Chapter 6

After two hours of waiting for the students to finally fall asleep, Kurama proceeded to wake Yusuke and Kuwabara.

"Wake up Yusuke" Kurama said in a hushed tone

"What is it" he stated

"We are all going out to the forbidden forest for a training session and discussion."

"Now?"

"Yes now"

"Hiei could you get Kuwabara up" Kurama said

"Do I really have to get that fool up it is much quieter without him" Hiei stated

"Yes of all of us he needs this the most"

Hiei walked over to Kuwabara and began to shake him.

"Not now sis its still dark out" Kuwabara mumbled

At this Hiei proceeded to whack Kuwabara in the head with the blunt side of his katana and then proceeded to cover his mouth as he went to scream.

"Quiet unless you wish for us to be discovered on the first day" Hiei said to Kuwabara

Yusuke and Kuwabara proceeded to get dressed and made their way to the common room to meet Hiei, Kurama, Genkai, Yomi, and Mukuro. They exited using the deck connection so as to not have to worry about getting caught by prefects or wandering students.

As the group was making their way over to James' house, Kuwabara stated, "I wonder if I can scare this guy, if he is so strong I shouldn't be able to". Mukuro then whispered to the rest of the group as Kuwabara went ahead leading the group "I see why you refer to him as a fool."

Kuwabara then ran up to the door to James' house and proceeded to kick it in and yell "JAMES ARE YOU HOME!?". At this the group saw James' startled reaction staring wide eyed into a chemical reaction he was mixing and mouthing the phrase "oh shit" and the group besides James jumped back out side. After this a fire cracker explosion happened that turned James' entire face black and filled the house with smoke and James came stumbling out the door coughing.

"See I scared him" Kuwabara said

"No what scared me was pouring more than one drop out of the beaker into the other reactants, you kicking in my door I had predicted, but I had not predicted that you would kick it in so hard it would rock my house since I was focused on not adding more than one drop and as a result of the rocking house, my arm shook and more than one drop fell in, jackass". James said using a white towel to try to clean his face off.

They began making there way into the Forbidden forest, eventually stopping at a clearing.

"Okay what we are going to do tonight is spar with no spirit energy or weapons, this is due to the fact that after reviewing prior fights of you four" James said indicating Kurama, Hiei, Yusuke, and Kuwabara, "I have noticed that when you are facing a challenging opponent and you are drained of energy it takes a good while for you to win and most of the time the fight can go either way. So I will pair each one of you four with one of us" James said indicating himself, Mukuro, Yomi, and Genkai . "Yusuke you will be pared with Mukuro, Kuwabara will be pared with Genkai, Hiei will be pared with Yomi, and I will spar Kurama. Now make your way to a section of the field and begin, your goal is to take your opponent down in two hours or less".

Kurama and James made there way to the farthest location in the field from where they came in.

"Okay Kurama, I want you to try to kill me" James stated

"I assume that means your confident that won't happen" Kurama stated dropping into a fighting stance

"Do try" James said still standing straight. "Come on"

Kurama appeared to disappear and reappeared behind James attempting to hit the back of his neck with a knife hand strike. James ducking and tries a sweep kick. Kurama jumps and attempts an axe kick to the top of James head. James blocks and grabs Kurama's leg and throws Kurama off balance before using Kurama's downward momentum to hit him with a punch in the abdomen, Kurama able to guard himself was able to stop a direct blow, but still landed on the ground three feet away. James followed up with the attack with a front leg front kick with his left leg to the chest this time getting full contact, following up with a fast back hand to the right side of the neck which Kurama defends himself from and then a rapid palm strike to the chest hitting with direct contact, James follows by simultaneously slapping both of Kurama's ears. Kurama throws a feral round house kick with his right leg at James' torso. The kick hits James in the lower ribs and James grabs Kurama's leg. James blocks Kurama's punch and then punches down on Kurama knee breaking it, Kurama then yells in pain and James still holding Kurama's leg sweeps his other leg out from underneath him and as Kurama is falling still dazed from the concussive blow to his ears and the broken knee, James performs a hammer fist on Kurama's solar plexus, slamming him hard onto the ground.

"Out of everyone here besides Kuwabara you have the worst hand to hand combat skill" James said to Kurama "Its not about hitting your opponent hard, its about hitting them strategically and quickly and then going in for the big hit".

