Chosha's Notes
Konnichiwa, Minna-san! Welcome back once again to RkatCoS. The chapter that people are looking forward too has now arrived. But before We begin, Just a note (or Two) to say. Firstly, Thank you everyone who reviewed. I never knew I was missed so much. It scared me a little when the first words on one review were 'WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU!' I flinched! Literally! I could mentally see it. I'm just glad that it wasn't a Howler you guys sent me. But I'm honestly flattered that you guys missed me.
Secondly is that the Japanese translations on the last chapter was there because I hadn't done one before on this story, so this is why translations from words on other chapters appeared. I'm sorry it was reeeeaaaally long and all…but from now on I will only put a translation glossary at the end of the chapter for any words that were used in the one chapter alone.
Well, anyway, now that that's settled, I'll give you guys what you want! Go forth and read the new chapter de gozaru yo!
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Last time on RkatCoS
Kenshin, Hiko, Harry and the Weasley's headed off for Diagon Alley, but when Harry said the name of the place wrong while using the Floo powder and goes missing, everyone split up to find him. Eventually, Kenshin and Hiko (using ki sense) found Harry stranded in Knockturn Alley and saved him.
Chapter EightGilderoy
"Harry! Kenshin! Over here!"
They had almost reached the large, marble steps of the entrance to Gringotts – the place that they had arranged to meet the others once Harry had been found – when they heard someone yell there names.
The boys came to a halt, looking through the crowds of people to try and see where the yell had come from. They spun round to find a small group of people – most of who were about the same age as themselves – coming towards them. The first was Hermione Granger - a girl with slightly large front teeth and had an almost bossy look about her. Her thick, bushy brown hair flew out behind her as she ran.
The second, Kaoru Kamiya, was another girl, this one with blue-black hair tied back into a ponytail with a red ribbon. She, like Kenshin, was originally from Japan, but had moved to London only a few years before she started Hogwarts. Right now, she wore a rather pretty blue dress that reached her knees, but even though she looked rather feminine then, Kenshin knew that she could just as easily beat a boy in Kendo. Her father taught a style known as the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu, and Kaoru was training as assistant master. Although not as strong at Kenshin, she could definitely hold her own. She laughed as she noticed his eyes on her and waved, her sapphire eyes glittered jovially.
The third person was a boy, about a head or two taller than Kenshin and Harry, and seemed a little taller than Kenshin remembered last and a little more filled out. His deep brown hair standing up in all directions in a way that sort of reminded you of some kind of rooster. Although if you called Sanosuke Sagara that to his face, you could be sure that he wouldn't take too kindly to it. He grinned as he strode towards them. Kenshin blinked a little at his choice in style. He wore white trousers and a white, black-lined jacket over what looked like a black tank top. His usual bandanna was round his head, the tails of it flapping in the wind as he strode forward. A though this would most likely look impressive to some people, to Kenshin it made him look like a drop out of a bad Kung-fu movie. He sighed with a half smile. Sanosuke always did have something of a dramatic streak.
The last was a boy that Kenshin only vaguely recognise. A few years younger than the other three, he reached up to about Kenshin's chest in height. His dark hair was also a little like Harry's in the fact that it stood up in all directions. If Kenshin remembered right, this boy was named Yahiko Myojin – Kaoru's younger cousin.
Seeing they had got their attention, the rather strange group quickened their pace and hurried over to the two boys, grinning. Kenshin smiled back and Harry, somewhat awkwardly, as his glasses were still broken, waved happily in return. From near by, Kenshin heard Hiko sigh in annoyance, but stopped as well.
Hermione reached them first. "Oh, Harry, Kenshin, its wonderful to see you two again. Weren't you staying with Ron's family?"
"Yes, but we got a little split up, de gozaru," Kenshin said, trying not to glance at Harry who gave a slight, embarrassed cough. "We arranged to meet up at Gringotts, though.
"Hey, it's been a long time!" Kaoru said happily as they caught up. "We were hoping we didn't miss you, but somebody," she shot Sanosuke a sideways look, "decided to sleep in."
Sanosuke looked fairly indignant. "Oi, Jou-chan, I did not sleep in late. I would have been on time if you didn't steal my alarm clock."
"Me steal your alarm clock!" Kaoru growled, her eyebrow twitching. "It was my alarm clock in the first place! If you weren't such a freeloader, you should have got your own!"
"But, Jou-chan," Sanosuke wined, "I'm broke…"
Kenshin winced slightly and shared a small glance with Harry, before they both sighed. Thankfully, Hermione, who seemed to be just as perceptive as ever, saved them from the ensured argument.
