AN: Hello all! I would like to thank all my reviewers for all the wonderful reviews! Hopefully, you'll all like this chappie!
Warning: This chapter contains spoilers.
Disclaimer: When I went to Japan and England, I tried to buy the YYH gangs and the HP gangs. Unfortunately, they didn't sell them to me. So I sit at home, moping, because I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho and Harry Potter...Ok, so I didn't go to Japan and England, but I don't own the YYH and HP gangs either way.
"Blah." Talking
Blah Thinking
Blah Telepathic
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Last time:
So the day passed, time slowly melting from days into weeks, weeks into months. All was well until one night in December that would decide the fate of the world…
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"Kurama! Hiei! Yusuke!" Koenma called frantically from the screen of the communicator, surprising the three Tantei who were sitting in the Gryffindor common room, by the fire.
Yusuke took out his communicator, and flipped open the top, and saw the red-faced Koenma, screaming into the screen.
"Ow! Quit screaming, pacifier breath! What do ya want?" Yusuke questioned, accompanied by Kurama and Hiei.
"I have something very important to tell you!" Koenma informed. "I can't tell you now, it's not safe around Hogwarts. Your Christmas holidaysare right now, so find the teacher to tell her you'll be going home for the day to visit your family.
Now catching the trio's attention, Koenma continued seriously. "You need to go straight into the Forbbiden Forest. I'll sent Botan to pick you up, sense her ki and find her fast. Remember, this is important, there is no place or time for screw-ups." His eyes giving away how nervous he was about this.
"Hai." Kurama replied back, seeing the importance of this notice.
Yusuke grinned. "You can count on us!"
"Hn."
With that, Yusuke closed off the communicator and grinned broadly at Kurama and Hiei. "Finally!" he cried. "Time to get in some action."
Kurama and Hiei however, remained serious. "Let's go." Kurama ordered, worry colouring his tone.
After informing Professor McGonagall, the three heroes headed out the common room, straight into Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
"Oof!" Ron complained. "Watch where you're go-Oh, it's you guys. Where are you going?"
"Nowhere of importance…" Kurama trailed off distractedly. He whispered a few words to Yusuke and Hiei, and they hurried off.
The threehumans looked at each other, confusion mingled with surprise.
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Following the road trail, Kurama, Yusuke, and Hiei searched for the unique ki Botan possesses.
"Wait, wait...I think I sense Botan..." Yusuke paused.
They looked around the forest, trying to catch a glimpse of the pink and blue Botan always wore.
"Kurama! Hiei! Yusuke!" Botan waved at them. "Over here!"
There floated Botan, her giant oar floating about two metres off the ground.
"Hey, Botan!" Yusuke yelled, running over. "What does toddler want?"
"I'm not sure…" Botan trailed off, looking thoughtful. "But, I bet it's something important…"
"Enough talk." Hiei ordered. "Move."
Botan rolled her eyes and moved down the oar. "Well, sit down and we'll leave."
Kurama climbed upon the oar, soon followed by Hiei and Yusuke, and Botan slowly lifted up, into the sky.
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"We're here, Koenma-sama!" Botan called, bursting through the closed doors, the Tantei right on her heels.
"Finally!" the young lord yelled, pacifier nearly flying out of his mouth in his panicked state.
"I thought you would have calmed down by now!" Yusuke exclaimed.
"Shut up, Yusuke, and listen well!" A currently purple-faced Koenma was screaming now.
"Whoa, take a chill pill!" Yusuke said, taken aback. "So, what's so important?"
Koenma took a breath of air, trying to calm down. "When I went through your Hogwarts assignment, I noticed something of great importance. Your potions teacher, Snape, is working for Voldemort!"
At this, Yusuke swore loudly, Kurama's eyes turned flinty, and Hiei narrowed his red eyes.
"See! I told you so! And you told me to call him professor!" Yusuke cried out, pointing an accusing finger at Kurama.
Kurama looked away and said quietly, "It's better to be polite. I'm sorry I was impatient with you, Yusuke, I did not know."
Hiei glared at Yusuke, "Shut up, Detective, and listen."
Koenma glared at Yusuke as well. "Thank you, Hiei. Anyways, Snape's been working with Voldemort for quite some time now, and I'm guessing they are planning an attack on Hogwarts soon."
"Well, what are we still doing here?" Yusuke questioned. "Let's go back to the castle and keep an eye on Snape!"
"Before you go, have you noticed that the boy has been leaving for a certain period of time each week?" Koenma inquired.
"He told us he would be taking lessons with Professor Dumbledore." Kurama said, still quiet.
"That is correct. Today, is the set date their next lesson. However, they will set out to destroy the third out of seven of Voldemort's Horcruxes, or Soul Pieces."
