Sakura the Witch
Disclaimer; I don't own Harry Potter or Naruto
Note; Sakura is going to be a year younger than her graduating class,but she was still apart of team seven and her birthday will be the same, but she was 11. This takes place a few months before Naruto Shippuden, so Sakura has been training with not only Tsunade, but also Kurenai (cause I feel Kishi should have let her develop her genjutsu.), for two and a half years and is 14 years old. Naruto had left to train for a little longer than three years.
It was early in the morning, the sun was just rising. A lone figure in a black cloak was jumping from tree to tree to reach her village, her emerald green eyes were barely visible under her hood. She had just come from a mission and had to report to her Kage and master.
After passing the village gates and signing in, she did a few hand signs and disappeared in a swirl of cherry blossoms and reappeared in the Hokage's office.
" I take it the mission went well, since your in my office and not at the hospital or delayed." an older female voice remarked casually.
" Hai, shishou. I was able to retrieve the scroll from our contact and made sure to cover my tracks." answered the green-eyed girl.
" Good. Rise and hand me the scroll." the young girl did so and stood in front of the large desk. She was not dismist yet, meaning that she may be needed for another job.
After reading the scroll, Tsunade cursed under her breath and quickly downed her cup of sake, before pouring another glass.
" Shizune-nee-san, will not be happy that your drinking this early." the girl remarked.
" Yeah, well Shizune is not dealing with all of the problems that seem to pop up, specifically for Konoha. Also, drop that damn hood, I feel like if I look up, I'll see one of those creepy ANBU mask."
The girl chuckled at her master's words, before complying. When she did, bubblegum pink hair was revealed, that reached down to her lower back and a heart shaped porcelain skin face appeared." What problems are you talking about?"
Tsunade eyed her apprentice for a moment." Answer me first, how fluent is your English?"
The bubblegum haired beauty blinked at the randomness of the question, but answered." Quiet. I took it during the academy, because my parents, being merchants, wanted to make sure that I could easily communicate with their customers in case they ever needed my help. So they made sure I continued it, along with a few others. Why?"
" Sakura, I have another mission for you, however this mission is a long term and complex one."
Sakura stood straighter." How long term and complex?"
" This mission will be considered S-rank, but the period of which you are gone can not be determined."
" But, Shishou, I'm only a chunin." her master certainly could not be sending her off to her death could she?
" Yes, but your skills are jounin and still growing. Plus I need someone your age and the only others I can think of are Neji and Shikamaru, but with them belonging to clans it could be a bit of a hassel trying to get them for this mission. I can only tell you the details, if you choose to accept it."
" Will I be able to be back in time to see Naruto?" it came out softly, yet hit volumes with Tsunade.
" Possibly and if not, you would only be gone for a month or so longer."
After a few moments of contemplation, Sakura accepted the mission.
" Now, the scroll I had you collect was a request asking for help, however it was made from a different dimension."
Tsunade raised a hand, silencing any of Sakura's protest." Yes, there are multiple dimensions out there. Each with a different story and legacy, however most are filled with protagonist and antagonist. The point is, in that world they have this thing called magic, which is similar to chakra, only weaker and used for more than attacks. The person who asked for help was a powerful and well known wizard named Albus Dumbledore. Apparently, they are dealing with a soon-to-be-revived Dark lord and are in need of assistance, I will send you for now, but if it becomes too difficult I will send back up." she paused to let in sink in and after sipping her sake continued.
" This world is located in a place called, Europe in both England and Scottland. The details are in this scroll I will give you, but the bottom line is, you need to help and protect their "chosen one" defeat the Dark lord. To do that you will be attending a magical school called, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I have a scroll that will transport you there and will have a way for you to contact me, however I shall let you know that time flows differently there. A few years there only add up to months here, how long I'm not sure, but you don't have to think about your friends not seeing you for years, even if that is how long you will be gone. This mission will begin in one week, while you brush up on your English, pack, and I tie up a few loose ends alright?"
At Sakura's nod, she was dismissed.
It has been a few days since then and Sakura was currently in her casual wear and was taking a break from her studying. Though she was no slouch when it came to memorizing and studying, she still could not help but be nervous and slightly overwhelmed. Seriously, a different dimension? Where not only would she know no one, the culture would be so foreign and strange, they say their first names first for pete's sake! Maybe she should back out now and continue her training, while waiting for Naruto.
Naruto. Oh, how she missed her blond haired idiot. He always knew exactly how to distract her or get her fired up to where she felt like she was ready to take on the world, if it meant he would be by her side. Although she didn't love naruto in a romantice way, she did love him a lot. He was the only one who believed in her, when she didn't even believe in herself, flashes of her fight with Ino came to mind. She wanted to be there for him and stand by his side instead of in the back supporting him, with words only. But it looks like she might have to wait longer than expected.
" Sakura!" Sakura, effectively snapped out of her thoughts turned to find Shikamaru approaching her.
