Summary-Harry after a particula43rly bad beating from his so-called family, and after finding out some rather horrifying news, wishes with all his heart to be somewhere else; to be anywhere else but where he is. His magic sensing his desperation grants his wish. Now how will Luffy react to a new brother; one who fell out of the sky? And how will Harry deal with the one piece world?

Disclaimer- I do not own Harry Potter or One Piece nor do I make any profit off of either one of them.

Chapter six

Harry and Luffy were working together to pull a small rowboat into the ocean. Doing so easily due to all the training they had done together; as well as apart. Both of them were finally getting ready to leave so that they could finally begin their pirate adventure.

Though Harry acted more on the side of caution and had gathered a bag filled with different supplies on his back. As he knew that the food and water, they had on the boat already wasn't enough for the two of them; not with the appetite Harry knew Luffy had.

As they got the boat into the water, Harry turned to Luffy with a grin on his face, before saying. While making sure to point towards Woop, Makino and the majority of the town's folk who were watching them leave. All of them having a smile on their faces even as they seemingly 'protested' the fact they were leaving to become a pirate.

"How long do you think Woop is going to 'protest 'our leaving to become pirates before he actually says goodbye to us?"

This earned a laugh from Luffy. Who suddenly got a mischievous look on his face before jumping up, making the boat they were now in rock wildly back and forth as he did so, and happily shouting out to the still humorously 'protesting' Woop.

"SEE YOU GUYS! I'M OFF TO BE KING OF THE PIRITES!" Hearing this Harry had to shake his head; that was something he really should have seen his brother doing. Before reaching up and pulling a full out laughing Luffy down; all the while trying to keep his own laughter off his face. Especially, as he took in the look on Woop's face after Luffy's announcement.

After Luffy got settled in the boat, and Harry could see that they were going to be there for a while, Harry began to look around at the ocean surrounding him. Excited, as Luffy, about their new adventure, and all the new sights he would be seeing because of it; but not showing it nearly as much as his brother was.

As he was looking around Harry's eyes decided to settle on Luffy's straw hat, and with a halfway their amused smile on his face, he began to recall just who had given Luffy that hat; and why he had gotten it in the first place.

FLASHBACK

It was a little after the mountain bandits had been dealt with and after Harry had changed back into his human form; as well as escaped from Makino's rather tight hold of him. When Shanks came over to where both Luffy and he were sitting. Before carefully sitting down beside the both of them; a rather seriously look on his normally cheerful face as he did so.

"Makino-san told me everything… you fought those bandits because of us; because they were bad mouthing us. And Harry you saw your friend in trouble and jumped in to help him without even think on what might happen to you; just like a real friend would…I am really proud of both of you." This said Shanks placed his straw hat on Luffy's head and handed Harry a black and red bandanna.

"You both can give those back when Luffy becomes king of the pirates….and till then, Harry you can use that bandanna to hide those fox ears of yours; it'll make getting in and out of place much simpler."

END FLASHBACK

Thinking back on this Harry fingered the bandanna that was on his head; it was the one Shank's had given him. It had come in very handy until Harry had found a way to get rid of the fox ears he had; at least temporarily. Yet, still despite that, like Luffy with his hat, Harry couldn't find it in himself to part with it; it was a gift from what Harry now considered a good friend after all.

Though he didn't always use it as a bandana as some times it was very useful as a mask so Harry could block off certain smells. As after eating the devil fruit, he had Harry found his kitsune senses had skyrocketed. Especially the ones concerning his hearing and sense of smell. Either way, Harry was sure Shank's wouldn't mind him using it the way he was, as it was a gift for him to use how he wished.

Thinking on this, as well as thinking on all the new friends they could and would make on this journey, made Harry's smile get a little bit bigger than it already was. At the same time Harry couldn't stop but think back to the day he had found out how to shift his ear back to normal; or at least as normal as they could get anyway. Mainly because he had just been thinking about why he really didn't have to wear his bandana any longer to hide his ears.

