Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR HARRY POTTER!
HI EVERYONE! Wow I'm so excited this is my first story! I hope everyone likes it, I'm putting a lot of effort in writing it and I hope it makes sense. I tend to ramble when I write...and I'm not majoring in creative writing just heads up...
Kitsune are believed to possess superior intelligence, long life, andmagicalpowers. They are a type ofyōkai, or spiritual entity, and the wordkitsuneis often translated asfox spirit. However, this does not mean that kitsune areghosts, nor that they are fundamentally different from regular foxes. Because the wordspiritis used to reflect a state of knowledge or enlightenment, all long-lived foxes gain supernatural abilities.
It should have been a surprise to everyone when Naruto received her letter, however for some odd unexplainable reason it wasn't. It felt to them like it was something expected, they had accepted the fact that Naruto was a witch without a problem instead focusing on how they could use this to their advantage. The Third Hokage being the only one to even question how someone came to be with magic or how it was any different then chakra.
Kitsune are often presented astricksters, with motives that vary from mischief to malevolence.
Naruto blinked up at the old leader, confusion and shock showing in her big blue eyes. She didn't doubt what the Hokage told her, after all it was the old man and his track record was clean as far as she knew. He wouldn't ever lie to her or joke about something like this. So she simply accepted the fact that she was a witch, didn't mean she had to like it though.
"You will be attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the council has concluded that if your case where ever to repeat itself it would be in everyone's interest for us to be better prepared and more informed." Naruto tilted her head absorbing the Third's answer while he watched. Observation was one of many important shinobi tools.
"So…I'm the guinea pig?" His lips quirked at her innocent response, deception was another tool and unlike everyone else Naruto couldn't pull the innocent act on him. They both knew what she was capable of.
"In a way yes, but you must understand Naruto that all ninja have a personal obligation to the village. If a personal experience is vital for the village then it is the person's obligation to use it to help Konoha in any way possible."
"I see…what would I have to do then?" He gave her a huge grin to ease her nerves. It didn't help but she visibly relaxed her shoulders.
"Nothing really, just be an exceptional pupil, study hard and put a lot of effort into your studies." Her face fell at the news; it was no secret that school work and Naruto just didn't mix. She was more of a hands-on person than a bookworm. "Now now Naruto, you have to understand that for us to get a clue as to what the wizarding world has in store you have to take advantage of everything they offer you. I have already made arrangements for your new headmaster to send me weekly report cards on you so I expect exceptional behavior." He placated trying to keep the girl from running out of his office yelling obscenities. It had happened before.
"Fine." She grumbled crossing her arms over her chest pouting already resigning herself to her fate. She could already see herself being buried behind piles of books just like Sakura-chan. "So what's a headmaster? Some kinda sensei?" She asked instead trying to distract herself from the horrible thought.
"Yes, he's the head of the school and in charge of basically everything. You will have other sensei's that teach different subjects. But ultimately everything goes through him first." He explained slowly, after all it was a whole new culture and although the academy taught English Naruto was in year two and like most of her other subjects…she never did apply herself so he couldn't really hope that she paid any attention in her foreign culture class either. It would be a long two months…
"Oh." Might as well tell her the rest of her responsibilities now that she was already resigning herself to the idea, her reaction couldn't get any worse.
"Do not worry if you don't fully understand it now, I have assigned a personal tutor for you. He will be in charge of teaching you everything you need to know before you leave. But I have another thing I have to talk to you about before I let him in." Naruto looked at him wearily; she could sense that she wouldn't like what he would say next. "As you know your class will graduate when most of them turn the age thirteen correct?"
She nodded her head, her brain already connecting the dots.
"Well since you will be gone for most of the year I wouldn't want you falling behind on your ninja studies or have a reason not to graduate so I have made arrangements with your current academy instructor to send you your work through me as well as recommended texts that you should read during your free time. That way when the time comes for you to take the graduation test you won't have a reason not to, unless you don't want to become a kunoichi anymore now that you know you're a witch? I would fully understand it if you do not want to replace me as the next Hokage." It was a bit manipulative of him and mean since he could just see the little thought bubble above her head of her surrounded by thousands of books but still Minato and Kushina would have wanted her to become a Konoha shinobi. So if he had to play around with the girl's wish to become Hokage than he would.
Naruto groaned both mentally and physically as she nodded her head, there was no avoiding it. She would most likely end up just like Sakura-chan, spending every hour that she wasn't spending on Sasuke…reading…studying…and reading…
"Well then it's all settled, in a few weeks I will call you into my office again where one of your new senseis will be here to take you away for a week. You will go shopping and he or she will also be there to answer any questions you might have about your new school, so I suggest you listen to everything your tutor has to teach you understood?"
"Yeah yeah just who is the guy?" There was a knock on the door and Naruto turned around.
"Ah here he is. Ebisu-sensei this is your new charge that I talked to you about. Naruto this is Ebisu." Naruto and Ebisu glared at each other, the Third twitched. It would be a long two months…
One month and two weeks later…
"No! No! No!" Ebisu yelled slamming a hand down on the table the other at his forehead. Naruto let out a long sigh and leaned back in her chair, she and Ebisu where both currently staying in a inn called the Leaky Cauldron having spent the entire day traveling with the uptight witch and future transfiguration teacher Professor McGonagall. Naruto was told to call her Professor and not sensei and because of that she was currently made and messing up her English session with Ebisu. It wasn't the fact that she had to refer to the witch as such but the fact that McGonagall had talked to her like she was a two year old that made her mad.
