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Y'ello again! Before you all grab your hunting sticks to beat me with for taking so long to upload this, know that I did warn you last chapter that it would be a while before I updated! I'm sorry it took so long though…I really was screwed on what to do. Anyways, this chapter's not as good as the others, in my opinion, but please review it anyways and tell me how to improve it. You are my lovelies who read the stories I write. So thanx!

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6 – "Boring! When Do Classes Begin, Shikamaru!"

"Thirteenth wand, huh? That can't be a good omen." Ron said, as they walked onto the emptying streets of Diagon Alley. The now visible sun had sunk further to the west, informing the shinobi that it was about 3 o'clock. Even though it was past noon, the air remained cool and the sky remained mostly covered with clouds.

Ron groaned unexpectedly. "I'm starved. What d'you say we go meet Hagrid back at the Leaky Cauldron and get something to eat? We've got nothing else better to do, and-"

"All this business with foxes…I bet it's connected somehow." Interrupted Hermione, changing the subject from Ron's stomach to what was presently on everyone else's mind. "The fox in the magical creatures shop was given to you by a mythical-prophecy-carrying creature that not even I've heard of, your wand created a giant fox when it chose you and it turned out to have a fox hair inside it." She said rather quickly, looking thoughtful. "I would have thought you were more of a frog person, really." She added, looking to the blonde walking behind them with Shino, Kiba and Shikimaru. "Since you can talk to them, I mean."

Naruto grinned awkwardly and his hand starting scratching the back of his head, as though he was nervous about something. He didn't say anything though, which only Hinata and Sakura seemed to notice as being odd.

"Demon fox, huh?" Kiba said, eyeing the wand poking out of Naruto's ninja pouch. "Does anyone know of any other demon foxes than the one I'm thinking of?"

The shinobi said nothing.

"You forget, Kiba, that we're in an alternative universe right now, probably parallel to our own. The wand was made in this world, so whatever is inside the wand came from this world also. You shouldn't say such reckless things."

Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at Shino, surprised. They hadn't head him speak much, if at all, since they'd met. Since he didn't seem to be the timid sort, like Hinata, or the arrogant sort that thought they were too good to speak to anyone, they'd put it down that he just didn't want to talk. Hermione suddenly wondered why he covered up most of his face and wore the glasses he did if he wasn't blind.

Kiba looked taken aback, but said nothing against Shino's words. "I guess you're right…"

"It's probably all a coincidence." Sakura said, shrugging. "The wand made a fox with Naruto's chakra because it's made of a fox, and it's no surprise to me, really, that he got the weirdest wand in the shop. He's got massive chakra reserves after all."

Naruto nearly knocked her down as he ran to her side, grinning happily. "Sakura-chaaan! That's the nicest thing you've ever said about me! Neh, you really think it's because I'm so powerful, Sakura-chan?"

Sakura jumped at his sudden appearance by her side. She crossed her arms in annoyance, "I said you had weird chakra reserves. That doesn't make you all-powerful!" She huffed, and Naruto whined. 'It just means you have the potential to be…' she added in her mind, glancing towards him. Her expression softened into a small smile as Naruto ran up to Harry and Ron walking ahead of them all.

"I guess you ended up with the most interesting wand, mate." Grinned Ron, spotting Naruto appear beside him. "It's bond to be powerful, too."

"Of course it is!" Naruto beamed, producing the wand from his pocket proudly. "I am going to be Hokage one day, after all!"

"You always say that. What is a Hokage anyway?" Ron asked, generally curious. Naruto immediately burst into a lengthy story about what a Hokage was, what they did, who the past Hokage's were, what he thought of them and so on. Harry saw on Ron's face that he soon regretted inquiring into the subject in the first place.

