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A Lost Friend
By: USA Tiger
Author Note: To let everyone know, the planned parings so far are, as said in the first chapter, Harry/Ryoga plus Sirius/Hedwig and Ranma/Shampoo. Fan’s of the Ranma ½ series will have a pretty good idea how the Sirius/Hedwig pairing will be possible. This story does have Male/Male pairings in it!
Chapter 3
After two days of staying in Nermia, Harry was quick to realize that the place had a certain amount of strangeness and chaos that almost made the Wizarding world back in England look normal. Almost being the key word here.
So far he had witnessed three different fights, all of them against Ranma. One was between Ranma and some guy that wore a strange blue outfit and was wielding a wooden sword, calling the pig-tailed teen a 'vile sorcerer' and demanded that he release his hold over 'pig tailed girl' and 'the lovely Tendo Akane’. After seeing Harry's extremely confused look, Ryoga had finally took the time to explain that this sort of thing was normal and that the boy was called Tatewaki Kuno, or just Kuno for short, and was an idiot to boot. Kuno believed that Ranma's natural male form and his cursed female form were two different people no matter how many times everyone had tried to explain to him, or show him as it were in some cases, that they were the one and the same the older teenage boy refused to believe it. On top of that, he was a wanna be samurai and believed it was his duty to save Ranma's female half from his male one along with a girl named Akane, whom Harry had met later. Ryoga found it funny because out of all the male fighters there, he was the only one who was a real 'sorcerer'. Not that he had hinted to anyone other than the Amazons that he was of magical stock, Ryoga tried to keep his magic and his marital arts separate.
He was glad that Ryoga and the Joketsuzoku Elder Cologne had decided that it would be a good idea to cast a translation charm on him and Shampoo, the spell was how Ryoga got around in other countries when he was out of Japan. It allowed him to hear everything said to him sound like it was in English but allowed others to hear what he said like he was speaking their native language. It worked the same from Shampoo but for her it was in her native form of Chinese. Now he didn't feel clueless when he heard people speak and could understand just a bit as to what was going on around him.
The second fight he had witnessed was between Ranma and Ryoga themselves. In the end, several buildings were damaged and walls destroyed, mostly by Ryoga. When he asked Ryoga just what was going on, the older boy merely shrugged and explained that for the last few years he had tried to beat Ranma in a fight to prove he was a better Martial Artist, mostly because he had been angry at the other teen for several things.
According to Ryoga, Ranma was the reason he turned into a pig. But, recently, Ryoga had calmed down enough to let go of the anger he had of Ranma, and while the two of them were still rivals, it was more like a fun spar than anything. In truth, the two Japanese boys were the only two that could give each other a decent workout. Ranma was simply the best in the area followed by Ryoga, who was stronger at least, and Shampoo not including Cologne and someone called Happosai.
The third fight he had seen was between Ranma, who had been a girl at the time, and a pretty black hair girl wearing a gymnastic leotard and wielding a ribbon like a whip. The girl, whose name was Kodachi Kuno and was the younger sister of the boy Ranma had a fight with before, and had an insane laugh that could make even Bellatrix Lestrange cringe, at least that's Harry believed. Harry learned that Kodachi also thought Ranma's two forms were separate people but unlike her brother, no one had gotten the chance to either tell her or show her it was simply a curse as such, she believed that Ranma's female half was a rival for his male's half love. So it was still up in the air if she was blind as her brother Kuno.
In fact, it seemed that most of the chaos that happened around Nerima seemed to center around Ranma in one way or another. Harry felt somewhat sorry for the boy, after all he knew what it was like to be the center of unwanted attention and to have everything happen to him. Ranma didn't seem to like it much either, but seemed to put up with it, Merlin knew why. Harry was quickly informed that the older teen's life was centered around being in some sort of fight almost daily, was engaged to several girls thanks to his father Genma, that one there nearly boggled Harry's mind and he was quite sure that wasn't legal. To one girl yes, but several?!, and any event or adventure that happened seemed to have Ranma right in the big fat middle with his 'friends' and 'rivals', who were dubbed the 'Nerima Wrecking Crew', right along with him.
