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"Talking Japanese"

[Talking English]

'Thinking'

{Talking on the phone/fireplace/two-way-mirror}

{Text message}

–Parseltongue–

Thinking in 3rd person POV/Dream/Memory/Flashback/Others

Letter/Journal/Book/Newspaper

Time change/Date of time

Change of POV

Chapter XXX

–Plushie Yōma & Shin–

Friday, 8 September 1995

SN's POV

Nefuraito walked with Tsukino-okusan and Potter-kun into the clinic where Snape-hakase was leaving with a folder. The Wizard nodded back.

"School asked for me to go over." He explained while showing the folder as explanation.

Tsukino-okusan nodded and the man hurried away. The three entered and the woman at the entry desk immediately stood at realizing that Tsukino-okusan was a mundane. Nefuraito stepped forward before the blue-haired woman, let his clothes shift into his tracksuit and then back really fast, although slow enough for the Witch to see it and for Tsukino-okusan to think it was a trick of light.

"Tsukino-okusan and Potter-kun are here to visit Potter-sama." He put in, using his Knight's voice. "Snape-hakase must have listed them as family in the paperwork."

Frowning, the Witch looked through her paperwork, before she nodded and activated a button under her counter, making her counter look like the ones of mundane clinics with technology and stuff. Only then did Nefuraito step out of his protection stand.

"I'm sorry, I know it's early for visits but Tommy-kun really needs to see his papa." Tsukino-okusan apologised while showing the toddler in her arms.

"Potter-sama is still not available for visits, but I have in my files that you are also allowed to visit Granger-chan." The Witch offered.

Tsukino-okusan looked down at Potter-kun questioningly, who nodded.

"Then if you won't mind until Potter Harry-kun is proper, we'll visit Granger-chan." Tsukino-okusan agreed with a bow of head.

They were guided down the corridor until Granger-chan's room. The teenage girl was having breakfast when they arrived.

"Welcome home, Tommy." The girl did her best to say in Japanese.

"I'm home." Tsukino-okusan agreed. "Tsukino Ikuko."

"Tsukino Usagi-chan's mother." Nefuraito supplied.

The girl put her food tray to the side and hurried to her notebook and looked through her notes trying to look for the word meaning.

"Mama." Tsukino-okusan offered.

The girl immediately looked back and nodded thankfully.

"I Harry oneechan." She told back.

Tsukino-okusan approached and set Potter-kun over the girl's bed.

"I'm Harry's oneechan." She amended and Granger-chan repeated.

"Thank you." The young Witch added, before Tsukino-okusan signalled the food and Granger-chan pulled the food close. As she was restarting to eat, Tsukino-okusan helped her on how to proper pick a chopstick, before starting to name the respective food names and each ingredient. "Thank you for the meal." Granger-chan properly said, after obviously reading it from her notebook and Tsukino-okusan bowed her head back.

"She only knows some lines yet." Nefuraito said to the mundane woman, who looked back. "Potter-sama and Malfoy-kun are teaching her, but technically she can just say those lines and whatever she has on her notebook written down so far."

Tsukino-okusan nodded back and signalled at a chair before Granger-chan who immediately nodded in a 'sit down please'.

"Chair." Tsukino-okusan offered, Granger-chan frowned only for Potter-kun to babble one word that to Nefuraito made no sense but he guessed made to the Witch.

"Chair." Granger-chan repeated uncertain and Tsukino-okusan sat down.

"Sit down."

[Sit.] Potter-kun added, also in a language that made no sense.

"Tsukino-san sit down chair."

"Yes." Tsukino-okusan congratulated.

Nefuraito snorted as in no time the two females were pointing at furniture and repeating said name in Japanese as the girl pointed each word on her notebook in Romaji, while Tsukino-okusan would then add the Hiragana-version. Sometimes Potter-kun would have to somehow babble the translated version when the two would get too ahead of themselves, but it somehow was working. Eventually Kusama-sensei showed by the doorway and nodded back, spoke in English to Granger-chan and then finally spoke in Japanese with them.

"Potter-sama is capable for visits." The Healer offered and Potter-kun immediately whined. "He can't have weights on his chest, Potter-kun, understood?"

