A Bigger Issue
Chapter 3: Cold Wind
Disclaimer: I assure you that if I owned Yu Yu Hakusho and Harry Potter that there would be large amounts of partying and yaoiness galore!!!! Alas I must just settle for writing this, making no money, and being force-fed pecans.
Severus: You do not enjoy pecans?
Shiny-chan: Of course I don't! *Vile evil things* mutters
Severus: I do believe I have a cure for your insanity somewhere in my potions cabinet.
Shiny-chan: That's nice. You should save it for someone who needs it, like MOLDY VOLDY!!!!!
Severus: If he could hear you, you'd be dead you dunderhead!
Shiny-chan: Ahhh who cares! He don't scare me!
Severus: I can't take anymore of your delusion. You are barmier than the old coot! *stalks off with customary billowing robes*
Shiny-chan: Darn, he left. Anyways I'm so happy that I have four reviews already! Thank you so much Loretta537 and broken-Angel-requiem-Soul for your reviews! Everyone else please please tell me what you think! On with the story!
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Yusuke ran faster in an effort to return to Kurama's house on time. Alas no matter how fast he ran he would still be late as the sun had already peeked over the horizon. He landed on Kurama's roof before jumping to the ground where Botan was waiting with her oar.
"Yusuke! You're late!" She beaned him upside the head with her oar before turning the end into a boat. Yusuke was muttering muffled curses at her as he climbed in followed by Kurama and an extremely reluctant Hiei. She whisked them up into the air and disappeared into the clouds before anyone could say a word. Yusuke quickly grew green at her terrifying aerial maneuvers while Kurama and Hiei feigned indifference. However, after four hours riding on the back of an oar at breakneck speeds, even Hiei looked a little green around the gills. She landed in an isolated little town named Ottery St. Catchpole in England and watched as Yusuke stumbled almost drunkenly off of the oar and Hiei and Kurama gracefully exited. The gang watched as the 'grim' reaper waved at them merrily and abruptly disappeared. Yusuke heaved and then glared at the recently vacated space.
"If she coulda taken us here like that then why'd she waste four hours makin' us sick?" Hiei grunted as his color slowly returned to normal.
"Because she's a sadistic bitch." Kurama chuckled sardonically before brushing off his clothing and looking around. Botan had deposited them at the top of a hill that had a small, rustic looking house at the bottom. Kurama sighed and started down the hill.
"On the brighter side of things, at least she dropped us near our destination. She could have dropped us on the opposite side of England."
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Molly Weasley looked out her kitchen window when she heard voices coming from outside. Slowly walking into view were three young men coming down the hill towards her house. She knew that her family was to host three Japanese aurors for a while, but whoever heard of them being so young!? They couldn't be any older than sixteen she thought while wiping the dishwater off of her hands. They knocked at the front door just as she reached it to pull it open. She opened the door and beckoned them in. She appraised them quietly. The tall one had blood red hair longer than Bill's and glowing green eyes set in an androgynous face with an enigmatic smile. The next one was slightly shorter with wispy black hair that flowed around his face and chocolate brown eyes. He wore green pants with a white tank top and suit jacket covering it. The third, the shortest by far, had spiky black hair with a white starburst for bangs, but the strange thing about him was his bright red eyes and the permanent scowl on his face.
"Hold on dearies." She said. She flipped up the left sleeves of their shirts and she saw Hiei's dragon tattoo.
"Don't touch that!" He snapped at her. Kurama smiled apologetically.
"I apologize Weasley-san, Hiei is a little anti-social." Yusuke snorted loudly.
"Yeah, if your idea of little is the size of a mountain!" Hiei fixed him with a scathing glare.
"Urusai, Tantei." Yusuke grinned and Kurama just shook his head exasperated.
"I'm sorry again, we haven't yet introduced ourselves. My name is Kurama Minamino and this is Yusuke Urameshi and Hiei Jaganshi" Molly looked at them sternly.
"Just how old are you? You look a little young to be aurors." Yusuke's expression said he was confused and Kurama enlightened him.
"Remember Yusuke that we are what we call Tantei and they call Aurors." Yusuke nodded enthusiastically and stuck his thumb up.
