Ello ppls, im really sorry for the late update, but well alot of crap been going on recently, first off my mom died the day after i posted my last update, and even though i didnt see her much because she lived and worked in another island, she was still my bestfriend... then when i came back from Grenada from the funeral my dad didnt pay the internet bill again so that was down, then when i paid it, they had upgraded the network so i had to go really far to get my box replaced...

so lemme stop boring u with my unimportant life.. i honestly wasnt getting my ideas on paper well for this chapter, so it is seriously the worst yet, i may edit it later.. excuse grammer errors dont feel like reading this over now.

Discliamer: i own nothing.. seriously

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…..smiling that oh so familiar Sakura smile, but then her eyes hardened as she turned back towards the stranger in Narutos grasp that Harry only just noticed.

"Besides, we have business to attend to"

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He could see the spark in her eyes when she turned and walked towards their captive. A spark that would, on normal occasions, amuse him, but unfortunately for them all, now was not the time for a slow painful torture session. They couldn't afford to traumatize their charges anymore, before they could properly explain their purpose..

"Sakura, you and Naruto go collect the bodies for disposal, ill handle him"

Sakuras face went from intent glare to full out pout mode in less than a second.

"But Saassuke you did it last time" she whined. Sasuke couldn't help but smirk at the look she gave him, the way her eyes glassed over and how she would push out that full bottom lip of hers ever so slightly….. He pulled himself from his thoughts and steeled his resolve. It was always hard to resist that face, even before he admitted to himself that he liked her, and she knew it.

"We need this done as quickly as possible" he said nodding to the wizards, who were currently staring at them, fear evident in each one of their overly pale faces.

Sakura seemed to catch on to what he was saying but huffed never the less, crossing her arms over her chest defiantly.

"Ne ne Sakura-chan, you can do the next two ok? Isn't that right teme?

"Hn"

"Really?! Fine you gotta deal" with that said she grabbed Narutos hand, dragging him off.

Sasuke sighed, turning back to their captive he activated his mangekyou sharingan.

He had obtained it by pure accident about a year and a half after he left Konoha, half a year after destroying most of the sound base and abandoning Orochimaru. Stumbling across Naruto, who was on his way back from a mission, in the land of the grass while looking for his brother, had resulted in one of their more intense battles. Sasuke had retreated after one final blow from his lightening blade rendered his former blonde best friend unconscious, but alive. Around three days later the mangekyou sharingan had appeared in his eyes, but at the time he didn't understand why, he was quite sure he had left Naruto alive. It was only when he returned about a half a year later did he find out from Sakura the exact reason… When they found Naruto a day later he was in critical condition, but, he was healable. His body, however, was rejecting all forms of chakra or medication, simply put; after another failed attempt to bring Sasuke back Naruto didn't have much will to live. It carried on for two days before Narutos life energy did finally drain completely and he died.

At the time Sakura become a bit to distraught to finish the story so he had turned to the dope to explain how exactly he was still standing in front of him.

It turns out the Kyubi wasn't in favour of its container dieing. All the while Naruto was alive, his body was subconsciously fighting the foxes regenerating chakra, but the minute Naruto died there was a short space of time where the Kyubi pumped every spare ounce of its chakra into his body, in effect, bringing him back to life. He, unfortunately for him, had misjudged the exact amount of chakra Narutos body could hold and ended up giving him the majority of its chakra thus causing it to become completely dormant within Naruto subconscious.

When he had finished explaining it to Sasuke, said boy had no idea what to say or how to feel. He honestly didn't know what he would have done if Naruto had in fact died; though he'd never admit that aloud.

It was around then the eye pains began. As he found out by his now deceased brother, use of the mangekyou sharingan can hinder ones normal eyes sight and eventually make one blind, but he said nothing about it, figuring it was his own form of punishment for what he did to obtain such a power, accident or not. So it continued on like this for about a month before the pain got so intense one day after training, that it almost knocked him unconscious. He can still remember the look on his team mates faces when he told them he was slowly going blind.

Kakashi, of course, had already figured it out before hand, but being there was nothing he could do about it he chose to say nothing. Naruto on the other hand was completely shocked. He stood unmoving mouth agape eyes wide for a whole minute before starting a long rant, speaking so quickly up to this day the only words Sasuke made out of it were "bastard" "cure" and "Hokage"…. And Sakura….. Sakura had looked close to tears. She simply stood there for a couple of minutes staring at him with large watery eyes before running off saying she had work to do. He didn't see her again for some time, and it bothered him though he had no idea why. When he brought up her absence during training once, all Kakashi told him was that she was excused because of some hospital work she had to do, and at the time, Sasuke figured he could understand that.

