Hey i'm updating earlier than i thought but then again i don't have a set pattern really... just know that i'll have at least one new chapter every month.
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Remeber italics is language foreign to the country their in, so in other words if the shinobi are speaking it then it's in Japanese and the wizards can't understand them... except Dumbledore.
Here's the new chapter enjoy!
Shikamaru eyed Naruto warily when he turned up for the night shift, he was sniggering and that look in his eye reminded him of when the blonde pulled some elaborate prank.
"What's up with you?" he asked through narrowed eyes. Naruto quickly fisted a hand over his mouth to cover up his laughing.
"One of my kage bunshin in the Gryffindor common room just dispelled," he chuckled, Shikamaru raised an eyebrow in question. "Those Weasley twins have made these sweets that fake you being ill to get out of class, bite one half to get ill and bite the other half to get well again, they're brilliant!"
The shadow-nin face palmed and sighed heavily, he really hoped the three of them didn't meet personally and make an alliance or something, he had a feeling that the school might not survive if they did.
"Is that all?" he drawled heavily. Naruto shook his head still grinning.
"Nope, that Hermione went to tell them off because they were using first years as test subjects and she threatened them with their mother! You should have seen the look on their faces! And then the girl started making these funny woollen… blobs… she says they're clothes for the house elves." Naruto frowned. "What is a house elf any way?"
"Troublesome," sighed Shikamaru. "They're these little people like things that work in the kitchen mainly, they make all the food and keep the place clean," he explained.
"Ah, cool, I might go visit one day," mused Naruto. "Tell them to put ramen on the menu."
"Stop talking about ramen… stop thinking about it too," came Yana's voice through their headsets.
"Yikes! How did you know I was?" asked Naruto affronted. They could practically feel her rolling her eyes.
"Naruto this is you we're talking about," she said slowly. "When are you not thinking about ramen? Now stop yapping and get to work."
"Yes captain," they chanted in unison.
They crept off into the shadows and began their patrol, the castle was actually fairly creepy at night and Naruto's fear of ghosts was not helping as they kept popping up unexpectedly, usually through a wall or the floor, it made them very jumpy. Eventually Shikamaru was torn between leaving the blonde so he could patrol on his own in peace and quiet or staying with him to make sure he didn't have a panic attack and wake up the whole castle.
"Naruto?" he called, the blonde Jinchuuriki jumped slightly and turned round.
"Yeah?" he asked nervously. Shikamaru sighed and waved him closer.
"Why don't you just create a ton of kage bunshin and have them patrol?" he said. "That way you don't have to worry about the ghosts and you'll still know if something goes wrong because they'll just dispel and tell you." Naruto paused to think about it before nodding.
"I guess that would work," he said slowly making the hand sign. "Want me to make enough to cover you too? You can just walk through the shadows to get to them if something happens right?"
Shikamaru shrugged and gave the go ahead, a hundred clones popped into existence and Naruto sent them off in pairs all around the castle. The two then made their way back to the common room only to find Yana there looking moody.
"Err… Yana-nee-chan?" called Naruto eyeing her nervously. "Are you ok?" She nodded then started sulking.
"I knew I shouldn't have slept through the entire day!" she moaned. "Now I can't sleep because my sleep pattern is all out of wack!" She turned to them abruptly and glared. "Aren't you two suppose to be on patrol?" Naruto grinned sheepishly.
"Well you see-"
"Naruto couldn't concentrate because of the ghosts," interrupted Shikamaru. "He created one hundred kage bunshin and sent them off all around the castle, they'll dispel if anything happens and I can shadow walk to where they are."
Yana eyed them thoughtfully, it was a pretty good plan actually. The kage bunshin would alert them but save them from receive any initial damage in an attack and Shikamaru's shadow walking… it was a really useful technique but a bit weird. She didn't know the technicalities behind the technique but she knew it allowed Shikamaru to walk between shadows without ever showing himself, he could take passengers along too but they had to be touching him and there was a draw back of not being able to use jutsu while within the technique.
For the purpose of the night shifts though it was ideal and meant that if necessary her team could travel undetected. She agreed to let them use this method for the nights they were on patrol but they still had to stay awake so that they would be ready in case something did happen, they would just be able to stay in their quarters instead of wandering around the castle.
