Mercinaries, Ninja, Martial Artists, and Wizards

Diagon Ally

Mrs. Weasley was used to being the first in her family to wake up, normally to at least get some breakfast ready for her husband before he had to start work at the Ministry. Today however started his small 'holiday', which Dumbledore and Fudge considered unofficial because of their guests and since Barty Crouch was pressing Fudge about international relations anyway he was happy to give Arthor this task since it got Barty off his case a bit. However because of their many guests she woke at her normal time to get breakfast started and she walked into the kitchen in her robe. Opening the window to let in some fresh air Mrs Weasley was treated to a rather unusual sight, at least as far as she was concerned and that was truely saying something.

The sun was just peaking over the horizon but apparently all of her guests except Hagrid were awake, dressed, and active...very active. Her jaw dropped as she watched them throwing punches and kicks at eachother while others were sprinting almost faster than her eyes could follow, others were doing what looked as though it could be a dance. Both Ranma and Denko were male again she let out a small scream when Ranma managed to jump and weet Denko twenty feet in the air and land a solid kick to his head causing Denko to land hard on the ground on his back but he simply jumped back onto his feet like nothing happened and they continued with this time Denko threw Ranma over his hip into a small puddle so with a splash that emptied the puddle Ranma-chan groaned at her muddy clothes and reengaged Denko in a flurry of punches of kicks so fast her limbs were mere blurs.

Akane, Tenten, Tsume, Sakura, and Ino were off together talking casually as they ran while Neji and Hinata were together going through the same movements together. KIba and his puppy Akamaru were with Lee and Naruto engaged in what looked like a game of tag while Shikamaru and Chouji were off to the side going through a far slower paced fight than Ranma and Denko and Sasuke was off by himself practicing his own moves. No matter where she looked through the window she couldn't see Shino.

"Do not worry about them, we practice like this everyday. But I would say those two are barely giving fifty percent to their spar." a voice says from behind her causing Mrs Weasley to give a small scream again as she turned to find Shino who was watching the fight between Ranma and Denko through his ever present sunglasses. Turning to her with a raised eyebrow barely visible over the rim of his shades he adds "I take it there is very little contact in this country?"

Getting over her shock from the quiet boy "There hasn't been any real fighting since You-Know-Who was in power a decade ago. Somehow he lost all his power and dissappeared when he tried to kill Harry Potter when he was just a baby." She explained though she noticed his eyebrows furrowed in thought.

"I do not know who you are talking about but I believe your sons claim Harry Potter as their friend." Shino says slowly.

"Oh yes they are friends and they'll all be at Hogwarts with you and your friends this year." Molly says as she gets pots and pans out of the cupboards and with a flick of her wand knives flew from a holder to a cutting board where some vegitables just landed from a basket on the otherside of the room and the knives began cutting them on their own. She stole a glance at Shino as he stood there watching the various displays of magic she wielded with interest. "Shino dear, could you tell them breakfast will be ready soon and they need to get washed up. I'll take care of the kids upstairs."

With a nod Shino walked out the door and within a minute the flurry of acivity that dominated the back yard had vanished into the pair of tents though Denko and Ranma barely were in their tent for thirty seconds before running to the boys tent. Apparently the tents had a simple tub inside for them to use.

Within thirty minutes the Weasley's and guests were once again sitting at the table ouside eating omlettes, potatoes, toast, milk, and juice. Soon enough the table was emptied of all it's food and the dishes were floating back to the kitchen where they set about washing themselves, much to the amazemant of the japanese kids.

"Alright' yeh lot, listen up!" Hagrid calls out to stop the chatter whivh even he couldn't keep up with since there was a blend of English and Japanese floating around the table. Instantly the table went quiet aloowing Mr. Weasley to speak.

"Today we're going to gather the things that all of you will need this year at Hogwarts, wands, books, potion ingredients, and uniforms. We'll be getting everything we need in Diagon Ally and thankfully the Ministry has provided us with cars so we don't need to use Floo Powder to get there." He paused to let those who knew English to translate for the others. From the front of the house were two loud honks. "Sounds like they're here! Let's go!"

