Disclaimer: I obviously don't own Naruto because if I did things would probably go A LOT differently. Plus I'm not Japanese and I'm not that good at drawing.
(ahaha...forgot to mention that the disclaimer goes for Harry Potter too. Ms. Rowling owns that one, and not me unfortunately.)
Hola chicos. This is the new chapter and I hope that you enjoy it!
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Life sucks, and then you die.
Minato smirked as the class talked quietly amongst themselves as they all walked into the Quidditch arena. He put his box down near the entrance of the field and motioned for the out of breath Slytherin to do the same.
"Wow, you really are out of shape!", Minato exclaimed with a slightly sadistic smile. "You might have to come for some extra 'training' sessions to work on that."
Draco's eyes nearly popped out of his skull at the suggestion and he involuntarily whimpered. Minato was laughing hysterically on the inside and decided that he had to stop tormenting the kid and get back to teaching his class.
"All right everyone! Gather around me for a second!", Minato yelled to the class. They all stopped whatever they were doing to crowd around their new Professor wondering what they were going to be learning exactly.
"Now today we'll be starting off with 5 laps around the field", Minato began. The mass of groaning coming from the young witches and wizards around him made him grin.
"Once everyone is done with that we'll get started on the real lesson okay?", Minato continued his "I'm-a-cheerful-idiot" smile, even though they were all giving him nasty glares.
"So what are you waiting for? Get started", Minato waved them off and the class reluctantly began their laps.
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Minato nodded in approval at his new students after the last of the them returned huffing and puffing to the area around their teacher.
'Not too bad', thought Minato as he looked at the time on his watch. 'They did 2 minutes better than my last class'
"All right everyone, good job!", Minato yelled cheerfully to the tired witches and wizards. "Next class we'll be doing our laps after our first lesson in the classroom. You should probably prepare before class and wear some less restrictive clothing. Now we'll be starting the next part of today's training exercise." The students groaned and the last few that had remained standing sat down for the rest of the explanation. Minato looked at the class circled around him in an assessing manner for a few moments before he started.
"For your next test, I will split you off into groups of three. Then I will make clones of myself so that there will be one of me for each group", Minato began as he started counting and grouping the students together in his mind, however he didn't notice the weird looks that he was getting from his new students. Hermione, predicatively, was the one to raise her hand.
"Yes, Miss...Granger, right?", Minato asked politely.
"Yes, Professor. Um, did you say clone yourself?", she asked curiously and with less timidness than she had when they were in the classroom.
"Yeah. So?", Minato replied cocking his head slightly in confusion.
"But Professor that just isn't possible!", Hermione protested, flabbergasted at the thought that the new professor thought that he could clone himself. "I mean it's possible to take on the physical appearance of another person, even that is ridiculously hard, but it just isn't possible to clone yourself!" Some of the students nodded as well, although they probably weren't as well read as Hermione about the issue. Minato gave them all a surprised look.
"You mean you guys can't create illusions of yourself? I mean making a solid clone is pretty advanced, but it's not impossible. And changing your appearance isn't difficult at all. Most 11 and 12 year olds can do it in Konoha...", Minato said rubbing his chin thoughtfully as the rest of his class gaped at him. Malfoy stupidly spoke up for them.
"Well if it's so easy why don't you show us?", Malfoy sneered. Minato gave him a look that said "You-still-haven't-learned-to-shut-up-have-you?" which did effectively shut him up although the defiant glare didn't leave his eyes. So Minato shrugged and his fingers fell into the hand sign of a cross.
"Kage bushin no jutsu", Minato said calmly and several of the students gasped as a large puff of smoke appeared next to Minato. When the smoke cleared their were even more gasps as they saw another Minato standing there, waving cheerfully at them. Hermione was stark white with shock and her mouth didn't seem to be able to make proper words. Ron, who was also very impressed, gave Hermione a cheeky grin.
"What was that you said about impossible Hermione?", Ron snickered at his friend as she turned her head to glare at him.
"Wow", said Harry softly in awe as Minato began to pat his clone on the back to prove that he was real.
"Anyway", Minato continued. "Once I split you up into groups of three and send you off with one of my clones, it'll be your job to..." Minato trailed of to increase the suspense of the moment and inwardly grinned as he saw the bodies of his new students subconsciously lean forwards to hear his next words.
"Capture two bells!", Minato finished with a smile. Sweatdrops anyone?
"Bells?" Ron shouted indignantly.
