Steve: Woohoo! And here we are with the last of the Wave arc before they head home!

Yui: (Perverted grin) Come on and bring on the lemon!

Hinata: I only wish that it was between me and Naruto-kun... Maybe later Steve-san?

Steve: Eventually Hinata. For now I decided to do one between Harry and Hana.

Pen-pen: Wark warr waar ark wa waarrkk war?! (Well then, what are we waiting for?!)

Steve: Right! Hinata? Pen-pen? If you would say the disclaimer?

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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As she slowly wakes up, Hana notices a few things. One is the pair of arms currently wrapped around her, another is the familiar scent from said person. As her waking continues, she remembers what had happened the night before as her eyes flutter open to see a pair of green eyes looking at her with an endless amount of love and caring. With a chuckle, she smiles before giving Harry a gentle kiss. "Good morning." After she pulls away, Harry chuckles himself.

"Well, good morning to you too Hana-chan." He watches as she starts stretching making her tank top (imagine Misato's from Evangelion) move in all kinds of interesting ways.

"So what time is it Harry-kun?" She smiles at the look of love he's giving her. Harry glances at the clock on the desk beside his their bed before giving her a playful grin.

"It's six in the morning. We got about three hours until we actually need to get up. Do you want to get up now? Or wait for a bit and stay here with me?" She gives him the look as if actually thinking about it until she bursts out laughing at the look on his face.

"Sorry Harry-kun, I couldn't resist." She squeals as Harry grabs her around her waist and pulls her on top of him. "Harry-kun!" Harry just cheekily grins at her as he strokes the bottom of her back causing her eyes to become hooded. "Hmm, actually come to think of it… perhaps I'll just stay here." Harry reaches up and moves some of her long, undone hair aside before kissing her.

"That's what I thought." As he's kissing her, he can feel her tongue against his lips begging for entrance, so he opens his mouth. After several moments, she pulls away with a smirk on her lips.

"Now, I love waking up this way." She slowly moves until she's straddling him as one of her hands are pressed against his chest, kneading the muscles there causing him to hiss. They just lay there for a bit as they kiss every once in a while luxuriating in the feel of the other's body. Finally, Harry gathers enough courage to ask her a question that he's been wondering about for a while.

"Hana-chan…?" She murmurs as she nips at his neck affectionately causing him to chuckle. "I was going to ask if you want move our relationship forwards, but with the way your acting, never mind." She smirks before planting a kiss on his nose.

"Harry-kun, we've been dating for over three months now. I WANT to move forwards." She looks at him with an amused smile which soon melts into one of understanding. "Now I know that you don't think your ready for sex. To be perfectly blunt, I don't know if I'M ready. But I do know this Harry James Evens Uzumaki-Potter, I wouldn't say no to some heavy petting and the like. If I say no, I know for a fact that you won't push it… though you'd have to go quite far for that to happen." She then grabs one of the hands on her back and brings it down to her ass and holds it there while Harry jerks.

"Hana-chan… Are you sure you want-" Hana places one of her fingers on his lips silencing him.

"I'm positive Harry-kun. I'm telling the truth when I said that you'd have to go quite far before I tell you to stop. You could ask me to strip naked and I wouldn't consider that too far. Pushing it, maybe. Too far… no." She gives him another slow kiss and then pulls away. "I have total trust in you and you have never done anything to make me think otherwise… Ever. So go ahead and explore as much as you like… as long as you allow me to return the favour." Still slightly nervous as he has no experience in stuff like this, Harry gives her a grin. As he looks in her eyes, he can see the total amount of trust in him as well as the love she has for him.

"Okay Hana-chan… Whatever you want." She softly smiles as her eyes close and they start kissing once again, this time one of her own hands reach down and grabs Harry's ass, slowly kneading it while Harry moans into her mouth before he reciprocates making her murmurs of agreement join his. Leaving her mouth for now, Harry slowly kisses up her jaw bone and then gently nips at her neck on the pulse line making her bite her lip.

