Wizard and Deat Reaper: Hogwarts
Chapter 43's

Toushiro Hitsugaya is a lover of tranquility. In times that require him to focus, such as working on reports, jinzei, even sleeping, And the little problem that happened to him this time, actually requires calm to deal with it. Calmness, and it seems like time to yourself.

However, it turns out that it is not an easy thing to realize. How many times has his job at the 10th Division office been interrupted by Rangiku Matsumoto's drunkenness? How many times did his report go unfinished because he had to face Yachiru Kusajishi's whining who asked him for a favor? How many times did he have to be patient when his jinzei was bullied by 11th Division neighbors who were not playing with him while sparring? And now, it seems that his shinigami fellows somehow didn't make him alone. Half his heart was happy because he had friends, yet the other half was disgusted at himself; he believes one of the reasons why they didn't leave him was to watch him not lose control of his hollow. It is impossible to find a place for yourself at this time.

Moreover, Urahara had already explained to her what Smile Shutara had done to her. The part of the Heaven Guard seal that was removed, and the fact that his reiatsu increased fivefold were the parts that made him quite anxious.

How can he control it? How does he control his hollow? Even the prospect of the training that Shinji Hirako and the other Vizards had prepared still had not eased his anxiety.

"Remember those who trust you, Master," Hyourinmaru said in his mind. "Remember those who defend you no matter that you change. That would be the reason for you that you have a place between them."

Right, thought Toushiro. Such a reason was all he needed right now. This time, he had to be selfish with himself. He must set aside the assumptions of others. He must believe that there is still, even if there is only one life that believes it. He needed that excuse to be able to control the darkest creature that was on him.

"Oi, Toushiro!"

Toushiro closed his eyes for a second, then opened them. There goes.

Ichigo comes at him quickly, with Orihime, Uryuu, and Rangiku following behind him. In fact, Toushiro intended to enter the Gryffindor Tower alone, taking the materials for his final report left in the room. Apparently, the orange-hair followed him, and of course, his lieutenant.

Toushiro sighed. "What?"

"Taicho! If you're going anywhere, say dong! I haven't toured this castle either.." whinek Rangiku.

"Do I care about that?" reply Toushiro flat, back walk up the stairs to the painting hole that lives at the end of the border.

"Tegaaa~" sulking Rangiku.

When they arrived at the Golden Trio Fat Lady's painting and Neville was there, with the Fat Lady talking to them.

"The painting in this castle can talk" Ichigo said, telling Rangiku. "Magic."

"… tomorrow is the end of the school year! Why did you change the key word?!" ron was protesting.

"The school is not safe, Mr. Weasley. I have to change the password every day, just in case," said Fat Lady stubbornly.

"He changed the keyword?" toushiro asked as soon as it was near the four of them.

"Ah, hello, Mr Hitsugaya and Mr Kurosaki, Mr Glasses, Miss Muggle, and.... Miss Shinigami?" said the Fat Lady kindly.

"Hello, er... Mrs Painting?" rangiku replied cheerfully, while Uryuu frowned unhappily at being called 'Master of Glasses' and Orihime asked Ichigo what 'Muggle' meant'. "It's nice to meet you! But is there a problem?"

"Oh, yeah…. A tad. No keywords, no entry," said the cheerful Fat Lady.

"Oh, what a pity," said Rangiku. "I wonder what the Gryffindor Tower looks like! We're guests, can we come in?"

"Sorry, Miss, I can't allow it" said the Fat Lady.

"Oh, comeon!" lamented Ron.

"We don't know if a keyword is being replaced" said Hermione, "if you don't want to tell us, at least give us a clue."

"Ah, alright then," said the Fat Lady. He seemed to think for a moment. "Well. When you don't know how to go back, try to look at the beginning."

"Huh?" Ron glares. "really! A riddle?!"

"Early?" Toushiro. He stared at the painting of the guard of the pit into the Gryffindor Tower. "Ah. I know."

"You know what?" ask Harry and Hermione at the same time.

"The first key word of the year" said Toushiro kalem.

"Mimbulus of the Mimbletonia" Neville said.

"That's right!" serru the Fat Mistress, and her painting swung open.

Ron shook his head, while Rangiku smiled happily. They all entered the painting room, and were greeted with a crowd of Gryffindor recreation rooms.

