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[ "Normal speech in English/Normal speech in another language ('un-translated')"

"Normal speech in another language ('translated')."

§Parseltongue ('translated' obviously)§

Thoughts/Mind speech/Otherworldly (including prophesies) speech ]

*Speech/Mind-speech in bold = demon speech/mind-speech

Chapter 2: The Snakes (and the Vanishing Glass)

Because anyone who talks to snakes must engage in suspicious activity.

Four years passed since Harriet recovered the memories of her past life and made a deal with a soul fragment of Lord Voldemort. Harriet had since then reacquired most of her kunoichi skills from her previous life (she couldn't find a chance to try out the Rasengan or any other higher level techniques safely) and had managed to summon Gamakichi and Gamatatsu (Riddle expressed his discomfort about talking toads, much to Harriet's amusement) despite no longer being Uzumaki Naruko, apparently because despite her change in identity and physical body, her chakra had remained the same. (It seemed like the Toads were able to travel across space and time and even worlds when summoned.)

Life was good for Harriet, as she had indeed displayed enough troublemaking abilities and 'freakiness' for her relatives to treat her slightly better than before (she still did chores because it was good training opportunity and was entertaining when she got creative with it, such as the time she walked up the wall while cleaning the house and freaked her relatives out) and allow her to have Dudley's second bedroom. Dudley couldn't do anything about it either, because he and his gang now found themselves getting their asses kicked whenever they tried.

She also felt more comfortable with Mrs Figg, now that Kurama had all but confirmed that her cats seemed to have some bakeneko characteristics, or at least, some ninneko attributes, which seemed to imply that Mrs Figg might be connected in some way to the magical world, and reminded Kurama of some old cat lady called Nekobaa whom Naruko had never met before. Harriet couldn't be sure though, because Mrs Figg seemed very ordinary, if a little batty, aside from the cats she kept.

Still, Hari would sometimes find herself lying on the roof at night (when it was dark and everyone was asleep and no one was around to shriek and panic upon seeing a girl up on the roof apparently about to fall to her death), staring at the stars, wondering what happened to her honorary uncles. They were her parents' good friends, so they had to be wizards, if her parents were. But she's heard no news from the wizarding world ever since she came to Privet Drive. Kurama and Riddle both had no idea either. Hari hoped they were fine. She would like to meet them again one day.

Upon some discussion amongst 'Kichi, Kurama, Riddle (who found himself uncharacteristically lost in the dealings of the shinobi world) and herself, it was decided that she should try signing a contract with the Snakes, since she was now a Parseltongue and had developed an affinity for them through Riddle. Though shinobi rarely had more than one species of summons, Sasuke had managed it, which meant that it was likely for Naruko to manage it to, especially with Kurama's help. It would be advantageous for her to have two animal summons.

However, there was a problem of getting the Snake Scroll, and in the end, they managed to speak with the Great Toad Sage, Gamamaru, through 'Kichi, who told her that she could simply attempt the Summoning Technique while applying magical chakra instead of the usual chakra. There was the problem of getting back from wherever the Summoning Technique brought her to, but that was easily solved when Harriet made a shadow clone.

Shadow-Clone-Harriet (who was called Harriet 1 for convenience—Harriet herself was Harriet 0) found herself in Ryuuchi Cave after following Gamamaru's instructions. It confirmed a few things: First, that the legendary home of the Snakes had been untouched by the destruction wrought by Kaguya in the Shinobi War, just like Mount Myouboku. Second, that she did indeed have a magical affinity to snakes. The reverse summoning invoked when a shinobi attempts the Summoning Technique without signing a contract would not have worked otherwise.

Ryuuchi Cave was quite unlike Mount Myouboku, with muted cooler colors and had a darker overall atmosphere. And the place seemed less friendly too. There were a few Snakes around, but they barely paid her much attention, and the moment she approached them, they disappeared. Only one or two gave her a partially curious partially wary glance before slithering off as well. None of the Snakes seem frightened of her though. The way they'd left, it was quite clear to Harriet 1, who was based on a girl who was no longer the entirely oblivious Naruko, that they were avoiding her the way royalty may avoid commoners.

