As promised, here is a sequel. This is my christmas present to you.
I know it probably isn't what you hoped for, since Hitsugaya won't return to Hogwarts yet. But I really wanted to write this, so I did. Don't worry though, there is still one more story planned at least, maybe even two, where Hitsugaya goes back to Hogwarts.
Until then I hope you will enjoy this one as well.
Toshiro Hitsugaya sat in his office doing paperwork. It has been a week since he returned from Hogwarts, and he has been too busy to actually take care of his division.
He doesn't think of himself as a lazy person, but even he would like to catch a break for one damn minute. But no, the moment he returned home, he had to go to a captain meeting. His mood and energy was rapidly depleting from there on.
At the meeting, the captain commander informed him of his new mission in Karakura town, where he, Matsumoto, Abarai, Kuchiki Rukia, Madarame and Ayasegawa had to join Kurosaki's school as second years.
He knew that already, so it was annoying but not enough to make him so worn out. No, the real problem was announced afterward.
He had hoped to get time for himself and his division after a year long assignment. The head-captain had other plans, however. It appears that the Shinigami have some problems with learning magic only from the scrolls he wrote them and that he should use his free time to teach them.
Toshiro gritted his teeth and agreed. He was a capable and mature captain after all, arguing with the head-captain would not amount to anything, no matter how much he may wanted to.
When they started talking about their military strength and strategy, he blended them out for the most part. He had to think about who would take care of the major paperwork backlash that was sure to be on his desk after both Matsumoto and he had to go to the human world for another half a year.
He was so deep in thought that he almost didn't notice when someone proposed to teach the Ryoka magic as well, since it would be the perfect opportunity with him there. And the Ryoka were one of their best fighters, it would only make sense to make them stronger. Normally Toshiro would have agreed but right now, that would mean more work for him.
"With all duo respect sir, but if we have to act as actual students, patrol the city day and night and train with Urahara there won't be much time where I could teach them." he interrupted their discussion quickly, before they could make it official.
Yamamoto stroke his beard, "You do have a point Captain Hitsugaya," he said and Toshiro almost had hope, he should know by now though, that the universe just loved to give him more work, "but from what Kuchiki Rukia reported, Urahara only trains with one or two persons at a time. So while Urahara trains one or two, you will train the rest at the same time." and that was it.
And now, a week later, he sits in his office at midnight because there is no other time to take care of all the paperwork. Damn Yamamoto and damn Aizen for giving him so much work.
The only positive thing was that Matsumoto at least does half her work now, instead of nothing like before.
This routine continued for the next two months with occasional spars against Captain Kuchiki and Kenpachi. Before he knew it, his time Soul Society came to an end and he had to leave for Karakura town.
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Toshiro pov.
The group and I arrived on the 1st September in the human world. It is a week sooner than what was originally planned but I argued that it would only be more suspicious if a group of… well frankly said 'weird' students joined them shortly after semester started.
'I regret it now. And please tell me someone else planned our housing for us already…' I sighed to Hyourinmaru.
'Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case from the way they're looking at you.' Hyourinmaru sighed along with him.
I look around to see what he meant and indeed, everyone was staring at me for directions. Just great, normally they never show me respect but now when there is a problem, they have no problem letting me handle it, thought I.
I look around. We're on a playground and if I remember correctly, Kurosaki's house shouldn't be far.
"Alright, since I don't believe any of you have been informed about our accommodations we will go to Kurosaki and ask him for places that we can stay at for the time we are here." I commanded and told Kuchiki to lead the way, since she knew the town the best.
When we arrived, we heard a screaming match between Kurosaki and his father but Kuchiki told us that it was a usual morning routine for them.
That moment Kurosaki stormed out the door and ran past us in a hurry to escape. It took him a few moments to process what he just saw but when he did he stopped dead in his tracks and gaped at us.
"What the hell are you doing here?!"
Before I could answer though, Kuchiki ran at him and kicked him in the face.
"That's how you greet your friends after you haven't seen them for almost a year?"
Kurosaki scowled right back, "Yes! Especially if they come to my house unannounced and will definitely bring trouble to the peace I have finally established again!"
Now I had to scowl, "We are here to keep at least a little of peace for your town because otherwise it will get destroyed by Aizen."
This at least stopped the fight between him and Kuchiki, even if Kurosaki still looked sceptic. Did no one inform him what was going on?
"What do you mean Aizen? I thought he was interested in Soul Society and your king or something. That's what Urahara told me." Well, at least he knew that much.
"Yes and that is still his plan," I replied, "but to accomplish that he has to kill 100.000 people from this town. So we are here to protect the town and to blend in for half a year or so depending how long it will take."
"What?! And I only hear about this now? Then why are you here and not at Urahara's to make a plan or something!"
"Because your house was closer." Came Abarai's blunt reply.
"And because we have to go to school with you as well." I added.
Kurosaki groaned but nodded and told them to follow him. He did make us swear though to tell him everything after school is done.
School itself was even more boring than Hogwarts. Though the staring was exactly the same if not even worse because I look 'too young' to be in my third semester. At least he was not the only crazy person around to gossip about. Madarame had already sent a person to the infirmary.
And there was also the new student called Hirako Shinji. The teenager had an aura around him that felt off. It was close to a Shinigami but also had some resemblance of a Hollow.
I made a mental note to ask Urahara about it later. If anyone knows, it would be him.
First day off school was pretty boring. This time I don't even have to learn anything. Why does Yamamoto insist that we attend it?
'You are supposed to blend in, remember master?'
