HELLO EVERYONE!
THOSE WHO ARE READING MY OTHER STORIES 'GUIDE TO FALL IN LOVE' AND 'ALL OVER AGAIN' AND SO ON, MIGHT ALREADY KNOW THAT I'M GOING OVER SOME OF MY STORIES AND REWRITING THEM, THE PLOT WON'T CHANGE, I'M ONLY CORRECTING GRAMMATICAL ERRORS AND MAKING THE CHAPTERS LONGER AND MORE INTERESTING.
The updates of this story are going to be way tooooooo slow so please, please, PLEASE bear with me.
And please guys, is painfully obvious that this is a Fem Harry fanfic, so please if you don't like DON'T READ!
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and Naruto are not mine (unfortunately) I just own the plot.
Summary: Harleen has won the war, but at a great price. Her own life. She was betrayed, and everything she had been fighting for so long became a lie in the blink of an eye. Now Death has decided to give her a second chance, but first, she must change the life of another one. Who is this mysterious Uzumaki Naruto and why is Death sending her to the time even before his birth? Why does she need to change his future in order to change her own? How is he related to her? And what is the truth behind her heritage?
Pairing: Minor past FredXFemHarry. I ALREADY KNOW THE FINAL PAIRING, BUT I WON'T SAY IT UNTIL LATER IN THE STORY :3
Warnings: SPOILERS! HORRIBLE SPOILERS! IF YOU DON'T MIND THEN GO AHEAD AND READ! OTHERWISE GET YOUR NOSES OUT OF HERE! AU, Non-Canon, FemHarry, Time-Travel, Ron/Ginny/Molly/Hermione/Dumbledore-bashing, super!Harry, immortal!Harry, abused!Harry, adorable!Harry, intelligent!Harry, meddling Shinigami/Death, etc, etc, etc. (More warnings will be added in the future). ALSO, MOST OF MY KNOWLEDGE FROM THE NARUTO WORLD IS FROM WIKIA AND OTHER FANFICTIONS.
Published: 10-13-14
Updated: 06-22-15
Book One: New Beginnings
― 裏切りと可能性 ―
Chapter One: Betrayal and Possibilities
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Harleen Juniper Potter felt herself floating. She felt like she was floating in nothingness. She felt numb. Harry knew that her body must have been hurting, but instead, she felt... nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
"Ahhh... So this is the end? This is how I end...?" She couldn't help but ask herself extending her to the non-existent sky, almost as if she was trying to reach for something, but when she closed her fist she only managed to grasp nothingness. "Pathetic." She spat weakly at herself closing her eyes and forcing the tears not to fall from her emerald jewel-like eyes.
She was pathetic.
Harleen could remember with exact precision the events from the last seven years that ultimately led to this very moment.
Everything started with Sirius' death. After they had been led to a trap that killed her beloved godfather, her friends started to walk away one by one, blaming her in the process with the exception of a few. Matters only got worse when Voldemort return was declared officially by the Ministry of Magic.
Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, the two people Harry had ever considered her closest friends and the ones she could trust no matter what, had been the first ones to desert her with no second glance or remorse. They had never truly liked her ―and Harry had known better, but still couldn't force herself to push them away, not when they were the first ones to open their arms in friendship― and only stayed with her because of her fame. They had tried to create distance between them with petty excuses but while at the same time not leaving the picture so that they could still take credit for whatever 'heroic yet stupid' thing she got herself tangled into.
During their final year at Hogwarts they had dropped everything and left to complete the mission Dumbledore entrusted them with, which consisted of searching and destroying the remaining horcruxes. It took them a few months to collect them all, but shit only hit the pan when they returned to Hogwarts and find it under the Ministry's control, and by default, Voldemort's.
Harry's 'best friends' then ran back with their families with their tails between their legs spouting lies about her putting them under the Imperio and forcing them to be her friends while constantly putting them in danger and things of the like. Only a selected few remained by her side, including those who were part of the DA ―with the exception of Ron, Ginny, and Hermione― as well as Remus Lupin, Arthur, Bill and Charlie Weasley, Nymphadora and Andromeda Tonks, as well as Mad-Eye Moody.
There were many battles fought, but Voldemort always managed to get away. Harry and her army consisted of few, but they managed to fight back little by little. And finally, seven years later they managed to kill Voldemort. They were finally free.
