Chapter 9

White.

Fucking white.

If he was sure that he won't go to heaven and if it wasn't too cold, Uchiha Sasuke would have thought he was in heaven. As it was, the raven-haired boy was pretty sure heaven didn't mass produce rags to give dead souls to wear. He looked around, the houses were decorated with green wreaths with red flowers and golden bells. Flashing colored lights hang in the walls covered with snow. Sasuke guessed they were in some sort of festival, judging by the decorations and faint laughter he heard in one of the many houses in the vicinity.

As much as he didn't want to disturb the on-going celebrations, he was dressed in rags that barely covered half of his skin in the middle of freakin' winter and he was freezing. But he can't just knock on one of the doors and ask if he could come in and join them for dinner. Oh, who was he kidding? He's a child for goodness sake.

He summoned a small chakra scalpel at the tip of his index finger – a feat that took a lot of chakra control – and scraped the part just under his chest, and lacerated his cheek. He may not be a medical expert like Sakura, but small wounds like thesehe can heal by crude healing, something that he managed to self-learn during his time as a missing-nin. If he wants to play this whole thing right, barging in without any reason, even if he was a child in rags, won't work.

He ran to a polished wood door and knocked rather loudly. A beautiful brunette opened the door and smiled at him.

Sasuke wasted no time and cried fake tears. "Help! My relative wants to kill me and and I'm lost and I don't know anymore!" Technically true.

"Oh dear!" The woman was surprised by the by the boy knocking covered in blood.

"Come in, Oh gosh. . . Tom! Help me here." The brunette yelled as the woman ushered Sasuke in.

Success.

"What is it, Emma?" A blonde haired man in his early thirties headed towards them. "Get the poor boy in! Lay him in the couch. I'll get the first aid kit." The woman called Emma said as she ran inside, leaving Sasuke alone with 'Tom.'

"Up we go." Tom said as he gently lifted Sasuke as if he was a fragile glass.

Tom laid Sasuke gently in a bed in one of their guest room and Emma started cleaning his wound on his cheek. Once the wound was cleaned and properly patched up, she moved on to the wound in his torso. Emma removed the rags off Sasuke and gently jabbed the cut with Iodine and wrapped the bandage around his lower chest tightly enough without hurt the child.

"Good thing those crash courses about first-aid came in handy." Emma said with a sigh.

"Mum? Dad?"

The three diverted their attention to the door and saw a little girl in a white dress cutely peeking in the room.

"You didn't came back. We was suppose to eat dinner." The girl said walking towards them and clambering on her father's lap.

"I'm sorry, honey." Tom said while kissing the girl on the nose.

"I'm sure everything will be answered. Now, honey, can you tell us what happened." Emma said to Sasuke.

"My relative was telling me to do bad things and I didn't want to anymore and I said no to him and he tried to kill me." Well, that was one way of putting it. By bad things he meant manipulating him to destroy the whole fucking world and killing all the people in it because of petty rivalry.

He was stretching the truth, and boy was it the understatement of the century.

"Oh, that's so horrible!" Emma said, pitying the child in front of him. She can't imagine someone trying to hurt a young child much less killing.

"Where is your relative now?" Tom asked, worrying about a criminal who set a child to do dirty job and trying to kill the same child when he was of no use.

"Oh, he was gotten by one of the good guys." Sasuke said, still technically true, except one of those 'good' guys was me.

"What about you, dearie?" Emma asked softly.

"I have. . . nowhere to go. He is the only relative I have." True, true.

"You wanna be my brother? Then we could play together and open our gifts together and read together and eat together and . . . it is okay, right?" the girl said in a true child energy.

Sasuke slowly glanced to Emma and Tom, wondering if they will agree. Tom and Emma though, were having a silent conversation and it seemed like they have come to a conclusion.

"Yes, would you like to stay here?" Emma said.

"We would very happy to have you." Tom said in agreement.

