~Shout out to Sakura lisel for their brilliant review~

A/N: to the sassy anonymous guest who left this review...

~darling, a chapter is a cohesive unit, hence you can not split it in parts~

Thank you for telling me but i know what a chapter is (i did go to school) and if you read 'chap 7: surprise' before reviewing you would know that at the beginning i put this...

~Hiya everyone :)

This is a teaser for you as chapter 2 will be late...~

Which clearly states that it's not the full chapter so if you don't like how i do things with my story then please don't read it.

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As one adventure ends another is surely to begin!

By Fallensoul62

Warning: This story is a mixture between canon and AU containing a Sherlock like/powerful fem harry, character bashing, alive-snarky but nice Severus, nice Malfoys and all around occ-ness.

Guide

"Hello"...means talking

"Hello"...means flashbacks/memories

'Hello'... thoughts

'Hello'...thoughts in a flashback/memory

"Hello"...means parseltounge

"Hello"...means spells

Chapter 2

Strange places, kids and...Who!?

-Previously-

This makes Lucius, who's holding Rose tightly to his chest, duck his head to avoid being hurt as his partner, Severus, and he run through the sharp flying debris, that's coming from other benches and parts of the stone walls where spells that have missed have hit causing them to explode some violently some not; reaching the veil the pair stop in front of said veil, the feeling of ice going down their backs causing them to shiver violently as the voices of the dead whisper into their ears, and with one quick look behind to aurors running at them they braise themselves and with deep breaths jump into the watery and inky looking substance that makes up part of the veil.

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A/N: Sorry about this but it has to be done just in case I offended someone! I know nothing about the culture in Japan so anything you're reading in this story that is in anyway related to Japan, I have researched about by reading books, manga, watching anime and/or using the search engines google and Bing.

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Groaning the small black robed figure known as Rose slowly sits herself up holding a dainty pale hand to her forehead from underneath her black slightly baggy hood. 'Oh god my head! What the bloody hell happened? The last i remember was being hit...HIT!' Rose rips the cloak off of her shoulders and throws it away from her before reaching behind to swipe a hand across her back; in shocked disbelief, Rose stares at her blood free hand with wide crystal blue eyes, 'how? I know i was hit so why the hell am i not ble...' Rose's thoughts abruptly stop when she realises she can hear the sound of chirping, 'birds. What the!'

Finally Rose decides to look at her surrounding and finds to her complete amazement that she is in a garden, a Japanese inspired one if the zen garden she's sitting next to is any consolation. Soon though a feeling of consternation begins to fill her as she notices the absence of two people, Lucius and her dad, Severus; jumping up from her position on the grassy ground, Rose quickly scans her surroundings with wide eyes as blind panic slowly starts to crawl it's way through her mind, clouding her judgement and causing her throat to start closing up, if only slightly, when she begins to hyperventilate making it difficult for her breathe.

-Somewhere else in the garden-

Tall trees of dark brown and white rough bark stands proudly upon the bank of a large, wide lake, their branches gracefully stretching upwards and outwards surrounding said lake with an array of blooming pale pink, almost white, blossoms as well as green, burnt orange, red and brown leaves. Under one of the trees, a cherry blossom tree also known as somei yoshino in Japan, are two unconscious men in long black cloaks leaning back against the tree's trunk and each other. Suddenly pained moaning can be heard as one of the men slowly begins to wake only for him to, rather abruptly, jump to his feet, causing him to sway as blood rushes to his head; holding a large calloused pale hand to his slightly wrinkled forehead, Severus lets loose a few mumbled but explicit words, that should never be repeated around kids or impressionable adults, as he finally registers the feeling of panic surging through the parental bond. (1)

