"Right then, we are going to be looking at universe HPN-651213, so here is what happened," Blaze said as he tapped on his pad. "In this world, both James and Lily once more neglected him, and it is the fault of Albus once more," the world maker said as a collected sigh filled the room.
"Even though this is the second time this happened, I think we are going to be seeing this over and over," Sirius said as Remus nodded.
"Well anyway, after a year, Harry grew sick of his treatment, and his magic responded and transported him to another dimension where he landed in a land called the Land of Fire within the walls of their village Konohagakure or Konoha for short. He was then adopted by the leader of that village and his wife; their names were Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki," Blaze said as everyone nodded. "And for two years he was treated as their own son until Kushina grew pregnant and tragedy struck when a beast called Kurama was released from Kushina; it was made to attack Konoha," Blaze told them as everyone nodded. "And for two years he was treated as their own son until Kushina grew pregnant and tragedy struck when a beast called Kurama was released from Kushina; it was made to attack Konoha," Blaze told them.
"How old was that me," Harry asked him.
"You were around seven and had recently started something called the ninja academy," Blaze said as Harry looked amazed, along with the rest of the people around him. "But anyway, Minato and Kushina gave their lives to save both their sons, Harry and the recently born Naruto, and Kushina gave her final words to both her sons and Minato before they sealed Kurama within Naruto," Blaze said as all the mothers started to cry.
"What happened after that," Draco asked as he heard sniffs around him.
"Harry raised Naruto and, if need be, drenched his hands red to protect his brother, and when Harry turned eleven, he was given a letter to go to Hogwarts personally by Dumbledore himself," Blaze told them as they looked amazed.
And with no one else asking a question, the projector started.
Element Nations, Konoha, Chūnin Exams Finals Arena
Harry and the visitors from Magical Briton stood on the observation part of the arena as he looked down into the central part.
"I have ask why dose yours and Naruto clothes look the same," Lily said as she looked at her son, who looked at her from the corner of his eye before looking back down.
"That blond idiot wanted the Uzumaki clan to have a signature look to their clothes, so he went with a pair of black hakama as a standard with a sash of any colour, a black top, that is part of the Konoha uniform," Harry said as he looked down at Naruto.
"Then what is with the jacket," James asked.
"Then what is with the jacket," James asked along with his other self, and Sirius laughed at that.
"I have to say that I like his jacket," Tonks said before she looked at Blaze, "Am I with this Harry," She asked him.
"Yes, and at this point, you two are a thing, but you and Harry had a talk about if they were really together and where his home is," Blaze said as people looked shocked.
"What do you mean," Tonks asked.
"You see that Harry has complicated feeling with that Lily and James and when he was asked to come to magical Britton he made a deal with Albus, and Magical Briton was not his home, Konoha was," Blaze said as Tonks nodded.
"And I tried to see it from his point of view," Tonks said as Blaze nodded.
"Yeah, but then you, and as you and your parents are on good terms, you really could not link him on it, but when you talked with your boss, and she told you spend at least a week in Konoha with him and a month at most," Blaze told her as Tonks nodded, with Amelia doing the same.
"I see he is a swordsman," Godric said as he looked at the Katana at Harry's side.
"That is Akatatsu or translated to Red Dragon," Blaze told him, "It broke on him one day on a mission in an enemy land," He told the man.
"I see," Godric muttered.
"They are called cloaks," the ninja said with a roll of his eyes, "And so we wear them to emulate our father, the Yondime, Minato Namikaze," Harry told his birth father but kept his eye on the battlefield as his brother and Suna ninja battled.
"Oh, so his was like yours then," Lily said as she looked at him.
"No, Otōsan's was white with red fleames, while I did the red flames, as you can see mine is black," Harry told her as he moved his eyes away from the fight, "And as you saw my brother's one is orange with black flames," He added as returned his gaze to the match.
"Something is worrying him," Hermione said as Ron nodded.
"Yeah, you can tell as he's watching that match and with how he's speaking that something is now right," Ron said.
People looked at them in wonder, and Harry smiled.
James and Lily looked at each other before looking back at Ron and Hermione, "Can you tell what," James asked them.
"I think I know," Voldemort said as everyone turned to him, "Blaze, correct me if I'm wrong, but is that version of Potter is making sure that his brother is safe when it is his turn to battle," He asked the world maker who turned to the snake man.
"Close, very close," Blaze said as Tao narrowed her eyes and started thinking.
"It's who he's going to fight," She said as Blaze nodded.
Tonks looked at her boyfriend, who looked down at the fight in the arena. "That's him right," she asked, looking at the red-haired boy in the arena.
"Yes, he's the jinchūriki of the Ichibi," Harry said as he turned on his Dōjutsu.
Then, the pentagram turned one way, while the outermost ring turned the other way.
"What the hell happened to my son's eye," James said as he saw Harry's right eye change.
"It's his Dōjutsu, the Mahōhoshigan, and it starts with him, and when he has children, he will pass it on," Blaze told him as James looked at him.
"And he gained that eye when three things happened," Blaze said as he held up a hand.
"He was attacked by an Iwa ninja and managed to get away, but he lost vision in his right eye," Blaze said as he raised one finger.
People around wised at that as he raised a second finger, "He was then injected with a mixture of blood from Kushina Uzumaki, the woman that became his mother, Mikato Uchiha, the woman who became his godmother, and Hitomi Hyūga, Kushina and Mikato's best friend and when all three parts of the blood met his and the most dominant, Kushina's, merged with his blood and acted as a guide for the other two in fixing his body as he know had Uzumaki blood in his body fixing what was broken," Blaze said as James and Sirius nodded that.
"And the final thing is that an mad scientist replaced Harry's eye with that of a snake that can see heat, and then when the blood, magic, and chakra met with the eye it turned it turned back to a normal human eye that was the same green as his birth eye, but his body had changed," Blaze said as people looked at the Harry on the screen.
"The crimson red hair," Ron said as Blaze nodded.
"Yes, all members of the Uzumaki clan have red hair, with this Harry behind half, along with Naruto, but only a proton of their hair is red," Blaze told them.
"Is that why he can control sand," Lily asked as everyone looked back down into the arena.
"Yes, Shukaku no Ichibi gives its jinchūriki the ability to control sand, and if the rumours are true that Gaara's kid is the youngest son of the Kazekage," Harry told her as she looked at him.
"Kazekage," She asked.
