Hey welcome to chapter Duex of our redo of "Mystery of Hogwarts" yay! Kuroneko could not come today to say anything cause she's in vacation at the beach! no fair TT^TT but she did tell me to tell you and I quote "Review or I'll haunt you when you sleep till you review" Please don't take that as a threat *sweatdrop* its more of an...er...an encouragement! ya and encouragement!
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Now to the story!YAY!
Forlorn Promises
Chapter Two: Monkey see, Monkey kill
Authoresses: BakaKitsuneKYA, Kuroneko
Crossover: Bleach/Harry Potter
Through the still morning air the sound of a pebble skipping against the dirty pavement followed by the slow dragging of sneakers echoed loudly. The-boy-who-lived or otherwise known as Harry James Potter muttered darkly under his breath as he made his way towards the old abandoned playground with two heavy plastic bags in both of his hands. A cool morning breeze passed by him and played against his ruffled black hair, it lifted lone dark strands from his forehead revealing a strange lightning bolt-shaped scar. But even with the calming touch of the gentle air did not lighten up his foul mood. He let out an annoyed grunt and kicked the same pebble from before and followed after it.
"Stupid house with stupid locks and bloody keys!" He hissed angrily at himself as he pushed the playground gates open but slammed loudly on the metal fence.
His morning started as a bad one as well as an early one, and Harry hated early mornings. His aunt, Petunia had woken him up at seven in the morning to make him go to the story and by some random food, of course he had to do what his was told and went out still sleepy. He even wondered if there was a store that was open at that time. When he returned back to the house the door was locked and he had forgotten his keys but the worst part was no one was home at all. He could have sworn that he always had his keys in his pant pockets.
His uncle must have went to work early probably thinking that he might get a raise, his aunt might be somewhere in someone's house gossiping about others and Dudley...Dudley must be kicking cats with his gang of 'yes men'. But seriously, out at now 8 in the morning and at a Saturday as well?
He dropped both bags down on the dead brown-gold grass and sat down on his favorite alone/bored swing, its rusted chains squeaked to his slightest change of positions. It was no use to make such a fuss over it; he knew the Dursley's would blame his for his 'stupidity' of getting locked out of the house. He leaned back just a little so he doesn't fall off and sighed, his thought on how he wished that he could use his magic. Last year in Hogwarts Hermione taught him how to open locks with ease. But he knew he could not use magic out of Hogwarts because he was underage and the Ministry would get on his case.
"Bloody Ministry" and with that his dark muttering rants ended and he took in another breath and sighed out all the troubles that he could get out.
He would just have to put up with the rules of the ministry and his relatives for until the end of the month. Just thinking on about how Mr. Weasley would come to pick him up to watch the Quidditch world cup! Relief flooded him as a small smile appeared from his lips, just a few more weeks left before freedom from the Dursley but sadly that's a long time of waiting.
"Well, well, well look who's here? Lock out Potter?" An oh-too familiar voice sneered from in front of him,
Harry looked up to see his cousin Dudley and his gang of dimwits crowding in front of him and laughing like hyenas to every single word that leaves Dudley's mouth. Dudley stepped closer to Harry with a smirk on his face,
"Ain't it a little early for you guys to be beating on 6 years old's and kicking cats, heard your beddy time doesn't end till 2 in the afternoon" he shot back
The smile on Dudleys face shrank away as his eyes squinted with anger, but then relaxed to a know-at-all smile.
"Well, finally found a spine huh Potter? Who is the idiot you borrowed it from, or did you steal it?" Dudley said to which the hyenas snickered and 'ohhed'
"I think you would have noticed if I took it from you Big-D" Harry said but right after he did he regretted it came out
Dudley came closer in an alarmingly quick pace, the grass crunched under his sneakers then he pushed Harry off the swing set. Harry fell back first and his head bounced on the hard dirt, the swing swung around and almost got him on the face if he didn't duck down. The hyenas laughed again
"Ain't that tough now aren't you Potter" he laughed with the others,
Dudley lifted a foot up and Harry readied himself to be beaten up again, ugh! him and his big mouth. He closed his eyes tightly and waited for the impact, but there was none. He did however hear Dudley scream followed by the earth quake slightly beneath him, he opened his eyes to see his cousin laying next to him as he rubbed the back of his head. For a second Harry thought Dudley actually lost balance because he was over weighted and fell till his cousin snarled angrily saying
"Who the bloody hell did that!"
