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"
Dragon Man 180: If you're suggesting a McGonnagal Kakashi pairing, sorry to disappoint you, but I refuse to make that a pairing. It's way too creepy for my liking… Besides, I think Kakashi is quite a bit younger than McGonnagal. 0.o
On with the story!
Chpt 18: Volunteers and Flying?
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"...Pansy Parkinson?" Snape called out. All the Slytherins were gathered around for rolecall.
"Here sir..." She grumbled sleepily. It was after all, only around two in the morning.
"Draco Malfoy?" No answer. "Draco?" Snape called out. Still no answer. "Has anyone seen Draco?" He questioned.
"I'm right here Professor..." Malfoys' face was half hidden in the darkness, half in the moonlight of a window. His eyes glinted with unseen intentions.
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"Professor Dumbledore! There is an old man reading inappropriate material and wandering around the school!" Professor Flitwick came barging into Dumbledore's office, followed by Professor Sprout and Madam Promfrey. All the other teachers and staff members, along with a few ghosts, were gathered in Dumbledore's office, demanding an explanation for all the hubbub.
"That would be Jiriya then." Dumbledore said. "Now settle down everyone, all shall be explained if you be quiet. Take a seat." Rows of chairs appeared out of nowhere, and everyone sat down. "You all may have noticed that a lot of people are walking around the hallways tonight, along with some students. They have been hired to guard and protect the school from this day forth."
"Well, whatever for?" A voice said. "What good would they do anyway?"
"Now, is every student accounted for?" Dumbledore continued.
"But…"
"I asked if everyone was accounted for." He interrupted. They all nodded. "Good, now, inform your students that they must travel in pairs. Larger groups of people are preferred. If anyone is caught wandering alone, they are to be brought to my office without delay. If they resist, place them into immediate custody."
"But why?"
"Please gather all the students into the Great Hall. Everyone will be told at the same time just what is going on." Everyone just stared at him blankly. "Lets go people!" Soon, Dumbledore was the only one in his office. He had no choice but to tell all the students that the school was in danger and thatsome outside peoplewould be assisting them. A little knowledge could be dangerous, but no knowledge at all could get a person killed. Dumbledore thought.
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Students groggily filed into the Great Hall through the huge oaken doors.
"Hey Ron, do you know why we're here?" Hermione asked through a giant yawn.
"You're the smart one, how am I supposed to know?" He grunted.
"Good point…"
"Shh you two! Dumbledore looks like he's going to make a speech or something." Harry whispered.
"I am horribly sorry to have to have awakened you all, but this is urgent." He said solemnly. "I am sorry to say this, but Hogwarts is in danger from Lord Volemort." The entire room stiffened so much, you could have cut the tension with a knife. Several of the teachers looked like they were having heart attacks, which was possible.
"Voldemort and a man named Orochimaru, have joined forces to create some sort of organization. We know not what it is, or what they may be planning, but they are too close to the school for comfort." No one spoke as they were all in shock.
"I have hired these people," He said gesturing to the people who had appeared from thin air. "… to guard the school. Also, these students will be working with them to help secure the school from any threats." He then waved his arm in the direction where the Naruto gang now stood. They also, had come out of nowhere.
"I thought you said people couldn't apparate inside of Hogwarts grounds Hermione!" Harry and Ron whispered to her.
"Y-you can't…" She said, her face paling. "I don't think that was apparating, didn't you see those small clouds of smoke everywhere? That was something else…" She trailed off.
Naruto walked up to Dumbledore and stood on his toes to whisper something in his ear. Dumbledore nodded.
"If you see any object in school that you don't recognize, don't touch it or you just might end up in the hospital wing. Naruto here, requests volunteers to help out him and his teammates. He is right in the fact that no matter how good they may be, protecting the entire school will be extremely difficult.
Those who volunteer will be put into a crash training course with them. Besides that, you will attend your normal classes. This is not for the faint of heart, for in the end, you may end up putting your life on the line. Depending on your skills, you will be sorted into groups to train with different people."
"For once, you had a good idea Naruto!" Sakura whispered in his ear. "You're right. Alone, we can't cover this whole school. We'll need help." Naruto grinned.
"Hey, I'm not as stupid as I look."
"Now, are there any volunteers?" Everybody was completely still. Then a shaky hand rose into the air.
"Ginny! Put your hand down!" Ron said worriedly.