"The leader of Suna or Sunagakure, and like I said, they are rumours," he explained to her as Madeye looked around.
Arena Floor
Naruto handed his sword as he channelled Gakidō through his sword and absorbed the chakra in the sand.
"You're not going to win like that brat," Naruto heard.
"What was that," Neville asked as the voice was deep and sounded evil and dark.
"That's Kurama no Kyūbi, the tailed beast that was sealed within Kushina Uzumaki and now sealed within her son Naruto," Blaze said as people looked amazed and frightened.
"Tailed beast," Hermione asked him.
"Tailed beasts or bijū are the nine living forms of chakra that the Sage of Six Paths or Rikudō Sennin pulled out of the Jūbi, with the last tail and body becoming something called the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path," Blaze explained as everyone got the picture.
"And both Naruto and Gaara have a tailed beast, right," James asked as Blaze nodded.
"That's good then; if his beast has more tails, that possibly means that it is stronger," Sirius said with a rod, but Remus sighed.
"Padfoot, if you remember what Harry said and that Shukaku no Ichibi gives its host the power to control sand, and we don't know that ability or power Kurama no Kyūbi gives its host," Remus explained to his friend.
"Do you have any idea on how to beat him as I'm just making this an endorse match at the moment and I don't think that's a good idea," Naruto asked the fox sealed within him.
"Yes, use Water Release and Lighting Release, maybe Shorch Release as well, so that you can turn his sand to glass and mud and then go in with your chains," he told Naruto, who started going through three hand seals.
"Suiton: Mizurappa," Naruto called out as he spews water from his mouth in a waterfall-like fashion.
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Harry looked down at the battle with a raised brow, "THAT is a plan, but is he-no there is lighting as well," Harry said as he watched his younger brother emit lightning from his mouth.
"He is working with what he's got, but would water and lighting, and whatever scorch, do with dealing with the sand," Draco asked his father, who rubbed his chin.
"I do not know Draco, but that beast that is sealed within the boy is saying that he can use it to aid him it may be a stronger version of fire," Lucius said to his son.
"You are right. It's what happens when you add Fire Release and Wind Release together, and while like Fire Release, it is weak to Water Release, it can make the second hottest fire release combination," Blaze told them, and they looked amazed by that.
"Meaning that he can super heat the sand and turn it to glass," Lily said as she narrowed her eyes.
"What is your brother planning," Remus asked as he looked down at the battle.
Harry narrowed his eyes as he looked down at the battlefield; he used his head to work out many plans and started to filter out the ones that did not work with what he was seeing, "I think that Naruto is trying to get past the sand and get to Gaara but, I don't think it's going to be that easy as even I've heard what that kid can do and I don't think I would fight him if I didn't have a plan to stop him using his bijū," Harry explained as Albus narrowed his eyes.
"Something is not right," He said as Harry looked at him with a raised brow.
"What is it," He asked the elderly wizard.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but a Kage, is it?" he asked as Harry nodded. "They are only supposed to have two guards, so why does the Kazekage have four," Dumbledore said as Harry's eyes shot to the Kage booth, and his eye saw through the jutsu the guards were using.
But he could not help but make a joke, "Well fuck me sideways you can be useful," Harry said as Lily looked at him stunned.
Aberforth started laughing as the gobsmacked looked at his brother, "Oh, gods that was brilliant," Aberforth said as he wiped tears out of his eyes.
Dumbledore sighed at his brother James's and Sirius's laughter. "I hate you," he muttered to his brother.
"No, you don't," Aberforth said as his laughter died.
"Those headbands are different from the ones the other of their ninja is wearing," Snape said as the other teachers looked at the screen.
"Could they be spies," Godric asked one of his fellow founders.
"No, I don't think they are spies; if they were, why would they watch over this match?" Salazar said, and Gryffindor's founder nodded.
The Aurors heard this and narrowed their eyes as well.
"Could it be that that is not the real leader of Suna, then," Tonks asked her boss.
Amelia narrowed her eyes at the screen before she nodded, "Spot on Tonks, and that means," She said as James and Sirius's eyes shot wide open.
"They wanted Gaara in this fight," They said, but Blaze said nothing.
"No, there is more to this," Narcissa said as her sisters nodded.
"What do you mean, mother," Draco asked her.
"What she means, nephew, is that Naruto is not the intended target for Gaara," Andromeda said as the Aurors narrowed their eyes.
Blaze smiled behind his mask at what they were saying but stayed quiet.
"Language," Lily told him for cursing.
§Which one would you like,§ Harry asked in the language of the snakes.
Lily narrowed her eyes at him.
§Don't be smart with me, young man,§ She told him with narrowed eyes, speaking in the same language as her son.
Sirius leaned into James, "How do you deal with her when she talks snake," He whispered to his brother in all but blood.
"It's still Lily, and I've learned that since she knows Parseltongue if I've done anything wrong, she will start speaking it around the house," James said as Sirius wised.
"That's ruff, buddy," Sirius said as he patted him.
"Oh, it gets better, as if Rose is mad she does the same and then they will both speak Parseltongue to each other while I'm in the room," James said as Remus laughed.
"But how do you find it," He asked him.
"I will not say anything," James said with a blush over his face.
Subtitles appeared on the screen as Lily and Harry talked in the language of the snakes, and Lily, Petunia, and Dudley looked amazed.
"What is it, pet," Vernon asked her.
"I can understand what they were saying," she said as her son nodded. "And that is without the subtitles," Petunia explained to her husband.
"Was it the same for you, Lil," James asked after hearing what his sister-in-law said.
"Yes," She said as she looked at her son, who smiled at her, "How do," She asked her son.
"I pitcher a snake in my mind and I switch to Parseltongue," Harry told her as he smiled at his mother.
§Don't curse in front of your mother,§ Lily told Harry as the ninja's eyes grew cold as he looked at his birth mother.
§I don't, as you're not her,§ Harry said as he turned away from Lily, and the green-eyed woman looked down, and James did not need to speak the language of serpents to know that was said.
"Give him time, as we fucked up so much that he has to make a sloth's pace," James said as Lily nodded at her husband.
"I know, but" Lily said as James hugged her.
Tonks looked at her boyfriend, and when she caught his eye, Harry let out a sigh, §We cannot fix what was broken, but if you stop trying to make me something I'm not, I can try to see things as you do,§ Harry said as Lily looked at him and a smile formed on her face.
