Shinobi Among Wizards Chapter 6: Diagon Alley, and a Shopping, a Harry Potter + Naruto Crossover fanfic

Shinobi among Wizards

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Chapter 6 - Diagon Alley, and a Shopping Spree

"Normal talking"

'Normal thinking'

"Demon talking/Jutsu"

'Demon thinking/Spell"

Parseltongue~

Written Down

Harry and Naruto the next morning as Hagrid was stretching.

"Best be off, Harry, lots ter do today, gotta get up ter London an' buy all yer stuff fer school."

"Can I go to, Hagrid" Naruto ask with big blue eyes.

"I.. er…" Hagrid said not certain if should bring Naruto, but after some pleading, blackmailing, and some genjutsu Hagrid finally agreed and than Harry and Naruto followed him out onto the rock to the boat Vernon had hired was still there, they settled down in the boat, "Seems a shame ter row, though," said Hagrid, giving Harry and Naruto another of his sideways looks. "If I was ter… er… speed things up a bit, would yeh mind not mentionin' it at Hogwarts?

"Of course not," said Naruto, and after about 10 minutes they had reached the station, there was a train to London in five minutes' time, Hagrid took up two seats and sat knitting what looked like a canary-yellow circus tent. "Still got yer letter, Harry?" he asked as he counted stitches.

Harry took the parchment envelope out of his pocket. "Good," said Hagrid. "There's a list there of everything yeh need." Harry unfolded a second piece of paper he hadn't noticed the night before and read:

HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

UNIFORM

First-year students will require:

1. Three sets of plain work robes (black)

2. One plain pointed hat (black) for day wear

3. One pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar)

4. One winter cloak (black, silver fastenings)

Please note that all pupils' clothes should carry name tags

COURSE BOOKS

All students should have a copy of each of the following:

The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1)by Miranda Goshawk

A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot

Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling

A Beginners' Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch

One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore

Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander

The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Trimble

OTHER EQUIPMENT

1 wand

1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)

1 set of glass or crystal phials

1 telescope set

1 brass scales

Students may also bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad

PARENTS ARE REMINDED THAT FIRST YEARS ARE NOT ALLOWED THEIR OWN BROOMSTICKS

"Can we buy all this in London?" Harry wondered aloud.

"If yeh know where to go," said Hagrid and after going through the Underground, and passed book shops and music stores, they came to a tiny, grubby-looking pub. If Hagrid hadn't pointed it out, they wouldn't have noticed it was there. The people hurrying by didn't glance at it. Their eyes slid from the big book shop on one side to the record shop on the other as if they couldn't see the Leaky Cauldron at all like it had so kind of genjutsu, and after flashing his Sharingan Harry did find some kind of energy covering it.

Hagrid had steered them inside, for a famous place, it was very dark and shabby, a few old women were sitting in a corner, drinking tiny glasses of sherry, one of them was smoking a long pipe, a little man in a top hat was talking to the old bartender, who was quite bald and looked like a toothless walnut. The low buzz of chatter stopped when they walked in, everyone seemed to know Hagrid, they waved and smiled at him, and the bartender reached for a glass, saying, "The usual, Hagrid?"

"Can't, Tom, I'm on Hogwarts business," said Hagrid, clapping his great hand on Harry's shoulder and making Harry's knees buckle. "Good Lord," said the bartender, peering at Harry, "is this…can this be…?" The Leaky Cauldron had suddenly gone completely still and silent. "Bless my soul," whispered the old bartender, "Harry Potter… what an honor."

Harry didn't know what to say, everyone was looking at him, he was use's to moving in the shadows, not to all this fame, then there was a great scraping of chairs and the next moment, Harry found himself shaking hands with everyone in the Leaky Cauldron and while everyone was looking at Harry, Naruto place a Hiraishin Seal in one of the bathrooms.

A pale young man made his way forward, very nervously, one of his eyes was twitching. "Professor Quirrell!" said Hagrid. "Harry, Professor Quirrell will be one of your teachers at Hogwarts."

"P-P-Potter," stammered Professor Quirrell, grasping Harry's hand, "c-can't t-tell you how p-pleased I am to meet you." Naruto and Harry immediately felt something dangerous about him, unfortunate Hagrid pulled them away before they could do anything.

"Is he always that nervous?" Harry ask trying to get some information

"Oh, yeah. Poor bloke. Brilliant mind. He was fine while he was studyin' outta books but then he took a year off ter get some firsthand experience… They say he met vampires in the Black Forest, and there was a nasty bit o' trouble with a hag never been the same since. Scared of the students, scared of his own subject now, where's me umbrella?" Hagrid said counting bricks in the wall above the trash can. "Three up… two across…" he muttered. "Right, stand back, Harry." He tapped the wall three times with the point of his umbrella.

The brick he had touched quivered it wriggled in the middle, a small hole appeared it grew wider and wider a second later they were facing an archway large enough even for Hagrid, an archway onto a cobbled street that twisted and turned out of sight.

"Welcome," said Hagrid, "to Diagon Alley."

He grinned at Naruto and Harry's amazement, they stepped through the archway Harry looked quickly over his shoulder and saw the archway shrink instantly back into solid wall. The sun shone brightly on a stack of cauldrons outside the nearest shop. Cauldrons — All Sizes — Copper, Brass, Pewter, Silver — Self-Stirring — Collapsible, said a sign hanging over them. "Yeah, you'll be needin' one," said Hagrid, "but we gotta get yer money first."

Naruto wished he could use his Sharingan or had about eight more eyes, he turned his head in every direction as they walked up the street, trying to look at everything at once - the shops, the things outside them, the people doing their shopping, a plump woman outside an Apothecary was shaking her head as they passed, saying, "Dragon liver, sixteen Sickles an ounce, they're mad…" A low, soft hooting came from a dark shop with a sign saying Eeylops Owl Emporium — Tawny, Screech, Barn, Brown, and Snowy. Several boys of around his and Harry's age had their noses pressed against a window with broomsticks in it. "Look," Naruto heard one of them say, "The new Nimbus Two Thousand… fastest ever…"

There were shops selling robes, shops selling telescopes and strange silver instruments Harry had never seen before, windows stacked with barrels of bat spleens and eels' eyes, tottering piles of spell books, quills, and rolls of parchment, potion bottles, globes of the moon… "Gringotts," said Hagrid. They had reached a snowy white building that towered over the other little shops. Standing beside its burnished bronze doors, wearing a uniform of scarlet and gold, was - "Yeah, that's a goblin," said Hagrid quietly as they walked up the white stone steps toward him.

The goblin was about a head shorter than Harry. He had a swarthy, clever face, a pointed beard and, Harry noticed, very long fingers and feet. He bowed as they walked inside. Now they were facing a second pair of doors, silver this time, with words engraved upon them:

Enter, stranger, but take heed

Of what awaits the sin of greed,

For those who take, but do not earn,

Must pay most dearly in their turn.

So if you seek beneath our floors

A treasure that was never yours,

Thief, you have been warned, beware

Of finding more than treasure there.

A pair of goblins bowed them through the silver doors and they were in a vast marble hall. About a hundred more goblins were sitting on high stools behind a long counter, scribbling in large ledgers, weighing coins in brass scales, examining precious stones through eyeglasses. There were too many doors to count leading off the hall, and yet more goblins were showing people in and out of these. Hagrid and Harry made for the counter.

"Morning," said Hagrid to a free goblin. "We've come ter take some money outta Mr. Harry Potter's safe."

"You have his key, sir?"

