HP and YYH 12

Yusuke blinked as food appeared magically on the large red and gold decorated table. He shrugged though and turned slightly to meet Kurama's eyes.

The green eyed fox nodded and Yusuke knew that they would be meeting in Genkai's study with Dumbledore tonight as planned.

He turned back to the table when Hermione explained, "The food is prepared in the lower levels of the school kitchens. The food is prepared by the school's House Elves."

Yusuke nodded and said as he grabbed a bowl of rice and sautéed meat, "Well, whoever makes the food, human or elf, it's good."

Harry grinned at his other Gryffindor friends as they stared at the foreign foods and explained with a careless shrug, "I guess Dumbledore wants to make the new students and Mast Genkai feel at home."

Dean, Seamus, and the other fifth, sixth, and seventh years of his house nodded as they tentively tasted bits and pieces of the different foods.

As Neville picked up a piece of white meat wrapped in greens, Yusuke grinned. Nervously, the shy Gryffindor gathered his house' legendry bravery, and put the food in his mouth in one go. He was surprised to find out that the food was actually pretty good. Once you got past the salty-watery taste of the greens.

Yusuke commented after Neville had swallowed the food, "You just ate Sushi."

Many of the muggle-borns and half bloods turned a bit green at that, but started to laugh at Neville's perplexed look.

Dean took pity on his normally shy friend and explained, "Sushi, is raw fish wrapped in Seaweed."

Neville's face turned an odd greenish-white color as he stood up and said through a choke, "Excuse me!"

The teachers at the table, peered at the bumbling Gryffindor with some concern as he bolted out of the Great Hall, but Genkai chuckled and said reassuring, well as reassuringly as she could, "Not to worry, the boy's just had his first experience with Sushi."

Many of the teachers relaxed and chuckled, especially Professor Sprout. It was funny to her because Neville was her best student and he hadn't recognized the plant for what it was before he ate it.

Yusuke grinned and said as the Great Hall's door slammed shut, "Yeah, that's a normal reaction. Sushi is an acquired taste."

He then proceeded to pluck two rolls off the platter with his chopsticks and eat one. He grinned at the Gryffindors when they gulped with a pale pallor.

When dinner was over with, Dumbledore stood up and said, "Welcome! Now that we have all been well fed and our thirst has been quenched, I have this to say, all Prefects please escort your housemates to their houses, and will Mr. Harry Potter, Mr. Ronald Weasley, Miss Hermione Granger, Miss Virginia Weasley, Mr. Yusuke Urameshi, and Mr. Suuichi Minamino please follow me to Master Genkai's office? Thank you!"

With a flash of concern to one another, Yusuke and Kurama joined the Gryffindor four at the teacher's table. Once there Dumbledore, Professor McGonegall, and Master Genkai along with Professor Snape left the Great Hall through the small door that Harry had entered during his fourth year for the Tri-Wizard Tournament.

When they entered the rooms, Dumbledore explained, "This room has a special feature in it that not even the cunning Marauders were able to figure out."

He walked up to a portrait and said, "Youkai aadakouda Reikai."

Genkai, Yusuke, and Kurama shared a startled look before the portrait opened with a single sentence in Japanese "Agarikomu aadakouda mishiru sangairuten-no (Enter and know of the three worlds)."

'Yusuke…do you know what this is about?' asked Kurama with a slightly panicked tone in his mental voice.

Yusuke mentally shook his head as the portal opened to reveal a bright white light.

Dumbledore said proudly, "Welcome to the portal to Spirit World. This is Hogwarts' best kept secret since the time of Godric Gryffindor himself pledged to help Spirit World or the Third World."

When the light died down, the groups saw that on the other side was a world filled with a dull blue sky, oriental buildings, and see-through women flying on wooden oars. They also saw a lot of monsters running back and forth with piles of paper stacks and a dark blue nearly black river.

"Ah sir…" prompted Harry.

Dumbledore shook himself out of whatever he was thinking about and said with a smile, "Come, come, step through. There is a surprise waiting for us all on the other side. Master Genkai as assured me of this."

Hermione protested, "But Professor! If what you said is true, that's Spirit World! The land of the dead!"

Yusuke rolled his eyes and said as he stepped through, "And you're not. It won't hurt you, see?"

The group, with the exception of Kurama, Dumbledore, and Genkai, watched with disbelief as he stepped through the portal.

Yusuke turned back and said smugly, "See, I'm not dead."

Kurama placed a hand on Harry's back and said comfortingly, "Don't worry, it doesn't hurt. You'll just feel a bit disoriented for a minute."

Then to everyone's surprise, not including Genkai and Yusuke, Kurama pushed the Boy-Who-Lived through and followed behind serenely.

"Ack!" squawked Harry as he fell though and landed on his hands and knees on the purplish-green grass.

Hermione yelled, "Harry!"

Genkai rolled her eyes and said as she grabbed both of the Boy-Who-Lived's best friends, "Now is not the time for you to be screaming, he's fine."

Then she tossed them through as easily as they were pies. The Master turned to Ginny and raised her eyebrows. The youngest and only daughter of the clan Weasley gulped and jumped through all by herself. Somehow she just knew that she wouldn't have had a nice landing otherwise since Hermione and Ron were slowly standing up after their flying trip through the portal.

