Not as long as I wanted, but it'll have to do. I blame the move. Can't really come up with ideas when you're moving into a new home.

Enjoy!

Chapter 2

The Burrow

CRASH!

Rin crash landed into the Burrow's fireplace. He stood up and started brushing soot off his clothes while coughing said soot out of his lungs.

"Are you… Rin?" a woman's voice asked. Rin looked up and saw a short, plump woman come towards him with a small brush.

Rin nodded. "Yeah, I'm Rin."

The woman smiled. "Oh, good! Ron told me you had a twin brother. I wanted to make sure I didn't mistake you for the other. Happens to me with Fred and George all the time," she ranted before catching herself. "Oh! Where are my manners? I'm Molly Weasley, Ron's mother."

Rin smiled as Molly started brushing the rest of the soot off his shoulders. "That's okay. You got it right."

Yukio crashed into the kitchen next. Like his first time with Floo Powder, Yukio was swirly-eyed and dizzy. His glasses were also missing, which Rin assumed Shiro had in his possession.

Molly then went over to the mole-faced boy. "And you must be Yukio," she greeted as she started brushing soot and ash off his shoulders.

"Yes, ma'am," Yukio coughed.

Ron followed soon after with Errol tucked away in his shirt (since he didn't have a cage with him).

"Oh, good, Ron. You have Errol," Molly said as she moved on to her son.

"He showed up by the time we did!" Ron complained.

"Well, that's the last time we send him on long distance deliveries," Molly declared.

"Sorry," Rin and Yukio said simultaneously.

Molly smiled warmly to the twins. "It's not your fault, dears," she assured them. "I'll talk to Percy about using Hermes for your letters."

Arthur then came in through the fireplace with Rin's luggage in tow. Shiro followed several minutes later with Yukio's. As soon as Molly was finished with the boys, she moved towards the men and started cleaning them up.

"Shiro! It's so good to see you again," Molly greeted the Japanese priest.

Shiro coughed some soot out of his lungs. "Molly. Good to see you too," he greeted back before coughing again. "No matter how many times I travel like that, it never gets better."

Molly giggled. "You always hated traveling with Floo Powder."

Shiro smirked. "Still do."

A set of red-haired twins entered the kitchen.

"Thought we heard visitors," one twin said.

"We recognized their voices too," said the other.

Rin smiled as he recognized them. "Hi Fred, George!" he greeted.

One twin, Fred, smiled. "Well, if it isn't our young friend, Rin."

"Glad you're here to visit us," said George.

"Ready to have some fun?" they asked at the same time.

Molly frowned. "You two better not include Rin and Yukio in your schemes!"

~0~0~0~

The two families were sitting in the kitchen eating dinner a few nights later (Shiro and the twins needed time to recover from their jetlag). Rin and Yukio slept in Ron's room while Shiro used Charlie's old room.

"So, how did you meet Mum and Dad?" asked Percy (this was one of the few instances he emerged from his room).

Shiro swallowed his sukiyaki (made by Rin and Molly) before answering. "You can thank your uncles for that," he answered.

"Uncle Fabian?" asked Fred.

"And Uncle Gideon?" asked George.

Shiro nodded. "It's also when I met you two for the first time."

"US?" the Weasley twins repeated incredulously.

"You met us all before?" asked Ron.

"You and Ginny weren't born yet," said Shiro.

"I distinctly remember them dragging you into our house one night, drunk as can be," Arthur recalled. "Not a very good first impression to me and Molly."

"You're lucky the children were asleep when you passed out on our couch," said Molly.

Shiro was smiling as innocently as possible. Rin, Ron, Yukio, and Ginny were trying hard not to laugh at the story.

Percy looked down at his plate, deep in thought. "It's vague, but now that I think about it, I think I remember finding someone asleep on the couch one morning when I was little," he recalled.

Shiro chuckled. "Yeah, that was me…"

~0~0~0~

Three red-haired boys stared at the strange priest passed out on their couch. He smelled strongly of alcohol. Their uncles said they went out for drinks last night and brought him home so he could recover.

