Of Crimson and Jade

AN: I don't own Naruto or Harry Potter

And yeah, I lied. I decided to post the first chapter anyways. The idea came to me and wouldn't leave. So please read, enjoy, and review.

I've decided on the Pairings! Cheers The numbers by the names are their ages when I introduce them… as the story progresses they will age physically (except for Jade of course). Yeah I know.. wow..

Jade (246) + Gaara (19)

Naruto (17) + Sasuke (18)

Sakura (17) + Lee (19)

Ino (17) + Choji (18)

Shikamaru (18) + Shino (18)

Temari (21) + Hinata (17)

Kankuro (23) + Tenten (20)

Neji (20) + Kiba (18)

Kakashi (?) + Iruka (?)

Jariya(sp?) (?) + Tsunade (?)

This will have elements of boy/boy and girl/girl, no likey no ready. Reviews would be greatly appreciated. I gladly accept constructive criticism and appreciate the gesture. Flames will be laughed at…hard. This is rated M for a reason, not for little eyes! You have been warned.

"English."

Thoughts or Jade's diary type entries.

Kyuubi, Shukaku, or Yuri

/Mental conversation between more than one person/

::Parsletongue::

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Chapter 1: Final Goodbyes and Chance Meetings

I miss him so much, even now. He was my whole world for so long, being sent away from him, by him, nearly killed me and sent me to the very edge of insanity.

But coming to Konoha made me feel needed again. As strong and mature as they all were, they were still children. True they all had been forced to grow up to early, but the horrors they had seen were still nothing compared to Harry and I.

Even though Tsunade-baa-chan took me in, it was actually Naruto who brought me back, Sasuke as well. The two of them held such concentrated aspects of Harry's personality to them that I couldn't help but be drawn to them. To this day it still takes my breath away, or it would if I had to breath.

Over time I realized that these two were not Harry and they never would be. They would never replace my brother in my heart but the two of them were still special.

I don't know how or why they did it, but the number one knuckle headed ninja and the silent bastard of Konoha both wormed their ways into my heart. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Jade Potter

Jade Potter glided through the halls of Hogwarts' School Witch Craft and Wizardry. The halls and aspects of the castle were so familiar to her she took little notice of her surroundings. If she knew this would be her last walk through those halls perhaps she would have taken her time.

Jade shifted the strap of the travel pack that was slung over her shoulder. She sighed, Harry had requested one last journey into the world before he let old age carry him away. Jade cringed and shook her head, sending her black hair flying.

Her pace quickened on the way to the Headmaster's, her brother's, office. The magical lighting caught and accented the natural fiery red streaks that graced her inky locks. Her jade colored eyes, the reason for her name, flickered.

Jade halted before the stone gargoyle. The creature bowed to her, it had only ever done it for her or Harry, and hopped out of the way for her. She ascended the spiral staircase and came to the ancient wooden door.

Jade paused and took a deep, unnecessary, breath. The door swung open and the young woman strode in, coming to a halt before the large wooden desk.

"My angel, it took you long enough." Harry's smile creased his face. He looked young for his age, nearly two hundred and fifty. His locks were messy, were drawn back in a tail between his shoulders, and were more silver than black. His emerald eyes were still as lively as they had ever been, off setting his thin frail look.

Jade smiled indulgently at her older brother. "You told me to pack whatever I thought I would need."

Harry's eyes seemed to dull for a moment. But the light quickly returned. Jade had known her brother for far to long, however, and had seen the change. "Harry? What's the matter?"

Harry shook his head. "Nothing, nothing."

Jade frowned but let it slide. She gracefully planted herself in a chair before the desk and her brother. "So where are we going?"

Harry's eyes flickered once again. "That's what I wished to speak to you about."

"Oh?" Jade quirked a brow and crossed her arms before her.

Harry chuckled and shook his head. He spoke with a wistful tone. "You spent entirely to much time with Severus."

Jade smiled softly. "Neither of us spent enough time with him, or any of the others."

