'thinking'
"talking in english"
"talking in japanese"
"kyuubi or an inner talking"

Chapter 10 – Self defence

"So, I understand we have some new students with us..." Snape walked round the classroom, eyeing the new students. he stopped infront of Naruto, who's eyes were shut.

"Tell me, is my lesson boring you?" he asked Naruto, who then opened his eyes.

"No sir. I was just concentrating." Naruto replied.

"And that is how you concentrate... What is your name?"

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto, Sir. Pleased to meet you." Naruto grinned. Snape looked at Harry, who was seated next to Naruto.

"Is he a friend of yours, Potter?" Snape squinted. Harry nodded.

'This boy could turn out to be quite troublesome then.'

"So...Naruto...Polyjuice Potion contains lacewing flies, stewed for how long?"

"21 days."

"Amortentia is derived from which two latin words?"

"Amor - to love, and temptere - to tamper with."

"Well done for not saying 'to tempt'. Do you find draught of Peace at all ironic?"

"It contains the ingredient hellenbore, which is infact poisonous." Naruto replied.

"Interesting...I must admit, I'm slightly impressed." Snape squinted again.

"Thankyou. Sir."

"So, the topic for today is the Confusing and Befuddlement draught. The effect of such a potion is similar to that of Confusing Concoction in that they both cause confusion..."Snape said in his usual monotonous voice, causing Kakashi to let out an iritated sigh.

"For goodness' sake..." he muttered underneath his breath. Snape heard him, paused for about a second, then continued.

It was the end of the lesson. Students either were packing up or leaving the classroom. Sakura walked up to Naruto.

"Naruto-kun, you were really good there. To be honest, I thought you were gonna get every question wrong."

"Yeah, well. This is important to me, you know?"

"Eh?"

"Well Tsunade-baachan says that if we do well here, we'll get a reward for it."

"Oh." Sakura looked interested.

"But really, Sakura-chan, thanks for studying with me. It really helped." Naruto smiled warmly.

"No problem." Inner Sakura smirked.

"EGOBOOST!"

Snape looked at the group. 'Inter-housal friendship? Interesting. Only...' he looked down to where Neji was. 'But there's a Slytherine. He can't be too friendly with them.'

"Naruto, well done." Neji said, walking up to Naruto.

"Neji! I didn't see you at all this morning!" Lee exclaimed.

"It's this inter-housal feud. These people seem to think that competitiveness and agressiveness are the same thing."

"What do you mean, 'These people'?" Ron looked at Neji.

"I didn't mean anything by it. Oh, and Ron?" Neji looked back at Ron. Ron gulped.

"I'm sorry I snapped at you on the train. I was just setting things straight, but it came out wrong." Neji turned to walk out of the classroom.

"I gotta go. Bye." Sakura turned, ran up to beside Neji.

"I told you Neji wasn't so bad," Naruto grinned.

"Even more interesting..." Snape muttered to himself.

"Hmm?" Kakashi turned around from his board wiping.

"Nothing. Just the idea of different houses getting along."

"Oh. What's so unusual about that?" Kakashi asked.

"Well, pupils are sorted out into houses according to their personality: Griffindors are brave, Ravenclaws are intelligent, Slytherines are far superior in every way, and Hufflepuff...Well I have no idea what they're all about. By the way, what house have you been asigned to?"

"Slytherine." Kakashi replied.

"Anyway, different houses don't normally get along well, as they have little in common. It' just interesting that your lot get along quite well, even though they're from completely different houses."

"Well that's probably because we mix them up."

"Why?"

"So that one person's strengths can make up for another person's weaknesses. Develops teamwork."

"I see."

"Wow… This is our first Self-defence lesson then…I wonder what it's gonna be like." Ron looked at the pile of weapons on the front desk, "Bloody Hell…"

"I have a feeling it's going to be a disaster." Hermione eyed the heap of weapons. "This is very dangerous, you know. Someone could get stabbed…" Hermione furrowed her eyebrows, "…Or sliced!" her face turned pale.

"Hey, these guys are trained experts…probably…they'll make sure no one gets hurt." Ron patted Hermione's shoulder.

"They're a couple of frivolous adults, Ron. How can you call them experts? They're so young! How long have they been in the teaching profession for? A year? Two years?"

"Well I must admit, When I first met you, I thought you were going to be one of those idiots with Potter and his gang, but now that you've been put into Slytherine, I'm forced to rethink my opinion." Malfoy said to Neji.

"I don't apreciate you mocking my friends, and no offence, but I'd rather hang out with a one-eyed moose than a desperate balding ponce like you."

"Yeah, you berk!" A random Slytherine called out. The Slytherins laughed. "You'll live to regret you said that." Malfoy glared at Neji before walking away to sit down.

Harry caught sight of Cho. "Hey, hi Cho. Um…I was wondering…well I mean you don't have to…well you know you've probably already been asked by someone else so never mind." Harry rambled on.

"Harry, If you're asking me to sit next to you then sure." Cho said.

"Really?"

"Yeah. Now budge up please."

"Does he fancy Cho or something?" Naruto whispered to Ron.

"Yes." Ron answered.

"It's really obvious." Naruto commented.

"Hey, Sakura! Come and sit here." Naruto called out to Sakura.

"Um…Naruto different houses don't normally sit together in lessons." Harry leaned forward.

