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 have no ownership. I only claim onto Rain and the story line. (And so you know, all results of the fights were decided by a D10 out of my Malkavian box of white wolf dice. You don't like the outcome? I don't like the outcome? Well, blame the dice. And my roll adetedetermines how easy the outcome is reached or how hard.)


Boxing day dawned bright and full of promise. All students, professor's and guests woke up excited about the tournament planned to start soon after breakfast.

Breakfast was a jolly affair with participants and observants alike talking excitedly about the upcoming show. Laughter rang loudly at the teasing that took place. Rain had gotten it into her head that she was going to mercilessly tease Kuwabara about his match against Sanosuke, and how he was going to be down on the ground within two seconds flat. Yusuke immediately joined her in the teasing, remind Kuwabara that he was only the SECOND best fighter at their school.

Finally time came for them to go to the Quidditch field, as that is where the tournament was going to be held. The contestants met on the field, gathered around Rain, while the observants went to the bleachers to watch the show. Rain spoke quietly to her friends and family on the ground.

"Ok guys, you know the rules. No death, no destruction and PLEASE no harming the students and teacher's watching." They all nodded and she smiled at them all. "Ok, and don't hurt yourselves either."

With that, all contestants but Yahiko and Kaoru left the field. Both we wearing training outfits and holding their wooden swords. They bowed to each other and then held their swords at the ready, looking to Rain, who stood nearby, to give them the go ahead.

She spoke, magically enhancing her voice "Ladies and Gentlemen. First match... Kaoru versus Yahiko, fighting style.... Kammiya Kashin*. She smiled to her friends "Begin".

With that, Yahiko burst forward and came up high with his wooden sword, coming to hit Kaoru on top of the head with it. Kaoru easily ducked the attack and came around his back, smacking him over the head lightly with her own wooden sword. He growled low and glared at her as he once again fell back into a ready stance. Kaoru smiled at him and took the offensive. She charged forward, her wooden sword forward, in an unconscience immitation of the Wolf of Neebu's signature move, only her's was more sloppy and Yahiko knew this. He smiled and dodged her move easily, bringing his sword back and slapping her across the middle of the back and then turning fast to catch her on the turn about. He swung up and then came down sharply, catching his teacher as she turned across the shoulder, where neck and shoulder meet.

Kaoru looked stunned for one quick moment and collapsed onto the grass. Rain's mouth fell open and she stared at Yahiko in surprise. She had not expected that result. Her mouth moved open and closed like a fish as she watched Yahiko help Kaoru to a sitting position. She raised her wand to her throat and spoke "Ummm, that was a bit unexpected"... Yahiko yells "HEY" at Rain as she continues with a quick glance at him "But winner of the first match is YAHIKO."

The stands burst into applause and Yahiko smiles and looks at Sano as he and Kuwabara approach the center of the field. "Yeah, I beat Ugly.. OWWWW" He turns to glare at Rain and Kaoru, both having smacked him on the head. Laughter drifts down from the stands.

Rain smiles innocently and Yahiko sighs and leads Kaoru from the field, where Kenshin takes her into his arms and smiles at Yahiko over her head.

Sanosuke looks at Kuwabara who is grinning self assuredly "Well, Kazuma, are you ready to taste defeat?" Rain laughs at this "Just remember what I said, Kuwabara, 2 seconds and you will be down." Kuwabara frowns "Come on Rain, have a little more faith in me." Rain smiles sweetly as she raises her hand for them to fight. "I do, that is why I said 2 seconds and not 1." With that her hand comes down and her voice magnifies and she says "Begin."

It was quick. Sanosuke reared back with his fist and punched Kuwabara in the face. His leg shot out and caught Kuwabara's leg and Kuwabara went down in 2 seconds flat. There was dead silence in the field and stands for about the same time that the match had been going on and then laughter could be heard from everyone. Rain was laughing so hard, she was holding her stomach. Kuwabara got off the ground by himself, red faced. Sano stood there, laughing and Rain tried to calm her laughter to speak. "HEHEHEH, Winner of the match, Sanosuke."

Kuwabara and Sano walked off the field, Sano still laughing, Kuwa still red in the face. Rain was giggling into herd whd when Misao and Aoshi came out. Misao could barely walk upright, she was still laughing so hard. Finally, after about 5 minutes, her laughter finally died and she was able to seriously face Aoshi, ready for their fight.

