A/N:

Late update, I know. But, I was trying to finish the chapter. I've got a lot of issues to work on at the moment, so updates may take a while... But, there will be updates! Be happy. Raid is my new best friend. I have a can sitting by the computer, next to me right now. x3

Ick. I have a cold. I still have to go to school though... -.- Damn it.

Blah -Thoughts/Youko-Shuichi conversations

-Blah- -Japanese

"Blah" - English

No Makai yet.


Chapter 5

Dragon Fun

The next morning, Hiei pulled both Yusuke and Kurama out of their scrambled eggs for the third time.

"Didn't you guys sleep at all last night?" Hermione asked as she watched on.

Yusuke yawned. "Yeah." He nodded and his head slumped again. Harry picked up a glass of ice water and dumped it over Yusuke's head.

"HOLY!" Yusuke jumped up, soaking wet. The Great Hall cackled with laughter.

"It always works on Ron, so I figured that you'd be no different." Harry said, in between laughs.

Hiei eyed a glass and his gaze shot in between it and Kurama. With a shrug, he picked it up. As he was about to throw it onto Kurama, who's forehead was against the table, the fox's hand shot up and caught Hiei's wrist. Hiei smirked.

"Slow reflexes."

"Shut it."

Hiei snorted.

"Hiei. I. Am. Not. In. The. Mood." Kurama snarled from somewhere in his breakfast. He tilted his head towards the staff table, where Karasu was gazing at him. Oh…

Everyone in the Great Hall was standing up to leave. Once most of the people were gone, Yusuke and Hiei shot each other an amused look. They both reached for a few left over ice cold drinks, and threw them onto Kurama.

Kurama gave a yelp and leapt up, and, glaring, he walked out of the lunchroom, his fists clenched.

"I'm going to go take a walk." Hiei said, his eyes following the redhead.

"Why's that?" Yusuke asked, still laughing.

"Yeah, why?" Harry asked. "We have classes in fifteen minutes."

"Because. As soon as he realizes that he's unable to calm down, he's going to kill both of us." Hiei turned to the door. "And most likely anyone who gets in his way."

""Oh. Right." Yusuke and Harry said, wide eyed. "Good point."

They scuttled out the Great Hall. Moments later, they looked out the window and saw a very calm red-head walking back up to the castle.

Hiei's sensitive hearing picked up the cries of something in pain. Looks like he vented some anger… He thought to himself.

"We're safe. He's already killed something." Yusuke said, watching as Kurama re-entered the castle.

"...It's not dead, Yusuke..."

"That's good... I suppose..."

Harry saw that Hiei was walking stiff. Kurama had a slight limp, and Yusuke looked as if it hurt to move his right arm. He also saw several cuts, burns, and bruises on the three. Odd. He dismissed it from his mind as he remembered Hiei wincing slightly yesterday before going up to the dorms. Still, it was a bit strange… He met up with Hermione and Ron, and they hurried into their Transfiguration class…

"Mr. Jaganshi! You're bleeding!" Professor McGonagall pointed to Hiei's robes, where a small part of his robes were soaked. Last night, Yusuke had found the gash in his side. And, Yusuke being Yusuke, aimed every kick and punch at the gash. His entire side was purple. Of coarse, Yusuke didn't get off so easily, but Kurama had been able to heal the majority of the group's wounds. The deeper ones had to heal on their own.

Hiei glanced to where she was pointing at, and shrugged. "Hn."

"Speak properly young man! And tell me what happened. Now." Her voice left no room for argument. But, glare had no effect on him.

"I'm fine." He growled.

"You are bleeding all over my classroom! You are NOT fine." She seethed.

"Erm, Professor, Hiei was jumped in an alley way by a bunch of muggle street punks the night before we boarded the plane for England. The blood on his robes is from that incident. It, uh, must have re-opened from moving around so much." Kurama tried to explain, before Hiei could do anything.

"Yeah… Some gang took him by surprise." Yusuke filled in lamely for effect. Though, he knew that only suicidal people would try to jump Hiei. Kurama hadn't been lying when he said that people often thought of Hiei as a serial killer when he went into public.

