Woo! It's been a little more of a wait than the last few chapters… sorry about that! Baby just got her first tooth on Valentines Day and then she got sick this week… So zero sleep for me and a whiny baby during the day. Also… another review that I have problems with… *sigh*

not that i have anything against slashyaoi, but its not preferable for me, thats why you should at least give a warning in the summary, and rate your ff M please, my little brother asked too many question about it... – from anonymous.

I now have a yaoi warning in the summary (thanks for reminding me because I'd totally forgotten that). There IS a warning on the first page… but I refuse to up the rating just because there is a gay couple (or two) in the story. I do not plan on having any of the characters in the story have sex or anything more than a small kiss. I also think that maybe people should restrict their child's site access to something with a little less dangerous content on it. If they're reading whatever they want, they're obviously going to do just that and ignore any warnings that I may have put. Also… if they don't know enough about the world that they have to ask you uncomfortable questions, maybe they shouldn't be on the internet at all. Funny story… I found my younger sister googling 'lesbians' once. She was 10 I think at the time. I explained to her that if she had questions like that, the best thing to do would be to ask her mom or me about it because the internet can have scary pictures. Simple, easy, and she didn't feel stupid for having done it.

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Chapter 11

Harry, Ron and Hermione all stared at their headmaster in shock.

"Again? To who? About who?" Harry demanded.

"Patience Potter." She admonished gently. She brought attention to what looked like a stone bowl sitting on the table next to her. "This is a pensieve. Mr. Hyuuga, please step forward." The brunet gave her a look but did as he was told. "I am merely going to remove the memory of the prophecy and place it in here so that everyone may witness it as it was."

The ninja's looked to each other almost in alarm.

"I'd rather you not tamper with my memories." Neji stated firmly.

The wizards and witches in attendance huffed in annoyance. "It's painless really. And as long as you think only of the memory I need, that's all I will get." The elder witch replied.

"It sounds fishy to me." Naruto sniffed. The other ninja nodded around him.

"What smells fishy?" Came a voice from the painting as it swung open. Edward smiled in greeting. "Sorry I'm a little late. I was fixing the walls outside my classroom."

McGonagall raised an eyebrow requesting elaboration. "Some of the students started fighting in the halls. I shut them up for a bit." Was all he said. "Now, what's this about?"

"I was just explaining to Mr. Hyuuga the importance of his memory to our meeting as well as the process." She turned to the brunet. "If you would like a demonstration then I will be most happy to oblige."

"That would be acceptable." The woman nodded and thought for a moment. She placed her wand at her temple and when she pulled it away it came with a silvery wisp that was almost mistaken for her hair. "This is a memory." She placed it into the bowl of the pensieve and swirled it around with her wand. "I warn you, it is not a completely pleasant memory, but it is powerful. If you are sensitive you may experience some of the emotion of this memory. I also believe it will help you understand our world a little better."

Edward leaned forward curiously towards the bowl. Harry reached out to stop him but was too late. As his bangs accidentally hit the surface of the memory he was sucked into the bowl. The boy savior sighed.

"Well go after him professor." Harry nodded to his friends and they all touched a finger into the memory.

"Wow. Now that is cool." Naruto laughed.

"Yes… quite. Please remember that this is a memory, nothing you do or say will change the course of it, and nothing inside it can hurt you." At the nods she received she gestured for them to touch the memory. They all did so and were whisked away into a whiteout.

-

"Ugh… Professor, did you have to choose this memory?" Harry complained as he watched himself be carried by Hagrid into the silent clearing in front of the school. The events of Harry's defeat of the Dark Lord unfolded around the ninja. They watched him gloat over the death of Harry and then his attempted torture of Neville.

"So that's why the hat was burnt…" Kiba murmured.

"Shhh!" Sakura shushed him. Naruto stared intently at the snake like man. A faraway look glazed over his eyes. Neji came up beside him and put a comforting hand on his shoulder. Sasuke watched out of the corner of his eye before flickering back to the 'dark lord'.

