Dawning of Magic

by Goggleplex

Summery: To protect 'The Holder of Magic' Hogwarts itself invoked a spell that calls a group as protectors. But Konoha is too big a group and a single team is too small. Which group is the perfect size? The Akatauki actually.

Chapter Two - Just A Few Ordinary Magical Preteens

Professor McGonagall was a strict sort of woman with several strict guidelines she lived her life by. She was, in her opinion, the only responsible person on staff at Hogwarts after all and it wouldn't be right for her to lose her head. Most of her guidelines were in the way she dealt with current students and staff but she also had a few special guidelines dedicated for muggleborn first years. She was very careful to decide which staff member would go to which student. Severus Snape was not an option for student pickup duty. He would likely cause a child to want to be a muggle the rest of their life if he showed up on their doorstep like some grim tax collector. Usually it was Professor Sprout who dealt with muggleborns, especially girls while it was Professor Flitwick who was usually sent to boys homes.

But the Deputy Headmistress was wrapped up into quite a predicament. Eleven letters. All going to the same street and each living on the same house as each other. And none of them was from a magical family based on their last names. But of course Minerva only knew the usual English and Indian sounding names in the area but these names were all so... Asian sounding. Not entirely sure that Professors Flitwick or Sprout would be up for the daunting task of taking a trip to such a small town she instead called Professor Charity Burbage, the Muggle Studies professor, who had a very large interest in muggles from all across the world. If anyone could deal with foreign muggleborns it would be her.

So on an early July morning Professor Burbage apparated to the neighborhood where the house known as the Red Dawn Group Home was located. The street was completely empty save for one large manor-style house. The surrounding sloping hills around the property were lush and green with trees dotting the area thickly enough that the house was completely hidden from the main roadway two miles to the east. Sitting on the front lawn of the manor was a young boy who seemed to be swinging a ridiculously large sword around his head in a practiced and deceptively easy looking manor. As Professor Burbage came closer she was surprised to see that the boy actually had pale blue-gray skin and strange facial markings that resembled gills.

"Excuse me, young man. Did you receive a letter from Hogwarts recently?" The plump professor questioned gently, not wanting to ask about his bizarre appearance too soon for his comfort.

The boy glanced over at her and with a wide, sharp-toothed grin he replied, "Actually I did, ma'am, as did everyone else in the Group Home. I am Kisame Hoskigaki, would you tell me you name, please?"

"Certainly my boy. I am Professor Burbage from Hogwarts. I teach Muggle Studies, not a class you are allowed to take until you are at least a Third Year. Now then, are your parents or guardians around? We received replies agreeing that you would attend but we were unsure if you had been exposed to magic or not."

Kisame grinned, now was the time for the 'show' to begin, "Well Professor, here at the Red Dawn Group Home is where magical freak children go to live when their parents think they've made a mistake by bringing us into the world."

The professor's eye creased and she spoke hesitantly asking, "Whatever do you mean by that Mr. Hoshigaki?"

"You guys can come out now!" Kisame shouted and Professor Burbage blinked in shock when a moment later an ebony skinned boy with green hair popped out of the ground like a plant. From the sky a tiny dot dived down like until a small form leaped off the large unblinking 'owl' and a blond boy with long hair landed beside the plant-boy he grinned cheekily at her and waved, sticking a hand-tongue out at her in the process. A boy who could have been a direct decsendent of Abraxis Malfoy from his appearance simply walked onto the lawn from the front porch, carrying an odd three bladed scythe with him. A fluttering of several hundred white butterflies swarmed into the form of a blue-haired little girl with a solemn expression on her face. There was a blurring motion and a black-haired boy with crimson eyes appeared in a flock of crows followed immediately afterward by a cyclone of threads that pulled together to form a stitched up boy with darkly tanned skin. There was a loud crashing noise as a tiny boy with black hair in an orange mask leaped out of a top window of the manor and rolled a bit before standing, embarrassed to his feet and harmlessly dusting off his grass-stained pants, completely uninjured from his fall. From the same window a turtle-like creature crawled down the side of the building and scuttled over to the blond boy's side. Finally a large white snake crawled out of the door before it morphed into the body of a long haired boy. The ten assembled children stood silently for a moment before there was finally a flash of light and a red-haired boy with several piercings appeared between the group.

"Welcome, adult, to the Red Dawn Group Home. My name is Pein Kouu and I am in charge around here. Now then tell us about this Hogwarts. We've already gotten our school supplies and are a bit curious about it."

Professor Burbage was in a slight state of shock but she quickly shook herself out of it, "Why don't you children tell me about yourselves first? I've never seen such a diverse group of orphans in my life!"

