Haruka was very bored. Less than a week after the whole Yukina incident, and she had nothing to do. Fighting seemed to get rid of her boredom for a longer period than anything else.

So, in a purely random decision, she decided to join up for the Dark Tournament.

Normally people couldn't simply up and join the tournament due to it's bloody nature and the fact that most of the spectators were demons.

Then again, at the price of five billion yen, they were hardly going to complain about her sudden entry. The only problem was that she couldn't seem to fill the last spot on her team.

(Kurama, Hiei and Yusuke all agreed to be on her team once she explained why she had signed them up. Normally they would be against it, but she had bribed them all.)

That is, until she ran into Genkai.

"Hello, Genkai-sama. What are you doing here?"

"An old acquaintance of mine wants me to join the damn tournament again. For some reason though, there wasn't anyone else to be on the so called 'guest' team."

"Wait...tournament? As in the Dark Tournament?"

Genkai nodded.

"In that case join ours. We were sorely lacking on the fifth member."

Genkai raised an eyebrow.

"Your team?"

"I've got an inheritance that I don't know what to do with and I'm extremely bored. The tournament sounded like fun," shrugged Haruka.

That made Genkai whistle. She knew how much it cost simply to buy tickets!

"I suppose joining your team would be easier than dealing with a ragtag group of idiots brought together on short notice."

Haruka grinned.

"Welcome to Team Dragon!"

In a rare show of sadism, Haruka sent the annoying old goat back in England a notice.

And the dates and times of when to tune in.

"Dear Dumbledore

If you want to know where your precious boy-who-lived disappeared to, tune into the Dark Tournament on Hanging Neck Island. Enclosed are the dates and times that the tournament will start. Be sure to have the ENTIRE Great Hall watching!

Love
Harry"

Dumbledore, when he originally received the note, had to look up the tournament. And then had to find a way to 'tune in' as Harry had put it.

Since it was obvious Harry wanted to put on a show, Dumbledore was going to give him one. He knew full well it was an idiotic idea to try and capture him during the tournament, but afterwords it would be cakewalk.

For the next two months, Haruka trained with her team. Genkai was teaching Yusuke more about spirit energy (since she was the only person able to get anything stick in that thick head of his) while Hiei and Kurama sparred with Kuwabara.

Haruka had brought him in after learning that they might be short a member because of Toguro.

Hiei had been more than delighted to bring Kuwabara up to speed.

(If only to keep the idiot far, far away from his sister. For some reason, the moron fell in love when he first saw her, and even learning that she was Hiei's twin didn't stop him.)

Kurama and Haruka spent their time between fighting like they were trying to kill each other (which was much easier than Haruka thought, because dragons and foxes normally don't mix) and going out on dates.

In what seemed like a blink of an eye, the tournament arrived.

Haruka spent a good chunk of cash to buy a helicopter...which she flew to the island.

Unknown to them, the 'guest' team this year would make the tournament very interesting. It was a hand selected team of Dumbledore's best lackeys.

Sent to capture Harry Potter and bring him back to safety.

Haruka loved the look of complete shock when they found out how much she had to pay for them to enter. And the looks on their faces when they learned that she had over ten times that amount in her bank account...

Well, let's just say that they all got an allowance to blow on the stands.

While Haruka walked through the hotel, she noted something odd. Which was saying something considering demons were in and of themselves odd.

They looked like normal humans. Their aura felt like normal humans. And when she went closer, she realized that they were normal humans.

Well...normal by her standards.

And to top it all off, they were all magical in nature!

And then Haruka heard them talking. Something about a retrieval team.

"Excuse me, but why the hell are there normal humans here as a guest team?" she asked one of the waiters.

"Oh them? Some old geezer in the West paid off the sponsors so that they could come in as a guest team. Didn't seem to care if they got killed before reaching here though."

"Did this old geezer have a name?"

"Albus something. I doubt they'll last long. Which team you with?"

"I'm the backup for the guest team," said Haruka with a straight face.

The man nodded...and didn't realize that the girl had skipped out on paying for her rather large meal.

She giggled, and said to herself.

"Kurama must be rubbing off on me!"

The next morning started with a rather big surprise. Sometime in the night Haruka had switched to Harry...and was still curled up to Kurama.

Kuwabara, who had offered to wake the two up, had walked in on the scene and squawked so loudly that both of them threw something heavy at him.

He narrowly ducked in time.

"Morning..." yawned Harry.

Yusuke handed him the coffee without a word. In the days after Sirius and his mother married, he had developed a sixth sense to his new brother/sister's sleeping habits.

And learned the hard way do not wake her up unless you have a death wish. Haruka without her morning caffiene was worse than his mother on a binge...though to be fair, since Sirius had come into her life the drinking problem was being resolved.

