Vannen: I'm back! And with another long chapter!

Yusuke: Get these earphones off! Please! In the name of all that's good, take them off!

Vannen: Umm…. No. If I had to force my way through Crime and Punishment, you have to listen to Les Miserables like I had to read two years ago. Your next bit of torture will be Crime and Punishment if you don't stop whining.

Yusuke: I'll stop.

Vannen: Good boy. Now, to answer a few questions. I realized recently and it was also pointed out to me that Harry Potter and the gang haven't really made an appearance. I'll be fixing that in Part 6 probably. I'll do my best to get them in there.

Harry: walks in I'm actually going to make and appearance? Wow…

Vannen: Hey! You're not supposed to be here yet! You want to join the two demons and the human tied to chairs?

Harry: Not particularly, so I'll be quiet.

Vannen: Good choice. Back to answering questions: Yes, the carrot head is being ignored but the idiot will be making an appearance, along with a few others. Sorry, I can't handle Kuwabara. I don't think I could handle writing his character very well. AS it is, I have issues with keeping Hiei in character. Sorry, all you Kuwabara fans. Please read anyway.

Yusuke: No Kuwabara? Alright! You're not as bad as I thought.

Vannen: cranks up volume on Les Miserables That'll shut him up for a while. Thanks Svaro Dahlbehm for the Ramen. And El loco uno for the cookie. Eats frantically Yes, I do accept bribes… erm… gifts! You two rock! Here's the next chapter for you all.

Kurama: She does not own Yu Yu Hakusho or Harry Potter or any other books or shows that there is reference to throughout this and asks kindly that you do not sue.

Vannen: I knew there was a reason I kept you around. Thanks Kurama! Here we go!


Part 5

Stairs, Death, Halloween and Surprises

"Raven! What happened?" A Ravenclaw girl named Padma Patil asked in concern.

"Whatever you do," the small phoenix demon muttered turning her head towards the taller girl, "don't ask a fox for a favor." She dropped her head back onto the table, next to her plate and whimpered slightly when she bumped her bruised eye.

Moments later, Kurama, a disgustingly wide-awake and cheerful Kurama, entered the Great Hall smiling kindly and returning friendly greetings. Hiei, a disgustingly unfazed Hiei, followed him and sat next to the tired phoenix.

"How are you feeling?" Kurama asked her.

She sighed inwardly, envious of his endurance. "Peachy," she said in a deadpan voice without raising her head.

"Don't worry," Kurama assured her, "you'll get the hang of it sooner or later." He placed a gentle hand on her shoulder and withdrew it as he walked over to the Gryffindor table.

A bell rang ten minutes after Raven had summoned the strength to start eating. Sighing, she downed the last of her chocolate milk and the slice of toast she'd been munching and left the Great Hall. What was her first class? Oh yeah, Transfiguration. This would be fun.

"Miss Black! What has happened to you!"

Raven cringed at McGonagall's outburst. Taking Hiei's suggestion, she replied almost questioningly, "I fell down?"

"Fell down! Fell down what?"

"Some stairs?" Raven added hurriedly.

"And blackened your eye in the process?"

"My backpack fell onto my face?"

McGonagall paused, pursing her lips. Hiei watched with interest, wondering if Raven would indeed get out of this. "Up to the infirmary and get your injuries taken care of this instant."

"I'm okay, really," Raven replied tiredly and started to head towards one of the seats in the back of the room. She didn't quite make it. About halfway there, her left knee buckled and she fell to the floor. Hiei caught her at the last second before she could crack her head open on the edge of one of the desks.

"Take her up to the infirmary immediately," the teacher ordered the fire demon.

"Hn." He picked the girl up, slung her over a shoulder, and walked out of the room. Once in the empty hall, he started to sprint. The blood streaming down her left leg wasn't caused by Kurama or him. Something else had happened and he didn't know what.


Kurama,Hiei called down the link between the two.

Yes Hiei?

Soemthing's wrong with the girl.

What!

You heard me.

Where are you?

Infirmary.

I'll be right there. The conversation cut off and three minutes later, Kurama raced in to the hospital wing.

"What happened?" he demanded of the fire demon who sat on the windowsill next to where Raven was being administered to by Madame Pomfrey.

"Hn."

Kurama shook his head slightly and looked at the infirmary keeper. "Is Raven alright?" he asked the woman.

"She'll be fine," Madame Pomfrey told the redhead sternly. "She's just a little battered from her fall. Now leave so she can rest. Healing takes a lot out of people, you know."

