Well, here's another chapter! Me own nothing, and btw, the key will be the same per chapter. PSSSH. I just saw I had 170 hits(When I first started writing this chap, now its 393! ),thanks guys!

Key:

"..." The language of the country. So in England, its English, in Japan its Japanese.

: … : Hell Butterfly Message

"..." Thoughts or emphasis "..." Zanpakuto Speaking

"..." This is the Inner hollow speaking

Ichigo POV

After leaving the robe shop, our group headed to the other places to grab our school supplies. We stopped at the place where we were supposed to get our 'wands'. We were met with a rush of cold air as the door swung open. I saw the others (but Orihime) slightly tense up. Even I could sense it, there was a larger amount of reiatsu in this small store than outside or in the other shops. They were all coming from multiple sources. Rukia was just about to ring the bell on what looked like a desk, when a wizened old man with hair as white and poofy as Albert Einstein's appeared out of nowhere. I stepped back as he went to examine Ishida, who stood next to me.

"Ah, you are here to purchase a wand, I suppose? You look too old to be first years entering Hogwarts. Well, except you, young man," the wand maker then looked at Toshiro, who then looked extremely ticked off. Renji stifled a laugh, how many times will he have to do that today?

Momo then chose that moment to speak up and reply to the old man before Toshiro could. "We're transfers from Japan, and so we need wands. We'll be entering fifth year, and Shiro-chan will be entering fourth year."

I knew he just wanted to yell "Captain Hitsugaya".

"Well, I am Ollivander, current wandmaker of Ollivander's Wand Shop, maker of fine wands since 382 B.C.(E.)*. I'll get this young man a wand first" Ollivander said, then waving his wand to instruct multiple tape measures to zoom around Uryu. Everyone took a step away, as one of the rulers almost stabbed my eye, and the measures measured almost every part of Ishida's body. Eyelash length, nose length, pinky length, you name it. Finally, a wand was finally shoved into his hand. "Lace wood, 11 inches, Unicorn. Give it a wave!"

Feeling self conscious, he waved the wand. I leaned forward, seeing Inoue doing the same... And nothing. Not even a little spark. We all deflated at the sight of the wand, and Uryu took my signature move as he scowled at us.

"Not to worry, not to worry! It usually isn't the first wand that chooses the wizard. Here, another." While Uryu was having wands shoved into his hands, Rukia skeptically repeated, "the wand that chooses the wizard?"

"Yes, the wand chooses the wizard. The wands have soul in them, from their cores, and they choose whether or not to let the witch or wizard yield them. Aha!" Ollivander exclaimed as a blue and white cross shot out of the tip of the current wand Ishida was holding.

"I thought so, 11 ½ inches, reed wood, manticore hair core. Must be fast, as it adds quickness to the wand." The wizard hummed pleasantly. "How about you next, Miss?"

"Ah, Arigato Ollivander-san." Momo said, smiling.

Thus reappeared the measures, and I had to swat them away more than once. After many tries, a number five in kanji fire appeared from her wand.

"Good, good, 10 ½ inches, Hawthorn, Phoenix tail feather, surprisingly sharp. And you next, Miss!" Orihime stepped up as the process restarted. Kami, are those things annoying.

After about three wands, yellow-orange sparks erupted, and was accompanied by a "12 inches, Vine with a Purple Heart handle, Unicorn, good for healing spells." That suited her perfectly, and she beamed and thanked the old wandmaker.

Up next was the white haired captain, who went through double the wands Orihime did. He finally ended up with a 10 inch wand made of Elder wood ("An extremely powerful wood!") and a dragon heartstring core, with the core from a very old and wise northern dragon. The temperature in the room had gone down several degrees when his wand chose him. Hinamori had nudged "Shiro-chan" at that, who looked satisfied about his wand selection. Who'd be next? Me or Rukia?

Rukia stepped in front of me and into Ollivander's view, and was immediately rushed into the selection of her wand.

Ladies first I guess, I thought as a vein appeared on my forehead.

After the 13th try, same as her division number, Rukia ended up with a pale white wand made of birch wood, a surprising extremely long length of 13 inches, and a pegasus feather as the core. Little snow flakes had started falling when she stumbled upon her wand, and that caused the room to go down several more degrees, Toshiro being no help, of course.

My turn at last, I let the tape measures run up and down my body, with an annoyed scowl on my face.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the corners of Renji's lips go up at my non amused expression. I turned the force of my glare on him, who just laughed right back at me.