Plus thinking back on things did make time go by a little fast so Harry really didn't try to stop from remembering the day that he found out the Kitsune kitsune fruit had really turned him into a complete Kitsune; not just one in looks alone.

FLASHBACK

A thirteen, almost fourteen, year old Harry was deep in the woods training himself as hard as he could. Making sure to do so far away from Luffy and the others so as to not get distracted or pulled into another one of Luffy's harebrained plans. Mostly because he kept getting the feeling he really was on the verge of discovering something new about his devil fruit powers and was really looking forward to it; and perhaps pushing himself a little harder than he should because of that.

Currently Harry had sweat pouring down the back of his neck, which was starting to soak his slightly longer than shoulder length hair as he continued to push his body more and more. Not bothering to push said hair out of the way as he did so. Even he if was starting to feel a good deal discomfort as said hair got stuck to the side of his face as he moved through yet another fighting stance; blocking of part of his sight as it did so.

Feeling this, an knowing he really couldn't ignore it anymore as he was starting to interfere with his training, Harry paused in his training. Before he reached in his pocket for a hair ribbon so that he could tie back his hair; not wanting to use his bandana at the moment. If only to avoid damaging it too bad during his training. But before he could do this, a sharp, sudden and very painful burning sensation from where his tails were located caused him to sink down to his knees.

Clawing at the ground with his sharp nails and literally biting through his bottom lip with his fangs Harry did his best to stay silent as the pain he was feeling tore through him. Knowing that, he had to stay quiet. Least he alerted the predators, such as the larger than life lions that roamed around this area, to where he was while he was in such a weakened condition.

Something that anyone of said predators wouldn't hesitate to take advantage of considering the fact both Harry Luffy and the others used said predators to help with their training. Be it either running from them to increase their speed of fighting them to increase their strength.

After what felt like hour of constant burning agony Harry felt something with in him tear, and then Harry, after feeling this, really could no longer hold back the scream of pure torture that escaped his throat.

As bone, muscle, nerves, and fur, pushed its way out of his body and formed yet another tail to go along with his other two; giving him now three tails instead of the two he used to have. The first two have been gained a little over six years ago, when he was nine, and had eaten the Kitsune Kitsune fruit in the first place.

Though at the moment Harry really couldn't take in the new tail he had just gained; a rather blood soaked on at that. Because now, instead of having the pain of a new tail growing in to distract him from everything else around him; however unwanted said pain was. It was the fact, he was now suffering from a headache of untold proportions that was keeping him mind off of anything, and anyone, else.

As the pain lessened Harry slowly began to realize just why he had been feeling the pain in his head in the first place. As knowledge, that he had no idea about before, began to pour through his head at an alarming rate. All the knowledge being about Kitsunes in some way and all of it was immensely helpful to Harry; in several different ways.

Blinking slightly stunned at all the information he had just suddenly gained, out of what seemed like nowhere to him, Harry decide to concentrate on said information and once he did this what he found out once he did this left Harry in shock.

Mainly because what he found out the information, he had just painfully gained, was on a good deal about tails of a kitsune. Or to be more specific the powers each tails represented to a Kitsune; no matter the type.

Along with several other bit and pieces of information that really didn't seem as important when it was compared to all the information, he had gained on kitsune's tails. But yet at the same time Harry knew he would be immensely grateful for said information later on; even if it didn't seem to be that important as of yet. But first Harry decided to focus on the information he felt would help him more at the current time than what may help him later on.

Like how the first tail of a Kitsune is the one that, actually marks it as a kitsune. As a kitsune without a tail isn't consider an actual kitsune. In fact, a kitsune without a tail was considered a disgrace. One that must have lost its tails doing something against the gods wishes or something similar to that.

As apparently it was very possible for kitsunes to lose their tail, through punishment, through sacrifice or sometime even have them physically cut off by something mythical so they couldn't grow back.

