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Author's Note: Wheee ! Thanks a bunch to those who reviewed so quickly! To answer some questions, yes, Naruto and co. will use their normal ninjitsus and stuff instead of magic, Draco bashing is sadly unavailable this chapter, but may come in in the next or the chapter after that. But not to worry! It will definately be in this story! I kinda suck at introducing the characters to each other, and anybody who read Harry Potter would know that I've added some paragraphs from the actual book in here. Of course I've twisted some of them but most of the paragraph come straight from the book. I say this now, I do not own the book, I just put the paragraphs in to make it more realistic. The Shinobis will get more part in the story in the next chapter lol
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Chapter 2 – No. 12 Grimmauld Place, London
The swirling seemed to stop. The group felt gravity pull them down. Albus Dumbledore along with six shinobis, landed feet first on the floorboards of Number 12, Grimmauld Place, London.
"Wha – " Naruto started.
"I must be dreaming…" Sakura blinked rapidly.
Kakashi unrolled the mission scroll. A quick scan in the first paragraph told him all he needed to know. With a sigh and muttered a phrase suspiciously like a quote from a certain Nara boy, he handed the scroll to the rest of the team. As the group of teenagers read it over, Kakashi turned to Gaara.
"Just to satisfy my curiosity, why did you come? Won't your village have in need for you?"
Gaara grunted unhappily.
"Apparently my siblings have took it upon themselves to sending me off to a 'vacation'. The village is in their hands now."
A polite cough alerted the two to the headmaster, who's holding out a flask containing an aqua coloured potion.
"This will help with your language. I learnt yours by drinking this. One sip each would do." After seeing the dubious gaze from Kakashi, the headmaster smiled in reassurance. "Don't worry, it's not poisonous. Though I won't say it tastes good though."
The Copy Nin accepted the flask, eyeing it before taking a quick sip through his mask. He passed it onto Gaara who did the same.
"EHHHH?!"
It seems like the rest of the shinobis had read the scroll.
"Sensei! You can't be serious…!" Naruto's mouth suddenly found the flask and took a gulp of the vile liquid.
"GAH!" The fox boy scrambled away from Gaara. "Teme! What are you doing?"
"Something to help with this world's language." He passed it on to Sakura. As the rest of the group took turns drinking it, Dumbledore was briefing Kakashi on the current situation and explanation of this new environment they're in.
"Professor?" A plump woman with red hair entered the living room through the kitchen. "Oh, you've brought them!"
"Ah, Molly, I would leave them in your care for now then. Harry should be arriving in a few hours won't he?"
"Yes, yes of course. Come now, oh my, you all could do with a bit of food." Mrs Weasley shooed the confused shinobis into the basement kitchen.
"I shall see you at school then." Dumbledore smiled, then Disapparated with a crack.
Naruto stared.
"How come his teleportation is different than ours?"
"Because we use different methods, dumbass." Sai said.
The woman in front of them cut off Naruto's reply.
"Now take a seat, take a seat. I'll whip up something quick for you. You hungry Arthur?"
A thin, balding red-haired man who wore horn-rimmed glasses at the table shook his head negative.
"No, that's alright Molly, I'm fine." The man looked at the strangely dressed group and smiled. "I suppose an introduction is in place?"
In the next hour, the shinobis acquainted themselves with the people in the household. They met Mr. and Mrs. Weasley and their children – Bill, Fred and George, Ron and Ginny ("Charlie's in Romania" Mrs. Weasley had said), Sirius Black, and a mousy haired girl called Hermione. The rest, Mr. Weasley had explained, are retrieving Harry and would arrive shortly.
The group were shown to two guest rooms. The kind-hearted woman fussed about the arrangement.
"Terribly sorry there weren't enough rooms here, Sakura dear, maybe you could house with Ginny and Hermione, it will be a bit of a tight fit, but…"
"Oh, no that's okay Mrs. Weasley," Sakura was still astounded by the fact that she could speak English when she never heard of the language before. "I'll be fine with my friends. It's no big deal."
"Well, if you're sure then…" Mrs. Weasley still seemed doubtful, but let the strange foreigners be. "I'll come back up for you when the rest came back with Harry."
As the plump woman went back down the stairs, the group filed into one of the rooms. The events began to catch up onto them.
"Wow! This is totally awesome!" Naruto yelled out in excitement while jumping around. Two portraits are looking at the blonde haired boy strangely. Sai watched as the character in one painting crossed over to the other one. The two characters began to converse in tense whispers.
"This is interesting…" Sai went up to the paintings, examining them.
