Snake Lords

"Takes place around when Naruto comes back with Jiriya. Sasuke is still with Orochimaru. So yeah, they're all around 15 or 16. A Naruto and Harry Potter Crossover. I'm not sticking to the plots of either series."

Thinking

"Yelling"

Hamstertai: Don't worry. Sometimes I can be a bit dense too. A rock could be thrown at my head and all I would say would be, "Huh?" I just get really mad if I am forced to repeat things 3 times so anyone reading my fic, DON'T YOU DARE ASK WHAT 'SUR' MEANS AGAIN EVERYONE!" And no, I'm not insane.

On with the story!

Chpt 8: Unknown Illness and New Findings

"Oh, OK, see you guys later then." Ginny and Hermione said to Kiba and the others. It took them about 15 minutes to shake off everyones' fanclubs, but they managed it. Silently, they all drifted off to the training grounds without being missed.

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For the next few weeks, time went by quickly, still not having a DA teacher, Dumbledore was teaching until he found one, the ninjas were rapidly growing in their magical skills, and friendships becoming stronger (A.N: Blah blah blah, you get the picture. Basically, it's a few weeks later.)

"Hey, I have a question."

"…"

"Hello?"

"…"

"Are you ignoring me?"

"…"

"Are you asleep?"

"…"

"Guys, Shino died on us." Amanda had been trying to get a peep out of Shino for the last half hour and she was afraid he had a heart attack and died. The way she kept poking him, he probably would.

"You know, if you haven't figured it out by now, Shino doesn't like to talk. Oh, and he's not asleep or dead." Kiba retorted.

"YOU MEAN HE'S BEEN IGNORING ME THE WHOLE TIME! HEY SHINO! JUST LISTEN TO ME DAMN IT!"

"…"

"Shino," Amanda said threateningly, "If you don't answer me, I'll yell out where you are through this, and you can hang out with your fanclub." She said holding up a megaphone.

"…!"

"Fine, have it your way." She took a deep breath, and before she could say anything, Shino pulled away the megaphone.

"Alright, geez. Just don't joke like that. It's not my fault fanclubs always go for the quiet ones. What do you want?"

"Two questions, first, do you have laryngitis from saying all that?"

"No."

"And secondly, how come whenever I'm near you, I always hear a funny buzzy sound?" Shino gulped at this.

"Um… I like walkie talkies!" Amanda sweat-dropped.

"Okaaaaay…" Before she could say more, Shino rudely interrupted.

"Well nice talking to you, but it's time we left for our traini-I mean, spellwork practice. Yeah, spellwork."

"Hay, cam few comf wiv yew dis timm?" Ron asked through a full mouth.

"Umm… what did you say?" Asked Shino.

Clearing his throat, he said much more understandably, "Can we come with you guys this time? I mean, you guys always go off by yourselves and, you know, we just wanted to come and see what you guys do."

"…" This time Shino wasn't being silent, he was actually at a loss for words. He quickly poked Shikamaru awake and whispered something in his ear. For once, he didn't say it was troublesome.

Turning to Harry, Ron, Hermione, Amanda, and Ginny (A.N: Who had sat down next to them to ask the very same thing) he simply said with a smile, "It's more of a private thing between us all. Nothing personal, I hope you all understand." With disappointed faces, they all turned back to their plates and watched them detach their fanclubs from the rest of their friends.

"Well, since my question just got answered, I'll be going then." Ginny walked off to hang with her friends

"S'not fair." Growled Ron. "It's not like some sort of special club, is it?"

"Worry about it later Ron. Besides, we still have to finish our Charms essay."

"What? We finished ours last night. You two are really lazy." Hermione indicated to herself and Amanda.

"Actually, I still have to finish the last paragraph." Amanda pointed out. "It's only a few sentences. I'll go get your essays for you while I'm there. Be right back." She started to get up from the table when Hermione grabbed her arm.

"Could you bring down mine too? I want to double check it for mistakes." Amanda shrugged and continued to get up. She started the lengthy walk to Gryffindor tower. As a precaution, she always carried her wand out ever since, well, you know. Nothing had happened since then, but it was better safe then sorry.

