Author's Notes:

I AM working on my other stories. I just need to type the rest of Witchcraft and Wolves' chapter (I have it written out) And the same goes for Withcraft and A Rebel. For the Road To Paradise, I'm still planning the9th chapter.

Anyway... I've got the first four chapters of this written out. I will post one a week. -grins- Or, if I get 30 reveiws for this chapter in under a week. (Of which I highly doubt.)

lol. I wrote this chapter on the plane to my aunt and uncle's house. Then, I typed it and the second andthird chapter there as well. And, after I came back from 6 Flagsthe other day, I planned the fourthchapter. And... It's done. Just finished about five minutes ago...

Here is the story, and I hope you like it!


"Damn that stupid toddler. Who the hell does he think he is? God?"

"Actually, Yusuke, in a way…" Kurama began. Yusuke ignored him and continued.

"The stupid Pacifier Breath! I had plans with Keiko! Besides, we had just made up after being gone so long because of the last mission? And now we have to go to more SCHOOL? I barely attended the one in Japan!" And so Yusuke's ranting continued, just as it had been for the last few days.

"Damn it Yusuke! Shut up!" Hiei growled from his perch in the windowsill of the moving train. He had refused to sit on the seats as the other two had, and contented himself with the view.

Before Yusuke could retort, there was a knock at the door, and someone began to step inside of the compartment. Hiei reached for something within his new robes, but stopped as he caught a look from Kurama. A chubby boy of about fifteen came in.

"Excuse me miss, but have you seen my toad? I've lost him again…" The boy spoke English, and it took the other three a minute to understand what he was saying.

"Iie- I mean, no, we haven't seen it. I hope you find it." Kurama told the boy. Hiei looked at the boy for a quick second before returning his gaze to the passing fields.

"Oh, well sorry for bothering you guys. Are you new? I haven't seen you before."

"We are exchange students from Japan. I am Shuuichi, that's Yusuke, and over there is Hiei. It's nice to meet you. Also, I can assure you that I am defiantly male." Kurama spoke softly, yet firmly to indicate the end of the conversation.

"Oh… Um, right. I-I'm sorry." The boy mumbled and left.

"You know Fox, you didn't have to lie to him." Hiei said in japanese from the windowsill.

"Lie? What did I tell him that was a lie other than the fact that we are exchange students?" Kurama asked, confused.

"You said that we hadn't seen his toad. Maybe I did. It doesn't matter, I suppose." Hiei gave a small grin. "It's long gone by now."

Kurama and Yusuke stared. "Hiei, what did you do to the kid's frog?" Yusuke questioned, knowing the answer will probably be something they'd regret.

"Nothing, nothing. You guys didn't notice that burnt smell when you walked in?" Hiei gave a small smirk.

"Hiei, you didn't! No wait, knowing you, you did. Dammit Hiei! We are supposed to be a bit, I dunno, INCONSPICIOS! And how the hell did you get your katana through the airport, when some guard wanted to strip search me because they found a freakin' paperclip in my pocket! Were'nt you supposed to leave it at home anyways?" Kurama seethed, his eyes slightly gold, and his hair beginning to get streaked with strands of silver.

The corner of Hiei's mouth twitched. "I can be a bit… persuasive…And Youko is itching to come out, isn't he?"

Yusuke let out a bark of laughter. "Great. Hiei, Koenma's gonna chew your ass for screwing with people's minds with your Jagan. And Kurama, I think that the lady wanted to strip search you for more…intimate reasons." Yusuke smirked at the blush appearing on the redhead's cheeks.

"Shut up Yusuke."

"Why? You know that's the reason. Hell, the lady let me pass her, and I had a CD player and a bunch of wizard money in my pocket. You had a paperclip. A paperclip?"

"Whatever. The point is, well… There is no point… Hiei seemed a bit nervous as we were boarding the plane though." Kurama snickered. Hiei glared.

"I had to entrust my life with some large object made of metal and plastic that shouldn't be able to fly. Next time, I am going through the Makai, and I don't give a damn what you guys say about it."

"Excuse me dears, would you like something to eat?" A lady with a cart of food came up. "I have all sorts of sweets…"

Hiei's eyes narrowed. "We'll take a little of everything." Kurama and Yusuke snorted in laughter.

The lady left the boys with a large mound of sweets, and their money bags considerably lighter. Hiei attacked a chocolate frog, but ended up frying it because it wouldn't hold still. The three made small talk, and started a mini poker game that lasted about ten minutes, with Yusuke and Hiei in debt of a few thousand yen and wizards money.

"I assume your sweet tooth controls you and your actions, does it not? Also, you owe me about 12000 yen, and a large amount of shiny things, excluding wizard currency."

