“Do you think one just becomes the Head of the Uzumaki clan just like that?” Souta asked with a chuckle.
“I do wonder at what you have been teaching the boy, Mito” Kaito said. He wasn’t painting me. Instead, he stood off to the side, watching everything with a careful eye. I hadn’t believed it when I’d been told, but somehow this man was Grandmother Mito’s Uncle. That made him so old that he could have been my Great-Grandfather. Needless to say, he’d gone on the years....
2025-03-06 18:51:44 +0000 UTC
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I took my seat, and turned to see that McKinnon had begun to redden in rage. It was only for a second or two, before his expression returned to normal.
“I move for a recess so that someone more apprised with the matter can take over. The allegations raised by Mr. Black’s representative are very serious and the Ministry has the right to defend itself” The man said. Of course, Dumbledore granted the recess.
“We will recess for forty-five minutes to allow Warlock Mckin...
2025-03-06 18:50:18 +0000 UTC
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I felt for my inner flames and brought them to the forefront in another explosion of green fire. When I landed on the ground, it was right at the outskirts of the tornado’s range. When it got closer and closer to me, I kept my feet pressed against the ground. Or at least I tried to. Thankfully, Toph could feel what I was doing. The ground lifted up, locking my lower body into place. Good thing she hadn’t stpped at just my feet. That would be a very unfortunate way to get crippled.
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2025-03-06 18:47:53 +0000 UTC
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Dumbledore was wearing a set of maroon robes with stars all around them- stars that moved of their own accord in some sort of intricate dance. If anyone had expected the man to wear something a bit less garish for opting as serious as an ICW meeting, then they would be sorely disappointed. His entrance marked the beginning of the serious business as everyone went to take their seats.
“Good day Gentlewizards and Gentlewitches, welcome to the three hundred and fourteenth annual congress...
2025-03-05 15:53:39 +0000 UTC
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Somehow, I managed to keep my grip on Aang robes even as we were carried into the hurricane. I could scarcely tell what was going on around us as we were swept around in its grasp, but that did not matter. I had the Avatar here with me, and I was going to put the bastard out of his misery. i raised a fist to his head and landed a straight jab to his face before I felt his feet on my chest and he kicked me off of him, pushing me further into the hurricane. I tried to force my way back towards ...
2025-03-05 13:56:36 +0000 UTC
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“Do I really need to be naked for this?” I asked her even as I resisted the urge to cover myself with my hands. I felt naked enough, no need to show just how self-conscious I was about the situation. Grandmother Mito laughed even as she passed a pot of ink to one of the other women. I was in a specially prepared sealing chamber, surrounded by nine of the best Uzumaki seal masters, and naked as the day I was born.
“Just be happy that Lady Mito vetoed letting us have our apprentice...
2025-03-05 13:33:10 +0000 UTC
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He walked with his trunk floating behind him, trying not to attract too much attention to himself even if he knew it was fruitless. He’d been here yesterday, and clearly word had gone around. One reporter had even taken the risk of assuming that he’d show up today as well, and had reaped the payoff of that gamble. It must have been a slow news week if he was able to get time off for something like this.
“What do you think about how the Ministry has handled the Hogwarts Massacre?...
2025-03-04 20:52:14 +0000 UTC
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Dividing the flying thunder god into its components and trying to get each one to work separately had done wonders for his progress. In another week after his conversation with Uzume, he had managed to figure out the seal for creating a network that would allow him to sense the tags anywhere thy were in the world. That alone was a fucking unit of the seal. It had taken three days of work and manpower from over a dozen shadow clones to create his own language, and another four to create the se...
2025-03-04 20:35:25 +0000 UTC
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Aang was fast. It was one thing to see it animated, and another to experience it in combat. The whistle that heralded the use of Maki’s combustion bending had only been in the room for a second, but he still managed to turn around and begin spinning his staff to protect himself. The room exploded as her attack hit, and even with my guard up I was still sent flying at the wall behind my desk. A wall that instantly parted for me as I flew through. No, no, no.
Why did they never listen?...
2025-03-04 20:22:58 +0000 UTC
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I cut into their dance, shooting at Aang with fire at my feet. He lifted his hand and caught my roundhouse kick. Still floating, I brought my other leg towards his face, and gave him a fire blast to the face.
He ate the attack, not seeing it coming and was sent flying backwards even as I landed on the floor.
“Let Toph get you out of that and get out of here. This fight is a bit above your pay grade” I said with a smirk.
“Fuck you, Natsu” He said even as he removed...
