I do not own Harry Potter or Naruto
A Mistrusting Wizard and the Ninja Who Found Him
Chapter Four
Harry woke up early the next morning just like he always did. Blinking the last bit of sleep away he wondered why the Hogwarts dorm room was so small and where the rest of the beds had disappeared off to. With a quick jolt, he began to recall everything that had happened the previous day.
Getting up he began to go through his morning routine of a few rounds of his combat training then a little bit of meditation before he took a shower and got dressed for the day.
As he ate his breakfast he peered over the map that he had bought yesterday. Riku was right, there was no mention of England or any place he was familiar with on this map. Where was he? A closed off community or in another world itself? Hm… he could find out what was at the end of the map, or he could go to the ninja village and find the scroll that they used to bring him here before making his grand escape. After about a second of thinking he decided that end of the map it was. After all if he was still on earth then just moving forward should get him somewhere.
"Alright." Harry thought as he was washing his dishes "I'll have to take a boat at some point, but I don't know how long I'll be at sea. So I'll also need food, supplies, and a compass so I won't have to use my energy to continuously lead the way. Although I'll be missing this school year, I already have my books, so the least I can do is study on my own."
Looking out the one sided tent window Harry frowned. "Great it's raining" he thought irritably. "I wanted to go flying some more, but the disillusionment charm is useless when people can look up to see the rain hitting something. Its times like this that I really wished that I knew how to cast the notice-me-not charm, the muggle repellent spell only works on objects that aren't moving. Guess my cloak will do for now until the rain ends." He sulked.
With one last glare at the sky Harry finished cleaning up before pulling on his cloak and boots. Exiting the tent he quickly placed it back into his MSEB then started to erase and pick up all the temporary runes surrounding the shed. Feeling rather grateful, he pulled the warm cloak close and began to make his way into through the town.
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Turning at a corner Harry tensed as he sensed someone coming up behind him. He quickly turned back and saw two ruff dirty looking men approaching him with obvious ill intentions. Glancing around he realized that there was no one else in the area.
"Hey kid sure is dangerous to walking alone." Harry heard one of them say. He looked over; it was an ugly pudgy short guy who was smirking at him.
"Yeah, lucky for you that we're here to eh help you, huh." said the much taller and similarly ugly one.
"I'm only going to warn you two only once, leave me alone and no one will get hurt…" Harry said as he gauged his soon to be opponents while settling into better fighting stance. They didn't look like much but with the way they were acting they probably had a weapon of some kind on them.
The two thugs tensed and looked at his forehead before they both started to laugh.
"Who the fuck do you think you are you little brat! We were going to be nice and just take your stuff, but it looks like you about to get a beating too!" The short one said pulling out a knife while the other thug pulled out a large bat.
Dodging the tall ones' attempt to bash his head, Harry immediately brought his leg up and sent the tall thug to the ground twitching in pain. A quick punch to the thug's jaw put the thug out of the fight. Harry then rolled to the left moving out the way from being stabbed by the knife. Unfortunately he wasn't fast enough to avoid a slash on his arm. A second later, Harry had disarmed the short thug and knocked him out with a punch to the temple. Eyeing the thugs he stunned both of them to make sure they were out, before searching their pockets for anything of value. After all, the spoils of battle go to the victor, but he didn't forget to check for traps as well.
Surprisingly they carried a few things Harry found worth taking. A little bit of money, a couple of knives that he could probably trade later on, and some rope.
Finished Harry got an idea. "Legilimency" he whispered as he dove into the mind of the shorter one. Going through the thug memories Harry scowled. He had just want information about this land that he was in but these pieces of scum. No, worse than trash. They had been following him ever since he had left the bank. Apparently they over heard the banker say gold, and were determined to find out if he had anymore. They had planned on trapping him alone before robbing and leaving him dead. Worse of all, this wasn't the first time they had done this.
