A/N. Hey guys I've been writing Fics(sic) for a while and fell in love with this one, when i saw it was up for adoption i contacted the previous writer. I hope i can do them justice and give the other fans something amazing :)
PS. i love comments and feedback :)
Within the furthest depths of our galaxy, far beyond the gaze of humankind, in the center of a black hole lies a door.
There is nothing unusual about this door, its not locked, no demon guards the way and if you were to open the door and walk through, you would come out of another door in a different location, So in essence this door is completely ordinary.
Unless you consider what is behind the door.
Across the multiverse there are countless identical doors all of them closed and locked save for a few instants at the beginning of their universe, and their not opened untill the end of said universe.
Unfortunately in this particular universe the omnipresent creator forgot to close the door, or perhaps after an eternity of taking good care of universes, he felt like a laugh.
Something did indeed get through this doorway.
On a small Green-Blue planet in the galaxy centered on the door, on a small green continent Within a Magical Barrier In the greatest hall of an ancient castle situated on a lake a group of black robed children were singing "Welcome To Hogwarts, a place of joy and knowledge".
The hall had four long tables each running the entire length of the hall and a smaller fifth table on a raised platform on one end of the hall where the teachers were seated to easily overlook the students.
When the Choir had finished and settled into their seats a voice bellowed out from the center of the staff table.
"Bring in the new students, and let the sorting begin" before the voice had finished a stool with a hat was placed in the center of the raised platform and the doors to the entrance of the hall opened a line of nervous looking first years filed into the hall.
The only noise was the scraping of chairs and the occasional older student yelling out to their young sibling in the line. Until an ordinary boy with raven black hair and a lightning scar walked in, there were hushed whispers running along the hall, mostly consisting of 'savior' 'chosen one' 'Harry Potter'. This continued until the last student in the line staggered into the room. His hat pulled down low, his stature hunched and his robe occasionally showing a flash of yellow
"Was that a tail?" someone hissed.
"Look at his ears" said another.
When the children were lined up on the raised platform and asked to remove their hats all was revealed.
Fear, Terror and a pinch of dread. These were the feelings of the blonde with ears and a tail as he stood in front of a sea of witches and wizards and removed his hat to reveal his fluffy ears, Grabbing his tail and stroking it to stop the nervous twitching undoing the hours of brushing that it had taken to make his less human appendages look presentable.
The black slits of his blue eyes darting around the room taking in details of everything they saw before moving on searching for the slightest aggressive gesture, his furry ears on the side of his head flicked around to listen to the slightest noise. Long blonde hair untamed helped to hide his ears and at the same time gave him an extra few inches in height.
Three black lines decorated each of his rapidly pinkening cheeks.
Standing there in the hall trying to look brave but failing Naruto knew he wouldn't end up in Griffindor at least the students in "The House of the Brave" would chase him around the castle trying to skin his tail for 'the glory of the hunt'. If he was lucky he would end up in Hufflepuff, Hard working, Loyal and Honorable Hufflepuff would be a perfect match.
"Kiba Inuzuka" Another Student called towards the hat. This one smelled like Chocolate Chips and an aftertaste of wet dog.
Naruto recognized the boy from Hogsmede, his family owned an estate near the small wizarding village.
Most of the larger and wealthier families had at least one estate near the village for holidays and to be close to their precious children while they study at Hogwarts.
Naruto had often spotted them running around the village during holidays, they unlike Naruto who had been confined to the village by the ministry could interact with the muggle world and explore.
Naruto squirmed awkwardly hugging his tail tightly. He wasn't normally this timid but most wizards either shun or outright despise people like him. 'Part Human' they spat or even worse 'Sub Human'. His mother was a Kitsune who had a one night stand with dear old dad and left a baby on his doorstep five months later (Demon fetuses mature much faster than humans). So on top of being half human Naruto was a bona-fide bastard.
He'd prove them wrong though. Naruto would prove himself to be the greatest wizard of all time. He'd rule over all of Britain and change the way people saw 'lesser beings' like himself.
"GRIFFINDOR" The thunder of clapping made the hanyou flinch and look around like a frightened animal. He couldnt help it. He did this every time they cheered. There were well over fourty students in the line and Naruto flinched every time until a voice caught his attention.
"Wasn't a witch or wizard that went bad that didn't come from Slytherin" a red head whispered to a raven haired child.
"What about Merlin?" Naruto couldn't help but to interject
"What?" The red head sneered at him, his eyes becoming more suspicious when he saw it was 'The Creature' who had spoken
"Merlin" Naruto said his voice almost failing as he squeezed his tail even tighter for strength. "He was in Slytherin"
"One Wizard" Spat the redhead
"The Greatest Wizard"
"You know who was in Slytherin" the ginger hissed at Naruto as if it were a conversation ending argument.
Anger flared up and over the nervousness and Naruto let go of his tail.
"One Wizard!" Naruto turned the argument onto him "One horrible wizard who did terrible things. Blaming an entire group of people because of Voldemort is wrong" The red head gasped along with several other students in the line at the mention of He who shall not be named but Naruto was taught not to let anything as trivial as a name stop him "Its bigotry and segregation like that that let him get to power in the first place." Naruto spat
"Leave it to a demon to defend a house of monsters"
"Thank you"
"For what?"
