Dark Wolf Love
Edited: 06/05/12
AN: For your reading pleasure previous unnecessary author's notes and comment replies have been removed. Enjoy.
Harry Potter x Naruto Crossover Story
Summary: "You two will be taking this mission it'll probably be one of the most important missions of both of your lives." stated Tsunade tiredly, "Is there a particular reasoning for that Hokage-sama?" asked Shikamaru standing just a tad more straighter in his slouched posture. "Dumbledore-sensei is an old friend." stated simply by Tsunade "But Shishou-" "I said he was a friend, not that he was mine."
Summary Excerpt: "Hell no." Sakura replied sharply glaring at the nearest wall as she wouldn't dare to do so to Tsunade's actual face. "Well isn't it just wonderful then that hell has no say in which missions you take? I do." Tsunade's harsh voice rang out. 'Lady Tsunade and Sakura-chan's relationship was very rocky lately. But this was just ridiculous.' "How troublesome."
Major Pairings: Sakura Haruno x Shikamaru Nara; Draco Malfoy x Hermione Granger.
Minor Pairings: Sasuke Uchiha x Hinata Hyuuga Naruto Uzumaki x Ino Yamanaka. Ron Weasley x Luna Lovegood.
Warnings: Slight Order bashing. Some Weasley bashing just a little of the Molly-Ginny sort, not enough for fans to hate though. They will eventually redeem themselves though. Violence, lotsa lotsa violence. Cursing, profanity and other synonyms of the sort, maybe just as much as the violence. If you also dislike humor because I am oh so good about the comedic relief of my stories find something else to read. There might also be some lemons if you guys convince me to write of such blasphemy. XD
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"What did you tell me?" demanded the Hokage as Naruto glared at the busty, age-disguised woman. She was clearly un-frightened, moving to where the ANBU clad warrior was almost in her face yet still separated by some invisible force.
"Give us a more challenging mission." demanded Naruto as his teammate merely looked on with an amused expression under her white lioness mask.
"Naruto-kun perhaps you should back off before you do something you'll regret." asked of Ino as her boyfriend of two weeks cocked his head towards her smugly moving his own mask, resembling a fox to hide half of his face.
"Hell no. We deserve a more challenging mission. All these guarding of Daimyos and princesses and actors with the rarely thrown in infiltration gather intel and no killing missions are beginning to get too boring." he replied at the end of his little speech moving to where he once more face Tsunade, before she could speak however there was a flash and two more ANBU entered the room much like the previous two already there, a man and a woman.
The traditional ANBU guards were dressed in the normal attire required of them and the only real difference telling them apart were their genders and of course their just as obvious masks.
"You summoned us Tsunade-sama." stated the ANBU wearing the owl mask.
"Yes. Shikamaru, Sakura you can take your masks off and make yourselves comfortable. I was going to send Naruto and Ino on this mission but since he's tired of being an escort and body guard I'm thinking a retrieval mission would be more closer to his standards."
"Yes! Finally, dattebayo!" screamed Naruto happily as Tsunade joined in revealing a more malicious yet happy smirk of her own.
"Yes, you Naruto and thanks to that mouth of yours, Ino as well, are to complete this very important high-risk task." stated Tsunade looking like she got the strongest bottle of sake straight from Kaminari no Kuni.
"What! Are you sure that's a good idea Tsunade-sama?" asked Ino worried for her boyfriend's sake considering he was just looking on twice as smug as he previously was.
"Absolutely you see you two won't be leaving the village." started Tsunade as Sakura and Shikamaru also began to smirk knowing where this was going. Sakura at least was trying to hide hers though for her best friends as she absentmindedly tapped her fingers on her mask most representing of a jaguar as she waited for the scene to no doubt play out.
"What the hell do you mean 'won't be leaving the village'?" demanded Naruto getting more agitated and confused by the second.
"I mean you will be retrieving Tora. You remember him don't you? The Daimyo's wife's cat." started Tsunade. "I daresay he's missed you and since you're too good for this mission I've decided to give it to Shikamaru and Sakura instead."
"B-but obaa-san!" whined Naruto as he realized what kind of a mess he got into, "That's not fair."
"But Naruto," mimicked Tsunade in a reprimanding tone, "I don't care. You'd better hurry up and catch that cat too if anything but for your own safety, Ino-chan doesn't look too thrilled right now. Besides the sooner you catch him the sooner I get to decide if you're ready for a better mission or not." smiled Tsunade like she didn't just open the gates of Hell in front of Naruto before pushing him right in. "Good luck now. You kids have fun. Oh and don't forget this might be a D-rank mission but I put two ANBU on it for a reason. We don't want you to forget your masks now do we?" asked Tsunade-sama sweetly yet before Naruto could open his mouth Ino jumped him from behind and clamped her hand over his mouth.
"We understand Hokage-sama. And Naruto-kun will have that cat caught faster than anyone has caught it before." Ino promised
"Well in that case he has 5 ½ hours left to catch the thing. Like I said good luck." Tsunade said happily dismissing the two who merely nodded and shunshin away, not before everyone in the room heard Ino's shocked yell.