"Ron! You're not the boss of me!" She retorted. Right after she said that, Harry and Hermione lifted their hands as well. "No! Not you two!" His expression was flustered and confused. Then, seeing they weren't going to change their minds, he grudgingly raised his hand too.
Soon, more hands lifted into the air. Some hands were shaky and unsure, while others, confident and definite. All in all, there were about 45 volunteers. About half of them were from Gryffindor, and the rest from Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. There wasn't a single one from Slytherin, go figure.
"Excellent! I am glad we have so many brave souls in this school! Everyone who volunteered please stay seated while everyone else may go back to their common room. When you arrive, you will be briefed on safety procedures and things you must be careful of. Then, you may all go back to bed." Everyone, whether leaving or staying, was very edgy and scared. There wasn't a cheerful face to be seen anywhere.
Among the ones staying were many former DA members, but not even they, would be prepared for what lay ahead.
"Alright everyone! Let's get started!" The Naruto gang hopped off the stage. "We will teach you all the basics tonight, and then for the next week or so, we will continue to work on the basics until you master them. After this week, we will move onto the training grounds and separate you into squads. Each group shall train under the person who has the most similar skills to you." Naruto yelled out all this in one breath, which was impossible for anyone but him.
"For tonight, you will be working with Sakura, who will drill all of this boring stuff into your heads. See ya'll later! Have fun!" Instantaneously, they all disappeared, leaving the new recruits with a knuckle-cracking Sakura. They all gulped visibly, this was going to be a long, long night.
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After they left the witches and wizards in the hands of Sakura, everyone else ran off, did a quick patrol of the grounds, and were cramming in a bit of training in as they couldn't get back to sleep.
Gaara and Amanda
"Damn it!" Amanda had fallen out of the tree she was in, again.
"You know, I think you have to focus more chakra to your feet because you're falling right off the tree every time you try." Gaara said while meditating. Amanda just snarled at him.
"Yeah yeah Mr. Know-it-all, I'm goin…" She sprung back up to land on a high tree limb. Sure, she could jump really high, increase her speed four times faster than normal, walk on walls, stand upside-down on the ceiling, she could even do handstand pushups on her pinky! But no! She couldn't do the tree jump! Either, she jumped too far, or not far enough. It was really aggravating.
She concentrated on pushing a huge amount of chakra out her feet, and making it to the next branch. She closed her eyes and leapt. She felt the air rush by her face, and then she stopped. She didn't land on the treebranch, nor did she land on the ground. She cracked her eyes open and almost fainted. She was hanging there in mid-air.
"GAARA!" She screamed. He sighed, what was it now? He opened his eyes and froze. She was glowing with bright blue chakra that covered her entire body. She was also,floating in the space between the branch she had jumped from, and the branch she was aiming to land on.
"What did you do?" He shouted up to her.
"HOW THE HELL SHOULD I KNOW? I JUMPED FORWARDS AND IT'S LIKE I GOT STUCK HERE OR SOMETHING!" Her face was going white, probably from either fright, or from all the yelling she was doing. She started panicking and pushed out even more chakra, trying to get down. Oh, that was smart thing to do. (insert sarcasm here).
Instead of going down, like she wanted to, she zoomed straight up really fast. I mean, really fast. She shut her eyes, wanting it all to stop, which luckily, she did. When she opened her eyes again, she was only a few inches away from the ceiling. She sighed in relief. Unfortunately, when she sighed, the blue glow went away. She started falling straight down.
Before she could hit the ground, she was caught by a big sandy hand and set down gently.
"What the fuck…?" She gasped as she sat down shakily. Gaara kneeled down beside her.
"Ok, what happened?"
"I don't know, one minute I'm jumping, the next, I'm suspended in the air. All I did, was focus a lot of chakra like you said and jumped! Did I focus too much?" She asked.
"I'm going to sound crazy, but can you try it again? I've got to understand exactly what happened."
"A-alright…" she got to her feet and did what she had done before. Scarily enough, her feet lifted from the ground and she was in the air again.
"You know," Gaara said, staring in disbelief. "I don't know if this is even possible, but, I think you're flying…"
"I'm what?" Her mouth was starting to fall open ever so slowly.
"It has to be. How else would you explain this? I can only fly on my sand clouds..."
"Are you saying, that no one else has done this before? I'm the only one?" She said in surprise.
"Well, I've never seen anything like this before, so, yeah... Maybe only you can do it… but I don't really understand how it's possible."
