Kingdark and Akua: You'll see.
collinbradley: My theory: seeing as her mom was born and raised in England, Sakura would have been raised speaking both English and Japanese.
rowanHOODofTheROWANwood: WTF? If you think Naruto is retarded, you shouldn't have read the story. It says NarutoHPxover in the summary. That should have tipped you off, so if your scarred for life, it's your own damn fault
Merrymow: Eventually, but not until after Voldemort is destroyed.
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Chapter One
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Tom was used to getting guests in the middle of the night. He was so used to it, in fact, that the opening of the door at unexpected times no longer caused him to jump. He was not however, used to seeing the Boy-Who-Lived walk in at 2:30 a.m. carrying a sleeping girl with pink - pink - hair. Usually only Nymphadora Tonks had pink hair. Maybe the sleeping girl was a metamorphagus. Maybe the sleeping girl was Tonks…potion or spell mistake maybe?
Harry watched in amusement as Tom gaped like a fish for a few moments, before clenching his mouth shut and standing up strait. Just a few minutes after getting on the Knight Bus, Stan caught sight of the bruise on Sakura's cheek, and healed her right up, before promising to go back and leave the Dursley's a little present.
"What can I do for you and the little lady, Mr. Potter?" he asked.
"A room would be nice, probably for a few days, two weeks at the most. I'd also prefer that no one found out I'm here. Much less with a little girl."
"Of course, Mr. Potter," Tom said, pulling a key from under the bar, and motioning for Harry to follow, "May I ask who the little girl is?"
"Sakura. My cousin apparently. From what I was able to get out of my uncle, her parents are dead."
"My apologies Mr. Potter."
"I didn't know them. And poor Sakura's already been traumatized by Vernon, the bastard."
"Here we are, Mr. Potter," Tom said, unlocking the door to room 13, then moving to let him enter, "Have a good night."
"You too Tom," Harry replied, "Oh, and it's just Harry. Mr. Potter makes me feel old. Hmm…better yet…call me Jaime so no one overhears my name."
"Very well. Have a nice night Jaime."
"Night." Harry closed the door, and placed Sakura on one of the beds, before turning to his own and sitting down on it. He enlarged both his trunk and Sakura's ,then pulled into his mind and started to repair his Occlumency walls and sort his memories for the day.
That was another thing Sirius had given him. Sirius managed to get Remus drunk (and getting a werewolf drunk was not easy mind you) and got a bit of his blood. Remus originally refused to do a blood adoption, not wanting there to be any chance of passing his disease on to Harry, and wouldn't budge no matter how many times Sirius told him it wouldn't happen - the adoption ritual wouldn't let it.
After getting the blood, Sirius had used it in the blood adoption ritual he did with Harry. Harry now had slightly better senses (very slightly - he could barely tell the difference sometimes), and natural Occlumency walls (a little unknown fact about werewolves was that no one could get into their heads - not even them, unless they fully merged with their wolf side). Remus still had no idea that it happened, though he did smack Sirius upside the head for getting him drunk.
Even with the natural walls, the scar allowed Voldemort a way into his head (Snape plowing through them last year hadn't helped much either), so every night he had to repair the damage the scar caused.
Harry had chosen a computer to represent his walls. His memories were sorted into 'folders, though he had copies of some of them on the 'desktop' so no one would get suspicious when they entered his mind (he could also 'edit' said copies if he needed to). Any memories he didn't want anyone to see were placed in 'hidden folders' and locked with a 'password'. He had 'virus protectors' that went everywhere but the 'desktop' and gave people headaches when they bit (said 'virus protectors' were in the form of teddy bears with wings that had razor sharp teeth - Sirius thought it would be funny) said people. He had several of them patrol around were the 'folder' containing the connection with Voldemort was. He also had a 'firewall' built around said folder, which is what normally needed repairs. Any false memories planted by Dumbledore or someone else were put in the 'recycling bin', although he never got rid of them just incase the person who put them there came looking.
