A/N:
Ick. Sorry for the lack of updates. School sucks, and I'm under alot of stress. So much, I'm not going to waste our time listing it. One of the reasons though, is that my friend is in the hospital, having back surgery done, and they aren't doing so well. So, tomorrow, I'm skipping school and getting a ride to the hospital to see them.
Another stress factor: My dog has whipworm, flea allergy, and a yeast infection in her ears. So, she's very thin, and we have to burn down the dog pen to kill off every disease and shit that's in there. Yay.
But, I am getting a new puppy on Tuesday. A female, 3 month old, black and tan Doberman Pincher. I can't wait. x3
I've got a project due soon, so there will be a bit more of a lack of updates, though I will be writing. I'm devoted to this story. xD
Now that I'm done wasting your time...
LEPRECHAUN! (No, Jin isn't in here yet. But, thanks for the suggestion!)
Chapter Six
Dinner Fun
Karasu glided through the hallways on his way to the Great Hall for dinner. He felt great, being alive again. When he heard Koenma's request from his tiny little place in Hell, he quickly jumped to it. It took some time, but once Koenma was convinced that he wouldn't kill/maim/injure someone, Bingo! He was alive again, minus his powers and his mask. His powers…
He found an old, powerful gypsy demon who promised to charm him to regain a portion of his powers in exchange for a few strands of his hair. What she wanted them for, he didn't know, or particularily care. He was told that, as time went on, he would gain more and more of his abilities back until he was fully powered again. And, he wouldn't need that dreadful mask… He had to be careful though. He was in no condition at the moment to take on Hiei, Yusuke, or his beloved fox. A few more months, however, and he'd…
Suddenly, he was jerked out of his thoughts as someone tackled him to the ground, and pulled him into a bone-crushing hug.
"OH MY GOD! I LOVE YOU! I LOVE YOU PROFESSOR KARASUUUU!"
The person, a third year he recognized to be Kyoko Isayama(1), darted away, screaming, "I HUGGED KARASU! I HUGGED KARASU! –SQUEAL-"
His wide eyes followed her as she turned the corner, dancing and singing at the top of her lungs.
"Okay… That was…weird…"
He stood up, and brushed himself off (He also had to restrain himself from sending a bomb the psycho-rabid-girl's way) before entering the Great Hall. Upon entering, he heard a loud, booming voice erupting throughout the large cafeteria.
"-YUSUKE, YOU IDIOT…-"
"Hey Harry! Ron! Listen to this! I found out what 'Kokuryuuha' means!"
"Isn't it the name of Hiei's pet?"
"From what I've heard, yes, but I managed to find a small portain in the restricted section- oh don't look at me like, that, I got a signature- about it. It was in japanese in the book, but this is what I could make of it with a translation charm: 'Legend Black Dragon of Flame. Lives in the darkest pits of underworld around Japan. Length of arm. Tattoo.'" Hermione looked flush from excitement. "They're a legend, and what I can make of it, about the size of an average arm, and they originated in Japan.(2)"
"Cool. But, they're only legends, right? Maybe Hiei has a pet Firelizard, and named it Kokuryuuha. People name their pets weird things." Harry grinned. "Like 'Scabbers' or 'Pig'" He and Hermione chuckled while Ron scowled.
"Firelizards are rare around here, but in Asian countries, Charlie told me that there are special breeding farms. He said each farm has a different, special line they call they're own. Xiao(3) is one of the better lines in China. They even breed Chinese Fireballs."
"I guess it really doesn't matter. None of them have pets that they brought with them anyway. Besides, it would have been simpiler asking them what Kokuryuuha meant."
"True. Come on, we're late for dinner…"
"Merlin, Ron! Is all you ever think about is food?"
"Hey! I like Quidditch too!"
They walked over to where Yusuke, Hiei, and Kurama were eating, and sat down. They all said their 'hellos' but no conversation followed. Or at least, not until a few very large owls brought Yusuke a large box with some holes punched in the top…
"What the…"
Yusuke tore open the box, and suddenly a blur flew out and rushed to Yusuke, landing on his head and cuddling up in his hair.
"PUU!"
Kurama and Hiei were chuckling, and everyone in the great hall stared.
"What is that thing?" Harry asked, looking at the blue penguin looking creature.
"Eh. He's an annoying runt of a Spi- I mean, Japanese Pheonix." Yusuke said with a scowl. "DAMMIT! How the hell did he get here?"