"Baka kitsune. You cheated. And what the hell is with your obsession with shiny things?"

Kurama just grinned.

"Kurama's right. The only things that control you are Koenma, Grandma, your sweet tooth, and Yukina." Yusuke smirked and ducked as Hiei swung at him.

"Excuse me, but what is going on?" Another English voice entered the room.

"Nothing." Yusuke grinned, switching to English, (of which he only knew because Koenma forced him to got to 12 hour long classes for two months). "Just fooling around. No one's getting hurt."

"Not yet anyway." Hiei muttered, still in Japanese.

"Oh. Can we sit here? The other compartments are full, and the Prefects' is crowded with a bunch of morons hexing each other." The girl with bushy brown hair continued. Two others stood behind her.

"Sure. There is more than enough room, seeing as Hiei has given up his seat. I'm Mina- er, Shuuichi Minamino. The one in the window is Hiei, he is anti-social, so it'd be best to leave him be, and the idiot stuffing himself with pastries is Yusuke." Kurama pointed them out. "We are exchange students from Japan. Who are you?"

"I'm Ron Weasley." The redhead said. "Honestly, you could pass as one of my brothers, though your hair is more red than orange…" Kurama laughed.

"I'm Hermione Granger." The bushy haired girl said. "What's that burnt smell?"

"Nothing." Hiei's response came before the others could reply.

There was a silence for a moment as the three came in and sat down.

Yusuke mumbled something that sounded a lot like. "murphm heparm loumgph?"

"Baka! Swallow!" Hiei snapped at him.

Yusuke swallowed and almost choked, but thumped his chest a few times with his fist, and he was fine. "I said, who are you?" He pointed to the raven haired boy with green eyes and glasses.

"Oh. I'm Harry. Harry Potter. Nice to meet you guys, and thanks for letting us sit here. I was afraid we'd have to stand out in the hall with Malfoy and his goons."

"No problem. Chocolate frog?" Yusuke offered. Ron gladly accepted, and Harry and Hermione picked up a box of Bertie Botts' Every Flavor Beans. The Golden Trio shot each other looks. The three exchange students hadn't said a word about Harry. Odd. Kurama however, was facing, uh… internal difficulties.

Harry? Harry Potter. Where have we heard that before?

Baka. Koenma mentioned something about him when he was briefing you. Youko replied sourly.

Shut up Youko.

What? It's a full moon in a few days. I can come out then, right? I've promised not to come out anytime before. I'll be a good little fox. Youko grinned mentally.

Fine. But dammit! Stop giving me images of every girl we see, naked and lying next to you in a bed! It's sickening.

Ooo… Is Shuuichi getting testy? You feel it too. You crave the moon as much as I do. Or at least, partly. You have fun too, don't you? You know you are just as ready. And about the girls… I haven't slept with a girl for years. It's natural for me to think of these things… Youko gave a small laugh. Although you wouldn't mind the images of Hiei, would you? Tell me, being the feisty little fire imp he is now... Is he just as good in bed?

Youko?

What?

Shut up.

Oh. Okay. For that I'm not going to tell you that the Hermione girl has been trying to talk to you for the past five minutes.

WHAT?

Kurama shook his head and turned to the girl who was poking him.

"Er Shuuichi? Are you okay? I've been asking you something for five minutes and you appeared like you were daydreaming or something?" She looked at him, obviously confused. Kurama blushed slightly.

"I'm okay. Just lost in thought, that's all." Out of the corner of his eye, his saw Hiei mouth one word. Youko? He gave a slight nod, and talked to the girl about Japan for a while. Apparently, she wanted to go and see the temples or something like that. He wasn't really paying attention. Meanwhile, Harry and Ron were telling Yusuke all about Quidditch.

"Hey guys! Did you here that someone tried to rob Gringotts?" Ron said.

"Hn." Hiei replied, indifferent.

"Gringotts?" Yusuke asked.

"Yeah. You know, the wizard bank. No one has ever successfully robbed it before." Ron continued on excitedly.

Kurama however, snorted in an attempt not to laugh. "Or so they say…"

The others looked at him. Yusuke grinned broadly, and the corners of Hiei's mouth twitched. The other teenagers just looked at him in confusion.

'Was it difficult?' Hiei connected a mental link with him, Kurama, and Yusuke.

'Actually, it was quite easy. I heard about it being guarded heavily, and it being impossible to break into. So I uh… Investigated. All it was, was just a bunch of paths and weak ki "hexes" as well as a few animals.Like taking candy from a low level demon on a full moon'

'Kurama, these people probably now think that you are nuts. Actually, you are. Senile old fool.'

'Yusuke, the full moon is approaching. Youko is begging to come out early. Actually, he has been for weeks? But he wants to spar with you and Hiei. Sound like a plan?'

