Hello my rabid readers, apologies for the delay in getting this chapter up on here but I've been concentrating on trying to build up my chapters to release a little easier.

So this chapter is about Hermione's first business venture in Japan and also gives a little glimpse into the Jade Dragon in the Banzai Bazaar as well. Apologies for all those who don't like my detail in chapters but this is Hermione's first bold move on her own and its something that I've created in my head from scratch.

I'm wanting to show that Magical Japan is a little more forward thinking that the stuffiness of magical Britain and how Hermione isn't the only Muggleborn witch who realises that NOMA's and Muggles have some things that the magical world doesn't even know about..

I hope you enjoy and will be getting the next chapter for Harry's first business outing with a little interesting development out soon. As always big thanks to my man Goldzar for his editing of the chapter and letting me bounce ideas of him.

Cheers

Craggle

Chapter 104 – Hidden Treasures and A Witches Secret

11:04hrs Saturday 3rd September, The Emperors Road, Banzai Bazaar, Tokyo

Hermione walked along with Narcissa, Yuki and Master Kuzuko. The other three women talked amongst themselves about the meeting they'd just finished and told each other a little more about themselves. Hermione however was wrapped up in her own thoughts that were swirling around her head thinking about the situation she had got Harry and herself into regarding Ron and the Runes Girls, and Harry and him asking her to the Halloween ball.

The last was the most dominant thought in her head. She couldn't believe that she was actually going to be able to go to a dance with Harry and that he'd actually plucked up the courage to ask her even though he could go with anyone else in the school, and there were some absolutely stunning witches at Mahoutokoro.

She was also thinking about how being with Ron was also making her feel like she was a really horrible person. She wanted to be with Harry so much and the things that seemed to be happening between them were making her so happy. She knew if she was honest with herself that staying with Ron wasn't really fair to him. She still didn't know the best way to handle it and what she should do. Several people have told her to finish with Ron and do it quickly, some had said to find out if Ron was in fact cheating on her first and ending it if it was true. No one other than herself was saying that she should stay with Ron and other people might have different ideas. Hermione didn't know what to do!

As they got to the end of Cut Thru she could feel Narcissa looking at her and watching her. As they approached the end, there was a really large crowd of people singing songs, horns blaring and flags waving as they walked across the junction with Cut Thru and down the Emperor's Road.

Hermione stopped and Yuki asked urgently "So where is the business you are looking to invest in? If it's down near the other end of the Bazaar then it might be better to go a different way or maybe go to an apparition point."

"It's not too far down here as it's near The Island nightclub but we're going to have to get through all these people to get there." Hermione replied looking for a gap into the press of people so that they could get to their location.

"Right well lead the way then Hermione, and I suggest we all try and stick together as best we can." Narcissa suggested thinking that they could easily become separated in the press of people.

"Is it always this busy during a Quidditch game?" Hermione asked as they were jostled from the sides as the group of people were walking past them from behind and joining the throngs of people.

"It's always busy, yes, and The Toyohashi Tengu normally pulls in quite a large crowd but when it's an international game the ministry increases the capacity to about ninety thousand seats since people all over the country want a chance to see the national team." Master Kuzuko called out over the noise as she shouted out to Yuki. "Yuki, why don't we move to the other side of the street? It might be a bit less busy if we walk along next to the shops rather than down the middle of the road."

Yuki turned and nodded and called back "Probably a good idea." She held her arm out in a loop allowing Master Kuzuko to slip her arm through it.

She held her arm out on the other side with Narcissa, who caught onto the idea of making a human chain to move across to the opposite side of the road towards the shop fronts and hopefully the press of people would lessen significantly.

With Hermione leading the way they pressed into the crowd and thankfully managed to stay together as the crowd started jumping up and chanting as they made their way through before emerging on the other side of the road in front of a shop that Narcissa had noticed but not been in yet.

"Thank Slytherin for that. I don't think I could have made it down to the other end of the road with that many people around." Narcissa said relieved to be out of the bulk of the crowd.

"Tell me about it. I normally wait until tip off before venturing out and make sure that I'm well clear and back in the office or home before the game ends, although it's hard to tell when that will be as it depends on how good the seekers are I suppose." Yuki said as she looked up and saw where Hermione had brought them.

"How have I never seen this shop in the Bazaar?" Master Kuzuko asked, looking up at the shop. Amazed that she had never noticed it before as the shop was made up of what looked like two separate buildings but was actually one in the same. The first part of the building was a three storey high bright pink high heel shoe with the toe of the shoe at street level with the door to the shop in the toe of the shoe.

Above the door to the shop was a black sign with bright pink lettering that read Hidden Treasures. The heel of the shoe was resting on the other part of the building, which looked like a giant shoe box and had a white sign with flashing italic lettering on it that read The Witches Secret, but as far as Master Kuzuko could see didn't have a door on the street level and only a couple of windows that were too high for anyone to see through as they walked past.

"Hermione what is this place and why have I never seen it before?" Yuki asked as well. She worked in the Bazaar and prided herself on knowing all the shops there except for those down Love Lane, which was a street she'd never been down. Love Lane was a hidden street around the back of the Quidditch stadium and her parents had always told her that it was a seedy and dangerous area. Full of illegal activities and that there was always trouble down there and to stay away from it.

She always had but had heard rumours that Amy had been down there in her tenth year at Mahoutokoro with a few of her friends but when she'd asked Amy about it she flat out denied it and got so angry that Yuki never broached the subject with her again.

"I'm glad it's not just me then. I've never seen this shop before and I would certainly have noticed it walking past over the years." Master Kuzuko said before turning to Narcissa and asking whether she had seen it since she was in the Bazaar.

"No I haven't, and while I've not explored all of the Bazaar yet, like you say I would have thought I'd have noticed this. I'm staying at the Panama Palace and it's almost opposite the hotel. I would have thought I'd be able to see it from my balcony." She said turning round and looking over the heads of the crowd to the opposite side of the street and seeing the Panama Palace hotel there standing tall and looked up the side of the building and worked out where her balcony was.

"Yes that's my balcony right there, second down on the right." she said pointing to the balcony in question causing the others to look. "So how have I never seen it considering I have breakfast on my balcony most mornings?" Narcissa asked herself.

"Because it's unplottable and only able to be seen by someone who has been here before." Hermione replied causing them all to turn and look at her.

"Really? Why would the owner do that as surely you'd want to have as much business as possible and it would make more sense to have it visible to everyone." Narcissa asked.

"Well when you get inside you'll understand a little more but from the conversation I had with Kayleigh Quang she doesn't think that a lot of people would be accepting of the shop and what she sells. It's very erm… progressive and provocative shall we say for magical people and would probably be so for muggles as well." Hermione said as Master Kuzuko quickly and quietly explained to Yuki about a muggle being what the British call a NOMA.

"So the owner doesn't want blowback from the magical community. It's not something illegal that she's selling is it? As I wouldn't recommend buying into a business that could be on the ministry's watch list to shut down." Yuki asked, clearly concerned.

"No it's' nothing illegal but might be frowned upon by traditionalists and other people who have traditional views in the magical community. That's why she's decided to make it unplottable and it will always be unseeable by wizards since they are only able to get in there if accompanied by a witch who has already been here." Hermione explained.

"So it's only findable by word of mouth then really. Talk about limiting your growth potential." Narcissa said pushing a loose tendril of black hair back behind her ear.

"Well I suppose so, but you'll see when you get inside that they aren't shy of business." Hermione said with a sly smile not knowing how the three older witches would react to what the shop was like.

"Well let's go have a look then because I'm curious now." Yuki said. Hermione led the way to the door before stepping to the side and said "Go on I'll follow you in." as she pushed the door open for them. The three older witches filed in, with Narcissa entering last out of the three exchanging a look with Hermione who grinned back at her looking forward to seeing their reactions and she stepped inside and allowed the door to close behind her.

As Narcissa stepped into the building she saw Yuki and Master Kuzuko standing rooted to the spot looking around the shop and Narcissa stepped up between them both and let out a small gasp of surprise at what she saw in front of her.

The shop before her was spread out in a large circular shaped room that had clothes racks spread out across the wooden floor in lots of different colours and styles.

As Narcissa allowed her eyes to wander around the shelves and the racks, she could see that there was a mix of magical materials as well as plain materials as well.

On the left wall, there were racks of different colour and style coats from floor to ceiling covering a lot of the available wall space.

On the opposite wall, there was four semi-circular green velvet curtains nearest the entrance that had Changing Area above it and next to them was a blood red velvet curtain covering an entrance way with the same sign as outside that said 'The Witches Secret' above the curtain and she assumed that this was the entrance into the other shop.

At the back of the store, was a wide stair case that went up to the next level and Narcissa could see that there were shelves of lots of different boots and then stairs beyond that she assumed must have made their way further up the building towards the top of the giant shoe.

Next to the stairs there was a young witch who looked no older than twenty, standing, looking at them with a funny little smile on her face. Narcissa noted her black fitted dress that came to just above the knee and the upper part was like a traditional oriental jacket that fastened with three large buttons down the right side of the bust.

She also had on a pair of pink high heels like the giant version of the shoe outside and also had her hair done up in a high bun with a couple of chopsticks sticking out of it. They were the same colour as her shoes.

The ceiling was made of glass made up in a spiral of what looked like clear diamonds and pink crystals that cast a warm glow throughout the store.

"Wow!" Yuki and Master Kuzuko exclaimed in unison looking like children wanting permission to go exploring.

"Now why the hell would the owner want to not have everyone coming in here? It's lovely and bright in here as well." Narcissa queried. She wanted to go looking around the items in the shop as well. She then saw a couple of witches in their twenties dotted around the store looking at the racks of dresses and coats and occasionally taking one out and holding it against themselves.

"So you like it then?" Hermione asked them all.

"Just a bit." Narcissa said honestly not stopping her eyes looking over the dresses and wanting to go exploring themselves.

"That's Kayleigh there." Hermione said, sending a friendly wave and smile to the girl at the till who waved back her own smile growing as she recognised Hermione. Kayleigh moved to the bottom of the stairs and called for someone to join her, before two other girls of similar age, wearing the same outfit came down the stairs smiling and the group saw them look up at Hermione and the others stood in the entrance and waved at Hermione as well and the three of them started making their way over to them.

"Hermione, how are you doing? I didn't think you'd be back until the next Bazaar weekend." Kayleigh greeted.

Hermione stepped forward and the two witches exchanged a hug, "I'm doing great Kayleigh and I hope you are doing well?" Hermione asked back before getting a positive reply from Kayleigh as Hermione greeted the other girls who said a warm hello back.

"Well I was meant to be coming back next weekend, but because Harry and I are heads of house the Grandmaster said that we are allowed to come to the Bazaar every weekend. The school expects that by being the head of a house we would have business to do and other family related matters to attend to." Hermione explained.

"So you're allowed to go to the Bazaar every weekend? That's amazing! I wish I'd been able to do that while at Mahoutokoro, but sadly I'm a NOMA born so I'm never going to be head of an ancient house." Kayleigh said enthusiastically as Hermione had told her a little about her being a head of house during her first visit to the Banzai Bazaar when the Tiger and Turtle girls had all come here.

"Well I am NOMA born and I'm head of two remember, although I'd hardly say that's the norm I suppose." Hermione replied, thinking that maybe she wasn't the best example.

"That's true but then again your pretty special, aren't you?" one of the other girls added for Kayleigh.

"Oh sorry, introductions. Ladies may I introduce my colleagues this is Faye Chung, designer and fabricator extraordinaire," Kayleigh introduced the first girl who had her hair up in two small buns on the side of her head covered in a pink cloth that matched her outfit, who bowed to them all "And this is my other friend and colleague Beth Xing, charms inventor and innovator expert." Kayleigh finished as Beth giggled at the overly flamboyant introduction but bowed to them all and gave a little wave and a big smile to them all.

"Godric you're right Kayleigh sorry, where are my manners? I'd like to introduce you to some important people as well." she added turning to her companions who all stopped looking around the shop and started paying attention to the conversation standing in a line to be introduced.

"No need to introduce Master Kuzuko Hermione, she only finished teaching us last year." Kayleigh said as the three girls all formed a line sharpish and all bowed deeply to their former Duelling Master.

Master Kuzuko smiled and bowed back to her former students. "It's good to see you again Miss Quang, Miss Chung and Miss Xing. It's nice to see that you've all stayed friends and are working together still like you did when representing Tiger Clan. Tell me have you kept up to date with your duelling training and katas?" she asked, which all three girls nodded.

"Absolutely Master Kuzuko. We all have an hour of training every morning before we open the shop." the witch who Hermione remembers was called Beth Xing replied.

"That's good to hear. Anyway Hermione please carry on the introductions." Master Kuzuko said taking a step back and bringing Narcissa and Yuki into a more prominent position.

"Of course Master Kuzuko," Hermione replied as she indicated Narcissa. "Ladies this is Narcissa Black." Thinking that it was the best way of introducing Narcissa to people to avoid them treating her differently by having a connection with Harry.

"Oh lovely to meet you Mrs. Black." the other shop worker said drawing a smile from Narcissa as the young girls all bowed to her a couple of times in quick succession and feeling a little strange Narcissa bowed back getting smiles from them as she said it was 'Ms. Black but to just call her Narcissa' stepping back and leaving Yuki standing alone.

"And this is my solicitor Yuki Yushiro of Yushiro & Yushiro magical solicitors." Hermione said, indicating Yuki who bowed to the three girls in turn.

"Pleasure to meet you and I have to say I'm honoured at being shown this wonderful store and would like to thank Hermione for introducing me to it. It's always nice to have other clothes stores to shop at. Some of the styles throughout the Bazaar can be a little…um." Yuki said, thinking of the right term to use.

"Boring?" Faye ventured.

"Hideous?" Beth asked.

"Old Fashioned?" Kayleigh guessed.

"Um lets say traditional." Yuki answered smiling as she thought that the three younger girls were correct in their assessment but that she didn't want it to be said around the Bazaar that she had been bad mouthing people that might hopefully become clients one day.

"Yeah alright we'll go with traditional." Kayleigh said with a grin seeing that Yuki was just being polite. "Although I have to say Narcissa, that outfit is really nice. Do you mind me asking you where you got it?" she asked Narcissa. She looked the older witch up and down and thought that the dress was lovely and really showed off Narcissa's figure in a sexy albeit classy way.

Narcissa thanked them for the compliment and looked down at herself feeling the three younger girls looking at the outfit. "Well my friends took me to a place called Madam Miko's on First Avenue. I was seen by a young girl there who helped design and make my outfit." Narcissa replied. It had been a good day when she had gone clothes shopping with Penelope. The younger witch had taken her clothes shopping because Penelope had received her first bonus from Kendo since she'd sold another two wands and he had wanted her to be rewarded for her hard work.

"Oh really, Madam Miko's?" Kayleigh asked, surprised as it was a more traditional dress shop. "Can you remember the name of the girl that you saw?" she asked, wondering who the new designer might be.

"Oh, erm, I can't remember her full name. It was Karolina... something." Narcissa replied trying to think about what the girl's second name was.

"Did she have really long blonde hair with two plaits going round her head and joining at the back?" Faye asked.

"Why yes she did and she had a lovely necklace that looked like a silver snowflake around her neck and piercing blue eyes." Narcissa replied adding more description of the girl.

"Karolina Ida" the three shop workers said together.

"So you know her?" Narcissa asked.

"She was a couple of years above us in school, but was in the Phoenix clan." Beth said with a shrug as she remembered the older witch from Mahoutokoro. She was one of the prefects when the three of them got caught getting up to some naughtiness with a few of the Phoenix boys in the ground one night and got them all detention.

"She was a prefect that got us all in trouble one year when we'd snuck out of Tiger Land to meet some boys." Faye said, laughing at the memory.

"She was one hell of a Quidditch player as well. A really good Chaser but I had no idea she could design clothes" Kayleigh said thoughtfully thinking about whether to try and head hunt the older witch "Maybe I need to take a trip to Madam Miko's and see what else she's thinking up."

"Are you thinking of possibly trying to poach her?" Faye asked her friend.

"Maybe, although we can talk business another time, we need to show Narcissa, Master Kuzuko and Yuki here the shop and see what they think. You'll have to try and keep an open mind about what you see here and I'd just say to just have a laugh with it and not get embarrassed about it." Kayleigh said to the three older witches.

"Why would we get embarrassed about it?" Master Kuzuko asked, looking around the store. "What's so embarrassing about shoes, dresses and coats?" she asked.

Faye, Beth and Kayleigh all turned to look at Hermione who was chuckling quietly to herself. "I haven't really told them anything about it here. I didn't want them to make any prejudgements and then chickening out of coming or ruining the surprise." Hermione said holding her hands up in mock surrender.

The three shop girls all took on evil smiles looking at each other and Kayleigh said "Right well Beth why don't you take Master Kuzuko around the stores, Faye you take Yuki and I'll take Narcissa and Hermione for a look around and we'll all meet by the entrance to The Witches Secret hmm?" Kayleigh suggested to her colleagues.

"Actually Kayleigh, would it be alright if Narcissa went with Faye and Yuki came with you and I? I kind of wanted to talk business with you." Hermione said, feeling a bit embarrassed at suggesting it.

"Business? Really?" Kayleigh asked, surprised. "Erm sure that's fine we can talk. Are you two alright getting the door if a new customer comes in?" She added to Beth and Faye getting nods from them both. They took Narcissa's and Master Kuzuko's hands and told the pair of them to set their faces to stunned as they are going to see some things that they probably haven't seen before if they were purebloods and led them off into different parts of the shops talking excitedly about the stock and asking the two witches in question about what sort of clothes they liked.

"Shall we go up to the top floor? If these two are going to be working from the ground up and then we can talk more privately if you want to talk about business while we look around." Kayleigh asked as she led Hermione and Yuki towards the stairs.

"So how long have you worked here Kayleigh if you don't mind me asking?" Yuki enquired as they made their way to the steps and couldn't help her eyes looking around at the outfits on the displays as they passed.

"Well we only opened about four months ago and we're only really starting out. That's why there aren't loads of choices at the moment. We're kind of designing, testing and making as we go along." Kayleigh explained as they reached the stairs.

"Kayleigh created the business you see and Beth and Faye are her two best friends from Mahoutokoro. They were all in Tiger Clan together and Beth and Faye are also NOMA born witches. So they have a good grasp of all things NOMA and have access to both worlds as a result like me so can use their knowledge of all things NOMA that might work in the magical world." Hermione explained.

