Like the Glow of Light-Green Emeralds

by Yazziyou's Daydreamer

Itachi has been given a mission, to answer the plea for assistance from the Black clan, a clan the Uchiha are closely related to but too different from them to get along with. His father wants their precious 'demon blood gifted' males to join with his clan. Death follows and the only one left is a toddler, Harry, Itachi insists he raises the sweet demon child himself. MPreg, slash

12. Chapter 12

Alright finally got this done. It started off at 6462 words without author's notes and is now up to 7810. It was going to be updated hours ago but I had to look through a different story for a last name of a character I was using I also added another small extra scene but that only took about half a hour to write.

My life has been insane for the last several months so sorry about the scarce updates lately! I will be heading to college the 23 of August so after that I should be able to settle down into a more consistent writing schedule again!

The next story to update after this one is 'Not the Place I was Hoping for' which is at over 10,000 words so far and will likely be over 14,000 by the time I am done with it! I should have that updated before I get to school!

Start Chapter 12

"Finally woke up? Good... Mr. Tazuna said he would appreciate if we did some house work. You can help... Naruto today. Sasuke will be guarding Mr. Bridge builder today along with Sakura." Kakashi said in a friendly tone of voice.

What the- why was Kakashi in their room? No wait... Harri took a deep breath, the wonderful comforting doggy scent of the man standing in front of him flooded his system. This was Kakashi's room. Harri whole face immediately went bright red as memories flooded his sluggish brain. He was no longer allowed to sleep with Sasuke. Instead Sasuke was to share a room with Naruto. This wasn't going to turn out well.

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"What is going on here?!" Harri swore he heard someone familiar say in a horrified tone of voice before a startled scream fully woke him.

"What the hell?" Sasuke shouted holding his stomach. Thrown half way across the room.

Harri struggled to sit up still very much out of it. His eyes widened at the sight of his sensei standing over Sasuke with crutches looking down at the boy with a dangerous gleam in his eyes.

"Yeah... This weird thing you got here... it's going to end... This very moment. This is completely inappropriate! And frankly... creepy." Kakashi hissed glancing at Sasuke's unmentionable areas, looking highly uncomfortable.

Kakashi turned, "Harri, please get your stuff. We're becoming... roommates... now." Kakashi said, shuddering as his brain refused to filter out the creepy position he had seen the two in. He leaned heavily on the crutches he had convinced Tsunami to bring to him.

"Naruto will be bunking with you for now on Sasuke, got it?... And by the way. You're going to be sleeping separately. As in across the room... in... different futons... Understand?" Kakashi stressed, a clear edge to his tone of voice.

"What? First off I would never sleep anywhere near that loser! You-you can't do this to us! Harri always sleeps next to me! Harri never sleeps alone! Harri-Harri can't! You're going to make Harri sick! You-you do this and I'm going to tell the council that you are a danger to my cousin! Harri is always with me!" Sasuke hissed an almost manic look lit his eyes. No no he couldn't be alone! Without Harri the blood. Oh gods it filled his head and-and those eyes his brother's eyes making him see... No, his Harri kept all of those bad things away because he knew Harri was safe and protected, he was with him. Sasuke had to keep him safe. To make sure that Harri wouldn't be taken away from him to just like everyone else! This man, he could never understand their bond. Seeing his cousin move to get up Sasuke narrowed his eyes. His glare softened ever so slightly at the nervous lost look that openly filled his beautiful cousin's face. Sasuke growled, eyes animal like and wild in a way that made Harri freeze up. Sasuke was very angry.

In an instant Sasuke was across the room attempting to assert some sort of authority. Even in the terrible condition he was in, Kakashi dropped him in a second. Knocking him out cold .

A furious 'I'm so done with this' look filled what little of Kakashi's face that was visible, though that didn't matter. The silver haired man's displeasure was so thick in the air Harri felt like he would suffocate on it. He looked Harri in the eyes a spoke firmly. "You aren't staying in here with him... Sasuke... Was trying to intimidate you and guilt you because he wants to get his way... You two shouldn't be sleeping in the same bed at your ages... and especially not that close... when he has... um... feelings for you..." Kakashi managed to say unsure how to explain when Harri gave him such a confused worried look.

"He's-"

"Yeah... He'll be fine. Come on get your stuff... I'll let you have the comforter." Kakashi said, giving Harri one of his signature eye smiles.

"Oh-okay Sensei." Harri squeaked. Rushing about the room to collect the meager things he had brought with him and polled the last blanket from the closet. He tried his best not to stumble over it as Kakashi gimped out of the room. His worn looking crutches clinked on the wood floor as they made their way down the hallway.