After finishing the repairs, creating a new 'folder' for memories about Sakura, and sorting his memories, Harry drifted of to sleep.
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The next morning, Harry woke up at 7:00, cursing the Dursleys for giving him an internal clock. Checking that Sakura was still asleep, he headed into the bathroom to take a shower. Half an hour later he was done, and stepped back into the room (fully dressed, having taken his clothes with him) to see Sakura on her bed reading a book Harry was sure even he probably wouldn't of understood until he was seven or eight (even with learning to read early so he could cook with the recipes Petunia had put out for him).
'Okay, so she's a mini genius,' Harry thought, 'I could probably get some teachers for her; Muggle teachers, and maybe some from the Wizarding world if she's a witch.' It suddenly hit Harry that he had no clue how to take care of a five-year-old girl. 'I'm screwed.'
"My turn, nii-san?" Sakura asked, putting her book down and hopping of the bed
"Can you wash yourself or do you need help?" Sakura turned around and glared at him, hands on her hips.
"Of course I can! Do I look helpless?" Harry kept quiet, not wanting to see her reaction if he answered truthfully. Sakura 'humph'ed and got some clothes out of her trunk before going into the bathroom and shutting the door.
"What have I gotten myself into?" Harry asked himself quietly.
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Two hours later, both of them cleaned and fed (courtesy of Tom), they headed to Gringotts. One of the goblins, upon catching sight of him, sent another goblin to fetch Griphook. Sirius (yet again) had given the goblins a list of people. If Harry came in and no one on said list was with him, then they were to summon the only goblin Harry had ever truly met - Griphook.
"Good morning Mr. Potter," Griphook said, after walking up to them.
"Good morning to you too Griphook," Harry replied.
"Please follow me," the goblin said, turning around, "I assume this is about the will of Lord Sirius Black." Harry smiled slightly, remembering the look on Sirius' face when the goblins' called him that.
"Mostly," Harry replied. As the person getting the most from Sirius' will, it was up to Harry to set up the time and date of the will reading. Entering a large office with one desk in the middle, and two desks on the side wall (the middle being Griphook's and the others belonging to the Account Managers for the Potter (Slipring) and Black (Gorluck) families), Griphook gestured for Harry and Sakura to take a seat.
"From today the will reading has to be set, at the very least, three days from now, to give others time to rearrange their schedule's if needed. Albus Dumbledore has already tried to come in and set the date "on your behalf", but it was obvious he was lying."
"How about noon four days from now?" Harry asked.
"That will work, I will inform Gorluck and have him send out notices. Might I ask the reason you have a small child?" Sakura looked up from her book, and grinned at Griphook.
"Her name is Sakura," Harry told the goblin, "She was put into the Dursley's ever loving care. I decided to take her with me when I left. If it wouldn't be any trouble, I'd like to adopt her." Sakura stared at him with wide eyes and her mouth hanging open.
"Being underage, you can't adopt her, but no doubt Lord Black emancipated you in his will, so you will be able to adopt her after that. If you would sign these papers, we will put them in as soon as you are emancipated. Will you be doing a blood adoption?"
"That's up to her. I'll explain it to her later, and give you her answer before the reading."
"Very well. Is that all?"
"If you could just add more money to this, We'll be on our way," Harry said, pulling out a card with 'Gringotts Gold Card' printed on it. It worked similar to a credit-card, but a goblin had to add money to it.
"How much would you like me to put on it, Mr. Potter?"
"I'm going to be spending a lot of money today. I'm not sure the cost of some of the items, but if I need to have more money added I can come back, so just 2000 Galleons for now. And if 1000 of that could be put into Muggle currency."
"Very well," Griphook muttered some words that Harry didn't recognize, then touched the card which started to glow gold, "There is now 1000 Galleons and 3,425.47 Euros on the card."
"Thank you," Harry said, as he and Sakura got up to leave.
