Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ A Grim's Promise ❯ Chapter Fourteen ( Chapter 15 )

Disclaimer: I don't own the Harry Potter books or Yu Yu Hakusho

 

Summary: Two years before his death a powerful psychic made Sirius a promise. Now Genkai and Yusuke travel to London to keep it and throw the British magical community for a loop.

 

Warnings: Swearing

 

 

A Grim's Promise

 

Chapter Fourteen

 

July 9th

 

 

 

Midmorning Genkai met Kurama at the top of the stairs. After exchanging their good mornings and a brief detour to the kitchen to grab a small plant and a muffin, the old woman led Kurama to the training room where Harry was waiting. When they entered the room Kurama almost pinched his nose in an attempt to block out the faint scent of rotten eggs and fruit. It looks like Yusuke was having trouble mastering using his wand.

 

“Good morning Shuichi,” Harry said as the red head sat down across from him. “Yusuke went to go take a shower,” he said to Genkai.

 

“Good, hopefully he'll stay out of here until we're done.” Genkai sat down on the mat facing the two teens. “Kurama I asked you to come here today because Harry here shows a gift for working with plants. I was hoping you could train him.” She smirked slightly when the kitsune's head whipped around to look at the wizard. It was a rare occurrence when she was able to shock the old fox.

 

Kurama shook his head. It wasn't possible. Without training or use of a wand, spirit energy almost always naturally showed up as a weapon or as healing energy. Considering all the other forms spirit or demon energy could take the odds of a human having spirit energy similar to his were extremely low. “Genkai I don't want to be rude but that's a little hard for me to believe.”

 

Genkai picked up the small ivy plant and put it in front of the wizard. “Same thing as yesterday Harry, cup your hands around the pot and focus on letting your energy flow into your palms.”

 

Kurama watched as the boy reached out and wrapped his hands around the terra-cotta pot, biting on his lower lip as he concentrated. Five minutes later, he was about to stop him when Harry's hands began to glow a soft butter yellow. The energy was completely unfocused but he could feel the small plant's joy at having it near its roots. His eyes widened when the plant began absorbing the energy and started to slowly grow. It was a great deal slower than the plants he grew, the vines were just a little longer and the leaves were slightly larger, but it was growing. “Stop, that's enough!” Kurama yelled when he glanced up and saw how pale the boy's face was.

 

“Thank Merlin,” Harry whispered taking his hands away from the plant, being careful not to disturb the new growth. He put his hands in his lap, ignoring the fading yellow glow. He tried not to fall over in exhaustion as he sat back. It took a lot more out of him than he thought it would when he used his energy with out a wand.

 

“Here, eat this,” Genkai said, handing a blueberry muffin to the sleepy boy. “Until you get used to using your energy this way your body is going to need more fuel. So don't be surprised if you can out eat Yusuke on Oden night.” She turned to face Kurama. “Can you do it?”

 

“I might be able to.” Kurama was quiet as he thought about the situation. He had never taken on a full time student before; if he did he couldn't do it half way. It would be a full time job, for both him and Harry. Until school ended he would have to be here every weekend and after school ended he would be here every day, he would have to make a couple of trips to the Makai to gather some old scrolls he had, translate those to English, find some books on various magical plants, gather some seeds and young plants and Inari only knew what else. The wizard wouldn't have an easy time of it either. His eyes narrowed as he studied the black haired boy sitting across from him. He wasn't going to waste his time if the boy wasn't willing to work.

 

“Before I agree to this, if decide to do this, I need to know if you plan on taking this seriously or if it's just a game to you,” Kurama said in a challenging tone, purposely trying to anger the young wizard hoping he would reveal his reasons for wanting to do this.

 

Harry stiffened and his eyes lit up in anger. He lifted his head and looked the red head in the eye, not backing down from the challenge he saw there. “I don't know if you've heard but there's an insane wizard and his lackeys that want me dead. From what Genkai told me I could use this to protect my friends when he comes after me. I'm taking this very seriously.”

 

Kurama kept his face blank, not giving any hint of his emotions. “You realize if you do this you will not have a relaxing summer vacation. The next two months will not be easy. You will work on whatever I assign you everyday and you will not slack off.”