A month later he decided it was time to see for himself what was going on, so he made his way to Sakuras house after he couldn't find her at the hospital, only to realize it completely uninhabited. And there is where he actually started worrying, but shrugged it off saying she was probably on a mission and that he shouldn't care anyway.

It was a month after that when he finally did see her. He was sitting with the dobe at the ramen stall when he was told he was needed urgently at the hospital. Upon his arrival he was greeted with a seemingly very smug and happy Sakura claiming she had a surprise for him. As it turns out she had spent the last two months researching his sharingan, and had found that with some concoction of herbs, that are found only in the village of the clouds, she could regenerate the nerves that the excessive charka use was destroying. It was to be administered to his eyes 3 times a year when he came in for his physical.

As she dropped the liquid into his eyes he managed to get a good look at her. She had bags under her eyes and looked as though she had become thoroughly sleep deprived, her normally soft silky hair had lost its shine and looked slightly tangled, He figured he'd have to repay her somehow for what she went through for him, because, …..well…

Uchihas just don't owe people favours…

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Harry didn't know what to feel as he watch Sakura literally throw the bodies of people that they killed into a pile while three different Narutos dragged the ones she missed.

He was confused. Why were these people here? What did they want? And why were they fighting?

He was amazed. How could those three do all those things, move so fast… be so strong… KILL all these people and act so calmly like they did it everyday?

He was angry. They trusted them with every thing. Everything about Voldemort, the Order, Sirius.. While they obviously were hiding things from them.

He was scared. The three of them obviously weren't afraid to kill and now that Harry and the others saw them, who knows what they could and would do to them.

And finally he was hopeful. They weren't dead yet. And the way Sakura spoke to them, he could still here the softness and concern in her voice when she said they looked like they needed rest. There was still a chance that the people they had gotten to know for the past two months were still there.

He turned away from the ever increasing pile of bodies back to Sasuke. Earlier it had looked like they were arguing over who would question the prisoner and apparently he had won. His side was to them, and Harry noticed that he wasn't speaking, but staring intently at the man, he couldn't really see his eyes properly so he couldn't see the look he was giving but what ever it was it must have been pretty bad. Glancing at the man Harry realised he looked like a deer caught in head lights, eyes open to their fullest extent, mouth agape and twitching like he was trying to scream but couldn't get it out of his throat. The look actually frightened him.

" I bet you a bowl of ramen teme already has the information and is just entertaining himself" came a voice next to him.

Harry was sure he jumped about a foot into the air. Turning, he realised Naruto was perched on a rock next to a trembling Ron, while Sakura was bent over Hermione with a palm over her head a weird green glow emanating from it. He was about to scream at her, asking what she was doing, when he noticed the colour returning to Hermiones face and her breathing evening out.

"Yea most likely.." she answered him sighing and shaking her head " don't see why he gets to enjoy himself and I don't.." she muttered as an after thought

Naruto chuckled at her then turned back to the boy in question. "TEME! We're done, quit playing around"

Harry watched as Sasuke gave a curt nod, not taking his eyes from the man in front of him. About 5 seconds later the man slumped down backward falling to the ground. Harry shivered… he wasn't breathing anymore.

B-but, h-how?!…… he didn't even touch him…o-or move!!

"Hn, Sakura.." he said nodding to the now lifeless body

"Whatever" was the pink haired girls reply as she moved from Hermiones side. Walking past him she grabbed the body by the arm and flung it into the pile over at the other side, like it was some kind of rag doll. Some where in the back ground he heard Ron whimper.

"U-um, how are you going to g-get rid o-of the t-those" Hermione spoke in a small voice coming to stand next to Harry who was silently wondering the same thing.

Naruto laughed and looked back at them "Burn 'em, of course."

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"Ne Sakura-chan? shouldn't we wake her up now?"

"I guess. but she really does need the rest.. . Hey Sasuke did you send Kakashi a bird?"

"Hn"

They had migrated to a deserted class room on the other side of the school from the dance, so as not to be disturbed. Both Harry and Ron were standing as close to the door as possible, while Sakura had perched her self on a desk next to Sasuke who was leaning against a wall. Naruto was bent over a now unconscious Hermione who was stretched out on two tables before them. Apparently watching Sasuke spit fire from his mouth to burn a pile of dead bodies didn't really sit well with her already frantic heart, and neither did watching Naruto make a mini wind storm to keep the smell of burning flesh away from the school…. So when Sakura caused a small tidal wave to appear from the lake to wash the blood stains from the grass, it probably pushed her off the edge since she fainted.

