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Harry, Ron and Hermione were hiding under the cloak and trying to sneak to Hagrid's.

"Stop right there you three." They froze and turned slightly to see Naruto standing there with a giant golden wolf by his side. "Take off the cloak." They slipped it off.

"How could you tell?" asked Hermione awed. "It's a proper invisibility cloak!" Fox sniggered.

"You guys make enough noise for elephants, besides I could smell you." They frowned confused. "That and Kin could easily tell where you where." They glanced nervously at the wolf.

"Err… that's a big wolf… why is it here?" asked Ron nervously.

"Kin is Wolf's. She helps out on missions sometimes, she's been helping patrol." He snorted and rubbed the wolf's head. "That and she comes in real handy when it comes to scaring the students back to bed." They took a nervous step backwards.

"Err… you gonna set it on us?" asked Ron. Naruto frowned.

"Kin is not an it, Kin is a she. And no I won't set her on you," he sighed. "Wolf would kill me if you accidentally got eaten." The wolf nudged her head against his leg. "Yeah go on I can deal with this myself, you go find Wolf."

The students watched nervously as the golden wolf ran off round the corner, moments later Yana was running towards them. Naruto sighed.

"Sheesh! When I told Kin to go find you I didn't mean I needed you here," he complained. She chuckled.

"Watch it or I'll think you don't like me." He crossed his arms and muttered under his breath. "What?"

"I said I don't like you when you go all dark on us but otherwise I guess you're ok." She smiled sweetly behind her mask.

"Thanks I love you too." They escorted the trio back to the tower before heading back to their own common room chuckling.

"They looked ready to piss themselves," laughed Naruto opening the door.

"I know, it's good to know that I look so intimidating," said Yana smirking.

"What did you do?" asked Gaara with an eyebrow raised; he was in the middle of reading some reports from Suna that Iruka had brought with him.

"Yana turned into a wolf and scared some students," sniggered Naruto sitting down next to him before giving him a peck on the cheek.

The clan that Yana was born in to were shape shifters, as long as they'd studied the animal they could turn into any animal they wanted, it made them the spies and assassins of the village.

However since they'd all been wiped out when she was two she was the only one left with the bloodline until she had children of her own, Kakashi had been the one to find her and had adopted her as his sister giving her a chakra infusion and a blood binding to make her an official Hatake, this resulted in her having the Hatake white chakra too.

"I'm surprised you haven't done it before," said Gaara going back to his papers.

Yana smirked before turning into a cat and curling up on the sofa, Shikamaru walked in a few minutes later and stared at her for a moment before shaking his head and sitting down next to her. This prompted her to get up and claim his lap as her new napping spot which made Naruto and Gaara snicker at the look on his face.

"The last DA meeting before Christmas is tomorrow night," said Shikamaru interrupting their laughter.

"You should all go since it's the last one in a while," suggested Gaara. "Sasuke and Hinata haven't been in a while and I'm sure they're wondering where they are."

Naruto nodded, Hermione had asked where they were at the last meeting, thankfully she had seemed more curious than worried about them ratting them out.

Harry was always amazed how no one seemed to notice them when they came to meetings, the disguised guards usually just talked amongst each other in low Japanese so no one else could understand but he would have thought one of the others would have noticed how they never practiced any spells.

If he'd asked he would have found out that Hinata had come across the Notice Me Not spell and they'd modified it to work with chakra and this is what they used in the meetings. They'd actually had quite a bit of luck with modifying spells to use with chakra, of course it didn't work for everything, the levitation spell had been a big disaster but the Point Me spell, shield spell and summoning spell were some of their successes.

Hinata, in her interest as a medic nin had been receiving some tutoring from Madame Pomfrey about healing potions and had taken to raiding the greenhouses for clippings of the plants needed so she could take them back with her and still make them at home.

Sasuke had also used his Sharingan to copy any useful potions that used plants from home or plants that Hinata had stolen, they were going to be going back home with quite a bit of new information.

Shikamaru had also been successful in modifying the coins, he, Naruto, Yana and Gaara had stayed up for many nights after Kakashi, Sasuke and Hinata had studied them. They were proud to say that they'd created a new seal in the process and managed to change the coins so that they could change the numbers around the edge using chakra and that they could also add letters so that they could send messages in code.

They still received the times for the meetings that Hermione sent but when they sent a message to each other the coin went ice cold instead of heating like when Hermione sent a message.

The last meeting was actually quite boring since they were only practicing spells they'd already done, the only interesting point was when Harry mentioned they might do Patronuses after Christmas.

The shinobi had found this spell in the library and couldn't wait to see it actually done, it sounded quite useful but as Naruto put it: it just sounds mega cool.

"So Iruka-sensei," said Naruto. "You've been here a few weeks already… just how long are you staying for?" Iruka smiled.