Harry twisted around to see a soccer ball rolling to the gates, all eyes looked at the rolling ball till a foot was placed upon it and stopped it. Eyes looked up and they were greeted with cold teal ones...
When the head captain Yamamoto had told him that there were many weak presences of spiritual pressure around England Hitsugaya was skeptical at it at first. But now he felt them, many of them. It was incredible actually, not that he would be willing to admit that out loud, but he had never sense so much spiritual pressure from a group of humans though it was weak.
Right now the young captain stood at the tip of a tower from a bridge the humans lamely named 'The London Bridge'; originality must not be one of the best things for the people of London. He sat himself down and massaged his temples to take away the tiredness from his mind, it was his second day there at London and the stress of not doing anything was murdering him now. But then he looked out at the horizon he could see the golden sun rising up to the sky somehow it calmed him...slightly. From his position it seemed that the sun was coming out of the water, a soft gust of wind played with his coat, as he took in the silence of the morning, which he hadn't experienced, in such a long time.
With a sigh he reached into his pants pocket to retrieve a silver mobile phone that he had received from the head scientist Kurostuchi-san, he lazily flipped it open and instantly appeared the map of London, England. Small blue dots were scattered across the land that represents the small Reiatsu around the place, most dots he noted were oddly crowded together but others more separated. There were no sign of hollows anywhere though, neither are the energy of the missing team that was sent here ever since he got there yesterday. Could Aizen have taken them and told off the Hollows? Did he know he was coming?
[I'll have to go to this people and see if a hollow might attack them] he thought, he rather run around the land instead of sitting down and doing nothing.
His train of thoughts was interrupted when one of the blue orbs began to blink; he turned his attention to it. Strange, none of the others were doing that. Without a second thought he got up and shunpo to the small community called 'Little Whinging'. As he sped to Whinging he glanced back to the blinking dot, it was growing. His eyes squinted slightly. He had never seen this before? But what puzzled him more is that as he drew closer he couldn't feel a difference of Reiatsu at all. Could the phone be broken? Either way he was still going to see what was going on. He pushed the phone into his coat.
After only a few minutes he had arrived, quietly he landed on top of a roof and looked around. The houses were practically identical give or take a few more satellites on other roofs and those creepy gnomes and flamingos on the lawns. The grass trimmed and the cars though different parked the same way. It was a typical human community everything eerily the same.
"Ain't that tough now aren't you Potter" A voice sneered from a distance,
Hitsugaya turned his eyes towards the sneering voice the echoed through the neighborhood to see a group of 5 laughing boys in and abandon looking playground. He tilted his head to the side a little to see another boy on the ground looking up at the plump boy in front of him.
The over-sized boy looked back at the laughing group then turned to the boy as he slowly lifted his foot to kick the defenseless boy. Now Hitsugaya would usually ignore getting in trouble in his missions especially from a group of idiot bullies like them but something in him told him to help just this once. Call it a gut feeling if you must...but not a softy, never a softy...
He spotted a soccer ball...I beg your pardon I meant he spotted a football (1) in one of the identical backyards, quickly he shunpo to take it and landed in front of the playgrounds open gate. The fat one was about to make his move but the young captain was quicker...way quicker. He dropped the ball in front of him and kicked it, the ball sped past the snorting group and hit the fat boy directly on the head. He lost his balance and tumbled down on the ground followed by the ground slightly rumbling. The ball slowly rolled back his way as the fat boy slowly got up and rubbed his head, which must really ache.