'Hn.'

'Definatly!'

The mind link closed.

"Er- What was that all about?" Ron asked, still staring.

"Nothing. Just a legend we heard of in Japan about Gringotts being successfully robbed. It's only a legend, nothing more." Kurama said with false cheerfulness, and a glint in his eyes.

"Really?" Hermione asked, her eyes wide and eager. "Could you guys tell it to us sometime? It'd be really interesting listening to foreign legends!"

"Maybe later. I've got a headache right now that refuses to leave." Kurama said. Hiei and Yusuke looked at each other. Youko must be bugging him.

"Hey, we're almost there. Let's get ready." Harry muttered.

As the train pulled to a stop, the six gathered up their belongings that they had with them in their compartment, and walked out. They had finished off most of Hiei's sweets, so there wasn't much to carry. It was raining, and the thunder clashed overhead. As they neared the carriages, Hiei suddenly stopped.

"What the hell?" He pointed to the large black creatures hooked up to the carriages. Kurama and Yusuke blinked.

"Oh. Joy." Yusuke muttered.

"How do these things exist here?" Kurama whispered under his breath.

"You guys see them too? Who'd you see thatdied?" Harry asked. "I saw my Godfather and a boy I knew be murdered."

"Um?" Myself. Yusuke thought. "I saw someone get shot once. At a uh… pub."

"Someone who got hit by a car." Hiei said shortly, with a small smirk. Yusuke glared at him.

'You did not!' Yusuke mouthed. Hiei just shrugged, smirk still plastered on his face.

"A friend. And we've all seen a few others die as well." Kurama sighed.

"I'm sorry to hear that." Said Hermione. "You can only see thestrals if you see someone die. But they really are amazing creatures?"

Amazing creatures? More like low class demons running from the ferrygirls. Boton told me once that they used to use these things, back in the medieval times,to collect people who died . Youko said dryly.

"Firs' years! Firs' years and sixth year exchange studen's!" A loud booming voice shouted.

"That's Hagrid, the Gamekeeper. You're suppose to follow him. Careful though. It's wet and slippery." The three demons complied and followed the half-giant. There was an extra boat after all the others had been filled to the maximum, so Yusuke, Hiei, and Kurama took it.

"Hey Hiei. Koenma offered you the chance to have taught the humans, instead of being a student. Why didn't you do that?" Kurama inquired as they floated down the lake. They saw a giant tenticle rise up out of the water before quietly slipping back down.

"Hn. I had the choice of being a ningen and having to teach ningen whelps, or I could be a ningen whelp and face having less... laws... and responsibilities." Red eyes bore into emerald. "What the hell do you think I chose, Fox?"

Eyebrow raise. Point. "Oh. Just wondering."

They rounded the corner of the lake. That is when they got their first glance at the magnificent school.

"That's it? Koenma's bathroom is bigger."

"Probably. Oh well. See that forest? Perfect for sparring and moonlit runs."

"Hn."

They stepped out of the boats and onto the small dock. From there, they walked up to the entrance of the castle, where a white form was floating over head, shouting obsecicties and dropping ballons filled with red paint onto the people below. One landed on Hiei.

"Oh Inari." Muttered Kurama. In a flash, Hiei had seemingly disappeared off the face of the Earth.

Within seconds, Peeves the Poltergeist, flew into the castle, screaming something about green creatures with eyes all over its body. At that moment, Hiei reappeared, drenched, but clean.

"Hello Mr. Fox and Dr. Stupid."

"Oh my fucking God. Hiei just made a joke. It's the sign of the apocalypse!" Yusuke said with a laugh.

"Hiei, what did you do?" Kurama asked in his parental-don't-question-me voice.

"I jumped into the lake."

"To the poltergeist."

Hiei blinked. He didn't respond, but he gave a small smirk. The group turned their attention to the crowd of first years that were waiting with them.

"I wonder what kind of test they'll have us do?"

"I hope it doesn't hurt."

"My sister told me it's painful."

"I bet we have to do one of the Unforgivables."

"Stupid! Those are illegal!"

And so the coments continued like that. Yusuke turned to Hiei.

"So. What do we have to do?"

Hiei sneered and his Jagan glowed softly.

"I don't believe it!" He mumbled.

"What?"

"We have to put on a hat. A stupid, beat-up old rag that will tell us what house we'll be in. Baka ningens."

The other two snorted.


More A/N:

-grins evilly- Kurama has a nasty surprise coming to him. And you guys are going to love what I'm going to do to Hiei when the Halloween in this fic rolls around...

Baka- idiot

Ningen-human

Inari- A fox diety. Like a God. One would naturally expect Kurama to worship Inari, ne? x3