DISCLAIMER: This author, though she is distraught by saying so, does not own Yu Yu Hakusho or Harry Potter. Will the legal advisors and lawyers please stop stalking her now? (No offense to anyone with a parent in the legal business. Or if you're in the legal business. ::timidly:: I'm sorry?)

Location: Between chapters 2 (3 isn't part of the plot) and 4.

Chapter 02: Shopping!

Though Thianadel had bought most of their supplies, a short trip to Diagon Alley had been needed for robes and for wands. Robes were easy. Wands were... harder.

Naturally, though, a trip to Gringotts was needed, both to change money and to retrieve it. The boys (excluding Hiei) had a bit of money that they had gotten from their parents for various things. Thia had $150.00, not to mention a Gringotts account. Putting that through the conversion rate, it amounted to 26 Galleons and 8 Sickles. They were then taken to a vault deep underground.

"Woohoo!" Yusuke yelled as they rode in the cart to the vault.

Apparently, he was enjoying himself. Thia, on the other hand, was clutching at the sides of the cart, seemingly fearing the instability of the wooden vehicles.

Finally, they stopped at a vault whose number was completely irrelevant and where she withdrew a substantial amount of the money stored there.

"I opened an account the last time I was here," Thia explained as she pocketed a few more Galleons.

"This is all yours?" Yusuke asked, gawping at the piles of gold, silver, and bronze that were stacked knee-high all throughout the room.

"One of the benefits of being the only one left in my immediate family," was the grim reply.

And then they arrived at Ollivanders. The odd man who owned the shop gave them a funny look as they entered the room, his silvery eyes taking in their appearances.

"I assume that you are transfer students? Excellent, excellent. Who's first? Ah, you, young man. Which is your wand arm?" After getting Yusuke's measurements, and giving out a wand spiel that, quite frankly, no one listened to, he went into the back to retrieve a wand.

There was a relative silence before Kurawara decided to comment with, "I hope these wands don't make me look like a fairy."

A rather unsure pause.

"I think you've got a picture of a 'Tinkerbell' wand in your head, Kuwabara. You'll see, they don't look like that." The red-head had a skeptical look on his face, but then Mr. Ollivander came out with the undeniable proof.

"Ah, here we go, mahogany, flexible, twelve inches, unicorn hair. Give it a try." Yusuke waved it around pathetically, and something gave a loud bang.

"No, no, no. Here, beechwood, twelve inches, rigid, dragon heartstring."

Three wands later, Yusuke had damaged half of the store, but his wand had been found. An inflexible, eleven inch wand made of yew with a unicorn hair at the very core.

"Ah, I know exactly the wand for you, good sir!" Mr. Ollivander said at the very moment he saw Kuwabara. It was a fifteen-and-a quarter inch yew, rigid, and with a dragon heartstring at the center. A single wave produced orange sparks not unlike the color of his trademark Spirit Sword.

"Oh, you're a tricky customer!" was the joyful cry that he gave after Hiei had (resentfully) tried twenty wands, none of them quite right. And then Ollivander brought out an ebony, eight-and-three-quarters inches wand, the core of it another dragon heartstring, middling in its flexibility. This time when the demon flicked the wand, it didn't give a satisfactory BANG! (which Hiei had begun to rather like), but rather showered the spectators with menacing black sparks.

"Hn." That fuzzy feeling occurring in the pit of his stomach was really uncomfortable.

Thia's was not quite as hard to find as Hiei's, but it took twelve tries for her to get a willow wand, twelve inches, supple and made with a phoenix feather. The wave that she gave it produced a multitude of green and pink sparks.

"Pink?! What?! Mistake! I cannot have a wand that chooses to spark off PINK stuff! I mean, the green's okay, but PINK?!"

No one knew quite what to say.

"Sorry. Materialistic American Teenager Mode. I'll shut up now," Thia said sheepishly, retreating into a corner.

Kurama's wand was found within the first three wands that he tried. Made of rosewood (what else would it be made of?) and a phoenix feather, the thirteen inch wand was quite bendy and gave off silver sparks everywhere.

"Hey Kuwabara, if you still want that Tinkerbell wand, we can always get a couple of stickers and a star for you."

"Shut up!"

Author's Notes: Okay, you're probably wondering why Thia didn't buy her wand when she bought all of the other stuff... and truth be known, so am I. I'm guessing that I gave her my lack of common sense when I created her character... I'm making this a 2-4-1 rogueicephoenix special!!!

Oh, and as far as I know, Ollivanders only makes wands from unicorn hair, dragon heartstring, and phoenix feather. But that's only as far as I know. Oh, and I'm not saying that all American teenagers are materialistic. Thia is.

Thia: HEY! I AM SOOOO NOT MATERIALISTIC!

Will you give the readers your Yu Yu Hakusho DVDs?

...I'm materialistic. Very materialistic.