I had a lot more free time on my hands this half of the week. Three big projects done, and one exam under the belt, means a lull in school activities and more time to spend on my two stories. To be clear, I'm alternating between the two now, typing one chapter each. I'm no longer preparing blocks of chapters at once, although I am researching blocks of original content to convert into my crossover.

I thought up a third and fourth crossover I can make! If I can think of a good, detailed plotline for both, I'll post a poll about them. But for the next few days, they'll only be in the 'storyboard' stage.

Believe it or not, about half of this chapter wasn't originally planned to be there. Like Naruto squealing to McGonagall about his Sickness Jutsu, I hadn't planned this scene all out, but my fingers kept typing and I followed them. Even I was surprised at how well it resulted and filled out this chapter! If I didn't have it, I'd end up with either a chapter and a half of plotline content, and I don't like having only half a chapter. Also, I'm not entirely sure how said half will fill out later in the story, but I have a couple plans for it.

Thanks for the fix Tonyrocks345!

After breakfast, Naruto saw Harry head outside with a letter. Naruto was puzzled by this, and decided to join him. Naruto caught up when they reached the entrance to the castle. "Gooooooood Morning Harry! Who's the letter for?"

"Morning Naruto," Harry greeting with a small yawn. "I've got a letter for Snuffles."

"Oh," Naruto said, then made sure the coast was clear. "What's in it? I hope you have it in code. A letter for Sirius could be snatched and read."

"I actually did," Harry boasted quietly. "I told him how cheerful this week has been," Naruto got a grin at this, "told him Umbridge is as nice as his mum," Naruto started chuckling, "told him about... something that happened in Detention, and asked him where our biggest friend is."

Naruto calmed down from his laughter at the last two. He quickly put on the puppy eyes. "Biggest friend? Harry, have you replaced me, Hermione, and Ron already?"

"No! That's not what I meant! I was talking about Hagrid! He's 8 and a half feet tall!" Harry tried to assure Naruto.

When Harry tried to console the normally cheerful blond, Naruto broke into laughter, not believing Harry fell for it. Quickly realizing he was duped, Harry gave him a punch in the shoulder. Naruto, being a buff Ninja, didn't feel it, but acted it up to make Harry feel better about himself, as well as tease him a little. "So, who's Hagrid? I heard you ask about him to Professor Grubbly-Plank."

"He was the first Wizard I met. He took me away from the Dursleys my First Year, all the way up to King's Cross Station. He's the normal Care of Magical Creatures teacher, and cares for all manner of creatures, tame or not. He actually adores many of the more dangerous ones, and has only said something negative about the Hungarian Horntail."

Remembering the supposedly 'tiny' Horntail skeleton he saw last year, as well as the description in 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them', Naruto couldn't help but shudder. "Wow. He's determined to care for magical creatures! Wait, what's the thing that happened in Detention? It wasn't your hand, was it?"

"... No, it wasn't," Harry admitted. If Naruto was trustworthy, he might as well know. Besides, better if he hear it from Harry than Malfoy. "Whenever Voldemort is close, or emotional, my scar reacts painfully. When Voldemort touches me, the pain's too much. I felt something similar when Umbridge touched me."

"Painful scar?" Naruto pondered. That sounds familiar... but where do I know it from? "She couldn't be a Death Eater. I saw some Death Eater forearms during the graveyard skirmish, and they all had a Skull and Snake mark. She doesn't have it, we saw her forearms in class yesterday, so she can't be one of them."

"Well, what about possession?" Harry pressed. "I felt my scar when Voldemort was just a spirit and attached himself to Professor Quirrel's mind. He wore a turban to hide Voldemort's face on the back of his head."

"But doesn't he have a body now?" Naruto remembered. "If he was possessing Umbridge, what would happen to his body? I doubt Voldy would make himself vulnerable like that. And if he transferred all of himself into Umbridge, or was Umbridge... well that'd explain why she's so rotund." That got Harry to laugh. "But your scar would hurt all the time she's around, not just when she touched you."