Kakashi slowly eased his way to his butt when they got into his room. He rearranged the blankets as best he could as Harri stood awkwardly by the door. The petite green eyed boy doing his best to ignore the chill that had begun to creep into his very bones. "What are you doing? Turn off the light and get over here, we have an early day tomorrow!" The silver haired man said, looking amused by Harri's awkwardness.

Harri did as told as his skin began to sting, turning off the light and sitting his stuff in a neat little pile to the side of the room. Practically diving under the lifted blanket and wrapped the one taken from the closet around himself as soon as he finished. Not caring who he cuddled up with as long as he stayed warm. He eeped as Kakashi polled him against his side and began to tuck the blankets around him and rolled him up in what almost looked like a burrito.

"You feeling warm enough?" Kakashi asked. After a few minutes of laying in the dark. Feeling an insistent itch to take care of Harri almost like a baby. To swaddle 'her' up and keep her warm and safe from anything that would hurt her... Like a parent. The strange scent tickled at his nose again after likely at least 15 or so minutes of laying there. Harri cuddled up against him, obviously trying to absorb more of his body heat. Kakashi's brain was unable to concentrate on the scent though.

Harri was so sickly, he needed to make sure nothing else happened to her while being away from home. Harri would be taken straight to a doctor the moment they got back. Kakashi had decided that practically the moment they had left the leaf village and thought it even more urgent now, knowing that besides having bleeding problems that Harri also likely had circulation problems as well. A sharp acidic angry had the man clenching a fist. How didn't the Nara think that there was something seriously wrong with Harri?

Harri barely managed to blink his eyes open at the question. "Uh'hm." Was all he managed to get out. Too comfortable to even really know what the other man had said to him. The smell of dog and protection made him feel content and safe. Being all bundled up made him even more comfortable than he had been in a while. Only Shika, Shikaku, had ever made him feel anywhere near that comfortable and safe since his dad had to leave.

"Good... Night then." Kakashi said, carefully eyeing Harri , watching as 'she' went to sleep almost instantly after that. Unlike Harri, it took more than a couple of minutes for Kakashi to fall back to sleep, more like a couple of hours. Feeling a strange need to guard and baby/tend to the little Uchiha to the point he caught himself going to pet baby soft ink black hair repeatedly. The behavior was more than a little strange so much so Kakashi wasn't sure if he could write it off as concern or any other normal sort of behavior anymore. Harri's scent was strange, stranger than strange. He had a theory to test.

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Harri yawned, slowly forcing himself to get up, wiggling from the warm blankets around him. He couldn't remember the last time he had allowed himself to sleep in so long. Light already streamed through the windows. Kakashi had apparently already gotten up as Harri had been moved to the middle of the bed. The mass of blankets had been pilled on him like some cocoon or nest. The silver haired man was leaning against his crutches standing in the doorway.

"Now after breakfast Mr. Bridge builder asked if you could gather some herbs or berries behind the house to be used in cooking as you seem to have quite the nose for it, if you are up to it that is... If not... that is fine. I do... not want you getting any sicker than you are, understand? Now..., if you don't feel up to that but feel well enough to do something... you could help fold some laundry or possibly... help in the kitchen. I know you like doing those sorts of things." Kakashi explained.

Harri immediately nodded, "Of course sir! I feel much better today! It doesn't feel like the mist lingered as long today. I am sure I will be fine. If possible I'd like to get to go out and collect some herbs or something, being cooped up... I don't really like that too much." Harri said, nervously messing with his hair. Not mentioning that he liked being caged up in Shika's or as long as he had company, his own home, just fine. He found it stressful to be in a completely unfamiliar dwelling and lands. A place that wasn't his. It made him feel almost like what he imagined a frightened mouse in a jar felt. Exposed, unsafe, trapped in a place with no familiarity or way to hide.

"Are you sure? Between you and me... I would really feel more comfortable if you stayed here. I am sure I could get Naruto to do it." Kakashi muttered, picking at his head band as an anxious protective feeling flashed through his gut. Making him feel almost like he had a bucket full of writhing eels wriggling around in it.

"I'll be fine, I promise!" Harri insisted, standing he made his way to the doorway. The smell of food making his belly practically claw at him. Harri had been eating a lot more than normal since they had traveled to the country. He wondered if it was because he was having such a hard time keeping warm when the mist covered the land? Harri pushed that from his thoughts. He needed to focus on Kakashi. The man would surely consider his distraction to be something along the line of dazed or odd behavior and would likely have him trapped for the rest of the day if not the following day indoors cuddled up in bed... Which actually sounded really nice but it wasn't what he needed. Harri needed to train and keep his nervous energy in check even if he still wasn't feeling in tip top shape. If he didn't keep himself occupied... things happened...

"Okay." The man drawled, sounding skeptical. Harri ignored him and padded down the hallway and waited for the man at the bottom of the stairs. He was worried the silver haired man's crutches would slip and he would end up tumbling down the narrow creaky steps. After Kakashi hobbled his way down the stairs the two entered the kitchen, bellies growling.