"Don' worry 'bout me, I'll meet yeh there." Hagrid says to them all and walks off to the house and closing the door behind him.

"Let's go everyone! Get to the cars!" Mrs. Weasley herds them all to the front yard where four cars sat waiting for them.

"Um... Mr. Weasley, I don't think there's enough room for all of us." Sakura says casting glances at the cars.

"Huh? oh, sure there is. You'll see when we get in the car. You may find something in the books we have a home interesting to read. But we'll get the books you need for this school year now." Mr. Weasley explains as they get to the cars.

Ranma, Akane, Denko, and Tsume got into the first car where as they climbed into the back seat they noticed the seat seemed to stretch so they could all sit comfortably. Meanwhile Sasuke, Sakura, Neji, Tenten, Lee, and Percy got in the back seat of the second car with Mrs. Weasley in the front. Into the third car climbed Naruto, Hinata, Shino, Kiba, Fred, and George while Shikamaru, Chouji, Ino, Ginny, Ron, and Mr. Weasley got in the last car. As soon as the door closed they began driving towards London.

In the first car...

"So how'd you two get married so young?" Tsume asks Akane with curiosity practicly leaking out of her.

"Figured you'd ask about that as soon as we were alone" Denko mutters as he stares at the passing scenery with his head against the glass though he did take a glance to notice the light blush across Ranma and Akane's faces. For his comment he recieved a slap to the head smashing his head into the window causing it to crack but that repaired itself seconds later.

"Our fathers arranged it." They said together causing their blush to brighten a bit. Tsume deflated a bit from her previous excitement.

"Our dad's arranged the whole thing before we were even born and last year Ranma's dad brought him to our house. He was a girl at the time but then we had an ...akward time when we found out he was a boy." Akane explains.

"Yeah, real akward.. ya smashed a table over my head and were threatening to drown me in the tub with a statue." Ranma states staring hard at his new wife.

"Didn't I apoligize for that already?" Akane huffed.

"No, that was the baseball. And I'm not gonna count all the times you said you're sorry then to make up for all the other times ya hit me!" Ranma yelled back.

"But- but- but oh forget it!" Akane screams and they both turn away from eachother, at least until they heard snickering next to them and saw Tsume and Denko struggling to hold in their laughter. Within thirty seconds the newlyweds looked at eachother, looked back at the now quietly giggling duo, looked back at eachother with nervous grins, before all four of them burst out in laughter that lasted five minutes before settling down again.

"S-so how did you two get together?" Akane asks though she still had some giggles left.

"I was running through the woods a few months ago-" Tsume began.

"Being chased by some bandits who you stole from." Denko throws out quickly.

"-Cough!- yea and they were about to catch me when Denko saved me."

"Yea, I took care of them before you even knew I was there." Denko grins.

"He took me to his house and I became his student so I could learn to fight for myself."

"She was begging me to teach her until I gave in. So I've been teaching her and she follows me around everywhere."

"That's it?" Akane asks.

"Pretty much, though when I took her back to her dad's he insisted we get married... damn telepath." Denko mutters the last part only to find his head breaking the window again.

"Don't insult my dad!" Tsume yells driving Denko's head back through the window that had just repaired itself a second time forcing it to repeat for a third.

Denko grabs her arms before she could break the window with his head again. "Hey ya gotta admit you're dad's scary when he's reading your mind and manipulating your body! I hate dealing with Mind Elementals." Denko huffs and turns away to look out the newly repaired window, but he never took his hand off her wrists in case she decided to break something again. He was just glad that while in the car she'd have some difficulty drawing her blades which were sheathed at her lower back...though he knew she could easily blow up the car if she wanted to.

In the second car...

Sasuke leaned against the window tring to ignore Sakura and Percy chattering away; "I'm the Head Boy this year so all the students should be respectful to me, I can give detentions once school starts." "There's ghosts at Hogwarts?" "Oh yes, the Griffindore ghost is Nearly Headless Nick, shame the executioner didn't finish the job properly for him... he's been trying to join the Headless Hunt for many years now."

