A/N: Hi everyone. I just barely made it but I got a 26th chapter up before the end of the weekend! Which is a real accomplishment considering all this gosh-darn homework!!! It's real annoying…really annoying. Speaking of which…

"Lunch time. Girls?" Mrs. Dursley said knocking on the door to the basement. "Girls?!" She called opening the door. "AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!" She shrieked.

"Uh oh," Kioko muttered, "That sounded like Petunia."

Indeed, when the two girls came out from their designated kitchen Mrs. Dursley was at the top of the now strengthened and barred stairs, staring at the girls' living room. "What, what have you done to my basement?!" She yelled.

"It's not like you were using it for anything but a bunch of garage sailing items." Kioko said pushing some stray hairs behind her ears.

"Bu-bu, bu-bu…VERNON!!!" Petunia screamed.

"What? What's going on Petu—WHAT?!" Vernon yelled once he saw the new and vastly improved basement. "What did you do to my basement?!" Vernon demanded marching down the stairs.

"What does it look like we did, we enlarged and improved your basement." Kioko said rolling her eyes.

"I'll not allow it! None of this…magic stuff in my house!!! You'll change this basement back RIGHT NOW!" Vernon yelled, shaking his fist at Kioko.

Kioko cleared her throat, smoothed her hair back, and looked him in the eye. "I never asked if you approved. What did you expect we wanted a basement for? It was the only place you didn't use!"

"Change it back!" Vernon growled, rather red in the face.

"For some reason I get the feeling you are under the mistaken impression that I will submit to you in this like Harry normally would. Allow me to show you what I think of your anarchy." She then started making a gagging expression and noise with her finger pointing into her mouth. "Now if you'll excuse us, we have more work to do!" She said, turning on her heal back to the door Hotaru was hovering in.

"Oh dear." Hotaru sighed.

"Y-you're not allowed to use magic outside of school!!! I'll tell them you are!!!" Vernon yelled.

"Mr. Dursley, do you know what Kinetics are? It's the art of using magic without a wand so that it cannot be traced no matter what you do. Unfortunately for you, I can use many a hex without my wand and no one will be able to prove I did it. Though Hotaru may object." She said, responding to Hotaru's stern look.

Hotaru shook her head and stepped foreword. "Gomen nasai Dursley-san. But we needed a place to stay, and the basement was very cramped so we had to enlarge it somehow. But we blocked the window so no one can see in, and we left the door the same. Please can we keep it this way? I promise we'll change everything back when we leave." Hotaru said, using one of her very soft and timed voices.

"Er…well…" Mr. Dursley looked rather indecisive, the stole a glance at Mrs. Dursley who was still at the top of the stairs.

"Um…" Petunia said, "Well…as long as no one sees it…"

"Okay, but-but make sure you change it back exactly when you leave!" Vernon said before walking back up the stairs.

Hotaru smiled, "Thank you very much Dursley-san!" She said bowing politely.

When the door closed Kioko turned to Hotaru, "You are manipulative!" She exclaimed.

"Kioko!" Hotaru protested.

"Not that that's a bad thing! But seriously Hotaru, you just convinced a couple of magic-hating muggles to allow the very thing they abhor reside in their house in the form of a basement! I can't help but be rather impressed." She said grinning. She then clapped her hands together and rubbed them, "Well, shall we go to lunch?" She asked.

"Okay." Hotaru said as they walked to the stairs.

"Princesses first." Kioko said letting Hotaru on first.

"Haha."

"Well, now that we're all here I do believe we should set a few ground rules for the three of you." Mr. Dursley said pointing his finger at the two witches and wizard.

"My thoughts exactly. Number one, touch my stuff and I'll kill you. Number two, touch me and I'll kill you." Kioko eyed Dudley. "Number three, make Hotaru cry, I will make you cry. Number four, touch Hotaru and I will kill you slowly. Number five, threaten Hotaru and I will tell Haruka, which is worse than killing you believe me. Number six, injure Hotaru in any way you can possibly manage and vengeance will be an understatement. Number seven,"

"We get the picture!" Harry exclaimed. "You are very protective!"

"But of course! I may be Slytherin but I can be loyal when I want to be." Kioko said grinning. Hotaru sighed. "What?!" She demanded innocently.

"That's, not what I meant." Said Vernon.

"What? You mean you were going to restrict me?! Now, now, now! You want to stay on my good side do you not? You see if you make rules for me I will, in turn, break them at my leisure. Meaning you shall yell at me, and though I won't give a—" She glanced at Hotaru, "care, you will then be on my black list. And trust me, you do not want to be on the black list of a Slytherin who has been given the title of Lady Hex. Namely me. It's just not a smart thing to do!" Kioko said shaking the butter knife in her hand along with her words to add some effect.

