Title: For Those Amongst Us
Summary: Harry Potter disappeared from that doorstep on that fateful night, and Hattori was a strange shinobi that brought cloth to life. Slow-burn, Slash! All of Team 7.
URGENT A/N: So originally a reviewer pointed out Hattori's previous name Hitori meant "one person" instead of what I originally intended it to be which was "Firebird" I flubbed the translation from "Hi no Tori" So I've went through and edited it all, and a huge thank you to Cushysensei for catching it!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Harry Potter, this is a fan work and I don't make anything off of it. It's all in good fun.
A/N: I'm sorry for grammar mistakes, I don't always catch them when I edit.
Chapter One:
Hattori wasn't the happiest of campers, never had been. But, had Konoha really made him nippy. The sky was too blue, the grass was green, the people were too bloody tall, and Hattori was miserable. He had just turned six, and in a haste had been punted off to the leafy village without a second thought.
Uzumaki Naruto always tried to be an optimist. He tried his best to be annoyingly happy, he did his best through the glares, the spiteful words, and the occasional mob. Needless to say, Naruto always tried. He was going to be seven in a few months, and wasn't looking forward to that particular day.
Haruno Sakura was six and a half, she was also terribly intelligent. She saw through the shadows the village shrouded itself in, and reacted by turning the other cheek. She heard her elders whispering "demon" whenever the blond boy passed, and she shut it out. Sakura had always been frightfully smart, and recently she had become horribly, and willfully ignorant.
Uchiha Sasuke hated that Itachi had to leave so often. That he couldn't get the attention he so craved from either his brother or his family. At six years old, he felt horribly empty. He didn't want to anymore.
Hatake Kakashi was a sinner. A sinner who held himself down to endure the torture he felt he had to go through. He was a sinner, and he had no right to be alive when his team wasn't.
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Hattori had seen a lot, he had seen what shinobi were capable of. At the age of seven, he knew the reaper and greeted him with a grin not entirely his own. He had been dropped off to Konoha's dilapidated orphanage without a by your leave by the silk merchant who thought he was of "no more use." Hattori's lips pulled back into a snarl, his skill with the needle mattered not when the silk merchant had come face to his new wife. Who had disdained him from the start. He didn't, couldn't truly take pride in much, but his deft hands that created cloth into something distinctly more, was something he invested any pride he could scrape up into.
Naruto's eyes snapped open as he heard a small screech, and looked to see the new orphan in a heap on the rotting wood floor. His face was twisted into a disgruntled expression as if the floor had done him personal harm. "Hey, new kid, you ok?" Naruto winced but quickly schooled his expression into a sunny smile as the boy glared. "Do I look okay?" His eyes were green, like leaves, a pale scar stretched from his forehead to his chin, shaped like lightning, it passed through his left eye making it a hint paler than the other "…no?" He rubbed the back of his sheepishly and moved to help the other boy up. "I'm Naruto, what's your name greenie?" The boy's face reddened in anger "Don't call me greenie…you…you blondie!" Naruto's temper flared at the slight "Fine, I didn't want to be friends with you anyway" he snarled.
"who said anything about being friends?" Naruto twitched he didn't mean to say that.
"W-well, no one, nobody did, you're crazy, I don't need f-friends" Naruto stuttered, the dark haired boy gave him a stern look "i'm not crazy…you are!" He grumbled then sighed "Hattori" Naruto nearly gave himself whiplash with how fast his head shot up.
"..Huh?" Hattori rolled his eyes "my name is Hattori" the blonde settled as curiosity took over.
"Ha…ttori?" Naruto couldn't help the grin forming on his face, Hattori's face reddened again "w-what is it." The blonde snickered "you have a very pretty name, Hattori-chan." The dark-haired boys eye twitched once, twice, and once more "why you!" Hattori pounced on the grinning blonde. Naruto made his first friend that day, in the shape of a angry, green eyed boy.
