Disclaimer: How many times do I have to tell you that Naruto and Harry Potter aren't mine?
Author's Note: Yay, I'm back in full force in the 5th chappie. Hope you'll like it! No suing my grammar or anything like that! I got bored with that kind of review. I know that I'm not good at English, but for God's sake, you don't need to remind me again. When I got a beta, he/she/they will edit my fic.
Chapter FiveGet To Know The World
Naruto blinked blearily as the morning sun greeted him. He groaned and rolled to the other side when his head bumped into something firm and yet soft at the same time.
/Huh/ He peeked from one of his eyes questioningly and saw a dark silhouette beside him. /Sasuke/ he questioned to himself. The dark haired boy didn't respond as he continued sleeping peacefully. 'What the hell he was doing in my bed?' He looked at his surrounding and saw Neji plus Shikamaru in other bed. 'What the? Where the fuck I am?' He sat up on the bed and rubbed his eyes.
/Dobe, don't move around/ Sasuke murmured half sleeping.
Naruto took off the blanket and stood up, exited the room silently wondering where he was and what he was doing there. He went downstairs when he heard the steady sound of knife cutting below. The young chuunin entered the kitchen and saw a woman cooking. Knifes were cutting the vegetables themselves, tea poured from the kettle to the cups in the table… wait, wait, wait… knifes and teakettle flying? Was he having a delusion?
'I must be still half sleeping,' he went back to the room where he was before and plopped down beside his ex genin teammate. He snuggled to his friend's warmth and dozed off once again not even realizing when some minutes later his bedmate's right arm wove around him and brought him closer.
/Naruto, wake up/ the familiar voice commanded him, but he felt like refusing a mission right now. Bed sounded nice. A sigh. /There's free ramen in Ichira—/ Before that person could finished the sentence, Naruto was already awake and bolted up from his sleep. He was met with his teammates' chuckles.
Naruto scowled (more like pouted) when he realized that Sasuke tricked him, again.
/Come on, breakfast is ready downstairs/ he dragged the still sleepy Naruto from his bed much to the blonde chagrin.
"Well, I'll be damned," Naruto muttered as he scanned the road and the crowds who were suspiciously (and ridiculously) wearing something like bathrobe to go out. He didn't take a notice about the wizard's attire yesterday and this morning the people they went with using somewhat normal clothes (according to his fashion sense, that is).
"What did these people expected when someone attacked them when they wearing that?" He turned to the green-eyed boy. "Did they want to trip or something, wearing that?" He knew that he wasn't one that cared about clothing, but this was beyond ridiculous. Heck, he was actually changed his bright orange clothes with darker color because just like his former genin team sensei said, that he was practically screaming to every enemy shinobi to come with that bright color.
"Er…" Harry blushed a little. He was thinking that actually the wizard clothes were too outlandish and sometimes it was indeed looked ridiculous and outdated comparing to the clothes muggles wear too. "I think that's just a tradition."
"Alright, guys," Ginny grumbled. "…And girl. Let's go to Gringotts first," Bill led them to the biggest building on the alley.
"What's Gringotts?" Naruto asked curiously. Behind him his friends also nodded.
"It's wizarding world's bank. It was run by the goblins."
"Goblin?"
"A non human creature. They love treasure and everything related. Strict too. Just don't go attacking them though!" he warned them. "Speaking of Gringotts, I work there as a curse breaker."
What kind of job is that?"
"Well just like its name, my job is to break the curse trap in the place where treasures were to let the Gringotts worker to take."
"…That's sounds like robbing," Sasuke chimed in. Bill paled at the comment.
"How so?"
"I doubt that the treasure was yours in the first place. If you take it without permission, doesn't that mean that you steal?"
"…" The wizard boys and a witch girl looked at each other. They have never thought about that. "There is no longer any owner of those treasures…" he reasoned though he didn't sound sure like before.
Sasuke only shrugged. "The traps were there for a reason," he bit back.
"Hey, Harry, have you heard from Hermione?" Ron turned to his friend.
"Not yet. Why?"
"We haven't told her about what happened."
"So?"
"SO? What do you mean with that?"
"No need to make her worry about it. We'll tell her when we see her."
"Fine," a pause. "Hey, if the Dursleys are dead, wouldn't that mean you don't need to go to Privet Drive anymore?" he asked excitedly.
