Imma Kiwi Bird: Okies. It took me slightly longer to get this chapter out, because I was too lazy to update. swears she is related to Shikamaru somehow And, as promised, it's long. As promised. Yayness.
Disclaimer: I don't own the HP or Naruto characters. Kishimoto Misashi and JK Rowling do.
Key for Text: "Words." This is in Japanese.
"Words." This is normal speaking.
"Words." This is thinking.
You and Me and the Devil Makes Three
Chapter 3: Mail, Fudge, and a Picnic
The next morning, the first to awake were Neji, Rock Lee, Harry, and Ginny. They all ended up meeting in the kitchen, where Mrs Weasley was preparing breakfast.
"Mrs Weasley, we'll be going outside to train now," Neji stated. Mrs Weasley gave a nod, and with that, Lee and Neji left the house to train in the field everyone had played soccer in. Harry glanced at the window, watching Neji and Rock Lee get into some odd stances.
"I'm gonna go watch them..."
"Okay, dear-"
"Me too!" Ginny piped up, following Harry outside.
Harry and Ginny hid behind the Weasley's broom closet to watch the two train. What were they even training for? All of their new quests didn't seem to be witches or wizards. So what could they possible be?
Before they knew it, Neji was running at Lee. He had two fingers together, ready to poke the green spandex clad boy. That was just stupid.
Lee dodged. And he was fast. But Neji turned quickly and prodded one of Lee's shoulders. Lee fell to his knees, his arm limp at his side.
"No improvement? Shame on you, Lee." Neji spoke in an entirely different language. Ginny and Harry blinked. It would be impossible to translate it without Hermione or Dumbledore.
Neji turned to face them. They both gasped, and Ginny fell to the ground. Neji's eyes were pure white; and veins were popping out from the sides. It was unnerving, and Harry wanted to leave his spot that very moment.
Neji started towards them, or back towards the Burrow. As he passed them, they heard him murmur, "Stay out of our business,". Harry watched him dissapered back into the house, his eyes back to normal. As soon as he thought Neji was actually gone, Harry ran over to Rock Lee, who was still on the ground and breathing heavily.
"Are you okay?" He asked. Lee nodded and stood, shaking slightly. He looked at the house with a burning fury. "Someday I'll beat him..." Lee murmured, heading towards the house.
Harry looked at Lee, before following. It seemed that Ginny had already went inside.
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After breakfast, some owls arrived.
There was a new barn owl. It arrived with a mass of letters. There was also Pidwigeon, Ron's owl, that only had one letter. Also, Hedwig, Harry's owl, arrived with two letters. And last, there was another from Hogwarts with a mass of letters.
The barn owl ended up having letters for all of the ninja. There were all addressed to each individual. And, they were from Hogwarts.
Pidwigeon had Ron's Hogwarts letter.
Hedwig had Hermione and Harry's letter.
And, the Hogwarts' owl had all of the letters for the rest of the Weasley children.
According to their letters, all fo the nins would be attending the school as 'foreign exchange students'. Heck, they would even be learning how to do magic.
Kiba and Naruto were already grinning ear-to-ear at the thought of learning magic, which they both thought was a mere fairytale.
Other than that, nothing was very special about the reactions.
"When will we be leaving to 'Diagon Alley'?" Tenten asked after finishing her letter. Mrs Weasley looked at the bun-headed girl.
"Tomorrow morning."
Shikamaru, who was leaning against the couch, dropped his letter and looked like he was ready to go back to sleep. "Meh... for sure, this will be troublesome..." Hermione glanced at him, a scowl plastered to her face.
"And why is that?" She asked. Harry paled. Oh yeah! Hermione didn't like people thinking Hogwarts was bad 'n all...
"It's not worth anyone's time-"
"Of course it is!" Hermione was now crouching beside him, informing him on the oh-so-many reasons why school was important, and worth people's time.
Harry's mind drifted back to the night before.
Ron did not like Aburame Shino.