'Sadly, yes. But most of us could blend in as workers for Urahara or something. I mean, just look at Matsumoto, it has been a day and people start wondering why she's here. Let's not even start about Madarame.'
'At least he hasn't found out about the kendo club yet.'
As fate so wants it, Madarame chose that moment to storm into his class and walk up to his desk.
"Hey Hitsugaya, there is a kendo club at this school. I want to join."
That made the class look weirdly us at. I admit, it was not every day that you see an almost grown man who looks like a thug walk up to a kid (in their eyes) and asks for permission to join a club. Even the teacher was so surprised that he forgot to throw Madarame out.
I thought about it. On one hand, this could lead to disaster since there is no way Madarme or Abarai can control their strength. On the other hand, most students had to join a club anyway and kendo is at least something productive.
"Fine, put my name on the list as well." I commanded.
Madarame smirked and walked out again, acting like nothing was wrong with what he just did. The lesson continued but no one listed to the teacher anymore, too busy coming up with theories or staring at me. Except for Ishida. He only glared at me like before. What a great first day.
After class was over, he came to me. "What are you doing here? It's bad enough that Kurosaki attracts so many Hollows but it will only increase with you here." He whispered angrily
"We are here to help because Aizen plans to destroy the town. Hollows won't be the problem once Aizen's army arrives. Anyway, what happened to your powers, are they back yet?" I replied once they were out of earshot.
"None of your business Shinigami. And what do you mean Aizen? Wasn't he interested in Soul Society and Hollows or something?"
God, do I have to explain this to each Ryoka individually? No way.
"If you want to know ask Urahara, he will explain it to Kurosaki and the rest today anyway." I said and tried to walk away.
The teenager grabbed me by the arm though. I had to fight the urge to freeze him.
"I'm not done yet! For your information, I can't go to Urahara. I made a deal to stay away from Shinigami." I wondered why he talked to me in that case, "And I want to know who you are because I haven't seen you when we went to Soul Society and I know Madarame is a third seat, so why would he listen to you?"
'Patience Toshiro, patience' I told myself. 'Do not freeze one of the persons who are useful for the war.'
I took a deep breath, "I will forgive your disrespect because you don't know. To make it clear, I am one of the captains of the Gotei 13. You didn't meet me when you invaded because I was the one who found out about Aizen and fought him. To my regret, this ended with me in the hospital. Is that all? My colleagues are probably waiting for me."
Ishida didn't look like he believed him and wanted to ask more about the Aizen situation but he also didn't stop me when I left.
As I thought, Matsumoto and the rest were waiting outside with all the Ryoka except Ishida.
"What took you so long? Did the teacher not let you out? If that is the case, I am so glad I didn't make the cut for advanced classes." Kurosaki complained.
I glared at him, "No, your friend stopped me from leaving because he didn't know me and was suspicious why Madarame would ask for my permission."
I could hear Madarame and Abarai talking about what he meant and I had the bad feeling not just Madarame and I would join the club.
Kurosaki was concentrating on another part though.
"Ishida actually talked to you?"
I raised an eyebrow, "Yes. Why wouldn't he?"
Kurosaki scowled and looked away.
"Because he told Kurosaki-kun almost a year ago now, that he will not have any contact with any Shinigami." Orihime informed him sadly instead. "It was a deal he made with his father to get his powers back."
I nodded and together we went to Urahara's shop.
Once the group has been informed of Aizen's plan and the coming invasion, they came to the topic of training and learning magic .
It went pretty much like this:
"Magic?"
"Yes Kurosaki, magic."
"Like wand waving and broomstick flying magic?"
"Yes, that as well, though we will concentrate more on the offensive and defensive magic."
"Magic? Seriously?"
"Yes, for the tenth time, MAGIC."
I had to repeat this at least six or seven times more and demonstrate it.
"Why are you so surprised anyway, you were at the goodbye party Matsumoto organized and I demonstrated magic there."
Kurosaki scratched his head.
"Right, that party! I didn't know you went to learn magic, only that you had to go for a longer mission. And if you demonstrated anything after half an hour, then I was too wasted to remember." He admitted embarrassed.
After that it went pretty smoothly. Urahara has contacts which can get them all wands and the schedules for training was done in under ten minutes. The only question left was housing, to my embarrassment.
Kurosaki laughed until Kuchiki kicked him again and even Urahara seemed amused.
"You didn't make any preparations when you knew you would be staying here for more than a month?" he asked with a smirk.
I gritted my teeth but affirmed it.
Orihime, bless her heart, immediately offered to house two of them. Kuchiki declared that she will live in Kurosaki's closet? I didn't ask for clarification; the headache isn't worth it. Abarai decided to stay at Urahara's and Madarame said he had an idea where to go and promptly left with Ayasegawa.
I thought with school and training that our next few days would be monotone and boring. I definitely underestimated Kurosaki's power to get himself entangled in weird situations.
I wasn't even there for most of it and only found out the next day that Hirako Shinji and the other captains and Lieutenants that disappeared a hundred years ago are Vizards because of Aizen's experimentations and that Ishida's father is the last Quincy, which is why he hates Shinigami and told his son to stay away from them.
The next day, Kurosaki seems to be busy with Hirako and so the group goes home without him.
On our way home, I felt a powerful presence appear out of nowhere.
"Guys, I felt the presence of two very strong hollows near here. Madarame and I will attack, Orihime and Sado will be backup and Matsumoto and Ayasegawa will evacuate and protect civilians, got it?" I commanded and all of them nodded in determination.
"Good, be careful everyone."
I left my gigai behind a bush and ran towards the Arrancer.
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!^^