Chapter 4

The shinobi weren't really needed for the preparation of the wedding. Now, that the whole family of Fleur and all the Weasleys were gathered, there was barely any space in the rooms, though. Kakashi regretted, that Yamato wasn't with them. If he were he could have done something about the size of the Burrow. However, they didn't spend much time there anyway. They were spending their days out, on the hills, training and discussing what was going on.

They were invited to the birthday of Harry, of course, which was a little get-together of some of the members of the Order. They weren't much people, but all of them were dear to the boy and truth to be told, even the shinobi had fun there. Well, until the Minister of Magic appeared and took the trio with him. He didn't allow the shinobi to come in with them, but he didn't know, that they were hearing every single word and that the leader of the group was barely able to stop Naruto from entering and killing the politician.

However, when he was gone, the kids revealed, that they had received some stuff from Professor Dumbledore. Hermione had a book with tales, Ron had a really cool thingy, that collected the light from the lamps around and Harry got a really beautiful, small, golden ball, which the shinobi new was a snitch. However, it wasn't much and Naruto fumed, as he understood, that harry was supposed to receive also some famous sword of Gryffindor.

But now, they were all standing at the main gate. harry was looking like a fat boy from a nearby village, since he has drunk some potion, that made him look like that 'muggle'. He couldn't let people see him now, that he was being hunted by the Dark Lord. So there they were, Ron, Harry, Fred and Gerorge, Naruto and Sasuke, waiting for the first guests to arrive. Sakura and Hinata were somewhere with Hermione, Ginny and the bride and Kakashi was helping Molly Weasley with the last preparations.

" There they come!" Fred said all of a sudden and narrowed his eyes at the people that were approaching the Burrow. " Oh my, are those..."

" Excellent, I think I see a few veela cousins," said George, craning his neck for a better look. "They'll need help understanding our English customs, I'll
look after them. . . . "

"Not so fast, Your Holeyness," said Fred, and darting past the gaggle of middle-aged witches heading the procession, he said, "Here—permettez-moi to assiter vous," to a pair of pretty French girls, who giggled and allowed him to escort them inside. George was left to deal with the middle-aged witches and Ron took charge of Mr. Weasley's old Ministry colleague Perkins, while a rather deaf old couple fell to Harry's lot.

Naruto and Sasuke were engaged with some old grannies, that were constantly repeating how beautiful they were.

" I suggest we kill them..." Sasuke muttered darkly after he got rid of the granny.

" For the first time, teme...I don't mind..." Naruto said and looked at the stupid robe he was wearing. " That's awful...If it were orange it...nah, it'd still be shit."

But the raven haired guy wasn't looking at him anymore, since he saw the girls entering.

" Oi, teme, listen to me!" Naruto said, but Sasuke pulled him so that he would face the girls. " Oh...OH!"

The sight was too beautiful to be true. Hermione was hurrying towards them with Sakura, ginny and Hinata. They quickly gathered the looks of the people on them, which both kunoichi ignored. They were looking straight forward at the other two shinobi, who were wearing dark robes, reaching the ground. As they were only a few meters away from each other, though, a couple of veelas attacked the dreamy Sasuke, who fell to the ground with the girls on top of him.

" Oh, who might you be, pretty boy?"

" My prince Charming, of course!"

" Go away, girls, he obviously prefers me...What's your name, handsome?"

Naruto's gaze shifted to Sakura, who had a vein pulsing on her forehead, making her look creepy.

" Eh, S-Sakura-chan..."

" Tch!" the rosette clenched her fists and in a matter of seconds was holding the four villas up in the air, looking at them with a creepy smile. " you better fuck off before I rip your empty heads off!"

The veelas were unable to say anything, to do anything, when they were facing such a tremendous...

" Monster!" one of the french girls shrieked, as she was returned to the ground. They all ran away, not even daring to look back at the Uchiha guy. Sakura shot him a glare.

" Tch. So even in France..."

" It's not like I can do anything about it..." the boy said as he stood up and received yet another deathly glare from his girlfriend. " Besides, I don't care about the other girls..."

" I don't care!" she said and frowned at the opposite direction. Sasuke sighed.

" You look stunning!"

" Hm. Thanks..."

" Let's dance..."

" No...AAH! Let me go! And then they call me a monster?!"

Naruto and Hinata laughed, while Hermione and Ginny were already talking with Ron and a redhaired boy, which was the transformed Harry.

" I saw her, I swear!" the redheaded girl said, looking around the crowd. " But, of course, she was surrounded by curious people, who were really interested in what nergles were...they were probably only mocking her"

" Who are you talking about?" Naruto asked.

" Luna Lovegood" Ron said with a sarcastic tone, while the image of the dirty blonde haired girl appeared in the minds of the shinobi. Hermione rolled her eyes. " however, you...you look great!"

" Always the tone of surprise," said Hermione, though she smiled. She was wearing a floaty, lilac-colored dress with matching high heels; her hair was sleek and shiny. "Your Great—Aunt Muriel doesn't agree, I just met her upstairs while she was giving Fleur the tiara. She says, 'Oh dear, is this the Muggle-born?' and then, 'Bad posture and skinny ankles."'