He needed to think. He wasn't going to sink so low as to kill them, but he couldn't just let them go to target someone else. Then he smiled as he remembered a spell which Moody had taught him. Apparently it didn't work very well on wizards, but for muggle trash like this it would do its job just fine. Quickly he casted the spell then preceded to Obliviate both of the men of anything that had to do with him.
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Moments later after Harry had left two figures approached the downed thugs.
"Kakashi he was just here. I can smell Harry blood on that scums knife, and it's fresh." Pakkun growled.
"Really! I guess I just have to ask why." Kakashi said as he closed in on the thugs.
"Wake up Scum!" Kakashi snarled as he smacked the shorter thug awake.
"Wha? What's going… oh crap!" The thug said as he saw the ninja headband. He tried to crawl away, but found that his legs wouldn't move.
"Where's the boy?" Kakashi growled.
"What boy?" the thug said as he attempted to draw his knife only to find his arm wouldn't move either.
"Wrong answer!" CRACK!
"GAH! MY HAND!" The thug cried out.
"And you have two hundred and five more bones to go. Now tell me, why is Harry's blood on your knife?"
"Blood? What blood?"
CRACK! "You must really enjoy pain to not answer my questions." Kakashi sneered down at the bleeding thug. He was pathetic, and had already started to cry.
"I don't know! You've got to believe me!" the thug blubbered "I can't even remember how I got here!"
"We'll see." Kakashi said as he uncovered his second eye. This… will hurt a lot." Kakashi said with a creepy smile as he stared into the horrified eyes of the thug with his sharingan. The thug screamed as Kakashi tore through his mind.
"Fuck!" Kakashi cursed. "His mind has been messed with. We're not going to get anything from him." Kakashi said angrily as he dropped the whimpering thug to the ground. "He really doesn't remember how the blood got there. Pakkun do you smell Itachi scent anywhere near by?"
"No I don't. If it wasn't him who was it?" Pakkun asked looking around the area.
"I don't know, but we can't waste time with this trash anymore. We finally have a lead to Harry's location. Hopefully he's still in the area."
"Right, but what about those two? Whether they remember or not, they did something to the kid."
"You're right. You go and take a sniff around the area. I'll clean up." Kakashi said as he looked back at the sobbing thugs.
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Harry was moving quickly down the road. He was clutching his arm while looking for a dry place to get out of the rain. The thug had given him a deeper wound than he had first thought, and it needed to be tended to so that it wouldn't get infected. After all who knows where that knife had been. Luckily he had already been able to wrap it so he wasn't dripping blood. Also he had casted a slight spell to cover up his scent. Not that he thought that there would be anyone with above human senses following him, but it never hurt to stay in practice.
He thought he remembered the spell to heal deeper wounds, but didn't want to risk getting the spell wrong. Better just to wait until he could pull out his Healer's Helpmate, than risk his arm with a badly cast spell. Pulling his cloak tighter Harry turned another corner when he heard arguing ahead of him. Looking ahead Harry saw a gathering of people blocking the road. Approaching cautiously he listened in on the conversations around him.
"What's going on now? Why is the road being blocked?" he heard someone ask.
"A missing kid."
"Missing?"
"Yeah, looks like someone paid for a team of ninja to find the kid."
"Ninja?" Harry thought with a rising feeling of dread.
"Ninja? What does the kid look like? Do you think there's a reward?" asked someone excitedly.
"Reward? Ha! These are ninja we're talking about. Though if they find out you knew something and didn't come forward well…"
The group of villagers all shuddered together. It kind of reminded Harry of when someone would say Voltemort in the middle of a crowd of wiz-folk.
"So what does the kid look like anyway?"
"They say it's a kid with black hair."
"Calm down Harry, there are lots of kids with black hair. That doesn't mean they're looking for you." Thought Harry as he started to panic.
"Green eyes."
"Oh crap."
"And a lighting shaped scar on his head."