The first tail was also the one that gives the Kitsune a higher physical strength, speed, and reflexes than a normal human would have. Making them about twice as much as a normal human was naturally. Or at least about twice as much as a normal human without any training involved; base level to be more accurate.

Along with this the first tail also makes the Kitsunes thoughts more fox like and at times more animalistic than they had been previously; it also made them a bit more mischievous then they already were. Which is one of the reasons kitsunes are, and have been, considered such pranksters.

The Second tail was actually when the Kitsunes first starts receiving any of the powers it may get; at least powers that pure determination and the right training couldn't get a normal human to have. Like for example, the ability to shift into a pure foxlike form.

With the size of the kitsune in question is based on the power a kitsune has as its disposal when it shifts; as Harry found out. Because it seemed to more power he had in him the larger, and more physically strong, his fox from would be. Though like he had also found out he could adjust said size to something much smaller if he wished.

The other powers, that a Kitsune gets when they earn their second tail, is the power over illusions. Though as the information, informed him, the strength of these illusions depends solely on the strength of the kitsunes, in questions, will power and imagination. So weak willed Kitsunes would have very weak Illusions; the opposite being true for those kitsunes with strong wills.

Though at the same time, and along that note, if a strong willed kistune had no imagination they their illusions would still be weak; it also meant that their strength laid elsewhere then with illusions.

Though because of their strong will it has been shown even if they aren't powerful when it comes to using illusions that they wouldn't be easily fooled by the illusions of others. Something the second tell also seemed to help with.

The third tail, which is the one Harry had just earned, was the one that gave the kitsunes all the knowledge of Kitsunes and their powers. This was the tail that was an informative tail mostly, and one that marked the kitsune as coming of age.

A kitsune with his third tail was often considered a young teen and no longer a child among the Kitsunes as a whole. Which was why they were deemed ready for the knowledge about ktisunes in the first place.

For that matter no matter how much a Kitsune aged or how old he or she may look if they didn't have a third tail they would still be considered a child; that or simply to weak to be trusted with anything more than what you would trust an actual child with.

Not only that but on top of being mainly an information gaining tail. The third tail was also the one that gave the kitsune in question the power to control its shape shifting abilities to a minor degree. This allowed kitsune who had their third tail to withdraw any of its nonhuman characteristics and replace them with human ones; to a degree that is.

For example, the ears on a kitsunes head would return into their head and give the kitsune more elf like ear in return; keeping the same hearing ability as they did this. While the tails of a kitsune would go back in their body and leave a tattoo like mark of said tails on the users back; the more tails the Kitsune had, the more tattoo like tails the image on the kitsune's back had.

Though as Harry continue to go through the information about this, he found out that even if the kitsune were trying to hide his features, that when a Kitsune become highly emotional the tails and ears will come back out; rather the Kitsune wanted them to or not. Meaning it would take great emotional control for the Kitsune to keep any features or changes it wanted to stay.

He also found out, to his discomfort at the moment, that the third tail also kicks starts the Kitsunes seduction ability. As the natural pheromones that all Kitsunes gives off to attract others come in to play, be it male or female.

And is seem age really didn't matter that much to the kitsunes Pheromones at least as no matter how physically old the kitsune was the third tail would activate the Pheromones once it grew in. And boy did this last bit of information of the third tail, casually thrown in like a last-minute thought, cause Harry to go deadly pale. As he really wasn't one that wanted attention like that bought on to him as he much rather be hidden in the shadows or if not that over looked completely if he had a choice in the matter.

When the fourth tail came, along with a large boost in the Kitsunes speed, it also gave the Kitsune its first element. Most commonly a Kitsune gains the element fire, or as it is more often know as, as foxfire. After all there was a reason why fire was often related to Kitsunes in the first place.

But, as the knowledge he gained had informed Harry, this wasn't always the case and Harry, for some reason, got the strong feeling that fire wouldn't be his first element; nor did he really feel it be his second either. Harry never really had a strong connection to fire before and if anything went out of his way to avoid it. Never seeing the attraction, a lot of people had to it in the first place.

