I am finally back here once again for another chapter… my apologies to all the readers who was waiting for my updates… there's just too much things to do… anyway, here I present to you guys another 'fun filled' chapter, hope it really does humors all of you! Enjoy reading!
Pardon me for the Grammar errors… Japanese translations are in Italic
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Technique 7: Umbridge's Misfit
Dumbledore's speech was interrupted halfway through, not that anyone knows if he was actually going to continue or what he was really trying to say as the mere thought of it was greatly overwhelmed and forgotten when a few ear deafening loud 'poof' rang and echoed throughout the entire Great Hall. Dozens of thousands of eyes belonging to the students studying at Hogwarts stare in the direction of the source of sound, which was currently surrounded by thick white smoke. Even the professors and the headmaster had on looks of disbelief as they stare hard at the pile of smoke, which seemed to enjoy taking its time to disperse, the things… or rather figures inside of the smoke was totally shielded from the outside.
Horrid… it was just about the correct word that could describe the feelings that now flooded the few ninjas in the Hall; they knew what that smoke was. The three Jounins who was currently sitting at the Gryffindor table casts looks of dread at each other before slowly raising to their feet and move closer to the smoke. Kakashi and Gai cast a look at each other before slipping from their seat at the professor's table and moving towards the smoke. As the five ninjas moved closer to the smoke, they could hear voices coming from the internal part of the still thick smoke, and, they were voices that seemed familiar to them, very familiar.
"Doko ni sawatten no yo, omaie!" Where do you think you're touching! Exclaimed one, obviously female because of the higher pitch the voice was.
"Suman… wazato janai" Sorry, it was not intentional said a second voice, a male one.
"Aa… mennokusen na…" Ah… it's so troublesome… said the last one, also in a male's voice, but it came out more as a yawn.
A drop of sweat slides down the five ninja's heads as they slowly came to a conclusion as to who the three people were. It was also at the same time, that the smoke finally cleared from the area, giving all and everyone who were now in the Great Hall, a clear and direct view of how the three 'visitors' looked like.
As their voice had proven, there was a female and two males. The female had brownish black hair tied into two buns on her head, black eyes and wore a Chinese style pink sleeveless outfit and long blue pants. One of the male was dressed in a rather transparent black-netted short sleeve shirt, a jacket over his shirt and dull green trousers. He had his rather long black hair tied high into a ponytail that looks rather spiky, his black eyes halved as he look at the few ninjas standing before him. The last male and member of the three wore a green overall elastic training suit; his black hair was done in a bowl shaped cut as his black eyes looked intently at those before him.
"Tenten…" Shiyuki said as she stares at the latter with a raised eyebrow, Tenten merely smiled at her.
"Shikamaru?" Neji questioned as the other male gave a yawn.
It is the last member of the three that caused the sarcastic look on Naruto, Neji and Shiyuki's faces. Kakashi who stood right the furthest away from the area, brought the orange background book he was holding, higher to cover away as much of the fore predicted scene that was just about guaranteed, going to happen in another few moments when Gai who a few steps away from him suddenly threw up his arms.
"LEE…!" came the enthusiastic yell from the Taijutsu master as he began running forwards in a dramatic way, arms out stretched in front of him towards the last male who on the other hand, had on a 'teary' face as he stood looking at the Taijutsu master before dramatically running towards him himself.
"Thic…k… Thick eyebrow?" Naruto croaked out upon seeing him.
The next moment, both the student and teacher were within reach of each other, their eyes almost over filling with tears that swell up. Then, the two did something none of the wizards would ever have thought of… the two hugged each other, gasping onto the other's shoulders, all the presence of the entire lot of people in the Great Hall was suddenly forgotten as the background scene suddenly change into that of sea during a storm. Waves clashed onto the sea surface with great force and some bolts of lightning flashed down.
"Lee!" Gai almost shouted as tears spill out like an over flooding river.
"Gai sensei!" Lee did the same as torrents of tears gush down his cheeks.
"Lee!" once again, he shouted.
"Gai sensei!" once again, the other did the same.
"Lee!" and again, the tear river over flooded.
