A/N: Man, I fail at updating. Eh, here's part one of what might be a two-shot. It's actually a Harry Potter/Naruto crossover (very AU) and I will probably be continuing it because combining the two worlds is rather interesting and a lot of what I wanted to mention couldn't be covered. There's very little HidaIno moments... however, I do plan on continuing this, so yeah. Apologies if I terribly butchered something. I'm an American, so remembering to write biscuits instead of cookies is not my natural way of writing.

Notes: Italics are Japanese. Apologies for Hidan's accent... it was just too fun to pass up! Bottom A/N has a lot on my thoughts while writing this. Please read if you are interested on why I chose to do this and that.

That being said, I don't know when I can update next... but it will probably be a while, if my current trend continues. Enjoy!

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Everything in order, Hidan leaned back in his chair, smirking as he let a feeling of satisfaction settle in. His classroom was done just the way he wanted it, and he couldn't wait to see the look on the children's' faces when they walked in next Monday morning. And now he had the rest of the week and the weekend to relax before the group of young wizards and witches would come trooping in, eager to learn how to defend themselves against dark magic.

How Hidan, of all people, landed the DADA post was quite a complicated story. To start with, those who asked had to be made to understand that Japan was not like England. Muggle Japan and Wizarding Japan were so heavily warded that they were shaped different. The schools for magic for Japan were hidden very effectively using magic that was much older than the kind used in England. Schools of witchcraft and wizardry in Japan were also very competitive. Based on what region you were born in, you would attend one of the five main magical schools. Then there was Akatsuki Boarding School of Magic, where Hidan had completed his education. A school that was rumored to be located in another dimension, that only accepted those who weren't afraid to learn the dark arts, that housed many students from all over the country, Akatsuki was by far the best school in Hidan's opinion.

The school's headmaster, Nagato, commonly called Pein, was very interested in uniting the schools together to end the division and rivalry that threatened to break out in a war between the schools. He would end all that, by force, if necessary. But he had gone out for drinks with one of the Konoha wizards (one that made it quite clear to everyone he met that he would be Headmaster one day), commiserated over the tragic orphan pasts, and came back with a shaky alliance with Konoha based on mutual cooperation instead of force. As of now, the alliance with the other four magical schools was being negotiated, and Pein had seen fit to send Hidan (along with several other wizards and witches with less than squeaky clean pasts) out of the country "to work on international relations, which have been very neglected these last centuries".

So Hidan had been sent to England, to teach at Hogwarts. He'd been completely lost in the Ministry of Magic, speaking about three words of Engrish, and was unceremoniously dumped on Hogwarts' doorstep by a man in a lime-green hat who couldn't find a use for Hidan. Dumberdore (every time Hidan said his name, someone would giggle, but he couldn't figure out why) very kindly offered Hidan the teaching post, seeing as how everyone thought it was cursed or something like that. Hidan paid them no attention. He knew Jashin-sama would protect him.

Dumberdore also sent an owl to Japan, requesting a translator for Hidan. One from Konoha, a witch or so the scroll they got in reply said, would be there right before Hidan's first day of school. Hidan could really care less, unless the witch would teach him how to swear in Engrish (Deidara had known and said he would teach him but tricked him and Hidan found out he had been saying he needed mental help [a witch by the name of Minerva had been so kind to tell him] every time he meant to swear. He would get revenge on that blonde!)

Now, Hidan had managed to learn a fair amount of words in Engrish and was spending quite a lot of time with each of the teachers, trying to find one most likely to swear so he could pick up the words most often repeated from them. He had tried with Minerva but she was too stern, he knew Dumberdore was too fixed on manners to ever swear, and the grumpiest person he could find (one that was always storming around the halls, making his clothes wave in the air like wings on a bat) was the most silent angry person Hidan had ever met. Itachi would get along great with him.

Hidan smirked again as he eyed the classroom, and closed his eyes, about to slip off into a lovely dream when his chair tipped and he fell over backwards with a crash.

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Her long, blonde hair tied up out of her way, Ino quickly pulled on her shirt and slipped a cloak over it. Her teeth dug into her lip as she wrestled with her shoes. She was late, and she was going to hear it from Tsunade-sama.

She frowned and finished with her shoes, heading straight out the door where she shunshined to the nearest point she could without the barriers blocking her, which happened to be a mile from Konoha Academy of Magical Arts. Ino broke into a run as soon as she arrived, and broke across the barriers. She could feel the magic tingling as it tested her and allowed her to pass.

