AN: I'd like to start off by thanking everybody who has favorite, followed, and reviewed the first chapter of my story. Although I do have to remedy the thing that I forgot about in the first chapter, so I need to formally state that I do not own either Harry Potter or Naruto. So with that out of the way here is chapter 2 of a shinobi at Hogwarts.
It had been a month since Naruto's initial meeting with the old so called wizard named Albus Dumbledore, although if truth be told his follow up meeting with the old man was one of the last things on the young blondes mind. Especially after the startling truth that he had learned from his former sensei now turned traitor Mizuki about what he carried within him, and though this new knowledge answered many of his questions as to why the village people had treated him so poorly throughout his youth, and though he didn't expect the villagers opinion of him to change anytime soon he wouldn't stop trying, but knowing that he would be talking to Dumbledore again soon, Naruto couldn't help but to wonder if the old man knew about his burden as the Hokage called it, and if he didn't and he proved that magic was real would he still be willing to let Naruto attend his school, or would he begin to look at him the same way as the villagers did. But even these thoughts couldn't dampen the hope that the eleven year old had about magic not only being real, but also that he would be able to go to this school and make some friends whose parents hadn't warned them away from him as a child.
It took Naruto roughly fifteen minutes to arrive at the hokage tower and only another five after reaching the tower to argue his way past the secretary who happened to be ready for him today, oh she was so getting the hell pranked out of her, and finally arrive in Hiruzen's office. And like last night after Naruto had been brought back after the scroll incident, the third hokage sat behind his desk, although there was one difference between last night and this morning, the old man sitting in the chair in front of Hiruzen's desk. And just like the last time Dumbledore was here he was once again wearing an insanely weird outfit, only this time instead of a purple dress it was baby blue dress, and like last time he was here Dumbledore had a small genuine smile on his face and a wise, mischievous twinkle in his eyes. That smile and twinkle in his eyes, did wonders to lift Naruto's hopes when they turned on him not dimming in the slightest, in fact the smile grew at the sight of the blond youth.
"Well hello there Naruto, nice to see you again." Albus greeted the preteen with a gentle, genuine smile towards the young boy who has had such a difficult life for one so young.
"Hey old man dumblybore." Naruto responded with a smile on his face as looked towards the old wizard. Not even realizing how badly he had just butchered the man's name.
"Dumbledore." Albus corrected, but even though Naruto had butchered his name horribly, Albus couldn't help when his smile widened at the youth. His smile grew a bit wider as the young man's grin went from cheerful to embarrassed, whilst rubbing the back of his head with his right hand. "So Naruto I believe that I promised you proof that magic exist." Albus stated grinning at the youth already knowing just what he was going to do to prove to the youth that magic was real and only able to imagine the expressions that the youth would make.
"Yeah, you did." Naruto responded his hand ripping away from the back of his head so that he could point at Albus, causing said old man to chuckle at the youths exuberates.
"Well then Naruto shall we go, we have quite a bit to do today." Albus said grinning at the child, as he went from pointing at Albus, to jumping slightly into the air with a massive grin once again splashed across his face as he ran up to Albus and grabbed the older man's hand before he began to try and pull Albus towards the door.
"Come on, let's go." Naruto all but whined as he tried to pull the older, heavier man towards the door.
"Well Naruto though I do enjoy your enthusiasm, we won't be going out that way." Dumbledore said as he maintained his current position whilst the young blond continued to pull on his arm. Until Albus words finally registered in his mind cause said blond to stop his pulling and turn to look back at the long white haired man.
"Then how are we going?" Naruto asked dropping Albus's arm as he tilted his head to the left and brought his right hand up to scratch at his chin.
"Well Naruto, how we're traveling is going to be the beginning of my proof that magic is real." Albus stated with his ever present grin, before he turned to Hiruzen. "Well Hiruzen we will be seeing you in a little while." He stated, as he grabbed onto Naruto's hand before with a small faint pop they were gone. For Naruto this was an entirely new experience, in fact to Naruto it felt like the world was shrinking around him squeezing him from all sides, and then it was over, now the blond wished that he could say that he stood proudly and walked away from that terrible experience, but that would be a lie, so there was Naruto on his hands and knees vomiting onto the floor. "Sorry Naruto I should have warned you about the after effects of a person's first time appariating." Dumbledore apologized as he leaned down and began to rub the youths back, in the hopes that it would make the still vomiting blond feel better. Naruto would have responded with a sarcastic comment if not for the fact that his mouth was currently busy relieving himself of his breakfast. This only lasted another minute or so before Naruto finished vomiting, and stood back up quickly looking around to gain his bearings. Although truthfully nothing looked even remotely similar to anything that he had ever seen before, the unique cobble stone buildings, the fact that unlike where he lived Naruto barely saw a single tree and everything was so grey.
"Where are we?" Naruto asked as he continued to look around his head shooting from the left to the right rapidly.