"Oh yeah. I'm nineteen and both Kurama and Hiei are twenty, Weasley-san!" Molly nodded in wary acceptance and ushered them into the kitchen. She levitated heaping plates of pancakes onto the table and smiled at them.
"Eat up dearies. I'm sure after your long journey that you are hungry." Hiei shook his head and walked out the door. Molly looked offended.
"Don't worry about him Weasley-san. As for me, our journey was a bit too unsettling for me to eat anything." Kurama stated morosely. She looked at them with concern.
"Oh? Did you run into trouble?" Yusuke snorted.
"Yeah. Our transportation thought it would be funny to make us as sick as possible on the way here." Yusuke ate in silence for a moment before Kurama broke it.
"Yusuke, did you get to talk to Keiko?" Yusuke glowered and stuffed another overly full forkful of pancakes in his mouth. Kurama continued.
"By your look she didn't take it too well?" Yusuke swallowed.
"No, kitsune-kun, she took it rather well." Kurama looked amused.
"Did you want her to protest?" Yusuke glared at him.
"Did she say something that upset you?"
"Leave it man."
"Yusuke." Yusuke leapt up and ran out the door. Molly looked after him quizzically.
"Will he be okay?"
"He's always like this after he sees his ex- girlfriend, Keiko. She always says something that bothers him but he never wants to talk about it. He'll return in a few hours after letting off some steam." She nodded.
"Well, you three will have to share Percy's old room because we are due to have two more guests arrive tonight. Where are your belongings?"
"We pack light Weasley-san." She shook her head.
"Please, call me Molly." Kurama smiled at her.
"Of course Molly-san. If it is not too much trouble, may I use your bath?"
"Of course dearie! It's down that hallway and to the left."
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Yusuke snapped out of the irritated stupor he had placed himself in as he had stalked out of the Weasley's house. He abruptly found himself n an unfamiliar area with no idea of how to get back to the house. He slowly took in is surroundings and found himself in a closed in wooded area with little sunlight coming through the branches of the trees over head. He did notice that when he had somehow made his way into the forest that he had left an easy to follow trail. He turned and went back out the path he had trodden himself. It was a particularly winding trail that went around in circles before ending at rolling plains. The sky was quickly darkening, and clouds were beginning to form towering thunderstorm clouds, and Yusuke sped in the direction he had been going in an effort to not only keep from getting wet but also from the possibility that the inclement weather would wipe away his self-made trail back to the host family. He began to jog, making the scenery move along that much faster and even though it should have increased his body temperature, he felt colder and colder. In fact, Yusuke could now see tiny breath clouds coming from his mouth and nose as he ran. The confusion and sudden spike of despair disheartened him. Hadn't it only just been balmy outside? Yusuke kept running but stopped defensively when several wispy hooded figures swept into his path. The ethereal creatures seemed to be the ones causing the bizarre weather (perhaps an ugly cousin of the ice apparitions?), and the one closest to Yusuke took in a deep shuddering, gasping breath. Yusuke found himself thrown unwillingly into the memory of Kurama getting pulverized by Bakken and then Karasu. Yusuke screamed in anguish and shook his head furiously to rid himself of the horrifying memories. He brought up his spirit gun and fired indiscriminately at the creatures in a valiant effort to get them to leave. He finally hit one and it let out a piteous screech before bursting into a ball of black flame and ashes. The cold wind blew its remains away. He shot them one by one and the heat was returning as their miserable howls faded away with their ashes. Yusuke shivered and fought back the tears that the memories he thought he'd locked away had invoked. Hiei stood in the distance, sneer firmly fixed on his face. Just beyond him, was the Weasley's little house.
"Any reason you were screaming Kurama's name Detective?" Yusuke ignored him and walked past him, still shaking. Hiei shook his head.
"Idiot." Yusuke turned and glared at Hiei.
"Shut UP!!!!" He roared. Hiei stood there silently before flitting away. Yusuke walked into the house and took off his shoes, too numb to notice the three young people at the table who had pulled their wands on him. Oblivious to their confusion, he stumbled up the stairs like an automaton. He reached the bathroom and filled the tub with the hottest water he could before getting in and promptly falling asleep.
