((LOOKIT DAT! 30! THIRTY! DEAR GOD! THREE TENS! HOLY-- continues ranting !))
The class went as normally as it could. Hagrid merely had the unicorn lesson over again, just for the exchange students' benefit.
From the looks of it, Naruto was ecstatic, and loved anything interesting, including a possessive unicorn mother who was trying to rip him in half.
Sakura seemed to love the unicorns, and they loved her.
Neji just stood there, watching the unicorns with his pale eyes, until a curious fawn hesitantly trotted over to him and nuzzled it's muzzle against his chest.
Kiba said something about not liking horses, thus, just stood at the edge of the class.
Sasuke moved around at the edge of the class, but a persistent unicorn kept on following him, trying to eat his hair.
Gaara didn't pay attention to the shimmering unicorns, merely staring into the darkness of the forbidden forest, as though searching for something, a small frown upon his face.
Harry sighed as he walked back up to the castle after the lesson had finished. Why were these exchange students so weird?
Naruto and Kiba were singing a japanese song while dancing up to the hogwarts stairs, Sasuke, Neji and Sakura behind them.
Wait. Where's Gaara?
Harry whipped around to see Gaara standing at the edge of the forbidden forest, his head titled to the side, seeming to blend perfectly into the darness besides his pale skin and shimmering scarlet hair.
Harry grabbed Hermione and Ron's wrists and nodded toward Gaara.
"Odd guy..." Ron blinked.
Harmione scratched behind her ear absent-mindedly frowning ever so slightly.
--Meanwhile--
Gamakichi thud-squished his way through the cold hogwarts halls, Sakura's slug sitting on his back, Sasuke's snake slithering beside him, and Akamaru trotting happily on his other side, occasionally sniffing at the floor.
"Which way first?" Gamakichi asked, pausing in a deserted hallway, a large doorway to his left.
Akamaru sniffed at the door and yelped as the gargoyles that were standing beside the doors let out a hiss, startling the poor puppy.
"What do we have here, Frank?" asked the gargoyle on the left of the door, getting a better grip on it's pitchfork, looking down upon the four animals.
"No idea, Mike." answered the other gargoyle, shaking it's long-eard head and tapping it's axe lightly against it's chin.
"We would merely like to look around, young sirs." Sakura's slug said politely.
"Oh, speak to us, do they?" commented Frank, looking appalled.
"We are higher than they, are we not?" snapped Mike, flicking his large nose in the air.
"... You call us inferior...?" hissed Sasuke's snake, glaring up at the gargoyles.
"GOODNESS!" gasped Mike, while Frank said something a little less polite.
"What? Never seen a talking snake before?" asked Gamakichi, tilting his head to the side.
"WE DO NOT KNOW PASELTONGUE! SO WE ARE SURPRISED WE CAN UNDERSTAND THE SERPENT!" Mike bellowed, placing a hand to his chest.
Frank hissed threateningly down at the four animals, waving his pitchfork.
Sasuke's snake had enough of this and reared up, raising it's head toward the two.
splat!
"DEAR GOD!"
"HOLY FUCKING--"
SMASH
"FRANK!"
"Uurrghhh..."
Gamakichi, Sakura's slug and Akamaru quickly made their way into the room that the gargoyles were standing next to, completely ignoring the large pile of chipped rubble on the floor near the doorway, that was Frank.
Sasuke's snake slithered over to the gargoyle and grinned down at Frank, who looked petrified, while Mike flailed about, wondering what to do.
splat!
"FRANK!"
"IT GOT ME IN THE EYE! AARRGHHHH!"
Akamaru shoved the door closed again with a well-aimed shove as Sasuke's snake came in.
"Did you really have to do that?" sighed Sakura's slug at Sasuke's snake, who was slithering across the stone floor, it's venom dripping down his chin.
"Leave him be. If he doesn't cause chaos once a day, it's fatal." sighed Gamakichi.
"Look who's talking." giggled sakura's slug.
Gamakichi pouted. "God, i hate spitting cobras."
--Back to the humans--
Our hogwarts threesome were standing at the oaks doors, staring out at the exchange student that was still standing at the edge of the forest, Naruto, Kiba, Sasuke, Sakura and Neji standing near them, in a small group.
"I swear i've heard the name 'Gaara' before..." murmured Hermione softly.
"Where?" blinked Ron.
"Not sure..." sighed Hermione.
"He's coming." Harry hissed.
Indeed Gaara was. He was walking toward the oak doors, his hands in his pockets, seeming to walk slowly, but closing the gap between him and the doors remarkably fast.
But Harry wasn't looking at him, he was looking at the place Gaara was standing a second earlier, where a large black skeletal horse was standing, it's pale eyes fixed on Gaara.
Gaara finally made his way to the oak doors, the Sasuke, Neji and Sakura piling into the castle, Gaara a little bit behind them, then suddenly his eyes snapped to Harry.
Harry felt himself become cold when those evil, turquoise eyes snapped over to him, as though daring him to say something. Daring him to do something... Anything...
Gaara and Harry kept their eye-contact for a moment, before Naruto and Kiba jumped in between them, singing at the top of their lungs and swinging their bags around, so anyone too close would be rendered unconscious.
Gaara, Naruto and Kiba next went into the castle, leaving Harry, Hermione and Ron on their own.
"... Harry?"
Harry whipped around to look at Hermione and Ron, who were frowning at him. "What's wrong?"
Harry only then noticed his hands were shaking.
"Damn..." Harry whispered, putting his hands in his pockets, trying to stop them shaking. If he was going to defeat Voldemort, some random guy from asia shouldn't make him feel so scared.
"Harry?" Hermione ventured again, making the bark-haired boy blink.
"Oh. Nothing." Harry put on a weak smile. "It's nothing."
Harry, Hermione and Ron walked into hogwarts, Ron and Hermione exchanging a glance.
((TBC. about friggin' time, eh? sorry. i've been having idea-blocks lately! anyway, this chapter goes nowhere, so i'll answer some of your questions to make myself feel useful;
are there going to be pairings in this fanfiction? no. merely hints of random ones that come in. i didn't even notice i had NejiSaku in here! honest!
any BLEEPIN' plot? nope. none at all. i know! i am ashamed! DX
Slash pleeeaaasseee? sorry, sweety. HINTS! hints, i tell you! HINTS! merely hints!
UPDATE, GODDAMIT! i know! i beg for your forgiveness! TTOTT
is this centering around one character? nope. i'll humiliate as many as i can.
(FLAAAAAAAMMMEEEEEE) ... :sniff: TT.TT
and if there are any more i need to answer, i will in the next chapter, when i get around to that. :dies: thanks for all the amazing support. really! i never knew this fic would be so popular. 8D))