A/N: So...I'm in a Naruto phase again! And what started out as another chapter to Winter Wish (my other Naruto/Harry Potter fic) ended up being a whole new story in the time it took me to open up word...I blame the plot bunnies!

Disclaimer: Not mine!

Enjoy!

The girl-who-lived had triumphed, she had beaten the Dark Lord and saved not only the wizarding world but the muggle world as well from the fate Voldemort would have put them through. She knew this battle wouldn't have been without consequence and casualties but, as she stared in horror before her, she wasn't prepared for this. She slowly sank to her knees as she stared at the bodies of her dead friends, their pale bodies and lifeless eyes that seemed to stare into her very soul, tears fell from her eyes in a steady stream but they went unnoticed as shocked green eyes continued to stare. Everything around her was dulled, almost as though someone had hit the slow motion button, she saw Mrs Weasley sobbing and clutching at Ron's body, Neville and Luna lay together embracing each other in death, Ginny was staring at her tears falling from her blue eyes as sorrow poured from her body. Madam Pomfrey passed her to tend to the wounded. It was all wrong, it shouldn't be like this, they should be celebrating.

Red dripped from her eye startling her and slowly, mechanically, her arm raised up and she touch her forehead lightly. It was sticky and after seeing the red liquid on her fingers she realised she was bleeding. Of course she was bleeding, she had fought alongside her friends and obtained injuries but she wasn't dead. Pain, shouldn't she feel pain? Confusion swept through her as she continued to stare at her bloody fingers. Suddenly she felt her head snap to the side and felt more confusion at the action until she saw a pale hand and an angry red head and realised she had been slapped. She only looked dully up at the angry youngest Weasley, she was speaking or shouting, the girl-who-lived couldn't tell. She couldn't hear what was being said, the noise around being blocked out by the shock coursing through her body.

With a loud roar in her ears sound exploded and she flinched, it was too much, too loud. Pain established itself within her mind and it hurt like nothing she had ever felt before, both the physical pain and the emotional pain exploded within her. Ginny was still shouting but her words were hardly recognisable in the roar of sound pushing against her ear drums. She felt sick. She had to leave. Now. She stumbled to her feet, clumsy and awkward like a child learning to walk, and fled from the Great Hall. Running, she didn't care where her feet took her as long as it was away from the death that reeked from the hall. Pain surged ferociously in her and her head span but she pushed the dizziness away and she climbed the staircases.

It was quiet when she finally stopped moving, harsh pants leaving her body as she gripped tightly onto the wall, her head spinning wildly making the corridor before her sway. She clutched at her head, trying to alleviate the pain but finding no relief so resolved to suffer through it. She stumbled forwards, until she reached a wall that was very familiar to her. She stood before the room of requirement and closing her eyes tight she begged it to take her away, to give her place where her friend's dead bodies weren't going to disturb her. No door appeared before her and she realised that the room might not be working anymore due to the fiendfyre that Crabbe had cast in the search for Ravenclaw's Diadem. How long ago that seemed to the girl who lived as tears once again fell from her eyes and she wished even harder to escape from the castle if only for a moment.

She was startled out of her thoughts as a small sound echoed down the corridor and slowly a door appeared. It looked ancient, older then the castle itself perhaps, patterns spread across the double doors weaving and locking together but the pattern that stood out the most looked strangely enough like a leaf. Green eyes blurred, her vision going black for a moment and she realised it was now or never, and so stumbling forward she pushed against the door and fell inside. Crawling forwards she absently noticed that the ground was soft and she was outside, her vision blurred again and when she came back she noticed the boy that hadn't been there a moment ago. Had the room taken her outside where they were still collecting the dead? She narrowed her eyes slightly trying to overcome the need to pass out and she noticed the bright blonde hair and strange markings along the boy's face and the last thing she was aware of before darkness claimed was the colour of orange far brighter than the infamous Weasley hair colour.

She awoke in a strange room, it was small but the design made it feel bigger, there also appeared to be no doors. She frowned as she realised this for surely that must be a mistake, every room had a door, a way to enter and exit the room. She quickly closed her eyes as she heard footsteps approaching her room, trying her best to calm her breathing as she heard a sliding sound. So that was how they opened you slid them to the side. Footsteps approached her and she stiffened slightly under her covers as she fought the urge to open her eyes and take a look at her captive.

"When we she wake up Ero-sennin!" the loud voice of Naruto Uzumaki sounded throughout the room and Ana flinched at the unexpected sound level.

"She's already awake Naruto."