Ebisu eyed his young charge thoughtfully; he knew why she was so upset in fact he was feeling a bit indigent towards the older woman himself. Sure he hated the Kyubi brat but over the past few weeks he had grown use to her antics well enough that he had grown a small soft spot for the girl and watching the older woman humiliate her (unintentionally of course) had sparked something in him. That was why he was hounding her to review and brush up on her English so that the next time they met with the woman she wouldn't be put on the spot again.
"Very well we've both had a long day, let's rest. Tomorrow we have to get up early and go shopping for your supplies." He sighed walking over to his bed; they had gotten two rooms opposite each other.
Naruto gave him a tired smile and walked out. To Ebisu it felt like he had just closed his eyes when he was forced to open them again and answer the door.
"Ebisu-sensei, it's already ten are we gonna leave anytime soon?" Naruto asked orange juice in hand, she must have just had breakfast. He cursed at how late he was.
"Yes give me a few minutes and I'll be down." She gave him an annoyed look took a huge gulp of juice and then walked off.
He was pleasantly surprised to find that Naruto had ordered a simple breakfast for him and that it was ready and waiting for him by the time he came down, Tom smiled at him and complimented at how thoughtful his charge was. He politely agreed.
"So the bartender guy showed me how to open the passage way to Diagon Alley, I would have gone by myself but the old man said that you wanted to look around and do a bit of shopping on your own…" Naruto trailed off glancing around and grinning at anyone who was staring at them; it looked like they didn't get many foreigners and now that he thought about it they were being slightly rude by speaking their tongue. It wasn't like they were talking about secret ANBU missions or anything.
"Right, well I'm finished so let's get going then."
Naruto had laughed so much from the point when she opened the gate and Ebisu's jaw dropped to the roller coaster ride at the goblin bank. After that she had pulled a Naruto Uzumaki and disappeared with half the gold they had gotten.
So far she was doing pretty good for herself working her way down the list of supplies. Though she stood in front of the robe shop for nearly twenty minutes trying to decide if she should put this off till the end, clothes shopping were never her favorite hobby.
"Well it's better to get it over with now." Taking a deep breath she walked in.
"Hogwarts dear?" A slightly heavy (she was by no means Akimichi huge) woman asked poking her head out from a curtain, when Naruto nodded her head she was dragged behind that same curtain. She was then pushed up onto a stool next to a dark haired boy who was being measured by a floating measuring tape. The woman started on her and for the most part the two ignored each other, for some reason Naruto got a bad vibe from the boy. He almost reminded her of a mix between Sasuke and Kiba.
"I'm Sirius Black." She jumped at the sudden introduction and then cursed as a pin pricked her side.
"Please hold still dear." The woman reprimanded and Naruto did casting Sirius a small glare, he laughed at her.
"Hikari Kazama." She gave the fake name the old man had given her and told her to use, apparently the council where a bit suspicious and where treating this like a mission. The old man had told her that that was how she would go by at school and although it was a girly name to her she was excited that this was a dangerous enough mission for her to use a fake name.
Sirius gave her a thoughtful look before blurting out his thoughts.
"Your Japanese?" She nodded and the huge grin he had earlier returned. "Hogwarts doesn't get much foreigners, did your parents move here recently." She could feel herself frown at the thought of her parents but pulled out one of her fake smiles and shrugged her shoulders.
"No, I still live in Japan but for some reason I got a letter. It was…a surprise…" She trailed off not really knowing how to explain it, she didn't even know how she had ended up with magic. Sirius gave her a wide eyed look and she looked at him confused, had she said something?
"Your muggleborn?" She noted the sharp intake at the last word and narrowed her eyes for a bit before giving him a confused look.
"Muggleborn?"
"Someone with no magical parents." He explained, she felt the lady pat her down and glanced at herself in the mirror. She looked ridiculous.
"Your done dear how many would you like?" She sighed and told her four. When they were all wrapped up and she was paying she decided to give Sirius one last look, she still didn't like him. There was just something getting in the way.
"I guess I'll see you at school." He gave her a huge grin and nodded. She rushed out of the shop and headed into the nearest store.
She groaned when she saw it was the bookstore.
Okay so here's the prologue to my first story. I hope it's caught several of your interests, I have a lot planned for this story and I would like your help in keeping it interesting. I will be using a lot of references to the Japanese Kitsune myths and I have a challenge to you all.
If you can figure out the reason why Naruto can't seem to like Sirius I will incorporate any scene or idea you come up with.
This little challenge will go on as long as Naruto is oblivious to the reason herself, so…that will be for a couple of chapters.
Like I've seen in most stories, everyone's interested in the romance and so I want to clear something up: I suck at writing romance. So along with requesting a beta, I want a beta that will be willing to bounce romantic scenes with me and plain out tell me if I'm moving too fast with a relationship.
Um…I know it's just the prologue and I shouldn't expect reviews but still they would be nice…