"Tsunade-sama said that the school breaks up for Christmas in a few days and I can stay for the Christmas holidays," he said happily. Kakashi hugged him tightly.

"You should have said earlier, I've been worrying thinking each day was my last before you have to go back."

"Well my students are already on vacation so I'm not really needed there, it can't hurt to have another shinobi here as well," he said with a shrug.

"This is great!" cried Naruto. "We'll all be together at Christmas."

"We still have to keep an eye on Harry though," reminded Gaara. "If he goes somewhere we have to follow." Sasuke raised an eyebrow.

"How are you two going to pull that off?" he asked. "I know everyone knows that you know us but you're suppose to be teachers, how would you explain your presence? For that matter, what would we say? To their knowledge we're only protecting the school, not Harry specifically."

"Dumbledore said he would make some excuses," explained Gaara with a shrug. Shikamaru burst through the door.

"Come on get moving!"

"It's late, some of us want to sleep," moaned Kakashi.

"We have to get to Dumbledore's office now! He's sending Harry and the Weasleys off somewhere! If we don't get there now we'll miss them!" cried Shikamaru.

"What on earth is he thinking?" groaned Kakashi. "Moving them in the middle of the night… without telling us! Just what is he doing?" he cried as they all rushed around getting their gear together before disappearing in a cloud of smoke to reappear in Dumbledore's office.

Yana was there waiting for them standing next to Dumbledore.

"Good you made it," she said with a sigh of relief. "Come on, we're travelling by portkey." Naruto groaned.

"I hate those!" Harry and the Weasleys looked bewildered.

"Wait a minute why are the guards coming?" asked Harry. "You're going to let them into Grimmauld Place?" Naruto grabbed Harry making him touch the portkey.

"No time now, we have to go!" Kakashi turned away from talking to Dumbledore.

"Gaara, Iruka and I will join you once term ends in a few days, we'll be bringing Hermione with us," he explained. Yana nodded.

"See you in a few days then." Then they were gone.

They reappeared again in Grimmauld Place, headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix. Sirius immediately pulled Harry into a bear hug.

"Harry!" The shinobi were immediately on guard.

"Damn it! I hate those things!" groaned Naruto. "You never know what's waiting at the other side." Sirius saw them and bristled.

"Shinobi!" The shinobi each pulled out a weapon. "What the hell are shinobi doing here?" Harry stepped between them.

"It's ok Sirius! They're guards, Dumbledore hired them to protect the school," he explained. Sirius shook his head.

"Shinobi… what is he thinking? Well he could have done a lot worse… but letting them come here!" he exclaimed. Yana slowly holstered her weapon, the others followed suit, she bowed to Sirius.

"I'm very sorry that we have intruded uninvited into your home but Dumbledore asked that we accompany them," she explained softly. "We must follow Harry as part of our mission since he is the one most in danger." She bowed again. "I beg forgiveness for the intrusion." She looked up at him. "Also… you have heard of our kind before? May I ask where from?" Sirius looked uncomfortable upon realising that Yana was a girl.

"I heard lots of rumours… lots of bad ones, mainly about some shinobi called Akatsuki," he muttered. The shinobi bristled.

"That band of shinobi has been destroyed," growled Naruto. "They deserved what ever rumours you heard about them. We'd prefer it if you didn't group us together with them." Sirius looked surprised at their hatred.

"You knew them?"

"We were the ones that destroyed them, they killed without much reason and brought nothing but pain to many," Naruto snarled. "They were responsible for the deaths of many good shinobi." Yana clamped a hand on to his shoulder.

"Enough Fox. We made our peace with that long ago, don't bring it all up again," she warned. "I'm afraid we don't really know why we are here sir. We were only given a few minutes notice before we had to get to the portkey," she said apologetically.

The shinobi listened while Sirius explained what had happened to Mr Weasley and the reason why they were all here now.

"So Harry saw it happen in a dream?" asked Hinata. Harry nodded hesitantly. "It's lucky you did, they'll be able to find him very quickly." The Weasley's relaxed a little and Sirius led them all in to the kitchen to await news.

"Where's mum?" asked Ginny.

"She went with them," said Sirius, he looked again at the shinobi. "I've never heard of shinobi going masked like that," he said curiously. "Why are you?"

"T o protect our identities," explained Sasuke. "It also signifies our rank, only the highest ranked shinobi wear the animal masks."

"That's ANBU isn't it?" asked Sirius. Sasuke nodded.

"That is correct. You seem to know quite a lot about us." Sirius grimaced.

"When you spend twelve years in prison you can learn a lot of things, even if most of the inhabitants are crazy." Naruto shrugged.

"We wouldn't know, we don't tend to keep prisons, it's much easier to kill any threats."

"It's simpler for you," explained Sirius. "That is your way of life, wizards are forbidden to kill anyone." Yana snorted.

