkly glittering orbs. He knew, as well as the rest of the trembling class, that Snape's words were not only about the mysterious cloud hanging in the middle of the lab, but also the war they were in the middle of.
Draco shook himself slightly, and snapped out of the state of shock that Snape's voice and words had placed him and the class into. His godfather had been born with the power of...persuasion, so to speak, and he used it to ingrain fear into the hearts of his students. Severus enjoyed scaring people far too much, in his opinion. The situation reminded Draco of the opinion that he was a teacher's pet, but that wasn't true. Draco really enjoyed Potions, and he had grown up with Severus around, so he was able to counter Sev's 'powers' more easily than most.
He glanced over to his right and noticed and Pansy was in the same state as everyone else. Her eyes were fixed on their Head of House, glazed with fear and some other similar emotion. Her face was pale, and her hands were shaking slightly.
On his other side, was Blaise. He took a look, and then did a double take. Blaise's face was filled with an indescribable emotion, his eyes were clear, and he was restlessly shifting from one foot to the other, rubbing his arms uncomfortably. His face was deathly pale, and his hair seemed all the more dark. His eyes were not fixed upon Snape, as everyone else, but on the cloud hanging omniously in the middle of the dungeon classroom.
Draco took a look around and hissed as softly as he could, "Blaise!" The dark haired boy looked over, cocking his head in question. "What are you doing, Blaise?" Draco demanded quietly. "Why...?" He trailed off and gestured to the rest of the class who were slowly sliding out of the shock they had been in and the different one Blaise was in. Severus was not able to instill this type of emotion in people.
Blaise shook his head, his ponytail swinging back and forth across his back and replied, just as softly. "Don't you feel it, Draco?" Draco blinked at him, confused. Blaise shivered, and continued, more to himself than to his friend and confident. "No, of course you wouldn't. This ki...its unsettling. So powerful and dark...slightly familiar..." Blaise looked up at Draco and forced a grin. "Don't worry your blonde little head over it. You wouldn't have any clue what I'm talking about anyways."
Draco 'mmm'-ed and nodded his head, vaugley wondering if what Blaise was talking about had anything to do with the strange feelings he'd been getting from Hiei and that time when Harry had red hair and did weird and creepy things with plants that listened to him. The thoughts were quickly pushed to the back of his mind, though, when the cloud suddenly burst outwards.
"Get DOWN!" Snape bellowed, and no one needed to be told twice. Everyone hit the floor. A wave of nausea washed over many of them, and when the cloud cleared, everyone pushed themselves up or helped each other up unsteadily. Snape was on his feet almost instantly, wavering a bit, before gaining his bearings. His wand was out and his face was closed.
Out of the filmy haze, two shadowly figures slowly became visible. One was tall, the other, not. As the dust finally dissapiated, everyone got a glimspe of long silver hair before everything went flashed and the world went dark. Draco faintly heard Blaise breathe out, unbelievingly "Kurama..." and saw him hit the floor unconcious, before he too went unconcious.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- draco...DRACO!"
Draco awoke to the sound of someone calling his name and shaking him. He blearily blinked his eyes and Blaise's still slightly pale face came into focus, with Kurama looking over his shoulder, both worried and obviously relieved when he sat up, holding his head.
"My head..." Draco moaned, cradling it in his hands. He had a pounding headache and from the looks of everyone else who were in various stages of conciousness around the dungeon floor, he wasn't the only one. He blinked and took a look at Kurama. And looked again.
"Harry?" He asked increduously. "Your hair...its red again..." Kurama laughed grimly and ran a hand through his hair a bit self-conciously.
"Yea...I suppose its an aftereffect of the potion...maybe..."
"Harry." The name was bit out from Hiei's lips. Kurama turned to him, eyes questioning. "He knows something...and his ki..." Hiei glared at Blaise, who returned the look uncomfortably. "He can sense it...and he knew you. Before." The last bit was snapped out, and with one last vemonous look at Blaise, Hiei retreated into the deep shadows of the dungeon.
"Minamino, Potter! Report to the Infimary immedietly!" Snape snapped. "Touch no one and nothing...don't even breathe until you've been cleared by Madame Pompfrey. She can deal with your...hair." Hiei stepped out next to Kurama, an annoyed look on both their faces, though it was quickly masked.
"Professor," Kurama started, "we're..."
"No. I don't want to hear whatever lame excuse your pathetic brain has come up with. You could have harmed any possible number of students as well as myself. Go. To. The. Infirmary. NOW." Snape snarled out. As the two demons turned to leave the room, Snape added, "Ten points from Gryphindor for the blundering the potion. And another ten for creating an unknown, potentially dangerous effect. And five from Minamino for venturing into a situation you had no clue about."
Kurama and Hiei paused and turned, the former outraged and suprised, the latter simply because Kurama did. "Professor! Hiei is not part of Gryphindor house! You don't have the authority to remove points from Gryphindor for something he did!" The other students murmmered their agreement.
"Very well then, Mr. Potter," Snape sneered, "I shall take those five points back from Minamino," sighs of relief, "and transfer them to you for calling Minamino into a situation you were not sure about." Gasps of shock and horror. Kurama seethed inwardly, he had known what would happen! There was no way he was not sure about the situation! To everyone, Kurama seemed to calmly accept the rather large point deduction and turned with Hiei to leave the room on thier way to the Hospital Wing.
