Book One: The Stone

Chapter 3: Adjusting to Hogwarts

Disclaimer: I OWN NOTHING

A/N: Next chapter they will actually start classes, and won't that be fun.

Twisted Pxl: Ron is a good guy, but in this story, he won't be one of the main characters. He gets a bit of screen time in this chapter. I will tell you that Harry and Ron will be friends, but Naruto won't like him at first.


(Monday, August 26th, 1991)

Naruto stretched with a yawn as he sat up on his bed and rolled both his shoulders and head to get his shoulders and neck to pop. Looking down at the red sheets on his bed, running his hand over the white pillowcase. The fabric was so soft and so was the bed. Naruto was used to sleeping on an old springy mattress, not a bed fit for the Hokage.

As Naruto was contemplating what life would be like at Hogwarts, a white furry head popped up from under his blankets and the blonde smiled. "Hey there Yuki-hime." Naruto said with a smile as he patted the wolf's head, unconsciously channeling his chakra into the pup. The wolf nuzzled into Naruto's hand and he picked the pup up. "We are going to get our schedule today, and then find Sasuke and see how he is liking his house and housemates. Do you want to come with me Yuki-hime?"

The wolf's answer was to lick Naruto's hand and Naruto heard a short series of barks and then a chuckle. "Akamaru is right Naruto. You keep acting like that and when we get back to the village my clan might think I was sharing clan secrets."

Naruto shook his head in amusement when he heard Kiba. "So only an Inuzuka can get close to an animal?"

Harry who had woken up interrupted them. "That is Kiba's last name right, Inuzuka?"

Kiba nodded his head. "My family is who Naruto was talking about when he said, clan. Where we come from certain families are called clans."

The red-head and the black-haired boy with a toad both sat up as Kiba explained that. The dorms had several rooms with five beds in each room, and Naruto, Harry, and Kiba were luckily placed in the same room. The red-head was the one that spoke. "Where do you mates come from?" The redhead asked, a little curious because of how Kiba phrased that statement. "Oh, and I am Ron by the way, Ron Weasley, you didn't seem to pay that much attention to the names being called as we were sorted."

Naruto laughed at that, as he really didn't, then he smiled and picked up Yuki-hime, the wolf pup comfortably laying in his arms. "My name is Naruto and this is Yuki-hime."

Kiba spoke up then. "My name is Kiba and this is Akamaru." He said pointing to his head, where a small white dog was comfortably nestled in his hair.

The black-haired boy with the toad shyly spoke then seeing as proper introductions were being made. "I am Neville Longbottom."

Before Harry could speak up, Ron switched topics, luckily for the ninja as they weren't sure if they should share details of the Elemental Nations, even simple details like its existence. "I still can't believe it is you. I mean I never thought I would get to meet Harry Potter."

That made Naruto raise a brow. "What is it about Harry? I noticed that on the train Hermione recognized him before he introduced himself, everyone seemed to make a big deal when his name was called for him to be sorted, and everyone in Gryffindor cheered three times as loud when he was placed here."

Ron looked at Naruto at that. "Bloody hell, how do you not know of Harry Potter. 'The Boy Who Lived' is famous in the wizarding world." Harry winced at that. He had talked a little with the blonde about his past the day before on the train, but not about some of the worse details or about his parents as that was the most personal.

Naruto waved the redhead off. "That is how then, we only learned of wizards here recently. However, Harry can tell us later if he wants." Harry smiled gratefully and nodded towards Naruto who stood up. "I hope Sasuke is doing alright in Slytherin, his housemates were seeming to ignore his yesterday."

Ron shook his head as he got out of bed as well. "You would be wise to avoid people in Slytherin. I mean a vast majority of evil wizards have come from that house, and most of the people there are stuck up from families that trace their lineage back as far as they can to brag about it to the other families."

Kiba snorted at that. "Sounds like he should fit in, Sasuke as always been a jerk."

Naruto silently chuckled at that, his shoulder shaking for a few seconds. "Sasuke is a bit of a jerk, but you would be too in his shoes. Still, he is our friends."

As the boys in Gryffindor got ready Sasuke was getting ready in Slytherin a scowl on his face. He was put in a room with a blonde boy named Draco Malfoy, and several of the boy's friends. They treated Sasuke like trash because of the fact that he didn't come from a pure-blooded wizarding family. It was a major change to a boy who was used to everyone in Konoha worshiping the ground he walked on.

As Malfoy was laughing at him at the moment Sasuke's eye twitched and he left the room. During breakfast, the first years were going to get their schedules and get shown to whatever classes they would be taking on Mondays. Each day over the next week they would be shown where the classrooms for which classes they had that day. It would keep them from getting lost at such a big deal, and then they could explore the rest of the day, which to Sasuke meant training.