"…I guess so." Before he knew it they were in front of the huge bank.
Harry saw as the four stiffened and reached for their weapons when they met the goblin. They didn't attack them because of Bill's warning but he knew they were tense and be on guard around them.
"I want to take money from Hogwarts' vault for 4 new students here. They are gonna be 6th year but have no training before so they need 6 times more money each," Bill spoke with a goblin. He gave him an envelope with the Hogwarts crest on it. The goblin took it and read the letter. When he was finished he nodded. He shouted to one goblin in the corner and whispered to him for a moment before the last goblin hurried off.
"It will be taken care of for a moment. Anything else?"
"Yes, we want to visit our vaults."
"Very well," Bill gave him his gratitude. "The keys?" Harry, Ginny, and Bill handed their keys AN: you don't think that Bill has the same vault with his family, don't you? Ginny hold the Weasley's vault key . The goblin checked them and nodded. "Everything seems to be in order." The goblin from before brought back 4 pouches of money with him. Bill accepted the pouches and handed each of them to the four of them.
The group enjoyed the ride as the shinobis were absorbing everything as a new experience. When they have collected their share of money, they got back to the hall.
"Now where to?" he asked.
"Quidditch Supply," Ron shouted, but Bill shook his head making his face crestfallen.
"No, Ron. We need to take care of their necessities first."
"We could go to Flourish and Blotts, the apothecary, Madam Malkin or Olivander," Harry suggested.
"Ollivander then. We'll see what are your wands. Come along boys!"
'Hey!"
A sigh. "Yes Ginny dear, you too."
Harry saw as another window blow up and sighed. They were in Ollivander's wand shop for over 3 hours and only Shikamaru and Neji found their wands. He was tired, bored, and so did the others. Even he wasn't THIS tricky. The shop was messed up and he was worried if this happened again the shop could be destroyed. The wand waving's results were disaster especially if it was Naruto. They would either blown something or the wand would crack under their magic pressure. The same actually happened with Neji and Shikamaru only in lesser degree who got their wands after they tried it for the thousandth times. Ollivander didn't look too happy with these 'accidents'. Heck he even looked worried!
Ollivander sighed at the sight of his almost destroyed shop and the broken wands. His poor wands…
"Alright, kids. You two obviously have great magical power that none of the wands here could handle it. I have given the 2 powerful ones to your friends…but it seemed that the other powerful ones couldn't even handle you." Naruto and Sasuke had a tendency to look worried. Would they get their wands? "These are the last two. If these aren't work too…well I guess that I have to make new wands for you."
Naruto took one of them and swished it hopefully along with Sasuke. They were tired with this too. The wands glowed as Ollivander hoped them to work and not destroy his shop on the process. From Naruto's and Sasuke's wands sparks came out and enveloped them with warmth.
The wand maker heaved a sigh of relief. "That kid's wand," he pointed at Shikamaru, "is Shadow wood, 13 inches, black phoenix's feather."
Gasps. Shikamaru, co raised their eyebrows in question. "Is there even a black phoenix? And I have never heard about shadow wood before," Bill was intrigued.
"There are some. They were rarer than normal phoenix, using black flames instead of red flames, Mr. Weasley. The Shadow tree was extinct 2000 years ago, I believe. Anyway the kid over there got shadow wood 13 ½ inches, black unicorn's hair. And before you're asking they were believed as a war unicorn. My ancestor was lucky to get that strand of hair. Almost got killed to get it," Neji eyed his wand carefully.
"Those 2 wands they got are my family most prized wands. They're actually not wood and the cores are more unusual. The ivory one," Naruto's eyes swept to his wand. "Is dragon fang, not the usual dragon too, but a dragon which was believed to be a myth, Sherein, the elemental dragon. 12 inches and the core is the fur of fox demon or god, whichever your point of view (Naruto cringed). While the black ones is basilisk fang," shocked gasps with some shouts of 'WHAT!' greeted Ollivander who ignored it. "The core is powdered hydra scale." Jaws dropping to the floor as they glanced at the last 2 wands in the both chuunin's hand.
"Holy mother," Ron mumbled.
"What're basilisk and hydra?"
