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Chapter 2

No one spoke, but I could tell from everyone's chakra that we were all surprised, maybe a bit frightened, and a few of us—probably the stupid ones—were excited. Oops. I just called myself stupid.

"I would like to take you up to my office. I'm sure the staff would like to meet you," Dumbledore said, starting to walk up to the castle.

"Have you already informed them of our arrival?" Sakura asked, matching Dumbledore's brisk pace.

Dumbledore's blue eyes twinkled. "Not yet."

INVISIBLE~LINE~BREAK

ANBU Team 15 stood quietly in the shadows of Dumbledore's office, waiting for Hogwarts' staff to arrive. We were all kinda nervous… I mean, how would the staff react to 12 teenagers being assigned to guard them?

Well, we would find out soon enough.

Dumbledore hurried into his office, four teachers—I assumed—following closely behind.

"Albus, what are you going about the security this year?" A tall woman with long black robes, her hair in a tight, neat bun asked, hurrying to keep up with his brisk pace.

"Yes, with the Triwizard Cup Tournament this year, you've better have hired someone," A small, squat woman with flyaway hair and a gray wizard hat pestered.

"Minerva, Pomona, relax," Dumbledore said with yet another smile. "It is already taken care of."

"Well, who have you hired?" An extremely small man wearing a suit asked. And by extremely small, I meant he came up to only a little above my knee. Yeah, that short.

"You'll see. You may show yourselves!" Dumbledore called to us.

We slowly melted out of the shadows, as if we were made of darkness itself. We formed a ragged circle around the teachers, crouching low in various battle stances. Some of us held various weapons—shuriken, kunai, anything. Some, like Hinata and Neji, just stood at the ready. Neither of them used weapons. I carried two windmill shuriken, both only partially unfolded. I used them kinda like claws, most of the time. My aim with them wasn't bad at all, if need be. I looked back at the various teachers, they all looked like they would die of fright.

"Albus, who are they?" the tall women – Minerva – asked nervously.

I stepped forward. "Allow me to introduce us. I am Wolf, the leader of this team. We are ANBU, an elite fighting unit from Konoha," I said emotionlessly.

"Yes, but what are you?" the tiny little teacher squeaked.

"Filius, they are ninjas," Dumbledore said.

"Albus, if I may, ninjas are nothing more then stories told to little children," the last teacher, a tall man with greasy black hair and a hooked nose, drawled.

"Well, it is the same condition between you and us," Neji said. "To us, witches and wizards do not exist. Yet, you are right in front of us, real to this world. We have to choice but to believe. You have to do the same."

"Dumbledore hired us to protect the castle and all its occupants," Shikamaru added, being sure to keep his voice emotionless. Had to make a good impression here.

"Albus, how did you even come upon their world?" Minerva asked incredulously.

"Well, you see, I was in the library, the restricted section, and I found an old scroll. It was a story about a nine-tailed fox demon," he began.

I heard Naruto draw in his breath sharply. "Did you say nine-tailed fox demon?" he squeaked. It was so un-Naruto like.

"Yes, a fox demon with nine tails," Dumbledore confirmed. "As I neared the end of the story, there was a small incantation with the name "Konohagakure" beside it. I said the incantation as a spell, and I wound up in your leader, Tsunade's, office."

"Whoa! The only one who can teleport is—?" Sakura quickly stomped on his foot, causing him to stop talking immediately. He knew he had let his emotions slip, and that I would kill him for it later.

"Well, she was surprised to see me in her office, but she did have some contact with our world. Apparently, she knew one of the past Headmasters, and he aided her in learning her healing and potions expertise. She owed our world a favor, and I chose to use it now," Dumbledore said.

"Well, if I may ask, take off your masks, as you will be serving for a whole year in this castle. I'm sure we'd all like to see your faces," the tall man said.

Everyone glanced at me.

I shook my head. "We are here under strict orders from Lady Hokage. We are not allowed to take off our masks for the first month we guard your…castle."

"And we must respect that Severus," Dumbledore said, with yet another smile. Geez this guy must have some serious 'smile muscles.' "I am in no position to give them orders. They are only obliged to follow the directions of their leader, the Hokage. Their mission is to protect us, not cater to our every whim—unless they so choose."

The man – Severus – gave me a distasteful look, like I should be waiting on him, ready to do anything he asked, and I felt my blood begin to boil, but quickly regained my composure. Showing emotions to possible foes were a ninja's weakness.

