Hey, i'm so amazed another update so soon!
It's not as long as the last few but i really wanted to post something and i'm lacking inspiration for my other stories at the moment, or at least for the bits after what i've already written.
Hope you enjoy!
The next day Harry was thankfully a lot better and everyone could tell, the adults who didn't know were just glad he seemed to be over whatever had had him so down, the ones who had been eavesdropping wondered what Yana had said to him but knew not to pry. In the morning Hermione arrived with Gaara, Kakashi and Iruka in tow.
"Umbridge was furious that you'd gone," she gushed. "But she couldn't do anything and she didn't know where you'd gone." Harry and Ron frowned.
"So why are those three with you?" they asked looking at them talking to the guards.
"I don't really know, Dumbledore sent them with me. For some reason they can't stay at Hogwarts and since he was the one that asked them here to teach he can't put them in danger, sending them here was the safest option," she explained. Sirius moaned when he saw them.
"More shinobi? It's bad enough with those five, now there's eight!" he groaned holding his head in his hands. The kids all frowned.
"Actually Gaara and Kakashi-sensei are teachers at our school, they've been teaching a new class, how we can defend ourselves if we can't use magic," explained Fred.
"Iruka is a messenger for the guards though," said George. Sirius was looking at them all like they were stupid.
"Yeah, they're teaching you shinobi techniques. They'd have to be shinobi themselves to know them," he said slowly. They all turned to stare at the shinobi. Yana sighed.
"Sirius, I like you but you have a bad habit of disclosing some of our important information."
"So you are shinobi?" asked Harry. Kakashi and Gaara exchanged glances before nodding.
"We have ranks for shinobi," said Iruka. "Gennin are the lowest rank, that's what you are when you graduate. Chunin are the next rank up and are about middle abilities, that's what I am. Jounin are the highest rank which is what the others are."
"But you're older than most of them aren't you?" asked Hermione.
"Age doesn't have anything to do with it," laughed Iruka. "I don't want to become a Jounin, I'll have to fight more and won't be able to teach as much. But there are levels within Jounin too. You get those that are just Jounin which means they are very high level and powerful, there are also special Jounin, which have a certain skill that makes them specialised in certain areas. Then there are the ANBU that is what Wolf, Fox, Raven, Rabbit, Stag and even Kakashi are when they are called out," he explained.
"So what's Gaara?" asked Ginny. "You didn't mention." Iruka glanced at Gaara who nodded.
"Gaara is even higher than that, he's what we call a Kage."
"What's that?" asked Hermione curiously.
"A Kage is the most powerful shinobi in the village and gives orders to all the other shinobi, you could call them our ruler I guess except they are chosen by the people and are as good at fighting as all those in service."
"So Gaara is your Kage?"
"No," said Kakashi. "I explained to you in the very first lesson that Gaara is from a different village to us. He is great friends with our village and asked to come with us because," Kakashi sniggered here, "he was bored." They all deadpanned.
"He was bored?" Gaara huffed.
"Being Kazekage is great and all but all the paperwork gets boring and they aren't very willing to let me go on missions because they don't want to risk me getting hurt," he explained. Yana sighed.
"Look most of our secrets are out so we might as well take off our masks," she said. Kakashi looked severely at her.
"That is against the rules."
"We won't tell them our names," she said. "And there's nobody here who could betray us without us knowing."
"Yes! Please can we take them off?" cried Naruto. "I want to feel air on my face!" Kakashi sighed and reluctantly nodded. Yana slid her mask off and grinned.
"That's so much better," she sighed. The wizards all stared at her.
"You just took your mask off!" gasped Hermione. "But-"
"You know a lot of our secrets already now, so we figured that while we're here there isn't much point keeping these on. I'm afraid we still can't tell you our names though," she said smiling apologetically. The boys all gaped.
"You're the captain? You don't look old enough!" She snorted.
"I'm twenty one as I've already told you, that's plenty old enough." They turned to look at the other shinobi.
