Disclaimer: Whom do you think own Naruto and Harry Potter? Not me obviously.
Author's Note:
Chapter Six
The Ride To Hogwarts And The Sorting Ceremony
It has been 2 months after the shopping day in Diagon Alley. The shinobi group has learned about the magical world in an unrivaled pace. Luckily for them since they were not of this world and therefore weren't recorded. That meant that the department for underage magic didn't monitor them and they could do 'magic' (they still insisted that it was just chakra manipulation to Harry) without worries.
The professors (even Snape who has taken a great dislike against them, but didn't dare to do anything because of fear against them and worried that he might got kicked out of Hogwarts) have come there on some occasion to help them learning the magic. At first they were confused and couldn't do anything properly but after watching the way their (the teachers: some of the Hogwarts professors, Tonks, Remus, Charlie, Bill) chakra flowed when they channeled them to the wands, they just like absorbing everything like sponge to water…for a certain area that is.
Sasuke excelled in charm work and has above average transfiguration ability. Got the hex and spells more power than usual. He sucked at divination and average at herbology and potion. He was alright with Arithmancy and ancient rune. He found that history of magic is boring, but useful to be information source about the world they were currently in, mostly he learned it from books instead of from the dull ghost professor (when they first met Binn he was scaring the daylights out of them especially from his grand entrance—going through the door—that is).
Neji was above average at charm and good in transfiguration. His hex and spell works has lesser power than Naruto or Sasuke but still more powerful than usual hex, he could easily control his chakra so he could made it as 'normal' as possible everytime (but found out that it was just a waste of time trying to control his chakra power so he just use as minimal power as possible without trying to control the chakra he used). He was average with others except divination which he definitely sucked at. And he was a man who believe on fate. The irony…
Shikamaru on the other hand has average skill at charm and transfiguration, but excelled in the other areas including history of magic (because of the tactical strategy story and his brilliant mind) and above average in divination. He thought of it as a waste of time though.
The three were regarded as geniuses by the teachers and thought as uncommon. But then they found out the strangest, weirdest, worst and in particular field, strongest person they've ever seen…and probably the most dangerous one they've ever had the fortune (or maybe misfortune depending on your view) to meet was Naruto.
Naruto excelled in transfiguration easily transforming everything to anything he liked making him as Mc Gonagall's new prodigy. He sucked at charm though because he couldn't control how much chakra was needed to use in a spell. The result was usually a disaster because of it. Example: when he was asked to levitate a feather, instead of feather he levitated the whole group in the room 5 meters from the ground except he himself, that wouldn't be a big problem if 5 seconds later they didn't bounce to the walls and ceiling making his friends ready to kill him if they weren't strained by the teachers (who were actually wishing they could just let them do it if not because of they were teachers, afterall they too were victims). Another example: when they asked to conjure a rope and tie it magically to a person, he conjured a living rope, literally. The rope started attacking everyone there except Naruto. Flitwick and the others tried to banish it to no avail. They were panicked when at last Dumbledore came to their rescue and burned the rope (Flitwick said that he could hear the rope screaming when it was burned, the others said the same). Then when he was asked by the weary and nervous Bill (he was the teacher at the time) to expel him instead of doing the right thing, he sent Bill crashing the wooden wall until he actually going through the wall. Ron was screaming bloody murder and ran to his brother finding him knocked out and had a large bump in his head. Bill has to be treated in St. Mungo for 3 whole days because of major concussion and minor trauma. All in all after accident over and over again they treated the young blonde like a plague when it was time to learn about charm. Heck even Flitwick the so-called charm master didn't dare to get near of him less than 20 feet when he did his charm work. His hex and spells like the others called it, was lethal and dangerous that it could possibly killed someone if it hit. That made him a genius DADA student, but also a feared student for his teachers and everybody around him who were afraid that someday his accuracy gone bad and he accidentally killed them. In herbology he ended either destroying all of the plants he was worked with (because it bit him and he was angry) or making all of the plants so terrified of him that Sprout once swore that she saw a mandrake shut up and tried to get away (which should have been deemed impossible since it was a plant and couldn't move on their own) when Naruto screaming to kill it after the mandrake almost 'destroyed' his poor ear.
