Freak

Hari hated that word with a passion. It rivaled her hatred for Voldy, for Umbridge, she hated the word. It brought back unpleasant memories of the Dursley's and Hari had never quite gotten over it, even years later.

Part of her accepted the term. After all, she was from another dimension, a witch, and Master of Death (but only for her dimension) wrapped into one.

Part of her wanted to scream at Sakura at how the pinkette was the one walking up things like gravity didn't even exist and that to her, that was freakish.

But when Naruto had explained and Sakura's reply was to scoff derisively and mutter that word, Hari felt herself go numb.

Fine. Then she was a freak even here.

"Naruto. Leave her be. It's fine." She heard herself say.

"No, it is not fine! She can't call you a freak! That's rude and totally not right! You aren't a freak Harri!" Naruto protested with fury written in every line of his body. His fists were clenched as he stared at the ground, and Harri could tell that he was going to cut his palms with how hard he was clenching them.

Almost unconsciously, Harri felt herself soften and she knelt down by him, "Naruto, it's okay, I know what I am. I'm not from your world, I am a freak."

She tried to pull his hands apart so he wouldn't hurt himself, but Naruto simply took a measured step back.

Then he looked up at her, face firm in his conviction, "If I'm not a monster, than you can't be a freak." He replied softly but surely, "You will never be a freak to me." Then he turned on his heel and sprinted into the forest, dropping her lamp on the ground as he went.

"What is going on?" Kakashi asked as he finally spoke up.

"She's a freak, that's what's going on. And Naruto is one as well I guess." Sakura said disgustedly, beginning to back away.

"Sakura. Enough. You aren't being professional. Go back to Tazuna's house right now." Kakashi snapped at the girl. With a last scoff, Sakura turned and stalked off, her hands in fists as she muttered under her breath.

For a moment, all Kakashi did was stare after her with an unreadable expression. Then he turned to Sasuke and ordered him back too.

Sasuke hesitated, looking around for a sign of Harri, but eventually seeing no one, slowly started walking back to the house.

Once Sasuke was out of sight, Kakashi let out a sigh before walking over to where Naruto had dropped Harri's lamp. Harri followed along silently, waiting to see how he would react.

"You know, I can't see you. But I'm pretty sure you're here. The Hokage mentioned it briefly to me, but didn't say much. He said you were invisible to most." Kakashi paused by the discarded lamp, squatting down next to it. Harri kneeled down across from him, hands on her knees as she stared at the lamp.

"He said you didn't have chakra, but magic. I didn't believe him. I'm still not sure I do. But Naruto has a way of convincing people to believe in things that they otherwise wouldn't. So I suppose that the idea of an invisible guardian from another dimension who uses magic and not chakra isn't as far-fetched as it should be." Kakashi said, staring at the lamp between them, even though he couldn't see Harri.

But then he raised his head and looked at her, "Hi, My name's Kakashi Hatake. What's yours?"

Harri let out a small smile, looking down at her lamp as she shook her head before looking back up at Kakashi, "Harri Potter. Nice to meet you Kakashi."

There was silence as the two regarded each other, eyes calculating as they took the other in. While Harri had already done a check on Kakashi, back when the team was first formed, it was different when you could look at someone and have them look back at you.

The eyes were the windows to the soul after all.

"How old are you?" Kakashi's frank, random question made Harri rock back on her heels in surprise before a smirk crossed her face.

"Haven't you heard it's rude to ask a lady for her age?" she said in a teasing voice, fluidly standing up and giving a small smirk to Kakashi.

Kakashi scooped up the lamp and stood up as well, towering over her. A small part of her cursed the Dursley's again for making her short before she shoved that thought back down to stare back at Kakashi.

"Perhaps in your world. But in ours we're more focused on if the person is trying to kill us." He said in a mild voice, "You can't touch the lamp?"

