A/N: Again, it appears I have neglected my duties of being an author. Well, I suppose there's not much I can do about it except try to make up for it.

If any of my Japanese or Latin translations are wrong, correct me, please!

Anyways, here's chapter 4


Harry's Demons

Chapter 4: What Rank am I?


Harry and Anko stood side by side in the middle of a large, darkened room. The only person they could really make out was Tsunade, the Hokage.

Anko walked over to her, and whispered in her ear for a moment, before walking back out the door.

Harry remained standing, as Tsunade eyed him.

"You did surprisingly well for someone not trained in any ninja arts." She said.

Harry bowed, "Thank you. High praise, considering I lost."

Tsunade raised her eyebrows. "You were up against one of the best. Had it been, say, Naruto, you were facing, you most likely would have won."

"If you say so."

Tsunade nodded, before reaching over to a desk, and grabbing a folder of papers.

"In here we have placed all of the information we have on you. This is your folder, and will be placed inside the Hokage Tower, along with all of the other Ninjas information. If you want to see what we have on you, you can simply ask. Your rank, as well as your mission list, and a few other non-important things are in here."

Harry nodded, waiting silently for the verdict.

"Now, do you know of the ranking system among ninjas?" Tsunade asked him.

Harry shook his head.

"Very well, allow me to explain. Among ninjas there are five ranks. Everyone who graduates from the academy, and passes their examiner's tests are considered Genin rank. They are the lowest, and get the worst missions. The missions mostly consist of manual labor, inside Kohona."

"Then, to advance to the next rank, they, in teams of three, must compete in a competition among the nations, called the Chuunin Exams. Called such, because the next rank title is Chuunin. Chuunin are middle rank, getting some of the harder ranked missions, usually still in their three-man cells that formed when they became Genin. They may occasionally get a mission on their own, but not usually."

"Then, another national exam takes place, the Jounin Exam. Again, called such because the next rank title is Jounin. They are almost always called out for missions individually, and they get the hardest ones. They are usually the ones called for middle rank assassin missions, and such. They are the ones who are assigned to teach the Genin in their groups."

"Next rank is ANBU. To gain ANBU rank, one must be chosen by a higher-up member of ANBU. This is a hard feat to accomplish. They are the protectors of the Kages and the high ranking assassins. There is a division of ANBU who are purely assassins, known as the Hunter-nins."

"The last and final rank is Kage. Kage's are the village leaders. I am this village's Kage, called the Hokage, as we are in the Fire County. There is only one Kage per village."

"Naruto and one other from his graduating class are still Genin, and because they do not have a third teammate, cannot compete in this phase's Chuunin Exam. As such, we are assigning you a Genin rank, to allow you and them to easily pass into the next rank."

"Is that acceptable?" Tsunade asked with a smile.

Harry smiled as well. "Who is my other teammate?"

"A girl named Ino Yamanaka. She works at a small flower store, run by her mother's side of the family. She is well trained in the arts of the mind."

"And Naruto, is my other teammate? This should be… interesting, to say the least."

"You've got no idea. Get them to come here, quickly, and I'll explain the whole thing to you three. Now scram, I need more sleep, or at least some Sake."

Tsunade's head started to nod and her eyes closed. Within a minute, she was fast asleep, snoring loudly.

Harry raised an eyebrow, before turning to leave.


Outside, Harry ran into Naruto. Literally.

Naruto quickly said "Sorry!" before continuing to run off.

"NARUTO!" Harry shouted after him, trying to get his attention.

Naruto stopped and turned around. "What is it, Harry?"

"The Hokage told me to tell you something. Come over here."

Naruto nodded, and walked back over to Harry.

"What's up?"

"You're my new teammate. The Hokage wanted me to tell you, and we need to see her once we get our third member." Harry said.

Naruto had a questioning look on his face. "Are you joining our team?"

Harry shook his head. "Nope, for now at any rate. It's you, me, and a girl named Yamanaka Ino for the Chuunin Exams that are taking place sometime soon."

Naruto pouted. "I thought one of that exam was enough, but if I want to become Hokage, then I'll need to take it again. Alright. We can do this!"

Harry rolled his eyes at Naruto before asking about Ino. "Where can we find Yamanaka-san?"

"You'd have to ask Sakura-chan. She's the one that was friends with Ino. She'll be here in a few minutes." Naruto responded.

They waited quietly for a while… something rather surprising from Naruto.

"SAKURA-CHAN!" Naruto cried loudly. Harry winced at the sudden volume.

"Hello, Naruto! Who's this?" She asked, pointing at Harry.

Harry gave her a short bow. "I am Potter Harry. Pleased to meet you. I've been told you had information about the whereabouts of one Yamanaka Ino. She and Naruto are my teammates for the upcoming Chuunin exams."

Sakura smiled. He was a lot more handsome closer up! I didn't know it was him! Wow, he's cute!

"Well, I suppose I can take you there. I've got nothing to do for a little while… wait a second! Did you say Naruto was your other teammate?"