"Fuck! They are talking about me!" thought Harry as he began to distance himself from the villagers. He needed to leave before they could see him. He quickly pulled down his hood some that its' shadow would cover his eyes then turned around slowly and started to walk another way.
"Fuck!" he thought again as he almost skidded to a stop. Along this path there was that orange ninja kid talking to villager and, another clone of his talking to those villagers he left behind him. He was surrounded.
"Fuck this! As soon as I get away I'm going to lock myself in my tent, and not coming out until I have that notice-me-not spell down and done to perfection. Wait the clone's back is turned. Maybe? Yes! I made it past him." Harry thought with glee. Now all he had to do was get away.
"Oi!"
"Keep walking he might not be talking to you."
"Hey you! You in the cloak! Stop right there! I need to ask you a few questions!" the orange ninja called out as hurried over.
"Hey, didn't you hear me calling you?"
"Calling me? Sorry I'm bit deaf you see and didn't hear you, but can I help you with something?" Harry asked as he turned around slowly to keep the shadow of hood covering his eyes.
"Yeah, have you seen a large bird or a teenage boy with green eyes, and short black messy hair?" asked the orange ninja. "He also might be speaking another langue or talking kind of weird."
"No, sorry can't say that I have." Harry said as he did his best to keep his accent from this voice.
"Thanks anyway." The orange ninja said a little disappointed.
"No problem. I hope you find who you're looking for." Harry said while inwardly laughing at the ninja. Harry then turned to leave when a gust of wind blew back his hood.
"Fuck!" Harry thought as the ninja gapped at him.
"Hey, wait a minute you are…"
"Forget this!" thought Harry as he did a low kick to the orange dressed boy. The ninja gasped in pain as he sank to his knees while clutching his privets before turning into a cloud of smoke. Seeing this Harry was stunned for a moment, before deciding to figure out what that meant later. Quickly turning he was off running through the crowds. Swiftly he ducked and dodged the people that were in his way while he looked for a good alleyway to disappear in. "Merlin has this day gone south! I knew I should've stayed in the tent until the rain passed. I've just got to find a place out of sight then I can Disillusion myself and hide until the ninja move on. Wait there's one." Harry thought as he turned into an alleyway. Only to be tackled from behind.
"Get the fuck off me you bloody fuckin ninja!" Harry screamed while elbowing Naruto in the face. Freed from the ninja's grip Harry rolled out from under him, and kicked the ninja in the stomach knocking him to the ground.
"You Bastard!" Naruto cried out angrily as he held his eye, only to pop into another cloud of smoke.
"Crap! Another fake!" Harry cursed as he looked around trying to spot the real ninja.
Harry jumped back as a shadow moved above him only to be blindsided with a punch from the right.
"HA! Got you, you teme!" Naruto crowed before he felt kind of bad for being so ruff, but then again the kid did kick his clone down there.
"NARUTO-BAKA!" Sakura yelled while bopping him on the head. "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?! We're trying to save him. Not knock him into a coma!"
"It's not my fault. You see, I had to stop him." Naruto said as he rubbed his head wincing slightly.
"By giving him a black eye?" asked Sakura.
"Yes! I mean No! He kicked my clone in the balls Sakura. He deserved it?" Naruto ended with a questioning tone.
"I don't care if he kicked you to the moon! You don't treat a civilian like that. Especially since he's Sasuke's cousin. There are other ways that you could have stopped him. Don't you even remember that he's already hurt?" Sakura asked angrily as she bent down to examine Harry."
"Sorry. Is he ok?" Naruto asked looking kind of worried.
"Other than that shiner it looks like some tried to stabbed him in the arm." Sakura said angrily.
"What! He was stabbed! That bastard! He's just a kid! Will he be alright?"
"He'll be fine. The wound isn't that bad though it looks like he tried to take care of the wound on his own." she said as she began applying ointments and re-bandage his arm."
"Oh, is there anything I can do to help?"