"Please don't stir up trouble, Kioko." Hotaru begged.

"It's only trouble when there's an opposing side." Kioko stated, giving Vernon a look that could only be translated as 'agree with me or else'.

Vernon himself, looked rather…scared. "Uh, ahem." He cleared his throat, trying to hide the fact that he was scared of a 16 year old girl. "Well…that is…er," he looked to Petunia for support, but it seemed she wasn't going to mess with Kioko either. Hotaru inwardly groaned, well, at least they weren't reluctant to submit…

Kioko finished her supper and cleared of that spot on the table. "We'll be in the basement." She said putting her dishes in the sink. Hotaru did the same and then Harry, who hadn't really finished, also threw away his remaining food and followed them.

"I cannot believe you—" Harry started, but then he saw the basement, "Gah! How did you—?"

"I told you we were making it bigger. What? Did you think we were just going to leave it that way?" Kioko asked. Well, if Hotaru hadn't seen it until now she might have been surprised as well. They had a pretty large living room, not to mention it had couches, chairs, a TV and VCR, several other types of furniture, and doors to other rooms along the walls. "Would you like a tour?" Kioko asked. Harry snapped out of his stupor and nodded. Kioko swept down the stairs and motioned to the designated kitchen. "This is going to be the kitchen after we get through with it and install more than a refrigerator and pantry. This door right here is going to be like a study room, we're finished with it." She said, opening the study room door. In the middle of the room was a long table and along the walls were several bookshelves. Kioko moved to the next room, "This is where we will be keeping our pets when they come, it's also the room with the window that is only accessible to owls. That is Hotaru's room over there, and the one that says 'enter and die' is mine." She told him.

"I could have guessed." Harry said. "I don't suppose you'd make a room for me down here would you?"

"Sure, only, we have to change it all back when we leave. You think he has a sub-space pocket to use Hotaru?" Kioko asked.

"Everyone has their own sub-space pocket, it's just a matter of them having the ability to open it." Hotaru answered.

"Right, so we teach you how to use a sub-space pocket so you can bring your stuff down here and then you can move your room on down here if you want." Kioko told him.

"Er, okay." Harry said, not exactly sure what she was talking about.

"Right now, however, we need to find out how to install pluming down here so we can use toilets and such. We'll start with a bathroom and then make a sink in the kitchen." She declared.

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The next morning Hotaru was awakened by the unmistakable chirping of her Phoenix Pandora. She blinked and stood up, seeing that Pandora was standing on the desk beside her bed with a letter in her claw. Hotaru took the letter and opened it up. She gasped, "It's from Haruka-papa!" She exclaimed.

'Dear Hota-chan

'Sorry we had to leave on such short notice and without telling you, it was really important, all of the senshi were needed because we couldn't really get you or *gag* Galaxia to help. Michiru says it would seem way too suspicious and besides, we knew it'd take longer than a few days to say the least. All the senshi send their love. Setsuna, Michiru, and I will be coming to visit you to have a little…chat with the ones you are staying with as well as discuss you're new senshi friend. Though according to Setsuna she'll probably ignore any ground rules we set for her on transforming. Just try to keep her from doing it when anyone can see her, and when there isn't a very vital need for it. Though according to Setsuna who spoke with Galaxia she didn't care too much for the transformation phrase or mini skirt.

'Love,

'Haruka-papa

'PS: I'll be racing Saturday so make sure you turn the station to channel 34 at around 4:00!!!'

"Oh dear," Hotaru giggled, "The Dursleys aren't going to like them coming over." She put the letter up and slid out of bed to get dressed.

"Why, good morning Harry!" Hotaru said, not really expecting Harry to be in the living room, or even up quite yet. "You're up early for a holiday."

"Yeah well, Dudley's gang is coming over today until after lunch so I decided to avoid them and come down here with you guys." He said as Hotaru strolled over to check the owlry. When she opened the door, though, several owls swooped in as if waiting for her to do so and landed on their coffee table that Harry was sitting at. Though some were chirping at Hotaru and others at Harry.

"What's this?" Hotaru asked.

"Mail, we're famous remember?" Harry answered taking the letters from the owls. "Most of these are addressed to you though, no surprise. Oh, here's one for Kioko…from someone who has the same last name as she does." He handed that letter to Hotaru.

"Oh, it's her mother. Probably complaining about her taking the Playstation 2." Hotaru sighed. She then set the letter on a small table beside the sofa and sat down beside Harry to go through their mail.

