A/N: Sorry this took so long to get out. Life and then disinterest sorta got in the way for a while, so sorry. Yes I know, this isn't how magic really works, but I'm allowed to take liberties with my story. This chapter has a bit less action in it, but Chapter 5 should make up for it I think. And I know that Harry and gang are going pretty fast in learning the ninja stuff, but it keeps the story moving. Finally, I am in need of a beta reader. my other beta has stopped reading, or at least beta'ing NaruxHP fics, so if you have a good grasp of both stories, email me and let me know if you are interested. Thanks.

.'Sabaku No Annie'.: Sorry, this is going to be straight pairings only

A.Pyro: Sasuke is just kinda creepy in my opinion

Chapter 4: Friendships and Conflicts

Professor Hyuga's classroom

When Professor Hyuga entered the classroom this time it was on the floor. He had waited a few minutes to see how the students reacted to the new classroom setting. The desks had been removed to the walls, leaving the center of the room mostly clear. Large beanbags had been placed where the desks had been last time, arranged in four rows of six. After the students had arranged themselves to their satisfaction, the Golden Trio in the middle of the front row and Malfoy and his lackeys occupying the rearmost beanbags, Neji entered the room. The traditional teachers desk had also been removed, a shorter legged version replacing it. Professor Hyuga folded his legs underneath himself and addressed his class, hands on knees. "From now until the foreseeable future, my teammate Sakura Haruno will be joining us in class. She is trained as a medic-nin, to heal any injuries sustained in this class." A number of the Slytherin boys, Malfoy included, were eying Sakura in a very considering manner. "And Mister Malfoy, don't try to mess with her. She is far stronger and less lenient than I am. Want to show them what I mean Sakura?" Grinning villainously, she nodded. "Miss Granger, please summon the largest boulder you can for us."

"A boulder, Professor Hyuga?"

"Right over there if you would," gesturing to a clear expanse of floor. Getting up, Hermione got her wand out and cast a summoning charm on the floor. A boulder slowly rose up, reaching to the ceiling and about ten paces thick. Hermione sat back down and Sakura took the floor. Sakura frowned at the boulder for a moment.

Malfoy took the opportunity to call out to her," Hey are you going to frown a hole in that boulder for us?" Smirking, Malfoy sat back. Surprisingly, neither of the Japanese ninja said a word. Instead, Sakura cocked her mailed fist back and let loose with a bloodcurdling scream of rage. The stone where her fist impacted cracked slightly, giving the impression that she had screwed up. Half a second later, the boulder simply disintegrated into tiny shards of flying stone in every direction. When the students faces emerged from hastily thrown up sleeves, shock painted one and all. Sakura merely blew a bit of dust from her armored fist.

Without losing a beat, Professor Hyuga continued. "Today in class we will work on hand seals and basic chakra manipulation. There are twelve hand seals you will use for every jutsu you will ever perform. They are bird, boar, dog, dragon, rabbit, horse, ox, monkey, ram, rat, snake, and tiger." He spoke and formed the hand seals very slowly so that the students arrayed before him had time to observe the hand seal completely. A Neji shadow clone stood behind him and copied the seals on the blackboard. "Each hand seal sets certain mental pathways for the chakra to be molded into. For a jutsu to be performed correctly, each hand seal must be formed flawlessly. Every time you perform a jutsu, you use a certain amount of physical energy. If the hand seals are formed incorrectly, you could end up using more chakra than is needed and exhaust yourself quickly in the middle of a battle. Or you could not use enough chakra at all and nothing will happen, but the chakra is still wasted. Third you could force the chakra to form incorrectly and damage yourself with an unintended side effect. All three are just about equally as bad effects to happen to you. Now we will slowly go through each of the twelve hand seals together. Because you cannot consciously manipulate your chakra yet, nothing bad will happen if you foul up a hand seal." The shadow clone pointed to the first seal, bird. As the Englishmen ran through the seals, Professor Hyuga walked down the aisles between the students correcting the occasional error. After about half an hour of this Professor Hyuga stopped them and told them to meditate the remainder of the period. At the end of the period Professor Hyuga spoke. "From now until further notice you are to spend an hour meditating and an hour forming hand seals. When meditating I want you to try to focus your chakra in your hands.