"Where were you last night?! Sasuke was freaking out all night long! Why do I have to sleep with him sensei? He's so annoying!" Naruto squawked the moment the pair entered the room. Bags under his eyes and a furious look on his face.

"Harri was very... sick last night so I had her sleeping in my room so I could keep... an eye on her." Kakashi explained giving Naruto a placating eye smile.

"I told you mom! I told you she was sick! I saw her and she was all pale! That's why she wasn't getting food." The little boy, Inori announced, fearful looking.

Harri forced a smile onto his face. Wanting to reassure the little boy... and everyone in the room. Sasuke looked half manic though, likely only to him, his eyes were mildly bloodshot. "I'm fine now, really, I think I just caught a little bug or something! I'll be fully recovered in a few days, I'm sure." Harri insisted, trying to placate the worried looking room full of people. Harri's smile nearly wavered at the look Sasuke shot him. The other boy's eyes screamed liar.

Sasuke nearly shook with the effort to not rush over to his Harri. Gather up the smaller boy and hide him away from all of these losers. His dreams had been full of nothing but blood. Blood and murder and losing his most precious person. His beautiful Uchihan princess, his Harri. Who would one day, very soon, be his wife and future mother of their revived clan. Just thinking about his dreams, of the blood and possibly losing Harri shot the foul taste of bile up his throat to the back of his mouth. Sasuke shuddered. couldn't that useless pervert understand? They needed to be together, they had to be. Sasuke couldn't lose- he couldn't lose his Harri to.

Harri forced himself to ignore Sasuke as Kakashi sat next to him. Making a little of the anxiety that Sasuke always brought out in him dissipate. He glanced at his wrist, assuring himself the ribbon that his dad had given him as a very small child was still tied to it. Harri was still confused with how it ended up on the floor of his and Sasuke's shared, well formally, shared room. He then tucked his hair behind his ears, deciding to keep it down for the day.

"Wow, you're way prettier than I thought! Like one of those kabuki girls from a movie or something... You sure you're an Uchiha? Didn't they all have duck ass going on? Why don't you have duck ass hair?" Naruto said. Looking genuinely confused.

Harri turned scarlet at the question. Leaning away as Naruto began to lean across the table with a closed eyed foxy faced look of contemplation on his face. "Th-that isn't completely true!... Although a lot of people in our clan had... usually spiky hair there were a few that didn't... And my mother supposedly didn't have hair anything like my Dad's..." Harri explained, giving the boy an uncomfortable smile and fidgeted. His heart felt like it would shoot from his mouth it was beating so fast. Harri forced himself to tried ignoring the intimidating energy that coiled around the other boy. Harri glanced to the side when he felt eyes on him. Sasuke was absolutely seething, great.

"Naruto, that was... rude. Please apologize." Kakashi said, letting out a tired sigh.

"Why? What did I say wrong? I said she was pretty. She looks like one of those old fancy paintings I've seen on that big place on 57th street!" Naruto insisted.

Kakashi went wide eyed, coughing a little. "Are-are you talking about... that...," He glanced at Harri, "brothel?" The man hissed under his breath.

"Yeah, that place! It has the prettiest paintings on the front!" Naruto nodded, grinning.

"You-you're comparing my cousin, a princess, to a WHORE?!" Sasuke howled, pouncing on the other boy and knocking him to the floor.

"What no! I just said she was pretty like the pictures! That place use to be a compound!" Naruto insisted, trying to throw the other boy off of him.

"Now you've done it Naruto!" Sakura snarled from the table.

"Princess?" Tazuna said in a questioning tone. Ignoring the fight that was going on between the two boys.

Harri jumped out of his seat at the intense feeling of chakra building in his cousin's hands. "Sasuke, that's enough. He-he didn't mean anything by it!" Harri muttered, eyes darting nervously at the shimmering air around his cousin.

Sasuke shuddered, dark eyes fixated on his Harri. Big beautiful green focused on him, only on him. A rightness filled his chest, Harri was there. He was there and okay and-and everything would be alright. The anger from the disgusting insult of his beautiful Uchihan princess seeped away, though it wasn't forgotten. Never forgotten, Uchiha never forgot such things.

Harri wouldn't be pleased with him though. Harri wasn't like him, not like a typical Uchiha. Bursting with so much pride and passion and aggression, vengefulness that it was maddening. He closed his eyes, letting out a breath he hadn't realized he had been holding. No, Harri, Harri lacked all of those things but a blinding beautiful passion, one very different than his own. Harri lacked confidence, he was shy, and nervous, and sweet and so very forgiving. Harri was so giving and loving and so willing to help others. The way his eyes lit up when he spoke about things he cared about, the way he smiled. He was so very gentle, too gentle too fragile... Sasuke would let what Naruto said be... for now, for Harri. His gentle forgiving Harri, but no. He would never forget the sunshine haired boy's transgression. His insult to the purest person Sasuke was sure he would ever know. Harri couldn't protect himself. He wouldn't, but Sasuke would. He would keep Harri safe from all the evils in the world.