By the time they reached the Leaky Cauldron, Hagrid was just draining off his second bucket of what Naruto presumed to be sake, or something similar to it. He didn't seem to be affected by it very much though, like the adults back home always did. Like Baa-Chan, or the Pervert Hermit…

As much as he'd hate to admit it, he wished the Hermit were here now. Even though he was a super pervert and acted really dumb sometimes, Naruto knew he was still a powerful shinobi. He would probably know stuff about this weird world too. But it wasn't just that, though. The Hermit knew about the thing inside him as well. He'd know what to do about the wand with the demon fox hair inside it…

Could it be really be the hair from Nine-Tails that had reacted to Naruto's chakra? It would make sense, and the old man had said so himself that his wand had something to do with a demon fox, and that it was very old. He'd also looked strange when he'd said that, and Naruto hadn't liked the look on his face very much. It reminded him of…dark times.

He sub-consciously placed a hand on his stomach.

"Are you alright, Naruto? You've gone rather quiet all of a sudden." Naruto jumped at the girl's voice, and saw that everyone had gone into the strange looking pub already. Hermione stood in the doorway, looking at him. "Have you got a stomach ache or something? You keep touching your belly."

Naruto quickly put the hand behind his head and thought fast, sweat-dropping. "Nothing's wrong! I'm just, er…hungry! I haven't eaten all day, y'know!" He added, "And you don't have any ramen here. That's depressing."

The bushy haired girl rolled her eyes. "You're almost as bad as Ron. If that's all, then come on, you can have something to eat as soon as we get to Hogwarts." She said, and disappeared. Naruto followed her and saw everyone at the other end of the noisy, weird pub. They were all gathered around an old boot. Sakura spotted him.

"Hurry up, Naruto! Or you'll be left behind!"

Naruto hurried over, thinking then again, maybe Sakura and Shino were right. They were in a different world now, where things were very, very different. So, really, it couldn't be the Nine-tails hair in this stick, but some other weird fox! And everything else could have been a coincidence - just as Sakura said!

"Alrigh', got everything yer need?" Hagrid rumbled cheerfully. "On the count o' three then. One-"

"What do we do on the count of three?"

"Two-"

"What the heck is that smelly old boot doing here?"

"Three!"

"Wait! What the he-wwaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!" All nine children yelled incoherently as their feet were yanked from the security of the floor and thrust into empty space yet again. Sakura understood now as she spun through the air clinging onto an old, smelly boot for dear life, what Ron had meant when he'd said that he would never get used to this kind of travel.

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The clouds covering the sky were tinted a dreary grey colour and threatened to slump rain onto the grounds, encouraging the witches and wizards outside to hurry indoors. Before long all four houses were cram packed with Hogwarts students who had retreated to the dry warmth of their own common rooms. After having had their fill of food (Naruto questioning the lack of chopsticks and ramen but continuing to devour food at a rate that rivalled even Choji's. Ron was impressed.), the shinobi had also retreated to their dorms.

"In case you two have forgotten, we have homework to do. So it's a good job that's it's going to rain, really. The weather won't distract you that way." Hermione said, as they sat in their usual places near to the fireplace on working desks. Ron and Harry grunted in response as they bent over their rolls of parchment.

Shikimaru was playing wizards chess with Kiba and Akamaru on the floor and Hinata sat quietly by the window, listening to the thudding of the heavy raindrops as they fell onto the unknown landscape bellow her. The baby fox continued to sleep soundly in its soft golden ball inside its dull grey cage on her lap. She had a strong urge to stroke it, but the were cats words still hung in her mind. She settled for admiring its beauty as well as outsides.

"Neh, neh! This is boring! When do you get to train, Shikimaru? We have the sticks, don't we?" Naruto sat upright in his chair by the dosing fireplace, restless as usual. Whereas the other shinobi were content to sit quietly for a while, Naruto continued to be…Naruto.

"It's raining, Naruto." Kiba said distractedly, scowling at the chess game in front of him. Naruto crossed his arms irritably and sighed.

"Isn't they're anything interesting to do around here, guys?" Naruto moaned. "Where are your training grounds? This is driving me crazy!"

"Naruto, it's been the grand total of ten minutes since we sat down." Hermione said, putting her feathered quill down. "Well, that's me done. If you really want to do something, I guess I can show you some of the simpler spells before classes begin on Monday, Naruto."

