Naruto jumped down from the tree he was on and landed softly on the ground not too far from where Ookami was. Sasuke landed beside him soon after and the wizards dismounted from their brooms casually as they stared around them at the ruins. They were positioned in such a way that they just looked like tourists coming to visit but to Naruto and Sasuke it brought back memories that they didn't want to confront at the moment. Ookami looked between the two teens and held in his smile as he saw their guilty faces.
"Welcome to the Southern Gates," Ookami said calmly as he looked up at the two towering statues in front of them, "otherwise known as the Valley of the End."
Remus saw Naruto flinch and wondered why he would have such a reaction. He then looked over to Sasuke and saw that the young Uchiha was glaring daggers at Ookami's back more than likely hoping it would self combust or some such nonsense. "Who do those two statues represent? They seem important to be guarding the door out of this place."
Ookami closed his eyes for a moment as if thinking of good way to answer the question, or as if looking for the answer to the question himself. "The one on the left is the First Hokage and the one on the right is Uchiha Madara. They guard the Gates because this is where the First Hokage lost his life and where two of Konoha's most precious ninja made history," he looked up at the two statues and then at the cliffs around them. "The Gates are positioned in five different places. In Hi no Kuni, Konohagakure no Sato is the First Southern Gate. In Kaze no Kuni, Sunagakure no Sato is the Second Southern Gate."
"Where are the other Gates at?" Naruto asked softly as he avoided looking at the two statues. "I've never heard of any Gates before? How come I was never told about them?"
Sasuke glared at him. "It's not a secret that would be told to just anyone, dobe." He glared at Ookami as if daring him to say something otherwise but Ookami just gave him a half smile and turned his back on Sasuke. "The Gates are probably there to keep S-classed ninja from escaping to the Outside. If they knew about it then they could easily go to and fro without anyone being the wiser."
Naruto made a noise in the back of his throat and called Sasuke a bastard.
"Not really," Ookami said as he interrupted the screaming fit that Naruto was about to have. Sasuke raised a brow as if shocked that someone just told him he was wrong about something. "The Gates are there for anyone to pass through, that is true… but you need to survive getting to the other side first."
"What do you mean?" Remus asked as he looked at Ookami smile as if he were talking about the weather and not about the fact that they could very possibly be going to their deaths by going through this Gate. "If these Gates are dangerous why don't we just go back the same way we came?"
Ookami didn't stop his smiling as he looked at the statues and then over to Naruto. "The Gates are guarded by demons. You need permission to make it to the other side. Without permission you can easily go in but not back out… well, not alive that is."
"We are trained to destroy the strongest of adversaries," Sasuke said with a glare at Ookami as he looked back to the Gates. "These demons won't be much of a challenge."
Naruto looked to Ookami as his face turned into a frown and stared at the statues once more. He gave an audible sigh. "I had forgotten that you are an Uchiha… you have no need to fear the demons attacking you. Your ancestor built this Gate and those on the other side are weak to your blood," his eyes gave Sasuke an obvious disapproving once over before he started to walk over to the water. "The Uchiha family can control certain demons as long as they have Uchiha Madara's blood running through them… and you are one of those lucky few."
"Eh… so Sasuke-teme is practically immune to the demons on the other side?" Naruto half yelled as he jogged to keep up with Ookami's longer footsteps. Ookami mad no hand seals as he stepped on the water and began to walk towards the waterfall in between the two statues. "Nii-san," Naruto whined as he tried to keep up with the wizards floating around them on their brooms. "How come he gets to have control of the demons? He'll probably use them to help him beat me!"
Ookami's face broke into a smile and he looked up at the rushing waterfall in front of them. He was swaying slightly on the water as the torrents of water coming from the waterfall made currents under their feet. A slight mist was around the pouring water as water bounced off the rocks as well as the water. "Just because he has Madara's blood doesn't mean he knows how to use it. He needs training to be able to command the demons and not many people will be willing to do that after what happened two years ago. And no self-respecting demon will let himself be commanded by a human, of all things…" he paused as he checked one of his pockets and took out a black scroll out. He opened it and looked at the writings on it before putting it down again. "Besides, Sasuke would have to earn the respect of the demons before he is allowed to be considered their master, and not self-respecting Uchiha would ever demean themselves as to work side by side to a demon."
Naruto looked over to Sasuke who was glaring at Ookami with his sharingan out.
"The Uchihas seem to have a rich family history," Lucius said as he hovered a bit closer to Ookami, who was still inspecting the scroll for the desired information.
Ookami finally rolled the scroll back and stored it in his pocket and looked back at the people surrounding him. "They're like the purebloods of your world, Malfoy-san. Hyuugas, Inuzukas, Uchihas, Sarutobis, Hatakes, Yamanakas, Akimichis, Naras, and Aburames… they are the major ninja families of Konoha. They would be considered high class purebloods in the wizarding world with as long a family tradition as any Malfoy, Black, Prince, Nott, Parkinson, or Lestrange."