"Got it here somewhere," said Hagrid, and he started emptying his pockets onto the counter, scattering a handful of moldy dog biscuits over the goblin's book of numbers.

"Hay Hagrid do I have a safe and can I see it" Naruto ask

Hagrid shook his head "don't gotta yer key, Naruto"

Naruto nodded his head as Harry watched the goblin on their right weighing a pile of rubies as big as glowing coals. "Got it," said Hagrid at last, holding up a tiny golden key.

The goblin looked at it closely. "That seems to be in order."

"An' I've also got a letter here from Professor Dumbledore," said Hagrid importantly, throwing out his chest. "It's about the You-Know-What in vault seven hundred and thirteen."

The goblin read the letter carefully. "Very well," he said, handing it back to Hagrid, "I will have someone take you down to both vaults. Griphook!" Griphook was yet another goblin. Once Hagrid had crammed all the dog biscuits back inside his pockets, he and Harry followed Griphook toward one of the doors leading off the hall.

"What's the You-Know-What in vault seven hundred and thirteen?" Naruto asked curiously

"Can't tell yeh that," said Hagrid mysteriously. "Very secret. Hogwarts business. Dumbledore's trusted me. More'n my job's worth ter tell yeh that."

Griphook held the door open for them into a narrow stone passageway lit with flaming torches. It sloped steeply downward and there were little railway tracks on the floor. Griphook whistled and a small cart came hurtling up the tracks toward them. They climbed in, Hagrid with some difficulty and were off at first they just hurtled through a maze of twisting passages., left, right, right, left, middle fork, right, left, making it impossible for a normal person to tried to remember… unfortunate for the goblins it was dark enough for Harry and Naruto to use they Sharingan without anyone seeing them.

When the cart stopped at last beside a small door in the passage wall, Hagrid got out and had to lean against the wall to stop his knees from trembling. Griphook unlocked the door, a lot of green smoke came billowing out, and as it cleared, Harry got to see that inside were mounds of gold coins, columns of silver, heaps of little bronze Knuts.

"The gold ones are Galleons," Hagrid explained. "Seventeen silver Sickles to a Galleon and twenty-nine Knuts to a Sickle, it's easy enough. Right, that should be enough fer a couple o' terms, we'll keep the rest safe for yeh." As Griphook and Hagrid watch Harry put some Galleons in a bag, Naruto slipped away and seal a large amount of gold and silver coins into a scroll.

After that they went even deeper. Vault seven hundred and thirteen had no keyhole. "Stand back," said Griphook importantly. He stroked the door gently with one of his long fingers and it simply melted away. "If anyone but a Gringotts goblin tried that, they'd be sucked through the door and trapped in there," said Griphook.

"How often do you check to see if anyone's inside?" Naruto asked.

"About once every ten years," said Griphook with a rather nasty grin.

Naruto and Harry were sure something really extraordinary had to be inside this top security vault, think fabulous jewels at the very least, but at first he thought it was empty. Then Harry noticed a grubby little package wrapped up in brown paper lying on the floor and while He and Naruto didn't know what was in it but they could feel the power come off it. Hagrid picked it up and tucked it deep inside his coat. Harry longed to know what it was, but knew better than to ask.

"Come on, back in this infernal cart, and don't talk to me on the way back, it's best if I keep me mouth shut," said Hagrid. One wild cart ride later they stood blinking in the sunlight outside Gringotts. "Might as well get yer uniform," said Hagrid, nodding toward Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions. "Listen, Harry, would yeh mind if I slipped off fer a pick-me-up in the Leaky Cauldron? I hate them Gringotts carts." He did still look a bit sick, so Harry entered Madam Malkin's shop.

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After getting his black robes and talking with a blonde hair boy that sounded like he had a 10-foot pole up his ass, Harry ate some ice cream Hagrid had bought him and Naruto (chocolate and raspberry with chopped nuts).

They bought Harry's school books in a shop called Flourish and Blotts where the shelves were stacked to the ceiling with books as large as paving stones bound in leather; books the size of postage stamps in covers of silk; books full of peculiar symbols and a few books with nothing in them at all. Even Dudley, who never read anything, would have been wild to get his hands on some of these. Hagrid had to drag Naruto away from 'Curses and Countercurses' (Bewitch Your Friends and Befuddle Your Enemies with the Latest Revenges: Hair Loss, Jelly-Legs, Tongue-Tying and Much, Much More) by Professor Vindictus Viridian.

"I was trying to find out how to curse Dudley."

"I'm not sayin' that's not a good idea, but yer not ter use magic in the Muggle world except in very special circumstances," said Hagrid. "An' anyway, yeh couldn' work any of them curses yet, yeh'll need a and lot more study before yeh get ter that level."

They got a nice set of scales for weighing potion ingredients and a collapsible brass telescope then they visited the Apothecary, which was fascinating enough to make up for its horrible smell, a mixture of bad eggs and rotted cabbages, it was so bad that Naruto had to stay out or be knock out by the stench, it had barrels of slimy stuff stood on the floor; jars of herbs, dried roots, and bright powders lined the walls; bundles of feathers, strings of fangs, and snarled claws hung from the ceiling. While Hagrid asked the man behind the counter for a supply of some basic potion ingredients for Harry, Harry himself examined silver unicorn horns at twenty-one Galleons each and minuscule, glittery-black beetle eyes (five Knuts a scoop).

Outside the Apothecary, Hagrid checked Harry's list again. "Just yer wand left… A yeah, an' I still haven't got yeh a birthday present."

An so twenty minutes later, they left Eeylops Owl Emporium, which had been dark and full of rustling and flickering, jewel-bright eyes. Harry now carried a large cage that held a beautiful snowy owl, fast asleep with her head under her wing, Harry gave Hagrid his thanks,

"Don' mention it," said Hagrid gruffly. "Don' expect you've had a lotta presents from them Dursleys. Just Ollivanders left now… only place fer wands, Ollivanders, and yeh gotta have the best wand."

A magic wand… this was what Harry and Naruto had been really looking forward to, they had tried other peoples wand only to find that they didn't work for them.

The last shop was narrow and shabby, peeling gold letters over the door read Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands since 382 B.C. a single wand lay on a faded purple cushion in the dusty window. A tinkling bell rang somewhere in the depths of the shop as they stepped inside. It was a tiny place, empty except for a single, spindly chair that Hagrid sat on to wait, Harry felt strangely as though he had entered a very strict library; he looked instead at the thousands of narrow boxes piled neatly right up to the ceiling, the back of his neck prickled as he sense the magic.

The very dust and silence in here seemed to tingle with some secret magic.

"Good afternoon," said a soft voice. Harry jumped. Hagrid must have jumped, too, because there was a loud crunching noise and he got quickly off the spindly chair, an old man was standing before them, his wide, pale eyes shining like moons through the gloom of the shop "Hello," said Harry awkwardly.

"Ah yes," said the man. "Yes, yes. I thought I'd be seeing you soon. Harry Potter." It wasn't a question. "You have your mother's eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wand. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wand for charm work."

Mr. Ollivander moved closer to Harry. Harry wished he would blink. Those silvery eyes were a bit creepy. "Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wand. Eleven inches. Pliable. A little more power and excellent for transfiguration. Well, I say your father favored it… it's really the wand that chooses the wizard, of course." Mr. Ollivander had come so close that he and Harry were almost nose to nose. Harry could see himself reflected in those misty eyes.

