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Chapter 34

They've been in Bill and Fleur's house for two weeks. And those two weeks have been like heaven after a tour in hell.

At least, that's what Sakura felt like.

She was also bracing herself for the upcoming plans of Harry Potter. The One who lived? Scratch that. She had a better one. The one so dedicated, that he was actually offering himself to get killed. Yes, much more suitable.

" At least they told us this time." Naruto shrugged it off. " They knew, that teme would find out anyway, so they told us, which is a good thing."

Sakura knew, that it was quite the improvement. At least they could protect them better like that.

But there was also another problem. They wanted to leave soon. And Naruto was having some objections.

" Uh-huh! Nope, I have to get word from Konoha first, it's the first time we've settled for a while, so we're staying here until I get my answer back."

" What is so important, that you're taking care of it and not Kakashi?" Kiba growled furiously that day, while Sakura and Sasuke were already growling with exasperation.

" Scrolls!" the blonde scoffed.

" Scrolls? New weapons? What ones?"

" Tch, who said anything about weapons? I am waiting my scrolls from Ichiraku's!"

That's when Sasuke and Sakura groaned, Sai's mouth formed an 'O' and most of the other shinobi simply sweatdropped. typical Naruto.

" Excuse me, but what's Ichiraku's?" Ron asked from behind the table. " You've mentioned it before, as well."

" The master of it all! The man, who is better than Voldemort, Dumbledore, Harry, Tsunade and-"

" He's a cook." Sasuke cut off Naruto's rambling. " Let's go find Suigetsu, Sakura, he might be killing Karin somewhere."

" And why is that a bad thing?" the rosette muttered, before taking off after him with a grumpy expression.

" Anyway." Kakashi appeared out of nowhere right beside Hermione, who clutched her throat, since the man had scared the hell out of her. " We've got to pack some food, Naruto's right. I do not want to be living off some wild berries again."

" YES! Ya'all kneel in front of Ichiraku's might! You won't be getting even one bite from my ramen though."

Harry wasn't listening to their conversation...he was too busy thinking about his constant was too busy thinking about the Deathly Hallows and about Voldemort and Dumbledore, about Olivander and about Gringotts. About everything. And his scar hurt so much!

He had witnessed the slaughtering in Malfoy's Manor after they left. Only a few from the many captured Death Eaters made it through the Dark Lord's angry outburst. The Malfoys were all alive. Badly injured, yes, tortured and manipulated, yes, but alive. Mind you, Harry was only talking about Draco there. He couldn't care less about his father. Narcissa was pretty irrelevant to him, but Draco Malfoy has proved his belonging of a human soul! He had released Hinata and Ino! And that was saying something.

That thought was only making Harry angrier. So many years of equally shared hatred was now seeming to fade away. And was actually starting to get replaced by pity and approval. he clenched his fists.

" We'll be off tomorrow."

That stopped all the conversations, Naruto dropped his kunai on Tenten's foot, who didn't even seem to notice. Neji seemed to lose his composure for a moment, before straightening up once again and poking his girlfriend, showing the kunai that was sticking out between her toes. Kiba and Ino stared at each other, both of them looking rather displeased.

Getting out of Bill and Fleur's house now would feel exactly like going back to hell after a little trip to heaven.

" Everybody!" the french woman appeared on the window of the kitchen, startling everybody. " Ze food is ready, come join!"

They all spared Harry a look, before heading back towards the house.

" What?"

" Nothing."

" Spit it out, Ron!"

" I said it's no-...Oh, fine, just don't look at me like that!" the redheaded boy frowned under the gazes of his best friend and Hermione. " I just think it's stupid to leave so soon. We cannot yet trust Griphook! The goblin is nuts, I'm telling you!"

" Ron is right, Harry." the girl nodded with such a weird expression, that harry wondered whether she had difficulties with admitting, that Ronald actually said something right. " It's simply.."

