A/N: Yep another chapter. -is happy at the number of reviews- Yes, though, I would love to have a beta reader of my very own that could read my stories and correct my horrific spelling and grammar HINT HINT TO ANYONE OUT THERE Or at least people who review to point out big mistakes in the stories -puppy eyes-
Blah, this chapter's kinda boring (in my eyes) but it needed to be done to get on will all the good stuff. I promise I'll have another chapter out by Sunday (Maybe. I'm really sick right now so I'm staying home from school, coughing my lungs out. Blah) Anyways, to Baka Shojo: I'm almost 100 sure Sasuke and Draco are going to be the dominent ones, even though they can be total jerks some times, we all love them (nd you know the saying, jerks always end up on top. -cracking up at joke- um... ok, I'll stop now before I get something thrown at me...). Secondly, Sakura will come in later in the fic... and thirdly, maybe the little voice is the voice of the raging fangirl...? Poor Sasuke... he has yaoi fangirl voices in his head
So off with the warnings and such...
Warnings: Eventually I'll fulfill my promise of bad language, and for now it's only hinting to slash-ness
Notes:
"Talking- in English"
'Thinking- in English'
"Talking- in Japanese"
'Thinking- in Japanese'
Letters and stuff
Wait, this might be important to show of you: There's going to be less humor in this chapter, I never actually meant for it to be humor in the first place, it kind of just... came out that way... so... yeah...
Previously:
They felt a strange tug on their bellybuttons and saw colors spin by them through their masks. This continued for about 20 seconds before they felt ground beneath their feet again.
"Uch... I think I'm going to be sick..." Naruto moaned, clinging to Sasuke's arm for support, but Sasuke was too busy scanning their new surrounding to notice his sick friend.
Chapter Two
.well wishes and wands.
"Stay on your toes, Naruto, there are many people here and most of them are looking at us strangely..." Sasuke whispered to Naruto, succeeding in saying it in Japanese.
The people in the bar were indeed watching the two closely...
"Are those two Death Eaters?"
"They can't be- they're masks are shaped as animals!"
"They look suspicious..."
Sasuke could hear the people's gossip clearly with his advanced hearing (1), but chose to ignore it for the time being, "You okay, Naruto?" he asked gently, helping the blonde stay upright.
"Yeah, I'm fine, but..." he paused, switching to Japanese, "Wizards sure have strange methods of traveling..."
Sasuke nodded, putting a hand on his navel, where he felt that strange tug earlier, "Indeed..." he said simply, watching one of people in the bar stand from their stool and walk over to the two shinobi. His hair was brunette but gray streaks were starting to show. There was caution in his kind looking eyes as he stepped before them.
"Hello, I'm Remus Lupin..." the man said with a small nod.
Sasuke thought for a moment before letting go of Naruto completely, "What is my favorite jam?" he asked hesitantly.
Remus smiled, "The strawberry jam your aunt used to make you, of course..." Sasuke tried to hide his look of relief before remembering he had a mask on, "I have a lot to inform you two on, we'll have to find somewhere more private though..."
Naruto had gained his balance and they followed after the man called Remus, "I've rented two rooms for the night, they're at the end of the hall..." he informed them while walking up the stairs.
They reached their rooms and Remus looked over to the ninja, "Dumbledore has informed me that you will probably refuse to take off your masks, I understand if you don't want to..."
The blonde looked over at Sasuke, silently asking if they should keep their masks on, "It will probably be very uncomfortable telling us this information while talking to masks, they remind you and the other wizards of... Death... Eaters?" Sasuke stated and Remus nodded, "I suppose we can trust you... but you have to be sure to never tell another living soul, or yours will have to be taken away..."
"I understand, not a word to anybody, I'll even put a silencing spell on the room so we cannot be over heard..." Remus took out his wand, gaining the interest of the shinobi, and uttered a spell. Sasuke added his own silencing jutsu for safety before reaching back to un-knot the cloth of the mask, Naruto was doing the same thing.
When they finally took the porcelain masks away from their faces, Naruto sighed in relief and they both turned back to Remus.
He had a look of surprise on his face, so Naruto said the words he was thinking, "Heh, didn't think we'd be so young, right?" and he sheepishly scratched the back of his head.
Remus nodded before getting over his shock and started telling them about their mission, "Being from where you are from, you probably have not heard of Voldemort, correct? Right, well, he was... is a dark wizard that is trying to take over the wizarding world, he has gathered many followers in recent years, but many are fighting on the side of light against him. About 15 years ago, Voldemort went to kill a family on the light side, the Potters. When he got to their house, he killed James and Lily potter, he was going to kill their child too, but Lily, the child's mother, sacrificed herself to save her baby, named Harry. Voldemort couldn't kill Harry, he sent one of the most powerful curses at the child but it got repelled and killed, somehow, Voldemort instead.
"Now, Voldemort is rising to power again and is putting a lot of effort into trying to kill Harry. It doesn't matter who gets in the way- he just wants the poor boy dead, no matter who else he has to kill and injure in the process..." Remus finished off.