"Harry, what on earth happened to your glasses?"
That succeeded in quieting them for a moment as they peered at Harry with interest. The raven-haired boy shuffled slightly in embarrassment. "Um…It happened when I came out of the floo…I didn't think it'd throw me face-first on the floor."
"First time floo, huh?" Sanosuke said with a rare show of sympathy. From the way he winced, Kenshin suspected that Sanosuke may have had the same problem of face planting the moment he got out of the network.
"Here," Hermione said, taking the glasses off Harry and pulling out her wand. "Reparo!" Immediately, the broken parts of his glasses jumped together, looking good as new. Kenshin jumped a little with surprise, staring at the bushy-haired witch. Hermione was well known for being a rather strict follower of the rules, and it just didn't add up that she had just done underaged magic outside of school. Hermione, however, didn't look phased by that staring and shrugged. "When your in a place full of Adult wizards and witches, although the ministry know magic has been used, they can't pinpoint who is doing it," she explained. "Besides, I think it must be better for Harry not to have to hold broken glasses, right?" with that, she handed Harry his glasses back. Quickly, he donned them.
With that done, she turned to look shyly at Hiko, who was standing a little out of the way, just within hearing-range (not that anyone but Kenshin knew that, of course.) Hiko, on the other hand, was looking over the crowds just in case the Weasleys returned. "Is that…this Hiko you told us about?" Hermione breathed, blushing a little.
Everyone turned to look, with varying reactions. They had all already seen Hiko once before at the train station at the end of Kenshin's first year at Hogwarts, though fleetingly. Sanosuke gave a long, low whistle, Kaoru was a little uncomfortable – She, having studied Kenjutsu knew a little about a style such as the Hiten Mitsurugi like any true Kendo fanatic, and most likely knew more about Hiko's position as the style's master than the others. Yahiko looked fairly impressed.
"Woah!" he exclaimed. "He huge!"
Kenshin smiled at the reactions. "Yes, that's my master for you."
Hiko took this moment to glance over and smirk a little at Kenshin with a raised eyebrow. Kenshin looked back innocently, knowing that Hiko knew that Kenshin knew his master could still hear the convocation. Hermione, near by, just blushed.
Before they could do much else, a yell caught their attention. Hiko smiled a little. "Looks like those friends of yours finally found us, Idiot Student," He smirked to Kenshin as he walked up to them. They spun round to find, sprinting up the crowded street, were Ron, Fred, George, Percy and Mr Weasley, who was looking rather red-faced and out of breath.
"Harry," Mr Weasley panted as he reached them. "We hoped you had only gone one grate too far…" he mopped up his sweating bald patch, trying to catch his breath. "Molly's frantic – she's coming now."
"Where'd you come out?" Ron asked Harry.
"Some place called Knockturn alley," Hiko answered for him, a slightly sour look on his face.
"Brilliant!" Sanosuke said, impressed. With a grin, George held out a hand. Fred grimaced, but handed his twin over a Galleon.
"We've never been allowed in," Ron added, sounding a little envious. Kenshin grimaced a little.
"I wouldn't want to go down there again, de gozaru yo!" he said with conviction.
"You went down there too?" asked Fred, sounding impressed. At Kenshin's hesitant nod, Fred slapped him heartily on the back. "Good on ya, Kenny!"
Kenshin watched as George handed Fred the Galleon back, muttering under his breath as Fred pocketed it with a grin. Kenshin just shook his head at their antics. Mr Weasley gave them a withering look.
Mrs Weasley suddenly appeared through the crowd, her handbag swinging wildly in one hand, while poor Ginny was literally being dragged behind her like a rag doll. The Weasley matriarch looked just about ready to throw her arms around Harry. Harry looked just about ready to bolt.
"Oh, Harry – oh, my dear – you could have been anywhere-"
Gasping for breath, she pulled out the large hand-brush from her bag and began to dust off the soot from his clothes, while Harry blushed a little. Once Harry was clean of dust, she turned to Hiko, her eyes imploring. "Where on earth did you find him, Seijuro?"
"Knockturn alley," Mr Weasley said grimly.
Mrs Weasley whipped round; her eyes the size of plates in horror at the name her husband had supplied, before she grasped Hiko's hand. ""Knockturn alley! If you hadn't found him, Seijuro!" Kenshin knew it was a little mean of him, especially after such a scare, but Kenshin had to hold back a fit of giggles at the rather annoyed look on Hiko's face while Mrs Weasley wrung his hand in thanks. Finally, it looked like Hiko had had enough and extracted his hand from Mrs Weasley's.
