I'm back for another chapter! So very sorry for the long wait! Hope you guys are still out there… Thank you for reading and reviewing people! Want to know what happens to unfortunate Professor Umbridge? Before that… there's just something I wanted to say… I can't help it if people don't like Shiyuki… but you know, there's a reason for not wanting to use one of the random female characters in the anime itself (even if that reason is personal…). And for those who questioned… the elements that she could control are only fire, water, wind and thunder. That's all… ok… to the story!
Pardon me for the Grammar errors… Japanese translations are in Italic
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Harry Potter! The only things I own are Hisara Shiyuki and her Bloodline Limit, now adding a few more misc characters…
Technique 8: Back to Classes
The group of six ninjas entered the door to the Gryffindor common room; they were rather surprised to find their wizard friends sitting in the chairs of the common room. Harry almost jumped out of the chair he was sitting in when he spotted the ninjas. Together with Ron and Hermione, the three wizards rushed towards the group of ninjas, looking them with concern.
"How did it go?" Harry asked, looking rather anxious.
"She didn't… do something bad to you, did she?" Ron asked, a horrified look at the mere thought of 'something bad'.
"Oh for goodness sake!" Hermione said out loud in exasperation, "There is no way a professor would do that kind of uncivilized actions to a student!" she threw up her hands into the air at the sentence.
The group of six ninjas cast looks at each other before bursting out in laughter. At the sudden outbursts of laughter from their ninja friends, the three wizards stared at them in incomprehension.
"Huh?" the three wizards said at the same time, "Why are you all laughing like that? Did something happen?" they asked, as they began to feel rather worried for their ninja friends.
It took some time before the ninjas finally managed to get their laughter under control. Naruto looked at the three wizards with a spark of amusement in his blue eyes as he leaned forwards towards the three.
"She didn't get to do anything!" he said, the three wizards sighed in relief, "We're the ones who did everything!" he exclaimed, eyes closing into a line as he beamed at them, a thumbs up sigh positioned towards them.
"What… do you mean?" Harry asked, as he felt his mind getting more and more confused at the way the few ninja friends of his were acting.
"You'll see tomorrow…" Neji said as he moved pass the three wizards and started up the stairs, "It was quite enough for the day" he said as he headed up the stairs back to the boys dormitory.
"Find out for yourself tomorrow!" Naruto piped as he bounced up the stairs after his teammate, obviously still in the best of his moods.
"Good night!" Lee said rather seriously as he too, went up the stairs.
"Ah… this is so troublesome…" Shikamaru muttered as he followed the three male ninja's path up the stairs.
"What is going on?" Hermione turned to the two female ninjas in the common room.
"Well… it's not really our place to tell… it's better for you guys to find out for yourselves" Tenten said with a grin as she moved pass them towards the stairs.
"You'll see the results tomorrow" Shiyuki promised with a wink as she smiled at the three wizards, "Please excuse us, we had a long day" she said slowly moved towards the stairs, where the other female ninja was waiting and together the two kunoichi went up the stairs and returned to the girls' dormitory.
The three wizards stared as the two female ninjas disappeared up the stairs, then turned back to face each other, a confused look on their faces.
"What the hell is going on?" Ron asked, raising his eyebrow at his question.
"Seriously, I have no idea what they're all trying to say…" Hermione said, folding her arms across her chest, shaking her head a little.
"Well…" Harry started, "We'll just have to wait till tomorrow, like they said, to find out the actual reason" he shrugged his shoulders.
Heaving out a sigh, all three wizards slowly made their way up the stairs back to their own dormitories. By the time the wizards returned back to their respective dormitories, they found that their ninja friends were already fast asleep. The three wizards changed into their bedclothes and climbed into their beds, resting for the day. Like what their ninja friends had told them, they would be finding out the 'problem' the next day.
Time really flies when one's enjoying themselves and morning soon came. A hand reached out to search for the pair of glasses the owner had placed on the bed stand beside his bed before grabbing it and sliding the glasses back into place, over his long-sighted green eyes. The black haired wizard pushed himself up on his bed, looking around the dormitory. Ron was obviously still in bed; he could see the bush of red hair from under the bed sheets, as were the other wizards, with their robes and books still thrown over their trunks. As always, the raven-haired ninja was already up, standing by the window, looking through the glass with his white colored eyes, his arms folded over his chest. Neji turned his head in Harry's direction when he felt eyes looking at him. Harry was quite surprised when the ninja gave him a curt nod as a greeting. He then continued to search for the hyperactive blonde haired ninja and the other two new arrived ones. He found one of them still in bed, the one with the 'pineapple head' as Tenten had said sometime ago, Shikamaru. Naruto and Lee were nowhere in sight.