§I'll like that,§ She told him before they returned to the arena.
"Hey, kid, so this is where you were," Jiraiya said as he walked up.
"No time," Harry said as he looked at the man.
"Who's he," Harry asked as he looked at the man who had woken up to his counterpart.
"That is Jiraiya, the sensei to that version of Minato Namikaze and the godfather of that version of you and Naruto," Blaze said as he looked at the man.
"So he's strong, then, is he trained the one who spotted the tailed beast in Nartuo?" Pansy asked as he looked at the man.
"Yes, he is also the spymaster of Konoha," Blaze said as a cheeky smile formed on his face hidden by his mask, "Well, one of them," He said as Hermione looked at Harry on the screen.
"Does Harry have a spy network or something," she asked the world maker.
"Yes, and the way he gained his spy network is how he gained his title," Blaze said as he smiled.
Sirius's face was angry as he looked at the man. "He is the one who replaced me as Harry's godfather," he sniffed.
"Yes," Blaze said with a nod.
"What do you mean," the sage asked before Harry pointed at the Kazekage's 'guards'.
"They are fakes, and Oto nin," He said as Jiraiya narrowed his eyes at the number before he nodded at Harry.
"I'll join sensei up there, and if I'm right, that's going to be Orochimaru," Jiraiya said as Harry clenched his fist at the mention of the snake sannin.
The toad tannin saw that black fur was growing over his arm, and his nails were becoming claws.
"Hey, I failed you once when he did that experiment; I'm not going to fail again," he told his godson, who nodded.
"Right, sorry," Harry said as he breathed; the fur retracted into his arm, and his hands returned to normal.
Remus looked at Harry with a smile.
"I can't believe you beat the curse of the werewolf," he said to Harry.
Jiraiya raised a brow at the man. "Beat would be saying it was easy on his half; no, what happened was that my former teammate injected him with blood and chakra from his mother when she was holding back the fox, and that chakra met with the curse and became something new," the sage said before he disappeared in a puff of smoke and reappeared next to the Sandime.
"Harry's a werewolf," James asked as Umbridge smiled.
"He beat the curse," Remus asked amazed.
"Yes, and it worked. Then Orochimaru injected the mixture of blood. He also injected a mixture of chakra, and some of Kurama's chakra mixed within as well, but it lay dormant until he was bitten by Remus when he was defending Rose Potter, Harry's sister," Blaze explained as Rmeus started to put it together.
"The chakra of the tailed beast met the curse and turned it into something that can be used, and made it so that he does not have to fear turning someone if he bites them," Remus said as Blaze nodded at him.
"That's right. It's his second Kekki Genkai, called Tenro Seishin, or Heavenly Wolf Spirit," Blaze explained as they nodded.
"Oh, I can't wait to have him expelled from the school," Umbridge said, then shrieked as the black flames surrounded her.
"Shut the fuck up bitch," Blaze said to her, "Anyway as Remus said the curse within him is no more and he cannot turn anyone," Blaze said as she did not look happy.
"And when he got bitten, he was in his last year of Hogwarts," Blaze said as Remus started to do some maths.
"So Harry is four years older than his sister," He asked the world maker.
"Yes, and in this world everyone thought until the Triwizard that she was the Girl-Who-Lived but when she confronted Voldemort in the graveyard like Harry did in his world, he told her that she was not the target, Harry was, and that he has been chasing Harry for a long time before Wormtail told him the location," Blaze explained as they all nodded.
The magic users continued watching as Naruto used water and lightning jutsu at Gaara.
Sand turned to glass and shattered in the air, while some turned to mud and dropped to the floor too heavy to stay in the air.
A puff of smoke drove Naruto back as he held his Katana tightly.
"What the fuck," Harry said as he looked down.
"Isn't that," Tonks asked as she looked down as the smoke cleared away.
"Yep," Harry said as he popped the 'P' and spat the word.
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Kakashi and Sasuke looked around, seeing that Naruto and Gaara were in the middle of their fight. "Oh, Naruto, I think you're in the wrong fight," Kakashi said with an eye smile.
"Wrong, Kakashi," Genma said as he walked up.
Kakashi looked at him with a raised brow, "What do you mean, Genma," He asked.
"Sasuke Uchiha failed to show up when the finals started and we had the hour break, so Hokage-sama has said that Sasuke Uchiha has been disqualified," Genma said as Sasuke's eyes shot wide at that.
"You can't do that; I'm the last Uchiha," Sasuke growled at the man, who looked at the Uchiha with a look of boredom.
"You failed to show up, and by doing so, you have brought shame to our village and showed the Fire Daimyō that you do not care, but thanks to Naruto Namikaze Uzumaki, showed how a Konoha ninja is supposed to act," Genma said as Jiraiya appeared in the arena and roughly took hold of Kakashi.
"Sensei wants to have a word," He said as he grabbed the Uchiha and appeared beside the Hokage.
"Continue," Genma called out as Naruto and Gaara returned to their fight.
"That guy reminds me of someone," Harry said as Ron and Hermione nodded as Daphne looked at them.
"Who," She asked him.
"Malfoy," the golden trio said as one with Draco's mother and father and sighed.
"I am nothing like that, Potter," Draco said as Harry looked at him dead in the eye.
"I could ask anyone here, and they would say the same thing if I asked them what the number one phrase that always leaves your lips in every second sentence," Harry said to him, looking shocked.
"I very much drought that," Lucius said to the boy.
Harry said nothing but got up in his seat and turned to the rest of the people and students at Hogwarts.
"One, two, three," Harry said and as one, each student said.
"My father will hear about this."
Harry looked back at the head of the Malfoy family with a raised brow.
"Do you want to test it once more," He asked the man, who sighed and shook his head.
Kage Booth
The three arrived, and Sarutobi did not look all that pleased with the two of them. "Thank you, Jiraiya," Sandaime said as he looked at Kakashi and Sasuke. "Will I be able to get the truth out of you about where you were for this exam?" he asked them.
Sasuke said nothing as Kakashi looked at him, "We were making sure that everything that we were training in was right," Kakashi said as Jiraiya scoffed at him.
"You knew what today was, and you are late, and you're lucky that Sensei is not demoting the two of you," The toad sannin said as Kakashi looked at him.
"What do you mean," Kakashi asked him.
