Steve: Urgh...
Yui: There! The caffine rush is dieing a natural death...
Hinata: Um, after a caffine rush doesn't a person crash?
Pen-pen: Warrk war rrk... Wa?(Right you are... So?)
Yui: She does have a point... So if you would?
Pen-Pen: (Wark Wa WAAK arrk waark)
Hinata: Translation is "The author doesn't own Harry Potter or Naruto". He just owns this story, the plot and his insane plot-bunnies.
Why me?Shinigami/Demon/Inner-Sakura
'Who?' Thoughts
-YO!- Animal speech
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Over the past week both Harry and Naruto have continued with their training of Sakura to the point that she is now at the level she should be. Also, they've discovered their elements. Yes, elements, as in multiple.
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We find Harry and Naruto looking over a scroll that Mikoto had left them with several pieces of paper beside them. Rolling it up, Harry gives a sigh. "Well, seems that we need to focus chakra into them and finding out what our elements are before we can really train them." Naruto nods with a grin.
"Let's do it!" Noticing the look, he chuckles. "What? I always wanted to say that." He ignores comments from Harry on the subject of overeager blondes in favour of picking up one of the pieces of paper. 'Okay, according to the instructions all I have to do is focus my chakra and it should react.' Looking over at Harry, Naruto sees him nod and together they perform the test causing their jaws to drop.
"NANI!" They're reaction is quite understandable as each paper reacts more then once. Harry's becomes soggy with half splitting and a corner crumpling slightly. Naruto's on the other hand splits all the way down the middle with half becoming slightly wet and a corner burning. Harry begins to mutter in disbelief. "I can not believe this, I just can't. Can't we ever just be normal?" Naruto shakes his head in agreement.
"Somehow, I think we should have expected this… After all, Uzumaki-Potters don't do normal." Harry gives him a annoyed look.
"But still? THREE elements? Isn't that a bit much, even for us?" Naruto shrugs causing Harry to sigh. "I know, I know… So I got a main water affinity, a lesser one to wind and a slight one lighting. You on the other hand have wind as your main with water as a secondary and a slight leaning to fire. But WHY do we have more then one since Mikoto-sensei stated most people have only one?" Hearing a cough form Kuro, Harry just sighs. 'You had something to do with this, didn't you?' Harry develops a tick as Kuro laughs at him.
'Not as much as you think.' Feeling Harry's confusion, he grins. 'Just let me out and tell Naruto to do the same for Kyubi, ok? I'll explain then.' Nodding, Harry tells Naruto and both pull out a Shikigami before summoning them. Looking around, Kuro does several stretches, before taking a deep breath. "AH! You have no idea how good it feels to be outside." Noticing the annoyed looks sent his way from the others he pouts. "You guys aren't any fun." Kyubi walks up to him and gives him a smack in the back of the head.
"And your being annoying, what's your point?" Ignoring the Inuyoukai who's muttering about ungrateful people, she continues. "So why did this happen? Even I'm confused over this." Her eyes narrow as Kuro begins to chuckle.
"Ah, so I know something that the great Kyubi no Kitsune doesn't? ITAI!" He breaks off nursing his head as Kyubi smacks him harder this time. "You don't have to hit so hard, what? Is it that time of the mo…n…th…" Kuro begins to fear for his life as Kyubi's killing intent fills the apartment. "Um… Opps?" Needless to say, Harry and Naruto are thankful for the privacy charms as Kuro begins to scream in terror and pain. A few minutes later, Kuro's smoking body lies twitching on the floor with Kyubi standing above him with her own fist smoking. Naruto looks down at him while shaking his head.
"You would think that he would have learned by now that the old saying 'Hell hath no fury like a women scorned' could have come from Kyubi-chan herself." Seeing Kyubi look over at him with an raised eyebrow, he begins to rapidly wave his hands. "Not that there's anything wrong with that… No no no, nothing wrong with that at all." Kyubi walks over and gives him a kiss on the cheek.
"Exactly." Straightening up, she gives Kuro (who's beginning to get up) a regal stare. "Now then, I think you owe us an explanation?" Sighing, Kuro begins.