Eventually, everyone made it down to the mess hall for breakfast. The heads of the houses passed out the new schedules to the students. Snape passed out the schedules to Slytherin, a woman named Pomona Sprout passed them out to Hufflepuff, a man named Filius Flitwick passed, and a woman named Minerva McGonagall gave Naruto and his friends their schedule.

The old man from the day before, that Naruto had learned was the Headmaster Dumbledore, spoke again. While his wand was placed at his throat once more, his voice carried while staying quiet instead of being amplified. "I hope all of you rested properly last night. Soon enough you will be escorted to whichever class your year and house will be taking today, although classes won't actually start until next week. When you are finished you will have the rest of the day to explore or get to know your classmates. Now let's eat."

Naruto started eating, feeding Yuki-hime pieces of meat as he was. After a few seconds, he looked up towards Sasuke. Kiba, Ron, Neville, and Harry were close to him, as well as two more redheads that looked similar to Ron, but identical to each other. "Sasuke looks like he didn't sleep too well." Naruto said concerned.

Kiba looked over at Sasuke before frowning. "I see what you mean."

Harry looked as well but raised an eyebrow in confusion. "I don't… He looks the same as he did on the train yesterday."

Ron rolled his eyes. "It doesn't really matter. He is in Slytherin, you won't see him much during school hours. I mean we aren't allowed in the other houses' dorms or common rooms."

Naruto looked towards Ron. "You really don't like Slytherin do you?"

The twins spoke there. "Our family have had" "some bad experiences with" "members of the Slytherin house." "You see that blonde first year," "that is Draco Malfoy" "his family and ours have" "hated each other for years."

Naruto shook his head due to the double-speak. "Sorry, you are? I mean I get you are related to Ron but other than that..."

Ron was the one who answered, pointing to one twin and then the other. "That is Fred and that is George. They are my older brothers. Our family is a pure-blooded family, but most of the magical families in Slytherin look down on us because we are proud of the muggle relatives we have had."

The twin identified as George shook his head. "I am Fred not George, no one in our family gets that right George."

The other twin nodded his head. "I know what you mean Fred."

Ron sighed and apologized. "Sorry guys."

The twin Ron had said was George laughed. "Just kidding little brother. I am George, and that is Fred."

Naruto chuckled a little at that. "I can get that I guess. Still, Sasuke is alright, even if he is a bit stuck up. I will probably talk to Sasuke once we get done with the tour of our classes today." With that Naruto looked at his schedule. (1)

Mondays during the morning Gryffindor would take Charms, Hufflepuff would take Transfiguration, Slytherin would take History of Magic, and Ravenclaw would be taking Herbology. Then they would break for lunch before afternoon classes. In the afternoon the classes were Transfiguration for Gryffindor, Charms for Hufflepuff, History of Magic for Ravenclaw and Herbology Slytherin. At midnight on Monday Gryffindor first years would be taking Astrology.

Then on Tuesdays, the houses would be broken up and mixed. Half of the Gryffindor first years would take potions with half of the Ravenclaw first years. While several Slytherin students would take Defense Against the Dark Arts with some of the Hufflepuff students. In the afternoon the other half of the Hufflepuff students would take potions with the rest of the Ravenclaw first years, and the rest of the Slytherin students would take Defense Against the Dark Arts with the other half of the Gryffindor students. Midnights on Tuesdays Slytherin would be taking astrology.

Wednesday mornings the Ravenclaw and Gryffindor students who had taken portions together the previous morning would be taking Defense Against the Dark Arts together, and the Slytherin and Hufflepuff students take potions together. While in the afternoon the Slytherin and the Gryffindor students who hadn't taken potions yet would take potions and the rest of the Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students who hadn't taken it yet would be taking Defense Against the Dark Arts. Hufflepuff would take Astrology at Midnight.

Thursday mornings Slytherin would take Charms, Ravenclaw would take Transfiguration, Gryffindor would take History of Magic, and Hufflepuff would take Herbology. While in the afternoon Ravenclaw takes Charms, Slytherin takes Transfiguration, Hufflepuff would be taking History of Magic, and Gryffindor would take Herbology. Ravenclaw would take Astrology on Thursdays at midnight.

On Fridays all the first years were mixed and they would be split into two groups. One group would take flying lessons in the mornings and one would take flying lessons in the afternoon. The first years of Gryffindor were taken to the classrooms where they would take Charms, Transfiguration, and Astrology.

