Vannen: Well, here we are another chapter. Good amount of reviews for the last one too! Thanks all! You're awesome!

Hiei: Darn, she took so long to update, I thought she'd stopped and I'd be left alone.

Vannen: You only wish.

Hiei: I do…

Kurama: Now, now you two, calm down.

Vannen: It's just some friendly banter…

Kurama: That's all well and good, but let's get started shall we? Van owns nothing unless it's unfamiliar to all you HP and YYH fanatics.

Vannen: Thanks, fox boy! Here we go!

Part 3

Surprises, Fiery dungeons, Snowy summers, and the First Fight

After a boring hour of History of Magic, lunch rolled around. Kurama ate quickly, wishing to speak to Raven before their next class. There were matters he wished to discuss with the small girl. He found her sitting under a weeping willow near the lake. A book lay open and forgotten in her lap. Her cold, expressionless eyes stared off into space, the rest of her face as indifferent to the world as her gaze. Kurama stepped closer, careful not to disturb her. He sat down next to her and waited for her to come out of her thoughts.

"Kurama!" The two jumped, Raven, with a slight squeak, snapped her book shut in alarm. Hiei approached, his red eyes blazing in utter fury.

"Hiei," Kurama sighed, wondering what had upset him this time.

"When did you show up?" Raven seemed slightly alarmed to find Kurama sitting next to her.

"About five minutes ago."

She started muttering under her breath in Italian, seemingly berating herself for some reason. Kurama ignored her for the moment. It would do him to good to listen anyway.

"We need to talk," the fire youkai growled in Japanese when he reached Kurama.

"She understands Japanese," Kurama replied easily and stood to follow his friend. "I'm coming."

"Wait," Raven reached out and caught Kurama's robe. "Did you need something?"

"I just wanted to talk. It doesn't matter. I'm sorry to have disturbed you. " With that, he excused himself and went to talk to his shorter friend. "What's wrong?"

"We're switching houses," the demon stated bluntly. "I can't stand another minute with those baka-ningens!" His temper was rising steadily. Kurama knew that if he didn't do something quickly, black flames would start to eat at the bandage around his right hand. "I've talked to the headmaster. He says it can be done."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes! Baka-kitsune! Don't make me burn you to cinders by refusing!"

"Fine, Hiei." The fox demon sighed heavily. "We can switch but do me a favor and find out what ever you can about the girl Raven. There's more to her than she's telling me. I can feel it."

"Go figure. At least she will pose a little bit of a challenge. The boy just thinks we're students. I don't even care! I want to go home!"

"Calm down, Hiei. Everything will be fine. I'll go talk to the headmaster." Kurama sighed and left. Within the hour, the two demons had switched spots and everyone else's memories had been modified, including the teacher's, just as a precaution.


"Finally," Hiei thought as he climbed onto his windowsill in his new room that evening after dinner, "some peace and quiet." He let his mind drift as he sat. He wasn't tired in the least but meditation was a good way to pass time. Unwittingly, he let his senses loose to check over the area.

An enormous power slammed him back to reality, making him fall backwards onto the floor. "What in Makai?" He gasped as he pulled the cloth off his Jagan. His red eyes flashed as he found the source. This wasn't good. He grabbed his cloak and went racing out of the common room at full speed. No one saw him.

"Youko, you baka. Why didn't you get out of here first?" he thought, his feet making no sound as he raced up the stairs.

A silver tail caught his eye as it rounded a corner. "There you are." Hiei murmured as he chased after it. Sure enough, the youkai- kitsune was sauntering confidently down the hall.

"Youko!" Hiei growled as he caught up to him and jumped in front of his path.

"Hiei," the demon replied as he tilted his head to the side with a wry smile.

"What do you think you're doing? Don't you have more sense than this?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Get outside before someone sees you," Hiei hissed as he pushed the fox demon to the nearest door. "Get your vain fox butt into the forest."

"But it's forbidden."

"Not that you care. You've never followed rules. At least not in this from."

"And how would you know that?"

"You're mind is an open book to me, or at least it was, now move!" He pushed Kurama in the back to hustle the youkai's departure.

"Why would it matter if someone saw me?"

"Did you forget why we're here? What could happen if someone were to figure out who we are? I know for a fact that you were listening when that old fool Dumbledore was briefing us on this task."

"Oh, yes, that small factor. Can't we just kill whoever finds us?"

"You may not mind going back to prison now but you will when you're thinking a little more rationally." Hiei replied furiously as he dragged his tall friend to the forest.

