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"English"

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"With Zanpakuto"

"(Japanese)"

After forcing Yoruichi to at least shift back to her cat form, a still flushed Haru sat in front of his pillows with her at the foot of the bed. "So you're really the Flash Queen Yoruichi?" he asked her.

The black cat nodded. "Indeed I am, Aizen Harusui. Although I'm quite fond of the name you gave me." She smiled, which to Haru looked freaky on a cat. "Kagehime; so much more majestic sounding."

Haru let out a heavy sigh as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "Alright, Shihoin-san. Care to explain what's going on here?"

"Certainly, Harusui," she said in her oddly male voice. "You see, it all started a couple years ago…"

Flashback: 2 years ago, Urahara Shop

"(Ah, are you sure, Yoruichi-chan)?" asked the blonde man. He was frowning sadly, and his trademark bucket hat was absent from his head, showing the seriousness of the moment. His employees and Tessai stood behind him, Ururu crying and Jinta trying to act like he didn't care.

"(Yes, Kisuke)," replied the woman as she hefted a duffle bag over her shoulder. She was in her usual attire, and about to walk out. "(With Ichigo in the Soul Society for good, Uryu running the Quincy Empire, and all the others with their own lives, I feel it's about time for me to get out as well)," she said sadly.

"(Well know you always have a home here)," Kisuke told her tearfully. The blond man seldom showed sadness, but this was one of the few times he cried in front of other people.

"(Bye, Yoruichi-san)," whimpered the shy girl as she ran and hugged the Shihoin woman.

"(So long, cat lady)," Jinta said as he refused to look at Yoruichi.

"(Farewell, Lady Yoruichi)," Tessai told her with a deep bow.

"(I'll be in touch)," she said as she dropped her bag. She pulled her best friend into a hug and put a kiss to his forehead. "(I'll miss you guys)." Grabbing her bag once more, she slid the door open and stepped out. She looked over her shoulder with a sad smile. "(Bye.)" With that, she vanished in a whisper of Shunpo.

Present

Haru looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "That doesn't explain how you wound up in a pet shop in Wizarding England," he told her. "All I gathered is that you left Kisuke Urahara in Japan."

She sighed heavily. "Well essentially, I felt like seeing the world after the Second Quincy War-"

"Second Quincy War?" Haru asked.

"I'll explain later," Yoruichi told him. "Point is, you're fairly behind in terms of the affairs of the Soul Society. Anyways, I was travelling the world when I arrived here in England about a year ago."

Flashback: cerca 1 year ago

The dark skinned woman walked along the streets of London. She got some looks from the Brits since she was wearing leggings and her orange sweatshirt with a duffle over her shoulder. Of course, she loved being able to move freely, so she disregarded them. One thing caught her eye though. An old, run-down looking pub next to a dark alley. Of course, being a former captain, she was more than capable of seeing through the laughable barrier surrounding it and the extremely weak reiatsu signatures inside it.

Reading the sign, she smirked. "The Leaky Cauldron? So the wizards are still kicking, huh?" She thought for a moment before ducking into the alley. Hiding behind a dumpster, the woman quickly disrobed and packed her clothes into her bag before clutching it close. "I'd say taking a look around wouldn't hurt anyone. But I'd still be better off not drawing attention to my overly muggle-like appearance." Holding the bag to her body, she used an old equipment hiding trick of hers as she shifted her Gigai to her cat form.

Once she was reacquainted to four legs, she quickly darted onto the crowded streets. Quickly identifying a wizard, she slipped into the pub with him. Fortunately, the dark building made it amazingly easy for the woman in cat form to slip into the back. Alright, if I remember from when Kisuke was last here, she thought to herself. Jumping into the air, she hit the right brick, and was rewarded when the wall slid open to reveal Diagon Alley.

Wonderful, she thought smugly as she entered the alley. Fortunately, most of the witches and wizards didn't pay much mind to a black cat walking along with its own purpose. The woman was internally laughing over how out of date the wizards were. At least in the Soul Society Ichigo and Rangiku were helping Kyoraku make things a bit more modern… even if for different reasons. Unfortunately, this was one of the rare moments the woman let her guard down, as the clink of metal around her indicated as she found herself trapped in a cage. "(What the-)?!"

"Sorry, little one, but I'm afraid we don't let strays walk around Diagon Alley," an older man told her. She recognized him as the owner of the pet shop she walked by.

"You idiot man! How dare you think I'm a stray!" she ranted at him.

