A/N- Hey~!! Sorry I think it's been a while, right? So you remember, (if you read somewhere) that I'd been running from the plot bunnies? Yeah, well that didn't really turn out so well. I have a little yellow notebook and inside are 42 plots for new stories that I've written, so I might put poll in my profile, and just PM me which title you want to when. 13 of the 42 plots are oneshots and some of them are Kingdom Hearts...I think I've got a Smash Bros one and a one that somewhat references to the Avatar...so yeah...And if there's an easier way to make a poll, can someone please tell me?


Early morning and before anyone else, the four Shinobi were up. Of course they were used to waking up at insane times and not getting very much sleep and sleeping light as a feather. But they were still up early.

To pass the time, they talked and that was pretty much all they'd done up until now, it was about seven a.m. when everyone else had started to be moving up and about. The first person they saw in the common room was the boy Seamus Finnigan from yesterday who had been arguing with Harry. He still seemed pretty angry and said nothing to the four of them as he quickly left through the portrait hole.

"I don't see why he's still angry." Sakura shrugged. "So what if he doesn't agree with Harry." Naruko nodded in agreement.

"We do that back in the village too Sakura." said Sai, contradicting her. It was true. Especially for Naruto and Tsunade-sama. And Kakashi. And Yamato, Sasuke, Sakura, Jiraiya-sama, Shizune-san and everyone else. Sai smiled.

Sakura shrugged again, guessing Sai was right…in a way. They heard two sets of footsteps (1) coming down spiraling stairs.

Naruko waved at Fred and George, "Hi Fred, hi George!" she said happily. Out of everyone she'd met so far, she liked them the most. They were a couple of trouble makers like she was. "Whatcha up to?" she asked as she walked toward them.

"Hi Naruko," they both chorused. "We're putting up and advertisement." Fred started.

"For what?" Naruko asked curiously looking at the paper they'd posted up on the message board.

"Starting a little business and we need some volunteers." George said.

Naruko looked at the paper they had posted. "Gallons of galleons!" she'd read. "Pocket money failing to keep pace with your outgoings? Like to earn a little extra gold?" and then there was a decorative line, "Contact Fred and George Weasly, Gryffindor common room for simple, part-time, virtually painless jobs" Then she noticed there was small print at the bottom, she bent in to read it, "(We regret that all work is undertaken at applicant's own risk.)" Naruko giggled.

"Sounds good, huh?" Fred said grinning.

"We thought it would." George said, nodding.

"Well it sounds good. I would volunteer, but…" She looked over her shoulder at Sasuke who was watching her closely, "My friends would reject the idea." she said sheepishly. Sasuke could be so overprotective sometimes. It's not like the twins would kill her…that was unlikely.

Fred and George looked at each other then looked over at Sasuke, where Naruko was looking. Both of them grinned at each other. "Don't fret." George said, putting a hand on her shoulder.

"We like you too much to make you our guinea pig." Fred chuckled.

Naruko looked at both of them. "Guinea pig? You mean your experimenting on these guys?" They both nodded at her. She thought for a moment, then laughed, "That's really clever." she said. Both of them nodded again.

"Well, we'd love to stick around Naruko," Fred said, sighing.

"But we've a few other things to attend to." George finished.

"We'll see you around Naruko!" both of them chorused. They left the common room through the portrait hole.

Naruko was still laughing as she looked at the paper again. All these people were very funny, maybe this year would be better than she thought. But she knew now to watch out for those two, they were just about as devious as she was. Naruko stopped laughing. Maybe even more…nah! She laughed again.

Sasuke, Sai, and Sakura stared at Naruko strangely while she was enveloped in her own little world, laughing on and off, making different face expressions. Finally she'd stopped laughing and rejoined the group. She'd still thought it was funny.

Sakura looked at her blonde friend, smiling in a strange way, "Have fun over there Naruko?" she asked. She did act very strange, and saying that was bland. "What was so funny anyways?"

Naruko shook her head, rejecting Sakura's question. "Nothing." And she let out a little giggle. A moment after that, she started to think about Harry. How was he feeling? Probably still angry at that other boy for calling him a liar. Naruko knew she would be if someone called her a liar, it'd be all-out…freaking calling her a liar. She looked up to see her friends looking at her concerned and strangely, her face must have been twisting into anger. Whoops. "So, do you guys think Harry is still angry?"

"We wouldn't know, we haven't seen him yet." Sai remarked.

Naruko looked darkly at him, "That's not what I meant freak. I meant do you guys think he's angry?" she said again, still slightly looking darkly at Sai. He just smiled.