Aoshi smiled to Misao, who grinned back. With that, and Rain's soft "Go", Aoshi and Misao started to spar. No weapons were pulled, Misao and Aoshi had decided that it would be straight martial arts. ** Misao came flying at Aoshi, her braid flying behind her. Aoshi chuckled as he stepped to the side, and grabbed Misao's braid, halting her mid air flight and sending her to the ground, which qualifies as a win. Misao looked up from her position on the ground and frowned at a laughing Rain and Aoshi "Well, at least I lasted longer then 2 seconds." This cause Rain to laugh harder, Misao joining in.

Rain raised her wand to her throat and spoke "Amazingly enough, she lasted 3 seconds, longer then you Kuwabara. Winner is Aoshi." Laughter once again rang through the field and from the bleachers. Misao stood, with help from Aoshi. They made their way to the sidelines, Misao now with a red face as she got heckled from Yahiko. Hiei and Kenshin moved to the middle of the field and Rain sighed. "Ok guys, you know the rules, no severed limbs, no spirit energy, Hiei. Please don't kill each other." They nodded.

*** Hiei and Kenshin stood facing each other, swords at ready. Hiei had flipped his sword, out of respect for Kenshin. Rain gave the go ahead and they started to circle each other..... then it happened. Kenshin's foot his a small bit of mud that Misao's fall had churned up and he slipped. Hiei saw his chance and with demon will behind it, he was instantly standing over the laid out Rurouni, sword point at his throat. "Man, what is with you guys? You were suppose to be so tough." Hiei's voice was condensending, although he was smiling at Kenshin. Rain was staring at Kenshin in shock, so surprised that he fell down. Laughter was ringing through the field and from the watchers, and Hiei darted to his sister "Ok, Rain. Announce I am the winner." He gave her a cocky grin and Rain blinked and spoke "Winner by sheer luck... Hiei". She laughed and ducked his half hearted punch.

Kenshin and Hiei left the field and Rain smiled and "accio'd" her broom and she rose up, Harry and Boton rising with her, Boton on her oar, riding her regular style, Harry in his quidditch robes, riding his firebolt. Rain smiled and they lined up at one end of the field and Rain spoke "Ok, Time for Hogwarts own Harry Potter and the Spirit Guide, Boton, to have a race. They have to go pole to pole, circling the pole three times and whoever gets back to me first wins." Hiei rose on a borrowed broom and took his place, opposite of Rain, being able to also watch, in case of a close match. Rain raised her wand one more time "And GO!"

With that, Harry and Boton took off, darting to the otherside of the field, Harry lowered on his broom, the oar slightly ahead. Both fliers flew around the poles, almost even, Boton a little in the lead. They zoomed back to Rain and Hiei, still pretty much even. Circling the poles, Harry lowered a bit more and caught up with Boton by the time they had circled the opposite poles and were halfway back to Rain and Hiei. As they circled the poles, Rain called out "Last lap." With seeming ease, the oar pulled away from the broom and Harry lowered himself to almost laying, as he zoomed around the poles and the new position caught him up, dead even, with Boton. They were nearing the line, and Harry laid flat on his broom and pulled away about 6 inches, right as they crossed the line. He sat up and circled the poles, as did Boton as Rain and Hiei conversed mentally and then Rain called out. "WINNER!!!! HARRY POTTER on the Firebolt."

Aour our drifted to the ground amongst the cheers and Rain was able to hand her broom to Yahiko, who smiled as she walked to the field, ready to start the second round.

(A/N And there you go. Please forgive all the suckiness of this chapter and probably the next one. I hate fight scene's which is why I haven't gotten around to writing this before now. I DON"T LIKE IT. But I did it for you. I swear, my writing style will improve after this damn tournament, which SUCKS. What was I thinking. Thanks to all my reviewers. I am too irritated with this chapter to even respond individually to you all. I don't like it and I would burn it if I could. Oh Hiei, burn this chapter.

*If i got that spelled wrong, please forgive me.

**At this point I was ready to just say "Misao tried her hardest but just couldn't kick Aoshi's butt and she got her booty kicked. NEXT FIGHT." I am no good at fight scene's, which is why I haven't put this up before this. So, this chapter sucks, oh well. UGHHHHHH, look how stressed I get to just satisfy you guys, you better appreciate all the pain I am going through to just get this damn tournament done with, what was I thinking? BAH Thankfully my roll was such that the short was going to be short anyways. SO you know, i have never taken any form of martial arts, sword play or any of that. My after school activity was homework and tv, and choir.

***PLEASE DON'T HATE ME FOR THAT. I rolled a 10, which in gaming means I get a second roll, and it meant that Hiei wins, as his name was second. Then I rolled again for how long it would take for Kenshin to go down....I rolled a 1. CRITICAL FUMBLE. I'm going by the dice and this is the one fight I actually could have done... *sighs* I need a new dice for the next set of fights.)