Chapter 3.

By the time they arrived at the station, everyone was pretty much ignoring Sasuke, and it wasn't hard, considering he never spoke

They were still angry at him for what he had done earlier, and every so often one of them wsa sure to send him and angry look.

Somehow no-one else in the train station even seemed to notice him. In fact, when Harry thought about it, Sasuke was so quiet, and he there was something weird about the way he walked. If he hadn't already known that he was there, he didn't think that he would have noticed him either.

Their group pushed their way through the crowds until they reached the barrier between platforms nine and ten. Sasuke had read about this in the report, so he wasn't completely unprepared, but still shocked, theough he didn't let it show, when Fred and George walked right into a brick wall and just disappeared!

Two by two, everyone was disappearing through the all and eventually Sasuke was left alone with Harry, Ron, and Sirius, who were all keeping a watchful eye on him.

He grabbed Harry's elbow and pulled him towards the barrier.

"You come through with me," he commanded before turning to look at Ron and Sirius, "you two follow."

Harry jerked his arm out of Sasuke's grip but stayed next to him as they walked through the gateway together.

When theey emerged from the otherside Sasuke was not surprised to see hundreds of witches and wizards, saying goodbye to their children as they boarded a hideously bright train.

'He would have loved it,' he thought, before quickly forcing the subject from his head.

He quickly caught sight of the others from the corner of his eye and made his way over, making sure that Harru was following him along with Ron and Sirius who were following close behind, having just come through the gate.

Suddenly a high pitched whistle cut through the air. The Weasley children and Harry and Hermione quickly said their goodbyes and began to make their way over to the train, but Sirius pulled Harry aside.

"What is it? I need to get on the train!" Harry asked, peering over Sirius' shoulder incase the train were to set off without him.

"Listen Harry," he looked serious, "just don't trust this Sasuke guy okay? I know Dumbledore hired him and seems to trust him but just... just don't get too close okay?"

"Uh... yeah... sure..."

"Im serious Harry." He said, staring his godson straight in the eye.

Harry gasped as something touched his arm and turned quickly to see Sasuke, standing there with that same emotioness face. 'He hadn't heard their conversation had he?'

"We need to go," he said simply. Then walked away, disappearing into the crowd, carrying his trunk as if it were nothing. Harry looked back toSirius for a moment before he heard the whistle again and hurried towards the train; not copingso easily with his. He shouted to Sirius to tell him that he would write and then he was gone.

Sirius just stared after him. He just didn't trust that new kid. A ninja? He was only the same age as Harry and his friends, yet he was somehow a trained killer; and his eyes, those eyes were cold and emotionless. That was not the kind of person he wanted Harry to be friends with.

He didn't exactly look like the type to care about other people. 'He probably dosn't have any precious people,' thought Sirius, 'or if he does he probably wouldn't think twice about throwing them away to get what he wanted.' But he was probably just imagining it. No seventeen year old was that evil.

(A/N: I know that Sirius wasn't in his dog form or anything and so should probably be arrested or something but oh well...)

(A/N: Sasuke touched Harry a lot didn't he?)

When Harry found the rest of their group in a compartment towards the back of the train, he found that Sasuke was already there. "I thought you were supposed to be guarding me but you can't even wait?" He teased.

Sasuke just kept staring out of the window next to him. Harry sat down next to Ron and Hermione, across from Ginny, who was on the opposite end of the seat to Sasuke.

There was silence for a few seconds, then Ron said, "So where are you from?" To the stoic boy in the corner, recieving no reply except for a "Hn."

"Hmph!" You don't need to be rude." Still no reply. "Fine! Be like that! GIT!" Ron shouted, flying out of his seat, waving his arms about madly before sitting down with another "Hmph!" with his arms crossed. Pouting.

"Calm down Ronald!" said Hermione. No-one noticed the far away look in Sasuke's eyes and the faint smirk on his lips. Very faint.

Eventually Ron cheered up and normal conversation resumed. Eventually they forgot that Sasuke was even there. He may as well have been invisible. When Harry thought about it he didn't think that the ninja had moved at all for at least four hours! Eventually he got up and went for a walk along the train to 'stretch his legs,' Harry assumed, but came back after only half an hour due to too many girls leering at him, before just sitting still for another few hours.

With only half an half an hour left Ginny suggested that they should all get changed, as they were nearly there.

To their surprise, Sasuke also reached up to his trunk and began to search through it. 'Was he going to wear robes too? But he wasn't a student?'

