(A/N): Here's chapter two of Naruto: Hogwarts Chronicles. Helpful advice is always welcomed. Remember I don't own either Naruto or Harry Potter.

Glossary: unless otherwise mentioned

Bold : spells/jutsus

Underline : letter

Chapter 2: A Path to Knowledge

Naruto stumbled slightly in the stone office. A second before he was outside the main gates to his village, now he was in a large office. Regaining his balance, Naruto looked around. The room was spacious with a large desk in the center. The desk seemed highly cluttered with a variety of books, scrolls, and trinkets. The walls were covered in old paintings most likely the old headmasters or old friends. A slight movement caused a deeper examination. The people within the paintings were moving! The majority of the painting people had their eyes glued to papers they were writing in. Those that weren't talked quietly amongst themselves. Full bookshelves lined where moving paintings weren't hanging.

A slight cough drew Naruto's attention back towards the Professor that brought him here. Dumbledore was holding a scroll out to him. Opening the scroll, a brief scanning told Naruto that the scroll's contents was a list of the school's rules and regulations. Dumbledore motioned for the ninja to follow him. After traveling down a short spiral staircase that was later sealed off by a gargoyle, they began to move past many moving paintings. Naruto returned the greetings that a few of the paintings gave him before continuing to observe the rest of his surroundings.

Dumbledore smiled as the blonde Shinobi looked about the castle in wonder. It was quite surprising for the wizarding world when people with an interesting Magic started popping up across the globe. Naturally, those in power quickly cleaned up the Shinobi's mess with introducing Magic to the muggles. To think that there was a whole continent hidden within the Bermuda Triangle! Not only that but it was filled with these Shinobi people. The idea was simply amazing and startling. The contact between the wizarding world and the Shinobi had to be handled delicately lest a war break out. Luckily the Shinobi just got out of a war and weren't to keen on entering a new one.

Communications between the Shinobi and wizarding communities was very promising. After achieving peace among their people the necessities of economy required them to seek more work elsewhere. In the same way Shinobi needed more work, the wizarding world needed people of their talents. Magical creatures manage to slip into the muggle world all the time. There are thousands of magical smugglers that manage to escape the ministry. The fact that Shinobi have multiple experiences beside handling criminals and beasts gives them many options with integrating themselves into the Magic community. Their willingness for discretion in sensitive operations is just a bonus.

After months of notes and studies, the best Magic scholars within the department of mysteries verified an interesting piece of information. These Shinobi were wizards! There are slight variations in how they do Magic though. While most wizards in today's age use wands to cast Magic, these Shinobi cast Magic through hand gestures. Those Magic scholars studying the Shinobi along with the best "medic nins" from the Elemental Nations determined that shinobi's "chakra coils" act in a similar manner as a wand's core. Both use Magic, but while a wizard's Magic is molded within the wand, a shinobi's Magic is molded within their body. This slight difference in how their Magic is formed and controlled means that they have a whole different style and library of Magic.

For the past few years, Dumbledore knew that the school's education was starting to stale. With the ninja's seeking jobs, he knew an opportunity when he saw one. His reasoning for a shinobi to lead a new cultural class was simple. Besides the fact that a cultural class would have benefited the students greatly since there are numerous types of wizarding communities, teaching the students about different magic cultures can inspire new ways of thinking and promote Magic discovery. A Shinobi would be the easiest way to test the class out. They are the most unknown and anything they teach would be guaranteed to be new. After a quick letter sent and form filled out, Dumbledore had a new teacher for the year. He could worry about a more permanent position later.

Eventually, Dumbledore led the blonde Shinobi known as Naruto to the school's library. After explaining the basic rules for the library and handing a Japanese to English dictionary to Naruto, he let the ninja run free in the library. It was to Naruto reading a dictionary that the librarian, Irma Pince, walked up to Dumbledore.

"Evening Madam Pince," Dumbledore greeted the librarian with a twinge of amusement in his voice.