"That's very impressive and you're lucky to be able to work with your two best friends. I work with my sister Amy, who is my best friend really, but the Law wasn't really what either of us wanted to do as our first choice career. We had to take over the family business when our parents were killed." Yuki explained to Hermione and Kayleigh as they walked up the stairs and started making their way through lots of boots and shoes on shelves and little displays dotted around the floor.

Yuki could see that there was quite a bit of room for more shelves and displays to be put in and that the floors were a little under stocked, but that what they did have was well laid out and there was enough space to browse around items without bumping into other shoppers.

The items that were there though were very nice and quite different to what other magical clothes shops had to offer. A pair of high dragon skin leather boots in particular caught Yuki's eye as she passed them and she made a mental note to look at them again on their way back down.

"I'm sorry to hear about what happened to your parent's Yuki. What did you want to do as your first career choice?" Hermione asked curiously.

"I wanted to travel the world possibly foraging and looking for rare magical plants or locations to potentially start a magical settlement, but with NOMA's living in the same place as well so that people from NOMA families that were magical could still live in the magical world and maybe both cultures could really learn to live together and from each other." Amy said thoughtfully and being prepared for the other two witches to say it was a stupid idea, which was the reaction she normally got from people that she had told her idea to.

"I think that's actually a brilliant idea." Hermione said thinking how that was actually brilliant since it would allow non magical people to not fear magic and vice versa and it could possibly make the magical world more accepting and go some way to closing the divide between the worlds.

"Really? You think it's a good idea?" Yuki asked, clearly shocked.

"Absolutely it is." Kayleigh said as she led them up the next set of steps onto the next landing which was made up of handbags, purses, jewellery and other accessories such as gloves, scarfs and other such items. "It would help show magical people that NOMAs aren't stupid or cruel like they were in times gone by and would help both worlds learn about the other. Plus maybe one day it could cause the International Statute of Secrecy to be a thing of the past." Kayleigh added as she stopped momentarily to pick up a scarf that had fallen on the floor and after running her wand over it to make sure it was clean hung it back on the hook it had fallen from.

"People normally laugh or say that it's a stupid idea when I tell them about it." Yuki said as they reached the bottom of the next set of steps and looking up them was wondering how many levels there were left to go.

"Let me guess, would it by any chance be mainly purebloods that laugh or mock the idea?" Hermione asked, getting an affirmative from Yuki. "Well I'm not surprised as traditional magical families are scared of NOMAs because of what's happened in the past but the world has moved on now." Hermione said as they reached the next landing.

Yuki let out a gasp as she came to a sudden stop looking around the room. "What is this?" she asked looking all around at the items on the displays and on the shelves.

"This is NOMA underwear Yuki, except we've magic-ed them up a bit." Kayleigh said while grinning at Yuki as the Japanese witch moved towards a white lace bra and panties set on a shelf feeling the material with fingers.

"NOMA's actually wear these?" Yuki asked, thinking about the corsets and traditional underwear that was offered in magical clothes shops.

"Absolutely they do and they are much more comfortable than those horrible things that the girls from pureblood families had to wear while we were at school. It got to a point where me, Faye and Beth ended up making quite a bit of money in our year from the pureblood girls in all the clans by supplying them all with NOMA underwear as they didn't have access to it." Kayleigh said while laughing.

"Is that how you decided to open a clothes store?" Yuki asked.

"In part yes but this is so much more than a clothes store but you'll see that when we get to The Witches Secret." Kayleigh replied as she got a knowing smile from Hermione who knew what was coming.

"Why do I get a feeling that I'm going to be stitched up here?" Yuki enquired feeling a little uneasy about the knowing look Kayleigh and Hermione exchanged.

"Yuki, I promise you that you aren't being stitched up and I reckon you'll end up thanking me." Hermione said.

"I don't know." Yuki said looking around the underwear wanting to look at it and maybe see whether it was more comfortable than what she was currently wearing.

"Yuki I promise you won't be made to do anything you don't want to do or try anything you don't want to try, but I promise you that some stuff here could change your life." Kayleigh replied honestly.

"Alright well I'd like to have a more in depth look at this underwear when we come back down. If that's alright?" Yuki asked, getting an encouraging nod from Kayleigh.

"Sure that won't be a problem." Kayleigh replied, "We'll get you measured up when we come back down and then you can try a few things that you might like."

"Oh and there were boots down there that I wanted to look at as well." Yuki said eagerly.

"Alright we can look at them as well." Kayleigh said while smiling.

"Ooooh and there were a couple of dresses and a coat as well." Yuki said remembering a few more things that she saw that she liked "Oh and a scarf as well" she said quickly trying not to forget.

Hermione laughed and put her hand on Yuki's arm. "Don't worry Yuki we will be spending a lot of time here today before we meet the others for lunch. So don't panic, you'll have plenty of time to look around once I've explained my proposal to Kayleigh."

"Yes, sorry, business before shopping." Yuki replied, getting a laugh from the other two witches.

"Come on we've only one more level to go and then we'll reach the office." Kayleigh said delighted that there appeared to be another witch who liked what she was selling.

They made their way up to the next level, which contained lots of different bottles of soaps, oils and various other smelly and pleasant items for witches to pamper themselves with.

Hermione loved things like bath salts and oils and things and the smells of them but even she couldn't stay on that floor for too long as the smells all colliding together made her feel a little sick after a while.

As they went up the final set of steps, Kayleigh tapped her wand to the door and a rune cluster appeared that looked fairly complex as she spent some time rotating the cluster mechanism until they heard a click on the door lock and the door slowly swung open to reveal a cozy little office/staff room.

It had two small couches and a writing desk with a couple of filing cabinets with a lamp that Kayleigh didn't bother to turn on as there was enough light coming through the glass ceiling that looked like a miniature version of the ceiling in the main shop floor at ground level.

Kayleigh indicated for them to have a seat and apologised quickly for her not having any refreshment for them but she could arrange to have one of the girls run out and get them something if they were hungry or thirsty.

"No it's fine Kayleigh thank you. We've just had breakfast" Hermione said taking a seat on one couch with Yuki sitting next to her and Hermione watched her reach into her handbag and pull out her muggle note pad and pen and sat ready to take notes, which Hermione was happy to see.

Kayleigh took a seat on the sofa opposite them and lay back against the backrest before crossing her legs and placing her hands on her lap. "So you said you wanted to talk business?"

"Yes, I did. I know you told me how you started up and how you managed to get the funds to start your business and it's a massive achievement of what you've accomplished already." Hermione said genuinely. She was really impressed with what Kayleigh had put together.

"Thank you Hermione.. Yes it's been hard and I've had sleepless nights. Well I suppose I'm still technically having sleepless nights about the loan I managed to get from Gringotts because of the conditions that the goblins put on the money that they lent me due to the business idea being a little different to what they are used to dealing with I suppose." Kayleigh said as Yuki subtly made notes.

"Would you mind whether I or yourself tell Yuki a little about the arrangement you've had to take from Gringotts? I've not really had time to brief her about you or your business so all of this is a surprise to her." Hermione said.

"I don't know," Kayleigh replied, feeling a little unsure. "I mean I shouldn't have let you know really but I dunno I just find you easy to talk to and well you're a fellow Tiger. I can't imagine that you'd be telling anyone about what I'd said." Kayleigh explained, still unsure.

"I've signed a magical contract in order to become Hermione and Harry's solicitors so I'm bound by magical contract to keep any and all business dealings she has confidential, so I can promise you that the only person I might discuss it with is my sister and business partner Amy, whose bound by the same contract so no one will ever hear anything about you or your company that you want kept confidential." Yuki explained and saw Kayleigh visibly relax a little.

"If you prefer we could have your solicitor attend a more official meeting if you want to have your own magical contract enforced for peace of mind," Yuki suggested making another note on her pad.

"I haven't got a solicitors firm representing me. I think that's part of the reason that the goblins drove such a hard bargain in giving me the business loan." Kayleigh explained a little embarrassed.

"You don't have legal representation?" Yuki asked, clearly surprised as she wouldn't have thought Gringotts would have given out a business loan without the agreement being signed and explained to a person's legal representative. Then again another thought hit her that the goblins probably saw the businesses potentially and swindled her into a deal that would make the bank a lot of money.

"No," Kayleigh said, looking to the ground embarrassed. "The truth be told I couldn't afford it. I have literally started this business with nothing more than some ideas, a business plan and went to the goblins for a bank loan.

I then had to enter agreements with material suppliers, get the builders to create this space and then furnish it and then design and build all these stuff in the shop." Kayleigh said as the reality of how much gold she owned wasn't lost on her and she really needed the business to be a success.

"I see. Do you have the agreements and contracts that you've signed? Do you mind me looking at them and then we can discuss the financials a little more?" Yuki asked.

"Erm sure I guess but I can't really afford to pay you for it right now. I've got bank payments due, I've got to pay the builders another payment and I've got to pay for my last material delivery as well. Plus I'm already a month behind paying Faye and Beth their wages and the only reason they probably haven't left already is because they are my friends and would feel bad about going out the door leaving me in a bigger mess than I'm already in." Kayleigh said her eyes started to well up as it all started to get on top of her.

"You don't need to pay me for it. I just want to make sure that you aren't being taken for a ride and it's hard starting up a business from scratch." Yuki said sympathetically knowing herself how hard running a business was and the worry and strain of it.

Thankfully herself and Amy had managed to weather the initial storm when they took over the family business and were now operating at a small profit. She was a little worried that Kayleigh might have bitten off more than she could chew and was wondering how much debt the young witch was in and what agreements she was tied into with Gringotts, the suppliers and the Builders.

"Really?" Kayleigh asked, a little stunned. "I mean I'd pay you for your time I just can't right now."

"Yes I'm sure. Go get your paperwork and you and Hermione have a chat while I go through it and then Hermione can put forward her suggestions." Yuki said kindly causing Kayleigh to have a couple of tears leak down her pale skin.

"Thank you so much Yuki." Kayleigh said as she got up quickly and made her way to one of the filing cabinets and reached in pulling out four folders which she then handed to Yuki before retaking her seat.

"I've kept them all separate in their own files so there is one there for Gringotts, BrickTops and my main supplier who got me supplied to start up. I've also got copies of payment receipts and there are copies of the statements showing the repayment terms and things as well. I've tried to keep it neat as I can." Kayleigh said almost apologetically as Yuki looked down at the organised folders.

"They are a lot more organised than what I'm used to getting given from clients to be honest." Yuki said happily as she started looking through the folders starting with her suppliers. "You two may as well talk amongst yourselves for a bit as this will take me a little while... not too long but a little while".

"So what did you want to talk to me about Hermione?" Kayleigh asked curious as to what the English witch wanted to discuss.

"Right well as you are aware I was named the head of two ancient and noble houses back in England in the summer. Both the Dumbledore family and that of Hufflepuff as well." Hermione said as Kayleigh nodded her understanding.

"I remember you saying. It's amazing to think that a NOMA born could have that happen to them but I assume you used to get taught by Albus Dumbledore as well." Kayleigh said as everyone in the world had heard of Albus Dumbledore.

"I did and he taught me a great deal but he was Harry's mentor really. Please keep this to yourself because I don't really want this to become public knowledge at the moment but he wanted me to feel a full part of the magical world and his brother Aberforth doesn't have any children or intentions to have them either and agreed to Dumbledore's idea." Hermione said seeing that Kayleigh was listening, very interested as no one had any idea about how Hermione Granger had become Lady Granger-Dumbledore-Hufflepuff.

"Right, ok so what does this have to do with me, Hidden Treasures and The Witches Secret?" Kayleigh asked fascinated but not understanding what this had to do with anything.

"Well as a result of inheriting the heads of family is that I inherited a substantial amount of gold along with a couple of account managers in England and they've put me in contact with Account Manager Sato here in Gringotts Tokyo.

The reason I'm telling you this is that I want to grow my money by investing in businesses that are either new and starting up or that I think have potential and just need a little support to make them grow and become more profitable." Hermione explained.

"And you want to buy my business?" Kayleigh asked, her face dropping as she had been working so hard to get her business up and running.

"No, I don't want to buy your business Kayleigh. I think you've got a good thing going here and I think it's absolutely amazing the things that you are creating. I've bought some myself and can tell you that you really have made some brilliant things that I wouldn't have ever thought possible." Hermione said, genuinely impressed with all the purchases she'd made from the store.

"So if you aren't wanting to buy the business off me then what is it that you're wanting?" Kayleigh asked cautiously and found that she was holding her breath.

"I want to invest in your company either as a silent partner or a partnership potentially. So long as your vision and future aspirations for your company coincide with mine because I don't know exactly what your aims are.

I just wanted to have a talk with you to see whether you'd be open to the idea of some help, if you would discuss your vision for the store, and then I can explain what I think I can do to help." Hermione said uncrossing her legs and then crossing them the other way. Meanwhile, Yuki finished her first file and started scribbling notes before picking up the second file.

"Well I don't know… I mean this is a bit of a surprise. Do you really think that the products I've created are that good? Wait, are you talking about the clothes or The Witches Secret things?" Kayleigh asked.

"Both and yes I think all the things I've tried so far have left me very impressed which is everything I bought from you. There are a few other things I want to get today as well that I am sure will do the same." Hermione replied, shrugging her shoulders.

"Well I don't really want to give up control of my company because it doesn't really feel like it's mine then, but I will be honest that all the money stress at the moment is really starting to take the enjoyment out of things. I always wanted to keep the shop quite exclusive and cutting edge. I don't want everyone to know about it so much because then I'll start finding people who might start making cheap knockoffs of my ideas and then I could lose market share." Kayleigh started to explain but Hermione held her hand up to stop her.

"First things first and this is very important Kayleigh. If we went into any partnership together or I invested then you would have control over the things we sell, the day to day running and most of the business decisions that are going to be made. I would literally just be a kind of financial backer and give my input into things that you might not have thought of or that could help." Hermione said stressing the point that she didn't want to take over the running of the business.

"So I'd get to make almost every decision and wouldn't have to run things by you." Kayleigh asked.

"Well not for the most part, but I suppose it depends whether it would be something that could damage my investment like you selling something that could make people ill or started selling products that didn't do what they were meant to or damaging your reputation then I'd want to be informed of them or anything risky. If that makes sense..." Hermione said as she saw Yuki shaking her head while reading a folder scribbling furiously on a new page in her pad before slamming the folder closed and moving onto the last one.

Hermione saw the colour drain out of Kayleigh's face as she watched the witch's reaction to whatever she had read and instantly started worrying.

"Is there something bad in there Yuki?" she ventured, feeling sick in her stomach,

"I'll talk about it in a minute, but just carry on between you both for now as I'm catching most of what you are saying but this is the Gringotts folder, so I need to give this my full attention for now." Yuki replied before immersing herself into the file and started reading through everything quickly.

"Ok, right, well I wouldn't sell something that was hurting or would hurt people or was cheap in quality. I'd rather go bust than start making things that weren't as I wanted them. Faye, Beth and I really take pride in everything we make." Kayleigh said feeling ill by the thought of hurting someone with something they created.

"Well that's good to hear," Hermione said before adding "I didn't mean to offend you or imply anything with that Kayleigh I was just trying to give an example. What is your long term vision for the business? What is the dream?" Hermione asked, sitting forwards a little, as this is what she really wanted to find out from Kayleigh.

"Well I suppose my long term vision would be to have a store in every major magical city or shopping centre in the world and have my products be used by thousands of witches." Kayleigh said honestly.

"As well as becoming rich?" Hermione asked with a smile on her face.

"Well ideally yes, I'd like to get the business to a level where I'm not worrying about money and can focus on the creative and development side of the business and hopefully be working with Faye and Beth until we all decide to retire" Kayleigh said shrugging her shoulders.

"So you wouldn't be against a second, third or fourth store in a different country?" Hermione asked,

"No absolutely not, but I'd like to get this one operating at a good level first and to start turning in larger profits." Kayleigh replied.

"But not have it available for everyone to see walking past. Do you think keeping it more word of mouth will bring you the profits you'd need to expand and grow?" Hermione asked, trying to keep the doubt out of her voice.

"Well potentially yes, as it gives us a bit more exclusivity as people will wonder where witches got things from or will hear people talking about it and will want to know where it is to shop here as well. That's why I called the store 'The Witches Secret' as it is something just for witches as some of the things here would probably freak out a lot of the wizards and then there is obviously the security perks of the store not being well known and also visible from the outside unless you know it's here." Kayleigh explained.

"How so?" Hermione asked.

"Well we've been here since the early weeks of summer and so far thankfully we've not had any members of the Jade Dragon come calling asking for protection money for not damaging the store or stock. They are a terror for most of the shops in the Bazaar and I can barely afford to keep our heads above water as it is without having to pay some thug to not damage my hard work." Kayleigh said, feeling angry about the Jade Dragon. She'd heard plenty of store owners over the years when she was coming to the Bazaar talking about protection payments quietly and she'd even see a couple of incidents where someone refused to pay and were made an example of.

"Well that certainly makes sense and is probably a wise decision for now. So how many people know about the shop?" Hermione asked.

"Well the three of us have told our friends from school and they've told their sisters for the most part. I wrote to the Head Girl at Mahoutokoro, Hester Steiggson, this summer since I'd written to Master Lei asking who was being made Head Girl.

Thankfully, me and Master Lei got on, so she let me know and I wrote to Hester and asked if she could start telling people about the store so that they can come on Bazaar weekends like your friends did. When I saw Hester come in here last Bazaar weekend and she told me that she'd told the female prefects about it at school to help get the word out. As a thank you, I gave her a couple of things for free and then she bought some other stuff as well. Other than that it's literally been customers passing it on themselves and that's how interest in us is growing." Kayleigh said, adjusting herself on the sofa.

"Well I guess that would explain how the Tiger girls found out about here and the Turtles then as Mio and Yoko had led the way on our last visit. So you're struggling at the moment with the money side of things?" Hermione asked sympathetically.

"Well it's not the sales as they are picking up each month, but the payments we are paying back to everyone that's stopping us making profit at the moment. I've got to wait until the end of the month to see where we are financially and focus on what stock we've got out on display already and try to get it all sold, so that I can afford to resupply my materials to make more." Kayleigh said trying to keep the desperation out of her voice as a financial backer would be a serious godsend but she really didn't want to lose control of her business.

"Well I can assure you Kayleigh that I don't want to be taking over anything and besides I'm at Mahoutokoro this year to do my NEWTs but after that I'll be going back to England so I really wouldn't be interfering this year and then even less so when I go back home." Hermione explained as Kayleigh thought about what she was saying.

"Right well I'll show you these so you can sort of see how we are doing but obviously it doesn't make as good a reading as it should because of what we pay out." Kayleigh said, taking a breath and passing Hermione the last folder, which held her sales accounting information.

