Harry Potter/Naruto crossover
I do not own Harry Potter nor do I own Naruto. I make no monetary gains from this piece. All places, people and ideas that I do own will be listed at the bottom of the chapter. I own this story so no touchies please. Try to sue and you'll just get the dead moth in my wallet 8)
WARNING: None, this time.
A Mile in Your Eyes
Chapter Ten
Last Time: Sakura and Lee go on a date, Kakashi discovers the Coupe, Amaya is 'cured' of Eros and Danzou is in the poo with Tsunade.
Now: Tsunade, Kakashi and Shikaku study Operation- Birthright, Amaya learns basic Chakra control and rumours fly.
It was times like this that Tsunade wished she had Amaya as an assistant again, just reading through these files made her mouth dry with fury and made her fists itch to hit something. She could have really gone for a drink right now but she also knew that she couldn't drink Sake, not right now, not when the Council would leap on anything that could cover their asses.
The blonde woman threw down the files, placing her elbows on the table and rubbing at the steadily building migraine throbbing behind her eyes. A quick glance at her co-conspirators revealed that Shikaku was as irate as she'd ever seen him and Kakashi's face was flat and emotionless. Revealing just how furious the files had made him through the lack of his carefully cultivated mask of apathy and lazy amusement.
The two Jounin looked up in surprise as the woman abruptly spoke up, "Fuck." She declared eloquently, "Shitty fucking, fuckitty shit," she continued in an almost pleasant voice, as though commenting on the weather even as her hands cracked and splintered the edge of her desk with the power of her grip on the wood.
Taking this as an invitation for sharing, Shikaku continued, "I knew these guys were bastards, but damn if this doesn't deserve a trophy or something," he stated, casually tossing his file onto the table with a look of deep disgusted on his face.
Kakashi merely grunted – though it sounded more like a growl impersonating his largest Summon dog Big Bull.
Tsunade gave an inelegant snort in response before Kakashi finally found his tongue, "I can't believe they were planning something this big and no one even noticed!" the Jounin burst out, gripping his hair and glaring at the table as though he could place it under the nastiest Genjutsu he humanly could. "HOW! How did no one notice! This is a ninja Village!"
And that was the kicker.
Just how did the Uchiha Clan manage to plan such a large scale take over of Konoha, inserting people into key locations and gathering information on par with A and S class secrets without anyone noticing? Because guaranteed, if someone had noticed something that big, it would have been all over the village within a week – just like Naruto's Jinchuuriki status.
The three of them just sat there, trying to wrap their minds around the enormity of it all.
"Sarutobi-sensei knew something was wrong. Him and Danzou, Homura and Koharu knew something about this, about Itachi. Jiraiya knows as well," Tsunade stated, honey brown eyes narrowed.
Shikaku nodded, "If what Itachi's psychological profile claims is true, then... if the situation were explained to him and he were given the order... I see nothing that would say he wouldn't kill the clan."
Silence.
Tsunade sat down in her seat, feeling every year acutely while Kakashi felt as though the rug had been pulled from under him. The three of them sat in silence for a time because that was the crux of the situation, with all the evidence finally laid out in front of them, the big question was finally asked.
Had Uchiha Itachi slaughtered his Clan on the Orders of the Konoha Council and Hokage?
The more she thought about it, the more she questioned it, the more her logical senses chased their tails, the more her head throbbed, the more the splinters in her hands stung the more pissed off Tsunade became.
Shikaku and Kakashi practically vaulted away from the table as Tsunade's hand crashed through it as her temper snapped.
"SHIZUNE! GET THOSE FUCKING FOSSILS I CALL ADVISERS IN HERE! NO EXCUSES! IF THEY DON'T GET HERE I'LL DRAG THEM IN HERE!" the busty Hokage screamed as she got to her feet, Chakra flaring visibly around her along in reaction to her blazing temper.
Shizune nodded, her eyes wide but she was handling the fit of anger better than the two men who were still backing away somewhat from their Kage, "Right away Tsunade-sama." She agreed before running past the blonde woman and throwing herself out of the window, legs folding under her as the ground approached, flipping herself over and landing with cat-like grace on her feet. Sandaled feet barely making a sound on the thin guttering she balanced upon before she was off running, Chakra extending out to try and find the two Advisers and Danzou.