Potter-kun nodded and Granger-chan struggled to stand. Nefuraito stepped forward immediately and took hold of her before she'd fall down.

[Harry.] The girl argued when he went to force her back down. "Please."

"She wants to visit Harry-kun as well." Tsukino-okusan translated and Nefuraito wondered how even though they didn't speak the same language they could understand each other so well.

"There's chairs in Potter-sama's room." Kusama-sensei offered.

Nefuraito nodded and leaned down, picking up the girl bridal-style. None of the others argued and Tsukino-okusan picked a blanket, pulling it over the girl's legs to hide her modesty before she picked up the begging boy. They walked out the room and into the room that Kusama-sensei was guiding them to. Potter-sama was half-awake and looked back drowsily.

[Hey…] The teenager whispered.

Nefuraito approached and set Granger-chan on the armchair twin of the one she had been using on her bedroom and then pushed it close to the bed.

"Papa." Potter-kun whined and Tsukino-okusan set the boy on Granger-chan's lap so he'd be close to Potter-sama's side. Potter-sama moved his hand closer to his son slowly and Potter-kun took hold onto it. "Hurt." The boy added.

"Again, I know." Potter-sama agreed. "I'm sorry for worrying you all." He added towards Tsukino-okusan.

"Just worry over getting better." The woman argued. "Did you break anything when you stepped in front of the car? Kusama-sensei just said you can't have weights on your chest."

"No, I didn't break anything." The male argued. "Just sore." He added, while avoiding Nefuraito's pointed look.

Well, he wasn't technically lying. He didn't break, he just got impaled.

–O&SM–

TMP's POV

Tom arrived the Tsukino Residence with Grandmother and, as the Muggle woman took his new plushie to go paint it, he heard movement upstairs. He got out of the couch and then crawled away, paddled up the stairs and then entered Auntie's bedroom to find Papa in his red attire.

"Papa?" He asked confused.

Wasn't he in the hospital?

Papa turned around and looked back, only for Tom to see that this was a humanoid-version of his lost plushie. It had black-irises and green in the place of white on it's eyes, glasses tattooed onto the face instead of actual glasses and instead of a scar it had a forehead lightning tattoo…

The humanoid-plushie shrieked at seeing him and approached to sit down before him, offering his arms as if for Tom to pick him up like usual. Like it's actual plush version would do.

"Tommy-kun, are you up there?" Grandmother asked from the bottom of the stairs.

"Hai." Tom agreed so the Muggle wouldn't come looking for him, as he looked at his alive plushie. He paddled inside Papa's bedroom and his plushie followed him on all fours. He found Papa's invisibility cloak and sat the plushie against the corner of the bed. "Stay." He forced himself to say and his plushie nodded, only for Tom to stand on his feet and do his best at pulling the invisibility cloak over the tall plushie.

Immediately the plushie helped him on how to pull the cloak over itself.

Tom descended the stairs, nodded at Grandmother and she smiled back from where she was setting up lunch with his new plushie besides it.

"Hungry?" She asked.

He shook his head and approached the frontdoor, forced himself on his feet again and opened the door. Sanjōin looked back from where he was on the other side of the street and Tom signalled close. The Knight nodded and approached, entering with a bow of head to Grandmother. The Immortal picked up Tom, who signalled the stairs, so they went upstairs. Once there Tom was set down and the older followed Tom to Papa's room. Tom approached the corner and took the invisibility cloak from his plushie and looked back at the Knight who was already shifting back and approaching cautiously.

"When did this happen?" Nephrite asked but the plushie didn't answer.

"Papa." Tom turned towards the plushie.

"Kunzite-sama make me and told me to find my child because my child was worried over me." The plushie replied but only because Tom told him to.

Nephrite approached the plushie turned Yōma carefully so not to provoke it and Tom was uncertain if he should step away into safety. He still remembered how his first plushie turned into one because of Nephrite.

"Tommy-kun? Sanjōin-san? Food will cold down." Grandmother called from downstairs.

"We'll be down in a second, Tsukino-okusan. Trust me that you don't want to climb and see the snake that nested in Potter-sama's room." Nephrite quickly lied.

