I apologize deeply for not updating for such a long, long, long, long, long time. I've just finished my 2nd term school exam and I feel like I need months of sleep to recharge my brain power! Living in Malaysia is definitely no easy, especially when you have to study history in Malay. ARGH! Pity my brain! I think I'm loosing a few brain cells on the way...oops XD! However, I would like to give my thanks to all the authors who have supported my story till now! I LOVE YOU GUYS AND I AM GRATEFUL FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT. I solemly swear that I'll do better on the coming chapters of 'Naruto at Hogwarts'! Chah!

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Chapter 7: Training the 'Boy-Who-Lived'


-Flashback-

Harry was chatting with Ron, their eyes on the Goblet of Fire until the Great Hall's doors opened and in came the Konohagakure students.

They, with the exception of Shikamaru, Sakura, Ino and Hinata, each held a piece of paper with their name on as they walked silently towards the cup. Harry, Ron and the few other students settled down to watch them place their names into the goblet.

Neji went first, reaching high to throw his piece of paper in. The next person was Shino, then Kiba, Lee, Chouji, Tenten, Temari, Kankuro, Gaara and Sasuke. Naruto was the last person. However, he stopped advancing towards the cup.

"What are you hesitating for, dobe?" Sasuke had raised an eyebrow towards his best friend but Naruto was silent for a moment.

"I will not be putting my name in the cup," He announced, though loud enough for only half of the students in the hall to hear.

"What?" Sasuke exclaimed. "At first, I warned you about Madara and the Akatsuki, but you wouldn't listen and NOW you tell us you're not going to put your name in?"

"Look, Sasuke, I did a lot of thinking and I decided to NOT put my name in the cup. Just give it a rest, alright?" The blond hissed, giving a glance-over on his friends before walking out of the hall.

On the way, Shikamaru stood at the door entrance watching his Hokage as the blond was walking past him.

"You sure you don't want to put your name in?" Shikamaru spoke and Naruto stopped in his tracks.

"You know about IT, Shikamaru. I want to take a bet on this," With that, Naruto left the hall.

-End of Flashback-


"I did not put my name in the cup," Naruto explained and everyone stood there shocked. "Well, my friends and I and my school's council have came up with a theory. Either someone wants to play a fool on this Tournament or someone's coming after Harry."

"More like three someones," Sasuke muttered under his breath.

"If that 'someone' is after Harry, why would they put your name in the Goblet of Fire too?" Professor Moody grunted.

"Ah, I do have another theory about that too," Naruto nervously rubbed the back of his head. "You see, I am the principle-to-be in my school so I'm assuming that people are after my head too. Don't worry, it's a natural thing back in our country!" He chuckled out loud.

"I don't find anything funny about it, dobe," Sasuke drily commented.

"Shut up, teme! Geez, I can't just say: Hey, I'm a Hokage and I'm holding the nine-tail fox as a demon host and that two evil shinobis whom have probably joined up with You-Know-Who are after not just our heads but Harry's too!" Naruto exclaimed.

"Uchiha, you would do well to keep your mouth shut from now on," Hyuuga Hiashi growled and Sasuke turned his head to glare on the floor. "The more important thing is to think what to do now that there are two extra competitors in the Tournament."

"Mr. Hiashi is right," Dumbledore said with a heavy sigh. "Barty, we leave it up to you."

"There is nothing we could do," Barty Crouch answered. "As of now, the cup has recognize both Mr. Potter and Mr. Uzumaki as its champions. They are now part of the competition."

Harry blinked and sighed mentally. Somehow deep down, he knew that this was really the start of his new year after all. Uzumaki Naruto, however, had given Sasuke a sad look. A look Uchiha Sasuke knew all too well.


"What are we going to do, Albus?" Minerva McGonagall asked the headmaster. Naruto, Shikamaru, Sasuke, Neji, Hiashi, Shikaku and Kakashi stood at the corner in Dumbledore's office along with Professor Snape and Mad-Eye Moody.

