A/N:Here's a chapter…and early Christmas gift for you guys!

Did you see some familiar faces in the last chapter? I know you did. (I wrote it.:p) Reviews please!

Disclaimer (I forgot to put this here last time): I don't own Naruto or Harry Potter (sadly). But one day, when I get married to a rich man and assassinate him for his money, I WILL ONE DAY BUY OFF WARNER BROS. STUDIOS AND RE-WRITE THE WHOLE HARRY POTTER!!!! Bwahahaahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!

JUST KIDDING.

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Chapter 2

Sakura walked with Professor McGonagall down the long dark hallways. She got to see her surroundings, memorizing each turn and twist with her photographic memory. She thought the place was beautiful… you never get to see anything like this in Konoha.

McGonagall took her to an open hallway which ended in a stone wall and an eagle statue. Where was the office there?

Then, Sakura heard the professor whisper something that sounded like 'sherbet lemon'. She laughed inwardly. Sakura already thought the jutsus she was taught had funny names, but this incantation was beyond her.

She was proven wrong.

The eagle statue twisted upwards, revealing a hidden staircase. Sakura watched in awe as the statue continued to rise until McGonagall requested the kunoichi to step on the moving stairs. She obeyed accordingly and rose with the staircase.

At the top, there was a large wooden door, crude, like a dungeon door. It was like a fairy tale.

'Yet again my dear, this whole place is just like a fairy tale.' Her inner commented.

McGonagall overtook the bubblegum-haired shinobi and opened the double doors. She stuck out her arm and let Sakura go in first. "Professor Dumbledore is waiting inside."

Sakura stepped inside the office…well, more like museum. The place was a two story loft like room with tall shelves lined with antiques and trinkets she didn't think belonged to the human world.

'Because we're not in a human world my dear Sakura.'

"Miss Springfield." A bearded old man said as he appeared from the top of the staircase. He was dressed in purple robes, with a matching hat. His frizzy white beard and hair draped down over his shoulders. "Or should I say, Haruno Sakura."

Sakura bowed respectfully. She pulled off her black wig and revealed her bright pink hair. She thought that Tsunade mentioned to this headmaster that she had strangely pink hair. "Good evening Dumbledore-sama…I mean, Professor."

Dumbledore chuckled at her greeting. The Hokage mentioned that she could be a little unstable and could be a klutz at some point, but she was supposedly one of the strongest shinobi she has trained.

"Professor, this is the representative sent by the Leaf Village." McGonagall added, appearing behind Sakura.

"Yes," The purple clad man made his was down the stairs to level himself with Sakura and McGonagall. "I've been informed. Now for the briefing."

"Yes Headmaster." Sakura nodded.

Dumbledore held up a picture of a dark haired boy with round glasses. The boy then moved his hand and pushed away his bangs from his forehead to reveal a lightning shaped scar.

'Wait, did the picture just move?'

"This is the boy you will be protecting." Dumbledore said. "His name is Harry Potter. He's in your year and house."

Sakura nodded as the headmaster put down Harry's picture and pulled up a file.

"This," he laid it gently in Sakura's outstretched palms. "Is the description of Voldemort—the assassination target."

"Sir, there is no picture?"

"Voldemort may be a wanted criminal, but he's been a secret. We cannot alert the public about his presence."

"How will I find him then?"

An awkward silence.

There was a sparkle in the old man's wise eyes. "You wait."

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"WAH!" the stoic, coffee-haired ANBU captain Hyuuga Neji screamed at the top of his lungs as he woke up from a disturbed sleep.

"NEJI-SAN!!!" a shrill scream came from the other side of the paper doors. The door slid quietly but was accompanied by heave footsteps. Thirteen-year old Hyuuga Hanabi stomped angrily to her cousin. "SHUT UP!!!"

Slap.

The third ANBU captain was left on his bed with a red strike mark on his cheek by a four and a half foot tall genin.

He cursed silently to himself. 'She's been spending too much time with Ino, Tenten, Hinata and Sakura…'

SAKURA!

He recalled the mere sound of his name before Hanabi screamed it throughtout the whole Hyuuga compound.

The sweet memory of the day he fell in love with Sakura Haruno.

"Neji..." His name rang sweetly in his ears. The owner of the voice sat by the momorial stone, reading the names of all the shinobi embossed on the surface. She was covered in scratches and bruises from their training with the rest of Team Gai. She was touching the mere fact she has been training with them now.

Uzamaki Naruto, Hatake Kakashi, Sai, Yamato-- all K.I.A.

"Sakura?" He asked sympathetically...or at least tried to make it sound sympathetic as possible. He was never good with the waterworks. That's what Tenten was for.

Teardrops landed at the base of the memorial stone. "Why did they do it?" Sakura turned her head to face the confused jonin. "Why did they have to..." She couldn't continue. Her voice was overlapped with so many sobs that she stuttered worse then Hinata after Naruto asked her out to dinner. "W-why d-di-did th-they?"

Neji couldn't do anything but stand there. Everyone in the remaining Konoha 12 knew she would break down soon enough: they even discussed it once over coffee while Sakura was training with Tsunade. He wasn't very active in the conversation of course, but he couldn't help but listen to Ino's ranting about her best friend.

He fought the urged to say, "Sakura, get up and stop crying." or "It's destiny." Instead, he knelt down beside her and lifted her head by the chin to make her eyes meet his.

"Neji..." She managed to stutter out his name again.

And then the unthinkable happened.

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He kissed her.

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And she kissed back.

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A/N: Yea!!! Chapter two is FINISHED!! I'm sorry if it took so long. I kept on changing computers between houses so i had to edit and send it to myself because my freaking USB has a virus from the school computers.

Did you like the part with Hanabi? I had to put her somewhere...or else my devilish little sister would have killed me. (Yes, she IDOLIZES Hanabi....little sister, basking in the glory of her older sister's weaknesses...:(()

Don't worry if you find my chapters a little short. I find them short too. I, BellaPerea, will vow to make my chapters MUCH longer next time.

Sadly though, I won't be able to update for a few days (as mention in the Dark Days Prologue) because I have my class retreat and then I'm gonna go to the beach (my parents are DEFINITELY out of their minds). And then I have school after. Sigh. :|

Reviews are appreciated.

xoxo,

Bella