A Stormy Night

Iruka really didn't like subbing for other teachers. But of course he didn't need anyone angry at him. He already had enough parents angry at him, the ones of the students that didn't pass the exam of course. But not everyone would pass, Iruka knew that, but it still saddened him at the anger the parents held not only towards him, but their children. And so he sat, alone, in his office, creating a lesson plan for a class whom he had never met, and whom were just beginning their training in magic. More specifically, he had to create an orientation speech. He sighed. This day defined boredom. But reluctantly, he continued with his lesson plan. The darkness which was Iruka's office, which was only illuminated by a single wax candle, suddenly was filled with light as the sound of thunder came. This night was home to a terrible storm. The only good thing about this situation was that he was at least inside.

Iruka sighed, reading over the speech he was required to make to all new students attending the academy.

For all of you this will be very new, and very challenging. You will be learning how to use and control your magic. You each are in the academy because you possess a strong bond with your magical core inside of you. And this academy is meant to help you bring it out, and control it. It is through yourself, that you can control magic and make it work for you. Magic in itself is something that is hard to be described. With it, you can do almost anything. You can cast spells to aid you in anything you do. Say you needed something fixed, a simple spell like 'reparo' could work wonders. Magic, children, is incredible to say the least. And in this building is where you will learn to use it.

It needed a little fine tuning, he could admit to that, but he thought it was pretty damn good, the smirk on his face was evidence of as much. The room lit up once again, followed by a howl which was the thunder. He sighed, he was getting too old for this.

He should have seen him long before he was right in front of him, but a silhouette of a man lingered upon the entrance of the doorway. Who he was, he really couldn't tell. Perhaps the eeriness of the night should have warned him that something like this would happen. As the figure took a step into the classroom, he noticed that he recognized the man as another teacher. At least someone paid him a visit.

"Iruka, sorry to disturb you but there is urgent word from the Hokage. So urgent in fact that he has not sent me to summon you, but to convey the message. Hyuuga Hinata has been kidnapped"

The thunder howled once again. What a night this was turning out to be. Thunder, ever ominous, in the background as the 'messenger' came to proclaim the bad news. Perhaps he'd been reading too much lately, he found that he was much too aware of his own thoughts.

"Right, so what are his orders"

"We are to find and retrieve the Hyuuga Heiress, at any and all costs"

Perhaps it was then that the full gravity of the situation hit Iruka, for he got up, and sped past the Chunnin rank wizard. Hyuuga Hinata was HIS student, and he would be damned if anything happened to her. I mean, what kind of teacher can't even protect his own students. He didn't care if whatever that awaited him was more than he could handle, he just knew he had to find her. As the 'messenger' had said, at all costs…

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Lately he'd taken to his title, showing off that he was who he was called. But perhaps this was pushing it. He could tell danger when he saw it, and a man cloaked in all black, carrying a sack over his shoulder in the middle of the night, not to mention the thunder that howled overhead, was a clear sign that something was definitely not right. And of course how do you solve that, you follow the suspicious character.

Some might call his logic stupid, but Uzumaki Naruto knew exactly what he was doing. Well, mostly. His logic was that if he had a wand, he could stand up to whatever met him on the way. Only problem was, if he was wrong, he would no longer be known as 'The Boy Who Lived'. They called him that because on the day that the Kyuubi had attacked, though many children had been born he was the only one that survived. He'd taken a liking to that nickname, maybe that was because it was the only slightly positive thing people called him these days. I mean, Kyuubi brat, Demon boy, he personally didn't like those ones too much, though those were the ones people tended to use. But if he didn't come back from this alive, he knew it wouldn't matter what people called him. He would probably be known as 'The Boy Who Died' after this.

He wasn't even sure why he thought so much of this. It must have been the storm. I mean, what would some killer be doing in Konoha garbed in black and carrying around a sack on a dark and stormy night… Great he went there…

The man was slick, going through allies and weaving through the few number of people that still littered the streets at this time, even with the storm. Though following him wasn't much of a challenge.

