A/N: sorry for this but I just decided as of now I am not going to be using the book too much, just because I lost it…. Sad I know but still. But as of now I don't think it should matter as of too much because I am not going to be really using the characters any ways but that I'm writing more from Naruto and his characters point of view, I'll still have bits and pieces but not too much of it, just so that it intertwines with my story more than the HP story… also the parts that are in here will be twisted slightly to fit the story. Sorry for that but needed to be said. Also I'm not that great with dialog so forgive me,^^' also lol long note, but it's come to my attention, that umm in I think the first chapter and I guess the second chapter I couldn't decide who I wanted, Neji or what, and I decided that it will finally be Itachi so sorry about that.
Citizen soldier
Holding the light
For the ones that we guide from the dark of despair
Standing guard for the ones that we shelter
We'll always be ready
Because we'll always be there
3 Doors Down Citizen/Soldier
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Walking in a warm hello and welcome resounded in the small but cozy shop. I push pause on my iPod and take the head phones out to talk to Ren.
"Awww Naruto, what can I do for you today?
"Well I have a mission and its casual wear but because of my current problem I can't do it at the time and or ever. So I was wondering if you could help me out right now. I need something that's fit for changing seasons but at the same time extremely comfortable. But I also need something that I can wear while I'm on duty."
"I'm pretty sure we have something here, while I'm looking help yourself and tell me and I'll see if we have it in your size."
"Arigato"
I head back to the males section to look at different shirts. I had a semi vague idea of what I was looking for in the summer. Some fishnet shirts and maybe with some kind of armor shirt with maybe caprice or shorts.
By the end of two and a half hours I had picked out enough clothes for the entire year and was now sealing them into scrolls so that I wouldn't have to really worry about it when I got home. All I needed now was to just restock my weapons and get some cracks in my ANBU issued sword, Kurai chi, and get my armor patched up, so I headed to the black ops office to get that all dealt with. It was after dark by the time I did arrive at home.
By then I had went through most of my songs and was now listening to Good Charlotte's song I don't wanna be in love. I had reached for my door only to find it slightly ajar.
Nervous on what I might find, I slowly edged the door open with a kunai in my hand. If it was a civilian I had less chance of actually killing them if I threw it. Turning my music down so I could listen carefully and not alert the trespasser. Slowly looking around the kitchen I found nothing when all of a sudden I hear a shuffling in the living room and bedroom. By the sounds of it, it wasn't a civilian and that I would need more than a simple kunai. Slowly reaching back behind me I feel the familiar grip of Kurai chi and slowly sliding it out so that it wouldn't make a hissing noise I head towards the living room since its closer. Running around the corner I throw the kunai with a sharp flick of the wrist hearing a sharp metallic noise as another kunai deflected the one that I had tossed.
Taking a deep breath, in and out slowly I say in a loud clear voice, "This is privet property; I advise that you leave the premises and I won't cause you and bodily harm." I had not expected the response that followed.
"Captain you can relax it's just the team," said an achingly familiar voice.
Walking around the corner still with my blade drawn, I saw that it was Itachi, but that didn't explain who was in my bedroom and why. Walking backwards with my blade still drawn towards Itachi, I grab another kunai while nudging the already open door with my boot. I hadn't been expecting this either. I mean what the hell. I can't even have a place where my friends are breaking in. There sitting on the bed were Sakura and Sasuke talking about something random when they noticed me and stop talking.
"What the fuck are you doing in my apartment!?"
Five minutes late I was still trying to comprehend this. But I was beyond livid I mean they broke into my damn place.
"So let me get this the fuck straight. You broke into my place for a god damn emergency team meeting. That's a bunch of bullshit and you guys know it. I mean why the fuck can't you wait outside till I got the fuck home. I mean come on, what is someone supposed to think when they come across this. Whose idea was this in the first place?"
"That would be mine do-Taicho. I apologize," Sasuke said in a quick manner. I see that he hasn't forgotten our talk from this morning.
"While you're at it tell me why you and Haruno were in my room. I mean tell me if I'm mistaken, but I do pay the rent, which makes this my home. You don't see my going into your house and going to your room do you? So what makes it seem alright to do it in mine?"