"Fine, your guys are no fun. Anyways, you're right Harry that the whole multiple elements thing is because of us, just not in the way you think." Seeing Harry about to speak, Kuro cuts him off by raising his hand. "Let me finish." Getting no father interruptions, he continues. "As you guys well know, both my and Kyubi's Youki has been slowly flowing into you two for several years now correct?" They nod, with Naruto speaking up.
"Yeah, I've been training to handle Kyubi-chan's youki in small doses and Harry-nii-san as been doing the same with yours, why?" Kuro smirks.
"And that is why you two have more then one element." Seeing their confusion he sighs before explaining. "It works like this: due to my family, my Youki is naturally aligned with water, wind and lightening. In other words, I'm aligned with the elements that make up storms. Your natural alignment is water Harry… which actually suits you quite well." Harry blinks in confusion while Hedwig sniggers bringing attention to her.
"Sorry… But I do agree that water suits you." Harry gives her an odd look.
"Oh? How so?" Hedwig smiles at him before answering.
"Because… Like water you can be tranquil one moment and a raging tempest the next. You also have a… depth to you I guess." Harry shakes his head.
"Okay, that kinda makes sense. But I'm still confused about WHY your youki had such a effect and how Kyubi's effected Naruto's chakra." Kuro chuckles for a bit.
"I was getting to that. My youki had the effect it did because it's continuously mixing with your chakra. It's aligned like it is due to my parentage. Think about it, a battle between my father and another powerful demon lord created a typhoon, remember." Harry nods while Kyubi snaps her fingers.
"I get it! So Naruto's water and fire alignments come from me?" The Taiyoukai shakes his head.
"Yes and no. In your case, your youki sped up a normal process since Naruto would have gained a water affinity from his mother. But, yes, he gets his slight affinity for fire from you since he's now connected to that fire seal thingy of your's." Kyubi smiles at Naruto and ruffles his hair.
"Huh, that's good to know. So any ideas what to train first?" Harry gives her a smirk.
"Well, I think we should get started on our main ones first… Maybe have Kage Bushin work on training our tertiary ones so that when we get to them we have a sound foundation for when we get to them." Naruto gives him a slightly annoyed look.
"I though we agreed not to use that method for anything but mastering a jutsu once we can use it, like we're doing with training to do a Kawarimi with out hand seals?" Harry shrugs as none of them notice Sal giving the remaining Chakra papers an inquisitive look.
"We did, however I'm not suggesting we use it to cheat, only to bring our tertiary affinity to a level we can work with… Though how I don't know how." Row taps her chin in thought before nodding.
"I remember in the scroll it stated that ninja oftentimes will gain an affinity if they use jutsu of a particular element often enough. Maybe to build it up you should do a lot of jutsu with that element?" Kuro blinks with none of them noticing Sal pick up a chakra paper.
That's not a bad idea. It should work… in fact-" He's cut off by a shout from Sal.
"WOW! That's so cool." She blushes as she notices the others staring at her and at the paper in her hands… The paper which has half wet and the other half crumbling to dust. "What? I just wanted to see my affinities… Is that so bad?" Harry opens and closes his mouth several times before turning to Hedwig and Row.
"Did you guys know you could do that?" Shocked themselves, they shake their heads no. "I didn't think that you could either. Why not give it a shot yourselves?" Reaching over, they each grab one and focus a bit of chakra into them with the papers showing dual affinities. Hedwig has wind and water (with part of the paper becoming frozen) and Row has wind and fire. Kuro looks it over before turning to the others with a confused look.
"Wasn't expecting that now…"
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Harry and Naruto are shaken from their reminisce by Kakashi's arrival with the usual response from Sakura and Naruto… "YOU'RE LATE!" He just waves them off (like usual) making them even more angry before coming out with an lame excuse (as usual).
"Sorry, but there was little old lady that I had to help across the street and-" And, as usual, he's interrupted.
"LIAR!" Having gotten used to the volume over the past couple of days, he shrugs and gives them an eye-smile before pulling an Icha Icha Paridise from it's pouch and opening it.
