I...thought that I can do things better. I was right.
The Changes are Massive, so reread everything. The story will go the same...similar way, i just wanted to have a better start.
Yes previous chapter 1 is Null and Void.
A warning: I don't hate or like any religion or mythology, i am an atheist, Mythology is just good fiction to me. And i don't have any hate or like for any special country, if it seems like i like Japan and hate UK, then it's only the case of my character in this story. Sorry.
I guess i should tell a few things about the story.
Harry will be Dark(ish), Logical, Calculating, Manipulative. And Slytherin. Not evil, more like, he won't take anyone's shit.
No, he won't be Draco's friend. No he won't be Ron's friend either.
I won't be changing any characters to suit my whims. That means that Ron will just be an annoying child with lack of self esteem and not an evil monster that goes around imperusing muggles for shits and giggles. Draco will just be a child who had grown loved and pampered, thinking that he was the best, he will neither be a Death Eater in training, nor a abused child who's keeping up appearances. I wish to say that Ginny will just be a lovesick teenager, but i'm seriously thinking of turning her into a Yandere.
Wouldn't it be just so much FUN?!~ HAHAHAHA!
NO HERMIONE SHIPS! I repeat NO HERMIONE SHIPS WILL BE SAILING FROM THIS PORT! I hate her overbearing attitude, her respect for authority and her unshakable belief in books. I especially hate her 'Harry James Potter!' moments.
The brightest witch is Luna Lovegood and no i am NOT biased.
Yes the Sexiest is definitely Daphne.
DumberDork may not(actually he may) be an evil monster that eats candies made out of children hearts but he IS stupid and weak. And i will be tearing strips out of his hide soon enough.
Slash? a little bit of Lesbian sex hurts no one, but there will be no swordfights.
That means that there will NOT be a VoldieXHarry, HarryXNaruto, NarutoXVoldie, or any other such possible combination present. Deal with it.
No i don't have anything against MxM, i just don't like sweaty hairy male bodies. No i am not talking from experience. i realized that fact when i started watching more lesbian porn instead of straight. If Remus is sleeping with Sirius then he can do it behind the scenes.
That's all i think.
No, this chapter is final and i won't be changing it, it is actually much better than how i first expected it to go.
Naruto hummed absentmindedly as he saw the Cat-Animagus, the Half-Giant and the Old-Fool leave the basket containing a child on doorsteps in the middle of a November night. He could feel the warming charm that was put on the basket from where he was standing. But…
"I wonder what he would do if the boy was killed by a stray dog or something."
Naruto glanced at Death from the corner of his eye. He smirked slightly both at her saying the exact thing he was thinking and at seeing her form morph from his ethereal white monster form (the one from Naruto) to her female form (Mistress Death from Deadpool). She didn't like anyone other than Naruto, Ophis and Fate seeing her in this form.
He smiled slightly as he thought about what Death had said.
"That would be quite funny. He would be lynched and put on fire if it got out that their precious Boy-Who-Lived got killed by a Dog of all things, because DumberDork left him on the doorstep of his muggle relatives."
Death tilted her head slightly and stared at Naruto for a few seconds before looking down at the boy from where they were standing, 200 feet above the ground floating in midair.
Yes it would be funny indeed but that was not what she wanted to hear.
Naruto's appearance has not changed much in the last 1000 years. His current appearance was quite normal, black baggy pants with lots of pockets, cargo jeans if she remember the name; and red t-shirt. He was currently in his 17 year old appearance, which was rare, he mostly spent time in either his 24 year old appearance or his 12 year old appearance. He was 5'9 in terms of height, his face was just like it had been when he was born, roundish and tanned, having those 6 whisker marks on his cheeks. His hair were just like they have been for the last 2000 years, shoulder length, Red just like his mother's at the scalp, losing their color gradually along the length and becoming pale blond at the tips, and one bang over his left eye which was completely black in color. From between the hairs she could see his pointed vampire like ears which he got from Ophis, along with that patch of black hair. His eyes were becoming more and more like his mother's as centuries pass, they were just one shade lighter than violet.
His 10 black wings, 10 black furry tails, 2 black horns and of course his third eye, were all absent right now, which was quite rare. He did hide them a lot of course but only when he was in presence of those who didn't know him. At the Imperial Palace where everyone knew him or when he was not hiding who he was, he always had them out. According to both him and Kurama, it was quite annoying to hide their appendages. So it was rare to see him without them out when there was no one else around to look.
