Harry's eyes widened as just out the doorway was now consumed by purple smoke. there was muttering around him, but then he saw something move.
"holy shit..."
a huge purple snake had emerged from the smoke, slithering slowly down the hall toward Dumbledore. the snake had to be at least as big as the basilisk. the snake had three weird comma-marks on it's forehead, it's red eyes glinting in the candle light and it's black tongue flicking out of it's mouth occasionally.
BANG
there was purple smoke and it cleared second's later, a boy with black-blue raven-like hair was now standing on the snake's head. the snake stopped moving.
Harry frowned. the boy's hair seemed to defy gravity... but... there was a dangerous air about him...
Harry and quite a few others gasped when the boy looked around the room. his eyes were blood red. those eyes... they were the same colour as Voldemorts... Harry saw the boy's eyes fix on his. those eyes... they held the same anger as voldemort... the same hatred. the same...
BANG
the boy's eyes snapped from Harry's to the small cloud of smoke that had appeared behind his purple snake. the smoke cleared and the boy narrowed his eyes.
standing where the second cloud of smoke was, was a boy with the MOST yellow hair harry had ever seen.
the boy grinned and waved at everyone. walking up the spine of the snake and walked up to the raven-haired boy.
"shall we?" grinned the blonde.
the raven haired boy smirked.
BANG
the snake disappeared in a puff of purple smoke and Harry watching awe as the blonde and the raven haired boy soared in opposite directions from each other, back-first, their eyes on each other.
the raven-haired boy's hands were blurred. it was as though he was making weird forms with his fingers.
"KATON GOKAKYUU NO JITSU" rung throughout the hall and harry's eyes snapped over to the raven haired boy just as balls of fire flew out of the boy's mouth and toward the blond.
there were screams, gasps and yells from the students below, but the two above them seemed as calm as they could be.
harry's eyes widened as the fire balls became closer and closer to the blond.
"HIS HAND IS GLOWING!" came a scream from a random student. Harry gasped. they were right.
his hand wasn't the thing that was glowing blue, it was an orb that was in his hand.
"RASENGAN!" roared the blond as the fire balls came deathly close, thrusting the glowing orb and his hand strait into the fire balls.
there were numerous screams from many people below.
time stood still.
BAM
"BLOODY HELL!" yelled Ron. the fire washed over the Blonde guy as through it was nothing but water, the glowing orb still in his hand.
"CHIDORI"
everyone's heads swiveled to the raven-haired boy as through they were watching a tennis match.
the hall was now filled with the sound of millions upon millions of chirping birds. Harry gasped in shock. it looked like the raven-haired boy's hand was being electrocuted. his hand was glowing and there were sparks and shards of lightning-like stuff going off everywhere.
the blond and the raven-haired boys seemed to change directions in mid-air, launching themselves at each other, thrusting their glowing hands at the boy opposite.
their hands touched.
everything stopped.
harry couldn't see anything. everything was white.
there was no sound. he could hear nothing.
the white light and silence faded away. the raven-haired boy had his hand clasped on the blond's. the sound the millions of chirping birds faded away.
the blond and the raven-haired boy were both just hovering there. in mid air.
soon, the glowing and chirping faded away. the blond and raven-haired boy merely hand-in-hand.
then they started to fall.
Hermione screamed. they'd die if they fell from that height!
CRASH
the floor shuddered as a cloud of dust burst up from the floor, a few meters away from where the blond and the raven-haired boy would land in mere seconds time.
a pink blur zoomed up, out of the hole in the floor and landed under where the two above the school would land.
harry saw it was a girl around his age. with shocking pink hair. she raised her arms horizontally out at her sides, looking at Dumbledore.
thud
with the most subtle thud in history, the blond and the raven-haired boy landed on her arms, their hands still linked with the others.
there was ringing silence as the boy's let go of each other's hands and turned to dumbledore, still standing on the girl's arms.
they all bowed deeply in unison, the girl still supporting the two boy's weight with ease, her arms still horizontally out at her sides.
the three of them straitened up and the girl dropped her arms, the two boys landing on the ground next to her with ease.
there was silence.
"THAT WAS BLOODY AWESOME" roared the weasely twins in unison, getting up on their chairs and applauding, point two seconds later, the whole school joined in, the applause and cheering almost deafening. even the teachers stood in their seats, applauding with everyone else.
the raven-haired boy smirked, looking around at all the people applauding, the pink-haired girl blushed and smiled, and the blond grinned like a maniac and waved frantically at everyone.
