Mima and Marisa sat on the porch of the Hakurei shrine as they waited for Yukari to come and open a portal to there home for the time before the school year. Soon the paper door opened up and Reimu running out to hug the young witch. "MARISA!"

Mima chuckled at the Hakurei shrine maidens action as she looked over to the older shrine maiden who looked back with a dark glare. "Let's put aside our differences for today since they won't see each other for the better part of a year." And to be fair Mima had no interest in fighting a pointless battle that would neither advance her magic or help improve her apprentice's life in any way.

The Shrine maiden sighed as she watched the two children talk. Reimu was the older of the two by about four months and to be honest even with her training the young child it was never enough to have Reimu stay away from Marisa having been one of the first and few to ever really try and be friends with her due to status. Sure Reimu hated the duties and requirements that she would one day need to know and use but they were important to the delicate balance between Youkai and Humans.

"So what happens if Marisa decides she wants to go back and live in … Britain?" the Hakurei Miko asked Mima since Reimu was always a child with little to no real friends and she wasn't sure how the child would react.

Mima interlocked her fingers as she looked towards the kids. "Well… I'm sure Reimu could come to visit occasionally and plus I hear there are some breaks for some of the British holidays. Heck, I could see Dumbledore trying to get a trip to Gensokyo for all the classes at least for the magical beast class." Mima mused as Reimu started to cry. "Well, looks like your question is being answered right now.

"Marisa… why do you have to leave? Didn't you say you were going to stick around with me? Plus learning is boring!" Reimu whined after hearing Marisa say she was going to be learning magic at a school, and after a bit of clarification, Reimu realized the school was not in Gensokyo rather it was halfway across the world.

"Reimu you have to understand. The potential knowledge there is too great to give up. I mean Mima is an amazing teacher and a great master, but she can only teach me so much before she runs out of things to teach. Plus it's not going to be that long I promise. And when I come back I'll show you what I've learned alright?" Marisa said with an infectious smile which helped to stop the tears coming from Reimu who would hold her to that promise.

The telltale sign of Yukari moving around was heard and she walked out of the gap. "Alright, Marisa and Mima here is your gap. I assume the children have said their goodbyes?" Yukari chuckled at the thought of a magician albeit they were human but still, and a future shrine maiden of the Hakurei clan being best friends.

"Alright, Marisa let us head. Thank you Yukari for doing this." her voice grew quieter as she whispered to the border sage. "Is it possible I can make a portal to and from Gensokyo to the house we will be occupying at least for the time being?"

Yukari smirked as she spoke. "Sure… I mean it would be much more work to make a gap every time you two wish to enter and exit Gensokyo. Though I want to know who is coming in or out of that portal cause the balance is too important to ruin because someone entered and started spreading science around, but I'm sure you already know what to do in such a situation."

Mima nodded once again as she floated into the gap feeling the shift in her body as space was manipulated between the two positions and she found herself at a small two-story house on what looked to be the outskirts of a village with Marisa coming in right behind; her face looking like she was going to lose her meal. Looking at the mailbox it said Kirisame or what was legible in rotting letters as the house was in no condition for most people to renovate it but thankfully Mima wasn't ordinary and Marisa was useful in getting into small places and doing work Mima couldn't exactly do.

The two moved towards the door and after a bit of persuading it the door budged open showing the contents of the house and started to clean and adjust it to the specific needs of each individual with a room solely prepared for Astronomy purposes while others stayed around with their original purposes intact like the kitchen.

On a table, in the middle of the hall, there was a letter. Floating over Mima could see it was made of parchment much like the letter Marisa got; picking it up and reading the aging parchment Mima could see that it was from Dumbledore who had left the key to the Kirisame Vault next to it; and a few notable pieces of information like how to get to the Hogwarts express and Diagon alley but that was about the only useful pieces of information that could be gathered from the letter.

Mima pulled out a sheet having a schedule of things to prepare Marisa for and they were on schedule which worried the vengeful spirit and making her wish the Marisa had her parents around to help instruct her on how to get to Hogwarts; but the vengeful spirit knew she would make this work and the next thing to do would be to get some rest, then start procuring the witches required school supplies.

-Authors notes-

Well the story has a couple more chapters to go before we get into the plot. (one where Marisa gets her wand and sees the vault that I have mostly done, and going towards the Hogwarts express which both should be out by next week also an update to the first chapter dealing with the bold text will be underway and should be done by Friday evening eastern time.)