Steve: And here we are with the next chapter of the new update! And in this one Lily will shine at the end.

Yui: YES! You show them what us mothers can do! Wahoo!

Steve: Err… no need to get so excited over it Yui-chan.

Yui: Bah! Whenever a mother has the spotlight on her, for something good that is, it's something to celebrate.

Hinata: Yui-san…

Pen-pen: Warak wark war Waarrk waar warr wark waarkk waar wark warr.(Never mind her Hinata-chan, she's just always been like this.)

Steve: True. Anyways, time for 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

Groaning, Harry slowly shakes his head as he sits back up with the world seemingly spinning around him. Wincing, he slowly brings his fingers up to a sore spot only to bite back a shout. Pulling away his fingers he brings them up to his nose and sniffs, smelling the metallic tang of blood on them. Grunting, he then gets back up onto his feet and looks around. Looking up he spots a few slivers of sunlight showing him that he is now underground. With a sigh he activates his Akai Mahogan enabling him to see in the gloom as if it was high noon above ground. Harry just sighs at the sight that greets him as he figures out that there's no way out. 'Damnit! How the hell am I going to get out? And how the hell did that bitch Akui manage to drag me down here?! She should have been dead since she was blown to pieces!' Kuro decides to make himself known at this moment.

'I'm actually not all that surprised considering exactly what kind of demon she is now.' Feeling the unasked question from his current incarnation, Kuro sighs. 'She's what's known as a conglomerate demon. The most common is the Poison Imp created by dark wizards and dark miko's. They're really nothing more then pests to your average demon. Less common, but no less rare, are those who are demons that have devoured a large number of other demons. This is what I suspect Akui to be. The third, and most rare and dangerous, is one who was originally a hoard of demons that have merged around a soul of another demon or human. They're by far the most dangerous and deadly because they are the most cunning.' Harry just nods as he whips his head around at the sound of shifting rock only to wince as he feels like he just took a sledgehammer to the skull.

'Okay… but have you ever met any of these type of guys before in your life? And what would the weakness of the kind that Akui is be?' Kuro just sighs as he thinks it over.

'I have met some before. Two in fact. The first one was of the third type. It had been created when a man lusted after a good friend of mine and a hoard of demons used his darkness to merge together in order to kill my friend, a miko by the name of Modoriko…' He trails off at the sound of laughter from Harry before raising an eyebrow. 'And what, preytell, is so funny?' Harry just stops for a moment, a smirk playing along his lips.

'Oh… nothing but… you know, Modoriko the Miko?' Kuro just sighs before shaking his head.

'Yeah, I know. It's just so easy making jokes about that… Trust me I know. I cracked jokes to her about it all the time…' A pained expression comes over his face as if remembering a phantom pain. 'Of course, it DID wear thin after a bit… as shown when she shot a purification arrow into my ass.' Harry just chuckles as he takes a step before Kuro's eyes pop open as he notices something that Harry missed. 'SHIT! HARRY MOVE NOW!' Harry's eyes widen for a moment before he dives to the left, a massive claw just barely missing him. Rolling along the ground, he makes it back onto his feet only to find his stomach doing a unpleasant flip at the sight of Akui. For there she is, except there's a hole where her stomach once was with tentacles hanging from it. And then there's the fact that her skin's nothing more then blackened flakes with the red muscle underneath exposed. She her left hand's fingers are now three foot long bone claws. She then snarls with her ruined mouth before she starts speaking in a voice that seems to be made of several others speaking at once.

"KuRo YoU TemE! LoOk At WHat yOu HAVe done To MY PerFect BoDY… I'M GoINg To KIll you!" Bending down, she then lunges at Harry, just narrowly missing him as he dodges to the side. Looking at where she hit, Harry gulps as he notices that her claws have sunk into the rock as if it was nothing more then modoler's clay. Harry then narrows his eyes as he lines up with his fingers preparing to attack.

"Oh… why don't you just shut the bloody hell up you bitch. It's not like you were all that good-looking to begin with after all. Reducto!" Harry's smirk soon transforms into an expression of disbelief as she brings up her arm which turns into the colour of burnished silver and seems to absorb the spell. A few seconds later the spell back out, only directly at Harry. Grunting as he crosses his arms in front of him in order for his arm guards to take the hit, Harry narrows his eyes at her causing her to laugh as he hit's the ground.

