Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or anything that has to do with it.

Warning: Yaoi, violence, swearing/cussing (mostly from a certain demon), and other random stuff.

Don't really know what to say about this chapter...it's kind a filler...a very long filler, yet full of excitment...well hopefully. It's freezing cold here in Britian now, at least the heater is working here now, or it would be like last winter were I actually took refuge under my covers. Ah, college is really going to kill me soon...Oh well enjoy this super long chapter!

Chapter 20: Lil Uchiha's big Adventure!

Naruto wearily walked back into his room; he was exhausted and tired, a small nap would make it all better he thought. So he took off his boots and vest and just slumped over the bed, not even caring to crawl under the covers.

The sun was already starting to peak over the horizon, and soon his room was bathed in an orange glow, it was serene and quite, so cal-

'BANG!'

"NARUTO!"

Naruto yelped and fell out of his bed landing hard against the stony floor. He groaned out in pain massaging his bruised backside. Pink hair peaked out from the top of his bed. Naruto looked up to see Sakura looking down at him apologetically.

"What is it Sakura?" He asked as he stood up. The kunoichi instantly perked up, and grinned at the blonde.

"You wouldn't believe it Naruto but Sasuke spoke his first words today!" She said giddily.

"What really?!" Also joining in her excitement. "Where is he, I wanna see!"

She nodded and ran out of the room with Naruto trailing after her, the soon reached the lounge where Sasuke was seated against the couch. He looked at around two years old; his baby clothes were tight around his now grown body. He stared moodily up at everyone else, tiny lips brought together in a cute pout and puffing up his chubby cheeks in irritation.

Naruto tried not to burst out laughing. Sasuke was trying to look intimidating, but he would never manage that in such a small body, especially one that looked so cute!

But it seemed like that Sasuke wasn't the only one angry. Shikamaru looked just indigently towards Sasuke. Gaara looked murderous; he gave death glares towards everyone, and even growled at a sleepy Kiba who had accidently slumped against him, Kiba had the nightshift. Neji, who had shared Kiba's nightshift didn't show it but he was also tired, he was straining to keep his eyes open. And Sai ... Sai surprisingly enough didn't have the usual smile plastered on his face, instead he was scowling at Sasuke. But none of them dared to say no towards the kunoichi, not unless they wanted to meet her fist.

"Look what he can do guys! This morning I woke up, and he was just looking at me and then said my name! It was amazing!" She looked down at Sasuke. "Well go on, say my name." She said urging him on.

Sasuke glared at her, and then gave a weary sigh. "...Sakura..."

"KAWWAIIIIIII!!!!" She squealed out. "Okay, okay, now say Gaara." She said pointing at the disgruntled red head.

"Gaara."

"Now Neji!"

"Neji." He said with bored tone.

"Kiba."

"Kiba."

"Shikamaru."

"Shikamaru..."

"So cute! Okay now say Naruto."

Sasuke then turned his gaze towards the blonde; a sinister smile seemed to form across his chubby face. Was a toddler even able to smirk? Maybe it another Uchiha thing.

Either way, Sasuke was smirking at him and said the one thing that made Naruto think that the Uchiha wasn't that cute anymore.

"Dobe."

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Naruto was sitting on the lounge floor with Sasuke sitting in front of him; he was wearing a woolly body-suit, since those were the only clothes that Sasuke was willing to wear. Naruto wanted to dress him up in a furry fox suit, but after the fierce glare directed at him, he changed his mind. At this moment he was trying to get Sasuke to say his name, but no avail.

"C'mon Sasuke say my name properly, its 'Naruto'."

"Dobe."

"C'mon Naruto." He pleaded out.

"Dobe."

"Na-ru-to." He said, pronouncing each syllable.

"Do-be."

"Teme, the syllables don't even fit, stop being so mean to me!" He whined.

"Dobe."

"Argh! I give up." He screamed out in frustration. at that moment Gaara walked into the room and Naruto turned to look at him.

"Gaara can you look after the teme for a while? He is starting to give me a headache." He said standing up.

"Well..." But the red head never got to finish his sentence, since Naruto rushed past him with a quick 'thank you', leaving Gaara alone with Sasuke.

"..." They stared at each other for a while. Gaara never looked after kids, he was never a people person, so how would he deal with a toddler?

"Alright then Uchiha, if you can manage to stay there and not cause me any trouble, I won't bring this whole situation ever up again when you're older, deal?"