"Bill, Charlie, Percy, leave the poor man be and come eat breakfast," said Molly as she wiped oatmeal from her face (courtesy of little Fred and George).

"What's he doing here, Mum?" asked Bill as he and his brothers sat at the kitchen table.

"Your Uncles Gideon and Fabian brought him in late last night," Molly said in annoyance. "Why they brought him here of all places is beyond me." She gave her sons their own bowls of oatmeal. "Do not disturb him. I want you all to play quietly either in your rooms or outside."

"Yes, Mum."

As soon as the boys finished their meals, they went to their bedrooms to quietly play (Fred and George went down for their morning naps). Molly went outside to tend to the garden. She got down on her hands and knees and started weeding, using a spell to pull them out from the root. She then turned her attention to her hydrangeas when she noticed a hideous mushroom. She tried using the weeding spell, but it didn't budge. Frustrated, Molly pulled out the mushroom with her hands, but three more sprouted in its place. A tick mark appeared on Molly's head as she pulled them out, but more popped up. One of them started growing bigger and bigger until it was as big as Molly. Cuts appeared on the cap, forming a face.

"Stupefy!" she recited with a flick of her wand. A bright light shot out and hit the mushroom. Nothing happened. Panicking, Molly grabbed her spade and stabbed the mushroom. Black spores erupted from the fungus and into her face. Little mushrooms started sprouting on her face, neck, and arms.

Molly was truly becoming afraid for her life. "He-Help!" she cried. "Somebody!"

A pitchfork suddenly flew past Molly and landed deeply into the giant mushroom that was now twice Molly's height. More black spores spurted out of the monster.

"What a pain in the ass," a gruff voice said. "When I get back to the Vatican, I'm going to propose we reopen the Magic Branch."

Molly turned and saw that the strange priest was walking into the garden with a gardening hoe on his shoulder. The old crossbow from the tool shed was strapped to his back. Through his glasses, Molly could tell that there were bags under his bloodshot eyes.

"I can't even sleep off a hangover without someone getting into trouble," the priest growled.

"P-P-Please! Help me!" Molly pleaded. "Nothing is working!"

The priest tossed the gardening hoe to Molly and then pulled the crossbow off his back. "Give me an opening, so I can finish it off," he said.

Molly ripped a mushroom off her cheek and nodded. She charged towards the giant mushroom and swung the hoe at it. The blade sunk into the cap and more black spores spurted out. The priest fired the crossbow at the mushroom. To Molly's surprise, the mushroom exploded. The priest loaded the crossbow again and fired at the other mushrooms. He did this again and again until all the mushrooms were gone.

The priest then approached Molly and started to gently pulling the mushrooms off her body.

"The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. He shall bestow you life and happiness! Praise be the name of the Lord!" he recited. Black spores spurted out of the mushrooms and they poofed away.

Molly felt her face, neck, and arms and realized that she was mushroom-free. She then smiled at the priest.

"Thank you so much," she said gratefully.

The priest pinched the bridge of his nose. "Don't mention it. Now, you wouldn't happen to know a spell or something that can cure a hangover, would you?" he said.

~0~0~0~

"So that's how you met Father Fujimoto, Mum?" asked Ron.

"Officially, yes," said Molly. "My opinion of him changed that day."

"Blessed our house that day too," Arthur added. "Haven't seen a demon at the Burrow since."

"How did you kill that demon with only gardening tools and a crossbow?" asked Percy. "Don't you need special equipment for that?"

Shiro chuckled. "I unscrewed the top of a holy water grenade I had and poured the water over the crossbow bolts," he explained. "Easy makeshift ammunition."

"Didn't you have a… what do you call it? A gun?" asked Arthur.

Shiro shrugged. "And scare the kids in the house? You have no idea how loud guns are."

"I've never seen a demon," said Ginny.

