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YAY! It's the Hogwarts chapter!
"We're getting that mission today, right Fox?"
"Yeah and it's about time. There's only a week left for Hound and Snake to get used to the castle. We'll still have to make appearances in the muggle world or the Order will interfere and I suppose we'll have to go on the train too. At least we'll get to test our skills."
"Yeah but we- Oh! Fawkes, what's wrong?"
"Snape's the DADA teacher? Well there goes my favorite class." Raku pouted. Fawkes trilled again impatiently. "What's that? His replacement is a pushover who collects talented people? Well then, I know how I'm passing potions this year."
"Well babe, it finally looks like an easy year for you. And now you're a ninja too so these wizards will be no problem!"
"You wanted to see us Lady Tsunade?"
"Ah, Fox. Perfect timing as always. I have a mission for your team. It is a year-long protection mission at a place called Hogwarts. The client asked for our best ninja so you four are obviously the first choice. The client chose to label it S-rank. More information will be recieved upon acceptance. Do you accept?"
"Lady Tsunade may Fox and I bring Kit?"
"I don't see any problem with taking your apprentice."
"We accept. Hound and Snake will be notified."
"Pack what you want. Food will be provided. I assume, based on his continued dissappearing act that Phoenix has transportation?"
She recieved a stiff nod.
"Good. As a suggestion, I would only pack for a low to mid A-rank instead of an S-rank. You leave in an hour. Dismissed."
"Phoenix will be acting Captain for the social part of this mission. You will refer to me for orders and reports." In front of him stood his team and his apprentice. At his side stood his partner.
"Understood Captain Fox!" Three voices chorused.
"Good. Phoenix, charms please."
The brunette took something out of his pocket. A small cloth bag. He dumped the contents of the bag out in his hand. "These things have a translation jutsu on them that will allow you to understand and speak English. We will need it for the mission. Snake this is yours." He handed her a silver, life-like snake bracelet. She put it on and it twined around her forarm. "Kit this is yours." Kit recieved a gold earring in the shape of an ANBU Fox mask. "Hound this is yours." Phoenix gave Hound a silver ring with the kanji for Hound on it.
"What about you two, Captain?" Kit asked.
"We already have pendants." They lifted their Fox and Phoenix pendants out from under their uniforms. Phoenix's pendant did not have the jutsu on it but the rest of the team didn't need to know that.
"Alright, if everyone's ready?" Phoenix recieved four nods. "Then everyone hold on to me and don't let go until I say so." He grabbed the newbies to fire-travel by the elbow while Kit and Fox held his shoulders. The team vanished in a flash of black flames.
"That was weird... where are we?" Hound finally slipped his ring on.
Phoenix grinned happily under his mask. He really loved this castle. "Team 0, welcome to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." He didn't give them a chance to answer. "I'll let you familiarize yourselves with the castle later. Right now we need to meet our client, Headmaster Dumbledore." He led the mostly confused teen on a trek to the Headmaster's office. When he reached the stone gargoyle he stated, "If the password isn't lemon drops then I'll turn you into a fairy." It was no idle threat.
The gargoyle quickly jumped aside.
Phoenix didn't bother with the revolving stairs, he simply jumped to the landing outside the Headmaster's door. He didn't bother knocking either because he knew the Headmaster would leave him out here for ten minutes before allowing him to enter simply because he could. His team, still mostly confused, followed him. "Headmaster Dumbledore, we are the ninjas sent by the Hidden Leaf Village. We await the mission statement sir."
Dumbledore blinked, still in shock that someone would enter his office without permission. "Very well. You are to protect a sixteen year old boy named Harry Potter from the Dark Lord Voldemort's influence. The boy is the supposed 'Chosen One' and the people see him as the Savior of the Wizarding World. He is untrained but powerful and needs protection. He is the weapon of the Light and as such, he must remain ignorant of the Dark. If information on the boy is needed once the students get here, ask either Miss Granger or Mr. Weasley. They are under my orders and as his best friends, he tells those two everything. I would like for one of you to be with him at all times and patrols of the grounds and castle would be appreciated."
They bowed on one knee as a ninja should before a client. "It will be done."
They were gone, exploring the castle or in Phoenix's case, fuming in anger and betrayal.
After several hours, Phoenix decided that he should probably know where his team's quaters were. Instead of asking the Headmaster, he simply took out the Marauder's Map. He saw his lover's and Inari's names in a room on the second floor, two corridors down from Myrtle's bathroom.
When he got to the room, he saw the two arguing over where to look for him. He chuckled at the scene. Instantly he found himself with a kunai at his throat. "It's only me Kit. You really need to work on your awareness. If I was an enemy you would have been dead."
Instead of saying that Fox would have saved him or killed the enemy, Kit just nodded. He never won these arguments.
Fox just sighed at his partner. "So are you done brooding now or are you just taking a break?"
Phoenix pouted. "I'm done. Where is everyone?" He hadn't seen them on the map.
"Hound said something about the forest and after Snake heard a short man talking about all the dangerous creatures living there she practically flew to the forest too." Kit sounded pretty amused, but then, he wasn't really used to the two Special ANBU. They did some pretty crazy things.
Fox and Phoenix laughed at their subordinates' antics. "Alright, Kit. The client wants us to protect a boy. Either Phoenix or myself will be with the boy at all times. If it's Phoenix then you won't be able to tell. I want you attending at least one class per day. One for learning, the rest for observation. Hound will patrol the grounds on the nice days otherwise he will be in the castle. Snake will be patroling the Forbidden Forest on the nice days otherwise she will also be in the castle. I want her kept away from the students as much as possible. If she must be in the castle, only let her near the sixth and seventh years. How does that schedule sound?"