Shampoo it turned out was one of the girls set to marry Ranma, according to her any outsider male that defeated a Joketsuzoku female, which reminded Harry of the legend of Amazons he read in his Muggle school, was given the 'Kiss of Marriage' which was a kiss on the lips and was considered their husband. Out of pure curiosity, Harry had asked if any other strange rules like that applied, turns out there was one other was called the 'Kiss of Death' and applied to outsider women. More or less, if an outsider woman defeated a Joketsuzoku woman, then she was to be kissed then killed. It was very barbaric, at least to Harry, but he could see Shampoo was very proud of her heritage much like the Pure Blood witch and wizards back in England.
~Can you tell me which way Nerima is?~ Harry turned to face Ryoga, who was looking down at a map with a confused look on his face. The British boy laughed softly, making Ryoga look up. "Oh, guess I'm here then. Unless we're back in England," Ryoga started to look around to verify just where he was, it was so hard to tell where he was with his sense of direction.
"No, we're still in Japan," Harry reassured Ryoga. The older boy gave a relieved smile, tucking his map into his pack.
"Good, that means I was only lost for a little while," Ryoga said happily. "I don't suppose you can lead me to Uyko's, I'm famished."
"Alright, if I can remember the way," Harry said, grabbing Ryoga's hand making the other boy blush as Harry lead him away.
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~Welcome to Ucchan’s!~ A pretty, long hair girl said from behind the grill. "Well hello Ryoga-honey, Harry-honey, what can I get you two?" the girl, Ukyo Kuonji, asked with a smile as she noticed the two dark hair teens. Harry had been introduced to Ukyo the day before and quite liked the girl. She was, he learned, also one of Ranma's fiancées though the pig tailed boy claimed that she was just his best buddy.
"Anything without pork," Ryoga said as sat his pack onto the floor with a loud thud! and took one of the stools at the counter. Harry took the seat beside his friend and gave Ukyo a small smile.
"I guess I'll just have whatever you recommend," He said, knowing next to nothing about okonomiyaki, which what Ukyo served at her restaurant much like the Nekohanten served ramen.
"Alright, two special’s coming up, hold the pig," Ukyo said, quickly setting to work and in no time flat had two hot okonomiyaki out in front of the boys. "So how do you like Nerima so far, Harry?" Ukyo asked as cooked up another order for another customer sitting further down the counter.
"Err... well the town is nice enough but all of you fight a lot." Harry said honestly with a shrug. Ukyo couldn't help but chuckle at that, it was true, they did fight a lot. To someone like Harry, she supposed it seemed like a pointless thing.
"I know sugar, but we all have our reasons even if they do seem idiotic to other people." Ukyo said, not bothering to try to make excuses. If that Amazon hussy, that crazy gymnast Kodachi or that hot headed Akane would just leave her Ran-chan alone, she wouldn't have a need to fight anyone herself.
"I bet the construction companies love all of you," Harry couldn't help but comment as he remember the amount of damages he saw just from the three fights he witnessed.
"Sure do sugar, more money in their pocket," Ukyo agreed with a laugh, to her Harry was sweet just like a kid brother or cousin. "Alright you two, these are on the house!" she added as placed another pair of okonomiyakis in front of the two boys. Behind the teens, the bell above the door rang as the door opened with Ranma and Akane walked in.
~Hey Ucchan!~ Ranma called happily with a small wave, the boy's stomach growling softly as he caught a whiff of Ukyo's supreme cooking.
"Hey Ran-chan, Akane," Ukyo greeted, Akane's name not said as happily said as Ranma's. Akane just ignored it, sitting at the counter next to Harry, giving a greeting to both him and Ryoga.
"Back already P-chan? That was a short trip," Ranma commented, remember to switch to English this time, not knowing yet that Harry could already understand him thanks to the spell on him.
"Ranma! Stop teasing Ryoga-kun!" Akane yelled a slightly murderous look on her face as she glared in Ranma's direction. "I'm sorry Harry-kun, that idiot just jealous of Ryoga," Her apology, turning her attention to Harry. The boy gave the girl a slight smile, Harry wasn't too sure what he thought about Akane.
For the most part she was nice, at least to Harry. The youngest Tendo daughter seemed to like Harry right away because he was Ryoga's friend. But, the girl had a violent temper, was quick to anger, and seemed to have something against Ranma who she was engaged to. When Harry had first met Akane, she had literally pulled a giant mallet from thin air and smacked Ranma with it, sending him into the air. How the older boy came back without hardly a scratch on him was a mystery to Harry since Ranma was a muggle and didn't have magic to heal his body.