His potion ability was even worse than Neville if that was even possible because even it was anyone else put the ingredient, but if it was him who stirred the potion it would ended blown up with no reason at all (Snape demanded Dumbledore not to let him join his potion class both in Grimmauld and Hogwarts after one time supervising class and ended up in St. Mungo after an 'accident', claiming that the boy made his life short-lived and more dangerous to his health than Voldemort himself. Dumbledore agreed to his request after he himself almost 'involved' in another accident where he tried to convince Snape to let the boy joined in. Of course Ron complained saying that it wasn't fair because it was him who actually want to get out of potion class). Too bad for others because Naruto fell in love with this 'art' of blowing up. No matter what accident in the potion class he would always got out unscathed, the same couldn't be said for others though, making the others joined Snape in boycotting Dumbledore to ban Naruto from any cauldron. They gawked at him when unlike his horrible potion skill, his cooking skills was top notched after they ate his food (while praying to the God up there to let them live afterwards) as they didn't have the heart to reject them since he used his unbeatable puppy eyes at them. Sasuke was the first to relent against the puppy eyes. And that was the blond's first time cooking too (besides the obvious ramen and other instant food).
In divination Tonks who was actually quite proficient in this art threw him from her class after throwing the crystal ball to her in frustration and got her knocked out for a whole day (he was actually throwing the ball to the door in frustration when suddenly Tonks who after assigned them a task to see the crystal ball exited the room and then came back was hurled by it) and when she was awake she swore that even a bludger didn't hit her that hard. She got him scrubbing the class floor until it was spotless afterwards (and screamed in frustration and banged her head to the nearest wall causing her to get a big lump in her bruised forehead when she found out that instead of cleaned, her 'classroom' was destroyed). He slept throughout history of magic and ended punching the Binn ghost (in his first lesson too) when he tried to wake the boy. And to others' surprise it was actually working and Binn was in coma until now. And because St. Mungo didn't know how to handle a coma ghost who should have been dead in the first place. They couldn't do anything, forcing Dumbledore to search for another professor to fill the History professor position. Harry and the Weasleys children congratulated him for 'forcing Binn to retire' successfully. That was of course after they stared at him like he had grown 2 extra heads. All in all their new history teacher (while they were in the headquarters at least), an order member named Leena Leisely, leaved him alone when he slept throughout her class intending to get married first before got killed by the young energetic boy. Naruto gave up trying to decipher the difference between each star and planet in the astronomy. The same happened with ancient runes, and arithmancy. The only subject they haven't learned was just the practical CoMC because there wasn't enough space in the house (the house occupants were relieved because of this, thinking that the creatures and Naruto would kill each other or worse killed them too in their fighting).
All in all, the once gloomy house has become more… 'livelier' when Naruto and others were there.
"With his potion skill, who will need any explosive tags?" Shikamaru shouted after he ducked under a table to avoid being sprayed by a possibly lethal potion. Beside him, Sasuke and Neji nodded desperately as they saw a frightened Snape bolted out of the room trying to save his own life. The poor man was pulling his own hair in frustration.
"I just hope that it isn't our fate to die yet because of this!" Neji shouted in desperation, for once didn't look as 'cool' as he usually was.
"I'm gonna kill that idiot!" Guess who was that?
Outside of the room Harry Potter and Ron Weasley breathed a sigh of relief, as they didn't need to join the classes the shinobi boys have to take in order to catch up with 5 years learning. But grew somber when they realized that when in Hogwarts they wouldn't have any more choice.
"Good luck guys, you'll need it when we get back to Hogwarts," Ginny said in a sympathetic tone, but they could see some mirth on her eyes.
Both boys groaned loudly. They did like the young blonde man, infact they liked him very much, but they preferred to keep their lives intact.
Harry, Ron, and Ginny were jealous of them though. The boys could use magic anytime they wanted without worry being caught by ministry. Harry himself since he couldn't use any magic only read magical theory from the books he bought 2 months ago in Diagon Alley. Sometimes Sasuke and Neji would join him while Shikamaru slept and Naruto practically made them couldn't concentrate at the books with his loud chattering and then making Sasuke paralyzed him (and then silenced him when the boy protested loudly).
Harry found that with the energetic boy 'calming' presence he could forget about his guilt and worries. He thanked him because of that, but sometimes he wondered how could he make him feel like that. The new group told them some stories about their world to him after they made him promised not to tell anyone about it. The other members only knew that they came from different world and that it had something to do with the crystal unicorn wristbands on Naruto's wrists.