"At this point no. The best thing we can do is getting him to a medic-nin. Who knows what else he might have been through just so he could escape." Sakura said frowning.
"Your right we should get moving anyway. Whoever grabbed him is probably looking for him. We need to get him out of here, and meet up with Sasuke and Kakashi."
"Whyis my cousin of the ground?!"
"Sasuke (Kun)" said both Naruto and Sakura.
"You're here! How did you find us so quickly?" asked Sakura.
"Hn, it wasn't hard I overheard some locals talking about an orange boy who was chasing down another boy who matched the descriptions that I was looking for."
"Oh." Naruto said.
"So tell me Naruto, why is my cousin lying unconscious on the ground? When he was every much awake when you were chasing him?"
"Ah, you see he… I had to… You know if it was so easily for you to find us here that means that Harry's kidnappers could find us here as well. We really need to get out of here." Naruto said trying to change the subject.
"… You're right." Sasuke said as he gently picked up his cousin. "But we will talk about this later. Follow me protection formation C. We need meet up with Kakashi, and I don't want anyone to even be able to touch my cousin."
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Waking up Harry found himself lying in a bed. It was in what was most likely a muggle hospital, or a clinic by the smell coming from the place. He always hated that to clean smell. Not that the smell of a wiz-hospital was any better. Blinking the light away Harry realized that he was not restrained, and he was feeling much better. In fact his arm was completely healed, with only a slight scar. Not unlike the one on his other arm. This made him realized that this was not a simple muggle hospital.
Looking around Harry could see no guards, but someone had left a plate of food on the table next to his bed. He could see steam rising off the food, so who ever had left it hadn't been gone very long.
"Well they're trying to feed me, so they don't want me dead yet. They want something instead, but what could it be?" Harry thought as he climbed out of bed to look out the window. It was still raining so flying away totally unseen was out of the question, especially now that he was in a ninja village. He'd have to leave quickly, and carefully.
Looking out the window Harry saw that he was on the fourth floor. What he really needed was to get down lower and going through the building would be risky. Then he got an idea. Moving over to the bed he tested its weight, and position as an anchor. Then he tied one end of his new rope to the bed. He didn't have a harness, but he would be able to shimmy down the rope anyways.
Slipping the rest of the rope out the window Harry took one last regretful look at the sky, and began to climb down the rope. The trip down was going quicker then he thought it would, though it was not as fun as rappelling.
Harry had almost made it to the second floor when he ran out of rope. Now he had a figure out what he was going to do next. Going back up would suck, and just be a waste of time. Maybe he could make it to the window.
He was trying to figure out whether he should swing a bit, or just jump for it when he heard someone speak.
"Need some help? It looks like you're at the end of your rope." He heard someone chuckle.
Harry looked up, it was that white haired ninja from before. He was looking down at Harry with an amused look in his eye.
"Hold on, I'll help you back in." the ninja said. Then he started to chuckle some more at Harry's wide eyes when he began to walk down the wall.
Harry made a snap decision as he watched the chuckling ninja above him defied gravity. Flashing the ninja a mischievous grin Harry flipped the ninja off, and jumped for it.
While falling Harry watched as the ninja looked at him with an expression of disbelief. Then the ninja cursed, and quickly jumped off the wall after him.
As the ninja snatched him out of thin air Harry realized another important fact about ninjas. Not only were ninja able to defy gravity, apparently they were faster than gravity too.
"Feh, I know everyone hates hospitals, but that's no reason to jump to your death." The Kakashi joked as he carried Harry back into the building.
"You, you were at my aunt's house." Harry said as he glared up at the ninja who was holding him under his arm.
"Ah, you remember me. Let me introduce myself. I am Kakashi Hatake ninja of the Konoha. Now that you're awake I'm here to take you to where you questions will be answered." Kakashi said before they disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
When they reappeared Harry found himself facing the black haired boy from earlier along with a blond haired woman.
