Hey guys, sorry it took so long for me to get this next chapter out. I've been pretty busy lately. I have been having some family problems and I lost motivation for a while. Then I realized how unfair it was to all of you who read this, so I watched a bunch of Naruto and got myself motivated again! Anyways thanks to all who reviewed and followed/favorited this story.
EmptySurface, thanks for mentioning that, it's been forever since I've read the Harry Potter books and I forgot.
Krazyfanfiction1 I've been thinking about it, and I decided I would not be using the gold one, but will most likely use the red one but it's a secret whether it will harm him or not (that's code for, I haven't decided yet ;))
Now time for the disclaimer. Ok Naruto, you get to do the disclaimer today.
Naruto: Yay! Finally it's my turn! *jumps up and down with excitement, then stops and sheepishly rubs the back of his head.* Um…. What's a Disclaimer, Dattebayo?
Me: *Falls anime style* Seriously! *Whispers in his ear what a disclaimer is.*
Naruto: Ohhh. iheartanime101 does not own, or claim to own, anything Naruto or Harry Potter related, Dattebayo!
Me: Good job Naruto! You get a cookie! *looks around* Hey, where did all my cookies go! *sees Tobi* W-what! How did you even get in here, I locked you in a titanium cage, and tied your hands to prevent you from using jutsu! Give me back my cookies! *runs after Tobi waving a kitchen knife angrily at him, while he runs away in terror.*
Naruto's POV
Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly as he looked around for this platform nine and three quarters. He checked his ticket again to make sure he had got the number right.
"Ugh! I'm so confused! Where the hell is platform nine and three quarters, all I see is a platform nine, and a platform ten!" Naruto shouted angrily. Everyone looked at him like he was crazy and immediately circled around him.
"Oops, looks like I made a scene." Naruto thought
"Idiot!" Kurama told him angrily as he shifted in his cage. "You shouted so loud you woke me up. Che, I should be used to it by now." He grumbled angrily to himself.
Naruto could feel Kurama glaring at him but he quickly forgot about the pissed off demon when he saw a red haired lady start towards him.
"Excuse me," she asked in a kind voice, "did I hear you mention you were looking for platform nine and three quarters."
Naruto nodded politely, "Yes ma'am." He said (yes he knows how to be polite!)
She nodded and said, "I'm Mrs. Weasly. To get to platform nine and three quarters all you have to do is run through that wall." She said pointing.
Naruto looked at her like she had just said she hated ramen. She motioned for him to follow her and started walking towards a bunch of red heads.
"Here, why don't you watch Fred and George go through first." She said pointing at two identical boys. Naruto watched in amazement as they ran full speed towards the wall and passed right through it!
"Whoa, that's amazing!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Ok dear, now you try it." Mrs. Weasly said pushing him forward.
Naruto excitedly rolled his trolly forward. He took a deep breath and ran forward. He immediately started having second thoughts. As the wall got closer he closed his eyes and prepared for the impact. It never happened. He opened his eyes and looked around in awe at the sight before him. In front of him was this huge red…. um, what was it called again? Naruto thought for a moment. Oh yeah, a train. Naruto heard a loud whistle and saw steam coming out of the top of the train.
"Oh crap!" Naruto thought. He quickly ran forward and jumped on right as the train started rolling away.
"Phew." Naruto said. He looked around. "Guess I better find somewhere to sit." He muttered. Apparently that was a lot easier said than done, as every compartment was full. "Argh!" Naruto exclaimed, frustrated. "Why is it so hard to find somewhere to freaking sit!"
Harry's Pov
Harry sat in silence on the train, watching the rain splatter on the window. His thoughts turned to Sirius Black. Bam! Harry jumped as the compartment door slammed open. Standing in front of them was an Asian boy with bright yellow hair that seemed to defy gravity. He was tall, with blue eyes, and whiskers on his face. He wore bright orange pants, an open black and orange jacket and a black t-shirt underneath.
"Ano, do you think I could sit here?" He asked with a trace of an accent.
"Um, sure." Hermione squeaked, turning red.
Harry looked at her confused. Why was she turning red? He shrugged it off thinking, "Girls."
"Thanks." he smiled, sitting down on the open seat next to Harry.
Naruto's Pov (sorry if you guys wanted more Harry, I just wanted to do the part where they first meet Naruto from Harry's point of view.)