It took her less than a millisecond to notice all of this and put them out of her mind. She spoke in an even tone, not letting her feeling show through her voice.
"His mind is riddled with compulsions. He also has a Mental Block, along with a Power Block on his Magic."
"I know." Naruto replied easily without showing any emotion other than Amusement. It annoyed her greatly.
"His relatives were also put under compulsion. To mistreat the boy, and to hate him, but to only go as far as they can before doing any everlasting physical damage to him."
"I know." Naruto's lips were twitching with amusement, it was getting harder to hold his grin. Ha! He had been manipulating conversations like a pro since he was 10, while she has been going around reaping soul.
"He'll grow up abused and hated, unwanted and unloved, he'll grow up to be pathetic and worthless, a lamb getting fatter and fatter to be slaughtered for the pleasure of those who doesn't deserve anything but painful torture before an even more painful death."
"I know."
Death's eye twitched in annoyance.
"You're not making this easy for me are you?"
Naruto grinned.
"The real question is…why do you care for the boy so much? He's not special, there are thousands, millions, billions more all across the Multiverse who are in a worse position. So tell me, why is it that you want me to save the boy?"
Death sighed.
"He is…touched."
Naruto snorted.
"I Noticed. Another prophesized one? Is Fate not satisfied with me alone?"
"She probably want to try Double Penetration." Death replied, now amused as she could see where this conversation was going.
"She couldn't barely handle 3 of my clones last week." Naruto replied while shaking his head in fond exasperation.
You do know that I can hear you right?
Naruto and Death looked at each other and shared a grin after hearing Fate's telepathic rebuttal.
"You didn't answer my question." Naruto spoke after a few minutes of silence, which might have been over an hour. Immortality really messes up the sense of time.
Death scowled. Her attempt to change the conversation failed. Or rather it succeeded but they got right back on the conversation.
"You remember the Deathly Hallows right?"
"You're kidding me right? Creating items that will destroy the balance of power and cause massive mayhem, that I can understand. Are you telling me that the Master of Death business is real too?"
Death snorted.
"Now this is the proof that you're not a man, but genderless, or female. If a women said that she had something to talk to you about, you'd probably be out of the door by the time the women had even sat on the chair, leaving a note that the child is not yours. Unlike a normal Male who would be looking around like a confounded troll wondering where the conversation was going. As for what you said…of course the Master of Death thing was not true."
Naruto completely ignored her first statement, not because he didn't believe her, but because he knew that she was completely correct. He just gave her a disbelieving look.
"Was?"
"Well I'm quite tired and…well I thought that maybe I could retire and give my job to someone else and enjoy my life lazing around. So a few centuries earlier I went and added a few features to the Hallows."
Naruto nodded solemnly, he too understood that immortality was overrated and boring. He too had sometimes felt like he should just wipe his memories clean and relearn everything. Just like Ophis does every Millennia. But not now, he currently had an empire to run, his numerous wives and children needed him. Once everything was calm then perhaps, they'll go on another journey across the Multiverse, he'll wipe his memories clean and have another adventure.
They did make sure to keep a Backup of the original memories of course, conditioned to release the memories back if anything went wrong. It was fun, raising Ophis from infancy to her original strength. No wonder Vishnu had so many Avatars, maybe it was time for him to go around and start doing that as well.
Naruto put those thoughts at a corner of his mind and focused on present.
"What features?"
"The Stone is cursed, the holder will live while all around him keeps dying. Increasing the count of people who he sees when he uses the stone. It doesn't make anyone immortal, just more luckyand healthy. Both of which are siphoned from those he loves. The owner of the stone also becomes more and more insane the more he uses the stone."
"Ah yes, I remember that one. Salazar's Grandson got it when he married the Cadmus Peverell's Granddaughter right?"
"Ah, I had forgotten that you too went to Hogwarts, 900 years ago if I remember correctly. I didn't realize you came back and watched over things, especially after what happened with Arturia."
Naruto's expression darkened at that reminder but he calmed himself by reminding himself that everything was fine now.
Arturia was back in the land of living after he destroyed Fuyuki's fake grail and brought her back to life.
Naruto had even found that Morgana had been reincarnated in Pendragon family, which was quite ironic; it didn't take much time for both Naruto and Arturia to take her back to Imperial Palace to be raised among loved ones. This way Arturia too had time to spend with her sister. Something which she couldn't do much in past. They made sure to treat her as a new person and not a reincarnation, none of them wanted to push some kind of unnecessary expectations on her. Not for a while though, she was barely 3-4 months old after all.