"You so did not just lick my hand!"
"Tsunade-sama." started Sakura as she got her old mentor's attention. "What mission are we receiving instead of Naruto and Ino?"
"Yes. You two will be taking this mission. It'll probably be one of the most important missions of both of your lives." stated Tsunade tiredly.
"Is there a particular reasoning for that Hokage-sama?" asked Shikamaru standing just a tad more straighter in his slouched posture.
"Dumbledore-sensei is an old friend." stated simply by Tsunade "But Shishou-" "I said he was a friend, not that he was mine, Sakura. He seems a bit off. And I don't say that lightly you are to do as he says and guard his students and this Order he has in their time of war. But if you feel you can do something better your way instead of his do it. I can't say I trust him but... Anyway you two will be briefed more of this mission tomorrow at noon where you will meet one of his lackies at the East Gate. They'll be there to bring you to their headquarters and explain fully once you arrive in their world. This will be considered an A-ranked mission. Try not to fuck it up."
"Why so high just to protect a school full of weaklings?" asked Shikamaru knowing this mission was majorly off from the usual.
"All will be explained later when you meet him tomorrow. And don't be late this is acting as both a protection mission and a union between our two worlds. I would absolutely hate it if you two were to be late." said Tsunade and when the two no longer had any questions left in two swirls of wind and leafs.
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"This is so troublesome." stated Shikamaru as he and Sakura made their way into the bar moving towards where they felt Sasuke, Hinata and Neji's chakra.
"It's been five years since the academy. Don't you think you should've expanded your vocabulary just a little?" Sakura asked as she sat down besides the only other female in the room and motioned for some sake with two more cups.
"It's been five years since the academy, Sakura-chan." Shikamaru mocked back in a friendly tone taking the cup after it was filled and moving over to Neji and Sasuke's side of the booth, "Don't you think you should have accepted my vocabulary as it is by now?"
"Where's the dobe?" asked Sasuke before the two could escalate into one of their normal arguments, which translated to everyone else's ears as flirting.
"Pissed Tsunade-sama off." supplied Sakura with a smile as Shikamaru finished for her.
"Put both him and Ino-chan on Tora duty." he said with a laugh as he motioned for a refill and took in his companion's winces, "Now, now," he chided gently, "it could have been even worst for him if Ino hadn't have covered his mouth with her hand."
"How could anything be worst than Tora?" asked Hinata as she declined another drink from Sasuke
"The graduates." offered Neji with a smile
"Tch. Lee can have 'em all." stated Sasuke drinking Hinata's refused cup.
"Better be lucky he isn't here to hear that." chided Sakura, "If anyone has the energy to deal with that many brats it's him."
"Don't be harsh guys." stated TenTen as she motioned Sakura and Hinata over to make room for herself in the booth, "At least I convinced him to stop wearing those awful green jumpsuits."
"Too bad you couldn't do the same for Gai-sensei though." said Neji thoughtfully
"The ways I persuaded my husband to stop wearing that awful article of clothing is not something I would even think to dream to attempt to try with Gai-sensei. It's just wrong on so many levels." she said revealing a disgusted shiver to prove her point.
"Yo barkeep!" yelled out Sakura, "Another round. We're going to need it." she yelled as the others agreed around her.
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"Ugh. My head." moaned Sakura as she slowly lifted her throbbing head and felt around her nightstand to locate her lamp she kept there. Once finally finding what she hoped was the lamp she switched it on and was blinded immediately through her closed eyes. Releasing another moan she slowly brought her hands to her head and let her healing chakra do what it always did best, heal. She did the only thing to do until the process was over she thought as much as she could about the previous night to make sure didn't pull an Ino. It seemed to work out in Ino's favor though since her and Naruto are now a couple but knowing her own luck she would probably end up sleeping with Kakashi-sensei and that was just not happening. Once she was sure she could look up without wanting to decapitate her own self she ventured looking up and found herself thankfully in her own room and even more so when she didn't hear anything going on in the shower or someone rummaging through her apartment.
She moved her head to look at the ticking clock above her door to take in it was 5:00 in the morning. 'Great I slept for all of three hours last night.' She stood at that depressing thought and made her way to her shower fully intent on packing her things and then making her way to her lazy partner afterwards.
'Lord knows that boy would sleep the day away if I don't.'
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2 hours later
"I hate to barge in on you like this Nara-san." spoke Sakura as she followed her partner's mother as she lead her to his bedroom.
"No problem at all Sakura-chan, the lazy ass should have been up by now if you ask me." she said as Sakura giggled at the woman's words.
"Troublesome." the spoken of teen whispered to himself as he fought off the urge to just roll over and fall back asleep. With his mother at the door and this close to making her lazy son do something productive it was a very lose lose situation he found himself in.
"He's right through here. If you don't mind me asking what are you two going to be doing today?" asked Yoshino as she opened her son's door and allowed Sakura passage first.
"Not at all. You shouldn't worry. I plan on making him train with me today after we pack for a mission we'll depart on at noon."