After that tail, there was the fifth tail which was the tail the Kitsune gained a much larger increase in strength and speed in. Making them easily ten times stronger and faster than a normal human can be; where training would only increase this speed and strength. Just as it would most others who pushed themselves to their limits and beyond.

It was also the tail that gave the Kitsune it second element; as well as full control over all Shape shifting ability this kitsune has. Making it so the Kitsune can change its form into whatever or whomever it wishes to; as long as it has the energy to do so.

This was also the tail that a kitsune was considered a full-grown adult with and also the tail where most kitsunes start looking for actively looking for a mate. Mainly because it was with this tail that they were allowed to do so with.

As before this tail they were considered too young or if not that too weak to need a mate. Harsh as that last bit may be the knowledge informed him that Kistunes instinctively wanted to be stronger before they had a mate or kits, so as to better be able to protect said family.

Next was the sixth tail, and while it didn't actually give the Kitsune much compared to the other tails, it still was a rather important tail to grow. Because upon gaining the sixth tail a Kitsune would gain an even larger boost in power. And in some cases, a third element, or an even stronger connection to one of the elements the Kitsune already had from its previous tails.

It was also the tail that allowed the kitsune to control just how large his kitsune form could grow. Whereas before it was based on power, with the largest form being based on the power they had, or just a basic fox form for how small; with their physical age being more in control of the size of the smaller form. This control let them become as large as their power would let them along with any size in between that also in their range.

But why it was so loved, and most Kitsunes worked so hard to get to six tails. Was because that tail was the tail of control. Before the Kitsune would most likely overpower or use to much energy when it used attacks, be they illusions, elemental powers, or transformations; all would use more energy than they would strictly need. With the sixth tail the Kitsune in question gained a fine tune ability of controlling just how much energy is used instead of using too much energy.

Making it so that after the sixth tail is gain the kitsune could, and most do, make the most of the energy/power they have. Though this control can also be gained beforehand through hard work, but with the sixth tail would fine tune any problems of control that there may be.

Many kitsunes find the attacks they use, or powers they have much easy to control and use after this tail; they also seem to be able to use said powers or attacks more often or longer than they used to once they gain this tail. Showing how important control over a power could be, at least when compared to sheer amount of power that could be wasted otherwise.

The seventh tail was a much better power boost in comparison to the sixth tail. It was a power tail instead of a control tail. And by this it means that the seventh tail, once it was gained, allowed the Kitsune in question to use several different elements at once; mainly the ones it gained from the previous tails as well as more minor skills in other elements.

Skills which got strong the more a kitsune trained and practiced the other elements. It also gifted the Kitsune with the ability to possess the weak willed. Along with giving the Kitsune some minor abilities in mental gifts.

Though, even as he got all of this information, Harry quickly noted that this tail was one that was rarely gained from a Kitsune; that and sometimes if the kitsune wasn't mentally strong enough gaining this tail could drive them insane.

In fact, Harry after digging deeper in to the information he had just gained, found out that very few kitsune got past the five tailed stage because of the risk of being driven insane because their will, or mind, wasn't strong enough to take the powers that came after the fifth tail. Or at least, that was what the knowledge given to during his third tail informed him of.

Following after the Seventh tail was the eighth tail, which was the Kitsune tail that allowed a Kitsune to use all the known elements. More so then before and not be minor control like the seventh tail allows but full control like the elements gained from the fourth and fifth tail. The eighth tail not only gave the kitsune in question control over all known element, it also gave yet another boost of strength, power, and speed.

Bringing the Kitsunes speed, strength, and power beyond anything a normal human can get even with all the training in the world. In fact, most nonhuman, or superhuman, have difficulty matching a Kitsunes speed and strength at this level. If the kitsune has trained and can control said speed and strength that is.

