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Normal words – Story

Italicized words – flashbacks, emphasized words

Bolded Words – Japanese (Japanese by itself will be normal.)

{Words in Braces} – Conversation with Suzushouka/Hyourinmaru

'Words in Single Parenthesis' – thoughts

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Chapter 3: The Great Hall

Ami turned around and saw Hagrid. "Oh, Hagrid! How are you?"

"I'm brilliant. And you?"

"Awesome."

"And this must be good ol' Toushirou you and Dumbledore mentioned, right?" Hagrid asked Ami as he ruffled Toushirou's spiky, white hair.

"Yeah, that's Toushirou," Ami said, while giggling, because her brother had a couple of nerves and irks showing.

"Oh, hello, Harry. Doing good there?" Hagrid finally noticed Harry and his friends.

"Doing great!" Harry called.

Then Ami remembered the Sorting Hat. She reached into her shoulder bag and pulled out the ragged thing. "Oh, Hagrid." She handed him the hat. "Professor Dumbledore told me…"

"To give this back to me, yeah. I remember." He tucked it in his pocket and said, "Well, I must be off. I have a duty with the firs' years, 'member?"

Ami nodded. "Good luck."

Hagrid laughed. "Thanks, Ami…" And there he went.

When he was gone, Toushirou grumbled, "I can't believe he was taller than me…" to which Ami giggled.

The group was about to go off when the same pink haired girl and the orange-haired boy came up with two new people, a girl and another boy.

The girl had black hair held in a ponytail swung over her left shoulder with bangs that covered her right eye. Her eyes were unusually purple. She was wearing a dark red jean skirt, a white-long-sleeved t-shirt, a red short-sleeved t-shirt, and dark brown boots, knee-length.

The boy had red hair in a ponytail with a white cloth wrapped around his forehead. He was as tall as Ichigo, maybe a little taller. He had tattoos all over his packing body, and he was wearing a green sleeveless t-shirt to show his tattoos on his arms, and blue jeans. And don't forget Vans on his feet.

"Ami-chan!" The girl called.

"Oh, hi guys! I was wondering when you would show your faces!" Ami said.

"Gomen," the boy said.

"It's alright!" Ami said. She turned to Harry's group. "Everyone, this is Hino Reika," she pointed to the black-haired girl, "and this is Abarai Renji," she said, pointing to the red-haired guy.

"Mina-chan and Ichi-kun are already with the Hufflepuffs, and that means Renji and I should be with the Ravenclaws," Reika said. Then she turned to Luna. "Oh, hi! I'm Hino Reika, a Ravenclaw and you must be Luna Lovegood, also a Ravenclaw."

The two immediately entered a non-stop conversation, and off the three went. Ami turned back to the others. "Come on. We should go if we want good seats."

And off they went.

When they got to the carriages, Harry noted about the thestrals, which only he could see, or so he thought. It turned out that Ami and Toushirou could see them too, seeing as how the two were dead, but they didn't dare share that information with anyone else, not even Dumbledore.

In the carriages, they all had a nice long chat.

"Ami..." Ginny started.

Ami looked up.

"Why aren't you guys first years?"

"Well, you see, Shirou and I are transfer students..."

Ron interrupted. "From where?"

"From Japan...and next time, Ronald, I would appreciate it if you didn't interrupt me..."

Ron blushed three shades of red. "Sorry...AND IT'S RON!"

"Well, your real name is Ronald, isn't it?" Ami asked calmly.

This only pissed Ron off even more. Hermione put up her hand to silence him.

"Are they okay?" Neville asked Ami.

"If you mean Renji and Reika, yeah, they're okay..."

"What about the other two?"

"Ichigo and Minako are alright too...so don't worry about it, Nev..." Ami smiled gently at him, to which Neville blushed and forced himself to smile back.

"So why are you here?" Harry spoke up. "I don't mean to be rude or anything..."

Ami kindly interrupted him by holding up a hand to silence him. "It's alright...you'll know at the feast..."

Harry also blushed when she smiled at him, and it was also because he was getting lost in her gentle, bright, turquoise eyes again.

Hermione noticed Toushirou looking out of the window. She wanted to get him involved too.

"So...Toushirou..."

Ami immediately piped up. "That is a very bad idea, Hermione...whenever Nii-san is unusually quiet like that, it means he doesn't want to be involved in anything. I mean it's great that you want him involved, but if he doesn't want to, then let him be."

"You mean to say that he usually isn't this quiet?" Ron asked.

Ami shook her head. "Ie, he's usually making an angry retort at somebody or something like that..."

And she was right. Toushirou's face was of sadness. He looked like he was thinking or remembering something that he couldn't stand to see again.

"You know," Ron started. Hermione shot him a look that said, 'Don't start, Ron...' Ron ignored her. "You and your brother look alike, but are totally different."

"Better different than the same, Ronald," Ami said calmly. She turned to her brother. "We'll talk later..."

~At the Great Hall~

Toushirou and Ami entered the Great Hall with a few other students. The Hall fell somewhat silent at the sight of the six new students.

Ami ducked her head to hide her red face from further embarrassment. Toushirou refused to make eye contact with anyone in the place. Minako leaned into the two siblings.

"It could be worse..." Minako whispered into both their ears.

Ami nodded and went off with Toushirou to sit with the Gryffindors, while Ichigo and Minako sat with the Hufflepuffs and Renji and Reika sat with the Ravenclaws.

While the students waited for the Sorting to take place, the talking and conversing started up again.