Harri pursed her lips, discomforted by the change in topics, "Technically, I can. But it triggers pain that I feel in my soul. To most, it's completely impossible to hold it. I've got another line of defense against that though. It's a built in defensive mechanism basically. After being bound to the lamp for a significant amount of years, people become desperate. If I could touch the lamp, the curse wouldn't be much of an issue anymore. Because I can't touch it or pick it up, I can't move it. It's actually quite clever."

"What would it take to break the connection?"

"It's not possible. Not for anyone here. Maybe someone from where I come from, but here? No, it's not possible. Chakra and magic just don't interact in a way for it to be possible." Harri shut the idea down before it could even begin to take root.

Kakashi snorted a bit, "Don't let Naruto hear you say that. He'll break it just to show he can."

Harri raised her head to the sky and let out a breath, "He can't. I've tried. I've tried for years, in hundreds of different dimensions even, but it's not going to happen. For a variety of reasons that I don't feel privy to share." Harri finally answered.

"I will deal with Sakura, what she said was uncalled for." Kakashi finally said, turning and taking a few steps towards Tazuna's house before looking back at Harri.

She caught up to him and spoke as they walked, "You really don't have to. I am a freak." The last word was spoken bitterly and Kakashi shot her a glance.

"Just like Naruto isn't just a dead-last." It was spoken blandly, but Harri couldn't find any words to protest it. Because Naruto wasn't just a dead-last student, but she was a freak.

Right?

But Harri just kept quiet as the two walked back.

Naruto didn't return that night, nor the next day, which would have driven Harri insane if it hadn't been for Kakashi. He had kept Harri informed of where he was, and what he presumed the blond was doing. Eventually she had just returned to her lamp, not content, but willing to wait.

Plus she didn't want to deal with Sakura's distrustful but curious stares.

But whatever.

Harri sat, utterly bored, waiting for something to happen.

But nothing happened. Harri had a feeling that Kakashi had set her lamp down in the room they were sleeping in and had disappeared with his other two students, intent on teaching them something.

As usual, the longer spent in the lamp, the more time seemed to stretch. When Harri spent a lot of time in the lamp, it was negated, but after spending a lot of time outside the lamp, it caused an interesting transition.

It was mostly just a coping method, a way to make people go less insane while they were trapped in the lamp. It just made things confusing when Harri was summoned suddenly.

The lamp had made it felt like Harri had spent ages in it, but at the same time no time at all, so she kind of just stood there wobbling a bit, blinking and shaking her head in an attempt to clear the cobwebs.

The kunai headed towards her head made her wake up a lot faster.

"Sorry Harri! Could you help us though?" Naruto's question made her whip around, narrowing her eyes at the two boys.

It was slightly worrying that they were standing in an upside-down fishbowl mirror.

"What have you gotten yourselves into now?" she growled, then promptly hit the deck as a wave of senbon appeared out of the mirrors.

"Explanations later?" Naruto pleaded as he and Sasuke dodged another wave. Harri winced as she felt some pierce her skin, but ignored it for now. The injuries would probably disappear quickly.

"Come on Sasuke, let's try it one more time." Naruto said, rising to his feet and ignoring the senbon sticking out of him.

Sasuke just nodded and Harri watched curiously as they threw themselves against the mirrors and the figure that stood within.

Naruto landed on the ground, breathing heavy, Sasuke standing off to the side

When the figure in the glass left, looking at Sasuke who stood tall, Harri saw the eyes flicker towards Naruto on the ground. She pushed herself to her feet and practically launched herself forward.

There was a moment where everything was still. Naruto lay on the ground, Sasuke leaping determinedly to be in front of him. To most others, it would be an impossible move to get in front of the boys now.

But Harri wasn't most people.

Her hand dug into Sasuke's shoulder hard enough to leave a bruise as she threw him behind her. She could see the solitary visible eye widening at the sight, the panic that arose in them. But the senbon were already piercing her, and all Harri felt was pain.

Awkwardly, she fell to her knees, feeling the senbon in her right eye pierce her brain. It wasn't the worst pain she had ever felt, but it didn't change the fact that she had a piece of metal in her head. And that was disregarding the 11 other senbon in her right side, six of which were fatal on their own.

