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Chapter 2-
Hogwartsへの困難な旅行 (Hogwarts he no konnan na ryokou.)The arduous trip to Hogwarts
" Everyone here?" Minato asked pleasantly and surveyed the young shinobis standing before him. It was finally time for team Minato to set off, and no matter how hard it was for the young jonin to accept that he was going back to that terrible terrible place, a mission is a mission and also because the client is generous… The two teenagers shifted in annoyance at the obvious answer to their teacher's question.
" Not everyone is here." Kakashi snorted and crossed his arms. " Why do you even bother asking, sensei?" Beside him, Rin started tapping her foot in irritation as team Minato patiently waited for their last teammate to arrive.
" Sorry I'm late everyone!" Came an overly cheerful voice from behind. The three shinobi turned around, already knowing whose voice that was. Sure enough, Obito soon came into view a few seconds later and stood, panting a little from his long run.
" You're late, Obito!" Rin cried. " And not by a few minutes! By AN HOUR!! A WHOLE FRICKIN HOUR!!"
" Gomen." Obito gasped out, catching his breath for a while and then launching into one of his unbelievably lame explanations. " You see, as I was coming out, I got ambushed by a bunch of my baby cousins and- "
" You katoned them to bits?" Kakashi suggested with a hint of sarcasm.
" You went through the back door, which is like, five kilometers away?" Rin guessed.
" No! If you really must know, I henge-d into one of them and crawled through the cat-flap nearby." Obito said smugly, looking proud at his 'excuse'. It was exactly what a shinobi would do! Both his teammates simultaneously rolled their eyes and bashed their fists into his head. " ITAI!" Obito screamed, hand automatically flying over to cover his head.
" Bunch of baby cousins indeed. You've only got one." Kakashi snorted. " And which dignified shinobi would be willing to crawl through the cat flap?"
" Excuse me, but I don't consider myself as 'dignified'. Shinobis are supposed to do anything possible to escape anyway. No one cares about pride." Obito retorted back." And even thought it was only one, you have absolutely no idea how hard it was to escape from its clutches."
" Like we'd believe that, idiot! Your aunty only gave birth a few months ago!" Rin snapped. " You're late for a S ranked mission! S ranked! Punctuality is extremely important here!"
" I can't help it if my house is at the opposite side of the village and deserted from everyone else." Obito muttered sourly. " Go blame the Hokage for putting it there."
" Mah, mah, mah. Now that Obito is finally here, why don't we set off to the meeting point?" Minato interrupted his squabbling team and shifted his backpack briefly before walking off at a swift but comfortable pace. His students immediately shut up and began imitating him.
After a short while, Obito spoke up, not one too comfortable with silence. " Ne, sensei. How far is it? Shouldn't we speed up a bit?"
" Nah. It's quite close actually." Minato answered. " We're almost there."
" Where are we heading to?" Rin asked, curious. All the three of them got was a 'you'll see' from an unusually cheerful Minato. And they don't like that one bit.
Rin's eyebrow twitched. " What…are we doing here…?" She asked menacingly and rounded on her sensei, who just widened his grin.
" It says so on the report." Minato said airily and shrugged. " Ask the client."
" B-but-but-but…This is the village's RUBBISH DUMP!" Rin cried." And it stinks!"
" Unfortunately." Minato shrugged. " But our destination is a little bit…further."
" Then what are we doing here?" Rin cried, peeved off about having come to this desolate part of the village. " This wouldn't be a S- ranked mission!"
" Rin, cool down." Kakashi said, his voice a bit muffled.
To his right, Obito nodded his head vigorously. " Yeah. I'm sure sensei has his reasons." His voice was just as squashed as Kakashi. Both boys had their fingers tightly clamped over their noses. Rin sighed, knowing that they are just as peeved off as her for coming to this part of the village.
" Thank you, Obito, Kakashi." Minato grinned and went over to roughly mess their hair up. Both immediately pushed their sensei's hand away and glared at him. 'You owe us an explanation. NOW.'