Sasuke forced himself away from the blond boy. Huffing before stomping back over to his chair to finish up his meal. "Get up loser, I barely even hit you thanks to Harri. You should be thanking... Her." The dark haired boy taunted.

Naruto tentatively got up. He growled under his breath as he rubbed at his sore cheek and got back into his chair to finish up his food. Muttering under his breath about psychos as he slowly ate his noodles with fish.

No one mentioned the brothel thing after that, eating mostly in silence. Almost seeming to pretend that nothing had been said at all. Harri was more than a little grateful for that. After finishing up eating and rinsing his dishes Harri made sure he was the first to be ready and out the door. Not wanting to be around the uncomfortable stares of everyone. That and he wasn't in the mood to be convinced to bring the same person that had just embarrassed him and compared his appearance to a painting on a brothel with him. Which he didn't really know much about that sort of thing but he knew that it was a shameful horrible place to be caught going to.

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A couple of hours into being in the forest and Harri couldn't have felt anymore at peace... or at least as close as he could get to it being in unfamiliar territory. Even as the trees became closer together, the sunlight still streamed down warming Harri's face and back. He adjusted the strap of the pack he was carrying nearly full of edible plants and fungi. Harri licked his lips. Feeling dry, he swallowed convulsively, trying not to look like he noticed anything out of the ordinary as his keen senses allowed him to hear the bubbling of nearby water. Harri's nose telling him that it was fresh water.

Harri launched himself into a tree and jumped branch to branch, trying to ignore the anxiety he was feeling. Dropping down, to the edge of the water, Harri polled out his water bottle and dipped it into the running creek. His ears picking up sounds no normal human would have ever been able to pick up on. Footsteps, calculated and practiced, nearly silent. The footsteps of a hunter. Harri greedily gulped the water. He wished it was something of more substance at that moment as his eyes caught sight of a dozen or so flashy fat fish swimming around just out of reach. He swallowed hard, forcing his eyes away before that weird killing thing had the slightest chance of happening. He never wanted to lose control of himself like that ever again.

Instincts told Harri to flee. He was too young, he needed to get back to Kakashi where he would be protected. But Kakashi, Harri knew logically, in his condition, could not protect him. Instead it was likely he would instead be bringing death upon the man. No, he would first need to lure whomever it was to the water where he would be able to electrocute them then he would need to flee... possibly hide for a while. Harri forced himself to ignore the squeezing of his chest, the blind terror that wanted to take over at the very thought of entering the water. He couldn't let that happen. He just couldn't! He needed to be brave, just like he was just a couple days before!

"What are you doing all the way out here? It is very dangerous for a child to be this far into the woods. Come, I'll help you find your way out." voice said.

Harri immediately turned, startled to see what looked like a pretty brown eyed girl standing in front of him. Harri was certain that they weren't one though. This person smelled completely like a boy but not a special one like him even though he smelled like he had a hint of demon in him. Harri didn't know that it was possible for anyone but him or another like him to look so much a girl without being one. The boy smiled kindly at him with an outstretched hand. Harri forced a smile onto his face even as he wanted to take the other's hand. This wasn't just some average person. His footsteps were unmistakably practiced and predatory. "Oh, no, I'm not lost! I'm just collecting herbs and such. I was... actually about to head back home." Harri lied, something in him insisting that something was very wrong with this other boy.

The boy tilted his head and smiled sweetly. "Oh, well that's a shame. I would have enjoyed getting to know you. As you see I am also out here collecting herbs." The brunet said, stepping closer. Nothing to collect such things anywhere on his person.

"What kind?" Harri asked, subtly backing even farther. Clenching his fists at the raising panic, he made his way out into the water. If he could just get the other boy into the long grass he was sure his plan would work. From the angle he was standing Harri was certain that it was in the water. A strange smell radiated from the boy like water and wind but different, dry and a little ozone like. Like-like, ice? Minty and cold. Harri wasn't quite sure, he wasn't very familiar with winter smells. The leaf village rarely got cold enough for ice or snow in winter. In his distraction Harri stumbled, nearly falling backward.

"Are you alright? Here, let me help you. I promise I am not here to harm you!" The beautiful boy insisted.

Harri nearly went to run but froze as the wind picked up. Forcing a scent from behind him to his nose. He was certain that it was camouflaged, being unnaturally smothered. Harri couldn't tell much from the weak smell but he was certain that it was coming from a person. Harri did the best he could to force himself from going totally ridged. He was being ambushed.

