Author's Note
To those of you who don't like my shipping, too bad 3_3 It's staying, you however, are free to go find something else to read. To those who are hesitant on it, don't worry, it's not going to be the main highlight of the story. This isn't a heavy romance, it's Bleach characters messing with Harry Potter.
Anywho, enjoy the chapter!
"It was bloody weird." Ron finishes, explaining the quick conversation he had with Uryu after Ichigo's departure to the rest of the underaged wizards and witches as they clean out one of the many rooms in the Black mansion. The others had heard the loud yelling and seen Ichigo storm through the hallway to the older foreigners' room, so they had of course asked Ron what was going on.
"No kidding. Someone got kidnapped and they're acting like it's perfectly normal." Ginny comments.
"I'm more concerned about how they plan to actually do anything." Hermione states. "They're going into the fifth year, so he's too young to aparate on his own. Even if he did get one of the Professors to take him, it's still quite a few jumps to aparate halfway around the world. I suppose they could use a portkey, but they'd have to make an illegal one on such short notice and that would just cause trouble. They could use the floo network, maybe, but I don't think they went downstairs." The others watch as Hermione wracks her brain for a feasible way for Ichigo to get back to Japan quickly.
"Well, if you're sooo curious–"
" –why not ask that Uryu fellow." The twins suggest.
"I don't want to interrupt his studying. He's got a lot to catch up on since apparently the Japanese curriculum is completely different from what we learn at Hogwarts." Hermione gets a faraway look in her eye as she thinks about all the different things she could learn from the Japanese. She had to give him all of her old textbooks to go over. Maybe I can get some of his old textbooks to go over.
"I can't believe that guy's got a girlfriend." One of the twins says.
"Right. Didn't exactly come across as one of the nicest blokes out there." The other replies.
"I could see it." Ginny says, gaining stares from all the boys. "What? You didn't notice his build? He's one of those slim but kind of muscley guys that lots of girls like, not to mention that some really like the whole punk, bad boy attitude." Ginny explains, rolling her eyes at the denseness of her brothers. Honestly, boys!
"Ginny's right, you know. It's not like he's ugly and I'm sure some would find him attractive. Besides, we don't really know a lot about their personalities, he could be a very kind and caring boyfriend. He did go charging off to save her, after all." Hermione adds on.
"Yeah, whatever." Ron says and they lapse back into silence for a bit before picking up small conversations again.
Ichigo drops a bloody and unconscious Grimmjow a meter or so from Orihime before plopping down himself between the two, closer to Orihime than Grimmjow. He is also covered in blood and wounds, but not as bad as the ex-sexta. Both are back in their base forms, tired from their intense battle. She summons her Souten Kisshun over them and begins to undo their wounds. Ichigo lets out a content sigh as his wounds and aches disappear under her healing dome, letting her gentle reiatsu wash away the pain.
"You know if you resist him you could probably get away and avoid things like this." Ichigo calmly comments, having worked almost all of his aggression and frustration out in the fight. He flips open his denreishinki and texts Urahara to prepare a garganta back as Orihime fidgets and keeps her eyes on the shield.
"I know." She quietly says, peeking up and receiving a look that says to explain why she doesn't. "I just don't like fighting or hurting people and I'm not strong enough to take him on my own, so someone else would show up to help and I don't want them to get hurt. I don't like it when you get hurt either, but Urahara-san set it up so you have to fight Grimmjow-san once a month so I kind of have to let it happen." Her fingers nervously intertwine. Ichigo sighs softly. It's just like her to be worried about others' safety over her own. I suppose that's why it's my job to freak the hell out and worry over her. She never worries enough about herself. He hardly notices the hypocritical nature of his thoughts.
"Haaah. I know, it just worries me when stuff like this happens to you." A sly grin spreads across his lips. "It makes me feel like you have some knight-in-shining-armor fetish, so you let yourself get kidnapped so I can come to your rescue." Orihime's face turns red in embarrassment. Ichigo inwardly chuckles. Sometimes it's too fun to tease her.
"No, no, no! It's nothing like that!" she protests, head quickly shaking side-to-side. "Not that Kurosaki-kun doesn't make a great knight in shining armor," her eyes glaze over for a moment as she imagines him gallantly riding a horse in highly polished armor before she snaps back to attention, "but I most certainly do not get kidnapped on purpose." Ichigo just chuckles at her antics, gentle smile on his face. It turns serious as his eyes drift down her form before snapping back up to her face.
