Hello, I'm back again! Now, I won't be revealing Yuki's Harry Potter identity till much later to give you more time to guess, but I will be dropping hints. All very subtle, mind you, but they're there. I may or may not rant in my author's notes about various things, but if I do, just nod and smile, and don't question me about it. For now, I'm relatively calm, so no ranting. Yet. Don't get too relaxed.

Also, I accidentally posted chapter 2 twice, but I went and fixed that thanks to harrysowl sending me a PM telling me that, so thank you for that!

Anyways, disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Harry Potter. SRSLY Rowling does. (Get it? JK Rowling, SRSLY Rowling? No? Oh. Okay.)

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Yuki narrowed her eyes. She was crouched and hidden in the shadows of a dark corner of the platform, surveying the scene. There were a multitude of children and parents alike scurrying about the platform, with a myriad of animals and trunks everywhere. Yuki herself was having a hard time trying not to just rush out and hug all of those cute, fluffy, graceful, beautiful cats-

No. Getting carried away. A finger twitched. She took a breath and continued scanning the scene. Her gaze landed on what seemed to be the oldest students on the platform. Sure enough, there was a lanky ginger, a brunette, a timid black-haired boy and a few others, like a boy with hair so blonde it was almost white. Said boy had two other guys following him, almost like bodyguards. Yuki had to stifle a giggle at that thought. The two 'bodyguards' were so overweight it wasn't even funny anymore. They were definitely not bodyguard material.

She absently scanned the platform for any others that Kakashi had said he had remembered. Two boys, the older one carrying a camera, ran into the train. A shy red-headed girl in yellow-hemmed robes waved to an adult.

The whistle blew. Snapping to attention, she patiently waited for all the stragglers to get on the train. Casting a disillusioning genjutsu on herself, she leapt onto the roof of the train just as it pulled out of the station. Attaching chakra to her feet, she ran on the roof towards the engine. At the head of the cars, she dropped down and slipped into an empty compartment. Weaving the hand-signs for another genjutsu, this time to make the compartment look full, she bit her thumb, drawing blood and flashed through a series of hand-signs. Finishing, she slammed her hand into the floor of the train and whispered, Kuchiyose no jutsu!

A small poof of smoke rolled off, and when it cleared, a medium-sized snow leopard had appeared.

"What is it you need of me, Yuki-sama?"

"Yo, Shirayuki. Can you take this report to Kakashi? Make sure you can't be seen and that he's in private." She tied a scroll to the leopard's back.

"Sure, no problem! See ya again, Yuki-sama!"

And with another poof, the white leopard disappeared.

Yuki leant back, and rested her neck against the edge of the seat. Without warning, an ear-splitting grin broke across her face.

'This year is going to be good fun."

And she returned to staring dreamily out the window like she would in her apartment in Konoha.

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Kakashi skimmed over the scroll. It seemed like Yuki had seen some of his classmates and friends from his former life, but had not yet made contact. What he was really confused about though, was the fact that even though she was his superior, she was reporting to him, not the other way around. It seemed though, that she was having fun, and who was he to deny her it? Besides, he would get his fair share screwing around with the students later. He smiled to himself. The students were due to arrive in two hours. Time to prepare for their grand entrance…

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Hermione sighed as she observed Ron through the glass of the train window. He was being hugged by Mrs. Weasley, who then moved over to hug Ginny as well. Movement caught her eye. Shifting her head, she caught sight of her parents waving at her. She forced a smile on her face, and waved back. The compartment door opened. She turned her head to see Neville standing in the doorway, his trunk in the hallway behind him. She smiled weakly.

"Hi, Neville."

"Hi, Hermione. Ron here yet?"

"No, he's still on the platform with Ginny and Mrs. Weasley."

"Oh, okay…"

"Come on, Neville, sit over here."

"Thanks, Hermione."

"Hey, Hermione, Neville."

"Ron!"

"Hi, Ron."

"Nice seeing you two again after the holidays, eh?"

"Ye-yeah, I suppose so."

"I guess…"

"Well, come and sit down, Ron. Don't just stand there."

"Sure…"

An uncomfortable silence settle thickly in the room. Hermione had leant her head on Ron's shoulder and had closed her eyes. Ron had started running his hands through her hair. Neville had taken out a herbology book and had started reading it.

Ron broke the silence.

"You heard about the rumours, Mione?"

"Hmm? What rumours?"

"About a new subject of course."

At the word sentence, Hermione sat up straighter.

"Supposedly about physical activities or something. I heard from Charlie that they've hired two people to teach this subject. Apparently they're meant to teach us how to fight without magic."

"So basically fight the muggle way?"

"Yeah. Sounds like something… he would have liked."

Ron wrangled out the 'he' painfully.

Hermione's hands fisted. Neville's grip on his book tightened.

"Yeah, it does sound like something Harry would have liked. Then, maybe he would be able to defend himself from his abominable family."

"Yeah, if only he was here…"

Another silence settled down, only this time, the room's occupants were all caught up their memories.

