Hogwarts

"First thing first, you won't need any books for me. They're absolutely useless in what I have to teach you." Hiei met the class with an intense gaze, causing more than a few students to squirm in their seats, "What I will be teaching you is not how to read the future, not to control fire with your mind," a student's hand shot up. The Jaganshi muttered something under his breath, but nodded to the student, "What?"

"Why won't you be teaching us the fire thing? That's how you caught Professor's Umbridge's robes on fire, right? You didn't have a wand on you…"

"The 'fire thing' isn't something that can be…taught. It's just something you can either do, or not be able to." He paused; Botan's frantic warning ringing in his ears again. "Don't do anything to jeopardize this mission, like getting fired! Don't. Cause. Trouble!"

"And if any of the teachers or whatever ask about that, I didn't do it. Now then, as I was saying, I'll be teaching you how to…dissect a person's mind without the need of spells, incantations, or any of kind of supernatural or magical ability. Instead, you use only your eyes, and your head," more than a few eyebrows were raised, "I'll teach you how to keep hidden from your enemies, to be able to keep hidden within the shadows, and how to sense when a demon or a malevolent spirit is near you."

"Whoa…this is like 'how to be a ninja 101'," Ron nudged Harry in the ribs, "Pretty good class if you wanna' be a Auror(sp?), huh!" Harry nodded, mentally savoring the lack of death omens from this class.

"So for today I figured we'd do something easy for the day, to get started and all. I want-" the jaganshi was cut off by a startled gasp from the other side of the room, followed by,

"I see it!"

"Oh you poor dear, you're going to die in a week." Within seconds numerous voices were eagerly voicing their opinions on the "bad omen".

"Anyways," Hiei turned his head away from the scene, unsure of whether to be annoyed or amused by Trewalney's antics, "we'll start with the eye thing. Pick a partner, someone you don't know too well. Look into their eyes; study their posture, the way they do things all day tomorrow. Write every observation down. You don't need to stalk them or anything like that, but every time you see them pay close attention to them. Their attitude, their posture, you'll be trying to gouge their emotion, their thoughts from what you see. So basically, write on the scroll things you notice about them, then write what you think they're doing, why you think they might be doing it, and so on. Tomorrow we'll see how right or wrong you were. You can start now. Don't waste time, it's obviously due tomorrow." Groans were heard throughout the class.

"I thought he said easy…" Harry grumbled.

Makai

"Any luck in finding Yusuke, Botan?" Kurama politely inquired as she appeared in front him. The ferry girl shook her head.

"Keiko said Yusuke paid her a visit earlier, but other than that…nothing! I even got Kuwabara looking for him on the Ningenkai!"

"Have you told Koenma yet?" at the mention of the Reikai's prince's name, Botan scowled.

"No not yet, last I saw him he was so happy to not lose some more paperwork…" a slightly annoyed drawl colored her words. If Kurama noticed it, he chose not to ask.

"Should I report this to Koenma then? The sooner he knows the sooner we'll find Yusuke…and hopefully an explanation as to what he's doing! After all, Koenma has more resources and such than we do…"

"Yeah, yeah," she waved her dismissively, "I'll be returning the Reikai shortly, I'll tell him then, ok? Until then, just keep up with keeping Yusuke's territory in order. I'll inform Mukuro, Yomi, and Bui as to what's going on right now, so they don't get suspicious about the sudden change in rulers here."

"Lord Bui? I was under the impression he was against what we were doing. You know…since our plan involved harming humans."

"He is, but he still needs to know these things," She shrugged, "At least he's letting us go through with the attack without consequences, right? I doubt Lord Koenma would be so willing to help the Makai if Bui hadn't agreed to letting us retaliate."

"But the enemy gets to make the first move, which could be fatal…" The ferry girl shrugged.

"Eh, what can ya' do."

Hogwarts…again

Hiei watched as the last of his students left, before he looked at Trewalney.

"Tell the headmaster I'm going to be a little late for dinner tonight. I have some business I need to take care of," the seer blinked.

"Business?"

"Yeah, letters to write to…family, in Japan." The jaganshi calmly explained.

"Oh…alright. See you later, professor." Hiei remained standing where he was until he was sure Trewalney was out of hearing distance. Then, he she his wizarding robes (they wear normal clothes under those robes…I think), walked to his desk, opened a small box on the desk, and took a familiar looking compact…thing. He flipped it open and waited for Koenma's face to appear.

"Wha- Oh, it's you. About time you contact me! You're 5 hours overdue your report!" the god whined. Hiei just rolled his eyes.

"Hn…nothing to unusual happening here. There is one annoying human I want to kill, but I won't…at least I won't until my mission's over."

"Don't kill anyone, period! Mission or no, if you kill anyone in that school who's not posing a threat, I'll send you right back to jail! Or maybe I'll make you a spirit detective again…"

"Whatever, has anything important happened while I've been gone?" Koenma slumped into his overly large chair with a sigh.

"Yeah…we can't find Yusuke…" the jaganshi raised a brow.

"Yusuke? Has he been compromised?"

"No! He just…left. AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE! Now Yusuke's territory is in a riot because their leader is missing, and I don't think Kurama can keep that moron's territory in control for much longer! What is that idiot thinking? Where is he!" the ruler whined again, throwing in a small tantrum.

"You mean-" he suddenly stopped talking, and looked at the door, "Never mind, someone's coming. I'll report back in 2 days."

"Wait, I'm not-!" the compact was snapped shut and Hiei quickly put it back into the box. Then he grabbed his wizard's robe, put it on, and opened the door to leave…only to be met with Harry's surprised face.

"Professor…!" he stared at Harry coolly.

"Mr. Potter, something wrong?"

"Uhh…well, I was wondering…" 'Damn it, he didn't hear me, did he?' "…can you talk with the dead?" Well that wasn't expected; a small relief, but still unexpected.

"No…" Hiei forced himself to keep his voice neutral, "why?" Harry sheepishly shook his head.

"No reason…just some rumors, I guess. Well…sorry to bother you, professor."

"…You going to dinner, or have you already eaten?" the boy seemed surprised by the question, and then he shrugged.

"I already ate, but I think Ron and Hermoine are waiting for me back at the cafeteria," Hiei just nodded. Like he cared about that.

"Alright then, let's go. I'm hungry." Harry hesitated, and then slowly nodded.

"Okay, but uhh…. are you sure can't talk to the dead?" the jaganshi fixed him with an intent stare.

"Yeah, I am." He paused, "Why are you so convinced I can?"

"I'm not!"

"Then why did you ask again?"

"…Sorry." Hiei heaved a mental sigh. Humans were so fickle with their damn emotions.

"Don't be…" they walked in an awkward silence, "So how did you like my class? Any suggestions?" 'Tell me something stupid and I'll strangle you…I can't believe I'm doing this…damn it.' Harry shrugged.

"Nah, it was…better than most of my classes."

"Hn." How long was he supposed to stay here again? God, what he wouldn't do to be back in the Makai…

A/N: T-ta da! Umm…sorry I was so late. I was going through I MAJOR bout of writer's block, but I was looking through my stats and I was like, "Damn, I haven't update in months!" so I…updated. Obviously. Now to update on that haven't-updated-in-about-10-months one…man…people must think that story's dead. Gah! Must…write…more…fanfiction…! Dies But yeah, I'm SO sorry I took so long! Please don't kill me, faithful readers, I'll try to keep my fanfic writing up to stat! Oh yeah, I fixed some mistakes from the last chapter, and added a Kuwabara part. I completely forgot about him! � Oops. So...you might want to check that out too. Thanks for the people who pointed out my mistakes, and the Kuwabara-less thing.