CHAPTER 14

The experiment

Ichigo woke up in his bed. He didn't know why he laid in his bed, but he knew he was still quite tired. He looked around and noticed that no one was there, so he stood up and walked out of the door. In every corridor he went through the students were cleaning the walls or repairing the school itself. Ichigo thought about it. Then he remembered and smiled and scowled at the same time. It was quite a sight to see. Then he noticed the students stare and heard them whisper among themselves:

"Did you know that the brothers of the orange "Death" did this? They say that the twins that had done this looked exactly like him, one orange and one white!"

"Serious! Then we need to thank him don't we? Even thought we need to work and clean it is better than Portions and the other classes."

"Yes, looks like "Death" was happy and granted one of us, that he doesn't need to go to school tomorrow. I hope the next time he is happy I can say my wish. Maybe he will grant mine too."

Ichigo ignored the rest of the talk and went on. 'Great, now that weird rumor will spread again. I just hope that it won't be too bad' he thought or more like wished. Then finally Ichigo found the trio. He went to them:

"Harry, Ron, Hermionie, what are you doing here? I searched everywhere for you!" all three of them shrugged together. The all looked at him with sympathy and sad looks. He didn't know what to think of that.

"Guys, what is it that I should definite know? Don't give me those looks and answer me!"

"Dumbledore has allowed a friend of him, who is a professor to look at you. He said that it was necessary to ensure the lives of the students. He wanted to know if you barrier, that you have created around Hogwarts could affect the students. The professor was more than willing to experiment on you. We were on your way to the room to tell you this, but we didn't know how!"

"Oh, so a mortal is brave enough to do dangerous experiments to my body, which could react to the treatment immanently and try to stop it. The last time someone tried that it was Ulquiorra and he lost an arm. Hope that man knows what he is doing."

The trio stared at him; Hermionie processed the information quicker and asked:

"Ichigo, the time I saw Ulquiorra he had both arms and what do you mean you body could reject it?"

"I mean that my body tries to hinder someone from hurting it. If it thinks that the treatment doesn't heal and would only hurt me it tries to fight it. Sometimes an explosion, sometimes a limp of mine moves on its own accord and one time it even attacked without me noticing. After that Ulquiorra stopped doing tests on me and didn't try to do it again. I won't stop him, after all Dumbledore wants me to do it, but you should make preventive measures. He could die if my body rejects it and there aren't any."

The trio looked pale but nodded anyway. They did know that Ichigo was dangerous (who wouldn't if they knew he was the king of hell) but they didn't know that his body sometimes reacted on its own accord. They were still in their musing when they noticed Ichigos dark look at Harry. Harry stepped a step back and it seemed like he was ready to run. Before he could Ichigo stopped him and said:

"You remember my promise don't you? You will hear me out till the end even if it costs your life." Then he dragged Harry away. Harry screamed for help, but Hermionie and Ron were not going to risk it. That was a normal reaction: 'Better him than me!' Who would want to fight for their friends, when he would survive anyway and their opponent was the "Lord of Hell"? So what do you think they did? They winked of course and screamed after him to stay alive.

Ichigo heard a faint "traitors" behind him mumbled. He had dragged Harry into his room and was now settling Harry down.

"Harry, do you know why I am so angry with you?"

"No of course I don't. I didn't do anything!" Ichigo became angry. How could that boy be so ignorant?

"Think about it. What had Sirius told you?"

"…That…I should hide and… they would take care of things?" Harry said hesitant.

"Yes and what did you do?"

"I helped them with their battle and stopped Lucius from hurting Sirius!"

"No, you didn't listen to the others, endangered our group and interfered with Sirius battle. You maybe didn't notice it, but I did and I clearly saw that they could protect themselves. Sirius was already prepared, but through you interaction, you destroyed his concentration. He now needed to think of your protection too and was distracted. He maybe wouldn't have fallen through the gate if you hadn't been there at that time. He would have probably noticed the attack from behind. At that was not all. Out of rage you followed that witch and left your group. Your actions endangered the group and worried us to. IF you had thought at that time, then you would have noticed that this was probably a trap. You hurt yourself and you can think of yourself as lucky because you and the group are still alive!"

