An Intertwined Spiral

Chapter 4

Naruto and Sasuke glanced at each other. The blonde sighed, "You all may want to sit down. This is going to be a long explanation. And everything you're about to hear is completely true."

"We were remembering our past life."

Disbelieving silence followed those words. "Surely you're joking?" Percy asked stiffly. Naruto sighed and sat down. "No. In that time, we weren't wizards but we weren't muggles either." He cast a glance at Sasuke who had no expression. "We were shinobi, or in English; ninja."

Ron started to grin. "You mean like dressing all in black and sneaking around during the dead of night?" Naruto laughed," No, not exactly." He turned to Sasuke. "I think you should start at the beginning since I don't know everything."

Mr. Malfoy stood angrily. "Why must we sit here and listen to this nonsense?" He asked arrogantly. Sasuke gave him a cold glare. "You shouldn't declare something as nonsense if you haven't heard it." He closed his eyes. "It started about eighty years before Naruto and I were born."

"The countries were torn with war. Clans' trained in combat were hired to defend other clans and out of these two were the strongest. The Uchiha and the Senju. They were rivals, constantly fighting neither yielding. Finally, after years of strife a truce was made. Madara Uchiha, head of the clan didn't like the idea but went along with it for the sake of his people."

"Both clans made an agreement with the Fire Country, as well as the other countries. They would live together in a hidden village to protect it. The village was named Konoha. Everything was fine until the decision of who should be leader of the village, the Hokage. Everyone decided that Hashirama, the Senju leader would take on the title. Madara was resented that and was convinced that Hashirama would abolish the Uchiha reputation. Madara tried to rouse the other Uchiha into rebelling but they were tired of fighting."

Sasuke paused, and Dumbledore waved his wand and a glass of water appeared in front of Sasuke. He took it gratefully, as he wasn't used to talking this much. Setting it down he leaned back.

"Madara left the village and challenged Hashirama. They fought a great battle, but Madara was defeated and was thought dead. People honored that fight and built two statues of both of them and named the place of the fight the Valley of the End. When Hashirama's younger brother gained the Hokage title, he made the Uchiha the police force. They're like the Aurors." He added seeing everyone's confused faces.

"After some years, the Uchiha began to realize that Madara was right in that the Senju were still distrustful of the other clan. By that time the Uchiha Clan had lost all its power and was reduced to being the Senju's dogs." Sasuke looked at Naruto. "You're part now."

Naruto sighed and began. "Then tragedy struck. The Kyuubi no Kitsune attacked Konoha. Kyuubi is a fox demon, the strongest of all the demons. Lots of people died trying to fight him. By now the Hokage title had passed to Namikaze Minato. He knew that there was no possible way to kill a demon with that much power, so he did the next best thing at a terrible price. Giving up his life he sealed Kyuubi inside a newborn baby." Naruto broke off, his bangs covering his eyes. "I was that baby. Minato was my father."

He didn't look up; he didn't want to see their reactions. He knew that it was irrational but was scared that his family would be disgusted with him as the villagers were.

"So you were possessed by a demon?" Draco asked faintly. Naruto shook his head. "No, Kyuubi couldn't interfere with me. If I was running low on chakra -or energy in other words- I could draw out its power. But if I drew out too much I would lose control."

"That's so cool!" Fred and George exclaimed excitedly. Naruto jerked up in surprise. He never got that reaction before. The twins were grinning at him, making Naruto smile back.

"Dope, were you expecting to be shunned again?" Sasuke murmured to him. Naruto shrugged. The brunet shook his head. "It won't be like last time, I'll promise you that." Naruto stared at him in shock for a moment before he beamed.

"This is touching, though we are getting off topic." Dumbledore said kindly his eyes sweeping over the lost expressions of the families.

"Oh, right." Naruto said sheepishly. Sasuke's face turned grim as he picked up where Naruto left off. "Like I had said, the Uchiha had realized what had happened to their clan. They planned a coup e'tat, my parents being the ringleaders. They used my older brother as a spy to gather information from the council of the elders. I was the only one who didn't know of the plan since I was just a child."

"But what no one guessed was that my brother Itachi was a double agent for the council. They gave him the order to eliminate the threat by killing the Uchiha Clan." Sasuke gripped the armrest tightly. Naruto saw him shaking slightly, and reached out and placed a hand on his friends arm.

Sasuke looked up and their eyes met. Naruto couldn't breathe or look away, forgetting that there an audience.

Someone coughed and they snapped back to reality. Naruto's cheeks felt uncomfortably warm as he withdrew his hand.

Sasuke drew in a breath. "Itachi did was he was ordered to and killed our family. For some reason he couldn't kill me. He told me that he was testing his power and made me become an avenger."

Naruto took over for him, glancing at him worriedly. "Nothing big happening until we were twelve. We graduated from the Academy and became Genin. Genin were always assigned to a three-man team. In our age group there was three teams. Ours was called Team 7. It was me, Sasuke and a girl called Sakura. The others were Team 8, Hinata, Kiba and Shino. Team 10 was Shikamaru, Ino and Chouji. Oh and there was Team Gai too, who was Neji, Tenten and Lee, but they were a year older than us."