"They're mythical snakes," Sasuke blanched as he unconsciously rubbed his neck where his curse seal was. "The basilisk is a snake that could kill you with its glance, while hydra is a snake that…well I don't know exactly its power, just that it's an eight headed snake." Neji and Shikamaru pitied both boys of their fates. "No need to pay for all of your wands. The experience that I see they were in their masters' hand is enough for me." Bill mumbled thanks and they went out of the shop hurriedly.
"Well since you got your wands let's go to Madam Malkin to fit your robes," he said uneasily.
"Wait a second!" Naruto shouted. "What d'ya mean with robes? I ain't wearing that!" From the looks of his comrades they too agreed.
"Sorry, guys, it's Hogwarts standard uniform," he let a smile reached his lips at the energetic boy's shout.
"No way. It looked horrid and it will hinder my movement," he protested.
"It's a rule, kid."
"Then changed it! I don't care if anyone else want to wear it, but I won't wear a bathrobe!" Bill and the others sweatdropped.
"It's not bathrobe," he persuaded.
"It does look like it," he pouted.
"Come on. I promise you won't look bad with it."
"I don't care if I look good with it. It's embarrassing not to mention ridiculous. What if you trip or something?"
"Please? I beg you just wear it," Bill was desperate now. "You only need to use it when you go to class."
"Naruto, just do what he said. I don't care anymore. Beside it does look better than the Akatsuki cloak," Sasuke nudged him with his elbow. Bill gave him a thankful gaze although wondering what the heck Akatsuki was.
Naruto seemed to remember about something before nodded dejectedly. "I guess you're right." Then he suddenly grinned. "Hey, don't you think we need to buy other clothes as well, we don't bring any other clothes with us, you know."
Shikamaru turned to Bill. "Is there a clothes shop that sell more…normal clothes?"
"I guest we need to go to muggle London then," he sighed. "We'll go there when we finished here," the lazy nin nodded. They entered the clothes shop together.
"Is there anything I can help you?" a woman in her twenties appeared. She was pretty and has beautiful brown hair.
"5 standard black robes each for those four. And maybe dress robe if there's a ball in hogwarts," the woman looked at the four appreciatively although she raised her eyebrow when she saw Neji. She looked sympathetic thinking that he was blind. Her eyes then rested Sasuke who quickly scowled as she checked him out then at Naruto longer.
"What about the house crest?" she asked in the end when she winked at Naruto who didn't reply back and let out a disappointed face.
"None for now. They still haven't been sorted."
"You don't mean they're first year, right?" she looked skeptical at them. They are obviously young men, healthy young men with the bodies of a Greek god.
"No, they're not first year. They're transfer students from Japan," she nodded and gestured them to follow her. Reluctantly they complied.
The tape measure moving by itself as it measured their size. The girl noted their sizes in a parchment and went to the back leaving them alone. She was back with 4 robes and gave them to the shinobis to try them. She nodded appreciatively and conjured a mirror for them.
"Well at least I don't look like a chicken bandaged all over its body," Naruto murmured, not actually wanted to admit that he looked good with it.
"Which dress robes do you want to choose?"
"Huh? What dress robes?"
"Well, won't you go to the Christmas or Hallowen Ball?" she asked curiously.
Naruto turned to Bill accusingly. "You said that we only need to wear it when we go to class?"
"I did. It's just a tradition to wear them in a ball."
"I won't take it then. There's no rule to wear them in that event, right?" Bill nodded. The other four also declined the dress robe offer. The woman looked disappointed, though Bill believed it wasn't because she wouldn't get more profit.
"We'll just take the standard black robes." They paid for the clothes and went out of the store. "Next, apothecary."
They entered the store and Naruto quickly pinched his nose in disgust. His other friends frowned at the smell but didn't say anything. "The smell is awful," Naruto commented trying to ignore the smell which was rather hard for him because of his smell sense was more enhanced than other people. They hurried with their shopping there and quickly exited the shop.
"Well, it's a potion ingredient shop afterall," the curse breaker joked as he led them to Flourish and Blotts.
"Books, books, books, and more books," Naruto and Shikamaru sighed heavily when he saw how many books they have to buy and that was only for the schoolbooks. From the corner of his eyes he saw Sasuke and Neji rummaged the books from the shelves trying to find books that interested them. Which were many, he grimaced as they dropped the books in the piles.
Harry, Ron, and Ginny separated their books from them. Naruto's eyes widened when he saw Harry's book piles which were bigger than even the 6 of them combined.
