"Blah": Talking

"Blah": Demon speaking/Inner Sakura

'Blah': Naruto's thoughts/other people's thoughts

'Blah': Harry talking to Naruto

For over thirteen years, the snake Sannin Orochimaru has lived as a disgraced missing-nin, an enemy of his former village and one of the world's most fearsome, notorious criminals, responsible for the deaths of countless innocent people, kidnapped and defiled numerous small children for experimentation, committed high-treason, and attacked his former home. But his reign of unspeakable acts has come close to a very possible end after a fateful encounter with a teenaged boy named Naruto Uzumaki.

Naruto and his spiritual companion, Harry Potter, cursed the Sannin and he now has the worst case of bad luck imaginable. Orochimaru seeks to be rid of his curse with the aid of another person from his village that might have the power to break it. But he must find her first, out in the world of unlimited possibilities and untold danger.

At the same time, Naruto Uzumaki has been given a dangerous task to save the Sandaime Hokage from certain death. He must escape his village and set out into the same world as Orochimaru in search for the Legendary Sucker and Slug Sannin, Madame Tsunade.

With the third member of the original Sannin, Jiraiya the Toad Sage, on the road to aid him in his travels, Naruto will go to untold lengths to save his surrogate grandfather, as he uncovers the truth behind his master Hayate Gekko's murder and the existence of a dangerous criminal group that seeks to obtain the demon fox sealed within him.

Our favorite blonde-haired shinobi is no longer safe even within the walls of Konoha, even when surrounded with friends. Because on top of everything being thrown down on him, there may well be a traitor in his midst as he is hurled towards an unforeseeable future.

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Disclaimer: Naruto is the property of Masashi Kishimoto

Harry Potter is property of JK Rowling

Chapter 1: A Storm is Coming

{{Lumos! (Hedwig's Theme) by John Williams}}

It was a dark night in Konohagakure no Sato, as storm clouds hovered over the town and blocked out the moon.

As darkness loomed over the massive town, lightning bolts flashed within the clouds as thunder boomed minutes or seconds later. The rain of the tremendous thunderstorm fell onto the countless rooftops of houses and stores as the lifeless streets of the conurbation became flooded with at least an inch and a half of water. All of the lights in the village were shut down at this time, because one of the power stations for the village was damaged after the massive battle that ensued over one month ago. With all the lights in the village shut down to conserve the power, the village was immersed into a state of absolute darkness, at least for a few hours. On this night, not even the smallest source of light could be seen, with the exception of one small window that stood out like a sore thumb. On the tallest floor of an old apartment building, a small bluish-white light dimmed into existence, fueled at the end of a wand.

Within the confines of that one small somewhat abandoned home there was a blonde-haired preteen named Naruto Uzumaki, and he was wide-awake.

Naruto was an unusual individual for several reasons: the first reason was that he contained a destructive and dangerous demon inside him called the Kyuubi no Kitsune, also known as the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox. The second reason was he had a considerable habit of doing things in his old apartment in the dead of the night, even while he lived with his adopted older brother at another house. And the final reason was that he happened to be a wizard, the last known wizard in existence. When he was born, a sorcerer from another realm named Harry Potter had died and was stuck in limbo until he escaped and was sealed into Naruto by accident around the same time the demon was sealed into him too. This incident caused Naruto to become embossed with his own magical powers and he became the other wizard's incarnate. The two of them made first contact with each other almost seven years ago, and ever since then, have learned how to survive in the world of shinobi together, becoming close friends, as if they were siblings. In the time after the two wizards swore to secrecy, the two of them let a selective few into their circle of trust that aided them and kept their secret safe. Those chosen few included were his adopted older brother Iruka Umino, who took care of him at his home whenever Naruto wasn't at work at his old house, which he used as a lab now more than ever. And then there was the late Hayate Gekko, who was a close friend to Naruto and was also his swordsmaster. But the latter had been murdered some time before Konoha was invaded last month.

The loss left the blonde wizard devastated, but he had started to recover. He knew his friend wouldn't want him to shut himself into sadness. Naruto could still laugh, smile, and have fun as he did before. But that didn't mean that he didn't think about his master once in a while and missed him. Sometimes, he would visit the Hero's Memorial and read his fallen friend's name, offer flowers or even chocolates on the memorial out of respect and love.

Right now, it was almost midnight and Naruto was currently getting out of bed to get a number of important things done. He stood with his wand still in his hands and focused his chakra for the first time since he had broken his arm. He took a breath and formed a special handsign he was more than familiar with about now.