James then began to survey the other fights. Yusuke and Mukuro seem to be fighting on level grounds. Hiei and Yomi seem to be fighting well, but it is apparent that Yomi will win, though he certainly has his hands full with Hiei's speed advantage, but without his sword, Hiei is going to eventually lose. Kuwabara's fight isn't even close, Genkai has placed so many bruises on his face you can barely recognize him.

As James is about to sit down he sees Kurama beginning to stand up to continue, careful not to put any weight on his right leg. As he finishes standing he transforms into Yoko Kurama.

"Had you done that from the start you would have had a speed advantage over me in my current state as a result this would have been a good fight." James stated "I applaud your effort to continue, but in the state your dominant leg is in you stand no chance".

"We shall see" Kurama said and using his left leg to launch himself at James as he neared he uses his left leg to propel himself left and he attempts to bury his claws into James' chest. James blocks and attempts to step on Kurama's left foot. Kurama shifted backward and as a result puts all his weight on his back foot which then causes him to wince and then topple over and as he falls James tackles him and slams Kurama into the ground and then rolls off of him, gets up, and turns around to Kurama trying to get up again and failing

" I highly suggest you surrender so I can begin to heal that leg" James said "If you continue to fight I will show no mercy and in your current state you have no chance"

Kurama concedes and transforms back into his human form. James then helps him up and helps him over to a tree and props him up against it.

"That kick you had initially was good and you broke two of my ribs and cracked two others, fights are also about controlled sacrifices, I let you have my ribs, but in return I got your leg which dealt you in." James said transforming into his demon form, his ears transforming into fox ears with white fur and moving to the top of his head, a fox tail appearing, his hair turning white including his walrus moustache, and a vertical scar appearing down his left eye. Then a yellow aura surrounded James' hand and he put it on the left side of his chest.

"That tackle might have been a bad idea with broken ribs, but….." James said pausing a moment to focus "they're all good now, now I just have to wait for the bruise to heal. Now were was I, oh yeah your knee stay there for a second" James said going looking for something and coming back a few seconds later with a stick. Putting it down and tearing a hole in Kurama's pants so he can observe Kurama's right knee.

"eww….I fucked your knee up pretty bad and your walking on it didn't help" James said "I recommend you bite down on this" handing Kurama the stick and Kurama biting down on it, James correct the knee with cringing crack and Kurama let out a muffled expression of pain.

"Now you can stop biting down on that" James said and Kurama proceeded to take the stick out of his mouth. The same yellow aura appeared around James' hand and he placed it on Kurama's knee and began to heal it.

James spent the rest of the two hours healing Kurama's knee.

"Now you are going to walk with a limp tomorrow I suggest you find an excuse" James said to Kurama.

Kuwabara and Genkai were the next to finish, but Genkai didn't get touched and didn't do any serious damage to Kuwabara so James just made sure his face would heal by tomorrow or at least everything, but a few scrapes. Hiei and Yomi came next and Hiei and Yomi needed healing for a few gashes. Yusuke and Mukuro were the last to finish after realizing the time has run out and neither of them needed any serious treatment.

"The fighting from what I can see was good, there is still things that need to be worked on, I am glad that most of you avoided seriously injuring their partner, I was not one of them I apologize, but moving forward I would like to have a plan for and intrusion. I will take out an attacker from a concealed place with my sniper rifle, those I cannot Kuwabara will take care of." James said pausing noticing Hiei was uncomfortable with that thought.

"In the event that Kuwabara and my sniper rifle becomes overrun, Genkai will join in, then Kurama, then Hiei, then Yomi, then Mukuro, then Yusuke, then finally myself. We want to show as little force as possible at all times in order for our opponent to underestimate us and there by sending a smaller force to attack." James said as Hiei after hearing the plan relaxes a little.

"Any questions"

None were asked

"Okay so return to bed and we'll see each other tomorrow and we will meet like this every other night" James said as they all began to leave to go back to bed.

Meanwhile…

Harry wakes up after having a nightmare about Voldemort planning an attack on the castle using what looked like monsters. After getting his bearings he notices that Hiei, Kurama, Yusuke, and Kuwabara were missing, but he didn't think too much of it, when it was his first year here he to went exploring so he went back to bed.

The next day…

It was the first day of classes and the students were gathering in the Great Hall. Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei came in and sat next to Harry's group.

Harry asked Kurama "Why are you limping"

"Oh, I walked into the post of my bed this morning" Kurama said slightly startled. They began eating, Yusuke and Kuwabara almost falling asleep and faces almost landing in their breakfast.

"Why did you get us up so early" Yusuke said to Kurama

"I didn't get you up early, I got you up late and as a result we were all almost late to breakfast" Kurama said

Just then the schedules were all handed out by owls.