" Shikamaru, how are you?" she smiled at him. After being promoted to chunin, she went on many missions with him, before he made jounin, but even then they would still hand out, play shogi, and watch the clouds together. Sometimes, whenever Sakura's anger became too much to bear, she would destroy a training ground and then watch they clouds, usually in a near mile wide crater. The two were able to have stimulating debates and conversation, that they usually could only due with adults nearly twice their age, so needless to say, they were happy with the others company.
" Fine, though work is troublesome."
" As usual, ne Shika?" she asked amused. Sakura always found it funny when Shikamaru complained, because he would still do the work as spectacular as a well seasoned shinobi. Plus, she enjoyed calling him by his nickname.
As expected the lazy genius groaned." That nickname is starting to catch on. First you, then Ino, and last time I saw her Temari slipped and called me that."
" It suites you, after all you are the Shika in the Ino-Shika-Cho combo."
" Whatever. Shoji, my place?"
" Un!"
After they reached the Nara compound and were half way through the game, Shikamaru decided to speak up.
" What's got you distracted that you are making simple mistakes?" he asked, not taking his eyes off the board.
Sakura contemplated saying nothing, but then realized that Shikamaru was far too smart and far too observant for that, so opted for as much of the truth as she could tell." I'm getting another mission and it's a long term solo."
" Nice, how long?" he asked and he moved one of his pieces.
" A few months."
" Will you be back in time for his return?"
" Maybe or I'll be a month late." she answered and she made her move.
" Are you worried about the mission or missing Naruto."
" Both." she whispered.
Shikamaru looked up from the board." Can you tell me anything?"
" It's in a far away place, where I will have only contact with shishou at most. It's a really foreign place and I'm nervous about taking such an important mission."
Shikamaru signed." look, when I had my first solo jounin mission I was in a panic state." Sakura raised her eyebrow." It was not visible, but had you been around me at the time, you would have been able to tell something was off. I barely ate, slept, or let my guard down, in case of an attack, but when I made it to the gates of Konoha with no problem, I let out a huge sigh of relief and finally looked up at the clouds I enjoyed watching and thought to myself " I did it.". It was so troublesome and nerve racking that I thought of every bad possible scenario that could happen and never thought about succeeding and yet I did. The point is, every real solo will seem as if you have the fate of the world on your shoulders, but in truth you don't. You just have a mission and your own back to watch out for, sure bad things can happen, but that's life. If we let fear and nerves conrol us we would never be able to stand and fight for what we believe in."
Shikamaru paused, he felt like he was sounding real corny, right now." Answer me this Sakura, do you think you would be happy knowing you were too scared to take an important solo mission, do you think you would be able to face Naruto?"
Sakura looked down. In truth she never thought of it like that. Here she is wanting to stand by Naruto's side and yet when the time finally comes for her to start putting her training to use, she's ready to return to scared little genin Sakura. Sakura's fist tighten. She would never return to that person, so long as she breathed.
" Shikamaru," said boy looked at her. She smiled." thank you."
" Just play me for real and we'll call it even."
*Knock**Knock*
" Come in."
" Shishou, I'm ready." Sakura stated. She had a small pack on her back, but it contained sealing scrolls, that held her clothes, hygienic supplies, and her favorite sweets, that most likely would not be sold there, and a few extra things. Her weapon pouch, medical pouch, and tanto were around her waist.
Tsunade looked up, along with Shizune and Ton Ton.
Tsunade smirked. " I knew you'd show up." she signaled for Sakura to come over to her.
" This is the scroll, that will take you to the other world. You should end up right outside the school's barrier and be met by one of their workers." she handed Sakura a supply scroll." This has the money you've obtained working those long hours at the hospital, missions, and some extra I threw in to make sure you're covered. I'm not sure of the exchange rate, but Dumbledore did say our currency was like a place they call, Japan, if a little older, which just might add to it's value. It also has, crystal ball. I went looking and found my old sensei's along with it's twin, so all you need to do is push some chakra in it and say "Hokage", if I'm here I will be able to talk to you, if not I'll know that you called and will try to reach you myself. The scroll has a few extra weapons, herbs, ect."
" Sakura, please be careful." said Shizune as she came to give the younger girl a hug." Now, the time equivalence is for every four months you are there, one month goes by here. So, one year equals three months. The longest we expect you to be gone is 3 years, which is nine months here, however you may come back sooner."
' Three years.' thought Sakura a bit intimidated by the amount of time. Shizune noticed this and smiled.
" Look at it this way, Sakura, three years is a lot of time for a semi-vacation. Plus, you can do some character building, while you explore a whole new world! Who knows, you might get lucky in the love department as well." said Shizune, wiggling her eyebrows.
Sakura's cheeks tinted red. Over the years, she realized that she never loved Sasuke. Sure she liked him, but it was a crush at most and admiration for the most part. Even so, it did sadden her to think that a part of her team was missing, added to the fact that Naruto was closest to him, only being rivaled by the Sandiame, and Sakura knew Naruto was hurting. She would do anything for her blonde idiot and was gonna make him and her senseis proud on this mission.
" Sakura," called Tsunade, causing said girl to look up." were ready to begin."
The scroll was now unfolded across the desk. There were many complex signs and writing, that Sakura did not understand. However, it formed a circle in the middle, where Tsunade said to put her hand. Both Tsunade and Shizune, started flying through hand seals, while muttering under their breaths, Tsunade even activated her seal.