Hermione snapped to life first. "Well, it's no use thinking about things that have happened already. Ha-harry wouldn't have wanted us to sulk and brood over his- his- his passing away. We need to focus on what's in front of us, or we'll never get anywhere."

Ron cracked a smile at that. "That sounds just like the sort of thing you'd say, 'Mione."

She let a smile out at that. "I guess so."

The rest of the train ride was filled with a comfortable silence, Ron dozing away with Hermione's head on his shoulder and Neville alternating between reading his book and sneaking glances at the couple opposite him.

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As the train approached Hogsmeade, Hermione and Neville shook Ron awake to change into his robes.

"Ron! Ron, wake up!"

"Ugh, the lazy sloth… Ronald Bilius Weasley! Get up this very moment or God so help me!"

"Whaa? I'm up mum, I'm up!"

Hermione and Neville shared a smirk at that.

"Come on, Ron, we're almost there. Neville and I have changed into our robes already. We're just waiting for you."

"Sure, sure. But couldn't you have let me sleep a little bit more?"

"No."

"Damn."

After Ron had changed, the trio looked out the windows to see the dimly lit village of Hogsmeade. As the train pulled in to the station, they stood up and joined the flood of students towards the carriages. At this point, most of the older students and some of the younger could see the thestrals. Luna would have said something along the lines of 'Your Nargle infection is much better now, that's why you can see them! Nargles tend to hide in your head just behind your eyes, you know.'

They clambered on a carriage, and started their ride up to Hogwarts.

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Yuki slinked out of the train, adapting the genjutsu to look like the students were following the crowd. She sped past the carriages under a disillusionment charm she had casted with her new 'wand' and was tree-hopping (or at least shrub-hiding) to Hogwarts. Once at the door to the Entrance Hall, she sped up the wall, onto the ceiling and promptly landed on the rafters of the Great Hall.

"What's it like?"

"Maa, pretty much like I remember it. Only the older students are a little more serious now."

"Is that so?"

"Aa."

"Well, all that's left to do is to wait for the old goat to announce us."

"Old goat? I thought you said that nickname was reserved for the Sandaime."

"Well it was because he's got a goatee, but Dumbledore's beard is- I can't even- it's just huge! Maybe I should call him Daihige-sama…"

"Yuki…"

"Yes?" She blinked innocently.

"… Never mind."

"Okay!"

They turned their attention back to Dumbledore.

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After the first years had been sorted, Dumbledore stood up.

"Good evening, and welcome back for another year of Hogwarts! To our newest students: welcome, and we hope you have a good time! To our old hands: welcome back! Now, before we start our meal I have a few announcements to make."

"First of all, the Forbidden Forest is off-limits to all students. Please, don't venture into it. Secondly, Mr Filch, our caretaker, has informed me that the list of banned items has now extended to include 456 items, which include Fanged Frisbees, dungbombs as well as various others. The full list can be viewed in Mr Filch's office."

"Finally, I am proud to announce that Hogwarts has a new elective! It is called Physical Defence and Education, and we have hire two highly-trained professionals to teach you. Please, welcome Mr. Kakashi Hatake and Miss Yukinaru Suzumi!"

As Dumbledore said this, frost covered the walls in intricate patterns. Lightning animals danced down the aisles between the tables, and two figures shot down from the ceiling of the Great Hall. The two figures met mid-air in a kick, before simultaneously flipping back and landing just in front of the staff table, on either side of Dumbledore.

"Blimey. They're fast!" Ron was gaping in awe.

Hermione observed the two people. One of them was a girl. She had long hair braided into a plait and had what seemed like white streaks running through her hair. Her clothes were formfitting, and she had a sword slung over her shoulder and one at her left hip. She had many pouches strapped to her legs and waist, and a metal plate with a spiral symbol etched onto it on a piece of cloth tied around her arm. Even though the Great Hall was very warm, she was wearing a white scarf that fell to mid-thigh. All-in-all, Hermione was jealous of her great figure, and she was sure almost every girl in the hall was too.

The man, on the other hand, was rather peculiar. He had spiky, greyish-white hair that looked as if the laws of gravity didn't apply to it. He also had a metal plate with the same symbol around his head, except it was slanted to cover his left eye. He was also wearing a half-face mask, so the only bit of his face that was exposed was basically his right eye.

He was wearing a green vest of some sort over a navy blue suit, of which the sleeves were rolled up. He also had many pouches, and wore plated fingerless gloves.

For some reason, he was reading a bright orange book with a strange illustration on the front. At the sight of this, the woman seemed to get angry. They both looked pretty young, but they were supposed highly-trained professionals. Hermione just hoped that they weren't frauds like Lockhart. She honestly doubted that they could teach them anything. After all, they had been through a war, and the war pretty much gave them a crash course on survival and defence.

"Alright! Listen up, kiddies, and listen up good. I'm going to lay this out straight to you- your headmaster doesn't believe that the war is truly over. Sure the leader of the dark side may be dead, but he has followers- very devoted followers who I'm sure that if they could would resurrect him. So that's why we're here. We will teach you how to fight without the use of a wand, the physical part of our subject. Just in case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm Yukinaru and that's Kakashi-"

Here she kicked him in the shin.

