Yu Yu Hakusho Fan Fiction ❯ A Grim's Promise ❯ Chapter Sixteen ( Chapter 17 )

Disclaimer: I don't own the Harry Potter books or Yu Yu Hakusho. I don't own any characters from Inuyasha either.

 

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/N: If you're curious about what Hana (Yusuke's kitten) and Liam (Harry's snake) do when they're not with their owners, this chapter should give you an idea.

 

A Grim's Promise

 

Chapter Sixteen

 

July 11th

 

 

Harry was not happy as he played with the end of his braid while attempting to read a book on Makai plants from Genkai's library. After he and Yusuke had finished their Occlumency lessons for the day Harry had gone to his room to hopefully find something to read until breakfast. When he had walked into the room he had found a large stack of books on his bed and seven plants sitting on his bookshelf. At first Harry had gone to look at the plants but realized that was a bad idea when the one that looked vaguely like a small red Venus fly trap spat acid at him. After stripping off his sweatshirt that now had a small smoking hole in it he decided it might be best if he looked at the books first.

 

As he sat down on the bed Harry saw a folded piece of notebook paper stuck between the first two books in the pile. He winced as he unfolded the note and realized it was from Shuichi. I'm in for it, Harry thought as he read the note.

 

Harry, (it read)

 

I'll forgive the ear episode only because I know at least one of the plants I left you will try to attack you before you find this note. Don't pout, no one's there to see it. I haven't had time to translate any of my old scrolls yet so you're stuck reading from some books from Genkai's library and a few I checked out from the university library. Using the list of names at the bottom I want you to find any information you can on the plants I've left in your room and then find their counter parts in the human realm. If that wasn't a big hint those plants I left you are from the Makai which means they are extremely deadly. Do not touch them and do not try to water them. I'll show you how to do that on Saturday. They are only there for you to observe and to use as a visual reference as you do the research I assigned you. If you do attempt to approach them with out me there they will attack you and you will get to spend the next few hours at the hospital. Have fun doing your project.

 

Kurama

 

P.S. If the red one attacked I suggest you immediately take a shower and dispose of any clothing you are wearing. While the plant is young and its acid is at a fraction of the strength of an adult's, the acid can and will eat through skin.

 

Harry scowled as he flipped the page and continued to take notes on the evil acid spitting thing. Even though he had immediately taken a shower he had still needed to visit Yukina so she could treat the small burn on his stomach. Shuichi, Harry decided, was absolutely evil.

 

 

July 12th

 

 

Kurama was startled when a large stack of Biochemistry books were dropped on the table in front of him. He looked up from his lunch to find a very stressed-out Keiko. He put his fork down and sat back in his seat.

 

“What's wrong?” Kurama asked as the girl sat down and began rapidly pulling notebooks, highlighters and pens from her book bag.

 

“My professors for my Chemistry course and my Biology course decided to do joint project instead of a final essay, and they decided to do it at the last minute,” Keiko snarled as she began flipping through the books. “It's not bad enough that I have to study for finals but now I have to do this!”

 

“This isn't replacing your finals?” Kurama asked incredulously as he picked at his salad.

 

“No, of course not. The only good thing about this project is that I'm partnering with Kuwabara and Higurashi. At least I know they'll do their side of the work.” Keiko didn't even look up as she checked the book for the information she needed. “Right now they're still in the library looking for more books we can use.”

 

“Between the three of you I doubt anyone else will have the resources to do the project,” Kurama said as Keiko tossed a book to the side. “I'm guessing this means you and Kuwabara won't be at the temple for dinner this weekend.”

 

Keiko snorted as she dropped another useless book on top of the first. “And miss watching you torture your new student? No way. We'll be there even if we have to study through the entire evening.” She glanced up from her notes. “Did you really give him Makai seedlings?”

 

“Of course,” Kurama said with a small smirk, a few gold flecks in his eyes. “He needs to learn how to deal with them. Besides, he deserves it. He touched my ears.”

 

 

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Yusuke jabbed his wand at the small green apple in an attempt to change it into a vase. He almost snapped his wand in frustration when he only managed to make it turn into a vase shaped apple, something that before this morning he had thought impossible. Transfiguration was no where near as easy as Genkai and Harry had made it look. In his opinion it was the most exhausting form of magic Genkai was teaching him. It wasn't that it required massive amounts energy, because it didn't. Instead it required absolute control and concentration, all focused on one tiny drop of his energy, then he had to take that little drop of energy and use it to change the object in front of him. To think this was actually ten times the amount of energy he had been using for the charms lessons.

 

“Alright Yusuke, we're done for the day,” Genkai said, rubbing her temples. “You're getting worse instead of better.” She took her wand out and waved it over the vases, changing them back to their original form. “Go to the arcade or go drag Harry off to do something. He's been locked in his room all day and missed lunch.” She started tossing the apples into a small wooden crate.