"Why are you wearing that?" he sharply asks.
"Oh, umm," she goes back to nervously fidgeting, remembering his initial spoken thoughts on this particular top, "it was really super hot today back in Karakura, so since I wasn't going anywhere I wore this because it's nice and cool. I didn't expect to be leaving so suddenly, especially for that trip to England to help Urahara-san." She looks up at him, feeling a slight spike in his reiatsu, wondering what has caught his attention. Ichigo lets loose a little growl, glaring off into the distance. Damn Geta-boshi planned the whole damn thing. Bastard! When I get my hands on him… Orihime quickly realizes that Urahara probably didn't inform Ichigo that she would be joining them and that this method of travel for her obviously annoys him. "Ah, but it's not Urahara-san's fault! I should've realized when Grimmjow-san decided to use me for a hostage so you'd come fight him was an easy way to get halfway around the world. You know using two garganta and all." She tries to calm Ichigo, or at least dampen his attempts at plotting painful retribution against Urahara.
"That's a poor excuse and you know it." Ichigo growls, well aware that she's being her kind self and trying to tame his temper for Urahara's safety. "Besides it's not like he's gonna die if a beat him up." He grumbles. "You'll be right there to patch him up when I'm done, even though he doesn't deserve it." Orihime gives him her best pout, having learned about a week into their relationship that if she pouted he usually caves in, though she was reluctant to use that card unless she felt there was no other way to change his mind. "Don't give me that look. Urahara damn well deserves it." She just keeps pouting, battering his will with her pleading look. "Agh! Dammit, fine." He exasperatedly says, throwing his hands in the air. "I won't beat Urahara to a bloody pulp, but I'm still punching him at least once!" Orihime smiles. She is satisfied with the reduced levels of violence.
"You are so whipped, Kurosaki." Grimmjow taunts, having regained consciousness sometime during the couple's conversation. Ichigo turns to him with a scowl, a growl slipping up his throat. "Lemme outta this dome, Princessa. I don't need you to patch me up any more than this. Besides, I hate seeing him being such a pansy ass." Grimmjow states, pointing with his thumb at Ichigo. "Makes him look damn pathetic."
"Shut up, Grimmjow! I can still kick your sorry ass any day of the week!" Ichigo retorts, eliciting a growl from Grimmjow. Orihime sighs internally, If they keep going like this I'm going to have to wait through a second round.
"Alright, Grimmjow-san. Please be careful though, I was only able to heal the major wounds." Orihime says, hoping to cut off the growing fight between the two. Her Souten Kisshun withdraws from around Grimmjow so that only Ichigo is being treated by its golden glow.
"Tch. You worry too much, Princessa. See ya, Strawberry. Don't go dying unless I'm the one killing you." Grimmjow casually waves as he walks away before disappearing in a burst of sonido. He may not like it, but Ichigo won, again, and spared his life, yet again, so he'd back off, for now. Next time'll be different. I'll kick that bastard's ass and end his damn life. To hell with his goody-two shoes act! I'll tear him to pieces and prove I am the KING!
"Bastard." Ichigo mumbles under his breath while Orihime just beams.
"That's just his way of expressing concern, Kurosaki-kun."
"Hmph, yeah right. The day Grimmjow is concerned about someone is the day Nel gives up on playing Eternal Tag forever."
The two sit in silence for a while, both keeping to their own thoughts. After a couple of minutes, Orihime finishes healing Ichigo's wounds.
"Do you want me to replenish your reiryoku too?" she asks.
"Nah, I'm fine. You should save your energy." He replies calmly. She nods and the golden dome dissipates as her fairies return to her hairpins. A garganta opens next to them. "Looks like our way outta here has arrived. Come on, let's go." He says, getting up and heading for the garganta.
