A New Kind of Tournament

By: PsychicGirl

A/N: I'm posting this new story even though I already have another incomplete one, because this one would not leave me alone. This story kind of hijacked my brain and I need it to leave me alone so that I can finish the other story I started posting. Anyway, I have been reading a lot of Harry Potter crossovers lately and it surprised me how few people had used the Triwizard Tournament in a Yu Yu Hakusho crossover. I mean, what would Yu Yu Hakusho be if it didn't include a deadly tournament?

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or Harry Potter. I wouldn't want to. I love the characters the owners created and I simply want to play with them for a while.

Chapter 1

"So when do you think the other schools will arrive?" a red-headed boy asked his friends.

"Honestly, Ron," replied the girl standing next to him, "have patience. Dumbledore said they would be arriving shortly. I can't imagine that transporting an entire school to an obscure part of Scotland would be easy."

"But, Hermione," whined Ron, "I'm cold. And the feast was delayed."

"Hermione's right," said another of Ron's friends, this one being a boy with black hair and a lightning-shaped scar. "They will be here soon, and then we can go inside and eat."

Ron sighed. "I guess you're right, Harry- hey! What's that in the lake?"

The rest of the crowd standing outside started to shout too, as a giant ship arose from the center of the lake.

"Won't they get attacked by a giant squid?" a boy asked.

"No, stupid. I'm sure if they were going to, it would have already happened by now." replied a young girl.

The ship finally emerged in its entirety and a dozen students found their way to land led by a tall man with graying hair and a beard to match.

"Oh! Wow, Harry. It's Victor Krum!" exclaimed Ron, pointing to a particularly bored-looking student.

"Boys," sighed Hermione, "I will never understand your fascination with all things Qudditch."

Harry gave her an incredulous look. "Come on, Hermione. You saw him at the World Cup. Even you have to admit that he was amazing."

Hermione was saved from having to defend herself when the bearded man approached the crowd.

"Dumbledore!" the man exclaimed as he approached the headmaster of Hogwarts.

"Karkaroff," Dumbledore returned. "How are you, my friend?"

"I am well, Dumbledore and I hope you have a good feast prepared as my students are in need of good nourishment after our long journey."

"Certainly. Just as soon as the other schools arrive. Ah! I think that Beauxbatons is coming in now." Dumbledore said as he turned to look toward the skies.

Sure enough, a large shape was quickly approaching the grounds.

"What's that?" Hermione asked. "It looks like some kind of...floating house."

She wasn't too far off as, pulled by several gigantic palominos, a powder-blue carriage landed roughly on the grass, sending several students and teachers scattering for cover. However, what really stunned the crowd was the person getting out of the compartment. Stepping down from the horse-drawn monstrosity was the biggest woman Harry and his friends have ever seen.

Ron nudged his friends. "Blimey Harry, I didn't think they made people that big after Hagrid."

"Ron, don't be insensitive!" hissed Hermione, shooting him a scathing look.

"Dumbly-dore!" the woman said with a heavy French accent. Her students, all of whom seemed to be female, had finally exited the compartment and were shivering while huddled close together behind their headmistress.

"Ah. Madame Maxime. You are looking lovely as always." Dumbledore said cheerfully.

"As are you Dumbly-dore," said the giant woman as she moved to embrace the headmaster. "My girls are very cold and hungry. May we please go into the castle now?"
"Not quite yet, Madame. Another school has yet to arrive."

A wave of confusion washed over the crowd.

"Another school?" wondered Hermione.

Karkaroff stepped forward. "What is the meaning of this, Albus? I was told there were only three competing schools."

Dumbledore just smiled. "Yes, well, the last school was a bit of a last minute addition. However, I am well acquainted with the headmistress and she assured me that her students would make an interesting addition in this competition, especially considering they specialize in wandless magic."

Everyone was shocked. A school that specialized in wandless magic? That wasn't possible. Wandless magic could only be mastered after years of study and training and certainly couldn't be taught to children who hadn't yet mastered the use of a wand.

"Hey! Look up there!" A loud screech shattered the confused chatter of the gathered schools.

"Whoa! What is that?" Ron asked.

"This must be the last school." Dumbledore said.