"We ………were just talking about something that happened in the past."
"Oh do tell please I'd really like to see why my room is open to others Sakura."
"We were just talking about how he um………l-left the village and how it affected him then and now, sir," she replied in a shaky but semi steady voice.
"Hmmmmmmmm and you Itachi? Why are you here were you here just to supervise or can you vouch for actually wanting a meeting?"
Staring at each other in a calm calculated way, I could tell he knew I was mad and that I had jumped into captain mode.
"Yes sir. Can we please get onto the meeting, I do have things to do like finish packing, and I think the captain has to do the same."
"I understand. Sigh. Alright I will take this into consideration when we start the mission, but for now everyone just get finished getting ready and rest up. I want everyone in top condition when the time comes. As of right now I'm going to sleep and if you need anything from me I will talk to you in the morning about it ok."
A chorus of yes filled the small area before they all shuffled out and down the stairs to turn in two separate directions after a while.
Not soon after I got ready for bed after adding new songs to me iPod and taking some of the ones I didn't listen to all that much away.
The day we had before the mission went by fast and it wasn't long when we were all standing in front of the Hokage in different attire, eyeing a strange old man wearing what looked like a dress.
Itachi and I had stayed with our masks, but decided to not wear the uniform, Itachi was wearing a sleeveless shirt black with just hints of silver woven in between and long pants like the ones he wore when with the Akatsuki. His headband was around his forehead in the usual ninja spot. I on the other hand, was wearing a fish net shirt over black tank with caprice and combat boots over the ends of the pants. On my caprices I had two sets of belts one a blood red that was interwoven between black metal loops of the other belt. I had my head band tied around my neck with the metal piece at the side of my neck. Sakura was wearing something similar to her outfit when we were all sixteen but instead of all pink her shirt and skirt were black, with stripes of pink down the sides and she also wore combat boots that went up to her knees. Her headband was keeping her short hair from her face. Sasukes' outfit had not changed his pants were still black, while the belt was the only change as it was now black instead of purple and his shirt was still open like it had been when they first saw him after two and a half years. His new headband was tied around his arm that he used to attack with his sword. The only similarity between all of us was that we all had a shade of black on. I noticed proudly for some reason they had all worn the gifts I bought them when we officially became a team and after I got over the fact that I had a new team. On their headbands right next to the Konoha insignia was a little fox crouching, growling warning people of who they were.
"Now that you're all here, I would like to introduce you to our client Dumbledore. You know what you're doing, and why. For a recap you are protecting a boy named Harry Potter while under the guise of protecting the whole school. You will face opposition, but I will let Kitsune figure out what kind of action to take. I have already talked to you about other matters before hand. You are there to protect them not to befriend them. Am I understood?"
"Hai!"
"Good good, now that we're all here I would like an introduction so that I know what to call you in the future and position please."
Glancing at the Hokage for permission, and with a slight nod of the head I started out, "Kitsune or Fox, captain or Taicho, and weapons specialist."
"Hebi, information gatherer."
"Nameleui, Healer."
"Itachi, second in command."
"Awww very good. I guess we should be on our way to-"
"Sorry to interrupt Dumbledore, but I feel this must be said. These people are not to be trifled with. They kill for a living and I feel you should tell your students that, I will not hold any one accountable for what one of your students did to provoke them. Understood?"
All smiles gone, Dumbledore responded by a simple nod of his head. He then took out a book and explained the properties of a port-key to my team. With a sickening lurch behind our navels we were off. I felt like I was being squeezed from all sides and slowly suffocating. I heard someone mumble a curse unable to tell who exactly it was at the time being. But just as suddenly as it happened it stopped. I landed on some kind of uneven hard surface where one leg was higher than the other one. My sudden impact and velocity caused me to fall over to land on my back before rolling over to get on my knees. My team looked like shit. Sakura looked like she was going to pass out and Sasuke looked like he was going to vomit. I couldn't tell what Itachi was feeling but if it was like the rest of us not that great.