Sakura looked thoughtfully at the staircase, "Maybe…but since we don't really know him that well, he could be feeling anything right now." she replied shrugging.

"We're not going to look into it too much right now." Sasuke said. "Eventually he's going to have to come downstairs, it's the first day of classes. We'll see how he looks then." And he ended the tediousness. Naruko frowned at him, huffing inside her head. How come that teme always cut her off? It was annoying.

The four Shinobi heard more footsteps coming down, two on the boys side and one on the girls. Soon, Harry, Ron, and Hermione appeared. The four of them looked at Harry, and sure enough he still looked pretty angry. Or upset at the least. They joined each other.

Hermione looked at Harry, "What's wrong Harry?" she asked. Naruko looked at her strangely, she could've swore she was there last night. Then she glared at Sasuke for doing what he did, making Naruto's mind hazy. "You seem angry about something."

When Ron got the feeling that Harry wasn't going to answer, he did. "Seamus reckons that he's lying about You-Know-Who." he said frowning and briefly.

Hermione had been expecting some sort of angry reaction out of Harry from this. When he remained silent, she sighed. "I see, Lavender thinks so as well."

Sai and Sasuke looked at Sakura to see if what Hermione said was true. Sakura nodded her head. Naruko frowned again, she could've know too, if it wasn't for Sasuke. She glared at him which Sai caught and smiled at the thought and image that had passed through his head.

Their attention was caught again when Harry had said something very loud. Hermione caught sight of Naruko and her friends, ignoring what Harry had said, and waved at them. "Good morning." she greeted, smiling cheerfully. Ron and Harry soon walked up behind her, Harry having a slightly annoyed look on his face.

"Morning you guys." Naruko said just as cheerfully as Hermione did. Then she looked at Harry, "Harry, how are you doing?" she asked, being considerate.

Harry looked at her, now surprised, "I'm…fine I guess. Thanks for asking." Then he remembered the gratitude he'd had for her last night. "Thanks again, for yesterday, y'know?" he said. Hermione and Ron looked at each other and then looked at Harry. He'd just had a sudden mood swing.

Sai looked at Sasuke, Sasuke stared at Naruko, and Naruko smiled at Harry. "There's really no need to keep thanking me like this, but no problem." she explained, shrugging. Then she laughed again, they all looked at her strangely. Man, I am way to modest! she laughed then stopped abruptly as if she'd never started in the first place. Ron raised an eyebrow in curiosity and Sakura rolled her eyes. Strange child.

Then Harry turned to his friends, "Sorry for jumping down you throats, I'm just a little on edge." he frowned.

"That's quite all right." Hermione said, dignified. "Do you remember what Dumbledore had said at the end-of-year- feast last year?" she asked. But neither Ron or Harry did. They both stared at her blankly. Hermione sighed. "About You-Know-Who. You know, 'His gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust-'" she couldn't finish because Ron had cut her off.

"Really, how do you remember all this stuff and all?" he said. Naruko looked at him wearing a look of admiration on his face, nodding in agreement but not be admiring toward Hermione. Big whoop, remembering stuff. Sakura could do that in her sleep. But she liked Hermione anyways.

Hermione rolled her eyes, "Because I listen Ron," she said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"I listen too, but I can't tell you-" And Hermione cut him off.

"The point," she pressed on, "is that what's somewhat happening right now between Harry and everyone else is exactly what Dumbledore was saying. It's only been two months since he's been back and we're already fighting and arguing with each other. Also remember the Sorting Hat's song, that was the same point it was warning us on, standing together and being united-" And Ron cut her off, again.

Sai shook his head. No respect among peers he saw. He looked at Sasuke and they seemed to be thinking the same thing.

"Ok," Ron said, his voice thick with sarcasm. "Harry said it on the mark last night, fat chance if we hafta get matey with the Slytherins." At this, Naruko and Sakura looked at Sai who nodded telling them it was true. Both of the girls looked at each other, the same thought passing through their heads, there must be some very big rivalry between these two groups of students.

Sakura looked at the clock on the wall, "Hey, we should be getting down to the Great Hall." she suggested. The trio looked at the clock and nodded.

"You're right." Hermione agreed.

Naruko put on a big smile, "Yay, breakfast! I'm starving!" she said, laughing again.


All seven of them sat in the Great Hall enjoying their breakfast. Naruko had been slightly angry earlier because they hadn't had any ramen around. At all. Sakura tried her best to consol her little blonde friend, but it didn't work out too well. The only thing that had stopped Naruko from having what Sai liked to think as a "bitch-fit", was Sasuke, who decided it would be best to control the situation by scaring the living daylights out of her by using Mangekyo Sharingan. (2) After that, she barely complained.