Kurama nodded and thanked her, dragging Hiei out. Once outside the door, he stopped the fire demon. "Fall?"

"Would you rather I had told her the truth?"

Kurama sighed, shaking his head. "I'm assuming it was a little more believable than a simple fall."

"Downstairs," the fire-demon growled, something catching his attention.

"Why not?" the fox asked the ceiling as he followed. "Why wouldn't something else go wrong?"

"Shut-up," Hiei snapped and leaned against the wall near the stair well. We have company, he told the fox through mind, and I smell Raven's blood on him.

Her blood?

The reason why she went to the hospital wing, the vertically challenged demon replied. Wound to her left knee. We didn't give it to her.

Kurama cursed inwardly. How could he have missed a foreign presence in the school? A second thought occurred to him. Hiei, can you handle this?

Of course baka, he replied, unsheathing his katana. Go watch the boy.

Kurama sighed in relief. With a quick wish of luck to the hi youkai, he turned and ran up the stairs to his class to his charge, fearing that the attacker could be an attempt to draw him away from Harry.

Walking into the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, Kurama immediately tilted his nose to the air. "Everyone out, now!" he called, holding the door open next to him.

"What is th-the me-meaning of this, Mi-mi-mister Minam-mi-mino?" Quirrell stammered.

"There's something in here that doesn't belong," the fox demon informed the professor as he stared around the room. He clutched his wand in his right hand, as his gaze turned on the teacher. "We need to get out of here. Trust me."

"I d-don't th-think-" Quirrell was interrupted when Kurama ran down the center of aisle of desks to the open window.

"Show yourself!" he commanded coldly in Japanese to the area next to it, his eyes flashing gold for a moment. "If you don't, you're dead here and now." His grip tightened on the wand. After a moment without a response, he raised his hand, "Patrificus Totalus!" he snapped. Something thudded to the floor and the demon muttered something more in Japanese. An orange and green demon appeared, caught in the hex.

"Who sent you?" Kurama snapped, lifting the creature up and pulling the spell off.

"Wouldn't you love to know, traitor!" it snapped angrily and received a fist in the stomach.

"You will pay for you insolence."

"No, you will pay," it retorted laughing. "You and the Forbidden One will pay for taking the side of humans. You will pay, and then the two you guard will die a slow and painful death after my master is finished with both of them."

"Who is your master?" Kurama snapped.

The demon laughed harshly and spat in the thief's face. Ignoring the saliva, Kurama turned and dragged his captive out of the room.

"Excuse me Professor Quirrell, but I think I need to speak with the Headmaster."

"Y-yes, of c-c-course." The teacher stuttered even worse now.


Hiei met up with the fox demon at lunch, both were on edge. The demon Hiei had found had indeed been the one that had wounded Raven and had suffered dearly for it. How he had gotten the phoenix was beyond the two and Raven refused to say.

The girl returned to classes the next day with a slight limp. When asked about it, she gave the same excuse she had given McGonagall and Madame Pomfrey. Kurama was tired of thinking of ways to get the demon he'd caught to talk. The day after the incident at breakfast, he approached Hiei and spoke in Japanese to prevent eavesdroppers.

"I don't know how to handle this without giving myself away," he confided in the shorter demon. He didn't need to explain what he was talking about. It had been foremost on both their minds for the past day. "I need your help."

"Hn," Hiei growled, "you're sure you want me to take over?"

"Just don't kill him or give us away. The Headmaster will be with us."

"Fine," Hiei snapped and turned his glare from Kurama, clearly dismissing the fox.


Hiei, Kurama, Raven, and Professor Dumbledore walked down to the dungeons that night, an air of purpose, determination, and anger surrounding the small party as they descended the stairs to the dungeons.

"You'll never get me to talk," the captive demon snarled when the four entered the room in which he was bound and chained. Apparently, he should have been gagged as well.

"I do believe you will," Kurama informed him coldly. "Hiei?" he turned to his friend.

He wasn't listening. Instead, his sword was out and pointing at the prisoner's throat. "Speak," he ordered.

"Never."

The katana flashed, drawing a thin line of blood in the hostage's throat. Hiei glared darkly, his forehead glowing a light blue.

Dumbledore stepped forward to stop the short fire demon but was halted himself when Raven gripped his shoulder before he could see the Jagan at work.

Slowly, shakily, the demon spoke, as if terrified or against his will.

