Hey guys, here is a new chapter.

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As the weeks of July and August went by Ichigo became more and more knowledgeable about magic, it was hard to asses for him how he compared to other wizards but he wasn't worried. After All he could use Kidō whenever he lacked knowledge of the wizard equivalent and claim it was a kind of Japanese magic.

During his two months studying Ichigo would make occasional trips to Diagon Alley to visit the bookstores, he found that those in something called Knockturn Alley contained a much more varied collection of books. Some of those books that he got there were about magic that was considered dark.

Apparently these wizards classified magic into two categories one was light or the spels the good guys use and the other was dark, what the so called bad guys use. To be frank it was ridiculous, Ichigo could see no reason in it how could a spell be exclusively dark or exclusively light. It was as if someone just sad down a wrote a list of spells he thought were too dangerous to use and called them dark to associated them with criminals so that way people would be discouraged from using them. Or at least that was what Ichigo originally thought, it was quite possible that someone in power classified those spells as dark that he didn't want other people to know because they were too powerful and couldn't be used during a war against what ever side he was one. Either way something was not entirely right in regards to the classification of spells.

Yoruichi had indeed written a letter, by owl! In which she as headmistress of the prestigious Shin'ō Academy, Japan's most finest magic school, request a place in Hogwarts for her prized student Ichigo Kurosaki. After some discussion Yoruichi and Ichigo had decided that it was best to place Ichigo in the seventh year, while Ichigo was 22 years old he still looked 17, now it would have been ideal to place Ichigo in Potter's year but they both knew it would be quite difficult to pass Ichigo as a 14 year old. After only two weeks they had received a letter back from someone called Albus Dumbledore, where he states that he is delighted that someone from a country as reclusive as Japan had decided to go to Hogwarts but that before he can accept he would like to meet first.

Though it was to be expected that the man would want a meeting first Ichigo knew that he would have to play his cards well, he could not have the man be suspicious of him after all. Yoruichi had decided that she would accompany Ichigo to that meeting, much to his protests, to represent her student.

As intended Ichigo had stationed a shinigami outside of Potter's home to keep an eye out on him, he did not expect to gain much from it but what he got did surprise him. Apparently the lady across the streets had some Reiryoku, much less than the average wizard but still some. The Shinigami also reported that from her behavior it was clear that she was keeping an eye out on Potter. It was safe to assume that she was working for someone, someone who wanted to keep an eye out on Potter. This was good news, if someone else was interested in Potter he must be of some importance to the happenings of things.

Albus Dumbledore was a busy man, with all of his duties as "Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot" and "Grand Sorcerer" to name a few there was very little time left to run a school. Especially if that school was the host to an important event such as the Triwizard Tournament. Now on top of that there was this letter from a certain Yoruichi Shihōin, the headmistress of Shin'ō Academy a Japanese magic school. Now as Japan's magic community is very reclusive and secretive there was no way for him to check on it, that meant that the meeting that would happen in a moment could very well be a trap. But he had decided that he would give this Mrs. Shihōin and Mr. Kurosaki a chance after all experiencing a different culture is always a nice learning experience and maybe this Mr. Kurosaki could demonstrate some Japanese forms of magic.

And so Albus stood from his stool when the floo in his office lid up to greet his guests. A young woman stepped out with a grace that Albus in his long years had never seen before, she was very beautiful with her dark skin color and unusual purple hair. What surprised Albus was that she seemed to be in her early twenties, she could not be headmistress already could she? Before he could finish his observation the floo lit up again and this time a young man came through, first Albus though he would fall but the young man was able to make a roll and proceeded to stand firmly on his feet. The man was quite muscular but not overly so, he was quite tall and had the most unusual colored hair, bright orange.

"Welcome to Hogwarts, Mrs. Shihōin and Mr. Kurosaki," Albus said in greeting his eyes twinkling "my name is Albus Dumbledore and I am the headmaster of this fine learning establishment."

The young man was about to open his mouth but the woman beat him to it, "Greetings headmaster, I am Yoruichi Shihōin headmistress of Shin'ō Academy and this is" Yoruichi indicated Ichigo with her thumb "Ichigo Kurosaki."

