Chapter 1. Beginning

It is a beatiful morning. Konoha, the Village Hidden in the Leaves, is preparing for the day. The birds are singing, a light cool breeze swooping through the village streets, nothing could disturb the peace-

"NA – RU – TOOOOO!" A female's booming voice resounded throuought the village, heard by every single citizen. Newcomers yelped, 'eeeped' startled, or fell off their seats, wondering what the hell was that. On the other hand, Konoha citizens took that screaming as a signal to start the day. Their personal alarm clock. In short, it was a normal occurance.

Tsunade, Fifth Hokage of Konoha, and the owner of the so called 'alarm clock' voice, is currently behind a desk piled with stacks of evil paperwork, and massaging her temples.

"Yeeeees? Did you say something Baa-chan?" Uzumaki Naruto asked innocently. Naruto is a fifteen-year-old Gennin (Officialy, but she is Jounin level). She has shoulder-length golden yellow-blond hair tied in a high pony-tail, azure blue eyes, tan skin, and one of her most remarcable features; scars/birth-marks on her cheeks, looking like whiskers.

She is wearing a black hoodie with orange flames underneath, red Uzumaki swirl on the back, and the Shodai Hokage's necklace hanging proudly from her neck. Underneath it she usually wears a fish-net ninja (short-sleeves) shirt or a sleeveless blue-grey shirt. Her wrists are bandaged, and next to her pouch she has a storage scroll, and two Trench Knives on her waist. She is wearing forest-green cargo pants that goes slightly below the knee and a shuriken holster strapped to one of her legs. Leaf head-band on her forehead.

Tsunade sighed. "How many times do I have to tell you... DON'T CALL ME OLD HAG!" Naruto covered her ears, as Tsunade's head increased in size. After Tsunade seemed to calm down, Naruto grinned mischievously. "Well, Baa-chan, about 284967557 times." Naruto said as she dodged a random chair.

"Naruto, I have a mission, so stop and lis-" But Tsunade didn't need to continue, because of a loud excited 'eeep!' that came from the other blond.

"I believe that you already know about 'The Outside', correct?" Naruto instantly became serious.

"Yes, I read about it in-" But Naruto stopped herself, blushing. Ever since she was about six, she was disguised as a boy, and the secret finally got out at thirteen. She dressed like usual until the two year training trip with Jiraya, whom convinced her to dress more like her gender. Well, her hoodie showed her girly figure... when zippered, which is like, never.

But anyways, she kept many secrets about her real self, and one of them is reading.

Tsunade burst out laughing.

"Hahahaha! S-sorry, b-but I still can't get used to it! You! Read! Hahaha!" Naruto blushed and looked away. The stupid over-protective Ero-Sennin caught her once reading. He laughed for hours and hours and took a whole year to convince him that it was normal behavior.

'Well, only good thing that came out of that is that the book I was reading was about Fuinjutsu, and he was really surprised because it was an advanced one...' Naruto thought. Another of her secrets; Fuiinjutsu. Naruto is a natural, a true genius of seals, even more than the Yondaime... Secret number three; she knows that she is the Yondaime's -Namikaze Minato- daughter, but Tsunade, Jiraya, nor anybody else know that she knows.

'I wonder how would they react? I don't think even they know...' She thought as the Hokage laughed.

Tsunade finally overcame her laughing fit. She coughed to hide a blush when she noticed Naruto wasn't looking at her, pouting.

"Anyways, the mission. It will take place in 'The Outside', as in, on the other side of the strong genjutsu barrier that divides our hidden ninja continent from the rest of the world." Naruto nodded, excited. She always wanted to go on the other side of the barrier. She knew that the Ninja Continent was located somewhere in the vast Pacific Ocean, near Japan.

"The Wizards are in a Second War, against a Lord Voldemort. Mentioned dark wizard came back somewhere by the end of last year, in front of his number one enemy, Potter Harry -Harry J. Potter. Nobody believes Harry Potter, so this war is more like a Cold War. For now." Tsunade paused to let the information sink in before continuing. "This does not concern us, but many innocent lives are at stake...

An Academy student could even defeat Voldemort because wizards aren't really physically capable like ninja among other things," Tsunade said smirking. "Your job is to infiltrate Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, undercover as a fifth year Squib transfer student. You are to gather information, protect the students and teachers, and make allies. It would help the village, specially after Pain's invasion not so long ago. Here is the scroll with mission details and information on The Order of the Phoenix." Tsunade handed it to Naruto, who put it in her pouch for later reading.

Naruto was taping her chin with her fingers, thinking. "Hey Baa-cha-" She dodged a brush and some ink.

"What's a Squib?" Tsunade composed herself and answered.