Dammit I got caught she thought as she slowly opened her eyes and sat up, taking note of the orange clad boy who seemed far to hyper for his own good and the white haired male sitting cross legged on the floor in the corner. She felt a slight thumping in her head and her hand came up to alleviate the pain somewhat when she felt the scratchy quality of the bandages surrounding her head, her memory was hazy and could distantly remember the battle between Voldemort and her.

"Hehe Ero-sennin bandaged your head that was a pretty nasty gash by the way, did you end up in a fight? Which village are you from? We didn't notice your hitai-ate on you, in fact the only things you had on you was a weird stick thingy and these strange clothes." The blonde spoke a mile a minute and with her foggy mind Ana found it hard to keep up, slowly she began to process the information he had given her.

"A fight," her mind slowly brought up the image of Hogwarts, broken and utterly devastated, "yeah you could say that. My village is, I am assuming, very far away but I don't intend to return," all that waited for her there was death and pain. "Where is my wand? The weird stick thingy as you so eloquently put it. As for my robes….I no longer need those, not where I'm headed anyway."

Naruto slowly handed her the wooden stick he'd been playing with since he found it on her, a feeling of sadness and understanding crept up within him at seeing such sorrow in her beautiful green eyes. He had never seen such a shade of green before, not even on Sakura. Suddenly an image of his best friend popped into his head and he realised that she shared the same pain Sasuke had in his eyes. "Why aren't you going to go back to your village? Your parents must be very about a pretty girl like you going about on your own." It was Jiraiya who spoke and Naruto noticed how her body tensed at the mention of parents and somehow he felt a kinship between them grow, he felt connected to her somehow.

"I don't remember my parents sir," she told him with a light shrug, "they were murdered when I was a baby by a very evil man. As for my relatives and friends…they're dead to and the ones that remain blame me for their deaths…I don't blame them though, I wasn't fast enough and I wasn't strong enough." Her hand clenched tightly on the fabric of her clothing over her heart as the pain she felt overwhelmed her for a moment.

"I see," Jiraiya said his voice pensive as a thoughtful look entered his eye as he watched Naruto looking at the beautiful girl. It was clear to him that she wasn't near here, she was foreign and extremely easy on the eyes not to mention other places too he thought with a perverted gleam in his eye. Her hair as a black as any raven, skin whiter than palest of snow fall, she was slim and curvy and her chest! Oh she is great material for my books a creepy giggle escaped him that luckily went unnoticed by Naruto and the girl. Though the fact still remained, she was unknown and possibly a trap from the Akatsuki but she seemed genuinely clueless and though she didn't tell the whole truth about her village, she hadn't lied either and he was old enough to respect her privacy on the matter.

Sasuke. The name reverberated around his head as he stared at the green eyed girl, she was like Sasuke and himself in so many ways. She grew up without parents just like him. Her friends and family were murdered by an evil man just like Sasuke. The look in her eyes, the sorrow, pain and anger was a mix of himself and Sasuke. An overwhelming urge to protect this girl came over him and before he could stop himself he found himself asking her to come back the leaf village with him.

"Y-You want me to go with you?" she sounded perplexed, utterly confused as to why this was being offered to her, "Why? You don't know me and I don't know you."

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto," he declared with a big grin on his face as he pointed to himself, "and I'm going to be the next Hokage dattebayo! You can come live with us in Konoha and we can tell baa-chan what happened and I'm sure she will be fine with it and Sakura-chan will be friends with you and all the rest of us too!"

Not to mention the research material I will get from her, I think a trip to a hot spring is in order Jiraiya thought, his mind conjuring up the image of a naked raven haired girl surrounded by the steam of the hot spring and calling his name seductively. He giggled as his cheeks flushed and blood slowly trickled out of his nose.

"I…well I guess I will then," Ana found herself smiling, encouraged by Naruto's enthusiasm, "my name is Ana… just Ana." She would leave behind the Potter name for now, that was her past and here she had no expectations to live up to and she wasn't the girl-who-lived and the thought made her smile. Ana. Just Ana from now on.

"Ero-sennin! You're supposed to introduce yourself!"

"Huh? What?" Jiraiya shouted as he was abruptly brought out of his fantasy and not missing the dirty look Naruto gave him. "Ah yes! I am the amazing toad sage, one of the three legendary Sanin. I am the one the only Jiraiya!"

"Is everyone round here as strange as you are?" Ana asked wearily.