"Wow! You all look really young," said Hermione. "How old are you?"
"We're all eighteen," said Hinata. Lupin frowned.
"Aren't you a bit young for this? Especially a job this dangerous, you should still be in school," he said. They all laughed.
"Are you kidding?" gasped Naruto. "We've been official shinobi for six years!"
"Six years…" muttered Sirius. "You mean since you were twelve?"
"I did tell the kids in their first class," tutted Kakashi. "We start school around ages four and five and most students graduate when they're twelve."
"Wait!" cried Ron. "Gaara told us he was 18, but you just said he's in charge of a village! And he tells everyone what to do?" Gaara twitched.
"I've been Kazekage since I was fourteen," he said. "I'm well capable of the job after having done it for four years."
"I want to be Hokage!" cried Naruto. They all snickered at him.
"Fox you've been saying that since forever," laughed Yana. He pouted.
"I will be one day," he huffed.
She nodded and smiled. "I know." Ginny peered at them all closely and pouted.
"It's so unfair." Everyone turned to her. "You're all really strong and powerful and stuff and all of you look beautiful too! It isn't fair!" The shinobi blinked.
"Excuse me?" asked Hinata bemused. "You think we're all beautiful?" Ginny nodded.
"None of you have spots and you all have really nice facial features," she listed. "Not to mention you're all pretty…toned," she said with a blush before turning to Kakashi. "Well I don't know about Kakashi-sensei since we can't see three quarters of his face." Kakashi laughed.
"Nice try, I'm not going to remove my mask, I wear it for personal reasons," he explained grinning.
"What reasons?" asked the twins.
"Well the official shinobi reason is so that it's harder for people to tell what I'm thinking." He smirked. "But I just like driving people crazy trying to figure out what I look like." They all face planted. "Only two people who are still alive have ever seen my face."
"Who? And why that are still alive?" asked Harry curiously. Kakashi smiled.
"I either killed the others or they died by someone else's hand." He chuckled. "Wolf has seen my face, but then she is my little sister, Iruka has also seen my face."
"You two must be really close friends then," said Hermione smiling. Sasuke snorted.
"More like Iruka-sensei can't really kiss his mask all the time," he said. There was an embarrassed silence as the wizards took in the remark and Iruka turned bright red, Naruto and Yana hit Sasuke over the head.
"Baka!" they hissed. Remus tilted his head.
"The two of you are seeing each other?" he asked curiously. Kakashi grinned and pulled Iruka into a hug.
"Yep. He's mine, my cute little dolphin." Iruka if possible went even redder. Yana rolled her eyes.
"Please don't start calling each other those names," she sighed. "I mean I know there's a reason for them but still!"
"Why is he dolphin?" asked Sirius. Kakashi smiled brightly.
"The characters for Iruka also means dolphin," he explained. "That and the scar across his nose reminds me of a bottlenose dolphin." Iruka elbowed him.
"The characters for Kakashi mean scarecrow," he said with a grin, Ginny laughed.
"Well it suites him, his hair is such a scarecrow mess!" she chuckled.
"But you're two guys!" exclaimed Ron. "Isn't that… weird?" They all rolled their eyes.
"You know we had to explain this one to your teachers too," said Gaara. "Because being a shinobi comes with a high risk of death if we find someone we like we put our all into that relationship regardless of gender. Everyone supports us too because we know we may very well only have a limited time left to live." There was silence for a few minutes before Naruto glomped Gaara.
"That's my Gaara! That's was so sweet!" he cried. "My panda-kun!" Harry raised an eyebrow.
"Let me guess… those two are also together." Yana sighed.
"Yep. You know that time you asked if the pairing were true? Well they are." Harry frowned.
"So you're with whoever Shaun was?" he asked. She shook her head vigorously.
"No! I'm not with Stag, I'm not with anyone!" she protested, Shikamaru sighed.
"I feel so unloved," he muttered to the others amusement.
