They ended the first year with a big bang, and everyone went to go pack in their rooms. Several hours later, all of the Ravenclaws finished packing, with the other houses following suit an hour later. The Weasleys, known across Hogwarts as master procrastinators, were of course the last to finish.

When the Weasleys had finally finished, everyone gathered at the train station – thankfully making it in time for the 11am departure to King's Cross Station, a 15-hour ride. The Uraharas, of course, made it home faster than anyone else – they had an international portkey, after all.

"Welcome back, son!" Kisuke said.

"Boy, did I miss this place while I was gone!" Kyoya exclaimed.

"Summer break is kind of long… What do you plan to do during it?"

"I think I'll visit Soul Society for a while and do some paperwork and more training with Fon-taichou."

"Should we go somewhere for vacation after training for a month and a couple of weeks? I am rich, after all, so we can certainly afford a nice one."

Three weeks later, during training, Fon-taichou told Kyoya he passed his ninjitsu training. "Now, you can concentrate on school, homework, and 2nd Division's paperwork!" Fon-taichou exclaimed proudly.

Kyoya came through the senkaimon after visiting Soul Society for a short while, making his way to the shoten in short time.

"Tadaima!" Kyoya said to his father as soon as he found him.

"Okaerinasai! That wasn't a very long visit to Soul Society!"

"Yeah, well, the paperwork didn't take very long, thankfully. But hold on – I'm going for a shower, and I'll be right back."

"All right. When you get back, we should discuss what you want to do for your birthday."

"Aww, can't it wait? In the short time I was in Soul Society, Fon-taichou worked me like there was no tomorrow. I'm really tired."

"Hai, hai. Go take that shower, now!"

Kyoya walked to his bedroom to get ready for the shower, emerging from the bathroom 20 minutes later to go back to his room for a quick rest. He didn't wake up for a few more hours, but as expected, made it for dinner in time. As the rules for using magic outside of school were rather lax in Japan, Remus and Kyoya used their magic to do the dishes and kitchen clean after the lighthearted dinner – and Kyoya didn't forget how he learned household Charms from Molly Weasley.

Several days before the end of school, Kyoya walked to Ron Weasley to ask him if he could have household Charms lessons with his mother on a weekend.

"Sure!" Ron agreed. "That's fine! Be sure to write to Mum first, though."

Kyoya wasted no time in writing said letter and giving it to Hedwig for delivery. The owl promptly returned with a message saying how pleased Mrs. Weasley was that the young Shinigami wanted to be taught household Charms. "In return, can you teach me some Japanese, please?" Mrs. Weasley's reply also said.

Kyoya wrote back: "Yes, meet me at the Leaky Cauldron if you'd like – or I can come over to your place on the weekend."

"Hey, Dad?" Kyoya yelled. "I want to go shopping in Diagon Alley to buy some stuff for work and school."

"Okay, do you want me to go with you?"

"No thanks, I'll be fine! Did you want anything?"

"Hmm… Maybe I should tag along, then. There are some things I need at Honeydukes for more sweets. I can even ask Remus-san if he wants to come with us. Is that okay with you?"

"Yeah, that's fine. Remus-san can even make the portkey for us. If we go meet him now, he should have it ready in a minute or so."

Sure enough, Remus was very quick in getting the portkey ready, just outside the shoten.

"Okay, Kyoya, make sure you have everything and touch your finger to the portkey."

"Yes, sir!"

"Ridikulus!" Remus exclaimed, and several minutes later, he asked the Uraharas to let go. They landed standing upright, near the Leaky Cauldron for the entrance to Diagon alley. They walked to the brick wall and Remus tapped the proper sequence, saying, "Open sesame!" in a booming voice. The wall slowly parted for the Alley, and all walked inside and looked back at the brick wall slowly closed again.

"I should have never let you watch those Aladdin movies…" Kyoya shook his head with a smile, and Remus laughed in return. Luckily, everyone had their debit cards on hand, so they had no need to visit Gringotts.

"All right, you all know where you want to go," Kyoya spoke to Kisuke and Remus. "I'll meet the two of you in Three Broomsticks for dinner when it's time; we haven't visited there in a while."

"Sure!" the other two replied. "See you soon!"

After Kisuke and Remus had temporarily left him, Kyoya walked into a special journal book store.

"Hi, welcome to our store! What can we help you with?" asked one of the store's assistants.

"I need about twenty of your letter journals that are charmed to appear when the person is reading it, if you know what I mean," Kyoya requested.