"London Naruto, we are in London England." Albus stated as he turned and began to walk towards an old broken down shop, with large steps helping him set a rather rapid pace. Naruto didn't realize that Dumbledore had left until he turned to ask the old wizard, whom he was starting to believe was an actual wizard, where the hell London was, only to discover that the old man had begun walking away, the blond stared stunned at the fact that the old man would leave him in a city alone before he managed to regain his senses and took off running after the wizard stunned at the fact that someone Dumbledore's age could move so fast. Of course when Naruto finally realized that Dumbledore was leading him towards a broken down old shop, and though he wanted to stop and ask Dumbledore why they were going into this creepy shop, only to realize that the old wizard had already entered the run down shop which Naruto finally noticed was called The Leaky Cauldron. Before with a deep breath he burst through the door expecting to find the inside as rundown and creepy looking as the outside, only to discover that the truth was the opposite. The inside was actually rather nice, still somewhat dark and creepy looking, but it was much nicer then the outside, causing Naruto to wonder why the heck hadn't they made the outside look as nice. These thoughts plagued the young blond so much so that he failed to notice the fact that Dumbledore had not just left his line of sight the old man had walked all the way through the bar and out the back. These thought wore quickly removed as his eyes fell upon an old woman wearing a black pointy hat and a black dress talking to another old woman wearing a red dress with a matching red pointy hat, and so Naruto began practically spinning in place to look at all the strangely dressed men and women that he could only guess were all witches and wizards.
Albus had expected Naruto to slow down and maybe take in the sight somewhat but he hadn't expected to actually lose the young blond, the old man mused as he turned around and looked for the blond boy. Before with a small slightly exasperated sigh he started to walk back into the leaky cauldron, grinning as he saw the young blond almost spinning in his spot as he took in all the witches and wizards, and once again Albus was struck with a memory only this one included a beautiful red haired woman looking around at dozens of different people in awe. But with a quick shake of his head the old wizard managed to dispel the memory and return to the present, smiling softly towards the young blond as he walked up to Naruto and gently tapped his shoulder.
"This way Naruto." Albus said after obtaining the youth's attention before turning and this time knowing that the boy would be following him once again walked out through the back and up to a large brick wall. "Now Naruto make sure that you watch what I'm about to do very carefully, because I may not be able to do it a second time." He told the young boy before pulling out his wand and in a counter clockwise motion tapped the bricks in the center of the wall. The blond couldn't help but wonder why he was supposed to watch and remember the fact that Dumbledore was tapping a wooden stick against a brick wall but decided to just go with it. So it came as a great surprise to the youth when the brick wall began to move away from the center were Dumbledore had tapped his stick, almost like they were folding in on each other to create an archway. But the mysteriously folding bricks quickly lost Naruto's attention as the alleyway that was reveled grasped it. To Naruto it was one of the most unique and amazing places that he had ever seen. It reminded him somewhat of Konoha with all the young children running about oohing and aweing at all the things that they saw in the windows, begging their parents to buy them whatever it was that they thought that they needed so badly. Dumbledore's grin lessened as he looked upon his young charge, seeing the rather noticeable drop in the youths smile, it only took Albus a moment to realize that the reason for his frown was the fact that with the death of the blonds parents on the day that he was born, made it so that not only had Naruto never known his parents, he had never gotten to experience all the little things that so many children took for granted, such as a goodnight kiss or yanking them around to windows begging for a new toy. Knowing all of this Albus couldn't help but to feel sorrow on the youth's behalf. Deciding to make sure that the blond couldn't continue to focus on all that he never had the chance to experience, Albus decided to remove the boys thoughts from its current path.
"Well Naruto, welcome to Diagon Alley, the entrance to our little piece of the magical world." The old wizard stated with a grin, before he once more began to walk down the cobble stone path towards a rather massive white building with the words Gringotts bank across the front in gold. Although truthfully Naruto barely noticed the massive building as he was too busy trying to take in all of the different sights, the brooms that for some reason they had decided to put on display, the dizzying array of animals in the following window, of course he quickly shifted his head to the other side when passing the windows full of books. Naruto couldn't help but to freeze in place when he saw what was happening in the alleyway across the street, the sight that had first caught the young blonds attention just happened to be of a young light red haired girl, backed against the wall of one of the numerous stores with her hands covering her eyes but even still Naruto could see the small crystalline droplets of water that managed to sneak past her covering hands and fall to the hard cobble stone ground. His eyes slowly refocused from the girls tears to the slightly older dark skinned boy who from what Naruto could tell was berating the young girl, obviously the reason that said girl was crying, and seeing this caused a powerful desire to begin building inside Naruto, that desire taking form as he began to walk towards the two his only thoughts being to make that guy stop bullying the girl.
"You and your filthy blood traitor family have no right being here. Your kind belong nowhere near those of us who haven't betrayed our purity." The dark skinned boy continued to rant taking a rather dark pleasure in the young blood traitor's tears, he was about to continue his horrible tirade until his vision was filled with a quick flash of orange and then standing in between himself and the still sobbing red head was a short spiky blond haired boy with three whisker marks on each cheek and a rather angry look upon his face.
