simple wish

Chapter Eight

Things Coming Into Place

A/N: Ok the first part was to help me get back into writing this since I got stuck at how I was going to play some things out. So yeah.

Vernon Dursley was chained to a chair in a huge room, he tried moving but couldn’t. Looking to he left he saw his wife scared since she too was chained. Their son was being held by a woman on the other side of the court. It was their neighbor Mrs… Vernon just couldn’t remember her name and didn’t understand why she was here. The quite huge empty room was soon filled with masses of people the room seemed to be expanding to fit everyone in the room. He soon saw the flashes of cameras and hears the freaks shouting vile things at them. Calling him a monster, then he saw the men and women walking in wearing robes they looked important than there was the man who was the cause of all of this. Looking away he saw a group of people looking at him they seemed happy of what he and his wife did. He would normally agree with them but something about the man with blond hair and grey eyes made him feel very nervous.

Petunia was worried she knew that there was no getting out of it, and that her husband was the main cause. If they just left him at the orphanage then they be ok. But he left the little brat in a country no one even knew about. Well only certain people who weren’t part of the government could find out. How Vernon got the job to go over there she will never know. She saw her little boy knowing that they never see her son again if she didn’t think fast. No one would raise her baby with as much love as she had for him. Marge wouldn’t get him, they said it was a magical problem and since they knew that he was a wizard they did crimes against their kind and way of life. Vernon had been sent threw their court systems only to get out of it by claiming that they tried finding the boy. She knew he filed a missing report while there. He told her though he left the freak outside a different city. In the forest, only to fill the report when he was on the other side of their country about four days later saying he went missing that night. Of course they never told their top dollar lawyer. The case lasted for months since there was so much interviews with other families. Vernon had to miss Dudley’s birthday because of it. Petunia thought how lucky her husband was to be proven incent but was still punished for carless parenting. His punishment are: to go to parenting school for a year, they have to have a social worker visit their house twice a week to make sure they are raising Dudley right till he is sent off to boarding school. And some one will sit down with him every year till he is eighteen. She thought the worst been over but she been wrong.

She knew what this world thought of that little freak. They loved him since he saved them all, so it was already one sided. She watched as a man walked over to Vernon and forced him to take something. They started asking his name and he answered, they asked him things that only she would know. Soon they asked him what he did with Harry and why?

“I got rid of the little freak. I was to be sent on a trip for work somewhere in Asia. The Freak had been doing magic since he was left with us. When he did it public that was the last straw. I thought no one would notice if he didn’t come back. Couple of the neighbors asked what happen. We told them that he went to visit some of his father’s family. When we went there he wondered off and no one could find him.” Vernon went on telling the truth. This went on for awhile once it ended they walked to her and forced her to take whatever it was. They began asking questions asking her, how they raised the boy. Where he slept, what they fed him, what did they do when Harry would do magic. And last they told her to tell them everything that lead up to Harry being abandoned and what she knew on the mater.

Once life seemed it be back to normal but the day they told her family since they knew the child was magical, they also fell under their laws dealing with children. She looked up to listen to them being sentenced to a Prison for the next 30 years before they be released, and that their son’s memories of them would be wiped clean. The family would have a squib in it and would rename him and raise him. If no one wants to take him the government will give the boy a name and he be left at one of their orphanages. They would never be able to learn of their son was. Vernon started yelling in furry and Petunia started crying. Only reason the witches and wizards weren’t demanding death or the kiss was that muggles don’t last very long.

A woman who held their son turned to the court. “ May I ask something, instead of giving him a name let the boy believe his parents are dead and wipe his memories of how he was raised. Just let him remember their love. I believe the parents should be punished but for the child to not know his parents is still cruel.” The woman smiled.

Albus Dumbledore stood in the Minister Fudge’s office waiting. His people believe to have found Harry or people who would be able to help them find him. Something about an escort, all he was thinking about is how the school started up only three weeks ago and he would be missing the next month. Minerva was used to covering for him but this was a long time for him to be gone. He found a past student who Minerva went to school with. The man was a past Ravenclaw, so at the moment the head of her house is Madame Hooch. Albus was thinking of how everything would be run for the next month. Well more till he returned, he didn’t even notice Minister Fudge walked in with five aurors that he could not match a face to a name. Minister Fudge pulled out of his desk a rope, “Well, let us go.” They all grabbed hold of it.

