The Ultimate Defense

Akki no Tama: Alright, my username in is Akki no Tama. I'm only writing some of SasuNaru123's chapters 'cause she's really busy and would probably like someone to help her out. I'm not sure, she just says she's busy and I offered to help her out! Anyways, lets see how this works, ok? Bare with us here.

I apologize ahead of time if I'm not up to your standards.

SasuNaru123: Yea, I'm just lazy. But, really, I am busy so im not gonna rite as much. What we came up with for now, is she writes the odd chapters and I write the even ones, this might change, depending on whatever. I beta her chappies and she beta mines. Enjoy

Disclaimer (keep 4geting): HP belongs to JKR and Naruto belongs to MK.


Chapter 3: Hogwarts

The group entered the wand shop, the shinobi looking curiously around, subconsciously looking out for danger.

"It smells ooold in here!" Naruto whined.

Everyone laughed or giggled at that, Neji and Sasuke only smirking at the comment. Someone's voice from behind immediately shut them up.

"Children these days," Ollivanders muttered. "Alright, which one of you is it? Ah, Harry. I believe I sold you holly and phoenix feather, eleven inches, nice and supple." He didn't look at Harry while saying it, inspecting the shinobi instead.

"Yes sir, you did," Harry agreed.

"Very good. These four are here for wands, correct?"

"Yeah," Shikamaru said.

"Who's up first?"

Naruto gave Shikamaru a push and hissed in his ear, "This guy's creepy. You go first!"

The shadow user glared at him and whispered back, "Why do I have to?"

"Cause you're the smart one!"

"What does-"

"Hold out your wand arm, boy," Ollivanders ordered. He held a roll of measuring tape ready for use. "Come now, we don't have all day."

"Wand arm?"

"The hand you use to write with," Hermione explained.

Sasuke gave his comrades a look but held out his right arm. The measuring tape immediately started to move by itself, Ollivanders going to look for boxes. The Leaf shinobi went for their weapons but stopped when they realized it wasn't going to attack, just measure.

"Here, use this," the old man said when he came back, triumphantly holding out a dusty box. "Just give it a little wave."

Shikamaru did as he was ordered to but a vase with a single flower exploded from a desk. The shinobi stared at it in slight surprised.

"Cool," Naruto said.

"Nope, wrong!" the shop owner muttered and snatched the wand away.

After several more tries, it soon became apparent there wasn't going to be any improvement. Naruto fidgeted when Sasuke sighed in annoyance. Neji said, "Hurry up and pick one, dammit!"

"It's not my fault!" Shikamaru argued.

"It seems we'll have to make a custom want for you," Ollivanders said. "Come with me to the back shop."

Harry, Ron and Hermione decided to wait by the front as the four shinobi went to the back. They went into a little room where Ollivanders began to look around. He said under his breath, "What ingredients to use, what to use, what to use, what to use..."

"How about I pick them? I know myself best, after all," the shadow user said.

"Alright, we'll try it your way. What do you want? There has to be a core, the type of wood, and the size of the wand."

"For the core how about the hair of a deer, and maybe we can try the wood of a weeping willow......? And I think it should be about 8 inches or so. I'm going for short but stable. One that reacts instantly without much thought," Shikamaru commented.

"Hmm..interesting choice, very interesting, I've never made one like that..." Ollivanders pondered.

Thinking aloud, he continued, "But it is a good choice, and your name is Nara, is it not? It means deer in Japanese... Yes, I'll have it ready by tomorrow. Who will be next?"

"Me, me!" Naruto pulled off some of his hair and held them out. "Use this for the core of my wand!"

"Are you sure? That's human hair and I don't think it's has very strong magical properties," the shop keeper commented.

"Trust me, it'll work." He glanced at some of the hair and smiled a little when he saw some orange-red hairs mixed with his blond strands. "Use a banzai tree for the wood and make it around 8 and a half inches."

"Gets even more interesting with you kids," the man muttered as he took the hairs from the blonde's hand. "Now, you with the scowl."

