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As  stated in my previous entry today (found here: http://beboots.livejournal.com/13877.html?view=70965#t70965 ), I've rewritten some fo the ideas that I had typed up before my C drive was deleted. Here is the recontructed version of my Naruto X Harry Potter crossover idea. Remember, it's rough and chaotic and needs a lot of work. It also goes back and forth between point form style, narrative and dialogue. This is mostly for backup purposes. 

Orochimaru is one of Voldemort's horcruxes (or vice-versa), nobody can decide which. The Akatsuki discover this fact through their informant network.

Orochimaru was beginning to become a problem. First of all, he was competition on the "taking over the world" stage. However, the main problem was that he was a former member of the Akatsuki. The Akatsuki didn't have former members. Their agents either died in the field, were killed by each other (usually due to quarrels, but sometimes assassinations), or had tragic "accidents" if they tried to leave the organization. The Akatsuki were very good at arranging "accidents".

But Orochimaru had somehow evaded them all. Not only had he successfully left the Akatsuki, he was even prospering, setting up his own "Hidden Village", or, rather, "secret evil lair for taking over the world".

He just wouldn't die.

Then, one of Sasori's spies in Sound, who most definitely didn't have silver hair, didn't wear glasses, and whose name most certainly did not begin with "K" and end with "abuto", came forth with some very peculiar - and interesting - information. Apparently, during the decades in which Orochimaru had fallen off the radar screen (after he defected from Konoha but before he joined the Akatsuki) he had done extensive travelling. (horcruxes, Voldemort...)

So apparently, unless all of these horcruxes were destroyed first, it was impossible to kill the bastard. Perusing the report, Pein idly thought that perhaps he shouldn't have executed all of those incompetant agents of his so quickly. Oh, well. There was no use crying over spilt milk.

Omake:

Orochimaru" *brutally stabs himself in the stomach while shaving*

That: *has no effect*

Secret Akatsuki member: Damnit!

They also - somehow - learn about the "biggest" (ie, most important) horcrux (his sense of ambition? It had to be split, because Orochimaru and Voldemort are both incredibly ambitious when it comes to power): this Voldemort guy. Pein sends assassins to take him out, but they all have accidents along the way (not that kind of accident; Pein wanted the guy dead, and didn't need anybody sabotaging his people). Many of these errors were due to the ninja's lack of knowledge about magic (as in, breaching magical defenses undetected, deflecting magical attacks, etc.,etc.) On one of these missions, however, the member managed to get back alive (but would never be the same again due to the acquisition of tentacles for legs), and reported that he had heard Voldemort ranting about "Harry Bloody Potter", the "Boy-Who-Lived", who was apparently the only person who could take him down.

Through further inquiries, Pein discovers that there's some sort of prophesy about this kid, and that he's now staying at a place called "Hogwarts". Leader-sama issues a new mission to Sasori and Deidara: infiltrate this "Hogwarts" place.

Mission perogatives are as follows:

1. Learn all you can about magical defenses, magical attacks (to be able to do both, and counter them as well)

2. Learn all you can about this "Boy-Who-Lived"

3. If given the opportunity, take down Voldemort (this may overlap with perogative #2).

So Sasori digs out his most human looking puppet (similar to his "true self"), wraps himself up in wizarding robes, and pays a visit to Dumbledore. He presents himself as a student from Japan who has recently moved to England. He demonstrates his aptitude with a few spells (cast with a stolen wand, and learned through observing people in Hogsmeade over the course of a week or two). Magic is similiar enough to simple chakra manipulation that he has very little trouble. Dumbledore accepts him as a student at Hogwarts. He's in.

Deidara acts as backup (who will probably not be needed). If Sasori's cover is blown, it's because of Deidara, not himself. Sasori is, if nothing else, a good shinobi. He's been on the run for like 40 years, and he knows how to keep a low profile. Deidara, on the other hand... Anyway, Deidara is stationed in the Forbidden Forest, and chillls in Hogsmeade sometimes. He also goes on forays into wizarding London and elsewhere in England, checking out Death Eater activity, foiling the Dark Lord's plans, etc. Perhaps the Order of the Phoenix becomes aware of a mysterious bomber who appears to be on their side...? But they never meet "him/her", only glimpses from afar, if they're lucky.