Harry frowned. "Yes. The Hokage has set us up as a team for the Chuunin exams. Is there… something wrong with that?"

Sakura shook her head. "Nope, she just never told me about this. She said Team 7 would be back together once Naruto came back, since it had disbanded while he left. So Naruto having another team kinda confuses me." I'll talk with Tsunade about this later.

"Oh… alright. Well, could you please take us there?"

Sakura nodded, and walked off. Harry and Naruto followed, being lead to the small flower shop.

After reaching the Yamanaka Flower Shop, Sakura walked off to the side, allowing Harry to enter. A young girl, around Naruto's age stood behind the counter, humming to herself.

"Excuse me. Are you Yamanaka Ino?" Harry questioned.

Ino looked up, startled. "Umm… yes, I am! Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. What can I do for you?"

"The Hokage told me that you were to meet her, with Naruto and myself. She said it was about teams for the next Chuunin exams. The Hokage told us to come quickly, if possible."

Ino nodded, and hollered into the back room. "I got a message from the Hokage some someone's going to have to man the shop while I'm away!"

A sound of assent later, and Ino jumped over the counter, and pointed towards the door. "Lead the way!"

Harry nodded, and they both walked outside. Naruto was bothering Sakura, before she belted him in the face, sending him flying down the street. Harry winced, that had to have hurt.

"Naruto, we need to leave." Harry yelled at him.

Naruto got up off the ground, not injured in the slightest. "Sure thing!" he cried happily.

The three of them walked off, leaving Sakura behind.

They reached the office rather quickly, not wasting time walking, but rather running the whole way there.

The three of them ran up the stairs, and reached the door. Naruto and Ino stood back, not wanting to face the Hokage's wrath when they woke her from her slumber, but Harry had no idea what would happen.

He pushed the door open, and saw the Hokage, fast asleep on a pile of papers. He chuckled a little.

"Do we wake her up?" he asked quietly.

Both of the other members of his time violently denied that idea. "Don't do that, she'll kill you, or at least maim you severely!"

Harry chuckled again, before walking back out the door. Outside, they heard the sound of a small scuffle, and a loud argument. They figured Harry was trying to get someone to wake up Tsunade.

A woman's black haired head appeared in the doorway. Shizune spoke up quickly. "Tsunade! You have guests!"

Tsunade quickly rose from her slumber, without smashing anything, and Harry walked back through the door. Shizune quickly dashed away, with other important things to do.

"Alright, now that you're all here, I need to tell you about your team for the Chuunin exams."

"Since I'm not allowed to just promote people with no reasons, I can't just make you three into Chuunin. It would be against the laws set down at the beginnings of the Shinobi Countries."

"Thus, you three are going to have to compete in a Chuunin exam. Doesn't matter if this is your first, second, or even third time, you'll have to do your best. The Leaf has enough Genin at the moment; we don't need extras who could have passed up a rank by now. I know you're all good enough to do so, you just need to show it."

"Now, your sensei will be Anko-chan. She's close enough to all of you, and you have basically two weeks to get Harry's mission record up to what is required for the Chuunin exam. I know you three can do it, it won't be that difficult. Eight missions, seven D-ranks and one C-rank. That's it. You won't have much time to work as a team before the exam, but I think you three can do it."

"Now, Anko is going to be a hard sensei, she'll try to drill a large amount into your skulls before the exams start, even though there's only two weeks, so be prepared for a lot of hard work."

The Hokage quickly pressed a button on one of the devices on her desk, and Anko walked into the room. Ino instantly went star-struck at having such a beautiful kunoichi as a sensei.

Harry smiled stiffly at the woman who defeated him.

Naruto just stared.

The Godaime Hokage smiled, and sent them off with a wave.

"Well, this should be fun to watch." She whispered, as she pulled a small, glowing orb out of one of the desk drawers.

"Lets move out troops!" Anko shouted.

Harry shook his head. Damn it, why did this always happen to him? Why did he always have the weirdos as teachers?

Naruto was still staring, and Ino was watching with rabid fascination.

Anko started to march down to one of her favorite training areas. Training area sixteen. Why sixteen? Because it was her favorite number.

They reached the training area rather quickly, and there was nothing special to note there. It was just a large, open field.

Anko spun around to face her new 'students.'

"Now listen up, brats! I'm not going to be teaching you the basic teamwork shit that most teams work on right at the start. We're just going to work on getting better! Understand?"

All three of her 'students' nodded quickly.

"Good, now let's see what we have to improve on. Naruto, fight Harry!"

Naruto nodded before turning to face Harry with a condescending look on his face. "I'm gonna beat you good!"

Harry just sighed. "At least speak correctly!"

Naruto glared at him. Then he charged forward.

Harry pulled out his sword, and slashed it in front of him. Naruto stopped his charge, watching the sword.

Naruto grabbed a few kunai from his pouch, and threw them, testing the waters so to speak.