Ino ran into the school, through the hallways and into Tsunade's office, where she saw no one. Ino sighed in relief and slumped into the nearest chair, trying to catch her breath as she felt around to make sure no eyebrows were missing from shunshining while she was feeling rushed. Sadly, it seemed she was missing half of her left eyebrow, but that was nothing a little Hair-Replenishing Cream couldn't fix, and she could always wear her bangs down to cover that eye.

The door banged and Ino jumped up. Tsunade-sama rounded the corner, talking with someone Ino couldn't see.

"Tsunade-sama," she murmured, to alert her mentor to her presence.

"Ino?" she heard, and gasped delightedly.

"Naruto!" she cried, smiling wide and enveloping Naruto in a hug.

The two were former classmates and although Ino was a pureblood and expected to mingle with purebloods like herself in their society, she'd always felt a fondness for her fellow blonde that shared her warm and welcoming personality. Although the two hadn't spoken often when they were younger, as an adult Ino was free to make her own choices and she was friends with whoever she liked: the almost-a-squib-blood-traitor Hyuuga Hinata, the mudblood-actually-half-blood Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto, the mannerless-pureblood-bordering-on-blood-traitor Inuzuka Kiba, and mudblood-but-talented Haruno Sakura. Hinata she had helped out quite a lot in school, when she was free of Shikamaru and Chouji who were also forced by their parents to befriend Ino. She had to wait until she was an adult to befriend Naruto, but by then his relation to Namikaze Minato was revealed and no one cared about his blood anymore anyway. Kiba was one of Naruto's best friends and Ino went on a few dates with him before they both agreed they were better as friends. Sakura was the only one Ino had befriended before school.

The girls did everything together, much to Ino's father's disapproval. Even at a young age, Ino rebelled and she spent as much time with Sakura as possible, teaching her about the magical world. However, when they started school, they both developed crush on the same guy. Uchiha Sasuke was everything Ino had ever dreamed of, and he was a member of one of the oldest pureblood families in Japan, so her father would approve of him. Sakura was the one who was placed on his three-man-cell for more individual learning, though, while Ino was placed with Shikamaru and Chouji. Sakura had ended their friendship when they were placed, and it was only after the two began apprenticeship under Tsunade-sama that they were able to become friends again.

"Yamananka, Uzumaki, if you are quite finished," said Tsunade-sama impatiently.

"Sorry, Tsunade-sama, I just haven't seen Naruto since before the alliance with Akatsuki."

"Baa-chan! Ino doesn't know yet, can I tell her?" Naruto jumped up and down.

"Tell me what?" asked Ino.

"Baa-chan is hiring me as a teacher!" Naruto exclaimed.

"Oh, Naruto, that's great!" Ino squealed, hugging him again. She knew Naruto always wanted to be Headmaster and this was one step closer to his goal.

"Don't call me that," muttered Tsunade, but she was smiling as much as the other two blondes. She walked over to her desk and sat down, waiting for the two to quiet down.

Ino gave Naruto another pat on the back and he hugged her and left. She turned back to Tsunade-sama, smiling, as she sat down in the chair Tsunade-sama waved at.

"I gave you a scroll detailing your task last week, and I left nothing out. Do you have any questions?" Tsunade-sama asked her. Ino shook her head. "Great, well, go grab onto that portkey and get going. I haven't got all day. Send my regards to Dumbledore."

"Yes, Tsunade-sama!" Ino said, getting off her chair. She gave on last wave to Tsunade-sama before she walked over to the portkey, a small jade figurine, and picked it up. A mere second later, she felt that pull in her stomach and then she was standing outside of a large castle.

Ino smiled and determinedly made her way to the front doors.

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Hidan arrived at the Headmaster's office, scowling and trying to decide whether or not to go in. When the students arrived, Dumberdore had said he would be sorted, just for fun and to see which house he would be in, but the stupid hat had started talking and Hidan ripped it off his head and was about to fire a curse or hex at it when everyone (except for Minerva and the grumpy man who didn't talk much and yelled at Hidan when he tried to see what he was cooking in that big pot of his) started laughing and Dumberdore had been laughing with his eyes and it was all very embarrassing. When they finally convinced him to put the hat back on, that hat went and insulted him on top of it!

"Hmm," said the hat, somehow in Japanese and not the strange Engrish words Hidan had such problems with, "very Slytherin but you go about it very Gryffindor."

"What the hell?" Hidan asked.

"You're as ambitious and self-centered as a Slytherin but as reckless and loud as a Gryffindor. Your honor is less than that of a Gryffindor but you're far too dense and inept for a Slytherin."

