an: xander is imothep moved back a chappie cuz i couldnt get rid of this idea...

i own NOTHING that isnt mine.

Old Debts

Harry sat at his normal seat at the Gryffindor, depressed as had been the norm after his Godfathers geath a week or so ago. The year was ending and he would soon have to leave and return to the Dursleys for yet another holiday filled with family, fun and back-breaking slave labor. With a side of phycological warfare.

Unfortunatly for Harry he was to busy angsting... I mean considering his life, to notice a black cat leap up on the table and head towards him. The cat continued down, dragging peoples gazes behind it, and stopped in front of Harry, turned, and stared at him.

Harry, seeing something out of the corner of his eye he glanced up and stared back, his brow scrunched in confusion.

"hmmm" he thought "where have i seen this cat before?"

The cat, sitting now, pulled back a paw as if to strike.

Then it waved, smiled and spoke with a man's voice in an all too happy tone for this time of morning whilst maintainging an air of cuteness.

"Hello Harry-kun!, remember me!?"

Harry's eyes widened almost comicly as he gasped out a reply

"Yoruichi?!"

swipe! Harry flinched as three claw marks appeared on his cheek.

"Harry..." the cat somhow managed to come off as intimidating despite the aura of cuteness it held a moment ago.

sigh"...Yoruichi-chan"

Hermione and Ron were busy watching the conversation with confused looks.

The cat seemed to snap back to cute and huge tears poured out of its eyes.

"Don't you love me Harry? I finally find the time to visit and I don't even get a hug from you!"

Harry quickly waved his hands about franticly spouting denials about this accusation and proceded to glomp the cat.

After this heartwarming display of manipulation, sorry, affection, the cat, now identified as Yoruichi seemed to grow seirious, although how a creature with limited facial expression could do this is a mystery, and spoke again.

"Harry! How would you like to go on a trip?" Yoruichi asked, radiating innocence.

Harry, proving he still had prankster genes, was instantly suspicious.

"What have you done now?"

"Why Harry! Why would you suspect your dear old friend Yoruichi-chan of doing somthing wrong?"

"Well there was that time with the milk-man, and then the ice-cream truck and the blood bank as well..." harry promted and seemed like he was going to continue when he was cut off.

"We swore never to mention that again! It was a mistake!" "The others?"

Yoruichi coughed and soldiered on. "Well anyway it might take a while and would be incredibly dangerous, with the probability of a death around 80+ if im being fully honest..."

Harry sighed. "Fine fine i'll come, just don't get melodramatic on me."

Yoruichi suddenly looked sheepish.

Hermione shocked from her stupor by the death estimate cried out while tears dirstubingly similar to the cat's poured out. "Please don't go Harry! We dont want you to die!" she sobbed.

Harry started to sigh, but caught himself. "dont want to be too repetitive"

"Hermione, " he began, " I have to go."

Ron decided to chip in his two knuts. (a/n i just realised how bad that sounds...)

"why mate?"

Harry grabbed the urge to sigh and mercilessly sent it across his link to Voldermort.

In the Evil Lair of Voldermort

Voldermort sighed during a death eater meeting, noticing the strange looks he scrambled for an explanation.

"It's so hard to find good workers"

seeing the unbelieving looks he crucio'd a few till they decided to accept it.

Back in the Evil Lair of Dumbledore

"I have to go Ron. I owe Yoruichi-chan here a life debt."

Yoruichi smiled. He could help a lot in the soul society when they went to rescue Rukia.

Now all she had to do was "Convince" Dumbledore to let him go...

This would be fun...

Fin

yoruichi is from Bleach, and this is set just before the soul-society trip.