"Glad to see that you're awake Harry-san." the blond woman said with a gentle smile, as Harry took a look around the room. "I am Tsunade the fifth Hokage of Konoha village hidden in the leaves. I know that this must but confusing for you but we needed to bring you to safely first."
"Alright, do I finally get to know what is going on?" asked Harry.
"Yes, we would have approached you differently, but with Itachi being there we had to get you out of there quickly."
"Itachi?"
"The man that killed your uncle." Tsunade explained thinking Harry didn't know Itachi's name. "By the way, I am sorry for your loss."
"..."
"But enough of that topic for now. Harry-san let me be the first to introduce you to your cousin Sasuke Uchiha." She said gesturing to the black haired boy who was fidgeting nervously.
Harry blinked, and then blinked again.
"What! You're lying!" Harry snarled jumping up from his seat as he glared at blond woman.
"What makes you think that Harry-san?" Tsunade asked gently.
"I have no family." Harry said quietly causing Sasuke to flinch.
"So the Durselys didn't count?" Tsunade asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I said I have No family Harry repeated."
"I see, but Harry-san Sasuke is your cousin."
"I don't believe you."
"Why not?" Sasuke asked speaking up for the first time in the meeting.
"Because it too big of a coincidence for some family to show up right after my uncle died. Forgive me if I'm somewhat doubtful of this whole situation." Harry said.
"Don't worry, we didn't expect you to believe at first. However we'll provide a blood test for you to prove our claims." Tsunade said.
"A blood test huh. Will I get to choose who does the test, because I rather have the test done by someone I know." Harry said.
Tsunade looked sadly at Harry "If it were safe enough we would, but don't worry we can still do a blood test here. We have the best medics in the world here, and they won't mess the test up." she finished proudly.
"Don't bother." said Harry.
"What? Why not?" Sasuke asked again. Why was his cousin so against the idea? He should be happy that there was family here for him, especially with his uncle's death… That's it! Kakashi once mentioned how civilians reacted weird when faced with death. He was in denial about this whole situation. He would just have to show him how great being a member of the Uchiha family was compared to those people.
"I won't trust a blood test from your people. This is a ninja village right, I'm sure that you would be able to fake the blood test if you wanted to. So no, I'm not going to trust it." Harry said.
"That's ridiculous! Why would we bring you all the way here just to fake a test?" Tsunade asked as she suppressed the urge to roll her eyes.
"I'm not sure yet, but there could be a lot of reasons."
"Like what?" Tsunade asked.
Harry just stayed quiet and looked away causing Tsunade to sigh "Uchihas, stubborn every last one of them." she thought.
"Well there isn't in this case. We just wanted to reunite two family members. Isn't there anything that would help you believe that?"
"Yes! Take me back, and get the goblins to do the test instead. They never lie about bloodlines" Harry said.
Tsunade sighed "Look Harry-san you can believe the blood test or not, but the fact remains that you now have a cousin that is happy to meet you, and wants to get to know you a bit."
"You're not going to let me leave are you?"
"Well not right now. Itachi was still in the area when you left, so we're not going to let you go back to be killed when we put so much effort in to saving you in the first place."
"But what about my school? The year starts soon. I can't just not go!" Harry protested.
"Well for school we have plenty of teachers, and tutors here so you won't fall behind. In fact when you show how much further you're along than their lesson plans, your teachers won't be too upset that you missed some school once we explained the problem."
"What!? But my school is special. Not just anyone can teach or learn there."
"Special in what way?" Tsunade asked raising an eyebrow.
"…"
"Well if you can't answer that, it's not special enough to risk your life over.
"Yeah, but my friends they'll wonder where I am. What am I supposed to tell them?"
"Tell them? Don't worry to much. When it's safe you can let them know. Besides we already have your aunt's permission for you to live here. Anyone else, such as your friends will just have to wait until it's safe for you to contact them."
"And how long will that take?"
"As long as it needs to, but we have several people on this case so it should be soon." said Tsunade "So for now you will be staying with you cousin Sasuke." who perked up hearing that.
