Erm...I just started writing this chapter, and when poised to write the first words, I realized I really don't have any idea what Akari should even be doing.

That's the first time this has ever happened to me. Usually when I start waiting I can manage at least a sentence before getting stuck, but no, stumped right out of the gate, oh well!

Also, don't forget, there is a poll at the top of my profile, so go and vote for your preferred Universe. You can PM me if you have one you want to suggest, but chances are high I'll turn it down either due to disinterest or more likely just not knowing anything about the Universe in question.

To clarify, Akari does certainly have threats in most of those Universes. Let's see, Mass Effect has Reapers, Bleach...well, duh, power scaling in Bleach is stupid so it depends on when in canon Akari appears, the MCU has things like Dormammu and Thanos, Star Wars has stuff like Abeloth, MHA has All for One, Overlord has World Items, and the rest are mostly fun Universes. Don't forget that most of those got defeated because the plot called for it, not because they actually should have been defeatable.

I am right now slightly regretting some of the additions to the poll, since now that I can see which are most likely to win...I get the feeling the next week or two are going to be filled with research since I've never played, watched or read certain additions, just fanfiction of them or youtube clips. But hey, I've never played StarCraft yet By Tooth and Claw came out alright until I stopped writing it, so I should be able to wing it =D

Enjoy!

Chapter 23

After the Gringotts Incident, as it came to be called, Akari's popularity only seemed to grow.

Apparently the public was practically enamoured in her now, considering all the feats she was known for. A leak in the Ministry managed to get a more complete list of all the stuff she'd done publicized, meaning people knew she broke into Azkaban to free Sirius Black and get him exonerated by using Veritaserum, they knew she had a close bond to the boy-who-lived, since the Ministry didn't know the current situation between them as being decidedly unfavorable, and most recently, they now knew that she had enough power to entirely obliterate a Fiendfyre.

Sure, it was after a lot of spellfire had been thrown at it, but the public didn't know that, since the papers were, of course, sensationalist. They never outright lied, but they made it seem almost like Akari did the whole thing single-handedly. Added to that the fact she was known to be the CMC Professor as well as temporarily handling DADA, and she now had to hide herself under a Henge if she ever went out to Diagon Alley or anywhere where a magical could recognize her, since she'd be swamped otherwise.

What was an entirely unexpected but extremely pleasant surprise was that Sirius had invited her to Grimmauld Place. Initially, it was because he wanted to show her how utterly dreadful the place was to live in, and the miasma of darkness pervading the entire place cemented that image in her mind. But, as they wandered around, Akari took note of a hidden compartment within an otherwise utterly normal wall.

The only reason she noticed it was because darkness practically soaked the seams, pouring out from the wall like a waterfall. After removing it, the look of utter shock on Sirius' face was totally something she memorized using her Sharingan. Sat quite innocently, aside from the aforementioned darkness, was Salazar Slytherin's Locket. How the fuck it came to be there neither of them had any idea, though it seemed Sirius had an idea if the grumbled 'blasted elf' was any indication.

She poured a little Basilisk venom onto the lockets surface, watching with amusement as the face of the locket fractured and darkness drained out of the cracks. This one was far less...violent than others, perhaps this was one of his earlier creations, one he hadn't cursed properly? Whatever the case was, after the initial show of darkness flooding it, it tapered off quickly, the gold being melted entirely by the venom and leaving only a puddle of unrecognizable slag which Sirius vanished, leaving no trace as to its existence. "Well, that's...five out of seven now I think." Akari counted with her fingers quickly. "Yeah, five out of seven."

But, it also meant she was back to square one in terms of finding them. Dumbledore predicted that Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem would be another Horcrux, and the Sword of Gryffindor would complete them all, but since Dumbledore seemed adamant that the sword was the only artefact that Voldemort never could have gotten his hands on, Akari had to figure out the seventh Horcrux all on her own, since Dumbledore also had no idea, though he did suggest that perhaps his Head Boy badge, or the Special Award for Services to the School could be a Horcrux, as they were both relevant to Hogwarts. "Well, I think that calls for at least a little celebra-"

Akari stopped him with a finger to his lips. "No. Celebrate after all of the Horcruxes are gone, not just most of them. Besides, with...my luck..." She trailed off, uncaring of Sirius' curious look as she opened her status. "Of course..." Akari was getting really quite weirded out by the fact that she seemed to be stumbling cross Horcruxes like they were pebbles, but with 250 points of luck, well, it was safe to say she was likely the luckiest person on the planet, even Felix Felicis probably didn't give that much luck to someone.

