Author's Notes:
Eh. I was kinda sorta disappointed with this. But yeah... Early chapter.
So? How was your Halloween? I was sick, soI had to hand out candy. I threatened to break this kid's wrist when he took two handfuls of candy instead of just one peice. Then he tried to step on my cat, who was laying on the porch, sleeping. He barely escaped disembowelment. NO ONE hurts my cat. Because not only is she a bitch, I can be a sadistic bastard. A protective, sadistic bastard.
Then,I had 'American Idiot' by Greenday, blasting from my computer, and some lady started going off on me about how I shouldn't listen to unpatriotic, evil goth music. I kindly told her to leave, and shut the door in her face. :3 My mother, later on, told me that I should have grabbed some eggs andsaid, "Oh, butI do listen to evil, and unpatriotic goth music. And I also egg anyone who complains about it." XD
Kurama stumbled up the stairs, being supported by both Hiei and Yusuke. A trail of blood followed behind them.
"Shit." Hiei muttered. Kurama wounded with Karasu in the castle… Not to mention that someone might decide to follow the blood trail…
They had left Malfoy behind, unconscious, with no recollection of the past few hours. The humans would think of him as suffering from amnesia and the like. This was confirmed with he heard McGonagall shout something about getting him to the Hospital Wing. While wiping his mind, Hiei learned that the brat had gotten the tear gems by using the 'Accio' curse when Hiei's wards had momentarily dropped at one point during the day. In other words, it was just sheer dumb luck of throwing the spell at the right time. Considering all the magic and spells constantly fly every which way, Hiei hadn't heard the spell thrown at him, nor had he felt the tug of them coming off his neck. Upon further examination, he saw that it had been 'wandless magic' that stole his precious tear gems. He wiped that memory from Malfoy's mind as well.
"Well Fox, where should we go to remove my katana from your gut?"
Kurama winced as he tripped on a stair, Yusuke catching him before he pushed the blade further in him.
"I'd say… The Shrieking Shack? But first, we need to go to the dorm, to…"
"Just tell me what you need and I'll get it." Hiei said dryly.
"No, I'd rather get it myself. My things are heavily warded, and unless you'd like to be strung up by your toenails in the vines of a carnivorous plant…"
Hiei rolled his eyes. "Fine. Yusuke, fetch."
"What am I? A dog?" Yusuke exclaimed. "Besides, Kurama, what d'ya need? Maybe I have it in with the junk Genkai gave me…"
Chuckling, Kurama paused. "No, it's fine. Just tell the teachers tomorrow –besides Karasu- that I'm not feeling well." He sighed and gestured towards the sword. "You two go on and get some sleep, I'll remove it myself."
"No shit. You've got a sword in your stomach. Karasu will take advantage of that in a heartbeat."
"Hn. Baka kitsune. I don't sleep."
"Yeah, and I'll stay up and help as well." Yusuke muttered. "Though, Genaki will have a real laugh about this…"
"No Yusuke, it'd be suspicious if they came in and all three of us were missing. You can stay back. Besides, we've got a test in transfiguration you need to study for anyway…"
Yusuke growled, "Fine. How about I just make sure no one goes looking for you."
"No."
"I'm not leaving until you give me a job to do." Yusuke snapped, then proudly said, "Nothing can distract me away from my friends when they're in need!"
"Good Kami, what are you, Kuwabaka or something?" Hiei snarled under his breathe. He suddenly pointed in the direction behind Yusuke. "Hey look! A distraction!"
"Huh?" Yusuke turned, and Hiei picked up Kurama bridal style, being careful of the sword, and shot out of the castle at top speed. They passed several teachers that were examining the spot where Malfoy was found. Scorched marks were spread out around the site. The only one that seemed to notice the black and red blur shooting besides them was Karasu. Eyes narrowed, he scanned the area, and found nothing. Pfft. Not that he would have found anything. Hiei, Kurama, and Yusuke masked their ki…
"What could have done this? And whose blood is this?"