They appeared in front of a pair of gates for a city. There was men who appeared before them in a cloud of sand. “State your business, and were you are from!” The man wearing a mask covering half his face, he wore the normal ninja uniform like his partner next to him. Only difference was that he had a fan closed on his back.

Albus spoke up before Fudge said something wrong. The only reason they could understand them easy was because of the langue spell they used before coming. “My name is Albus Dumbledore I am here looking for a boy. This is our Minister for our country we are here to find him since his family he was left with left him in the village hidden in the clouds. They told us that the boy and his new mother left, and they said they might be here. We would like to speak with your leader of this village.” Albus said looking at the men. The nodded and bite his thumb and some blood appeared he put his hand to the ground summoning a weasel. He whispered something to it and the weasel disappeared running off.

“You will need to wait here till our leader decides what to do with you.” The man said while wondering what was with their strange clothes. And why would the care so much about one boy, maybe the child is strong or the last one with a blood line. He hoped if this was true that they would not give the child up. There plans with the child Garra had been such a failure. Or maybe they could get a lot of money out of them. They do look rich.

After ten minutes a group of ninja’s and Kunoichi’s appeared. One of the women held a fan that was closed and hooked on her back just like the ninja who summoned the weasel. “You are to come with us. Kazekage said he will see you right now.” She said and motioned for them to start walking while they followed them she walked behind the group.

As Albus walked he noticed a boy with red hair and a scar on his forehead. It had a strange symbol. While looking at him, he noticed how tired the boy looked. He was walking ahead, of the ninjas. Their escorts all were looking nervous around this child. It was as if the child could kill them all, with just a blink of an eye. Albus listened to his escort, hearing the mentioning of the demon child. He went ahead to look in the mind of this ninja to find out, that the child. His name was Gaara and his father turned him into a demon jailor. He just wanted a powerful weapon. But the child was feared and hated with so much passion, that there had been attempts on his life. Albus pulled out not able to take it. Thoughts of Harry and how he must be treated, what if the people he was with treated him like this village treats their leaders son. He just hoped everything would work out. His thoughts sifted from Harry’s well being do the duty at hand as he walked into the office of the Kazekage. The man had dark brown hair with slightly red high lights. He looked up from his paper work smiling.

“So tell me what is it that you need done?” The leader asked. He saw Albus about to speak but the little plump man with the horrible taste in hats walked up.

“I am Minister Fudge, from the Ministry of Magic in England. We are looking for a child that has been misplaced. He belongs with us and not your kind. His parents had been murdered and many purebloods wish to raise him. So we need you to tell us if the boy is here. If not we need to know how to get to the Village Hidden Among the Trees.” Fudge said sounding all high and mighty.

The Kazekage smiled and looked at him, “Let’s see tell us about this boy and we will give you a price for all of our work. You must understand since your wasting my time with your useless hunt for just another child. So why should I bother over an orphan.” He smiled and listened to this poor excuse of a leader rant how the child that lived is not a waste of time. KazeKage smiled holding up his hand. He looked at the elder, “Look how much are you going to pay for us to look around the city. More you pay the faster we will have it done.”

Albus sighed and handed the man a photo of baby Harry, then a child photo of James. “He looks just like his father is what his family said. He has a lightning bolt scar of his forehead. Your village will get, one bag of gold coins if you can tell us in the next twenty minutes.” He said holding the bag up.

The KazeKage took the bag and listened to him talking about the mother who was raising him. “I know all former and on duty ninjas, none of them match this woman. And the child would be eight as you say. He would be in my son’s class. The boy is not in this Village.” He pulled out a sheet. “Since how great your kind is and how important your leader is. We can help you get to the Village Hidden in the Leaves, but at a price.” The Kazekage was writing things.