She pushed her spare twenty points into luck, closing her menu with an idle thought. "Don't mind me, though I'm curious to meet this elf you seem to be damning a lot." Sirius sighed, and called for 'Kreacher', who appeared with a pop, his beady eyes immediately glaring at Akari before he noticed the open wall, popping past them and looking within, turning on them both with a growl.

"Where is it? Where is Master Regulus's locket? What have you filthy blood-traitors done with Master's locket?!" The house-elf demanded, growling at them.

Akari just sighed, gesturing at the barren surface of the compartment. "Destroyed, melted to slag then vanished, along with that little soul fragment tied to it." She said, slipping a poisoned senbon into her fingers, ready to dodge an attack and stab the house-elf with it, since he probably wouldn't take to well to...to...he was just staring at her. Not staring in anger or anything, but just in sheer disbelief and maybe even a little awe? "I...take it...you're happy about that then?"

She slipped her Senbon away again into her inventory, though nearly drew it again when Kreacher stepped closer to her. "Missus blood-traitor is not lying?" He asked carefully, his narrowed eyes peering at her cautiously. Akari responded in the negative, and when Kreacher looked at Sirius the man merely smirked and gestured at the visibly acid-burned hidden compartment. "Then...Mistress blood-traitor has done what Kreacher could not...what Master Regulus ordered of Kreacher. Kreacher thanks Mistress blood-traitor."

The frail house-elf then lowered his head. "Uhh, you're welcome. I mean, I'm trying to destroy all the Horcruxes anyway, so it's not that big of a deal. By chance, you wouldn't happen to know where any others are would you?" Akari said with crossed fingers, hoping her bullshit luck would have him say yes, but the old elf just shook his head. "Ahh, oh well."

"Kreacher asks if Mistress blood-traitor would accept Kreacher's apology for raising Kreacher's voice at Mistress." She just shrugged.

"Hey, not like I haven't been yelled at before. But, I do have a name, you can just call me Akari, or Uchiha." Kreacher said both her names a few times, trying to get used to saying them before settling for calling her 'Mistress Uchiha'. It was quite amusing when Kreacher then asked if Master blood-traitor was to marry Mistress Uchiha, and encouraged him to do so since it'd mean Kreacher could serve her freely. Then, on the complete flipside, when Sirius actually transferred ownership of Kreacher to Akari, that certainly stunned both her and the house-elf, much to his amusement.

"Well, now the little monster's your problem."

As it turned out, Kreacher was exceptionally helpful for Akari.

Without even needing to be asked he took over feeding Nyoka and Kyaria, cleaning her apartment, doing the dishes, and various other things around the apartment. One of the few things she didn't let him take over was cooking, much to his initial dismay. It was absolutely priceless when she cooked some food and had him take a bite, as from that moment on he acknowledged that she was the cook in the apartment, not once trying to cook something for her, not unless she asked him to or was too tired to do it herself, upon which he would whip something up for her.

He certainly seemed interested in the menagerie of animals she summoned at random, as well as all the magical creatures she handled regularly. One thing Akari noticed which was very interesting was that since he was now bound to Akari and living off her 'magic', she had a permanent 5 energy per minute drain on her reserves. Utterly negligible of course, but still interesting none-the-less.

What was most surprising was that he actually expressed a particular fondness for Dango of all things, something which amused her to no end, not that it was a problem. After all, Akari had to make enough to fuel the endless furnace which was Kurama's sweet-tooth, so she was well-versed in making the treat. Speaking of Kurama, the first time Kreacher met the fox, he seemed ready to bow down in front of him.

Needless to say, his already planet-sized ego stretched even wider that day.

"Missus Akari, Master Dumbledore wants to sees you in his offices."

Akari raised her head from the floor to look at Fitsy, the house-elf that Dumbledore usually sent if he needed to speak to her. "Oh, uhh, I'll be over in a sec." She muttered, dropping her head back down to the floor with a yawn. Or rather, she tried, but Fitsy wandered over and began watching her. Wha- oh, right." Akari drew her wand and cast a Reparo on the room, blackened floors and scorched walls peeling away to reveal the material underneath unblemished. "Sorry about that, Fiendfyre seems to like getting a bit nuts when surrounded by so much magic."

