CHAPTER 3
Ichigo awoke the next morning to the knock on his door. He didn't know who it was and stood up. He put on a few clothes and opened the door. Outside stood a witch (?) that had ruffled hair and a very unhappy look.
"Cleaning service, may I enter?" She said seeming to expect that he shouted at her. Ichigos expression and scowl didn't help at all.
"Of course you can enter. I needed to stand up now anyway. Thanks for waking me up!" She looked really surprised and entered the room. She started her job right away, but with a happier look on her face and Ichigo moved his things away so she could better finish her job. He took his things and packed after she had left. When he went down he noticed that everyone was looking at him again. Was it that rare to see a man with orange hair or was it just how he looked. He had put on the clothes that he had bought and they fit him alright. He really didn't know why the weird looks.
The person around him thought another way. Most of them didn't care about the orange hair but about how he looked. He looked stunning in these new clothes. It had been surprising how different he looked in these clothes and in the clothes of the muggles he had worn before.
Ichigo was blissful unaware of the thoughts and went to the train station. He was already late and he still needed to find the platform nine ¾. He knew from the first time he heard the number that he wouldn't find it with just asking. There wasn't a platform number like that. He had woken up late and the woman that had waked him up had saved him from being totally late. He looked around and spotted a family, also with mostly orange hair, going through a wall. That was probably the place he needed to go through so that he arrived at the platform nine ¾. He saw how the last two wanted to run through when they somehow didn't get through and ran against the wall instead. He knew that something was wrong and so he investigated it.
He went to the wall and held out a hand. The two boys looked at him in wonder but didn't say anything. He could break the blockade that hindered them from entering but that would also break the blockade that hindered the humans from entering.
"Boys you are students at Hogwarts aren't you?" Ichigo asked them with his usually scowl on his face. They both nodded and Ichigo sighed.
"I could break the blockade that hinders us from entering but I would also break the one that hinders human or muggles like you call them from entering. I will use another way to go to Hogwarts. If you want you can follow!" Ichigo said with a neutral tone.
They nodded and Ichigo went outside of the platform and to a darker street. He looked around one time to see if anyone was near and when he was sure that no one was watching he opened a Senkaimon leading them directly before Hogwarts gates. Ichigo stepped through and the boys followed. He had made a spiritual path big enough for them to step on and after about five minutes they were outside again. They stood before the gates of Hogwarts and Ichigo looked up. From the outside it looked more like a castle than anything else.
"Who are you mister?" asked the boys standing next to him in totally surprise.
"Is it not manner to introduce oneself before asking a name?" Ichigo said a bit playfully but not threatening. The boys looked at each other and the black haired one said:
"This" he pointed at the red haired boy "is Ron Weasley and I'm Harry Potter!" Ichigo nodded at them and said:
"I am" he paused for a bit to think which way he needed to say it "Ichigo Kurosaki!" Harry seemed to be relieved and shocked that Ichigo hadn't recognized him by his name. He was very known after all. Ron didn't seem to notice but started to ask questions anyway.
"What you did just now was totally wicked! How did you do that?" Ron said and Harry swore he saw stars in Ron's eyes.
"I have my ways. In Japan the magic is different compared to England." Ichigo said while they entered the school building (castle in Ichigo's opinion). They were still early and Harry and Ron had offered to show Ichigo the school grounds.
"Why have you come here?" asked Ron suddenly. Harry had wondered too. Ichigo looked young enough to be a student but somehow he just didn't seem like the students typ. He acted different.
"I am going to teach DADA at this school. Dumbledore-san asked me and I accepted!"
"What" screamed Ron, "How old are you anyway, that you can teach?" He looked totally shocked.
"I am twenty-three and I know, I don't look my age." Ichigo said before they could say it. He knew they would have said something like if he had let them.
"You will teach DADA at Hogwarts! Will you teach us the thing that you just did?"
"I probably won't" Ichigo answered truthfully "You would need to be able to use magic without a wand to do so!" When he had finished they looked at him with shock and surprise.