"Wait, Kurosaki-kun! Don't you need to put your limiters back on?" she asks, concerned for the safety of the people on the other side of the garganta. Ichigo looks down at his wrists and scowls. He's had to wear the limiters ever since the war with the Vandenreich and they suck. It feels absolutely weird to have his reiryoku stay trapped within his body, like there's something just beneath his skin waiting to get out, making it feel almost as if his own skin is too tight. Whatever adjustments Urahara's made for leaving Karakura have only increased this feeling. He's considered trying to get Urahara to make something like Kenpachi's eye patch, but the thought of something draining his reiatsu when he could need its full might at any moment never really sat well with him. He grumbles as he unwinds the bands from around his denreishinki and slips them back on. I suppose it's not as bad when I've used up some reiryoku, but they're such a pain in the ass when I've got full reserves.
"All right, they're on. Let's go before something decides to show up." He grumbles, stepping through the garganta and onto his newly made path. He's gotten slightly better at making paths through the garganta, Uryu likes to brag that it's because of the Quincy training he's been giving Ichigo in their spare time. Orihime just giggles, knowing that nothing will show up in the area for several hours, as she follows him through, walking lightly on the path he's made.
Urahara's nose throbs once again from the abuse it's been subjected to. My poor face. He thought he had actually been getting away without being assaulted again when Ichigo had spun on his heel and rammed his elbow into Urahara's unsuspecting face as soon as Orihime stepped through the garganta. He was now lying on the floor, clutching his bloody nose and whining about mean students who don't appreciate him. Shinji was sitting on the bed, snickering and watching the show with a wide, amused grin.
"[Shut up, Geta-boshi!]" Ichigo says, reentering his body before walking back up to Urahara and digging his heel into the shopkeeper's stomach, grinding it in for more impact. "[You're lucky I promised Inoue I wouldn't do worse, so quit your damn whining.]" He growls, teeth grit in frustration.
"[Nice outfit, Orihime-chan.]" Shinji comments, mostly to see what kind of reaction h can get out of Ichigo. Orihime blushes and brings her arms up to cover her chest from his lecherous smirk. Shinji instinctively shudders at the murderous aura Ichigo is now emitting.
"[Quit staring, you damn pervert!]" he roars, eyes flashing gold in his anger, taking a step towards Shinji, impending violence in his movements.
"[Sheesh, take it easy.]" Shinji admonishes, hands held up in surrender. "[I was just messin' with ya. Though ya might wanna get her in somethin' else considerin' there's three other teenage guys that I doubt are as reserved as you were at their age.]"
Ichigo huffs in response. "[Fine. Do you want just a shirt, or do you want some sweat pants too, Inoue?]" he asks turning to her.
"[Oh, ummm, I think just a shirt will be fine.]" she replies. "[Um, thank you, Kurosaki-kun.]" she shyly says, shifting nervously and staring at her feet. I'm such a burden.
Ichigo steps up and ruffles her hair. "[Don't sweat it.]" He turns and glares at the room's other occupants. "[If you two try anything, I swear you'll regret it.]" he threatens before leaving the room.
"[Well, now that he's out of here, I can give you this.]" Urahara says, pulling a purple bra out of his suitcase. Orihime turns bright red and Shinji just stares.
"[The hell did ya get that, Kisuke?]" Shinji asks in blatant shock.
"[Hmmm? Yoruichi-san gave it to me. She guessed that Inoue-san might get taken without one, so she insisted I take this for Inoue-san.]" Urahara calmly replies, slight grin on his face. "[Now hide it quickly Inoue-san. I don't think my nose can take much more from Kurosaki-san.]" Urahara encourages, rubbing his nose once the bra is removed from his hands.
Moments later Ichigo comes in with a large, gray t-shirt and quickly ushers Orihime out of the room to the bathroom so she can change. She comes out moments later, stretching her arms in the air and yawning, the special top scrunched up in one hand. The shirt hangs a bit loose on her, helping to conceal her bust a bit and reaching down to cover her butt. Ichigo turns red upon noticing the discarded top, knowing what undergarments won't fit under it, mostly because he has to help with laundry at home and has two little sisters.
"[Umm, Inoue?]" he hesitantly asks. "[Are you sure it's alright to take that off?]" he questions, shakily pointing to the removed top, struggling to keep his mind away from the gutter. He had only meant for the shirt to be a cover-up, not a completely new top.