"They never stop" said Ichigo.

"Never" said Neville.

It is impossible, Toushiro said inwardly. Moreover, coupled with the Weasley twins who came there and started their specialties; jokes, laughter, wanderlust. Toushiro felt that there was no need to be among them; there was a task he had not completed. He walked up the stairs to the boys' room.but, just as he stepped on the first rung, someone pulled his hand.

Fred Weasley's.

"Where are you going, O Mighty Ice Captain?" grin Fred, taking him among the crowd; he saw Rangiku who was laughing cheerfully hearing George's silly story. "You missed the Gryffindor party, eh?"

"I'm still-"

Toushiro's words disappeared meaninglessly when just then the children's laughter broke as George threw another humour at his friends.

"Ohooho! Taicho! I didn't expect your friends to be this crazy!" rangiku said gasping. "I'm not surprised you're not complaining at all…"

"Of course, considering the compensation is that I don't have to take care of you who get drunk every day" Toushiro said.

"You keep talking about it." complained Rangiku.

"How did you get such a beautiful lieutenant," asked George, sounding somewhat envious while Rangiku was chatting while snickering with a group of fifth-grade girls.

"I didn't get it" said Toushiro, frowning. "He was a lieutenant before I became a commander. I just don't want to take care of much for the lieutenant selection anymore, no matter how useless he is."

Ichigo gave a small snort, which Toushiro fortunately did not know. He knew from his father that it was not Toushiro's excuse. Although he had the authority to replace his lieutenant he would not do so. Toushiro is not a person who easily trusts people, and Rangiku Matsumoto is one of the few people he trusts enough. After all, it was not easy to find a lieutenant who was as loyal as my Rangiku, although, yeah, right, Rangiku was a bit useless, with an acute alcoholism and considered paperwork his greatest enemy.

"And how can you not tell who you really are" Lee Jordan said. This, made most of the eyes directed at Ichigo and Toushiro.

"Well, that's it.." Ichigo scratched the back of his non-itchy neck, not knowing what to say.

"The name of the disguise mission is secret" said Toushiro flatly. "Of course no one should know unless they are entitled to know."

"Do Harry and the others know?" ask Seamus.

Toushiro nodded. "One of the mission's priorities is to take care of her," Toushiro said shrugging.

"But still.." chirped Colin Creevey, looking at Toushiro with an adoring look. "That's so cool! And you're a commander!"

Toushiro was a little bewildered at Colin's enthusiasm.

"Then about the transfer student it's just a lie?" ask Alicia. "Shinou School don't know if it doesn't exist?"

Toushiro. "About transfer students it's just an alibi so we can get into Hogwarts without suspicion. But Shinou does exist."

"But Taicho graduated from there many years ago" Rangiku said. "And Ichigo never came there. Oh, taicho, how's school like again?" kikik Rangiku's.

"Boring," said Toushiro indifferently.

"No wonder."

A voice came from the window. Renji Abarai was there, jumping in from the open window, and Rukia followed behind him.

"Saking the boss, isn't that why you finished six years of study at Shinou to be a year?" said Renji grinning.

Toushiro nodded.

"You know, Renji, there's a discovery called the door," Ichigo said exasperatedly. He looked at his shinigami friends one by one in dissatisfaction, "Why don't you guys use that like normal people?!"

"It's easier that way" said Rukia, shrugging her shoulders.

"And don't talk about being normal while you're just as abnormal as us" Toushiro said. Ichigo instantly silenced, looking at Toushiro in annoyance.

"Right Grimmjow said, even if you're a 'Hero of Soul Society' you still lose to Commander Hitsugaya," Renji said. "Especially your brain."

"Wrestling?!" yell Ichigo won't take it.

"Good!" exclaim Renji happy. "You, the arrogant Substitute Shinigami, because of you I was sent to Karakura to deal with that damn Kon…"

"If you think it sucks why don't you just refuse the mission, Chief Pineapple?! Afraid of Byakuya?!"

"Get me talking, Strawberry!"

Toushiro sighed boredly, the same as Rukia while Rangiku laughed happily. Ignoring the childish quarrel, Toushiro turned to look at Rukia. "Hinamori's still in the Hall?"

"Yes" said Rukia politely. "Still fixing your commander's haori. The other commanders were also there, as well as Ikkaku and Yumichika."

