A/N: I promised I would try to make a longer chapter^_^

So, a few things I have to say before you start on this chapter.

Firstly, yes, Itachi will appear more in this story, he is my favourite character after all^_^ but it will mostly be about Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura.

second. Parings. Just so you know, this is an adventure story, and I'm not very good with writing romance but I will most likely try. In the beginning there will be mostly canon, but hey, relationships change, don't they?

Sorry for any OOCness, first time writing several of these characters.

Enjoy^^

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Mission Preparation

The next morning, Naruto was with the gate. Surprisingly, he was the first one there. He had thought he would be the last one, if you didn't count Kakashi of course. He waited about 5 minutes before Sakura came as well.

When he got back to the apartment the day before, Naruto had read the letter he had got. It had actually been two letters in the envelope; one containing more information on the mission and one letter that was apparently given to all of the students at the school they were going to. He had almost fainted at the long list of books they had to buy.

Naruto really wanted to learn how to do this magic. He wondered on how different it was from chakra and what he could do with it. Probably a lot of awesome stuff. Maybe he could impress Sakura with some of the spells he would be learning there.

10 minutes later, Sasuke came. His family had been surprised by the mission, well except for Itachi for some reason, but they seemed okay with it. His father seemed very proud about him going on a B-ranked mission, though Itachi seemed a little off about it. Sasuke dismissed this, he knew that his brother were a little (over)protective over him.

The last one that came was of course Kakashi. He came as the first rays of sunshine appeared fully. Also, the three Genins noticed, he was not carrying his normal, orange book in his hands, but an old, brown scarf.

"What is that for?" Naruto asked, while looking at the scarf.

"Oh, this?" Kakashi answered. "It's our ticket to England," his visible eye smiling at their confused glances.

"Eh, what?" Sakura said confused. "What do you mean?"

"Wizards and witches have very peculiar means of transportation. This is one of them. They call this a portkey as far as I've understood it. They can then use an item, and transport themselves to certain places." He looked at the scarf. "This one, transports us to an inn where we will be staying till the start of the term"

He held the scarf within reach of the Genins "You have to touch it for it to transport you. Also remember that from the moment we land, your mission starts. There are often students from the school you'll be staying at there, especially now before the term start," They nodded at this and took hold of the scarf.

Nothing happened.

Sasuke started from the scarf to Kakashi. "Kakashi, isn't something supposed to happ-!" He was cut off when the world around him suddenly started spinning. It felt like having a hook somewhere behind the navel.

Then as suddenly as it started, the world came into view again. Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura fell down when they landed. They looked around and noticed that they were not outside Konoha's gates anymore. In fact, they weren't outside at all. They were in something that could look like an old bar.

Kakashi, the only one that didn't fell, went over to a bald, toothless man behind the counter and started speaking some kind of language team 7 didn't understand.

They rose to their feet and looked at Kakashi. Then the man Kakashi had talked to, took out some kind of wooden stick, said something and before they could react, a bright light effulged them.

When the light faded, the man had put away the stick and looked at them. "What was that?" Naruto asked. At this, the man smiled. "Well, it seems like it worked, I haven't used that spell in years." He looked at them. "Maybe I should introduce myself. I'm Tom, the barman and landlord of Leaky Cauldron, "

Naruto was stunned, now suddenly, he understood the man. And while he realised that, he could also understand the other people in the room as well. He looked around and noticed several other people, all dressed in foreign clothes. Some sat and ate; it looked like dinner, while others just talked. Wait. Dinner? It was barely daybreak.

He looked at Sasuke and Sakura. They as well had started looking around.

"What time is it?" asked Sakura.

"Oh, there is a time difference. Approximately 8 hours. It's evening here."

They just stared at him.

"And how are we supposed to sleep when we just woke up?"

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12 hours later, Naruto walked down the stairs from his room and sat down with one of the tables. When he woke up, he had been able to sleep a little during the night, Sasuke was already gone. He looked around and tried to spot one of his teammates. He saw several wizards and witches but not them. At that point, his stomach told him it was time to eat.

Sadly, Tom had never heard about ramen. This shock Naruto greatly and he sulked a little before he tried 'an English breakfast', and boy it was a lot of food. Not that he minded of course.

"Itadakemasu" and he began to eat.

While he ate, Sakura came down the stairs. "Sakura-chan!" Naruto shouted at her while trying to eat.

Sakura walked over to him. "Naruto! Why do you have to yell with food in your mouth? It's gross" "But- Sakura-chaan" Naruto pouted and Sakura ignored him.

"Have you seen Sasuke-kun?" "What do you want with the teme?" Sakura hit him in the head. "OW! No, I haven't seen him" Sakura sighs. "I wonder where he is…"

She looked around in the room. There were many wizards and witches in the room. She could spot quite a few on her age. It was still another week before the term began, so she guessed that there only would come more people.