"And that's where…"

Mr. Ollivander touched the lightning scar on Harry's forehead with a long, white finger. "I'm sorry to say I sold the wand that did it," he said softly. "Thirteen-and-a-half inches. Yew. Powerful wand, very powerful, and in the wrong hands… well, if I'd known what that wand was going out into the world to do…" He shook his head and then, to Harry's relief, spotted Hagrid. "Rubeus! Rubeus Hagrid! How nice to see you again… Oak, sixteen inches, rather bendy, wasn't it?"

"It was, sir, yes," said Hagrid. "Good wand, that one. But I suppose they snapped it in half when you got expelled?" said Mr. Ollivander, suddenly stern. "Er… yes, they did, yes," said Hagrid, shuffling his feet. "I've still got the pieces, though," he added brightly. "But you don't use them?" said Mr. Ollivander sharply. "Oh, no, sir," said Hagrid quickly.

Harry noticed he gripped his pink umbrella very tightly as he spoke. "Hmmm," said Mr. Ollivander, giving Hagrid a piercing look. "Well, now… Mr. Potter. Let me see." He pulled a long tape measure with silver markings out of his pocket. "Which is your wand arm?"

"Er… well, I'm right-handed," said Harry.

"Hold out your arm. That's it." He measured Harry from shoulder to finger, then wrist to elbow, shoulder to floor, knee to armpit and round his head. As he measured, he said, "Every Ollivander wand has a core of a powerful magical substance, Mr. Potter. We use unicorn hairs, phoenix tail feathers, and the heartstrings of dragons. No two Ollivander wands are the same, just as no two unicorns, dragons, or phoenixes are quite the same. And of course, you will never get such good results with another wizard's wand."

Harry suddenly realized that the tape measure, which was measuring between his nostrils, was doing this on its own. Mr. Ollivander was flitting around the shelves, taking down boxes. "That will do," he said, and the tape measure crumpled into a heap on the floor. "Right then, Mr. Potter. Try this one. Beechwood and dragon heartstring. Nine inches. Nice and flexible. just take it and give it a wave."

It was at this moment that Naruto casting a minor illusion over Hagrid and Ollivander and the store so he wouldn't be interrupted, the two wizards froze as their eyes glazed over for a moment, after that they completely ignore him, letting Naruto slipped behind the counter and into the workshop behind the store.

Behind the counter was a room filled with many strange objects, there were several different logs of wood laying about, on a table to the side was a small pile of glowing feathers. Beside them was what had to be the biggest heart he had ever seen, it was at least twice the size of his head and seemed to still beat with a steady rhythm. Taking a step into the room Naruto gagged as a feeling of utter revulsion filled him, but with a few deep breaths was able to calm himself, spreading out his senses he located the source of the feeling.

The pile of glowing feathers were actually Phoenix feathers and next to the door hidden from his line of sight until he entered the room was a large pile of Unicorn hairs. Materials from two of the purest light creatures were in such close proximity so that it was know wonder why he felt sick. Being part-demon, a being of the dark he shared the revulsion for all light creatures that dark creatures held and being so close to the large amounts of hair and feathers had caused a negative reaction.

Calming himself Naruto began to look around the room searching for the correct items, he found his goal in the form of a bookcase at the back of the room hidden behind a tapestry. Searching quickly he pulled out five tomes, each was bound in red with a black number on the front numbering from one to five. Above each number was the books title.

'A warlocks guide to wand crafting'

Naruto smirked as he viewed the collection. He had flipped through a book of ministry laws at Florish and Blott's earlier, and while Hagrid thought he was try find out how to curse Dudley (and he was) had just skimmed thorough and memorizing the books one by one with his Sharingan abilities. It was through these books that he had learned about not only the laws on underage magic and the trace on an underage witch or wizards wand, but also the ban on wand crafting by non licensed individuals. It was also through this knowledge that he had guessed correctly that Ollivander would have books on said subject.

Opening the first book, Naruto slowly flipped through the pages taking the time to memorize and burn all the information into his mind. After five minutes he had finished viewing all the books and after placing them back on the shelf he looked through the rest of Ollivander books for any items of interest. He chose to memorize book on magical enhancers, another on materials best used for wandcrafting, and Ollivanders personal notes on matching a wand with its user.

Once finished he hid all hints of his actions and quickly fled from the room before the feathers and hairs could affect him anymore. Slipping back into the main section of the store he walked over just as Ollivander was finished finding a wand suitable for his brother.

"Oh, bravo! Yes, indeed, oh, very good. Well, well, well… how curious… how very curious…" He put Harry's wand back into its box and wrapped it in brown paper, still muttering, "Curious… curious…"

"Sorry," said Harry, "but what's curious?"

Mr. Ollivander fixed Harry with his pale stare. "I remember every wand I've ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather… just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother… why, its brother gave you that scar."

"Yes, thirteen-and-a-half inches. Yew. Curious indeed how these things happen. The wand chooses the wizard, remember… I think we must expect great things from you, Mr. Potter… After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things… terrible, yes, but great."

Naruto whisper to Harry "Are you really sure you don't want the snake summoning contract" Harry lowered head and whisper "fine"

The late afternoon sun hung low in the sky as they made their way back down Diagon Alley, Naruto felt a tight grip on his shoulder as he tried to turn down a darkened road, his first instinct was to remove the offending hand from his body but he was able to calm himself before he could react. Turning he followed the arm up to a stern looking Hagrid who was shooting a distrustful look down the alleyway. And after Hagrid explained to Naruto and Harry about how there are many dark and forbidden items for sale and how a lot of dark wizards go in Knockturn alley they both nodding to the older man and Naruto shot one last look at Knockturn alley before continuing on his way.

They went back through the wall, back through the Leaky Cauldron, Hagrid bought Harry and Naruto some hamburgers (Four for Naruto) and they sat down on plastic seats to eat them, them helped Harrry and Naruto on to the train that would take them back to the Dursleys, then handed Harry an envelope.

"Yer ticket fer Hogwarts, " he said. "First o' September… King's Cross… it's all on yer ticket. Any problems with the Dursleys, send me a letter with yer owl, she'll know where to find me…. See yeh soon, Harry."

The train pulled out of the station. Harry wanted to watch Hagrid until he was out of sight; he rose in his seat and pressed his nose against the window, but he blinked and Hagrid had gone.

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Latter that night Harry (against his better judgment) sign the snake summoning contract, and on his first try summon Nagini, who was the daughter of the snake boss and half-Basilisk. She had eyes that were a vibrant amber with black slits with jet-black scales with a dark amber diamond pattern along a sleek form...and a very large one at that, she had to be about 18-feet-long. After Harry talked to her, which surprises her that he could speak the snake language, in the end she agreed to talk to her father about letting him summon them.

After that the two got into they "Akatsuki uniform" and flash over to the Leaky Cauldron and after tapped the wall three times that split up Naruto went to Gringotts white Harry went down Knockturn alley.

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Naruto breathed a quiet sigh of relief as he quickly strode towards Gringotts... there wasn't too many people this late… this was good as he didn't want word about Akatsuki getting out to the humans just yet…

Entering the bank Naruto walked past the various witches and wizards that had stopped to gawk and made his way to one of the tellers. From the way the goblins eyes widened and how other goblins began to whisper and point at him he knew they recognized him, as a member of Akatsuki.

Naruto recognized the goblin as the one from this morning, Griphook eyes the man completely concealed in shadows suspiciously before speaking up. "Welcome to Gringotts, what do you need today?"

Grinning Naruto channel youki to his throat "I would like to speak to a manager about opening an account"

Griphook's eyes widen for a moment at Naruto's demonic voice before nodding his head, "Very well follow me please, I need to bring this matter up with Ragnok." With this he closed off his service counter and walked towards a door in the back, with the demonic blond trailing not far behind.