And it was true, the ambient magic at Hogwarts was fucking insane, like an all-you-can-eat buffet for Fiendfyre. If Voldemort was smart, he would have just cast Fiendfyre on the place and let it utterly annihilate the school, since she doubted even Dumbledore would be able to fight a Hogwarts-fed Fiendfyre. "Missus Akari shouldn't bes playing with dangerous curses." She merely gave a lidded look at the house-elf, who sighed dramatically. "Is Missus Akari promising to sees Master Dumbledore soon?" She nodded, waving off the house-elf and slumping back down.

It wasn't that she was physically tired, but trying to control Fiendfyre when it's hyped up on practically a millennia of magic gave her a nasty migraine. The only reason she could control it at all was that she never relinquished her original control over the cursed flames. If she'd let go of it even for a single instant, it would have began rampaging throughout the school.

The house-elf gave her a sceptical look before disappearing with a pop, leaving her to close her eyes with a wince and raise her hand to the side of her head, the Mystical Palm Jutsu working away at her head to ease the migraine. She couldn't do it in front of a house-elf, and Fitsy had picked the moment right after she'd snuffed out the Fiendfyre and laid down to enter.

After maybe a minute of lying around she got up, brushed herself down a little before re-tying her hair as she walked out the door to her training room and began meandering through the labyrinth that was Hogwarts on the way up to the Headmaster's Office, dredging her mind to recall the password for the week. With everything that had happened, remembering if it was Lemon Drops or Chocolate Frogs slipped by the wayside.

Eventually, she gave up and cheated, simply using the Hiraishin marker she'd left inside of his office to bypass the door entirely. She caught him just as he was about to place a lemon drop in his mouth, and seeing his wide eyes as his fingers pinched a lemon drop was an understated but amusing moment. "Fitsy said you needed me, for something, but I forgot the password." She freely admitted.

It wasn't like people didn't know that she was forgetful after all. "Yes, you see I have an idea as to where Tom might have hidden one of his Horcruxes, another way to thumb his nose at me." That caught her attention, silently praising her twenty extra points of luck for the encounter. "There exists a hidden room within Hogwarts, not unlike the Chamber of Secrets, named the Room of Requirement." Dumbledore explained to her the basics of the room, as well as his own relatively benign encounter with it. The main problem was that he knew not how to enter it again. He had returned to the same hallway, but no amount of detection charms could uncover any sort of entrance ward scheme.

"Couldn't you just ask the House-elves?" She pointed out, watching the old wizard stare at her for a brief moment before sighing, slumping into his chair. "Yeah, I'm beginning to think that I should send a cake to whoever the guy who encouraged you to let some of the weight off your own shoulders, since if you don't think of these sorts of things...well, you should probably think of cutting back on how much work you're doing." She admitted with a shrug.

The fact was that Akari...while she didn't much like Dumbledore for keeping so many secrets from her, he did seem pretty repentant, especially once it became clear that despite her affiliation with known Death Eaters she was actively hunting Horcruxes, along with the mysterious suggestion that he let more people help from someone she wanted very much to thank, he was quite willing to aid her, giving their information and of course letting her be the CMC Professor, something that was still great fun. "I suppose so. Perhaps my Supreme Mugwump position...but I shall do this after this Horcrux business has been handled and the Wizarding World is confirmed to be stable and safe once again."

That seemed perfectly reasonable to Akari, since Dumbledore was practically a pillar of solidarity in the Wizarding World. Him stepping down would cause ripples, and if some of the more radical Death Eaters began any attacks, that could perpetuate terror amongst the populace. "Well, should we ask Fitsy? She seems to know most of what the other elves have learned, so if any elf is likely to know it'd be her." Dumbledore agreed, summoning what was effectively the Head house-elf of the school and asking her if she knew anything about the room of requirement.

It was a little annoying to know that Fitsy didn't know how a normal witch or wizard would enter the room, only that it was on the seventh floor. Apparently, it was also kinda like Sakaar from Marvel, the 'back-of-the-sofa' place in the school where lost items ended up, which led credence to the idea that Voldemort would hide it there, somewhere Dumbledore didn't know about, in the midst of potentially millions of lost items, but also i nthe heart of one of his most hated locations, as a way to say that even for all their security, they'd never know one of his most valued items was so close at hand.

His arrogance really did know no bounds...if it was hidden there.

"Holy...shit."

Maybe it was her luck, or perhaps Hogwarts itself conspiring to aid her, but when she got to the seventh floor, it only took perhaps half an hour of wandering and thinking of essentially a giant room with a whole bunch of junk and assorted items for a large wooden door to appear. As she entered, she realized the true scope of what Fitsy had said...there were easily more than a million items in this room, which resulted in her little exclamation. She created a thousand Shadow Clones, each of whom began looting the room in a fervour, though more carefully than in Gringotts, to avoid setting any curses off.

