Chapter 7: Hogwarts at last!

Ginerva Molly Weasley was not a normal girl; she was a wizard, but that's not what's odd. Her real name was Kushina Uzamaki and she was a reincarnation, or so she assumed. The only one who knew of her predicament was her 'brother' Bill and herself. If anyone payed attention, they would notice that she was different from her family. While her whole family had freckles she did not, and where her family was usually clumsy she was more graceful and she was more mature than a ten year old had any right to be; she played the part of Ginny Weasley well, though.

Today was the day her 'brother' Ron was going to Hogwarts for his first year, and they were at the train station on Platform 9 ¾. She was watching as Ron talked to a couple of his childhood friends when she saw a head of blond hair she'd recognize anywhere. She slipped away from Molly Weasley and approached the head of blond hair; as she got closer; she saw another head of blond hair along with a head of white hair, a head of brown hair, and two black-haired people. She quickened her pace and approached the taller blond-haired one.

She found herself behind him and tapped on his shoulder; he turned quickly and almost fell over. As soon as he saw her, his eyes widened and he stumbled backwards in shock. Upon seeing his face, she tackled him in a hug which he quickly reacted to; he caught her and spun, "Kushina?!"

She gave a large smile, "Is that really you, Minato?"

Of course, who else has my handsome looks and roguish charm?"

She whapped him upside the head and looked at the others,, "Who are these people? I recognize Naruto and Kakashi, but not the other three."

Minato smiled and pointed at the black-haired ones, "Those are Itachi and Sasuke and the brown-haired one is Keito Takashi, a student of mine."

"A student? But you're only eleven right now"

Minato gave an understanding look, "You were reincarnated, weren't you? I wasn't; I just had my soul transferred to a new body, including all of my abilities before the Kyuubi incident"

She gave him a jealous look, but spoke, "Why are you here? And with your friends too?"

"I made a deal to take down Voldemort; as for the others, Naruto, Itachi, and Sasuke are all my sons. Kakashi is here to help with the Sharingan, and I forced Sirius to come because he's a veteran of Hogwarts."

She had a blank face, "Sons', what?"

Minato explained further, "The Uchiha clan was killed, except for them, so I adopted them."

Just then, the train whistle blew and Kushina let go of him, "You should go, but you better write to me Mr.!"

"Alright, good-bye my beloved," and she was gone. They climbed onto the train and found an empty compartment in the back, where they decided to park. As soon as they sat down, Naruto started plying him with questions, "Who was that?"

"That was the reincarnation of your mother, Kushina"

Naruto's eyes grew wide, "Wow! Really? She was pretty."

Minato chuckled, "That she is, I'm glad I found her"

They sat back and the train started to leave; Minato looked out the window and saw Kushina running alongside the train, waving. He waved back as she disappeared into the distance. The group sat and talked for about an hour before they were interrupted by a mousy-haired girl and a pudgy blondish kid. She came in and asked about a toad that was missing.

Sirius smiled and pulled out his wand, "Accio Trevor the Toad." A toad came zooming in and landed in his hand. He summoned a tiny chip and placed it on the toad before pointing his wand at Neville, "Trackerum Chipal." A light blue light shot out and hit Neville and Sirius gave a satisfied smile, "There, now you will always know where he is." Neville blinked and smiled, "Thank you, can we sit with you guys?"

Sirius looked over at Minato, who nodded; he turned back to Neville, "Yeah, sure, come on in."

The two came in and sat down, Neville next to Sirius and the mousy-haired girl next to Minato. "Hermione Granger, nice to meet you," the mousy-haired girl said. Minato smiled, "My name is Minato Namikaze; the other blond is my brother, Naruto Namikaze. The white-haired one's name is Kakashi Hatake, and the brown haired one is Keito Takashi, Kei for short. The one with the long black hair is my adopted brother Itachi Uchiha and the one next to him with the short black hair is his brother Sasuke Uchiha, also adopted. Nice to meet you."

Neville's face got screwed up as he tried to remember all the foreign names, while Hermione got an excited look at their obviously foreign names. She spoke, "Really, are you from Japan and are you excited to go to Hogwarts?"

Naruto spoke, "Yeah, we can't wait to learn magic, right Sasuke?!"

Sasuke looked away from the book he was reading, "Yeah, can't wait," he looked at Itachi, "What do you think, Nii-san?"