Naruto took the time to look at his surroundings; from what he could tell, most magical humans tried to spend as little time around the goblins as possible. Because of this, he was probably one of the few who had actually been back here. The walls were made of an onyx stone, and were lined with statues of famous goblins and paintings depicting gruesome battle scenes from countless wars of old, including some from the Goblin Rebellions. When Griphook entered an elevator Naruto was somewhat surprised at seeing the human invention but said nothing as he followed.

Unlike the level they were just on, Naruto had the distinct feeling that even if most humans wanted to come here, they wouldn't be permitted. The entire hallway was solid marble, with gold tracings adorning everything else... it clearly showed the affluence that the goblins possessed. It was quite possible that it was only because of his previous statements that he was here right now, about to speak with this "Ragnok"...whomever it was seemed to be quite influential. After a few more minutes of walking down winding halls stuffed with bejeweled statues and beautiful tapestries, they finally came upon a door that left Naruto open-mouthed. The door they stood in front of was massive for such diminutive creatures... he guessed it was a little over 8 feet tall... and was solid gold. If that wasn't enough, it had gems embedded throughout its surface. Off to the side of the door stood two goblins garbed in gleaming armor with very ceremonial looking halberds... Naruto began to form a theory on just who this Ragnok was. Sure enough, when Griphook announced their presence, a voice from inside permitted entry and the two guards opened the massive doors with some effort. Instead of entering, Griphook merely bowed low and spoke up.

"Master Ragnok, I present to you… a member of Akatsuki... he has wish to open an account with us." Once he was done, he bowed low once more and backed out while urging Naruto forward. When Naruto did so, the doors behind him closed and he was left with just Ragnok in his presence, Naruto got the feeling that this was not normal for something like opening an account, but nothing was normal for him or Harry.

Ragnok wasted no time and spoke up, his voice carrying a great deal of authority with it. "Greetings Mr…"

Seeing that he didn't give a name "Please call me… Maelstrom" Naruto said his demonic voice.

Ragnok pause for a moment before he continued "My name as you know is Ragnok, and I am both the leader of the Goblins and Head of Gringotts. Now come, sit down and tell me why you wish to open a account."

Naruto walked towards the large desk and sat down in the high-back chair offered him with confidence. He knew that Goblins respected strength, and so Naruto spoke firmly and clearly. "Thank you for seeing me Master Ragnok, the reason I come today is simple, I wish to open a account for me and my organization… and a secondary account for later…"

While Ragnok's face remained as stoic as every, Naruto could clearly see the spark of shock in the goblin's eyes at this information. "That... can be arranged. Lets take this one step at a time, shall we? What name do you want your new account to be under?"

"Akatsuki"

Ragnok nodded before disappeared to retrieve the needed items. He returned with a wood-backed and framed piece of blank parchment, and a thin wooden box. He set the framed parchment and the box on the table in front of Harry, and took a seat behind the desk.

"Very well, what do I have to do?"

"Inside the box is a blood quill, it will use your own blood as ink, it will be mildly painful, but the wound will heal immediately following use" the goblin instructed him, sounding somewhat disapproving of the lack of terrible wounds and excruciating pain. "The paper is specially charmed. You will write the names you want for your new account to be under and the names of those who you wish to have access to it, it will absorb the letters and list any vaults you have with us. Is that clear?"

"Yes" Naruto said as he took the blood quill.

Akatsuki

Naruto Namikaze, Demon Sage of the Six Paths

The Hokage

Gaara Sabaku, The Kazekage

Haku Momochi, The Mizukage

Yugito Nii, The Raikage

Lee Maito, The Tsuchikage

The Hosennin

The Kazesennin

Hinata Hyuuga, The Mizusennin

The Raisennin

Harry Potter, The Tsuchisennin

Naruto pause for a moment to think of the name for the second account as the paper swiftly absorb the blood preventing anyone from seeing what he written, after a moment he come up with the name for the second account.

Shinobi

Fred Weasley

George Weasley

Ron Weasley

Ginny Weasley

Luna Lovegood

Kiba Inuzuka

Shikamaru Nara

Choji Akimichi

Neville Longbottom

Hermione Granger

Dennis Creevey

Colin Creevey

Cho Chang

Fleur Delacour

Gabrielle Delacour

Neji Hyuuga

Hanabi Hyuuga

Angelina Johnson

Susan Bones

Lavender Brown

Temari Sabaku

Matsuri Tsubasa

Sari Koizumi

Suigetsu Momochi,

Kimimaro Kaguya

Hana Inuzuka

Konohamaru Sarutobi

Naruto didn't even winced as the words were cut into his skin, "I trust that we can keep this confidential, correct" he asked pointedly.

Ragnok took on a professional air. "We have the utmost regard for our client's privacy."

"Good, can I get copies made of my vault keys, 11 for the Akatsuki account and 30 for the Shinobi account"

Ragnok had one of the junior employee get them white Naruto continued

"I also wish to make a deposit into these account"

"Very well, what do you wish to deposit"

Naruto took out a scroll, much to Ragnok amusement, until he unseal several thousand Pounds and several bags of galleons, sickles, and knuts "I wish to deposit these into the two account, take the Pounds and split half of them into galleons, sickles, and knuts, for the second account, then I want a statements from both accounts"

Nodding Ragnok took the money and come back after 10 minutes with a detail statements for both accounts

Akatsuki account Audit:

List of Properties: None

Vault Monetary Holdings:

Galleons: 11,261

Sickles: 5,560,

Knuts: 4,213

Pounds: 56,255

Noticeable other possessions within Vault: None

Shinobiaccount Audit:

List of Properties: None

Vault Monetary Holdings:

Galleons: 8,455

Sickles: 3,720,

Knuts: 2,312

Pounds: 23,152

Noticeable other possessions within Vault: None

Nodding his head Naruto took the bank statements and much to the shock of the goblins, disappeared in a flash of gold light.

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While Naruto was at Gringotts, Harry went down Knockturn alley, and his first stop was the ever so popular Borgin and Burkes, who sold a variety of artifacts and dark items, exactly what he sought. He had no doubt that a good deal of the wares were not open to the public, but he would remedy that; after all, Borgin was quite the greedy man if what he been told was correct. His mind made up, Harry swiftly veered of the main road and into the gloomy shop itself as a small bell announced his entrance. Soon enough, the sleazy man himself came out of somewhere in the back of the shop to see who had entered. When his eyes fell upon the relatively short frame of Harry in his cloak, the man sneered before he spoke.

"And just what is a brat doing in my shop? Beat it kid, I don't sell toys or candy."

Harry had been expecting such a pleasant introduction from the man, but nevertheless refused to put up with Borgin's attitude. With this in mind, when Harry spoke his words were emotionless, cold and indifferent, sounding nothing like the Harry his 'friends' knew but more like a certain mass murdering Uchiha.

"Nor do I come here to seek such, Mr. Borgin. If I had wanted such trivial things I would have taken my shopping to Diagon. No, I seek things that certain...groups would frown upon. Tell me Mr. Borgin, do you have potion ingredients?"

Harry's cold and emotionless answer somewhat unnerved Borgin, sounding far to familiar to a similar boy that had worked for him long ago. However, when the boy mentioned he was interested in looking for clearly illegal items, he gave him a shrewd look before he responded.

"Maybe I do, but if I did they would be quite expensive if the ingredients are of a questionable nature. I doubt that a child such as yourself could afford such things."

