Hello, again!

Now that the truth is starting to come out, what exactly will the future hold for Naruto? Whatever may be going on, one thing is for certain: he's not about to let it get in his way if he can.

And for those that end up wondering about Sakura and Ino, check the bottom of this 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 2: Moving forward

After the reading was finished, the three adults were stunned beyond words. Even though it didn't quite identify any particular person, it was clear to all that it was talking about Naruto, and that was besides Naruto physical reaction to the story bringing his memories of that night to the front. The timing of the story cropping up near Naruto, like it happened, was a little too coincidental for any of them to really take for granted.

Naruto in particular, however, was afraid at the implications. Someone, supposedly from the distant past, knew about him and what had happened to him. It terrified him.

How could someone, let alone this 'Order,' know so much about what happened?! Thought Naruto desperately, panicking.

Just then, he heard Ino pipe up in his mind, "Good thing we're not all together then, huh? More places to try and find something about this."

"Even though there might not be much of anything to be found," Sakura said, "at least we can eliminate some possibilities."

"In the meantime," Hinata said, smirking slightly through the bond that was getting pretty darn strange for everyone, "you still got a few better things to think about. Such as-"

"WILL YOU PLEASE STOP SENDING ME THOSE!?" he accidentally cried out, earning stares from everyone around him. Realizing what he did, he chuckled awkwardly as he scratched the back of his head. "Sorry."

Quickly dispersing the crowd, he turned to his companions to explain what happened. "Hinata has had a tendency to send me some...explicit...images, into my head on occasion."

Sirius was about to smile and say something about that, having an idea as to what images Naruto was talking about, but Naruto glared heatedly at him before stating, "Don't even think about saying anything, bub." followed by a crack of lightning overhead.

"That reminds me of something." said Amelia, glaring at Sirius as well, "Why exactly are you so against being labeled as a pervert, and yet this 'Hinata' seems to be all for it?"

That got him slumped again, whining out to her, "Remember how it went in the story?"

She nodded.

"In order to help fix things from that..." he began, before getting louder and more childish, "I have to have a harem!"

He would've gone into a bit of a tirade about 'the tragedy,' he was interrupted by a voice saying, "Excuse me."

As it turned out, the woman and child that Naruto had helped before, had been out to shop as well. And as a way to thank him, after they learned about Naruto's relative shopping situation, offered to help guide him and Sirius around the center. Although the girl seemed to show a bit of a different reason to be help Naruto.

"I like your clothes." she had said absentmindedly, blushing lightly at him.

Naruto merely raised an eyebrow as Hinata, Sakura, and Ino all started laughing at that comment. To be honest, he was quite surprised that this little girl was the first to notice his attire, the entire time he's been there.

Unlike his childhood, he had what people would call 'proper clothes,' unlike the jumpsuit the villagers attempted to stick him with. He was certainly glad that Void Heart had managed to deal with the color at least. Would've been harder than it was.

His current ensemble was black with ocean blue trim, granted, but it certainly wasn't emo. Steel-mesh lined shinobi sandals and bandage like socks, with flowing cargo pants and a trenchcoat pinned to the right side over a turtleneck shirt. (basically, beyond key points, picture Seto Kaiba's general outfit)

He affectionately ruffled the kid's hair.

"Thanks, kid, although you may want to watch your thoughts. Especially around your mother." said Naruto, clearly in amusement to show that he wasn't about to cause a problem for the two. Although that didn't stop the mother from embarrassing the girl. Starting up the shopping journey again, Naruto couldn't help but think,

Whatever may come, at least I'll continue having chances to see people smile at another dawn.

To keep it simple, I had absolutely no idea how to continue with this chapter, so I'm cutting it here. Although I do need time to figure out what said presents for each of them actually are.

Until I can make sure I've completely fleshed out the unique relationship they've got going on, I'll just be saying this: Sakura and Ino under went something similar to Jade, just with Earth and Water respectively. And two more will eventually join them (although I did give an idea of which two before).

Until next time. Please let me know what you think.