Harry looked with wide eyes up to him. He looked surprised and somehow comprehension hit him. Ichigo had been right. Maybe some of the things wouldn't have happened if he hadn't made those moves. A tear and then a next rolled down his face and he put his head into his hands. He felt so very stupid for his actions and whispered: "I'm sorry."

"That doesn't change anything about or current situation, but it is good that you understood. Learn from your mistakes and correct them. Harry anyway, did you know when that professor wanted to do this experiment with me?"

At that Harry looked up. "I think he had arrived at three and wanted to do it at four!"

Ichigo looked up at the watch and mentally slapped himself. It was already five minutes later and without a second thought shunpoed to Dumbledores office. He knocked and Dumbledore called him in.

"Hermionie and Ron have told me about what you have told them about your body. We have taken care of the necessary measurements and if you would we would like to let the professor look at you. A bed was already prepared and you have nothing to worry about. Please follow me. My friend is already there and waiting!"

They went along many corridors and down many stairways. Then they stopped in a basement, where he was summoned. There had already been some preparation and Ichigo say the man. It looked around forty years old and had brown hair and a mustache. He also had a doctor's overall on and smiled at him. The trio and some of the teachers were already there. Ichigo laid himself onto the bed and let his mind drift off to his mindscape.

OTHERS POV

Ichigo had just couched on bed, when he didn't move anymore. They all looked shocked to the doctor for a minute, but he also looked puzzled and surprised.

"What happened, did you use a spell to make him fall asleep Prof. Enmu?" asked McGonagall.

"No I did nothing" he said while checking on Ichigo "it almost looks like he is in a deep meditation, but that is impossible, that would even take the best, hours to perform." Prof. Enmu muttered.

Everyone looked at Ichigo and then at Enmu again. They weren't really surprised anymore. It was more surprising that he could split, but they didn't know anything. Dumbledore hadn't said how much he had told his friend about Ichigo.

They had just fixate Ichigos body to the bad, had used many restriction spells on him and had even used a body weight spell on him, so he couldn't move to fast anymore. They still didn't feel save. The professor didn't seem informed, because he questioned their actions. Then the experiment started. First he just looked at Ichigos condition. Then he started to use a few spells to look at everything. He noticed something inside Ichigos body that normally should be there. It was something that he had never seen before and so he took a scalpel and cut Ichigos stomach to see what it is. Everyone tried to stop him, but the noticed soon enough that nothing happened. Looked like the body still felt save. The professor slowly and carefully started to push the organs and other things away, which were in the way. Then he found it. It was a little box. It wasn't even big enough to fit palm. He moved it aside and pulled the tooling equipment out of Ichigos body. When he wanted to close the wound, Ichigos body started to act up and suddenly a bone like white substance covered the wound. Seconds later the white substance cracked, fell off and disappeared. The wound had healed and it didn't even look like there was any to begin with. Professor Enmu just looked on in awe. Even the others, who knew Ichigo had to admit that it had been unexpected. The professor started to research his body more intensely and he seemed to have fun. Ichigos body didn't react in any bad way and so they got careless. Prof. Enmu started to look at the brain, or wanted to. As soon as he had touched the skull with a scalpel the body reacted to it. It let out so much power that the bystander and the professor himself were thrown to the ground. They had problems to breath or more like even take in air. They felt like someone was crushing them and then it suddenly stopped. The body seemed to have calmed down and now they could breathe and move again. The professor was at first taking some steps back, but seemed to revolve his will and started to go toward him again. For the first time he ran a test for Ichigos power and the concentration of the body. When someone became a wand, they were told what the wand is specialized in. Magic people can synchronize with their wands because they too are specialized in those disciplines. What he saw made his eyes wide as saucer. The power that the boy had could support the whole world, if you could use it right. He was specialized in everything. It almost looked like he had no weakness and it was scaring the poor professor. This boy was a beast. If he wanted to he could wipe them all from the face of earth with one attack. He let the boy be and went to the waiting people at the other end of the room.