While his insult seemed to not bother the boy at all, Borgin was quite surprised and more than a little frightened when angry hisses began to emanate from the boy's cloak. When the head of a large and angry looking snake came out of the cloak, Borgin almost fell to the floor in fright, though he did manage to crash against his counter. Even more unnerving was the fact that the boy was obviously not bothered by the snake in the least, and to even further his shock the boy seemed to soothe the bloody thing before it returned to its hidden resting place. It was slowly dawning on Borgin that perhaps he should start treating the boy with a little more respect...especially with that damn snake around.

While as Borgin was having a fit, Harry was greatly amused at the scene. Amused because Borgin looked as if he was on the verge of having a seizure. Nagini had decide she wanted to go with him after he had summon her to see how he was like, and while he was admittedly angered by the man's blatant disrespect, Nagini was far more angry than he that the man disrespect for her summoner, and her actions proved it. Before Nagini decided that the man would make a nice meal, Harry spoke up to her in a low voice to calm her down, all the while stroking the scales on the lower back of her head to help calm her.

~Now Nagini, just because the man disrespected me does not mean he is fit to become a meal. I can understand you anger and I do appreciate you standing up for me, but let us see if he can be reasonable. If he continues with his baseless disrespect, then and only then can you retaliate, but for now calm yourself, alright?~

It took a few moments more, but Nagini reluctantly receded back into the confined of Harry's cloak, but not before she shot the foul man one last venomous glare. Huffing a little at not being able to put this man in his place, she responded to Harry; the pout was clearly envisioned when she spoke.

~Very well Harry, I'll let the man be... for now. But mark my words, if he continues to show such open disrespect I will be showing him just deadly my bite can be.~

Harry had to try very hard not to laugh at Nagini's attitude, he really enjoyed having her around. After composing himself for a moment, he refocused his attention on the form of Borgin once more, who seemed to be a little meeker than he had been before...good. Adopting his emotionless voice once more, Harry spoke up again.

"...As you can see Mr. Borgin, any further insults on my person would be most unwise, lest you rouse my snake's ire again. As for your concerns about my ability to pay, rest assured I am well funded…"

Pulling out a bag of Galleons Harry spilled the gold coins onto the counter top. "Money is not an issue." He replied.

The clerks eyes sparkled as he looked at the pile of gold, his suspicious look turned into one of greed and ways in which he could swindle the boy before him. However he was interrupted from his musings when Harry spoke up once more, his voice having taken on a colder tone. "Do not think for one second that I am some spoiled rich child just waiting to be cheated. Don't look so surprised, you really need to work on hiding your expressions; the look of greed that just came over your face was absolutely revolting... but I digress. To make matters simple, I offer you a simple warning; you cheat me, my snake takes the difference out of your hide, understood?"

And with impeccable timing, Nagini once more peeked out from under Harry's cloak and leered at Borgin, making the warning all too clear. Borgin paled slightly at the treat and decided that perhaps he would be somewhat reasonable on his prices with this boy, lest he end up missing a few pounds of flesh or more. He nodded his head and responded, now just wanting the boy to get what he needed and then leave. "Y-Yes, I understand sir. You wanted potion ingredients of the more...questionable type, correct? Well you've certainly found the right place, I consider myself a hoarder of all manners of questionable items, but you won't find the majority of them out here. Follow me sir, and you'll have your ingredients."

And with that, Borgin proceeded to slink back into the area that he originally came from, with Harry cautiously walking behind him, both he and Nagini were weary of a trap, and so were keeping a constant vigil around them. Borgin stopped in front of what appeared to be simply a sparsely decorated wall, but with a few whispered words the wall seemed to split and fold inward, revealing the true shop of Borgin and Burkes. While the front shop had items strewn about in random, this one seemed to have the wares in at least some semblance of order. Harry quickly spotted the shelves that contained potion ingredients and walked towards the shelves, but on his way there he passed a section that caught his interest; trunks.

Harry strode up to them and appraised them, while most looked like your typical, if slightly high class trunks, there were a few that were decidedly different, and one in particular that drew his attention... mainly due to the fact that it was massive. Even more interesting was the fact that this trunk in particular had something that none of the others had; gems. However they did not appear to be for decoration, for one they were situated on the edges of the trunk with the exception of one located in the center of the trunk itself. And secondly, the sapphire situated in the middle had what appeared to be an extremely intricate rune carved onto its surface. Last, and perhaps the oddest trait about this trunk was that it had no apparent openings; it simply looked like a box. Turning to Borgin who had been observing him from a distance, Harry decided to voice his curiosity.

"Mr. Borgin, this trunk; how does it open? And while we're on the matter, is there a history behind this trunk? It is by far the most unique of them all."

The man seemed to go into thought for a moment as he rubbed his chin, staring at the beautiful trunk. After a minute he seemed to recall something, for he suddenly straightened up and snapped his fingers with a small exclamation of "Aha!".

"Ah yes, now I remember; to be completely honest I don't know too much about it. I received it when a woman came into my shop with the trunk floating in behind her, she looked like she had seen better days. I had a good idea what she wanted and I was right; she wanted to essentially pawn the trunk... according to the women it was allotted to her in her father's will, and now she needed money and thought that it would fetch a good price. To make a long story short, I paid her for the trunk and now here it is... to be honest I had forgotten about it until you pointed it out. As for how its opened... your guess is as good as mine, I just bought it due to the physical value."

Harry simply shook in reply as he barely held back a snort of contempt. He had no doubts that he swindled the woman, but for now he was very curious about the trunk and how it opened. As he peered at the intricate seal on the trunk, he realize that was a blood seal, but it didn't the part for the user, meaning that ether the owner was dead or it faded after it was sold.

Harry blinked for a moment before he smiled and stroked Nagini once more, and without even needing to ask, Harry held his finger under his cloak and felt a prick as Nagini punctured it with a fang. Holding it out over the gem, Harry let one drop of his blood fall onto it and jumped back; you could never be too prepared… or paranoid, after all.

For a moment everything remained as it was, until Harry noticed the blood seemingly absorbing into the large sapphire. After it was completely absorbed, the sapphire itself began to glow a soft blue, which soon caused the corner gems to glow their own respective colors of yellow for Topaz, red for ruby, white for diamond, green for emerald, black for onyx, purple for amethyst, turquoise for...turquoise, and finally a light green for jade. After every gem was bathing the room in a soft rainbow light, a small trench seemed to carve itself all the way across the trunk, after which a soft 'click' was heard and the top opened slightly, showing that the trunk was now open.

Harry and Nagini marveled at the beauty of such a sight, but quickly composed themselves as Harry approached the now open trunk, completely ignoring a gaping Borgin behind them. Just as Harry was about to fully open the trunk, his eyes fell upon his very name now etched onto the edge of the trunk in gold, reading Harry James Potter he was surprised to see it there, but figured the trunk recognized him from his blood and put the matter aside, he had a trunk to explore! With only the slightest of grins to give away his excitement, Harry swung open the trunk and was greeted by what appeared to be a ladder descending into darkness. This only served to excite him even more... that mean that this trunk had rooms inside it. He had heard of such trunks but had never seen them, apparently they were only custom built and quite expensive. Thankfully he was quite wealthy, so such barriers were no longer a problem for him.

Harry went down the latter into the darkness as he descended, he was about to use a jutsu for some light, as so far everything was pitch black. But, as if to answer his thoughts, baseball size orbs of pale-blue light seemed to phase into existence on a now visible ceiling, which was a good ten feet above him now. Looking down, he noticed that he was only two feet from the bottom and quickly found himself on the floor, marveling at the sight that greeted him.