She dug out her essay and sighed. She knew she shouldn't have thrown it down on the bottom. The stupid thing was all wrinkled and torn. She muttered a quiet Repario. When she found Hermiones', she gasped. The freaking thing was almost 20, count it 20, pages long! And in perfect condition too. Then again, Hermione was very serious about schoolwork and didn't throw it carelessly into a bag.

She almost left without Ron and Harrys' essay, so she whirled around and went up the opposite tower. She smirked at her ability to go into both the girls' and boys' dorm., if any boy tried going in the girls', they would immediately fall down the flattened staircase with a thud.

Grabbing the parchment lying on the table, a small glint caught her eye on the other end of the room under a bed. Being curious, she obviously headed over to see the small item sticking out from under the bed.

It was the bed of that Naruto kid. You could tell because it smelled like that noodle, ramen stuff that had recently been appearing on the table during every meal. It was also the messiest bed there, aside from Kiba's bed which was covered in cat hair and claw marks. God knows where they came from

She carefully picked it up. There was a sharp intake of breath. It was a headband with a metal plate in the middle. What made her hand tremble, was the engraving in the center. Like a swirl and a triangle joined together, resembling a leaf.

Shaking horribly, she dropped the thing onto the floor as if it was cursed.

T-the symbol in the center, it's just l-like… Oh God, what's happening!

She backed out of the room and ran back to the Great Hall.

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"Hey, I forgot to put my forehead protector on this morning." Naruto poked his forehead, looking annoyed.

"Too late now, we're already here." They had only just gotten off the transport. "It's hidden, right?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah, it's hidden." I think… "Anyways, lets go!" He punched his hand into the air. Sakura came over and hit him on the back of the head.

"Baka! What did the air ever do to you?" Everyone sighed. It was another, stupid, pointless argument that had no real meaning. However, these kinds of things could get very violent so everyone just kind of backed away into the woods.

Team Gai

"YOSH! NEJI! I CHALLENGE YOUR YOUTHFUL SELF, TO A MATCH OF SPARRING TO IMPROVE THE ABILITIES OF OUR YOUTHFUL FLAMES OF YOUTH!" Once one got rid of the words 'youth' and 'flame', you could usually understand what Lee or Gai was trying to tell you. This morning, Lee just wanted a sparring match, I think. 0.o

Neji went straight into his Jyuuken stance, while Lee got into his hand out pose.

"Ah… Hang on a minute Neji…" Lee was holding his forehead with both hands. "I've had this weird headache since this morning and it kinda hurts."

Neji glanced up with blank eyes. (A.N: Of course his eyes are blank, Neji has no emotions as we all know.) Lee was still holding his head and saying he would be ready in a minute or so.

"Lee, are you sure you're ok?" Neji said, unable to hide a bit of concern in his voice. (A.N: Ok, so maybe he does have some emotions.)

"Yeah… Neji I'm-aghh!" Lee fell to his knees holding his head. "W-what is wr-wrong with my head?" Neji turned on his Byakugan, and this is what he saw. Lee's Chakra system was shooting out irregular bursts of Chakra, but it was the actual Chakra that was concerning him. The normally blue Chakra had small bits of black, 'stuff' in it. There was no other way to describe it. Something was clogging up the flow.

"TEN-TEN! GET OVER HERE, NOW!" The weapons master was sharpening her weapons when she heard Neji yell. Neji never raised his voice except for three different reasons. One, he was being chased by his fan club. That was impossible because the only other person with knowledge of this place was Dumbledore. Two, Neji was in extreme mental or physical pain. It didn't sound like he was being hurt in any way. Or three, something was seriously wrong. It had to be three because nothing else fit.

She jumped out of a tree and landed right next to Lee who was lying on the floor, screaming and clutching his head.

"NEJI! WHAT DID YOU DO?" Ten-ten was trying to comfort Lee as best as she could, but nothing was working.

"I didn't do a-anything… Ten-ten, something's wrong…"

"NO, REALLY? I HAD NO CLUE SOMETHING WAS WRONG!" Ten-ten yelled back to Neji's shaking form. Wait, shaking? No, something was really bad. Neji doesn't shake.

"Neji, tell me what is wrong with Lee, NOW!" Neji backed up against the tree and held it for support.

"Th…there's something black blocking his Inner System. N-not even my Byakugan can see through i-it. It's hurting him."

"Gee, that was real specific! Help me get him out of here!" It's not like they had a choice, they had to take him to Dumbledore.