"Did you check on Harry?" asked Yana as the other two settled down on the sofa.
"Yeah, no one was in there," said Naruto. "He was asleep in his room, the detentions must start tomorrow night, I guess they have to have one day notice or something in case they already have detention with someone else." Shikamaru sighed heavily as Yana shot them a warning glance.
"Don't worry Yana," he mumbled. "We'll watch the kid personally ok? I doubt there'll be ghosts in there to scare Naruto so we'll just send the kage bunshin on patrol and sit in on his detention, ok?" She nodded. "Sheesh, we know that woman is up to something, we'd have to be denser than a brick to leave her alone with him."
So the next night that was were they were, sitting in the shadows of the classroom waiting for Harry to turn up for his detention. Shikamaru didn't blame the glares and creeped out looks his blonde partner kept sending to the door that led to Umbridge's office, he'd checked it out too out of curiosity as to why it grossed out Naruto so much.
He was really wishing he hadn't, there's only so much pink and fluffy kittens in bows that a person can take before they need therapy, in fact this mission might send the whole team to the psych ward in Konoha to make sure it hadn't completely screwed with them.
He shuddered as there was a knock on the door and that… toad answered in a fake sweet sugary voice, he glanced at Naruto only to see him praying.
"What are you doing?" he asked incredulously. Naruto grimaced.
"Praying that she doesn't want immortality and that Orochimaru is really dead," he said bluntly. "If those two ever meet I'm committing senpaku."
Shikamaru also sent a quick prayer too and hoped that their charge would not be scarred for life. They watched as Harry tried to get out of detention on Friday for Quidditch tryouts, this lead to Shikamaru quickly having to explain to Naruto what it was, didn't he read any of the information they were given?
Naruto thought it sounded awesome and spent the next ten minutes trying to work out how he could persuade Yana to let him steal a broomstick so he could try it out… all for the cultural experience of course.
They could see that Harry was trying to control himself as she goaded him, she was looking for any excuse to punish him some more, the bitch. Naruto blinked a few times then sniffed the air frowning.
"What?" asked Shikamaru curious. "Is something wrong?" Naruto rotated his head still frowning.
"I can smell blood," he muttered. "Only a bit but its definitely blood." Then they heard Harry's small gasp, drawing their attention back to him. His hand was bleeding slightly.
Shikamaru's mind raced, how was he bleeding? He was only writing lines for goodness sake, that shouldn't cause him to bleed! He clamped a hand over Naruto's mouth as he felt the growl build up and shook his head. Naruto ripped the hand away and pointed to Harry.
"The quill!" he hissed still pointing. "She making him use a quill that carves the lines into the back of his hand!"
Sure enough when Shikamaru looked closer the words 'I must not tell lies' was written on the back of his hand. The shadow-nin wasn't sure how he managed to keep Naruto from attacking Umbridge during the hours she made Harry write lines, eventually she let the boy go and they followed to make sure he made it back to Gryffindor tower, Naruto fuming all the way.
As soon as their charge was safe the blonde grabbed his partner and used shunshin to get to their quarters. Sasuke and Hinata had already gone to bed but the other three were still up, they looked up as the two appeared and were taken back by the look on Naruto's face. Gaara stood up hurriedly and made his way over.
"Naruto?" he questioned trying to keep from looking concerned, the blonde looked absolutely livid. "What's wrong?" He pried the shadow-nin from his lover's grip allowing the dark haired shinobi to flop onto the sofa with a sigh of relief.
"That bitch was making him carve lines onto the back of his hand!" hissed Naruto through tightly clenched teeth. "She gave him this quill and told him to write 'I must not tell lies' and it bloody used his blood to do it carving it on to his hand!" Yana stood up abruptly and grasped his shoulders.
"Naruto calm down," she murmured. "Why didn't you stop her?" The Jinchuuriki let out a frustrated noise.
"Because I don't know whether it's legal with the laws here," he cried. "It's no good stopping her if there's nothing that says its illegal for her to do it and then she'd know we were watching him!" Yana nodded and patted him on the head before sitting down heavily on the sofa, leaving Gaara to lead Naruto into their bedroom try calm him down.
