Meh, since no-one wanted to guess the references, I might as well spell them out for those who didn't get them. The other playable characters were, in order, Alice, from Alice in Wonderland, Ciel Phantomhive, from Kuroshitsuji, Naruto, Yugi Mouto, from Yugioh, Monkey D. Luffy, from One Piece, Ash Ketchum, from Pokémon, and Edward Elric, from Fullmetal Alchemist. The writing was also a vague reference to Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. There would have been others, but I didn't want it to be too long. Meh, here's another chapter.
Randallxcon: Hey, thanks, I thought it was a bit different, and the Gamer-verse stories that I've seen before were really good, so that gave inspiration. And…Well, you pretty much summed it up, and I don't want to give spoilers for what's below, but I can say that the Fuuinjutsu-runes is a great idea, and while I'd like to use it, it would be fairly hard to manage when Harry is the only Wizard among the ninja. Maybe after he learns the sealing arts.
Akayuki: Yeah, Ino's definitely not the smartest person around. She assumed that because she had training from her dad, that when she thought that she noticed even a small detail like that (for once), she could assume that he was someone else. Two, yeah, she accidently did it perfectly, but her memory loss and Naruto's coma will be attributed to something like that.
Greyelle: Hello, sorry for not answering your last review right, I read it wrong. Yeah, Sasuke and Sakura will try to fight, but I can't say for certain when. And since it was his head, of course he could use a wand that he thought up. And I don't like the flash-happy Aurors either, but the spell is precise. Only powerful wizards can retrieve the stolen memories, and Konoha doesn't have any of those except for Naruto.
Soul-container-for-Mouldyshorts: Well, you have the right idea with Ino, but I don't want to say because of spoilers. And thanks, I liked the look of Naruto/Harry when I imagined him too.
Summary: When a life ends, they expect to move on to the next great adventure, right? Well, maybe Dumbledore was right for once, Harry may not get a do-over, but this time, he'll get the story right. And die trying.
Disclaimer: I'm not J. . How you could mix me up with her is questionable, but I really can't take credit for her work. And I ain't Shonen Jump either.
"Expecto Potato" – Spells
"Bring me all the llamas" – Demon/Summoning Speech
~Yo~ - Parseltounge
Naruto looked around his mind. He hadn't had much practice before, since Snape had been pretending to be a bastard then, but he'd gotten the gist of it. Think things up, they appear. That's how it worked with the wand, figures it would appear in his back pocket. Moody was always paranoid. Waving away the message boxes that obscured his view, he tried to think of a way to make a designated point where people start when they intruded.
Skill Unlocked! Mind Art, Occlumency Lv 1 Exp: 20/100
You finally figured this shit out, huh? Well, now you can protect your mind and all that jazz. You currently suck, so get better.
Skill Unlocked! Mind Art, Legilimency Lv 1 Exp: 10/100
Well, the more you know, right? Well, now you can pinch stuff from inside peoples' heads and someday maybe implant things that shouldn't be there. That stuff's hard though, so get better.
He'd somehow managed to invade the girl's head and pull out a picture of what normal minds looked like, so he had a template. Walking outside, he paused and gave a salute to Hagrid's hut, before wiling himself into the sky. Huh, his mind was the grounds of Hogwarts, with the castle and some other stuff, like a house that eerily looked like it was from Little Whinging, and a food shop that must be the ramen place his new memories boasted of. He concentrated on shrinking everything into a ball, and was surprised when it did. Putting that aside, he saw that his surroundings were now a grey void. Perfect. He imagined the greyness solidifying, turning into a niche that formed a circular ring, and then put a big brain in the middle. Mentally grasping around the ball in his hand for the memories of Naruto, he dragged them out of the mental images that were the people they were associated with and turned them into scrolls. The older, faint ones he dropped onto the floor of the circular room, and the short term ones he sunk into the brain. Happy with the way things were going, he prepared to keep going when a pop-up appeared.
Occlumency Skill is now at Level 2
Great, so just doing things in his head constituted experience? Ok. Thinking into being a secret panel in the solid grey wall, he flew himself to the other side and let his ball of mind-stuff grow back into an island of green. Floating back down onto the island that was Hogwarts, he frowned at the presence of a powerful energy. Energy that felt like Chakra, but deeper and more powerful. Following the Chakra, he came to rest at the sink that hid the Chamber of Secrets.