" Sakura, push some of your chakra into it." announced Tsunade.
She did and watched as the whole scroll lit up.
" Good luck, Sakura!" called Shizune as the scroll activated and began pulling Sakura in.
" Don't give up Sakura, we'll be in contact and know you can do!" yelled Tsunade as Sakura was finally pulled in and disappeared.
" I hope she'll be alright." wished Shizune.
" I wouldn't have sent her on this mission, if I didn't think she could handle it."
" Pu pun." agreed Ton Ton.
Sakura felt her body being stretched and pinched all over. It didn't exactly her her, due to her training, but it wasn't the most comfortable sensation. After what felt longer than it most likely was, Sakura saw that she was approaching the ground and moved, so her feet were below her. She landed slightly harder than expected, but was able to keep her footing.
" Good job. Most don't know how to land on der feet, for der first few tries."
Sakura's head snapped toward the voice, but she struggled to stop herself for reaching for kunai. She observed the man before her. He was huge! The scroll did say there were many magical species in this world, so maybe he's a giant or at least part. He had long thick hair, that matched his beard. His clothes were slightly weird to Sakura, though she was sure hers were completely weird to him, if the look on his face was anything to go by. She tried to sense for his...er, magic and found she was able to, but it was a lot weaker compared to most, he had the amount of an academy student. She decided to stop being rude and spoke in English.
" Hello, my name is Haru- Sakura Haruno. I was sent here on Dumbledore-sama's orders."
" Ah, right! Names Hagrid and I'm the groundskeeper for Hogwarts. Follow me and I'll take ya to Dumbledore's office.
As Sakura approached the Headmaster's office, she learned a lot about the gentle giant, yes she's calling him that. She learned how he was the Care for Magical Creatures professor and about his love for exotic animals. Things like three headed dogs, dragons, and acromantulas, though she didn't know what the last one was and when she asked he told her a giant spider. Ino would have turned and left as fast as she could at that. She also looked around the place. When the scroll said Hogwarts was a castle, tit meant it. The place looked historic and grand, way different from most Daimyo's palaces.
" Cotton candy." Hagrid spoke to the gargoyle, who leaped out of the way.
'That was the Headmaster's password? Why not put up a sign that says " Any and all welcome."? Unless the guy is really arrogant about his powers.' thought Sakura as she entered the office.
" Hello Miss Haruno and welcome to Hogwarts!" he greeted humbly, as Hagrid left. She took a seat in front of his desk and listened." You already know my name, so please allow me to explain what is going on." He told her about the war, Voldemort and people's fear of him, that Harry Potter is the only one who can defeat him, though he did not specify why, and also some things about Harry, his two friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, and their first three years at Hogwarts, although Sakura had a feeling he was glossing over things." Now, the students all left Hogwarts yesterday at the end of the term and won't be back until September first, until then you will be here studying years 1-3 and the professors will teach you. You will need to select at least two electives and will be taught last years curriculum of whatever you chose. Because the teachers will only have you to teach, you should be able to catch up, however it all depends on how hard you work. Any questions?"
Sakura let it all sink in. It sounds complicated and some points, but others seem to be so easy to solve. She was gonna be busy this summer, but was a hard worker and easily able to grasp most concepts, so should be alright.
" Am I going to be on a learning schedule? Where will I get my supplies? Where will I live? And is there a place that I can continue my training?" she asked one after the other, but at a pace where the Headmaster could understand.
Said Headmaster chuckled at her quick thinking and questioning." Your schedule will be given to you after you choose an elective, you will go to Daigon Alley to exchange your money and buy supplies, You will live here in the guest quarters, until the welcoming feast, where you will be sorted after the first years, and you can scope out the area to find a place to train."
Sakura nodded, as she took the course selection sheet from him. After Dumbledore explained what each class was, Sakura selected Ancient Runes and Arithmancy.
" Good. Here is a map of the castle, Professor McGonagall will be here to show you your room and you shall go to Daigon Alley tomorrow, along with beginning a few of your lessons." announced Dumbledore, just as the door opened.
Sakura turned and saw a stern looking woman, in a strange green outfit, though it was not as strange as the Headmaster's multicolored robes.
Sakura was definitely going to be busy this summer. She just hoped she'd be able to complete her mission.
Alright, that's the end of the first chapter.
First, I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm gonna skip summer and just have Sakura give a summary of what happened, cause I don't want to write what happens week by week, before we even get to the whole reason shes there, to protect harry and get rid of Voldemort.
Also, these chapters will be 3,000 words minimum, but won't go too much higher unless I feel it needs to.
Finally, who should I pair Hermione with? If I do get to her pairing I wanna know what you think. But I can't get behind Ron/Hermione, I just can't. To me HE was always that annoying brother that Hermione put up with, but still loved in a sibling way.
P.S. Dumbledore is not manipulative, but also not overly helpful, he's there when I need him, but Sakura will not be reporting to him every week. I will try not to bash anyone, but this is a school so some people will come across as bitchy and Sakura will handle them, cause she's awesome.