 

“I still say he can't get out because of the plants,” Yusuke muttered as he tucked his wand back into its holster. He stood up and stretched. “Think I should call Kurama?”

 

Genkai paused briefly before she went back to putting the fruit back in the crate. “Only if you find him passed out on the floor.”

 

 

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Sitting on his bed, Harry glared at the two plants closest to the door. It had been easy to leave this morning to go to his Occlumency lessons and breakfast since the plants had been…well, sleeping for a lack of a better term. But now that the sun was up they were active and annoying. Any time he tried to leave the room they would either spit acid at him or try to wrap their vines around him. If he tried to get a book the flowers would make like they were going to spit pollen at him which according to what he had read was not a good thing. He had figured out pretty early that the plants were active because of the light streaming through his window. Obvious solution had been to shut his curtains. That had worked until he had tried to leave. The Devil's Snare decided he would make a good snack and tried to grab him. He had been stuck in his room for five hours now. He had to pee, needed a shower, and was damn hungry.

 

“Screw this,” Harry muttered softly, trying not to attract the plants attention. After reading that the plants fed off energy he had avoided using magic but now it was an emergency, he had to go. He summoned a fresh set of clothes, his wallet, the charms book he had wanted to read earlier and his father's old school bag. He stuffed everything inside the bag before throwing the thing over his shoulder and waving his wand to get the door open. He picked up a pillow and threw it towards his closet and ran like hell while the Devil's Snare happily strangled his poor pillow to death.

 

As soon as he was out he slammed the door shut and leaned against it, breathing a sigh of relief. He jumped away from the door when he heard a ripping sound. Damn it, now he needed a new pillow. Harry scowled at the door before turning around and walking into the bathroom. Shuichi was definitely evil.

 

 

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Yusuke tried not to laugh as he watched Harry walk up and down the aisle, squeezing pillows and ranting about acid spitting plants under his breath. Ever since the wizard had gotten out of his room he had been convinced Kurama was a new form of evil. Nothing the teenage demon said could make him change his mind, Harry was sure Kurama was evil. At least he doesn't think Kurama is major evil, just sneaky evil Yusuke thought as Harry finally found a pillow he liked.

 

“Does he normally do stuff like this to people who touch his ears?” Harry asked, looking up at Yusuke. He grabbed two pillows off the shelf and turned towards the counter.

 

Yusuke snorted as he followed him to the front of the store. “Harry, you will never get him to admit it but you made him purr in front of witnesses. Trust me, you're getting off light. Back in the day, he would have killed you.” He smirked as they reached the checkout. After they dropped off Harry's letter Yukina's pictures would be ready to be picked up and he couldn't wait to show them to Hiei.

 

 

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Hiei looked down from his perch when he heard a very strange sound, it sounded like a cat yowling mixed in with hissing, rude hissing. Hiei almost smiled when he saw a small black snake wrapped around the detective's blue kitten in an attempt to prevent it from walking into the forest. In the rudest terms possible the snake was telling the small cat that it refused to go back into hell just to fetch the little pain in the tail again and that they were going back to the temple or he was going to bite her. The kitten was yelling that it was fun and that the snake better let go before she bit him. Hiei's lips twitched slightly in amusement. Only a kitten that belonged to Yusuke would call Genkai's forest fun.

 

After scanning the temple with his Jagan eye he realized both the detective and the wizard were gone and thus had no clue what their pets were up to. Without making a sound, Hiei jumped down from his tree and grabbed the animals. Carrying the two animals, he ran towards the living area of the temple, opened a window and dropped the two animals on a bed inside before closing the window and racing back to his tree. Satisfied that he had done his one good deed for the month Hiei sat down on his branch and continued to watch his sister work in the small flower garden.

 

Back in the temple Liam looked around Harry's room in disgust, specifically at the plants, before turning to Hana. “I hope you're happy fuzz ball. Thanks to you and your adventure we're stuck in here with those insane vegetables!” he hiss-yelled, pointing his tail at the plants.

 

Hana gave a disdainful sniff before hopping off the bed and walking over to the bookshelf. She sat down in front of it and meowed at the plants. While Liam attempted to get off the bed without falling she cajoled, begged and finally threatened by shooting ice at the wall until they gave in to her demands. The Devil's Snare reached out and used a vine to slide the door open. She meowed her thanks and followed Liam out into the hall. She gave the snake a smug look as she sat down and licked one of her front paws clean.

 

“You might not be as useless as I thought,” Liam mused as the vines shut the door, “but you're still a fuzz ball.” He began slithering towards the kitchen, ignoring the kitten's infuriated hissing.

