Chapter Three
Zaidee apperated to an ally in a small town in England where she knew Wammy to be.
'The problem. This is L, I can't just walk up to him.' She thought as she rented a hotel across from a pizza shop. The room was big enough for one person and had a small bath room connected to it. She dumped her stuff in the room before going and sitting at the table and drawing up a flier to contacted him with. It went like this;
Dear Panda Eyes-kun,
I need to see you,
My wings are clear and white,
Please meet me at the park at noon,
And I'll be sure to bring strawberry cake,
But if I see jam instead of sugar, I'll be gone,
If you need a name, then call me Z.
She then preceded to casted a copying spell and went around town to put them up before going back to her room as there was no way he'd see them already.
An old man in 60's, with neat white hair and grey eyes in black suit walked down the street to get is usual strawberry cheese cake for his charge but stopped when he saw a flyer on the front of the store, he quickly pulled it down and pocketed it before buying the sweets he came for and heading home.
After putting away his perches he made his way to his charges room and knocked before he entered. The room was simple in design but elegant. The walls were a pale blue and in the middle if the wall next to the door was a large four posted bed with white covers. He made is way to the bed and passed his charge; a boy of 14 year of age who head messy black hair and blackish-grey eyes, with deep black circles from lack of sleep. He wore simple large white skivvy and over-sized blue jeans.
He hand the boy a piece of cake and then pulled out the poster he had found.
"L, I think you should see this. It seems that someone is looking for you." He hand the boy the poster and watched as he took it by the corners and held it between his thumb and pointer finger as if it were diseased. He read it out loud.
Dear Panda Eyes-kun,
I need to see you,
My wings are clear and white,
Please meet me at the park at noon,
And I'll be sure to bring strawberry cake,
But if I see jam instead of sugar, I'll be gone,
If you need a name, then call me Z.
"A very interring person, there is a 98.5% chance that is person knows exactly who I am and where we live. They are also aware of B it would seem, I wounder who they are and how they know us. Watari, please go to the park for the next few days and observe them. It is clear that when they say 'My wing as clear and white' that they are referring to having good intentions." He then handed the flyer back to Watari and the older man nodded and left the room.
Every day for the next 5 days she waited with a piece of strawberry cake in a box. Her biggest fear being, that what if it was B instead of L. But finally on the fifth day when she was about to leave she spotted L and Watari headed her way. She nodded her head to them before opening the box for then to see and placing another piece of paper and a card inside and closing the lid, before leaving it on the bench and walking past them to her hotel.
The note in the cake box saying this;
Hello Panda Eyes-kun,
Sorry to run, this place is to open,
Order some pizza tonight,
I'll come down when I see you,
From there you can choose a place.
Thank you for coming this far.
~ Z
P.S. I'll come say hi Grandpa-san.
At close to 7 o'clock Zaidee was still pacing her room when she finally spotted Watari walking into the Pizza shop, so she walked down to the lobby and out front. She stood for a moment, she was all nerves, and she took a deep breath and then slowly let it out.
'What if he doesn't believe me?' she thought worried
She slowly walked across the road as she prepared a childlike mask. Walking inside, she walked up next to Watari.
"Hey Grandpa-san! What took you so long, I almost thought you weren't going to come and I really; really want to see that moving with my favourite cousin Ryuuzaki-kun! You know we hardly ever see each other." Her face going from happy to sad.
"Oh, and mum can't make it. She's sick." She watched as he paid for the pizza.
"That is alright Z-chan, I'm sure we will make it on time and Ryuuzaki is waiting in the car. Now come along" He motioned for her to follow. She ran ahead and got the door and once they were out side she asked if she could help carry anything, before they walked in silence.
When they finally reached their destination, L had just hoped out of the car to help. He silently took the pizzas while Zaidee climbed in the car and Watari hoped in the front. As they drove off, Zaidee stared at the floor.
"Um... Thank you for allowing me this time L-san and Watari-san." L starred at her curiously.