By the time they had all arrived, Tsunade had reigned in her anger but it was still there, simmering just under the surface of her icy façade.
"Why have you summoned us, Tsunade?" Homura demanded, he would have gone further but upon seeing the blonde woman's icy features he knew he was in a great deal of trouble. Having known her since she was a little girl he was still capable of reading her face, Tsunade was a hot head, her primary affinity was flame so to see her so icy and cold was a mark of just how deeply in the shit they were.
The fact that Shikaku and Kakashi stood at her side was another thing.
"Did you order Uchiha Itachi to kill his clan?" she finally asked voice tight with restrained violence.
Homura felt as though someone had just punched him through the gut with one of the Seven Swords, a glance to his old Teammate revealed her clutching to her chest as though she were suffering a heart-attack, Danzou however, was impassive. The only sign of his feeling was the tightening of his features. The longer they remained in silence the darker and narrower Tsunade's eyes became.
"What brought this questioning on?" Homura finally managed to ask.
"That is not an answer Homura," the woman stated, this time he noticed the sharpness in her voice and the way every muscle in her body was tense with anger. "Speak," she snapped.
Danzou however was the one that did, "I see that just like your teacher you have poked your nose into business that does not involve you," he sneered. A split second later the three old timers were shielding their eyes as dust and sharp winds swept around them with considerable force, Tsunade having just plunged her hand through her desk and spun it around and through the wall behind her, out into the streets of Konoha below.
"DO NOT TRY MY PATIENCE DANZOU!" the Hokage roared, fists clenching and unclenching as Killing Intent saturated the room with enough force to freeze all of Homura's muscles in place. It was painful and suddenly terror filled his veins with ice, "I have had enough of you," she hissed darkly, her whole body tipping forward with the grace of a killer, of a Kunoichi still in her prime. "Answer my question. Did you, or did you not, order Uchiha Itachi to massacre his Clan?" she hissed malevolently, stood nose to nose with Danzou.
"We did," Koharu admitted from Homura's otherside, snapping Tsunade's attention to her and away from Danzou who visibly relaxed – a split second before Tsunade casually backhanded him without looking to the otherside of the room, breaking his only functioning arm in the process.
"Everything was recorded and hidden within the Sandaime's private records where you found it," Homura admitted with a bowed head, he believed that she had discovered the private files instead of putting two and three together and coming up five, instead of four like everyone else had.
"Kakashi, Shikaku, Shizune, take these three to ANBU interrogation. I don't want them seeing the light of day until I've decided what to do with them. Kakashi, only those you trust implicitly are to guard them," the blonde Hokage ordered, turning away from the two of them to walk to the hole in her office, staring out across Konoha with narrowed eyes. "Then, come back here. There are things we need to speak of."
"Hai, Hokage-sama," the three Jounins barked, bowing before they each took one of the Elders and Shunshined out of the office, Shizune, perhaps being rougher than usual with Danzou.
Overlooking her village, the last of the Senjuu clan sighed and slumped her shoulders, "What have you done Sensei?" she muttered quietly, her voice lost on the wind.
Amaya had practically devoured the 'Anatomy for Dummies' and the 'Intro to Chakra...', actually he had finished reading both of them and had filled two entire notebooks will little annotations and extras from each of them. He'd even started pestering his mother so he could go and sleep over at the Inuzuka residence so he and Minato could practice their Taijutsu more.
Kaede was worried.
The red haired woman sighed as she watched her adoptive son and biological nephew in the back garden, he was already beginning to tap into his Chakra even though he was having difficulties in controlling it. He'd begun with the Leaf sticking exercise and was having limited success with it, his frustration was making it worse and the leaf kept shooting off his forehead with considerable force.
She could see a lot of Lily in him.