The younger Captain thought about it. "Good. It should work out perfectly."
With that, they decided to explore their quaters. There was a common room, that they were presently sitting in. All the furnature was some shade of brown. There were three bedrooms. One for the Captains, one for the only female and another which left Hound and Kit to room together.
As Phoenix lay in bed that night, he thought about the day. How it felt being back at Hogwarts, how he was here as a ninja on a mission, how his friends weren't really his friends. All this time he'd stood by them and they had been reporting his actions to Dumbledore? Well not anymore. They would be told nothing of his thoughts or feelings. They no longer had his trust. Gryffindor was not his home any longer. He had new friends and he would make more. He would no longer be ignorant of the Dark, nor would he remain blindly loyal to the Light. Yes Gryffindor's Golden Boy was gone and in his place was a Slytherin, as there should have been in the first place.
He sat on top of the train as his disguised partner sat in the compartment. He was listening to the conversation, proud of his little lover. If he didn't know better, he would have assumed that Harry Potter was just an average wizard catching up to his two best friends after the hols. Not the newly minted Special ANBU that just discovered that his friends had actually been spying on him for five years.
Phoenix was disguised as Harry, sitting in the window seat and having a pleasant conversation with Hermione. If the frizzy-haired witch or the ginger buffoon had paid any attention to Harry, they would have realized that his sentances didn't make complete sence. They were seemingly random and disjointed. Code.
Both ninjas knew that Draco Malfoy was hovering right outside the door to Harry's compartment. They also knew that the eavesdropper knew this particular code inside and out.
Pureblood small talk.
Using this complex code, Harry told Draco that he wanted the two of them to have a talk when Draco had the time. Harry would find him.
The Malfoy heir left shortly after with a thoughtful look on his face. For a change.
Fox leaned over the side of the roof so he could see into the window of Harry's compartment. He looked at the wizard-who-had-secretly-completed-his-education-and-become-a-ninja carefully before eyeing the teenager's crotch with something akin to hunger in his eyes. He knew that Harry saw him. He didn't care. For the past day, he'd been feeling incredibly horny all the time. If it didn't stop soon he was going to ask Kyuubi about it. He stayed there, staring at Harry's clothed nether regions and remembering his first time with the boy. He snapped out of his daze when the redhead, Ron, saw him and squawked. With an amused scoff, he got back on his feet for a patrol of the train. From the roof of course.
Headmaster Dumbledore continued speaking instead of sending the students to their dorms like he normally would after the Welcoming Feast. "Students if I could have your attention for just a moment longer? Thank you. I would like to make you aware of some guests here at Hogwarts for the year. They are here for your protection and are not to be tricked or played with. There will be consequences for every action. If you would introduce yourselves?"
There was a moment of silence before a pack of ghostly looking dogs burst through the doors of the Great Hall only to disappear into the shadows. A masked man with black armor and wild silver hair appeared in front of the teacher's table. Suddenly a red-haired man dropped from the ceiling to land silently in a crouch. He stood only to bite his thumb and slam his blood covered hand to the stone floor. A tall red-haired man in a spiral mask appeared in a poof of smoke. A younger boy was the next to appear. He stalked into the room with a gray fox kit trotting at his heels. There was a sinister hissing noise and all of the enchanted candles in the Hall went out. Only to be lit again when the magical population's attention was drawn to the enchanted ceiling by phoenix song. A sixth masked person stood on Fawkes back. The phoenix descended in lazy spirals to land before the Head Table, allowing his passenger to step off of his back and stand next to a purple-haired woman that had appeared. Six masked people stood in front of the Head Table in a line. Four wore porcelin animal masks, one wore a porcelin spiral mask and one wore a cloth face mask.
The peson thaat had come in on Fawkes stepped forward. "We are ninjas hired by your Headmaster to protect this school and it's students. My name is Captain Phoenix, I'd be very upset if any of you managed to catch sight of me during our stay."
The man who had dropped from the ceiling stepped up next. "My name is Captain Fox, you'll see me patrolling around the school."
The intimidating man in the spiral mack chuckled darkly. "I am Tails. You'll only see me if I want you to."
The boy stepped forward and bowed. "My name is Kit, you will all see me sometime as I will be attending various classes."
The silver haired guy stepped up. He gave a two fingered wave. "I'm known as Hound. Those of you outdoors will see me patrolling the grounds or the corridors depending on the weather."
The only female of the group stepped forward with a slightly insane sounding giggle. "You can call me Snake. I'll be in the Forbidden Forest most of the time, but on the rainy days I'll be guarding the sixth and seventh years, unfortunately for you."
Captain Phoenix sighed and spoke up again. "Alright, any questions?"
Draco Malfoy sneered at them. "Yeah. Are we at least being protected by purebloods?"
Phoenix replied thoughtfully. "Well not completely. Hound and Captain Fox are purebloods, nobody's quite sure about Snake, Kit's the equivalent of a muggleborn, Tails' blood is as pure as it gets and I myself am a halfblood. Let me inform you though that in our profession, blood means nothing. It can give you an advantage many spoiled little brats learn the hard way that nobody cares if you're the last of a pureblood family if you're not strong enough to back up your bullshit. Often, the best ninjas aren't purebloods but the ones that are underestimated. Deception after all, is one of the greatest ninja skills."
All the ninjas shared a secret smirk that nobody could see but they each knew it was there. They all knew more than a little about deception.
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