"Why-"

"You're just being arrogant."

"Maybe just a little," the fox's grin was too cocky for the koorime's liking.

"I'm really beginning to hate this side of you." Hiei growled. "It's a sad, sad world when I'm the one that has to speak sense to you," he thought as he ran. The two reached the forest just as the doors to the castle opened. Hiei breathed a sigh of relief. He looked back at who had been following them.

Shadows obscured his view but he was able to make out the outline. They were small, seemed to be in a big hurry, were glancing furtively over their shoulder constantly, and heading straight for them.

"Move," Hiei whispered, hoping that it wasn't someone that would rat them out for being outside in the middle of the night. The two demons moved a few feet to the side of where the figure would enter and both observed them.

A sigh was heard as the silhouette reached the trees. "Just in time," they said and sat down. Their body structure changed.

/A demon/ Hiei questioned Kurama silently.

/It would seem so. The scent is slightly familiar.../ his voice trailed off.

When the person stood up, their shape had grown. It seemed they had acquired wings.
/Stay here/ Hiei ordered and jumped into the trees soundlessly. He approached the form and looked down on it. "Raven?" he said in surprise and jumped from the tree.

The girl spun and stared in open-mouthed horror that someone had found her. "I can explain," she started but stopped as she gaped at Kurama as he walked into the area. "Or maybe I don't need to." She looked at the tall demon. "Youko Kurama?" she inquired skeptically, watching him out of the corners of her eyes.

"In the flesh," he replied smoothly and looked her over. Her dark hair was pulled up into a high ponytail and had acquired silver streaks and her pupil-less ice blue eyes now had flecks of gold in them. White, blue, black, red, and orange-feathered wings now protruded from her shoulders. She wore black pants that covered her equally dark shoes. Her dark blue coat was caped at the shoulders and covered a sapphire blue, v-neck shirt. "And who, may I inquire, are you?"

"I have but one name and you both know it. Raven Black," she replied and her wings shifted into a more comfortable position as she relaxed slightly.

"What type of demon are you?" Hiei asked bluntly. He didn't trust this girl as far as a human could throw her at the moment.

"I'm half Phoenix, half ice mage." She replied, glancing around. Her pointed ears twitched.

"That doesn't sound good," she commented before anything else was said as she looked around Kurama.

"What?" the two asked as they turned. Kurama's ears picked up the faint sound immediately. What ever it was, it was big, fast, and heading their way.

"This can't be good..." Raven growled and her hair and wings burst into flames as she let more of her energy loose. She pulled two knives that were too long to be daggers and too short to be swords, called dirks, out of her belt. Turning one in, and the other out, she dropped into a fighting stance to wait.

Hiei watched the trees, drawing his katana. He could feel the energy from their unseen adversary racing around them as the winds picked up.

"They're here," Kurama cried as the trees in front of the two crashed to the ground. Gasps escaped Hiei and Kurama while Raven just stared.


(A/N: Ooo… I could be mean and stop here like I did last time, but I'm trying to increase chapter length.)
Raven switched her grip on one of her dirks so that they both were pointed back towards her and raced forward with a scream.

"Raven, wait!" Hiei called and followed her. "Get back here!"

She ignored him and kept going. As she approached their adversary, she threw herself at the being that had felled the trees. She started yelling something repeatedly. It took a moment for anyone to realize what she was yelling but when they did, Hiei stopped his chase in surprise. "Touya!" she was crying.

"Konnichiwa, Raven," the ice mage said much quieter than her. "It's nice to see you again too." He patted her back as she embraced him.

"Where have you been? What have you been up to? What are you doing here?"

"So many questions as always," he smiled and pushed her away from him. "I've been working with the Shinobi as I was when you last saw me."

"How is everyone? Is Gama still up to his old tricks? What about Risho? Is he still as power hungry as always? Let me guess, Bakken is still the same moron."

Touya looked away from her, his throat constricting slightly.

"I see," Raven murmured quietly, reading his expression. "They're deaths were noble at least?" It wasn't a statement, but a question.

"Yes, Gama died fighting for what you always believed we should have been fighting for. Risho and Bakken have disappeared. Jin and I were to be sent to Reikai jail but we caught a bit of luck, we befriended a Spirit Detective."

"Figures that Risho and Bakken would desert after one defeat. They never had much backbone. There is nothing lost with them. But, poor Gama," a shadow of sorrow shifted behind her eyes. "Wait, who's Jin?"