"Well you have at least one wizard who doesn't seem to have let that stop him," she muttered. "Your Voldemort sounds almost as crazy as our Orochimaru was. And both of them are snake bastards."

"Was?" She smirked.

"We killed him."

Suddenly a letter appearing saying that Mr Weasley had been found and was being treated at St Mungo's, it was a long night as they waited for news of him being stable. It wasn't until sometime around five in the morning when Mrs Weasley arrived to tell them he was going to make it, the Weasleys were nearly crying with relief.

Hinata helped Sirius and Harry make breakfast for everyone and the shinobi had fun annoying Sirius by not letting him see their faces while they ate. A tired looking man appeared moments later and was introduced as Remus Lupin, he was also stunned by the sight of the shinobi.

"Sirius what…?" He shrugged.

"Dumbledore sent them, he hired them to protect Harry and the school." They glared at him and hissed. Harry looked outraged.

"To protect me?" he cried. "I… I… I'm going upstairs!" He ran out the room and Naruto rolled his eyes before disappearing after him. Yana turned to Sirius.

"That aspect of our mission was to be kept a secret so that he would not be aware he was constantly being guarded," she said calmly. Shikamaru, Sasuke and Hinata took a step back from her which George noticed with interest having seen them do something similar before.
"It was in his best interests that he was not aware we were to guard him specifically as we knew it would anger him," she continued. The other shinobi now stood at the opposite end of the room with the wizards looking on wondering what was going on. "You have now disclosed that information and made him angry which was not wise… I am very angry right now and I'm fully contemplating disembowelling you in the most painful way possible." The shinobi flinched as her killing intent flooded the room.
"However… I was ordered to not harm anyone in the Order, you are also Harry's godfather and he doesn't need to lose anyone else so I will refrain from harming you. It will also save my team a lot of paperwork when they have to explain why exactly I disembowelled you." The shinobi breathed a sigh of relief.
"However," she turned to Shikamaru who froze. "Stag, I badly need a cigarette to calm me down, so outside now." She left towing him behind her and Sirius sagged into a chair.

"I'm impressed," said Sasuke.

"Why?" asked Ron.

"He waited until after she was gone to collapse, most people turn into a gibbering wreck before she's even finished speaking," he explained. "She used to do that a lot to me and Fox when we were younger and wouldn't behave." He sighed. "She's still one of the scariest people I know which is saying a lot."

A few minutes later she came back in still dragging Shikamaru and sighed happily.

"I feel much better." She cocked her head towards the ceiling listening. "And Fox has Harry calmed down, good. Now," she turned to Sirius who immediately stiffened. "Why do you smell like a dog? And why does he smell like a wolf?" she asked pointing to Lupin.

"How can you smell that?" cried Remus. She tapped the nose of her mask.

"I have a very sensitive nose, it might as well be a wolf's hence my name," she explained. "Now explain." They both shifted uncomfortably.

"It's ok," said Harry coming back in wearily. "You can tell them, they won't tell anyone." Sirius snorted.

"If Voldemort's people got hold of them they'd have no choice." Hinata slowly shook her head.

"In the event of capture with no possible escape and it being highly probable that we will be forced to release vital information we are ordered to self terminate," she said quietly. The wizards all stared at her.

"You're ordered to… kill yourself?" whispered Ginny. Hinata nodded.

"Yes. We hold our rank with pride and it would be an insult to give away information that may be vital to the success of a mission. So even at the risk of our own side losing the information it is still considered better that our enemy doesn't get that information either." There was a shocked silence before Yana spoke again.

"Will you tell us now?" she asked. "I'm already pissed off that you would question our abilities like that."

"I can turn in to a dog," said Sirius. "I'm an Animagus."

"I'm a … werewolf," said Lupin hesitantly, he was surprised when the shinobi laughed and clapped Yana on the back.

"Hey Wolf you could be related," joked Naruto.

"Yeah, you should sniff each other out," taunted Sasuke. Yana seemed perfectly calm until she bashed their heads together.

"That's only funny up to a certain point and you're terrible at making jokes about it," she said. "I don't make fun of your animals and I could very easily."

"So… your name is Wolf?" said Sirius. She nodded.

"For this mission yes. It is my code name; we each have one as we are not allowed to disclose our real names on missions such as these. My team are Fox, Raven, Rabbit and Stag." They all saluted. "When you decide to visit Mr Weasley we shall accompany you." They all looked uncertain.

"You can't walk into the hospital wearing those masks," said Lupin. "Everyone will think that you're Death eaters." Yana smirked.

"I didn't say we would be wearing masks."

"So how do we look?" asked Yana as the wizards waited at the bottom of the stairs for them. Everyone gaped except Harry, they had henged so they looked like they had the times they had come to the meetings for the DA.

"You're using those disguises again?" Harry asked. Ron turned to him.

"You already knew?" He nodded.