"Of course!" The assistant went to a particular section of the store, where she located the necessary journals. "Twenty of them, right?"

"Yes. And if you can add privacy charms so the notebooks can only be opened by the owner, that would be great. Some weatherproof charms would be nice as well."

"Okay… It's two sickles per charm, so to have your charms on all of them – plus the price for the journals themselves, that would be…202 galleons."

Kyoya nodded and handed the assistant his debit card. In five minutes' time, the assistant gave Kyoya the completed journals and spoke, "Now, all you have to do is inform the owners to put two drops of blood on the journals, and they become locked to that person. And should you need any more books, you can take this order book and give it to us through owl post."

"Thank you! Good bye!" With that, Kyoya was out the store, the journals in hand. Not long after, he learned that Kisuke and Remus had already finished their own errands; they happened to meet right at the entrance of the bookstore. Kyoya, ever the eager one, ran to the Three Broomsticks and ordered a butterbeer almost as soon as he sat down.

"Very well! Please take a few minutes to look at the menu while I go to grab your drinks," said the waiter.

As the three of them sipped on their butterbeers, the waiter asked, "Do you know what you'll have for dinner yet?"

"Yeah!" Kyoya was the first to make his order. When all three of them had food in front of them, a lighthearted dinnertime conversation followed – mostly involving what they all bought, as expected. Remus had bought an entire new wardrobe – and little did the others know that as Remus spoke, he had all of the clothes shrunken in his pockets. Kisuke bought a lot of sweets – from Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans to chocolate frogs, pumpkin juice, butterbeer, and even a bit of alcohol.

"Seems like we did good today!" Remus declared as he called for the bill – five galleons, which Kyoya readily paid for – and in little time, the three were out the restaurant.

"Ah! I just remembered." As they were on their way home, Kyoya suddenly stopped walking when he saw the stationery store. "I think I still need quills and ink. I'll have them charmed to never run out of ink or break. Possibly more parchment paper as well. Hold on, I'll be right back."

Kyoya needed only ten minutes in that store before he emerged from it with everything he needed.

"Wow, son…" Kisuke perused Kyoya's purchases. "That's quite a lot of parchment!"

"Yup, all of this cost me 20 galleons. But enough of that, now." Kyoya gestured towards Remus, who had the portkey ready. It didn't take the three of them long to warp back to the shoten – Kyoya was rather exhausted, albeit entertained, from the days events, after all.

"We sure had fun, didn't we?" Kisuke asked.

"Yup! Home sweet home!" Kyoya exclaimed as he plopped onto a sofa. "I can't wait for second year! I just hope Dumbledore doesn't hire another idiot… Well, we'll see shortly after my 12th birthday, I suppose."

Now that it was only 6 days until Kyoya's birthday, Kisuke felt the need to ask the same question again. "Hey, son. Have you thought of what you wanted to do for your 12th birthday?"

"Yeah, Dad, I'm thinking of doing karaoke and laser tag for a few hours with my friends."

"And how many people do you suppose will be going?"

"Hmm… There's Draco, Neville, Fred, George, Hermione, Cedric, Luna, Tonks, my private Soul Reaper Teachers, my captain, and everyone here of course… That's who I plan to invite. Oh, and of course anyone from the Shinigamis. I recently got word from all of them. All the Hogwarts people can make it, as well as the Soul Reapers."

"Hopefully Soul Society will be okay for one day with no Soul Reapers…" Kisuke pondered. "But at least that means more business for the shoten; the Soul Reapers are probably going to buy gigais. Oh, one last thing, Kyoya… Do you know how much all of this will cost?"

"It's ¥50 per person per hour at the karaoke place, and It's ¥50 per person per hour at the karaoke place, and ¥80 per person per hour at the laser tag place. Since they heard a lot of people are coming, they offered me a good discount." Kyoya retrieved a calculator sitting from a desk nearby. "Altogether, drinks and food included should amount to… ¥19240. The menu should have all kinds of entrees and desserts."

"Then I've got some great ideas for you! I'll go looking in downtown for something great for the party."

Over the next few days, Kisuke worked hard to find the best possible refreshments for the party – keeping in mind his son's personal likes, of course. By the morning of July 29, Kyoya had an entire floor of the Maid Entertainment Shop booked for a full eight hours – and even then, Kisuke and the others were working hard to make sure everything was set up – from the food to the décor. The young Shinigami now approached this shop, and upon entering thence, one of the workers greeted him, "Irasshaimasu!"