Harry asked with almost lightning speed:"You can do magic without a wand?" Ichigo nodded and they looked in awe at him.
Ichigo didn't say anything anymore and the guided him around the last part of the school. They told him about the events that had happened the last semester. Ichigo listened interested. It looked like their adventure was not a normal one and pretty dangerous. He heard many times how Ron and Harry said something about Voldemort. He would ask about that later. Ichigo stopped their story when he noticed that they needed to soon gather. Harry and Ron led him to the eating and gathering hall. They went in while he was stopped from entering by an older looking witch.
"Are you Mr. Kurosaki?" Ichigo nodded and she said: "You need to wait here with the first years. I have heard that you still haven't been sorted yet and we will do it now." Ichigo nodded and waited to be called. The first years looked up to him with an expression he couldn't understand.
It didn't take long till he was called and went in.
He was short introduced by the older witch and sat down on the stool in front of him. A hat, that Ichigo had heard singing before he was called, was put down onto his head and seconds later a scream was heard from the said hat and it stopped moving. Everyone stared at the head but it still didn't move. Ichigo took it of his head and looked at the old witch.
"Is he dead?" She stared at him wide eyed and then took the head. She looked at it and then gave it to Dumbledore who quietly said something with his wand in his hand and the hat started to move and speak again.
"I almost died!" said the hat with a shivering tone. Everyone focused on him and Dumbledore asked: "What do you mean with that?"
"I mean that I almost died before I could even enter his mind to see his memories. It was more dangerous than entering the mind of a werewolf." Dumbledore's eyes widened slightly but became normal a second later.
"Mr. Kurosaki, could you take your protection of your mind down a bit for him to enter?" Ichigo thought about it. He would let something else into his mind that. He didn't believe that it would be good but nodded. He would still be careful. Ichigo took the guard around his mind a bit down before the hat was sat on his head. Then he left Zangetsu to take care of his body and went into his inner mind.
"King, what do you plan on doing? Do you want to gather people for a party in here or what? First comes the cat, and now that, whatever it is!" His hollow asked with a dark tone in his voice. It seemed like he wasn't happy with so many people around.
"Stop crying Shiro, the cat is Shadowlightning and is something like Zangetsu just in another form. She will stay, the other thing you mentioned, will not." Ichigo said with a scowl. When it came to whine about something he didn't like, his hollow was the best in it. Shiro huffed but let it be.
"I don't trust them king, if they do anything I will attack. This is not only your body!" Shiro said with a suspicious look toward the hat.
"I know Shiro, I also will be careful but the hat needs to sort me and till then he needs to be here!" Shiro huffed again but let the theme drop.
Ichigo now went toward the hat that was still shivering like crazy and said: "The sooner we can get this over with the sooner you will be able to leave. What do you need to do?" The hat stopped shivering almost immediately and looked up to Ichigo.
"I need to look at your memories so that I can decide which house you will be sorted in!" Ichigo nodded but asked: "You need to promise me that you won't tell anyone what you have seen and heard in here!" The hat nodded and suddenly started to glow. He changed into something that looked fairly human. He had long brown hair and his eyes were also brown.
"Why did you change?" asked Ichigo curious and somehow surprised.
"To be real, I don't know. I have tried many times to look more human but I have never accomplished it till now! I have stopped trying but suddenly when I entered your mind I felt power go through me and suddenly without me even trying I changed. You have an enormously power if it changed me just because I wished to change." Ichigo nodded but didn't say anything about it. Why did his power respond to a wish from something that wasn't from his mind? He wouldn't know and so would let it be for now. He would ask Zangetsu or Shadowlightning later.
"Come on, I will lead you to the center of my memories." The hat nodded and followed Ichigo.
"You have a very weird looking mind!" The hat suddenly said. Ichigo muttered something incomprehensible but didn't say anything out loud to the hats statement.