Naruto settled down in his seat next to the black haired boy. The girl with the bushy hair smiled at Naruto and said, "My names Hermione Granger, and he's," she pointed at the red haired kid," Ronald Weasly."
"Just call me Ron." The red head said glaring at Hermione.
The boy with the black hair looked at Naruto, he seemed to hesitate before saying, "I'm Harry Potter." They all looked at him as if waiting for a reaction.
Naruto just grinned and, pointing at himself said, "My names Uzumaki, Naruto!"
"Baka." He heard Kurama say. "Here you say your first name first, and your last name last."
"Ooh."
"Oops," Naruto said rubbing the back of his head sheepishly, "I meant my names Naruto Uzumaki."
They all looked at him in amazement. The black haired boy looked at him and asked in amazement, "Y-you don't know who I am?"
Naruto looked at him in confusion, "Should I?" he asked. Wait a minute. I remember now. He's the kid I'm supposed to protect. He looked at Harry and studied him carefully. He had messy jet black hair, green eyes, round glasses, and a lightning shaped scar on his forehead. All in all, he didn't look like much. Naruto remembered hearing the old jiji mention something about Harry and a guy named Moldywart. He noticed that Harry was looking relieved, like he was happy Naruto didn't recognize him.
"So what house are you in?" Ron questioned breaking Naruto's train of thought.
"What do you mean house?" Naruto asked, confused.
Ron's jaw dropped open, he then proceeded to explain to him the four houses Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw.
"I wonder what house I'll be in." Naruto wondered aloud.
"Naruto, what year are you? I don't remember seeing you before, but you don't look like a first year." Hermione questioned.
Naruto remembered his cover story and immediately started reciting what he had been told to say if anyone asked about him, "I'm a third year Japanese exchange student."
"Wow! What's it like in Japan? What school do you go to? How do you do magic at your school?" Hermione exclaimed enthusiastically.
Naruto opened his mouth to reply, when the compartment door slid open and Naruto heard a drawling voice say, "Well, look who it is, Potty and the Weasel." Naruto looked over and saw a blonde and two other kids who looked like gorillas standing behind him. The blonde kid held himself with an air of self importance.
"Malfoy." Ron spat.
"I heard your father finally got his hands on some gold this summer, Weasley," said Malfoy. "Did your mother die of shock?"
Ron immediately stood up, his fists clenched in anger. Naruto didn't know who this kid was, but he didn't like the way he was talking. If Naruto knew one thing, it was that you should never make fun of another person's family. He stood up too, and was about to say something when he heard a snort. He looked over and noticed the sleeping man for the first time.
"Who's that?" said Malfoy, taking an automatic step backward as he spotted Lupin. "New teacher," said Harry, who got to his feet, too, in case he needed to hold Ron back.
"What were you saying, Malfoy?"
Malfoy's pale eyes narrowed
"C'mon," he muttered resentfully to Crabbe and Goyle, and they disappeared. Harry, Ron and Naruto sat down again, Ron massaging his knuckles.
"Who was that?" Naruto asked.
"That was Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle. They hate our guts." Harry explained.
They all got quiet as they felt the train screech to a stop. Hermione checked her watch.
"We can't be there yet, it's too early." She mumbled.
Naruto got a bad feeling, something wasn't right. He got up and looked out the door. Everyone seemed okay. He poked his head back in and opened his mouth to say something when the lights flickered and went out. Naruto looked around in bewilderment. To everyone else it was pitch black, but Naruto was a ninja so he was used to the dark.
"What's going on?" Ron asked.
Naruto got up and looked out the window. He gasped, "Guys!" Naruto yelled," There's something moving out there."
Naruto spun around when he heard the door opening but relaxed when he saw it was just two kids, a girl and a boy.
"Ouch!" Ron exclaimed. "Who's that?"
"It's me Ginny, and Neville." The girl explained. "Ouch! Ouch that's my foot!" Naruto yelped as the boy, Neville, stepped painfully on his toes.
"Quiet!" said a hoarse voice. Everyone immediately stopped talking. Naruto looked around to see who had spoken and he realized that it was the man who had been asleep a few moments ago.
Naruto watched as he pulled out a wand and muttered something before it lit up. He turned to face them. He looked weary, but Naruto could see that he was tense and ready for a fight.