As quickly as his muddled mind would let him, Severus sends feelings of protection, calmness and reassurance down the bond, hoping to calm Rose down before she does herself some injury and/or passes out from lack of oxygen. Soon the feelings of panic and hopelessness begins to lessen enough for him to speak to Rose via occlumency, 'Rose! Rose! You need to calm down. Yes that's it good girl, take deep breaths. In-out and again, good. Now remember the anima sensorem ars (2) i taught you.' Severus pauses for a moment waiting for a response from Rose before continuing, 'I need you to use it to find Lucius and me. Can you do that for me Rose?' Severus pauses again a small smile stretching his thin lips at Rose's heated reply, 'Now if you need help give me a mental nudge, alright brat.' Sighing while fondly shaking his head at another heated reply from Rose, Severus plops himself back down besides Lucius and leans his head against the rough bark of the tree's trunk with his eyes closed, 'let's hope the brat finds us soon.'

-With Rose~Japanese styled Zen garden-

"Urg! He always treats me like that. I'm not a child any more, damn it!" A noe calm Rose huffs in annoyance as she gracefully sits herself back down on the grassy ground beside the zen garden. With deep, slow breaths Rose closes her crystal blue eyes as she begins to gather up her magic into a tightly wound up ball of misty golden, white tinted light. After a few seconds she suddenly snaps open her eyes revealing them to now be flecked with gold as well as having a misty golden ring around her pupils, which seems to move on it's own like that of a dying, flickering flame on a candle, as she releases the tight hold she has on her magic causing it to explode out of her body in a wave of almost invisible, pulsing gold tinted mist.

Her misty magic quickly spread out through the garden reflecting back to Rose any and all information on everything it came into contact with, making Rose feel rather grateful that her dad had made her learn and master occlumency as all the information being loaded into her brain could have easily driven her insane, if she had left her mind utterly open and completely unprotected like she did when she was but an ignorant child. Soon though her magic finds Severus and Lucius and with a small smile on her pale rose pink, full lips (Look at Adriana Lima's lips), Rose quickly and carefully attaches her magic to the pair making it easier for her to locate them.

15 minutes of wandering into dead ends, taking wrong turns and back tracking, Rose finally comes upon the pair sitting under a large cherry blossom tree. As she walks towards the pair she takes in her surroundings with wide eyes filled with wonder. In front of her is a slightly curved, wooden and brightly painted in red bridge that leads to a small rocky island in the middle of a large lake. Upon the island is a set of stone steps that lead up to a richly decorated, wooden Japanese tea house of bright red and startling white, which is topped off with a roof design similar to kasuga shrine's (3) only without the top part being gabled (4), and in it's place is a rather tall piece of spiked wood caved with oriental designs. Surrounding the tea house on the island are large red and green bushes with a few trees, while behind the tea house and starting at the lake's embankment is a large forest with grey-ish brown mountains behind that.

On the far left and at the back of the lake is a rather large waterfall surrounded by large and small rocks covered in green moss, as well as tall and very short trees of lush green and vibrant orange. Suddenly Rose is knocked out of her ogling when she finds herself front first in the lap of her dad, "Ooo! What the hell brat! Get off!" Growls out a winded Severus as he pushes Rose off causing her to fall backwards onto Lucius' lap, abruptly waking said man who lets out a startled yelp then a pained groan after hitting his head on the tree trunk behind him. "Sorry Lucius," Rose mutters sheepishly once she's standing before offering her father a helping hand, which he ignores but not before giving her a small smile and a slight nod of his head in thanks.

"Are you ok Lucius? You didn't hit your head too hard did you?" A worried Rose asks as she hovers around Lucius with a pinched expression on her face, only for said man to wave her away gently with a twitch of his lips as he tries to hold back a smile of amusement. " Yes, yes i'm fine but remember Rose that we aren't in the ministry any more, so the question you should be asking is where are we? Not about my health," Lucius replies swiftly as he composes himself while trying to gather back what he considers to be a loss of some dignity, after his rather girlish yelp of surprise, something which he will deny till the end of time, and resulting self injury.