After the children were through, Dumbledore hummed and followed behind. The aging Demon Slayer turned to the last of the group, crossed her arms, and tapped her foot. McGonegall followed without a hint of fear and despite himself, Snape gulped at the steely brown eyes and hurried after his elders.

Master Genkai's eyes lost their steely-ness and said as she entered the portal, "I still got it."

Once everyone was standing on their own two feet, Harry demanded, "Why are we in the land of the dead?"

Kurama's green eyes widened as he said, "I think I know!"

The group turned to him and Dumbledore asked with curiosity in his voice, "Then by all means, Mr. Minamino tell us. All Master Genkai would tell me was that it would certainly be a surprise to us all, the Trio most of all."

Yusuke snapped his fingers and exclaimed, 'Of course! Hiei's mission to Demon World! He should have brought Kuro-san back by now! He's probably mostly healed by now too!"

Ron asked meekly but strongly, "Who is Kuro-san?"

Kurama shook his head and said as a pretty blue-hared young woman with purple eyes flew down to them on a wooden oar, "It's a surprise. Hello Botan how is our refuge and Ko-Enma-sama?"

The blue-hared girl smiled and said cheerfully, "He's doing much better now! Especially since we've been working non-stop to find all the evidence that proves his innocence! Ko-Enma-sama has also gotten permission from his father to bring Mr. and Mrs. Potter back to Human World in ghostly form to stand trial to help their case! Kuro will be excited to see them all! Plus his training is also going well! He's nearly ready to train with Kuwabara-kun!"

Yusuke nodded and said, "Great! So, how many souls have you transported across since we've been gone Bo-chan?"

The girl's cheerful countenance dimmed as she said seriously, "It's been pretty bad here lately; what with Voldemort killing as he pleases and the low level Demons partaking of Human flesh. Ko-Enma-sama is swamped with paperwork and we're nearly to our limit with transporting souls. Voldemort needs to be killed a quickly!"

Hermione piped in, in shock, "Transporting souls…you are a Grim Reaper!"

Ron burst out laughing and said sarcastically, "Yeah right! Where's the black cloak and ominous dark aura?"

Botan put her hands on her waist, jumped into his face, and said, "I am TOO a Grim Reaper! I PERSONALLY transported the souls of your uncles, Gideon and Fabian Prewitt, to the other side buster, so don't tell me who I am or am not! Understand?"

Ron and Ginny blanched at the names of their mother's brothers and shook their heads in complete compliance.

Yusuke placed a hand on the heavily breathing ferry-girl and said, "Woah, Bo-chan, calm down. He didn't mean it. You didn't even react when I first met you on my first death. Is the workload this bad already? Why haven't we heard of this in the news?"

Harry burst in, "My parents are here! Can I meet them! How do you know her? And why aren't you and Kurama as bewildered as we are about being here?"

Kurama bowed slightly and said, "All will be explained in a little while. But for now, we need to be making our way to the Hall of Judgment. Your surprise is waiting there, I'd imagine along with your parents, Harry."

Harry blinked away a sudden over flood of tears and said, "Ah…okay, I guess. You lead?"

Kurama bowed his head and said, "As you wish."

As the group made their way to the large oriental styled castle, Hermione asked briskly, "How is it that you know your way around the Land of the Dead?"

Yusuke answered instead, "You know how Genkai is a Demon-Slayer, well so are we. We work for the Rulers of Spirit World, King Enma Dioah and Prince Ko-Enma Dioah. We travel the three worlds defeating all the evil demons that try to take over the Human or Spirit World. We are what are called Spirit Detectives."

Ginny asked, "So, you are like Aurors?"

Kurama smiled a bit and said, "In a sense, we're more closely work-related to the Unspeakables though."

The Professors, with the exception of Genkai, were shocked and couldn't not speak-not even Dumbledore-and he knew about Spirit World thanks to his rank in the Wizengamont and rank as Head Master.

As they reached the enormous double doors, "Kurama walked up and pressed a button and said clearly and professionally, "Agent Yoko Kurama of SD-1 reporting in with Grim Reaper Botan, Agent Raizen Ma-Zoku, Spirit Trainer Master Genkai, and seven guests to meet Mr. and Mrs. Potter and Kura-san."

A computerized voice said clearly, "Voice scan confirmed. Aura scan initiated."

The Hogwarts group watched with wide eyes as a white beam shot out of the wall and enveloped him. In answer, Kurama was surrounded by a red rose aura, which quickly turned into the familiar golden one they knew as his with the hints of orange, dark purple, and light blue.

The voice said, "Aura scan confirmed, retina scan initiated."

Kurama's eyes widened and they watched the two green orbs gain golden flecks in them. The same white beam ran over the retinas then vanished.

The voice said, "Retina scan confirmed. Welcome Agent 003 of SD-1."

"Thank you."

He turned back to the group and said, "Security is always a good thing, other times its not…besides, Voldemort can't get into the Hall of Judgment this way."

The large doors opened and revealed to the awed group, three people and two ghostly apparitions.

Kurama and Yusuke exclaimed, "Hiei!"

The smaller person nodded and said with a tiny smile, "Hello, Yu-kun, Kura-kun."

Harry couldn't believe his eyes, nor could anyone else.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione all shouted out in shock, "Sirius!"