"Use a basilisk's scales for my core and Sakura tree for the wood. 9 inches," Sasuke answered plainly.

"I never used those ingredients either," Ollivanders looked at Neji expectantly.

"Use the feathers of a sparrow chimera, it doesn't matter what wood and it should be about 8 ½ inches," Neji described.

Working madly at his table, Ollivanders held up a wand triumphantly. It was a reddish color and beautifully made. He handed it to Naruto.

"Here, yours was easy so it's already done. The rest of you, come pick up your wands tomorrow. By then I should have them done," Ollivanders concluded. He ushered them out the door, intent on finishing the other wands.

The group just shrugged.

"What next?" Neji asked, stepping along side the wizards.

"Look at the list," Sasuke answered as he took his out. "Let's get robes."

"Don't those look like dresses?" Naruto asked curiously. He twirled his new wand between his index and middle finger, causing colorful sparks to shoot out in a decorative way. He grinned when he threw it into the air and caught it like a baton.

"No they don't," Ron said. "Honestly, I would have thought you came from a muggle family!"

Naruto looked away but didn't say anything. Sasuke and Neji sent a quick glare to Ron. The red head gave a confused look.

Shikamaru gave him a look that said, "Don't ask."

They walked into 'Madame Malkin's Robes for all Occasions'. Everyone was attended by a different person. After getting their uniforms, Neji said, "It says on the list to get 'dress robes.'"

When the measurements were done and everyone held up their new clothes, Naruto was laughing uncontrollably. Sasuke rolled his eyes, knowing why the blonde was laughing while Neji just smirked. Shikamaru sighed as he looked at his own clothes.

"What's wrong?" Hermione asked.

"Th-they look l-like dre-dresses!" Naruto giggled out.

Afterwards, they got their books, and Sasuke threw a kunai into one of his books when it tried to attack him. He had to get a new one. Seeing his example, Naruto, Neji, and Shikamaru had bound theirs with anything they could find.

Deciding to rest, they went to buy some food.

Naruto looked excitedly around the pet shop, Sasuke and Neji behind him. They scanned all the possible pets, Naruto liking nearly every single one. Shikamaru looked at everything boredly, not really caring if he got a pet or not.

The blonde spotted something gold and orange in one of the cages. His eyes widened in delight as he saw what it was. It was a baby fox and it was, according to his thinking, the cutest little thing he ever saw. "I have to get it!" Naruto suddenly exclaimed as he rushed over to the kit.

Shikamaru smirked when he saw what Naruto meant.

Te baby fox had orange fur. It's ears were dipped a golden color, along with its snout, paws, and the tip of the tail. The color of the kit's eyes were amber or gold, depending on which angle you saw it at, with flecks of orange in it.

"Um…Naruto, we're only allowed to have cats, toads, or owls," Hermione explained hesitantly.

That was when Naruto held the kit up to her face. It gave a small sound that made her heart melt. The blonde gave a puppy dog look to add to the effect.

"She's not the one you should be trying to convince," Neji said in an amused way. "She doesn't make the rules."

"You're right, I'll talk to the headmaster, then," Naruto gave them all a mischievous grin.

The shinobi sighed, knowing with the look on his face, whatever he wanted he would get.

The blond held up the fox so it was facing him. He wasn't looking at its face, though. "Huh. It's a boy."

Ignoring the blond, Sasuke went to pay for the pet. However, as he reached out to give the money, another hand blocked his was. The owner smiled smugly at him.

"I'm getting it for him, Uchiha," Neji sneered.

"As if," Sasuke retorted, shoving several galleons in the shop owners face. The shop owner greedily reached out for them, but just as he was going to grab it, Neji pushed it away.

"I was here first," Neji stated.

"Says who?" Sasuke challenged.

"Me!" Neji said. Suddenly the load in their hands were gone. Both glancing up, they saw that the shop-owner had grabbed the money and was calmly counting it.

"This is enough boys, thank you," he said, rubbing his hands as he gathered the gold coins into a bulging purse.