"Stay where you are." He commanded in the same hoarse voice as before. He moved towards the door and reached out a hand to open it when the door slid open on its own. A figure appeared in the doorway. Standing directly in front of them was a tall cloaked figure, its face completely hidden by its hood. The temperature started dropping, and Naruto could feel the strength start to drain out of him as he slowly started to slide to the floor. The thing seemed to look around pausing on Harry before turning towards him.
"Monster!" Naruto looked around to see who had said that.
"Nobody wants you, why don't you just go die!" He could hear a kid crying. He felt himself getting weaker, and his eyes started drooping.
"W-what's going on?" He asked weakly. "G-get out of here you freak! Don't come back here again!" as Naruto's eyes slowly began to close, the last thing he heard was that same kid, crying distantly. Then everything went dark.
"Harry! Naruto! Are you guys all right?" Naruto felt someone shaking him. He groaned. Slowly he opened his eyes and looked around. He was on the floor next to Harry. Ron and Hermione were bending down next to them.
"Are you guys ok?" Ron asked nervously, glancing at both of them. Naruto sat up wearily. He felt this stabbing pain in his head. He groaned.
"What happened?" He asked.
"Yeah, and who screamed?" Harry said slowly. He looked like he was about to puke.
"What do you mean? Nobody screamed, but there was a kid crying." Naruto said looking around to see who it was. "He sounded like he was no older than five or six." Naruto said worriedly.
Ron and Hermione glanced at each other, then looked at them like they were a little funny in the head.
"No one was crying, and no one screamed." Hermione told them.
"Then-"Harry started to argue but stopped when they heard a loud snapping sound.
Professor Lupin was breaking up a huge chunk of chocolate. He handed Harry and Naruto each particularly large pieces, then he began dividing it up between everyone else.
"The chocolate will make you feel better." He explained.
"What was that thing?" Naruto asked
"It was a dementor." Professor Lupin explained. "Now excuse me, I need to go speak to the driver." He quickly walked to the door and left.
"I wond-" Naruto stopped mid sentence. "What's happening?" Naruto thought bewildered.
His eyes widened in horror as he could feel fangs growing, and knew his eyes where turning red.
"No! I can't let him out. Not now!" Naruto was begging to panic. That dementor had messed with his emotions and now Kurama was trying to break free!
"No! Go back to sleep you overgrown fox!"
"Che. Come on why don't you let me out? I could hunt down that dementor and take care of it in no time. Use my power brat, you know you want to." Kurama urged.
"No!" Naruto shouted.
"Fine brat, but when you've had enough of everything, when you're tired of being hated by everyone around you, you'll know where to find me."
Naruto felt Kurama lie down and go back to sleep. He let out a sigh of relief. "That was close. Note to self, try to avoid all contact with dementors."
He looked up and saw everyone staring at him.
He grinned, "What? Do I have chocolate on my face or something?" He asked turning to look at his reflection in the mirror to make sure there was nothing on his face.
"Um, why did you yell no?" Harry asked nervously.
Crap! I must have spoken out loud.
"Oh well, I um….."
Luckily Naruto was saved from having to answer by the arrival of Professor Lupin.
"Good news." He said smiling. "We'll be arriving at Hogwarts in 11 minutes so you should all get changed"
They all changed, and then spent the remainder of the journey in silence though Naruto noticed that Hermione kept glancing at him nervously.
I wonder if she saw anything. Naruto thought nervously. No. He shook his head. There's no way she could have seen. I made sure that my face was hidden as soon as I started transforming. And as far as I know no red chakra started leaking out. "Yup" Naruto decided. "There was no way she could have seen anything. She's probably just wondering why I collapsed." Naruto's train of thought was interrupted when he felt the train stop.
"Well, I'll see you guys later." Naruto said smiling.
"Where are you going?" Ron asked.
"I have to go with the newbies and get sorted or something like that." Naruto answered, faintly remembering Hagrid telling him something about him going with some first years or something.
"Oh. Okay well see you later." Harry said awkwardly.
"Ja ne." Naruto replied raising his hand. He laughed silently. Kakashi Sensei always did that when he said goodbye and Naruto had always secretly wanted to try it.
"Hmmm, I wonder where I'm supposed to go?" Naruto wondered aloud.