"Ohhh. Harry-kun… that feels soo goood." She can feel a growl of pleasure build up in her chest as Harry sucks on the junction of her neck and shoulder while nipping it every once in a while. Harry gives off his own growl as her nails lightly dance over his abdomin and lightly scratches it. He then uses his other hand to stroke the outside of her thighs, feeling the hard, taunt muscle beneath her soft, silky skin. Breathing hard, Hana gently pulls Harry's mouth back to he lips so that she can lightly nip his bottom lip before sucking on it.

"Mmm. Hana-chan… Please…" Still kissing, Harry brings the hand that was stroking her thighs up her back and under her shirt to massage her shoulder blades, on the way it strokes the side of her mounds causing her to jerk slightly and to moan. Harry continues his explorations while being guided by the sounds his girlfriend makes as she does the same for him. Eventually, Harry's hand slips under her panties to touch her firm rear directly, slowly squeezing it and enjoying the moans and groans it brings out, but going no farther. Neither does Hana since this satisfies her more then enough for now. After doing this for a while, the two break apart staring at each other with swollen lips and small nip marks on their skin as Harry can only make a single word as he continues to hold his hand on his girlfriend's hip, the tips of his fingers just under the waist band of her underwear: "Wow…" Hana nods in agreement with her own hand under Harry's waistband and squeezing his ass as she speaks in a husky voice.

"Yeah… wow." She chuckles some as she thinks of something drawing a strange look from Harry. Noticing this, she smiles at him before lightly kissing him. Pulling away, she looks at him through hooded eyes. "It's nothing Harry-kun. Just remembering how Kaa-san once told me that sex isn't everything. If she was talking about what we just went through then I agree entirely." Harry nods before slowly stroking her hip.

"Your telling me. I mean bloody hell, that was better then I ever thought it would be!" Hana laughs again with Harry laying on his side while enjoying the sheer joy she's giving off. Her laughter trailing off, Hana glances at the clock before stiffening.

"Holy shit! We just spent two hours doing that!" Blinking, Harry glances at it with his eyebrows raising to almost meet his hair line upon seeing the time. Getting over the shock, he looks at Hana before giving her a shrug.

"Are you actually going to tell me that it was wasted time?" Blinking she shakes her head before chuckling. Harry then watches as she gets out of the covers revealing her in all her glory as she's wearing a pair of (slightly moist) red panties and her yellow tank top.

"Yeah… Hey Harry, this place has a shower right?" She turns to see Harry watching her with a look that causes her to blush as he nods slowly. "Mind if I use it? I'd rather not go all the way back to my room and maybe have to wait for a while." Harry chuckles at this.

"Go ahead Hana-chan. Just save some hot water for me, ok?" She nods before looking at him and licking her lips, her next word making Harry go completely red.

"Ya know, if we share we wouldn't have to worry about running out of hot water, right?" She laughs as Harry's brain nearly shuts down before looking farther down the bed and smirking. "It certainly doesn't seem like you would mind." Harry's reply is to throw a pillow at her while grinning as she grabs the clothes she left just out side the door the night before and heading towards the shower. A half hour later finds Hana sitting on the bed combing her hair when Harry walks in shirtless causing her to lick her lips and whistle. Harry just glances at her. And he smirks seeing as she hasn't put on her Chunin vest leaving her in biker shorts and a tight black shirt.

"Your looking good yourself Hana-chan." She smirks before she gets a thoughtful look as she puts the comb down on the bed and sighs. "Something wrong?" She shakes her head no.

"It's just that I enjoyed this morning and… I find myself wanting more." She reaches up and runs her hand through her hair as Harry leans against a dresser. "I honestly can't wait until you're a Chunin and I can wake up with you like that as often as I want." Harry nods at that.

"Your telling me." Grabbing a shirt he puts it on. "I think I'll like the way our relationship is going Hana-chan." Looking at her there watching him, Harry smirks causing Hana to raise an eyebrow.

"And what are you smirking at?" Harry's smirk, if anything, becomes even more pronounced.

