Hello all! ^^ I hope you all enjoy this latest installment of Sound Of Magic.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Harry Potter. Thank you and goodnight.
Warning: Remember how I said there WAS going to be some Yaoi? Yeah…it starts here. Don't like don't read.
Anyway, here's a song that I recently discovered which fits this fic perfectly, so…look up the 30 Seconds To Mars' album This Is War…it's epic.
A warning to the people,
The good and the evil.
This. Is. War.
To the Soldier, the Civilian, the Martyr, the Victim.
This. Is. War.
A warning to the prophet,
The Liar, The Honest,
This. Is. War.
To the Leader,
The Pariah, The Victim, and The Messiah,
This. Is. War.
-This is War, 30 Seconds To Mars
If you looked into the Ministry of Magic, you would see hundreds of Witches and Wizards scurrying about back and forth. However one figure would stand out, if only from the color choice of their clothes.
A bright, almost blinding shade of pink adorned the plump toad-like woman. She had a multitude of tiny kitten pins scattered on her small caplet. A soft red lacquer coated her piggy fingernails.
All in all, this was not a woman you would want to be seen with much less know.
This toad-woman was Dolores Umbridge, the head of the Inquisitor Department. It was her job to oversee any interrogations. And there were lots of interrogations here.
That was where she was headed, to the Department of Mysteries, the Old Court-rooms to be exact. She wormed her way into an elevator where many of the wizards squeezed themselves against the walls, as they didn't want to touch her.
The Toad was oblivious to this fact. If she had been as paranoid as she was 10 years ago, she would have noticed the glint of a body under a spell shimmering as a empty corner of the elevator eyed her warily.
'This is the woman?' He thought disgustingly. He had a strange color of hair, a soft silvery-white. His eyes were the color of grass and filled with malicious intent.
No one paid him any attention, thankfully his master; Orochimaru-sama still had knowledge of old spells he had used many years ago. And had put him under a 'notice me not' charm.
The elevator ride was uneventful in his opinion. He had been told that this was of utmost importance that this woman be followed. He surely wasn't the one to disagree with his own master.
His eyes glazed over as a memory of a hand caressing his face lovingly entered his mind. He shook himself out of it with a soft ding of a bell. This was it.
It was the Toad and the Camilla left.
He dogged her steps for a few moments; being trained in assassination he knew the proper protocol to kidnapping a person. After she turned a corner he quickened his pace easily catching up to her.
He twitched his fingers feeling the bones come to the surface of his skin at his command. And he took aim for her overly pudgy neck and released them.
If anyone had been in that hall they would have heard the most terrible thud.
When Dolores Umbridge woke up she took notice of how wet the room was. She heard a soft click…but she couldn't place where it was coming from.
Truth was, it was coming from above her. A dark-skinned boy sat on the ceiling chewing on his fingernail, watching her. He just couldn't contain himself. This woman was more Toad than woman!
It looked delicious!
But he had to keep up there. At least until Orochuimaru-sama came down and talked with the toad first. Then she was his.
It seemed as though a Deity was listening to his silent pleading, as he heard his master coming down the steps. The toad had taken a interest and had walked to the door waiting impatiently to be released.
The door opened and she felt a small squeak echo from her lips. This couldn't possibly be…? But this strange man…he did resemble the late You-Know-Who! She backed up, truly believing that this was You-Know-Who.
The man laughed dryly. "What's wrong my dear Professor…don't you recognize me?" She continued to back up until she had hit her back on the wall. The snake-man smiled cruelly. " Let me help you, 'I will not tell Lies' remember?" He said as he lifted his hand.
On the back of his hand a barely visible scar had the same words scrawled into it. The fearful look on Umbridge's face turned into pure rage. "Potter!" She hissed out. He smirked, obviously that was the reaction he had been hoping for.
The boy on the ceiling dropped down into view, causing Umbridge to shriek loudly. He bowed respectfully to his master. After bowing he turned his dark gaze to Umbridge. His eyes were…hungry.
It was at that time she noticed his arms. Instead of simply having two like every other human being he had six. 'A freak!' Her mind supplied.
At that moment she realized that she didn't have her wand and was trapped.
Orochimaru shrugged, moving back to the door. " You looked famished. Why don't you eat something?" And with this cryptic sentence he swept out of the room locking the door behind him.
The boy smirked, reaching behind him and retrieving a bow and an arrow. He cocked the arrow into place, pulling with ease until the bow was at full tension. He then took aim at Umbridge and released it.
This had been done so quickly that she hadn't even registered that something had happened until a sharp unimaginable pain shot through her. The sickening thud as she was pinned to the wall was nothing short of extraordinary.
This boy was a hunter. So precise in his work that he could pin a fly to a tree by the wings hundreds of meters away. The extra arms he sported were made for nothing but pulling and holding arrows.
He was CREATED just for this purpose.
Umbridge felt her breath come in short and painful gasps. The arrow now lodged in her esophagus kept her from breathing too much. He lowered his bow to his side and walked purposely towards her.
Once he reached her he wrapped his free hand around the arrow. He twisted it sharply. She twitched and gasped every time he did so, he was turning it into a game. Boredom tends to do that to Shinobi you know.
After quite a few minutes and some more toad shooting, he finally grew bored enough to end it.
By now she would have been begging and pleading for her life if she didn't have an arrow pinning her lips together against the wall.
He reached up and tugged the arrow in her chest out angrily. He was sprayed lightly with blood but he did not care. He then turned and left the room leaving the door open so any and all rats could come in and eat the still barely alive toad.