Harry looked up at the staff table only to see Professor Grubbly-Plank chatting with the astronomy professor, Professor Sinistra. In his head, he saw that Hagrid was only conspicuous by his absence. Up above, the enchanted ceiling shadowed Harry's somewhat foul and down mood. It was gray and looking of rain soon. He rested his cheek on his fist, "Dumbledore didn't bother to mention how long Grubbly-Plank was going to be staying…" he said frowning and looking up at Ron and Hermione.

Hermione looked at her down friend thoughtfully, "Well maybe…he didn't want to draw attention to his absence…" she said, trying to cheer Harry up a little.

But Ron half laughed, "Draw attention? How could we not notice him not being here." he said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

Sakura decided to join. She had listened to enough of the trio's conversations about this man to know they were really close to him. But she didn't know how close the others were. "Well, think about it a little," They looked at her, "you three may notice that he's not here, but everyone else may not, that's why Dumbledore must've not said anything. Maybe he figured unnecessary questions would pop up that he didn't feel were needed to be answer." she explained. The trio looked at each other, thinking that over.

Then, Naruko was enlightened, "Oh!" They all looked at her as she popped the bottom of her fist into her palm, "Maybe he sent him on a secret mission for the…" she bent in to whisper, "Organization." And at that the remaining six stopped.

"Naruko…" Sakura started, he face having "Did she just say…something that made sense?" written all over it.

Sai pointed at her, smiling, "You just said something smart." And although Sasuke remained silent, he agreed. With each day passing, Naruko was getting smarter.

Naruko stopped, she stared blankly at Sai, trying to slowly process what he'd just said. You…just…said…something…smart. Smart. Smartsmartsmart… And Sakura sighed. "Sai…" she said, her face starting to go white with anger and annoyance, "I have a ninety-nine-point-ninety-nine of a mind to stand up and kick your ass!" Sai merely smiled.

Hermione gasped at the dirty mouth her blonde friend carried. Ron's face went white with surprise, and Harry blinked a few times. They watched as she stood up from the bench, people started to stare, Sakura saw as she looked around. "Naruko, sit down!" she whispered urgently.

Naruko continued to glare at Sai with a killing intent, she pointed at him, "No!" she said, her face turning red with embarrassment, "Believe it or not, I'm actually very smart. But all of you only have the attention span of…of…" Her body relaxed itself as she tried to think of something with a short attention span. They watched as she sat down with a thoughtful expression on her face.

Sai smiled with another little trick up his sleeve, "The attention span of a Naruto?" he said.

Naruko stood up again, "Yes! The attention span of a Naru-" she stopped. "Hey, wait a minute!"

Hermione leaned over to whisper to Sakura, "I'm sorry, but is she always like this?" she said just a tad worried, "That could be very bad for her health."

Sakura sighed as Naruko started yelling at Sai in Japanese, "Believe it or not…she is always like this. But it was worse back in our village, believe me…" She then glared at Sasuke to do something about it. He sighed in reply and nodded.

Naruko was still yelling her head off when Sasuke wrapped his arm around her waist and forced her to sit down, hurting her butt in the process, "Oi, oi!" she said, glaring at Sasuke, "What the hell was that for?" she asked, still pretty pissed at Sai for being a smartass.

Sakura glared at Naruko, "Hey, what did we freakin' tell you about attracting attention to ourselves here?" she said. "Did you not see that you were going to cause a scene?" At this, Naruko stopped and looked around to see quite a few people staring at her. "You need to stay better in control of your temper around these people, you could hurt someone. And Sai," she said, glaring over at him as well, "Quit egging her on!"

Sai smiled at her, very much amused indeed. He saluted her, "Yes mother-dearest." (3)

Although Sasuke did agree with Sakura on everything she had said, he didn't like the way she had gone about settling them down even if it did work. She could be so controlling sometimes…and if it got out of hand anytime this year, then he would have to take care of it. He looked at Harry and he was eyeing Naruko suspiciously. That was a bad sign. He leaned in to whisper in Naruko's ear, "Sakura's right, you really need to behave yourself. Or…do I need to punish you?" he asked.

Naruko looked at him, knowing what he meant when he said "punish" She nodded, "Fine. But if we're outside the next time, Sai, it's your ass." she said.

Sai continued to smile, "Agreed."

Everyone's attention was torn away from each other as they had heard a whoosh. They all looked up and saw countless owls flying about, landing in different places and dropping things for people to catch.