"It was the Dark Lord," he stammered. "He wants the girl-" his eyes turned to Raven, "-and says she is to-" Something red surrounded his throat, choking off his last words. A sickening crack filled the air as the demon's neck snapped under the pressure. He toppled to his side, dead a few moments later.

"That was productive," Raven drawled as she turned towards the door, her hand extending in front of her until she found it.

"Indeed," Kurama grumbled.

"We do know something more," Dumbledore murmured as he followed the two demons, Hiei behind him. The three looked at him curiously. "Voldemort seems to have enlisted the help of those creatures. I've never seen them before, but you three seemed to know exactly what they were and how to handle them. Care to enlighten an old man?" His eyes twinkled with amusement.

"Lucky guess?" Raven muttered softly. Kurama elbowed her in the ribs, drawing a groan from the girl. She'd cracked some of them that morning in training.

The foxes mind raced with one thought. Find a lie, find a lie. None came in the amount of time that would have been acceptable as just time to organize the answer. He sighed, looking at the floor.

"This is not the place to discuss this," he informed the Headmaster, ignoring Raven and Hiei's glares.

Leave us out of this, Hiei warned darkly through telepathy to the fox.

We don't have much of a choice, now do we? Kurama retorted angrily. I'm sorry, but I couldn't think of anything and I'm still trying. You have any ideas, feel free to tell!

The fire demon remained silent for a while. Fine, he growled back, but if something comes of this, you're responsible in fixing it, kitsune.

Of course Hiei, the redhead replied and the connection disappeared, leaving the quartet in silence as they approached the Headmaster's office.


"Now," Dumbledore said, sitting behind his desk and leaning his elbows on it, his fingertips coming together in front of his face in a point, "I would like an explanation from you three as to what you know."

Kurama glanced at his friends, noting instantly that they weren't going to talk, both looking in opposite directions. He sighed heavily, rubbing his forehead. "What I'm about to tell you should not alter your decision of having me here. I exist as easily as your normal students do, and therefore, I have not yet found a problem with my current position as guard for Harry Potter or Raven Black." He nodded at the girl who watched him without emotion. "You see, Headmaster, I'm a demon, at least a demon spirit. That creature that just died was a demon as well, a rather low class demon. I'm not surprised that I'm still running into that kind.

"I'm a legend in Japan you see, an expert thief that was never caught and had the greatest horde ever to exist. Perhaps you've heard of my true self, Yoko Kurama?"

"I have heard the tails of the five tailed sprit fox but I believe there is more to tell, considering you are said to be dead."

"I should be," Kurama agreed and went on to tell of his escape from the Bounty Hunter into the Ningenkai where he became Shuuichi.

"Mr. Jaganshi, I would like to know how you know of demons as well."

"Learned it from the fox," he growled, having caught onto the kitsune's lie.

Dumbledore raised an inquisitive eyebrow.

"With all do respect sir," Kurama interceded, "you don't hang around someone constantly attacked by such creatures without learning how to defend yourself from them. I've given Hiei a few abilities with my own powers and Raven as well. We've been training her every morning, teaching her to refine those skills so that she can defend herself if Hiei and I are ever unable to do so."

Dumbledore remained silent for a time, his brow furrowed in thought. He looked back up at Kurama. "You're sure you have your more troublesome side under perfect control?"

"Of course," he replied coolly, holding back the protesting Yoko inside him.

"Then I see no point in discontinuing your work. In the meantime, you three should be getting to bed. You still have classes in the morning."

Outside the office, Raven couldn't help but grumble under her breath, "Save the school and what do you get? Interrogation followed by more flaming CLASSES!"

"Hn," was Hiei's only reply as Kurama started to chuckle.

"I'll see you both in the morning," he told them and went his own way. Before he got far however, Raven caught up to him.

"Thanks," she said and gave him a quick hug before catching up to Hiei and heading for the Ravenclaw dorm.


The weeks following the event passed rather quickly, with only the occasional attack from demons.
After the episode in the dungeons and two more with the same results, Hiei, Kurama, Jin, Touya, and Raven just killed every demon that came onto the grounds while trying to extract information from it. Every attempt to do so proved futile.

"What is Halloween?" Hiei inquired, looking up at Kurama after breakfast once morning. The entire school was buzzing with excitement from the news of their being a Halloween party that year that Dumbledore had just announced.

"You'll like this one," Raven told him as she shifted her bag higher on her shoulder. "It's also called Allhallows Eve, the Day of the Dead, Hallowmas, and many other names. It's an old tradition, thought to have been started by Druids. It's a celebration of the supernatural for many countries and of the dead in others. Muggles dress up as things like witches, vampires, ghosts, or something and go door-to-door asking for candy in some places. They seem to worship our kind during this night, and fear us all the more."