"Who the bloody hell did that!" his voice was angry, almost teary and accented.
Hitsugaya walked pass the gates and placed a foot on top of the ball to stop it from rolling, he already stole that from some kids yard he didn't want to lose it. He looked back up the gang to see them all looking at him with gaped mouths, as well as the bullied boy.
But the bullies did not interest him it was the victim that did, his eyes locked into those misty green ones from behind the boy's slightly cracked glasses. Then he spotted a scar on the boy's forehead hidden by strands of black hair, it seemed to resemble a lightning bolt. There was something about that boy and more specifically that scar on his forehead that unease the young captain.
Just then something vibrated in his pocket breaking his trance-like state, he reached in and grabbed his phone ignoring the growling bullies and the boy with the scar. He flipped it open and the map of England appeared but there were red blinking dots heading his direction, his eyes widened a fraction... Hollows, so they've finally appeared. The weariness in him finally disappeared to the thought of finally being able to do something; He turned to leave and almost forgot about the kids till the fat boy's annoying voice ringed to his ears.
"Where do you think your going freak?" he taunted, "You ain't going no where without being taught a lesson"
The boy smirked and he and his gang moved forward towards him.
Hitsugaya grunted with annoyance, with one flowing movement he slipped his foot under the ball then kicked it upwards, with the same foot he extended it behind him the with force he kicked the ball aiming at the boys head. With perfect accuracy he hit him dead center and the human fell on the dirty ground, unconscious...he hoped. The boy's gang looked in awe then at the boy.
Satisfied with his results Hitsugaya turned and ran off but glanced one curious look back at the scared boy, their eyes met again. He had another feeling that the boy is going to be of great importance in the future, and with that final thought their eye contact broke as he ran pass the rows of houses.
Once he was out of their sight he shunpo onto the roofs while pulling out a candy dispenser from his pocket. Having no time to criticize the childish thing he swallowed one of the hard candy into his mouth. It only takes a fraction of a second to get out of his gigai, his spirit was literally pushed out of the body as the modified soul 'king' took his place. And so both boys ran side by side each other, the mod in Hitsugaya's human body while Hitsugaya in his comfortable captain robes.
"Find a place to hide" he ordered the mod soul who nodded and changed directions.
There were five of them; he could sense the hollows spiritual pressure getting closer. Hitsugaya's arm reached to his sword strapped on his back and shunpo'ed closer to the hollows, which lead him into a forest. He kicked off the last roof and ran on the air, his teal eyes scanning the green trees for the hollow. There was a roar to his right he stopped and snapped his neck to that direction, eyes searching again then he felt one of them from behind,
[A distraction] he thought
He unsheathes his sword and turned around quickly, the hollow perched above him with one arm ready to slash at him but the young captain was too fast. With one stroke of his zanpakutō through the hollow and it vanished with an eerie cry, the sound of something else cutting through air caught the attention of the captain the others are coming.
Three Menos, all growling and glaring through the holes of their mask, quickly surrounded him. A frown appeared on the captain's monotone face, he felt unchallenged by these weaklings. The three Menos closed in on him at the same time, their mouths open dwarfing the young captain. Simply Hitsugaya jumped out of their way then quickly cutting through their body, their figures paused for a few seconds probably noticing their cuts then slowly blood spurred from their wounds and they fell.
Hitsugaya re-sheathe his zanpakutō and watched as the hollows parts dispersed in the breeze, the white youth was disappointed none had given him the slights challenge at all. He had more trouble getting Matsumoto be try and be sober for a day than those hollows but then he remembered, there was five of them. He only defeated four, where was the last one?
And as if on cue a loud roar came from the dense forest, it was hiding. Hitsugaya shunpo into the forest and knelt on one of the branches. Everything grew silent, and the hollows energy dead down. Slowly he stood up and looked around, where had it gone?
"Avada Kedavra!"
