Of Demons, Wands and Swords

All Yu Yu Hakusho Characters belong to the makers and producers of such show, I have no ownership of them. All Rurouni Kenshin characters belong to the producers and makers of the show, I have no ownership of them eihter. All Harry Potter characters belong to J.K. Rowlings, again I hno ono ownership. I only claim onto Rain and the story line.


At supper that night, the tournament was announced to the remaining students. Much cheering was heard. The date set for the tournament was December 26th, Boxing Day. Rain had thought it amusing that the tournament was going to be set on Boxing Day. The meaning didn't fit, but the name did.

After supper that night, the Gryffindor common room was alive with talk. Hermione, Ginny, Rain, Kaoru, Misao, Boton, Yukina and Keiko had all holed up in front of the fireplace, sprawled on chairs and across floors. Conversation flowed around them. The boys, who were grouped in the other side of the room, performing some male bonding, would look over as the girls would occassionally burst out into outrageous giggles, then look over at them.

Yusuke sighed after one such occurance and looked at the guys, which included all of the Kenshingumi males, Team Urameshi males, Ron, Harry and Draco. He sighed "I don't like the looks they are giving us." Sano peeked out from under Kuwabara's arm, where he was in a headlock. "At least Megumi isn't amongst them, she is vicious." Kenshin chuckled low in his throat while Yahiko burst out right into laughter. Hiei sighed and then grinned "I could extend my hearing and see if I can find out what they are saying." The other males all looked at him and were starting to nod when a set of female voices said in unison. "WE THINK NOT, HIEI" followed by more giggling.

The guys all sighed. Kurama looked over at Rain and smiled when he caught her eyes. She returned a smile to him and blew him a kiss before turning back to her friends. Draco was sitting next to Harry and seemed to shrink back when Kurama looked at him. He was still wary around Rain's boyfriend. "Hey, Draco" the red head whispered low to the blonde. "See if you can get into her mind and listen to her thoughts." Draco frowned "I will try."

He closed his eyes and slipped into her mind, unnoticed, or so he thought. Suddenly the rest heard laughter and Draco almost instantly fell back, causing his chair to fall over, him laying on his back on the floor. Rain's laughing voice echo'd over to them "Nice try, Draco. Kurama, shame on you."

The boys watched the girls stand and move to the girls dormitory. Boyfriends heads all turned to look at them "Where are you going?" Kurama called out. Rain skipped away from her friends and jumped in the surprised fox's lap. "We are going to have a slumber party. See you tomorrow morning." She kissed her love goodnight, the kiss long and deep. Finally she pulled away from him and he blinked at her, finally coming to his senses. He looked at the others, and noticed that some of them were receiving kisses from their girls. Rain dropped another kiss on him, the nose this time. She stood and skipped away, calling "Come on girls."

The girls all followed in a rush of giggles. They settled in Hermione and Rain's dorm, gathered on the floor and smiled and talked to each other for a long time. About two hours later they got hungry. Hermione and Rain left with promises to be right back and ran to the common room, where they saw the boys looking at them with slightly guilty expressions. "Uh oh, were you planning our demise?" The boys shook their head, in truth, they had been talking about Hermione, the others having caught on to Harry and Ron's small conversation about who Hermione liked. Rain giggled at their expressions and looked at Harry and said in her sweetest voice. "OH, Harry. We need to borrow your cloak." The others looked at her in confusion and Ron and Harry smiled "Hmmmm, we are getting hungry too. How about you and I go, Rain" he ignored Kurama's frown "and we will get enough for both groups." Rain gave a nod and cast Kurama a frown of her own. 'Don't be like that Koi. We are just going to the kitchen to get food.'

Harry left and in a moment came back with an odd cloak. Rain stepped close to him and winked at Kurama before the cloak fell around them, them disappearing. A shocked gasp from the Kenshingumi and Kuwaband and Yusuke, Kurama frowned and Rain giggled "Oh, stop." With that the portal opened and soon shut.

15 minutes later the portal opened and Rain and Harry emerged from under the cloak, both holding two platters each. Rain handed one to Hermione and then pulled some pepperoni from her pocket, winked at Kurama whose eyebrows rose and the girls disappeared up the door after a whispered thanks to Harry.

They were met with much cheering from the girls and snacks were passed around. Eyebrows from all gathered raised as Rain started dunking her pepperoni into a bowl of guacamole and then would dunk the next one in chocolate syrup. She stopped with a guacamole covered piece of pepperoni halfway to her mouth, catching the others looks and frowned "What?" They all burst into laughter and Yukina smiled to her sister "I think my nephew or niece is messing with you." Rain paused, as if considering something and then looked straight at Yukina and suddenly Yukina gasped, her eyes going to where Rain's midsection is, although Rain was wearing her wizarding robes. The others looked shocked and then Yukina narrowed her eyes, as did Boton and suddenly both girls jerked back unexpectedly and stared at Rain. "Oh my goodness, Rain. Are you sure you are ok?" Boton blurted.

