A/N: Hello again! Gah, I have like, 4 projects that I have to complete but I needed to finish this chapter before I could do anything. But I'm happy, I went to the mall and got three manga books and 2 anime dvds. Anyways, I uh... really don't have anything else to say O.o ... yeah
Reviewer Stuff: I suppose Naruto had to remind Sasuke about using his Sharingan in the glaring contest because our black haired friend was so involved in the contest. You DO know that even the slightest mishaps in on of those things can be fatal... Ahh... Trekiael! You shall be the father (or second mother. Too lazy to find out) of my first born! Lucky you! Or you could just have the cookie... either one... Gah... I've been trying to make the realization slow. At first he just noticed himself being a bit protective, then he realizes he thinks Naruto's eyes are cute. You know? Heh, am I going t fast with Sasuke's emotions? ' I think that's it for replying? Onward!
Disclaimer: Sasuke owns Naruto and Draco owns Harry, not I. Alas... -sad-
Notes:
"Talking- in English"
'Thinking- in English'
"Talking- in Japanese"
'Thinking- in Japanese'
Letters and stuff
Previously:
"There's only two? How are they expecting to keep the whole school safe?" Ron burst out.
"I'm not sure, either they're really, really powerful..." trailed off Harry.
Ron scoffed, "That or really stupid."
And at a school a couple miles away, a blonde shinobi sneezed...
Chapter5
.greetings.
Naruto Uzumaki leaned back on the wall behind him, watching horse drawn carriages graze across the lake. The students were finally arriving.
Before they had left for the school, Naruto had been reading up on the history of Hogwarts. Now, some may think the words 'Naruto' an 'read' would never be in the same sentence, but the reasoning behind it was expected.
To beat Sasuke, of course. Naruto wanted to take pride in knowing more about the magical world then his 'rival'. But it seemed to be for the general best that he had read about the place. Without the books he would have probably be dead from shock or some other cause by now.
'Speak of the devil...' Naruto thought, watching as his best friend leaned on the wall, next to him.
"Hn..." was Sasuke's way of greeting Naruto.
Naruto nodded back, he knew they were both nervous, wondering about what might happen in the coming year.
The silence was broken when Sasuke said, "Those horses... they're very odd..."
"Those horses?" Naruto asked, flicking his hand at the direction of the carriages. He absentmindedly noticed they were getting closer, it was almost time that the guards went back inside.
"Yeah... they look like they were brought up from the grave..."
"They're called thestrals" Naruto commented, not seeing the raised eyebrow from his friend. The blonde sheepishly scratched the back of his head, "That's all I know though. I think I fell asleep over the book before I could read that section."
Sasuke smiled from under his mask, but choose not to comment.
"Shut up!" Naruto pouted.
"I didn't say anything..." Sasuke coolly replied.
"Well you were thinking of saying it!"
"Saying what?" Sasuke was starting to smirk.
"Grr..." Naruto growled, crossing his arms.
A voice appeared behind them, "That's right, Uzumaki-san, they're called thestrals. I am surprised that at such a young age you can see them, but considering where you're from..." Albus stepped through the doors out to them, "Only those who have seen death call see our horses..."
Both boys nodded, of course they've seen death in their profession, it was part of the job.
Albus smiled, "Ah, but if you'll excuse me, I need to get back before the feast..." he nodded to the teens and left. The boys stared for a minute- the headmaster was very good at popping up at random moments...
"Come on, Dobe, we have to get to the great hall..." Sasuke said, nudging the boy and getting off the wall. Naruto nodded and both shinobi went back into the building.
'Something isn't right...'
Those were the words that were repeating over and over in Harry's mind. He just couldn't comprehend it.
In his carriage, across from him, was... Draco Malfoy...
But amazingly, they had not started a fight- hadn't even said a word to each other since they got in the same carriage.
Harry watched the pale blonde stare out the window, obviously in deep thought. Ron and Hermione had to help the first years, telling Harry, "Go on ahead! We'll meet in the great hall!" before they ran off to catch up with Hargrid and the first years.