"You heard Barty, Minerva," Dumbledore replied. "The rules states that they are now part of the competitors for the Triwizard Tournament."

"To hell with Barty and his rules!" Professor McGonagall shrieked and Sasuke raised an eyebrow at her choice of language. "Potter's just a boy, not a piece of meat!"

"Though I know that using Harry as bait is a little out of line," Shikamaru started but the look McGonagall shot him made him swallow back what he was going to say.

"Please, Minerva. Shikamaru, please continue what you were going to say," Dumbledore, still with his back turned towards them, held out a hand to stop the arguement.

"Though I know that using Potter as a bait is stepping out of line but what done is done. It had however not slipped through our noses who had done it. Neji had caught sight of Igor Karkroff, the headmaster of the Durmstrangs slipping into the Great Hall, where the cup is kept but the strangest of things happened. He could not see further. What had happened inside went unknown." Shikamaru reported.

"What do you mean by 'he could not see further'?" Snape asked out of curiousity.

Neji and the others looked to Naruto for permission to give their one of their country's greatest secret away. Hiashi had hoped Naruto would disagree but the blond had nodded his head in approval.

"We, the Hyuuga Clan, have these white-eyes as our bloodline trait. With these eyes, we are able to see a 360 degree around ourselves to spot our enemies. It is definitely impossible to block a Hyuuga's Byakugan."

"But apparently Karkroff has figured out a way to do so." Snape sneered and Neji almost attacked the man for doing so if not for Hiashi's hold on his shoulder.

"About that, I doubt that it was Igor Karkroff who had slipped into the Great Hall," Shikamaru continued. "We believe that someone is using Karkroff as a player to slip into the castle and to the hall."

"And who would that be?" Snape scoffed.

"Okay, I think I would burst if I don't say this," Naruto cut them off and exclaimed. "Dude, hello? Have you been here all the while? If we knew who was the fraud then we would have just gone straight to the point and say, 'Hey this unknown person who looks like crap is playing Karkroff and he's hoodwinking the cup!'" Naruto spat. "Be realistic, Professor Snape."

The greasy haired male glared at the blond and sensing the killer intent, Sasuke and Neji had stepped out to protect their leader. "Please direct that glare somewhere else, Professor Snape. Or else we might mistake an ambush from the enemy and kill you accidently," Sasuke death-glared back at the man.

"And you know it to be true that Uzumaki is right, Severus," Mad-eye, finally, spoke up.

"Tch," Snape huffed and left the office with a slam to the door.

"Look, what done is done. What we need to do now, is to help Potter prepare for what might be coming for him. What do you say about this, Dumbledore-sama?" Shikamaru looked at Dumbledore who had his back to him.

"Do what you have to help him, please. Just, refrain from blowing your cover," Dumbledore sighed.

"Then we'll take our leave." Naruto bowed and so did the others before leaving Dumbledore's office. "This is just getting worser and worser each moment..."


Harry Potter could now be a murderer.

First, he had to endure the constant glare his best friend gives him every single second and then, some stupid idiot had to come up with the 'Read the badge, Potter' insult. Come on, like his life hadn't sucked enough!

But that wasn't what made The-Boy-Who-Lived an almost-murderer.

This was what made him an 'almost-murderer'.

"Oi," Came the grunt.

No response.

"Oi," A poke was added this time.

"Go away." At least, there was a response this time.

"Oi, oi, oi, oi oi," Poke times five.

"Go away, Dudley," Harry groaned.

"Damn it, Potter! Bloody wake up already!" Came that deep voice again.

"Ugh!" Harry shot his head up from his pillow and almost popped his head in the process. "What in Merlin's name?" He exclaimed.

"Thank you for finally waking up even though I have been trying to get you up 10 minutes ago," Harry got his spectacles from the side table beside his bed and refocused on the boy that prodded him awake. "Seriously, I swear you're just as bad as Naruto."

