Of Exorcists, Hunters, and Shinigami(s)
Summary: A bunch of mysterious things are going on and they're all happening in one place. Hogwarts. This takes place in the third year of Harry Potter, after the Noahs' ark arc, after the Chimera Ant arc, and after Hitsugaya and Matsumoto leaves the human world with the others, which is after the Arrancar arc and this is semi-AU. Allen, Lavi, Hitsugaya, Matsumoto goes through a year in Hogwarts while surviving through Hollows, Arrancar(s), Akuma(s), Noahs, dementors, nosy children (aka the nosy trio) and classes (and if you're Hitsugaya, its paperwork and training). This fanfic is about Hitsugaya and Allen mainly, but Killua plays an important part in the first half of the year. And if anyone is wondering, the Noahs are going to make their appearance somewhere around chapter nine (I'm definitely sure since I've planned out about ten chapters but I'm just too busy and lazy to type them) but I'm still not sure whether there should be any other Noahs anytime soon other than the one that showed up.
Disclaimer and THE BOLD IS AN IMPORTANT NOTE:
Disclaimer: digifreak51794 does not own Bleach, D. Gray Man, Hunter x Hunter, or Harry Potter. If she did then there would be more interesting stuff going around Hitsugaya, Killua, and Allen (but it's not like he has enough attention already).
digifreak51794: I AM NOT DEAD! I was just taking a tiny (or not so tiny) break but the chapters I promised will come out before the next deadline date I set for myself. On a happier thought, I'm still beating myself up for passing the entire deadline dates I set for myself. So now my plan is to just update once a month along with the chapter of my other fanfic that I'm starting called 'Sealed'. I should really get a vacation! It's winter break, KAMI-SAMA! WHY IS KAMI-SAMA SO MEAN!?!?! WHY IS MY AMERICAN LIT TEACHER BEING SO EVIL?!?!? *faints from exhaustion* *gets back up* Oh, and I'm looking for a Naruto expert to help me with something since I personally did not watch the whole thing except for the Shippuden parts, my sister isn't as smart as she thinks she is, and my best friend, who did watch Naruto, isn't helping me as much as I thought she could. *faints back on the ground*
"blah" – regular speaking/English
"blah" – Japanese
'blah' – distant voice/inner person/inner creature
'blah' - thought
Of Icy Cold Incidents & Mysterious Classmates
On the other side of Earth, Urahara Kisuke was literally stalking his monitor of his mighty machine. (A/N: It really reminds me of how my best friend does it to certain websites) That machine had its eyes currently set on one destination.
London.
It wasn't like he, the former twelfth division taichou, was stalking London. He was just keeping an eye on a certain shortie that he promised he would.
At least he had something important to do unlike a certain 'ruler' of Hueco Mundo. Aizen Sousuke, one of the three traitors, was, as some might say, merely taking a break. A long one to be exact.
It has been nearly a year since the planned battle was held back. Why? No one in Soul Society, of course, knew why they had to wait for Aizen to strike first. They did look stupid and dumb when they get a message that plainly stated that the battle is off until further notice from the confused rescue group that went after Inoue Orihime. They, as in Kurosaki Ichigo, Kuchiki Rukia, Abarai Renji, Sado Yasutora, Ishida Uryuu, Zaraki Kenpachi, Kurotsuchi Mayuri, Kuchiki Byakuya, Unohana Retsu, Kusajishi Yachiru, Isane Kotetsu, and Kurotsuchi Nemu, were simply let free to deliver that insane message.
There was the occasionally attacks from the Espada and Arrancar just to keep the shinigami(s) on their toes and to remind them that they are still here and could still cause threats even if the major battle hasn't occurred yet.
Everyone was hard at work, trying to get stronger but most of the time they spent their afternoons making up possibilities of why the war was postponed. But that had nothing to do with Kurosaki and his friends.
Urahara sipped his cup of green tea. He stared up at the monitor and glanced at Ichigo. The orange-head was still talking to Zangetsu.
Sip. Stare. Glance.
Sip. Stare. Glance.
Sip. Stare. Glance.
"Oi, Urahara. Would you stop doing that?" Kurosaki got up from his mediating spot and got into his body. He headed for the direction Urahara was in.
"Doing what?" The two word reply came back at the scowling teenager.