"So I could tell, now tell me mister Kurosaki" Albus said while walking to his chair and indicating two other chairs "why do you want to come to Hogwarts?".

"Well, I was always interested in western culture," Ichigo began "I have made quite a few trips to Europe over the last couple years and I noticed that the Wizarding culture here is quite different from what we have in Japan."

"Indeed it is" Yoruichi agreed cutting of whatever Ichigo was going to say next "Ichigo expressed this observation and proposed to send him to a foreign school for a year and Hogwarts came highly recommended."

Dumbledore smiled "It is good to hear that my school still hold some prestige in Europe." he said before continuing "Now personally I would be existed to have foreign students at this school but do tell mister Kurosaki, do you think you could follow along with the seventh years at this school?"

"I have been studying some of your textbooks during the summer and I can guarantee you that I will be more than adequate" Ichigo supplied.

During this entire conversation Albus could not help but notice how the two people in front of him held themselves, it was hard to describe, best way to put it would be to say that they were prepared. Yes prepared, ready to face whatever was going to happen, and all of their movements had this grace to them. It was clear that they practiced something that required a lot of movement. And there was something else something about their magic signature, something that Albus could not quite place. "That's wonderful" he said "Well in that case I see no problems with having young mister Kurosaki at hogwarts" he continued. "Now I must tell you that this year we will have a special event of a kind…."

Overall the meeting with Dumbledore had went well, he gave them some general information about Hogwarts, explained the house system and such. He also told them about the triwizard tournament which they already knew about but no need letting him know that. It was clear that the man was slightly suspicious about them. No matter how good they were at concealing their Reiatsu it would still be different than that of the wizards, if they were lucky he hadn't noticed it.

For the rest of the month of August Ichigo had studied more about wizard magic, nothing interesting happened until the day that Ichigo had received a message from the shinigami stationed at Potter's house that there had suddenly appeared more Reiatsu signatures before disappearing along with that of Potter.

That news had been unsettling as right now Ichigo had no idea where Potter was but he wasn't too worried. August was almost over so it was probably that someone had come to pick Potter up to prepare for the new school year.

The only interesting thing to happen during that time was the Quidditch world cup, apparently there had been an attack of sorts by a group that claimed to be the same as that of Voldemort. Ichigo didn't know what to think of that, it could've been some hooligans who wanted to scare people by claiming to be old villains that were feared or it could have been the actual thing in which case things were starting to become more interesting.

It was on the first of September that Ichigo found himself walking in King's Cross Station on platform 10, behind him he could sense some Reiatsu which probably belonged to other Wizards who were setting their children off to school. A few feet ahead of him, between platform 9 and 10 he could sense the portal that would take him to platform 9 ¾. Walking up to the portal Ichigo cautiously stepped through, he knew it was very unlikely that he would be attacked but it never hurt to be careful.

Stepping through Ichigo was bombarded with the Reiatsu signatures of all the wizards on the platform, up ahead he could see the train that would take him to Hogwarts, an old locomotive.

Not really planning on socializing Ichigo set of to the train, he could've tried to find Potter but he really didn't want to draw attention to himself. It will be much better to approach him in Hogwarts. So Ichigo calmly walked into the train and proceeded to find an empty compartment.

Settling in one he pulled out a book on transfiguration he began to read while looking out of the window once in a while. He was rewarded when he noticed a group of redheads with among them a raven haired boy with glasses who Ichigo instantly recognized as Harry Potter. 'Good now I don't have to worry about that anymore' Ichigo thought to himself. Concentrating on Potter's Reiatsu signature he memorized it so he could keep track of him.

After a short while the train began moving, Ichigo was still reading his book when there was a knock on his compartment door before it opened and two girls came through. One had long blond hair and the other had short dark hair, "See I Told you I saw someone new on the platform." the dark haired girl said.

"Hmmm, indeed a new face, too young to be a teacher so he must be a student and exchange perhaps" the blond girl said in an inquisitive tone.

"You know it is impolite to talk about someone as if he is not even there" Ichigo said looking up from his book.