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Sakura tried to stop herself from crying. She really did, but the words spilling from Ami's mouth stung. "You're just a…a..forehead!" Ami grinned. Proud of herself as her clique jeered at the pinkette from behind. We could pound them, Shannaro! Sakura sniffed at the strange voice in her head That would be mean! She reprimanded it They're mean! Sakura winced as a rock made contact with her forehead. She couldn't stop the fat tears slipping down her face "forehead! forehead!" they jeered around her, looming tall, staring down at her like Sakura was nothing but her forehead; she curled into herself and sobbed. "Hey! Get away from her." She receded further into her knees "I said get away" the new voice hissed. Sakura took a peek and her mind stalled as she stared at the green-eyed boy hopping to defend her. "Why should we, huh?" Ami seemed to size him up, then finding him lacking sneered. "You're just an orphan. Bet you hang out with that Uzumaki boy" she crowed. Her friends joined her, it hurt her ears. "So what if I do? You hang out with a bunch'a nobodies cuz you're a nobody!" The boy hissed, Ami reared back as if struck. Sakura duly realized that no one had ever stood up to Ami before. No one had contested the girls throne, and she didn't know how to react. We need to help him and for once in her short life Sakura agreed with the strange voice. "He's right" she said softly, the boy and Ami turned to stare at her with confused and angry eyes respectively; A little stronger this time, pinky. "He's right, you know" Sakura found that with each word her resolve grew. "You just make fun of me, because you're insecure" Sakura continued, the boy nodded along approvingly "you just don't like that i'm different" she hissed, slamming her closed fist into her palm with a triumphant look in her eyes "you're nobody" Sakura finished. The pink haired girl watched as Ami's expression shifted between fury and fear as her clique whispered behind her. "Y-You're nobody!" She hesitated looking between her and the stranger "c-come on guys this place is lame anyways" she sped away with her group not far behind. We showed them, Cha! Sakura smiled shyly to herself, we did didn't we? The boy beside her cocked his head to the side in silent question. Sakura couldn't help comparing him to a curious bird. "Thank you" she said slipping into a bow, a strange scar stretched across his face, like a lightning bolt she noted "for what?"
"For helping me face Ami, she's been a nuisance."
"A nu-seance?" His face twisted in confusion. Sakura giggled despite herself "nuisance, annoying, a thorn in my side" his face lit up in understanding "Ah, ok. It's fine, I hate bullies anyway." Sakura bowed again "thank you, really! You helped me stand up to her, I wouldn't do that on my own" She stared in shock as he shook his head violently "No, you would've!" He said, his hands splayed open on her shoulders, his green eyes met her own with a fierce intensity. Sakura's face split into a wide albeit shaky smile, she quickly brought her hand up to rub at her eyes as he started to panic "t-thanks…uh" she paused and his smile shook "Haruki Hattori, what's your name?" She shook her head to rid of the fresh bout of tears "Sakura…" She found herself saying with surprising confidence "my name is Sakura!" She grinned. That day Sakura found herself drawing confidence from a boy with fire in his eyes and teeth in his smile, and she vowed to be the same.
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The day Hattori met Hatake Kakashi had been a strange one. He hadn't been aware it was him at first. Naruto's clothes had been torn when the matron had been rough with him and so had his when he had fought on the blondes behalf and now here he was, watching a man, or teen? In a dog mask carry the tied form of the portly woman on his shoulder. The matron had been livid, and in that rage had spouted something about a fox before the room had been flooded with the unmistakable feeling of killing intent. "Who're you?" Naruto griped, Hattori didn't comment on the vice-grip the blonde had on him, nor did Naruto complain about his. The masked man regarded him for a moment then gave a passing glance to Hattori before disappearing into the night.
It was five minutes later that the Hokage filled the orphanage with his presence. The chūnin accompanying him sent the other orphans to bed. Hattori resisted the scarred man attempting to tug him away from Naruto with a vicious snarl, Naruto's hand clamped around his arm tighter. "Iruka, leave him" the old man smiled kindly at Hattori, and he bared his teeth in response, a bad habit. "Thanks, Ji-ji! I didn't know you were coming today" Hiruzen smiled. "Whose you're friend, Naruto?" Hiruzen knew exactly who this child was. Naruto gave his companion a halfhearted smile, the other boy shrugged before stepping forward "name's Hattori…Hokage-sama" Hiruzen smiled that senile old smile he usually offered children. And internally laughed as the boy gave him an angry but befuddled look in return. "It's nice to meet you Hattori-kun, Naruto hasn't stopped talking about you" he muffled his laughter behind his pipe at the betrayed look the boy sent Naruto, who was animatedly shaking his arms at him. "Now…" He settled into the hastily placed chair in front of the children. "I'm here to talk about a very important matter with you, Naruto-kun." The blonde swayed anxiously "I didn't do it!" He yelped.