"Hn."

Kurama smiled slightly, "Yes, but it's a rather fun waste of time."

"Is that what he said?" Raven asked. "I wasn't sure that time."

"You'll learn soon enough. You've got the right idea most of the time." With that, the fox followed his fellow Gryffindors to their next class as Hiei and Raven headed to theirs.


Kurama had been annoyed throughout most of his current class. Professor Binns was a rather boring teacher. His ghostly voice just went on and on in a monotone. So, instead of listening to the ghost on the goblin wars which he had already taken extensive notes on from the book, he thought about what he would dress up as for the party when he realized that, most likely, Hiei would refuse to go, and Raven might as well. The two weren't sociable people. That would have to change and the fox would see to it.
"So, what are you going to the party as?" Kurama asked Raven the next morning at training during a break. She shot him a sightless glare as she rubbed a spreading bruise on her side. She was getting less these days but she still got them and landing her own attacks on the two older demons was still next to impossible for her. No matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't find a way to beat them.

"Well?" Kurama persisted. Her glare depended. "You are going," the fox told her sternly. Raven shook her head emphatically. "Fine," the kitsune muttered, "extra training for you then."

Raven's jaw dropped, hitting the floor as indignation filled her mind. "That's not fair!" she cried out indignantly.

"Life isn't," Hiei snapped.

"You're coming too," Kurama told him.

"Make me," the fire demon growled darkly, his hand resting on the hilt of his sword.

"If that's the way you feel, I'll just have to talk to Yu-" he was stopped mid-syllable as a hand was slapped across his mouth.

"Hn." Hiei grumbled oh-so-uncharacteristically and took his hand away.

"Now that that's settled," a now very chipper Kurama said, "what are you two going as?"

"How I am now?" Raven asked.

"Nice try but it's not going to work."

"But-"

"If you don't think of something, I will, and you probably won't like the results," the fox interrupted teasingly, a sly glint entering his eye.

"I'll think of something," the girl growled.

"Hiei?"

"Hn."

Kurama just shook his head. "Alright," he said standing up, "break's over. Let's get going again."

Raven groaned and fell over.


The end of lunch rolled around and Kurama couldn't help himself as he caught up to his two friends on their way to the next class. "So, what are you two going as?" he asked for the second time that day. Hiei tapped Raven's shoulder; the two turned, caught the fox's arms, and threw him out of the nearest window. They listened to him yell angrily at them during his four-story fall to the ground where he tucked, rolled, and bounced to his feet, shaking a fist up at them. Ignoring his current yelling, the two nodded at each other and continued on their way, dusting their hands off.

"That hurt…" Kurama muttered once they disappeared as he rubbed his back where he had rolled on a rock.


"Hustle!" Hiei yelled through Raven's door. The sooner they got to the stupid celebration, the sooner he could leave. He rubbed a hand across the enchanted blade at his side.

"Hold on a sec!" the girl retorted from behind her door, strapping the finishing touches onto her costume. She walked out and ran a hand through her literally flaming, short, red, and blue hair. A pair of black pants flared widely, creating the illusion of a skirt, a red obi held them up and kept a black shirt tucked in. A blood red tunic with a silver and blue phoenix embroidered on the left shoulder hid the row of buttons down the shirt and a black coat, caped at the shoulders, flowed behind her as if part of her were cut so her flaming wings could shift with ease. A red fan with steel ribs swung at her waist alongside her dirks.

"Shinobi?" Hiei asked, meaning her clothing. She seemed far to comfortable in it for it to be a costume she had never worn.

"More ceremonial part of it, yes. What are you dressed as?" she turned her sightless eyes towards him.

"Necromancer."

Raven placed a hand on his shoulder, feeling the silver key covered blue sure coat and leather bell bandolier. She snatched her hand away immediately.

"You have the Abhorsen's bells?" she demanded sharply, rubbing her now itching palm. "Do you realize you could kill us all?"

"I have control," Hiei snarled, shoving his hands into his pockets.

"How did you get them? The last set disappeared two hundred years ago when the final Abhorsen was assassinated."

"By me."

"You killed the Abhorsen?"

"He was weak, unworthy of the title." Hiei smirked slightly as he spoke. Pushing the doors open, the two entered the Great Hall to be met with loud music. Raven cringed, covering her pointed ears as the noise buffeted her senses.