Naruto turned out of the alley, but quickly took cover behind a few carts as the man promptly stopped. Naruto stuck out his head, watching the 'target' as he decided to dub him. He saw him take out his wand, and wave it in the air above him for a moment, before he seemed to fade into nothing. Naruto's eyes widened, and every instinct told him to run out and go examine what the hell just happened, but for some reason he didn't. It was like the reality of the situation hit him like a brick. This was serious. He recognized the simple disillusionment charm. If the man was to go as far as to use a spell like that, simple as it may be, to mask his presence, it meant that there was something seriously off. Did he know he was being followed? Perhaps, but now the problem was, he was nowhere to be found. And off his memory, he did not remember the counter-spell to a disillusionment.

Naruto sighed, stepping out of his hiding place. It seemed as if all his pondering from before was to no real matter. As far as he could tell, the man was long gone, and Naruto could not track him...

He sighed. What a way to end it. And such an amazing buildup. Perhaps it was a good thing. His knowledge of combat spells was mediocre at best, his knowledge of useful combat spells was of course another matter entirely. Well, this served as a good distraction, but Naruto had to get back to the reason why he was out in the first place, stealing the Forbidden Scroll.

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The disillusionment charm faded as the man stepped through the last bit of brush and into a nice clearing. He had to admit, Konoha was a nice village. Apart from the weather of course. And stealing the young Hyuuga had been a simple task. He knew he was being followed about 10 minutes after he left. But upon realization that it was just a kid, he relaxed. Of course he cast a 'revelio' charm, just in case there was anything strange about the kid, but he found nothing. And so to sweet freedom, back to the Hidden lightning, where the Raikage would wait to crown him and give him his just rewards.

He smiled just thinking about it. It would be such a surprise to the Raikage when he would walk in with the Hyuuga heiress, and upon realization that the precious Byakugan was in the hands of the Village of Lightning, he would be surely rewarded. Now all he had to do was hightale it out of Konoha before he was caught…

"What's in the bag…"

Fuck.

Turning, he drew his wand. The voice's owner was not behind him. Now simple combat training had taught him that someone can simply hide in the cardinal directions. So he look left, right, behind him, the man could not have been underground, which left him with…

Light exploded engulfing the darkness, and it was only his quick reflexes that helped him avoid a stunning spell that would have knocked him out cold.

He looked up to see a man on a broomstick, wand in hand. Oh great, he had a broomstick. The fight already was not in his favour.

The man dropped off his broomstick to come face to face with the kidnapper. Oh great, the last thing he needed was a fight. Any big spells would alert the attention of the whole village, and if this guy was here, who's to say there weren't more. One thing is for sure, he wasn't in the mood for a dialogue. And though unforgivable, he would have to use the Killing Curse to end it and end it fast.

It seemed as if the Konoha man had read his intentions as he said, "Before you go trying a killing curse, Konoha has wards to detect use of them, and any other magic. Use it, and you'll send them running here."

He grit his teeth, "If it managed to work, I'll have your broomstick"

The Konoha man seemed to ponder upon it, before he tossed his broomstick into the air and watched it fly off into the distance. Looks like no more broomstick.

The Konoha man, who bore a dog mask, took stance. "Shall we"

Reluctantly, the kidnapper also took stance, his wand at the ready, tossing the bag with the Hyuuga heiress off to the side. "It would seem so"

Wordlessly, the Konoha man shot a ball of fire from his wand straight at the kidnapper. 'Great he can do wordless magic' were the kidnapper's thoughts before he dodged, jumping to the right, before launching back another spell.

Expulso the kidnapper countered.

Confringo the Konoha man sent the spell straight at the kidnapper's spell, and at collision the spells burst into a mass of fire. They lived up to their name, wizards of the Land of Fire.

Deprimo the Konoha man yelled again, as the kidnapper could feel the wind amounting, and it wasn't from the storm. The Konoha man seemed to command the wind, and he set it through the fire at him. The result was the two combining, creating an even deadlier flame, and it sped towards the kidnapper.

It was a sight to behold, but a simple spell could stop him.

Protego the kidnapper yelled, as a magic shield formed in front of him. He ducked behind it as the impact was HOT. The edges of his hair, still behind the shield, were burning. But credit to the spell, it was still doing its job.

Reducto the Konoha man yelled as the kidnapper only saw the glowing light of the spell a second before it made impact with his shield. The result was a colossal explosion that not only destroyed his shield, but sent him flying backwards.