At the corner of his eye he saw an ill green blast speeding towards him followed by a rushing noise, he back-flipped off the branch and watched it as dissolve into ashes. Who attacked him? He landed safely on the ground the dead leaves crunched to his weight never the less he made not a sound. But something else did there was the sound of footsteps running away from his direction, probably the thing that had attacked him with that green blast. He jumped back in the shadows of the leaves in a flash and listened to the crunching leaves that the thing was making as it ran off.
As he speed through the branches he finally caught up to the thing, its figure mimicked ones of a human. Cloaked in a long black robe and a pointed hood above its head hiding its face with the dark. In a flash Hitsugaya changed his direction and leaped out of the branch, he appeared in front of the cloaked figure causing it to stop. Still airborne he spun around with his left foot stuck out and kicking the person on the stomach and causing them to skip on the ground and smash into a trunk. Hitsugaya's hand quickly grasping his zanpakutō and pointed it at the person's neck when he reappeared in front of it. But when he got a better look at the person his eyes widened slightly, the person's hood had slid off to reveal a man, not a soul but an actual living man.
"A human" he muttered the words with disdain,
The man looked at him with the same confused look as he opened his bleeding mouth,
"I-impossible...a brat" he gasped in the same annoying accent as the fat boy
Hitsugaya growled and leaned closer and glared at the man,
"Your not dead...Who sent you? What is your objective here?" He barked in English
"Of course I'm not bloody dead! How could you still be alive after I hit you with the killing spell! You should be dead! What are you the bloody grim reaper!" the man spurted back; he didn't know how right he was.
[Wait... He shot me with a spell?]
Hitsugaya glanced down at the ground and spotted a stick beside the man, a wand...this man was a wizard. He looked back up at the man to ask another question when he felt a change in the air, he turned quickly to see a fist speeding towards them. Unable to grab the man Hitsugaya shunpo out of the way. The man screamed as he finally saw the fist; it opened up and grabbed the man tightly. The man fought and tried to loosen the hand around him but he was too weak and he was loosing oxygen fast.
Hitsugaya looked up it was a hollow but not like the Menos he defeated earlier, it's figure resembled one of a bulky humanoid with ill blue gray skin, its mask appears to be the skull of a wild cat. It was an Adjuchas, it roared loudly as it took its other hand and squeezed the wizard harder, the mans' face was filled with fear probably his thoughts filled with those of his death and how he will be ending.
Hitsugaya took out his zanpakutō and charged up at the hollow before he could kill the man, the hollow must have forgotten he was there because he took no notice of him as he sped in front of him, it did then noticed when he appeared and its arms were lashed by Hitsugaya and now bled and fell back screaming and watching his forearms fall on the ground. The Adjuchas growled angrily and snapped his head towards the captain. Its mouth opened wide and a light gathered from in front of his mouth, he was going to attack.
"Die soul reaper pest" it yelled before releasing the cero
The captain was nearly hit feeling its heat radiating from his back as his jumped away in time, he rolled on the ground then quickly got back up. He placed both hands on the hilt of his sword as his eyes glowed blue as did the outline of his body; the temperature around him dropped and his zanpakutō grew cold,
"Reign over the frosted heavens Hyōrinmaru!" he yelled
Ice ran from the hilt of his zanpakutō and when it reached the edge it continued to grow and spiral, the ice vibrated and an ice dragon was formed 'Hyōrinmaru'. It growled then sped towards the Adjuchas, coiling around it then when its ice skin made contact with the Hollows rotting one the hollow simply was devoured by ice. It stood their still and frozen till there was a crack that echoed in the silent forest and the Adjuchas shattered into fragments.
Hitsugaya's eyes hovered over the remains of the Hollow before placing his sword back into its cover strapped on his back. He kicked one of its shattered piece of its mask as he made his way towards the Aldjuchas forearms which contained the human wizard. The mans' eyes were closed but there was a pulse in him so he was still alive just unconscious, if he were dead then his soul would have been sitting besides his body all chained up.