"Yes, where are my manners, my name is Daphne Greengrass and this is" the blond girl said indicating her dark haired friend "Tracey Davis, pleasure".

"Ichigo Kurosaki" Ichigo said before turning back to his book, he really had no time for inquisitive teenagers.

"So what are you, I've never seen you before and trust I would have." Tracey said in a suggestive tone.

Ichigo signed "It is as you said I am an exchange student, from Japan to be precise." he said.

"Japan" the girl whose name was Daphne said in an analytical tone "Aren't they supposed to be a reclusive sort?" she asked.

Ichigo looked up from his book, it looked like he would need to participate in the conversation. He would have prefered to simply continue reading he wasn't here to make new friends after all and especially not with teenage girls, seriously these two couldn't be any older than 15, though he had to admit they were both quite pretty "Yes they are very reclusive but that doesn't mean I have to be like all the rest." Ichigo stated.

"I see." Daphne said looking at him critically.

Daphne was very good at assessing people and Ichigo was definitely not an usual school boy, first she had dismissed Tracey when she said she had seen someone new on the platform. But after being convinced to come look for him and actually seeing him she wasn't disappointed. First off all he was hot, a handsome face with unusually bright orange hair and with that tight shirt it was easy to see that he was quite muscular. Now that she had a chance to talk with him she was even more intrigued, there was something about him. He clearly didn't want to talk with them so he wasn't the social type. Now it was something about the way he was holding himself he was relaxed, but it was an unnatural type of relaxation like a facade to conceal that he was actually prepared to face anything. She wanted to know more.

Making a split second decision she decided to use Legilimency, her father had though her how she could use it wandlessly, all she had to do was lock eyes for a moment. Finding an opportunity she looked him in the eye and send her probe and nothing happend. She didn't show it besides blinking her eyes but she was shocked it wasn't that he had Occlumency shields on, no the probe simply didn't reach him.

Ichigo had sensed the probe the moment she launched it, 'wel wel' he though.

'Let her in King, I'll teach her a lesson on respecting a person's mind.' Zangetsu said with a malicious grin.

Ichigo for second actually thought of letting her through but no, that would be a special kind of torture that Ichigo didn't wish on anyone. So he responded by simply raising a slight Reiatsu shield.

"You know, you could get in trouble for that." Ichigo said.

"What are you talking about." Daphne supplied with an innocent look on her face.

'He had noticed!'

The rest of the train ride was uneventful, every now and then the girls would ask something and Ichigo would answer, he learned a few things about them like that they both were from Slytherin.

Ichigo really didn't understand the house system how could you sort an eleven year old in group of kids where he was expected to stay for seven years. What if his personality changed or his interests and he would be stuck in group with whom he had nothing in common. It really was a ridiculous system.

He could've use the opportunity to gather information but he would wait with that till he got to Hogwarts. Now this Daphne girl was interesting, she used on supposedly unknow technique called Legilimency on him, perhaps it would be good to keep an eye on her she could know things.

As they were coming closer to Hogwarts and it was getting dark outside it was time to change into their uniforms.

"Looks like it is time to change." Tracey said.

Deciding to tease the girls a bit, after knowing Yoruichi and Rangiku for seven years Ichigo had picked up a few things and he wanted payback on Daphne for that probe. "You are right." Ichigo provided before proceeding to pull of his shirt leaving him bare chested.

Daphne and Tracey quickly averted their eyes, but hey both were clearly taking peeks at him.

"What are you doing!" Tracey said in a shocked voice.

"Changing" Ichigo answered with a nonchalant expression.

Ichigo was glad to see that both Tracey as Daphne were blushing. After taking out his school robes, plain ones without any house colors, Ichigo took his time to pull them one. After he was done he sat himself back on his seat and said "Well what are you waiting on, we are almost there.".

Their blush did not disappear.