"I was just thinking… you do realize that we still have at the very least two more weeks before we head back, right?" She nods before her eyes widen in realization as she gets her own smirk. Getting up, she saunters over to Harry and wraps her arms around his shoulder before kissing him on the cheek.

"Trying to get me in your bed again Harry-kun? Well, I'm not going to argue." She kisses him again, this time on the ear causing him to groan as she sucks lightly on it. Letting go of her prize, Hana chuckles with a smirk on her face. "At least I can enjoy the time we have for now." With a sigh, she shakes her head. "I still wish that I could wake up next to you when we get back though." She notices Harry looking thoughtful. "Harry-kun?" Jerking out of his thoughts, Harry just smiles at her.

"It's… nothing, just a thought." Shrugging, Hana walks back over to the bed and plops herself down while reaching back for the brush. Before she can do anything, Harry grabs the brush from her and sits down behind her before he starts brushing her hair. Completing the job, Hana hands him her hair band which he uses to put her hair into her usual ponytail making her smirk.

"I got to admit, you do a good job." Harry shrugs before running his hand through his hair.

"Well, I had to learn something from all those times you made me do it when I was growing up." Harry starts rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly. "Actually, I've been thinking about growing my own hair out. What do you think? Would it look good?" Looking at him, she rubs her chin with her hand while thinking it over before she nods.

"You know what? I can see you with longer hair." She reaches up and musses up his hair. "Who knows? It might do the impossible and tame this thing on your head." Harry rolls his eyes at her.

"I'm not asking for a miracle Hana-chan." With a smirk, Hana reaches over and puts on her Chunin vest while Harry grabs his own vest followed by his coat. Making their way over to the ladder, Hana stops at the bottom. "Something the matter Hana-chan?" She shakes her head.

"Nah. But just the same, could you go up first and make sure that Kakashi-baka isn't up there? I just don't want to give him any fuel for his perverted fantasies." She gives Harry a weird look for his snort, but he does as he asks and a few moments finds them standing out side the trunk. Harry looks out the door and comes back in with a smirk.

"Change of plans Hana-chan, we're going to use my invisibility cloak…"

00000000000 Outside the bathroom 0000000

Sakura's standing there in front of the bathroom door slightly frustrated. Snarling, she bangs on the door. "Naruto! Get a move on! A woman needs to look good, so get out so I can take a shower!" She adds something a few seconds later. "And there better be some hot water!" Inside Naruto sighs while turning off the water.

"Don't worry Sakura-chan. I made sure to save you some hot water, I'm not Kakashi-sensei after all." Sakura scowls remembering how one time Kakashi took to much hot water and it had run out on her while she was in the middle of her shower.

"Don't remind me. Just hurry up, please." At that moment, Tsunami comes up stairs and moves behind her.

"Is there a problem Sakura-chan?" She scowls again, neither noticing what sounds like a whisper.

"Yeah, as usual I'm the last one to take a shower and Naruto's taking too long." Reaching up she bangs on the door again. This time, however, the door falls inwards showing Naruto standing there with the towel hanging around his shoulders and nothing else. Slowly the two female's eyes trail downwards until they go bright red with a small trickle of blood running down from their noses. Inside Sakura's mindscape Inner-Sakura is squealing while waving flags around.

"YES! THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! WHOO HOO! SHAKE THAT THING!" Unfortunately for Naruto, the sight of two women staring at him while he's naked causes him to react in a normal way. The two's eyes widen until they're flung into the wall as their noses gush blood. Tsunami just mumbles while unconscious.

"Definite benefits to being Shinobi…" Naruto just stands there shocked/embarrassed before he footsteps come up the stairs as Kakashi and Zabuza look first at the two knocked out females and then at Naruto. Zabuza's eyebrow starts twitches as he massages the bridge of his nose.

"Now that just isn't fair…"

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Laughs sound from where there's nobody before Harry whips off the cloak revealing both him and Hana nearly falling to the ground laughing. Hana reaches up and uses Harry's shoulders to support her as she talks through her tears. "Oh…(Bwa ha-ha ha) That was priceless!" Beside her, Harry nods his head in agreement. Getting his laughter under control, Harry looks at her with a grin.