Shiro smiled. "If you ever get a temptaint, you'll be able to see them," he said.

Ron, Rin and Yukio averted their eyes from each other. They all remembered how Ron received his temptaint from an infant dragon. Only Harry and Hermione knew about it. None of them knew how to explain to the adults how the children came across a dragon without getting the Hogwarts gamekeeper, Rubeus Hagrid, in trouble.

~0~0~0~

Rin, Ginny, Fred, and George were watching Ron and Yukio play a rather intense game of wizard's chess when Arthur came home one evening looking rather troubled.

"Everything alright, Arthur?" Shiro asked.

"I just heard some interesting gossip at work today," Arthur answered. "Apparently Harry Potter used a Hovering Charm in front of some Muggles."

The four boys and girl turned in Arthur's direction upon hearing this news.

"Harry did what?!"

"That doesn't sound like him!"

"Why would Harry use magic?"

"I don't believe it!"

"He knows not to do underage magic!"

Shiro stepped in. "Settle down! Let the man talk!"

Arthur cleared his throat. "Thank you, Shiro. Now, this is just what I've heard during lunch today. It's just as I said. The other day, Harry supposedly used a Hovering Charm in front of the Muggles he's living with," he explained.

Rin, Ron, and Yukio readily frowned at that. Harry had told them before that his Muggle relatives were awful people and that they treated him like dirt. Rin wanted to knock a few of Harry's cousin's teeth out for his harsh treatment toward his friend.

Molly twisted a dish towel in her hands anxiously. "I do hope he's alright. He was such a sweet boy when we met him last year, so polite," she said.

"We could try writing to him. Hear his side of the story," Shiro suggested.

"I'll do just that," said Arthur as he went to find Errol.

As soon as the adults went about their business, the children started talking amongst themselves.

"I refuse to believe that Harry used magic!" Rin declared.

"This has to be some kind of misunderstanding," Yukio added.

"I agree," Ron concurred.

"Poor Harry," said Ginny. "I hope everything is alright."

"Harry's taken on You-Know-Who twice now," said George.

"He can take on his Muggle relatives," added Fred.

"How? He's not allowed to use magic," said Yukio.

The six children sat and thought about better solutions the adults were thinking of doing. Fred suddenly snapped his fingers.

"I've got it!" he exclaimed. "We can rescue him ourselves!"

"What?!" Rin, Ron, Ginny, and Yukio exclaimed.

"How?" asked Yukio.

George then snapped his fingers. "Dad's flying car!" he declared.

"Say what?" said Rin.

"You have a car. That can fly," said Yukio in a deadpanned tone of voice. He released a sigh and stood up, abandoning the chess game. "Well, I'm out. I'm not getting involved in this crazy scheme. I won't say anything to the parents, but you need to quit now while you're ahead." He then left the room. Ginny soon followed.

Rin then looked at the Weasley brothers skeptically. "Do you guys really have a flying car?" he asked.

"Dad enchanted it," said Fred.

"Tinkered with it, he did," said George.

"Not only can it fly…"

"It can also become invisible so Muggles won't be able to see it."

Rin blinked at how in synch Fred and George were. He and Yukio had their moments, but they were nowhere near as good as the Weasley twins.

He shook his head and got back to the problem at hand. "So, what's the plan?"

If you recall, Molly Weasley had two brothers named Gideon and Fabian who were killed by several Death Eaters during the First Wizarding War. Moody even said that it took quite a few to beat them and they went down fighting. If I recall correctly, they were killed before Voldemort's downfall. I won't be including them interacting with the characters in the flashbacks because I don't know who they were or what they were like when they were alive. They'll just be mentioned several times.

Moving on, if you guys are wondering why Yukio refuses to take part in the flying car rescue, it's because the idea of a magical flying car just seemed ridiculous in his mind.

Please, please, PLEASE review! With how successful the first story was, I was kind of hoping there would be more reviews (thank you to the ones who did review! You're what keeps this story alive!).