A/N: For Summer…I'm kind of stressed…Damnit. Oh well, I'm going camping soon (And away from the nuisances that are errors!) so I don't have to think about deleted stories with 20 some chapters I have to rewrite…and messed up ones with 3 chapters I have to rewrite…and remember. But I do have to try and stop my brother from destroying all civil relations with my dad, and my dad from disowning my brother. Alright, happy days… twitches Anyway, before I burst a vein or something I decided to update this story before I went camping so you guys don't have to wait yet another week, and I won't feel as guilty about putting all my concentration on the two stories I mentioned and on my original stories for…awhile. I'll try and squeeze as many updates I can for this story, when I remember to update this one (I have a tendency to kind of forget other stories when I'm inspired or excited or stressed about other ones.) Plus I gotta' start reading my Summer reading…forgot all about that too. O.o Just think, school hasn't even started yet! So yes, without further ado I give you the next chapter!
"He really set fire to Professor Umbridge's robe?" one student excitedly whispered to their friend.
"Yeah! You shoulda' seen it! It was like a bloody miracle, like Christmas all over again!" the two friends giggled together as they hurriedly headed to their next class. Hermoine watched the two, and rolled her eyes before she turned to Harry and Ron.
"Honestly, what has the world come to? A professor is harassing another one with silly pranks! A teacher shouldn't encourage that kind of behavior! And why did he choose Trewalney for an assistant? Don't you want an assistant that can actually teach the subject?" Ron shrugged.
"Come on, Hermoine! Some students like the fake stuff, it's an easy grade! But what Professor Shigure did was just awesome!" the red haired boy practically shivered with excitement, "Man, he's probably gonna' teach us how to make things float with our minds-"
"That's called telepathy."
"Actually…it's called telekinesis…" Harry corrected. Hermoine scowled, how could she get her psychic abilities wrong? (A/N: whistles innocently Heh heh…oops…? Thanks to koriaena for pointing the mistake out!)
"Whatever, but he might teach us how to do that! Oh, even better, he might show us how to create illusions or something! What do you think, Harry?" He just smiled.
"I dunno', guess we have to wait till our next lesson." Ron's face fell, whatever answer he was expecting, it wasn't that.
"Bah, you two have no imagination!" Both Hermoine and Harry grinned, while Ron just scowled at them.
"Come on, we have potions next," she chose to ignore the two groans behind her as she quickly walked towards Potions class. No point in giving Snape a reason to take points away from Gryffindor, he'd make up more than enough reasons in time.
Peter was excited, oh yes he was! Their contact had finally given them the missions that were assigned to the premier spirit detectives…or would they be called ex-premier detectives…? He stopped running to his lord, and thought about it. What were those demons called now? Only the human was a spirit detective…but the demons were helping Reikai…a wince spread over his grimy features. To many deep thoughts, his brain started to hurt. With a shrug, Peter quickly resumed his task of giving his lord the mission files. He burst through the door and practically tripped over his own feet as he skidded to a halt in front of an ominous figure, who wasn't really all that ominous since everyone knew who he was. (Think about it…)
"M-My lord!" the rat squeaked with a shaky bow, "The Demon Lord Yusuke had given us the missions reports, just as you asked him to!" A cold clammy hand emerged from the dark cloak. The small man happily gave the vital information away, pleased with himself. Now the Dark Lord would acknowledge him as the best evil henchman ever!
"Good work, be sure our contact isn't caught, Pettigrew."
"And if he is, My Lord?"
"Kill him before he tells the enemy anything."
"Of course my lord, I'm honored you would-"
"Just go!" Peter jumped, and quickly gave his lord a low bow before scuttling off, ignoring the various snickers and sneers coming from his fellow Death Eaters.
"Uhh…Botan!" Ogre quickly ran up to the ferry girl, "Lord Koenma wants to see you!" Botan just cocked her head to the side in confusion, but nodded.
"Alright," she casually strolled down the hallway, absently taking notice of the numerous ogres running around with gigantic stacks of paper in their trembling arms. She stopped in front of Koenma's door, and knocked.
"What is it, I'm busy!" the ferry girl bristled. He called her, and yelled at her. The bastard.
