Okay, since I wrote the Hufflepuff Kinako thing yesterday, my brain’s been stuck in that world and I just… Someone stop me because I love this universe way too much already but
Imagine if Fei is a wizard but no one knew because his SSC powers negated the magic. During the times that Kinako spent with her son before she died, she was convinced that he was a squib.
Fei having bursts of accidental magic after his SSC powers were taken away and everyone being convinced that the antidote didn’t work for him. It only messed up his control of his powers.
An owl standing on Fei’s bedpost on his fifteenth birthday. Fei screaming before finding out that the bird carried a letter inviting him to a school for magic and apologizing for not inviting him when he was 11 like they should have done because they didn’t know that he was magical.
Asurei finding out for the first time that magic existed.
Fei beginning to go to one of Japan’s school of magic, he was far behind the other students but he showed a surprising aptitude for magic, particularly wandless spells which he mastered quickly despite only having been at school for a few months.
A teacher who was growing old and delirious seeing Fei and calling him Kinako. Then shaking his head when he sees that this was a boy with green hair and not the brown haired hyper student he used to teach. Fei was too shocked to say something at first but then ran to him and asked him how he knew his mother.
“She was my student. Brilliant young girl. Terrible at potions but then she began taking it seriously when she was around 14. She was particularly stubborn about learning how to make healing potions.”
They started talking a lot after that and the teacher began showing him the letters that Kinako sent him. One of them mentioned diaries that she hid somewhere in the school which she forgot to take with her during graduation.
Fei started searching for the diaries like they were the most important thing, he let his grades slip and his spells grew sloppier. He got into trouble quite a bit too.
He finds the diaries one day, and skipped classes to read them, trying to find out more about the woman who didn’t make it past the Interruption Point and the world she kept hidden from everyone.
The diaries started at age 13 and it mentioned how forgetful she was since she left diaries at her old school. (”Oh, mum….”) After her 14th summer, Kinako’s diaries grew strange, mentioning names like Captain, Shinsuke, Tsurugi, and Aoi and how she hoped she would see them again. Fei started when he read this, realising for the first time that Kinako already knew about magic when the whole Chrono Stone ordeal happened. But she hid it from everyone like she hid the fact that she was his mother.
He read about Kinako’s confessions to how she felt during some of the Chrono Stone days that she couldn’t stop thinking about until she wrote them down. How horrible she felt when she couldn’t accept that Asurei was who she would marry and she’d have a son named Fei. How useless she felt when she knew spells she could have used to help out but couldn’t use them since she was underage. The burst of magic she nearly released when Fei attacked Tenma and the others. (He cried when he realised that all the times he was mentioned, she made sure she called him ‘my little rabbit’ like she did during his last time jump.)
He finally realised why Kinako started practicing potions more when she was 14. She wanted to live and see him grow up, she was using the potions to help her deteriorating health.
When Fei got back home that summer, Asurei asked him for help to clean the attic. There, they found Kinako’s wand, potions, cauldrons, robes, and her notes and diaries. Asurei was shocked when he realised that Kinako was a witch and he never knew.
Fei stopped cleaning the attic then, taking all of Kinako’s diaries into his room. He stayed up all night to read them. One of them mentioned why she didn’t want to tell Asurei about her magic- Fei thought it was just as bad a reason as why Asurei abandoned him but he supposed both his parents had a right to make some bad decisions every now and then. (Asurei laughed when he told him this.)
Fei spent his summer with Saru and all of his friends (none of them knew where he really went to school and he learnt how hard it was not to slip up and mention anything about magic) but he added visiting his grandparents to his list. He loved hearing of how badly Kinako messed up with her spells and potions.
On his last year at magic school, they had a visit to Hogwarts. Fei found Kinako’s first few diaries stored in the kitchen under a house elf’s care. She gave it to him, saying that he and the missus had the same eyes.
The first sentence in her first diary was ‘Family is everything.’
They all got to try on the Sorting Hat to see which house they would have been in. Fei wondered which house his mother was in.
‘You’d do well in Gryffindor but Hufflepuff would suit you as well.’
‘Oh, who’s this in your memories? Kinako, huh? She was a brilliant girl. Helga Hufflepuff would have been proud of her…’
“M-mum…? She was a Hufflepuff?”
‘Oh, yes. Wasn’t hard to sort her at all. Could have been a Gryffindor but valued loyalty far too much. You, on the other hand… Well, I suppose you’d make a good G-’
The hat spent a while in silence, looking through his memories and feelings before it spoke again.
“I see… Yes, that’s right. In that case it’d best be..’