"Gai sensei!" and again, another new torrent of tears gush out.
"Lee!" and it continued on.
"Gai sensei!" and on… the waterfall of tears from both did not stop even once.
In the amidst of all the cries of "Lee!" and "Gai sensei!" Kakashi took to staring at the pages of his book, even though he was looking at his book, his eye started twitching. Naruto, Neji and Shiyuki stared at the two lost in their own world before them with halved eyes. Drops of sweats forming on their heads. Tenten swung her hand to her forehead as Shikamaru had on a sarcastic look. The entire lot of wizards in the Hall, the professors included, could only stare blankly at the scene going on before them.
The temperature of the Hall had by then already nearly dropped to the freezing point as a gust of cold wind blew across the entire Hall, chilling the few watching ninjas. Breathing out a sigh, the five young ninjas could only inwardly scream, 'Not the student and teacher affection thing again!' as they dropped their heads in defeat at the still continuing scene before them.
All the wizards present were staring at the pair of student and teacher with open mouths, stunned and completely frozen in place with what they were doing just before the pair started exchanging their affections.
A minute had already passed, but the pair of student and teacher ninjas was still continuing with their affections, their tears had already started to flood the Great Hall. This was when the other ninjas finally decided that they had enough. Lee was suddenly yanked from his embrace with his teacher when a hand reached out from behind him, grabbing him by the collar of his green elastic training suit and hauls him off in the direction opposite to where his teacher was. The hand turned out to belong to the newly arrived Tenten, who was on the same team with Lee himself.
"Yes, yes, we've all had enough of it" the brown haired kunoichi muttered as she continue to tow Lee with her away from Gai.
Gai, who was still stuck in the same position, slapped both his hands to his cheeks, as his mouth wide opened in a silent "No!" freezing in the action. By then, Lee was already some distance from him, both his hands stretched out as if to reach for his teacher. But no one foresaw the worst scenario after this…
"LEE!" Gai shouted across the distance, stretching his hand out in his direction.
"GAI-SENSEI!" the latter did the same, struggling to get away from the hand still grabbing onto his collar, Naruto and Shikamaru immediately came to Tenten's aid, as both male ninjas struggled with helping her keep Lee from getting away.
Kakashi, by now was already too embarrassed to watch, he brought his orange background book higher to cover his face, a big drop of sweat formed on his head. Neji smacked his hand to his forehead, totally unable to bring himself to say anything. As for Shiyuki, she was trembling to keep her cool under this unnecessary situation. It was when both Gai and Lee's tears nearly flooded the entire Great Hall and everyone hurried atop their chairs that she only had one thing in mind, 'Enough is enough!'
"For heaven's sake stop flooding the Hall!" she shouted in exasperation, pointing her hand at both sides.
That got everyone's attention. Even Gai and Lee stopped to stared at the purple haired kunoichi. It was only now that the two finally realized that what they had done nearly flooded the Great Hall, and judging by the darkening faces of all their ninja comrades, they were not at all pleased by their display. Both were silent for some time, under the menacing and dark glares of their ninja comrades.
"That was quite a display" Dumbledore said suddenly, startling everyone as all heads snapped to his direction, "I believe that was quite enough for the day. May I ask the new arrival guests the reason for your appearance?" he asked as he looked at the entire group of ninjas standing in the middle of the Great Hall.
Suddenly all serious, Tenten pulled out a scroll and walked towards the old headmaster, presenting the scroll to him.
"We were sent by the Fifth Hokage after the report of an attack by the sound ninjas" Tenten stated.
"The Fifth Hokage requests to station us here with the original team" Shikamaru continued.
The group of ninjas looked intently at the headmaster as he scanned through the scroll, before nodding.
"That will not be a problem, your new team will join your other comrades at the Gryffindor house, every thing else necessary will be take care of" he said, a smile playing on his face, "Now, I believe every one on you should be hungry, shall we start the feast?" he asked, as the student wizards at the tables gave nods of approval.
But, no one moved, Harry stared down at the flood below them with raised eyebrow, 'How are we going to get down from here…" he thought as he eyed Ron and Hermione who gave him equal looks. The three wizards then turned to face their ninja friends.