He knew that Kabuto wouldn't want to clean up a mess.
After a few more minutes of walking he heard a loud hacking cough. Was…someone sick? He followed the noise being curious, and peeked into a cracked door. Kimimaro, the boy who had brought the toad there was sitting up with his master's help.
Kabuto was carefully holding his ear to Kimimaro's chest listening to his coughing. Orochimaru snapped impatiently at Kabuto, "Well?" Kabuto shook his head, pushing his glasses up his nose.
"I can't hear anything out of place, Orochimaru-sama. Maybe it's some type of infection in the blood-stream?" Orochimaru's furious look calmed somewhat. "If that is all it is, I have no need to worry."
The boy scrambled down the hallway as silently as he could. The others needed to know about this.
Meanwhile, in an overly large castle Albus Dumbledore's eyes had stopped twinkling. The reason for such grief? Severus, one of his most trusted people…was having a family member stay with him at the castle.
Not just one family member but TWO. It was absurd and went completely against the 'muggles can't know about hogwarts' policy.
Severus claimed that his cousin was very dear to him, and that they hadn't seen each other since he was a teenager. And Albus' heart went out to the estranged cousins…but this was nonsense!
He sighed, rubbing his temples. He had no choice but to let the two muggles stay in Hogwarts. Surely they couldn't be that much of a handful. And since they most likely didn't know little to any English they could sit through the Order meetings without leaking any information.
With this new revelation in his mind the twinkle grew full blast into his eyes once again.
It was dinnertime in Hogwarts Castle. The teachers all waited with baited breath to meet the other 'Snape's. Albus was dreading it…but alas. So, he stood and cleared his throat.
"Students!" He began, as the Great Hall grew silent. "I have some wonderful news. Hogwarts will be getting some new guests. Our dear Potions Professor has some relatives staying for a short while. They are foreigner and should have they're customs and themselves treated with the utmost respect."
The students began murmuring full blast, and Albus feeling that his job was done sat back down with pride. They all waited for their 'guests' to arrive so they could all eat…some students and teachers grumbling.
Until the double doors opened. Then the silence was deafening.
Severus Snape had flicked his wand and closed the doors behind two figures. As the group walked through the hall the students all craned their necks to see the 'other snape's.
To everyone's shock it looked like a miniature version of their potions master. Long hair pulled back into a low ponytail, pitch black eyes, slender…and to the girls' delight wearing simply a yukata-robe that was open slightly in the front.
The other figure looked like a Weasley. Bright red-hair, dull expression, and gorgeous amber eyes. He was slightly shorter then the Snape-twin, and wore a much simpler brown shirt and tan pants.
The group sat in the empty chairs at the teacher's table and the meal commenced. Neither looked surprised as the food appeared out of no-where.
The snape-twin had been forced to sit next to Arthur Weasley, who began aimlessly chatting the boy up the second he sat down. The boy however seemed to want to be polite, and bowed his head slightly before saying one word. "Itachi."
"Oh, is that your name? Odd name that…I'm Arthur Weasley Muggle Studies teacher, 'coarse you know all about muggles being one and all…" Arthur continued to ramble.
The redhead had been forced to sit next to a Indian-woman. "Hello." She spoke softly and politely. "I'm Pavarti Patil. It's nice to meet you." She smiled at him sweetly. He returned the smile as if by force.
"Sasori. Nice to me, you" His English was choppy; obviously he still couldn't pronounce certain things properly. The girl sitting on his other side smiled sensually, fluttering her eyelashes. "And I'm Lavender Brown, charms teacher." He bowed his head slightly to her, acknowledging her only slightly.
The rest of dinner was nearly perfect, until Arthur Weasley made the mistake of mispronouncing Itachi's name numerous times. He stood up looking quite furious before all but yelling, "It's It-Ah-Chee not Ituchu!" Sasori snorted spilling some pumpkin juice at this statement.
Both women looked confused. "Why is he so mad?" Lavender asked. Sasori took no time before answering. "Name is great honor. To not say it correctly is insult to family. Itachi-san takes great things but not insulting his family."
"Oh, dear." Pavarti said worriedly. "This is going to be a long visit isn't it?" Lavender seemed to have something else on her mind. "Hey, Sa-sore-E, are you and…It-ah-chee in a y'know…relationship?"
Parvati looked scandalous, and Severus dropped his fork in surprise. Sasori glanced at Itachi and seeing his barely noticeable nod answered. "Yes. Lavendar-san. You are good to notice."
The hall had once again grown suddenly silent. No one noticed the tiny smirks on both foreigners' faces. Lavender smiled broadly. "Well, then. Sit together, come on! I'll move." And so she did.
Itachi sat next to Sasori both thinking the same thing. 'How easy will THIS mission be? They fell for something so idiotic. Might want to make it seem more realistic though.'
So the two ate dinner chatting quickly in Japanese, about latest kills and so on. Until it was time to leave, then Itachi did something that had Sasori shocked beyond words…and facial expressions.
He kissed him.
ON THE CHEEK!
'…Leader-sama hates me, doesn't he?'
And Itachi was thinking the same thing. 'Madara's going to pay for this one…cold. Oh right, made of wood.'
Lavender was eating it up and Parvati seemed just content with knowing someone new. Severus then deemed it time to go, and yanked them both up to follow him to his chambers. Those two had some serious explaining to do.
Alrighty! So, that's one of my longest chapters ever...YAY! Anyway, R & R please.