Chapter 8: Snape's Shrinking Potion
A few days after the incident at the Uchiha clan compound, Severus is ready to start magically banishing people to the furthest corners of the Shinobi continent.
He bemoans the fact that the Uchiha have been constantly dogging at his heels ever since he agreed to help them.
They call it protection.
Severus calls it a bother.
'Should have said no and pulled a disappearing act,' he thinks for the umpteenth time as Fugaku walks into his shop and gives him a nod. The Uchiha soon seats himself at his usual table by the back windows.
Sarutobi walks in minutes later and goes up to sit directly across from the Uchiha.
Fugaku doesn't look one bit surprised at his action and maintains a neutral expression on his face.
The Sandaime then aims a speculative glance at the owner of the tea shop before turning back to look at the head of the Uchiha Police in front of him.
"How about a game of go?" the older man asks, plopping a small travel size go board onto the shared table.
"Sure," the dark-haired man answers and they begin the game.
Severus watches as an informal interrogation happens in his tea shop as the Hokage starts prodding at the head of the Uchiha clan in between bouts of placing down his go-stones on the board.
"I hear that young Sasuke has been working in the shop?" Severus hears the Sandaime question.
"Hn," comes the affirmative from the Fugaku as he puts down a stone.
Sarutobi retaliates by putting down a stone of his own.
"I see that your clan members seem to like visiting the tea shop of late?" comes another question.
"Hn," is the reply again.
The Hokage proceeds to ask more questions but Fugaku remains quite tight-lipped and only answers back in monosyllables.
It goes on back and forth in that way for the whole morning and Severus soon tunes them out.
'I'll get started on the vanishing cabinet this weekend,' is what he thinks as he starts drying the teacups.
The next morning, the Hokage is back for more tea and for a game of go with the taciturn Uchiha clan head.
Severus expects more interrogation and one word-grunts throughout the whole morning in the tea shop.
'The cabinet will look great right next to shelves in the back room,' he thinks, palms already itching to get started.
His plans of creating a vanishing cabinet are put on hold when he gets ambushed by Sasuke's older brother one evening as he's walking back from purchasing his groceries in town.
He suspects the boy had brainwashed his usual Uchiha guard and decided to attack him while his cousin slept through his 'protection shift'.
It's the start of another headache for him.
He wonders when people will start leaving him alone so that he'll have time to build a simple vanishing cabinet.
Not any time soon by the looks of it.
Itachi notices that something has changed.
His parents, who had originally been suspicious of Sasuke's new employer, had suddenly decided to stick close to the man.
He often sees his father frequent the tea shop in the mornings and his mother starts baking sweet and savoury treats to share with the tea shop owner almost every afternoon.
If Itachi didn't know better, he would have thought that they were trying to curry favour with him.
But as proud Uchiha clan members, he doubts they would resort to something as demeaning as currying favour with someone, anyone for that matter.
'Us Uchihas must never bend our heads to anyone,' Father had repeatedly told him as he was growing up.
"Sasuke, remember to mind your manners when you speak to Snape-san," Father reminds Sasuke as his brother leaves the house that very morning for school.
"Ok?" Sasuke answers back a tad bit confused but ultimately nods in agreement before rushing off to the academy.
Itachi wonders what has changed.
So, he decides to tail the man.
He has asked his parents but they simply brush off his questions. 'We'll tell you when we can,' they say to him.
He's tried asking the clan elders, who have similarly been frequenting the tea shop, but they tell him to ask his parents.
He's even tried asking the other Uchiha Police, even the ones who have seemingly been healed from their near-blindness due to a 'new medicine', but they tell him to ask the clan elders.
All in all, the clan has been acting out of the ordinary of late and Itachi is determined to find out why.
He wishes that Shisui was there to bounce ideas off but his older cousin was out on a long-term mission and wouldn't be back for a couple of weeks yet.
As such, he decides to take it on himself to get some answers.
He follows the man's usual day-to-day routines and he even sends his crows to watch the man when he's asleep.
They usually come back the next morning with nothing to report.
It frustrates him.
This goes on for two weeks before finally, he loses his patience and decides to personally act.
'Kakashi-taichou already tried with the mangekyou sharingan but perhaps he missed something,' he thinks as he activates his new mangekyou eyes in front of the mirror.
