This is a Harry Potter and Familiar of Zero Fanfiction only.
author's note: that we had permission form SeerKing to use his story ZERO NO TSUKAIMA: Saito the Onmyoji and in the future we will have a prequel explaining how harry became king but we are too busy right now to do that prequel
Well, my life, for the most part, was pretty ordinary truth be told, I was born in a very typical Japanese home, a mother, father, sister, everything that you would expect, a very strict upbringing, living to never bring shame or dishonor to my family, you know very much an ordinary family.
Well as ordinary as it can be when both of my parents use magic, my mom is an Onmyoji and it may be biased on my part but she is very successful with her talismans and incantations, she mostly deals with keeping people safe by using the elements as her main aid in what she does, she is a mystic.
Dad is a wizard, to make matters more interesting he is not even Japanese, he was born in the isle of England, and for years me and my sister have been trying to get our dad to tell us how did he end up all the way across the world, he never gave us a straight answer, it is either he got lost in the road of life or it was simply because he met our mother and it was love at first sight.
Yes, we both thought the same thing, this is utter garbage, there is no way in the burning hells that was the reason, and one came from a line from a very popular anime, so I guess dear old dad will never be honest with us and just tell us the truth, we suspected that he is an actually escaped prisoner, or that he did something so horrific that they exiled him from his country.
Like I said I always strive to make my family proud, and if I have one hang-up, one major weakness is that for some strange reason since the day I was born, I was born with an almost inexhaustible hunger for knowledge, the thing is I could not get enough, books, manuscripts, scrolls, anything and everything that I could get my hands on, most people are saying their first word when they are one year old, I was reading Doctor Seuss, by the time I was three I was reading the newspaper.
I kept begging my parents to teach me new things over and over again till one day my mother began to teach me the theory of magic of both mystic and wizard sort of magic and how they differ from each other, my sister heard about three minutes said it was boring and fell asleep, I, on the other hand, could not get enough of it, I wanted to hear more, learn more.
My teachers were a bit much sometimes, I swear that they are over-exaggeration sometimes, so I aced every single test ever given, and I may have skipped a grade or two along the way, but honestly, it is nothing that strange, a little effort and hard work anyone can do what I do. I swear some of my teachers think I am an alien sometimes.
"Hiruga Saito, come to the board and solve this problem for us." I walked over to the board and without even saying anything I took the piece of chalk looked at the problem, for crying out loud this is basic algebra, I wrote the answer and went back to my seat to continue to read my book. "Correct, that is the right answer, now class remembers that next month you and your classmates are going to take this year's exams to determine if you stay or go to a different school."
Academic success determines in what school district you go to, merit is the name of the game, and if you do too badly you end up in such a poorly funded school that makes beggars start feeling sorry for you. I swear some of these teachers need to read the school's code of conduct since I passed every single test with top grades, and my sister was second place academically we tend to get to stay at our current school district, the district that is in the area people call the Dragon's nest is a very popular and well-funded school district.
Teachers all over Japan want to come and teach here, but only the best teachers get to ever get an assigned a classroom in this school district, the one thing I find most disturbing is that I am in elementary school, and for some odd reason I have seen more cleavage in my four years at this school than most see in their entire life.
I swear some of the lady teachers just see me, they unbutton their blouses or pull their dresses to show me more of their breasts, if I didn't know any better I would say that these teachers are trying to seduce me, but that is ridiculous, I am an elementary school student for crying out loud.
If they are trying this hard to get me to notice their breasts it must be hell for the poor principal, he is a well known and respected former master at the Imperial Onmyoji Academy. In fact, my mom was once one of her students. "So tell me, Saito, how is your mother feeling lately? I know she tends to get a cold this time of the year. I sure Hope is doing a lot better than I remember."
I look at the principal and began to smile, he used to tutor me on the ethics of an Onmyoji when I was four, the man was short, not a hair on his head, and I swear people confuse him with a Tibetan monk sometimes. "Thanks to father's potions mom is doing a whole lot better than what she felt before or so she tells me, sorry I keep bothering you sir, but I keep running out of things to read."