Rain turned angry eyes to Boton and sighed. "You can never keep a secret. Geez Boton."

She looked at the others and sighed "Don't ask. Boton guessed and Yukina is my sister, I should talk to Kurama first before I tell you anything." The others nodded and then Rain brightened "And if you promise to not question me on this, let's play Truth or Dare."

They all agreed and settled into the circle. Rain started first and looked at Boton "Ok, Boton, truth or dare." Boton thought for a minute "Truth." Evil grin on Rain's face "What are your feelings for Koenma?"

Rain's grin widened at the blush on Boton's face as Boton blurted "I love him." Yukina and Keiko gasped at the grim reaper and the others just stared in shock. Rain burst out laughing. "I knew it." The game continued with Truths for a long while. Yukina admitting that she liked Kuwabara more then she usually let on. Rain said that Yoko Kurama was an animal and left it at that. Keiko said that Yusuke was a very good kisser and could be a total romantic when they were alone. BotYukiYukina and Rain stared at her on that one and then laughed. Hermione confessed to the others that she liked Draco (Misao having been the one to ask), but everyone swore to say nothing. Ginny confessed she had kissed Harry after the Halloween party. Misao admitted that Aoshi was a good kisser and Kaoru confessed the same about Kenshin. Finally they turned to Rain who sighed. "Dare." They cheered, the small taboo being broken. "Rain, I dare you to go downstairs and whisper dirty words in Kurama's ears." Rain groaned, stood and left the room, the girls on her heels. They watched from the stair way as Rain walked across the now quiet common room.

All boys stopped talking again as Rain entered. They saw the other girls peering around the corner. Rain walked up to Kurama, sat in his lap and whispered "Dirty, Dirty, Dirty" to him, much to his confusion. She smirked at him. Kissed him softly and jumped off his lap, running back to the others. She sent a silent communication to him. 'We are playing Truth or Dare, be prepared for more interruptions." When the girls were not in sight he repeated Rain's warnings to the others. The guys actually looked very excited about this. Maybe their girls would come down and kiss them then.

Next was Yukina. She had to go down and kiss Kuwabara deeply in front of Hiei. They all giggled, ran to the stairwell and watched as Yukina approached Kuwabara, who looked excited to see her. Rain was laughing behind her hand as Kurama held Hiei back as his sister kissed the baffoon. In the end, Misao and Kaoru went and kissed A and and Kenshin, respectively. Ginny had to go downstairs and sing the singing gram that she had sent to Harry her first year at Valentines Day. Ginny returned with a red face and glared daggers at her friends.

Boton was next. She winced and whispered "dare". Yukina and Rain exchanged identical grins and looked at the grim reaper. "Boton" Yukina said "You must sit in Koenma's lap, take his pacifier out and kiss him deeply and then tell him that he is the stud you have always been waiting for." (Koenma is in his teenage form). Boton's mouth fell oped thd the other girls laughed. She tried to back out, but they were insistent. "If I had to sing that song, then you can do this" Ginny yelled.

Boton sighed and went to the common room. All the boys looked up, interested in what was going to happen now. Rain, Yukina and Keiko were peering out first, the others behind them. They wanted the best show. Boton cautiously approached the demi-god and sat on his lap. She plucked the pacifier out of his mouth and her lips met his. Koenma appeared shocked, as did the guys of Team Urameshi. Suddenly Koenma wrapped his arms around Boton. All mouths fell open as they realized that Koenma was now returning Boton's kiss and after a long moment the two broke apart and stared at each other. Slowly Boton returned the pacifier to Koenma's open mouth and said as the blush burned her face. "Koenma, you are the stud I have always been waiting for."

She jumped from his lap and raced out of the room, almost tumbling over a still stunned Yukina, Keiko and Rain. The girls stared after her in shock and then bound up the stairs. Boton was sitting and rocking back and forth. Rain walked to her friend. "Boton?" Boton raised tear stained eyes "Koenma will hate me." The others crowded around and assured her he wouldn't. Rain smiled and thought 'Darling, does Koenma hate Boton now?' Kurama's voice echo'd back to her 'Q the the opposite, he is sitting here with this goofy grin on his face. I think he enjoyed it.'

Rain smiled to Boton "Kurama, says differently. And besides, Boton, it's your turn to ask Hermione." Boton sniffled and then looked at Hermione. "I dare you to kiss Draco." The girls gasped and Hermione backed up "I can't do that." They nodded "Yes you can, and besides, if he asks and seems mad, well, it was a dare." Hermione sighed and stood. "Fine, as a Gryffindor I can never get out of this without looking spineless." She stood and marched down the stairs, across the room to Draco, who looked up in shock. She sat in his lap and laid a good one on him. Ron and Harry's faces were priceless. Rain was glad she had brought her camera as she snapped a picture of them. (Ron and Harry, not Hermione and Draco). Hermione rose off Draco's lap, cast a quick glance at his stunned face, pale eyes stared straight at her and then she turned and ran towards the tower.