He had been on a mission a few weeks ago to retrieve the body of one of his cousins who had been killed in the Land of Wind. The sight of the familiar face staring back at him with vacant eyes had shocked him into awakening the mangekyou sharingan. He sometimes thinks that the Uchiha clan's sharingan was more like a curse than a gift.
But gift or curse, it was an ability that could be used to protect his loved ones.
He plans to use these eyes to do just so.
He ambushes the man one evening as he is walking back home from town.
The man looks up in surprise at the shinobi who suddenly appears in front of him but Itachi merely activates his mangekyou sharingan without saying a word.
Itachi then pulls him into a world of red and black.
Severus has had it with the lot of them.
This is the second time in a couple of weeks that he's been pulled into a dream world forcefully by the mangekyou sharingan.
This time, he decides, he won't be playing nice.
In a blink of an eye, Severus manifests himself in the dream-fortress which he had built in his mind.
'Let the kid wonder about in his own dream-world for a while,' he thinks as his dream-self plops into a comfy armchair in a large airy room full of books.
The walls are covered from top to bottom with shelves and cabinets of every book he has ever read in his lifetime. This is his inner mind's library of information, well, the book section of it anyway.
A familiar cawing makes him turn his head to look up at an old acquaintance who is perched on a step-ladder to his right.
"Tsukine, what are you doing here?" he asks, bewildered to see to the white raven.
The raven eyes him in amusement before saying, "I Saw that this would happen so I came to enjoy the show."
"Oh?" he asks with a raised eyebrow but ultimately not overly surprised at her presence. She still had a tendency to waltz in and out of his dreams from time to time after all.
The raven laughs and then using a dectrous claw, pulls out a blue hardbound book from a shelf before carrying it over to drop it on Severus' lap. She then lands on the man's shoulder and caws out in laughter again.
"You always did like to play your mischievous tricks on your victims," she tells him.
Severus looks down on the book on his lap, recognising the title at once.
It had been one of his favourite stories growing up in the dreary household of his past.
'Well, I did tell myself I was going to teach the next idiot a lesson,' he thinks.
The book on his lap is more than enough of an inspiration to build his own dream-world and to have some fun at the expense of the Uchiha boy.
"Why not?" he shrugs to himself as he picks up the book.
The title reads, 'Alice in Wonderland'.
Itachi is at first confused, he had thought that he had successfully pulled the other man into the red and black dream-world of the mangekyou sharingan but he finds himself alone.
He walks about for a while along the path, looking at the red sky and the black trees as he walks by but he finds no traces of the tea shop owner.
'Did something go wrong?' he asks himself, suddenly unsure about his new sharingan eyes.
He hears a raven croak and he looks up surprised to see a white raven flying above him.
'I don't remember adding that to the dream,' he thinks in surprise before his sight begins to blur and his dream-self falls into unconsciousness.
The next time he opens his eyes, the world is no longer red and black.
He's lying on fresh green grass and the sun is shining brightly above in a clear blue sky. There are fluffy white clouds in the distance but it doesn't look like it will rain anytime soon.
"Did I wake up from the mangekyou?" he asks himself, slightly disoriented.
He sits up and looks about, finding himself in an unfamiliar forest where the trees do not look like the trees that populate the Konoha forests. In fact, he doesn't quite recognise any of the tree species around.
'Where am I?' his mind quickly thinks, the fuzziness of sleep slowly fading. He tries flaring out his chakra subtly to look for any sign of foregin chakra but finds himself unable to do so.
'It's like I have no chakra,' he thinks in panic as he searches his body for any signs of seals but finds none. He also finds no traces of any of his weapons and his familiar clothes have disappeared only to be replaced with a light blue button up shirt and a pair of white shorts. The design of the clothes itself was odd; nothing at all like what he's seen in the village or what the other ninja would wear.
'What's happening?' he questions, looking about again alert.
He walks around the strange forest looking for clues of where he is when he hears the distinct 'oink oink' of pigs and looks up to see a small herd of them flying above his head.
'There are flying pigs,' his mind supplies and he can feel his brain coming to halt.
'I must be dreaming,' he thinks as his brain restarts again after a moment.
He tries to activate his mangekyou sharingan but fails.
He keeps trying but in the end, decides to give up and keeps looking about. 'Maybe I'm sleeping in my bed and having a weird dream,' he tries to rationalise the situation.
A moment later, he hears fast footsteps approaching and tenses up.
His little brother, or who he thinks is his little brother, bursts out from a stray bush in a rush saying, "I'm late, I'm late!"