"Tha''d be me, lass," the redheaded kaze-youkai smiled at her. "I'm th' bloke tha' took ye're spo' wi' th' Shinobi. Hope ye donna mind."

"Not at all. You seem to have a decent level of energy. You're welcome to my position. At least they didn't take on another fire wielding youkai. If they had, I'd have to hurt them."

"Wait," the three looked back at Hiei and Kurama who had approached. "You know each other?"

"Yes," Touya replied after nodding a greeting at his old adversaries. "Raven was a member of the Shinobi about three hundred years ago. She left the group about four years before Jin joined us. She was tired of living in the dark. I'm surprised that she lasted as long as she did."

"Go ahead, Touya. Laugh at my ways."

"I wouldn't dare," he smiled. "I'm sure you can still beat me into the ground with that trick of yours."

"So, why are you here?" Kurama inquired, storing Touya's comment about a trick away for later questioning.

"We're t' be teache's, believe it or don'. We were 'ired by th' 'eadmaste' to watch the lass and a lad calle' Harry Po'er."

"Wait, that's our jobs. Does this mean we get to go home?" Hiei almost seemed hopeful.

"No, we're just here for backup in case you two can't handle it."

"I shall ignore that insult. Now, if you'll excuse me, I want to have some fun before I must return to being the perfect student. I'd prefer a night as the perfect demon while in this strange country." Kurama turned and disappeared into the foliage.

"You're not the only one," Raven replied. "I'll see you two tomorrow. There are a few vampires that have just been asking for a fight." She followed the fox demon.

"She hasn't changed a bit over the centuries," Touya commented as he watched her departure.

"I'm going back in," Hiei muttered and started for the castle.

"Oi! Wai' f'r us!" Jin called and he and Touya followed the koorime.


Hiei knocked on Raven's door the next morning before breakfast. The only reply he received was a muffled groan. Almost angrily, he pushed the door open and walked in. "Get up," he ordered.

"Go away," the command was muffled but equally stern.

"Get up," Hiei repeated and grabbed her blankets. At the first tug, Raven latched onto them and held on for dear life.

"Go away," she retorted refusing to open her eyes.

"What time did you get in?"

She looked up at her clock with bloodshot eyes. "About fifteen minutes ago. Leave me alone." She jerked her blankets from Hiei's grip and turned her back to him, her hair hid her face as it flipped across it in her quick movement.

"If you're not going to class, you'll disappoint Touya," Hiei prodded, thinking the threat might make her move.

"I don't care." She grumbled and buried her face farther into her pillow.

Hiei blinked. From the way she had been acting the night before there was something between them, something more than just friendship, but with this almost vehement reply, he was no longer sure. "I could look into her mind to find out," he thought. "Then again, it's not really worth my time. Besides, that takes what little fun there is in this stupid job out."

"Make an excuse. Say I'm sick or something." She growled. "Just leave me to sleep." She was almost pleading.

"Fine, but I'm not making up excuses." Hiei left for the Great Hall and breakfast.

"Thanks, Hiei," Raven settled deeper into her blankets and slept.

"Students," Dumbledore stood up at breakfast and waited for everyone to quiet down. "We have an announcement this morning. I'd like to welcome two new teachers." At this, Touya and Jin stood up. "Professors Touya and Jin." Scattered applause was heard and the two Shinobi sat down. "They will be teaching a new course for those that wish to take it. It is a martial arts class and I am sure that many of you will have a desire to join. If this is so, the time will show up on your schedules. That is all." The old man sat down.

"Hn," Hiei murmured and started to eat. He had potions first thing that morning and wanted a chance to torture that greasy teacher Snape.

"Mister Jaganshi, Mister Minamino, would you come up here please?" The headmaster called as Hiei stood up to leave. He approached the table.

"Ku-" Hiei started and stopped. Why did the stupid fox have to have two names? "Shuuichi," he corrected himself, "isn't here. He must be ill or something."

"Well that's too bad. How are things going in your new house?"

"Fine."

"The new professors have requested that the two of you work with them. Are you willing?"

"Yes." Hiei knew exactly what the two had in mind. This would be enjoyable.

"Will it interfere with your schooling or work at all?"

"No."

"Well, then, you may help the two new teachers. I am sure they shall be glad for it. You may go to your first class now. You won't have that until after lunch."

"Yes sir," Hiei turned on his heal and left for potions.

The dungeon had never bothered Hiei but the other students despised it. He listened calmly as he followed them down to the classroom. Snape met them at the door.