"He could kill us all with one blow, or could support the whole earth with just his powers. It wouldn't even surprise me a bit, when he wouldn't even need that much to do so. Also it almost looks like he doesn't have a weakness. He can learn everything and would have no problems with it. His body is mostly human, but I found a small box, not even as big as my palm in his body. I took it out of him."

With that he showed them the box. It really was quite petit and was beautiful crafted. Ichigo stirred and they soon surrounded him. His eyes opened and he soon focused on the box.

"You need to put that into my body again. It is for the best that it is hidden there, where no one can touch it." He wasn't even looking at them when he had said it.

"What could that small box do anyway, that you think that it needs to be hidden in your body?" asked Moody.

"Is that Professor Enmu trustworthy Dumbledore? Would you put your hand into a fire for him?" Ichigo unexpected asked.

"Yes I would. He is an old friend of mine and has never betrayed me" stated Dumbledore.

"I will trust you judgment. This little box, which you" he pointed at the professor "hold in your hands is none other than the famous box of Pandora, where all the agony and suffering are sealed in. Legends always hold a bit of true and even thought the story itself never happened the box is real. Someone had one time opened it and it was sealed by one of my antecessor. They decided it was for the best to seal it and the best place they could think off, that no one would ever expect, was to shrink it and seal it in the body. Since then it was protected and I want to keep it like this. The records of the last time, where really horrifying. I don't want history to repeat itself. I even found the key, which should have been also sealed somewhere else."

They hadn't expected such answer and without much of a protest of the professor the box was put into his body again. It wasn't like anyone wanted to see the apocalypse, happening because of the box of Pandora.

"Ichigo? Where did you hide the key? I didn't see it since yesterday."

"Oh I flung it into another dimension. Just to be careful, thought I don't think that they will find it there. There are too many dimensions next to ours that they would need extreme luck to realy get the right one and even then they still need to find it. They couldn't even get it from me. I don't know where it disappeared to anyway. I just flung it through the portal. I don't know where it landed or if it is still somewhere in between."

"That's so irresponsible! Why didn't you just destroy the box and/or the key?" screeched Hermionie.

"Do you think it is fun to run around, with an object that is like a time bomb? Of course it isn't. If I had a choice I would have already destroyed the damn thing. But there exist an unwritten law of the universe, that there need to be balance. There needs to be darkness where there is light. If I destroyed the darkness and the suffering, then there wouldn't be light and happiness. The world would soon fall into a trance like shape and then after some time destroy itself. I don't want to be the reason why the world died so I don't destroy that damn thing."

They all understood and nodded. Who wanted to be the one to destroy the earth? Even the ones that wanted control (are insane) didn't want to destroy it, or did want to put later on rebuilt it for their own ideals. Ichigo told them to never talk about it again and the accepted that. The insane would maybe come for it and try to control it. The professor thanked Ichigo for his cooperation and left in a hurry. He didn't like to stand next to the possibly strongest creature in this world and wanted to just go home, but about one thing Dumbledore was right. He had made a great step forward with his research.

ICHIGOS POV

Ichigo didn't understood why the man had left in such hurry, but later on found out the reason. He had become scared of him and wanted to go as far as possible from him. He was a bit hurt by this but soon forgot about it anyway. He felt a reiatsu coming near. It was the reiatsu of one follower of Voldemort. That witch had come on orders or for revenge. Ichigo didn't know why but he knew that he should tell the others. That could become dangerous and Ichigo could maybe finally find out, why Voldemort felt so incomplete.

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Hope you like it; I didn't know if I should put that in with the box of Pandora. Please tell me what you think.

I may also write a "Summon to Help 2", but I still don't know who should summon Ichigo. Please tell me if you have any ideas or wishes.