"Tom Riddle, known to the entire wizarding world as Lord Voldemort, just announced that he had killed me." Harry pointed at the 'dark lord'. "He had actually… but what really died was the piece of his soul that had accidentally anchored itself to me when he first tried to kill me as an infant. That is called a Horcrux." His eyes narrowed as he watched the 'dark lord' attempt to harm his friends. "The reason none of his spells were able to work properly on them is because I willingly sacrificed myself. It's ancient magic so old that most don't even know about it. My mother used it to save my life when she was killed. When I allowed myself to be killed my love for my friends became the barrier to protect them. The only reason I survived is because of love."

The blond ninja looked to the man they had recently considered a boy and slightly bowed his head. The silence lasted until they watched Fred fall to the floor with a smile on his face. Ron turned his face away while Naruto watched with pain in his eyes. Now he knew why George had been so surly with everyone. The pain he had to have felt from losing a twin would have killed most. They saw a plump red headed woman run across the room to duel a tall and skinny wraith-like woman. The spells that were hurled back and forth amazed the ninja. They stared in wonder at the magic being cast.

"That woman seems to be using a green spell rather often…" Lee commented. "I'm assuming it's a rather dangerous spell."

"Yes… that colour of emerald green is indicative of the Avada Kedavra spell. It is the killing curse and one of the three Forbidden Curses." Hermione muttered from behind her hands. The ninja noticed several tears fall from behind her cover.

"I see. So… dodge if we see that colour." Kiba joked.

"If you ever see that colour coming at you, it's likely to be the last colour you ever see." McGonagall replied.

"I guess you've never seen a demonstration of our speed then..." Kakashi smirked.

At last the wraith-like woman fell to the ground a look of shock on her once pretty face. The ninja heard a muttered 'bitch' come from Ron and assumed that had been his mother to defeat the skinny woman.

McGonagall gave Kakashi an appraising look. "If you'll consent to a demonstration tomorrow after dinner on the Quidditch pitch then we shall see if you are indeed capable of dodging spells." Kakashi grinned at the woman though she couldn't tell because of his mask.

"But of course."

The memory started getting blurry and when McGonagall started blushing they all knew why. She'd been in tears for this part. The aftermath of the greatest battle ever to take the wizarding world in it's grasp. The edges of the memory world started to whiten and suddenly they were back in the kitchen like nothing had ever happened.

"Wow that was neat..." Naruto enthused and Edward nodded with a bemused expression on his face. "So you could literally take anyone's memory and use it?"

"Not quite. A memory has to be willingly given for it to work." The headmaster explained. "And they can be altered... though it is very difficult to do so."

"So you're trying to get this guy," Edward jerked a thumb in Neji's direction, ignoring the glare aimed at his back, "to give you a memory? What's it about?"

"The memory is about a prophecy that was made quite recently regarding the future of this world." The woman sighed.

"Ah, life or death, end of the world stuff. I'm good with that." The blond grinned and pushed his sleeve up. "So lets go boy! I want to see this memory for myself!" Neji's eyes narrowed even more at the alchemist. How dare he call him boy!

"Professor Elric, please refrain from starting fights. The house elves have enough to do without cleaning up after a fight."

Laughter sprang from his lips and he held his hands up in mock surrender. "Sorry, when you get to be my age you call everyone boy or girl."

Neji raised an eyebrow but Naruto beat him to the punch.

"He's around one hundred years old and from another planet." The brunet gave his lover a look before glancing at the professor.

"Yes, that is true. Though... the world I'm from is pretty much exactly the same. Places and names are different, but the world itself is the same. And people... some from my side look the same as people here. Well, they did ninety years ago anyway." Ed reminisced.

"You mean there are others from your world here?" Neji asked skeptically.

"Not quite..." Edward smiled. "My younger brother made it back with me... but seeing as he wasn't a philosopher's stone he died a few years back."

"Oh, my apologies." Neji bowed stiffly.

Edward merely smiled gently. "It's been many years now." The older blond held his hands up in an appeasing gesture. "Back to the matter at hand yes? The memory?"

Neji nodded and stepped forward to stand in front of the elder witch. She placed her wand tip gently at his temple and gave him a reassuring look. "Please think of the prophecy." As she started pulling the wand away, a thin silvery substance followed. The woman took the memory and put it into the bowl after removing her own. "Now, we shall all see the prophecy."