"You were warned to be on time for his fight when you said that you were going to train the Uchiha, and you ended up being late; that speaks badly on Konoha because of what you two did," Jiraiya said as Sarutobi nodded along with what the sage was saying, "The Fire Daimyō had said that because of this that he was thinking about looking through our files to make sure that we are not wasting the money he sends us, but it is thanks to my apprentice down there that our Daimyō changed his mind," Jiraiya growled out as Sarutobi nodded once more.
"Jiraiya's right, and so I want to know where you were, and I want the information now, Kakashi," The Hokage asked him with a look that sent a shiver down the one-eyed man's spine.
"The Valley of Flames," Kakashi said as Sarutobi narrowed his eyes.
"Then you should have been back by the hour intermission, but you failed to show up, and you are three hours late thanks to that," He growled to the man as Kakashi hung his head as the Hokage moved his eyes to Sasuke, "And you why did you not try to speed your Sensei up to arrive for your match," He asked the Uchiha.
"I'm the last Uchiha," he said with an air of superiority. "People came from far and wide to watch my battle with a Suna Rat," Sasuke said as Sarutobi looked at him flatly.
"I see Cat, Monkey, Tiger. Take them to the viewing gallery and keep an eye on them," he said as three Anbu appeared and were escorted down to the viewing gallery. "I must apologize, Kazekage-dono. I must deal with that man, but I have been too lenient," Sarutobi said.
"Don't worry about what, Hokage-dono," The Kazekage said with a wave of his hand, "But shouldn't he let him fight, even if he does not get a promotion," The man asked.
"No, it shows bad faith and that we allow our ninja to do what they like," Sarutobi told him as the man nodded.
"I see," The Kazekage said as he turned his eyes back to the field.
"Curse you, sensei; did you figure out my plan," Orochimaru thought as he looked at the Hokage out of the corner of his eye.
"No, but then why is that fool here?" he hissed before mentally scoffing. "It does not matter; I'll order Gaara to start his transformation and I'll call Her out as well. I mean, I'm sure that Harry would like to see his mother once more," Orochimaru said as he used his vail to hide the vail smile forming on his lips.
"So it was that boy the Kazekage was waiting for," Remus said as James, Sirius, and Lily glared at the man on the screen.
"What does he mean by 'call her out'," Hedwig asked as she narrowed her eyes at the man on the screen.
"And no one will hurt my Harry when I'm around," she said as she puffed out her chest.
"That I can't say, as it will spoil some of the universes, but I think Lily gets it," Blaze said as people looked at the red-haired woman.
"He's going to call somehow back from the dead the woman that raised my son," Lily grew as her eyes glowed with power, and people started to look frightened of her.
Hermione turned to Harry with a raised brow, "So you get your temper from your mother," Hermione said as Harry nodded, "And there's is something in that world that can bring people back from the dead," Hermione asked Blaze, who rocked his hand back and forth.
"They are not alive, but they are back," Blaze said as Hermione nodded. The people who are brought back have bodies that can be destroyed but can be reformed and an unlimited amount of chakra," he explained to her, and Hermione looked shocked.
"Who would make something like that," McGonagall asked, horrified.
"It was made by the Nidaime Hokage, Tobirama Senju, for the purpose of interrogation, as if the person he's getting the information out of is dead. Just bring them back under your control and force them to speak," Blaze told her as she looked sick.
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Kakshi appeared next to Harry and the other magic users.
Harry did not look at him, "Well done on making Konoha look like shit Kakashi," He said to the older man.
"Yes, yes, I fucked up, I know," Kakashi said as he rolled his eye.
"Yes, you did, and even more," Harry said as Kakashi looked at him. "The Kazekage guards are Oto ninjas, and we have Oto ninjas surrounding us," he said as Kakashi started to look around.
"Orochimaru," Kakasi started as Harry nodded.
"He wants Sasuke, so you bringing him here now is making it easy for him to take the ego centric Uchiha," He finished as Kakashi sighed as he watched the Anbu, who was listening, move to Sasuke to keeping in Konoha.
"Is that why Naruto is down there to throw a wrench into Orochimaru's plan," Kakashi asked as he watched his student.
"Yes and no, as I started to piece together Orochimaru's plan, then this old fuck pointed out that the Kazekage had four guards, and I used my eye to see passed the transformation," Harry said as Kakashi nodded.
"And with how Gaara is the only person in this exam who can fight him, he's down there right now," Kakashi sighed as Harry nodded before he looked at the black-haired boy. "Has he used?" he asked as Harry shook his head.
"No, he will when Gaara starts his transformation, as that is his job—the first to be sent," he said as Kakashi gained a dark look.
"The last brought back," he finished as he watched the fight. "So, let's ensure that Gaara doesn't have a backup, shall we?" Kakashi said with an eye smile.
"There are twenty-five Oto ninjas, and for Suna, there are forty-five," Harry said as Kakashi looked over to Guy.
Like the magic users, who stood beside them and heard everything being told.
"Spread the word diligently, as we want the upper hand. Any Otonin will have the order of aim to capture but kill if needed while Suna is captured on sight," Kakashi said.
Guy and the magic users nodded, and they walked off.
"So the plan beings," Hermione said but did not like the order given out, "But do they have to go for the kill," She asked as some of the older generations sighed at the question.
"It looks like it's their way of living over in that world, and that me is not too happy about the order," Albus said as he frowned.
"But it's going to turn into a war, so death is a part of that," James sighed after the headmaster spoke.
"And they have the enemy within there walls so if they want to see the next day they will have to get their hands wet with blood or in the case of the magic users, cast curses and spells that will send you to meet death," Mad-Eye said as the Deatheaters nodded.
"But I can't work something out," Bellatrix said as people turned to her. "Why is that Orochimaru after the boy?" she asked as she racked her brain for the answer.
But nothing came.
"It's to do with his eyes," Blaze said as the smart ones in the room started to get an idea.
Harry returned to the fight between the Jinchūriki before Naruto pulled something out that made Harry stop. "What is he doing?" he asked quietly as he threw it at Garaa.
But the thing the blond threw did nothing, so Harry just shook his head as the fight continued, with Naruto spewing out Lighting Release Jutsu and Water Release Jutsu by the time the magic users returned, along with Guy.
"The others have been told about the plan and are ready to strike," He whispered to Kakashi and Harry, who nodded.
"Hey, Lily, don't Naruto's eyes look different from yours," James asked his wife, who looked down with narrowed eyes before nodding.