Since all the items within the room were 'lost', nobody would care if she reappropriated them. Most were just phials of ink, some still-usable potion ingredients, and a lot of wands, which would be handy since they'd all be disposable and practically untraceable, having no real connection to Akari. As she picked up a random goblet and looked it over, one of her clones within the school dispersed, one of the three now following Harry and his friends, making her hum thoughtfully.

Apparently Ron's pet rat had vanished, and her clone wanted her to be informed in case Harry came along and asked her to help find it, since it was clear from the memories that Ron wasn't happy his rat had disappeared, to which Harry knew Akari would likely be able to track the little creature down. "How many times is this now...Wormtail." Kurama muttered in her head, making her eyes widen as he snickered.

It would be like Kurama to only reveal something like that to make her work for it, probable that he was keeping an eye on the rat and poised to reveal the rat at an opportune moment the instant Sirius made them realize that Wormtail was the traitor. "I really hate you right now, you could have told me at any point and let me give the rat to Sirius after cutting his fucking tail off." Akari growled, no real heat in her voice. Or at least, no heat towards Kurama.

The fact remained that Kurama was just like that, he did what he wanted just as Akari did, because he wanted to find amusement, and if he had to withhold information until a more opportune and amusing moment, he was more than willing to do so. Akari wouldn't go quite that far for her amusement, but she had more readily-available sources anyway, plus she had the pleasure of having other ways to get her kicks, like fawning over awesome Magical Beasts.

It didn't matter too much though, she'd have to find this...Scabby she believed Ron had called it, and hand the little rat bastard over to Sirius, since it wasn't her who was wronged by the little bugger. Of course, that meant actually finding him, though with her permanent Shadow Clones wandering around Hogwarts she doubted he would be able to hide anywhere. They were also going to have to go through all the hidden passageways throughout the school, as it was likely that Wormtail would have used those to get out of the school without being seen.

That was, if he'd even left the school. Thinking about it, while Wormtail hiding with the Weasleys was rather smart since nobody would expect him so close to a light family, why would he choose that particular week to abandon his concealment. He didn't know Kurama existed, Akari showed no indication of knowing it was him, and Sirius had no reason to...ahh. Because Ron was close friends with Harry and Sirius was, of course, Harry's Godfather, chances were high that one day Ron would meet him and Scabby would be seen, with Sirius no doubt recognizing the little rat, so he probably got spooked after a close encounter and picked an opportune moment to flee.

Her clones would still scour the school looking for him, but she didn't withhold too much hope for actually finding him. Over an hour Akari and her clones spent walking over veritable tides of random items, several mountains of junk collapsing as they passed just through sheer instability rather than any negligible action on the part of her clones. She decided that she was going to leave five clones in here to constantly loot the room and see if they could find anything useful, since she doubted they found even a fraction of the useful items hidden within nests of crap.

Most of the stuff contained within was broken, like cracked phials and snapped wands, not exactly useful items. Reparo would only work if every component of the original item was still there. If she snapped the lens out of a pair of glasses and threw said lens out of range of the Reparo Charm, it would do its best but wouldn't be able to fix the lens itself. The same obviously applied here, since anything broken which was missing a part would only partially be fixed. Phials could be repaired if they were cracked but whole, though those missing chunks wouldn't be correctly fixed.

That did lead her to another question, about whether or not a Reparo would work for a Phial if she prepared some regular glass beside it and then attempted to repair it, whether it would use the available resources to repair the damaged item or not. But, that was a question for another day, as one of her clones had dispersed upon seeing the Diadem they were hunting for. She could feel the compulsion her clone had felt for putting said Diadem off, so she created three Shadow Clones and sent them to go fetch it, leaving the other spawned clones to continue searching the room for any stand-out valuables.

She was mildly surprised when one of her clones actually turned on the others upon reaching the Diadem, attempting to attack them, though as it was a two-on-one with them all possessing Akari's speed, the single clone was fended off long enough for Akari to bolt over and blast the clone with a Fuuton Jutsu. She then forced the other two clones to disperse and approached the Diadem, feeling a tickling feeling in the back of her mind to put the Diadem on, that it would make her intelligent beyond measure.

Huffing, she withdrew her phial of Basilisk Venom, upending it above the Diadem without even another moment for the Diadem to whisper dark promises in her ears. As the potent venom bit deeply into the metal of the Diadem and disintegrated it, she swiftly sidestepped the paralysis spell that flew from behind her, having heard the sound of the spell breaking air as it flew towards her.

