Disclaimer: A group of people huddled around a single television. The screen blurred and focused to a person at the party. Said person realized his new eavesdroppers and smiled,

"Well! Finals are over and school's out! PARTY! Since I'm occupied at the moment let's get this over quickly. I don't own anything relating to Harry Potter or Naruto. They belong to their respective creators, Rowling and Kishimoto. Alright now scat! I gots a party to enjoy!"

The television screen glitches and blurs into nothing.

Chapter 5

Sakusei led them from the gates of the village to the Kazekage Observatory. He turned and twisted through the multitude of alleys emerging from it five minutes later. Harii looked up at the tall cylindrical building and noticed the small spinning instruments extruding from the dome roof. He pushed up his glasses and squinted to see a baggy eyed kid looking at them from a high window. He shook his head; it wasn't his place to ponder.

Sakusei entered the building and was immediately greeted by one of the ninja. He turned back to the team and smiled. "Thanks for tha escort my fellow Konoha ninjas. Maybe I'll see ya in tha future eh?"

Rikou nodded vigorously to Sakusei; she was looking forward to their next conversation about ninjutsu. Kinji noticed the sparkle in her eyes and snickered. He poked Harii and pointed to her, Harii merely blinked. Harii drifted his attention to Sakusei and nodded. Sakusei smiled and handed an envelope to Kokuei, who promptly slipped it out of sight. Harii saw Kokuei's eyes meet with Sakusei's and after a pause curtly nodded. Harii tilted his head at this, but shook his head once again.

Sakusei nodded to each of them and walked off to meet the Kazekage. Kokuei snapped everyone out of their stupor and gestured them to go. While it had been a short mission and an even shorter time knowing Sakusei, he had become a friend to them.

Kinji yawned, his obnoxious yawn and exclaimed, "Well! Now that's over with let's go and get back to Konoha for some good ol' ramen huh?"

Rikou rolled her eyes and commented, "Sheesh, one second after completing a mission and your raring for some food. Boys."

Harii tried to place an affronted face on, but failed miserably. Kokuei was the only one who noticed this as Rikou and Kinji began to bicker again. Kokuei stepped nearer to Harii and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"So, are you having those dreams again?"

Harii jolted his face up at the word 'dream' and a questioning glint surfaced in his eyes. "How do you know about that?"

Kokuei sighed and pinched his nose, "I was one of the ANBU that was assigned to detain him. I was there the night they found you on that pole."

Harii shivered once more, and looked away at the argument nearby. "If only I was normal… I could be like them, without a care in the world… Instead, I'm stuck with this eye and freakish lightning abilities…"

"Heh, I know what it feels like. I, myself, was unique in my team. I was the only one who came from a non-ninja family. I always had a disadvantage against others, since I didn't have any unique jutsu. Yet as my disadvantage grew, my determination grew also. I looked past my broken stones and used them to build my future. I began trying to create a jutsu that would help me defeat anyone. After one long year, I had done it; I had created my signature jutsu. I've seen you work, Harii, you have the potential to create any jutsu you wanted. Heck you probably even have the power to back up most of those jutsu too. Just remember with enough determination, skill, and luck you can overcome anything. Think about that eh?"

Harii quietly nodded and his eyes became unfocused and clouded before sharpening again. The aura around him slowly changed, become more cheery and light. Kokuei smiled and continued walking, remembering his conversation with Sakusei.

Kokuei entered the tent, after making sure Rikou and Kinji had Harii under their care. He turned to Sakusei and sat down, throwing him a questioning gaze.

"How long has it been?"

"Since we've seen each otha? Too long."

Kokuei smiled, "Well if you hadn't pushed me into being a ninja I wouldn't have become one."

"True, but still family's family right?"

"Yeah, so how's cousin uncle?"

"Cute, she's still with that jounin, Gekkou Hayate though. He's not even a real jounin, women these days."

"Uncle, don't be harsh on her, at least she has a love interest."

"Yeah, too bad you swore abstinence after she died; you would have been a great father."

Kokuei shook his head and his gaze became sterner, "I saw you peeking out of your tent studying Harii in his episode, you're the specialist with ninjutsu, especially with ones relating to the mind; tell me: what should I do about Harii?"