Jumping up from his bed, the bespectacled wizard moved towards where Neji was standing.
"Morning…" he started, "Where's Naruto?" he asked, when he still could not find a trace of the blonde in the room.
Without taking his eyes off what so ever he was looking at through the glass window, Neji lifted a hand and pointed a finger at the window, or rather, what was outside the window. Harry went closer to the window, following the direction Neji's hand was pointing in as his green eyes looked through the glass window. Outside, down on the grassy grounds just below the Gryffindor tower, two figures were doing push-ups. One was the missing blonde ninja he did not see in the dormitory, the other was one of the new arrived Gai sensei look alike, Lee. Harry felt a drop of sweat slide down his head when he saw the two figures below suddenly jumped to their feet and raised a fist at each other, apparently deep in a heated argument. The wizard could hear a sigh from the ninja beside him when he saw the scene.
Shaking his head, Neji gave one last glance out the window before leaving the dormitory, probably going to the common room, Harry thought as he watch the ninja walk out the door. Harry then moved to wake his red haired friend up; the two wizards got dressed, grabbed their books and went out of their dormitory, down the stairs to the Gryffindor common room.
As usual, when the two wizards reached the common room, they saw that all the ninjas were already there, together with Hermione and were waiting for them. Ron stared in Shikamaru's direction as the other ninja open his mouth in a yawn.
"How did he manage to get here before us? I can swear that he's still sleeping when we left!" Ron muttered to Harry, eyeing the ninja in disbelief.
"I have no idea…" Harry said, shrugging his shoulders lightly.
"What took you two so long?" Hermione said, hands on her hips, looking at the two with a stern look on her face. Harry gave her an apologetic look and Ron had on a silly look on his face.
"Well… let's get going! We're going to be late if we continue to stand here!" Hermione said in exasperation as she pushed both Harry and Ron towards the door.
The six ninjas gave each other looks of amusement before they followed the three wizards out of the Gryffindor common room. The nine figures reached the Great Hall not very long after, entering the Hall and sitting themselves at the Gryffindor table. They were some of the ones who had came into the Great Hall earlier, considering the fact that there were not much students in the Hall when they reached. 'It must have been because there's no classes yesterday' Harry thought, that was usually one of the reasons why the students had a difficult time getting up early.
They watched as the number of students slowly increased as groups of them came into the Great Hall not long after, the Hall was gradually filling up with students. Soon, the professors and the headmaster filled in their seats at the very front of the Hall. But the one seat that was supposed to have a certain Defense Against the Dark Arts professor sitting in was left empty.
'Could it be that she's… sick?' Harry asked himself as he felt his eyebrow rose slightly.
"What happened to Professor Umbridge?" Hermione asked, soft enough that only the group of them could hear as he lean forwards a little.
"No idea!" Ron said, grinning with a silly look on his face, "Maybe she overslept!" he exclaimed, and Harry had to admit he would have burst out laughing at the attempted explanation had it not been for the look on Hermione's face that clearly states "Nonsense!" in displeasure.
Harry could see by the corner of his eyes, that the ninjas were eyeing the closed entrance door anxiously, as if expecting something, or rather someone to come in through the door any minute.
Then as if on cue, the entrance door burst open with a loud clank, startling everyone as all heads present snapped instantly to the direction of the door. Six pairs of eyes lit up when the door opened as they stared intently for the one responsible to step into the Great Hall. When the figure did, exclamations of shock, loud gasps of disbelief rang through the Great Hall, and the six ninjas started to snigger. The figure, who was actually the missing professor Umbridge, her limbs seemed to be case in a cast, considering its stiffness and she was covered in bandages everywhere except her face, which has patches of plasters stuck on, the all mighty professor now had clutches in both hands and looked very much like a living mummy.