"A person born from a wizarding family but has no magical powers. You will act as a Squib that was orphaned and knew nothing until recently. It will make your cover easier to convince the students, teachers, and one of the most powerful wizards; Dumbledore Albus, the Headmaster." Naruto nodded, but had one more question.

"What's the difference between... magic and chakra?" Tsunade seemed to have all of the answers today. "Magic is something that only Wizards posses, kind of like a Kekkei Genkkai. It is hereditary. Everyone; Muggles -non-magic people- wizards, animals, even plants, have chakra." This aroused one more question that needed an answer.

"We are mu-muuug-mu-"

"Muggles? Yes." Tsunade said trying not to laugh at Naruto's face when she was trying to pronunciate the word. Naruto pouted.

"How come there aren't any wizards in the Ninja Continent? Never have?"

Tsunade looked thoughtful. "We will never know. Maybe Muggle-borns -wizards born from Muggle parents- are descendants of Squibs or something... Or perhaps magic derived from chakra thousands of years ago, and it's heritary like a Kekkei Genkai...It's just a theory. " Naruto nodded, sastified with her answers.

"This mission will last for a year. You will be starting in two weeks, on September 1 st. You will meet with the Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, in two hours to see if you can enter. You will say it's part of some program from your old school. I have some papers ready -fake, I might add- to make it more believable." Naruto nodded, more excited than ever. 'I can't believe I will be able to learn about magic!'

Naruto then thought of something. "Baa-ch-" Again, she dodged, this time a barrage of scrolls.

"I read- oh, shut up!" Naruto said frustrated at a sniggering Tsunade, "Anyways, I read that most dark wizards supporters of Moldy-wart are in Slytherin, so I think that's the house I should go in."

Tsunade raised an eyebrow. "Slytherin's symbol is a snake... and they hate Squibs and Muggle-borns. It is a house of blood purity." Naruto shuddered, remembering the evil -but dead- Snake Bastard that lured her brother all but blood, Sasuke, away from the village promising power. Plus, being literally eaten by a giant snake summon during the Chuunin exams does not help.

"I'm used to people hating me. After all, before I defeated Pain two months ago, the village still hated my guts with a passion."

Tsunade looked worried. "Ok, but be careful, please..." Naruto smiled softly.

"Don't worry! You know that even if trouble always finds me, I always escape with an awesome creative plan!" Naruto said matter-o-factly, thinking of a certain mission involving bandits, neon-pink paint, orange confetti, a crazy B-rank missing-nin, and a giant mutated two-headed bear.

Tsunade sighed in exasperation.

"But maybe I should be in Hufflepuff... no one would expect me being a threat and my cover safer," Naruto said, not realizing that she was thinking out loud. Tsunade seemed to be thinking about it too, agreeing.

Realization hit Naruto, she looked at Tsunade and glared.

"You are doing this on purpose so that I have to leave the village," Naruto stated flatly, earlier mood gone. Tsunade sighed.

"Don't worry, the Village won't be attacked again. The Akatsuki is taking a year-and-a-half long break," Tsunade answered. Naruto let out a sigh of relief.

"Also, this is excellent training for becoming Hokage, with the whole 'protect an entire school full of gakis' thing," Tsunade said smiling at the Wind-style user. Naruto grinned, mood lifting.

Tsunade looked at the time and "The portkey will activate in thirty minutes! Go pack! Remember that you are not a ninja, so be discreet!" Naruto grinned. Being discreet was her middle name.

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Twenty minutes and farewells to The Konoha 11 later, Naruto entered the Hokage's office fully prepared and packed to go.

She wore the usual, minus her ninja head-band, the pouch, shuriken holster, and her cargo pants were now a beige-light brown color.

All the necessary equipment and other things were sealed in Naruto's storage scroll, which she flatly refuses to take off, still tied to her hip.

"Get ready, the portkey will activate in six minutes. Also, all wizards know about ninja is that they are chakra users and use it to do things. That's all. So be DISCREET!" Naruto covered her ears at the loudness of her voice.

"Geez, I know I know! No need to turn me deaf!" Tsunade smiled evily. Naruto gulped.

"Wait a sec. Why don't wizards know a lot about us? We know plenty of them..." Naruto trailed off. "Because majority of wizards are arrogant fools that think that they are stronger and better because they have magic. Also, our genjutsu barrier has been there since... Well, the legend states that Rikkudo Sennin was the one to create it."

Naruto heard the Furball-Sealed-inside-of-her agree. "Ah, not a legend. Kura- I mean, Kyuubi says that it's true."

'Crap, I can't believe I almost said Kurama's name out loud! There is no way I'll let the villagers say his name with hatred like they used to do with mine!' Naruto thought panicky.

'Thanks, Kit.'

'No prob!'

Tsunade gaped at Naruto. "What?" But before Tsunade could do as much as reply, the portkey activated and swallowed Naruto off to 'The Other side.'