Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or HP.
Well, we're at eh second task now, an event I've been SO waiting to write, as there is a certain little sentence said by our supreme Mugwump that I've been itching to get out, so here we go…
Good God…
The crowd watched the lake in silence from the barges. Naruto had just gone in and the ripples from his dive had disappeared.
Of course, that silence was broken by a splash when a body was chucked out of the lake, landing on one of the barges, Bagman's to be precise. "It's a merman…" said the big man.
And no later than right after he said that did nine other mermen come flying out of the water, making a fish human dog pile in front of the man.
Murmurs began going around as Dumbledore approached dogpile, only for a student to point at a figure and shout, "It's the Professor!"
Quickly levitating the unconscious merpeople back into the lake, Dumbledore looked over at Naruto, who seemed to be…
Pulling himself up on the lake, as if it was solid…
"What the hell?!" shouted Dumbledore, his jaw slightly slacked. He knew a lot of spells, and none could make that happen.
He was standing at full height now, on top of the water's surface, and looked lost in thought.
'I am NOT going back in there.'
I'd stop you if you were going to.
'Good. So, what now?'
Whaddya mean?
'How are we going to get the uh...important thing if I won't go underwater?'
…Uh…
'You go nothing too?'
…Ooh! I know! Why not use that one thing you've been working on, fling all the water into the air!
'What technique? Wait…THAT technique?! I haven't even gotten most of the basic concepts down yet!'
Who gives a damn! Naruto could hear the werewolf cackling crazily in his mind. Try it anyways; see how much Lady Luck likes ya!
'You've lost your mind…'
It was never here in the first place, my fine friend.
Naruto was worried anyways. He had tried executing the move, but had gotten severe injuries while doing it…
At best, he'd have chakra exhaustion and would be bleeding badly. At worst…
He'd tear his own body apart. In theory of course.
And he was damn good at theory.
"I'll have to do this carefully…" Naruto mumbled as he formed the full rat seal.
The spectators wondered what the blonde haired man was doing when he bent his knees slightly and formed some seal, and then, thy saw blue whips of energy gathering around him, creating ripples in the water from where he was.
Then, it all disappeared…
Only to come back twice as strong with Naruto yelling a battle cry. Holding out his arm, the energy began focusing around it, spinning wildly, as his body seemed to get bigger.
'Focus the chakra into a more violent Rasengan, while letting the wind swirl inside the chakra pathways...' Naruto thought, and then, blades began sprouting off the sphere at a slow rate, kicking up more wind, making his hair thrash wildly and water churn. 'Turn the Rasengan into a more violent Rasenshuriken, and then sprout blades off the ones already out…'
Roughly two minutes later, Naruto opened his eyes, which he closed to keep the water out of them, and smirked as he saw the fruit of his efforts. A giant, spinning, mass of blades that was sitting on his palm, all made out of chakra.
Looking over slightly at the barges, he saw a LOT of flabbergasted expressions on their faces, especially from those who were in his class and had seen the effects of the incomplete Rasengan. Focusing harder on the spiraling mass, he jumped into the hair, flipped, and grabbed his wrist, pointing the mass at the lake.
He began falling quickly, and just before he hit the lake, he whispered, looking into the depths, "Fuuton: Mikotoba no Ikkeitai Agari Yaiba (Wind Style: Word of God in the Form of Spinning Blades)"
Everyone watched in silence as the thing broke the surface of the water, and everything went calm, only for the water to begin flying out of the lake and begin to form a sphere in the air.
'Release the outer layer of chakra, and reroute it to focus everything above in a sphere…God I hate multi tasking…'
Steadily, the lake grew smaller and smaller, and the sphere grew bigger and bigger. Awe over took the audience, as they stared up at the huge ball of water.
The lake had been completely drained, everyone realized.
'After there is nothing to hurl anymore, reroute all the chakra from Mikotoba to holding the sphere in the air. Then, prepare for pain…' Naruto thought as the wind holding the sphere blew with the strength of a hurricane.
The barges began creaking at the force the wind was blowing at, as people began clinging to their belongings, trying to keep them from flying away. Naruto however, took in the shape and muddiness of the lake, along with the ruins at the bottom of it.
Then, he noticed five unmoving people at the bottom of the empty lake, and Naruto mumbled, as he noticed they were people, "Dumbledore, if even so much as one of them has breathing problems or a fear of water after this, so help me..."
He was ignorant to the confused eyes of the other champions who were in the sphere as they looked down at him.