They were even more surprised at what he did pull out. They were blue with a red swirly type thing that looked kind of like a leaf (A/N: I didn't even realise it was a leaf until they actually said it on the program,) on the arms, a khaki flak-jacket thing that also had the same deign on the back, and some black cloth like sandals, as well as some stips of white cloth that looked kind of like bandages. (A/N: You know what it looks like.) That was what really surprised them. Sasuke? In sandals?

As they were getting changed they couldn't help but look at him, and one by one they were stuck, staring at him, and if he noticed, then he didn't show it, and this only encouraged them to carry on. They were amazed at his body for two reasons. Firstly, it was just way more toned and athletic than any of theirs, but also because his smooth white skin (A/N: I feel dirty just writing that bit :) was marred only on his back, where there were huge but faint pinkish scars that extended all the way from his right shoulder, down to his left hip. It looked as though he had been attacked by a monster, and it had ttried to tear the skin right off his back!

"Oh my god! What happened?" Ron couldn't help but gasp.

"Ron!" shouted Hermione, blushing, but she couldn't deny that she was curious too, and listened intently incase he answered, though no-one really expected him too. He hadn't answered any of their previous questions.

Sasuke stopped what he was doing and slowly reached up around his neck with his left arm to touch the scar tentatively. Under his arm Harry thought he could also see something on his neck as well. Something round and black thathad previously been hidden by his hair.

"This..." everyone held their breath, secretly greedy to know how he got such a terrible wound. "I got it two years ago... from a monster..."

"What happened?" whispered Ginny.

"...I killed it..." he said softly, still not turning round, and quietly wondering to himself why he was even telling them about this.

They stood in silence for a few seconds before everyone got the message, and carried on with what they were doing.

Harry noticed however, that when Sasuke put his muggle clothes back into his trunk he pulled something else out and looked at it for a few seconds before he put it into his pocket. When he turned round again, his eyes looked even colder than before, if that were possible.

"So, why do you need to get changed?" Hermione asked trying to take everyone's minds off of the previous conversation.

At first it didn't look like Sasuke was going to answer, like he was going to be silent again, but then he spoke. "The other clothes were just so that I didn't attract attention in your 'muggle' world. They are not used to seeing ninja. This is what I wear on missions. It's the uniform from my village and it's much more practical."

"Er... okay..." said Hermione, looking nervously around. That was pretty much everything on that particular topic...

"So, er, what exactly are you going to do when you get there?" asked Harry when he saw Hermione looking at him for help.

"I was told to guard the school, or more specifically you," he looked at Harry here, "and capture or kill anything that attacks it."

"No way!" exclaimed Ron in shock, "your going to kill people?!"

"Yes, of course" Sasuke replied looking at Ron as though he had said something stupid. "I'm a ninja, that's my job... baka." He smirked.

"Wh... what did you call me?!" shouted Ron, indignant, though he didn't even know what it meant, and glared at Sasuke, who smirked at him from across the compartment, but never got a chance to reply to Ron becasue the whistle blew, and the train lurched as it began to slow down. When they looked out the window they noticed that they had arrived in Hogsmeade station already. "Come on, we'd better get off the train," said Ginny.

They collected a few last things like their wands and then waited till the crowds had died down slightly in the corridors before they began to exit the compartment one by one, leaving their trunks behind them.

As soon as they were out everyone started to stare at them, even as they got on with what they were doing, but strangely they were all staring at Harry, but then he noticed that Sasuke had disappeared. "Where's Sasuke?" Harry asked, he had been hoping that ths year he would get a few less stares if he was with the strange new guard.

"I don't know..." replied Hermione.

"I didn't see him leave..." muttered Ron, staring around and managing to make himself look slightly crazy.

Harry couldn't help but laugh a bit at the concentration on Ron's face. "What?!" Ron demanded when he noticed.

"N-nothing!" he turned round a chuckled a bit more.

The crowds were beginning to move more now, and they began walking off of the train. When Harry stepped out onto the steps at the door, he saw the familiar sight of Hogsmeade station, with throngs of students jostling about, and the giant sight of Hagrid calling out to the first years, holding up a lantern, pausing only to shout "Oh hiya Harry!" Waving to him. Harry waved back and then went a bit red as he noticed that now even more people were looking at him, and quickly moved on with Ron and Hermione following him. "I just saw my friends over there so I'll see you guys later!" waved Ginny as she forced her way through the crowd to a waiting group of people. "Bye!" they called to her, before forcing their own way through the crowd, towards the horseless carriages.