"Your welcome, Mr. Potter," Griphook replied, as the two left. He sighed happily. Damn, he was a lucky goblin; from Cart Goblin to Account Overseer, just because he was the only goblin that Harry Potter knew by name.
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"What are we going to do first?" Sakura asked.
"First, we're going to go back to our room, and make a list of all the things we own. Then, we're going to shop around Diagon Alley, this place (he gestured around), and then we're going into Muggle London to shop there," Harry told her.
"What's a Muggle?" Sakura asked, curiously, as they entered their room.
"Non-magical person. Did you see any of the gestures I made with my hands last night?" at Sakura's nod he continued, "Well, that was wandless magic. Most wizards don't have the patience or the control to do it, but Sirius, my godfather, managed to sit me down long enough to teach me, before he died." Sirius had warned Harry as his feeling that he would die grew stronger, so Harry wasn't caught of guard as bad as others were. Sirius had also threatened to make his life a living hell from the other side if he grieved too much.
"Oh," Sakura said, sadly, "My kaa-chan and tou-san died too. My tou-san's family wouldn't take me so I was sent to those people."
"The Dursleys' aren't the greatest caregivers in the world," Harry agreed, "You've used the terms 'nii-san', 'kaa-chan', and 'tou-san'…what do they mean?"
"Um…kaa-chan said 'nii-san' translated into 'big brother', 'kaa-chan' into 'mother', and 'tou-san' into 'father'. It's in Japanese because that's were my tou-san and his family lived."
"I suppose I should get a Japanese-English dictionary, so I don't have to ask you every time," Harry told her with a smile, opening his trunk. He got out a spiral notebook that Lupin had slipped him at the train station, and started listing any books and non-one-of-a-kind items he had (obviously he could remember that he had an invisibility cloak and the marauder's map (he re-stole the map when the toad-lady wasn't looking)). He then enlarged the other trunks and boxes that he had brought, listing the items in there too (separate pages for Muggle and Wizarding items of course). He didn't list 'leather jacket' as he did want one but he wasn't about to wear one with a purple flower on it (he did have some pride!), so that one would definitely go to Sakura once she could fit in it.
As he went through and listed everything, Sakura started digging through her own trunk, pulling out things for Harry to put on the list. Harry seemed stunned when she pulled out her shuriken and kunai (all dulled by her father before they were given to her earlier in the year; she was only five after all) before he added them to the Wizarding list. He really didn't want a curious Muggle to see them on the list. The books Sakura had in English sparked Harry's curiosity (A Ninja's Guide to Chakra, Anatomy: Where to Hit to Make It Hurt, and History of the Leaf Village's Great Clans among them). Sakura ended up writing the Japanese titles (in English of course) down for Harry, who put a 'J' next to them so he could see about getting them in English.
In half an hour, everything was listed down, and Harry rummaged through his trunk for a potion that (guess who) Sirius had given him. It was a variant of the Polyjuice potion that would allow him to chose his own features, kind of like a metamorphagus. It also lasted longer than the Polyjuice's one hour (Sirius said three), which was good, as they would be doing a lot of shopping in Diagon Alley, and he didn't want to be recognized, as no doubt Dumbledore knew he was gone by now.
Harry chose to change his features to the point where he really could be Sakura's older brother. He chose the same shade of pink as her hair, but kept his short, messy style. His eyes were kept the green they had been since he was born. Sakura watched his features morph in awe.
"You look like me," she whispered.
"That was the idea," Harry replied, "Now while we're out in Diagon Alley this time, you can't call me 'Harry'. 'Jaime' will do, or 'nii-san', okay?" Sakura nodded, and Harry smiled, "Well, come on," he held out his hand, and she took it, "Let's go shopping."
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Their first stop was Ollivander's. Harry needed to get a new wand (to negate the effects of the brother wand bond; wandless magic did get tiring after a while), and no doubt Ollivander would know if Sakura was a witch or not.