Sirius' jaw had dropped at the words coming out of Ookami's mouth and he couldn't help but stare at Sasuke as he scowled at his godson. Naruto was in a confused state as he just stared from Sasuke to Lucius to Sirius and back again. He noticed the names and didn't see the similarity between the three of them and shrugged it off as something to do with stuck up people like Neji and Sasuke.
"What about Naruto?" Sirius asked as he stared at the blonde. Naruto's head perked up as he waited for Ookami to give them his story.
Ookami smiled grimly. "That's not a story for me to tell…" Naruto visibly deflated at this and Ookami looked away. "But I can tell you this much about him: his titles are similar to the ones of the Prince heir… not that his father wasn't a respected member of society. He was, as you say, a new pureblood."
Lucius stared at Naruto while Sirius mouth had dropped once more to stare at the confused blonde. "Indeed," Lucius mumbled.
"What does that mean?" Naruto asked as his head quirked to the side.
"Ask me again some other time and I'll be happy to answer your question," Ookami said with a slight nod of his head. Naruto pouted but nodded anyways. "Well, it seems I've strayed from opening the Gates long enough…"
"Demons aren't going to come out once you open it, right?" Remus asked as he took out his wand and the others around him took out their own weapons.
Ookami shook his head as he positioned his hands to begin a jutsu. His hands flashed through several seals and the others watched on while Sasuke watched attentively with his sharingan looking right at Ookami's fingers move to make each of the seals.
Ookami paused and put his hands down while the others waited for something to happen. But as the minutes ticked by nothing out of the ordinary jumped out of the waterfall and attacked them like they had expected and they were getting rather tired of the tenseness in the air.
"Perhaps you needed to practice that jutsu before you put it to use," Sasuke said with a sneer. Naruto looked from Ookami to the waterfall as he tried to not nod along with what Sasuke had said. But as Sasuke spoke the waterfall shined a brilliant rainbow of colors and a whirlpool appeared in the middle of it.
Ookami made no move to go through the whirlpool as it turned mirror like and reflected back at them a picture of a white and blue room with many draperies. Naruto stepped up beside Ookami to get a better look and nearly got a heart attack when a face appeared in the middle of the whirlpool.
It was the face of a woman with dark blue hair and her skin tone was as white as snow. Her lips were a deep blue that told of extreme cold or a bad idea in make-up choice. She had deep dark eyes and when she smiled they could see her pointed canines. She looked first at Naruto and then her eyes swiveled at all of them in turn until she reached Ookami, as if measuring their worth with that one look.
"Lightning Child… to what do I owe the pleasure of your call?" the demon woman asked in a deep voice that reverberated through their bones and made them shudder. It was obvious that this demon had a lot of power and that she knew it was well as she smirked superiorly at them.
Ookami bowed his head slightly as his eyes shined with something akin to humor. "I have called to ask for your permission in entering the Gates through your realm as opposed to entering it through Kanza Clan's realm."
The demon woman smiled once more as she ignored the others. "Ah, yes. Mating season, isn't it?"
Ookami inclined his head in answer and the woman gave a booming laugh that made Naruto nearly tip over in shock. "If it's alright with you, of course, my companions and I would like to go on a straight route and not the long way around."
"Of course, of course…" the woman nodded and her head disappeared as she gave them one last smirk. The whirlpool disappeared and the waterfall went back to its original rushing self while the others looked on in shock.
"What just happened?" Sirius squeaked out as the others still stared at the waterfall as if it would make the woman's head appear.
Ookami turned away from the waterfall to address them all. "We've been given permission to go through the Gates."
"Is there a 'but' after that?" Remus asked as he looked at the waterfall warily. He was ready to blast any attacking demon women if it came down to that.
"There are some instructions regarding this realm… You must not look any of the women in the eyes, no matter what. They will try to lure you to them by singing and pleading for help but just ignore them and continue on your way. I will be at the back to make sure that if you do stray that I'll be able to bring you back," Ookami said seriously and Naruto gulped as if he had already been sentenced to meet these women.
"What happens if we ignore your instructions?" Sasuke asked the question that was in Sirius' head. "There must be a reason that they do what they do."
Ookami frowned. "Of course there is! They lure you to them and then kiss you. This kiss immobilizes you and then they have their way with your body insuring the birth of a new generation. Once that's done they eat you alive."
Naruto practically recoiled at the news as he looked back at the whirlpool. "And we're going to go through them?!"
"Unless you want to take part in the Kanza Clan's… mating rituals… then there's no other way to get through to the other side without getting killed," Ookami nearly growled. The first ever displeased gesture he's ever made regarding Naruto. He saw his mistake right away when Naruto's face took on a guarded look and he grinned as if nothing had happened. "Sorry… I don't like this anymore than you do…" Ookami sighed again as he looked at Naruto. He wasn't the smartest of people when it came to giving apologies as he had never had to do so when he was killing ninja for the Hokage or trying to keep alive when going against the demons. "Sorry…" he mumbled once again.