"It's me, Botan!" she snapped. A pause took place on the other side; complete and utter silence.
"Ok, come in!" She walked right in and glared at the toddler before her.
"What do you want, Lord Koenma? I'm supposed to be on break!" the God just waved his hand with a dismissive gesture and continued to frantically mill through the various papers scattered on his desk.
"Ok, ok, whatever! Just help me find some missing papers!" Oh…he was dead.
"WHAT?" that snapped him out of his frantic search, "You want me to give up my break just to find some stupid papers? No!" she stomped out of there, leaving Koenma alone his room. Then, he slowly looked down at the paper in his hand, and smiled.
"Never mind, Botan, I found it!" A particularly loud slam from some other door was his reply. (Yes, this part did have a purpose! You'll get it…sooner…or later…I hope.)
Keiko stared at her boyfriend, a suspicious look on her face.
"Shouldn't you be…doing something?" she asked, referring to Koenma's mission. The young demon lord shrugged and flipped through another page of his manga.
"Nah, I've done my part so far. Now I gotta' wait for stage two." She wasn't even gonna' try to understand that.
"Well don't you have a kingdom to look after?" Another shrug, another turned page.
"Kurama's taking care of it for me. I'll give them a visit later," he looked up from his book and grinned at his girlfriend, "besides, it's not everyday I get to have an excuse to be in the Ningenkai. I wanna' stay here with you for a while, that ok?" Keiko just rolled her eyes. Stay with her, huh? He had a hidden motive that much was obvious. He rarely stated something that romantic unless one of them was about to die. With a sigh, she decided not to push it. Whatever it was, she trusted Yusuke to have a good enough reason…whatever it was.
"Fine," she grabbed Yusuke's manga and thrust a broom into his hand, "You're gonna' help me clean my apartment then!" he just stared blankly at the broom, "I've always wondered if you could put that demonic speed to good use." She put up the book, grabbed her purse, opened the door, smiled, and cheerfully waved, "I'm gonna' go shopping now," her cheery look was replaced with a withering glare, "and if this place isn't clean by the time I get back you're buying you're own dinner, got it?"
"…OK."
"Kay, bye!" she was all happy again as she closed the door, absently humming some song to herself. The demon Lord continued staring at the broom in his hand, and frowned.
"Well damn, wasn't expecting this."
"How are we gonna' keep the wizards from crossing our borders, Lady Mukuro?" a small impish demon nervously asked.
"Find any portals that come from the Ningenkai and shut them down! Then, get Shigure over here and tell him to get some demons to take the place of border patrol, they need a rest." The demon nodded and scampered off, only to be replaced by yet another demon.
"My lady, we've retrieved message from Lord Yusuke's territory. They say their Lord has not returned from the Ningenkai, but Youko Kurama is currently in temporary control of the territory. The Youko sends word that Lord Hiei asks for demons to be placed throughout the woods surrounding the human school he attends now. They are currently sending 5 demons, Yomi is sending 2, and he wished to know how much we are to send, if any?"
"Send 7 B class demons," he nodded and went off to collect the needed demons. She sighed and stared out the window in her room, absently wondering if she would be able to see any wizards from her view. Shigure entered in shortly after, making his presence known with a loud yawn.
"How many demons you want me to force into border patrol?"
"As many you can get, but no lower class than high C, we don't want them to die too easily." Shigure nodded and prepared to leave, "Be careful, too, alright? I feel like I'll go homicidal if I lose another good vassal," The sword demon just blinked, then shot her a cheeky grin.
"Of course, you wouldn't want to lose your best!"
"I'm this close to reassigning you if you don't leave now." He just chuckled and gave her a lazy wave as he left. She leaned against the stonewall behind her, rubbing her fingers over her temples, a frown firmly on place. The Makai needed more demons or something, the wizards were out powering them with numbers, and it seemed…the more demons that were killed, the more wizards that would appear for back up, and for the life of her…she just couldn't figure out where all the damned humans were coming from!
"So…how are things going?" Botan asked as she looked around the overly large castle. Kurama just sighed from the other side of the dully-furnished room.
"Where do I begin…?" the ferry girl grimaced, things weren't going good, "Well, we're severely short in numbers, and Yusuke hasn't shown up yet, so his followers aren't exactly to…keen on me staying here."