"Do YoU LiKE It KuRo? I FORgot tO MentION HoW I DEvoURed TWo WONderINg SoUls. ONe HaD ThE AbiLIty TO RelfecT AttACks Back AGaINst tHe OrIgInAL USer. A mOsT USefUL ABilITy, Do YOu NoT AgREe KuRO?" She then smirks at him. "HEre's AnoTHER ABilITy ThAT I GoT FRom AnOTHer RElatED SOul." She pulls out her clawed arm before swinging it forwards creating a mass of twisters that head directly for Harry. "DanCE OF ThE DRagON!" Harry just barely dodges the attack though the twisting winds manage to slash through his vest drawing blood. Harry just narrows his eyes as he growls.

'Damnit! How the hell am I going to get out of this mess?!' Dodging another attack, Harry ties to apparate out, only for his eyes to widen as he finds that he can't. 'SHIT!' A Moment later he swears in real life as Akui appears behind him and lands a strike to his back, her claws cleaving through his coat and the venom on them begins to eat through his vest. Leaping away, Harry bites his lip while trying to find a way out. Bending over, he sighs. 'I guess that I have nothing to do but to attack…' "Shunpo!" Harry disappears only to reappear with his fist buried in a slowly healing Akui's stomach before following through with a devastating uppercut. Before she can fly too far, Harry leaps above her and then lands a roundhouse kick to her chest sending her through a boulder. Landing somewhat roughly, Harry gasps for breath before an enraged Akui bursts from inside the rubble and strarts charging Harry. Groaning, Harry leaps into the air before he unleashes another barrage of spells. "Blastodio! Reducto! Reducto!" Akui only grins before bringing her arm back up with it turning silver.

"As ALwayS KurO, YoU JUst NEver LEaRN!" Harry just grins as he watches the spells get absorbed and then launched back at him. Suddenly everything blurs for Akui before she finds herself up in the air moments before the spells she just reflected slam into her back, nearly blasting her in half. Landing, Harry watches as she lands on the floor of the cavern with a meaty smack. Seeing several wiggling pieces nearby, Harry just sneers before pointing his fingers at one of them.

"Withering Flame." A small burst of green flame leaps from his finger and hits the piece, burning it away and leaving nothing behind but a cloud of greasy black smoke and a blackened area on the stone. Harry's about to say something when he gets hit in the back soon followed by a burning sensation. He also gets hit on the back of his legs. Looking down, Harry's eyes widen at the sight of what looks like two grubs burrowing into his flesh. Grunting, he gets back on his legs while contacting Kuro. 'Oi! Kuro! What the hell was that!' Kuro just shakes his head.

'Those… things… were parts of Akui. If I miss my guess they were going to slowly eat away at you from the inside, weakening you enough for her to easily kill… or to give her the ability to take her time to do so.' Kuro just chuckles feeling Harry's nervousness. 'No worries kid, your AK enhanced immune system killed them as soon as they entered your body. And besides… I'm here and I sure as hell aren't about to let them do anything to you… Not that they really could since I'm a Taiyoukai.' Harry just sighs in relief.

'Thanks Kuro. That's a load off my mind.' Hearing a sound, he turns to see Akui's arm get dragged behind a rock causing him to growl. "This bitch is really getting on my fucking last nerve!" He's about to rush over when the rubble behind him bursts apart with Akui lunging towards him with her mouth opened impossibly wide revealing rows of sharp teeth, her skin fully healed except for the fact that it's corpse gray. She hits where Harry is causing a cloud of dust and debris to form. Harry just leaps out of the smoke holding onto a injured arm as what appears to be a bunch of open mouthed serpents with armoured heads try to strike him. He dodges each one as they follow him. 'GODFUCKING DAMNIT! WHAT DOES IT FUCKING TAKE TO BLOODY WELL KILL HER!?' It's at that point when he feels what seems to be a heartbeat from his sword causing him to look down as he feels another. "What the…?" Kuro just laughs in his head.

'Seems that you FINALLY have enough power to use my blade so it's now awakened!' Then he makes a thoughtful sound before mentally shrugging. 'Granted you only have the first attack, but it should hurt her enough….' Harry perks up at this as he draws his sword to see several sparks travel along the blade, the handle now seeming to feel comfortably warm, almost welcomingly so.