Ron looked up from his tedious charms homework. "How can you be done already! We have tons of homework to do!"

"I compete my homework the night it's given to save time later to do more productive things. I finished most of it on Friday…so all I had to do just was check it through."

"How could you have finished it all on Friday? I thought you spent all that day preparing for that special summoning spell!" Ron objected, not noticing the ink beginning to drip onto his scroll. Hermione ignored him.

"Shikimaru, you're so good at wizarding chess! Are you sure you've never played it before?" She said, as Shikimaru made a move that put Kiba in checkmate. Kiba groaned and saw that he was trapped. He stood up with a sigh.

"I don't really understand this game, but I guess you win." Then Kiba went to sit to sit in the empty chair beside the fir place. Shikimaru remained sitting on the floor, staring at the chess game for a while.

"Eh, spells? Why would I want to learn 'spells' for? What are they?" Naruto said, squinting at Hermione as she admired a silent Shikimaru.

"Ano…Naruto-kun, Hermione-san means she'll teach you some techniques if you want, they call them 'spells' in this world, I think…" She blushed and returned to study the grounds through the window again.

"Souka. Is that so, Hermione? Why didn't you say so?" Naruto said, jumping up. "Let's go train then, Hermione!"

Shikimaru blinked at the noise and stood up, leaning against the wall behind him lazily. "Naruto. The Legendary Sannin Jirya, he summons frogs the way you do, right?"

Naruto paused mid-pull on Hermiones sleeve. "Neh? Perverted Hermit you mean? Sure, he taught me the technique in the first place, you know."

He heard a thud and the shinobi looked to see Ron laughing on the floor, clutching his stomach. "P-perverted Hermit! How do you come up with these names!" He gasped, struggling back onto his seat. Everyone ignored him.

"Does he have a favourite summon, one that he'd use most often?" Shikimaru asked. Naruto scratched his head and squinted his eyes.

"Now that you mention it…he definitely does." He crossed his arms and said more quietly, "He uses this one frog to watch young ladies in the hot baths, y'know. And since he's a super pervert, he uses it often for sure."

There was another thud and the shinobi were surprised to see Harry on the floor. He quickly recuperated himself and sat back down, blushing with his eyes focused on his work. Perverted Hermit? W-watching naked women on a frogs! What sort of world do these kids come from? No wonder they're so weird! N-naked w-women…naked…The scene from that morning flashed before Harry's eyes and he glanced to see Naruto squinting at him curiously. "Fell off my chair." He said harshly, and went back to charms homework.

The shinobi shrugged and returned to the conversation.

"Listen, Naruto. We'd been gone on our mission for five days back in our world, and were due back in Konoha the day before we were summoned to this world. That means we are now three days late from our mission, and we haven't given any message to the village to say what has happened. Since we need to complete the new mission we have here, we won't be returning to Konoha for a while. We'll need to contact the Fifth somehow, and I've been thinking about how we could go about that for a while now." He paused. "If you can summon frogs into this world, and Jiriya-sama can summon the same frogs, then as long as the frog summons can carry messages between one another (in whatever world they come from) then we'll have a way of communication between this world and our own."

"Huh. Trust Shikimaru to come up with something like that out of nowhere." Kiba said, smiling. "I'd been thinking about the problem myself, but I hadn't come up with anything as reliable as that."

"I don't fully understand how it works," Naruto said. "but if summoning a frog means we get to let Baa-chan know we're not all dead or worse then that's good enough for me." He straightened up without hesitation and bit his thumb. "Yosh! Finally, something to do!" He grinned, and began to make the hand seals…

Ack! I can't move! He realised abruptly, and looked up with great difficulty to see his shadow connected with Shikimaru's.

"Baka! Do you want a repeat of last night? Don't do such hasty things in these situations." He let go of the technique and Naruto fell back from the sudden lack of restrain on his body. "Tck. How troublesome. We need a more private place for Naruto to summon our messenger. Hermione, do you know a place? The sooner we do this the better."