"Ah, there you are," a soft voice called. The two walked towards the source and sat down next to Kurama. "You look wonderful," he added after taking in her appearance.

"You sure you want to be here like that?" she asked in reply, noting that he smelt partially of his more demonic side and his voice had deepened ever so slightly. She knew he was at least half Yoko at the current time.

"I have control," he murmured, unwittingly repeating what his short friend had said earlier.

"If you say so," Raven replied skeptically, knowing better than to disagree with the fox demon.

"So, who's the munchkin?" an unfamiliar voice asked.

"Yusuke," Kurama scolded sharply to his dark haired friend.

"I'm Raven," the girl interrupted, wondering who the owner of this mysterious voice was, along with the others that were around the table. Heartbeats and breathing could be heard from various sources. Her indignation at the insult would have to wait. When no one continued, she tugged on Kurama's sleeve who in turn bent to listen to her.

"Who are they?" she asked.

"Oh, how rude of me," he straightened. "Raven, these six are friends of ours. Urameshi Yusuke (Spirit World's current detective), Yukimura Keiko (a friend of Yusuke's), Botan (who is most commonly known as the Grim Reaper but is formally known as a Ferry Girl of the River Styx), Genkai (Yusuke's teacher), Yukina (an ice apparition we helped once and has since become a good friend of ours), and-" he was cut off before he could introduce the last one.

"Koenma-Daioh, Prince, and Part-time Ruler of the Spirit World and the boss of this ragamuffin group." The ten-year-old looking boy with JR stamped on his forehead and a pacifier sticking out of his mouth declared nobly.

"You're highness," Raven murmured and bowed respectfully.

"Lovely, grea', and won'erful," Jin said as he and Touya approached in their normal forms and the same clothes they had worn in the Dark Tournament, "but 'ow'd you lo' find us?"

"You don't think I track my best detectives?" Koenma demanded.

"No," Botan said cheerfully, "but you do track those you have on parole."

"You're tracking me?" Hiei demanded angrily, his hand hovering over his sword.

"Umm…" Koenma started to back up as the vertically challenged fire demon reached for his katana.

"Now boys," Genkai, in her younger form, intervened her voice stern and almost severe. "Calm down. I don't want to have to kick a few butts on my time off."

Raven giggled quietly at the manner in which Yusuke's teacher had ended the dispute. Thinking it was time for a change of pace and mood, she pulled the fan off her waist. "Anyone up for a game of Fan Toss?" she asked the girls.

"Of course!" Botan said cheerily and the five females stepped into a circle.

"Go easy on me," Raven begged, "I haven't done this in a while." She gave the fan an experimental flick and it snapped open. Gingerly, she tossed it up and spun it in the same movement, over to Botan who stood next to her. The deadly blades that stuck out of the red silk flashed in the bright candle light and the Ferry Girl caught it base down to avoid the less friendly end of the Lady's Fan. She flipped it to Yukina and it continued its course around the circle.

Before it returned to Raven, Kurama leaned over next to her and spoke in her ear so only she would hear. "Are you sure about this?" he asked.

"I'll be fine Kurama," she murmured back, her ears picking up the sound of the silk as it once again became airborne.

"I think I've got the hang of this," Raven stated to the girls after a few more circuits. "Let's speed it up a little." She tossed the fan higher and added a few more turns to its path. The game continued, the fan circling higher and higher. Soon, a crowd had gathered to watch the display.

"I never would have guessed Raven would be this good," Kurama commented to Hiei on the sidelines of the crowd.

"She's able to hear it," the demon replied calmly as he watched the fan's path.

"Cool! I've never seen anything this awesome!" Yusuke stated as he pushed his way over to the girls. "Can I play?" Before receiving an answer, he stepped up, preparing to catch the fan. Raven flipped over his head and caught it before he could lay a finger on it.

"Fool!" she growled and grabbed a nearby candelabrum that was sitting on the table and placed it between the blades. With a quick snap, she had cut the object in half. "This is not a game you can come into the middle of if you've never played it before." She stuffed the fan into her pocket and walked off fuming. Yusuke started to follow.

"No," Hiei ordered as he walked past the bewildered Spirit Detective. He caught up to Raven in the Entrance Hall. "Let me see," he commanded as he stopped her.

"See what?" she demanded angrily and tried to turn away from him.

"Don't play with me, baka shojo," he growled and held her shoulders firmly.

With a sigh, she extended her right hand, the hand in which she had caught the fan by the blades. Hiei examined it carefully. "Lucky fool," he said with a smirk. "It's not that deep. Come on, let's get it bandaged."

