Disclaimer: Woman, I don't need to own Naruto to write FanFiction.
Penname:LiveLoveLaugh
FanFiction Story: Magical Chakra
Summary: NarutoHP Xovr When Team Seven has been sent to Hogwarts School, they meet up with the Boy Who Lived, experience new wild rides in a new place, and go on incredible adventures of a lifetime.
AN: This chapter was the second half of the last one. I thought it was too long.
Chapter Twelve
Restless Exhaustion
"Who is our enemy?" Sakura asked, taking a look at the pictures of Harry.
"His past name is Tom Marvolo Riddle, but now he goes by Lord Voldemort," Dumbledore leaned closer, whispering secretively, "But it's quite safer to call him You-Know-Who, so it would not be so rude and hazardous in front of my people."
"Why do we have to call him something else? It's not like we call Orochimaru: Thingy," Naruto scoffed, "Saying this evil dude's name won't kill us, I'm sure!" His teammates shot him warning glares.
"As respect towards other people's insecurities, I'm afraid," Dumbledore said sadly, "I have in the past tried to convince people of the same logic, but it failed numerous times."
"Before we can exactly get into the mission, how come none of us have ever heard of you or your 'people'?" Naruto asked, holding up his fingers in double colon gestures.
Albus sighed, moving in his leather chair for a more comfortable seat, "I suppose you ought to know about the wizarding world and the shinobi world…have you ever wondered why your people came to be…?"
When the three tykes looked at one another sternly, they simultaneously shook their heads. Dumbledore began.
"Shinobis are descendents from wizards, but they are so different and so small in groups of people that it's ever so hard to find them. This is why shinobis have chose to be far away from all wizards, though many Japanese wizards still live around the area, in the maps of Muggles and those of the younger generations of wizards and witches, seven hundred miles of original land is geographically missing. That is the first magical barrier we put up to encircle protection and secrecy, which are the two very strong points of the shinobis' preservation."
"Wait a moment!" Naruto shot his hand in the air, "What are Muggles?"
Dumbledore blinked, replying, "Muggles are the term the wizarding world uses to define someone without any magical powers and work by their own sweat and hands instead of depending their entire lives in spells as my people do."
"Hold up!" Sakura piped up, "If the shinobis are similar with wizards, are the Muggles like our civilians? You know…the normal villagers who didn't reside in the duties of ninjas?"
"Quite frankly, yes," the old man sat down comfortably on his seat, "But the civilians in the Five Countries have to live by what the DNA they are born with. Either to have shinobi blood or the talents of a civilian. Of course not many shinobi born have chosen the path of bloodshed. Quite a shock to the Order of the Phoenix when I tried explaining, of course..." he chuckled, "Muggles cannot revert themselves into becoming wizards, so by the blood they have taken from their ancestry, they would have weaker immune systems, weak towards all sorts of disease as one deep cut can easily kill them, limited thinking powers which means they can sink low into propaganda if they're not careful, and they cannot do magic. But in our case, wizards, shinobis, and your civilians are almost impervious to diseases and unlimited givens in cleverness with heighten emotions and senses, and these amazing powers given to us. We wizards have to block out everything about ourselves from Muggles as much as possible."
"Why is that?"
"Well, Mr. Uzumaki, as I had said before. Muggles are very malleable. They have lower assessment in thinking than all of us. They are more mysterious than we'll ever be. It's the most interesting way they think and the way they react. They feel the way they feel, the adrenaline that runs in their blood. They cannot cope with the things they know nothing about, and because they are so many more of them than us, terrible things would happen if they were exposed in the wrong sense of way."
"But I don't get it…" Naruto scowled with impatience, "Why did shinobis want to avoid the wizards and every other group around? I mean we can easily mingle with normal folks, can't we?"
The old man smiled warmly behind his beard, "You want to know why the shinobis are so special from the rest? Well, because you can be physically, emotionally, and mentally strong. Your very small group is very well gifted and so genuinely different. Look at your hair colors and the colors of your eyes. It's not generally the colors of ordinary Japanese. And also what singles you out is the way you look. Touch your cheekbones and the folds of your skin and you'll see what I mean. Look at the way you walk, talk, react, and the sixth sense you seem to have whenever something happens. Your skin is extra sensitive so you could even predict who the person is behind you without turning around. Your eyes can see farther than any other eye. The way shinobis think is off the charts in terms of intellectuality, you can think faster than everyone. Since the ninjas are such a small group compared with others, you are highly advanced species."
"I'm not sure, Naruto doesn't come off as intellectual," Sasuke smirked, easily sensing the blonde spouting horns from the top of his head.
"What differentiates the powers between wizards and shinobis?" Sakura asked curiously, trying her best to keep Naruto's struggles from attacking Sasuke.
The old man chuckled, expecting someone to ask that question, "Shinobis use a concept of molding chakra which is made up of spiritual powers, emotional powers, and mental powers, to create jutsus and such, mostly used for battle techniques and fighting to protect them defensively and offensively. They can live perfectly without the jutsus but if their chakra valves are drained, they would suffer long-lasting pain, or death. As I had said before, shinobis have heighten skills in fighting and their speed in physical matters and thinking abilities are amazing, that of geniuses'."