Dumbledore beamed and applauded with everyone else. the clapping, cheering and whistling slowly dying down.
"well then," grinned dumbledore after the cheering had died down completely after 5 minutes. "i would like you to meet; Naruto Uzumaki." the blond grinned and waved frantically. "Sakura Haruno" the pink haired girl smiled and waved coyly. "and Sasuke Uchiha." the boy with the raven-like hair raised a hand and lowered it, placing it in his pocket. "and i hope you all will be nice to them, because they are our exchange students." grinned Dumbldore. most of the school was completely and utterly flabbergasted.
Harry gaped and looked over at the weasely twins.
"bloody awesome." they said in unison, grinning and looking back over to Dumbledore.
"these three have got a different magical talent to us, so don't be surprised when they do wonderful things without a wand... anyway, we have sorted Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura into houses, so i really do hope you will treat them fairly. Sakura has been sorted into Ravenclaw--" the ravenclaw table roared with applause and Sakura timidly walked over to it, sitting down at it, a few people shaking her hands and grinning.
"--Sasuke has been sorted into Slytherin--" just about the whole table of slitherins roared in approval and harry noticed that Malfoy was not one of them. Sasuke moodily walked over to the slitherin table and sat down, ignoring people trying to shake his hand or girls swooning over him.
"--and Naruto has been sorted into--"
"please be griffindor. please be griffindor. please be griffindor." muttered Fred and George under their breaths.
"--GRIFFINDOR!" roared Dumbledore, beaming.
there was the loudest roar of approval from the griffindors, most of them jumping to their feet. Naruto grinned and ran over to the griffindor table, people ruffling his hair, shaking his hand and hugging him.
after everyone was seated again, dumbledore raised his hands.
"let the feast begin!" he roared, food appearing on the plated infront of everyone and there was a cheer, everyone digging into the food before them.
"hi! i'm fred! and he's george!"
Harry grinned. fred and george spared no time introducing themselves to Naruto.
Naruto, of whom grinned and shook their hands gratefully.
Harry looked over Naruto. he was wearing the normal hogwarts uniform, but there was something weird around his head.
"what's that?" asked george, asking Harry's question for him, pointing at the blue material with the thin metal slab covering Naruto's forehead.
"eh? oh! this!" grinned Naruto, tapping his thumbnail against the metal, slurping up some noodles.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred and George nodded.
"oh, it's nothing. i was supposed to take it off this morning. i forgot." sweatdropped Naruto, untying it at the back and stuffing it in his pocket, his shocking yellow hair shimmering in the candle light and his untamed fringe casting his eyes a little into shadow.
"so, where ya from?" asked Ron, eating a pork chop.
"Asia." said Naruto simply, slurping up more noodles.
"where in asia?" asked Hermione, eating her mashed potatoes with uncanny grace.
Naruto thought for a moment, tapping his chopsticks on his nose. then shrugged.
Fred nearly snorted fried eggs. "you don't know where you live!" he asked, choking and laughing at the same time.
Naruto grinned and shrugged again.
the feast went on without a hitch, Naruto seemed to love to talk and the griffindor table had to get three re-fills of the huge cauldrons of ramen because Naruto ate them all.
"oi. dobe." came a voice behind Harry.
Harry looked over his shoulder to see that Sasuke guy behind him, looking at Naruto.
"yea? waddiya want, Sasu-teme?" Naruto asked, showing the weasely twins one of his tricks with a ramen noodle, one end of the noodle out of his nose, the other out of his mouth.
"..." Sasuke looked over ron, hermione, fred and george, his eyes were black again, for some weird reason. his eyes were cold and still filled with hatred. harry wouldn't be surprised if he just started talking in pastletongue.
"... Tsunade-sama wants to have a talk to us about the mission." Sasuke said, deciding that the english people around them didn't need to know about what they were speaking of.
Harry sighed and went back to eating. pastletongue. japanese. close enough.
Naruto nodded and snorted the ramen noodle down back into his mouth and swallowed it, causing the weasely twins to cheer.
"see you guys later." grinned Naruto, slipping out of his chair and walking over to he ravenclaw table to collect that Sakura girl.
((TBC))