After the rather informative meeting, Soifon shunpo'd all the way to the Second Divison barracks. Her vice-captain Marechiyo Ōmaeda and a couple of other shinigami were leaving the barracks, probably to go have a round of drinks or something along those lines, when she arrived.

"Ōmaeda, get ready to leave for the real world." She told him rather coldy, walking past him and the others, who respectfully lowered thier heads as she passed, into the building and through the hallways to her office. Sitting down in her chair as soon as she was in the room. Her mind sifting through the many possible candidates to go on the mission that had been handed to her and Kuchiki. She immediately crossed out any who would annoy her, despite the fact that her fuku-taichou was one of the people she chose. With a sigh she sent out hell butterflies to the rest of the shinigami that would accompany them.

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Kuchiki Byakuya entered the Sixth Divison's barracks, greeted by the sight of shinigami sifting through piles of completed or incompleted assignments. A few of the desks that were situated in the building were empty and clear of files, showing that thier owners were done and now relaxing somewhere. Byakuya ignored them and continued on, entering his neat and clean office. There he sent a message to, via a hell butterfly, Ukitake, requesting that his sister join them on this mission.

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It was early in the morning when Ichigo was rudely awakened by his father shouting, "RISE AND SHINE ICHIGO!" while trying to drop kick his son, who easily blocked it and retaliated with a punch of his own, sending Kurosaki Isshin flying out of Ichigo's bedroom window with a loud crash.

After getting dress Ichigo walked downstairs to be greeted by a strange sight. Urahara Kisuke was sipping tea and talking animatedly with his little sister Yuzu, about various things. Ichigo pinched himself rather hard, to make sure that he wasn't still asleep. Though he didn't have very long to wait for as soon as Urahara was done with his tea he looked up, his face arranged into what appeared to be suprise.

"Ah, Ichigo. I didn't see you there." Urahara said with a grin. "If you could come down to my shop, I have something to discuss with you." He added standing up and making for the door, giving his thanks to Yuzu on the way out.

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Ichigo stopped in front of the plain and unbusy candy shop, wondering what Urahara could want. Before he could even lift his arm to open the door, a redhaired figure came smashing through the door, whereas he could hear Jinta yelling at him for destroying yet another door.

"Sorry 'bout that Urahara-san!" Renji yelled back, grabbing Ichigo by the collar and yelling something about him being late.
Renji stopped in a room where a table sat low on the ground, with cups of steaming tea and some cookies where placed. After being freed from Renji, Ichigo managed to take in the numerous people sitting around the table calmly drinking tea or chatting about various things.

"Now, since Ichigo has finally decided to grace us with his presence, shall we get on with why we are all gathered here?" Urahara asked while indicating that Ichigo should have a seat. "Now everyone here with the exception of me and Tessai-san will be going on a mission in London, England." He said calmly, jumping straight to the point.

"Wait... WHAT! I can't go to this London place, I have school!" Ichigo shouted jumping up, almost knocking the things on the table to the ground.

"We have already cleared this with your father, Ichigo." Urahara said with a smirk, reminding Ichigo that his father and Urahara were fast friends. "Now as I was saying, you will be going to a school called Hogwarts, with an exception of Soifon and Ōmaeda, who will be infiltrating something callled the Ministry of Magic." He said ignoring Ichigo's dark mutterings.

"Also we shall need to learn English, along with reading up on someone called Harry Potter and a wizard called Voldemort." Soifon added throwing down some books along with some newspaper clippings. "We will also need to learn about the school as well, but to do that we will need to go to England."

"Let me get this straight, we have to go to England to some school, and investigate a Ministry of Magic and people who call themselves wizards?" Ichigo asked skeptically, not really believing them but thinking it was a joke that they were put up to.

"Yep! Isn't it great Kurosaki-kun?" Orihime asked him grinning from ear to ear. "To top it off we get to go to London! I wonder what type of food they have there?" She continued on, talking more to herself than to Ichigo.

"Okay... but you said we have to go to a school... isn't Byakuya a little old to be a student?" Ichigo asked pointing at said captain. "Also, how old do we have to be to go to this school?" He asked trying to get a more firm grasp on things.

"Byakuya will be teaching a class called Defense Agaisnt the Dark Arts. The school teaches students from eleven years old to seventeen years old. You, Orihime, Renji and Rukia will be Sixth years. Jinta and Ururu will be Third years. Hanatarou will be a Fifth year and Ikakku and Yumichika will be Seventh years." Urahara explained taking out a handful of letters and putting it on the table. "Those are from the headmaster of Hogwarts. Read them for they have information about what you'll be needing to attend the school." He said standing up from the table and disappearing from the room.

"We have two weeks to prepare for the mission." Byakuya added picking up one of the books that Soifon had deposited on the table. "Use the time wisely for after that your expected to know alot about the wizarding world." He said before opening the book.

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Ok, I know I said Soifon was going to be a teacher... but I changed my mind. Someone needs to investigate the Ministry at the very least!

Well sorry for the late update, but I tried my best to get it all in at a reasonable date.

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or Harry Potter. Those belong to Tite Kubo and JK Rowling.