Okay, so…I still don't own Harry Potter, Yu Yu Hakushou or Fairy Tail. If that ever changes, I'll tell you.
"Winner…the dimwit."
"That was close." Yusuke said walking up to Harry and Kuwabara.
"Hey, where'd you learn that orb thingy from anyways?" Kuwabara asked, hands on hips and shooting him a suspicious look.
"Hm?" Yusuke wondered, "Oh, Harry taught me a while back. Remember? I said he taught me a few tricks."
"Uh yeah." Kuwabara remembered, "That was kind of cool. Think you could teach me a few things, Harry?"
Harry shrugged,
"If you get the apprenticeship with Genkai then she'll be the one to teach you. If not, then I guess I can show you a few things." He decided.
Kuwabara grinned,
"Awesome!" he exclaimed.
"Alright kiddies." Genkai clapped to get their attention, "Let's start the semi finals. The first match, Kazamaru and Harry."
The ninja smirked,
"I've been waiting for this."
Harry gave him a nod of acknowledgement.
"We won't be fighting in here anymore." Genkai said and the two big doors opened up again, light shone through.
It took some of them a few moments for their eyes to adjust, but when they did, they followed Genkai outside.
This time they traveled down a different path from the one to the forest. It was an uphill trek and the ground had gone from dry to damp as they made it half way up.
They went downhill now and to a rather mucky looking plain. Well, actually it was more like a bog.
"Welcome to your new fighting ground." Genkai said calmly.
Kuwabara was looking ill, and he would be. The place was emitting an odd energy.
"Gya! What is this place!?" Kuwabara blurted.
"This is the site of an ancient battle. An entire army was overcome by madness." Genkai explained.
"I see." Harry said looking around, for some reason it made him feel very sad…such a place covered with blood.
"Thousands of soldiers attacked their own men. Restless souls fill this place." Genkai continued ominously.
Kuwabara took a step back,
"I'm seeing things here I never wanted to see!" he screamed then covered his ears, "Oh please, please someone take me home!"
Harry shot him a sympathetic look.
"On this site, reiki overtakes the body. It's perhaps the best place on earth to use reiki abilities."
Harry nodded, so now she wanted to see their different attacks and styles. It was definitely a good place to see how they incorporated their reiki abilities with their fighting styles.
"Excellent." Kazamaru said, his body glowing with power, "Their energy is circulating through me now. I feel stronger already."
"Yusuke, watch my bag for me." He said, placing the bag down beside
Harry and Kazamaru walked out into the field opposite each other and a fair distance apart.
"And the first match of the semi-finals, begins!" Genkai announced.
Kazamaru came at him right away, punching rather rapidly. Harry matched his speed and blocked with his hands. When he tried to switch up the rhythm by kicking, Harry raised his right leg and blocked the attack.
"I see you've had some training in martial arts." Kazamaru jumped back calculatingly.
Harry hummed slightly,
"Yes. I was trained to fight in a more martial style rather than street fighting."
Harry jumped up, using Kazamaru's shoulder, he was in a handstand. Quickly he got to the ground and tried to attack his legs, only for Kazamaru to jump out of the way.
"You're fast." He said, "But how fast? You sped up just now."
Harry inclined his head slightly, but didn't say anything.
"Can't get too close." He said, "Guess I'll have to…fight long distance!" he pulled out four shurikens from his robe. Harry's eyes narrowed. They were emitting a strange energy.
Kazamaru leaped up into the sky, then through the shurikens at him. Harry sidestepped each of them gracefully. His eyes widened, then he ducked.
The shurikens had come flying back.
"I see." Harry said, "They home in on reiki, or other types of energy too, I suppose."
Kazamaru smirked,
"So, you figured it out."
Harry turned towards where the shurikens were heading back to him and waited. He'd only seen this technique done once by Yoruichi.
"Hey, what are you doing, Harry!? Get out of the way!" Yusuke shouted.
Harry held out his hand and created a small amount of negative energy, then made it spin in the opposite direction. He grabbed it out of the air, then did the same to the other four, then threw them away. His eyes widened only slightly when they exploded.
It seemed that Kazamaru had put gunpowder some sort of explosive into his weapons.
"W-what? But…that's impossible!" Kazamaru shouted.
Harry ran up to him, then went on the offensive, he punched and kicked a few times for show, then knocked him in the head, sending him flying. He was out like a light.
Genkai seemed to hesitate a moment before saying,
"Winner, Harry Potter."
Harry walked back over to Yusuke and Kuwabara.
"What was that just now?" Yusuke asked, "I didn't even see you move, but you were holding those shurikens Kazamaru had been holding…"
Harry nodded, but didn't say anything.
"Next up, Kuwabara and Sho Ren." Genkai announced, though her eyes traveled over to Harry suspiciously.
"Yusuke." Harry said softly, "Sho Ren is the demon."
"What!?" Yusuke whispered harshly, then quick as a flash he ran up to Kuwabara and whispered something in his ear.
The red head seemed to get mad and Harry let out a sigh.
"Why are you here?" Genkai asked, her voice nearly made Harry jump, even though he had sensed where she had been.
Harry shot her a small half-smile,
"Am I that obvious?" he asked her.
"That technique just now, when you stopped Kazamaru's shurikens. You placed your hand beneath them, then sent a pulse of reiki but at a reverse polarity. Even though it's not necessarily a technique, it's something that could only be pulled off by a master."
Harry let out a sigh,
"I suppose I can tell you then…Yusuke and I work for Koenma…well, Yusuke does, I just tag along." He admitted, "We came here because we were informed that a demon had come here disguised as one of the people wanting to compete for an apprenticeship…I'll stay out of it now, if you'd like. But will you at least let me watch?"
Genkai huffed,
"Do whatever you want."
Harry smiled slightly, he got the feeling that she was just a big softy inside.
"You said you were just helping Koenma and Yusuke. Why?" she asked him.
Harry shrugged,
"Nothing better to do. I move around a lot. And every time I see someone, starting out like that…it's a little inspiring." Harry watched as Yusuke came running back over to them, grumbling something about how stupid Kuwabara was being. Harry smiled slightly,
"I'm going to have to go back one day though…Someday soon too…"
Genkai looked back at Kuwabara and Sho Ren,
"You're a strange one, you know?"
Harry smiled,
"So people keep saying."
Kuwabara ran at Sho Ren and punched him square in the face. Sho Ren fell over, looking like he was just about out for the count. Harry blinked. That can't be right.
"What? Harry, I thought you said that this guy was Rando." Yusuke's brow furrowed.
"He has to be." Harry said, also frowning, "That's the only thing that makes sense. If Rando had been anyone else, he would have already shown himself by now…"
So why was he struggling to get up and face Kuwabara again? Sho Ren ran at Kuwabara, attacking with kicks, punches. It was some sort of martial arts style, not a street fighting style like the one Kuwabara used.
Sho Ren got up.
"You still gonna fight?" Kuwabara took a stance.
"I'm not done yet, let me try a few techniques first." He backed away, then made a strange movement with his hands, he brought his two hands together and there was a small spark the ignited between them.
"The structure of the reiki around him is changing." Harry murmured.
He moved his hands apart, then together again. There was another spark. Harry's eyes narrowed, why was Kuwabara waiting for an attack? You should never wait for your opponent's attack!
Sho Ren held out his hand and a ball of red fire blazed to life in his very palm. It didn't seem to burn him, or harm him in any way. Then, in his other hand another ball of fire ignited.
"It couldn't be." Genkai murmured.
"Circles of inferno!" Sho Ren shouted.
He threw one of the fireballs at Kuwabara who clumsily dodged to the side. The other fireball was thrown and Kuwabara dodged again, patting himself down, afraid that one of them had hit.
"You're okay, Kuwabara. Stop giving yourself a pat down and get ready for his next attack!" Yusuke shouted.
"Would you shut up!" Kuwabara shot back.
But he didn't have any time to relax. Another ball of flame appeared in Sho Ren's hand.
"Fine, if you want to use your fireworks, then I'll use mine." Kuwabara quickly reached into his pocket and pulled out that shard of wooden sword he'd gotten in his last fight, then materialized his reiki sword. Harry raised an eyebrow, it seemed that Kuwabara could summon it at will already.
"Alright, you little shrimp. Batters up." He then held the spirit sword like a bat and Sho Ren through the fireball.
Kuwabara hit it, sending it right back at Sho Ren, causing the monk boy to go skidding back on his back. He was hit so hard that Harry was surprised he hadn't passed out…well, he would have been if not for the fact that Sho Ren seemed to be gaining more energy.
"I guess that's a homerun." Yusuke murmured.
Sho Ren held his side, in pain. Kuwabara laughed slightly,
"Those pitches were pretty nasty, but nothing compared to the batting cages back home."
"Kuwabara's like a whole other fighter with that reiki sword of his." Yusuke commented, "I think he can beat this little punk."
"Then you obviously aren't paying much attention." Harry said, eyes still on the fight, "Close your eyes Yusuke."
"What? Again?" Yusuke whined.
"Just do it." Harry said, "I want you to see what's happening with their energies. I don't want you to be fooled by what your eyes are telling you."
Yusuke mumbled something, but closed his eyes regardless, then frowned,
"Hey, isn't Sho Ren supposed to be losing energy at this point?"
"Normally, yes." Harry agreed, "But Sho Ren is just a disguise, remember? Those stats he has from those games we played earlier, he held back on purpose, and he's still holding back."
"Okay…" Yusuke said, then looked at Harry, "So Kuwabara's in trouble…how do we get him out of it?"
"We don't." Harry said simply, "Or rather, we can't. This is a fair competition. Genkai said nothing in her rules about disguising our skills when we first came. So, he's still following rules."
"What about you?" Yusuke asked him.
"What about me?" Harry blinked.
"You're out of the competition, aren't you? I'm not blind. I saw how the old lady's been treating you." Yusuke said.
"Yes." Harry agreed, "I withdrew. It wouldn't be fair, having someone who is already a master, skill wise to go on. Not to the other contestants. Genkai knows I don't have any intention of becoming her student. So, she let me quit."
"But…" Yusuke said, "I mean…"
"You can do this, Yusuke." Harry said confidently, "I believe you can…but what you need to do, is believe that you can too. You've grown at an astounding rate as a fighter over the past while. Just remember what I taught you, and remember all those brawls you've had in the past, and you should be fine."
Though Harry could understand. In the past, Yusuke had had Harry to lean on whenever things went south. It would be interesting to see what he'd do without his help.
Sho Ren was chanting, though Harry couldn't make out what he was saying exactly. It was clear though that there was reiki in those words. Reiki directed at Kuwabara.
"What in the heck are you muttering about over there?" Kuwabara growled, "You might as well speak up."
But Sho Ren continued his chant, which seemed to be making the line of reiki between him and Kuwabara a lot stronger.
"Yes, I thought I recognised where that fireball attack was from." Genkai said suddenly, drawing Harry's and Yusuke's attention, "Ages ago, two masters spent half their lives perfecting the circles of inferno and…this chant."
"What's…this do?" Yusuke asked, uncharacteristically cautious.
"That isn't the point." Genkai said, eyes narrowing, "What matters is that the only ones who could have taught this boy have been dead for centuries."
"Old lady," Yusuke said, "You've just proven something for me once and for all. That chanter's definitely no boy."
Sho Ren's eyes had turned red, and his chanting was getting louder,
"I'm shutting you up, boy. You're freaking me out." Kuwabara charged at him, ready to attack with his reiki blade, when finally, Sho Ren cried out,
"Reduction!"
Then, the oddest thing happened. Kuwabara began to shrink. Down and down he went, until Harry couldn't even see him. Sho Ren knelt down, then picked something off the ground. It was Kuwabara, he was about the size of a doll.
He began squeezing Kuwabara in his hand, hard.
"So…does this hurt?"
Harry winced, rather certain that Kuwabara had just broken a good number of bones.
"There's no way he can pull out of this." Yusuke said worriedly, then shouted, "Kuwabara, tell him you're backing out of the fight!"
"Oh, but that just cannot be allowed." Sho Ren said with a sadistic gleam in his eye that would have made Bellatrix Lestrange proud, "I have to make use of this power first." He squeezed Kuwabara tighter, causing the shrunken boy to cry out in pain.
Sho Ren chuckled happily, then tossed Kuwabara up and caught him,
"I'm curious about the strength of bones after they've shrunk. I'll start with the right arm." He grabbed Kuwabara's arm then began putting pressure on it.