Itachi smiled, "Yeah, it seems interesting." Kakashi just shrugged and Sirius groaned softly.

Minato took the reins, "Yeah, we come from Japan, and as for magic; it seems interesting."

She smiled at him and asked, "So, what house do you want to get in? I think I'd try to get in Gryffindor, though Ravenclaw sounds good too."

"We don't know, guess we'll find out when we get to Hogwarts."

She nodded and pulled out a book to read. Neville was talking amicably with Kakashi and Naruto while Itachi and Sasuke read a book on defense together; Sirius was napping. Minato smiled and sat back for a nap.

He woke as the door slammed open to reveal Jack Potter and a redhead; the redhead was behind Jack as if he was a bodyguard…or glued on. Potter swaggered in and made to sit next to Minato, "We're going to sit here" he said pompously as he walked closer to Minato. Faster than he could blink, he felt cold steel on his neck and stopped, gulping. Minato glared at him and spoke, "We don't want you here; I told James you would end up like this, but he obviously didn't listen."

Jack gulped, "H…How do you know my father?"

Minato gave a dark smile, "I know he's an abusive, fat, unfaithful, arrogant prick; I also know that he got the shit beat out of him by a three-year-old; that's pretty embarrassing, don't you think?"

Jack's face grew angry and he made to grab his wand, but was stopped as the blade pressed deeper into his neck. "Run, little piggy, run" Minato said as he removed the kunai. Jack took the opportunity and ran as fast as his stubby legs could carry him, the redhead close behind.

He turned to see the whole compartment staring at him and sighed, "I had a bad run-in with the Potter family; I'll explain later." He stared at his teammates who each nodded in turn and went back to their previous activities. He sat back down and leaned against Kakashi for a nap.

Kakashi woke him a while later and told him it was time to get their robes on. Since the shinobi had all decided they weren't going to wear the uniforms underneath the robes, all they had to do was slip the robes over their clothes.

Kakashi, Minato, and Itachi all wore jounin vests and everyone had a leaf hitai-ate somewhere on their body. The hitai-ate were charmed so that if one person needed something they would all vibrate slightly and if you touched them, you would be connected via thoughts sent through the bands. Minato had also packed ANBU masks for all of them in case they needed to hide their identities for something; Itachi had a weasel, Naruto had a fox, Sasuke had a cat, Kakashi had a wolf, Sirius had a dog, and Minato had a tiger. He and Sarutobi had made a contact scroll that only Minato, Kakashi, and Itachi had access too unless an emergency.

They arrived at the school about five minutes later and hopped off. A loud voice yelled, "Firs' years over here, Firs' years," and so they went to it to see a giant off a man with a lantern. The first years gathered quickly and they climbed in four to a boat. Minato, Naruto, Sirius, and Neville in one; Kakashi, Itachi, Sasuke, and Hermione in the other and they set off across the lake. They got to the other side to see a stern looking woman waiting for them who gestured them inside. They stepped into the entry hall and she told them to wait and left. A few minutes later, a bunch of clear, floating people came through the walls talking about someone named Peeves getting a second chance but stopped upon seeing the students standing down below, "What are all of you doing here?"

Minato spoke up, "We're waiting for the woman that left us here to come back and get us sorted, Sir."

One of the female ghosts started giggling, "So polite, that he is; we might have a keeper here."

Minato blushed and rubbed the back of his head; and the ghost giggled again and flew off through the wall, the others following. The strict looking woman came in shortly after they had left and gave a speech about the houses being like families and told them to get ready. Once everyone had tidied up, she opened the door and led the way inside the great hall. There were gasps of amazement from many of the students at the floating candles and the night sky revealed above. The first years stood and waited while McGonagall got out a stool and a dirty looking hat and set them at the front. She started calling up names to be sorted.

Hermione Granger ended up in Ravenclaw.

Neville Longbottom ended up in Gryffindor.

Draco Malfoy ended up in Slytherin along with some goons called Crabbe and Goyle.

Jack Potter ended up in Gryffindor.

Ronald Weasley ended up in Gryffindor.

The headmaster waited until everyone but the Japanese were sorted and stood, "This year we welcome some foreign exchange students who have come all the way from Japan to go to our prodigious school; treat them with respect because what you do shines on all of us. Professor McGonagall, please start their sorting."

McGonagall cleared her throat and started on the sorting of the shinobi.