Naruto realized that he hadn't answered Death and tried to push the thoughts of Arturia and Morgana out of his mind.
"Yes, I came back after news of what happened to Rowena reached my ears. I was…angry at myself. She deserved much better."
Death nodded, she too knew very well about that incident. She wondered if she should tell Naruto that Rowena had been reincarnated as Luna Lovegood a few days ago.
Nah, it'll be better as a surprise to him. Death continued speaking to take Naruto's mind off the horrid memories of Rowena Ravenclaw's death.
"The Cloak, well...that was actually fun. The owner of Cloak can never stay hidden, not literally, but figuratively. They had to face their fears head on. All the ones who were chosen by the cloak were made famous, or infamous. The wand, well…the most powerful wand was cursed to never stay in the hands of one man for too long. It will change owner, sooner or later, and it will always do it by destroying its owner. I cursed them in this way so that it'll become harder for one person to keep hold of one of the items for long. If, by some miracle, a person came in possession and became master of all three…well than he/she at least deserve an interview and could be trained to become the next God of Death if they passed."
Naruto's eyebrows were raised high enough to disappear in his hairline from the surprise that he was feeling.
"That's quite vicious of you. Very nice. I might just create similar objects to cause mayhem as well. Perhaps I'll give them to Devils or Fallen Angel, which would be interesting. So how is this boy any special?"
Death pushed down the shiver that went up her spine at hearing how Naruto of all people wanted to create objects that will cause mayhem. Her objects caused a lot of death and destruction but Naruto's will probably cause the end of the world.
The Norse were really up to something when they named Naruto, World Eater. Of course she knew that they were terrified because Naruto defeated Thor in battle, and not due to something else. They didn't even know his real power, only as much as he showed during that friendly spar with Thor.
She focused back on less horrifying matters, like Naruto's current question.
"He is already master of two of them. Even though it was his mother that did all the work, it was his soul that completed the final step and defeated Tom Marvolo Riddle. And in doing so took the title of Lord Slytherin by right of conquest, and with the title comes inheritance which included the house ring, which has the Stone embedded in it. The Cloak was his as soon as his parent's died, being the last member of Potter, all their objects passed down to him as well, including the Cloak that has been passed in the family for generations. Though he has not touched the objects, the objects have felt his presence and accepted him as their master, the moment he touches them, he'll bond with them and not be free from their influence until the moment he dies."
Naruto whistled.
"Damn, the boy's luck is just as messed up as my own."
Death squirmed and looked away. Naruto obviously noticed this easily and became suspicious.
"What aren't you telling me?"
Death stayed silent for a moment and then thought that it was better to get it over with. He'll understand it, probably.
"He is your Transmigration."
Naruto's jaw dropped at the shocking revelation of hers, he wanted to not believe her but knew better than anyone that she had no reason to actually lie to him. His brain was in a paradox as it was both shut down from shock and working overtime to decipher her statement.
"B…but I'm not dead."
"Neither was Yotsuba Maya, and yet her own son Tatsuya was her Transmigration. Remind me the difference between Reincarnation and Transmigration."
"Limbo known also as Purgatory, Pure World, World of C, etc. is like an Ocean and a Soul is like a Glass of Water, pure and unaltered. Emotions and memories, things which make a soul different from another are like different salts that are added to previously mentioned glass of water. When a person dies, then all its emotion, memories, experience, etc. are stripped and the soul joins the Limbo. Not only is the soul pure again, it's completely mixed thoroughly with the rest of the souls to the point that there is no difference left. Just like it's not possible to get a same glass of water from ocean after you have spilled it inside, it's not possible to gain a same piece of soul back."
Naruto took a deep breath and continued speaking of the lesson he learned a long time ago from Death herself.
"Some souls however don't lose their individuality, they are so strong mentally that they don't mix in and remain separate from the rest of the souls, like a glass of oil. Piece of soul like this, aren't mixed and thus are same piece of soul as they were in previous life. When such a soul is selected to be reborn, this process is called reincarnation. Because when a normal soul is chosen it cannot be called reincarnated since it has never even existed before, it is a new soul which is born. Though the normal soul has his mind and memories completely wiped away, the reincarnated soul sometimes retains some things, like a special ability or even some memories. The process of purifying a soul, i.e. stripping of emotions to mixing in with the rest of the souls takes over 1000 years and during this time the soul resides in Heaven, Hell, Soul Society or other form of afterlife."