Without even a cough, due to the senbon piercing her cheek, Harri fell to her side, taking a final, shuddering breath, automatically curling up a bit, before letting out a final breath of air.

And while her body temporarily died, Harri sat up and looked on in worry at Naruto. She hated it when she temporarily died in front of someone she liked. Especially when she hadn't gotten around to warning them about the return.

But Harri winced when Naruto just stood there, looking down at the ground and shaking as a red aura started to surround him. The red aura wasn't Naruto's normal chakra, and Harri grimaced at realizing that it was the Kyuubi's chakra that was coursing through Naruto right now. The chakra caused his numerous little wounds to heal and to practically spit out the senbon embedded in him.

He charged at the reflection, arms outstretched, the red chakra surrounding him. The hunter-nin backed away nervously, his arm flinging out senbon at the charging Naruto, but the blond kept running at him, his nails resembling that of an animals, his eyes red with hatred.

Even though there were multiple copies of the hunter-nin, Naruto could apparently tell which one was the real one, because even through the panicked reactions of the opponent, Naruto crashed through the ice, a fist squarely in the crack in the mask.

It sent them flying backwards, skidding as he attempted to stop before he fell off the ending of the bridge.

His mask lay in pieces, a clear sign of the path his flying body had taken. As he unsteadily pushed himself of the ground, his hair covered his face. Finally standing up, in time to look up at the furious Naruto, the boy pushed his hair out of his face.

Naruto's fist, perhaps an inch from the face, froze. The Kyuubi's chakra fled in an instance, Naruto's fist dropping to his side as he took several steps away from the teenager.

"Haku?" the soft question betrayed what emotion Naruto's face no doubt held.

Harri struggled to bind her soul back to her body, trying to get it to heal itself faster. She just knew this was going to end especially badly, now that Naruto apparently knew the kid. Because he was Naruto and bad stuff seemed to just occur to him before he was able to turn the situation around.

The most detrimental injury was the one in her eye. And that was the one being the most stubborn. Head wounds always were, no matter how they were caused.

Sasuke was kneeling next to her body, hands hesitating to touch her, but there was an expression on his face that made Harri wonder at the cause behind it.

When one of the senbon fell out, he jerked back away from her body, mouth falling open. But when it remained the only one to fall out, Sasuke reached forward again. Grimacing, he grasped ahold of one of the less life-threatening senbon and yanked it out quickly.

Harri watched with curiosity as he yanked out another one, grimacing again. That would certainly help the process be faster. Idly, she wondered if he noticed the fact that she was healing those small wounds or if he was simply offering her mercy in her supposed death for sacrificing her life for his.

His hand twitched as he reached for the one in her neck, but he just pulled it out, letting it join the others in the pile he had made.

Cautiously, Harri reached out and joined her hand back with her body, wincing as she felt the pain spike through. Her hand twitched in her body as she pulled her hand back out, not wanting to rejoin only to be kicked out again.

Sasuke jerked back as he saw her hand move, but he took a deep breath, looking over to where Naruto and Haku were talking before turning back to her prone body and pulling out another senbon.

His sharingan was still active, but he turned it off as he continued with pulling out senbon. Distantly, they could hear Sakura talking to Tazuna as the two drew nearer.

"You could see her?" was Sasuke's only question as he kept his eyes on Harri's body.

Sakura sniffed, and nodded, letting go of Tazuna's hand to kneel next to her body, "I was really mean to her. But she saved you. And Naruto I suppose. Why are you pulling out the senbon?"

Sasuke didn't answer, but his hand did hesitate as he went to pull out another one, "She isn't like us, her hand has already twitched. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out she can come back."

Harri was watching closely, so she saw how Sakura paled, swallowed, and then seemed to shove all the fear and hesitation to the back of her mind, "How do you want me to help?"

Sasuke looked up at her with a dead-pan expression, "Pull out senbon. Carefully."