They would have pondered the scar problem further, but they had reached the Owlery. Harry gave the letter to Hedwig before Naruto suggested to go undercover with another owl. A white Snowy Owl would stand out, after all. Soon after the letter was sent, Harry and Naruto stared out the windows, watching the sunrise and the flying Thestrals. "So Harry, are you going to squeal on Umbridge?"

Harry was quite for awhile. "No. That's what she wants."

"Come on Harry!" Naruto said, giving him another rap to the head. "She wants to dominate you! She either a Ministry lady who wants to prove you're an attention-seeking boy that's crazy about Voldy, or she is on Moldy-wart's side and wants you worn down and isolated from your friends. Do you want to give her either of those satisfactions?"

Before Harry could respond, the door to the Owlery opened. "Oh! Hello Harry! ... You're Naruto, right?" An Oriental-looking girl walked in, holding a package. "I'm Cho Chang."

"Hello!" Naruto greeted.

"... Hi," Harry said nervously. Even Naruto could tell Harry had a crush. But what confused Naruto was that Ginny seemed to have deeper feelings for Harry during his stay in Grimmauld Place. Why didn't Harry notice Ginny? Is he that blind? I'd notice if somebody from Konoha has similar feelings towards me, believe it!

After Harry's awkward greeting, Naruto spoke up. "So, Cho, why are you up here early?"

"I have a parcel for my mum. It's her birthday today. I hope the owl can carry this to her before tonight." She found a large barn owl and coaxed it down for the package.

"Nice day!" Harry all but blurted out, waving his arm towards the window. Is this what I look like around Sakura? Naruto wondered. No wonder she doesn't accept anything I tell her!

"Yeah, it is," Cho, kind and forgiving, answered. She's like Hinata, but not so shy. Then again, from what Fred and George told me, Ginny was much like shy Hinata for her first two years of Hogwarts, even getting sick when she was around Harry. "It makes me want to fly on my broom, it's perfect for Quidditch," she told Harry, placing the package on the owl's leg. "Did Gryffindor get a new Keeper?"

"Yeah. Ron."

"The Tornado-Hater?"

"Ron's just stubborn," Naruto tried to defend him. "He told me that many people are becoming fans because they won the world series a few times. If he had seen you wear that badge before, he may have acted differently."

"Well, how did his tryouts go Harry?" Naruto could now tell she felt something for Harry, but it was mixed, almost confused. Does she like him or not? Is this why she's acting shy?

"I don't know. I was in detention. With Umbridge."

That name made Cho cringe. "Yeah. The whole school's talking about it. You were brave, telling her the truth about how... how... he died." 'Emphasis on 'he',' Naruto noted. 'Is this why she's confused? What was her relationship to... oh what's his name... Cedric?'

Naruto could tell that Harry was going to make a move. However, the Owlery door banged open and someone got into Harry's face! "Aha! She was right! Where is it?"

"Where's... wha?" Harry stammered.

"The order slip for dungbombs!"

"Dungbombs? Really?" Naruto was shocked. "They actually make exploding orbs of dung? That's something I wouldn't even expect Fred and George to stoop down to!"

"Who this 'she' who told you I was ordering Dungbombs?"

"Never you mind!" Filtch snapped.

"Oh Harry," Naruto said, with a bit of anger in his voice and face, "U should know who was this Bridge of information!" Those not so subtle clues passed over Filtch's head, but the other two students caught on to Naruto's meaning. Naruto then turned to Filtch. "I saw the letter. It's not an order for anything. Not even for Potion ingredients!"

"How do I know you aren't lying to me?" Filtch asked. "You're worse than those Weasley Twins, and it's only been one week! Am I really supposed to believe you wouldn't order an item like that for a prank?" He then turned to Harry. "Turn out your pockets! I want to see that order form!"

"He doesn't have it," Cho spoke up, more confident. "I saw him send it off. And Naruto didn't have any interest in the letter before it was sent, so it couldn't have anything for him."

Grumbling at the loss of his prey, Filtch turned back to the door. "If I smell even a whiff of a dungbomb..." was all they heard before the door was slammed shut.

"Thank you," Naruto and Harry thanked their savior.

"Not a problem," Cho told the boys, focusing more on Harry. "You weren't... really ordering dungbombs, right?"