"Tommy-kun, I told you not to bring them into the house!" The woman immediately shrieked scared.

Nephrite offered his hand and the plush-Yōma opened his arms into a hug like it had earlier done to Tom. Nephrite took hold of the hand and then his own specie of magic took effect, turning the Yōma back into a plushie. The problem was that the plushie didn't shrink. Tom looked up at Nephrite questioningly as he set a hand over the plushie's chest and whispered some words.

"It's done, it's again a plushie. We're lucky that Aniki didn't send it with killing intentions." Nephrite picked the invisibility cloak and pulled over the plushie, before he shifted and picked up Tom. "Let's go wash our hands before your Obāsan believes that the poisonous snake took us out."

Tom snickered and the two descended, going into the kitchen and Tom washed his hands, before Grandmother took him from Sanjōin who then washed his own hands and the three sat by the table to eat.

"I know you like snakes, Tommy-kun, but you know the deal. You can play with them only in the backyard."

Tom babbled in argument.

"I believe it entered inside Potter-sama's bag yesterday night and Jedo-kun didn't notice it when leaving it in the corner of Potter-sama's room." Sanjōin offered. "I'll warn my Kōhais to be more careful." He added.

Grandmother sighed and nodded.

"Which kind was it?"

"Like one of those that Potter-kun finds in the grass. Non-poisonous. The issue was that it had nested so it was being hard to get it to agree to let me grab the clothes. I had to throw it out the window or it would've attack me during the ride down the stairs." He added.

The woman obviously breathed relieved and Tom scoffed.

"Can you bring the bag into the washing machine?" Grandmother asked and Sanjōin nodded. "Thank you, I know that this is not part of your job."

"My job is to make sure nothing happens." Sanjōin argued. "My job doesn't include meals." He added, while pointing down at the meal he was being offered and Grandmother smiled back.

Eventually Sanjōin went upstairs and returned with the bag, that he set inside the washing machine, before he walked outside and Tom saw silver in the man's arms. Not long later he was returning from his car, as if he had just picked something, with the real-sized plushie. Tom shrieked by the doors and Grandmother came from the laundry room to check what was going on, only to gape at the massive plushie being brought inside.

"Sanjōin-san?" Grandmother asked.

"Jedo-kun just stopped by to leave this. Now even if he loses the small one, he can't lose this one." Sanjōin lied and brought the massive plushie into Tom's plushies corner in the living room, setting it down.

Tom sat on the plushie's legs with his small plushie in is arms and leaned his head against the plushie's chest, before he knew it he was asleep.

–O&SM–

HJP's POV

Healer Kusama checked Harry's chest once again before he finally gave him lease.

[Whatever those Dark Wizards used was effective.] The Healer offered. [Hiro-san told me about the truth behind Lestrange Bellatrix-san' attack.] He added and Harry nodded. [I won't argue about the Sailor Guardians bringing you There – since I wouldn't have been able to save you in that state – but do remember that this amount of magic has effects on the Magical Core. If you aren't careful your Core can turn Dark as well. Even if in Japan the Magical Affinity is not an issue, there's still limits to what Dark users can perform.]

[I'll ask Tutor Kamijō to help me deal with my magic.] Harry agreed as the two left the bedroom he had been hospitalized in. [Do you have any suggestion on how to control magic? Because last time I tried to meditate you had to be called because my magic overpowered me.]

[If you were in school what would've you been having?]

Harry looked at his wristwatch and then back.

[I'd be finishing Maths.]

Healer Kusama nodded and accompanied Harry to the high school, they entered together and approached the main office. The women immediately bowing their heads back.

"Are you better, Potter-san?"

"Yes, thanks to Kusama-sensei."

The Healer bowed at being introduced.

"Is Potter-sama's Physical Education-kōchi in classes? I need to speak with him over Potter-sama's recovery." He asked and one of the women immediately left.

Didn't take long for Coach Karasuma to show up.

"I'm Karasuma Tadaomi." Coach Karasuma introduced himself.

Healer Kusama smiled amused.

"Pleasure, I'm Kusama Nowaki."

The two men shared amused looks before Coach Karasuma guided them to his office in the gym.