Walking over towards them slowly, as not to lose concentration over the wind that held the water up, he saw the sleeping forms of:
Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Some blond girl, Cho Chang, and…
"WHAT IN GOD'S HOLY NAME IS THE TEME DOING HERE?!" Naruto shouted, pointing his finger at the dark haired, sleeping, shinobi. (A/N: HA! BET YOU WEREN'T EXPECTING THAT!)
Isn't he that one emo?
'Yeah, but he's supposed to be in Konoha! After removing the seal, he's supposed to have three years rest, it's only been two and a half!'
Ever think they have someone watching him here? In case something happens to him?
'…shut up. There five of them, one for each of us…I saw Cho with Cedric, and the egg said something 'precious', so they must mean people. Cho is Cedric's, Weasley is Potter's, Hermione is Krum's…I think, and that leaves Sasuke with me since no one else knows him and the copy of Fleur to her. That was easy to figure out.'
…And people called you dumb.
'The ANBU forces change people.'
Grabbing Sasuke, Naruto began making his way over the barges, where the people were still silent, and put Sasuke on the barge, before slowly draining the wind of chakra, letting the things with the most mass begin raining down that were in the sphere.
"Great, now it's raining fish people…" Naruto said as the growing pain in his arm from trying to NOT let all the chakra leave at once increased. Then, he heard a weird moan, then multiple grunts of pain from the merpeople as the giant squid fell out of the sphere and landed on them. "Oooh…that's gotta hurt…" Naruto said as he watched the blubbery mass jiggle. But then, he heard the distant cry of…
"Hakke Kuushou! (Eight Divisions Air Palm)"
With Naruto draining his wind of its chakra, when the Hakke Kuushou hit it, it caved. Naruto began screaming as his chakra pathways began desperately trying to slow the flow of chakra that was rushing into them, as water began falling at an alarming rate.
Naruto! If that water hits them at that force, they'll die! You gonna do something now?!
'Kinda in immense pain right now!' Naruto yelled back in his head, but pointed his left palm towards the hostages anyway.
Dumbledore watched Naruto scream, and pulled out his wand, as he too realized what would happen if the water hit the hostages. Hesitating, he watched as Naruto yelled out in pain, "Fuuton: Rasen Dangan!" and a spiraling sphere shot out of his hand and into the water above the hostages, causing it to spin wildly in the air, and let it fall less harmfully.
But that didn't stop it from falling on him. Shrieks and gasps went around the barges and cameras went off as the blonde's screams were silenced. The lake refilled quickly after that, and the other champions, knowing where the hostages were, immediately went for them.
"I'm going back! Harry, help me!" Cedric yelled out.
"To get the Professor? Yeah!" the Gryffindor replied as he jumped back in the water about to go under with Cedric again only to for them both to pause as a red spot developed on the lake.
"B-blood?" Harry asked.
"No…I don't think so…it's not moving outwards so it can't be…"
Meanwhile, beneath the water, once azure eyes flew open, revealing crimson pools.
I'm tired of this…I stand aside no longer!
Ah, you must be the Kyuubi…I was wondering why you didn't say anything.
And that must make you the flea bag that's part of his soul now, am I right? The brat is a genius when it comes to seals, that answer your question?
Good enough. Now, if you're trying to take over his mind, I'm afraid I can't let that happen.
I'm making sure we survive and get out of here. The seals self-preservation mechanism allows me control of his body until we are out of danger. I can do nothing else unless he wishes it.
'Glad…to see ya learned your lesson…damn kitsune…'
Brat.
The spot grew larger and larger, redder and redder, and the water began raging as a red claw shot out of the water, and began pulling itself up, revealing a transparent, red fox whose fur seemed…to…boiling…
"Is that a fox?" Harry said, squinting his eyes.
"That's not a fox…" Ron said.
"That's the Professor!" finished Hermione. When she said that, anyone that had read the articles and understood them even a little began drawing their wands, not caring if they hurt the Professor, believing only that the fox had taken control.
"Calm down, damn it…" came a tired voice from the champion's barge. Standing up, the medics immediately began trying to make Sasuke sit down again. Shrugging them off, he stepped onto the water as a pale eyed man stood behind him, watching him in case anything happened. "Dobe, calm down. Turn off the seal."
A dark laughter rang out through the area as the fox began looking up, meeting the tired gaze of his dark haired friend, the one that understood Naruto's source of healing long before the other's and accepted him for that, and the cold gaze of the other.