'So I can finally use that attack after all this time and training…? So… What's it's name? And how do I do it?' Kuro gives a sadistic grin as he tells him, causing a similar grin to appear on Harry's face as he brings the sword back, the sparks turning into a torrent of red lighting. He then swings it forwards sending out a blast of blood-red lighting towards Akui. "Kurenai Raikou! (Crimson Lighting!)" She doesn't have the time to dodge before it hits her, the lighting arcing through her body as she screams in agony before she falls forwards to one knee with a groan. Seeing her slowly get up, Harry whips his hands forwards. "FYNDFYRE!" The blast of purplish black fire shoots from his hands and lands directly on her. After a bit of her trying to put it out, she starts to grow under the flames causing Harry's eyes to widen as he backs up to a nearby wall. "Aw… crap." He suddenly blinks as he can feel a small breeze drifting out of the crack before he grins at just that moment the flames go out to reveal Akui's true form towering over him, which is that of several demons merged together, her face being visible inside the main demonic dragon head's mouth. Gulping Harry gives her a slightly shaky grin. "So sorry but… I just can't stick around! Bye!" And with a whispered chant, he dives for the crack and squeezes through it despite it being no wider then his finger. Reaching the other side, Harry lands on the floor face first. Getting back up, he hears a screech of pure rage as the wall he just came through shudders. Turning back, he starts to mumble to himself. "Thank Merlin for dragon magic… though it needs a better name. I mean, really, 'Just small enough' just isn't very imaginative…" Another shudder runs through the wall as a series of small cracks appear. "Right. I forgot about that." Inside his head, Kuro sweatdrops.

'How the hell could you possibly forget about her?' Shaking his head, Kuro sighs. 'But the main problem is that she can now escape and go after our family… What the hell are you grinning about?!' Harry just chuckles before answering.

'Because she won't go after our family Kuro. Not until she's sure that I'm dead or disabled. Not to mention that at this moment she's so pissed off that she can't think of anything other then to kill me.' Harry's expression then becomes serious. 'This does give us a measure of an advantage though since she's going to be focusing on us almost exclusively.' Seeing a nearby tunnel, Harry rushes towards it. Bending down, he grins as he takes out a sealing scroll and unsealing a bunch of equipment. Soon after he looks over his work with a nod before heading farther down the tunnel. Near the end of the tunnel before it opens up into another cavern, he sets up another trap. This time a wire trap designed to wrap around the opponent, restricting their movement. However, Harry's hooked it up to a fire seal as well causing Kuro to raise an eyebrow.

'Okay… I'll bite, why did you set it up that way?' Harry just snickers.

'Because the wire isn't actually wire. It's Thermite. And once she's wrapped up in it the fire seal will activate igniting it.' Kuro's eyes widen as he pales causing Harry to grin. 'And that's not counting the other trap. It'll launch a bunch of poisoned senbon into her once she breaks the trip wire. It alone should slow her down until she adapts… though the Basilisk venom should last for a while and weaken her… Hmm… I should add a little something…" Harry then grins manically as he adds a bunch of explosive tags to the whole thing. 'There! That should do it!' He then takes off in time to hear an ominous cracking sound from the other end of the tunnel as well as an enraged scream. Running through the cavern, Harry takes note of several pieces of old corroded mining equipment laying around causing him to frown. 'We're in a mine? I wonder what they mined here…' At that point he smells something like faint smell of a swamp causing his eyes to widen before they narrow as a grin makes itself known on his face. 'Coal mine… Excellent. I can use this…' Spotting a vertical shaft up ahead, he nods. 'Hey! Kuro, how are we doing for magic and chakra at the moment?' Kuro raises an eyebrow but doesn't make any other gestures of being confused.

'At the moment?' He makes a thoughtful sound before shrugging. 'We doing pretty good chakra wise. Magic wise… we're about at half capacity.' Harry then asks about the chakra storage seal on his back making him shake his head. 'Oh, that? I'm actually surprised that you remembered about it. I know that Tsunade and the others have. As to that… it's full at about your current level. Why?' Harry just shakes his head.

'I got a plan.' Kuro just shivers at this causing Harry to frown. 'Hey! I come up with damn good plans I'll have you know!' Kuro just sweatdrops before he answers.

'You come up with good plans? Need I remind you of the Desdimona incident? The sheer amount of collateral damage from it was astounding!' Harry just grumbles.

