A/N: Sorry to my readers from before. I've been having major computer problems lately. There are no words to describe how sorry I am for not being able to update sooner. After I had managed to start writing this chapter for the first time, the USB memory card I was using broke down, and I lost the chapter, so now I need to write the whole thing again.

Disclaimer: I only own Harry Potter and Naruto in my dreams. But I do own copies of them...

Sorry for making everyone wait! Here's Chapter 3!


Harry's Demons

Chapter 3: Boss Battle Numero Uno: Anko


Harry stood in the middle of an arena, looking out towards the crowd. A large portion of the village had come to watch the battle between the new kid, and the most bloodthirsty ninja of the village.

Inside the large area, usually reserved for the Kage's stood four people, a tall, white haired man, a very busty blonde woman, a pink haired younger girl, and a bright blonde haired boy, wearing eye catching orange. The four of them were having an argument about how much trouble the new boy would be for Anko to beat. They had all already agreed that he didn't stand much of a chance against her, so now they bet for how much damage he could do to her.

"There's no way he'll even hurt her. He's not even a ninja, he said so himself!" The pink haired girl spoke forcefully.

The busty woman turned towards the pink haired girl. "Didn't I tell you to not underestimate people you don't know, Sakura-chan? For all you know, this boy, Harry, may be trained as a ninja, but was never brought to a Hidden Village and so couldn't become one."

Jiraiya nodded along with that description. Although he had already told Tsunade all about Harry, he did understand what she was doing to her student. She was telling him that just because a person looked unassuming, doesn't mean that they are totally useless, as most ninjas would view them. Harry was the prime example for that. He looked rather boring, bland and civilian like, but when he was in battle, he got pretty rough.

In the middle of the arena, Harry and Anko stared at each other. They both saw the Hokage, Tsunade stand up, and listened as she introduced the fight to the viewers. To the two of them, none of the speech mattered. Harry was still wearing his mask to obscure his face from the crowd, although, if Anko was as good as Jiraiya had told him, that meant he would be taking it off sometime during the fight.

Anko smirked as she saw her opponent looking around at the crowd. He wasn't even paying attention to her. That left her the perfect opening to attack him. She made a little sign to Tsunade, who interrupted her blatantly boring speech by shouting "BEGIN!"

Harry jumped, startled at the shout, before stepping back out of the way of the foot that swung his way. Shit, she probably had this planned before hand.

He jumped back a little ways, wary of his opponent. She was sneakier than he had expected. After that little stunt, he'd have to be careful.

Anko smirked again, even as he dodged her attack. That meant he had been paying attention all the time, faking theactof disinterest. He was better than she expected. This was going to be fun.

The two opponents locked eyes and they charged at each other. After a few strikes on Harry, Anko jumped back to survey the damage she had done. Her eyes widened, when the world started twisting, warping out of shape. All the colors were off, the whole world becoming kaleidoscopic. Then she felt a fist hit her face out of no where, knocking her back a few feet. She shook her head, to clear it, and tried to cancel the genjutsu. After that didn't work, she started to feel wobbly. After a second, the seeming illusion faded away, leaving Harry, staring at her through the mask.

"HA! I knew I could get that genjutsu dispelled easily enough! HAHAHA! You can't win against me!" Anko cried out. Harry and the crowd sweat dropped. That reminded them too much of Naruto to be good. Then suddenly the laughing stopped and a serious expression appeared on her face. "Let's get down to business, shall we?"

Harry nodded, and reached his hand up, to take off his mask. After clipping it onto his belt, he stood up straight, and threw the cloak off. With a whispered "Colloportus," he drew the sword and sheath from his side, and got into a fighting position.

After a few seconds of watching each other, the two burst from the positions. Harry attacked directly on, while Anko started to defend immediately. After a moment of clashing, the two split apart.