Now she could stay sober for days on end without being flat out drunk. Yusuke had to admit he liked the improvement.

Harry drank the coffee without looking at it, and grimaced when he realized that Yusuke forgot the sugar...again. Much to the amusement of his new brother, Harry had a bit of a sweet tooth.

Kurama poured the next cup, and tossed in three cubes. Harry drank it, and his mood improved enough that he wasn't going to kill Kuwabara for waking them up.

"So who are we fighting today?" he asked, chipper.

"Some low level idiots...the guest team that was entered at the last minute has to face another low level group," said Hiei.

"Can we go watch that massacre? I'm in the mood to enjoy some senseless bloodshed," grinned Harry.

Hiei looked at Kurama with suspicion.

"What the hell did you put in his coffee?"

"Sugar, and nothing else."

Harry laughed.

"Oh please. I want to see them face a real fight, since the guest team is nothing but a pack of dogs sent to drag me back to England," said Harry.

Kurama looked angry about that. There was no way he was going to let some jumped up humans take away his boyfriend/girlfriend!

"So how about we decide who goes up depending on who our challenger is?" he asked.

It was as close to a plan as they could get.

Koto stood up on the arena, and introduced the teams.

"And now for our team captains to step onto the stage!"

Harry walked up with a shit eating grin while the demon walked up with a smirk.

"In the blue corner we have Team Dragon! In the red corner we have team Rokuyoukai!"

The demons cheered when they saw the red corner. The only thing that kept them from booing Team Dragon outright was the fact that Harry had paid in full.

Well, that and the fact that if Harry wanted he could roast them all in a heartbeat and not give a damn. Demons knew a dragon when they saw one.

"How does a duel to the death or surrender sound?" asked Harry sweetly.

The blonde youkai agreed, his expression merciless. If any of the team faced him, they wouldn't be able to say surrender. He would crush their windpipes before he would allow that!

Harry jumped down off the platform and said with a straight face "I call dibs on blondie."

"No fair! He's a fire demon, I want to fight him!"

Harry blinked twice. Did Hiei just whine?

"Keep whining and I will toss you to that chibi brat," said Harry flatly.

Kurama snickered.

"I'll take the kid. Should be a decent enough warm up," said Genkai. She didn't feel the need to hide who she was.

Apparently the fact that Harry was a Celestial Dragon had given them some measure of protection against the lesser demons who wanted them dead. If they wanted to kill any of them, they would have to take out Harry.

Considering the strongest demon on the island was Toguro, none of the others were idiot enough to try.

Genkai did a double flip onto the arena, and Harry laughed.

"Show off."

Genkai flipped him off, which set Yusuke off. He found it hilarious!

Harry snickered instead. It didn't take long for Genkai to get annoyed with Rinku and give him the ass whooping of a lifetime. Yusuke and Harry found the sight so funny they were on the ground laughing. Even Hiei was trying not to laugh.

Once she was done, Rinku practically ran off the arena, opting to forfeit. Even he knew better than to challenge Genkai.

Next was Kurama. Once he learned that the demon was trying to blackmail him using his human mother, his Yoko side woke up.

Roto didn't stand a chance with Yoko Kurama after him.

"I'm amazed he didn't know that she's protected by a demon hunter who knows what he's doing," snorted Hiei.

Kurama looked at Harry in concern.

"Raion promised to look after her when he learned that we entered the tournament. He only requested that we rob the losing teams blind."

"Why would he say something like that?" asked Yusuke.

"I had to pay five billion just to enter us into this damn tournament. I fully intend to get my money back, even if I have to rob the losers!" said Harry.

"And how do you plan on doing that?" asked Kurama, amused.

Harry looked at him with a grin.

"Why bribing you with half the cut of course!" he chirped.

Hiei couldn't help it. He started laughing at the look on Kurama's face.

Yoko was still awake, and gave Kurama a suggestion he agreed with.

"Oh I'm sure there are other ways you can pay me for my help," he purred.

"Eh? Like what?" asked Harry.

Yusuke and Hiei looked at each other, and tried not to laugh. Harry was actually quite clueless.

Finally Harry went up. He sensed a large camera focusing on him again.

He knew exactly where it was sending the feed. Though he did wonder if Bulgaria and France got the same reception.

The blond demon jumped on the stage. He looked more amused by Harry than anything.

Once they were given the signal to attack, he started it off by launching a fireball before Harry could react.

Too bad Harry was fireproof.

His eyes became catlike, and his fangs came out. His laugh, which had been childlike and calming before, was now terrifying and deep.

"You seriously expect a dragon to be threatened by flames? This is a real fireball!"

Harry took a deep breath and blew a massive ball of flames at Zeru. The look in his eyes would have made Yusuke laugh.