He laughed and handed me another book for me to read as she placed the one I finished back in the shelve behind him, "Think nothing of it Saito, always glad to provide reading materials to such exemplary students, not many put in the effort to go above and beyond that which is expected as you do. I can honestly say I expect great things in your future."
As middle school came I began to take actual lessons on magical energy control, it sounds a lot easier than it actually is, having to suspend yourself with just magic on three fingers over a mat of spike, having to sleep with vipers for three weeks straight, not easy since these snakes talked in their sleep.
And four weeks of bathing in ice-cold temperatures with only my magic to keep me warm, it was hard. I learned a lot about myself granted, my sister Mary calls me a major masochist, till mom reminds her that she was going to have to do the exact same thing in two years that shut her up in a hurry.
The one drawback of reading and learning so much ahead of my peers is that normal class material was boring, I mean boring that I had to kick my own foot to keep myself from falling asleep, the teachers talk with such passion about what they teach but to me, it is been there saw that nothing new, to me it is more like a boring review than a class.
At a different plane of existence...
"Very well let us start my report on the activities Hiro and I been doing," Hector looked at several deities and their right-hand angels for a second before continuing. "The activities of Satan nearly caused this timeline to miss our projected cultural growth goal by a rather large margin, as such we have begun to effect changes into this dimension."
Hiro stood up and walked near Hector, "As my colleague has said, my fellow gods and angels, we have managed to restore significantly the cultural progress of this reality and thus we are happy to say that the damage caused by Satan shall be minimal at best. The real dangers are the chaotic element of the magical anarchist, we must still find a way to lessen their ability to slow our progress. I suspect these groups are in fact influenced or lead by a person in league with Satan."
A goddess stood up and smiled at both of us, "I understand wanting to promote cultural growth, but growth by its very nature is chaotic, to deny it is irresponsible. I am surprised at you Hector, you didn't mind a little chaos long ago. I do see that these changes by causing the humans near your test subject to become motivated as almost chaotic in it of itself."
She leaned closer to Hector and pretty much was pushing her body against his, causing Hector to blush, "I don't want to hear more of this senseless flirting Satan, these two are trying to undo the damage you caused, and you trying to seduce one or both of them will not limit the liability of your actions." So said a brawny man dressed in what people would call a biker's outfit.
He wore a leather jacket, pants, and a pair of steel-tipped boots. She glared at him, "Like I need to be told what I can do, and least of all from you Aries, you benefit from my actions more than even Hades ever did. So don't try to pretend you are holier than thou because if I am flirting with him, you can rest assured I will never flirt with you."
She said as she glared at him and sat down on her seat, "And so lets us continue to observe the effects of our experiment shall we?"
Wait for what? When I come of age I am going to have to go to Hogwarts? Why can't I go to the Imperial Onmyoji Academy as mom did? "Saito, I know you do not want to be away from us and I think deep down going to another country sort of scares you, I know how that feels, but it is a Potter tradition than every single member of our family has gone to Hogwarts."
He was a bit quiet before sat down in a chair in front of me, "And it is also tradition that most of us get placed in the house that one of our parents was in, so if you are sorted more than likely you will be sorted into Gryffindor." I had no clue what dad was talking about. "Say dad what do you mean by sorting? Like sorting your mail sorted or sorting your garbage sorting?"
He began to laugh really loudly after I said that, "Ah, that was a funny one son, no I mean every student is placed into one of the four houses which is sort of like the dorms, you live together, eat together, and study most classes together, it becomes a sort of extended family. Every good deed gains your house points, and these points are a sort of competition between the houses."
"At the end of the year, a big feast is done and the house who got the most point is recognized by the entire school and given the House Cup. There are four houses, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and of course Slytherin. Each house has its good and bad things about it, so don't worry son, as long as you do your best we will always be proud of you."
Then I smiled and asked him what if I end up in that house where everyone thinks they are all going to become evil wizards and witches? He smiled and said, then you will be the very best Slytherin there ever was, and we would love you no matter what people think, cause you are our son.
I never expressed this to my dad, but sometimes his comments are so corny it makes me feel like he is walking in a cornfield. I know what he is trying to say, but that doesn't make it any less corny.