"Mission?" asked Yoshino a look of hurt flashing her eyes as she realized it was something her son failed to mention to her.
"Yes a simple escort/bodyguard thing. Nothing to be worried about but you know we never know how long those things are going to last." said Sakura going over to wake Shikamaru hoping the distraction would be enough to let Yoshino gather her thoughts.
"I see. Well then I don't want to keep you two waiting. I'll just go make sure the young ones are tending to the deer." she said taking control of her emotions, "You two be careful." she added as she left the room, and smiled seeing her son look at her and nod his head in thanks.
"We will Yoshino-sama. I promise Shikamaru-kun is in very good hands." she said as she saw the smile return to her face.
"She's right, I'll be fine mom." he sighed motioning for the older woman to leave.
Once she did Sakura broke their silence almost immediately, "She still worries about you." she stated fondly, "That's really nice."
"Yeah. A bit annoying sometimes. But nice is a word to describe it." he reluctantly agreed, "So do we really have to train?" he asked hopefully.
"Considering that I only got three hours of sleep last night I suppose not. Speaking of … Thanks. You know. For bringing me back to my apartment and whatever." she said awkwardly.
"Tch. Like we want another repeat of Ino and Naruto." he said jokingly staring at her a bit too long for friends.
"Come on." Sakura said standing, "If we're not training we need to get you packed so you can buy me some dango."
"Why is it I always end up paying for you?" asked Shikamaru but by the looks of it it seems like he doesn't really care one way or another.
"Because you love me." was Sakura's immediate answer as she turned from digging in his closet to tell him just that and look at him leaning over with a very pathetic puppy dog pout. It was so innocently hot that he couldn't help but look the other way as a light blush dusted his cheeks but he made sure she heard his quite loudly stated, "Troublesome."
"See I knew you'd see it my way!" she said happily twirling back around to grab his needed weapons and other clothes he would potentially need for their 'vacation'.
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"You two are early." stated a clearly surprised voice though it still held slight malice in those words he spoke, "That is assuming you two are the ones Tsunade hired for me."
Sakura and Shikamaru merely looked at each other under their masks and nodded.
"That's correct." started Sakura, "I am Jagaa-san and this is my teammate, Fukurou-san. We are the ninja Tsunade hired for you. You are one of Dumbledore-san's men?" she asked
The man merely nodded before replying in return, "Severus Snape. We should be going. If you would grab onto this shoe like so." ad he demonstrated by grabbing onto the ratty shoe and motioned for the other two to do so as well, the two ninja merely looked at each other strangely before once again Snape opened his mouth.
"Four … three … two …" and with that pause Sakura felt as though she became some tight rubber band and was being stretched to its limits and about to pop. But no sooner than that thought enter her mind did the feeling go away and air swirled around herself and her teammate. Looking down she found Severus already on the ground having safely landed already and just awaiting herself and Shikamaru. A sick look of anticipation was upon his face like expecting they would fall on their asses or something.
'Cha! Like hell that's gonna happen he does realize we're ninja right?' asked Inner Sakura as she herself didn't even bother to respond.
She looked over at Shikamaru and realized he came to the same conclusion. They both nodded and shunshined in the air and quickly and quietly reappeared behind the greasy haired man.
"Severus-san. Shouldn't we be going?" questioned Sakura and at the look of shock written on his face she was never as glad to have to be wearing her mask as she didn't think he would take too kindly to her smirking. He turned towards the two ninja he merely nodded his head and began leading the two masked figures down the worn down alley. Stopping a few minutes later when he was sure no one was following, Sakura and Shikamaru following his lead and doing the same.
"Can you two speak English?" he asked and waited patiently for a reply remembering the charm Dumbledore spoke of in case the need of destroying language barriers arose. What he wasn't expecting was the non-accented voice of Fukurou-san to speak.
"In the academy we were taught to learn every major language used in our potential client's continents. This one was included."
"Very well. And does reading this language count as learning it as well?" sneered Snape
"Of course, Severus-san." stated Sakura this time. "We are completely and fully adept at the English language."
"Good." he stated snidely, "Then take this and memorize it. The both of you." he said as he handed the parchment to Fukurou-san, he was surprised when after a mere glance he handed the paper to Jagaa-san who after the same treatment handed it back to him. It must have shown to the two ninja as the before mentioned rolled his shoulders in silent laughter.
"Alright you must stand in front of me now and merely think of the address you've just read." Snape commanded almost waiting for one of them to once more ask for the parchment to see the address once more. He hid his surprise much better this time though as ten seconds later Number 12 Grimmauld Place appeared before him right in between Numbers 11 and 13.
"Quickly then." Snape said moving in between the two as they once more followed quickly behind him as he led the two into the Headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix.
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The major times when this story will take place is:
Naruto:
Konoha 11: 17-18 years old
Harry Potter:
Golden Trio: 15-16 years old (Order of the Phoenix)
AN: For your reading pleasure previous unnecessary author's notes and comment replies have been removed. I hope you've enjoyed reading the edited version of Of Stranger Magic Chapter 1.
Edited: 06/05/12
Dark Wolf Love