Sakura just bit her lip and nodded, small hands shaking as she reached for the closest senbon. Between the two of them, the rest were all taken out. Except for two.

The two looked at each other and Harri could just see the panic in their positions. As Sasuke reached for one, hand shaking just the slightest bit, a scream was heard.

Everyone snapped around to see Kakashi, his hand buried in Haku's chest. Zabuza looked confused, prideful, but at the same time there was a soft expression in his eyes that was ruthlessly pushed away.

Naruto was yelling something, or was that just the wind? Harri couldn't quite tell anymore as she stared at how Haku was struggling to breath.

Harri didn't hesitate anymore and dived for her body, fully rejoining with it, the pain racing through her as everything realigned. There was still two senbon left, the one in her eye and the one in her cheek, but Harri disregarded that, shoving that pain away as fire raced through her veins again, causing her to arch her back in an attempt to alleviate the pain.

It always hurt, every time. Every nerve was lit on fire, everything was shoved back into place ruthlessly, a square peg in a round hole.

Harri collapsed against the ground, breathing hard as she turned to her side, struggling to stand. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Sasuke and Sakura scramble away from her body.

Kakashi had moved away from Zabuza, his hand still in Haku's chest. As Harri pushed to her knees, she pulled out the one that had pierced her cheek, dropping it to the side as she spat out some blood. Even though she was blind in one eye still, she could see how Kakashi almost gently lay Haku down, how Haku took in one last breath and then let it out almost as a sigh.

Naruto was beyond himself, shaking with what Harri supposed to be grief. He was yelling at Zabuza as well, but Harri was more concentrating on the pale blue light that had just started to rise from Haku's chest.

It felt as though the world had frozen as Harri rocked back on her heels.

Death appeared, but it wasn't her Death, the one she was bound to.

It was the Shinigami, bloodthirsty grin present on his face as he reached for the small soul. Harri snarled as its hands started to encircle the soul.

"You can't have him." She said fiercely as she stumbled to her feet, viciously yanking out the senbon from her eye and letting it drop onto the ground.

His grin just rose a fraction higher, the bloodthirstiness rising just a tad. The knife in his mouth dripping with fresh blood.

intruder. go home. My soul. mineminemineminemine. go home

"You can't take him, he's got a future." She bit out, the corners of her mouth rising up in a literal snarl.

not your area. not my master. stupid master. go home. my soul, mine!

"I won't let you!"

The air grew simultaneously unbearably cold and hellishly hot as the Shinigami exerted his presence on Harri. All it did was stir up the Kyuubi even more in Naruto and Harri spared him a small glance before returning all attention to the Shinigami. The Kyuubi wasn't going to come out right now, not when Naruto was in the midst of ranting at Zabuza.

not your jurisdiction. have no power here. my soul for the taking. whine to your pathetic servant. go home!

"Haku, Haku if you want to live, you have to fight, come on Haku." Harri turned to the slowly appearing spirit of Haku. The longer she prevented the Shinigami from taking Haku's soul, the likelihood that he would be able to come back increase. But Haku shook his head the slightest, looking around before turning his focus on first the Shinigami then Harri. His head titled curiously, but all he did was give her a small peaceful smile, closing his eyes as he did so.

Then he turned away from her and resolutely took a step towards the Shinigami. In an instance, his clawed hands wrapped around Haku, the gentle kid's soul being compressed until it was back to being a small blue light.

"Leave his soul alone and put it back." Harri spoke through gritted teeth, taking a few stumbling steps toward the Shinigami.

pitiful master. not worthy of title. no hunger. none at all. Pitifuluselessunworthygohomehomehome. go home. go home. GOHOME!

Harri could feel something pull at her, pull at her magic, and Harri took a shuddering breath as she felt something in her start to give.

But her hand shot out, the lamp hitting her hand hard enough to whip it forward, the bones creaking and cracking in her wrist.