"Yeah… but it still worked…" Shaking his head clear, Harry leaps down the shaft to the next level before summoning a hoard of Kage Bushin and sending them down the corridor. One stays behind and casts a Notice-me-not charm on the entrance. Nodding, Harry continues down to the next level and repeats. As he goes farther and farther down, Harry continues his conversation with Kuro. 'So, figure out a way to beat her yet?' Kuro just sighs and shakes his head.

'Unfortunately no. The problem is that she is a combination of the two different types of conglomerate. She does remind me of one that I fought… Now THAT was an arrogant demoness I'll tell you.' Harry just raises an eyebrow.

'Oh? Do tell.' At that point they hear an explosion above them causing both to wince. 'Now that… had to hurt.' Kuro just nods.

'Yeah, agreed.' Shaking his head, Kuro clears his throat. 'Yeah… anyways, I met this one soon after I arrived back in Japan. She was a real bitch let me tell you. She had eaten so many other demons that she was almost a match for some Taiyoukai, not me or my family of course but others.' Harry just nods at that as he notices a slight waver at the bottom as he realizes that at least one of the lower levels are flooded with water.

'Of course. Anyways, please continue.' Kuro just shrugs as Harry creates another mass of Kage Bushin.

'Anyways, that wasn't the bad part. You see she was just about immortal.' Harry raises an eyebrow at that causing Kuro to shake his head. 'She had somehow killed and devoured a minor kami impersonating Tsukiyomi, gaining the deity's immortality. She then impersonated Tsukiyomi herself. Well, when I returned I heard of her and went after her. She of course tried to absorb me. ME! Didn't work out that way for her though. That kind of thing would only work if A. I was weaker then her. Or B. I was mortally wounded. I nearly destroyed her, immortal or not, when she escaped and went into hiding.' Kuro then makes a thoughtful sound. 'Never did find out what exactly happened to her…' Shaking his head, Kuro notices that they're standing on a ledge for one of the levels except for the fact that just below then the rest of the shaft is filled with water. He then raises an eyebrow as he watches several Harry clones leap into the water, sinking out of sight. Soon after Harry nods before placing a barrier seal over the bottom of the shaft just as the water begins to bubble and froth. Blinking in confusion, Kuro turns his thoughts towards Harry. 'Hey kid? What's with all this? I'm actually starting to get a little scared because you're not telling me anything. And THAT never bodes well.' Harry just chuckles as he starts moving into the mine.

'True. But I finally think that I have a way to kill Akui. Permanently.' This catches Kuro's interest as Harry continues. 'First thing first, I need a way to drain her Youki. I've already started since every time she has to heal causes her to expend some.' He then summons about fifty Kage Bushin and sends them down the hallway before placing his hands on his knees as he bends over gasping for breath drawing a concerned feeling from Kuro.

'You okay Harry? You shouldn't be using so much chakra otherwise you'll be perfect for Akui to kill. Being weakened from exhaustion is just as bad as being weakened from poison after all.' Harry just nods at that as he stands back up, the chakra storage seal on his back slowly refilling his reserves.

'I know that you mangy mutt. But the point is that I need all those bushin for my plan. Also, more of the chakra exhaustion that I'm feeling is coming from the fact that I'm having to convert chakra into magic, and there's always a little loss with that.' Kuro then asks why he needs all of that magic causing Harry to shrug. 'I need the bushin to cast some spells to set the whole thing up.' Walking into a large cavern, Harry nods as he looks around. 'Perfect. This will be the perfect point to set up an ambush. All I need to do is to distract her for several minutes and then I'll be done and the trap will be fully set.' Hearing a roar, Harry smirks. 'And here comes the guest of honour. Right on time unlike Kakashi.' Rushing over to the wall, Harry waves his hand over himself causing his image to waver before it vanishes. A few moments later Akui enters in her true form, several senbon still sticking out of her body. She stays there in the middle of the room as her heads whip around before she stops and takes a deep sniff of the air. She then begins to chuckle before growling.

"I knOW ThAt YoU ARe THeRe KuRo! I CaN SmELl YoUr StENch ANyWheRE! So IT's No USe HiDinG FrOm Me! So COme OuT ANd I pROmiSE To MAke YoUr DEatH ReLATivlY PAinLEss!" She stops looking around as a voice makes itself known.