He then whispered, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"

There was a blast of white smoke and beside Naruto an exact clone of him walked into existence and smiled as it held its once-broken arm and flexed it. Once the smoke had cleared, the shadow clone stood before his creator, wearing the same dark-blue PJ's that were lent to him from his older brother Iruka. The real Naruto looked over his clone and started to instruct it.

"Let's start the night with making more Wiggenweld potion, since we're all out. Use the cauldron on the stove and don't forget to blind the windows while in the kitchen. No need to be concerned about all the dittany we've collected, since it was watered down last night… Also, check on the Exploding Potion as well? I've had it sit in the cauldron for about seventeen hours, so it should be done…"

The clone nodded and took its wand and muttered, "Lumos!"

The shadow clone walked into the kitchen room, knelt down and wore a white mask over his mouth and nose. He then unveiled the cabinet below the counter to find two pewter cauldrons that were filled with different potions. One of them was filled with a glowing, neon-blue substance, and the one next to it was filled with a mud-like, bubbling brew. The two different cauldrons were each heated with their own individual source of heat. Which seemed to be bluebell flames that were somehow unable to burn down the wooden cabinet where it was contained, like the flame was conditioned not to burn or set fire to the kitchen while unattended.

There were also smaller cauldrons lined on the sides that levitated all over the cabinet, each with their own bluebell flames that followed underneath. Within each cauldron, there was a different concoction that Naruto created with his older brother: creations that would become his tools should he ever need them in the future. One of the cauldrons contained a substance that was emerald in color and released these unusual fumes, which was the reason the Naruto clone had to wear a mask. The shadow clone checked inside the first small cauldron and nodded as he examined the mixture.

'Nii-san, I think that the mixture for our Garroting Gas is finished.'

The older wizard looked at the concoction from his chambers within his subconscious and nodded as well with a smile on his face, 'I think it's about done too. You should have it stored soon. But to be on the safe side, let's let it brew for the rest of the night. Tomorrow we can have it stored in some of those small stolen bottles.'

'For the last time, I didn't steal them! It doesn't count as stealing from the apothecary if the people moved back to Kusagakure and left a lot of their stuff in the trash!'

'Heh! Watch the volume, mate! I was kidding!'

'Oh… Excuse me, then… Still, it's a shame those old folks wanted to move somewhere safer… But at least I didn't have to burn some cash to take whatever else was left from their old store… No clearance sale… Anyway, back to the mixture, I'll have it stored tomorrow then, Nii-san…'

The shadow clone looked to the other cauldron that hovered and met a most unusual site; the inside of the cauldron was much more spacious than it looked on the outside. Inside the cauldron, there was a lavender-colored potion that had these weird, sea-sponge shaped objects that were no bigger than the size of walnuts. Naruto used some tweezers he removed from his homemade potioneer kit and extracted one of the objects in the cauldron for examination. When he collected the small article it sounded like the substance was a solid rock that floated in the radiant mixture. The clone checked over the rock and watched as the moisture it retained drained out and dried in an instant. The rock soon resembled a dark crystal or a rare volcanic rock that shimmered as he held above the blue flames.

'You did it, Naruto! I didn't think it could be done, but there it is!'

The shadow clone crawled out from the cabinet and rested the rock down on the table where he used to eat his meals. There he watched and listened as the rock was drained and made these smalls noises that indicated a sort of crinkle-sound, like water that's frozen over within arctic conditions. The clone smiled and held the dried rock in his hands, which was now cold to the touch.

"Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder…"

Naruto had come up with the idea while brainstorming last week with Iruka, thus the reason he remained in the old house tonight to watch over and finish his creations. He thought that there was a chance that he and Harry could recreate the original invention that Fred and George Weasley made and sold back in their store, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. Naruto wanted to have more of a taste of the world his older brother had come from and create his own version of the item that he could use while on his missions or in the event of another future invasion. So what he had done was create a draft that compressed its contents under extreme pressures and would enhance the effects of whatever object was inserted. Naruto took these normal smoke bombs and waited several hours until the enhancements were done. It wasn't the same method that Fred and George used, but it was still a perfect imitation of Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder.

The shadow clone started to remove all the new smoke bombs and had them set on the table to drain their fluid and crystallize. But the clone had to be cautious and slow; otherwise the whole house would be filled with dark smoke for weeks. Not to mention, Naruto added sand to the mixture to make the smoke bombs more like the original devices the oldest shinobi cultures used. He obtained the sand from the leftovers Gaara left behind after their battle in the forest. So the new devices he created would create a thick smoke he could use to hide from his enemies, but also blind them and slow them down.