"[It's fine, Kurosaki-kun. Yoruichi-san sent a bra with Urahara-san just in case.]" she happily replies smiling at him. He scowls, but before he can go back to hit the perverted shopkeeper again, the Weasley kids and Hermione come out of the room they were cleaning and spot the two in the hallway.
"Who is that?" Ron asks, staring bewildered at the beauty before him. The twins are in a similar state of shock as all three take in the curves that are partially covered up by the over-sized shirt and the long, bare legs left revealed by the short shorts. Hermione hits Ron over the back of the head while Ginny gets the twins when they notice the beauty's discomfort at the stares and the frightening scowl of the orange-haired boy.
"It's rude to stare." Hermione admonishes before turning to Orihime. "I'm Hermione Granger, it's nice to meet you." She says, holding out a hand.
Orihime's face splits into a large grin. "Orihime Inoue, hajimemashite." She says, readily shaking hands with the young witch.
"Wait… you're the girl that got kidnapped!" Ron exclaims in a moment of clarity.
"Ronald!" Hermione scolds.
"Oh no, that's quite alright. I did kidnapped after all, hehehe." Orihime rubs the back of her head as she nervously laughs. "But Kurosaki-kun saved me just like he always does, so there's no problem!" she cheers, pumping a fist.
"Do you get, um… kidnapped often?" Ginny hesitantly asks, voicing the thought that runs through the others heads at them mention of 'like always'.
"Nope." Orihime replies with a grin. "It's only really happened once before, though he did get me back only for me get taken again during that rescue, but he still saved me in the end." She says, tapping her chin as she gets lost in thought. "Eto, I'm sorry, but who are the rest of you?" she questions.
The Weasley kids blink, realizing that they haven't introduced themselves. "I'm Ginny Weasley. These are my brothers, Ron, Fred, and George." Ginny says, pointing to Ron then gesturing to the twins. "It's nice to meet you." She offers a hand to Orihime that the beauty happily shakes.
"Oh. You're here, Inoue-san. I thought I sensed you. I'm guessing Urahara-san has something to do with you being here." Uryu speculates as he approaches the group from down the hallway.
"Ishida-kun!" she squeals, pleasure in seeing the Quincy there evident as she gives him a quick hug and earning a small growl from Ichigo.
"Damn Geta-boshi planned the whole thing, though why he couldn't get her here in a way where she has her stuff with her is beyond me." Ichigo grumbles, stuffing his hands in his pockets.
"She didn't get to bring anything with her?" Uryu asks, already aware that Orihime is wearing one of Ichigo's shirts and noting the 'special' top that is still crumpled up in one hand. He blushes a bit at the memory of her wearing that top. That thing's lethal. Not only to the male mind, but because Kurosaki would shred them for looking.
"How the hell could she? Grimmjow freaking kidnapped her and then I rescued her. There wasn't exactly a chance to stop by her apartment and grab her things." Ichigo supplies.
"Hermione and I can share with her until she gets some more clothes and stuff." Ginny offers, Hermione nodding in agreement.
"Ano, are you sure? I wouldn't want to trouble you. I am your guest after all." Orihime quietly frets, staring down at her feet.
"Of course." Hermione confirms. "We can't just let you run around in the same outfit for days. It'd be wrong when we could do something about it."
"Arigato, Hermione-chan, Ginny-chan." Orihime sincerely says with a little bow.
At this time, Mrs. Weasley comes up the stairs to gather everyone for lunch. She starts in surprise noticing that there is an extra person, a girl, in the group in the hallway.
Shaking her head, she clears her throat and announces, "Lunch is ready."
"Finally, I'm starving." Ron proclaims as everyone heads for the stairs, eager to have something to eat.
"And who might you be, dearie?" Mrs. Weasley politely questions Orihime.
"Orihime Inoue, hajimemashite!" Orihime replies, flashing one of her bright smiles. Mrs. Weasley smiles in return, What nice manners this girl has.
"Molly Weasley," she introduces herself in turn.