Harry saw that Hedwig hadn't appeared and it wasn't a surprised, because the only person he corresponded with was Sirius and he doubted that he'd had anything to report that happened recently. However Harry did see that Hermione retrieved a copy of the Daily Prophet from an owl that soon flew off. He looked irritated at her, "What are you still getting that for?" he said, disgustedly looking at the paper.

She unfolded the newspaper and began to read, "I believe it's best to know what the enemy are saying." she replied darkly. She went quiet and wouldn't talk for a while.

Harry looked at Naruko who was unfolding a letter. He watched as her eyes slightly widened. "You guys…" Sakura, Sasuke, and Sai moved closer to her as they looked at the letter. When they finished it, Harry saw them all frown at each other as if something bad happened…weren't they members of the Order or something? And If it was from Sirius, then why didn't he send him one as well? He had just as much right to know as they did.

"But Sasuke, you guys…" Harry listened in closely, "You know I can't keep my mouth shut. Tsunade baa-chan will just have to deal with the consequences." she frowned.

Sakura shook her head quickly, "Naruko, quit being a baby, listen to what Hokage-sama says. You know if you don't you'll get in bigger trouble when we go home."

Harry looked away for a moment, Hokage…sama? What's that supposed to mean? he thought. He looked closely at the letter as he Sasuke take it from Naruko. It was written in Japanese… maybe that meant it wasn't from Sirius after all.

Sasuke took the letter from Naruko, reading over it again…

Sasuke, Sakura, Sai, Naruto.

I hope the mission is off to a good start. I thought over what you said about the Umbridge woman, I couldn't think of how she would derail the mission with her spying and actions, so just incase, I consulted Shikamaru and a few others. He said that as long as the woman didn't see you do anything out of the ordinary, it shouldn't bother the mission.

Naruto is a big factor in the group's being able to keep its secret. Sasuke, make sure you keep him in check. You know how he likes to defy people. His acting out will only attract attention to yourselves.

I've heard the Slytherin house is somehow tied to this Voldemort character. Sai, I'm going to need you to use your Ninpou: Choujuu Giga technique to see if you can gather anything.

Also, one last, very dire, important note. We've gotten wind that Orochimaru might become involved in this somehow. Watch your backs and be careful. We'll be sure to keep you posted.

Good luck,

Tsunade.

P.S. Fifth year is O.W.L. year, It's unfortunate you have to take these, but make sure you all do your best to see that Naruto passes. You know he isn't very good with tests…

Sasuke looked at Naruko who was still arguing with Sakura about defying and all that. Then he looked over at Sai who was looking seriously back at him. And what were O.W.L.s anyway?


For our four Shinobi, the morning passed quickly and all of it was rather boring. Naruko had already fallen asleep in a class that had a ghost for a teacher. Binns, was it? Then they saw that man they'd met at the first Order meeting they went to, Severus Snape. In a class called Divination that was in a very high tower, Naruko had almost fell asleep again if it hadn't been for Sasuke, constantly pinching her under the Table.

She'd broke some tea cups…

Now it was time for Defense Against the Dark Arts class. The one Harry wasn't looking forward to today, even after potions. Naruko wasn't too keen on going there either. She knew she was going to get in trouble. She didn't know how, but she knew she was going to. If that pink crack-pot old lady had it her way, Naruko would most likely end up in a superior's office every day.

Naruko had been separate from the rest of her friends and was running swiftly through all the corridors, looking for the classroom. She knew where it was, she just didn't know where she was. Then the bell rang. "Shit!" she exclaimed as she picked up the pace. She felt like she was freaking flying she was moving so fast.

It came into her view. "Yes!" she chanted, quickly moving closer and closer to it. She grabbed the handle and, "Safe!" she yelled extremely loud. The room was completely silent and everyone was staring at Naruko who was only slightly panting after that sprint. Naruko could care less if everyone was staring at her, as long as she was in the class. "Sorry sensei!" she said, smiling sheepishly. "I-um…got lost."

Umbridge just looked at her, not knowing what to make of the girl at first. She smiled a sweet smile. Naruko saw behind that sweet little old womanly smile was a sort of poison. Honey-poison to be correct. She motioned for Naruko to come forward. "That's quite all right dear, just please make sure to be on time from now on." she said. Naruko bowed in reply and looked over her shoulder to see Harry grinning, Sai smiling, Sakura shaking her head, and few others' odd reactions. "Please go put yourself next to Mr. Uchiha." Naruko bowed again, smiling as she went to sit next to her boyfriend.