But things did not last.
Ron and Hermione made it their mission to make sure she wouldn't be able to live the rest of her live peacefully and started spreading rumors about her becoming the next Dark Lady. It didn't take long before the Ministry got wind of things and immediately ordered her apprehension, and it certainly didn't help that the place was full of idiotic sheep. Two weeks later their little army that had fought against Voldemort and had freed magical Britain ―which they dubbed "Tussilage Army" which was French for Coltsfoot and meant in the language of Flowers "Justice shall be done to you." They decided to use flowers in Lily Potter's honor, as she had been the one whose sacrifice had given the magical world a few years to recuperate from the first war― had been reduced to her. Little by little everyone that was part of the "Tussilage Army" were hunted down and killed. Even little Teddy who wasn't part of it had perished simply because his parents had been brave warriors who chose to fight for the freedom of the magical world.
Harleen had been the last one to fall, at it was at the hand of her beloved mentor.
The man she had thought died protecting what he believed in.
Albus Dumbledore.
Harry's parents and godfather had not lied to her when she summoned her for the first, and last time minutes before her death. It certainly had been faster and easier than falling asleep. A simple Avada Kedavra aimed at her chest, and the rest was history. She knew no more.
Harleen was tired. So tired. But at least, she would finally be able to leave everything behind and go to where she had been dreaming of for so long. To finally be at peace.
"I wouldn't be so sure." A voice echoed in her ears and Harleen spurred forward trying to get into a fighting stance to protect herself, momentarily forgetting she was already death, therefore unable to be hurt. If she hadn't been in an apparently gravity-less space, she was sure she would have hurt herself.
"Who is there?" She demanded, her eyes narrowing in slits and she curled her hands into fists, readying herself to attack the "muggle way" as she no longer had her wand with her.
"Aww... The little witch thinks she can take me." The voice cooed mockingly. "Well, you have another thing coming, darling."
"Who. Are. You." She demanded with gritted teeth.
"Ah, little thing." The voice said with a teasing tone that make her want to break the person's nose alongside with many other bones if possible. "One would think you would know already, after all, you collected my little toys." The voice said and Harleen's eyes widened in disbelief.
"No way... Death!?" The twenty two year old woman screeched, doing a very good imitation of the only Weasley girl.
"Well, that's one of my names. I'm also known as Yoemra, Osiris, Shinigami, Thanatos, Mania. Your pick." Death said casually and Harleen grimaced at him.
"Death... Wait, you said I collected your... toys?" She asked confused, he was talking about the Hallow's, right?
"Yes, darling, I'm talking about the Hallows." He answered without wasting a beat, almost like he had read her mind. He probably had.
"Why did you refer to them as your toys, then?" Harleen's head was seriously starting to hurt now for thinking so much and so hard. She was supposed to be dead, damn it! Not thinking about this shit!
"Well, you really don't believe I gave those three brothers artifacts that would ensure my demise if they all ever fall in one person's hands, do you?" He asked, and the black haired girl had the decency to blush. "I gave them some toys instead that would surely make them meet their ends painfully. All except the third brother, he was cool. Anyway, I made them so whoever managed to gather all three of them would become my personal toy."
"What!?" Harleen screeched loudly in disbelief. Of all the things that had happened to her, this was definitely the worst. Great, no even dead she could have some peace.
"Now, now, darling. Calm down." Death tutted disapprovingly and the young adult started sputtering so much she almost started hyperventilating. "Lucky for you, I actually like you and have decided to make a deal with you." He said and Harleen immediately shut up and narrowed her eyes in suspicion, listening intently.
"Go on, I'm listening." She encouraged.
"Very well. I have decided I will help you change the events of your life. I'm giving you a second chance." The voice explained patiently making the young adult nod tentatively.
"So... What is the catch?" Harry asked. It sounded too good to be true.
"No catch, darling, but there will be terms." Death explained, earning another nod.
"Alright..." She said after a few minutes of thinking about it. She didn't have anything to lose, after all, she was already dead. And it was certainly better than being a slave for the rest of the eternity, which seemed like an awfully long time.