Itachi freezes in shock, staring at the white rabbit ears that have grown out from his brother's head. "Sasuke, what?" he begins but is interrupted when the boy takes out a golden pocket watch and glances at it with a panicked expression on his whiskered face.
"Oh, no! I'm late, look at the time!" the rabbit-boy jumps up in agitation before rushing off deeper into the forest.
"Wait!" Itachi calls out, running to catch up with the younger boy. He was the only familiar face he had seen so far in these strange dream-woods.
But no matter how fast he runs, he could not catch up.
They play a game of catch-the-rabbit through the woods before Sasuke finally stops.
The boy pulls out a small glass vial, tips his head back and swallows the contents before Itachi can stop him. Itachi is then astonished by the sight of his little brother shrinking at a rapid rate until he shrinks to the height of a single pinky finger.
The rabbit-boy then runs off towards a small door at the foot of a tree nearby and enters through it before slamming it shut.
Itachi just stands there staring in bewilderment at the small door.
'I don't remember ever having such a weird dream,' he thinks, as he pinches his skin and winces in pain.
'Is this even a dream? Am I still stuck in the mangekyou?' thoughts start running amok again in his mind.
He hears the croak of a raven and looks up to see a familiar white raven flying in circles above his head.
It soon drops a bundle at his foot and flies off into the distance.
Itachi eyes the cloth bundle warily, wondering what he will find in there and if the dream will get any weirder.
He bends down and pulls it open to reveal a single vial of liquid, similar to the one he saw Sasuke drink from, and beside it lies a folded up note.
He unfolds the note and reads it.
Uchiha Itachi,
Welcome to my dream world. I hope you have been enjoying yourself so far; I certainly have from watching you wander around in it.
It wasn't very nice of you to pull me into the dream-world of the mangekyou sharingan without so much as my say so. As such, I have taken it upon myself to teach you a small lesson in pulling strangers willy-nilly into your mind.
You've opened up your own mind for an attack especially with so little shielding in place.
So this is the first lesson, I have shown you what can happen if the mind you invite into your own is so much stronger than your own. I could have pushed you into an endless nightmare and tortured you for a thousand years but no, I've decided to be magnanimous. I'm sure you found the green forest and clear skies rather tranquil, no?
But if you want to get out of this dream-world, you'll have to play a game with me. You start the game by drinking the potion in the vial and shrinking just enough to enter the door. Once you do, you'll have to look for someone and find out their identity.
That person is the Queen of Hearts.
Once you do, I'll consider it that you've won the game and will promptly return you to the real world.
Your friendly teacher who is giving you a free lesson,
Snape
Itachi stares at the note and reads it a few times before clenching his fists.
'I knew there was something not quite right with Snape,' he thinks.
'But this must mean that he has a bloodline technique of some sort that is much stronger than the mangekyou sharingan,' his mind supplies and suspicion bubbles up in his gut.
'What does he want with the Uchiha clan?' he ponders and his mind comes up with several worrying scenarios.
But no matter how much time he spends thinking of a solution to his current predicament, he comes up with nothing and realises that he has no choice but to dance to Snape's tune.
He stares at the vial filled with blue liquid in his hand and then opens the cork to sniff at it but can't identify any of the ingredients.
'Just do it,' his mind thinks and he braces himself before swallowing the liquid.
'Tastes kind of floral,' he thinks before he finds himself quickly shrinking in size.
Once he's small enough to enter through the door, he walks up to it and puts his hand on the doorknob and twists it open but can't see anything save darkness through the doorway.
He takes a deep breath and then steps through.
And suddenly there's nothing under his feet .
He starts falling.
'Down the rabbit-hole,' Severus thinks with a smirk as he watches the scene from his comfy library. The large mirror hanging on a wall nearby is screening what's happening in the dream-world.
Tsukine caws out in laughter.
Itachi falls for some time before he lands softly on a couple of springy giant mushrooms and bounces for a bit on them before he is dropped onto the ground.
He gets up, dusts himself off and looks about only to find himself in a large forest.
When he says large, he means large.
The trees tower like mountains and the weeds around him are as tall as trees. He spots a huge ant on a tree-sized flower and warily edges away.
'Snape said I have to find the Queen of Hearts,' he thinks as he makes his way through this strange place.
He soon finds a dirt path and decides to follow it.
'This might take a while,' he tells himself wishing that he at least had his chakra to leap from pebble to pebble. But without it, all he can do is simply walk slowly on the path.
