Grimmaulds Place

Remus looked up at the grim Snape, a look of unbelieving shock on his face, "You're sure? An ally?"

"A powerful ally."

"Can you name names?" Moody asked. The potions teacher shook his head.

"No, all I know is that You-Know-Who has been meeting with some powerful demon lord with good connections."

"Connections? Don't all demon lordshave good connections?"

"Yeah…" he made a dismissive gesture with his hands, " but apparently this guy was forced into some demon exterminating organization, now that he's out of that organization, he's acting as a spy for You-Know-Who in that organization."

"Like you?"

"Yeah." Fudge nervously drummed his fingers on the desk, biting his lip.

"Does this demon exterminating organization have a name? Can we contact them? Ask them for help?" Snape shrugged.

"I don't know its name. All I know is…they're being infiltrated, and will probably fall, so any attempts to contact and ask them for help would be…pointless."

"But if we warn them, maybe they can help us!" Fudge growled, "We need to find these people so that we'll have allies, too. We need allies!"

"Well they can't help, can they?" Severus snapped, he let out a sigh, "If these guys can't protect themselves against the Death Eaters, how are they gonna' help us? Huh?" the minister of magic stayed quiet, "They can't help us, all right? It's better if we just ignore them, and concentrate on at least slowing down You-Know-Who's demon friend."

"What do we know about him?" Sirius asked.

"He looks human, and was raised a muggle."

"A muggle? He's cooperating with a muggle?" Moody shook his head, "I don't believe it. Death Eaters even having a civil conversation with a muggle sounds impossible."

"The demon's been living in the demon world for about a year, as I understand it. Anyways, I went digging into this guy, and I came up with something."

"What?"

"His old muggle address…"

OoO Reikai OoO

"Lord Koenma, we've failed to locate Yusuke, sir. What should we do?" the spirit guide nervously shuffled on their feet, looking at the ground.

"Forget it," she looked up in surprise.

"Sir?"

"We've got other things to worry about right now, ok? Yusuke's a big boy, he'll show up…eventually, and when he does I'll kick his ass. Until then we'll have Kurama take Yusuke's place as ruler until further notice. Now go and tell him." Koenma waved her off, "Shoo! Shoo!" The spirit guide blinked in surprise, before she bowed and left his office. Koenma sighed and slumped into his chair, a scowl on his face, "Stupid Yusuke causing all this stupid trouble, I'll bash his stupid face into the stupid ground when I find his stupid ass…"

OoO Hogwarts OoO

"So then Mum chased me around with a-" Ron stopped his story as he noticed Hermoine looking over his shoulder, "Oi! I'm telling a story here!" she looked back at Ron and rolled her eyes.

"Didn't Harry say he was going to the library?"

"…Yeah…" she nudged her head to somewhere behind Ron.

"So why's he coming back with Professor Shigure?"

"Uhh…" he quickly turned around and spotted Harry heading towards them, "I…dunno'…Hey! Harry! Over here!" he quickly waved his friend over. Harry took the empty seat beside Ron. The two stared at their friend, waiting for an explanation.

Harry didn't get what was going on.

"What?" Ron looked around, then leaned in close to Harry.

"Why did you come back with professor Shigure?" he asked in a hushed voice.

"Oh…I uhh…ran into him in the hallway." Hermoine arched a brow.

"I thought you were at the library."

"I was! It's just…I uhh…I got bored, so I was heading back." Harry could tell the two didn't buy it, but neither Ron nor Hermoine pursued it.

"Sooo...how's your new Divination professor? Is he better than Trewalney?" Hermoine's voice dripped with contempt at the mere mention of the old professor's name.

"Oh! He's so cool! Bloody hell, there was this one time when he-"

"Ron, if your next words mention 'black fire' or 'Umbridge's robes on fire' I'll kill you. What professor Shigure did then is not 'cool', honestly! I'm surprised Dumbledore hasn't done anything. I mean, why would he hire someone with such a temper?"

"He hired Snape, didn't he?" Harry muttered. Ron burst out laughing, while she leveled him with a glare.

"Oh nevermind!" She threw her hands up in the air, "Boys!" she grumbled. The two boys in question shared another snicker.

Unbeknownst to the three, a pair of artificial blue eyes watched them from the teacher's table. Dumbledore smiled at his new professor, and followed his gaze.

"So you noticed Harry then?" the old man chuckled, "Most professors would be tongue tied around him...I'm glad you aren't. I imagine it bothers the poor boy when even his teachers get star struck!" another chuckle, Hiei ripped his gaze from the trio and turned to Dumbledore.

"Yeah...I don't get star struck, especially because of some little kid." he earned another beaming smile from the headmaster.

"So...are the rumors about Voldemort true?" If Hiei was one thing, it was blunt. The demon had to admit, his respect for the old man went up a few pegs when he didn't react too strongly. The smile was gone, but it was replaced with an amused look.

"Is that why you agreed to teach here? To fight Voldemort?" It didn't escape their notice when the teachers around nervously scooted their chairs away from the duo.

"No, no. If I wanted to kill someone...I'd kill them. I wouldn't bother trying to wait for them to come to me. That's just stupid. You're setting yourself up for an ambush if you do that." Dumbledore raised an eyebrow.

"You know a lot about fighting?" Hiei shrugged.

"More so than most." Hey, it wasn't a lie.

"If...I said Voldemort was back...whatwould you say?" Silence...then another shrug.

"Hn." More than a few heads were turned when the headmaster of Hogwarts burst out laughing. Hiei just smirked into his goblet.

For a human, this one wasn't too bad.

A/N: Wow! It's been...what? A year now...man...uh...I've been writing a lot of original stuff, but not fanfic for like...this past year. And then, I re-visited my profile and notice that...damn, a lot of people want me to update. Like...a year, for some even two, years later, I'm stilll getting e-mails going, "When are you going to update?" Honestly, I'm touched you all like my stuff so much! In one review someone actually told me they talk about my stories with their friends! I...couldn't believe it! Wow! So...here. I know it's not much, but it's a start. I promise I'll try to update more regularly, but it'll probably end up being once a month. winces sorry, but I'm trying! R&R, and thanks to everyone for...reading!