Two very opposite personalities walked side by side down a dark, dank, and in Ino's mind thoroughly discussing hallway in the dungeons of Hogwarts.
"Hmm, dungeons... how quaint, don't you think Sasuke?" He "hn"ed before they reached a group of children standing outside of a painting. None of the first years seemed to have remembered the password. Sasuke pushed through the small group before saying in his usual monotone voice
"Anguisvenenum." The portrait swung open as he and Ino stepped inside while the children who walked by said 'thank you' to him; the girls slightly more than needed.
"That was nice of you." Ino said, teasing her companion.
"hn, they were only in the way"
"Yeah, but you could have locked them out again after we got in, but you didn't. You EVEN made sure they were all in before you let the door close. Oh dear Sasuke, I think Naruto might be rubbing off on you!" Ino said, grinning and taking a seat in on one of the plush sofas by the fireplace. "hn" was all she got as a reply before she grinned and they both sat relaxing.
"Man of few words, isn't he?" A voice said. A voice both of them recognized and nether of them liked.
"What do you want Malfoy?" Ino asked stressing every syllable in obvious annoyance.
"Ino, calm down. We are supposed to be making friends to get information on this dark lord guy, now how are we supposed to do that if you yell at everyone?" Sasuke hissed to her under his breath in rapid Japanese
"You will have to forgive her, she is just a little on edge from the sudden scenery change and the long train ride here." He said giving him a slight bow with his head as an apology.
He would have even thrown in a please or a sorry, had it not been for the simple fact that a proud Uchiha never begged anything least of all someone's forgiveness.
When he returned to the village he asked for their forgiveness which some gave willingly, while others it took far longer to forgive him. Like Ino for example went out of her way to publicly yell at the raven haired boy every chance she got. Her mission was to break him down long enough for him to feel even a hint of regret for what he had done. He finally ended up telling her Naruto and Sakura what he had found out about his brother after he had killed him. That the Uchiha massacre, his hatred for his brother and his brother's death all stemmed back to one man… Danzo. With his order Itachi had killed everyone, but on his own will he spared Sasuke. The three other ninja quickly went to report this to Tsunade the moment they found out. Then about two months later with some heavy investigating and detective work on Tsunade's part they had found a break through. In the farthest back part of the hall of records was a scroll, which oddly enough had the thirds hokages name on it but was never opened.
After reading through it a few hundred times Tsunade was sure it was from Itachi to the third explaining what Donzo's plan was and a note to Sasuke about how sorry he truly was. She allowed Sasuke to read it himself with the rest of team seven present. One of the few things that gave Tsunade hope for them was the tears that fell from the normally cold hearted brunette's eyes. The next day Tsunade brought Donzo to trial on high treason for ordering the mass killing and for not giving all information to the Hokage in power. After admitting to the whole fiasco Danzo was stripped of his title and power although Tsunade would have gladly seen him die the other elders faught to keep him alive so he was to be watched at all times, also Anko was quickly put in charge of the ANBU Root. While most of older advisors did not like the idea of letting go of Donzo for someone like Anko there was nothing they could do as their hands were tied seeing as how Danzo admitted to it all. Not long after that a gravestone was added to the rest of Sasuke's family in honor of his older brother.
Right now though, these lurking thoughts could not be his priority, getting close to this Malfoy boy however was.
"You said your father had great power before right? What kind of power?" Sasuke asked, grinning at the blonde boy. Ino looked at Sasuke with a confused and slightly worried look on her face. Malfoy smirked back at Sasuke before speaking.
"My father possesses the power to help us rid this retched place of all who have dirty blood. But may I suggest joining us before the true war breaks out?" Malfoy stood up and started walking the stairs when Sasuke stopped him with a question.
"Us? Who exactly are us?" He asked turning his head slightly to look at the boy, standing at the bottom step.
"Heh, 'us' would be his followers, Death eaters." Malfoy stated casually before walking upstairs to bed.