Harry was both fascinated and horrified with their stories. Afterall the boys in front of him were practically born to be a killer, but they assured him that they were okay with that and were actually happy with the life they had. He knew that they didn't tell everything to him, but he didn't care, afterall everyone has their own secrets. Harry in return also told them his adventures. They were especially interested in his 2nd year when he said he killed a basilisk.
Dumbledore would sometimes come to learn about those wristbands, but he still hasn't gotten a clue on how to return them to their own world. The old man even set up a research group which was compromised of Remus, Mc Gonagall, Flitwick, and Tonks to solve the mystery behind them. But with the order got busy with death eaters attacks and other things, they found the time was lacking.
They got 3 letters so far from Hermione. She was going on vacation with her parents in Romania. From her letters she seemed happy. The duo boys of gryffindor trio haven't told her about their new friends thinking that they could always introduce them to the boys later in the train. She would obviously not like it, but they wanted to see her surprised face
Now after 2 moths since their appearances they were ready to go to Hogwarts.
"Ne, Sasuke, did you see my toothbrush?" Naruto asked from the bathroom frantically.
"You put them last night in the side table," he shouted from the bedroom as he packed his clothes and books to a trunk. He separated the weapons he got in different compartment. Sasuke turned to Naruto who has gotten his toothbrush. "I've put your belongings to your trunk, but you better checked them once more."
"Thanks" it was maybe odd to see them like that if they were younger, but they have developed a special friendship…and another different type of relationship too. But when they were asked both would deny them though they didn't believe their words seeing the bond between them.
"Guys, we'll leave in 10 minutes. Hurry up!" Harry shouted from the door before bolted back to his own room to pack.
When Naruto has made sure that he brought everything, the shinobi group exited the room and went downstairs. They saw that Ron and Ginny weren't there probably haven't finished packing yet. The Weasley elders (Molly and Arthur) gestured them to get into the cabs, and they complied.
97 minutes later they arrived at the station and went to platform 9 ¾ hurriedly. The group was glad that four of them could use magic outside school so they could shrunk their trunks and were quite free from any load. They helped Harry with his trunk too, but the same couldn't be said to Ron and Ginny because they didn't have the time to do it and there was no way they would use magic publicly. Harry offered to help Ginny causing her to blush madly (and made Harry became very nervous, not because he like her or something like that but because of the fact that she still got a crush to him and he just sees her as a friend), but he then found out that probably wasn't a good option when his arm almost fallen off because of the weight. He looked incredulously at the trunk wondering what might have been stored there. Naruto who saw this helped him carry it effortlessly much to his dismay.
"Harry you first, then Naruto, Sasuke, Neji, and Shikamaru. Ginny you're afterwards and then your brother and us," Molly ushered the children.
"If you haven't told us about this, I would think that you're out of your mind to pass through the wall," Naruto muttered to Harry who grinned back and stepped through the wall followed by Naruto and the rest.
The boys were awed by the sight of the train although they didn't let it show (except Naruto who was bouncing along the way). Harry guided them to an empty compartment. Ginny who got her trunk back from Naruto went to her housemates' compartment and wave them good-bye.
The boys settled to their compartment. Ron and Shikamaru played chess while the rests were reading (or in Naruto's case sleeping with his back against Sasuke's. 5 minutes later the compartment door was opened by a bushy haired girl. She stared at the foreign boys before asking Harry a silent question.
"Hey, Hermione. How's your summer?" she came in and put her trunk beside her.
Ron looked up from his game and wave to Hermione. "Yo, Hermione," but her gaze directed to the 4 strangers there.
"Who're they?" she asked cautiously. It was no matter that they were handsome; her experience with Lockharts has reminded her. But Harry and Ron seemed at ease with them…
"Oh that's right, you didn't know them. Guys," he called their attentions. Naruto peeked from his eyes and sat up when he saw her. "She's Hermione Granger, our best friend."
"Yeah, I know. You have told us many times before," Hermione raised her eyebrow at the blonde boy. Many times?
"Right. Hermione, the he is Naruto Uzumaki, beside him is Sasuke Uchiha. The one who played against Ron is Shikamaru Nara. And beside me is Neji Hyuuga." Her eyes stared longer when she saw Neji's eyes. She gulped when he glared.
"Oh, sorry I don't mean to become rude, but are you…" she trailed off.
"I'm not blind," he said coldly knowing what she wanted to say. He had gotten that question a lot and was quite bothered by it.