"For proving my point"
"Listen you-"
"Voldemort killed my father!" Naruto interrupted his tail on end and his hair sticking up "I don't blame the house that he was in, it had as much to do with my fathers death as the food he ate. I blame Voldemort Himself because that is where the blame belongs!" at this point Naruto notices he was yelling and the entire school was happily listening in on the entertaining first years.
A loud clapping turned his eyes to the teachers table to find an old wizard sitting in the centre of the table to be the source of the noise.
"Well said Mr Uzumaki" said Beaming at the hanyou
Naruto's face turned tomato red and he quickly dove behind another first year glad for the first time in his life that he was so short
"Ahem" a middle aged witch cleared her throat pointedly. "If you're quite finished lets get back to the sorting" McGonagall's Voice remained warm but a tad more forced than before.
"If we must" Dumbledore sighed
"Harry Potter" The entire school erupted in whispers again as the raven haired boy that the ginger had been talking to approached the stool. The raging argument not a few seconds ago already forgotten.
Naruto's ears flattened down to his head as he realized he'd just made a fool of himself in front of the boy who lived.
This would be one of the frequent and easily provoked moments where his godfather would rant for hours about there being a bazillion sacrafice spells out there so it really didn't make sense for anyone to think a baby was responsible for defeating the dark lord. How it was just common sense that the boys parents were responsible and should be rightfully credited.
"Slytherin!" The school stopped dead save the echoes of a class crashing onto the floor as it slipped from the Slytherin head of house's fingers.
Not a single person clapped as harry took his seat, his fellow Slytherins too shocked to even welcome him.
"See!" The ginger yelled. "IT corrupted harry potter!" staying true to the biggest demon cliche in history.
"Congratulations MR Weasley" The headmaster smiled "You just broke a record" sniggering came from the far end of the teachers table. "The record for fastest detention ever earned. Before even being sorted, yes i think this one will stand for all time"
"Yay Ron!" yelled someone from the Slytherin table "Way to go bro" said the same voice but from the other side of the table. The two redheads cheered their younger sibling on.
Suddenly one of the older Slytherins stood up beside them and screamed at the top of his lungs, "IN YOUR FACE GRIFFINDORKS, WE GOT POTTER!" At that everyone else in Slytherin burst into cheer the shock finally over.
The rest of the sorting was pretty uneventful after that until a certain name was called
"Naruto Uzumaki" he felt his insides turn as he approached the stool. The hat wedged onto his head barely fitting over his large ears.
"Now lets see here" an unfamiliar voice whispered into his cramped ear, "Good work ethic even if you're a bit on the dull side, Very loyal, Good sense of justice, Not a single hint of patience, now that's something i haven't seen in a while."
"I know" Naruto whispered almost to himself the hat was parodying his godfather.
"Ooh very resourceful and clever enough when it comes to knowledge people don't find in books, and even some world domination plans, they need some work though, come see me sometime later about that"
"I wouldn't call it world domination, per say" Naruto said but the hat was ignoring him.
"Rather shy. But equally as brave when push comes to shove. And even enough room for a sizable hero complex. But where to put you... Hufflepuff? I see that's what you would expect and you would probably fit in there nicely with everyone else just as shy. But thats not where you should be, You need a challenge, an obstacle to cross, deep down you crave all this and more. And Slytherin will nurture your hero complex and put you on the path to true greatness." there was a pause "It had better be, Slytherin" The hat said this part out loud to the whole hall.
"See" the ginger in the line spat while his siblings on the Slytherin table were making a great racket and singing "We have the corrupter"
Another four boys were singing "The corrupter is ours" One of them to Naruto's relief was blue skinned. Another Hanyou in Slytherin Maybe it wont be so bad here after all.
Naruto Took a seat in an empty spot near the singing redheads.
He nervously watched his housemates, one of them Stood out, his scent weird and his white eyes full of anger, not pointed at the fox but across the hall at one of the first year students, She had the same white eyes. 'Must be sibling rivalry' he thought
Naruto tested the air, seeing what he could smell but with so many people and new smells he couldn't tell much. Until the smell of garlic and something foul just below the surface filled his nostrils.
The scent was coming from a small squirrely man at the teachers table.
Naruto jerked his head as a new scent filled his nostrils. Harry Potter, he smelled of pain, loss, and most of all hunger.
Naruto logged it away and continued to look around, it was instinct for the hanyou to examine new scents and sounds like this, it made him feel and probably look like a feral animal but its very hard to ignore instinct.
The humans world all moved in slow motion and he did his best to just let it pass, His muscles ached from the constant strain, but after many years he was slowly getting used to it. They walked Slow, they talked slow and even think slowly, but he had to force himself to move at their speeds. Or they would scream in fear every time he moved a finger. Naruto wasn't sure weather humans were like this to all demons or just Kitsune, it would give credence to the common thought of most researchers that Kitsune have very short attention spans. Its so hard to say interested in or bother to interpret words that took them so long to say, Naruto having spent his whole life around humans had grown used to it, but if he was right to a full blooded demon, humans must seem barely sentient.
At that point Naruto's senses were overwhelmed by mountains of food and all Philosophical thoughts were forgotten.