"Didn't you hear me?" Naruto asked her. "The letter wasn't an order for anything!"

"Then why did he believe that?"

"Because that's what somebody else told him," Naruto spoke up. "I think we all know who the source of information was." Both students nodded. "How about this Harry? I send out the letters from now on. The Ministry, and Umbridge, are watching you more than me, and I'm less likely to get accosted like that."

"Even after that prank you did to the Weasley Twins?" Cho asked.

"OK, I don't have a perfect student record," Naruto admitted, hand rubbing the back of his head, "but at least I'm not seen as a big threat yet." With those words, the three houses went their three ways.

Naruto was walking alongside the lake when he came to a peaceful cove. Since he had caught up on homework, he decided to use some Shadow Clones to make a dock and a boathouse to relax in. Besides, at the rate some of the students were progressing in chakra class, they may need a place to practice water walking within the month, and a dock house with a four foot enclosed pool would be helpful. While working, something approached him from deeper waters. At first he was defensive about the creature approaching, but it soon turned out to be the mermaid girl he would wave to. "Oh, hello there! You startled me for a second."

"Curious; those who speak the Mermish Tongue, you are among?"

Naruto was at first confused by her sentence structure. Then, he realized she must be speaking in her native language. His translation abilities applied to other beings here as well! "Uh, yes I am! But I didn't know I can speak your language."

"Confusing; you are one who speaks, but does not know? Wondering; a descendant of Water People, are you?"

"Uh, no. I'm not a fish person. But I know one who lived among humans. But she spoke Japanese, not the language of the Mermaids."

"Interesting; this person of water, living on land." She then gestured to the logs sticking out of the water. "Wondering; why the land plants, placed like so?"

"What am I doing with them?" Naruto clarified. The mermaid gave a couple clicks he took for a yes. "I want to make a wooden path and a small house out here. Myself and other students can use a little pool in the house to practice walking on water, and the Care of Magical Creatures teacher can let students see water creatures in the pool."

"Interesting; not-so-deep water place and dry place, so close together. Together; me of the Water People and you of the Land People, can we be? Open; the not-so-deep water and the lake, a path will be?"

"Maybe. I can make a door to the lake as well as the dock. We can meet once every seven days here, when the small house is done."

"Desire; knowledge of land people; I want told. Good; the covered shelter as learning-place, can be. Assistant; myself below the air-place, can be?"

"Sure! You can dig holes for the logs where I tell you and help me lower them in. Oh! Do you have a name?"

"Identify; my self and Syrena, are one."

"My name's Naruto. Syrena, let's get to work on this wooden dock!" While Shadow Clones were cutting down trees and shaping them via magic, the two were placing the cut logs underwater.

When Syrena first saw the clones approach with the first pair of support beams, she was first startled. "Fearful; other Naruto selves, but not him!"

"No no! Those are just Shadow Clones. I can split myself between many bodies."

"Interesting; other selves; but all one. Different; kind Naruto and deceiving wizards, very much."

"Deceiving wizards? How so?"

"History; wand-users and Water People, mother taught all. Deceitful; the oppressors of the Water People, fooled our elders. Decided; the Water People and law-keepers of wizards, to separate. Confusing; the laws and customs of wizards, they are."

"You've got that right!" Naruto praised her people's point of view of the Ministry's counter-productive laws. "I don't like wizard law either. In my country, any creature that is intelligent, peaceful, and can communicate with humans is accepted and respected. Sure, they may not always count as citizens, but at least they have some rights to live around and interact with humans! Here, wizards and those born to a family without magic aren't treated as equals, and some creatures are enslaved."

"Wonderful; the ideas of your people, they are. Possible, our people and your waters, be united?"

"Well, my village doesn't have a lake nearby. But nearby villages have lakes and oceans. Maybe you guys can move there, or there are Water People already living there."

After another hour or two, Syrena and Naruto set up most of the support beams for the dock-house. It was then that her father found them. "Worried; my self and the mother of you, we were. What; wand-bearer and daughter of mine, doing together?" He then turned to Naruto. "Stay away from my daughter." His voice became much screechier, and harder to make out. Naruto figured he switched to English to try to make Naruto understand.