The ninjas were chuckling, lowering their heads at the table, and trying to not let any sound out by covering their hands over their mouths. The three wizards looked at the six giggling ninjas, and then turned their heads over to where the 'mummified' Umbridge was still standing, then turned their heads back to the group of giggling ninjas. Something clicked; it was only then did the three wizards finally understand what their ninja friends had said yesterday. The results meant the state Umbridge was in, and it only meant that the bunch of ninjas were up to no good when they disappear last night after dinner.
Harry, Ron and Hermione could feel their lips twitching at the sight. The 'mummified' professor stumbled forwards to the professors' table, clumsily pushing herself forwards using her clutches. Halfway through the path, her stiff leg tripped over the clutches, and Umbridge fell over, hitting the floor in an unceremonious heap. All the students and professors present stared hard at the fallen professor, as she struggled to stand again. Naruto giggled even harder at that, tears could be seen at the corners of his eyes as he tried to keep his laughter as low as he could be stuffing his hand into his mouth.
A while later, all of the students in the Great Hall burst out laughing, some of the professors even looked amused by the act. When Umbridge finally got back onto her feet, she threw a vicious glare in the ninjas' direction. Which was countered by an innocent look on Naruto's face, a silly smile from Lee, a sleeping Shikamaru, an indifferent Neji and two chatting female ninjas. Gritting her teeth, the professor continued to limb her way to the professors' table. The ninjas resumed in their giggling when the professor looked away. Harry looked over just as Naruto turned his head in the wizard's direction.
"That's what I mean!" he winked at the bespectacled wizard in mischief.
Harry raised an eyebrow at the blonde haired ninja as he grinned back at him. Despite the fact that the blonde haired ninja could be a little overbearing at times, the bespectacled wizard knew that he was actually a great friend to have, considering all the things he and the other ninjas had done for them. Umbridge was the one professor that you could say about everyone in the entire wizardry school hates, and she certainly annoys the blonde ninja to no end, by first giving detention on the first day of school. Harry could feel himself pitying the professor as he watch her limped and struggled her way to the professors' table.
But the thought was immediately pushed to the back of his mind when everyone started laughing, with he himself following the crowd readily. It was really a sight, to see the professor almost entirely covered in bandages. It took a while before all the students finally managed to settle down, their laughter slowly dying away when they finally saw the time. It was just minutes away to the time the first class of the day starts. Choking and wolfing down their food as fast as humanely possible, the group of six ninjas and three wizards rushed out the Great Hall.
As soon as they were out of the Great Hall, loads of other students followed their example, rushing for time to their classes. Harry glanced at his timetable once they were out of the Hall, checking the classes they had for the day. He could see the others doing the same as they hurried down the corridor and up the north tower.
"Bloody Hell!" Ron could have shouted, "We've got Divinations first thing in the morning! And it's a double period!" he groaned, smacking his hand on his face.
"Well… that's just too bad for you" Hermione said, turning the other way down, "I have Arithmacy (A/N: Is that how you spelt that thing? The class Hermione was having in place of Divinations), I'll see you guys at lunch then!" the bushy haired wizard gave a last wave as she disappeared down the other direction.
"Where is she going?" Naruto asked.
"She's not taking Divinations" Harry explained as the blonde haired ninja nodded with an 'Ooh'.
"Oh and by the way…" came a female's voice, that turned out to be Shiyuki, "What do we do in this Divinations class?" she asked.
"It sounds like something Tenten would do…" Neji said, rather tonelessly as he cast a glance at the brown haired kunoichi.
"Hey! What did you mean by that!" Tenten returned, glaring in his direction.
"You do have a passion for tarot cards…" Lee added, raising a finger to his chin thoughtfully, but soon received a glare from his female teammate that clearly shows the fury, for speaking badly about what she does and likes, that instantly shut the Taijutsu ninja up.
"It's a real boring class really" Ron said, a sarcastic look on his face, "Though the girls like it…" he trailed off remembering something, "Almost all the girls, all except Hermione" he said.
"The professor practically just teaches us the different types of Divinations and the art of sight seeing" Harry said, "Though it's not really all that amazing or accurate, I dare say" he added as an after thought, the times when Trelawney, the professor had predicted his death flashed through his mind.
"Ah… it sounds so troublesome! Why can't there be less troublesome things to do?" Shikamaru said, yawning.