Hermione didn't know much about business documents but it was quite clear to figure out looking through Kayleigh's folder as she had tried to keep it simple. It showed the amount of each product's price in one column, along with its manufacturing price in the next column, she had the amount of the products left in stock in the next column and how many she had sold in the column after that.

Kayleigh had then done a simple calculation subtracting the amount they had left in stock off the amount sold and then had written a plus or negative balance in the final column.

She'd then totalled this for each department giving a general amount showing the performance of each department. As Hermione flicked through the pages she saw on the last page the totals of each department calculated together and saw that Kayleigh was making about nine hundred Kin on average each month in profit after payments to suppliers, the builders called Brick Tops and Gringotts but without those payments her profits would be a lot higher..

"Is this nine hundred Kin enough to cover your, Faye's and Beth's salaries each month? I can't see that in the figures here, only the amounts you are paying out for rent and your loan and builders payments." Hermione enquired looking up to see Kayleigh's lip quiver as she started to cry. Which then caused Hermione to ask what was the matter.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to start crying. The honest answer is no, not really. They should probably be earning that a month each and it's only because they are my friends that they haven't already left." Kayleigh said so thankful that she had friends that were so loyal that they were trying to help her business even though she was only able to pay them a part of their wages each month.

"So how much are you meant to be paying them and yourselves?" Yuki asked, closing the last folder and putting it on the pile with the other two.

"Well they agreed to come work with me and they said that they don't mind getting paid what I can afford while the business is starting up but I should be paying them about a thousand kin a month and most months they are lucky if they get a third of that." Kayleigh said, putting her face in her hands as Hermione moved over to the sofa next to her and rubbed her back.

"So you've all been trying to live off three hundred kin a month and trying to maintain all your other bills on top?" Hermione asked

"Well I've paid them what I can and I've had to keep three hundred kin back each month in case their landlord gets unhappy with the lateness of their rent and so that I've a little money aside in case the shop needs something and to try and keep us in supplies and materials to work." Kayleigh replied honestly.

She felt like a really bad friend knowing that her two best friends would probably be getting hounded by their landlord for rent. She knew that Beth and Faye were renting a small flat in the Chiba region of Japan. From having seen the place she knew that the rent would be at least seven hundred and fifty kin a month for them and that she was leaving them short by not paying them anywhere near their full wages..

"And what about you Kayleigh? How much are you paying yourself to eat and pay your own rent?" Yuki asked, her tone soft and Hermione noticed the concerned note to Yuki's voice.

"About fifty Kin or so to eat. I just sleep on one of the couches here each night because I can't afford to stay anywhere else. I don't want my parents worrying about how things are going. I know if I stayed with them then I wouldn't be able to keep the truth from my mum. She has a way of getting things out of me." Kayleigh replied miserably.

"Kayleigh you can't survive on just fifty Kin a month otherwise you'll become ill from not eating properly or enough and you're causing yourself more stress and worry because you're worrying about your friends so much." Hermione said, rubbing Kayleigh's back and reaching into her handbag with her other hand and passing her a handkerchief.

"What choice do I have Hermione? I need to make the business work?" Kayleigh asked miserably, looking like the shell of the girl who had greeted them downstairs with all smiles and bubbliness.

Yuki picked up the folder that Hermione had put down and flicked through it quickly getting to the total columns on the last page. "But if you weren't paying the amounts you were paying to Brick Tops and Gringotts then you'd have enough to pay yourselves a thousand Kin and would have about another fifteen hundred Kin in profit." Yuki said running the figures in her head thinking that it wasn't a bad start.

"That's right. I have been running the figures through my head so many times. It makes me feel sick now to think about it. I've worked it out that unless I can pretty much sell everything I've got in stock each month and new things that we make then I'll never be able to do that while I've still got the builders to pay for and the bank loan." Kayleigh said despondently her shoulders sagging as she spoke.

"So if I agreed to pay off the builders and the Gringotts loan. As well as some money to give you a good amount to not have to worry about getting your supplies for a while. Then paying the three of you a proper wage, do you think that is something that you might be agreeable to?" Hermione asked, looking at Kayleigh understanding why the young witch must be so frustrated and hoping that she would at least listen to her proposal and wasn't too proud to accept the help.

"What? You've got enough money to pay off the Gringotts loan and the builders?" Kayleigh was surprised that someone so young could have that sort of money.

"Yes I have." Hermione replied modestly.

"But it's over a hundred and seventy five thousand Kin?" Kayleigh replied, still a little stunned.

"I know, but you don't need to worry. I can afford it and more importantly I want to help you and your business to grow and become everything you've ever dreamed it would be. I mean it's impressive products that you are selling that I believe can be marketed right, then I could really help you increase demand and we can control the exposure a little bit.

That way you can still operate the business without the Jade Dragon catching on to your whereabouts for as long as possible. I wouldn't want to put the three of you in any danger. Plus it will give the products a bit of exposure. I've got an interview about what happened last year to do with Harry that is going to be in Witch Weekly apparently so I can always mention the store." Hermione explained as Kayleigh took it all in.

"I also believe that I can have a word with Benji Brinatawa about the conditions that he's put into this agreement and possibly negotiate different terms with him for you. I represented him for a few years before he went off to Satomi and McAllister after I refused to try and advise him on how to avoid paying as much tax to the ministry as he should." Yuki explained giving out some quite sensitive information that Hermione guessed wasn't bound by magical contract anymore.

"He's always trying to do stuff to get one over on his customers. The money he's expecting you to pay back, for the work you've had completed at the rate he's requesting, is ridiculous for a startup and him trying to add interest for partial payments is just really greedy." Yuki said knowing Benji's dirty tactics inside and out as she used to have to draft his contracts for him.

"I can't ask you to do that." Kayleigh said, disappointed.

"Why not?" Yuki asked.

"Because I can't afford to pay you that's why and I really don't want to cause any trouble as he might apply to the ministry for full payment straight away since he's completed the work and to be honest has done a really good job on the place and I couldn't be happier with the building work." Kayleigh said honestly.

"Well I told you we can settle my bill when you've got yourself a little more comfortable financially." Yuki offered kindly.

"But still…" Kayleigh said awfully tempted to see if it would work.

"Or you take my offer and let me come in as a partner and let me invest some money as a financial backer to your shop and then you have the choice to either let Yuki do the work for you. It will be on my behalf so I can foot the bill for the work she carries out as we'd be partners." Hermione suggested seeing Kayleigh listen to her attentively and she could see that Kayleigh was thinking about it.

"Another alternative is that I pay off your loan to Gringotts and pay off the builders early and…" Hermione started to say.

"But then I'd just owe you instead of them." Kayleigh said not liking the thought of that.

"Well it depends on if and what you'd rather do. I'm just trying to help give you options Kayleigh." Hermione said, getting a nod from the Japanese witch.

"I know and it's really nice of you and I'm happy that you think my shop is good enough to invest in. I just don't really know what to do." Kayleigh said, biting her nail as her mind spun through what Yuki and Hermione were saying.

"Well how about we go through the options and then you can have some time to think and let me and Hermione know what you'd prefer to do." Yuki suggested helpfully.

"That sounds like a good idea as what you're saying is sounding too good to be true and has me wondering what is the catch." Kayleigh said laughing to herself as Hermione was like some sort of guardian angel.

"Alright well let's talk about it. Remember Kayleigh, this is only me floating some ideas at you and if you decide you'd rather carry on as you are now then I totally understand and respect that as you've done all this off your own hard work.

I just don't want to see all the hard work and creativity get lost because you get crushed by crippling repayments." Hermione said getting a stiff nod from Kayleigh and felt like that had struck a chord with her.

"Ok so I can either lend you the money to clear off either of both the debts you owe Gringotts and Bricktops and will charge you a smaller rate of interest than I'd imagine you are paying now.

If you don't like that I can lend you the money and rather than you paying each month or week we can agree on a set amount at the end of the school year for you to pay me back from your profits and that way it won't interfere with your operating costs straight away.

Another option is if you wanted to exchange me clearing off the debt of the business for a share in the business and it doesn't have to be a controlling amount of shares but a portion of it. Then you can run your business making profit and getting more well known and established and then I just get a cut of the profits equivalent to my share. So if I had, say ten percent of the business, then I'd take ten percent of the profits." Hermione said as Kayleigh listened completely.

"Also you'd have access to my legal counsel as well because if the percentage of Hermione's share was over thirty percent say then she would have a big enough interest in the store for me to be able to represent the store as well, although I wouldn't be able to charge all my time to Hermione if there was a lot of work involved but I could certainly do some things to help." Yuki explained.

"Also there is nothing to stop you buying the amount of the business back although it would just be for what it was worth at the time of sale. For example, currently your business is worth the amount of debt outstanding." Hermione explained getting a nod of understanding from Kayleigh before continuing.

"If in a years time or whatever with the debt cleared off and if you'd pulled in say half a million Kin in profit and you wanted to buy Hermione's shares back then you'd just need to pay her the money back that I've supplied to clear the loan, plus an equal percentage of what the business was worth at the time so long as Hermione is willing to sell. If that makes sense." Yuki looked at Hermione who nodded and turned to Kayleigh herself.

"I don't want to own your business or take away how you run it or anything like that Kayleigh. But I would like to help your business grow and I hope working together that you will want to stay working with me in partnership so that we can make your dreams and ambitions for the store come true. I know something like this would go down well in England for sure." Hermione said seeing Kayleigh was really thinking about what she was saying.

"Look I believe in you and I believe in what you are doing here. I don't want to take what's yours. I just want to help make your dream and vision a reality. You don't need to decide now, but think about it and let either myself or Yuki know what you want to do and we can work out the details." Hermione added getting a nod from Kayleigh.

Kayleigh was quiet for a long moment while she studied Hermione's face and her gut instinct told her that Hermione was being sincere and the points that she and Yuki stated made a lot of sense to her and she knew that it might be the best possible chance of getting her dream to come true.

Kayleigh knew that with the funding that Hermione was offering to put into her business she could really start enjoying her work and the store rather than constantly worrying about money and letting her friends down.

The fact that Hermione seemed to believe in her was possibly the biggest and most important thing for Kayleigh because her parents thought she was mad wanting to open a clothes shop after going to Mahoutokoro. Rather than taking the Ministry job she'd been offered working in the obliviating department.

Hermione and Yuki exchanged a look to each other, a little concerned as the time stretched on with Kayleigh wrapped up in her own thoughts and Hermione didn't know whether to interrupt her or not. She could understand that she had a lot to think about.

"Kayleigh listen, I can appreciate that Hermione and I have kind of sprung this on you and I don't think Hermione is putting a time limit on your decision." she said while looking at Hermione who gave her a confirming nod that there was no time limit before going on, "Just take a couple of days to think about it, talk about it with Faye and Beth if you like and then when you're ready just let us know." Not wanting the younger witch to feel pressured, as she understood it was a big decision to make.

After a couple more moments, Kayleigh started to shake her head slowly before looking up and seeing the disappointment slip onto Hermione's was no doubt expecting the idea to be rejected.

"No I don't need any time to think about it. I've done nothing but think about the finances of the store for the last months." Kayleigh replied, sitting forwards on the seat before turning to Hermione.

"Look Hermione, it means a lot that you believe in me and what I want to accomplish with my shop. I love working with my friends and hate that I've not been able to pay them their wages on time. I guess I feel that I've taken advantage of their friendship. They are too nice to bring it up to me and I'm not the sort of person who takes advantage of people or my friends and I don't think you're that type of person." Kayleigh said, giving Hermione a small smile before turning to Yuki.

"Nor you Yuki. There isn't any other person in the magical legal business that would offer to help for no or delayed payment and that meant so much to me. I really think that between the three of us we could really make a go of this place and I like some of the ideas you've got." Kayleigh said, breaking out into a smile and letting out a laugh at the relief of it all.

"So you're saying that you want to work together and you're happy to accept my help?" Hermione asked, smiling as Kayleigh nodded enthusiastically.

"Absolutely yes." Kayleigh said leaning forward quickly and hugging Hermione who smiled and hugged her back and Yuki gave her a double thumbs up behind Kayleigh's back clearly happy with the outcome.

As Hermione separated from the hug she could see Kayleigh had a few tears escape down her cheeks and asked if she was alright.

"I'm fine. I'm just happy that I'm going to be able to sleep properly again. I mean I've been worrying so much about how much gold I owed that I was worried that I'd be in debt for the rest of my life if the shop didn't work out, and I'd have had to pay it all back working for someone else. If I can make enough money and profit to pay you back, and be able to give Beth and Faye bonuses and paid holiday days then I'll be happy with that." Kayleigh said laughing to herself wiping the tears away delicately with her finger.

"Well I'm sure we can do a lot better than that. I know that a potential store in Britain would really do well if we can get a prominent location as well as around the world. You've also the potential to have the Witches Secret and Hidden Treasures as two separate stores if you wanted to but I like that you've got them connected as it's like a one stop shop for everything a witch needs." Hermione said, getting a laugh from Kayleigh.

"Yeah you could say that. Although I'm not sure how accepting the things in The Witches Secret would be though." Kayleigh said, causing Hermione to giggle at the comment.

"That's true but I'm sure you know how my own 'celebrity status' would be able to help with that in the papers." Hermione said, causing Kayleigh to laugh properly and Yuki to look between the two witches confused as to what they meant.

"Well it would certainly cause a splash and make the front page" Kayleigh said, causing Hermione to laugh harder and the girls broke down laughing uncontrollably.

"Alright, so I'm clearly missing the joke here. Why isn't The Witches Secret something that you don't think would be worth promoting in the paper?" Yuki asked as the two younger witches started calming down.

"Oh god we've not shown you The Witches Secret have we?" Kayleigh said, slapping her own forehead. "Sorry Yuki, you've only seen half of the shop and we need to show you rather than tell you because it will make sense when you see."

"Well you've certainly piqued my curiosity as to what you've got being sold in there now." Yuki said, seeing the two exchange a knowing look. Which caused her mind to wonder what the secret was about.

"Alright, so Kayleigh you don't have to work out the details now, but the money is there when you need it. I will bring or send my friend Fleur here once we've ironed out the details along with Yuki.

Then once you're happy with everything Yuki will be able to draw up the contract for what we agree and Fleur will be able to authorise the transfer of funds and get everything sorted and paid off." Hermione suggested.

"Sounds like a plan to me." Kayleigh said, unable to help the grin spreading onto her face. "Yuki I'm here every day in the week but if you want me to come to you then just send me an owl and I'll come to your office." She suggested getting a nod from Yuki.

"Sure that's not a problem and if I can get the details from you both today of what you want then I'll be able to get the contracts drawn up this week." Yuki explained reaching into her handbag and handing Kayleigh a business card. "That's got my office address on it so you know where to find me."

"Brilliant and hopefully one day I can afford to hire you as my solicitor." Kayleigh smiled looking over the card before slipping it into a pocket inside her top.

"Well if you're both happy with it for the time being I'm more than willing to pay for anything shop related that needs working on legally, so long as it's not a conflict of interests or anything Yuki." Hermione said.

"Not really, I can put it into the agreement that Kayleigh is a trusted agent and partner. I don't need to bore you with the details but I'll be able to sort it out, no problem." Yuki said waving away their concerns seeing both the younger witches were happy with that.

"Alright then. Well how about we discuss the details a little more now and then I'll take you down to look at the items you want and show you The Witches Secret part of the store?" Kayleigh suggested to them while Yuki got her writing materials ready and started taking detailed notes of the agreement. Both Hermione and Kayleigh started talking excitedly and discussing back and forth what they wanted in their agreement and partnership.

Yuki was happy to see that Hermione was very thorough and detailed. She rarely had to interject into the conversation about details that might seem minute now, but could turn into problems if they had different ideas about the business in the future.

Yuki liked Hermione straight away. She thought the English witch was very switched on and intelligent but was also very kind and friendly. She wasn't taking advantage of Kayleigh in their agreement at all even though Yuki could see that Kayleigh had been a little rash in signing the agreement with Gringotts and Bricktops. She hadn't got a particularly great deal and really did need the money Hermione was going to invest in the business in order to keep afloat.

Hermione kept stressing points to both Yuki and Kayleigh about operational control being with Kayleigh and that Hermione only wanted to be involved in the things that Kayleigh wanted her to be involved in.

Kayleigh for her part was excited and even though Yuki had only just met her she could see the change in the young witch throughout their meeting as she looked truly happy and not having to put on a fake front to hide the worry that she truly felt beforehand.

Yuki was also secretly happy that Hermione had effectively gained her more business by being the legal counsel for Kayleigh and her business, as well as footing the bill for the work she carried out for the shop.

From the look of the shop Yuki was more than confident that without the debt crippling the store that it would only be short term before the store's profits were able to pay her fees.

She could see that the two girls were hitting it off and seemed to like each other and thought about how that was so important for successful business relationships and hoped that Hermione's ventures in the future would all be similar rather than hostile takeovers. Although Yuki knew that Amy really enjoyed and thrived off hostile negotiations and enjoyed playing the bad cop with opponents and that was probably as a result of Amy's fiery temper and love of duelling.

"Yuki," Kayleigh said, snapping Yuki out of her thoughts.

"What? Sorry, I was just thinking about those boots again." Yuki said jokingly, getting a laugh from Hermione and Kayleigh. "What did I miss?" she asked, feeling a little embarrassed about allowing her attention to drift for a moment.

"We were just saying that we wanted to work out a share structure and bonus scheme so that we can have Beth and Faye invested in the business as well." Hermione said reassuringly and not bothered in the slightest that Yuki had tuned out momentarily. Her negotiating with Kayleigh had sounded like they had both downed shots of Loopy Lou's tequila because they had been talking to each other so rapidly.

"Well I think that's a good idea but I would suggest keeping the share you offer them small for now." Yuki said thoughtfully.

"Why's that?" Kayleigh asked.

"Because Kayleigh you've made a big decision today to accept Hermione's offer of a partnership and we need to get the business profitable before we think about dividends." Yuki said to the girls, seeing them both think for a moment.

"Well let's discuss it in more detail now and then if you want to Kayleigh we can go and tell them what's happening and what you've decided. Let's say this is my first demonstration of showing you that you are still in charge of the decisions regarding the store." Hermione said, getting a nod from Kayleigh showing she understood.

"Well that's very nice of you Hermione but this is a major decision and I think my business partners input is necessary and I want us to make this decision together." Kayleigh said, putting her hand on Hermione's.

Yuki smiled thinking that the two witches really could form a great partnership and then said "I think it's a good idea that you both want to have the other involved in the day to day running of the business. The best partnerships I've found are the ones where there is lots of communication and honesty between people. So let's work out the details of what you both think and then we can join the others."