"Mr. Uchiha," Umbridge said, "Please explain to Ms. Uzumaki what we are doing." Sasuke didn't look up at her but slightly nodded. When Sasuke was almost done, they looked up to see Hermione's hand held up in the air. Half the class was just staring at her, no longer reading, wondering if Umbridge was ever going to notice her.

Finally Professor Umbridge felt she could no longer ignore the situation at hand. To many students were distracted from their work. "Yes dear? Is there something you would like to ask about the chapter."

Hermione looked at her rather solemnly, "No, not about the chapter." she said shortly, trying to be polite.

"Well, we are just all reading for now." Umbridge said, showing her pointed teeth. At the sight, Naruko frowned, this woman could be a demon from hell. Just add some horns and… "If you have any questions, I ask that you please retain them until the end of class."

Hermione frowned, "Actually it's about you course aims." she said directly.

Professor Umbridge stopped and raised her eyebrows, "And your name is-?" she said.

"Hermione Granger." she replied, standing.

"I believe the course aims are perfectly clear on the board Miss Granger. Yes, perfectly clear if you allow yourself to read through them clearly." In her voice, Sai heard that she was very determined to keep the sweetness up. A little more provoking and…

Sakura scoffed at Umbridge under her breath.

"Sorry, I'm afraid I don't." Hermione said bluntly.

"I must agree. There's nothing up there about using defensive spells." Sakura said, standing as well and backing up Hermione who looked back at her and smiled slightly.

There was a silence. Many students turned to look back up at the course aims. As they read through them a few times, they started frowning.

Umbridge gave a little laugh. She became slightly skeptic, "Using defensive spells?" she said giving another little laugh, "I don't see why any situation in my class would call for the use of a defensive spell. Surely Miss Granger, you don't expect to be attacked in class, do you?"

Enter Ron, standing. "We aren't going to be using magic?" he interrupted loudly.

Cut in, Umbridge, "Students will raise their hands when they wish to speak in my class." she said swiftly. "Mr.-"

"Weasly," Ron thrust his hand in the air, more annoyed than anything else.

Sai stared at the back of Hermione's head, she was about to ask something else. He did it for her. He put his hand in the air, resulting in everyone looking at him. He smiled.

"Yes Mr.-"

"Sai Akira." he said. He stood and didn't bother waiting for a reply from her, she was annoying anyways. "I believe this is called Defense Against the Dark Arts, right?" Again he waited for no reply, "I'm fairly sure the whole point of this class is to have spells that defend against the Dark Arts demonstrated for the students to learn them adequately, correct?" he said, still smiling.

Umbridge ignored the fact that the last part was a question and tuned around into a statement. "Well Mr. Akira, I believe, you aren't a Ministry-trained education expert. I'm afraid you aren't the one who decides the 'whole point' of any class. Wizards and witches older and more cleverer than you have decided the teaching layout of this year's criteria. All of you will be learning defensive spells in a controlled environment, in a secure, risk-free way and-"

Enter Harry. Standing. And very loudly too. Naruko smiled, this was getting good. "And what use is that?" he said, "If we ever are attacked in won't be in a 'secure risk-free' way and-"

"Mr. Potter, your hand!" sang Professor Umbridge.

Annoyed as well, Harry thrust a tight fist in the air. In reply, Umbridge turned away from him. Now, several other people had their hands up as well, many questions buzzing around in their heads.

Naruko looked at Sasuke frowning still, "Watashi wa kore ga suki de wa ari masen…(I don't like this…)" she said.

Sasuke nodded, "Boku wa dochira ka, kono josei wa kaigi teki. (I don't either, this woman is suspicious…)" he said, looking at the pink teacher.

Umbridge looked at the two. "Yes? Is there something you wish to express toward me?" she said.

They both looked at each other. Then they grinned and stood up simultaneously. "Who us?" the said in perfect unison. That caught everyone's attention. "No, of course not sensei. We were just discussing the book." Perfect unison with just a hint of smart-assness. They were just like twins to everyone else. Sakura glared at the both of them and Sai felt like he wanted to laugh, but he just smiled like usual.

Umbridge turned away from the pair of them as well. "And your name is?" she said spotting Dean Thomas.

He put down his hand and stood to speak, "Dean Thomas."

"Yes, Mr. Thomas?"

"It's like Harry said, isn't it?" he said, "If we are going to be attacked, I don't think it will be in a risk-free-" He couldn't finish for Umbridge cut him off.

"As I said," she repeated, smiling a very irritated smile at Dean, "Do you really expect to be attacked in my class?"