Hermione blushed suspiciously when she realised that Shikimaru was asking her something. The shinobi stood up to leave as she opened her mouth.

"Oh, well, I guess…there is one place that would work…that is, well..."

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5-10 minutes later

"Neh. Why are we in the girl's bathroom?" Naruto asked vacantly.

"I was about to ask the same thing." Kiba said, his voice echoing round the pale empty space. It was getting dark outside, but the candles weren't lit yet, giving the toilets a creepy feel to it. Hermione lead them to the back of the room and sat down, looking totally at home in the place.

"Don't worry about it, nobody comes in here." She said.

"Ano…why not?" Hinata asked, settling herself down beside Hermione and Kiba who were already seated cross-legged on the cold, hard bathroom floor. Shikimaru stood beside them against the tiled walls, with Ron and Harry standing a little way from him.

Hermione shrugged at Hinatas enquiry. "Well, that would be thanks to Moaning Myrtle." She said simply, "You can do what you need to do now, by the way." She added to Naruto. He nodded and prepared to make the hand signs.

Kiba smirked. "Huh. You sure have weird names in this world. What's a Moaning Myrt-ACK!"

"I'm Moaning Myrtle!" An angry voice said.

"AAAAAAAAIYYYEEE!" Naruto yelled, jumping into the air and falling hard on his bum as the second transparent figure of a ghost today suddenly appeared behind him. This time it was a girl with a sad face and glasses wearing a school uniform. "What's with all these stupid ghosts!" he cried loudly, jumping to his feet. Then he noticed the girl's distorted facial expression and took a step back, sweat dropping. She looked like she was going to cry. Uh-oh. He shook his head and waved his arm apologetically to ward of an inevitable outburst, "Er…that is…erm…" He flinched.

"'That is…' what? Go on! Say it! Don't you think I know what everyone's been saying about me behind my back? Stupid Myrtle. Fat, ugly Myrtle. Miserable, moaning, moping Myrtle!" She wailed tragically, passing through everybody's bodies with each insult she gave herself. "And you didn't have to s-scream like that, either! Stupid BOY!"

There was a faint blur of grey and she was gone, although her wailing and banging could be heard from one of the cubicles for a few moments later.

"…"

"This school is crazy." Kiba said dismissively. All the shinobi nodded.

Naruto was already biting his thumb and making the hand seals when everyone's attention was brought to him again. He said words in a language Harry didn't recognise and slammed his palm against the floor like before, which was followed by a familiar soft 'POOF' and a puff of smoke.

This time a small, plump peachy coloured frog with strange patterns on it's body sat where Naruto's palm had been. It started to speak with a whiny voice to Naruto, and Naruto answered it in the language Harry still couldn't understand. He looked to Ron for reassurance, and saw that he too was totally bewildered at what was being said.

"Brooo! If you have a snack this time, and I'll play with you for sure!"

"Ack? Why would I want to play with a frog? You're always demanding food! I need you to give this message to the Perverted Hermits giant frog he uses to spy on women with…"

"Sure thing, bro! Do you think I could have a snack too, though?"

"No way! I don't have any snacks. Be sure to tell the Pervert Frog everything I tell you now, okay? And tell him to give that message to Pervert Hermit."

"Nani! You mean Jiraya? That's a lot to remember though, bro! Maybe if I had a snack, I wouldn't forget the request so easily…"

"You know what! I hate you stupid frogs!"

"How cruel, oni-chaaaan!"

"Naruto, just tell him to tell Jiraya-sama that we were summoned to a wizarding school through the crystal by a boy called Harry Potter. Let her know we don't know how long we'll be gone for, and request her permission to learn their wizarding techniques. Also, ask her to reply via these methods, as we can't think of any other plausible means of communication."

Naruto nodded importantly and relayed the message to the dumb-looking frog. After a series of loud ranting from both an annoyed Naruto and a hungry frog, the peachy amphibian eventually bobbed a tongue out and blew a raspberry before it disappeared with another soft 'poof'.

"Well that was amusing." Kiba said, as they stood up to leave.