"I wasn't accusing you of anything, but now that we're on it, what did you do?"
"Nothin', nothin' at all" he finished with a sheepish grin. Guilt glimmered in his eyes as Hattori sighed next to him. Hiruzen looked between the two critically for a moment before relaxing "now…Onto more important matters." He really didn't want to do this so soon, but the matron had forced his hand. "Naruto, how would you like to attend the academy?" The children's eyes widened comically, before they fell into ill-concealed whispers, they stopped abruptly only for Naruto to stare up at him critically. "Wait…is Hattori comin' too? I'm not goin' if he isn't." Hiruzen felt his already grey hair pale further, the wisp of a boy next to Naruto looked to have no ability to be a shinobi, in fact his file had tagged him a delicate, easy to anger, and skill with textiles and the like, not exactly ninja material if he was being honest. "Naruto, does Hattori want to become a ninja?" Hattori scowled "I'm right here…and yes, yes I do." The Hokage glanced at the boy and was caught for a moment in eyes that blazed with a fierce flame. Perhaps he should rethink his previous assessment of the boy, he thought with a hidden smile; the will of fire burned brightly yet. "Why?" He pushed, there was the fire again, roaring wildly as green eyes stared defiantly, defying what, Hiruzen did not know, into his eyes. "I want to keep my home safe." He made his decision "a worthy cause indeed…very well."
"Yatta! We're gonna be ninja together Ha-chan!" Naruto cheered, and he observed the two as the other tackled the blonde with a scream of don't call me that! Sarutobi Hiruzen often felt his age as Hokage. But, as he chuckled at the two boys bantering he felt a small weight drop off his shoulders. He decided that perhaps it be better he show Naruto's…well both Naruto and Hattori's apartment now, considering the new development, he'd show it to them in the morning. After all, tomorrow was another day.
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"Hatake, why is there a civilian in my office." Ibiki huffed at the masked teen, he wasn't having the most normal day by any means. "Gag order" he hissed, glaring down at the flinching woman ."And that warrants a trip to T&I how?"
"To Uzumaki Naruto."
"Still not a reason" the scarred man sniffed. He shuffled the file he had on her, paused to make sure his eyes weren't playing tricks on him, and glared at the terrified woman. The two shinobi shared a look. "Izumi Mizuru, age: 43, a citizen of Konohagakure no Sato immigrated from Tao village in rice country at 26." The woman thrashed in her chair, and Ibiki scowled leaning in closely, close enough that his nose nearly touched hers. "Now what does someone like you have business doing with someone like Shimura Danzō?"
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"I thought we ran background checks regularly on the orphanage employee's" Inoichi growled, the file lay spread eagle on his desk the face of one Haruki Hattori glaring up at him; Danzō's next target. There wasn't anything particularly special about the boy, no reason for ROOT to take an interest, but they had. Now every team within the Hokage's own trust was trying to find information on the orphan. "We do, the bitch just had someone helping her" Anko hissed. "The elders got spies in the civilian doc. depot, ROOT agents been doctoring a lot of shit. We nabbed him a few hours ago" the Yamanaka heaved a sigh, he'd have to try and rifle through the traitors head, but still unlikely. The seals on ROOT agents left them in a vegetative state when captured more often than not. "Inform Hokage-sama, the orphanage has been compromised and tell him exactly whose been targeted." she shook her head "He knows, got dog-breath guarding the brat, both of them." Inoichi's head nearly hit the table "He's getting way too bold" Anko continued, "He's trying for the Jinchūriki's friend, next he'll be going for the Uchiha and Hyuuga brat's too." Inoichi's head did smack the table this time, he groaned. "I don't get paid enough for this."
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A/N: What do ya'll think? Also forgive me for the hiccup.