"Ohayou gozaimasu!" Kyoya replied. "Do you have some spare time right now?"

"Yes, I do!" replied a worker named Minako.

"Hello, Minako-san, how are you doing today?"

"I'm fine, thank you!"

"Now, I need to book the whole floor for karaoke and laser tag. I also need to see the menu for food and drinks."

"Okay, for how many people and how many hours?"

"Thirty-seven people and four hours for laser tag, four hours for karaoke."

After some calculation, Minako spoke up, "That will be ¥19240. Swipe your card when you're ready, please."

After Kyoya had done just that, he left the room and thought aloud, "It's only 11:30am. Maybe I should have an early lunch – the party food won't be for a few more hours, after all."

Kyoya then sent Kisuke the following text: "Dad, I'm going to buy lunch from that restaurant nearby. Do you want anything?"

Kisuke replied a few minutes later, making a fairly modest order. "Good, they gave us decent number of chopsticks and napkins." Once he inspected to make sure he had everything he had everything he needed, Kyoya flash-stepped all the way home to get there in a mere 35 seconds.

"That was a fast order…" Kisuke remarked when he saw his son with everyone's lunches.

Everyone scrambled into the kitchen as Kyoya set out the food, drinks, and utensils. As the food was passed around, great conversation about Kyoya's adventures at Hogwarts ensued at the table. Kyoya told them all about Professor Snape getting sacked because of his house discriminations against Muggle-borns – especially those in Gryffindor. He told them of the poltergeist named Peeves and another professor – who was a ghost – who disappeared. "Dad and Yoruichi took over Snape's and Binn's place as Potions Master and History of Magic professor," Kyoya told everyone excitedly.

As lighthearted as this conversation was, in the meantime, Lucius Malfoy had a serious topic to speak of with his son – but that could wait after some refreshments. "Dobby!" Lucius yelled for his house elf. "Fetch me a cup of tea with snacks."

"Yes, master," Dobby replied as he returned only three minutes later with tea and a tray of scones for his master.

"Also, please send Draco in."

Not long after, Draco came inside the study to see his father. "You wanted to see me, Father?"

"Now, son, what I'm about to tell you must not leave your mouth. Is that understood?"

"Yes, Father."

"This is about fifty years ago… Fifty years ago, there was a man named Tom Riddle. He whined about how the Muggles and Muggle-borns shouldn't have magic if they had non-magic parents. It is said that the Salem Witch Hunt started for this very reason. So in the fifth grade, Tom Riddle of Hogwarts fashioned a new name that would instill all fear when someone said it. His new name was Lord Voldemort – 'flight from death.' It's very fitting, as he should have died around 1981, when he went after the Potters. Fifty years ago, a chamber was opened. A girl who was a Muggle-born died that night when Tom opened it, unleashing the horror within. But he blamed it on Hagrid, because he found out that Hagrid was keeping a dangerous pet – a gigantic spider. Tom then got a reward for stopping that monster that was hurting and killing the Muggle-born."

As Lucius finished his story, the Dark Lord of which he spoke plotted. "I'll have to possess a Muggle…" he spoke to himself with disgust. "Filthy Muggles."

Without another word, he snuck into the Muggle's house and made his business quick before returning to his new throne. "Now I'll have to call Wormtail…" he thought aloud as he waited.

At the Weasley's home, Ron's rat, Scabbers, twitched his nose in the aid. My master is calling me, he thought. As afraid as I am… I'll have to show up, or he'll kill me on the spot.

Scabbers pattered around until he found a hole in the house he made for means of escaping. He finally got out of the house and quickly scurried away until he was able to turn into human form – and thus able to warp to a Muggle city. Peter Pettigrew appeared in the house his master was in and found him possessing a Muggle. Mentally preparing himself, he said, hoping that all fear was gone from his voice, "Master, what can I do for you?"

"Peter, do you want the honour of reviving me?"

"It would be an honour, my lord, but may I ask a question?"

"Of course, I'm being generous today."

"How would it be done?"

"I would have to kidnap Harry Potter and use his blood to revive me. There is a dark ritual. It needs blood of my enemy, unwillingly taken; hand of a servant, willingly taken; and bones of my father. I will give you the ritual when the time comes."

Back in Japan, Kyoya had shivers down his back, as if someone was talking about him. He would have stayed in that trance, too, if Kisuke hadn't woken him up. "Come on, Kyoya, wake up."