"Perfect!" He exclaimed, and in a blink of an eye, their surroundings changed and she was no longer floating in nothingness, instead, she was sitting on her legs in what seemed to be an oriental room. In front of her a young man with sickly pale skin and shaggy black hair and equally black eyes that seemed to be rimmed by dark bags under them, giving him a sickly yet creepy look. He was dressed in a black long sleeved shirt and black pants tucked inside equally black combat boots.
"Uhmm..." Harleen started awkwardly, not sure if who the person was. "D-Death?" She stuttered after a moment.
"Yes, yes. Now, before anything else, you need to be aware of something. A story, if you may." He said casually and Harleen looked at him taken aback.
"A story? Weren't you going to say the ter-" But she didn't manage to finish.
"STORY TIME!" He yelled before the light seemed to dim, and a single candle between them was lighted. Death's hands then reached to her head, and cradled it between them carefully. A second later, Harleen was lost to the world around her.
Long ago, before the founding of the hidden villages, during an era of endless wars between mankind, there existed the Shinju. A tree that was revered as a deity which bore a fruit once every millenia. Although it was forbidden to consume the Shinju's fruit, it was eaten by Princess Ootsutsuki Kaguya, who used the power it granted her to end the wars plaguing the lands. Some time after this, Kaguya gave birth to two sons whom named Hagoromo and Hamura, respectively. They both inherited this powerful chakra, and were able to manipulate it.
Enraged by the fact her children inherited her powers, Kaguya merged with the Shinju and into a monstrous entity of what many christened as the Juubi, or "Ten-Tailed Beast." The Juubi rampaged throughout the lands without mercy, destroying anything and everything in its path, until Hagoromo and Hamura managed to defeat the beast by having Hagoromo become its Jinchuuriki, or " power of human sacrifice," which allowed his to contain the beast inside his body and keeping it at bay.
Inspired by his younger son, Asura, Hagoromo separated the Juubi's chakra within his body, and used his Banbutsu Souzou, or "Creation of All Things" ability to divide it into nine pieces, creating the tailed beasts and giving each a name. Some time after their creation, the young tailed beasts were told that they were all still linked to one another despite being separate entities. Hagoromo also told them that they would eventually become one again, yet not as they originally were, and that one shall appear at that time to show them what true power is.
To ensure that the Juubi would never resurface after his death, Hagoromo eventually used his Chibaku Tensei, or "Heavenly Body Bursting from the Earth" technique to seal the monster's husk in what would become the moon. Despite their close relation to one another, there is a significant amount of friction between the tailed beasts that caused them to part ways. One such cause was due to Kurama's ―the nine tailed beast, Kyuubi― belief that their strength was determined by the number of tails each of them possessed, and thus, making him the strongest of them.
Over the centuries, countless humans failed to regard the tailed beasts as sapient individuals, treating them with great disdain and fear. Because of their immense power, they sought the tailed beasts out as tools to be controlled, a sentiment they detest. By the time of the formation of the shinobi villages, after his victory against Madara Uchiha in the Valley of the End, Hashirama Senju, the First Hokage, used his Wood Release techniques to capture several of the tailed beasts and allow the other shinobi villages to purchase them in exchange for signing peace treaties with each other, in order to stabilize the balance of power between them.
Madara, later revealed to have survived the altercation, had obtained Hashirama's DNA —which had been his true purpose for the encounter. Integrating Hashirama's DNA into his wounds, Madara awakened the Rinnegan shortly before the end of his natural lifespan. With it, he was able to summon the Juubi' husk from the moon. However, using artificial means to expand his life, Madara was unable to carry out his plan to revive the Juubi. As such, he passed on this task to a young Uchiha Obito, a small teenager who had come to share his view on the world after the girl he loved, Nohara Rin, died at the hand of his best friend, Hatake Kakashi.
With the help of Akatsuki, by the time of the Fourth Shinobi World War seven out of the nine tailed beasts had been sealed into the statue. Irked by the slow progress of the plan, assuming the identity of 'Tobi' to oversee the matters and converting reincarnated hosts into his personalized Six Paths of Pain, Obito accompanied by the statue entered the battlefield to obtain the Benihisago and Kohaku no Jōhei which contained the Kingin Kyoudai, or "Gold and Silver Brothers."