Neji was watching the scenery pass on the other side of the car while Tenten had quickly grown bored with both the lack of anything productive to do and listening to Sakura talk and talk and talk and passed out leaning on Neji's shoulder. Lee though was anything but asleep, he was testing the limits of his language skills and making attempts to speak clearly enough for Mrs. Weasley to understand him and once she did she'd respond slowly so he could try to understand her while the pencil in his hand was threatening to cumbust as he wrote furiously in the notepad he carried around everywhere.

Needless to say there wasn't much happening in this car though the driver seemed to be getting annoyed with Percy always reminding everyone about being Head Boy at least every five minutes.

In the third car...

Within five minutes of getting in the car the twins had managed to get everyone laughing their heads off, except Shino who merely smiled and Hinata was laughing much quieter than anyone else. The twins had snuck out a few of their pranking materials and were demonstrating them to the ninja, at least the ones where that were safe to use in such a confined place. It wasn't long until the driver rolled down all the windows to let out all the multicolor smoke and stench of the dozen or so stink pellets that were used. Naruto, who was by the window, stuck his head and shoulders out to look around and feel the wind on his face. Hinata giggled at his excitement as the various new sights came and went. Kiba and Akamaru had their heads out the other window for the fresh air to clear their sensitive noses. The twins were cracking jokes, though Hinata and Shino translated what they could for the others they only laughed at half... the rest they figured they'd have to wait to understand.

Their driver was fairly young and was more than happy to tell a few jokes himself and laughed heartily when the twins fired back while entertaining the ninja with the 'special modifications' that the Ministry cars were equiped with allowing them to jump ahead of small traffic jams, squeeze through gaps between cars that they should be able to, even going as far as swerving off the road where the light posts they would have normally hit jumped out of the way and the guardrail lifted itself over the car so it resembled a rolling wave on the ocean before swerving back into the line of Ministry cars. The driver nearly rear ended the car in front of him as he laughed his head off at the reactions of his passengers; Kiba and Akamaru had wet themselves, Shino's eyebrows could be seen over his sunglasses and he had his hands on the ceiling to stablize himself, Fred and George were grabbing the seats in front of them, while Naruto and Hinata had buried their faces into eachothers shoulders and holding the other tight in fright. They soon got over their little scare but soon laughed again when Hinata's face went bright red and she passed out in Naruto's arms, sending the poor boy into hysterics trying to find out why she fainted.

In the fourth and last car...

Chouji had gottem the window seat and was occupying himself with the passing scenery and a bag of chips that dissappeared slower than usual, something that Shikamaru had noticed before resting his head on the back of the car seat and closing his eyes. Next to him was Ino who was testing the limits of her English skills with Ginny who was understanding of the situation and was genuinely interested in learning Japanese so they were learning from eachother and getting along quite well. Ron was contenting himself with watching his sister interacting with the foreigners. Mr. Weasley was happy that his children were getting along with their guests and every now and then he'd add his own knut to the conversation to satisfy his own great curiosity and getting Ron, Shikamaru, and Chouji to join in as well though the topics never drifted too far from translations and what Hogwarts was like.

"This year I can go to Hogsmeade! I can't wait to get into Honeydukes and try all the great stuff they got there!" Ron started listing the various sweets and with Shikamaru providing translations Chouji was soon drooling and even Ino expressed her desire to at least try some of the candies. When Ginny mentioned she couldn't go to Hogsmeade until next year Ino promised she'd get some sweets for her, and try to keep what she could from Chouji, all said through Shikamaru of course.

It was just after noon when the small caravan entered London and pulled to the curb in front of the Leaky Couldren where the small crowd got out and the drivers pulled away saying that they were going to park the cars nearby and they'll be waiting at the bar when its time to go. As soon as they left the Weasley's gathered their charges and ushered them into the bar who noticed the Muggles, as the Weasley's said the whole wizarding community calls the non-magic folk, pass by without a glance at the shabby looking building in front of them as though they didn't even know it existed.