With their eyebrows twitching, all the other ninjas and wizards ignored the 'pineapple head' ninja as they continued rushing up the long stairway to where the Divinations class was suppose to take place. A strong smell of some sort of room fragrance hit all nine students' noses when the door to the room the class was supposed to take place was swung open. The thick mist that had gathered in the classroom slowly dissipated when the door was left open. It was only when the interior furniture and various objects available in the room could be seen clearly did the eight finally entered the classroom.
They were one of the earliest to arrive, or so it seems to be as the now eight could only see a few other girls seated at the tables. As they further into the classroom, they could see a figure standing beside a shelf. That figure was dressed rather weirdly, her clothes seemed tattered at the edges and there were laces decorating portions of them. The figures' hair was done up as if she had just been in an explosion, and the figure wore a big plastic round spectacle on her face. The group of six ninjas was staring at the figure in question, blinking furiously as they took in her attire, they simply could not believe how the figure dressed herself. Harry tugged on Naruto's sleeves, gesturing for them to grab a seat by the windows. The ninjas slowly followed the two wizards, prying their eyes from the weird looking figure.
"Who's that?" Naruto asked, lowering his volume soft enough that the figure could not hear.
"That… would be the professor for Divinations" Harry answered.
"She sure has weird taste and dress sense…" both kunoichi whispered at the same time, as they cast a look at each other.
"She's rather mental, to tell the truth" Ron said, looking over at the figure and back.
"It's not nice to say that of your teacher" Lee said, waving his index finger to and fro just some distance before his face, "You should have the utmost respect for your teacher!" he exclaimed.
And with that, the Gai look alike young Jounin was lost in his own world as all presence of other people were forgotten and he immense himself in his world of himself and Gai, streams of tears gushed down his cheeks at the mere thought. The five other watching ninjas were staring at Lee with halved eyes, a big drop of sweat appeared on each ninja's head as their eyebrows twitched at the sight. The two wizards had on a sarcastic look on their faces, mouth agape as they watch the oblivious ninja.
The eight of them were brought back to reality when the Divinations professor suddenly swept by their table and after giving them a glance, moved back towards her own table. There were loads of question marks floating above the eight confused students when the professor moved away from their table, what was she trying to do?
The other students taking the same class soon flowed into the classroom right after, just barely making it on time for the start of the class. The professor moved from her position near her table to the very front of the classroom.
"Welcome back to another year of Divinations, children" Trelawney said, her voice sounded as if she had just woke up, "Today we are going to be trying out palm reading. Everyone, please flip open your textbook to the chapter on Palm reading and don't forgot to read the instructions and start!" she announced, throwing her hands into the air as if in some kind of prayer.
The group of now eight could feel a gust of cold wind blow across the room at the professor's action, as they raised an eyebrow in sarcasm. A while later, all the students could be seen flipping furiously through the Divinations textbook, looking and reading the instructions on palm reading.
Harry looked up from his textbook. He could see Ron still flipping the pages of the book viciously, as if trying to tear it apart. Not far from them, Naruto was staring at his palm, as if something would have popped out from them if he had stared hard enough. Neji was slowly scanning through the pages of the textbook and flipping through the chapter casually, as if he was reading something he had read before. Shiyuki was focusing on the book, totally immersed in reading as her eyes fixed on the book before her. Lee was studying his palm, tracing a finger to and fro the lines on his palm, occasionally flipping the pages of his book to check. Tenten was enthusiastically reading her palm and the book with excitement, grinning to herself. Shikamaru? The ninja was already dozing off, resting an arm on the book and his head on his arm.
Harry looked back down to his book, reading a paragraph of whatever was written inside. It was simply incomprehensible to him, he could not really understand how or why Divinations was such a fascinating thing, nor could he understand why girls are so into the subject, even the two female ninjas seemed to have much interest.
Sighing, the bespectacled wizard pushed his book aside and took to studying his palm. Ron looked over, staring at his own hand, then at Harry's hand.
"You see anything?" Ron asked, furrowing his eyebrows as he concentrated on his hand.
"No…" Harry replied, looking up from his hand, "At least not yet" he added.