The man laughed. "Wow. You're pretty vocal." He smiled at her. "It's almost as if you were trying to talk to me." Yoruichi froze at that.

That's right, she thought sadly, only the Spiritually Aware can hear me in this form. And I can't change my form in this cage!

The man turned around and started walking towards his shop. "Don't worry little one. I'm sure you'll find an owner in no time."

Present

"I'm sure you know what happened after that," Yoruichi told him.

Kyoka Suigetsu faded in beside Haru and was rolling on the floor laughing. "Wow, way to go, you stupid cat!"

"I don't appreciate being called names, Kyoka Suigetsu," the cat chastised in her male voice.

The boy and his Zanpakuto froze when they heard that. "Wait," he asked the former captain. "You can see her?!"

The black cat nodded. "Indeed. As I'm sure you've noticed, the air of Wizarding areas, such as this school and Diagon Alley, is filled with ambient reishi as a result of all the magic performed in those areas. Because of that, several entities that would normally visible only to the Spiritually Aware are instead visible to any within that unique area. In other words, Shinigami can be seen by the Wizards in these areas in some instances of exerting large amounts of reiatsu, but Hollows can only be seen with the proper enchantments."

"That doesn't answer how you can see me," Kyoka snapped at her.

"I was getting there," the cat told her darkly. "You should know that answer better than anyone, though." At the spirit's confused look, Yoruichi sighed. "Your power is illusions, correct? So, without realizing it, you've been projecting yourself with that power. Normally, people with extremely heightened spiritual powers, such as Yamamoto, would be capable of seeing you in this form."

"But because of the reishi enriched environment, almost anyone with spiritual awareness can see her," concluded Haru. Getting a nod from the cat, he looked at Kyoka. "Maybe you should start appearing to me the old fashioned way," he told her.

"Why though?" she asked. "Besides, I have so much more control over my appearance this way."

"It's because we don't know how many students are spiritually aware," he told her firmly. "With those strange reiatsu signatures on my friends, we don't know if they can see you or not." He looked back at Yoruichi. "Now, I take it you figured out who my Zanpakuto is after the amount of time you spent hanging around my room when I speak with her?"

The cat nodded. "Indeed. After you brought me home with you, I recovered my equipment and contacted Kisuke about you and your Zanpakuto. After several discussions, we deduced you were not a threat to the Soul Society based on how the two of you acted."

"So you figured out I'm not truly a second Sosuke but simply have his last name and Zanpakuto?" asked the boy.

"Obviously," she replied. "It didn't take long to realize that, so I decided not to take any action against your possession of Kyoka Suigetsu."

"I'm still wondering something," interrupted the black-haired spirit. "If you were able to shapeshift after Haru bought you, why did you stick around as his pet? Why not leave after learning he wasn't a threat?"

The cat chuckled awkwardly. "Well, after I figured he wasn't evil and out to destroy the Soul Society, I had kinda gotten used to living the pampered life of a house cat and decided there was no harm in staying around for a while."

"So you've been bumming food off me this whole time?!" snapped the boy.

"Well, I've snuck into the kitchen quite a few times for lunch," she told him off-handedly. "But essentially, yes."

"So what's stopping me from reporting you as a person that was lying about her species?" he asked her threateningly.

"I can easily pretend to be a cat like I have been, but what's to say I won't claim you knowingly smuggled a woman into the school? Especially one without any clothes," she said playfully. "Or, I could let the Gotei 13 know that the most feared Zanpakuto is still alive and kicking."

The two stared at each other for a while before Haru spoke again. "So if I don't let it slip you're a person, you won't do anything to compromise me and Kyoka sticking together?" he asked her in a business-like tone.

"Absolutely," replied the cat-woman. "I'd also appreciate you not locking that trunk of yours on me. I get bored quite easily when I'm stuck here, so I need something to do."

Haru sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "Fine. I'll look into getting you some books from the library." I feel like I'm going to ultimately regret this, he thought sourly.

xXLine BreakXx

As it turned out, Haru's thoughts were fairly accurate. Halloween, something his Aunt and Uncle went out of their way to avoid celebrating as it was 'freaky', had come to Hogwarts. As such, the school had been decorated with countless 'fake' spider webs and an innumerable number of jack-o'-lanterns. Peeves helped out (without permission) by hiding in various suits of armor and scaring the living day lights out of various first years. Of course, after Haru nearly blasted his head off with Shakkaho, he made a point to avoid the black haired boy. To further aggravate Haru, the Gryffindors (mostly Weasley) had begun asking him if the day brought back memories of his parents dying. It took a fair bit of self-control for Haru to not summon his Zanpakuto and make all of Gryffindor House see their worst fears whenever they looked at food.