Pein nodded and said, "Very well then Professor Burbage. My name as I've said is Pein Kouu. This house was built some time ago (three months) and the eleven of us live here together. For the most of us our parents were...not magical but thanks to unusual circumstances we were born unusual and with magic. For example, we think Kisame here had a mother cursed by a mermaid. His is pretty easy to diagnose but some of us are harder to figure out. For example Zetsu can merge with plants while Deidara can bring clay creations to life. We're just a bunch of ordinary kids. We just have weird abilities...The person who built this place brought us here and though we never see him he supplies us with everything we need. Hogwarts could be what we need to branch out into the world."

Looking down at their bright eyes and innocent faces Professor Burbage melted a little inside 'The poor dearies...' With a warm smile she gently beckoned them all closer and said, "Hogwarts is the finest school of magic in all of the United Kingdom. The school was founded over a thousand years ago - the precise date is uncertain - by the four greatest witches and wizards of that age. They built the castle together, far from Muggles, for it during an age when magic was feared by many people. At Hogwarts you will be taught how to harness and wield many different kinds of magic and once you graduate you can go on to various careers. Any questions then?"

The pale snake boy raised his hand and asked, "How many students will there be at Hogwarts?"

"Several hundred altogether I'd imagine, though your own age group will have about sixty five children."

"And are the students divided into any groups?" the blue haired girl asked.

"Of course. There are four separate dorms at Hogwarts and each is named after one of the founders: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. Each house has children with similar traits within them. Gryffindor is for the bold and daring, Hufflepuff for those loyal and hardworking, Ravenclaw is for the clever and wise and of course Slytherin favors ambition and guile. Now then, other than this information I also have your Hogwarts Express Tickets. If you need me for anything you can contact me by sending an owl addressed to me at Hogwarts."

The long haired blond boy raised his hand and asked, "What do you mean by owl, hm?"

"Oh, how could I have forgotten," Professor Burbage said with an embarrassed cough, "Owls are used as carriers of messages for wizards.They are very intelligent birds who respond well to magic and most are able to find whoever you direct them to."

Pein smiled up at the rotund professor and with a strange light in his eye said, "Thank you for coming and explaining things to us, professor. It has been a real help and I hope we will meet again at Hogwarts sometime."

Professor Burbage fought down the urge to pat him on the head, for she knew boys his age found it irritating, before she beamed and said, "I'm sure I will Mr. Kouu. Now then. When you go to Kings Cross Station Platform 9 3/4 will be between platforms nine and ten. There is an illusion up to keep non-magical people away but the wall will not be solid for the eleven of you."

The children smiled and waved goodbye and an instant later she apparated away. When she left the smiles on the children either disappeared or became more sinister.

"How the hell are we going to be fuckin' separated equally," Hidan complained, "Because I know right now that none of us will be going into a group with such a fuckin prissy name like Hufflepuff, seriously."

"I have a hunch that the school will intervene and send us where we need to be," Pein said, "We now know at least we can trust that woman to eventually know our abilities. She was surprised for sure but not disgusted. She will only remember physical details from our encounter..."

At Hogwarts Professor Burbage returned to Professor McGonagall's office with the strangest feeling that she was forgetting something important. Minerva looked up at the Muggle Studies professor as she entered with a deft knock and with a contemplating expression asked, "Well are they muggleborns or not Charity?"

"They are muggleborns Minerva, but a few of them do have strange sort of appearances. One boy had blue skin and hair while another was infused with a plant of some kind. The only girl there had blue hair and there was a boy entirely covered in sutures! One blond boy had mouths on the palms of his hands and there was a redhead with at least ten piercings all over his face! Their caretaker wasn't with them but I'd imagine he or she is magical because they already had their school supplies."

"Is that so?" Minerva said with a curious expression, "I suppose it is for the best that they have such assistance. Albus is directing all his attention to Harry Potter this year after all. We can't help any of the muggleborns besides him this year to make him feel accomplished. I really am hoping a bright muggleborn comes this year though. It doesn't feel right that the stakes should be stacked if favor of Harry. If he's intelligent he should overcome them."

Charity gave Minerva a kind smile and said, "I'm sure there will be plenty of intelligent muggleborns around. Mr. Kouu was a very intelligent boy and he could pass as a Weasley with that hair if he took out his piercings. Those children were fascinating. Despite their odd appearances they were all just a group of perfectly normal magical preteens."

Back at the Red Dawn Group Home a small mob formed after Deidara unintentionally blew the roof off the house when he was 'dusting'. It would be a long week until the group left for Hogwarts...

End Chapter Two

Whoo, finished! Next chapter will be coming soon! It will include The Hogwarts Express ride and the Sorting of the Akatsuki! Hope you liked this installment, dry as it was...