Lunch is a loud and noisy affair in which Uryu, Ichigo, and Orihime are bombarded with questions about themselves and their schooling, mostly from Hermione. Uryu asks questions in turn about what he's read from the textbooks while Orihime is happy to make a general conversation. Ichigo growls and acts grumpy for the most part, but it doesn't take too long for the Weasleys and Hermione to realize that it is, in general, just that, an act. He is enjoying the conversation and comradery as much as Orihime and Uryu, though like Ichigo, Uryu seems to hide behind a slight façade of indifference. The boys heckle Ichigo about getting such a beauty for a girlfriend, eliciting growls and fiery retorts, amusing them to no end. Uryu and Hermione have a near constant stream of dialogue on the particulars of the Hogwarts curriculum and what is covered before the fifth year while Orihime and Ginny happily chat about girl things, sometimes dragging Hermione out of her intellectual conversation with Uryu while the boys take those opportunities to drag Uryu into their conversation.
Once lunch is over, the Weasleys plus Hermione go back to cleaning the house while Ichigo, Uryu, and Orihime retreat to Ichigo and Uryu's shared room to study the materials they've been given.
"[Ugh. This is too much.]" Ichigo groans, looking at the small stacks of books that they need to have at least skimmed over before the end of the month. "[How the hell are we supposed to learn all of this?]"
"[What if we got Urahara-san to make clones of us that when they disappear, we receive all that they've learned. It'd be just like a manga!]" Orihime suggests, imagination ready to run wild after an hour of study.
"[I don't think he can do that, Inoue-san.]" Uryu says.
Meanwhile, Ichigo's face lights up with an idea inspired by Orihime's crazy thought. He concentrates on the energies inside him and pulls. In a swirls of black and blue energy, his zanpakuto spirits manifest themselves onto the real world. Uryu and Orihime flinch at the sudden presence of the two blade spirits.
"[Oi, Aibou!]" the hollow half barks. "[Why the hell're you callin' me an' the ossan out?]" he demands.
"[Yes, Kurosaki. Why indeed.]" Uryu adds on.
"[So they can help me get through these books.]" Ichigo replies, holding up one of the books. "[It's like Inoue's idea. They can read the books and then it'll be like I've read them too. I can get through them three times faster this way.]" Ichigo explains, smug grin spreading across his face, proud of the plan he's devised. The Quincy half of Zangetsu gives his wielder a small, proud smile, glad that Ichigo is using his head to solve his problems, but more so that he has decided to rely on them some. He picks up one of the transfiguration books, knowing the technicality of it will be better understood by himself than his other half or wielder, settles down and begins to read.
"[Ya think I wanna sit around all day an' read some damn books?]" the hollow half whines. "[Ain't happenin' Kingy.]" he stubbornly states, folding his arms across his chest.
"[I'll let you read the monster and combat spell books.]" Ichigo bargains, noticing the slight twitch of curiosity from the more violent blade.
"[None of that gardening crap, or whatever the hell it is you were readin'?]" Zangetsu hesitantly asks, making sure he's not roped into doing some boring ass shit.
"[Nope. Me and Zangetsu-ossan can cover that. But only as long as you read those other books.]" Ichigo replies, gesturing to the Defense Against the Dark Arts and Care of Magical Creatures books. The hollow half eyes the books, noticing that one of them is belted shut and twitching.
"[Fine. But if it gets boring, I'm done.]" he states, grabbing a book and settling down, grumbling as he begins to read.
Uryu and Orihime have silently watched the whole exchange. Ichigo has told them about Zangetsu's appearances, but this is the first time the two have actually seen the zanpakuto spirits. It is strange to them to see the bleached doppelganger of Ichigo, but they can easily see how he represents Ichigo's hollow side, with his gold on black eyes and air of violence. Uryu feels the slight dig of the claws of primordial fear in facing the instinctual violence that Ichigo possesses while Orihime is hardly worried, knowing that his strongest instinct is to protect the people he cares about. The other blade also stirs mixed feelings, mostly due to his resemblance to their most recent enemy. However, the feeling of danger from him is not nearly so strong as the other half of the blade nor what the real Yhwach made them feel. He gives off an air much like what Ichigo has described: a wise, old teacher, ready to calmly brave the storms of battle.
Snapping from her observation, Orihime summons her Shun Shun Rikka. "[Hey everybody!]" she cheerily greats them.
"[What the hell did you call us out here for, woman? You're not in danger!]" Tsubaki yells, tugging on a strand of her hair, causing her to whine and gaining a growl from Ichigo. Tsubaki never seems happy unless he's being called to battle.