Despite not having sealed the last remaining two tailed beasts entirely —only possessing portions of their power― decided to begin the plan as the Gedou Mazou, or "Demonic Statue of the Outer Path" undergoes a painful regeneration into the Juubi. Despite Uzumaki Naruto's ーthe Kyuubi's Jinchuuriki― and Killer B's ―the eight tailed beast, Hachibi, Jinchuuriki― attempts to destroy the Demonic Statue while in mid-transformation, it was successfully restored into the Juubi, albeit in an incomplete form for a while before reaching its mature state.
However, the tailed beasts used in the Juubi's recreation and transferred bits of their chakra into Naruto prior to Obito carrying out the process as the Juubi saw them supporting the young shinobi in spirit as they all had recognized him as the one that Hagoromo foretold. After Obito became its Jinchūriki, the Juubi assumed its true form to enact its host's desire while draining the chakra of those can it grasps in its branches. Eventually, through the combined effort of the Allied Shinobi Forces and Taka[*], all of the sealed tailed beasts were extracted from Obito's body and collectively decided to aid Naruto to fight against the revived Madara.
All of the tailed beasts, with the exception of Yin Kurama, were eventually sealed back into the Gedou Mazou. However, the tailed beasts all left a portion of their chakra inside Naruto, thus continuing to support him and allowing him to access their abilities.
"Okay, I don't get it. What does that had anything to do with me?" Asked Harry confused when the 'tale' was done, and her surroundings were back.
"Maa, that story is not quite true." Death answered and Hari was enveloped in another vision-like trip. "It was said that Kaguya had two sons." He started.
"Yes, Hagoromo and Hamura. You already said that." Harry interrupted trying to pronounce the strange names the best she could, and received a whack in the head for the interruption.
"Shush, I haven't finished yet." Death sniffed in such way that reminded Harry of Draco Malfoy and she grimaced. "It was said that Kaguya had two sons, but that is a lie. She had a daughter too. The twin sister of the elder brother by a year and a few months, Hagoromo."
"A sister? Why did no one knew about her?" The woman asked confused and was about to continue her questioning, but forced herself to shut up by biting her tongue when she noticed the piercing look Death gave her.
"Ehem, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted. Kaguya had a daughter, whom she never named due to her feeling hatred towards. Kaguya felt jealous of her daughter, she had not only inherited her beauty, but her powers had awakened the moment of her birth unlike her brothers, and she feared that someday she would surpass her, so she hid her hoping no one would ever find her."
"But they did, right?" She asked quietly, and Death nodded in reply.
"Yes, Hagoromo found her on their sixteenth birthday. He had often passed the room where she had been hidden with a seal, but he never ventured inside until he heard her singing. He thought it was the most beautiful sound he ever heard and tried to find the source, eventually he did but he never knew they were siblings, he died thinking she was a stranger he was fated to fall in love with."
"He fell in love with his sister?" Harry asked skeptically. She couldn't believe the man couldn't recognize his own twin, or even how alike they must have looked like.
"Yes. As I said before, his sister had acquired the beauty from her mother but she looked nothing like her. Another reason why Kaguya hid her." Death explained and Harleen did a double take.
"Hey, you keep referring to her as 'his sister'? Wasn't she ever named?" Harleen asked.
"Ah, yes. After meeting her, Hagoromo often visited her trying to make the visits unknown to his brother and mother and eventually Hagoromo took her from the place she had been hidden and away. Once he was sure she was safe from their mother clutches he gave her name. He named her "Hayami" which meant 'unusual beauty.'" He explained calmly serving a cup of tea, which seemed to have come out of nowhere, to Harleen, and the girl had the sudden urge to coo, but she managed to restrain herself, taking the cup instead with a soft 'thank you' and drinking a little.
"Still, what should I care." Harleen repeated trying to not sound like a snooty brat.
"Well, you should care because you are the reincarnation of Ootsutsuki Hayami." Death said with a small smirk as he watched Harleen choking on her tea and spitting it out.
"Hang on! You said what!?" The raven haired girl screamed shrilly and the deity winced before picking his ear with his pinky finger.
"Wow, you could certainly kill someone with that scream. You have such a pair of lungs..." He muttered unhappily.
"Don't try to change the subject!" Harleen shrieked once again, and this time she was rewarded with a glare that made her start to sweat bullets. She could almost swear there seemed to be some kind of black substance leaking from the man's body.
