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"

Sorelina: When I read your comment, I went back and re-read my chapter. I almost fell out of my chair! I'm so sorry! I didn't notice how random that sounded until you pointed it out! XD From now on, I'll be sure to keep an eye out for stuff like that. OK everyone! Lets all just pretend that Dumbledore was so busy trying to find a cure for the ninjas, that he forgot about opening the girls dorm! . ehe…he… right…

On with the story!

Chpt 11: The FirstMerging

"Hey, Amanda. Are y-you Ok?" Amanda turned to look at her. Her face stayed blank for several seconds. Then it split into a scream. She got up and ran screaming down the hall.

Oh dear. What's wrong with her? Hinata thought confusedly.

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This is…so… creepy! It was Potions class and Amanda was sitting at her normal seat right next to Gaara. After every few seconds of pretending to actually be listening to Snape, she would steal a glance at him. Why, why do they all have to be in my classes? After reading more of that book, they all creep me out so much! They can walk on walls, shoot fire, do this weird smokey thing that works just like apparating, but without wands! They could even reach out and…

"Hey, Amanda…" Gaara whispered into her ear while she was lost in her own thoughts.

"AAAAAAGGGHHHHHHH! OHMIGOD! OHMIGOD! Oh…my…God………" She sat back down with her head hung in silence as everyone continued to stare at her, like she had grown another head.

"I believe 20 points from Gryffindor would suffice for that rather rude interruption. Now, if Ms. Amanda is done with her outburst, I would like to continue." Snape continued to drone on his lecture of how to make the Pirogate Potion. If made right, the body could create massive amounts of heat. To be honest, nobody really cared about what the stupid thing did.

"What was that all about?" Gaara asked quietly as soon as Snape turned his back. "You've been really jumpy lately."

"Me? Jumpy? Oh, I'm fine! Really!" Amanda's face was pulled back into an unconvincing grin. Gaara frowned.

"You're not fooling me, what's going on with you? You've been looking at me every few seconds for the entire class, like, like I was going to eat you alive or something like that."

Well… I was thinking more along the lines of you burning me to death with fire, or burying me below the ground, or something like that. NO! Her imagination was getting the better of her again. Gaara's my friend! He wouldn't do that…Would he?

Right then the bell rung. Before Gaara could try to talk again, Amanda had already stuffed her stuff into her bag and was half out the door.

"Wow… she's pretty fast." Then he noticed that she forgot every single one of her potions books. "And, comepletely oblivious to her surroundings." Great… I could either "forget" that the books are there, or I could return them. Gaara made a thoughtful face, then just packed up his stuff, left Amanda's books, and left.

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Amanda just kept walking. By the time she was on the other side of the school, she started smacking her head furiously against the wall. Rrgghh! That's why my bag was so dang light! After mentally kicking herself for another minute or so, she grumpily turned and started to run back, all the way, to the dungeon.

She whipped around the corner, not noticing the person who was there. Her attempts at stopping were futile, and she slammed straight into whoever it was. Both went flying and landed with a rather loud crack on the ground.

Amanda hastily stood up and gave out her hand to whoever was on the ground. Her hand was harshly smacked away followed by a yell.

"YOU FILTHY PIECE OF TRASH! LOOK WHERE YOU'RE GOING!" Amanda took several steps back. Why did she have to bump into him? Two hulking figures came around the corner, hearing the commotion. They hurried over and lifted Malfoy off the ground.

Amanda clenched her wand and ran away even faster than she was running before, if that was even possible. She heard following footsteps following so she didn't stop. She ran on and on until she found a good hiding place. After several seconds, they stopped in the shadows. Geez, she really didn't want to do this, but if not, stuff like this could keep happening.

"Stupify!" They tried to avoid it but her spell hit its mark. She scurried out to see what had happened. She gasped and kneeled down right by them.

"Oh geez! I'm sorry! I'm SO sorry!" The silhouette she thought was Malfoy, was in truth, Gaara.

You know, you try to help someone, and they end up stabbing you in the back! Well… in this case, zapped… but that's beyond the point! And Dumbledore, "It wasn't them" my ass! Well, this time they didn't really hurt her… but again, that's beyond the point! While Amanda pulled him up, he felt a weird, tingling sensation run across his skin, but thought nothing of it.