Suddenly a foreign word came out of nowhere jostling me out of my thoughts. Jumping in front of my team as they were currently unable to do anything I pulled Kurai chi out and pointed it towards some kid with flaming red hair who looked about to piss his pants. I suddenly found a bunch of fucking sticks being pointed in our direction. Realizing the sword wasn't going to cut it and my team was still out, I reached for some kunai and shurkin before tossing them all hearing a series of dull thunks as the people were forced to drop their so called fucking weapons. What could only be assumed as curses followed. A hand reached out to me before I had my sword drawn again and at the person's throat. At that moment I realized it was Dumbledore and I was just about to kill the guy who hired us. There was something in his eyes as he appeared to take my appearance to heart. That something was fear, but its understandable seeing as how all he could see of me was my mask. The mask its self was originated from some kind of black material, glossed to a high shine and details were painted blood red. Lowering my sword I say in a voice that leaked poison.
"Old man you should have told us there were going to be other people here. Had I known that, then I wouldn't have attacked and almost killed everyone here including the boy. Just for future reference we ninja don't take well to surprises. When they pop up we normally get rid of the threat immediately no matter what level threat they pose at the moment."
Harry was still extremely mad at his friends. He couldn't see why they couldn't break just one simple rule and try and get him a simple letter, but instead decided to act like they just dropped off the entire planet. If it were him he would have tried to get in contact with either one. Mrs. Weasley had just called them down to eat dinner after the meeting to eat. He had say next to Sirius, across from Ron and Hermione glaring at them, while they shot him apologetic looks. All of a sudden the topic of the Order popped up. That was when he realized that this might be his only chance of killing Voldermort but that was before he realized that he was too young to join the group.
"And why not I've faced off with him since I was ele-" he was broken off when he heard multiple crashing noises. Someone's boot barely missed Ron's head and crashing side next to him while his other leg landed on the bench. As everyone looked they noticed they appearances of all of them. The one next to Ron, must have been in charge because even though he wasn't standing up straight he took a quick look of the others. He was wearing a lot of blood red color mixed into black and a headband of some sorts around his neck with two symbols no one could notice very clearly. His mask was extremely terrifying, with the shape of a fox that had his jaws open revealing long teeth that were dripping what appeared to be blood; but there was blood everywhere on the whiskers and dripping into the eyes and everything. And the eyes were the worst. They were like a regular blue eye but then turned into a blue slit and the whites of his eyes immediately became black, when he tried to stand up after falling down.
Ron was able to somehow regain his ability to speak and said the only word that could describe what was happening, "Blimey."
What happened next was extremely shocking. The strange man, jumped in front of the others who were still out of commission, drawing out a sword that also had a blood red blade and pointing it at Ron's throat. This seemed to draw everyone out of their shock and they all including harry drew their wands and pointed it towards the man, who lowered his sword a little.
No one saw his hand moving swiftly to his leg, until he drew out some metallic projectiles and threw them at everyone. Harry was really shocked as he found both of his hands stuck to the table at his sleeves but so was everyone else. The sound of wands scattering across the floor and curses were flying everywhere. Suddenly this brought the attention back to the man standing in the shadows forward and almost placed his hand on the man's shoulder before the sword was back at the older man's neck. Everyone was shocked to find that the man was Dumbledore and he was about to die. Some words passed and the man lowered his sword and put it back in his sheath at his back, and turned and went to his team who was almost better.
I went back to my team to check over the injuries since Sakura I think passed out. Everyone other than her appeared fine. Itachi was kneeling in front of his brother waving a finger in front of his face making his eyes track him in order to make sure he didn't harm his head in anyway. so I just kind of stood there. Only Itachi had actuall training on how and what to do right now. But I couldn't leave her there in a possible hostile environment. Crouching I hesitantly shake her shoulde. That didn't do it just yet so slightly harder. I felt an increase of her heartbeat before it went back to normal telling me she had woken up. She got up and looked around and walked to Itachi asking what had happened. Her hands became a slight greenish blue as she healed his head. I walked back to Dumbledore just slightly cross.
"I'm afraid you'll have to let them go soon captain, they are getting pretty cross right now."
I just stood there before saying, " You apparently didn't take Tsunade-sama seriously. She meant it. It will not be our fault if something happens to your people. Which one is the boy."