Everyone laughed after that and together the trio set off for Konoha but for Ana she was also setting off on her new adventure, this time without a prophecy hanging over her head. It was two weeks into her journey when she finally plucked up the courage to ask what a Shinobi was as well as Hokage, though Naruto initially laughed at her for not knowing it was Jiraiya who sat down and carefully explained the hidden nations to her. She listened eagerly and soaked in the new information like a sponge. She was astounded to hear this place had no magic but that everyone had chakra though not everyone could wield it properly and those that could were called shinobi. Ana likened the shinobi forces to the military back home, or aurors in the wizarding world.

She admired Naruto for wanting to become Hokage and she found herself hoping for that too, the blond haired shinobi would make a great leader. Her relationship with Naruto had progressed quickly and she got along immensely well with him, he helped her through the hard nights when she would awake from nightmares screaming. Jiraiya became her mentor of a sort, he taught things about the shinobi world and helped her in his own perverted way to understand the culture around her. She eventually revealed her magic to them one day during a training session between the sage and blonde. She was sat by a tree, dosing of in the sun when kunai, dodged by Jiraiya, shot towards her.

Naruto shouted her name as did Jiraiya as they both jumped towards her but she only looked at the kunai before they stopped in their motion and clattered to the floor. A wandless arresto momentum went a long way in saving her life. She had been questioned relentlessly until finally she gave a good enough answer to appease the toad sage. They likened her magic to a Kekkei Genkai, something only she could use in the shinobi world. She had been shocked that her magic had been pretty much accepted right off the bat and it was still unnerving when Naruto asked her, in childish glee, to do another trick.

She found out about the Kyuubi a couple more weeks later after seeing Naruto transform into a mini replica of the beast and almost killing Jiraiya after the appearance of the fourth tail. Her magic had been useful in placating the out of control Jinchuriki, her magic was compatible with the tailed beast because it was raw energy and though different from chakra it resonated within the Kyuubi and allowed Ana to keep it calm and content until Jiraiya was able to seal him away again. Jiraiya had been utterly perplexed and amazed by the puzzle that formed the beautiful witch, this was further proof that she needed to stay within the walls of Konoha because if she were to fall into Akatsuki hands, the power she possessed would make them a far greater threat then they were already.

When they finally reached the gates of Konoha, a great trepidation filled her body and it was only Naruto's hand securely wrapped around her wrist that prevented her from turning tail and running far away. They walked slowly through the village, allowing Naruto time to savour the familiarity of it all. An amused smile appeared on Ana's face as Naruto climbed up a pole to get a better look at his home though the smile vanished as soon as a pink head cut across her vision. Even as she called out to Naruto, Ana was still trying to get over how pink her hair was, of course her blonde friend had told her but she wasn't expecting such a vivid shade. She was still in mild shock as she listened to them argue with each other though that was replaced by a cold fury as she watched the pink haired girl punch Naruto so hard he went flying away from them.

"You know Naruto just said you haven't changed in the three years he was gone," she spoke coldly, her voice rigid with ice and Jiraiya flinched, the young witch was very protective over his blonde student, so much so that she terrified him more than Tsunade. "That makes me wonder… were you always this much of a bitch?"

"What did you say to me?" Sakura asked the strange girl cha! Knock her out outer! Inner Sakura encouraged and Sakura was in full agreement with Inner, she flexed her hand and tightened her glove around it.

"Naruto was commenting on how you haven't changed, yet you punch him as hard as that. I can understand where you are coming from, no girl would want to hear they look the same as their twelve year old self but perhaps that's not what he meant at all. Perhaps he meant that your mannerisms and attitude are the same, that to him your personality hasn't changed since he has been gone and for that he is thankful." Her tone was icy cold and her eyes held Sakura tight in her gaze making the pinkette wonder if she was in a genjutsu, "Naruto has told me a lot about you and seems to hold you in high regard and it is that alone which stops me from showing just exactly what I am capable of, but remember the next time you decide to hurt him for no reason then I will give you a taste of my power. You're supposed to be his friend…you disgust me."

Ana walked over to Naruto and helped him stand before they walked together to the Hokage tower, ignoring Sakura as she followed meekly behind them.

A/N: So...how does that work? I hoped I portrayed Naruto and Jiraiya correctly ...I tried my best *bows apologetically* and Sakura...well lets just say Ana isn't going to put up with her bullying Naruto because half the time Naruto doesn't even deserve it.

So the bit about Ana being able to somewhat control the Kyuubi is fully explained later...much later...but for now lets just wish my point about it got across okay.

I'm undecided about the pairings right now. I'm thinking either Gaara/Ana or Sasuke/Ana...I need to decide soon though because the story will go a different route depending on the pairing. Please help me out and tell me which pairing you would like to see...though I suppose I could do both...or have a love triangle thing going on...hmm I will have to figure it out.

As always please be kind and leave a review.