"This is such a mess," she complained. "What do we do Onii-chan?"
Kakashi frowned as he thought about it. Naruto had done the right thing by not interfering this time, even if it had pained him to do so, they really had no idea whether what she was doing was illegal or not and until they found out they couldn't afford to interfere. Doing so would alert Umbridge to the fact that Harry was being watched by them and that would just make her all the more suspicious of Dumbledore and then she'd tattle to Fudge, she'd probably try get them thrown out as well since she'd shown her disapproval of them every time she'd spotted one of them.
"It would be helpful if we knew what that thing was called," he said eventually. "Then we could research it in the library and find its legal uses, I get the feeling that using it for detention isn't one of them." He smiled slightly. "I'm going to have fun imagining the look on McGonagall's face if she finds out, she'll be absolutely livid." Yana snorted and rolled her eyes.
"She definitely would be," she muttered. "But what Umbridge is doing… it's basically self inflicted torture! She's in a position of power, Harry won't complain for fear of further punishment from her or because he feels like he can't let her get the best of him. He can't refuse to do the detention, but making him carve words into the back of his hand…" she shook her head in disbelief. "I don't know if even Ibiki would use one."
It only got worse as the week went on, Harry obviously wasn't saying anything to anyone about the detentions and the words were no longer fading after each session. Hinata had found out that it was called a blood quill and had a highly restricted use, detentions was not one of the things it was allowed to be used in. Naruto wanted to report her to Dumbledore but Yana told them no. He only had one more night to do and he had learned by now not to do anything stupid around her again, hopefully he'd never have to have detention with Umbridge again.
Also… something about him intrigued her, it was the same with Shikamaru and Kakashi. Harry was a bit of a puzzle, he was a wizard like the rest of the castle but he was quite resilient to any type of pain and he refused to give in to other's demands, he was a bit like Naruto in that way. They didn't know why Harry was this 'Chosen one' to defeat Voldemort, but Harry was easily the most likely to survive any upcoming war out of the students. For that he'd earned their grudging respect considering the rest of the wizards were pitifully soft when it came to fighting and anything useful in war, by comparison Harry was hard… still not much better than a rookie genin but that was so much better than everyone else.
Yana watched with amusement on the Saturday when Harry went to post a letter from the Owlery and ran into an Oriental girl, he was obviously flustered around her and didn't know what to say. It was quite entertaining until Filch the caretaker came barging in with some harebrained idea that Harry was ordering Dungbombs. She watched the girl, called Cho she remembered, defend him and scowled as Filch tried to press the issue.
"He sent the owl ten minutes ago," Yana hissed dropping down from the roof behind Filch scaring him out of his wits. "You're too late if you wanted to check his mail for whatever petty reason Umbridge gave you." The three wizards stared at her in shock before Filch grumbled and left leaving the two students to stare at her. "It's rude to stare you know," she stated folding her arms.
Cho flushed in embarrassment and left in a hurry saying a quick goodbye to Harry. She turned to watch her leave before switching her attention back to Harry, who was still staring.
"You're the captain aren't you?" asked Harry nervously, Yana nodded her head. "What are you doing here?"
"Making sure the castle is safe," she said bluntly. The boy blinked a few times.
"But you came from the roof!" he said. "How did you get up there?"
"I climbed," she told him. "Now get along to breakfast, you won't get anything otherwise." She paused for a moment as she turned to leave. "I suggest you don't get in trouble with Umbridge again, she may do something worse next time." Harry gasped in outrage.
"You knew? Where you watching?" he yelled. She narrowed her eyes at him from behind her mask.
"We patrol at night, Fox found you the first night," she said. "He was livid when he came in, unfortunately we have no control over the teachers and since you refused to say anything to anyone we couldn't do anything." He gaped at her. "Please try not to give Fox an excuse to try and kill her, we'll get in trouble if he does." Then she was gone.
Meh ending was a bit abrupt but that was were i got up to so... *shrugs*
Senpaku (think i spelt it right) is when someone commits suicide in regards to their honour... or something like that, Kakashi's dad did it.
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