Sasuke gave a curt nod as a reply, Gaara nodded back and sat down on the overstuffed chair, he picked up a near by book and started reading it. Just at that moment Neji decided to walk into the room, passed Gaara, and go into his own room. The red head looked up, teal eyes glittering in an unusual light, he put his book down and then looked down at Sasuke.

"Stay." He commanded the little toddler and then followed Neji into his bedroom.

Sasuke glared at the red head, puffing his cheeks up in irritation. The toddler sighed and looked around the lounge. He hated being so damn small, everything else was so big, he could hardly reach for anything, he still stumbled when he walked and he could hardly talk; although riling up the dobe was always fun.

Sasuke used the couch to stand up and walked towards the portrait hole, he had to get out. Okay sure, Gaara had told him not to leave, but he was going to die of boredom just sitting here doing nothing. Little fingers pried around the edge of the frame pulling against it, it opened and he took a tentative step outside.

The halls looked overbearing, high ceilings, grotesque cravings of gargoyles, and unknown shadows that concealed and hid so many things. Yet he was just too curious, it seemed like his childhood instincts of exploring were coming out, and who was he to deny them?

A grin spread across his face and he started walking through the enchanted hallways.

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"WAAAAAAAA! That teme, I know that he can speak, so why does he keep doing that?!" Naruto screamed out, he was ready to rip his hair out in frustration.

"Just a few more days, just a few more...then he'll be back to being his bastard self..." He wanted to scoff at that comment, how was this behaviour any different to when he was older?

Naruto looked up, it was still early, and most of the students were still at breakfast, so the place was quite. It was times like this that he enjoyed the peace and quite, so he walked through the open field, humming a tune to himself. Then sitting by the lake sat he saw a figure with silvery blonde hair, he smiled to himself and started walking towards him.

"What are you doing out here, Draco Malfoy?"

The blonde looked up, startled by seeing the guard smiling cheekily at him; he almost dropped his toast when he saw him.

"Erm...well...er..."

Naruto almost laughed at the flabbergasted expression that the younger man held, instead he just suppressed a giggle and sat down beside Draco.

"So how are things between you and Harry?" Draco went beet red and started spluttering, Naruto laughed and ruffled the younger teen's hair.

"I'm guessing it's going well then!" He said and jumped up, leaving a still blushing Draco behind.

Naruto looked behind himself at the still flustered boy, oh by Kami did he love teasing people!

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Sasuke ambled his way through the halls, until he heard some 'meowing' behind him, he turned around and was met by a very ruffed out cat. Bright lamp like yellow eyes gazed at him with great curiosity; it was almost grey in colour, and so thin that its bones were jutting out from its side.

They kept staring at each, the cat because it was wondering who he was; it had never seen such a small human before, and by her knowledge there were no kids here this young in the school. While Sasuke was wondering why something this ugly was disturbing his day of exploring, he grumbled and reached out towards the cat grabbing it by its whiskers and giving a good tug.

Mrs Norris yowled out in pain and scampered away; Sasuke smirked evilly and continued on his journey. He kept walking till he saw one the classroom doors slightly ajar. He peaked through the slit and saw a small bolding man with shocking white hair, he took his wand and started levitating a few large books behind his desk, all the while muttering thing in a squeaky voice.

"That Umbridge, just because I'm small, ordering me around like that..." The small man huffed.

Sasuke decided that it wasn't important enough to listen to, so he just kept on going ignoring the muttering behind him.

The toddler had climbed one of the many staircases in the castle which ended up leading to another hallway, it always surprised him how large the school was; and how much bigger it was now because of his small size.

Suddenly there was a loud clattering at the other end of the hallway and Sasuke noticed that the suits of armours lining the corridor where falling down one after the other.

'CARSH.' Another suit fell down, the sound amplified by the high ceilings of the hall.

He was thinking of running back as quickly as his little legs could carry him, but something grabbed him by the scruff of his bodysuit effectively stopping his movements. He looked behind him and then noticed the most ridicules dressed looking person in the world. Well that is if that thing was even human.

It was dressed in loud outlandish clothing, which consisted of an orange bowtie, a bright florescent green button up shirt that was covered with frills, stripped red and blue trousers that were tucked into his purple socks.

"Eh, what's a brat like you doing here?"

He dangled Sasuke almost a meter of the ground, his face scrunched up in confusion, and then a wide grin formed on his face.