"You are the private doctor, am I correct?"

"Yes, Potter-sama hired me after Potter-kun got sick."

"Potter-san told me he had hired one after the last one tried to force him to give the child away." Coach Karasuma agreed, opened his office's door and then offered a chair. "Snape-hakase gave the school your files about Potter-san's absence. I take it he is better."

"Luckily it was more blood than actual danger." Healer Kusama agreed. "I know that Potter-sama is in your basketball team." He added and Coach Karasuma nodded. "Is there a Kendo, Yoga or – at the least – meditation group in the school? Both me, Irabu-sensei and Snape-kōju agreed that Potter-sama needs some type of meditation techniques that work on him."

"Do you believe he should leave the team?" Coach Karasuma asked and Healer Kusama shook his head.

"There's no need. Physical practice is good for him."

"He just needs to learn to relax as well." Coach Karasuma agreed. "I'll add meditation techniques to the end of each class. As well as to the basketball practices. None of his teammates will argue as it will help restrain them from getting angry when the other team tries to get at them."

Healer Kusama nodded.

"Thank you. With everything going on Potter-sama needs to learn to control breathing techniques that won't make him enter into an attack."

Coach Karasuma narrowed his eyes.

"It has happened?" The Muggle asked and Harry nodded shyly. Coach Karasuma turned towards the Wizard. "I'll keep an eye on him to be sure it doesn't happen again. Still, if you could leave a phone number for just in case something happens would be appreciated."

"Something happens like another fainting?" Healer Kusama wondered as he took out his visitor card.

"Or a punch." Coach Karasuma agreed, making Harry snort. "Knowing the teenager's Luck, it'll most likely happen again."

Healer Kusama raised an eyebrow at Harry.

"Something I should know?"

"Basketball can be quite bloody." Harry shrugged.

–O&SM–

Harry bowed his head at Healer Kusama who then walked away. Checking his wristwatch Harry knew that it was too early to wait for Usagi, so he turned around to walk home alone when he found himself face-to-face with a gorgeous silver-haired tall Japanese man in kimono clothes who was staring right back. The grey eyes stuck on Harry's and the other looked like he was seeing a ghost. Somehow Harry could feel a red thread magic line connecting the two through their pinkie fingers and pulling them together.

"Hmmm… pleasure, I'm" [Potter Harry.] Harry introduced himself shyly and bowed his head, yet he was unable from looking away from the gorgeous man before him that his magic was singing around. Please even if not Gay at the least be Bi…

The older male seemed to return to Earth and immediately bowed his chest back.

"Pleasure. I'm Shin." The older agreed before he straightened with a smile at the corner of his lips.

Harry fought not to blush. It was hard though. A hand signalled towards the side and shyly Harry followed the older into the festival. The two passing through the shops as they walked side-by-side and spoke over everything and nothing. Eventually Harry's mobile phone rang and he blushed.

"My apologies, it's my Aneue." He apologises to which Shin nodded and walked a few steps away for Harry to accept the call. {Moshi moshi.}

{Harry-kun, where are you? Kusama-sensei said he left you by the school gates over an hour ago.} Usagi shrieked on the other side.

Harry glanced at the older who had approached one of the shops and paid to try his luck at the shooting.

{You'll never believe me but I was going to go home when I found myself on a date!}

It took Usagi a long moment to realize what he meant but when she did she shrieked ecstatically.

{When you arrive later I want intel. Is he hot? Please tell me he is hot!}

{And tall for a Japanese.} Harry agreed, making Usagi shriek ecstatically. [Wha…?] "For me?"

Shin nodded as he gave Harry the plushie he'd won as the prize.

{He'd just gifted you something, didn't he?} Usagi asked knowingly and Harry limited to hum affirmatively. {Ring me when you two are done. Remember that it needs to be before dinner time or Mama will kill you for going on a date instead of heading home.}

{Will do.} Harry agreed and hung-up. "Wh… where do you want to go next?" He added shyly.

"Always wanted to win Wanage at the least once." Shin offered. "Although I fear I'm no good at it and always lose."