He knelt down by the human and sighed, this means that he would have to wait till he wakes up to get some answers. Wasting no time Hitsugaya began to unwrap the hollows fingers from the humans body the pulled him out and leaned him on a tree. He stood in front of the unconscious man with his arms wrapped on his chest and his eyes glaring, as if the man would suddenly wake up if he continued this.
The forest was silent, with the exception of the wind brushing against the leaves of the trees but other else than that there was no sound even from the animals if there are animal living was wrong,
"Heh, they sent a kiddy!" A voice giggled
The young captain's eyes searched around for the source of the voice, his hand steadily reaching for his zanpakuto.
"Who's there? Show yourself" Hitsugaya ordered in a voice of authority
He was answered by silence, Hitsugaya growled under his throat and gripped tightly on the hilt of his sword. Suddenly he heard leaves shuffling from behind him and his attacker appeared. A blur jumped from the branches up in the sky and dived down, the sun was behind it making the captain squint unable to see them, the sound of metal rushing opposite of the winds direction did however told the captain that the person was attacking.
Hitsugaya shunpo'd away and as he did he saw the ground he was standing on blast from the impact of a weapon of sorts, he glanced over to where the human was luckily he was unharmed. Dust swirled from the crater he could make out the weapon retracting back, his eyes searching back in the sky for his enemy but they weren't there anymore.
A twinkle from the settling dust did catch his eyes just in time to see a metal 'rope dart' (2) speeding towards him, in a flash he took out Hyōrinmaru, the blades met with a loud clash. Hitsugaya twisted Hyōrinmaru around for the rope the dart was attached to would be wrapped around it and the enemy would not be able to attack again. He glanced down and noticed that if he had not been able to deflect that attack he would have been hit in the neck, a fatal and quick death.
"I missed" The voice sighed as the metal rope tugged on his zanpakutō
Hitsugaya gripped tightly to his sword till the tugging stopped, he then heard footstep and his foe revealed themselves. A girl with the appearance of a young child of 7 or 8 appeared, one hand gripping on the sharp metal rope while the other hand the rest of the rope circled around it. She wore a short white Hanfu (3) with light yellow hems, two chopstick stuck out from her bun up hair. Her skin was a dark tan such as Yoruichi's and her eyes a mix of gold and brown. A monkey skull was fitted properly on top of her head, the two large fangs piercing into her temples.
It was an arrancar, Hitsugaya gritted his teeth and watched the little girl smirk. Suddenly she tugged on her metal chain but Hitsugaya tugged back so she won't get it back.
"Oh poo, I'm stuck" she pouted but then smirked again,
"Who are you?" Hitsugaya demanded for an answer, the girl looked into his eyes and cracked another smirk
"I am the ninth and one of the members of the 1st trine, my name is Mingzhu nice ta meet ya" she answered
[The ninth? Does that mean she's one of the new Espadas'. But what is the 1st trine?] he thought
"Lǎobǎn Aizen said they would send a duìzhǎng but you're just a kid" she pouted
"I am not a kid," Hitsugaya snapped, "And why are you here?"
Mingzhu tugged again this time stronger, the young captain almost lost his balance but he dug his feet in the ground. The girl smirked as if impressed showing her fang like teeth.
"I'm here because lǎobǎn said I has to distract the duìzhǎng" she simply said
Hitsugaya paused for a minute, she referred to him as a duìzhǎng and that she had to distract him but from what? As if Mingzhu had read his mind she pointed behind him and he looked back. There was another person their but their face he could not see because she held the Adjuchas mask, the one that he had defeated in front of her face. She disappeared with a buzz like sound and reappeared standing in front of the human; she was going to kill him.
Hitsugaya growled, he could not let her kill him or else he won't get answers. He tried to run to stop her but when he tried his zanpakuto was tugged back by Mingzhu, he glared back at her and she just smiled. Now he was the one that was caught, was this Mingzhu's true intentions from the beginning.