"Sasuke?" Harry frowned.

"Yes, it's me, you dingbag," Ouch, insult! "Get up and change then get moving," However, Sasuke's words might not have get through Harry's head because the bespectacles boy just stared at him in confusion. "Is it so hard to just follow a simple order? Get up from the bed, go change and follow me when you're done!" Sasuke said exasperately. "Please go before I kick your butt out myself. Go!"

This time, Harry got the whole thing processed in his brain and moved in a hurry.

"I don't know why I had to be the one to wake the idiot up."

"I heard that!" Harry called out from the bathroom.


Naruto was sitting on a branch, waiting for the rest of his teammates to appear.

"Naruto?" The blond looked down to see Sakura staring up at him. He slid down the tree and dropped in front of all of them. The teachers and the Clan Leaders with the addition of Morino Ibiki, Mitarashi Anko, Uchiha Nana and Shiyo were present with them too. "Why had this meeting been called in the forest and we would like to know what had happened yesterday."

"Straight to the point as always, Haruno," Neji grunted.

"I rather not beat around the bush, Hyuuga," Sakura gave him a short glare and turned back to face Naruto.

"As you all know, I was chosen for the Triwizard Tournament as an extra champion, even though I did not put my name in the cup. Shikamaru, Hiashi, Shikaku and I have came up with two possibilities and with yesterday's result, we have proven that we have a spy in Hogwarts."

"A spy?" Tenten exclaimed. "But it's impossible. If anyone was a spy, we would know it immediately!"

"If this person had chakra, yes maybe but you are all forgetting that this is another world. The Wizarding World. Chakra's don't mean or exist to them. It's a whole different thing. Like magic is to us," Naruto explained and Tenten nodded in understanding.

"So we have to find this 'spy'?" Kiba asked.

"As fast as possible. This spy could be working for our enemies for we all know and right now he could be passing any information he knows right under our noses."

"Well, I'll be damned," Ino grumbled. "Any clues we could have on the spy?"

"Right now, none," The gang immediately looked deflated. "And that just gives us reason to work harder," Naruto laced a bit of his 'Hokage-mode' into his voice and the present shinobis straightened up immediately. "Gaara, Neji, I want you and your group to be looking out for anyone suspicious and that you think may be a spy. Kakashi-sensei, you, Kurenai-sensei and Gai-sensei will work among the teachers with Anko-san, and Ibiki-san. Shiyo and Nana, I want you two to play around the four houses in Hogwarts and get to know them. Sakura, for your group, you'd be scouting around the place to keep and eye on Harry and his friends but if you pick up anything important, please report it back. Everyone understand?"

"Hai!"

"Uh..." a voice came from the edge of the forest and everyone turned to look at Harry. The boy gulped as he noticed the older people were staring at him too. "I...can...come back another time, but it's actually S-Sasuke who told me to come..."

"Indeed, so there's no 'come back another time'," Sasuke told him with a frustrated voice.

"Thank you for bringing him here, Sasuke," Naruto nodded his head to the black head and Sasuke snorted before walking away from the boy with spectacles to stand beside Naruto. "Harry, come stand by me first, will ya'?" Naruto politely asked him and Harry, hesitantly, went to stand by him.

"Dumbledore-sama has given us permission to keep a close eye on Harry and to give him help in any way we can. Last night, Sasuke and I have decided to give him taijustsu training," Naruto announced and the chaos started.

"Naruto! How can we teach him taijutsu? He doesn't possess any chakra at all!" Sakura yelled.

"And what about our identity? Are we suppose to tell him about it?" Ino asked, her eyes narrowed on her Hokage.

"Calm down," Naruto ordered and silence immediately took over. "We will just teach him the most basic taijutsu, just to defend himself. If he meets any trouble, he will be able to put it to good use, especially if he meets any of our kind. And about our identity," Naruto placed his blue eyes on Ino, "It's still a secret but we will tell Harry that we were trained in martial arts and Dumbledore-sama had told us to pick a student to train secretly. So no passing this news about." Naruto ended his explanation and felt proud for thinking up all these excuses in one night.