As the Horcrux released itself with a screech of fury, she spun, drawing her wand seemingly out of her sleeve, then unleashed a quick banisher at her assailant, sneering as he ducked to the ground to avoid it. "Why the fuck...I don't even care anymore. Petrificus Totalus." She cast at the revealed form of Pettigrew, growling when he rolled to the side. "You shouldn't have ever come here, because now, I'm going to wrap you up in a nice little bow and give you to Sirius as a late Christmas present."

Her growled words made his face pale even as he shakily swept his wand at her, evidently not a competent duellist. Pretty fitting that the man who was best ascribed to a rat was cowardly and afraid of combat. He didn't say anything, but the way his eyes flicked around and his hands shook made it obvious he was terrified of getting into a fight with her. "I want...I don't...you-you-" He stuttered out, making her eyes narrow. "Master is returning, and he's very very angry...Peter wants sa-safety...Master would kill him for his actions."

She smirked and threw a severing curse at him, forcing him to clumsily dodge again. "And why the fuck would you think I'd be forgiving after you directly led to Harry's orphan status, the imprisonment of Sirius, and then attempting to hit me with a spell." As she spoke, she leisurely cast random weak spells, just jinxes and the occasional Hex to keep him on his toes.

Since he couldn't get a moment to properly break, it made him panicky, more likely to spill his secrets. And spill he did. "M-master's spirit residing in Albania, his Horcruxes brought him back after-after you broke-killed him." Akari didn't ease up on her spellfire, one nearly smacking him on his leg, making him yelp. "Old ally of Master came back, demanded assistance from Peter, drop of Potter blood from bite-scratch-claw. Now-now Master is brought back, but angry, so very angry. Peter cannot go back, Master would hurt-kill him for inaction, so Peter must find new safety."

The revelation that Voldemort was brought back actually made her pause in her spellfire, though she didn't resist firing another quick banisher when Pettigrew peeked his head up from his makeshift cover, making him yelp and duck again. "And you think revealing yourself to me is even remotely safe?" Akari was honestly surprised when he peeked his head up again and nodded frantically, making her lower her wand with a sigh.

She could quite clearly see why Pettigrew acted the way he did. From his perspective, Voldemort was winning the last war, and as his cowardly nature dictated, he jumped ship like, well, like a fleeing rat from a sinking ship. Now that she was on the board, after some years of observation it became clear to him that Voldemort was now the losing side, and so he jumped ship again. She wouldn't deny that she still wanted to curse him to hell and back for being a treacherous rat, but, well, with the intel he'd given up so freely, she was feeling a bit more lenient. "So, Albania you say?"

Though...that didn't stop her from hitting him with a jelly-legs jinx the instant his head poked up again.

With all but one Horcrux destroyed, Akari felt a bit anxious.

The fact remained that they had no idea what number seven could be, but the revelation from Pettigrew that Voldemort was back certainly didn't bode well. Added to that the fact that neither Snape nor Lucius had any sort of command through their Dark Marks meant that Voldemort knew he had traitors in t he mix, and was likely weeding them out slowly.

What really pissed Akari off though was that Mordecai had disappeared, worrying her. She wasn't an idiot, Pettigrew had said an old ally of his master had gotten to him and from there gotten ahold of a droplet of Harry's blood. Peter seemingly wasn't able to say who it was, but from the fact that he'd entirely vanished, it was looking incredibly likely that Mordecai had brought Voldemort back to life.

Akari didn't want to kill him, she really didn't, since not only was he the first person in the Wizarding World who she'd met and actually liked, he also knew a lot about her. He couldn't get ahold of Tachiko since she was now living in Konoha with her boyfriend, but he knew a few of Akari's tricks, and would doubtless tell Voldemort about them. She'd obviously never revealed any of her nastiest Jutsus like the combination dragon attack she'd used against the Juubi, but he knew she had the ability to cast 'spells' in each of the five elements, by using hand movements rather than a wand.

None-the-less, she relayed her suspicions to everyone involved, Dumbledore having called a meeting and, surprisingly enough, willingly adding Lucius to the mix. Akari hadn't even said a word about perhaps including him since he seemed fairly disillusioned about Voldemort, but Dumbledore included him despite his past allegiances, so that was useful. Right now, the people who knew Voldemort was back included Sirius, Lucius, Snape, Dumbledore, Pettigrew, Minerva, herself and Lupin. Lupin and Sirius both nearly throttled Pettigrew when their first laid eyes on him, but Akari held them off of him, since he was being helpful now at least.