Hufflepuff common room

Hinata was in the Hufflepuff common room after dinner, watching her charges. Most of the Hufflepuffs were gathered around either the fire or one of the tables scattered randomly. She had ensconced herself in the corner between a wall and the tunnel to the girls dormitory. Hinata had tried to remain as inconspicuous as possible, and kept to herself for the most part. This was equal parts shyness and the Hufflepuffs nervousness of having an acquaintance of the two men who had battled it out in the Great Hall the other day. Noticing that everyone gave the Japanese woman a wide berth, Hannah Abbott excused herself from the table she was sitting at and worked her way across the room to her. Hannah stood in front of the shy kunoichi and offered her hand. "My name is Hannah Abbott. Whats yours?" Noticing Hinata eying her hand uncertainly, she leaned forward and put Hinata's hand in hers. "This is how we greet people here."

"Hinata Hyuga. Pleased to meet you Hannah."

"Why are you sitting over here by yourself?"

"Well everyone seems to be afraid of me. Its kind of weird."

"Well noone here can do anything like your two teammates did the other day, and its kind of scary."

"Back home in Konohagakure, I'm about the last person anyone would be afraid of. Its kind of a weird feeling.

"Well you can come and sit over with me and Ernie Macmillian." Before Hinata could object, Hannah had seized her hand and dragged her over to her table. Hannah sat her down across from Ernie and introduced her. Ernie peered at her eyes.

After Hannah had introduced Hinata to Ernie, Ernie squinted into Hinata's eyes asking "Whats wrong with your eyes Hinata?"

"What do you mean, wrong with my eyes?"

"Well, you don't have any pupils."

"Oh thats the kekkei genkai of my clan, the Byakugan." Hannah and Ernie stared at her blankly.

"Kekkei genkai? Is that Japanese?" Ernie continued.

"Yes. It is translated approximately to bloodline limit. Certain families where I come from have genetic traits that give them certain special abilities. My family's kekkei genkai is called the Byakugan, White Eyes I think is how it translates. It enables me to see virtually 360 degrees."

"Cool. So are you related to the new teacher that came with you. Ummm... I can't remember his name..." Hannah tapped her chin thoughtfully.

"Neji Hyuga. Hes a cousin. He is a genius when it come to anything about shinobi. His Byakugan is much more advanced than mine is."

By this time, they had gained the attention of the entire room. Everyones eyes were riveted to the foreign woman who claimed to have 360 degree vision.

"Show us" someone cried from towards the fire.

"Well, I don't know. I'm not really supposed to show it to just anyone."

"Don't worry. Noone will tell" Hanna replied.

"Alright, I guess." Hinata stood up and clasped her hands tightly together in front of her and concentrated. The veins around her eyes and temple bulged dramatically. Finally her irises emerged.

Ernie gasped. "Dude, thats cool looking. I saw Professor Hyuga do that too in class the other day. When Hinata looked around, people instinctively retreated from her fierce gaze. Abruptly a wadded piece of parchment came whizzing toward Hinata, from the direction of the fire. Hinata caught it easily. Looking back she chucked it back at the boy who had thrown it. His friends laughed at his surprised expression. Clapping her hands together again, she released the Byakugan. When Hinata did nothing else extraordinary except talk to Ernie and Hannah, the volume level of the room slowly rose as people returned to their conversations and homework.

Ravenclaw common room

Sakura was sitting in one of the overstuffed armchairs near the fire when the first Ravenclaw entered the common room. Most having heard of Sakura's demonstration of her strength earlier in the day in Professor Hyuga's classroom by destroying a boulder, gave her quite a wide berth. Luna, as usual being the exception, approached her completely at ease. Luna took the chair immediately adjacent to the one Sakura occupied. Peering at the pink-haired woman, Luna introduced herself. "You're Sakura Haruno, right?"

"Thats right."

"What is it you are reading there Sakura?"