"Well, we don't have to go to the Tower to get our mission for the day as I already took care of it." Sakura cocks her head to the side questioningly.
"So what's the mission for today? Better not be cleaning out the Inuzuka kennels again…" She sees Harry about to say something and glares at him. "And not all of us have magic to use to make things clean with a wave of our hands." Kakashi giggles a bit before answering her question.
"It's actually really simple and we shouldn't have to worry about becoming dirty. You see, we're going to investigate a cave near Konoha. The reason before you ask is that strange occurrences have occurred there." At that Harry perks up.
"Strange Occurrences? How so?" Their sensei flips a page before answering.
"You know, strange stuff. Weird lights, strange sounds… some items have also disappeared in the area. Mostly small stuff but still." Here he looks back at Harry and Naruto with a twinkle in his eye. "In other words, something up you two's alley." Both Harry's and Naruto's eyes narrow in a glare.
"That's stereotyping you know! Just because we're wizards doesn't mean that we're experts in weird shit!" Kakashi shrugs unconcerned at the KI being directed at him.
"And your point is… what exactly?" He smirks, which is wiped off his face as Harry gives him a one finger salute. "… There was no need of that." Now it's Harry's turn to smirk.
"Maybe not, but it sure made me feel better." Suddenly something occurs to Harry causing him to narrow his eyes. "Wait a second, why are we being sent on this mission? Don't the ANBU or a jounin handle stuff like this? Hell, a chunin might be sent but not a genin." Kakashi turns a page, giggling.
"Normally that would be the case." Feeling the inquiring stares on his back he continues. "However, in this case it's already been investigated by several ANBU, jounin, and three chunin. All previous investigations have turned up nothing so they've decided to send genin teams instead." Sasuke begins to glare at their sensei.
"So why are we doing this? We're just wasting our time!" Sakura begins nodding in agreement. Kakashi spares them a glance.
"For three reasons. First: it's an easy mission. Two: even if we find nothing it'll give you the chance to get some investigation experience under your belt. And three… I just felt lazy today so I decided to grab it." Kakashi continues to walk ignoring the sound of the rest of his team crashing face first into the ground. Naruto slowly gets up with a twitching eyebrow.
'What the hell! He's feeling lazy!? What kind of answer is that?! He never does anything on our missions anyways!' Kyubi's face gains a very deadpan expression.
'Somehow, I think that that's a very Kakashi-ish answer.' And with that they continue for the next twenty minutes with Harry and Naruto keeping an eye on their surroundings. However, once they get within sight of the cave something weird happens, all the non-magical members stop for several moments with a dazed look in their eyes before they turn around and begin to walk back the way they came. Noticing that two of his students aren't walking, Kakashi calls over his shoulder.
"What are you two waiting for? We going back to report that we've completed the mission." Kakashi doesn't notice the narrowing eyes when Harry calls over to him with an odd question.
"Oy, sensei. You wouldn't happen to know what time it is, would you?" Kakashi gives him a look to as if to say 'What? Are you stupid?' Harry sighs. "Just humour me would you?" Shrugging, Kakashi looks up to check the position of the sun.
'Wonder why they're asking me that…' His thoughts trail off as he realizes what time it is. 'Wait a second, why is the sun telling me…' He put away his book to show how serious he is before look towards his last two students who also have serious expressions on their faces. "Perhaps one of you two would like to tell me why the sun's position is telling me that less then forty minutes have passed since we left the training ground, when I distinctly remember that we just spent the better part of an hour searching an empty cave?" Harry looks off towards the cave before turning back.
"Simple, you were quite right when you said that something strange was going on. But I don't think that you realized how right you were." Harry then begins to mumble while waving a glowing blue hand around. Seeing that he's not going to get anything else from him at the moment, Kakashi (ignoring the shocked looks of the rest of his students) turns to Naruto with a raised eyebrow. Sighing, Naruto's about to explain when Sasuke interrupts.
"Wait a moment, if Kakashi-sensei is right… then why weren't you two effected by whatever just happened?" However, it's Sakura who answers with a single word.