"Aw… Really? Do you promise?" Akui just smashes a clawed arm where she heard the voice coming from only to hit nothing but wall as the voice comes from another angle. "Oooo! You nearly got me there! Good try though!" A Reducto comes out of no where and smashes into her back. A moment later she whips around and slashes at the area with her tail/tentacle. Harry's voice then rings out once more. "Aw… And you were SO close too! Want to have another shot?" A few moments later several Kunai shoot out at her, but she just knocks them away before she notices that they had small pouches on them that have opened, scattering several small pieces of paper around as Harry's voice rings out. "Now, this may be Sakura-nee-chan's original technique, but she gave me permission to use it…" Another kunai this time with an exploding note tied to it enters the cloud as Harry calls out the attack's name. "Sakura Fubuki no jutsu!" The resulting explosion sends shrapnel shooting every where in the narrow confines causing Harry to grunt as he holds his shoulder, the shock of the wound making lose his concentration and bringing an end to his spell. A moment later two tentacles shoot out from the cloud and impale Harry through his shoulder before they slam him into the wall, cracking it. A snapping sound is also heard showing that she broke at least one bone. She then slowly makes her way over, the large wounds on her slowly closing shut. Finally, she comes to a stop right in front of him as her main mouth opens revealing her face with a victorious smirk on it.

"So… ANy LaSt WoRDs KuRO?" Harry just slowly nods. "VeRy WeLL ThEn, Go AhEad." Harry just mumbles something causing her to blink before her smirk grows. "WhAt WaS ThAt KuRO?" She then brings her face right close only for Harry's face to whip up.

"I said that you're a fucking bitch! Futton! Komu no jutsu! (Boil Release! Skilled mist technique!)" Harry then sprays a greenish mist into her face causing her to scream in agony as she drops him, her body smashing into the walls as the mist eats away at her face and the area around it. Harry then follows it up with another jutsu. "Ninpou! Doku Giri no jutsu!" This time a almost black mist shoots from Harry's mouth and covers the area. After a few moments, Harry does two hand seals ending in the Tora. "Katon! Hosenka no jutsu!" The single green fireball shoots into the mist as Harry hides behind a boulder, igniting it in to a explosion. After a bit, Harry peeks out from behind to see a moaning Akui laying on the smoking floor. Sighing, Harry steps out from behind and is about to take off when he gets hit from behind by a glob of slime. As he struggles he doesn't see Akui get back up before he feels her breath on the back of his neck causing him to still.

"I'm FEelIng A LitTLe PecKIsh! AnD WhAt'S HEre? WhY It'S A NiCe TaStY DeMoN!" Harry doesn't have the time to react as she seemingly flows around him while grinning with her many mouths. After a few moments she starts laughing. "HAHAHAHAHAHA! I fiNAllY KiLLeD YoU KuRo! YOu KnOW WhAT I ThInK ThAt I WiLL ShOW YoU WhAt I WiLL dO To YoUR fAmiLy!" She stays still for several moments before she suddenly shudders as if in pain. She coughs up a glob of blood as her back bulges before it explodes revealing a pissed off Harry with his demonic aura swirling around him before it forms into a version of Naruto's 'Fox-Cloak' except it has the features of a dog, not a fox. Akui's eyes nearly pop out as she starts to finally feel fear. "WhAt! ThIS iS ImpoSSibLE!" Harry just growls as he pulls himself out of the whole he's made.

"With me there's nothing that's impossible! And guess what? Those images you sent me? THEY! JUST! PISSED! ME! OFF!" He punctuates each word with a punch to Akui's main head before he knocks her into the wall with the last word. She goes to get back up to find that Harry's already there. She only has time for her eyes to widen before Harry actually lifts her off the ground before slamming her down. He then throws her across the cavern. She starts to get up as Harry rushes towards her. "Now let me show you a move that I taught my Otouto! Sankon Tesso (Iron Reaver, Soul Stealer)!" The slashes hit her directly cutting her into pieces. The pieces start to reform almost immediately, but as they do so Harry starts chanting. "Gods of barathrum! Audite mihi iam! EGO dico super thee , adeo thy suffragium! Solvo illud animus irretitus intus is bestia! Solvo illud ut votum ut exsisto solvo! EGO scisco is beneficium vestrum! Commodo suffragium mihi! (Gods of the Underworld! Hear me now! I call upon thee, come to thy aid! Free those souls trapped within this beast! Free those that wish to be free! I ask this boon of you! Please aid me!)" And with the final words Harry jerks his hand forwards, a blue burst of light travelling from it into the reformed Akui causing her to screech as first one then two and soon several blue orbs shoot out of her body. She then tries to crawl away as more free themselves from her only for a clawed hand made of black chakra grabs her. She shakly turns her head to see a sadistically grinning Harry shake his finger and head before he yanks back, his fist coming forwards just as the chakra claw pulls her into range. As she slams into the wall again, Harry disappears and reappears on top of her before he does a few handsigns and grabs a hold of her back, a dark purplish energy traveling up his arm as he grunts. Inside his head, Kuro winces a bit.