Deidara also acts as Sasori's legal guardian, and so he filled in Sasori's entrance forms. Sasori was given the name "Sasori Akasuna", which he didn't know about until he was called upon during the sorting. His name was like second or third on the list. The puppeteer vows to kill Deidara later and use him as spare parts for his puppets. Anyway, so Sasori doesn't have time to overthink things, or plan for this contingency. He didn't know that part of the opening ceremony was to wear a mind-reading hat. He wasn't about to have his cover blown by a ragetty piece of cloth. However, he can't think of a way to get out of it, so he has to put it on. The hat, of course, immediately sees that Sasori isn't human. However, the hat sympathises with him, assuming that Sasori is also a bit of soul that someone shed and stuck into an "inanimate" object, then discarded. It's less of a "ZOMG you're an inhuman puppet!" thing than a "Rock on, brother! What house do you want to be in?" thing.

Sasori was sorted into Gryffindor, to be closer to the target.

He was still going to kill Deidara later, though.

Sasori was a good shinobi, one of the best.

Oh, and just because he appears human doesn't mean that the puppet body he's using is anything less than uber-deadly. Sasori likes to challenge himself and see just how many weapons he can jam-pack into a puppet body.

Sasori was at first teased about being a long-lost Weasley, but a few well-placed glares nipped that sort of taunts in the bud.

Sasori always keeps his mission in mind. In transfiguration class, he could be like "I've managed to successfully change a wooden matchstick into a needle. Now how do you counter Avada Kedavra?" (McGonnagal thinks he's joking/it's an omake)

Some of the teachers become concerned about Sasori, due to his less-than-expressive countenance. They suspect child abuse (not too far off the mark, but...). Cue a visit from his loving uncle Deidara?)

The two also exchange letters through owl post, but they are in code. They read as perfectly normal letters between family members ("How was your week?" "What are you learning in Herbology？", etc.), but they're actually reports and orders (orders coming from Sasori, not to him... although Deidara is reporting everything to Pein, and so perhaps is reporting back and transferring commands?)

Sasori is fascinated by the concept of the Imperius curse: the ultimate puppetry. But once he sees it in action, he's disgusted by it. "That's not art."

(Deidara got just a little bit too close to a Death Eater camp, and was captured. He's interrogated, of course, but he's an S-class missing nin, and so he's bound to have had torture resistance training. He manages to hold out against Veritaserum (barely), even when encouraged by the cruciatus. He's also force-fed poison, and offered the antidote if he tells them what they want to know (who he's working for, where his partners are, etc.). He refuses (perhaps because he trusts that Sasori could take care of it, if he gets to his danna in time...?) Then, he's imperio'd. He resists for an admirable amount of time, but can't really throw it off because he's feeling weak because of the poison. He leads the Death Eaters to Sasori, at Hogwarts.

The Death Eaters don't know who in the crowd is "Sasori", so Sasori essentially just charges at the wizards unexpectedly. He manages to actually touch Deidara's sleeve before being driven away by spells (which he dodges). The Death Eaters are surprised to see that such a young child is an agent of the enemy, but are all like "Ha! You can do nothing!" Then, Sasori twitches his hand, and chakra strings appear. He attached them to Deidara earlier, and just pulls his partner from their grasp.

(The unconscious blond man hung limply by half a dozen transluscent blue chakra strings. Safe.)

"You wouldn't be able to heal him."

"I don't know about that, young man." Wordlessly, Sasori turned over one of Deidara's unique hands, palm-up. The tongue lolled out of its mouth. "Oh."

"Oh." Sasori confirmed.

"You can't just make him throw it up - if he was made to swallow something caustic, it could cause more damage coming up than -"

"I can heal a burned throat much more easily than I can massive organ failure."

Sasori's wooden hands looked delicate, but were surprisingly deft and strong.

