hello! here's the first one-shot of this series…though since they're still sorta continuous so it's a sorta one-shot anyway…just a sort of impulse to start this before i go off for my exam…haha…

enjoy XD

disclaimer: i don't own anything :)

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No. I

Right at the Beginning

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Cerulean eyes blinked at the bright sunlight that was interrupting his sleep. Naruto yawned, stretched and sighed. Why was it he put up with this everyday? Oh, right, because Sasuke secretly adored this. The falling asleep while looking at the moon at night and the waking up to the bright sunshine and warm breeze during the day. Sheesh.

Speaking of whom, where was Sasuke? He had just returned from that week-long mission, shouldn't Sasuke be spending more time with him in bed, Naruto pouted slightly.

Realising what he had just done, Naruto quickly rearranged the features of his face to look less like a pout. He wouldn't want Sasuke to tease him continuously about such things.

He stood up and picked up his clothes which were hanging neatly on the chair next to the bed. No doubt Sasuke was the one who had done that. He sniffed the air. Was that ramen he smelt? Naruto grinned widely. Sasuke must have woken earlier to prepare breakfast!

Naruto rushed out of the room to find Sasuke, with his famous smirk (and the ramen).

Unfortunately, that wasn't what he saw when he reached the kitchen. Instead he found a very peeved Sasuke (but the ramen was still there, in all its aromatic glory, oh my).

Sasuke was putting down two bowls of ramen onto the table, but with a little too much force, causing some of the soup to spill out.

"Teme, what's wrong with you? You looked like someone just ruined your favourite shampoo," Naruto smirked, albeit nervously (hell, he was testing the water!).

Sasuke gave a faint noise of annoyance, motioning for Naruto to sit down which Naruto hurriedly obliged. Tentatively, Naruto picked up his chopsticks and started inhaling the ramen in front of him.

Across him, Sasuke rather calmly picked up his own chopsticks and with another hand, laid a note across the table, "Tsunade-sama wishes to meet us at nine in her office. In full ANBU gear,"

Naruto glanced at the clock, while still draining the soup from his bowl, "We have ten more minutes, that's more than enough time. That got you riled up?" He asked rather incredulously.

"Guess where I found the note?" Sasuke asked rather waspishly.

"Er, on the piece of wood you attached to the cupboard door so that the messenger wouldn't create a hole in the cupboard when he is delivering the note via a kunai?"

"No, the piece of wood came off after…last night's activity. Guess again,"

"Oh, er…"

"I found it on the cupboard door," Sasuke didn't bother waiting for Naruto's reply, "Do you know what that means?"

Naruto gulped a little.

"It means I'll have to replace the cupboard door. Again! This is like the fifth time this month!" Sasuke practically roared.

Damn that messenger, Naruto thought as Sasuke went back to eating his ramen in a huff.

At least, it resulted in Sasuke cooking ramen.

..xXx..

Ten minutes later, Naruto and Sasuke was assembled in front of Tsunade, dressed in full ANBU gear with their masks on. This meant that they were now the fierce and emotionless member of the elite ANBU, no longer Naruto nor Sasuke.

"Fox, Raven, I have a new mission for you. It is an A rank one but it requires both of you to be away from Konoha for a year, therefore I'm giving you ten seconds to think it over," Tsunade paused, and waited.

Sasuke looked at Naruto, staring at the perfectly painted and carved fox mask. He knew Naruto would accept. Naruto tugged the sleeves of Sasuke's shirt a little, and Sasuke knew that he had no other choice.

"So, your decision?"

"We accept," Sasuke spoke for the both of them.

"Good, now mission details. Both of you will be going to a school in Europe, called Hogwarts to protect a boy named Harry Potter. You two will go undercover and at all cost, must not allow anyone to know that you two are shinobis. And may I introduce our client," Tsunade motioned to the other side of the room where an old bearded man sat patiently, "Albus Dumbledore, and he will go further into details of your mission."

"Hello," Dumbledore greeted them in perfect Japanese, although slightly accented, "I'm Albus Dumbledore and I'm the Headmaster of Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry," He paused and waited for any outbursts of 'but there's no such thing as magic!'.

There wasn't any. Of course there wasn't, silly him. Tsunade had agreed to send their best, after all.

"Now, we wizards do exist. Like you shinobis, our community is hidden from those who don't know about it. There are also Dark forces threatening the safety of our community as well and as such, I would like you to guard the boy Potter Harry as he is key in defeating this Dark force I'm talking about,"

"I wouldn't bore you with an old man's talk since I'd trust that you would be able to obtain better information from the books that you will be provided with, along with all the other relevant information of our community,"

At this, he turned to Tsunade.

"Alright, go pack your things and say goodbye to everyone. Bring only minimal clothes since you'll be wearing wizard-wear most of the time and your weapons. You have thirty minutes,"

With that, Naruto and Sasuke poof-ed out of the room.

..xXx..

Half an hour later, they were back in the room, carrying a rather small suitcase each. Dumbledore nodded, pleased that they were so punctual.

"You guys will not need your masks, so you might as take them off," Tsunade said.

Automatically, Naruto's and Sasuke's hand reached behind to undo the knotted string, allowing the masks to fall cleanly into their hand. The masks immediately disappeared into the suitcase.

Dumbledore had to hold back his surprise. They were so young, around Harry's age only, at the most. And they were already the best in their village. Amazing.

"Alright, brats. Be careful," Tsunade said rather gruffly.

Naruto grinned, "Don't miss us too much, baa-chan,"

Dumbledore blinked in surprise as he watched the blonde hair kid dodge the paperweight that Tsunade had thrown at him. Was he the same guy as that emotionless guy he had seen earlier?

"Dumbledore-san, you can transport them to your side of the world now," Tsunade gave her approval.

"Of course," Dumbledore pulled out a cracked watch from his pocket and muttered under his breath while pointing his wand at it, "Portus," It gave off a slight glow at that.

Naruto whistled, "Cool, so that's magic?"

"Yes," Dumbledore beamed, "Now, please touch this watch. One finger will do,"

Naruto and Sasuke pulled their luggage along with them as they stepped up to Dumbledore. They touched one finger to the watch gingerly.

Without any warning, they felt a tug around their navel and their surrounding dissolved in a swirl of colours.

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