Computer problems stopped me from posting this sooner, so sorry! I notice that I get a lot more readers then I do reviewers… But oh well, I'm not a review slave driver. Though a little note would be nice…
Some more notes! This story is a bit AU on both sides, things happening that didn't happen, or things happen differently. (A reviewer that will remain anonymous, this part's for you.)
Pairings will be announced as they become final. (And as they start showing up.)
Thank you reviewers for your lovely comments, makes me smile a lot to see people liking what I write.
Thank you people who put me in your C2's. Appreciate it lots.
Key: "English" "Japanese" (Only used if both languages are being used in the same area.)
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Chapter 4
"So where the hell is this place?"
Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama were at Kings Cross station, looking for the platform that would take them to their school. Kurama could tell where it was, but to humor himself, he decided to see if the two others could discover the hidden passage, and find the train themselves.
"I get a strange feeling over here…" Kuwabara muttered, stepping back and forth in front of a stone divider, and Yusuke snorted.
"That strange feeling is probably you trying to think."
Kurama sighed and looked at his watch. Three minutes left. Sighing, he looks pointedly at Yusuke. "If this was one of Genkai's tests, you would have lost horribly Yusuke. Kuwabara got the closest."
"Wait, you mean you knew where it was!" Yusuke shouted, drawing a few peoples attention.
"Of course, with as many concealment spells on the barrier, it's amazing you didn't sense it."
"Then how come you can see it, and we can't?" Kuwabara asked.
"Because I trained myself to see what is hidden. I am a thief after all."
"Oh…"
They grabbed their luggage, and walked through the barrier, Yusuke needing a little shove ("You want me to walk through a wall… You're insane Kurama!") and they arrived on Platform 9 ¾. A train glistened in the light, and students and parents parted ways, much luggage, and much noise from the trolleys and animals. A cat darted in between Yusuke's legs, followed (though not through his legs) by a brown haired girl with thick glasses.
"Well, let's get going. The train won't wait forever." Yusuke mumbled, and pulled his luggage alongside him to the train. Kurama and Kuwabara followed, and they walked down the train, looking for a compartment that was empty. Finding one near the back, they put their stuff on the overhead racks, and sat down. Yusuke stretched out along one side, Kuwabara sat on the end of that row, and Kurama curled up in the corner of the other side, book in his hand.
"Are you still studying?" Yusuke asked, seeing the book.
"Oh no, this isn't for school. I just don't want to put up with you two during this whole trip."
"Hey! What's that s'pose to mean!" Yusuke and Kuwabara whined, and Kurama smirked.
"Sometimes I don't who who's worse, you or Hiei," Yusuke mumbled, drawing a snicker from Kurama, before blatantly ignoring them.
A half of minute before the train pulled away, a freckled faced redhead stuck his head through the compartment door.
"Can I sit in here?" He asked shyly, and Yusuke nodded after a minute, seeing as how Kurama hadn't seemed to notice the newcomer. The kid sighed in relief, and dragged his luggage into the compartment, storing it on the overhead racks, then sat down across from Kuwabara.
The train gave a piercing whistle, and a few lurches later, the train was slowly making its way along the track, gaining speed.
"So what your name?" Yusuke drawled, leaning up and using the wall as a backrest, legs still stretched out in front of him.
"R-Ron Weasley." The redhead said, a bit started as he hadn't heard any of them talk yet, and Yusuke's voice had a accent to it, and a bad translation charm, he could tell.
"Well, I Urameshi Yusuke, or as you Brit's say, Yusuke Urameshi. Stupid across from you is Kazuma Kuwabara, and the red-head in the corner with his precious book is Shuichi Minamino, or as we always call him, Kurama." Yusuke introduced to Ron. A knock at the door of the compartment halts the conversation, and Kuwabara pulls it open, revealing a scrawny black-haired boy in baggy clothing.
"Is there room in here?" He asked timidly.
"Sure!" Kuwabara said enthusiastically, and the boy jumped slightly, before pulling himself and his luggage into the compartment. Storing it, he sat next to Ron.
"So let's play introductions again!" Yusuke said sarcastically, and then cleared his throat. "I'm Yusuke Urameshi."
"Kazuma Kuwabara."
"Ron Weasley."
"Harry Potter."
Yusuke and Kuwabara shared a glance, and Ron openly stared.
"The Harry Potter?" Ron asked, and Harry shrugged.
"That's what they tell me."
Harry looked to his side, away from Ron's staring, and noticed Kurama.
"Who's he?"
"Oh, that's Shuichi, or Kurama, whichever you choose to call him. He responds to either one usually." Yusuke answered, and stood up.
"Oi, Kurama!"
Yusuke took a closer look, and realized that Kurama was asleep. Yusuke smirked, and crept closer, and pointed a finger at his face.
"Touch me, and I'll make sure you never use that finger again." Kurama muttered tiredly, and Yusuke jumped.
"Damn, you even sleep like Hiei."
Kurama gave a mock glare, and sat up more, looking around and noticing two new people in the compartment. Yusuke, seeing Kurama's gaze rest on the two boys, said, "They came in while you were napping."
"I know."
"Of course you would… you know everything…" Kuwabara muttered, and Yusuke rolled his eyes.
"The redhead is Ron, and scrawny there is Harry."
Kurama gave a nod to the two, then leaned back, crossing his arms over his chest and closing his eyes. Harry and Ron shared a look that plainly said 'these people are weird'. Harry cleared his throat. Yusuke and Kuwabara looked up, but Kurama didn't.