"No, I'll be fine," she replied pulling her hand from his grasp. The fire youkai glared in disbelief. "Just don't let that idiot come near me. I might kill him." Laughter lingered in her voice even though her sightless eyes betrayed her anger.

"At least we agree on something," Hiei muttered and led her back into the entrance hall. "Here," he said as an after thought just before they entered, pulling a roll of bandages out of his pocket, "use this to stop the bleeding." Raven nodded and did as she was told, tearing off a short strip. The moment they entered the room, Dumbledore stood up.

"We have a surprise for you this evening!" he called to the students. "We have six new students that just transferred here from Japan in a new program. Let the Sorting begin!"

McGonagall came out of a side room, again carrying a stool and the sorting hat. "Botan," she called and the blue-haired Grim Reaper almost skipped up to the stool. A few minutes passed after the professor had placed the hat on her head before it shouted, "Gryffindor!" Cheering erupted.

"Genkai!" Again, silence then, "Ravenclaw!" More cheering.

"Yukina!" a shorter pause, "Ravenclaw!" Silently, Hiei cheered to himself at his luck. He wouldn't have to threaten Kurama to watch out for his sister after all.

"Koenma-Daioh!" The short ruler stepped up, his usual cocky gait evident to the Tantei. The hat wasn't even on his head when it yelled, "Ravenclaw!" Hiei took this opportunity to curse his luck. He didn't want to be babysitting the prince as well as the phoenix.

"Yukimura, Keiko!" A pause, "Gryffindor."

"That's a surprise," Kurama murmured to his friends over the cheering. "Would have thought she would have been in Ravenclaw."

"Urameshi, Yusuke!" The hat was quiet for quite some time with him. "Gryffindor!" It finally yelled.

"How much you want to bet he threatened it?" Hiei murmured with a smirk.

"It would make sense," Kurama replied.

The feast started amid much excitement as the new students took their places at the tables. Not long into it, the huge double doors burst open and a teacher came rushing in. "TROLL!" he cried, "TROLL IN THE DUNGEONS!"

"Make that 'trolls,'" Hiei growled as he looked over at Kurama. "There's about five in the dungeons. One has moved up to the higher levels."

The school stared at the teacher, Professor Quirrell, for a moment. "Thought you aught to know," he said quietly and collapsed in a heap on the floor. One more second passed so quietly one could have heard a pin drop and then almost every student started screaming.

"Silence!" Dumbledore ordered but to no avail. No one heard him.

Kurama, Jin, and Raven were covering their ears at the noise. The screaming continued until Hiei decided he had had enough. "QUIET!" he roared and glared at the students around him. For being so small, he had a large set of lungs. Everyone fell silent in an instant. He nodded at the headmaster.

"Prefects will lead their houses in an orderly manner to their dorms. Teachers, follow me." With that, the old man stood up and left with teachers following him.

"We can't leave this to them." Botan said, "They only know about one. Someone has to get the other five."

"She's right," Kurama stated. "Botan, Keiko, Koenma, Raven, head back to your dorms. Yusuke, Hiei, Genkai, and I will go after the other five."

"I'm going with you," Raven growled and prepared to follow them.

"You can't," Hiei retorted. "Our job is to keep you safe and it's harder to do that when we're busy fighting. Stay with the others." The last sentence was said through gritted teeth.

"I didn't know Hiei could talk that much," Yusuke remarked quietly to Kurama who nodded.

Raven and Hiei glared at each other for a moment with the others watching them, wondering who would back down first. Hiei was stubborn but Raven couldn't see the ferocity of his gaze, giving her the upper hand. Finally, Koenma stepped in. "Raven, please listen to him. We are going to need you later."

Ravened turned her scowl to him and he cowered slightly. "Guess I can't disobey the order of a prince, now can I?" She asked venomously and turned away. "If you get killed or hurt, don't come crying to me." She stalked off, shoulders squared and an air of anger and indifference surrounding her.


Vannen: Well, that's the end. Some new stuff, some old stuff. Same basic plot line. Hiei and Yusuke are still being tortured by Les Miserables and Kurama is still tied up like the other two.

Yusuke: Get me out of here!

Kurama: I too would like to be set free.

Hiei: Hn.

Vannen: You heard them. You want them out? Review. Remember, I'm demanding a total of 60 reviews. We're short almost 30 I believe.

Kurama: Please review.

Vannen: Listen to the nice fox! Later all!