I made this chapter a little longer because of the long wait from the last chapter's update. I want to thank those who have supported this story from the beginning. The following few chapters should be very exciting as Naruto will meet not only Daphne Greengrass, but also Luna Lovegood and Hermione Granger. This chapter was reuploaded because of the very bad timing of FFN going down... here's me praying that the whole site doesn't go down. Enjoy!

Chapter 6: Life at Spinner's End

The sound of pestles and mortars crushing ingredients into mashed dust echoed outside the streets of Spinner's End. In the dimly lit laboratory on the third floor of Severus Snape's home, he nodded in approval as Naruto continued adding ingredients to what the professor called the Wiggenweld Potion. Four bubbling cauldrons were in front of Naruto, who stirred each brew meticulously. Naruto's eyelids were baggy, and he had been at it with the Potion's Master since they had left Ali Khan's Magical Curry. Severus shook his head as Naruto stirred the orange concoction. "You are almost done!"

"Almost done?" Naruto pouted, his head weary after going over so many potions and brewing gallons of something called Draught of Living Death, which Professor Snape watched closely as Naruto prepared the brew. He hovered over Naruto's shoulder while he was forced to crush the sopophorous bean. "I've been brewing potions for almost ten hours! Brewing potions is fun, but even I need sleep!"

"You think this is fun?" Severus asked with a grin. The Potion Master had never heard such a statement from a student before, not even from that annoying know-it-all Hermione Granger. "Remember to stir clockwise until the Wiggenweld Potion turns yellow! This is one of the most important potions every young wizard should know."

"Why is that?" Naruto grumbled wearily, but his foxy grin didn't falter.

"Because it is a powerful potion that can be used to heal injuries or reverse the effects of the Sleeping Drought," Severus explained while flicking his wand at an old record player sitting below the window in the dimly lit laboratory.

The record player started playing Gnossienne No. 1 by Erik Satie. Naruto continued to stir the Wiggenweld potion clockwise as he smiled to the music playing in the background. Professor Snape performed magic so effortlessly that it looked cool. Snape wasn't just cool. He had been very supportive with teaching Naruto all afternoon into the dead of night.

Naruto saw the brew turn yellow, so he added the honey water to the mixture until it turned turquoise. "I like learning from you," he said with a foxy grin. Naruto looked up and saw Professor Snape's black eyes gleaming brightly. "I've never had a teacher spend so much time teaching me something new, and you've already taught me four potions today. Why do you like teaching me so much?"

"Probably because I haven't seen talent like yours since my school days at Hogwarts," Severus explained with a lonesome smile. "Few novice potion makers can keep up with creating the Draught of the Living Death!"

"Oh, that potion!" Naruto tilted his head and looked at Severus Snape's glinting black eyes. "Is that potion hard to learn?"

"Very!" Severus uttered. "I've now determined you are a prodigy at Potions! You remind me of a friend."

"I do?" Naruto looked up at the Professor with blushing cheeks. "No one has ever called me a prodigy before," he remarked with crimson cheeks. Not even Jiraiya-sensei praised him so highly.

"Yes," Snape answered quickly, his black eyes scanning Naruto's bubbling turquoise cauldron. "She was the best potions student at Hogwarts. Our professor, Horace Slughorn, always praised her."

"Her," Naruto said with a foxy grin. "Why did Slughorn always praise her?" Naruto stopped stirring the wooden ladle in the iron-cast cauldron.

"She was so talented that if you threw a bunch of random ingredients at her. She would invent a new brew!" Snape recounted with a warm look and a slight smile. "She was a muggle-born witch. Slughorn always was fascinated by witches and wizards of low means becoming great."

"Are Muggle-born wizards and witches normal?" Professor Snape's black eyes shifted oddly before he looked away. "Did you know her?" Naruto's questions were met with Silence.

Professor Snape paced back and forth, and Naruto decided to finish making the Wiggenweld potion. It was fun brewing potions because Professor Snape explained the usefulness and strategies to use each potion. The entire process of cutting, crushing, and pouring exotic ingredients into the cauldrons came naturally for him. He added a few drops of the boom berry juice and smirked. "I finished!"

Snape appeared and nodded his approval. "Impressive display," Severus commented. "Are you sure this is your first time behind a cauldron?"

Naruto nodded and had a broad, foxy grin. "First time, Professor!"

"What impressed Slughorn the most about this student wasn't her background, but her skill," Snape reminisced while pouring the transparent liquid batch of the Draught of the Living Death inside ampoules and glass bottles. "Her name was Lily… she mastered the Wiggenweld Potion and Draught of the Living Death in one day."

"I wouldn't say I mastered Draught of the Living Death," Naruto grumbled. "I mean, you kinda guided me along the whole time. I'd never be able to make it from memory."

"True, you did not master that particular potion," Severus said in a slow drawl. "But I didn't give you any advice on the Wiggenweld Potion, except to read the directions and stir the cauldron a certain way," Severus commented, genuinely impressed by Naruto's performance.

"Th-thanks, Professor Snape," Naruto said with a salute. "I loved this!"

Severus and Naruto started filtering their brews into potion bottles. They worked diligently but stopped when a loud banging thud reverberated from downstairs. Naruto looked around the laboratory and only heard classical music playing from the stereo.

The loud bang transformed into the rattling-clattering jingle of pots and pans falling in the kitchen. The commotion was so noisy that Severus quickly cast a stasis charm over the bubbling cauldrons. Naruto followed his temporary guardian, who had his wand drawn. "Lumos!" Severus uttered under his breath. The wand cast light brighter than a candle. Another rattle of pans on the floor caused the Potion Master and the young shinobi to investigate the commotion silently.

Naruto rushed past Severus, who looked shocked. Naruto jumped from the walls so fast that he landed in the living room within seconds. He rolled from the Persian rugs onto the cold tile of Snape's kitchen floor. Naruto saw a short skeletal shadow dancing in the room's corners. He bolted when the shadow scurried around a corner past Snape's open pantry.

Naruto jumped and grabbed the small skeletal creature in his hands as Professor Snape entered his living room and kitchen with his wand, lighting up the rooms. Sitting under Naruto's grip was a spindly, red-grey-skinned elf creature. The creature had large orange eyes, a long, pointed nose as thin as a marker, and pointed bat-like ears. The elf creature whimpered under Naruto's sapphire eyes as he realized something.

"M-master!" croaked the creature.

"Wait a minute, I know you!" He loosened his grip on the creature's dirty pillowcase gown. "What are you doing here?"

Professor Snape appeared in the walkway and pointed his bright wand at the creature. "Explain yourself, house-elf!"

Naruto released the creature from his grip but quickly wished he hadn't. The house-elf started crying loudly, its tiny fingers circling his left leg aggressively. "Master! Master! My beautiful master!" the house-elf cried passionately as it hugged Naruto's leg like a life preserver. "I swear never to leave you again!"

Naruto tried to throw the house-elf off his leg. However, the creature's grip only tightened, and its sharp fingernails almost dug into his skin. "Ow!"

"I'm sorry, master," the elf apologized sincerely before plopping herself up. "I'll beat myself extra hard when I get back to the estate, for causing you pain."

"It's alright," Naruto muttered, half annoyed, as he rubbed the area where the elf tore into his leg. "How about you sit down and explain yourself?" Naruto suggested to the odd creature.

"Sit down?" Teeny asked, completely bamboozled by the comment. Naruto nodded quickly, and the elf plopped herself onto a chair. "Wow! You are so nice and caring, just like your Grandfather! My name is Teeny and I'm your house-elf, my wonderful master!"

"Master?" Naruto repeated in utter confusion. He looked at Professor Snape, who shrugged. "Who are you talking to?"

