Major appologies for the late update, I blame uni, exams and me being a lazy arse.

Any way, here is the new chapter of 'Exorcists come to Hogwarts why?' Its all fun and games at the Yule ball.

Enjoy and please review.

When asked what clue the egg gave him Kanda just glared and started muttering curses under his breath. The three younger exorcists turned questioningly to Lavi who was sat there with a grin on his face.

"Well when he opened it all we could hear was this high pitched screeching," he explained with a shrug. "Of course that really pissed him off and I had to steal it before he could slice it in half with Mugen." Allen frowned thoughtfully.

"I think I heard Harry and Ron mention something about that," he said. "Harry hasn't got a clue what it means either."

"When's the next task?" asked Lenalee worriedly. "He's got to work it out by then."

"24th February," muttered Yana staring at the fire. "And if you open that thing around me I'll kill it, my hearing is my sensitive than yours." They all sweat dropped and shook their heads, she was almost as violent as Kanda sometimes.

The school seemed to be in the middle of a fever pitch at the moment, all the girls were being giggly and talking about what they were wearing to the Yule ball. The boys on the other hand seemed to be either treating the whole thing like it was a chore or bragging about who they were going with.

The exorcists had the most fun watching Ron and Harry panic about it, apparently Harry hadn't realised that he was supposed to open the ball and therefore had to have a partner for the first dance.

"How on earth am I supposed to ask someone?" he moaned to Allen and Yana.

The three of them and Ron were sat in front of the fire in the common room, Yana was sat on one of the armchairs with Allen sat on the floor in front of her while she made lots of little braids in his hair.

"Is there someone you want to ask?" asked Allen curiously.

"Cho Chang," replied Harry blushed slightly.

"So ask her then," suggested Yana tying off another braid. Harry just buried his face in his hands with a groan.

"Who is Kanda going with?" asked Ron eagerly. Allen snorted and smirked.

"Lenalee is going with him," he told them. "Kanda kept saying no whenever someone asked him, Lenalee was getting fed up of him making them cry so she told him he was going to take her if he couldn't say yes to any of the girls that asked him." The two wizards gaped at him.

"What did he say?"

"He said fine because it meant he would at least be going with someone he could tolerate," Allen chuckled.

"Not to mention he would have had to deal with Komui if he'd upset Lenalee," added Yana.

"But Lenalee wouldn't be upset," Allen told her with a frown. "Half the reason she asked was because she wanted to go with someone that she knew and to keep an eye on him to make sure he isn't too rude. I don't think she likes him the way you're implying." Yana pouted and tugged on one of his braid.

"Hush, don't spoil my fun," she said. "I wanted to see the look on Komui's face when he found out his precious Lenalee was dating." Allen rolled his eyes and ignored her.

"So who are you two going with?" asked Harry curiously.

"No one yet," muttered Yana pulling some more hair ties out of her pocket.

"Do you want to go with me?" asked Allen. It was a good job she was sat behind him so he couldn't see how she was glaring at him.

Ron and Harry understood why she was annoyed though, she really wanted Lavi to go to the ball with Allen so he'd finally get a clue that the red head liked him. She had to do some quick thinking to try salvage the situation, after all she didn't want to say no then have to explain why when she didn't have the excuse that someone had already asked her.

"Erm… I asked Lavi," she said hesitantly. The three boys gaped at her.

"You did?" asked Allen in shock.

"Why?" queried Harry and Ron in unison.

"We're only going as friends," she said bluntly. "It'll be fun." She turned to Allen. "We can't have you on your own though… so I'll get Lavi to ask you."

"Huh?" All three of them looked confused, sometimes trying to follow her logic was confusing.

"Look, I asked Lavi and Allen asked me," she explained. "So if Lavi asks Allen then we're all asked each other and the three of us can just go together and have fun."

"Err… ok," said Allen still looking a bit confused. That seemed like a really convoluted way to go about it, but whatever it solved the problem.

Now Yana just had to find Lavi and tell him what was going on before Allen found out she'd made it up on the spot.

Harry asking Cho didn't quite as planned, it turned out she was already going with Cedric and Ron… well…

"I can't believe you ask Fleur," deadpanned Yana. "Did you lose all common sense?" Lavi patted his fellow red head on the shoulder.

"It's ok Ron, you may have been totally rejected but at least you had the guts to ask," he said. "Trust me, that girl gives everyone self-confidence issues."

Eventually Harry and Ron ended up going with the Patil twins after Ron made a complete prat of himself by insinuating that no one could have asked Hermione so she should go with one of them. Let's just say the exorcists beat a quick retreat for that one and left before it could turn into a screaming match.