"Agreed." Hermione and Kayleigh said at the same time and then the three witches started to discuss the finer details of their partnership.

Meanwhile downstairs

"I really think you girls are going to end up costing me a lot of money because there are some amazing outfits and things here" Narcissa said to Faye as they made their way down the stairs from the floor with all the underwear and continued down.

"Well this is the thing with us all being NOMA born witches we have different ideas than just none-magicals you see, and as a result I think we've got broader minds." Faye replied cheerfully.

"I'll say that underwear is a lot different to what we have in the magical world. It's a lot more…" Narcissa said a little shyly about saying what she really thought.

"Sexy?" Faye guessed laughing at Narcissa slight colouring of the cheeks.

"Yes I suppose so." Narcissa replied not able to meet Faye's eye.

"There's nothing to be shy about Narcissa. In this place, with the staff that work here, there is nothing that you need to be embarrassed or shy about. Underwear is sexy and it can be a useful tool in getting the wizards in your life all hot under the collar if you select the right things." Faye commented, as Narcissa listened to her while they continued down the stairs.

"Well my generation didn't really show their sexuality or nature very much except behind closed doors and well, I suppose you could say that with pureblood families you get stuck in traditional wear and ideas as a result." Narcissa said thinking about how she always used to be jealous of some of the clothes the muggle witches used to wear around Hogwarts at weekends.

"Well this is the new era and we intend to make the witches of the world more empowered in a way as witches live a lot longer than NOMA's, we age better as well, and we hold our looks for about fifty years longer as well so why not celebrate it with what you wear." Faye reasoned as they stepped onto the main floor of the building and looked around seeing Beth and Master Kuzuko laughing together at the far end of the shop looking at some jackets next to the curtain where the Witches Secret entrance was.

"Still, even wearing what I'm wearing is quite the leap forward for me from what I used to wearing. My ex husband would have killed me if I'd ever worn something that showed my figure off like this does." Narcissa said thinking how Lucius wouldn't have liked her dressing like that in public and couldn't help give a shiver when she thought that he would have liked her wearing it at home when entertaining his death eater friends. She knew Lucius got off on other men looking at her.

"But you've got an amazing figure and should show it off though Narcissa. I know if my mum looked like you or any of my aunties then they'd probably dress even more revealing." Faye replied honestly. She hoped that she had a figure like Narcissa when she got older.

"Plus you'll find that the underwear you've picked out will really help your back because you must get back pain with boobs that big,." Faye said quietly to Narcissa who laughed at the comment.

"Well I've had to charm my clothes so that they give me a little more support on my back as well as my bust. Are you sure I won't look silly in what we picked out though. I only got this because Fleur was egging me on and convinced me I wouldn't look a total state." Narcissa said as she recalled the insistence of the French witch.

"No way. Trust me honey you will have all the boys going goo goo eyed looking at you and you'll even have witches wanting to take you to the sack." Faye answered, causing Narcissa to blush at the comment. "I reckon that you've probably got enough outfits here for about four days." Faye added while looking through the pad that she had used to make notes of the items that Narcissa had picked out as well as Narcissa's measurements.

"Do you not think that is enough? I just wasn't really sure how many things to buy." Narcissa said as she could have bought a lot more with the money that Harry had given her but she didn't want him to think that she was just blowing his money on clothes.

"It's a start but stick with us and we will have you kitted out with a full wardrobe in no time." Faye said as Beth and Master Kuzuko approached them with Beth flicking through her pad turning the pages with a big smile on her face.

"So what did you think, Master Kuzuko?" Faye asked as Master Kuzuko smiled and replied "I'm very impressed girls and it's certainly opened my eyes to maybe dressing more feminine on occasion."

"Well you've got a great body Master Kuzuko and while I can understand the wearing of the Karate suit for duelling class, I think you should show yourself off a little more in your free time. You might even catch a certain Master or Sensei's eye, who you fancy as well." Faye said, causing Master Kuzuko to blush.

"I don't fancy any of the Masters or Sensei's at Mahoutokoro," Satomi said, getting a scoff from Faye and Beth.

"Please it was obvious to us that you fancy at least one of the Master's there." Beth said recalling her classes and time with Master Kuzuko when they had done their extra duelling classes learning some NOMA martial arts and defence techniques.

"Yeah you can't kid us we weren't totally blind in school you know." Faye jested as she remembered little looks Master Kuzuko used to give one of the other Masters quite regularly.

"I'm sure I don't know what or who you're talking about," Satomi said, wondering who they were going on about.

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about as he was quite attractive and you'd look good together so hopefully with our styling help you might actually get him ogling your goodies." Said Beth as Faye added "and help you and him get down and dirty together on the duelling hall floor" as both the younger witches started laughing at Master Kuzuko's shocked face.

"Get down and dirty with a man on the duelling hall floor…" Master Kuzuko spluttered, "who are you thinking that I would be doing something like that with and in school no less?" She asked, shocked at their suggestion as the thought played out in her mind.

"Master Ken" Beth said while at the same time Faye said "Master Mida" causing them both to look at each other.

"Master Ken?" Faye asked, surprised that Beth hadn't thought Master Kuzuko fancied Master Mida the Quidditch Master, "Why do you think she fancies Master Ken?"

"Well because of the advanced duelling classes we used to have. Remember when we were learning the Martial Art's and Judo throws and Master Ken had come to help with the class to make sure we didn't hurt ourselves. Do you not remember the way they were when they used to take each other down on the ground they would always end up lying on top of each other a little longer than would be expected." Beth said, recalling the memory.

"I did not" Master Kuzuko spluttered remembering how she did always enjoy the Martial Arts classes with Master Ken's assistance as not only was he a very good and skilled fighter but he had a lean and muscular body and she did enjoy the contact with him.

"No she's right you did I remember. I could swear Master Kuzuko that you used to blush and always seemed momentarily flustered when you wanted to explain the next thing in the class. It was cute." Faye said as Master Kuzuko started to say something Beth got in there first.

"What made you think Master Mida?" Beth asked Faye.

"Well every ball we had in our last two years they would always get up and slow dance together and seemed to hover around each other all night. It was very cute and I always used to think that they looked really happy dancing together and thought that they gave each other little looks all the time at meals as they normally sat next to each other." Faye said.

"That's true and I'd forgotten about the balls but they did always dance together. Well this year Master Kuzuko you're going to have some killer outfits to wear and get their attention properly." Beth said, waggling the pad at her former duelling master.

"Oh god I don't know whether I should let you pick out outfits for me now," Master Kuzuko said laughing at the two younger witches "and I'm sorry to disappoint you both but I do not have a thing for Master Ken or Master Mida." she lied smoothly getting 'yeah rights' from Faye and Beth.

She looked at Narcissa sensing that the older witch could see right through her bravado as truth be told she thought both the wizards were very attractive even if they were a little older than her.

"Well I guess we will get an update from you after the Halloween ball and don't think about telling us porkies. We'll have Hermione and her friends looking out to see what you get up to."

"Ok so Faye and I will go and ring these up and get you your bills for the things you want from Hidden Treasures and then if Hermione and Kayleigh don't take too long we can all show you the Witches Secret together. If they are much longer than that then we'll just show you ourselves and they can catch up." Beth said as she turned on her heel and made her way towards the till near the stairs. She proceeded to pull out a ledger from under the counter, an ink pot and quill, and started copying the information she had written down on her pad into the ledger.

"She's always too eager to get her head stuck in a book. She never changes as she's always been like that as it doesn't make sense to leave you standing around waiting with nothing to do." Faye said to Master Kuzuko and Narcissa.

"Well it's alright although I think I've got everything that I want to get for now." Master Kuzuko said to which Narcissa agreed.

"Oh we will see about that. I'm thinking as 'The Witches Secret' is of a more personal preference and nature kind of shop that you'd be better going in one at a time really. We can escort you through and explain what things are and answer any questions without you having to be shy in front of anyone else." Faye said helpfully.

"This is sounding pretty ominous now." Narcissa commented. She was a little worried at what she was getting shown next as the girls were keeping what was behind the curtain a secret.

"I know right. It's like they got something scary back there." Master Kuzuko said, not understanding the mystique as it was a shop open to the general public.

"Nothing to be scared about and if you're adventurous and open minded I think you'll really like it but it's not for everyone as some people really aren't into what's behind there or wanting to try it, which is totally fine. Just hang on here a minute and I'll be right back." Faye explained as she quickly went across to Beth and Narcissa saw them talking quietly and Beth look up from the ledger she was writing in and look across at Master Kuzuko and herself before looking back at Faye and nodding to what she said and Narcissa couldn't lip read what she said back.

"Do you get a feeling we're going to get stitched up as they keep telling us to have an open mind and things?" Master Kuzuko said quietly at Narcissa's side, causing the older witch to turn around and look at her.

"Ha yes you could say that but I have to admit my curiosity peaked because just looking through the underwear on the upper floor certainly opened my eyes to how muggles or NOMAs wear things so much more adventurous than magical beings." Narcissa said.

"That's true as I've not seen anything like most of the things and designs in here as mum and dad were both traditional in their upbringing of me and were very strict in regards to how I carried myself. God knows what they will be like when they see some of the outfits I've bought." Master Kuzuko said watching Faye instead of Narcissa.

She watched as Faye reached under the counter and pulled out what looked like a bright pink roll of parchment and saw her take her wand and cast a severing charm on the parchment cutting off two pieces.

She then taped her wand on the page that Beth was writing on and touched one of the pieces of parchment and then she must have asked Beth to flip to the previous page as she repeated the process but touched the other piece of parchment as Beth resumed her writing.

Faye gave Beth a pat on the back before picking up the two pieces of parchment and restoring her wand up her sleeve and started making her way back over to the two older witches.

"Oh Buddha's balls she's coming back." Master Kuzuko said quietly to herself as she suddenly felt nervous as a smiling Faye came to a stop in front of them.

"Ok so Narcissa you'll be staying with me and Master Kuzuko Beth will be finished in a minute and she will take you into 'The Witches Secret' after us so that you and she can go through things and talk about anything you like in total confidence. Unless you'd prefer to go in together as some girls like to go in with their friends and look at the items and talk about them as it can be fun and a little naughty." Faye said seeing the two older witches looking at each other.

"Erm" Narcissa said with uncertainty. "What do you think, Satomi?"

"Let's go in separately as I don't have a clue what to expect but I can at least take comfort that you've had to go in before me." Master Kuzuko said laughing at Narcissa's change of face.

"I'll get you back for this." Narcissa said good heartedly, liking Satomi having a little bit of a joke at her expense. "Right then that's decided then Faye I'll go with you and Satomi can come in afterwards."

"Right ok cool. Well here is an order parchment for you both," Faye said handing them both one of the pink parchment pieces she'd got by the til. "You'll see the customer number at the top. This is your individual number for your account so if you ever want to order something via owl to come and pick it up we can charge it to your account and then send you the bill." Faye explained to the two older witches.

"So you have an owl delivery service? That's great as it would mean that I can get my orders when I'm having to stay on school grounds." Master Kuzuko asked, thinking that could be handy for weekends she couldn't get away from the school.

"Sadly no we don't. Not yet anyway. We just have an order and collection service and let you know when it's ready. Maybe in the future though." Faye said, seeing the disappointment on Master Kuzuko's face.

"Oh actually that's fine. I'll be in the Bazaar more often this year than normal." Master Kuzuko said as she remembered that Harry and Hermione had said that they would request her to attend the Bazaar with them, so it wouldn't be a problem for her.

"Great." Faye said genuinely before continuing, "So the reason I'm giving you your order forms now is that once I've taken you through you can just tap your wand on the parchment and there are little tags on the items in there that you then touch and the item code will appear on your parchment.

"Oh right so you just tap your parchment and then the tags and that will be added to the order. What happens if you wanted more than the ten lines available?" Narcissa asked, looking at the parchment seeing that there were ten spaces underlined on the parchment for items to be listed.

"Oh Beth has done some charm work on the parchment so that the parchment will just expand as you add more items." Faye offered by way of explanation. She then clapped her hands together and questioned "Right then Narcissa you ready?"

"I guess so. Nothing ventured, nothing gained I suppose." Narcissa replied uncertainly, as Faye said "That's the spirit. Beth won't be long Master Kuzuko I promise." As she pointed her wand at the door, flicking her wrist as she cast a spell at it, and took Narcissa by the hand and led her to the curtain.

Narcissa felt nervous as they walked towards the curtain and couldn't help looking up at the sign above the curtain as without thinking she took a deep breath as Faye brought them to a stop and asked "Ready?" to which Narcissa nodded.

Faye took hold of the curtain and pulled it back enough so that Narcissa could enter before her. Narcissa went through the curtain, her pulse racing a little as she walked through the curtain into a darkened room beyond.

Narcissa looked around and found that she was in a thin narrow corridor that was about twenty feet in length. Along the corridor there were two curtains equally spaced about seven and fourteen feet along the corridor.

The two nearest curtains were black on the left and white on the right and then the two curtains further down were lilac on the left and a royal blue on the right. There was one final curtain at the far end of the corridor but this curtain was red.

Along the walls between the curtains were large pictures of what looked like ancient Japanese people from another era in the past barely clothed or naked in some of the pictures and in some very compromising positions that caused Narcissa to blush a little. She felt her pulse start to increase looking at the erotic images noting how the people in the pictures weren't shy or bashful in the slightest.

"So Narcissa, welcome to The Witches Secret." Faye said as she stepped around Narcissa and took a couple of steps backwards with her hands outstretched.

"What is this place?" Narcissa asked her mouth open slightly as a naked wizard in what she would have said in his late fifties in the painting nearest her was looking at her and appeared to be pleasuring himself while winking at her.

"This my dear Narcissa is a place dedicated to pleasure and the most natural of animal urges in us that we are normally too embarrassed to talk about, show, or too suppressed to explore." Faye replied not in the slightest bit embarrassed by the pictures moving around her.

"Animal urges?" Narcissa asked, guessing at what she meant.

"Yes… Sex!" Faye said, smirking at Narcissa. "Sex is the most natural thing in the world but except for potentially talking about it with your female friends or your lover its not something most people feel comfortable talking about."

"Well that's because it's private." Narcissa said, feeling a little awkward.

"Absolutely it is but that doesn't mean that we don't think about it, enjoy it, or even want more of it. We don't ask about anyone's preferences but we are happy to help people discover things or help them discover things about themselves that they might not know yet." Faye said as she could see Narcissa's cheeks colouring a little.

"Look there is nothing to be embarrassed about and I'll show you around. You don't even need to say anything if you don't want to and I'll just explain what each room is, and if you have any questions I can answer them. If you want time in a room on your own then this is fine also as I don't mind giving you privacy if you don't want anyone around." Faye said, getting a nod from Narcissa.

"Just remember we advise to keep an open mind and if you see something that makes you laugh then laugh, if you see something you don't like then that's fair enough. We don't take offence. We only normally allow about eight witches in here at a time max so you've always got room to wander around if you need to and remember Hermione has been here before and she's brought her friends with her, so maybe she thinks that there might be things in here that you might be interested in?" Faye said shrugging as if it was no small thing.

"Well Hermione and I don't know each other that well and we've never talked about our sex lives, that's for sure." Narcissa said feeling dizzy as the blood was pounding through her and she was surprised to find that she was a little turned on about what she would see.

"And that's totally alright. But you never know once you've had a look around you might find that her and you talk about things a little more." Faye said as she walked backwards signalling Narcissa to follow her as she approached the white curtain on her right.

"Ok so when Kayleigh, Beth and I attended Mahoutokoro we became part of a tradition by having to enter a game called Truth or Dare that is played every year for the students doing their NEWT exams." Faye explained to Narcissa and also the rules of the game and how it was played.

She told her about her and her friends taking part and the magic of the game not allowing them to discuss what had happened while they were at school but upon the completion of the game after a winner had been crowned they were all able to talk about it openly.

"And does the school know about this game?" Narcissa asked, shocked that the school would allow such a thing to happen. She could imagine what would have happened if Hogwarts had allowed it.

"Well no not really but I'd imagine the likes of Master Kuzuko and Yuki upstairs would have probably played it since they both attended Mahoutokoro and I'm sure most of the Master and Sensei's must know about it as well because they will have witnessed dares being performed I don't doubt." Faye said grinning as she remembered some of the funnier things that happened in her final year at school.

"So how does this game lead to you deciding to open this part of the store?" Narcissa asked curiously.

"Well Kayleigh won it in our year and it awakened things in her sexually that she probably wouldn't have ever tried if it wasn't for that game. The same can be said for Beth and I as well." Faye explained as she put her hand on the curtain.

"Ok and…" Narcissa asked, wanting her to expand.

"Well Kayleigh said that she thought it was brilliant and that some of the things that she had tried while in school she'd love to repeat. But there was a problem in that she might need certain items, shall we say, in order to make them happen and so between herself, Beth, and I we designed and found loads of different products that people might use for pleasure." Faye explained to the older witch.

"We did a lot of research in our final year and even ventured into NOMA Tokyo to look at sex shops and things. To see what sort of things they sell and then experiment on some of the purchases we made to see if we can't magic them up a bit and make them better." Faye explained seeing Narcissa nod her understanding even though she guessed that the pureblood witch didn't have a clue what she was on about.

"Right ok well I'll give you a quick tour of the rooms and then I'm going to leave you to wander and see if there is anything you'd like to try. Although I'll warn you that we do have a strict return policy on some of the items in here as somethings can't be resold after being tried, ok?" Faye explained. Narcissa nodded and said she understood.

Faye pulled the curtain back and ushered Narcissa to go through first and on shaky legs Narcissa started moving forward excited to see what was behind the curtain. She entered the room that had bookcases running along three walls that were floor to ceiling. She reckoned there must have been at least six hundred books of all different sorts of colours and thickness.

In the centre of the room there were smaller shelf displays and Narcissa saw that they had copies of various different magazines and how-to manuals on them. There were lots of other things she didn't recognise and other items that she did like a pensieve like her father used to have although the one in the shop looked a lot newer. One of the things that she also recognised looked like little snow globes that Bellatrix stole off a muggle first year when at Hogwarts to give to Narcissa because it had the Eiffel tower inside it, but as Narcissa approached she saw that they didn't have anything in them at all and she wondered what they were.

She resisted asking at this point and looked around the walls either side of the curtain she had come in to find that there were empty shelves and Faye explained that they were still thinking of designs for other stuff for this and some of the other rooms so some of the displays might be empty.