"Frogs give you a hard time, don't they?" Hermione said, observing. Naruto grumbled in response.

The corridors were empty and the candles were now lit magically to keep the creeping darkness from outside at bay. The rain continued to drum outside as the witches/wizards/shinobi made their way back to the common room.

"Every now and again from now on, Naruto, I think it best if you go there to summon the same frog to rely any message Tsunade-sama may give us." Shikimaru said, followed by a long stretch.

"Tck! Why do I have to do it!" He demanded.

Kiba snorted, "Why do you think, baka? Think about it."

"Ano, Naruto-kun, you're the only one who can summon anything…so-"

"But it's a girls bathroom!" He protested, blushing a little. "A guy can't go in a girls bathroom alone like that! I'm not a pervert."

Hermione sighed. "I told you before, Naruto, no one goes into that bathroom because of Moaning Myrtle."

"Moaning- you mean that creepy ghost girl? Why the heck would I want to see her again!" He said loudly, strengthening his resolve not to go back.

"If I didn't now any better I'd think you were afraid." A sneering voice drawled. Everyone spun round to see a boy, about Harry's age, with blonde hair and pale, pointed features standing with his arms folded. "Of ghosts, that is." He added, smirking.

His posture reminded Shikimaru of a certain sand ninja whose posture spoke of profound confidence that he had an absolute defence. He noticed then that this boy had a large boy on either side of him and four other mean looking people behind him, two of which were girls.

He also noticed how Harry and his friends had tensed considerably when they saw the pale blonde.

Tck. I hope things aren't going to become troublesome. He thought.

"Oi, oi! Who're you calling afraid?" He demanded loudly, fists clenched. "There's no way I'd be afraid of something as stupid as that!" Then he stopped and straightened up, eyes squinting questioningly. "Neh. Aren't you the boy from this morning?"

Draco smirked, ignoring him and turning to face Hinata. "Huh. Tell me, Hyuuga, is he always this stupid? Or could he be making a special effort today?"

"Get lost, Malfoy. If we wanted to hear from an arsehole, I would have farted." Ron retorted, as Naruto took a step towards Malfoy with his fists clenched. Malfoy scowled as Harry and the others tried to suppress what would have otherwise been uncontrollable laughter at Ron's banter.

"Funny, Weasley. Come up with that yourself did you?" he said fiercely. He returned his attention to Hinata, his expression calm, his arrogance shining through. "As you can see for yourself, if you stay with this…riff-raff, the chances are you will become one. I've come to offer you the hand of friendship for your skills in this wand less magic I've heard so much about. You should consider yourself privileged to have gained my interest among your…" he glanced at the other-worldly look of the other shinobi with a look of utmost displeasure, "…other companions." He finished. "You don't need to suffer the stupidity of that boy any longer." He added, gesturing lazily towards Naruto.

Shikimaru frowned at this. This boy was blatantly provoking Naruto, ignoring the rest of them and knew Hinata enough to want her to 'join' him. Obviously the three had met, and Naruto must have made quite the impression…

By now, of course, Naruto was visibly shaking with frustration. Malfoy noticed this and smirked all the more.

"I wouldn't be so quick as to dismiss our abilities so easily," growled Kiba from the side. He grinned, revealing abnormally sharp canines. "You could get hurt."

"Is that a threat?" sneered Malfoy, although his voice was laced with nervousness. Then he gained control of himself once more. "I am yet to learn your name, although it really doesn't interest me. Your nature is no doubt as repulsive as your smell." He muttered, none-to-quietly. At this, Akamaru made an appearance beneath Kiba's hood and growled dangerously. Malfoy backed away, glowering. His head snapped towards Hinata.

"This is your last chance, Hyuuga." He said. "Someone with your gifts doesn't belong with the likes of them."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Kiba said suddenly, and Shikimaru had noticed it too. Malfoy faltered, as though he'd let something slip.

"I'm sorry, M-Malfoy-kun…but please, don't underestimate my friends!" Hinata said confidently, backing away.

And that was all the shinobi needed as a go ahead to teach the blonde wizard a lesson he wouldn't forget.

