Here I am again, guys! I am happy to continue this story! :)
For those of you, who don't know, Mission: What?!, is the sequel of Mission: Hogwarts, which wаs based on the 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' :)
However, I hope you'll like this story as much as you liked the previous one!
OH, before I forget, it's before the 4th Great Shinobi War and after Naruto has met Bee...you know, for later in the story :)
Enjoy!
Tsunade slammed her forehead against the desk. Everything was so tiring. Maybe she shouldn't have accepted the duty of the Hokage at all. Now she would have been somewhere out there with Shizune, probably gambling and having fun, instead of being busy with all that paperwork. Or maybe she should have simply brought more sake with her in the morning.
" Tsunade-sama!"
She raised her head and faced Shizune. She was with messy hair, concerned expression, a twitching mouth and worst of all, a mad pig in her hands.
" What is it, Shizune?"
" There is...a visitor...a customer..."
The Hokage sighed in relief. She thought for a second, that there was another invasion. The village was already in a pitiful state and she didn't know what would happen if anybody tried to attack them now, when they were weaker than ever.
" What's wrong with that?"
" He's...he's one of them..."
Tsunade tensed for a moment. One of them? Why have they appeared now? A whole year she's never heard of the other world, the world beyond the hidden continent. But what was possibly happening there, that they were here once again? She sighed and raised her cup to her lips, drinking the last drops of sake for the day.
" Send him in."
Shizune walked out of the door with TonTon in her arms. Not after long, she returned, followed by a man, that Tsunade has never seen before in her whole life. She tensed on the chair once again, because she was expecting to see Dumbledore. The man was wearing an extremely shabby set of wizard's robes that had been darned in several places. He looked ill and exhausted. Though quite young, his light brown hair was flecked with grey. He looked greatly familiar to Tsunade, but she simply couldn't remember him. Another thing, that surprised her, was that she saw a necklace on his neck. the same one she was keeping in her top drawer of the desk. The necklace that allowed her to speak English.
" Thank you, Shizune." Tsunade almost hissed through her teeth and Shizune left the cabinet, without saying anything further. " Who the hell are you?"
" Ah, you are Miss Tsunade, right? We've met once before...at the Ministry of Magic..." the man said in perfect Japanese. Ah, right...so the necklace allowed him to speak their native language.
" I don't remember you." the woman snapped and he smiled with a hint of sadness.
'' Yes, it's not only you, everybody is trying to forget what happened there. We've all lost precious people."
" I asked you something...Who are you?"
Before anybody could say anything, somebody barged in the room. Tsunade moved her furious glare from the man to the pink-haired hurricane and the scared Shizune.
" I tried to stop her...''
" Tsunade-shishou!" Sakura said and the Hokage noticed tears in her eyes. " We've lost two more..."
But then the rosette noticed the man in the room and she dropped the papers that she was holding.
" Lupin! W-What are you doing here?...Is-Is everybody alright?"
" You know him?" Tsunade raised her head.
" Of course I know him! You know him too!..."
Lupin looked at the pink-haired girl. Of course, he remembered her! How could anybody ever forget a person with pink hair? He smiled at her and she smiled back, hesitating whether to hug him or not. They ended up shaking their hands.
" What's going on?" Sakura asked, ignoring her master and Hokage.
" A lot of stuff are happening in our world...we need your help."
" Well, in case you haven't noticed, we need some help, too! Look at the state of our village! I can't help you right now! I simply can't let my shinobi go with you, when I need them here...It's...It's...insanity!"
The man sighed and then looked at his wand.
" What if I help you to repair your village? I think I'd be able to do something about it..."
" You can?" Sakura's eyebrows raised on her forehead. " I mean, it's Reparo, right? But...the village is huge..."
Tsunade shot her apprentice a glare. She knew their spells?
" What exactly is your offer, Lupin-san? And...why isn't Dumbledore-san here?"
