Hiei simple scowled at the curious looks he was getting from the teachers, the Umbridge woman, and the students.
"Oh man, he looks so cool! Oh, I can't wait till my next Divination class!" a girl eagerly squealed to her friend.
"Bloody hell, this guy looks like he's gonna' be worse than Professor Trewalney when it comes to the whole 'despair and death' thing…" a boy with red hair grumbled.
"You see? That's why I think Divination is such a pointless class, none of it's true." Another girl stated, her mouth curled into the smallest of frowns.
'Bunch of brats, and I can't even beat some sense into them…damn humans and their soft ways…!' the demon sighed and walked up to Dumbledore and Umbridge.
"Where do I put my stuff?" he tonelessly asked. Umbridge made a feral growl at the back of her throat, while Dumbledore just smiled the tiniest bit.
"Allow me to show you your room, professor." The two left, leaving the rest of the school behind. Umbridge stood there, seething with rage. How dare Dumbledore defy her?! She let out another snarl, it's not like Divination was real. She could always find some mistake that the new teacher makes and fire him for it. Slowly, she calmed at the thought and smiled.
It was only a matter of time before she found a mistake…
"I bet you the first thing we hear when we get to class is 'you're going to die within a week, Harry Potter!" Ron loudly exclaimed as they entered the Divination classroom.
"I'm pretty sure your friend isn't going to be dying anytime soon, you, however, are a different manner," Hiei calmly said as he casually leaned against his death, eyeing the two with a dull sort of interest. Ron froze and nervously smiled.
"Uhh…sorry about the comment, professor!"
"Hn…the two of you can pick whatever seat you want." He gestured around the room. Harry had to admit; the room had a kind of outlandish creepy look to it. Hanging above the teacher's desk like a trophy was a sword. The room was lit only with a small amount of candles that valiantly tried to light the whole room, giving the place an ominous feel. A candle placed on each desk, with the exception of Hiei's desk, his had two on either side. Various designs of demons, dragons, and strange symbols they couldn't make out, due to the lack of light, was engraved on all the desks.
"Wow! What a cool room…" Parvati happily exclaimed as she looked around. Lavender chose to sit in a table at the center of the room, while Parvati quickly joined her. One by one the class began to fill while Hiei sat slumped in his chair, bored out of his mind. Once the whole class had arrived the jaganshi cynically eyed all of them before lazily getting out of his chair.
"Welcome to-" he was cut off as Umbridge noisily entered the room. She took a seat at the far end of the room, and smiled.
"Please go on, and act as if I don't exist."
"Wouldn't it be a dream if you didn't…" Hiei grumbled. Most of the class laughed while others nervously eyed the ministry worker, not sure what to do. Umbridge narrowed her beady little eyes at him, and frowned before she wrote something on her clipboard. "Don't do anything to jeopardize this mission!!" Botan's voice floated into his mind. With a sigh he continued on. Looked like he would have to behave himself from now on, "Anyways, welcome to Divination. I realize you all were working with tealeaves and all that other…stuff, and I don't do that stuff. In fact, I believe the future is, and always will be, indefinite until it happens." Parvati and Lavender stared at their new teacher in horror.
No tealeaves, palm readings, or doomsday orbs? No….
"However I know some of you loved that stuff, and it wouldn't be entirely fair for me to…make you stop what you like. So, I've gotten myself an assistant teacher." As if on cue, the door opened. Trewalney practically skipped into the room, a big smile on her face.
"Hello again, class!" she chirped. Umbridge quickly got up from her chair.
"What's going on?!" she demanded, "I fired you!" she pointed at Trewalney. The fortuneteller's happy expression faded, leaving her with a bitter look.
"I know."
"She's no longer a full fledged teacher, now she's my assistant." Umbridge opened her mouth to argue, but Hiei cut her off, "there's no rule stating I can't do this."
"There's no rule saying you can, either!" she angrily hissed. Hiei shrugged.
"That just means no one's thought about having an assistant teacher, and that's no one thought about not having one either. It's all a matter of context, really." Just because he had to behave didn't mean he was going to suck up to her. She glared at him, and then sat back down.
"I guess the minister will just have to add another rule saying I need to check assistant teachers as well, then." Trewalney sneered at the ministry worker while the class stared at their new professor in awe.
"This teacher is the coolest!" Ron excitedly whispered to Harry, and Harry was inclined to agree.
"Hn…" Hiei had that customary smug look on his face, "So, with assistant professor Trewalney here, those who want to continue their tea leaves studies and such are more than welcome too. The students who don't will still have me as your primary teacher." A student raised his hand. Hiei gave a slight nod towards his direction, "Yeah?"
"What about OWLS? How are we going to take them with two different subjects in one class?"