After an hour of walking, he soon brushes aside some tall weeds to see the sign of smoke coming from up ahead.
He makes his way towards the source of the smoke and sees a strange caterpillar sitting atop a large clump of colourful mushrooms.
He stops steps away from the mushrooms and looks up to see a very familiar face on the body of the large caterpillar who looks to be smoking a pipe.
"Hokage-sama," he calls out.
The caterpillar looks down at him and blows smoke into his face.
"Yes?" the Sandaime asks.
Itachi thinks that Snape must have used people he's familiar with as characters in his dream and thinks about who the Queen of Hearts must be.
"Hokage-sama, I was wondering if you know who the Queen of Hearts is?" Itachi asks.
"The Queen of Hearts?" Sarutobi asks, inhaling from his pipe. "Well, the Queen of Hearts is the Queen of Hearts," he tells the boy.
"Are you the Queen of Hearts?" Itachi tries, guessing he might not be right but trying anyway.
"Me?" the caterpillar laughs. He blows out smoke and says, "I'm the Hokage-Caterpillar."
"My boy, you must be confused," the sandaime tells him, shaking his head.
"Then, do you know where I can find the Queen of Hearts?" he questions the caterpillar-character.
"Why, in the Castle of Hearts, of course," the hokage says and inhales from his pipe.
"How do I get there?" he asks, relieved that he's found out the location to look for the Queen.
"Just walk that way," Sarutobi tells him, blowing out smoke. He lifts his pipe and points at the direction of a branching path. "Take the right path," he says.
"Thank you," Itachi bows and continues on his journey.
The caterpillar waves him farewell.
He continues on his path until he comes to a small wooden house that looks like a birdhouse. It lies edged between the roots of a tree and a large rock.
He goes up to it and knocks on it but nobody answers.
Slowly, he pulls open the door and finds a table with two vials sitting innocently on it.
Written on the label on one bottle is 'Shrink' and on the other is 'Grow'. There is a note on the table in Snape's handwriting that says, "Drink me".
Itachi pockets the bottle that says 'Shrink' and opens up the other bottle. He sniffs at it and decides he's had enough with remaining tiny so he chugs it down.
All of a sudden, he realises his mistake as he makes straight for the doorway before his body starts to rapidly grow. He doesn't quite make it in time and the birdhouse breaks apart as he is restored to his usual size.
'Too bad,' he thinks, eyeing the broken wooden pieces on the ground. He hopes the house didn't belong to that white raven that had given him the first shrinking potion.
'Itachi, it's only a dream. The house isn't real,' his mind tells him and he blushes slightly in embarrassment.
Putting the incident behind him, he makes his way forward after seeing a large clearing up ahead with the advantage of his newly restored height.
He spots a large field of wheat and in the field are scarecrows that were placed there at strategic locations. He walks closer and stares up at a nearby scarecrow only to almost jump back when it says to him with a familiar face, "Yo!"
"What are you doing here?" he asks his ANBU captain.
"Me? I'm here to read my book and to scare away some pesky birds," Hatake Kakashi tells him as he whips out a familiar orange book and starts giggling at it.
"Do you know where the Queen of Hearts is? Is she in the Castle of Hearts?" he questions the scarecrow straight away.
"The Queen of Hearts, huh? I don't remember the Queen being a 'she', but a 'he'," Kakashi tells him.
"The Queen is a man?" Itachi asks, surprised.
"Why not? It's just a title," his captain shrugs.
"Then, where is he?" he questions again.
"That way," the scarecrow points before another scarecrow pipes up from somewhere to his left, "No, that way," and points in the opposite direction.
The other scarecrow looks exactly like his captain, Itachi notices, and he wonders if the farmer who built the scarecrows all liked using Kakashi's face for all of them.
Another Kakashi-scarecrow from further down the field calls out, 'No, no, it's the other way."
The rest of the many scarecrows dotted around the field, around maybe ten of them, soon start pointing to different directions and Itachi starts to feel a headache coming on.
"Maa, I sometimes get lost on the road of life so it's no use asking me for directions," the Kakashi in front of him tells him.
Itachi sighs and thanks him before choosing a random direction. The various Kakashis go back to giggling at their orange books.
He keeps walking past the large wheat field till he starts hearing voices up ahead.
He spots a large rectangular table set up with various teacups and teapots when he walks closer to the source of the voices.