One by one the carridges made their way up the dark path. "What are they?" asked Harry, pointing to the horses stood in front of the carriage.

"What's what?" asked Ron, "There's nothing there." he was looking round still, puzzled.

"There! There are horses in front of the carriages! How can you not see them? Their all creepy, they look like skeletons with all leathery skin! And wings!"

"No, sorry mate," said Ron, looking worried.

"Come on Harry, lets just get in the carriage and we'll be at the castle in no time." advised Hermione sharing a meaningful look with Ron.

They began to walk towards the nearest empty carriage, when they heard a voice behind them. "It's okay. I see them too." They turned round in shock to see a girl probably about a year younger than them, with pale blonde hair and carrot earings.

"Y-y-you do?" asked Harry, slightly hopefully, but slightly wearily. This girl said she saw them too, but she really might be mad. You only had to look at her jewellry to tell that.

"Yes, don't worry," she replied, "your not mad. I've been able to see them ever since I got here,but I don't know many other people who can."

"W-well what are they?" asked Hermione, slightly freaked out by this strange looking girl.

"I don't know..." she said mysteriously, before "Well, I've got to go... I'm Luna Lovegood, by the way..." and with that, she wandered away, leaving them looking, and feeling, very confused.

(A/N: Sorry Luna fans, I forgot about her earlier, and then I couldn't be bothered to write her in later, so that's her only appearance for now,but she'll be back later for, you know, the bits that she's... in)

"Come on," Harry said urgently, there were a lot of people getting into the carriages behind them and soon they weregoing to be holding everyone else up. He already got the feeling that he was not goingto be that popular this year, and he didn't want to do anything to aggitate the situation any further.

They climbed into the carriage and immediately began to talk about the mysterious girl who had just made an appearance.

"Who was that?" raved Ron.

"Luna Lovegood, apparently," said Harry looking even more confused than when he thought that he was the only one who was able to see the mysterious horses.

"I think I've seen her before actually, talking to Ginny." added Hermione.

"What? To Ginny? But I've never even seen her beforaaaagghhh!!!" Ron screamed.

"Wha-aaaaggghhh!!!" screamed Harry and Hermione as they saw what Ron had been screaming at.

In the corner of the carriage sat Sasuke, who they previously thought had disappeared to who knows where, but the most disturbing thing of all, and the main reason that none of them had noticed him until now was because of where he was sat.

Sasuke was sat in the corner of the carriage... on the ceiling.

"H-how are you doing that?" gaped Hermione.

"Ninja trick." smirked Sasuke, particularly to Ron, who he seemed to have taken a 'liking' to.

There was a lurch as the carriage began to move and the gentle rocking calmed them all down a bit and as their hearts returned to normal, Harry asked Sasuke, "Is it only you here then? Don't you have, like, a team or anything?"

Sasuke stiffened slightly, but none of the others noticed. "No. I didn't need a team for this mission. It's only A-class, not even S."

"Your saying that protecting a school full of hundreds of students from the most evil wizard who ever lived isn't difficult?" exclaimed Hermione, disbelieveing.

"No. You already have many defences, and I think that I would be enough anyway. I am one of the strongest ninja in the entire world," he smirked as he said this.

"Seriously?" queried Ron, eyeing Sasuke up, "your only about our age, and you don't look that strong, in fact you look pretty skinny!"

Sasuke sighed, "I gave you a demonstration earlier didn't I?" Their eyes darkened just a little at this. They had still not completely forgiven him for scaring them like that. "Strengh is not all that's important Ronald, and besides, you don't have to be made of muscle to be physically strong."

"But if your one of the strongest ninja in the world, what are you doing here? On such an easy mission? Why wouldn't your village want you there to protect it or something?"

"Hn. They can't forgive me, and neither can I."

"For what?" asked Hermione, and they all unconciously leaned in like the nosy bastards they were.

"...For killing the monster..." he replied slowly, turning to look out of the window with glazed eyes.

"The one that gave you the scar? But why wouldn't they-" Harry was cut short as the carriage lurched to a stop, and hermione took the oppurtunity to get his attention and shake her head to tell him that it was something that he shouldn't ask about.

They all quickly hurried out of the carriage after that and towards the large doors of entrance hall. In the distance they could see all the tiny lights of the first years making their journey across the lake, before they were pushed through the doors by crowds.


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