"Hey leave her alone." Naruto growled as he stood in between the two glaring directly at the taller boy, and fighting every instinct that was currently telling him that he need to try and comfort the still sobbing girl behind him. The taller boy couldn't help but to be somewhat stunned at the arrival of the blond, before his shock turned to anger at the fact that this idiot would dare stop him.
"Or what?" the dark skinned boy asked his voice coming out in a snarl as he practically dared the blond to do something, believing like so many young boys he was invincible and that the blond could do nothing to him. Naruto though didn't know what to do, after all since he had promised old man hokage not to do anything that would show the fact that he was a shinobi, he couldn't strike the taller boy or use any of his techniques so in all honesty he couldn't do anything and he hated that fact, unless.
"Are you going to Hogwarts?" Naruto asked, once again shocking the taller boy with such a rapid and random change in the conversation.
"Yes, of course only the best for us of blood superiority." He stated his voice once again gaining an arrogant tone to prove that he truly did think of himself as superior to everyone else. The tone striking a nerve inside of Naruto as it reminded him so much of another boy, only this one was rather pale with hair that resembled a ducks butt, with a quick shake of his head Naruto dispelled the slight vision and refocused on the here and now.
"Good then I'll see you there." Naruto stated with a small mischievous smirk on his face as dozens of thoughts on how to prank the other boy began to run rampant through his mind, not yet realizing that somewhere in his mind he had already decided that he would be attending Hogwarts. Although at that moment all of his thoughts were on his pranks, they quickly shifted as he heard a sniffling sound come from behind him, causing Naruto to once again remember the crying girl making him push all thoughts of pranking the dark skinned youth whose name he had completely forgot to get, and refocus all of it onto the young redhead as he spun to face her, beginning the process of kneeling to be at her current level once he had finished his turn. "Hey are you okay?" he asked unsure of what to do, after all he had never had to comfort a crying girl, whose name he should probably get, " I'm Naruto, and you are?" the blond asked somewhat worried because the young girl was still crying.
"Gi… Ginny" the red head responded through her tears, and hiccups from crying as she looked up at the blond boy that had stopped the other boy from picking on her.
"Well Ginny, um are you here alone?" Naruto asked unsure whether this girl was an orphan like him or if she had parents and was just lost.
"My mom's over at the pet store with my brother's." Ginny responded, whilst also looking across the way to said store. Naruto hearing that the girls family was so near couldn't help the rising panic that began to take form in the pit of his stomach, fear that the instant that the girl's mom saw him she'd blame him or look at him the same way that so many of the other adults did, but even with that possibility Naruto knew that he needed to get this girl back to her mother.
"Well then come on Ginny." Naruto all but yelled as he grabbed the young girls hand and began to pull her towards the other side of the street, a massive grin splashed across his face. Ginny was so shocked by the way the blond had grabbed her hand that she couldn't help but to stop crying as she tried her hardest to keep up with the blond boy, it was a few seconds after he started pulling her along that she realized that he was holding her hand, causing the young girls cheeks to gain a red tint from her blush. They were almost all the way across the street when Naruto finally came to a stop turning to look at the girl whom he had pulled across the street, only to see the fact that her face was now red.
"Ginny your face is red are you ok, are you getting sick?" Naruto asked completely unaware of the fact that she was blushing, and sadly having no clue just how embarrassed that commenting on said fact would make the young girl.
"No Naruto I'm fine." Ginny responded as she looked away from him and towards the shop where she could already see one of her older twin brother through the window. Naruto having noticed her eyes shifting behind him couldn't help but to turn as well and see the red haired boy that appeared to be a little older then himself through the window and realizing that that must be the girl's brother Naruto once again began pulling her towards the door of the shop, already planning his disappearance before Ginny's family saw him, and acting much like old man hokage had told him that he should around girls Naruto moved forward and opened the door into the store, Ginny thinking that Naruto was being a gentle man walked through the door and towards her mom. It wasn't till she had reached her mother that Ginny realized that somewhere along the way the blond boy had disappeared. But that didn't matter to Ginny as she pulled on her mother's sleeve to get her attention and then once she finally wrestled it away from George began to tell her mother of the mean boy that had picked on her as well as the handsome blond boy who had come to her rescue. Naruto had held the door open for Ginny but after she had made it through the door he quickly let go of said door and walked back down the same cobble stone path that Dumbledore had been taking him down, hoping that he would be able to catch up with the much older man, not realizing that everything he had just done had been watch by said old wizard, once more thinking of the fact that Naruto even without knowing who they were was so like his parents always willing to help others.
"You'd be proud of him." Albus said with a smile as he continued to watch said blond before with a quiet pop he disappeared.
AN: hey everyone sorry about the taking so long to post the second chapter, I hope that you all enjoyed it and please feel free to leave reviews or private message me, I love to hear from you guys and everything helps. Also as to the review by the guest asking about the pairing, that won't really start to come into play until the third book, because as has been shown in the anime and manga with his obliviousness toward the fact that Hinata was in love with him until she flat out tells him in the pain fight, he obviously has no clue about romance. So next chapter will be his stop at Gringotts and the rest of his time in Diagon alley.