It was Christmas Eve and everyone was just lounging around in the main room of the house. They'd seen members of the Order passing through up until then and were actually pretty bored since the house didn't need protecting, they had fun exploring though since there were still a few dangerous items lurking in the rooms.
The shinobi kept their masks on though unless only the Weasleys, Hermione, Harry, Sirius or Lupin were there, then they took them off. They said they'd rather keep what they looked like to only a few people in case somebody leaked the information. They reasoned they'd be able to find the culprit easier if they only had a small number of people to check.
Kakashi and Iruka were cuddled up on the sofa with Yana sat looking bored next to them. Gaara and Naruto were whispering frantically in Japanese and Sasuke, Hinata, Shikamaru and Hermione were watching Ron and Harry play wizard's chess. Shikamaru frowned thoughtfully.
"It looks similar to a game we have," he commented. Harry surrendered his King and sighed.
"Do you want to play Ron then?" he asked. "I'm not very good at this."
Shikamaru nodded and took his place. They reset the board and Ron explained to him how each of the pieces were allowed to move. Ron went first and waited for a few minutes before Shikamaru moved a piece. The watching wizards were amazed when Shikamaru won the game in five moves.
"No way!" gasped Ron as his King was captured. Sasuke and Hinata patted him on the back.
"If it's any consolation," said Hinata. "He's never been beaten but Wolf and
Kakashi-san always manage to get a draw." The wizards gaped at her. "His I.Q. is over 200 or something ridiculously high like that, Wolf and Kakashi-san have a very similar I.Q. to him," she explained. Harry turned round to face Wolf.
"Will you play him?" he asked. She sighed and pushed herself off the sofa and stretched.
"I suppose, got nothing else to do," she said with a yawn. She ambled over and sat down as Shikamaru set up the board again. He moved one piece and then they sat there in silence staring at the board for ten minutes or so before they both sighed.
"Impossible," they said. "A draw."
"What!" exclaimed Ron. "You only moved one piece!" Sasuke sighed heavily.
"It's kind of creepy, it's like they can read each other's mind… well actually Wolf can since she's telepathic," he said. "They can predict exactly the moves the other will make, they don't need to move any pieces, they almost play the game in their head." Across the room Naruto burst out crying and clamped on to Gaara. "Fox what are you doing?"
"He's going to leave!" cried Naruto still clinging to Gaara who sighed.
"Only for tonight, I'm coming back in the morning," he said.
"Why are you leaving?" asked Yana.
"I should really check on my brother and sister and make sure they're running the village ok while I'm gone," he explained rubbing his face. "That and I should go tell them Merry Christmas." She nodded.
"I won't stop you, especially if it's only going to be for tonight." She disappeared for a few seconds then came back holding lots of parcels. "Can you give these to people?" she asked. "It's their Christmas presents, I got them on behalf of all of us." The other looked guilty until she started hitting them over the head. "Don't look so guilty I took the money out of your pay," she said ignoring their outbursts. "You did get something each for those of us here right?" They all nodded. "Then its fine, I just made sure everyone else got something too," she said handing the packages to Gaara. His eye twitched.
"I feel like Santa Clause or something," he muttered before disappearing. Yana laughed and turned back towards the sofa before she groaned, Kakashi and Iruka had gone.
"Don't go anywhere until I come back," she warned before disappearing. She waited a few minutes until she came back. She sat down with a heavy sigh. "Ok… if you find a locked door do not, I repeat, do not open it," she cautioned.
"Why?" asked Ginny curious. Yana snorted.
"You really don't want to walk in on those two," she said bluntly. "You'll be scarred, I had to sound proof their room too." The shinobi shuddered.
"Eww!" cried Naruto. "I didn't want to know that! I know we've already discussed this before but… how do you live with them?"
Told you it wasn't long, oh well i'll make the next one longer.
Hope you liked it, please review.
Btw what do you guys think about a sequel in which Sirius isn't dead?