Teeny yelped and became quiet. Severus flicked his fingers, causing the floating lanterns in the kitchen and living room to turn on. Snape sat on his mother's favorite fir-polished chair at his circular breakfast table. Teeny the house-elf was nervously rubbing her withered and moth-eaten tea towel cap. Her gaze focused only on Naruto. Her orange eyes reflected sadness, regret, and pure happiness—a weird mix of emotions that made Naruto and Severus lean closer to the nervous three-foot-tall creature.

Teeny pulled out a green crystal from her dirty pillowcase gown. Naruto's eyes widened, and he edged closer to the elf, for she held Hashirama Senju's necklace. "Hey, that's mine!" He bounded to Teeny and snatched the First Hokage's necklace from her hands. "I can't believe you have it?" Then Naruto's sapphire eyes grew hazy as realization finally hit him. "Wait, you were the one to kidnap me!"

Teeny nodded. She shook her angular head and dropped to her hands and knees. The spindly house-elf crawled and used Naruto's right leg for support as she started crying. "Master Uzumaki! I'm so sorry! Your Aunt Naomi told me to bring you home!" Teeny then started sobbing hysterically. "Please forgive me, my wonderful and kind master!" Professor Snape grabbed the house-elf's collar and threw her off Naruto's leg.

"You kidnapped the boy?" Snape snarled at the house-elf. "Explain yourself!"

"I'm one of two house-elves bound to the Uzumaki estate in Godrics Hollow," Teeny said while holding her hands together as if begging for mercy. "Naruto, your mother, Kushina, was a squib. She was taken to your enchanting world when she was only four."

"What is a squib?" Naruto asked only to see Professor Snape's black eyes narrow.

"They are people with magical blood who can't perform magic," Severus said with a slow drawl. "Are you saying Naruto isn't from this world?"

Teeny sobbed loudly and got back on her hands and knees and nodded. "I tried telling Lady Kaori it was horrible, but she wanted Kushina to be magical even if it meant sending her to the world where all the discarded Uzumaki are sent to!" Naruto fell and cupped Teeny's small, smooth, and scarred red-grey cheek. The house-elf squirmed from his touch but calmed down. "When Naomi Uzumaki was dying on her deathbed at St. Mungos, she wanted me to bring you home."

"It's okay, Teeny, and thanks for bringing back that necklace," Naruto said soothingly with a broad foxy grin. "I thought all I had left was my headband. Why are you coming to me now?"

"Because a team of six Aurors was watching you. I couldn't move in and tell you about your legacy, but now that Muggles don't surround you, I'm here to serve every one of your demands!" Teeny beamed very loudly. She snapped her fingers, causing a steaming bowl of Miso Ramen to appear on Snape's circular table. "I made sure to research your favorite foods while you were gone. Pickle is the Uzumaki family's house-elf chef, and I ensured he knew your favorite dishes!"

Severus Snape looked at the exchange peculiarly while sitting in his mother's chair. Naruto grabbed a pair of chopsticks that appeared next to the steaming bowl of soup and was gouging himself on steaming noodles and high-sodium broth. When Naruto finished eating in less than a minute, Snape grew suspicious.

"Teeny, how did you enter Naruto's world?" Snape asked coldly.

"Er, uh, it's complicated," Teeny stammered while wiping a bit of broth from Naruto's jawline with a clean white rag. "The Uzumaki Family is one of our planet's oldest and purest-blooded Wizarding families. They have many items that are enchanted… one of them is a device that can allow someone to travel between worlds."

"A device," Severus repeated to himself. "Hmm."

He looked over and saw Naruto talking to Teeny. The house-elf kept describing the opulence, size, and beauty of the Uzumaki Estate. "It's the biggest manor in Godric's Hollow and bigger than most Muggle manors in Exmoor. You will love it, and believe me, Mr. Pickle was excited to cook your favorite Pork Miso Ramen!"

Before Naruto or Teeny could continue talking, Severus coughed very loudly, grabbing both of their attention. He turned to look at Naruto, his eyes calculating, almost like he was dictating the flow of conversation, which he was. "Interesting," Snape said with a touch of spite. "Truly remarkable that the last Uzumaki isn't from this world."

"Is that bad?" Naruto looked at Snape and saw the professor folding his arms while his house-elf fiddled with her clawed thumbs. "Well, is it?"

"Bad as in illegal, then, yes," Snape snapped before bearing his eyes on the house-elf. "This is one of the first occurrence I've heard of magic being used for interstellar travel." Severus shook his head before spitefully bearing his eyes down on Naruto. "Naruto, you aren't supposed to be here, but now that you are, I need to know everything about your world."

"Why?"

"I can… protect you," Snape said slowly while getting up from his seat. "What happened between us inside Wool's is our secret. However, there are many holes in your story."

"Such as?" Naruto pondered with a raised right eyebrow.

"Such as what I did for you this morning," Severus said with such conviction that both Teeny and Naruto stared at him in awe. "You created a transmutation circle! I've never met a wizard younger than thirty years old who knew how to create one."

"Oh, you're talking about that Fuinjutsu seal Kurama made!" Naruto answered in surprise. "I didn't know that's a rare magical skill. Does this mean that Chakra and Magic coincide with one another?"

"Kurama? Chakra?" Severus repeated, quizically, entirely bamboozled by what Naruto said. "Explain yourself?"

"Why should I?" Naruto said, unsure if he could trust the Hogwarts Professor.

Snape looked at him, a bit hurt. He hovered over a cup of water from the sink and took a sip before setting the mug on his table. "Naruto, you and I witnessed something this morning that I want us to take to the grave. I promise that whatever you tell me about your world, upbringing, and whatever Chakra is, I'll keep it a secret!"

So Naruto told him everything. He spent the next few hours explaining his world. His upbringing, the loneliness, fear, and abuse he suffered in Konoha. He gave an abridged and swift retelling of his life story. Professor Snape looked at him with amazement as he reviewed Chakra, the Shinobi system, missions, and even the various schools of jutsu. Naruto smiled a foxy grin as Professor Snape listened, asking questions about his well-being during the Chunin Exam or his time battling Sasuke at the Valley of End.

Snape's eyes widened as he explained what the Fourth Hokage did to his body when he was barely out of his mother's womb. Teeny was crying as he told them about the Nine-Tailed Fox, who he found out was named Kurama. Naruto went over that he was a jinchuriki only to see Snape looking mad.

Naruto stepped back as he saw the Potions Master looking at him furiously. "Wh-what's going on?"

"You're telling me that your hometown despised you, even though your body was sacrificed to save their lives?" Snape asked with disgust.

Naruto nodded and felt his eyes growing heavy with tears. This was the most emotion he had seen from Professor Snape, since he first met him inside the Riddle Room. "Pl-please, Professor… I never asked for this. I want to go to school and learn from you. You're the first adult whose ever taken care of me. I have nowhere else to go!"

Snape sighed and shook his head. "You have suffered an injustice. Life may be unfair, but I promise to provide you with a home and shelter, and I will teach you how to defend yourself against the Dark Lord."

"Are you serious?" Naruto asked uncertainly. "I have the most powerful demon in my world sealed inside my gut."

"It will be our secret… so long… as you don't mention us encountering the Dark Lord," Severus said with the smallest of smiles.

Naruto and Teeny nodded and saluted the Hogwarts Professor in unison. Snape smirked before looking at the time on his father's grandfather clock. It was almost midnight.

Naruto smiled at Professor Snape, who quickly ushered Teeny and himself upstairs to the second-floor guest room. Naruto was so weary that he fell asleep wearing all his clothes. His house-elf decided to sleep on the floor. He was so tired that he didn't care what happened anymore.