Walking through the door they were greeted with a large room that was dimly lit, with a bar on the far side with an old toothless man behind it while the rest of the room had a number of old wooden tables and chairs with a few patrons dressed in cloaks, robes, or odd combinations of muggle clothes. Within a few seconds the ninja who were somewhat oddly dressed to some of the muggles, especially Lee in his green leotard and orange legwarmers, they all wore their kunai holters on their legs and equipment pounches on their hips. Denko and Tsume who were carrying their own blades at their hips and lower back respectively also stood out for the short time they were out on the public street because of them. Ranma and Akane were luckier that they had dressed more normally but had aquired their own curious stares because it wasn't often that a large group of asian children visited London.

"Ah, Arthor Weasley, Molly! Good to see you again, is there anything I can do for you today or are you just passing through?" The old man asks walking out from behind the bar to greet his prospective patrons.

"Thank you Tom, a light lunch for twenty one." Arthor says with a smile to the man known as Tom who returned his own toothless smile before whipping out his wand and with a few flicks in the direction of the bar a large platter slid itself onto the counter followed by two loaves of bread which were being sliced by a knife whil other knives were slicing ham, turkey, and cheese and each slice floated onto the platter where they arranged themselves into a neat pyramid of sandwiches. Tom himself pulled a glass for each of them and filled them with fresh iced tea and carried them to the tables that were pushed end to end so they could sit as a group. With the tea delivered the platter of sandwiches followed soon after along with a stack of plates that sat themselves in front of each of them.

There wasn't much conversation as everyone was stuffing their faces with the sandwiches which they all agreed were great and washing them down with the tea. It wasn't long before Mrs. Weasley reminded they had plenty of things to do so she quickly took care of their bill and herded them out the back door where they easily crowded the small coartyard and Mr. Weasley made his way to the brick wall and drew his wand. With curious eyes the group watched as he tapped four bricks by a trashcan and stepped back as the wall came to life and the bricks began wiggling and twisting themselves into a large archway that even Hagrid could easily walk through. Through the archway they could see dozens of witches and wizards hurrying about their business, talking to one another, several store fronts with signs advertizing products, and a few stands where vendors were selling their goods.

"Welcome kids to Diagon Ally! We'll be able to get everything we need right here!" Arthor says to them all who stared at the stange sights with wide eyes.

"We should get their gold first, it'll be the easiest thing on the list to get." Mrs. Weasley says looking over a roll of parchment that she wrote their list of items to buy.

Walking through the crowds of witches and wizards the ninja and the older teens were trying to look everywhere at once and were trying to tell eachother what they were seeing and asking the Weasley's about the various strange things they saw. The Weasley kids were quite amused with their excitement and curiosity at what they considered normal, everyday things. The parents were watching all the kids carefully to make sure they don't get lost in the crowds as they made their way to Gringotts Bank. Mr. Weasley had them wait outside while he took care of business inside and Mrs. Weasley explained the workings of the bank and how it was run by goblins. Forty five minutes later Mr. Weasley walked out of the bank with a smile and a large heavy bag securily attatched to his belt under his robe. They decided to go to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions for school uniforms and adjustments.

"Mrs. Weasley, we already have our uniforms, they are back in our tents." Sakura says as they entered the shop.

"Oh that's alright dear. That does save us some time and money but we still must get the others their robes." Mrs. Weasley says. "You and your friends can wait over there while we get them fitted."

So while the young ninja and sat in the chairs on oneside of the shop to watch the little show while Mrs. Weasley helped Madam Malkin as they made adjustments to her childrens robes and got properly fitting uniforms, apparently Ron had grown a few inches over the past year and the twins had filled out a bit, Percy only needed minor adjustments, and Ginny had begun both filling out and growing taller so she needed the most changes.