"Hey!" shouted Hidan, "That's not fucking nice!"

It was a very miserable evening for Hidan. Not quite as bad as the night he had been messing around with his Jashinist friends and those blood spells and he woke up invincible and immortal with the blood of his friends drenching him, but pretty bad.

When the stone creature started talking to Hidan in an insulting tone of voice, Hidan decided to just stop sulking and go in. He sullenly told the stone creature the password, having to repeat himself several times before the thing would let him in. Hidan climbed up the staircase, frowning all the way because of how everything here was so confusing.

In Dumberdore's office, a young woman a few years younger than him stood talking eagerly to the old bearded man in Engrish. Hidan took a moment to scrutinize the girl before announcing his presence. She was not short or tall, she was of average build though perhaps her legs were actually very nice. Her hair was long and blonde and she wore it pulled back tightly so Hidan reasoned that maybe she was as organized as he was. That was all he could see of her, as she wasn't facing him, and he was lucky to be able to see that much as she seemed to have taken off her outer robe.

"Um... Dumberdore," said Hidan. Dumberdore looked over at him through his spectacles and smiled.

"Oh, Hidan, come in, dear boy, come in. Have a seat. Lemon drop?" Hidan's face fell and he scowled at Dumberdore.

"He said to have a seat, and offered you some candy. I think they're citrus flavored," said the girl.

"Oh. Dumberdore is always giving out candy, I should've known that was all the old fart was saying. I'm Hidan. Who are you?" Hidan replied, taking the seat but ignoring Dumberdore completely.

"Yamananka Ino, but just call me Ino. I'm from Konoha," she said.

"Yamananka? Damn. What's a pureblood like you doing on a job like this?"

"My mentor sent me, but I don't mind. I didn't study English just for the heck of it. I've been wanting to visit England and Hogwarts for a while. But that can wait for later, Dumbledore wanted to discuss your plans for your first class with you."

"Fine. Em, Dumberdore... you talk... class? My teach?"

"Yes, Hidan," Dumberdore replied.

"Talk to... no, no, I talk bad, Dumberdore talk Ino, Ino talk me? Uh, Dumberdore... understand? I talk Ino, Ino talk Engrish?" Hidan asked.

"Of course," Dumberdore said politely. He and Ino started talking rapidly once again and Hidan gave up on trying to follow, feeling lost.

"Dumbledore would like to know if you plan on using any texts?"

"How can I?" Hidan asked, "I can barely ask people where the fuckin' toilet is, let alone read Engrish. I was planning on demonstrating a few curses and how to effectively put up a shield charm, then go into more detail about it. Like a lecture, only I want to use more demonstrations and such. I haven't thought a lot about lessons because for the first week or so I want to just meet my students and see what level they're at and see what they can handle, then go from there."

Ino translated his answer for Dumberdore, who nodded and smiled.

"Sounds good!" he told Hidan. Hidan knew what "good" meant so he smiled right back at Dumberdore, and got up to leave.

"No drops, Dumberdore. Sorry," he said.

"That's quite alright," Dumberdore said, pocketing his candies.

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Her feet slapped on the stone floors as she ran over to Hidan, who was about to switch from one moving staircase to another.

"Wait up!" she yelled, running up the stairs. Hidan saw her and froze.

"Stop! Skip that step right in front of you!" Ino raised her eyebrow but did as he said. "It's a trick stair. If you step on it, it will trap your foot and you won't be able to get out," he explained.

"Oh. Thanks," she said.

"Yeah, yeah. Anyway, I don't just expect you to translate. I'm gonna need help teaching -I'm not a teacher, I'm no good at this- and I need you to help me demonstrate stuff to the students. I am not gonna get in trouble with that mediwitch for injuring students before they know how to defend themselves," he said, irritably.

"Uh, sure. Be happy to help. They have a mediwitch here?"

"Yeah. She threatened me first day I got here, but I could only speak three words of Engrish, so she used pictures. Fucking graphic pictures."

"I was training to be a mediwitch in Japan," said Ino.

"Turn out like her and I'll fire you so fast..." Hidan threatened. Ino laughed.

"Will you show me around the castle?" she asked, "I want to see the mediwitch and the hospital wing and if they have an herb garden for potions and-"

"Potions? They have potions here?" Hidan asked.

"I thought they did. That's what Tsunade-sama said, anyway."

