Hey, guess what! I'm actually not dead. Don't know how many people were actually waiting on this but I started reading this thing and thought I might actually continue it. Couple reasons for not updating. First, I'm lazy. I will never deny that. Second, and the biggest reason, I actually joined the Air Force and haven't had much time to write. Military life, who knew huh? So, let's see where this story goes yeah?

Disclaimer: Still don't own these two wonderful pieces of work, and am starting to realize I may never own them at all. Sigh. What a cruel world we live in.

Chapter 4

Surprisingly enough the dinner went without much of a hitch. Kurama was an old hand at misdirection and while Ravenclaws were smart they weren't exactly good at deceit. Kuwabara's personality seemed to really hit it off with the Hufflepuffs, he seemed to bring a real spark of life to the table. Hiei was his normal quiet self and seemed to have made a bubble of space around him that no one seemed to want to sit in. Unsurprisingly Yusuke was getting on great with the twins, a fact that seemed to put chills down more than one spine.

It wasn't long before Dumbledore stood and made the normal announcements about the named forbidden for a reason Forbidden Forrest, the new DADA teacher, and that quidditch tryouts would start next week. The last brought a bit of confusion to the four newcomers. A fact that quite frankly appalled one Ronald Weasley. Which is how Yusuke found himself being subjected to a very thorough history of everything quidditch. He was just about to pass out from the boredom of it until Ron mentioned one of the positions. Being a beater sounded like something he could get behind.

Kuwabara, having a seat relatively close to Yusuke, heard this and couldn't help challenging his old rival. "First one on the team wins Urameshi! Better not chicken out!"

"Ha! Me, chicken? Who's the one too scared to actually ask Yukina out?!"

"Oi! Low blow Urameshi! At least I wasn't run out of Japan by an angry Keiko! Haha, I've never soon you run so fast in my life."

It was about that point that both noticed that the temperature in the room seemed to have risen considerably and the flames on the floating candles were just a tad (Try what the hell) too high. "Shut. Up." Hiei ground out between his clenched teeth. The people that didn't notice him coming, which was just about everyone, jumped. Yusuke just let out an awkward laugh and rubbed the back of his head. Yeah, probably shouldn't have brought up Yukina.

"Jeeze Hiei, cool it, like literally. No need to blow a gasket."

"Well you two were being rather loud." Again there were a lot of jumps, especially from the female population. How they didn't notice Kurama coming is anybody's guess. "Besides I believe it's about time for us to hide to our rooms. It's getting late and we have class in the morning. And yes Yusuke, Keiko did ask me to make sure you attend." That last sentence was said with a knowing quirk of the lips that made a few more girls join the new fanclub. Poor poor Kurama. If only he knew.

Yusuke got a slight tick mark, but then just sighed in acknowledgement. He knew better than to piss off Keiko. How she hit harder than Toguro he'd never know. The woman (like all women) was scary. "Fine, let's go then. Oi, Forge, Gred, show me the fastest, simplest was to the dorm. I don't feel like getting lost and something tells me I'm gonna be really hungry in the morning." He then stalked off with the grinning twins grumbling about weird English names. Shortly after Kuwabara was swept away in a tide of well meaning but excitable Hufflepuffs and Kurama was kidna- er… shown the way to the Ravenclaw dorms by an actual mob of fangirls.

"I suppose it is down to me to show you the way to the dungeons, Jaganshi. I have high expectations of my new snake, and I do not tolerate failure." Professor Snape cut an intimidating figure to almost anyone that had the misfortune to meet him. Luckily for Hiei, he was nothing more to a greased up human in his sight.

"Hn." Which in honesty was Hiei speak for "Don't disillusion yourself into thinking that I would debase myself into ever being something so low as to crawl on my stomach like a common snake. I am a dragon amongst these sheep, and nothing about that will ever change."

"I see. Glad we could come to an agreement Mr. Jaganshi." Fortunately Professor Snape seemed to understand everything that was said in that monosyllabic answer. Don't ask me how, I just tell it how I see it.

TBC

AN: Yeah I know, long wait for such a short chapter. But I would like you all to know that I do read all the reviews and quite frankly have enjoyed every single one of them. Hell, I even saw that my story was added to something called The Best of Harry Potter Ranma12 DragonBall Z and misc. What that is I don't really know but I get the feeling it's an accomplishment. So thank you to whoever put it there, I greatly appreciate it. Happy St. Patricks Day, and have a good day.