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Chapter 10
Of Ninjas, Wizards and Witches
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"I DON'T BELIEVE IT! IT CAN'T BE FOR ME!"
Ah yes, if it isn't the famous Ronald Weasley scene in which he finds out about his attire to the lovely Yule Ball. The Yule Ball is a splendid ball in which Witches and Wizards gather around for a celebration as the champions danced with their couples as all who attend is a must to have a couple. The music, the dance, this is truly an amazing a possibly romantic ball ever.
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WHAT THE HECK AM I SAYING?!
Darn my mouth, I don't see the Yule Ball as majestic as that!
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Let's…… just continue on with the story line…
Hermione sighed, "Ron, it clearly states you name upon it. Do want me to spell it out for you? It says: R.O.N.A.L.D. W.E.A.S.L.E.Y." "Moreover Ron, that's a dress robe. And God knows that only men wear dress robes. It's for the male tribe" Sakura added. "Face it Ron, that's your fate and so shall it forever be… Fate is hardly kind" Hinata patted the now sobbing Ron. Hinata now has stopped stuttering and told the others that it was all just an act to cover her secret of being a witch. "Besides Ron, didn't Mrs. Weasley give you the dress robe before we left for school?" Sakura asked. "He left his, saying he didn't need it" Harry replied, "Well, I really… don't know what to say…"
Two voices then popped outta no where.
"Hey there"
"Wow you said something other than troublesome! Good for you!"
"Ino! Shikamaru!" Sakura exclaimed, "Hello there!" "Hiya!" Hinata said with a smile. The rest greeted them as well. Their greetings were ignored as the two teammates started to glare at each other. "Che, troublesome woman" Shikamaru murmured. "Oh yeah! At least I don't just lay down my lazy ass every time I get a chance!" Ino snorted back. "Stop it you two! You're behaving like an old couple fighting ea-" "WE ARE NOT A COUPLE!" Ino and Shikamaru yelled at the person who said that and that person just happened to be Hermione. "All right" Hermione smiled.
"What are you guys doing here?" Sakura asked, "From the looks of it, you guys have been running" "Well really it's simple, Ten-Ten and Ne-" Ino started explaining when she was cut by Harry's voice. "Hermione, Ron, Floral! You've gotta come! Rachael is destroying the courtyard!" He cried. "Ten-Ten?!" Hinata and Sakura got up immediately. "That's what we've been trying to tell you! Ten-Ten and Neji are fighting in the courtyard and in the process, they're wrecking the whole area!" Shikamaru said. "We've got to stop them" Ino added.
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"WHAT THE HECK ARE WE STILL DOING HERE?! COME ON!" Sakura yelled as she stood up and ran to the battle arena.
COURTYARD
"Oh you're good, but not that good" Ten-Ten panted. "Oh really… let's see who will survive shall we?" Neji got into his fighting stance as Ten-Ten readied her scroll. Neji moved first with Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms. "Sōgu: Tensakai!" Ten-Ten yelled.
The rest of the students watched from the sides. Either they're scared or curious or whatever they are feeling. They still stayed to watched.
A flash of a shadow appeared in front of them, blocking their paths. It was Sakura and Hinata. "Nii-San! Stop this nonsense!" Hinata said as she blocked his attacks with her won, her power matched evenly with his. "Hinata-San! Please get out of the way!" Neji said as he attempted to get Hinata out of his way while making the least possible injuries. This it did not seem possible for his attacks would always be blocked by hers, with the strength that he knew, matched his.
Ten-Ten was harder to prevent for she has already released her jutsu. Sakura took her arms and separated Ten-Ten from her scroll; she swayed Ten-Ten to Ino, who kept the bun-haired girl in a firm grip with the help of Shikamaru. Then Sakura took out her wand and pointed towards the falling weapons. "IMMOBULUS!" Sakura yelled; freezing the weapons instantly. With Ten-Ten's scroll she quickly gathered up the weapons; knowing well that the spell was not going to last long; by jumping around to get to higher levels to reach the weapons until she finally caught them all in the scroll.
Meanwhile Hinata had already defeated Neji, due to the fact that the boy had lost most of his chakra when he was battling Ten-Ten.
"Hinata, heal up Neji!" Sakura yelled. "Ino, Shikmaru! Try to contain Ten-Ten!" Sasuke commended as he took out his wand and rushed to Sakura's aid. "Need a little help?" He asked. "Yeah, there are a lot of things that needs to be repaired. Reparo!" Sakura replied, while casting her wand to a certain broken object. "Hey, we'll help" Neville said. "Of course we will" Luna smiled. "We saw you. You rock!" Ginny said while laughing. "Thanks! We need all the help we can get!" Sakura smiled. "We might be able to finish it before the teacher comes!" Fred said happily as he dragged George along with him.