"[Stop that, Tsubaki. It's our job to answer whenever Orihime-sama calls.]" Shun'o scolds the fiery tempered fairy. "[What do you need us for, Orihime-sama?]"
"[Um, I was wondering if you guys could help me like Zangetsu-kun and Zangetsu-san are helping Kurosaki-kun.]" she shyly states, never one to be bossy with her power's spirits.
"[Of course we can, Orihime-sama!]" Shun'o exclaims. "[But you might have to help us in setting up the books to read. We're not that big, you know.]"
"[Of course I'll help. Thank you for helping me.]" Orihime says, smiling at her fairies as she quickly spreads out six books so that the Shun Shun Rikka can get to work. Tsubaki grumbles some, but starts reading with the others.
"[That's just not fair.]" Uryu mutters. I have to read all of the books myself and they don't even have to read half of them.
"[Quit complaining, Ishida.]" Ichigo says. "[If you dislike it that much, use the Quincy archive thing to get books out of my head.]" he suggests. "[But if you do, share what you've read, I'm still going slower than Inoue.]"
Uryu ponders his proposition for a while, waging a war between convenience and pride. Convenience saying to take the offer and save the time on reading over two dozen books while pride says to deny it and finish them on his own, showing the strength of not needing any help. He looks to the piles of books.
"[Deal.]" Uryu states, cringing at the smirk Ichigo now wears. This is no different than them using the spirits of their powers. I'm just using Kurosaki like that. There's no shame in using my powers like this. Uryu tries to mend his slightly broken pride.
They all lapse back into silence, the only sound to be heard is the turning of pages and quiet breathing. After another hour or so, the silence was broken by the turning of the door knob. All three heads snap up as Zangetsu and the Shun Shun Rikka are dismissed, leaving Zangetsu's books to drop to the floor, with a dull thump. The door opens to reveal Urahara and the teens relax slightly, no longer having to worry about potentially trying to cover up a glimpse of the manifested powers.
"[Hard at work studying, I see.]" Urahara observes. "[Well, how about quick break and I'll explain about these wizards and our mission.]" he offers, receiving nods from the trio. "[Excellent!]" he exclaims, waving his fan before taking a seat on one of the beds.
"[I'll start with the wizards. From what research I've done, they are humans, often with high enough reiatsu to see and interact with spiritual beings. However what they call 'magic' does not stem from reiatsu. Instead, it is a capability to use a higher percentage of their brain. This capability allows them to bend the rules of reality in certain manners, creating effects not unlike what can be achieved using high level reishi manipulation in a spirit world. It is also, apparently, genetic for the most part. Parents with this 'defect' often pass it down to their children while occasionally it will appear in those without a capable parent. The wands they use act as a booster and focus, much like a Quincy cross, for a wizard's power. Some have reached the level where they can cast small spells at will without a wand while it is common occurrence for an untrained child to use small bursts of this power during emotional stress or threatening situations. Any questions so far?]"
"[Yeah. If they're all spiritually aware, why isn't this place swarmed by hollows?]" Ichigo asks.
"[A good question, Kurosaki-san. The answer lies in that outer districts like Europe don't see a lot of spiritual activity. For reasons that I'll simplify, most spiritual activity occurs in areas around the Juureichi, which is currently located in Karakura. Hollows are drawn to the area because it is a breeding ground for spiritual awareness and has the reishi necessary to sustain lesser souls so that plus can be created upon death. The draw of the Juureichi spreads throughout Japan and onto the continent some, but it doesn't reach to Europe. Soul Society only has to worry about the occasional konso in this area, so the staffing here is low key. Occasionally a hollow will show up, but they are usually dealt with quite quickly considering the ones that come here have hardly any power. It's been several centuries since the Juureichi has been located near Europe. It oddly tends to stay in Asia, particularly Japan.]" Urahara explains. They still look mostly confused, but they seem to understand enough.