Anko quickly threw a few kunai at Harry, who slashed his sword at them, sending a small wave of magic to intercept them. The kunai clattered to the floor as Anko looked on with surprise. How… How did he do that? He didn't use Chakra, I would have been able to sense it. But the kunai just stopped as if they had hit something solid!

Harry smirked at Anko's slightly bewildered stare. She hadn't been expecting that, it seemed.

In one second, Anko vanished from her spot a few meters away from him, before he felt a fist strike his face.

"You're not quite fast enough to keep up with me when I'm going really fast, now are you?" she taunted him.

He stood up quickly and glared at her. Swinging the sheathed sword forward, he struck. He spun around, and his body thinned out. In a second he was gone, but his body was rematerializing next to hers, with the blade sticking out prominently. It struck her on the side, sending her to the ground.

"I may not be fast enough on my feet, but that doesn't make a difference when I can disappear in an instant, and reappear wherever I want."

Anko struggled for a second to get up, before disappearing again. Harry whipped around, and swung his foot out. The foot hit Anko's stomach, stopping her charge. Then she was knocked back as Harry belted her in the face with his sword handle.

She stood up again, before dashing a third time, slower.

Harry put his hand over his heart, before summoning up a large amount of lightning. As Anko charged at him, he forced the lightning to his fingertips, forming what appeared to be small finger guards made of pure lightning.

When Anko reached him, faster than he had been before, he slammed the lightning covered fingers into Anko's stomach.

Her body shook as the power of the electricity flowed through her. Her vision flashed white, and she felt pain all over. Then it was gone.

Harry smirked as he felt the attack connect.

Poof.

Poof? I don't think lightning makes that noise

Harry watched amazed as the Anko he hit disappeared in a poof of smoke.

Must be some sort of ninja trick, to make a physical copy of the body. That would be very useful to know.

Harry felt a fist hit the back of his head, and he tumbled to the ground. His vision blurred, before coming back. He quickly jumped to his feet, slightly wobbly, and turned around. There stood Anko with that same bloody smirk on her face.

"That's the only jutsu I've used the whole time, and you're still breathing heavy. Ha, you couldn't be a ninja! You suck too bad!" she taunted him again.

"I'll take you out in one more move," she boldly stated, before starting to form hand seals. Running through them faster than Harry could follow, she called forth a strong storm of water. After reaching the last seal, she cried out the name of the attack, "Suiton: Daibakufu no Jutsu!"

Harry watched, amazed, as a large swirl of water started to form in front of Anko. It started to spin faster and faster, as more water started to appear.

I'm guessing it's going to shoot at me… I only hope that will work.

Harry held up his hand. In his hand a small flat triangle made of lightning formed. It was slowly revolving around in a circle. Then more lightning started to sprout from the corners, going up to meet at a single point. The newly made triangular pyramid slowlyrrotated, waiting for Harry to do something.

Anko watched him as she fed more Chakra into her jutsu. Her eyes were narrowed, waiting for him to do something.

Harry just stood there, smirking infuriatingly.

After a few minutes of waiting, Anko had had enough.

"HA!" she cried out, as she released the Daibakufu no jutsu at Harry.

Harry flung his hand forward, and the triangular pyramid started to change. It started to come apart at the seams, and it had almost flattened out completely. Then the four triangular pieces moved around a little, until one was in the center, and the other three were touching it at the four corners.

The wave was a few feet away by the time this was completed.

Harry spoke, "Pyramid Seal!" The triangles in his hand started to spin faster than before. They sped up, faster and faster, until all that was left was a blur.

The wave started to compress as it got closer to Harry.

Black energy started to pout out of the middle triangle, as if it were a black hole.

The wave was pulled in towards it, and the flow of water was swallowed. The water kept flowing, but it was continued to be absorbed into the small triangular seal.

After the flow finally subsided, and was completely swallowed by the triangle, the seal folded back up again, into its original form.

This time it was slightly different though. Inside the pyramid seemed to be water.

