Disclaimer: First Chapter
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Harry was startled awake to the sound of an explosion going off. He jolted away quickly, and tried to dodge the bottom of the stairway that he slept under... only for him to realize that he wasn't sleeping under the stairs anymore, but in his own bedroom. Harry looked around the mostly empty room, it was painted red and gold like the rest of the house that he now lived in. Since Harry didn't have any belongings of his own yet, his room was kind of empty.
Next to his bed was a picture of his parents that Sirius had given him.
The picture moved.
"Naruto, I sweat if you ruined the cake!"
"You'll do WHAT!?"
Sirius and Naruto seemed to be arguing about something, and Harry was kind of curious. He got out of bed and put his glasses on, before he walked across his bedroom... his bedroom was a weird thought for him. It was weirder knowing that somewhere in the house, was his godfather who had been silently watching over him for years... and his godfather's adopted son.
Harry entered the living room.
It was filled with confetti and bright colors, with smoke in the air. Harry waved it out of his way, before the smoke cleared up enough for him to see it.
Happy 11th Birthday Harry
"Ah, he woke up before we were done decorating. Damn." Naruto stated as he showed a cake in his hands, and he was laughing slightly. Harry looked at the cake, and noticed that it had his name on it and everything. It was a great big cake as well. "Sirius, Harry." Naruto alerted Sirius to the fact that Harry was awake and in the room.
Sirius jumped off the chair he was standing on and extended his arms.
"Harry, I guess the surprise is a little ruined now, but happy birthday. Breakfast isn't ready just yet, so you'll have to make due with a little of this." Sirius waved his wand, and toast came flying out of the kitchen and landed right in Harry's hand.
Harry just looked around the room in wonder.
There were presents in front of the fireplace.
"Are those..."
"For you, and they are from friends of your parents... Sirius and me too." Naruto gestured towards the small stack of presents that were waiting for Harry to open. "Sirius, Hagrid is going to be showing up later, so I'm going to enlarge all the doorframes." Naruto realized when he saw the present that was from Hagrid, and it reminded him that he was going to have to change the sizes of parts of the house.
"Hagrid?" Harry asked.
Naruto passed him, and Naruto just placed a hand on his head and ruffled his messed up hair.
"You'll meet him later, happy birthday you scrawny little git." Naruto teased as he finished ruffling Harry's hair, before he gave Harry a few good pats on the ribs. "Now off you go... shoo... shoo shoo." Naruto pushed Harry out of the living room and back towards his room.
-In Harry's Room-
Harry had been bullied his entire life.
He couldn't help the huge smile that came over his face though from the interaction that he just had with Naruto. The way that Naruto teased him seemed to hold no malice at all, even though he insulted him. The way that Naruto called him scrawny was just... so different than the way that his other family called him scrawny.
Some time passed.
The smile didn't leave his face at all, even when his bedroom door opened up and he was greeted with the sight of a scar-faced man.
"Ah, the man of the hour. Come, come Harry. Breakfast is ready."
"Uh?"
"Remus, Remus Lupin. I'm a good friend of your father's, and come to wish you a happy birthday." Remus stated as he gestured for Harry to follow.
"Oh, yes sir."
"Sir... I haven't been called that before. I guess you take after your mother with manners like that. This house could use some manners." Remus laughed under his breath.
The smell hit Harry and distracted him, and his brain got tickled by the smell of great food. He walked right passed the living room, which was fully decorated in it's entirety. Harry was greeted with a FEAST that was on the table in the dining room. His mouth watered as an unstoppable reaction, and it was only after he saw all of the food that he noticed all of the people sitting around the table waiting for him.
A man, a huge man, as tall as 3 grown men, was sitting at the end of the table.
He would guess that was Hagrid, and now he understood why the doors in the house had to be enlarged. He was greeted to the site of quite a few grown people sitting around the table, with the only person who was around his age... though a few years older than him, being Naruto himself. Sirius stood up.
"Harry, come, sit down! We'll introduce to everyone after we eat."
"Welcome back to the wizarding world Harry... Dedalus Diggle, I served in the Order of the Phoenix with your parents." A very excited man rushed to Harry and guided him to a seat next to him at the table.
"I... I remember you, I saw you in a shop once."
'Yep, because Dumbledore had him watching you sometimes when you left the safety of the Dursley's.' Naruto looked at Harry, and he saw Sirius was beaming with happiness at seeing Harry happy. Harry, for the shock of everything happening to him, seemed to be genuinely happy. Naruto smiled to himself and with a wave of his own wand, food started to fly off the various parts of the table and landed right on Harry's plate.