At that moment, Sasuke and Kakashi walked in from a doorway, which would probably have been ignored unless you knew about it. They spotted Naruto and Sakura and made their way towards them.

"Where have you two been?" Naruto asked while eating the last piece of egg on his plate.

"Done something useful" Sasuke answered. (Earning a scowl from Naruto) Kakashi looked between his students "We checked out Diagon Alley. We are going to get your supplies today"

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Their first stop was at the wizarding bank, Grinotts, apparently run by creatures called goblins. Apparently, it was the only bank that was driven by goblins in the world and they were very good at it. They went to one counter where they could change some of their money till wizard money; knots, sickles and galleons.

When they got out, they all had a small bag of money in their pockets. "You should get your robes first, and then you can get your other supplies when they finish it" the Copy-nin said and started to walk in the direction of Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions.

Madam Malkin, the shop owner, was a kind witch who started showed Sakura in first so she could take a measure of her. Or, so her measuring tape could do it.

When they walked out half an hour later, both Sasuke and Naruto fumed. Neither one of them liked getting new clothes. Naruto simply because he didn't like to wear anything that wasn't orange, and Sasuke because he was getting enough of it from the clan. His mother always wanted to drag him with her to the stores, complaining that she didn't have a daughter.

Around lunch-time, they stopped at a small ice-cream parlour with tables and chairs outside. They sat down and had one ice cream each, though Sasuke really didn't want one. He disliked almost all sweet food. Sakura had a strawberry flavoured, Naruto one with chocolate and vanilla and Kakashi just found his orange-coloured book and started reading.

Though it looked to anyone that Kakashi was reading his book, (something he did) he also looked at the other people wandering the street. He could see quite a few children, a whole bunch of them staring into different glass windows in different stores. Many of them also seemed to buy supplies for the upcoming school year.

His eyes wandered over the other tables. There were a couple eating ice cream together, and a teen, about his students' age, sitting for himself. He had a book open and seemed to do homework. Kakashi also noticed that once in awhile, one of the wizards working there came out with an ice cream to him. He also helped the boy in a low voice, pointing in the book from time to time.

The boy's head was tilted forward as he read in the book, his dark hair covering his head. When a small gust of wing blew, some of his hair parted and Kakashi could see a lightening bolt scar under it. 'So that's their charge, huh?' Kakashi thought to himself as he went back to his book.

After they finished eating, they went to the book store. Since they were going to start in third year, they had to get a few extra books so they could read up as much as possible in the week before start of school. The Genins didn't want to, but were convinced by Kakashi who said they had to, so they could be able to learn the third year level spells.

After they had dropped off the books at leaky cauldron, because they were so heavy (and many) they went back to Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions to get their robes. They were pretty heavy for just being clothes and the ninjas thought they were not very practical for them.

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Hours later, they stood outside of their last stop for the day. Olivander's. It was the wand shop. This was probably what they had been the most exited about. With their wand they could manipulate their chakra in ways they wouldn't be able to normally.

The room inside the shop was small and dusty. As well as empty. The walls were full of small packages, probably wands, and there were very little light. Though it was more than enough light to see. "Wow, this place is dusty" Naruto exclaimed while he looked around. Kakashi had taken most of their supplies and went back to the leaky cauldron so team seven had gone in for themselves.

"Hmmm, maybe it's time for cleaning then?" The voice came from behind a small door further in the shop. Out came an elderly man. "You are the new transfers?" he asked? They just nodded. How did he know about that? "I'm Ollivander. Now, let's get you some wands, alright?"

"Well then, who's first?"

Naruto, exited, took a few steps forward. Even though he thought that the man in front of him seemed a little weird, he really wanted a wand.

"Well, show me your wand arm" the man said. "Ummm… What?" Naruto said confused. "The hand you write with of course"

Naruto held up his right arm and a measure tape started measure it; just like at Madam Malkin's. Ollivander disappeared behind several boxes while the tape continued doing its job. Though, the nins stared wondering when it didn't stop at the hand or arm, but continued measuring all measureable about Naruto, even his whiskermarks. "Hey cut that out!" Naruto said, clearly irritated when the tape started measuring something circular on his stomach.

Just then Ollivander came back with three boxes. He put them down on the counter and opned one of them. "Let's try this one," he said holding up a long, wooden stick. "10 inches, ivy, unicorn tailhair-core. Quite good for charms" Naruto took it. Just when he touched it, the vase in the corner of the room exploded and the elderly man snatched it away from him again. "Nope, not that one," he put it down in the box and took up the next one. He noticed how they all looked at the place the vase once stood. "Don't worry about that. It happens all the time" He then proceeded with giving Naruto another one. "Vine, 11 1/3 inches and dragon heartstring," The blond held the wand for five seconds while nothing happened before it was out of his grip again.