"Now THAT was a prank! Did you see their faces? Then, BOOSH! Both Tsunami-san and Sakura-nee-chan went flying! That was so wicked!" Hana nods with a savage grin.

"Feels good to pull a prank on the so called 'Prankage' for once… Hopefully he never realizes that you used a spell to loosen the door frame…" Harry looks at Hana with a shiver.

"You're right there… just imagine the revenge he would take…" Both shiver before nodding and saying the same thing.

"We're never going to mention what happened." The two walk towards the front door and walk in towards the dinning room. Walking in, everyone stare at them. "What?" Kakashi points at them.

"Looks like you two had a little fun today." They blink before he points at a spot on his shoulder. Hana reaches into her vest ad pulls out a small mirror and looks at the spot to see a large red hickey there. She walks over with a growl and smacks him in the head.

"Stop being such a hentai Kakashi-baka! What me and Harry do in our free time is our business! Not yours! He is my boyfriend asshole" She starts walking towards the kitchen when Kakashi has to open his mouth.

"So tell me Harry… Is she wild?" Beside him Zabuza nods with a hidden grin on his face.

"Yeah, I heard that Inuzuka are animals in the sack." Red-faced, Hana turns to beat the two perverts only to see that Harry's beaten her to the punch... Literally. "Ahhh! Not the face! Not the face!… NOT THERE EITHER! AIIEEEE!"

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A glaring Hana is currently drinking the mocha Harry had made for her before snarling and looking around. Frowning, she looks at Harry. "Hey, Harry-kun? Where's Sal, Row and Hedwig?" Blinking, Harry frowns as well as he realizes that he hasn't seen them since the day before.

"You know what? I don't know. I do know that they are alright though." Though he doesn't know it, the three are in fact spreading his legend. When Gato died, his thugs split, and several of them were in fact at the bridge and have been talking about the genin who looked like a demon from Konoha (Naruto) and the boy who declared himself to be death given form (Harry). Of course, a lot of them escaped from the country and met up with other bandits who didn't believe them… that is until several of Gato's ex-thugs turned up dead. Some were found burned alive in their beds (Row), others were found frozen solid (Hedwig). The creepiest were the ones found dead without any visible wounds but with their faces frozen in horror (Sal). Thus, the legend of the Yoko no Konoha (Mystic fox of the leaf) and the Shinigami no Konoha (Death God of the Leaf) starts spreading as they're the ones blamed for it. Meanwhile, back in Wave, Sakura looks at Harry before asking a question.

"Um, Harry-kun?" Looking up from his food, Harry motions her to continue. "I was wondering if you've finished that technique you were working on. You know, the one you were using all the Kage Bushin for?" Remembering that, Hana snaps her fingers before turning to Harry herself.

"Come to think of it, I'm wondering the same thing with the way that everything's been going, it slipped my mind. So how far are you with it? I know that normally you don't talk about stuff like that, I would still like to know that much." Harry looks over at her before swallowing what's in his mouth to answer.

"Oh, that? I've completed it, but it's not mastered. Of course, I'll still need quite a bit of time for that, but I can use it to an extent in battle now. Just not very well at the moment." He then points his fork first at Haku, ten at Zabuza and Kakashi. "Those three have already seen it in action since I used it to get between Kakashi-sensei and Haku-chan." Kakashi's eye widens in shock.

"You mean to tell me that technique you used you only recently learned! What was it anyways?" Haku looks at him quizzically.

"What are you talking about? It was obviously a speed manoeuvre. Probably a type of Shunshin, granted a extremely fast one since I didn't see him move, but not that odd." Kakashi shakes his head, his next words shocking her.

"That was no speed technique… Not even Shunshin no jutsu is that fast." Seeing the looks being given him he narrows his eye at Harry. "Even the speed of a Shunshin is visible to the Sharingan. Harry's technique was FAR faster. After all, one moment he wasn't there and the next he was without even a blur visible to my Sharingan." Harry snorts at him before a smirk becomes visible on his face.