Sasuke kept a blank face while Naruto was still absorbing the information, the black haired teen continued for Remus, "So that's where we come in, to stop the intruders who are trying to invade the school." It was more of a statement than a question, "And these... Death Eaters must be the name of his followers, right?"
"Right." Remus said simply before standing up, "The port-key must have taken a lot out of you two, you should get some sleep. There's a lot that needs to be done by tomorrow." He gave one last wave before leaving the room.
"Well I'm heading off..." Naruto said shortly after Remus left, pulling his mask on again and closing the door behind him.
Sasuke sighed and pulled off the armor on his chest and arms, falling on the bed, 'This mission hasn't even started yet and I already hate it...' he thought before falling asleep. (A/N: Eventually, the fic will be more centered around Naruto, but for now Sasuke is our center)
-----------------TIME SKIP Tis magic!-----------------
They were sitting at a table in the inn (A/N: -giggles- in the inn... -author gets bowling ball thrown at her-), it the back were the customers tended to avoid, talking about preparations for the day.
"Dumbledore hasn't told any of the teachers much about you two..." Remus explained, glancing at the two shinobi, who were again wearing their masks, "He only explained to us that you will be protecting the school. He has not informed us what you are or where you are from. We were so surprised to find out you didn't even know wizards existed until a few days ago... but the headmaster said that..." he paused, trying to remember the headmaster's exact words, "... for getting your equipment today, you should use a ... henge technique, is that right?"
The two teens nodded, knowing what Dumbledore meant, before Remus continued, "You should disguise yourselves as normal wizards when we go to Diagon Alley."
The shinobi shared a look with each other before Naruto cleared his throat, "I can't sense anyone watching us..." andthey did the required hand signs, smoke bursting around them (2).
"Does this normally happen?" Remus questioned casually, waiting for the smoke to thin out.
"Yes, it's normal..." said a voice sounding similar to Sasuke but a slightly higher octave. The smoke was finally gone and in the seats of Naruto and Sasuke sat two different looking boys.
"Amazing..." Remus muttered, utterly shocked.
"It's a basic skill from where we're from..." said the shorter boy, it was obviously Naruto, but he looked entirely different. His normal sun shocked hair was now a sandy mix of brown and blonde with red tips that reached to about his chin (A/N: 3s red streaks/tips. I feel like making them a bit punk-ish cause it's an awesome look) and his sky blue eyes were a dimmed down amber. His strange ANBU armor changed into a black tank top with a long sleeved fishnet shirt underneath and a pair of baggy gray pants (3). But around each of his wrists he still wore his speak bracelets (A/N: Duh)
"We will probably be able to hold these forms for a couple hours, right Naruto?" Sasuke asked, who now had sparkling green-gray eyes in place of his cold, dark ones, and dark brown hair with black streaks, but still styled the same as it previously was, "What do we need to get from this... Diagon Alley?" He asked, adjusting his camouflage bomber jacket and standing up to brush off his black jeans.
Remus had almost gotten over most of the shock when he stood up as well, "We need to get you two some wands..." He paused, seeing their confused looks, "It would be a smart thing to do for the students to know you have wands, many would not take you seriously if they knew you were not wizards."
"That's understandable..." Sasuke said, "So, Are we going or what?"
Remus led them to the back of the Leaky Cauldron it a dead end.
"What gives!" Naruto exclaimed loudly, "It's just a wall-" His mouth almost unhinged itself as he saw Remus tapped one of the bricks to reveal a busy street, "Never mind..." he quietly finished.
"Interesting..." was all that Sasuke had to say.
"Olivanders is our first stop..." Remus said, walking through the large crowd of people.
"Whoa! Look! The new Firebolt is out!"
"It must have such good control!"
"But look at the price..."
Naruto almost wandered away from the other two, curious to know what a Firebolt is, 'Sounds like some kind of jutsu...' he thought to himself as Sasuke dragged him by the collar to catch up with Remus.
They got to the shop in a matter of minutes. The building looked old and worn, to put it lightly, but in truth it looked like it could fall down if even the tiniest wind hit it.
The smell of dust hit them when they entered, butthe second thing they noticed was an old man behind the counter, his description matched the building, but the grin on his face seemed to lessen his age.
"These two look quite old considering these are their first wands..." Mr. Olivander commented.
"How do you know these are our first wands, old man!" Naruto yelled, shaking his fist at the man.
"I never forget the faces of my customer, not a single one. My fifth customer was a woman named Vidya Jacklyn. Sold her an 8 inch maple with the core of a jackolope... yes... such a nice girl..." His grin widened as Sasuke and Naruto stared at the man, you could almost see question marks over their heads.
"I think this guy's crazy..." Naruto hesitantly whispered to Sasuke in Japanese. Sasuke only nodded in return.
