WHEN MR. ANGSTY MET MR. SUNSHINE

'Where to go?' was the thought circulating through his head. Pulling himself together he tried to make a plan, 'not that my plans work a lot', he thought wryly. External problems aside maybe he should find out how he learned the language in an instant. He did not want to repeat that experience again, his had a bloody migraine. Trust it it's not cool to have a whole language shoved in your head. 'It almost seems as if my magic responded but that is not possible. My magic reserve is not that large. Can't be accidental magic, no friendly wizards around to lend him power. So there must be an ambient source of magic around here which lent him his power, now he just had to find out why?

'Maybe it's a worth a try to find the source of the energy'

Usually it took him quite a long time to sink in the meditative state so he walked up to a quiet corner weaving a notice-me-not charm around him. Closing his eyes, he was once again shocked when it took hardly an instant. Shrugging it off he broadened his senses and before he could comprehend he was enveloped by a presence. It was not per say an evil presence but rather lonely. He knew instinctively that whoever he was, he was going mad due to absence of magic. He was going to help, he decided suddenly.

Almost in a trance he walked towards the beacon of signal. As he got closer, he was surprised to feel another presence which was being smothered by the larger presence. Increasing his speed he stumbled upon a scene which made his blood boil. There blocking the entrance of a dirty ally was a huge crowd which seemed to be hurling insults throwing stones at someone trapped at the other end.

It was that someone whom he was searching for, he was sure. Before anyone knew what was happening, he was running through the crowd pushing people right and left.

On reaching the end, he was even more surprised to find a child. A child who was curled up in a fetal position which Harry recognized instantly from his own childhood filled with 'Harry Hunting'.

Standing before the child protectively he raised a defensive barrier before him.

"What the hell are you all doing?" he bellowed angrily. Behind him the child whimpered. Turning slightly he said, in what he hoped to be a soothing voice," Don't worry child I won't let anything happened to you".

"What are you doing you brat? Do you even know who are you trying to protect? It's that demon brat! How dare you even think of protecting that murderer? We are giving you one chance brat back off and maybe we will leave you alone!"

The crowd cheered obviously supporting the fat man in the front who had spoken.

Harry gritted his teeth, that smug attitude was grating on his nerves, making him really angry. That man was reminding him too much of Uncle Vernon, which was never a good thing.

A wave of pure magic blasted the people right off their feet. Harry meanwhile was feeling too satisfied. What he didn't know was that he was emitting a KI on the level of kage, which had the entire shinobi alert searching for the culprit, while the civilians were almost pissing their pants.

It was another whimper that had him snapping out of his rage. He looked behind him to see the child trying to crawl away from him. Crouching down he held out his hand to the kid" Hey little man I am not gonna hurt you. Be brave and take my hand. I have to check if you are injured anywhere"

While he was talking to the kid the crowd had run off leaving him alone with the kid. He was grateful as it would probably relax the kid. The child unwounded looking at him carefully, before deciding that it was safe. He stood up carefully looking at him with his wide cerulean colored sparkling eyes, measuring him and then suddenly, he pounced on Harry. Harry being the malnourished skeleton he was fell back on his skinny ass as his arms were suddenly full of an excited squirming starfish.

" Ne ne zombie man you awwe so awesum. Can you teach me how to do that? Awwe you a ninja? Do you wowwk foww jiji? Will you be my niisan? Can you teach me to be so awesum? I wwuv you!" he said squeezing poor Harry for all he was worth.

Dazed, Harry was trying to understand what was happening. Sitting up he got his first look at the child in his arms. The first thing he noticed was the blond hair, not like Malfoy's pale white blond, but rather vibrant rivaling the color of sun itself. He was quite short, if harry had to guess he would say that the kid was around three and a half. He was wearing what could be said rags in barest sense of words. Despite his rather baggy clothes he looked worryingly malnourished. But the most eye catching things about him were the whisker like marks adorning his face, which Harry could admit made him really really cute.

'He reminds me of a really exuberant and adorable puppy ', he thought to himself.

Out aloud he said," Calm down squirt, one question at a time. Now tell me if you are hurt anywhere? "

"No zombie man you stopped them and me a big and stwwong boy. I aint huwwt. I-"

"What did you call me squirt, I am not a zombie. My name is Harry, Harry Potter."