"How do you know me? Or what I look like?" He asked as he leaned over his knees. Zaidee heads shot up at his cold tone.
"I... right. Um..." She thought for a second. "What I'm about to say, is going to sound...crazy, wrong, impossible... but I need you to believe me." She looked at L waiting for him to reply but he simply nodded his head for her to continue. She took a deep breath before releasing it.
"Where I come from, you and your world don't exist. England is there, but there is no Wammy House or well, you. But recently, something has happened. I don't know how and I don't know why; well not entirely. But some how, seven different dimensions of Earth have been cut and pasted together and time has been rewound." She took a deep breath.
"Where I'm from these worlds are books and anime and now they are real. Two months and three weeks ago, I was 20 years old and now I'm apparently 11 turning 12. I simply woke up one day in a clearing in the shinobi countries." She looks at the floor.
"The only thing I'm certain of is that every world has heroes and they also have bad guys. On the day I woke up my mind was attacked with knowledge of all these worlds, including how they would have played out had this not happened, stuff I could only know if I lived in that world, such as memories and stuff I have too or am meant to do. All of these heroes have been reborn, some of them have retained their memories but most haven't; as far as I can tell, you are one of- if not the oldest of these heroes. The problem is that as we speak, there is a high chance of all these bad guys finding each other and no, I don't know what happen to them but also." She finally moved to look up again.
"What I know for certain, is that, I have to find these children and protect them and help prepare them and believe me. I'd rather just protect them. But this starts with you and a few you know. I have a place I have made, that can house a village and it is both well hidden and well protected." She waited silently waited for a reply when L finally spoke.
"Do you have any proof of any of this?" She had to think for a second when it hit her. She held her hand in front of her, one on top of the other as if holding a ball in between them and focused her chakra and magic together as she created a ball of energy golden energy. L's eyes widened slightly as he watched and then she spoke again.
"Hold this and you will see what was your story in my world; but remember it is changing and can be changed now but I need your help." She handed him the orb and as soon as he touched it his eye glazed over with a glint of gold in them but almost as soon as it started it was over.
"I have told you all this and shown you that, because I need your help L. Do you believe me?" She pleaded as she stared into his eyes.
"On any other day I would likely not, but strangely I do after whatever that was." He watched as the ball vanished from his hands.
"You mentioned others, who were they?" He asked as he bit his thumb in thought.
"I would like to bring, you L, Watari, Mello, Matt, Near and Yagami Raito. I know in the passed Raito-chan was bad, but mostly it was missed placed boredom that became something similar to a drug. But there are two things that must be done concerning Raito-chan and another by the name of Misa-Misa; an up and coming actress when she's older." She took a breath.
"But fist there is another child from Little Whinging, Surrey that I have to get A.S.A.P. His name is Harry James Potter and when he was 15 months old his parents were murdered. Against his parents wishes and their will, an old man left him on his mother's sisters door-step that same night. He currently lives in a cupboard under the stairs and will be way under feed and even at 1 to 2 years old, abused. I want to get him, as I said. As soon as possible, and I was hoping you could help me with being a law enforcer and threaten them if need be." She played with her top as she thought of asking such a thing of L but then continued.
"And since they don't legally have him, I know we can just take him and I will legally adopt him." He nodded the whole while.
"We will go tonight. Watari please take us to Z's hotel." Next thing L knew he was side ways in his seat with Zaidee hugging him.
"Thank you L-san. Thank you so much! Oh and its Zaidee. I forgot to tell you, Lighthart Zaidee." Zaidee then let go as they pulled up out-front of the hotel and Zaidee all but jumped out.
Running up stairs, she grabbed her one bag and chucking the key on the desk, and ran out the door.
"Little Whinging, Surrey, number 4 Privet Drive please Watari-san." She all but yelled as she jumped in the door.
"That was very quick." L commented.
"I travel light." She said with a grin as she sat back in her seat and L just nodded his head.