After several minutes of apologizing on Amanda's part, he finally just clamped his hand over her mouth. Even when he was covering her mouth she was still trying to talk! He had to admit, she was very, very, persistent.

"It's fine Amanda. I saw you bump into those guys and came running after you. Oh, and here." Gaara pulled her books out of his bag. Yup! Gaara had felt guilty, so he went back and got her books anyways. How cute!

Well, even if he can do that creepy stuff the book said, I guess he's not so bad! Amanda took her books and gave Gaara a huge bear hug that almost killed him.

"THANK YOU!" She screamed as she dropped him, gasping like a fish out of water. "Oh, and since when did you get that tattoo?" Gaara questioningly put his hand to his 'love' tattoo. "No… that other one. I don't remember you having it before. The one under your right eye."

"What are you talking about?" Gaara went over to a (conveniently placed) mirror and looked carefully at his face. There were several thin blue lighting-ish lines streaking around near his right eye and part of his cheek.

(A.N: Demon speaking

Shukaku… what are you doing… you aren't trying to come out, are you?

No. Unfortunately, it's not me. You never let me come out these days. Can't I come out just once?

As you see, Gaara and Shukaku still don't get along all too well.

Oh just stop asking questions that you already know the answers to! And anyways, you're getting off topic. I want to know what those lines are.

Hmm… if you ask me, there's only two possibilities. One, you leaned on the point of a blue pen and scribbled on yourself. Or two, unlike everyone else, you are getting crows feet at a young age, and for some reason, they're blue!

Oh gee… that's the best advice I've heard all day. I'm quite sure that for some stupid reason I started drawing on myself!

Well, I'm glad I could help you then!

Oh shut up you stupid, fat raccoon… you're not helping at all.

HEY! I'M NOT FAT! It's from all that excess sand I have to carry around. I just wear all the sand because I find gourds get in the way to much. Unlike you… you even named yours. Gourdy or Gorden. Something lame like that.

HEY! Are you insulting Gourdy? Cause if you are, you can just kiss the slightest chance of ever coming out, goodbye! And at least if I use gourds, I don't look like a fatass… fatass.

Oh… dang………………I hate it when I don't have a comeback…

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"Yoohoo! Gaara? You still with us?" He had been staring at himself in the mirror for a pretty long time. He turned around and was about to go when he saw Amanda looking at him funny again.

"Why do you keep looking at me like that?" Amanda averted her eyes to the floor and muttered something incoherent. "What?" She looked up at him and smiled.

"Nothing's wrong." Gaara stared at her intently. She knew something, and it didn't look like she was gonna tell. Oh, she'd tell. When he was done with her she would.

Then her eyes once again shot up to Gaara's face. "It moved."

"What moved?" Amanda pointed to where the lines were on his face.

"It got bigger." Gaara turned yet again to the mirror. It was true. It covered a bigger portion of his face now.

He put his hand to his face. What are these? He took his hand away. Then he saw another small blue bolt on the middle of his left hand. He lifted his other hand to see the exact same thing. What's happening to me?

"Hey… um… Amanda?"

"Yeah?"

"I just remembered that I forgot one of my books. I'll go and get it now. Tell Professor Flitwick that I might be late for class." Amanda looked back with a puzzled look. Before she could say anything, he had already walked off.

Hey… wait a minute, we only have one book for Charms class and it's sticking out of his bag. And he's going down the same route that 'they' always go in the morning. Hey…wait… this could be my chance to see what these guys do all the time. Or… this could be my chance to have a premature death. Hmmm… Choices.

Even against all the odds, this was probably the best opportunity she would ever get. Going against every shred of common sense in her body, she went down the hall after Gaara. He hadn't gotten too far of a head-start, so she caught up easily enough.

She took a closer look. The way he walked was, well, different. His feet dragged along the floor, as if ropes or chains were attached. His back was arched like a cat whose fur was being brushed the wrong way. She stared at his odd appearance, not looking where her feet were going.

