Black Cleared Due To New Evidence read the front page of the Daily Prophet the next morning. There was no mention of Voldemort. The magic teens lead the shinobi teens to the Great Hall for breakfast and Sirius being cleared was the one thing other students were discussing. That is until they saw the ninja. Then the cavernous room went silent. Dumbledore took advantage of this.
"Serveral things must be discussed this morning. The first is that Professor Umbridge has resigned. Instead of leaving you teacherless in Defense Against the Dark Arts, Professor Namikaze has agreed to take over the post now instead of waiting till next year. Professor Namikaze is part of a new foreign program we are trying for the remainder of this year and next. He has brought with him not only seven students with him who were privately sorted but also another professor, Professor Uzumaki. She will be assisting Hagrid with the Care of Magical Creatures classes. Please treat our guests with kindness and respect. Due to these changes, the professors and I have agreed to push final exams back two weeks. Instead of starting tomorrow they will start in two weeks. Because of this you will receive your scores by owl at home during the summer. It also means classes will still be meeting for the next two weeks to review. The heads of the houses will pass out the review schedules during breakfast. With that, I bid you all a happy breakfast and a good day," announced Dumbledore. The room bust into noise again.
Genma strained his neck, trying to spot Guy and missed the empty plates filling up with food. The other shinobi were wide eyed.
"Bloody hell this is the first time I have seen food like that!" exclaimed Ron at the appearance of the foreign dishes around the shinobi.
"That's the first time we have seen food appear," said Obito, still tired but piling ramen on his plate anyway.
"Only you would eat ramen for breakfast," grumbled Kakashi as he grabbed a biscuit, not too awake himself. Rin and Ebisu however were talking amongst themselves while Tenzo tried to blend in.
"What do you usually eat for breakfast?" asked Hermione, amazed that the biscuit he had disappeared without his mask leaving his face.
"Depends on the day," answered Kakashi.
"So what classes do you have?" asked Rin, knowing her teammate well enough to see he didn't want to answer questions.
"We have Defense Against the Dark Arts, Potions, Transfiguration, Charms, History of Magic, Herbology, Care of Magical Creatures, Astronomy, and Divination. We have each class with the same year of a different house. Transfiguration, History of Magic, and Herbology with Ravenclaw and Charms, Astronomy and Divination with Hufflepuff, the rest with Slytherin," explained Hermione. All the the shinobi listened to her. Professor McGonagall arrived and passed out the schedules. Harry and Ron groaned in unison. The fifth year schedule had been divided into four classes a day for two hours each with Astronomy meeting twice a week from eleven at night to one in the morning. Ron and Harry were groaning because Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, Potions, and Defense Against the Dark Arts were grouped together on that day with Potions being first. The shinobi looked at the lists they were given. Rin was excited about Potions and Herbology, Obito and Kakashi were both looking forward to Care of Magical Creatures, Ebisu was excited to be learning from Minato, Tenzo looked forward to Herbology, and Genma frowned. Since Ginny was a fourth year, he wouldn't be with the others and quite frankly unless it involved weapons, poisons, or traps, he wasn't interested.
Hermione rushed the boys and they left for potions with five of the shinobi. Rin sat with Hermione, Ron sat with Harry, Obito sat with Kakashi, Ebisu sat with Neville, and Tenzo sat with Lavender Brown. Snape strode into the dungeon classroom. He glanced at the shinobi, his eyes lingering on Kakashi.
"Before you all on the desks is the recipes and ingredients for the Draught of Peace. Each of you, including the foreign students, are to give me a sample within the next hour and a half. Well, what are you waiting for?" snapped Snape. He usually did not give out recipes but Dumbledore had told him it would be awhile before the shinobi got their own supplies. Snape looked over his students, a quick count telling him everyone was in attendance. Some of the students were struggling. Others, like the shinobi, were having few problems. Snape sighed. Goyle's potion caught fire. Dean Thomas had a block of cement. After an hour Snape went and checked everyone's potions. Two Slytherins managed to make a decent one. Snape felt like yelling. Then he went to the Griffindors and the foreign students. All of the foreign students had made almost perfect potions! One of them had even helped Longbottom make a decent one. Granger and Brown had made almost perfect ones as well. Snape was pretty sure Potter and Weasley had useable ones, and both of them seemed envious of foreign students. Snape sighed again. After giving a small review on ingredients he dismissed his class to Defense Against the Dark Arts.
Upon reaching the usual classroom they found a note saying to meet at the quidditch field. This had both houses racing to the field, with the shinobi wondering what Minato could be planning. Was it an obstacle course? Could it be weapons training? The blonde man stood in the middle of the quidditch field grinning as all the students arrived and wasted no time.
"I will be using myself and my five students to administer what I call a bell test," started Minato, ignoring the groans coming from Kakashi and Obito.
"Each house will divide into three groups. Each group will draw a number, which will correspond with one of us. The rules are simple. No wands, no magic, no harming teammates or hindering other teams. You are to use what we call taijutsu, hand to hand combat, to get the bell from your assigned opponent. No one can leave the stadium. You have the remaining class time after drawing your team's number to get the bell. If you fail to get a bell, you will write at least three pages on what you could have done to get a bell. Understood?" stated Minato.
"Why do we have to learn this?" asked Draco.
"Because you will not always have a wand, nor the energy to use magic. At times using magic will not be possible, like when surrounded by muggles. Divide yourselves now," answered Minato. He walked over to his students and gave them bells. They then all drew numbers. Rin drew four, Ebisu drew one, Tenzo drew three, Obito drew five, Kakashi drew six, and Minato drew two.
"No jutsu, no sharingan, no working together. Traps are allowed. Do not seriously injure them. Understood?" whisphered Minato. They nodded.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione were in a group. Neville joined Dean and Seamus while Lavender and Parvati were a team. Malfoy was teamed with Crabbe and Goyle. They didn't have a chance to see who the other teams were before Minato was in front of them with slips of paper in his hands. Hermione drew a six for them.
"Six huh? Your opponent is Kakashi," said Minato. Lavender drew Rin. Seamus drew Obito. Malfoy drew Minato. Pansy drew Tenzo and a boy named Gregory drew Ebisu.
"You now know your opponents. Your time starts now," said Minato. Then all the foreigners vanished.