"Don't move another inch, Haku. Not unless you want to be fried." A gravelly tired voice growled.

Harri went pale. That sounded just like-like that man. Zabuza. His instincts insisted that he fled, to get away. They would kill him, he was sure. Harri let a Kunai drop from the hidden holster concealed in the folds of his thick sleeves. He didn't hesitate for a second to chuck the throwing knife at the older, larger, feminine boy forcing a twister of air and electricity to barrel at him.

The brunet dodged, a wide eyed look of confusion on his face. Gasping in surprise as the twisted like wave tore through a full grown hardwood tree and kept on going. He nearly got crushed as the tree was thrown to the ground in a gnarled mess of splinters and smoke. He bit his lip hard to get himself focused and moving again, just diving out of the way in time. Haku had never seen anything like that. What was that strange jutsu? The child hadn't even had to create a single hand sign for it! Was that the power of a true purebred demon of higher noble birth? An attack like that... If that attack had hit him, intent to kill or not... He-he would have likely died. 4. That was the number of trees the boy's 'jutsu' had ripped apart before fizzling out. Turning them into tiny twisted strips. Zabuza was wrong, this child was not helpless. The man's own demonic blood's need to protect and nurture such a young demon was surely messing with his mind if he didn't see how dangerous the boy really was.

Harri tried his best to run as the other boy was busy avoiding the massive tree. He took advantage of the fact he had been too startled to be able to really understand what was going on. Harri stuck to the shallows. He decided that it was probably best that he didn't leave the water even though it nearly choked him with fear. His Hydrophobia filled his brain with obsessive distracting thoughts of drowning. The fact that he didn't know how to swim didn't help the matter in the least. He was bogged down with the knowledge that if he didn't stay alert and careful he could end up miss stepping and end up in the deeper bit of the lightly pulling creek. If only he knew how to walk on water! That would be such a useful thing to know, especially with his abilities. Harri doubted doing such a thing was possible for him though, with his horrific chakra control. He was more likely to make a tidal wave and drown himself than anything... at least he was pretty sure...

Harri did his best to focus water past his legs in such a way that it didn't drag as much... He wasn't doing the best job as he hardly knew how to control his water abilities. Harri, in truth, was practically useless at it. His nerves and fear around water making him avoid learning about that aspect of his abilities. Wind and Electricity were already hard enough as it was!

Even in the shallows the drag was hard on him. The water was cold and the weeds were thick, wrapping around his ankles. Harri decided the only way that he had any chance was if he channeled his 'chakra' through his legs, it would make it harder to be careful doing that though. It would make him faster but more likely to slip in his blind run, unable to feel things out before stepping. Harri had to force himself not to pull Paddy out of his hidden pocket he had sewn on the inside of the kimono he had wrapped around his waist, and cuddle him for comfort. even as his necklace hung, hidden, feeling heavier than ever around his neck.

After making his decision he did indeed get faster, running, running, running. Harri hissed as pain lanced through his ankle as something sharp tore through his sandals and into it. Harri whipped his hand in the direction of another thicket of trees as he heard someone running across the stream at startling speeds. Speeds that there was no way he could out run while in the water... Well that was unless he wanted a serious chance of hurting himself to the point he wouldn't be able to walk. Sharp stones littered the shallows of the creek he was running assuring a bad time if he wasn't careful. Harri let off another tearing twister of wind feeling such panic he could hardly even think straight. All he could think about was drowning and the horrible cold that was seeping up his body and making him stiff and tired. But he had to focus, he had to get away!

Harri shrieked in terror as he suddenly felt nothing under his feet. He panicked as he realized he couldn't move his arms. His Kimono tangled in the pack still around his shoulders, pinning his extremities to his side. The water drug him under cutting him off mid panicked -wail. Sandpapering him against the oddly rough creek bottom as the current become stronger. Dragging him closer to the center of the widening band of water. Harri felt almost paralyzed by the sudden shock of cold. He could hardly even wiggle his toes as he was bashed and tumbled against the bottom, convinced that he was dying.

A sharp crack against something had him seeing stars. Harri's vision blinking in and out. He vaguely felt sharp raw pain over his whole side far worse than before. He was too out of it to know why. Even disoriented, he felt himself get yanked from the water and bear hugged to a massive chest. Harri couldn't keep his eyes open. Utterly exhausted, even with the knowledge that the pair would probably kill or torture him his body refused to stay vigilant, giving in to unconsciousness. The icy temperature of the water practically sucked the life out of his frail, immature body. Right before totally losing consciousness Harri wondered if his body was going into shock.

