Hello, sorry for the long wait. Thanks for the reviews. Arya19 asked a question but it will be answered at the end of the chapter.

Chapter 4 :

Severus Snape was scowling. Not an unusual expression for him but still, he was frowning. When the Headmaster had asked him to be a part of the special team he was creating to find and bring back Harry Potter a few years ago, he had agreed because of his promise to Lily but the brat was still missing. It was as if he had totally disappeared from the surface of the world. Severus had thought that with his luck, he would be stuck with incompetents morons as partner for this mission.

He had never been more thankful to be proven wrong. Perhaps, Dumbledor had known that he would most likely kill any idiots he was partnered with and decided to let him be with Minerva and Moody. A judicious choice indeed, if not for the fact that for the past three years noone of the research teams had found (or even seen) the brat.

The only lead they had was that sometimes the brat appeared in Japan for a few hours at most. Noone of the other teams there had seen hide or hairs of him. It was a mystery and if there was one thing Severus Snape hated most; it was an unsolved mystery.

It was what brought Team Mars to Japan on this fine Sunday. Team Mars had been named, like all other teams, by Dumbledor himself after candies. They were under invisible cloaks (or in Minerva's case, under feline disguise) scanning the street for a boy with dark hairs and green eyes. Nothing so far. Snape grunted. Perhaps those spells used to find the boy were malfunctioning. What would the brat do in Japan? How would have him end up there? Noone had seen him. It was stupid to wait here for the brat to come but he had agreed to do it nonetheless. Damned Dumbledor.

Snape was shaken from his thoughts by Moody as the older man jerked upside in surprise. He seemed to be following something noone else could see with his charmed eye.

"There's something here. But it's blurred even to my eye. " Said Moody, frowning and squinting hard to try and decifer what was blocking his magical eye. Moody focused his eye solely on this blur which seemed to become more and more clear.

A small figure was soon distinguished. The young male had messy (and rather long) black hairs, he had very white skin with white framed glasses. While Moody was too far away to distinguish the boy's eyes color, he seemed to fit the description given.

Moody, wordlessly mentioned to his team partners that something was up. MacGonagal under her cat form approached the boy, sensing that something was in the direction of Moody's eye. She couldn't see anything unusual but seemed to be able to sense that something was there. The witch was surprised to see a boy suddenly appear out of thin air, just before her eyes, as if a veil had been lifted just for her

The boy's appearance was not quite what she expected. She was expecting messy black hairs and green eyes, alright. What startled her first was the black sclera that came with the emerald eyes. Then, her feline eyes felt on some red marking on one of his chin while he had a black one on his other one.. As the boy put the bag he was holding to petted her, Minerva could see that on top of his head two white cat ears were sitting while a long white tail was switching happily behind him.

After a while the boy stopped petting her (she couldn't believe she had just been purring! And before Severus and Alastor, no less!) disappeared. She could tell he was still here, just not quite visible to everyone.

It was not that bad, she was sure Moody would be able to see the boy whom she was so sure (despite his rather interesting appearance) was Harry Potter, the boy they had been searching for for three years in a row. They wouldn't go back empty-handed.

As Moody looked at the boy...cat-boy petting Minerva MacGonagal, he couldn't quite believe his eyes. That woman was very impressive and vicious when she wanted to be and wouldn't let anyone (not even Dumbledor) pet her. It would be suicide to even think of doing that.

Moody slowly approached the boy and mentioned for Snape to do the same. They were still rather far away when they saw the boy tense up and stop petting the witch under disguise. The cat-boy stood up and took his bag before leaving.

After a while of following the boy around Moody was surprised when he saw the boy open a black hole in the sky and leap inside. Disappearing totally. The magical object used to follow Potter around stopped showing anything at the same time the strange cat-boy disappeared through this strange and rather worrying portail.

Everything would have to be reported to Dumbledor.

Dumbledor was munching on a lemon drop happily , humming under his breath before a knocking sound on his door wake him from his day-dreaming.

'Hum,...Must be Team Mars coming back.' He thought.