"So as you can see this room is dedicated to the pleasure of the mind. The book cases are filled with books both magical and none magical of erotic and deliciously naughty stories to help you fantasise or maybe even give you some naughty ideas that you might like to try in the future." Faye said as Narcissa casually walked along the shelves slowly looking at the titles of the books not recognising any of them.

"So these are all stories," Narcissa said before adding "and how did you get your hands on all of these?"

"Well we got a lot from the NOMA shops to be honest as they have a lot of them and we try to add to this all the time and we're thinking about maybe doing like a book club in the future. With that rather than paying for each book as you get them, you'd pay a subscription and would be able to borrow a book and then return it and exchange it for another" Faye said as it was something that they would like to offer in the future but once they were more established.

"I see and that's quite a good idea . And these?" Narcissa said pointing to the magazines and books on the ground displays.

"Ah well these are erotic magazines and I don't just mean 'That Wizard's' and 'Play Witches'. I mean there are some pretty naughty magical publications that we never knew existed until we started carrying out some research and discovered that a couple of students from ages ago that played Truth or Dare decided to start their own magazine. There are more NOMA publications in there but they are available for purchase if wanted and if there is anything that you like that you want to get regularly when new additions come out we can arrange for them to be delivered for a fee of course." Faye explained, happy to see Narcissa hadn't ran out screaming yet.

"And these?'' Narcissa asked pointing to a stack of books and picked up one that had the words 'Kama Sutra' on the front and she stared leafing through the book, her eyes bulging at the images in front of her.

"Sex manuals that suggest different positions and what works or feels good. It's actually quite an interesting read but the magical edition that we are creating of that and a couple of others are more interesting." Faye said seeing that Narcissa was trying to listen to her while looking at the images.

After a few moments of Narcissa wondering how some of the positions she had seen could be possible she put the book down.

"Well that was very enlightening although I might be too old to try some of those things if and when the next time I get to have sex." Narcissa said with a humourless laugh.

"Nonsense you've got a great body and as long as the wizard is a certain size you'll be able to make them work I'm sure." Faye said as she moved closer to Narcissa and pointed at the pensieve.

"So this is a pensieve and this is a way of viewing memories." Faye said to which Narcissa explained that she knew how that worked as she'd used her fathers once and had been confined to the house for a month doing chores as she hadn't asked permission.

"Well with this you get a pack of eight memory phials so if you have a particularly naughty thought or great experience you never want to forget we can teach you memory extraction spells so that you need never worry and can view the memory at any time." Faye said with a grin on her face. "This idea came from Kayleigh as it was the only way we managed to get round the magic of the Truth and Dare game while playing it as we technically we're breaking the rules to see what the others had done.

"You could say that Kayleigh inspired Beth and I with some of her memories as that girl didn't back down from a single dare she was given." Faye said chuckling to herself.

"I see what you mean about that being a particularly naughty idea and I think I'd like to get one of them as it's only through my memories of a guy I used to date that I managed to get through my marriage for as long as I did. My ex husband was useless in bed." Narcissa confessed in spite of herself as she wouldn't normally divulge that to a complete stranger but reasoned that Faye wouldn't have ever heard of Lucius anyway.

"I've had relationships like that as well where I still think about it all the time and that's why I bought myself one of these. But they aren't cheap since they are dwarf mined and goblin finished." Faye explained to Narcissa.

Narcissa looked at the label and saw that the pensieve was a few hundred Kin and while she agreed it was expensive she didn't ever want to lose the good memories she had so decided that she would get it.

"I'll take it anyway." Narcissa said taking her wand from its holster and tapping the parchment before tapping the price tag on the pensieve and smiled when she saw the item appear on the parchment along with the price that was totalled at the bottom of the page as well.

"There you go as simple as that. Kayleigh and I were talking about this very item the other day and we were thinking how it would be really cool to be able to sell memories of other people to really make a fantasy amazing and more realistic." Faye said twirling her hair in her finger absent mindedly.

"What do you mean?" Narcissa asked curious as to how using someone's memories could be used for a fantasy.

"Well in the NOMA world they sell these things called films, which is like a magical photograph that can be hours long and in colour and from all different sorts of angles. Well Kayleigh and I are quite dirty minded so we have seen some that our parents had hidden away and also on this thing called a computer but I won't go into detail about that as it will take too long." Faye said quite openly and amazed Narcissa how open she was about her sexual interests and things that she did.

"That sounds interesting and these films things that are on in a… what did Fleur call it? Oh yes a cinema." Narcissa said smiling as she saw she had got it right as Faye nodded.

"Yes that's right but they are also sold on discs and video as well so that people can watch them in their own home. Plus the videos I'm talking about are only shown in very rare cinemas as they are sexual in nature. Anyway as I was saying one of the filming styles the NOMA uses is something called Point of View or POV where they film it from one of the person's perspective so you see what they see." Faye explained getting a nod of understanding from Narcissa.

"Ok so how does that translate into you wanting to sell memories for people to use in a pensieve?" Narcissa asked not really understanding where Faye was going with this.

"Well we thought say for example if someone wanted to know what it would be like to have sex with say Harry Potter or Kuda Rei Sin the chaser for the Okinawa Angels or say I dunno, Brain Clegane the lead singer of the Stomping Unicorns. We thought that if we could either experience that for ourselves or meet someone that has slept with them and get or pay for their memory of it then we could sell it to people.

So if say with Harry Potter you'd be able to go into the memory and see what the person got up to with him from the witches point of view." Faye said, getting a gasp of surprise from Narcissa.

"Wow that's certainly an interesting idea but I'm not really sure that you'd get a memory of Harry very easily and it's certainly not something that I should be looking at if you did." Narcissa said, getting a confused look from Faye.

"Why shouldn't you look at it if we ever got one, I mean he's sexy as hell. Have you seen him in the papers here? He's gorgeous and any witch would love to be with him." Faye said thinking about the article she had seen in The Rising Sun stood next to those attractive witches he was at school with.

"Well one he is my head of house and two, my nephew although we aren't direct relations." Narcissa said explaining and turned to look at the shelves to hide the little proud smile she had at being able to say that Harry was her family but also to hide the colour of her cheek as even though he was her Nephew the thought of what Faye was suggesting had a very strange sensation with her.

She couldn't help feeling a little aroused by the thought of Harry's body taking her but she quickly squashed this down as it's not a thought that a potential mother figure should be having and she mentally shouted down the voice that pointed out that Harry wasn't related and that magical beings had kept it in the family for centuries..

"Oh wow really? Seriously you're related to Harry Potter?" Faye asked her mouth hanging open and her mind spinning.

"Yes I am. My surname is Black and he's my head of house, here," Narcissa said, holding up her left hand showing the Black Family ring that now took pride of place on her middle finger.

Faye stepped forward and took Narcissa's hand in hers and studied the ring in detail almost like she was memorised by it. Narcissa watched the young witches reaction and could understand the young witches fascination.

Narcissa watched as a sultry smile spread across Faye's face as she looked up into Narcissa's eye. "Do you think you could introduce me to him? I'd really like to meet him." She said with a devilish grin causing Narcissa to laugh loudly.

"So you can propose your pensieve memory idea to him I suppose?" Narcissa asked, seeing Faye nod enthusiastically.

"Absolutely. I mean I wouldn't come straight out and ask him I'm not completely tactless you know. Or do you think he wouldn't mind a direct approach?" Faye asked, finding herself getting a little horny at the possibility of meeting Harry Potter.

Narcissa laughed again louder this time at Faye's enthusiasm and honesty on the subject. "Honestly Faye I think it's probably best to keep that idea to yourself for the time being if you meet him. I think that he and Hermione might be having a connection that you'd have to get passed first." She responded as she watched Faye tilt her head looking up thinking for a couple of moments.

"Hmmm well Hermione's pretty sexy as well, so I'd have no problem sharing or her joining in." Faye said laughing dirtily and causing Narcissa to roll her eyes and laugh herself.

"Well you never know you might bump into him in the Bazaar this weekend and you can ask him yourself. Anyway what else have you got in the other rooms down here? You can consider my curiosity well and truly peaked." Narcissa said wanting to try and move away from the subject of Harry as if this was just the first room in the Witches Secret she was interested to know what lay beyond the other curtains.

"He's in the Bazaar this weekend? Well I'm definitely keeping an eye out for him then." Faye said happily before taking Narcissa's hand in hers properly and said, "Right then on with the tour."

She then led Narcissa out past the white curtain they had come through turned right leading down the corridor and through the Lilac coloured curtain. As Narcissa stepped through the curtain, her sense of smell was attacked by some delightful aromas as she entered the room.

She came to a stop just inside the threshold and allowed the curtain to fall in place behind her. She looked around the room, which was a similar size to the previous one and saw on the shelves and displays there were lots of bottles of potions and lotions as well as perfumes and other things.

They were mainly packaged in feminine colours such as pinks and pastel colours with elegant writing on them. She noticed that all the labels of the same style though so assumed they were from the one manufacturer.

"Wow it smells lovely in here." Narcissa said looking around the room and her attention being drawn to a display next to the door with lots of different colour potions.

"Doesn't it? I love coming in here." Faye gushed a little taking in a deep breath through her nose causing her eyes to flutter a little. "So in this room we've potions and moisturisers and lots of other things that witches may need. We've oils and scented candles and incenses to create the right atmosphere for relaxation.

We've got various different things for bathing alone and with a partner or partners if you are in the mood" Faye said giving Narcissa a naughty wink.

"I see and what are these?" Narcissa asked, moving to the potions display and picking up a bottle in a shockingly bright pink that said 'Wonder Witch' on it and she looked and saw several of them on the shelves.

"There imported beauty products from Britain that we found out about from Hermione. There's things like pimple remover, Ever changing lip gloss' and things like that. We got them just in case they might be popular and I think most of them will appeal to younger witches probably still at school." Faye said as Narcissa nodded.

"But the really great stuff in this room is here" Faye said, getting Narcissa's attention and taking her to the other side of the doorway where there were phials in racks and Narcissa saw that they all had long labels on them giving instructions and how to use them.

"Now these are performance and strictly bedroom related products." Faye said proudly. "Kayleigh and Beth got very close to a couple of the boys in Turtle clan when we were in school, who were great at potions and managed to convince them to create some potions for us, although I don't know how much of each we've got in stock before we need resupply but these are really, really popular." Faye said proudly knowing that the potions were some of their best sellers.

"And what are they exactly?" Asked Narcissa picking up a phial that had a clear cherry red liquid in it and held it up to the light before looking at the label. "Raging bull potion?" she read out loud looking to Faye.

"Oh my god that's one of the best things ever. If you've a male lover give him a teaspoon of that and he'll have all the stamina he needs to keep going for hours and I can say from personal experience that it gives them a little more dominance to them as well and they are a little more aggressive in their love making." Faye said laughing at Narcissa's wide eyed expression.

"Oh my" Narcissa said, putting her hand to her chest feeling her cheeks colour.

"Well sometimes you don't want to make love you want to get really fucked hard and this little beauty really helps with that," Faye said laughing to herself. "Come on Narcissa don't be so shocked. I told you there is nothing to be shy about in here and this is one of the only places you'll ever be able to be completely open about what you like without worrying about what other people think."

"I know but still I didn't expect you to be talking about getting taken fast and hard though as I don't really know you." Narcissa said, shocked at the younger witch's openness.

"Well we can talk openly in here as that's exactly why Kayleigh wanted to create this shop. I've no problem saying that sometimes I love a good hard shagging hee," Faye giggled to herself.

"I wouldn't have thought a woman of your young years would have had too many experiences of that," Narcissa said, feeling awkward still.

"Oh you'd be amazed what the three of us have experienced and we've still got lots more we want to try. This shop was Kayleigh's brain child so to speak but it's a combination of Kayleigh's, Beth's and my experiences, fantasies and ideas and the reason we want shoppers to be open about things here and their likes is because there may be a market for something that we haven't known about or experienced yet. Just like the next room we're going into." Faye said thinking that if talking about getting taken firmly by a wizard would cause Narcissa to blush then the next room she was taking her into would cause her to most likely have a meltdown.

Narcissa steeled herself, put the phial back in the rack carefully, before Faye pulled back the curtain into the corridor and as Narcissa stepped out she saw Master Kuzuko and Beth disappear into the room they had been in first with the books and magazines in.

"Ok so most of the things you are going to see in this next room are mainly things that we found in NOMA sex shops and we researched on the internet. Now I'll admit they really are more specialist items and they aren't for everyone but, just don't freak out ok." Faye said as she led Narcissa to the Black curtain and pulled the curtain back.

"Holy Hell" Narcissa said, giving out a gasp as Faye gave a giggle behind her as she followed Narcissa into the room and said "Well you haven't turned around and ran yet which is a good sign" Faye said as she watched Narcissa taking in the room.

"It's like my sister's husband's wet dream." Narcissa said looking around the room seeing there were lots of clothing items made out of leather, metal bracelets connected with chains, whips and other things that Narcissa thought could be used to torture people.

She walked around the room running her hand along some of the items in there and found that the cold harshness of the metal on the chains and the cool smooth leather and the smell was actually quite exciting as she started to think about how the items in the room could be used for pleasure as they looked like they would bring nothing more than pain.

"You'd be amazed how many people in the NOMA love this sort of stuff and being tied up and spanked, whipped, and things. It might not take off but if there is one thing I've learnt since entering the magical world is that there are more kinky people than you'd realise." Faye said while smiling. Her imagination was running wild picturing Narcissa's curvy figure in some of the outfits and noticing that the old witch was running her hands on things and appeared to be trying to pretend that she wasn't really interested or curious about the things in the room.

"It's kind of a lot to take in as I can't even imagine why someone would like to be tied up and tortured." Narcissa said honestly, as he eyes were drawn to a series of looped leather straps hanging from the ceiling. "What are these? Some sort of restraint device or something?" she said as she took a hold of one of the straps and noted it wasn't made of leather but of another material she had never seen before.

Faye laughed out loud as she saw what Narcissa was looking at. "Ah so you're looking at some advanced stuff then. Tell me Narcissa have you ever found that you get tired as an in physically tired when having sex but not wanting to stop and then having to because you or a lover couldn't hold a great position for long enough?" Faye asked, getting a light laugh from Narcissa.

"Faye my ex husband lasted only just long enough to satisfy his own urges and certainly didn't try any positions or focus on my pleasure. That's on the odd occasion he actually wanted to engage in things of a sexual nature with me." Narcissa said not really ever remembering Lucius wanting to do anything other than missionary when he did have sex with her and not in the slightest bit unhappy that she was no longer married to such an abomination of a man..

"What really? How boring." Faye said honestly. "So what, he was a one trick pony? Have you never had sex in anything other than like missionary then?" She asked Narcissa, not understanding how the British witches' former husband hadn't been spending a lot of time making love to the older witch as even Faye thought she was attractive.

"Well I was in an arranged marriage to him from when I was in school and back then my former lovers and I had to rush our experience, usually standing in a broom closet." Narcissa replied with a fond smile

Remembering a few of the experiences she'd had before her blasted father had signed the marriage contract to Lucius' family.

"Well" Faye said clapping her hands together excitedly as she approached Narcissa and stood next to her she said "If you have one of these there are plenty of fun things to do with it as the NOMA's call this a sex swing." Faye said looking at Narcissa's reaction which was puzzling.

"A sex swing? It just looks like a bunch of straps and I can't possibly imagine how…" Narcissa started to say turning to Faye as the younger one turned around and Narcissa watched in surprise as Faye sat into the couple of straps that formed a seat and watched as she kicked her legs up as the straps moved of their own accord supporting her in various places.

"So you see this takes my weight and then I can either have my lover between my legs or I can do various different positions." Faye demonstrated seeming quite unembarrassed to Narcissa as the Japanese witch spread her legs wide, no modesty being protected as Narcissa watched her move with the straps almost like a muggle gymnast. Faye hooked her ankles above Narcissa's head and leant back explaining to Narcissa how the swing can really stop each person's backs and arms giving up and as she rocked back and forth explained that she could be taken with less effort but the same amount of force.

Narcissa just listened, completely blown away, as Faye and the straps moved and twisted and Narcissa was treated to a very thorough demonstration of the sex swings use.

Faye eventually flipped herself gracefully out of the contraption and straightened her short skirt and appearance again. "Sorry about that but I've only been in that thing a couple of times but it really could be fun." she smiled, a little red in the face, as she took Narcissa's hand and said "On with the tour then shall we."

She led Narcissa out of the room and along the corridor as they made their way along the corridor to the Royal Blue curtain. Faye gestured for Narcissa to go in first, which she did, and Narcissa found that the room was filled with even sexier underwear than in the main shop. Faye walked around with her pointing out the different types of corsets, teddy's, stockings and garter belts, the bras and panties etc and explained how they were all charmed to be self-closing or opening and various other things.

They spent a great deal of time with Narcissa showing a lot of interest and asking Faye lots of different questions and questioned Faye a lot about bodystockings not understanding why it would be a good thing to wear. That's when to her immense surprise Faye pulled out a book from under one of the displays that Narcissa hadn't noticed and had shown her a picture of Faye and Beth both wearing bodystockings made up of fishnet stocking type material and nothing else.

Faye was wearing a black one and Beth a red. She teased Narcissa asking her whether she didn't think that the two younger girls looked sexy in them. Narcissa had confessed that she did and found that she was actually enjoying Faye's openness and honesty about her sexual diversity.

They looked around the items with Faye giving Narcissa her opinion on what things she thought Narcissa would look good in and even encouraged Narcissa to get a few things and try them on and if she didn't like them she could bring them back or alternatively try them on in the changing rooms in the shop.

Narcissa had confessed to not remembering seeing any changing rooms and Faye had taken great delight in telling her that there were three throughout the store but that they were under disillusionment charms like the outside of the store.

"Why are they under disillusionment charms? Why would you want to hide the changing rooms?" Narcissa had asked.

"Because they are made out of three glass walls that the person getting changed can see out of so it's like they are getting changed in the middle of the shop in front of everyone. Beth thought it would be a naughty little idea, but don't worry no one can see them anyway." Faye said grinning at the British witch's appalled expression and then started to explain to Narcissa what an exhibitionist was as they made their way out of the Royal Blue curtain and coming to a stop outside the final curtain at the end of the corridor as Master Kuzuko and Beth emerged out of the potions and lotions room.

"Alright you two?" Beth asked, smiling at Narcissa and Faye.

"We're doing great, how are you two?" Faye said giving Narcissa a little shoulder bump.

"Yes we're doing fine. Any shocks and surprises yet Satomi?" Narcissa asked, receiving a nod from the duelling master.

"I'll say," Master Kuzuko replied, feeling her cheeks burn a little.