Naruto looked away as Ookami turned back to the waterfall and began a whole series of different seals. Sasuke's sharingan was trained on his hands once again and the others waited patiently for the last seal. With one last final seal there was a roar as it seemed the waterfall was pouring down more water and as the water came down it began to glow as it had done before. The whirlpool appeared once again except more violently and sprayed water everywhere drenching them. Once the whirlpool settled there was a reflective surface big enough to fit an elephant through. The reflective surface showed a different room than it had when they were talking to the demon woman and Ookami cautiously walked up to it and put one hand through making the water ripple and the image to distort.
"Go through one at a time… once you get through remember what I said," Ookamir said as he motioned them forward. Naruto was the first to go followed by Sirius and then Sasuke and then Remus. Lucius was the last to go through before Ookami looked back at the village and entered the rest of his body into the portal.
Once on the other side he saw that his companions were doing their best to avoid the half nude women dancing and singing around them. Naruto nearly tripped over himself as he backed away from an approaching woman dressed in a see through garment. Ookami strolled forward and bowed slowly as if afraid that if he did it too fast that he might fall under their enchantment.
"Lightning Child, it has been too long since we last saw you in our realm," Naruto brought his face up slightly to look at the woman but stopped short when Sasuke lowered his head back down to stare at the floor.
"Please forgive my lack of visits," Ookami said as he smiled. His eyes were staring at her neck and collarbone as he refused to look any higher, "I've been previously engaged," he bowed once again.
The demon woman chuckled and stepped away from him as she made her way over to the others. They looked away as they had been instructed until she stopped in front of Naruto. She stood there for a while until Naruto started to fidget under her intense gaze. She swiftly caught hold of his chin and brought at eye level with hers. Ookami flinched from where he was and he stepped forward as he raised his head to see what was going on.
"My, my… so, you still have vessels running around?" she asked as she began to stroked Naruto's cheek. He had closed his eyes the moment that she had grabbed his face and was resisting the urge to go into his pouch and take out a kunai. "I see your people still have little concern over your offspring. To seal a demon on a babe… it's beyond despicable! Children are the future."
"Then you shouldn't fault the future with the mistakes of the pasts," Harry growled and the woman looked at him from the corner of her eyes and smirked. She unhanded Naruto and pushed him back towards Sasuke. "Should we find our own way to the exits or would you rather accompany us there?"
The woman gave a hearty laugh that made the other women around them start their own giggling. She waved her hand airily in front of her and shook her head. "Still the same Lightning Child that I remembered…" she said with a sigh. "No, no, no, you can make your way to the exits by yourself."
"Thank you…" Ookami bowed once again as he dropped his eyes away from the woman's dark ones. "I'm sorry for our intrusion upon your realm without much warning…"
The woman laughed once more and the giggling of the others around them continued. "Just as long as you come to visit us, Lightning Child… and don't forget to bring your friend along as well."
Ookami bowed once again and motioned for his companions to move forward. He grabbed Naruto as he began walk forward and kept him at his side. Sasuke soon joined his other side when the boy looked back at them.
"Where exactly are we going to go?" Sirius asked in a soft whisper. He was afraid that if he spoke any louder the women might come for them. "Does the Gate have a specific place that it drops people off at?"
"Do you have the coordinates of the place you want to take us to? I know of the Gates of the places where I've been to and we land there we can proceed from there," Ookami said as they stopped at a floor length oval mirror in front of them. It had a beautifully carved white border with various runes and etchings on it that depicted a battle and men falling prey to the women around them.
Lucius stepped forward and handed him a piece of paper. "These are the coordinates to my home. This is where we are making our headquarters. It is best for you to go there as it is where you will get your new identity and where you will learn more about the Dark Lord's plan as well as Dumbledore's."
Ookami nodded as he looked at the numbers and committed it to memory before he let it burn in a ball of black flames. He walked up to the mirror and blew on it. The mirror immediately frosted over as if it came in contact with a cold wind. Ookami wrote the coordinates on the frosted glass and stepped back as he began to make seals. The surface of the glass changed once again as it showed an image of a huge castle like house surrounded by the side of a forest.
"That's the manor," Lucius said slowly and nodded.
"You should go first…" Ookami said as he nodded to the mirror. "I would hate to have to go first and have one of the women grab you."
As if those had been the magic words Naruto was the first to go through followed by the others. Ookami gave one last look to the room around him to make sure that he wasn't followed and went through the other side. Once on the other side he looked at the blue swirl that made the Gate and swiftly closed it with a seal and looked around him. They were on a side of the forest that couldn't be seen by the mirror Gate and they were staring at the manor not that far from where they were but still far enough that they would have to walk a while to get to it.
"Welcome to the Malfoy Estate," Lucius said with a smile as he whistled and a horse drawn carriage appeared out of the forest.