Harry just slashed his sword again, releasing a wave of magic, and the kunai stopped as if they hit something solid.

Naruto hissed in annoyance. He drew out another few kunai, this time throwing them one by one. Harry just smirked, and slashed his sword once more. The first kunai got the closest and the others stopped farther and farther away.

Now Naruto figured out what happened. "It's a wave," he stated.

Naruto quickly made his cross hand sign, creating several kage bunshins.

Harry glowered at them. That's the cheap move that Anko did to me, to make me waste my lightning. Evil ninja technique!

Each of the Narutos watched Harry. Harry just slashed his sword again, putting a flick upwards at the end. This time, instead of a wave of pure magic, he cast an actual spell.

The ground started to waver and shake. Pieces started to break off, and float up into the air.

The pieces slowly started to gather and fuse together, forming into several floating swords. The swords didn't do anything, but continued to float.

Harry waved his sword again, acting like a conductor, and the swords started to move.

Move after move the swords started to float forward, in sync. It was as if they were a small army, marching forward. Then, they started to attack. The Naruto clones pulled out kunai quickly, to attempt to block the attacks, but they came too quickly. Before long, all of the Naruto clones had vanished.

There was only one problem…

Naruto was gone too.

Naruto had somehow disappeared before Harry's eyes.

"Well, this should be interesting."

Harry sheathed his sword and felt around with his Legilimency, allowing his mind to see where Naruto was. He felt two minds off to the side, Ino and Anko, but where was Naruto?

"Where are you, Naruto?"

An alarm sounded in Harry's mind, Naruto's mind suddenly popping up… below him?

A fist quickly connected with Harry's face, sending him falling backwards. A kick reached him from behind, then another and another. The last kick sent him up into the air, and a fifth Naruto appeared above him. "Shit!" With a cry of "Naruto Rendan!" Harry was sent plummeting back to the earth.

Harry hit the ground with a bang.

Ok, that stung, just a little bit. I'm being sarcastic in my own mind, geez this is bad! That hurt like a bitch!

Harry stumbled up, and quickly straightened out. Legilimency doesn't work when they're underground, need to remember that.

Quickly charging Harry while he was disoriented, Naruto gave him another good fist to the face.

Harry was knocked back a few feet, but flipped and landed on his feet.

Naruto smirked. "I've got you now!" Amused, Harry watched as Naruto held out his hand. In it, a glowing blue orb spun into view. With a cry of "Rasengan!

Harry watched as Naruto surged forward with it, a smirk on his face. I've got the perfect technique to counter that! Quickly, he stuck out his own hand, which was surrounded by purple lightning.

Naruto stopped, not wanting to charge into the unknown, and watched.

The lightning in Harry's hand started to jump to his fingers, and quickly jumped off of it, forming a small sphere floating above his hand. Slowly, all the lightning accumulated into the small sphere, forming one about the same size as Naruto's Rasengan.

The sphere was an opaque purple, with little lightning bolts jumping out of it at random occasions. The visible center was a dark murky purple, giving off a glow. It floated about an inch off of Harry's hand, keeping it from hurting him.

Naruto glared at it. "Hey, you basically copied my Rasengan! That's not fair!"

Harry laughed. "Sorry, where I come from, this is a rather common move used in dueling."

Naruto, angry at the perceived slight, charged forward again. Harry held his place as Naruto dashed at him.

At the same moment, they both lashed out with their techniques, causing a collision.

With a flash of light, and a large burst of wind, the two attacks canceled each out, sending both combatants tumbling backwards. Naruto quickly started making hand seals, calling out "Hibashira no Jutsu!" (Blazing Column Jutsu)

A large flame column appeared in front of Naruto and quickly made its way over to Harry. Harry just smirked and waved his hand, crying "Circuitous," (Cyclone) making a large whirlwind appear around the flame. The flame stopped moving, trapped by the raging whirlwinds.

Making a few more hand seals, Naruto called out "Ryuuka no Jutsu" turning the trapped tower of flames into a large dragon, that quickly escaped out the top of the cyclone. The fire dragon then charged at Harry. Harry quickly slashed his hand downwards, crying "Unda Uxor!" (Water Spout) and then pointed the palm of his hand at the dragon. A large burst of water came from the ground, and quickly put the fire dragon out of commission.

Naruto glared at his enemy. He was coming up with something to counter every move Naruto made! Not cool! He charged up another Rasengan, and started to charge forward.

"That's enough you two!" came a third voice from the sidelines.

Naruto quickly stopped, and dispersed his attack. Harry jumped when he heard Anko's voice.

"Alright, you two had your fun, now it's Ino's and Harry's turn. I'm guessing Ino and Naruto have seen each other fight at least a few times, so we'll just not have them fight."

Ino walked forward purposefully, and Harry watched her silently.

Naruto quickly ran off the field.

Harry grabbed his sword again, and pulled it out.

"GO!" Anko shouted.


A/N: Well, there you go, another chapter, way off time, by yours truly.