The two geniuses were about to argue again when suddenly Naruto appeared between them, tapping them both in the butt.

"Boys should play nice don'tcha think? Why don't we go?" the blond asked.

The carefree anbu strolled out the door, followed by his beet-read comrades.

"Stupid Naruto...."

"Is there anything else?" Naruto asked, placing his fox, who he named Kit, on his head.

"Nah, I don't think so," Harry replied, turning around, "I think it's time we head back."

"Ok," Naruto stated.

"By the way, where are the twins?" Ron inquired. "Weren't they supposed to meet up with us at Ollivanders?"

"Yea......" Hermione looked around, trying to spot twin puffs of red in the crowd, "Maybe they went with Mrs. Weasley instead?"

"I hope so..." Ron murmured.

The shinobi weren't worried as they spotted their chakra in the Leaky Cauldron. However, they couldn't voice their knowledge for the wizards would get suspicious. So, deciding to play it safe, they hand-signaled for everyone to go back.

"I'm sure they're back already," Neji assured, "Why don't we go meet up with Weasley-san?"

Deciding that his idea was the best, they went back to the Leaky Cauldron where they met up with Mrs. Weasley, Ginny and the twins.

Tired, they all went back to their room.

"That was fun!" Naruto exclaimed energetically.

"How much longer do we have to wait until school starts?" Sasuke asked.

"Four days," Shikamaru answered.

They went up to their rooms.

Neji's and Sasuke's Room

"Uchiha," Neji said.

"What is it, Hyuga?"

"Naruto, stay away from him."

Sasuke turned to glare at the other boy. He was lying on his stomach upon his bed. Meanwhile, Neji sat on his while looking nonchantly at the other boy. The Uchiha intensified his glare. "Shut up."

"I know you like him, but you don't deserve him."

"What do you know? I deserve him more than you," Sasuke retorted.

"So I guess this means we're rivals for love," Neji challenged.

"Guess so, Hyuga," Sasuke said, a smirk on his face.

"May the best man win," Neji declared, standing up.

"Yes, I intend to," Sasuke sneered.

The room suddenly dropped several degrees.

Shika and Naru's Room

"I win," said Shikamaru. "I can tell without counting up the points."

"Rematch!" Naruto declared, looking at their go game.

"This is the fourth game! Each of the games last 5-10 minutes. Admit it, you suck in this game," Shikamaru said lazily as he put away the stones.

"No I don't! Besides, I'm getting better. I used to last only three minutes!" Naruto announced, proud at his progress.

Shikamaru sighed. He went over to his bed and crawled under the covers. "I'm going to sleep, night."

"Night Shika." The blond picked up Kit and went to bed. The sound of content purring filled the room.

The next day, the gang arrived at King's Cross Station early in the morning. Looking around, Naruto was confused when he saw that there was a platform nine and a platform ten, yet there wasn't one in-between.

"There's no platform nine and three quarters!" Naruto complained.

"Follow me," Harry stated.

"There's no platform nine and three quarters," the blond repeated.

Silently, the boy who lived took his trolley and ran straight for the pillar between the two platforms.

The shinobi's eyes widened in shock as he passed right through. After he disappeared, they inspected the wall more closely.

"This isn't half bad," Neji commented, his byakugan activated. "Genjutsu."

"Wow, I didn't even notice." Naruto put his hand through the wall and took it out. He repeated the process several times, a goofy smile on his lips.

"Stop that," Mrs. Weasley scolded. "Some of the muggles might see."

"Oh, ok." The blond took his hand out and grabbed his bag. "Let's go."

He walked through with Neji and Shikamaru walked through with Sasuke. The rest followed suit, going in through two at a time. As they were about to step onto the train, Moody quietly whispered, "Remember the mission."

"Duh," Naruto said with a grin. "We're the best of the best, you really think we have other priorities?"

"Don't worry," Kakashi said with what kind of looked like a smile but you couldn't really tell with the mask on. "I'll be there. I'll watch over these four."