The man looked away.
" That's...quite impossible for him...since...well, Professor Dumbledore is dead."
" What?" Sakura whispered in shock, unable to stop her arms from covering her mouth. Tsunade bit the inner side of her cheek.
" What do you want from my shinobi?"
" Look...we're in so much trouble. He-who-must-not-be-named is back. He's killing people again, as if it is nothing. The Death Eaters, that we captured a year ago at the Ministry...they broke free. His army is bigger than ever! And...we don't think that we'll be able to stop them by ourselves. Even powerful wizards fear him, they..they stand by his side in fear not to be killed! He's taken control over Hogwarts...and...Snape...he...he turned out to be his servant from the beginning! "
" What? Professor Snape is..." Sakura covered her mouth again, but this time,tears rolled down her face. Tsunade frowned at her. It's been really hard for the rosette in the last few days. She was in charge of the people in the hospital, since she was the best healer out there. And people kept on dying, just because there weren't enough quallified medics in Konoha. There were people coming from Sunagakure to help them, but it still wasn't enough...
Besides, she just found out, that one more person was dead, and that, another person, who was trusted by them, turned out to be on the other side.
" Sakura!" Tsunade banged her hand on the desk, catching the attention of the sobbing girl. " Bring the team, that was in their world last time...''
" But...everybody? Some of them are seriously injured!"
" Tch. Everybody except for them!"
Sakura bowed a little and escaped the room, leaving the member of the Order and the Hokage. She rushed past Shizune, who called after her, but Sakura ignored her. She made a note mentally, to later apologize.
She hurried to reach the Academy, where she knew, that Iruka was. She had literally no idea, where her teammates and friends were.
" Iruka-sensei!" she called out and a muffed voice came in response.
" Here!"
She hurried to one of the classrooms. The man was writing something, looking unbelievably tired and annoyed.
" Iruka-sensei...have you...have you seen either Sasuke, Naruto or Kakashi-sensei?"
" Hmm...let me think...I think Kakashi should be with Anko and Ebisu at the main gate. They are on guard there. Yes, that's right."
" And Yamato-taicho?"
" Yamato...Yamato...I think I saw him somewhere at the main square...he's building with the others..."
" Thank you, Iruka-sensei!" Sakura said and dashed off the room, leaving her former teacher rather surprised after the interrogation.
However, the rosette was running towards the Main Gate of Konoha. She took a little longer path, that would allow her to visit the main square and also Naruto's apartment before reaching her final destination. She bit her lower lip. What was going on over there? The images of Harry, Hermione and Ron, Ginny and Luna, Neville and even Draco appeared in her mind. What was happening with their friends?
She shook her head and looked around, spotting a man on top of the nearest building. She smirked.
" YAMATO-TAICHO!"
Well, that caught his attention. He jumped next to her and looked at her confused.
" Yamato-taicho...you have to come with me...orders from Tsunade-sama." the girl said and tightened her hitai-ate. " But first, we have to summon everybody that was with us there...in Hogwarts... I'll deal with my team and Gai's Team...You fins the others, team Asuma and Team Kurenai, OK?"
" Hai...but...Sakura, what the hell is-"
" I don't have time to explain. Once you find all of them take them to the Hokage's office! Oh, actually don' bother searching for Shino...he's at the hospital, I think..."
With that, the rosette drifted off to the apartment of the knucklehead. Fortunately, it was near. So, she landed in front of his door and knocked without any grace.
The blonde opened almost immediately.
" Hey, Sakura-chan! What are you...''
" Shut up and listen...Dress up and tell me where Sasuke is!"
" I am here..."
The tall, muscular boy appeared from Naruto's living room, staring at Sakura. He wasn't in his usual clothes, but in civilian T-shirt and pants. So was Naruto. It was their day off, after all. None of them expected to be summoned by the Hokage.