On Naruto's fifth try, some reddish sparkles flew out of the tip and Ollivander seemed pleased. "A very good wand, that one. Mahogany, 9 ½ inches and dragon heartstring. Quite flexible."

Next up was Sakura. She got her wand on third try. "Cherry, 11 inches and a tail hair from a unicorn. Good for transfiguration," Sakura smiled and stepped back, giving her space to Sasuke.

It was harder for Sasuke to get his wand. It was on his eleventh try that he got a wand Ollivander thought fitted him. "That's the one. 12 and 2/3 inches, made of ash and has a phoenix feather. It's quite stiff, but good at charms"

They paid for the wands and went back to leaky cauldron. Kakashi sat in his room and looked up from his book when they got in.

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The next week passed quickly. Well, at least for most of them. They had to use the time to learn the basic of magic and had to read through several first year books. Apparently, when they were going to use spells and charms, they had to use a lot less chakra than normally. It was just luck that Naruto's wand hadn't been thorn to shreds already due to the massive amount of chakra he was used to use was channelled through the wand. (Something that irritated him to no end)

Sakura, who had the best chakra control, was able to cast her first spells by the second day. Very easy first year spells of course, but spell nonetheless.

They didn't have to worry about doing underage 'magic' either. Kakashi had told them that it had been taken care of, but they weren't allowed to use any spells so other witches and wizards saw them before they got to the school.

Also, third year had a few elective courses as well that they could choose between. Care of magical creatures, divination, muggle studies (non-magical people), ancient runesand arithmancy

Naruto chose divination and care of magical creatures, Sasuke also care of magical creatures, but chose arithmancy instead of divination. Sakura decided to have ancient runes and arithmancy. Kakashi had told them that it would be best if they had different courses. That way, they could cover more ground than if they had the same classes.

On the last day, they decided to look around in Diagon Alley again. Naruto wanted to visit the joke shop, Gambol and Japes Wizarding Joke Shop, something he had been denied the first day, the others claiming they had more important things to do.

On their way to the Joke shop, they passed several of the stores they had visited before, and several they hadn't. One of them was the Magical Menagerie. There were the teens standing outside of it, two boys and a girl. The girl held firmly around big, ginger cat. Sakura vaguely remembered one of the boys, one with green eyes, wild hair covering his forehead and glasses, sitting in the same ice-cream parlour as they had the day they came.

As they passed them they could hear bits of a conversation.

"You bought that monster?" the other boy said, his mouth hanging open. He had ginger hair and freckles.

"He's gorgeous, isn't he?" the girl answered. They were obviously talking about the cat.

Apparently, Naruto also had heard this. "Hey, we should get us pets as well"

The two other Genins stared at him, disbelieving. Naruto continued "Why not, since many students have pets, why not us?"

Sakura sighed. She didn't even want a pet.

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When they got out of the shop, they started walking to the pet shop. While they were inside the store, they had decided that at least one of them should get a pet, especially since Kakashi showed up and told them that owls could send messages back to Konoha.

He had at the same time borrowed Sasuke for a bit. They had disappeared for 15-20 minutes before coming back. Sasuke refused to tell them what it was about and just said they had to wait till they got back to leaky caldron.

They walked into the pet shop. Inside, there were many different kinds of animals. Some seemed completely normal, while others stared back with intelligent eyes, or tried to get your attention with different manoeuvres, tricks and sounds.

Naruto went around, looking into several cages, looking at animals and trying to pet them through the cages. Sakura, at first, really just wanted out of there. Tough, after a few minutes, she started looking as well, especially after she saw a basked full of kittens in all kinds of colours, even unnatural ones. Soon, she was sitting on her knees next to them, petting and talking to them.

Sasuke, who as not planning to buy any one the animals, still looked around at them. One thing that caught his eye was a cage full of ravens. 'Heh, Itachi would have loved them' While he looked at them, he also remembered that this was a shop for magical pets. So he guessed that none of the animals here were entirely normal.

"Outch! Outch! Outch! Stop that!" Sasuke and Sakura looked up and saw Naruto having two owls pecking at him. The witch working in the shop came and tried to get the owls back into their cages. Sakura and Sasuke did nothing to help Naruto. Sasuke could swear he heard Sakura saying something about Naruto just being an Idiot.

After a good ten minutes with Naruto, trying to get the owls back into their cages, the witch went back to the counter.

