Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction / InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Year One ❯ To Break a Tie ( Chapter 8 )

Kurama and Hiei froze. How could this old man tell they were demons? How would they explain this to Kagome? What would she say?

They looked at Kagome, and she looked horrified.

"Grandpa!" she yelled at her grandfather.

She turned to them, blushing a deep red.

"I'm really sorry about that." Kagome said, pulling off the wards. "Grandpa is... well, he just thinks everyone is a demon."

"It's alright. Hiei and I have also heard a little about demons." Kurama said as Hiei glanced at him sharply.

Kagome laughed. "Probably not as much as my grandfather." she said.

Kurama smiled. He was grateful that only very few people could make wards that actually worked. He would have had a lot of explaining to do.

"Why don't we head to my room?" Kagome suggested, still slightly embarrassed at her grandfather's behavior.

Kagome led the way to her room. When she closed the door behind them, Shinto came out from underneath the bed.

"Kagome, why is Hogwarts such a touchy subject with your mother?" Kurama asked Kagome.

"Uh..." Kagome stalled. "She doesn't like me being away from home so much, so whenever she hears about it she starts crying." she said, thinking she had created a good cover-up.

Kurama nodded. "I see." he said. He knew she was lying as Hiei also knew.

Shinto leaped up onto Kurama's shoulder.. Keiro came out of the closet. He almost landed on Hiei's shoulder, but changed his mind when he saw the glare Hiei was giving him. He landed on Kagome's shoulder instead.

"Shall we start studying?" Kagome asked.

"Sure." Kurama answered for both Hiei and him.

Kagome dug around in her closet, then pushed a piece of wood that seem attached to the wall. It slid aside, revealing a secret compartment about the size of her regular closet opened up.

Everything that was magical was hidden inside there.

*****

"Hey, where do you suppose Kurama and Hiei are?" Yusuke asked Kuwabara.

They were walking around town after checking both Kurama's house and Hiei's usual tree.

"I don't know. I'm just drawing a picture of my beloved Yukina." Kuwabara answered, scribbling on a piece of paper he found in Kurama's room.

"Yukina? Oh ya, that girl we saved from those thugs. Let me see your drawing." Yusuke said, snatching the drawing away from Kuwabara.

"Hey, Urameshi, give that back!" Kuwabara yelled.

Yusuke took a look at the drawing and started laughing. "Y-you think th- that that looks l-like Yukina?" he said, still holding the drawing away from Kuwabara.

Yuske finally fell over for laughing too much, and Kuwabara snatched back his drawing.

"Hey, what's that?" Yusuke asked as he finally stopped laughing, and was looking at the paper in Kuwabara's hands.

"My beautiful drawing of Yukina." Kuwabara said, hugging the piece of paper to his chest.

"Kuwabara, look! There's a kitty!" Yusuke said, pointing over Kuwabara's shoulder.

"Where?" Kuwabara said, turning around quickly, calling for the cat.

"Hey, where's the kitty Urameshi?" Kuwabara asked, not seeing the cat Yusuke had pointed out.

"There isn't one." Yusuke said as he looked at the piece of paper Kuwabara had drawn on. He had stolen it when Kuwabara turned to find the imaginary kitty.

"It seems Kurama has been keeping a secret from us." Yusuke said.

"Huh?" Kuwabara asked.

"He's got a girlfriend, and went to go see her." Yusuke said, obviously missing the part where it invites Hiei over as well.

Kuwabara laughed. "Kurama, a girlfriend?"

"I'll show you. Wait... where does she live?" Yusuke asked.

*****

They had been studying for awhile now. Mrs. Higurashi had left to fun errands, while Kagome's grandfather had taken Souta over to a friend's house, then he himself heading over to an old acquaintances.

Kurama and Hiei were at a tie. Kagome had had an idea of creating a game. Someone asked questions about the textbooks and the other two got points when they answered them first.

Kurama had to drag Hiei into the game at first, but the challenge was what kept Hiei playing.

"To break a tie..." Kagome said.

She purposefully flipped though the book slowly. She wanted to find a really hard question they wouldn't know, even though they seemed to have memorized the books.

Kagome suddenly had an idea.

"How many houses are in Hogwarts?" she asked.

*****

Do you know the answer? There is a reason behind such an easy question. You'll have to find out in the next chapter. ^^

The Hidden One