"Hello Mr. Potter," Ollivander's voice came from behind them, causing the two to jump.
"I'm not even going to ask how you knew," Harry grumbled, making Sakura giggle, "I need a new wand."
"Is yours broken?"
"No, but I could do without the brother connection to Voldemort."
"I am afraid, Mr. Potter, that Ministry law prevents you from buying a second wand."
"From 'buying' a second wand, not 'owning' a second wand," Harry told him, "And I don't plan on buying it; I plan to trade for it. He placed a small lighter-sized box on the counter, and enlarged it. When it stopped growing (at the size of a briefcase), Harry opened it, and the contents made Ollivander gasp in surprise.
"Is that?"
"Two vials Basilisk Venom," Harry said, with a smile.
"And that?"
"Four vials of Acromantula Venom."
"Bu..wha..che." Seeing that Ollivander was no longer able to speak Harry continued.
"Seven Acromantula fangs, one Basilisk fang, though I have another I want to be put in my new wand if possible, a half vial of Phoenix Tears, willingly given by Fawkes, five flawless focus stones, one sapphire, one ruby, one diamond, and the last two emerald. three blocks of wood from the Whomping Willow, which was not too happy about that, and I have the scars to prove it, and finally, six toenail clippings of a Cerberus, Hagrid's Fluffy to be exact."
"You give me all that and you can have the bloody store," Ollivander said, in a daze, holding on to the counter as though it were the only thing supporting his weight.
'It probably is,' Harry mused, 'Most of what is in this box is either rare or hard to get, sometimes both.'
"I don't want the store, just a trade for a new wand, and one for Sakura if possible." Ollivander nodded, with his mouth still open, and Harry wondered if he was in shock.
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Dumbledore was slightly confused to find Nymphadora Tonks' resignation from the Order on his desk in the morning, until Dung burst into the room, screaming his head off.
"DUNG!" Dumbledore yelled to get his attention, and after getting it, continued, "What is it, Mundungus?" Dumbledore's nose twitched slightly at the smell of alcohol coming off of Dung's breath.
"It's the Potter boy, sir! He's gone!" Dumbledore's eye twitched, before he summoned the members of the Order.
'I wonder if Nymphadora had anything to do with this,' Dumbledore thought, 'It would explain her resignation.'
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An hour later, both Harry and Sakura had two wands each, and an arm and belt holster for each wand. Harry's new wand was 13 inches, made from the wood of the Whomping Willow, and had the second Basilisk fang(the one he used to stab the diary in the Chamber) covered in Basilisk venom, and two drops of Phoenix tears in it.
Sakura's first wand was 11 ½ inches, made of Ebony, with a Unicorn tail hair inside, and her second was 12 inches, made of Maple with a handle made of the Whomping Willow, and had a Acromantula fang covered in Acromantula venom, and another two drops of Phoenix tears inside it.
All three wands had focus stones. Harry's had an emerald focus stone, and Sakura had sapphire for the Ebony wand and emerald for the other. Harry wondered about the slight similarities between their second wands, but when he asked, Ollivander only gave him a crooked smile.
Their second stop was Madam Malkin's for robes of all sorts: regular robes, school robes, potion making robes (you were supposed to wear these to lessen the chance of getting hurt by a potion explosion among other things), battle robes, and dress robes. For some reason there were also sleep robes, but Harry wasn't going to waste his money on something he wouldn't use.
150 galleons, 34 sickles, and 2 knuts later, Harry had three sets of the Hogwarts uniforms in his size (robes included), two dress robes (one in black with silver trim, and the other in black with green trim), five sets of potion making robes (all black), and seven regular robes (two black, two dark blue, and three dark green). Sakura had two dress robes (one in green with silver trim, and the other pink with pale green trim), two sets of potion making robes (all black; that she'd only wear if he had no other choice but to make a potion while she was in the room), and ten regular robes (two black, one green, three pink, two blue, one purple, and one yellow).
