A/N: Why yes, I finished ALL my projects on time. