Here you all go! It's a rogueicephoenix special! CHRISTMAS IN JULY!!! And it's five days early, too!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho and I don't own Harry Potter. And unless I can become like Mystique from X-Men, nor will I ever. I do own Ever-Freez Ice Cream, though, so HA!

Chapter 11: It's Christmas

For Harry, Ron, and Hermione, the days were like a constantly revolving door, always doing this or that with not much time to speak to each other or to puzzle over the fact that everything was so... normal... all of a sudden! It was December and Christmas was fast approaching. There had been no more intrusions and no other disruptions of the school year up to that point. It would have seemed strange, had anyone decided to think about it, but the only ones who did were Kurama and Thia, and only in passing.

"There haven't been any attacks lately."

"And would you consider that to be a good thing or a bad thing?"

Thia gave Kurama a look, but quickly turned back to her homework. "Hm. That's hard. Not. It's got to be bad. It means that the lords are cooking up some kind of evil and...psychotic plan that won't turn out exactly right in the end but will have some kind of lasting effect on the entire wizarding world. You know, like them managing to take over Hogmeade and turning it into a headquarters for all that's evil and dispicable. How do you spell asthaenaijig root?"

"A-s-t-h-a-e-n-a-i-j-i-g. I agree with most of that. Though, the invasion and capture of Hogsmeade sounds unlikely."

"Yeah, I know. It's just my imagination running away from me. Spell check, please."

Perhaps they should have been more watchful.

"Okay, so who else do you need to get a gift for?" Thia asked Hermione as they searched in one of the catalogues that the Weasley twins had created for their joke shop just for the holidays.

"I've finished. Oh, no, wait. I've got to get a pair of socks for Dobby."

"Lucky Dobby. And lucky Hermione for doing her shopping before the rest of us losers! I have to get gifts for Suichi and Hiei."

"Just give Hiei anything sweet," Kurama advised as he read over her shoulder.

"Sugar addict, huh? I never would've guessed. Now would you shoo? I can't buy stuff if you're hovering around."

"Am I not supposed to know what I'm getting for Christmas?"

"How presumptuous. No, you're not supposed to know what prank I'm going to pull on you on Christmas."

On Christmas morning, the sixth year boys in the Gryffindor dormitory woke up loudly. Possibly the loudest, however, were the two new ones, Yusuke Urameshi and Kazuma Kuwabara. They were some of the first ones up and were tearing open packages of Chocolate Frogs and Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans while the others were still having nightmares of dancing and man-eating sugarplums.

"Look Urameshi! An entire year's supply worth of DUNGBOMBS!"

"Yeah, same here! Imagine what Takenaka'll do if I set one of these off... Hey do they expel you if you set one of these off in the halls?" Yusuke asked curiously of Harry, hoping upon hope that it was so. Instead, Ron replied in the negative, explaining that his twin brothers had done it loads of times.

"DAMN!"

"Do people ever give me anything but quills?"

"Open the other ones! I gave you something different." Padma handed Thia a cube-shaped object wrapped in blue paper.

"It's... a clock!"

"And the alarm is extra loud so that I can spend more time in more creative ways than waking you up! Like flirting with Suichi!"

"How thoughtful. And this one is...a quill! What, do I look like I lose quills all of the time? Oh, this one looks different..."

"Ooh! It's so pretty!" other girls squealed. And it was. A rectangular black box made of some sort of heavy wood sat amidst a pile of wrapping paper and quills. The design on the cover was a single painted rose. Inside was only a note reading, Because I couldn't find one with a soda can on it.

Thia laughed out loud.

It was truly and utterly appalling. Crabbe and Goyle looked at it, their mouths watering and their eyes wide with gluttony. Malfoy, too, had wide eyes, though that was because he had never imagined anyone could have a larger amount of presents than he.

He should have seen Kurama's mountain.