Sakura tilted the book so that Luna could see the cover. After a moment when Luna didn't say anything, she realized that she probably couldn't read Japanese. "It's called A Manuscript on Chakra Induced Wounds of the Internal Organs."

"Sounds...interesting."

"It is. I'm training to be a medic-nin, and my mistress, the Hokage-sama, assigned me some material to read on my mission."

"So, thats like a Healer? That is quite an impressive achievement at your age."

"Well, not really. In Konoha, my home, most of the kids who train to become ninja graduate from school when you guys are just starting. I've been training from the age of six to be a ninja, so, by the time we are thirteen or fourteen, we are considered adults."

"Thats cool. Say, why weren't you at dinner today?"

"I was discussing medical protocols with your head healer, Madame Pompfrey."

"Oh. Too bad. There was some really good steak-and-kidney pie and treacle tart tonight."

Sakura put her book down, arching a pink eyebrow. "Treacle...tart?"

"Its like a pie filled with golden syrup and lemons. The house elves make it really well."

"House elves? Are they anything like the Crumple-Horned Snorkack?" Sakura inquired, having heard of "Loony" Luna's belief on anything that could possibly stretch the imagination.

"Oh no. The house elves are wizarding servants. Crumple-Horned Snorkacks are like boars, but with curly horns. And they live in Sweden."

"Interesting," Sakura replied, clearly not convinced.

"I know. My father is the Editor-in-Chief of The Quibbler," Luna commented, waving the latest copy in Sakura's face. Sakura leaned back in order to avoid a premature death by swatting.

Slytherin common room

Sasuke was leaning against the blank expanse of wall immediately adjacent to the portal admitting entrance to the common room. Malfoy and his cronies stepped through the hole in the formerly solid wall. Staying silent Sasuke studied Crabbe and Goyle's muscular backs as they went into their dorm room after being dismissed by an disinterested flick of Malfoy's wrist. Malfoy crashed down into the chair nearest the fire. When it was apparent that Malfoy wasn't going to do anything but stare into the flames dancing in the hearth, Sasuke glided up behind him. "I apologize of Naruto's lack of discipline yesterday. It was unprofessional and immature."

Malfoy leaped straight up almost two feet out of his chair at the sound of Sasuke's voice. Malfoy whirled around to face the person who would dare intrude upon his solitude, and the expression of anger spread across his aristocratic features faded to a sickly remnant when he realized whom he was facing. After a moment Malfoy marshaled his courage and replaced the anger on his face. "Jesus Christ, man, you scared me out of ten years of my life."

Sasuke inclined his head slightly in Malfoy's direction. "Again apologies. It was not my intent to startle you so. I merely wished to try to get to know you a bit better. I think that you and I think a lot alike, and could become good friends. I think we got off onto the wrong foot and wished to try to start over with you." Without hesitating an instant, Sasuke extended his hand towards Malfoy. Malfoy hesitantly took the proffered hand and shook it. "I just have one request of you Malfoy. Do not disrespect any of my team in front of me, even Naruto, as irritating and immature as he is, he saved my life once and I owe him for that. "

Malfoy scowled, but offered his hand out to the Japanese man anyways. "Friends then. And call me Draco."

After accepting Draco's hand, Sasuke said, "Now let me show you how to scowl properly at least."

Dumbledore's office

"Albus, you know my objections to this so-called ninja teaching a class of students no older than himself. Naruto Uzumaki's prank of Draco proves Neji Hyuga's lack of discipline and control among his own team. "

"Severerus," Dumbledore interrupts, "I knew that Mister Uzumaki's antics would upset you so I asked Mister Hyuga to present himself and Misters Uzumaki and Uchiha to come and explain themselves." A knock on the door followed right on the heels of Professor Dumbledore's statement. "Come in," he called raising his voice slightly. The solid oak door swung forward to admit the three ninja and Minerva McGonagall, Deputy Headmistress. Neji Hyuga stood in front of the Headmaster's desk, Naruto and Sasuke on his right and left respectively.

Neji spoke up when everyone was settled. "Headmaster Dumbledore, I presume that this meeting has been called concerning Naruto's prank yesterday?"