" Okay, okay. Fine." Minato cleared his throat. " Your task for now is to go there and find a kunai."
" For what?" Obito asked. " We have lots of kunai with us."
" It's too complicated to explain, but we need a particular one. Just do it." Minato said. " It's ragged, blunt, and rusty. Oh, and it has detailed engravings on it's handle. Go, go." Minato shushed them off as he leant against a tree and made himself comfy as his team shushin off, glaring slightly at him for giving them such a vague description. .
Kakashi, Obito, and Rin went there and gave a brief scan of the dump. Their eyes popped out as they spotted a large pile of discarded kunai and shuriken, messily stacked up under the 'metals' section. Cursing their sensei, they headed over to that pile and started sorting through them. Those weapons better be blunt, or else.
" Well?" Minato asked expectantly as he closed the storybook he was reading as his team went off to find the kunai. (And no, it was not icha-icha. Minato would kill himself first before even opening one of his sensei's perverted books.)
Three pairs of angry eyes glared back at him. The three chuunin's bodies had cuts and scratches, their clothes had dirt and grime smeared all over and giving off a sight stench. Minato's hand immediately flew over to cover his nose, making the glares directed to him intensify. With a slight snarl, Obito shoved an extremely dull and ragged looking kunai into his sensei's face. Engraved pattern on the handle…yup. This was definitely it.
" There was a pile of new, sharpened kunai at the top!" Obito complained loudly. " And the whole thing fell on me!"
" It fell on us too, Obito." Rin said composedly, though she was clenching and unclenching her fists.
" Good job guys! Took you only half an hour! Not bad!" Minato smiled, hand still clamped on his nose. His team glared at him again for having the cleanest clothes out of the three. Minato quickly thought of something to say to make them hate him less. " Uhh…I guess this activity allows you to refill your weaponry free of charge…? Free Kunai, nice."
" We've already refilled ours yesterday. There's no space for more."
Minato sighed. Why must his team always be so…negative? " Hurry up now, we only got a few minutes to spare." He said, giving up on cheering them up. Let them brood for a while; Obito can't last long with face looking like that. Minato shunshin off. Rin and Kakashi immediately sprinted after their sensei, glad to be finally taking off.
" Where are we going? We're not even close to any village at all!" Obito whined for a while, and then took off after his sensei and teammates.
The journey wasn't eventful, to say the least. Unless you want to count Obito's infrequent whining of 'where are we going?' and ' Are we there yet?'. But Minato only shook his head and smiled in response. He was acting too secretive for the chuunin's liking. After a few long hours of non-stop running and tree hopping, team Minato finally stopped just as the sun began to set.
" Where are we?" Obito asked and looked around him. " Sheesh, we didn't even stop for lunch."
" Obito, can you stop complaining?" Rin sighed. " You know very well that we've been trained to go off food for at least two to three days."
" Okay, okay, I got it. So were are we?" Obito re-asked his question. All three chuunins looked around and scrutinized the place. It was a barren flat plain and there was a large man made circular stone floor in the middle. And in the middle of the stone floor, a raised platform stood, half eroded. The entire thing was so old and bizarre looking, but the three of them were sure that they have never seen anything like this before. Anyone would remember coming across this monument.
" I…have no idea." Rin dumbly replied. On closer inspection, the stone had to be very old, since it was all bumpy and dull.
" There are runes on the floor." Kakashi said, brushing away some sand on the floor. " But this thing's so old, it's barely legible now."
" Nice eh?" Minato cheerfully called out to his team, glad that their curiously and the long run here has softened their anger a bit. " Oh, don't worry about the runes. I can patch those up."
" Sensei, where are we?" Obito asked this question for the third time. Three is the magic number, because finally, the Uchiha got an answer from his sensei.
" Oh, this?" Minato asked. " This is the of Leaf, Grass, Stone, and Waterfall villages."