Naruto could remember the lesson just like it was yesterday, he was 9 at the time and was learning from death things about soul, before he tried to bring his mother back to life.
"A Transmigration is similar but different. A Transmigration is the process when emotions, experience, wishes, and hopes of a person doesn't disappear after their death, due to strong emotions most of the time which is regret; they stay in the world and fuses together with another person whose soul is similar to their previous holders' soul. They leave the new soul and disappear if the task that they set out for themselves is complete or choose another soul if the task is incomplete."
Naruto stopped speaking for a while then his eyes started widened as he realized where this was going.
"But, there are cases of transmigration when a person is not dead. Cases when a person's whole life change dramatically due to some circumstances. Cases where a person says something like, 'The me that you knew died last night'. Cases like, losing all emotions of their life until that moment due to external conditions, which happened to Maya-chan, her Transmigration, the little girl who was raped and experimented died that day when her emotions were taken away from her by her sister so that she won't kill herself; connected itself to her son in her own womb years later when she was pregnant and wished for a son who'll fulfil her wishes and take revenge for her, and so Tatsuya was born, to fulfil his mother's desires, from the moment he was born."
"Your son."
Naruto then looked up at Death sharply.
"Yes, My and Maya-chan's Son."
Naruto resumed.
"And I had my life changed when Fate forced me to view all the possible ways my life would have gone if I wasn't saved by Ophis, so that I would stop being a pampered child and grow up. She showed me how I was tortured, manipulated, beaten and used. She showed me how I didn't even knew my mother if a few of those possible lives. How I fought to protect those insects who took everything away from me. That was the day Uzumaki Naruto lost all his innocence, which was the day he died."
Death nodded solemnly.
"Yes."
Naruto hung his head silently and thought over things, after a few hours, or few seconds, he looked back up and gave a small grin to Death.
"Meh, it doesn't matter I guess. Fate was right, I needed to grow up, and it only helped me be a better person."
Naruto's eyes unfocused as he brought a memory back and recited the words.
"In this world, wherever there is light – there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exists, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars, and hatred is born to protect love."
"That is quite astounding, and wise, who said it?"
Naruto smiled.
"Uchiha Madara. Don't tell Kurama, but…I respect that man. He was truth in a world filled of lies, a world filled with hopeless idealism. He was the one who spoke the truth and he was hated and shunned for it. I was loved and weak, I didn't understood the meaning of mother's survival as a ghost. It was only when I knew despair, when I lost everything, that I truly understood the value of what I had. I'm just glad that Fate showed me the truth as memories of my alternate lives, and I didn't have to lose mother or Ophis due to my weakness."
So that was the reason. Thought Death to herself. That he became even more protective of his Mother and Ophis. This was the reason why he became a natural disaster in human form from his usual calm and funny self the moment someone even bad mouthed his mother or Ophis.
"Now that I look at it, our lives are quite similar aren't they? Though I am much more awesome of course."
Death saw Naruto staring at Harry's basket and smiled at Naruto's words.
"Will you save him then?"
Naruto hummed in thought and then shook his head negatively.
"No, I won't."
Death was quite shocked, but she didn't say anything and waited. And she was rewarded for her patience.
"…He will save himself." Before she could ask him to clarify, he already went to work.
With a snap of his finger he shattered all the compulsions and the blocks that were put to hinder Harry's growth.
"Hmm, that's interesting. I didn't even notice them, but I was not actually trying to focus anyway."
"What is it?" asked Death, now understanding what Naruto was planning to do. It was just as he said, a little bit of suffering now and the child won't grow up pampered and will know the value of the things he obtain later in his life.
"There are more blocks, these ones stop bloodlines. He has more than Potter blood, which is quite obvious considering how much these wizards intermarry each other, but they are all blocked. The old-fool is intelligent, he knows that there is in fact a reason why pureblood is praised so highly. And not just because they considers 'MudBloods' to be subhuman abominations. Most of the old family has special magic that are passed through blood. And the boy is descended from a lot of lines, Peverell, Gryffindor, Black, Bulstrode, and Flint from blood alone from his father's side (Yes, this is Canon, google Potter Family Tree and open first or second image). He is also Slytherin by right of Conquest. The block is allowing only the Potter blood and magic to flow and thus limit him. These certainly can't stay. Not only will they help, the block is also a personal insult to me."
