Hello, again!

I have no idea what happened, but this chapter, as well as 14 and 15, were originally copies of a previous chapter. That got on my nerves when I found out. Please fill me in should something like this happen again.

Anyways, here is the REAL chapter.

Bold and Italicized is in a different language to the main language.

Don't own Harry Potter or Naruto.

Makings of a hero pt. 1: seeing the distance

Naruto sighed, lost in thought as he sat on a park bench, waiting.

One of the things he was thinking about, was the concepts of Christmas and the Rinne Festival, particularly how they were different from each other. Too make matters worse for him, he wouldn't exactly be able to do much of anything in the way of presents while in Great Britain. Thankfully, he was able to get some help in the matter, and he was currently waiting for said help.

"So this is the young pup who helped me and my godson?" came a playful voice, bringing Naruto out of his thoughts.

Looking up, he saw Amelia Bones, who had agreed to help him for this trip, but was surprised to see Sirius Black there with her.

"Black?" said Naruto, "I didn't expect you to already be declared 'healthy' this early."

"I wanted it to be a surprise for Harry." said Sirius, lightly shrugging, "And when I learned about this little shopping trip, I just thought It'd be a good time to see you and repay the solid I owe you from setting me free."

Naruto just nodded, understanding the man's reasoning.

"You did say you wanted to start out in the muggle world for Christmas shopping, right?" asked Amelia.

"Yes," said Naruto, "I want to be sure that it doesn't have suitable presents before I search the other side."

"Then please, follow me." said Amelia, before walking off, Sirius and Naruto right behind her.

The red-haired woman led them to a pretty big building, but before they could make it to the door, an alarm sounded a couple of buildings down. Out of said building came four men wearing masks, three were carrying bags, while the last carried a young girl. They got to a car just as a woman came out, crying for her daughter.

Oh no you don't! thought Naruto as he started moving, seeing the car starting to drive off.

Next thing anyone knew, Naruto was on top of the car. He slammed his hands into the roof, ripping it open to the get to the people inside. Charging up his arm, he grabbed the girl and the bags, now seeing that they were full of money, and leapt back. Once the girl and the money were safe, he turned back to the speeding car and roared, spitting out a man-sized fireball at the road underneath. This resulted in the road melting and the car crashing.

Picking the little girl back up, he walked over to the girl's mother while a couple of security people came and got the money.

"Ma'am." said Naruto, "Here you go."

Passing her on over, Naruto walked back to Sirius and Amelia.

"I'm done here." he said, walking into their destination. The two adults took a few moments before moving in behind him.

"What was that?!" asked Sirius, still shocked at what he had just seen.

"My version of the Fireball Technique." said Naruto, "One of the various things I'm authorized to teach Harry and a few others about. At any rate, focus. We can talk culture and skills later."

Not too long after they walked passed the door, they met up with a woman with dark-brown-with-pink-highlight hair that both of the adults recognized.

"Nymphadora!" said Sirius, getting said woman's attention, "What a pleasant surprise."

She growled. "Don't call me Nymphadora!"

"Duly noted." said Naruto, already knowing that little issue, "Here for present shopping, Tonks?"

Tonks smiled in gratitude to the blond. "Yeah. My first stop is for a muggle acquaintance, who is fascinated with the 'occult.' Care to join me? It'll probably be a better time for all of us."

All three ultimately agreed, not seeing any real problem. However, that changed upon arrival to said store, which had a stack of papers that caught Naruto's attention immediately.

Huh? What's this? He wondered, moving to look at them. When he did, though, he jumped back as he cried out, catching the attention of the others and the current storekeeper.

"Naruto, what's wrong?" asked Amelia.

Naruto turned towards the storekeeper and demanded, pointing to the papers, "Where did you get this?"

Said person shrugged. "Don't know. They just appeared one day, and no one seemed to care, or even notice all that much, until you showed up. Might as well let you have it. It isn't doing much good here."

Naruto was still dazed as the four finished up in there and headed on out, papers in hand.

"So...anyone want to grab a bite?" asked Sirius, trying to break the awkward tension that cropped up.

The other three agreed, seeing it as being helpful to calm Naruto down.

After they sat down for their meal, Sirius asked Naruto the big question on their minds. "You mind telling us about what is on those papers, Naruto? You don't have to if you don't want to, though."

Naruto shook his head, handing the papers over. "You guys can read them. Just be warned."

"...I'll do it." said Amelia, setting them up to be read from.

None of the adults had any idea just what they were about to learn.

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