"Kakashi Hatake" Kakashi walked up and sat on the stool while McGonagall out the hat on his head. After a moment, the hat yelled "Gryffindor" and Kakashi got up and went over to the cheering table.

"Minato Namikaze" McGonagall called. Minato walked up and sat on the stool while the hat was placed on his head. All of a sudden there was a voice in his head, "Why, hello there; another shinobi I see. Where to put you though; the white haired one was hard to place but Gryffindor is where he went in the end. Let's see, hmm… you have the brains for a Ravenclaw, the loyalty for Hufflepuff even going so far as to give your life for your village. I see you have the bravery for Gryffindor; you must to be Hokage, huh? You could plot circles around everyone here and they would be none the wiser, even Dumbledore. I think it will be… "Slytherin" the hat yelled. The table in green started cheering and Minato headed their direction.

The next called up was "Naruto Namikaze". He sat on the stool and the hat was placed on his head. After a moment the hat called out "Gryffindor" and he got up and raced to sit next to Kakashi.

(A/N: Sirius will be called Kei or Keito for the rest of the story)

"Keito Takashi" was placed in Gryffindor as soon as the hat touched his head and went to sit next to Naruto and Kakashi.

"Itachi Uchiha" was called up and the hat sat on his head for a moment and called "Slytherin". Itachi came and sat next to Minato as "Sasuke Uchiha" was called up. The hat sat a moment and then called "Slytherin". Sasuke gave a small sigh of relief and came and sat next to his brother and father.

McGonagall rolled up the scroll and took the stool and hat away. Dumbledore stood and gave a few nonsense words and then food appeared on the table. Minato almost started laughing as he saw a few people watching Kakashi and trying to find out what was under his mask; they gave up after seeing that they weren't gonna find out. Naruto was shoving his face with food and so was Sirius. Itachi and Sasuke were eating nicely and Minato started to make himself a plate. Sadly, there was no Japanese food there but he n]made do with what they had. As soon as the main course was done dessert appeared and was wolfed down as well. As soon as everyone was done eating, the plates and food disappeared and Dumbledore stood to make a welcome speech; Minato rolled his eyes at the terrible and gruesome death warning, that was just asking students to go investigate it. Finally it was time for bed and the Slytherin prefects stood and led them out of the dining hall and through the castle. They finally stopped at a nondescript painting of a forest with falling leaves. The girl prefect turned to them and spoke, "There is a password to get in; be warned that it will change so keep an eye on the notice board in case the Professor decides to change it. Right now it is 'wolfsbane'" the portrait opened up and they followed the girl inside to see an emerald green and silver decorated common room awaiting them.

The prefects gestured to the seats around the room,, "Take a seat and the head of house will speak to you in a moment." Everyone found a seat and waited; after about five minutes a sallow looking man with greasy robes and black clothes came in and Minato profiled him, 'Potions master; the black clothes to hide stains, the sallow skin because of having to constantly tend potions he doesn't get too much time outside; the greasy hair because of the potion fumes.'

The man spoke, "Hello new students and welcome back old students and all that good crap. I am your head of house Professor Snape, the potions teacher. I am here to help my students therefore I will. I am warning you that most of the school is prejudiced against Slytherin because we are the house of snakes; they will try to hurt you mentally and physically. If you retaliate, don't get caught. I expect good grades for all Slytherins as well as not losing house points like crazy. If you ever need to talk to someone, my door is always open; have a good year at Hogwarts." He left and went into his office and the prefects too back over.

"Each room will hold three people at the max please find the three people that you would be okay with spending the next seven years with in the same room and find a room. I leave it to you." Minato, Itachi, and Sasuke immediately joined up and went to find a good room. They chose one halfway down the hall and went inside; as they entered the door changed so that their names were on the front in silver. Inside was a large room with three full size beds and a large desk in the corner; a bathroom led off the main room as well as a closet. The three looked at the raised beds and shuddered, so immediately Minato set to work clearing the room. He banished the beds and then summoned three futons with replicas of the bedspreads from home on them. Itachi and Sasuke were next to each other with Sasuke on the right against the empty wall to better protect him if anything were to happen and the two elder ninja had to step up. As soon as this was done, their bags from the train appeared at the end of their futons and they pulled out their bedclothes and got dressed in them. They each grabbed a kunai and fell asleep with their hands on them under their pillows.