Sakusei's face scrunched and slowly replied, "I'm not sure, it's obvious that he has had an extreme amount of trauma in his past, particularly one with a lot o' lightning and electricity. Was he struck by lightning?"

Kokuei became hesitant, "Well this is a Konoha secret so don't go blabbing uncle," Sakusei managed to look affronted, "Harii was found on top of a nondescript building crucified to a metal cross, after being struck by lightning four times in the span of four seconds."

Sakusei's eyes widened, "It was his work wasn't it? Only he could be so… so cruel."

Kokuei nodded, "Yes it was indeed his work. We found Harii as he was finishing up the experiment. Harii was stuck in the hospital for months in a coma. He had come out of it before the academy exams, though."

Sakusei sighed, "Those hands though, have significant importance to him for him ta hide them so. I have never seen those gloves come off. I assume that tha bolt connected at his hands?" Kokuei nodded, "While his mind maybe struggling with his past, his body, more specifically his hands are stronger. It was most likely the outcome of the experiment."

Sakusei paused to collect his thoughts and mold them into a solution. Kokuei stared at Sakusei while the silence lasted, urging him to give the answer. Sakusei sighed once more and spoke, "Well tha only answer I have is ta assist and guide him ta being free from tha trauma. Well it's been an eventful night, goodnight."

Kokuei nodded as he rested his back against the tent, listening to the genin struggle with Harii.

Kokuei shook his head; it was time to go to home. It was then that a series of events that unfolded in a matter of minutes.

Harii was grateful that Kokuei had confronted him and helped him move past his troubles. He was right; I should stop this stupid brooding. It's time that I take my future into my hands and build the magnificent tower of my future.

While Harii was thinking to himself, he saw Kokuei stumble and apologize to someone. He soon prepared to defend him at the sight of the response.

The person who Kokuei had bumped into was a child, one with faint bags under his eyes. Ones much like my own… The child stared at Kokuei and suddenly an arm of sand rose and impaled Kokuei. Blood pumped out of his chest as the realization of what had happened seeped in. Shock was written in his face as he blacked out from the pain.

Immediately Rikou appeared by Kokuei's side attempting to heal him, while Kinji and Harii stepped forward to defend them. Kinji held two kunai in his hands in a similar position to the Jyuuken. Harii slightly crouching, his hands crossed and sprouting lightning from his wrists.

The sand kid glared at Kinji, who shivered, and then to Harii. Harii locked his own eyes to the kid and delved deep into the kid's past; his eyes conveying the pain, telling Harii of the recent betrayal the kid experienced. The kid's eyes were windows to Harii, one that had been cracked from the sights he saw. The kid shook his head and sent the sand to strike them.

Harii breathed out and disappeared slicing the rushing sand. Kinji dashed to the side and opened his palms, narrowing his eyes he spoke, "Odayaka na Dangan no jutsu!" The two kunai righted themselves perpendicular to his palms and shot forward. As they bulleted neared the kid however, the sand swept the kunai away and turned to rush at Kinji. Harii stopped his attack and sealed out, "Doku Bunshin no jutsu!"

Three additional Harii's appeared and each rushed to near the kid. The sand responded by whipping out at them. They dodged and ran towards him in a three pronged approach. They were a meter from the kid when the sand rose behind them at pierced their chest. The kid smirked but was confused when each of the clones smiled. They burst and a large cloud of gas encompassed the kid. Coughing and wheezing the kid never saw the next bullet from Kinji as the handle struck the kid at the temple. The kid staggered and bits of sand broke off his face. Kinji cursed and retreated when the sand started to target him. Kinji weaved himself out and under from the massive threads of sand as they struck. Harii slipped his hand into his back container and pulled out a chain. Kinji's eyes gleamed at the chain and sought out Harii's eyes. Harii nodded back to Kinji with the tiger seal at his lips.