"Magic." She begins to blush as the other three members (not counting Harry who's busy) stare at her. "I remember Harry and Naruto telling me about something like this before." Naruto gives her a smile.
"Exactly. I suspect that there's a muggle repelling charm here along with a confundus charm. The combined effects would explain why you three acted the way you did as well as why nothing's been found." Harry chooses this point to start speaking again.
"And you would be right. This whole area is warded… though not as good as it should be…" A cough from Kakashi brings him back to the matter at hand. "Right, right, sorry about that. Anyways, along with those two we have a hunting ward designed to eliminate scent, though why you would have that I couldn't tell you. Not to mention the Protego Totalum spell." Harry turns to Naruto with a shit-eating grin. "However, that just means that I'll have to use one of my more… unique spells. There's also the fact that the wards are slowly weakening showing that the castor's health isn't the best." Kakashi nods thoughtfully.
"If you can get us past these… Wards?" Harry nods." If you can get us past them, is there a chance that the castor might catch us?" Harry thinks it over for several seconds before answering.
"It's possible, but not very likely as I'll only really break the first two. If we do go in it should be by stealth." Kakashi 'hmm's to himself before pointing at Harry and Naruto.
"Okay, here's how we're going to do it: Me, Harry, and Naruto will go first. "He then points at Sakura and Sasuke. "You two will come in behind us." Sasuke glares at him.
"Why is the dobe doing point?" Kakashi gives him a bored look.
"To be blunt: Harry and Naruto have far better stealth then you or Sakura… besides, I would rather have them at my side if we're facing magic since they can defend against it." Sasuke grumbles before Naruto's face lights up as he snaps his fingers.
"I just had a brilliant idea!" Sasuke gives him a smirk
"So that's what's burning. I was wondering where all the smoke was coming from." Naruto rolls his eyes at the Uchiha.
"Real original teme. Anyways, I can use the Disillusionment charm to hide all of us from sight along with this!" Naruto pulls three vials of a purple liquid from his coat and hands them to the non-magical members. " It's a potion that allows you to sense invisible objects so it should be of use. Me and nii-san can use the actual charm for the same effect." Kakashi now looks at him fully interested.
"This… Disillusionment charm wouldn't be one of those magical genjutsu I've heard about, would it?" Harry gives him a nod with a large smile.
"It would indeed sensei. Now, it's not perfect since there's a small distortion when moving, but it's still useful for sneaking around. Any more questions? No? Well, then, drink up!" As they do so, they each feel a sharp pain in the back of their head's before a sense of… awareness comes over them. Kakashi cocks his head to the side in question.
'Well, isn't this interesting?' Spying something from the corner of is eye, Kakashi watches as Naruto slowly fades away (his large toothy grin being the last thing to disappear). A few seconds later he feels a tap on the head as well as the sensation of something cold and wet, like an egg, running down his neck. Hearing Sakura squeal a bit he looks over to find her invisible and, looking down, finds himself the same way. "Huh. By the way, what rank is this?" Harry's disembodied voice answers.
"Us wizards don't really use ranks per say, but me and Naruto consider it a C-rank for simplicities sake due to the fact that it's not perfect camouflage." Kakashi shrugs before realizing that no one can even see him so he just speaks out.
"In any case it's good enough for now so if you would disable the wards so we can move out?" Unseen, Harry begins grinning.
"Right!" He pauses to take a deep breath before beginning his chant. "EGO to order thy tutela effrego , rumpus sic nos may obduco unnoticed per thy vinco! Pupillus pupilla effrego! (I command thy protections break, shatter so we may pass unnoticed by thy masters! Ward breaker!)" A soft nearly unnoticeable sound, like muffled glass breaking, drifts through the clearing causing Harry to sigh. "There, we can go now." As one the group moves towards the cave and then inside. Before long they hear sounds which eventually turn into a conversation.
"Pssst! Cissy, wake up!" A few seconds later a groan echoes through the cave as another voice makes it's presence known.