Waving, they walked into the train.

While Kakashi went to sit up in the front with the teachers, the seven of them went to find an empty compartment.

They talked about random things, Naruto asking what Hogwarts was like and if there was anything exciting there. Hermione answered while Ron and Harry added things here and there. Shikamaru went to sleep, as expected, while Neji and Sasuke spent their time glaring at each other.

Then the compartment door suddenly opened. In the doorway stood three boys. The skinniest one had silvery blond hair while the other two looked as stupid as an ass.

The blonde sneered, "Well, well, well. Looks like there are a new bunch of idiots to join the original ones."

"What did you just say?" Sasuke asked in a dangerous tone as he stood up. Naruto sighed.

"I said-"

"If you have any sense in you, you wouldn't repeat that," Shikamaru mumbled as he woke up.

Draco scowled at him and sneered once again, "You're the one who doesn't have any sense. Do you know who I am?"

All the shinobi thought he was stupid considering who they were. Harry got up and calmly said, "Get out, Malfoy."

"Why should I?"

"You would think he has a crush on you, Harry, from the way he's acting," Naruto snickered at the looks they had from his comment. His other comment had them blushing crimson. "But I'd be flattered if I was you. He's a cute one."

Sasuke and Neji sent Draco angry glares. The Slytherin, baffled and unsure how to take this from the attractive shinobi, stood there in shock.

Naruto burst out laughing at all of their incredulous looks. "Jeez, are you guys taking this seriously? Hey, are we almost there yet? This train ride is boring."

Hermione was the first to recover from the sudden change of subject. "Um, we'll be there in..." She checked her watch. "Twenty minutes."

"Shouldn't we change?" Shikamaru asked in a bored tone. "Hermione can change first, then us men can."

Naruto got up and started to push the Slytherins out of the compartment. "Can't let a lady change in front of guys!" he laughed good naturally. The confused Malfoy allowed himself to be pushed out the door.

Sasuke, Neji, Shikamaru, and the male Griffindors followed silently.

Minutes later, Naruto doubled back for his pet. "Come on, Kit! You're a guy too!"

"Firs' year! Firs' years!" Hagrid called out. "An' t'e transfer students!"

"Ok!" Naruto yelled out excitedly. "We're here! "

The shinobi and first years followed the half giant to the boats. They went into a boat in groups of fours. As they first laid their eyes on the castle known as Hogwarts, they gazed in awe. Neji even gave an impressed whistle.

Naruto leaned on one side of the boat to get a better view and accidently fell into the lake.

"Naruto!" the Uchiha and Hyuga yelled out in surprise.

The blond's head emerged from the waters as he gasped for breath. "Oops."

Shikamaru sighed as he muttered, "Idiot."

"Hey! It was an accident!" Naruto rebuked but a split second later he broke out into a grin. He gave a small laugh as he began to follow the boats with backstrokes, gaining attention from some of the other students. "Meet you there."

"Hey, ge' back in t'e boat!" Hagrid called out as he noticed the blond in the water.

"But if I do that, it'll tip the boat over and send my friends into the water too!" Naruto objected with an amused grin. "Besides, I don't mind!"

And so, they all arrived on the shore. Naruto dripping wet but with a smile. He sheepishly laughed and scratched the back of his head from the other students' looks, including his own comrades.

"First years and transfer students, follow me," Professor McGonagall said as she appeared from behind the doors. Her eyes lingered a second on Naruto but she ignored it. She turned her back and began to walk, everyone following her.

As they reached twin oak doors, she turned around and said to them, "Welcome to Hogwarts. The start of term banquet will begin shortly but first you will be sorted into houses. I suggest you smarten yourselves up before then." She gave a pointed stared towards Naruto who gave another sheepish laugh.

She disappeared behind the doors and left them to themselves.

The blonde took a fist full of his robes and twisted them to get some of the water out.

"You'll give a real good impression now," Shikamaru said sarcastically with an amused grin.