Naruto gave them an apologetic look, both hands clapped together before him as he peeked at them with one blue eye. Neji simply gave an exhausted sigh, dealing with the infamous student and teacher affection was tiring… Shiyuki shook her head as she gave out a sigh.
It was thanks to McGonagall that the problem the wizards are facing now finally caught attention.
"What are we suppose to do about this flood?" she asked, raising an eyebrow at the headmaster.
"Well…" the headmaster started, "Is there any professor who would be so kind as to clear it?" he asked as he turned to face the table all the professors were sitting at.
Before any of the professors could answer, Kakashi voiced out, "I don't think that will be necessary, we can clear this" he turned to eye the purple haired kunoichi, "If you would…" he said to her.
Nodding her head, Shiyuki spread out her hands to either side of her body, eyes changing from silver to blue. Just then, the water below them started to vibrate, then twist together into a water tornado as the kunoichi lifted her arms upwards, then pointed towards the open windows in the Hall, where the water tornado followed the directions and rapidly flowed out of the Hall.
The professors were staring dumbfounded at the scene, 'How in the world did she do it?' was one big question in their minds. The other wizards, those below the fifth years stared in astonishment, jaws dropped open.
Not long after, all the water had been drained out of the Great hall and the purple haired ninja dropped her hand to the side, eyes changing back from blue to silver as she sagged a little in her posture, feeling a little drained from using her bloodline limit. Naruto was instantly by her side, giving her a thumbs up sign and a wide grin which she accepted gratefully as she managed a smile back. Neji silently offered her his hand, in case she needed something to hold on to. Tenten gave Lee a glare, which the latter shrunk back from and hurried to her friend's side. Shikamaru sighed, 'This is so troublesome…' he thought.
Dumbledore however, turned his eyes on the female ninja, rather surprised and pleased at what she did, 'That was an interesting ability' he thought. "Let us now enjoy the feast!" he finally announced as food started appearing on the tables.
The lot of student wizards finally got down from their benches and began their dinner, totally famished because of the delay. The two older Jounin teachers returned to their seats at the professor's table as the other six slowly made their way to the Gryffindor table. Finally, they settle themselves on either side of the table beside Harry, Ron and Hermione.
"Are they your friends?" Harry asked Neji softly, the latter gave him a curt nod in reply.
Then, Naruto took to introducing the newly arrived team of three to the three wizard friends they had come to know. And every one started eating their dinner.
"Tenten" Shiyuki called suddenly as the brown haired kunoichi turned to face her, "It every thing all right back at the village?" she asked.
"Every thing is just fine" Tenten replied with a smile, "Tsunade-sama was just worried that you people might not be able to cope with the attacks should there be more of their ninja troops" she said.
Grinning at each other, the two female ninjas continued their dinner. It was not long before all the food was cleared off from the tables. Then, the headmaster made his announcements.
"I believe that what happened today at the pitch had create quite a shock to every one of you" he said, eyes scanning through the Hall of students, "As a treat, all classes for the next day are cancelled" at this sentence, all the students cheered, but settle down the moment he lifted his hands, "Take the time to enjoy and calm yourselves. That is all" he then dismissed the students.
But unfortunately, just before the group of Gryffindor fifth years had a chance to get out of the Hall, Umbridge came storming towards them.
"Just because the headmaster has decided to cancel all classes tomorrow, it does not mean that your detention was cancelled too, Mr Uzumaki" she announced, a smirk on her face, "Report to my room after dinner tomorrow" she said before she left.
Naruto stood frozen to the ground, staring at the retreating back of the so very much hated professor ever.
"NANDE MADA DITENSION NI ARUN DAYO!" Why is there still detention! He screamed as his face began to wither and both hands covered his cheeks as he sway to and fro.
Feeling sorry for their teammates, the other ninjas swiftly grabbed his arms and helped the slumping ninja back to the dorm. Harry, Ron and Hermione gave him looks of sympathy. The lot returned to their own dormitories for the night, already feeling exhausted because of the dinner. The newly arrived ninjas were rather shocked to see the beds already prepared for them in the dormitory, Lee and Shikamaru turned to face Naruto and Neji in the boys' dormitory just as Tenten did the same in the girls' dormitory. Shiyuki eyed the brown haired ninja with a strange look, as Naruto and Neji did the same in the other dormitory.