 

“So instead of working my arse off doing chores for Aunt Petunia, I'll be working my arse off to learn something useful,” Harry said with a shrug. “It'll be a nice change and I'll have something to do. I'm getting bored sitting around doing nothing.” He made face before giving the other boy a cheeky smile. “When do we start?”

 

“This weekend,” Kurama replied absently as he began creating a mental check list. He scowled when he saw the black haired boy's smile turn into a smirk and he realized what he had said. He hadn't meant to agree so fast.

 

“Brilliant!” Harry's eyes twinkled happily as he started devouring his muffin. He picked up the small ivy plant and stood up. “Thank you for agreeing to train me. I'm going to see if I can help clean up the kitchen, Genkai.”

 

Genkai snorted softly, suppressing a small bark of laughter when Harry walked out of the room, still eating his muffin and ignoring the fuming Kurama. The next two months should be interesting.

 

 

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“Hey Grandma, have you seen Harry or Yukina?” Yusuke asked sticking his head into the training room. He nodded at the red head sitting next to the old woman. “Hey Kurama.”

 

“Have you checked the kitchen?” Genkai asked as she continued to write on one of the sheets of paper spread out in front of her. “As he left Harry said he was going to help her clean up.”

 

“They're not there. They're also not in the gardens, the game room, the TV room, the dinning room or their bedrooms.” Yusuke opened the door the rest of the way and stepped into the room. He crossed his arms as he leaned against the doorframe. “I even checked that messed up game room of yours. I'm out of places to look.”

 

Kurama looked up from the schedule in front of him. “Have you tried the forest?”

 

“Nah, Harry knows he can't go in there with out an escort. Plus, I asked Hiei if he had seen them when I started looking.” Yusuke shrugged. “He hasn't.”

 

“At least you know they haven't left the temple.” Genkai put her pen down and handed the copied schedule to Kurama. “There, I assume you'll be here Saturday morning for breakfast.”

 

“Yes Genkai,” Kurama said as he stood up. “But I will be by before that with some plants I want him to be comfortable working with and a few books he should read.” He scowled slightly. “It doesn't help me that he already bonded with an ivy plant. You should have called me the minute you suspected what his spirit energy was instead of testing it in the manner you did.” He folded the schedule in half and tucked it into his pocket.

 

Genkai shrugged. “I wanted to be sure before I wasted anyone's time.” She straightened the pile of papers in front of her and picked them up. “By the way Dimwit, you didn't check my library,” she said as she stood up.

 

“Harry knows about that?” Yusuke asked nervously as he and Kurama traded worried looks.

 

Genkai smirked as she walked past the two stunned demons and out the door. “I showed it to him yesterday. He needed to do some research to identify a few of the animals in his soul room.”

 

She laughed softly as the two teens ran past her and back to the living area of the temple. They worried way too much. The boy was dealing with it just fine. Personally, she was more concerned about Yukina handling all of the wizard's questions.

 

 

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Hiei was a little pale, his eyes were ever so slightly widened, his air around him was a little warmer than normal, and he was gripping the hilt of his sword a little too tightly. All of this added up to Hiei in full panic mode. The cause of his panic was a Koorime and a teenage wizard. It wasn't that they threatening him. After all, Yukina couldn't hurt a fly and the wizard was only half trained. It wasn't that his sister and the boy were in danger and he had to save them. Well, maybe they could get hit on the head if a book fell off the shelves; Genkai's library wasn't exactly the neatest place. But Hiei knew he could handle that threat to his sister. No, Hiei wasn't panicking for a normal reason. The reason Hiei was panicking was the dual puppy dog eye attack.

 

Yukina's puppy dog eyes were the most deadly weapon in all three realms in Hiei's opinion. Yukina's puppy dog eyes could turn Kuwabara to mush, make Yusuke clean toilets, make Kurama risk his mother's wrath and make Hiei be nice to small, annoying human children. Even Koenma's father had learned to fear them. No one knew how they worked but they did. It was bad enough his sister was looking at him like that but now he had to get puppy dog eyes from a wizard too, a wizard who was just as good at this as Yukina. Damn it, Hiei thought scowling. I hate that look. He looked away first. “Hn.”