The other gave a mock glare. Neji chuckled as Sasuke smirked.

"How were we supposed to be sorted again?" Naruto asked as he vainly tried to dry himself.

"Some hat or something," Neji answered. "Think we'll have to pull a rabbit out of it?"

Some of the nearby first years began to laugh at his joke.

The oak doors opened and the professor reappeared. "Follow me."

Everyone did and she explained what they were supposed to do. She called their names in alphabetical order but didn't call any of the transfer students. After a while, only the shinobi stood there with the whole school staring at them, many staring at the blond who grinned in response. Some comments were heard.

"Wow! They're cute!"

"That blond is totally hot!"

"I'm better looking then them!"

"No way!"

"That dark eyed and dark haired guy is so cool looking!"

"Which one, there are two!"

"That guy who has no pupils, don't you think he looks exotic?"

"I still prefer the blond myself."

"Students," the headmaster announced over the murmurs, instantly silencing them. "This year we have four transfer students from Japan. They'll be advanced to the 6th year instead of the 1st. I hope everyone will treat them with respect. That is all."

Nodding to Professor McGonagall, Dumbledore sat back down.

Looking around, she began in a loud clear voice, "Hyuga, Neji."

The pupil-less eyed boy walked over gracefully and put on the dirty hat.

Hard working, ambitious, a genius, courageous, only loyal to those who are loyal to you.

Gryffindor.

Why that house?

You should know.

"Gryffindor!"

He got up and ignored the cheers and clapping. The girls mainly putting the effort. He sat in front of Hermione.

"Nara, Shikamaru," McGonagall said.

The lazy looking boy stepped up and put the hat on his head.

A rather lazy one, not Hufflepuff. Not too ambitious either, plenty of courage and intelligence.

Put me in the same house as Harry Potter. It'll make the mission easier.

Is that all that matters?

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the mission, sigh.

So be it.

"Gryffindor!"

The table cheered loudly, thanks to the female population. The Nara boy stood up with a sigh and walked slowly to his table, sitting across from Harry and next to the Hyuga.

"Uchiha, Sasuke."

The boy did the same as Neji and put on the ragged hat.

Another genius. Ambitious for power. Couragious but not foolishly so. Not very loyal to anyone except for a blond and some of your friends.

Shut up and put me in Gryffindor.

Why should I do that?

The Uchiha imagined a hat burning from one of his fire jutsu.

I see, the hat said. Though you would do much better in Slytherin

"Gryffindor!"

Tuning out the cheers, which were exceptionally loud, he sat down next to Shikamaru, away from the white-eyed Hyuuga.

"Uzumaki, Naruto."

The still wet blond squeezed some water out of his hair before he proudly walked up to the stool and put on the hat, a small smile playing on his lips.

Another shinobi, I see. Now what house should I put you in? Trusting and hard working. Good for Hufflepuff. Intelligent, to a certain extent, and creative. Not bad for Ravenclaw. Ambitous and self sacrificing for your goals, another good house to put you in. Brave of heart and daring, this is indeed complicated. You're not too bad in any of the houses. But I suppose to make your mission easier you would want to go to the house were all of your comrades are in.

Yep! So you're going to put me in there?

Rather odd all of you go there but it can't be helped.

"Gryffindor!"

Thanks!

He took off the hat and placed it on the stool. Hopping off, he quickly walked to his table, where many of the girls and some guys were laughing happily while the other girls of the other houses sighed in disappointment.

He sat next to Ron and grinned. "That was interesting."

The soting done, Dumbledore stood up and announced, "As you can see, we have another new professor for the Defense against the Dark Arts class. Students, please meet Professor Kakashi Hatake, also from Japan." The headmaster sat down.

Unfortunately, the jounin wasn't listening as he read his porn novel. He laughed at a certain part until he noticed everyone staring at him. "What?"

"Make a damn speech!" Naruto hollered from his seat, embarrassed for his former jounin instructor.