"That will be your opportunity to sleep" Ron said to Yusuke pointing to his first class of the day.

"History of Magic, Prof. Binns" Yusuke said

"He is a ghost an has a horrible monotone voice that puts everyone to sleep" Ron said

"That's great, I need a nap" Kuwabara said.

"I employ you to not sleep" Hermione said to the group

"You can barely stay awake too Hermione" Ron said

"That well maybe, but you have to put in an effort" she said

Then they all went back and looked at their schedules and noticed that they all had the same one

Harry thought to himself "That's odd. No group usually has the same schedule"

They made there way to Professor Binns' class and Ron was right Yusuke and Kuwabara fell right to sleep and Harry and Ron soon followed suit. That left just Hermione, Kurama, and Hiei and they were all struggling to stay awake.

The nest class they had was Martial Arts with Professor Genkai.

The group arrived at the class which looked like a large dojo on the first floor of the school. Professor Genkai was in front of the class ready to begin, she instructed all students to take their shoes off at the door.

"Today we will be covering inside out middle blocks, Yusuke will you come up here to demonstrate." she said. Yusuke walks up to the front of the class, muttering under his breath. Genkai then quickly throws a punch at Yusuke's chest and the students all gasp with the exception of Kuwabara, Hiei, and Kurama which Harry seem to notice, Yusuke blocks using an inside out middle block with what seemed like lightning fast reflexes. After the demonstration Yusuke walks back to where he was standing.

"You must fight a lot" Ron said to Yusuke

"Yeah, I was the best fighter at my school"

Hermione looked appalled that he fights in school she said "Isn't it against the rules to fight in school."

"Yeah, but me and Kuwabara don't care"

"You fight a lot too?" Ron said to Kuwabara

"Yeah, me and Urameshi fight a lot"

"aren't you friends" Ron said

"Yeah, that how we became friends" Kuwabara said "we were the two biggest punks at our schools"

Hermione looked even more appalled

Genkai spoke up again "Okay pair up and practice"

The group paired up and began practicing and it became apparent by the speed at which punches and blocks were being throw that Kurama and Hiei also had some fighting experience.

Genkai noticed that Malfoy wasn't practicing she walked over to him

"Why aren't you practicing?" she said

"There no point in me learning this I can just use magic" he said in a superior tone

"Okay take out your wand" she said

Malfoy took out his wand

"Now try to attack me" she said and the class looked stunned and Malfoy just laughed

"Okay, stupi….." before he could finish the spell she had grabbed the wand out of his hand

"Now Yusuke punch Malfoy" Yusuke walked over a punched Malfoy at half strength in the chest knocking the wind out Malfoy and breaking a few ribs, Malfoy doubled over in pain.

"You two" she said pointing to Crabbe and Goyle "take him to the infirmary"

"I am going to tell my Father about this and this will be the last time you teach here" Malfoy said

"If your Father is anything like you I won't have any thing to worry about" she said and with that they left carrying Malfoy

"What is everyone looking at, back to work" she said

The rest of the class went on without incident with them practicing inside out middle blocks.

After class the group reconvened and began talking

"I wish I had the opportunity to punch Malfoy" Ron said

"It felt good to hit him after how he was speaking to Genkai and his attitude on the train" Yusuke said.

Hermione noticed that he didn't call her Professor Genkai meaning he must know her in a personal sense because if he is defensive of her, he must not being calling her Genkai to be disrespectful.

"Kurama you must fight a lot, please don't tell me you are a punk as well" Hermione said

"No, but I have been almost mugged a few times so I learned to fight because of that" Kurama said.

"Oh I see" she said

And the rest of their walk to their next class was silent

The group walked into the Defense Against the Dark Arts Classroom. Malfoy was back and in the classroom already. They were surprised to see Professor Dumbledore at the head of the class and Professor Snape in the class.

"Students there has been a change in plans, Professor Yomi will be assisting the Head of Security or act as a substitute for the remainder of the year, he will be replaced by Professor Snape, and Potions will be taught by Professor Slughorn." Dumbledore said

A groan was heard from the students from Gryfindor

The class was relatively boring Snape ranted on the importance of knowing what you are facing between that and taking points away from Gryffindor students there wasn't much room for excitement. Snape then assigned two feet of parchment on beast and how to best confront them .

