Me: first I posted it, then I deleted becuz I wasn't happy, and now it is back again! ^^ so everyone, welcome back 'Child of the Snake Sannin'!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Harry Potter.
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It was a secret she always kept from her husband, the secret of the child she bore. He knew nothing of the baby, only believed it was premature labor. No one knew who the baby's real father was, except for Lily and her most trusted friend.
About a year ago, she went to the Fire Country to visit a distant uncle of hers, only to meet someone who captured her attention. She didn't plan on cheating on James at all. Actually, she tried to avoid the man at all times, which kind of got on his nerves since he kept trying to talk to her. To him, they were friends. But to her, she was having second thoughts about that being all.
"Does he even know?" Severus asked her.
"Of course he does," Lily sighed, holding her three-month-old babe to her chest. James knew she was visiting a friend, he just didn't know which one. Even though Severus did have the Dark Mark, he was still a loyal friend to her. "We still write to each other. I can't tell if he was happy about it or not. He was difficult to understand even when I spoke to him face to face."
"Ah, one of those," Severus commented with a chuckle.
"Yes, Sev, one of those," Lily giggled.
"I am quite curious as to how Potter would react," the dark man stated, smirking slightly. "It would be interesting."
"As long as HE doesn't come around, James will never know," Lily pointed out. "And it better stay that way, Sev."
"Lily, I wouldn't ruin your life like that, would I? I love you like a sister."
"You're overprotective like a brother," the red-headed woman muttered under her breath. Severus still heard her and shook his head once. "You never liked James or his friends and would love to just ruin his life."
"Ruining his life would also mean ruining yours," Severus calmly stated. "I am not that cruel."
Lily just smiled at him before sighing gently. "I better go," she said. "If I'm gone for too long, James will cast a Tracking Charm to find me."
"Paranoid?" Severus asked.
"Both paranoid and protective," Lily replied before Apparating away with her son secured in her arms.
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Golden eyes stared at the moving picture of a red-headed woman holding a baby boy with black hair and green eyes. She was rocking the baby gently in her arms with a soft smile, glancing at him every now and again. A small smile made its way onto his lips before his door opened. He glared at who entered his room to see it was Kabuto. "What is it?" he asked in annoyance, laying the picture on the table by his bed.
"I am sorry to intrude, Orochimaru-sama," the silver-haired boy said with a bow of his head. "But Kimimaro-san has developed a severe sickness."
Orochimaru sighed gently. "See what you can do about it and make him better," he said before Kabuto bowed to him again and left the room, closing the door behind him. That was news he didn't want to hear. Kimimaro was useful, despite still being a child. About as useful as the 'intelligent for his age' Kabuto. They were both boys, yet Kabuto was smarter than his head medic and Kimimaro was more powerful than his current Sound Five.
He glanced over at the picture laying on his table next to one of him and the same red-headed woman sitting on the shore of a lake. Unlike the other one, this one was still and showed one of his more peaceful moments. She had been gone for a year now, officially married to another man, but bore his child instead of her husband's. He growled at himself. 'Orochimaru, you fool,' he scolded himself. 'Stop thinking about her. You can't go there and she can't come here. End of story.'
A hiss caught his attention before he looked down to see a six foot long black snake staring at him curiously with dark eyes. "I have something for you to do," he said to the snake.
"What isss it, my massster?" the snake hissed.
"There is a woman and child I need you to keep an eye on, but stay out of sight," the pale man stated as though he was briefing a mission. "Their names are Lily and Harry Potter. Lily is a woman of red hair and forest eyes. Harry is a snakling of a few months with black hair and eyes like the woman's. Watch them and inform me if anything happens."
"Yesss, massster Orochimaru," the snake replied with a nod of its head before disappearing in a poof of smoke.
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"No!" Lily cried out. "Take me, but not Harry! Not my Harry!"
"Step aside, silly girl," the Dark Lord ordered her, but she stayed where she was.
"No!" Lily yelled at him. "Take me instead. Just leave Harry alone!"
Annoyed, Voldemort pointed his wand at Lily and said only two words. "Avada Kedavra." A green light shot from the wand tip and hit Lily Potter straight in the chest. She fell to the floor with a thud before the Dark Lord made his way over to the infant in the crib. He pointed his wand at the boy and repeated his words, only to feel as though his soul was being ripped from his body when the curse bounced off the now wailing child and hit him.
The black snake that had been watching the family for a year now stared in shock at what had happened before its very eyes. The serpent disappeared in a plume of smoke seconds before Albus Dumbledore rushed into the home with few other Order members. Remus and Sirius mourned over the loss of their deceased friends before Dumbledore returned from upstairs to show that their godson was alive and perfectly fine for the exception of the lightning bolt cut on his forehead.
Orochimaru glanced at the smoke that suddenly erupted from his floorboards, signaling that his snake had returned. "Massster!" the snake hurriedly exclaimed. "A ssstrange human entered the houssse and sssaid wordsss I did not know the meaning off before the woman you told me to watch fell to the ground and no longer breathed life." The Sannin's eyes widened. "The ssstrange human then turned to the boy and repeated thessse ssstrange wordsss. The boy is fine with the exception of a cut on hisss forehead, but sssomething ssstrange happened. The green light that killed the woman bounded off the ssson and hit the human inssstead."
"And you left the boy there?!" Orochimaru yelled at the snake. "Alone?!"
"Other humansss approached, Massster," the snake quickly replied. "I had no choice but to leave! I made sssure he was well before I left."
"They could have relocated him!" the pale man snapped before sighing harshly. "You are coming with me, my pet. We're going to retrieve that boy before they put him someplace he does not belong in."
"Yesss, my massster," the snake replied before being picked up and coiling around Orochimaru's neck and shoulders.
Orochimaru did a few hand signs before teleporting outside of the home that Lily lived in. The snake on his shoulders said that there were others here, so he thought it better to not just appear out of nowhere. He approached a window to look inside, seeing a small group of people. One was extremely old and appeared to be giving orders to the others. The child was nowhere in the room. He glanced up to the second floor where a faint light was before jumping up towards the opened window and climbing in. A ragged man sat near a crib, his back to the window, while speaking softly to something in his arms.
The man suddenly froze before jumping to his feet and looking at Orochimaru. His amber eyes widened before the man let out a low growl. "Who are you?" he demanded. "What do you want?!"
"Only enough to knock him out," Orochimaru said to the snake in Japanese.
The serpent nodded before slithering down the pale man's form and heading towards the ragged man that had a taste of wolf in the air around him. The man kept his eyes on Orochimaru, not noticing the snake at his feet until he felt fangs pierce his ankle. He staggered for a moment before collapsing once the poison coursed entirely through his system. Orochimaru took the infant from the man before he hit the floor.
"Come," he said to the snake before it wrapped around him again and they disappeared.
Sirius rushed upstairs when he heard the thud to see Remus passed out on the floor. He shook him violently while shouting his name, trying to wake him up.
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Me: well I already like this better than the original that I wrote. Hope you did, too, everyone! And thanks for being patient with me about this, I do have other stories to work on, after all. So review, plz!