"Hurry up!" he snapped and went in. Some of the students looked at each other in apprehension and followed, knowing the slimy man was in a bad mood. Hiei was last to enter. When he sat down, he commenced with a staring contest with Snape, daring him to tick off the fire demon. When the teacher finally met his eyes, he glared. This went on for a few moments as the class settled. One or two students watched with interest.

Hiei smirked inwardly. This wasn't hard for him but he could tell that Snape was having trouble. "Should I let him win?" the youkai wondered. "No, let him suffer." He stared for a while longer until Snape gave up and blinked. He turned his back and started writing on the board as he rambled about that day's potion. As the class went to work, he took role call.

"Where are Mr. Minamino and Miss Black?" he inquired.

"Miss Black is ill," Hiei replied without looking up from his work.

"Shuuichi is ill as well, Professor," the annoying know-it-all from Gryffindor, Hermione Granger, offered as she worked.

Snape muttered under his breath at the chance that he had missed to punish the two; instead, he took the opportunity to berate Hiei and Hermione. "Five points from Gryffindor and Ravenclaw for speaking without permission." He growled, looking at the girl and averting his eyes from the demon.

Hiei, who had been cutting up some newt tails, set his knife down. He had had enough of this teacher's arrogant attitude. Those house points meant nothing to him but it was time for him to pay the price for insulting the fire demon. Kurama was not here to stop the vertically challenged youkai either. This class could get interesting. Picking up his knife again, Hiei sent a command out to the flames that burned merrily away under the cauldrons of every Slytherin students' cauldron. In moments, they had started burning hotter. Their red cores turned blue as potions started to boil uncontrollably. Students started panicking.

"What is it now?" Snape demanded, looking up from the homework he was correcting. He gaped as the nearest cauldron boiled over. Students screamed as the hot liquid splashed onto their sleeves, creating welts and burns.

"I'm glad we're making an acidic potion today," Hiei thought smugly as he worked calmly, ignoring the rest of the proceedings.

"What is going on?" Snape yelled angrily as he stood up and tried to use a charm to douse the flames. The only thing he managed to do was add power to them. The bottoms of the cauldrons started glowing white-hot. One or two melted all together and mayhem ensued amongst the Slytherin students. Everyone else just stared in shock. Hiei was working calmly as if nothing had happened.

"Everyone get out now!" Snape ordered as he tried fruitlessly to repair the damage. The class did as they were told and raced up to the Entrance Hall.

"What is this? Why are you out of class?" Professor Flitwick came tottering up, his voice as squeaky in his questioning as ever.

"The fires went crazy down in the potions room Professor!" Someone replied. "Professor Snape is trying to get it under control."

"What?" The small teacher sprinted down the steps as quickly as his short legs could carry him. Hiei sighed inwardly. That was the end of his fun. He could mess with Snape's ego however. Using his Jagan, he waited until Flitwick reached the room. When the teacher started a charm, Hiei pulled his power out of the rampaging fires. The look of pure fury on Snape's face satisfied the demon. It was worth it.

The bell rang, pulling him back to the Entrance Hall. It was time for the Ravenclaw students' first flying lessons. This could be amusing as well. He followed the rest of his class outside.


"Good afternoon, students!" A woman with gray, spiky hair and yellow hawk eyes walked briskly to them.

"Hello Madame Hooch." The class responded collectively.

"What are you waiting for?" she inquired. "Step up to the right side of your broom, place your hand over it and say 'up.'"

The class did as they were told and only Hiei's obeyed him immediately. A few more tries later, the rest of the class had succeeded. "Very good, now, mount your brooms and, when I say to, kick off from the ground, and hover for a moment and then touch back down. On my whistle, three, two," she gave the signal and a few dozen students jumped. Most stayed in the air but about three students did not. Their brooms failed to do as commanded. The rest of the class leaned forward after a moment and their feet touched ground again.

Hiei resisted the urge to roll his eyes in boredom. Such maneuvers were for beginners, of which he wasn't. These brooms were nothing compared to Botan's oar. If only the teacher would leave. Then he could enjoy himself a little more. Without Kurama there, the small koorime was having more "fun" than he normally did.