Toushiro nodded. "I'm leaving, then."

Toushiro shunpo left, got out of the crowd and went straight to the room of the fifth-grade boy. He retrieved the final report before shunpo again exited the Gryffindor Tower.

"He's gone again?" rangiku asked Rukia, staring at the painting hole that was swinging shut after the hair went out from there.

"You know him better, Rangiku-san," said Rukia slowly. "After what happened, I'm sure he needs some time to himself. But we're not letting it, are we? Besides it looks like he'll have to take care of the final report for this mission."

"It should be so," Rangiku said, ignoring Ichigo and Renji who were still arguing in the background. "She had faced many problems and faced them alone. This time it can't be."

Rangiku is leaving, but Rukia is holding him back.

"I've also asked this to Ukitake taicho. Hitsugaya taicho has his own way…."

"But.." sidelines Rangiku do not accept.

"Slow down," said Rukia, smiling. "Don't rush it like that. I've faced something like this, when Ichigo realized he had a hollow. He didn't come home for a week. He is clearly experiencing a crisis of confidence. Maybe Hitsugaya taicho is like that too, right. But he's old enough not to go and stay away from us."

Rangiku.

"Er.. Rangiku…"

The 10th Division lieutenant turned his head. Neville Longbottom stood in front of him, looking nervous and doubtful.

My wife smiled inwardly. He had heard from Ichigo about Neville. His petite commander's new friend. He knew enough of his commander who did not easily accept others as his friends. And Neville Longbottom, despite being seen as an awkward and unconfident child managed to make Toushiro accept it it was incredible. Even his taicho was willing to get a scar on his face to protect him.

"Yes, Neville?"

"I-I don't know what's really going on" Neville said quietly, so his voice was almost drowned out by the crowd in the background. "Toushiro ti-don't say anything…"

Uh. Her petite commander was still acting that way, unwilling to break the surrounding ice wall.

"But" Rangiku saw the confidence in Neville's brown eyes, and to his surprise, there was no doubt there. "Toushiro always had a reason for what he was doing. I know I don't know him very well" Nevile snorted lightly, "and he didn't say much." Neville looked at Rangiku. "I'm not sure I can say it in front of him, I'm happy to have a friend like him. I can't say anything in front of anyone either.but Toushiro always understands…"

"Of course," Rangiku said, smiling, "Taicho is indeed so. He understands others without saying anything." And watch them without expecting anything. Like he did to Momo, to him, to Division 10. But, Toushiro himself…

"But Toushiro isn't, he always shuts himself down, and doesn't make others understand him." Rangiku looked at Neville, adding to his shock. How could Neville think the same way? "He confused me. But, Ichigo is right." Neville recalled his conversation with Ichigo hours after the battle was over. Neville was too scared to be in the hospital for much longer. He was too afraid to feel his fear continue to sway him. The bloody shadow of Toushiro in the battle had been a nightmare for the past few days. The fear that he could lose a friend made him choose to stay away from him.

And then Ichigo came to him in the Gryffindor Tower. Ichigo didn't ask why Neville hadn't been in the hospital much longer. The first thing he asked was if he was okay. Neville responded that he was better than good. Not being in a condition where your chest was stabbed by a weapon, of course he was fine. And the second thing Ichigo asks is if he is angry at them, those who keep their secret from him. And Neville, once again answered no. He could not possibly feel angry at the two shinigami who became his friends. He is neither angry nor disappointed. No. gabe. It is very difficult to feel that way to those who teach him to be brave, which is in doubt since he was chosen by the Selection Hat to be a member of the Gryffindor House.

Rather than that, he had something else to worry about. Toushiro Hitsugaya's. And Ichigo's answer is….

"… worrying about him only makes us feel worse, makes him feel worse, too" Neville repeated Ichigo's words back then. "It's stupid to think everything is fine because it's obviously not so. We can't do anything to help him," Neville sounded sad, but as soon as he said it, he sounded very sure, "unless he believed it."

Rangiku looked at Neville in astonishment. Only ten months at Hogwarts. And Neville Longbottom can understand Toushiro Hitsugaya to this extent.

My spirit wiped away the tears that he had not realized were flowing down his cheeks. Neville panicked to see it.