"Well, this is a magic school, what else do you expect?" all three ninjas from the same team said to their comrades.
With a funny look on their faces, the three took to grinning and slowly began unpacking their things. Not long after, thanks to the help of their ninja and wizard friends, the three managed to finish unpacking all their things. With a quick wave to each other, they retreated back into their own beds for the night.
Morning came soon, far too soon, thought Harry as the bespectacled wizard put on his glasses and looked around the room, stretching himself at the same time. The other fifth year wizards were still in bed, but none of the male ninjas sharing the same dormitory were in sight. Running a hand through his hair, the black haired wizard slowly made his way down to the common room.
He was rather shocked to find all the ninjas gathering in the common room, seemingly discussing something. Harry nearly jumped a foot into the air when suddenly Naruto appeared right in front of him, staring at him with halved eyes and a sarcastic look on his face.
"Wha…what's wrong?" Harry stammered over the words as he tried to recover from his shock.
"Naruto-kun" Lee said, as he waved a finger to and fro, "It's not good to keep surprising other people" he warned just as the other four ninjas behind him sent him dark glares that clearly read, 'Speak for yourself!' Lee could only shrink away.
"Nee…" Just a way of getting attention, no real meanings. Naruto started, drawing Harry's attention back to himself, "Is there any chance of getting into the kitchen here?" he asked the wizard.
"Kitchen?" he repeated as the blonde haired ninja nodded, as his mind instantly thought of Dobby, the house elf, "I know of a way…" he trailed off, drops of sweat formed on his head the moment he saw Naruto's face, the blonde's blue eyes was sparkling in unexplained elation and hope.
And that was it. They had Shiyuki help wake Hermione up while Harry returned to the boys' dormitory to get Ron. They were down not very long after, meeting up with the few waiting ninjas. Harry, Ron and Hermione then lead the way to the passage to the Hogwarts' kitchen. Dobby greeted the lot at the doorway of the kitchen, which Harry explained to him that they need to borrow the kitchen for some time after breakfast, to his requests, the house elf agreed readily, saying that he will make arrangements for the kitchen to be prepared for their use after wards. Harry thanked the house elf, and then told the good news to the ninjas on their way to the Great Hall. All the way, Naruto had a sly smile on his face, Lee was grinning, Neji and Tenten cast disgusted looks at each other, while Shiyuki and Shikamaru gave each other confused and strange looks.
The group of nine hurriedly finished their breakfast and went back to the kitchen. The house elf went off after it showed them where to find all the necessary 'equipments' for cooking. The group of nine then find themselves having the entire kitchen to themselves, until late morning that is, when the house elves need to prepare for lunch. The three wizards looked around the kitchen, then at the two teams of ninjas. Out of the six, five were staring at one, the blonde haired ninja rubbed his chin with one hand, the other hand supporting the first, seeming to be deep in thought.
"What now?" Shiyuki asked, eyeing her blonde teammate.
"Where do we start?" Lee asked enthusiastically, as drops of sweat poured down Neji and Tenten's heads.
"I'm definitely not going to touch it!" Tenten exclaimed, shaking her head vigorously.
"I'm getting a feeling that I'm going to dread this…" Neji muttered to himself, dropping his head, at this his female teammate raised an eyebrow.
"And why is that so?" the purple haired ninja asked rather softly, so that no one else could hear.
"The first and last time I actually tried this… " he trailed off, shuddering a little as he turned his eyes on her, a rather rigid look on his face, "It really has devastating results on those who actually tried…" he said, as a drop of sweat appeared on Shiyuki's head.
"Man… this is troublesome…" Shikamaru yawned as he lean against a table beside him, peeking with one eye to keep track of what the others were doing.
Then, Naruto suddenly exclaimed, "I got it!" startling the rest. The nine gathered around each other in a circle, as Naruto explained to them how they are going to be doing this cooking. A few moments later, the group nodded in understanding and went about to find the things they needed.