Meanwhile, the rest of Konoha 12 managed to calm Ten-Ten and Neji down, and now both are resting and they have also apologized to each other. No matter what the problems that caused the darn fight, everything was improving. And by the time the teachers arrived, the courtyard was back to its previous shape. And also, the students have started to disperse.
They were called to Dumbledore's office alright, but since everything has already been taken cared of; they were dismissed only with a warning from Professor McGonagall.
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"We're thankful we didn't get punished or anything!" Sakura said. "What started the fight anyway?" Hinata asked. "He stepped on my foot" Ten-Ten replied. "And I already apologized but she stepped back. So eventually we kept on stomping each other's foot until it all leads into a fight" Neji continued. The others had either wide eyes, opened mouths or just a stoic face.
"You've got to be kidding me" Naruto said as he stepped back from a fuming Sakura who seemed to have reached her limit. "YOU GOT INTO A FIGHT JUST BECAUSE YOUR FOOT WAS STEPPED?! WHAT THE HECK! YOU WENT THROUGH ALL THE TROUBLE JUST BECAUSE OF THAT?!" She yelled out loud and clear. Ten-Ten and Neji shrunk into tiny chibis; Sakura sure is scary when she's mad. "You will pay…" Sakura smiled an evil smile and cracked her hands.
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"Sakura… don't you think it's a little bit too way out of hand?" Ino asked. "Nope, not at all!" Sakura grinned, "Besides, they needed some time-out!" "I know but not in this way…" Ino replied. "It's really amusing you know" Hinata piped in. "Hina! Not you too!" Ino wailed, "Poor Ten-Ten-Chan…"
Well, in case you haven't known yet; which I'm pretty sure you haven't, since I haven't said it yet; poor Ten-Ten is in a very uncomfortable situation. Trust me, if you're in a scene in which your hands and legs are tied up along with your mouth gagged, with no weapons what-so-ever, Chakra blocked and you're squeezed into a small chamber with a guy you like, on top of you is not really what I would call comfortable. It must have been awkward, creepy, frightening, embarrassing and confusing. And that's exactly what Ten-Ten felt right now. 'God and good fortune is definitely not on my side today… why does it have to be me?' She thought as she let out another frustrated muffled sigh.
'How long are we going to be in this darn state?!' She thought; the situation was getting way out of hand, no wait… it was already out of hands from the beginning! Fate is definitely cruel isn't it?
A muffled grunt came from above, she titled her head up. Big mistake…
Her nose touched the male's and their eyes met; faces only few inches away. They stayed like that for a couple of seconds before looking away, flushed.
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"Aw man! That was so close!" Ino wailed while Hinata giggled and Sakura sweat dropped. "Okay, I know I planned all this stuff and all but… Ino-pig! I thought you were all against this stuff a moment ago?!" Sakura asked. "Yeah, well… I can't say I don't like it you know… it's rather obvious to their liking to each other…" Ino scratched her head. "Oh well, you're the stupid cupid" Sakura sighed. "Heh, thanks… wait…HEY I'M NOT STUPID!" Ino yelled. Sakura ignored her and asked Hinata, "So Hina-Chan… what's your reason?" "Well, Neji-nii-san needs to find something to make him happy…" Hinata smiled. "Oh well… so how long are we gonna put them there?" Sakura asked, "I've been thinking that we put them till noon…" "Can't we put them till tomorrow?" Hinata asked. "No, the night is too dangerous, besides if they were caught they'll be punished. We can't let that happen…" "At least… after dinner?" Ino asked, "It's still early afternoon you know… so it should be long enough…" "Well, that's settled then! Till after dinner!" Sakura smiled, "Come on… time to tell the others!" "Wait! You girls go ahead!" Hinata said. "Well, alright then… but hurry up okay?" Ino waved as she left with Sakura.
Hinata took out her wand and cast a spell.
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"Excuse me Mrs. Potter but where is Mrs. Taylor?" Professor Flitwick asked. "Oh, Rachael's up at the hospital. She was sick" Ino replied, faking a little sad face. "Oh I see… I'm sorry to hear it; she's a good friend of yours. Well then, would you kindly lend her your notes to Mrs. Taylor about today's lesson?" Professor Flitwick asked. "Of course Professor" Ino replied with a nod and a smile. "That was simple…" Hinata murmured. "Yeah, but the next one's gonna be harder. We have potions next; I simply do not understand why the hell they chose potions, of all the subjects, to be the very subject we are supposed to have everyday!" Sakura whispered. "I know, life is never easy isn't it?" Hinata whispered back.