"Yes, Mr....."
"Ron Weasley", Ron supplied.
"Then, yes, Mr. Weasley. Bells", Minato affirmed.
"But-, But-", Ron began to splutter.
"No buts!", Minato said happily while waving his finger at him. "It will be the groups job to capture the two bells from my clone." The clone in question held up two bells and jingled them at the class merrily. "Those who manage to capture a bell will pass for the day while those who don't will fail and will have to do extra laps after class." Cue shocked and enraged faces and voices. Some were in shock at how stupid this all sounded, some were enraged that they might have to do some more of those nasty laps, and others were just plain shocked and enraged that they let this nut job actually teach a class.
"But Professor!" Harry piped in. Minato turned his attention to him.
"Yes Mr....?", Minato inquired.
"Um... Harry Potter, sir." Harry said although he almost forgot what he was going to say since he had never before met a teacher who didn't already know who he was (not including Professor Binns).
"Okay, Mr. Potter. You have a question?", Minato asked as he glared at the other students to quiet down.
"You said that only those who caught a bell would pass, but there are only two bells and there are three people on each team", Harry said. Low murmuring was heard at this revelation and the other witches and wizards began wondering at this dilemma as well.
"You heard me correctly. That means at least 33% of you will definitely fail in this class or more", Minato said pleased that Harry had brought it up. Cue more screams of outrage. This time Minato was less patient.
"Enough!", Minato yelled, holding up his hands. "That's the way it is. Those who are good enough will get a bell and pass. Those who can't will fail and face the penalty. Now, when retrieving the bells you are allowed to use any method that you deem fit short of anything that's illegal, understood?", Minato reasoned. The students grumbled a bit, but they perked up when they heard that they were allowed to do whatever they wanted to get the bells. Suddenly several of them felt much more confident.
"I'll warn you however, that where I'm from, I'm considered one of the fastest and most powerful in my country and the surrounding ones as well. If you do not attack me with the intent to kill you will not have any chance whatsoever of capturing a bell. Is that clear?", Minato informed them menacingly. The group of adolescents shivered slightly at the out-of-character killing intent that came out of the normally obnoxiously cheerful professor. Needless to so they all nodded with more force that was probably necessary.
"Good!", Minato smiled at them and the menacing aura disappeared quickly. "Hmmm...now to make the teams...how about this. I'll allow you to make up your own teams" The students breathed sighs of relief. "However, there must be at least one Gryffindor or Slytherin on each team." Geez, how many times can these kids be morally outraged in one day?
"What!?" Several unidentified students articulated.
"Do any of you have a problem with that", Minato said with the dreaded menacing aura. They all shook their heads in fear. "Good!", Minato chirped. More sweatdrops were created due to their insane professor's constant mood swings.
"There should be 10 groups, you have...", Minato looked at the new watch he had gotten a couple of days before. "5 minutes to decide."
Gryffindor and Slytherins moved to opposite sides and stared at each other for some time as Minato cheerfully started to retrieve the boxes by the exit/entrance. When he came back with the first couple of boxes he looked at the two houses facing each other and chirped at them pleasantly "Four minutes!" Many of the students panicked, remembering the mood swings and began to make their way over to the other side to grab a student from the other house to put into their group.
After the five minutes were up all ten groups were unhappily assembled in a line in front of their teacher who was humming as he set up the remaining boxes in a row.
"All right then!", Minato cheered looking at how well they did. It seemed Hermione paired up with Patel from Gryffindor and the Parkinson girl from Slytherin. Her other two friends, Ron and Harry, were standing miserably next to an equally unhappy black Slytherin, Blaise Zabini. Malfoy and one of his goons, Crabs(?), was standing with a decidedly pale and nervous looking round boy whose name Minato couldn't quite remember, Longpants? No... The other goon and two Gryffindor boys, Dean and...Seamoose? stood as far as away as possible from each other as they could while still being able to be called a group. Minato nodded in approval at most of them.
"Now! In these boxes are other weapons that you'll be allowed to use against 'me' when you attempt to capture the bells." Minato tipped over each of the opened boxes with his foot as he named what was in each one. "Here are some kunai, shiruken, smoke bombs, wire, and some other weapons I thought you might be able to use" Minato explained to the dumbfounded crowd.
"W-w-w-why d-do we n-need w-w-weapons, s-s-sir?", the round looking Gryffindor boy asked nervously eyes his two other partners who were eyeing him cruelly gleeful gazes.