"No, no," said Rangiku. "I'm just. ah, you're right Neville. I was too busy worrying about it, forgetting what I was supposed to do.." Rangiku pat Neville on the shoulder, smiling brightly, "Thank you very much, Neville-kun…"

Neville looked more nervous than ever. "A-what's…? What have I done?"

"More than you know.For me and for taicho. And of course, especially for as long as taicho is here, you've been a friend to him, a very good friend to him…" Rangiku recalled the silver male lion that Neville had released to protect Toushiro from the Dementors, making him deeply moved by it. His cold and strong Taicho was almost always the protecting party. Rangiku smiled sadly, perhaps what Neville did was something Soujiro Kusaka could not do, giving his taicho hope when things became impossible…

Toushiro finds Momo still in the Great Hall, still fixing her haori on Gryffindor's desk while chatting with Ikkaku and Yumichika. Along with him, Shinji, Byakuya, Urahara, Yoruichi, and Isshin who were chatting lightly while facing – of a very familiar smell – sake. Several teachers were still there, including Dumbledore who was still talking to Fudge. And, of course, members of the Order of the Phoenix.

Basic old man, grunts Toushiro in heart.

"Yo, Shiro-chan!" welcome the cheerful Isshin.

"How many times should I say"

"Till any time you'll be Shiro-chan! Remember that, Shiro-chan!" Isshin chuckled happily.

Toushiro looked at Isshin with annoyance, before turning to Momo who was smiling at him. The girl gave her repaired haori. The arms on the haori had been cut, and Momo had managed to tidy up her cut marks as neat as Uryuu Ishida's work.

Toushiro pulled out his zanpakuto chain, and leaned the weapon on the long bench of Gryffindor's desk to remove his blue haori and put on his commander's haori.

"Well, welcome back, Commander Hitsugaya," said Shinji grinning.

Toushiro tidied up the folds on his haori collar, "It's nice to wear them again."

"Yeah, know what you mean," Yoruichi sneered. "There are only two possibilities of what happened, you wear it again, or nothing at all."

Toushiro frowned at Yoruichi, putting his blue haori on Momo. "I don't think we're gonna talk about that anymore."

Yep. At least not in front of Momo.

"Wups, sori," chuckled Yoruichi, choosing to pour sake into his cup.

"Go to the Gryffindor Tower" Toushiro whispered to Momo, then told her the key words. "If the painting changes the key word again, just go in through the window."

Momo smile. He knew that Toushiro had some things to talk about with the other commanders. So he cleaned up the sewing kit he borrowed from Uryuu and resigned to the commanders.

"So," Toushiro said after Momo disappeared at the Great Hall's oak door. He turned his gaze to Byakuya, "did Matsumoto make trouble as long as I wasn't in Seireitei?"

"You make it sound like a troublemaker" said Isshin.

Toushiro sat beside Isshin, looking irritated, "You don't know how much trouble you've passed on to her."

"There's not much I have to do" Byakuya said calmly. "Each report is a little late, but only two days at the most."

"But he complains every time Commander Kuchiki comes to watch him" Ukitake said, sounding amused. "She said she can't drink sake while working."

"That's why I asked Kuchiki to watch over him," said Toushiro, the corner of his lips raised slightly. He knew that among the commanders, Byakuya Kuchiki could be one of his lieutenants. "And now I've found a little trick to keep him from hiding that fucking sake in the office again."

"Oh, huh?" shinji asked, looking curious. "What's that?"

"Call Spell," said Toushiro.

All eyes, shinigami and witches, are directed at Toushiro. Urahara chuckled amusedly and Yoruichi laughed.

"You're really thinking about it, eh?" Yoruichi. "And the Calling Spell? Of the many spells you've learned, you chose that spell?"

"I won't use a magic wand for everything" Toushiro said, frowning. "Just to call all the sake and paperwork that Matsumoto is hiding. If I were to rely on a magic wand, I could be as lazy as he is." Toushiro stared at the table. Not only sake, a few bottles of wine were also on the table. "And after the disciples left you decided to drink?"

"A little self-pleasing," said Urahara cheerfully. "Sirius said Fire Whiskey was the best!"

Sirius chuckles. "It's true."

"If you're older than those kids, Shiro-chan, you still can't drink like that" Isshin said, patting her on the shoulder. Some witch grunts amusedly.

"No way," said Toushiro flatly.