She almost fell head over heels. Before she landed with a thud, she was able to grab onto a nearby windowsill to stop her fall. She looked around with a very confused face. There was nothing there to trip her in the first place. The entire hall was empty. She kneeled down and scrutinized the floor. The entire carpet was covered with a thin dusty layer of… sand?

Amanda heard the door of the Great Hall open. No time to wonder why the hallways were turning into a beach. Gaara staggered out onto the grounds holding his head in his hands. Both arms now had multitudes of blue zig-zags all over.

Amanda watched from a safe distance away. She had no idea what he was doing, or where he was going. After several more seconds, he stopped in his tracks. A rumbling sensation shot through the ground. Amanda grabbed onto a nearby tree to keep from falling over.

It got louder and louder. Even the tree began to vibrate. The ground gave a groan and a small black crack appeared under her feet. She jumped back and pulled out her wand.

"GAARA! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Amanda screamed at him. It had to be Gaara doing this. Hogwarts had no history of even a single earthquake. Gaara still stood there with his back turned.

She turned her attention back to the hole. Nothing happened for a few seconds except the continued rumbling. Then a huge towering thing shot out and wrapped around her waist. It squeezed tighter and tighter. Her bones threatened to snap in two. She couldn't scream or yell for help because the stuff was plastered over her mouth.

"I thought I told you to go to class." His voice crackled as if it were a live wire. He slowly turned to face her. Every inch of his skin was coated in that blue stuff. But it was his eyes that were scary. The whites were pitch black. His pupil was a blue cross with one dot between each space that were the same electric blue. His irises glowed a golden yellow. He looked like a monster.

The stuff gripped even harder and lifted her into the air. Gaara merely looked on with a bored expression. It bodily lifted her even higher. It moved with sickening speed from several stories up, to the ground, smashing her into the earth. The substance receded and swirled around Gaara in a spherical shape.

Amanda was blacking out from the pain. Her leg had snapped like a toothpick, her left shoulder dislocated, a large cut across her eye, and it felt like her lungs had collapsed. He just looked at her with bloodthirsty eyes.

"Wh…why? What's wr…wrong with you? What are y…you?" Her tear filled eyes stared into his bottomless pits.

"The sand calls to me. It hungers."

"W…what?"

"It needs me to join with it." He motioned to the sand floating around him. "I am merely here to satisfy its needs." He said it like some sort of casual occasion. His right hand stretched out and the sand mimicked a larger version. "What it needs right now, is your blood."

Amanda's eyes shrunk in fear. He was going to crush her, he was going to kill her. Her wand had been blasted several feet away from her. She stretched out her undamaged arm towards it, but she fell short.

"Goodbye." The sand flew straight at her. She clutched at the ground futilely, trying to move out of the way, but it was too late. There was no way out.

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"NO!" The giant hand of sand burst to pieces. There stood Temari with a huge fan in front of her. Naruto, Ten-ten, and Hinata were also there. Hinata knelt down next to Amanda.

"What i-gahg-is he?" She began to spit up blood. Hinata shushed her and hung her over her shoulder.

"I'll bring her to the castle." Everyone nodded and Hinata ran off. Temari took a step closer to Gaara.

"What are you doing? You almost killed her." Gaara started to smirk, then he began a soft chuckle. "IT'S NOT FUNNY!" That wasn't the right thing to say at the moment.

"Oh really? I thought it was hilarious." His face broke into a sickening grin. "But… do you want to know what would be even funnier? Killing all of you. I would enjoy that very much." He lifted both hands above his head, "Die." He then flung them down causing a tidal wave of sand to barrel down towards them.

When it was just several meters away, it stopped and fell to the ground. Gaara fell to his knees clutching his head. A blue light radiated from his body. He gave out a bloodcurdling scream.

"GET OUT OF MY HEAD! GAH! MAKE IT STOP! OH GOD, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP! ANYBODY! GUAAAAHHHHHH!" He trembled and collapsed into a heap.

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Everything felt, no wait, there was no feeling. She couldn't feel a thing. Her entire body was numb except for one part in her chest. Her chest was on fire. It was burning.

She leapt up, tearing at the pain in her chest.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Her head turned to see Shikamaru sitting on a bench near the wall. Then it all came back, Gaara, sand, very painful.

