A/N: I welcome you all to read my story about Harry Potter and very famous orange-haired shinigami.

For older readers, I announce that chapters have been rewritten. Major flaws with timeline has been fixed. Well, let's say its better than before.

My mother tongue isn't English. Inform me about any major mistakes if there is, since I am a lazy bastard who doesn't want a beta reader. Hopefully they wont distract your reading experience.

"Thoughts"

"Zangetsu"

"Hollow"

War after the War: Chapter 1

Vernon sniffled while reading magazine. He wasn't known as a patient man. When FINALLY their life had started going normally, they got a letter from his wife's dead cousin's husband.

"HEYA!"

It had said.

"You still remember me dear Petunia! Isshin Kurosaki from Japan here! We haven't talked since that horrible incident with our loved one and I wish that we could interact more from now on! Besides this side of our family have not been discovered by my LOVELY grandchildren! YES, your cousins have wonderful kids as well!

That's why I'm sending my oldest grandson there for rest of the summer! Ichigo will be THRILLED when I tell him!"

So he hadn't even told his grandson that he was going to other side of the world to unknown people? More important, he didn't even ASK US that CAN he come here!

"He's fifteen, so I'm sure that he will be good friends with your son!"

Of course they didn't know about Harry. Did they know about Lily's accident? Vernon could vaguely remember how Petunia had once told him that they had cousins in Japan.

"I hope your life is going well! I would LOVE to come myself too but I have my clinic to take care of."

Clinic? Vernon could remember this older man from when he was younger. He couldn't still be working, right? He had to be over sixty years old already! Ah but that was a good thing. He wasn't coming along! This man seemed to be hyperactive and mentally ill, maybe going senile. Vernon hated people who lived with their heads in the clouds.

"Oh well, he will arrive in 16. July about 1 p.m. Hope you have fun in there!

WITH LOVE: ISSHIN KUROSAKI"

Who used capital letters like that? Only kids as he knew. And in the end of the letter was crappy drawing with a house and some stick-people standing in the front of it.

"I seriously hope that he didn't draw that one…"

Vernon threw the magazine on the table. It was 16. Of July, so he would be arriving today. Damn. Only good thing was that he was taking a cab so they didn't need to pick him up. Clock was nearing 1 p.m. He would arrive soon. Petunia had cleaned house even better than normally (Is that even possible?). Every place should shine so they could make good impression, even if he was 15 years old kid.

Dudley wore one of his best suits and Vernon had said to Harry that he needs to stay hidden. Of course he would be introduced because this… Ichigo was staying so long. It was almost impossible to hidden him so long even if they wanted that. It just wasn't time yet. He just hoped that Isshin's grandson would be more calm and normal than he seemed to be.

Petunia couldn't remember her cousins' names, since Lily was the one who had been in better contact with them. One of them was named Karen or Karin, but that was all.

His thoughts were interrupted when he heard familiar 'DING DONG' from the door.

"HE'S HERE!" Vernon got up from the chair: "HARRY, STAY IN THE YOUR ROOM! AND DUDLEY! GO TO OPEN THE DOOR!"

He checked that his shirt was straight and walked to the corridor.

"Orange hair?" was his first thought: "It can't be good sign."

He stood in front of the square-shaped house. Why the hell all houses looked same? It was like from the some American soap opera where life was wonderful and bad things didn't exist. Maybe they think same way in here. It was kind of creepy.

He sighed and lifted his trunk. "Why the hell dad wanted to send me here?" he could still remember discussion which he had with his crazy father.

"WHAT!? WHAT THE HELL?! YOU ARE SENDING ME TO ENGLAND TO LIVE WITH THEM!? AND I HAVE MY DUTIES TO DO! I can't just take vacation you know!"

"I have taken care of that. And it seems that you got some mission to England. I talked with the head captain. When you arrive there, you will first be contacted with Spirit Government of Britain. They will tell you more about that. Yama-jii didn't tell me much but I think it will be a bit longer mission. You don't need to do any paperwork while being there and hell butterflies will carry reports to you so don't worry!" Isshin changed his serious tone to joyful again.

"STILL! Why the hell they didn't tell me directly about that? Why you needed to tell me this information?"

"But my son! They are family!" Isshin said ignoring the question.

"BUT… HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND? What if Petunia recognizes me? I still look same as years ago! What are you thinking old Goat-face!?"

"I told them that you are actually my grandson. So basically you are your own son! So resemblance is just expected! Ichigo Junior!"

Then he had kicked his father to chin.

