Neji groaned as Fred and George giggled. They seemed incapable of learning despite how often they suffered Snape's wrath. Neji seriously believed they shared a love of pain, the embodiment of masochism. He honestly couldn't fathom why he was friends with them on most days but then they's force him in awe of their cleverness and ingenuity. They were topping their classes, as not even they were stupid enough to challenge Snape in that regard, well losing more points then the rest of their housemates put together (something they took great pride in). Maybe that was why, they cared little for rules they deemed inconvenience and acted with a care free nature Neji could only dream of. They were pixies that's what they were, mischief manifested with consciousness.

A little bored with his own thoughts Neji looked around the common room. Itachi's little brother was sitting obediently beside the least sane prefect within the school. The boy occationally wiggled in his seat well doing his best to look cool, his cheeks slightly pink as he pretended no one knew the reason. Itachi was... less then pleased to hear his little brother run over to a rampaging demon, go figure. Neji was smart enough to stay out of family affairs but to tell the truth if the kid hadn't intervened they'd all be down one flight instructor.

Said demon, no longer rampaging, was sitting by himself in a corner working on his essay for Snape like the rest of the procrastinating first years. It was Thursday night and they still hadn't finished! Despite the potions master's attempts they were all far to frightened to let the boy in their study groups. Even the Hōzuki seemed to be keeping his distance. The boy must of realized for all his boasting he was little more then an insect beside a real demon. Demons were beast, savage creatures driven only by instinct. Having the hanyou here was little more then a social experiment.

Even knowing this just looking at the beast it hardly seemed intimidating. Just laying on its belly scribbling down on a scroll.

"Byakugan" Neji whispered the incantation out of curiosity. His eyes looking beyond the flesh and seeing the thin frail strings that intertwined with the organs and veins, the magical pathways that made up the soul. The three major hubs in the stomach, heart, and brain glowing a bright white well the strings streched out of them to the rest of the body. He choked back a gasp as his eyes grew wide. There were two sets of strings, a blue and a red, that wraped around the body so tightly you could barely see the organs. The hanyou's very soul was split in two, connecting only well twisting around the three major hives of magic. How was that possible?

Another figure strolled up to the hanyou. A fairly normal magical circulatory system, if not a bit larger the average (A strong soul), save for a single flaw. A net of magic in the brain disconnected from the rest of the pathways. It was shaped like... A lightning bolt? Neji smirked realizing who he was looking at. Deformities and scars in the pathways were more common then people think and the little kid was bloody lucky that was all he got from the expierance. It looked like a good chunk of his magic was in there though.

"Neji, what are you doing?" A voice turned his head but he couldn't see anyone there. He blinked dispelling the Byakugan and suddenly a girl was in front of him "Stop raping people with your eyes"

Neji blushed "I wasn't!" people constantly mistake his families major spell for x-ray vision. It does work a little like that but he sees the energies that make up everything not the physical elements. You actually had to guess the physical based off the emergy's shaping. He certainly can't see through people's clothes like they all seem to think possible.

Yellow eyes examined him disbelievingly "just keep those eyes to yourself mister" Gemma glared before looking back at her book.

"Yeah Neji... You perv" The Weasley twins snickered "Undressing firsties... with your eyes... for shame"

"Can it" Neji commaned tossing a waded up partchment at their heads. He'd learned they never stopped until they got a reaction so he just indulge them.

Gemma just sat turning the pages of her book looking for any material she could use for her Astronomy essay. That damn choker with those bizarre runes was on her neck. She said it was a gift from her grandmother and it protected her from blood magic but seeing as Neji couldn't even see her magical pathways it obviously did alot more then that. Although Neji wasn't really interested in seeing into her soul the fact he couldn't, the fact runes like that existed no matter how rare, frustrated him to no end.

Ignoring her Neji looked over at the boy-who-lived and his pet hanyou. They were side by side a scroll between them. They were talking about each rule and writing the translation down. Odd, Potter never seemed to talk much to the hanyou and now that it's proven he's a horrible monster the kid suddenly wants to hang out? First years are weird.

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"Voldemort killed my father. I don't blame the house he was in no more then the food that he ate! I blame HIM because that is were it belongs!" Those words were ringing in his ears when he'd been sorted and Harry wasn't sure if it had been a mistake to listen to them. Ron had seemed pretty nasty to the very idea that blaming an entire people for one man's actions was wrong. The kid with the tail had a good point no matter how much Ron won't admit it. So when the hat had mentioned a Slytherin characteristic Harry didn't speak against it. He let the hat put him where it wanted... not sure that had been a good idea.

Ron instantly stopped talking to him and not many of his own house liked him. The kids in other houses immediately believed Ron's outburst that Naruto had corrupted him. Their were only three kids that Harry hanged out with but he felt rather out of place with them. To tell the truth he felt flat out two dimensional. Like he was just there in the background but now?

Naruto was as far way from everyone as humanly possible. Suigetsu and Theodore, his best friends, occationally looked at the fox boy but were clearly too afraid to get near him. That wasn't right. That thing in the field, whatever it was whatever happened, wasn't Naruto. Naruto was shy, kind of jumpy, and a glutton at every meal. He saved Neville. What happened next was a creature of pure rage, nothing else. Was that why people kept calling him a demon? There was something frightening in him but that wasn't him. Naturo even begged them all to run when that red light started to leak out of his skin. It wasn't right to ostracize him for that.

Harry had walked over to him and planted himself beside him. Naruto stared at him, flat out shocked, but Harry just layed put his parchment and asked if he could share the fox's copy of the rules. Naruto nodded hesitantly and they moved on from there, just like nothing had happened and nothing had changed. Harry could tell his friend appreciated that.

"Okay firsties" Itachi hopped up "Bedtime, off you go, and if you haven't finished Snape's Potions essay-"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah screwed by mountain trolls" Suigetsu cut him off packing his stuff

"But I wanted to say it!" Itachi whined "You didn't even say it right! If you're going to steal someone's catch phrase at least say it right!"

Suigetsu just rolled his eyes and walked off towards his dorm