Firstly, the wizards found a rather tall pot and a scoop, setting the pot on top of the stove, after which water was poured in and the fire was started. Shiyuki came back with a packet of what seemed to be the curry powder, which Naruto hurriedly open the packet and dump its entire contents into the pot; Lee started stirring the mixture in the pot. After a while, Tenten returned with some potatoes and Neji with some meat, which both ninjas passed to Shikamaru for slicing. Not long after, Shikamaru was done chopping the ingredients, and since he decided that walking over with the ingredients and back was too much trouble, he shouted for everyone to stay clear while he practically threw the ingredients over.
Most of the chopped ingredients landed perfectly into the pot, but a few odd ones was throw a little much higher than the others and those hit something above them before they fell down back into the pot, together with what they had hit. It landed into the pot with a splash, and the ones present around the pot cringed, and then lean forwards to inspect. It was something not very big… black… hairy… and has eight legs. At the realization of what it is, Ron instantly let out a scream, "Spider!" as he jumped a foot behind his two friends who paled, staring at the pot of 'curry'. Neji had a look of disgust as he backed away from the pot, refusing to go near it.
But instead of redoing everything, Lee simply continued with his stirring, with Naruto encouraging him on beside him.
"Are you sure this can be eaten…?" Shiyuki asked uncertainly, staring at the pot.
"No problem, no problem! That Grandma made this 'Curry of Life' with a lot of strange and unusual things too, right?" he asked Lee, who nodded with a grin.
Tenten and Neji turned a little blue at the thought of the curry.
"Now, that was not enough" Naruto said suddenly, turning to the lot of people, "Just try to find anything useful enough here to add on!" he exclaimed, then bounce off himself to search.
Sighing, the rest began to search around for anything that could be or may be eaten. Some time later, they all returned to the pot, dumping everything they found into the pot. The things range from flavors like salt and sugar to vegetables and fruits… and worst of all they saw someone throw live creatures into the curry. Those include snakes… bats… and even lizards. Lee was still stirring away happily, as if those were an everyday food.
Tenten and Neji backed away the moment those strange things came into the curry. And they cringed rigid when they saw the final result of the curry.
"Dull… brownish-green?" Shiyuki blurted out, eyeing the plate of curry with an unbelievable look on her face, "Are you really sure that can be eaten?" she questioned as lines of dread fell down her head.
Neji and Tenten's figure lost all their color, white as paper as they stare mouth open at the dull brownish-green colored plate of curry. Shikamaru had on a look of disgust. The three wizards dropped their jaws at the plate of curry. Lee was very pleased with his product as he confidently shoves a spoonful into his mouth, his eyes brightening and sparkling as he immerses himself in the taste of his curry. Naruto grinned at them and pokes a finger into the curry and brought it into his mouth to taste. But he ended up puking and fainting, bringing drops of sweat down the other ninjas and wizards' heads.
"It's done!" Naruto suddenly came back to live, punching a fist into the air as he announced, "Let's bring it to her!" he picked up the plate of curry and left the kitchen, the others following right behind.
"Who did he want to have eat that?" Harry asked as they hurried down the corridor.
"Professor Umbridge" both Neji and Shiyuki whispered to him as they continue on their way to her room.
The bespectacled wizard felt himself laughing inwardly and mouthed an "Ooh" and turn to share the news with Ron and Hermione, who had on incredulous looks. Not long after, they reached Umbridge's room. With a quick knock on her room, they placed the plate of curry on her doorstep and quickly hide themselves. The door slowly opened to reveal the target. She scanned around the corridor, but found no one in sight. Lowering her head, she saw the plate of curry left on her doorstep, a note came with it.
"We hope you enjoy your lunch" she read out as she looked at the curry.
Sighing, she took in a spoonful, chewing on it. The nine watched intently, counting for her outburst. On cue in… three… two… one!
But the outburst was not what they had expected.
"This is delicious!" she exclaimed, staring with admiration at the plate of curry, "Whoever made this must be a genius!" she then took it into her room, shutting the door behind her.