Naruko shot out of her seat. "Maybe not in your class, but what happens after we leave school? Out into the real world? Shouldn't we have these skills for then?" she said, starting to get slightly angry. Not that this applied to her, but still, for all these other kids who weren't Shinobi, it would be harder for them to defend themselves.

"You're hand is not up Ms. Uzumaki! Please seat yourself again." But she did not. She remained standing, now glaring at Umbridge. "And what do you suppose that is out there, waiting to attack children like yourselves?"

Enter Harry. "Huh, let me think…" he said in a mock thoughtful voice. He could feel his temper bubbling just beneath the surface of bursting. It always seemed like that these days. "Maybe…Lord Voldemort?" he said, glaring at Umbridge.

Naruko smacked her forehead, Ron gasped, Lavender Brown let out a little scream, Neville slipped out of his stool sideways. Everyone had some sort of reaction from the name Voldemort. An idea entered Naruko's head to ease the tension of the class she now felt. She stood; everyone looked at her. "Here's an idea, instead of everyone acting like a brat when they hear that man's name, why don't we just call him Lord Moldybutt?" Whatever she had been aiming for, it worked. Some of the class started to laugh. Umbridge however did not.

"Silence, Ms Uzumaki! Sit!" However she did not sit, just as last time. "Ten point from Gryffindor, Mr. Potter and Ms. Uzumaki." At that, the class went still and silent. "Now, let me make a few things quite clear…" Umbridge started again. "You have been told that a certain Dark wizard had returned." She then put a smile into a thin line, "This-is-a…lie."

Explode. "It is NOT A LIE!" Harry shouted angrily, "I saw him, I fought him!"

That was the last straw from Umbridge, "DETENTION, Mr. Potter!" she said triumphantly. "Detention, after class. Now, everyone kindly continue to read your textbooks." And then she sat down behind her desk again. Harry then stood up. Everyone stared at him.

"Harry, no!" Hermione tugged at his sleeve to make him sit once again, but he jerked it out of her reach.

Here it comes. Sai thought, closing his book. Sakura sighed, Naruko grabbed Sasuke's laying hand on top of their shared desk. They thought the same thing that Sai had.

"So according to you, Cedric Diggory dropped dead of his own accord?" Harry asked, his voice shaking.

A collective intake of breath, then dead silence. No one had every head Harry talk of Cedric or what had happened the night he died. Views were switching from Harry and Umbridge. She looked at him without even a trace of a fake smile lingering on her face.

"Cedric Diggory's death was a tragic accident." she said coldly.

"Oh, is that what they're saying these days? That it was an accident?" he said. Harry could feel himself starting to shake. He hadn't talked to anyone about this, and he didn't want to…not to thirty eagerly listening students. "Voldemort killed him, and you know it."

Naruko rolled her eyes, she guessed her idea of "Moldybutt" wasn't carrying on too well.

Professor Umbridge's face was quite blank. For a moment, Naruko thought that she was going to scream at poor Harry who already had enough trouble as it was. Then, in her softest, sweetest, most girlish voice, "Come here Mr. Potter dear." Naruko had had enough of that.

"No Harry, stay where you are." she said, glaring at Umbridge. Everyone looked at her then Umbridge who was looking slightly taken aback.

"Naruko, what do you think you're doing?" Sakura asked.

Naruko didn't look at Sakura, "Listen sensei, let Harry believe what he wants to believe. I'm not saying you're lying Harry, I believe you about Voldemort. Cedric's death was not an accident. Voldemort killed him." she said boldly. "And if you don't believe that, then that's your problem."

"Silence Ms. Uzumaki!" Umbridge said.

"No, you shut-up! I'm sick of you telling me that. Hell, you look like the Barbie threw up Pepto-Bismol on you! I will not listen you, so go ahead, punish me too!"

The class was aghast. Umbridge was caught off guard by what Naruko said. "I don't care if you hate me! I don't care if you make the rest of the year miserable for me! I don't! BUT no one calls my friends LIARS!" she said, losing her temper, "Why, I have half a mind to go up there and punch your face in!"

"DETENTION MS. UZUMAKI! You do NOT threaten a teacher! You will see me after class as well!"

Naruko started to walk toward the front of the class, forgetting the thirty something pairs of eyes staring at her, and tossing over her chair, "Chiisai gaki de aru no o yame! Anata wa toraburu wo naka ni ireru tokoro desu! (Quit being a brat! You're going to get in trouble!)" Sakura shouted.