Still, once again Harry felt sorry for Ranma and personally couldn't understand how the older boy put up with Akane. Harry wouldn't have put up with the abuse for long; it was bad enough he had to endure his relatives at this date in time as it was. Harry had no plans on letting the muggles he was forced to live with go unpunished once he could legally use magic in England, but for some reason Ranma did. It made Harry wonder of the pit-tailed boy was a closet masochist to take the abuse that he did.
Harry shook his head, turning his attention back to his lunch. It wasn't any of his business really and he was trying his best not to interfere. He had enough problems back home as it was and didn't want to bring more on himself here that he already had by teleporting himself here.
"Hey honey, I don't mean to pry, but don't you have any other clothing than that? Those look like they're about to fall off ya," Ukyo asked, catching Harry's attention. She was giving a pointed to look down at the oversize shirt and pants he was wearing, hand-me downs from his cousin Dudley. He had been cleaning them every day with a cleaning spell, and was Harry oh so happy when he found out that Japan didn't have the underage restriction that Britain did. Now he could use his wand without fear of a notice from the Improper Use of Magic Office in the Ministry of Magic, he was too far away for the trace to pick up that he was doing magic during the summer, since it was all he had to wear.
"Well... no. I didn't come with any else and I don't have any money to buy other clothing," Harry said finally. He didn't even know where the magic community was in Tokyo and even if he did, he wasn't sure if he would be able to draw money from his trust fund account since it was back home.
"Oh, we could take you shopping!" Akane said from Harry side, looking up as she caught on to what Ukyo was likely thinking. "And I'm sure I could get Nabiki to lean me money for this," She added, nodding her head. Surely her older sister would help with this.
"Who's Nabiki?" Harry asked, feeling a tiny bit of dread as both Ranma and Ryoga, Ranma more than Ryoga, had looks of pity and remorse on their faces.
"You sure you wanna include Nabiki in this? Yer sister is gonna want something in exchange and if she can figure out a way to do it, she's gonna find a way to make money out of him," Ranma said, jerking a thumb in Harry's direction at the last part.
"Well, I don't have enough to buy him good clothing. What about you Ukyo?" Akane said with a frown.
"I might be able to spare a bit, but a lot of my extra money when to fix my shop front when Kodachi destroyed it," The other girl said with a shake of her head. Harry had already figured out that the two girls wanted to take him shopping for clothing that fit, and while he knew he needed and even wanted clothing that fit for once other than his robes, he couldn't let Akane and Ukyo spend their money on him. Plus, the way Ranma was talking about this Nabiki girl worried him. She sounded like she would fit Slytherin easily.
"Uh, you don't have to take me shopping," Harry said as he pushed his empty plate away.
"But you can't just keep wearing that the whole time your here. It doesn't even fit you, it looks like it would fit someone who is 5 times your size," Ukyo pointed out, making Harry sigh. He knew that both girls were right but he still didn't want them to spend their money on him.
"Their hand-me down from my cousin Dudley, who is in fact much bigger than me," He explained, picking at the edge of a sleeve. The girls and even Ranma frowned at this while Ryoga sighed as he remembered the bully that had picked on Harry when they met the first time. He could only imagine how much bigger the fat gaki had gotten.
"I'll take him shopping, and I can pay for it," Ryoga cut in, surprising the two girls from their conversation. And Harry as well, turning around to protest.
"Really Ryoga? How sweet," Akane cooed softly, stopping Harry's protest and making both him and Ryoga blushed softly. She then grabbed a pen and paper out of her purse, scribbling something down on it then handing it to Harry. "These are the directions to the shopping center here in Nermia."
"Alright" Harry said with a sigh of defeat, tucking the paper into his pocket then grabbing Ryoga by the arm to drag him outside so he could try and change the other boy's mind about buying him clothing. As the door shut behind the two green eye boys, Akane turned to Ukyo and both of them giggling softly. Ranma gave the two of them strange looks.
~What's so funny?~ He asked, happily switching back to Japanese, a frown on his face.
~They are so cute together,~ Akane said with another giggle, Ukyo nodding her head in agreement.
*****
"Ryoga, you don't need to buy me clothing," Harry said as soon as they were out side of the door.
"I don't have to, but I want to," Ryoga responded, sighing as he reached up to rub the back of his neck. "Akane-chan and Ukyo-san are right; you can't keep using a cleaning charm on those rags you got from your fat cousin. If it makes you uncomfortable, you can just pay me back. Or we could go to Gringotts so you can get money there"
"My trust fund account is back in England," Harry reminded the other boy with a shake of his head.