Harry nodded slightly and reclined in his chair, looking every bit the regal Headmaster of a prestigious school.

Severus Snape had died smiling, a free man. Voldermort had been dead and gone, for real, for nearly twenty years when stray Death Eater's had banded together and assaulted Hogwarts. Severus had died protecting the life of his lover, Harry had never been the same.

Ron Weasley had fallen during the final battle along with his fiancé and second best friend Hermione Granger. Ginny Weasley had fallen but not before taking Bellatrix Lestrange with her.

The rest of the Weasley's, miraculously, all made it to old age, relatively, unharmed. The red headed clan had continued their legacy and many of the little troublemakers could be seen through out the wizarding world.

Luna Lovegood and Neville Longbottom had gotten married and lived many long and happy years running a plant nursery. They died of old age, leaving behind many children and grandchildren –enough to rival even the Weasley's.

Draco Malfoy, who had joined the light, lived a long a fruitful life. He became the Minister of Magic and had changed the government for the better. After many years of courting he had finally convinced Harry to open up again and become his lover. He died at the ripe old age of one hundred and fifty seven.

Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy, who had both joined the light, and after being freed of Voldemort, both finally split up. They had been friends and loved each other but were not in love. Narcissa revealed that she was in love with a muggle, John Brown, and had been for years. Both got married and lived happily together with Lucius and Draco's blessings. Lucius, on the other hand, was in love with a witch. He had fallen in love with the woman as he had worked beside her during The Second War of Voldermort –as the History books called it. He loved her all the more when she confided in him once she was no longer human. He fell in love with Jade Potter.

Blaise Zabini and Pansy Parkinson, who had followed Draco, had gotten married and had a few children and one of their brood had married a Weasley. They opened up a magical antique and jewelry shop that had flourished and now stores could be found all over the world.

After a few years Harry and Jade had finally managed to decipher the veil and were able to bring Sirius back through.

Remus Lupin and Sirius black, reunited as friends and lovers once again., lived long happy lives. They opened and ran an orphanage for both magical and muggle children. It was a large and well-respected place. Sirius died of a disease he just couldn't beat and Remus followed him shortly after, unable to stand the grief of losing his lover a third time.

Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall had one day just both disappeared from the wizarding world. Harry had his suspicions that they had both finally taken that vacation in Maui.

Harry and Jade were the last ones left. They were the final two relics of a time and place that was quickly becoming nothing more than facts in a history book. When Harry finally died the story would fade into legend because Jade would follow her brother into death.

Harry smiled sadly at his younger sister. "It certainly has been a long time."

Jade nodded and gave her brother a weak smile in response. "Yeah, it really has."

Harry's eyes softened as he watched his younger sister. She hadn't aged a day. Of course she hadn't. She was a vampire, she was immortal.

Jade sighed at the look in her brother's eyes. She knew what he was thinking. It was about her disease. Though he would never call it that. She called it a curse. She would never age, she would never die, and she would never live. She was trapped in this state of limbo watching the world pass her by.

Jade hated it. She would forever look like a seventeen-year-old girl, when in truth she was much older than any other being could ever imagine reaching.

Harry sighed and shook his head. "My angel, I must first apologize."

Jade's confusion was evident on her normally blank features. She only ever let her emotions show with Harry anymore, it was one of the reasons for what he planned on doing. "Apologize, for what?"

"Jade." Harry winced at the concern in his sister's eyes. Eyes so similar, and yet different, to his own. "I will not be going with you."

"What?" Jade questioned flatly.

"I will not be going with you on this trip."

"I got that!" Jade snapped and glared darkly at her brother. Harry mentally concluded that not everything she learned from Severus Snape and Lucius Malfoy had been to the benefit of others. "What do you mean you're not going with me?"

"I don't have the strength of the power to send both of us. And even if I did, I probably wouldn't survive the stress." Harry leaned back in his chair looking agitated, he didn't like to admit to weakness, even to his sister.