All the nine hiding figures outside, all with the exception of Lee practically fell over, limbs twitching, while Lee was smiling rather widely to himself at the professor's comment.
"I can't believe that didn't work!" Naruto exclaimed, fuming all the way back to the Gryffindor tower, "We just have to think of another way" he said.
Just when they nine reached the portrait to the common room, Naruto suddenly called all the ninjas with him, hurriedly thanking the wizards for their help earlier, though the idea did not work, and hurried off. The wizards smiled at his enthusiasm, as they retreat back into the common room for the time. The blonde led the other five to a rather secluded part of the tower.
"Since the 'Curry of Life' plan didn't work… we just have to try another way" he said, eyes glistening with mischief, "And I already had a new plan in mind!" he finished, grinning evilly as the other five ninjas around him had sweats dripping down their heads as they watch their blonde haired ninja comrade through halved eyes.
The six ninjas then spent their entire afternoon at work, totally sealing off one of the side corridors. Time passed very quickly and soon, it was already evening. The three wizards made their way to the Great Hall for dinner. They met the ninjas just outside the Hall. Through the dinner, the ninjas kept casting odd looks at each other, while the three wizards looked in confusion. When the feast ended for the night, Umbridge had the decency to 'escort' Naruto to her room for detention herself, leading the scowling ninja off. Just before they left the Hall, Naruto turned to his ninja friends and hoisted up a thumbs up sign, signaling the start of their new plan. The five ninjas nodded to each other before saying a quick goodbye to the wizards and rushed out of the Great Hall back to the corridor they had been working on all afternoon.
Meanwhile, in Umbridge's room, Naruto was scowling as he scratches at the parchment with his quill. The professor had made him copy lines, to which he had absolutely no interest or even find the need to. He scribbled over the words, looking up at the clock hanging above that read seven thirty now, bidding his time and waiting to start his plan.
When the clock strike eight, the blonde ninja immediately looked over at Umbridge, seeing that she was still busying herself with something, he raised both his hands, two fingers from both hands put into a horizontal and vertical position each and murmured softly, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Shadow Replication Technique!
Umbridge nearly fell out of the chair she was sitting on when a sudden thunderous 'poof' sounded through the silent room. She snapped her head around violently to find the source of the noise, and her attention landed on the blonde haired figure still sitting quietly at the desk with his detention work. Standing up, she moved towards him and stretched out a hand to grab his shoulder. At that very moment her hand came into contact with his shoulder, the figure vanished in a loud 'poof'; white smoke dispersing from the area the figure had formerly been in.
Letting out a scream, Umbridge, hurried to the door, only to find Naruto outside the room, flicking his tongue at her sarcastically and ran off. By now, the ministry appointed professor was already a light shade of pink, she chase after the escaping blonde haired ninja.
Chuckling evilly to himself, he glance behind him a few times to make sure the fuming professor was keeping up as he continued on being the bait, leading her to the same corridor they were working on all afternoon. The one he called, 'The Corridor of Pranks' which was getting closer and closer.
When the corridor finally came into view, he stopped running. Umbridge finally caught up to the blonde student, she, with gritted teeth reached out with her hand to grab his shoulder. But the blonde again disappeared with a 'poof', leaving her staring at the space before her. Then, from the other end of the corridor, she heard someone shout at her.
"I'm here you dolt!" that someone had blonde spiky hair and blue eyes, he was jumping around.
That set off a vein in Umbridge's head as she marched stonily towards the other end of the corridor where Naruto was. Suddenly, the defense against the dark arts professor felt something swooshing pass her head and struck the wall beside her. It was a throwing weapon of sorts. A sudden feeling of dread came over her as she slowly turned in the direction the weapon was thrown, an uncountable number of other throwing weapons was heading her way, she reflexively jumped out of the way, avoiding the attacks.
Upon seeing Naruto set off the first trap, the other ninjas readied themselves. Neji cut off a string attached to the wall beside him just as Umbridge avoided all the kunai. The professor thought she was safe, but realized how wrong she was when she felt something else drop and embed itself into the ground just beside her foot. Looking up, she nearly screamed when she saw a rain of kunais showering down on her, she ran for her life, continuing down the corridor as the rain of kunais showered down after her. The raven-haired ninja who set off the kunais gave a smile to his female teammate who return the smile and prepare herself next.