"Swish and flick, remember, swish and flick. And saying the magic words properly is very important to cast a spell" Professor Flitwick said, "Now then Mrs. Potter, would you tell us what will happen if we say the incorrect words or do the incorrect movements?" "We could either fail to cast the magic if we're lucky, but we could also accidentally cast another magic spell or the wand would lose control Proffesor" Sakura replied. "Wonderful! Now then..."
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"She's at the Hospital Sir" Sakura replied. "Is she at the hospital or just bailing out of class?" Professor Snape asked.
The shinobis of Konoha 12, minus Neji, Sasuke and Naruto; so that makes only Shikamaru, Kiba, Lee, Chouji and Shino; were watching in amusement at the kunoichis who were trying to convince that Ten-Ten was at the Hospital. Ten-Ten is a student at Hogwarts so they need an excuse to cover up her disappearances while Neji was a bodyguard so he comes and go as he please. The same goes for the rest of the Shinobis.
Hermione sweat dropped at her female friends. 'Oh heavens, what trouble did you got yourselves into this time Floral?!' She thought. Sure Floral was elegant, polite, and clever, sometimes cleverer than herself but she was also a troublemaker. Her mischievousness extends greater than the Weasley twins except that with every trouble she makes it was for the better, often to help Harry and the gang. And amazingly, she was never punished for the things she has done. Though after she looked back, all of Floral's doings was to help them… Like the time when they were trying to rescue Sirius Black and Buckbeak, Hagrid's Hippogriff. She created a distraction for the minister so that they could get Buckbeak out of his chains and into freedom and also, away from his death. She also handled Lupin in his werewolf form along with Rachel, Crystal and of course Buckbeak (Ino was in the hospital, she broke her leg when facing the willow tree)
And not to mention that time she also made sure no one on night patrol has or will see them when they were rescuing Sirius from the tower. Till this day, she still wondered how did Floral and the girls got to the castle that fast from the grounds outside the castle. That was miles away from the courtyard where they let Sirius go and they got there without using or riding any creatures. Getting to a place that was not possible for a normal human and apparating was not possible in Hogwarts, courtesy to the anti-apparition spell. Floral did say they just ran, but isn't that way too fast even by running? Unless they ran the speed of light and that speed is way to fast for any normal human. But then again, they were witches and wizards so… anything could happen…
Right?
"So how about we go to the Hospital to check on her?" Professor Snape suggested. Hermione focused herself into reality and pulling herself away from the depths of her own thoughts.
'DAMN! THINK! WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO NOW?!' Ino screamed in her mind mentally; they were in big trouble. "As you wish, Professor Snape" Sakura replied. 'SAKURA?! What are you doing girl?' Ino yelled mentally in her mind once more. Sakura stood up and Ino felt she just wanted to yell at the Professor just to believe in her and get this over with. Hinata made a move to stand up and follow Sakura but Professor Snape forbade it. "No, only one of you will go. The rest are to finish their potions' work and silence them-selves. I expect your Veritaserum to be ready when I return!" Snape barked and turned to leave with Sakura to the hospital. He opened the door and both of them walked out.
With a loud slam, the door was shut.
'Damn we're in trouble! BIG TIME!' Shikamaru thought frantically, 'And where the hell is Sasuke and Naruto?! Their teammate's in trouble here!'
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Sakura on the other hand is perfectly calm and confident. This was a small mission, target: Make Professor Snape sure that Ten-Ten was in the hospital. Members who will do it: Team 7. She hid a smile.
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"Here's the Hospital Wing. Come on let's get to work" Sasuke said. "Heh, if we're in luck no one's there except the nurse Teme!" Naruto flashed a goofy grin and walked right in. Sasuke followed suit. Madam Pomfrey was in there, and with a lot of luck, no one was with her. "What are you doing here, are you on your Guard patrol? It's broad daylight! It is almost noon but it's still bright!" Madam Pomfrey said. "Well you see… we're not on patrol, something got into my friend's eye, some dust or something. Could you at least get it out?" Naruto asked pointing at Sasuke whom had closed his eyes. "Well, let's see then… some simple irritation probably. No need to go to the hospital or such!" Madam Pomfrey said. "Please Madam, we should be doing our patrol any time soon and we want to be on high alert" Sasuke said, still closing his eyes, "Could you at least take a look at them?" "Well, I suppose… children these days…" Madam Pomfrey grunted and walked to Sasuke. She leaned in and told him to open his eyes. She looked into his closed eyes, waiting for them to open up. And soon, they did open up.
A pair of red sharingan eyes bore into her own.