Then came fitting time for the final four... getting robes for Akane was simple enough as with Tsume who basicly had the same size robes once Madam Malkin factored in that Tsume was shorter than Akane but a good bit larger in the rest of the measurements. They bought a uniform for each of them just in case sine they were hired as teachers but also were going to be attending Hogwarts as Seventh Years. Things got interesting when it came time for Ranma and Denko to be sized since just as they were sized they both asked for a second set the same size as Akane's robes, much to Madam Malkin's confusion prompting Ranma to quickly demonstrate his curse and Denko explaining his similar curse. So within an hour they walked out of the shop with arms full of their new robes and uniforms, which both Ranma and Denko insisted they only get the male uniform if they did need to use them.

Next they went to the Apothecary to get potion ingredients they'd need. Kiba and Akamaru couldn't stay in the shop for more than a minute before running back out the door for some fresh air. Then they walked down the street to Flourish and Blotts for their various school books, including The Monster Book of Monsters, a living book that would attack and bite whoever and what ever was around. Unfortunately during the difficult process of obtaining the large number of said dangerous books the assistant was extracting from the large cage the books made a break at escaping the shop and as soon she opened the door they swarmed out. Fortunately it was the customers training that settled things before the books caused too much destruction and with each of them buying one of the biting books the manager and shocked assistant were very greatful and the cage was much emptier, plus they managed to get those books for half price though the rest were still normal price.

Then came Olivander's to get their wands. The small crowd bustles into the small shop and stares at the many shelves that filled the back of the shop filled to capacity with hundreds of small long boxes, each with a small lable. The thin man who ran the shop walked out from behind one of the shelves and surprise was evident on his face at the sheer number of customers.

"Ah the Weasley's, I trust your wands are doing well?" Mr. Olivander asks.

"Actually Ron broke his wand last year and this group needs to get their first wands. They're just starting Hogwarts this year." Mrs. Weasley explains.

To let the Japanese youth learn how they choose their wands Ron went first to replace his broken one. After going through nearly a dozen different wands a fourteen inch willow wand with a unicorn hair core finally chose him. Kiba decided to next and went through nearly twice as many as Ron before a wand chose him, a twelve inch dogwood with a dragon heartstring core. Lee's wand was eight and one half inches ironwood with a phoenix feather, Neji's was an eleven inch willow with dragon heartstring, Sasuke's was nine inches red oak with dragon heartstring, Tenten's was six and one half white oak with unicorn hair, Sakura's was a ten inch cherry with phoenix feather, Ino's was a 7 inch walnut with unicorn hair.

Everything was going fairly smooth considering more than three hundred wands had been waved and rejected and now sat in a large pile at one end of the large counter. The problem came when it was Naruto's turn, after going through more than hundred wands himself Olivander was getting to his wits end and constantly muttering to himself. Finally he grabbed Naruto by the shoulders and stared deep into his eyes as if he was searching for something hideen deep within.

"Hmm... I think I know the problem here... yes, yes, that may be the right choice..." Olivander whispers while still staring at Naruto's face intently before suddenly shuffling away to the back of the shop and could be heard moving things around and occasional mutterings before he returned carrying a single box and set it carefully on the counter and allowing Naruto to lift the wand out himself. Insantly blue flames sprouted from the wands tip and encicling him before dissappearing. "Ah, I see I was correct in my assumptions about you, Popular, nine and three quarters inches long with a single hair of a kitsune... I did some experimenting with using other magical creatures besides unicorns, dragons, and phoenixes in the past, while the kitsune hair core makes for a powerful wand any wand that contains it becomes rather... er...tempermental when used by those it doesn't choose, much like the kitsune itself." Naruto shifted akwardly with a nervous grin, partially because he could barely understand a word the old man was saying but he knew it was about him, part of it was the way the man stared at him, but what he did understand was when he mentioned kitsune... that he did understand very well but at least now he had his wand and Olivander was now looking at the next person.

Shino was the next one to recieve his after a mere six tries resulting with a ten inch ash with dragon heartstring wand. Chouji's was a eleven inch holly with unicorn hair, Shikamaru's was a eight and three quarter inch elm with phoenix feather. Hinata had some trouble finding a correct wand so after going through nearly fifty wands herself before Olivander wandered once again into the back of the shop for nearly five minutes before returning to the counter with a very old dusty box that he continued to stare at before returning his gaze to the shy girl infront of him.