"Greetings your Majesty!" Naruto said from atop a stump, adding a Japanese bow to be polite. "Remember me? I saved your daughter from the squid a few days ago! I'm making a little dock and house with a pool. My first reason was to have a place to practice walking on water without being attacked by water creatures." Naruto demonstrated that he could walk on water, surprising the father. "It can also be a place where Water People and creatures can be around humans. "

"Curious; the tongue of the Water People from a young wand-user, being spoken. Worrying; wand-users and Water People, close together."

"Yeah, I probably should have asked your permission before making this out here," Naruto admitted. "The pool will have a door without a lock, so Water People can easily get out, but dumber creatures could be held for a time and allow students to see and learn about them. Is that OK with you?"

The King was surprised, a wand-user asking a Water Person's permission? "Permission; this place of meeting, I give. Both sides; a way in and out, will be?"

"Sure, the pool will have an entrance and exit for both Land People and Water People. I'll show you how it works when Syrena and I finish it."

The King gave a sharp hiss which soon became a soft shriek. If clicks were 'yes', this definitely was a 'no'. "Permission; my daughter here, I no give. Alone; the work and you, will be."

"Why not? Syrena's a friend. I would never hurting her, I promise! Can she continue to help me work? She can come here with you, or with a guard."

"Close; you and my daughter; no can be. Between; a guard of the Water People, must be."

"I agree." The gong in the castle rang out. Naruto had worked all the way to lunch! "I have to go eat with the other students. I'll be back to work in an hour!"

"When; sun begins to set, they will come. Here; a guard and daughter, will be."

Naruto raced off to lunch back in the Great Hall. Pa was at the door, wondering where Naruto was. Apparently, he had wanted some morning training put in. When he heard of the boathouse where they could practice water walking, as well as study underwater creatures, Pa thought it was a good idea. The fountain in the courtyard had a very small and shallow water basin, so they'd need a larger and deeper place to practice. Pa decided to ask Dumbledore if it could be finished. After a few minutes, Pa hopped back to Naruto. Dumbledore gave them permission, but told them to look up a book in the library with Structure and Building Preservation Enchantments.

This morning, something in the paper caught the other Slytherin's attention. Sirius was spotted in London! Since his last sighting was in Tibet, many students were surprised he returned to the wizarding world so fast. They then started to question each other, as to whether or not they should learn how to defend themselves properly. Some Slytherins told the younger and older housemates of Naruto's announcements in the first DADA class, shocking many students who didn't already know about it. They were also curious as to the Summer Dementors, and why nothing was reported about them yet. Many decided to practice defensive spells on their own, during free periods, without Umbridge knowing.

After lunch, Naruto went up to the library. There, he easily found the book Dumbledore told Pa about. It was relatively small, and the spells were obviously pointed out. Book in hand, and scary librarian behind, Naruto descended from the castle with the intent to continue the boathouse. But the fun was on the main staircase of the first floor, right next to the Great Hall.

"Hem hem! What. exactly, are you trying to insinuate?" Naruto recognized that horrible hiccup-cough anywhere. Sure enough, about a third of the way up the stairs, the Pink Horror was talking to another professor.

"Not insinuate, but petition. If you wish to punish students, please conform to disciplinary practices not banned or forbidden by school rules." McGonagall was her argument partner, respectfully standing a step or two below Umbridge so that they were both seeing about eye to eye. At the lower landing, Naruto saw some students gather. Among them was Harry. Naruto waved, and pointed at the arguing teachers. Harry, understanding the question, nodded his head, and received a thumbs up in response.

"This may sound silly..." 'Your voice already does!' Naruto retorted in his mind."...but are you questioning my authority as a teacher, within my own class?" Umbridge took a step up the stairs, to try and become a more imposing figure.

"Not at all, Dolores!" McGonagall stepped onto the same step as Umbridge, becoming the more imposing one. "Merely your medieval methods to discipline, which are done outside of a student's class periods."

"Pardon me," Umbridge stepped up again, "but to question my authority and practices on my own students, is to question the authority of the Ministry, and the Minister himself." Umbrige took two more steps up.