Naruto heard a familiar voice shout, "Firs' years and transfer students this way!"
Naruto smiled and began walking towards Hagrid.
"Hey ther Naruto, How ya been?" Hagrid yelled over the noise.
"Great." Naruto shouted grinning stupidly.
He followed Hagrid and the scared looking kids towards a bunch of boats. He climbed in with another boy who looked at him, terrified.
"Whoa!" Naruto shouted. He fell on his butt as the boats started moving on their own. "Ouch." he grumbled quietly to himself. He seemed to be doing that a lot since he started this mission.
He looked up and his jaw dropped in amazement. Right in front of him was the most amazing building he had ever seen. Sure Konoha had nice buildings, but nothing nearly as grand as this.
"Welcome ter Hogwarts." Hagrid announced happily as they all got out of the boats. They walked towards a huge pair of doors and they magically opened. Well, Naruto assumed they opened magically. They stepped into a giant hallway.
Tap, tap, tap. Naruto heard someone walking towards them. He turned around and saw a lady walking towards them.
"Hello my name is Professor McGonagall." She told them in a stern voice. "In a minute you will enter the Great Hall and be sorted into your houses. First years will go first, and then the transfer student. Now, Mr. Uzumaki please follow me."
She turned around and began walking, Naruto following close behind. She led him into an office of some kind and motioned for him to sit down.
"Now Mr. Uzumaki, I am here to give you further details on your mission. " Naruto immediately started paying attention.
"Your main job is to guard Harry Potter from Sirius Black. However the other students in the school are in danger as well, so we would like you to keep an eye out for them too."
"Wait!" Naruto exclaimed standing up. "This place is huge, even with shadow clones I would have a hard time guarding the entire school."
"That's why I'm here." A very familiar voice said from the shadows. Naruto turned around and grinned. "Kakashi Sensei!" Naruto exclaimed happily.
"Hello Naruto." Kakashi Sensei said his one eye closed as he smiled.
"What are you doing here?" Naruto asked.
"Lady Tsunade thought that you could use some help."
"Wait, Granny Tsunade finally woke up." Naruto said.
"Yup." Kakashi answered.
Naruto smiled in relief. "But I have also come to inform you that Donzo is dead." Kakashi said his expression turning serious. "He was killed by Sasuke."
"Wait, you mean you've seen Sasuke! I have to go after him immediately." Naruto shouted angrily.
"Naruto. You need to think about it rationally. Sasuke is probably far away by now. Also when you agreed to take this mission you agreed to see it through till the end. You can't just back out now."
Naruto clenched his fists in anger. He knew Kakashi Sensei was right. He had made the commitment to see this mission through to the end, and he never broke his promises or went back on his word. After all that was his nindo, his ninja way.
"Okay." Naruto consented.
Professor McGonagall had been watching the conversation with interest and she chose this moment to speak. "Kakashi will be here under the pretense of being the assistant defense against the dark arts teacher. He will be teaching the non magical side of defense against the dark arts. Now Mr. Uzumaki I believe it is time for you to be sorted."
"Hai." Naruto said following Professor McGonagall and Kakashi sensei back to the Great Hall.
They entered and Naruto watched as Professor McGonagall went and place a stool in the center of the Great Hall, and placed an old, worn, pointy wizards hat in the middle of the stool. Naruto looked at the hat in confusion. Then the hat opened its mouth and began to sing! Naruto's jaw dropped open in amazement. He quickly closed it.
After the hat had finished it's song, Professor McGonagall stepped forward unrolling a long sheet of paper, and began calling out names. Naruto watched as the hat was placed on their heads and either called out either Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, or Hufflepuff. Finally Naruto was the only one left.
"Now for the new Japanese transfer student, Naruto Uzumaki."
As Naruto walked quickly to the stool the great hall was full of whispers, especially from the female population.
"Oh my gosh, he is so hot!" One girl whispered to her friend.
Naruto felt his cheeks grow hot. Finally he reached the stool, he sat down and put the hat on. It was big even on him. Now all he could see was the inside of the hat.
Naruto nearly jumped out of his skin when he heard a voice say, "Hmmm very interesting. Oh I see, you are a shinobi."
"Who are you?" Naruto asked.
"I'm the sorting hat. What's this?!"