Then, right as Harry had sat himself down, the door opened, only to reveal his rival.
Malfoy had simple hopped into the seat as said, "All the others are full..." Then he just stared out the window for the rest of the trip.
Harry stared questionably at the Malfoy, but soon his concentration as he felt their vehicle stop. Draco had also seemed to notice. The blonde blinked and stood up, stretched, then turned to Harry.
Silence.
"Thanks..." Draco said, as if testing the words out. He had probably never thanked anyone in years, "I mean, for sharing the carriage."
There was more silence before Harry shrugged and said simply, "No problem..." Draco opened the door and nodded at the raven haired teen. Harry nodded back. Then Draco hopped out and disappeared into the mob of students.
'This year is going to be interesting...' Harry thought before jumping out of the vehicle himself, in search of his friends.
When Harry reached the great hall, he saw two redheads waving frantically at him to get his attention. He smiled, walking to the Gryffindor table.
"What took ya so long, Harry?" Ron, one of the redheads, asked. Harry absentmindedly noticed he was sitting rather close to Hermione.
"Fangirls..." was the short reply, but that one word had enough power to make the four wizards shudder, well, that and a black haired shinobi, having no clue why he shuddered all of a sudden.
"How many this time?" Ginny, the other redhead, asked. There was a strange tone in her voice, but Harry couldn't match it with an emotion. Jealousy? What? Harry mentally shook his head, Ginny would never be like the fangirls, right?
Harry sighed, trying to recount them all, "Well, I got about 5 poems, eight letters confessing their undying love. Um... I was jumped... twice, I think. Too many giggles and blushes to remember. Oh! And there were even a couple fan BOYS. They're getting more confident..."
The three looked at Harry sympathetically, Ron patting his best friend on the back for support.
"If you just chose someone, then maybe the others would back off..." Ginny commented, no one noticed when she scooted a little closer to the famous boy.
Harry was about to respond when Harry looked over to the teacher's table, at each end two people stood.
'The guards?' Harry asked himself. The two gave him the creeps, they wore masks over their faces that reminded him of the death eaters.
Before he could tell the others about the guards, the double doors, at the opposite end of the room from the teachers table, burst open and new years shuffled in. All the talking in the great hall stopped and attention was turned to the nervous eleven year olds.
Leading the line was Professor McGonagall, stool and hat in hand. She stopped infront of the teacher's table, directly in front of the headmaster. She turned towards the first years and unrolled a scroll.
"Acktar, Sarah!" she called out. Harry zoned out after the girl was announced to be a Hufflepuff. He was too concentrated on the guards.
Once the final name, Zhang, Winny, was called, the headmaster rapped his wineglass to get the attention of the whole hall.
That twinkle was still in his eye, Harry noted dully, Dumbledore started his speech, "To our newcomers- welcome! To our old hands- welcome back. The new term of our school is finally here. Now, there are some issues that I should address before we begin our feast. First- I would like to remind you all that the Forbidden Forest will stay just that. Forbidden! Any student found there without permission will be strictly punished. Second, I would like to welcome back our own Professor Lupin," many of the Gryffindors cheered out at that but some of the other houses looked somewhat nervous, "Sadly, the professor could not be here tonight because of the coming full moon... Be sure to welcome him with open arms tomorrow when he gets back. And thirdly, you may have noticed the creatures at the end of the teacher's table. These two are going to be here for the whole school year, they were hired to protect the school and the students such as yourselves from any harm that may come your way because of Voldemort. They will be roaming the hallways and occasionally watching over classrooms. But please, I assure you, these two are dangerous, it would be best not to get in their way." Harry turned to the guard on the right with a questioning gaze, the person looked somewhat short with blonde hair. Either Harry was crazy or he could just tell the blonde was grinning from under his fox mask.
The two guards bowed to the students and with a pop and a cloud of smoke, they were gone.
