Hidden Tears/ Family Pain

Summery: When, in a bout of accidental magic, eight-year-old Harry James Potter escapes his abusive relatives he discovers a new world of Chakra and ninjas. After his escape he finds a new family, one forged of pain and tears. But this new family is incomplete…

(Chapter Ten)

Sasuke narrowed his eyes signaling that he wanted a meeting with the others later that night. They crushed the urge easily, but had to wonder how many others wouldn't be so lucky. Sasuke had to actually tug Neville back to his seat to keep him from rushing off. Sasuke would be Neville's mentor, now Naruto just had to find someone.

Severus Snape hid a sigh as he sneered at his Snakes. "You are Slytherin," he said, "You come from a noble house and are hated by all, but you are proud!"

Harry snorted quietly. "What about family outside the house?"

Snape stared at him and after all of the others were dismissed pulled Harry aside. "You might be lucky enough, Mr. Uchiha to have a loving family outside of this house," he frowned as he looked to where a few stragglers were, "you are one of the few."

"My brothers are in Hufflepuff and Gryffindor and my sister is in Ravenclaw. And Itachi-nii, Dei-aniki and Kakashi-sensei are teachers." Harry told him. "The hat told me I was needed here." Harry watched him with big green eyes.

Snape still, his breath caught… Lily? This was the missing hero? He hoped not, if it was, his headache would be back with vengeance.

Snape sent a silent Legimens, but his probe bounced off a very powerful barrier. "That isn't very nice sir." Harry gave him a disapproving look and a frown.

"I'm sorry. But everyone has been worried." Snape told him. How were his shields so strong?

"I am not Harry Potter, sir." Harry said standing up and moving to the first year dorms, "At least not anymore. He died a long time ago" He whispered to himself.

"Then I will keep this a secret." The professor replied, watching solemnly as Harry turned and gave him a small bow before disappearing from view. Snape wondered what he was going to tell Dumbledore. Not the truth, the truth would kill this child, Lily's child. He had to think of something else, something that made just as much sense. He was sure that as long as he didn't think about how much the kid looked like James he'd be fine. Focusing on the boy's eyes and how they looked like Lily's was a good start.

The next morning Team Seven met outside the Great Hall. They needed to figure out when and how they would train; the usual schedule would never work. It would have to change to mornings and evenings.

"Ready to face the school?" Naruto asked.

"Yep," Hermione and Sakura grinned, Sakura had shown Hermione how to tame her hair that took no time at all to do. It was a very simple thing, the style.

Harry nodded. "I'm going to befriend as many of my year as I can. They are all like I used to be…" he didn't want them to suffer like he did.

Naruto took his schedule and sighed loudly. "Ugh more studying!" He had never been very good at academics, he learned better by doing.

"We'll help you study Naruto." The girls chimed together, laughing as they split up to sit at their tables.

The first class for Naruto and Harry was Potions, "I think Snape knows who I was," Harry whispered to Naruto while they waited in the corridor. He was starting to feel scared, what if they tried to take him away from his family? What if he was forced to go back to those… those people?

"It doesn't matter Little Brother, they can't get you now." Naruto replied just as quietly, pulling Harry close; reminding his little brother that there was nothing any Outsiders could do to take him away.

"Naruto, why are you talking to a slimy snake?" asked a snide, female voice.

Naruto looked up to see who was talking. When he saw who it was, his grip on Harry tightened and he rolled his eyes. Would she never learn to keep her mouth shut if she had nothing good to say?

Ron was glaring at Harry, "he's going to contaminate you. Come over to the safe side," she beckoned the blond over to the Gryffindor side of the room.

"Why should I not spend time with my brother?" Naruto asked, was she really so closed-minded that she would condemn a relative if he or she was placed in Slytherin like Harry had been? How stupid!

Ron huffed, than swallowed hard when she saw Snape looking at her, "house rivalry is no longer tolerated, Miss Weasely."

Harry smiled, hugging Naruto. "I can't wait to learn!"

Transfiguration was easy for both Sasuke and Sakura as they used jutsu to make the transformations. They found, for some reason they could force their chakra to mimic what magic could do. Maybe magic was chakra? But right now they had no time to experiment or research anything.

They both knew how to use senbon, although Sakura was better at it.

Classes went quickly and Sasuke was glad to meet up with the others in the forest to train. He didn't mind looking like an 11 year old for most of the day, but he was glad to look like his 19 year old self while he trained. He and the other nineteen year olds stretched. Sakura got Hermione started on the first chakra exercise.

"Wait," she looked at her friend in confusion, "you're not eleven?"

"No, but we wanted to learn." Sakura answered simply.

"Oh… are you nineteen too Harry?" Hermione asked curiously.

"No, I'm really eleven." Harry replied, would she hate them for this?

"Oh!" She looked up before shrugging went back to what Sakura had taught her.

"Yo!" They all jumped when Kakashi, Itachi and Deidara appeared.

"You're..." Naruto began to yell than paused and scratched his head, "not late."

"WHAT THE HELL? Since when are you not late?" Sakura asked in a panic. She eyed the sky warily, looking for signs of the apacolips.

"Since I've become a responsible adult," Kakashi sniffed and Deidara held up the book he was holding hostage, "and since Deidara has my book."

"You? Responsible?" Sasuke smirked, snickering.

Kakashi pretended to look offended, "just for that brat, you will train with… Itachi today."

"What? No fair! That means that I can't use Chidori!" Sasuke pouted.

"And that is why you need to train little brother," Itachi came over to him, "you rely on that too much; especially during the last mission and almost depleted your chakra."

Sasuke gave him a playful glare. "Fine, you're on."

The two backed away to a clearing and easily began to spar. Sasuke loved sparing with his older brother.

Naruto looked around. "Does anyone else have that… strange feeling…? Like there's something here that…?" Naruto nudged Kakashi and Deidara. "You feel it too, right?" Naruto had trouble putting this feeling into words. He'd felt this only once before.

"I do..." Deidara said, "I've been investigating, but the headmaster has more spies in the castle than we have ninja in Konoha, so it's hard to do so unnoticed." It was a constant test of his skills. It was times like these that he thanks Kami for his clay. Each creation was a wonderful spy in and of itself. The war with Iwa had happened because his mother, Namikaze Minato's older sister, had been killed on accident by a Konoha nin when he was younger. He was glad that his grandfather, the Sandaime Tsuchikage had sent him away to his Uncle Minato before the fighting had really started. They wouldn't have these wonderful spies if he hadn't inherited his grandfather's bloodline. [1]

Kakashi nodded. "There's this very faint chakra too, it's very familiar, but I can't pinpoint its location." And it had been so long since he had felt it that he wasn't sure if his mind wasn't playing tricks on him.

"I started sending out clay spiders but they have to move slow and hide a lot," Deidara said tugging Naruto closer so they could spar. He loved sparing with his younger cousin, since the boy's father wasn't around it fell to him to teach the boy the family Taijutsu. Naruto was very good at it.

Naruto nodded. "I see."

That left Kakashi to train with Harry. Which usually happened, when his elder students were busy with their own training.

(End Chapter Ten)

I hate Flames… stupid person…

[1] This is a bit of Deidara's past. We don't know if Minato was an only child or not, though many people make him one. This is not the only fic I'm going to give him a sister in, look for it in my other fics too! Not telling you which though, that would be telling…

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