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.

(A/N Author's note. I know, I promised reviewer posts on this chapter, but I have not done any updates on my stories, and I promised and I figured all my reviewers would like new chapters more then reviewer posts, so you won't get them this time. Plus I am post a one time shot, Kaoru and Kenshin pwp, on both adultfanfiction and regular. If you want to read it, just look under my stories for one called Ditto. It's dedicated to someone and he knows who he is.)


Harry shot straight upright in bed, hand over his now burning scar. Ron sat up and looked at Harry, who had also issued a sharp cry upon waking. "Harry? Is it.... you know, him?" Harry gave a nod and started to climb out of bed, remember the words Voldemort had said in his dream. "I need to get Rain and see if she is ok." Kurama, who had woken with Ron and Harry heard this and shot out of bed. "What is wrong with Rain? What did you see?" Harry shook his head "Voldemort" Ron flinched "he was talking to some guy, I didn't recognize him. He sounded so happy. They said that they had delivered the message to the fire and ice bitch and that she would die soon, along with her half breed spawn." He jumped out of bed and followed Kurama out the door, who was already going down the stairs at a full run.

As he got to the girls stairwell, Harry grabbed him and stopped him. "You can't go up there, it is warded against it." Kurama frowned, glaring up the stairs "I don't care, I need to know she is ok." He bellowed "RAIN" up the stairs. Ron and Harry both winced.

Rain woke staring, annoyed and a bit frightened, at a piece of paper resting on her stomach that read in a common demon dialect "The four of you, that sleep in this bed, are my first target, Forbidden One." She picked it up with slightly shaking fingers and reread it slower this time. Frowning deeply at it and opened up her curtains to her bed, rising, and noting as she did that Hermione was also awake, when Kurama's slightly panic filled voice traveled up from the common room. "RAIN!"

Rain, and Hermione, jumped out of bed, Rain still gripping the note in her hand. Kurama's bellowing had woken the other girls and some were starting to come out oeir eir rooms as Rain practically flew down the stairs, towards Kurama. She was about 5 steps short of reaching him when a wall of nausea slammed into her and she stumbled on the steps, her hand coming to her mouth. Hermione grabbed her from behind, Kurama moving forward to catch her also, setting off the stair alarms.

Rain, being steadied by both Hermione and Kurama, switched gears and ran to the first landing, running head long into the bathroom, slipping inside and barely managing to make it to a commode before she threw up. Hermione came in right behind her and pulled Rain's hair from her face as Kurama stood in frustration down in the common room, although semi relieved to see she appeared unharmed, despite her touch of morning sickness. He glanced down at the ground at the base of the stairs and picked up a small scrap of parchment.

Harry and Ron leaned over his shoulder's as he turned it over and read the demon script. Both wizards wfrowfrowning, but Harry looked up at Kurama, as he was going to ask what it said to see Kurama glaring and his eyes going yellow, as he read the words. "Kurama?" Yellow eyes rose from the page and met green ones. "What does it say?"

Hermione, who had left Rain to clean up upon the demoness's request, came down the stairs "Yes, I would like to know the same thing." Kurama frowned "It says "The four of you, that sleep in this bed, are my first target, Forbidden One." Hermione cdowndown and looked at the paper, "What language is that?"

"A common dialect of the Makai" Rain said from the staircase. Kurama hurried forward, lifting her as she stepped fully into the common room and carrying her, amidst her protesting, to a couch. He sat next to her, their friends surrounding them. "Where did you get it, Rain?"

She looked up at him and noticed the yellowish tint to his emerald eyes and sighed "It was on my stomach when I woke this morning." He frowned deeply and looked at Harry "Was the person talking to Voldemort in your dream male or female?" Harry frowned "Male, but the unknown person did make mention of 'she delivering the message' so I don't think he did it himself, whoever he was."

Kurama looked to his mate, who was looking way to pale for his tastes. He thought of something though, that had been nagging him the whole time "Rain, why didn't you keep watch with your Jagan?" Rain frowned, having just realized that her Jagan had not caught any hint of the intruder at all. "But my jagan was open, Kurama. It should have realized that someone was there." The two demons frowned at each other deeply.

Hermione twisted her hands nervously "We need to tell Professor Dumbledore about this." All present nodded and Kurama stood, holding his hands out to Rain to assist her in rising. As he helped her to her feet, he noticed her ears and blinked. When had they gone pointy? He stopped and stood still, studying her, causing the others to look at her more closely too, once they noticis ais attention.