"Alright dad, I get it, please stop with the puns. I have to go there because you went there. Now the only thing about these four houses which is the one that gives me complete access to the library or has their library? The comfort of a good book is the only thing that will make that place livable."
He began to laugh and look at me with this funny little grin, "Trust me, son, there are all kinds of books, some are for fun, some are for learning, and if my dear old mom was not trying to pull one over me, there are even cursed books that do things to you. But if you are looking for learning, then my boy you are going to be one of the few Ravenclaws in my family's history."
"Ravenclaw was founded by a lady that valued learning and knowledge, the one most of my relatives have been in Gryffindor which is home of the brave, cunning and ambitions Slytherin is their den, and humble and loyal is what the Hufflepuffs hold dear."
Look it is by no means going to be pleasant, I will miss my home and my family something awful, and I know that at the very least mom will teach me all the basics about magic by the time I am sentenced to go over to that school. They apparently start their magical education at age eleven.
It is ridiculous, that means they waste six perfectly good years doing nothing, since the moment I could walk or even understand my first-word mom has been teaching everything about magic, what it is? Where it comes from? How to control it? You know a good basic magic education, but these people on that island are so lazy that they have to wait till their eleven?
Why would they put off learning all these amazing things? I personally can't get enough of it. I am only seven and I can at least do basic talismans and brew some simple potions but no these British kids all they do is play and have fun? Honestly, they don't know what fun is, brew a potion that can help a plant grow better, or draw a talisman that can become a night light.
I have books, scrolls, parchments and such fun things to do and learn, I am never bored, and that is not even counting on my muggle education learning to read, write and basic math, it is simply a blast to learn as much as I can. Mom also is very strict in her teaching of her family's fighting style.
If these foreigners think they can bully me? Well, they are in for a rude awakening, I won competitions in mixed martial arts if anything I am looking forward to seeing some bullies go home crying for their mommy.
"Son I know you don't want to be away from home, and trust me, this will be fun, I still remember my time at the castle, you will not find much that you can consider boring. You don't even have to stay over there for the entire year, you do have summer vacations and can come home via Floo powder."
"Before you go over there I will show you how to use Floo powder, trust me, son, it is easier than riding a bicycle." Well at least I was going to learn something new, but the fact that I already know of the Floo powder network and that I have to step into a fireplace doesn't exactly scream personal safety.
I was honestly more worried about something else, "What I want to know is how long am I going to have to keep pretending I am an elementary student, I passed every single test to skip grades, by the tests I passed I should have graduated high school last year, and yet some reason I am still stuck in that elementary school class. So when do I get to go and study with people at my level?"
Dad was apparently angry for some reason after he heard me, "You want a challenge, you got it, son, I got the challenge of a lifetime, You think that you are so much higher than your peers prove it, next month you are going to be enrolled into MIT, and no it is in Massachusetts, but that is what muggles call it. We call it as it is, the Massachusetts Institute of Technomancy."
"You will go as a student next month and you will wear charm talisman to make you look of age, and as long as you do not fail any tests, assignments or projects, you can study, you are also being enrolled not in one major but three of them at the same time. The second you fail a test, assignment or project you come home, you are done studying abroad till you go to Hogwarts."
Why do I feel like my dad really wants me to fail? I was getting bored to tears so if this means I get to learn something new so be it, but I will not make it easy for dad to simply bring me back with my tail between my legs defeated, I will do my very best, consequences be damned I will excel.
The final day came for me to take the Floo Network to my school, and the fact that I was in three of the single most difficult majors in the entire place did not face me, I was enrolled in a Magical Engineering Class, which consisted of both civil and mechanical engineering while under the influence of modified by magical energy, the second major was ethereal electronics engineering, and last but not least, Elemental Quantum Physics.
Anyone else who is told they are going to study all this at the same time would consider me insane, no I am not kidding, people would ask me if my bedroom was padded and I sleep in a straight jacket.
I noticed that every textbook of the three majors was actually available for students to read, which was progressive, I was expecting that they would make me shell out to buy all these books, but now, for some reason, I only need to ask for it at the bookstore and they just give it to me.
Three weeks and I was getting bored already, so I did exactly as I did before, I began to read and study ahead of me, finished a book, took a test, passed the class, over and over, I did not have time to date, told this to some very attractive young ladies who were hitting on me pretty hard, and once they saw my majors they actually said that it made sense why I didn't have time to fool around.