Several people were now pointing and laughing at him, which in turn, pissed Yusuke off to a new extent.
"PUU YOU DAMN PEST! GET OFF MY HEAD!"
"URAMESHI! Watch your language!" called several teachers from the staff table, though they too were interested in learning what the blue thing was.
Puu's eyes began to water up, and several people commented on how Yusuke was being mean to the 'cute blue-berry thing.' Yusuke just banged his head on the table.
A few seconds later, Kurama and Hiei still chuckling to themselves, a letter arrived in the form of two large, black owls that landed in front of Yusuke. Puu hissed at them a little, but they paid him no mind. However, Yusuke's attention was focused on the letter. The envelope was red. A bright, blood red.
"Oh my. You've got a Howler, Yusuke! Better open it now just to get it over with…" Hermione said.
"Who'd you piss off to get something that bad?" Ron asked, remembering his second year.
"It must be someone wealthy. I mean, owls like these… and they're black, which is odd for an owl…" Harrry mumbled, stroking one of the owls as it nibbled a bit of toast before taking off.
"What's a- HOLY SHIT! HIEI!" Yusuke exclaimed. The letter suddenly exploded and was ingulfed in firey hot flames.
"It wasn't me, baka Detective. I swear." Hiei said, in the split second they had before a loud, booming voice filled the Great hall. Yusuke's eyes widened as he recognized the voice.
"KEIKO!"
"-YUSUKE, YOU IDIOT! I TALKED TO KAZUMA AFTER YOU LEFT, AND HE SAID THAT HE THOUGHT PUU WAS AT GENKAI'S! BUT, WHEN I WENT TO PAY YUKINA A VISIT, HE WASN'T THERE. SO, I ASSUMED HE WENT WITH YOU! LO AND BEHOLD, I GO TO TALK TO YOUR MOTHER, AND GUESS WHAT I FOUND IN THE CLOSET, STARVING!-"
"-WELL, I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS SUPPOSED TO FEED HIM! HELL, I FORGOT HE WAS LOCKED IN THE CLOSET IN THE FIRST PLACE!-" Yusuke argued. Kurama and Hiei were open-mouthed, suffocating from laughter.
"Uh, Yusuke, she can't hear you… It's a one-way thing… Who is that anyway?" Harry asked.
"-KOENMA-SAMA TOLD ME HE MADE YOU A FEW YEARS YOUNGER TO MAKE YOU LOOK THE PART FOR THE MISSION. BUT, I SWEAR TO KAMI, THAT IF YOU GO BACK TO YOUR OLD WAYS, YOU WILL BE ATTENDING SCHOOL AGAIN, AND THIS TIME, YOU WILL BE A MODEL STUDENT!-"
"-LIKE HELL I WILL!-"
Kurama and Hiei were laughing uncontrollably now. They turned and saw Karasu, leaning up against the doorway of the Great Hall, clutching his sides as he listened to the feared leader of Team Urameshi, who also happened to be Reizan's son, have his ass chewed out by a human girl.
Keiko's ranting drawled on and on and on…and on…and on some more…
"Man, they really didn't hold her back, did they? What's it been, an hour? I think everyone's gone deaf…"
After a while, the yelling finally subsided, and Keiko ended her rant by saying, "-AND YUSUKE! ONE MORE THING…-"
"NANI?"
"-…BOTON'S GOING TO BE MEETING YOU IN THAT VILLAGE THAT YOUR SCHOOL GOES TO EVERY FEW WEEKS! LOOK FOR HER! Oh, Hiei, Kurama, I hope you're controlling Yusuke somewhat…"
"Great Kami! They really can't let her go like that… Oh well… It was shorter than the last one she gave me…"
By this time, there was only a few people left in the Great Hall. Most couldn't take the noise, so they decided to leave. The one's who stayed had decided to plug their ears, though it didn't stop the sound much.
"SHORTER? How long was the last one?" Hermione exclaimed.
"Eh… What was it, Hiei? Six hours?"
"Baka. Six and a half. Seven if you count when she decided for once that slapping and yelling at one time was too difficult…"
"Oh yeah…" Yusuke winced slightly at the memory.
"SEVEN HOURS?" Harry yelled. "Good God, what was that for?"
"Leaving for five months without telling her first. She had to hear it from someone else."
"Oh… And this 'short' one was for…?"
"Locking the blue runt in the closet and forgetting about him."
The Golden Trio blinked.
"Why did you lock him in the closet?" Ron asked.