"Allen! What's taking you so long?" yelled Lavi up the stairs. There was a crash as Allen tripped over something in the room.

"I'll be there in a minute!" Lavi sighed and shook his head, he turned around and stared. He whistled appreciatively, the clothes Yana had made were something special.

Miranda and Krowley were waiting in the common room with them, as they were going as a group in representation of their 'school', and Lavi almost couldn't tell it was them. Miranda was wearing an elegant tiered deep purple dress; it was strapless and stopped just short of the floor and Krowley looked pretty good when you could actually see him without a cape.

Hermione's dress was a floaty periwinkle one from what he'd seen of it before she'd left the room to meet her date. Lenalee and Kanda matched, Yana had obviously intended that they go together right from the start when she was designing their outfits. Lenalee's midnight blue, off the shoulders ball gown matched Kanda's velvet dark blue dress jacket perfectly.

Lavi then looked at himself. His suit was dark burgundy and looked almost like a military dress jacket, he had a dark green waistcoat to go with it, which Yana said enhanced his eyes. He also didn't have his headband on so his hair wasn't sticking up all over the place. Yana herself was helping Allen get dressed upstairs and Lavi hadn't seen either of their clothes, he sighed.

"Hey Lenalee, do you know what either of those two are wearing?" he asked. She shook her head.

"I'm sorry Lavi. I saw some of the designs but I never saw the ones for her or Allen. You look great by the way." He smirked.

"Well I guess Yana really does make good clothes."

"Of course I do. You're suits are ok aren't they?" They all turned at Yana's voice, she stood at the bottom of the stairs smiling. Her dress was a simple red fitted one with long sleeves and gloves to cover her hand but it had white cherry blossoms floating down sewn into the material, Lavi whistled impressed.

"You're really good at this Yana," he said, Harry and Ron came over.

"I can't believe you made all of these," said Harry, Yana smiled in thanks.

"You haven't seen Allen yet," she said stepping aside to allow them to see him.

Lavi inhaled sharply, Allen's suit was white. He fiddled with his white gloves as they stared at him and Lavi could see a silver waistcoat underneath his jacket. For some reason he was wearing a white top hat too, she'd even managed to get him white shoes. He blushed.

"Stop staring, it's rude," Allen muttered pouting. Yana laughed and threw an arm over his shoulder.

"But Allen you look great! They're just admiring you. You look like an angel." Lavi started as he realised Yana was right, Allen looked like a sophisticated angel. He bowed and offered a hand.

"I think it's time to go down now," he said smiling up through his hair. Kanda took Lenalee's hand and started walking. Ron and Harry went to find their respective dates and Lavi and Allen both took one of Yana's hands each.

"Aren't you lucky Yana?" squealed Lavender. "You get two hot guys taking you!" Yana smiled.

"We're all taking each other. I'm taking Lavi, he's taking Allen and Allen's taking me," she explained. "Besides I'm sure plenty of people will dance with others so I won't just be dancing with them. Lavi's suppose to be a terrible dancer any way."

Lavi blushed. "I can dance!" he said indignantly. She grinned.

"Great, prove it by dancing with Allen then." He flustered.

"Why Allen and not you?" She sighed and scowled.

"I promised Master I would dance with him. I can't leave Allen alone so promise you'll dance with him, you don't have to dance with him all the time." Allen blinked.

"You're dancing with Master?" he asked apparently unfased about having to dance with a boy in public. She nodded.

"He has to be seen dancing with a beautiful girl apparently," she said. "And no ones going to question it too much if it's one of his students." She smoothed her dress out as they entered the Great Hall; it looked like an ice palace.

Allen, Lavi and Yana watched with grins as Kanda and Lenalee sat at the top table with the rest of the champions and the judges. Going from the sour look on his face the Japanese teen was not enjoying this at all, the only thing that seemed to cheer him up was when he realised soba was on the menu.

The three of them had lots of fun for the meal since they'd somehow managed to sit opposite the Weasley twins who were telling jokes and stories of all the pranks they'd done over the years. Soon it was time for the opening dance and they had a lot of fun finding mistakes in the steps each couple did, Harry particularly seemed to be having trouble although to be fair he had admitted that he'd never danced before in his life.

"Hey Allen, Lavi, Yana!" They looked up to see Komui and Reever waving at them, they hurried over.

"Komui! Reever! What are you doing here?" asked Yana smiling. Komui laughed.

"Professor Dumbledore was kind enough to invite us, there are about ten others here too. I'm letting them take a break, they deserve it." Yana laughed.

"Komui, you and Reever are going to dance right?" she asked slyly. They both flushed red.