Harry followed him into the game in question and hummed at realizing how it was played. He set the massive plushie down next to the older who raised an eyebrow back. Harry took out his wallet and paid, before he quickly and easily got ready as he looked at the older uncertain, who smiled and signalled one of the lockets in the form of a Full Moon. Harry nodded and started tossing the rings onto the small necklace the other mentioned and when he finally managed to catch it, the shopper picked it and opened it to show that it was a musicbox with a Phoenix's voice but instead of soothing and reinvigorating it was lullabying and inside was an actually silver Phoenix as if dancing around inside the musicbox. Somehow the lullaby sounded just like the one that Usagi always sang to him… Harry accepted his sitting lion-plushie with a basketball in it's paws back as Shin put his new necklace on under his kimono's layers of cloth.

"What's next? I never came to this kind of places back in my homeland."

"Do you want to try out the food?"

Harry looked down at his watch before he shook his head.

"If I eat now I won't have dinner when I'll arrive home." He argued.

"Well… this will be open for the rest of the weekend. People normally come in kimonos." The other added signalling several couples in said clothes like he was. "Do you have one?"

Harry shook his head and he was guided out the market fair, only for them to enter a shop. He was helped into a stool and before he knew it both Shin and the seamstress were helping him undress and to put layer plus layer of clothes on him. Even though Harry knew he had a glamour on his chest because of the massive new scar, when his chest got undressed he felt Shin's staring at it and being unable to look away. It was almost as if the Muggle could see it. It was either that or Shin was staring at Harry's muscles!

Harry looked at himself in the full body mirror and then back at Shin who nodded approvingly.

"It's perfect." Shin put in and Harry changed back, before his new clothes were properly stored and before Harry could pay, Shin did it. Harry stuttering all the way out the shop. "I'm the one who took you shopping, Harry-chan." Shin retorted with a chuckle.

"Still…"

"I'll see you tomorrow at the entrance. 5 pm, deal?"

Harry blushed but nodded. The older bowed his head and as Harry struggled with his plushie and clothes to do the same, the other smiled amused and, picking a white flower from somewhere, it was set on the clothes bag. Harry was still gaping after his disappeared-self when Usagi suddenly showed before him with a known smile.

"That well?"

"I got a second date." Harry gasped out, making the girl laugh as she picked the plushie from him.

He opened his shopping bag to see the flower to find a white rose. Innocence. Purity.

Harry scoffed at how the older saw him.

Mrs Tsukino gasped when she saw him arrive and ran to hug him, even if mindful for any side-effects. Usagi climbed upstairs with his shopping bag and massive plushie. After dinner and Usagi helping at caring for Tommy, he entered his room to find the bloody girl had put his new plushie besides his basketball that Tommy had painted green in a fit because of it's 'horrible' colour and on Harry's bedside table in a glass of water was his rose.

"If a tall dark stranger gave you a rose you'd swoon…" the girl pointed out and Harry looked at her by the bedroom's door with a smirk. "Wasn't it what I told you?"

"He's calling me pure with the gifting of that exact rose." Harry groaned. "And he was going so well until he put that flower on my shopping bag." He added with a whine.

Usagi grinned like mad and set Tommy on his playpen cot, the boy staring at the rose wide-eyed. She closed the bedroom's door and then went to sit down on Harry's bed.

"Intel! I want to know everything."

"There was no kiss if that is what you want to know." Harry reprimanded her as he stored his kimono at the bottom of the wardrobe.

"He asked you on a second date, right? Even gave you a kimono for said date." She argued smugly and Harry blushed. "Oh, yes. There's definitely going to be a kiss tomorrow."

"Usagi!" Harry groaned as he blushed harder at picturing himself kissing the other. "You're not helping my imagination."

"Just your imagination?" She teased.

Harry grabbed the first thing he found, which was one of Tommy's snake-plushies and threw at the snickering girl.

"My son is in the room!"

It looked to have been the wrong thing to say, because it made her laugh even harder. Eventually Professor Snape climbed to send her to her room so Harry could go sleep even if the Healer had allowed him to leave the day after the strike.

(TBC)

Chapter dedicated to 917brat (FFdotNet) for suggesting a rare Moon Phoenix

Wanage – Ring Toss

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~Isys