"Yes, well the boy's safe – though my apprentice also helped out –" he turned a smirk to Kenshin, who now found himself in Mrs Weasley's vice grip. Kenshin just knew he wouldn't pass up the opportunity to get Kenshin involved to tease him about it later. He found himself mentally restraining himself from yelling something Mrs Weasley definitely wouldn't approve of at his shishou, and instead let the woman fret over him. ("You went down Knockturn alley – you could have got yourself hurt, Kenshin!") "But I think it would be best to start on why we actually came here now, before the sun sets us on fire," he added, after Kenshin had suffered enough of the woman's ministrations.
"Yes, yes, of course," Mrs Weasley said, finishing off smoothing down Kenshin's gi, much to Kenshin's discomfort. They started heading over towards the large, pearly white building that was Gringotts bank. As they walked, Kenshin grumbled, "I hate you, shishou. You did that on purpose." He accused.
Hiko just chuckled.
"Hey, guess who I saw in Borgin and Burkes?" Harry was saying to the others. Kenshin quickly turned his attention to them. "Malfoy and his father."
"Malfoy?" Yahiko asked, frowning. He looked at his cousin. "Isn't he that little twerp from Slytherin you told me about, Kaoru?"
Almost everyone burst out laughing at that description. "Yeah, that the one," Sanosuke chuckled.
"Hey, whose that little kid, anyway?" asked Ron, looking pointedly at Yahiko.
"Don't call me little!" exploded Yahiko.
Sanosuke grinned. "But that description fits you perfectly, Yahiko-chan."
Kenshin was sure that if he looked closely enough, he could almost see steam coming out of the younger boy's ears. "Don't calm me Chan, you stupid rooster! I'm the first apprentice of the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu and don't you forget it!"
That surprised him. "He's a student at your kendo dojo?" Kenshin asked Kaoru. Kaoru nodded.
"Yeah. He used to get bullied at school, so dad and me started to teach him kendo. He's got potential, but he just wont listen to me, even though I'm his sensei too!" she added with a growl, glaring daggers at the other boy.
Yahiko twiddled a finger in his ear. "Yeah, but who'd listen to an ugly tanuki like you anyways?"
"Yahiko!"
"Did Lucius Malfoy buy anything?" interrupted Mr Weasley, preventing the impending argument between Kaoru and her younger cousin, much to Kenshin's relief. He had been afraid he would have to split them up himself!
Harry contemplated for a minute, then shook his head. "No, he was selling." He said after a moment.
Mr Weasley looked gleeful. "So he's worried," he said with grim satisfaction. "Oh, I'd love to get Lucius Malfoy for something…"
His wife looked at him sharply. "You be careful, Arthur," she interrupted, as they were ushered into the bank by a goblin, a little shorter than Kenshin, bowing them through the door. "That family's trouble, don't go biting more off than you can chew."
"So you don't think I'm a match for Lucius Malfoy?" Mr Weasley questioned, sounding positively indignant at the thought. However, he cut off when he spotted Hermione's parents, whom where standing nervously at the counter in front of them, waiting for Hermione to introduce them to her friends.
"Oh, this is my Mom and Dad," Hermione said to them. "Mom, Dad, these are my friends Ron, Harry, Kenshin, Kaoru and Sanosuke. That's Kaoru's cousin, Yahiko, and that's Kenshin's guardian - Mr Hiko. Everyone else is Ron's Family, the Weasleys."
Mr Weasley's face switch from dark to delight in a second. "But you're muggles!" Mr Weasley said Jovially, "just like Seijuro. We must have a drink!" he spotted the sterling clutched in Mr Granger's hand. "What's that you've got there? Oh, you're changing Muggle money. Molly, look!" he pointed excitedly at the ten-pound notes. Mrs Weasley sighed exasperated, while Mr Granger muttered something to his daughter about the man's sanity. Kenshin sweat-dropped.
"Hey, we'll meet you lot back here," Ron said to Hermione, Kaoru, Yahiko and Kenshin as Harry, Sanosuke and the Weasleys (Mr Weasley dragged off by his ear by an annoyed looking Mrs Weasley) were led off towards their vaults by a goblin.
"See you," Kaoru waved cheerfully.
Kenshin looked around once more, but didn't see anyone resembling Kaoru's father. "So, do you both come on your own?" Kenshin asked after a moment.
