Chapter 2

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Do you ever wanna run away

Do you lock yourself in your room

With the radio on turned up so loud

So no one hears you screaming

Welcome to my life!

"Woah there!" Ichigo exclaimed, catching the body. He was surprised when the body jerked back in defense and an invisible force lashed out on him wanting him to let go.

Weirded out of his wits, Ichigo eased the body on his hold shifting the face to him and he was horrified when he saw a bloodied and overly bruised face of a boy.

The boy tried to cover his battered face with his fist, that's equally injured, while whimpering in pain but he pried the hands away carefully without hurting him more than he already is.

"Hey. It's fine. It's fine. I'm not gonna hurt you, okay?" He said softly on the still whimpering boy as he applies a simple healing kido he'd learned.

He examined the boy once over and was struck with horror to see the overly large clothes the boy wore bloodied. And then the boy stopped whimpering.

Orihime. He needed Orihime and fast. The boy just pass out. The adrenaline probably left him already. Scrambling to reach his groceries on one hand, he held the boy on the other as careful as he can and then he flash stepped home without care as fast as he can. Thanking all gods above with his ability to flash step on his human body. Thankfully, it was already dark so no one saw him.

"ORIHIME!" Ichigo yelled as he closed the door in urgency. Running straight to his room leaving behind his groceries on the floor and laying down his bloodied baggage on his bed, re-applying the healing kido. Lucky for him, he reached their house in record time.

"What are you yelling at, Ichigo? You're disturbing everyone!" Uryuu Ishida, cousin and one of Ichigo's friends, reprimanded him as he entered his room with the others.

Ichigo ignore him and instead called them over not wanting to stop the healing kido on the boy.

"Orihime, please. He really needs help." He almost begged to the woman who looks at the boy in horror upon seeing his state, everyone of them did. It only took a second before she too started healing the boy.

" Sōten Kisshun . I reject." She called out as her spirits came out and formed a shield around the boy and started healing him.

"I-ichigo! What the hell is this?!" Uryuu screamed in question again, horrified at seeing the state of the person (child) Ichigo brought in.

"I don't know. I was walking back from the grocery when he bumped into me." Ichigo answered tiredly.

After a long, non-stop healing from Orihime, which lasted for 5 hours, the boy slept for three days straight.

The injuries of the boy are so serious that it took almost all of Orihime to heal him, and Ichigo has to force himself to calm his raging instinct not to go and hunt down whoever causes the child's pain. Rather, Ichigo decided to stay vigil beside him not wanting to leave the boy alone in case he woke up.

It comforted Ichigo a little that the boy is getting his color back by the day. Far from the ghostly pale color he had before.

On those three days, Ichigo sent his friends to try knowing who the boy is by asking around the place where they bumped into each other. Without the name of the child, all they could do is ask by describing the features of the child but what surprised them is that anyone they asked, they keep badmouthing the child like it's natural for them to do and when Ichigo heard it he almost lost control of his reiatsu. He really hated listening to it.

While trying to ponder what kind of weird neighborhood he was currently in, Ichigo heard a shuffling of the sheets that got him out of his musing.

Ichigo tensed before he gather back his wits and rushed to the bedside of the boy.

HARRY felt nothing. It was all just darkness and numbness. Which is a change since he was always in pain.

Opening his eyes slowly, Harry was surprise to see a very different cealing from his room.

Where is he?

What did happen again?

Harry tried to remember anything but everything seems cloudy in his mind. He tried forcing himself to remember again but he just keeps getting headache so he just let it be. For now.

He suddenly froze and started hyperventilating in panic when he realized, too late, that there's someone -a stranger- hovering before him. Not seeing the worried and concerned look on the stranger's face.

Seeing the panicking kid, Ichigo started talking to reassure him.

" Hey, hey, calm down. I'm not gonna hurt you okay? Just calm down. Don't you remember? I helped you when you bumped into me. "

Hearing this, Harry started calming down. He's starting to remember the events that had happened in his relatives house up until he bumped into someone who he now knows is the stranger before him.

"W-Where am I?" Harry asked nervously at the stranger.

" In my house. Or more specifically, in my and my friends' house. I took you here immediately after you passed out on me. "

" T-Thank you for saving me. Thank you so much Mister. " Harry shyly thanked the stranger, wincing and flinching from remembering his sorry self before he was saved.

" Don't worry about it. So, what's your name kid? Mine's Ichigo Kurosaki." Ichigo smoothly diverting the topic upon seeing the boy's reaction.

"H-Harry Potter, sir." The boy answered nervously.

"Harry, huh? You know, you don't have to call me sir. You can just call me by my name."

"B-but..."

"It's fine. Everyone I know call me that, well except a few. My sisters call me nii-san." Ichigo lightly explained.

"Nii-san?"

"Yeah. It means brother in japanese."

"A foreigner?" Harry suddenly blurted out upon hearing the man's reply. Now that he thinks about it, he never really thought that the person before him is a foreigner. He doesn't sound like foreign neither does he looks like. Especially with his orange colored hair which he unconsciously tied with the Wesleys' hair.

"yes. We're just here for a vacation."

"Ah." Harry paused, after a heartbeat, spoke again. "How long was I out?"

"You slept for three days."

"Oh." Three days. Wow, that was long. Harry thought.

" Yes. How do you feel? You look really bad when you bumped into me, you know. "

Checking over himself, Harry was surprised when he feel no pain at all. Patting himself quickly, he realized that yes, he wasn't in pain. He can't even see any bruises on his body anymore. How?

" Wha? " tongue-tied, Harry stuttered.

" My friend healed you. She didn't stop until she's sure that not even a bruise or a single cut is left. " The stranger, Mr. Ichigo, explained.

" But how? "

He can't still wraped his mind around with knowing that he's not in pain anymore. For the first time in a long while, Harry wasn't feeling any pain in his body. Not even the hollow pain he always felt after a healing from Madam Pomfrey from his past injuries.

" I can't explain right now. But later, when you meet her you can ask her yourself. "

Harry's face suddenly morphed into scepticism. He really wanted to know now. What if the person who healed him won't answer his questions?

" Don't worry, she'll answer your question without a fuss. " Mister Ichigo pacified him upon seeing the look on his face.

AN:

Sōten Kisshun- A healing technique that allows Orihime to reverse damage or effects taken on in battle.