"Wolf told me." Yana grinned.

"It's so great not to wear a mask," she sighed happily. Naruto nodded vigorously.

"Definitely… but why do I have to be a girl again," he cried.

"Because that disguise is the easiest for you," she said sighing. "Now quit complaining, we need to get going."

The look on the twins' faces was hilarious, the shinobi could see them practically bursting to ask whether Naruto was actually with Gaara or if it had been part of the disguise. Moody and Tonks were also escorting them to the hospital and Moody seemed to approve of the shinobi which made everyone curious especially since they seemed to respect him too.

They asked at the desk when they got to St Mungo's to find Mr Weasley and Mrs Weasley greeted them outside his ward. She hugged Harry tightly.

"Thank you dear, if you hadn't seen they might not have found him in time," she said through tears.

"It's ok Mrs Weasley," he muttered. She ushered them in to see him while Tonks and Moody waited outside.

"But who are these other children?" she asked puzzled noticing the shinobi for the first time.

"They're shinobi Molly," explained Moody before the door closed.

"But they're just children!" Naruto pouted.

"We're in disguise, this isn't what we actually look like." Yana sniffed the air and winced.

"Urgh! I hate the smell of hospitals, all the sickness and disease in the air… it makes me ill," she moaned. "Mr Weasley has had poison in his system too, a nasty one."

"How can you tell that?" asked Mrs Weasley amazed.

"I have a very strong nose, it's at times like this I wish I didn't though." She sniffed again and wandered over to a man in another bed.

The other shinobi shrugged and followed the wizards to Mr Weasley's bed. He waved cheerfully at them despite being covered in bandages.

"Hi kids," he called. They listened as Mr Weasley explained about the snake bites and mentioned that the patient Yana had wandered over to was a werewolf.

"I wonder if the girl talking to him knows?" he mused. They all sighed.

"Probably." He looked surprised.

"What makes you say that?"

"She has a very good sense of smell," said Fred. "She guessed about Lupin and Sirius too." Arthur turned to look at her again.

"Interesting… and she's a shinobi? I heard some shinobi have special talents, her family must be interesting." The shinobi looked uncomfortable.

"She wouldn't know," said Shikamaru. "She's never really known them."

"But I thought Kakashi-sensei was her older brother?" queried Harry.

"They adopted each other, he was the one that found her when her entire family was murdered in front of her when she was two." There was a shocked silence.

"That's horrible," gasped Ginny.

"It's lucky she was so young, she won't have remembered," said Tonks sympathetically. Naruto laughed bitterly.

"You think? She developed really fast; she remembers every single detail of that night. Her entire clan, which was nearly a hundred people, all murdered before her eyes. That's basically her only memory of them, seeing them all die. She's the only one left, she'll never know what it's like, having a group of people like her."

Yana wandered back over to catch his last comment and rolled her eyes hitting him over the head.

"Baka, it just makes me unique," she told him. "It happened a long time ago, I've lived nearly my entire life with Onii-chan so he's more family to me than them. It's had no detrimental effects on my life so stop bringing it up with such sad faces." The shinobi all stared at her until she sighed, face palming. "Fine, ok. It had two detrimental effects, happy? It's not like they come up that often though," she muttered moodily.

"Yes because a continuous nightmare and a condition that makes you go on a killing spree when someone close to you is put in mortal danger is no big deal," said Naruto sarcastically.

They were eventually all sent outside when they started asking too many questions about what Mr Weasley had been doing when he was bitten. It didn't stop them from eavesdropping though using these things the twins had made called Extendable Ears.

Hearing that they thought Harry was possibly being possessed though put a real dampener on things. The shinobi could see that Harry was on the verge of panic and on impulse Yana pulled him into a hug.

"Shhh its ok," she whispered. "We'll figure it out, he isn't possessing you and we won't let him."

Sasuke put a sympathetic hand on his shoulder, he could understand what he was feeling since Orochimaru had wanted to possess him. Harry seemed to take comfort from Yana as he refused to lose contact with her until they got back to Grimmauld Place where he hid himself in his room.

Yana snuck into his room while everyone was eating dinner and stared sadly at his curled up figure on the bed. He shouldn't have to going through this, he wasn't a shinobi, wasn't a soldier, he was still just a child. She sat there in silence until he finally turned to face her.

"What do you want?" he whispered miserably.

"I talked to Ginny," she said. "She was possessed by him wasn't she?" Harry sat up with a start, he'd completely forgotten about that. "Going from how she described it I don't think you've ever been possessed by him, unless you have blank spots in your memory you've not told anyone about." He shook his head and looked at her with so much desperate hope it was painful. "Then you were not possessed."

The smile that broke on his face was heart breaking, before it had just been their job to protect him, but now, for her, it was something she refused to fail at in any way. Anything to protect the young child she could see hiding inside this pressured boy.

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