"You! With the black streaks, you're first..." Mr. Olivander called out, pulling out his tape measurer. On reflex Naruto reached to where his shuriken holster should have been, but cursed when he remembered he didn't have one in this new form.
Olivander measured Sasuke's arm then turned to his stacks and stacks of wand boxes.
"Perhaps this," he said, opening one of the boxes. As he was about to hand it to Sasuke, he explained, "A vampire tooth, from a-"
Right as Sasuke touched the wand, it snapped in half with a loud CRACK.
They were all shocked, a moment of silence passed before Olivander cleared his throat, "Definitely not that one..." he muttered, turning back to the boxes of wands, "You two seem very powerful, much more then the average wizards, not just anyone could have just snapped a vampire toothed wand from just contact..." he continued talking, but mostly to himself.
Naruto's eye was twitching, still shocked. Sasuke threw him a look and almost smiled. Almost. They were in public.
"Ahh..." their attention went back to Olivander, "This has been in my family for ages, it's too powerful for most people to use, but give it a wave, see how it works. It's from a Weeping Willow, 10 inches with the scales of a basilisk in the core..."
Sasuke froze when he heard about the basilisk, remembering the Orochimaru ordeal. But gave the wand a wave anyway.
A mist of green light (A/N: Does that make sense? Makes sense to me...) came out of the end of the wand and slithered up this arm. The light wrapped loosely around his body as he himself glowed. But then it was over, the light faded until it was completely gone, and everyone in the room let out breaths they didn't realize they were holding
Naruto was the first one to break the silence, "Well that was pretty damn awesome..."
Olivander grinned again, "Ah, wonderful. A match! That will be seven sickles please..." (4)
Remus handed the man the payment and Sasuke stuffed the wand into his pocket, unnerved by the experience but containing his cool exterior.
"Now me!" Naruto eagerly yelled, standing in front of the old man. The man did the same procedure as he did to Sasuke.
Getting out two wand boxes, he took out the first one, "If you're anywhere near as strong as your friend here, then this one should snap as well-"
A crack was heard.
All their faces were in shock, Naruto had been reaching for the wand, but it snapped when Naruto's hand was still about a foot away.
"Heh..." Sasuke thoughtfully muttered, but other then that there was still silence.
"Well THAT won't do..." Olivander said, obviously shaken.
"Um... sorry bout that..." Naruto quickly said, shifting his weight from foot to foot.
Olivander pushed the remains of the wand under his desk with his foot while he opened the second box, "This is another one that my family has been passing down..." He hesitantly handed it to the shinobi. He sighed in relief as Naruto held it without any problems, "Well go ahead, wave it!"
Naruto did just that, when he did a sudden breeze flew through the room. Papers scattered and got caught in the wind. The wind swirled around Naruto, creating a tiny tornado around the blonde ninja. Though the papers mostly blocked their view of Naruto, they could tell he was glowing a bright red color.
"Wonderful..." Olivander yelled with an even wider smile as the breeze died down and Naruto returned to his respective colors, "8 and a half inch, cherry, good and sturdy... The core is very interesting, my grandfather got it from a trip to Japan, the fur from a fox demon, very unique..." Almost no one noticed how Naruto's face paled, if only for a second or two, but Sasuke caught the look.
'Odd...' the mysterious shinobi thought to himself.
"That will beseven sickles for that one..." Remus handed his the money as Naruto mimiced Sasuke's movements and put his wand in his pocket.
"Alright boys, as... interesting as that experience was, we should buy you some books now..." Remus stated as they wandered back to the street. (5)
Later that night, after Remus had helped the two teens with their shopping, he wrote a letter to the son of his old best friends.
Dear Harry,
I do hope your relatives are treating you alright, they should be after the scare we gave them at the train station last year.
I'm proud to be the first to tell you I'll be returning to Hogwarts this year as the DADA teacher, but that's not the only change for this year.
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to tell you this yet, but Hogwarts is getting two guards to guard the school from invaders. They are quite... different... then you'd expect a guard to be. But do be careful around them, if they thought you were a threat they could kill you without beating an eyelash. But that's all I know about them.
I'll see you again at the feast, and please be careful for the rest of the summer.
Moony
A/N: So there ya go, the second chapter.
(1)- Not specifically Sasuke's advanced hearing, all ninjas are more observant to sound and whatever so they can pick up enemies, you know?
(2)- I'm thinking that since Sasuke and Naruto have such mad skills at jutsus, then for such a basic skill they don't even need to say it's name anymore.
(3)-Where did they get this AWSOME sense of fashion? Search me... but it's my fic and if I want to make them look like punkish sex gods then you know what? I will!
(4)- Okay, I haven't read the book in forever so can someone inform me on the normal prices of wands?
(5)- you know how they usually need books because they are going to be students, right? Well even though they ARE NOT GOING TO BE STUDENTS, they are suppose to be protecting wizards from other wizards, so they should have to research and know some of the spells they they might get attacked with, right? Makes sense? I just wanted to clear that up