When he had found out, from Rock Lee, that the Aburame literally had bugs living in him, he had freaked out and said that he would have to sleep on the couch that night. Mrs Weasley had shown up, yelled at Ron, and then all was well.
All in all, Harry was surprised noone besides Molly had shown up at the door of Ron's room.
When Harry glanced at Ron that moment, he noticed he was doing three things: going from looking at Shino with a crazed expression, glaring at Shikamaru, and reading his Hogwarts' letter.
Ah. Hogwarts. They would be going back for their 5th year, and he hoped that it would be uneventful. No stones, secret dungeons, loose Azkaban prisoners, tournaments, Voldemort, no nothing. That would be his ideal Hogwarts' year.
But, that was already foiled.
He had not one, but twelve bodyguards to watch over him. Twelve. Who knows what Malfoy would nag about this time? Or what he would complain to his father?
"Why does he get bodyguards? What about everyone else? Especially me?"
He could already hear the wimpy Slytherin sneering at Dumbledore already.
He was snapped out of his thoughts by Lee, who asked him why he was staring into space. He brushed it off, saying that he was thinking about the new school year. Lee grinned and hopped up, saying he was going back outside to train. Some said 'see ya later' or something, but he didn't care.
After a moment, Ron and Harry glanced at each other, then stood up. "Mum, you aid we could go into town today, remember?" Ron brought up. His mother looked up at him, her lips pursed together slightly.
"Yes, yes, I remember. Neji, dear, please go with them." Neji, who had been sitting calmly at the table after he had finished his letter, nodded and stood as well. Both of the other boys scowled, but nodded and left the house, Neji following.
People yelled, "Goodbye!", or, "Bye!", after them. But once Ron notice that he had heard no goodbye from Hermione, he went red in pure anger.
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It was lunch time, and noone wanted lunch. So, Mrs Weasley decided to make everyone a snack. As she went around the house and outside, she took careful notes of where everyone was.
Fred, George, Naruto, and Kiba wear in the twins' room, plotting bad things.
Sasuke, Shino, and Chouji were going over their Hogwarts letters. The packets were actually quite long and they hadn't finished the letter. Or, they were re-reading it. But, when Molly got in the room, Chouji was immediately beside her asking if he could have the extra fudge she had made. She said yes, then continued.
Lee was training, and he refused the fudge until she made him try it. Then he accepted it.
All of the girl's were watching Hermione quiz Shikamaru. Hermione was actually quite pleased that the lazy teen was smart. Very smart. Ginny had once questioned who was smarter; Hermione or Shikamaru. That was when Sakura said that they'd someday have to find out.
Neji, Ron, and Harry were still out. That was nothing, though. Neji was with them. All would be well, in Molly's eyes.
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Ronald Weasley and Harry Potter were in town. Yes.
It was a small one, and quite far away from the Burrow. It had a bar, a restaurant, a convenience store, five houses, and that was pretty much all. There was also a field; as a park.
It was filled with lush grass. A few trees. That was all. There was absolutely nothing more in it except for a straight dirt path leading through it.
Harry and Ron had gone to the convenience store, bought a load of junk food with the money Harry ad taken from his cousin, and went to the 'park' and had a junk picnic. Neji had frowned at this, but had said nothing. If they wanted to get sick, let them. He was only supposed to keep them from dying. That was the only thing he had to stop.
So, if they started to choke or something like that, he might jump in.
"Hey, Neji?" The Hyuuga was slightly surprised that Harry had spoken to him. They had been out for at least five hours, and they had spoken, but not to him. And he himself had not said a word the entire time as well.
"What?"
"I just wanted to know why you're so quiet."
Neji kept silent, turned from them, and went back to looking straight ahead. Harry frowned, and Ron glared at Neji.
Neji's head snapped to look at Ron. "I'd suggest not to glare at me." Ron stared back as Neji went back to watching.
The guy's back was facing them. How could he have seen? Damn, that guy was good.
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"Chouji? I have the extra fudge-"
"WOO-HOO!"