"So, was he telling the truth Blondie?" Sasuke asked the girl sitting next to him.
"First off, stop calling me that! And from what I saw in his memories he wasn't lying he, is definitely part of this death eater group. Whatever the hell it is."
"Alright we will spread out the word tomorrow, but for tonight good night Blondie." Sasuke said walking over to the steps Malfoy just walked up.
"What did I JUST get through telling you!" Ino said jumping up from the sofa stomping her foot. "Hai, Hai" and a wave of a hand as a form of dismissal was all she got as a reply before he vanished from her sight. 'Why that arrogant, self-centered, egocentric son of a bitch! Some one please tell me WHY he has so many fan girls!' A clearly ticked off Ino yelled in her head, while stomping up to the girls rooms for bed herself.
In another part of the castle a group of griffindors were walking into their dorm like room. "Well it's about time you got here!" Ron said from his spot on the floor, Harry was sitting across from him with Ginny leaning over them from the sofa.
"Sorry about that, we got a little distracted." Hermione said, joining Ginny on the sofa on her left side closer to Ron. "Well were off to bed have fun"
"With you girlfriend, Ronikins!" Fred and Gorge teased there brother before running up the stairs as a few chess pieces flew past their heads. "Bloody Jerks" Ron said packing up the rest of the game set. "So Ronikins, who is your girlfriend?" Naruto said in a slightly mocking voice sitting on Ginnys right grinning at the red head.
"That would be Hermione." Harry said, and grinned helping Ron pack away the game. "HHAAAARRRRYYYY!" Ron groaned, turning red Naruto lightly poking Hermione behind Ginny's back smiling wider as she blushed lightly hiding her face somewhat. After some light conversation and some jokes Ginny stood up before saying
"Well I think I'm going to head to bed now too." She said stretching before walking up the steps. "Good night everyone. Good night Naruto." Naruto blushed saying good night to the girl.
About an hour later Ron and Hermione had gone to bed. Sakura and Harry were sitting on the sofa while Naruto was snoring softly in a chair besides them asleep.
"How can he sleep like that?" Harry asked, glancing at Naruto who was only slightly slouched on the chair sleeping. "Years of practice." She said smiling back.
"Hey Sakura…" "
Hmm?"
"I'm sorry about what happened back at Sirius's house." Harry added rubbing his cheek.
"Heh, forget about it. Naruto over reacted just as much as you did. He just doesn't like people who walk around like they are better than anyone else."
"Well I don't think I'm better than anyone else, at least that what you start to think when you live alone with people who hate you for eleven years." Harry said looking at the fireplace the statement, catching Sakura's interest.
"What did you mean by that? I mean you don't have to tell me if you don't want to, but I would like to know." Harry sighed deeply watching the flames of the fire place flicker.
"My Parents were killed when I was one and so I lived with my Aunt, Uncle and my Cousin. They hated me mostly for being born into a family who knew Magic; they hate anything out of the ordinary. I dealt with their hate for eleven years before I came to Hogwarts."
"Hahahaha!" Harry's head snapped to look at her looking confused.
"I'm sorry for laughing I just find it funny how much you and Naruto are alike, and how annoyed he was by you." She said relaxing into the sofa. "How much we're alike?" Harry gave her a questioning look while she looked into the fire.
"Naruto never knew his parents; both of them died the day he was born. I don't know the extent of what happened to him until we went to school… But from what he did tell me and from what I know personally, he was hated by almost our whole home. I won't go into detail; that's for him to tell you, but I will tell you I am surprised that he doesn't hate all of us for how he was treated all those years." When Sakura finished; Harry mouth was hanging open slightly before she stood up.
"Well we have a lot to do tomorrow, so I think it's time for us to go to bed." She walked over to Naruto shaking him awake before he stumbled over to the stairs going to bed.
"Good night Harry." Sakura said smiling
"Night Sakura" Harry said finally going to bed himself.
Meanwhile outside of the castle four shadowy figures stood at the edge of thes forest looking at the school through the trees.