"Anyway, a long story short we met our teacher Kakashi, who was lazy, continually late and a pervert. He trained us for a long time until the Chuunin Exams rolled around. And that's when life started getting really complicated." He sighed.

"The exams are a big event and genin from all the countries come to participate. That's when we met the Sand Siblings." Naruto smiled, remembering how much Garaa had changed after fighting with him. "Their names were Garaa, Kankuro and Temari. Garaa was the leader of their group, though he was the youngest."

"He was also a homicidal psychopath." Sasuke muttered. Naruto glared at him. "That wasn't his fault! It was because of his bastard of a father." He smirked at his friend. "And you're just mad because he kicked your ass." Sasuke 'hn'ed in response and smirked back as Mrs. Weasley told Naruto off for swearing.

Naruto crossed his arms with a sour face. "We didn't know at the time but Garaa was the same as me. He was the vessel of the Ichib,the one-tailed demon. Unfortunately, he had a really traumatic childhood where his own family tried killing him and it basically made him insane." He said sadly.

"Also, now was when he came into the picture." Naruto spat out, glaring at the wall. Sasuke rolled his eyes at the angry blonde. The brunet started talking.

"An enemy of the village had used the exams to infiltrate the village. His name was Orochimaru." Naruto suddenly laughed. Everyone started at him. He shook his head, "Hey now that I think about it, doesn't Orochimaru seem a lot like You-Know-who?" He looked at everyone's shocked expressions.

"No seriously. Both have a thing with snakes, and have practically the whole world hating and fearing them and wanting them dead." Sasuke gave a long suffered sigh. "Orochimaru was originally from Konoha but had left when denied the Hokage title."

"No one knew it was an invasion until the second part of the exams. We had to go into the Forest of Death to fight other teams and gain scrolls. That's when he found us." Sasuke broke off. Naruto stayed silent, he knew that Sasuke had to tell this part. Sasuke's voice was subdued as he continued talking.

"We tried to fight him off but we lost. He… placed a curse seal on me."

"A curse seal? I've never heard of something like that being placed on a human." Bill said.

"That's because it wasn't like the seals in this world. It was a small mark on my neck." Sasuke rubbed the spot where it had been. "It would feed my desire for revenge as well giving me power, making me rely on it more and more."

Naruto sensed that Sasuke wouldn't say anymore about it and hurried to change the topic. "The last part of the exam was to fight each other one on one. The names were randomly drawn to decide on the opponents. We were given one month to train to get stronger. A lot happened in that month. For me I went and trained with Ero-Senin."

"Arrow-San-in?" Ron tried to pronounce it.

"He means Jiraya. He's one of the three legendary senin, the other being Orochimaru and Tsunade. Tsunade became the Hokage a few years after the exams." Sasuke explained boredly. Naruto snickered, "When you say it like that, you make him actually sound cool." He looked over at the others.

"He really was a pervert who spied on girls in the baths wrote the porn books that Kaka-sensei always read."

"Didja have a look at them?" Fred grinned, seeming not to notice his parents giving him dirty looks. Naruto snorted. "Not by choice. Ero-Senin forced me to proof read them. If I had the chance I would burn them."

Sasuke smirked but turned serious. "I need to say this now. I'm not proud of some of the choices I made. You have no idea how much I wish I could change the past." He said quietly, pain evident in his voice.

Mr. Malfoy gave him a disgusted look which Sasuke promptly ignored.

"While everyone was training, Orochimaru killed the Hokage though not before the Sandaime damaged Orochimaru's arms. When this was taking place, The Sound Five who were Orochimaru's servants were ordered to find me. He wanted to make me his new vessel. He would move from body to body to gain more power."

There was revulsion on everyone's faces at that. Sasuke ignored them.

"The Sound Five found me and told me that Orochimaru would give me power to avenge my clan. I agreed and left the village with the." He finished, his face curiously blank.

Glancing at him from the corner of his eye Naruto spoke. "I found out that Sasuke left so I went after him with some of our friends, which were Shikamaru, Kiba, Neji and Chouji. We fought the Sound Five and got Sasuke back." Naruto crossed his arms. "Of course, someone snuck out of the village again." He gave Sasuke a flat stare, which the dark haired boy seemed not to notice.

"I followed him and we fought, ironically in the Valley of The End." He smiled ruefully. "We completely destroyed the valley. I know I passed out near the end and I woke up in the hospital. For the next three years we didn't see each other. I went on a trip with Ero-Senin to train and came back to the village after two and a half years."

Sasuke nodded. "These three years were important. While I had no intention of actually becoming Orochimaru's vessel, I pretended I did so I could learn as much as I could from him."

"Right." Naruto said. "Not only was Orochimaru a problem, an organization called Akatsuki was becoming a threat. They were collecting al the tailed beasts for the whole 'take-over-the-world-' scheme." Naruto air quoted. "Near the end of the three years they actually kidnapped Garaa. By this time Garaa had a complete turn-around and was the leader of his village, and was a pretty good one too."

"When we got the news that Garaa was gone, Sakura, Kaka-sensei and I went after him. We did rescue him and killed one of the Akatsuki members. They had extracted the demon from him." Naruto clenched his fist.