Or the way Rii-tan avoids Muggles, Kurama commented, which would have resulted in a mild headache as Riddle expressed his displeasure at the demon fox's altogether disregard for his name preferences… If he had been around. As it was, she was Harriet 1, and had no Riddle in her head though she was still connected to the demon fox. Which was good. Because Kurama, knowing that Riddle desired respect, often went further than her Boss (the original Harriet) in his naming of Riddle. Riddle's intelligence was the only thing preventing Kurama from actually calling him an idiot or anything related. Of course, since Riddle couldn't do anything to the tailed beast, so he took out his irritation on the Boss instead.

Harriet 1 scowled and wandered about. At least none of the Snakes had attacked her, she told herself, trying to drive away the imaginary black cloud that had started to form over her head. As she roamed the Cave, she realised it was getting darker and darker, until she could hardly see. So she concentrated on her magic and formed a pale blue light in her hand.

Wandless magic, she had learnt, was a common occurrence for children in the form of accidental magic, but was difficult to control. Most witches and wizards use wands to help them direct their magic. However, Boss had found that she could use simple wandless magic such as producing light or unlocking locks.

Kurama theorized that since it was a form of chakra, the chakra control she got from her previous life allowed her to wield magic more easily than normal witches and wizards. That and the fact that she seemed to have a lot of magical chakra that had originally been sealed up (and released with the help of Riddle). It seemed like no matter what life she had, she would be a chakra powerhouse.

As Harriet 1 continued through the Cave, she found that there were glowing plants illuminating parts of the Cave. Still, she did end up tripping over a rock despite the dim lighting and her usually stellar kunoichi skills. She landed on something cool and firm and... Breathing.

Within seconds, a very alarmed Harriet 1 found herself comfortably snuggled in the large coils of a Giant Snake. A list of spells and jutsu ran through her mind before the Snake mumbled something that sounded like, "Go and sleep."

"Wait. What? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to fall onto you or—" Harriet 1 said, and was cut off by the glare of the Snake. It had pale gold-green eyes, like a pair of peridot gemstones.

"You woke me up, noisy kid. Now be quiet until I'm done with my nap," the Snake said, sounding mildly annoyed. So a bewildered Harriet 1 obediently stayed still until the Snake fell asleep, before sighing. What had she gotten herself into?

"You shouldn't have woken her," a passing Snake commented. The Snake was about the size of a python, considerably smaller than the Snake whose coils she was trapped in. Come to that, the Giant Snake wrapped around her seemed to be thicker than a pillar, and though the Snake was coiled around her, she had a feeling that uncoiled, the Snake would be at least 24 metres (approximately 80 feet) long.

"Well, I didn't mean to," Harriet 1 replied with a huff. The Snake chuckled.

"You should probably go to sleep too. Nibuya-hime probably won't wake up again for another hour... Unless you wake her again, but I wouldn't advise that," the Snake said, before slithering away. Harriet 1 stared at the Snake leaving and sighed again.

Perhaps you should just go to sleep, clone brat, Kurama chuckled. I don't think this Snake is going to eat you anytime soon.

Harriet 1 did fall asleep later, and was awoken by thick snake coils shifting around her. She yawned and opened her eyes to find herself face-to-face with the Snake called Nibuya.

"Next time, don't disturb me while I'm sleeping, noisy kid," Nibuya said. "Now what are you doing roaming Ryuuchi Cave? Are you a new Summoner?"

"Uh... Yeah? I guess? I'm just a shadow clone though, and Boss didn't sign the contract though. I'm a bit lost here. Got reverse summoned when performing the Summoning Technique," Harriet 1 replied. Nibuya sniffed her, tongue flitting in and out of her mouth.

"You smell of Toad," the Snake commented.

"Well, Boss was originally a Toad Summoner. And we've worked with Toads before. And also achieved Toad Sage Mode," Harriet 1 said honestly. Nibuya seemed surprised.

"And yet you have an affinity with Snakes. You are a strange one, noisy kid. What's your name?"

"Harriet. Last name Potter. But I—Boss used to be called Naruko. Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruko."

"You're the Toad girl! I've heard of you from Manda-jiisan and Aodaichi. You're Uchiha-san's friend, right? Your new name is strange. And you seem younger than I expected."