"Your right that it isn't a Shushin. It's a Time/Space technique available only to a wizard called apparation. It allows me to teleport anywhere within a three hundred kilometer radius of my position… Well, as long as there's no anti-apparation wards around that is." He shrugs not taking notice of the looks shot his way. "It's not a big deal." Kakashi starts sputtering.

"Nnnn-Not a big deal! Harry, you learned a S-rank technique and it's not a big deal!" Sasuke glares at Harry with a jealous, angry look.

'How dare he know a S-rank technique and I don't… especially one that can move faster then the Sharingan can see, I'm the one who needs it so that I can kill him…' Noticing the look from the corner of his eye, Harry snorts.

"It's really not that huge of a deal, certainly not as much as one you are making. And S-rank? Pah-lease! It's no where near that level." Zabuza shakes his head while the others look at Harry in shock.

"Gaki, even Konoha's Yondaime's Haraishin no jutsu had a range of a few hundred meters. In fact, I'm pretty sure that it's ABOVE S-rank." Harry rolls his eyes.

"Why are you guys so obsessed about this? It's not that high of a rank." He snorts once more. "If it was, which it isn't, then would someone please tell me why it's a common way of travel among wizards?" Everyone's (except for Hana's, Naruto's, and Hinata's) jaw drops as they try to imagine a technique like that being so widespread among a group of people causing them to shiver. Meanwhile Harry continues to talk. "Besides, the only reason I used my Kage Bushin to learn the technique was that I couldn't get splinched doing so and I have no way to fix it." At the strange word, Haku screws up her face.

"'Splinched'? What's that?" Noticing that everyone's finished breakfast, Harry shrugs with a slight grin.

"That's when a person who's aparating leaves something of themselves… like a spleen or kidney… you know that kind of thing. Hell! I've heard of this one time where the guy left behind the lower part of his spine, a lung, and his left testicle." All the guys flinch at that as well as turning green. Sakura gulps as she realizes something.

"Wait… Didn't the guy die? I mean, he did leave those parts behind." Harry shakes his head.

"Nah! He lived, they just used a series of spells to put him back together… Spells that I don't know how to do. Ergo, I'm not going to learn it myself. And using Kage Bushin no jutsu I can get several months worth of practice in squeezed in several days." Haku is about to say something when Harry guesses what she's about to say and answers for her. "Before you ask, everything the Kage Bushin learns are passed onto the user once they dispel as long as it wasn't physical training." Haku thinks it over before pointing at Harry and Naruto.

"Really? That's interesting and very useful. Do you two use it often?" They both shake their heads and tell her that they don't use it in that way except rarely. "But why? It's a useful ability like the Sharingan." Harry chuckles while shaking his head.

"Don't get me wrong Haku-chan, we do use it… but only to master a jutsu, and then only when we can perform it with any proficiency. We would much rather work for something then use a short cut, no matter how frustrating it might be otherwise because you can get a true sense of accomplishment from doing it the hard way then the easy way." Zabuza nods his head, impressed with their thinking.

"Very impressive gaki. I must admit that's quite the honourable way of thinking." He looks at the other shinobi around the table. "Anyways, since Tazuna isn't doing any working today, me and Kakashi decided that we should go raid Gato's HQ since we're here anyways." They all nod and in the end it's decided to leave Iruka there with Hisame, a decision that Iruka hates, all the more so as Hisame grabs hold of his arm and flutters her eyelashes at him. Most of them are snickering as they leave and once outside Harry and Naruto wrap their arms around their girlfriend's waists (Hinata for Naruto and Hana for Harry). Hana notices Haku walking a little behind the others and slows down and grabs her hand.

"Uh uh. You coming with us." She swings Haku to Harry's other side where Harry drapes his arm over her shoulder making her blush.

"Um… Thank you Hana-san… Harry-kun." Harry chuckles before giving her a smile.

