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Inner Sakura
Inner Sakura talking outloud
Protecting The Chosen One
Chapter Seven
By: Snow Phoenix-Dragon
"So, why are we here again?" Naruto asked for the upteenth time.
"Because Dumbledore-san has requested us to see him now." Shino answered.
"Oh."
A few more minutes passed by and Naruto opened his mouth again to ask the same wuestion when Hinata boldly crushed her lips to his.
After breaking apart Professor Dumbledore, Hagrid, Sakura, Professor McGonagoll, and the toad-lady entered.
"Hey! I thought you left!" Ron yelled.
"I agree with Ron, why are you still here?" Hermione asked.
"Hmph." Umbridge, a.k.a the toad-lady, hmphed.
"Because she is leaving now. First I need her to sign a few things." Dumbledore said.
After signing the stacks of parchment Umbridge left and when the door was shut and the room was surrounded in a sound proof barrier Dumbledore began to speak.
"We have some, unlikeable news." he began. "Sakura, here, has informed me that when she was watching the outskirts of Hogwarts she saw a snake-like man with another man, slightly shorter, and a giant snake."
"Nagini, Peter Pettigrew, and Voldemort." Harry said.
"Yes. However, she managed to catch parts of their conversations before they left." Dumbledore turned to the pinkette.
"They were talking about ways to break into the castle. Part of my plan, in which I have informed these three teachers about, was to get rid of the vile thing called Umbridge. Once doing that part two of the plan will begin."
"And what would that be?" Hermione asked.
"We need Dumbledore's Army to gather up all the students and place them in one large dorm in which Professor Dumbledore has kindly made with a flick of his wand. Then, you three and the other guards will be helping the teachers to protect the school."
"What happens when Voldemort enters?" Harry asked.
"Then we will kill most of his followers and tie up the remaining ones as they stay unconscious until I lift up the jutsu I place on them. Our senseis, Kurenai and Kakashi, will aslo help. As we are speaking they are on their way."
And as if on cue two poofs were heard and two people emerged from two seperate clouds of smoke. One was a man with gravity defying silver hair and surprisingly didn't have his precious orange covered book out. The other was a woman with long wavy black hair and crimson eyes.
"Until Voldemort comes, Harry, I want you and your friends to do me a favor and try to lure him here. We must defeat him soon, before he calls upon anyone else that are like us." Sakura said as she pointed to the other guards when she said us.
"I will help out."
"Good, you will be rewarded for your cooperation."
"And what would that be?" Ron asked.
"He will, if he would like, kill Voldemort himself."
Silence filled the room as Harry stared at the pinkette before him. After contemplating for a few more minutes he looked up at her. Green eyes locked with green eyes.
"Agreed."
Sakura smiled and turned her attention to Dumbledore.
"Now for more news of which would be of importance." Professor Dumbledore said. "Sakura had decided to tell you all of another secret."
"In my first year I met a badly injured immortal creature. Before it died it gave me what it once was. How it was able to die I do not know, but I do know that you all must know that this was the last of its kind."
"Sakura-chan?"
"In my first year when I was teaching, I came across a badly wounded vampire. She was only around the age of five, and most likely born a vampire. She saw as I tried to help her heal but stopped me. She smiled and told me of what she would do. I, of course, agreed. She bit into my right shoulder blade and made her vampire blood flow with mine. Soon she died." Sakura said.
"Why the shoulder blade?" Sai asked.
"Because, in order to turn someone into a pure vampire a born vampire must mingle its blood with their chosen's blood through the shoulder blade." Hermione said. "But, what has gotten me thinking is how a born vampire has died. And the last of its kind too, before Sakura of course."
"Voldemort, he had something that he had injected in the girl. She said that whatever he injected in her must have made her seem mortal for a moment and in that moment he performed the killing curse." Sakura said. "After that the girl fled before he could do anything else. I read that born vampires have a little piece of mortality in them, otherwise they wouldn't survive. Once the mortality was taken they start to die."
"How though?"
"Their vampire instincts are not controlled no longer and they start to die from the inside out. After the girl bit me she turned to ash and drifted off into the wind." Sakura answered.
"So you drink blood?" Naruto said.
"Yep. But only once a month, I chose the thirteenth because that was the day I got bitten." Sakura replied. "Anyways, before she died the girl gave me some imformation. For a five year old she was pretty intelligent."
"I see." was murmured through out the room.
"What was the information?" Sasuke asked.
"Kill his pet snake. Destroy the items of the four houses, then kill his precious Nagini, then Harry finishes him off. In each of the items: Nagini and the house items, are fragments of his soul. In other words, he made horcuxes to make himself come back to life if the other was destroyed. He only planned on making six, but Harry here was the seventh. That scar is not only to show that you have lived through the killing curse, but that part of Voldemort's soul resides in you."
"So that is why I have searing pains anytime he is near?" Harry asked.
"Yes. It will seem unbearable at one point becuase as of now there is a messenger telling him that you are ready to fight him."
"What messenger?"
"My clone." Sakura smirked. "Of course disguised as a mere student of Hogwarts. Once the information is given to him my clone will disappear from his sight and will poof back here and I will dispell the justsu."
Another moment of silence was layed upon Dumbledore's office.
"When does the plan start?"
"Tomorrow morning. Voldemort will be here by the end of this week. Sooner if possible."
"Now that all that is taken care of, no onw is to repeat anything that was said here moments ago. Now off to bed and I will see you all at breakfast. Oh and before any of you go." Dumbledore took out a bag of sweets. "Lemon drop anyone?"