Dumbledore had wanted to add more people, but Akari put her foot down. Right now Voldemort was likely to be weak and off-balance from only having a single Horcrux, compared to the last time he was manifested where he had all seven. Adding more people would muddy the waters and make moving against him more annoying. The plan was devious in its simplicity. Akari would go to Albania and, using a spell Snape was ordered to teach her, fly around using whatever ability she had that let her detect darkness to hunt down Voldemort and his sole remaining Horcrux. Akari tentatively estimated that using her clones, which she showcased in front of those assembled to silence their doubts, she would be able to hunt him down within a month.

In truth...it only took a single day of searching.

A single clone dispersing after confirming Voldemort's current location was all Akari needed to Apparate there.

While Albania was obviously quite large, it was barely a tenth of the size of the UK, so having a hundred clones invisibly flying around and searching meant it really didn't take too long to spot the telltale darkness of dark magic being performed. Akari's speed translated to the flight spell Snape had taught her, thus ending up making her fly far faster than Snape had assumed she would be travelling. Considering on foot she could travel 12 kilometres in a single second now, with Albania being practically 440km long, she could run across the entirety of the country in about 37 seconds.

The flight spell, for her at least since she wasn't experienced in using it, a 1:1 ratio of speed. For Snape, with his practice in using it he could fly several times faster than he could move, the same for Voldemort, though of course as the man had invented the flight spell Voldemort could fly faster than Snape could as he knew the intricacies of the spell, but since Akari could move at utterly ludicrous speeds, she far outmatched their flying speed.

As she appeared, Akari drew the wand Ollivander gave her in one hand, a Five-seven pistol in the other hand. If Voldemort dropped shielding, even for a scant second, it would be all she'd need to shoot him in his face. While normally she would want to drag this sort of fight out as it would be enjoyable, right now all she wanted was to kill Voldemort, find out why Mordecai had brought him back, possibly shoot him as well even if it would hurt to do it, then go back home and cuddle with her animals.

Whipping her left arm up, she fired off a shot off at the bitch who was hiding in a tree near the small manor that her clone had seen dark magic pouring out of, making her yelp and fall out of the tree when the bullet struck her in the chest. Akari didn't give her time to get up or cast a spell, zipping over and putting the barrel of her gun against the head of the vampire, smirking as she hissed at the burning heat of the barrel before pulling the trigger and blowing her brains out.

The sound of the gunshots drew the attention of those within the manor, a large group of vampires leaving and spotting her above the deceased corpse of their ally, which was now becoming ash. Needless to say, this enraged them, several nasty curses being hurled her way including two she didn't even recognize. As she took aim and fired another few shots at the centre of the group, they were blocked by a Protego Maxima from one of the vampires, seemingly more observant than his allies. Akari emptied the magazine into the shield, noting the strain on the vampires face to keep the shield up, before she grinned and tucked her wand away, twirling to face them again but this time with her hands full of her largest gun.

She slammed prone to avoid spellfire, simultaneously giving a stable platform for her shiny Anzio 20mm rifle as she sighted in. Akari watched with relish the moment she saw the shield-bearing vampire realized how outmatched his shield was against her new weapon, his mouth opening to shout a warning just as Akari pulled the trigger on her rifle three times in quick succession. The first utterly shattered the Protego, with the fragments dragging gaping lines in her enemies flesh as the shattered metal flew past the group of vampires. The second round utterly pulverized the chest of the vampire it struck as it blasted through him, clipping another in her arm before shattering the wall of the manor behind them. The third shot she adjusted her aim for, pointing straight at the shield vampire and blasting his head off.

With a quick tap of her finger, she sent her gun back into her inventory, withdrawing her wand and throwing up a quick Protego against the violent and vicious assault of the enraged vampires as they witnessed more of their immortal brethren be killed. One dropped his wand and snarled at her before charging, to which she dropped the Protego and stepped to the side, simultaneously placing her wand away again, snatching his outstretched arm before kicking the back of his knees with a sweeping leg and forcing him into the path of his comrades curses, watching his body explode quite spectacularly in her grasp, liberally showering her in blood.

As she felt his blood run down her body, the scent of metal heavy in the air and the taste of copper on her tongue, Akari flicked her thumb across her eyes to clear them then bared her teeth, lowering herself down much as her last opponent had before leaping towards those vampires still remaining, her hands grasping the handles of Kunai as she began slashing and carving her way through the vampires, drenching herself in their stolen blood as she cut a whirling dervish of death through the group. One or two fled back into the manor, and she ignored them, too busy having fun severing tendons, cutting throats and gouging out eyes.

