"Are you sure about this, headmaster?" a stiff woman wearing a green robe asked an older man with a snow-white beard. He was sitting at a brown desk folding a piece of paper.

"Of course, Minerva. I wouldn't ask for help from someone I didn't trust," he replied.

"But this is the Dark Lord we're talking about," Minerva stated earnestly, "He has his spies everywhere. How do we know we can trust them?"

"Calm down, professor. These are not ordinary children, and I believe they will do their best to protect our students."

"Alright, headmaster. I still have my doubts, but if you believe in them, I will not try to stop you."

"Thank you, I am grateful for your faith in my decision," the man put the paper in an envelope and tied it to a waiting owl. The owl gracefully flapped its wings and headed off to the east, its brown feathers glistening in the early evening light. They both watched the owl disappear into the horizon.

The delicious smell of noodles hung in the air as a talkative boy and a smaller girl enjoyed their meal. The boy was wearing a strange orange jacket and pants while the girl sitting next to him wore a red dress with slits down both sides.

Naruto and Sakura were enjoying an occasional break from their training and decided to get some ramen from Ichiraku Ramen. Naruto's usual orange outfit was dirty from sparring. Sakura's clothes were also smudged with dirt and her unusual pink hair was short and sticky with sweat. Naruto was devouring his third helping of pork ramen as the interminable blue sky smiled down at them. Sakura slurped her noodles while listening to Naruto ramble on about how the "pervy sage" was going to teach him an awesome new jutsu. She just smiled and nodded again and again. Naruto soon turned quiet, for he was appreciating the beautiful weather and his ramen.

After a little while of enjoying the late summer breeze, Sakura broke the silence, "Hey, Naruto?"

"Huh?" Naruto replied.

"Did you ever wonder if there is something else out there? Like some parallel universe? Or maybe some kind of mystical world? Just something beyond this life that we know of."

"Where did that come from?"

"I don't know, I was just thinking, is all."

"I never thought of anything like that before…"

"Well, I just wanted to-"

Just then, a boy with irritated brown eyes and nut-brown hair pulled back into a spiky ponytail strolled up to them.

"Hey Shikamaru!" Naruto practically screeched at him.

His gait seemed to scream, "This is so bothersome!" His whole being radiated laziness, which was contradicting to the green chuunin vest he wore.

"How troublesome," he sighed and continued, "the lady Hokage wants to meet with you. Kakashi and Sasuke are already there-"

"What? So they're waiting for us and you decide to take your own sweet time to get us?" Sakura shrieked at him, all past tranquility forgotten.

She had had about enough of his lazy attitude. Naruto was about to crack a joke to try to calm Sakura down, but was instead pulled away and towards the Hokage's office. She ran at an incredible speed, half chakra and half determination. The citizens of Konoha glimpsed a blur of red, pink, and orange and felt a breeze.

When the pink haired kunoichi reached the Hokage's Tower, she quickly glanced over at her teammate and realized that she had pretty much dragged him with her. His hair was messier than usual and little pieces of god-knows-what was stuck on his clothes and was too stubborn to come off. They swiftly ran up the stairs after Naruto overcame the nauseous feeling and opened the door to the Hokage's office. She was sitting at her desk waiting patiently with Kakashi up against the wall reading his book and Sasuke next to him, looking more annoyed than ever.

"Good, you're here. Now, on to business," Tsunade stated.

She whistled and a beautiful tawny owl rushed over to her, bearing a letter. 'Wait a minute, I didn't think we ever used owls for sending messages,' Sakura pondered. The Godaime tore open the letter and handed it to Kakashi as well as a scroll to look over as she explained what their latest mission was about.

"You are all going to go to a place called Hogwarts in England. It's a school for young witches and wizards to learn how to master the magic that flows through them, much like your chakra training. The headmaster of this school has asked Konoha if we could send some of our ninja there to protect it from an evil man named Voldemort. He's powerful and deadly, like Orochimaru,"

Sasuke grimaced at the name and they all looked at him with concerned expressions. He ignored them and watched Tsunade, eyeing her to move on.

Tsunade kept going, "Headmaster Dumbledore asked that the ninjas we send can gather information on Voldemort and his group, called Death Eaters and also protect as many people from him as possible, especially this young boy named Harry James Potter."

She held up a picture of Harry and a red haired boy grinning with their arms hung around each other's shoulders. The picture itself wasn't odd, but the fact that the boys in it were moving was. They were joking and having a good time. They looked no more than 12 in the picture.

"The one with the glasses and lightning shaped scar is Harry, and the other one is Ron Weasley," explained Tsunade.

"Harry is very special and considered 'the chosen one' for reasons unknown to us."

"Hold on a second, so do you mean special in the good way, or the demented fruitcake way?" Naruto questioned, receiving an angry stare from the fifth Hokage.

"Does he look like a psychopath to you?" Sakura shot a dirty look at him as she smacked the back of his head.

Tsunade continued, "Dumbledore also requested that the ninja assigned to the job are about Harry's age so they could easily make friends with him. I know that I can trust you three with this task. Also, I have assigned team Gai to accompany you. If there is any trouble, I'll get any extra back-up Anbu to assist you. It is of the utmost importance that no one knows that you are ninjas, nor anything about our village. I give you permission to tell only the most trusted friends you will make. I already sent Shizune to get your new supplies for the trip. Make sure you keep up your training. Kakashi and Gai will watch over you for a while and when it's safe enough, they will explain the rest. Now, any questions?"

It took a while for all of that information to process through their minds and in the middle of that silence, Naruto said, "Wait, we have to go to England? Do they speak English there?"

"No Naruto, they speak French," Tsunade replied, sarcasm dripping from her voice.

Naruto groaned, "That means that I'm going to have to learn a whole new language! French is hard."

Everyone else in the room slapped their foreheads with their hands, making a light red mark on their heads.

"Naruto, Tsunade-sama was being sarcastic, and yes, people in England speak English," Sakura cleared up for him.

Naruto just gave them an "Oh, right. I knew that," and backed off.

"Sakura, you're good at speaking in English, right?"

"Well, I guess so. I studied it just in case of emergencies."

"Alright, you will teach Naruto and Sasuke. You three will leave and go to King's Cross on September 1st. The train will leave at 11:00 am from platform 9 3/4. Have fun."

And with a wave, the Hokage dismissed them and got back to her half a mile high stack of paperwork. Kakashi disappeared in a puff of smoke as the rest of the group left the building.

"So, do you guys know the alphabet?" Sakura asked. Sasuke replied with his usual grunt and nodded, while Naruto just stared at her, confused. Sakura let out a sigh and said, "Don't worry, I'll teach you."

'I need to take a nice, long bath and think about this unusual mission. I wonder what this Harry kid is like. I hope he's not a complete jerk if I'm going to have to become friends with him.'

"Hey! Sakura-chan! We could go to my apartment and you could teach me English and-"

"Sorry Naruto, but I think I'm going to start packing," Sakura interrupted him and walked away.

"So Sasuke, what are you-" Naruto turned to look at Sasuke, but he was already gone.

"Jeez, why do they always leave me? I guess I'll just train then," Naruto said to no one in particular. He walked to Team 7's usual training area and started to warm up. As he was finishing his warm-up, he heard someone training. Naruto masked his chakra and looked through the bushes. There, he saw Sasuke practicing with his sharingan. He was muttering to himself.

"I will beat you, Itachi. I promise."

Ok, so I updated some chapters because I thought some places needed revising. Thanks for being so patient and hopefully I will have another chapter up soon. Also, I DO NOT own Harry Potter or Naruto.