They soon arrived at a small house considering all the sky scrapers near it. It looked like a normal house and Ichigo opened the door for the hat to enter. Ichigo stayed outside and whispered: "It would be too painful for me right now to watch. Please be careful, not all memories are good!"
The hat didn't understand the words fully till he had entered the house and was looking over Ichigos memories. The start, his childhood was good but what followed horrified him and tears flowed down his face. The dead of his mother, the incident with the shinigami and what followed after that. At the end the hat was surprised that the boy hadn't broken down already and that he was still alive. So much power for a young boy that only wished for a normal life and the person around him didn't even notice how much burden he had on his shoulders. The hat stepped down and looked at Ichigo. He sat on the floor with his eyes closed.
"They weren't the happy ones that you expected, where they?" Ichigo asked in a quiet and a bit sad voice. "Did you at least find you answer?" The hat nodded and left Ichigos mind with him following soon after.
Ichigo opened his eyes a second before the hat screamed with an almost strained voice: "Gryffindor!"
Ichigo nodded and sat the hat down. He went to Dumbledore shock his hand and sat down on the teachers table on the vacant chair. Dumbledore introduced him a second time and then the first years where sorted. After the meeting, it hadn't even been a few hours; Ichigo had become the center of every gossip. It wasn't surprising really when something like that with the hat happened.
Ichigo himself just ignored it left the rumor be rumor. Some said he was a dragon in human skin and some other rumors said that he was an alien. He was on his way to his room when he noticed that Harry and Ron where coming toward him with a girl next to them. He had just arrived at his room and left the door open for them to enter if they wanted to. They arrived at the door when Ichigo had opened the space and was pulling out his things to unpack them and put them into the right place.
"What is that?" asked the girl curious.
"This is a space that I created for personal use. No one can open it expect me and it can take anything into it. It is really useful for transportation."
She seemed to want to ask more but was interrupted by Harry who asked: "Can you teach me?" Ichigo looked at him surprised and said: "I will teach you, I am your DADA teacher after all!" They all became beat red and looked away in embarrassment. They had totally forgotten that he was a teacher and had more like thought of him as a student. Ichigo suddenly looked up and from his things and said:
"You need to go know. I need to talk to someone!" They were showed out before they could even protest and the door was closed behind them. Ron's first reaction was to move his ear next to the door and his friends did the same.
"Are you K…Ich…", It was somehow like there was a bad connection and they only heard part of it.
"Ye…I am!" Ichigo replied. Then he noticed that the trio was still standing before the door and made a barrier with one kido spell that wouldn't let sound through. The trio couldn't here anymore.
"Sorry for the wait. Yes, I am Kurosaki Ichigo. What do you wish to speak with me about?" Ichigo asked the Arrancar.
"I was told that you are the person that we can talk to and have decided to seek you out." Ichigo nodded in accomplishment. "Sit down and tell me what you wish to talk about!" The arrancar nodded and sat down making himself comfortable and started to talk about his problems.
"We have started to cooperate with you shinigamis, but I want to know why we need to be under constant watch. We are not allowed to move around without being in the company of a shinigami. I wish to know why!"
"I will tell you the truth. Many people still do not trust you and would feel uncomfortable if they saw one of your kinds running around alone. They still need a reassurance that you can't attack them also I believe that you never would, but I also don't believe that every hollow that goes to soul society has good intention therefore I have decided to let a guard, that will be able to stop him or her if anything happens, company you around soul society. There is also a second reason. You are not well liked by many souls and shinigamis. I let my most trusted friends and division members guard you, so that you won't be attacked. If no shinigami without hatred toward your kind was there then many souls would attack you to take vengeance for a dead family member. When the souls slowly accept you and don't worry about you anymore then the guards will stop moving around with you. There are for protection of both sites. I hope you can cope with that till the souls and shinigamis accept you."