XxX The abandoned Spinner's Mill XxX

The next day began with Teeny offering him and Snape a large, bountiful breakfast. They ate in silence before the Potion's Master expressed that they had a lot to do today. Naruto didn't question Snape, and he followed his new guardian across Cokeworth to the abandoned Spinner's Mill at the center of the decaying English town. The air inside the abandoned spinner's mill was damp and stale. Dust filtered and twirled in the bright orange beams of light through the broken windows of the complex.

"Why are we here?" Naruto asked.

"You are going to demonstrate your abilities," Snape explained before sitting on a creaking swivel chair at the center of the abandoned factory. "I'm interested in what chakra is capable of."

"Well, uh, sure! I'll do it and blow you away!"

Naruto demonstrated a single jutsu he knew in his arsenal. He explained how each one worked. Professor Snape sat silently, only nodding his approval after every comprehensive explanation. Naruto showed Severus the Transformation jutsu, the tree-walking exercise, the Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu, the Box Seal he created, Demonic Pulse, Shunshin no Jutsu, Substitution Jutsu, and finally the Rasengan. He tried to use the Summoning Jutsu, but nothing happened except for a cloud of white smoke. Also, there was no point performing A Thousand Years of Death without a kunai and a paper bomb.

"That's not even a real jutsu!"

"I'm trying to show Professor Snape the Rasengan! Plus, it is one of the best jutsu in my arsenal… it worked on Gaara!"

"The kunai probing Shukaku's ass and the paper bomb are what made that farce of a jutsu work!"

"Shut it! I need to concentrate on the Rasengan." Naruto's shadow clone was forming the Rasengan in his right hand. The spinning bright-blue sphere of energy caused the dust and wind around him to fluctuate as the sphere released low vibrating sounds.

Snape's face didn't move as Naruto slammed his rasengan into the wooden factory floor, causing a small explosion of white-grey sooty dust and wood to engulf the factory. When the dust settled, the Potion's Master gasped. A ten-foot crater surrounded the impact zone of the jutsu. "Merlin's Beard! Such power!" Severus looked at Naruto, who was grinning like a fox.

"I'll take that as your seal of approval," Naruto said with a broadening smile.

Severus Snape looked at the two identical Naruto before him, completely baffled. The original Naruto was smirking to himself. Snape pulled out his wand and moved it up and down before making a circle in the hair and loudly said, "Inspecio!"

A silver light surrounded Naruto's shadow clone. The silver light continued to fire from Snape's wand as he paced around the clone. "Strange, your clone is an exact replica of you, and like you said, it's fueled by chakra. There are a few limitations to your jutsu, such as these clones possessing far less magic than the real you. I can feel the Kyuubi's chakra being split, but, oh…" Snape became quiet, and his eyes widened. "Merlin's Beard!"

Naruto dispelled his shadow and gained his clone's memories. It was a rerun of all the events that transpired inside the abandoned mill, all from the clone's perspective. When the silver light from Snape's spell hit his clone, he felt something snaking inside his body.

He had no time to respond before Snape fired the same spell over and over against his body. The spell seemed harmless, except that the look on Snape's face didn't seem to falter. In fact, he looked even more shocked and worried than when he told him about the Nine-Tailed Fox and Konoha's reaction to it. Naruto rubbed Konoha's metal insignia and rubbed his hands nervously. "Wh-what's wrong?"

"Naruto, didn't you tell me you are fluent in Japanese?"

"I am, dattebayo, so uh, what's wrong?" Naruto stammered only to see the fantastic glint in Professor Snape's black eyes. "Professor?" Snape started pacing back and forth while twirling his black walnut wand. "What did you see inside me?"

"Naruto, growing and nestling inside your throat is the very rare and elusive Linguawolbacia, also known as the Vocal Cord Parasite. It isn't lethal. But how it got there, your answer is as good as mine," Snape explained while shaking his head and putting his wand away.

Naruto rubbed his throat and yelped. "Oh, uh, is it possible to remove the parasite?"

"Why would I do that?" Snape started dusting his black robes and smirked mysteriously.

"Because I have a creepy-crawly-parasitic-whatever the HELL you called it inside me!" Naruto shouted all at once. "What the hell is it doing inside me? Am I going to die?"

"Calm down, before you wake up the whole city," Snape bit out before turning on his heel to look directly down at Naruto. "The Vocal Cord Parasite isn't going to kill you. It's symbiotic to its host, allowing you to learn languages almost instantly, while also increasing your magical powers as you age."

"But you looked worried?" Naruto expressed, unable to shake the look Snape was giving him.

"It appears the parasite is harmless, although I believe it's been feeding on your vast pools of chakra, making it appear larger than normal," Snape said slowly while smirking. "However, I wouldn't worry about the creature, because it's perfectly harmless… For now."

Naruto nodded. He watched Professor Snape wave his wand around the room, causing the crater he created on the rotting factory floor to return to how it was before. The abandoned spinner's mill was exactly how it was before they entered it this morning. Naruto pulled his foot up, causing a fallen rusted chain to fly up to the rafters, where one of his clones tore it off. Snape twirled his black walnut wand and placed it back inside his cloak.

"Now, come along, I didn't just bring you here for you to play show-and-tell," Snape snapped, causing Naruto to straighten up and follow his new sensei around the abandoned Spinners Mill. They both left the upstairs and went to the dark, musky, dripping basement. "Lumos!" A bright blue light beamed from the end of Snape's wand.

Naruto followed his new guardian as they ventured below the Spinner's Mill. "Professor Snape," he called out in the eerie darkness of the basement. "What exactly are we doing down here?"

"We are covering our tracks," Snape answered as he led Naruto down the dark passageway.

"We?" Naruto repeated, but he was met with only silence.

The underground walls were made of old, chipped cement from World War II. The ground was covered in rat bones, wet cement chips, and smelled of rot. Snape led the way with his glowing wand as they turned corners and descended a flight of rusted metal stairs. Naruto wasn't sure where his guardian was taking him, but he continued to follow. Cobwebs, stale air, and the sound of Snape's black boots splashing through stagnant water followed when they came down to the bottom of the stairwell. Snape turned around a corner and yanked Naruto down to a glow-in-the-dark sign that read BOMB SHELTER.

Naruto looked at the door they stood in front of curiously as he watched Snape flick his wand over it, causing it to open. Naruto followed the Potion's Master inside the bunker and saw a large abandoned room filled with old metal benches, counters covered in cobwebs, and the scurry of rats hiding from the bright light of Snape's wand.

"What are we doing here?" Naruto asked, seeing Snape pull out the pouch containing Tom Riddle's ring. "Whoa! That's the pouch that contains Tom Riddle's ring!"

"Yes," Snape replied. "When I was a young boy, my father told me this mill served as a bomb shelter." Snape swiftly moved to the end of the bomb shelter. "Just like having the Kyuubi sealed in your gut is our secret. The location of Tom's ring is also our secret."

Naruto watched Snape hover over a poster that read "Women of Britain, Come to the Factories!" The Hogwarts professor carefully removed the poster, revealing a wall safe. Snape cut his finger and dripped a drop of blood on the safe's handle, causing it to open. He then placed the purple velvet pouch containing Tom Riddle's ring inside the safe.

XxX One Week Later XxX

Naruto had been practicing potions for a week straight with a dozen shadow clones helping him to create brews of all varieties. Within a week, he impressed Professor Snape by memorizing the correct method the strict professor wanted him to use to brew the potions, and he had mastered all of the first-year potions. Part of this was with Naruto using the shadow clones to help memorize the recipe's directions. Still, for some reason, Potion making came naturally for the young Uzumaki. He had just finished brewing all the first-year potions in the large laboratory: Cure for Boils, Forgetfulness Potion, Wiggenweld Potion, Herbicide Potion, Antidote for Common Poisons, Strength Potion, Hair-Raising Potion, and Naruto's personal favorite, the Pompion Potion! All the potions were sizzling in a long line of eight cauldrons.