" It's them...they're back." Sakura sighed and the two boys exchanged glances. " Look, I'll meet you two in front of Tsunade-sama's office. I'll go find Kakashi-sensei and Gai's team... I have to go..."
" Wait, I'll come with you!" Sasuke said and stepped forward. The rosette pouted.
" No. Go change and meet me there...no objections, Uchiha! See you..."
Before she dashed off, she leaned in to kiss him on the cheek. After that, she concentrated her chakra in her feet and pushed herself from the ground, moving way faster than before.
" Oi, dobe...what do you think is going on?"
" Who cares, teme, we get to see our friends again, ne?"
Sasuke snorted.
" Whatever, I'll see you there."
And with that, Sasuke also disappeared from Naruto's house. They left the blonde alone. He didn't wait anybody else to remind him, he turned around and quickly started dressing up properly and considering the options why there were wizards here, while eating a toast, which was a thing, that only Uzumaki Naruto could do.
Once he was fully dressed up, with a haori tightened on his leg and a hitai-ate on his forehead, he pushed himself from the door frame, towards the main building in Konoha.
It was a calm day. Naruto still wondered how a bunch of bandits managed to do this to their village. Actually...he did more damage than them, which was quite worrying. In his determination to stop the criminals, who were quite strong, by the way, he had to use his most powerful technique, Rasen Shuriken, a few times...which harmed his village quite a lot. BUT, he managed to stop the bad guys with his team's help. Naruto smiled. One hell of a team he had! It was weird to have a six man cell. that's why Team 7 sometimes split into two tinier teams, one of them, consisting of him, Sakura and Sasuke, and the second one- Kakashi, Yamato and Sai. Yes, it wasn't really fair, but that was the way they were working the best. And now they were all being called by the Hokage. Because of something, none of them had expected.
Naruto sighed, as he landed in front of it, seeing Hinata, Kiba, Shikamaru, Choji and Ino being guided by Yamato. Not long after him, Sasuke arrived, too.
" I see...so she's called everybody?" the wood user muttered. " Where's Sakura?"
" She went for Kakashi and Gai's team. " Sasuke answered with narrowed at the building eyes.
All of them looked really concerned and nobody actually said anything, until the rosette, Kakashi, Lee, Neji and Tenten arrived.
" Good. We're all here...let's go."
Kakashi was walking in front of everybody. It was only natural, since he was the leader the last time. And nobody opposed that. Only were they looking forward to meet their old friend, whoever it was.
Without knocking, the Sharingan Copy ninja opened the door and after him, the whole gang entered the room, that suddenly felt tiny, because of all the people that were there.
Tsunade sighed.
" SHIZUNE! Bring me sake.."
" B-but, tsunade-sama..."
" NOW!"
Without saying another word, the assistant of the leader of the village, got out of the room with the little pig in her arms. But nobody was paying attention to their exchange of words, because they were too busy looking at the wizard.
" Lupin!" a few of the teenagers gasped, Naruto was looking like he was trying to remember from where he knew him,whilst Kakashi and Sasuke narrowed their eyes at him.
" Where's Dumbledore?" the Uchiha asked and noticed, how Sakura shrugged and looked away. Lupin bore his eyes in her, and then in Tsunade, who sighed.
" The man is dead."
" What?!" Yamato asked. " He is dead? Wasn't he the strongest wizard or something?"
" Yes." Lupin confirmed. " He was. It pains me to say this, but there was a traitor in the Order. Severus Snape killed Dumbledore. He has been on You-...on Voldemort's side from the beginning. The Dark Lord has obtained much stronger powers, he has taken control over the ministry, over Hogwarts, over everything. And now Snape is Hogwarts' headmaster."
" I-Impossible..." Hinata hid her face in her hands and Naruto pulled her closer to his body, embracing her tiny shoulders.
" And what's happened to the boy?" Neji asked and that caught Lupin's attention. " How id harry now, that Voldemort has...everything?"
