I wish I did, but I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or Harry Potter.
"Blimey, the first day of classes are always the longest?" Ron groaned, dragging himself into Charms class. "Why do they have to have school right after summer's over?"
Hermione rolled her eyes. "Seriously Ron, you'd think you'd still be half asleep. And the first day of school is not the longest. We rarely have any important assignments until the second week. Look on the bright side- Potions class isn't until Friday, and then we'll have the weekend to look forward to."
"I'm just lucky that Charms isn't something I'm completely terrible at," Harry added. "And with my luck, Professor Trelawny will be telling me how I die again during Divination. Peeves, cut it out!" The little poltergeist kept tugging on Harry's hair, disappearing before he could turn around.
"Everyone settle down, settle down," Professor Flitwick shouted, tapping his wand on his desk like he was about to begin an orchestra. "Now, I know that this is the first day, but this class is more advanced than it used to be, so we're going to go right into our lesson." He recieved many groans from the room. "Don't worry, don't worry, if we use our time wisely, we should be quite able to make it to the end of class without being assigned homework. Now, today we'll be working on Flame-Freezing Charm..."
Kurama zoned the man out. He had already learned how to transform flames into a cool, misty breeze, and he knew it fairly well. It would do him no good to hear the lesson again. After ten minutes or so, Professor Flitwick asked for volunteers to perform the spell. He, Hermione, and a few other students raised there hand.
"Let me see now," he began, running his old finger down the list of names. "Mr. Longbottom, you go ahead and be our first one." Neville stood up nervously, muttered his spell, and pointed his wand at the fire Flitwick had summoned up. The fire burnt out as if he had just poured a bucket of water on it.
"Good first try, Longbottom," the old wizard said, showing the boy to his chair. "Uh... I'll have, ah yes, Mr. Minamino now. Shuuichi, would you like to give a go?"
Kurama nodded and got out of his seat. He pulled out his wand and cast the spell flawlessly at the fire. The fire blew softly into the professor's face, but he did not recieve a scortch mark at all.
"Excellant, five points to Griffindor," he proclaimed. "I couldn't have done it better myself Minamino. Class, what you've just witnessed is how I would like your presentation to look like." He turned to Kurama and told him that he could return to his seat. Kurama gave him a bow, and rejoined Harry.
"Hey Hermione, looks like you've got competition now," Ron joked.
"Oh, I wouldn't want to compete at all," Hermione insisted. "Good work Kurama. We should get together at the library sometime and discuss what we know." Kurama promised that he would and turned his attention back to the class, watching the other students attempt the feat he had done. Hermione of course did it perfectly, but no one else could quite nail it.
"Well, that's all for today, and since you all did well on your Flame-Freezing Charm, I won't give you anything due next class," Professor Flitwick told the room. Everyone cheered and piled out of the room.
At the beginning of Care for Magical Creatures, Hagrid had to leave for about fifteen minutes to see to something, so he let Slytherin and Griffindor goof off until he returned. The houses stayed divided however, because of the rivalry between each other.
"So Harry," Hermione said, deciding to be the first to start a subject, "What do you think'll happen this year?"
"What do you mean?" Kurama asked.
"Oh, well, Hogwarts kind of has a knack for something terrible happening every year," Harry explained. When he flashed Hermione a look, she she shrugged her shoulders innocently and went over to chat with Ron and Neville. "First year Lord Voldemort tried to get the Sorceror's Stone, second year he set a basilisk loose in the school, third year the dementors showed up and tried to kidnap my godfather"-Kurama had done some research and already knew about most of this- "Fourth year the Triwizard Tournament was rigged, and last year I had these weird dreams and... well, it's all been really weird. Maybe this year won't be so eventful. Maybe it'll even be sort of boring, you know?"
"Let's hope so," Kurama lied. 'Wonder what the boy would think if he found out that I was a demon and that I've already been dead, or that Hiei has a third eye.' He laughed to himself. 'That'd add to the school's disaster list. Koenma'll throw a fit too.' "So... how come Griffindor seems to be so much at war with the Slytherins?"
"Slytherin's evil, I keep tellin' you people that!" Ron and Hermione had wandered back over. "Each one of the lot is gonna turn out back, I can tell! All of the upper years influence the younger ones, and they turn out just as bad as the original. I mean, take a look at Malfoy! He's probably gettin' that new kid to be another of his body guards." Kurama saw that Ron was talking about Yusuke, who was chatting friendly to Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle.