"I'm sure the goblins could give you money and withdraw the difference from the branch back there," Ryoga insisted, trying to wear down the other teen. Harry still frowned to himself, thinking it over. He supposed that made sense, finally nodding his head.
"So, how do we get into the magical community here in Japan?" He asked, looking back up at the other teen.
"There's an entryway in the shopping center Akane-chan mentioned," Ryoga said after thinking about it. Harry nodded again, grabbing the older boy's hand to lead him to the mentioned shopping center.
*****
Harry looked around with a look of wonder on his face as he took in Wizarding community of Tokyo, known as Mahou Village. Mahou Village was split into several streets and alleys, the main street called Yummei Lane and were where the two dark hair teens entered. It was much different from Diagon Alley, clearer and more modern compared to what Harry was use to back home. The largest difference was that unlike in England, where the non-human races weren't common to see thanks to how people treated them and seemed to stick to Knockturn Alley, several races were walking around without fear from their human counterparts.
"Wow," Harry said softly, eyes following a tall female demon as she walked past before turning back Ryoga. "This is so much different from Diagon Alley, I've never seen so many different races in one place."
"This is nothing compared to some of the areas in America," Ryoga said with a laugh, looking around for a moment before pointing toward a familiar white stone building. "There's Gringotts."
"The goblins don't change much on the design do they?" Harry commented as his eyes followed to where Ryoga was pointing before leading the way there.
"Nope, most of the other branches I've seen look like this too," Ryoga agreed as they entered the bank. Harry looked around and quickly spotted a empty teller, quickly walking over.
~Yes?~ The goblin behind the desk said in their familiar no-nonsense way, not looking up from the papers he was looking at.
"Ahhh, Look I need to withdraw some money but my account is back in England in Diagon Alley, is there any way I can withdraw money from here?" Harry asked, the goblin looking up at the British teen finally.
"Name?" the goblin asked in English this time, picking up a quill.
"Harry Potter," Harry watched as the goblin shuffled through some papers, finally coming to stop at a sheet. The goblin teller dragged a clawed finger down the list on the paper, coming to rest after a moment.
"Ah yes, Potter-sama there will be no need for a transfer from your vaults in the Diagon Alley branch, you simply can withdraw from your vault here," The goblin said, his tone a lot nicer.
"Excuse me? What vault?"
******
^Do you see it?^ One girl asked the one beside her softly, eyes trained up into the sky.
^Yes, it is hard to miss a bird with feathers that white Deo,^ the second girl said, reaching up and behind her to withdraw an arrow from her quiver. ^It won't make much of a meal but the feathers are worth it. A couple of those braided in my hair... I'm sure to get Spice's attention.^
^Hurry up then Comb, before it flies away!^ the first girl, Deodorant, or just Deo for short, said jumping up and down excitedly. The second girl, Comb, notched her arrow into her bow before drawing the string back and letting the arrow fly. High up in the air, Hedwig let out a startled and enraged squawk as the arrow priced her right wing. Unable to keep herself in the air, the snowy white owl started to plummet to the ground.
^Damn, I only got it in the wing,^ Comb muttered as she watched Hedwig fall to the ground.
^Well, the fall will kill it then,^ Deo said with a shrug as she too watched, a look of horror creeping up onto her face. ^Oh no! It's going to fall into Jusenkyo!^
^Double damn, the elders would have our hides if we went there just to get a small kill that like,^ Comb cursed before sighing and standing up. ^Let’s head on then.^ The two Amazon warriors walked away back to their village, Deo pouting all the way.
Meanwhile, Hedwig finished her decent to the ground, landing it a splash in one of the many, many pools. Hearing the splash, the guide hurried out of his hut to see what unluckily soul or animal landed in which cursed spring. He spotted the person a few minutes later, a lovely young woman with long white hair and sharp yellow eyes trying to drag herself from a pool, the hair sticking to her pale skin like glue.
^Aiyah, why is it always this pool?^ The man asked as he hurried over, bending over and staring to help the young woman out of the Nyannichuan. He blushed heavily as he noticed she was naked, turning his head away. ^Plum! Bring a shirt out for our new guest!^
Hedwig made distressed noise, completely confused about what was happening. She stumble around, landing on her new human rump as the Jusenkyo guide finally got her out of the pool and a young girl ran up with a shirt in her hands.
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Edit 6-15-14: Mostly fixed grammar and spelling errors. Added just a bit to the story here and there help the story flow a bit better.
