Kazusa: Here we are again.

Hoshi: Hey do you know you have readers?

Kazusa: I do? REALLY? I HAVE READERS? OH MY GOSH I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS! I MEAN I DON'T GET REVIEWS! EXCEPT THE ONES FROM MY FRIEND BUT SHE DOESN'T COUNT. SORRY NATSUKI. THE ONE I WROTE DOESN'T COUNT EITHER!

Sakura: Who is Natsuki?

Hoshi: That is our friend's Japanese nickname we made up.

Sakura: Okay… So Kazusa, have you tried asking for reviews yet?

Kazusa: Oops. Not yet. Well… it spoils the climax if I ask for any at the end so people if you like/hate this story review. Don't bother bout grammatical errors though, I'll only change them after I finish up the whole story. Even a 'this story sucks' is good for me, as a review I mean. I like reviews.

Ginny: Kazusa you're rambling…

Kazusa: Really? Ahaha… Enjoy the chapter people. Oh by the way this is my birthday special. All about wands. I enjoyed writing it. My birthday isn't in another 6 days though so… Anyway enjoy.

Chapter 5 Of Wands and Witches

"I gave your mothers they're wands and I knew the moment they walked in here that they were going to be great witches. I was right, they were."

'We're' there was that word again. That hated word but it can't be helped, it doesn't look like he knows.

"Mr. Ollivander," Kazusa started, "Our deceased mothers were muggles not witches. Me I'm a half blood for my father is an American Wizard, and Sakura-chan's a muggleborn."

"Deceased?" said Ollivander, his voice barely higher than a whisper, "Oh so they're muggles. So they're not the young ladies who walked in here at the age of eleven for their first wands?"

Sakura shook her head forlornly, here was someone who knew her mother, who didn't seem like he wanted to keep some of his precious memories only his, like her father sometimes does, who doesn't seem like he would overreact his great view on her, like Sonomi-san obviously does, but they couldn't talk about her for their safety. Curse this safety. At least he knew that they intended to keep their lineage a secret. That slightly mischievous twinkle in his eye suggested so. Kazusa seems a bit relieved about this but Sakura knew she also felt bad about pulling this old man into the lie with them, and also for the mother issue. When talking about that subject the two knew how each other felt after all they were in the same boat.

"Now then dears your names, please."Ollivander prompted.

Sakura felt that he didn't always call people dears so she couldn't help but answer with that sweet innocent smile of hers. She said, "I'm Sakura Kinomoto and this is my friend Kazusa Ichinose.

"Show me your wand hand please." He took a look at the girls' confused faces and said, "If you must know it's your dominant hand."

Sakura still looked a bit confused so Kazusa explained to her that your dominant hand is the hand you write with. Kazusa politely told Sakura to go first with the excuse that Tomoyo would love this video of 'Sakura-chan getting her first wand.' But Sakura knew better. She knew how inside Kazusa was tearing apart due to her mother's early demise. Unfortunately she only thought about this after Kazusa did a perfect British version of Tomoyo causing her to scream inwardly. I mean wouldn't you do the same? Imagine having a girl constantly buzzing about you with a , now imagine going away and getting another girl doing the exact same thing. Yeah, I know, it bites.

Sakura held out her right hand and to her surprise (not) a measuring tape came out of nowhere and measured the distance from her arm to the tip of her middle finger, her height and tons of other things including the distance between her irises and the tip of her longest strand of hair. Before anyone can find out that length though, Ollivander snapped his fingers and the tape lay still on the floor looking 100% harmless.

Ollivander gave Sakura a wand and on instinct, she waved the wand slightly. Suddenly a hurricane of black dust appeared out of nowhere and started destroying everything, a sure sign that the type of wand was definitely unsuitable for the wand wielder.

"Apparently normal International wands won't work on you two, just like it won't work on those two. You four are surely witches of the same kin you know." Said Olivander, "I gather that you two are from Japan?"

"Yes." Said Sakura.

"Try this one then. Palm tree bark, coffee bean core, 10 inches."

Hesitantly, our emerald eyed sorceress gave the wand a wave. Suddenly, a stream of black stars flew towards Ollivander's vase and with a deafening 'POP!' Ollivander's vase turned into a cup of steaming hot café latte.

"N-n-not that one apparently…" Ollivander stuttered, as Sakura hastily dropped the wand on the counter. Soon after she swore that Ollivander mumbled, "Last year it was blown up, this year it gets turned into coffee, what in Merlin's name could happen to it in years to come?"