"Professor!" Pansy's frantic call stopped both demons in their tracks for a second time. Snape turned around, annoyance written all over his face. Annoyance, which quickly fled. Draco was kneeling next to Blaise, who was sitting on the where he had been standing, knees drawn up to his chest.
Blaise's face was pale, sweating lightly, and his breathing was ragged. He was huddled over and his handers were gripping his arms so hard, his knuckles had turned white and his nails were starting to draw blood. Blaise was biting his lip and his teeth had already pierced the skin. Draco was gripping Blaise's shoulders, trying to ease the younger boy's trembling. Pansy was standing over both of them, wringing her hands helplessly.
Snape ran over and kneeled down beside the two and tried to pry Blaise's hands from his arms. His attempts were in vain, and he turned to Pansy. "What happened?"
Draco looked up and was the one who answered. "During Harry's time in that cloud...thing...Blaise was already really pale and he seemed really uncomfortable and he kept shifting around. Just now, he suddenly dropped to his knees and started shaking. And then..." Draco gestured helplessly at his friend who suddenly let out a cry. "Blaise!" was torn from the thoats of the two Slytherins nearby, and the other students who were crowding around.
Kurama took one look and paled. The two demons stepped into one of the pitch dark alcoves near the door. He looked down at Hiei, who's face was expressionless. He whispered, "Hiei, do you think..." Hiei surveyed the scene, then frowned a bit.
"Perhaps."
"Please, Hiei. Help him." This too, was said so softly, that none but Hiei's ears could have caught the desperate plea. Hiei narrowed his eyes and stared up at the deep green orbs that were a sight for sore eyes, pardon the pun. He reached up and ran a hand through the red locks that he had missed, never breaking his gaze, searching for something from the 'windows to the soul.'
Hiei saw, within Kurama's eyes, the love that shone only for him, and would never again shine for someone else. The unwavering loyalty that lay in those he trusted. The golden flecks that meant that Youko Kurama was influencing the current Kurama to a certain extent. And the complete desperation that Kurama was feeling. Hiei let out a sigh, and pulled Kurama down for a quick kiss. K'so. If you were anyone but you, kitsune... "Alright. Do what you have to do, as will I."
Kurama hugged Hiei tightly, mummuring a 'thank you' into Hiei's neck. Hiei's arms came up awkwardly to hug Kurama back. He still wasn't used to showing affection. Kurama threw open the classroom door and dashed out. The sudden beam of light drew the attention of the class from Blaise to the now empty doorway, back to where Hiei stood at the edge of the circle that surrounded the three Slytherins and their Head of House. The other Slytherins formed the innermost crowd, and the everyone else peeked in from the spaces between their heads. Snape opened his mouth to speak, but Hiei cut him off,
="Draco. Move."=
Draco looked up and answered in the same language, a bit defensively. ="Why? What are you going to do to him?"=
Hiei snarled out in exasperation. "I'm not going to hurt him!" In the space it took to blink, Hiei had moved to stand next to Pansy, who shrieked in suprise. ="I'm going to help him, as per my koi's request. He is going to get the healer of this place."=
Draco blinked in suprise. ="Harry asked you to help Blaise?"=
"Eeh (AN: its a sound of agreement- stretch out the 'e' sound of 'bed')."
Draco looked uncertaintly between his friend and Hiei. He finally stood and moved away from Blaise, who's shivering had lessened when Kurama had left. ="Very well then. Please, Hiei-san, do all you can."=
"Hn."
"Draco," Snape hissed to the pale youth who walked over to stand beside him. Pansy, as well, had moved to them when Hiei had suddenly appeared next to her. "Do you know what you're doing? What did Minamino say to you? What is he going to do?"
"He's going to help." Draco said, softly and increduously, "because Harry asked him to."
"And if Potter cared, why did he just run? What did he do?" Snape groused.
"He's going to get Madame Pompfrey."
"Can we trust him?"
"We have no choice."
Hiei took a few steps towards Blaise. Blaise looked up at his approach, eyes not really seeing. "Blaise," Hiei called softly.
"He won't respond," Draco said, "He hasn't shown any recognition to anything any of us have said."
Hiei frowned and muttered, "I thought as much." Hiei called out again, still the single call of "Blaise," but this time, the name was barely recognizable. It was spoken in the strange language that Hiei spoke to Kurama, and Draco shivered at his friend's name coming out in such a strange way.
Blaise's head raised a bit, and he looked around, a bit frantically. Hiei's face darkened, and he called out again, this time in a third language, one that none had ever heard before...[Blaise.]
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AN: i tried to make this chapter longer to kinda repay you for the super long wait! i'm not really sure if it really is longer, but i think it is! =) the place with the "-----------" is where i was going to end the chapter, but i felt bad for doing such a short and unsatisfactory chapter that i put the would-be next chapter together with this one...hope this pacifies you who threw the rocks and pointy objects at me...=)
ill explain what was going on with blaise and what happened in the cloud in the next chapter, probably...maybe not the blaise issue...that might come up later, but almost defintely what was going on in the cloud...=) i promise the next wait wont be this long...i hope! ;
Did I spell 'gryphindor' right? o.O????