"You really are a bunch of kids aren't you?" Naruto stated more than asked the students before him. Similar thoughts went through the minds of his teammates next to him.

"You're one to talk! We have seniority over you!" declared Ron.

"Yeah, but at least we're adults," Sakura nodded as if it made any sense, which to the young Hogwarts students, it didn't.

"How old are you anyway?"

Naruto grinned, "Sixteen in the Fall!"

"I'm sixteen now" Sakura commented.

They looked over at Sasuke before rolling their eyes. "And Teme here is 16 too," Naruto said, jabbing a thumb in the other boy's direction.

"You are younger than us!"

"You don't have a right to call us kids when you're kids too!"

The three young ninja blinked. "But you guys are still useless. You haven't graduated, you don't have your job...You're still so...innocent… So you're kids," Naruto nodded wisely.

"Innocent?" A Slytherin student raised an eyebrow. A few female students giggled nervously. "I supposed you consider yourselves to be... experienced?"

Sakura blushed, understanding the underlying statement, but as usual, the insinuation went right over Naruto's head. "Of course we have experience!" The students around him began to laugh.

"Naruto!" Sakura hissed. "He didn't mean experience in the field!"

Naruto looked at her and blinked, "But what else would he be-" Naruto's eyes widened as he began to blush.

"W-what does that have to do with anything?!"

It was then Sasuke allowed a smirk to grow on his face. "It appears, Naruto, that sex-" many students blushed at the easy way the dark haired boy spoke the word, "is their way of measuring maturity and adulthood here."

He glanced over at the students; a look of clear superiority graced his porcelain face. "Where we come from, you become an adult when you graduate and become a working citizen. With that comes all the rights of adulthood." He tilted his face back toward his teammates, "Remember. Here they aren't adults until they reach 17."

Hermione's eyebrows knitted together in thought. "When do you graduate?" she inquired.

The team blinked again. "When you pass the exam, duh," Naruto stated in a matter-of-fact manner.

Sakura sighed. "I think she means what age is the average," she looked over to the brown haired girl for confirmation. The witch nodded. "The average age is 12."

"What?!" similar disbelief went through the crowd.

Naruto frowned and crossed his arms, "It's true. We all graduated at 12. The

next day you're assigned your group and leader, and the next day you start work!"

"So fast?!" There was disbelief.

"Of course," Sasuke's voice was cold and condescending, "as if we would be so weak as to not serve immediately?"

Sakura nodded, "Everyone serves as soon as they can! It is part of being a citizen, an adult."

"Of course, all the other benefits and hardships about being an adult happened when you graduate too." Naruto frowned, "Like taxes- as if I didn't have enough bills as it was."

"Or marriage," Sakura looked sideways at Sasuke, who shivered. "Poor Sasuke was practically mobbed the day he graduated by all his fans."

Sasuke twitched, "As if I would rebuild the clan before I killed that guy.."

Naruto snickered, "Everyone's after 'poor' Sasuke's pants."

The dark-haired boy's glare seemed to scream "Fuck you!" at Naruto, who just grinned cheekily.

"Later dear, there are children watching."