There was also a copious amount of candy scattered around the common room, so Haru helped himself to a couple of Chocolate Frogs in the hopes of adding to his card collection. Their classes were hardly changed fortunately. The key differences being that Quirrel was jumpier than usual, and that Professor Binns was telling them about the magical origins of Halloween. That wasn't as exciting since the ghostly professor's droning voice took all the fun out of the subject. Fortunately, Snape confiscated any candy he saw in his room and refused to accept any happiness in his class if it did not pertain to potion making. And yet, the potion they brewed that class was supposed to aggravate your sense of fear.

As for his Zanpakuto and Yoruichi, the two wanted to get Haru to dress up for the day. Yoruichi had wanted him to dye his hair white and try to be Hitsugaya, and Kyoka Suigetsu jumped onboard with the idea wholeheartedly. Needless to say, he was very cautious around the cat out of fear of winding up with white hair. It also terrified him how quickly his Zanpakuto and 'his' cat became buddy-buddy.

Aside from the antics about the holiday, the Slytherin first years were on edge after the first couple classes. For some reason, Daphne was furious about something, so after Parkinson 'accidentally' took the blonde's hairbrush after flying and wound up paralyzed in the hallway, the other students got the message to avoid infuriating her.

Which lead to where the students were now: at the Halloween banquet eating the primarily desert-themed meal. Currently, Haru was enjoying a piece of spiced apple pie as he laughed at a couple jokes Theodore Nott was telling. As the Slytherin boys all shared another laugh, the Great Hall's doors got slammed open as Quirrel came sprinting in. "Troll!" he screamed at the top of his lungs. "In the dungeons! Troll in the dungeons!" He stopped running in front of the Head Table, all eyes on him. "I thought you should know," he whimpered before collapsing.

There was a brief moment of silence before all hell broke loose for the students. The students all started screaming in sheer terror while Haru worried about how the troll could have gotten in to what was supposed to be an extremely secure building. Dumbledore quickly rose to his feet and put his wand to his neck. "SILENCE!" he roared at the screaming students. The whole room became dead silent after that. Smiling gently, he looked the crowd over. "Prefects, please lead your students back to your Common Rooms. And the teachers will follow me to the dungeons."

Almost immediately, Brett and the sixth year prefect started yelling for the Slytherin kids to follow them, but Professor Sprout stopped them. "Slytherins, your common room is in the dungeons. You are all to come to Hufflepuff with us." A couple kids complained about going to Hufflepuff, but they still followed the teacher and their Prefects.

As they kept walking, Haru noticed Daphne talking to a couple of the Ravenclaw girls, before she snuck off from the crowd and down the hallways. Haru, concerned for the blonde, went to follow her. "Malfoy-kun, I'm going to follow Greengrass-chan," he said quietly. "Cover for me."

"Wait. Aizen!" hissed the blond boy in fear. He looked around at the other students before running after the other boy. As the two ran down the halls in the direction they felt Daphne went, they heard a scream, which served to hasten their steps.

-Daphne POV-

The blonde girl was annoyed. She had been hearing from her (best) friend Hermione that Ron Weasley had been bullying her relentlessly over being intelligent, and that the Ravenclaw girl was refusing to use her 'gift' to get revenge on him. If it were her, she'd have frozen the ginger solid and dropped him off the Astronomy tower.

It bothered her to hide it from Haru (not so much Draco), but she was a bit more than a witch. The truth was, she had a unique power that her father had told her was called Fullbring. So did her sister, for that matter. When she had come to Hogwarts, she had been surprised to find another Fullbringer on the train so easily. Although, she had a suspicion that Aizen and Draco were as well, since Haru had a strange and powerful Spiritual Pressure and Draco's was definitely not normal.

Anyways, she and Hermione quickly bonded over a sense of sister hood they felt because of their shared power. Sure they had to sneak around since Fullbringers wasn't exactly acknowledged by the Wizards or tolerated by them when they were acknowledged. Fortunately, they had each other to keep company about their power.