2025-03-03 12:46:40 +0000 UTC
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We made our way into the building. Sirius walked behind me, almost like it was natural for him to do so. I knew he saw me more as James than he saw me as Harry, and if I was being honest, I much preferred it that way. This way, he thought of me as a friend and not a Godson. The former was much better than the latter. There was a scanner at the entrance. We were to put our wands and magical objects into the bin.
I flinched as I dropped my wand, aware of how naked I became with...
2025-03-03 12:25:03 +0000 UTC
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I did not flee from the office. I did not. I did not run with my tail in between my legs. I did not slam the door behind me as I body flickered through the tower, uncaring for the chaos I caused in my rage. No. Instead, I suppressed that urge. I bowed to my Hokage, and I spun around. I closed the door behind me softly. I nodded at the shinobi that nodded at me, and I stopped at the ground floor, set upon by one of the Uzumaki children. Kirito. He had a gleaming forehead protector atop his hea...
2025-03-03 11:44:52 +0000 UTC
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I nodded, taking it as the order it was in truth. He might have tried to dress it up and offer consolations, but I could see it now. i would become the village jinchuriki, and that was it.
“But what about my team?” I asked. Mito was the present Jinchuriki, and I knew exactly how Konoha treated their tailed beast containers during times of war. There was no chance I was getting let out again.
“With present casualties, realities within the village mean that we must reinforce...
2025-03-03 07:30:31 +0000 UTC
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From the crisp French being exchanged all around me, I figured that we were now in Geneva. The terminal here was far more active. People were appearing every other minute. We were ushered off our spot, and another group of travelers appeared.
The person that had welcomed us, a woman, scanned our tickets against some sort of ledger and then nodded before waving us away. I nodded and walked, searching for someone to ask directions.
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“Sirius! Run they’ve c...
2025-03-03 07:29:46 +0000 UTC
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He was a hurricane of force. Consistently in motion. The ground tore itself apart under his ministrations, sending massive pillars tearing through the air right at us. I stared at the pillar that was as wide as I was tall and waited for it to be close enough before I swung a flame encased fist. Gleaming a greedy green, my flames tore through the pillar, shattering it to pieces with concussive force. Both Toji and Maki dodged out of the way of the attacks sent at them while Toph stopped hers c...
2025-03-03 07:28:34 +0000 UTC
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The portkey terminal reminded me so much of an airport that one of them surely had to have guided the design of the other. Considering portkey terminals were much much older, then my money was on some enterprising muggle born thinking it would be funny to make them similar. Well, either that or there were just only so many ways one could design a transport terminal. I walked in and was instantly directed to the check in station. The place wasn’t crowded.
Like I noted earlie...
2025-03-01 16:39:40 +0000 UTC
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I made my way to the office. Maybe if I was Jiraiya, I would have risked jumping in through the window but I landed on the ground floor and made my way into the tower like everyone else. There was a consistent stream of traffic moving in and out of the tower even as the rest of the village seemed to be standing still. The War wasn’t coming anymore. It was here.
I walked into the waiting room, and despite the fact that the room was full, upon seeing me, the Secretary directed me to mo...
2025-03-01 16:38:31 +0000 UTC
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I smiled as I felt revitalized by the resurgence of the green flames. They came and went at their own will these days. After the fight with Iroh, I’d had a brief breakthrough with getting them to show up more regularly than before, but that was still erratic at best. It seemed it had smiled at me now though.
Aang dodged out of my first fire blast, but the force of the blast still managed to knock him off course. Oh we were so cooking. I shot forward, forming jets of flames beneath my...
2025-03-01 16:37:02 +0000 UTC
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He lurched to the side to avoid another blast of combustive power, and I took the chance to angle my jets to fly right at him. A gust of hurricane class winds plucked me from the air and sent me flying into the distance. At the same time, he was forced to turn away from me to dodge out of the way of Toji’s spear. Toji rolled underneath the arc of water the Avatar sent in his direction, picked up the spear from the ground and tried to use it to stab him through the brain.
Aang dodged ...
2025-02-28 08:43:17 +0000 UTC
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“Terribly” I replied.
“What’s the issue?”
“I don’t even want to think about it. What’s up?”
“A letter came for you. It’s from the Hokage” She said. I perked up and caught the scroll she tossed in my direction.
The orders within were simple. I was to delegate command to someone of my choosing and return to Konoha as soon as possible. My heart skipped a beat. What had happened? Tsunade? Grandmother Mito? Kushina? Someone had to be hurt for the m...