She had missed this, the pure visceral feeling of gutting an opponent, avoiding a fist and cutting said fist off with a sweep before plunging her own fist into their heart. Several times she lost Kunai within guts or heads and simply withdrew another, and more than once she got her clock cleaned by being hit in the side or back by fists or spells, but for all that they were vastly stronger than mortals, the vampires simply didn't do enough damage. One fist striking her in the jaw did a fraction over ten-thousand points of damage, but when she had practically 2 million health and healed 2000hp per second, she could take hits all day. One particularly tenacious vampire managed to sink his fangs into her neck from behind after she got distracted dealing with a particularly tough vampire, but quickly found himself retching before he was on the floor with his mouth foaming, utterly ignored by Akari as her neck healed the damage.

With how high her Vitality and Endurance now was, her poison resistance was significant enough that she could drink highly-lethal poisons with no effect. Right now, her blood was probably the most dangerous things to drink on the planet. Vampires were strong and had significantly strong immune systems, but against the cocktail of utterly body-rotting poisons flowing through her veins, they might as well has been newborns.

Leaping up, she heel-kicked the skull of a vampire down into his own neck, her leg whipping around as she landed to end up round-housing his corpse back into another vampire before following it up by extracting a brace of senbon and sweeping her hand down it to fill her grasp, throwing a dozen of the diminutive-but-deadly rods out into her enemies which ended up forcibly poisoning each vampire struck with a smorgasbord of different toxins.

Just as she relaxed and cracked her neck to throw her gaze around at the area filled with disintegrating corpses, her neck throbbed with a remarkably painful amount of heat just as a spell came flying out of the manor, clipping her on the arm while she was distracted with the pain which resulted in sending her flying back and disintegrating the top level of her arm. Landing on her feet she shook her head to clear it before reaching and tapping a finger on her neck curiously, the heat she'd felt receding to be replaced with coldness. "Ahh, the troublemaker." She heard hissed words from the doors of the manor, raising her gaze to see a practically reptilian man stood watching her, his nose looking like it'd been squished into his face, with his nostrils slitted.

"Let me guess, Voldemort then?" The man inhaled deeply through his nose, an impressive feat even as his eyes narrowed in cold anger and he twisted his arm up, casting a non-verbal curse at her. She avoided it, withdrawing her wand and throwing a severing charm at him, though with a negligent wave of his wand he deflected it into the manor walls. "So, vampires huh?"

The man sneered at her, though didn't cast another spell. "Yes, vampires, though with this massacre you've imparted it seems I find myself short of disposable pawns once again." He spoke as he looked over the myriad of brutalized corpses. Akari took the moment to clear the blood running over her eyes, immediately being forced to jump to the side as he cast a quick Killing Curse at her.

Akari responded by slapping a seal onto her arm out of her inventory, being cocooned immediately in several layers of Chakra. If she was fighting Voldemort, she really didn't want to risk him getting lucky and hitting her with a Killing Curse, since she really didn't trust that her health would stop an instakill curse from, well, killing her. Since it'd already been proven that a layer of Chakra could stop the Killing Curse, having this seal that her clones had made meant she was pretty safe from the spell.

She then turned up her speed, her Sharingan active as she watched his movements slow to a crawl, his wand arm moving in a zig-zag as he cast a Fulmencio at her, the lightning bolt shooting out and striking her in the chest, making her grit her teeth. Sure, she could move 12km/s, but against Lightning, which travelled at far higher speeds than her, she was most certainly too slow to avoid it, and since Fulmencio was a target spell rather than one you had to properly aim, she couldn't really avoid it.

However, the slow grin coming to Voldemort's face was quickly knocked off it when before he could even blink she was beside him, slamming her fist up into his jaw and shattering his teeth with the blow, sending him flying back. As he flew, Akari then ran ahead of him to where he would land before rocking her arm back and patiently waiting as he hurtled through the air.

Once in reach, she smashed her arm forwards, her fist snapping his vertebrae apart as he then flew back the way he came straight out of the manor doors to crash bonelessly into the piles of corpses outside. Akari made two clones to keep the prick busy as she ventured further into the now-empty manor. The table she saw as she passed by an open door tipped her off as to why all the vampires came out as one group, because they were having a meeting or something. The five chained up humans, each with bleeding bite wounds certainly got her riled up again, though she kept herself visibly calm as she made some more Shadow Clones to go and heal them all. The fact that the females were all naked most certainly did not escape her notice.