"Well brace yourself because if you're going in there next you'll be in for a surprise" Narcissa said pointing at the Bondage room as Faye had called it and saw the duelling master take a gulp.

"Don't worry Master Kuzuko you'll have seen far worse but get Beth to demonstrate the swing for you as I'm sure it would go great in your office." Faye said mischievously.

"Oh that's such a good idea!" Beth said, bouncing on the spot excitedly before grabbing Master Kuzuko's hand and dragging her through the curtain.

"Right then Narcissa last room but you'll see that we've saved the best till last. I'll let you go in here alone and browse for a few minutes while I go and make sure that there aren't any customers gathering outside. We don't want the shop attracting a crowd outside and drawing unwanted attention.

I'm also going to see if Kayleigh's come down and then I'll join you and answer questions that you have, alright?" Faye asked, getting a nod from Narcissa.

"Sure that's fine. I'll see you in a minute." Narcissa said as Kayleigh turned on her heel and set off towards the opposite end of the corridor. Narcissa looked over her shoulder, making sure that Faye had gone, and taking a deep breath Narcissa opened and stepped through the final curtain and covered her mouth to try and suppress her gasp.

Narcissa had walked into the more dim lighted room in the shops and the most surprising. The walls were painted a racing green and had dark wooden shelves that were covered in a dark green velvet that ran along the back and side walls with items laid flat on the shelves.

The room was about twelve foot square and had a slightly warm feeling to it like when you were in a warm country at night and the sunny days were starting to cool. What had caused her to gasp however was directly in front of Narcissa and had drawn her eye instantly as soon as she had walked into the room.

In the centre of the room was a glass cabinet with purple and pink lights coming up from beneath illuminating the box. Inside the box there was a large crushed blood red velvet cloth with a lot of items on it.

The reason Narcissa had gasped was because a lot of them looked like metal and glass penises. They all had baggage label's tied onto them and Narcissa found herself walking forwards, her eyes moving over the various different shapes and sizes inside the tray like box.

She could feel a throbbing between her legs as she looked at the different designs seeing that some had bobbles around the bases of the shaft, some were made of glass and others looked to have some sort of rubber like coating on them.

Narcissa looked around making sure that she was alone as she felt almost guilty to be looking at the items for some strange reason and she reached out and ran her fingertips along a few of them feeling a strange sensation swoop through her.

She felt really horny and aroused from looking at the items and wondering what they were used for, her imagination running wild with her. She looked to the right hand side of the box where a deep red marble looking penis shaped item drew her attention.

It was about six inches in length and Narcissa gave a delightful shiver as she ran her fingertips along the smooth shaft of the penis shaped item. She got to the label and saw on the label that the item was called "The Devil's Shaft" with nothing else on the label.

She flipped the label over and saw more writing on the label and leant forwards to read it and it read "This is the Devil's Shaft, not because it's evil but because it feels like it has a mind of its own. On purchase of this product you will be given an activation spell and then this magical dildo will then make you feel good by taking you however it pleases. It's self-cleaning and has a timer charm option in case you pass out in pleasure and can't cancel the spell. Ask in store for more details."

Narcissa wondered what 'by taking you however IT pleases' and found that the throbbing between her legs was getting more prominent.

She looked along the line of magical phalluses and stopped at a smooth glass shaft with a large bulbous head that was around eight inches in length and had a loop around the end with little ridges that Narcissa thought looked like they'd been moulded to allow a hand to grip it more comfortably. She reached in and put her slender fingers through the loop and gripped it lifting the magical dildo upwards. It was a little more weighty that she expected and as she picked it up half of the dildo filled with a white glue type liquid that had white metallic flecks or glitter in it.

Narcissa rotated her wrist pointing the dildo down and saw the liquid slosh to the other end almost like a counter weight.

She looked at the label and read 'Behold the mighty Shinto, the horse that no mortal should ride. We respectfully disagree. With this magical dildo you can feel like this little beauty is your lover as it is charmed to react as your lover would when reaching the ultimate peak of pleasure to give you a nice warm and wet finish. The liquid is magically charged, so that it and Shinto are self-cleaning. We think you would love this little horse so take it for a ride.'

Narcissa was finding herself being really turned on looking at the different magical dildos finding that some were expandable to make them the size you wanted, some were hands free, some vibrated, some had two separate penises on them and Narcissa assumed that they were to stimulate both entrances to her body down there.

She walked around fascinated, looking at the shelves and reading the labels on what things were and a million questions and thoughts erupted inside her brain as she looked around the shelves seeing different sex toys, anal beads, vibrators. As well as these she also saw and read about things called butt plugs and cock rings and was fascinated by them. She'd never heard of any of these things in her life and couldn't believe that no one in the magical world had discovered them.

Narcissa was lost in her own thoughts as she sensed movement behind her and turned and saw Faye's head stick through the curtain with a friendly smile on her face. "Nice to see that this room hasn't freaked you out too badly and you're still here." She said as she entered the room properly.

"I have never really seen anything like these things before in my life," Narcissa said indicating the sex toys around the room.

"Bit of an eye opener into the NOMA mind set and lack of inhibitions when it comes to pleasure, I bet." Faye said, stepping up to the central box in the middle of the room next to Narcissa, looking down at the array of magical dildos and vibrators that were there.

"Have you ever used any of these types of things before?" Narcissa asked a little embarrassed to ask Faye who nodded enthusiastically.

"Gods yes. I've used and tried everything in here as nothing gets put into production unless Kayleigh, Beth and I have tried it and know that it works and feels good." Faye said with a shrug. "Have you found something that you like the look of or want to try?" she asked Narcissa seeing the older witch look a little uncertain.

"Listen there is no need to be shy and admit you want to see what one of them is like. If you are single I would definitely suggest giving one of them a go, especially if you've never tried it before. I'll give you my thoughts on what I think would be good things to start on until you're comfortable with your purchase and then maybe want to try something else? I mean I've got several of these at home for when I feel the urge and need some me time." Faye said laughing as Narcissa set a smirk on her face.

"Yes well with my ex I had a lot of me time alone in the house and I think some of these would have certainly made my lonely hours a little less frustrating." Narcissa chipped in with a little laugh. "Alright then what the hell, what do you think I should try?" Narcissa asked Faye moving closer to the box and looking down into it looking at the objects there.

Faye looked around the box, "Hm well I would say to start with, you should get either Raijin or Jurojin as they will both be good ways of starting you off and are good ways of adding variety to your collection."

"My collection?" Narcissa asked her eyes going wide at the thought.

"Sure. I promise you that these will blow your mind and you'll be back to try others but you never forget your first." Faye said laughing to herself and causing Narcissa to roll her eyes.

"So which ones were Raijin and Jurojin?" Narcissa asked as Faye reached into the box and took out two of the items in there.

Faye took a light blue glass dildo and showed it to Narcissa. It was around six inches in length and reasonably thick, with the head of a cock on each end of the shaft but one of them had little glass bobbles on the end. "This is Raijin or Rayden as you westerners pronounce it. He's the god of thunder and lightning and will make you cum with the thunder no doubt. He's self cleaning, and vibrates faster and faster the more excited you get and the closer you get to climax." Faye said, placing the cool glass dildo into Narcissa's hand.

She then held up the other one and said "This is Jurojin and he represents longevity and as you can see it's seven inches long and this one has a hands free spell and it will just work away on you leaving your hands to do other things." Faye said placing it in Narcissa's other outstretched hand.

Narcissa felt her nipples harden even more if possible at what Faye was describing them doing and looked at the younger witch whose face was studying her. "So which do you think I should get?" Narcissa asked her eyes looking over the remainder of the cabinet.

Faye just shrugged, "Well it's people's personal preference so you can choose. I just think these two are good start off points to see what you think." answering as she moved around the other side of the cabinet to the shelving on the back wall. Narcissa put the two dildo's back in their places in the cabinet and couldn't help her eyes wandering back to the Shinto glass dildo and as Faye started looking through the shelves Narcissa bit her lip and touched her wand to the pink parchment before then pressing the tip to the label for the Shinto and then the Raijin before stowing her wand and looking at the parchment to see both the items appear and her eyes baulked a little at the prices of the two items as they were quite expensive.

"Wow sixty Kin for Raijin?" Narcissa blurted out as she looked at the price of Raijin and then saw how much the Shinto one was and gulped as she saw it was a hundred Kin.

"I know it seems expensive but believe me you'll get hours and hours of enjoyment out of it. Raijin is still one of my favourites and never fails to get me off." Faye said over her shoulder, "Plus the charms on them are chargeable if you want to push your own magic into them as well." she added as she picked up a small metal item from the shelf and turned round to Narcissa.

"You can always get one of the NOMA ones if you want as they are a lot cheaper but you'd need to buy these things called batteries in order to make them work and they wouldn't last very long." Faye said as Narcissa nodded.

"I remember learning about batteries in muggle studies class. They are the little tubes that muggles put into things to power them up aren't they?" Narcissa said getting a nod from Faye.

"I don't mind the cost although it's high. I guess I'm just a little surprised it would be so much." Narcissa said honestly.

Faye moved to the older witch and put her hands on her shoulders turning Narcissa to face her and looked her dead in the eye. "Trust me on this. Next time we see each other you are going to tell me that it's an absolute bargain I promise. Look just treat yourself because if your ex was as rubbish in bed as you've said then believe me you're going to wish you'd had one of these years ago."

"Alright Faye I'll have them. I mean, I suppose I should treat myself to something that will make me happy. I've been careful with my money since being in Japan and haven't really bought too much other than some clothes." Narcissa said thinking that she had been watching her money and hadn't been spending heavily at all, nowhere near it.

Fleur, if she was honest, treated Narcissa and Penelope to meals out all the time as she was using her expense account to pay for them. Narcissa had pointed out that her expense account was being funded by Harry and that she might want to take it easy with it.

Fleur had laughed heartily and said not to worry as each time she had met potential clients for Harry that they'd ended up paying for any meals they had to try and impress her so she was making the money she spent back.

Narcissa could believe it and wondered what the French witch and Penelope would make of Hidden Treasures and more importantly The Witches Secret. She thought Penelope coming from a muggle background would probably be a lot less surprised than Fleur. When she thought about the French witch's reaction to seeing the shop she imagined that the gorgeous blonde would love it, as she was always making sexual references and jokes. Narcissa didn't think she would be shy or embarrassed about anything.

"Atta girl" Faye said and Narcissa looked at her hand as Faye held up the item she had got off the shelf as well. "I reckon you should get this as well. It would be good if you're feeling especially naughty." Faye said, wondering whether she was pushing the older witch too far perhaps with what she was now going to suggest.

"What is that?" Narcissa said her eyebrow arching as Faye tossed her the small metal item and she caught it, finding that it was a solid piece of metal. Narcissa turned it over in her hand looking at it from every angle trying to figure out what it was.

The item in question looked like a smooth metal acorn with a stem coming out of the top where it then formed into a round disc with a circular pink gem stone on the end. Narcissa examined it all looking up to see the smirk on Faye's face as she studied Narcissa's reaction.

"Go on then tell me what it is." Narcissa said completely flummoxed.

"Can you not guess?" Faye said enjoying teasing the older witch and wanting to see her reaction.

"No I can't figure out what it is. I was thinking it's some sort of parchment weight to hold it in place when writing?" Narcissa said getting a giggle from Faye,

"Sorry for laughing but very much no. If anyone else knew what it was and you chucked that on the table to write a letter you'd get some very interesting looks." Faye said amused as she loved the innocence of pure bloods sometimes.

"Well what is it then?" Narcissa said, handing the item back to Faye.

"Well the NOMA's call it a Butt Plug," Faye said, seeing Narcissa shake her head and saying that she's never heard the term before. "Right well a NOMA slang term for your bottom is calling it your butt. So what this is, is a way of stimulating you're your anus and helping you stretch it out incase you want anal sex and also it's a way of making sure you stay nice and tight back there if you leave it in and carry on your normal business each day with it in. It gives you a delicious little reminder it's in there every time you sit down." Faye said grinning as Narcissa's mouth fell open.

"It goes in your bottom?" Narcissa asked completely shocked. "And NOMAs do this regularly?" she asked completely gobsmacked that muggles would do such a thing.

"Well not many of them do as lots of people don't like it but some find it really sexy and a big turn on having anal sex and I just thought you'd maybe like to experiment a little. I guess I might be pushing you a little too far and a little too soon as you need to discover for yourself what you like and don't like really but if you decide to try it I'll put it on at a discount." Faye said seeing that she probably had suggested something a little too extreme to start with for a sexually denied older witch who'd never seen the things she was showing her before.

"Yes I don't even know whether I'd ever even try that as it's not really what that part of your body is designed for." Narcissa commented, feeling her cheeks colour.

"Well no offence intended but like I keep saying there is nothing to be embarrassed about and if you ever want a more detailed description of something or to know more about it then just ask one of us. I know this little gem is really naughty and good because I've got one in myself at the moment." Faye said with a naughty little smirk on her face.

"You've got one of those in your bottom right now?" Narcissa asked, shocked and getting a nod from Faye.

"Yep and it makes the day a little more interesting walking around as I feel naughty all the time with it in." Faye asked as she turned to the curtain at the entrance room as Beth stuck her head in through the gap.

"Are you two nearly done in here Faye? It's just I wanted to show Master Kuzuko around here before Kayleigh and Yuki catch up and Kayleigh said she's something exciting that she wants to tell us."

"Well I was going to let Narcissa have a look around on her own to see if there is anything else she wanted but I don't know if she's finished in here. Do you need more time here Narcissa?" Faye asked the older witch.

"No it's fine I've got some things so I'll let Satomi have the room to herself and I'll go look around the other rooms that Yuki isn't in and then join Hermione." Narcissa said smiling at the two younger witches as Beth thanked her.

"What is it Kayleigh wants to speak to us about?" Faye enquired.

"Don't know but she said it's big news and that we would be really happy about it." Beth replied while she pulled the curtain back and allowed Narcissa and Faye out of the room and then allowed the curtain to drop back into place.

"How are you getting on Satomi?" Narcissa asked the duelling master who looked just as taken aback with what she saw as she was herself.

"It's certainly been an eye opener, put it that way. I had no idea that these three knew all of these things," she said pointing to Faye and Beth who grinned at her, "but if I had I would have kept a closer eye on them last year when they played Truth or Dare. How have you got on?" Master Kuzuko asked Narcissa.

"I've really been quite impressed and it's certainly got me thinking about my private life and opened my eyes to things I never knew existed." Narcissa thoughtfully.

"Well come now the tour isn't done yet and still a lot to see." Beth said taking Master Kuzuko by the hand as the latter gave Narcissa an almost pleading help me look before disappearing through the curtain.

"Right well do you need any more help from me Narcissa or would you like to have a little more of a browse on your own and then meet me back in Hidden Treasures?" Faye asked Narcissa who said that she could go back into the shop and she'd browse for a minute and join her shortly.

As Faye went back into the main shop Narcissa saw Yuki emerge from the first room with Kayleigh talking at a million miles a minute about the first room before leading her into the second with the sex swing in. Narcissa wasn't even noticed by either witch as Yuki was listening with full concentration on her face and nodding to whatever Kayleigh was saying until they disappeared into the other room.

Narcissa not wanting to be in a room with Yuki or Master Kuzuko while looking around disappeared quickly into the room with all the lotions and potions tapping the labels of some of them to be used in the bath and to moisturise.

She left the room quickly and darted back into the first room they had gone into and after a quick scan through the shelves decided to purchase two books from in there to give her something different than spell books to read at night. She looked at her items list on the parchment and decided that she'd bought enough for now and that she could always come back when she had more time to browse.

She stepped out through the curtain and back onto the main shop floor as she looked around the shop she saw Hermione trying on a coat and Faye was at the desk next to the stairs looking through a ledger.

Narcissa made her way over to the desk and Faye looked up with a smile and took the pink parchment that Narcissa offered her, having a quick look through it nodding to herself but didn't make any comment on Narcissa's items, which she was happy about.

"Do you want us to deliver these to your address or come and collect them from the store as we've got most of this in stock but these two items are made to order so it will take a day or so to get together." Faye said turning the list on the desk and to Narcissa's disappointment pointed at the two dildos on the list.

"I suppose I can come and get them as I'm only staying in The Panama Palace anyway so it won't be any problem." Narcissa said, trying to hide her disappointment.

"Oh are you? Well that's alright I can run them over to you on my lunch if you tell me your room number and save you the trip. You won't be disappointed with the wait Narcissa, I promise" Faye said apologetically as she turned the page in the ledger that was for Narcissa and tapped the page with her wand and then lay the pink parchment on the ledger.

Narcissa watched as the parchment suddenly sank into the ledgers page and disappeared before the items she ordered started appearing on the ledger. Faye waited patiently humming to herself as the items were there and then a total appeared on the bottom of the page.

Faye clapped her hands excitedly and said "Ok so that will be two hundred and twenty three Kin and six Gin." As Narcissa reached around her back and to Faye's eye looked to pull a beseecher book out of nowhere. She watched as Narcissa wrote out the amount required and asked "Do I put the payee as Hidden Treasures or The Witches Secret?"

"Put it as Hidden Treasures as that is how it would appear on your account records. I'll just sort this and then go and get your items," Faye said efficiently as she reached for a peach pastel coloured envelope under the counter and she jotted down the beseecher slip number on the ledger and a comment that said "paid in full" with a smiley face next to it.

She then slipped the beseecher slip into the envelope and tapped her wand on the large gold till at the end of the counter that made a ca-ching noise and a drawer with some coins in it slid out. Faye tapped the ledger and then the front of the envelope and some writing Narcissa didn't have time to read appeared before Faye slipped it into the till drawer and closed it.

"Right I'll be back in a minute," Faye said, moving to the wall next to the stairs. She reached out, apparently to nothing, and Narcissa saw a handle appear out of nowhere and Faye opened it before disappearing through a door in the wall.

While Faye was gone Narcissa didn't hear Hermione approach her from behind until Hermione said "So what do you think of the shop?" causing Narcissa to turn and look at her seeing Hermione looking a little anxious.

"I think it's wonderful." Narcissa replied honestly, "This is the sort of place Diagon Alley needs to spruce it up a bit, help Britain move with the times a little and start being so traditional in terms of the shop and what they sell."

"I agree although Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade have a certain nostalgic charm being traditional and old fashioned in their buildings, although I agree that the interiors of the shops could be more like this." Hermione said seeing Narcissa nodding in agreement.

"And erm, what did you think of The Witches Secret?" Hermione asked, suddenly becoming very interested in the button on the jacket it looked like she was going to purchase.