I was the honor roll student in my first year, and by the second year, I was ready to graduate with a bachelor's degree and magna cum laude. I honestly don't know if dad is so proud he is speechless or he is so angry that his little challenge proved to be beaten so easily that he could not form words.
So in two years, I at the age of nine had three bachelor degrees, I told him that as much fun as magical engineering, math, and theoretical physics was, I needed more, I needed to study more, so dad told me the same thing I could study anything I wanted as long as I didn't fail anything in my classes.
So to make sure my family knew I was no average genius, I went to Harvard Law School and Medical School, at the same time, dad looked so happy when I told him, he even joked that said that I would be back home in less than a week, boy he should know better than to challenge me.
Three years later I graduated from both Medical School and Law School, also passed my bar exam. I was ten years old and I was bored to tears, I was a Lawyer, and a Surgeon and I were bored to tears.
So I decided that for the hell of it, I would enroll in the Disney Art Institute, yes, I was going to a place where people learn to make art, to make cartoons, animated films, and all sorts of art professions.
The second I got there I began to study Computer-Aided Drafting and I was having a blast, the thing is the classes also had a few classes dealing with chemistry of ink and paints, as an elective, and I found that the ink that some of them were making was extremely useful to make talismans that lasted longer and cost less magical energy to use.
That is when I found the hidden truth when people say that they are going to see Disney Magic, they have no clue how right they are, these people were using magic to make their artistic creations literally come to life, I am not kidding, I was french kissed by Belle, Ariel hugged me when I was swimming in the school gym, and Snow I am not kidding White blew a kiss and winked at me.
When I say they made their creations come to life I mean come to life. I finally graduated in one year and I swear some of these Disney princesses were actually sad that I was going home.
I made it home turned off my talisman and I looked like an ordinary eleven-year-old, and that is when she took off the anti-aging piercing, and I went back to look like a seven-year-old, so, in reality, I never aged a day, damn it, I am going to have to wear a talisman when I go to Hogwarts too?
Chronologically I am eleven years old, physically thanks to a prank my mom did on me, I am seven, so once again using a talisman to make me look older, I was enrolled in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and much to my dismay the headmaster was none other than my absentee grandfather, the King of Magical England, Harry James Potter.
And I was fuming mad, dad could have told me the grandfather I never met was the headmaster of this place, he could have warned me that the school was sorted using a magical hat, instead, I been getting my hopes up by hearing other students saying we got sorted by fighting a mountain troll.
Knowing my goddamn grandfather is the headmaster of this school, I was actually looking forward to fighting the mountain troll, but no I have to sit on this dumb ass chair sharing my thoughts with the sorting hat, who apparently is as happy as I am about this entire situation.
"I had trouble sorting your grandfather when he became a student, and then I end up living in the same room as the very kid who I had trouble placing as a student becomes not only a national hero, but a monarch, and then becomes headmaster of the very school he went to. I am not angry at you at all."
"I see from your many years of study that you love knowledge more than the previous headmaster loved muggle sweets, so I guess I should thank you and you better be Ravenclaw!"
I don't know why everyone was excited except for my grandfather it seems, I went to sit down with my fellow Ravenclaw students and I swear I could feel my grandpa glaring at me for some strange reason. "Hi, nice to meet you I and my sister were hoping that you come and be sorted to Ravenclaw, we both learned Crystal Magic from our mother, do you know any magic?"
I looked at them both and could not help but to smile, "Yes, I know a little bit thanks to my folks too, nice to meet you both, maybe we can learn more magic from each other." They both began to smile and blush for some odd reason. "Well at least you don't get tongue-tied with the ladies it seems, odd that a Potter would be sorted into my house, but I am happy to see that you are charming. You may call me Helena, I am the daughter of the founder of our house."
I looked at her and smiled, "Very nice to meet you lady Ravenclaw, but I will rather be called Hiruga Saito, or Saito Hiruga I never use the Potter name, which apparently why my grandfather is so cross with me for some reason. If I can be of any help be sure to tell me, I am only too glad to help those in need."