"But here, you are not a member of the Ministry," McGonagall followed Umbridge. "You are merely a teacher the Ministry has forced to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts." McGonagall was on the same footing as Umbridge again. "And as such, work under the authority of the Headmaster, not the government."

"What do you mean by... not under the authority of the government?" 'Ouch.' Naruto thought. 'Professor McGonagall misworded that badly.' "I consider myself a patient person," 'Not really. You practically jumped at a chance to punish Harry!' "but I will never tolerate disloyalty!"

Rather than follow Umbridge up the stairs, McGonagall stepped down, trying to calm the fury of the Ministry plant. "Disloyalty." Little more than a whisper, Naruto sensed this word carried more meaning than what one would normally hear. It was a mixed question, answer, and point of view. It asked for the meaning of disloyalty, and who was disloyal to whom. Her actions told Naruto she was loyal to Dumbledore and the protection of all students. She didn't see the protection and edifying of students as disloyalty, but would do so if said actions were disloyal.

Umbridge, however, didn't pick up on the full meaning of either her actions or her one word. Either that, or she simple misunderstood. "This at Hogwarts are far worse than I feared! Cornelius will want immediate action taken to correct this school!"

Those were parting remarks, and Umbridge strutted off at a pace faster than Naruto would expect from a woman of her berth. McGonagall turned to look at Harry. Naruto couldn't see or hear if anything was conveyed, but she too went up the stairs; to her office or Dumbledore's, Naruto would probably never know. As students remembered what their legs were for, Naruto passed Harry, gave him a small congrats for growing a backbone, and continued down to the lake.

And here we end a chapter again! Sorry I'm not getting into the plot yet. I have many plans for the future, and I want to cover my bases for most of the big ones.

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Blinded in a bolthole: Wizards have a lot of Aura, as well as a chakra spell, making it easier for them to gain chakra. However, their old age makes it hard for them to have the potential for any elemental jutsu included in Fukasaku's book. Once they reach their limits, no amount of chakra charms can increase their chakra network without causing chakra overload. Most of this class should be able to do the basic three and wall walk, and maybe even a Genjutsu or two, but can't do complicated Element Styles and may have trouble water walking for a long period of time.