"Don't touch that." She snarled, an actual growl forcing itself out of her,fingers tight around her lamp. She could feel how it burned at her touch, how it felt as though something was scratching at her very soul, but Harri kept ahold of the metal.

The Shinigami's grin was practically righteous as it widened, his hands closing around Haku's soul with a viciousness that matched his grin.

Then both disappeared as Harri glared at the sight, her fingers clenched around her lamp. Then she walked to where Haku's body now lay, officially beyond anyone's saving.

She looked down at the kid who could have been great, who was great. And wanted to do something.

Instead, she slowly sank to her knees as vague sounds started to filter back in, like when a paused movie started up again in a slow-motion scene.

Distantly, she heard something about Gato, but ignored it in favour of staring at the lifeless body before her.

Was this world really that cruel? To kill children? To kill friends?

But the noise of the others stayed in the background, Harri only looking up as shoes started to approach her. Gato was approaching, eyes small and beady, and everyone else was frozen as they watched the business approach. And all Harri could feel was rage- hot, righteous fury surging through her as he walked closer. And as his foot swung back to kick Haku, Harri gave in.

The hand holding onto the lamp smacked down onto the incoming foot, magic literally blasting out in her anger.

Sparks flew out to the side as she blasted a hole straight through Gato's foot, the anger behind her magic instantly cauterizing it.

Gato screamed as he fell backwards, his cane falling to the side as he clutched at his foot.

"You would dare to desecrate the dead? Of someone who was far better than you could ever hope to be?" Harri whispered as she stood up, her hand tightening around her lamp before letting it drop to the ground, the pain at her soul becoming too much to handle. The clang made Gato flinch backwards and look up at her in terror.

"Shin..shini…shinigami." he whispered in utter terror.

Hari's lip curled as she looked down at him, "No, not the Shinigami. I'm something far, far worse than him." She promised, stepping around Haku and drawing near to Gato.

He scrambled backwards, blubbering and making excuses, but Harri was having none of it. There was a heaviness to the air that all but Harri felt as she approached the scum in front of her.

"I want to deal with him." A voice suddenly spoke up from behind her, making her pause mid-step. Zabuza limped over to her, arms hanging loosely by his side, murder written in his gaze as well, "Haku was my apprentice. You may take the idiots over there."

For a moment, Zabuza was afraid she was going to murder him as well as the others. But then a grin spread across her face that nearly spooked him. A grin full of teeth and promised blood. He sported it himself many times, but she was the embodiment of death. Her grin spoke only of death and suffering that had been seen for millennia and would continue to see it.

She lowered her arms to make a grand gesture towards Gato, bowing slightly in the process, "He's all yours." Harri stepped around Gato, merely smiling at him, making him flinch back as he tried to avoid her, before turning her attention towards the group standing frozen with fear behind him.

Harri did feel disappointed that she couldn't destroy Gato herself, but understood that Zabuza had a higher claim for revenge than her. She had never met Haku, could only guess as to how Naruto knew the kid, but Naruto had been devastated at Haku's death. As his master, it was only right she avenged Haku's death. It was also only fair that Zabuza finished off Gato, Haku had been Zabuza's apprentice for years.

Perhaps Zabuza would let her have a bit of him after he was done?

But that was later. For now, Harri wanted to deal with the group who thought they could stand in their way and threaten to take it all. Who dared to stand there and proclaim themselves as better. It wasn't like anyone would miss them anyways she bet. They were mercenaries, willing and happy to work for Gato. No one would miss them.

The men screamed as she tore them apart, glee filling her features as she let out her frustrations on them. They were nothing after all. Mere mortals who thought themselves important. Untouchable. Harri would just have to change that right now. They would feel the pain. There was plenty of magic that existed that wasn't Dark. Plenty to make them feel pain. To make them suffer. Blood and gore spattered across her face as she tore through them, making each one suffer more than the one before.

"Harri. Stop." The two word's cut through Harri's glee and she paused in her destruction. Curious, she turned her head to see Naruto standing there, pale and shaky, but firm.