His father had jumped against the picture of his mom and started to cry: "Dear Masaki! What's wrong with my son! He doesn't want to see his relatives! Help me!"

He had just given up. Even if it angered him, there was no point to argue since it wasn't just Goat-face's plan, but direct orders from top. He needed to obey.

It had been 28 years since war with the arrancars. 28 years since he had actually died in the battle with Aizen. He was made a captain of fifth division 'cause his part in the war. But he still looked about 15 since he stopped aging. Even if he was really three times older than that. And that crazy old Goat-face wanted him to get a gigai and go to act like teenager? Seriously?

Even his family had gotten much older (not Isshin though because his Shinigami powers). Karin and Yuzu were both over 40 years' old women now, almost same age as Petunia. And Lily. He was the only one who had been stuck in his looks.

Just couple days ago he had arrived to London Airport. He heard that there was some guy waiting him in there. Ichigo got his stuff and walked to the meeting place he had been told about. From there he spotted middle-aged man with black suit. He saw Ichigo and walked to him: "Ah, Captain Kurosaki! Pleasure to meet you. My name is Daniel Marsh, and I'm lieutenant of second division." he said and shook hands with Ichigo. "Shall we go?"

Then he had taken Ichigo to pretty old-looking car outside, and drove them to the headquarters of Spirit Government. It was weird to sit in a car through a senkaimon, and no one paid attention to a fact that one car had just disappeared from parking lot.

"Here's the introduction about your mission: Your job simply is to protect Harry Potter." Daniel had said. Ichigo nodded, Lily's and James' son. Daniel had told him about the Wizarding world, and after few questions, Ichigo started understand what kind of mission it would be. "How long am I supposed to be here then?" Ichigo asked curiously. Daniel just lifted his eyebrows at the question: "Well there has never been any specific time periods, but as long as it takes, sir." Ichigo scowled: "Please forget the formalities, they are not necessary."

"I can't do that for my own captain, sir!" Daniel looked amused: "There has to be some respect for 2nd division captain Kurosaki of the Spirit Government!"

Ichigo stunned. After few seconds silence he realized that his mouth hanged open and closed it: "Ehh, what? Wasn't I just minute ago the captain of the 5th division? In the Soul Society?"

Daniel coughed: "Well, they didn't tell you that you have been assigned to the British section?"

"Well, no? I guess that there have been some problems with information travel." Ichigo grunted. How could they just assign him to another side of the world without asking!

"I guess that I need to inform you about your new division then?" Daniel sighed.

It seemed that his new division was a bit bigger than the previous one. Spirit Government took care of much larger area than Soul society, so the divisions held about 15 000 – 20 000 Shinigami. Their 'work places' covered the Europe, some parts of Russia, North-Africa, and some countries from the Middle-East. And they worked together with American branch.

His division specialized in combat arts, assassination and all kinds of front line activities. It was like combination of 11th and 2nd divisions in the Soul Society.

And it was weird that the plus spirits in here went to another dimension, not same where Spirit Government were. That place was called Soul Section. But Hollows went to same Hueco Mundo.

Ichigo called to old man Yamamoto about this assignment, and it seemed that since SG (Spirit Government) needed new captain, they had decided that hero of the famous winter war would be perfect. Orders came from the top and there wasn't anything he could do anymore.

But it was easy to infiltrate in the Potter's family since… he actually was his family. Weird circumstances indeed.

Since he was now one of British Captains, he should use their uniform. They handed Ichigo some clothes and he changed his comfortable Shihakushō in them. Ichigo looked in the mirror, narrowing his eyes. He wore pretty British clothes: Red scarf, black trousers, black dress shirt and little longer black coat with number two in the back written with white. And under the number two there was two white swords crossing each other. The clothes weren't as uncomfortable as he had thought. Well, they were made for combat.

He was led to meet his division. Only one section of the whole SG was as big as whole Seritei. Good thing was that he had some experience being a captain so it wasn't as awkward as it could have been.

That was pretty much all what had happened in the last two days. Taking a deep breath he pushed doorbell.

Harry sneaked to his room's door and glanced down of the stairs after hearing doorbell. In corridor stood pretty tall person with incredibly orange hair. "Has he bleached it?" Harry wondered. But he was sure that his aunt and uncle wouldn't approve it.

Harry didn't want the orange-haired boy to notice him since Vernon would most probably beat him up for that. He closed the door with a sigh. "I hope that this won't make things worse…"

Ichigo dumped his stuff on the floor and turned to look three persons staring at him. His scowl deepened. This wasn't going to be easy. He bowed his head: "Hello, nice to meet you. My name is Kurosaki Ichigo… And here it would be Ichigo Kurosaki since you say first names first." He lifted his head and glanced at his relatives.