"Man, this is so cool! Now, lets see what happens if I push my feet to the left," She lifted her feet to the left and shot off like a bullet. Weirdo... Gaara thought. One minute she's spazzing out about this, the next, she starts acting like it's the most wonderful thing in the world. I still don't understand how she's flying in the first place though...
Still, no one noticed the slight movements in the shadows. Then again, nobody in the castle had noticed at all this night, with the exception of Snape. No one would catch him, they were too careless. It didn't really matter if anyone did anyways, he had already found his target. She really was one of their decendents.Perfect.
Neji and Ten-ten
Both of them had been training as hard as they could since they had gotten there. However, neither were getting any closer to beating the other. Ten-tens' weapons couldn't get through his Kaiten, and he couldn't get close enough to her to attack.
Ten-ten was hiding up in the trees, holding several senbon in each hand. With enough luck, she hoped she could pin his feet to the ground. Since they were so thin and unnoticable, she was hoping he wouldn't notice them in time.
She set off an explosive tag east of her position, and flung the camouflaged senbon through the smoke. Unexpectedly, Neji came jumping up from behind her and tried to strike her in the back. Ten-ten countered with a backflip, landing right behind him, avoiding the blow. She was not expecting him to use his Kaiten at point blank and you know what? He did. Ten-ten had just enough time to raise up her arms in front of her face when the sphere of chakra struck her.
Afterher long years of training with Neji, she had figured out that if you spun in the opposite direction as his Kaiten, the impact was bareable and you recovered much quicker. Neji's Kaiten only threw her back a few feet when she sprung to her feet again.
"Wait a second Ten-ten, do you feel that?" Neji asked, halting the fight. The air felt hot and heavy, and a slight rumbling shook the ground. "GET DOWN!" He grabbed her arm and dragged her to the ground. It was a good thing too. Something blue shot over their heads inhumanely fast, leaving a dustcloud in it's wake.
"HOW DO I STOP THIS THING?" A voice yelled out. The blue light disappeared suddenly as it slammed into a tree. Through the dust, Neji and Ten-ten could see Amanda splayed on the ground. They rushed over and knelt down beside her. "Nevermind..." She whimpered with swirls in her eyes.
"Tell me, what were you just doing?" Neji asked.
"She was flying." Gaara came walking into the clearing.
"Excuse me? Flying?"
"I think." Gaara said scratching his head. "It seems that she is able to mold a very large amount of chakra at one time. Doing so, she can surround herself with it, suspending herself in the air. That alone would be pointless as you could only float in one spot. Yet, she can shoot even more chakra from her legs, propelling herself through the air, while keeping herself surrounded by the chakra at the same time. The amazing thing, is that, I've never heard of this kind of thing being possible." Gaara gasped. "Especially for someone like her! I mean, how many people can generate that much chakra without being bedridden for a week? Naruto and I, we have demons sealed inside of us and have humungous amounts of chakra, but Naruto can't fly, and I can only fly on sand!"
"Are you trying to ask us why she can fly? Because we don't have any idea either." Ten-ten said, shrugging her shoulders.
Neji turned on his Byakugan, looking to see if there was anything different about her chakra system. He sighed exasperatedly. In every aspect, she was perfectly healthy with a normal inner system. "She's fine as far as I can see. Nothing strange about her inner coils or anything." After he said that, she shook her head dazedly.
"Oh... my head is killing me..." She groaned.
"You've had enough training for today." Gaara said, folding his arms across his chest.
"Yeah, I think you're right... If I keep going, I'm gonna hit another tree." She dragged herself to her feet, and fell over onto her face. Gaara slapped his face and sighed. He picked her up from the ground and onto his back.
"Hey, I can walk you know..." Amanda grumbled.
"No, It's quite obvious you can't." He said, walking off.
"Fine. Be that way..." she huffed. In truth, she kind of liked being carried by him. She scooched up closer to him and sighed.
"What are you doing?" He said, whipping his head around. She hadn't realized that she had started to nuzzle his neck.
"Nothing!" She said, jerking her head back. He kind of glared at her and then turned back. What was she thinking! Was she going insane? She began to mentally kick herself for doing something as stupid as that.
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Remember, everything in this story happens for a reason. After this chapter, things will start to happen very quickly. I'm not saying good things either. The Snake Lords will start to move their power peices across the board, and,unexpected things from the pastwill be uncovered. Till then!