A Lost Friend
By: USA Tiger
Author Note: To let everyone know, the planned parings so far are, as said in the first chapter, Harry/Ryoga plus Sirius/Hedwig and Ranma/Shampoo. Fan’s of the Ranma ½ series will have a pretty good idea how the Sirius/Hedwig pairing will be possible. This story does have Male/Male pairings in it!
Chapter 3
After two days of staying in Nermia, Harry was quick to realize that the place had a certain amount of strangeness and chaos that almost made the Wizarding world back in England look normal. Almost being the key word here.
So far he had witnessed three different fights, all of them against Ranma. One was between Ranma and some guy that wore a strange blue outfit and was wielding a wooden sword, calling the pig-tailed teen a 'vile sorcerer' and demanded that he release his hold over 'pig tailed girl' and 'the lovely Tendo Akane’. After seeing Harry's extremely confused look, Ryoga had finally took the time to explain that this sort of thing was normal and that the boy was called Tatewaki Kuno, or just Kuno for short, and was an idiot to boot. Kuno believed that Ranma's natural male form and his cursed female form were two different people no matter how many times everyone had tried to explain to him, or show him as it were in some cases, that they were the one and the same the older teenage boy refused to believe it. On top of that, he was a wanna be samurai and believed it was his duty to save Ranma's female half from his male one along with a girl named Akane, whom Harry had met later. Ryoga found it funny because out of all the male fighters there, he was the only one who was a real 'sorcerer'. Not that he had hinted to anyone other than the Amazons that he was of magical stock, Ryoga tried to keep his magic and his marital arts separate.
He was glad that Ryoga and the Joketsuzoku Elder Cologne had decided that it would be a good idea to cast a translation charm on him and Shampoo, the spell was how Ryoga got around in other countries when he was out of Japan. It allowed him to hear everything said to him sound like it was in English but allowed others to hear what he said like he was speaking their native language. It worked the same from Shampoo but for her it was in her native form of Chinese. Now he didn't feel clueless when he heard people speak and could understand just a bit as to what was going on around him.
The second fight he had witnessed was between Ranma and Ryoga themselves. In the end, several buildings were damaged and walls destroyed, mostly by Ryoga. When he asked Ryoga just what was going on, the older boy merely shrugged and explained that for the last few years he had tried to beat Ranma in a fight to prove he was a better Martial Artist, mostly because he had been angry at the other teen for several things.
According to Ryoga, Ranma was the reason he turned into a pig. But, recently, Ryoga had calmed down enough to let go of the anger he had of Ranma, and while the two of them were still rivals, it was more like a fun spar than anything. In truth, the two Japanese boys were the only two that could give each other a decent workout. Ranma was simply the best in the area followed by Ryoga, who was stronger at least, and Shampoo not including Cologne and someone called Happosai.
The third fight he had seen was between Ranma, who had been a girl at the time, and a pretty black hair girl wearing a gymnastic leotard and wielding a ribbon like a whip. The girl, whose name was Kodachi Kuno and was the younger sister of the boy Ranma had a fight with before, and had an insane laugh that could make even Bellatrix Lestrange cringe, at least that's Harry believed. Harry learned that Kodachi also thought Ranma's two forms were separate people but unlike her brother, no one had gotten the chance to either tell her or show her it was simply a curse as such, she believed that Ranma's female half was a rival for his male's half love. So it was still up in the air if she was blind as her brother Kuno.
In fact, it seemed that most of the chaos that happened around Nerima seemed to center around Ranma in one way or another. Harry felt somewhat sorry for the boy, after all he knew what it was like to be the center of unwanted attention and to have everything happen to him. Ranma didn't seem to like it much either, but seemed to put up with it, Merlin knew why. Harry was quickly informed that the older teen's life was centered around being in some sort of fight almost daily, was engaged to several girls thanks to his father Genma, that one there nearly boggled Harry's mind and he was quite sure that wasn't legal. To one girl yes, but several?!, and any event or adventure that happened seemed to have Ranma right in the big fat middle with his 'friends' and 'rivals', who were dubbed the 'Nerima Wrecking Crew', right along with him.
