Hey, I'm not exactly back yet. I just finished my 2nd term exam here in Malaysia and had the urge to give you guys another chappie. I hope this chapter is good enough for you because I have a slight feeling it isn't. Anyways I hope you enjoy this third chapter before I disappear once again.

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN EITHER HARRY POTTER OR Naruto because if I did the world is mine!

ENJOY!


Chapter 3: Hatred Paperwork

The Konoha gang took their seats at the Gryffindor table as they did last night. Naruto scanned around the area, trying to detect any unfamiliar chakra or people but it seems nothing had happened while they slumbered to sleep.

"Hey, there's one question I've been meaning to ask," Naruto and the gang looked up to see Ron looking at them with his mouth a little smudged with strawberry jam, "Do you wear these clothes to school?"

"Yeah, they don't really care about our fashion just so as long we work hard for our dreams," Sakura truthfully answered him.

"Cool," Ron sighed, "Why can't Hogwarts be like that?" Another sigh escaped.

"If Hogwarts was to be as said, Fred and George would have already taken over and Hogwarts will be no more," Hermione easily explained to him.

"Hey, at least you have a great Headmaster, eh?" Naruto eyed smiled at them, hands behind his head, "Huh, mine has the meanest headmistress! She would punch you all the way to that wall over there and you'll just crack over it!"

Hermione gapped at that news.

"That's because someone would always barge in her office room without permission and even I sometimes gets fed up with it," Sakura gritted her teeth in annoyance as she said those words.

"Aw, Sakura-chan, you don't mean it, do you?" Naruto whined, pouting like a sick puppy who badly wants a treat.

"Do you want a punch in the head right now?" She practically yelled at him with her fist held up high in front of his face.

"U-Uh, no, no," He nervously laughed. Kiba and Kankuro left a trail of snickers for Naruto to glare at them and they immediately shut their mouths with uncontainable laughs before Naruto twitched in annoyance.

Naruto then left his friends to chat as he observed the place.

He took note of this: Mad-eye-Moody was nowhere to be seen; Dumbledore was however smiling quite brightly today with McGonagall at his side but none of that matters because (twitch) none of his teachers were to be seen!

Then Hermione's outburst snapped him from his observation.

"Ah, we're later for Moody! We should hurry!" she grabbed her bag which was at her side all the time and ushered the boys to hurry up.

"See you at lunch!" Ron waved at the gang as they nodded back at him.

After the trio left, Naruto sighed in his seat. The hall was already half emptied since some of the students from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons stayed behind regardless the foreign feeling.

"What's the matter Naruto?" Sasuke asked his friend, having a feeling that something was not right.

"Iie, it's just that…did you notice that Kakashi-sensei, Gai-sensei and Kurenai-sensei weren't here with us the whole time?" Naruto reopened his eyes to look at his teammates.

"Huh?" Kiba widened his eyes, "Where did Kurenai-sensei go?" He started turning his head here and about which was starting to annoy Shino.

"I am sure that Kurenai-sensei have a very good reason for missing breakfast with the whole school," Shino calmly replied but his answer still did not put Kiba still in his seat which made him even more buzzed about the nin.

"Yeah, we do have a good reason," The three teachers whom were missing earlier turned up at the entrance of the Great Hall.

"So you got the info of Moody-san?" Naruto took caution of eavesdroppers and spoke is his mother tongue. Everyone caught up with his precaution and followed him.

"Hai," Kakashi answered, smiling as he and his two other companions sat across from their students. "We've gotten not much but apparently there really is something fishy about that man. His name is Alastor Moody. An Auror, someone that is similar to the ranks of an ANBU, in the Ministry of Magic; recently there is some talk about him being a little mad in the head these days.

"Not just that, what Ron-kun said was about right. Most of the prisoners in Azkaban, their jail was placed in that place by him. There wasn't much we could get about him but he does look very cautious and suspicious too." Kakashi placed his head on both his hands and looked straight at Naruto.

"How about that 'juice' he was drinking?" Naruto continued to ask.

"Nothing about that yet but he has a collection of those in his room, that's all we know," Kurenai answered this time.

"I see, well, we'd just have to keep an eye on him at all times." At that, Naruto frowned in thought, "Now Konoha is having its own battle with Otogakure. It will be about some time they start to attack upon our walls. We have to finish this job as soon as possible. Tsunade-baasan will need every ninja in the village to protect Konoha."

His teammates all nodded their heads.

"And Suna will not stand aside doing nothing. We will come to your aid if such happens." Gaara nodded to his first and loyal friend.

Naruto nodded his head in thanks but a question from Shikamaru really caught him off guard.

"Naruto, what if they started the war before the job is done?"

Naruto widened his eyes before looking down at his hands, "If it really comes down to an early battle, then we will leave and fight for our village. Whatever we do, our village will come first." Several nods were acknowledged to him as they approved of his answer.