At the Hufflepuff table...

"Ichi-kun," Minako whispered to the said person. "Do you sense that?"

"Sense what?"

This irritated Minako a little bit. "You mean you can't feel that spiritual pressure?"

"What spiritual pressure?" Ichigo was starting to get a little impatient. What could Minako feel that he couldn't?

Renji heard the whole thing and walked over Minako and said, "Ichigo here has a little trouble with sensing spiritual pressure on time..."

"Really?"

Renji nodded and went back to his own table where Reika started talking with him.

"I sense something, Renji-kun..."

"So do I..."

"I have a really bad feeling about all this..."

"I share your pain..."

At the Gryffindor table...

Ami leaned in to talk to her brother. "Nii-san..."

Toushirou refused to make eye contact at anything.

"You've been acting really strange. Want to talk about it?"

Toushirou actually shook his head.

Ami remembered the incident when she slapped him for 'kidou'ing' Malfoy. "I'm not mad at you. And I'm glad you did kidou that guy, but you should've waited a bit longer."

Toushirou turned to his little sister and said softly, "Gomen...I really didn't mean to make you so mad...I know the best way out of it was to ignore it, but he was making fun of you."

Ami put her index finger on his lips to make him stop talking. "I forgive you, Nii-san. Just do it with my help next time..."

Toushirou put on a little smile and gently wrapped his little sister in a side hug.

The golden trio plus Ginny saw the whole thing.

"Ugh...now that is weird..." Ron complained.

The temperature dropped again, just like on the train. Ron sweatdropped. Toushirou was looking at him with an annoyed look.

"Excuse me," the white-haired boy said softly yet menacingly. "I don't see you treating your sister like she's your best friend..."

Ron shut up after that.

After the Sorting Ceremony, Albus Dumbledore got up and said, "I hope all of you have had a lovely summer. But don't let me ramble on like this before you've had something to eat." With these words, all five tables filled up with food.

Everyone began to eat. That is, with the exception of the six Japanese Soul Warriors.

Ron looked at the two siblings like they were nuts.

"What the bloody hell are you waiting for? It's freakin' delicious!"

"Language, Ronald," Hermiome said. "Ginny's with us. Besides, they're Japanese. They don't eat this kind of food. Right?" She looked at the white haired girl sitting beside Ginny for assurance and proof.

Ami nodded. Hermione smiled, proud for being right once again. Ron scowled at her.

The red-haired boy got over it, and picked up a cup. He took a sip and sit it out immediately. Right on Hermione, who was sitting across from Ron, who was sitting next next to Harry, whow as sitting next to Ginny. Hermiome looked at him in disgust.

"RON! That was rude!" The bushy brown-haired girl was furious.

"Watch where you spit things out, Ronald," Ami said calmly, sipping on something similar to what Ron sit out.

"Which means it wasn't necessary to spit it all over me!" Heriome started, but stopped when she felt her robes lighten their wet load. She turned just in time to see Toushirou put his wand away.

All six Soul Warriors had to get wands, so that they would appear 'normal'. Toushirou's wand was 12 inches long, made with winter's first snowflake, and colored white wiht very light blue blotches on it. Ami's was 11 inches long, made from the century's first raindrop, and colored light blue with very light blue stripes running down it like a candy cane. Ichigo's was the same length as Toushirou, made from the Moon's first beams, and colored black with red blotches on it. Minako's wand was 9 and a half inches, made from a single hair from the first angel, and colored light pink. Renji's was ten inches in length, made from snake skin, and colored red with white striped running across it. And finally Reika's was same length as Minako's, made from phoenix fire, and colored very dark red. Each one loved their wand.

"What is this stuff!?" Ron asked.

"Here you go, Nii-san," Ami said, passing her brother a cup. She turned to Ron. "Green tea," she said, before helping herself to some ramen.

That was when everyone realized that there was also Japanese food on the table. Ami turned to the Staff table to where Dumbledore was and smiled huge. Dumbledore softly smiled back.

At the Hufflepuff table, Minako was eating her Teriyaki-Chicken-on-a-stick. Ichigo sweatdropped at her antics, for she was eating like it was her last meal.

After a little while later, Dumbledore stood up. "Now that have filled our bellies, it's time for some regular beginning-year announcements."

All went quiet, and the six Soul Warriors paid close attention.

"First things first, first years as well as a few of our older students should know that the Forbidden Forest is out-of-bounds, with the exception to six of our students, and they know who they are. The reason to this is because they have things to do there." He was talking to and about the six Soul Warriors. They would need to do missions in there if the time came, and also they would need someplace to train alone where no one could find them or interrupt. "Next thing, Mr. Filch has asked me, for what he tells me is the four-hundred and sixty-second time, to remind you that all magic is not permitted in corridors or between classes, nor are a number of other things. The list can be found on the extensive list now fastened to his office door. We also have a few changes in staffing this year. Professor Grubbly-Plank has taken back his job as Care of Magical Creatures teacher. The second is our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, but she is not able to join us today."

For the first time, that day, Toushirou and Ami looked the empty spot at the Staff table. The two siblings turned back toward each other and smirked in approval. The other four Soul Warriors saw this and mentally laughed.

"...Told you I would take care of it..." Ami whispered in her brother's ear.

"Arigatou..." Toushirou whispered back.

Luckily, no one else caught this.

"Thirdly, I have a new subject that will be taught by two people. May I invite Hitsugaya Toushirou and Hitsugaya Ami to the front, please?"

There was an instant silence all around.

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