YYF14: Okay, I would have updated last night, but the site was having traffic, so I waited until this morning, and I'm glad I did, because I got another page written that wouldn't have been there if I had posted last night, so... I guess it's a good thing that the site gets weird sometimes. Anyway, I think you guys will like this chapter. At the end, though, is something that's kinda weird... I'll explain it when it happens so you can just go ahead and read.


The rest of the week went by fairly quickly, and Yusuke was acting like himself the whole time. All of his friends were happy for that.

As it got closer to Saturday, the excitement and restlessness of the students grew. Finally, when Saturday arrived, Ron woke his friends up early.

"Wake up, guys! The Hogsmeade trip is today!" (A:N: I know this doesn't happen the first week of school, but I had an idea.)

Most of the boys woke up quickly and hurried to get dressed, but Yusuke and Koenma were confused.

"What's Hogsmeade?" Yusuke asked, trying to rub the sleep from his eyes.

"We'll tell you on the way, just know that it's really good!" Ron replied, waiting for the other boys to get dressed. He already was.

Harry rolled his eyes. "Ron, they might not be able to come. They haven't had their parents sign the slip."

"Our parents have to sign something?" Yusuke asked. "Well, that counts me out."

"Well, we don't know," Harry said. "We can ask McGonagall to see if she'll let you. I really hope you can come. It's really cool there."

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Once the group was dressed, they went down to the front hall to see a lot of other students already there. Harry and Ron led Yusuke and Koenma over to Professor McGonagall.

"Professor," Harry began, "would our friends be able to go to Hogsmeade with us?"

"I'm sorry, Mr. Potter, but they haven't gotten a slip, so they cannot go."

The four headed back towards the door.

"I'm sorry, guys, but I guess you can't come," Ron said sullenly. "It would've been fun, too, showing you guys everything."

"Wait a minute, Harry, is there a place in Hogsmeade that not many people go to?" Koenma asked.

"Yeah, the Shrieking Shack. Why?"

"What does it look like there?"

As Harry described it, Yusuke watched Koenma curiously. Why did he care how it looked? Then he realized.

-Koenma? Are you really going to--

-Yeah. Why not? As long as no one sees us, we'll be fine.-

-…You're turning into me.-

-Oh, I hope not. I don't want to get bad grades.-

-K-chan! I'm doing fine!-

-I'm just kidding, Yusuke.-

Once the rest of the kids had left, and the hall was empty, Koenma turned to Yusuke.

"Want to try?"

"But… how do you do it when you haven't been there before?"

"Hmm… I don't know. That's why it's going to be fun."

Yusuke rolled his eyes. "Okay. So, how do we do this?"

"Just hold my hand and stay still."

Yusuke did as he was told, and a second later, everything went black. It only lasted for a second, though, and then he found himself standing next to Koenma on a hill that had a view of an old shack.

"Well, I'm supposing this is it," Yusuke said quietly. "That was cool…"

"I told Harry to come here," Koenma told him. "He didn't understand why, but at least it'll be fun to see how they react."

Yusuke looked over at him, confused. "You mean you didn't tell him you could go to places?"

"It didn't seem like it would be something that would matter. Oh, I think I see them."

As they got closer, Yusuke could make out their expressions of disbelief.

"I thought you guys couldn't come!" Ron exclaimed, running up to them.

"How did you guys get here?" Hermione asked. "And before we did?"

"Koenma's got a little ability that lets him go wherever he wants to go," Yusuke said, grinning.

"He can take you with him, too?" Harry asked. Yusuke blinked, then turned around to face Koenma.

"Yeah, K-chan, I didn't know that you could take people with you."

"I didn't either, actually," Koenma confessed. "It was just something that I was going to try and see if it would work."

As the boys continued to talk, Hermione sat back and started to think again. Yusuke had been talking to Koenma using Japanese words a lot more often, and he kept calling him "chan". She had been looking in the library to find a translator, but so far, she hadn't been successful.

"C'mon, Hermione! We're gonna show them around!" Hermione looked up, hearing Ron. She followed them, but wasn't really paying attention, lost in thought.

After the first night of term, which had been pretty crazy in itself, Yusuke and Koenma had been acting different around each other. Not bad different, they weren't fighting, but they were spending more time together and were talking to each other in Japanese a lot more, and kept calling each other "chan". Well, if the library wouldn't help, then she could just ask them herself.

The group ended up showing their friends around almost every place in Hogsmeade, including Honeydukes. Harry had told them that he would buy them some candy if they wanted it, because if they had it themselves, the teachers would get suspicious.