The room that he landed in had a tall 12' ceiling which was peppered with the small glowing blue balls that Harry assumed was some variation of the lumos spell, casting the room in a light-blue glow. From the sofas, coffee table and bookshelves that lined the walls, it was obvious the room was a study, and a comfortable one at that. It had with the bookshelves against the wall all the way around, with the two exceptions for the space where the ladder came down and the area directly opposite the ladder, where a door resided. Of course there were no books, but Harry certainly had enough to fill the place up.

Deciding there was nothing else to do in this room, Harry opened the door and walked into a well furnished bedroom. Once more it was a circular shape, seeming of the same size as the last, with a large king size bed situated in the middle of the room adorned with black blankets with gold trim. The walls in here were draped with decorative tapestry, each once more adopting the black and gold theme. An oak dresser rested behind the head of the bed, and just to his left a mahogany work-desk resided up against the wall and tapestry. On his right a large mirror stood, and just beyond the mirror and work-desk, two more doors resided along the wall, equidistant from each-other and the door he just came from.

Going to the one on the left first, Harry opened the door and was greeted with the sight of tiles. He didn't even need to look around to know it was the restroom. Unlike the bedroom, here the tiles were a calming combination of sapphire blue and opal, swirled together in each tile, giving the room the appearance of being underwater. The half of the room the door occupied had a simple toilet to one side and a sink on the other. However, the entire other side of the room was taken up by a very large bath, but obviously was not full of water at the moment. Quite impressed with what he had seen so far, Harry once more entered the bedroom before he made his way over to the last room and opened it.

What waited for him inside was a kitchen/dining room combination, with the kitchen on the far side and the dining room on the side the door was located. The dining table and chairs were nothing too extravagant, simply a plain mahogany table with four mahogany chairs tucked under it. The kitchen had what appeared to be an oven, a large cooler of some type, a sink, and a decent sized pantry. Thoroughly satisfied, Harry proceeded to exit the trunk, all the while marveling at the feats one could accomplish with magic/seals.

As he climbed out, he was greeted to the sight of Borgin peering down into the trunk, who quickly backed away once Harry's hooded face emerged from the darkness. Once Harry had made his way out, he turned to Borgin and addressed him. "An excellent trunk Mr. Borgin, I will be purchasing it. However before we move onto the potion ingredients, I'm wondering if there is a way to take the trace off of my wand. I do not like the idea of someone spying on me."

Borgin nodded his head at this; he had customers ask of such a thing before and was prepared to do such, however it did not come free. Upon voicing this, the boy merely sighed in exasperation before waving it on, apparently accepting the cost. After Borgin took out his own wand, he began pointed it at Harry and with a flourish made a thrusting motion to finish while whispering a quiet, "Lanus Effrego". A small white ball shot out of his wand at towards Harry, where it smashed into a seemingly invisible wall around the boy which proceeded to promptly shatter. As the boy looked at the shimmering remnants of the tracking spells, Borgin subtly regained his breath; that spell was a powerful one, and always took a bit out of him.

Even though the man was very quiet, Harry had been able to hear his whispered words and had watched the wand movements, fully planning on practicing such later. When the spell struck, Harry was somewhat surprised when an invisible barrier around him shattered like glass and slowly dissipated, wondering just how many tracking spells were on him and his wand to garner such a visible reaction. However he already knew that Dumbledore had placed several tracking spells of his own on him and Naruto, and that it was only because of their seals and blood-clones that they were able to split through them, this just seemed to solidify it. Harry nodded to Borgin before he strode over to the potion ingredients. When he arrived, he noticed that there was a great deal of ingredients that he did not recognize,

After getting at the impressive supply of potion ingredients, Harry noticed a cauldron set that he could safely assume that were very high quality. Grabbing the cauldron set,

Will you be needing anything else sir?" the clerk asked.

"I'm starting school soon, what would you suggest?" Harry asked calmly.

The clerk seemed to think for a bit before snapping his fingers and heading into the back room, he came out moments later carrying a small stack of books.

"I take it your going to Hogwarts? Yeah that's what I thought, well considering who the headmaster is you won't have a chance to learn any of the so called 'dark' arts. These are some books on basic and advanced curses, there's a whole set here so you can learn them as you grow. I even included one on Legilimency and Occlumency." the clerck declared setting the books on the counter.

Harry counted a set of 8 on curses and dark spells, one book on unforgivable curses from around the world as well as a book on mind arts.

I also require some Thestral heartstrings, the older the better." Harry replied with a low tone.

The clerks eyebrows rose even higher before he turned into one of greed as he opened the black case. Within the case were several small vials each with a different looking material inside. Reaching into the case the man pulled out five vials, three of which had a mass of red flesh within and the last two had some black dried mass.

"The red ones are only a few years old and they cost 105 Galleons a piece, the black ones are far older and are 224 galleons a piece." The clerk explained.

Harry nodded and divided up the gold, he bought the two black vials in case one failed. Thestrals like most magical beings became more powerful as they aged, as such the older the heartstring the more powerful it would be. Slipping the two vials into his pocket before addressing Borgin for the last time.

"Before we wrap things up, do you happen to have any items for magical animals?"

Borgin only barely kept himself from scoffing, but his tone made it all too clear that he did not appreciate the question.

"Of course not. I specialize dark artifacts and illegal wares, not pet toys! If you're looking for that, there's a decently sized shop just around the corner named "Things That Go Bump in the Night"...odd name certainly, but the shop has plenty of such items."

Harry nodded as he walked up to the trunk and took out his wand, muttering "Diminuendo" and picked it up once it had shrank to the size of a wallet. After he picked the minimized trunk up, Harry placed both the trunk and the cauldron set on the counter.

The clerk stopped him as he went for his money pouch. "I have a few terms before you can buy these." He said.

Harry frowned "What terms?" He asked.

"Well first off you have to understand that this stuff takes a while to learn so don't go blaming me if you cant do it on your first try." the clerk stated.

Harry nodded in acceptance, that was understandable.

"Secondly you must swear an oath to tell no one what you bought here. These books are illegal and I'm only offering since you have the cash, if you wont swear the oath then I wont sell them to you." the clerk stated darkly.

Harry could see him fingering his wand and he was sure his memory would be erased if he refused to swear the oath. The clerk was lucky that it was Harry and not Naruto, who was part-demon now and who's oath carried far more weight than humens and as such he tried to never give his word.

Taking a moment to review the mans request Harry couldn't really find any way this could come back around to harm him so he decided he would give his oath. Of course an illusion would easily fool the man before him but there wasn't much of a point for a small issue like this.

"I swear on my blood and magic to never reveal what I have purchased this day." He said loudly, the air crackled with power as the oath was made.

"So mote it be." the clerk added with a tone of finality, there was a loud snap as the oath was accepted and their magic bound to it.

Smiling at him the Clerk pushed the books forward. "That will be 450 Galleons for the ten books, 448 Galleons for the two Thestral heartstrings, 360 Galleons for the trunk, and 66 Galleons for the potion ingredients and a cauldron set, for a total of 1324"

Harry quickly handed the money over and collected the books. The clerk watched as Harry pulled out a piece of parchment and seemed to doodle on it. His eyes widened comically as the books were then placed on top of the parchment and disappeared with a puff of smoke. He wisely chose to say nothing as Harry rolled up the parchments and with a nod exited the store.

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After Naruto left Gringotts with satisied smile and a bag full of sickles and galleons, he headed down the steps of the bank and towards Vertic Alley.