"Well, the battle hasn't started yet so we should stay focus on our mission now, right?" Kakashi took the chance to take the battle out of their minds. 'Tsunade, it seems maybe even I could not even stop them from leaving here to save Konoha when the war starts. Maybe this is their will of fire…' Kakashi shot a worried look to Kurenai as she cast him the same one.

"Well, that settles it," Naruto grinned, surprising a few of the Durmstrang students by his sudden outburst in English. "But…we aren't here for fun. It's time we got down to business."

"Ah, business…" Kakashi grinned at his former student.

"Hai, we should separate into groups. Unfortunately we can't use back our old teams since Hinata, Kiba and Shino each has an advantage so I'm splitting everyone up. Group number 1 will have Hinata, Shikamaru and me. Group number 2 will be Sasuke, Sakura and Shino. The third group will be Gaara, Ino and Lee and the fourth group will be Temari, Kankuro and Kiba while the last group will be Neji Tenten and Chouji."

"What? I'm stuck with them?" Temari gasped as she found out the group she was placed in.

"Well, that's how it is. Unless, you'll replace Chouji…" Naruto trailed off, eyeing her face.

She pouted and gave him a glare, "You're mean, you know? You're down right mean." Naruto chuckled.

"But I'm not as mean as Gaara, you wouldn't want to know his original grouping," Neji and Sasuke laughed with him.

"Okay, fine!" She exhaled the air she was holding then turned on the other two in her group, "I don't want anything to happen, or else I'll punch you through those walls there, understood?" She angrily muttered to them.

"Hai!" the two of them shook in fear.

"Glad we got that settled. For now, we'll just start by going around the castle then I want both Hinata and Neji to memorize the place and draw out a map for all of us. If it's necessary to enter to one's classroom then just blab any excuse to get in, okay, let's go," With that, they started on with their mission, a determined expression on their face.

Naruto sighed. "Oi, Shikamaru, stop sleepwalking, I need you to start observing too!"

"Tch, troublesome…" was the lazy ninja's only reply. Hinata blushed and looked at Naruto.

"Where should we go first, Naruto-kun?" She asked.

"Hm…We should head out to the staff room first. I'm sure most of Dumbledore's trusted staff knows our true identity. We should start learning a few things or two." His other two permanent teammates nodded their heads in understanding.

"Well, let's start. I want to get back to get my afternoon nap," Shikamaru grumbled and in a swift move, Naruto swung his hand and held Shikamaru's neck and started walking. "Oi, N-Naruto, let me go!"

"Come on, Hina!" Hinata blushed at her new nickname and hurriedly followed the two male.


'I can't believe that I'm stuck with these two. I'm a dead person.' Temari sighed.

"No, I'm sure Hana doesn't like you," Kiba retort back to Kankuro and Akamaru barked in agreement.

"How would you know? She didn't tell you, did she?" Kankuro narrowed his gaze at Kiba and Akamaru let out a loud bark.

"No, but I'm sure she'll disagree with the smell you're carrying," He pinch his nose in attempt to keep the smell out and once again Akamaru let out another bark.

"I don't smell!" Kankuro snapped at him.

"Yes, you do, you should smell yourself," Kiba once again bite back at the other man.

"I'm going to break your little neck, you little-!"

"Shut the hell up!" Temari yelled at the both of them, causing a few students to jump in fright by her voice, "One more yap from the both of you and I'm sending you straight to Gaara's sand and I don't care whether you're Naruto's underling or my little brother!" She let the both of them go and stomped off with the two and Akamaru following her like puppies.

"I still think Hana doesn't like you," Was the last thing Kiba said before he received a punch from Temari.


Silence…

Awkward silence…

More awkward silence…

"Uh, so…uh…" Sakura struggled to find her words to break the tense situation between her teammate and the Aburame, "Where do you think we should start to patrol first?"

"Corridors,"

"Hallways," The two stoic boys answered at the same time and Sakura dropped animatedly to the floor as silence took over again.

"Okay…erm…we should just patrol both, I guess," She started walking and the two just followed her and she couldn't help but groaned out loud.

Silence…

Awkward silence…

MORE awkward-

"Okay, that's it!" She exclaimed, clutching her head before turning to the both of them, "If the both of you don't start talking I'm going to kick both your ass and punch you all the way to Naruto's feet!"

Still more awkward-

"ARGH!" she yelled in annoyance. Sasuke turned a little to the left to glare at Shino while the bug master glared back. A silent but angry conversation was held behind Sakura's back.

'Don't you dare make her angry or I'll punch you myself,' Sasuke narrowed his gaze at the Aburame.

'Bring it on, I didn't say a thing,' His Kikachuu buzzed out loud.