They each had five sets of battle robes (made with Basilisk skin he provided to Madam Malkin ; there would be quite a bit of the Basilisk skin left over, which is why he got such a big discount) with loads of protection charms, that were being made and would be sent to them by owl. Harry didn't plan for Sakura to be in any battles, but, like with the potion making robes, were mainly to protect her if there was no other choice but to be near the battle).
The third stop was Flourish and Blotts. Harry showed the person at the counter the list of books that he and Sakura had between them (and a list of books in his family's and the Black's vaults that Griphook had given him during a previous visit), and asked to buy whatever books the store had that they didn't.
"Are you serious?" the cashier asked, with her mouth dropped. Harry's eyebrows rose and she continued, "Oh my god, you are serious. Um…okay…wait a moment while I get a copy of all the books you want."
"Even if their the only one here," Harry told the girl, "Money is no problem."
700 galleons, 8 sickles, and 1 knut later Harry had all the books minimized in his pocket. Another 45 galleons and Flourish and Blotts would save one copy of every book they received for Harry to buy and pick up later with, provided he had his Gringotts Gold Card with him, so they could verify his identity.
"That's a lot of books to read, nii-san," Sakura said.
"Yes it is," Harry sighed, wondering how he would manage to do it, "Let's see. We've spent 895 galleons, 42 sickles, and 3 knuts. We've got just about 100 galleons left on the card. What'dya say we go to the pet store, huh?" Sakura's eyes lit up.
"The pet store! Really? Can I get a pet? Please?" Harry chuckled and turned in the directions of Magical Menagerie.
"Alright, provided said pet and all it's needed equipment wont cost over 100 galleons, understand?" Sakura nodded happily. Harry smiled as they entered the store.
"Can I help you?" a bored voice said from behind the counter.
"Just looking for now," Harry said. The man shrugged and went back to reading his magazine. Harry was happy to note that the magazine was the Quibbler; Luna would be thrilled. Sakura quickly became enamored with an animal in the corner. Harry looked at it in horror.
'I thought Sirius was joking about those things being real,' he thought, as he watched the sharp-toothed, winged, light blue, teddy-bear like animal make faces at Sakura through the glass cage and vice versa.
"There's a charm to file it's teeth down," the man behind the counter said, mistaking Harry's look of horror to be about the teeth.
"Can I get him? Pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaasssssseeeee?" Sakura asked, putting on the puppy dog eyes.
"How much?" Harry asked the man, causing Sakura to cheer in delight.
"2 galleons for the animal, 5 galleons for a regular sized cage for it ("Him," Sakura interjected), 10 for a wall length that will take up one whole side of the wall and resize itself every time you move it (another "Him," from Sakura), 3 galleons for the food, 15 galleons for a book on how to take care of it ("Him."), which has the teeth charm in it, and up to 35 galleons for assorted toys for him (Sakura smiled happily)."
They left the store with Sakura cuddling the newly named 'Oddity' ("Odd for short," she said), both cages (the smaller one for Hogwarts, and the bigger one for wherever they were going to live after the will reading), six cases of food (plus some owl treats for Hedwig), the book, and three toys, totaling 76 galleons in all.
Harry idly wondered if Oddity would give a headache to the people he bit.
"Well that's it for now," Harry said, "We're out of money and the potion is almost done. Let's go put our things away and have lunch in London, hmm?"
"Okay," Sakura said, still cuddling Oddity, who let out a squeaky "rawr" that made Sakura giggle and Harry smile.
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Anybody wanna beta for this story? If you do, please email me (runewitch (dash) sakura (at) excite (dot) com). I have another chapter or two worth of ideas thanks to my muses, so this will probably be updated pretty soon. I hate my muses; I wish they would give me ideas for one of my other stories, instead of new ones all the time. Oh, well. Read and Review please! Smiles!
Rune