"This wand was made by me back when I was still learning wand craft and I had.. for better terms, experimented much like I did with the kitsune hair wand. This wand, according to my teacher, is rather unique due to its core... ten and one half inches made from a womping willow tree that was considered to dangerous to approach yet was the subject of many songs... and the core was plucked from the tail of a unicorn that was so gentle the very sight of the mare could calm even a mad warewolf. Funny thing though is the core is actually two hairs wound so tightly together that I gave up trying to seperate them after an hour I used them as they were one... care to give it a wave dear?" Olivander whispers so noone other than Hinata and himself could hear him.

Hinata reached out a slightly shaking hand and grasped the wand and a softly glowing glittle of lights sprinkled from the tip and twisted themselves around her before fading. "Curious, very curious..." the old man says clearly before turning to the next customer. Ranma waved a hand allowing Akane to go before him. Stepping up to the counter the teen girl nervously watched as the old man examined her carefully before nodding sharply and scurrying to the back of the shop once again. Nearly ten minutes later he came back blowing some dust off a box.

"This is an interesting wand, though after seeing so many of you youngsters from Japan here I've caught on to what to look for with you by now. Try this one, ten inches, redwood with a feather from a phoenix that was captured on Mount Fuji itself, nearly got lost a few times while we there. Give it a wave." Olivander says. Akane waves the wand and felt a gentle heat envelope her along with a slight glow before fading. "Ah, I knew I was getting the knack for judging you Japanese kids! Next!"

Ranma stepped forward and underwent the same examination as the others before Olivander shuffled into the back and returned a shortly with another wand box held out for Ranma to remove himself. "Twelve inches, red maple with a dragon heartstring... yes lost one of my helpers when we caught that dragon and removed the core material... but that dragon had to rank in the top ten strongest dragons in history, it was mericalous that we only lost that man out of the hundred or so of us needed to take him down. Wrapped a pair of his whiskers around that wands base too, though I'm interested to see how they may effect it's performance..." The moment Ranma grasped the wand a deafenig roar split the air but he kept hold of the dragon whisker wrapped wood, as soon as the first roar ended another began before fading into a low growl that slowly faded to silence. Everyone looked at the wand only to see Ranma had gripped it in a white knuckled hand.

"Wow, I think I can control this guy." Ranma says with a smirk.

"Hmmmnnn... perhaps you really can." Olivander says still staring at the wand and Ranma. "Just you two left. Ladies first." Tsume quickly found herself under the old mans scrutiny, watching as he muttered so low under his breath that even she couldn't hear before he wandered into the back. Tsume soon found herself waving wand after wand as most of the others had done before, Olivander was digging through the stacks of wands from previous tests on the counter. Waving the one hundred and fifty eighth wand sparks burst from the tip that soon faded.

"Very interesting... mohagony, seven and three eights inches, with a single phoenix feather..." the old man mutters before waving Tsume off to the others while Denko stepped forward into the wand makers intense stare.

"You're eyes are interesting but then so are all of you." He mutters before digging through the piles of wand boxes. Even so Denko had to wave three dozen wands before one chose him and released a huge shower of blue sparks that continued for nearly a minute before fading away with a hiss. "So it's a twelve inch birch with dragon heartstring... from the same dragon that I used as the core of the other boy though for some odd reason we decided to coat the heartstring with the dragons own fangs." Denko nodded to Olivander and walked back to the others as he stowed the new wand in his pocket. Everybody had either stored their wand someplace on themselves or were still looking them over meanwhile Mr. and Mrs. Weasley took care of the rather large payment for all of the wands.