Sakura sighed and hopped off her seat, placing a palm over the unconscious girls forehead she pumped some soothing chakra first, to relax her body before sending a short quick jolt to get the nerves in her brain to work on temporary over time forcing her to return to the world of the conscious.

Her eyes fluttered for a second before snapping open as she sprang up. She shifted her gaze around, slowly taking in everything, before slumping forward, her hands cradling her head.

"I wasn't dreaming was I?" she asked in a surprisingly steady voice

"Unfortunately, no, you weren't." Sakura said smiling softly at the bushy haired girl, who returned the gesture, albeit hesitantly.

" Well, I'm sure you have questions for us… lets hear um" she stated calmly, sitting on the what would be the teachers desk.

Harry was about to open his mouth when Ron beat him to it

"A-are y-you gonna kill u-us?" he asked shakily making Sakura look at him weirdly and Naruto burst out laughing.

"Haha! Nah…we won'… haha… well unless teme over there catches you flirting with Sakura-chan" he joked attempting to lighten the mood.

It worked pretty well since Sasuke moved from the wall in order to hit him over the head, causing Hermione to giggle and Harry to give a small chuckle. Ron however didn't look too happy with the statement especially since, when Sasuke settled himself again, he was leaning next to Sakura on the table she was sitting on, giving him a very pointed look. Sakura, who noticed, elbowed him in the ribs resulting in Sasuke glaring at her instead, to which she simply answered with the most innocent looking smile she could muster before turning back to the wizards.

"Well, anything else?"

Again Harry was about to open his mouth but it was Hermione who interrupted him this time.

"You aren't wizards are you?" she asked tentatively as though she was afraid to find out the answer.

"No, we're not"

There was a small silence in which the wizards tried to absorb this new information.

"Then… what are you?" Harry asked.

Sakura sighed and stood "Might as well get the introductions out of the way.."

With that said her body went ridged as she spoke with a tone of authority.

"ANBU operative Tiger of squad 0107, Haruno Sakura, Combat Medic, elite shinobi of the village hidden in the leaves."

With that said, Sasuke stood up properly from the desk his body falling into the same stance as Sakura.

"ANBU operative Wolf of squad 0107, Uchiha Sasuke, Sector 1 Assassin, elite shinobi of the village hidden in the leaves."

Finally Naruto rose from his chair next to Hermione, a large grin spread across his face.

"ANBU operative Fox of squad 0107, Uzumaki Naruto, Combat Specialist and Hokage in training, elite shinobi of the village hidden in the leaves"

As he finished all three foreigners relaxed, reverting back to their original positions.

Harry merely stood there looking confused while Ron looked a lot paler and seemed to be mouthing the word 'assassin' over and over again. Hermione, however, looked just about ready to pass out again.

"B-But I thought Shinobi only existed in folklore and legends" she said, her voice breathless

At this Sakura giggled

"Trust me before we were told we had to come here we thought wizards only existed in little children stories"

"But then how did you find out? Why are you here? What-"

"What are you guys talking about" Harry asked interrupting her rant, obviously still confused about what was going on "What's a Shinobi?"

Hermione turned to look at him, her expression a mix of excitement exasperation and fear.

"They're ninja Harry.."

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His entire world seem to freeze over.

"They're what?"

He heard the words come from his mouth but was only vaguely aware he was speaking them.

"Ninja" Sakura said calmly as though it was the easiest thing in the world to believe. Next to him he saw Ron back up until he came in contact with a wall.

"But ninja aren't real" Harry argued even though he knew it was useless. After what he had seen them do tonight, ninjas would be the only semi-logical answer.

"We're standing in front of you aren't we" Naruto stated offhandedly

"But if you didn't think wizard were real.." Hermione started again "How did you find out? Why are you even here? Does Dumbledore know what you are?"

"Well I guess its about time you knew the truth" Sakura told them "Right before your school term started, your head master travelled to our country for a meeting with the Hokage…. or the leader of the village" she added figuring to keep this explanation as simple as possible

"He offered to pay a great amount of money for a group of skilled Shinobi around our age to come stay at the school for about a year or possibly more."

"But why would he do that?" Ron asked, he seemed a little more comfortable now that he knew they were hired by Dumbledore.