McGonagall glared for a moment. "Very well then, Mr. Jaganshi, go get yourself cleaned up. 5 points from Gryffindor for being disrespectful." She pointed Hiei out the door. The first thing he did was to stop the bleeding. Then, he put gauze, antibiotics, and several wards over his wounds. Yusuke would pay. Youko Kurama would pay. Koenma would die.

In spars, supposedly you weren't supposed to get too hurt, if at all. But the three creatures sent by the Toddler of Hell apparently either didn't know that, or didn't care. At the moment, it was leaning towards the latter, as Kurama always had healing plants ready before the fight began. It seemed that they liked mauling each other.

In DADA class, Kurama took the seat farthest away from the 'teacher's' desk. However, Karasu made up a seating chart, seemingly on the spot (with a "You go here, and you over there." Type thing.). Kurama could tell it was pre-planned by the glittering in the indigo eyes. He was up front, close enough to Karasu to make him want to have an anxiety attack, and/or pull out a death tree. Yusuke and Hiei were in the far back of the classroom.

Surprisingly, the only time Karasu even came near one of the Reikai Tantei was to comment on Hiei's head band. "Nice head band, Jaganshi. Cut your bangs last night?"

Hiei growled, low and guttural. His bangs were considerably shorter, compliments to Kurama's Rose Whip, which had just barely missed his third eye.

"Shut up, you stupid Crow."

The class looked on in shock. No one insulted the teachers. Not directly anyway. Karasu however, gave a large grin.

"Now, now little imp…"

"Karasu, unless you want to face Kokuryuuha here and now, I strongly advise you to get away from me, the detective, and the fox."

-You know Hiei, if it hadn't been for me distracting the teachers with a small explosion, that little show you put on with Malfoy would have landed us all in prison for another 500 years…-

-Hn. I care why? And besides… from what I've been told, you aren't supposed to have your powers back…- Hiei smirked as Karasu looked a little paler.

-Er… We all have our secrets, correct?-

-Just stay away from the kitsune.-

Karasu cringed slightly, causing the other students to wonder what 'Kokuryuuha' meant. Obviously, it wasn't good. Karasu gave a small cough and went over class rules, though he sent small, unseen flirtin looks in Kurama's direction.

"That was… odd…" Harry told Ron after class.

"Really. Kurasu seems…afraid of Hiei."

"And Kurama as well. That's only because they're both kind of enemies… Kurama is Hiei's... best friend. And Hiei has Kokuryuuha." Yusuke said cheerfully as they headed to Care of Magical Creatures class.

"What's that?"

"You REALLY don't want to know. I suppose you could say that it's Hiei's pet…" Yusuke mumbled.

"A'right! 'Everyone 'ere?" a booming voice called out. Yusuke looked around and saw Hiei and Kurama leaning up against a tree, discussing something. By the looks of it, Hiei wasn't happy about it.

"Come over 'ere you two!" Hagrid called to them. Hiei scowled, and Kurama sighed, but they complied. "Today, I've gotta special treat fer yeh!"

Yusuke noted the collected groans from the class. Hagrid walked over to a very large structure that was covered with a cloth of some kind. "Today, we'll be studying this little guy. Also known as a Blue Storm Legacy Dragon."

Kurama's eyebrows shot up, and the corners of Hiei's mouth twitched. The rest of the class gasped.

"Aren't those just legends?" Hermione asked excitedly. Similer questions spread through the crowd.

Hagrid chuckled to himself and said, "Yea', bu' you know that t' muggles, magic don' exsist." He sweapt the cover off, revealing a large, blue dragon with what looked like storm clouds swirling above it's head.

"Hn. It must trust that half-giant a hell of a lot." Hiei said, after a moment.

"Why?" Harry asked. He was immeadiatly interrupted by Hagrid.

"Now, who wants ter pet 'im?"

Everyone but Hiei, Yusuke, and Kurama took a small step back. Hiei stepped forward and walked fearlessly up to the dragon, while silently hissing something calming softly to it. Hagrid showed him where to stroke it, not that he needed shown, and he slowly ran his hand over the scales. Kurama sensed his flare his youki a little when the dragon fidgeted. The dragon could sense the Kokuryuuha within him, and remained still.