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Oh and the pointed out point of the killing curse working on NARUTO, I thought it was nature energy, not chakra. So With the chakra depletion, nature energy should still transfer to the original because it isn't chakra. Here, Sage Mode is Mana crudely converted to chakra. It's close enough for the Killing Curse to wipe out.
Just a question, would Veritaserum work on NARUTO? Or would he be able to resist it... Or would he fox counteract it? It's an interesting theory. I'm not sure yet. I think it'll work for a small amount of time, but Naruto would have a hard time resisting after a minute or two of a proper dose. An Aburame, however, could let the bugs digest the truth serum faster than Naruto would recover, even if he wasn't in the Potterverse.
Does NARUTO still have his orange outfit? I know he got given a shirt by dumbledore, but it was my understanding that NARUTO would have scrolls of new clothes, considering all he times it has been ripped and destroyed... Well, Naruto didn't have the clothing scroll when he was brought into the Potterverse... Maybe Pa picked it up during his Diagon Alley studying.
I love the way you used the food analogies in here. I know NARUTO is ALOT smarter than people give him credit for. I find a lot of people make him sound really dumb sometimes. It's annoying because NARUTO is very clever and can strategise and alter plans just as easily as shikamaru when he wants to. Naruto is smart! He just has a brain boost known as Adrenaline.
Just to clarify, all the time spent in the HP world, the NARUTO verse is frozen? Almost. Imagine time is like a river, the upper part of the river is fast and turbulent. Near the river bottom, the water is much slower, allowing the small, weak creatures to maintain their position much more easily. One world can be moving in a faster, higher part of the river, the other near the river bottom, slowly trudging along. Should said worlds manage to connect properly, and not just have jumps, then said worlds will connect like magnets and spin together. However, when they detatch, the spinning may make them move at a different rate when compared to the original pace.
Is it just a preference of NARUTO's to use jutsu as opposed to practicing spells? I just noticed that he isn't using spells... Well, he was raised on chakra, and he may blow up if he accidentally overpowers a spell like he does a regular clone. So of course less magic outside of classes and studying.
And is NARUTO still practicing the rasen- shuriken? Reread Chapter 10, on the train.
There hasn't been much in the elaboration of the motion gathering of nature energy. Pa mentioned something about how NARUTO may be able to figure out a way to gather nature energy while moving. From my understanding; the wand gathers the energy and NARUTO just has to access it? Similar to a solar panel, where it gathers energy but we just have to connect to it? Wand gathering, it's like Pa and Ma with Jiraiya. They stay still and he moves, and uses them to gather energy. Since Mana is magic, and the wand is always motionless, Naruto can use it to draw in Mana for Sage Mode.
You just had to put 'that cat' in, didn't you... That was funny. YOU'RE THE FIRST TO GET THE CAT!
 I was wondering why you were only doing mrs figgs pov, but when it got to the hearing, HA HA HA! NARUTO broke its arm! And NARUTO did the patronus. I also like how you made his patronus a toad. And multicoloured markings! The toads multicolored markings are easily explained. First, the Patronus has the same colors as a Rasengan, which is pure chakra. Kyuubi can be seen like an Anti-Patronus, a being of chakra given form, but with bad feelings and red demon chakra instead of good. Since the Patronus is tied to chakra, and Naruto's chakra is always mixed with Kyuubi's, his Red shows on the Patronus. Reason 2, look up Yu-Gi-Oh!'s Ronintoadin.
I like the way you made Harry upset. And how you got the two to bond. Instead of just jumping in with the story, it flowed very well. Especially when the fox jumped in. I had to copy that and send it to my friend... Feel free to hint at funny parts and plot points. Just don't spoil it or tell them so many details that they don't feel a need to read it themself...
Before I get too into this point, I forgot about the summon. When NARUTO was speaking, was NARUTO speaking in English while Gosuke was speaking in Japanese or was NARUTO speaking in Japanese as well? It would be funny if NARUTO and Pa randomly started talking in Japanese when they were talking about things from home hat they don't want people to know. It would annoy 'certain' people if they did. Naruto speaks Japanese. However, other beings, which speak the culture's primary language, hear it as their main language.
The book was good. I would honestly like to see some of the content of the book. Will you be including any of the chapters? I think I'm including parts of the book throughout the story. I may bring up more parts in Chakra Classes.

To be perfectly honest... I can't find any fault with your presentation of this story. And I haven't even gotten to Hogwarts yet! I love your story and the way you have written it. It is very difficult to find really good crossovers they consistently keep me wanting more and keep me on my toes. I have been known to read deeper and find deeper meanings in the stories I read and discover hidden plot points/twists, things that have been planted to be revealed at later times, etc. I think I've given enough hints to answer 4 foreshadow questions and have one more waiting in the wings for more detail. If you want to hear the questions, or guess the answers, PM me. I will remove any and all hypothetical reviews, or reviews that include theories so as not to leave behind any spoilers, true or completely off!

I like how he was sorted into Slytherin. Everyone likes having him with Harry, but I like it this way. Also this way NARUTO can understand what is happening on the voldy side. Lets face it, malfoy likes to blab. Not when he has the Dark Mark. But yes, he may blab about other things...
When NARUTO spotted the guys putting the Trace on the students, did NARUTO actually get hit or does it wear off him. All NARUTO mentioned was to 'try it it wouldn't work' or something. Continuing from that, do spells work properly against him or do they work normally?Spells work normally, with faster heal times. He got hit, but his birthday is October and it wears off when he turns 17. So, since he's sixteen, and will turn seventeen within two months...
I like that Ron and NARUTO are getting along. And that he is slowly accepting NARUTO. And that despite being a Slytherin, the griffindor's are treating him like he's not a Slytherin. It's cool! It's more like Naruto's a half Slytherin. They don't quite understand why he was put in there, but he's friends and 'triplate' with quite a few Gryffindors, and acts nothing like what they'd expect from a Slyvie.

Peace out!

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