 

“Please Hiei,” Yukina pleaded. “You don't have to use it. Harry just wants to see it.”

 

“Please. Remus only told us a little about them in third year and that was only because Hermione asked.” Harry tried to make his eyes as big and pitiful as possible. “Please Hiei.”

 

“Hn,” Hiei grunted. He took off his bandana and opened the eye in the middle of his forehead. Damn puppy dog eyes.

 

Harry watched as the pale lavender eye opened. At first it stared straight ahead, not focusing on anything. Then suddenly it darted to look at Yukina, then at him. For a few more seconds it flickered between him and Yukina before settling on him. Harry resisted the urge to take a step back when it focused on him, the stories of its incredible destructive power running through his head. Instead, being a Gryffindor, he took a step forward and bent down to get a closer look. He smiled when both Hiei and the Jagan blinked in surprise. He couldn't help it, he had to say it.

 

“It's cute,” Harry said, still looking at the lavender eye. “For something that's supposed to be deadly it's really cute.”

 

Hiei scowled, sensing the Jagan's irritation mixing with his own. “It is not cute.”

 

“It's like my snake,” Harry said with a shrug as he stepped back. “Liam is a small cute black snake that can kill people with one bite. The cute factor does not stop him from being deadly.”

 

Hiei blinked. He and the Jagan were confused; it had been compared to a snake. “You admit that my Jagan eye is deadly but you're saying that it's cute as well?”

 

Yukina giggled when Harry nodded. “I agree it is cute. In a mass destruction kind of way of course,” she said quickly when Hiei scowl-pouted at her.

 

Hiei continued to scowl as he tied his bandana back around his head. “It is not cute.”

 

“Yes it is,” Harry replied.

 

“Not.”

 

“Is.”

 

“Not!”

 

Harry rolled his eyes. “Hiei, I think it's cute. You glaring at me and telling me that it's not cute is not going to change my opinion.”

 

Yukina looked away from the small staring match when she heard the door to the library open. “Hiei, Harry you might want to stop arguing now. We have company.”

 

Hiei and Harry looked up to see Kurama and Yusuke walking around the shelves as fast as they could without knocking anything down. Hiei raised one eyebrow at the panic and fear in their scents. He snorted as he turned back to the wizard. “You didn't tell them,” he stated flatly.

 

Harry grinned. “Why should I've told them? They didn't tell me.” He looked past the fire demon and smiled impishly at the two demons. “Hey guys.”

 

Ignoring Harry, Kurama looked at the table, specifically at the books on it, trying to decide how much damage control might be needed. There were books on kitsunes, fire demons, Jagan eyes, S class demons, the Makai social structure, Ice maidens, ferry girls and Makai plants of all things. Kurama blinked at that one. He didn't think Genkai had books on plants from the Makai. He made a mental note to borrow it later as he looked at the wizard and sniffed the air. He blinked again. If Harry had read enough of these books, why didn't he smell fear coming from him?

 

Harry's grin got wider when Kurama and Yusuke both began stiffing the air. If he wasn't looking for it he never would have noticed. “Yusuke, one question.”

 

“Okay,” Yusuke said slowly. He had a feeling he was going to regret this. “What's your question?”

 

Harry and Yukina grinned at each other. “Don't you think Hiei's Jagan eye is cute?” He asked pointing at the short man's bandana.

 

Hiei's hand twitched as he resisted the urge to draw his sword. “It is not cute!”

 

 

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Kurama stopped at the top of the stairs, glancing at the wizard next to him. “You have no problem with this?”

 

Harry rolled his eyes and sighed in exasperation. “How many times do I have to tell you?” He stepped down to the step in front of the red head and turned around, looking up at the kitsune. “I have no problem with you being a demon. I have no problem with Yusuke being a demon. I have no problem with anyone being a demon.” He rolled his eyes again and sat down on the steps. “Yusuke let this go an hour ago, why haven't you?” he whined.

 

Kurama sat down next to him, looking down at the stairs before turning his head to look at the wizard. “My reason for that is personal. Even if you are my student now, I will not tell you that. I don't trust you enough yet. But I can tell you that in general humans, wizards especially, are not as accepting as you are being.”