"You would be correct in your assumption Mister Hyuga," Dumbledore intoned gravely.

"It was just a prank, sheesh," Naruto muttered, the comment drawing a coldly sharp glance from Neji, and a decidedly more heated one from Professor Snape.

"Nonetheless, your 'prank' raises serious questions of the competency of your team if you are so amused by a prank as childish as this one," Snape snarled.

"Severus," Dumbledore called in a calming tone.

"No Headmaster. I must insist that we send these children back to wherever they came from and send for a more experienced team," Snape stated turning to the elderly wizard.

"If I may, I would like to assure you that nothing like yesterdays incident will occur again-"

"You are most certainly correct in that assertion Hyuga, because you will not remain here long enough for such an incident to be repeated" Snape interrupted, investing the Hyuga prodigy's name with a good measure of scorn.

"Severus, I believe that would be my decision to make, whether or not they will be sent back" Dumbledore spoke up.

"I'm sorry Headmaster. My emotions got the better of me."

"As I was saying before I was interrupted," which earned another glare from the sallow-faced Englishman, "I will personally make sure that this will not be repeated. Also I must say that my team, with the exception of my cousin Hinata, is completely comprised of Jonin level shinobi. Even among Jonin, Naruto, Sasuke and I are considered to be rank among the most powerful shinobi in our village. If you send us back and request a different team to be sent to you, it will almost certainly be less capable of carrying out your mission."

"Well, your team certainly was highly recommended Mister Hyuga," Professor McGonagall said, finally entering the conversation.

"I am inclined to agree with Minerva, Severus. For the time being at least, Mister Hyuga's team will stay. I am sure that there will be no repeats of last nights dinner episode." Dumbledore regarded Naruto with a clear-eyed gaze while directing his words to the room at general.

"I give my personal assurance that there will be no repetition sir. I will attend to it personally." Which did not bode well for Naruto of course.

"The Headmaster already said that nothing of the kind will occur again, there is no need to say it again," Snape sneered.

"One more thing Mister Hyuga. The student have a trip to the nearby village of Hogsmeade in Scotland scheduled in the near future. Please let myself and Professor McGonagall know of anything you may require to carry out your mission."

"Certainly Headmaster Dumbledore." With and to Dumbledore, all three of the ninja clasped their hands in front of them and vanished in three puffs of smoke. After Snape had departed, Albus turned to his deputy and remarked "well, I think that that went as well as can be expected Minerva." Nodding silently, Professor McGonagall agreed.

Headmaster's Tower

"Naruto, you will take a thousand laps around the castle before retiring to your room, without drawing on the Kyuubi" Neji told the blond man.

Seeing Naruto's face harden Sasuke interjected quickly "this is all your fault Naruto. If you hadn't pulled that prank on Malfoy, we wouldn't be in this position. This is an A-rank mission. If we were to be sent home by the client, the village would be obligated to return their money. Konohagakure needs every client we can get out hands on right now, especially one like Hogwarts. The war with Akatsuki has become quite expensive, especially since Asuma-sans death."

Grumbling, but with disaster averted, Naruto hung his head and turned to the nearest window to start his thousand laps. Neji nodded his appreciation to Sasuke and the two parted ways, Sasuke to the Slytherin dorms, Neji to his bedroom in the staff dorms.

Several hours later, Gryffindor common room

When the Fat Lady's portrait swung forward to admit a bedraggled Naruto, the Golden Trio were the only ones in the common room. Harry got up and asked Naruto what was wrong.

"Bleh, Neji, the teme, said I had to run a thousand laps around the castle after the meeting with Dumbledore and Snape." Shuddering Naruto continued, "he doesn't seem to like us much."

Hearing that Professor Hyuga had told him to run a thousand laps, Hermione let out a gasp. "Why would he tell you to do something like that. You didn't seriously do it?"

"Yeah, I did. Neji would know if I didn't do it all." Waving of the Englishman's concern, he said that he would be fine after a few hours rest. Tiredly, he hauled himself up the stairs and disappeared into the boys dorm. Exchanging worried glances, the three of them returned to their work.