"Oh, so that guy wasn't cooking! No wonder he got pissed and chased me out of his dungeons, Sasori was the same way with his potions. I never learned but Sasori did and he did really good, he's a teacher at Akatsuki now. He's probably still as secretive... he used to never let anyone in his room if he had a potion brewing. I've never even seen a potion being made before but I never thought it would look like they were cooking! Sasori always got all pissy whenever you compared potions to cooking, though. Said it was a lot more complex."

"You never learned how to brew potions? We learned in Konoha, and I was one of the top students. It's very difficult but I enjoyed it. They come in handy, especially for medical purposes. I think it's sort of like wandless magic in a bottle. Will you show me the potions lab?"

"Sure, I think I remember the way to that room the guy was brewing in. It's in the dungeons, anyway, so we can just go down. You can ask him about seeing the gardens too, I'm sure they have some. I know that they have a greenhouse but I don't like going over there because the plants attacked me but when I retaliated some witch came over and started bitching at me."

"Thank you, Hidan! Oh, and at the end of the day I'll need to know my way from my quarters to your classroom, my quarters to the library,your classroom to the library, your classroom to your office, my quarters to your office, my quarters to the great hall, my quarters to Dumbledore's office, and my quarters to yours."

"Well, our quarters are sort of combined. I have my own bedroom and little library spare room thing and the same goes for you but we share bathrooms and the living room. The living room opens up into my office but I think your private spare room has a door that opens into the halls. My office open up into my classroom. Dumberdore tried to give me some other classroom but seeing as how this one had the joined quarters he switched. But I'll show you where everything else is if you teach me how to swear in Engrish."

Ino grinned and laughed with Hidan, then quickly gave him a lesson in swearing in English.

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Hidan led her down to the dungeons, and thought over his new assistant/translator. She was actually sort of pretty, but she bore an uncanny resemblance to Deidara. Her eyes, like many in wizarding Japan, were pupil-less but after seeing Itachi and his kekkei-genkei, eyes no longer freaked Hidan out. In fact, he distinctly remembered hearing somewhere that eyes were often linked to magic and certain kekkei-genkeis made doing magic easier. For instance, the Uchihas and their Sharingan eyes were one of the kekkei-genkei that allowed for easier illusion-related magic. So maybe Ino had some sort of powerful magic linked to her pupil-less blue eyes?

That would certainly make an interesting lesson. Hidan would have to ask Ino about it and see if she would be willing to give a demonstration if there was -as Hidan expected- a link between Ino's eyes lack of a pupil and magical ability.

Aside from that, her looks surprised Hidan. She had an air of pride that he'd come to associate with purebloods, and her manners were certainly far better than his (though Itachi held the award for most-well-mannered-bastard in Japan...) but she didn't look like a pureblood. Her clothes and robes were that of an average half-blood, her hair was not impeccable like most pureblood he'd known but instead a thick section of hair covered one of her eyes. She also was more prone to smile than any other pureblood he'd met, and Abe-no-Seimei knows Japan was overflowing with pureblood families older than the stars.

Personally, Hidan liked his translator/assistant. She seemed friendly enough, and from his years partnered with Kakuzu, he'd learned to appreciate friendliness. Being Hidan, he'd also learned the best ways to annoy those with a temper like Kakuzu's and he planned to fully use that knowledge. Maybe on the man with the black clothes and big nose and scowl? The one that answered the door when Hidan so politely (He'd show them just how polite he could be once he was no longer at their mercy; not knowing the language or his way around would come to be memories soon) knocked.

The man's scowl deepened once he saw Hidan, and Hidan smiled a little in greeting.

"Ummm, I Hidan... Ino talk Engrish..." he faltered, then pointed at Ino and introduced her by simply saying her name.

"How do you do?" she asked the man, smiling politely.

"Ino -this is a professor but I don't know his name- teach," he pointed at the man, "Er, teach? Teach? Ah, teach... I talk, Ino talk Engrish. Teach talk, Ino talk me," he said, catching the man's attention. He frowned at Hidan's name for him but seemed to understand what Hidan was trying to say.

"What Hidan is trying to say is that I am his translator. I am Yama- er, sorry. I'm Ino Yamananka, and I think you know Hidan's name, but we don't know yours?" Ino told the man, then turned to Hidan, "I am introducing us. By the way, would you like to me repeat things or paraphrase them when translating?"

"My name is Severus Snape," the man said finally.

"His name is Severus Snape."

"Oh! Okay, so, ask him if he's got a stick up his ass or what? And by Severus Snape, do you mean his surname is Severus or Snape? And I would prefer paraphrasing for the usual everyday shit -how do you say shit in Engrish?- but I want you to repeat exactly what people say for things like staff meetings and in the classroom," Hidan replied. Ino snickered.