Naruto came as well, though muttering insults to the owls. "Stupid owls. I'm not getting one of them"

"Baka Naruto! You were the one that wanted a pet" Sakura nearly shouted at Naruto.

"Well, yeah, but I didn't exactly think they would try to attack me!"

"They just didn't like you" At this Naruto shot daggers at Sasuke.

Sasuke ignored Naruto and looked at Sakura. "Are you getting one of tem or not?"

"Eh?" Sakura just looked confused at him. She then noticed she was still petting the kittens. While she thought about it, kittens weren't really that bad, and here she could get one in practically any colour she wanted.

The witch had apparently noticed Sakura's like in them and approached them. "Do you want one of them? Kneazles are allowed on Hogwarts,"

"Kneazel?" Naruto asked confused. "Aren't they just cats?"

The witch answered "They're similar in appearance, but are more magical and intelligent. These kittens are only half Kneazles of course, full Kneazles can be harder to handle, but we have them as well if you are interested"

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Five minutes later, all three ninjas exited the shop, accompanied with a little, dark blue kitten with black eyes. He also had a white tip at the tail. Sakura had insisted on this one because it resembled her crush, Sasuke, so much.

They went back to the Leaky caldron. They had to pack their stuff so they were ready for the train ride the next day. Kakashi had explained to them what a train was, though they strongly suspected he had just read it out from a book.

When they got back, Kakashi called tem into his room. The next day, when they got on board that train, Kakashi would not come with them. All he said was that he had his own mission.

They went through what they had managed to learn through the week and decided they had learned enough to be able to follow third year level. Well at least Sakura and Sasuke. Naruto was a little further behind. He had had more trouble with controlling the amount of chakra he was using while using the wand.

They had to work a harder while they got to the school to catch up to the rest of third year, but at the same time not revealing this to any of the other students or teachers. Also, only the headmaster Dumbledore and the teachers Severus Snape and Minerva McGonagall knew who they really were. To the rest of the staff and the students, they were students from Japan, taking one year at Hogwarts.

When they finished, all of them went down to eat. Naruto was surprisingly fond of the foreign food, though he mentioned several times (a day) that it was never as good as ramen.

After dinner, Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke went up to their rooms. Kakashi stayed behind in the bar, reading his book.

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Kakashi made his way towards his room. He had stayed in the bar longer than he had intended, but it didn't really matter. Now he was walking in the dark passage between the bar and the rooms.

Just outside his room, he realised to his horror that he somehow had forgotten his favourite novel. He turned around and headed straight back.

Even though the passage was dark, Kakashi had no trouble with seeing. So when he was about halfway, he saw a teen just outside the parlour, Harry Potter, he realised.

He also heard voices from the parlour. Potter was obviously listening in. His curiosity raised, he hid in the shadows.

"… and he wants Harry dead. If you ask me, he thinks murdering Harry will bring You-Know-Who back to power. Black lost everything the night Harry stopped You-Know-Who, and he's had twelve years alone in Azkaban to brood on that…"

When they stopped talking, Kakashi could se the boy leaning closer to the door, listening for more.

"Well, Arthur, you must do what you think is right. But you're forgetting Albus Dumbledore. I don't think anything could hurt Harry at Hogwarts while Dumbledore's headmaster. I suppose he knows about all this?"

"Of course he knows. We had to ask him if he minds the Azkaban guards stationing themselves the entrances to the school grounds. He wasn't happy about it, but he agreed"

Kakashi frowned at this. Azkaban guards? Who were they? He had never heard about them.

"Not happy? Why shouldn't he be happy, if they're there to catch Black?" "Dumbledore isn't fond of the Azkaban guards. Nor am I, if it comes to that… but when you're dealing with a wizard like Black, you sometimes have to join forces with those you'd rather avoid"

Kakashi was deep in thoughts. It seemed like these Azkaban guards creeped out just about anybody.

"If they save Harry—" " – Then I will never say another word against them," there was a small pause " It's late Molly, we'd better go up…"

Kakashi heard chairs move and saw the boy hurry down to the bar just before they opened up the door. Kakashi had placed a small genjutsu so they wouldn't notice him and walked right past him.

It was first when the boy walked past him again and up to the rooms that he dropped the genjutsu. He continued casually to the bar and found his book.

On his way back up, the copy-nin was still in deep thought. There was obviously more to this world than was let on. And he would have to find out just exactly who the Azkaban guards were.

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A/N:

The last conversation taken from chapter four of Harry Poter and the prizoner of Azkaban.

Okay, I need help from you. In what house do you guys want team 7 in? Come with suggestions, tell me why.

Also, I looove constructive kritism.^_^ just don't be too harch;P and I'm not sure when I'll be able to update next. very busy with school.

Please R&R

edit 20 October: just fixed some grammar mistakes...