The threesome walked into the great hall to see it reasonably packed, nearly all the students were talking happily and eating their porridge or cereal.

Harry walked over to the Griffindor table, used to the pointing and whispering that was happening now.

Harry glanced down the table to see Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke all talking in hushed, hurried japanese tones.

Harry felt a squirm in his stomach as he saw a long, silver snake curling around Sasuke's wrist and a guinea-pig-sized pink slug sitting on Sakura's shoulder. From the looks of it, Naruto was in trouble and trying to come up with a good excuse.

"I-i was sure he was with me! He just disappeared when i turned around!" whimpered Naruto quickly.

"Usuratonkachi..." muttered Sasuke, feeling the snake around his wrist slowly slide up his robe sleeve.

"Where did you last see him, Naruto?" asked Sakura exasperatedly.

"In the--"

"OI! NARU-CHAN!"

Harry gasped and clapped his hand over his ear again as Gamakichi yelled in it.

Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke all looked in the direction of the voice and raised their eyebrows at the sight of Gamakichi on Harry's shoulder.

"GAMAKICHI! THERE YOU ARE!" squealed Naruto, stumbling out of his chair and running over to Harry, Ron and Hermione, grabbing Gamakichi and hugging him so tightly it looked like Gamakichi's eyes were going to pop out.

Harry rubbed his ear silently, watching Naruto and Gamakichi try to hug each other to death, sitting down at his seat.

"So you two know each other?" Ron asked Naruto, poking him in the shoulder.

Naruto looked up and put Gamakichi on his head, blinking at Ron. "Yeah! Of course i know Gamakichi! He's my summo--"

"Pet."

Naruto, Hermione, Harry and Ron snapped their gaze over to Sasuke and Sakura of whom were now standing.

"Gamakichi-chan is Naruto's pet." Sakura said softly, sending a miniscule glance at Sasuke.

Sasuke nodded, the silver snake that had slithered up his sleeve was now slithering in circles around his neck.

Naruto looked back at the hogwarts threesome and sweatdropped sheepishly. "Yeah! That's it! He's my pet!"

Hermione looked suspiciously at Naruto while Harry and Ron bought it.

"We should have some breakfast. Care of Magical Creatures is up first." said Sakura quickly, almost aching to change the subject.

The hogwarts threesome nodded, sitting down at the griffindor table, the other three sitting opposite them.

Harry pulled a bowl of cereal toward himself, glancing at the three opposite him.

Naruto had put Gamakichi on his lap and was now feeding him toast that was lathered with jam, Sakura's small pink slug was sitting beside Sakura's plate and nibbling on an apple, and Sasuke's snake was around his neck, once again, and had it's mirror-like eyes fixed on Harry.

"What?" Harry asked it.

It almost looked like the snake had the urge to raise it's eyebrows, if i had any.

"Harry!" came an urgent hiss in his ear and Harry looked at Hermione.

"What?" Harry asked again.

Hermione urgently motioned opposite Harry. Harry looked in front of him and felt his stomach squirm.

Naruto, Gamakichi, Sakura, her slug, Sasuke and his snake were all staring silently at Harry.

"Did you... just... hiss?" gaped Naruto, a large dollop of jam landing on the table from his knife, but neither Naruto nor Gamakichi cared.

Harry suddenly felt very hot and he squirmed a little in his seat, looking away from the three people opposite him, Hermione and Ron watching him warily from the corner of their eyes.

"You speak to snakes?"

Harry looked up at Sasuke, who just spoke.

"... Yeah." Harry hesitantly answered, his emerald eyes fixed on Sasuke's black ones.

The breath hitched in Harry's throat as Sasuke's eyes suddenly turned red.

"Do it again." demanded Sasuke.

Harry glanced at Hermione and Ron; of whom were looking very flustered, then at Naruto and Sakura; of whom were looking curious.

Harry's eyes slowly made their way back to Sasuke's shimmering scarlet ones.

"I-i don't think it's a good idea if he does!" squeaked Hermione, beside Harry.

Sasuke ignored her, slipping the snake from around his neck and holding it out in front of Harry. "Do it."

Harry looked down at the silver snake, able to see his own reflection in it's silvery eyes and scales. The snake looked at Harry silently, it's tail slowly curling around Sasuke's wrist.

Harry didn't know if it was a trick of the light or not, but he could've sworn that his reflection changed from his, to a man with pale skin and scarlet eyes, then back to his again.

Harry felt a slight prickle above his right eye and he raised a hand automatically, tracing the lightning-bolt scar on his forehead.

A feeling of nostalgia came over Harry that had absolutely nothing to do with where he was, a name echoing in his ears, a evil, alien smile coming over his face.

"Harry? Are you okay?" whispered Hermione.

"... Yeah." muttered Harry, the evil smile melting off his face.

"What's wrong?" asked Sakura.

"Headache." Harry immediately said, not looking at any of them.

A name echoed in his ears and Harry frowned.

"Who's Orochimaru?" Harry asked, looking up, looking around, at all of them.

Hermione and Ron shrugged, but the other three's reactions made Harry suspicious.

Naruto immediately tightened his arms around Gamakichi, looking away. Sakura squeaked and looked at Sasuke, seeming pained. Sasuke's eyes narrowed and he looked down at the snake in his hands, stroking it silently, his eyes back to their pitiless black.

Harry watched them, completely silent.

The three foreigners were silent too, Naruto's eyes slowly made their way to Sasuke, Sakura was silently watching Sasuke too and Sasuke was silent, stroking the silver snake in his hands as though nothing was wrong.

"hey." came a soft whispering voice behind Harry, making him jump.

Everyone looked at who was behind Harry and stared.

"HOLY FUCKING SHIT!" screamed Naruto.

(( TBC. one of my worst chapters yet. no flames, please::sobs at your feet, begging for forgiveness: ))