" Come in."He said, and just like he thought, it was Team Mars coming back from their mission. Seeing their rather serious face, he smile at them kindly and said:

" Lemon drop, anyone?" While holding out a bol full of said candies.

" We have something to show you, Albus." Said Moody while the two others were silent. Immediately, Dumbledor became more serious.

" What is it?" He asked.

" They will show us through a pensive." Said Snape. " Moody and Minerva were the only ones to see the boy. Nobody else could,... no even me."

" Alright."

With Harry:

Harry scowled. It was a rather unusual expression on him, but he couldn't help it. He frowned. Ever since that so called mad scientist with pink hairs had put a bounty on his head, Harry had been tracked by nearly every hollows of Hueco Muendo. His situation wouldn't have been so bad, if it wasn't for his family.

The hollows who were after him didn't care if they hurt innocent people while at it and it had become too dangerous for him to stay with his family. Oh, he still stayed with them most of the time but every time a hollow (or a group of them) came too close to his family, he would lead them away.

To Harry's chagrin, the place in which it was easier to lose them was in the living world. And so, he spent a lot of his time there. Of course, he couldn't stay in the living world for too long either or he would start to fell weaker and weaker while at Hueco Muendo Harry could fell the very atmosphere feed his hunger for power. He couldn't allow himself to weaken or it could be a tragedy.

That afternoon, Harry had been hunted by a few low-classe hollows. Most of the time spent in the living world was on getting supplies, taking baths, reading a little and playing in parks. He did all that to pass the time while the hollows would search for him...With little success. And then Harry would return to his family with gifts for them.

Usually, Harry would bring pretty dresses for his little sister but lately she had taken to wearing his sweats as if they were dresses and wouldn't give them back. She complained that since she couldn't see him as much as she would like, he could at least let her have something of his so that she wouldn't miss him too much.

With Dumbledor:

As they entered the memory, Dumbledor mused that the scene playing ou before him was quite normal for now. It wasn't until the Alastor in the memory jerk up that Dumbledor saw a blur on the right corner. After a while the blur cleared and a young cat boy could be seen. Dumbledor stared at the boy as he petted the memory of cat/Minerva . Looking at the real Minerva beside him, he chuckled at seing her blush.

" What?" She bits out.

" Nothing nothing." He answered.

After a while, Alastor and Severus tried to approach the boy slowly but before they could be near enough to see if the boy was (somehow) the one they were searching for, he stiffened and jerked up.

After messing for a while around, the boy pushed his hand through nothing and ripped open a black hole in the clear blue sky. The boy jump inside. The signal given by the magical object stopped.

Leaving the memory, Dumbledor passed a hand through his long with beard and clear bue eyes tinkling madly. This was interesting.

" Now, yours Minerva, if you would?" He said.

The witch pulled the memory from her head and put it into the pensive.

With the bad guys:

Aizen was quite angry with his pink-haired mad scientist. Of course, being who he was he didn't show anything but a mask of calm sympathy. Szvayel-Aporro had known for quite some time now that a human/hollow hybrid had been created a few years ago and was roaming freely the sandy land of Hueco Muendo.

That thing didn't told him just so that he would be able to catch and dissect that interesting hybrid, a living Hollow. Aizen would have Szvayel-Aporro punished for such a thing. The boy could have turned out to be a perfect new tool but instead (because of that stupid scientist and his obsession) he would have to face an unknown. Something that hadn't been registered in his very carefully laid plan. Simply put, it was a threat to him and he would put it down if he had to.

Now for the answer to Arya19's question:

Is it possible that Harry will become a Hollow and then an Arrancar or will he just stay half human-half hollow all his life?

As you saw in this chapter, Harry changed over the years, becoming more Hollow like ( black sclera, markings and more).It's due to the atmosphere of Hueco Muendo, small Hollow don't have to feed to survive. Harry, being half hollow, is considered a small hollow. In a total of three years, Harry passed from an half-hollow/weak Adjuchas to a strong Adjuchas/weak Arrancar.

I hope you liked it. Thanks for reading!