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Chapter 14

" I want you to come with me." said Jiraya and smiled at his blonde pupil.

Naruto gasped and tightened his grip around Hinata's hand. Sasuke and Sakura seemed to be unhappy, Shikamaru and Neji were muttering, Kiba and Lee were observing the legendary sannin carefully and Sai was staring at Naruto.

" No." said Naruto after a while and shook his head. Hinata gasped briefly, as well as Kiba and Lee. Jiraya wasn't expecting that answer.

" I see..." he said after he threw a look at the hands of the two young shinobi. " Naruto, that's a chance for you to learn something new from your master...And I don't mean anything including women...Think about it..."

" Ero-sennin...I am on a mission at the moment, I can't just leave this place now...It's important for me, dattebayo! Can't you just... stay here with us for a while and teach me stuff here? "

Naruto looked straight into his master's eyes. The old man was looking at him with no expression on his face.

" Jiraya-sama, " Sakura whispered. " You can't just take Naruto away now, you have to talk to Tsunade-sama first and, well, Naruto has to agree. And let's not forget about Kakashi-sensei!"

" I won't take him away." said the man with the white hair and smiled. " I'll stay here for a while, I'll teach you here, Naruto, I hope you'll manage to do it in time!"

Naruto grinned.

" Thanks, Ero-sennin! Ne, what will you teach me? I'm sure it will be something really badass... Oh, and how the hell did you come in here? There's a wall protecting the grounds from intruders."

Jiraya flinched.

" What wall? I just came in here..."

Shikamaru and Neji shot a glare at each other and stood up.

" The defenses are down, they could attack any moment!" whispered Shikamaru and started talking. " Kakashi and Yamato are somewhere in the castle... Lee, you're one of the fastest here, go inform Dumbledore immediately. Tell him to come to the Great Hall as soon as possible. Sai, find Yamato and you, Neji, find Kakashi. Bring them there too. The others... Sakura and Sasuke, go to the Forbidden Forest. Naruto and Hinata will go to the lake. Ino, Kiba-the orangeries. I'll explain everything to the adults. Jiraya-sama..."

" I'll take the castle." said the man and nodded to the Nara.

" Be careful out there!" warned the boy and Ino sighed, while transforming the black robe into her usual purple outfit.

" You don't have to warn us, Shikamaru, we're not retarded!"

The boy caught her shoulders tight and looked her straight into her eyes.

" Be careful, Ino! Me and Choji won't be there..."

" I will..." said Kiba, but nobody was listening to him. They were all scattering.

All the staff of the castle was in the Great Wall, as well as Shikamaru. The other ninja left to check on the grounds.

" Do everything possible to ..."

" Why is this little boy ordering us what to do? " Umbridge said, interrupting Shikamaru's sentence. Professor McGonnagal shot her a death glare, but Dumbledore spoke calmly.

" He's a shinobi, or a ninja, if you prefer..."

Umbridge, as well as the other adults, except for Minerva McGonnagal and Madam Pomfrey, gasped. The pink toad looked at Shikamaru, who changed his robe into his usual chuunin outfit and muttered something. The woman was now scared.

" D-Dumbledore, you can't accept those... those... "

" Those what?" Shikamaru narrowed his eyes,suddenly angered by the old witch. " Let me tell you something, you old hag, you should be generous that we are here,after all your world has done to ours! The fact that you are the kids of the ones who betrayed our countries, the ones that were against us, was enough to persuade us not to help you. If it wasn't for Professor Dumbledore you all would have been dead. Because if he hadn't managed to make our leader send us here, you would've been dead long ago, when this castle was attacked by the ninja on Voldemort's side."

Umbridge was speechless.

" You know about the history..." whispered Professor Binns, the ghost, and the Nara nodded.

" When those ninja, who decided to abandon their comrades decades ago, they left our secret lands. So they came here, and slowly, their chakra started weakening, because of the circumstances. It became so weak, that they couldn't even take it out of their body. So their ancestors found a way to draw it out, those sticks of yours, without them you're nothing! So, like I said, you should be grateful, that we're here!"

Shikamaru was hissing in Umbridge's face, which had red flecks from anger on it.

" However, I explained everything to you, do something, use your brains a little and think of something that could help us protect those kids here..."

" And who gave you the right to be so bossy? You were hired, don't forget it, boy!You must show respect to..."

Umbridge's eyes rolled because of the unexpected hit on the back of her head. She fell on the ground unconscious.

" Sorry, she was getting on my nerves..." Sasuke said and turned to Shikamaru. " The woods are clear, as well as the other school grounds. Hurry up and make this barrier thing again. Jiraya's working on some kind of a seal for this place, that would do its own barrier. "

Shikamaru nodded.

" You heard him, Professor Dumbledore!"

" Right, everybody, please...you know what to do. "

The teachers nodded and each one of them headed to the windows. They took out their wands and started muttering some spells.

" Good job, Sasuke!" Shikamaru smirked as he took a look at the body of the woman on the floor. Sasuke didn't smile.