"Oh," the man said. He smiled happily, at least it looked like it, and stood up. "My name is Kakashi Hatake, Professor Hatake to you. I'm the kind of person who doesn't feel like talking about his likes and dislikes. My dream for the future is none of your business, but anyway, I have lots of hobbies," That made everyone stare at him in disbelief. "Oh, and I'm married." He sat down and began to read again.

Naruto sighed at that but didn't say anything. Neji snorted. Shikamaru had fallen asleep. Sasuke had down right ignored the whole thing.

With that, the food appeared.

"They have ramen!" Naruto exclaimed happily. He grabbed a bowl and gleefully slurped up the noodles.

Sasuke ate a rice ball in silence while Neji tried some of the western food. Waking up at the smell of food, Shikamaru took some sushi for himself. Some of the wizards or witches experimentally tried the Japanese food, all with different responses.

After the main course came dessert. The sharingan user ate some jam donuts and the hyuuga branch family member got vanilla ice cream. The shadow user only took a bite of chocolate before he decided desserts weren't his thing. Unhappy with his choice, Naruto decided to steal from his comrades, both to their dismay and happiness.

Bored, Shikamaru turned to listen to Ron who was talking as fast as he can, all the while shoving food down his mouth.

"In our first year of Hogwarts, the DADA teacher was really working for you-know-who, same with our fourth year professor."

"In our second year it was some git who was full of himself! I couldn't stand him!"

"Our third year was the best. He actually taught us something--you know Lupin, yea, it was him. But he turned out to be a werewolf so he had to quit."

"And our fifth was absolutely hell! She was a bitch!"

"Ron!" Hermione protested, astounded at his language.

"She was!" Ron retorted.

"I gotta agree," Harry added, looking up from his pie.

"Couldn't stand her and she favored the Slytherins," Ron continued.

"Yeah, you could just tell they're all going to be dark wizards," Seamus exclaimed out of nowhere.

"Why?"

That cut the conversation and everyone turned to look at the person who spoke. Naruto just grinned at the attention.

Then Ron replied, "Well, all of them do. So far, all of the dark wizards are from Slytherin and the house is made up of gits."

"Some of the dark wizards are from other houses too, Ron," Hermione said with a frown. "And not all of them are gits."

"Have you actually got to know one of them?" Neji asked. He didn't like all these rumors.

"Why would we? You met Malfoy. You saw how he was like," Ron protested.

"That's only one person," Sasuke retorted.

"Prejudice." Shikamaru took a bite on his chocolate frog.

There was a shocked silence and the wizards looked thoughtful about their claims. Naruto nodded once before he got some jell-o.

The silence was cut short as Dumbledore announced the end of the feast.

Taking their cue, Ron and Hermione went to direct the new first years to their dormitories. Walking up the moving staircases, Harry gave the shinobi tips on moving around.

Half listening, they looked around, inspecting the moving pictures. However, once they got close to one, all the female portraits would try to crowd into it.

"Man, it hurts to look so good," Naruto sighed. Winking at a group of girls in front of him.

"Then why are you winking?" Sasuke retorted, glaring at the girls.

"Because it's fun," Naruto commented.

"Whatever."

Grinning, Naruto bounded up the stairs, the others behind him.

"Ok, the password is hagane no hikari, you need it to get into the dormitories," Hermione announced.

"Yea, you morons. Don't forget or you get stuck out here!" Ron exclaimed.

The portrait of the fat lady swung open and the Gryffindors stormed in. As the shinobi passed by, Hermione whispered, "Your rooms are on the top-most floor. Holler if you need anything."

Nodding, they trudged up the stairs. As the number of people decreased each flight they took, everyone except for Shikamaru made an all out sprint to the top.

"Last one has to hold my stuff!" Naruto yelled, already out of sight.

"How bothersome."


So, how was it? Plz credit Akki no Tama if u liked it. MERRY X-MAS!!!!! This was supposed to be done b4 x-mas but now we changed it so it's our present 2 whoeva reads this fic. XD Oh wait, and Happy Kwanza and Hannukah and a Happy New Year.