Being a girl who is much more insensitive (not to mention denser) towards others feelings than Sakura will ever be, Kazusa insensitively said, "Mr. Ollivander are you going to drink this? It stinks." For no reason other than shock, Ollivander accidentally bumped himself into a pile of wands.

"Try this one then, peach tree, sunstone, 11 inches."

A wave later, a bright light filled the room and everyone went blind.

"HOE~~~~~~~~~ It's too bright!" yelled Sakura.

"I can't see! Help I'm going blind!" yelled Kazusa dramatically.

"Calm down everyone and stay put." said Ollivander wisely.

"HOW CAN WE CALM DOWN!" yelled the two sorceresses loudly.

Ten minutes later the light subsided and their eyesight returned. Kazusa gave a sigh of relief, "Oh, I honestly thought I was going to go blind." Ollivander whimpered seeing the damage created by the relieved girl, and Sakura stared. Kazusa has somehow managed to upturn the table and bumped into the shelves hard enough to drop wands, all in ten short minutes of blindness.

'She'll never change.' Sakura thought as Ollivander mused on how much Kazusa was like her, recently discovered, late mother. Sakura though, seemed the complete opposite of hers.

'Not as clumsy.' He thought, as an afterthought he added, 'so far.'

Trying out wands after wands, Sakura accidentally created lots of other disaster including burning the recently re-transfigured vase.

Finally, after blowing up a table, Ollivander gave Sakura a "Cherry Blossom, stardust, 12 inches."

As Sakura took the wand, a sense of calmness and belonging filled her, the wand felt like it was carved into her hand. The pinkish tinge and the starry carvings on it also seemed to glow once she touched it. Somehow she knew this wand has waited for her for as far back as it was created, decades maybe even centuries ago. She waved it with an elegant and, to Ollivander, familiar looking flick. The scent of sakura flowers filled the room and stars floated around them gently and freely. Sakura felt a sense of peace. Perhaps this is what one feels like when one finds the wand destined for them.

Ollivander looked at Sakura with in a strange way, as if gauging her strength but he has only half opened his mouth when he remembered something from the distant past.

FLASHBACK

The scent of nadeshiko flowers filled the room much like it was doing now. A young witch of eleven was looking at the wand in her hand with wonder. This girl, Ollivander remembered thinking, is going to become a wonderful witch. Never has that wand chosen someone like it was doing now. An eleven-inch wand made from the delicate stem of a Dianthus Superbus, more commonly known as Nadeshiko in Japan, its core was made from a strong strand of unicorn hair. Yes, this girl she will surely grow up into someone remarkable.

It was then that her friend jumped up and yelled, "MY TURN!"

END FLASHBACK

'Well…' Ollivander thought, 'Better not let the same thing happen twice,'

He looked at Kazusa and saw that the girl looked like she wouldn't hesitate to do the same thing her mother once did.

"Hold out your wand hand please." Ollivander said.

"Err… That's a problem."

"Surely not." It couldn't be, her mother was but surely not this one too…

"I'm multi handed." Well… You know what they say, like mother like daughter.

"Which hand do you use usually?"

"I find alternating between them more interesting." She's turning out to be more like her mother by the second.

"Just pick one already!" Yup she's exactly like her mother. The two are the only ones who could make him yell like that.

"Fine." Said Kazusa holding out her right hand. The measuring tape started measuring her and she stood there unflinching. Ollivander went away to look for a wand and came back only to be greeted by the sight of Sakura holding the V. cam, and Kazusa trying, and succeeding, to shout and glare furiously at the defenseless measuring tape. Looks like she's not exactly like her mother. Katsumi was more sweet tempered than her daughter currently is.

"MY BUNS DO NOT HAVE A CIRCUMFERENCE OF 50 CENTIMETRE EACH YOU LIAR!" she yelled.

Somehow, Ollivander noted with amusement, the measuring tape has learnt how to do maths and Kazusa yelled again, "I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW HOW SHORT I AM COMPARED TO SAKURA-CHAN!"

"I AM NOT FAT! MY WEIGHT IS 28.5 KG & THAT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL FOR MY HEIGHT!"

"I'M GONNA KILL YOU, YOU EVIL TAPE!" she lunged for the tape.

"Ms. Kazusa, I would appreciate it if you don't rip my measuring tape. I have grown fond and highly attached to it." Said Ollivander.

Kazusa immediately dropped the tape and even managed to look guilty.

"Try this, coral, moonbeam core, 11 inches."

