Diagonally was full of people - a quality that seemed to annoy Rin to no end if one was to take the angry strides and furious muttering as a sign of it. Harry could only catch a few words and judging by what he managed to hear, he needn't know the rest.

"Stupid ningens...your mother...hang you by...guts...your organs...filthy blood"

Some times, Harry thought, she could get really sadistic. There's a reason why her hair seemed to be strawberry blonde, even though it was not, and why her nails seemed to have something wrong with them, even though they didn't. Rin absolutely adored blood and whenever she managed to cover herself with it, she didn't wash it unless absolutely necessary.

Harry wondered what life would be without Rin. She was, after all, his guardian and it was her job to keep him safe but Frankincense can be really harmful to demons, so he knew there was no way for her to come.

"Okay, let's go get money out of your vault!" she said cheerfully as she practically forced him to enter a large building. Harry looked around and saw that the place was full of goblins, all of which stared at him and Rin.

"Mr. Harry Potter would like to take some money out of his vault." Rin said in an important voice, trying to look like somebody who knew what they were doing. The Goblin looked at the hand that was handing him the key and couldn't help but shudder at the sight of her sharp and blood-covered nail

"This way, Mr. Potter." said the goblin, Griphook, when they finally reached a corridor with many vaults. The goblin opened the vault and if Harry hadn't been dead, his eyes probably would have widened from the amount of money in it. He quickly took the needed amount of money before the goblin closed the vault and they headed back in complete silence.

"Oh goodie" chirped Rin, making Harry cringed for he knew that whenever Rin was acting like a little kid, something bad was bound to happen. "I already bought you the books you need, useless theory that won't serve you shit, if you ask me, so now all we need is a wand, potion supplies and an owl."

"Why an owl?"

"So that you can write to me, of course. If some random git is bothering you, he may...vanish. Completely accidentally, of course. I won't be related to it, in any way."

"Sure, you won't. I wouldn't even dream of it." he sighed as they exited Gringots.

The Apothecary seemed to be a real challenge for both of them. Harry barely managed to tug on his friend's hand and usher her out of the building, before she could open some really gruesome looking jar, filled with with, what resembled, human eyeballs.

Choosing a pet was difficult as the animal had to like their master's personality but seeing that Harry's soul was outside his body made matters more difficult. Finally they bought a beautiful snowy owl which they decided to name Hedwig.

"Now all I need to buy is a wand, right?" asked Harry, trying to remember the things on the list.

"Correct. But we're not going to that old wand maker Ol...Oliv...Olive-something. No. You'll need a custom wand that will serve you despite the fact that your soul is outside your body. We'll go to Knockturnally for that." explained Rin as she dragged him around trying to find the right turn. Unfortunately for both of them, she had an awful sense of direction and they managed to find their way only after twenty minutes of wandering around, attracting weird stares from by-passers. The two walked close to each other, trying not to pay attention to the wizards and witches who stared at them hungrily. Rin knew there were many pedophiles and that one could easily become a victim if they don't pay attention to where they were going. Suddenly a large beefy man approached them:

"Are ya lost, children? Perhaps I can help ya?" he leered at them but the two "children" were not faced by it and continued walking forward before a large hand on their shoulders stopped them.

"Now listen here sweethearts. Ya either come with us or we'll play here." smirked the wizard.

"Go get fucked in the ass!" snarled Rin.

"Ts ts ts. You're the one who's gonna get fucked sweetheart." he said and made a move to tear Rin's dress but at that moment a black pentagram appeared in front of the girl.

"Abeo (Leave)!" hissed Harry. His eyes seemed to glow with a poisonous green light as the pentagram in front of Rin started to grow until it formed a barrier between them and the man, Rin seemed to recognize the spell, despite it being cast unintentionally, and, pulling a knife from nowhere, slashed her wrist open and used the red blood to follow the contours of the pentagram. As its circle was finished, it started to glow with blood red light with some symbols Harry didn't know flying around it. The large wizard's eyes widened as the pentagram closed in on him. The moment his body stood in its center the pentagram vanished, making the man's body explode, splattering blood everywhere.

"Ugh blood of a sinner." sniffed Rin as she thrust her hand, trying to clean it. According to her, the blood of sinners was ugly and dirty and she didn't want to deal with it. They continued walking until finally they reached a small shop at the end of the street

"Konnichiwa (Hello), Arlene!" greeted Rin as they entered inside. A small figured, covered in black shawls so that her skin wasn't visible, slowly rose from a chair, destroying several spiderwebs in the process. The place was dusty and unkempt and seemed like the typical place to film a horror movie.

"Good morning." answered the voice who seemed to belong to a really old woman. "The young one needs a wand, no?"

"Indeed."

"Come now, child. It won't hurt...much." beckoned Arlene as she placed her bony hand on the boy's shoulder.

"Not a lot of customers these days. Not enough business." she kept muttering under her breath as she slashed his wrist open, making a black goo-ish substances slowly flow down the Harry's hand. After collecting all the liquid in a vile, she healed his wrist and proceeded to pluck a feather from the raven that was the boy's soul.

"It will take some time for me to create the wand." croaked the lady as she heated up a cauldron. "Leave now. You're disrupting the spirits. Come later." she ordered as strong wind appeared out of nowhere, chasing them outside and shutting the door behind them.

"She's an old loony but she's the only one who knows how to create wands for somebody like you."

"What is she?"

"The child of a dementor and a human. Don't ask me how that worked. I don't even want to know." she explained, suppressing a shudder. "Come on, let's go get you some robes. I almost forgot we needed to buy them."

When they went into Madame Maulkin's there already was a blonde boy sitting on a chair. The moment Rin noticed the almost-white hair and gray eyes, she hissed and pulled Harry to stand beside her. Quickly pulling out her meat cleaver, she almost flew forward, with the full intention to kill him. Fortunately for him, the boy had quick reflexes and dodged her attack before she could cut him, which resulted in the meat cleaver getting stuck in the floor

"What do you think you're doing, peasant" hissed the boy. Rin was just about to maim him again but than she processed the word "peasant". Now that she looked closely, she could see that the boy's eyes had some blue in them as well as his hair.

'That's odd. Normally only demons who have reached maturity have streaks in their hair. But he's still a child.'

"My apologies." she said as she pulled the cleaver off the floor while frowning. "Thought you were an Immortal."

"You are a demon then. I assume you're protecting him." said the boy as he tilted his chin towards Harry."

"Yes. And what are you?"

"Half-human. My mother's an ice demon." answered the boy.

"That's impossible" here Rin scoffed. "Demons can't reproduce."

"Grown demons can't. Other, however, can."

"Explain!" she snarled as she pulled Harry closer. It was her job to protect the boy and, after all this time she spend caring about him, she considered him her son. She was way older than Harry could even begin to imagine.

"My mother hadn't reached maturity when she got pregnant with me. All demons are born human, right? Well my mother comes from an old pureblooded line and she had an arranged marriage. She was still a new demon when she got pregnant with me." while the boy was talking, Rin and Harry were listening, both very interested. Harry didn't know how demons came into being and he wondered if they will talk on this topic but apparently they both possessed that knowledge.

As Madame Maulkin helped Harry with his robes for Hogwarts, the blonde boy and Rin were still talking.

"Malfoy...would you...look after Harry while in Hogwarts. I can't go there. Not until I reach maturity at least."

"Sure. Not like I have anything else to do."

"Thanks." and with that she took Harry's wrist and they headed home...after they paid for the robes, of course.


A/N: Hope it was up to your expectations. If you have any questions, review and I'll PM the answers.