2025-02-28 07:45:27 +0000 UTC
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“Do you agree that Headmaster Dumbledore deserves some of the blame for the attack at the Yule Ball?” Ooh, he could ask hard-hitting questions for sure.
“A few weeks ago, I fought a death eater who had been using polyjuice to disguise himself as a legendary auror. This fact was widely reported, even if the story broke later than it happened. Everyone knew this had happened. Yet, Hogwart’s Headmaster did nothing to alter the wards to make it impossible for the same thing to happe...
2025-02-28 07:35:02 +0000 UTC
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“I am” he said in a tone that showed that he was waiting for the other shoe to drop.
“Good. That means you have some common sense to you. That also means that you’re desperate. You’ve come here in the hopes that I will give you the scoop of the decade- the means to make something of yourself. Maybe I will. But definitely not for free.”
“I have no idea what you’re talking about” He said.
“Really? Then I’ll just be on my way then” I replied and turned ...
2025-02-27 12:17:40 +0000 UTC
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When he moved, it was like the world held its breath. He crossed his arms in front of his head to block a blast from Maki’s combustion bending, being sent flying backwards. I shot after him, heat fueling my movements and allowing me to move faster than ever. He stopped himself against the wall and I smashed right into him, sending the both of us through the wall and down the hallway of the palace. He turned in mid air, kicking me away and stopping himself with his air bending.
Two je...
2025-02-27 11:58:55 +0000 UTC
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Secrecy was needed because it meant that the language was only supposed to be understood by one person. If he didn’t include the concept of secrecy, then he would essentially be hamstrung into teaching the language to others and spreading its use to make it powerful enough to have effects on reality. That was what differentiated languages like this from the Uzumaki sealing language. Of course, that also meant that this language could not be used to affect others- it was one of those concept...
2025-02-27 11:34:47 +0000 UTC
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He walked with his trunk floating behind him, trying not to attract too much attention to himself even if he knew it was fruitless. He’d been here yesterday, and clearly word had gone round. One reporter had even taken the risk of assuming that he’d show up today as well and had reaaped the payoff of that gamble. It must have been a slow news week if he was able to get time off for something like this.
“What do you think about how the Ministry has handled the Hogwarts Massacre?...
2025-02-26 08:24:07 +0000 UTC
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Aang was fast. It was one thing to see it animated, and another to experience it in combat. The whistle that heralded the use of Maki’s combustion bending had only been in the room for a second, but he still managed to turn around and begin spinning his staff to protect himself. The room exploded as her attack hit, and even with my guard up I was still sent flying at the wall behind my desk. A wall that instantly parted for me as I flew through. No, no, no.
Why did they never listen?...
2025-02-26 08:20:03 +0000 UTC
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Dividing the flying thunder god into its components and trying to get each one to work separately had done wonders for his progress. In another week after his conversation with Uzume, he had managed to figure out the seal for creating a network that would allow him to sense the tags anywhere thy were in the world. That alone was a fucking unit of the seal. It had taken three days of work and manpower from over a dozen shadow clones to create his own language and another four to create the sea...
2025-02-26 08:16:08 +0000 UTC
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“I forfeit. My magic is running low, and I am still far from fully healed from my earlier duels,” She said the moment the referee blew the whistle to begin the duel, taking a step back and off the platform. I breathed a sigh of relief and nodded. She was right, of course. I doubted that Fleur would give me a good fight even if she had been at 100%, but in her present state, it would be laughably easy for me to take her down. That meant I’d won all three of my duels and secured another t...
2025-02-25 18:58:25 +0000 UTC
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It took weeks for word to return from Konoha. That was, in reality, not a long time. Messenger hawks flew slowly, and we had sent this one weighed down with three bodies- Omoikane, Inukuro, and Choni, and with news of our victory and the losses we had incurred in claiming such victory. Izuku’s body remained in Uzume’s possession. She refused to hand it over, and none of us had been willing to force it from her. Even with her eyes covered by a thick layer of bandages and gauze, she had one...
2025-02-25 18:47:33 +0000 UTC
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“And you are sure these things are loud enough?” I asked the man in front of me.
“I could always have them give it a good blow for you to check, General” the man replied. I gave the gigantic trumpet a look. Considering this thing was allegedly loud enough to reach the second gate from here, I would go deaf if it was played next to me.
“I’ll take your word for it” I said with a shake of my head as I was led by Long Feng over to the next instrument in the array. Now ...
2025-02-25 18:29:37 +0000 UTC
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