" Bloody hell!" Ron gasped, while Harry and Hermione looked at him. The boy was staring at Bill's garden with his eyes open wide in shock. " Look at that!"

Harry turned around and narrowed his eyes. Hermione gasped and then covered her mouth with both her hands.

And she had a damn good reason to.

The Hokage of Konoha, the mighty woman they've had the pleasure to know, Tsunade, was standing there with all her might, surrounded by three masked people, with gray vests. And she certainly did not look happy.

" BRATS!" she bellowed and harry shivered, but took the first step towards her. One of her guards stood in front of her protectively, but she pushed him rather hardly aside and started making steps towards Harry, who suddenly felt like running away, Damn, didn't she look scarier than the dragon he had to face during the Triwizard Tournament?

Once she caught him by the collar and pulled him closer, she growled.

" I see you're alive. I might not kill him on the instant, then. Where the hell is Kakashi?"

" I would be here.''

Harry, as well as everybody else looked to the side, to see the white haired shinobi scratching the back of his head awkwardly, while Tsunade dissed Harry aside and formed fists.

" YOU!"

It all happened too fast. Tsunade managed to get Kakashi by the head and bury him halfway into the ground with her single punch. The earth shaked beneath their feet. Her guards looked like they wanted to help the poor Kakashi, but stood in place, knowing better than interfering with a fuming woman.

" You, imbecile! CAN YOU NOT GRASP THE CONTENT OF ' DO NOT LEAVE HIM OUT OF YOUR EYESIGHT', EH?! CAN YOU NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT 'THEY WANT HIM AND YOU HAVE TO KEEP HIM SAFE' MEANS?!"

" Em, are we talking about Naruto or Harry?"

" BOTH!"

" Well,as my defence, I'd like to say, that life took unexpected turns and made me realize, that they had to find their own inner power in order to survive."

Harry turned around, as he heard footsteps. The whole lot from the house had joined, while Naruto jumped hastily in front of his teacher.

" Hello, granny, long time no see!"

" YOU!"

" Shit..."

They were running around for a while, at inhuman speed, harry was not able to cope with it. But it all ended with another slight earthquake and Naruto burried down to his neck right next to Kakashi who smiled at him friendly. Harry shivered.

" AND YOU!" Tsunade turned to Sasuke, who was standing beside Harry. " YOU!"

" What?" he asked quietly, with a sigh. " If you need a punching bag, you could as well use Choji, he's..."

" YOU SAID YOU HAD KILLED OROCHIMARU!"

" Ah, that, yeah, I thought that a Chidori in the heart was pretty enough, Actually, i thought that the lack of pulse was pretty convinient."

" IDIOT!"

After a good of three seconds, Sasuke was in line with Kakashi and Naruto, deep in the ground, his head showing above it. Sakura laughed heartily, but was sent a glare, after which she shut up.

" And you, Sakura! You should not have agreed on leaving with Naruto and Sasuke towards the Element Countries! How...how could you?"

Harry noticed, that her tone towards Sakura was far warmer and felt like it was pretty unfair. The rosette, however, sighed.

" I know that I disappointed you, Tsunade-sama. But, as Kakashi-sensei was saying, Naruto fought for what he thought was right and I, as his friend...and Sasuke, for the matter, thought it would be proper to help our teammate. How did you know, anyway? Kakashi did't mention it in the reports..."

Tsunade straightened for a second, before turning around to her guards and nodding. One of them stepped forward and stood next to her, then formed a seal and muttered.

" Kai!"

And in the next moment, at least ten people gasped, three - Karin, Juugo and Suigetsu, hovered behind the Konoha group in fear, Harry's eyes narrowed, Ron and Hermione were pulling him backwards slowly, as if trying to get him out of the danger zone, Shikamaru whispered annoyed under his breath, a few cursed, Sasuke hissed.

Orochimaru looked at him with a smile.

" Did you miss me, Sasuke-kun?"

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