Hi, be glad for this update as i managed to do something stupid. i managed to cut my left thumb with a bread knife. it was deep but didnt draw blood, yes i have thick skin on my thumbs. anyway i stoped me from typing for a bit whn combined with another cut on my left index finger, i couldnt stretch it for the day. it really sucked, i could barley do anything because it hurt and would have made the cuts worse, i didnt want that to happen.
There's a mention of another crossover. i'm sure some of you can guess what it is it more obvious than i could have done.
The crossover will be hard to write as i have not actually read the series but i will try my best. if some of the characters are a little off then dont blame me. but most of the crossover will start next chapter.
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"Laura?" Max asked, it looked like who she thought it was but wasn't sure.
"Hey Max, remember anything?"
"Bits"
"I have an idea to help you get your memories back. it may not get all of them but it should help a lot"
"What do I do?" Max really wanted her memories back.
"Fight Itachi" Max was ready to walk away them, she could tell by how Itachi held himself she would not have a chance without her memories, even with them she wouldn't be sure.
"Before you say 'that's crazy' hear me out. You used to fight him all this time so your body should remember how so you might remember bits. I hope that it will trigger a full memory recall. Just try it, I really want my friend back," said Laura. Max thought about it, what could she lose, her limbs, her head? She shrugged, she'd already lost her memories, and then she nodded.
"When should we start?"
"Now" Laura said before running. Itachi appeared behind her. The first couple of blows were light and Max barley had time to register the blows before her arms started to move to block them. She remained on the defensive for a while, it felt like something was missing.
Something flew at her and she reflexively caught it. It was a scroll. Max remembered what to do as she did a few seals and dripped some blood on it, still blocking Itachi.
The scythe popped out and Max switched to the offensive, her muscles telling her where to move. Itachi was using two kunai and was trying to be offensive but Max pressed on with the scythe. She didn't notice Itachi do a few seals until she saw there were two of him.
"Ok I don't remember you ever doing that"
"It's a standard technique; you used to use it all the time"
"I don't even know what you did," said Max as she started a difficult set of sweeps and slices. Fending of two attacks she jumped back to catch some air, she didn't expect to be kicked into a tree.
"Oh, it's on" Max growled as she got up and dispatched the other clones with a shuriken to the head. She threw her scythe at him with four kunai in the blind spot and three obvious kunai to direct him into the path of the hidden ones. She hadn't expected him to fall for it.
She hadn't expected her aim to be off, nor that one of the kunai would end up embedded in Itachi's stomach. She froze as she saw to blood leaking from the wound. A whole slew of flashback stormed her mind. She fell to her knees at the memories flooded in like a tsunami. Every single memory played in front of her eyes.
It took thirty minutes for her to regain her senses into real life. She got up from where she had fallen and saw Laura looking at her concernedly nearby Itachi sat with white bandages around his stomach.
"Dude, I remember stuff, everything" she tried to get up but fell, her balance was a bit off
"Well it worked, not how I planed it but still," said Laura helping Max up. Max noticed how thick the bandages were on Itachi and the fact blood was still leaking though.
"Sorry about that, you should get it checked though. Just not here, as much as I hate to suggest it, ask Sakura, she is Tsunade's apprentice," Itachi nodded and left.
"You remember what happened?" asked Laura
"You were there afterwards, I had been told I had vitamin deficiency so I got given a potion, I think Dumbledore did something to it. I then walked out side to see you, you said I didn't, I realised then Dumbledore had done something defiantly, then he came out and shot a spell at you, I'm assuming a mild memory charm" theorised Max.
"I'm assume he thought without your memories you would be easier to manipulate"
"He is going down, he's messed around in our affairs too much, I'll ask Tsunade about putting a bounty on his head, and he'll be an enemy of Konoha by the end of the month," grinned Max evilly; no one messes with her head.
"What about the tournament?"
"Screw it, I don't care, wait until the tournament has finished then announce he's and enemy or let one of the others finish it for me. Some business has become unfinished and I need to deal with it, it has a higher priority than participating in a tournament"
"What's up?"
"Light escaped, I have to see he gets behind bars again, it's my responsibility. I didn't kill him so he could have a second chance, it was the wrong choice and I feel responsible"
"Why don't you use your death note?"
"Ah, that a bit complicated, I don't have it. Its part of a different plan, if I move it I may lose a valuable opportunity" said Max, she had a plan to get rid of the Dark lord but she had to wait for a while until he had become a corporeal form again.
"I think we should tell Itachi"
"Tell him what"
"About where we really come from"
"Why?"
"He's the one who asks us to go to this dimension so he needs to know about it"
"When he comes back we'll tell him"
"Tell who what?"