"Oh" she looked disappointed with his cold reply.
"Hi, Hermione, can I call you that?" Naruto asked cheerfully making Hermione's mood lit up. She smiled and nodded. "Thanks. Nevermind about mister grumpy over there," he tilted his head to Neji who grumbled and resumed his reading. "He's always like that." He offered her his palm which she accepted and shook their hand as a sign of new friendship.
"Are you transfer students?"
"Well you can say it that, I suppose."
'What was that suppose to mean?' she wondered. From their names she could conclude they are Japanese. 'They looked as if they have known Harry for quite some time…how's that possible?'
"We stayed with Harry and Ron for 2 months," Naruto told her as if he read her mind.
She gaped. '2 months? How come I didn't know about this?' She turned to her best friend accusingly who only smiled. "How come I don't know?" she glared hotly.
"We didn't tell you," he told her easily.
"Wh—" she was interrupted by the compartment door sliding.
"Well, well, well (AN: I learned that almost all of my fic when Draco makes his first appearance always followed by this sentence…well actually not only my fics, but also other people fics. You would think that it was Malfoy's favourite words or something…) Look who we got here, Potty, Weasel, and Mudblood," Draco Malfoy barged in and drawled. "Oh and new faces too," all of the compartment occupants shifted their attention to the newcomer. All of them didn't look happy to see the arrogant boy.
"Why do you want, Malfoy?" Harry said as he rolled his eyes inwardly.
"The dark lor—"
"Will come for me and kill me. Yeah, yeah I know it," he then gave him a superior smirk. "Don't you have something else to do beside being a messenger boy?"
"Why you," he growled, but Harry didn't pay attention. Draco shifted his attention to the other occupants. "Who're you? I have never seen you before?"
"Mind your own business, boy," Sasuke said coldly without prying his eyes away from the book he read.
Draco's face reddened in a very fast rate as he fumed. "Who do you think you are!" he yelled angrily.
"Someone better than you," Harry turned his head to hide his smile. He caught Ron doing the same.
"Do you know who I am?"
"Nope. Should I care?" was the bored reply.
"I am Draco Malfoy, son of Lucius malfoy, the heir of Malfoy pureblood family."
"So? Never heard of it before"
Draco gaped. How dare he treat him like a trash! Then he smiled maniacally. "Maybe you need to be taught where your place is," he sneered and flicked his finger. Crabbe and Goyle entered the compartment and stood beside him. "Give that boy," he pointed at Sasuke who didn't seem to even care the slightest. "The worse beating you've ever inflicted to someone." Harry and Ron who knew that Sasuke wouldn't even need to lift a finger to kill them stayed silent wanting to see the outcome of Malfoy, while Hermione gawked.
"Wait a second. You can't do that!" But she was pushed aside by Goyle and landed on Harry who caught her.
Naruto watched the bullies amused. They didn't look smart and not even strong enough to inflict damage on them despite their appearance. Beside him Sasuke still stayed on his place.
"Naruto ," the Uchiha heir muttered somewhat lazily.
Naruto smirked and stood up blocking the giant boys' path. "With pleasure," he cracked his knuckles while smirking maliciously sending shivers to the dirty blonde boy and his goons.
The other compartments occupants rushed to the outside when they heard the sounds of beatings and girly screams from Harry Potter's compartment. They saw after seconds later 3 boys thrown from the room knocked out and landed in a pile. No one bothered to help them and leaved them alone thinking they deserved them.
Inside the room Hermione gawked at Sasuke and then Naruto disbelievingly.
"Wow, Naruto, that was cool. I just hope that you're actually beat them more though," Ron was grinning madly.
"Ron, that's not nice!" Hermione scolded.
"Hey, admit it that you like them beaten down, Hermione," Ron protested as he moved his rook.
"Well…" then she quickly turned to Harry. "That's not what I want to talk to you about. Why didn't you tell me about them, Harry? I thought you're my best friend," she asked accusingly.
"You are," he defended himself.
"Then why?"
"Because if I told you about them I would need to tell you that I was attacked in the summer and I don't want you to worry of me."
"You were WHAT!" she yelled loudly. Sasuke immediately cast the silencing charm on the room and locked the door using advanced charm he learned. She slapped her mouth with her hand as her cheek flushed.
Harry sighed and told them about his summer. The others were doing whatever they did before, leaving the pair talking.