"Then I'm not going." Jade sounded resolute in her decision.

"I'm sorry, but you must." Harry looked world-weary and older than Jade had ever seen him before.

Her eyes hardened. "Not without you, I'm not-"

"Jade!" Harry snapped, startling his sister into a submissive silence. After a deep breath his voice, and demeanor, softened once again. "You must go. I need you to go."

"But why?" Jade asked softly, her voice cracking.

Harry swallowed thickly and squeezed his eyes shut tight to block out the image of his sister looking like a little lost puppy that had been kicked. "Because, Jade…"

"Harry, if this about the Potions accident last week, I swear there were no severe side-affects." Harry's heart cracked with each whispered broken word.

He shook his head. "No Jade, it's not about that."

"Then why?" Those two words nearly killed the Man-Who-Lived

/Because it's for your own good./ The soft caress of Harry's voice against Jade's mind was the last straw for the vampire. The bloody tears pooled in her gem like eyes before over flowing and staining her pale cheeks. /I'm sorry./ Jade instinctively knew that it would be the last time she ever saw, or heard, her brother alive again.

::As the time for this being ends in this world, so let her time in the next world begin. For the time of prophecy has ended and the need for the Chosen has come again in a world beyond this one.::

The smooth hissing caused Jade to shudder and she filed away the words for thought later. Yes, Jade could indeed understand, and speak, Parsletongue. She just chose not to be as obvious about the fact as her brother.

A soft light began to fill the room, coming from the floor. Jade shot to her feet and knocked her chair over in the process. She stood in the center of a ritual circle, a transdimensional one if she was to venture guess, one written in parsletongue.

Panicked jade eyes flickered from the circle to her brother. She lunged for the outside of the circle but encountered a barrier that kept her trapped. "NO!" She raged and began to bang at the magical barrier using fists and talons to claw and tear at it with in human strength.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no! Jade sobbed as she tried to tear herself through the barrier.

Little one. Yuri's voice, the darker part of her curse, rumbled forth from the darkest part of her mind and soul. Stop it little one.

No, oh god, no! Harry! Jade continued to sob and weaken herself fighting against the barrier.

Little one, please get a hold of yourself. Over the past few hundred years Yuri had grown fond of Jade, but she was still a creature of darkness so even for those she was fond of she had little patience.

Harry continued to chant in parsletongue putting the last of his heart, soul, and magic, into the ritual. The light continued to build and build until it was blinding in its brilliance. /I love you. Goodbye./

/HARRY!/ And in that single instant Jade knew that the Man-Who-Lived passed into the realm of myth and legend.

Jade woke to the sounds of birds chirping and the smell of a forest all around her. She shot gracefully to her feet. "Where the hell am I? How did I get here?" Memories of the previous night -how long had it been?- filled her mind.

Tears flowed freely once again and Jade crumpled to her knees. "Harry…why?" She whimpered pitifully.

Because he was dying. Jade started at the sound of Yuri's voice.

Oh, it's you. Jade responded dully.

Brat! Yuri snapped with a little less venom than was customary. He was dying and he wanted to give you a chance to live your life instead of following him into death!

But what is life without him? I have, had, no one else. What am I to do now? Jade curled up on the forest floor.

Start over. Yuri's presence faded and Jade knew she would get no more from the odd little demon.

Jade sighed and moved to her feet again. She took a sniff of the air, it was fresh and clean and inviting, and everything the Forbidden Forest wasn't. "Well Toto, looks like we're not in Kansas anymore."

Jade shifted in a circle to take in her surroundings, trees, trees, and more trees. "Peachy."

The delicate looking woman rubbed at the bridge of her nose and huffed a low sigh. A flickering presence caused her head to snap up. There it was again. It was a human, and it was heading her way.

"Great." Jade grumbled. "Just what I need." She felt her canines lengthen some. With a thought and a slight focusing of her magic she had herself 'hidden' with a simple Notice-Me-Not charm.