"Your little dobe isn't here right now, Uchiha. Resting from the pain the Hyuuga put him in." Kyuubi said, crouching, as another figure blurred into existence. "Ah…Jiraiya. I kept the brat safe, just like you and he made me. Come to offer me thanks?"
The elderly sannin stared at the crimson pools. "Kyuubi, give my pupil back his body. It's his, not yours." Jiraiya said before slamming a seal on the Kyuubi-crazed Naruto's forehead, forcing the red chakra to recede back into the seal.
Silence over came the crowd, only to be broken by Dumbledore. "I'm too old for this kind of shit…"
"Same." Jiraiya said.
Good God…
Opening his eyes, Naruto cursed as he realized where he was. "How many God damned times must I end up in the hospital wing?!"
"Cause you always over do things?" came an old, kind voice.
"Jiraiya? Jiraiya!" Naruto shouted, hugging the smirking sannin who sat in a chair next to his bed. "I thought you were tracking the Akatsuki?"
"They've gone quiet again." Naruto frowned. "But I have some leads, not sure where they lead though." He finished, noticing the frown lessen.
"So…what happened?"
"Well, after you got hit by Neji's Hakke Kuushou, mind, he didn't want to do it with the village loyalty and honor crap, but Tsunade wanted to show them that just because they can do some fancy pansy moves and can't do magic normally, doesn't mean we can be messed with. When people think you die and live, even when you've lived through worse than that (but they don't know.) Makes them acknowledge you as a challenge. She knew you'd be fine."
"And why does she think I'd appreciate that?"
"She's upping the pay for this ten-fold."
"Give her my best wishes."
Jiraiya shook his head. "Anyways, a couple of people have stopped in to visit you. Sasuke didn't really leave your side since he had nothing better to do since the seal almost ripped out his chakra pathways. They're almost completely healed."
"I'm just glad that he wasn't doing that crap by will. Putting a piece of his soul into every seal he puts on people? That had to be one of Orochimaru's weirdest things he ever did. What were the scores?"
"You won that round, putting you in the lead. Scar head is in second, Nose man in third, Curly in fourth, and the wench in fifth." Said another voice.
"Teme, who gave you permission to come here?" asked Naruto from the bed, glaring mockingly at the dark haired teen.
"No one?" Naruto glared. "Fine, Hokage-sama did after the old guy with the beard showed up and explained the second task. She ordered Neji to come with me to watch my health, and Jiraiya in case of Kyuubi, and to give some of the suppressing seals to the teachers, mainly the old guy."
"In case anything happens?"
"Yep."
"Ah…so, did those bugs write up any crap?"
"The reporters?" asked Jiraiya. "Yeah. It was a short article. Talked about how you were a jinchuuriki and crap like that. Dumbledore hushed most of it up though. Nothing too serious."
"What was the worst they said?"
"Um…" Jiraiya hesitated. "Well, you know how the aurors are the wizarding police?"
"Yeah…"
"Well, they're having one watch you at all times, but they aren't switching them out, that way they know everything about you and won't miss anything."
Naruto furrowed his eyebrows. "And who are they assigning to watch me?"
"Some weirdo named Nymphasomething Tonks, or some kinda weird name like that. She was patrolling Hogwarts before, so they just decided to change her assignment."
"Nymphadora Tonks, Sasuke. Nymphadora." Naruto clarified.
"Well, best get some rest Dobe. You nearly blew out your chakra pathways in your right arm with that jutsu. I'll talk to you later." Sasuke said before leaving.
Watching him leave, Naruto didn't look at the sannin. "How was the damage? I can' really feel anything."
"It was bad." Said the grey haired man. "It'll take you at least, at least half a year to completely heal at best, with Kyuubi's chakra working on it. That means no more jutsu for you in that arm. But I have some good news."
"What Jiraiya?"
"Sasuke and I are staying here for the rest of the year! Neji is going back to Konoha to report. With me here and not bugging her, I bet Tsunade won't stop me. Besides…"
Naruto quirked his eyebrow.
"Have you seen that Vector lady?! Hottest person I've ever met! Oh, I'm already looking forward to all the information I can squeeze out of this place…" Naruto sighed as he watched his sensei get a nose bleed.
"Professor Vector is only 26. She may be hot, but the students are afraid of her for a damn good reason. You know why?"
"Why?"
"Because the air around her says, 'If you even look in the general direction of my ass, I'll rip your balls off and shove them down your throat.'"
Naruto laughed as he watched his sensei pale faster than he ever saw before.
Good God…
A/N: Sasuke and Jiraiya are here at Hogwarts, hope you don't mind.