" We're in the center border of Konoha, Taka, Iwa and Kuso?" Rin immediately asked, catching up rather fast.
" That's the middle of all hidden villages." Kakashi frowned, having memorized the shinobi map a long time ago.
" Yup." Minato beamed. Kakashi was as fast as ever. " To be exact, that, " He pointed to the platform, "is the center."
" And what are we doing here?" Kakashi said, glancing around. " This is a wide empty area and almost at the end of Konoha's border. We might get ambushed."
" To get to our client of course. What else? Besides, no one ever comes through here, so don't worry about other passer-bys." Minato grinned. " Okay, since you ran so much today, why don't you all take a break? Go find a snack to eat or something. We're having an extremely late supper."
" Okay…" The three chuunins quizzically plopped their bags down at the edge of the rune floor and looked at their sensei. " Then what will you be doing, sensei?"
" Oh me? I'll have to redraw the runes. This will take some time. Catch a pigeon for me, will you?" Minato smiled as his team nodded and ran off into the nearby forest. 'So cute, so obedient.' He smiled, but it turned into a frown as soon as he looked at the floor. ' I will kill the Hokage once I'm done with this mission.' He thought angrily as he took out a kunai and started to carve into the stone, redrawing the entire floor.
" Sensei sure is hardworking today, ne?" Obito said as Rin started to grill the pigeons, Kakashi helping her fan the flames.
" Yeah, but he's the only one able to do this sort of thing. Repairing those seals like that." Rin replied. " No wonder why they chose him for this mission."
" He's not the only one." Obito said as he chewed on the finished bird. " I'm sure there are other sealers in Konoha…the Uchiha clan leader is one too."
" He's the second fastest and most efficient in sealing work in the village. Especially since this mission requires a lot of seals and runes to redraw. " Kakashi said, turning over his own bird to roast the other side, not wanting to eat it. " Or would you rather want Jiraiya-sama to tag along?"
" I'll take sensei, thanks." Obito muttered. " That man will totally blow our stealth away. A good looking girl walk past and there goes our disguise."
" Seconded." Rin agreed, and they all went back to watching Minato clutch his hair and scream in frustration as he tried to solve an extremely complex part of the old runes, blunt kunais from the dump littering the ground. The yellow flash might act all calm and cool while leading his team, but there are some times he will behave babyishly too, making them wonder who was more mature.
They all adverted their gazes as their sensei started hacking the stone floor in anger as he realized that he mistook one of the runes for another, leading to a forth of the area wrongly drawn.
" Kakashi, Obito, go take over." Minato said wearily a few hours later as he plopped back down on the grass next to Rin and gratefully accepted his own bird from Rin, who was cleaning up the campfire. " I should have taught you the basics of sealing, and I've done all the complex parts already."
It didn't take more than ten to twenty minutes when the boys announced that all seals are in place. By then, the sun was already down and the crickets had begun their chirping. Minato heaved himself up and told everyone to gather their things, having regained his 'cool' composure, though he was muttering something inaudible under his breath and his hair was sticking out in odd angles from the stress.
" Okay, stand back everyone." He said with not too much conviction and slotted the kunai Obito retrieved into a hole right at the bottom of the platform.
" So what's going to happen?" Obito whispered to his teammates, who only shrugged in response as they watch Minato bit his thumb, drawing blood and using it to draw the Konoha symbol.
" It looks like a summoning to me." Rin said as she observed her teacher. " But it's far more complicated than a usual summoning, involving a large set of runes and all. Maybe he's trying to summon the client? He's a wizard, right?"
" Why can't the 'Wizard' just pick us up? This method is just too troublesome." Obito whined. " Since they have magic and all…"
" Idiot. Wizards do not exist." Kakashi said, earning an exasperated sigh from Rin and an annoyed snort from Obito.
" Then what are they?" Obito sneered. " Aliens?"
Kakashi shrugged. " I call them 'civilians with charka which they can't even control without the help of a stick'. Nothing special."
