Imma Kiwi Bird: Here is the newest installment of this story. Enjoy.
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 7: Wandering Around in Pajamas
When Harry Potter woke up, his sparkling green eyes still heavy with sleep, he was surprised that noone else was in the dorm. When he say up, widely awake in interest, he heard loud noises coming from the common room.
He slipped out of bed and quickly headed down the stairs, wanting to know what was going on. As soon as he stepped from the last step and into the common room, Ron ran up to him, still in his pajamas; just like Harry.
"No classes, mate!" Ron said, grinning ear to ear. Harry blinked.
"What?"
"No classes because one teacher is late!"
Harry blinked again, before smiling a bit himself. Oh... this was a dream. And yet, he wondered what teacher was late.
He looked around, and he noticed that an extremely nervous... Hyuuga Hinata, wasn't it?; trying to console an extremely depressed looking Hermione. No wonder. If classes were starting late, count on her to be the only one who cared. His smile broadened as Ron came over, dragging Neville, who, like them all, was happy and still in his pajamas.
"Harry! We're going to wander around! Coming?" Harry nodded, following the two out of the common room.
Oh... this was something that he never did. Wander Hogwarts with no classes and in his pajamas.
This was something he would never forget.
By the time the three got outside and headed over to Hagrid's hut, they still hadn't noticed that they were being followed.
Which was why it was so awkward when Hagrid answered the door after they knocked.
"Why is the green boy following?"
Harry, Neville, and Ron turned to see Rock Lee standing there, hands on his hips, and looking very proud of himself. The three boys quickly turned back. They knew why Lee had to follow. And Harry wished it could've been someone else.
Anyone but the green spandex-clad boy. Preferably Hyuuga Neji.
Hagrid sighed at having no reply, but he allowed the three students and the ninja into his hut.
Harry was surprised that no strange and exotic animal was somewhere in the hut. Only Fang was there; sleeping on a large blanket near the fire.
Hagrid had them sit down, but Lee refused. Instead, he stood by the door, arms crossed behind his back. Hagrid didn't argue; he allowed the freakish teen to do what he pleased.
Hagrid then offered tea and fudge. Neville accepted the tea, but not the fudge, while Harry and Ron accepted nothing.
They were fully awake, but it seemed like poor Neville wasn't. His round face was pale and his eyes were drooping with sleep.
"'Arry; 'ow've oo been?" Hagrid asked, setting another cup of tea before Neville, who took it graciously.
"Fine, Hagrid." Harry replied, smiling. Hagrid turned to Ron and asked him the same question.
Bad move, oh dear half giant.
Ron's rant about Hermione went on full blast.
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Yamanaka Ino was again wandering down the halls, trying to find her way back to the Gryffindor common room.
Chouji was fine. He just needed to rest and get the food to go through the rest of his body. Madam Pomfrey's explanation had been quite more graphic, and so Ino had just told the woman that she would leave and come back later.
So, here she was, lost. Dammit.
"Lost, are we?" Ino whirled around to see some kid dressed in... Slytherin robes. He had bleached blonde hair; lighter than her own, even. And it was slicked back. And his look... he looked as if he thought he was the most important thing in the whole world.
"Yes. Now go." Ino really didn't like him, and she didn't even know who he was. Yet she had learned to trust her instincts when it came to these kind of things.
He sneered at her, his eyes narrowing. "Don't you need help?"
"Not from you."
Ino started walking again, her fists clenching at her sides when she heard a pair of footsteps following her. What was this guy? A goddamn stalker? Oh. She would sue. Or she would take matters into her own hands, if that be the case.
"Care to give a woman her privacy?"
"No."
Ino jumped. She hadn't noticed that the Slytherin had been right behind her. Maybe in her anger of the stalked-Slytherin, she hadn't noticed.
She whirled around, angered even more at how much he had invaded he personal space. She shoved him away with a quick flick of her wrist. This seemed to anger him as well.
"Don't you know who I am?"
"No. And I don't care."
Ino took silent amusement in the boy's reaction to her simple statement. She turned on her heel and started back on her probably worthless search.
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"Mr Nara, Mr Hyuuga, I'd appreciate it if you kept a very close eye on Harry until classes start." Dumbledore peered at the two ninja from over his half-moon spectacles, taking in the looks of the two. Shikamaru seemed downright bored, while Neji remained emotionless.
Neji nodded. "Yes, Dumbledore-sama." He said, accidentally and unknowingly reverting back to his native tongue's suffix.
Shikamaru gave a lazy nod, not speaking at all.
Albus glanced out the window, watching as the small forms of Harry, Ron, and Neville came from Hagrid's hut, starting back at the school. Soon, a bouncing dot of green followed them.
"You may go now, children."
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Oh the joy of being in a magical school. One where the stairways move, there are trick stairs, secret passage ways, and the paintings are alive.
Hinata and Sakura were now being given a tour of the school by Ginny and Hermione, who Hinata had managed to cheer up somehow. But, when Ginny announced she would give them a tour of the school, Hermione had protested that 'she knew the school more'. And, actually, she probably did. With all her escapades with Ronald and Harry, who would think otherwise?
And yet Hermione had said she needed to get out of her pajamas, but it was one Ginny Weasley who had told her to start living and go out in them for once.
So, there they were, the four girls going through the school in their pajamas.
When they exited the library, which Hermione had insisted on giving the most thorough tour of all in, they came across a flustered looking Ino.
"A-are you alright, I-Ino?" Hinata asked, wringing her hands. She had been extra jumpy ever since a portrait of a drunk man had started to curse violently at her. Of course it would shock her, and cause her to remain shocked for some time.
Ino nodded, yet her face still betrayed the nod. "Yeah... just some damn boy stalked me, is all." Sakura gave a mock understanding nod, before saying she could just join them in the tour.
And the tour continued.
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Scarlet Sirene. An ex-auror, and now the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
Noone seemed to recall her ever even being an auror.
That was what made Arthur Weasley so nervous as he shifted through some Ministry of Magic auror files during his spare time.
