"English"

"Japanese"

'Thoughts'

'Zanpakuto'

Results!

"There you are!" Mrs. Weasley called as the teens arrived; Ron and Hermione came tumbling from the fireplace while Toshiro, using his enhanced agility to land gracefully on his feet.

"My apologize, Weasley-san. Sirius-san had a case of abandonment issues" Toshiro bowed apology.

"Oh, poor thing. I remember when Bill went to Hogwarts the first time; I cried for days" she recalled with a dreamy look in her eyes.

"Good going" Ron whispered in the Shinigami's ear; a grin covering his face "She'll be like that for ages. Let's get to our room before anyone snaps her out of it"

Grabbing the Captain's wrist again he slowly pulled him from the front room, so not to alert his mother, and up the stairs.

Hermione, not noticing Ron and Toshiro's escape, smile sweetly at Molly's motherly attitude. "I bet it was heartbreaking, Mrs. Weasley" she sighed happily "I don't want to know what I'll do when I have children"

"Don't be silly dear" Molly waved her thoughts off, coming back from her daydream "You have many years before even thinking of having children, don't you agree Ronald? -Ron? Toshiro?" the redhead blinked, looking around the room; not seeing the boys anywhere "Now where did those two get to?"

"Probably went to put their things in Ron's room"

"Alright then" Molly sighed, in an annoyed manner before pulling three large envelopes from her apron and handing them to the brunette "Here you are, these arrived shortly before you did. Give the boys their's please" she smiled, heading back to the kitchen to finish preparing everyone's lunch.

"I do not understand you mother" Toshiro stated as he and Ron entered their shared room.

"What'd you mean?"

"Don't concern yourself; I do not understand female's in general" he explained as he dumped his luggage onto the closest bed before sitting next beside them and leaned back on his hands in a lazy manner.

"I don't think any man does, mate" Ron shrugged, smiling awkward at the white-haired Shinigami and dropped down on his own bed when a thought accursed to him. Glancing over at the other, the redhead quickly looked away in embarrassment "Umm… Toshiro?"

"Yes, Ronald-san?"

"Ya' know with how old you are now, have you…"

"Have I what?" Toshiro asked, raising an eyebrow at the others nervous tone and looked up from his book that he'd pulled from his bag.

"Have you done it yet?" Ron muttered, his face and ears becoming a deeper red than his hair. It wasn't that he was a pervert for asking and he didn't want to know the details or anything, but he was curious; he wanted to know if his Harry had lost it before him. After all, Harry did live to the age of 19 in the past before becoming a Shinigami.

"…" Toshiro didn't really know how to reply to that; he hadn't been a hormonal teenager in decades, so such an informal, adolescent questing was awkward for him. This didn't stop the captain from turning a pretty pink though. "Not that I recall…" he muttered quietly, looking away and back to his book in embarrassment. It wasn't something he really saw as important; back when he was human and the right age for such things, he was mostly concerned with trying to get back to his original timeline. And when he died, he never cared for anything other than his Shinigami duties.

"But… You're like 400!" Ron gasped, staring wide-eyed at the other in shock and silent relief.

"324 actually" Toshiro corrected, annoyed "and such things never really mattered to me"

Before any more could be said on the matter, Hermione burst into the bedroom rudely without knocking, waving a couple yellow-tinged envelopes happily "Our Hogwarts letters have arrived!" she called, not noticing the tension in the room "It should have out results in them as well!"

The Shinigami raised a snowy eyebrow at the girl; this is exactly what he meant when he said he did not understand females. Why was she so excited about a letter?… Wait, what results?

"Result for what, Hermione-san?"

"Our O.W.L.s!" she stressed like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Owls?"

"No! O. W. L.s'; Ordinary Wizard Levels… the exams we took last term!"

"Ah.." Toshiro nodded; vaguely recalling sitting the tests "I apologize for the confusion; it was centuries ago and I had forgotten"

"Right.." Hermione muttered, momentarily forgetting how old 'Harry' really was "Anyway! Here's your two's!" she grinned, tossing the letters at the boys before proceeding to tear her own open.

Rolling his eyes, Ron slit his own open and unfolding the parchment, Toshiro following his example. Unfolding his letter, the captain read it over in a bored manner; not all that interested in the contents. Above the results they had obviously made a mistake: in front of 'Toshiro Hitsugaya Has Achieved' was a neatly crossed-out 'Ha-', whoever had written the letter had obviously about to write 'Harry' before realizing their mistake.

Not that he really cared in the first place, but it would have been nice of them to rewrite the letter on a new piece of parchment.

'You were not a prodigy as Potter than...' Hyorinmaru smirked as Toshiro read the results.

'It would appear so...' Toshiro frowned. From what he could remember of the exams he'd collapsed during the History of Magic examination, but that was no excuse for only one 'Outstanding' and the disgraceful 'Poor' in Divinations.

'I have some serious studying to do before the school term begins'

'I completely agree.'

Nodding, Toshiro looked up at the others, he couldn't see Hermione's reaction seeing as she had her back to him. She seemed unusually quiet to say how excited she was moments again. Perhaps she was disappointed with her results also.

Ron, on the other hand, looked delighted "Brilliant! Seven O.W.L.s, that's more than Fred and George combined!" he grinned proudly, looking up at Toshiro expectantly; hoping for praise.

Not noticing the look, Toshiro merely nodded "Yes, well done. I, on the other hand, am sorely disappointed in myself; only one 'Outstanding'? Disgraceful."

"Let me guess, your Outstanding was in DADA?" Ron asked, slightly disheartened at the white-haired Captain's reply. Seeing the other nod, he smirked "Knew you'd be top in DADA" he said, punching Toshiro's shoulder in a friendly fashion.

"Hermione-san?" Toshiro asked, rubbing his shoulder "Did you fare any better?"

"I- it's not bad" Hermione replied in a small voice.

"Oh, come off it" Ron grunted, swiping her results from her hands "Yep, ten 'Outstandings' and one 'Exceeds Expectations' in DADA" he sighed, half-amused, half-exasperated "You're actually disappointed, aren't you?"

Hermione shook her head in denial, but it made sense to Toshiro; she was an overachiever like himself: if she didn't get top marks on everything, it wasn't good enough.

"Well, who cares! It's official now; We're N.E.W.T students!"

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