Curious, but not wanting to slide down the filthy slide, he imagined the Chamber, everything past the door of snakes, cut out of the castle and took it into the sky above the castle with him. ~Open~ The door opened as it had the last time, and he walked into the chamber to a rather different sight. Instead of rows of stone snakes leading up to a statue of Slytherin, there were fox heads jutting out of the water, which had turned red. The giant statue had been replaced with a giant metal grate held closed by a paper tag with 'Seal' on it, behind which was a giant kitsune three times the size of the Hungarian Horntail. It looked at him with a giant red eye, and let out a rumbling voice.
"You, boy, come here." Not trusting the fox as far as he could throw it, which by its size, wasn't very far, he walked up to the cage and stopped just short of the bars. "What do you want?" The fox grinned, and one of its large hand-like paws edged over to the bars of the cage, talons almost touching him. "You are different from before, you have a different soul, and a different type of energy flowing through you. I have seen the ease with which you arranged your mind, and I am intrigued." Naruto narrowed his eyes, so, the thing knew that he was someone else? Well, this might be difficult. If he was sharing a body with this creature, he had to know what he was dealing with. 'Observe!' a large screen came up, glowing red as opposed to the regular blue.
Name: Kurama
Gender: Male
Race: Demon Fox
Level: ? EXP: ?/?
Health: 250000/250000 (+500 per 10 sec regen)
Chakra: 4500000/4500000 (+2000 per 5 sec regen)
Skill Points:
STR: ? (?)
STA: ? (?)
SPD: ? (?)
INT: ? (?)
WIS: ? (?)
CHA: ? (?)
LUK: ? (?)
Titles:
Kyuubi no Kitsune: ?
Perks:
?
?
?
?
Description: Once a part of the Juubi, the Ten-tailed Demon Beast, He was created along with the other Tailed beasts by the Sage of the Six Paths. He holds a vendetta against most of humanity because of their constant use and mistreatment of him, but feels a kinship with those who have been similarly mistreated. He is currently split in two, with his darker-half residing in the Shinigami's stomach.
Naruto grimanced, this guy was nasty strong, even at half strength, and he had a horrible past of being used as well. He watched as the fox's grin turned into a somber look. "So, you had a life of being used too. It's a shame when people turn against you out of fear. That Ron kid was just like one of the Uchiha, loyal and honerable until it doesn't suit them anymore. Then they go against you, and poke you with sharper sticks than anyone else. Nothing but hate and fear."
"So, you found those memories. Well, I had one or two real friends. Say, can I call you Kurama?" The fox half-stood rapidly in shock, before settling back down with an amused smirk. "So, your Gamer thing lets you see my name, eh? Never seen anything like that before. Very well, you may." The giant fox seemed to be happy at the fact that someone knew his name, and that happiness was dampened by his next question. "So what exactly are you? The other Naruto didn't pay much attention when you were mentioned, and I know nothing, so what can you tell me?" The demon fox rolled its enormous eye and sat back on its ass to look at the boy with both eyes.
"Bah, I suppose I should tell you so that you don't get a warped view of me. I'm one of the nine Tailed beasts, the Nine-tails, which means I have the most Chakra of all my brethren. We were split into 9 separate beings by the man who could very well be my father, the Sage of Six Paths. He was the man who stopped the Juubi, the Ten-tails, ad sealed it inside himself to keep it from hurting anyone. My siblings and I were meant to be peacekeepers, defenders of humanity and the neutral party in wars. That was before humans got the idea to seal us into themselves, to gain our power in the way the Sage took the Juubi's. As we were repeatedly sealed and used as weapons, we started to resent humanity, my brother Shukaku went insane from numerous inept sealing attempts."
Kurama sighed, the tale was getting steadily worse. "Then, an Uchiha by the name of Madara used his Sharingan to control us, the he took his friends' lives to make his visual prowess more powerful, and then he stole his brother's eyes once his own started to fade. Those eyes, the Mangekyo Sharingan, were able to cast such a powerful Genjutsu that our minds' were bent to his will. My family all ended up losing their minds to the hatred and pain his eyes caused, and ended up going almost feral. I escaped for a long time, before he forced me to fight Hashirama Senju, causing me to be sealed into his wife, Mito Uzumaki."
Naruto listened with interest. The fox had had a terrible life, and that was for certain. He could tell that being sealed was irritating, the fox seemed cramped and uncomfortable in the small cage. He focused on making it larger, and making the stone into something comfortable, like grass. Kurama stopped talking in shock for a moment, and whispered a thanks, before continuing in a more relaxed tone. "Anyway, I was stuck inside of Mito, and had to watch from a cramped cell as the Leaf Village, Konoha, came to be. I never got to have even a glimmer of freedom. My chakra was stolen from me, and I was yelled at by Mito if I did so much as scratch the bars. Then, as she got old, I had to be moved into a different container, lest I attack the village at Mito's death. Bah, I hated them, but I would have more likely turned tail and run for the hills had I escaped, I had no wish to be confined any longer. But then there was your mother."
