Happy New Year! I hope you've had a
good, or at least an okay/ not so terrible, 2018 so far.
So this prompt came in during December/Advent Event:
“Hi! Do you still take suggestions for the calendar? If so I would
love to see Harry coming to Konoha much earlier, when Naruto had
really been rather annoying, Sakura was an awful human being and
Sasuke was... There. ;) I simply think the big-brother role Harry has
would be even more pronounced and that could lead to all sorts of
differences.”
With all the holiday shenanigans, I had
to put a break on filling prompts.
I'm glad I did.
Anon, behold all of the differences of
your prompt fill.
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Three weeks of rather benign
imprisonment had taught Harry a few things.
One, the Uzumaki had a lot of valued
secrets that people wanted.
Two, not knowing any of those secrets
made Harry's life both easy and hard. Easy, because he couldn't give
away any secrets under any circumstance. Hard, because after three
weeks of magically maintained silence, his captors probably
categorized him as a formidable secret keeper.
Three, his captors wanted him to like
them. Or at least, not hate them completely. Instead of a prison
cell, he was in a house. A secluded house in the middle of the
forest, but still a house. And even with his 'stubborn' silence, they
never resorted to violence. But Harry wasn't sure how long that
patience would last.
The severe bands of black ink on
Harry's hands itched all the way down to his bones. Ignoring the itch
meant having to deal with the angry buzz of his still holstered wand
instead. Both options made his current captivity even more annoying
to deal with.
The smart thing to do was leave with
the help of his magic. They hadn't been able to take away his wand
holster and they couldn't even sense when he did magic to make his
imprisonment easier.
But they had made a fleeting mention of
another Uzumaki during one of their first 'conversations'. A calming
spell had helped him not react back then, but the thought had stayed
in his mind. What better way to get him to talk, than to have him
talk to another Uzumaki? At least, Harry hoped that's what they
thought. That's why he stayed.
That's why he willingly followed his
masked guard out of his plain bedroom and down the wooden corridors
to the meeting room where their 'conversations' occurred.
Though the Homenum Revelio spell warned
Harry of new visitors, his first glimpse of one specific visitor
irritated him.
A child. A blond child.