'Fuck! We can't handle too much more of her Youki! This stuff is dense as hell and corrosive! And the damage is even worse with you using my youki! Harry, you have got to let go!" Harry just grunts back.

'Not… quite… yet!' Soon after words the point becomes moot as Akui finally manages to knock Harry from his perch on her back. She goes to hit Harry with one of her tentacles only for Harry to grab it and start swinging her around before he lets go sending her down a corridor. She skips along the ground only for Harry to reappear above her and smash a kick into her side sending her farther along the ground until she comes to rest inside another cavern. She goes to get up only to find herself skewered by a bunch of poles. Almost immediately purple lighting shoots between the poles and down into the ground as a circular array lights up underneath her. Symbols engraved into the poles then start glowing as well as she thrashes around trying to get free. Hearing chuckling, she turns to see a grinning Harry causing her to growl.

"AnD WhAt iS sO fUnnY?!" Harry stops chuckling, but his grin stays firmly on his face.

"Ah well… you see, now I got you just where I want you and now you're going to die. And this time you'll stay dead." Harry then mumbles something and a purple see through hemisphere comes into being with the edges meeting those of the array on the floor. Harry then points at it. "You see, that sheild is in fact powered by the Youki that's being drained from you. Most of it though is being channelled by the Iron poles into the earth to dissipate. Normally that would kill even a demon like you, but I decided to be on the safe side." Creating a Kage Bushin, he almost immediately dispels it and waiting a moment takes a deep breath and then scrunches up his nose. "This is the next phase and why I needed that shield around you. You can't smell it, but I used a bunch of Kage Bushin to draw out an explosive gas named methane from the coal beds. It's so explosive that the smallest spark could ignite an inferno. And now the air in the mine is saturated with it!" Akui just looks at him with a horrified expression as Harry's grin widens as he draws out a scroll and places it on the floor and swipes a bit of blood on it. "Now then, in this scroll is a sample I took of a phoenix's 'Flame of Rebirth'. I really don't think that I should have to tell you that this fire burns hot enough and is pure enough that it destroys any evil it comes into contact with. The only thing better would be a holy flame, and I'm unfortunately all out of holy flames at the moment. Now then, this seal holds it and…" Harry quickly writes out a seal around the main one. "And this seal acts as a timer to release the flame. With me so far?" The fact that Akui is paling is enough to tell him that she is. "Well… in about five minutes the seal will release the flame into a environment filled with a highly flammable and explosive gas… an environment in which you are trapped." Harry then chuckles as he starts skipping towards the exit, waving his hand back at her in goodbye. "Well, it's been nice knowing you! See ya! I most definitely wouldn't want to be ya!" As soon as Harry's out of hearing/sight range, he takes off running for the exit as fast as possible as Kuro starts screaming in his skull, causing him to wince.

'WHAT THE FUCKING HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!? ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME!? JUST HOW GODDAMN FUCKING STUPID AND INSANE ARE YOU!?' Harry just shrugs his shoulders as he reaches the main shaft and starts running up it.

'According to most people? Pretty much insane.' Seeing that Kuro's about to start on another rant, Harry cuts him right off there. 'That's quite enough Kuro! What's done is done and that's all!' Harry then continues in a softer tone. 'I just couldn't take the chance of her escaping again and this time going after my precious people. And if I have to give my life to prevent just that? So be it then. I have no regrets. She will be destroyed completely and utterly. And for the safety of my family I will pay any price willingly… Any price.' Looking up, Harry sighs as he hears a breeze pass by him causing Kuro to frown.

'What was that?' Harry just chuckles.

'Remember the Kage Bushin I sent into the flooded levels?' Kuro just nods as Harry becomes grim. 'I had them use some minor transfiguration to decompose the water into Hydrogen gas and pure oxygen. That breeze was a combination of the barrier holding them in collapsing and the others using magic to create a air current spreading it around. This whole mine is now one massive Air-fuel bomb. The fire will ignite the gasses and wipe out the entire mine. How large of a blast it'll be I don't know… just that it'll be huge.' Seeing the end of the shaft above him, Harry starts shooting vanishing charms on it, creating a passage way to the surface. Meanwhile down below him, Akui continues her struggles.

