I wish I did, but I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or Harry Potter.
"Kurama, your friends have disappeared from the school," Dumbledore revealed. "Professor Genkai is watching the school for me; I knew I needed to come and tell you this new personally, for it is always best to know about a friend's whereabouts."
"How could they have just disappeared?" Kurama questioned Dumbledore. "I know for certain that your school doesn't allow apparation, and even if it did, my friends don't have the ability to apparate yet-"
"No being is able to apparate on Hogwarts grounds under any sercomstances," the headmaster repeated to his pupil. "That is yet another reason I have left Professor Genkai at the school- in the case that your three friends are still inside Hogwarts School, hiding in a secret room, or chamber, that is unreachable to those who do not know of its exsistance."
"I wish to return to your school to search for my friends," the kitsune stated sternly, almost as if he were demanding it. "Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei... they're in no condition to help themselves right now, and I need to try to help them in any way I can."
'I should have helped them earlier,' he scolded himself inwardly. 'All this time they've needed me to help them, and I failed them by not being able to notice their behavior soon enough. I may have had been able to prevent any of this from happening; I may have been able to save them from... whoever did this, if only I hadn't been so blind... Even Hiei attempted to make me understand. He wanted me to read between the lines at the beginning and help them out.' He hadn't felt this ashamed in himself since his fox demon side hadn't been able to save his friend, and old partner, Kuronoe from death.
"You may return to Hogwarts after the holiday break has ended," Dumbledore explained clearly.
"I want to help my friends," the demon responded sharply, his temper irked somewhat. At least even to raise his voice and leave off a "sir" or a "professor" comment at the end.
"And leave your other friends wide open forany possible attack? I think not." Albus Dumbledore's facial expressiontold the kitsune that he knew what he was talking about, and that it would be best to listen to what he had to say. "Or have you forgotten that witches and wizards cannot withstand Unforgiveable Curses?"
Kurama thought on the comment for a moment, then answered slowly, "If I am to remain here, I would like it if Genkai were to send me daily reports, by owl, on the school, students, and any possible evidence of where my friends may have went or how they were able to leave undetected."
"That will be arranged," the old wizard agreed. "I understand that you want to find your friends, Kurama, but you are the best protection the Weasley home can receive at the moment. I will not let anything of my concern go unheard to you, is that understood now?"
"Yes, sir," the fox demon replied. "Thank you, sir."
His head felt like it was about to split open. How long had he been here? How much longer was he going to remain here? Those thoughts ran through his mind as he slowly pried open his eyes to look at his surroundings, but to be honest, there wasn't really much to see.
It was a dark, stone room. There were no windows or doors, one ceiling, and one cold, hard floor. Two figures lay unconsious across from him.
A groan escaped his throat as he propped himself up against the numbing wall. Although this as the first time he had really been allowed to move at his own will, he couldn't bring himself to be thankful. After all, who could be thankful when you were still overtaken and could be put back under the Imperius Curse any moment?
"Kurama will get us out of here," he said out loud, as if the unconsious figures near him were listening. "That fox can read into these things. And when he gets us out..." he clenched his fists so tightly that his knuckles went pale, "those fools they call Death Eaters will pay with their lives."
He slammed his fist into the wall, but even that noise wasn't enough to wake up Yusuke Urameshi or Kazuma Kuwabara.
"Until then, we're stuck here," he muttered, lowering himself back to the floor. Closing his eyes, Hiei drifted off into an unpleasant sleep.
"Woah, talk about weird," Ron said after Kurama explained to Harry and Ron what Professor Dumbledore had told him. He had to lie to Hermione and the rest of the Weasleys, though; he told them that Dumbledore wanted to make sure that he was taking good and serious care of the dog transformer, Cyrus, and that he had assured the headmaster that he had. Everyone seemed to buy it.
"That Dumbledore," Mr. Weasley had commented, "you just don't meet old fellows like him too much anymore. Sure wish we had him incharge as Minister of Magic..."
And Hermione merely pointed out that the kitsune was one of the most responsible students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and that it was a complete waste of effort to bother coming to the Burrow to ask.
"Where do you suppose your friends have gone off to, Kurama?" Harry asked, breaking a sugar cube in half to feed Griffindor.
"I don't think they went anywhere. At least, not willingly." Kurama paused as to recollect his thoughts. "I think I'm right in thinking that this 'Lord Voldemort' is behind their disappearances, and that he edited my friends' memories."
"I'm all against You-Know-Who as well, mate, but I think someone would notice if the greatest dark wizard happened to stroll into Hogwarts," Ron pointed out. He wasn't too fond of the thought of having the greatest dark wizard wandering the towers while he was asleep in bed.
"Lord Voldemort could have easily put someone under the Imperius Curse and sent them around the school," Harry added. "Trust me, Voldemort's more than capable of commiting all the Unforgiveable Curses. He doesn't give an owl's hoot about anyone but himself. He doesn't even care if his followers die or not."
"Harry, you're right!" Kurama exclaimed.
"That Ron should stop flinching at the word Voldemort? Yeah, I know. Stop that, Ron!"
"No, that's not what I mean," Kurama laughed. It was hard not to. "Voldemort must have placed someone in Hogwarts under the Imperius Curse! That must have also been the person who attacked you before! And then he -or she- must have been able to remove Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Hiei from the school."
"Brilliant, Kurama!" Harry complimented. "We just need to know the person Voldemort -if you keep doing that Ron, I swear I'll Confund you- put under the curse, and they'll take us straight to your friends!"
"Let's hope so," the demon nodded.
AN: Awesome, it's almost Halloween! I can't wait! I love that holiday!
And thank you to Goddess Bless, stuck-in-a-tree, Animefouryou, Makurayami Ookami, Time and Fate, Everqueen, Maeleana, and reckless fire for reviewing on chapter 22! I really liked reading them.
Until the next chapter