"What is it Bella? I'm… so tired…" A series of coughs sound before the voice continues. "Well? What is it?" There's the sound of shuffling and the other voice, now identified as Bella, begins to speak.
"I heard people talking outside! I heard the word 'Muggles' used so I think that we're rescued!" Cissy coughs a little before letting loose a relived sigh.
"I hope so, I just… feel so weak…" Team seven walks around a corner to see several blue floating flames illuminating two injured girls. One is paled skinned with thick, black hair who appears to be thirteen. A coughing fit brings their attention to the other girl who appears to be eleven with her long blond hair plastered to her skull by sweat. Harry slowly inches forwards until he's within a few feet. Examining the blond, he has to bite back a curse at the state she's in.
'SHIT! Her wounds are badly infected… And the other girl doesn't look to well herself.' And Bella doesn't considering that she's covered in small cuts and bruises as well as having an obviously broken arm. At that moment, one of Team Seven's members steps on a discarded nut shell causing a load snap. Almost immediately Bella leaps to her feet with a wild-eyed look in her eyes.
"Who… who's there?! REVEAL YOURSELF NOW!" As she shouts she interposes herself between where she thinks the shout came from and her sister. "I'm not joking! Show yourself before I hurt you!" Seeing the wand in her hands and realizing that she's going to be shooting off spells at any time, Harry sighs to himself before whispering a Lumos spell which bathes the cavern in light (not to mention ignoring Kakashi's whispers to stay down) before cancelling his camouflage. Cissy's reaction nearly causes Harry's eyebrows to merge with his hair in surprise.
"James… James Potter?" Before he can say anything Bella slumps down in shock and a little relief.
"Jamesie? What in Merlin's beard are you doing here? Wait a second…" Catching sight of his Hitai-ate she snarls before leaping to her feet. "That headband! You're with that bloody bastard! DIE! REDUCTO!" With a simple gesture from Harry a shield comes into existence redirecting the spell into the ceiling in a shower of rock fragments. She's about to fire off another spell when she finds herself held in place by two arms. "Hey! What the hell! Let me go!" Kakashi slowly fades into view as the one holding her as Harry takes the spell off him.
"Hmm, let me think about it for a moment… no seems to be a good answer." Having answered her he turns to Harry with a reproachable look in his eye. "Next time I say to stand down, do so." Harry shrugs.
"Had to do something before she started to throw random spells around… though she still did anyway at least they were focused on me." With that he begins to walk towards Cissy who's currently trying to get to her feet. Seeing this causes Bella's struggles to increase.
"Damn it! LET ME GOOO!" Kakashi's eye widens as he finds himself launched into the wall by a pulse of… something. Bella, however, is about to charge at Harry when a leg-locker curse hits her causing her to fall on her broken arm. "ARGH! DAMN IT!" (AN: My what a mouth on her eh?) Cissy finally gets to her feet, only to find herself staring at massive snake who she could swear was smirking at her.
"-Go on, make my day.-" Harry just gives her an odd look before turning with a shrug.
"That's it, no more action movies for you." Sal droops her head causing Harry to sigh before he looks at Bella, who's once again being restrained by Kakashi. "Look, we got off on the wrong foot so how about we talk this out like civilized people?" He sweat-drops at the glare Bella gives him. However, his eyes narrow as he notices Bella glance at a rock pile in a corner. 'Hmm. Seems that there might be more here then we thought.' Quickly turning, he gives Naruto a hiss. Nodding, Naruto begins to make his way over to the pile while Harry's face becomes more serious as he notices the girls become more nervous.
"Kage Bushin no jutsu!" With a smirk, Naruto calls six clones into existence and has them clear the rocks away revealing a passageway. 'Now why would they hide this I wonder?' He looks back at Harry and Kakashi and receives a nod. Wordlessly summoning an orb of light over his head he starts walking, only to stop several feet in. For there is a corpse wearing a slashed Konoha Hitai-ate. Looking it over, he begins to take note of the various wounds on it. Noticing who it is, he begins to give off killing intent which is noticed by the others.
"Well? What did you find?" Kakashi also gives off KI and the two girls stiffen at Naruto's answer.
