Unfinished Gems

Soul Brothers - 5

Yoru looked up when he saw the owl tapping at the window. It was bearing a letter from the twins.

'Hello Yoru (hope we spelled it right)

Things are going fine back home, no worries. Anyway, we were hoping to take you up on that offe4r or a shop in Japan. Mum's been driving us up the wall by making us do endless chores.

Think you could lend us some gold to get a portkey to Japan?

(By the way, we have something new we need tested and hoped you would help us out. It's something to get you out of all that extra homework you mentioned. We're calling them Skiving Snackboxes).

Love Gred and Forge.'

Yoru grinned and called Hedwig. He wrote a quick note to the goblins and included the twin's vault number (he had helped them set it up exclusively for their shop). She went off to transfer an extra thousand galleons into their account. He only hoped it wouldn't cost more than that.

~

George looked over their account statement in disbelief.

"Cor..."

Fred looked and gaped.

"He sure doesn't do things by halves, does he?"

His double shook his head. The two quickly packed for their trip and sent their surrogate brother a thank you and told him roughly when they would arrive.

International portkeys took at least an hour for each country they passed. It was generally recommended to get an expandable trunk and sleep it off.

Hedwig flew off to find her master.

~

Yoru was waiting with a grinning Ichigo and a curious Rukia.

Once she got over the fact that Ichigo's brother not only knew more about the soul society than Ichigo, but happened to be a soul reaper himself, she slowly grew to like the boy.

Of course, it didn't hurt that Yoru had introduced her to Alyss, who was more than happy to play with only her rabbit and bunny dolls. (Rukia, once she got over her initial reaction to Alyss' nature, quickly became friends with the insane girl).

A trunk landed with a solid 'thump' and Yoru quickly opened it. Much to the shock of Rukia (and amusement of the boys) a pair of identical red heads popped out of the trunk.

Yoru laughed and tackled them both in a hug. The twins laughed, and soon Ichigo was introduced to the infamous terror twins that he had heard so much about.

Ichigo's jaw did drop when he learned how much Harry had transferred to their account.

"You really don't know the value of money, do you?" he said, shaking his head.

"Please, it's not like I have any better use for those bloody coins. Oh, and you can keep what's left over to help with the shop," said Yoru as an afterthought.

It took little time to get the twins situated. They only needed a minor translator charm to get settled in. In a week they would go looking for a place to set up shop.

(In the meantime, Ichigo and Yoru agreed to test their Skiving Snackboxes for them. It made a better excuse for why they cut class all the time).

Much to the surprise of the twins, some of the more volatile snacks didn't work on either Ichigo or Yoru. Rukia, when given one to see if it was just the two of them, was very surprised to find that she had the same results.

In the spirit of figuring out what was going on, they tricked Urahara into eating one. Same results, though he had an amusing face at the taste.

(Frankly Yoru was terrified of what would happen if Urahara and the twins started collaborating).