"That's it," he thought, "I'm bored. Let's see, how to get rid of her?" He looked around. He had used fire down in the dungeons where it was cold. Maybe it was time to use ice outside where it was warm. Focusing on the ground just underneath the teacher's feet, he froze it. The second she moved, she went sliding. Hiei took the opportunity to wreak a little havoc. Why bother only one annoying twit if you could bother them all? The rest of the courtyard froze over. Icicles formed from the rooftops and tree branches and it started to snow heavily, covering the ground with a blanket of powder. Soon, he had a full-fledged blizzard going. The class raced inside as everyone started screaming. Smiling to himself, Hiei mounted the broom, stopped the snow, and went for a quick flight.

He would never admit it, but he loved flying. He loved it so much that he would go as far as risk Botan's "mighty" wrath by stealing her fastest oar. He had been bashed upside the head more than once for doing so but it didn't bother him in the least. Maybe Yusuke's thick skull had started to reinforce Hiei's. In the end, he would just retort by threatening to burn the oar and her with it. It shut her up every time.

Now, he started going through his favorite maneuvers. The rest of the class slowly filed outside again and Madame Hooch looked around in confusion. How could the weather change from a perfectly warm, sunny, summer day, to a raging blizzard, and back again in less than ten minutes. As she looked up, she saw Hiei doing a barrel role.

"Mr. Jaganshi!" she cried, "What do you think you're doing? Come down here immediately!"

With a sigh, Hiei did as he was told. He placed the normal indifferent expression back onto his face as he went into a dive directly at her. At the last second, he pulled the broom sharply to the right and stopped just inches from the teacher. She gaped.

"Hn, doesn't handle as well as an oar," he muttered in Japanese and looked up at Madame Hooch.

"Can you stop like that every time?" She finally asked. Her yellow eyes curious.

"Better, normally," Hiei responded, wondering where this was going.

"You should try out for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. They're looking for a good beater."

Hiei gave her a look that clearly asked, "What in the name of King Enma are you talking about?" To save him the explanation and maybe the punishment he was sure to get, the bell for lunch rang.

"I'll talk with you later, Mr. Jaganshi." Madame Hooch called to his retreating back as he headed back into the castle. He ignored her. What ever this "Quidditch" was, he wasn't interested. All he wanted to do was get this blasted mission over with and go back to Japan.

After he had eaten lunch, Hiei went back into the Ravenclaw tower carrying some food with him. He had been around Kurama enough to know that about this time of day, after a transformation, the youkai-kitsune was famished. Hiei went directly towards Raven's room once he had entered the tower. When he knocked on her door, all he received was a muffled growl of, "what ever it is, it can wait for three years when I'm finally concious."

"Then I'll just eat this myself," he commented rather loudly.

Three seconds later, a wide-awake phoenix youkai had opened the door and taken every bit of food from his hands. She immediately proceeded to eat with gusto. "Thank you!" she said enthusiastically in between mouthfuls. Hiei just turned to leave. "Wait," she said after she had swallowed, "when's Touya's and Jin's class?"

"In five minutes."

"Blast!" she turned back into her room with a roll stuck in her mouth. Thirty seconds later, she was walking out, wearing a pair of loose, dark blue jeans, a red t-shirt that read "Let's Bike" on it, and her school robes. As she hopped out, she attempted to pull on a shoe. "Okay, let's go," she ordered when she had the article on, talking around the half-eaten piece of roast beef sticking out from between her lips.

"What are they teaching?" Raven asked as she finished off her lunch.

"Hn, it's a martial arts class."

"Good, maybe I can test my skills against Touya. I haven't fought him in a few hundred years." When they entered the hall where the rest of their class was waiting, Hiei pushed a way through the crowd to the door where he had spotted a drowsy looking Kurama standing next to Harry Potter and his redheaded friend. The fox demon just nodded a greeting before he leaned against the wall and proceeded to attempt to fall back asleep.

After two or three minutes, Touya opened the door and motioned them all in. Hiei, Kurama, and Raven pulled their shoes off about one foot inside the door and went inside. The rest of the class looked at each other in confusion before ignoring what the other three had done.

The room had been spelled to resemble a Japanese dojo. Racks holding various weapons lined the walls. Hiei, Kurama, and Raven sat down, crossed their legs, and waited for Jin or Touya to start the class. Everyone else again, ignored their example and stood around chatting.

"Konnichiwa kurasu," Touya said as he walked in. He was received by blank looks from almost everyone. (Translation: Good afternoon class)

"Konnichiwa Kyoju Touya," Raven, Hiei, and Kurama chorused, bowing slightly from their sitting position. (Translation: Good afternoon professor Touya)

"For th' rest o' ye who apparently don' know Japanese, good afte'noon class," Jin translated as he jumped up behind Touya. "I'm Jin. Don' call me 'Professuh.' I can barely say th' blinkin' word." A few chuckles met his comment.