The shape in the sky was even more massive than the powder-blue carriage and it was an even deeper blue in color. It also appeared to be one gigantic living creature.

"Look out!" People scrambled out of the way as the thing finally landed revealing itself to be a huge blue bird with a thick black mane.

Three people were waving at them from on top of the bird, further stunning the crowd. People were actually riding that thing?

The first to jump off the blue beast was a boy with the longest wild black hair anyone had seen that ran down to his waist. He probably would have been mistaken for a girl if it wasn't for the fact that he was extremely muscular and had a type of cocky arrogance that couldn't be anything other than male. He shouted something in a decidedly Asian language at the people remaining on the bird and received a shout of annoyance back.

The source of the annoyed reply slid down to the ground and then moved to help the last person off the bird. The first was a fairly unattractive male with bright orange hair and a thug-like appearance. However, he confused his image when he carefully escorted the last member of the weird crew gently down, revealing a beautiful young lady with mint-green hair and red eyes.

"That can't be natural," mumbled Hermione, annoyed by the fact that the green-haired girl was gaining more male attention than the French girls even managed to attract.

A wave of cold wind rushed over the grounds and two more people appeared out of nowhere. The first was a young man who seemed to arrive in a flurry of snow that was out of character for this early in the year, and the second floated on a gust of wind and remained hovering with his legs crossed to the crowd's continued amazement. Was there no end to these impressive displays of power?

Another two people materialized, and yes, materialized was the word for one minute there was no one there and the next there was a short man with tall black hair - and was that a sword?- and an elderly woman with faded pink hair.

"Genkai!" exclaimed Dumbledore, which was apparently the elderly woman's name as she stepped forward and tilted her head in acknowledgement. "That was quite the exciting entrance. Are these all of your students?"

Genkai shook her head. "No. There are three more, but I can feel them coming now."

Harry looked confused. What did she mean by 'feel them?' Just then, there was a crashing sound from the forest and three students emerged...covered in guts?

"Sorry, Master Genkai," said one of the splattered students with red hair, although there was a possibility that the color could just be from the blood drenching the newcomers. "We ran into a bit of spider trouble."

"Trouble?" laughed another equally messy student, although he looked much too old to still be in school, "More like a right good warm-up, that was. Much better welcome that I expected."

"Yeah," exclaimed the final student who looked to be a small child and was clinging to the too-old student's back. "That was tons of fun! Chuu smashed dozens of those things!"

"Hn." This sound came from the short boy with the tall hair. "I'm assuming you left a few for the rest of us to play with?"

"Naturally." replied the red-haired (?) one with a smirk.

Genkai snorted. "If you idiots are done having fun, I'm sure some of us would like to go inside and eat." She then turned back to Dumbledore. "Albus, these are my students. The one with the long black hair is my apprentice, Yusuke. The giant blue bird is his. The orange-haired fool is Kuwabara and the girl next to him is Yukina. The icy boy with green-hair is Touya and the floating one is Jin. Hiei is the midget next to me. The splattered ones are Kurama, with the red-hair and Rinku, the child. The one he is clinging to is Chuu, our team sponsor."

The boy now identified as Yusuke laughed. "Ha! More like Chuu needs a sponsor!"

Chuu growled. "Oi! What was that? Come over here and say that to my face! I'll make you regret it!"

"Yeah, you and what alcohol?" Yusuke spat back.

"Why you!"

Both bickering boys were sent flying as Genkai kicked them both in a move that most of the audience had trouble following.

"Hey, idiots! Knock it off! You can kill each other later. You are holding up the feast with your pointless whining."

"Yeah, yeah." grumbled Yusuke. "Let's just go inside already."

"An excellent decision, my dear boy." Dumbledore chuckled. He turned to the three gore-covered boys and pointed his wand at them. Immediately, every single one of the strange students tensed as if prepared for an attack.

"Relax," placated Dumbledore. "I'm merely going to clean them up." With a wave of the headmaster's wand, the boys were cleaned, leaving no evidence of the earlier carnage.

"Now, let us all proceed to the Great Hall for the welcome feast!" With a dramatic swirl of robes, Dumbledore started to make his way inside leaving a confused and awe-struck crowd to catch up.

A/N: So what do you think? Love it? Hate it? Want to see more? Reviews help me know what I need to do better.