"What about his friends? That Granger is a smart girl. She'll figure out anything if she can do anything about it. Ron...I wouldn't count on it but I reckoned he'll get suspicious," Neji spoke.

"His friends won't be a problem at the mean time. Ron's trying to avoid Harry at all cost because of his jealousy getting to him. Hermione...we'll just ask Harry to keep his mouth shut."

"Fine," Sakura snapped. "Let's say we let him learn 'the most basic' taijutsu, but who's going to teach him?"

"You," Naruto said and the pink-haired girl choked on her own saliva. "But of course there'll be others as well. Lee, Neji, Sasuke and myself, we'll also be teaching him. We'll take turns, from Monday to Friday. Sasuke will take care of the schedule and will go through me to approve," He looked to the clan heads and continued speaking. "Do you all agree on my plan?"

Hiashi looked around the other clan heads and nodded. "We approve but be careful on what you're letting him on. We're going to retreat back into the castles. It is like a holiday here after all," Hiashi let out an amused chuckle before leading the other elders back.

"Harry," Naruto turned to the boy beside him, surprising him a little. "We are going to train you from now on."

"W-What?"

"In our school, while we learn our...'magic', we also learn martial arts. Professor Dumbledore has given us permission to pick a student among the rest of the school and train them with our ways," Naruto explained to him.

"And...you pick me?" Harry pointed to himself.

"Don't think that we chose you because you are 'The-Boy-who-Lived'," Sasuke spoke up from Harry's other side. "We chose you because we think that you might be able to learn our culture, unlike someone, let's say a certain albino in a Snake House..."

"But there's a condition to it," Naruto continued in a serious voice. "When you're training with us, there's no 'if', 'buts' or 'whatever'. We say you do it this way, you will do it this way. There will be no what you would call, 'childish whinings'. Do you understand?"

"That's unfair, you chose me for this...training. So if I have something to say, shouldn't I have the right to voice my opinions too?"

"If you're fighting against Voldemort, do you have the chance to voice your opinion at all?" Naruto snapped back.

"Fine, so when's the training?" Harry huffed. He gave up quite easily because either way, he'd have to come to this 'training' after all.

"It starts tomorrow. 6 o'clock, early in the morning. We'll start you off with something basic then we'll see how you do from then." Naruto patted Harry's shoulder. "Harry, in this world, there's not only just you and me. It's always 'us'. We've got to be rasionalize about the things, the people around us. We cannot just headbutt against everything we see and run head on from there. We've got to have a start then find our ending. Nobody's perfect, do you understand?"

"Yeah, but...we belong to different schools, we live in separate countries. Why teach me your ways when we're competiting against each other in the Tournament?" Harry asked.

Naruto looked at him and smiled. "This has nothing to do with the Tournament. No matter what the future is going to be, we are your allies. Remember that," Naruto nudged Harry towards the direction of the castle. "You're going to be late for breakfast with your friends, we'll see you later in the hall."

"Okay," Harry replied and began walking past the other shinobis.

"Oh, and Harry?" Naruto called out to the boy once more. "Try to keep our training a secret, will 'ya? We don't want to explain why we only pick you for this special training and I have a feeling you don't want to have more trouble for yourself as it is?"

"Okay, I'll keep it quiet but if there's anything suspicious, I'm going to Dumbledore right away," Harry warned.

"He is definitely a bright kid," Neji commented as they watched Harry walk across the field to the castle.

"He has a lot of YOUTH in him!" Lee cheered.

"Maybe we can bring the best out of him," Naruto crossed his arms across his chest. "I guess we'll just see how we play it from here on out, eh?"


Well, how was it? Long enough? Well, I hope you had enjoy reading it! Please continue to R&R, people! Thank you and have a nice day!

Signing out, Uchiha Shiyo