"And I'm Touya," the ice mage said shaking his head at his friends antics. "I will warn you right now that you will get dirty, tired, bruised, scraped, beaten, and hurt in this class. If you can't handle that, I suggest you leave." He paused for a moment and looked at the students. No one moved. "Good, now, Hiei, Ku-" he looked down at the fox who was shaking his head frantically. "Uh, Shuuichi," he corrected himself and the youth in question nodded, "and Raven will be helping us considering they already rank fairly high in the martial arts. Does anybody else have any skill?" A few hands went up. "Do any of you have a black belt?" Every hand went down. "That's what I thought; now let's begin with a demonstration." He looked at the three demons. "Who wants to volunteer?"

Raven stood up and pulled her robe off, tucked in her shirt, and put her hair into a braid, securing it with a black ribbon that she carried in her pocket. At the same time, Hiei and Kurama stood up and moved everyone out of the way.

The two demons squared off against each other. They circled each other and looked for an opening in the others defenses.

Touya lunged first, bringing his left hand down in attempt to hit her shoulder. Raven leaned back into a back walkover and kicked out in the same motion, Touya barely moved in time. He brought his leg around in a roundhouse kick; Raven blocked with her left arm and tried to hit the ice mage in the chest with her free hand. He ducked and swiped at her legs; Raven did a back handspring and pushed herself forward the moment her feet touched ground, ready for another volley with her old teammate. If Spirit Energy were to be involved in this, she would let him use it first. The fight continued for a while; neither was able to hit the other until Touya saw a split second opening. He had tried to land a blow with his right hand on her side; she blocked and retaliated with the same attempted blow. Touya saw his chance and leaned forward, catching her off guard, and connecting squarely with her chest with his knee, hitting her diaphragm and knocking the wind from her lungs. She fell to the ground, gasping for air.

"As you can see," Touya said turning to face the class, "Martial Arts are not a bunch of extravagant and fancy moves to put your opponent off guard. It's just an honest, all-out-" he found himself on his back in the middle of his sentence.

"Rule number one: Never turn you're back on your enemy even if they're down," Raven said, breathing heavily. "It's just stupid." She sat up and rubbed her ribcage. Touya sat up and glared at her as he rubbed the back of his head. The class was roaring with laughter, even Hiei was smirking.

"At least I'm tall enough to hit someone above the waist," Touya retorted and jumped out of the way as Raven took a playful swing at his head.

"Ah, but being short makes it so the only way to get a hit on the torso is by using the legs. Most fighters I've come across use their arms, just like you. Besides, I'm often underestimated." Raven replied with a grin and jumped to her feet. She gave Touya a hand up.

Instead of using the offered help to stand, Touya pulled her forward, put his feet into her chest, and sent her sailing into the wall as he somersaulted backwards.

"Cheap shot," Raven gasped as the wind was once again knocked out of her and she slid to the ground.

"Rule number two: Unless the match has been officially ended, don't trust your opponent." Touya grinned as the class chuckled. He continued with the lesson as Raven righted herself and sat next to Harry Potter. Jin added his two bits occasionally. It was apparent that this would be an enjoyable class.

An explosion was heard outside as Touya started the class in the first thing they needed for the course, physical fitness, by starting them on push-ups. Kurama, Hiei, Jin, Touya, and Raven jumped to the window.

Hiei swore under his breath in Japanese as he looked at the source of the disturbance.

"Sore wa, nan desu ka!" Raven cried as she stared down at the grounds. (Translation: What's that!)

"Ii shitsumon," Jin replied, slipping into Japanese like the rest of the Tentai and the girl. (Translation: Good question.)

"Move!" Kurama cried in English as the next explosion went off. He pushed the others to the ground. The glass to the windows shattered, raining onto their heads.

"After it!" Raven yelled and lept out the window. The other demons followed. It was a good twenty-foot drop to the ground but they didn't care. Once they hit ground, they surged forward, drawing or creating weapons, preparing to kill.


Vannen: Muahahaha! It's a cliffie! Yes, it's pretty much the same as before, and it's staying that way. I have little time, sorry for taking so long. Hope you all had fun reading.

Hiei: Can I be left out of this?

Vannen: Take a guess…

Hiei: Blast.

Kurama: R&R and have a nice day!

Vannen: All reviewers, listen to the nice fox demon, please. Later all!