"Geez, Harry! Are you turning into a bookworm now?" the youngest Weasley boy gaped. "I think we have enough of Hermione as the smartass in our group?"
"They're for preparation, Ron. I realized that I couldn't just twiddle my thumb when Voldemort (Ron flinched making Harry shook his head in exasperation) is in my heel. I need more spells for my arsenal. They could make differences in life death situation."
"Can we borrow your books once in a while?" Neji actually asked. He was worried that they couldn't afford to buy all of the extra books with the money they had.
"Sure, no problem," the Hyuuga boy thanked him.
When they paid for the books, the shinobis realized they still have much money (they only buy 5 robes not 30 robes each. The same happened with the potion ingredients and cauldrons. Afterall the money they got was 6th times more than normal. Not to mention that they didn't need to pay for the wands) with them and decided to keep it for future need.
"Hmm…we still need to buy parchment and quills." Bill asked as he pocketed the now shrunken books.
"You still use quills to write? Did you guys live in a stone age?" Naruto groaned. "Don't you have a note book and pencil or pen?" In the shinobi world they were actually still use quills too, but it was normally used for jutsu scroll only, not for daily use.
"The muggles use them," Harry said. Now that he thought of it, they were indeed ridiculous. Why use traditional way when a more easy way was there?
"We'll buy them in London too I guess," Bill scratched his head tiredly.
"Wait, I want to buy quills and parchments. I'm not used using muggle writing pen," Ron told his brother.
In the end they went to the 'Alexander's Quills' bookstore. Sasuke and Neji bought some invisible quills that wouldn't appear if the paper weren't splashed with a specific liquid (which they bought too) and some standard quills while Naruto and Shikamaru just the standard ones. They also bought long parchments, just incase.
"Do you guys still have money in your pouches?" they nodded. "Do you want to buy a pet for you?"
"I don't need a pet. Beside I want to use the money to buy more kunais. I don't bring many with me when we got here," Naruto said as he thought of his weapons.
Shikamaru agreed. "And we needed to buy clothes for daily use."
Bill groaned. "Now that if I thought about it, we haven't exchanged the money for muggles currency."
"They have different currency?"
"Yes. That means we need to go to Gringotts again." When they got to Gringotts, as his new friends exchanged some of their money, Harry asked the goblin for a way to get money from his vault without the need to go to his vault everytime and that would work for muggles as well. They got him the Gringotts card and charged him 10 galleons for it.
They have lunch served in Leaky Cauldron where the more experienced wizards and witch told them about the wizarding world. Naruto missed his ramen so much. He hasn't eaten any of them for a whole 2 days. He enjoyed the food served there, but he preferred his delicious ramen.
When they were done eating they went to London and entered the nearest bookstore and clothes shop. 2 hours later they were done. They almost headed back to Grimmauld Place when Naruto complained that they haven't bought more kunais (and Ron: "I want to go to Quidditch Supplies!"), so they eventually went back to Diagon Alley.
They went to Bill's friend's weapon shop first much to Ron's chagrin. Shane Brookes welcomed them. He was quite surprised when he saw a bunch of boys asked for kunais and shuriken which were ninja's so called weapon.
"Aren't you underage or something?"
"Am not," Naruto glared. "We're very capable of handling them!" Shane looked at his friends for help, but Bill just motioned him to do whatever he was asked.
"Well, I don't have any of them with me. My shop only sell western weapon," before he was interrupted he quickly added, "But I can made them for you if you wait for some days. Do you have any specific order for that?"
Naruto took one of his kunai and shuriken. "Made them like these," Shane stared at the weapons then at Naruto and then backs again at the weapons.
'You have very interesting weapons there," he blurted out which made Naruto grinned happily.
"I also wanted to order some more weapons," the Uchiha genius told him. He took out his notebook and pen before drawing fuuma shuriken and gave him the drawing. "Also do you have string?"
"String?" he asked dumbly.
"Yes. Preferably transparent strong, flexible and long enough."
"I'm a blacksmith," he stated.
"And this is a weapon shop," Sasuke retorted.
Shane sighed. "Fine, I'll search it for you," the dark haired teen smirked, happy that what he wanted fulfilled.
"How much? And how many days?"
The brown haired man contemplated it for a moment. "50 kunai and 100 shuriken for a galleon. 100 kunai or 200 shuriken for a galleon. 15 sickles for the big shuriken. Don't know about the string's price. For how long it depend on how much you order."