"Kuwabara!" Yusuke yelled in horror.
"Please, no more!" Kuwabara begged.
Then the arm snapped backwards.
"Call the match." Harry told Genkai.
The old master nodded,
"That's enough, Sho Ren!"
Sho Ren laughed,
"All right…" he drawled.
"You bastard!" Yusuke shouted, then went running at Sho Ren.
Sho Ren turned, then threw Kuwabara. Harry's eyes widened, he shunpoed over to him, and gently caught him out of the air.
Sho Ren chanted again, then said,
"Restore." Kuwabara grey back to his full size.
Harry, with his magic, scanned him over, using a wandless diagnostics charm. Harry grimaced,
"His condition isn't good." He waved his hand around, and Kuwabara's body began to float.
Harry carried him over to where his bag was, out of the battlefield, then set him down as gently as possible.
"What technique was that, just now?" Sho Ren asked Harry greedily.
"It's called Wingardium Leviosa." Harry said coolly, then reached into his bag and riffled through his potions.
"You can heal him?" Genkai asked Harry curiously.
"I can try." Harry said, focused solely on Kuwabara.
He took out some skele-gro, some pain relief potion, some organ regeneration potion, and the draught of living death.
First Harry fed him the draught of living death, making sure he wouldn't wake up. Then, after fifteen seconds exactly, Harry fed him fourteen drops of skele-gro.
He placed a hand over his arm, then set the bone properly. He then used healing kidou on his ribs, making sure they were properly set as well so the potion worked properly.
"Is he going to be alright, Harry?" Yusuke asked, not taking his eyes off of Sho Ren.
"He'll be fine." Harry said, "I can fix him up, but I'm going to be keeping him in a special coma so he doesn't have to suffer through the pain needlessly."
He started working on the organs, they weren't too bad, but with his body working overtime on healing other parts, he didn't want to risk something rupturing.
He fed him three drops of organ regeneration potion, then looked over his other wounds as Yusuke and Sho Ren started fighting.
"I can already tell; you've healed his bones." Genkai said, looking down at Harry and Kuwabara.
"Mostly." Harry said, "He broke quite a few of them and damaged several organs. What worries me is his spinal fracture…I'm healing it now but…"
"You should take your own advice." Genkai said, "What you said to Yusuke, trust in yourself. Right?"
Harry nodded, then got to healing the fracture. He knew he could do this…he could. He smiled when he realized the damage was almost completely gone. At least Kuwabara would be able to walk again…He used healing kidou to do the rest, then reached into bag and pulled out the antidote to the draught of living death and tilted Kuwabara's head up, feeding him the potion.
Kuwabara coughed and sputtered a few times.
"Wha? Hey, what happened?" he looked up at Harry and Genkai, "Uh…"
"You were injured badly in your fight." Harry said, "How are you feeling?"
"Uh…I feel great." He said, "Actually, I feel better than I have in a while."
Harry nodded,
"Alright, can you wiggle your toes?" Harry asked him, concerned about the fracture he'd found in his spine.
"Uh, yeah." Kuwabara nodded.
"Move your legs for me, but don't stand up yet." Harry ordered.
Kuwabara moved his legs. Harry nodded, satisfied by this. He cast a wandless diagnostics charm, which caused his hand to glow with white energy. Once he was satisfied he gave a small nod,
"You seem to be alright."
"Impressive." Genkai murmured, "Healing abilities of that level are nearly unheard of…Just where did you learn all that?"
Harry smiled sheepishly,
"Well, a variety of people I suppose. I worked in a sort of mercenary guild a while, and they always came back with bruises and injuries of sorts. I got pretty fast doing that…then I learned Kaidou, a healing technique from a man named Tessai and a woman named Unohana. Herbal remedies, the ones that I showed you I learned from a man named Severus Snape…I absolutely hate that man." Harry sighed, shaking his head, "Oh, but the diagnostics and a couple of other things I picked up from a woman named Poppy Pomfrey."
"Wow…so you really know a lot of doctors." Kuwabara said scratching his head and trying to figure out how this was relevant.
"Healers." Harry corrected, "They didn't use the sort of medicine most people used. They used Reiki techniques, and other energy techniques, herbal medicines infused with…something else, which helped people heal."