"Ow. Yo, brats."

"-but you will refer to us as by our names with the suffix sensei added. In case you're wondering, Sensei basically means professor."

"Maa, we'll be teaching you a variety of things, and we have weaponry included in the course. But do remember that this is an elective and that you can only take it if you have been chosen it. We will be running fitness programs on weekends for those who haven't though. To be chosen for the program, you must turn up at a designated place, time and date which will soon be decided, where we will test you to see if you are worthy of us teaching you or not."

"If you do decided to come to the testing, make sure that you come dressed for exercise in comfortable clothes you can move around in. None of the robes that you wear will be suitable for our course- not even battle robes."

"Hmm, what else? Ah yes, do note that we will not sugarcoat any information given to you. If we do, it is likely that you will misinterpret it and do something stupid. But then and again, we probably won't give the full information to you in the first place, so you'll probably misinterpret it and do something stupid anyway."

"We won't stand for any fighting between house members, both of your own house and of others, especially in cases of house rivalries. You are in a time of war, there is no time to fight each other due to a petty house rivalry that started more than a millennia ago, you need to band together and speak as one, united, not separated. After all, strength in numbers is especially true in your society."

Yuki ended her and Kakashi's speech with a slight bow towards the students, Kakashi doing the same. Then, they bent their knees and flipped backwards, landing behind the staff table before they walked to their seats and sat down. With a wave of her hand, Yuki dissipated the ice and lighting.

"Now that our new professors have introduce themselves- dig in!"

And with a flourish of his hands, the tables were laden with food of all sorts.

Ron noticed some foods that looked distinctly different from the type that they'd usually eat.

"'Ey, 'Mione." His mouth moved around the food he was chewing. "Wha're thesh 'ew 'oods?"

"Ron!"

He swallowed thickly. "Sorry. I said, what are these new foods?"

Hermione peered closely at a dish that looked like fried balls of dough with white and brown sauce drizzled over it.

"I believe that this dish may be part of Asian cuisine, most likely Japanese or Korean. Besides, don't you think that the new professors looked Asian?"

"Yeah, their eyes are a lot squintier than ours."

"Ron!"

"What? It's the truth!"

Hermione rubbed her temples in exasperation.

"Dear Merlin…"

"By the way, Granger-san, you are correct about the dishes."

"Wha-"

"ARGH!"

THUMP!

"Ron…"

He flushed. "Oops. I guess you just surprised me. Sorry, professor."

Yuki smiled. "No need to apologise, Weasley-san. By the way, I do prefer sensei, not professor."

"Oh, er- okay, sensaay. By the way, how long have you been standing there, and how did we not notice you?"

Yuki winced at the horrific mangling of 'sensei', but continued on. "Oh, long enough to hear quite a bit." Her eyes glinted mischievously.

Ron paled. "Er, okay."

"And also, Granger-san, you are right about the dish. It is a Japanese one called takoyaki, basically it's a ball of fried dough stuffed with special sauce and octopus pieces. I suppose you could call them octopus fritters."

"Oh, thank you for the clarification, sensei. Erm, I don't suppose you could call me Hermione, could you?"

Yuki blinked. "Oh! I'm sorry, I guess I'm not used to your country's customs yet. But back home, you would refer to only close friends by their first name or if you wanted to insult them, whereas here, calling people by their last names can be interpreted in an insulting way. I'll try my best to adjust though. Anyways, it was nice to meet you all. Are you thinking about joining or trying out for our elective?"

Hermione and Ron shared a glance.

"Well, we're not sure…"

"Most likely yes…"

"But we're still contemplating it."

Yuki looked amused. "Well, whether you take it or not, I hope that we can continue to learn things from one another, about our culture and many other different things."

And with that, she walked off down the aisle, only to stop and chat to a few members of Hufflepuff

"Well, she looks and sounds genuine enough…"

"Hmm… I guess… but she might just know how to sweet talk. Ron!"

He snapped his head around to face her.

"We're going to the testing. I want to see what the new senseis can do."

Ron shivered. The maniacal glint that appeared in Hermione's eye was downright scary.

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Tadaaaaa! The Sorting feast. I'm sorry if this was a little bit rushed, but there will be a lot of flashbacks in the future to fill in those gaping plot holes. As for why Yuki knows that the dish is Japanese- she's done her research. After all, they are shinobi and know the requirements for a solid cover in infiltration missions.

On another note, the Naruto exhibition in Tokyo opened on the 28th of April. All guests were given a guidebook called the Fū no Sho. This guestbook has a short manga in it, in which Kakashi's FULL FACE WAS REVEALED. Go and search up Anime News Network and there's and article on it. The exhibition in moving to Kyoto sometime in late June- early July. I wanna go SOOOO BAD. GODDAMMIT. Kakashi's face is awesome, in my opinion. Definitely worth waiting 15 years for.

Please tell me of any grammar and spelling mistakes, review and/or favourite and/or follow, and feel free to PM me as I will try to reply as soon as I can, but exams are coming up in a couple of weeks, so I might not be able to.

Buhbye!