The carriage ride to the castle was mostly uneventful beside that when the carriage past the wardline, he wasn't unimpressed with them, he supposed that it was because of their age, they had a lot of time to absorb the ambient Reiatsu from the castle. Ichigo sat with Tracey and Daphne while looking at the castle. He had to admit that it was quite impressive, not the biggest he'd seen but still. During his visit to Dumbledore he was instructed to use the carriages to get to Hogwarts unlike the regular first years and once he'd gotten too the castle wait before the entrance to the great hall for Professor McGonagall. Though Ichigo had no idea who that was he wasn't worried. Then he would enter with the other first years to be sorted into a house.

Leaving the carriage Ichigo stayed at the back of the group as they walked across the bridge to the castle, after entering the castle Ichigo waited in front of a door that he assumed was the entrance to the great hall as all the other students were going through it. While he waited he could not help but notice that the castle was filled with ambient Reiatsu, the very walls were saturated with it.

He didn't have have to wait long before an old looking witch walked up to him being followed by a group of young kids who were probably the first years. "Mister Kurosaki, I assume?" She asked in a stern voice.

"That's me." Ichigo answered.

"Excellent" she said before continuing "you will wait at the back of the group and shall be sorted last". Ichigo only nodded in response and then proceeded to walk to the back of the group.

He was quite interested in how the sorting actually worked, oh well he would find out. After another moment the doors opened and the group entered the great hall. After being a moment overwhelmed by all the new Reiatsu signatures Ichigo took a look at the ceiling and noticed it had an enchantment to emulate the outside sky. He also noticed that every house had it's own table, excellent more division in the student body he thought. As he was walking he could not help but notice all the stares he was receiving, it was understandable he was an anomaly in the group of first years. he could hear whispers of "a new teacher?" and "nah too young" or "look at his hair" Ichigo frowned at that one he hated when people picked on him because of his hair. There also was the occasional giggling of girls who were checking him out.

After the group reached the front of the great hall they all gathered in front of a chair, on top of that chair lay some old had that had the most interesting Reiatsu signature almost as that of a mod soul. "Greeting first years" Dumbledore said his eyes twinkling as he stood from his chair at the head of table of the teachers "you shall now be sorted into the different houses". Then the hat seemingly came to life and began to sing, sing yep it was signing. 'I doubt it is an actual mod soul maybe a simplified version of it.' Ichigo thought to himself. After the song was done which Ichigo did not enjoy. McGonagall took some list and began reading names, after she read the first name the person in question hesitantly walked up to the chair and McGonagall proceeded to put the hat on his head. After a few moments the hat shouted "Hufflepuff" and one of the tables, who Ichigo presumed were the Hufflepuffs began cheering.

Ichigo had no idea what was going on and then it all clicked 'Oh no, that thing is not coming in here King.' Zangetsu said immediately. 'It's only for a moment probably and if it tries to do anything bad we will take care of it.' the old quincy spirit provided. Ichigo sighed indeed he had no wish whatsoever to let that hat have a look around in his head but alas. After all the first years were sorted Dumbledore stood and began speaking once more "This year we will have someone special joining us" he said with a smile " everyone please welcome Ichigo Kurosaki, he is an exchange student from Japan. As some of you may know the Japanese magic community is quite reclusive so this will be a great opportunity for us all to learn about a new culture" and he finished by saying "Ichigo shall be joining the seventh years."

After Dumbledore had finished his introduction Ichigo sighed and walked up to the chair before taking a seat ignoring the oohs coming from the student body. Before McGonagall could put the hat on his head Ichigo made sure to lower his shields so the hat could do it's work. After the hat was put on and a moment had passed he heard a new voice in his head, 'What the hell is this.' the voice that was the hat said.

'Hey there, euh hat?' Ichigo thought to himself before continuing 'I am not sure what you normally do but I'll help you make this quick, just go ahead and shout Gryffindor and we shall be done here and you don't have to worry about me' Ichigo doubted it could be that simple though. He wanted to be in Gryffindor so that he could be close to Potter. When he was walking to the front of the great hall Ichigo had noticed that Potter was a Gryffindor.

'What, no you just wait a second, what the hell is this, who are you' the hat said in a panicky voice. 'You better do what the King says or there shall be trouble.' Zangetsu said and Ichigo could imagine the malicious grin that was on his face at this very moment. 'Wait there is more than one, how is this possible?' the hat supplied.