Once he was done with the smoke bombs, the shadow clone moved back into the cabinet and used its wand to vanish the contents of the lavender draft he had used. He then moved on to the cauldron on the bottom beside the one with the neon-blue substance. Naruto had worked on this one ever since after the funeral last month. Inside the cauldron there was this foul, mud-like substance that bubbled about ten times each minute. The clone stirred it several times and checked it over with his older brother there to check his notes on the instructions. The older wizard smiled and nodded his head as he checked his notes.

'Your Polyjuice Potion is coming along better than I thought it would, Naruto. I'm impressed that you've managed to get this far with what ingredients you had…'

The blonde-haired shadow clone chuckled and smiled. He did so each time he heard his older brother admire him for his successful efforts.

'It wasn't that hard, to be honest. The hardest ingredients to make Polyjuice with are the lacewing flies, fluxweed, shredded Boomslang skin, and bicorn horn. I had to take some time to find those first two ingredients before I even started to brew it. And then all I had to do from there was look around for a Boomslang in the Forest of Death and cut off a bit of the horn of the most wild and vicious beast I could find in those same woods…There were a lot of wild boar in that forest, but still no unicorns…'

'Techno babble set aside, I'm still amazed here! Slughorn would have had a field day if he saw this! You're such an excellent potioneer!'

The shadow clone's cheeks flushed with more color and continued to smile, but soon looked back at the cauldron with a more serious face hidden under his white mask.

'It still needs a few more ingredients… I think I need to add one or two more leeches, and then it's done!'

The clone looked over at the last cauldron on the bottom and looked more cautious and careful than he looked when he handled the smoke bombs. The mixture was a radiant neon-blue color that almost matched the color of his irises. The smoke above the substance swirled in an unusual manner, which indicated to the clone that the brew was done, but that it was also the most hazardous substance that he ever created. He stirred the mixture and watched as it continued to fill the cabinet with light.

'Exploding Potion… It's so beautiful, but it sure can be unstable…'

'Be extremely careful with this, Naruto… I used to handle these while I was on the run, and these can backfire on you easily… You'll need to get some small vials for this stuff tomorrow, understood?'

'Yes… I understand… I'll also charm the vials to hold the potion still.'

While the clone was careful to watch the heat on the cauldron, a bell chimed in the kitchen. The blonde-haired clone hit his head hard against the top of his cabinet. The shadow clone was too worried over the potions and bombs, which forced the real Naruto to bolt out of the bedroom and to the oven. He found some oven mittens and opened his oven door to extract a full oven sheet of what looked like sizable cupcakes made of chocolate and vanilla, crafted to look like little cauldrons. Naruto rested the tray on the cold stove and watched them as the cakes cooled down and solidified. The blonde-haired rookie smiled and almost laughed at seeing the cakes all sink in and leave enough room for icing to be filled in while the cakes themselves remained soft and warm.

'I did it! I got the recipe down for the perfect Cauldron Cakes!'

Harry saw the cakes his little brother had baked on his own for weeks come into fruition. At seeing such mouth-watering sweets, he started to drool and wished he could have a taste for himself, since he had been unable to eat real food for what felt like centuries to him. Still, he offered more advice based on how he remembered what Cauldron Cakes tasted like back when he was alive, the fresh ones that he loved from Honeydukes or the trolley on the Hogwarts Express.

'Excellent! All you need now is some cream, toppers, a bit of icing, and some tea to serve it with! It's a real shame that I can't eat some... those sure do look delicious…'

'You will, Nii-san, I promise… All we need to do is find an artificial vessel to transfer your soul into and we can feast on a fresh batch…'

Once he had preserved the pastries and stored them, Naruto removed the metal sheet from the stove and returned to his bedroom.

Ever since the clone retreated into the kitchen, the real version of him was at work with his old beaded rucksack. It still looked about the same as it did when he first bought it. But at the moment, he made several alterations to it other than decorating the outside for creative reasons. Naruto opened the rucksack wide and inserted his wand into it. He then summoned a fair amount of magic and started to use a charm he had learned that released a faint white light. He reached his arm into the rucksack as he concentrated and focused as best as he could. After about five minutes he removed his wand from the rucksack and looked inside to see into almost infinite darkness. He then reached his wand into it and lit the end so that he could see the bottom. When he did, he smiled when it was revealed that the charm he used work and his rucksack was now hundreds of times more massive on the inside than it was on the outside. He could fit his entire apartment inside the old rucksack had such a desire ever occurred to him. Naruto, under his older brother's instructions, had used an Undetectable Extension Charm

'This'll be useful while I'm on a mission!'

'With this much space you could store away a years worth of supplies! It's a good thing that you came up with the idea of an Anti-Gravity Charm. It will help keep everything you put into your rucksack to remain balanced even in the middle of a battle!'

