I wish I did, but I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or Harry Potter.

The rest of the week went by pretty quickly. Fred and George let loose some Merry Mistletoe around the house-it follows you everywhere until you kiss someone- but that's about as crazy as anything got. Eventually it attacked the Weasley twins, so they put a stop to the fun and packed them back into their boxes.

Mrs. Weasley saw to it that Kurama, Harry, Ron, Ginny, and Hermione got on the train back to Hogwarts safely, along with their goodies for the ride. They chatted about the upcoming N.E.W.T.s, teachers, quidditch, other people's Fantasy Creatures, and what they could possibly be. Ron and Harry insisted that Malfoy's pet was going to hatch into a slug. During the whole trip back Kurama tried to get his mind off of his friends' disappearances, but he found that nearlyimpossible to do. It gets pretty hard trying not to think about your closet friends when they could be just about anywhere, and in just about any condition.

When they arrived to the school grounds, they promptly went to the Griffindor Tower and unpacked their things. The rooms were empty, they figured, because everyone was hanging out in different parts of the building. They peeked outside the windows and saw first year students trying to get a hang of flying a broom.

Only when Kurama was placing his socks in his drawer did he notice that there was a note addressed to him. It read-

Hope you had a most enjoyable holiday! A break from schoolwork is always look forward to.

Alas, please come to my office as soon as you find the chance.

Best wishes,
Dumbledore

The demon carefully folded up the note and stuck it inside his pocket. "I need to attend to something," he stated casually to his friends. "I'll be back soon, I expect."

"Alright." "Okay." "See at dinner, then," they all said, bidding their friend farewell. Kurama then walked down the halls and moving stairs until he reached the headmaster's office. He knocked lightly.

"Enter," called a warm voice that was identified as Dumbledore's. Kurama did as he was told and entered the room. "Make yourself comfortable." He bowed slightly and found a seat in front of the headmaster.

"Good day, professor," he began, respectful as always.

"I am delighted you were able to join me today, Kurama," the old man responded. "On a separate matter, my dear friend Hagrid has informed me that your class has each received a Fantasy Egg, is that right?"

"Yes, sir. It is."

"Indeed..." The headmaster paused for a short moment or so, gazing passed the demon's head,and continued on with, "You seem like the kind of young lad that would end up raising a chimera, or perhaps a fox, ahippogriff, maybe even a phoenix."

"I have a phoenix, sir," Kurama told Professor Dumbledore politely. "I settled on giving him the name of one of Hogwart's founders: Ravenclaw."

"A well-thought out choice in that," Dumbledore nodded amusingly. "I am very please Hagrid chose such an interesting project for his class. I am considering finding a Fantasy Egg myself, in fact..."

"Pardon me, sir," the kitsune apologized sincerely, "but might I asked why you summoned me to your office?"

"Well, Kurama, there are two reason I have summoned you to this room," the headmaster began explaining. "The first is to merely ask about your welfare, which, I can see, is doing quite nicely, and the other is because there is something of a task that I am going to ask you to attempt, and see if you pass."

"A... task, professor?" Kurama asked unsurely.

"Quite so. It shouldn't take too much time, perhaps an hour or so, and you will only remain in my office during that time. Does that sound fairly reasonable to you, now?"

"Of course, sir."

"Glad to hear it," Dumbledore commented brightly, pulling out his wand. "As you know, Lord Voldemort is suspected to be planning an attack on my school."

"I've been informed," Kurama agreed.

"But what you do not know is that he has recently recovered the trick to altering and adapting one's memory," he went on. "I'm sure you could guess how disaterous that would prove to be if he used it. Because of this, I am going to place you under a spell. The spell will continue for an hour, but that could seem like years by the state you'll be in.

"I will put you to sleep, and ou will wake up inside of a sort of dream, only it will seem to you as reality. There will be changes that I have personally made to your memory, and when I find it suitable, I will pull you from your fake world, depending on how well you do. I am doing this to witness your resources and your very soul."

"Am I going to be the same after I get out of the dream?"

"You'll be fine. It is just a dream, after all."

The kitsune paused, then slowly questioned, "This... this will be safe, right professor?"

"Oh yes, very safe. I will personally be watching you the entire time."

Kurama nodded slowly and steadily, as if agreeing to this task too quickly would cause massive catastophies. "I'll try my best, Professor Dumbledore. Sir, whenever you're ready."

In a flash of light, Kurama's body went limp, and his mind went blank, and Dumbledore had wanted the boy to figure as much. But what the demon didn't know was that Harry Potter had been inside the headmaster's office the whole time as well as he, under the protection and unwatching eye of the invisibility cloak.

"Now Harry," Dumbledore began when Harry tugged his cloak off, "you do need to be sure to remember that when you enter Kurama's world, you will not be a friend of his, please understand that. It is very important to remember this."

"Yes, professor."

"After you meet Kurama, I want you to try to convince him that his mind has been corrupted. This is the main solution to combat the memory editing. If you are unsuccessful after long, I will awaken Kurama, and you will both come back into consciencness in this room. We will then go on from there."

"I'm ready, Professor Dumbledore," Harry told his headmaster surely. A light surrounded the boy, and he too drifted out of the real world of magic and muggles.

AN: Kay, well, I'm done with chapter 24 now! I hope you liked it

Also, I'm glad to see that eight people reviewed on the last chapter. That's awesome. Thank you FreeMoment, Time and Fate, Paksennarion, Makurayami Ookami, Everqueen, Marikalay, little-wolfe, and Animefour you! I really liked reading them.

I've written a little bit more into the story, but I haven't had the time to put it onto the computer. I think I'm almost done writing the story, but there will still be a good bit for you to read until that time comes.

Until chapter 25! -KinoFox