"Stupid puffball… he was bugging me and wouldn't leave me alone…"
"And how long was he there?"
"Dunno. At least since about a week before we came here."
"That's over a month!"
"Yep."
"Yusuke should not own pets." Hiei said, with a smirk.
"Neither should you!" Yusuke shot back. "You would have sliced, roasted and eaten him, not necessarily in that order, had he so much as looked at you odd… "
"So? I doubt he would have been too much different from the owl."
"You ate an owl!"
"No, baka, some other nocturnal bird."
"Oh… Okay, just so we're clear on that…"
"Yusuke, you are one of the stupidest creatures in all three worlds. How you got so strong, I will never know."
"Hey! I'm smarter than Kuwabara! I kept a 38 average all year in high school!"
"And that's something to be proud of?"
"The baka had a 24."
"I see…"
"So… I hear there's a village that our school visits sometimes. What's it called?" Kurama asked politely. As much as he…enjoyed… listening to his friends and his alter-ego, he had some information to squeaze out of someone.
"…"
"What was that?" Kurama asked again, the corners of his mouth twitching at the stunned stares on the three human's faces.
"Hogsmede… And we go there… this weekend." Ron said. "They've got the best sweet shops, joke shops, a few book stores, and a place called the Shrieking Shack that's said to be haunted. But Zonko's…"
"Ron, I don't think any more of Zonko's stuff is allowed at school."
"WHAT!" A string of curses followed from both Harry and Ron.
"Oh really now. It's never stopped you before, has it?"
Both boys stared at her, eyes wide, unable to process what she just said.
"Well…?"
All intelligent thoughts had flown out the window, and went POOF.
Hermione just sighed and stood up, chuckling to herself.
Yusuke, meanwhile, was tangled in a battle of wits with Puu over a piece of toast. Because it was a battle of wits, and Yusuke was…Yusuke… His beloved toast (which was one of the hundreds left over) disappeared down his Spirit Puffball's throat in a matter of miliseconds.
Hiei, fed up with everything, turned to Kurama for entertainment.
"-Spar, kitsune?-"
"-No, you've got that gash in your side that needs to finish healing.-"
"-Wrong answer. Be outside in five minutes. Besides, I've had worse.-"
Kurama sighed. "-Not here. Not now. I'm tired, and Karasu is flirting with me again.-" (A/N: I will try to add more Karasu-ness. Just wait until Chapter 8, if possible.)
"-Release all your pent up anger then. Only go for him, not me.-"
"-Oh? So, you're afraid to spar me?-" Kurama taunted.
"-Knowing what anger has built up inside of you from recent events, I'd say that anyone within a fifty mile radius isn't safe.-"
"-The same goes for you.-"
"-Hn. Not really. I've got the dragon from hell, speed, and flames. You've got man-eating plants and intelligence… I'm more dangerous.-" Hiei said, as close as jokingly as possible for Hiei. Kurama was ruthless, and the fact that there was a good few hundered miles of lush plant life surrounding them didn't help but to increase the fact that anyone who angered the fox was as good as dead...
"-It's nice to know that you think so highly of me.-" Kurama muttered, tone dry and annoyed. "-We'll spar at the village when we can run off without being noticed.-"
Hiei growled and 'Hn'ed" but agreed. They all made their way to the common room, though Kuraam decided to stop by the DADA room to leave Karasu a 'present'. He told them he'd meet up with them later, leaving Hiei and Yusuke smirking. Kurama wasn't going to kill Karasu… yet…
"So, Harry, you're pretty famous around here, correct?" Yusuke asked.
"Yeah… Why?" Harry replied, slowly,
"Just wondering."
"My friends helped me. I wouldn't have been able to do any of that stuff without them."
"Huh. The Savior of the wizarding world needs his friend's help? You wouldn't be much of a savior then, if they did all the work."
"It wasn't anything like that!" Protested Hermione. "We just helped, that's all ."
"Hn. I get what they're saying. "Hiei said. He turned to them. "You're all team players, average save-the-day-super-hero types." Hiei paused. "I hate people like you."
Yusuke snorted. "Yeah, well, y'know Hiei, you must hate yourself then."
Hiei growled. "The only reason I'm a part of your so-called 'team,' is because if I'm not, I'll be in prison for the next five hundred or so years, until the warden either lets me out, or dies unexpectedly on the job."
"Of which would probably be your fault anyway…" Yusuke muttered.
"Of coarse." Hiei said with a chuckle. Ron started laughing.