At this, Kurama turned to face Koenma. "Soul Pieces? He has seven of them? You realize what this means, right?" We must track down each one and destroy it, before we can succeed."
Yusuke looked at Kurama in surprise, curiosity overcoming anger. "What is a Horcrux?"
Kurama locked eyes with Yusuke, who was surprised at the intensity streaming from the emerald orbs. "To put it bluntly, this body, Shuuichi Minamino, was a Horcrux. As it's name states, a Soul Piece is part of the soul. When Youko fled, and took residence in a human, the body was basically my Horcrux. There are differences, but Voldemort just split his soul to inhabit different objects as I did mine, apart from the fact that I did not split mine." He stated bitterly.
Yusuke's eyes widened. "You mean there's seven of these?"
Kurama nodded solemnly. "Fortunately, they seem to have destroyed two already, if not a third as we speak. We can only hope they did."
Koenma signaled the three to come closer. "You need to go back to Hogwarts and prepare for the attack. Protect the school secretly then leave to search for the Horcruxes. Tell Dumbledore that you've been asked to come back to Japan for some time for new learning materials."
"Got it, Toddler!"
"Of course." Kurama nodded his understanding and Hiei just gave his usual reply.
"Botan, send them back to the school." Koenma said.
"Hai, Koenma-sama!" Botan bowed to Koenma and led the Tantei onto her oar to go back to Hogwarts, where the unthinkable was currently waiting for them all.
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"Hurry up, Detective." Hiei glared at Yusuke as he walked in front with Kurama, heading back to the castle.
Suddenly, Kurama stopped walking. Noticing this, Hiei and Yusuke quickly took in their surroundings, trying to figure out what was wrong.
After concentrating for a second, the sound of screaming and energy being shot out filled the senses of the trio, along with the smell of fear so strong that it burned like acid through the sensitive noses of Hiei and Kurama. Then, there was silence once again.
"We have to get to the school, now!" Kurama looked at Hiei and Yusuke, and the three disappeared in blurs of colours.
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Chaos and destruction greeted the eyes of the Tantei. Patches of grass were singed off, causing Kurama to cringe. (AN: LOL! Singe, cringe...you get it?...never mind, I'll shut up now.)
"It's happened. We're too late." Kurama acknowledged grimly.
"Hey! Look over there!" Yusuke pointed to the base of a tall tower, where a crowd of people were gathered. "What's going on?"
The trio slowly approached the crowd. "The scent of death and sorrow." Kurama murmured quietly, partially to himself.
They sought out Harry and his friends in the crowd, Harry kneeling in front of a body. (AN: SPOILERS!) The body of the headmaster of Hogwarts. Professor Albus Dumbledore.
(AN: Again, coulda stopped here…)
Yusuke stared down at the unmoving body. "You were right. Death. How could you tell."
"The scents were not altogether too difficult to determine. After all, I've experienced them enough in my time." Kurama answered in a hollow voice.
Then, the Care of Magical Creatures teacher, Hagrid, bent to pick up Professor Dumbledore's broken body.
The distraught crowd followed, back up to the castle.
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We should leave soon. Kurama thought to his partners.
Won't Harry want to come? Yusuke inquired.
Undoubtedly. Kurama answered. The real question is should we travel as one whole group, or apart?
Well, we're supposed to protect him, aren't we? So I say together. Yusuke replied.
Alright, but eventually, we will not be able to hide our powers. Kurama pointed out.
Hiei nodded. We'll just have to tell the ningen when the time comes. It's not like they can hurt us or anything.
Kurama sighed, I knew this was going to happen, sooner or later...We will just have to deal with them knowing.
They neared the hospital wing, where they knew Harry and his friends were. The talking inside ceased as soon as the Tantei set foot inside the room.
How are we going to tell Harry? Yusuke wondered.
Hn. Hiei replied, and stepped to the bed where Harry was sitting, with his friends around.
"Your ningen headmaster is dead. Leave now, unless you are just going to sit around. If that's your decision, we will just leave now, without you."
Harry snapped his head up, glaring at Hiei, then took in what he said. "Leave? What do you mean?"
Kurama looked around the bed, and seeing only Hermione and Ron, decided to continue.
"We know you wish to search for the Horcruxes."
Harry opened his mouth, looking at the Reikai Tantei suspiciously, but Kurama held up his hand to continue.
"It does not matter how we know, all you need to know is that we're going with or without you and we do not work for Voldemort."
Ron flinched at the name, but glared at Kurama either way. "Well, if you are going, so are we! Plus, how do we know you don't work for You-Know-Who?"
"Simple."
Kurama, Hiei, and Yusuke stuck out their arms and rolled up the sleeves, proving that they did not have the dark mark on their arms.
Hiei looked at Ron, and pointed out, "If we did work for this Voldemort, we'll have attacked the school along with the other Death Eaters, and you would all be dead." He rolled his eyes at the end to point out how stupid Ron's question was.