Seeing how they had plenty of money they decided to get ice cream at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Palor. There they all enjoyed themselves though just defore they ordered Ranma's curse was activated by way of a woman screaming and throwing the cup of cold tea in her hand when her young child had shoved a large live rat in her face proclaiming it as her pet and named it Newt. Needless to say Ranma wasn't pleased about getting wet or the curses activation but did a complete one eighty when she was served her sundae and ate it with a big smile as did everyone else. Unfortunately all good things come to an end and everyone desired another sundae but Mrs. Weasley told them they had to get back to the Leaky Couldren and had her husband and children escort their guests back while she hurried off to take care of a few things she almost forgot about.

While in the Leaky Couldren with all of their supplies a Ministry worker spotted Arthor.

"Hey Arthor! Did you put in your name for that lottery? They'll be drawing next week and I could really use those seven hundred Galleons." The man says.

"Oh yes I did Simmons, as soon as it opened up this year. We could really use the gold ourselves." Mr. Weasley laughed.

"Oh yes, I nearly forgot about these!" Simmons says as he grabs box from the table he was at and brings it over to the group. "I just got these today and was going to have them sent by Owl Post in Diagon Alley but since you're here." Simmons hands the box to Mr. Weasley.

"Thank you Simmons, I appreciate you getting these so quickly."

"No problem, I gotta go do some other things myself. Take care of those kids and good luck with the lottery!" Simmons says as he walks out the back door.

"What's that Mr. Weasley?" Tsume asks.

"Oh this is for you lot, one for each of you." Mr. Weasley syas as he opens the box and pulls out a handful of... magnifying glasses...?

"What are these supposed to do?" Sakura says voicing everyones curiosity as they were handed one each.

"These are Translator Lenses. They only work with two languages at a time but these are all charmed for English and Japanese just for you. All you have to do is look through them and the Lens will change the image to either language, all you have to do is turn it over to the other side for the other language. Give them a try." He explains.

Grabbing a few copies of of the Daily Profit they tried them out watching with amazement as the text through the Lenses changed from English to Japanese and back again when they removed them. Flipping the Lenses over the text remained as English. They quickly marked which side was which and with a few lengths of thin rope Ino and Sakura made them into necklaces so they could keep them close at hand. Denko simply slipped his into one of his pockets as did Akane and Ranma while Tsume slipped hers into a small pouch that was part of her sheathes. The others slipped their Lenses into their equipment pouches.

"Hey! Don't we get anything?" Ron yells.

"Sorry Ron, you and the rest of us will be spending as much time as we can helping to teach them English and as many spells and such before school starts." Mrs. Weasley says from right behind her son making him shout in surprise with her sudden appearance.

"Wait! We're teaching them? Wouldn't they learn everything at Hogwarts?" Ron complains looking back and forth between his parents.

"Ron, we're just going to be teaching them enough to keep up with the rest of the students. They'll be in your year so you just need to try teaching them what you know so far." Mr. Weasley explains.

"Me?" Ron was in shock at the amount of work they'd need do this summer.

"Not just you, but the whole family. Bill and Charlie might even help us if they get a vacation and come home. Besides it's more of a crash course in magic but we'll have to teach them what we can." Mr. Weasley says with a smile on his face. He was obviously excited at the prospect of teaching the rather large group. Ron and Ginny wore looks of shock that they couldn't enjoy their summer as they usually do. Fred and George were having mixed reactions, on one hand they couldn't spend the summer vacation experimenting but on the other hand they had more than a dozen kids living with them and had no idea of their reputation as pranksters... except for the fireworks under the chairs last night. Percy was smiling smugly as he imagined impressing the younger japanese kids with his knowlege and skills in magic. The ninja and the older four were occupied talking to eachother about all the things they saw and experienced during their time in Diagon Alley though a few of the less excitable ones were paying attention to the Weasley's as well.

Thankfully Mrs. Weasley paid for a light dinner from Tom and their drivers had joined them for the meal before they clambered back into the cars for the return trip, most of them slept in their seats. A few hours later the drowsy crowd stumbled from the cars and seperated into three groups, the Weasley's heading towards the house, the boys to their tent and the girls towards theirs who were followed by the part time girls.

They were going to need their sleep because when they woke in the morning school was going to begin.