Death laughed at the last line after she got over her shock at hearing about the blocks.
"Yes, you will be insulted won't you? How dare the filthy human try to block my blood?! How else will he know the joys of Incest?!"
Naruto scowled at Death but soon his scowl turned into an amused grin.
She was right though, there was definitely something about his blood that promoted Incest. From what he had heard, his descendants the Black family were also continuing the family tradition.
Yes the Blacks were his descendants, or rather they were Merlin's descendants. But of course all the knowledge of that fact was completely destroyed by now.
They couldn't have their precious Merlin be dark, could they? Who the hell even thought that he would support the idea of living together with normal humans? He knew very well how they will be envious, their envy will turn to anger and then to hate which will start a war that will end with wiping out of one or both the sides. His hate had went down a lot in 3000 years but then the Dark Ages started and he lost Rowena to the hands of a mob, he didn't even learn of the fact till a decade had passed. The fact that they were British, which was obvious as they were in Britain; made him even more angry, as according to him it was their fault that Arturia and Morgana died, if the little shits could take care of themselves than his daughters (not by blood) wouldn't have to go around and help them. He was so angry at himself for being weak. He had destroyed hundreds of Church, killed thousands of people, and even burned Vatican to the ground in his rage. And they call him a Leader of Light. How…stupid.
Yeah he might have thrown a few hundred people into the Sun but that doesn't make him light does it? Or burning people with white hot flames of Scorch-Release. Or making swords and spears of light and stabbing people with it. Or…okay so there might be a reason why he was called the Leader of Light. But he used a lot of Dark spells too didn't he? Like how he burned Vatican with Black Flames. And…and…that's all actually. Damn.
He sighed and put those thoughts behind him and focused on what he was doing instead.
With another snap of finger all the monitoring charms and wards that were placed on and around Harry were tied instead to Dudley Dursley.
Death raised her eyebrow and he started explaining himself. Why couldn't she just feel what he was doing and spare him the extra work? Oh yes, knowing everything gets boring for an already bored immortal. Funny isn't it? People would be out in streets, crying about the injustice if they found out that Gods could be omniscient but they choose not to be because they'll be bored by knowing everything. But those humans who just sat on their asses and prayed all day instead of actually doing some work didn't deserve to live let alone speak about that they want. Didn't they know the headache he would have, if he tried to even listen what they wanted?
Really? Wishing for him to drop a meteor on his school building because the Author didn't study for his exam? Naruto Sighed tiredly. The worst part is that was actually a tame one in comparison to the things he usually got.
"The monitoring wards are obvious, we don't want the Old-fool to come here to check the status so I changed them and confounded them. I don't know what they all were for, I don't have time for that shit, and I just set them up so that they'll show exactly what DumberDork wanted them to show. Kind of like that Mirror of Erised that Mephistopheles created 2 centuries ago. The blood wards I transferred because Harry will never think of this place as his home and thus the wards will fail and the house will be open for Death Eaters to attack. Dudley will be loved and thus the wards will stay."
Death nodded. That was good and thoughtful.
"What if they left him to an Orphanage or something?"
Naruto smiled and looked at her, asking her silently to figure out what he had done.
Death's eyes narrowed in thinking and saw Naruto's smile stretching even more.
Of course, it's not what he did.
"It's what you didn't do. You didn't remove the compulsions on Dursley. They'll be afraid of being attacked by Death Eaters and thus not get rid of Harry."
"I also didn't remove them because I'm quite sure that the Dursleys will be even more vicious if the compulsions weren't holding them back from maiming or killing harry. I wouldn't be surprised if they threw the basket in a river or in a forest the first thing tomorrow if the compulsions were not present."
Naruto looked at Harry's basket and smiled.
"Show me what you can do when no one's holding you back. Let's see how you grow up if you're the master of your own fate."
With that proclamation Naruto disappeared with a Red Flash.
Death continued staring at Harry's basket for a few more seconds. She didn't tell Naruto, but she felt both of the Deathly Hollows bond completely with the boy the moment he removed the bloodline blocks.
How interesting.
Death thought to herself, things were definitely going to be a lot more exciting that was certain. She too then disappeared in a distortion of air after giving one final look to the basket containing Harry Potter.
Seconds later the door of No. 4 Private Drive opened and Petunia Dursley saw the basket containing a baby at the front of her doorstep.
And woke the whole neighborhood with the loudness of her terrified scream.
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