"I'll take 100 kunai and 200 shuriken," Naruto ordered. "We can still order from you afterwards, right?" he asked for confirmation. The blacksmith nodded. Shikamaru ordered the same like him.
Neji ordered 100 kunai and 100 shuriken. While Sasuke the same like Naruto and Shikamaru plus his order. They paid their order except for the strings and exited the place leaving Shane bewildered at their orders, pondering what they needed of those things.
"Man, I don't bring many explosive tags with me," Naruto whined. "And I bet the wizards don't sell something like that."
"What's explosive tag?" Harry asked curiously as they were heading to the Quidditch shop. Ron was already in the front as he was excited. Ginny and Bill stared at them too.
"Just some kind of a paper that could explode like a bomb," jaws gaping.
"Just?" Shikamaru twitched. "Incase you forgot, I and Neji almost got killed when we pursued the sound four by those wretched tags."
"We'll you're still with us now." Shikamaru grumbled and crossed his arm in front of his chest.
"Hey, guys! What're you waiting for?" Ron practically dragged Harry with him to the store before he got a chance to ask them more about the explosive tags.
The four chuunins stood in front of the shop in disbelief. "What's up?" Bill asked.
"This shop…sells broom?" Sasuke asked incredulously
Bill laughed when he realized they didn't know about quidditch. "Not just any broom! Flying broom!"
"…"
"Yeah, right."
"I'm not joking. Just enter and you'll see!" the boys followed him hesitantly.
"Harry look! The newest broom in sale, thunderbolt of Bolt series. Look at the shape!" Harry read the description of the broom as his longtime friend drooled at the broom.
Thunderbolt, 3rd of Bolt series after Firebolt
Max speed: 300 kilometers/hour
Acceleration: 10 km/hour to 100 km/hour in 4 seconds.
Control: easier than firebolt
Charm:unbreakable, waterproof, fireproof, automatically cleansing (manual cleaning is recommended)
Made of: teakwood (hard and strong make it more stable whenever it was hit by bludger or other player's broom), the handle is made of willow (whippy, more sensitive to a touch enabling the owner to easily direct the broom without much effort)
Has been tested by: Victor Krum, Andrew Bergeony, Leah Lindsey, Diddle Dellos
Price:1250 galleons (can be negotiated)
"1250 galleons? Just for a broom?" Naruto exclaimed disbelievingly at the price tag. He could buy 100 kunais or 200 shurikens with 1 galleon.
"Of course it is expensive, it is the best broom today!" Ron shouted.
"What's quidditch anyway?"
"You don't know the greatest sport!"
"If I know he won't ask you," Sasuke said gruffly. Ron quickly chatted all of his knowledge about quidditch to them.
"Pretty boring if you ask me," Naruto commented.
"WHAAAAAAAAATTTT! You don't know how great the sport is! You've never seen it!"
"Well you just have to dodge the attacking balls, sent smaller balls to the goal and search for a very small ball, isn't it?" Ron looked offended. Even Harry couldn't help but felt this too.
"And what sport you like to do?"
"Sparring of course. It wouldn't be always the same. Every time you spar there are surprises and different ways to defeat your opponents. It gives me the adrenaline pump."
"Hey kid if you're thinking that quidditch is easy why don't you catch this snitch!" an old man obviously the owner from his tag name yelled. He released the snitch inside the store. The winged ball quickly speed up and zigzag around the store.
A second later it was trying to escape from Naruto's clutch. The wizards and witches there were gaping and their eyes were wide.
"Wait, it hasn't reached its max speed yet. Wait for 5 seconds then try to catch it again," the old man said again thinking that it was pure luck. Naruto shrugged and released the ball once again.
5 seconds later the snitch tried to escape from his palm once again.
Now the people there were truly gawking.
'Here," he handed the winged ball to the old man smiling all the way. The old man couldn't speak anything as he put back the snitch back to its confine.
"Damn, you're gonna give me a run of money if you're a seeker too," Harry managed to say in the end.
TBC……..
Guess that the 5th chap is over now. Well the shopping day is over. Gimme review. Gimme, gimme, gimme! You owe me much for this chap. I didn't sleep to finish it! Never thought that shopping day will take these long pages.
Next chap: The Ride to Hogwarts