Kinji smirked and turned, weaving himself in and over each sand thread circling the kid. Kinji suddenly shot shuriken and kunai with his gentle bullet at the sand. The sand caught them but the concealed explosive seals burned. Multiple explosions occurred and numerous holes in the defense appeared. Harii took advantage of the holes and formed seals and spoke, Yoake Koorasu no jutsu! He ran two fingers over his chain and began twirling it. A low hum soon emerged from the chains. Harii twirled the chain faster and faster, and the low hum elevated to a high chirp reminiscent of a bird's chorus. The sand slowly became less fluid as the kid became disoriented at the unique sound. Harii continued twirling the chain, gesturing for Kinji to take his exit.

The kid grabbed his head and clutched them trying to force himself to focus. The sand soon dropped to the ground and trembled with each attempt. Harii twirled the chain as he stepped back; looking backwards he saw Kinji grabbing a seal covered Kokuei. Kinji gestured to hurry and Harii soon twirled the chain to a faint blur as the chirp became a cacophony of birds. Harii turned and dashed away, following Kinji into the woods that led to a maze of trees ending at Konoha village.

Harii looked backwards, searching for any signs of a pursuer, but found none. Harii breathed out a held breath and questioned Rikou, "Do you have any more of that Delayer's Seal?"

Rikou nodded and moved closer to Harii, passing a rectangular leaf of paper. "It's the only one left, Kokuei was hit pretty badly. The gash left by the sand was huge and deep, I can't heal him, we need the doctors at Konoha to operate."

Harii shook his head and placed the seal on a gash on his leg, the only scratch from his frenzied attack on the sand. Kinji shook his head and spoke up, "Why didn't you let me take out that kid?"

Harii turned his gaze on him, "You wouldn't have survived the rebuttal. That kid is more powerful than all of us together, we were lucky that my jutsu affected him so. When I left I saw that he was overcoming the jutsu so I had to amp it up more."

Kinji and Rikou shivered, Rikou spoke then, "So what are we going to do now?"

Harii bit his lip and hesitantly answered, "I don't want to do this but this is the only solution that will give us safety from that kid and getting to Konoha." Harii extended his arms to Rikou and Kinji, "Grab my arms; I'm going to increase our speed."

Rikou and Kinji grabbed Harii's arms without hesitation and waited for Harii to do something. Harii breathed in and breathed out, formed the tiger seal with his hands and spoke Nouryoku: Gotai Nagare. Rikou and Kinji felt a tingle rush past their hands and looked at each other. What was that? Harii twisted his arms and grabbed his passengers, determination plastered on his face. Rikou and Kinji saw Harii take a step, and the rest became a blur.

Harii felt his body quicken at the technique and took a step.

Just as he had expected, he reached the tree limb all too quickly to be natural. Harii smiled, it worked!

During his – as Kokuei liked to call it – isolation; Harii discovered a unique ability he had. During his stay in the library, he found a section full of manuscripts and journals of past members of the family.

While some were ancient, all of the archives were readable, as Harii soon found out. Eventually, Harii stumbled upon the journal of the previous Suigyoku: Jigoku Shonetsu Suigyoku. He was the hot-headed prodigy of the clan. Though a prodigy, he often caused trouble for them, until one night. Jigoku's stylish handwriting had deteriorated into scribbles as he told of the incident. Harii had only worked out two words: assassination and night. Afterwards Jigoku pressed himself to the point of exhaustion to develop his abilities. Apparently every member had a few abilities corresponding to their affinity. Harii soon learned of Jigoku's method to hone the abilities and applied it to his. He soon found himself akin to a generator; his body had withstood enough electricity to create some in his body. He could then manipulate the electricity within to perform a multitude of things. One such application was the Gotai Nagare – the body current.

Harii shook his head; he needed to keep his focus on the path before him. Harii sped through the thin woods into thicker ones and recognized the outer fringe of the forest: ten more kilometers and he'd reach Konoha. Harii breathed out, he was almost there.

Harii leaped to the next branch and launched, only to wince as pain seared up his legs. Three more leaps and three more winces. Harii cursed, he couldn't lose now; he was too close to let Kokuei die from his wounds in spite of the delaying seals. Harii bit his tongue as the next wave of pain serrated through his body. Harii closed his eyes and drew in a shuddering breath; he let it out painfully and sped up.