When he was finished he saw that she still looked a bit miffed, but dropped the matter much to his relief. She talked with Naruto afterwards since Neji and Sasuke wanted to be leaved alone while Shikamaru said that it was too troublesome to talk with a girl, which earned him a death glare from the gryffindor resident genius. In the afternoon, she dragged Ron with her saying that they have a meeting with the other prefects and came back there after 2 hours.
Along the journey Neville, Seamus, Luna, Ginny, and Dean came by. They were introduced to the shinobi group too. The boys and girl exited the compartment when the train reached Hogsmead.
"What are those winged skeleton thingy?" Naruto pointed at one of the thestrals.
"Those are thestrals. You can only see them if you have seen death," the shinobi nodded at his explanation. "Don't worry they're harmless."
"Firs' yer over her'!" Harry saw Hagrid shouted. "And the fer new boys too!" the half giant shouted when he saw them.
"Well I guess that we'll see you in the great hall!" Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny rode a carriage.
The 4 chuunins looked at each other before going to Hagrid. "Yer the new students, righ'?" they nodded. Hagrid nodded back. "Get to the boat then. We'll sail to Hogwarts." (AN: Jesus, it is really hard to make Hagrid's accent)
"Why should we get into boat while Harry goes there by carriage?" Naruto asked curiously and pointed to Harry.
"It's tradition fer new students, kid. Now get in, there are many people lining alreh'dy." They complied and went to the nearest boat. "Oh, and put yo'r Hogwarts robe, kids!"
The boys were quiet awed by the scenery of the lake. Harry has told them that a giant squid lived in the lake and there were merle people down there. But since it was dark they couldn't see the lake clearly except Naruto who got Kitsugan (Fox' eyes) from Kyuubi. Unlike sharingan, and byakugan, his kitsugan were passive, they didn't need to be activated (AN: as far as I know, byakugan only have limited sight ability when they're not activated). These eyes of his didn't really have unique ability aside of the enhanced sight and ability to see in dark. He didn't see any of the merle people or squid though.
"Man the boat is too slow," Naruto complained.
"I think that is the purpose, dobe."
"How so?"
"Maybe they want the new students to be awed by the scenery and the school. Harry said that it was a very old castle, didn't he?" Shikamaru answered.
"Hm, maybe you're right. Oh well." the kitsune boy paused. "Do you think we can find training field here? The Grimmauld Place didn't have big room that we could use freely without endangering others. And I feel weaker and rusty after 2 months only learning magic or just basic shinobi training without sparring."
"We'll ask that old man later. But if the school's really big then there should be many space for us."
They grew quiet after that only hearing the younger kids' chattering.
"Whoa, that's what a castle should be" Naruto's eyes widened when the sight of the castle came in a full view. The others agreed with him.
When they were in the end of the journey they could see Mc Gonagall stood in big gate waiting for the new students to arrive. She spoke with Hagrid for a moment before turning back to the young students. "Follow me!" she said with her usual strict face. Naruto and his friends immediately followed her, while behind them the younger students whispering to each other who they were as they didn't look like first students like them. The girls were giggling and whispering to each other as they evaluated each boy who still didn't wear their robes making their muscular body to be seen freely, but the chuunins ignored them as they were used already by this.
They were gathered in a big room where the transfiguration professor waiting them to sit. She stepped toward the four. "Put you robes like the rest, young men. We'll enter the great hall and do the sorting afterwards."
Sasuke enlarged his and Naruto's trunks, while Neji and Shikamaru did theirs. They took their robes and wore them before shrinking them once more. The first year looked fascinated by the display of magic and were chattering about it.
"Quiet!" they stayed silent. "The sorting will begin immediately after we entered the great hall. Each of you will be sorted to a house here. There are 4 houses in Hogwarts: Hufflepuff for hard workers, Ravenclaw for thinkers, Gryffindor for brave people, and Slytherin for the cunnings. When I shouted your name you'll have to go forward where there is a hat that will sort you to your house. You'll have to go to your house table after you know which one you are," she turned from them and opened the gate to the great hall. The students were following her as they were entranced by the floating candles and the enchanted ceiling. They looked very nervous, everyone except the 4 young men that is.
A hush silence came as they entered the great hall. Then the older students were whispering quite loudly when they saw 4 boys who were obviously not first year. The girls looked excited and giggling as they saw 4 handsome boys followed their transfiguration teacher to a table under the teacher table. The boys some were interested with them while the others were murderous toward the new boys.
