A Personal Matter & Sphere of Influence by Oroduin

Edit: I forgot to add it in the actual title line, but this is a crossover between Naruto and Harry Potter. It stars Harry and takes place mostly in the Naruto-verse, also featuring Kakashi. Naruto does not have a large role as he's too young during most of these stories to be anything but a minor character.

This is a trilogy of stories and I suppose I'm recommending the trilogy, so I'll do the standard recommendation format for all three. I think the Alexandra Quick stories got combined instead of rated equally, so I'm just sort of going based on that.



I enjoyed the first story as a sort of guilty pleasure reading. Kakashi is around 12 and Harry is around 6. The premise is that through some kind of hand-wavy argument they're brothers. Harry is slightly needy and doesn't speak the language very well, but all in all I thought he was a fairly believable 6 year old. Kakashi is in-character mostly I think -- a prodigy at a young age and not a child in many ways despite his youth. It might be too tame or too contrived or too irritating in some ways for DLP members, which is why I was going to leave it in Almost Recommended, but when I found myself debating reading it again b/c I had liked it I decided to put it here.


Here's the sequel -- also complete. In this one Harry has become a Genin and is 13. He'd already turned down Hogwarts asking him to come to school a couple of times, but Dumbledore figures out a way to kidnap him b/c he feels that Harry is required if they are to win the war. Kakashi, who is ANBU at this point, ends up going along for the ride. This one seemed to be the most popular story with readers, as most of it takes place in the HP-world, but I personally preferred the first and third stories.

Title: Extending the Boundaries
Author: Oroduin
Rating: T
Genre: General
DLP Category: General
Pairing: None
Status: WIP
Summary: Set 4 years after Sphere of Influence, 1.5 years before Naruto canon. As he begins to come into his own, Harry Hatake must find a way to make a name for himself and break out of his brother's shadow. But the past won't be left behind and with old threats reemerging on every front, Harry may find he needs more help than ever.
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6534243/1/Extending_the_Boundaries

Another sequel -- this one only a few chapters in. Harry is around 17 now and still isn't OP, thank goodness. Basically he's a normal Ninja in a village of Ninjas who has some special abilities that most don't know about. He takes on a student as an instructor (a single student instead of a 3man team) because the student is suspected to have magical ability and Harry is the only trained Ninja with experience in that area. It's not an OC, but I won't ruin the surprise on who it is.


So, that's it. Overall I'd rate the series at 4/5 because I really enjoyed the hell out of reading it. Does that mean it's DLP material? I have no idea on this one, honestly.

I will say that Harry never becomes Over-Powered. He's sort of like a Jack-of-all-Trades in that he can use Genjutsu/Ninjutsu/Taijutsu reasonably well, but he doesn't excel at it like Kakashi does. He's not a prodigy. He can also use magic, which the vast majority of ninja cannot, but it's implied that he's only of average strength there as well. Plus he only had one year of semi-formal Magic schooling and has been slowly teaching himself more in the time-skip between stories 2 and 3. In the third story he's trying to start developing techniques to combine magic with proper ninja combat.

If you find the first story to be slow given Harry's extreme youth (and that he acts his age mostly), then give the second one a try. I wouldn't suggest skipping it myself but it could be done. The only parts I had to skim through were the starts of some chapters in the first story when we are seeing flashbacks to James/Lily/Sakumo -- those got old quickly.

 

I agree with Greener's description of how it works. Harry does act his age, but apart from a scenes with people acting paternal it doesn't get cutesy/pathetic. The society he's in assumes he should be able to take care of himself if he's left home alone, etc.

As for being extremely dubious about reading a story from the perspective of a kid that young, well, I did say you could skip to the second story if if it turns you off that much. You miss a lot of background, but it is an entirely new story/plot and Harry is of a more protagonist-appropriate age by then (13).

Also, Greener, could you edit your post so as to not give away who Harry's student is in the third story? I actually really enjoyed the reveal on that and didn't want to give it away. It fit and really made sense from almost every angle.

Edit: Greener, did you rate the thread? I just did and it didn't look like anyone else had -- don't forget to do that! There's a button near the top.

 

Bloody hell I'm a dumbass -- I searched the wrong thread/sub-forum to see if this had already been posted -- and it has.

https://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?t=11586

Son of a bitch. Well maybe we can merge the threads instead, bloody hell. Sorry 'bout that, n00b mistake.

At least I got the new story in... I guess... >.>