The Minister looked furious. “Price we shouldn’t have to pay. You should be honored just to be able to help us…”

Albus looked at the Minister and sent a spell silencing him. He was not about to lose a chance at finding Harry. “What price are we talking here?”

Fudge was very annoyed and about to burst for the waste in time the spent here, and how they had to pay for everything done.

“Well it be an A-Rank Mission but if you’re that important it be pushing an S-Rank Mission. Since you will not be able to go at ninja speed it takes about two weeks of travel by foot. Then there is the supplies needed, water, food, weapons, tents, and so on. Let’s see the rank for my ninjas would be pretty high, can’t use lower ranks. As you said this boy is very important. So here is the price, I’ll help explain things, to you that you need explained.” The Kazekage smiled at the look of this Fudge man’s face. “There is another matter. You can wait two days before leaving, and I’ll have one of the best teams ready. Or you can leave late tonight, having two genin teams and a couple Chunin. Of course you would have two jounin” The Kazekage smiled he knew which one the foolish Minister of Magic was going to pick.

“We need to leave now. We don’t have time to waste; we need to find the boy as soon as possible.” The Kazekage nodded and started writing a list of the men needed he figured it be best to have a med-ninja go too. Down: six genin, two chuunin, and two jounin. He smiled and was having the teams picked. “Alright you will be leaving at ten o’ clock. You will be staying at a waiting room till then. “He waved his hand. “Oh the bill is this if it is not paid in the next hour you will not get your mission.” He said smiling.

Fudge sat in the waiting room annoyed, well that was an understatement he was ticked off. One it was going to take a whole three hours before they left. He would have to be doing a lot of traveling by foot. His sources said that the boy should have been in this city. If he did not find the boy and get him back in the next two months till the voting for the next Minister started. There last chance was finding Harry in the Leaf Village. If he isn’t there he could wish his nice job good-bye. And he was sure the tips from the Malfoy family would leave. He thought about how much money they were wasting on the boy who lived.

Albus thought if Fudge hadn’t insulted the village it would have been lower than what it was at the moment. And that they would have had the better team and be leaving in a couple hours. And they might have found a way for them to travel faster. Albus wished once again he could have left the Minister back in London.

Iruka handed out the parental slips he noticed that Naruto was gone already. He sighed thinking it would take him awhile to find Naruto. That was until his brother Harry walked up. “Hello Harry, here is your slip and your brothers since he ran off before I could give him his.”

“I think he went to see how mom is doing. He has been really shaken up about this, along with Sasuke.” Sasuke had already left. “I hope our mom’s will be ok.” Harry looked up with a sad face. Iruka could tell that Harry was putting up a mask and he was trying to hide how upset he was. Iruka knew if Harry acted worried Naruto would be even more worried.

“Harry can you tell Elleon and Ako that is they ever need anything to just ask, and to get better.” Iruka said while putting some papers into a bag.

Naruto ran towards the hospital leaving behind Harry and Sasuke. Though once he got there he was having trouble getting in to the point his 15 minute head start was almost for noting. And he wouldn’t be able to see them first if it wasn’t for an Anbu who wore a weasel mask helping him. He walked down the halls soon coming to the mothers room. Naruto looked at the ground and walked in. The room was quite well besides the monitors and machines beeping. He looked seeing his mom was still asleep with a scroll in her lap. He sighed then saw Ako ‘Sasuke’s mom doesn’t look so good.’ Naruto thought while walking over. She was very pale to the point she looked as if she had no color, and tired she saw Naruto. She smiled at him, “Hi Naruto” she said weakly. “How was school today.”

Naruto looked at the ground and shrugged his shoulders he thought it felt weird telling Sasuke’s mom about school. Since that should be for Sasuke to tell. Since it wasn’t looking so good. Naruto shrugged his shoulders and heard his brother and Sasuke walking in .

“It was school though we have a class trip… We’ll be having a survival test this coming weekend. I hope I’m on Harry, and Sasuke’s team. Sakura would be good too, I can’t wait.” It was still five days away till they would start the test. And the test lasts for about four days. They would be starting it late Friday in the afternoon, then end it at noon Monday.