"Would you be so kind to introduce yourselves to our guards?" Dumbledore asked his staff politely.

"Of course. I am Minerva McGonagall, Deputy Headmistress, Head of Gryffindor House, and the Transfiguration Professor," the tall lady with black robes introduced herself.

"Pomona Sprout, Herbology teacher and Head of Hufflepuff house," the small, squat woman said proudly.

"What the hell is a Hufflepuff?" I heard Chouji whisper behind me. (AVPM 4EVER!)

"I am Filius Flitwick, Charms master and Head of Ravenclaw house," the insanely small man said.

"Severus Snape, Head of Slytherin, Potions Master," the tall, dark man stated. He—especially his hair—reminded me of a giant, black, grease spot.

"Well, Minerva, would you please escort the guards to their temporary living quarters? Sixth floor, behind the picture of the scholars," Dumbledore said. Wait, temporary? Weren't we all going to be here for a year?

Professor McGonagall nodded, before motioning us out of the quite crowded office.

We all bowed respectfully. "Arigato gozaimasu," We all said before exiting the office.

We all walked quietly. To our surprise, it looked around midnight, which freaked us out quite a bit. It had been midday when we left Konoha, for crying out loud!

When reached the pictures, Hinata let out a small gasp.

"P-p-proffesor, why is that p-picture m-m-m-m-moving?" She stuttered.

It was true, the scholars in the picture were indeed moving. One of them smiled and waved at me.

"That's impossible!" Shikamaru shouted, only to be glanced at curiously by the same person that had smiled at me.

"HEY!" the scholar shouted.

"In our world, any picture taken with a wizard camera will indeed move, as if the moment was captured itself," she explained.

"As Professor Dumbledore said, this is only a temporary living space. He has explained that you will move into your house dorm when you show yourselves to the children in a week. Dumbledore has instructed to sort yourselves into each house accordingly."

"Accordingly? Is each house special in something?" Kiba asked.

"Yes. Members of each given house tend to share some personality traits. Some of you will get along better with certain houses than others," McGonagall was it, stated. "Gryffindor students are usually brave and chivalrous. Hufflepuff—loyal, dedicated, and hardworking. Ravenclaw, intelligent and clever. And Slytherin, ambitious and cunning. And there will also be students visiting from France and Bulgaria, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang. We would like that some of you would watch over them as well." McGonagall explained.

"Alright, we will see to it," I said. "Arigato, Professor McGonagall."

She nodded, and then walked away briskly.

We all clambered through the portrait hole. Inside was what looked like a little house – a small fireplace burning merrily in the corner, a set of small couches and chairs, and a small, winding staircase that probably lead to the dorms.

"Whoa…" Ino breathed, speaking slowly in Japanese. "It's so cool!"

We went and checked out the dorms – girls on one side, boys on the other. We unpacked what little we had brought – small possessions, regular ninja outfits, and a hell of a lot of weapons. The girls' room, at least, looked like a full on armory.

I smiled as I gently placed two framed pictures on my bedside table. One was the whole squad standing by the gate to Konohagakure, laughing and having a good time. The other was Gaara and I standing on the Suna wall when we were 10. We were both smiling (a first for Gaara), and my arm was resting on his shoulder.

Sakura walked by my bed as I was gazing at the pictures. "Hey, isn't that Sabaku no Gaara?" she asked rapidly. She was curious about him. Anyone would be, I mean. How would a normal kunoichi like me have gotten to know the Kazekage?

I nodded. "That was back after I escaped from the Sound…" I trailed off, hinting that I didn't want to talk about it.

She heard the tone in my voice, nodded and walked away.

I collapsed on my bed, easing my mask off.

"So, I need to get that list ready by next week…" I sighed. "I better get that started tomorrow."

ONE WEEK LATER

We crouched on the rafters of the ceiling in the Great Hall, in our full armor. We were finally ready to show ourselves to the students of Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Durmstrang. Lovely.

"Man," Naruto whispered from his spot next to me after seeing the two schools make a grand entrance. "We should make a flashy entrance like that, or we'll seem like a bunch of weirdoes."

"Great idea," I whispered back, telling him an impromptu plan. He passed it on. "Tell everyone to go on my cue."