Kyoya bolted up from his bed, checking his watch; it was 7am. "Ugh, the party doesn't start for another three hours… I would rather sleep some more. But I guess it can't be helped."

After a morning run, however, Kyoya felt much more awake as he now made his way back to the Maid Entertainment Shop. As he walked in, he greeted, "Ohayou gozaimasu, minna-san! If you didn't have breakfast already, please do so now. Hmm…"

"Is something the matter?" asked a waiter named Tamaki. She was six feet tall, very slender with blonde hair that's up to her hips and in a ponytail. She also wore a maid outfit as well as all the other workers.

"Where's Minako-san?"

"Oh, she's not on shift today. But she sends you your birthday greeting."

"Aa, sou desu ka."

"She's said that she couldn't work today, actually… Anyway, if you'll follow me, I'll lead you to where the karaoke will be held."

Kyoya followed her to the karaoke place, where Tamaki instructed. "Please, have a seat. I'll bring up our friends when they get here."

Another maid went to Kyoya, ready to do her job. She was Tomoya Asano, a 15-year-old with beauty marks and black hair. "Hi, I'll be your server today. My name is Tomoya. I'll bring a tea pot at 37 cups of tea for the party. What kind of tea would you like, Master?"

"Green tea for now."

Several minutes later, Tomoya came back with a tray of teacups, a pot of green tea, and some scones for Kyoya. "I'll bring more teapots when the guests arrive, so that the tea doesn't get cold."

"Thank you."

It took only twenty minutes after this conversation for all the Soul Reapers to arrive. As soon as she saw them, Tomoya came in with about 13 more pots of green tea and poured the tea into the cups in front of Kyoya's first group of friends. As soon as she began to pour the tea, Kyoya's Hogwarts friends arrived with Kisuke, who didn't want to leave his Floo network unattended. They shook off all the soot from the fireplace, then greeted, "Hello, Kyoya!"

As he usually did, Remus apparated into the place – but arrived an hour late.

"Okay, people, we have three hours of karaoke left, then four hours of laser tag," Kyoya announced. "We also have about two hours to eat. After laser tag, the cake should get here." Kyoya took the liberty of ordering his birthday cake the day previous while he ordered lunch that day. "I hope you're all more hungry by then. As of now, we should be done by10pm on the dot. Kids can stay over for a sleepover, if you like."

Three hours of fun later – with plenty of food and drinks in between – everyone went to the lunch area for lunch – which, in his generosity, Kyoya gladly paid for. After the fun-filled lunch, Kyoya and the others eagerly made way for the laser tag area.

"Good, all equipments are good to go," he declared after a short inspection of the laser guns.

The professional working there went over the rules of the game to everyone in a loud, clear voice so that everyone could hear him. "For those who are playing for the first time, listen up! You can enter the field two-by-two until all 37 of you are inside the maze."

"How about we play young against old?" Kyoya spoke with somewhat of a smirk.

"Great idea!" The others, especially the Soul Reapers, concurred. They were really getting into the game, tagging the youngsters in just about every direction. To be fair, the younger-looking Soul Reapers went after the younger wizards while the older-looking ones went after the older wizards.

Two hours of laser tag passed long before anyone knew it as stress levels were eased. After those two hours quickly passed, they stretched before going to a special birthday room for 37 people – complete with a gigantic birthday cake and 40 birthday presents on the tables in a separate corner. Kisuke and Kyoya brought out a big cake cutter and some plates, while the maids took care of the rest. Kisuke lit up the 12 candles, after which everyone began to sing the Birthday Song – first in English, then in Japanese. After Kyoya made his birthday wish and blew out the candles, he gave everyone a single slice of cake with delicious icing on it.

All the while, the maids engaged in great conversation with everyone – even if they were working at the same time. Kyoya couldn't help but brag about his unusually high score in laser tag, while Ururu loved to talk about all the songs she liked in the karaoke.

Now that it was almost 11 pm, it was time for presents. Kyoya walked to the humongous pile and started to open them one by one. As neatly wrapped as they were, Kyoya unwrapped each one hurriedly; he didn't want to tire his Hogwarts friends, after all. After Kyoya had thanked everyone for the rather interesting presents he received, all left for home.

"Well, that was certainly fast…" Kisuke remarked as he, Kyoya, and the family made way for home.

"No, it just felt fast…" Kyoya smiled when they approached the entrance of the shoten. "Because that's what happens when you have fun!"