Snape walked down the line of bubbling cauldrons and smirked. "I'm very impressed. I never thought a student could master a year's worth of potion-making material in little more than a week, but you have proven me wrong!" Snape patted Naruto on his right shoulder before grabbing his black cloak from his coat rack. "You should be proud of yourself!"

Naruto blushed from all the praise. His eyes were tearing up, not from sadness, but because this was all he ever wanted from a sensei. Not even Pervy-sage praised him to high heaven. Snape came over and crouched down at his eye level. "Is something wrong?"

"No, nothing is wrong!" Naruto beamed happily. "What are we doing next?"

"I need you to store each brew that you made today under the correct labels for each potion," Snape said, handing Naruto a box of glass ampoules that clinked and clattered when he set the box on the counter where the cauldrons were. "After that, you are to rest."

"Rest? But I want to learn more," Naruto protested.

"Even professors deserve a break," Snape said briskly while pacing around the counter containing the eight finished brews. "Tomorrow I'm taking you to Diagon Alley to get your wand. The day after that will be Friday, and we expect some visitors."

"Visitors?" Naruto repeated, only for Snape to leave him alone inside the laboratory.

Naruto ordered his shadow clones to correctly label the ampoules and fill them with the correct brews under their label. When his clones were finished, he dispelled them and carried three boxes filled with seventy-five ampoules with the proper labels for each potion. He then placed the boxes in Snape's storage room, which was connected to the laboratory.

Naruto spent the rest of the afternoon caring for his pet Strelitzia, which had grown a few inches taller. Its yellow belly was getting fatter, and his grassy dinosaur cooed much louder when he stroked its viney back. His Strelitzia was healthy and very well-mannered. He fed it strawberries and blueberries from Snape's garden behind Spinner's End. When the creature was full, he continued to pet and whisper praises to the serpentine creature.

It coiled around Naruto's right hand until it formed a tight emerald bracelet. Slightly happy, Naruto took out Tsunade's necklace and placed it around his neck. He looked in the mirror and smiled as he wore Iruka-sensei's headband and had the First Hokage's necklace back in his possession! Right as Naruto put on his Manchester United Jersey, Teeny apparate inside his guest bedroom.

"Master, Uzumaki," Teeny greeted with a bow of respect. "Mr. Pickle prepared you and Professor Snape a splendid dinner of Kobe steaks, wonderful roasted vegetables, and mashed potatoes."

"Thanks, Teeny," Naruto said while hugging his little house-elf. "It's always nice having your company."

"It's so wonderful to serve such a deserving master," Teeny expressed happily while wiping tears from her large orange eyes. "I've been looking forward to this day since you entered this world."

"Teeny, I have to ask. When you kidnapped me at the Valley of End, you appeared on that rooftop, while I crashed in the middle of the street outside of Wembley Stadium. How did that happen?" Naruto asked curiously.

"You started struggling when you saw me before I used the return portkey. You pushed me off right as we traveled through space and time for you to come home. This caused you to veer off course from me…" Teeny sniffled. She snapped her fingers, causing a wooden skewer with large orange and purple balls to appear in her hands. "Master, you deserve something sweet!"

Naruto happily took the dango skewer from Teeny's hand, munching and moaning as the house-elf went to work. She swept the floors, placing all his dirty clothes in the hampers. She went to the dark curtains and allowed sunlight from the setting sun to filter into the room. That was when Naruto realized how filthy Teeny's clothes were. He wasn't much better as he still wore many hand-me-downs that the orphanage gave him.

Teeny continued working diligently around the room until it was better. When Teeny finished, Naruto was shocked. She bowed at his bare feet like a slave. "Th-thanks Teeny, for helping me clean my room and the dango." He smiled and brought her to her feet. "But you don't have to bow to me."

"Why not?" Teeny questioned. "You are my master. As a house-elf, I must serve you until my dying breath. There is no honor more incredible than serving the Uzumaki Clan. You are handsome, strong, and the right Wizard to lead our clan from ruin!" Teeny took the wash rag in her hand and threw it over her shoulder. "What do you know about the Uzumaki Clan?"

"When I was at Wool's, I spoke to the Dark Lord," Naruto said nervously. He was playing with a scalpel he found in Snape's laboratory, and swirled the blade between his fingers. "He said something about how my family was famous on this planet. They are from some East Asian country called Japan."

"You-you spoke to the Dark Lord?" Teeny clutched her nails up to her head.

"Well, yeah, he kept trying to…" Naruto realized that Teeny didn't know all the details behind Snape rescuing him from Lord Voldemort's clutches. "Look, that's besides the point. What can you tell me about my clan from my planet?"

"They were powerful Fuinjutsu users. The Uzumaki Clan introduced Fuinjutsu to your world along with Summoning Jutsu. But because of your strong magical blood your kin developed the abilities and traits that people in your world couldn't explain-" Teeny tried to explain only to be cutoff by Naruto.

"What kinds of abilities?"

"You don't know?" Teeny's orange eyes widened in shock. "In your world, your clan was world-renowned. They could create adamantine chains made solely from their chakra, sense chakra with greater precision than a Byakugan or Sharingan user, and enjoyed unnaturally long lifespans. But that only scratches the surface of your clan's capabilities."

"Wait, I can do all of that?" Naruto shouted in amazement. He looked at the fingerprints on his palms and felt elated. "The Uzumaki Clan was important the whole time... Why didn't anyone tell me!" Naruto wanted to tear the room apart, but Teeny grabbed his hands and made him kneel in front of her.

"You are Naruto Uzumaki, the sole heir of the greatest Wizarding Dynasty to grace this thin blue dot floating through the cosmos," Teeny said with so much conviction and truth that Naruto's anger drifted away. "There is time to plot revenge for how you were treated back home. For now, I'd rather treat you and Professor Snape to Mr. Pickle's cooking. I need my master to be wiser, stronger, and more prepared than his predecessors!"

Teeny led Naruto downstairs to join Professor Snape at dinner. He wasn't just surprised to find out his family was famous back in his home world, but also one of the most unique and powerful chakra users on the planet. His thoughts drifted from wanting to curse Konoha to Hell. But they drifted to the future. He was the sole heir to the Uzumaki Clan.

With Kurama and Professor Snape's guidance, maybe he could take this world by storm!

XxX The Next Day XxX

Naruto awoke to his pet Strelitizia licking his face over and over. Its pink tongue felt coarse like a cat's, which slid back into the mouth on the serpentine dinosaur's face. The creature's red eyes looked dazed as if it were happy. Naruto rolled out of bed, but giggled whenever his pet continued licking his whisker-marks as he tumbled to get dressed. He could smell the aroma of meat, eggs, beans, and toast being cooked.

He half-tumbled downstairs while tying his headband securely onto his forehead. Spinner's End, as Snape called it, had gray walls, black curtains over nearly every window, and was clean. Naruto landed downstairs and saw Professor Snape cooking up a full English Breakfast with grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, bacon, blood pudding, fried eggs, beans, and rye toast. Severus had both plates of food staying warm over his stovetop griddle on plates that looked impervious to heat. A floating pot of boiling water was drifting over Snape's circular kitchen table.

"Are you going to take a seat?" Snape questioned while placing both plates of food down. His black eyes hovered over Naruto's Strelitizia, which was coiling back into an emerald bracelet on Naruto's right wrist. "Have you found a name for your pet?"

"Hmm," Naruto hummed as he graced his pet with a pat. "What do you think of Leafy?"

"Kinda on the nose, wouldn't you think?" Snape pondered playfully. "How about Serpico after Frank Serpico. When I was about your age, it was a popular movie in Cokeworth."

"I like it," Naruto agreed. "Serpico it is!"