"Yeah," Kaoru said with a slight sigh. "Dad was a little busy, you know, with the dojo, so Mr and Mrs Granger offered to picked us up. Sanosuke tagged along too, freeloader," she added under her breath.
"Well, lets get our money changed then, Apprentice," Hiko said to Kenshin.
"Yes master."
Kenshin remembered what they did during their first year at Hogwarts. Hagrid had taken them to Gringotts, where he had got the Goblins to change the yen that Kenshin had got from selling Hiko's pottery to the magical money of Knuts, Sickles and Galleons. During the summer, Hiko had saved some of the money they had made from his pottery (and not spent on sake) for exchange, rather than the rush that they had in selling off the pottery at the last minute. So they followed Mr and Mrs Granger, Hermione, Kaoru and Yahiko to the counter near the end of Gringotts long hall, where a hulking Goblin was inspecting a rather large diamond under a spyglass.
Mr and Mrs Granger looked rather disturbed to say the least.
"Um, excuse me," Hermione said, trying to get the goblin's attention. The Goblin looked up and looked at them through the small spyglass, before his eyes narrowed and he pulled it away from his eye.
"Yes?"
"We need to exchange muggle money for wizarding money," Hiko said after a moment, when it looked like Hermione had lost her tongue at the goblin's sharp gaze. Its eyes flew back towards Hiko.
"And what kind of Muggle money is it to be exchanged?" the goblin asked after a moment of staring.
"S-Stirling, sir," Kaoru said.
"The same," added Mr Granger, patting Mrs Granger's hand comfortingly.
"Yen, sir," interjected Kenshin, earning a slightly surprised look from the Grangers.
"Very well," the goblin said. "I need to see the amount to be exchanged."
Mr Granger placed his wad of notes on the desk, which the Goblin shifted through at lightning speed before scribbling something down on a piece of parchment with a deep, crimson quill. The same for Kaoru and then the same for Hiko, after he pulled the envelope out of his cloak.
Hermione, however, looked at Kenshin in surprise. "Why is your money in Yen?" she asked confused.
"I'm from Japan," Kenshin said, a little surprised by the question.
Hermione frowned a little bit. "How come you don't go to one of the schools in Japan, then?" clearly, the fact that he hadn't confused her. "I mean, the Seiryoku academy for sorcery is meant to have a very good reputation… its strange that you didn't go there. I don't think it's happened before – at least that's what Hogwarts: a history says."
Kenshin felt a little uncomfortable about that. "Well, I was told that the Japanese school takes students from a very young age, and don't take later starters. I think my orphanage was a little poor and I wouldn't have been able to go…"
"Hn," Hermione said, but didn't comment more than that. However, what Hermione said did unsettle him a little. He pushed it to the back of his mind to ponder over at another time.
It wasn't long when another goblin came and took them to the exchange vaults via rather fast carts that rivalled some muggle roller-coasters in speed (Yahiko looked a little green by the end of it.), where they were each given a bag of money of varying sizes.
"Do you think we could go a little slower this time?" asked Yahiko to the goblin – a creature named Goldfarb – pleadingly.
"Sorry, it's a one speed only cart," Goldfarb said, although he didn't sound overly sorry to Kenshin.
Yahiko just turned green.
It wasn't long after that that they reached to entrance hall again, where they didn't have to wait overly long before the Weasleys, Sanosuke and Harry met them once more. The Weasley twins departed soon after with a friend of theirs from school – Lee Jordan – after Mrs Weasley gave them a stern warning to not set foot in Knockturn alley or else and that they would all meet in a book-shop called Flourish and Bolts in one hour. Percy disappeared into a stationary shop to look for a new quill, while Mrs Weasley and Ginny headed off into a second hand robe shop. Unfortunately for Hiko and the older Grangers, Mr Weasley insisted on taking them for a drink. Hiko managed to get out of it purely by glaring, but the Grangers, who had not got such a weapon in their arsenal, were helplessly dragged off.
"It's not like you to turn down a drink, Shishou," Kenshin said under his breath as he and Hiko followed the others down the alley.
"Normally, no. But even I could not enjoy my Sake with you baka friend's father talking my head off." Hiko said with a small side-glance at Kenshin and a smirk. "However, perhaps those Grangers will enjoy the experience so much more." Kenshin caught the look and shook his head, biting back a laugh.