"Hm…" Karasu sniffed. He bent down and dipped a finger into the blood and licked the red liquid off his fingers.
"Professor Karasu! What are you doing?" McGonagall shouted.
Karasu ignored her. "Just what I thought. It smelled –and tasted- like the fox…"
"What?"
Hagrid's eyebrows rose. "Do yeh mean a fox attacked the boy?"
"No, never mind…" A small, evil looking smile crossed his features for a moment. "But I do think that there is a large chance that Mr. Malfoy will never be able to tell us what happened out here tonight…" He bent down and scooped up a vile of the blood.
"What, may I ask, are you doing?"
Karasu stood back up and looked McGonagall in the eye. "Nothing that will cause harm to any wizard or witch."
McGonagall eyed him. "Really now."
"Yes. Really."
"Then what are you going to use it for?"
"Hagrid told me that something was preying on the chickens, and he said he found to mangled bodies of a few rabbits. A Youko's blood will repel any and all pests."
"Youko?"
"Never mind." Karasu gave a sly grin. "…Never mind…"
In the Shrieking Shack, Hiei glanced over to where Kurama was trying to determine how to remove the sword without killing himself. "The henhouse, Fox?"
Kurama looked up, smiling sheepishly. "Yeah. Youko got bored."
"Hn. How much hotter do you want this water?" He pointed to the pot of now boiling liquid.
"That's fine." Kurama chewed on the leaf of an orange flower that had something Hiei could only guess be yellow, pulsing boils on the stem and leaves. "Could you do me a favor and turn the leaves and petals of these into a fine powder, then slowly mix them into the water until there is a greenish goo?" Kurama pulled three more seeds from his hair and quickly manipulated them so that they were full grown flowers. One was purple, and Hiei could have sworn he heard it hiss at him, another was blue, with red streaks on the petals, and the last was one he recognized- Foxglove.
"Hn." Hiei did as he was told, and was stopped only when Kurama called him over.
"I need you to pull this out of me, quickly and cleanly." Kurama put a rag in his mouth, and Hiei only nodded and grasped the sword handle.
"Hn. Fine then. On the count of three. One, Two-" Before reaching three, Hiei deftly drew the sword out of the fox, who bit down hard on the rag, trying not to yell as the blade cleanly pulled out of him.
"What the hell ever happened to three?" Kurama half snarled as he reached for the now cooled goo Hiei had made.
"You would have tensed up, baka kitsune. It would have caused you even more pain and damage." Hiei growled back. "Besides," He continued, "I know for a fact that you would have done the same to me."
Kurama shot him an angered look, yet he knew Hiei was correct in his assumption. With a sigh, he spread the slime over the wound, and began to bandage it with some freshly made gauze.
A few hours later, when Hiei had deemed that no one was wandering the halls, the two of them made their way through the castle. Hiei however, was as mad as hell after Kurama threatened to feed him to another freaky Makai plant if Hiei carried him back to the dorm to save time. So now, they were stuck walking as normal humans.
"Kurama, Snape-baka is heading our way."
"Snape baka? Wow. Didn't know you held him in such high regard."
Hiei rolled his eyes. "Fine then. The Ketsunoana Snape is about a hundred yards behind us, and is about to turn onto our hallway… "
"Or not…" A voice drawled out from behind them. Hiei growled.
"…That is, unless he decides to use the 'secret' entrance to our left…"
"Students out of bed, and in the early hours of the morning, eh? Can't have that can we? 20 points for Gryffindor each, and two nights of detention should cover it. How do you think that sounds?"
"-I think it sounds like tonight, I will be charitable and let you keep both your tongue and your precious voice box-" Hiei growled under his breath. Snape looked at him.
"What was it that you said?" He sneered at Kurama. "Translate. Now."