Around the table, different species of birds are seated on raised chairs as they chat about their day and drink tea. He recognises the voices as the voices of the Uchiha elders and moves to join spots a proud-looking black cockerel at the head of the table and an elegant white dove who pours tea into the cockrel's cup.
When he reaches the table, he hears the white dove call out to him in his mother's voice, "Oh, Itachi! Come, join us for some tea."
He pauses and then studies the two birds at the head of the table. The cockerel must be his father, he decides.
The birds make room for him and he sits down at the table.
He is about to open his mouth to ask about the Queen of Hearts when he hears another familiar voice say, "Oh, it looks like I'm just in time for tea as well."
He turns to see Snape waltz into the clearing dressed in a tall tophat and a black formal-looking but strange suit. A white raven perches on his shoulder and caws out a greeting.
Itachi abruptly gets up from his chair and raises his hands into fists, ready to attack.
Snape just looks at him sardonically and says, "You do know that won't be effective in my dream-world, right?"
Itachi eyes the man, wary of what he wants from him now but soon relaxes his stance. This was the man's world, he could do whatever he wants to in it regardless.
"Sit, let's have a chat," the man gestures and takes a seat across him.
Itachi reluctantly does so and soon stares balefully at the man.
"What is the purpose of your game? If you wanted to prove your point, you've already proven it," Itachi questions him.
Snape smirks at him before saying, " Ahh, but then where would be the fun in that?"
He then goes on to casually pour out tea into his teacup, one for him and one for the raven on his shoulder.
Itachi watches him do this in silence.
The man then tells him after a moment, "I have a further point to make so you'll just have to finish our game and find the Queen of Hearts."
He then sips his tea and the raven flies down from his shoulder to sip at its own.
Itachi sits there studying the man and asks, "How are you involved with the Uchiha clan?"
The tophat wearing man turns to look at him before saying, "It's a very long story. One I will tell you after the game." He then takes out a pocket watch from his coat and glances at it.
"Ah, I think it's way past tea time. I'll be off," he tells the boy and stands to leave.
Itachi stands up at the same time to ask more questions but the man merely tips his hat to him and with a 'poof' disappears from the table. The white raven caws once at Itachi before also disappearing along with the man.
Now, Itachi was left alone with his bird-relatives at the table and wondering what he had really gotten himself into. He asks if any of them knows where the Queen is but they only tell him to have more tea.
He sighs and leaves the table after bidding everyone there a farewell.
He has a Queen to find.
He's walking along the path lined with trees when a voice calls out to him, "Hey Itachi!"
He looks up and spots Shisui's head floating in the tree branches. He also notices a pair of cat ears on top of his head.
"Where are you going?" cat-Shisui asks him.
"Shisui, why do you only have your head?" he asks the older boy.
"Oh this? Parts of my body sometimes disappear," the other tells him nonchalantly.
"Do you know where the Queen of Hearts is?" he questions his cat-cousin.
"Down in the Castle of Hearts, that way," the older boy tells him, pointing down the road. The rest of his body soon appears and Itachi spots a black tail slowly swaying back and forth.
"Thanks," he tells Shisui before making to leave.
"Anytime," Shisui says and Itachi turns back to see only two black holes where Shisui's eyes had been.
It sends an inexplicable shiver down Itachis's spine without him knowing why.
He soon leaves cat-Shisui behind and he makes his way further up the road. He spots a large castle in the distance and thinks, 'Finally!'
He walks towards the direction of the castle and once he arrives at the lawns that spread around the large castle, he sees movement.
"Oh no! I'm late!" he hears a familiar voice say and soon rabbit-Sasuke runs across the lawn and almost bumps into him.
The rabbit is about to run past him when he grabs onto the lapels of the young boy.
"What are you late for?" he asks, holding onto the boy's shirt.
"For the execution! The queen has ordered for all her guards to be executed," the rabbit tells him, struggling to be let go.
Itachi stares at the rabbit, bewildered.
"All her guards? Why?" he questions.
"I don't know, but I can't be late," Sasuke tells him.
"Then, where's the Queen?" he asks instead.
"In the castle, of course," the rabbit informs him, struggling some more.
Itachi looks ahead at the majestic castle in front of him, pondering about the identity of the Queen.
"Do you know who the Queen is?" he questions the boy.
"The Queen is the Queen," Sasuke tells him, looking at him with questioning eyes as though to ask about why he didn't know such basic general knowledge.