Naruko glared back at her, "Watashi ga ki ni suru you ni omowa re masu ka? Watashi wa kono josei ga suki de ha naku te, kanojo ha abazure desu! Sono ue, kanojo wa watashi no shinkei ni sawari masu! (Does it look like I care? I don't like this woman, she's a bitch! Plus she get's on my nerves!)" she said, flashing her eyes threateningly at Sakura.

"Boku wa Sakura ni doui shi te, Naruko, anata ga ochitsuku hitsuyou ga ari masu. Anata wa watashi tachi no shoutai wo akasu tokoro desu. (I agree with Sakura, Naruko, you need to calm down. You're going to blow our cover.)" Sai said direly.

"Ms. Uzumaki, quit conversing with you friends in Japanese that I cannot understand. I can get you in trouble for that." Umbridge said, looking coldly at Naruko.

"Unfortunately, Naruko, she's right." Naruko looked at Sasuke. He was slightly glaring at her, "Anata wa Tsunade ga tegami de itta mono wo kika nai de, kon kekka wo shiharawa nakere ba nari masen. (You didn't listen to what Tsunade said in the letter, now you must pay the consequences." he said.

Everyone watched as Naruko froze after Sasuke finished speaking. She hung her head in anger and slight sadness. She sighed then looked up with a bright smile on her face. "Very well Sasuke. Professor Umbridge, I'm terribly sorry I exploded like that. I accept your detention and apologize for every foul word I said." Even thought she meant nothing of what she said, Sasuke and Sai were right. She had to stop losing her temper.

Harry seemed calmed down after what Naruko did, and once again he felt gratitude toward her.

"If you please," Naruko said, sitting back down next to Sasuke, "Don't send Harry out." she said.

The students looked at Umbridge, waiting for her reply. She saw they were all waiting, then she nodded, she saw that she once again had control over the students. She smiled sweetly, "Very well, Ms. Uzumaki. Mr. Potter, please return to your seat."

And the rest of class seemed pretty boring compared to the earlier events. Everyone finished the first two chapters before the bell rang. When it did, Umbridge dismissed class and called Naruko and Harry to her office, telling them to gather their stuff and that she'd be waiting.

"Naruko, a word of advice," Sai started, "tread carefully around Umbridge, you don't know what kind of influence she has on the superiors of this school." he said.

Hermione nodded, "I agree with Sai. She has the Ministry behind her."

Naruko sighed and nodded, "Yes, from now on we'll try to be careful. Right Harry?" But she didn't wait for him to answer. "We'll see you back in the common room!" she said, smiling. She grasped Harry's wrist and dragged him up to Umbridge's office.

Sasuke watched the both of them going. He then sighed, slug his bag over his shoulder and left the class without a word. The rest followed in his suit.


There was a knock on the door. "Enter." said Umbridge sweetly. She watched as Naruko and Harry entered.

"We're here sensei." Naruko said politely. She didn't want to be rude and she had to keep her composure. "What's our punishment?" She ignored her surroundings. It looked like Barbie had gotten to this poor room too.

Harry hadn't recognized the room they entered at first. The previous three years he had come into this office it had been decorated more darkly, with different things from its owner. But this, this was insanely pink.

"Good evening, Ms. Uzumaki and Mr. Potter. Sit down please." she said pointing them to the two desks in front of her pink one, "For your punishment this evening, you two will be writing some lines for me." she said as they said down. She stood and handed both of them long, thin black quills with an unusually sharp point. "Instead of your own quills, you both will be using two special ones of my own."

She looked at Harry, "Mr. Potter, I would like you two write 'I must not tell lies' ." This slightly struck a nerve with him. "Ms. Uzumaki, I would like you to write 'I must control my temper'." she said. Naruko, unlike Harry, nodded and began to write.

"Sensei," Naruko said stopping, "I can't write in English script." she frowned.

"Well, I suggest you write in whatever language script you can." Umbridge replied. Naruko shrugged and started again.

"How many times?" Harry asked. Naruko stopped again and looked at Umbridge as well.

"Oh, I would say as long as it takes for the message to, sink in." she replied. She then faced the window and began to hum to herself. She stopped when Harry wasn't writing, "Yes, dear?"

"You haven't given me any ink."

"Oh, you won't need any." And she continued to hum.

Harry began to write: I must not tell lies. Naruko did the same with hers in Japanese Kanji and Hiragana, I must control my temper. After the both of them wrote a few lines, Harry started to feel a sort of itching pain on the back of his writing hand. At first, he ignored it, but the pain became more severe as he continued line after line. He silently wondered to himself if Naruko was feeling the same. After another line, the pain started becoming unbearable.