"No problem Haku-chan?" Hearing giggles, he turns to see Kakashi looking at him in amusement. "What's got you amused now." He giggles some more before giving Harry an eye smile.

"Oh, nothing… just that you seem to be enjoying yourself." Harry snorts at him and his next words cause Kakashi to stumble and hang his head.

"Your just jealous that you can't get a girl and I got several." Ignoring his teacher's depression, Harry turns to Haku. "By the way Haku-chan, I was wondering if you use any swords? I only ask because it would make sense that you do being around Zabuza all the time." Haku shakes her head in the negative.

"No I don't. For some reason most of the swords I try to use feel odd in my hands though the Kodachi did feel more comfortable then most, it still felt unnatural." Hana looks at her in surprise.

"Really? Huh, go figure." She looks at Harry in askance. "Hey, Harry-kun. Got any types she might want to use? You do know about more types of swords then I do." Tapping his chin, he thinks it over.

"Maybe… You did say that the Kodachi felt comfortable, right?" She nods. "So it's probably a problem with the weight. Maybe a sabre style…" He trails off as he starts murmuring. After an hour, they reach Gato's base and find quite a bit ransacked as they walk through it. The only places untouched are the shinobi's rooms and Gato's safe, which is where they find themselves. Looking it over, Kakashi sighs before looking at Zabuza.

"So this is where Gato kept his most valuable treasures?" Zabuza nods. "Kuso! I can get through it with my Chidori, but if there is anything flammable in there the heat from it might cause it to combust… Harry, what are you doing?" Everyone turns to see Harry pulling what appears to be a spool of thick wire from his coat pocket. Seeing the spool, Hana's eyes widen as she and the Haimaru triplets back away.

"Is that Thermate?" Harry nods with a massive, almost insane, grin. "Ok… You don't need any help... Do you?" Harry chuckles while shaking his head at which Hana lets out a sigh of relief as Harry summons several Kage Bushin and together they start setting it up. Haku looks between the two in confusion.

"What's that? And why are you carrying it around with you?" Harry laughs before looking at Haku with a slight grin.

"Thermate is a special explosive used for stuff like this. Despite it's looks it'll melt through even the toughest steel since it burns at over two thousand degrees for a few seconds" At that piece of information the others also back away causing Harry to blink before he glares at Hana. "Kuso Hana! I told you it was an accident that one time!" Zabuza sweatdrops as that doesn't make him feel any better before he clears his throat.

"You still haven't answered why you have it on you in the first place…" Harry shrugs at that.

"Be prepared for the unexpected could be mine and nii-san's motto." The Kage Bushin finish the preparations as Harry gets ready to set it off. "Okay… One… Two… THREE!" Letting loose a large spark into the wire he's holding, all those in the room turn away as a bright light fills it along with a hissing sound for a few seconds. Once it fades, Harry looks at his handy work. "Hell ya! Am I good? Or am I good?" Zabuza looks at Harry then at the vault door which only has what appears to be a scorch mark around it.

"Gaki, I hate to tell you this but the door is still there." Harry snorts before rolling his eyes.

"It's SUPPOSED to still be there." After waiting a minute for the metal to cool some, Harry summons another other Kage Bushin and has it go over and grab the door. The Kage Bushin jerks it only for the door to fall over on top of it, dispelling it. Everyone sweatdrops at that as Harry winks at them. "Art is a real bang, yeah?" They all just face fault at that with the same thing running though their heads.

'Who the hell actually thinks that way?'

000000000000 Akatsuki HQ 000000000

Having already sneezed once, Daidara's about to again when Tobi runs up to him. "Sempai! Your supposed to cover your nose when you sneeze like Tobi! Tobi does it because Tobi is a good boy!" And with those words Tobi grabs Daidara's hand and shoves it over his nose just as he sneezes. A few moments pass before Daidara starts hopping around in pain and shouting while trying to get his hand away from his nose with out any success. Konan just puts her face in her hands.