Shampoo it turned out was one of the girls set to marry Ranma, according to her any outsider male that defeated a Joketsuzoku female, which reminded Harry of the legend of Amazons he read in his Muggle school, was given the 'Kiss of Marriage' which was a kiss on the lips and was considered their husband. Out of pure curiosity, Harry had asked if any other strange rules like that applied, turns out there was one other was called the 'Kiss of Death' and applied to outsider women. More or less, if an outsider woman defeated a Joketsuzoku woman, then she was to be kissed then killed. It was very barbaric, at least to Harry, but he could see Shampoo was very proud of her heritage much like the Pure Blood witch and wizards back in England.
~Can you tell me which way Nerima is?~ Harry turned to face Ryoga, who was looking down at a map with a confused look on his face. The British boy laughed softly, making Ryoga look up. "Oh, guess I'm here then. Unless we're back in England," Ryoga started to look around to verify just where he was, it was so hard to tell where he was with his sense of direction.
"No, we're still in Japan," Harry reassured Ryoga. The older boy gave a relieved smile, tucking his map into his pack.
"Good, that means I was only lost for a little while," Ryoga said happily. "I don't suppose you can lead me to Uyko's, I'm famished."
"Alright, if I can remember the way," Harry said, grabbing Ryoga's hand making the other boy blush as Harry lead him away.
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~Welcome to Ucchan’s!~ A pretty, long hair girl said from behind the grill. "Well hello Ryoga-honey, Harry-honey, what can I get you two?" the girl, Ukyo Kuonji, asked with a smile as she noticed the two dark hair teens. Harry had been introduced to Ukyo the day before and quite liked the girl. She was, he learned, also one of Ranma's fiancées though the pig tailed boy claimed that she was just his best buddy.
"Anything without pork," Ryoga said as sat his pack onto the floor with a loud thud! and took one of the stools at the counter. Harry took the seat beside his friend and gave Ukyo a small smile.
"I guess I'll just have whatever you recommend," He said, knowing next to nothing about okonomiyaki, which what Ukyo served at her restaurant much like the Nekohanten served ramen.
"Alright, two special’s coming up, hold the pig," Ukyo said, quickly setting to work and in no time flat had two hot okonomiyaki out in front of the boys. "So how do you like Nerima so far, Harry?" Ukyo asked as cooked up another order for another customer sitting further down the counter.
"Err... well the town is nice enough but all of you fight a lot." Harry said honestly with a shrug. Ukyo couldn't help but chuckle at that, it was true, they did fight a lot. To someone like Harry, she supposed it seemed like a pointless thing.
"I know sugar, but we all have our reasons even if they do seem idiotic to other people." Ukyo said, not bothering to try to make excuses. If that Amazon hussy, that crazy gymnast Kodachi or that hot headed Akane would just leave her Ran-chan alone, she wouldn't have a need to fight anyone herself.
"I bet the construction companies love all of you," Harry couldn't help but comment as he remember the amount of damages he saw just from the three fights he witnessed.
"Sure do sugar, more money in their pocket," Ukyo agreed with a laugh, to her Harry was sweet just like a kid brother or cousin. "Alright you two, these are on the house!" she added as placed another pair of okonomiyakis in front of the two boys. Behind the teens, the bell above the door rang as the door opened with Ranma and Akane walked in.
~Hey Ucchan!~ Ranma called happily with a small wave, the boy's stomach growling softly as he caught a whiff of Ukyo's supreme cooking.
"Hey Ran-chan, Akane," Ukyo greeted, Akane's name not said as happily said as Ranma's. Akane just ignored it, sitting at the counter next to Harry, giving a greeting to both him and Ryoga.
"Back already P-chan? That was a short trip," Ranma commented, remember to switch to English this time, not knowing yet that Harry could already understand him thanks to the spell on him.
"Ranma! Stop teasing Ryoga-kun!" Akane yelled a slightly murderous look on her face as she glared in Ranma's direction. "I'm sorry Harry-kun, that idiot just jealous of Ryoga," Her apology, turning her attention to Harry. The boy gave the girl a slight smile, Harry wasn't too sure what he thought about Akane.
For the most part she was nice, at least to Harry. The youngest Tendo daughter seemed to like Harry right away because he was Ryoga's friend. But, the girl had a violent temper, was quick to anger, and seemed to have something against Ranma who she was engaged to. When Harry had first met Akane, she had literally pulled a giant mallet from thin air and smacked Ranma with it, sending him into the air. How the older boy came back without hardly a scratch on him was a mystery to Harry since Ranma was a muggle and didn't have magic to heal his body.