"Wizards…" Albus Dumbledore smiled lightly, "…are very powerful also. But on the other hand are completely defenseless without magic, which a release of short bursts of their individual chakra. It may take a long while to adapt each spell and magical command master for each wizard. It can easily be controlled with wands but only through very extreme emotions can they create such magic power beyond imagination. But the strongest weakness is if they lose their wands would their entire system of magical records, through spells and jinxes, vanish and they become immensely weak. And of course, through the combined powers of both wizards and shinobis, we were able to create a preservation for the shinobis to reside in…"
"How can we believe in magic or wizards?" Naruto cried, being a hothead, "Can you prove to us!"
Even though Sakura and Sasuke were upset at their heated teammate for being rude, once again, they were also very curious and eager to see the proof. Dumbledore smiled, "Most certainly…"
He pulled out a long skinny dark chestnut brown wand and pointed to the flower pot full of yellow daffodils and blue irises, and whispered in Latin in words that could not be explained or heard clearly. Like an invisible power bursting from his wand, feeling the fast strike of small chakra colliding towards the potted plant.
And there, just there, the flower pot was floating a foot off the table surface.
(Inner Sakura: HOLY! THAT'S PROOF ALRIGHT!) 'Whoa…marked me 'speechless'…'
"Any other questions?" Dumbledore asked slyly, vanishing his wand into his cloak. He just waited patiently, drinking in the shocked faces of the shinobi tykes.
"…yeah…what had happened that made the ninjas decided to leave the real world?" Naruto mumbled, breaking out of his reverie first.
Albus Dumbledore looked modestly at the blonde, fingering his leather armrest with his old nimble fingers, "There was a revolution between the wizards and the shinobis many eras ago. The shinobis decided to seclude themselves from the world and have all went to live in preservation of seven hundred miles of land in Japan. Your people's ways were much more different from wizards. Most wizards were entirely scared of the way your ancestors raised their shinobi children, teaching the arts of assassination at such an early age. Then it became an all-out argument between the two groups. Of course when it came to the point of killing, the Ministries of Magic throughout the world decided to give the large amounts of lands to keep the shinobis isolated from everyone else. I know it's difficult to explain, but to take the secrets from being spread, a mass of Memory Charms was distributed to wizards and witches around. It happened for over a hundred and fifty years ago…when I was only twenty-eight…"
Sakura gaped disbelievingly, "Y-Y-You c-can't b-b-be h-h-hundred and s-s-seventy-e-eight years o-old! The oldest age recorded in the Five Countries was about one hundred and ten!"
"I told you I was getting too old," the old wizard chuckled.
"You're not old! You're ancient!" Naruto exclaimed appalled, striking an index finger at him accusingly.
Dumbledore laughed softly to himself, Sasuke looked suspiciously at him and murmured, "What's Voldemort have to do with this mission? Concerning these clients…" His onyx eyes trailed over the pictures of boys scattered over the table.
Two twinkling orbs placed themselves on the young Chuunin sensibly, "I thought you'd never asked, Mr. Uchiha…" Dumbledore said gently, grinning slightly.
"I don't like wasting time," Sasuke smirked behind his crossed fingers.
"Of course," Albus said agreeably, "There are a few wizards who have been gifted with great powers and such talents he had that normal wizards dreamt of, and abused it…Tom Riddle was a good boy, he was an excellent student in Hogwarts. One would wonder how it would have been if he didn't live a tragic childhood…I was his Transfiguration teacher, if you can believe it. I was not yet a Hogwarts Headmaster, but that Tom was a strange one. If I would have taught him better, he…might not…have become the person he is today…"
Dumbledore looked almost teary-eyed, and sighed in restless exhaustion.
"Voldemort…is a dangerous figure…a man of sense when it comes down to evil and darkness. A man known as the creature who feeds on fears and intimidation. He has a vast group of followers called the Death Eaters around the world that all bowed to him and dream the same future of one race. One race of pureblooded wizards. And death to all Muggles and the so-called traitors of the wizarding blood. He's already miraculously survived the powerful backfired blow of the Killing Curse he's put on Harry Potter, he no sooner came up with numerous ways to live and arise once again…as the Dark Lord Voldemort, Ruler of the entire World."
"There was also another fine fellow, almost the same age as Voldemort," Dumbledore said depressingly, his eyes glazed, "Yes, a fine young shinobi, with talents that could have gotten him to become the next Hokage, and it had seemed…Sarutobi, the Sandaime Hokage had taught him well…taught him very well, indeed…so well that he prided himself into becoming even more powerful…"
"Is this shinobi Orochimaru…?" Sakura whispered edgily. Sasuke gripped his fists tightly, almost shaking in rage. Naruto looked at the table, with his electric blue eyes glaring so hard, it could have burned holes.