" Harry is...Harry is fine. He still doesn't know. He's still at the house of his uncle and aunt. While he's there, nobody can harm him. But we planned on taking him out tomorrow."
" Tomorrow..."
" Yes...but that's not why we want your help. We...we don't know what is going to happen. The kids have to return in hogwarts, but...there's no way Snape will let you stay in there. He's not on our side. Look, we know how talented you are...We were thinking...can you somehow sneak in Hogwarts? And take care of our kids?"
" Of course!" Naruto said immediately, receiving a deathly gaze from tsunade.
" No way!" she hissed and Lupin looked at her almost beggingly.
" We'll offer anything to you! The amount of money is not a problem!"
" I can only give you five shinobi! there's no way I'll let all of them to come for this only!"
" I don't mind the number. It's irrelevant to us, since we know, how powerful all of them are...you see, we need the protection and we can't...we simply can't do it on our own."
" I get it...now shut up, I'm thinking who to send with you!" tsunade said with a sigh, looking through the faces f her shinobi. Suddenly, she frowned. " Where's Shino?"
" In the hospital." sakura hurried to answer and her master snorted.
" Pity. He would have been a nice person to send. he's not immature and he can sort his thoughts...however..."
" What are you thinking, granny?" naruto asked with anger in his voice. " I will go!"
" First to go is Kakashi. You'll be the leader of the mission!" Tsunade said, ignoring the blonde teenage. The sensei stepped forward to Lupin, winking at him.
" Second...Sasuke...third...Hinata!"
The said shinobi stepped next to the wizard with blank expressions.
" We need a medic...Sakura! You're going too!..And that leaves one person...Shikamaru, what do you think about this?"
The boy looked around and sighed.
" It's obvious, isn't it? Look at who you've got. You've got a leader, you've got a tracker, a medic, a strategist...you only need the power. It's either Kiba, Neji, Choji or Naruto for this task. but since Choji works best on a team, I don't think he'll be suitable and since Ino and Tenten are staying, I don't think Neji and Kiba would be very fond of the idea to leave. And also, Hinata's going, which make it even clearer...Oh, and his other teammates are going, so...Naruto should go." the blonde grinned next to the Nara and patted his shoulder. " Besides, he won't stop complaining if you don't let him, It would be troublesome."
Tsunade looked at the smart Nara and the very, very happy Uzumaki.
" Fine. You go. But if I hear that you've disobeyed kakashi even once you're coming back home and I'll be sending everybody else on your place! Am I clear?"
" Yes, sir! I mean, Granny!"
" Shut up!" the woman growled and looked at the team she had assembled. Kakashi, Sakura, Sasuke, Hinata and naruto. Yes, that would do. They were all powerful and she knew, that they would be able to complete that task. Sneak into a castle and take care of students. But still, it was not in their world, it was in the unknown.
" That's an A-class-mission!" she said and took out a scroll and sealed it. She handed it to Kakashi and then turned to Lupin. " When do you have to go?"
" I have to be back in London by tomorrow afternoon. So until then, every time would do."
" Good. You'll leave tomorrow, first thing in the morning. kakashi, you have a spare bed, don't you? Let Lupin spend the night at your home. Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke and Hinata will stay. The others, go back to what you were doing!"
Some of them seemed disappointed, that they weren't chosen, Tenten and Kiba, for example. They were fuming and were cursing, while getting out of the office. Others, like Neji were looking at the chosen ones for the mission with concern and darker than usual eyes.
Once everybody was out, except for the customer-Lupin, and the assigned team, Tsunade sighed heavily.
" Why do you always turn to our village for help? There are other countries, you know?"
" Dumbledore turned to you, since he knew you were the best of all. That's why I'm here, too..." Lupin said with a peaceful smile. He was probably way more calmer, that the hokage has accepted to offer her help. At least he wouldn't have to wander around to find other people to hire. besides, he wouldn't know if they would be suitable. But now, that he saw the people next to him, he felt joy from the inside. The last time they've been with them, they were ready to give their lives for harry and the others. They were helping them with the fights, well, maybe because their own snake-freak was after the beautiful raven haired guy in the line, but it still didn't matter.