Team Asuma

"TELL ME WHAT'S WRONG! DAMNIT! SPEAK TO ME!" Chouji's legs had suddenly collapsed beneath him and he had fallen, twitching on the ground.

"I TOLD YOU, I DON'T KN-AGHHH!" His form convulsed again, he had gone deathly pale and his pupils were dilated.

"SHIKAMARU! WHAT'S WRONG WITH CHOUJI!" Ino was going spastic and was demanding to know what was happening.

"I DON'T KNOW STUPID! STOP WHINING WOMAN, AND HELP ME GET HIM TO DUMBLEDORE!" Shikamaru also frustrated at not knowing anything about his friends' condition. Normally he had all the answers, but today, he was helpless. (A.N: This happened a little while after Lees' collapse.)

Sand Sibs (Kankurou)

Clutching his stomach in pain, Kankurou was spitting up blood all over the ground. It felt like he was being turned inside out. The voices of Temari and Gaara were faraway buzzes against the pounding, shooting pulsations going through every fiber of his being. Everything was going black. Nothing existed anymore except for that horrible pain that wouldn't go away. (A.N: This, again, was a few minutes after Choujis' collapse.)

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"Guys!" Amanda had just reached the Gryffindor table, breathing hard.

"Thanks for getting those for us." Harry said cheerfully.

"Oh… right. Here." She passed out the essays. "Anyways, you all have a free period today, right?" They all nodded. "Can you look up anything you can about… this?" She had dug out a piece of paper and drawn the leaf-ish symbol on it.

"Yeah sure. No problem. Why though?" Hermione asked.

"Well… just, I saw it somewhere and I need to know what it is. I'm headed off to the library now. Oh, and could you not tell anyone about it?" She was already halfway out the door of The Great Hall when she said that.

"Hey, have any of you noticed that she's a little weird at times?"

"You know Ron, you shouldn't talk. The way you act sometimes, I wonder if you escaped from the crazy ward at Mundungos Hospital." Harry sighed.

"Hmph… some friend you are." Ron muttered, turning his attention to the half finished Charms essay.

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Lee, Chouji, and Kankurou were strapped down to cots under a subduing potion in Dumbledore's office. The rest of the ninjas were sent away to class as Dumbledore had no idea what had happened. But he had a pretty good hunch.

He had sealed a piece of parchment. This was what it read;

Hokage-sama, Tsunade

Fire building, 6th Floor

Hidden Leaf Village, Konoha

Dear Tsunade,

I am sorry to say that three of your students are incapacitated at the moment. We have no real lead on to what happened except that both Hyuuga's have confirmed an odd black substance drifting through their Chakra flows. My only guess is that this could the pure substance of magic.

If I am correct, then it is probable that their bodies haven't been able to completely adjust to this new source of energy. The magic is messing up their Chakra system, resulting in an oil/water situation. Both counterparts are trying to dominate each other. If we can't settle the turmoil of their energy, then it is possible that this could kill them.

I must remind you that I could be wrong, but this is the best guess I have. If you could research this as much as possible, it would benefit them all.

Albus Dumbledore.

Sighing, he tied the letter up to the owl sitting on his desk and let it fly off into the sky.

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Their classes had been sat through with unease. They couldn't help but wonder why their friends had just collapsed in pain so suddenly. It was just so disturbing. They all kind of dealt with it their own ways. Sulking, thinking, yelling, or simply walking off alone.

Meanwhile, the Potter Gang had spent all their free time looking up anything about that symbol Amanda had shown them. Guess what they found? That it was a form of communication by aliens? No. That it was a sketch for something in a comic book? No. It was some emblem of a strange ninja country that spoke Japenese but wasn't even located near Japan? Oh come on! That's ridiculous! Of course not!

They found exactly diddly-squat on the matter. The only information they had was that it looked like a squiggly leaf. Oh, that sure was a great help. No one found anything, except, that is, for Amanda.

She had found a book written in some odd foreign language. She was about to put it back, thinking it was a waste of her time, when she flipped to a page that had that very symbol, smack dab in the middle of the page. Sigh… why couldn't things always be this easy? So what if it was in a different language? She still found the mark didn't she?

She checked the book out and started back to Gryffindor tower, deciding to use that translation spell she had learned in Charms that day.