"It's the body of a Konoha missing-nin, Hiroko Sakuna." Startled by the amount of hate in his voice, Sakura looks up from where she's doing first aid on Cissy.
"Hiroko Sakuna? The names familiar but I don't know why." Harry's the one who answers her with a large amount of disgust in his voice.
"Hiroko Sakuna, a C-rank Missing-nin wanted for several crimes committed during the Konoha/Kumo war by BOTH sides." Harry then gives the two witches looks of understanding. "He is, or rather was a grade-A psychopath. So considering his past history as well as the fact that these two must have met up with him, is it so odd that they would attack Konoha-nin?" Finally putting the pieces together, Cissy who's the only one able to understand them between the two witches gasps.
"You… you mean that your not with him? He wasn't (Cough, cough) your comrade?" Everyone's surprised when Kakashi begins to snarl.
"Him? A comrade? Don't make me puke! If we had met I would have killed him without a second thought." Harry and Naruto nod before Harry spits at the ground.
"Aye, I know that I would have done the same." Glancing towards the two frightened and injured girls his face softens. "Look, let's clear a few things up. First, we're not going to hurt you… "He trails off seeing Bella glaring at him causing him to rub his neck sheepishly. "… Well, let me rephrase that: We're not going to hurt you intentionally. Two, you're safe with us. And three, you're not going to be punished for killing that bastard. In fact, you're probably going to get a reward." Harry chuckles at their widening eyes. "Oh yes, didn't we mention that? Sakuna had quite the hefty bounty on his head. Of course, the lion's share of it will go to you while we get a portion merely for confirming his death." Looking between the four nin (and one snake) Bella chews her lip nervously.
"So… Nothing's going to happen to us?" Suddenly a thought occurs to her and by vocalizing it she causes Harry to chuckle. "But why are you here Jamesie?" Harry shakes his head in amusement.
"No, nothing's going to happen to you… And my name is Harry, James Potter was my father." Seeing their shocked looks, he points at his face. "Even though I look almost identical to him, I have green eyes as well as a lighting bolt scar and I don't wear glasses." Bella is about to say something when Cissy interrupts her.
"'Was' your father? Does that mean that James is…" She trails off seeing Harry sadly nod. For a few seconds she doesn't say anything before a question passes her lips. "How?" Harry looks up before answering.
"I'll tell you but now is neither the time or place." Cissy nods accepting the answer when Bella explodes.
"Wha… WHAT! Bu… but if your Jamesie's son then… the last thing we remember before we're teleported here is heading to the train home…" She trails off and looks at Harry with her eyes wide and pleading. "How… how much time…" Seeing that she's unable to continue as her voice trails off, Harry gives her a soft look.
"If I`m correct then you were in your… Third year?" Bella nods. "And since your sister was in the same year as my father and he was a first year then it's been… almost twenty years." Harry regrets telling her as she breaks down. He then walks over and gives her a hug hoping to comfort her. "Shhh… It's okay, everything's going to be okay…" After calming her down (Cissy being in a state of shock) Harry uses Row to transport them to the Hospital. There, the names they give when the nurses ask cause both Harry and Naruto to give each other confused looks.
"Oh, my name? It's Bellatrix Black, and this is my sister Narcissa Black…"
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Steve: Uhhhh. (Wobbles a little)
Yui: Ohhh! Nice one!
Pen-pen: A waark! (I agree!)
Hinata: Um, guys?
Yui: So have they actually lost their memories or are they faking it?
Hinata: Guys...
Pen-pen: War rrk wark waark rk wa waarrk wark waaarrk? (And are they going to be paired with someone?)
Hinata: GUYS! (Blushes as they turn to her and see her pointing at Steve... who's currently asleep)
Yui: Awww.
Pen-pen: (Grins evilly before making his way towards Stevewith a permanent marker in one flipper)
Steve: zzzzzzzz (Snort) zzzzzzzzz
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Spell list:
Ward Breaker: A powerful spell designed to break most wards. Considered to be illegal in most magical countries. (Operates much like a Taboo)
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