A wand was thrust into my hand, and I waved it, but instead of having nothing happen or sparks fly out of the end, a window broke.

Uh, whoops? I got mixed results from everyone, a punch in the arm from Rukia, a big grin from Renji, and a pair of rolled eyes from Toshiro.

"Tsk, tsk, thought not. Here you go, son." Ollivander said. Another stick was now in my hand,a dark one, and I warily gave it a slow wave. A row of wands suddenly flew out of their cubby holes, but with a flick of his wand, Ollivander repaired the window and put the wands back magically.

After some more wands, and some more disastrous results, Ollivander chuckled. "Tricky customer, eh? I'll go get some more!" For some reason, he looked happy at the thought, which had me blinking in confusion.

Toshiro then took the chance to get his word in. "Nice job Kurosaki, run through every wand in the shop."

Before Renji could add his comment, or in my case, submit a protest, Ollivander was back with more wands.

Three wands later, and a frustrated comment from Rukia, one wand finally thought I was it's match. It was a holly wand, which was 12 ½ inches, and had a core of Thestral hair.

That part had made Ollivander almost squeal with happiness. "A thestral hair wand, I haven't even sold one in my time! Neither had my grandfather, mind you. Thestrals are infamous for their closeness to death, as only those who have seen death can see the beasts themselves..."

Oh, Ollivander-san, you do not know how accurate it is that I got this wand. I could feel Zangetsu accept the less powerful soul in the back of my mind, and wondered if the other's zanpaktou's had done the same.

I grabbed the money bag we had gotten from Gringotts, and he told us what to give him for the wand. I watched as he took large gold coins, which I thought was called Galleons. I remembered the Goblins telling me the money meanings, and I groaned inwardly at the memory.

*flashback*

I stepped into the towering building with the rest of my friends, after learning that this was where we had to go to find our spending money. I noticed the other Soul Reapers look a bit wary when we walked in, and I quirked an eyebrow at Toshiro, who just shook his head. I looked to my left, at Orihime and Ishida, and looked a bit past them to see a large plaque on the wall.

I stopped and read aloud.

"Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there."

Ishida pushed up his glasses. "Sounds ominous."

Our japanese group approached one of the goblins, and I said, "We would like to get- wait, what was it the Professor told us to say?- we would like to make a withdrawal from vault 665."

I heard a certain small black haired midget mutter, "Maybe he shouldn't have been the one we let up to talk..." I scowled at her in response.

"And where is your key..?" the goblin asked us.

Orihime stood up on her tip-toes so she could see over the podium, and said nice and cheerfully, "Here you go, Goblin-san!" Ignoring Orihime's outburst, the goblin delicately snatched the key out of her fingers.

"Ah, yes, and who will be going? The cart only fits two passengers, not including the guide." It might have been just me, but I thought I saw the goblin send glares at Rukia, Toshiro, and Renji.

"I'll go then." I spoke up before anyone else could. "I'll go alone, since we won't all fit."

"I can fit Kurosa-" Toshiro started hotly, before being interrupted by our goblin.

"That is fine, go to your right. Ragnuk! Please assist, vault 665."

A younger looking goblin stepped up, and said a quick "follow me" before dissapearing behind the corner. I gave a little half wave to my friends, and set off after him. Turning the corner, I saw Ragnuk sitting in a small iron cart on the rail system. Spotting me, he said, "Get in please, and we will go."

Obeying, meanwhile eyeing the rickety rails and cart, I started to ask something when the cart lurched foward. It went about 10 miles per hour for the first minute, and I started to say, "Hey, this isn't too bad-woah!" My ride had suddenly spiked in speed, and I was going faster than a car on a highway.

I looked down to see the long drop down, and heard a calm voice from my head. "Be careful, Ichigo."

'Yea yea, I'll be fine. This is more like a rollercoaster to me."

After a short while, and a lot of twists and turns, we slowed and stopped before a looming vault. It towered over us, made of gold, which glowed in the low light. It had a random assortment of bolts and knobs scattered about, plus a large number 665 in the center. There was no visable way to open the door, only if one knew the right knobs to turn.

'Kami, that's big!' I thought to myself, craning my neck to see to the top of the door.

Ignoring my awed look, Ragnuk pushed and twisted some knobs in a random order, then finally knocking in five different places.