She smiled at him and looked at him the boy looked so nervous and upset. Almost to the point he didn’t want to talk to her. It pained her to see this, it made her wonder how bad Sasuke was going to take it. She wondered about how her son would live if she doesn’t pull through. The doctors told her not to tell the boys that her chances for living were up because it was so slim. They didn’t want to give the boys false hope.

Ako watched as Sasuke was the next one to walk in. He carried some flowers that he knew was his mothers favorites. She smiled fondly at her son, she sat up a little. “Hello Sasuke how are you doing today.”

“Could be better mom. Here I got these for you, I thought you would like them.”

She saw a sheet of paper in his hand. “So, Naruto was telling me about school today. I hear you will be going on your first survival test this weekend. Why don’t you tell me what happen in school.”

“Not much mom we had a field trip to look at the monuments of the hokages, then we had lunch break. Iruka went over what the survival test slash mission will be about, thought us about elemental Justus, then he gave us a list of exercises to do.” He looked worried and sat down next to his mom. “I was told that you needed to sign this mom.”

She took the paper signing it and smiled at her son. After she signed the paper a nurse walked in with Harry. “Alright Ako we need you to get back to sleep. I’ll be giving you your medicine.” She went and started to do some checkups on Ako and was writing some things down. Soon leaving Ako had fallen asleep because of the medicine.

The boys sat there talking and studding, someone brought them food. Elleon had woken up and talked to the boys for a couple hours. Before the Hokage walked in telling them they should be getting home since it was getting late. Harry and Naruto got Elleon to sign the papers right before they left. As they left they saw the woman who had been healing their mom’s the other day walk towards there room. “Don’t worry boys Tsunade is one of the best healers and she cares for your mothers. She will do everything in her power to help them.”

The boys nodded and walked with the Sarutobi back to Elleon’s place. They stayed quite while walking, it was something he could see Sasuke maybe even Harry but Naruto. He was worried about the boys since it been decided that Itachi would be used as a spy. He was worried about how Sasuke would take it, even Naruto and Harry would be effected. Even though Itachi wasn’t there older brother, he would take time to play with all three of them. Sarutobi thought back to only a couple weeks ago all four boys were playing ninja together. It pained him to see these boys go threw this, but it must be done. If things play out right after they get enough information on this group. They could take the next step and start taking out it’s members. Once the organization was gone Itachi could come back and they would just clear his name. If that wouldn’t work they could have him change his name and have him be under a illusion. Maybe if they are lucky something else could happen.

Albus Dumbledore walked with the ninja’s it had been Four days since they left. The ninjas had just told them that they have reached the border of the fire and wind countries. There was tree’s that bordered the desert. Soon they reached a road, while walking he thought it was a good thing they had all brought pepper up potions. Since most of them don’t do this much walking normally. He knew the Minister would be sore for months. He thought it funny how most of them would be in better shape because of this. Albus was smiling for a strange reason he was listing to an auror asking him to tell him about what it was like fighting Grindelwald. Albus sighed the man wanted to know everything, “only reason I stepped in was because it had to be done. The fight is something I would like to forget.” The ninjas of the group could tell that it meant something more. Well the older ninjas could tell. Because of the young Aura bringing it up, Albus thoughts drifted to being fresh out of school. Him and his friend was planning to do a lot of traveling. That had all changed once his mother passed away. He was to watch little Ariana, since his brother was going be going back to school. Aberforth said once he finished school he would watch his sister after that. Aberforth always watcher Ariana during the summer. Aberforth said how he didn’t like Gellert. His thoughts drifted about a man across the world, who was in a cell because of him. Looking towards the clear sky had his mind thinking about the past even more. Back to that summer when he had his first meeting of Gellert. They had become fast friends and soon were thinking oh how to make the world better. They were young and both wanted to make the world a better place. He didn’t even notice that they were going down the wrong path. Aberforth told him that what they were planning was wrong. But sadly he didn’t listen to him. He only realized when it came at such a high cost, Arianna’s life. Gellert Grindelwald had fled, and he had changed his life. He could still remember the look on Gellert’s face when he showed up to fight him, to stop him.