"O' Sirius, got a bit o brandy..."
"You'll need a bit more than a spot of brandy."
"That I will... happy to see you Harry, last time I saw ye, ye were no bigger than a bowtruckle."
"Bowtruckle?" Harry was consumed about the word, and the kindly eyes of the giant man looked into his own. Hagrid was a very friendly man despite his huge size, and Harry did feel comfortable with him. Harry looked all around the table, and saw people were overall getting along with each other. Everyone was eating now that he had his food. Harry looked at Sirius, who was pouring Hagrid in a giant mug, brandy. He then looked at Naruto, who had his plate resting on his chest as he leaned back in his chair to an unnatural degree.
Naruto gave a fox-like snicker as his eyes narrowed.
"Go on, you can't put on any size if you don't eat." Naruto stated, and like magic... no... magically a baked potato flew into Harry's mouth.
It tasted amazing.
Harry had the best birthday of his entire life that day.
He got real presents too!
Sirius gave him an Invisibility Cloak that belonged to his father AND a picture album of his parents, Hagrid had given him a hand-carved wood flute, Remus had taken the chance to give him a Broom Care kit... which had been a big spoiler for a later gift since Naruto had gotten Harry his own Nimbus 2000. Dedalus gifted him an exchanted set of gobstones, whatever a gobstone was. The gruff man who hadn't really spoken at the table at all, a scarred man named Alastor Moody, had brought him his own flask to drink from.
He got clothes as well, clothes that FIT him, and weren't just the unused clothes of his cousin.
Harry was currently obsessed with looking over the photo album that belonged to his parents.
"Now that is a nice present. On my 11th birthday, Sirius gave me this mirror that lets us talk to each other." Naruto stated as he walked into Harry's room. Naruto sat down next to Harry on his bed. Naruto had another present in his hand, and he passed it to Harry. "... I couldn't give this to you at the party. It was really hard to get this." Naruto stated with a smile to Harry.
"What is it?"
"Open it up." Naruto stated as he gestured to Harry.
Harry opened it... and all that was inside of it was a white wand.
"... My own wand?"
"No... I'm giving you the gift of revenge. I went to the remains of your old house, and searched the remains for that. That is the wand of the man who killed your parents... and if you want, you can break that wand right now." Naruto had wanted to give Harry a sense of closure and satisfaction. The wand that was in Harry's hand was the wand that had been abandoned in the ruins of his parents home.
Naruto had visited the place and searched all over for the wand.
Harry looked at the wand.
"... This..."
"Voldemort was his name, he killed your parents and put that scar on your head. He's still out there, weak... powerless... this was his wand. I felt you deserved the chance to break his wand... a wizard's wand is part of them... it is like an extension of us. Voldemort robbed you of your parents... so I wanted to let you rob him of something he no doubt cared about." Naruto stated as he placed a hand on Harry's shoulder.
He didn't want anyone to see what he went and searched for.
Harry felt a great weight in his hands.
"This..."
"Yep... your mother sacrificed her life for you, and doing that gave you the ultimate protection. It's old magic, so when Voldemort tried to kill you... it rebounded and hit him instead. If anyone deserves the chance to break Voldemort's wand, it's you." Naruto stated as he soothed Harry with his words.
Harry grabbed the wand, and he struggled slightly, before he managed to snap the wand like the twig that it was. He actually did feel a great satisfaction with himself, like a weight that he didn't know was on his shoulders was lifted. Naruto stood up and started to walk out of the room.
"How... how did you come to live with Sirius?"
Naruto stopped.
"I'll tell you later Harry, but we do have something in common. If you ever need my help with something, you come to me." Naruto teased Harry as he left the room.
Naruto closed the door behind him.
Sirius was there.
"Now that was the best gift of the night. You know... you might have just made yourself the enemy of every Death Eater, and Voldemort himself for what you gave Harry." Sirius stated with a smirk.
Naruto grinned.
"I'm a mudblood, there was never a world where I could be friendly with them anyway. I'll take all the credit for stealing the wand... that way when Voldy finds out, we'll target me first." Naruto wasn't going to let Harry take the punishment for that.
Sirius smiled and ruffled Naruto's hair.
"You're a good brother."
"He's your godson, and you adopted me... so I guess Harry and I are kind of brothers, aren't we... oh well... I'm going to practice this neat spell I've been working on." Naruto walked off with a grin and a fox-like snicker, while Sirius gave his bark of a laugh and followed Naruto. He pat Naruto roughly on the back.
Sirius grinned.
He was so glad that he never went to Azkaban.
Chapter End!
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