"Tell you, Isshin," said Yoruichi, "even if he's older, he won't be like you; he won't be a good drinking buddy!"

"I know that" muttered Isshin. "Who the hell loves him the book 'Rules of the Gotei 13 Members? He swallowed all of it…"

Sirius and Lupin laughed along with Urahara and Yoruichi. Toushiro frowned unhappily.

"Well at least at every meeting of the commander I stand beside you" said the cheerful Isshin.

"And as for your training," said Shinji, shaking his wine glass lazily, "there is a good place in the cave-the secret-the-not-secret-again got Urahara at the foot of Sukyoku Hill. We can wear that."

"Ah, yeah, right too. It should be quite spacious," Yoruichi said. "Ichigo trained his bankai for the first time there, and you know the controls sucked. If I think about it, it's good enough for Hyourinmaru's release…"

"Yes," said Toushiro stiffly.

Shinji put down his wine glass. It was only natural that the 10th Division Commander was anxious. "There's nothing to worry about. Ah, except one." Shinji grinned, "Hiyori."

Toushiro's eyes widened. "Oh, that's right…"

"Who's Hiyori?" tanya Tonks wants to know.

"He used to be my lieutenant," Urahara said cheerfully. "When he first saw Hitsugaya-kun he somehow blocked the war flag…"

"I don't know why he hates me so much" Toushiro grumbled.

"I don't either" said Yoruichi grinning. "But I can guess." Toushiro. "You're a hundred years younger than him, but you're both small. And, in that Winter War, he's a former lieutenant and you're a commander." Yoruichi laughs with Shinji.

Toushiro snorted exasperatedly. "What kind of childish excuse is that?"

"Well, unlike you, Hitsugaya-san, Hiyori has always been hot and childish" Urahara said. "He didn't even accept me being his commander replacing Kirio-san…"

"Well, Shiro-chan used to get hot, too, really," said Isshin. "I wonder what makes it this cold…"

"Whatever it is, it's none of your business at all" said Toushiro flatly.

Isshin put on a silly look as if sprayed with Mimbulus mybletonia liquid. Before anyone spoke, they all saw the Minister of Magic had just left the teacher's desk. With his Aurors and Dumbledore, he walked down the steps, moving to the Gryffindor table.

"The Head of School has explained everything" Fudge said without further ado. "And from that, I know you've prepared everything to get into Hogwarts." Fudge threw a strange spiteful look at Byakuya and Ukitake who were sitting next to him. He looked at Toushiro with dislike, "Including about the magic wand."

Toushiro. "Why the magic wand?"

"May I see your wand?" ask one of the Aurors behind Fudge.

Toushiro glanced at Dumbledore, who nodded with a smile with glowing blue eyes. Slightly reluctant, Toushiro extended his white magic wand at the Auror.

"Good stick," Isshin commented, while the Auror carefully observed the wand, including with its icy blue handle.

"What's this?" ask the Auror, in a voice that seemed to test.

"Cherry, thirty-and-a-half inches," said Toushiro, sounding indifferent, "dragon heart essence."

"They're using dragon's heart?" ask Shinji in surprise. "How is it? If Hyourinmaru had just approached me I would have stepped on him to death…"

That's right, Hyournmaru said, gruntingly agreeing in the inner world of Toushiro.

"In addition to the dragon's heart pulse they use phoenix tail feathers and unicorn tail feathers. As magic creatures, they could channel the magic power of witches by becoming their medium. The dragon that his heart had taken was a dead dragon" said Toushiro, surprising the witches and shinigami, except for Dumbledore. "I've done a little research on that. The dragon pulse that was on the staff was also from a dead dragon, I could feel that way. A dragon from the Arctic Mountains, the last descendant of an extinct species of ice dragon."

"Wuah, you know that?" chirps Bill amazed, Tonks who sat beside him to gape.

"Put him another year here, all the magic he'll know" Yoruichi said. "Sometimes your genius scares me a little, you know."

"Ollivander told me," said Toushiro shrugging. "And the staff has a part of a dragon. Even if the parts die, the magic energy is alive. That's how Hyourinmaru and I recognized her immediately."

"But you can't have it anymore" said Fudge coldly.

"Well, I told you before Cornelius," said Dumbledore calmly, but his eyes flashed with caution. "You can't take his cane or Mr. Kurosaki's cane. The wand belongs to them."