"Professor Snape, I have every respect for you as a potions master, but I have been mixing poisons since before you were born." Not much before, but he wasn't about to say that. "Back off."

After countering the poison, and getting Deidara's vitals into a "safe zone", Sasori puts the corpse of the Death Eater he managed to kill into a scroll. Later on, he could be seen disembowelling it, preparing it to be transformed into a puppet, like he threatened to do during the fight.

(Deidara's now awake, in the hospital wing - "ennervate"...? or perhaps just waking up on his own, several days later?)

"Oh, come on. You don't seriously still think that he's human, after that display?"

"Shut up, brat."
'Brat...?' Thought Snape with some suspicion.

Sasori's face had the peculiar blankness he adopted whenever he was no longer presenting himself as human. It was a noticible change; he was creepy enough when he wasn't trying to be human.

Comments

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I shall definitely take up blogging while I'm there. :D Since I've decided not to bring my laptop, I'm wondering about how I'll be uploading photos, but... it shall be awesome nonetheless. And the posts may end up being halfway bilingual. D: I found myself thinking in French after only four days in Québec - who knows how much my English will deteriorate after a month in France. But then again, I'm going to be hanging out with a bunch of Canadian and American students, who will all be anglophone, so...

Well, I wouldn't want to freak out your parents... but I still love sending postcards. :)

The Hakama is pretty straightforward, especially considering that I'm going to be simplifying it for... simplicity's sake. :)

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

There will be computers at the university, I imagine. :) And being able to switch back between English and French so easily will help you in France. Your English'll come back around the English-speaking students. (One time at summer camp one of my friends was from Great Britain, and after one or two weeks my speaking started to take on a very slight British-y sound. Once the camp ended, it went away. XD)

Simplicity is a beautiful thing. :)

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I love British accents. :3 My mum is British, so I do have some idiosyncracies in my speech from her. For instance, I pronounce "broom" and "room" strangely (I totally didn't notice until a friend pointed it out last year). I say it kind of like you'd say the last part of "brûme" (a cold/the sniffles) in French... kind of like "reum" or something. D: My mum has visited England several times alone, and whenever she comes back, her accent's back in full force... Unfortunately, it fades away very quickly. ;_; I wish I had a British accent...

Yes, I'm quite certain that the University will have computers. The only thing is - will I have time to use them?

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

British accents are lovely. :D It just sounds like the words are enunciated much more clearly than American English--that's something I really like about British English. :)

What classes will you be taking at the University? (And maybe you already mentioned this before, but which university are you going to again?) There hopefully is some free time for you. :)

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I'm going to the Université Catholique de Lille (you don't have to be Catholic to go there), which is fairly prestigious, from what I can tell. I'll be taking French language classes in the morning, and European Poltical History in the afternoon. :) I was going to take the French culture option, but I looked at the syllabus that they provided, and, well... I'd already studied one of the books that they were going to talk about in grade twelve French language arts, and the other books/movies I had little interest in. So politics it was! :D Plus, we get to go to Brussels for four days to visit the European Parliament. :3

... I still want a British accent. D: If I concentrate, I can fake it really well (I fooled this one guy at work for a whole shift, making him think that that was how I talked at home), but it's not the same as actually having an accent...

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is so interesting! I'm sure the French classes will be awesome, and European Political History! :D Is it early Euro politics (like, War of the Three Henries-style Euro politics), or 20th century WWI/II/Cold War Euro politics? That sounds great. :D European Parliament yay! I hope they give you time to browse around Brussels, the Belgian chocolate is always so famous. XD

Neat job making him think you had the British accent. ;) I wish I could pull it off believably, but I think I overcompensate and make it too thick and thus obviously fake. :/

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I think that it's recent European politics (as in, since the EU was formed), but I could be wrong. I love Belgian chocolate - my dad's brought it back a few times, after going there for business trips. :) Do you know the difference between it and milk chocolate?