"Zaidee-san, may I ask you some questions?" L asked after some thought and Zaidee nodded her head as she ate some of the now, somewhat cold pizza.
"What are you?" he simply asked and Zaidee had to think.
"In truth L-kun? Can I call you that?" She asked in thought and he just nodded his head.
"I'm not sure I even know. As far as I knew I was ordinary, and then I woke up in-" She waved her around her.
"This world and I suddenly have the powers of a witch from the wizardry world and apparently come from an ancient pure-blood family that is said to have vanished from the world over 1000 years ago. I also have a large reserve of chakra, it's a energy that is made from with body and spirit energy in the shinobi nations and is use to fight and heal with. I am nothing like a parseltongue; people in the wizardry world who can speak to snakes in snake tongue, yet I can speak out loud as though speaking to you and the animal will understand me and I can understand them, like the sounds they make is translate somewhere in the back of my mind. And I am certain that there is other things I might be able to do, what though, I'm not sure." She finished explaining and he just nodded.
"I see and I've been wondering why; when you are clearly of an English decent, do you continue to use Japanese honorific suffixes?" He asked and Zaidee thought for a second.
"Guess its some sort of second nature or something because the Shinobi nations; where the village is, are essentially a kind of Japanese nations that remains somewhat in the passed." She looked to the roof in though with a small grin and L nodded in thought.
"Alright, well, Zaidee-chan should go to sleep for now as it will take some time to reach out destinations.
"All right, well thanks again for this L-kun and Watari-san and good night." She then pulled a small blanket out of her bad and went to sleep.
L looked up at Watari.
"A cute kid isn't she Watari?" He asked in thought and Watari looked at him though the mirror.
"Yes, I superpose but do you truly believe her L?" He questioned and L nodded.
"Yes, I do Watari. You see for sometime now, I've been have these flashes of memories that made no sense but now I understand why. They are my memories of the past-future in the Kira case and when Zaidee-chan passed me that strange orb, it only confirmed this. Watari, I have a feel that I could trust Zaidee-chan with our life's she would never willingly wrong us. I accept this case Watari, we must help her. I will however do other cases on the side." He finished and Watari just nodded his head in acceptance.
One long drive and a rest later and a certain black car pulled into Surrey, number 4 Privet Drive at 10 in the morning.
"Vernon Dudley will be gone to work by now and Petunia is a stay-at-home wife, so now would be the perfect time to get Harry. Also, just warning you ahead, its still me, I'm merely going to use a ninjutsu to appear older." Zaidee explained as they pulled up outside the house.
She put her hands together and quickly went though the Dog, Boar and Tiger hand signs before shouting 'Henge no Jutsu!' and suddenly a puff of smoke surrounded her and when it cleared she looked to be 20 again. Zaidee grinned as she looked herself over.
"This why I can intimidate the cow if I have to and I can get Harry-chan easier." L just nodded as he looked her over to see if there was anyway to see behind the disguise.
"Also, this is how I really look when 20. It feels so good to be myself again." Then she climbed out of the car and walked to the door where she waited for the others.
Once they had joined her one either side, she knocked on the door and waited. Soon after the door was opened by a tall, thin blonde woman that had nearly twice the usual amount of neck and a horse-like face.
"Hello, can I help you?" Petunia smiled as she held her son Dudley in her arms; he was a large baby with a large, pink face, not much neck, small, watery blue eyes and thick, blond hair that lay smoothly on his thick, fat head. As she tried to look the image of perfection, or as close as one can get when you look like that.
"Yes, quite Mrs. Petunia Dursley. If we may please come in, I have a proposition for you." She gestured to L and Watari behind her to make then known to her.
"Oh, of cause. Please, come in." Petunia made her may to the kitchen table and took a seat.
It was duly noted by all three of them that the cupboard under the steps most certainly hid something with all locks on it. They all took seat around the table.
"Mrs. Dursley. I know for a fact that you have another young child, one Harry James Potter. I am also very much aware of how much you detest him and how you miss treat him. There for I have a proposition, hand him over to me and you will never see him again and be perfectly normal family." Her horse-face scrunched up the mere mention of the boy.
