Welp. I shouldn't make promises I can't keep. Hehehehe. Sorry this is a bit late, the internet in my house wasn't working.

LOL.

Thanks to all the reviews... and the ideas for the Yule Ball. I think Naruto will take a boy, not because he has feelings for them, but because he's Naruto...

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A stunned silence had fallen over the hall. Naruto got up, grinning. He stood at the front of the hall, one hand on his hip and the other one punched in front of him.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki! And I'm gonna beat you all! Dattebayo!"

Harry's eyes widened in shock. Even Naruto knew?

Dumbledore stood up again, smiling. "That was Konoha school…"

Naruto laughed, "You ain't seen nothing yet!"

"Right… Why you go and sit down at a table?" Dumbledore said, his smile a bit more forced. Naruto grinned and bounced over to the Gryffindor table.

He sat down next to Harry, Honoo following close behind.

Dumbledore cleared his throat and continued talking, "The selection for the champions will take place on Halloween. An impartial judge will decide which students are deemed worthy to partake in the Tournament, winning the Cup, glory for their school, and a grand prize of a thousand Galleons."

"One thousand Galleons!?" Ron said wistfully.

"I'm totally entering," Fred whispered to Harry.

The entire hall was listening to Dumbledore, hanging onto his every word. Dumbledore, most likely hearing the Weasley, continued, saying, "Some of you are eager to join, however the heads of the participating schools, and the Ministry itself, have all agreed to set an age limit of seventeen-"

But before he could continue, he was cut off as students yelled their defiance.

"HOWEVER!" he yelled, bringing the school to quiet, "We have made an exception, as the oldest contestant that Konoha could send was sixteen (1)"

Everyone turned to Naruto, who avoided their looks, staring straight ahead with an amused smirk on his face.

"Those below the age line mustn't waste time trying to submit their names." He glanced over at the Weasley twins when he said this.

Dumbledore continued his speech, and then sent the students off to bed.

"They can't do that!" George said, refusing to move with the stream of students, "We're seventeen in April!" He yelled.

"They're not stopping me from entering," Fred said stubbornly, standing with his brother, "The champions will be able to do all sorts of cool stuff, AND! One thousand Galleons as a prize!"

"Yeah... One thousand Galleons…" Ron said, with a far-away look in his eyes.

"Ugh- Come on," Hermione scolded, "We'll be the only ones left if we don't get a move on!"

As the twins and the golden trio moved away, Naruto stood in the shadows, watching completely amused by what he had seen.

"So that's why you're here," an amused drawl came from behind him.

"Mah! Draco, you mad that I can enter but you can't?" Naruto said, smirking slightly.

"I don't care about this school, and I have no use for the money." Draco said.

"You remind me of a friend…"

"That friend must be amazing then."

"Nope! He's a total prick! Dattebayo!" with that, Naruto ran off, leaving a fuming Malfoy behind.

That was… until…

"Mah… Draco… I'm lost!"


-Back with the Gryffindors-

"What d'you reckon?" Ron asked, as they made their way to the Common Room, "Be cool to enter, wouldn't it? But I s'pose they might want someone older… we might not know enough-"

"I definitely don't…" a gloomy voice said behind them. Neville stood next to Fred and George, a look that seemed as though someone had died, on his face. "I expect my gran'd want me to try, though, she's always going on about how I should up hold the family honour and- oops!"

Neville's foot had sunk through the staircase, one of the many trick steps in the castle. Ron and Harry started to pull him out.

"Let me help you there, oh brave ones!"

Neville was out in a flash, with Naruto standing next to him, staring at the stairs.

"Are there many steps like these?" he asked.

"Yeah…"

"Cool!"

Naruto grinned at them.

"Now… Draco told me where to go… but… Do you guys know where the portrait of a red fox is?"

They all stared at him blankly.

"No? Okay."

And away he went, bounding down the corridors.

"That's a weird chap…" Neville said timidly.

They all laughed.

They continued on their way, stopping in front of a fat lady, who said, "Password?"

"Balderdash," George said, "a Prefect downstairs told me." He added.

The portrait swung open, revealing the room which they climbed into. Hermione cast the merrily dancing flames a dark look, muttering 'Slave labour' before biding them goodnight.

Harry, Ron and Neville climbed up the spiral staircase to their dormitory. They opened the door to find Dean and Seamus laughing on the floor and Naruto perched on the end of a bed.

"Haha… Oh m-m-my… Shit! Seriously!" Seamus choked out.

"Yep. It seriously was another mask!" Naruto laughed.

"Harry… lis-listen t-to this!" Dean laughed, "N-Nar-Naruto a-and h-his frien-friends tried t-t-to s-see under his tea-teacher's ma-mask and it was an-another mask! Hahaha!"

