The Elementalist Swordsman
By: Darksider82
Beta: Winged Seer Wolf
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"Chat and spells"
Thoughts
Jutsu
(Speaking is parsletongue)
(Tailed beast thoughts)
XXVI
Last time on Elementalist Swordsman
A barrier of ancient renown
Three stones must be found and placed in heart of God
Thy barrier shall be revealed.
The stone of mind
Land of tranquility
Shall be found
In a being older than most in this world
Found by the stones of heroes
Five hundred by three.
The stone of blood
Heart of mahou shall be discovered
Ancient citadel of ages
Mighty fortress, humble institute
In the room of forgotten treasures and hidden things
The noblest blood of wood shall find.
The stone of body
Able bodied and keen
Hidden in the stormiest eye of the lord
At the highest point of the lord.
Only at Tsukuyomi's heightest on the night of
Amatarsu's heighest day on the joning of their union the path shall light the way.
The entryway, highest peak one must climb
The icy mountains wrath you must endure
With the purest heart, body and wood you shall find the doorway thou requires.
Dumbledore looked over the Potion Masters shoulder "We have finally found it. Albeit a puzzle but one I shall decipher and soon enough Harry will be back where he belongs."
The next few months passed quickly and swiftly for Harry, Shizune and the rest. As missions piled up and Kurenai came of duty for maternity leave Harry was lumped in with Team 8.
Naruto, now point blank to work with Sakura making further complications and was now thrown on to Team 9 as a backup support ninja fulfilling the ninjutsu role relieving Gai who now participated solely as Taijutsu support.
However this hectic tranquility was about to become a lot worse. A lot worse of the shinobi isles especially Konoha. However if your name is Harry James Potter-Hatake-Uchiha and Shizune Kato it was known as 'Things are going to bite you in the ass hard.'
Dumbledore huffed in triumph as he placed down a black onyx stone about the size of his fist. It was emitting a soft ethereal light that made the natural light dim and cower from it. "Severus, the stone of mind. It is magnificent, so intoxicating. I can feel it allowing me usage of my mind."
Snape smirked as he entered the room clad in his Death Eater garb evidently returning from a meeting. "Albus, this mission may be started a lot sooner than we think because Lucius gave me something to examine..." With that he slid his hand into his robes and withdrew a glowing green stone with shone with light and life.
"...Stone of Life...Only the stone of blood to be found and I believe it has been concealed here in this school. As Mahou means magic and in an ancient castle. 'The stone of blood, Heart of mahou shall be discovered
Ancient citadel of ages
Mighty fortress, humble institute.'..." Dumbledore read and Severus's eyes widened.
"Merlin, here in Hogwarts..." Snaped breathed in realisation. War was going badly with Potter gone, Longbottom had stepped up to the plate with the reluctant backing of that insufferable Granger and Weasley.
"...Longbottom or Granger may know of such a place in this text." Snape drawled "Goodnight Albus...I pray we are not digging our graves with this endeavour."
Dumbledore nodded "Goodnight Severus...I'll have Minerva send them to me in the morning." Dumbledore heaved a sigh of relief and despair.
"Harry, I hope you can forgive me for what I am about to do." He whispered sorrowfully.
Harry felt a shiver run up his back and he decapitated a stray bandit creeping up behind Hinata. "Hinata-chan be careful and watch your back..."He calmly explained as he exhaled an Amaterasu Great Fireball.
"Harry-sensei, I can't kill these people." Hinata said without stuttering whilst slamming two individual palms into another two bandits which were hastily covered with insects and cannabilised.
Kiba and Akamaru had evidently worked on their teamwork and Kiba's ability to let the fact Akamaru could get hurt enter his skull. Kiba had realised that if he had let Akamaru take a few hits they could well have beaten their opponent without assistance.
Eventually the small horde of bandits had been defeated, some were dead more like the majority and five or six were moaning pain. Well you would if you had limbs missing. "You bandits have been causing trouble in Hi no Kuni and this you must die...Hinata you have to do this."
Hinata gulped "Why sensei?" Harry sighed 'Naruto was easier to handle than her...Even the banshee and the teme.' He thought to himself.
"Hinata, if you let them live more women are in danger of rape and murder...What would happen if you let a nuke-nin go free? He'll destroy the village. What about Sasuke? He would kill Naruto and everyone you cared about." Harry explained he inwardly smiled when Hinata's eyes hardened.
"So killing them makes the world a slightly safer place, to make it easier just picture killing someone to protect the ones you care about." She replied getting a nod from the elder male.
"Correct, don't worry about crying or thinking about what you've done. As someone once told me 'What makes killing right? What makes killing others right? Nothing does. All we can do is try and find a reason for doing so, a cause so to speak to make the killing of others bearable...'"
Harry took a breath and continued, Kiba, Shikamaru and the bandits stopped moaning and turned to listen to the man. "'...A reason must be strong and justifiable enough that when we pass on the people we have slain rise and judge us in some religions. If it happens we can stare back at them and not feel ashamed of ourselves and have the courage and honour to explain to them why we cut them down...Explain why they had to be the ones who paid the price of death and not us. Why they had to die in a cold field of a different land, instead of bring surrounded by family and friends. When you know that reason and cause then can you accept with yourself killing was justifiable.'"
Hinata nodded, then Kiba cut in "What do you do if you forget this cause as you put it? Sensei?"
Harry turned his dull green eyes turning almost black in disgust "Never ask that question...But since you have I shall tell. You've been in this career for far too long. All of your parents retired to take positions in their clans...If you need a cause and reason ask them...Ask them to help you get over the grief. Now Hinata, I hate forcing people to do this you MUST kill them."