"This lady thinks I'm a hero," Harry commented, "And wants to know if we have any relation."

"No, we don't know each other at all." Hotaru said calmly and picked up a letter of her own while Harry snickered.

"What does it say?" Harry asked.

"He's begging me to take an interview because everyone wants to know how I escaped Voldemort." Hotaru sighed, she opened another letter. "She does too, only it's in different wording." Harry looked over her shoulder.

"That's some pretty high praise." He commented.

Hotaru put them aside and opened another one, "She thinks I'm another glory hog. Though it doesn't say how she came to that conclusion." Hotaru read.

"This person is apologizing for thinking I was a phony." Harry said, he then picked up another one. "This one too. I say we just chunk them all." He said, picking up the rest of his letters.

"Well, these people went to the trouble of expressing their thoughts, I think we should at least hear what they have to say." Hotaru said opening another one.

"Yeah, well, if they all say the same thing or opposite…"

"You don't have to read yours," Hotaru assured, "It's your choice what you do, I just believe we should at least hear what these people have to say." She told him.

Harry sighed and sat back down. "Now I know how you got the Dursleys to allow your modification of the basement." He said opening up another letter. Hotaru merely giggled.

"You guys, it is a holiday morning, no decent human being would be up before 11 o'clock on a holiday morning!" Kioko exclaimed walking into the room. "Hello, what's this?" She asked picking up her letter. "Mail already? At least our owl post works. Did we ever get the feed and water working? I can't remember." She asked.

"Yeah, Harry and I decided to fix it before the rest of your pets come." Hotaru told her. Pandora let out a chirp from the metal bar on the wall. "Oh yeah, Pandora helped."

They had arranged the room so that birds would be able to sit comfortably somewhere in the room, so they put up a metal bar all along the upper part of the wall on every wall. Kioko wanted a fireplace somewhere in the room so that was next on the list of things to do. The feed and water had been first. And after that they'd figure out what else needed to be done.

Kioko opened her letter and started reading, "'How could you take the Playstation 2 after we said no? That's very unorthodox, blah, blah, blah. We demand that you send it back, blah, blah, blah. Along with the games you took, yak, yak, yak.' When are they going to learn that they can't boss me around?" Kioko asked tossing the letter into their trash can. "I don't think they have fully accepted the fact that their daughter is a Slytherin."

"I think Uncle Vernon is just now finding out what Slytherin means. He's downright scared of you." Harry commented.

"Hm, already? I was thinking it might have taken up to a week or so." Kioko said grinning. "What?!" She demanded innocently.

"I didn't do anything." Hotaru told her.

"Yeah, but you always do so it's an inborn reaction now." Kioko explained. "Anyways, what say we go to the store today? I have some muggle money and I'm quite sure Hotaru does too, let's go to a mall or something. We can get some of the stuff we need." She said.

"Alright." Harry said, though it looked like he had to weigh his options for a moment there. "Just…no makeup shops or clothes stores…"

"You can wait outside then, except for the clothes store. You desperately need a new outfit." She told him.

"Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no!" Harry said.

"Harry dear, I'm not giving you a choice." Kioko said grinning.

"Okay, what did I do to deserve vengeance?" Harry asked.

"Hm…let me think on it. But don't worry, I'll find a reason." Kioko said. "What?!" She asked innocently. Hotaru just shook her head.

"Hi, how's it going, where's the nearest mall?" Kioko asked the Dursleys.

"Er…what?" Vernon said a bit confused.

"The nearest mall. You know, big place, lots of stores in it, a mall!" Kioko repeated.

"We need a few things for our rooms." Hotaru told him.

Vernon looked at Petunia, who looked rather nervous. "Um, do you need a ride?" she asked. Harry, who was standing behind the wall instead of the doorway, looked absolutely shocked.

"No that's okay, we have a Phoenix. Speaking of which, do you think Pandora could find the way on her own?" Kioko asked.

"Probably." Hotaru answered. "She's fairly good at teleporting while no one is looking."

"So I noticed, okay never mind." Kioko said turning back around.

"Uh, lock the basement before you leave!" Petunia called.

"But of course, I'm not stupid." Kioko replied as they opened the door. She closed it behind them. "Colloportus." She said, sealing the door.

"Pandora!" Hotaru called. The Phoenix teleported to Hotaru's shoulder and chirped. "Can you get us to the nearest mall without being seen?" She asked. Pandora nodded. "Do we have everything we need?" Hotaru asked.

"Yep, you? Did you remember you checkbook?" Kioko teased.