Daphne had tried to keep her attitude in check, since it was Halloween and all, but Parkinson had aggravated her a bit too much with the hairbrush stunt. But what concerned her was that she hadn't seen her fellow Fullbringer all day. She wanted to ask the Ravenclaws about it, but their only class with them that she could have talked to them in had been before Hermione disappeared. She had put it aside for the time being, though. Her friends in Slytherin were enjoying themselves, and she didn't want to be the one to ruin the mood… until Quirrel came screaming about a troll in the school's dungeons.

As they got shepherded out, she grabbed the Ravenclaw Patil. "Hey, Padma. Where's Hermione?"

The Indian girl looked at her in shock. "You haven't heard? She's been in the girl's bathroom ever since Charms this morning."Her Gryffindor twin looked at her with sad eyes. "Poor girl. Ron called her a know-it-all brat to her face and said she had no friends because they hated how smart she was."

Daphne grit her teeth and felt her skin start to ice over as her hatred of Ron Weasley sky rocketed. "Parvati, I swear. If Ron Weasley winds up dead in the near future, don't look too far into it." With that said, she ducked out of the crowd and ran off through the halls. Having been around magic-filled buildings her whole life, she was used to sensing Spiritual Pressure in magic-enriched environments. Locking on to Hermione's she ran through the hallways until she heard a scream when she was a couple corners away.

"Crap," she cursed under her breath. Running to the bathroom, she paled when she saw the doorway had been smashed apart. Running in, she saw Hermione hiding behind what looked like a weird iron door. The troll was swinging and bashing its club against her makeshift shield. "Hermione! Why is it still alive?" she yelled as the troll noticed her.

"I panicked!" she shrieked in fear as her friend got into a battle stance. The troll started lumbering towards Daphne and swung it club at her with a mighty roar. Using Bringer Light, she ran to the right and skidded before she hit the wall.

"Hermione, I'm still rusty with your stuff," she told the brunette as the troll picked up its giant club and lumbered towards them. "So I could really use some ice right now!"

Nodding, Hermione put her hand to the floor and let the stone get covered in some ice as she enlarged her shield. "Sorry, but that's all I can do right now."

"It's alright." Daphne put on a silver ring with an emerald on it and put that hand to the floor. Channeling her spiritual power into it, she felt her power extend into the ice around her. Raising her hands, the ice lifted off the ground in tendrils before hovering in place beside her as spheres of ice. "This is more than enough." Moving her hands, the balls of ice reformed into large spikes of ice before flying forward at the greyish creature. They slammed into the hulking behemoth, sending it reeling back as it roared angrily. A couple became embedded in its hide, but the others shattered into chunks of ice.

She tried tugging the intact spikes out of the troll's leathery hide with her Fullbring, but they were stuck firmly inside as it began walking towards them while raising its club. "Hado no Sanjuichi: Shakkaho!" After the strange words, a red ball of energy slammed into the back of the troll's head with a small explosion. Then she felt the familiar Spiritual Pressures of her two friends. Haru had a palm extended and pointed at the troll while Draco stared at them all in shock. "Stand back, Malfoy-kun." He balled his hand into a fist before extending his first two fingers. "Hado no yon: Byakurai!" A bolt of blue electricity arced from his fingers before blasting the troll in its back.

Now angry, the troll looked at him angrily for attacking it. Haru simply held out his hand and summoned a katana with a green wrapped hilt and a hexagon-shaped guard. "Don't get the wrong idea Granger. I'm not saving you. I'm helping Greengrass-chan out with protecting her friend." He got into a ready stance with his katana held in two hands. "If you do not feel like helping, I will not bear anything against you." He vanished in a whisper before appearing at the troll's back. With a yell, he stabbed the troll in its right shoulder with his hand against the pommel. "Hado no juichi: Tsuzuri Raiden!" The troll jerked wildly as the sword danced with small bolts of lightning.

Gathering up some more of the ice from around her, Daphne formed a smallish sword in her hand. Running forward, she tried cutting the back of the troll's knee and was rewarded with a small amount of its blood. The floor beneath its feet erupted in metal spikes as Hermione put her hands to the floor and used her Fullbring on it. Twisting its body around, Aizen and his sword were sent flying into a wall and Daphne was swatted aside by the troll's empty hand. The two girls looked up at the troll as it went to crush Haru and raised its club up high.

"Wingardium Leviosa!" As the troll went to swing down, the club in its hand kept floating in the air. The kids looked to the doorway, where Draco had been standing the entire time. Sure enough, the Malfoy heir had his wand out and was keeping its club in the air as he moved it over the troll's head. As the troll stared at it dumbly, he let go of the club, letting it drop down and slam onto the troll's head. Swaying back and forth, it flopped over in unconsciousness.

