Well this idea stemmed from watching too much Naruto and reading too many fanfics, it uses the overused idea of Harry being taken from the doorstep of the Dursleys and being trained as a Ninja in Konoha, i got 3 chapters in on this fanfic before getting stuck with which team i was going to stick Harry on, i had the option of A) Team Gai with Rock Lee and co and eventually pairing him up with TenTen, B) Team Kakashi and eventually leading to a pairing between him and Sakura and finally C) having an individual instructor and pairing him up with said Instructor, Anko. I'm still trying to make my mind up on that one

Path of the Soul

A Harry Potter/Naruto Crossover

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or Naruto they both belong to their respective owners and I am not making any profit from this story I am only writing it for fun

Pairings: either Harry/Anko Mitarashi or Harry/Sakura or Harry/TenTen

Rating: M

Summary: What if the boy who lived had been taken from his aunt and uncles doorstep on that night, what if it had been by the village of the hidden leaf

Prologue: Taken in

October 31st, Halloween.

James and Lily Potter were dead, killed by Lord Voldemort, that much was to be expected after all he was the most evil wizard in more than a century and the self proclaimed lord of magic… any who fought him ended up dieing.

However there is something that didn't happen to the plan of the dark lord, when he tried to kill Harry Potter, the only child of James and Lily the curse backfired, instead of killing the boy, the protection formed by his mothers sacrifice reversed the curse and hit Voldemort, ripping his soul from his body and destroying the house.

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Now as the next morning slowly rolled around Harry was at his place on the doorstep of the Dursleys, placed there by Dumbledore the Headmaster of Hogwarts. This was to protect Harry from outside threats, unfortunately he didn't take in to account the inside threats of the Dursleys and their intense dislike for anything magical.

Luckily for Harry, fortune was still shining on him. A figure leaping from roof to roof had spotted the bundle in a basket and had stopped to investigate.

"Whats this?" the man questioned as he moved the blanket from the face of Harry to see what was there. "Someone left a child on the doorstep?" he asked his voice barely above a whisper as he saw the scar above the childs forehead and jumped back in surprise. "Woah, the dark energy pouring from that curse mark is unbelievable." He muttered and closed his eyes briefly, "But the amount of chakra that comes from him as well is amazing for someone at this young an age. If he was to be trained then he could prove a skilled ninja." He muttered as he knelt down and lifted the child out of the basket and the letter that had been placed in there with Harry fluttered to the floor. "huh?" the man looked at the letter and lifted it up, folding it he placed it in his pocket and quickly left the area, people would be waking up soon.

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"Hey Naruto, are you hiding from the sensei again?" A ten year old Harry asked as he sat on the fence staring at a part of the wall that looked exactly the same as the rest of the wall. There was no response as the instructors jumped by and Harry shook his head and laughed. "Man you are in BIG trouble when they catch you… I mean really… scribbling Graffiti over the giant stone Hokage statues in the mountain… that's just a bit tacky don't you think." Harry asked and took a sip of his drink. "You know you cant stay still forever." Harry laughed.

"Your right I cant." The voice of Naruto said and what caught Harry's surprise was the fact that he wasn't camouflaged against the wall he was standing behind the fence where he was sitting.

"Bloody Hell man don't do that!" Harry shouted as he lost his balance and fell face first into the ground.

"Wow and I thought you were an excellent tracker." Naruto commented sarcastically and Harry laughed.

"And I thought you were hiding from the people who are now standing right behind you." Harry stated as he leant over the fence and Naruto spun around and saw several of the instructors and yelled in shock and tried to run but they grabbed his arms and stopped him from fleeing.

"You're in big trouble this time." They growled and Naruto looked scared.

"I'll see you at the graduation exams." Harry chuckled and darted off towards the school building.

Over the ten years he had been here there had been a lot of interesting things he had seen over the years, his training to control his chakra had gone well or so he thought but he still tended to use a lot larger quantity than was actually necessary normally leaving him a bit more drained than others when performing certain jutsu's. it was something he needed to improve on, but didn't have the patience.

Today was the graduation exam, he had to pass this otherwise he would be stuck there for another year until the next ones rolled around.

The people in the village were weird, adults were hesitant around him, children seemed spooked by him but what was even worse was that Naruto received the same treatment, in fact his was even worse… Harry had realized this is what had caused him to goof off like that. It was just to get attention, he wanted people to notice him.

Arriving at the school Harry wandered in and down the corridor until he reached the classroom and slid open the door walking in he looked around at the group of students that were there and then spotted the person that made him most curious.

Sasuke… what was his problem. He always pushed everyone away and was cold towards anyone that spoke to him, it confused Harry how he was the most popular student of the school, hell the girls threw themselves at him but he just walked away.

That brought him to his next person that kept coming into his thoughts, Sakura… she was attractive, smart, funny, sweet… everything. But she was also head over heels for Sasuke. Walking to his seat he sat down on the desk in front of it and twiddled his thumbs as he waited for Iruka to appear to start the examination. His patience was running thin though as he continued to twiddle his thumbs he begun to whistle which caused many of the group to turn to face him and look at him with varying degrees of confusion. Sasuke looked over to Harry and nodded his head before turning away.

Even though Sasuke was cold he was still an ally. They had a mutual respect for each other and sometimes trained together… although that was rare.

Sasuke was good… in fact he was damn good.

The door opened again and Naruto stumbled in, he turned to the group smiled sheepishly and waved with a nervous laugh before heading and sitting down.

"Idiot." Sasuke muttered. Iruka walked in moments later and stood, leaning against the blackboard and scanned the class.

"Well, today is the day, the graduation exams, to become Genin, do you think you are ready? Do you think you have what it takes? If you don't feel free to leave and try again next year." He stated calmly while staring intently at Naruto, who Harry noted was staring back just as intently. "Well then, shall we begin?" Iruka asked.

"Everyone, line up!" He ordered and the class quickly begun to shuffle around to form a line.

Harry smiled, this was going to be fun.

TBC

Well my new idea for a fanfic, although it's a crossover that has been done by others tons of times before, I finally wanted to try it.

Don't worry this wont be like my usual where Dumbledore is manipulative EVIL old fool, he'll still be manipulative but will have the best interest of Harry at heart.