"It was certainly a shock to the system as I don't know what I was expecting after the build up Faye and Beth gave it but it wasn't that." Narcissa replied not meeting Hermione's eye.

"I know what you mean. I mean I've lived in the muggle world and have heard of sex shops but I've never actually been in one as they seem so seedy, here though I guess its kind of comforting to know that it's only witches that would be coming here and Kayleigh and the girls really know there stuff, believe me." Hermione said her cheeks colouring a little as Narcissa looked at her interested.

"So have you bought something from there that they recommended?" Narcissa asked curiously.

"Yes I did and it was well worth the money." Hermione said a cheeky little smirk on her face.

"Do you mind me asking what? I've just bought some things myself that Faye suggested and I wonder whether she was just teasing me with her suggestions or whether you got the same treatment." Narcissa asked honestly as she did want to know.

"Narcissa you can't ask me that!" Hermione exclaimed, shocked that Narcissa would even ask.

"Why not? I mean you're a woman, I'm a woman and we've both been in a shop designed for women to express themselves and experiment and things, so like Faye says there is nothing to be embarrassed or self-conscious about." Narcissa said not entirely feeling that way herself but she could see Hermione mulling over what she was saying.

"I don't know." Hermione said with uncertainty, biting her lip.

"Alright how about I'll tell you mine, if you tell me yours?" Narcissa asked trying to sound fair but noticed that Hermione started to blush and instinctively looked around.

"Alright but if you tell anyone else I'll hex your boobs to your ears" Hermione said laughing as Narcissa looked down at her bust and then started laughing as well.

"I'm sure that would be an interesting look." Narcissa said before saying "I promise I won't say anything to anyone if you don't either. Witches code and all that, plus I want to show you that you can trust me as we're going to be a big part of each other's lives Hermione, because of Harry."

"I suppose your right." Hermione said thinking that Narcissa was right but held her finger out to Narcissa pointing at her and said "Alright but one word of this to Harry…" she said leaving the threat hanging before Narcissa insisted that she wouldn't say anything.

"Alright then, I bought some moisturisers and they really do work. They make your skin feel so much softer and kind of tingly when you put it on. I bought some lubricants and one of the stamina potions as I wondered whether they would really work. I also bought Inzagi and then Kayleigh convinced me to buy a butt plug," Hermione said, feeling her cheeks burn as she said the last sentence barely above a whisper.

"Sorry I didn't catch that last part." Narcissa said genuinely as she hadn't caught it.

"I said I bought Inzagi and a butt plug" Hermione confessed again wishing that the ground would swallow her up as Narcissa unconsciously raised her eyebrows in surprise.

"Faye showed me the butt plug thing, but I didn't have the courage to buy it, even to experiment, I guess that's one reason you ended up a Gryffindor at Hogwarts." Narcissa said thoughtfully, causing Hermione to smile at the older witch's comments. "Which one was Inzagi again?" Narcissa asked as the last room came flooding back into her head as she tried to recall which of the magical dildo's was Inzagi again.

"It's the silver one that has the capacity to vibrate, is erm hands free, and can adapt in size to what you need at that particular moment and it also has this little like stalk sticking out of it near the base and well.. Let's just say that what that does is a really good feature." Hermione said feeling a little more confident as Narcissa wasn't laughing.

"I was tempted with that but I couldn't justify spending the money on it. That was the one that was three hundred and seventy five kin wasn't it?" Narcissa asked as she recalled the one item in question from Hermione's description and was starting to wonder now whether she should have just spent the money.

"So what did you get?" Hermione asked relieved that she'd confessed and was very curious to see what the former poster girl of pureblood society would have purchased from a shop geared towards sex and pleasure as the thought of Narcissa as beautiful as she was getting mauled and speared by Lucius Malfoy seriously threatened to make Hermione see her breakfast again.

"I bought a couple of books, some moisturisers and bath salts I think they were called and I actually bought two. I bought Raijin and Shinto" Narcissa confessed feeling a blush spread on her face and neck, and throbbing between her legs.

"Wow, you got both of them" Hermione said surprised and her eyebrows were arched in surprise that firstly Narcissa would have got something and secondly that instead of just getting one of the magical phallus' but had actually bought two and thirdly that she'd just openly told her about it.

Hermione could well remember the items that Narcissa had mentioned as she had stood in front of the display herself for about thirty minutes with Kayleigh telling her about them and trying to decide which to purchase and experiment with before making her decision.

"Well I've been married to Lucius for too long Hermione and until I have a chance to meet someone... well a witch has needs, right?" Narcissa said as they both laughed together. "So you can endorse them then. Have you brought Penny and Fleur here?" she asked Hermione who shook her head.

"Well yes, witches certainly do have needs and I think this store is a good way of finding out more about what they are. As for bringing Fleur and Penny here, no I've not yet, but feel free to bring them here during the week if you want. I want to have a fun weekend this weekend now that I've got today's business out the way." Hermione said and saw that Narcissa agreed.

"Absolutely and I agree time is precious this weekend as I want to spend some time with Harry but you as well." Narcissa said to Hermione before expanding. "I hope you didn't think I was over stepping during your meeting with Yuki and Amy this morning. It's just I'm trying to teach Harry to act how magical society would expect him to act, so that he always gets off on the right footing. I mean he, like yourself, is the head of some very respected and famous houses now and certain behaviours are rightly or wrongly expected and I just want to help him and you as well really."

"No it was completely fine and I understand. I've been doing some reading at home about wizarding customs and things. I like it when Harry takes charge of the situation and pushes himself forwards, and with confidence." Hermione confessed not able to hide the little smile that crept onto her face as she thought about him asking her to the Halloween ball.

"And what's that smile for?" Narcissa asked Hermione.

"Oh nothing." Hermione said coyly.

"Don't give me that, you look like you could sing with happiness right now, so what's going on?" Narcissa asked as Hermione appeared to be unable to hold it in anymore.

"Harry asked me to go to the Halloween Ball at school with him. He told me that he wanted to ask me the Tri-Wizard tournament ball as well." Hermione said before recounting what Harry had told her in his trunk before the Turtles had arrived back from class and interrupted them when Harry had been waiting for Hermione's answer.

"So a big development then." Narcissa said not surprised that Harry felt so strongly for the witch in front of her but happy that he'd had the courage to actually say it to her, "He actually said all that to you. And you still maintain you don't know how he feels about you?" Narcissa asked, seeing Hermione practically glowing.

"Well I do now but the situation is really complicated at the moment." Hermione said her good spirits were now waning.

"Well do you want me to try to help you uncomplicate it?" Narcissa asked her, putting her hand on Hermione's forearm. "I know you might not have the time to discuss it now but how about if you come to my room this evening or in the morning and we can talk about it more privately then." Narcissa added as she gestured with her head behind her and Hermione looked past her to Faye making their way towards them as Master Kuzuko and Beth emerged from the curtain into the main store and made a beeline for the payment desk.

"I'd actually really like that if we can Narcissa as it's one of the things I really wanted to get done with now that I've concluded my business dealings for the weekend. I just want to have some fun with Harry and yourself and hopefully Fleur and Penny can spend time with us as well." Hermione said thinking that maybe she should ask Kayleigh, Beth and Faye whether they'd like to join them that evening as well.

"Alright well come to my room tonight if you like and we can talk about uninterrupted." Narcissa said quietly, giving Hermione a wink. "Ah there you are Faye." Narcissa said suddenly turning to look at the younger witch who came to a stop in front of her holding a baby girl pink bag held together with a black ribbon and had 'Hidden Treasures' on the side of the bag.

Faye passed it to Narcissa who took the bag and smiled "Cute bag" appreciatively.

"Glad you like them and I've good news that I've found a Raijin in the stock room but you're going to have to wait a day or so for Shinto." Faye said, hoping that having one of the toys would improve Narcissa's spirits.

"Well I'm staying at The Panama Palace so I can always come and get it when it's ready." Narcissa said trying to hide her disappointment but felt a tinge of excitement that at least one of them was in her bag.

"Oh well that's fine then I'll just drop it by when it's ready as I can nip across to the hotel no problem." Faye said before adding "Plus you might want me to explain the instructions on Shinto a bit more as there's a bit more to him," before letting out a very girly giggle.

"Well that would be very kind of you Faye thank you." Narcissa replied, getting a shrug from Faye like it was no big deal.

It was then that Master Kuzuko and Beth joined them and Hermione smiled to see Master Kuzuko had a bag herself and also that her cheeks were a little coloured.

"So did you get some new outfits and things then Master Kuzuko?" Hermione asked, seeing the duelling master narrow her eyes a little bit as she studied Hermione.

"Yes but I'm not going to tell you what they are, so don't bother trying to interrogate me." Master Kuzuko said with a playful note to her tone.

"We'll see about that," Narcissa said, getting laughs from the others that were assembled.

"No you won't get any information out of me regarding that at all." Master Kuzuko said determinedly.

"What if we told you what we'd got?" Hermione asked, enjoying seeing her duelling master squirm a little.

The five witches talked amongst themselves and teased Master Kuzuko good heartedly while they waited for Yuki and Kayleigh to finish in The Witches Secret. They eventually came out and Yuki handed her pink piece of parchment to Kayleigh and she pulled out a beseecher slip and signed her name on it and an amount and handed that to Kayleigh also getting a smile and a nod from the younger witch who put the parchment and slip into a pocket on her uniform.

Hermione watched the exchange and wondered why Kayleigh and Yuki weren't going to the counter to sort out the order. "Did you not find anything you liked, Yuki?" Hermione asked her new solicitor, trying to gauge her reaction but Yuki's face didn't give anything away.

"Oh I saw plenty of things I like but I've just given Kayleigh an amount to add to my account as I've not fully decided what I want yet, so will let her know and she can just deduct it from the amount and I can come and collect my things when they are ready." Yuki said looking down to her pocket and making sure her beseecher book was stowed safely.

"That's a good idea. So you're able to take funds on account like a catalogue company would?" Hermione said nodding thinking that was a good idea as it's a way of keeping money flowing into the business.

"Exactly right except we don't offer credit as we aren't established enough for that yet but in the future who knows." Kayleigh said giving Hermione a look that wasn't missed by Beth or Faye who were in the middle of explaining to Narcissa and Master Kuzuko what a catalogue was and about how NOMAs can have a certain amount of credit that they pay off once they've received their items.

"What was that look for?" Faye asked, not skipping a beat and getting Hermione and Kayleigh's attention.

"What look?" Kayleigh asked, pretending she didn't know what they were talking about.

"That look you and Hermione just exchanged…" Beth said, her hands going to her hips. "What's going on Quang?" she said in mock seriousness.

"Oh why can I never sneak anything past you two?" Kayleigh said, shaking her head as her friends knew her too well.

"Because we know you better than you know yourself," Faye replied.

"Plus you were always crap at trying to hide anything. This is why we don't leave you alone anywhere near gambling because you have no poker face at all," Beth said with a shrug.

"Alright fine I'll tell you. I've got some big, big news." Kayleigh said moving forward and finding that the group of witches automatically moved to form a semi circle around Kayleigh.

"Well don't keep us in suspense what is it?" Beth asked hoping that Kayleigh wasn't going to string the announcement out like she normally did.

"Well I would like to announce that Hidden Treasures and the Witches Secret officially has three new partners." Kayleigh said happily to her friends seeing their jaws drop,

"What?" Faye asked.

"When?" Beth followed up.

"and how?" Faye finished off putting her hands on her hips as Kayleigh hadn't mentioned anything about taking on new partners.

Kayleigh rolled her eyes at her friend and chuckled and explained "Well the what Faye is that I've taken on three new business partners, one who is going to have a thirty percent stake in my business and has agreed to clear off the loan to Gringotts and the building fees from Bricktops and is going to lend the business the money interest free until we have generated enough profit to either clear the money off in one go and then receive dividends from any profits thereafter or to recoup the money in dividends and leave the money in the business. They have kindly said that I can decide which depending on the direction and success of the business going forwards." Kayleigh explained her happiness bursting out of her and her friends could see that she was delighted with this development and understandably so.

"Buddha's butt crack," Beth said, her mouth hanging open in amazement.

"That's really fantastic news Kayleigh but when did this all happen and why are we only hearing about it now?" Faye asked, wondering who these mystery new partners were.

"It happened this morning and well this is the first opportunity I've had to tell you both." Kayleigh confessed as a half truth.

"Well it's great Kayleigh as its' been horrible watching how depressed and stressed you've got over these last few months with all the money that you've had to pay out." Beth said, she was genuinely happy for her friend as both Faye and herself had seen their normally happy friend see her dream made into a reality but had completely not enjoyed opening and running the shop as much since their grand opening because of the money worries that the loans she had were crippling the business.

Faye and Beth weren't stupid and could see that the store had massive potential to really be a success and both herself and Faye had agreed one night to try their best to live off as little of their wages between them as they could. They knew their other best friend was taking next to no money for themselves and even though they pretended not to, they knew Kayleigh was sleeping in the office at the top of the shop at night.

"It really is great news. I mean you are right I've been so worried about paying the bills and keeping everything going that I've not even started production of other stuff that I want us to create and I've got so many ideas and plans for this place that with my new partners help it can really have a good chance of happening." Kayleigh said happily grinning at Hermione.

Faye and Beth both caught the look and looked to Hermione. "Is it you? Hermione are you the new partner?" they both asked at the same time.

"Yes I am. I really hope you don't mind," Hermione said, feeling a little uneasy now that Faye and Beth might be a bit annoyed and think that she was trying to steal Kayleigh's business. "I'm not taking over or anything like that and Kayleigh is the majority shareholder and will be managing all the day to day operations along with the two other partners as well. I'm going to concentrate on my studies but I really want to help make a go of the shop." Hermione said.

"We don't mind at all and we're glad it's you and not some sort of faceless corporation wanting to change things as we believe in Kayleigh's dream as well and really want to make a success of it." Faye said honestly looking at Kayleigh who started moving closer to her two best friends.

"Who are the other partners then?" Beth asked, a little concerned about the possibility of having two other people working alongside them or even replacing them.

"Well that's the other thing I've got to say" Kayleigh said looking down at her feet as she stopped in front of the two of them and took one of their hands each and held them in hers.

Kayleigh took a deep breath trying to keep her emotions in check as she had a feeling that she'd most likely start crying. She looked up seeing the concern etched on both of their faces "Well without you two and all your help and support Hidden Treasures and The Witches Secret would just have been a dream and never would have happened.

You've both sacrificed your dreams and career choices in order to help me start the store. I know I owe you both wages and that the only reason you've stuck around when I've paid you late and things is because we are friends." Kayleigh said looking at them both and saw Faye was about to say something.

"Please just let me finish what I need to say ok," Kayleigh said, tears slowly leaking down her cheeks. "I've known you both for most of my life and I really couldn't wish for better friends and I've absolutely hated not having been able to pay you what you deserve for all the work that you've put into starting the business, making the products and showing customers around and making them enjoy the store." Kayleigh said, indicating Yuki, Master Kuzuko and Narcissa before continuing, "So with that in mind and after discussing it with Hermione and our new solicitors Yushiro and Yushiro,. I'd like to inform you both that I'm giving you both a pay rise to reflect what you are worth to the store and to me. Also I'm going to give you both a ten percent share in the company so that you are my business partners along with Hermione and can help make this idea everything it can be." Kayleigh said to her friends looking at them and hoping that they could see how sincerely she meant every word of it.

"You really want us to be business partners with you?" Beth asked gobsmacked.

"You're really sure you want to give us ten percent each of your company?" Faye asked, amazed at what Kayleigh was suggesting. True, she and Beth had left school with other ideas for what they wanted to do for their careers but had both enjoyed working with Kayleigh so much and also enjoyed using their skills to work together as a team to make some really brilliant stuff.

"Absolutely I do. I'll be honest technically your ten percents are coming out of Hermione's fifty that she bought as I said that if she came onboard with me that we'd have to be equal partners but she insisted that I have the controlling share but also wanted you both involved and rewarded for your ideas and input to the business." Kayleigh said honestly, shrugging and turning smiling to Hermione as she was really touched how Hermione was trying to keep Kayleigh working with her friends.

"Wait a minute so why didn't you just go forty, forty, ten and ten with the shares and then you could still have had an equal partnership?" Beth asked Hermione and waved the English witch over to them.

Beth and Kayleigh let go of their hands and in turn took one each of Hermiones as they held hands in a circle. "Because this was Kayleigh's dream originally and you both made it happen. I'm just coming on board after the hard work is done." Hermione said, giving a shrug.

"Plus I know from my own life that working with your friends, people you love and trust, and achieving things together can be even more satisfying than just achieving things on your own." Hermione added getting smiles from the three witches who nodded their understanding.

"So how about it girls? Are you both happy to work with me and Hermione to make a success of the store and then expand? We've got some great ideas on how to make the business bigger and expand and possibly go international but we want your input as well" Kayleigh explained.

Faye and Beth finally broke and let out excited squeals and rushed forwards pulling them all into a four person hug and said that 'of course they would be staying on as they loved working together'.

After a few moments they all stepped back from each other and looked at each other and then Hermione said "How about we all go out tonight and celebrate our new partnership and I can introduce you to Harry and Fleur and Yuki's sister Amy who make up the other half of our solicitors team, although we will be working primarily with Yuki as our lead solicitor."

"That sounds like a great idea Hermione but I can't really afford to go out for long. Bills you know." Kayleigh said as they all looked at her shaking their heads.

"Kayleigh you daft bat there aren't any bills now as we've just agreed that I'm going to clear off Gringotts and Yuki is going to have a word with Bricktops and see if we can't renegotiate the terms of the agreement or I'll clear that debt off as well." Hermione said as Kayleigh slapped herself on the forehead.

"I'm sorry. I guess it's just going to take a bit of getting used to knowing that I'm not going to be having to worry about the business loans now. I'm certainly up for going out and did you say that we are going to get to meet Harry Potter?" Kayleigh asked, making sure that she'd heard correctly.

"Yes. Harry's off doing something with Fleur and Amy at the minute but we're meeting them for lunch and you can either join us at lunch or if you want to keep the shop open and meet us after closing, unless the three of you want to go out by yourselves of course." Hermione said thinking that maybe the three of them might want a night to themselves.

"What and miss a chance for a night out with Hermione Granger and Harry Potter? Not bleeding likely," Faye said, looking at Narcissa and saw the older witch smile and roll her eyes as she knew where Faye's mind had gone from their conversation early.