"Yes, Kioko." Hotaru sighed. She then took Harry's and Kioko's hands. The next moment they appeared, inside the mall in a place that no on would have seen them or noticed them, a bathroom.

"Why did we have to be in the girls bathroom?" Harry hissed quietly, wondering if there were anyone in the stalls.

"Because that's only one person who'd get embarrassed if we were caught." Kioko said as Pandora disappeared again. She peeked out the door, 'It's clear.' She assured Harry. 'The bathrooms appear to be down a hallway so no on will suspect us.' She said stepping out and letting Harry and Hotaru out as well. The looked around cautiously for a moment, just to be sure, and then went on. There was a few turns in the hallway and then they were out in the cafeteria part of the mall. There were a lot of people chatting and such. Getting ice cream, buying food. The place was packed.

"Pretty crowded here." Harry commented.

"What do you expect? It's lunchtime. Let's go do something else until the crowd thins out. Then we can get some lunch." Kioko said.

Hotaru whole-heartedly agreed, there were way too many people around, and she could have sworn that some gothic looking people were staring at her. No surprise really. She had on all black, was white skinned, and looked gothic herself. Though the difference between her and Harry could have caused them to stair. Kioko was wearing blue so she didn't look that bad.

"Where should we go first?" Kioko questioned as they walked down the halls.

"Well, what do we need?" Hotaru asked.

"Food, snacks, an oven, kitchen wear, microwave, soap, shampoo, toothpaste, towels, rags, shall I go on?" Kioko suggested.

"I think the store that might have all that is at the back half of the mall." Harry said pointing.

"Good, though I think we should wait on the oven. Some of those things we can make ourselves like the soap on down. So we need food first and foremost, kitchen wear after that, and maybe we could get by with buying a microwave if we try acting normal. Meaning Harry will have to carry it." She said.

"What? Why me?" Harry asked.

"Because you're the guy." Kioko answered.

"Did you have to get such a big microwave?" Harry complained as they walked out of the store.

"But of course, besides, it was Hotaru's choice. Come on." Kioko said, motioning to an area that wasn't very conspicuous. "Be glad there was an alley like place nearby." She said taking the large box into her sub-space pocket when they were sure no one could see them. Hotaru put up all the bags of kitchenware they had bought. "Now for the food." Kioko said as they walked back out, making sure no one was looking before they proceeded.

"Let's get something to eat first." Harry suggested.

"My thoughts exactly." Kioko said. "How about Italian?"

"Sounds good to me." Hotaru nodded.

Harry and Kioko decided to have pizza, but Hotaru just took some plain pasta. After that they went off down another way, chatting a bit here and there. And then Kioko found a weapons shop.

"Uh, Kioko, I don't think you need any more weapons." Harry said.

"Nonsense! And besides, they have leather." Kioko told him.

"What does leather have to do with it?"

"You need a new outfit!" Kioko replied.

"Gah! No way!" Harry said, attempting to run but Kioko started pushing him. He dug his heals into the ground and refused to move. Something in the store caught Hotaru's attention.

"Yes way. Now stop fighting it, with your complexion a nice leathery brown belt would look good! And some black jeans, and a dark red T-shirt with a blue jean jacket!" she said, pushing. It had to be a very odd scene. A girl was trying to get a guy to go into a shop with a lot of swords and other weapons.

"No, no, no, no, no, no!" Harry protested.

"Scythes?" Hotaru questioned walking into the store. It seemed the two had stopped to stair at her as she walked in.

"Harry," kioko began.

"What?"

"Remind me to thank Hotaru."

"For what?"

"For distracting you." And Kioko pushed Harry inside, practically making him fall face flat onto the carpet. He tried to get up and run but Kioko got him into a headlock and dragged him over to the belts.

Hotaru stared at the shack with all the different kinds of scythe-like weapons. One was a poll with the actual scythe, another had the staff part, but the blade part was rather odd. It looped over and around, coming back to the staff with the outward edge looking very sharp. Another looked like an axe with a staff-long handle. Another was like a spear only with a larger tip. There was one that seemed to be a trident with the fork made from blades. One looked like the one beside the actual scythe only it was like a ring on top of the staff. There were different styles of that spear-like one. And then she saw it…a Glaive. Almost exactly like hers. She reached out and picked it up. It was no where near as perfectly made as the Silence Glaive, of course her weapon hadn't been made by human hands.

"I don't need a fashion makeover!!!" Hotaru heard Harry exclaim. She looked over to find that Kioko was still struggling with Harry while trying to pick out a belt for him.

