"Why do all ya Wizards use carrier owls?" Mamizu growled as he was battling a snowy white owl. He wielded a broom like a blade, swiping at the owl every time it tried to swoop down at his bacon. The owl let out a Screeching war cry as it swooped down and bit his hand while it's claws grabbed at the bacon. Mamizu grit his teeth as he took his undamaged hand and swiped at the owl.
"Yuki is just hungry. Besides, she likes messing with you~" Kagura laughed merrily, offering some of her Sausage to Kōchin. The owl was relentless in her battle for bacon, while Mamizu was equally as determined to eat his bacon.
After breakfast, Mamizu and Kagura practiced for long hours in the dojo. Before lunch came around…
In through the doors flew a tawny owl. It settled on the display of Mamizu's previous graduates. In one claw it clutched a thick envelope. Upon it was the gold and red wax seal of the Gringotts Bank. While Mamizu put away their practice swords, Kagura went over to the owl. Gently coaxing the letter away from it with a promise of a fresh mouse.
On the letter was the wax seal of Gringotts. "The Bank of Gringotts" was around the edge and in the middle was A goblin head with a G wrapped around it. The wax Was black with a little gold mixed in.
With the letter delivered and mouse gained, the tawny owl flew off.
The two humans and two animals were left to look at the letter curiously.
"Ain't that from dat weird ass bank ya told me 'bout?" Mamizu asked, taking it from Kagura's hands. "Ta Diana Holly Potter, your Name Change has been considered, an we would like ta congratulate you on restorin' yer ancestral clan. We would like ta talk ter ya about yer assets. Within is enclosed a Port Key dat will take her to our yadda yadda yadda…," he was tired of reading it off aloud and read through it before saying, "huh, patently yer ma came from ah clan over where I'm from," he handed the letter back to Kagura, "an' yer da was a deadbeat who spent cash like ah Fire Daimyo in the land o' steam."
Soon she was reading the letter, Kōchin reading it from her shoulder.
During her third year of school, Kagura had done a heritage testing potion for Potions class. Three generations before her Mother, their family had been going by the name Kageyoshi. Each head of the family taking up the name Kagura. But at that point they had moved to England to escape the elemental nations. The goblins didn't know why when she asked them, but had agreed to help her to change names and go over her inheritance with a fine toothed comb.
Kagura left With Kōchin in her arms.
The Portkey room was barren, however the stonework was grand. Designed to make one feel tiny in this large hall. Using light colors to make it feel oh so much larger than it really was.
The young ninja in training observed it all and hummed in appreciation.
These goblins know what they are doing. Making the Wizards feel as much under thumb as they made the goblins feel.
Soon a goblin came in and lead Kagura to the office of the Kagegoshi family. Formerly Potter-Kageyoshi.
"Greetings little Heiress," the Goblin purred.
"Hello sir goblin," Kagura said softly, "May your gold flow like a river."
"And May your enemies fall to your blade," the Goblin hummed, "I have many and more things to discuss with you."
"The letter said I have little to my name," Kagura said hesitantly.
"Little in gold," the goblin corrected, "and many of your ancestral possessions were sold before you were even born. Ah, I remember not long before… when I spoke with your mother about the deeds of your father. Taking all she had and doing with it what he willed. Ah I had a grand time working out how much she owed me for destroying my office and setting fires clear down the hall."
Kagura's eyes lit up when she heard about her mother. At school she heard much about her father James… but little about her mother beyond her brilliance…
"Now we have successfully recollected many of them, but others are out of our hands now. You currently have 120, 492 gold, a vault containing the relics of the Kageyoshi family, and several properties. Seeing as you are under aged, we can only permit you to use one of the properties."
Kaguya nodded along and then asked, "are any of the properties… where my family came from?" Hope filled her voice.
The goblin smirked and laid out three files upon his desk. Each one had a different symbol on the front…
Kaguya knew them immediately from the lessons on the elemental nations Mamizu gave her…
The land of rain had a modest property, made for a family of four and had quarters for servants. It had a shrine dedicated to an odd phoenix deity she didn't recognize… but something in her did. A warm feeling like what she felt from the proud smiles Mamizu gave her.
