A Magical Mission

Chapter 4 is finally up and I know it has taken ages. I'm really, really sorry bows I hope I will be able to upload them faster from now on.

Thanks so much for betaing, Sarah! hug

And I'm not following the book completly, so people will say different things etc.

I don't own Harry Potter or Naruto and you know it!

Have fun reading

The sun rose, turning the water in the lake into liquid gold and for a few minutes the white clouds became golden, crimson red and orange.

A boy with black hair was sitting alone at the deserted Gryffindor table. No one was up yet, even the teachers were still sleeping or getting ready but breakfast had already appeared magically on the table. The boy, however, did not seem to notice it. His eyes were directed towards a far more interesting sight: The clouds.

He continued to watch them, not aware of his surroundings. A small group of people were walking through the door, talking. Three of them looked at the lazy cloud-admirer in confusion while the others seemed pretty much used to the sight.

"What is he doing?" Hermione asked as they approached the Gryffindor table.

TenTen grinned "He's watching the clouds" she explained and her grin widened at the wizards puzzled expressions.

They had reached the Gryffindor table and Ron asked "Why doesn't he go outside, then?" as he sat down.

A lazy voice next to him answered, making him jump "Because it's so troublesome…" He stood up and yawned, grabbing a piece of toast and sighed "This is becoming so troublesome… I think I am going outside" but Naruto grabbed his arm "Stop being so anti-social!"

The black haired boy sighed but sat down, muttering "troublesome" and continued to stare at the ceiling. The shinobi, being completely used to the lazy genius behavior sat down as well and looked suspiciously at the food in front of them. Hermione giggled "Don't worry, you can eat that"

Breakfast passed quickly, the golden trio trying to find out something about the shinobis' 'school' and the said people busy avoiding giving anything away. When Professor McGonagall handed them their timetables, Harry was surprised to find out that the ninjas had the same time table as him and Ron.

He happily told them all about their past defense against dark arts teachers, voicing his hope that Lupin would be, if not a good teacher, a sane one at least. Meanwhile, Ron was bickering with Hermione, something about the girl's time table. It was only when Hagrid stopped at their table, telling them about having prepared something interesting for their first lesson (the wizards paled, the ninjas smiled inwardly, hoping for some challenge) that they noticed that they were almost late.

Which lead to a big problem, voiced by Naruto: "Where they heck are we?" After Hagrid had left, they had quickly grabbed their bags and rushed out of the hall, trying to get to Divination as soon as possible.

Key word: trying.

Now they were standing somewhere in the middle of nowhere (or better, somewhere in the middle of Hogwarts) and were completely lost. Yes, lost. Five ninjas and three wizards who were supposed to know the castle had managed to get lost.

Neji gowned in frustration. Shinobi didn't get lost. They just didn't. Not in a castle. And to make matters even worse: He was a Hyuuga. And Hyuugas just didn't get lost in a FREAKING CASTLE! Yet, he somehow managed to do exactly so.

Harry, Ron and Hermione were panting. Heavily. The Hyuuga shot them an irritated glance. For God's sake, they had run up the stairs for only about five minutes. Was it even possible to be so unfit? Apparently, yes. While Neji wondered why they didn't die of a heart attack yet (seriously, they were about as red as Hinata-sama when Naruto talked to her) the others were trying to find their classroom.

Neji, busy comparing Hinatas different red shades to the wizards ones failed to notice TenTens desperate attempt to gain his attention. Let's just say he didn't fail to notice the kunai.

"What?" he glared. He wasn't really bothered about the fact that the kunai almost killed him. You get used to that after being in a team with TenTen. Why wasn't he paranoid yet? However, his thoughts were interrupted by yet another kunai thrown in his direction.

"Neji" TenTen hissed. Oh. He had spaced out again.

"What?"

"Can't you use your Byakugan?" she whispered in Japanese.

He shook his head "I tried. Won't work here. There is a lot of unusual chakra in the walls, everything is blurry. Sorry" His teammate gowned in frustration. This was going to be a long day.

"This is so boring!" Naruto wailed. "Why do we- aah! That HURT!"

"Just SHUT up, baka!" hissed an extremely annoyed Sakura.

Neji agreed. With both of them. First, this was extremely pointless and boring. Second, Naruto was too loud. He looked up from his teacup and observed his teammates and his charges. Shikamaru had fallen asleep some time ago; Sakura and Hermione were partly trying to work, partly complaining about how ridiculous this was; TenTen was playing around with her cup, sometimes looking at her book but not really working. Naruto, Ron and Harry were fooling around, much quieter than before however after Sakura had demonstrated her amazing and scary strength once again.

TenTen looked up "Mine doesn't make any sense" she complained, then reached for Neji's cup "Let me see yours!" She seemed much more interested in the Hyuuga's wet tealeaves than in her own. "Hey, Sakura. I'm trying to unfog Neji's future. Want to help me?" Neji shot her an angry glare. She smirked and soon the three girls were discussing about his tealeaf-blobs.

"Hmm… So, I see a sun… And this looks like a cross or an X" Sakura muttered, looking at her book. Hermione nodded "Yeah, but it could also be a bird" she turned the cup. "And when you look at it like this…"

She was interrupted by a loud cry. The shinobi jumped to their feet but relaxed as they saw no real threat. Apparently the teacher had made a shocking discovery about Harry's tealeaves. "Oh my dear boy… I- no I can't. It's horrible."

She had the class full attention, her eyes wide and the hand which she held the teacup with trembled. "What is it, Professor?" someone asked, falling perfectly in the "trap" the teacher had set up to increase the dramatic

"The grim" she breathed.