"Well, like I said before, in a real duel it would be pathetically easy to disarm you with any of these weapons. You can use your wands, but try to be creative and I might not be so hard on you when you fail." Minato smirked cheekily.
"However", Minato said with a rather hard voice." These weapons are to be used against my clones. If I see, or even suspect, that anyone is using them on one of their classmates they will automatically fail, their house will be docked 50 points, and you will be doing laps until after dinnertime. Is that understood?" The students all nodded deciding that the punishment eliminated any desire they might have had to use one of those sharp knives on anyone in the opposite house.
"Okay, Kage bushin no jutsu!", Minato said and nine more clones appeared to join the first one to taunt the students with the happily ringing bells. "My clones will lead you into an area of the field after you pick your weapons and you'll begin when they say start okay? Begin!"
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Minato watched each of the teams try and take on his clones. Then he laughed for the hundredth time as he watched the Weasley kid use his last smoke bomb to try and confuse the clone so Harry could try and snatch the bells again. Well they were good at working together, but they entirely left out the other boy who was throwing spell after spell at 'him' when the other two failed. If only they planned it out a little bit...
Malfoy's team was a complete disaster he noticed with a wince. Looked like they kept trying to use Neville (He finally remembered his name) as bait while he pleaded with them to have mercy as he tried to run away. 'Poor kid', Minato thought. 'Well, at least this gives me a reason to shove some more "manners" onto that Malfoy brat' He thought smirking with sadistic glee. 'Oh no...' Minato thought with horror as he realized what he was thinking. 'I'm turning into Ibiki-kun'
Hermione's team was doing well. It seemed that the Parkinson girl was reluctant to work with them at first, but after some time the two other girls managed to beat some sense into her and they were getting pretty close to capturing the bells. Minato smiled as he saw the trap his clone had gotten himself into. 'Well, then looks like Hermione's team lived up to my expectations.'
The team with Malfoy's other goon and the two Gryffindors had been disqualified immediately as they had started to attack each other while disregarding the clone completely. 'At least they did it with wands and not the kunai' Minato thought as he glared at the pathetic excuse for a team that was tied up and sulking behind him.
The other teams weren't doing much better or much worse, but they were out of time by now anyway. Minato stood up and whistled sharply. His clones stopped what they were doing and saluted as they disappeared into a puff of smoke.
"All right everyone! Come back!" he shouted at his thoroughly exhausted students. "And quickly!"
As everyone filed into a straight line in front of him he assessed their wounds and decided that they were all still in relatively good condition.
"Did any of you even pause to think about what the purpose of this test was?", Minato said in a flat and reprimanding tone. Several of them winced knowing that they would probably be running laps for the rest of their lives.
"All of you are spoiled brats!" Minato continued. "Did you ever even wonder why I put you into teams?" Minato got a lot of blank stares and he glared at them.
"Teamwork!" He shouted at them and understanding was shocked into them as they looked at each other. "Except for Miss Granger's team, you all worked against each other when you could have been able to take the bells from me if you had worked together."
"How were we supposed to know!", Malfoy yelled angrily. "If you wanted us to work together how come there are only two bells?" Minato sighed.
"This test is designed to make you fight against each other. However, it's also set up so that some of you might set aside your personal interests and work with your team for the good of all", Minato informed them. They all looked guilty and even Malfoy stayed silent.
"Making a play as an individual is bad for the team and exposes your comrades to unnecessary danger. You might as well kill them yourselves. In the future you might also have to work with people you don't like whether in a combative situation or otherwise. Well, tough. Sometimes life happens, but instead you all decided to hold onto your petty grudges and notions of superiority over each other. All of you aren't better or worse as any other person in the world and it's about time you got over yourselves!" They all looked stunned Minato noted with satisfaction. 'Good, there's too much dissention between everyone here at this school. Maybe this will help a little.'
"Now then. Except for Hermione's team let's get started on those laps!"
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"So, little brother. How was your first day with that Namikaze guy?" said George as he put his arm around his brother. "Ron?", George said when he didn't answer.
Ron looked at him and simply whimpered. Fred sat down next to his twin and looked at the other's who looked just as comatose.
"And where are Seamus and Dean?"
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Tada! El chapter is done! I know I'm amazing right?
Anyways I hoped you liked it and just to let you Kakashi fans know, he'll probably show up in the chapter after the next one. So don't worry!
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