"They are like Harry; he's using his Dōjutsu," she said as Harry's eyes shot wide, and he looked at the thing that Naruto had thrown.
"Is he," Harry asked as he turned on his Dōjutsu again and had it zoom in on what his little brother had thrown.
And he found that it was a Kunai.
A tri-bladed Kunai.
A smile started to form on his face as he turned off his Dōjutsu, "So you're using that," Harry said as the others turned to him and saw his smile.
"What's he using," Rose asked as she looked at the boy who had taken her older brother away from her.
"The one technique that made my father the number one kill-on-sight target from Iwa during the Third Shinobi World War, even a flee-on-sight from Kumo," Harry said as Kakashi looked shocked, and the two of them looked around.
"He's littered the field with Kunai that have been infused with Lighting and Water Release chakra," Kakashi said as the two looked back on the field as Naruto held out another Kunai.
"Now, those orders are quite telling how powerful this man was," Voldemort said as he looked in amazement at the titles given out.
"I'm more interested bout this technique that gave the made this order," Albus said as the dark lord looked over, "Think about it, Tom, how would someone be able to achieve those orders if the technique was not something that granted him that power," He told him.
Daphne looked at the smile on Harry's face on the screen before saying, "Does this Harry know this technique?" She asked as Blaze nodded.
"That he does," Blaze said as Hermione looked at the screen again.
"Did he have a title like you said that Harry had," She asked him.
"He did, and I have to say that his title was given to him thanks to his blond hair being the last thing his enemies saw before their death," Blaze said as people's eyes shot wide.
"Do you mind telling us," Rowena asked him.
"Kiiroi Senkō," Blaze told them as people tried to work out the name's meaning.
"It seems that the Kiiroi Senkō will show up and move on to another person," Kurenai said as she walked over.
The magic users looked confused, even more so when they saw that all the older ninjas of Konoha were paying attention.
"Yellow Flash," Tonks asked Harry, who was still smiling.
"My father would move through the battlefield with one technique that gave him that title," Harry said with awe.
"And he was known for it because the last thing you would see before your death was the flash of his yellow hair," Asuma said as the older ninja of Konoha looked down at Naruto and saw a ghost-like image of Minato Namikaze over Naruto as they both held the Kunai the same way.
With Hinata and Kiba
"This one technique made by Nidaime-sama was perfected by that man that I called friend," Hiashi told them as his two children beside him, along with Kiba, looked amazed.
With Ino and Choji
"The only person after him that had managed to use this technique with his own high speed technique," Inoichi told his daughter and old teammate's son.
With Sakura
"And with fusing it, it was this technique, and he was given the title, calling him Shi no Jigoku Ryōken," Anko told Naruto's girlfriend, who looked at the purple-haired woman.
"Harry," Sakura asked.
"That's right," Anko nodded as she kept her smile. "With the speed of death, the form of a wolf, and the silver tongue of the devil," she said with a wicked smile.
With Tenten
"And now the youngest son of that man is on the battlefield, ready to carve his name into the world," Ibiki said, as Tenten looked amazed.
And slightly frightened by what the man from T&I was telling her.
"Though there is something I wonder," He said as Tenten looked at him.
"What," She asked him.
With Harry
"How will our lady expect him?" Harry told them, unknowingly finishing the others' words in Konoha.
"Your lady," Dumbledore asked him.
"The Uzumaki say there are only two gods that are worth praying to," Harry said as he watched Naruto getting ready to throw the Kunai, "Rikudō Sennin-sama and lady Shinigami as no one can run from death, so the Uzumaki don't, and each Uzumaki are her tools on this plain each even a title to know that we are her tools," He told them.
"And your name is Hellhound of Death, but what was the others," Tonks asked him.
"So that me used his silver tongue to talk his spy network into working for him," Harry asked Blaze, who nodded.
"That's right," Blaze said with a nod.
Blaise looked shocked at Harry's speech on screen. "Is he not afraid of death?" he asked, and the people around him nodded.
"Yes and no," Blaze said as the others turned to him, "Yes, because of the people he will leave behind, but no, as he will meet death with a smile and-," Blaze said as the younger of the three brothers smiled.
"Meet them as an old friend," Ignotus finished for the world maker.
"Correct, and no matter how much you try to run or hide, she will find you in the end and embrace you," Blaze said as he looked into Voldemort's eyes, who nodded.
"I see," He muttered as he looked at the screen.
"My mother was Akashi, while her father was Shi no Arashi, and then there was her mother, who was Shi no Hana," Harry told her as she nodded. "And I have one for him," Harry said as Kakashi looked at him. People far and wide were unknowingly listening to this conversation.
Harry's eyes became slits, and his teeth turned sharp like fangs, "Now show the world why the Uzumaki was feared," He said as everyone heard his words.
Even Naruto and Gaara.
"Show them, Shi no Kyūbi-en Koei," Harry called out as Naruto threw the Kunai in his hand.
He then appeared in front of Gaara and delivered open-handed and plumb strikes.
"That smart little shit," Harry said as the people watched the Kunai getting closer to Naruto and Gaara, "He used his Rinnegan to memorize the way a member of the Hyūga Clan fights and then made it his own by adding another step," He added as the Kunai reached Naruto who delivered another palm strike to Gaara and then threw the Kunai into the air.
"Gaara has been marked," Kakashi said with an eye smile as Sasuke looked confused.
"What do you mean," He asked.
"Keep watching the Kunai, and you'll see," Harry said as people did as he told them as they watched the Kunai.
Before something happened.
It was replaced by a confused Gaara in the sky.
"A bit on the nose but if you don't mess up this technique, I might not beat you ass," Harry said as Lily and James looked at him.
"What is it," James asked him.
Harry pointed at Naruto as he sent out chains, pulled the Kunai from the ground, and reappeared in the sky.
"I have a technique called Shunkō: Hiraishin Genkai Toppa, where I push my body to its limit with the healing ability that Tenro Seishin grants me and makes copies of my sword and attacks with them," Harry told them as he looked at the nine Kunai around Gaara, "But the brat is doing something different," Harry said as Tonks looked at Naruto who was above Gaara.
"I think I know," she said as Harry looked at her. "Spoilers," she said to him with a sly smile.
The students of each school looked on in amazement at the skill shown, while some of the teachers looked shocked. "Now the blond is showing his skill," George said before looking at Blaze. "But what is the technique he's using?" he asked.