Mc Gonagall motioned the new students to sit. She went to where the sorting hat was placed in a chair.
The hat suddenly opened its mouth and started to sing. Obviously the new students were surprised by this, even the 4 who were already told by Harry. When it was over, she opened her scroll of students' names.
"Andrianne, Becky," a shy brown haired girl walked to the chair. The professor put the hat on her head. After 27 seconds the hat shouted for "HUFFLEPUFF". The hufflepuff students cheered as the little girl walked to their table shyly.
In the end of the sorting Hufflepuff got 5 students; 7 students for Ravenclaw; 11 students for Gryffindor, and 8 new Slytherins. But the 4 chuunins still sat in their place, as they haven't been called. The whispers grew louder because of this. They wanted to know who they were.
Dumbledore stood up from his seat and greeted them warmly. "These 4 young men here are transfer students from Japan. They will be 6th year students. I want all of you to treat them with respect. As they requested to me in private, they would have their own dormitories and common room regardless of their house. But I want the house where they were sorted into, let them in if they want to so I want the prefects to tell them the password for the entrance to the common rooms!" Many girls' faces and even some boys' dropped at this announcement." He nodded at Mc Gonagall.
Mc Gonagall opened a new scroll and shouted, "Hyuuga, Neji" Neji walked to the hat ignoring the furious whispers and pointing at his eyes.
#Well, well, well# a voice came into his head. He was a little startled with it but still kept his impassive mask. #A person from another world? Now…that is interesting. And a ninja? Hm… difficult. You have a dark past…but I see that your friend helped you. Hm…you're very smart and quite genius. Better be…RAVENCLAW!# the ravenclaw students clapped loudly welcoming him to their crowd. Neji cast a last look at his friends before sat beside Luna much to the other girls' dismay. Neji picked to sit beside her because she didn't seem to be a fan girl when he was in the train with Harry. Not to mention she was the only one he knew on the table.
"Nara, Shikamaru" the lazy shinobi looked as bored as usual. He put the hat on his head.
#Another person from different world? Quite interesting. You're very loyal to your friends, but you find almost everything is too troublesome so you're obviously not a hufflepuff. Ah…you're a genius… I see… You'd like not to go into trouble if you can help it so you're obviously not a gryffindor. And although you're cunning you're not ambitious. Well then… RAVENCLAW# thunderous boom came from the ravenclaw table as they got 2 0f the 4 transfer students.
"Uchiha, Sasuke"
Many girls and even boys whispered naughtily as they checked him out. Sasuke scowled at this. It seemed that everywhere he went there would be always fangirls…and boys.
#The same like the other 2 too? Hm.. you have a very dark past in your life. You're only loyal to your friends you trust, that blonde boy in particular# Sasuke scowled at the hat's tone when he said about Naruto. He could imagine the hat was smiling teasingly.
/Just do your job quickly hat. And if you dare to tell someone about this no matter if it is the old man I'll ripped you into shreds or better yet, burn you into ashes/ he threatened the hat in Japanese.
#Now, now don't get so temperamental boy. I will keep it a secret; beside I only see some of them not all of your memories. Well…you're smart and quite a hardworker too. The help you got from him obviously help you to stand in your life bravely. You want to protect him even with your life. But I see that you want to get revenge to you brother#
/He's not my brother anymore/ he hissed heatedly. The hat cringed as he clenched his fist and got a picture of him burning the hat into ash with fire jutsu.
#SLYTHERIN#
In the Slytherin table, Draco Malfoy fell from his seat earning quite a few stares from every student. He blushed and quickly got back to his seat. Some of the slytherin clapped followed by the others except Draco and his goons who have murderous looks plastered on his face. Sasuke frowned when he saw the boy, thinking of nothing of him but a trouble. He sat with the first year to distance himself with him. He sighed regretting the fact that Naruto didn't broke any of their bones, just gave them some bruises.
In the Gryffindor table Ron and Harry frowned. Their teammates noticed their looks.
"Pity really. He looked like a decent guy albeit scary when I met him," Seamus commented.
Ron after a few moments suddenly grinned earning strange looks from the gryffindors. "Oh yes, it was a pity. I almost pity the Slytherins…almost." Harry grinned.
"What do you mean?" Neville asked. He looked different that last year. For once he looked confident and his chubbiness almost all gone.
