Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Harry Potter. Also, I wrote this chapter when I had a cuncussion.
Hinata, Shino, Naruto, Shikamaru, Neji, and Ten-Ten stood in line for the sorting ceremony at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. Kiba had been kidnapped by a guy called Fenrir Greyback and Albus Dumbledore was allowing them to go under cover at the school in order to find their missing comrad. The sand siblings had come, too. (mainly because Temari wanted to show off all the techniques she had been practising to Shikamaru)
Akamaru pushed harder against Hinata, who was holding him, and whined clearly missing his best friend.
"Do you, erm, want to ride in my jacket or something, Akamaru-kun?" Hinata asked trying to make him feel better
If it had been anyone else Akamaru would've refused, but Hinata was his second favorite person so he climbed into her jacket and concentrated on her scent which was always good. He had told Kiba to try sniffing her, but Kiba had gotten embarrassed. Hinata gently stroked Akamaru's head and he licked her hand.
"Ten-Ten." Proffessor Mcgonagall called
Ten-Ten sat on the stool and put on the sorting hat.
"Hufflepuff!"
"Aburame, Shino."
Longest pause ever.
"Er, I can't really decide, so since you heard my song just pick whichever house sounded best." The hat said, desperate to get off Shino's head
"Gryffindor." Shino thought
"Gryffindor." the hat cried
"Hyuuga, Hinata."
"Hufflepuff."
"Hyuuga, Neji."
"Slytherin." (a/n: I got tired of him being in Ravenclaw)
"Nara, Shikamaru."
"Gryffindor."
"Subaka no Gaara."
"Slytherin."
"Subaka no Kankurou."
"Gryf-"
"Wait!" Kankurou interrupted
He looked over at Gaara incase his little brother needed him. The two of them had become closer after Gaara's fight with Naruto. Gaara gave his head a slight shake no.
"Okay, go on." Kankurou told the hat
"Gryffindor."
Harry sat at the house table feeling a strange sense of warmth at seeing that Kankurou was willing to go to Slytherin for (who Harry assumed) was his little brother. He felt it again when Temari did the same thing. She was placed in Ravenclaw.
"Uzumaki, Naruto."
"Gryffindor!"
Naruto walked over to the Gryffindor table and sat down next to Shikamaru and across from Kankurou.
"This sure is a weird place, Shikamaru." Naruto commented
He just stared at the bewitched ceiling.
"So you two know eachother." Harry said. It wasn't a question, but Naruto took it as one
"Yeah, that's how I knew his name. We're also friends with Hinata, Neji, Gaara, Temari, Kankurou, Ten-Ten." Naruto whirled around to point at each of them, almost hitting Shikamaru several times with his elbow
"And Shino." Shikamaru added lazily
Naruto sweat dropped and mumbled,
"I don't really like him."
"Hang on. You're friends with people in Slytherin!" Ron looked at them as if they'd committed a biblical level of blasphemy.
"Well, I think it's great that Temari and Kankurou were willing to try to get into Slytherin for their..brother?" Hermione looked over at the Naruto characters for confromation
They nodded
"For their brother." She huffed
"Yeah, I'm just naturally awesome." Kankurou thought
"Tch. Temari's such a troublesome woman." Shikamaru grumbled
and Hermione could instantly tell that what he really meant was, I want to cuddle with her.
Over at the Slytherin table Blaise had made a comment about the girls in Neji and Gaara's group being hot.
"Stay away from them." Neji and Gaara's eyes narrowed simultaneously
Blaise nervously shuffled away from them.
Ten-Ten waved to Neji from the Hufflepuff table.
"Oh, I get it. That scrawny, styleless girl is your girlfriend." Pansy Parkinson smirked
"No." Neji admitted
"So she's available." Blaise thought
At the Hufflepuff table Ten-Ten stopped waving at Neji and turned to Hinata.
"It looks like you and I are going to have the chance to hang out more. We never really have before, which is weird considering the way Neji's voice takes on a strange sense of pride when he mentions his training with you." Ten-Ten smiled
"It does?" Hinata blushed happily
"Yeah. Hey, why don't you train with me?"
"Okay, Ten-Ten-chan." Hinata nervously, yet happily, agreed
Meanwhile at the Gryffindor table the twins had pulled a prank on Naruto, and got pranked back by Kankurou. They gave him approaving looks. Then Fred and George leaned in closer to them and pointed at Shino, smirking. They had slipped a special potion into his food not knowing that his bugs were breaking it down for him. When nothing happened they stopped smirking.
"That's weird-"
"And freaky-"
"But cool-"
"We should find out his secret."
Shikamaru just yawned lazily.
Temari sat alone at the Ravenclaw table, feeling dissapointed that she hadn't wound up in the same house as one of the other shinobi.