Koda Koji followed the group, Jiro, Yaoyorozu, Kirishima, Sato and Hagrid to the last shop on their trip, Madam Malkin's. They'd just finished getting books from Flourish and Blotts, after they'd gotten quills, ink and scrolls of parchment from Scribbulus Writing Implements. He wondered why Hogwarts was still using those things, instead of pens, pencils and notebooks, but he supposed that the school was very traditional. A bit too traditional, seeing as they also wouldn't be able to use any electronics there either. Koji wasn't too upset about that though, he preferred spending time with Yuwai-chan, his bunny.
Koji was lucky enough that he was allowed to bring her, though she wasn't very happy about being stuck in a pet carrier in the carry-on compartment above his head the whole plane trip.
Hagrid had been extremely intimidating at first, seeing as he'd been eleven feet tall, and at least three times the width of an average person. But while walking between shops, Hagrid had talked a lot about himself. It turned out he loved animals just as much as Koji did, going on and on about a dragon? named Norberta, who'd had to be sent away to Romania with 'Ron's older brother Charlie'. He didn't know who Charlie was (or Ron for that matter), but he seemed to be friends with Hagrid if he'd let him take Norberta with him.
When they entered Madam Malkin's, the group put all the stuff they'd bought that hadn't been shrunken for them, on some seats against a wall at the entrance. The lady who was running the shop was sewing black robes, with the help of Shinso and Asui. Shoji was measuring Ojiro, Tokoyami was cutting the sleeves on a winter cloak, then stitching them back together, wider this time, probably for Shoji. Aoyama was grabbing boxes labeled 'Hogwarts Jumpers, medium', 'Hogwarts Shirts, medium' and others labeled similarly. Ashido and Kaminari were running around the store, trying on the strangest clothes they could find, Midoriya and Todoroki were talking to each other in a corner, and Mr. Aizawa and Present Mic were sipping coffee (god knows where they got that without leaving) and attempting to supervise while having a conversation.
As soon as Shoji'd finished with Ojiro, he nodded towards their group, silently asking for the next person to come get measured. He seemed to be the only person who'd noticed them yet. Kirishima bounded up to the small platform as Ojiro chucked him a plain, untailored, black robe from a rack behind him, then brought the one he'd just taken off, now covered in pins, to the lady, Shinso and Asui.
Koji listened to Hagrid's stories about animals he'd looked after over the years as he patiently waited for his turn being measured. He let all of his group go before him, as when the next person was called up, after Kirishima, Hagrid was still in the middle of one of his stories.
The next few hours flew by, Koji'd gotten measured, they'd all helped the lady- Madam Malkin, tailor the robes (even Present Mic's horrible purple one), and sorted out the rest of the uniforms that were in the boxes Aoyama was carrying around earlier. All Might's group had re-joined them, giving out sweets to them all (some more strange than others, the jellybean-looking sweet Iida'd given him was mango flavoured, and the chocolate frog was delicious- after he'd caught it that was, it had started hopping like a real frog after he'd opened it, but he was able to grab it before it ran off. He'd seen Sero giving his friends what looked like cockroaches, they did not look appetising in the slightest).
Their group had already been measured, apparently, and were just there for the meet-up, informing them that they had slightly less than an hour before the train was supposed to leave. Everyone's eyes had gone wide and they started scrambling to grab the things their groups had bought in Diagon Alley. Luckily, as soon as they'd gathered the items, Madam Malkin had announced that she'd finished the twenty student robes and three teacher's ones, and was going to take a break before starting back on the rest, which she said she'd send to Hogwarts over the next couple of days.
Present Mic's group gathered up the finished robes, and they all started hurrying back to the Leaky Cauldron, to get the rest of their stuff, and distribute the things each group had bought, so everyone had one of each thing. There had been a bit of a problem, seeing as some things had been shrunken by shopkeepers so they were easy to carry around, but now they didn't know how to get them back to normal size. Luckily, Hagrid came to the rescue after hearing about it, and told them all that they would return to the correct size once inside their dorms at Hogwarts.
Fortunately, they'd made it to Kings Cross Station with exactly seven minutes to spare, and all of their belongings they brought. Unfortunately, Hagrid had gone to use the bathroom without telling them which platform they were meant to be going to.
Mr. Aizawa had gone off to ask one of the station workers, while Present Mic watched the students and All Might waited impatiently at the bathroom for Hagrid.
Everything was going as well as it could have in their current situation, until Kaminari stole one of Bakugo's Acid Pops. He probably thought it was a regular lollipop, and was shocked when it burnt his tongue. Literally. The surprise from the treat being acidic seemed to have cause him to short-circuit himself. A moment later, Aizawa had come back, looking very confused and maybe slightly panicked that they might miss their train.
"They said there isn't any eleven o'clock trains running..."
That caused everyone who'd heard him (Koji, Jiro, Shoji and Present Mic) to also start panicking. It was only four minutes to eleven, and they were apparently looking for a non-existent train. Hooray.
Just as they'd resigned to giving up, Hagrid and All Might could be seen walking back from the bathroom, strangers ogling at them, likely wondering how both of them were so tall.
"Why aren't yeh on the train yet?" The giant of a man asked Aizawa.
"You haven't exactly told us where the train is."
"Platform 9 'n 3 quarters o' course!"
"There's no such thing as platform 9 and 3 quarters."
"Course there is! Yeh just run through that wall there." Hagrid said, pointing to the wall between platforms nine and ten. Aizawa looked taken aback. Run through the wall?
Hagrid walked over to the wall, the class following him, and stuck his hand through the wall. It disappeared.
"Who's goin' first?"
Kaminari ran over to the wall with all his stuff and ran through, quickly followed by the rest of the self-proclaimed Bakusquad. Even Bakugo went through, which, you know, was surprising.
Yaoyorozu, Jiro and Hagakure went through next, followed by the other self-proclaimed squad, the Dekusquad or Izucrew, depending on who you asked. All Might went through next, probably to help them onto the train, then Shinso, Ojiro, Tokoyami and Shoji. Next was Present Mic, then Aoyama, Sato, himself, Aizawa and Hagrid.
AN:
This chapter was literally meant to be the whole train ride. Guess we got the last part of Diagon Alley instead XD
The way I write chapters it legit pick a character, have the smallest possible idea of what I'm writing, and wing it. Obviously I have a vague outline of the plot, so I don't really stray off track, but... most of it's just improve, and that vague outline of the plot? Literally just ideas, nothing concrete... yet.
Next chapter will probs come out in a day or two, but the one after that will probably take longer than usual to be posted, since I have to actually re-read more of the book ;-;
