Chapter 1
Saturday morning
Tsunade looked at Dumbledore calmly. The man with the long pearl white beard was smiling at her, his blue eyes shining.
" So you want ninja guard? In your world?! You want me to risk the lifes of my people for your safety..?! "
" Not mine...do I look like somebody who needs protection? Do not underestimate me, my dear!" explained Dumbledore quietly. Point for him, Tsunade could feel his power, rather strong for a person from his was impressed. Her thoughts were interrupted by his words " Of course, I can't make you do this. I explained earlier that..."
" Yeah, yeah...I know!You want us to protect the students, And more specifically...Harry Potter...But don't you have your own guards? You said you had a ministry or something like that."
Dumbledore's expression was a mixture of sorrow, sadness and anger.
" We can't believe them anymore, since the wizard I told you about, Voldemort, is controlling the heads of the departments!"
Tsunade sighed and took a sip from her sake. This was rather troublesome for her. Most of the ninja were out of Konoha on missions. Shi didn't have any qualified people for this at the moment.
" When is your term beginning? "
" On September the first!" answered Dumbeldore cheerfully.
" I will try to do my best to find suitable people for this task till Monday you want you could stay here, in Konoha, till then. We have some really good hotels."
" No, thank you!" said the old man smiling "I will come back here on Monday afternoon to take them to the castle...and thank you very much, miss Tsunade!"
The Hokage just raised her hand as if saying 'no problem' and the old man disappeared.
The blonde woman sighed and took out the registers. She started looking at the descriptions of the ninja of the Village hidden in the Leaf, although she already had some people in mind. She filled her cup with sake and started doing her paperwork, that waited for her.
Sunday afternoon
Shizune entered the Hokage's office to see Tsunade drinking sake and filling some documents.
" Tsunade-sama! They are back! And Team Gai will be back in Konoha after about two hours. If I had understood right, I believe that TenTen is seriously injured."
" OK, Shizune, thank you. Take care of the girl when they're back. Tell Kakashi and his team to come to my office tomorrow morning. Tell that to Hinata and Neji Hyuga as well. If they are not here on time I swear I'll just kill them! "
" Hai, Tsunade-sama!"
Tsunade was re-reading the scroll. She had a bad feeling about this.
Monday morning
The expressions on the ninja's faces were expected from Tsunade. All of them were serious, a bit concerned, but serious. Except for blonde haired boy was jumping around, happy that he had just received an year long S-rank mission.
" Shishou...so this mission is one year in some place called 'Hogwarts' … and we should act like...wizards?! "
Sakura asked really unconvinced, she was even thinking that her master was kidding. But the Hokage nodded in agreement.
" And Kakashi, you will be a teacher. "
That was quite a shock for the silver-haired man with a mask over half of his face. Although he murmered something under his breath, he nodded.
" Well, I guess that's all. You will be leaving in the afternoon, so go pack your stuff! Professor Dumbledore will be here in a few hours." The Hokage looked at their faces and felt her deep love towards each and every one of them.
Naruto, Sakura, Sai, Hinata, Neji, Shikamaru and Kakashi.
Monday afternoon
Seven ninja and an old man were in the office of Tsunade.
" Where is that idiot?! " asked Sakura furiously.
" How troublesome he is!" added Shikamaru.
" D-don't talk like this, guys!" whispered Hinata shyly.
Tsunade gave Dumbledore an apologizing look.
"I am really, really sorry, guys! I had to take my supplies from Ichiraku!" Naruto burst in the room, carrying a huge bag, probably full of was ready to kill him, but Tsunnade gave her a look, which gave the pink-haired girl shivers.
" I believe that's all of you now... Well, the main thing is that you'll have to guard the students and..."
" Yeah, we know...that Harry Potter boy! " Naruto grinned, earning himself some angry looks.
" Well, ok then...off we go!" said the director and stood up.
" I will send three more ninja when they come back from their current assignments!" Tsunade looked at Dumbledore.
" OK, here you go...they will let you speak in English!"
He handed out a silver necklace to every ninja, They put them on.
" We will go to London and you will stay there three days. Harry will already be there, so you'll get to know each other.I assure you, he is a really nice young , you will be introduced as transfers from a Japanese wizardry and witchcraft school, if you don't , mister Hatake, you will temporaly be teaching Care of Magical Creatures until Hagrid is me tell you more about your have to keep the students safe, that's our first priority. And as miss Tsunade had told you, there's a dangerous dark wizard who is after Harry. That's why he needs a little bit more attention than the others. I guess that's all. Now, now, our portkey is off in two minutes."
The old wizard in the blue robes took a glove out of his pocket while Tsunade drank the rest of her sake and handed a scroll to Kakashi.
" The details are in there" said she quietly "I will send you the best of the best when they come back, I promise!"
" Shishou,take good care of the village! " said Sakura and Tsunade nodded with a smile.
" And you take care of would be a pity if we lose any of you!"
" Baaah, don't worry, Tsunade-baasama! We will be just fine! Ooh, and eerm, could you please check on Konohamaru...I mean, make sure if he is alright, because I saw him recently having a fight with some chunin ...If he had used my super technique he had probably won, but still..."
" Stopp babbling, Naruto!" Kakashi's eye was expressing his boredom " Tsunade-sama, I'll send you reports every week."
The Hokage nodded again.
" Touch the glove, everybody! It's nearly time!" Everybody layed a finger on the piece of clothing. Soon, they vanished from the office, leaving Tsunade and their beloved village behind.