And Sakura stomped on and on never noticing the silent argument happening to both her teammates.


"YOSH, WE SHALL FINISH THIS YOUTHFUL MISSION NARUTO-KUN GAVE US!"

Lee exclaimed loudly which cause a few students or two to sneak glances at Gaara and Ino.

"Lee…" Gaara grumbled but before he could continue, Ino placed her hand on his arm to stop him.

"Lee, if you know that Naruto has entrusted this youthful mission to us then how about we quietly go through this mission?" Ino asked her friend softly.

"Okay! We shall not disappoint Naruto-kun's youthful trust over us!" Gaara pouted a little and raised his fist a little to show he might punch the Green Beast out of here if she doesn't come up with something fast.

"Uh, uh," She quickly ran through a whole lot of solutions and finally grinned, "Lee, it is very unyouthful of you to shout about our mission like that!"

"It is?" He sadly asked, "Sorry, Ino-chan! I shall not shout anymore for it is unyouthful if you say so!" He quietly shouted.

"Good, Lee, okay let's continue going around the school," Ino smiled at the dedicated young man before walking beside Gaara who was taking the lead.

"How did you do that?" He asked, "I have never been able to tune Lee out like that."

"Just use the word youthful and unyouthful," She winked at him, moving her hand to smoothen her hair, "I got this tip from Tenten and Neji. It really worked!" She grinned at him.

Gaara just stared after her, admiring how beautiful she can get.

*Sigh* I guess our Gaara is starting to fall in love now, isn't he?


Chouji smiled at Tenten and Neji and continued to munch on his chips.

'We don't really know much about the Akimichi except for the time I had teamed up with him to fight off the Sound five and most us except Shikamaru has suffered from heavy injuries. Akimichi almost died and so did I if it weren't for the Godaime and Shizune-san,' Neji thought deeply as he walked in the middle of Tenten and Chouji.

"So, where are we going to patrol first?" Tenten asked with a friendly tone.

"Hm…if Shikamaru was here he would say anywhere except the classrooms but I guess that's where Neji-san would go, right?"

Neji let out a chuckled and nodded his head, "Yeah, I guess I would. You're observant for an Akimichi, Chouji-san,"

Chouji gave a shrug and munched on some more potato chips, "I guess Shikamaru must have rubbed some of his habits on me."

"So, off to the first classroom?" Tenten asked.

"Yeah, let's go," Neji led them down the hall.

Hey, don't you realize but…this is the only group to not have any conflict, what-so-ever, don't you think so?


Soon lunch came and the Konoha gang sat in the Great Hall with the famous trio staring weirdly at them.

Naruto had his head on the table, looking dead beat like he had jumped down from a few stories to only survive. Next to him, Shikamaru was sleeping his head off, drooling a little on the table but Hinata however was chewing on her lips as she slowly played with her food.

Beside her, a bruised up Kiba and Kankuro quietly ate their food as Temari glared at them from the other side of the table and Akamaru was whining uncomfortably at the lot.

The next weird thing was Sakura. Instead of being cheerful or dead scary, she was being double-crossed and if you looked carefully, you might notice the nerve on her forehead. On her left Sasuke was still glaring at the Aburame and so was he.

But that's not all, the last trio was…perfectly fine. They were having their lunch peacefully, chit-chatting here and there.

This was starting to concern the trio.

"Erm, did something happen while we were away?" Hermione carefully asked the group of foreigners.

"No, nothing special happened," Naruto waved her off easily but his head was still on the table.

"Naruto!" both Sakura and Temari yelled and him which cause most of the students on the Gryffindor table and the other Houses to look at them. "Please change our group!" They said in their own mother tongue.

"Why?" Naruto tiredly asked them.

"Kiba and Kankuro wouldn't stop bitching about stuff and I couldn't tune them out no matter how many times I punch them!" Temari complained.

"Mine however, wouldn't stop glaring at each behind my back thinking I couldn't see anything and there was this awkward silence! I can't stand it anymore!" Sakura screeched.

Naruto stood up slamming his hands on the table causing the students to jump in fright.

"Enough! You six will settle this own your own! I've got enough business to worry about as it is and you're complaining about bitching and stuff? Sakura, you never liked my loud noises so why would an awkward silence bother you?" The lot stopped and looked down guiltily.

"Yare, yare," Kakashi and the three teachers turned up behind the gang and frowned unsightly. "It's only the first afternoon here and you lot are already fighting. Naruto, you should speak peacefully to them before yelling your head off. It isn't good for fur ball there, he might burst out you know," And Naruto winced at that.

"Gomenasai, Naruto. We should help by finishing the mission you told us to do." Sakura apologized.

"No, it's my fault for lashing out on all of you. I was irritated with this afternoon's achievement; my head was thinking on the battle that was going happen and I just wanted this mission to get over with." Naruto quickly apologized back and the group sobered up.