"That's quite alright," Sakura nodded. "Hey everyone!" She yelled. All talking ceased. "Does anyone object to me sitting here with the Gryffindors just this once?" everyone shook their head. "Very well then." She sauntered over to Naruto and sat next to him.

"Cool, although, how did you hear me from all the way across the classroom? I was whispering."

"We have our ways…"Sakura said, smiling darkly.

"Whose 'we'?" Hermione asked.

"It doesn't matter." Sakura looked down to avoid people's eyes.

"But anyway, it's not their experience that worries me, it's what they're like. The guy freaks me out. With his pale complexion, eyepatch, crazy hair, and he's in Slytherine. I'm afraid he'll be like, another Snape." Harry creased his forehead.

"What? Kashi-sensei? But he's so cute and bubbly." Sakura protested.

"And cute." Cho added.

"And really cute." Luna said from behind.

"And sexy." Cho grinned. Everybody sweatdropped.

Suddenly, the door broke down, hitting the ground with an awesome 'smash'. A lady in a trenchcoat and a purple ponytail stepped into the classroom. She eyed the pupils, before opening her mouth to speak.

"Right, you maggots, I've been lookin' around and quite frankly, everyone in this room, except for me, is lacking serious skill in this subject. You need to be toughened up. You need to learn to be less…sissy. And that's where I come in." she scribbled awhile on the blackboard. "I'm Anko Mitarashi. I'll be your self defence teacher this year." The shionobi sweatdropped.

"Uh…Anko?" everyone turned to face the doorway. There, the man with spiky hair and an eyepatch was standing.

"What did you do to the door?" he pointed towards the floor.

"What makes you think I did anything to it?" Anko huffed.

"You're Anko. Of course you did something to it! I mean, come on. You're so destructive! You're like Japanese Hitler." This comment gained a few held back laughs and muffled sniggers.

"…Fair do's"

Kakashi then entered the classroom, looking either in deep thought, or just really grumpy. "Anyway, morning everybody, I'm Kakashi Hatake, though I really don't care what you call me. Just not 'Professor Hatake'. It just maks me seem old…And I am NOT old. I don't really see a need to write it on the board either, I mean it's two syllables repeated followed by a 'shi'..." Kakashi realized he was rambling on.

"So, shall we begin?" he smiled his signature smile.

Neville raised his hand. "Erm…Professor Hatake-"

"Kakashi." Kakashi interrupted.

"Okay, Kakashi. What are those weapons doing on the desk?" he pointed.

"You'll see. Now guys, everytime you put your hand up can you say your name first so we can remember them? Right, so you're in a forest, or something…and some werewolf attacks you, what do you do? Yes?" he pointed towards the Ravenclaw table.

"Cassandra. You'd…fight it?"

"How?"

"With spells."

"And how would you cast those spells?"

"Erm…with a wand?"

"Right, Cassandra, but what if you didn't have a wand?" Kakashi asked.

"impossible. I bring my wand with me everywhere I go."

"Well, what if you didn't have it?"

"I always have it though!"

"Well what if you forgot to take it one morning?"

"I would never forget!"

"Okay! Say you were using it against the werewolf, and the werewolf ate your wand. Then what would you do?"

Cassandra spent a while thinking.

"You don't know, do you? Well that's what we're here for. Self defence is basically about fighting when your wand is inaccessible. So this pile of weapons here is what we'll be using during the year." He walked over to the front desk and picked up a kunai. "this is a kunai. Now see that target at the back of the room?" The pupils turned to face the back of the room. "In time, you should be able to hit it with ease." He threw the kunai, causing it to hit the target right in the middle. The pupils gasped.

"Bloody Hell, that was amazing!" Ron whispered.

"Then we have shuriken." Anko grinned a dark, evil grin. "These are actually very good for fooling enemies, as you can use them to turn corners, a bit like a tiny, metal boomerang with tiny spikes on it. Example…" Anko threw the shuriken at the target, however just as it was about to hit, it turned and headed straight back for Anko, who then caught it on her finger. The pupils applauded.

"Ah, then we have throwing needles. These are incredibly useful when there is more than one enemy around you, although women and feminine men are the main users. So Kakashi, would you care to demonstrate?" the pupils giggled.

"Haah- you're just jealous 'cause I'm prettier than you." Kakashi mumbled. He held six needles between his fingers, and held his hands up. "Six needles, six targets around this room." He threw the needles, each landing in one target around the room.

"Those are the three main weapons we'll be studying this term. If you get good enough we may move on to nunchucks too."

"Will we ever move onto katana?" Tenten asked.

"It depends how good you get." Kakashi turned around. "Hey wait a minute-when did you…" He whipped his head back only to see an empty chair.

'I must be going crazy.' Kakashi thought to himself.

Dumbledore was looking through some important documents, when heard a knock on his door. "Come in." he called. Kakashi and Anko stepped into the room.

"Sorry to disturb you. We just found out something and thought you might like to know." Kakashi said.

"Misaki heard some wizard talking to Filch the other day, asking about Harry." Anko began.

"Does this mean Voldemort's back?"

"I'm afraid it does. Not to worry though. We'll take care of it." Kakashi smiled charmingly.

"We can't confirm who he's working with, but Jiraiya should be currently working on it. Though, we haven't heard from him in a while." Anko said.

"Well thankyou for sharing that with me. Keep up the good work." Dumbledore said.

"Thanks." Kakashi closed the door behind them.