"Why did Tsunade-shishou send us to this mission so quickly?" Sakura wailed as she flopped down on a narrow bed. "It's so complicated."
Neji sat down next to Sakura while activating his Byakugan, taking a look at the house. Naruto and Gaara joined Sai to watch the moving paintings. Kakashi ran a tired hand through his silver mane before calling his team's attention.
"Well, this is a strange place we've stepped into. According to Dumbledore, we need to protect Harry Potter and the school from the threat of a wizard named Voldemort. But that's not all." Kakashi surveyed the room with his one eye. "There's also this mess of some sort of their government, Ministry of Magic if I'm not mistaken, interfering and saying that Voldemort have not risen and that the headmaster and the Potter boy is lying."
"Eh? Why?" Naruto scratched his whiskered cheek. "I thought the bad guy was real, that's why that 'jii-san hired us didn't he? How much did he offer anyway?"
The sum that Kakashi said made Naruto fall over.
"That much? What about you Gaara?"
"30 percent of your money." Gaara replied. "It's enough for the village to rebuild some of the damaged buildings and such from the Akatsuki."
"Well, you're free to wander around or stay in the rooms. We don't have much to do until the Order meeting started. I'll stay in this room with Neji and Sakura. Naruto and Sai, stay in the other room with Gaara."
Shinobi dispersed one by one until only Neji and Sakura was left. Closing off his Byakugan, the Hyuuga kissed Sakura's temple gently.
"I'm going to go to talk to some people here. You coming?"
"I'll be there in a minute."
"Alright then." With that said, the Hyuuga teleported away.
Sakura sighed at this change of event. Just an hour ago she was enjoying lunch with her friends, and now she's in a foreign country with magic! Sakura laughed softly. Poor Naruto, he's already sixteen, but still haven't had the chance to join in another round of the Chuunin exam. Sai's social skills are getting better, after they had stopped him giving people nicknames anyway. It's a bit surprising for everyone (herself included) when she started dating Neji. He's actually quite sweet in private.
Sakura shook herself out of her musings and stood up. Opening the door, she left to find Neji. As she walked down the staircase, she noticed Kakashi standing at the kitchen door. Some people with what she recognizes as wizard robes were filing into the kitchen. Kakashi signalled Sakura, telling her to get the others. The Order of the Phoenix meeting was starting.
There were hurried footsteps and Ron's mother, Mrs Weasley, emerged from a door at the far end of the hall. She was beaming in welcome as she hurried towards them, though Harry noticed that she was rather thinner and paler than she had been last time he had seen her.
"Oh, Harry, it's lovely to see you!" she whispered, pulling him into a rib-cracking hug before holding him at arm's length and examining him critically. "You're looking peaky; you need feeding up, but you'll have to wait a bit for dinner, I'm afraid." She turned to the gang of wizards behind him and whispered urgently, "They've arrived, the meeting's started."
The wizard behind Harry all made noises of interest and excitement and began filing past him towards the door through which Mrs Weasley had just come. Harry noticed that a strangely dress masked man was holding the door open politely for the wizards. The man's eye trained on Harry.
Mrs Weasley, taking him out of sight of the strange man and the place where the meeting was taking place, led Harry hurriedly up the dark staircase. Harry's questions were all brushed off, with Mrs Weasley saying she had to hurry and to ask his questions to Ron and Hermione. She then left Harry on the second landing after directing him to his room, and hurried back downstairs.
Harry crossed the dingy landing, turned the bedroom doorknob, which was shaped like a serpent's head, and opened the door.
Kakashi watched as the witch led a dark haired boy with glasses up the stairs. A moment later, Mrs Weasley came back down. She smiled in thanks as Kakashi continued to hold the door open for her, and then closed it behind him. His team was stationed around the room, listening to the meeting. Kakashi's brow snapped down as the potion master was once again talking about them.
"Is letting them here a good idea?" Snape eyed the foreigners with disdain. "After all, they might not be trustworthy."
Gaara's sand swirled by his feet in agitation, though none of the wizards noticed.
"Dumbledore hired them, and that's all we need to know to trust them." Sirius snapped. "And – "
Muffled yells could be heard from upstairs. Kakashi looked at Neji, whom had his Byakugan activated, veins bulging around his eyes. He noted in amusement that a few wizards were finding this a bit squeamish.
"Potter is…uh…expressing his opinions to his friends…" Neji answered his team leader's unspoken question tactfully. This was punctuated by another round of muffled yelling. The wizards then started to argue over Harry.
Kakashi sighed. The meeting was turning meaningless. He nodded to Sai and Sakura. Both nodded back and poofed out of sight. A woman named Tonks glanced up.