" Don't take it personally, she's rude to everyone," said Ron.

" Talking about Muriel?" inquired George, reemerging from the marquee with Fred. "Yeah, she just told me my ears are lopsided. Old bat."

" You look vunderful!'' a new voice said and everybody turned to face a big, muscular guy with a scary expression, but a kind smile.

" Viktor!" she shrieked, and dropped her small beaded bag, which made a loud thump quite disproportionate with its size. As she scrambled, blushing, to pick it up, she said, " I-it's lovely to see - goodness - how are you again?"

" Who invited you?" Ron asked with a grumpy expression and a hue of hatred in his voice.

" Fleur." the big guy raise his eyebrows. As the wizards continued talking and Harry took Krum away, Hinata turned to Naruto.

" W-wanna dance, N-Naruto-kun?"

" And you ask?" he laughed and took her hand, dragging her to the dance floor and smiled sheepishly. " But if I step on your feet, you'll have to excuse me."

The party was simply getting hotter and hotter, until Kakashi couldn't take it anymore and set off to find his team. He spotted Sasuke and Sakura in a corner of the tent, being quite intimate. The shinobi frowned and looked around, ready to annoy Naruto, who, to his utter surprise was snarling at a big guy. He hurried to the blonde, who was hardly being held by Hinata.

" Now, now...what's going on here?"

" Nothin'!" the big guy in front of Naruto answered way too quickly. kakashi, however sighed and looked at his student.

" Naruto?"

" One more jerk, who's hitting on Hinata!"

" Ah..." Kakashi sighed and looked back at the tough guy. "...if you'll excuse him for this behavior I'd be glad...However, try flirting with the girl one more time and I cannot assure you, that you will get off with it with four limbs or a head on its place..."

The guy frowned and looked back at Naruto.

" Do you know who I am?!"

" Of course they don't know who you are..." a chubby redheaded boy, who was supposed to be Harry approached. " They're not wizards.."

" Non-vizards...you mean...muggles?" the guy pouted and the boy shook his head.

" No, Vistor, hasn't Fleure told you? They are the shinobi who protected Hogwarts two years ago and helped u- harry Potter in the Ministry."

" Ah, I've heard about this from some people in Durmstrang. So you're some really poverfull gang, huh?"

" Well, yeah, they are..." Harry chuckled nervously. " And you should know, that Victor Krum, here, is one of the most famous Quidditch Players...he's in the team of the Bulgarians."

" So you are flying on a broom...tch, how manly.."

" Enough, Naruto!" Hinata said with a blush and caught the arm of the boy, dragging him back to the dancefloor. Kakashi sweatdropped.

" Once again, I'm sorry about this..."

" You don't have to be..." the quidditch player said, draining his goblet and getting to his feet again, " Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken?"

" Miserable love-life..." Kakashi looked at him questioningly and he kinda nodded. The shinobi smirked and patted the guy's shoulder. " I can lent you a book to read. Really amazing one...should make you feel better!"

" Kakashi...are you talking about...that book?" Harry asked with a disgusted expression on the features of the muggle boy.

" I don't know what you've heard from the brats, but the Icha-Icha books are pretty much amazing.

" It wasn't any of them...It was Dumbledore..."

Krum choked with his drink.

" Dumbledore?"

" Er, yeah...two years ago, when the shinobi were in Hogwarts I got detention once and eeeh...Dumbledore made me read a book."

" He didn't seem like a person, who was giving away detentions." Krum furrowed his brows and all Harry did was shrug, hoping that the bulgarian won't suspect anything.

" Look, I have to go take care of the old people over there...so I have to go..." Harry smiled, but Krum completely ignored him. Kakashi waved friendly and then looked around again. he really was bored. There were girls hitting on him, but he ignored them. What was the point in engaging himself with a non-shinobi-girl. That would be stupid. Wait, what was the point in engaging with any girl? Kakashi shook his head fiercely. No, that was the way that only total loners were thinking!

He took off, looking at the weird people. Hermione and Ron were dancing, as well as Ginny and some cousin of the Weasleys. Fred and George were trying to impress some giggling frech girls. Sasuke and Sakura were still in that corner, while Hinata and Naruto were on the ground, laughing hard. He suspected, that they've fallen while dancing. There was, of course, something he could do. He reached to his haori, which was hidden under the robe and opened it.

" What's going on?!" a person asked behind him and he turned to face Lupin and Tonks, who were looking at him kinda scared.

" Nothing, why?" Kakashi asked and they looked at him confused.

" You're taking your knives out...why, is something wrong? Should we evacuate the people?"

Kakashi laughed and scratched the back of his head.

" No, no...just wanted to read a little.." he took out the book and waved it in front of Lupin's relieved face.

" Oh, thank goodne-" he narrowed his eyes at something at the dance floor.

" What's that, Remus?"

" It's a...it's a..."

" A Patronus!" somebody screamed and suddenly everybody was watching at the silver light, that took the form of a lynx. Heads turned, as those nearest it froze absurdly in mid-dance.