"As I said before you oh, so kindly decided to interrupt me, you are Ootsutsuki Hayami's reincarnation." He said calmly.
"B-B-But! How it that possible in the first place!" She demanded.
"Well, as I already told you, Hayami had inherited her mother's powers, which included the Sharingan combined with the Rinnegan, and the Byakugan." Harleen nodded, it seemed that while she and Death had gone in the vision-like trip, the deity had gone and plunged the knowledge of the Hidden Countries inside her head without her permission, not that she minded understanding just what the heck he was talking about, but a little warning would have been nice. "But that wasn't quite true. Hayami was born with two different bloodlines than her mother and siblings, which she called the Kyuushuugan and Yochigan respectively. The Kyuushuugan on her forehead allowed Hayami to copy any bloodline in existence, so naturally, when she first saw her mother her kekkei genkai copied her mother's Sharingan, Rinnegan and Byakugan, making Kaguya think she had activated them s few minutes after being born, which wasn't very far from the truth." He explained and Harleen nodded once again, it seemed like Death had also put shoved Japanese into her brain. "Hayami grew up seeing the future, and one of her visions seemed to have warned her of something that would happen in the future, and she started making plans, it wasn't until you were born that I understood what she did." He said with a solemn face.
"And that was..." Harleen trailed.
"She found a way to reincarnate herself." He said and Harleen froze.
"Which is me..." She said faintly, and Death nodded.
"Yes. Kind of. Later I investigated more, and found out it wasn't the first time she did it. She had forced herself to be born... As her own child..." He said and Harleen froze once again.
"Wait, what? She was reborn... in her child's body?" She asked.
"Yes. You see, it was said that Hagoromo sealed the Juubi inside his body, but that's a lie. Hayami was actually the true Jinchuuriki of the Juubi. Hagoromo didn't had enough chakra in his body to contain the Bijuu despite being the son of Kaguya, but Hayami did since she was able to copy the Bijuu's chakra with the help of her Kyuushuugan and Hagoromo only carried a small portion of the Bijuu inside his body." Death fell silent for a minute, almost like he didn't know how to continue and then took a deep breath before proceeding. "The problem was that Hayami knew her death was near thanks to her Yochigan, and knew that the moment she died, all the chakra inside her body would transfer to Hagoromo's body and that would kill him. She didn't want that, so she started investigating and somehow she managed to get hold of books involving magic as you and I know it today, and a ritual where she would be able to transfer her soul into her baby's body who she knew would die during childbirth." He explained. "She didn't live long. A couple of years later she died when Hagoromo separated the Juubi inside his body and created the tailed beasts."
"But... But if that was possible, then why didn't Voldemort did the same? And how was it possible for Hayami to get hold of this book?" Harleen asked.
"Well, you might or not have reached this conclusion, but the Hidden Countries are actually that, hidden countries. There was a conflict between magical people and chakra users way back and they decided to separate each other. While the magical community decided to settle down in Europe and hide, but still have contact with the muggle world, the chakra users didn't and they decided to create a pocket dimension of sorts near Japan. The knowledge of them was lost a little after Hogwarts was created, Slytherin himself destroyed it when he deserted his friends and left the castle." The teenager shrugged.
"Why? I mean, why would he care?" Harleen asked confused pouring more tea in her cup.
"Because he left the magical community for the Hidden Countries. That's why they never heard of him again." Harleen nodded, it seemed understandable.
"I guess it was him who gave Hayami the book." The girl guessed.
"Correct." The fellow raven haired teenager nodded. "Hayami managed to find Salazar, and decided to give the books to her since he wasn't going to use them anymore. And just so you know, Salazar Slytherin didn't actually hate muggles and muggleborns. He just considered that they should attend another school different that Hogwarts that would allow them to learn everything they needed about magic, but without hindering the growth of the purebloods and half-bloods since they have previous knowledge of magic and don't have to learn everything from search." Death explained patiently and Harleen agreed wholeheartedly, it did make sense. "Voldemort and practically everyone in the magical community was simply too stupid to realize what he truly meant, and they ended up driving away one of the most brilliant wizards in history, definitely greater than that idiotic Godric Gryffindor, that's for sure." He snorted and the girl frowned confused.