Their next class was Potions

The class was rather interesting in the task they were given though only Kurama, Hiei, and Harry were able to brew the Draught of Living Death, Kurama using his extensive knowledge of plants, Hiei being able to communicate with Kurama through his thoughts, and Harry using scribbles in the potion book he used, and they each got a vial of Felix Felicis or liquid luck.

The next class was Transfiguration

Professor McGonagall was in front of the class.

"Today we will be covering how to become animagi. We will be transforming individual body parts and after we learn how to complete the process anyone who wishes to become animagi will be able to register as one." she said

The rest of the class was spent learning about the transformation process, the paper work behind the process, and practicing individual body part transformations with no real successful transformations besides Harry who got antlers to appear, Hermione got her face to transform slightly, Hiei got one of his hands to transform into a dragon's claw, and Kurama who was able to generate fox ears.

The groups next class was Demonology.

The group walked into the class and saw Mukuro sitting at her desk. Once everyone arrived she started her class.

"What can anyone tell me about demons?" she said.

Hermione raised her hand and stated "Demons are paranormal creatures, often malevolent, and are prominent in folklore".

"That's correct, anyone else?" Mukuro said

"They are incredibly weak, incompetent, and are not worth worrying about" Malfoy said

"Incorrect, what you are speaking of is a low class of demon below D-Class, if you were to fight a C-Class, you would suffer a gruesome end."

"There is no way that I could lose to a pathetic creature like that, mummy" Malfoy said mumbling under his breath, but the group heard him from one row behind them and no doubt Mukuro heard it. All of a sudden she calmly threw an eraser at Malfoy's head and it hit him right between the eyes with enough force to leave a mark.

"Now as I was saying there exists different classes of entities including humans that go from below D-Class, D, C, B, A, and S, below D being the weakest above S there exist two more classes X and Z class. All classes are a power of ten greater than the other except when you get to the X and Z class. The X class is 10^2 more powerful than a S-Class and a Z-Class is usually 10^4 more powerful than a X-Class. There can only be one Z-Class entity. Most of these demons reside in demon world…" she then began to talk about demon world, human world, and the kekai barrier and then she stated "though the Kekai may block A and S class, B and lower can pass through and it is the job of the spirit detective to stop these demons…" and she talks about the job of the spirit detectives. Then she states "What most do not know is that both X and Z demons can pass through the barrier, the best way to think of this is, imagine a filter that filters out rocks, but if you send a boulder through it, the boulder breaks through the filter". With that the bell rang for the class to end and lunch to begin.

Meanwhile while the group was at lunch.

"James something is in a clearing 1.2 miles away towards at 130° from your front"

"I see him" James said looking through his scope at a demon who was observing the castle. "I'll let the others know" James said opening a telepathic conversation with the Spirit Detectives (which includes Mukuro and Genkai).

"A reconnaissance agent has been spotted" James said

"Kill him" Hiei said

"No, it is better for them not to know that we have these defenses so they will send less people to attack us, but it looks like Voldemort has begun recruiting demons" James said, shocking Yusuke and Kuwabara, and slightly shocking Kurama and Hiei as well as Mukuro and Genkai which Hermione noticed.

That night they did not practice, but they all went to talk to James.

They walked up to James' house and James said "Don't open the door". Too late Kuwabara already threw open the door and a laser beam hit the door burning a softball size hole in the door.

"My door" James said exacerbated

"Oops" Kuwabara said

"Nope, my fault didn't say it earlier" James said taking of his protective eyewear. Putting the laser and the piece of metal that was suppose to get hit with the laser in his closet.

"So what do you want to talk about?" James said

"Voldemort working with demons" Yusuke said

"We were informed by Koenma that he had not begun his affairs in demon world" Kurama said.

"Well the first thing you have to know about spirit world is that their information is very often outdated" James said. "Yomi and Mukuro could you talk to some of your trusted contacts in spirit world, I myself have also placed a trusted ally ion the midst of the demon army that Voldemort has recruited." James said. Yomi and Mukuro both agreed.

"We have to prepare for the potential of a lot of demons sneaking through the kekai barrier that are B class or above, though there are many demons of lower classes already in his army." James said

"What makes you think that demons of that high of a class would work for a human like Voldemort" Kuwabara said

"The potential for world domination idiot" Hiei said.

"Okay lets get to bed long day tomorrow" James said and with that they all left.

The rest of the week past without incident, the group all improving in hand to hand combat, all the while Harry noticing that they were sneaking out.

It was quiet until the end of the week at noon. When in the Great Hall was heard BANG! BANG! BANG! Three gunshots fired from the roof in quick succession.