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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

[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

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's good to hear. Yeah, science students have to continuously make sure their editions are up to date and all that... :P Hey, what history books would you recommend for Chinese history? I'm planning to read up on that over the summer, and I'm wondering what would be good for a general overview. :)

[beboots.livejournal.com]

Hmm... well, I haven't read all that many of them. The one I had for History 280 (East Asian History to 1500) was pretty boring, so I wouldn't reccomend it. "History in Three Keys" is good, but it only really talks about the Boxer Rebellion, and how perceptions about it have changed since then. I have read several articles by Jonathan Spence, and that author's really good... although he does have a very narrow focus in his books. "God's Chinese Son" is apparently a really interesting portrayal of the Taiping Rebellion, and the book he wrote on Arcadio Huong (this Chinese man living in Paris) seems pretty good from the exert I've read of him. Otherwise... I'm not really well-versed in Chinese history. ;_; Sorry. I'm excited to be taking a third-year history class in the winter semester of this year, which will be the History of East Asia from 1500, like a sequel to the other course that I took... only I'm taking it with my favourite history teacher, Professor Dunch. :3 (well, I loved M. Rousseau better, but he taught me in junior high, so... ;) )

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks for the titles! :) I'll have to make a note of Jonathan Spence. And the history of East Asia, does that include Japan and Korea? :D

[beboots.livejournal.com]

History of East Asia includes China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Tibet. :3 Although we actually only spent a grand total of one lecture on Tibet. D: I wanted to learn more! I know hardly anything about it except recent events!

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

Only one lecture on Tibet? Awww! I don't know too much about it, but I think it was an autonomous region under the Qing dynasty. There's a good movie about the life of the current Dalai Lama called "Kundun"--I think it was directed by Scorsese (?), and I really enjoyed it. :)

[beboots.livejournal.com]

I shall have to check that documentary out! :D I find the concept of reincarnation fascinating, and the Dalai Lama moreso. :3 Again, I really wish we had spent more time covering it... but I'm taking that other East Asian history course, and hopefully they'll talk more about Tibet. :)

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

I think it's actually a dramatization of his life, but yes, I really liked it. I heard that the Chinese government banned Scorsese from coming into the country or something like that after the movie was released (there's probably more details at Wikipedia :P). It's still so cool to see how the Dalai Lama is determined b/c they go around and have children choose from a collection of toys... I wonder, what was the authority in Tibet before the Dalai Lama? :D

[beboots.livejournal.com]

Who was the authority before the Dalai Lama? The previous Dalai Lama, of course. Him, and the Panchen Lama, I think. There's also another Lama, but I forget the name. They're all reincarnations of various Bottisatvas, I believe. One of the Lamas has a very sad story - he died in the 80s or so, and there were two claimants for "reincarnation": one chosen by the Tibetans, the other by the Chinese, each claiming to be the one true reincarnation. The Chinese one (he's not even of age, yet, I think) is technically the youngest political prisoner in the world. :(

[dayadhvam-triad.livejournal.com]

Oh, XD I was wondering as in who was the authority before the position of Dalai Lama was established in Tibet. It's just always been, Dalai Lama + Tibet, and I was curious. Yeah, the Panchen Lama is the second-highest ranking lama, I think, but I haven't heard about the third one. I think the Panchen Lama is the one who died in the 80s?--at least, I feel like I've heard something abut him being detained by the Chinese.

[beboots.livejournal.com]

Yes, the Panchen Lama was the one that was replaced in the 80's. And the new incarnation is looking very fine. ;) Well, the Tibetan incarnation, anyway.

I know what you mean - I was very confused about all of this until I had two separate lectures on the matter.