"But... I thought that Godric Gryffindor was one of the most brilliant wizards in history..." Harleen trailed confused and the young man grinned darkly.
"'History is written by winners.'" He quoted. "Of course people would think Gryffindor was greater than Slytherin if the other man left, give a couple of centuries and some gossiping old ladies and you got yourself the story you know now." The girl nodded once again.
"Then, those books are still in the Hidden Countries?" She asked.
"Yep. That's actually one of the terms I was talking about." The raven haired boy said before standing up and walking to the table by one corners of the room where it lied a pile of papers. "Here is the contract, all the terms are there." He said lazily before dropping the paper in front of her.
Harleen put the cup down, and reached for the papers. She started reading them quietly and carefully making sure every word sink into her brain, almost an hour later she finally put the packet down.
"You want me, not only to remake my whole life, but have another before I was even born?" She asked, not sure if what she has read was right.
"And do a couple of things along the way, but yes. Basically." Death waved her casually.
"And how exactly would this work?" The girl asked.
"Well, in order to change the course of your life, I need you to change the life of someone else first. "The young male explained. "Think of it as the butterfly effect."
"And, who is this... person I need to change the life of?" Harleen questioned.
"His name is Uzumaki Naruto." Death started. "But in order to change his future I need you to go to the time before his birth." He finished, and Harleen bit her lip worriedly.
"Assuming I take your offer, how am I supposed to do everything you want me to? Not to mention remember?" The young woman asked.
"Well, you are Hayami's reincarnation. Your souls belonged to Hayami once. Meaning, you have the same abilities she possessed." Death said putting down his own cup of tea and looking away from her. "The only reason why your kekkei genkai never activated was because Dumbledore sealed them, along with most of your magical core." He said leaving Harleen gobsmacked.
"Wait, what?" She stuttered confused. "M-My magical core was b-blocked?" She asked in disbelief. She had been one of the most powerful witch of all time according to Luna, but if most of her magic was blocked then what did it meant? Was Luna referring to her with her magical core blocked, or unblocked?
"Yes, that's actually the only reason you were able to collect all my toys. Your magic called them." The young man explained solemnly, and Harleen nodded dumbly, still unable to believe everything she had just been told.
"A-Anyway, w-why would I need to change the life of this Naruto guy in order to change mine?" Harleen inquired.
"That, I can't tell you right now." The emerald eyes beauty glared at him. "But I promise you it's nothing bad. It will benefit you in the end." Death tried to reassure her, but the young woman was still wary. "So? What do you say?" The male asked. "Will you take this gamble?"
The former Potter heiress remained silent while she weighed her options. She came to the conclusion that she actually had no option whatsoever, it was either sign the contract, or be damned for the rest of her miserable eternity to be Death's little toy. Something that didn't seem very nice, to put it mildly.
"Alright," She said finally. "Give me the papers here." She ordered a little half-heartedly.
The deity passed her the papers and after rereading them once again, the young woman signed them and handed back. The moment her the papers slipped from her fingers she started feeling drowsy and her eyelids heavy.
"Don't fight it." A voice that sounded far away cooed at her. It took Harleen a minute to realize it was actually Death. "Let go, everything is going to be alright." And she did.
Darkness enveloped not long after.
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＊失われた過去: Lost past (Former title). Read as "Ushinawaretakako."
＊裏切りと可能性: Betrayals and Posibilities: "Uragiri to kanousei."
*Juniper: Protection.
*Yeomra: King of Underworld. Korean.
*Osiris: Lord of the Underworld. Egyptian.
*Shinigami: Death god, reaper. Japanese.
*Thanatos: Spirit of death and mortality. Greek.
*Mania: Goddess of death. Roman.
[*]Taka, originally Hebi, is a team created by Sasuke Uchiha with the initial objective of locating Itachi Uchiha, and prevent anyone from interrupting his battle.
＊Hayami: Unusual beauty ―速水.
＊Kyuushuugan: Literally translates as "The Absorption Eye" or "The Absorbing Eye" ―吸収眼.
＊Yochigan: Literally translates as "The Precognition Eye" or "The Predicting Eye" ―よち眼.
*Kekkei Genkai: Bloodline limit.
And sorry for the mistakes.
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