" He's got a point." Rin said. " But I wonder which is more powerful, their 'magic' or our jutsu?"
" We'll see. It depends on how they use them. But from what I heard, it's not like they use their chakra for combat purposes." Kakashi said. " Oh look, sensei's done." Minato was indeed finished with his work, having completed a set of long hand seals, some of them not even being in one of the twelve basic sets.
" Sensei, what are you summoning?" Obito asked. " The client?"
" I'm summoning a-." Minato halted briefly for a second as he felt the jutsu drain away least half of his chakra. Finally, a large vacuum like, space-ripping hole appeared, neatly balancing on top of the platform, astonishing all three chuunin. " A portal." Minato finished, half panting due to the sudden loss of chakra. " Hurry up and go through; I can't keep this up for long, this thing is draining my chakra."
Rin, Obito and Kakashi immediately dove in, not wanting to burden their sensei by keeping up the jutsu and Minato did the same a few seconds later. As soon as he did so, he released the jutsu, making the portal vanish, leaving no traces of anyone having been there in the first place.
" Ahhh… we were expecting you." The serene voice of Albus Dumbledore drifted into the area. He had to tilt his head to the right immediately after to dodge a flying kunai thrown by Obito. Note to self: Wait for startled shinobi to calm down first before speaking. Dumbledore now found himself with another kunai dangerously pointed to his throat unwaveringly.
" What are you doing?" Minato yelped as he scrambled back hastily to his feet, only to find his students with their kunais drawn out and in the team's default attack position, cornering the client. Kakashi even had his kunai pointed to the old man's throat threateningly.
Dumbledore apparently noticed him and smiled at the familiar face. " Ahhh…a little help here, Minato?" He said in a casual and light voice and tilted his head a little to the right; not even looking scared or tensed at all, considering his dangerous position. If need be, he could just dissapperate away.
Minato sighed. What a way to start a meeting. " Kids, get off him at once." He said in a fatherly tone, though his eyes remained serious. All three pairs of eyes glanced at him defiant, and they remained in their position, unmoving.
Minato groaned and tried again. " Kakashi, Obito, Rin, get off him AT ONCE." He said commandingly. At once, Obito and Rin stepped back and pocketed their kunai, though hesitantly and looking sour at having their little fun destroyed. Kakashi stepped back a bit, but he still had his kunai out, face still set and body still tensed up for a fight.
" Kakashi…" Minato threatened, putting on a sour scowl of displeasure on his face, to mean that he meant buisness. " Off."
" Sensei, he might be a threat to us." Kakashi reasoned, but he was wearing a ' that's my prey, I'm not going to give him up' face. " I won't move until I have proof that this is not an imposter. He said he was expecting us."
" Kakashi! He's an old man!" Minato sighed, exasperated at his student's stubbornness.
" The Hokage is an old man too." Kakashi pointed out." And he's the Hokage." Out of the corner of Minato's eyes, he could see Dumbledore was trying to cover his laughter with a cough.
" Well…Sandaime-sama still has black hair. This one doesn't, meaning he's just-" Minato paused for awhile to glance uncertainly at Dumbledore before finishing lamely. " –older." He could hear Rin and Obito's suppressed snickering behind him.
" Does Sandaime really have black hair, sensei?" Obito asked mischievously, his eyes sparkling with laughter. " The last I check, there wasn't any."
" There is." Minato replied instantly, and then added thoughtfully, " Just a few strands though." Then Minato remembered what he was doing before the conversation went off topic. " But that's not the point!" He yelled. When he turned back, Kakashi was missing from the spot he previously stood before. Minato turned wildly around until he spotted Kakashi slowly creeping up from behind an unsuspecting Dumbledore, kunai shining and ready to pounce. " That boy-!"
Just before Kakashi could plunge the knife into the headmaster, Minato had used the shushin and grabbed the boy before landing a few paces away. " What is wrong with you guys?!" He yelled, plopping an annoyed Kakashi down on the floor, just as Obito and Rin ran up to meet him.