"Hiraishin no Jutsu or Flying Thunder God Technique needs someone who will need to place a technique formula on their target and can be sent them flying in the air if the user wants, or they can be used to fly themselves," Blaze said as told them as people nodded, "Well, fly is not the right more like teleport," Blaze explained to them.
"I see, so Naruto marked Gaara and used a marked Kunai that he threw into the air and then sent Gaara up with that Kunai while before he appeared when the Kuani was high enough," Albus said as he analysed everything he saw on the screen, "And from what that version of Harry has said it has a technique that is similar to the one that we are going to watch right now," He added as the students of Hogwarts, former and current, looked shocked at how the man was able to pick apart the technique so easy.
"So it seems but why nine," McGonagall said as Harry narrowed his eyes.
They then saw that Naruto appeared at one of the Kunai before he started to slash at Gaara in the air as he zoomed past. "He's performing Hiraishingiri while in the air and targeting the Kunai that is in the other part of the star," Harry said, but he felt the chakra from above.
"But why the nine Kunai," Harry asked himself before he did something that stopped his thought.
"Are those clones?" James asked as Naruto formed eight clones, each appearing at one of the other eight Kunai.
"I know what he's doing," Tonks said as everyone turned to her. "Naruto came to me the other day to help him in his training as Harry was talking to his contact in Suna. He wanted to make this Jutsu that would give him the edge over his siblings of burden," Tonks said as Harry laughed.
The Naruto in the air drew their swords and started to send elemental chakra into their swords.
"I see, so he's going to call on all nine elements that each of the bijū, and with his sword being that of our grandfather's the blade will handle them," Harry said as the magic users looked up and were amazed with what they saw.
One of the clones had a sword coated in chakra with black tribal markings over it, the next one had a sword bathed in flames, and another sword had flowing water.
Then was the sword with lava spilling off it and the one with steam billowing off.
The blade of the next sword seemed to be covered in a covered with bubble, while dust flowed around the seventh sword and lighting around the eighth.
The real Naruto had a cyclone around his sword.
"Kemono Kenryū- Kyūyajū Kageken," Naruto called out as he and the clones shot forward at Gaara, slashing him with their swords and attacking him nine times.
"They are delivering quit the number of attcks," Snape said with a broad look on his face, but if you looked at his eyes.
They showed fear.
After Naruto had finished cutting and slashing at Gaara, the original Naruto appeared above Gaara once he moved with his sword at the ready.
But then something happened with the sword that shocked Kakashi.
It changed form.
It turned into a vast, black, heavily curved scimitar with silver edges and a notch taken out of the side of the blade, and there were two of them.
"Kemono Kenryū- Haiena Hōkō," Naruto called out as he brought both swords down on Gaara, and a release of chakra sent the host of Shukaku no Ichibi into the ground.
No one knew what to say after witnessing that attack, and some were even relieved that they were not the ones on the other side of that attack.
"Now that was impressive," Karkaroff said with a nod.
"Why did that version of myself show fear," Snape asked the world maker, who turned to him.
"Oh, in that university when Harry went to Hogwarts, and his deal with Albus was not he would not be called Potter but be called Uzumaki, but you and your students did not listen to that and he then had to make another deal with Harry to make sure that he did not kill the students that called him Potter," Blaze said as people's eyes shot wide and looked at him, "He would sent students that was severely beaten with broken bones and bodies that was close to being on deaths door and you even got a broken arm and leg when trying to defend your students Snape," Blaze told him as the man did not look pleased.
"What happened then," He asked the world maker.
"Well you finally got the message and left him alone by the time of Halloween, but your students did not get the message until the start of the second year," Blaze told him as the man nodded.
"It makes sense, as he would do anything he can to get on my nerves, and with that me being out of his home and in enemy territory, he would do anything to make sure that he had the advantage," Harry said, as Snape looked put out by what Harry said.
As Gaara fell, the sand rose and caught him before becoming a dome of sand, and Harry saw something that made him move his hand to his sword.
The Suna ninja around was getting ready to attack.
Harry looked at Kakashi and nodded before signalling the Anbu to take Sasuke out of the arena to be kept safe.
Lily looked around to see the Konoha ninja starting to get ready before she looked at her son, §What is it,§ She asked him.
§Suna is getting ready to attack, so get ready if you still want to help out,§ Harry told them as Lily and Rose nodded, and they each whispered to the other wizards and witches.
As the Suna and Oto ninjas got ready, people dressed in full-body cloaks stood up and went to the front by the ring.
"It starts," Harry said as he flared his chakra along with a Genjutsu being formed.
Each civilian was knocked out by the genin, who repelled it, but the magic users were unaffected, thanks to Harry's chakra flare.
"So the Hellhound sniffed us out did he," An Oto ninja asked as he walked out of the crowd.
"It was easy with you smelling like a snake in a swamp and not a majestic creature of the forest," Harry said as he slipped into the persona he used when fighting. "I mean, did you really think that this would work?" he asked with a smile that looked right from the devil himself.
Kakashi lifted his Hitai-ate to show his Sharingan.
"Now then we have to make sure that the great tree does not fall," Kakshi said as the Konoha ninja got ready.
No one said anything else as the battle began as a Suna ninja threw a Kunai at Tonks.
Who caught it, threw it back at him with great speed, and embedded it in his chest.
"I have never been more proud of my niece than at this moment," Bellatrix said as she wiped a tear from her eye at the sight of the screen.
Andromeda sighed. "Of course, that is what my sister will be proud of her for," she said with a roll of her eyes.
"Good shot girl, with a strike like that if that pansy get back up he will not be moving for some time," Mad-eye said with a nod.
"While I don't want to agree with Alastor, that version of us are on a battle field and if needs be you will need to pick between you or them, so good work," Amelia told Tonks, who nodded at her.
"Thank you, ma'am," Tonks said with a smile, even though she did not make the move. "But how did that me do that?" Tonks asked as Blaze looked at her.
"You was trained by Harry's best female friend Anko Mitarashi, and she taught you how to defend yourself without magic as well and, even if this is a spoiler, you go and break the arm of your dear uncle who was going to use the killing curse on your father," Blaze said as Tonks smile at her dad.
Harry looked at his girlfriend, amazed by what she had just done, and took out three Oto ninja without even looking at them. "My dear, it seems that there are going to be some fields that are going to be ploughed tonight," Harry said as Lily and James looked at her son in shock while Rose looked green to the gills.