"Headmaster," Irma replied dryly. She was probably still upset about when he tried to get a book from the library published for muggles. "May I ask what you are doing here with a student without his robes on?"

"Ah, Naruto's not a student here." Dumbledore's eyes crinkled. "He's a new teacher."

"What!" The librarian took a step back in shock. Looking towards the book the blonde was reading caused deep concern within her. "But he looks so young and it appears he can't even speak English! How can you expect him to be able to teach students if they won't be able to understand him at all?!"

Dumbledore just smiled. It was then that the dictionary Naruto was holding snapped shut. The sound drew the headmaster's and librarian's attention. The blonde stretched and slapped his whiskered cheeks with a large "Yosh!" Putting his hands together in a cross shape, Naruto shouted "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" The library was then filled with smoke. Irma coughed on the smoke while waving it away. When the smoke cleared, she choked.

Where once was one blonde there were now many. A literal army of clones marched off and started pulling every book off the shelves. Everywhere Dumbledore looked was a clone reading a book furiously. He laughed joyfully at the grande use of a clone Magic not seen outside the Elemental Nations before. This is what he wants his students to see. New magics to inspire their minds. A thud sounded to his right. Looking down, it appeared that the librarian fainted. No matter, she'll be fine eventually.

A Naruto walked over to the librarian and poked her gently, his face full of concern. "Is she alright Dumbledore-san?" The English words rolled off his tongue in a distinct Asian accent. Already Naruto was speaking in English with only a few hours of study.

Dumbledore waved off Naruto's concern. "She'll be fine Naruto, why don't we leave your clones here and meet the rest our colleagues."

Naruto looked unsure, but with a bit of prodding he nodded. He then burst in a cloud of smoke, signaling that he was in fact a clone. A bit of shuffling movement later, a new Naruto appeared before the headmaster. Together, Dumbledore and Naruto left the library to seek out the other teachers. The rest of the day was spent talking with a variety of faculty members and exploring the castle. Dumbledore noted that with each hour spent, Naruto's English got progressively better. It came to a point that Naruto's English became so fluent that one could mistakenly assume that he was born and raised in England! Their tour of the castle ended with Dumbledore leading Naruto to his quarters for the year. It was a simple room located one floor up and to the right of the gryffindor common room entrance. The room just held a single bed and a desk full of blank scrolls. Naruto spent that night writing a letter home before heading to bed.

Irma woke in the library close to the end of the day. Rubbing her head at the slight headache that she had, Irma wondered what happened. Slowly the events that transpired earlier flew in her head. Dumbledore brought a young foreign teacher to the library. The youth put his hands together and created clones to read the books. The Books! Irma's head shot up quickly and looked around frantically. Running through the library, her mouth began to foam. Every single book from the entrance all the way to the end of the restricted section was in precarious stacks throughout the library. Not a single book was on a shelf! It would take weeks to sort through it all and it was that… that… what was that demon's name? Naruto! It was that Naruto's fault! A dark look crossed the librarians face as she stomped her way to the library entrance. Pulling out her wand, she began a long and very specific spell. When she finished, she walked into the library and slammed the doors shut. In the coming days, students would note that the library was locked and had writing all over the door. In large angry red letters was: "Library Closed Temporarily! Naruto Uzumaki BANNED FOR LIFE!"

Dear Hinata,

A funny thing happened yesterday. Dumbledore brought me to the library so that I could prepare myself for the class I'm going to teach. It's pretty surprising that the dead last is going to be a teacher right? Well the class is going to be pretty simple to teach anyway. Dumbledore told me to just teach the students about our ninja careers and how the villages work in general. Oh, right! Well when we were in the library, the librarian freaked out about my Shadow Clones. She sent me this letter that yelled a lot. The letter told me that I was banned from the library! Crazy right? It was a good thing that I learned everything from the library then. I read every single book in the library yesterday, so I don't have to worry about missing something from there. Anyway, I wanted you to know that today went by fairly easy and that I miss you. Write to you soon.

Love,

Naruto