He quickly dug into his breakfast. They ate their breakfast silently, with him making the occasional breakfast pun or joke with little fanfare from Snape. The food was delicious, and he kept singing the Professor's praises with each bite. Not only was Severus Snape more powerful than Pervy-sage in how easily he handled Voldemort, but he was also a fantastic cook. When they finished eating, Professor Snape cast a spell over his sink to wash his dishes without him being present. Naruto was patting his belly when he was yanked onto his feet.

"Good thing you are wearing your shoes. Now listen closely as I explain how to use Floo Powder!" Severus commanded authoritatively, only to see Naruto's confused expression. "Make a few shadow clones for me."

Naruto complied with Professor Snape's instruction. He and his clones sat cross-legged, paying close attention as Snape detailed the use of Floo Powder. Snape arranged his fireplace, igniting it with a silent spell that caused the flames to rise high, enveloping his decorated living room in warmth. Once Naruto grasped what Snape intended to teach, he dispelled his shadow clones.

As he watched Snape grab a handful of green Floo powder, orange flames bathed Naruto's tanned, whisker-marked face. "I can't wait to get a wand, dattebayo!" Naruto turned and saw his Hogwarts guardian standing behind him, his long, black hair almost masking a smirk.

"Now remember, I will throw the Floo into the fire, and once the flames turn green, we will walk into the flames, and together we will yell at Diagon Alley!" Snape instructed before tossing his handful of Floo powder into his fireplace. "Now let's walk into the fire!"

The fireplace blazed high with bright green flames as Naruto entered the fire alongside Snape. They both yelled out clearly, "Diagon Alley!" The wall of green fire engulfed them, whisking Naruto and Snape away.

XxX Diagon Alley XxX

Naruto and Snape walked out of a fireplace against one of the many walls by the entrance to Diagon Alley. The air smelled delicious with bakeries filling their store fronts with fresh bread, pastries, spiced pumpkin treats, and the soothing scents of sweet sugars mixed with cinnamon. The cobblestoned streets were packed with wizards of all shapes and sizes walking by wearing pointed hats, top hats, tweed flat-caps. Snape tugged his collar as they ventured down the cobblestoned streets, each shop more fascinating than the last.

A vibrant storefront showcased its prized broomsticks, including a sleek black Nimbus 2001. Nearby, shops offered potions and magical pets, while children dashed between Naruto and Snape, pursuing a buzzing golden sphere soaring through the air on wings. Along the street, restaurants were bustling with patrons, many of whom had tables with umbrellas to shade cheerful patrons savoring exotic dishes. Naruto darted between the restaurants, bars, storefront windows filled with barrels of bat spleens, eel eyes, quills, and stacks of spell books.

There was so much stimuli that Naruto didn't notice Professor Snape tugging him by the collar. "See that building?" Snape pointed to a snowy white building that towered above all the other little shops. "Gringotts Bank!"

Snape huffed as he led Naruto through the bustling crowds to the white marble steps of Gringotts Bank. Strange creatures that stood four feet high were going in and out of the bank. They had dome-shaped bald heads, fair skin, long fingers and feet. The creatures had pointed noses and ears, but it was their all black eyes that made Naruto jump and say, "What are those things?"

"Things," Severus said slowly enough to make Naruto feel bad about even talking. "They are goblins. They are bright, hardworking creatures, but they are stuck… in their ways."

"Goblins? Back where I'm from, we didn't have any goblins. Why are they in charge of the bank?" Naruto asked as they stood outside Gringotts Bank.

"That's a story best saved for when we aren't doing business with goblins." Snape's black eyes peered from above like he meant business. Naruto gulped and nodded, not wanting to say anything stupid. 'Now come along, let's grab some gold Galleons from your vault and then we'll head off to Olivanders for your first wand."

Two Goblin guards wearing scarlet and gold uniforms opened giant bronze doors for the pair. Snape led Naruto down the entrance hallways with vibrant, tall crystal chandeliers that glowed yellow from high up in the ceiling. They came to a large door made out of silver with a tacky poem about thievery.

Naruto smirked and opened the silver doors for Snape. As they entered the Main Hall of Gringotts Bank, Naruto couldn't help but be amazed by the small army of goblin security guards flanking the walls, all wearing gold and scarlet uniforms. Goblins dressed in suits with long noses, pointed ears, and bald heads were chitchatting while weighing gold and silver on scales. Customers were lined up behind hundreds of counters trying to withdraw, deposit, and move money around.

Snape's black boots resonated on the marble floor as he guided Naruto to an unoccupied counter crafted entirely from polished silver. No other customers, goblin or human, were waiting at that spot, and Naruto began to sweat as the lively hall grew somewhat quiet. A multitude of goblins scrutinized him with calculative gazes, while other customers whispered and pointed in his direction. The goblin at the silver counter looked at Naruto and Snape peculiarly. "Are you two lost? This counter is for wizards of high affluence."

"I'm here. On. Business!" Snape hissed, his black eyes piercing the goblins' poker-faced demeanor.

"Business?" The goblin sitting at the silver counter laughed. "Ha-ha-ha! This line is for customers who have over a million golden Galleons. Your son is dressed in rags."

"He isn't my son! That boy in rags is Naruto Uzumaki," Snape said so coldly that the goblin bank teller shivered.

"U-u-Uzumaki! Well, why didn't you tell me a legacy client was here?" The goblin rang a bell that stood on the counter. "Do you have the Uzumaki key?"

"No," Severus replied.

Four goblins in black and white tuxedos appeared. One held an open bottle of bubbly champagne chilling in a bucket of ice. Another carried a basket of wet towels, while the other two seized Naruto and dragged him over to the bank teller. Naruto saw his sapphire eyes reflecting off the midnight black of the goblins. "I was told an Uzumaki child would appear, but not so soon. We goblins waited over a decade for the Potter boy to show up. Not that you humans care about the plight of goblins."

"I care about the plight of goblins," Naruto said defensively.

The goblin bank teller pulled out a golden knife, which hummed ominously. The two goblins shoving Naruto towards the bank teller were stronger than they looked. He wondered if the goblins were drinking an extra potent dose of the Strength Potion, because he couldn't escape their clutches. "Hey, what's going on?" Naruto tried twisting his body as his right arm was brought over to the bank teller. "Oh, are you wanting my blood? I can cut myself if you want."

"Because you don't have a key, this knife is enchanted to prove if you can access your vault. If the knife glows blue, then you are who you claim to be. If it is red, we will feed you to our Ukrainian Ironbelly!" The goblin bank teller said to a wide-eyed Naruto.

The knife slashed against Naruto's index finger, and it glowed a bright blue. The bank teller and the four goblins dressed in tuxedos led him through the Main Hall of Gringotts to a dimly lit stone area behind the counters. Burning torches lined the underground as they walked past small railroad tracks that would be found inside a coal mine. Naruto saw hundreds of goblins hauling sacks of bronze, silver, and gold from rail carts. Professor Snape hovered behind Naruto and whispered facts about the history of Gringotts, such as how it's been around for close to a thousand years. The goblin that took Naruto's blood was guiding them down a stone stairwell that had iron handrails that were only two feet from the ground.

He heard loud screeching as goblin-carts twisted and echoed deep in the underground. The goblin leading them looked back at Naruto over his shoulder and said, "The Uzumaki Family vault is only accessible by goblin-driven carts. I'm deeply sorry for the misunderstanding before."

"That's okay," Naruto said with a happy smile. "I'm used to it." He looked around the dark underground as they came to a stop at a small railroad platform. "I didn't know my Family was this wealthy."

"The Uzumaki Family is one of the richest families in the Wizarding World. Your family was one of the first to open an account, probably because their children always went to Hogwarts," the goblin explained. "I'll take you to vault thirty-nine! Because the enchanted knife took your blood, the Binding Magical Contract keeping your Aunt Naomi's money frozen has been completed."