"Isn't obvious Ron, for protection, with You-Know-Who's return and the Ministry not believing it its only obvious Dumbledore would seek alternate precautionary measures." Hermione stated matter-of-factly, before turning back to the other three. "So, I'm guessing that is why you were all placed in Gryffindor and had the exact same timetable as Harry"

"Yup!" Naruto grinned from next to her.

"Wait? What do you mean, if they're protecting the school why would they need to be in all in Gryffindor." Ron asked them. Harry had a feeling he wasn't going to like the answer he got.

"Don't you get it, they're here to protect Harry..."

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"How dare he do that! What the hell does he think I am, a baby!"

Sasuke was sure the head strong teenager in front of him wouldn't appreciate someone going through the trouble of hiring some one to protect him. So when Harry lost it.. he was surprised. In a way he kind of knew how he felt, as he watched him pace the room fuming. He would think that that person thought him weak and helpless, unable to protect himself. That feeling would lead to resentment, and inner doubt. It was not a good feeling to have, and Sasuke was sure if he was put in the same position 3 years ago he would have thought the same way, but now he knew better, there were some things in life that you just couldn't handle your self.

With that thought he absentmindedly wrapped his arm around Sakuras waist, his hand coming to rest at her hip. He didn't notice what he had done until he felt her tense a bit in surprise before relaxing again and leaning into him slightly, but decided against moving his hand, it actually was quite comfortable.

"Harry calm down, Dumbledore is just looking out for you, you cant blame him for caring" Hermione told him trying her hardest to calm the fuming boy

"Yea mate 'Miones right chill out a bit"

"Leave him alone.."

Every one turned to the person that had interrupted, only to be greeted with a surprisingly pissed looking Naruto.

"What?" Hermione asked him

"I said.. Leave him alone….he's right.. I mean.. who is he to appreciate someone spending probably thousands of dollars, to hire the best protection available for him. I mean heck, they're not even related, so he was never obligated to do it… who is he to care why they did it"

The words stung at Harry just as badly as the venom behind them.

"Because obviously, he doesn't need it, so what he is barely passing most of his classes, because we all know he is strong enough to fight off a entire horde of dark wizards, not to mention the greatest evil known to this country since before he was even born. And he defiantly didn't need us to get rid of the group of ninja that were just waiting to break into the school for whatever reason……"

At that point all three wizards froze; they had almost forgotten about them.

"So what if he hasn't had any proper training as yet, some one as great as him doesn't need to train to become strong, same way he doesn't need anyone to look out for him, because heaven knows there are no other people in the world longing for someone to even give a damn about them…"

Sasuke and Sakura stared at him, they could understand why he was so annoyed. Naruto had to grown up on his own, in a village where no one cared about him, where he had to train hard to become strong just to get a bit of respect. And here was this boy, with some one willing to go so far out of their way for him, and he was complaining.

Ron and Hermione were looking between Naruto and the now very silent Harry. In the short time they knew him they had never heard the blonde sound so vexed yet, in fact he was always so happy and cheerful, so it was very odd to look at him now sitting there arms folded while leaning back in the chair, no trace of a smile on his face, eyes focused on the green eyed boy in front of him.

Harry felt cold…. was he really that selfish? Dumbledore didn't have to do all of that for, but he did it anyway. Why, because he cared about him, and what was he, Harry, doing about it. Acting like and ungrateful prick and complaining... The answer was yes: he was being selfish, and to make it worse he was doing it in front of the very people who had literally risked their lives to protect him, and this school.

"I'm sorry.." he muttered after a minute of tense silence

"Excuse me, what?" Naruto asked sitting up in his chair and cupping his hand to his ear "Didn't quite catch that"

"I said I'm sorry!" Harry shouted his cheeks tinted pink.

"Ahh, that's better" Naruto grinned causing Hermione giggle and Sakura to smile at him. He never was one to stay mad.

"Hey, um, if ya don't mind me asking what were those guys here for anyway?" Ron asked

Both Sakura and Naruto turned to face Sasuke, who shook his head,

"We wait on Kakashi, I don't repeat myself"

"Hey teme what did you say?"

"Shut it dobe"

"Aww man, you were supposed to repeat yourself.."

"Dobe?"

"Yes teme?"

"You're an idiot.."

"Than- HEY!"

Sakura was glad the mood had become light again

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"Hey didn't you say before that this Kakashi person was your old teacher?" Hermione asked curiously as they sat waiting

"Yea, teme sent him a message before we came in here, and that was about and hour ago, so he should be here soon."

"Oh, what's he like?" She asked, as Harry and Ron both sat up to pay attention as well. They were all curious about him, figuring he was probably a very calm, wise, knowledgeable man like those old sensei that would show on muggle TV.