Minato casted a nervous glance behind his back to see Dumbledore was inspecting the portal they came through, apparently very interested in it. Knowing that they're not completely out of hearing distance, Minato lowered his voice. " Are you guys mental, attacking any random people you see?" He hissed at his team, who at least had enough decency to advert their gaze. " I want an answer." He demanded.
" We wanted to find out how powerful this 'wizards' are." Obito muttered, looking dejected. " But sensei, you ruined it. He didn't even take out his 'wand' yet!"
Minato tried to keep his 'stern face' up and not laugh at their foolishness. In the end it did not work and he ended up letting out a chuckle, to his team's displeasure and confusion.
" That makes you think that he's a wizard?" Minato challenged. All three of them rolled their eyes at the stupid question.
" Well, for starters, he has a stick sticking out of his robes." Rin said, as though she was explaining it to a three-year-old toddler.
" And I can sense that he has chakra." Kakashi added. " Is that good enough for you, sensei?"
" Oh, and lastly," Obito said, voice full of scorn, " He dresses like one. Isn't that the most obvious thing?"
Minato buried his head under his hands. He should've seen that coming. It was all Dumbledore's fault for wearing such outlandish clothing. Especially that tall hat plastered with stars. What the hell is wrong with him? " Okay children, but apparently you picked the wrong target to toy with." Minato smiled as his team blinked.
" What's wrong with that?" Kakashi asked hotly. " There are dozens of other wizards around. Killing off one won't make a difference anyhow."
" He's the client." Minato sighed. " Imagine what would've happened if you killed him."
" That's the client?!" Obito shrieked. " Oh my goodness! What a lucky thing we didn't kill him!"
" We wouldn't kill him." Kakashi said. " I thought that's the famed 'headmaster that has enough chakra to fight sensei'?"
" You even remembered that?" Obito asked, shocked, and Rin nodded her head vigorously, eyes wide.
" Yeah, shouldn't I?" Kakashi replied. " These are the mission particulars."
" Oh." Obito shrugged. " Well, I didn't."
" Neither did I." Rin said. " Didn't bother."
" Wait, wait wait." Minato put his hand out, signifying a pause." What's that supposed to mean? That my speech is boring?"
" And long-windy to boot." Obito agreed. " I think I only remembered half of it."
" Sensei, you'd better go greet our client." Kakashi said lazily, before Minato had a chance to twist Obito's ear. " I think he's getting bored now." Sure enough, Dumbledore had gone from inspecting the runes to inspecting a dull looking and half dead flower bush growing on the side. " Oh and don't worry, we won't kill him now." Rin added.
Minato stood up and after a dark ' I'll punish you later' whisper to Obito, he went off to have a nice chat with the headmaster.
"Well, what do you think?" Obito muttered to his teammates as Minato went to speak and confirm the identity and discuss the mission payment with the client and blah. " Wizardly enough?"
" A bit excessive, bit yeah…" Rin said. " But I guess he's something like the Sandaime, right? Large chakra, knowledgeable, and old…yup. He makes people wonder if Hokage-sama has a twin brother."
" Like I care about that." Kakashi shifted irately. " Didn't you notice?"
" Notice what? Is there anything unusual?" Obito asked blankly and turned around, a bit scared that there might be a presence he didn't detect. There wasn't. " No, there isn't."
" The sky, idiot!" Kakashi hissed. His teammates were, as usual, unobservant. " It was night when we left. It's only about six here."
" Hey! You're right!" Obito said, glancing up. The sky above was indeed, as Kakashi had pointed out, still tinged with orange.
" Looks like there's a change in the time zone." Rin narrowed her eyes as she scrutinized her surroundings again, though this time much more slowly and carefully. " Must be because of the portal. Transporting, I guess. From one dimension to another."
" That's what I figured out." Kakashi said. "But I didn't know that sensei could do this sort of thing."
