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A Different Life, A New Family

Chapter Eight - Diagon Alley

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A few days passed since arriving to London and that incident at the Order Headquarters and a lot has happened since then. Haru continued his lessons with Urahara on how to use his zanpaktou, with Ichigo there with them and keeping an eye on Urahara. Remus was telling them all about the wizarding world from all the different wizards, the Ministry, the Order, Voldemort, and Hogwarts.

There was four days left before they would be leaving for Hogwarts and they still didn't have their supplies for Hogwarts so they decided to go to Diagon Alley. Since they were such a large group, it was decided that the ones who didn't need to get anything from Diagon Alley would go out and do some sight seeing around London while the others went shopping.

They got to Diagon Alley early in the morning and, after an eventful ride through the tunnels of Gringotts, they started their sopping trip. They got several books at Flourish & Blotts, especially Haru, Ishida and Hitsugaya, all three got a Mount Everest of books. They wandered carefully through The Apothecary, staring at all the weird potions ingredients like newt eyes and some strange jelly like substance that smelt like rotten eggs. They decided not to go and get robes and just wear the uniforms and they also didn't get any parchment and quills deciding to go the normal way with a notebook and pen. They then went to Eeylops Owl Emporium where the group shared two owls for delivering packages and letters and then to Magical Menagerie where Inoue and Haru got kittens (Inoue's was an orange Tabby cat, Pumpkin-chan, and Haru's was a black Bombay kitten, Kuro-chan).

They then went to Ollivander's to buy their wands. (I don't want to give an explanation as to what happened at the wand shop but there were a lot of explosions, colour changes, fire, electric shocks and a huge mess.)

Haru - Japanese White Pine. 10 inches. Flexible. Phoenix tail feather. (I know that this isn't his wand but he's not Harry Potter anymore so…yeah…that's my reason)

Ichigo - Japanese Black pine. 10 inches. Sturdy. Dragon heartstring.

Ishida - Oriental Oak. 10 inches. Wispy. Griffon feather.

Inoue - White Willow. 9 1/2 inches. Flexible. Unicorn hair.

Chad - Red Maple. 12 inches. Sturdy. Chimera fang.

Renji - Bloodtwig Dogwood. 10 1/4 inches. Flexible. Hippogriff talon.

Byakuya - Japanese Cherry. 11 inches. Wispy. Thestral hair.

Hitsugaya - Eastern Red Cedar. 8 inches. Wispy. Mermaid hair.

Kenpachi - Ironwood. 12 inches. Sturdy. Basilisk fang.

Yachiru - Chinese Holly. 11 3/4 inches. Flexible. Fairy dust.

Hanatarou Yamada - Purple Leaf Plum. 8 1/2 inches. Flexible. Centaur hair.

Rukia - Sweet Birch. 8 inches. Flexible. Siren hair.

Urahara - Japanese Spicebush. 11 inches. Flexible. Vampire fang.

After finishing their shopping, the group ate a late lunch at a café and then got some ice cream at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour. They then explored the rest of Diagon Alley. They just left the candy shop (Haru and Yachiru got about 95 percent of their candy confiscated to ensure that they wouldn't get too hyper off the sugar, the 5 percent that they had was enough to make them a little hyper) when they ran into them. And that's when Haru's fun began.

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Haru was walking with his brother, with the others ahead of them, while ignoring the redheaded woman and her four children who were following him. When he stopped in front of Quality Quidditch Supplies and was looking at the brooms through the window when she stood beside him and started to talk. "Hello, Harry. How are you doing today? Did you go shopping with your friends?" She paused to wait for a response, but when Haru said nothing she continued, "These are your siblings. You remember them, right? This here is James Jr.; doesn't he look so much like your father? And here is Rosalie; she's amazing with animals. And Joshua here is so good with plants. Amelia here is our little genius. I hope you'll get along with your sib-" She was cut off when Haru turned to his brother.

"Hey, big brother. What do you think of these brooms? Isn't it such a weird way to fly? Not to mention painful if you have to ride it like that." Haru said and giggled.

Ichigo smirked. "I looks like a girlie was to fly if you ask me."

James Jr. got upset at the insult to his favourite game. "Hey! Quid-"

"I doubt you get enough exercise out of it. It's like playing football with cars. It's stupid." Ichigo interrupted.

Haru nodded. "Oh! That reminds me. We need to get some thing for dad, Karin and Yuzu. We can probably find some nice flowers for mother, too." Haru smiled happily at the though of pretty blue roses for his mother grave. "Speaking of mothers," The woman began to perk up. "We should get a gift for Miss Anderson." The redhead's heart fell. "You remember her. She was the caretaker at the orphanage." Her heart sank deeper. "Remember how she would get mad at you for sneaking into the dorms at night?"

Ichigo laughed. "I sure remember her! She'd smack me on the head before tucking us in bed and calling my parents. She's such a great mother." The falling heart finally shattered. "Maybe we should get a cake for the kids?"

Haru's eyes sparkled, noticing the distressed woman and loving every minute of it. "Yeah! A huge chocolate ice cream cake with thick frosting, fudge, and chunks of brownies and Oreo cookies! Mmm!" He said dreamily. He then paused and turned to face the upset woman behind him. Haru then turned to his brother. "I bet you twenty bucks that I can beat those four in less than five minutes."

"Hun?" The woman raised her head. "Harry, I-"

"Your on." Ichigo smirked.

Haru placed two fingers on a symbol on the black beaded bracelet that was on his left hand. The bracelet was an invention of Urahara's that allowed the wearer to use their shinigami power while they were still in their bodies. It was better that leaving your body out in the open while you fought. Haru's zanpaktou appeared in his left hand, and then he dashed forward and passed the woman and her children. Haru dashed towards the hollows, that started to attack people, and drew out his katana. "Come on, Kokubyaku," Haru said to his zanpaktou, "let's beat these Hollows." His body then sank into the shadows and reappeared in the shadow of one of the Hollows and sliced the Hollow from above. He dogged an attack by sinking into the shadows again. Haru then started to use the shadows to tie down the other Hollows to stop them from attacking the witches and wizards who were dashing around in fright.

James Jr., who got out of the shock of seeing such monsters, drew out his wand and was about to cast a spell when his wand was knocked out of his hand. Turning, he came fact to face with Ichigo, who was glaring down at him. "Stay out of this fight, brat. Your magic won't help."

"How long?"

Ichigo looked beside him to see his little brother calmly waiting, his zanpaktou gone as well as the Hollows. He looked down at his watch. "Four minutes. Damn." Ichigo turned back to James Jr. "You made me miss the fight." He glared and stomped angrily towards the other teen.

"Don't bother yourself with such a weakling." The brother's turned to see Kenpachi and Yachiru walking towards them. "This little one here is so much stronger than all those four combined." Kenpachi ruffled Haru's hair.

"Well, of course he's stronger than them." Ichigo said, "They have no spiritual power."

"I didn't mean spiritual power. I meant overall, this kid has more power than those wimpy brats." Kenpachi explained. "By the way," Kenpachi turn and asked Haru, "How did you die before?"

"Hun?" Haru stared up at the man, confused.

"There are ways of gaining the amount of spiritual energy like you and Ichigo-san have. One way is that if you are naturally born with the power. Another way is that you can build it up as you mature. Or, you can have the power, but it's dormant and the only way to activate it is if you were near death." Urahara explained, suddenly appearing.

"Hmm…" Hrau started thinking, "The only time I was near death was when I fell out of a tree when I was eight."

Someone gasped. Everyone turned to see Remus, shocked and pale. "…Voldemort…"

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