"Don't worry, near the end of the year I'll bring the class together again and we'll learn something…together for the OWLS." He replied. Another student raised her hand.
"How will you be teaching Divination if you don't believe in telling the future?"
"Divination is not just telling the future and such, it's also gaining hidden knowledge through the use of omens and/or supernatural powers."
"So you'll be teaching us omens? Isn't that what tea leaves are for?" Parvati asked.
"I won't be teaching omens, I'm not big believer in those either. I'll be doing it through the supernatural." The class burst into a mob of whispers over this new information.
"Supernatural? How can you teach the supernatural? Do you even know the supernatural?" Umbridge sneered.
"For one who isn't supposed to be existing right now, you do tend to interrupt a lot." Hiei coldly remarked as he glared at her.
"Prove that you have supernatural powers, professor Shigure." His ice-cold blue eyes narrowed even more at her, before he sighed.
"You heard her say it, didn't you class? So if she gets hurt, she was just asking for it, right?" all the students eagerly nodded, while Umbridge scowled and crossed her arms in stubborn defiance. Honestly, Hiei had no intention of his jaganshi, not yet anyways. He wanted to do something that was much more fun. The fire demon made a sweeping motion across the room, and the candles went out. Then, he concentrated his spirit energy onto the candles…
…and onto the hem of Umbridge's robe. The room glowed eerily as the black flames flickered about.
"W-what kind of flame is that…?" Ron stuttered. Harry carefully reached out to touch it, but was stopped by Hiei.
"Don't touch it. It's a supernatural flame that would happily eat away at your flesh if you were touch it, and you can't distinguish it with water either. Honestly if any of you were to get caught…I don't think I could help you." He went quiet for a while, before, "Professor Umbridge, I know you like to think you're above us all, but you're not above the flame. Catching your robe on fire will only get yourself killed." He calmly stated. A loud shriek was heard before the rustle of a robe being hurriedly taken off. The candles changed back into their normal glow, and the class could see Umbridge as she furiously tried to save her robe from destruction. Everyone burst into laughs and hysteric giggles, with the exception of Umbridge and Hiei, before she stopped and glared venomously at Hiei.
"Put. It. OUT!" she gritted, her eyes wide and wild. He simply flicked his wrist and the flame disappeared, leaving only a slight burnt mark at the hem of her robe.
"You should be more careful around fire, Professor Umbridge." He said in a condescending voice. She growled at him before she recovered whatever speckle of dignity she had left.
"Don't think the ministry won't hear about this, Professor Shigure! Reckless use of magic, that's what I'm putting you down for! You endangered my life and the life of your own students by showing your little trick!" she spat. Hiei shrugged.
"I merely lit the candles, you're the one who caught your robe on fire. I find it offly odd that the bottom of your robe caught fire, perhaps you intentionally put it on fire?" she bristled like a bull seeing red.
"How dare you! You set my robe on fire, didn't you?!" Her face was scrunched together in anger.
"That's an interesting accusation," he smirked at her, "I'm assuming you have proof to back this statement up…?" Her fists clenched as she angrily stomped out of the room. He sighed, "It looks like I'm not going to be graded today, what a shame." He dryly remarked. Then, the koorime turned back to his class.
"Are you going to be teaching us how to do that?! Because if you are, I know a lot of Slytherins that should see that fire!" a manic glee had flitted across Ron's face. Harry chuckled in amusement while Hiei rolled his eyes.
"I'm afraid not. That fire had taken me years to master, I still have to teach you all the basics. Like…mind reading." Now he had the class's attention, "but it's time for you all to choose what you want to learn in Divination: Fortune telling or mind reading. If you want fortune telling go the right, if you want mind reading go the left." Parvati and Lavender eagerly went to the right, while Ron and Harry went to the left. Others followed their lead, some to the left, some to the right, before the class was roughly divided by half. Trewalney wrote the students name under which subject they accepted, while Hiei languidly lounged in his chair. Finally, the class ended.
"We'll start the whole learning thing tomorrow, bring your books and materials." The class left, each person anxiously talking about tomorrow, and what happened during the class. Hiei watched as Harry left the room with a blank look.
'So he's Harry Potter... the boy looks just like James…except for the eyes.'
"That really was quite amusing, are you doing to do that in every class today?" Trewalney asked, peering at him with her freakishly huge owlish eyes. The jaganshi shrugged.
"If the need arises."
A/N: The angels are singing, the pigs are flying, the blue moon is rising, and I have updated! Sorry it took so long, I kind of had a writers block for all of my fanfics, so I was working on my originals,…until I decided I really need to update my account. :P So, since it's Summer and there's basically only my art classes, piano, writing classes, and Summer Homework to worry over, I should have a lot more time! Drop a review after you're done, all right? :)