Harry just glared.
"One last thing though. I need you to tell us about the summon that grabbed you." said Tsunade.
"Summon? What are you talking about?" Harry asked feeling confused.
"Hm, oh yes a summon is an animal that a ninja uses. The one that we want to know about is the bird that took you to that village."
"Bird…How did you know there was a bird?"
"We don't call ourselves ninjas for nothing Harry-san. Besides Kakashi is one of our best trackers. It also helped that the bird hit almost every tree along the way. Plus though we are unhappy that you got hurt, the fact was that your blood left a trail. We followed, and were able to find you quicker." Tsunade explained.
Harry winced slightly remembering that. "So that's how you found me." Harry said.
"Yes, but we still have a couple of questions."
"Like what?"
"Do you know what kind of bird it was, how big it was and how you got away from it or any captors before you ran into Team 7.
"Wait what?" They think I was carried off by a giant bird… there are giant birds here!?"
"The bird that carried you do you remember what it looked like Harry-san?"
Harry looked away for a moment with a thoughtful expression. "It was a type of hawk. About as big as a person." Harry said as he realized that couldn't get away with lying in front of these ninjas, but that didn't mean he had to tell the whole truth.
"Really and how did you get away?"
"I didn't get away. When I arrive at that the village the hawk wasn't there anymore."
"Wasn't there anymore, what do you mean?"
"The hawk was there until I was in an alleyway, then it was gone."
"Did you see where it flew off?"
"No, after the alleyway I didn't see it flying anywhere."
Tsunade frowned a bit before she sighed. "Alright thank you Harry-san for the information. Every clue we get will help us take Itachi down quicker."
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Once the door closed behind the boys Kakashi turned to Tsunade with a frown.
"He's not going to accept that he has to stay in the village very easily." said Kakashi.
"Hm, maybe at first but if he tries to do a runner he's not going to get very far." said Tsunade.
"Too late, he already tried at the hospital." said Kakashi.
"Really what happened?"
"I found him out the window and climbing down the building. He would have climbed all the way down but he ran out of rope."
"Really! Wait where did he get the rope?" asked Tsunade.
"I'm not sure." Kakashi said frowning.
"Well I'm glad you were able to pull him back inside."
"Actually no again, he jumped for it."
"What! Jumped?" Tsunade said.
"Yes He took one look at me and decided that he'd have a better chance jumping for it than coming with me." said Kakashi
"What, how far up was he?" asked Tsunade.
"He was still on the third floor, almost to the second." said Kakashi.
"You don't think he was has trying kill himself do you?" Tsunade asked seriously.
"No." Kakashi chuckled. "Too much fire in those eyes. Plus he flipped me off on the way down. I think for some reason he believed that he would survive the fall. Are you sure he hasn't been trained?"
"Yes I'm sure. I examined him while he was out earlier. His body has never been trained to use charka, but what really worries me is that he has less charka then he should for a civilian his age."
"What does that mean?"
"I have an idea, but first tell me what you think his overall home life was like?" ordered Tsunade.
"Hm, not good I'll tell you that." said Kakashi.
"Do you mean?" asked Tsunade.
"Yes, I believe he may have been abused. His aunt clearly wanted nothing to do with him. Called him a freak, and mentioned that the uncle wanted him dead." said Kakashi.
"That would explain his condition." Tsunade muttered angrily.
"Condition ma'am?"
"He's very badly scared, and most of it is located where his everyday clothes can hide them. Though there seems to be recent injuries that go further, but it also looks like he started to fight back."
"What do you mean?"
"He has bruising on his knuckles, arms, and legs. The kind you would get from punching, kicking, and blocking. I think that someone was finally teaching Harry to defend himself."
"He did seem rather eager to get back to that school. Maybe it is a teacher, or student from there." said Kakashi.
