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"You're lost."
Obsidian eyes twitched slightly, "I am not lost."
"Are you sure? Because I'm sure we've passed the same train about five times now."
Sasuke sighed, clearly irritated by his partners uncanny ability to exaggerate every circumstance (never mind the fact that they really had past the same train five times.) Although given that the only piece of information they received was on a small slip of paper saying 'You will board a train that is to take you to your destination. It is a highly unusual train' wasn't really helpful.
Damn Tsunade. What the hell was she- drunk when she wrote this? He sighed, probably.
"Ne, ne! Maybe Saku- um, I mean Me..mei..melliiishea- oh fuck that. Maybe Sakura found something 'highly unusual'?" Naruto asked, still annoyed that they had to use English names on this mission. Learning the language to a degree where the accent was limited was hard enough, but the names were just weird.
"Hn. It's about time we met up with Mellissa anyways." Sasuke turned around and headed towards the small café near the entrance to the station."Mellissa, did you find anything?" He heard no response as the girl in question was staring intently at a sign.
"Mellisa? Mellissa….Sakura!" She turned around immediately extremely embarrassed.
"Aa, gomen Sasuke-kun I'm still not used to such a name." Sasuke only grunted but Naruto was ready to 'blow this popsicle stand' (a Western slang he'd picked up which freaked out his teammates to no end) so he asked impatiently if she'd found the train.
"I haven't found the train but…well reading English isn't really my thing but I managed to read this sign after awhile…" Sakura pointed to the sign, the name of the station with a confused look. "I'm not really sure but I think this place is called Criss Cross Station."
Sasuke frowned, well shit.
"So? We already knew that didn't we?" Naruto asked confused.
"We're supposed to be heading for Kings Cross station Naruto and we're supposed to be there before eleven. It's quarter to." Sakura pulled out a map and sighed. "Well we better make this fast."
The three of them loomed over the map looking for the right station and when the search was finally over they headed towards the exit of Criss Cross Station.
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Five to eleven they arrived at their destination point with only one comment rolling off of the blonde's mouth.
"After this, if anyone even mentions English or anything that sounds like it I'll punch their brains out."
"Shut up idiot and look for something odd." Sasuke growled. In less than four minutes they were going to fail this mission and he was not going to tell that crazy violent gambler that it was because they couldn't fucking read.
"Something odd? Have you looked outside teme?!" Naruto screamed. "They ride in metal contraptions and have the pointiest buildings that I've ever seen! If that's normal then I don't want to what's- wait, is that…?"
His eyes shifted to where Sakura was looking.
It was a brick wall, she was sure. But at the same time…it wasn't and by definition that could only mean one thing. "Genjutusu."
"It's not odd by our standards but by the mission info it is, might as well check it out. Plus we have two minutes left before we fail so what have we got to lose?" Sakura muttered approaching the wall.
"Our heads." Naruto deadpanned.
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"Fred! George! You two first, well go on then- Oh dear, look at the time!" Mrs. Weasley hurried between the children, practically pushing them through the wall. "Well go! Oh Harry, there's no reason to be so discreet the muggles won't see a thing! Rather oblivious like th- Ginny why are you still hear?! Through the wall with you!"
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"The old lady said muggles didn't she? We learned that term; it's got to be them!" Naruto whispered to his friends. Tugging at his black shirt he headed for the wall, curious to what awaits him on the other end.
"Yosh! Let's get this mission started! Er, in less than thirty seconds."
The three of them loaded their trunks (an unbelievably impractical way of moving your things) onto Hogwart's Express and begun to look for an empty compartment.
This did not go well however as millions of redheads and one severely out of place black haired boy decided to rush past through yelling "Sorry!" over their shoulders. Sasuke swore two of them didn't actually mean it.
As the clock struck eleven and the train started moving Sasuke let out the breath he'd- unknowingly- been holding. They'd made it and now could move on to phase two- infiltrate the castle. But first...where the hell were they going to sit?
Naruto groaned. "They should have bigger trains or have two trains or atleast have some ramen or- hey look an empty compartment." Sakura rolled her eyes, she'd never figure out how he made Anbu. "Oh well expect for that guy." And Sasuke was sure it was nothing short of a miracle.
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Harry James Potter had never been referred to as 'that guy' in the wizarding world before. It was a strange experience and thought that if he was anyone else he should probably be feeling insulted at being ignored. Instead he thought, Well this is new, a wizard who doesn't know who I am…
"Danny, this is Harry Potter!" Sakura whispered to the blonde.
"So? Should I know him or something 'cause 'Harry' and 'Potter' are really common and the only Harry Potter I've heard of is the Harry Potter who…oh, OH!" Naruto realized slapping his forhead, he turned towards Harry. "Er…hello."
Nope, just the most oblivious person I've ever met. "Um, hi." Inwardly Harry frowned, he was sure he'd never seen them before. I don't know everyone in Hogwarts but they look like the type to stand out.
"Harry? Harry, are you there?" Ron Weasley called out from behind the three strangers. "Could you move? Bloody hell, Harry!"
Harry stood up, "Ron! In here!"
"Oh honestly, quit acting like he's gone and killed himself Ron! Harry, could you tell your friends to kindly move? It's rather frustrating standing out here." Hermione shouted.
The three shinobi blinked, their heads spinning with the too-fast conversation.
"Why can't anybody speak slowly?!" Naruto screamed in Japanese. "How does anyone even understand you?"
"Urusai Naruto!" Sasuke hissed. "We're attracting too much attention to ourselves."
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And thus Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger became the first of Hogwarts student population to come into contact with shinobi. Historically speaking, they are the first of this world to come in contact with shinobi in hundreds of years. Possibly because the ninja's prefer to keep to themselves and the rest of the world has had selective memory for so long that no one even remembers them.
The entire ninja population as a whole found this kind of funny since muggles and wizards alike knew nothing about them yet the shinobi had always been aware of their existence. And lucky enough for Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke they get to have a wonderful magical experience for one sole reason.Konohagakure no Sato has recently decided that if these stick-wavers were to suddenly become a threat to their village or allies a healthy dose of information was always handy.(Although in Naruto's opinion, "They're pretty damn weak; I don't think any of them would be able to give me a good spar.")
He failed to realize of course, that not everybody has mad ninja skills.
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Chapter Two; The Sorting of Strangers