Kurama, who was leaning up against the wall so it would appear as if he were uninjured, replied, "Sir, he said that you cannot punish us because we have special permission to be out of bed at this time." Kurama pulled out two slips of paper from his pocket. "Here are our passes, sir."
Snape took the parchment from the redhead's hands. "Hospital Wing? Why were you there, Mr. Minamino and Mr. Jaganshi? You don't look under the weather."
Kurama nodded. "I had a serious stomach ache." Hiei suppressed a snort at this. Understatment of the year. "Food Poisoning, I guess. I think that there had been something I was allergic to in the dinner they served us." Kurama said politely, in his 'Polite-As-Hell-and/or-Shuichi voice'.
"And why is Jaganshi with you, Minamino?" Snape snarled.
"Hn. He asked me to accompany him to see the nurse. He didn't want to collapse in the hallway or whatever." Hiei growled. Snape's lip began to curl, but stopped when hiei said, "I don't see why he was so worried over a freaking allergy. I told him next time to wake me up for something important." Snapes eyebrows raised. Ah, so this is why the hat wanted to put the boy in Slytherin. Thinking back on it, Snape couldn't remember a time when the short one had ever shown any Gryffindor traits. Everything about him screamed 'Slytherin.' How… interesting…
"Next time I see you two out of bed, pass or none, you will end up like Mr. Urameshi and clean the bed pans in the hospital wing for a week, no magic." Upon hearing this, Hiei and Kurama had ot fight to not burst out laughing at the thought of Yusuke cleaning bedpans. "Now get to your common room, now." His cold, grey glare had no effect on the two. He glanced at Kurama. "Or do you need an escort?" He snapped, menacingly.
"No sir." Kurama said, half bowing, and clutching his stomach. Hiei did no such thing and turned.
"Professor, why not make Yusuke's punishment longer, say two or three weeks? One week will not get into his head." Hiei called.
Snape smirked for a moment, still marveling about how the boy should have been in Slytherin. "I'll take that into consideration, Jaganshi."
"So, Fox." Hiei began as they crawled into their bed(or windowsill). "When did you get the hall passes?"
"The last sickle moon. I figured one of us would have done something or another stupid enough to need them. I also copied the nurse's signature. Simple, five minute job."
"Five minutes? Slow Kitsune…"
He was interrupted by Yusuke's loud snores and Harry's whimpering from another nightmare.
As Kurama closed his eyes, and began to drift off to sleep, a whisper brought him aware again.
"Kurama?"
"Yeah, Hiei?"
"Never do that again."
Niether needed to comment on what 'that' was.
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Later that day, during his after –lunch break period, Yusuke went to vist Kurama where he lay inbed in the dorms.
"Hougei Yusuke."
"Hey Kurama. Where's Hiei?"
"In the Forbidden Forest, training and collecting plants for me."
"Oh… He hasn't been to his morning classes. And besides, I wanted to go kick his ass for what he did to me last night."
Kurama chuckled. "Which would be?"
Yusuke made a face. "Distracting me, and getting me into a few more weeks of detention. Snape told me about at breakfast."
"Did any of the teachers ask for me?"
"Yep. McGonagall wanted to send you 'back' to Madam Pomfrey, but I told her that you were just tired." Yusuek said, shrugging. "And Karasu…"
The fox's eyes narrowed. "Yes?"
Yusuke shrugged again. "He, er… At lunch, today was an outside day, by the way; he caught my and Hiei's attention, then, with his finger, spelled your name in Kanji in the air, and started deep-throating his hot dog." Yusuke snorted. "He's sick."
Kurama choked. "VERY much so."
"So, Hiei's…?"
"Check in the middle of the forest. There is a clearing, near the giant spider den. He should be somewhere around there."
"Ah, okay, thanks. Need anything?"
"Nope. I should be walking around without collapsing from blood loss by tomorrow."
"Wonderful. Just wonderful." Yusuke muttered sarcastically.