"Well, what you need to understand is… we aren't from here, not this universe but a parallel one. We came here because… this is going to sound strange but … you asked us to, when you're a bit older you go to our universe and ask us to come to this one to save people." Began Max
"In our dimension, most of these things are fiction, the ninja world is fiction the alchemists are fiction. The ninja world is from a book called Naruto, and its how we knew what would happen, we changed the time line a bit but not much"
"When we came here we got put in three year old bodies but retained all our knowledge which is why I excelled and created those techniques" finished Max
"What we have just told you should be considered a secret of the highest class; no one can know or find out" added Laura.
"Out of interest how did you get over your memories, the not so good ones?" asked Itachi, completely unfazed by the information he had just been told.
"Like one of my teachers once said, you have to remember to forget"
"I remember that, the whole class got confused from it," laughed Laura.
"That was so funny, anyway I need to get to Japan within the next few days, do me a favour and cover for me. I'll owe you both"
"Are you sure that's wise, you've only just gotten you memories back"
"When am I not fine?"
"You better come back in one piece, I will still piss on your grave if you get killed before you're twenty" warned Laura.
"Of course. Watch you back and each others, Dumbledore will try again," Said Max and she headed off for the gates. Her stuff was on her, she had stuff in scrolls. She never left them anywhere in case she needed to leave short notice.
Just the other side of the gate Max felt someone behind her.
"What do you want?" Max asked aloud.
"You to come back in one piece" she heard Itachi say. She smiled and turned.
"Of course I will. Have I ever not… wait don't answer that. This should be a simple search and retrieve mission, nothing to worry about" Max reassured, she gave Itachi a quick hug and impulsive kiss on the cheek before walking to the other side of the Wards boundary and apparating out.
"I hate the way you say 'should' it should be 'will' especially when you do something stupid like apparating without much experience" Itachi said to the space were she had been, he touched his cheek where she had kissed.
Max appeared in a side alley in London. She did a quick check of body parts and headed to a main road to figure out where to go next. She took a card from her pocket and read the address. It was somewhere in Winchester. Max was lucky she had been there before so knew roughly, which train to get.
The train ride was long and boring but short compared to the Hogwarts express. Max spent most of it trying not to be sick over someone and trying to keep her headache at bay.
She quickly henged into her alias of Mu in a back alley and headed to the gates to Wammy's house.
"What is your business here?"
"I need to talk to L"
"Why?"
"I can only talk to L on this matter"
"Do you have a card?" Max held up the business card she had been given. The gates buzzed and opened. Max walked up the drive to the house. Watari opened the door.
"Mu?"
"Yeah, it's me, I have important news but I assume you already know"
"Yes, I've heard that Light has escaped"
"He's going to go after the detectives who caught him, and try to get that note book back. That puts me and L in danger"
"I understand, L will be warned"
"I will be undertaking a job to seek him out and bring him to justice. I will keep you informed"
"You're doing this for Psi aren't you?" asked Watari knowingly.
"Yes, she was my best friend and I'll make sure she didn't die in vain"
"Just remember to think rationally, L is already on his way to Japan, he will contact you, play some tennis the courts there are well maintained" Mu smiled then turned back down the drive.
She quickly arranged to catch the next flight to Japan. She was so glad for Gringotts system of conversion into muggle money via a muggle bank account feature. She made a note to see how Harry and Draco were doing at their new school.
The flight was uneventful despite seeing another genius. Yes, Artemis Fowl was also on the flight what he was doing on a commercial flight was lost on her. Max was flying as her normal self due to the fact she only had a passport in that name and picture, she was regretting it immensely. She could tell that the boy genius had recognized her.
"Fancy seeing you here" Max said as he approached.
"Must have been coincident"
"I don't believe in coincident, besides someone as rich as you would surely have his own aeroplane"
"You could just be paranoid"
"I know I'm paranoid, I also know I'm right"
"I'm Artemis Fowl the second"
"Maxine Hakie, please call me Max, because quite frankly I don't care how skilled you bodyguard is I will still make you regret it"
"You don't seem to have anyone else travelling with you," said Artemis sitting in the empty seat next to Max.
"They were all busy"
"Isn't it term time at schools?"
"It is"
"Shouldn't you be at school then?"
"Shouldn't you?" retorted Max.
"Touché, my school is on a trip to Japan to visit its twin school, I got delayed slightly so took a later flight" he clarified
"I'm visiting a friend who goes to school in Japan, I'll be working there for a term or two so I don't get behind on my school work" returned Max.
"What do you study?" asked Artemis. Max smiled, and they started to converse about various subjects and their opinions on them.