"[We are here because during our exile, Hirako-san and I stayed in England for a while, London to be exact. During our stay, we had a troublesome run in with some wizards who apparently didn't take to well to us. I believe we were just chosen as a random attack against the non-magic populace, referred to as 'muggles', mostly because our cultural differences drew attention to us. The magical assault was... unexpected. They were able to get in some stunning spells and we quickly found that reiatsu was incapable of breaking their handy work, though we did manage to freak them out and slow them down with the generated pressure. I suppose we could have tried spiking our reiatsu high enough to render them unconscious, but we were on the run and the power required to do so would have alerted Soul Society with no guarantee that unconsciousness would release us from their spells. We were, quite frankly, worried as to what these people would do to us. Any method we had left for trying to escape them at the time would have had much worse consequences. However, we got lucky and Dumbledore-san stepped in, dealing with the wizards who caught us and setting us free. Oddly enough, a hollow picked the moment we were free to show up. We quickly took care of it to keep the local shinigami from finding us and ended up sparking Dumbledore-san's interest. After a nice chat, learning about how we were attacked and dropped some small tidbits to satisfy his curiosity about us. When we were done, we left a way for Dumbledore-san to contact us if he ever desired our help as we both felt indebted to him. He did try to deny our offer, saying that taking care of the hollow was enough, but we wouldn't accept that as we did that for ourselves. Of course, after that I learned all I could about these wizards and have kept tabs on events ever since, mostly as a precaution should they try to come after the afterlife. That debt is why we are now here!]" Urahara cheers, ruining the serious mood of his explanation. "[So Hirako-san and I will be teaching a special class while you three will be students at the school. Our mission will be to protect the students, particularly one Harry Potter, in case of attack.]"
"[Um, right. However there's one thing that's been bothering me for a while now.]" Uryu states and, receiving a nod from Urahara, so he continues. "[How exactly are we expected to perform magic? I mean we're not born wizards nor have we shown any signs of this 'magic'. From the text books I've read, we could maybe fake out some of the classes, but subjects like Transfiguration wouldn't be possible for us to pretend at being wizards.]" Uryu explains. Urahara smiles, As insightful as ever.
"[Ah, yes that. I believe I did mention that the wands act as a booster for a wizards abilities. We can perform magic, we just barely meet the higher capacity required to use magic due to our extrasensory abilities that come with being spiritually aware and our powers, but only when we have a booster to use. So while we can never perform without a wand, we can still use magic.]" Urahara happily explains. "[However,]" he suddenly turns very serious, "[we are not capable of extended spell casting or high level spell casting. Our capacity is too low for extended periods of use, so make sure to not overwork yourselves. Trying something beyond basic levels will have detrimental effects. You should be okay with the school curriculum, but I would advise against anything that is considered particularly difficult by wizard standards. Do you three understand? I wouldn't want you to get hurt by over working yourselves.]"
Ichigo snorts, Tell that to the crazy-ass training program you put me through. Urahara gives him a wry smile. "[I may have pushed you to the edge in training, Kurosaki-san, but it was an edge I knew was temporary, that I knew could be surpassed by you. This is different. This is a strongly defined edge, and if you try to surpass it, it won't end well. So I'll ask again, do you three understand the restrictions that you'll have in performing magic?]" They nod their heads, slightly shaken by the dead serious way that Urahara approaches the matter. They know, if Urahara is this serious, it is not something to be lightly dealt with. When the fool's façade is down, it is life or death.
"[Good. Now in particular for our guard duties, we'll need to be on the lookout for hollows and a small group of fighters, consisting of an arrancar, two shinigami, and a fullbringer. The four appear to be in the employ of a dark wizard going by the moniker of Lord Voldemort. The spiritual group's motives are unknown. Voldemort wants to take over the wizarding world and for some reason believes that Harry Potter must die for him to do this. I'm afraid we don't really have any information on the abilities of the spiritual group, so if you encounter them, be cautious. Particular abilities or skills can make up the difference in power.]" The three nod again. "[That's all for now. Just keep going with the flow of things and try not to let any abilities be seen if you can avoid it.]" he instructs the trio, getting up to leave the room. "[Study hard, you three.]"
Alright, finally finished this chapter. I meant to pick up Harry in this chapter, but all of this filled my page quota in Word for this story. So Harry should arrive in the next chapter. I hope you like my explanation for stuff here. I wanted a semi-equal battle ground for magic vs spiritual powers, so they can't really block each other was my solution. I also didn't want Bleach characters to become over-powered wizards, so instead they're like one step above a squib. Ok, but never great at magic.
Please comment/review to tell me how I did.