"A brat you may be, but I wonder how useful you'll be?" He cackled to himself, Sasuke went pale.

What was this thing going to do with him?!

"PEEVES! Let the child go!"

That thing called Peeves 'eeped' in fear and let go of Sasuke who landed hard against the ground, he looked up glaring at the odd thing, while rubbing his sore backside.

"You're Bloodiness!" He squeaked out in surprise.

Sasuke turned around and gasped at what he saw, it was a ghost! This was the first time he ever saw one, it was tall and translucently shimmering grey in colour with tint's of red on his robs. His face was stern and grim and...well...grey. The Bloody Baron floated towards them slowly, he glared at this Peeves creature and then looked down at Sasuke with slight irritation.

"What are you doing now Peeves? Causing trouble again but now with a young child."

"No, of course not Mr Baron. Now why would you think something like that of me?" Peeves replied, acting so innocent by sugar coating his words.

The Bloody Baron scowled in distasted, "Get out of my sight Peeves."

The Poltergeist gave a quick nod, and whizzed away through the halls. The Baron then turned its grey eyes down to him; he crossed his arm and raised a grey eyebrow at Sasuke.

"I should probably report you to the Head..."

'Grouul.' Sasuke blushed and looked down at his stomach; he hadn't eaten anything since breakfast so now he was hungry.

"Hmmm, I guess I should get you something to eat first. I myself have forgotten how it was to be hungry after such a long time of being dead." His voice was hoarse and sent a chill down Sasuke's spine.

"Well come with me then." He said reaching his translucent hands toward Sasuke, but it simply passed through him instantly it felt like he was going under a cold shower and he shivered at the feel.

"Well hurry along." He commanded with an authoritative voice. Sasuke could already tell that this ghost demanded respect, and who was he to deny it especially if the promise of food was on the other side. So he stood up and followed the bloodied ghost.

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Naruto walked towards the Quidditch Pitch, he admired those strange hoops that were attached to polls and wondered how it was played. Sure he had seen some of the practice with brooms that floated above the ground. Chakra may be able to do many extraordinary things, but the way that these wizards used it was just unbelievable.

"Oi, Fox face!" Naruto turned around and saw Kiba, with Akumaru and the ever lazy Shikamaru walking towards him. "What are you doing here, shouldn't you be entertaining Uchiha?"

Naruto puffed his cheeks up in frustration and crossed his arms across his chest, this caused Kiba to burst out laughing; it seemed Sasuke was still calling Naruto a 'dobe'. Naruto glared at Kiba, blue eyes seemed to shift quickly from crimson red to sky blue, if the mutt kept going like that he was going to end up with a bloody nose.

Shikamaru noticing the sudden deadly aura that their blonde captain was emitting decided it was time for him to step in.

"So who is looking after Sasuke now? Is he with Sakura?" Naruto stopped glaring at Kiba and then looked at Shikamaru.

"Na, Sakura is busy trying to learn some of those healing techniques with the nurse, so I made Gaara looked after him."

A sudden silence descended over the trio, even Akumaru went silent when noticed the tension laying the air. Kiba and Shikamaru stared at each other and then looked at Naruto who staring at both of them with confusion. Figures that only Naruto wouldn't see the danger of Gaara looking after Sasuke.

"Erm...Naruto is it such a good idea to let Gaara look after Sasuke?" Kiba asked nervously, Naruto was known for defending the Kazekage quite harshly at times.

"No...why?"

"Well er..." Kiba turned to look at Shikamaru with a pleading gaze. The genius sighed out in exasperation "What Kiba is trying to say Naruto is that the Kazekage isn't the type to usually look after children, so we can't help but wonder if Sasuke would be safe there."

"Oh pfth, Gaara is a complete pussy-cat when you get to know him."

"Naruto we aren't saying that Gaara can't take care of Sasuke. I mean he looks after Suna (although the most of the time the job was dropped on Temari), it's just that Gaara isn't to good with his moods, and dealing with a toddler..."

"Oh please. Gaara wouldn't hurt him!" Naruto replied laughing. "He's a good guy, I mean if he can put up with me, then he can put up with Sasuke."

Both of them had to agree with that, any one who could deal with Naruto had the patients of a God. But it was a well known fact that Sasuke and Gaara weren't on the best of terms, then again Gaara rarely did anything to upset the blonde. Which they guessed would include killing the Uchiha.