Thewhat? The reaction of the class, however, was surprising, to say the least. A few girls let out a small squeal of horror, hands clasped in front of their mouths, eyes wide and terrified. Boys shifted uncomfortable in their seats, some even moving away from Harry. Only a few people looked confused: The shinobi and Harry, to be precise. The green-eyed teenager started at the teacher bewildered "The what?"

"The Grim. The omen of death" she whispered. Neji couldn't help but roll his pale eyes. Omen of death? A kunai at your throat was an omen of death but not a weird, dog shaped blob in your teacup. The others seemed to think that same. Sakura had raised an eyebrow; TenTen looked like she was hardly trying not to laugh while Shikamaru was still sleeping, completely oblivious to everything that was going on around him.

And Naruto… well, the hyperactive blond had managed to stay seated (thanks to Sakura's death-glares) but didn't manage to keep his mouth shut "What do you mean, omen of death? We are going to die anyway, aren't we?"

Neji had to admit, that was a very good question. Trelawney, however, didn't think so. She shot Naruto a glare that was probably supposed to be a death-glare but was nothing to the I-will-kill-you-if-you-don't-shut-up-you-stupid-idiot-glare that was sent by Sakura. Naruto ignored both of them and continued to stare at Trelawney waiting for his question to be answered "The Grim, my dear boy, is the sign of a soon death, a death of young age." She whispered, her voice still shaking.

The shinobi couldn't help but fell slightly amused by the fear and shock that was evident in the eyes of every student. After all, in the ninja world it wasn't uncommon for people to die at their age. But of course, this society was different and death had a completely different meaning to them (explained in the scroll). As Naruto refused to read the scroll he had no idea whatsoever and opened his mouth to say something along the lines of "So what?", he finally noticed the look Sakura gave him, promising a slow and painful death if he didn't shut up.

"So what do we have next?" Ron asked, yawning.

"Care of Magical creatures!" Hermione answered, a happy smile on her lips "I hope he hasn't prepared something dangerous, though" she added as an afterthought, her smile turning into a frown.

"He wouldn't do that… would he?" Harry didn't sound to sure and as they made their way to their next lesson he looked more and more worried "I mean" he said quietly "He thinks that dragons and monster-spiders are good pets and-"

He was interrupted by a loud "Hey guys, wait for us!" coming from the hyperactive blonde that was bouncing next to his annoyed looking friends. Extremely annoyed-looking friends. And a certain pink-haired girl that looked like she was ready to kill him. In a slow, painful way.

"Naruto, shut up" Shikamaru, seeing the danger coming from he kunoichi decided hat he could at least try to save the blonds life. Wasted effort as said blond completely ignored him and continued to annoy everyone with his hyperactive voice, ranting on about "Why the HELL is there no ramen?"

Slowly, Sakura turned around, sending daggers at her teammate. "Naruto" she said in a dangerous, hardly controlled voice. He, completely oblivious to the fact that his life was in serious danger, interrupted his whining and turned around with a happy, fox like grin "Hai, Sakura-chan?"

"SHUT UP AND BE QUIET FOR ONE TIME IN YOUR LIFE!" she all but screamed, hitting him over the head and walking towards her new friends. Said wizards looked extremely scared as a still very pissed off Sakura approached them.

"So… what do we have next?" she asked with a sweet, innocent smile. From that day on, no one of the three would evertrust a sweet and innocent smile.

Care of magical creatures was with the Slytherins. The air was filled with tension and even though most of the threatening words and glares shot at each other were hardly to be taken serious, the shinobi tensed.

After the idiots in the class finally found out how to open the oh-so terrifying books (In the ninjas' case, once stabbed with a few kunai and shuriken, or in Neji's case- once Juukened they were hardly moving at all and were even nice enough to open at the right page), the teacher, a giant called Hagrid disappeared to get the magical creatures.

Neji was interested, eagerly waiting for Hagrid's return. He hoped they wouldn't be too boring because despite all the magic surrounding him (which was pretty interesting) he longed for being outside, training, sparring with TenTen or simply running through the forest. The few minutes he was able to be outside, near the castle weren't the same. He had to go into that forbidden forest at some point or he was going to become insane… Well, even more insane than he had become since Gai and Lee were on his team. His thoughts ("Is that even possible?") were interrupted when Hagrid reappeared.

Following him, there were creatures none of the shinobi had ever seen before (and judging by the wizards' reactions none of them have either). They were beautiful, wild and dangerous and yet they moved with a certain grace and it was obvious how proud they were by the way they carried themselves. Hippogriffs. Neji barely listened to what the teacher told him, his gaze fixed on those creatures. Suddenly, TenTen poked him and he noticed that he, Harry and the other shinobi were standing in front of all the other students. Had they moved closer or did the others stepped back? He didn't know. Had he been so mesmerized by the Hippogriffs that he didn't even notice such an obvious movement?

Again, TenTen poked him, telling him to pay attention to the teacher's words. As Harry took another step towards the Hippogriffs after the teacher's request, Neji quickly did the same. He didn't know how dangerous they were, despite their beauty and he would definitely not take any risks.

Some girls gasped and Neji heard something that sounded like "Don't! Remember, the Grim?" He rolled his eyes. Seriously, did they really trust tealeaves?

Hagrid looked at them for a while, almost uneasy, then he nodded to Neji "Alright, give it a try, boy" the Hyuuga nodded and walked towards the Hippogriff. He could feel the people's eyes on him but he decided to ignore them.

Carefully trying not to blink, he slowly approached the beautiful creature and bowed, not stiff and awkwardly as the others would do but almost elegantly with long practice. He readied himself to quickly disappear in case the Hippogriff decided to attack him, then he looked up. The Hippogriffs' cold, golden eyes met pale, white ones.