Harry and Tonks were bright red, and people started to laugh at them. Hermione slapped Harry upside down. "Have some decorum," she told him.
"It isn't me," he told her as she looked at him with a roll of eyes. "And I have a question that will be somewhat uncomfortable, especially for me, so there is nothing new about that part," Harry asked Blaze, who turned to him with a nod.
"Go head ask," Blaze asked him.
"Well we be seeing me in Sexual encounters as well," He asked as Blaze nodded.
"That you will and it could be with anyone," The world maker told him as people's eyes shot wide.
"Did you say anyone," Luna asked him.
"This is the Multiverse, which means everything, and anything is possible, and I mean anything," Blaze told her as people looked at each other. "But I have no say in what you see, as this is all chance, so good luck," Blaze told them as people looked at each other again.
"Did you really have to say that," Rose asked her brother, who looked at her with a raised brow.
"What never had the birds and bees," Harry asked as he held his hands out as finger guns and shot small chakra bullets, taking out a group of Oto ninjas.
Rose sputtered at him, flustered as Harry's eyes were drawn to the battle arena, "Kakashi, I'll head down to aid Genma and give Naruto his orders; you deal with the shit up here," Harry said as Kakashi nodded as the green-eyed man started to run down the stairs with Tonks right behind him.
"If I'm going to be staying here a week, I want to make sure that my home here is not destroyed," she said as both jumped down to the arena. Tonks attached herself to Harry's back as he started to change his form to Stealth Point. When he landed, Tonks started to fire spells around, taking out some of the ninja around Genma, who turned to see both of them aiding him.
"You took your time," He told Harry, who gave a fang-filled smirk.
"I had to tell the late one what was happening," Harry told him before looking at the dome of sand. Gaara has started his transformation. "You know what that means, Naruto?" he asked his little brother, who began to have chakra flow off him.
"It's like how you and Ero-sennin taught Kurama and me how to fight together," Naruto said as he turned into his Nine-Tailed Chakra Mode.
"Then your orders are this, when Gaara emerges from that dome, fight him and win," Harry told him as he used his Dōjutsu.
A crack was heard as he did, and everyone turned to see Gaara leave the dome covered in sand with blue markings and yellow eyes.
"Naruto Uzumaki, fight me, prove to me that my existence is needed, fight me, fight me, fight me, fight me, fight me, fight me, fight me, fight me, fight me, Fight me, FIGHT ME," Gaara yelled to him with an insane look in his eye. So Naruto burst forward, formed a tail, and rushed out of the village.
"That is one unhinged fellow," Fred said as he looked at Gaara and turned to Blaze. "Why is he like that?" he asked.
"Jinchūriki is not treated the best outside of Kumo or Kumogakure and is made to be weapons of war, with Harry saying the first to be sent and the last to be brought back means that if a war happened, Naruto would be the first sent at the enemy before the rest of the forces and then when they are brought back to the village Nartuo would remain on the battle field the longest," Blaze told them as they all nodded, "But each village treats there Jinchūriki different, Kumo treats them as heroes, Kiri as normal ninja, Iwa has them live out of the village, Konoha will just leave them alone along with the people with them, and Suna is the worst as they along will do everything in their power to make there Jinchūriki unstable so that they can turn into the beast at any moment," He added as it shocked the others.
"So they made him like this," Draco said, looking sick.
"Yes," Blaze told him.
"Gaara," Gaara's siblings called out as they chased after their little brother.
"Was that a good idea," Genma asked Harry with a raised brow.
"He knew that is what his job is, and he's making sure that Gaara is away from the village so that if Naruto needs to transform himself, neither of them can see the village," Harry said as chakra coated his claws and slashed at the air, sending out crescent blades of wind that cut groves into the ground as they travelled towards a group of Suna ninja.
"If you say so," Genma said as he turned towards some Oto ninja.
Kage Booth
Orochimaru looked shocked at the battle before he had to replace himself with a log before Jiraiya cut his throat. "So you reveal yourself, Orochimaru," he said to the snake-faced man who pulled off the Kage hat to show a woman's face. "What have you done?" Jiraiya asked as he glared at his former teammate.
"What I went out to achieve, immortality," Orochimaru said as he pulled the woman's face off his own.
Hiruzen looked at Orochimaru with a sad expression. "You truly have fallen far, my former student," he sighed.
"Oh, Sarutobi-sensei, that is a harsh thing for you to say to me," Orochimaru said with a fake hurt look.
"So, like Tom is with me, Orochimaru is the student of the leader of that village," Albus said as Voldemort nodded at him.
"So it would seem that we both are looking for immortality. If I may ask, how is he accomplishing this?" he asked Blaze, who turned to him.
"Orochimaru has a technique that uses something called curse marks that he puts on people that have a portion of chakra within, and he can use to then take over their bodies after using another technique," Blaze informed the man, who nodded.
"So it's a form of possession," Voldemort said as he hummed.
"That's right, but he can only hold a body for three years before the body will reject him and he moves onto the next one," Blaze told him as the dark lord nodded.
"Dose makes a sort of senses," Voldemort said to him.
"Oh, stop with that fake look as not even a child would be fooled by it you monster," Jiraiya told him as he tightened his grip on the Kunai.
Orochimaru smiled and turned to his former teammate. "And how are you, you bumbling fool?" he asked.
"I'm fine you snake faced bastard," The Toad sage told him as he prepared to attack.
"Kawara Shuriken," Hiruzen called out as the roof tiles flew off the roof they were on and started to spin towards Orochimaru.
He jumped away from the roof tiles as he started to weave hand seals, but the ground he landed on turned into a mud river that began to flow off the roof. When Hirzuen formed another seal, the mud river turned into a dragon's head, spitting mud balls at Orochimaru.
"Katon: Endan," Jiraiya called out as he breathed out flames at Orochimaru.
"Katon: Karyūdan," Hirzuen called out as he breathed out a blast of flames that caught the mud balls on fire as they flew through the air at Orochimaru.
The flames and fire mud balls hit Orochimaru as he was in the mud river, and both men watched him with unfaltering looks.
"You can stop playing around Orochimaru," Hiruzen said as his former student jumped out of the river and removed the Kazekage robe, showing off his clothes.
"As you wish, Sensei," Orochimaru said with a sickening smile, "Do it," He said as the guards there released their transformations and moved to points in the roof.