So they said their goodbyes to Naruto and left, the blonde watched them go all the time thinking about what his friends had told him.

Sure Gaara could be violent, but most of it was in self defence; but the more he thought about the more weary he go. Not of Gaara suddenly turning rabid or something like that, no it was more along the lines of what Sasuke would do to rile him up.

Naruto cursed Kiba and Shikamaru for making him so paranoid and ran back to the castle.

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Sasuke followed the Bloody Baron till they reached a large painting of a fruit bowl the size of a door; the ghost went through the painting leaving Sasuke behind to wonder if following this ghost was such a good idea. Suddenly the painting swung open and Sasuke had to duck away, as it almost swiped at his head. He hesitantly looked up and his dark eyes widened in amazement.

It was a huge room, at least half the size of the Great Hall with a large heart fire which had a humongous cauldron bubbling away in it. A large counter stretched along all four wall, where piles of vegetables stood ready to be cooked, there was the distinctive banging of pots and pans, knifes whacking against the counter that overtook the room, and the sweet smell of food wafting towards him.

But what Sasuke was most amazed by where the amount of strange creatures 'poofing' from one said of the room to the other. All carrying bowls, or whisks, and any other kitchen utility with them and working away by cooking. The creatures were small, and wore simple chefs clothing others wore something that resembled a maid's outfit, they reminded him of that odd thing that visited him and Naruto yesterday.

"What can we do for you Bloody Ghost Baron sir?" Something squeaked out beside him.

"Not for me little House Elf, but this child is hungry. I need you to feed him and keep him here till I can get the Headmaster."

"Of course your ghostness sir!" The Bloody Baron nodded back and went out of the Kitchen.

Sasuke turned to look back at the house elf. It gave him a toothy grin and with a snap of its leathery bony fingers, a bowl appeared in front of Sasuke, with another snap there was small silver spoon in his hand.

"Enjoy!" It squeaked out and went back to work.

Sasuke looked down at the gruel in his bowl suspiciously, but he was reminded of his hunger once again when his stomach gave a harsh growl. So he dipped his spoon in to the gruel and scooped some into his mouth to taste, and he was delighted.

It tasted better then it looked, it was neither overbearingly sweet nor bitter. The texture was smooth, almost creamy, with a slight hint of peach in the taste. He licked his lips appreciatively and dug in.

After 3 bowls of the peachy gruel he was stuffed full, and looked around the kitchen again, the house elf's had stopped cooking and were now washing up all the dishes, stacks of cutlery zoomed past his head and into cupboards, while others had mops and buckets in their small hands and started cleaning up the floors of any waste and grime.

The toddler was already getting bored of watching them work. He turned back to look at the entrance to the kitchen and noticed that the portrait hole was still open. Using a table, Sasuke managed to prop himself up and walked out of the kitchen, without any of the busy house elf's noticing.

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Naruto burst through the portrait hole; he quickly scanned the room and found no trace of the Uchiha or a certain red head. Panic spread through. Where the hell could they be?!

"There is someone in the Hyuuga's room." Kyuubi's voice boomed through his head.

The blonde ran towards Neji's room and pried it open. "Neji have you seen Gaa-OH KAMI! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!" He screamed out, covering his eyes.

Both Neji and Gaara were in a tangle of sweaty limbs, cheeks red and their breathing laboured from all the extrusion. Luckily (or unluckily from a fan girls perspective) Gaara quickly pulled the covers up, hiding their nakedness from view.

"Aww, is the show already over?"

But Naruto wasn't listening he was still too stunned after seeing them both. He shook his head to snap himself out of his stupor. "G-get...dressed both of you and meet me outside." He said and closed the door behind him.

After a few minutes both Gaara and Neji came out of the room, both of the sported embarrassed blushes, the awkwardness stretched before them, and was made worse for Naruto as Kyuubi howled in laughter at the back of his mind.

Naruto sighed; he might as well get this over with. "Where is Sasuke?"

"Huh?" Gaara looked confused. "What do you mean? He is right there..." He then turned to look at the last place were Sasuke was. "...not."

"..." Another silence spread through trio.

"Shit." Gaara muttered.

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The toddler soon found himself walking towards those staircases that always moved around, he looked down the side, and almost cringed when he noticed how big the drop was. Sasuke decided to not go up those stairs till he heard voices floating up behind him.

"And she was all like that, and I was all like whatever!"