An hour of looking round the shops and buying their Hogwarts supplies passed. Occasionally they bumped into one or two people along the way – Kaoru had to drag Yahiko out of Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke shop before Fred and George corrupted him. (Although that might have been out of a will to save herself from being pranked by the boy). They spotted Percy looking at some book with a name like Prefects Who Gained Power or something like that. ("'Course, he's very ambitious, Percy, he's got it all planned out – he wants to be minister for magic." – Ron. "Go away!" – Percy.) Finally, they headed towards the wizarding bookshop – although it didn't look like they were the only ones. In fact, it looked like most of the female wizarding population was making their own way there too.
"What's going on?" asked Kaoru, looking confused. "Hey, watch it, buster!" she snapped when she was almost knocked over by a wizard who was trying to push forwards in the line.
Kenshin attempted to look over the crowd, but even on tiptoe he couldn't see a thing. He stopped when Hiko smirked at Kenshin's efforts. The boy blushed and stopped, fiddling with his sakabato's straps before Hiko could tease him about his short stature.
"Is that some type of banner?" asked Sanosuke, who could obviously see more, due to being taller than even Ron was. "What's it say?"
Thankfully, it seemed as though Hiko was in a good mood as he read it out to them:
"GILDEROY LOCKHART
Will be signing copies of his autobiography
MAGICAL ME
Today 12:30 – 4:30 PM"
"We can actually meet him!" Hermione squealed excitedly, causing Sanosuke to wince and stick a finger in his ear. "I mean, he's written the whole booklist!"
Sanosuke just snorted. "Whats so good about a ponce like Lockhart?" he said to no-one in particular as they watched a rather irate looking shop-owner attempting to calm a group of hormonally challenged teenage girls who were attempting to push into the shop to get to see Lockhart. Hermione looked positively scandalised, giving him such a look as if he had suggested burning a book to ashes.
"Who's Lockhart anyway?" Yahiko added, sounding rather affronted that he didn't know, almost like a personal insult. Hermione's eyes widened even more. Now she looked like they had suggested to burn the whole Library down with it.
"Don't you read?" she gasped. "Gilderoy Lockhart has done thousands of things for the wizarding world. Like in his book, Break with a banshee, where he –"
"Lets just get inside, get the books and leave," Ron grumbled over Hermione's rant as they squeezed inside. "Whose idea was it to get all the books that guy ever wrote. I bet you that the new DADA teacher's a witch."
"Why do you think that?" Kaoru asked, a rather dangerous glint in her eye. Kenshin winced, hoping Ron wouldn't dig his grave any deeper than he already had. Thankfully, the youngest male Weasley was saved from answering when Hiko steered them all towards a rather long queue waiting for books to be signed, where a breathless Mrs Weasley was waiting. As they came close, they noticed she was slightly breathless and making a fuss of her hair, patting it into place. Next to her stood the rest of her sons, Ginny, Mr Weasley and the Grangers, the former looking rather fed up (minus Percy), while Ginny rolled her eyes at Kenshin, but blushed and turned away when she caught sight of Harry. Kenshin was really starting to wonder about the girl's odd behaviour.
"Oh, there you are, good," Mrs Weasley said when she spotted them. "We'll be able to see him soon."
As if on cue, a rather good looking wizard with wavy blond hair and bright blue eyes came into view, causing most of the female population to swoon on the spot. He sat down at the table in front, which was surrounded by large pictures of himself that winked cheekily at them and flashed dazzling smiles that almost blinded you because they were so white. The man himself was wearing forget-me-not blue robes that matched his eyes perfectly, while his pointed hat was perched on a jaunty angle on top of his fine hair.
"Is that Lockhart?" asked Hiko to Kenshin. He could hear a trace of annoyance in his voice – probably due to the crowds. Or was it what the guy looked like that offended him?
Kenshin shrugged. "I guess so…" he said slowly, although the first thing that came into his mind was an old Greek story – about the guy that fell in love with his own reflection.
Suddenly, a short, irritable man was dancing around trying to get lots of pictures of the man, his camera emitting puffs of multicoloured smoke with every blinding flash. Lockhart didn't seem to mind in the slightest. In fact, he was posing for the man.
"And he's meant to be a hero here?" Hiko said, his voice laced with contempt.
"…That's what I heard…" Kenshin said, unable to match the man Mrs Weasley had told him about with what his eyes were seeing.
"Then your world has got some very low standards for villains, Deshi."