"Well… it's suppose to be for the kids really…" stuttered Komui embarrassed. "Err… besides I don't like dancing that much-" He was cut off as Reever dragged him towards the dance floor still bright red, the exorcists laughed.

"I never knew the two of them liked each other," mused Lavi eyeing them, he'd missed when the rest of them had found out when Komui visited before.

"They've been going out for at least as long as I've been in the Order," chuckled Yana. "Most likely longer."

Lavi choked. "Why didn't I know?"

"It's not my fault you're slow."

"Stop arguing brats. You're suppose to be on your best behaviour." They turned around to see Cross. Allen scowled.

"And what exactly is going to count as your best behaviour?" he asked. Cross smirked.

"Probably not getting stinking drunk."

Lavi took the time to check Cross's suit. It was made from velvet like Kanda's but in dark grey and was a long tailed coat.

"Finished staring yet kid?" interrupted Cross. Lavi smiled.

"Yep, Yana did a good job for yours too." Cross snorted and took Yana's hand leading her away towards the dance floor.

"Allen I'm bored," groaned Lavi as they sat at the table a while later with Harry and Ron who had both given up on dancing and their dates.

"I can't believe you two danced together," said Ron. Lavi shrugged.

"Yana made me promise to. Not that it matters, I wouldn't have danced with anyone else any way." Allen blushed while Harry looked at the dance floor.

"Everyone seems to be enjoying themselves," he said as he watched. "I don't think Lenalee and Kanda have stopped dancing, though Kanda seems to be getting annoyed and her brother and that guy he's with seem to be enjoying themselves. Miss Lott and Mr Krowley have danced a lot too." He looked round again. "I can't see Yana any more though." Allen shot up.

"What?"

"I haven't seen her in a while. She's easy to pick out, you just follow the boys trailing after her," said Harry. Allen sat up straighter and tried to find her, Lavi rolled his eyes and pulled Allen's top hat over his eyes.

"Lavi! What was that for?"

"Stop worrying. She's capable of looking after herself, I'm sure she'd be annoyed if she knew you were worrying about her," he muttered sleepily as he laid his head on the table. Allen looked at him fondly and smiled.

"Ok Lavi." He looked out at the dance floor again and grinned. "Lavi get up."

"Why?" he asked. Allen stood up and held out his hand.

"I want you to dance me with me," he said smiling. Lavi paled.

"Err… I'd rather not… you saw how bad I am. You should dance with someone who won't stand on your toes," he stuttered trying to get out of it. Allen laughed.

"But the only way to get better is to dance with someone who is better. Come on, I'll teach you." He grabbed his hand and dragged him on to the dance floor, Lavi blushed and let himself be pulled along. Allen stopped in the middle and turned to face him.

"Now do you want to be the girl or the boy?" he asked. Lavi choked. "Well it doesn't matter, you're too tall to be the girl so I guess I'll be playing the girl again," Allen said with a smile, Lavi grinned nervously.

Allen went through step by step of the dance until he was at least satisfied Lavi wouldn't stand on his toes. They danced for a few songs and Allen smiled up at him.

"See, you got better already," he said. "Why did you tell Yana you could dance?" he asked curiously. Lavi looked away embarrassed.

"Because she said I couldn't," he said pouting.

Allen laughed. "You're such a little kid sometimes." Lavi grinned.

"Well it doesn't matter. I got a wonderful teacher out of the bargain so I won't step on people's toes any more." Allen blushed. "Besides she doesn't need to know I couldn't dance before," he said making Allen burst out laughing.

"Well you might have got away with it if I wasn't standing right behind you when you said it," said Yana. Lavi spun round and grinned sheepishly.

"Oh, hi Yana. Where've you been? We haven't seen you for a while." She sighed.

"I was avoiding this big group of boys that won't leave me alone, I locked Master in his room," she said with a smirk. They sweat dropped.

"Why?"

"He was so not on his best behaviour, though he probably wasn't as drunk as he claimed either," she said with a sigh. The other two exorcists deadpanned.

"Did he try to flirt with you?" She sent them a blank look and stared for a few seconds.

"Let's just say he's going to have a killer headache not caused by alcohol when he wakes up tomorrow," she said. "I should have hit him harder."

The night ended well, if you ignored Ron and Hermione's spat about her coming to the ball with Vicktor Krum of all people. Kanda finally got off the dance floor when Komui insisted on dancing with Lenalee only to be dragged back on when Yana asked to dance, which he did grudgingly. All in all they had a really good time but they all agreed that being required to have a partner made the whole thing needlessly troublesome.

So that was the new chapter, hopefully it won't take me as long to update next time.

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Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it.