There was small silence after that. Vernon recovered first from the shock what bowing had made. They didn't seem to know that bowing were normal custom in the Japan, but it made good impression to them. Vernon smiled arrogantly while thinking: "It seems that he's pretty well-behaving young man! But that hair is too out of the picture. Could there be some rational reason for that?" he thought.

"Yeah it is", Vernon put on fake smile: "My name is Vernon Dursley, and here's my wife Petunia and my son Dudley!" He waved at skinny woman and boy who could eat less. Ichigo noted the fake smile and decided to play along. He smiled: "Oh so you are aunt Petunia! It's pleasure to get know to you all! You look great!" he bowed again to Petunia who just giggled and muttered something like: "You look so much like your father!" Ichigo heard cackling inside of his head:

"THAT WOMAN LOOKS LIKE A HORSE! I'M HORSE TOO BUT I'M WAY MUCH BETTER LOOKING THAN SHE!" his Hollow laughed: "And kid have become like his father! They can't even stand in the corridor next to each other or they stuck there!"

Ichigo chuckled in his mind at his Hollow, but scolded him: "Well, Petunia has aged. We have a privilege to stay like this."

"Come here! We don't want to food get cold." Petunia called everybody to kitchen.

After a while they had eaten and discussed about Vernon's work. He acted like he would be interested, but he had NEVER had more boring thing to talk about. But he had done a good job. Dursleys seemed to want to act as normal as possible. Well, it would be best to behave that way then. Ichigo didn't want more problems.

When Petunia started to collect plates, Ichigo yawned: "Oh I'm sorry! I just had long journey and I think that jet lag is starting to affect Me." he chuckled.

"Ah right! We didn't think that at all!" Petunia put worried expression to her face: "Sorry! Dudley shows your room so take a nap if you want!" Ichigo glanced at her. The expression wasn't so fake anymore since they started to think that he wasn't a freak what they thought he would be. And his hair didn't help that at all. He sighed mentally and recalled part of their discussions earlier:

"So, your grandfather still keeps that clinic?" Vernon asked coldly. "Yes", Ichigo answered politely: "I help him often with the patients and I'm studying to become a doctor, like he and my dad who helps grandpa with his work."

That had made impression to Dursleys. They had thought that he was some kind of useless gangster 'cause his hair color.

"Yeah, I was just thinking that maybe I should dye my hair black before that", 'Never' Ichigo thought but he put fake worried face: "Because my natural hair color is a bit weird you see." while pointing his bright orange hair.

"Oh! So that's your NATURAL hair color! How's that?" Vernon looked at Ichigo with distrust.

"Well, I can't explain genes. After all, I resemble my father so much that I am even named as Ichigo Junior." he had said shrugging while his Hollow laughing at back.

He was snapped out of his thoughts when Vernon said carefully: "Ah, but we want to introduce you one person before you go! I think that he has finally woken up!"

Ichigo noticed the tone and realized that there was something wrong.

"HARRY! COME DOWN NOW! DON'T YOU WANT TO SEE YOUR COUSIN!?" Vernon cried out and it shocked Ichigo. Picture of big yelling walrus popped in his mind.

"Cousin? Is here someone else too? Does they have two kids…?" Ichigo thought.

He turned to look at the corridor when someone came down the stairs. He noticed black hair and round-shaped glasses.

Boy was small and looked way too different than other Dursleys.

"Hello, my name is Harry Potter", kid said. He had amazingly green eyes which reminded much of Ulquiorra's. And then he realized, Lily's eyes. After progressing the information he just got, he questioned in his mind: "Why is he here?"

"Nice to meet you, my name is Ichigo Kurosaki" he nodded, his amazement not showing in his face: "I suppose that you are my cousin as well? Why I got picture that you had only one son?" Ichigo asked curiously turning to Vernon, playing his part well.

Man just shook his head: "No no! He's nephew who's living with us after horrible incident with his parents." Vernon glanced at Harry: "We took him in when he was a baby."

Ichigo noticed the way Vernon was talking about boy. He didn't like it and narrowed his eyes. And what horrible incident? After all, Harry was living here and it meant only one thing… Lily and James were dead.

"How tragic, but that's nice for you to do that. I would like to get some sleep now since it's been long day!" He smiled and ignored icy feeling in the room. He stood up and Dudley showed him his room. Soon after that, Ichigo fell in the deep, dreamless sleep.

Hope you enjoyed.