"So where are you guys from?"
"Japan. Tokyo if you wanna get specific." Kuwabara answered, and Yusuke nodded. Ron asked the next question.
"What year are you going into?"
"Me and Kuwabara are starting our first year. Kurama in the corner is going to skip to second year."
"Skip?"
"Yeah, smarty pants is older then us, and since he already knows everything that we're gonna learn, he gets to go onto second year."
"You embarrass me," Kurama said sarcastically.
"Yeah whatever Kurama, whatever," Yusuke answered back,
"So what house do you think you'll be getting into?"
"House?" Kuwabara and Yusuke asked.
"Yeah! Don't you know about the houses?"
"No." Harry said.
"No." Yusuke and Kuwabara mimicked.
Kurama didn't answer, but he was listening. The books he had didn't explain much about the differences in the houses.
"Well, there're four of them: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. I'm gonna be a Gryffindor, like the rest of my family. Gryffindor is for the brave, Ravenclaw's for all the smart people, and Hufflepuff is for the really loyal type."
"What about the last house, Slytherin?"
"They're evil. Not a single one left that house without turning evil! You-Know-Who was in Slytherin."
"What are the qualities of Slytherin, besides the fact that they are, as you put it, 'evil'." Kurama spoke up softly, startling Harry and Ron. They hadn't heard him speak English, hell, they didn't know he could speak English.
"Well, they're sly, cunning, evil…" Ron rambled off, trying to think of more things. He only knew that they were 'evil'.
"Hmm…" Kurama mused, opening an eye to look at his teammates.
Time passed, and the human boys conversed with each other, while Kurama mostly ignored them, only cutting in to translate some of the words. Harry tried to start a conversation with Kurama a few times, but trailed off when Kurama didn't say anything. Finally, Yusuke finally got annoyed with the way Kurama was acting.
"Kurama, what the hell is up with you?"
"I don't want to socialize with these wizards."
"Stop acting like Hiei and get a hold of yourself! We're here to protect the students, not scare them all with your attitude."
"I will act as I please with these foolish wizards, as they think they're above us anyways, just you wait and see."
Kurama got up and left, and Yusuke stood there glaring at his back. Harry, feeling as though this argument was his fault, shrunk back when Yusuke turned around. Yusuke, noticing this, just gave a lopsided smile.
"He usually isn't like this, so don't worry, he'll be his usual nice self in a little."
"Ok." Harry and Ron chimed.
They then changed into their robes, not sure as to when they would be arriving.
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Kurama had changed into his robes earlier, in case he had fallen asleep, and the fact that he didn't feel like changing in front of strangers. He had many scars from his training, and too many people asked about them. He was walking down the train, trying to find somewhere with room, when three people stepped out behind him.
"Well well, haven't seen you around before," the shorter boy said. His hair was a light blonde color, with cold grey eyes set in pale complexion. His robes didn't help his vampiric look, and the two standing behind him make Kurama think of gorillas, but not as hairy.
"That is probably because you haven't seen me before," Kurama replied coolly, and the blonde tensed.
"So, you must be a mudblood then, since I know every wizarding family in Britain."
"Mudblood? We never learned that term in English class…" Kurama mused, making the blonde sneer.
"So you're a foreigner? That's even worse!" The two gorilla people behind him sniggered at the little joke, and Kurama narrowed his eyes.
"So you dare insult my heritage?" Kurama growled out, scaring the three. "I have had it up to here with your kind!" Kurama slipped a seed in between his fingers and flicked it at them, vines started to sprout before it even reached them, and wrapped around all three of them, the vines piercing into the walls, and gagged them and secured them to the wall. Kurama, still growling, left them there and continued on his way to wherever he was heading, which he, at the moment, didn't know. The three blinked, and then struggled to escape their bondings, with little avail.
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"Woah!" Ron said, coming to the spot where the three boys had been tied to the wall. Teachers were cutting the vines off. Yusuke and Kuwabara shared a glance, before leading them away from the scene. Apparently these three made the mistake of coming across an annoyed Kurama and insulting him, most likely. Kurama wasn't one to usually outright attack a student, though the way he's been acting, maybe he had. He would ask him later, after he cooled down.
They walked down to where the man, Hagrid, was calling for first years. Many people gathered around him, while some headed down a different path. Hagrid then started to lead them down a path through a forest, and it ended at a lake.
"No more then four to a boat!" Hagrid shouted, and they all gathered together. Yusuke and Kuwabara got into a boat followed by Harry and Ron. Their boat took off, and it startled all four of them, almost tipping the boat over.
Kurama got into a boat, occupied by two girls and a boy, Kurama recognizing one of the girls.
"Keiko?"
The girl turned, revealing that yes, it was Keiko, Yusuke's childhood friend.
"Kurama! What are you doing here?"
"That was what I was about to ask you. Looks like Yusuke will be happy." Kurama said, a bit of sarcasm in the last sentence.
"Yusuke is here? And he didn't tell me?" Keiko shrieked, making Kurama cover his sensitive ears.
"Y-yeah, basically."
The rest of the boat ride was Keiko making death threats, Keiko an the girl, who Kurama found out was named Hermione Granger, talking, and The boy, who was named Neville Longbottom, shaking with fright. Kurama was still annoyed, but not as much as he was earlier. They finally got out of the boats, and caught their first look at Hogwarts. Most of them were speechless, but the boys, having seen this before, shrugged it off, and continued the trek to the castle.
TBC