"ThAt TeMe! I'll KiLL hIm!" Slowly, she weakens as bits and pieces fall off of her until all that remains in her original body causing her to scowl before she grins manically as the lighting dies down (the poles themselves vanish) and the barrier drops. "Hahahahaha! You have failed again Kuro! I cannot be stopped! Even if it takes me another six hundred years I WILL kill you and all those you care for!" She stops laughing as she hears a beeping noise. Blinking as her smiles falls off, she turns in time to see the scroll that Harry left behind expel a small whitish red flame before it erupts into a massive fireball. She doesn't even have the time for a scream before she's blasted into ash and then nothing. Above in the shaft, Harry hears the rumble and notices a small red glow below him and, taking the chance, looks below him to see a wall of flame rolling up the shaft towards him as the rock around him shudders. His face then lights up as he finally sees the roof of the shaft collapse revealing blue sky and leaps through it just as the explosion reaches him…

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Sighing, Deidara looks (read: Glares) towards his partner Sasori. "I'm telling you Sasori-dana! My art is truly the greatest! It's the only true art! True art only lasts a moment but the memory of it brings awe for years to come! Your's, on the other hand, is just so static and boring!" Sasori just gives him a snort.

"And you call what you do art? Bah! True art can be looked at over and over for all eternity! Forever the same and never changing in it's beauty. One like you can never understand all that goes into art since your all into… flashiness…" Deidara seems to swell up at that.

"Flashiness… FLASHINESS!" He then points towards an area nearby with his pointer finger on his right hand. "SEE THAT FOREST RIGHT OVER THERE! I'M GOING TO TURN IT INTO TRUE ART RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW!" Just as he says those words the forest in question first buckles as the very ground it's standing on splinters right before a massive series of explosions rip through it. After a few moments the two first stare at the destruction before looking at Deidara's finger. Then Deidara begins to grin as he looks up at nervous Sasori. "Oh Sasori-dana…." He then begins to wave his finger at Sasori who starts to take off.

"STOP POINTING THAT THING AT ME DEIDARA!"

"AWWWW… BUT I JUST WANT TO SHOW WHAT I CAN DO WITH MY FINGER!" Above them Lily blinks before looking down at the two blurred figures. After a few seconds, she just shakes her head as she heads towards the explosion site.

"I really wonder about these shinobi sometimes… I mean really! If you're going to do something like that then have the decency to wait until your at home or some place as private! I mean yeesh!" Soon after she reaches the explosion site she starts doing a Ariel search pattern as James had taught her. She feels a pang in her chest at that before she shakes her head free of those thoughts. 'Enough of that Lily! You find Harry first then you… can… OH MERLIN!' She dives down, pushing the broom to it's limits towards what looks like a body laying on the scorched ground next to a large hole. She doesn't even land the broom before leaping off it, not paying attention to where it's going. Rushing to the side of the body she gasps as she realizes that it's Harry before kneeling next to him and scanning him over with her wand, easily slipping into her old role as a medic of the Order in order to block out her rising panic. 'Let's see here… both legs are broken, the left it's the shin and the right the entire leg is pretty much shattered… one shoulder is broken along with his attached arm… Three broken ribs and the others bruised… fractured skull and sprained neck… third degree burns over a LOT of his body… lacerations galore…' Feeling a rumble, she just mages to stay upright as the ground she's on shifts beneath her. Her eyes widen part of it drops and with a single motion slips her wand back into it's holster while grabbing Harry's arm with one hand and a tree root with another. Lily just grunts as she feels like her arms are being torn from her body as the ground starts to tilt. Shaking her head, she focuses in order to apparate out… only to find to her horror that she can't. "No…" Another shock makes itself known as the block of earth the tree's rooted in starts to tilt even farther and slip as the area around them begins to collapse. For Lily everything seems to fall silent as she looks down at the unconscious face of her son, the memories of another time coming to her mind…