Sasuke's eyes widened marginally and inside he was doing a very un-Uchiha like dance for his recent success.

"Yes! Thank you!" Sasuke said childishly in a very child-like high pitched voice. I look forward to puberty.

"What do we call you?" Emma said softly, aware that maybe the vile man didn't give his own child a name.

"I don't like my name, too many bad memories." It was true, Sasuke – the traitor, the avenger, the last Uchiha, the survivor of the Uchiha massacre, the one who killed most of his friends, the one responsible for the destruction of his own village – he want to leave those personas behind.

"How about Killian?" Tom suggested.

"Hmmm. . . Killian Granger, I like it. Is the name alright?" Emma added.

"Un! Thank you very much." Sasuke said.

"Good. Now how about my dinner." Hermione said in complete seriousness.

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It was 4 years since the Dursleys adopted Naruto. He just celebrated his 9th birthday last week, and he got a lot of presents. Vernon and Dursley have been spoiling Naruto and Naruto of course didn't let them go overboard. They had been treating Harry well, but they still didn't spoil him though. They bought Harry appropriate clothing and shoes, they didn't gave him much chores, let him watch the T.V. and use the PC and give him appropriate amounts of food. He even got the smallest bedroom, and though Naruto invited him to move to his much larger bedroom, Harry refused. They became inseparable brother and the best of friends.

Today, Naruto and Harry will be going to the park to play. Dudley won't come, since he insisted going to the zoo with his friends and Harry and Naruto don't like his bully friends.

The park wasn't that far from their house, only a block away. They played all the games that they could play, they rode the seesaw and took turns in the swing. They were now playing in the sandbox when they spotted someone, or rather someone. He wasn't really talking, really. He was just watching a girl babble and play. But that's not what drew Naruto in. That hair, face, his behavior, he can't be mistaken, that's –

"TEME!" Naruto yelled and the raven-haired boy immediately snapped his head at the source of the voice. A blonde-haired boy was running towards him in full speed, and was followed by a black-haired boy wearing spectacles.

The blonde-haired boy tackled the raven-haired one and the latter just stepped aside and let the former fall flat on his face.

Naruto rubbed his nose and said, "Teme! What did you do that for!"

"Hn. Dobe" The raven-haired boy said.

Now Naruto was very sure that he was Sasuke. He has the same duck-ass hair, the same one syllable phrases, he had his best friend back!

"Sasuke! What are you doing here!" Naruto yelled.

"Sasuke, who is Sasuke?" A brunette asked.

"I don't know. As far as I know, I'm Killian." Sasuke coolly said, glaring at Naruto hoping that he would get his message.

"Ciel! Don't run too fast! You know I can't run as fast as you!" Harry said to Naruto as he panted.

"Ummm. . .So who are you again. I know all the names in our grade. You're not in it." The brunette said.

"I'm Ciel Evans! I like ramen!" Naruto yelled. Naruto decided to take the maiden name of Petunia for some unknown reason.

"I'm Harry Potter, nice to meet you." Harry said shyly.

"Pleasure. My name is Hermione Granger. This is my brother, Killian Granger." Hermione introduced.

After a while, Naruto and Sasuke managed to get their surrogate siblings play with one another and they huddled in the corner of the sand box.

"So? What are you doing here?" Sasuke asked.

"I don't know. I just woke up in the middle of the street in winter." Naruto said as he shivered in remembrance.

"Me too." Sasuke said with a grunt.

"Do you thinks Sakura-chan's here too? Oh and maybe Kaka-sensei too!" Naruto said excitedly.

"I don't know." Sasuke said.

Naruto and Sasuke decided to meet there every day, and since they are pretty close to their siblings, they also brought harry and Hermione with them. They became the best of friends, and before they knew it, 2 years have passed.

They were playing in their same spot when 4 owls swooped down and left letters into their respective laps.

The envelope was sealed with a symbol that has a badger, lion, serpent, and an eagle. They looked at each other and opened their letters at the same time.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.