A woman landed with a soft thump just scant feet from where Jade was standing. "I could have sworn-" The woman grumbled irritably.

Jade stood silently assessing the woman. She was tall, and looked to be in at least her mid thirties, with blonde hair and brownish eyes. There was nothing remarkable about the woman, unless you counted her overly large breasts and the fact that she reeked of alcohol. Jade brought a hand up to shield her poor nose.

She continued to watch as the blonde searched about the small clearing where Jade had woken up. "It's not possible for someone for a chakra signature that large to just disappear."

Chakra signature? Jade blinked and shifted herself to the side when the blonde woman drew closer. She stiffened when another figure dropped into the clearing. Great.

"Hokage-sama, we can find no sign of the chakra signature. It's like it just vanished." The man straightened himself out and he moved closer to both women.

The man was tall and thin with spiky silver hair and only one eye visible. He wore a mask over the lower part of his face and a forehead protector, with some odd leaf like symbol, shielded his left eye from sight. He wore block baggy pants a black long sleeve shirt under a vest and sandals similar in style to what the Hokage woman wore.

"Thank you Kakashi." The woman turned to regard the man. "Do you think you could find it using the Sharingan?"

Sharingan? Jade's head was beginning to hurt, she had more questions than answers about this strange new world.

Kakashi shrugged slightly and lifted the forehead protector, revealing a blood red eye.

Shit! Jade had felt the power of Kakashi's eye the moment he had lifted the band. Yuri!

Don't panic little one. We don't know what it does yet. But even the normally calm and unflappable Yuri seemed disturbed by what the eye represented.

And if he sees us? Yuri didn't get the chance to answer as Kakashi's gaze swiveled to look directly at her. His open, red, eye widened and he stared a moment at the woman.

Run. Jade didn't have to be told twice. She turned tail and fled. She raced through the trees at a pace most mortals, even ninja, would be unable to achieve. Careful.

Jade dodged a flying weapon. What the hell is that?!

I don't know! Yuri's voice shook and rumbled. Her vessel was being threatened. She did not take kindly to people threatening her human. Let me out.

Jade didn't have the strength to argue. She allowed Yuri control of their shared body and she let her consciousness drift back.

Yuri shuddered and came to a sliding halt. She turned to face the oncoming threat. Kakashi and the Hokage burst onto the scene just seconds apart.

"Who are you?" Kakashi asked, another one of the flying weapons in his hand.

Yuri growled low in her throat and crouched low. Two large black feathered wings burst forth from her back, splattering blood and flesh, and tearing apart Jade's shirt and robe, she had a feeling Jade would be angry with her later.

Yuri quickly shredded the robe and tossed it to the side. She easily shifted the bag, which had miraculously remained with her, so her newly formed wings had room to spread to their full length of nearly thirty feet from tip to tip.

Kakashi and the Hokage watched the entire process in awe. Finally the silver haired Sharingan wielder shifted his gaze to meet the eyes of the woman. What he saw froze him on the spot, when he had first seen the woman her eyes were an amazing shade of green, they were now glowing a fierce and fiery red that matched the streaks in her hair.

"Why do you hunt us?" Yuri's voice was deep and rumbling, but still distinctly feminine as if two voices were speaking at once from the same throat.

Us? Kakashi cleared his throat. "Who are you?"

"I asked you first mortal." Yuri's eyes narrowed and her wings shifted.

Mortal? Kakashi's head was beginning to spin, staring into the woman's eyes was making him feel weak. He quickly jerked his band down to cover the Sharingan once again and the feeling decreased greatly. "I am Hatake Kakashi, Jonin Ninja for Konohagakure. You are trespassing."

"Ninja?" The woman seemed generally confused. "Ninja's are nothing but myth and legend."

Yuri shifted and seemed to grow distant for a moment. At least to the two ninja. They are merely legend aren't they little one?

In our world yes, but remember, this may not be our world. Jade's voice was soft and broken sounding.