"Where'd they go?"
"To see if everything's alright with the kids." Kakashi replied with a happy eye crease.
"I didn't want anyone to worship – " Harry began hotly.
"I know you don't," said Hermione quickly, looking frightened. "I know, Harry. But you see what they're doing? They want to turn you into someone nobody will believe. Fudge is behind it, I'll bet anything. They want wizards on the street to think you're just some stupid boy who's a bit of a joke, who tells ridiculous tall stories because he loves being famous and wants to keep it going."
"I didn't ask – I didn't want – Voldemort killed my parents!" Harry spluttered. "I got famous because he murdered my family but couldn't kill me! Who wants to be famous for that? Don't they think I'd rather it'd never – "
Sai and Sakura were listening outside the door. Sakura was feeling more sympathetic to the boy in every passing second. He's like Naruto, but the situation now is worse than the Kyuubi container. Being called a liar, where no one believed the horrendous things he went through must be a harsh blow. Sai however, was detached about the whole incident, and was wondering how there could be so much unreasonable emotions coming from the boy.
"…told them to keep that quiet. That should've been a really big story, out-of-control Dementors. They haven't even reported that you broke the International Statute of Secrecy. We thought they would, it would tie in so well with this image of you as some stupid show-off. We think…"
"Dementors?" Sai asked. Sakura shrugged. She doesn't get what this International Statute of Secrecy thing is. They went back to the conversation.
"…if you're expelled, obviously. You really shouldn't be, not if they abide by their own laws, there's no case against you."
The sound of footsteps came up the stairs alerted the two shinobis and apparently the occupants inside the room as well.
"Uh oh."
A loud crack sounded in the room just as Mrs Weasley came onto the landing.
"Oh, hello, Mr Hatake wanted you to go back down." She then opened the door to the bedroom. "The meeting's over, you can come down and have dinner now. Everyone's dying to see you, Harry. And who left all those Dungbombs outside the kitchen door?"
The teens in the bedroom saw the retreating backs of Sai and Sakura, and wondered if they overheard their conversation. It was Ginny who answered her mother's question.
"Crookshanks," said Ginny unblushingly. "He loves playing with them."
Sai and Sakura made their brief report to Kakashi as wizards and witches filed into the hall, ready to leave. As the large group continued their conversations in whispers, Neiji saw a group of teens on the landings where the bedrooms are. He watched discreetly as a flesh coloured string was lowered towards the wizards. But the group have moved towards the front door and out into the night air.
A few seconds later, the teens had come down from the landing. Harry was looking at the shinobis.
"Who're they?"
"Oh, yeah, we forgot the tell you…" Hermione cut off her sentence when Mrs Weasley spoke.
"We're eating down in the kitchen," Mrs Weasley whispered, "Harry, dear, if you'll just tiptoe across the hall it's through this door here – "
CRASH.
The shinobis drew their kunai out, earning a soft gasp from Hermione and a gaped mouth Ron and Harry.
"Tonks!" cried Mrs Weasley in exasperation, turning to look behind her.
"I'm sorry!" wailed Tonks, who was lying flat on the floor. "It's that stupid umbrella stand, that's the second time I've tripped over – "
But the rest of her words were drowned by a horrible, ear-splitting, blood-curdling screech. Kakashi winced.
The moth-eaten velvet curtains Harry had passed earlier had flown apart, but there was no door behind them. For a split second, Harry thought he was looking through a window, a window behind which an old woman in a black cap was screaming and screaming as though she was being tortured. All along the hall behind them, the other portraits awoke and began to yell too.
Tonks was apologizing furiously, while Mrs Weasley ran along the hall to stun the portraits. Harry noticed that the six strangers were standing around the screaming woman's portrait, not sure how to shut the woman up. A man with long black hair skidded into the hall.
"Shut up, you horrible old hag, shut UP! Kakashi, just close the curtains and that hag would shut her trap."
The old woman in the life sized portrait blanched.
"Yoooou!" She howled, her eyes popping at the sight of the man. "Blood traitor, abomination, shame of my flesh!"
The silver haired man with the masked face was having trouble shutting the curtains. Lupin was in the hall now. He and Sirius were about to help when Kakashi stepped aside for a pink haired girl. She seized the curtains and glared at the portrait with her emerald eyes.
"SHUT UP YOU HAG." Sakura closed the curtains with a powerful snap. The old woman's screeches died and an echoing silence fell. Harry saw the strangers nursing their abused ears, just as he was doing.
