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

The next thing Harry Potter saw was the ceiling, finding himself lying on his back.

"Where am I?" he asked to nobody inparticular. With another good look around, he found that he was lying in his good ol' four-poster bed inside the Griffindor Tower. He jumped out of bed and walked over to where Kurama's bed had once laid: the space was now empty and unoccupied.

"So, I'm guessing he's not a Griffindor," Harry concluded, still trying to figure out his next move. He turned to gaze out of the tower window. Snow blanketed the school grounds and was continuing to peacefully decend from the sky.

Another thought occured to the young wizard- 'What if Kurama's a Slytherin?' thought dreadfully. If he was a Hufflepuff, or even a Ravenclaw, he'd have more chances speaking to the fox demon on friendly terms. It could become difficult if his friend had been surrounded by a house of serpents like Draco Malfoy.

"Harry, good! You're finally awake!" Ron scrambled into the room with a large smile slapped on his face. "I know it's the beginning of Christmas Break and all, mate, but sleeping until eleven is stretching it a bit, don't you think?"

'So Dumbledore was kind enough to place me in a holiday,' Harry told himself figuratively. 'ThanksProfessor, for giving me a better chance at this... this thing you want me to do.'

"S-Should we go down for some breakfast, then?" Harry suggested. Maybe he would find Kurama in the Great Hall, or at least figure out what house he had been placed in.

"Ate breakfast three hours ago, mate," Ron replied, "but, hey, I have room." He turned and started down the stairs; Harry followed him, the curiousity within him building.

"Hermione's gone with her parents already," the Weasley brought up. "She's lucky, at least she's going somewhere this year, am I right?"

"Why aren't you visiting your family again, Ron?" Harry asked casually. He wasn't too interested in listening though, he was just humoring him to play the part. While the redhead went on about something like, "parents going with Bill," and, "Fleur's family," he looked around for any signs of Kurama. He hadn't found any, at least, not yet.

Ron noticed Harry looked around. "Yeah, weird, huh?" he grinned, cocking up an eyebrow. "There's hardly any students left this time of year. Even half the teachers took off. Can't blame 'em, really. I'd want to be at my home, too."

"Hey, Ron, is Kurama staying here over the holidays?" the young wizard questioned in a fake ease, waiting expectantly for the answer.

"Who's Kurama?" Ron asked blankly. "Is he a first year brat or something?"

"No, not a first year," Harry said, then tried, "What about Shuichi Minamino?"

"Oh, Minamino. I heard he's staying at Hogwarts for Christmas. I think his mum was going somewhere... or... something like that." Bingo. So there was a Kurama in here. Only apparently he wasn't going by Kurama any longer, or in this case, he'd never gone by Kurama in the first place.

"Have you seen him this morning?"

"No, but I'll betcha a sack of Galleons that he's at the quidditch field with Hiei and Cho," Ron retorted, smirking. "Those three are always together, I'll tell ya. It's crazy, it's like their glued together."

"Why at the quidditch field?"

"Something stupid, of course. They think Ravenclaw actually has a chance at beating us this year! Can you believe that?"

"Right," Harry lied. "That's stupid."

They had to stop talking, because a staircase began to move and they just about had to just about jump to get to the lower level. When they were on a safer, flatter surface, Harry said, "Let's go there, to the quidditch field, right after breakfast. I need to talk to Ku... Shuichi about something."

The Weasley boy raised one eyebrow suspiciously, but said, "Okay, fine. I could use some more practice as a beater, anyway."

Harry and Ron grabbed their brooms after a quick morning -almost afternoon- meal, and headed down to the show-covered quidditch field. When they got there, Hiei, Cho Chang, and Kurama were soaring around in the cold air, practicing.

"Hey Harry," Kurama greeted nicely. Harry was glad.Kurama apparently was still raised as a well-mannered student. And it didn't sound like he hated him, which was something he had been hoping would turn out to be true.

"Hi..." Harry paused a moment. "Shuichi, what's up?"

Kurama landed his feet on the ground and hopped off his broom. Cho Chang and Hiei did the same. "Practicing for the matches that should be coming up after the N.E.W.T.s are over," he explained.

"Good idea," Harry nodded. What did Professor Dumbledore expect him to do? Go up to him and say, "Hey, I know you think you know your life and that you're a bloody brilliant Ravenclaw student, but you're actually a demon that chose to go to our school on a dangerous mission and joined the Griffindor house." Luna Lovegood might have been able to take that statement seriously, but she would be it. Anyone with half a sane mind would think that Harry had lost his. "Do you mind if we join? I could sure use the practice." The Ravenclaw trio exchanged glances with one another and agreed.

"Hope you're ready for a workout, boys," Cho warned.

"You make a fantastic chaser, Harry," Kurama said after the practice, heading inside.

"Yeah, well, Hiei's a fantastic seeker," the boy complimented. He meant it, too. That fire demon was able to maneuver his broom through the air as if it were an extention of his body. "How long have you three been friends?"

"Hiei and I go way back," the fox demon began. "All the way back to the Hogwarts Express, right before out first hear." He looked at his friend. "Do you still remember that, Hiei?"

"Yeah," Hiei replied, "that was when you were unmercifully childish. I joined the compartment with you and then you tried to transfigure your shoelaces into snakes."

"I almost did it, too," Kurama added.

"Hardly," the demon corrected. "More like a legless lizard. After that you screamed so loud you nearly broke my hearing and threw both of your shoes out the window of the train. I had to lend you an extra pair of mine until you mother could send you a new pair in the mail."

"Good thing your mother packed more than one pair," the kitsune grinned. "After that, we hung out, were put in the same house, and have been friends ever since. We met Cho on the way up to our rooms."

"Met me?" Cho smirked. "You almost knocked me over!"

"I couldn't help it!" Kurama exclaimed in protest. "Hiei's feet were smaller than mine! You try walking in shoes two sizes smaller than you!" Then the three Ravenclaws burst out laughing.

It was amazing what Harry was observing in front of him. All of this was a complete and total lie, but the description of the meeting of the three seemed all too real. From what Harry knew, Kurama thought that that had happened years before, but in reality, such a story didn't exsist. Finding howto convince his friend this truth, that his so-called life was a memory spell, seemed to be a nearly impossible task. But he had promised Dumbledore that he'd try to do that, and he didn't want to fail his headmaster any more than he wanted Voldemort alive.

"Uh... Shuichi, could I talk to you sometime today when you're free?" Harry asked slowly, careful not to sound out of the ordinary.

"Um... alright," the fox demon responded cooly.

"Great."

AN: Mkay, now let's see, what chapter is this? Oh, the 25th! Neat. I wrote some more this week, and it's getting pretty good, I'll tell you. I hope you liked this chapter, or at least that it was alright.

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