 

“After my third year when I found out Remus is a werewolf I decided to try not to be a judgmental bastard.” He shrugged. “Except when Malfoy is involved. Anyone who declares they want me dead because their father is in jail for being stupid and siding with Voldemort is not someone I should ever trust. Other than that, I'm pretty open to the whole weirdness that is my life.” He was quiet for a second, thinking about what he had said. “Is weirdness a word?”

 

“It's a word,” Kurama said studying the wizard. “What do you mean when you say your life is weird?”

 

“My godfather was dog and was arrested for selling out my parents to Voldemort and killing thirteen people when it was actually my friend's rat Scabbers. My new godfather is a werewolf who was dating my old godfather. Remus also came damn close to killing me in my third year when he transformed but he's also the last person I know who was friends with my parents and who I trust without hesitation. I also happen to be a Parselmouth, something that I got from the man who killed my parents. But that ability gave me the chance to save Ginny from the same man. My life is weird.” Harry shrugged and smiled at the kitsune. “There's more weird stuff but I don't think you want to miss class.”

 

Kurama scowled. “I'll make it to class on time with out a problem. You, on the other hand, need to finish talking. Your life story does not tell me why you aren't afraid.”

 

Harry played with the end of his braid. “My life is weird. I've come to accept that, even expect it. The fact that I'm now living with two demons, well three if you count Hiei, have another demon for a teacher, and that one of those demons is dating a human who can make a sword out of his magic is almost normal for me so I don't really see a reason to be afraid.” He gave Kurama a sad half smile. “The only things I fear are Dementors and the fact that I have to kill Voldemort. Anything else isn't as scary as those two things.”

 

“I see,” Kurama said as he stared off in to space. He didn't really but he didn't know enough about the wizard's past to understand half of what he had said. However he was slightly disturbed by the fact that the boy trusted someone who had almost killed him. Then again it wasn't so strange. Hiei had tried to kill Yusuke and now they were friends in an odd sort of way. “I have last one question before I go. Do you plan on telling anyone what we are?”

 

Harry shook his head. “No way. One; no one would believe me and two; it's not my secret to tell.” He grinned impishly. “Besides, I kinda like the idea of knowing something Hermione doesn't and if she finds out I can do research on my own I'd never be able to escape the library again.”

 

 

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Journal Entry: July, 9th, 1996

 

I can't believe I'm doing this. After second year and Ginny getting possessed by Voldemort's diary I never thought I'd start a journal. Hermione and Ron aren't here and even if they were I'm not speaking to Ron and I sort of promised Shuichi and later Yusuke that I wouldn't tell anyone including Hermione but I need to get this out of my head somehow.

 

Yusuke is a demon. Not a weak demon like a Nogtail (Hiei said those are so weak that they don't bother to classify them) but an S class, the highest class. And Yusuke's not a normal S class either, but like, what was that word Lavender used? Oh, Ubber S class. (Is ubber a word?) What's even freakier is that he doesn't have a heartbeat. Nothing. When I asked if he was joking he let me listen. I kept my ear over where his heart is supposed to be for a full minute and didn't hear anything. He has a pulse though. Weird huh? Shuichi said it was because Yusuke has a demon nucleus or demon heart. But that doesn't make much sense because Shuichi has a heartbeat and according to those legends I read last night he's been around for a thousand years.

 

That's another thing. Shuichi, Hiei, and Yukina are demons. And Hiei has a Jagan eye. Remus was wrong, the Jagan is not scary looking, it's cute! That was even weirder than Yusuke's no heart but still has a pulse thing. I mean, here's this all powerful weapon that hurts like hell to have put in and capable of mass destruction and it's cute! What's even funnier is that it's the same lavender color as Parvati's stuffed bunny. (Don't ask how I know) I wish I could have seen Shuichi's demon form. Seeing a stuffed animal in my soul room has got to be dull compared to the real thing.

 

I was kind of pissed they didn't tell me about this at first. I'm living here until I'm twenty one, I'm friends with Yusuke, Genkai conned Kurama into training me, they know a toddler god and they think they could have kept this from me?! They have got to be stupid. Even without Hermione and Ron around I was already trying to figure it out. Genkai just sped it along. I wonder if Sirius knew that the majority of the people here aren't human.