Malfoy was quick to pull out his wand before anyone else could do anything, though. Harry, Hermione and Ron pulled out theirs, too.

"Bavarvis Totalis!" Malfoy hissed, pointing his wand at the shinobi.

"Protego!" Called Hermione, moving infront of them with her wand in hand. The bright blue light from Malfoy's wand dispersed as it hit her spell, harmless. The girl behind Malfoy pointed her wand at Hermione.

"Stupify!" She called. Hermione dodged it easily. Harry saw a boy beside Malfoy about to cast a spell on Hermione as Malfoy raised his wand to cast one on him.

"Petrificus Totalus!" Hermione called, pointing at the girl who'd just tried to hit her.

"Rictusempra!" Harry called to the boy about to hit Hermione.

"Galviato Sempa!" Ron yelled, pointing at Malfoy who was aiming for Harry.

Two of the tree spells were deflected or dodged, whilst one found it's mark on one of the girls, who immediately went stiff and fell to the floor.

The Slytherins hissed and threw more hexes and curses against Harry, Ron and Hermione who stood infront of the bewildered shinobi, standing there dumbly.

Multi-coloured lights flashed between the two sides, neither gaining the advantage. After about 30 seconds Naruto got impatient and grabbed his own wand, deciding to try it out.

"Naruto, you don't even know how to use that thing!" Kiba pointed out, dodging a weird orange light that was shot directly at his head. "This looks dangerous…we should probably hide." He added, smiling, and not making a move to do so.

"No, we could learn something about the way they duel here." Shikamaru said, leaning against the wall lazily with his hands in his pockets. "If things start to look bad, help them out-"

Suddenly a burst of red light shot past Ron who had dodged it and hit Hinata. Kiba caught her as she fell.

"Shit! Hinata, are you alright?" He said, putting her down gently. Shikimaru straightened up at the hit Hinata took and Naruto balled his fists.

"To hell with that idea, Shikimaru!" He called, and turned to point the wand at Malfoy accusingly. Malfoy was already sneering and pointing his wand at Naruto. "What the heck did they just do to her!" he demanded. "Kusottare!"

Before anyone could even blink, let alone wonder what had happened, a great burst of gold light erupted from Naruto's wand and zoomed to meet Draco full on in the face, knocking him off his feet. The spell aimed at Naruto from Draco had been deflected easily, although it wasn't a deflection spell.

"…"

"Er…Naruto? What did you just do?" Hermione said, looking at a motionless Draco, still lying on the floor.

"Maybe he killed him." Ron said, hesitantly.

"No. He's moving again." Harry said, disappointed, holding his wand at the ready.

Malfoy sat up looking a little dazed. He looked at Naruto questioningly, and then randomly touched his head. "What the-"

A girl beside Malfoy gasped. "Oh my god, Draco! Your hair! What has he done to your hair?"

The shinobi/Griffindors looked at each other in unison. "His hair?"

"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Draco cried, jumping to his feet. Now everyone could see that his hair was falling out at a rapid pace, and being replaced by…

"Ew, what's that smell?" Hermione said, pinching her nose.

Draco paled as he looked at the brown substance sprouting from his head in replace of hair. "Oh shit…" Malfoy wailed, and felt his bald head becoming mushy and warm…"What the hell is this!"

"Well you said it." Harry said, looking at it and beaming, as Ron started to laugh. "It's shit."

"That has got to be the most disgusting and most satisfying spell I have ever seen." Ron said, gasping for breath. Hermione just stood there pinching her nose against the smell as Malfoy ran off, tripping over himself in his hurry to get away, down the corridor towards the Hospital Wing.

"I'll get you for this, you stupid…" And his voice faded as he ran until he couldn't be heard. Ron and Harry were continuing to laugh, going as far as to collapse onto the floor painfully.

"Now that's what you call a shit-head!" Ron said, standing up with tears in his eyes. "Genius. Pure genius. Hey, is it permanent?" He said hopefully, but turned to see that everyone had disappeared to make sure Hinata was okay.