"After we jumped into the veil we've either been transported into a garden in some version of this world's Japan or..." Rose mutters loudly to herself as she begins to deduce the obvious when inspecting her surroundings, only to be interrupted by Severus who finishes her deduction by commenting in a rather snarky tone, "or we're not in Japan and some dunderhead, with way too much time and money on their hands by the look of this place, brought and left us here." The three stare fall into a tense and pensive silence at Severus' comment the air seemingly becoming thicker the longer the three brooded and thought about the situation they've found themselves in. When rather unexpectedly a high-pitched and child like voice cuts and pierces through the tense atmosphere, "Master! Master! Over here!"

The trio, well Lucius and Severus anyway, manges to stop themselves from jumping in surprise and are quick to swirl around to face the bridge that is behind them. Instantaneously Severus raises one of his thick black eyebrows at the same time Lucius' thin dark eyebrows disappear into his hairline, while for Rose her eyes widen as her mouth forms an '0' shape all three holding glimmers of shocked surprise in their eyes as they stare at the small figure on the bridge. Sitting upon the bright red wooden railing of the bridge is a small child no older the 7 or 8 by the height of him, and while that's surprising in and of itself that isn't what has them staring but rather his appearance.

Falling down to his slender shoulders is a wild mass of long, thick blood red hair that curls upwards slightly at the ends, bright but intensely sharp dark blood red eyes with an almost feral smirk stares back at them from an elegant pale ivory face. The rest of him is covered in a long floor length black cloak, the hood half way over his head, that's closed together a his neck with a simple black hook and eye. The only bold thing on the cloak is the five thin sliver discs that are attached together and hanging from silver chains, one on either side, which are attached onto thicker pieces of black cloth sewn onto the shoulder area of the cloak. The largest disc lays in the middle of his chest with two smaller ones on either side, which the chains are attached to, while a medium sized disc hangs under the large one followed by another small disc under the medium. At the end of the small disc is a very short silver chain with a long tassel of blue and shimmering silver, and lastly on the large disc is a the symbol of a triangle with a circle in it that is then split in half by a straight line going from the top of the triangle to the bottom.

"Do close your mouth master you look stupid with that look on your face," remarks the child with an amused wide grin before laughing at the dumbfounded/offended look upon Rose's face. It is Severus who quickly comes to his senses first, "who are you? Are you the one who brought us here?" Severus demands as his hand slowly inches it's way towards his wand, that's in a wand holster attached to his thigh under his cloak. The boy smirks before suddenly disappearing and reappearing in front of the trio, "yes i brought you here and as for my name." Here the child pauses a moment then with a flourish bows at the waist with mischief in his eyes, "i am know as death but you my call Kurai Sakibure(dark harbringer)."

-End of chapter 2-

(1)...A parental bond is basicly a connection between the child and its parent, where the parent and child, though muted for the child, will be able to feel the emotions of the other, while only the parent will be able to use the bond to pin point a basic idea of where their child is.. As the child gets older the weaker the bond becomes until it's only a slight fuzzy sensation in the back of the parent's mind but the bond will never break while the parent or child is alive.

The bond is slight different for children who still have their parents but are blood adopted by someone else, e.g. godfathers or lords without heirs, only in that it takes a shorter amount of time for the bond to start to weaken, while in cases of orphaned children who have been blood adopted it takes longer by far for the bond to weaken.

...Anima sensorem ars (soul sensor techinque) is similar to sonar, the techinque bats and whales use, where in Rose sends out a pulse of her magic in a 15 metre radius. Once it's picked up on something/someone it reflects the information its gathered back to Rose, letting her know who/what the person/object is and where they/it are. However unlike sonar Rose can attach her magic to the person/object once detected, creating a small link between them which makes it easier for her to locate the person/object.

...Kasuga Grand Shrine is a Shinto shrine in the city of Nara, in Nara Prefecture, Japan. Established in 768 AD and rebuilt several times over the centuries, it is the shrine of the Fujiwara family.

(4)...A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesthetic concerns.