 

One last rant before I end this; Yukina's almost done with dinner. Why wouldn't Shuichi show me his demon form? That was the reason Yusuke asked him to here for the talk. When I asked him to he said no. You want to know why? Because I've already figured it out and there was no reason for it. What kind of lame excuse it that? Heck, even Yukina made an ice crystal lily to show me her talent but no fox. Jerk. I wonder how long it would take me to get him to show it to me.

 

Note to self: plan prank for Yusuke and Shuichi to get revenge for hiding something like this. Must wait until after my birthday. Shuichi is definitely out of school by then.

 

What the hell is Oden and why is Yusuke screaming it at the top of his lungs?

 

 

tbc…

 

Author's Notes and Review Responses:

 

1) A Nogtail is a pig like demon I found in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It can only be chased off a farm by a pure white dog.

 

 

Review Responses:

Obsydia: Thank you! Harry being descended from Kurama is not a weird idea at all. There are a couple of stories where Harry is related to Kurama but my favorite is Thicker Than Water by Youko Koenma. It only has a prologue and three chapters and hasn't been updated in forever but it is a darn good read. It's in my favorites at ffnet if you want to check it out.

 

Metal Dragon1: Ack, sorry about the vague answer thing last time. Yusuke will be putting some wizard in his or her place. Hiei meeting Malfoy, that I'm not too sure about. Although I did have this strange mental image pop up of Hiei and Malfoy meeting at Quidditch match

 

Arano Honou: Thank you for the Twinkies! Those are impossible to find here. Congrats by the way, Sirius's death is one of the reasons for the Harry's animagus form being black.

 

Kit-kit: Why didn't I think of that? Harry as a monkey would be cute! And funny. Oops, I didn't mean to give anyone the idea that Kurama and Kuwabara wouldn't be teachers. Those two are the only ones I'm going to use for that and I can only choose one. Though the idea of Touya teaching is kinda cool.

 

Eternal Light/Fire Dragon: Nope, his animagus form is definitely not like his dad's. If I remember correctly the rules of the animagus are that one is never a magical being/animal and that each form is unique to the person's personality. And no matter what I do, I can't picture Harry as a prey animal like a stag.

 

Katzztar: You're right, he did lead a gang. But he also stopped said gang from taking over the neighborhood after the Dark Tournament. Kuwabara did get serious about getting a proper education which to me gives him another reason for not going. Think about this for a second, whoever goes to Hogwarts can not interfere beyond teaching and keeping an eye on the local demons. They can not get involved with the war, join the Order or have a major role on the front lines. Yes, they can defend the students and the castle if it's attacked but that is it. While Kuwabara almost never is the one who takes on the final bad guy, he always takes on a major role in the fighting and helps the team get to the end. Here he couldn't. The teacher Koenma assigns will be support only, not a fighter. With Kuwabara's personality do you really think he would be able to agree to that with out having issues? Ack, now I'm making it sound like Kuwabara doesn't have a chance of going when it's still 50/50. Maybe I should just flip a coin to decide.

 

Ariyah-Chan: Honorifics? No way! My Japanese is severely limited and I'm too afraid of messing it up. Harry calls Kurama Shuichi because until recently he didn't know Kurama was his name. He thought it was a nickname. He still won't call him that simply because he doesn't have permission to. It's sort of like why Hogwarts students call people they aren't friends with by their last names. To him it's rude. It's the only way I can think to explain it.

 

Webweaver: As long as my muse stays around I'm going to keep writing.

 

Okaasan-7: Oh, so you do like him? Sorry for jumping on you like that. I could never send Yukina to Hogwarts with out Hiei. Otherwise the little guy might find a way out of the YYH verse to come kick my ass.

 

Rabid Fangirl101: Bad spelling in a review is not a problem.

 

 

Thank you to everyone who reviewed. I loved reading everyone's guesses as to what Harry's animagus form is. Though it was kind of odd that a lot of you guessed fox. Thank you again for reading and I hope you enjoyed the latest chapter.

 

Kel