"You're right that makes sense. Kids like this find trusting people to be difficult, and usually have a place they like to go to when things get to bad. With everything that child has been through, it's no wonder he wants it get back to the only place that he feels safe. Kakashi tell me everything you can about his home life."
"I didn't get to see too much of his home, but there were no pictures of Harry anywhere not to mention the clothes we first found him in…That brings up another question when did he change clothes?"
"What do you mean?" asked Tsunade confused.
"The clothes I first saw him in were utter rags, and seeing that he's never been to the hidden countries before… How did he get new ones?" asked Kakashi.
"I see what you mean. Even if he had some of his country's money on him, he wouldn't be able to trade it for Ryo."
"…There's not a lot of ways to quickly get money. Tell me when you examined him was his… Is he still…?
"No, he was not touched that way." Tsunade deadpanned.
"Thank Kami for that small blessing. Well that just means that he's a thief, or he had something he could trade." Kakashi said
"A thief perhaps. He might have been made to steal without being allowed to keep anything for himself." Tsunade said.
"What do we do?" asked Kakashi.
"Well I wasn't lying when I said it wasn't safe to go back to that country right now? If it was I would see about get a teacher from that school to bring here, that way he would have someone he trust. It would also make the transition into the village easier for him. Since we can't we'll just have to show him that he can trust us, and he doesn't have to act that way to survive anymore, but enough about that is there anything else I should know about the boy?"
"Yes. It's was strange his aunt mentioned him not being normal like his mother. I think that he might have activated his blood line, and use his eyes to escape. Plus there were those thugs."
"Thugs? What about them?"
"There was a pair of thugs that had their minds messed with. I know that they had some sort of contact with Harry because his blood was on one of the thugs knifes, but they can't remember anything. Also anytime they tried to do something threatening they moved wrong, or froze up."
"I see. If that's true then we just have another reason to keep Harry here in the village."
"Are you going to enlist him as a ninja?"
"No. He's far too old to start his training in chakra. Even if we gave him the best ninja teachers in the village he won't be able to use his chakra to a degree above the level of mid chunin. Sending him out of the village on missions at that level would just be asking for another village to steal him from us. He would be targeted for his bloodline, and wouldn't be able to protect himself. It will be much better and safer for him to just stay in the village where we can protect him. In fact don't tell him about Itachi yet. Sasuke gets enough pitying looks from the villagers; he doesn't need to see it from his cousin."
"I see. So what's your plan for the boy? You know he's not telling us everything."
"I know, but we'll let Harry get know his cousin for now. Besides you saw how he reacted to the news about Sasuke. It won't do any good to straight question him now. We want him to like living here. That won't happen if the first thing we do is hand him over Ibiki. Let him relax, and let down his guard. We'll get our answers. We always do. Besides the boy won't be able to do anything on his own. He's just a civilian kid, and a rather short one at that". Tsunade said dismissively."
"Yes Lady Hokage." Kakashi said with a bow before he disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
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As Harry followed Sasuke through the village he took his first real look at village he had been brought to. It was much bigger and much nicer than River Forest was. There were also many more people here. Most of them were wearing that headband that he now knew meant they were ninjas. It sadden him how young some them were. Why he had just past by a group that couldn't have been older than some first years.
The older ninja also were a sight among themselves as they went around hopping across the roofs tops disappearing or appear in a swirl of leaves, and if his eye weren't deceiving him one of them just walked on water. It was safe to say that Harry was sure that this was no way an ordinary muggle town.
"Sasuke." Harry called out as he stopped on the side of the road. "Is that magic?" He asked pointing at another ninja that decided to defy gravity as he walk up a wall."
"Huh, magic not real." Sasuke said "It's chakra."
"Chakra?"
"It looks like magic to civilians, but it's an energy that can be used by almost anyone if they start training young enough." Sasuke said as he led them to a small two story house on the less populated, but still richer side of the village.
"This is it." Sasuke said as he opened the door.