The arrancar was shocked and looking with wide eyes at Ichigo when he had finished. The monst shinigamis that he had asked about this matter had tried to avoid it or had lied. Their adviser had said truthfully why they were with shinigami all the time. It had been a good feeling to know that not all shinigamis where having trouble to be around them. He nodded and left. After what their adviser and caretaker had said (I don't know what to call Ichigo in the relationship toward them!) he could wait till they were finally trusted. He would tell the others.
Ichigo sighed and let the sound barrier down. He opened his door and three kids stumbled into his room. They had stayed here and had tried to listen even after they couldn't hear a thing? Ichigo smiled at them and let them stand up. They looked at him with questionable looks and Ichigo decided to say:
"I have a part-time job where I talk to troubled people. They can do something like you have seen from me earlier and come to me to talk."
"But why did you make it so that we couldn't listen?" asked the girl suspicious.
"First, what's your name and second: Would you like to have others listen when you talk about your troubles? Would you trust someone with your troubles if he let others listen? I don't think so!"
"My name is Hermionie Granger and sorry for being suspicious!" Ichigo looked at her and sighed.
"It doesn't matter. You can ask me tomorrow in our class about everything you want to know." They nodded and left. Ichigo laid down and noticed something black jumping up his bed and curling on his chest. He knew who it was and started to doze off through the quiet purring that was somehow comforting and calming.
He awoke through a bell the next day. He made himself ready to go to the gathering hall for dinner. When he arrived at the hall everything became quiet and the all started to stare at him again. How often was it now that the people around him did that? He didn't count anymore and just went to his seat. When the food started to appear he was a bit surprised but took the food thankfully and noticed that it was just like that he had become every morning from Yuzu. It was Japanese food and Ichigo decided to thank whoever did this food later.
He was about half finished when he suddenly heard a meow and looked up. At the door was Shadowlightning who came running toward him and with a grace that even the most cats didn't have he jumped up and onto Ichigos shoulder. There he curled together and closed his eyes. Hagrid had notice the cat right away and had started to ask question about it.
"Since when do you have the cat? Where did you buy it? Does it have a name? Are those silver lines natural?" Ichigo smiled a bit at the enthusiast of Hagrid. He had already become friends with him and in Ichigos opinion being in Hagrids Company was quiet enjoyable. He would have never answered someone he didn't like and would have just ignored them but Hagrid had already become his friend and so he answered:
"This is Shadowlightning or Shadouboruto in my language. He is the spirit of my wand and thus does look unique. Those silver lines are real by the way!"
The students that had tried to listen to the conservation didn't understand but it seemed to have a huge impact on the teachers around him.
"That can't be possible! No one has ever archived to summon the spirit of his or her wand." McGonagall said with an almost shrieking voice. Many others of the teachers said the same or just nodded their heads.
"I do not lie. This is my wand spirit. Shadowlighning, show them!" The cat opened his eyes and nodded, and then it disappeared and formed smoke. The smoke gathered on the table again and formed itself into a wand. They all stared at it and many of the student held there wand up wondering if they had a wand spirit too.
"You can change back if you want to" Ichigo said quietly and the wand changed back into a cat. It was bigger, much bigger but then shrunk and became small again. It hopped onto his shoulder and curled together again!
"Dumbledore-san, I wanted to ask you anyway. Can I make a class in the afternoon, where I teach them to call out their wands? I want to make it into voluntarily so that everyone can decide by themselves if they want to learn it or not!" Dumbledore nodded in approval and Ichigo thanked him. "If you want, he looked toward the teachers, I can teach you too! It will be near the forest and Hagrids house. That will help you concentrate. It will be around six o'clock."
Ichigo was pretty sure that many people would come to that lesson. Now he just needed to make his DADA class interesting!
I really wanted to sort Ichigo. I was told that teachers aren't sorted but please bear with me this one time. Let's just say that Ichigo wasn't sorted before because he never had been in Hogwarts so he is sorted now so they somehow know how his charakter is! Thanks for your understanding!
Any ideas how the some wand spirits should look? Please tell me your ideas!
Hope you liked it!