It wasn't until Zeru made the mistake of calling him a freak that Harry lost his temper.

The stream of fire that incinerated Zeru was hot enough that the demons just standing above him turned to ash upon contact. There was only a bare outline of the demon left.

"No one...calls me a freak and gets away with it," snarled Harry.

"Winner, Team Dragon!" said Koto weakly.

Harry jumped off the stage...and it wasn't until Kurama held a vial of vinegar under his nose that his eyes went back to normal.

"What was that about?" asked Yusuke.

"My...relatives...back in England could put most demons to shame when it comes to cruelty. Demons may kill children and even eat them, but at least they have some decency."

"What!"

"Petunia and Vernon Dursley...if I ever run into them again, they had better hope I am in a forgiving mood," growled Harry.

Yusuke went up next, and faced Chu. Harry's mood improved when he realized that he had found a demon version of his brother.

Dumbledore watched the battle in something close to horror. The children (those who were old enough to watch muggle horror films without having nightmares) all cheered Harry on. They didn't seem to realize the implications of his fire-breathing abilities at all!

After Harry's group advanced to the next round, Dumbledore switched over to his team.

Team Phoenix was clearly the underdog, but he had chosen his group with care.

Severus Snape had not been happy to be the official leader of this ragtag bunch. Though he didn't complain because he had been chosen over McGonagall. Dolores Umbridge was the unofficial team captain, Moody was the twitchy hex happy ex Auror, Bill was the curse breaker who knew more spells that could kill anything inhuman and Hagrid was their powerhouse.

Dumbledore had managed to get the man a new wand, with approval from the ministry. And if any of them died, well they had a back up by the name of Nymphadora Tonks.

In exchange for letting Hagrid carry a wand, they had to suffer through the Umbitch's presence.

Frankly Snape couldn't wait for the woman to get eaten by the demons so they could quit listening to her simpering voice. It had a way of grating on your nerves faster than a spoiled child's whining.

At least he took pity on his team by handing out heavy duty migraine potions after being forced to listen to another one of her rants about inhuman creatures.

Harry lead them to a special VIP booth that was filled with all sorts of goodies. What they didn't eat or use, Yusuke stole.

Harry didn't mind since he had already paid for it.

It wasn't until he realized who was on the guest team that he started laughing like an insane asylum escapee.

"What?" asked Yusuke.

"Severus Snape, Mad Eye Moody, A Weasly and Hagrid are on the guest team? What the hell was that idiot smoking to send them in here?"

"You know those people?" asked Hiei.

"Most of them. Mad Eye was the Defense teacher when I left, though he had been held hostage for nine months, Snape is my old potions teacher and Hagrid is a good friend of mine. Last I heard he's half Giant."

"And the others?" asked Yusuke.

"Well the red head I think might be a Weasly. Can't tell from this distance. Don't know who the other two are though..."

They watched in disbelief as the guest team narrowly survived to the next round.

Mad Eye had a broken arm, Snape was nursing a nasty burn, and Weasly looked like he had gotten some poison in him. Hagrid, due to his giant blood, had crushed his opponent with relative ease.

Just because he was a gentle giant didn't mean he was afraid to fight.

Kurama sensed what his boyfriend was planning before he left the VIP booth. So he grabbed his healing kit and walked with him.

"Going to help the underdog?" he said.

"Absolutely. I happen to like the Weasly clan, and Hagrid was the first person to rescue me from my so called relatives."

The minute Snape realized who was heading towards them, his scowl deepened, if it was possible.

"Show me your arm Snape, and don't dawdle," said Harry calmly.

His eyebrows rose in surprise at the tone, but he complied. A sickly green light came from Harry's hand, and in minutes the burn was completely healed without even a scar to show for it.

Kurama was giving Bill the antidote to the poison, having deduced which one it was within minutes. Harry went to work on Mad Eyes' arm.

"So did the old goat send you lot to retrieve me?" he asked calmly.

"The fool has it in his mind that you were kidnapped," said Snape.

"Bollocks. I left of my own accord, though I had help. Even if he wants me to return, I can't. I was expressly forbidden from entering Europe until I come of age."

"By whom?" simpered Umbridge.

Harry gave her a sidelong look. Her voice made his skin crawl.

"The High Council of Dragons. They aren't too happy about the Ministry you know. As a new Celestial I am bound to their laws."

"That and his parents happen to live in Tokyo," said Kurama, adding his bit.

Snape's eyes widened further.

"But..."

"You'll find that in Japan, the afterlife isn't as far as you think. That should do it, Moody."

Moody tested his arm, and found the break to have been healed perfectly.

"Not bad Potter."

"I wished for healing, and that's what I got. Since you lot have been brought in as the guest team, you should stick close to ours. These demons are leaving us alone because of me, but you don't have the same protection."