Needless to say, when she came across one of the vampires who had fled the battle, she made sure his death was slow, snapping back each of his fingers and toes, twisting his legs around in their sockets, then his arms, before slowly twisting his torso around to slowly snap each and every one of his vertebrae, all while he was still perfectly alive and awake, though reduced to a babbling mess from the sheer pain coursing through him. Finally, she stamped on his privates before castrating him and slamming two senbon through his eyes, leaving him utterly broken and barely alive on the floor for her clones to finish off if his wounds didn't do it for him.

One of her clones dispersed, informing her that the clone had found the Horcrux, though the clone had taken initiative and withdrew some Basilisk Venom, pouring it over the poor cursed creature to kill it. Apparently it was a snake, he'd turned a snake into a Horcrux. Why she had no idea, but at least now that was number 7, which meant it was likely he had no more.

She zipped back through the manor and out the front door, dropkicking Voldemort in the side of the head as he was distracted by her Shadow Clone. The satisfying snapping nose his neck made was music to Akari's ears, and her ever-so-slightly bloodthirsty side came out as she stabbed her fingers and thumb through the bastard Dark Lord's eyes, one hand on the back of his head as she ignored his screaming, before she ripped his head off, a fittingly violent ending for such a violent shade of a man.

Holding her trophy up in one hand, Akari smirked at the frozen expression of agony on his face. For someone who caused so much suffering, he died just the same as any man, and his arrogance was his downfall. She tossed the head up in the air and caught it, placing it into a storage scroll and from there straight into her inventory. It would serve as evidence that he was defeated once and for all. Her clone shook her head, withdrawing a wand and casting several Scourgify Charms at her, cleaning off the blood that had utterly caked her.

The sound of screaming came from the manor, though one of her clones dispersed to inform her that the group had saved the captives and had then come across a cowering vampire, giving him much the same treatment as the one Akari had found. Most amusingly was that the muggle men and women she had saved had even 'helped', spitting on their tormentor, one of them even kicking him in the balls, much to her and her clones amusement.

She wouldn't be well-liked for her actions, but Akari wasn't about to treat murderers and rapists any better than she would the trash beneath her feet.

Pretty violent, I know, but hey, sometimes Akari just cuts loose and goes on a rampage.

It did end pretty abruptly, and I might end up re-writing this, but, well, the HP Universe just doesn't give Akari any threat. Next chapter will likely be a timeskip, she'll go through the experience she earned for the final battle as well as the experience her clones earned for her, deal with the aftermath, and then...well, she'll be jumping to whatever the next Universe will be, so don't forget to go vote at the Poll in my profile.

Also, extra super duper big thank you to DarkDailer, my very first Patron supporter over on Pat reon. Right now I don't have any benefits aside from a discord for patrons only and early access to chapters depending on whether I can actually upload them, but whatever.

Final thing, someone (I can't remember who, sorry) brought to my attention that somebody copied War Dog and put most of it onto WebNovel. I don't know why they did it, nor why they don't have chapters 1-5, but I just want to point out that that isn't me. Since they don't claim it as their own work I don't really mind, but if you come across somewhere where people are claiming my work as their own, please tell me, because...despite what it might seem, I do actually put a lot of effort into writing these, and so having someone just copy it and say "Yeah nah, this is mine"...I think that'd really get me ticked off.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed!

Name: Akari Uchiha

Level: 349

Age: 17?

Experience: 208,557/349,000

To Next Level: 140,443

Title: Animal Tamer - Rank 5 - 100% chance to dissuade creatures from attacking during encounter. Prolonged or repeated exposure allows reputation, rapport as well as affinity to build with any animal. Note - familiars and mind-controlled creatures are exempt from this ability.

Secondary Title: Jonin - +25% Experience gained working with Genin

Health Points: 1,878,000 - ((100 Base + (Vit x End)) x 10) x 3

Regeneration Rate - 125,000/m - 2083.33/s - (Vit x End) x 2

Energy Points: 2,817,000 - (((100 Base + (Int x Wis)) x 10) x 1.5) x 3

Regeneration Rate - 125,000/m - 2083.33/s - (Int x Wis) x 2

Strength - 250

Vitality - 250

Endurance - 250

Intelligence - 250

Agility - 500

Wisdom - 250

Luck - 270

Affinities - Fire, Lightning, Earth, Water, Wind - Primary Affinities granted by Rinnegan