" The way she talked...she thought they were something better than us...I know myself and everybody is better than me in any aspect... But to hear someone talking like this for you, for Sakura and Naruto, for the others...it's just unacceptable! That's not what that woman deserves, she has to pay for this.."

Shikamaru was highly surprised by his comrade's words. He had always thought that Sasuke was really egoistic and arrogant. But this...no.

" And that detention, remember?" growled Sasuke " I was ready to kill her back than. Her trump card was that she didn't suspect anything about what we were at that time. "

" I have to warn you, Sasuke, don't bother her anymore, she's from their Ministry of Magic. If they think, that we threaten or abuse their employee, they won't just sit there. And at the moment, I don't think that Tsunade would be happy if we bring more and more enemies."

" Shikamaru, we're done. If there's anything else we could do tell us!" Minerva McGonnagal was looking at the boy with respect in her eyes.

" Yes, can you somehow guard the school from the inside?"

The headmaster and the woman looked at each other and she smirked. She lifted her wand.

"Piertotum Lokomotor!"

The statues around them started moving and soon, a tiny army was standing in front of the people.

" Protect the students, guards the entrances to the Common rooms and guard the hallways! In case there's some intruder, inform us! GO!" The transfiguration teacher was happy and concerned at the same time, as the statues started moving towards the exit of he castle.

" That will work. We'll send our clones all over the place too. Naruto's already covered all the grounds outside, he left us the castle" Sasuke formed a seal and hundreds of him were appearing behind him. The wizards' eyes were widening. Shikamaru did the same and soon there was no more space in the Hall. They transformed their clones into insects and send them off to every corner of the castle.

" Impressive, boys!" said Dumbledore cheerfully " Now go to sleep all of you, you deserve to rest... Madam Pomfrey, I believe that a little 'Obliviate' won't be bad in her case"

The nurse laughed and headed to Umbridge, while the two boys were leaving the room. All their friends were in front of the castle's entrance.

" Everything should be fine now..." said Shikamaru and smiled to Ino. " Jiraya-sama, it won't be bad to introduce yourself to the headmaster, since you'll be staying here for a while..."

" I'm going to bed, dattebayo! I've used up so much chakra for those clones, they should be enough to beat up the whole ninja population... Come on, Hinata!"

Both of them left, followed by the other teenage shinobi.

" Jiraya-sama, what are the real reasons for you to be here at this time? Did you know about the barrier? Or is it something else?"

Jiraya sighed at Kakashi.

" Tsunade told me, that they're after the Kyubi. First you said they were only the Uchiha, Hoshigake Kisame and Zetsu. Then Sasori appeared, which means that Deidara's here too... I just couldn't stay there, knowing, that my pupil is in danger. Naruto's just too precious for me, Kakashi , and you know it."

Kakashi nodded and turned to Yamato.

" You should sleep too, Yamato, you've been working too hard! I'll introduce Jiraya and then I'll write the report to Tsunade. "

"Hai."

Yamato left, leaving Jiraya and Kakashi behind.

" I have to give you something before I leave, Kakashi. I have to give you the key to the seal of the Kyubi."

Kakashi's eye widened.

" You must be kidding me."

Jiraya simply shook his head.

"I'll explain later, i have to introduce myself to people now!"

" Stop it, Ino! You'll wake her up!" Sakura hissed at the girl who was complaining about Shikamaru and looked to the sleeping Hermione on the bed next to her.

" You stop it, Sakura, I'm frustrated... He doesn't have to talk to me like I'm an idiot, I can take care of myself! He's such a pain in the ass sometimes!"

The Hyuga heiress giggled.

" It's not fun, Hinata! At least Naruto and Sasuke are not that overly-attached!"

" Oh, Ino, you have no idea how attached Sasuke is! But, wait, are you dating Shikamaru?" Sakura asked confused.

" Hm, no, if I were I would've told you! But he is acting so...weird..."

The girls exchanged looks.

" We have more important things to think about now! The Akatsuki might attack at any moment, once we leave the castle tomorrow. That's bothering me, since Hermione told us about Hogsmeade." Sakura whispered, but Hinata shook her head slightly.

" I don't think they would attack tomorrow. In front of the students, the teachers, the other wizards in that village...I just think, that they would try something bigger. And, well, they were able to attack the castle twice already, but they've done nothing! Which makes me think, that they are observing, for now... If they're planning on something, the thing they've been observing this place, well it would be scandalous..."

" That's not calming us, Hinata..." Ino said and yawned.

" Hinata, Sasori was going to kill me...just because I was there. In my opinion, that's not just 'observing'..."

" But you were with your usual clothes there, you had your haori, you had your headband, you had your...I don't know, sandals and gloves!It's not the usual outfit for a teenage girl... He noticed that for sure and he decided on attacking. Because, well...one enemy less is better, right?"

Sakura and Ino couldn't say anything, because they knew, that Hinata was right. Each one of them tuned their faces away from the others. They were concerned...probably even a little scared. Hinata gritted her teeth. They were after Naruto, she couldn't just stay there and do wanted to help him, the way he had helped her all her life...

' I will die to protect you, Naruto...I love you!'

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