"Yep. My thoughts exactly. But until then, I'm going to put up a mind blocking ward around Potter's bed. Damn him, he's keeping me up all night, and Hiei's kind of mad at me right now for getting myself impaled instead of the human." Kurama chuckled again. "Youko wants the room to himself, and he's /promised/ to calm down if I gave him some chocolate."
"Huh. Did you know that chocolate has the same effect on your brain as sex?"
Kurama stared. "Yusuke, how did you come across this… piece of information?"
"Read it in a book Keiko had."
"KEIKO had a book containing this?"
"Yep. It was something she brought home from her porno-class."
Kurama's eyebrows shot up. "Porno-class?"
"Yep. Sex-Ed in ninth grade. That's why girls go crazy over chocolate during that 'certain time of the month…' and after they've first had sex." Yusuke nodded.
"Hm. No wonder Youko has always had such a chocolate fetish…"
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"Qiuet down class." Snape's cold voice cut through the already silent classroom. "Today, we will be making a very difficult potion that many of you" His eyes fell on Harry and Neville "…Will not be able to complete. Today, we will be working on the Aura Potion. This will allow the drinker's aura to become stronger and show itself to those around us. You have all class period to do this." He flicked his wand towards the board. "Begin."
About fifteen minutes into the class, Hiei and Yusuke (who were worried about how the potion might show their aura) felt a very familer crow coming their way.
"Class." Snape growled. "Professor Karasu has been kind enough to want to…help… the class with Dumbledore's permission, of coarse. If you have any questions, he will answer them."
Karasu, totally ignoring him, glided over to where Hiei and Yusuke were chopping their potion ingredients.
"Hello Hiei, Yusuke."
Not even pausing or looking up, Yusuke and Hiei simultaneously flipped him off.
"-Now, now, as much as I'd enjoy a threesome, my heart goes out to Kurama.-" Karasu said, grinning. "But, Hiei, I'd like to ask you a question.-"
"Nani baka Karasu?"
"-I'd like to have a picture of Kurama, sleeping.-"
Hiei and Yusuke finally looked up and stared.
"And WHY do you want that?" Yusuke fish-eyed him.
Karasu shrugged. "-It'd help me out…a lot… And you as well. I couldn't have to kill the Potter kid for his wonderful eyes and famousness. I simply /love/ famous creatures."
Hiei stared at him for a moment, the center of his forehead glowing a faint purple. He fought Karasu's barriers, and then almost fell out of his seat as he realized Karasu's true reason.
"-YOU are NOT going to have a picture of the fox just so you can jack off properly.-"
"Aw. Pity." Karasu flipped another photo out of his pocket. "Maybe then I can just keep this. Not my taste, but still a pretty little Koorime. Pity her brother is an assassin. What would she do if she found out? Probably disown you, or maybe she'll feel betrayed. Hell, with any luck, she'll commit suicide out of depression, like your pitiful mother, before I could get my hands on her. All things loved must die, of coarse. And it would be all your-"
He was cut off as he was slammed against the wall, Hiei's hands on his throat, the cauldrons around them boiling madly.
"YOU FUCKING BASTARD!"
Yusuke, immediately seeing the danger, began yelling. "EVERYONE OUT! THEY'RE GONNA EXPLODE!"
This of coarse, caused panic to rise, and everyone began an insane rush to the door, cauldrons tipping, and the potion spreading everywhere, soaking everyone's shoes.
"JAGANSHI! UNHAND PROFESSOR KARASU THIS INSTANT, FIFTY POINTS FROM GRYFFINDOR!"
Hiei naturally ignored Snape, and hissed at Karasu,. "Give me three good reasons that I should not rip out your throat, here and now."
Karasu chuckled. "Because it wouldn't get me a chance to do…this!" He flung Hiei off of him, and sent a bomb spiraling towards him. Unfortunatly, Hiei had landed right by Snape, and though he dodged it, Snape, being merely human, could not see the bomb flying his way.