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Harri woke with a gasp. His lungs felt like someone had dipped them in a bowl of frozen razors. Wait, his whole body did. Harri couldn't help but let out a pained whimper as he registered the burning through his side. He forced his eyelids apart when he heard comforting muttering at his side.

"I told you not to help me. You are likely to be down for another two days after that stunt!" A young androgynous voice chided, sounding more amused than upset though.

"Shut up Haku, your approach terrified him! He's not just some everyday dumb brat! Most Carriers are nervous and suspicious by nature in unfamiliar situations! Especially young ones!" A gravelly voice hissed.

A delicate sounding disbelieving huff was heard. "That again?" The voice said, Harri could practically hear the eye roll in those two words.

"He's a submissive. I have to take care of him! That useless leaf village obviously isn't, sending him here? Their treatment of him is disgusting! In mist, even now, is punishable by execution! I hardly even have to get a whiff of him to know he's one! He's too young to be out on his own, look at him, how sick he is! He requires someone with proper demon instincts to take care of him. Leaving him alone at this age!" The man ranted, sounding fiercely protective and disgusted.

Harri was too tired and frightened to know how to react, how to respond. He went stiff as a muscular arm pulled him close even as the part demon's scent made him feel woozy and content and what the man said made Harri want to cuddle up in the warm safety of his embrace.

Who Harri now realized was the boy from before, snickered. "I never knew you were such a softy Zabuza sir." The boy teased.

"Shut up and go before I decided to gut you." The man muttered. Growling under his breath as the boy let out an amused huff.

"As you wish sir." The boy said before walking towards the door, stopping for a moment to pat Harri on the head. He easily avoided the irritated swot from Zabuza. Blood shot eyes burning holes into him. "He is quite adorable. Take good care of him while I go deal with, Gato." The boy purred as he left.

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"I know you're awake. Can feel your trembling, how your heart is fluttering..." Zabuza grumbled. The need to protect, to take care of making him want to kill anything, everything that threatened the little Carrier. That threatened his parental claim on him. He was so small, so thin. "Feeling up to eating?" The gruff man suddenly asked after what felt like a hour or more to Harri.

Harri much rather have been able to pretend that he was dreaming and that he wasn't comfortably resting against the heated chest of a stranger so he didn't die of hypothermia. Also so he wouldn't have to move and cause his body to burn even worse than it already did. Harri let out a nervous mew, wishing his dad was there. That he was the one keeping him safe and warm not the stranger that had tried killing his team.

"N-no." Harri managed to squeak, surprised that he even managed to say that as his throat felt like it was closing up on him.

The man ignored him. "You ever eat deer before?" Zabuza asked in a casual tone of voice. His head foggy with the scent of hurt young parent-less submissive. He shakily forcing himself from the bed, nearly falling over much to his shame, in his eagerness to feed the tiny carrier. The need to feed and take care of him fogging up with brain the longer he stayed in his presence.

Zabuza had only ever properly met one other submissive and he was much much older, a beautiful matured adult with long golden hair and baby blue eyes.

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Zabuza had never before been in awe of another and he would vehemently deny ever being so even then, but he had been then. He was young at the time... about 14 years old. He had purely on accident, stumbling quite literally, upon a clan of noble demons that were well respected, well known and nearly cherished by the Mist on a mission. Injured to the point of near death Zabuza had fallen right on the outskirts of what looked to be a small old fashioned castle.

Zabuza woke up not long after patched up and staring up at the lovely face of a demoness. Siting next to the demoness was a tall dark haired stern looking demon with the slightest hint of human blood. The demoness' mate. Zabuza had recognized the dark haired of the pair from the few times he had seen him along with other's from his clan in the Mist village.

Legend had it that, that particular clan of demons were favored by The gods Black themselves and were even possibly very loosely related to them. Zabuza never believed that. They had a power about them though. One that made the hair on the back of his neck go ridged just breathing the same air.

Lady Hycinthius, as he learned was the name of the golden haired submissive with all the control. He was terrifyingly fierce and clever frighteningly so, even with his motherly gentle demeanor there was no mistake who was pulling all the strings. He wit and air that demanded respect was so strong, that even Zabuza found himself unable to disobeying him. Being trapped in that place surrounded by hordes of toddling baby demons, protective Dominants and half hidden away bearers (as the clan, strangely enough had 5 male submissives running around something ridiculously unusual and rare he had found out). Zabuza had learned more about being a demon in the few weeks he was there than he ever had among the mist village residence. He had become more of a demon in those few weeks. He was one by the time be managed to slip away. The nature that tugged and simmered under his skin consuming him. Became him. Made him the person he had become. Made him stronger, faster, more in tune with himself and his instincts. Because of that little stint of captivity with the Ariccia clan he had become a true demon.