'Listen' Ichigo said, he supposed he will have to try to reason with it, 'I am an agent of sorts and I am here on an important mission and to accomplish this mission I need to be in Gryffindor'.

There was a moment of silence before 'Why can't I access your memories?' the hat asked. 'Because I am not letting you.' Ichigo said while Zangetsu shouted 'Oh no you aint getting a look at those'.

'Look I need to look at a person's memory before I can sort them, it's how I work' the hat said. Ichigo sighed and said 'How can I know that you won't tell anyone what you've seen' and then continued 'Let's make a deal I will show you selective memories only and you make sure no one can see them'.

'I am oath bound to not tell anyone what I've seen.' the hat said, yeah right oath bound Ichigo thought, it may work for wizards but for shinigami it was different he was pretty sure he would be able to break any such bound.

'I gave you a proposal' Ichigo said in a tone that indicated finality to his decision. The hat sighed mentally and said 'Fine'.

After giving the hat access to some select memories so that he wouldn't reveal any secrets a few minutes passed before the hat said 'Oof, damn never though the afterlife would be like that,' the hat said before continuing 'well I suppose you would fit in any house but you wanted to go to Gryffindor so.' and then continued 'But personally I would recommend Slytherin'

'No look I need to be in Gryffindor for my mission to proceed optimally' Ichigo said clearly annoyed. 'Fine' and the hat than shouted "Gryffindor!". The respective table then began cheering.

"Well I suppose older students take a longer time sorting" Dumbledore said while Ichigo began walking over to the Gryffindor table after taking the hat off, while he was walking he took a look at Daphne and Tracey sitting at the Slytherin table. After he was seated Dumbledore said "Ok now dig in." And then food appeared on all the tables. It was only then that Ichigo noticed that at least 10 minutes had passed during his sorting.

Before Ichigo even could reach for the first dish that didn't look completely unacceptable he was already bombarded with a dozen question in the form of "So you're from Japan?", "How is Japan.", "Do you know any interesting magics?" and his personal favorite "Is that your real hair color?".

Reluctantly answering the questions Ichigo began examining the students, further along the table he could see Potter sitting next to a redheaded boy who could learn a thing or two about table manners. Sitting across from him was a bushy haired girl who was talking animatedly and occasionally stealing a peek at Ichigo. In all fairness a lot of girls were taking peeks at Ichigo, he signed not that he minded but he was on an undercover mission and he should try to preferable not draw much attention to himself. Examining the table further he noticed two redheads who were clearly twins, they were laughing and telling jokes at each others.

After a while the dishes had disappeared replaced by deserts, Ichigo had noticed that all the dishes had a small amount of cheering and calming potions, he frowned 'I doubt the students know about this.' he thought. He wasn't against it but still it was sneaky and he could imagine some people not enjoying having potions in their food. After dessert had disappeared Dumbledore stood up and began speaking.

"First of all I would like to welcome professor Alastor Moody" he said with a smile while the respective man stood up, Ichigo was not really paying attention but he did notice a strange eye patch on the man but he sighed it off as nothing important. "Professor Moody will be teaching Defense against the dark arts this year.". At this the great hall broke out in whispers, apparently this Moody had a reputation as a famous dark wizard hunter and was considered insane. Now what was strange was that his eyepatch eye was now fixed on Ichigo. Deceding it was not important right now Ichigo shrugged that observation off.

"Now I have an important announcement to make" at this the great hall which had fallen silent when he had began speaking came to life with whispers, of course Ichigo already knew what the announcement was "this year Hogwarts will host the Triwizard tournament.". At this the great hall broke out in exiting yels. "For those that don't know the Triwizard tournament brings together three schools who shall compete in a series of challenges…" .

Essentially Dumbledore gave an explanation of what the Triwizard tournament was, Ichigo didn't really listen three champions from three schools it was all really simple really. When Dumbledore said that Ludo Bagman with Bartemius Crouch would be judging along with the headmasters from the schools there was a big applause presumably for Bagman tough, he was supposed to be an old quidditch star. And of course there were a lot of disappointed yells when it was announced that the minimum age for entering in the competition would be 17 years old. Lastly he announced that Beauxbaton and Durmstrang would arrive at Hogwarts in a weeks time.