"Tobi… Daidara doesn't cover his nose when he sneezes because of the mouths in his hands remember? You know… The ones that try to eat anything they touch?" Tobi… blinks? Okay we'll go with that. Tobi blinks behind his mask before he taps his chin.

"Tobi forgot… I know! Tobi will be a good boy and help Sempai get his handy mouths off his nose!" He then rushes over towards Daidara who runs off. What follows are several crashes, bangs, yells… and what sounds like a bird squawking causing Konan to stare before Daidara starts shouting.

"TOBI! YOU FREAKING BAKA! MEET MY ART!" As the dust from the explosion swirls past Konan, she rubs the bridge of her nose as the shouting continues.

"Baka children… I'm living with baka children…" This view is reinforced a few seconds later as Pain starts shouting.

"Hey Konan! Where's my underwear?!" Konan starts growling as she clinches her fist.

'Must… not… kill… everyone within twenty kilometers…'

00000000 Back in Gato's hideout 000000

Having walked in, Harry's eyebrow starts twitching as he notices a large gaudy portrait of Gato. 'Okay… it's official, Gato didn't know WHAT to do with his money.' Walking over to a drawer, he opens it to see the what's inside. 'Now this is interesting…' He pulls out a pendent in the form of a Yin-Yang symbol except the Yin is light pink and the yang is dark blue. Turning it over, he notices a inscription. Hinata comes up behind him and looks over his shoulder.

"What's that Harry-kun?" Harry looks at her with a shrug.

"Seems to be some kind of magical artifact. On the back is a inscription. 'To separate the self… to give life to the half of the whole…' And that's all I can make out since the back is pretty scratched up." Unseen by them, the pendent seems to shimmer for a moment before going back to it's original state. Hinata shakes her head.

"Well, if anyone can figure it out, you and Naruto-kun can." Harry just shrugs before putting it in his pocket, and eventually forgetting about it. "I wonder what else is in here?" Taking a glance around, Harry notices Naruto staring at a scroll with a pale face.

"Got something nii-san?" Naruto looks up at him making him frown as he can see the sweat going down his brow. "What's the matter?" Naruto gulps up at him.

"Nii-san… the scroll…" Intrigued, Harry walks over and has a sharp intake of breath seeing the title: Uzumaki Clan Jutsu. Harry and Naruto look at each other before they both notice the fact that there's three more scrolls in that drawer from Uzu no Kuni along with a iron flask that Naruto feels an odd attraction to. Eventually, they complete their search with several more items having been found including a set of broken manacles made of some kind of red metal that Naruto seems very excited over as well as several other jutsu scroll. Placing most of the loot into sealing scrolls they head out, though not before Haku collects her pet rabbit from where she had hidden it.

00000000000 That night 000000000000

Taking a breath, Haku walks out the door into the night. 'I may love Zabuza-sama like a Tou-san, but that doesn't mean that I can take his teasing for too long.' She grits her teeth as she remembers how Zabuza and the Demon brothers were teasing her about Harry. Hearing a sound out on the dock, she walks towards it to find Harry laying on his back staring upwards. "Hello Harry-kun. What are you doing here?" Harry looks towards her before smiling.

"An old pastime of mine: Stargazing." He pats the place beside him. "Want to join me?" Haku looks at him, considering it, before she shrugs and lays down there beside him. Looking upwards, she gasps at vista before her.

"Beautiful…" Beside her Harry nods.

"Yes it is. I love stargazing, I find it relaxing actually. How about you?" Haku nods before looking at the person beside her with a small smile.

"I can see why you like it so much. It is quite enjoyable… especially the company." Both her and Harry share a smile and a look at this. "Do you do this often?" Harry nods as the stars reflect in his eyes.

"When I was younger, I used to dream of one day flying among the stars… Still do actually. I looked up there and saw an unchanging sky. And then I would spill my problems out at them thinking that my parents could hear me and were looking down at me with proud smiles." Harry chuckles a bit as Haku looks on interested as she's learning something new about the enigmatic wizard. "For some reason, I love the night sky… the awesome vistas… and how the stars sing to you…" Haku raises an eyebrow at him.