"Now see here! What right do yo-" But she was suddenly cut off by Zaidee as she held her hand up, not wanting to hear her screeching, scratchy voice.
"No Petunia, what right do you have. I know you hate him; I also know that you do not legally have him, so I am well with in my right to simply take him from you. Unlike you, I want to adopt him and give him a real loving family. Did I mention this is me being nice, if you do not comply; you will have not just me, but my Grandpa and Brother to deal with and you will be charged." Watrai and L took this moment to pull out their 'law enforcement' badges.
"You have the choice; all you have to do is give him to me." Her face, the perfect image of a promising death. Petunia's face had long since lost its entire colour.
"I-I...fine. I will give him to you." She calmly got up and walking out of the room, she slowly opened the cupboard and picked up Harry; a thin faced baby, a tuft of jet-black hair and fringe that covered his forehead, you could see that just underneath it was a curiously shaped scar, like a bolt of lightning and bright-green eyes, before turning back and passing him to Zaidee like he were trash.
"Thank you Petunia. Now I need you to repeat something unless you want those stupid wizards coming here. Also, I want anything and everything that belongs to Harry such as his birth certificate and anything about his mother which I know will be in the attic." If possible Petunia's face paled further at the mention of the Wizards.
"Of-of cause. First what must I say?" Zaidee reached into her pocket and pulled out a piece of paper and calmly handed it to her, it was something she a pre-witten up upper study some of her books while she waited those five days for L. Petunia opened it and read it over in her head first.
"I, Petunia Dursley nee Evans, blood sister of Lily Potter nee Evans, Aunt of Harry James Potter, accept Harry as my blood nephew. I freely and with love, agree to relinquish all charge of one Harry James Potter and allow him to enter and live in the outside world, willingly and freely. Knowing that if he ever should ever need to come back, he is always welcome in my home." There was a bright flash of white light from her hands as the paper disappeared and the house felt like it moved in some way. Petunia screamed and jumped back as if burned.
"What was that, never mind. Just wait here. I'll get Lilly's things from the attic; his things are in a box in the cupboard." With that she ran of up stairs. Watari walked over to the cupboard and came back with a small sealed box and a dirty blue blanket with Harry in a corner. There were some muffed sounds of movement and then twenty minutes later Petunia came back with two medium sized boxes. L took what Watari had and Watari took the two boxes from Petunia.
"Now get out! You have what you want and don't come back!" She walked them to the door where upon she slammed the door once they were out.
"Well, that went well." Was all Zaidee had to say it, with a grin on her face as she climbed into the car; Watari and L put the boxes in the trunk before joining her.
"It was interesting. You were very convincing when you threatened her." L looked over at her as she studied Harry.
"God, they're so brutal. Look at how thin he is L! Well, thank you so much for helping me. Both of you. I still have one more request concerning Harry-" She was cut off.
"Do not worry; I will get the adoption papers for you Miss Lighthart." Watari said from the front, looking at her through the mirror, as they drove off and Zaidee nodded her head as she released the ninjutsu with a sigh.
"So, as I was saying. Next I have a family to convince to join me but I do not know their address. Mr and Mrs Granger; they have a daughter who is Harry's age and was one of his 2 best-friends. Before you ask, the other was fake." She sighed as she shifted the now waking eighteen month old Harry in her arms. He starred at her with curious eyes.
"Do not worry little one. The Dursleys will never harm you again. My name is Zaidee and you'll be staying with me from now on." She ruffled his hair, he giggled. Apparently deciding he liked her.
L had now been typing on his commuter for 15 minuets.
"I have it Watari; I just sent it to the nav-man." Just as he said this there was a ping sound from the front of the car.
"Watari, before we go to their house can we stop at a hotel so that I can bath young Harry and clean him up. I have some supplies in my bag." L and Watari looked at her.
"What, I knew that I'd need it." And they nodded their heads in understanding.