Then there was the final tail; the ninth tail. Which was the tail that actually made the kitsune immortal, and all but god like in its strength. Very few kitsune see a nine tailed kitsune, let alone become one. In fact, according to all the knowledge Harry had just gained there hadn't been an actual nine tailed kitsune, not even a sighting of one, for over five hundred years. The only known one, having seemingly been driven insane by the power he had gained upon getting his ninth tail.

This was the tail Harry wasn't sure he wanted to ever get; in fact he was sure he didn't want to gain it at all. Because who really wants to be immortal in the first place. Plus, it seemed to have a very high rate of driving those who got it completely insane, and Harry definitely didn't want that; not in the least bit. As he valued his mind, and the skills he had with it, above most other things; with only those he called family rating above it.

Harry after going through all this information and memorizing it simply looked at his tails, all three of them, for a bit. Before biting his lip and picking back up his weapons; resuming the training he had been doing before he gained his third tail.

Not complete sure as to what else to do as he did so. The only thought in his mind as he continued to push himself harder than he had been before, was that he had a lot more training to get done now. Especially if he wanted to get a handle on his kitsune abilities before him and Luffy left to become Pirates.

END FLASHBACK

After learning this information Harry had trained himself down to the bone to gain control over his three tails, and because of this Harry had been able to shift his ear to the elf like ears they were now, and he had also gotten his tails to go in their tattoo like form.

Not only that but he also got a good grip on the shapeshifting ability the Kitsune gain and now was what Luffy called his master of disguise. An ability that was usually gained with the fifth tail but with all the training he had been doing Harry had learned to do so earlier.

Though it did take him a good deal of concentration beforehand to be able to use it exactly the way he wanted to. Not only that but he also got the feeling that the skill in question was as good as it was more due to something else besides the Kitsune Kitsune fruit. But at the same time got the feeling would only improve and go beyond what he thought possible once he got his fifth tail.

Something he wasn't thinking too hard on or putting to much stock in as he didn't want to count on that feeling being true only to be proven wrong so he continued to work on every skill he could to perfect them rather than rely on power he may be getting in the future, with any future tails he may or may not be gaining in the first place.

Speaking of his tails not only had he been able to learn his skills faster than the tails he had would tell others, if they knew about a kitsunes skills that is, he had also been able to gain his fourth tail during all of his training.

Which upon doing so proved the earlier feeling he had about fire not being his first element completely correct as he did so. On top of that Harry also got the strong feeling that he wasn't far from gaining a fifth tail; the one which could prove or disprove the thoughts he had on his ability to shape shift. Though at the same time Harry got the feeling said fifth tail needed more experience before it actual came at the same time.

However back to the fourth tail, it was something that also caused him to up his training even more than it already had. Leaving himself completely exhausted, sometimes even unconscious, at the harsh pace he put himself through to keep himself in control over the powers his tails granted him.

Most of the time it was actually Luffy of all people that got him to stop training and in most cases literally dragged him out of the whatever Harry had been using as his training field at that time. In most cases quiet literally dragging him as Harry had pushed himself too hard to actually walk out of there of his own power.

In fact, it was after cases like this Luffy, with the help of several others on the island like Makino, to make Harry rest for the next couple of days; more often than not to actual heal and recover the energy he had lost.

Not to mention listening to very long rants they gave him about taking care of himself more and to stop pushing himself so hard. Which only had Harry rising his eyebrow at a slightly blushing Luffy whom Harry knew pushed himself just as hard as Harry did at times. Even if it did seem he knew his limits better that Harry did while doing so.

Thinking on all of this training, not all of it having been because of his kitsune powers, Harry smirked to himself. Before looking down at his hands, where he saw a pair of black gloves. Each one clearly, and tightly, at home on both of said hands.

Seeing these gloves Harry once more got lost in memory line; this time thinking on the importance of those gloves. Or to be more precise just what those gloves hid. Which were something a larger part of his training had been about, and the thing that had actually cost him the most amount of pain during said training. These gloves where his weapon of chose.