"Now please- tuck in!" The food appeared on the tables and the students started digging in. Hermione and Harry seemed to be the only ones not eating. They gave each other a look of understanding, both knowing what the other was thinking- that the guards were able to apparate inside school grounds. Harry sighed and shrugged at his bushy haired friend before poking at his soup.
He looked up, Hermione still looked a little bothered. Harry leaned across the table and whispered, "You, me, and Ron can go out looking for this guard tonight, under the cloak, okay?" Hermione looked a bit happier as she nodded and started eating her mashed potatoes.
It was almost midnight- still no sign of the guards. The three wizards crouched under Harry's invisibility cloak, walking around the corridors.
They passed a gargoyle statue, looking at it briefly before continuing down the hallway.
"Lookin for me?" a voice called out, scaring them out of their wits. The three teenagers turned to see the blonde haired guard, lazily sitting on the head of the gargoyle.
None of them replied, maybe he hadn't seen them, they hoped, just maybe heard them.
"You can come out, you three, I already know you're there..." the wizards could have sworn they heard a grin in his voice.
Harry sighed in defeat, pulling the cloak off the three of them.
"That's a spiffy trick, the whole invisibility thing..." the guard commented.
"Then how did you know we were there?" Hermione demanded, standing infront of her two friends with a hand on her hip.
"Well, all of you guys were stompin on the floor loud enough to wake anyone within three miles up..." the blonde commented, holding up one finger, he put out another finger, "Second, you're breathing was quite loud as well..." he paused, then held up a third finger, "Plus, I hate to be the one to have to tell you this, but you guys must have done this for a couple years, right? Well I think you need to upgrade to a bigger cloak because your's is getting a bit too small. I could see three pairs of feet..."
The guard, the girl and the Boy Who Lived all turned to the redhead, who had grown an additional 3 inches over the summer, adding to his already skyscraper like height. Ron blushed and shrugged sheepishly.
Hermione sighed and turned back to the guard with the fox shaped mask, "I had some questions for you, we've been searching for you for awhile now."
"Go ahead..." the blonde said, leaning forward on the statue, curiosity was getting the better of him.
"First of all, I want to know how you apparated from the great hall earlier." Hermione started.
The blonde's head cocked to a side, "appar- what-ed?" he asked, cursing himself for not finishing all his books.
"He doesn't know what apparating is and he's suppose to save us from the forces of evil!" Ron yelled out, gesturing to the shinobi.
Hermione raised an eyebrow, "You know, when you disappeared from the room with some smoke and a pop?"
"Ohhh! That!" the fox shinobi said, then he grinned evilly and said, "It's magic..."
The brunette girl didn't seem to like that answer, "Well, of course it is. But you and your partner, I think you two are using a different kind of magic, with fighting included and all..." she gestured to the sword on his back, "Many of the students would lose faith in you two if they knew you were using muggle weapons..."
"Well aren't you observant," the blonde was clearly amused, he scooted forward in his seat, "What else have you found out?" He asked eagerly and grinning, but of course the wizards didn't see that.
"You're obviously not from around here. There are language changer bracelets on your wrists..." The fox looked down at his wrists, still smiling.
He hopped off the statue, then with lightning speed was right in front of Hermione with a kunai hovering right next to her throat.
He was still smiling though, he moved his face closer to hers and said, "I've had to kill people who've known less about me then you do..." then he back flipped away from her.
"But now is our time of parting..." he said dramatically, ignoring that the three wizards were still in shock, "Parting is such sweet sorrow. And so on and so on.. I'll see you guys tomorrow then!" that commented was said with an evil grin, "Ah yes, by the way, you guys can call me Fox if you want. Ta ta!"
Smoke clouded their visions, but once if cleared, Fox was gone.
"Bloody hell..." Ron muttered, putting a hand on Hermione's shoulder, "That guys a lunatic!"
A/N: Yup... there yah go, be happy. But I have lots and lots of projects to do you I won't be back until next weekend through a month, by then I promise you a new chapter...
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