After another nasty encounter with Umbridge that involved toilet paper, a can of shaving cream, and a bright pink sharpie, Jake was subdued in potions the next day; he kept to himself and snapped whenever anyone came into a two meter radius of his table. Risa Ichigo Jen and Renji usually worked at the same table and they were wary of Jake's sudden bi-polar twist. Izuru had the guts to try and talk sense into him, a feat that most of the soul reapers thought he was best suited for. Most of the class thought Izuru was downright crazy, in their eyes the logic spelled out: depressed Slytherin, goody-goody Hufflepuff equals umm yeah let's leave this one for the imagination shall we?

Izuru plopped his books down at the other end of the table farthest away from Jake. The captain gave no notice, the class waited in baited breath.

"Nani?" Jake asked, not rudely.

"You looked upset captain," Izuru said in Japanese. Jake didn't reply now was not the time to discuss this, and he told Izuru in Japanese. The blonde lieutenant nodded and stayed at the table. The class looked impressed that a Hufflepuff could tame a pissy Jake. Toshiro and Risa were glad they didn't have to use the fire hose.

At that moment Snape stormed into the class looking furious. At once any happy feeling evaporated and a sense of foreboding and doom lingered.

"Open your books to page 276," Snape ordered; there was the rustle of paper as the students followed. "Now!" Snape barked Shuhei who was up in the front at a table with Rangiku and Momo.

"I'm getting it," Shuhei snapped back before muttering a few choice words in Japanese. Risa opened her book to the said page. It was their third class and already they were brewing something most wizards wouldn't attempt. Jen's eyes narrowed at Renji and Risa slid a note to Shuhei under the tables.

With the nest order the class began to mix their potions following the instructions exactly to each line. Jen deviated slightly, potions was always her upper hand. Renji however flipped the book over several times trying to make heads or tails of the instructions. Ichigo shrugged and tried to read them as well.

Things weren't going better at Shuhei's table either. In five minutes Rangiku had melted her cauldron into a twisted mess, Momo's fire wouldn't start and Shuhei stared blankly at the book as if the little man on the cover would jump out and brew the damn thing for him.

Jake had made progress and his potion resembled what it should be Izuru was several steps behind Jake but his was going all right as well.

Jack had managed to make a medley of random ingredients failing bluntly to follow the instructions. Toshiro poked his fire again trying to light the damn thing. Rukia was moving along swiftly and was up to par with Jake.

Risa twisted the bottle of lionfish spine the way the directions instructed. The potion turned a light brown and hissed slightly. Jen threw in a few more ingredients. Suddenly there was a giant boom and the class stopped what they were doing to stare at the mess Jack had made. His potion had exploded and the walls were covered in slimy wet potion. Risa and Jen looked at each other and shook their heads before glaring at Jack. Snape rounded on him.

"What the hell were you doing?" Snape spat at him.

"That thing you told us to do..." Jack answered pointing at his mess. "It's not my fault you're a completely inadequate teacher."

"It is your fault that this mess is here in the first place," Snape snarled at Jack, he didn't flinch. "Detention Emmerson, you'll clean this up."

The hallway was packed with students and Ichigo fought to catch up to Risa. After pushing several people out of the way he spotted her giving directions to a lost first year. When he girl left Ichigo walked over.

"I thought you hated the snarky little shits," he said casually leaning against the arch. Risa raised her eyebrow.

"Rule of thumb, hate them as a whole, you're allowed to like individual first years," she said flipping her side bangs out of her eyes. She had her hair down today, something that Ichigo heard was rare around Hogwarts, but still he loved the way it shined when it caught the light.

"Hey," Risa said snapping her fingers in his face dragging his attention back to earth. "Stop dazing off, focus moron."

Behind them in the courtyard the sun was setting, making the sky glow in subtle hues. There was no one else around and Ichigo leaned in closer to his girlfriend. She was about to kiss him back when they were forcefully thrown backwards.

"Ms. Uchimani," a high shrill voice called. Risa's eyes widened and Ichigo blanched. "The School records denote you as Head Girl for the 2009-2010 school year, as a person in power is it really wise to express your personal life so vividly?"

Umbridge marched up to them and stood between the two students. Risa and Ichigo exchanged confused looks. Jen and Marcus got called out on worse, by Renji of all people. This woman still lived in the 19th century.

"I fail to see what all the fuss is about," Risa said crossing her arms. Umbridge rounded on her.

"Detention, both of you, tomorrow my office, I will not tolerate such a thing in my school." And with that Umbridge marched off her clicking heels echoing off the stone ceiling. Risa stood on tiptoe and kissed Ichigo on the cheek. Almost at once Umbridge spun around and gave them another night's detention.

"Twenty bucks she's got Jack and Rukia as well," Risa said darkly shaking her head. She kept a safe distance from Ichigo as they walked toward the dungeons to hang out with the others in the Slytherin common room.

When they got inside Risa immediately shifted closer to Ichigo and took his hand. The girls scowled at Risa, the boys scowled at Ichigo. They made their way to the leather armchairs by the fire and sat down with their friends.

"What's with the face?" Shuhei asked from the giant leather chair. Risa scowled her displeasure.

"I went to kiss her and we both got two detentions," Ichigo said angrily, "That's not fair I swear she stalked us or something."

"I guess I'm joining you," Jen said. She was sitting between Renji and Marcus on the leather couch. "I gave Marcus a peck on the lips and Renji can attest that that was it and she just struts along and is all like…'Bletchley kissing a man is indecent for a young lady' and when I told her to go do Fudge she kinda got pissed"

"Really," Rukia said looking up, she was on Renji's other side. "I kicked Jack in the ass like I usually do and now I'm in detention!" Shuhei had a dark smile on his face.

"Amy stopped by last night…and now I have detention but it was worth it." Risa looked at her friends Momo and Toshiro averted their attention.

"I hugged him!" Momo said breaking down into tears. "That's all I swear I gave Snowball-chan a hug and I've never gotten a detention in my life." She broke into more hysterics and Toshiro put his arms around her.

"Well in case you're wondering," Jake said walking into the group he was late because he had to help some annoying first years. "Umbridge is on a power high," he handed Risa a scroll; her eyes scanned it before she threw it to Shuhei in disgust.

"Ok, that's it I'm freaking calling someone, where the hell is Kenpachi, I need to spar someone!" Risa yelled now suddenly enraged. "We've been here for no more than a month and this woman thins she can walk in and start being all 'I slept with Fudge so give me all authority over Hogwarts?!"

She proceeded to rant for twenty minutes in that time the scroll was passed to each person and they all knew that Risa was well justified in her rant.

"…high inquisitor where do they come up with and inspecting teachers…oh I hope she's in Kenpachi's advanced sword arts tomorrow, that would just make my day…oh and then she should go and inspect Byakuya, he'll let her have better than I can and because he commands more respect than I do oh that will be just freaking awesome…"

Shuhei looked at her and shook his head; Risa still continued her rant about Umbridge which after entering the half-hour mark slowly shifted into French and according to Marcus and Jen was better off that way.