Albus sighed, “So Minister what do you plan on doing with the problem of the vampires moving back into London.”

The Minister was worried, “well were having problems coming up with plans. You know with the budget cuts that went into that area. Though more important matters is were I will have Harry Potter placed, once we get back. It shouldn’t take too long, since all we have to do is grab the boy and portkey out.” He said nodding more to himself.

The ninjas smirked as a bird flew over head to beat them there. This man had made their KazeKage mad, and they would find out why your don’t make a leader of a hidden ninja village mad. The ninjas thought this mission was boring but dealt with it since it was getting them paid really well. More so than a normal S-rank mission.

Iruka stood in front of the class smiling reading off the list, of groups. And they then had a chunnin and genin who would be helping out in the exam. Kotetsu was leading Naruto, Harry, Sasuke and Sakura. At the moment it would work since Sasuke was at the top of the class Naruto was at the bottom, but he thought if Naruto tried during the test and exams that he would be at the top also. They there was Harry a boy who he knew was strong, but only tried enough to stay in the middle. Iruka thought that maybe Elleon went ahead and told the boys not to show their true strengths. Since the three boys would train all the time, he saw them spar once without knowing it. He saw that all three of them had beaten each other at different times. Then Sakura who had the top written test scores she had good chakra control and maybe someday would make a good med-ninja. But they all even each other out.

Kotetsu the ninja had spiky hair and smiled his face had a white thin clothe coming from under his ears over his nose. He fixed his head band while smiling he looked down at his group, he had just passed the chunnin exam. Both him and his best friend had became chunnin, Izumo was leading the Ino, Cho, and Nara group. He wondered if the children knew that if they passed the test together they would be in the same groups when they became ninja. He stood in front of the group looking at a girl with pink hair and a bow pulling her bangs back Sakura. Then there was the hyper active blond kid, Naruto. This one was loud as he listen to him talk to his brother. He hoped the kid would have a change in style of clothing. Orange will end up getting him killed. Then there was his brother, Harry Potter. The boy with messy black hair and green eyes, there was a rumor that some strange things can happen around him. Latest news was last week a woman had been treating Naruto unfair and all a sudden her hair had turned blue. He smiled then turned to Sasuke Uchiha. One of the last Uchiha’s his brother has been missing along with one other. Then his mother was in the Hospital, no one knew if she would live past the month. Tsunade has made it so she would last at least a month but her heart was damaged to the extreme. If Tsunade had not been in the village she would have been dead in the first hour. He looked at the group smiling since he wondered how they would do. “Alright our mission is to deliver a package to different locations. We will leave it there get a note and deliver the next. There our other ninja’s who will be in here trying to stop us. We will be staying in this training ground till Monday morning. More packages we deliver the better score you will get on this test.” His group all nodded as they went off to work.

The first couple days went well for Kotetsu group. He was able to teach what things would be good to eat and what wouldn’t. Sakura he noticed was paying the most attention. Sasuke was watching but didn’t show any interest, while Naruto well that’s Naruto. He loved learning but became bored to fast. Harry on the other hand was watching and took it in but seemed to be thinking of something else. The group had selected threw voting that Harry would be in charge for this. As Sasuke pointed out that Harry was the best at reading maps and figuring out where you were. This was done since Kotetsu was only there to help when needed; he would act as team leader when or if they came to a point to fight. He smiled while helping Sakura cook. They were near a spring along with some cliffs. They were about only thirty minutes to the next drop off point. They had dropped off four scrolls and were at a low B grade. He wasn’t going to tell them he watched as Naruto started flirting with Sakura. He smiled and could tell the girl thought he was being annoying. ‘I wonder how long it will take him to notice that Hinata likes him.

Harry had been having fun being out in the woods. Though he found Sakura a bit annoying, since all she did was say Sasuke this Sasuke that. Sasuke was one of his best friends but still how could she be so rude to his brother. Naruto would help her out doing things she should do. But not once has she helped out. Harry was gathering firewood for his turn. Kotetsu said once they were done they would he would show them how to seal things away.