"Stop being difficult, Harry!"

"Since when did you care about what I wore?" Harry asked.

"Since I couldn't stand seeing you in hand-me-downs. Now if you won't pick out a belt you like then I'll pick out one that makes you look like a complete moron and force you into it if I have to!" Kioko answered.

Hotaru smiled and shook their head. Kioko was acting just a bit out of character, but maybe she was loosening up a bit now that they were out of school. Hotaru turned her attention back on the glaive in her hands. She looked up and found another one that she exchanged. It was a bit better than that last one, it had more balance and was made with a stronger ore. She exchanged it for the third one, and found that the second had been better. The third had to be worse than the first! So she took the second again. And just when she was about to look for the owner to buy it, Dudley, of all people, walked into the store with a group of other guys.

"Why hello, Dudley-kun. I didn't know you were coming to the mall." She said pleasantly. "Are these your friends?"

"Hey Big D, who's your friend?" Asked one of them, elbowing Dudley with a grin on his face.

"Yeah, introduce us man!" said another.

"Er, this is Hataroo…" Dudley said, having problems with her name.

"Hotaru, Hotaru Tomoe." She corrected.

"Hey look! Isn't it the kid we use to beat up! You're cousin, Big D? What's he doing with that other babe?" Asked another one.

Kioko instantly stopped what she was doing and practically dropped Harry like a sack of potatoes. She then marched over to where Hotaru was standing and was currently rolling up her sleeves. "Alright, which one of you incompetent cretins called me a babe? And did I just hear you say you use to beat up Harry? As in my friend Harry? As in the Harry standing over there? Thought so, two strikes you're out. Can I see that Firefly?" Kioko asked.

"Kioko! This is a public area, you can't kill them!!!" Hotaru protested.

"Er, I think we should go. That girl scares my dad." Dudley suggested.

"Oh come on Big D, it's just a girl!" they exclaimed.

"Just a girl who likes broadswords." Kioko said, going for one of the swords. "I mean, I can only hold this big huge thing with one hand. No way I could actually have any skill with it!" she said, she flipped the sword around in very complex fighting moves and then pointed it at them, using only one hand with all of this.

"I really, really, really, think we should leave." Dudley said.

Some of them just rolled their eyes. Hotaru sighed and stepped back a ways.

You could hardly see Kioko's movements with the sword. Almost as a delayed reaction, the shirt of every guy there had been cut in some way, but none of the skin was touched. "Now, shall I go on to limbs? Or will you leave before I decide to ignore dear Hotaru's protests and decide that no, it is not a bad idea to kill you in public." Kioko asked.

"She's crazy." Said one just before he ran out the door, Dudley was already gone. The others soon followed.

"Wow, where did you learn how to use a sword?" Harry asked, amazed.

"Kendo, my teacher was the best, even though he kept his price low." Kioko said, taking a closer look at the blade. "Hm, seems I picked up a pretty good sword." She commented, weighing it in her hand to test its balance.

"You have an eye for quality Mrs. Kioko." All three of them jumped and spun to see who it was that had spoken. It was a man wearing red and gold robs with blond hair. He didn't look old, but he was elderly.

"Er, what's with the outfit?" Kioko asked. "Halloween isn't until October."

"I get that often enough from muggles, I don't need it from you." He said waving his hand.

"Then you're—" Harry began.

"Yes I am. My name is Kin, at your service." He said bowing. "Is that Glaive satisfactory Mrs. Tomoe?" He asked.

"Um, yes I think I'll take it. But how did you know my name?" Hotaru asked.

"You're picture's all over the Daily Prophet, it's hard not to know about you." He answered grinning. "So this is the famous Harry Potter, eh?" he asked.

"Um, yeah." Harry said.

"Keep up the good work boy!" he exclaimed, giving Harry a good hard pat on the back. "Anyways, that glaive will be a galleon and the sword 8 sickles." He said. Hotaru dug into a pouch of coins and unearthed the said amount.

"Don't you already have one of those?" Harry asked, pointing to the new weapon.

"Yes, which is why I'm giving it to you." Hotaru told him smilling.

"Me?!" Harry gasped.

"Yep, and I'll teach you how to use it while I'm teaching Kioko as well. It'll pass the time during our break." She said.

"Sounds good to me!" Kioko said grinning.

"So…what now?" Harry asked.

"Well, we still need food." Hotaru said putting the Glaive up. "We'll see you later Kin-san." She said waving bye as they exited the shop. "And an oven. But we can go to a local store with the Dursleys for that." She said.

"Let's get some of the food now at least." Kioko suggested.

"Okay."