A/N: Hey ya'll! Uber sorry for the way long wait, I've been busy! Blame it on the school…..please…!:P Anyways, here's the chapter, I'm gonna TRY to make I long!!
"Koenma….Where is James?!" Hiei demanded as he thrust Koenma's office door open. With an indignant shout, Koenma leapt up, to hide that fact he was taking a little snooze.
"Hi- Hiei?!, "he shrewdly narrowed his eyes at the fire demon in suspicion, "What are you doing here?!" he demanded, "you should be getting prepared for you assignment, now that you got the job!" he quickly commanded as he put some random papers in his face, to make it look like he was reading them, in an attempt to show Hiei he was 'busy' and was 'interrupting his important work'," Hiei just shot him an annoyed look.
"Where is that stupid ningen, brat?!" he impatiently snapped with a snarl. The aforementioned "brat" slammed his chubby tiny little hands on his desk and glared at Hiei.
"Hey, is that anyway to talk to you ex-boss!?" he angrily retorted. Hiei just snorted with contempt as he warily eyed Koenma.
"Ex-BOSS?! Ha! You had to force me to slave work for you, brat! Now then, where the hell is JAMES?!" They continued to look at each other with narrowed eyes, the tension running high, until Koenma slumped back into his chair with a sigh.
"He's out," he simply replied. The fire demon's eye twitched.
"Out? Could you be a little more….detailed explanation?!" Koenma just shrugged and relaxed in his chair.
"Well, he left with Kurama to explore the Makai with him. He said something about his head probably being sliced off when he's asleep…"he thoughtfully murmured more to himself than to Hiei.
"….Coward….." he grumbled to himself as he gracefully turned around, then, he glanced back at Koenma, "Oh, and why didn't you tell me about James' son?" he asked. Koenma froze, before he weakly regarded Hiei with a shaky smile.
"Well…..we weren't sure if you should know that." He slowly answered. Hiei turned back around to face the young god with a curious expression, and a silent accusation burning with the flames of black fire within the endless sea of crimson eyes. (Is that worded right?O_o)
"Oh?" he gracefully raised one his eyebrows, "In other words you gave me some big important mission that everything rides on…..basically, and you don't trust me with some bit of information?" he calmly asked.
"Weell" Koenma unsurely started, "it's not that we don't….TRUST you….ehh…it's just that we were being……CAUTIOUS! Y-yeah! Cautious….eh heh heh heh…" Hiei narrowed his eyes at the nervously chuckling "Brat"
"….Whatever, I'll be at Mukuro-sama's, when James gets back, you had best send a message to me, brat!" He warned with one last death glare before he turned to leave. Koenma couldn't help but flinch when Hiei loudly slammed the door shut, leaving the young god with this newfound…silence in his office. With a relieve sigh he slumped back into his chair.
"Why does this always have to happened to me?!" he whined to himself.
"So James, why is it that Koenma granted you permission to walk amongst the living?" Kurama asked as they walked through a small crowded demon village. James let out a nervous nervous chortle as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Because I forgot to tell Hiei about my death, and….it was pretty important. I kind of realized this when I watching Hiei's little interview, Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, kind of…." He trailed off, knowing full well Kurama got the point. The red head couldn't help but smile at James.
"I see, so you left in an attempt to run from Hiei?" he asked. The dead wizard nodded as he uneasily eyed the group of sneering demons eyeing the two with unmasked hunger, "Well….you do realize Hiei resides in the Makai, right? So….I fail to see the logic of running to here…" James laughed again.
"Ah ha ha! I know….but….He wouldn't look here right?!" he smugly, and loudly might I add, pointed out with an expression on his face that just seemed to scream "SUCCESS!!!"
"Well….I admit, it's not likely Hiei would look for you here, but…..I take it you don't know Koenma too well…" James stopped his guffaw of victory and looked at Kurama like Armageddon was just a hair's breath away.
"Uhhh…..no…" Kurama sighed and shook his head in a sign of sympathy.