Sasuke walked over carrying the water and smiled “Why does Naruto put up with her?”

“Who knows, all I know is that I hope I won’t be on the same team when we become ninjas.” Harry said caring the wood. They walked back to the camp to see that the tents were all up and that Kotetsu was teaching Naruto how to set up traps. He motions the rest to come over when they were done. Sakura was cooking the food at the moment. Harry dropped off the last load of food. And Sasuke dropped off the last of the water they should need. The boys smiled walking over to see what they could learn for traps. Harry was thinking how it would help Naruto and him so much more with their pranks.

After he finished teaching them how to lay traps, Kotetsu had them all relax and eat dinner. He smiled and after dinner showed the boys the simplest sealing’s to be done that even the last past in grades should be able to do. After everyone got that done, he sent them off to bed so he could do the first sift then it be Sakura, Harry, Naruto, Sasuke and then he would finish the last two hours off. That way they could get more sleep. He will take his rest the next night when they are setting up camp.

The next day they finished drop offs. They just found a place to camp. He called them over so he could teach them something. Then have them get to work. “Alright this is something higher up. It is…” Kotetsu was about to teach them tree walking. “Lets go get your stuff ready now.” He said standing up grabbing his bag. The four kids ran grabbing there things. Soon he was having them run. Harry leading them to the last drop off point, since someone was now following them. He had a clone made so they would go off to get the information. All a sudden an anbu appeared in front of them. “Test is over lets go, there is a huge storm coming.” Kotetsu nodded. He told the students they had to hurry back. They would find out on there grade later based on how the examiners thought there grades should be.

Harry and Naruto had already left the school with Sakura to take her home. Sasuke asked for them to head back without him. He was planning to talk to Iruka. The brothers understood and left, while escorting Sakura home. Harry thought of it more like dragging her home. Harry looked back to see Sasuke about to ask Iruka something.

“Iruka, has any news of Itachi come into light. He has been missing for some time now. Do you know if he is ok. I think if mom saw him alive and well it would help make her fell better.” Sasuke still didn’t want to believe what Elleon said about Itachi. He felt it must have been a genjustus.

Iruka couldn’t turn around, he didn’t want to turn around but had to face the child. He knew this would break him, “Sasuke I’m sorry but while the test was going on your mother talked. She said it was Itachi who killed off the clan. He was the one who killed everyone even tried to kill your mother and Elleon. I’m sorry but the Hokage declared him an S-rank missing nin. There are a lot of different rumor’s flying around. There is some good news though, they say that Elleon will be able to leave the Hospital this coming Sunday. Also that your mom will pull threw though she will have to stay in bed for the next month and work on building up her strength again. Sasuke I’ll say it again if there is anything I can do to help, just ask. If you need to talk to someone, you can come to me. I understand what it is like to lose a family. My parents were taken from me when the fox attacked.” He saw the look of pain on Sasuke’s face. He handed the boy a scroll, “Better hurry up Naruto and Harry already left. Also you guys passed with flying colors.”

He still couldn’t believe his brother could do such a thing. He killed their father, tried to kill their mother. He had to have lost his mind, something had to have happen. He nodded to Iruka and left heading home. Not even noticing the rain starting to fall. He saw a flash of lighting and thought he saw his older brother. He took off running, he knew his brother. Itachi would never betray the village or his family. He would always tell him and his friends that your lower than scum if you betray the village. The village is our home our family, why would he do it. It had to be a henge. He followed his brother not paying attention. He would stop looking around and when the flashes of lighting lit the area he would see Itachi’s shadow and follow it.

Sasuke stopped feeling the rain coming down his face. He slid to a stop and looked up at the gates to the Uchiha compound. He took a deep breath and pushed the doors open to see flashes of lighting across the sky. Sasuke saw him and took off running again.

A/N: Well now Albus is on his way and should be getting there soon. Sasuke is after his brother. Who is an S-Rank missing nin. And hey arm is out of the cast working on the next chapter hope to have the next one up soon. Don’t forget to check the poles out.