It took Rain a moment to realize the others were staring at her and she frowned a bit, canines showing faintly. "What?" Kurama shook her head "Your morning sickness is moving up in phases pretty rapidly. You already are at a partial transformation. Your skin is a darker color, your ears are now demon form and so are your canines. Your jagan is half open too." She frowned "Hmmm, I had wondered if that symptom would show up." Kurama nodded "I have a complete stock of kelpsin seeds for the cold spells." Rain gave him a relieved smile and the group left the common room to the awakening Gryffindor's.

They moved towards Dumbledore's office and were met in the hallway by McGonagall, who, once hearing their experiences of the morning, led them to Dumbledore's office herself and made sure they made it to his door.

Professor Dumbledore looked up from his desk when the students entered and at McGonagall's strained face. He realized something had happened and in a moment of premonition, asked McGonagall to wait outside for the students. Quickly Harry and Rain gave their accounts of what happened to them and all sat tensely as Dumbledore sat still for a long moment, thinking about what had been said, pondering how someone could have gotten into Hogwarts. He sighed "Well, it looks like we will have to set stronger wards, once against demons on the castle and around you, Rain. I am going to talk to Koenma to help me with that. You say your jagan saw nothing?" Rain gave a nod and Dumbledore sighed "I honestly don't know how this has happened. As for now, keep this to yourselves, you may tell the Kenshingumi off these developments, but no one else. They are here for extra protection after all." All gathered nodded and he dismissed them to go to breakfast and asked that they send in Professor McGonagall as they left.

McGonagall was waiting outside the door and upon hearing of Dumbledore's summons, she hurried in after they had all filed out and closed the door behind her, leaving them to walk to the great hall alone.

Breakfast was an odd affair. The Kenshingumi were shocked and outraged at the events of the night and that someone would even dare to threaten Rain and her unborn children. Kurama got his schedule, which matched Rain's and all rose to go to Double Potions, which was their first class back.

Potions started out simple enough. Snape informed them that they would be brewing a complicated healing potion and the partner's got started. Kurama and Rain were grouped together, as she was not allowed to do more then chop the ingredients up, due to her pregnancy. The trouble began an hour into brewing.

The smell had slowly been growing stronger, first at the front of the class, moving back to the back of the class, where Kurama and Rain sat. The rest of the room, was making soft comments about the stench of the healing spell, although Snape quickly told all complainers to quiet down. Kurama was the first to smell it, and he wrinkled his nose. It smelled like burnt flesh. However he heard a quick intake of breathe, followed almost instantly by a much slower and longer one and turned to look at his mate as she sniffed the air with a dazed look on her face. He frowned softly at her "Rain? Are you ok?" She opened her eyes and turned burning red orbs to him. "I'm hungry."

He frowned at her "What? You just ate, love." She growled low, causing those around them to turn and look and gaining the attention of Snape. "No, I want meat. Fresh meat, raw, bloody, delicious. I want the meat of a freshly killed rabbit." Kurama was watching her face as she said this, watching her color turn more red with each word. She had the look of a predator in her eyes and he groaned. Another symptom of the Makai version of morning sickness was the expectant mother would get odd cravings, never sam same thing twice. And if they didn't get it in a timely manner, the mother to be would get very upset. An upset, hormonal, fire demoness was not a good thing. Not good at all.

By this time Snape had arrived at their table. He was sneering down at the fire demoness who was growling softly at Kurama, who was, naturally, expected to satisfy his mates every craving during this time. "What is going on here?"

Rain paid him no heed, instead watching Kurama for signs he was about to leave and get her food. Kurama turned to the potions master "Rain is not feeling good, I think I should take her out." Snape looked to the almost fully transformed demoness, who looked more pissed at her mate then sick and frowned. "She looks fine to me." That caught Rain's attention and Arcticfire turned on the potion master and screamed in his face. "HOLD YOUR TOUNGUE, NINGEN." She turned to her mate "Youko, if you do not go and get me what I desire right now, I will tear off your limbs and eat them instead." All this was said with the sweetest voice Arcticfire could muster, but the evil, starved look in her eyes cause Kurama to jump up and dash for the door, followed by Arcticfire, leaving a ticked off, and slightly confused Snape, staring after them.