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Ch 2

"Ahhhhhh!!"

Swish.

Splat.

Smack.

Owwww...

Naruto lifted his head form the dirt he had found himself head-first in. He found himself in what looked an office. He looked for his comrades, and almost laughed upon locating them.

Sasuke had landed on his feet, sorta. More like he'd tried and almost gotten there but the chair that got in the way made in sit int the chair in an upside down fashion with his head on the floor and his feet in the air.

Shikamaru had also fallen on his face, but his butt was in the air, so now he looked like some retarded seal.

Neji had also tried landing on his feet, but as it was he somehow found his way under a table. So as soon as he sat up, he banged his forehead on the edge. Which, of course, resulted in much swearing.

Sakura and Hinata didn't look nearly as amusing as they had just landed on their stomachs like he had, and were now looking around with an alarmed expression.

Kakashi, had landed on his feet and was now reading his book. The bastard.

They heard an amused chuckle behind them and were immediately up on their feet, kunai in hand, as alert as they had been before they had been thrown on the floor. Which for Shikamaru, meant a very bored expression.

They turned their kunai on an old man, who seemed to be the owner of the office.

Seeing no visible ill-intent, Naruto looked at his surroundings more closely.

The office was not big, but also not very small. There were a bunch of weird little trinkets on the desk making many odd noises. The paintings on the walls that had many old men in them seemed to be staring at them. He saw one blink.

His eyes widened. He walked to the portrait and initiated his own staring contest with it. This only served to further amuse the old guy and make his own comrades stiffen slightly. But Naruto had a mission. This picture was going down.

Or is should've.

"Don't you know it's rude to stare? Who do you think you are? If you had something to say, then say it. It's rather discomfiting to have some hoodlum walk up to you and have the audacity to stare and then not even say something."

Naruto frowned and wondered who said that. He looked to his teammates, but hey seemed to be at just as much of a loss. They were all looking around when: "Ahem. Are you going to respond, or look like a buffoon." It was more of a statement than a question.

Naruto stared at the portrait again. He reached out and-- He poked that guys eye as hard as he could!

"Young man, if you don't remove your hand from my eye this very instant, I shall have to bite you."

Naruto bounced away happily. He had found the mysterious voice, had poked some old geezer in the eye, and was in some crazy place where pictures could talk. Okay. He could deal with this. He wasn't going to start screaming like a little girl. He could wait.

His friends stared like there was something wrong with him. "What?"

Neji smacked his forehead. "So your used to portraits taking to you, then?"

"Huh? Oh no! Never talked to one in my life. I talk to pictures sometimes. But they've never talked back. This place is pretty weird ain't it?! I mean just look! Those things not only blink, but they talk too! And those sliver things on the desk look like they could talk too!" They just stared blankly. He shrugged. He wasn't about to show how freaked out he really was.

They all turned back to the old guy when they heard a muffled laugh. "So I take it your the client?" Kakashi asked, unperturbed.

"I am. My name is Albus Dumbledore. You all are quite interesting. That young man with the blond hair is going to be quite formidable one day isn't he? The others go without saying for being able to take all of the oddities so calmly. Yes. I think you all will fit for the job quite well. Even in the same age group it seems. Jolly good." Dumbledore said.

They all just stared at him. This guy's a nutter...

"Where is the guy we're protecting anyway?" Naruto still wasn't too happy with having been sent away for a whole year. He had to be there! There was a lot that could happen in the village in a year. Not all of it could be something good.

"Harry is, at this moment, at his aunt and uncle's house. He spends a few weeks there before he goes to his friends', Ronald Weasley, house. He usually spends the rest of the remaining summer there." Dumbledore explained.

"So are we just going to stay here until he comes here to start being his bodyguards or do we go to his house right now?" Naruto was curious.

"Actually, it would be helpful if you met him on the train and became his friend. This would be what you would call an undercover mission. We don't need anything to be more suspicious than it already is." Dumbledore added.

"So we are to stay here until the train that brings the students to the school?" Kakashi was strangely knowledgeable about this area.

"That is correct. If it would make you feel better, I give you free range of the castle for recon, as it were, I have a meeting I need to get to. I am actually a little late for it at present." Dumbledore left.

"Well, we have a lot of work to do. We should begin scouting immediately." Kakashi left to gather information about the castle.

Naruto created fifty clones. "Alright, you all know what to do. Ten of you go to the forest area over there." He said, pointing to the heavily wooded area that you could see out the window. They nodded. All of them dissapearing.

Shikamaru scowled. "There are times when you are worth being jealous of. Even if you are an idiot." Shikamaru left along with the others to explore.

Naruto shrugged. He was totally awesome all the time. So there. He stuck his tongue out mentally.

But he wasn't about to let his clones have all the fun. He wanted to explore too. He took off out of the office.

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The Hinata- chan ish very tired... She had a sleepover and didn't go to sleep 'till twelve. Then her oh-so-lovely friend woke her up at seven by opening the ebil windows of doom and ripping the covers off her. But Hinata fought. She held on to blanky. -sniff- Blanky got tooken 'way...

That's the end of weird rant thing then! R&R Mewchas Gracias! 3 Devil Hinata