Hinata nodded and went to pull her kunai, her hand shaking "I can't...Not with a kunai." Harry nodded and handed her his katana forming into a shorter form.
Hinata nodded and lined it up with the mans heart "I'm sorry..." She whispered.
The bandit with a mssing arm nodded tears rolling down his face "...It's okay, I've done wrong...I know this is the punishment but please make it quick and painless." The words left his mouth and Hinata pushed the sword through the man.
Hinata gasped at how easily the katana bit into the mans chest and heart. 'How many men, women, children, husbands, lovers, parents and family has this blade taken. This power of life and death so intoxicating and vigorating...No its disgusting, it is a burden we shinobi carry.' Hinata told her self as Harry pulled the blade free.
During the few seconds of the murder...no the justice being delivered Harry and pulled his katana out and it formed into a sword staff whilst Kiba and Shikamaru disposed of the other bandits. "You did well, Hinata...I'm proud of you. I hesitated as well on my first kill...I've lost count of the those I've killed. Lost my cause as well but always found a new one. It was once 'me or him' then in it was 'Konoha's wish' and now 'For the kings and queens.'"
"For the kings and queens? Do you mean the kage?" Blurted out Kiba as they headed back to Konoha. Harry shook his head.
"Nope...Not the kage...I can tell you but I won't. I hope you take that question and what I've taught you about killing away from our time together." Harry said before dismissing the team and he hurried away.
Kurenai and Shizune were in Kurenai's flat with Asuma who for once wasn't smoking but instead chewing on a mint leaf when the door went. Asuma answered the door and Harry entered the room, he hugged Kurenai and kissed Shizune. "Mission success, bandits eliminated and some lessons ingrained. Plus the three of them made their first kill or more."
Kurenai stiffened at the thought of Hinata "Hinata...did she...?" She trailed off and Harry nodded.
"She hesitated. I saw myself clear as day, when I was eight years old. She couldn't kill with the kunai but she did it with a sword...Reminded me of my kill, though mine was messy." He trailed off.
Flashback
Harry was trapped in an alleyway. He was trapped like a rat in a cage. The only way out of the alleyway was blocked by a cutthroat who he had seen attacking a young man.
Harry had foolishly given himself away and now he found himself trapped. He felt around him and found a shard of glass about eight inches long. Not wincing as the glass cut into his hand. "Come out, little boy this won't take long." He heard the man sing manically.
Harry took a deep breath, looked up and saw the man "Got you little shit." The man snarled and lunged with the switch blade. Harry saw red, almost in slow motion he stepped inside the swinging arc and began to stap repeatedly. The blood seaping through the clothes and staining his hands red.
End flashback.
Harry found himself being shaken by Shizune. The rest of the time the four of them discussed the living arrangements of the unborn child. It came down to if it was a boy Shizune and Harry named him and Kurenai and Asuma if it was a girl.
After debriefing the hokage, Harry dashed off to the restuarant and ordered several sides of tempura and cooked brown rice. "Anything for my hime to be happy." He explained, after dropping several bills on the bar he shunshinned away.
Harry reappeared in his hallway and entered the kitchen to find Shizune and Kakashi sitting in the kitchen. Or rather Shizune sitting and Kakashi setting the table. "Got everyone tampura and some brown rice."
The three of them sat down and began to eat "Sakura, has taken up training seriously. Almost to the point of killing herself...Don't know much about it only that Ino and Hinata had a chat with her and well she almost changed completely." Pointed out Kakashi causing Harry's eyes to open.
"Didn't expect Hinata to help Ino...Then again she seems to have made her cause to make Naruto as safe as possible." Replied Harry, when his shoulder twinged. "Nerve spasm." He waved off any medical aide but went to bed under threat of Tsunade.
On the otherside of the veil, Snape and Dumbledore had managed to gain all three stones. These stones of mind, blood and body made up a man, now they were gearing up for a climb up Mount Everest. "Remind me, why I'm doing this Albus?" Shivered Severus as he shifted his weight onto a ledge.
"To save our world at all costs and at the cost of one's happiness." Applied the old headmaster without a care as he pulled up one of the aurors.
Fudge had found out somehow about the stones and practically ordered the headmaster to bring him and several dozen aurors and hitwizards on the expedition. "Found the cave entrance, it was exactly as it was said in the book. At the base of the final peak." An auror shouted as his hand pushed into the snow revealing a cave right behind the potions master.
The cave extended deep into the mountain and with the headmaster leading the way the wizards fanned out. "We are looking for a pedastel or an alcove." Dumbledore commanded.
"Albus, I found it." Said Fudged, everyone converged on the minister and he was correct. Above the alcove was a symbol of a spiral and a leaf. Seeing the symbol the aurors checked the cave and found four others one looked like a pair of boulders, another four rain drops, one seemed to be mountains and a cloud and the last sign was of an hour glass and a square.
"Five alcoves, five symbols what is this Albus?" Blustered Fudge.
"We need to think Cornelius..." Dumbledore trailed off and he tapped the symbols each one giving off a range of colours from red to blue.
"...We need to use the stones on the sign of the spiral and a leaf." The headmaster suggested and placed the stones on the pedastels.
Suddenly the stones began to glow and levitate before a beam of light shot into they symbol of the leaf and the word KONOHAGAKURE appeared followed by a swirling spectral door.
"Well, off we go." Stated Dumbledore cheerfully.
Meanwhile back in Konoha, his arms wrapped around Shizune Harry woke up startled sweating. Shizune stirred and moved closer to Harry and woke up feeling the sweat on his arms "Harry-kun what is it?" She asked getting him to look at her.
"Hime, both my lives are now about to be connected and the results are not going to be pretty. We need to tell Tsunade-sama."