With a groan, almost as if the door did not want to oblige, the mass of gold swung open on it's hinges. Inside were stacks and stacks of large gold coins that looked like the chocolate ones from when Mum used to give them to me, piles of smaller silver coins, and heaps of bronze circles.

"The Shihouin vault." Ragnuk intoned. "The gold ones are Galleons, the silver are Sickles, and the bronze ones are Knuts. There are 17 Sickles in a Galleon, and 29 Knuts in a Sickle, meaning there are 493 knuts to a Galleon."

Figuring the Galleons were worth the most, I scooped up a couple of handfuls of those, doing the same with the silver and bronze. The money pouch I carried now was extremely heavy, as it carried a year's worth of money for seven people.

After grabbing all the money I thought was needed, I backed out of the room, and the door shut behind me. The ride back was quick, and I sat easily in the cart, unlike the other people passing by. Faces were green, and hands were gripping onto the sides. Finally, I got off the contraption and wobbled towards where my friends were.

I held up the sack in triumph. "I think this'll be enough for all of us." I said as I rejoined them.

"Yes, now lets go to that dress shop." Rukia told me impatiently.

*flashback end*

"Arigato, Ollivander-san!" Orihime called cheerfully as we exited the wand shop.

Renji scanned our lists as we walked. "Well, the only thing left to get is a pet, if you guys want one."

Rukia immediately straightened up. "Chappy,Chappy,Chappy..." I muttered, hunching down to look as small as Rukia. Renji laughed, so did Momo, and Orihime, leaving Toshiro and Uryu to be stick in the muds.

I even smirked, until Rukia whacked me with the bag she was carrying. "Hey! Rukia!" "Strawberry!" she called as she entered the pet store.

I stood still in the doorway as I looked into the shoppe. Rats were jumping up high and floating once they got in the air! There wasn't even that much room inside, as every inch of wass was hidden by cages. Magical Menagerie was smelly and noisy, no help from the occupants of the cages, which were all squeaking, squashing, jabbering, or hissing. The lady (assuming she's a witch) was talking to a man about the care of double sided newts!

I quickly resumed my normal facial expression and walked into the store, as I was blocking the entry for the rest of the party.

Inside, I looked around and thought, 'What have we gotten ourselves into?'

It sold all kinds of animals - poisonous orange snails, a giant jewel-encrusted tortoise that glittered next to a window, the same floating sleek black rats that looked intelligent (More so than squad 11), owls, purple toads eating flies loudly, a noisy cage of ravens near the counter,cats of every colour, some custard coloured fur balls that were humming and labeled, Puffskeins, a Transforming Rabbit , which I thought Rukia would enjoy, and more animals that I have no idea what they are.

Rukia immediately ran past me to a collection of rabbits (one of which turned into a silk top hat) at looked up at me with pleading eyes. "Pleeeease, Ichigo, can I get a Chappy?"

I stubbornly looked away from her does eyes and said, "No, we can only get Cats, owls, and ...toads." I made a face at the last one. I saw her face fall, and I kinda felt sad for second... Brushing that feeling away, I turned around to find myself staring straight into the eyes of a large Eagle Owl. I returned its steady gaze and, to my suprise, it hopped on my shoulder with a hoot.

"Hey Ichigo, looks like that bird has a crush on you!"

"Shut up, pineapple! Go find a toad or something."

Being stiff as usual, Toshiro told me, "Kurosaki, you should get that bird. It looks strong enough to travel to Japan, even though we can use hell butterflies, it would be less suspicious to use an owl."

"Thanks for that logic, Toshiro."

"Captain Hitsugaya, Kurosaki."

I tuned him out to pet the bird perched on my shoulder. Hageshii. Strong of will. That's her name. I briefly heard Rukia begging Renji to buy her a rabbit in the background.

"Guys, get a pet or something and lets go, okay?"

Toshiro nodded. "Yes, I think I'll get this cat." He picked up a slick long haired ginger kitten. "Don't turn out lazy like your namesake, Rangiku." I heard him mutter.

Over in the corner, Uryu was examining a tall barn owl and standing next to Inoue, who was fawning over an extremely ugly cat.

I looked at the clock on the wall and called out, "Hey guys! I'm going to pay for my owl then go get some ice cream! Anyone coming?" Flashing a grin at the bickering Rukia and Renji, I laid for Hageshii and walked out.

* Before christ/ Before common era

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