He swallowed, and then took a step forwards, "You need to stop I think."

Her head tilted the slightest as her eyes narrowed, "Why should I? What makes their life deserving?" one more died in a painful fashion.

"They're human too. Even if they've made bad choices. And you're not a god to decide whether they live or die." He said in a small voice. And yet it rang with conviction and his belief in his ideals.

Harri looked at him as he stood there, blood splatter across his front, wounds doting across his small frame, and dropped her hands.

He was small, but he stood tall against her gaze, not flinching at all.

"As you wish, my master." she finally intoned softly, her head inclining just the slightest towards him. She dropped her hands to her side and the few remaining bandits fled. Regardless of anything else that happened, they knew that they had to get away from the battlefield. Away from her and her wrath. She who felt like Death itself.

Slowly, Harri started to reel back in the aura that she had let out rather savagely, the heaviness that came with the Death aura slowly filtering away until the only thing left was just the unease that permeated the air.

"Can you heal Zabuza?" was Naruto' next question.

"I can try." She replied, walking away from the mess she had left behind her. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Tazuna flinch slightly away from her before visibly steeling himself. He could handle shinobi. He could handle someone who appeared out of nowhere and felt like death. Maybe.

Zabuza was eyeing her, but with a mix of apprehension and respect. Gato, what was left of him at least, lay behind him. Away from Haku.

"May I see them?"

He eyed her a moment longer, then grunted at her, looking away. Harri took that to mean yes and took another step forward, her arm raised.

"Brakium Emendo. Episkey." She intoned as some of his wounds closed up over themselves. Hari pulled out the kunai in his shoulder blades and then attempted to heal them. There was no obvious change, but some of the pain left Zabuza's face and his arms started responding to his wishes again.

"Magic and chakra are like parallel things I believe. Forcing the two to interact is most likely nigh on impossible. I can only deal with the most superficial of things." She said in a level voice, ignoring how those surrounding her flinched at her voice.

"Can you heal Sasuke too?" Naruto spoke up when no one said anything in reply to Harri's comment.

Hari turned lightly towards the small group she had left behind, unsurprised to see the three shaking slightly. She tilted her head in question, and while he flinched, he also gave a hesitant nod.

Harri ignored the others as she approached Sasuke and waved her hand over his various cuts, watching them stitch themselves back together.

"Everyone attack!" the childish voice only made the group tense, but when it was revealed to be Inari with a pot on his head, along with the villagers behind him, the group relaxed.

"Wait, it's all over?" Inari let his arm with his makeshift club fall, looking at everyone in confusion. But his arrival, and the villagers, helped relax everyone even more.

"Come on everybody, let's head back to Tazuna's." Kakashi said tiredly as he started to limp back towards the house. For a moment, everyone stared after him in surprise at his overall casualness of what had just happened. But Sakura and Tazuna dutifully followed a second later, calling out to the cheering villagers.

Sasuke waited for Naruto to catch up before beginning to follow, which left Harri and Zabuza to stand there staring after them.

The villagers had surged forward, surrounding the group as they congratulated all of them. There were some looks given in their direction, but Kakashi steered everyone's attention away from them.

"Come on Zabuza. Otherwise Naruto will come after us, and I'm not in the mood for more shouting." Harri eventually said with a sigh as she followed after the group, now headed towards the house to celebrate more.

Harri had only taken a few dozen steps before realizing that Zabuza wasn't next to her. When she turned around, ready to call for him again, she stopped at seeing him standing next to Haku's body.

Harri walked up to him and gazed at the kid she hadn't met.

"Come on. Let's find a good place to bury him. In a clearing in the woods?" Harri offered. Zabuza nodded jerkily and knelt down next to his apprentice.

"Could you also grab that lamp? I want to be able to help you find a spot for him." She asked as he reached for the body. Zabuza paused, but did reach for the lamp as well, tucking it into a pocket, before continuing for Haku's body.

Once he had the body settled in his arms, he strode off, not waiting for Harri.