BOOM

That spell was really something. It completely tore through his protego shield, but it has missed a direct impact with him. If it had hit him directly, he would most certainly be dead right now. It was sheer force of magical will that helped him negate the attack towards his feet at the last moment. That being said, his feet and legs were a bloody mess right now, and he wasn't sure if he could even walk. That broomstick would be coming in handy right about now.

Looks like the attempt at stealing the Byakugan was unsuccessful. But still, a normal Reducto should not have been able to tear through his shield, not with as much magical force as he put into the shield. Of course, if there had been more power in the spell it would make sense to give in after some resistance, but of course Reducto was an 'explosive' sort of spell. But it all made sense after a second thought. It was so simple, yet perfect. Overload…

The Konoha man must've overloaded the spell. With some spells, overloading will either rupture your wand, or cause the spell to blow up in your face, but if you can overload it just the right amount, then the attack will be more powerful than ever. To have mastered that, it would take practice, and the dangerousness of the technique made it so that not many lived to master it…

He was beaten, and fast, but at least the opponent was worthy. He knew he would soon die from bleeding, and even if he was to heal himself, it would only mean that Konoha would interrogate him, and then point fingers at the Raikage, even though this was not his doing.

As he saw the silhouette of the Konoha man walking forward, the lightning flashed once again. Well, if he was going down, he might as well go down fighting. He whispered 'Accio' and his wand flew towards him, but just as he managed to grasp the wand…

Expelliarmus the Konoha man spoke, as a blue light shot out of his wand after a quick flick. The light shot straight towards his hand, and at impact, the wand flew out. Disarmed, the fight was done.

The Konoha man paused to speak, "Who sent you"

"I sent myself"

He had not used any spells that might divulge which country he was from, he made sure of that. But he would not be interrogated.

"Just kill me"

"Why" the Konoha man responded, "Perhaps you should live with the knowledge that your plan was foiled by a dog of Konoha"

He wore a dog mask, it must have been literal.

"I will not budge for a dog of Konoha, any day of my life"

"How about on the last day?"

He grit his teeth. The knowledge hit him harder than before. He was about to die. He started to panic, until he realized he had a trick up his sleeve. Literally up his sleeve…

He reached into his sleeve and in a flurry of movement drew another wand. He pointed it at the Konoha man, yelling the curse that would silence the wizard's very existence.

Avada Kedavra he yelled, and the trademark green light of the killing curse was sign that the spell had come out strong. It shot straight at the Konoha wizard, it was the end… His eyes widened as the spell passed harmlessly through.

"WHAT!"

Then his eyes widened in realization. It was an afterimage, trademark evidence of a High Speed Movement. A high speed movement, he hadn't seen one of those in a while. It was a way to get around Apparation. It had a similar affect, but in a shorter vicinity. Great, so where was he. Before he could even think another thought, he was kneed in the jaw, and his body lurched back onto the ground. Then, he felt a foot slam down on his chest. He attempted to whisper another killing curse, but before he completed it his wand was slapped out of his hand.

The Konoha man took a few steps backwards, but for the life of him the kidnapper could not bring himself to bring his upper body back up. He simply spoke, and he knew those would be his last words.

"Can I at least know the name of my killer"

A pause…

"Hatake, Kakashi…"

The son of Konoha's White Fang. It made sense that he would be so easily defeated by this man. Oh well, it was a good life he had lived.

Incendio he spoke as flamed burst from Kakashi's wand, and incinerated the defeated form of the kidnapper. The fires raged, even as the rain attempted to keep it at bay. His own magic would not submit to nature.

He had waited long enough. Kakashi rushed over to the bag and at its top he cast Diffindo, ripping the top of the bag open. What he found inside made his eyes widen… It was not the Hyuuga heiress, but a doll of hay.

The true kidnapper was still out there. Shit. An accio spell aimed at the air sent his broom stick flying towards him, and without wasting any time, he mounted and raised his wand to the sky, casting a silient Periculum and sending red sparks into the sky. That would tell any Konoha ninjas to check this location. Now taking to the air on his broomstick, he sped back towards the village. The Hyuuga heiress was still out there, and who knows where…

This is the first Chapter of a new idea that just came to me. Why not combine Harry Potter and Naruto, I think I can make it work. Of course as you could probably tell, its more Naruto centered, but Harry Potter elements are in there. I'd like to know what you guys think of the idea, I'm sure its probably already been done, but I'd like to give it a try myself :D

- Hellfox