"I'm well up for that as we've really got something to celebrate now and I agree with Faye, who could resist a night out with Hermione and Harry Potter as that boy is yummy." Beth said as the younger witches laughed, Hermione tried not to show her concern that there were seemingly another three witches wanting to ensnare Harry. Master Kuzuko pretended that she hadn't been listening, Narcissa watched Hermione at the comment and gave her a look to suggest that she shouldn't be silly and worry about it and Yuki watched everything not giving any clue as to what she was thinking.

"Right well I think we should keep the shop open and maybe we will close a little early so that we can get freshened up and ready for a night and then maybe meet in Saki Sam's or Binki's Bar as they are Second Avenue and near Kobe Slice and that's where you are having your evening meal isn't it?" Kayleigh asked and Narcissa and Hermione exchanged a look and agreed that would be fine.

"Alright that's great then shall we say meet you in there about seven o'clock?" Kayleigh suggested getting nods from the others. "Excellent and Yuki just pop in whenever you want and I'll sort your order out or just owl me and I'll bring anything you need to your office when I come to sign the paperwork." She added.

"That's fine Kayleigh thanks." Yuki said as Kayleigh asked Beth to go and open the sign and unlock the front and asked Faye to go and check on how much cash was in the till as it was a company night out.

Beth went off to the door and Faye started making her way towards the til area when Hermione called after her "Faye don't worry about that. Tonight's on me. Let's call it our first official company night out" she said grinning as Kayleigh started to protest.

"Hermione you don't need to pay for us to go out." Kayleigh said not sounding totally convincing as she wasn't actually sure how much cash was in the till.

"I know I don't have to but I want to and please don't argue as I'll just slip the money you spend back into your account anyway so don't argue." Hermione said sticking her tongue out and laughing.

As they all regrouped Yuki looked at her watch and noted the time and said "Hermione would you be alright with Satomi and Narcissa for a couple of hours. I want to get started on the contracts and things for you and Kayleigh and will catch you up with you later on if that's alright." Yuki said, hoping that Hermione wouldn't mind.

"You don't need to go doing that today Yuki as I've already enough of your free time up arranging to meet on a weekend anyway and tonight is a chance to get to know each other socially not as a work related matter. I want us all to get to know each other better and also let you spend some time with Satomi as well." Hermione said not wanting to be appearing to be too demanding on Yuki and Amy so soon.

"No, it's fine. I just sort of want to get it done and cross off my list mentally. I'll be thinking about it all night if I don't get it done and I've some staff in the office at the minute so I won't be too long." Yuki said quickly, trying to reassure Hermione.

"Ok well if you're sure. We will be meeting Harry and I'll find out where and let you know where we are." Hermione said understanding as she was similar in that way as she liked to get anything important done when the thought was in her head.

"Sounds great, and thanks Hermione. Right then ladies I'll see you tonight and Kayleigh I'll owl you in a little bit as I might want something to wear for tonight from here and I might need to pop in and get changed before you close." Yuki said.

"Yeah no problem Yuki come in whenever we'll be here til about five o'clock and will get you something great to go out in." Kayleigh said as Yuki said her goodbyes and promised to see them all later.

13:04hrs Saturday 3rd September, The Emperors Road, Banzai Bazaar, Tokyo

As Yuki made her way out of the shop onto The Emperor's Road. She was happy to see that the street was a lot less busy as the Quidditch crowd were most likely in the stadium now or in the bars and restaurants at the other end of the bazaar.

Yuki turned and started walking towards her office checking over her shoulder occasionally as she felt someone's presence behind her and felt like she was being followed. Deciding to try and see whether someone was following her she made a series of turns firstly going off the Emperor's Road onto Second Avenue walking all the way to the end and emerging into Central Square where she did a quick left passed the Food Dun It Express.

She made her way passed the diner quickly and then took another left onto Gold Lane and then took her next right. As she took the next right back onto Second Avenue towards The Emperor's Road and was passing the entrance to Liquor Lickers she felt someone suddenly appear behind her and wrap a powerful arm around her waist.

They trapped her left arm against her side, as her right arm was pinned besides her as well as a rough hand clamped down across her mouth as she was physically lifted from her feet. Her attacker did a double pirouette on the balls of their feet taking them into the shadow of the doorway quickly that led into the store and held her still pressed against them..

"Don't scream, you're being followed," a deep male voice said quietly in her ear.

Yuki muffled a reply into the stranger's hand that she wasn't being followed and even though she knew what she was saying she heard that what she said made no sense as her assailant lowered her to the ground and backed into the shadow of the door slowly.

"Shush! Just watch and you'll see," the male voice whispered quietly as Yuki felt the stranger sensation go over her like an egg being cracked on the top of her head. "Just watch," he said again quietly as Yuki watched the entrance to the shop and then her eyes widened as she saw a hooded witch and wizard walk passed slowly looking up and down the alley and then Yuki felt a wave of panic as they looked down the alley straight at them.

Yuki tensed up as she couldn't even draw her wand to defend herself because the stranger was holding her so tightly with her arms pinned by her sides. Yuki saw the witch looking right at her and even in the dark of the doorway she could see that the witch had bright almost lime green eyes that seemed to pierce straight into her, but a mask obscured the lower part of her face.

She watched as the witch took a step back, looked both ways up and down Second Avenue, and put her hand up as if to scratch her head looking puzzled. The wizard who Yuki couldn't recognise as his hood obscured most of his face then rejoined her.

She would say that he was definitely younger than her and he seemed to have a confidence about him and a way of carrying himself that looked like he had been trained either as a hit wizard or an auror. Yuki started racking her brains trying to think whether she had met him through her association with the Grey Lions but couldn't remember.

"Did you see her down there or which way she went Fox? I can't see how she could have disappeared so quickly as we were right on her just before she rounded the corner," the witch said to the wizard continuing to look up and down the Avenue.

"No I went to the end of the Avenue and checked the cross sections as well but I can't see her anywhere. It's like she just apparated when she went round the corner." The wizard said, assessing the street and Yuki noted both of them never stopped looking around and seemed very vigilant. "We best check the shops along here quickly just incase she went into one of them as I really don't want to have to tell the captain or especially the colonel that we lost her." The wizard said.

"I know me neither, but it's hardly our fault as they only dropped this assignment on us an hour ago and they didn't even give us a point of contact for where to start looking for her. So I don't see how they can be angry. We are lucky we found her at all and that was only by chance." The witch said to the wizard as Yuki watched her place her hands on her hips.

She noticed that the stranger who had his arms around her and had her pressed up against them was walking them backwards very very slowly and moved back into a little alcove along the corridor where they could both see.

"That's true but it's incredibly frustrating. This is the first real task that the captain has given us and I don't want to disappoint her." The wizard said.

"You don't think that she somehow knows how to apparate within the Bazaar do you?" the witch asked.

"No it's not possible to apparate within the bazaar except for at the apparition points Midnight. Believe me I've tried it before and it's not possible." The wizard replied. "Look we're going to have to split up. You take the shops along this side of the Avenue and I'll take the ones on the other side. If we haven't found her by then, then I guess we're going to have to go back with our tails between our legs and admit defeat on this one." The wizard called Fox suggested sounding glum.

"Alright let's do that. Hopefully if we find her then the captain will be able to tell us who she is and why we're following her," Midnight said as she looked along the row of shops and back down the Avenue again.

"Hopefully but the only thing she said was that she could be a way to help meet our objective for the Colonel's assignment. I suppose at least we know what she looks like now and we can always give out her description so the lower ranks can keep an eye out for her." The witch called Midnight said.

"That's true. Right well we better move. I'll start working my way over here and you start this side." The wizard said as he looked down the little passageway that Yuki and the stranger were hiding in. "Doesn't look like they are down there," he said indicating the passageway.

"Right well you work your way up and then check on to Healers Avenue and I'll work the other way to see if she's in Central Square and we'll meet back here." Midnight replied.

"Good plan and Midnight be careful as there are under cover aurors and hit wizards all over the bizarre so keep an eye out for them, alright?" Fox said to the witch who smiled at him.

"They don't know who I am Fox but don't worry I'll keep a look out. See you in a couple of minutes." she replied as she turned and moved away up the street as the wizard watched her go and then disappeared in the opposite direction.

As they disappeared from sight Yuki felt the stranger who had her clasped to them loosen his grip and tap her head with his wand again and felt the same sensation as before. She didn't know who the stranger was but it appeared that he had been correct and that she was being followed but she couldn't think of a reason why the Jade Dragon would be following her.

The grip around her loosened and she stepped forwards quickly firing her wand into her hand and spinning herself round to the wall of the passageway facing the stranger as she pointed the wand straight at their face.

"Who are you and how did you know they were following me?" Yuki asked as the tip of her wand started flaring as a spell sat poised on the end of it.

"You can lower your wand, I'm not a threat to you. Surely I've just proved that." The wizard said and Yuki could see as her eyes adjusted to the lower lighting in the passageway that the wizard had a hood up completely darkening his face.

"I'll lower my wand when I consider there to be no threat and until I know who you are and what your intentions are then no I won't be lowering my wand." Yuki said watching the wizards hands as she was ready to defend herself in the confined space if necessary but she didn't think the mysterious man was a threat but wasn't going to take any chances. "No, I'll ask you again who you are and how did you know they were following me?"

"I knew they were following you because I was tasked with following the wizard. I was following him through the Bazaar when I saw him meet up with his associate and I took up a position to listen to their conversation." The wizard explained with his hands held palms up and apart to demonstrate he wasn't a threat.

"So how did you know they were following me?" Yuki asked, her eyes narrowing.

"Because as they were walking down The Emperor's Road looking around they came to a stop and were having a talk looking around and kept pointing in different directions like they were deciding which direction to go in and then suddenly you just appeared on the street about twenty metres up the road." The wizard explained before continuing, "So I saw the wizard nudge the witch and they started following you down the street." The wizard said recounting the directions and the path that Yuki had taken and Yuki knew then that they had been following her.

"Alright so that explains how you knew they were following but it doesn't tell me who you are and why you'd hide me from them." Yuki badgered the wizard.

"Well we're on the same side and I don't think the Grandmaster would be very happy if I let his favourite little bronze lioness get taken or attacked by the Jade Dragon on my watch." The wizard said a dark humour to his voice.

Yuki heard that the wizard had mentioned the Grandmaster and had also used the words "bronze lioness", which was her code name amongst the Grey Lions. She knew that the Jade Dragon wouldn't have known about the Grandmaster being their leader, but thought that this could still be either a member of the Grey Lions or possibly a Jade Dragon spy. After all there were plenty in their ranks that knew her code name as she knew that the Jade Dragon knew her alias by reputation and from the disguise she used when she had needed to fight against the Jade Dragon in combat.

Yuki also knew members of their ranks by their code names or disguised appearance as they, like her, concealed their identities as well, most likely so that they couldn't be identified by the authorities if they eluded capture.

"Well lower your hood and step into the light then and I'll see whether you are an ally or not." Yuki said as the wizard replied.

"Good, good. I'm glad to see that you aren't going to lower your defences too quickly for someone using your code name but I think you may need some help in your counter surveillance techniques as while you made the turns correctly you didn't use other features around you to check whether you were being followed." The wizard said with a sort of arrogance that rankled Yuki.

"I could take that wand off you before you could get that spell away, you know?" the wizard said, stepping forward a step into the light but keeping his face covered by the hood.

"You're welcome to try," Yuki said, automatically bending her legs and lowering herself slightly. She wasn't afraid to get physical in a fight if needed, which due to the small space they were in could possibly be a better tactic.

"Well as much as I'd like to have a little sparring session I'm on limited time since I'm going to have to start following them again in a minute." The wizard said reaching up and slowly pulling his hood back and unveiling his face.

Yuki let out a relieved breath as she looked into the ruggedly handsome face of Shiro Shinobi. She saw that his hair was pulled back into the high ponytail that he normally had and that his black head band was in place concealing his forehead.

Her eyes met his before taking in the vertical scar that went from just above his eyebrow straight down to his cheek bone, where he'd been hit with a dark magic kunai throwing knife in a fight against a Jade Dragon member that had nearly taken his eye out.

The scar was red and angry looking and Lily from Tiger Lilies tattoo parlour had offered to help remove or lessen the scarring but Shiro wouldn't let her until the Jade Dragon were finally defeated as he said it served him as another reminder of what they were fighting for.

Shiro Shinobi was arguably the finest freelance and fully licenced Hit wizard in Japan. He was a legend in the battle against the Jade Dragon to both the Grey Lions and the Jade Dragon equally as he was ferocious in combat and had an agility and lethality that was unrivalled.

Shiro had detained and captured more Jade Dragon members than anyone in history and rumour had it had made a good deal of gold from the bounties that he'd collected from the Japanese ministry.

Shiro used to work for his uncle who owns the Dragon Bowl Arcade. He worked there peacefully enough for a couple of years after leaving Mahoutokoro where he'd passed as top of his class and with a record for the most duelling points of any student to have passed through there.

He was built for combat and had reflexes and instincts that easily made him a man of legend and mystique. Shiro had joined the forces of the Grey Lions when approached by its former leader Sina Mann. Shiro had been fed up of watching his uncle paying protection money to Jade Dragon thugs who used the Dragon Bowl for dealing their contraband and other things in the premises and his uncle was powerless to stop it and Shiro grew increasingly despondent as the ministry didn't really do enough to help them fight back.

Against his family's wishes Shiro left the Dragon Bowl and took a job as a hit wizard after growing frustrated at the auror offices warnings for him defending his family and the Dragon Bowl because he'd used force to physically eject members of the Jade Dragon on numerous occasions. He had grown so frustrated that he couldn't fight back and went through Hit Wizard training as he deduced that at least this way he can protect the property and his family without fear of prosecution.

"Shiro? What are you doing in the Bazaar? I thought you were in the Ozaka province." Yuki asked, trying not to talk too loudly.

"You mean besides preventing you from getting kidnapped or worse?" he replied sarcastically.

"Don't be such an arse Shiro!" Yuki said, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Sorry. I've just not had any sleep for the last couple of nights as the Grandmaster asked me to come back as we had a lead on someone we believe to have been at the attack on the Hanso's at the port." Shiro said quickly, hearing voices coming from the main door leading into Liqueur Lickers.

"You mean the one who managed to get the attackers away after Hammer and Mace apparated out of there?" Yuki asked quickly, hearing the noise as well. She fully remembered hearing about the attack on the Hanso families business at the port and how the Takahiro Clan had come to their aid to drive off the attack.

"Yes that's the one. We got a lead on him and intelligence suggests that it might be that wizard who the witch called Fox that was following you." Shiro said quietly.

"So why did the Grandmaster call you back from your mission as I thought you and Mini Mann were investigating the location of their headquarters? Couldn't someone else have followed him?" Yuki asked quietly leaning forward, so that she could speak in a hushed tone and still be heard by Shiro.

"Well I had to leave Mini investigating the area, which I wasn't very happy with but the Grandmaster sent Cleo to accompany him and get me after she had tried to keep up with this one called Fox." Shiro said as they heard footsteps and the voices inside the shop growing louder.

"He managed to give Cleo the slip? But she's been a Hit Witch for years. She's one of the very best." Yuki said, Cleo Satsuka was a famous Hit Witch that had worked internationally helping to capture some of the worlds most hardened and dangerous criminals.

"I know but he managed to give her the slip and the week before he managed to give Ryoto Subaru and Candis Mintra the slip as well." Shiro said quickly.

"Gods so he managed to evade two professional aurors as well." Yuki said amazed as he must be good to be able to evade such experienced professionals. "He sounds like a real slippery one." She added thinking how Shiro would capture him or at least follow him enough to know where he was going.

"Do you want some help in following him?" Yuki asked, feeling her pulse quicken at the thought of capturing a member of the Jade Dragon that could be part of the new command structure in the Bazaar.

"No," Shiro replied, shaking his head. "You appear to be a target Yuki so what I want you to do is observe one of them from here while I go out there and then look at me and I'll tell you when to make a break for it and you can disappear off wherever you were going and let them lose your trail."

"But what if I let them see me and follow me. Then you can follow them and while I lead them into a dead end and then we can surprise them and take them down." Yuki suggested thinking about how to try and eliminate the threat to her safety the quickest.

She looked into Shiro's eyes and saw that they were looking at her softer than the steely grey glint that they used to take on. "What do you think?" Yuki asked quietly as the footsteps inside Liqueur Lickers seemed to turn around and walk back into the store.

"It's a good plan and maybe another time where we are better prepared. No you're too valuable Yuki and there is no point putting you in unnecessary danger." Shiro said pressing his lips together and shaking his head. "What I want you to do is get away and then maybe make yourself a little more conspicuous to recognise in a crowd. So your characteristic streak of red in your hair for example, put a glamour on it in public as it's easier to spot you going through a crowd." he said unconsciously reaching up and running his fingers through the bright red hair next to her face.

Yuki was surprised that Shiro was saying she was too valuable and even more surprised at the tender and gentle way he ran his fingers through her hair. She never thought that Shiro even liked her particularly as a person but he seemed to be being quite protective of her.

"Alright I'll do that now to my hair and we'll go ahead with your plan Shiro" Yuki said, taking her wand and starting to cast a glamour on her hair. She worked her wand along her hair turning it all jet black and then she proceeded to tie her hair up into a tall bun as Shiro moved to the doorway and looked out looking up and down the avenue seeing if the cost was clear.

Without looking back he waved her forwards and said "Right I'm going to stand over there near that street vendor's cart as it will give me cover from one of them and keep me out of sight." He indicated a vendor's cart on the other side of the street.. "On my signal I want you to turn right out of here and walk calmly but quickly to the Healer's Avenue cross road and then do a right and either go to the apparition point behind the Food Dun It Express or to your home. If it appears you are being observed, walk straight back to your office and apparate home from there." Shiro said seriously and without saying anything else he moved quickly and silently as a cat towards the street vendor's cart and stood in it's shadow.

Yuki checked herself over and when ready stood watching Shiro as she watched him take a handful of gold coins out of pocket inside his robe and with his other hand gave Yuki a five second countdown. As he got to three he threw the coins up high in the air towards the right end of the alley. There was a gasp as he counted down to one and pointed for her to go.

Yuki quickly walked to the end of the street through the shoppers who were all bending and jostling to pick up the gold on the street. She walked calmly and quickly knowing that Shiro had her back and hoped that he would be ok as she turned the corner into Healer's Avenue and picked up her pace determined to get back to her office.

Potential names for the bar to be renamed.

The Dirty Habit *

The Elixir Pot Spot

Angels and Kings

The Brewerhood *

The Melting Skull *

The Dirty Vixen

The Black Dog *

The Alchemist's Brew*

The Gargoyle's Perch *

The Phoenix

The Four Lords

Scarves and Bludgers