Genkai looked Harry over once again,
"Such knowledge and power would take years to learn. And it's certainly not something a fourteen-year-old could become a master of."
"I'm not a demon like Sho Ren, if that's what you're asking." Harry waved away, "But you are right. I'm older than I look."
Just then Sho Ren jumped up in the air, casting a powerful air-vacuum technique. Harry's eyes widened as Yusuke dove straight into the attack.
"I don't know where he got the will to endure that sort of pain." Genkai said, "But he's making it into the eye of the tornado."
Harry watched with fascination as Yusuke flew forwards, jumping through the slicing wind and towards Sho Ren. He crossed his arms, hitting Sho Ren's nick and forcing him back down to the ground by his windpipe.
Harry's eyes widened, was Yusuke's reiki actually increasing? Still?
They hit the ground and Sho Ren's eyes were closed painfully in his now unconscious state. Yusuke slowly stood up, panting.
"I got him." He said, "And he wasn't joking about the pain."
He turned around and started walking back towards them.
"Yusuke, your fight isn't over yet." Harry said.
Yusuke's eyes widened and he turned around. Sho Ren's body was sinking into the ground while deep laughter filled the air.
"Oh dear." Harry said, not really all that worried.
Genkai just grunted non-comically at Harry's attitude. The ground shook, then began coming apart and a blue light shot into the air. Rando appeared out of it, a demon with green skin and brown cracks along his chest, red hair and a blue spider-like design over his face.
"This is my true form, and now that I've seen it, I'm going to have to kill you all." He smirked.
"Aw man." Harry moaned and Genkai shot him a look. Harry just shrugged,
"What? I wasn't planning on dying today, you know?"
Genkai rolled her eyes,
"No, I don't know. Now shut up, brat."
Harry laughed a little at this.
"So that's Rando?" Kuwabara asked with awe.
"Yup." Harry nodded, then tilted his head thoughtfully, "Well, probably. It's not like he flat out stated he was Rando."
"He did." Genkai shot him a glare, "You weren't listening."
"Well, I guess that solves that then." Harry nodded, unhelpfully.
"This is always the hardest part." Rando said walking over to Yusuke, who wasn't doing too well at all, he collapsed to one knee. Rando smirked,
"Choosing which technique to use first." He stopped, now standing right above Yusuke, "Perhaps you can give me a good suggestion."
Yusuke glared up at him, clenching his fists,
"Shut your mouth." He growled.
Harry had to applaud him. It took guts to say something like that in such a desperate situation. He then started punching the demon at a rather impressive speed. But there was no power behind his attacks, and Rando looked bored. Rando slapped him aside and Yusuke went flying back.
"Alright." Rando said, "I just thought of the perfect technique for you."
A strange sort of sound seemed to hum through the air, then millions of threads began to slowly make their way out of his mouth. Like a spider spinning its web, Harry thought. They moved into an orb, surrounding Yusuke.
"Uh, what's that?" Kuwabara shivered.
"That is life force thread." Genkai said calmly, "An archaic form of materialized reiki no doubt taken from a very ancient psychic."
The demon chuckled, delightedly, then grabbed the ends of the threads from his mouth and they all bundled up together into these writhing tendrils that struck at Yusuke from several different directions. Yusuke dodged the first two strikes, but then the tendrils split into smaller segments and wrapped themselves around his arms, legs and torso. The tendrils glowed, then merged into one large tendril that wrapped around Yusuke's arms and torso, binding him.
"I can't…move!"
"Yusuke!" Harry shouted, "You have the power to defeat him! I can see it. You just need to believe in yourself!"
"H-Harry!" Yusuke shouted back, then looked down, eyes widened.
The demon though, chuckled,
"He doesn't have anything. His reserves are completely depleted." He smirked, "Needless to say, I could crush him right here…but I'd rather test my techniques."
Harry's eyes bore into Yusuke,
"Yusuke. You know I'm right."
Yusuke looked up, meeting Harry's gaze. But Rando snorted and the web-like tendrils around him began to squeeze, hard. Yusuke bit his tongue, trying to hold back his screams.
"Yusuke, focus." Harry said firmly.