FLASHBACK

Harry was trying to decide on what weapon he wanted to use. Because in all honestly, Harry wasn't too keen on using hand to hand, even if said hands did have so pretty sharp claws attached to them; he much preferred striking from a distance.

At least he did if he had a chose in the matter, though he still did work on close combat as he knew long distance wouldn't always work. Plus striking from a distance worked more with his ability to shapeshift as well as the skills in illusions he had. Or at least that was how Harry felt about it.

So, with the fact he did want a weapon on hand, and preferable one that wouldn't slow him down too much as Harry knew his skills laid in his sheer speed. Harry was trying to find a long distance, or long-range weapon that fit his fighting style to some degree.

So far, Harry hadn't been able to find a weapon he had liked enough to try out and he had been looking for over two hours now. And he had been looking through several different shops as well as through all the weapons Luffy's grandfather had laying around from either the men he trained or were planning on training. Something Harry knew often included Luffy and himself a bit of knowledge that he could do without at the moment as he knew just what said man considered training.

But when it came to the weapon he wanted for himself well Harry had passed by blade after blade, weapon after weapon and not a single one called out to him; not a single could perk up his interest. Not even the odder weapons he could see out there like the Scepter or the literal giant fork weapon. Nothing really seemed to scream to Harry that it was what he wanted as a weapon.

That is until he started looking through the whips and whip like weapons. Once he did this Harry could literally feel the foxlike ears, hidden by his bandanna, perk up in interest. It seemed he found a weapon type that he could like; that his kitsune instincts wanted to work with.

When he was looking through these Harry spotted a couple of weapons that really caught his attention. None more so than the pair of back, rather thick looking, gloves that had thin wires in them; with said wires pulled out a bit to show just how razor sharp the wire inside it actually were.

Seeing these gloves Harry felt an instant connection to them; yet at the same time he felt like something was still missing. This in mind Harry grabbed the gloves and continued to look on; knowing instinctively that what was missing was most likely a second weapon.

Harry recognizing this, having dealt with it before for several different occasions, and knowing that it would continue to bug him until he got his second weapon. Spent the next thirty minutes searching through different weapons; this time the throwing weapons. It was in there that Harry found what he had been searching for. Much to his relief because Harry was seriously ready to leave the shop by then.

Especially, since the shop keeper was starting to get a glazed look in his eyes. Showing that the pheromones Harry had recently been stating to give off was starting to affect him slight. Pheromones Harry couldn't quite control yet and couldn't stop from letting them loose despite the fact he really wanting to; making it just that much worse.

Though that wasn't the only reason Harry was ready to leave the other reason he was so eager to leave was the fact that, there is only so much time you can spend looking at weapons before you get sick and tired of them. At least in Harry's mind there was he was sure there was others out there that would definitely disagree with him out there but they weren't there nor where they him so that didn't matter.

However, when he saw just what weapon it was that had been calling him, besides the wire gloves that is, Harry was left really surprised. Mainly because, despite everything, Harry really didn't see himself as a senbon needle throwing kind of guy.

Though now that he sat back on thought of it for a second he could see how they suited him, along with the wire gloves. So that in mind, and knowing not to ignore his gut feelings, Harry grabbed them as well before going over to the front counter to pay for them; a large and eager grin on his face as he did so.

END FLASHBACK

Harry thinking on this started chuckling softly as he thought back to the many mistakes he had made while he had been training with said weapons, and the many injuries he had gotten during said accidents.

At the same time, he had the thank the advance healing he got from his Kitsune otherwise Harry knew he would most likely be full of scars and other permanent injuries due to how eagerly he had been training. As he thought this and of how he wouldn't have it any other way, Harry began to kick back looking forward to the journey in front of him and remembering everything that had led to it.

However, before he could really start back into reminiscing about his training, and there for the injuries he received during said training; like he wanted to. Harry heard Luffy cry out something that made the hairs on the back of his neck, as well as all of the ones on each of his tails, stand up on end; it was.

"Harry there a whirlpool right in front of us!"