She entered the girls' dorm. It was almost empty. Lucky for her, everyone, apparently, had gone off to see the first Quidditch match of the season. Ugh… she hated Quidditch. She especially hated the fact that she was no good at it. The first time she had touched a broom, was her last. She had gone up a meter or so, only to dive headfirst into the ground.

What annoyed her, was that it wasn't completely empty. Temari, Ten-ten, Sakura, Hinata, and Ino, had all stayed inside as well. Not that she didn't like them, she had been hanging out with them for several weeks, it's just, they could have something to do with that symbol. And if they did, wouldn't it be really suspicious if she was found having a book with that very same symbol in it?

Well, she'd have to risk it. They weren't paying much attention to her anyways. They all seemed to be lost in their own thoughts. She sat down on her bed and muttered Translacio. Nothing happened. Translacio. Still nothing. Translacio! Translacio! Translacio! A nerve started to twitch furiously on her head.

"Why the heck isn't it working?" She screamed at the book. They all turned their heads to look at her.

"Something wrong?" Asked Sakura.

"Ahhh… nope! Nothing to see! Just some homework that I'm having trouble with."

"You want some help?"

"NO!" She yelled at them. "I mean… no that's alright! I'll figure it out eventually. Ehhe he…" Sakura shrugged off her odd behavior and began drifting back into her own thoughts again.

Ok, from now on, just… don't say anything! She looked down at the stubborn book. Why isn't the stupid thing in English? I mean, I did the spell right. She put the book down on her bed with a sigh. Hmm… maybe if I glare at it long enough, it will turn to English.

Then she saw it. A small indent on the cover with almost invisible clasps. It was in the shape, of a hexagon. Would it fit? That thing is what almost got her killed. But… would it open the books secrets?

I may not know what it means, or what it's worth. But it's my only chance. Unwillingly, she put her hand into her backpocket and pulled out a glinting sheet of metal. It was a steel hexagon that would fit perfectly into the slot. In the very center was the leaf shape. To the leaf's right was a spikey formation, and a boulder. To the left was four straight lines and what looked like several clouds. Above were two jagged lines that looked like a waterfall. Underneath it was an hourglass, a sound note, and four diagonal lines. Outlining the shape were small engravings of stars and wands.

(A.N: For those of you that are completely lost, the symbols surrounding Leaf are the emblems for the other Shinobi countries. They can be seen on their forehead protectors. Of course, Amanda doesn't know what any of this stuff means. And those of you who need me to point out more of the obvious, this little doo-dad almost got her killed by Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle.)

The metal sheet easily slid into the hole. She carefully slid the clasps over the sheet. Suddenly a white light shone from the inside pages. Opening it up, she almost gave out a yell. The thing was in English!

She began to read when it happened. It just had to happen in her moment of triumph. The dinner bell rang. She can't skip dinner. She had already skipped lunch!

"Guess it's just gonna have to wait." She said as she gritted her teeth. She carefully tucked it away in her bag. After thinking a moment, she put a hex on it so that if anyone peeked in it, they'd have a nasty surprise.

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The ninjas had been able to spread around the rumor that their friends weren't feeling well at dinner. Having finished their utterly boring dinner, they all went back up to the dorms. But, when the girls had tried to get into their dorms, they had a nasty shock. Peeves had barricaded the door shut.

For some odd reason, unknown to everyone, Amanda immediately fell over and was crying wavy anime tears, and sobbing about how unfair the world was. Then Professor McGonnagal came in and announced that the girls would have to sleep in the boys' dorm.

Somehow, through all the screams and complaints, Professor McGonnagal was able to have them draw lots to see who the girls would bunk with (A.N: I'll just list the people that really matter. You should have a small idea of who is with who.)

Neji, Ten-ten

Naruto, Hinata

Shikamaru, Ino

Gaara, Amanda

Kiba, Ginny

Ron, Temari (Betcha didn't see that one coming!)

Harry, Sakura (0.o Okaaaaaay…)

Shino, Hermione (Riiiiiiight… Is it just me, or is that plain creepy?)

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I'm super sorry that I haven't been able to update for so long. It's just I've got a lot of stuff going on at home and stuff has been really hectic. I'll try my best to get the next chappie up ASAP. Till then!