"What does that mean?" Naruto asked.

A goblin-cart screeched to a halt in front of Naruto and Professor Snape. The goblin bank teller smiled, and Naruto flinched at seeing rows of sharp teeth. "My friendly human child, you've inherited a fortune! More money than most old money Wizarding Families possess! Your Aunt Naomi made you the sole heir to the Uzumaki estate. However, you won't have full access to her will, the companies, properties, and everything you were handed down until you turn thirteen!"

"Thirteen? Oh, that's not a long wait, but why that number?" Naruto asked, but he was only met by awkward silence. "I also forgot to ask, what is your name, mister…"

"My name is Rezzik. Your Aunt made the instructions of her will very clear. Only Severus Snape is allowed a small letter she wrote to him. You will only have access to the money vault to withdraw, deposit, and invest whatever money you need until you attend Hogwarts. Next summer I'd love to read your will to you, but her will was very explicit that you were to take your education seriously." The goblin explained in the darkness. "Let's board and get this over with!"

Naruto and Snape boarded the Goblin cart. The cart lurched forward at a fast speed as it looped around tracks. Rezzik was yelling commands in Goblin-tongue that made Naruto feel off. Riding a goblin-cart was exactly like riding a rollercoaster as he felt his body jolt and relax through the force of gravity. The Goblin-cart was traveling deeper and deeper into the Earth.

Sparks were flying from the wheels of the cart as Naruto tried to take in the surroundings. But the goblin-cart was moving so fast and looping up and down rails as it plunged, likely a mile deep below Diagon Alley. Not long after their journey started, the goblin-cart lurched to a stop in front of a bronzed vault door. The number 39 stood out above the vault door.

"Here we are, Vault thirty-nine!" Rezzik said as he got out of the cart.

The goblin driver assisted Professor Snape onto the platform, while Naruto trailed behind his guardian. Rezzik retrieved a silver key with bright orange stains from the elements. He opened the vault door by twisting the key, but not before pressing his entire palm against the door. Green smoke billowed from cracks in the bronze door as it creaked open. What Naruto immediately saw inside caused him to fall to his knees.

The vault was massive, with hundreds of sacks of silver and bronze stacked up to the ceiling against the back wall. Each bag of coins had either the words "bronze" or "silver" in plain English written on the sack. The Vault was forty feet long, twenty feet wide, and fifteen feet tall, with a green glowing crystal chandelier illuminating the room. Tables filled with tens of thousands of gold coins glistened in the green light. At the center of the vault underneath the green chandelier was a table split into four sections that had sapphires, rubies, emeralds, and diamonds for the taking

Rezzik handed a torch and an empty burlap sack to Naruto. He then gave an envelope to Professor Snape. "Here is Naomi Uzumaki's letter written for your eyes only," Rezzik said with a sharp-toothed smile. "Remember that you are entitled to everything inside this Vault. Last I checked, you have over one million golden Galleons in this vault."

Naruto was jumping up and down on the balls of his feet and yelping in complete joy like a seven-year-old on Christmas morning. Tears were coming out of his eyes as he shoved piles of golden Galleons, silver sickles, and hundreds of bronze knuts into the burlap sack. The sack weighed heavily. Naruto was tempted to take more gold, but Snape quickly ushered Naruto out of the Vault after he read the letter.

He looked up at Snape but only saw a faltering smile, before his face went back to the nonchalant attitude he usually had. The bronze doors to Vault 39 closed behind Naruto as he hauled over fifty pounds of metal over his right shoulder like Santa Claus.

XxX Outside Olivander's XxX

Naruto quickly made a box seal outside the green painted plaster walls of Olivander's. What was the point of hauling fifty pounds of gold, silver, and bronze across Diagon Alley when he had a solution to this problem? Professor Snape watched over his shoulder as he channeled chakra into the box seal, causing the sack of money to disappear in a small white cloud of smoke. "Impressive. You made the sack of gold disappear inside that transmutation circle."

"Transmutation circle?" Naruto repeated with a slight chuckle. "Don't you mean a Fuinjutsu array?"

"Whatever you called it in your world doesn't matter, because on this planet, Wizards refer to that as a transmutation circle," Snape uttered cooly while pacing outside the shop.

He noticed that Severus didn't put away his Aunt's letter addressed to him. Instead, he had it in his hands and continued to reread the note over and over. Whatever the letter said, Naruto wanted to find out. How come Aunt Naomi wrote a letter to his Potion's Master? Did his Aunt Naomi know Professor Severus Snape?

"Why are you complaining about the letter?" Kurama asked inside his mind.

"Oh, I don't know? Maybe because she's the reason why I'm in this world! She's my aunt —the only family member I feel a connection to."

"I was wary of that Wizard monkey Snape, but he seems like he has your best interests at heart," Kurama offered up. "Most people would have thrown you out of their home if they knew our secret."

"What? That I'm a jinchuriki. I'm tired of being reminded of it."

"He took the news much better than most people in Konoha."

"That's true… Plus, he's already taught me eight potions and has shown me so much in just over a week."

Professor Snape waved his hand in front of Naruto's face, bringing him back to reality. "Oh, what's wrong, Professor!" Naruto stammered quickly. He grabbed his new coin purse from the back left pocket of his jeans and shook it. "Ready when you are!"

"I need to stock up on ingredients from Knockturn Alley. I'll be back in half an hour to retrieve you from Olivander's," Snape said quickly. "If you finish early, please wait here."

Before Naruto could reply, he saw his long-haired guardian retreating through the busy cobblestoned roads of Diagon Alley. Naruto sighed and looked up at the green sign where the gold letters were peeling off. The sign above the shop read: Ollivanders: Makers of Fine Wands Since 382 B.C.

Naruto entered the shop, and the door jingled from a bell. The shop was tiny, empty except for a single, spindly chair in the corner. Thousands of narrow boxes containing wands were piled right up to the ceiling of the small shop, and the whole place had a thin layer of dust about it. An old man came around the corner of the tiny hallway of stacked wand boxes. The man stood before Naruto, his wide, pale eyes shining through the darkness of the shop.

"Hello, are you Ollivander?" Naruto asked while looking at the wand in the shop's display window. "I'm searching for a new wand."

"Then you have come to the right place. My name is Garrick Ollivander. Come here, child," Ollivander gestured. Naruto reluctantly approached Ollivander, who pulled out a silver tape measure. "I just need to take a few measurements, laddy," Olivander said happily.

Ollivander measured the length of Naruto's feet, from shoulder to finger, then wrist to elbow, shoulder to floor, knee to armpit, and around his spiky blonde head. Suddenly, the tape measure measured the space between his nostrils and his eyes. The tape measure was doing it all on its own! While this was happening, Ollivander was shaking his head.

"Something isn't right… What did you say your name was?" Ollivander asked with a grandfatherly smile.

"I didn't, my name is Naruto Uzumaki," he replied with a foxy grin. "Money isn't a problem. I can't believe I'm saying that, but it isn't. I'm just looking for a good wand to do magic."

"Uzumaki, you said… Hmm…" Ollivander paused and tapped his pencil-thin forefinger against his chin. "Ah, I know just a few wands. Let me bring them out." Ollivander went to the far wall and brought back three boxes of wands.

Ollivander handed Naruto a dusty brown box. "Open that! Your grandfather, Koga Uzumaki, wielded a twelve-inch cherry wood wand with Dragon Heart String as its core!"

Naruto took out the wand and looked back at Ollivander, confused. "Uh, do I just poke someone in the eye with it?" Naruto asked.

"No, just give it a swish and flick of your wrist-" Ollivander was cut off short when Naruto followed his directions.

Hundreds of boxes of wands tumbled off the wall like a waterfall. Naruto's cheeks were burning deep crimson as Ollivander shook his head.