"You're only friends with Yusuke because he's your parole officer? That's a laugh. If anything, it's switched. Or Shuuichi's the parole officer."
Yusuke snorted. "Actually, Shuuichi landed himself in a lot of trouble before. He stole some artifact to help save his mother when she was extremely sick. He almost lost her. He cares very deeply for his mom, He'd kill to protect her. Hell, he would even give up his own life for hers. Trust me, I know…"
"Hn. She's his weakness. He couldn't live without her." Heie snorted. "He's an idiot. Loving a ningen like that."
The humans had trouble believing that the calm, intelligent, goody-two-shoes Shuuichi would do something criminal.
"You couldn't live without Yukina, you know."
Hiei growled.. "Hn."
"Yukina? Is she your girlfriend?" Ron asked. Hiei growled.
"Hell no."
"Hey look! There's Kurama! I wonder…" Yusuke's voice trailed off, as Kurama walked up, grinning.
"I suggest we go to our common rooms. Now."
Hiei chuckled. "Fox… Karasu?"
"Yep. Unfortunately, it won't kill him. But, he'll be scratching for a week. And he won't be able to form those bombs of his, because he'll be too concentrated with trying to get the parasites off him…"
All of them laughed. Harry, Hermione, and Ron didn't particularly like 'Professor' Karasu. He seemed, shallow, cold, and…creepy… And, they were right.
"But what will happen if he finds out that you were the one that did whatever you did?"
"He'll already know. He just won't have the proof. The plant I put in his class room is a plant that's native to a certain place that very few people know of. Just because I know where to get it, doesn't mean that I put it there." Kurama grinned somewhat slyly, and the action reminded Harry fleetingly of a fox.
"Hey Kurama, wanna play marbles again?"
"No." Kurama yawned. "Fall's coming. I'm starting to get tired."
"What's fall got to do with anything?" Harry asked.
"Nothing really. I get really sick during that season, really weak. I er- don't know why. But I need my rest."
Harry sensed that the redhead wasn't telling everything. Before he could ask again, Hiei cut in.
"Need anything, kitsune? I could run and grab something for you. Name, description, and any nasty side effects on me if I touch it wrong."
"No, nothing right now. Besides, there's no opening for you to go through anyway, and I'm not going to use up my youki and reiki levels for you to go get plants for me. It's not serious, besides, I think I'm stocked up on everything I need. For now anyway."
"Hn. Whatever. Got anything for the Fuyu Ian for me when it rolls around?"
"Yes, yes. I'm prepared. Prepare yourself with the ritual better than last year though."
"I never had time last year, idiot kitsune. I think I was saving Kuwabaka's sorry ass from a few low ranking akuma."
"Let's just go to bed. Tomorrow's Hogsmeade weekend…"
They all entered the dormitory, Ron and Harry stayed up to do homework (Hermione 'hmphed' when she saw them, muttering something along the lines of "They never learn…") Yusuke managed to shake Puu from his head, and was fiddling with the communicator up in his bed, and Hiei was staring out the windowsill, Jagan glowing slightly, looking for any abnormal ki signals. Kurama laid down in bed, just as the screams from the other side of the castle came…
"-WHAT THE- KURAMA!-"
Followed by the sound of someone repeatedly banging into objects, trying to scratch themselves.
Laughter erupted, and Kurama closed his eyes feeling very satisfied with himself…
More A/N:
(1) x3 Because she was the first to ask, I added her. I must thank her for this part, because had she not suggested it, I would never of written this particular scene. But, I'm not going to add anyone else, because 1: Sha asked first. and 2: i don't need any more charactors.
(2) Yeah. Wrong definition. x3 I HATE when people have the Golden Geeks (sorry, I couldn't resist) find out with their wit. It makes the story no fun.
(3) Xiao is Chinese for Gunpowder. Yay explosives. B)
Akuma- Demon
Fuyu Ian- Winter Solace (correct me if I'm worng.)
I'm not adding the other definitions. You should know them by now. x3
The next chapter will be fun to write. And extremely perverted. xD I've had this one scene swirling around in my head for a few days, thanks to a friend at school who has this thing with singing odd, addicitve songs... (I'm serious. One even had it's own warning label. And guess what! You'll be seeing that song soon! xDDD -evil-)
Can you say, Youkosinging, "EVERYBODY ELSE HAS HAD MORE SEX THAN ME! WHOOO HOOO!" XDDDD