Still, once again Harry felt sorry for Ranma and personally couldn't understand how the older boy put up with Akane. Harry wouldn't have put up with the abuse for long; it was bad enough he had to endure his relatives at this date in time as it was. Harry had no plans on letting the muggles he was forced to live with go unpunished once he could legally use magic in England, but for some reason Ranma did. It made Harry wonder of the pit-tailed boy was a closet masochist to take the abuse that he did.
Harry shook his head, turning his attention back to his lunch. It wasn't any of his business really and he was trying his best not to interfere. He had enough problems back home as it was and didn't want to bring more on himself here that he already had by teleporting himself here.
"Hey honey, I don't mean to pry, but don't you have any other clothing than that? Those look like they're about to fall off ya," Ukyo asked, catching Harry's attention. She was giving a pointed to look down at the oversize shirt and pants he was wearing, hand-me downs from his cousin Dudley. He had been cleaning them every day with a cleaning spell, and was Harry oh so happy when he found out that Japan didn't have the underage restriction that Britain did. Now he could use his wand without fear of a notice from the Improper Use of Magic Office in the Ministry of Magic, he was too far away for the trace to pick up that he was doing magic during the summer, since it was all he had to wear.
"Well... no. I didn't come with any else and I don't have any money to buy other clothing," Harry said finally. He didn't even know where the magic community was in Tokyo and even if he did, he wasn't sure if he would be able to draw money from his trust fund account since it was back home.
"Oh, we could take you shopping!" Akane said from Harry side, looking up as she caught on to what Ukyo was likely thinking. "And I'm sure I could get Nabiki to lean me money for this," She added, nodding her head. Surely her older sister would help with this.
"Who's Nabiki?" Harry asked, feeling a tiny bit of dread as both Ranma and Ryoga, Ranma more than Ryoga, had looks of pity and remorse on their faces.
"You sure you wanna include Nabiki in this? Yer sister is gonna want something in exchange and if she can figure out a way to do it, she's gonna find a way to make money out of him," Ranma said, jerking a thumb in Harry's direction at the last part.
"Well, I don't have enough to buy him good clothing. What about you Ukyo?" Akane said with a frown.
"I might be able to spare a bit, but a lot of my extra money when to fix my shop front when Kodachi destroyed it," The other girl said with a shake of her head. Harry had already figured out that the two girls wanted to take him shopping for clothing that fit, and while he knew he needed and even wanted clothing that fit for once other than his robes, he couldn't let Akane and Ukyo spend their money on him. Plus, the way Ranma was talking about this Nabiki girl worried him. She sounded like she would fit Slytherin easily.
"Uh, you don't have to take me shopping," Harry said as he pushed his empty plate away.
"But you can't just keep wearing that the whole time your here. It doesn't even fit you, it looks like it would fit someone who is 5 times your size," Ukyo pointed out, making Harry sigh. He knew that both girls were right but he still didn't want them to spend their money on him.
"Their hand-me down from my cousin Dudley, who is in fact much bigger than me," He explained, picking at the edge of a sleeve. The girls and even Ranma frowned at this while Ryoga sighed as he remembered the bully that had picked on Harry when they met the first time. He could only imagine how much bigger the fat gaki had gotten.
"I'll take him shopping, and I can pay for it," Ryoga cut in, surprising the two girls from their conversation. And Harry as well, turning around to protest.
"Really Ryoga? How sweet," Akane cooed softly, stopping Harry's protest and making both him and Ryoga blushed softly. She then grabbed a pen and paper out of her purse, scribbling something down on it then handing it to Harry. "These are the directions to the shopping center here in Nermia."
"Alright" Harry said with a sigh of defeat, tucking the paper into his pocket then grabbing Ryoga by the arm to drag him outside so he could try and change the other boy's mind about buying him clothing. As the door shut behind the two green eye boys, Akane turned to Ukyo and both of them giggling softly. Ranma gave the two of them strange looks.
~What's so funny?~ He asked, happily switching back to Japanese, a frown on his face.
~They are so cute together,~ Akane said with another giggle, Ukyo nodding her head in agreement.
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"Ryoga, you don't need to buy me clothing," Harry said as soon as they were out side of the door.
"I don't have to, but I want to," Ryoga responded, sighing as he reached up to rub the back of his neck. "Akane-chan and Ukyo-san are right; you can't keep using a cleaning charm on those rags you got from your fat cousin. If it makes you uncomfortable, you can just pay me back. Or we could go to Gringotts so you can get money there"
"My trust fund account is back in England," Harry reminded the other boy with a shake of his head.
