An: Hello all, let me introduce you to chapter 6 of Hogwarts Overkill. For some reason when I posted chapter 5, it showed that I had updated it, but it didn't change the date that it was updated. So it may have seemed that I haven't updated in two days, but in reality it has only been one day. I would like to thank those that have Favorited, Followed, Reviewed and simply read my story. If you like, please leave a review. Just knowing that people like my story makes me want to write more, having them tell me that in a review is awesome and inspires me to work harder on the next chapter. Enough of that, onto the story.
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Chapter 6: Cleaning Grimmauld Place
Naruto sighed happily, he had gotten his vengeance on Sirius, successfully eaten his breakfast and Orochimaru hadn't done anything questionable yet. Yes, things were certainly going well for Naruto on his first day. A loud screech sounded through the house accompanied by Orochimaru's dark laughter brought Naruto's good day to a halt. "Damnit, it hasn't even been a full day." Naruto cursed.
"Where you going? Gonna throw a bone to Orochimaru's tone?" Bee rapped over the screeches, before wincing at a particularly loud screech.
"Something like that." Naruto muttered, before he began to follow the screeching. Walking up the stairs, Naruto passed a crying red headed woman who was moving away from the origin of the noise. Throwing the attic door open, Naruto had to block his ears as the screeches got louder. "OROCHIMARU." He yelled when he saw Orochimaru crouched in front of something."
Orochimaru's head shot up, before he removed the scalpel from the bloodied monkey like creature, causing the screeches to decrease in volume. "Naruto-kun, can you please close the door, I don't want to risk letting this thing escape." Orochimaru began. At the sound of the door clicking closed, Orochimaru stood up, allowing Naruto to see the cut up monkey like creature being held down by a pair of snakes that were wrapped around its arms and legs. "What can I do for you Naruto-kun? As you can see I am rather busy and I would like to continue my examination while the subject is still fresh." Orochimaru continued as he turned towards Naruto.
"Why do you have blood on your face... You know what, don't tell me, I'd rather not know." Naruto said, noticing the blood splattered across Orochimaru's face. "I'm here because whatever you're doing to that thing." Naruto pointed at the creature Orochimaru was studying.
"It was causing grief to one of the residence so I decided to label it as a hostile." Orochimaru explained. "It would be such a waste to get rid of the hostile, so I decided to study it."
'Baa-chan did say that we would have to gather our own information.' Naruto thought. "Fine, but can you do it a bit quieter. Everyone in this house can hear that things screeches." Naruto said. Before Naruto could continue any further, the attic door burst open and in rushed a group of wizards. "See, this is what I mean, they heard the noise and came to investigate."
Sirius, Lupin and Moody aimed their wands at the two shinobi . "What are you two doing up here?" Alastor Moody growled.
"Hey, don't aim that thing at me. I just came up here to ask Orochimaru to keep it down." Naruto replied.
"And what is he doing up here?" Moody asked, noticing the blood covered features of Orochimaru.
"My snake told me that there was a creature up here and I came to investigate." Orochimaru said. Noticing that Moody was not satisfied with his explanation, Orochimaru decided to continue. "Upon entering this room, I found the redheaded woman sobbing at while this creature was tormenting her, so I decided to label it as a hostile and asked the woman to leave. It is an interesting creature, it seems to use its magic to make it look like the thing people fear most and then it feeds on that fear."
It's a Boggart." Lupin muttered, recognising the creature that Orochimaru was describing.
"So it's called a Boggart." Orochimaru mused, before turning towards the group of wizards. "I would like to ask for additional information on this Boggart later on, but for now I believe that I have delayed my study for long enough." Orochimaru said, before removing a scroll from his pocket. Opening the scroll, Orochimaru placed his hand with it. With a puff of smoke, Orochimaru now held a few pieces of paper with scribbled writing on it. "Place these on the door and it should block out the majority of the noise." Orochimaru handed Naruto the pieces of paper, before turning back towards the wizards. "If you choose to stay after Naruto leaves, then you will not be allowed out until after I am done with the study."
"Thanks." Naruto said. "So are you coming or what?" Naruto asked the group of wizards that looked uncertain.
"I'll stay here. You two can leave." Moody said, his gaze not leaving Orochimaru.
"Are you sure?" Sirius asked, not sure if he should leave Moody alone with Orochimaru.
Before Moody could reply, Naruto interrupted their conversation. "Can we just leave already. I don't know about you, but I don't want to spend my entire day stuck up here. I have things to do."
"Just go." Moody growled.
Lupin nodded, before he and Sirius followed Naruto out of the room. Naruto immediately began placing the pieces of paper Orochimaru had given him on the attic door once it was closed. Slapping his hands together, the screeches immediately began to die down, almost completely muting the noise.
"What was that?" Lupin asked, wondering what the shinobi in front of him had just done.
"Just a simple muffling seal." Naruto replied as he moved towards the stairs. 'Man that's a lot of stairs. I think I'll just take the quicker way down.' He thought, before climbing over the railing.
"What are you d..." Lupin began, but paused when he saw Naruto drop down. "Shit, if he falls from this height he could die." Lupin rushed towards the railing, expecting to see a splattered Naruto below, but found that the blonde ninja had disappeared.
'Stairs are for losers.' Naruto thought as he walked down the hallway, grinning. 'What should I do now? Guess I'll look for Octopops.' Naruto swiftly dodged the door that swung open. Looking towards the now open room, Naruto was greeted to the sight of an annoyed looking redheaded girl. "Umm, yo." Naruto awkwardly greeted the annoyed redhead.