"No, no, no! Here, try this one. Your Aunt Naomi wielded a rare Acadia wand, eleven inches long, with a Phoenix Feather core from your families pet Phoenix. Go ahead, give it a flick," Ollivander encouraged.

Naruto gave the second wand a swish and flick, and the candles inside the store shattered. Ollivander's pale eyes widened further in horror as he snatched the wand out of Naruto's hands. The blonde Genin looked back even more embarrassed. He could feel his headband growing damp from sweat.

"I'm so sorry about your store. I swear it was the wand," Naruto said defensively.

Ollivander laughed and ruffled Naruto's spiky hair. "I'm not going to throw out an Uzumaki for anything, especially an Uzumaki who is shopping for a wand. My only problem is that your magical power is unlike anything I've seen before. Truly remarkable…" Ollivander paused and handed Naruto a purple box. "Reed wood, with a Veela core. Ten inches, just like your Uncle Henri Uzumaki."

Naruto gave the wand a swish, and it caused a small explosion to blow apart a clock. "No, no, no, not again!" Ollivander handed Naruto another wand case, which was black. "Your grandmother Kaori Uzumaki wielded a thirteen-inch, snake wood wand that had a unicorn hair core. Yes! Yes! This might be the one!"

Naruto took a swish of the wand this time. All the wand boxes on the back wall exploded and shot out of place, crashing in a tsunami of out-of-place wand boxes. Ollivander's mouth was gaping open in complete amazement. The old man slowly turned around and took in his damaged store with his fingers in his white hair. "You are a very unusual boy!"

"I know," Naruto said, downcast. He turned his head away and briefly thought about giving up. How could he become a Wizard if every wand he touched caused doom? Ollivander started picking up wand boxes and settling whatever he could on the counter.

"Don't worry about the shop. This is more common than you think. Half of the patrons I've served have destroyed something in the process of finding their right wand. I know your wand is here, but I trade mostly in the three Supreme Cores," Ollivander explained while looking at fallen wand boxes he picked up. "Dragon heart string, phoenix feathers, and unicorn hair. These three magical ingredients make up the cores that power the wand. What makes you special is that you don't fall under the Supreme Three cores that most wizards wield, nor the more rare Veela core."

A light rattling echoed down the corridor of unharmed wand boxes. Ollivander went down the dark hall. To Naruto, it looked like Shinigami was taking out his scythe from a wet stone. The horrid mental image vanished as soon as Ollivander returned with a faint red wand box. It was covered in a few layers of dust. The wand inside the box rattled faster.

Ollivander took the wand out of the box and handed Naruto a dark black wand. The wood felt smooth and cold to the touch. He gently swirled the wand, and the room erupted in a bright, golden light. The glass and fallen wand boxes hovered high in the air around Naruto before the light dimmed, and the boxes fell to the ground gently like a feather. Light music, almost sounding like violin notes, vibrated from the wand.

"Impossible!" Ollivander exclaimed with a gaping mouth. "That wand… You are its true owner."

"I am? But what's the issue?" Naruto asked, completely confused by the wand maker's reaction. "Is something wrong?"

"Only two wizards in recorded history have possessed a wand with such a core… I'm afraid to say that I didn't make the wand you possess," Ollivander explained while walking up to Naruto. "It's the only wand in this shop that an Ollivander didn't craft. My great-great-grandfather was given this specific wand exactly three hundred years ago."

"Really? Who was the man who gave him the wand? And why are you so surprised that I have this wand?" Naruto's questions were met by awkward silence.

Ollivander cast a spell that repaired and organized all the fallen wand boxes, the broken glass, and the destroyed clock. Once the shop went back to normal, Ollivander grabbed a drinking horn and took a long gulp of whatever was inside. After having a drink, he smiled. "Sorry for the wait, I get very thirsty after performing magic. I'm not as energetic as I was sixty years ago."

"Sir, is this a bad wand?" Naruto asked, looking at the smooth black wooden wand that vibrated in his right hand.

"There is no such thing as a bad wand—only a bad wizard behind the wand. My family has been waiting over three hundred years for a witch or wizard to be chosen by the rarest wand in my collection. I wish I had crafted such a beauty—ebony wood, thirteen inches, and crafted with the rare and elusive horned-serpent core. Horned serpents are the forefathers of the Basilisk, and some Dragon enthusiasts believe they're related to Dragons. Only one wand maker in the history of magic has had the opportunity to craft such wands… James Steward!" Ollivander reminisced with a smile. "James Steward is the only Muggle wand maker in the history of the Wizarding World. He was on the Mayflower and married Isolt Sayre, the founder of Ilvermony School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the United States!"

"WOW!" Naruto exclaimed, and he held up his wand and smiled a broad foxy smile as he saw his bright sapphire eyes reflect from the wood. "This is beautiful! What makes this wand so special?"

"Oh, a lot of things, dear boy. I haven't encountered a witch or wizard in my lifetime who wielded a Horned Serpent core, especially one that was crafted over three hundred and fifty years ago. Horned serpents are rare because they were hunted to extinction in Africa, Asia, and Europe approximately one thousand years ago, and they are now only found in North and South America. Sadly, I'm not a Magizoology expert, but I advise you to look into Chadwick and Webster Boot, the only two wizards I know who wielded such wands."

Naruto nodded and agreed to do just that. Garrick Ollivander packaged his wand in a small bag with a small pamphlet of simple spells to practice with, such as the simple cast damaging spell called Diruo. Naruto was smiling until he heard the full cost of his wand. "The full cost of your wand is one hundred and fifty golden Galleons!" Ollivander had his wand at the ready until Naruto paid the full price.

He stood outside of Ollivanders for five minutes until Professor Snape arrived with a brown wax paper bag filled to the brim with supplies. He took the professor's hand, and they disapparated from Diagon Alley. When they apparated inside Spinner's End, all Naruto wanted to do was crawl to his bed. He went upstairs and opened the door to his guestroom, where he saw Teeny jumping up and down on his bed.

His whisker-marked cheeks rose high as he watched his devout servant playing euphorically on his bed. Naruto fell on the carpet while clutching his wand up to Tsunade's necklace. Thoughts bombarded him about his journey to become a shinobi. His hopes and dreams of becoming Hokage were forever tainted. Why did he even want to be Hokage in the first place? Tom Riddle was right… Nobody back home loved or cared for him.

He thought about the one person who saved him from the brink of insanity. Naruto started dreaming about him standing behind a cauldron with Professor Snape giving commands on how to prepare the brew. Brewing potions with Severus Snape made him happy, the happiest he'd been his whole life.

Naruto smiled a foxy grin that made the baby fat in his cheeks stick out as he slept on the carpet. Teeny came down from his bed, but he simply clutched the grey-red-skinned elf closer to his body. His pet Serpico slithered around his skull and licked him as he dozed off.

Life was finally good! And he had Professor Snape to thank for that!

XxX Branson's Cross: 10 mile's south of Birmingham; 5 miles from Cokeworth England XxX

Daphne Greengrass brushed her long platinum blonde hair from her eyes as she flicked her Cypress wood, Dragon Heart String wand over her record player in her room. She smiled as the 99 Luftballons by Nena started to play from her record player. She moved her nimble hips to the tune of the song as her long coppery-haired sister Astoria jumped around her room. Both siblings laughed as they danced to the music playing. Daphne didn't understand a word of German, but her curiosity towards Muggle music and fashion kept growing stronger by the day.

"This is the best day I've had in forever," Astoria said in a fit of giggles.

"I told you listening to good music is fun," Daphne said while hugging her sister as she jumped up and down with her. Red and white hair twisted together as both sister were having the time of their lives. "Here comes the solo!" Daphne smiled as she thought of Birmingham and London. "Muggles know how to rock!"