Kakashi placed his hand on top of Naruto's head and smiled at him.

"Take it easy, I'm sure Tsunade is looking after Konoha just fine," With that, the three teachers disappeared to Dumbledore's side where their seat were and ate their lunch peacefully.

"So I guess everything was settled?" Ron asked.

"Yeah, sorry for worrying you guys." Naruto let out a nervous laugh and rubbed the back of his head like he did every time.

Suddenly a screech was heard and every student changed their gaze from the Konoha ninja to the ceiling to catch their owls flying in with their parcels.

"Ah, mail's here!" Ron smiled in his seat.

Harry's white owl, Hedwig flew down dropping a tied up Daily Prophet to his side and he gladly placed a knut inside a small pouch that was fixed on her leg.

"So the owls you own bring you mails and packages from your family?" Naruto asked curiously.

"Yeah, and if you order from the Daily Prophet, then you receive a Daily Prophet every time." Hermione answered and Naruto nodded in thought.

"How about you guys, do you receive mails from your family while you study?" Harry abruptly asked them.

"Uh…well, our school is close to our homes so we don't need to write mails or stay in school we just go home," Sakura explained.

"That's nice; at least you get to see you parents every day, right?" Harry smiled a little, sipping on his pumpkin juice.

"Well yeah, except…" Everyone turned to glance at Neji but mostly glanced at Naruto and Sasuke whom frowned at the thought of family.

"Did something happen?" Ron asked out of curiosity. Shikamaru motioned for him to not ask anymore and immediately Ron complied. "S-Sorry,"

"Ah, never mind, you didn't know," Naruto heaved a sigh.

Just then a familiar screech aroused the Konoha and Suna gang.

"Taka…?" Naruto looked at Gaara with a frowning expression before noticing a few other birds followed Taka in and landed in front of Naruto and Gaara.

Naruto reached out and grabbed the first letter addressed to Naruto.

"Ah, it's from Tsunade-baachan." Naruto grinned a little.

"Read it out Naruto!" Sakura smiled, hearing that it was her mentor's letter.

"Okay.

Dear Naruto,

I trust that your journey was pleasant but from what Kakashi said in his report that Uchiha had already got into a fight before you even got off the train, right? Tell that brat to stop worrying about you already.

But aside from wishing all of you the best of health and taking care of yourselves, I would just like to inform you about the war situation. It seems that Otogakure is pushing our defensive lines and almost killed some of our chunnins that we sent out. Konohamaru was almost blast to death if it weren't for Ebisu's early noting.

We're getting closer to the battle each day but don't worry. I'm sure those snakes will be chased off before they can even set foot in Konoha. All I can say is that I wish for your early homecoming to aid Konoha at times like these but when it comes to helping another friend, you can't say no, right?

Ah, Naruto, one more thing. I want you to help deal with this paperworks, I'm going to be staying at the hospital for a while. More injured ones are coming in and I have to assist so as Hokage you should help out the former Godaime, right?

And one more thing, we're sending a few more ninja over there. No buts, they're going to be sent over and that's that. Help finish the mission ranking paperworks and send them back. Thanks, gaki. I'll see you when you come home. Say hi to everyone for me and Shizune says to meditate with Neji when you have the time. Hiashi wishes the best of luck to both Hinata and Neji.

Do the best for Konoha.

"Yours truly, Tsunade," Naruto ended the letter as he noticed the sad smiles and little tears coming out from the girls' eyes. "You heard that old woman, they're fine. I'm sure they're still going to be." But that didn't convince him. He looked down at the letter once more and focused on the P.S Tsunade told him.

'P.S. Read the second letter to yourself privately without any of their knowledge.' That really made Naruto worried and he immediately itched for the second letter more than anything.

"Ah, it seems that Baki has sent you a letter too?" Naruto looked towards Gaara and the red head nodded.

"And paperworks, same as you," Gaara sighed. "To think we were able to get away from all these papers," He sighed once more.

"Yeah, guess not. Wanna race?"

"If it makes the papers disappear then yes," And the both of them immediately put themselves to work."

"Uh, okay, are they doing last minute homework?" Hermione asked.

"No, as apprentice of the Principle, they have more jobs to finish than we do. And I wouldn't disturb them while they're trying to clear the pile." Sakura let out a giggle.

"Oh…" That cleared up most confusion in Hermione's mind.

"Finish, the genins' first pile," Gaara calmly reported and Naruto yelled in frustration.

"I hate paperwork!"


A/N: There done! I know, I know. Not as good as the first two right? Well, you can tell me all about it in the Reviews. Hehehe, the fourth chapter will come out depending whether I have the idea yet to write it during this last week of school holidays so catch out for more if there is!

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Signing out, Uchiha Shiyo.