The house was rather neat for a boy who lived on his own. It was filled simply with the basics needs of a teenage boy, plus some weapons, scrolls and some other items that Harry did not recognize.
"You will be sleeping here." said Sasuke as he showed Harry a room upstairs in the back.
The room was larger than his cousins Dudley's room at home, but without all the junk. Also it much better decorated with a theme of blues and white with some half red and white fans all over. The fans kind of reminded Harry of ping pong paddles to his amusement. The door of the room thankfully opened inward, so that if he had to barricade the door it was possible. There was also a window giving a view from the second floor.
"If you need anything I'll be in that room across the hall." said Sasuke as he pointed to a room that was similarly decorated "Plus I will be able to protect you easily if something happens." Sasuke thought with a smirk.
Harry yawned. "Oh sorry." Harry said with an embarrassed grin. "I guess this day has worn me out further than I thought."
"Don't worry about it." Sasuke said. "Get some rest. I'll see you in the morning. There are some pajamas in the closet, and the wash room is down the hall. Tomorrow we'll go shopping."
"Sure." Harry replied.
After the door closed and Harry lost his tired look and listened until he couldn't hear any more footsteps before making his way over to the window. Taking one more nervous glance at the closed door he opened the window and looked out at the village. It was quiet and darker than he was use to back in Brittan. There were no traffic lights, no cars, no bright signs. Just subtle lights leading the way to wherever people were going. Harry stuck his head out the window to see if there was anyone around. It was dark enough that maybe he could fly off without anyone seeing him even if it started raining again.
"Is there a problem Uchiha-san?"
Harry jumped back, surprised at the sudden appearance of a ninja. The ninja was wearing all black with a gray vest and a white mask with some sort of animal face drawn on it. Looking at the ninja further Harry saw what could be the hilt of a sword on the ninjas back. It made sense that they would have ninja to watching him. They had already caught him trying to escape once, they want to make sure that he didn't run off again.
"No, just getting some air, and don't call me Uchiha that's not my name." Harry scowled before he quickly closed the window.
Closing the curtains Harry inspected the room for any traps the ninja might have left, then checked again to make sure no one was coming. Then he began to draw some runes on the walls, door, and window sill. If he ended up staying here longer than he thought then he would carve them in, but for now this would do. Finished Harry placed his hand on the last rune hidden behind the bed, and released a pulse of magic to activate them all.
Drained Harry collapsed onto the bed. "But it was worth it" he thought with a grin. As long as the runes remained no one who wished him harm would be able to enter this room without an invitation. He also put up a small ward to keep anyone that was not in the room with him from noticing him dong any magic, or anything they weren't expecting to see. Rolling into a more comfortable position, Harry was glad that he had spent time with Moody learning that last one.
Thinking about the situation Harry frowned. It appeared that they were going to guard him for a while, or at least until they believed he wouldn't make a break for it. When he made his escape, he would have to be careful about how he did it. He would never be able to out run these ninja even their youngest seemed to be faster than him, and they were sure to know the forest area a lot better than him, if he even made it that far. That left going by air, but if they caught him that way he would lose his best chance of escape, and they would never let him go.
The best chance he had was to learn the muggle notice-me-not charm, and hope that it worked on them. In fact he would need to up the amount of spells that he could do wandlessly anyway. Running from these ninjas wasn't going to be enough he would need to be able to fight them off as well. The disarming spell Expelliarmus which was his best spell against other wizards wouldn't work on ninjas. In fact it would most likely bring all their sharp weapons flying towards him. Killing himself in a very stupid and painful way.
Too tired to think anymore Harry began to drift off, and dream of daring escape routes leading him back to home to Hogwarts.
To my dear readers, and reviewers, but mostly you the reviewers. I know that most of you were hoping that Harry would be found by Itachi first. However that was just not meant to be. But keep reading, and don't forget to review, review and reviewsome more! After all it is your reviews that help/motivates me to update faster. So just let me know what you think so far.
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