"Why are you here? And what's this thing in my chest"

"Well, it's troublesome, but they made me keep watch in the ward over you all." Shikamaru gestured to the whole room. Amanda looked up to see what he meant. Kankurou, Gaara, Neji, Lee, Sakura, Kiba, and Chouji were tied down onto cots with needles inserted into various places. "And the thing in your chest is an heart rate indicator."

"Is this where they were… this whole time? What's wrong with them?"

"Dumbledore said to me that it was okay if we tell you everything. So long as you don't let any of this conversation leave this room." For once, Shikamaru's eyes didn't have a distant look in them.

"Uh… alright." I think I know what he's going to tell me.

"All of us, the so called 'Japanese exchange students', are not actually from Japan. We come from two different places. Most of us come from a place called Konoha Village, three others come from Sand village. Namely Temari, Gaara, and Kankurou. We are all ninjas that come from those countries. We use special techniques called 'jutsu'. They are like magic spells but different. We had never heard of Magic, wizards, and witches before last summer.

The reason we came here to learn magic was because the entire world is in danger from a new force. One of the three legendary ninjas, called Sanins, named Orochimaru has joined forces with a wizard called Voldemort. Orochimaru used to be loyal to Konoha until he betrayed the village and became an S-ranked criminal.

We all assume that if we can become stronger in magic, our strength will increase dramatically and we might be able to challenge them. In addition, we are to protect Hogwarts from any attacks."

Amanda gawked at him. She could understand the ninja thing, she had read plenty about that, but a really powerful ninja joined forces with Voldemort? My Lord! We're all doomed!

"Now, I only told this to you because we need information. You were attacked by Gaara. You see, we thought that Gaara was gone. We need to know what happened to him."

"Well… we were in the hallway, and I noticed he had this weird blue lightning bolt under his eye. Then, it kind of spread and got bigger. He said he had to leave right away. So I followed him. All of a sudden, the ground split and tons of sand poured out and grabbed me. When he turned around his eyes had a blue cross with four blue dots in… the… center……" her eyes glazed over, lost in thought.

"And…?" Shikamaru asked questioningly. But Amanda didn't hear him. She had just had a thought.

The book said that, "the body usually becomes stressed out and overworked. Then, both the Magic and Chakra fight for dominance in the body. It is just a mere unbalance of energy." And it also said that the symptoms were different for each person. Temporary physical and mental changes can happen, their severity is determined by the persons abilities. It seems, that the stronger the person is, the worse the effects become.

"Uh… hello? You alright?" Shikamaru had begun waving his hand in front of her eyes.

"Yeah… I'm good. I have some things to ask though. First of all, can you really do these, 'jutsus'?"

"Yeah."

"Well… then can you show me one?"

"Do I have to? It seems troublesome." He saw the dangerous glint in her eye and quickly did the first thing that came to mind. "Kagemane no jutsu."

"Nothing happened Shikamaru. Are you mocking me?"

"No. I'm not trying to 'mock you'. Try moving your body, any part." She rolled her eyes and tried moving her arm. Nothing happened. She tried walking. Still nothing.

"WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?" He pointed to the ground, and her hand astonishingly moved exactly like his.

"It's called Shadow bind. I can capture you with my shadow, and you're stuck moving as I do." He released it and Amanda fell down.

"Never… never ever, do that again." Her face came back up to look at him. "Second, where's my bookbag?" Shikamaru pointed to the left of her cot. She opened up the zipper and pulled out the book.

"What the heck is that?" Shikamaru asked.

"You said that these guys were having varied symptoms right?" Shikamaru nodded. "Did they all fall down in pain?" Shikamaru nodded again.

What in the world is she trying to get at? She can't know about the energy disturbance. I only told her the basics! Wait a minute… she didn't seem too surprised when I told her. Shikamaru was about to ask when she knelt down next to the nearby cot where Lee lay.

She flipped the pages of the book until she found the 'Fusion Sealing' section. The instructions for the 'Energy Combining' was as followed;

Hold the hexagonal sealer in your right hand

Place your hand over their diaphragm.

Take a knife and make a vertical cut along your right shoulder.