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Zabuza twitched, breathing hard as his body tried giving out on him. He growled under his breath and closed his eyes. Deciding that he would have to make a water clone if he was to get anything to eat for either of them. His body was just too weak from the damage to the nerves in his neck. He couldn't let himself stay out of commission much longer and Haku was right, all the moving around, at the moment, was doing was making it worse. Damn it. Zabuza swayed as he began channeling his chakra, creating a water clone.

"Shit!" It hissed, grabbing him before he could fall over. "Gods damn it, why in the hell did I do that?" It growled. Dragging him by his arm back to the bed. "I'll get some food for the squirt." It said. Prowling from the room cursing under its breath.

Zabuza couldn't help but want protect and feed and please Harri as his scent filled his nose, seeming to affect him even stronger than before. His instincts insisting that the little submissive was now his offspring as hormones addled his brain even as somewhere in the very back of his mind, logically he knew he wasn't. He wanted to slather the little pup in his scent, make sure everyone know that he belonged to him. That he was claimed and was now Zabuza's little Carrier offspring and no other adult demon was allowed to claim the abandoned helpless little one for themselves now!

Harri eeped as he felt the man pull him against himself and nuzzle him. Apparently playing dead to try and figure out what to do with a torn up ankle and side didn't really matter anymore. What in the world was he doing? Harri clawed at Zabuza when he felt something warm and wet lap at a scrape on his face. He wiggled until he managed to get away from the man's weak grip nearly falling off of the bed in his haste to get away from him. Zabuza's eyes were staring at him in a dazed manner, large and round and affectionate. The part demon looked utterly confused and baffled at Harri, like he just couldn't understand why he had reacted the way he had.

"Come here. I'm not going to hurt you or anything, you need to smell like me." Zabuza managed to get out after a few moments of trying to even remember how to speak.

Harri was unsure what to do. A part of him preened at the idea. An adult taking care of him, properly, a parent. It was so tempting. The man's scent wrapped around his brain and made it all fuzzy and content. But... no, he couldn't let it affect him! What was wrong with him, really the both of them? It was like when he was close to Kakashi for a while. His demon smell making him feel so sleepy and protected. This person, this evil murderer did even more so and made Harri feel even more cottony and sleepy and safe. No! He already had a dad and protectors and at least 3 of the 4 of them really cared about him! Shika would have figured out what was going on the minute he woke up feeling all cozy and for lack of a better way of describing it, babyish, with a killer. How could he be so stupid? It was probably a jutsu or something messing with his brain. He needed to get out of there before he completely succumbed to what ever it was that affected him. This was going to hurt.

Harri forced himself to his feet with a hiss, ignoring the man's alarmed noises. How it made him want appease him like he use to do with his dad. Itachi Uchiha was his father, not this strange crazy acting freak show that actually licked him without even asking!

Harri felt his body break out in a cold sweat as the pain intensified with every moment he stayed standing. Harri squawked in horror at the realization he wasn't wearing his clothes, instead an over sized white kimono that nearly drug on the floor with blue and pale purple snowflakes all over it. Harri's eyes zeroed in on Paddy. He sat on the night stand next to the hulking man. Harri bit his lip unsure what to do. He couldn't leave him. He couldn't leave Paddy. He and Mai had been with him since-since forever, through everything. Harri shuddered and let out a breath. He could do this. He could, Harri was fast and Zabuza, he obviously had something wrong with him more than being a total weirdo and being out of his mind. He was pretty sure that the Haku boy had paralyzed him through pressure points on his neck to make it seem like the rouge was dead. Stuff like that had to take some time for a person to recover from. Harri's ankle may have been messed up pretty bad but he was sure he could at least out jog the man. He needed to get back to the others and warn them. He needed to-to pro-protect them!

Harri sprang forward and snatched his plush, instantly running to the closed balcony and throwing the folded doors open. He took in great gulps of stinging fresh air to clear his head. Harri ignored the pain and throw himself over the railing into a tree below. Over and over again Harri jumped from branch to branch finding it easier to go faster while his ankle burned so much by traveling on all fours. A habit that had been broken as a small child. Itachi, Fugaku, Shisui and a few others correcting him anytime he tried moving about in such an undignified manner. Harri couldn't believe the clone hadn't caught up to him already by that point and wondered if Zabuza just didn't have enough chakra built back up yet to have it follow him for long enough.

Harri smiled to himself. He-he had done it! He had gotten away! He was free.

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After a while Harri was pretty much convinced that no one was coming after him and if they were or had they just weren't going to find him. Also that he was utterly lost and had gone the opposite way from where he was supposed to head. Frankly he had no idea where in that boony hell called wave country he even was. Did wave country have mountainy swampy places? Because that was pretty much where he found himself at.