" Hawwi Pottewu? You have a wiewd name zombie man, I like zombie bettew . And the names Uzumaki Nawwuto, not sqe-squ-wateveww you called", puffing out his cheeks quite dramatically.

The last part was shouted so loudly that Harry felt his eardrums ringing. Really someone needed to teach this child the concept of indoor voice. Though with the puffed cheeks he looked like a really cuddly chipmunk.

'Did I just think of him as cuddly? Well there goes my masculinity', he thought ruefully.

"Okay listen here squirt lets return you to your parents and have you looked after for your injuries. Now tell me where you live and where is the hospital".

Although the child looked fine no blood visible but he could not rule out the possibility of internal injury. 'And I need to find just who the hell his guardian is'. He was quite concerned about the 'tenant' he could feel as well. 'Now that I think about it the presence seems to have retreated as if ..Sleeping? No it almost seems to be …basking my presence, which is all in all- disturbing. I need to get to the bottom of this mess. One living being trapped in another, it seems like possession or heaven forbid horcrux. 'He shivered, he really didn't want to deal with another anytime soon especially with one of such strong presence. 'Maybe these people know, I don't see another reason to beat a child so mercilessly. Honestly what are they thinking of achieving, it will only aggravate the being more. Chh ..idiots.'

Snapping out of his thoughts he looked down at the child which suddenly seemed a lot less enthusiastic

"Me have no one. The mean lady kicked me out of the house. Told me that I am a monster and demon, that I will huww otheww kids. I pwwomise zombie man I no huwwt anybody." He was again clinging to Harry with all his strength, looking up at Harry with his eyes round and wide.

'Merlin Pants are these people blind, how can they not see that he is just a child. Idiot, incompetent arseholes'

"Don't worry squirt I know a midget like you could not hurt anybody", he said smiling. The effect was instantaneous. His cheeks puffed and he squinted at him, folding his hands across his tiny chest before declaring loudly "I AIN't A MIDGET BAKA ZOMBIE-SAN"

"Yes yes midget now climb up and let's find to something to eat something, you hungry?" Just then a loud rumble was heard. 'Well that answers my question. Man that rumble, reminds of a monster, a big fat food monster', he shivered.

"Will you weally pay fow my wamen zombie man? No one except jiji has evew paid fow my wamen", he said quietly looking at him pleadingly. Harry's heart melted, he hoisted Naruto up to his arms carefully and said "Well looks like you have only met idiots till now. Who else will refuse to treat such a strong young boy?"

Naruto beamed and wasn't that a sight, Harry resisted the urge to coo at the chibi. Honestly this bundle of sunshine was turning him into a bloody woman. "Alright now show me where you want to eat and maybe you could tell me about yourself and your jiji. Sounds good to you?"

Naruto cheered and then shyly wrapped his arms around Harry laying his head on his chest. Harry smiled down at the blond walking out of the deserted ally discreetly casting a notice-me-not charm again. He had no idea how this weird world worked and he was not going to risk his or his charge's safety unnecessarily. That was actually a good thing as at the moment as all of the shinobi were searching through the village discreetly but thoroughly, trying to find the ninja who had caused the disturbance.

He held the chibi protectively wrapped in his arms. 'He is far too trusting of strangers, he accepted him so easily. He seems so attention starved; I will have to do something about it. Where the heck is his guardian? He should know better to leave Naruto alone especially if everyone is aware of his condition. What if he also abuses him? But Naruto had seemed genuinely happy when he talked about his jiji. Maybe I should just observe for a while before making assumptions.'

Glancing down he was surprised to see that Naruto was looking very scared. "Hey squirt whats the problem? The great Hawwy Pottewu is here, so why do you fear?" . Internally he winced, 'That was too sappy Potter, control yourself.'

"Zombie man something wong", he was clutching Harry's shirt tightly, "No one is stawing at me with meany eyes." He lowered his eyes as if telling a big secret, "Evewwyone is always stawing with meany eyes, always always.

Harry gritted his teeth, 'I am so going to get to the bottom of this', he vowed.

A/N.. I know Naruto comes off as too clingy but let's face it he is a 5 year old abused child. They have a tendency to cling to their rescuer.

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