"Really, then what happened?" Questioned another voice

He scowled, never mind the huge drop, those were girls coming his way and it would be hell if they saw him now at his most vulnerable state. He did not like the idea of being pinched and smothered by hormonal girls. So he took the stairs before they decided to shift again. It wasn't an easy task especially not in his small body, so he had to move on all fours up the marble stairs.

He was almost a third of the way up; when there was a sudden scraping, like the sound of rocks moving against other rocks. And then ground underneath him started moving, he cried out in panic and hurried up the stairs. Not daring to look back, back as the other half of the stairs behind him started shifting away and the front started moving to the right, he gripped onto the slippery rock to stop himself from rolling. The whole ground shook as the stairs finally connected to another floor, and Sasuke quickly hurried up to the next floor.

When he finally reached the smooth stable ground, he gave out a sigh of relief, his heart raced like mad drumming inside his little chest almost painfully. He thanked any deity out there for saving him, and damning himself for being so reckless.

Sasuke sat up and looked around the new place; if he had guessed right he was on the 4th floor near the North tower. There was a path that lead towards the Astronomy tower while another lead down a long hallway, he was about to take the option of exploring the hallways when he heard footsteps behind him.

"Now what do we have here?"

Sasuke turned around and was met by a very odd looking woman; she was dressed like a gypsy, with beaded necklaces around her neck and a shawl across her shoulders. Her eyes were enlarged because of her large glasses making her look like some bug.

"Oh a child..." Her voice was soft and misty, she reached towards him. "Wonder what you are doing here all alone?" She said picking him up, a smile forming on her bony face.

Suddenly she gasped out and her eyes started glazing over, her breathing went shallow and she started going into a trance.

"It will happen again..." Her voice changed, it wasn't misty and soft anymore; but was deep and clear, demanding attention.

"When the moon dusts over, rivers of blood shall flow and you will once again lose someone that you love. When the Dark Lord receives his prize the world shall fall into a fiery chaos, one that no one can undo...heed this warning child..."She looked down at him, her large eyes almost bulging from her eyes-sockets.

"Hold on to the one you love close or you will lose everything."

Sasuke stared at the woman like she had gone mad. What was she talking about, what the hell did she mean by that? He pried her bony fingers off him but she had him in a vice grip, suddenly she took deep breath and blinked a few times getting her bearings right. Snapping her out of trance like state.

"Oh, I just blacked out there for a moment." She said in a wispy voice again, she looked down and her eyes widened when she saw him. "Are you student here who got put under a spell?"

Sasuke didn't say anything back, not that he could that is, so instead he opted to glare at her which she poignantly ignored.

"Well this is quite an unusual spell...I shall take you to the nurse, maybe she will know how to reveres it." She said carrying him securely in her arms, ignoring his protest of whining and wiggling to get away.

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"Crap! I can't find him any where!" Naruto cursed.

He, Neji, Gaara and a few of his clones were now searching the school for Sasuke. But how could they something so small in such a huge place like Hogwarts? He searched the dungeons, the towers, the Owlery, even the grounds outside. He already spooked a few students during his search, but no one could find Sasuke.

Soon he met up with Neji and Gaara again. "Did you find him?" They shook their heads.

Naruto sighed he was a loss at what to do. He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned around to find that it was Gaara looking back at him solemnly.

"Don't worry Naruto, we will find the Uchiha. Why don't you go back to your room for now and get some rest all those Kage Bushins must have taken a lot out of you." Naruto gave a hesitant nod, and let himself be guided back to their room.

They soon reached their portrait and gave the silent password to open it, they stepped into the room and were met by a very angry Sakura...with Sasuke sleeping in her arms.

"Sasuke!" The blonde shouted out, launching himself on to the raven only to met by Sakura fist.

"Uzumaki Naruto what is the meaning of this?!" She shouted out fiercely, startling the toddler out of its slumber. "Just a few minutes ago, one of the Professors came up to the infirmary and handed him to me, said he was 'wandering the 4th floor all on his own'. Why weren't you with him?!"

"Sakura it wasn't my fault, the teme wouldn't say my name so I left him-" Naruto stopped speaking when he noticed the threatening aura rising around Sakura. She squeezed her hand together into a fist and brought it down on his head.

"BAKA!"

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Poor Naruto, he tries to make things right and get's hurt for it.

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Harry comes clean to his friends, and more.

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