"I'm sure the goblins could give you money and withdraw the difference from the branch back there," Ryoga insisted, trying to wear down the other teen. Harry still frowned to himself, thinking it over. He supposed that made sense, finally nodding his head.
"So, how do we get into the magical community here in Japan?" He asked, looking back up at the other teen.
"There's an entryway in the shopping center Akane-chan mentioned," Ryoga said after thinking about it. Harry nodded again, grabbing the older boy's hand to lead him to the mentioned shopping center.
*****
Harry looked around with a look of wonder on his face as he took in Wizarding community of Tokyo, known as Mahou Village. Mahou Village was split into several streets and alleys, the main street called Yummei Lane and were where the two dark hair teens entered. It was much different from Diagon Alley, clearer and more modern compared to what Harry was use to back home. The largest difference was that unlike in England, where the non-human races weren't common to see thanks to how people treated them and seemed to stick to Knockturn Alley, several races were walking around without fear from their human counterparts.
"Wow," Harry said softly, eyes following a tall female demon as she walked past before turning back Ryoga. "This is so much different from Diagon Alley, I've never seen so many different races in one place."
"This is nothing compared to some of the areas in America," Ryoga said with a laugh, looking around for a moment before pointing toward a familiar white stone building. "There's Gringotts."
"The goblins don't change much on the design do they?" Harry commented as his eyes followed to where Ryoga was pointing before leading the way there.
"Nope, most of the other branches I've seen look like this too," Ryoga agreed as they entered the bank. Harry looked around and quickly spotted a empty teller, quickly walking over.
~Yes?~ The goblin behind the desk said in their familiar no-nonsense way, not looking up from the papers he was looking at.
"Ahhh, Look I need to withdraw some money but my account is back in England in Diagon Alley, is there any way I can withdraw money from here?" Harry asked, the goblin looking up at the British teen finally.
"Name?" the goblin asked in English this time, picking up a quill.
"Harry Potter," Harry watched as the goblin shuffled through some papers, finally coming to stop at a sheet. The goblin teller dragged a clawed finger down the list on the paper, coming to rest after a moment.
"Ah yes, Potter-sama there will be no need for a transfer from your vaults in the Diagon Alley branch, you simply can withdraw from your vault here," The goblin said, his tone a lot nicer.
"Excuse me? What vault?"
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^Do you see it?^ One girl asked the one beside her softly, eyes trained up into the sky.
^Yes, it is hard to miss a bird with feathers that white Deo,^ the second girl said, reaching up and behind her to withdraw an arrow from her quiver. ^It won't make much of a meal but the feathers are worth it. A couple of those braided in my hair... I'm sure to get Spice's attention.^
^Hurry up then Comb, before it flies away!^ the first girl, Deodorant, or just Deo for short, said jumping up and down excitedly. The second girl, Comb, notched her arrow into her bow before drawing the string back and letting the arrow fly. High up in the air, Hedwig let out a startled and enraged squawk as the arrow priced her right wing. Unable to keep herself in the air, the snowy white owl started to plummet to the ground.
^Damn, I only got it in the wing,^ Comb muttered as she watched Hedwig fall to the ground.
^Well, the fall will kill it then,^ Deo said with a shrug as she too watched, a look of horror creeping up onto her face. ^Oh no! It's going to fall into Jusenkyo!^
^Double damn, the elders would have our hides if we went there just to get a small kill that like,^ Comb cursed before sighing and standing up. ^Let’s head on then.^ The two Amazon warriors walked away back to their village, Deo pouting all the way.
Meanwhile, Hedwig finished her decent to the ground, landing it a splash in one of the many, many pools. Hearing the splash, the guide hurried out of his hut to see what unluckily soul or animal landed in which cursed spring. He spotted the person a few minutes later, a lovely young woman with long white hair and sharp yellow eyes trying to drag herself from a pool, the hair sticking to her pale skin like glue.
^Aiyah, why is it always this pool?^ The man asked as he hurried over, bending over and staring to help the young woman out of the Nyannichuan. He blushed heavily as he noticed she was naked, turning his head away. ^Plum! Bring a shirt out for our new guest!^
Hedwig made distressed noise, completely confused about what was happening. She stumble around, landing on her new human rump as the Jusenkyo guide finally got her out of the pool and a young girl ran up with a shirt in her hands.
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Edit 6-15-14: Mostly fixed grammar and spelling errors. Added just a bit to the story here and there help the story flow a bit better.
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