After the announcements he said something about forbidden things, Ichigo didn't really listen as he had noticed something of with Potter's Reiatsu. It was as if there were two distinct Reiatsu signatures coming from him. As the students were leaving the great hall going to their respective houses Ichigo tried to come closer to Potter to better examine his Reiatsu. And Indeed there were two distinct Reiatsu signatures coming from him, after getting close enough he could even make out that the second weaker Reiatsu signature was coming off from his scar.

"Oh hey it's you!" said a voice belonging to a girl before Ichigo could further examine Potter. "My name is Hermione Granger and I am very excited to meet someone from Japan!". As Ichigo turned his head and looked down he noticed that it was the bushy haired girl that was sitting across from Potter.

'She clearly is Potter's friend, don't sign her off just yet' the old quincy spirit suggested. Ichigo reluctantly agreed.

"Hey there, I am Ichigo Kurosaki pleasure to meet ya." Ichigo said.

"I have so many questions." The girl said blushing slightly clearly excited. Ichigo sighed he really wasn't up for this.

After they had reached the common room which was behind a Portrait, Ichigo was finally able to shake of Granger. The girl really was annoying with all of her questions. Coming up to the seventh year dorms, Ichigo noticed that he was the last one in and he took the one remaining bed. After listening to the other boys in the dorm introducing themselves Ichigo changed into boxers and a shirt before going to sleep.

Waking up Ichigo noticed that it was only 5am so he remained lying in his bed for a while and decided to examine the ambient Reiatsu that was coming of Hogwarts itself. He noticed that some of the Reiatsu was from spells that were clearly designed to keep track of the students. Sneaky Ichigo thought, he doubted that there were many students that knew that they were being tracked. Making a Reiatsu shield, he wasn't really excited about being tracked, and stood up deciding to look around in the castle before classes began.

After leaving the dorm and then the common room, Ichigo first made his way outside where he contacted his division to make a quick status report and check if there were any issues that required his attention. After that he began his trek through the castle trying to map the places he had visited which was quite hard as the castle was huge. Not much time had passed before it was time for breakfast, at breakfast Ichigo sat in the great hall and kept examining Potter's Reiatsu. He would need to discover what was causing the second Reiatsu signature, it could not be anything good. It even looked as if the second signature was feeding of Potter's own Reiatsu.

The first lesson of the day for Ichigo was Transfiguration, he had spend a good deal of his time in the past two months studying that particular subject so the lesson was relatively easy. Although the other students had a six year advantage on Ichigo he was still a very quick learner and quite proficient in Kidō which was much harder than anything they thought at Hogwarts but not too different. Ichigo did notice that McGonagall seemed impress with him, as it was the first lesson of the year they were revising past spells which Ichigo mostly was able to do without incantation.

After Transfiguration it was time for Defense against the Dark arts with professor Moody, Ichigo had noticed the strange professor at the welcoming feast yesterday. He had this strange eye that seemingly had a will of it's own. And it did not go unnoticed by Ichigo that the eye was often fixed on him. Ichigo did not think that the professor really suspected anything, at the very most he noticed that something was off with Ichigo. As Ichigo entered the classroom that damn eye was once again fixed on him, he tried to ignore it and sat somewhere in the middle of the class.

After a while the class was full, the seventh year Gryffindors had defense together with the Hufflepuffs. The first words that came out of Moody's mouth were "Constant vigilance!", after that he immediately proceeded by firing a milde hex at an unexpecting Hufflepuff, who could only yelp before the spell hit him and he fell on the floor.

"Constant vigilance!" Moody said again, this time with more force begint it. The entire class was now looking at Moody as if he was mad. "What you expect that a dark wizard will tell you nicely that he is going to attack you." Moody began saying before proceeding and slamming his foot on the ground "No! He will try and catch you off guard, that's why CONSTANT VIGILANCE is required.".