Naruto looked on in interest, even as Harry, he barely had any proper information about his parents, everyone except Snape painted them in a golden light, and anyone could tell that they were glorifying things for the orphan. The Priori Incantatem and Resurrection stone incidents had been enough to have a small meeting with them, but he had been in danger both times, and hadn't had any real interaction with them, just encouragement and a bit of help. "She was very young when she was brought to be my prison, and was poisoned by exaggerated tales of me trying to get loose, prompting an even worse confinement than the cage. She was so scared of me escaping that I was chained to a wall, with spikes through my tails and a chain wrapped around my neck. She was too young to know any better, and by the time she had grown up, the only contact she had with me was to steal my chakra and to assess the seal, but those things didn't even require her to see me."
"It was when you were about to be born that I almost got out, the seal weakens during childbirth, and I was desperate to get out by then. But then, an Uchiha who claimed to be Madara, yet with different chakra, interrupted everything and kidnapped your mother while your father saved you. He dragged me out of her, breaking the seal in a way that would assure her death. For a brief moment, I was free. But then I made the mistake of looking into his damned eyes. He trapped me in a Genjutsu and made me trample the village, while he took on your father in combat. Once the Uchiha was defeated, I came back to my senses, but while I was trying to escape, your father engaged me in combat. I tried to knock him out quickly, but your mother used the Uzumaki clan's Adamantine Sealing chains to pin me down again, and your father started preparing a sealing jutsu. He summoned the death god, the Shinigami, and it split me into two, my Yin-chakra being sealed into your father, as he allowed the Shinigami to take his soul. I attempted to kill you, because they were going to seal me into you, and I would have given anything for that not to happen, but they jumped in front of my talon, killing themselves. Your father sealed me inside of you with the Eight Trigrams Seal with his dying breath, and I've been here ever since.
Silence reigned, the fox watching as the young boy bowed his head and cried. Harry's parents had sacrificed themselves to save him from Voldemort, and now his new parents had sacrificed themselves to give him a chance to live. It seemed as though he could never have a real family, they were always taken from him before he could get to know them. "Do you know who they were? I hated not knowing before, and the Dursleys didn't help much either. Now it's even harder knowing that they died for me, again, Y'know?"
Kurama blinked, before shaking his head incredulously. "Sure brat. Your mother was Kushina Uzumaki, she was a spitfire of a kunoichi and a tomboy who loved beating up little snots who insulted her hair. She was a lot like you before you became different, and her nickname was Konoha's Red-Hot Habanero, because of her red hair and feisty temper." Naruto snorted, his tears drying up. "Your father was the Fourth Hokage, you know, the leaders of the village? He was Minato Namikaze, known as the Yellow Flash of the Leaf because of a Space-time Teleportation technique he derived from the one made by the Second Hokage. He was also much better at it then the Second as well. He was blond, like you, and one of the most sickeningly nice people that I've ever known. That is, known second hand. When we met in person, he summoned a giant bloody toad on me. A toad!"
Naruto was snickering now. For a giant monster fox, Kurama was one of the most human and personable people he'd ever met. "Well, we can all blame it on the Uchihas then, can't we?" Kurama took a look and grinned savagely. "Brat, if this is how you think, I think we'll get along just fine. But you should probably go, the idiots outside are starting to worry." "Well, see you." "Count on it."
-When Life gives you lemons, make a blueberry tart and watch as Life tries to work out how the fuck you did it—
Inoichi sighed as he drifted through his daughter's mind. He just couldn't understand what was going through her head, to use one of the clan's Hiden jutsu on one of her classmates, it was unheard of. Reaching the neural center, he cast out his thoughts towards the morning class and pulled the relevant memory scroll out of the brain. Concentrating, he made the scroll start to turn and let the memories envelop his senses.
…
Naruto vanished into a poof of chakra smoke.
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"I'm a pompous bastard who walks around like I've got a stick up my arse and a pile of shit under my nose because I'm better than you."
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'Her dad had taught her to notice changes like this.'
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'His prank was funny for once'
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'Sasuke will be so impressed if I find a spy'
…
Frowning, Inoichi opened his eyes and looked at the scroll to figure out why he couldn't play the rest of the memory. Staring right back at him was an empty gap in the scroll, glowing with a peculiar energy. That must be…the Kyuubi! It did something to Ino's mind, making it forget that she saw it. Well, that might be for the best right now, and since there wasn't any evidence that it had done anything else to her, it must have just been protecting itself. But Ino would have to be punished. The gall of her, trying to invade someone's mind, their one sacred place, because they performed a funny prank? Even if it was the boy with the fox in him, it wasn't right.