"Okay. Myself, Kakashi, Iruka, Naruto, Sasuke and Neji will be going. You all wait here." Nods came from the room full of ninja. "We're ready."

Shikamaru turned to McGonagall. She in turn nodded to her students.

"You may want to come as well." The three stepped forward.

Edward waited this time for everyone else to step forward before touching the shining surface of the pensieve.

-

Inside the memory the group followed Neji. They followed his climb into the tower and up into Trelawney's classroom.

"God she's creepy when she's about to have a vision..." Harry shivered. "This isn't the first time she's done it."

Naruto shivered as well and was about to add in his own opinion when the colours around them inverted and the world expanded.

"What the hell?" Ron swore as he struggled to interpret what he was seeing. The other wizards looked to Neji.

"I see the world like this when I activate my bloodline ability, the Byakugan." He explained. "It gives me a three hundred sixty degree field of vision and allows me to see the tenketsu as well as chakra flow."

"What are the tenketsu?" Hermione asked.

"The points on the body that control the flow of chakra. You can control your chakra by blocking, releasing, or interrupting any of these points." The witch looked stunned as did the other magically inclined people in the memory.

"He's got bloody x-ray vision!" Ron laughed.

Neji snorted at the redhead. He would have said more but he knew that the prophecy was coming right up. As soon as the bug eyed woman finished her prophecy the memory morphed again into a flash of red and orange chakra amidst a destroyed village. It flared about and it it's centre was Naruto in his Eight Tails form. The memory flashed and they were suddenly in the kitchen again.

"What was that?" Harry's eyes were wide in shock.

"That is the demon that we believe is part of the prophecy." Shikamaru noted from behind his mask glaring daggers at the Hyuuga. Everyone turned to look at the genius. He faced the rest of his team and explained. "For some reason another memory popped up at the end. The village when it was attacked by Pein."

"So this demon is Pein?" Hermione enquired. She couldn't gauge the reactions of the ninja from her question.

"No, that 'demon' destroyed Pein..." Sakura replied as she looked awkwardly at Shikamaru. "Deer-san..."

A grumbled 'troublesome' made it's way to the ears of the group. Naruto took this as his cue.

"Eighteen years ago in our village a nine tailed fox demon was defeated and sealed away by the self sacrifice of the Yondaime. The Fourth Hokage. He paid his life to defeat the demon and save our village. He also used his son as a host to store the demon so that it couldn't hurt anyone ever again." Naruto took a deep breath. "That host is me. I'm called a Jinchuuriki by the villages. That memory was three years ago when I lost control to the demon and almost lost myself..." Neji laid a hand on his lover's shoulder. He leaned forward and whispered in his ear softly. The blond smiled softly and nodded to the brunet. "I was able to come back from that because my father built a fail-safe into the seal." He pulled up his shirt to show the seal on his stomach. "Our chakra mixes and becomes one. As long as I don't draw too much chakra at once from the Kyuubi I won't lose control."

"So that's what you meant when you said you had different energy than your teammates." McGonagall observed.

"Yes." Naruto scratched the back of his head. "It's kind of a national secret so that's why we didn't say anything before. I mean... I didn't even know about it until I was twelve."

Kakashi glanced from Naruto to Iruka and back. Both men wore the same expression on their faces.

"That's quite alright. From what I've seen you're no where near out of control like that memory." The witch replied. "Does anyone else have any insight into the prophecy?"

Edward raised a hand jokingly. "The part about the gate is bothering me." At the questioning looks he received he elaborated. "That's how I got to this world. My brother and I destroyed the gate on this side... or at least we thought we did. We had no way to tell for sure seeing as our alchemy isn't supposed to work on this side."

"But if it's shut..." Harry temporized. "That means that if someone tried to open another one on the other side, we'd have a big problem on our hands. The last time it was opened this world tried to attack the other one. The gate needs to be destroyed completely, not just shut."

While this sank into their minds Shikamaru added another thought. "We think the curse applies to Sasuke. It was given to him by Orochimaru... our equivalent of your Voldemort. He was known to have very snake like powers."