The clearing they found was quiet. Peaceful. It overlooked the village and the sea.

Harri had let Zabuza dig the grave himself when he just gave her a look, but did transfigure some flowers for the newly covered grave.

Neither of them said anything, the only sounds being the vague ones of cheering and normal outdoor sounds, but neither seemed inclined to say anything.

Eventually Naruto and the others joined them, solemn as well as they paid their respects.

"I've decided something." Naruto broke the silence, causing everyone to look at him, "I'm going to carve my own path. I'm going to run straight and true in life, looking after my friends, and I won't stop! I'm going to take care of my precious people and stay on my path."

Everybody smiled a bit at that, if nothing else for his enthusiasm. Although Zabuza just gave him a slightly less heated glare than usual.

"Alright, come on you guys, time to head back." Kakashi announced, eye-smiling as he pointed back towards Tazuna's house. There was only a little grumbling from Naruto, but dutifully he started to head back, casting a look at Harri before he went.

Harri could tell he wanted to say something, but Kakashi was shooing him off before he could ask it. So he went with only a frustrated glance backwards.

When Kakashi turned towards her next, she held her hands up, "Hey, I can tell when you're trying for subtlety, I'll just be in my lamp." She gave a little half wave to Zabuza before returning to the lamp, wincing a bit as it made its' anger clear towards her regarding her touching the lamp.

"Oh shut it you cranky old piece of crap." She muttered towards the walls.

Then with nothing else to do, she curled up on one of the cushions, staring at the wall.

There was a slight tugging, and Harri exited to see Naruto sitting on the roof of Tazuna's home, looking out over the distance.

Without saying anything, Harri sat next to him, looking up at the night sky. The stars twinkled like what she was used to, but none of the few constellations she knew were visible in the sky.

"I understand why people think I'm a monster. I get why I'm not too. I don't need to know everything about your past, 'cause I doubt you'll share it with me, but at the same time, how can you be there and say that it's okay to be a freak while telling me I'm not a monster?" Naruto started out, voice quiet for once. He set the lamp down to the side, leaning back against the roof as well.

"You're Ramen-Talk is getting better." Harri said as a small laugh slipped out, "I embody Death. In my home world, I have the power to take souls. I am a freak."

"You're not. You're Harri, who does have weird powers, but from your view, I bet we do too. But we aren't freaks are we?"

When Harri sucked in a breath to say something, Naruto just kept on going.

"And if your people called you a freak, then they're just stupid." He said stubbornly.

Harri snorted, "My friends and I used to call the wizarding world in general sheeple. Evidenced by their complete lack of common sense concerning anything even remotely important."

"Then that means you aren't a freak." Naruto said resolutely, rolling over to look at Harri. She looked over at him with a twist of a smile to her lips.

"You aren't a monster, and I'm not a freak." Harri agreed a bit dryly, but smiling, "Shake on it? Don't ever forget it."

Naruto grinned at her, sitting up in his excitement, "Deal!" he shouted for practically the whole world to hear, shaking Harri's outstretched hand vigorously.

"Go to sleep!" came from the house beneath them, multiple people yelling it.

Naruto just grinned sheepishly and laid back down on the roof next to Harri.

A/N:: Oh my freaking heck. Sorry this took me six months to update. Yesh. I'm aiming for six months and not a day late, but it might be too late by the time I get there.

Sometimes late at night, I ramble. Sorry.

Anyways, the arc is done. And I'll be honest, I was working two different word documents for different parts of the story (not mentioning how many other drafts there are sitting on my computer) so the combination point of the two documents is weird. And I took a short cut. But I honestly didn't want to write anymore of that specific scene.

Also, time gets a little weird here, I'm taking liberties with it.

Also, how'd you like who died and who didn't? I felt a little bad, but I made the decision several months ago, and I wanted to not write Haku living, 'cause everyone does that? Not really, I don't even really remember my reasoning why anymore, whoops.

Hope everyone enjoyed it!