"Sing? But the stars don't sing." Harry wags a finger at her.

"Sure they do, you just have to know how to listen and to do so carefully. The stars sing of what was, is, and will be. They sing of sorrow and of joy, of creation and of destruction. The ancients' called it 'The Music of the Celestial spheres'. And trust me when I say that it's hauntingly beautiful." Entranced, Haku smiles softly.

"Sounds incredible Harry-kun. But I don't think I know how to listen like that." Harry chuckles and asks if she wants him to help her hear. She nods and the Harry tells her to close her eyes and relax. Doing so, she almost starts as she feels Harry hold her hand and intertwine their fingers and does so when a tingly feeling, like the pins and needles you get when a limb falls asleep but less painful, travels up her arm and through her body. "Harry-kun? What's going on?" She can hear Harry chuckle.

"Don't worry, I'm just channelling my magic into your body so you can hear the stars sing… Trust me on this." She hesiently nods and can almost feel his smile. "Thank you… now, open yourself and listen." She's almost about to ask what he means by that when she remembers that 'to open one's self' means to meditate. So relaxing, she slips into a light meditation.

'I wonder if this is what Har…' Her thoughts trail off as she can suddenly hear it, softly at first but rapidly growing louder and louder until it encompasses her in it's embrace. If you later asked her to describe it, she just wouldn't be able to find the words. She could just tell you that it was beautiful and that's all. As the other-worldliness of the songs wash over her she can almost hear Harry's voice in her head telling her what she's hearing.

'Their singing to you Haku-chan.' One of the songs takes on a mournful tone before fading away nearly bring her to tears from not only the sadness, but also the acceptance in the song. 'That was a star dying Haku-chan. But don't be sad, it knows that by doing so others can be born.' A new song then joins the others making Haku realize that a new star was just born. And as the songs continue somehow without words describing what they've seen, she becomes aware of another, deeper song.

'What's that Harry-kun?' The song slowly builds making her think of a mother finding a long lost child and embracing it.

'It's the Earth Haku-chan, she can feel you and wants you to know that she's happy.' Haku allows a tear to fall and then another as she's suddenly enfolded in what feels like a loving hug made of song. As the music of the stars and the Earth itself continues to rise and fall with her own heart beat, she realizes that they can somehow feel her pain and are telling her to let it go, that nothing is forever and to allow it to drift away into eternity. Softly sobbing, she does so only to be filled with feelings of peace as her wounded soul is soothed by the balm that is the combined song of the universe…

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Eventually, almost as if she doesn't want to, Haku comes back to the world of the conscious unknowing if her experience was a moment or an eternity. Blinking away the tears still in her eyes, Haku looks towards Harry and gives him a thankful look as she speaks in a husky, emotion filled voice. "Thank you… that was… wonderful." A peaceful smile appears on her face which is reflected on Harry's.

"It was no problem Haku-chan." His hand moves away from her's and wraps around her waist as she moves up against his body and lays her head on her shoulder just enjoying the contact. After a few minutes, Harry goes to say something else only to smile and chuckle softly as Haku's fallen asleep. Gently, Harry moves and then picks her up bridal style and, careful not to wake her, he walks towards the house so that she could sleep in a soft bed. Tucking her in, he whispers one last thing to her. "Sweet dreams my Koori-hime..."

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Steve: And there we go! The last real chapter of the Wave arc! Next time our heroes head home! And what's waiting for them there? And what adventures will they have?

Yui: Only we have a clue for sure! And you'll have to keep reading to find out now won't you?

Pen-pen: A waark wark war ark wa war wark waarrkk waaarr waarrkk arrk? (I swear that the two of you love getting people annoyed, don't you?)

Steve &Yui: Yup!

Hinata: Hopefully me and Naruto-kun will have our own lemon soon... (Faints from a nosebleed.)

Steve: Well, until next time! And check out ToaMS: The Lost Tales on the Harry/Hedwig section! Until next time!

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