"Don't you see his face? He looks almost ready to kill all of them," the Weasley boy pointed at the scowling teen.
"Don't you mean just Malfoy and His goons?" Harry asked. "Fortunately he didn't need to sleep in slytherin dormitory."
"Yeah, you're right."
"…I think that you hate slytherin, Ron?" Lavender asked at the red haired boy.
"I do, but I like him. He's nothing like the slytherin we've ever met. He's very cool actually when you got to know him." Harry nodded in agreement.
"Hey, look at Naruto. He still hasn't finished ye—"
#HOLY SHIT MOTHER FUCKER IN HEAVEN!# all eyes turned in shock at the hat's outburst.
A moment ago
"Uzumaki, Naruto"
#Another one?#
/What another one/
#Curious are you? Well you're like your other 3 friends there are people from other world, aren't you?# the young chuunin nodded. #Now let me see into you mind. You have a very disconcerting childhood yet you live through it. You're a hard worker and very loyal to whom you trust. Ah I see that dark hair boy…he also will protect you no matter what will happen, you know?#
/I know/ Naruto smiled as he unconsciously dismissed the hat's hidden meaning.
#Well you're obviously not a Ravenclaw material except for your prank ideas. You're quite like the Weasley twin in this field#
/Hey, I know them. I got some cool stuff from them too/
The hat chuckled at the enthusiastic kid. #Well looks like that Hogwarts will get her new troublemaker soon to replace the twins. Hmm…You're very brave that you almost got into the reckless person categorization. You also want acknowledgement from the people of you village. You want to be like your father, huh? But what is this? You've a dark past…# The hat delved further into his mind…
#HOLY SHIT MOTHER FUCKER IN HEAVEN!# the hat shouted loudly catching all of the students' and teachers' alike attentions. They were surprised and were shocked when the hat shouted unlike usual wondering just what was with the kid that made the had shouted like that. All but four people (including Naruto) who knew just what happened.
/Just don't tell anyone/ Naruto said calmly.
#F-fine. Geez, kid. I never meet one like you before. A demon sealed inside you? No wonder you get a tough childhood. But I see that you are very courageous and will do everything to reach your dream as Hokage, huh? With the demon inside you and your horrible childhood however… #
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Well, you'll have to see the next chapter if you want to know the hat's decision.
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I'm just joking guys!
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#GRYFFINDOR AND SLYTHERIN!#
Everyone stopped talking at once. You could hear a pin dropping in that deaf silence as everyone tried to digest the fact that a boy just happened to be both gryffindor and slytherin, 2 houses that always have conflicts since the time of the founders. Not to mention that it was never been heard off that a student got into 2 houses. Dumbledore wore a shocked look something which never happened in his life as a Hogwarts headmaster and as a professor. And Snape was as pale as a paper sheet that he could rival a white wall. Mc Gonagall's eyes were so wide that it almost got out of its socket. The name parchment has already fallen to the stone floor below.
Only Neji, Shikamaru and Sasuke smirked by this. /You're truly a surprising boy, dobe/ he muttered. He clapped together with Neji and Shikamaru. The students were snapped from their trances because of this and everyone even the ravenclaw and hufflepuff clapped. Naruto's cheek flushed as he let go of the hat. He stood up and turned to Mc Gonagall.
"Where should I sit now?"
"Erm…wh—whatever your choice Mr. Uzumaki," she spluttered.
Naruto gazed at Gryffindor before staring to Sasuke who waved for him to come. Naruto sent Harry and Ron an apologetic look before walking to Sasuke's side. Harry and Ron nodded dumbly still reeling after the shock that Naruto got into 2 houses, theirs and Slytherin. They knew why Naruto choose to sit in Slytherin table though.
Naruto sat beside Sasuke with a grin. "That was quite a shock you gave them" Naruto shrugged cheerfully happy that he was with the dark haired teen and not leaving him alone in the snake nest.
TBC………
Hell yeah! I bet you didn't expect Naruto to get into 2 houses! Either Gryffindor or Slytherin much likely.
Simpleinsanity: Thanks. You can send the chapters to my email. About your offer… well I don't know much about C2 aside that it is a bigger collection of fav story, so perhaps you could tell me what's the staff's job. And yeah, my friend, sheera's greywolf said that too about the flow.
FireDragonBL: Neji's wand is shadow wood, 13 ½ inches, black unicorn's hair
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