Harry let out a short gasp of pain. As he continued to write, he watched the back of his right hand, words started to carve into it. The red ink, he realized, was not ink, but his own blood. He looked at Naruko's hand as well, and the same was happening, but she didn't look like she'd noticed it. And it was going up her arm as well. He sat and watched as blood poured from the kanji carved cuts even though it was supposed to be used as the ink.

The blood started over flowing over the desk and began to drip on the wooden floor. When Umbridge began to hear the blood dripping, she stopped humming and turned around to see Harry no longer writing (he only had a third of the page filled) and Naruko finishing the first two thirds of the back page and the blood that was covering the desk.

At the sight of the Naruko's blood, Umbridge felt slightly faint and Harry was surprised that Naruko was acting so nonchalant about it, as if it wasn't even happening. She finished. "Sensei!" she said, smiling, turning her mouth into an O. "I'm dooooone!" she said standing up. She handed the bloodstained paper to Umbridge. Her left hand was dripping blood still onto the floor. She tuned to Harry, "Are you done too Harry?" she said.

Harry nodded, shaking slightly, "Yes I'm done." He stood and handed his paper, which was much cleaner than Naruko's, to Umbridge as well.

"Uh, yes. Very well. You…you are both dismissed." she said faintly.

"Right, come on Harry!" she said as she grabbed both of their bags and quickly dragged Harry out of the room.

When they were out of hearing range of Umbridge, Naruko let go of Harry. She began to gently lick her hand and the rest of her lower arm, not because it hurt, but because she didn't want to leave a trail of blood for the other teachers to fallow.

"Umm, Naruko…how did you do that?" Harry said, looking at her strangely.

She didn't look at him, "Do what?" she said as if she didn't know.

"Your hand…how did you-" she cut him off.

"I have a very high tolerance for pain. Sasuke always says, 'Moshi kutsuu ni taeru koto ga deki nakere ba, anata wa saru deshou.'" she said, smiling. Harry looked at her confused. She laughed, "It means, 'If you can't stand the pain, then you should leave." Harry wondered when that applied to anything in school, if those four were even students to begin with.

"I see…"


Naruko sat on the couch reading a book. Harry sat in a love seat next to her, watching her. Sakura sat down next to Naruko.

"So, how was detention?" she asked, grinning.

Naruko shrugged, "Boring, all we did was write lines." Harry frowned at her, why did she lie. He would have too, but…

"Hey, Harry…" Hermione started, appearing next to him. "What…happened to your right hand?" she said seriously. Naruko clenched her left fist. Harry hid his hand.

"What are you talking about?" he asked.

Hermione pulled his right hand and looked at it. "What did that woman do to you?"

Sasuke was next to Naruko in a second, looking at Harry as well.

"It's nothing." he said. He was going to have to lie, "It's just a cut." Then he looked at Naruko, pulling out an idea to get the attention off of himself. Sorry Naruko. "Mines not as bad as hers." he said, nodding at her. She glared at him knowing that's what he had intended to do. He was devious in his own way...

"Naruko." Sasuke said seriously. He grabbed her hand, and looked at it fallowing it up until it conjoined with her upper arm. "What did she do to you?" he said, forgetting the same happened to Harry.

"Nothing," Naruko replied sternly, looking away from the rest of them, "All she made us do was write lines in our own blood." She then glared at Harry for putting the attention on her. She knew Sasuke was going to try to do something. He was so damn overprotective...

"That witch!" Ron exclaimed, disgusted with the pink teacher, "That lady's sick and twisted!" he said. Hermione, Sai, and Sakura nodded in agreement. "Harry, the both of you should go tell Dumbledore."

"No." Harry said automatically. "It'll just give her satisfaction that she's gotten to us." he said seriously. "Plus Dumbledore's got enough on his mind." Even though Harry knew he did, it was somehow a lie. And it was not since June at his hearing at the Ministry that Dumbledore had said anything to him, let alone look at him. He continuously wondered why that was... Harry knew he hadn't done anything to deserve it.

"Bloody hell Harry, the woman's torturing you." Ron frowned at his friend in the chair..

"Stop. It's over now. We aren't doing it again any time soon, so quit treating us like babies." Naruko said with a huge amount of authority that none of the Shinobi had ever heard before. She shut her book, pulled her hand away from Sasuke, stood and walked away.

The rest of the six watched as she disappeared up the stairs to the girl's dorms.


(1): I think this is the right way to express it...
(2): No he did not hurt her with it...he's not an abuser in this story...he's a pervert~!!
(3): Sorry if you don't get the reference...I do this with my mom all the time

Well, I hoped you liked it, I don't know if it was long or not, but it was like 12 pages in word...