A sudden clank nearly had them jumping a foot into the air. Naruto had slammed his forehead straight on onto the table in frustration; all the other seven pairs of eyes stared at him as he lifted his head up and rubbed gingerly at his forehead.
"Ouch…" he hissed as he rubbed at his sore head, "What the hell is with this palm reading thing! This is so…" he complained, not being quite able to finish his sentence, which has a word missing and that word is 'stupid'.
It was because, at that exact moment, Trelawney came over to their table, stopping just beside Harry, Naruto had nearly stuffed his hand into hid mouth to stop himself from saying out the last word as the Divinations professor came over. Without warning, the professor reached out her hand and pulled up Harry's own, bringing it close to her face as she examine his hand, then looked up at Harry with a sympatric look on her face.
"Oh dear!" she exclaimed, sounding rather sad, "I'm afraid your palm reading results indicates that you are going to have a great unfortunate accident this year. And it is my utmost regret to say that you will not survive that accident!" she said out the last part rather dramatically, dropping Harry's hand.
The group of eight stared hard at the professor as she shook her head continuously, moving away from their desk as she muttered, 'Poor Boy' continuously. The other students cast strange looks at Harry as they peeked over. The eight was still staring at the direction the professor had left in, mouths agape.
"What did she mean?" Naruto asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Just what she said, she's already predicting my death again in this first Divinations class…" Harry sighed, raising his hand before him and looking at his palm.
"Again? Meaning she did that before?" Shiyuki asked, shutting her textbook as she looked at Harry.
"Yup!" Ron answered for his friend, "She's been doing that ever since the first day we stepped into her Divinations class" Ron shook his head in defeat.
"Does this thing even work at all?" Neji said suddenly, as all other seven eyes turned to him, and he felt a drop of sweat on his head, "I just can't understand this Divinations… thing" he finished, coughing a little nervously.
"Me neither!" Naruto piped in.
"I've been studying the book and my palm until now, but I still don't see the difference" Lee said.
"It's just too troublesome to do this kind of unneeded stuff…" Shikamaru added with a sigh.
"To tell the truth, I don't really understand this thing either…" Shiyuki admitted, as all other eyes turned to stare at her, "What?" she said, a bit nervously as they slowly shook their head, "Nothing…" they mumbled.
"This is so much fun!" Tenten said excitedly, as she looked at them with elation, "It's not so very different from learning tarot cards!" she exclaimed, "And you could predict the future with this!" she held up her hand.
The other seven figures let out a sigh as they shook their heads in defeat, while the excited kunoichi continued to flip enthusiastically through the Divinations textbook. Shaking their heads, they return to looking through their own textbooks.
It took a rather long time for the two periods of Divinations classes to end. When it finally did, the eight could be seen rushing out of the classroom, down the stairs to the Great Hall. They met Hermione just not far from the north tower and together the nine went to the Great Hall for their lunch. The bushy haired girl was chatting about how interesting her Arithmacy class was going about, and then noticed the grim face of her friend.
"Tell me Harry" she started as he looked up at her, "Did she predict your death again?" she asked and was answered with a nod from the bespectacled wizard, "I knew it!" she gave a sigh.
"Cheer up man!" Naruto said from beside Harry, giving the wizard a pat on his back, "There won't be a problem with us here!" he grinned.
"Thanks" Harry said to the blonde haired ninja, smiling back at him.
And the nine slowly ate their lunch, chatting casually through their eating. After they finished their food, all nine returned back to the Gryffindor tower. There was still some time left before the next class starts, which would be Ninja Combat. Both the boys and the girls went up to their own dormitories and got changed into their muggle clothing in the wizards' case, and their original clothes in the ninjas' case. A while later, the group of nine gathered back down in the common room, which was still empty at the time, with the others either still at classes, still eating their lunch, or just simply not yet back.
As it was still rather early before the actual class starts, they sat down by the fireplace in the common room and the wizards listened as Naruto began to tell them the events, of course set up by the six ninjas themselves, that leads to the 'mummified' Umbridge who appeared in the Great Hall just this morning. With the other five ninjas adding in some other lost or forgotten details throughout Naruto's story.
By the end of the story, Ron was holding hid stomach, laughing very hard, hard enough that tears could be seen in the corner of his eyes. Hermione had on an incredulous look, though she could be seen laughing right after. Harry was very amused with what the ninjas did; he was laughing with Ron, though not that much.