The panting Fullbringers let the evidence of their powers fade away as Haru dismissed his strange sword and got up. They were lucky, because the teachers arrived at that moment. "What happened here?!" demanded Professor McGonagall as she looked at the unconscious troll.

Snape gave his three students a critical eye, making the three of them wince. The Greengrass heir was well aware they just committed a taboo since they had done something terribly Gryffindor-like. Hermione went to say something, but Daphne stopped her. "I heard Hermione had been bullied and was crying in here, so I came to warn her about the troll. I guess Aizen and Malfoy saw me run off and came to stop me and get me back to the others."

Professor Flitwick looked at the brunette. "Is this true, Miss Granger?"

She nodded hesitantly. "Ronald Weasley. He insulted me right after your class today. I had been bullied by him so much that I couldn't take it."

Snape scoffed. "It just figures it would be one of yours, Minerva," he told her. "He eats like a wild animal and acts like one too."

"I'll have to speak to Mister Weasley about his behavior towards other students." The stern woman looked at the four students. "Also, I will take five points from the three of you for disobeying an order from the Headmaster."

"And I give you each six points for defending one of my Ravens," Flitwick told them gratefully.

"Six points in total for sticking together the way you did," Snape told his three. He looked at Hermione with less of a sneer. "And three points for your troubles, Miss Granger."

"I don't believe that's necessary, Severus," the old man told him, the hint of a frown hidden almost immediately. "For now, let us return the troll to the Forbidden Forest and get the four of you to your Housemates." The students nodded as they were ushered out of the devastated bathroom. Daphne looked at her fellow Fullbringer and the two shared a nod, with Hermione essentially giving her the 'ok' to tell Haru and Draco about them.

The trio were deposited at the Hufflepuff common room before Snape left quickly. Blaise and Pansy were concerned about where they had gone (the Italian boy more so than the girl), but the three Slytherins were the talk of the night among their house, even after they were brought back to their own dorm. Before Daphne went upstairs, Haru grabbed the sleeve of her robes. "Listen, Daphne," he told her, dropping the weird thing he kept putting on the end of her last name, "tomorrow is our day off. We're going to the library, and I plan on coming clean about my sword and powers. I want you and Hermione to do the same. Draco will be there as well, so plan what you say accordingly." He stared at her for a moment before she nodded to him. Haru nodded back before turning and hurrying up the stairs to his dorm. Daphne turned and went up the stairs to her dorm. As she changed for bed, one thing ran through her head: how was she going to explain this to the two boys?

-Haru-

As Haru got into the dorm room, he noticed Yoruichi give him a confused look as the boys congratulated him again. Drawing the curtains around his bed, after changing, he erected a quick Bakudo barrier around his bed so nobody could hear them. "I helped fight a troll," he told the cat.

"You what?!" she snapped.

"That's what I said!" added Kyoka's 'ghost'. "Honestly, despite how much like Sosuke he is, he has a terrifying number of Ichigo-like thoughts."

"Well he should learn to control them," admonished the deceptively female cat.

"Alright well, you two ladies can keep chatting like geese, I'm going to bed," he told them as he got under his covers. Sure enough, Yoruichi curled up at the foot of his bed and Kyoka Suigetsu faded back to his Inner World. As he fell asleep, his thoughts were racing about his friends. He had no idea what to expect out of his friends. He had a feeling Draco didn't know about his powers though, but he expected Daphne to explain quite a bit. In his half-awake state, he made a note to invite consider inviting Yoruichi to tag along.

There you go! The next chapter just happened. Now, as for Haru running after Daphne like that, she is one of his only friends in all of Hogwarts, so naturally he'd try to see what she was running off to do when they were told to go somewhere. Additionally, the Shinigami will be more involved since Yoruichi is stuck with Haru later on in the story. Finally for the plot comments, congrats to those of you who figured out Daphne and Hermione were Fullbringers. Draco however, he's going to be touched upon next chapter.

Now, on to important author stuff. The updates might start to slow down for a couple reasons in the near future. First, I am now working five days a week, so will have fewer chances to write. Second, I'm going to force myself to keep working on Into Fiore and Team VNLA to get through the Writer's Block that has been plaguing them for a while. Especially since I have everything else planned for Into Fiore except the custom arc planned. And then I just have a general block with VNLA. Well, until next time you guys