"Hello, Harry," Harry's godfather turned to face him after nodding his thanks to the pink haired girl. "I see you've met my mother."
"Your –?"
"My dear old mum, yeah." Said Sirius.
"And who are they?" Harry pointed to the strangers.
"Oh, we'll do the introductions down at the kitchen. They're guards hired by Dumbledore to protect the school, you as well."
"Guards? Why is there a portrait of your mother in the house anyway?"
"Hasn't anyone told you? This was my parent's house…"
As godfather and godson continued to talk while going to the kitchen, the shinobis hung back.
"My ears!" Naruto wailed. "I think they're bleeding!"
Kakashi was silent; no doubt his head was still ringing. He had the most sensitive hearing and sense of smell in the whole group after all.
"That horrendous creature is Sirius-san's mother?" Neji's disgust was evident.
"I wonder how they got the portrait to scream like that." Sai mused.
Gaara was having a pained expression on his face while Sakura asked if he was alright.
When the group arrived in the kitchen, they were met with an interesting sight.
"Fred – George – NO, JUST CARRY THEM!" Mrs Weasley shrieked.
Harry, Sirius and a man swathed in rags called Mundugus dived away from the table. Fred and George had bewitched a large cauldron of stew, an iron flagon of Butterbeer and a heavy wooden breadboard, complete with knife, to hurtle through the air towards them. The stew skidded the length of the table and came to a halt just before the end, leaving a long black burn on the wooden surface; the flagon of Butterbeer fell with a crash, spilling its contents everywhere (and some on Naruto, who's the closest to the table); the bread knife slipped off the board and landed, point down and quivering ominously, exactly where Sirius's right hand had been seconds before.
"FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!" screamed Mrs Weasley. "THERE WAS NO NEED – I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS – JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE ALLOWED TO USE MAGIC NOW, YOU DON'T HAVE TO WHIP YOUR WANDS OUT FOR EVERY TINY LITTLE THING!"
"We were just trying to save a bit of time!" said Fred, hurrying forward to wrench the bread knife out of the table. "Sorry, Sirius, mate – didn't mean to – "
Harry and Sirius were both laughing. Naruto (who was halfway drenched in the drink) fell down laughing while Sakura attempted to clean him up. Kakashi was chuckling as he sat down in a chair.
"Don't go too hard on them. No one's in any danger, we would've caught the knife before it hit anybody."
"But that's not the point, Mr Hatake." Mrs Weasley was fuming. She rounded on the twins again, berating them about their behaviour. She mentioned Percy, and the room went silent. Kakashi lifted his head in surprise. Percy? He thought the older brothers were only Bill and Charlie.
Dinner started with tentative introductions to the shinobis, the air still thick with tension after the name was said. Mrs Weasley then turned to Sirius.
"I've been meaning to tell you, Sirius, there's something trapped in that writing desk in the drawing room, it keeps rattling and shaking. Of course, it could just be a Boggart, but I thought we ought to ask Alastor to have a look at it before we let it out."
"Whatever you like," said Sirius indifferently.
"I could look at it for you Mrs Weasley." Neji offered.
"How…?"
Neji activated his Byakugan. Fred and George leaned over and stared at the veins that now appeared around his eyes.
"Cool eyes." Fred said.
"Are they magical?" George asked.
"What is this Boggart suppose to look like?" Neji ignored the twins in favour of asking the woman.
"Oh, uh, it doesn't have a defined shape…"
Neji found the writing desk and looked inside. There's a presence there, with a misty shape, but just as Mrs Weasley said, the shape is vague and not defined.
"Yes, there is this creature you speak of in the desk."
"That is very interesting." Lupin looked at Neji as he de-activated his Byakugan. "Is it hereditary?"
"Most of my clan has it." The Hyuuga replied.
The rest of dinner went on much more smoothly. Hermione was talking animatedly with Sakura. Hermione was explaining things in the wizardry world, but Sakura wasn't allowed to disclose too much information on Konoha. Sakura's replies to Hermione's questions were all vague, much to the bushy haired girl's disappointment. Naruto was getting splendidly well with the twins (no surprises there) and tried to get Gaara to join in (he got a face full of sand for that). Mr Weasley and Bill were astounded at Sai's drawing skills while Sirius, Lupin and Kakashi had their heads together talking.
There was a lull after dinner, with several stomachs full.
"Nearly time for bed, I think," said Mrs Weasley with a yawn.
"Not just yet, Molly," said Sirius, pushing away his empty place and turning to look at Harry. "You know, I'm surprised at you. I thought the first thing you'd do when you got here would be to start asking questions about Voldemort."
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