"Focus…" Yusuke repeated weakly, he closed his eyes, then, to both Genkai's and Rando's surprise, he began to glow with blue energy. It came off of him like flames.
"This boy…" Genkai murmured, then looked at Harry, "You taught him, didn't you?"
"I've only known him for…almost a month now." Harry admitted, "Not enough time to give him any serious training, but enough to give him some basic survival stuff. I want him to find a real teacher, though. I rarely stay in one place for long, and I'll probably be leaving soon."
"So, you brought him to me." Genkai said.
"Well, it was actually Koenma who did that." Harry shrugged, "Everything after that was a happy coincidence."
The thread-like tendrils around Yusuke began to break apart.
"Impossible!" Rando shouted.
Yusuke glared at the demon,
"No…it's not." Then he was free and the threads were no more, he aimed his two fingers at Rando, "Hadou no yon, Byakurai!" lightning shot out from his fingers, nearly hitting the demon, but just missing…no, wait, there was a mall graze.
Rando snarled,
"You have caused me pain, and I don't like that!" he charged forwards and kicked at Yusuke who was flung off to the side.
Yusuke groaned, then tried to get up.
"That technique just now…what was that?" Rando growled.
Genkai looked at Harry who smiled slightly.
"It's your technique isn't it?"
Rando turned,
"What?" he snarled.
"Yes, Hadou number four, pale lighting. It's one in a set of ninety-nine Hadou techniques. Number one being the weakest and number ninety-nine being the strongest." Harry agreed.
Rando looked at him greedily,
"And that was number four…so then number ninety-nine must be…"
Harry just tilted his head to the side, and Rando growled at his lack of attention, then he was slammed into the ground by Yusuke who held out his two fingers,
"Hadou no yon, Byakkurai!" it hit him head on this time and Rando let out a scream.
"I have never seen a technique like that before." Genkai said, then looked over at Harry, "You say there are ninety-nine of these."
Harry nodded,
"Yup, and I'm probably the only person in this world who knows them…well, other than Yusuke who knows two Hadou spells and two Bakudou spells." He waved.
Genkai grunted, then turned back to the fight. Rando barely had any strength left, it seemed. Harry smiled slightly, he'd done well giving him the little amount of training he could…
Yusuke kicked him, then punched him sixteen times in rapid succession. Then finally, got him with an elbow drop.
Harry hummed, it looked like Rando was out for the count this time. Yusuke was huffing and puffing as he got up shakily,
"And…stay down." He mumbled, falling back onto his butt.
"You gonna call the match?" Harry asked Genkai.
The old master nodded,
"The winner of the Genkai Tournament is…Yusuke Urameshi!"
Kuwabara looked over at Harry,
"Uh, could you teach me to shoot lighting from my fingers too?"
Harry laughed,
"Maybe…I'm gonna be leaving soon…but Yusuke will be training here for six months so…I guess I could stick around and give you a bit of training."
"Alright!" Kuwabara laughed.
"W-w-wait, six months?" Yusuke asked, turning green.
"That is what this whole tournament was for, Yusuke." Harry rolled his eyes, "And if you don't train hard, then Kuwabara here will probably surpass you…oh dear, that wouldn't be good, would it?"
Yusuke growled,
"You aren't going to do the same thing to him as you did to me…are you?"
Harry smirked,
"No. I can think of much more…interesting methods to get his reiki up to par. I bet he'll be able to cast up to a Hadou thirty when I'm done with him."
"Your mean twenty-six levels higher than the lightning spell Yusuke used?" Kuwabara's eyes gleamed.
Harry shrugged with a smug smile on his face,
"Probably…oh, and let's not forget Hohou and sword fighting. It just so happens that I know quite a bit about sword play, and that does seem to be your style, right?"
Kuwabara nodded eagerly.
"Guess we'll see you after six months, Yusuke." Harry grinned, then started walking away.
Harry's words seemed to have just the effect he'd intended on the punk.
"Oh yeah! Well I'll train extra hard. There's no way Kuwabara will be able to defeat me!" he yelled after them as Harry walked away laughing.
"Keep telling yourself that." Harry waved and Kuwabara laughed as he followed after his new teacher.
At least this would be interesting…plus, Harry had some training of his own he'd have to do…