"Damn, damn, damn him to hell!" Yuri suddenly snarled. She turned and lashed out with a fist, effectively turning the tree that stood behind her into kindling.

Kakashi watched the scene in mild interest and the Hokage swallowed thickly. Who is this woman?

"What land is this?" The sudden question caught the attention of both ninjas.

"The land of Fire." It was the Hokage who answered. "How don't you know this?"

Yuri growled again and ran a hand tiredly over her face. Perhaps it would be best if you dealt with this after all.

Alright. Jade pushed forward and felt a single comforting mental nudge from Yuri.

Jade bit back a cry as the wings reabsorbed back into her body, leaving her back a torn and bloody mess. She dropped to her knees and squeezed her eyes shut. "Damn that never hurts any less."

"Are you," The Hokage stepped forward some, "alright?"

Jade's head snapped up and both ninja were greeted with the sight of gem-like green eyes and bloody tear trails. "Oh yes, just peachy, considering I have no idea where I'm at or that I was just attacked by two people who claim to be ninja."

Kakashi crossed his arms over his chest. "We are ninja."

Jade sighed and struggled to her feet. "And I'm a fifty foot pink hippo who likes to dance ballet."

Both ninja seemed taken aback by her sarcastic reply. It was the Hokage who spoke first. "Who are you?"

Jade grunted and shifted, she pulled her bag's strap over her head and let it drop to the ground. "I believe it's considered proper etiquette to introduce yourself first."

The Hokage blushed and glared at the younger looking woman. "I am Tsunade, Hokage of Konohagakure."

"Hokage?" Jade questioned with an eyebrow cocked. She placed her hands on her hips and winced at the pain the raced up her spine. Not even her vampiric healing abilities could get rid of the pain fast enough.

Tsunade and Kakashi blinked and shared a look. It was Kakashi who spoke. "You don't know what the Hokage is?"

Jade scowled. "Would I have asked if I had?"

Calm down little one. These maybe the only one's willing enough to answer our questions for a while. Yuri's voice eased the tension that rang through Jade's nerves.

"Hokage is the strongest most capable ninja in Konoha, they run the village." Tsunade was watching the woman and her healing instinct was urging her to go check on the raven.

Jade nodded her head in understanding. "What is the Sharingan?"

Kakashi intervened. "We answered your question. It is only fair you answer ours. Who are you?"

Jade crossed her arms and pouted for a moment before sighing and nodding. "I am Jade Potter. Potter being my familial name." She added to clear up the confused looks she received.

Both ninja nodded.

"So what's the Sharingan?"

Tsunade and Kakashi shared another look. Tsunade spoke as Kakashi disappeared in a puff of smoke, though Jade could still sense him nearby, her gaze shifted to land on the tree where he was hiding, though it moved away just as quickly. "Perhaps this would be a conversation best had in Konoha."

Jade sighed and nodded reluctantly. Here we go.

Be careful.

No shit.

Vile, demon brat! Jade chuckled mentally though her faced showed none of it.. The woman reached down and scooped up her back and her tattered robe. She glared at it before sighing.

Jade and Tsunade walked side by side through the forest. Tsunade kept throwing glances at Jade, and it was really grating on the vampire's nerves. "What?" She finally snapped as she halted.

"Your back." Tsunade responded truthfully.

"It's fine." Jade kept walking.

Tsunade's stride lengthened to catch up. "It's a mess. You could die from blood loss alone."

Jade barked her laughter. Yuri echoed the noise in their shared mind.

"What's so funny?" The Hokage glared at Jade.

Jade stopped walking again and turned to look at Tsunade over her shoulder. "It's hard to die when you're already dead." She turned and kept walking, missing the startled looks of Tsunade and Kakashi.

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Alright so I lied. An idea for the first chapter came to me and I decided to post it even without the reviews. Perhaps this chapter will convince all of you readers to finally review.

Please.

Pretty please.

That's not a pretty sight.

Shut up Yuri!

Review so this pitiful woman will stop her groveling and whining.

Bad demon, bad!