Dumbledore raised a hand, to stop Naruto. "How do you extract a demon from its vessel?" He inquired.

Naruto sighed. "I don't know how exactly the process goes but it takes three days to complete and it's very painful for the host. And… the host doesn't survive the extraction."

"Wait, so wouldn't this Garaa guy have died?" Draco spoke up suddenly.

"He did, though we had met up with one of the Sand's elders Chiyo baa-chan. She actually happened to be the grandmother of the Akatsuki member that we killed. She used a technique that only she knew to transfer her life to Garaa, bring him back to life." Naruto explained, full of sadness for the lady's loss.

Sasuke broken in. "This is around the time that I killed Orochimaru and gathered up Karin, Sugetsu and Juugo. We wandered around for a time and killed another from the Akatsuki. There was a lot of confusion for a while but I had met up with Itachi and I killed him."

He paused, his brows furrowed. "I passed out after I killed him from exhaustion and when I woke up Madara had taken me to a cave and had treated my wounds. He told me the truth of our clan, though I don't know why he did but he was right. Madara had survived the fight with Hashirama and founded the Akatsuki." Sasuke said bitterly.

"But, how on earth did he live for that long?" Mrs. Weasley interjected. Naruto and Sasuke shrugged, "Dunno, we never found out. But he looked like he was like twenty."

Naruto thought for a moment. "About this time we were all running around the country. Two more Akatsuki killed our friend's teacher and we went after them. We killed one and Shikamaru buried the other alive since that one was immortal."

"Immortal?" Dumbledore asked, his eyebrow raised.

"Yeah, no idea how he did it but he couldn't die." Naruto said. "After that I found Sasuke again and convinced him to ditch his new team and come home."

Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "Convinced? That's a mild way of putting it." Naruto grinned at him. "It was that or force you to admit that I beat the crap out of you and dragged you home. Now we stayed in the village and trained and became Jounin. Tsunade had become Hokage by now." Naruto's face darkened.

"We got the news that the Akatsuki leader Pein had killed Jiraya. That was just around the time when some ninja from the Village hidden the Clouds decided to break into our village and stole one of the artifacts we had. Tsunade sent us to retrieve it but we underestimated them. We died."

"That's it? You just died?" Ron said in shock. Naruto nodded, glaring at the floor. Fred shook his head.

"That's just…"

"So disappointing." George finished.

"Tell me about it." Naruto said sourly. "But Kyuubi didn't want to die yet. Just after we died he used his power to send our souls here. When we collapsed, it was because Kyuubi was unlocking our memories."

"Are we quite finished here?" Mr. Malfoy asked, his eyes wandering over everyone disdainfully. Dumbledore looked over at Naruto and Sasuke.

"Are we?"

When they nodded he stood. "I'm glad you boys decided to tell us this story. Though I must tell you this;" He looked at them over his half moon glasses. "What happened in the past should not effect you now. Concentrate on the future, not the past." He gazed at them for a moment longer.

Naruto felt whole heartily that Dumbledore was wrong but nodded. He knew that Sasuke felt the same. The past should not be forgotten.

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Naruto, Sasuke, Draco, the twins, Ron and Percy headed for the Great Hall. It was dinner and they were starving. Naruto inwardly winced as they got strange looks from passing people.

"Well, what do you expect? You and the Uchiha brat collapse, disappear for days on end and then appear with all your brother and both Malfoys when you're suppose to hate each other." Kyuubi said lazily from within Naruto's mind.

'Kyuubi?'

"What?"

'Shut up.'

While they ate Harry and Hermione pestered them to tell where they've been. Ron looked at him pleadingly. Naruto leaned in to them. "Tell them later in private. I don't want it to go spreading around the school."

When they finished, all the Weasleys, Harry and Hermione headed to Gryffindor Tower. Sasuke caught up to Naruto. Grabbing his arm, he muttered quietly; "I need to talk to you tomorrow. Meet me at the clock tower after the last class." He let go and went on his way.

"What did he say?" Ron asked as he watched Sasuke go to the dungeons. Naruto shrugged. "He wants to talk tomorrow."

Fred and George gave him identical grins. He looked at them weirdly. "What?"

"It seems like you two have something going on, dear little brother." They said, snickering as Naruto blushed and spluttered.

"I-I don't know what you're talking about!" Naruto stuttered. Harry and Hermione looked completely lost.

"Um, why would Naruto have a relationship with a Malfoy?" Harry asked, confusion writing over his face. Percy cut in his face sever. "Exactly and let alone a boy. Naruto wouldn't do that, so stop making up lies." He told off the twins.

Naruto felt uncomfortable, so he changed the topic to something that had been worrying him. "Hey, I need to ask you guys this. Do you… think anything less of me?" He asked not looking at them. He didn't want his family and friends to treat him differently.

"What? Because of what you told us?" Ron laughed.

"Nah, you're still our little brother," Fred and George flung an arm around Naruto's shoulders. "Demon vessel and ninjaness included."

Harry and Hermione looked at each other and then to Weasleys.

"Just what the hell is going on?!"

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