"Of cause." The rest of the ride was in silence.
L sat on the bed typing on his lap top as Zaidee filled the big sink at the bench with lukewarm water and striped harry of his clothes and threw them in the bin. She laid him down on the towel on the bench before pulling out her trunk and unskrinking it. She then pulled out a bag and a light blue baby outfit. She put them on the other side of the bench to Harry and gently picking him up, she sat him in the sink and holding him up with one arm she reached into the bag and pulled out a cloth and baby soap and washed him. She then dried him and redressed him before laying him down on the bed by L. She then went and made a bottle of baby formula and fed him. She would have give him something more but after being under-fed for three months she didn't think he would be able to handle it. After this, she packed up and they were off, getting lunch on the way.
Pulling up out front of a nice sized house, they walk to the front door. And with her ninjutsu back in place, she knocked on the door. There was muffled sounds and then Mr Granger; a man of average build and height, neat, short brown hair and kind hazel eyes, and 39 years of age answered the door.
"Hello. May I help you?" He politely asked.
"Ah, yes. If you would, may my Grandpa, brothers and I please come in. I have something I need to talk with you and Mrs Granger about Sir." Zaidee replied, using the family lie again and he gestured for them to come in.
"Honey, we have guests." Mrs Granger; a skinny women, slightly shorter then her husband, with bushy brown hair and soft brown eyes of 28 came around the corner and sat next to Mr Granger at the table with their daughter Hermione; a cute little baby with lots of bushy brown hair, soft brown eyes, and rather large front teeth, in her arms.
"What is it you have to tell us?" Mr Granger asked.
Zaidee adjusted Harry in her arms.
"What I'm about to say may sound crazy but it true. So please hear me out." Taking a deep breath, she when on to tell then her story of being from another world and how recently different dimensions have been cut and pasted together.
"That is the reason I'm here now. You daughter Hermione is what is termed a 'muggle-born' witch. Normally this wouldn't be found until she is 11 and gets a letter from Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. The thing you must know though is that every story has heroes and bad guys and right now I know that in the near future these bad guys are going to find each other, which is why I'm here. My mission is to find all the important children and protect them before the bad people get to them, because as of now the future has changed so I have to get ahead of the others." She sighed while shifting Harry slightly.
"I have a place where I can take all these people and children, where I can protect them and prepare them. If you haven't guessed, your daughter is one of these special people, so are these two on either side of me and little Harry here." She let go of the ninjutsu.
"This is my true form; my proposition is that, I do not wish to separate your family, so I want you to come with me. I can give you a place and you can start a new life. The option is yours." What they didn't hear was her thoughts of, 'or I could take her by force and make you forget her...'
The two parents just stared, so Zaidee sighed and handing Harry to Watari, she put her hands together and formed another of what she now called a 'memory orb'. She held her hands out to them.
"Take it; you will see all the proof you'll need. It is what would have happened." They slowly reached out and like before their minds were crammed with the alternative future and then the orb vanished.
After some time spent in silence it was Mr Granger who broke it as he look over their guest and finally land on Zaidee.
"We believe you." Mr Granger spoke as calmly as possible from the shock.
"Will you come with me then?" Zaidee serenely asked.
"With out a doubt. If that was then, I fear for now. I will not leave my baby unprotected and prepared for that monster!" Miss Granger shouted as she then held Hermione a little tighter.
"Then it is settled. Thank you for listening and believing me." Zaidee smiled softly.
Standing up passing Harry to L as he giggled, she reached into her pocket and pulled out her trunk in unshrunk it before taking out another trunk from inside it and unshrinking that one. She waved her wand and muttered some words and suddenly all the items in the house began to move one by one into the endless trunk. She then put the name Granger on the front of the trunk.
"I hope you don't mind me doing that, but it makes things a lot quicker." They all stared as they stood around, the table and chairs long gone.