"Sorry about that, I didn't mean to almost hit you." Ginny apologised, before noticing who it was that she almost hit. "You're one of those three that everyone seems to be wary of. What was your name again? Uzu something?" Ginny asked.
"Just call me Naruto." Naruto replied.
"Alright Naruto. So when did you and your friends join the Order?" Ginny asked her earlier question.
"Ginny, who are you talking to? You're supposed to be helping me clean this room." A female voice called from inside the room.
Ginny sighed at having to do more work, before she came up with an idea that would ensure that she would have a break. "Come with me, I'll introduce you to Hermione." Ginny said, pulling Naruto into the room.
"I guess I can look for Bee later." Naruto muttered as he allowed himself to be pulled into the room.
"Hermione, there is someone that I would like you to meet." Ginny began, drawing Hermione's attention to her. "This is Naruto." She pushed Naruto forward. "And Naruto, this is Hermione."
"Nice to meet you Hermione." Naruto grinned as he stuck his hand forward.
Hermione hesitantly grabbed his hand. "A...and you Naruto." Hermione stuttered her greeting, before releasing Naruto's hand. 'misses Weasley said that they were murderers, but Dumbledore wouldn't hire anyone that would harm the students and Alastor Moody said that they are soldiers. This Naruto doesn't seem so bad though.' Hermione thought.
"You know, I never did get my answer. When did you join the Order?" Ginny asked, interrupting Hermione's thoughts.
"Order? I didn't join any Order." Naruto replied.
"If you didn't join the Order then why are you here?" Ginny asked.
"He's here to guard Hogwarts along with the others." Hermione interrupted.
"Guard Hogwarts? But you look like you're barely out of Hogwarts." Ginny said, her gaze on Naruto.
Naruto's eye twitched. Why did everyone think that he was so young here. Back in Konoha nobody commented on a ninjas age when they were assigned a mission, but here it seemed like all everyone was worried about was a person's age, as if a person's age somehow showed how skilled the person was. "So? just because I'm not some old man, I'm somehow less able to guard Hogwarts?" Naruto asked defensively.
"No. We just weren't expecting someone near our age being hired to protect Hogwarts." Hermione replied.
"Oh, Okay then." Naruto muttered.
"So what's with the bandages?" Ginny asked, noticing the bandages that covered the entire visible part of Naruto's right arm.
"I had to wear them for a while, but when the time came for me to take them off I decided that I wanted to keep them on." Naruto explained.
"But what happened to make you need them?" Ginny asked.
"Well that's a funny story." Naruto scratched the back of his head awkwardly. "My friend Sasuke was being the bastard that he usually is and was trying to do something really stupid, so we had a fight and I won. In the end I lost my arm and had to have it replaced with a prosthetic." Naruto pulled the sleeve on his arm up, before pulling his bandages off, revealing shocking white underneath connected to his usual tanned colour.
Hermione gasped. "That's awful." She said as she stared at the spot where the prosthetic connected to Naruto's arm.
"It's not that bad. This is basically like my arm now, the only difference being that it's not the same colour."Naruto replied.
A crack sounded through the room as two identical redheads appeared.
"Hello Ginny." Fred greeted.
"And Hermione." George added.
"Mum said that she expects this room to be clean." Fred began.
"Within half an hour." George continued.
"Mum can't expect us to get this done so soon, it would take twenty people to get this room cleaned within that time." Ginny replied, trying to put Naruto's short explanation of why he wears bandages out of her mind.
"Twenty people?" Naruto asked.
"We didn't see you there." Fred noted.
"Please accept our apology." George apologised.
"My, what an interesting arm." Fred noticed Naruto's pale arm.
"It kind of looks like that snake mans arm." George said.
"Did you dip it in white paint?" Fred asked.
"Maybe you cleaned it too much." George continued.
"Mother always told us that if you stay in the bath too long you'll go pale." Fred added.
"But personally we thought that she was just trying to get us out of the bath." George finished.
"What?" Naruto asked, trying to make sense of what the twins were rambling about.
"Don't mind Fred and George. They like to confuse people by finishing each other's sentences, kind of like a prank." Ginny explained.
Naruto grinned at the word prank. Crossing his fingers in front of him, Naruto gave a quick mutter of "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu." Before a cloud of smoke surrounded Him.
"So you like pranks." Naruto said.
"Well we love pranks." A second Naruto continued.
"So if you would like a lesson in real pranking."A third Naruto began.
"Come find us." A fourth Naruto offered.
"And we might just teach you a thing or two." A fifth Naruto added.
"Although we might prank you in the process." The sixth and final Naruto concluded, before the group of Naruto's burst into smoke, leaving the original behind.
"Teach us oh great one." Fred began.
"To be able to make numerous copies of one's self is indeed a great skill." George continued.
"We could prank more people." Fred added.
"Create more pranking items." George said.
"Have an alibi." Fred considered
"Yes, to copy one's self would indeed be a useful skill." George finished, before the two latched on to the original Naruto.
"Kawarimi no Jutsu." Naruto muttered, before he was enveloped in smoke. "You know what, I think that I'll just go find Bee. It was nice meeting all of you." Naruto said awkwardly, before leaving the room.
"What, how did he get out of our grasp?"
"I don't know, but why does it still feel like we're holding something."
"Beats me. That blonde shinobi certainly has some interesting talents."
"Fred, George, If you don't let go of me I'll hit you." Ginny said as she struggled to get out of her brothers grasp.