"I will certainly not ask him that! He looks as if he has about three! His surname is Snape, so we'll call him Severus. If you're looking for a nickname, Sev or Sevvy should suffice. Shit is shite in English, we covered this already. And that's a good general idea for paraphrasing and direct quotes."

"If you two are going to stand there rattling off to each other, I have better uses for my time."

Hidan and Ino looked up, startled by the harsh voice.

"Tell him he can stick it up-"

"I will not! By the way, ass is arse. Got it? Anyway, should I ask him if we can see his lab?"

"Fine."

Ino turned back to Severus and smiled. "I'm so sorry. I was just interested in seeing the potions lab here and it seems that Hidan has never studied potions. He thought you were cooking, before, and apologizes for the intrusion. He didn't realize you were working. Anyway, we are both curious-"

"Yes, I believe I quite get the idea. Tell him that I will permit you to quickly view my lab and classroom but if either you pull one dunderheaded stunt..." he trailed off, and sneered at them, the threat wordless.

"I told him about your lack of potion education, apologized for your disturbing him the other day, and managed to get permission to view his lab. I must confess, he used a word I am not familiar with: Dunderheaded. Any idea what it means?"

"I am not sorry! How dare you apologize for me? And I'm pretty sure he called me a Doondoorhead before when he chased me out of here."

"Severus, I must confess we are quite confused by that word you used earlier. What does 'dunderheaded' mean?" asked Ino.

"'Dunderheaded' means stupid," Severus replied, gracefully sweeping through the room leaving Ino to trot after him and Hidan to sulkily quicken his pace through the dark dungeon rooms.

"Dunderhead is a noun, dunderheaded an adjective?"

"Yes," snapped Severus.

"Basically, he called you an idiot," Ino whispered; Hidan's answering growl only causing her grin to grow wider.

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Fred and George Weasley, on their first day of Defense class, squirmed in their seats as they waited for the rest of the class to arrive. The trip wire they set up in the Great Hall was probably the source problem of their classmate's lateness. In the new DADA room, a pretty blonde woman was pacing and glancing irritably at a silver-haired man sitting at the teacher's desk who seemed to be amusing himself with one of the paper airplanes presumably from a former lesson. Every so often one of them would say something in a different language and the two would trade words, quick and rapid and full of passionate emotion -be it anger, humor, or curiosity.

Even at eleven, the twins could sense which class would hold the best opportunity for their signature brand of mischief that had Molly Weasley throwing her hands up in the air. The blonde woman with her strange blue eyes and silver-haired man looked the most likely to join in the fun, the twins decided.

Just then, the rest of their classmates poured in. Fred and George did not miss the accusing looks some of the smarter ones sent their way. Fred grinned at his brother, and held his hand up for a high-five, further cementing suspicions about their guilt.

The silver-haired man stood up, and Fred and George had to crack a grin at the two adults' sense of fashion. The man was wearing a standard Slytherin robe over a black button-up shirt which was most certainly not buttoned-up. A silver pendant hung around his neck but other than that, he seemed somewhat normal. The woman's hair was pulled back, as pristine as the man's own gelled-to-obedience hair. Besides her immaculate ponytail, she dressed in a rather disorganized manner, her clothes wrinkled and her oversized robe slipping off her shoulder. Interestingly enough, she wore boots that seemed to be made of rubber and splattered with mud; a sign of time spent in the greenhouse and a cause for Filch's future complaints.

The silver-haired man rattled off something to the blonde, and she turned away from him and smiled at the class.

"How do you do? I'm Ino Yamananka. I will be Professor Hidan's translator and assistant for the rest of this school year. Professor Hidan and I are from Japan and have a wider range of knowledge to offer you in the Defense Against the Dark Arts. I believe Professor Hidan wishes to offer a few words of greeting to you all, but I must caution that he is not fluent in English," the woman said. Fred elbowed his brother and grinned at him.

"Better than potions already, huh?" he asked.

"These two are going to be highly entertaining, I can already tell. I bet they end up together by the end of the year."

"No way!"

"I know these things, Fred."

"Right. Next thing you'll be telling me is Percy will pull a prank on ol' Dumbledore. We don't have divination just yet; let's try to keep the schoolwork to a minimum."

"Students!" roared the silver-haired man -Professor Hidan- suddenly as he slapped his hands on the desk, "You," He pointed towards the class. "are doondoorheads!"