Oh, and check it out! :D I got a decent Naruto avatar for when I'm talking about RotJ! (Thank you for linking me onigiricons, by the way). I was thrilled to see it - I actually have a bigger version of this picture as my desktop background. :3

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

Oh, that will be interesting! *__* EU's pretty cool, but then there's all that stuff about the recent Lisbon treaty and the referendum I think they're having in... Ireland? It's the only EU country that's having a referendum on the treaty b/c I guess all the other countries don't want the public to vote it down and have the treaty crash, just in case. I'm not sure about Belgian chocolate, I was just always under the impression that it had a creamier consistency than regular Hershey's chocolate. :)

LOL when you said you got a new Naruto icon for RotJ, I immediately thought of that icon from onigiricons's latest post! XD It's so, so appropriate for RotJ. 'Tis awesome. :DD

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I actually only really know less recent European history - up to the Second World War, and not much further, so this shall be an interesting class. :)

Actually, the difference between belgian chocolate and our "regular" chocolate is that belgian chocolate has more cocoa than sugar, whereas ours is vice versa.

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

Oh, I really like reading about the Cold War! And the post-collapse-of-the-USSR is interesting too, especially how the countries interact with each other. :)

I did think that our "regular" chocolate just tasted rougher than Belgian chocolate, but that makes sense. Cocoa > sugar. :D

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I've heard some really interesting stories about the fall of communism in the Eastern European countries. It was all so dramatic!

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

The pictures of the Berlin Wall falling are just--wow. It's just such a huge change, and it's amazing that it happened. After all, the Prague Spring and the 1956 Hungarian revolution led to a crackdown by the Soviet government, and one wouldn't expect the USSR to fall apart. But I guess by the late 1980s, the USSR couldn't really keep things together anymore, especially with Solidarity and the Soviet economy itself.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I was actually in Germany at the time of the falling of the Berlin wall, but I was only a baby, so I don't remember any of it. I was also in Lahr, which is much further south and far away from the East-West border. I can say I was born in the Swartzwald (Black Forest), though. :D My dad has some awesome pictures of the Berlin wall, especially ones of it breaking.

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is amazing. Your dad was at the Berlin wall when it broke? :D

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I think that he was at the border between East and West Germany, not in Berlin itself... although it wasn't any less dramatic.

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

That was such a momentous time... I sort of wish I was there, just so I could see everything for myself, instead of reading about it from a historical perspective.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean! I was just thinking that hey, I was born like the year that everything changed. I mean, the year 1989 had so many things happening in it...

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

Yeah, 1989 was full of so many events. I wonder what it would've been like to be born earlier in the 1980s and get that sense of how people lived before the Cold War stopped to after. :D As it is, I was born the year the USSR finally fell apart.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean! As a history major, that hits home for me. The only real way to understand history is to experience it first hand... and even then, you only get a small part of the picture.

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yep. I wish I could travel back in time or something--just to see things happen, to live those moments. Nothing is ever completely unbiased, we can only do the best with as neutral a source as we can find. :)

[beboots.livejournal.com]

That was the stuff of my History as a Discipline class. D: The curriculum of that class was so BORING... it's only redeeming factor was the hilarious professor (he was Australian!) and the people in it. :) But god... arguing about the "nature of history" and so forth... D:

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

LOL really? :D Did you have to read boring articles or something?

[beboots.livejournal.com]

Worse. We had to read boring BOOKS. D: Take my advice - if your class has "The Whig Interpretation of History" or "Re-thinking History" or "The Houses of History" on it's reading list, don't take the class. It's not worth it. D:
We did read "History in Three Keys", which used the Boxer Rebellion as a demonstration on how to interpret history, which was actually really interesting, so it wasn't a total loss... I'm so going to sell back the other books, though. D:

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

o_O Sounds... well. Did you have to buy all the books on your own too? I suppose you can sell them to people who are taking the class next year.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

We had to buy them all. D: Luckily enough, four of the six were less than 150 pages long, and were thus relatively cheap. One of them, I'll keep (the History in Three Keys, with the Boxer Rebellion, was very interesting and I can use it as a reference) but the other ones I'll all sell. D: The cool thing about history classes is that history doesn't change all that much, so we're allowed to have older editions of the textbook... unlike science students. XD