"Where is Yusuke, anyways?" the red head shook his head.
"I think he's in the Ningenkai, but if he is…I don't know why."
"Part of his part of the mission?" she guessed.
"No, his part was to keep the demons calm."
"Then what was your part?"
"To spy on the enemy, but I haven't been able to get much spying in since the Makai has been in such disarray, especially this part of it. Since Yusuke hasn't shown up, I've decided keeping the Makai under control had more importance than spying, so I'm trying to keep his territory under control. Besides, I've sent some of Yusuke's followers to do some spying for me, so that takes care of my mission. I've managed to give the ones that actually listen to me something to do."
"And the ones that don't?"
"I don't know what to do with them, they're stubborn," the fox paused, "like their leader." He added with a wry grin. Botan just giggled a bit.
"Alright, anything I can do to help?"
"Could you find Yusuke for me?" Botan winked and gave him her customary thumbs up.
"You betcha'!" she summoned up a portal, before waving to Kurama, "Good luck, Kurama!" he politely waved back, a small smile on his face.
"You too." She grinned and walked through, leaving the fox alone, "Alright then…" he looked around, "what to do next?"
Kuwabara stood in front of Keiko's house, a complete and utter look of confusion on his face.
Yusuke was hanging out at her house…now? Wasn't he supposed to be…in another world for his part of the mission? Did Koenma re-assign him or something? Slowly, almost hesitantly, he knocked on Keiko's door, and almost immediately the brunet opened it up. Her face lit up with relief as she saw him.
"Kuwabara, you made it! Come in, come in!"
"Uhh…Keiko, I kinda' have to make sure no wizards show up here…I am only came since you said Yusuke was here…he isn't supposed to be in this world!" some random passer-byers stopped and stared at the orange haired teen oddly, before they hurriedly walked away.
"Yeah, about that." She had a small apologetic look on her face, "He left about a few minutes ago, sorry."
"Then he's headed back to the Makai?"
"Kuwabara…he never went to the Makai, he's been here the whole time." The orange haired teen dramatically reeled back, making another pedestrian stop and stare at the two oddly.
"What?! Then, then who's been taking care of Urameshi's territory?! Doesn't that moron realize the wizards are attacking now?!"
"…Wizards? Attacking? Now? In the Makai?" Keiko asked, surprised. This was weird…er…weirder than usual anyways.
"Yeah! Damn Urameshi, always ignoring his damn responsibilities! He needs to learn to face them like a man, damn it!" By now a small group of people were quietly whispering to each other, staring at the two teens, "That's it! I'm going to-" Kuwabara was cut off as a small beeping came from his pocket. He hurriedly took out the small communication compact…thing from the Reikai.
"Kuwabara? It's me, Botan. Kurama just told me Yusuke hasn't shown up in his territory yet, have you seen him in the Ningenkai?" Botan asked.
"…Is that a new kind of cell phone?" an elderly woman whispered to her husband. The man shrugged.
"Beats me, the technology is so advanced these days!" Keiko, finally realizing they had an audience, nervously pulled Kuwabara into her apartment, shut the door, and closed the blinds.
"Kids these days…so quick to get at it! No morals, I tell you. Probably on drugs too, 'wizards' they said. Probably some street talk for drugs, or gangs!" the woman huffed as she dragged her husband down the street with her.
A/N: Ooooh, yeah. This really eased my nerves down. Loved the old lady. Hope you liked it, and yes this was mostly a big ramble kind of thing that showed what was going on outside of Hogwarts (that and I'm still trying to fill in some plot holes for what's next in Hogwarts. �.�) So, yes…hoped it met all of your expectations, and please review. If you can…add some constructive criticism to help me improve…and stuff. Yes…ok…bye…!
Oh, and if you didn't get what was going on, here's the summary of it…I guess. Makai's outnumbered, Yusuke's a traitor, Keiko has no idea what's going on, Hiei's oblivious, Kurama's stressed, Botan's confused, Koenma keeps noticing that papers are going missing, and he's starting to panic about it. And Yusuke fans…please don't kill me, not yet! If you still wish to kill me at the end of this story…then do so, but until then…mercy…?