The twins burst into laughter as Professor Hidan waggled his eyebrows and grinned.

"I," he continued, strutting for his audience (primarily consisting of two very hysteric redheads, many confused and frightened Hufflepuffs, a few baffled Ravenclaws, and the Gryffindors and Slytherins who were both warming up to the new Professor) "are bad-arse Professor Hidan! Repeat, doondoorheads! I say 'Hell-o, doondoorheads!' you say-"

"Hello, bad-arse Professor Hidan!" the twins and some of the other Gryffindors and Slytherins chorused. A few Hufflepuffs echoed that sentiment belatedly, while the twins grinned broadly.

"Ten points to doondoorheads!" cheered the Professor. Ino looked at him, took her seat to the side of his desk, and watched him with a smile.

Fred found himself agreeing with George on the matter of Hogwarts' newest inevitable couple.

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Dumbledore smiled at Tsunade. She tilted the mirror once again to show the face of Pein behind her.

"Everything is working out perfectly," he assured them, and watched in amusement as they traded small smiles.

"Good. I was so worried about Ino... she's not cut out for mediwizardry, even though she tries so hard. She was never as good as her father at mind-magic, either. I rather thought she would do well assisting a teacher," said Tsunade.

"Abe-no-Seimei knows Hidan needed someone his age but with maturity to rein him in. The humiliation of being at the mercy of others was highly convenient to his acceptance of her."

"And Ino will do well to have a friend that will draw her out; she'll need to borrow some of Hidan's spirit if she wants to ever stand up to her father and his pureblood ideals."

"The two are perfect for the teaching post, I assure you. And it already looks as if the other... goals are well on their way to being reached," said Dumbledore, "I imagine we'll hold a wedding by the end of the year."

Tsunade and Pein shared a bemused look. "Dumbledore, I can assure you that... well, Ino and Hidan are not going to... be getting married any time soon. Entirely too responsible of Hidan, entirely too foolish of Ino." said Tsunade, and Pein gave a nod in agreement.

Dumbledore thought back to his little interruption of... what was it they were calling it nowadays? Snogging? Ah, yes. Snogging in the halls outside the dungeons. His mouth twitched as he imagined just what sort of scene it would have made if Severus had been the one to discover them.

"Ah, yes, well, I'll be sure to keep you both updated." Dumbledore smiled knowingly, his blue eyes twinkling.

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A/N: So yes, as you can see, there's a lack of HidaIno that I will have to rectify when I continue this. Hidan and Ino may seem OOC but they're supposed to be older here, thus maturer. Also, Hidan already experienced what happens when you are rude to people when you are at their mercy when he was at the Ministry, and he's Slytherin enough to keep his peace until he learns his way around. Who knows if they'll sew him up as nicely as Kakuzu would after they're done ripping him to shreds? I did have such fun writing about his difficulties with the language, though...

Also, if Ino were to be sorted, she would be either Slytherin or Hufflepuff. Hufflepuff because of her loyalty (You will remember that Sakura was the one who broke off their friendship.) and her hard work (She worked very hard training to be a medic-nin). Slytherin because she is not above scheming and because she is very ambitious (She doesn't want to lose to Sakura again).

Inoichi being portrayed as pureblood snob: well, what can I say? I love Inoichi. I do. I think that in canon, he and Ino have a very lovely relationship (Ino gets her fashion sense from Inoichi. The man has taste. I'm telling you, he designed the T&I's [bad-ass] uniform!) and the two love each other a lot. Inoichi is probably the one who would be sympathetic to Muggleborns while Ino would be inclined to be more prejudiced. However, because of Inoichi's ties to the Shika-Ino-Chou trio, and the Naras, Yamanankas, and Akimichis being clans in Konoha, I decided he would be a pureblood who socialized with other purebloods.

According to the way I decided everyone's blood status, there would be a lot of purebloods in Japanese magical society. I sort of pictured it like old Japanese families, tracing their family trees back to the time of Abe-no-Seimei (Wikipedia was the source of my Japanese Merlin equivalent) and beyond, each imbued with their own magics. Their magic is much older than Western magic. They also take great pride in their heritage. The bias between pureblood, muggleborns, squibs, and half-bloods would be more pronounced. Ino already showed that she was capable of befriending someone who was less than popular (Sakura) when there was nothing in it for her, so I imagine she would be the type to befriend people regardless of their blood.

Review, doondoorheads! It honestly makes my day. To all reviewers: my thanks are as numerous as the flashbacks in Naruto Shippuden.