He was staring at them for a while. Kakashi was the same like two years ago. He hasn't changed. Or maybe he has, but because of the mask, Lupin couldn't find any difference. But the teens sure did look a bit older, more mature. Especially Naruto. He was taller and more muscular than before, he had a weird sparkle in his eye, indicating that he wasn't as reckless as before. He had grown up.
" So that's it...just because of glory..." Tsunade sighed and then suddenly smirked. " Well, Dumbledore was right! We are the best!"
Lupin sweatdropped and Naruto grinned widely.
" yeah, me and Sasuke-teme stopped the invasion by ourselves, dattebayo!"
" You ruined the city, dobe..."
" Teme!"
" Dobe."
" Teme!"
" Dobe."
" ENOUGH!" Tsunade was holding them by the collars. The blonde guy seemed to fear her, while the Uchiha was looking at her condescending, insolently...She felt the urge to through him out of the window, but released him, as well as Naruto. " I hope you've understood the most important part!...Dumbledore is dead, Voldemort has the wizarding world under his control and you have to protect the kids..."
" Actually...not all the kids...we meant Harry. Like, I thought it was obvious."
tsunade glared at Lupin.
" Fine! My bad...Dumbledore is dead, Voldemort has the wizarding world under his control and you have to protect Potter. That's it. Lupin, you will stay to give me details and you, Kakashi will stay to listen to them. the other can leave. Go get your stuff and say goodbye. I want you fresh at seven A.M. tomorrow morning at the Main Gate. Clear?'
" Hai!"
" Good. You're free to go."
With that, the four teenagers left the room. Hinata's heart was pounding, Naruto was grinning, Sakura was biting her lower lip and Sasuke was staring into nothing in particular.
" We're so fucked up..." sakura said. " Voldemort has everything under his control and she only sends five of us?! Last time he was weak and we were like fifteen! She's out of her mind!"
" Chill..." Sasuke said and embraced her in his cold, yet warm Uchiha-way. " We had to fight the Akatsuki last time."
" Sakura-chan, relax! There is nobody he could have hired this time!" Naruto patted Sakura's head carelessly. " We're against wizards only and they suck..."
" That's not right...N-naruto-kun!" hinata shook her head. " They are strong. they've developed powers, that we don't possess. They have lots of spells, very dangerous, too. The only thing is, that they can't keep up with our rapidity."
" Blah, the fact is, that I'm better than them..."
" You are so self-confident, that it's making me mad!" Sakura muttered and caught Sasuke's arm. " Let's go, Sasuke!''
When they left, Naruto turned to Hinata with a growling stomach.
" Ne, Hinata, how about a cup of ramen? I won't get to eat proper food in a year, so let's go to Ichiraku's!...My treat."
Hinata smirked and intertwined her fingers with his.
" Yes. Sure."
At the same time, far, far away from the Hidden Continent, in London, Snape was looking at the woman, quite impassive, who was hanging in the air. Tears were pouring from her eyes into her hair, as she turned slowly away from his again.
"Avada Kedavra."
The flash of green light illuminated every corner of the room. The crying woman fell, with a resounding crash, onto the table below, which trembled and creaked. Several of the Death Eaters leapt back in their chairs. Draco fell out of his onto the floor.
"Dinner, Nagini," said Voldemort softly, and the great snake swayed and slithered from his shoulders onto the polished wood.
At the moment, none of them expected to ever meet one of them again. Oh, how wrong they were, each and every one of them...
That was the first chapter out for all of you! I really hope you liked it :)
I'll try to post soon :)
I'll be really glad if this story receives as much feedback as it's prequel! That would make me insanely happy!
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