"Uh.. Yeah, I guess. That's me. You know Manda and Aoda?"

"I am Nibuya, Princess of the Snakes," Nibuya said, not in a haughty tone, but in a blunt matter-of-fact way. "Manda-jiisan was my shishou for awhile. Aodaichi is my senpai. And I know most of the other Kyoudaichi here."

Harriet 1 stared at the Snake Princess. She evidently learned her manners from Manda (which is to say, learned no manners at all). Not that Harriet 1 minded. She herself (and her Boss) cared naught for proper honorifics and stuff like that. After all, to Naruko, the Third Hokage was Jii-san, Tsunade was Baa-chan and Jiraiya was Ero-sennin. Though as Harriet, she did learn to be a little more polite (Riddle had taught her how charm and 'masks' could be useful to get what she wants, which only served to convince Boss that he was a wizard Hitler—she cared little about history but she knew that Hitler had been a charismatic leader of the Nazis). And she would her manners now that she was in the coils of a Snake. She was fairly confident of her ability to escape if the Snake decided to attack her, but she was there to sign a contract with the Snakes, not start a fight.

"Nibuya-er-hime, do you think I could sign a contract with the Snakes?" Harriet 1 asked.

The Snake snorted. "You don't have to call me Nibuya-hime, tadpole. Sounds troublesome. Now follow me and we'll get you the Scroll."

"Eh? Troublesome?" Harriet 1 echoed as she found herself riding Nibuya because the Snake had begun moving while Harriet 1 was still clambering over her to get out of her coils.

"Yeah. Usually whenever I'm called that, I end up in some sort of tiring polite conversation," grumbled the Snake. Then she seemed to grow even larger than before as she gained speed slithering through the caverns. Harriet 1 briefly wondered if her full size was as big as Aoda.

The journey was a silent one, as Nibuya didn't seem inclined to talk, and Kurama was silent. After some time, Nibuya stopped in a particular cavern where another Snake was coiled around a huge scroll. Within minutes, Harriet 1 had written the katakana of her English name in the Scroll in her blood and it was done. Then she boldly asked Nibuya to bite her and was dispelled in a cloud of smoke upon being bitten, her memories and experiences transferred to the original Harriet.

Once Harriet finished processing her shadow clone's memories, she pondered on how to summon a Snake without arousing suspicion from her neighbours. She was, at the time, in the Dursley's backyard. (She was supposed to be weeding the garden.) Summoning the Toads had been easy, as Gamakichi and Gamatatsu knew what size to appear in depending on how much chakra she applied. They were her personal summons after all, particularly 'Kichi.

However, she wasn't sure what would happen when she tried summoning a Snake. As a new summon, she wasn't sure if she'll need to use extra chakra for the Snakes to respond, but if she used too much... Well, the first time she succeeded in summoning a Toad was when she applied too much chakra and Gamabunta ('Kichi and 'Tatsu's father, and Boss Summon of the Toads) had appeared. He was at least 30m tall (approx. 100 feet), and would easily flatten two houses.

In the end, Harriet attempted the Summoning Technique with the same amount of chakra as she usually did to summon Gamakichi in his small form, which was the size of a pomelo. Fortunately, it worked, and a Snake the size of a pit viper appeared below her palm in a cloud of smoke.

§We meet agai—Wait.§ Nibuya said, then, yawning, "Excuse me. I was sleepy and just about to take another nap. Hello again, Hari-sama."

It was a combination of a lazy personality reminiscent of a certain young genius shinobi, the pale peridot eyes and Nibuya's voice that clued Harriet in on the identity of the Snake.

The section of Ryuuchi Cave where her clone had met Nibuya had been too dim for her to determine the color of the Snake. Now that they were under the light of the late afternoon sun, she could clearly see that Nibuya was a dark wine red (like blood, came the soft whisper of two mind-voices in sync) with purplish-black diamond-shaped markings running down it, starting from her forehead and fading down her tail. She also had a black streak across each eye that reminded Harriet vaguely of Orochimaru, except that these markings actually looked nice on her. (Of course, there was the fact that the markings were meant to be on a snake and not on a human.)