Anko's eyes widened. Wow, that's kinda sexy…

Harry's smirk grew, and he flung his hand forward again. This time, the pyramid opened immediately, and water started to flow out.

The huge wave from before was back, with a vengeance. Only this time, it was aimed at the wrong person. Anko jumped up, landing on the wall surrounding the arena.

The water that was flowing out of the triangles filled up most of the arena. It kept flowing until all the ground, except the raised platform of stone right in the center, was covered.

Anko jumped back onto the stone platform, and watched Harry pant.

"That was pretty good. I didn't expect that, a brat like you being able to block the Daibakufu no jutsu. It's too bad I need to beat you down now."

And then, she was gone. Before Harry had even realized it, her fist collided with the back of his head, sending him into the ground. And the world went gray.


Harry woke up in a white room.

He groaned, knowing what was in store for him.

He always had bad luck with the hospitals.

Then the door crashed open. The busty woman, who was the Hokage, barged in. Following her was the pink haired girl, Sakura, who was most likely the Hokage's apprentice.

"Ahh, so you are awake. That's good. You should be lucky that was just a sparring hit from Anko, or you'd be unconscious for another week at least.

That was a sparring hit? Bloody hell!

Harry groaned again. "How long was I out for?"

"Only a few hours," Sakura responded.

Well, better than usual at least. Normally I'm under for a few days.

"Well, I'm not dead, that's good. Other than that, I'm not so sure." Harry couldn't really feel much of his body, other than the pain in his neck.

"Yeah, the pain should go away after Sakura starts treating you. You'll be fine in a few minutes. Sakura, please, heal him." Tsunade said.

Sakura nodded. Then her hands lit up blue, glowing with charka. Then she put her hands on to Harry's neck, and started to massage.

Harry felt the pain instantly diminish. Within a few seconds, it was completely gone. He let out a sigh of relief. That was much simpler than most of those potions that the wizards used. No ugly taste or anything.

"Good job, Sakura. That was the best you've done yet. Keep up working like that and you'll catch up to me in no time," the older woman said happily.

Tsunade started prancing towards the door, before stopping and turning around. "By the way Potter-san, the voting for what ninja ranking will be later tonight. I'll send a messenger to come get you at the proper time."

Harry nodded, and laid back in bed. Then he started to feel drowsy, and fell back asleep.

Tsunade and Sakura looked him over once more, before turning and leaving the room.


Later…

Harry was woken up by someone shaking his shoulder.

"Wake up… you have a meeting to get to. Wake up!"

Harry groggily opened his eyes, his blurry eyes focusing slowly.

There sitting on the side of his bed was the woman he had fought earlier that day. Anko.

"Are you up yet, kid? I've spent the last ten minutes trying to get you awake enough to come along to the meeting."

Harry blearily nodded, before pulling himself out of bed. Then, in an instant he was back in it, under the covers.

"Could you get out of the room so that I can get up and change?"

"No. I was sent to get you to the meeting, and that once I found you, I wasn't supposed to let you out of my sight. Nyah!" She stuck her tongue out at him.

Harry shrugged. "Alright, if you must stay, then stay." He stood up again, before walking over to small dresser where he guessed his clothes would be. Opening it up, he pulled out a small bundle and unrolled it. There were all his clothes, wrapped up in his cloak. He started to take off his hospital dress, and heard an "Eep!" from behind him. Then he heard the door open and slam close.

"I guess she didn't want to stay and watch," he laughed.

He changed quickly and walked out of the room.

Anko stood down the hallway from his room. She motioned to him and said "Follow me," before walking down the hallway.

He ran to catch up to her, and they walked out of the hospital together.

Once they got off the premise, Anko started to dash away. Harry pushed a little bit of magic into his boots, activating the light levitation enchantment, and took off after her.

After a minute of chasing her, they reached a large tower. The Hokage tower.

Anko walked in, and Harry followed her. Going up several sets of stairs, they reached the doorway. Anko pushed it open, and they both went inside.