Chapter 4: Shopping
9 years later: letter time
It was about ten in the morning and the whole household was quiet as everyone was still sleeping after coming back from a mission that had taken the better part of a week. Harry was sleeping soundly when he heard an annoying tapping sound. Barely bothering to open his eyes as he sent one of the plants occupying the windowsill to open the window.
His acute hearing picked a fluttering sound that alighted on his desk near one of his more harmless looking Makai plants that cluttered his room. He groggily sat up and yawned while rubbing his eyes to clear them.
When he was more awake he saw perched on his desk a large brown barn owl staring at him with a letter attached to one of its talons. The owl held its foot out and looked at him tiredly. Harry detached the letter and had one of his more mobile plants fetch the creature some water, as he got dressed.
He moved around the many plants that occupied almost every available surface with practiced ease caressing a leaf or petal here and there as he went to his dresser. He picked out a pair of black dress pants and a silky green shirt along with a few other necessary bits of clothing.
After getting dressed he walked to each of his plants and fed them some of his energy plus some water. After tending to the plants he left his room. He crept quietly into his parent's room and pounced on the bed in his fox spirit form hoping to surprise his mother but he was sorely mistaken as his attack was turned against him in the form of a tickle attack.
After he cried mercy to the superior tickling powers of his mother they settled down a bit. He smiled to himself as he laid comfortably on the king size bed still in fox form. He only called his father mother when he was upset or in his mind now a day but his Kurama would always be mother to him.
Anyway as he lay contently purring a little while swishing his three tails around he listened to the plants in his parents room speak to each other about trivial things. He transformed back to his human form and trotted out of the room to go get brunch ready.
Soon the house filled with the smell of sausage and hot cakes. He had decided an American breakfast would be a nice change from the more oriental choices he usually prepared. He soon had his fathers help in getting breakfast ready. He set the table and put the plate of sausages on the table then put the plate of hotcakes on the table.
He grabbed the orange juice out of the fridge then sat down. They ate and talked quietly about what they were going to do that day until Harry remembered the letter that he had received. He excused himself from the table to go get it.
He returned and told his father about how the letter arrived and such before opening it. He knew what it was of course but that was beside the point as he looked over amusedly the different things he would need.
After reading it over he handed the whole thing over to his father. I guess they now knew what they were going to do today. They finished their brunch and washed the dishes together before getting ready to go see Koenma.
As they put on their coats he unhooked the necklace that he wore at night and it soon morphed into a sucker. He popped it into his mouth happily. It was kind of like Willy Wonka's ever-lasting gobstopper only in sucker form. Plus it still annoyed the heck out of Koenma every time he saw it. Oh he'd heard the story about how he had stolen the thing and he still chuckled every time he told and/or heard it.
They walked to the park and called Boton for a portal. She happily obliged. They stepped through and found themselves in the little princes office. They explained the letter and Koenma explained about how to find the entrance to the magical shopping area.
This would be the first time the would actually go there instead of just mailing or talking to the goblin representatives about his accounts that Kurama managed for him. He was already learning how to manage it and in a year or two his mother said he would let him manage most of it by himself.
They got the rest of the information they would need from Koenma then had Boton open a portal in London near the area they had to go. She happily did so and they were soon on their way. They walked to the old looking pub and were soon in front of the entrance to Diagon Alley.
They were lucky to be just behind some other people so they just walked in since Harry did not have a wand yet and he did not know how to get in otherwise. They walked toward the large white building called Gringotts and walked in.
Harry looked around bouncing a bit in excitement when he spotted one of the goblin representatives that came regularly to see him. He trotted up to the front desk and hopped up to sit on the edge and started talking at a rapid rate in Japanese to the goblin.
The goblin nodded to him and inputted a word here and there. The goblin called up one of the guards that stood nearby. They held a rapid conversation before the guards motioned for Harry and Kurama to follow him. Harry happily did so dragging Kurama along with him.
Harry did not notice the odd looks he received as he walked away nor the widened eyes when he plucked some large rubies from seemingly nowhere and hand them to the goblin at the front desk like they were nothing but several copper knuts. Harry followed the guard to a large door and was soon greeted by his favorite goblin, Radnor the head goblin.
They greeted each other happily or as happily as a goblin could. They were soon on their way out of the bank with full pouches at their waist. Harry took his own sweet time looking for all his supplies and clothing. He skipped buying any of the potions ingredients because he could get them from his own plants at home. Besides most wizard plants are a crossbreed of Ningenkai plants and Makai plants.