"No, no. It makes it much quicker. I'll just make a few calls to work to saying we quit." With that Mr Granger pulled out his mobile and was gone to another room. Zaidee took Harry after re-shrinking the trunks and giving the other one to Mrs. Granger to pocket. Then Mr Granger reappeared and Zaidee pulled out a red metal rod.
"Everyone, touch this and do not let go at all." They all did so and with a pop, they were all gone.
Mr and Mrs Granger fell to the ground as they reappeared while L and Watari managed to stand. They now stood at the entrance of a dark cave.
"Sorry for that, it's the fastest way to travel. As it is, we are here. Now please follow me before we're seen." She walked inside the cave and suddenly they could see even though it looked dark from outside.
"Please touch one of these many crystals and state your full name. Mrs Granger-san, please also say Hermione's name. You'll only ever have to do this once for the spells to recognise you." Zaidee then walked over to a red one and said Harry's name. With that she walked to the end of the cave where there was a dead end.
"This may look like a dead end but it is in fact a hidden door way. The reason you touched the crystals was so that the wards and spells would recognise you as a friend. By stating your names, the ward then asked me in a sense by searching my mind to find out if you were a friend. Now follow me, and it will not hurt." She added as she walked though the wall and the others didn't know what to think but soon followed, coming out one the other side surrounded by a beautiful green forest.
"The cave we just walked though is the south gate to the village." She exsplained as they walked.
"There are four noticeable caves entices as well as some well hidden getaway routs for safety. The south gate is more of the main entrance though." Then after half-an-hour walking they soon came to a huge wall and walked though the open gate, what they saw was astounding and amazing and beautiful. Before them was a village that was more of a small city, in the very centre was a tall tower and on the far side of town you could just make out a waterfall.
"Welcome to the Shinobi nations or Ninja Nations. This here is Ikigakure no Sato or Hidden Village among the Sprits. I have created this for all the people I am to gather. At the very far side of town is my house but as you can see all the others are ripe for the taking, unless you wish to stay with me for now until there are others. I have the room and I hope that you can come to like it here."
The others were all in aww, it was an astounding sight.
"Zaidee, this is amazing and you built this by yourself?" Mrs Granger asked as they walk though town.
"Yes, it took me 2 weeks to prepare and two months to build with the help of magic and a hell of a lot of shadow clones. Thank you very much; I'm glad that you like it. So have you decided where to stay? Also I have a requested. Will you please watch over Harry for now? I have to go back with L and Watari for now to collect others. Oh yeah and just take out the free sign so it is known that it is taken if you pick a place." She opened her front door and let them in.
"I will happily watch Harry for you Zaidee." Mrs Granger said.
"Also, I think for now we'll stay here while we choose a place. If you would though?" Mrs Granger held out the tiny trunk.
"Of cause." Zaidee smiled as she took the trunk and with a tap of her wand it grew again. " put your hand in the trunk and think about what you want and it will appear in you hands, if its something bigger, put your hand on the edge and it will come out by its self and gently land near by. And thank you again." She gave Mr Granger Harry and then stepping back, she grabbed L and Watari's hands and disappeared.
They appeared back in the Grangers house and quickly left. Getting into the car, they drove away.
"You are a person of many talents Miss Lighthart." Said Watari as he drove.
"Thank you Watari-san. If you will, may we please go to Wammy House and perhaps rest there for the night while we get Mello-chan, Matt-chan and Near-chan.
"Of cause; and what would you like for dinner?" he asked as he drove.
"I'm sure anything will do me Watari-san. Thank you."
The drive was longer then Zaidee would have like and she was tired from the day so it came as no surprise when they pulled up to the house that Zaidee was asleep. Luckily she was 12 though so, Watari gently picked her up and took her inside to a guest room.
Mello, Matt and Near all but jumped at L.
"Who is she? Why is she here? Is she another?" The questions kept coming.
"She is a friend but you will find out more tomorrow. For now, got to your room and pack your things or at least put them in a pile each unless you want them mix up, and that means every thing, then go to bed." With that L walked off.