Harriet laughed. "You know, I do understand the language of snakes. So there was actually no need for you to switch to human language? Hari-sama... Hari. Hey, that's a good one."

It's certainly easier to pronounce in Japanese. And you're tiny, sharp and annoying, just like a needle, teased Kurama. Harriet snorted. I'll take that as a compliment.

"You understand snake language?" Nibuya sounded mildly fascinated. "That would be convenient during... Oh. Are you aware that I'll be your personal Snake summon from now on?"

"Yeah. In this world, it's called Parseltongue. Few can speak it. It's uh... A magical kekkei genkai. I'm honoured to have you as a personal summon but... Are you aware that this world—"

"—Is different from the shinobi world? Yes." Nibuya sounded amused as she cut Harriet off. "Aoda-kun told me just now. Met him after your clone was dispelled. He explained to be the whole thing. Apparently, Uchiha-san had been reincarnated in this world as a... What do you call that? A mahoushi? A "wi-za-ru-do" I think he called it. What a strange word. I suppose it's the same for you? You're a magic user?"

Harriet had not been expecting that. But it did save her some time, effort and breath. And there was a tightness in her chest. As if her heart had grown too big for it. Sasuke was alive! As a different person perhaps, but he was alive, at that was what mattered to her. If Sasuke had been reincarnated, then Sakura might have been too. And perhaps Kakashi. And Hinata. And Kiba. Ino. Shikamaru. Ohh... Wouldn't that be great?

Wouldn't what be great, brat? You forget I don't hear all of your thoughts. But if you're thinking about seeing your friends again... Well, you do know that this world is rather... big, right?

It seems like you know what I was referring to even without hearing the rest of my thoughts anyway, Harriet sighed. And yes, it did occur to me... Do you Sasuke would be in Australia or something?

I can imagine him in a tree with a koala, Kurama said so seriously that Harriet laughed. Meanwhile, Riddle tried his best to ignore the two of them. And the Snake. While ordinarily, he liked snakes and would be interested in a snake that could speak both Japanese and Parseltongue and change size at will, he'd had enough of shinobi culture for the day. Culture shock, Harriet had observed.

"Nibuya, Did Aoda tell you where Sasuke is?" Harriet asked.

"I think I recall him saying that the Uchiha was in some place called " No-ru-we". Come to that, where are we?"

"Oh. You mean Norway? That's still in Youroppa, so it isn't too bad, I guess. We're in uh... Ingurando," Harriet said thoughtfully, and wondered if she should become penpals with Sasuke.

"Yes. That place. But what's Youroppa?" said Nibuya.

"Europe. It's uh... A really big section of the world with many countries in it. Norway and England are two of the countries in Europe," Harriet explained. "By the way, does Aoda know about me yet?"

"Oh... Okay? Well, I didn't get to tell Aoda anything, because he left soon after he realised I was yawning and wasn't going to bother staying awake for long," Nibuya said sheepishly (as sheepishly as a snake can manage).

"Good. Don't let him know about me. I don't want Sasuke to know I'm alive yet. I'm planning to find out more about him first, since I'm still not sure how he really feels about Konoha and Team Seven. You can let him know that there's another Snake Summoner called Hari though," Harriet instructed. Nibuya agreed, not really understanding the whole human frenemy concept (because a friend was an ally and an enemy a threat to be eliminated, so how could a they be allies yet foes?) and couldn't be bothered to try. The mere thought about it felt like the beginning of a headache.

"Hmm... I think that's about it. You can go back and have your nap now," Harriet said. Nibuya didn't disappear back to Ryuuchi Cave however. Instead, she stretched herself out in the warm sunlit grass.

"Meh. I think I shall stay here for awhile. It feels rather comfortable here and the scenery is nice."

Harriet looked around, not seeing how the scenery could be nice. It was the typical 'scenery' of a well-kept garden looking out to a road. She glanced back at the sunbathing Snake and shrugged. She didn't mind letting the Snake lie around in the garden, so long as her relatives never saw her. But she figured she wouldn't have to worry too much. After all, the Snake was more intelligent than the average snake, and was from the shinobi world, and should have some skills in staying hidden when needed.

Harriet, enlisting the help of Nibuya, spent the next few days researching on her Uchiha friend-rival-enemy.