"The wand belongs to the witch" refuted Fudge.

"The magic wand chose its magician," said Dumbledore sternly, leaving Fudge speechless for a moment. "I'm sure you remember that famous phrase, the Ollivanders said it many times, everyone knows it."

"He's not a witch!" exciting Fudge.

"I know about that," said Toushiro. "But obviously – don't use it!" toushiro suddenly

Too late! The auror launched a spell out of nowhere with his magic wand. Toushiro knew, whatever the spell was, it was clear the result was not what he wanted. A thick burst of ice like a glacier emerged from the white magic wand, crashing into the Ravenclaw table and the Slytherin table, freezing it with a layer of ice all the way to the wall opposite it until it reached a height of five meters. The Auror drops Toushiro's wand, and they see the Auror's hand turn blue in a veil of ice.

All eyes were directed at Toushiro, who was directly approaching the Auror.

"I should have told you sooner," he grumbled. "Nobody can use that stick but me. Ollivander said the wand rejected other witches for decades. Disowned the other holder and turned to attack the one who was not his master. The cold," Toushiro added, scrutinizing the Auror's hand.

"Did your magic wand even have elemental abilities? Interesting," Urahara commented. He stared at the results of the ice spray from the magic wand curiously.

"I'm not very skilled at kidou healing," said Toushiro, turning to Isshin who was abstruse behind him. "Do something, before it breaks his hand."

Not only the Auror, but Fudge also looked nauseous.

"OK, okay," chuckled Isshin. He moved closer to the Auror and withdrew his hand. "Step sloppy, Witch. And ice doesn't seem to suit you."

Toushiro took his wand. Dumbledore moved closer to him while staring at the ice in front of him with an expression of astonishment.

"While it's not magic directly from you, it's still admirable, Mr. Hitsugaya," he said, sounding rather amused. "But we still need the dormitory table for tomorrow's school year closing ceremony, and I'm afraid we have to get rid of this."

"Of course," said Toushiro kalem.

"Need help?" bargain Sirius.

"No need" said Toushiro. He waved his magic wand with a graceful sweep, and all the ice was gone, turning into something like diamond powder, before evaporating in the air. "Just need a Vanishing Spell."

"But from his movements it is not a Withering Spell" Bill chanted. "I work as a Cursed Bearer, and I've never seen such a move before."

Toushiro. "I modified it."

Fudge looked at Toushiro in shock. "You're modifying it?"

Toushiro shrugged his shoulders. "Combining my reiatsu with magic to create some kind of ice magic and also eliminate it, sort of."

"Looking at what he's done and can do, Cornelius, I'm sure you can't take that wand from him. And I suggest you don't do the same to Mr. Kurosaki."

"He didn't do much" said Toushiro, looking at the Minister of Magic. "But the magic wand is more temperamental than mine. Ebony, thirty-two inches, with a phoenix feather core. Even Ollivander himself said that the magic wand was extremely destructive, suitable for Dark Arts, making it extraordinarily extremely dangerous in the wrong hands…"

Shinji had to try to hold back his laughter seeing the face of the Minister of Magic who paled greenish when Toushiro spoke. It was clear after that Cornelius Fudge decided to leave Hogwarts, as soon as his Aurors were free of the risk of amputation due to frostbite. Knowing there was nothing he could do to prevent the two young shinigami from getting a magic wand, he could only release them.

"Very persuasive" commented Mad-Eye Moody growling. "Powerful ways to defeat Si*****Fudge; fear him."

"I didn't scare him, I just meant for him to be careful" Toushiro said, frowning. He saw Dolores Umbridge following the Minister of Magic, but did not go with him to leave the Front Hall. "Dolores Umbridge is still here?"

"Yes, until the close of the school year tomorrow," said Dumbledore kindly.

Toushiro instead looked at Mrs Weasley, "And your twins are still here until tomorrow?"

"They said so" said Mrs Weasley.

Suddenly Yoruichi burst into laughter, and Urahara chuckled amusedly, again.

"Huh? Whahuh? Why?" ask Isshin immediately.

"You know what's going on tomorrow" said Toushiro, crossing both arms. "I have a feeling this is gonna be a little splashy."

"What?" ask Isshin impatiently.

"Just wait. By the way, next month there is the acceptance of a new member of the Gotei 13. Is there any information about that?"