He spent a while having a lovely chat with the funny Ollivander fellow about his custom wand and what it should be made of. He provided the wood and the core it would need and spoke to old man about making a more versatile way of using magic instead of with an easily broken stick.
The old man listened with an interested look on his face. They discussed several different options that they could do until they settled on a glove-like design. It would be made out of a very flexible Makai wood that would have hairs from his fox form weaved in.
The man said he would get right to work on it. He told Harry to come back in three hours for his wand but it might take a while for the glove for he had to make sure it would stay stable. They settled the payment in rare woods and ingredients instead of money. Harry and Kurama went to get some ice cream and do some window-shopping.
They stopped by the pet shop and looked around for a bit but he could not find one that would be useful to him. He knew that any owl he got would probably be exhausted and half dead from flying letters back and forth from his school to his home. Plus flying that far would take forever for some creatures. He would have to use the school owls for now till he found a stronger and faster flying animal. Or he could just use the com-books.
That's right Yusuke had finally rebelled having people question his sexuality because people would see him pull out his com-powder to answer calls from Koenma or Boton. So they now had pocket-sized books that had the little screen and everything that the com-powders had had only now it wouldn't hurt Yusuke's pride to pull it out in public.
His last stop was the robe shop and he stepped up to his stool and stood still while the woman measured him. After that was done he had her send him the clothing by owl like all his other purchases that day. After that they walked back to the wand shop so he could pick up his wand.
They were soon walking back to where they had started their day and had Boton give them a portal back to their house instead of the park. They were a bit tired from the trip but they soon got to their rest after getting a light dinner.
For the next week Harry spent the week with the Yu Yu gang. They each got him a going away present. His stuff started arriving by the next week and his new inter-space backpack from Boton came in handy. It was a multi-pouched leather backpack that had unlimited space in each pocket.
He packed his stuff into the various pockets and pouches. He even found out he could crawl into the largest pocket in the pack. His dad helped him make it into a comfortable den to hide and horde the treasure Youko was sure he could find at school.
His Den was soon situated with a large array of fluffy ad luxurious pillows and blankets. There was a plant here and there to provide air. They had found out the hard way that the backpack would need an air source; for Boton had not told him it was airtight. She told him it was waterproof but not airtight.
There were some jewels and what not to make it homier as Youko put it. When Harry was happy with his den he crawled out and closed the pocket. He set his pack on the floor near the door. It did not look like nor felt like it held all the stuff it had but it did. It was inconspicuous enough that he could carry it around with him as he liked as a book bag.
He was barely keeping his calm when the day finally came for him to get on the train. He was sad about leaving but he knew he would see his family and friends during the holidays or on the com-books whenever he wanted. He and Kurama were soon on the platform and Harry was saying goodbye to his parents.
He hugged his mother tightly and whispered a few words in the fox language into his mother's ear as a goodbye to his dad. They separated and he soon boarded the bright red train. He yipped a goodbye he knew only his parents and people with super hearing could hear but only his parents might understand.
He found an empty compartment and sat down. He sat his bag on the overhead luggage rack and quickly crawled in leaving only a small opening so he could look out. He lay down in fox form and snoozed for a bit till he heard the door open. It was a boy with blond hair and two oafish looking boys following him.
He watched from his comfortable spot as the put their luggage up and sat down. They took no notice of his bag as they started talking to each other. He listened to their conversation and soon decided to have some fun. He stuck his muzzle closer to the opening and gave a sharp yip then backed away and laughed inwardly at their jump.
He did it again when they calmed then laughed as only a fox could. He transformed back to his human form as they stared searching the compartment. He got into a more comfortable position and watched as they noticed his bag. He sat calmly as they got closer. He pushed flap open suddenly and laughed heartily when they jumped away.
He crawled out of the bag and watched, as their eyes got big. He was small for his age but there was no way he could normally fit into his bag. He hopped down from the luggage rack and sat next to the blond with an amused look on his face. He watched with interest as the blond composed his face back to calmness. Harry sat back comfortably and waited for them to speak first.
The blond finally spoke and introduced himself as if he saw people crawling out of bags that were way to small for them all the time. Harry smiled and introduced himself as Kit Youko. He used one his nicknames that his parents had for him instead of his real name. They got on greatly from there. Harry could tell that Draco was a bit arrogant but it was not too late to humble him some.
End Chapter 4
An: I hope you like it. In case you couldn't figure out father is Kurama and dad is youko. Please review. Ja Ne.