'Dattebayo! I didn't think it would be done tonight but there it is!'

'With that said and done, what other activities do we have set out in the future, Naruto?'

'I think we should make an invisibility cloak next. You think you could help me out with that? We made that black stealth suit when I was little, remember? So how about we make an invisibility cloak? Huh?!'

'I'm not so sure about that. Remember what happened to the stealth suit? It disintegrated after too much magical power was focused into it to hide from Sarutobi while still inside his office. Besides if it were to fall into the wrong hands of an enemy shinobi, it could be a dangerous weapon.'

'But that old stealth suit was self-stitched. If I can find a strong enough material to make an invisibility cloak with, then it wouldn't break down like the old suit did. And for the record, I would never let that cloak out of my sight, unlike someone I know.'

'Oi! I was eleven when I left mine on the castle tower and I was a lot more concerned about Ron when Sirius dragged him into the Whomping Willow. Cut me some slack, Naruto. I was still a kid.'

'But I'm twelve and I know better since I'm a shinobi and I have your words of wisdom and experience to make sure I don't make a similar or even more fatal mistakes. You could at least give it another chance, Nii-san, and I swear I won't leave it behind for someone else to take…'

'Well… Fine then. But you're going to have to find one hell of a cloak if we're going to make it work.'

'Deal! And I know where we can find one! I'll come around and see Tenten later this week if she's available!'

'She is nice, isn't she? Unlike most kunoichi we know, she can be considerate and reliable. She would make a exceptional girlfriend, wouldn't she?'

'And you think I'm the weird one sometimes? Where did that idea come from?!'

'Well, I don't know, but you should consider finding yourself a girlfriend soon, Naruto. You'll be thirteen in a few weeks!'

'Whatever, Nii-san. And for the record, I don't think she and I would work out. We don't really know each other that well.'

'What? You have preferences in women? What kind? I'm curious. But you better not say you dig girls with pink hair or I'll kill you!'

'Uh, I think I'll head back to bed now, Nii-san…'

'Very well, be sure that everything is all tucked away before you hit the sheets… And brush those teeth! And don't give me that old broken arm excuse again! Your arm's fine!'

'Ok! Ok!'

His face still flushed from the short talk about suitable kunoichi, Naruto did as he was told and tucked aside all of his potions and dismissed his shadow clone once he no longer had a need for it. He made some last minute touches to the potions and then locked all of them with a charm over the drawers, so that he could dismiss his embarrassment.

Once he was finished with his teeth and the bathroom, Naruto returned to his bedroom and fell into dreams about Quidditch, how he soared across a massive field and scored points over and over as the crowds in the stands cheered him on and blew kisses at him. He then switched to dreams where he defeated Sasuke in front of all the kunoichi in Konohagakure no Sato, how Sakura said that the Uchiha was a total loser and she went on to admire the blonde-haired shinobi as he used Sasuke as a footrest and Kakashi declared Naruto was the best rookie in Konoha.

But in between these two individual dreams, Naruto sneezed at random, which some folks in this world believed meant that someone somewhere out there in the world talked about him, at that second.

{{Voldemort by Alexandre Desplat}}

Hundreds of miles in the lands far north from the Land of Fire, at the center of a secret civilization hidden under the earth, a man with skin as white as snow and ink-black hair that ran down to his waist was seen with a small wooden box filled with luxurious tea in his hands. He was seated on his massive bed and was prepared to rest. He handled the hot tea in his hands with care, drank little and let out a silent breath through his nose. He almost smiled in satisfaction once he realized that he had no accidents or mishaps since the previous evening. The man was careful when he reached over to rest his tea back onto his built-in bedside table. But then his slender hands flinched for no reason and the box almost fell onto the bed. The white-skinned man twitched and tried to catch the tea but then it bounced off of his knuckles and was drenched all over his outstretched arms as well as his face.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The white-skinned man's scream was heard throughout the entire fortress that alerted or scared all the soldiers and servants that were inside. The white-skinned man's arms and face sizzled and burned so bad that the skin where the tea had touched had formed red marks and even blisters. The man screamed and then he lashed out and broke his bedside table out of sheer frustration.

"GODDAMMIT! WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING TO ME?! WHY?!"

In no time at all, an attendant from outside the door burst into the master bedroom and hovered over his master with a nervous and worried voice of concern.

"Orochimaru-sama! Tell me what's the matter! What can I do?!"

The white snake looked over at his attendant, his face cold as a blizzard as drool leaked out of the corners of his mouth. His arms twitched as his delicate white skin burned and then he unleashed a roar so loud and so full of wrath that it was heard outside the fortress and in the forest that surrounded the dark entrance.