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They walked up the marble staircase. Sakura's face remains unchanged and no fear was shown. She trusted her teammates. They all had learned to see through their masks and into their hearts, they knew each other well, they had a bond that was strong. And each of them felt it; it was growing stronger and stronger. Naruto was the hyperactive one; he was the strength, Sasuke was the silent one; he was the stealth while Sakura was the brains and they helped each other. Under her breath, she whispered ever so softly. "Naruto. Sasuke-kun… save me"
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They felt her presence, she was getting near, and they had to hurry. "Oi Baka! Hurry up! She's almost here!" Sasuke told his friend. "Yeah, yeah…" Naruto replied, "When something goes wrong, you'll be taking care of it won't you?!" "Hn, let's get this over and done with" Sasuke said as he disappeared out of sight, but if you look closely enough, you'll spot his red eyes gleaming. "Ceh, bastard… Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto said, hands making familiar hand signs.
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They were friends. This is… Team 7
The doors of the Hospital swung open.
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"Great now what do we do?!" Ino asked. (Note: They're talking in Japanese. It's just that I'm too lazy to write them in Japanese then translate them once more so yeah…. Pardon me) "Shut up Ino, Sakura must know what she was doing. How can a member of Team 7? I repeat Team 7!! Not know what she was doing. She must have a plan in her head!" Shikamaru replied. "He's right Ino. You gotta trust her" Hinata said, "After all. She always got out of her own troubles so why can't she get out of this one?" "I don't understand, if we're caught would the punishment from the teacher be simple?" Kiba asked, "How hard can carrying out a punishment be?" "Heh, still we have an image to protect" Ino cracked a smile. They were all right; Sakura was no longer the weak little girl whom she always had to rescue from bullies. No, Sakura was far stronger now and worked with one of the best Ninja teams in the village.
She had to trust her.
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Through out this havoc, let's take a peek at the ones who are oblivious to it. Or at least unaware of the troubles
'Damn it's getting hot in here…" Ten-Ten thought as she shifted slightly. It was hard to move, there was little space and there was another person with her. "Stop moving Ten-Ten" Neji said, seems like he had successfully un-gag himself. His face then started to move closer to hers. 'Neji?! NEJI?!' Ten-Ten tried to say when his face moved dangerously close to hers. "Shut up" He murmured and kept on moving closer. He bit the gag covering her mouth. 'Oh I see… he's trying to remove the gag… He's being helpful alright' Ten-Ten thought with a relief. Still, even this might get her to talk once more, it was still very uncomfortable!
Neji pulled, while trying to ignore the butterflies tickling his stomach and the heat of the blush upon his cheeks. 'Come on! Get off already!' He thought as he pulled harder. The gag loosened and Ten-Ten's mouth was freed. She gasped for air, "Finally! Thank you Neji!" He nodded, "Any way to get out?" "No" Ten-Ten shook her head, "As far as I've observed… a silence spell was placed so no one will hear us. My wand and weapons were taken, Chakra flow is also blocked so… nope! No way out!" "No? None?! So we'll have to wait until we're released by them?!" Neji asked. "Nope" Ten-Ten shook her head and let out a sigh.
"It's your fault! If you hadn't step on my foot we wouldn't have been in this situation!" Ten-Ten yelled. "Hei! I already apologized! You're the one who stepped back!" Neji replied. "Nope! It's your fault!" Ten-Ten replied. "No it's yours!"
"No it isn't!"
"It is!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"You're in denial!"
"And you're being pathetic!"
"I'm not talking!"
"Fine!"
Silence…
More silence…
"Hey Neji?"
"Yeah?" Neji replied. "I… I'm sorry for… stepping on you foot" Ten-Ten said. "Yeah, I'm sorry too" Neji nodded, "We're both wrong" "Yeah, we were. Immature…" Ten-Ten smiled, "Truce?" Neji nodded.
Silence…
"Hey Neji? I'm bored… Let's talk" Ten-Ten suggested. "What do you wish to talk about?" He asked. "I don't know, but we have to talk about something… this is really boring!" Ten-Ten replied. "Ten-Ten… what do you think about Lee?" Neji asked. "Why so sudden?" The girl asked. "I don't know… that;s the only topic I can think about…" Neji shrugged. "Well, he's nice, kind, loyal, strong and a good friend… it's just his drama actings with Gai sensei is the problem… also with his thick eyebrows… but other than that… he's a good friend!" Ten-Ten replied. "Oh, a friend… I see" Neji said.
Silence…again…
"Ten-Ten?" Neji asked. "Yes?" She replied. "… Tell me how you came to know Hogwarts…" he said. "… That's a good topic… it's about time I told you anyways… It's been three years since that day…"
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THERE! That's it! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY! AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's the 25th of Desember! Yay! Hehehe… I'm not a Christian… but still… Merry Christmas! That's only the end of Chapter 10, but it's not the end of the story yet! I hope you enjoyed it! Remember! Read and Review!
Psst! Since it's Christmas how about leaving me and the story a little present? That little present can be nice happy review! Merry Christmas everyone!
Wishing you all a wonderful holiday!
W.A.
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