To be honest Ichigo did not disagree, but after fighting for as long as Ichigo had he gained sort of a sixth sense in the matter, well it really helped that he was quite proficient at sensing Reiatsu too now, it would be quite hard to catch Ichigo off guard.

After that little stunt Moody announced that he wanted to see how proficient the students were in dueling. Ichigo never had participated in a wizard duel in his life, but he wasn't really worried where he lacked practice he had battle instincts, speed and power. The Gryffindors were put againsts the Hufflepuffs. The first duel only lasted a minute, the Hufflepuff girl clearly had some practice unlike the unsuspecting Gryffindor boy. After a few other duels, of which Moody was not impressed, it was Ichigo's turn, he was put against some guy named Cedric.

"Go get him Cedric." and "Show that Gryffindor how it's done." could be heard from the Hufflepuffs. 'Apparently this Cedric is popular' Ichigo thought 'Well I say we embarrass him, show them who's king' Zangetsu said with a gleeful smirk. 'I'll just try to make quick work of him'

Cedric and Ichigo both stood ready, Cedric was first to open with a stunner followed by conjuring a few wolfs which he send at Ichigo. Ichigo almost rolled his eyes, he simply side stepped the stunner and fired two of his one at the wolf's before beginning to bombarded Cedric with stunner, hexes and conjurations of his own. Though it was clear that Cedric had more practice in dueling, he simply was far out of his league, he desperately brought up shields and tried to destroy the conjurations. It was quite the one sided duel Ichigo was completely on the offense while Cedric completely on the defense and while after half a minute Cedric was already starting to show fatigue Ichigo felt no different. Getting Annoyed with the duell Ichigo decided to show some Kidō off. There was this simple spell, not even a Hadō or a Bakudō, just a spell primarily used at the academy. It was used to help train young recruits in Reiatsu body reinforcement, all the spell really did was send a shockwave of sort at the target. Preparing this spell Ichigo tried to make it look as if he was firing it off with his wand, he dared not try use Kidō via the wand, he fired it off at Cedric. Cedric's eyes went wide, he tried to bring up a shield and succeeded, a smirk appeared on his face for a seconded but disappeared almost immediately when his shield broke and Ichigo's spell hit him straight in the chest. He flew back a couple feet before landing on his back.

Ichigo looked up and saw the stunned faces of everyone even Moody looked impressed "Damn kid, that was some nice wand work. Ever thought of becoming an auror, the corps could use you." Moody said clearly impressed. "Did not recognise that spell at the end though" he said in a suspicious tone.

"Just a basic spell I learned at my old school" Ichigo said almost rolling his eyes, the man probably suspected him of dark arts. Maybe he should not have used that, now he has brought even more attention to himself.

"I see" Moody said though it was clear he was suspicious "10 points to Gryffindor" he added.

At this point the Gryffindors broke out in cheers "Nice you showed him." and "Don't mess with Gryffindors." could be heard. Ichigo ignored them and walked over to Cedric to help him up.

"You did well there, but you rely too much on shields should try to dodge more." Ichigo said as he was helping Cedric up to his feet.

"Thanks' Cedric said looking a little shaken and breathing heavily before his face gained a smile "Damn, you're Ichigo right? The exchange?" he said and Ichigo nodded. "Well there is no point saying you are amazing, you just kept firing spells at me and so fast." Cedric said clearly impressed before continuing "And you're not even tired!'.

Ichigo have Cedric a smile "Well I had a lot of practice".

After that there were a couple more duels but people did not really watched those as everyone wanted to talk with Ichigo to his annoyance. When the period was over Ichigo walked out with the rest of the class. And while everyone kept annoying Ichigo with questions and praises Ichigo mind wandered to Potter. 'We really need to discover what is causing the seconded Reiatsu signature' he thought to himself.

Well there you have it, did you like it? Anything you would like to see? Any criticism is welcome.

Some people suggested using Avada Kadavare as an ejection mechanism for Ichigo, I have also thought of that but I am not sure if I will use it.

Now I kinda need a release command for Zangetsu, personally I was thinking of "Pierce the heavens" or "Chain the skies" or something along those lines. If you have any ideas let me know.