Itachi sighs and lets the boy go.
Rabbit-Sasuke immediately takes off towards the castle shouting, "I'm late!"
Itachi follows behind but at a much more sedate pace. He tries to think about who the Queen might be but then dismisses his thoughts, thinking that he'll just have to find the Queen and find out who he is.
He enters through the same large doors that rabbit-Sasuke entered from and makes his way into a large audience room.
Sasuke is nowhere to be seen and only a single person is in that audience chamber seated on the high throne. He stops in his tracks, immediately recognising who the Queen is.
It's him.
A figure with his face sits on the Throne of Hearts with a blood-red crown resting on his head.
"I'm the Queen of Hearts," he says aloud and all of a sudden the figure stares at him with swirling tomoes in his eyes.
He is suddenly sucked into a world of red and black.
Itachi sucks in his breath as he looks at his surroundings.
He's in the familiar Uchiha compound and bodies of various Uchiha relatives are strewn dead around him.
He backs up from having walked into a puddle of red blood and almost steps on one of the bodies of an elder Uchiha. He stops short, looking around again in horror, his mind racing with explanations about what he's seeing.
'Mother, father,' he thinks racing towards his house just in time to see a figure wearing his own face push a sword into his own father's body. His mother lies unmoving on the ground nearby.
"Stop!" he yells out and he rushes towards the figure.
But before he can reach the figure, he finds himself back in the throne room.
Disoriented, he looks up towards the throne but the figure wearing his face has disappeared.
"So you've found the Queen," a voice says and he turns to see Snape standing by the windows of the room.
"What was that? What did I see?" he demands of the man, shaken.
"Your future," Snape tells him. The white raven on his shoulder caws in agreement.
Itachi stares questioningly at the man.
"Or more precisely, it was the future that could have been," Snape says, walking towards him.
But before Itachi can question him further, Snape stops a few steps in front of him and lays a hand on his shoulder. Almost immediately, scenes of what had happened weeks ago at the Uchiha clan compound and the deal with the crows starts pouring into his mind.
He watches his father and the rest of the clan elders swear that they will ally with Snape, the crows pleading for the man to help the clan, the man's agreement, the subsequent meeting, the divination reading, the man's show of magic, his explanations of his past and his healing of the near-blind Uchiha with his potion.
Pretty soon he is caught up to what has happened in the clan and he staggers under the weight of all that information for a moment.
Snape gives him a moment to sort his thoughts and when he finally organises everything into his mind, he asks, "How do I change that future I saw?"
"You already have by asking that," the man tells him with a pleased look.
"When you leave this dream and get back to the real world, I have a task for you," he tells the Uchiha.
"Another one?" the boy asks.
"Gather as much information as you need and think about why you could have resorted to massacring your entire clan. Then, come back to me with the answers once you've thought it through," the man instructs him.
'The boy needs to do a lot of soul searching if he hopes to ever build sufficient shielding for his mind,' Severus thinks.
"Why?" the Uchiha asks.
"Well, that certainly does seem to be the question, doesn't it?" Severus simply replies before Itachi is pushed out of the dream-world.
He opens his eyes only to see that he's back in the village where he had ambushed the tea shop owner.
Snape is nowhere to be found and he looks at his watch to see that only ten minutes have passed since he had started his confrontation with the man.
'It felt much longer,' he thinks, shaking his head.
He starts to walk back to the compound but stops when he notices something unusual in his pocket.
He rummages around and pulls out a glass vial and a pocket-sized book.
He reads the title of the book, 'Alice in Wonderland'.
And on the label of the vial it reads, 'Eye-Relaxing Potion not a Shrinking Potion, take when eyes feel strained'.
He smiles, feeling like his whole world has shifted.
Now he knows why his clan has changed.
A month later, Itachi knocks on Snape's door with his answers.
And from then on, Severus gains a new student he has to tutor in mind arts.
Tsukine laughs at him at night when he dreams.
*Shrinking Potion*
Blue bell blossoms (10 petals)
Purple moon-fungus (10 g)
Small white-toadstool mushrooms (sliced, 5g)
Essence of opal grass (7 ml)
A/N Hello everyone, I hope you've all been keeping healthy and safe. Alice in Wonderland has always been a favorite of mine so I really had fun writing this chapter and torturing poor Itachi haha. I hope you all enjoyed it too.
Alternative title to this chapter : Itachi in Wonderland :P