INVISIBLE~LINE~BREAK

~Harry's POV~

After Beauxbatons and Durmstrang made their entrance, and after we saw the Viktor Krum, I didn't know if we could have been surprised by anything else we ever saw.

We were wrong.

Dumbledore held his hand up, motioning for silence in the hall. Ron, Hermione, and I stopped jabbering about Beauxbatons' and Durmstrang's flashy entrance.

"Welcome, students of Hogwarts. As you know, this year we will be hosting the TriWizard Tournemant," Dumbledore said, his voice magnified to the point that it filled every corner of the hall. "I have decided that hosting these extra students," he nodded to the beautiful women from Beauxbatons and the pretty scary looking people from Durmstang, "called for some extra protection. Please welcome, ANBU Team 15," everyone began a hesitant clap, wondering where these reinforcements were, and wondering why they had such a weird name. None of us had a problem with more protection.

I began to look around. Where were they? The gigantic doors at the end of the hall were open, but no one was there. I wondered if they were using some type of invisibility charm.

Suddenly, the wind in the room began to pick up. This was no surprise. The Great Hall was infamous for sudden storms—any kind of bad weather, really—filtering in from outdoors. What was really surprising happened next. A tornado formed just in front of Dumbledore's podium. I felt my jaw drop as I desperately grabbed for anything that would anchor me to the table. The wind was throwing everything in the hall—plates, food, silverware, and…was that Professor Flitwick? —in the air.

Slowly, the tornado changed shape. It began to closely resemble a giant wolf's head. The wolf howled soundlessly for a moment, then disappeared in less then a second.

I looked around, ready to survey the damage. And if I thought the other school's entrances, or even the giant wolf was surprising, this was even more so.

Everything in the hall was exactly as it was before the windstorm began.

All of the food and tableware remained exactly as it had been. Even Professor Flitwick was where he has started, in a chair next to Hagrid. I glanced at my friends, wondering if I was hallucinating. Apparently, I wasn't. Everyone in the hall, even the professors, had the same bewildered expression that I did.

I began to examine the room, looking for some hint at where this came from. I had never seen a spell like it before.

Then, a metallic glint from just in front of Dumbledore caught my eye, it came from the exact place the wolf-tornado had been.

Twelve fully armored and masked people stood in a perfectly straight line. Each one wore a different mask, all representing an animal. They looked… weird. Each of them wore dull gray plates of armor over loose fitting black clothes. Forearm and shin guards extended slightly past their elbows and knees, no matter their size or height. A bandage-like cloth was wrapped around one of their legs—most of them on their right—underneath a pouch that was tied around their legs, one on each person. There was also a strange tattoo on their shoulder. It looked like the girls had it on their right shoulder, guys on their left.

My eyes drifted up to their masks. They looked pretty cool and weird at the same time. It was obvious they all represented animals. The masks were white with colored portions and eyeholes. Odd. I thought back to the Quidditch World Cup. These masks were nothing like those of the Death Eaters. Phew.

One of them, the one in the middle, stepped forward. I could tell she was a girl by her hair, long and tied in two loose ponytails behind her mask. Her armor was different from all the others… instead of a dull gray, it was a luminous silver. It didn't… shine really… like, it didn't reflect any light. I assumed it was made like that on purpose, just like the rest were made to be dull. Hmph.

The girl wore a mask of a wolf. Suddenly, I realized it. She was the one that had made that tornado wolf storm.

The girl spoke.

"I am Wolf," she said, no emotion coloring her voice, "I am the leader of ANBU Team 15. We are shinobi sent to guard this school and it's members by the leaders of our villages, Konohagakure and Sunagakure." A shinobi? What was that? 'Wolf' began to introduce the others in her team. All of them were to be called by the name of some animal. Here's what caught in my mind;

Fox was third in command (Wolf explained that some guy named Raccoon was second in command, but he was unable to make this "mission"), Leopard was team medic (so, a nurse? She defiantly looked capable of fighting), and Cat, Spider, Dove, Dog, and their leader, Wolf, were scouts.

I was ripped from my thoughts when Dumbledore began to speak again, "They will be guarding our school, so please keep out of their hair as much as possible. Also, do not go down to the Quidditch field except for scheduled practice times or games. The field will serve as their practice area. You may be killed if you stumble upon them when they don't expect it," he smiled as if this was all jolly news. My Quidditch field was being taken from me! "Now, for information on the TriWizard Tournament..."

Hehe, they made a grand entrance. :P.

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