Hermonie pointed her wand at her chest and muttered a spell. "She was only hit by a stunning charm. Nothing serious." She said, as Hinata's eye flickered open. "See?"

Naruto bent down. "Hey, are you alright, Hinata?" He said. She sat up quickly to lean on her arms, blushing.

"H-hei! Gomen…I should have dodged-"

"I'm glad!" Said Naruto loudly, beaming down at her, "I'm glad your feeling okay, Hinata! I thought you were hurt for sure! And I actually made a new technique, too!" He said excitingly, holding out his hand for her.

"N-new technique?" She said, taking his hand and blushing deeply. They began to make their slow way down the corridor, now nearing the Griffindor common room.

"He means he cast a spell with that new wand of his." Kiba offered, "I can't believe that actually worked, though!" he said, turning to Naruto.

"It looked like a really powerful spell! I mean, it deflected Malfoy's curse completely, didn't it? I thought you'd never used wands before!" Hermione said, almost jealously.

"We haven't!" Naruto grinned, pocketing his wand.

"Well, how come you knew what words to use?" Ron said, "What did they mean?"

"Heh…I think you could guess." Naruto said, embarrassed. He started to rub the back of his head with the one hand as he walked. Shikamaru sighed heavily.

"Kusottare", Kiba said in answer to Ron's question, "is our word for 'Shit-head' or 'Bastard'. I don't think Naruto expected the wand to work for him like that at all, right?" He laughed. Naruto smiled nervously and nodded.

Ron, Harry and Hermione gaped at him.

"That's it. I'm definitely going to teach you some simple spells tomorrow and find out more about the magic you use." Hermione said defiantly. "I'm curious to see as to how you could say a word in your own language and it works perfectly as a spell with that much power behind it, even though it's your first time with a wand! You obviously don't know how to control it at all. Mimbulus mimbletonia."

They climbed threw the portrait of the pink lady. The common room was almost empty. It was getting late.

"So that means we'll be learning some techniques tomorrow?" Naruto said, happily.

"Yes, before lessons begin on Monday. Ron and Harry still have homework to do, though, and Ron especially has Quidditch practice…so it'll be just you guys with me as your tutor! For at least the morning…" She beamed. "Come on then, Hinata. We'd better get some rest so that we don't sleep the day away tomorrow." She turned to face he boys slumped in various places around the roaring Griffindor fireplace. "Well, Good night!" She beamed, and disappeared up to the Girls dormitory.

Hinata followed her, turning to say a quiet "Good-night" before also going to bed. Shikimaru sat in quiet thought for a while as Ron talked to Naruto about how much of a 'Git' Malfoy was, and how big of a favour he'd done for everyone with that spell of his.

Eventually Shikimaru retired to bed with a yawn, followed by Kiba, Harry, Ron and then Naruto. He noticed that he'd left the fox-kit on the windowsill while he'd been gone, and although he had no great love for animals he didn't despise them either. He felt bad for leaving the fox there all night, even though it was just sleeping, and carried it up to sleep at the bottom of his bed in the dormitory.

Yosh! Tomorrow, he thought, I'm gonna learn to be a shinobi-wizard!

And with this thought, he soon fell into an exhausted sleep, as did all the shinobi. It had been a long, eventful day indeed, after all.

And tomorrow wouldn't be much better.

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Authors Note: Huh. A little disappointed in that one, I didn't think it was very 'me'…but I tried, so please feed me reviews, opinions, what you want to see in the next chapter and so on! I would like to thank a number of certain reviewer's who are so beautiful that they tell me what they think ALL THE TIME! And I've probably used a load of your idea's so I thank you for that too! There's too many to name, so I'll do that another time. It's about 3 in the morning now and I'm absolutely spent, so that story is bound to have mistakes and stuff. I'll correct them all another time, and thank-you all again for reading this story and for reviewing it and stuff! I'm so happy:o)

p.s Haha! Malfoy SO got owned. :D

Next Chapter: "Explosive! Chakra and Magic Don't Mix!"

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