"Shishienjin," The four called out as a purple barrier formed around the three former teammates.
Orochimaru went through four seals before clapping his hands together. "Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei," he called out as the roof before him shook and coffins burst from the ground.
One was marked with the Kanji for one.
Anther with the Kanji for two.
And the third had the Uzumaki clan symbol on it.
"Now, before any of you ask I will not say who is behind the first two, but I think you all know who is in the third," Blaze said as Lily narrowed her eyes at the coffins on the screen.
"What is the price for this technique?" Snape asked as people looked at him. Everything has a price, and I wonder what that price is," he said as Blaze looked at him.
"The price is that the person using the Edo Tensei must make a sacrifice, willing or not," Blaze said as people looked shocked.
"So Orochimau has sacrificed three people to call out these, three," James said with a scowl.
No one said anything as the dark lord looked intrigued by this, but Albus said something that shocked everyone. "I can see why someone like him would use it," he said as Harry looked at his headmaster.
"What do you mean professor," He asked.
"That man is like Tom, and everyone knows that I am the one person he wants gone so he can get at you," Dumbledore said as Harry nodded. "And if Tom had used this technique, he would use it to bring back the people I care for and use them to attack me, as I will not want to kill them and watch them die a second time, even if they cannot die," Albus said as Harry and Voldemort nodded.
"That is something I would do, and it would be a muggle or muggle born that I had taken," He said.
Hiruzen and Jiraiya watched the coffins open, and the sage clenched his fist. "Why did he have to call her back?" he asked himself.
"I can't believe that he called those two," Hiruzen thought as he saw the forms of his old teachers and removed his kage robes, showing his Shinobi Armour.
The first and second Hokage stood in their armour as well.
And the person who walked out of the third was Kuchina Uzumaki.
"Saru, is that you," Tobirama asked as he looked at his old student.
"I am sensei," Hiruzen said as Tobirama looked over to Jiraiya.
"And you are," He asked.
"I am Jiraiya, Nidaime-sama, the toad sage," Jiraiya answered as he did not ease up and got ready to summon those two if needed.
"It seems we have been called back brother," Hashirama said as he looked at Orochimaru, who smiled at him.
"That is right, I called you both here to fight and kill him," Orochimaru said as he pulled out Kunai with red tags on them before putting them into the back of the two men's heads.
Before they could say anything, their eyes lost all colour. Orochimaru turned to Kushina, "And for you, my dear I have a better idea," Orochimaru said as he pushed the same type of Kunai into her head, "Why don't you say hello to your son," He said to Kushina struggled to fight the orders before she started to run at the barrier as golden chains shot out of her back.
They dug into the barrier, making a hole that she jumped through.
Thanks to her fighting the control, some Anbu jumped in to aid their Kage.
"So it seems that Kushina is still giving me trouble even after death," Orochimaru said with a smile as the Anbu got ready.
"Orders sir," One of them asked.
"The way to get rid of us is to seal us away," Tobirama said as the Anbu looked shocked.
"Now kill them," Orochimaru said as the two undead men ran at the Konoha Ninja.
Konoha Main Street, With Harry and Tonks
Harry had flames around his claws in his claw point, cutting into any Oto ninja that stood in his way. Tonks fired spells around them and used some weapons that Harry had given her.
"So is this how it's always like around here," Tonks asked as Harry gave her a fang-filled smile.
"No, but if Anko had her way, it would be," Harry said; and as if on cue, a massive explosion filled the air with Anko being launched, cackling like a mad woman.
In the crowd, the woman and mothers, bar Umbridge, growled in anger at Orochimaru for what he was doing while Harry looked at the woman on the scene, apparently his best friend.
"How the hell did I become friends with her," Harry asked Blaze, who smiled.
"Well, it was over their favourite food as Harry, thanks to the Uzumaki blood in his veins, said that Raman was better than Dango, and the two of them got into a fight before the two of you started to laugh atop of your summons, a wolf and a snake before you said if she wanted a bite to eat and the two of you went to get something eat," Blaze said as before a smile formed on his face, "And when Tonks fall pregnant with your children you name her godmother," Blaze said as Tonks looked at Harry who looked back at her before they nod.
"That's a good idea," They said as they returned to the scene.
"How in the name of Morgana's tits is she your best friend," Tonks asked her boyfriend.
"She and I have one thing in common," Harry said with a crazy smile that Tonks had only seen a few times before. It was one of the times that she was glad that she knew that it was only in small moments that he showed this side. "We loves chaos," he said as he spun around, cutting down the Oto ninja around him.
And Tonks knew that he was not done. "But unlike Anko, I do not go out of my way to cause the chaos; I just sit back and watch the chaos that Anko makes," Harry said as he suddenly stopped. Tonks looked at him, and she saw the look on his face.
It was one of pure shock.
"What is it?" she asked him as she looked around and saw no more Oto ninja around them.
"Something has entered my sensory rang that I have not sensed in a long time," Harry said with a weak voice.
Something that Tonks had never heard from him, and if she was being honest with herself, he looked frightened of what he was sensing.
She watched Harry turn back into his standard form. He looked around above them like a lost child, trying to find his mother before she spotted something.
A woman with purple eyes and long scarlet red hair was flowing behind her, heading their way.
"How can she be here?" Harry said in a weak voice. James, Lily, Rose, and Sirius appeared around a corner and saw Harry looking up as a woman landed.
James and Lily recognized her as she landed.
She was in a pitcher back at Harry and Naruto's apartment. "How," Was all Harry could ask the woman, who turned to Harry and smiled at him with a smile that only a mother could use on her children. "Kāsan," Harry asked with a weak voice as he looked at her.
Rose looked shocked at her brother and knew that one word was from a Ravenclaw and what it meant.
"Hello my darling son," Kushina said as she looked at her adopted son.
The screen went dark once more as people looked at Blaze, who in turn looked at them. "What? I'm only showing you small bits of a world, not the entire thing, and sometimes it will leave on a cliffhanger," he said before looking at the next person to pick a world.
"Rowena Ravenclaw, come on down and pick the next world," Blaze said as the woman walked down to the machine before seeing something on one of the buttons.
She pressed it and a few more buttons before pulling the lever, and the globe started to spin.
Numbers and letters shifted and changed before it soon stuck on HPFT-900020, and Blaze's shirt had a symbol no one had seen before.
"Dame, this is a good one," Blaze said as people looked at each other.