Wow, shorty. You said a full, complete sentence! Hiei glared at Yusuke, but said nothing afterwards.
"B-but we can't leave now!" Hermione stuttered, much unlike her usual self.
"Why not?" Hiei asked crossing his arms.
"Are you stupid or something?" Harry asked rudely, through red-rimmed eyes. "We have to stay for Professor Dumbledore's funeral!"
Hiei glared murderously at Harry, who braced himself for a scathing reply. It, however, was not Hiei, but Kurama who spoke next.
"No." Kurama told Harry gently. "I'm sorry, no, we're all sorry for the loss, but there is no other choice. If you three really aren't feeling up to it, then we will have to go without you."
"Why should we let you come? You wouldn't be able to help." Ron blurted form Harry's left.
Hiei was beginning to grow impatient. "On the contrary, you idiot ningens, any one of us would be able to defeat all three of you easily."
"How are we going to survive?" Hermione asked, accepting the fact that they were going as a group.
Yusuke grinned. "Now you're talkin'! How do you say we wing it? Anyways, we won't starve, not with Kurama around."
"They're gonna get us killed!" Ron muttered to Harry indignantly.
Kurama and Hiei's sharpened sense of hearing let them overhear. Kurama allowed himself a small grin. "I would think you would get yourself killed all the faster if you went without us. Do not judge us now, we will be of use, I assure you."
Yusuke smiled. "Are we leaving or not?"
"How about we meet at the front gates in twenty minutes?" Kurama asked.
Harry and Ron nodded reluctantly and dragged Hermione to get the equipment they needed for the trip while Kurama, Hiei, and Yusuke headed outside, not really needing anything to bring with them.
Ron mumbled as he put on his cloak. "Well, this is just great! We have a nice trip coming our way."
"Oh, shut it, Ron." Hermione said, looking deep in thought. "We need to go to the library one last time before we leave."
Ron and Harry looked at Hermione strangely. "Why!"
She shook her head, and glanced at Ron and Harry. "Never mind that, just come with me and you'll know."
Both boys grumbled, and followed the foot steps heard with each step Hermione took.
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"Here we are..." Hermione stated as she opened the door to the library. Glancing around, her eyes darted up and down, looking for...something.
"Hermione, what are you looking for?" Harry asked in exasperation.
"Hmm, help me look for a book..." Hermione took out her wand, "Accio, language translation." Looking at the book she found, she put it back o the desk. "Wrong one."
Harry and Ron looked at each other, shrugged and started searching for the book and then showing Hermione all of the ones they found.
"No...no...not this one...wrong one...n-wait! That's it!" Hermione shrieked and grabbed the worn out book and flipped it open.
"N...ni...nin..."
"Aha!" Hermione pointed to a specific word. "Here it is ningen- the Japanese way of saying humans..."
"Ningens?" Harry questioned, "Isn't that the word Hiei called us? Human?"
Ron snorted. "He's seen a few too many world domination m-m… what are they called, Harry? Oh, right, movies. Did you see the way he dresses? And humans? Next thing you know, we'll be calling him master."
Hermione smiled wanly. "We'd better be going. They're waiting for us." She told the two boys, who were still talking about the Japanese kids.
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"Brrr." Yusuke shivered. "It's sure cold out here!" He shivered again.
"You should have brought something more suitable for this climate, Yusuke. "Kurama scolded. He then looked over the shorter boy with concern. "Are you sure you don't want to borrow a few of my sweaters?"
Yusuke shook his head stubbornly. "I'm fine, thanks though. And besides, I really don't want to look stupid."
At this, Hiei smirked and, not caring if Yusuke heard, said, "Too late for that, Detective. It's not looking any stupider that you have to worry about."
"Why you little runt! I'm gonna fix you, right here and-"
"Oh, look!" Kurama interrupted, thankful for a distraction of any kind. "They're coming right now!"
True enough, the Tantei saw the three humans approaching them.
"Don't you have anything to bring?" Hermione asked the three Tantei, flushing a light pink. She was bundled up in a cloak, scarf, hat and mitts, with her wand in her pocket. In addition to that, she had a brightly coloured cloth bad slung over her shoulder. Upon closer inspection, it appeared to contain a few books.
"Yeah, don't you need some more clothes?" Harry asked, looking dubiously at Kurama's thin cloth outfit, and Yusuke, who had his bare arms crossed.
"Nope." Yusuke replied, staring steadily back.
"The same goes for me." Kurama said cheerfully. "Warmth for me is not a huge necessity. It may interfere with concentration and quick movements. Enough on that. We'll want to be well away from here by the time the sun fully rises."
The others nodded their agreement and with Yusuke in the front and Kurama and Hiei at the back, the group slowly disappeared into the darkness.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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