"Ron, you shouldn't go about calling every one of the Slytherins evil! True, Malfoy's a stubborn, spoild brat, but that doesn't mean that they all are," Hermione objected. "Oh, and um, Kurama, about before-"
"A'right everyone! I'm back!" Hagrid called. Kurama heard Hermione mutter "oh for goodness sake", but kept his gaze facing the half giant. "This year, we'll be hav'n us a treat in this here class. Course, it'll cost yer a bit o' homework" -groaning- "but I promise you'll git a kick out of it. For at leas' through half of the second semester, we'll be learnin' about creatures that can take the form of a human. Some even speak the human tongue, that they do."
Kurama had jumped a bit when Hagrid announced what they were going to be studying. They'd have to learn all about the creature the reported on, and if one of the students happened to get a fox demon... well, his secret would be all but safe.
"Now, I've got a puppy with me now," Hagrid continued. He pulled out the cutest little puppy you ever did see. Its brown coat shined in the sun, and most of the girls began to "aww..." when it started whinning. "He's just half a year old, he is, but this little guy's already been taught by his parents how to take human form." He covered the dog with a blanket. "They're not too bright at this age, and they think if they go and turn themselves human we'll let 'im go." He set the bundle onto the ground. "Now look it this."
The figure under the blanket grew to about four feet tall. Some students gasped, the others to shocked or curious to say anything. Kurama knew about this process, but he kept his mouth shut and eyes on the blanket.
"Now, I don't wan' any of ya ter be talkin' when I take this blanket off, 'cause the little fella's incredibly shy. Most dog transformers like 'im don't talk when in human form, an' we'll jus' make 'im nervous if we do. Everyone got that?" All of the students nodded they're heads, not uttering a word. "Good, now 'ere we go"
He threw off the cloak and many students had to muffle his or her screams.
A boy that looked about the age of a third grader stood up, shaking nervously. Besides the fact that he had the same green eyes and brown hair on his head as the puppy did, you would almost think that he was a regular human being. Hagrid stepped over slowly and patted the boy head. He motioned for everyone to get in a line to take a betterlook at the "dog."
Most people when it came to their turn just gaped at the thing, while others pat him on the head like Hagrid did. Hermione took longer than the others, observing the creature, but she left when the boy started to shift uncomfortably.
Kurama, near the end of the line, stepped up to the boy. He had once been like him -scared, shy, young- but his line needed the knowledge of the human tongue in order to survive more efficiently. Kurama, carefully but confidently, stuck out his hand, palm facing to the sky. The puppy cocked his head to the side, trying to decide what to do, and then looked at Kurama. Kurama decided to let out a little of Youko's spirit energy, knowing that fox demons were very sociable towards other creatures that knew the art of transformation. He also knew that the boy's kind weren't called dog transformers, they were dog demons. Know one would know that though unless they'd been to demon world.
The puppy sniffed the air, the leaned forward on his toes to sniff the hair hanging in front of Kurama's face. Kurama gave the boy a reasurring smile, and the boy, now grinning from ear to ear, took the kitsune's hand and shook it. He let go, stood up straight, and transformed back to his original state. The puppy was wagging its tail like crazy, and it began to lick Kurama's fingertips.
Hagrid picked the dog up and set him back into his box. The puppy whinned a little, but then decided that it was time for a nap and drifted off to sleep. Hagrid asked Hermione to put an anti-noise speel on the box.
"Well now, uh..."
"Shuuichi. Shuuichi Minamino," Kurama offered.
"Erm, yeah, Shuuichi," Hagrid said, "excellant with the dog transformer. The tiny thing seemed to 'ave takin' a liking to yeh. Don' know what yeh did ter do that though. Mind sharin' it with the rest a' us?"
"Uh... No problem professor," Kurama said.
"Call me Hagrid."
"Hagrid then," Kurama corrected himself. "The boy seemed like he was scared. I thought if I gave him a warm welcome that perhaps he would open up to me. Seems that I was correct."
"Welp, right yeh were Shuuichi," Hagrid agreed, along with some of the others. "An' that's all fer today. I'd like everyone to have picked yerself out a human transformer to report on in two days. Then we'll start discussing them and writing on 'em."
Kurama tried leaving ahead of everyone else, but to no avail. It seemed that everyone -mostly girls- wanted to know more about him and the puppy. Six girls even asked if he was doing anything over the weekend and if he wanted to join them. Thankfully Harry and Ron pulled him out.
"Careful now Kurama," Ron kidded, "you don't want to end up being the most popular guy in school, now do you?"
"Thanks a lot," Kurama sighed, "I didn't even think it was that big of a deal."
"You should've seen Hermione," Harry put in. "She was eye-balling you like you were the long-lost twin she'd never had."
"More like the long-lost boyfriend she's never had," Ron corrected. The three laughed as they raced back into the building.
AN: Hey there good people! I hope you liked this chapter. I've got some good ideas in store for later, but I'll just tell you that things are going to start to get a lot more interesting pretty soon. TTYL!