Then there was one in the land of fire, in the leaf village itself. This property was larger than the first but not the largest of the three. A family of eight maybe, and quarters for servants. It was close to the Hotsprings, and there was evidence that the hotsprings once belonged to the Kageyoshi family… this one also had a shrine, the shrine dedicated to a salmon haired deity with the same leaf mark as Kagura. A mark that adorned the faces of generations of Kageyoshi Clan Heads. He had a smirk on his face like he had a secret and would lord it over the world.
The largest one was also mostly destroyed… a property in the former land of whirlpools. This one was made more to visit than live. A home for the family to gather and talk. The ruins had one part untouched among the destruction of Uzushiogakure. The shrine dedicated to deities others knew so little of. A list of reclaimed artifacts was in the file.
"These are the safest properties, even if one is what you humans call a "Fixer-Upper" home," the goblin said.
"You only put that in there as a trap didn't you?" Kagura accused.
The grin that grew upon the goblin's face would chill the blood of most Humans. "I knew there was a reason Ragnok likes you," he purred, taking that file off the table and setting it in the stack of other properties.
Kagura went back to the other two to decide which one would be better. Eventually she asked, "are you able to place my inheritance in some form of storage to move here more easily?" she handed him the file for the Konoha property.
He nodded along as he wrote up a few things to his coworkers, "yes, we can make that happen for a fee."
"A reasonable fee?" Kagura asked quickly.
"Of course," the goblin snorted, opting not to tell her off for interrupting him, "it shall be done. Would you like to take some gold with you before you leave?" He asked, in a tone that made it clear he was ready to be done with the meeting.
"May I see my inheritance as well? I… would like to see my ancestors," Kagura said softly. A look of longing filled her eyes.
"Yes yes, Dirktooth will take you there," the goblin huffed, waving her off dismissively.
Kagura got down from the tall chair she was sitting on and went to the door. Before leaving she said, "thank you."
The vault was a lot larger then Kagura expected. Big enough to house two dragons with enough room for them to turn around in comfortably. Scrolls, tapestries, and treasures filled the room wall to wall.
Some of the scrolls looked different from others and when she opened one, Kagura immediately knew why… sealing scrolls. Many many sealing scrolls.
Other scrolls contained the diaries of her ancestors, telling of triumphs and sorrows… all up until the last word of each of them was recorded with a portrait of them.
Then there were the skill scrolls. Each of the elements in various forms of what seemed to be Jutsu. Defensive, offensive, healing and enhancing.
A pedestal in the back of the room held five artifacts that seemed to glow with an inner power. A square bell made of gold and ivory, a lute that seemed to be filled with water and adorned with gold along the bottom, a mirror with two stars adorning the back, a sake bottle with gold decorating the top half and the bottom was made of some kind of glass filled with water, and a chalice that balanced on its own despite being a Cone with a very wide top. This too had the strange water filling it.
Kagura felt a pulsing flowing through her as she looked upon the artifacts. A fire lit up in her heart and her right eye stung with an unknown pain. She fell to her knees as the pain slowly filled the rest of her body. Passing out, the Kageyoshi didn't know how much her body changed inside and out.
When Kagura awoke, she was laying on a bench outside the cave. Depite her whole body aching she sat up slowly. "Why do I feel like I went through a surprise Training from Hell session?" She groaned as she cradled her head.
"Took you long enough," her Goblin guide huffed, glaring at Kagura.
She glanced over at him, and the goblin gasped. Muttering something in gobbledygook he ran off.
The young heiress groaned and stood up, taking it slowly as she went back into the cave to collect some things she felt the need to take with herself. The goblins would be able to take the rest to her new home… but her instincts were calling out to grab certain things. The very same instincts that helped her avoid the basilisk's gaze in second year and the dementors in third.
The five artifacts were a definite, and she collected those in a scroll. Next she grabbed a scroll marked with a fan, but a different fan from the clan symbol. Then finally she grabbed one that Kōchin wanted… probably because it had her name on it somehow.
With those in hand she left… finding another goblin to let her out of the Bank to go home.