For once, Kenshin wasn't sure he wanted to argue. As Lockhart continued to pose, he allowed himself to read the man's ki. Well, one thing was sure. The guy was either playing up his successes at best, or was an absolute fraud at worst. No way could someone with such a weak ki be able to grapple with Vampires and Werewolves. From what he had read, those creatures were some of the strongest known to wizard kind. Thus only the most talented or strongest of Wizards would have been able to tackle them. Someone with a ki like Lockhart's should have been pummelled at once.
The photographer pushed past Kenshin, causing him to oro loudly. "Out of the way, there," he snarled at Ron, trampling backwards in order to get a better shot, "this is for the Daily Prophet." The movement caused Ron to yelp in pain – he had trodden heavily on his foot.
"Big deal," Ron grumbled as he hopped up and down on one foot in order to rub away the pain.
"I think he heard you," Hiko said in slight amusement, when Lockhart looked up, his eyes fixing on Ron, who was muttering darkly under his breath – then he saw Harry. His eyes widened to the size of plates. Suddenly, he leapt to his feet, pointing at Harry and positively yelled, "It can't be Harry Potter!"
The whole room went silent, all turning to look at where Lockhart was pointing. Harry shrank back, looking like he wanted the earth to swallow him up on the spot. Suddenly, they began to whisper in excitement as Lockhart, who personally came himself, pulled Harry out of the crowd. Hiko snorted as a grimacing Harry was dragged to the front by a grinning Lockhart, while the Photographer was snapping photos at lightning speed, covering them all in smoke. Kenshin began choking loudly at once.
After a moment, Lockhart let go of Harry, who immediately tried to escape, but was caught by Lockhart throwing an arm over his shoulder, clamping him tightly to him. Kenshin winced in sympathy at the look on his face. He wondered if Harry was thinking along the lines of a fox caught in a trap – to gnaw of the trapped limb in order to escape. He certainly looked like the thought crossed his mind, that was for sure. Embarrassment, mortification and irritation were coming in waves from the kid.
Unknowing of the poor boy's predicament, Lockhart addressed the audience. "Ladies and Gentlemen, what an extraordinary moment it is! The perfect moment for me to make a little announcement I've been sitting on for some time!"
"I think someone has taken your place as the greatest baka, Deshi," Hiko said to Kenshin loudly. Kenshin wasn't sure weather to take that as an insult to himself or not. However, Lockhart either didn't hear him or chose not to, as he continued.
"When young Harry here stepped into Flourish and Blotts today, he only wanted to buy my autobiography – which I shall be happy to present to him free of charge – "
"Ahou," Hiko growled. Kenshin was sure the man looked like he was going to Ryushosen him thorough the roof.
"he had no idea," Lockhart continued, shaking Harry like a rag doll so that his glasses almost slipped off his nose. "That he would shortly be getting much, much more than my book, Magical Me. He and his fellow students will, in fact, be getting the real magical me. Yes Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the great pleasure and pride in announcing that this September, I will be taking up the post of Defence against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!"
"NANI!" Kenshin exclaimed in horror. Harry looked as if he was going to keel over at the announcement, while Sanosuke and Ron stared at each other, aghast. Everyone else was cheering and clapping.
"Deshi."
"Hai shishou…?" Kenshin managed, despite his paralysis at the news.
"If he is going to be a teacher, that school of yours is doomed."
"Orororo…"
TBC
Chosha's notes
Good god, that was a long chapter. Anyways, that's it for now. Sorry if Hiko didn't beat up Lockhart or anything, but I didn't have the hart to have Hiko attacked by rabid fan-girls. Still, there's gonna be a lot more Lockhart bashing to come. But anyway, what did you think of that. Was I a little OOC? Hm…well, you could blame it on being set in 1991-92 I guess, instead of 1877 (or was it 1878? Never mind.) But I still would like to know what you think. I wasn't sure where to end it, but on the note of how much Hiko likes Lockhart – yeah…right… - I though would be a good place to end it.
Well, that out of the way, here's the Japanese translations list!
Jou-chan – Missy (Sano's nickname for Kaoru)
Chan – suffix meaning little or dear (in this case for teasing Yahiko, it's the dreaded 'little' word!)
Shishou – master (only used in ancient Kenjutsu and martial arts styles)
Deshi – student/ apprentice
Dojo – martial art's training hall.
Baka – idiot
Ahou - fool
Well, that's that! Only one last thing to do!
Next time on RkatCoS
Harry escapes Lockhart's clutches (or now), but now they've bumped into the last two people they wanted to see. Next episode: Malfoy Madness.
But, 'til next time, Ja ne!
Chosha Kurenai xXx