" Sheesh, lack of faith for your own sensei." Obito friendly whacked Kakashi on the back grinned, ignoring Kakashi's glare at him for doing that. " But yeah, me too actually. I think it worked only with the help of those runes and the platform set up. From what I saw, it did say something about donating blood."
" Oh wow. Obito, finally you can infer something logical." Kakashi rolled his eyes, earning him a glare from the Uchiha.. But before Obito could answer back however, Rin, or rather Minato, interrupted the two squabbling boys.
" Kakashi, Obito, sensei is calling." Rin urged. " It seems that he wants to introduce us."
Rin was right. The moment they got within considerable distance with their sensei, Minato grabbed the nearest student (which unfortunately, happened to be poor Obito) and patted Obito's head in what would be called affectionate, but to the shinobi, it looked much more relieved than friendly.
"Oh, and this would be my lovely team and students, Uchiha Obito, Hatake Kakashi, and Rin." Minato introduced to Dumbledore, and prodded Obito with his toe.
On cue, all three of them bowed to the old man with a somewhat pleasant (except for Kakashi) ' Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu!'. Dumbledore nodded at them approvingly at the politeness and Minato beamed at his kawaii team.
" So, you've got yourself at team now, Mina-chan." Dumbledore smiled at the yellow haired boy. "Lovely." Immediately, said 'boy's' smile vanished, only to be replaced with a scowl. Ahh…he last time he had met the yellow flash, Minato was only a young genin, and Jiraiya had affectionately addressed the boy by that name. Apparently, the sannin still did, because Minato's team perked up at the familiar nickname.
" You know him sensei?" Obito gasped, surprised. " And you didn't tell us, Mina-chan!" He mocked his teacher.
Minato, a bit flustered and red in the face because of the usage of that horrible nickname he had obtained years ago, muttered an embarrassed 'somewhat' before turning around and marching resolutely down the old path, making sure that he squashed a poor, innocent passing slug on the way." Hurry up, slowpokes. Unless you want to miss your dinner." He called out moodily behind him, still sulking away. " And Obito, I still haven't twisted your ear yet."
Smiling serenely at that familiar character, Dumbledore swept after the jonin, a snickering Obito and Rin and an impassive Kakashi following just behind. ' Ah well, some things never change.' Dumbledore idly thought.
" This is it? Man, it's huge!" Obito asked in awe as the stood right outside the entrance. A large, moldy, and crumbling castle stood in front of him in a very sorry state, most of it's ruins are still lying on the floor, untouched. A large, faded out 'Danger- Keep Out' sign hung limply on the decaying door. Impressive. " It's a little old and very dirty though, you might want to clean it. And how many students are there? It looks deserted."
That sentence made Minato laugh out loudly, his foul mood blown away. To the jonin's left, Dumbledore snickered (why does old men tend to do that a lot? Sandaime too!) and both Rin and Kakashi rolled their eyes at their teammate. As clueless as ever.
" You should try doing this." Kakashi said leaning forwards, hands forming into a horse seal first then into a tiger, what Obito recognized as the basic Genjutsu dispelling technique. " It helps."
Obito copied Kakashi instinctively and immediately the view around him shifted, revealing a much more magnificent castle, with all four of its towers still intact and the fungi and moss were replaced with elegant ivy plants instead.
" Oh." Obito could only manage out dumbly. ' Crap, I must have looked like a total idiot.' he thought sourly.
Done snickering, Dumbledore finally spoke up, smiling at the awestruck shinobis (though they did a good job of hiding it).
" Welcome." He said, beaming as he did so. " Welcome to Hogwarts."
Author's Notes:
Ok, chapter 2 done, please wait for the next one okay? Yeah, and you might want to thank my beta for beta-ing this...she'll be screaming in the comments section later. And while you're add it, please go support my other story too. Thanks! And err... if you want to comment, please make sure that there are no flames. If you don't like it ( because of the length, plot, my writing skills or just me, then don't bother commenting and just stop reading and go to another page.So for now...ja ne!