The rain of kunais continued for some seconds before it stopped, with Umbridge still running. Shiyuki closed her eyes and snap them open, silver changed into blue, then a torrent of water came washing down on the professor, totally drenching her to the core. Then, before Umbridge had a chance to do anything, a shock of electric current struck her as she jumped a foot into the air, with the electricity shocking her to the bones. Naruto burst out laughing at the scenes, covering his stomach with one hand while the other was pointing at the professor. Lee, Tenten and Neji watched while trying to contain their laughter. With yellow eyes, the purple haired kunoichi soon stopped the flow of current, which was from the start not deadly at all. The professor dropped to the ground, her hair stand in needles, due to the electricity. Slowly, the female professor struggled to her feet, and continued to walk down the corridor. It was not long before her ankle came into contact with something thin and long, it was a string, and there was a piece of paper attached onto the string, scribbled with something illegible to her.
Tenten grinned widely just as the paper exploded, covering the area with smoke. When the smoke cleared, they saw Umbridge standing in the same position, with a blank expression on her face, her clothes were in disarray and her hair was already out of style, it looked more like a grandma's permed hair, all curly and was in a big heap. The other ninjas sniggered uncontrollably, as the professor then swayed to and fro.
Suddenly, Umbridge felt herself stiffened and her legs began to move on their own, walking to the edge of the corridor. Shikamaru let out a sigh as he made her move. She only managed to let out a cry of shock when she felt herself jump off the edge and drop down. But what met her fall was not the ground; it was a spring bed, as she bounced on the bed a few times. She let out a sigh of relief.
But the relief was cut off when she was suddenly violently flung off the spring bed, falling forwards and dropping on the ground just some distance away from the bed. She pushed herself into a sitting position when she felt the ground shifted below her. Then, without any warning, the ground disappeared below her, and she dropped, letting out a high-pitched scream as she journeyed down the pit.
The moment she dropped into the pre-dug pit, all the six ninjas instantly gathered around the hole, waiting for the sound that signal the end of the plan.
One minute passed, and there was still no sound of the professor reaching the bottom of the pit. Five heads immediately snapped to stare at the one responsible, a certain ninja with black hair in a bowl cut and wore the elastic green training suit, Lee.
"I worked hard for it!" he replied with a big grin, holding his hand up in a fist as the other ninjas felt their eyes narrowing at his definition of 'worked hard'.
Five minutes had already passed and still there was no signal, just the still extended scream of the professor.
Ten minutes had passed and the ninjas were almost dozing off sitting around the hole, nodding their heads off and yawning.
Fifteen minutes had passed by and finally they heard the echo of the unmistaken sound of the professor smashing into the ground at the bottom of the pit. Cheering, the ninjas jumped around in joy at the complete success of the plan when suddenly from the pit, an explosion could be heard, shocking the ninjas as they turned to face the pit. A rather singed Umbridge could be seen rocketing out of the pit and into the night sky. Six pairs of eyes that belonged to the ninjas followed the rocketing professor, as she grew smaller and smaller in sight and finally disappeared in a flash of light.
Five mouths hung open at the sight, then turned to face the one digging the pit. Lee had a hand behind his head in an apologetic manner, a silly look on his face.
"I think I accidentally dropped the exploding talisman in the pit…" he smiled sheepishly as sweats dropped down the others' heads.
They dismiss the last unexpected part for the time, giving themselves a thumbs-up sigh as an encouragement for their success. The six ninjas burst out laughing, finally unable to keep the laughter in when they thought of how they really get back on Umbridge. Grinning sheepishly at each other, the six retreated back to the Gryffindor common room.
At the same time, somewhere out there… in the woods, Umbridge was running frantically, as a herd of enormous spiders chased her all the way…
A/N: That was all for this chapter! How was it? Umbridge sure had one hell of a time that night! And thanks for reading and reviewing! That's all for now, see you guys the next chapter!