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Ronald Weasley stumbled into his sister's room noisily, knocking over a vase in his hurry to get to his mother, who was putting away some clean laundry. She absently flicked her wand at the broken vase and fixed it before glaring at her son.
"How many times have I told you to be careful Ronald?!" He shook his head urgently.
"Mum, someone just walked into the house! He could be a Death Eater!" Her face tightened.
"What did they look like?" Ron blinked woodenly.
"Had about Charlie's build and looked Chinese or something. He looked like a gangster too!" Molly relaxed.
"That's not a Death Eater, Ronald. Our family has the honor to host three Japanese Aurors for a while and it sounds like young Yusuke came back." Ron's confusion escalated.
"Yoose Kay?" Molly pushed him out of Ginny's room and shut the door behind him. He walked stiffly to the kitchen where Harry and Hermione were waiting for the verdict.
"Apparently we now have three Japanese Aurors staying with us now and that guy was Yoose kay?"
They sighed in relief.
"Still, don't you think it's odd that Mrs. Weasley would have forgotten to tell us that they're here? If she hadn't been here we would have hexed them and probably expelled!" Harry rolled his eyes.
"I don't think we would have needed to hex him Mione. He was dead on his feet and probably about to fall over. He didn't look like much of a threat." Hermione looked thoughtful.
"I wasn't aware that the Japanese Ministry employed Aurors. Or that the Japanese Ministry was cooperating enough with our ministry to send three of them here." Ron shrugged.
"Well Mione, They obviously do or they wouldn't be here. And honestly, if Mum thought they were evil then she'd have kicked them out and hexed them to next year." Harry shrugged.
"Well I need to use the loo so I guess I'll meet you in your room Ron?" Ron grinned.
"Well hurry up why don't you? I still want to kick your arse in chess tonight before bedtime!" Hermione rolled her eyes.
"Well it's not like he's that good at it so you'll probably beat him several times." Harry glared playfully at her.
"Gee thanks for the vote of confidence, Mione." He said wryly. Harry climbed the stairs slowly and walked down the hallway to the bathroom. He opened the unlocked door and shut it behind him. He turned around and froze. The man who had walked silently past them was sleeping quietly in the bathtub. The steamy air concealed him slightly for a moment before Harry saw him clearly. His short black hair had grown damp from the steam and hung limply around his face, falling over the closed lids framed with black lashes. The olive colored skin of his face continued down his defined chest that was peppered with scars and a small amount of hair. The merry happy trail meandered down over a lovely eight-pack of muscles and Harry blushed furiously as he noticed the man was VERY well defined below the waist. Harry's face then invented a new shade of red as he realized that 1. He was growing a conspicuous problem in his pants, and 2. The man was awake and looking at him. The man's chocolate brown eyes affixed him in a silent disapproval as his mouth opened.
"What do you want?" The cranky man snapped. Harry spun around and darted out of the bathroom, allowing the door to close behind him. He power walked straight to Ron's room, where Ron and Hermione had grown tired of waiting and were playing chess with each other. They looked up at him when he came in.
"What took you so long mate? I didn't think it took this long to take a piss. We started without you." Harry collapsed on Ron's bed and buried his burning face into the pillow.
"Harry, what's the matter? You're beet red!" Hermione exclaimed.
"That guy was taking a bath."
"What mate?"
"That Japanese guy was taking a bath and he is seriously way more ripped than Charlie." He said abashed. Hermione got a smug grin on her face.
"Ooh Harry! Do you think he's hot?" She teased. Ron blanched.
"I completely don't understand how you can like both birds and blokes mate." Ron said slowly.
"I just think he's fit okay?! That doesn't mean anything! I mean, I think Charlie's fit too!" Ron turned green and shook his head sharply.
"I did not need to know that Harry. I really did not need to know that." Hermione rolled her eyes at him.
"Honestly Ron, grow up! I think Charlie's pretty fit too." Harry smirked slowly.
"Oh and I think Snape's pretty fit too." Ron slapped a hand over his mouth and turned greener than a Slytherin's common room. Hermione was shaking with silent laughter and she took a deep breath while moving her knight into position.
"Checkmate, Ron." He groaned.