"Dragons. They only let themselves be willingly held captive by those who they trust. Unwillingly, they'll go on a killing rampage." Harry nodded as he remembered the dragons from his fourth year. Hiei continued. "Overall, judging from the species of dragon, Hagrid must have saved its life at some point in time. BuruArashiIzouRyuu are not trusting by nature, and to even THINK of trying to bribe them with riches and power will result in your very slow and painful death, no matter how young or old."

The class had fallen into silence and was staring at Hiei, who fixed them all with a glare as he stepped away from the beast.

"How- How do you know all that?" Hermione asked, incredulously.

"Yea'… yeh know a lot abou' a creature that's practically a myth." Hagrid said, eyeing Hiei.

Hiei growled softly. Of coarse he knew about this particular species. It's cousin was a Kokuryuuha. "I like dragons." He said simply.

"Yeah… Hiei knew a dragon master in Japan and learnt from him. He's quite knowledgeable." Kurama informed.

"Really? Awesome! Who was he?" Ron asked eagerly.

Hiei merely growled. "My sensei's wishes must be respected, and he did not wish anyone outside his students to know his name."

Kurama and Yusuke blinked. For a moment, Hiei had sounded exactly like Kurama. Not that Hiei wasn't intelligent. (Author sweatdrops as thousands of Hiei fans approach him with flaming torches and solid, heavy objects)

"Why's that?" Harry asked, suspiciously.

"He wished to remain anonymous for his own personal reasons. Now, shut up and leave me alone."

That seemed to be enough of an answer, and most of them backed off.

Harry glanced at his schedule. "Herbology's next. With the Hufflepuffs."

"Really?" Kurama asked, shooting Hiei a happy grin. Hiei hn'd and turned away, muttering about obsessed youko.

"Hey Kurama! I wonder what kinds of plants they have here… Anything useful?"

-All plants are useful when your in a life and death situation. Some are stronger than others, and they posses certain qualities that are stronger than others." Kurama shrugged. "It all depends on how you look at it."

Herbology passed by without much incident. Yusuke almost got eaten by a carnivourous cross-breed plant, and Professor Sprout couldn't figure out why all the plants hissed at Hiei. She was pleased however, when Kurama was able to identify several rare species that were in her greenhouse. What she didn't notice, was that Kurama was staring at one plant in particular…

-Hey, Kurama, isn't that…-

-Yes, Yusuke. It's a juvenile Death Tree, or at least a similar species. The woman said that she found this one over the summer… It's a wonder that it hasn't killed everyone.- Kurama paused. -But then, I think it'd be better to leave it here, a few hundred years younger. It may come in handy some time soon…- He said this in a tone that made it apparent that he was referring to a certain crow demon.

Yusuke just stared. –Okay… I'm not going near that thing.-

Hiei chuckled. –What's a matter baka Detective? Plants seem to like you. In fact, I think that their thoughts of you are rather delicious…-

-Hiei, you son of a bitch!- Hiei ducked as a small garden shovel came his way and clattered to the floor. Several people turned to see what was going on, and Hiei acted as if he had just dropped it himself. A Hufflepuff girl giggled when she saw Hiei look in her direction. Hiei gave a small growl of annoyance.

The three finished their assignment quickly, not pausing to chat with Harry and his friends. However, the Golden Trio was deep in a conversation themselves…

"Something is up with the new kids."

"No duh, Harry. Hiei threatened a teacher and got away with it! Hermione, don't you think that's odd?"

"Yes, but there really isn't anything that we can do about it. I'm sure Karasu will give Hiei a proper punishment. Karasu seems to be a professor who'd wait things out…"

"Yeah, but still. A Dragon master? I can't recall ever hearing Charlie talking about really experienced masters in Japan… China maybe, but not Japan…"

"Why don't you ask him about it? I just thought of something. I'm going to go to-"

"The library…" the two boys said.

"… And look something up…"

"You do that Hermione. Hey Ron! Quidditch starts next week!"

The three of them gathered up their books, not hearing the snickering of the three demons whom listened in on their conversation (and, in one's case, read their minds.)…


A/N:

Well, what do you think? Ideas and suggestions are very welcomed. -blows nose- Being sick sucks. Alot. My immune system is weak this timeof the year... x.x