Unfinished Gems

Soul Brothers - 16

"Dear Hermione,

Long time no owl! Sorry I haven't sent you anything in so long, but I have been so busy that I haven't had the time. How's the black hole doing without me to hang around with?

I'm sure you're probably worried I was kidnapped or something during summer vacation, but it couldn't be farther from the truth. I'm currently with my adopted Mum and having a blast, just ask Sirius!

I've been making friends with all sorts of people, and possibly a few allies against the bumbling idiot who calls himself a dark lord.

With what I've had to fight these past few months, he's an ant.

So how is Hogwarts treating you without me there? Has the homework become harder, with OWLs coming up?

Use Hedwig to send me a response back, since she is the only owl who can possibly find me at this point.

Ta,

Harry."

Hermione read the letter in disbelief. While she could get the joke concerning Ron being a black hole, she couldn't believe he waited so long to write her!

She got a quill and started writing her reply. Hedwig waited patiently for the girl to finish, before flying off.

Hermione frowned when she saw a bolt of red light try and hit the white owl. Hedwig avoided it with disturbing ease, despite having her back to it at the time.

~

Momo spotted Hedwig, who landed on her arm. The owl had come to accept Momo as one of the few people allowed to use her. She took the white bird to her captain, who grinned.

"Hello girl. So she sent me a reply after all?"

His face grew pale when he started to read it.

"Bloody hell...Yet another reason not to go home anytime soon."

Yoru read with horror at the rather...descriptive...methods Hermione had written down. She was rather irate that he hadn't written her in so long.

"What is it Taicho?"

"Someone who scares me more than you when I insult him," said Yoru bluntly.

Thankfully the letter was written in romanji (English) otherwise, Momo would find out about Hermione and make his life hell.

Yoru looked at his desk in horror. Somehow his paperwork had tripled in less than an hour. Normally it barely reached his neck after his squad pranked someone.

Now it was well over his head. Momo's desk was worse than his, if that was possible.

"How the hell did this happen?"

Momo winced.

"Sixth Seat Ryusuke Shin pranked the soutaicho...and this is the work that he nearly destroyed."

"And why is there so much of it?"

"It's the budget information for Squad Eleven."

Yoru nodded. Now the amount made some sense.

Zaraki's squad was notorious for causing massive amounts of damage, and most of this appeared to be from his weekly sparring sessions with Ichigo and Shirosaki.

Yoru and Momo quietly went to work, and upon seeing the amount of papers on the desk, their squad wisely avoided the office.

Yoru noted that around two in the morning, Momo was starting to nod off. Seeing no point for his lieutenant to suffer through the same hell, he chirped lightly, "Go take a nap. The evil papers will be there when you wake up."