Rikou grasped Harii's arms tighter as she felt him wince. She didn't know what was happening, but she knew it was hurting Harii. She wanted him to stop so much, but she knew that if Harii slowed down they couldn't save Kokuei. She sighed and wished Harii would last.

Kinji clutched Kokuei closer to him as Harii sped up. Kokuei was surprisingly light, Kinji realized. Kinji looked over to Rikou, expecting a smile back; Rikou was always into flying and speed. Instead he saw her biting her lip as she clutched Harii harder. Kinji shifted his gaze to Harii, only to see a face of barely concealed pain. Kinji shivered, he prayed to whatever power above that Harii would survive this, for only great pain affected Harii this much.

Harii blinked away the tears in his eyes and continued running. A kilometer was all that was left, one mile. He could do it, he could – he winced as the wave of pain descended on him again. He breathed out and willed his legs to run, his arms to steady, his hands to tighten, his body to move.

500 meters… Step… Step…

250 meters… Step… Cough…

100 meters… Step… Gasp…

50 meters… Step… Wheeze…

10 meters… Step… Pain…

5 meters… Step… Pain…

1 meter… Step…

Harii wheezed as the last breath exhaled painfully out of his lungs. He tripped, stumbled, and sprawled himself on the road before the gates. He opened his eyes painfully and saw the gates and smiled. He could hear Rikou screaming for help, as the adrenaline ran out and pain mercifully swept him into the darkness.

Harii woke up to the faint sounds of people outside of his door.

"His other wound was easy to heal, only a simple slice. As for the other… he's lucky he's alive. His muscle and nervous structures were overloaded as if he released the first two gates. Any longer and he would have been permanently incapacitated. I'm surprised at how long he had endured the pain, damage shows he was withstanding it for a whole hour. It's all I can do for him."

"And Kokuei?"

"Thank the girl for that one, if she hadn't applied those Delayer's Seals – and what a wonderful seal technique she used too, if she's interested I'd be willing to offer her–" a pause "Right, moving on, the jounin sustained a major gash across his chest, it seemed to be caused by a sand jutsu. Though we managed to heal the gash, he is not well enough to participate in anything more rigorous than playing shogi or go. I expect him to be operational for missions in a month, two weeks before the chuunin exam. That is all."

"Thank you doctor, you may go." A shuffle was heard, "Come I expect Harii to be up by now."

The door opened and in walked the Hokage, Rikou, and Kinji. Rikou and Kinji brightened at the sight of Harii up and rushed to his side. Rikou hugged him lightly, while Kinji placed a hand on his shoulder.

The Hokage spoke, "Congratulations on completing your mission, and I wish you the best of luck on the recovery. I have to get back to my paperwork, but remember don't overwork yourself." The Hokage winked and walked out of the room.

Kinji stared at the door, until he was satisfied that the Hokage was gone. "Damn, that man's weird. Strong but weird."

Harii laughed, but winced as pain seared across his ribs. Rikou noticed and placed a hand on Harii's arm. "The doctor says not to do anything extraneous for a day. Your body's still recovering."

Kinji nodded, and Harii slowly sat up, looking at the bed-ridden Kokuei next to him. "Will he be alright?"

Kinji nodded again, "Yeah, he's sleeping for now but when he wakes up he'll have to stay in the hospital until he's all healthy again."

Silence reigned for the next few moments as the genin seemed to be lost in their thoughts. Suddenly Kinji turned to Harii and asked, "Who was that kid?"

Harii sighed and looked outside the window, "Gaara,"

Kinji and Rikou nodded as if that answered their question; they never noticed Harii's whispered continuation:

"Another one of the demons…"

A/N: SHYEAH! SCHOOL's OUT! Phew, well Chapter 5's out and Chapter 6 is in production.A few more fillers and the next arc will happen. 1 Kudo point to whoever guesses it! Alright now here's the translation:

Translation:
Odayaka na Dangan - Gentle Bullet
Doku Bunshin - Poison Clone
Yoake Koorasu - Dawn Chorus (Cool thing is that this is an actual occurance caused by electricity)
Nouryoku: Gotai Nagare - Ability: Body Current

Until Next Time

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