At that time, the Gryffindor tower was starting to fill with students who had to go for the Ninja Combat class. Everyone changed into their muggle clothing and went to the Quiddich pitch, the nine followed the crowd.
There was still some time left when they reached the field in the pitch, both professors were still nowhere in sight. The ninjas were considering just going to get the two adult Jounins when a sudden voice had them rooted to the ground.
"Lee!" someone shouted, and everyone turned in the direction of the voice.
True enough, not that the ninjas needed to guess, it's Gai. He was running with his arms outstretched towards the group, his target, Rock Lee.
"Gai sensei!" Lee shouted in return, stretching out his arms as he ran towards his teacher.
And again, for the second time since they have met, the two embraced each other, streams of tears once again found its way down their faces. The five ninjas had on horrified looks on their faces, 'Not again!' they groaned in their minds as they slapped their hands to their forehead. The other wizards were blinking furiously at the familiar scene before them.
The pair of student and teacher was lost in their own world, that is, until they sense some dark presence standing just right behind them. Very slowly, the two turned their heads over, only to see all five ninjas, Naruto, Neji, Shiyuki, Tenten and Shikamaru standing behind them with dark looks on their faces that clearly states: Stop it now if you still want to live, as they cracked their fingers.
Laughing nervously, the two separated. Now, it was again the wait for the all time latecomer. A sudden loud 'poof' brought everyone's attention over, and the smoke cleared to reveal the one person that everyone was waiting for.
"Yaa… I was trying to find my way out of the castle…" he said, but was unable to finished his sentence.
"USOTSUKE!" You Liar! All six young Jounins shouted at the latecomer, Gai nodded in agreement.
Nevertheless, the class can finally start, with both professors present. As with the other lessons, they were to start with running rounds around the pitch, only this time, instead of ten… the number suddenly and unexpectedly went up to fifteen.
"Fifteen rounds!" all the wizards echoed the number, but none could do anything about it.
Hanging their heads in defeat, they started running. Five of the ninjas, namely Naruto, Neji, Shiyuki, Tenten and Shikamaru were nice enough to keep themselves in pace with their wizard friends, keeping them company. But Lee and Gai was nowhere in sight. Kakashi stood in the center of the field, his orange background book in his hands as he looked up from his book at times to survey and check on the student.
The loads of wizards were just through with their fifth round when they finally saw where the pair of teacher and student had gone. Well, for one, they did not disappear and two, the two was also running, but would you really call it running if you could practically imagine seeing smoke trails behind them? Or the fact that they were flashing pass the students at least about ten to fifteen rounds even before the wizards managed to complete one round around the pitch?
The five ninjas stared at the dashing two; eyes halved and sweat hanging on their heads as they let out a sigh. This is what you get when you put two hyperactive and enthusiastic physical training freaks together.
It took a much longer time for the wizards to complete their fifteen rounds of running than the last few times. And by the time they did, everyone was panting like there is no tomorrow, slumping to the ground, dead tired. But unfortunately for them, the class was not yet over, there was still the basic punch training to do. Dragging themselves up from the ground, the wizards slowly made their way over to the wooden targets, starting their next event.
As it took them much more energy for the fifteen rounds, the wizards were rather feeble in their punches. Lee stopped beside Harry and watched as he weakly hit the target.
"There is not enough force" he said as Harry looked at him, "When you face an opponent, you must never let your guard down. It should be done like this" he said, walking over to an extra target.
Exhaling out a deep breath, Lee raised his hand in a fist and swiftly brought it towards the wooden target, the mere force making the surface crack a little as his fist went through the target, creating a hole in the process.
Harry, Ron, Hermione and all the other wizards stared with wide eyes hard at the target board that Lee just practiced on. The Taijutsu ninja just grinned as he slowly walked to the side of the field, joining the other ninjas by the side as they observe the wizards.
Harry looked back at the group of ninjas by the side of the pitch, then back at the target before him. The ninjas were strong, so very strong and he hoped to be like them. With renewed energy, the bespectacled wizard continued to practice on his target board, with only his aim to be stronger in mind.
A/N: That's all for this chapter! Not much action here… more of studying. And a mummified Umbridge! Well… that's all for now, see you guys the next chapter!