Releasing his jutsu and regaining consciousness in the waking world, he opened his eyes to see Choza looking at him with worry in his eyes. "Everything all right Inoichi?" "Yes Choza, except for the fact that my irresponsible daughter used a Hiden jutsu on an innocent boy and caused him to black out, yes." Choza looked at his friend with shock, Inoichi was terribly oblivious when it came to his daughter. For him to look at her with anything other adoration mean that she had done something very wrong.
"Sorry Choza, but I have to report this to the Hokage. Watch over her, will you?" Choza simply nodded, watching in confusion as his longtime friend walked out without another glance towards his beloved daughter. He looked at the girl. "Boy, you're in for it big-time missy"
-lumps—
"So that's it? She was just being presumptuous?" "Yes Lord Hokage. It seems as though she did have contact with the nine-tails, but it wiped her memory of the encounter. She is showing no adverse side effects to the fox's chakra." "Well then, if that's all, you should go and take care of your daughter Inoichi." "Thank you, Lord Third." Hiruzen Sarutobi sighed. The days seemed to just keep getting longer and longer, and now the son of Minato and Kushina was lying unconscious from a jutsu done wrong, and he was powerless. "Naruto, wake up child."
…
"Urgh, um, Jiji?" Hiruzen snapped out of his momentary daze to look at the boy who had finally woken up. "Yes Naruto? Are you well?" Naruto just shook his head, trying not to show his shock at the message box in front of him.
'Secret Quest Completed: Magic!'
Get some degree of control over your magic.
Objectives:
-Learn a magic based skill *Complete*
Rewards:
- 6 Skill points
- Holly and phoenix feather wand
- Beginners book of simple spells
He-His wand! He had his magic back! He wasn't defenceless at all! Noticing that the man that he viewed as his grandfather was staring at him in concern, he put a smile on his face, and shook his head at the man again. "Nah gramps, I'm fine! But did you get the number of the wagon that hit me?" Seeing that the man was in good spirits again, Naruto kept smiling, keeping the old man oblivious to his excitement. Then came the questions. "So, Naruto, did you see anything when Ino used that jutsu of hers?" Wondering what to tell him, he had to stop himself from jumping when a booming voice echoed through his head. "Hey, kid. Feel free to tell him about me, I want to see the look on his face. Ask him why he never told you about your parents either."
Thinking back an 'alright', he looked back at the Hokage and said in the most innocent voice he could muster, "Yeah, I met the giant fox who attacked the village. He said that he was sorry for attacking, but there was an Uchiha making him do it." Both of them enjoying the look on the spluttering old geezer's face, he then asked with a solemn tone, "And Jiji, why'd you never tell me that dad was the Fourth Hokage?"
Hiruzen's spluttering turned into outright choking on his pipe-smoke when Naruto said that, and a voice coming from outside the window yelled a "What!" as well. The Hokage managed to catch his breath and sighed out loud. This was probably one of the worst outcomes possible from Naruto meeting the fox. The only thing worse would have been the Kyuubi taking control of the boy and destroying the village. Everything that he had tried to keep secret for the safety of Naruto had been leaked out, and now it was up to him to clean up the mess. Oh dear, what on earth could go wrong next? As Kakashi Hatake leapt out of the bushes and took off his ANBU mask, he reconsidered that statement. 'Dear Kami, spare me!'
Omake - Dumbledore's Next Great Adventure:
Albus Dumbledore let out a curse as he leapt over another godforsaken barrel. One minute he had been falling from his office window, the next he was in some kind of tower of girders, with a giant ape tossing down barrels at him. Vaulting over yet another, he gave a mental sigh of relief as he came to a ladder.
Perhaps here, he might find a reprieve? Feeling another barrel bash into his legs as he hung from the rungs of the ladder, he gave a sigh and poked his head above the next girder and nearly got his head taken off.
Pulling himself up, he jumped just in time to dodge another barrel, falling flat on his stomach. He began to pull himself up before his twinkly star-patterned cloak caught on the edge of the metal. His last thoughts before respawning as the barrel rolled towards him were 'Bloody hell'
Omake End
Hi! Thanks for bothering to read through the whole thing, if you did. Hey, I have an idea for you. My friend gave me the idea of making a different version of this fic for different worlds, and I wanted to ask you what you thought of that? I'll put up a poll on my page, vote for which world you think I should do next. It doesn't have to be one of the ones I put above, I want to know what you guys think. That's all, bai! 0^0