"You've been staring at your screen for the last hour for at least fifty times. I'm beginning to think that you're stalking someone." What Ichigo said was true. Urahara had been staring at the monitor for the last hour for sixty-six times.
Urahara made an excuse for his behavior. "It gives me something to do while I wait for you to finish chatting with Zangetsu."
"There's nothing interesting about what you're doing." Kurosaki argued back.
"Well, it's better than doing nothing. Besides I promised someone I had to do this." The scientist explained while he stirred his cup of green tea.
"Oh! So you're stalking someone! Getaboushi(2) is a stalker!" Ichigo yelled (A/N: I nearly put screamed but that sounds a bit girlish for him).
"I'm not stalking. I'm just watching out for him." A beeping from the monitor announced that something was happening as though on cue.
(A/N: I'm beginning to question why I bother typing such long chapters when I can't even type faster than probably more than half the people in . I think I'm going CRAZY!)
"Come on, I'll show you what I mean. Nova!" The summoned kaizou konpaku appeared, grabbed the pair's wrists and disappeared.
(At The Time When Hitsugaya Collapsed, Other People's Views)
The moment Matsumoto felt the familiar chilly air that she feels when she wasn't doing paperwork and the sudden pulsing of her taichou's reiatsu, she started to panic. Just a little.
There were times when the sharp increase of her taichou's reiatsu meant he's pissed off or in battle with a worthy opponent. During her years serving under him, an intense cold that lacked its 'warmth' usually meant that he's really pissed off and is going against a strong opponent, most likely a taichou-level one.
Everyone stopped dead in their tracks. Killua and Gon saw a flaring icy blue nen coming from someone that was most likely to even rival Netero. Who it belonged, they had no idea. Soon enough they all soon was able to see their breaths.
Allen and Lavi, who had no idea that someone powerful was close by, had started to worry. It was the middle of summer. It should be and sunny not the opposite way around. Was something going on? The exorcist duo became even more worried when they heard Rangiku to tell them to run. Yes, they could imagine her yell, but the thought that she had a voice that was even more demanding than General Winters was quite shocking.
Matsumoto froze when she realized what she should have been doing since the flare of reiatsu.
'Run like hell was loose if I ever do that again. Don't stop until you're at least four miles from where you stand.' Hitsugaya told her a couple of days ago. She shuddered at the thought of what would happen if she didn't run at all.
Gon and Killua were already running before Rangiku told them to run. The unidentified icy blue nen was expanding at an impossible rate. Ice had started to spread its way over the unfortunate akuma(s) that got caught, catching the attention of the red head and the cursed boy.
Matsumoto took this opportunity to drag them away in a couple of shunpo. 'If they're not going to get a move on, might as well drag them. Hm. Those two kids seem to be doing fine. Is it because they have something similar to reiatsu? Taichou never did explain why we had to hide our reiatsu from them and what's with their reiatsu.'
Lavi pondered as Matsumoto's strong grip was tighten on his collar. His innocence had no reaction therefore, Rangiku held no innocence yet she was able to take down akuma after akuma and run about the same pace as Lenalee with her Black Boots. Was it even possible to have any innocence in the future? But it was obvious that the war had ended. Since he had arrived in the future, he has been itching to find out what happened in the Akuma War. However, before Lavi and Allen left, Bookman had told him not to look up any incidents about the Akuma War otherwise something could terribly go wrong.
(FLASHBACK, before they left to the future)
Bookman pulled Lavi aside when the soon to be Bookman walked out of Komui's office to an isolated room.
"Lavi, when you go to that mission later, no matter how curious you may be, do NOT search for any information about the war."
"Why? It could help us end the war." Lavi received a high kick for saying that.
"Baka. I don't know why I have such an apprentice. By taking information from the future you could drastically change the future that was going to happen and the results will be different. You should know from the logs of what happen when you mess with time."
Lavi pouted. "Fine. I won't mess with the future. But it won't be my fault if it decides to pop in front of my face and starts babbling itsielf to me. See ya, jiji."
(END OF FLASHBACK)
From what Allen has told him, the akuma(s) that Rangiku, Killua, and Gon had attacked, had not reacted the way it does when akuma(s) are destroyed by anything but the innocence. Allen could have sworn that whatever Rangiku took down ended up a bit happier than when the innocence took them down and that Toushirou might also have the same effect. Gon's and Killua's attacks were pretty much the same effect as the exorcists had. Though those two seem weaker in terms of attacks, they did take down a good number of akuma(s). Other than that, it seems like all the 'transfers' could take down an akuma or two.