"What the hell." Naruto shouted mentally. He looked up and saw that he was standing in front of Kurama's cage, still wearing the sorting hat. "What are you doing Kurama?" Naruto shouted angrily.
"W-what's going on?" the sorting hat asked in fear.
"Ch, get out you worthless piece of fabric." Kurama said angrily. "I don't like anyone invading my space. It's bad enough I have to share with this brat."
"I'm sorry but I need to take a look at this kids memories in order to asses which house to put him in."
"Wait a minute." Naruto said. "I don't want anyone looking at my memories."
"I'm sorry but it's necessary." The sorting hat replied.
"Fine, you want to see his memories then I'll show you. But in exchange you have to leave and never come back." Kurama said grinning evilly.
"Deal."
"Wait!" Naruto shouted but before he could say anything else he was bombarded with a bunch of memories from his past. They all passed by very quickly. Naruto only caught glimpses of a few memories. Some where good, and others where bad. Like really bad. Thankfully as quickly as it started, it stopped.
"My ,my." The sorting hat said sounding as if it had been crying (if hats could cry.) "You have been through quit a lot. But you are very brave and loyal. I know just where to put you!"
Naruto felt them leave Kuramas cage, and the last thing he saw of the fox was him rolling his eyes in annoyance. Naruto opened his eyes and saw the inside of the hat again before he heard it roar "GRYFFINDOR!" Naruto pulled the hat off as the red and gold table exploded in cheers. He grinned happily and went to sit next to Harry. As he walked towards the table he couldn't help but notice that a lot of people where whispering about how long he had had on the sorting hat.
"Wow, he was up there for like five minutes."
"More like ten, I was checking my watch the whole time."
"Wow ten minutes! That has to be a record or something."
"Yeah, but did you notice anything weird while he was up there? I could have sworn I saw fangs."
"What?" Naruto thought bewildered as he sat down next to Harry. "Kurama!"
"I couldn't help it, I was pissed! I hate it when other people enter your freaking mind! It's annoying." Kurama answered.
"Yeah but that's twice today already."
"And that's twice today I've been pissed."
"Ugh, you are such a pain in the ass." Naruto heard Kurama harrumph and then turn over to go back to sleep. Naruto rolled his eyes in annoyance. Just because he and Kurama where on good terms didn't mean that they didn't get on each others nerves.
"Naruto, are you listening?" Harry asked interrupting his thoughts.
"Huh, um sorry what did you say?" Naruto asked sheepishly rubbing the back of his head.
"Dumbledore just announced that Hagrid is going to teach care of magical creatures this year. Isn't that great?" Hermione explained excitedly.
"Yeah." Naruto said grinning stupidly.
"Yeah and he and he said that some bloke named Kakashi is going to help teach defense against the dark arts." Ron told him between mouthfuls of food.
"Guys what I was trying to tell him was that Dumbledore said that they were going to station Dementors around the school!" Harry exclaimed.
Naruto already knew this of course, Since Kakashi Sensei had told him earlier, but he acted surprised.
He absentmindedly listened to their conversation, but he was mainly focused on the food. He was pretty disappointed to find no ramen. Finally everyone had finished eating and Dumbledore dismissed them with a warning about some Forbidden Forest, but Naruto was too sleepy to pay attention.
Naruto followed everyone back to the common room and was so tired he wasn't even surprised by the fact that the portraits talked, and that a portrait of a fat lady was the entrance to the Gryffindor common room. He went up to the boys dorm, changed into his pajamas and went to sleep immediately.
Not too far away two cloaked figures appeared in the shadows.
"Hmmm, this is perfect. I can sense his presence here." one cloaked figure said. He nodded towards the other one who, made a bunch of handsigns, and pressing his palm into the ground, shouted, "Reanimation Jutsu!" Kabuto looked up and smiled at the masked man. "Now things are about to get interesting." He said smiling at the reanimated figures of Sasori and Deidara.
"When are Itachi and Kisame going to be here?" The masked man asked studying their surroundings.
"Any moment now."
Okay guys I know I said Kurama is a little more civil towards Naruto, but remember the key word is little. Just because Kurama is nicer towards Naruto doesn't mean that he doesn't want to break out. Trust me, Kurama still wants to be free. But who knows? Maybe later on in the story they will make peace ;)