Hiei's pile was so big mainly because all of it was an insane amount of candy and sweets that (by Hiei's calculations) would last him only about a month. There were Every Flavor Beans, Chocolate Frogs, Fizzing Whizzbees, Ice Mice, Sugar Quills, Jelly Slugs, and more. His favorite? Ever-Freez Ice Cream. For the first time since he'd gotten to Hogwarts, Hiei actually showed an emotion other than anger or impassiveness. Sitting atop his load of sugar, he seemed...pleased.

When Goyle screwed up enough courage to try and steal some of the candy, though, the 'happy' look was replaced by a snarl and the blade was out in an instant. A thin line of blood was traced into the pudgy boy's wrist.

"Don't even try it."

He must be happy, Malfoy thought, if he's not going for the neck.

"So Hermione went on vacation with her family. Where to?" Thia asked Ron and Harry as the entire group walked together to the Great Hall.

"Some place in France," was the response. "I would've thought all of you might've wanted to go back home for the holidays. You know, seeing's how this is your first year and all."

"It's true, we have been missing home," Kurama admitted. Yusuke snorted, pretending that he hadn't been missing anything. Kuwabara was a little more crestfallen, though, and Hiei remained neutral.

All that's home is a dusty house and a broken heart, was Thia's personal thought, though she said nothing about it aloud.

"Don't you dare get near me, Yusuke. I happen to be the one who ordered all of those Dungbombs in the first place. You even try to set one off near me, and I'll punch your head in, make no mistake about it!" A menacing glare was shot at him over the tops of her glasses.

"Fine! Spoil sport." With that, Yusuke tossed the Dungbomb over his shoulder, hitting Filch full in the face.

"URAMESHI!"

"Oh boy."

"MISTLETOE!" was the shout that greeted them when they entered the Great Hall. Everyone looked around wildly, finally spotting it sitting right above-

"Oh hell."

-Thia and Kurama. Both of whom were blushing. And not looking at each other.

Yusuke was cackling himself to tears, up until the point where he realized that there was a sprig of mistletoe right above himself and Kuwabara, and sidled away quickly. Ron was smiling happily, glad to have one story to recount to Hermione when she came back. Harry, unsmiling, was remembering last year, Cho Chang, and mistletoe. Hiei was biting his tongue and trying not to smile. After all, he had an image to uphold!

"Oh, come on! He's bloody gorgeous, kiss him already!"

Uncertain, Thia turned to face Kurama. And then, seeing a sort of smile in his eyes, she decided to go for it. He met her half-way and they shared a small kiss to the cheering of those gathered in the Hall.

"Good girl! Oh, I wish I were you!"

"That mistletoe could have been infested with nargles, though."

"Um...if you say so, Luna."

Author's Note: Um... Yeah. This chapter was a little hard to start and a little hard to shake off. I had to get into the spirit of Christmas, which wasn't as hard as getting out of it. Really weird. Well, review!

Responses:

Slave2anime WORSE?! THERE'S SOMETHING WORSE THAN CAFFEINE ADDICTION?! Juuuust teasing. Don't drool tooooo much, you won't have any left for when Hiei gets another brief spotlight!

Mike the Great I'm working on it! I wrote something about that for chapter 10 and didn't like it, but I think it'll fit somewhere else... like chapter 14! (possibly)

Rose Wow! I'm glad you like it! I was a little afraid to make the chapter too long, so I didn't get a chance to put the lots part in… Bobby (alter-ego, yes it's a girl): You didn't even think of that, you- gags Bobby I thought the whole you-shalt-not-go-near-another-house's-table rule was in the book. Oopsies! These dark lords are all so morbid...I think I inherited one's soul... Um, yeah. Unfortunately, Thia has not found out a way to make her CD player work and it's driving her up the wall... Thanks for the long reviews! I enjoy them a lot.

Falcom-sama RAMEN!! calming down YAY! Fave author list sounds awesome! Thanks!!!

Tweetyboo I swear to you, this is my first fanfic!! Anyway, I'm churning out the chapters as fast as I possibly can!

Lobs-StAcEy-Ters Dungbombs rock! Thanks!

xKitsunex Ooh, goody! Yup, the letters were from his mom and Kaitou. And probably the president of the Suichi fanclub... Just kidding! There's more fighting where that came from... Thank you!!!