Whenever she and her sister had the rare opportunity to travel to major Muggle cities and explore the streets filled with double-decker buses, black cabs, hawkers selling cheap albums, and tens of thousands of women walking in unique fashions, those moments were what she cherished most, perhaps second only to taking care of the Bicorns around the massive ranch behind their manor.

She didn't care if her father, Aldous Greengrass, heard the loud racket vibrating from her room. Daphne was excited to have an opportunity to dance with her wonderful sister. Finally, they were free from school, from chores, and from responsibilities with their mother gone. Both girls were jumping up and down from the balls of their feet, mumbling in their squeaky voices to Nena's German and shaking their long, elegant hair.

Suddenly, the door to her room opened. Wearing a white nightie like her sister, Daphne clutched her baby sister protectively around the waist. Aldous Greengrass stood at six feet tall, and he wore a grey-black pinstripe suit without his brazier. His white-collared shirt glistened as his tanned, scarred, and emerald-eyed face fixated on his daughters, who were listening to Muggle music.

"Daphne! How many damned times do I have to tell you to stop playing that disgusting Muggle music!" Aldous roared. "Purpura Tonitura!"

She watched in horror as her father flicked his wand up and crashed it down, causing a massive bolt of purple electricity to rain around her and her sister. Astoria hid behind Daphne. Tears were welling in her little sister's eyes. Both girls held each other tightly and screamed as the record player in Daphne's room exploded into a mass of wooden, plastic, wires, and various other parts. The music stopped, and within a second, Daphne saw her father's red, bearded face within an inch of hers.

"What the FUCK did your mother say about playing Muggle music in the house? Astoria, go to your room now!" Aldous screamed furiously. "Move your butt or your mother will hear about this!"

Astoria scrambled out of Daphne's room. Her emerald eyes widened as her father watched Astoria leave. He then closed her bedroom door. Daphne backed up to her bed, holding her wand towards her angry father. The pads of her feet brushed over soft Persian carpets that her father picked up on his last business trip. She gulped and stood her ground inside her dimly lit sanctuary. "Daddy!" Daphne's eyes started welling with tears. "I'm sorry, please!"

Aldous Greengrass stopped pacing. He flicked his wand and uttered, "Repario!" Daphne's record player quickly repaired itself before her eyes. "Understand, I didn't come in here to scold you, but please keep this Muggle racket down."

"You didn't have to scare Astoria! She's-" Daphne was cut off by her angry father.

"She is eleven years old and beginning her journey at Hogwarts this year! Let's avoid discussing rule-breaking or Astoria being influenced by you," Aldous reprimanded, sporting a broad, mustachioed grin that resembled a saber-toothed tiger. "I came here to tell you something important."

Daphne remained silent, gathering her confidence. "What? Dad, what's so important that you had to scare Astoria?" she asked timidly. "We were just having fun."

"You are twelve years old! It's time you start acting your age, because before New Year's, you will be thirteen!" Aldous stated matter-of-factly with his left index finger pointing at her face just as threateningly as his wand. "Tomorrow I need you to be on your best behavior."

"For what?" Daphne asked before looking away.

"Daphne, my beautiful baby girl," Aldous's hands cradled his daughter's face, and he sighed. "Did you read about the mysterious Portkey Boy that was featured in the Daily Prophet?"

"Er-uh, I think so. It was a big story around April or May. From what I know, didn't he get discovered by Muggles, and the Ministry trying to figure out how to free him? Other than that, I don't know much about him." Daphne admitted to her father.

"The boy's name is Naruto Uzumaki," Aldous answered with a happy grin. "I spoke to the Board of Governors, and he will be attending Hogwarts this year as a Second Year Student. The Ministry of Magic has been buzzing the last nine days over him. Your Uncle Gareth Greengrass, who is the head of the Department of Mysteries, told me in a letter that Naruto is already a powerful wizard in the making."

"Why is Uncle Gareth and the Department of Mysteries interested in Naruto? What makes him so important?" Daphne asked while blowing a strand of hair from her freckled nose.

"My sweet baby girl, Naruto is the sole heir to the Uzumaki estate, and that makes him the ninth richest bachelor in the Wizarding World with all the land, properties, companies, and wealth he's going to inherit," Aldous said while patting his daughters mane of platinum blonde hair. "He's currently under the guardianship of the head of Slytherin House."

"Professor Snape is taking care of Naruto!" She shouted in disbelief. "That poor boy…"

"Look, I know you and Professor Snape have history." Her father shook his head and paced closer to her bedroom doo, before turning around. "I was called into school because of the laxative potion incident, remember?"

"I remember… does this have anything to do with being on my best behavior tomorrow?" Daphne asked trepidatiously.

Her father nodded. He ran his large hands through his short red hair and smiled. "I want you to meet this Naruto Uzumaki tomorrow. Professor Snape ordered two hundred Bicorn horns for potion making this coming school year. I think this could be a great opportunity to patch things over with Severus Snape, while also allowing you to make more friends."

"BUT DAD! I have plenty of friends, and Professor Snape wouldn't want to see me!" Daphne protested only to receive a deathly cold stare from her father's cold emerald eyes.

"No buts," Aldous stated before leaving her room.

Daphne's door closed in front of her. She tried to patch together what her father said. Tomorrow, she was going to meet the Mysterious Portkey Boy and Professor Snape. She jumped onto her bed, her hair haloing around her plush white pillows. Why did her father have to ruin her summer?

She couldn't listen to Muggle music or wear Muggle clothes. No matter what she did, he was always hard with her. Thankfully, her little sister, Astoria, wasn't picking up their parents' nasty attitude regarding Muggles. While falling asleep, she thought about the boy her father wanted her to meet. "Hopefully, this Naruto Uzumaki is cute," she said before giggling. "And less stuck up than Mom and Dad." Daphne smiled to herself, thinking of what this Naruto would look like. "Oh God! What if he looks like a smaller version of Professor Snape?"

(A/N) So this chapter, although reuploaded, allows me to explain my reasoning for choosing Naruto to have that specific wand. I found Naruto using a Veela wand in Magical Uzumaki to be interesting. The story behind Isolt Sayre and her husband James Steward taking in two magical orphans is one of JK Rowling's best stories in the Harry Potter universe. I loved how in her story of creating Ilvermony, she asked her Muggle husband to forge wands for their adopted children. In the story, a Horned-Serpent was docile and allowed Isolt to take its horns for the wand crafting process, which is unheard of for horned serpents. Another thing is that the core for a horned-serpent makes the wand have many abilities such as it warning the owner of danger by creating music, its exceptionally powerful in producing magic, and the wand itself is one of the few to over power Salazar Slytherin's personal Snakewood wand... yes Isolt Sayre was a Gaunt and she is related to Tom Riddle.

Naruto's wand is ebony wood because it best describes who Naruto is, with him believing in his beliefs and not conforming to what other people want from him. This chapter grew much longer because I needed to reintroduce Teeny, develop Snape and Naruto's relationship, and setup Naruto meeting Daphne. The Hogwarts Express and the Hat Sorting ceremony should be happening very soon. There isn't much to go over before Naruto goes to Hogwarts besides meeting Daphne and possibly doing more shopping at Diagon Alley with Snape.

Purpura Tonitura: Purple lighting is an advanced damaging spell that can obliterate and shatter with electricity anything it's aimed at.

Linguawolbacia/ The Vocal Cord Parasite: This is heavily based on the same creature from Metal Gear Solid without any of the nasty side effects. When writing chapter 1, I had trouble finding a way for Naruto to speak English instantly. Harry Potter is filled with magical creatures, so why not a magical parasitic creature that allows humans to learn how to speak languages faster. Later, I'll explain how Naruto received this parasite, although this answers how Naruto and Kurama knew English in chapter 1.