"You can't do anything little duìzhǎng, if you try to attack jiejie I would kill you" She grinned
Hitsugaya's face scrunched, she was right. Even if he used kido it wouldn't work, she was tugged on his sword was strong and he needed both hands to pull back.
[Damn it] he thought
He looked back at the man and the arrancar standing in front of him, she unknown arrancar kicked on the man's leg and the man shudder slightly and began to stir, he was waking up.
"Get out of there!" Hitsugaya shouted
The man opened his eyes and looked at his direction unaware of the arrancar but then he saw her, he opened his mouth to scream but the arrancar had strike. Her hand pierced into his stomach, blood spewed from the new wound and from his wide mouth. His eyes wide open before drooping slightly, the arrancar retracted her bloodied hand out of the man stomach and stepped back as if to admire her work.
The mans' soul appeared a few second later, his hands around his stomach and his eyes shaking in fear. A chain was stuck on his chest but was not attached to his body, he could not longer return. He looked up and saw the arrancar turn her head slightly to his direction, he tried to crawl back but she grabbed his chain.
Hitsugaya's body twitched and his brows knitted together, he growled angrily at himself because he was just standing there doing nothing. He looked back at Mingzhu whose eyes were looking at him then at the soul then back at him. She tugged again as if reminding him to stay put.
When he heard buzz again from the other arrancar he turned, he saw the girl dragging the soul by the chain into a portal that had opened.
"Jiejie! No fair! You said I could feed the hollows next time" he heard Mingzhu yell
Feed the hollows? Roars were heard from the opened portal. It was a portal to Hueco Mundo, where all the hollows settle.
"No! Don't do it" Hitsugaya yelled as the girl pulled on the souls' chains to position him in front of the portal.
The girl turned her head to look at him but her face still hidden by the mask she held, even if he wouldn't see he knew she was smiling. And with that she pushed the soul into the portal and the portal closed behind him.
Hitsugaya glared at the arrancar and tugged on his sword, he untangled the chains from his sword not caring if Mingzhu will attack from behind. Anger fuelled him to kill the arrancar; he yelled a battle cry as he sped towards the unmoved arrancar. He was almost there but something caught around his ankles and pulled him down. It was Mingzhu, the dart had changed into a metal ball and now wrapped around his ankles. He looked back to see Mingzhu was no longer smiling. Her eyes soulless were filled with determination to kill. She pulled on the chains and began to drag him, she then pulled with strong force throwing him up in the air then slamming the captain to the ground.
The young captain groaned in pain and as he did he felt the chains around his ankle unwrap. He tilted his bloodied head to see Mingzhu reappear besides the arrancar with the mask and held on to her hand with man's blood. Her lips curled to a cunning smile before another portal appeared and both arrancars left.
He slammed his fist into the ground before his sight began to blur, he had failed to not only retrieve information but also save a soul. He groaned in pain again as he turned on to his back and faced the sky, the last thing he remember was a shadow shading the light from him and his own face looking at him with concern.
*Insert dramatic music here* BUM BUM DI DUM! Finally finished it. I know that it's not like "Mystery of Hogwarts" But its in the same track of it just different in a way. Cause most of the crossovers we read its practically the same so why not make it different right ^.^ This is also the longest chapter I wrote Ten PAGES YAY!
Please review and I'll give you a H.U.G! (x.x) and err...Kuro won't haunt you when you sleep, Caio
(1) In Britain they call Soccer 'Football" so would a soccer ball be a 'football'? not sure but I put it on anyway
(2) A rope dart is one of my favorite weapons, I think it was 'made in China' (no pun intended) Basically it's a dart attached to a rope (duh) but the one that Mingzhu is using the rope is metal (Find out later)
(3) Hanfu is a type of traditional dress made in China (Sorry couldn't help it) I wore one a few days ago in a multicultural festival, There aren't any Short Hanfu but just imagine it for Mingzhu cause I want her to look childish but traditional too.
lǎobǎn- Boss
duìzhǎng- Captain
Jiejie-Sister
Please review, see ya next time!