"You guys might want to get back to Hogwarts now," Harry said. "It's almost time to go back."

"And when we see you, we ask you how it went and all that?" Yusuke asked.

"Yeah. You do things like this a lot, huh?"

"All the time," Yusuke said proudly.

Koenma laughed and took his hand. "C'mon, Yusuke. Stay still. I don't know if it's going to keep working."

Yusuke blinked when Koenma disappeared and he didn't.

"Huh?"

Koenma reappeared, looking confused. "It didn't work."

"How come?" Yusuke asked, puzzled. "I stayed still."

"I don't know… Did we do anything different from last time?"

"…Do you have enough energy?"

Koenma paused. "I'm not sure. I guess I have enough for myself, but not enough for another person, too. Well, this isn't good… Harry, how far is the school from here?"

"You couldn't walk and get back before we could, if that's what you mean."

"No, I wasn't thinking that. Just how far is it?"

"Not really far…"

Koenma turned to Yusuke, a thoughtful look on his face.

"Yusuke, could you go demon and run back there? You were pretty fast when you were fighting with Sensui, so…"

"I guess I could… one second…"

Yusuke closed his eyes, trying to focus on his demon energy. His aura became visible as a fiery red instead of the blue his friends remembered. He began to take on his demon look and paused.

"Do I have to go completely demon?" he asked. "I don't wanna get long hair."

"I don't think so, not if you get the powers before you go completely demon."

"I think I have them, so… see you guys later." Yusuke then took off, and only was visible as a streak of red light heading in the direction of the school.

Koenma laughed at his friends' awestruck faces. "I guess I'd better be going too." He disappeared, and his friends left for the front of Hogsmeade to start on their way back to school.

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Koenma appeared in the same place from where he and Yusuke had left, and waited. He could sense Yusuke's energy not far off, and smiled. Yusuke was getting faster.

When Yusuke arrived, he was looking proud, and not the least bit tired.

"That was fun," Yusuke remarked. "I should start doing that more often."

"Well, how about every time we go to Hogsmeade? Harry said the trips were every few weeks."

"Nah, I think I need to run more than that. Genkai'd probably want me to, anyway."

"Yeah, you have a point. By the end of the year, you'd be out of shape if you only ran once a month."

Yusuke laughed, but then the words hit him. End of the year… No, he couldn't think of the end of the year. In this past week, Koenma had gotten better, but not enough for what the end of the year would bring… Yusuke suddenly blushed.

Aw, crap…

"Koenma, I- I think I'm gonna go to the lake for a minute…"

As Yusuke ran off towards the lake, Koenma looked after him, confused. Yusuke was acting strange… Well, at least it wasn't the mean strange.

Please be cold, please be cold… Yusuke quickly reached the lake, and with only a second of hesitation jumped in.

Damn, that's cold… That's a good thing.

Yusuke stayed underwater for about thirty seconds, then rose back up to the top, and got out of the lake.

Great, now how'm I supposed to get dry? Oh, wait a minute…

Yusuke raised his energy for a moment, trying to mimic what Hiei did to dry himself off. It didn't work perfectly, but it worked enough to stop his clothes from dripping water all over the place. He stood up and made his way back to the school, trying to keep himself calm.

I didn't know that was gonna happen… Well, I guess now I can't even START to think of the end of the year, or I'm gonna start thinking weird… Damn… What am I supposed to say if he asks me why I wanted to go to the lake? Great… my mind's betraying me…

"Yusuke? Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. It's really cold in there…" Well, if this happens again, I'll know what I'm supposed to do…

"Yusuke, there's something wrong." Yusuke stayed silent.

"Fine, if you won't tell me… Yusuke, if it was me, what color would it be?"

That took Yusuke by surprise. He thought for a moment, then remembered when almost the exact same thing had happened to Koenma, except for him, it had been in a dream.

"…Pink with white…"


YYF14: Okay, I don't know if you guys remember this from the second story in this series, but... first of all, you guys remember that the Jr on Koenma's forehead is changing colors, depending on how he's feeling? Okay, then do you guys remember the dream he had that Yusuke saw when the color was pink with white? You can go back and check if you want if you don't remember, but that's kinda what happened to Yusuke. And I know I'm being vague in the story, but I'm just not good at writing this kind of thing.I'm going to need to get good at it, but for now, I'm not, so I am sorry. I hope you guys liked this chapter anyway, I'll update as soon as I can, and review if you wish. Oh, and Happy Fourth of July:D