"Naruto? Why are you here?" Harry asked, confused.

"Umm, well… I'm still lost!" Naruto said, rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly.

Harry sighed. "Seriously?!"

"Yup! So, I'm staying here for tonight!"

"WHAT!"

Naruto pulled out what looked like a scroll, and bit his finger, the blood trickling down his hand.

"Woah! Naruto, dude. You don't need to hurt yourself…"

"Hmm. What? I'm not hurting myself. I'm just getting my stuff!" Naruto said, looking confused.

"Sure…"

"I'll just sleep on the floor…"

So that night, Harry fell asleep, dreaming about Cho and the tournament. Naruto fell asleep on the floor, dreaming about the village and himself. As Hokage.

In the morning, the boys asleep in Gryffindor tower were woken up by an energetic blonde, who wanted to eat breakfast quickly so he could explore.

During breakfast, Hermione poured over their timetables, getting confused when Naruto was given one.

"Baa-Chan wants me to continue studying here." He explained.

They all nodded in understanding. Except Hermione, who proceeded to question the poor blonde.

"How old are you?"

"Fifteen."

"Them why are you in fourth year classes?"

"I only know up to third year stuff…"

"You're taking ancient runes!?"

"Yup! It sounds fun!"

"Today's not that bad… we're outside in the morning! Herbology with Hufflepuff…" Ron said.

"Which house is Hufflepuff?"

"The yellow one," Harry replied.

"Ugh. Care of Magical Creatures is good, but it's with Slytherin!"

"Will Draco be there?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah… Why…?"

"Because he said he was going to show me around!"

"Malfoy said that?!" Harry said.

"Yes, I did Potter." Came Malfoy's cold drawl.

"Draco! So, tell me! How many love letters?"

"Twelve…"

"Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" Naruto fell on the floor, drawing gazes from the surrounding people.

"YOU ARE LIKE MY FRIEND!"

Draco blushed and glared at the blonde boy. "Shut up, Blondie!" he then stormed away.

"I like him!" Naruto said, wiping away his tears.


A few minutes later, the Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs and Naruto stood in the Greenhouse.

Professor Sprout showed her class the ugliest plants they had ever seen. They looked like thick, black slugs instead of plants, protruding vertically out of the soil.

"Bubotubers!" Sprout said proudly, "They need squeezing. You will collect the pus-"

"The WHAT!?" Seamus and Naruto said in disgust.

"Pus! Finnigan, Uzumaki, PUS!" Sprout said firmly, "And it's extremely valuable, so don't waste it. You will collect the pus, I say, and put it in these bottles."

She indicated the bottles next to all the students.

"Wear the dragon-hide gloves, it can do funny things to the skin when undiluted."

Naruto felt like this task was disgustingly satisfying. Squeezing the plant released the pus and by the end of the lesson they had collected a few pints.

Professor Sprout started talking about the use, but Naruto was distracted by the other plants. He poked one with tentacles, and they wrapped around his wrist. He felt a small pain, but it vanished as Kurama healed him.

"MR UZUMAKI THAT PLANT IS POSIONOUS!" Professor Sprout screamed.

'That was the small pain'

"Give me your wrist!"

Naruto shrugged, wrenching the plant off him and showing the Professor his wrist.

Sprout looked closely but couldn't find any sign of infection. "W-What?"

Naruto just stared blankly at her.

Next, it was Care of Magical Creatures.

Hagrid stood outside his hut, hand on Fang's collar. A pile of box crates lay by his feet.

"Mornin'!" he said, grinning at them. "Be'er wait fer the Slytherins, they won' want ter miss this – Blast- Ended Skrewts!"

"WHAT!" Ron yelled.

Hagrid pointed cheerfully at the crates.

"Ugh!" Lavender shivered.

Naruto thought that was the word that summed them up. They looked like deformed, shell-less lobsters.

Thinking about lobsters made Naruto hungry.

"On'y jus' hatched," Hagrid said proudly gesturing, "So yhe'll be able ter raise 'em yerselves! Thought we'd make a bit of a project ou' of it!"

"And why would we want to raise them?"

The Slytherins had arrived. Hagrid looked stumped.

"I mean, what do they even do?"

Hagrid opened his mouths, apparently thinking hard. "That's fer next lesson, Malfoy!"

Naruto laughed. The giant had no idea what he was doing.

"An' what's so funny, Naru'o?"

"Nothing sir."


(1) Naruto is fifteen, but Dumbledore doesn't know that. And he's in Harry's class because I AM THE AUTHOR OF THIS STORY!


I watched 15 episodes of One Piece in a day... Is that bad...

Well. You know what to do!

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