Vertic Alley, was a small Alley it's shops sold rare items that you can't find in Diagon Alley or that they normally wouldn't have in Knockturn alley. Naruto knew he would not look suspicion or be ask awkward questions.

Vertic Alley was less crowded than Diagon, and it didn't take more than a few minutes for Naruto to reach the shop where it stood at the end of the street. The window had the new Nimbus Two Thousand in it, showing the type of available merchandise, and a grubby sign above the door declared the name The Snitch's Seeker.

Stepped inside and a bell over the door jingled, Naruto look around the shop was dusty and poorly lit, the walls were filled floor-to-ceiling with small boxes, full with various odd-looking knick-knacks of everything quidditch.

Hello, young man," an elderly female voice sounded from a small doorway in the back of the room.

"Hello," Naruto replied as he peered around a basket of quartz crystals to catch sight of the speaker. She stood in the shadows, but Naruto got the impression of stately beauty, faded from age.

"How can I help you today?" the shop-owner asked politely, surprisingly not speaking to him with suspicion or surprises that most people used with children or someone who is dress in a black hoolded cloak with red clouds .

"Seeker stones, or a custom Bludger perhaps?"

"I looking for two untouched Snitches," Naruto announced.

Then I suppose this is probably the correct place for you," she nodded, moving forwards into the shop "Untouched Snitches are rather hard to come by" She said as she pull out two small gold boxes.

"Will there be anything else?" the clerk asked

"Yes, I would like for a book on broom making"

"Hmm... curious..." She said turning back to get the book A Guide to Broom Crafting' by Kenny Whisp

"That will be 240 Galleons for the two Snitches, and 180 Galleons for the book, for a total of 440"

Handed the money over and collected the three items.

After Naruto exit the small shop and made to way to a store by the name The Sorcerer's Tome a shop that sold rare books and tomes.

Walking inside Naruto saw that like the last shop this one was also dusty and poorly lit, the walls were filled from floor-to-ceiling with rare books, old tomes, and even a few scrolls, carefully looking around he find several book, Dark Forces :A Guide to Self Protection by Quentin Trimble, Extreme Incantationsby Violeta Stitch, Alchemy, Ancient Art and Science by Argo Pyrites, and two that caught his eye Most Potent Potions and Poisonsby Hanzo of the Salamander and A Master's Guide of Runes and Seals By Jiraiya, The Toad Sage.

After paying the clerk 482 Galleons for the 5 books Naruto left for one final store…

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His business done with the slimy business man, Harry said nothing more and simply left the shop with his newly acquired items in tow, following the short but hopefully accurate instructions.

Sure enough, as Harry rounded the corner he was greeted with the sight of a worn out sign that bore the name Borgin had told him. Honestly it wasn't much to look at; the sign looked like it was about to fall off, and the few windows the place had were so dirty that he couldn't see inside, but he knew that things were not always as they seemed.

As Harry entered the shop, the first sound to greet him was that of some feline hissing from a cage to his left. Taking a look around, it really didn't look all that different from the Magical Menagerie. The only real differences were that the lighting was dimmer in here, and that the animals sold were obviously not the normal household pets. For instance, that feline hissing he heard had apparently come from a very pissed-off looking panther that was eyeing him with obvious hunger from behind its bars. Most did not look too dangerous to him (besides the panther), but he had a feeling that the shops in Knockturn all operated the same; a semi-legal looking facade that hid the true shop from prying eyes. As he looked around, Nagini alerted him to the approaching footsteps of someone coming.

As Harry turned in the direction that Nagini heard the noise from, he was greeted by the sight of a man who would have stood a good chance of going head to head with Hagrid. However, where Hagrid was kind, cheerful and a bit rotund, this man was severe, irritated and quite muscular. Harry was feeling very tempted to take a step away from this behemoth, but he hold his ground.

The man spotted Harry and proceeded to walk up to him and stand no further than two feet away, making Harry crane his neck quite a ways to look at the man's face. The man said nothing as he scrutinized the diminutive child before him, but after taking a glance at the pouch underneath the boy's cloak, he assumed he was here to shop.

~Well, he's quite the patient man, isn't he Nagini?~ All he got in reply was the slight shaking of her coils that gave away her mirth, but it had its intended effect of boosting Harry's courage a little. Straightening up himself as much as he could, Harry stared the man straight in his eyes from under the hood and resumed his emotionless voice once more.

"Straight to the point are we? Alright I'll bite; what I'm here for is supplies to care for a snake."

His response garnered a raised eyebrow from the giant before he spoke with some skepticism lacing his voice. "For a snake you say? That's quite the uncommon 'pet', especially for a kid such as you. Just what would you be doing with a snake, and how do I know you're not just playing around?"

Harry didn't even deign to answer the first question, and to answer the second Nagini simply rose her head out of Harry's cloak once more, which earned them wide eyes from the man at not only seeing the snake, but the size of it.

Taking a moment to work his features back into a semi-severe look, the man spoke up. "Well then, you've certainly got a snake alright, a big one at that...alright, follow me but be warned; the room I'm leading you into has secrecy ward erected for what should be obvious reasons. Once you cross it, anything and everything you see in there will be kept secret; you won't be able to speak of it to others, nor write about it."

While Harry followed the man, he absently wondered if he could design a similar ward... they sounded extremely useful for him and Naruto. Unlike Borgin who hid his door, this man simply opened an oak door in the back and walked in with Harry in tow. As Harry passed the door-frame he felt the wards slide over his body as they came into effect, leaving him with a slight tingle down his spine. Turning around, Harry did his best not to gape at the sight that greeted him; while there were not many species in here, those that the man did have were exceedingly rare. In the corner wrapped in warm cloth were the unmistakable shapes of ten dragon eggs, while next to them in a cage was a blue phoenix...a Venislew if Harry remembered correctly. Across the room from those, a small griffon peeked out at him from the bars of its very large cage. However while all these creatures where very rare, what peaked Harry's and Nagini's interests were the sounds of hissing coming from the furthest corner.

As Harry walked over there, both of them started to pick up snippets of conversation from what was now undoubtedly parseltongue.

~I'm hungry! When will that-~

~-if that damnable bird squawks one more time I'll-~

~-ust you all be so loud? I'm trying to sleep here!~

Both Harry and Nagini were quite amused at the bickering, but as they moved closer and the snakes began to sense their presence, the conversations abruptly shifted.

~All you do is sleep! Why don't you help think of a way ou-wait! Everyone quiet! I smell the scent of a Queen in here!~

~A queen? You've finally lost it haven't you? You know as well as I that there are no more on this... hold on... Slytherin's beard, you're right! And... now that can't be right, I'm smelling an Summoner's scent now!~

~...No, you're not imagining things, I can smell it too! What's going on here, a Queen and an Summoner here of all places?~

~Quiet! They're approaching, we'll be able to see them any-there! There's the Avatar! The scent is unmistakable! Summoner! Summoner over here!~

Harry quickly approached the now very loud snakes, all to aware that the shop-owner's attention was now on him and the snakes as he stood by the door. Lowering his voice so that the owner would not hear them, Harry spoke up.