"Well what to say a about Kaka-sensei?" Sakura asked a loud.

"Well he's an exceptionally talented ninja and a very good teacher… lets see.."

".. a pervert.." Naruto added smartly

"Yes he's a very big pervert, he's always late, is annoyingly cryptic, is stingy when its his turn to treat us to ramen… skips out on the house work…."

"Sakura I'm hurt by these foul words you speak of me.."

Harry Ron and Hermione jumped before looking around for the voice that spoke. Seeing no one they turned back to the others a look of confusion on their faces.

"The truth hurts Kaka-sensei" she deadpanned. Seeing the wizards confused faces she pointed upwards. Following her finger, their eyes widened at the sight of man hanging upside down, standing on the ceiling.

"Hmmmm…" he said before disappearing, only to materialize on the ground in front of the table Sasuke and Sakura were on.

"What do we have here!" he stated dramatically pointing at Sasukes hand that was still around Sakuras waist "and when exactly were you planning on telling me this? Huh? …. My little Sasu-chan is finally growing hormones! Oh what a joyous occasion, one thought I'd never live to see!"

Sakura blushed while Sasuke merely glared at his sensei, though his hand remained unmoving.

"This will make shopping for you all so much more interesting, how bout some hand cuffs next Christmas?"

"Kakashi…" Sasuke warned as Naruto started laughing.

Hermiones jaw was slack. This was their sensei? But he seemed so young. He look at most around mid-twenties. And the way he was talking to them seemed so … normal… but something about him, she didn't know what it was, carried and air of authority, as if he was a man to be feared. She continued to stare at him and blushed as she noticed his appearance. Here wore black cargo pants with fitted black shirt, through which she could see the outline of what like very well developed muscles. On his face he wore a dark blue mask that covered from his nose all the way down his face and neck, which gave him this air of mystery along with the black bandages wrapped around his left eye and his sliver hair seem to defy gravity as it stuck out to a side. He defiantly wasn't what she was expecting, but who says that was a bad thing.

The three wizards watched as he turned to face them, all air of amusement now gone leaving one of pure power in its wake.

"So I'm judging from the fact that they are here that they know?" he said is voice hard and serious now.

"Hn" was all he got in reply but he seemed to understand since he gave a quick nod.

"Alright, your bird told me the school was attack.. Report"

"Tonight during the Halloween ball, we felt the presence of a great number of shinobi, upon further investigated it was confirmed that there were approximately 40 or so ninja, of whose village affiliation could not be identified, approaching the castle at a steady rate. Battle was initiated and one prisoner was left for questioning." Sakura stated in a business like manner

"Bodies and evidence?"

"Disposed of" she confirmed

"Interrogator?"

"Sasuke"

At this Kakashi raised his visible eyebrow

"Wasn't it your turn?" he asked her

"Don't remind me.."

He shrugged but turned to Sasuke never the less

"Report"

"Prisoner claimed not to know the exact name or location of the person they worked for, upon further…persuasion its was found that only a man known as "the commander" is aloud to see the leader, and acts as mediator between him and the soldiers, who are all rogue and missing nin from across Japan. He stated that the leader is rumoured to have joined forces with Voldemort in order to locate something that is said to be able to give him a vast amounts of power, in return he has promised Voldemort his services in take over the ministry and half of whatever it is he is looking for. They were sent here tonight in order to retrieve a map, he didn't know what the map is for, but most of them were to attack the hall and serve as a distraction while five searched for it." Sasuke told them in his usual monotone.

Harry couldn't believe his ears, so there was a second evil organisation out there, made up of a band of ninja, and not only have they joined along with Voldemort but they were on the hunt to find something that would make them even more powerful, and a stronger Voldemort was not something Harry wanted to think about.

Kakashi sighed "This commander person must have been the one I saw enter Voldemorts base two days ago…." he stopped placing his hand on his chin in thought before sighing again

"Well at least now we have a slightly better idea of exactly what we're up against. With this sort of alliance and the amount of ninjas they seem to have at their disposal, we need to figure out where this map is what it is exactly they are looking for and make sure they do not get it."

"But exactly how are you going to do that?" Hermione asked slowly

Kakashi turned his visible eye to her, regarding her for a second before answering

"I don't know.. I really don know.."

A few minutes passed before a voice interrupted the silence that hung amongst them.

"Maybe I can help with that…."

and thats a wrap, so how many of you can tell me who said that line? ill give you a hint: they have been in just about every chapter expect chapters 1, 3 and 9