They reached the outskirts of London, barely touching the city bounds. From the distance, it was almost like a whole mini war broke out on ice. Akuma(s) were stuck on ice. (A/N: I can't help it but think about those 'Disney on Ice' but as 'Demons on Ice'…)
The once dry field was now a snowy one. Ice layered the ground and the air was cold and ice particles were still floating around. It looked like a really peacefully winter scene.
Matsumoto silently thanked herself for remembering the incident where something like this had happen before. If it wasn't for that, the people standing next to her might not even be here. They'll probably be ice cubes.
"Where's Toushirou?" Allen asked, breaking through Rangiku's thoughts and nearly causing to her to jump out of her gigai if that was possible. 'They can't look for him now.'
"Do you think he's still in there?" Gon gestured toward the snowing scenery behind them.
"I'm going to look for him." Allen declared. There was no way was he going to leave a friend or anyone he had just met for less than an hour in a icy death trap. He was about to run off toward the battlefield but a warm hand held him back.
No not one. It was two hands that held him back. Lavi's and Rangiku's.
"I'm pretty sure that Toushirou would be able to escape. He wouldn't have fought those creatures and not be able to escape from this. I doubt he won't be able to escape especially since he's from the school as me and considered a genius. He'll come out okay."
"Yah, what Rangiku said. Allen, even if we agreed to help you, we have to get rid of this ice first. The fog isn't going to help us find anyone in there. We'll probably get frozen before we even go ten feet into this. I'll try hi-ban on this."
Lavi took his black hammer raised it, and slammed it down onto a fire kanji that appeared around his hammer in the air. A dragon of fire made its way toward the ice and snow but it dispersed the moment it touched the fog.
Gon, Killua, and Rangiku looked surprised when the fire dragon came out of the hammer. To the hunters, it looked like a bright red nen coming from the user to the hammer. In Rangiku's point of view, it also showed a bright red reiatsu color.
What worried her wasn't the dragon made of fire but of her taichou. He was still in there, unlike what the others think that he had made it out of the ice and snow safely. HE was the main reason it happened. If they are still planning to get in the icy dome when the fog clears, the chances of them making was still thin. The ice was still taking over anything that wasn't covered by ice so when they step on the ice, they'll become ice cubes just like those creatures. 'What were those creatures? Taichou just said that we have to destroy them but not what those things were. They acted and had a few similarities like the darkened reiatsu but they were nothing like hollows.' The moment at hand also meant that if she was to join them, then the only distance they could cover is less than eight feet with her limit off and using her all. The only option left was for some taichou level shinigami or hollow (most likely the Espada) to come along and find Hitsugaya to get him out of his current state. 'It better be Urahara.'
"B-But how? This is no ordinary ice."
"No ordinary ice indeed." A new voice said. To Matsumoto, she felt like she just jinxed her words when she said that hopefully someone like Urahara comes.
Standing behind them was three tall males. One was about the teenage age with orange hair and a permanent scowl on his face. A middle aged red head with a hoodie that can hide his face with a simple zip stood between the two men. The last man was a bit older than the other two with a striped bucket hat, a simple traditional Japanese haori and kimono, a cane, and wore a pair of geta.
"Yo, Rangiku-san. I see you're having some trouble. I'll deal with it." The bucket hat said.
"Uh, excuse me but who are you?" Gon questioned. What were the chances of a old geezer that Rangiku happens to know pops out of nowhere and offered to help them with the situation of the ice.
"Hm… Good point since you'll see me pop in and out during the school year checking my 'students' to see if they need any help to adjust to the wizarding world. Urahara Kisuke or Kisuke Urahara in the English world. I teach the science and technology stuff at their school. Or well, I used to teach."
"This young man next to me," Urahara pointed to the orange head, "he's also a member of their school but isn't officially a student yet. His name is Ichigo Kurosaki." Ichigo had no idea what was going on since his English wasn't as established as Urahara's, who he had no idea could speak English that well. 'Must be the shinigami's requirements to know English or either that or he's really old.'
Now Kisuke pointed to the remaining guy. "This is Nova. He isn't part of the 'school' but he does provide some type of transportation for the staff and teachers. You could say that he's an important player in our smaller sub staff." Nova blushed but quickly covered his face by zipping the hood close.