"Well that certainly fits." Hermione tapped her fingers on her chin. "What does your curse do? Perhaps we can remove it? St. Mungo's has the best healers in all of the wizarding world."

"I don't think this is the kind of curse you're used to dealing with." Sasuke looked down on the witch. "And as long as I don't want to use it, the seal that is around it allows me to fight it off completely." The woman raised an eyebrow but held her tongue. Harry, however, didn't.

"What if you used it then? And that's why it comes back? It would be best to remove it I think."

"Actually, there is no way to remove it." Kakashi stepped in. "Especially with the lack of a seals expert since Jiraiya-sama died."

"I'd appreciate it if you'd allow us to make an attempt at least." The headmaster put in. "You don't know if our methods will fail if you've never seen them."

"I agree McGonagall-san." Iruka said. "We've had our best medics on it since it happened but we've yet to break it. But if you want the source of the curse we'll need to send for him. The Hokage is currently studying him to try help him."

"And I'm the resident expert on the curse seals because I worked under Orochimaru when he was still alive. I was one of his scientists." Karin waved from across the room with a bored expression.

"Then we are in agreement?" The headmaster asked. "We will send for this person and let the staff at St. Mungo's attempt to break this curse?" Sasuke glared at the woman but nodded. "Excellent. I suggest that we all get some rest now. Tomorrow is another busy day for us all." She stood and motioned towards the door.

Edward held his hands up quickly and pointed at Naruto and Sai. "If I could speak to you both quickly..."

The two nodded as the other ninja all poofed out of existence.

The wizards and witches in the room gaped. "How do they do that?"

The alchemist walked quickly to the two ninja, ignoring the stunned magical folk, and put his hands on his hips. He leaned forward and inspected them.

"I noticed you two fighting in class. What's going on? You don't seem to be fighting now." He straightened up again and crossed his arms over his chest.

The two men smirked at each other.

"We're only pretending so that the Slytherin will trust me. I'm trying to get to the bottom of the attack in the hallway as well." Sai explained.

"Oh." The blond nodded. "Okay, as long as it's not real."

"Sorry to have caused you any trouble." The artist nin smiled.

"No, that's fine. I just didn't want a repeat performance in the classroom. I assume neither of you will go as far as to actually duel each other."

"No, we just argue a lot." Naruto laughed.

Edward waved goodnight and watched as the last two ninja poofed out as well.

"I really wonder..."

-

Okay, before anyone says anything, because I know someone is going to go 'wait a sec'... In the books and movies, memories that are in the pensieve are not seen through the person's eyes, but rather like seeing a movie of yourself. I think that while this is true, if the person suddenly saw the world in a different way, the memory itself would reflect that because that is how they remembered it. So that's why the Byakugan scene happens.

And again, so sorry for the wait. I just moved into a new apartment with my boyfriend finally and he decided to rebuild my computer. He forgot to put on it at first, but he did that today so I was able to write some more.

In other news, my daughter said her first word last week. "Dada." of course. She's also taking her first few steps without holding onto something so I've been having to keep an extra eye on her at all times.

I hope this chapter answered a few questions... If not, lemme know, I'll try to explain better I guess.

Review Replies

Charm, thanks for the lovely review! I always appreciate honesty. You get a glimpse of why Ed is here this chapter… but until the major plot comes into action… (The actual enemy) the real reason isn't quite clear. And I actually agree with you on the Sasuke and Sakura situation… I've never liked the pairing. Ever. But it was requested lol. I don't think it'll happen though. Suigetsu is a more likely candidate for him. I believe I mentioned that he and Sasuke were living together in the first chapter.

Soraya, yes. I feel bad for Hermione. And thanks! I wasn't sure if it sounded too forced between them. More on why they did that in this chapter.

Kari, heh heh heh… maybe? Again, I wasn't sure if it sounded forced between Sai and Naruto…

Dragonlover, thanks for subscribing! I'll try to make it longer. It really depends on how long my baby will sleep!

Doll, yes, yes he is. Poor, poor Sai. We still love him though.

Winged, thanks for joining us! I hope you enjoy the story even more!