(Saturday, August 31st)

The rest of the week Sasuke avoided Naruto and Kiba, but on Saturday after breakfast, Naruto, Harry, and Kiba went to find Sasuke. Ron had been invited along but the redhead said he wasn't interested. Naruto for his part thought that the redhead was a little bit of a hypocrite. The redhead's family was looked down on by the purebloods in Slytherin, and so he hated members of Slytherin. Naruto didn't like the redhead that much because of that but admitted that overall Ron seemed like a good guy. Kiba and the brunette's family held loyalty above almost everything else, and so he saw Ron in a similar light as Naruto did.

Harry was the one who got along best with Ron, but he wasn't close to Sasuke so he didn't hold anything against Ron. Soon enough though, the three boys found Sasuke sitting in one of the empty rooms of the castle. The room was spacious enough so Naruto and Kiba put Akamaru and Yuki-hime down to play. "Hey, Sasuke." Naruto said as he approached the raven.

Sasuke had spent the week thinking about what the sorting hat had said. 'What will you do when he is dead then when the hatred you have allowed to consume you has been sated by your revenge. What will you do when you fill nothing but emptiness because you refused to connect.' Sasuke had never felt the need to connect with more people until the sorting hat said that. A truth that he would never admit out loud, was that since the day his brother killed his family he was afraid that if he developed any bonds, then his brother would return to take his friends from him once again.

Now though the black-haired boy didn't want to run scared for the rest of his life. He didn't want his friendships or lack thereof to be based around his brother. When he heard Naruto say hey he smiled. "Hey, Naruto." He said without turning to face the blonde. "Are you enjoying being in Gryffindor?"

Naruto nodded. "Most of the people are friendly enough, and the beds are so soft. I am used to a dinged up old spring mattress, now I feel like I am sleeping on a cloud. How have you been sleeping Sasuke?"

Sasuke sighed a little. "The mattress is alright, about the same as mine back home."

Naruto sat down next to Sasuke who still wasn't looking towards the group and Kiba spoke up, as blunt as usual. "So what is bothering you?"

Sasuke shook his head a little at that. "Just thinking of something that stupid hat said."

Harry was the one who commented on that. "You too huh?" Sasuke nodded his head as Harry continued. "A dark wizard killed my family, and I somehow lived… That is why I am famous. The sorting hat seemed to think I could be as strong as him, and as great… If I was placed in the same house… In Slytherin. I don't want to be anything like him though." Harry offered while looking down at his wand. Everyone else knew about the dark wizard, so why not share it with the few people he was actually friends with.

Naruto frowned at that. "So that is why Ron called you the 'Boy Who Lived.' You survived the assault of that dark wizard."

Now it was Sasuke's turn to compare his past to Harry's. "The sorting hat told me that if I kept pushing everyone away, that when I finally avenged the murder of my family I would feel empty inside. I don't want my life to revolve around him."

Naruto patted Sasuke on the back before standing up. "How are you liking Slytherin?"

Everyone knew that Naruto was trying to change the subject, and it worked when Sasuke replied. "I don't really care for Slytherin or my housemates."

That got a laugh from Kiba. "I think we can count on one hand the number of things you care for." Then he raised one hand and held up two fingers on it. "Tomatoes and revenge… end of the list."

Sasuke scoffed at Kiba and didn't reply, while Naruto laughed a little before looking around the room. "You know if you don't care for Slytherin we can all meet up here after classes and start hanging out. I could even see about getting some furniture with the money in my Gringotts Vault to make this our own common room. We could invite Hermione to come hang out with us too."

Sasuke smirked at that. "Would probably be better than hanging out with Draco."

Harry nodded. "I met Draco before. He seemed stuck up and thought that his family made him better than anyone else."

Kiba leaned over to Naruto and whispered, but kept his voice loud enough that Sasuke and Harry could hear him. "Remind you of anyone Naruto?"

Naruto grinned a little while Sasuke glared at Kiba. "Remind me Kiba, since Naruto is smarter then he pretended to be in our school back home, who is the actual dead last?"

Kiba growled a little at that while Naruto shook his head and laughed. Kiba was quick to retort. "And when the three of us sparred together who would win, bastard?"

Harry raised an eyebrow. "Is this normal?" He asked Naruto quietly.

The blonde nodded. "Sasuke likes to goad people like Kiba and me into arguing or fighting. I stopped here recently so Sasuke has started goading Kiba more."

Harry raised a brow. "What made you stop?"

Naruto rubbed his arm where his mother's seal was. "I hate studying and in our school, the first few years put more on the academic portion than the physical portion. At first, I was failing and would get mad and then Sasuke would goad me and I would snap at him. Then I found this note from, my mom, that she wrote before she died. It gave me a way to study that I could handle so I got smarter. I stayed at the bottom of the class because people underestimated me that way. I told Sasuke and Kiba the truth so I stopped acting around them. Sasuke still gets under my skin, but we don't fight as much as we used to."