"Snape! Duck!" Yusuke shouted, Spirit Gunning the professor out of the way at the last instant, an explosion erupting around them.
"What the-"
"You know, Karasu, there is a certain spell I found, that would work quite well on you. Because there is, of coarse, magic that works on Youkai…" Hiei snarled, whipping out his wand. "Diabolus atra flamma!" Hiei shouted, shadowy flames exploding around them. "This, my dear, sicko crow, is where you die."
Karasu threw more bombs at Hiei in slight panic, a few of them hitting him.
"Hiei!" Yusuke called.
"Shut. Up." Hiei roared, clutching a burn on his arm. "This is my battle, stay out of it."
Hiei direct the spell with what little control of what he had with the new energy, and, in a rush of flames, Karasu disappeared, his shouts filling the room.
All of a sudden, the room reached the maximum amount of heat as it could, and cauldrons exploded, as well as the storage cabinet, releasing a rotten egg-like smell. The dungeon began crumbling, none of Snape's panicked spells having any effect on it. The whole castle began to shake as the dungeon came down.
Grabbing the professor, Hiei flitted out of the room, and appeared next to Yusuke, who happened to be the only one left after the 'big bang.'
Meanwhile, in his bed, Kurama shot up as he felt a flair of Youki and the castle shaking. "Oh.Fuck…HIEI!"
"Hn. Did you hear something detective?"
Yusuke just laughed madly. "Koenma's gonna kill you! Is Karasu dead?"
"Mr…. Jaganshi and Urameshi. Follow me this INSTANT! You two are going to be EXPELLED for this!" Snape, who was just waking up from the shock of having his dungeon suddenly die, began shouting. He was shaking and paler than usual. "Where are the others?" He barked.
"They are all hiding somewhere or another, a few floors away. Everyone but Karasu made it out… oh wait, never mind dammit, there he is…" Yusuke muttered as Karasu limped from the rubble.
"You know, Hiei, had I been any less of the D class I am now, I would have died. Unfortunantly, things don't usually work out the way we plan. Ne?" Karasu grinned evilly.
"You as well! We're going to Dumbledore this instant!"
On the way there, they ran into a frantic McGonagall.
"Severus! What happened! There was an explosion, and-"
"I know very well what happened, Minerva." Snape snarled. "Apparently, two of YOUR sixth years and Karasu killed off the dungeon and everything in it, including the potions classroom, the storage cabinet, and some very rare potions. I was just taking the nimrods to Dumbledore, so they should be packed and on the train home by tomorrow."
McGonagall just stared for a moment. Then, she turned and glared at the three trailing behind Snape. She looked them over.
"Is this true? Is anyone else hurt? Never, in all my years of Hogwarts…"
"Yeah, yeah, heard the speech before. Can we just get to the old man to explain what really happened?"
"Hn. For once, I agree with the damn detective. And it's either Karasu gets fired, or he dies." Hiei snarled.
"Yep. The idiot was given a second chance, and he still has an obsession…" Yusuke muttered. Then all of a sudden, he thought of something. (A/N: Amazing, I know)
"Karasu also mentioned something about killing the Potter kid."
At this, both professors' eyes shot up, and they glanced in the direction of the crow demon.
Oh yes. Tonight was going to be interesting indeed…
A/N:
No, it wasn't the Halloween party, and once again, I didn't like how this chapter worked out. The Halloween thingshould be next chapter. Muwah.I cannot write two chapters in one night, when i am exhausted, sick, and handing out free candy to total strangers...
The "Hey look, a distraction!" thing came from when some freak stole my pencil from me, and we basically had the same conversation, and i stole back my pencil. Yay.
Translations:
"Diabolus atra flamma!" - Latin. 'Devil dark flame' Cheesy, but I couldn't think of anything else.
Hougei - Welcome
Questions? Comments? I like chocolate. x3
BTW- The chocolate comment is true. It has something to do with endorphines. XD