She found out that Sasuke was now a pureblood wizard named Azraellus Cieran Hayes, who was half-Norwegian, quarter-English and quarter-Irish. He had dark reddish-brown hair (like the mixed color of chestnut and blood, said Nibuya, making Harriet wonder if everyone she was 'friends' with had a fascination with blood) and dark gray eyes. He was also her age. Afterwards, it was Nibuya who suggested the unconventional method of exchanging letters (once Harriet had explained to her what penpals were) by letting her be the 'messenger snake' for the first letter only (because she was too lazy to continue that role for long, though her princess ego may have been a factor as well) before continuing the exchange via Sasuke's Hawk.

It was clear that Sasuke had no idea who 'Hari' was, after the first few letters, and was quite interested in contact with fellow shinobi. Fortunately for Harriet, the Hawk could not talk, and could not tell Sasuke anything about Harriet. And even if it could, Naruko's chakra signature was easily masked by Harriet's magical chakra.

Still, the Uchiha did get suspicious after finding out that 'Hari' lived in the same world as he. There was no helping that, since his Hawk did not need to disappear back to the shinobi world to deliver the letter from Sasuke to 'Hari'.Harriet's response to that was that she wouldn't say a thing about her location and situation until she was sure he could be trusted. It was a good thing he didn't know she knew he was Sasuke (because he wasn't aware that Aoda had told Nibuya about him since Aoda was supposed to have kept his previous life's identity a secret), as he had introduced himself as 'Azrael' to her, giving her no last name.

Harriet found it amusing that his name meant 'God's helper' in Hebrew, and was the name of the Angel of Death, a shinigami of sorts. Apparently, Mrs Figg knew all about myths and legends.

All was well, until Dudley's birthday. Harriet—or Hari, as she had begun calling herself—had moved on from simple wandless magical charms to transfiguration, which was like the Transformation Technique, Henge no Jutsu, except that it could be done on another object, and was more extensive in application, though it has both its advantages and disadvantages, which made her glad that she could do both Henge and a bit of Transfiguration.

Riddle assured her that she would get better at it with a wand. (And he seemed even keener on having her join his side of the war because other than being the Girl-Who-Lived and the Chosen One, it was evident now that she had plenty of 'powers he knows not' that would be a great asset to have.)

Dudley's birthday was not altogether horrible. Hari did get to go to the zoo along with the Dursleys and Dudley's friend (a ratty looking boy called Piers), which wasn't a very pleasant experience, but at least she was going on an excursion. Things started to go downhill after she met a large snake in the reptile house though.

The snake was a boa constrictor from Brazil, and she had been conversing with it for awhile until her annoying cousin and his friend came along and shoved her out of the way. Her first instinct was to punch them both, but she suppressed it with some difficulty after Kurama advised her not to make a scene. Not that it mattered, because the next moment, both Dudley and Piers nearly fell into the snake's tank when the glass they were leaning on had vanished. The snake happily slithered out, and left after saying thanks to Hari in Parseltongue. Chaos ensued as visitors panicked and everyone was scrambling for the exits.

In the end, no one was injured, the snake had escaped successfully, and the zoo director had personally apologised to them for something that wasn't exactly his fault. Meanwhile, Dudley and Piers were spinning exaggerated tales of getting nearly bitten and strangled by the snake. All in all, it was quite a wonderful prank, Hari thought, if she had done it on purpose. But she hadn't.

Hari found herself locked in her bedroom later that day, because Piers had told her uncle that he had seen her talking to the snake. She let herself get locked up mainly because it meant getting left alone by the Dursleys. That night, she summoned a few common Snakes and sent them to terrorize Piers as revenge for him telling on her, with instructions not to actually harm him, and to leave as soon as he gave any inclination to be violent. She was a prankster after all, not a bully, much to Riddle's annoyance.

You should at least let the Snakes bite him. They aren't even venomous, Riddle had said.

Yes, and after that, you'll try and convince me that I should have him killed because he's just a stupid Muggle, am I right, Hebi-sensei? Hari had responded, and Riddle fell silent, though she could feel him scowling in her head. Still, he was somewhat pleased with her new wandless Vanishing ability, even if it had been accidental magic.

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