Pulling the shinigami-related people, Urahara started to pull a plan together. "Since Kurosaki is here, we can use his enormous reiatsu levels to use and he will have his explanation!"
Ichigo nearly wanted to scram out of the place where ever he was. He was freaking going to have to go into that cold made by Toushirou.
"After me and Nova will find the source, you'll enter in the fog and find Hitsugaya. But until then, we'll be leaving you to deal with the crowd back there. Nova, come. We need to find him." Urahara chuckled before leaving with Nova. Apparently to him, leaving Ichigo with English speakers was going to be a funny scene. OF course he knew how well Ichigo was in grades but for him to exactly deal with English speakers not Japanese people speaking English was just a completely different concept.
Ichigo and Rangiku walked back to the others. "Hey, Ichigo. Does your name mean strawberry?"
It took a while for Ichigo to try to translate that into Japanese but he gave up. Thus were the after effects of spending too much time training instead of studying and doing his homework. He rather be facing on all the Espada coming at him at once than having to embarrass himself in front of people that might see him again. And with the fact that Matsumoto might spread it out to Seireitei and that means Renji could tease him all day and night if he heard about it.
"Ah… Matsumoto-san, what did they say? All I could understand was 'does your name'." Ichigo could have sworn that the tenth division fukutaichou and from far away, Urahara was enjoying that fact that he couldn't understand English as well as they could.
Ichigo, who didn't expect them to ask that and speak Japanese at the same time, started to yell in his native language of what his name exactly means. Lavi, Allen, and Matsumoto were laughing their heads off while Gon and Killua, the only two non-Japanese speaking people around, were confused. What was so special about the name Ichigo?
"Hey. Is your hair really natural? Or did you dye it orange?" This time, Ichigo was lucky. Urahara appeared out no where but to the trained eyes he was using shunpo with a clear glass sphere in his hands.
"I have found a weak spot. Rangiku, take care of the wounds that needs to be attended and Nova will come back to take you all back to this Leaky Cauldron." Urahara commanded, taking in the role of the supposed ex-teacher. Kurosaki and Urahara left via shunpo to the point that was what assumed as the weak spot.
Somewhere above the icy reiatsu infested landscape, Ichigo, who was out of his body, and Urahara stood, discussing what would soon happen.
"So basically you want me to go into that massive freezer with that orb thing-" The object mentioned laid innocently in the hands of Urahara. "-and find Toushirou while you're off doing who knows what."
Urahara frowned. "It's not an orb thing. It's a modified version of the reishyukaku(1) that you used when you invaded Seireitei.-"
"So you admit you-"
"No, I didn't. Its purpose is completely different and it just happens to look like the one Shiba-san made. If you stop interrupting me, then I could explain its differences. Unlike the one you used before, just a simple touch with your reiatsu will do. There's no need to evenly spread the power. Just pour in as much to even out the pressure of Hitsugaya-san's reiatsu and reduces the amount of coldness you'll feel. The fun thing about this new and improved version is that it can roll around! It'll roll over anything including living things so if you have time, come over and play bowling human-sized. To let someone in, simply just let them phase in. You'll get it when you get down there. It'll be simply enough unless all the training has knock out all your brain cells."
"Also, it's not like I'm going to be doing nothing. I'll be glad to switch jobs with you but I'm pretty sure you'll have a nice time doing kidou-"
"What? No way am I going to do anything with that. Last time I attempted one, Rukia practically chased me around town blasting kidou at me for blowing up her Chappy bunnies."
"-that involves lots of control to stuck up the extra reiatsu in a controlled area." Urahara smiled. Ichigo was getting to predictable when it comes to things like these. He tossed the crystal like ball to the substitute shinigami.
"You can begin anytime. Oh! Before I forget. Hitsugaya is mostly likely unconscious due to over use of his reiatsu. So be sure to handle him carefully. You wouldn't want an angry shirou-chan come after with a major blizzard."
Ichigo stared at the object he caught with narrowed eyes. "You owe me an explanation when I come back out with Toushirou, especially why this happened. The shorty wouldn't let his ice run loose even though it does make nice air conditioning in the hot summer days like this."