 

Tbc…

 

Author's Notes: Other than showing how Kurama got his revenge I pretty much consider this chapter filler. Sorry to anyone who was expecting Harry's lessons to begin. The next chapter takes place on Saturday and that's when the lessons seriously begin and, if I can get it all out in one shot, Shizuru and Kuwabara come by for dinner. About the last scene, that got stuck in my head and I had to write it. Plus it gave me a chance to show how Hana's bond to Yusuke is affecting her personality.

 

Review Responses:

Holyllama: Thank you! Maybe, I can't say yet.

 

Skyfox: I can't promise to keep pairings out of it completely; life isn't complete without some romance. But I can promise any romance in the story will be background only and it won't interfere with the story too much. Those are all the same reasons I'm considering Kurama for the new professor but it's still 50/50.

 

Calikocat: It's not a snake, most definitely not a snake. I did consider it but it doesn't fit how I perceive Harry. I read about that type of fox but I couldn't find a picture of one. I could only find pictures of red foxes. I also read about a black fox where the fur is actually silver underneath but I couldn't find a picture of that type either. I also couldn't find another site where this type was mentioned. Does anyone know of a good fox web site or book I could look up? Or a wolf web site? (Just Curious, this is not a hint about his animagus form!)

 

Whirleeq: Thank you! No matter what the pairing there will be no gratuitous making out scenes, I promise. I never thought about him being a bear but wolf definitely was one of my original ideas for his form. Then again, so was fox.

 

RabidFangirl101: I answered this in the review section of chapter 14 but I don't mind answering it again. Harry doesn't have permission to and he considers it rude to call him Kurama without his permission. It's like when Hogwarts students call people they aren't friends with by their last name instead of their first name. Okay, I can see why you think it's bad to misspell in a review.

 

Katzztar: You have a point, it is part of Kuwabara's nature to stay back if he needed to but once the fight is brought to him I can't see him wanting to stay out of the action. If he had half a clue of what was going on in England I can picture him being first in line to volunteer to kick his butt. I think it has to do with the Four Saint Beast mission and the way he volunteered to help Yusuke out once he found out how many people were going to be hurt by the bugs. At the same time I do think it would be funny if he came across Hermione and Malfoy or another male Slytherin dueling and took points from him because he was attacking a girl. Flipping a coin is sounding better and better by the minute. I put the ages in another chapter but they are taking University classes.

 

Ariyah-Chan: Would you? That would be so great! I wouldn't be able to use it here but I could really use it when they get to Hogwarts and no one can understand what Harry and Kuwabara/Kurama are saying. I have some ideas for scenes where Harry's using his translation charm and it would be great if I knew them.

 

Bluespark: You're absolutely right, uber is spelt uber. I had Harry misspell it because he's never used it before, only heard it. Those are good guesses; falcon and hawk are both on the original list.

 

Asilin Kheldarson: I know the ones directly related to the school are no longer in effect but Fudge and Dumbledore didn't mention that one. When I got your review I double checked in the sixth book info on the hp lexicon and it says we get to find out if Harry is allowed to play Quidditch again in it. So no, that one didn't get recalled.

 

Kiarah: I'm absolutely horrible with guessing heights so before I wrote that I spent two days in a library looking for a growth chart for Japanese males and when I couldn't find one I went to my old anatomy teacher for help and he found one for me. According to the chart I looked at Yusuke can be that tall. Sorry.

 

Firehedgehog: While I have no clue about the pairings, Harry/Ginny won't be one of them. For some odd reason that pairing drives me insane and I don't think I can bring myself to write it. Kurama/Harry is an option if the story goes that way.

 

web of dreams: Like I said above, I'm absolutely horrible at guessing/estimating heights(even when I'm watching the DVDs so I can try to make a guess). For Youko Kurama's height I used google to find it. I came across a few sites with bio information. The majority of them said he was around seven feet tall in his demon form and it seemed to fit when I saw that Youko Kurama was taller than Kuwabara in the Sensui fight and Kuwabara's height was listed at around 6'2 so Youko Kurama's height made sense. If the story goes that way I will definitely consider a Kurama/Harry pairing. I do have a lot of possible scenes written that tend to give me the impression that the story might go that way but a lot of those take place at Hogwarts so that pairing might depend on who ends up being the professor.

 

 

Thank you to everyone who reviewed. I have two hints for anyone still trying to guess Harry's animal. One, it is not a snake. It doesn't fit my view of Harry's personality. Two, it is not a magical creature of any kind. This rules out Unicorn, Gryphon, Griffin, Dragon, Elemental cat (although that idea is kind of cute and would fit with his plant based powers) Basilisk or any creature in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them or any legendary creature you can think of. Sorry to anyone hoping he would be a dragon or a phoenix. Thank you again to everyone who reviewed and the next chapter should be a bit longer. At least it's looking that way so far. Good night.

 

Kel