Then the Patronus's mouth opened wide and it spoke in the loud, deep, slow voice of Kingsley Shacklebolt.

" The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming." "The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming." "The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming." "The Ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming."

Everything seemed fuzzy, slow. Harry and Hermione jumped to their feet and drew their wands. Many people were only just realizing that something strange had happened; heads were still turning toward the silver cat as it vanished. Silence spread outward in cold ripples from the place where the Patronus had landed. Then somebody screamed. Harry and Hermione threw themselves into the panicking crowd. Guests were sprinting in all directions; many were disapparating; the protective enchantments around the Burrow had broken.

"Ron!" Hermione cried. "Ron, where are you?"

As they pushed their way across the dance floor, Harry saw cloaked and masked figures appearing in the crowd; then he saw Lupin and Tonks, their wands raised, and heard both of them shout, "Protego!", a cry that was echoed on all sides—

" There you are!" a masked figure caught both of them and they didn't even bother to scream, since they immediately recognized Kakashi. His headband was gone from his left eye, revealing the same red orb as Sasuke's. It was spinning madly, looking around. " Aha...let's go!"

The only think Harry heard was the wind, and then he was at the back of the house. Sasuke and Naruto were there with Hinata and Sakura, who was dragging Ronald.

" Ron!" Harmione got out of Kakashi's arms and hugged him.

" We don't have time for that!" Sasuke hissed and looked around with his red eyes. " They're coming!"

" Quick! Take each others hands!" hermione said quickly and stood up, taking Harry's and Ron's hands. Harry grabbed Kakashi, who was holding Hinata. And Ron caught Sasuke, who grunted, he was being held by Sakura, and she-by Naruto. They were forming a chain and they saw a man with a black cloak just standing in front of them Naruto smirked and kicked him, while the image was getting blurrier, until they reached the already known sensation, where the wind was all they could hear and the spinning was all they could feel. Of course. Apparating. They never expected young wizards like them to know that, though. However, the first thing they felt, when they opened their eyes again, was a crowd. They were surrounded by people and the feeling, that they were still at the wedding was really awful. At first...but then they realized it was a road and that it was full with normal muggles, who were looking at them with funny smirks.

" Where are we?" Ron asked and Hermione bit her lip.

" Tottenham Court Road," she panted. "Walk, just walk, we need to find somewhere for you to change."

They were almost running through the crowd. the shinobi weren't to be seen by the normal eyes. they were moving really quick in the shadows, pushing themselves from the walls of the nearby buildings.

" Don't worry...we're here." Naruto's voice reached them and the Trio continued on walking, until they reached a side street.

" Hermione, we can't change!" ron whined. " Besides, Harry doesn't bring his invisibility cloak."

As the boy finished, the shinobi appeared next to them.

" What the hell happened?!" Sakura looked around cautiously, as if waiting for somebody to show up and attack them.

" Wait a second, Sakura...They have to change first!"

" How the ruddy hell are we going to change if we have no clothes?!" Ron snapped at her and Hermione glared back.

" I know you're nervous, but you don't have to take it out on me!" she growled at him and raised her little handbag, taking out a pair of jeans, a sweater and socks and finally, a silvery cloak, that Harry immediately recognized."Undetectable Extension Charm," said Hermione. "Tricky, but I think I've done it okay; anyway, I managed to fit everything we need in here...I even took your stuff, i hope you don't mind..." She looked at the amazed ninja and then gave the fragile-looking bag a little shake and it echoed like a cargo hold as a number of heavy objects rolled around inside it. "Oh, damn, that'll be the books," she said, peering into it, "and I had them all stacked by subject. . . . Oh well. . . . Harry, you'd better take the Invisibility Cloak. Ron, hurry up and change. . . . "

" I...I can't change in front of three girls!" his ears were already red, as he pointed at the kunoichi and Hermione, herself. She kanded a hit on his shoulder and he frowned.

" We're in grave danger, you shithead! You better not whine about such stupid stuff!" she snarled and he looked at her with widened eyes.

" Who's taking it out on who, now?!"

" Stop it, you two!" Hinata interfered. " We won't watch, Ron...don't worry...besides, Sasuke and Naruto wouldn't let us."

As the poeple turned around, so that Ron could have some privacy, Kakashi rubbed his temple.

" When did you prepare all this, Hermione?" he asked.

" In the Burrow...I had this weird feeling, so I packed everything essential."

" You really are an amazing witch..." the sensei smiled and she pursed her lips.

" I'm ready!" Ron called and the others turned around.

" The others-everybody at the wedding..." Harry said, while hanging the cloak on his shoulders.

"Don't worry about them now!" Sakura said and tightened her fist. " They're after you, right?"

" Let's go sit somewhere and discuss what's happening here..." the witch said with a sigh. "They shouldn't be able to find us here, right?"

" Yeah, that would be best..." Naruto nodded with a serious expression. " You better give us a pretty damn good explanation for what's going on here..."

Mmmwelll, there you go, chapter 4!

We finally reached the wandering, woooo!

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