Yes, yes, I am a snake Summoner , now please quiet down! If you did not notice already, your excited exclamations have drawn the attention of the shop-owner. The last thing we need is for him to find out what I am!~

The snakes in the large aquarium he now stood over all had the decency too look away sheepishly for a moment as the quieted down, while Harry observed them. Two appeared to be of the same species, possibly from the same clutch. Both were a little over five feet long, and both were a mixture of red, yellow and black stripes. Harry didn't even need to ask to know that they were both King Snakes, one of the most poisonous snakes known. While the King Snakes were certainly impressive, the last two did not disappoint. The next one was yellow, black and brown, which was patterned in splotches all across its body. Harry recognized this one from the zoo when he was dragged along with the Dursleys not so long ago - a Ball Python. This one was about seven feet long, and was now appraising him as well. The last was the most beautiful in Harry's opinion, mainly due to the fact that it was a solid deep sapphire blue. It was the smallest of the bunch, maybe just barely past five feet, but it was definitely the most noticeable. He glanced at the side of the aquarium and was glad to see a picture of each respective species, and saw that the blue one was aptly named an Indigo snake. Done with his observations, Harry spoke up once more.

~Thank you for quieting down. Now you can ask your questions. But before you do, what are your names?~

The Ball Python seemed to be the apparent leader of the bunch, as it slithered right up to the edge of the enclosure and responded to Harry with respect and reverence in his voice; a new thing for Harry.

~My name is Aritus, esteemed Summoner. The twins behind me are named Iocus and Callidus, and the blue one is named Saffir. Might we know your name, esteemed Summoner?~ At this point all four snakes were giving him their undivided attention. Harry was somewhat unnerved by the almost worshipful tones they were speaking to him with, but composed himself as he replied.

~My name is Harry, and this,~ Here Nagini's large head came out from under his cloak, ushering shocked hisses from the others. ~Is Nagini, now then, I know you have many questions to ask but this is not the time nor the place, so I will ask you all instead one thing; would you like to come with me and be free from this place?~

Although shocked at Harry's generosity, all four wasted no time in expressing that they indeed wanted just that. Nodding his head, Harry turned around and addressed the shop-owner who was looking at the whole thing with curious eyes.

"Do you have any mice which I could purchase?"

The man merely raised one eyebrow and pointed to the left, where a few large cages were literally teeming with dozens of the rodents. Nodding, Harry grabbed a cage and walked back over to the snakes as he spoke once more.

"Sir, I have a few questions about these creatures. First off, was this Griffon captured or raised in captivity?"

Raising an eyebrow at the odd question, the man answered nonetheless in his gruff and blunt way. "Captured. Little over three months ago."

Harry gave the Griffon a once over with an appraising eye, the plan in his head now becoming clearer. 'Hmm...judging by its size, I'd say (glances down) ...she's about ten years old, only a year or so away from full maturity. Even better is she was raised wild; I don't know the first thing about caring for a Griffon.'

"Alright, last question. Those dragon eggs...what kind are they?"

At this the man actually smirked; it admittedly unnerved Harry a bit.

"Hungarian Horntail. The whole lot of them."

At this Harry couldn't help but gape as he turned around and looked at them once more. 'ALL of them are Horntails? Bloody hell, I had expected one, maybe two to be one but ALL of them!' He was just about to change his plans concerning them drastically when an idea popped into his head.

~Nagini, do you know if dragons are able to understand Parseltongue?~

Said snake looked at him like he grew a second head, garnering a raised eyebrow from the shop-owner as he observed the scene from the door.

~This is upon the assumption that I have talked to a dragon before, Harry? Do you think I'm mad? I'm a snake, I'd end up becoming a well cooked meal before I even got within speaking distance! I mean... it might work, dragons are closely related to serpents, but as I said I have not tried speaking to one so I wouldn't know, maybe my dad would, but I didn't~

Harry still gave a nod of thanks as he thought on the matter some more. 'Alright... so I MIGHT be able to talk to them. Not exactly a small risk considering what I'm dealing with, however dragons take at least five years to fully mature; if things start looking bad I'll have time to... Improvise… and if Naruto ever fought out I had the opportunity to get a dragon and didn't… I don't even want to think about it.' His decision made, Harry turned around and said four words that made all his passengers choke in shock.

"I'll take them all."

Shock was also apparent on the shop-owner's face before it changed to a rather nasty sneer. "Look here kid, even if you were able to take care of TEN dragons, five snakes, a griffon and a Venislew, I highly doubt you'd be able to afford them all. Those snakes are expensive sure, on the other hand, you're wanting to buy ten dragons which were exceedingly hard to obtain, a griffon which is quite frankly a relatively rare magical creature, and finally a Venislew, which are almost extinct! Give me one good reason why I should even start to think you have the money necessary for them."

While the man's rant was impressive and only amplified by his large stature, Harry thankfully had a very convincing counter-argument. After all, what happened in here could not be spoken of or mentioned in any way, shape or form. He simply withdrew a scroll from his cloak and unseal several Large bags of Galleons. 'Widening of the eyes? Check. Eyebrows vacating face and relocating to hairline? Check. Now we just need to wait for the...ahh there it is! The look of greed. Hook, line, and sinker.'

While Nagini's muffled hisses of laughter were going on underneath his cloak, the man snapped out of his gaping and for the first time actually smiled. Granted it was a smile just oozing with greed, but Harry took what he could get, all things considered.

"Well you've got the money alright, kid. I'm not even going to ask what the bloody hell you want with all these animals and I really don't want to know so long as you buy 'em."

Harry did just that. The transaction complete, the man spoke up with his smile of greed still plastered on his face.

"Right. I'll just shrink the eggs for you along with the cloth they're in; you need to keep them warm at all times, hot if you can manage it. The Venislew and Griphon will be a little bit trickier if you don't want to draw attention to yourself... since you just made me quite well off, I could drop them off at a pickup location if you need one."

Harry shook his head at this, though he was surprised the man actually offered to help him, he spoke up in a quiet voice. "There will be no need for that sir. Zetsu, please come here"

A few seconds later a man emerge from the ground, he had two large venus fly-trap like extensions that envelop his head and upper body, giving him a plant-like appearance. his head was visible to revealed short green hair, yellow eyes, and that his body has two different coloured halves. His left side is completely white and the right side black with small white dots along extend all the way down his body.

"What are your orders my master?" two voices asked at the same time.

"I will most likely be needing your assistance in moving things to the burrow throughout the day. On another note, how goes the search for those thing? Oh, and speak quietly and only with 'Master' for now Zetsu, I'd rather not let this man know who I am."

Zetsu seemed nod before he spoke. "All of them have been fought, Master and are waiting for you at the burrow, Master ."

"Good, for now I need you to move these into the burrow, where they will then place them in the room next to my own. You got all that Zetsu?"

"Yes, Master"

"Alright, that will be all." Not even bothering to look at the shop-owner or Zetsu, Harry simply walked over to the snakes extended his arms out into the cage while the owner shouted for him to stop. He studiously ignored the man as he shrank each snake a few feet before they all slithered up his arms and under his cloak, where they rested curled up along both of his arms. Turning to the now gaping giant, Harry simply looked at the number on the register and dumped out the correct amount before the man before he bid him a good day and exited the shop.

Once he was sure the coast was clear, Harry slipped into a small side alley and spoke up in a quiet voice to apparently no one

"So… had a good time"

For a moment noting happen before the air next to him seem to rip and Naruto appeared.

"A blast"

And with that he place a hand no Harry's shoulder, and they both disappeared in a yellow flash

Omake: Vault - 713

"How often do you check to see if anyone's inside?" Naruto asked.

"About once every ten years," said Griphook with a rather nasty grin.

Harry look on in disbelieve, while Naruto started giggling in a very creepy way

This was all because that said small orange book lying on the floor was none other then Icha Icha

And that chapter 6 before I put the next one up let me ask you about Houses. Which house do you think Rock Lee and Choji Akimichi should do to Gryffindor, or Hufflepuff.