Hermione sighed and sat down, staring at the others. "Ok, back to truth's." They all nodded and the rest of the game continued on a silly vein for the rest of the night.


The guys just sat quietly for awhile and then Harry and Ron turned to Draco. "Oh my gods, Draco, she likes you." D bli blinked finally as Yusuke waved a hand in front of his face, finally over his slight dislike of him. "I guess so." He looked pretty damn happy about it. 'Rain?' 'Yes Draco?' 'Was that your doing?' 'Nope, Boton's.' 'Thank Boton for me.'

The guys settled in for a deep conversation about the girls. Kurama sighed and pulled out a ring box and opened it. "I am going to ask Rain to marry me this Christmas." Hiei looked at his best friend sharply "Is this cause of the baby or because you really love her?" Kurama sighed softly and looked at the ring. "I bought this before I went into heat, Hiei." Hiei gave a nod and "hn'd". Kurama took that for acceptance. Yusuke was frowning at Kurama. "Dang Kurama, I was going to ask Keiko to marry me this Christmas too. Now I will look like a copy cat". He pulled a box and flashed a beautiful diamond to them. They gaped at him. Kurama smiled "Well, if we do it at the same time and then let them know first, they could tell the others together." Yusuke and Kurama looked at the others nod and then Kurama spoke "We'll talk about it later, Yusuke."

All conversation stopped as the girls ran down the stairs again, rings were quickly hidden before they were seen. "I'M A PIDGEON!!!!!!!!" the girls all screamed, squacking and flapping their arms around as they ran in a circle and then bolted back up the stairs in a fit of giggles. The rest of the night continued on this way, the girls always interrupting the boy's conversations, some serious, some just shooting the breeze. No one slept that night. At one point, Rain had ran down the stairs, stopped at the staircase and yelled "WELCOME TO ETERNITY BABY" threw an acorn (and where she got it, who knows) and hit Kurama in the head with it, before running up the stairs yelling "EXTRA MEDICATION FOR ALL".*

Sweatdrop faces and then guys burst into laughter as they heard the girls laughter float down the stairs.

Breakfast time came and the girls trudged down the stairs and all left to go to the great hall. Dumbledore noticed that all the friends looked very tired and wondered (rightly so) if they had stayed up all night. Even Draco looked tired. They slowly ate breakfast and trudged out. He wasn't surprised to see them skip lunch and smiled as they ate in a rowdy fashion at supper.

The days leading up to christmas were rowdy, lots of laughter. Draco had become a regular presence in the group, sitting next to Hermione most of the time, casting glances in her direction when he thought she wasn't looking. Dumbledore meerly raised an eyebrow at this. He also noticed that each day more and more students joined their group and their laughter rang with the original party's. Finally it was Christmas Eve. That night Rain posted on the message board about the fight.

It went as follows....

First Round:

Kaoru vs. Yahiko
Sanosuke vs. Kuwabara (no spirit sword Kuwabara)
Aoshi vs. Misao
Kenshin vs. Hiei (straight sword fight, Hiei)

Intermission....
Broom vs. Oar race
Harry vs. Boton

Second Round:
Yusuke vs. Kuwabara (no spirit energy)
Yusuke vs. Kuwabara (spirit energy)
Hiei vs. Kurama (anything goes, except death, cause I will be real mad if my mate or brother dies)

All contestants see me for rules pertaining to your specific fights. One rule is constant... no deaths or near fatal wounds. Don't piss me off. ~Rain

The talk among the progressively more crowded Gryffindor common room that night was on the coming fight in two days. Finally all went to their respective dorms and fell asleep, ready for tomorrow and their Christmas feast. Then the day after, the tournament.


(A/N And there you go. I know, I promised one more chapter before the tournament, but when the great idea of Kurama and Yusuke proposing on Christmas hit me, I had to write it. The next chapter will be shorter then this one and then the tournament. I can't wait to write that. Sorry about the long chapter, don't think you all minded. I also have started a Yu Yu Hakusho/Star Trek: TNG story, The New Realm, I would like to know what you guys think of it.

* - The actions and words were taken from Illwillpress.com I have no rights to Foamy or any of his antics, which are totally messed up. If you are not 18, or have a devious sense of humor, i don't suggest visiting this site.

And now, on to the reviewers....

Rurouni_agra - Yep, Kenshin, or dork kitty when he is bad. HEHE. And I love star trek. I just posted a star trek/yu yu hakusho story, you should read it if you are a trekkie. Some of the fight, as you read is yu yu vs. rk, but i like kuwabara vs. sano more. And there will be more Rain and Kurama (Yoko and Arcticfire) next semester, when he stays at the school. Hope you like.

Mija - glad you liked. I already talked to you about your other comments in e-mail and i will send you the supernatural stuff, totally forgot. doh. thanks for the review girl.

Jupitor Knight - yeah, my bad, she has brown hair. Thanks, glad you like it.

And there we go. See you laters.)