Albus sighed again, "Yes…I only met him once in my long lifetime…when he joined the Atasuki group, it was then Sarutobi and I met and discussed future sense. We didn't actually put up the Five Magical Barriers until after Orochimaru left the group in search of his fortunes and when Voldemort created havoc in parts of Europe and West Asia. They both had killed mercifully to get where they were then, Voldemort needed more troops of loyal followers, killed spies, sent Death Marks into the air, the people were screaming, families lost, a young girl in Hogwarts lost her uncle, aunt, and many of her cousins. I'm quite sure the Bones families were devastated, as so were many other people. Sarutobi and I…we made a composition. If Orochimaru and Voldemort were to find each other, the world would soon open up more fears and doom that our eyes have not seen…such things never to be spoken of…do you understand when I was twenty eight my father hid me in the family cellar. And I remember the smell of rum and cider; of the smokes from the floating candles which wax was melting on the cold cement…I remembered a blast of light from the tower flew towards my town, as did all towns in the world…I could only remember and remember I did, of shinobis. It was nothing but legends and unspoken children stories my father once told me, bless his soul. I was wise, even for my age, that I did not open my mouth and talk openly about ninjas of such. Memory Charms have already taken over everyone's minds except for a few people I later meet in my life."
"Do you not understand why seventeen years ago, Sarutobi and I put up barriers strong enough to block off the sights of Voldemort and Orochimaru. They can never see each other…for both their worlds are only half around the globe, completely separated of both Europe and Japan…West…East…it was dramatically evolutional, so beyond our dreams. We created old magic barriers, five—exactly five! First one was placed in the border line of the Five Countries, which isolated Muggle world from shinobi. That was skive off Orochimaru's mind from ever hearing about Europe's happenings. When he was raised, he did not know of such things. Mockery of the shinobi honor, of course, all due respect. The second barrier was placed around Britain, never would Voldemort know of Orochimaru, vice versa. The third barrier was placed in China, along the Great Wall, it was magnificent, the splendid idea Sarutobi came up with…"
In the look of his face, the child-like face that possessed the power of a thousand men, Dumbledore was almost speaking in a language of their ancestor's, in words unexplainable.
"Fourth barrier was my idea, to place it along Turkey towards Ukraine; they would have to face the cold mountains in Russia to get through. Not even flying carpets or even Apparation can help…it was ingenious...for nearly a year and a half we planned this and put it into action…"
He paused in a way that caught the three shinobis' breath, stopping their pulse, their heartbeats, and even their souls from moving. Dumbledore laced his fingers onto the wooden table, his lips glided in words of power.
"Fifth Barrier was the most important…" His eyes kept twinkling endlessly, "Sarutobi and I had to come up with everything to complete this mighty barrier. We have placed it along India's sea border and between Nepal and Bangladesh, crossing into Uzbekistan, then straight into the middle of Kazakhstan, and into Russia in its separation of both Europe and Asia…towards the Arctic Ocean. It was superb. It took us nearly five years to complete the fifth barrier…the barrier was miraculous…it was so entirely powerful…and through seventeen years, the five barriers held up…"
"But now…do you not see that nothing can be immortal…that nothing can hold up forever," Dumbledore smiled sadly, his strong tone dying down in a bliss of regret and exhaustion, "Two barriers were taken down by Orochimaru in three years, one was demolished by Voldemort's Death Eaters in a year…there's always a single flaw in my plan that Tom had always found…Only two barriers left, you understand? If Voldemort takes down the barrier in Turkey, Orochimaru and him will destroy the fifth barrier together…do you not see? That nothing can be immortal…undefeatable…as it looks…"
There they stared at him, appalled no less, astounded…
They were completely surprised that they never heard of him…
The bad feeling in Naruto's stomach would not go away…
There they stared at him lower his face, blinking his blue eyes that were slowly extinguishing its twinkling…
And then the great Albus Dumbledore fell into deep rest, covering over his blue eyes with his bony hand.
He lived too long…he didn't rest for so long…he's too old…too exhausted, it seems…
Thank you for reading! Please wait patiently for the next chapter!
RESPONSES TO MY REVIEWERS
To Firefox – To explain Naruto's awfully weird behavior you have to read on in the story, sadly I cannot leak out too much information, it'll explain everything later on. Haha, yeah, it took everyone a while to notice which were present or flashback chapters but in the 'Author Notes' (AN), it will explain everything. Thank you for reviewing!
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This was pretty long to write!
Sorry for the tardiness of the update I had kept everyone waiting through! I had been on Writer's Block ever since last chapter because I was too busy with pondering around—Gah! I became Kakashi himself!
Okay, I shouldn't make up excuses, but I have been going through rough times at my high school (Damn the unsharpened pencils and the cafeteria ladies with their net caps!) and my homework and tests became hectic. But sooner or later my stories could not go to waste so that was an update for ya! YOSH!
Dang, it seems this chapter was a tad serious! Make sure you read into this one. And to those who did not read the Author's Note at the beginning of almost every chapter/update in this story, this was a flashback