All too soon, the plane landed and they disembarked heading their separate ways. Max went to the old hotel she had originally been at for the case, changing into her Mu alias again once she had gotten there. She took the same precautions as she had before the mask and hat under Henge.
She had made Mu 15 in the previous case so he looked a bit older but not much. She knew that L wouldn't be there but it would give her some familiar ground.
The next thing she did was head to the nearest tennis courts. She still couldn't walk past the lamppost without laughing. She noticed Rem ahead of her and by the looks of it Ryuk. Well finding Light was easier than expected. She hadn't noticed the crowd near by though. Max walked up to them.
"Excuse me, do you know where the nearest tennis courts are, I'm supposed to be meeting my friend there but I don't know where it is" lied Max politely. She looked at all of them trying to see if Light was disguised as one of them.
"Its down to the end of the road and turn Left, keep walking until you reach a crossroad then turn left again and along there you should see it"
"Thank you" said Max as she walked off, following the directions. She kept an eye open for Light, she could see Rem following her and Ryuk was going in a different direction.
At the tennis courts she made a clone of the old Zeta alias appear from a back alley holding a bag with tennis equipment. She had made it book the courts for about half an hour. Max and her clone each took a racquet and a couple of balls and started to play.
Max herself hadn't played tennis in years, but she still knew most of the rules. She made Mu a bit better than Zeta; it would fit, as Zeta seemed to care more about looks than sport.
Max noticed a crowd forming. She didn't miss L in the crowd watching. Nor did she miss Light in disguise not far from L both oblivious of each other and both watching her and her clone. She couldn't stop the match with out alerting the two of them that she knew they were there.
She also saw a weird group of people, there were a set of twins her were watching excitedly. A girl dressed as a boy, and Max thought she was the only one disguised as a boy, a small boy who looked no older that 12 standing next to a giant of a boy with dark hair. There was also a blond boy who seemed to be pestering the girl and lastly a black haired boy with glasses just watching. They just didn't seem like the kind of people who would hand around some tennis courts
Max had realised she was much better at tennis than she had been in the other universe, probably because she had trained her reactions to a higher level and her speed was faster. The game finished and Light in his brilliant disguise that Max could see through, her eyesight and sense of smell were better than anyone's and she could identify him from those things, challenged Max.
He then got his ass royally handed to him. Max showed no mercy with her serves. She was surprised her racquet was still in one piece with the power she put into her shots. She was immensely glad for her ninja training or she would no way have lasted even the first match.
Light still tried his hardest to beat her; Max assumed it was some sort of delusion that if he beat Mu then he would beat Mu in the actual cat and mouse game. Ryuk was floating with Rem and they were talking.
"You aren't too bad" complemented Max as she hit the ball back across the net. she was playing more than tennis now, she was playing with minds. She had effectively thrown down the towel. Light couldn't do anything at the moment since she had done nothing hostile. It would draw unwanted attention to him.
"I haven't played tennis in a few years so I'm a bit rusty," said Light. Damn, Max thought, she had hoped her would have gotten a bit peeved with her.
"Nor have I, I've been busy," Max wasn't exactly lying. The game ended Max winning by a lot, she reckoned she should introduce the game to ninjas back home. As she walked back to the hotel making sure Light wasn't following her, she felt someone else following her. She kind of guessed it wasn't just Rem.
"L?"
"Yes?"
"Is it safe for you to be out when Light's out for you blood and that book" asked Max with an eyebrow raised.
"No"
"Well aren't you the safety conscious person," said Max sarcastically.
"It's not safe for you either," L pointed out.
"I don't need protecting, I can keep myself safe, and I won't die by blocked arteries from cholesterol that's through the roof" L gave her a funny look.
"How old are you" asked L, Max was caught of guard.
"Huh"
"How old are you?" L repeated.
"Why?"
"You need to go to school or it would look a bit suspicious. Watari is setting it up but I need to know which grade you need to be in"
"16" anything less and Max wouldn't be taken seriously and be treated like a stressy teen. Much more and she would be teased for being short for her age, especially as a boy.
"It'll be sorted by the weekend, meet here tomorrow and I'll take you to a place you can live for the time being" Max nodded and headed home. She noticed L getting into a car and driving off as Max was walking down the street.
She was wondering about the school and how long she would actually stay there. She probably would have to go back for the second task and the third but apart from that she was going to avoid Hogwarts like the plague. There was no way she would go to the Yule ball.
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Max has he memory back, Itachi knows Max and Laura's secret a tad of romance and Max is going to school as a guy, how is Max going to cope?
Review please, it helps me so much.