"Oh, well…Koenma is a bit…..cowardly when it comes to demons like Hiei…..and demons like Hiei tend to question the where a bouts of people like you, to people like Koenma, knowing full well people like Koenma would blabber it out as some kind of instinctive…..defense mechanism….do you understand?" Kurama explained in his usual way of never telling the flat out truth.
"……Shit…."
Hogwarts, the wizarding school famed throughout the wizarding world, was in a but of a….slump….to put it lightly. Critcs around the wizarding world were either being bribed, payed, threatened, brainwashed, or they actually believed that Albus Dumbledore was indeed insane. After all, Voldemort insane?! HA!! What kind of lies will that "old senile man" make up now?! But……all of those…were lies…..lies….that's all they were. That's all they ever would be. No matter how many Professor Umbridges the ministry sends out…no matter how many bumbling dolts become the leader of the wizarding world, THEY WERE ALL NOTHING BUT LIES! Lies the lot of them! So why? WHY did people believe these lies?! Is the truth simply too horrid for people to grasp? Does the name "Voldemort" send people into a false sense of security? Is there no such thing as backbone in the wizarding world? Are wizards…no…people so stupid as to keep on living in their false dreamworld? Is mankind really made up of such….fools?! Or maybe…..it was he who was the fool…..to think a race…a deceitful, untrustworthy, cowardly race such as mankind….was capable of accepting the truth? Of embracing the truth? Of going against the lies…
No…….
Yes…….
No…….
YES…..
NO……
Who knows? But one thing was for sure…. unless they make the right decision…..people will die…..wizards will die….demons will die….spirits will disappear….no…more people will die…more wizards will die….more demons will die…and…more spirits will disappear….Innocence will be no more….Malice will rule once again….is there no hope…for this helpless race? For this helpless reality? Helpless existence? Life? Was everything helpless?
Hopeless….
Useless…..
Is that…what reality is? Is that all everything should exist for? Would anyone know? Will anyone know? If so….how? When? Why?! Why does this cycle happen in the first place?! This cycle of….
Of hate
Of malice
Of revenge
Of death
Of lost innocence
Of no hope
Of no point
Of despair
…..Is that all life is? The existence of the (1) damned forever? If so…..is Armageddon…..really so bad? Or is it….Salvation? Nirvana? Eden? Yes….Eden….what a beautiful word….so peaceful….so loving….no hate….no nothing…..yes…that would my Eden….Nothing….peaceful days….yeah…nothing but lies though…..If I were to believe in this false Nirvana…..believe that that is what I wish for….will I too become drawn in the endless space of lies?….Is being pulled into that space really that bad? They all seem so….happy….and those who know the truth so…..mournful……Perhaps….lies are not all bad….
That was all the depressed spirit could think as she watched the destruction of everything….Soon, everything would end. She just….she could feel it was soon. So very soon…..but was it bad? Or maybe….a miracle in disguise? A promise of nothing, blissful numbness to the world around…and yet…there are those who fight for the right to feel! To fight the numbness, why? WHY do they do that?! What is wrong? What is right? Why can't it all be black and white?! Bad and good…kill the bad, fight for good. But what was good? What was both bad and good….grey…in the world of black of white… With a long tired sigh, she watched with mournful eyes as the people of the living, demons and few wizards, prepared for a massacre, while other creatures of the living, the humans and most wizards, lived in blissful obliviousness. But that obliviousness will change, it will change to fear. To panic….to the horrifying realization…that everything was not calm…everything is not good….no…everything was…..terrible….and the Reikai could only to so much….Please, to whatever fates that live with a heart and clear conscious…..make everything right again! Make those deceitful lies…turn into reality. Make reality good again, no bleak…..clammy….make it so death is horrible, and not a salvation…
A/N: Hmm……I admit, the last paragraph or two was bit…..angsty. I suppose it wasn't really much longer at all….-_-but I don't know what else to put!! In all honest to goodness truth, I had no clue how I was going to show what the Makai, and the wizarding world, and the Reikai, how everyone was preparing for it, and well, I just kind of randomly typed Hogwarts and…well…..here ya' are! I hope ya' like it! Ja!…err….well…maybe after the comments and stuff….
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Redrayne: Eh…This wasn't "soon" was it? O_o Very sorry, hope this met your standards!
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