A swamp that slopped down mountains. Or was it a wetlands? Either way it was wet and scary and Harri didn't like it and had no idea how to find his way back... He was pretty sure he had somehow switching islands even... like 98% sure. He really wished hadn't second guessed himself and had followed his intuition... Probably wouldn't be stuck in a scary peopleless place full of likely dangerous animals and probably other dangerous creatures of the supernatural variety from the vibes he was getting.

Ugh, finding his way back was going to be hell! Harri was completely convinced. He was completely blaming Sasuke for this. Harri decided. If Sasuke hadn't pushed for him to be a Shinobi and a member of his team he would never have ended up at that gods' forsaken place. He was never coming back to wave country, ever! This place sucked! First they get attacked, then he became practically half dead from the fog that set in, Kakashi was obsessed with his health, he got KIDNAPPED by crazies after nearly drowning, and now he was lost in some unnatural swamp of all things. That was just wonderful! No wonder his mother supposedly liked causing such horrible storms for the little island country! Harri would have been tempted to curse them to a thousand terrible storms if he knew how to at that moment as well.

Harri was growing to dislike the island nation so much that he would have rather the Hyuuga know about what he was over dealing with Wave country ever again. At least then he wouldn't be forced to travel to horrible swamps and get kidnapped by delirious crazy people with shark teeth!

Harri huffed, forcing himself to stand up and with a miserable sigh he began to climb higher into the ancient tree to get his bearings. Already feeling a dreaded certainty in his gut. He burst from the top of the tree top. Yup, just like he thought, he was doomed. Harri looked near lifeless as he took in the scenery. One, two, three days? He wasn't sure but the closest visible village port was miles and miles away. Great. He was killing his cousin for this. Short cut through a swamp. Not only a short cut through a swamp but short cut with his side feeling like it was on fire and a bum ankle? He did not sign up for this! For the first time in a long time Harri felt angry, enraged... Furious didn't even touch the surface of what he was feeling at that moment. He was so done with Wave country.

Harri just wanted to go home and play with his Mai and bake. Bake for days and days until his hands hurt so bad he could hardly pick up a knife to frost his confections with. Then he wanted to glare at Sasuke, glare at him until the boy feared even coming home after training. Then he wanted to eat muffins until he was ready to throw up and take a long nap with Shika.

Harri hissed, swatting at the largest mosquito he had ever seen. He swore the thing could have rivaled a hummingbird! Now he was going to have to deal with bird sized blood drinking bugs? That place really was hell!

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"I'm sure Harri will be back in a couple of hours. I mean Naruto also spent the night in the forest last night after we all left to continue training and he came back. Maybe she did to?" Sakura insisted.

Kakashi sighed, a nagging worry refusing to leave him. "You're probably right... She just doesn't seem like the sort to shirk her duties just for something like that. I'm worried that she got lost." He admitted.

Sasuke growled. "Harri wouldn't stay in the forest in the shape... She's in. She wouldn't risk getting sicker just for some training!"

"We'll give her a couple more hours." Kakashi decided, as he watched Naruto once again fall out of a tree.

Sasuke gritted his teeth together, digging his fingernails into his pant leg.

"She's fine Sasuke! There isn't anything dangerous in those woods." Sakura assured the boy, fluttering her eyelashes at him.

Sasuke glared at her, stomping back to his chosen tree when he saw Naruto finally moving higher. His competitive nature temperately clouding his mind. He would not let that loser get to the top before him! He wouldn't let him embarrass him like that! He would impress Harri! Sasuke channeled chakra into his feet and pulled his Kunai back out of it's holster, running at the tree with a battle cry. They were right surely Harri had just got lost or something and had set up camp for the night. He would be back any moment and Sasuke would be their training and ready to impress him!

End Chapter 12

I hope everyone likes this. It didn't turn out at all like I was planning it to. Haku was supposed to end up being a practically best friend for Harri and he may still but my characters dictate what they want to happen and apparently Zabuza decided to unknowingly interfere with that fated friendship. Which in a way could be a good things since they end up dead and I don't like Harri sad!

By the way I have a new story up and it is already up to 3 chapters long! It is called 'Setting a Hurricane of Feelings Ablaze' and it is another story in my Harry Lupin series. It is set in the Boku No Hero Academia(My Hero Academia) Universe! Just if anyone is looking for a new story to read.

Anyone pick up on who I name dropped in the story?

So I will be trying to make a more regular schedule for updating again soon. I am heading to college and have been so busy the last few months I have been having trouble finding time to write. I am hoping once I settle into everything at school that I will have at least one day on the weekend that I will be able to write for at least several house. From my schedule it looks like it as long as I get a job that isn't on the weekend.

Please review! It really helps me come up with ideas and motivates me! I also am trying to figure out what story to update after this one so suggestions are appreciated! I am also not quite sure what I am going to do after this chapter as it went completely out of control so ideas would be great!

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