"YOU CAN DIE!"

Whatever Orochimaru did to his attendant, it caused the man's blood to splatter all over the bed, stained the floors and the tapestries over the walls made of stone and wood. The attendant then fell to the floor, dead as a doornail while his master trembled in his seat on the bed, exhausted as if he had run around the world and back. Orochimaru's burnt arms twitched as he heard a set of footsteps and a man walked into the bedroom with a frown and a thin scar on his face that ran down his cheek.

"You killed another one..." he sighed, "If this continues, we'll run out of followers at winter's end…"

Orochimaru looked to see an older teen with long white hair, glasses, and a hideous scar on his left cheek that ran down from his cheek to his chin. He wore a sleeveless black shirt and his hair was undone from its normal ponytail as he was about to go to bed along with the rest of the secret civilization. The teen removed his glasses as he walked into the bedroom and over the deceased attendant.

"You still have trouble even with the most insignificant tasks? You haven't been the same ever since that battle in the Forest of Death. Your jutsu fail almost all the time now and the easiest of actions somehow end in disaster… Like a small child that found his father's sword… We should find a solution soon, before I have to find a town that sells adult-sized diapers."

Orochimaru slammed his fist into the back of his bed and caused a number of valuable items on the walls to fall to the floor and break, such as several sacred artifacts that included a wonderful sword with an amber stone built into the hilt.

"Kabuto," the evil shinobi hissed in a cold voice, "Patronize me like that ever again, and I will kill you without thinking twice about it… You understand me?!"

The man nodded his head and he soon sat down on the bed next to his master, albeit in an uncomfortable but obedient manner. Orochimaru calmed down since this man was his doctor and he had to remain still if he wished to be rid of the unbelievable burns on his arms and face. Kabuto's hands started to radiate with chakra as he rested them on the wounds and he healed Orochimaru's burns. He stroked the skin of his master and tried to sooth him with his touch as if he were his lover. He took in the smell of his master in a rather unsettling manner while Orochimaru looked uninterested and insisted that his best lieutenant finish with the burns on his arms, his face filled with visible revulsion. Kabuto looked a little bit hurt and saddened but soon his face turned into an emotionless mask. Meanwhile his master stared at his arms and reflected on the events after that mentioned battle in the forest.

Ever since he met that blonde rookie and was hit with that so-called curse the Sannin sometimes felt like divine intervention had been done and caused all of his actions and ambitions to fail or somehow end with unpredictable misfortune on his end. There were times where it felt like the whole world was turned against him and no matter what he did or how hard he tried he could never come out unscathed or without loss no matter what situation he was in.

Orochimaru twitched and thought back to when his endless misfortunes started. He could see the face of the child responsible for this curse tormenting him and caused him to kill his own followers and servants. The blonde-haired shinobi from the forest, the one with the wooden boom-stick, continued to haunt him as he clenched his teeth.

Kabuto leaned in toward his master and asked him, "Orochimaru-sama… Is there something that I can do?"

The Sannin hesitated as he devised a horrible and elaborate idea as he stared into the darkness and left his assistant and medical-nin alone in silence for several intense moments.

"Anything at all?" he asked one more time.

Orochimaru at last made up his mind. He believed that the best method to solve this problem was to trace it back to its source and then cut it out.

"I want Naruto Uzumaki…"

Kabuto raised his brow before his face softened and frowned. But then he smirked and licked the corners of his mouth as dwelled more on the idea. Orochimaru looked to Kabuto with a determined look on his face before he uttered the official order.

"He's the one who did this to me… You will bring him to me at once and force him to reverse whatever he's done. Chase him out of Konoha and send the soldiers after him… Have them scan all across the Land of Fire if it has to be done… I will not be able to rest until I am rid of this curse!"

The shinobi then turned his back to his master and walked over the corpse one last time before he lifted his hand and waved to his boss as he marched out of the bedroom.

He then told him as he walked, "I will reach for our contact in Konoha at once, Orochimaru-sama..."

(Fake dramatic logo scene in the clouds)

TV-TOKYO & WARNER BROS. PICTURES Presents.

Naruto Uzumaki and the Legendary Sannin

To Be Continued…

Here we go again! The clock spins and the roof is down tonight! I've been working on this book for a long time and now I can finally start posting it! This is going to be pretty good because a lot of stuff is going to happen! The Search for Tsunade Arc is going to be extended and there are going to be a considerable amount of alterations made along the way, including a new fight scene between Naruto and two infamous members of an iconic criminal organization. His fight with Kabuto will be different and maybe he'll even get a re-match with Orochimaru. Please make sure to review and I'll keep posting new chapters!