Harry nodded in understanding as he turns back to Kiba and Sasuke who looked like they were about to come to blows. Naruto shook his head. "We have been cooped up inside. Why don't we find a place outside to spar?" Naruto suggested getting a grin from Kiba and a smirk from Sasuke.

Soon enough the four boys were outside, with Akamaru and Yuki-hime sitting with Harry off to the side. While Naruto, Sasuke, and Kiba were standing in an open area and facing each other. "One on one on one?" Kiba asked as he flexed his fingers.

Sasuke smirked as he slipped into a fighting stance. "Works for me."

Naruto bounced a little on the hills of his face. "Let's get it started then." He said as he took in a breath and went almost completely still.

The three stood there for some time before Kiba charged forward to Naruto. He slashed at Naruto with his clawed hand, which Naruto moved a step back to avoid. Sasuke took the time to throw a kick at the brunette's back, but Kiba went forward onto all fours before jumping to the side, flipping in the air to land on his feet a few feet away.

At this point, a few people passing by had stopped to watch the fight. Naruto had seen Sasuke get close to attack Kiba and once Kiba had hopped away Naruto moved forward and went to punch Sasuke, but when the black-haired boy took a step back, Naruto twisted his body and brought his foot around in a spinning back roundhouse kick. Sasuke ducked under the foot and swept at Naruto's leg that was still on the ground.

Naruto avoided the blow by jumping back. As Naruto jumped back Kiba came at Sasuke. The brunette went to his Sasuke in the back like Sasuke had tried to do to him moments before. Sasuke though was low to the ground from the sweep and placed his palms on the ground doing a handstand he spun on his hands to kick Kiba away. The brunette jumped over Sasuke only to meet Naruto in the air, and receive a kick to the chest, which sent him back down onto Sasuke.

As the boys stood back up a voice called out. "What is the meaning of this!?" Naruto, Sasuke, and Kiba turned to see a crowd had formed and was watching them, and in front of that crowd stood Mrs. McGonagall.

Naruto smiled while scratching his head. "We were just getting in a little training. Is something wrong?"

The woman was shocked at that. "You boys are not to be fighting like-"

Before she could finish though the Headmaster interrupted her. "I am sure the boys just felt a little cooped up. It is rare we have ninja here Professor. The boys are used to sparring like this in the Elemental Nations."

McGonagall blinked a few times. "You mean like Kushina Uzumaki… I see." She said connecting Naruto's last name to Kushina. It was something she should have realized sooner, but Kushina had been an irregularity that she hadn't expected to repeat. "Very well, but they will need to do their spars in a more proper location instead of just sparring out on the grounds like this. Same with their jutsu, we don't need anything being burned down."

Dumbledore nodded in agreement. "Yes that is a good point, as a matter of fact, I was coming to retrieve them to talk about that just now. Would you boys follow me to my office, Harry you can come too if you want."

The four boys followed the Headmaster, as did Hermione for some reason. They got to the office and Dumbledore sat them down. "So you are Kushina's son. After so many years I didn't expect more students from the Elemental Nations." As he said this Hermione rose her hand as if she was already in class. "Do you have a question, Mrs. Granger?"

The girl lowered her head and nodded. "What are the Elemental Nations, does this have something to do with how Naruto made a robe appear from a scroll, and what do you mean by ninja, are you talking about like Japanese style ninja?"

Dumbledore smiled. "Ahh, curious Ravenclaw." He muttered before speaking to the group. "The Elemental Nations are a land separated from the muggle and magical worlds by a barrier much like the one that separates the magical and muggle world. The difference is that while every witch and wizard know of the barrier that separates our world from the muggle world, almost no one is aware of the barrier that separates the Elemental Nations from us. Life in the Elemental Nations is similar to life in feudal Japan, but instead of samurais, there are ninja that are trained and fight. They use a mixture of spiritual energy and physical energy to make chakra, a form of energy that is different from our magical cores. As for how young Naruto made something appear from a scroll, I would guess it is the Art of Seals his mother was so fascinated by."

The rest of the conversation was about the safe place for the boys to train at and where not to use any jutsu. Although when Shadow Clones were brought up Hermione almost went green with envy. Stating that with an ability like that she could take twice as many classes. The boys all looked at her like she had grown a second head while the Headmaster simply laughed before telling her there were other ways to do that.

(1) If anyone has a better idea for how to do the schedule then let me know. I would be open to editing it, but this was the best I could do.