"The boy is the one with the scar on his head and glasses. I understood your leader quite clearly captain." The twinkle in his eyes was gone, but I knew he still didn't get the point. I walked to each person and released them. I had counted six red heads which I presumed were related, some chick who kept changing her hair and shooting me dark looks, but when I looked at her she just looked away in terror. A big black man, some creepy old guy that looked like an experiment of Orochimaru's gone badly, the boy who I took an extra second to look at before ignoring him completely and some man that smelled like dogs and a few other things. When I had finished my team was standing at alert waiting for my word. I went up to Dumbledore. There was more of that foreign words flying in the air between the occupants in the room and Dumbledore. The black haired boy Harry Potter looked at me in utmost hate, but I knew not his language so I couldn't say anything to him other then glare, and he soon looked away. Everyone else was looking at me in strange ways. Some of their emotions guarded better than others.
I interrupted the old man in the middle of his conversation, "I understand what the mission report and everything else is. But we cannot do our job properly if we and by that I mean I, cannot understand what is being said."
A look of curiosity flashed across his face before he held out his hand and asked us for our headbands.
"What?!" I was shocked about this and I could hear my team say the same. On one took off their headbands no matter what the circumstance was. Not even rouges did, regardless they still have them on.
"Is that a problem captain," he questioned in that annoying voice with that fuckin twinkle in his eye.
I let silence reign. I knew that whatever needed thinking through was my job and that everything that happened would have to go in a mission's report, which would some straight back to me. Damnit. Reaching behind my neck I gave the signal that the others should too. Every ones hair fell in their face as the only thing keeping it back was gone. They handed them to me and looking into Dumbledore's eyes I said, "No that won't be." And preceded to hand him the headbands.
I turned to my team and told them to not worry about the results of what I had just asked them to do. I had in a way stripped them of their dignity in a way.
"Awww here we go all done." I said nothing and just took the headbands from him. I handed navy blue one to Sasuke, the pinkish red one to Sakura, and the short black one back to Itachi, and put mine on. What seemed like unintelligent words now made sense but I could still hear the whisperings of my team behind me.
"Now that we have that obstacle done and over with, let's start with introductions now. I believe we'll let the students go first."
"Harry Potter."
"Hermione Granger"
"Ron Weasley."
"Ginny Weasley."
"Fred and George Weasley."
"Molly Weasley."
After most of them, I zoned out knowing that the others would take the time to remember them. Then it came to us.
"Kitsune or Fox, I am the captain, and weapons specialist this is my team."
" Nameleui or Slug , healer."
"Hebi or Snake, information gatherer"
"Itachi or Weasel, second in command."
"And we're Team Kitsune or Team Fox. And boy if you keep staring at me like that I will make you regret it, and I don't care who you are."
"Are you threatening me?" Harry asked in anger.
"No," and with that I stepped forward so that Kurai chi was pointed at his neck, "It's a promise." I drew my blade back with an extra warning to everyone else in the vicinity. "Do not bother us, do not anger us, don't mess with us, because if you do you will fuckin regret it. Dumbledore still doesn't understand what we do. Either way we got paid already. We can kill you all and not get in trouble with our superiors. The only ones of our kind that has to listen to what anybody tells us to do, is anyone under ANBU. For the record just so you can keep this in mind. ANBU stands for Ansatsu Senjutsu Tokushu Butai or Special Assassinations and Tactics Squad. We only listen to two people and the clients not included. We were hired to not kill anyone but to protect this child. Who will soon be dead anyways. We are not here to make friends. Also because we did look into profiles, Hermione you look anything up on us, well let's just say you won't be alive long enough to regret it."
I walked away to sounds of anger and curses. Damnit half of the stuff I just said wasn't even true. Damnit. I growled and its like the whole house just shut up. I teleported to the room that I guess I was going to share with Itachi. I started to pace, started to think and didn't like what the outcome was coming out to in the end.
"Captain,"
"Grrrrrrrrrrrr. What?"
"Never mind….I guess."
"Where are the others we need to have a meeting."
"Their all over the house, but they have their headsets with them, Slug Snake we need to have a meeting. Now."