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Having rushed up the stairs to where Harry's room is, Lily listens to the sounds of James, her darling James, fighting the Dark Lord himself downstairs. "Damn you Peter… I hope that one day you rot in HELL!" Shaking her head, she concentrates to apparate out, only to find that she can't. Slightly panicked, she grasps the amulet around her neck only to find that the emergency portkey doesn't work either. "No…" Hearing a slight whimper, she looks down into the green eyes of her son. As she does so, a sense of calmness envelops her as time itself seems to still for a moment. Her face hardens as she begins a complicated spell. A spell that she found in ancient book in Hogwarts' library back when she was Headgirl. She starts chanting, everything else seemingly unimportant. The sound of her husband's body hitting the floor? Unimportant. The cackle of Voldemort's laugh? Unimportant. His footsteps coming up the stairs? Unimportant. The only thing that's important at this moment is her son's life. Nothing else matters. Not her life. Not James' life. No one's but her son's. Finally, she softly smiles as she finishes, utterly exhausted. Laying Harry down into his crib for the last time, she softly kisses him on his brow, tears leaking from her eyes as she spots a faint shimmer. Pulling back, she gives him one last, sad, smile. "I love you Harry… And I always will no matter what. Never doubt that." Her face then hardens as she faces the door as it's smashed in. After a few moments she falls back after the green beam hits her, her last thoughts being of Harry… Her Harry… And how much she loves him…

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As all these memories run through her mind, Lily's face hardens much like it did on that day, the vision of her son's infant face becoming overlaid with that of her son's now. Snarling, she reaches deep inside her and finds a new source of energy. Unheeding of the pain her body's in, her grip tightens on both Harry and the tree root. And then with agonizing slowness, she slowly starts to pull them both up, ignoring the bursts of flames coming from the cracks in the ground around her. "Errrgggghhh! Not this… time… NOT THIS TIME! YOU WILL NOT HAVE MY SON DEATH YOU FUCKING SON OF A BITCH! AAARRRRGHHHHH!" Now almost level with the root and with her aura visible and raging around her, Lily feels something in the back of her mind come to the forefront and without thinking uses the information and vanishes in a swirl of leafs just as the tree falls into the flaming crevice. She winds up close to the hospital in Konoha and hit's the ground running. As she's running, she ignores a fight up ahead between a insane Sasuke and several ANBU who are trying to subdue him.

"LEAVE ME ALONE! I NEED TO GO TO OROCHIMARU FOR POWER! ONLY HE CAN GIVE ME THE POWER TO KILL ITACHI!" One of the ANBU is about to attack when Sasuke notices Lily rushing up the road with Harry in her arms and goes through several handsigns. "KUKUKU! THE DOBE MAY HAVE BROUGHT ME BACK THIS TIME, BUT I'LL PAY HIM BACK BY KILLING HIS OBA-SAN AND NII-SAN! KATON! GOUKYAKU NO JUTSU!" The fireball heads directly for the two but Lily just ignores it in her rush and goes right through it without being harmed. That's not to say that she did nothing since as she's speeding past Sasuke she hits him with a backhand sending him flying first into and then through a nearby wall. She also knocks two of the pursuing ANBU to the ground as well. The last one just watches in disbelief as she passes him. As she's running, she looks down at Harry's now cradled in her arm and again instinctively channels her magic into him which jumpstarts the healing process. She then smashes through the hospital doors before turning around a corner, losing her footing in the process and going down and smacking her head on the floor hard as she cushions Harry with her own body. She just ignores this as she gets back up and enters the ER with her hair and eyes wild as she screams for help. Hermione looks up from where she's looking over Kiba at the noise and her eyes widen as she rushes over and grabs Harry from a near hysterical Lily before she starts screaming orders. That and the feeling that Harry's now safe is all Lily knows before her eyes roll up into the back of her head and she collapses right there in both exhaustion and pain…

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Steve: Well, there we go! Yet another and I hope that I portrayed Lily correctly. I don't know how I did, but I hope that I did her character justice.

Pen-pen: (Well… I think that you did.)

Steve: Thanks. Coming from you of all people that means quite a bit.

Yui: By the way… Have you seen the newest chapters of the manga?

Steve: (Scowls) Yeah, I have. (Spoiler alert) I mean, what the hell is going on here!? Danzo has not only a Sharigan that can control a person's thoughts, but an entire arm that allows him the use of an immortality technique!? And Mokuton as well!? What the fucking hell! This is just getting ridiculous now. What the hell is next? Danzo starts using Orochimaru's immortality technique as well?! (Spoiler over) Ahhh… that felt good.

Yui: We can tell.

Steve: Anyways… time for the next chapters!

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