Let the blood drip down along your hand and onto the sealer.

Press the sealer into their diaphragm. Say the words, Ninpou; Conedo fuujin no jutsu (A.N: Ok, F.Y.I. I made these words up off the top of my head. If they are actual Japanese words, I have no idea what they mean. In this story, it translates into 'Heavenly combining sealer technique'. Like I said, I have no idea what those words really mean.)

A nerve in Amanda's head popped out. Great… I'm going to be a cutter. Lovely. But… it has to be done or these guys could die. "Hey Shikamaru. Do you have a knife or something pointy I can borrow?"

"Why?"

"I have to cut myself." At this Shikamaru fell over anime style.

"I knew it! You've gone mad and now you're a masochist!" He furiously yelled and pointed his finger at her accusingly, while chewing his nails on the other hand.

"Ummm…no. It's the only way to help you guys. By combining Chakra and Magic with this sealer." She said as she held up the hexagon piece of metal.

"Oh Ok. Wait just a dang second! I KNEW IT! NARUTO TOLD PEOPLE ABOUT US! CAUSE… I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT CHAKRA O…OR ABOUT THE ENERGY IMBALENCE WE'RE ALL GOING THROUGH!"

He started waving his hands in the air like a maniac. "YOU CAN NEVER TRUST A BIG-MOUTH LIKE HIM! HOW MANY OTHER PEOPLE DID HE TELL?" For the first time ever, the always calm genius had gone over the deep end.

"AND HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW TO HELP US IF EVEN WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO FIX IT? HUH?" He kept walking back and forth while ranting.

Amanda decided to ignore him and get something sharp herself. She brought out her wand and whispered the spell that could transform things into metal. She had learned it in Transfiguration of her first year, although she had never actually tried to make a weapon before.

Her wand became a thin, double-bladed, silver dagger with a black leather handle. Hesitantly, she held the sealer in her right hand and placed it over Lee's diaphragm.

Oh God… please let it work! She drove the blade straight through her shoulder holding back a yell. She watched the blood flow down her arm and down her fingers onto the sealer through watery eyes. Shakily, she pressed it down onto Lee's body and said, "Ninpou; Conedo fuujin no jutsu."

Nothing happened. At least, not at first. Her blood had begun to drip down the sides of Lee's robes and onto the bed. Then, it just seemed to disappear. Like it was being absorbed by a huge sponge. Amanda tried to take her hand away, but it wouldn't move. It was glued to the sealer, which in turn, was stuck to Lee.

A black trickle, outlined with an even darker shade, came out from underneath the sealer and hung in the air, still attached to the sealer. Then a bright, blueish light came out and hung right next to the black, also attached to the sealer. From the bottom up, the two forces seemed to fuse together forming a crackling sphere of energy.

It got closer and closer to Amanda, who was still desperately trying to get back. It stopped for a moment, several inches away from her arm. It just happened at that moment, the door swung open, revealing Temari, Ten-ten, Naruto, Hinata, Shino, and Ino, who had come in to see how Shikamaru was doing.

"HEY! GET AWAY FROM HIM! SHIKAMARU WHAT HAVE You…been… doing……" Ino sweat-dropped as she saw Shikamaru furiously hitting his head against the wall and shouting at no one in particular.

Before they could do anything about it, the ball of energy shot into Amanda's arm. She let out an ear bursting scream. The pain was excruciating. It was even worse than all of her previous beatings. Her arm was being fried and falling apart. Light traveled through her arm and down through the sealer, into Lee's stomach.

She was sent flying back into the small crowd of people behind her. The room became bathed in a blinding light. They all looked up to see Lee staring at them with his humungous eyes.

"Say… what happened? I feel all funny inside! And why are you all on the floor?"

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Phew! Longest chapter so far. 11 pages. Sorry to have kept you all waiting. I was hoping to get this up on Saturday, but that was my birthday! Every time I snuck into my room to write, my parents would come and drag me out a second later saying it was a special "family time" since it was my birthday.

I didn't finish the chapter until today since it was so long (to me, this chapter was long, Ok?)My tests and projects are finished (except for one that's due on Tuesday, but I'll put that off for later.)