Her youngest sister always had a stubborn streak in her, she worked at things until she was perfect at them. A trait that their other sister Petunia did not share, she felt that as Lily's older sister she should have been better at everything automatically, meaning that she never practised and when she inevitably failed she threw a strop and took it out on Lily who was really too young to understand why her older sister seemed to hate her. Yes. Amaya was a lot like Lily, right down to that blood thirsty streak they both kept carefully hidden from the rest of the world with their guileless green eyes. Kaede chuckled slightly, she remembered the first time Lily had lost her temper, truly lost it to the point where violence was the first order of the day, ironically it was with a boy in her class and not Petunia who had cut her hair that morning because she was jealous of the long fiery red locks.
He'd been teasing her for something or other, Rosemary had been too old and too far removed from a six-year-old's life to care much about what petty teasing her littlest sister was put through. But eventually, Lily's usually fiery but well controlled temper snapped, she remembered waiting at the gates for her sisters to get out of class only to hear a scream of alarm and witness her littlest sister chase a boy two years older than herself across the grass, tackle him to the ground and latch her nasty little baby teeth into his forearm while she punched, slapped, kneed, kicked, elbowed, clawed, and yanked at everything her hands and feet could get in range of. All the while grinding her teeth into the boy's arm hard enough to go through the skin and into the meat below.
It took ten minutes to separate them with Rosemary and the mother of the little boy snapping and snarling at one another defensively over their respective youngsters. She remembered that it had been the first time she'd ever looked at her youngest sister and seen her, not just a kid sister but seen Lily herself.
She had been so small but ferocious in a way that a child her age couldn't have been under normal circumstances. Almost feral and wild in a way. The same way that Amaya had been when she first saw him, but he carried the air of a beaten dog while his mother was nothing short of a feral hunting cat.
Kaede sighed as she dried the last of the dishes, she knew the moment Amaya saw Kakashi vanish in a puff of smoke in the middle of the kitchen he would become a Shinobi, with or without Sakura subtly pushing him into it.
It was the way of all little boys to like explosions and shiny things after all.
"Neechaaaan!" Amaya wailed, running through Training Ground 8 looking for his sister.
He hopped lightly over a trip wire that was no doubt Tenzou's work before he noisily made his way into a clearing; he blinked and deflated a bit, "Oh. Sorry. I... I thought Neechan was here," he muttered, "My apologies!" he exclaimed, bowing low at the group of three.
The Kunoichi smiled warmly, "Its no problem Amaya-kun," she assured him gently.
"What's the problem? Why'd you need to see her?" one of the boys asked, leaning back lazily against his animal companion who snorted at him in indignation over being used as a chair.
Amaya bit his lip, cheeks pinking in embarrassment. "I can't get this damn Leaf Trick to work!" he finally burst out with an angry scowl on his features. "I can make 'em shoot off hard enough to cut things but I can't make 'em stick," he explained churlishly.
The Kunoichi nodded seriously, "That is a problem Amaya-chan," she said gravely, glancing at her teammates, the boy who spoke earlier grinned toothily while the silent one merely inclined his head and adjusted his sunglasses.
Hinata smiled bright and patted the grass beside her, "Why don't you come here and I'll explain it Amaya-chan?" she suggested.
"Hai!" the four-year-old chirped happily and bounded to her side like an excited puppy.
While Hinata and Shino were coaching a certain four-year-old through the Academy basic Chakra Control exercise, there was a flurry of activity and gossip amidst the Market today.
Because the civilians rarely ever did anything of much excitement, gossip had become their realm of expertise, any gossip relating to shinobi was even more sought after because of just how much more exciting their lives there in comparison to their own. Which was why right now, Yamanka Ino was the bee's knees amidst the nosy old ladies of the market place, retelling her story with relish at every opportunity as she studied each of the wares on offer.
Anything to do with the Rookie Twelve was always hot gossip, their love lives even more so.
News of the Hokage's apprentice becoming involved with a young man would be all over the Village by sundown with Ino's help.
Bit of a short chapter this time, more of a filler than anything. Again, I thought that the chapter plan would help me squeeze more in but apparently this was about as much as I could.
Review pleasums. Less-than-three you!
Araceil