Urahara started to walk away. "It's not my job to tell you. Toushirou is just a customer asking for help. It's bad for business if I tell other people customers' secrets. Now get a move on. We don't have all day you know."
'When he said it was simple, it didn't realize that a single touch is all it needed. And the rolling is fun, not like I would admit it. There's been nothing but ice and snow and more ice and snow for the last couple of minutes.'
The current landscape had nothing but ice and snow and more ice and snow just as Ichigo thought. There was the occasionally remains of some kind of machine. It was no doubt that it was the enemy that the group earlier had faced.
After another few quiet and tense moments of running or should it be rolling around in that transparent ball, Ichigo found a curling ball of Toushirou. 'About time I find him. He's going to owe me for this.'
Hitsugaya didn't look as bad as he imagined. It was just a deep wound on the right side of his shoulder. It shouldn't be that much of a problem to heal with the help of Urahara.
Kurosaki decided that it was best if he place Toushirou on his back instead of carrying him bridal style. He still have to hold onto the orb while holding onto the boy. If he didn't, he might as well say good bye to the little nice breezy air conditioner and hello to frostbite. Carefully adjusting the white haired 'child' onto his back, he slowly rolled (or walked) back to the nearest exit.
'What in the world could have caused someone like Hitsugaya to have cause a big release of unnecessary reiatsu? Toushirou is going to have a lot of explaining especially to Rangiku-san and I when he wakes up.'
Ichigo and an unconscious Hitsugaya emerged from the fog and ice. Urahara was laying on rock, relaxing as he waited when they emerged. It was obvious to Ichigo that the lazy shopkeeper was done a long time ago and didn't bother to help Ichigo with the search for the boy on his back. He even played poker with his body (which was being controlled by Kon) and Nova and was winning.
"Ah! Kurosaki-san. You found him. Great. Just carry him back to a shabby pub somewhere in the middle of the city and into room ten. Me and Nova will come pick you up in two hours or so." Without another, the bucket hat wearing man shunpo-ed away leaving Ichigo with Hitsugaya and Kon. Nova made his disappearance when he felt Ichigo's dangerous aura.
"Come on, Kon. You hold this thing," Ichigo gave the object in his hand to Kon "It'll be a while trying to find a shabby pub in a place like this especially while carrying Toushirou. I'll stay on the roofs. You check around from below."
'Damn Urahara for giving directions and Toushirou is still visible. I can just imagine the faces of people when they see him but they don't see me. Toushirou better have a good explanation. This is really not worth it if he only says two sentences.'
There was snow everywhere.
But in one spot was full of red blood.
Was it his?
Or was it someone else's?
Who was that lying on the ground?
Where is he?
End of Chapter Three
A/N: Another thanks to those who read, reviewed, or added this to their favorites or alerts. I'm so happy and honored that this fanfic has gotten more favorites/alerts than my first long one, Another Moment (which is a Digimon fanfic but in hiatus in order for me to do this fanfic). I'm still trying to get people to read the side story too so that they could get more information of it then here since I wouldn't be wasting my typing on something that is already so long. I'll be too busy with the main story to bother with doing anything with it.
This chapter was somewhat hard to type especially with that really interesting Naruto Harry Potter crossover waiting for me to read. I officially hate school! I don't have lunch until the afternoon and that's when I do all my fanfiction typing… I'll try my best to do everything since I made a 'MUST DO NO MATTER' list along with school and Japanese stuff.
Also, I'm not sure if I said this before, but my new deadline dates are one or two chapters per month. Why one or two? I'm giving myself a tiny break from writing long chapters. My normal sizes are about sixteen pages in my notebook and in Mircosoft. But since it's going to take forever, I'm just going to go with short chapters. I had fun dividing my long chapters in half.
P.S. I wanna know if the long chapters are annoying. My friend says that they're too long.
I'm saying this again for the sake of people that don't read author's notes:
CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR A NARUTO EXPERT! I'm pretty sure that this fanfic will soon be a slight Naruto crossover and I'm planning on writing a BleachNaruto fanfic that chapter one is already out. Also note that I'm planning on rewriting the first two chapters since I forgot a few important details that I added when I was bored.
(1) – reishyukaku – spirit core that resembles a crystal ball. By providing reiryoku (spiritual energy) to the core, the user can create a cannonball
(2) – getaboushi – the nickname for Urahara
It was cold. Cold in every way.
Chapter Three