A wave later everyone found themselves floating and bumping into positively everything in Ollivander's shop, including a very unlucky vase which broke into two after an impact with Kazusa's sling bag. Ollivander seriously began to believe his vase was cursed. There has been way to many accidents concerning it. After five minutes of gravity-less floating, everyone found themselves on the ground again after one last bump on a cupboard and a desk, and in Kazusa's case a pile of wands.

"Obviously not that one. Try this strawberry stem, bee sting, 10 inches."

Kazusa gave it a wave after sending Ollivander a suspicious look. What happened next was amazing, nothing like this has ever happened before in any other wand shop. What happened was…

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

"Nothing? Why is nothing happening?" asked Sakura.

"I knew it! Those guys were wrong! Beestings aren't magical after all." Exclaimed Ollivander

"THAT WAS AN EXPERIMENT! WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE? A GUINEA PIG!" yelled Kazusa.

"You know with your buns you almost look like…" the word one got stck in Ollivander's throat as he received a furious glare from Kazusa.

Eighteen wands later Ollivander gave Kazusa a wand with a bluish tinge and watery looking carvings. Not long after, the salty taste of the sea was tasted upon their lips and the smell of the ocean wafted in their noses. An apple each appeared in their palms. They were small enough to pass for a locket and when eaten, the sweetest taste the three have ever tasted filled their mouths. To Kazusa, it was the most delicious food she has ever tasted in her life.

"You're wand is made from apple, with mermaid's hair as core, 12 inches, just like Sakura's. you know rightfully, those wands are too long for you but I believe you'll grow into them. Those two wands are special, they have never chosen an owner before, mermaid's hair because its uncompatible with everyone I know. Everyone that is other than Ms. Katsumi and you. Mermaids, in general, aren't fond of apples. Ms. Sakura, your wand reminds me of Ms. Nadeshiko's, both don't look compatible with their owners, yet both share the same name, and undoubtly the same nature."

"Thank you," Sakura said gratefully, "perhaps one day we will be able to meet again under safer and more allowing conditions."

So they know about the coming war. Is that why they want to keep they're parentage a secret? Kazusa gave Ollivander a bittersweet smile and said, "Please remember Mr. Ollivander, things aren't always what they seem. I hope that, one day, we'll be able to talk over a cup of tea. There's so much we could share, nee?"

"Apparently, yes." Ollivander said as the girls walked towards the door, "Just remember girls. It's the wand that chooses the wizard not the other way around."

"We won't forget Ollivander-san," said Sakura smiling sadly, "if only we could one day meet again and have that talk. You'll know, why things like magic are never taken for granted. Not for us. It is much too precious and sacred, truly, much too pure and lovely to be just a tool."

With a jolt Ollivander remembered again that day long ago.

FLASBACK

Song rang through they're ears. A siren's melody. Not of words but of hope. Never heard yet familiar. A melody that has the world at its beck and call.

Katsumi smiled and laughed, her wand in hand. Her laugh was like the tinkling of bells. Like the melody, a familiar sound yet never heard before. The wand in her hand shimmered. A wand with mermaid's hair as its core, it was made of the bark of an oak, sturdy and strong, wrapped before by the leaves of the Key to Heaven, engraved with picture after picture of Fairy Cups. It was 10 inches and perfect for someone of the girl's stature.

She paid for her wand along with her friends and they headed out together laughing and joking, both with thanks and grand daughterly hugs for the old man. They walked out of the door and Nadeshiko fell to the floor. Katsumi laughed not unkindly and helped her up.

That wasn't the last time Ollivander saw them but it was the last he saw of the sincere smiles on their faces and the last time he has heard the pure joy in the laughter of both girls.

END FLASHBACK

Outside, the girls met with Hagrid and they headed to the leaky cauldron for some much deserved rest. Looking down at his tabletop, Ollivander saw thirty galleons. The exact price for both the wands. With a smile on his face, Ollivander thought once more that the two are going to be like their parents more than they would know. In terms of magic as well as parts. Perhaps they already knew, after all are they not mind readers and fortunetellers? Seers with ability gained through work rather than natural ability. Yes, Ollivander knew, he saw the mark of powerful magic in the way the two carry themselves, dignified and majestic. They weren't ordinary. They were sorceresses of great magic, but who was he? A simple wand maker. He will never give away they're secret.

Kazusa: That was tiring. I'm going to stop writing and get a rest for a while now.

Sakura: She has writers block.

Hoshi: She's in a slump.

Ginny: If she doesn't stop for a while, she'll be in trouble.

Kero: Whatever.

Kazusa: Well… I hope you enjoyed the chapter.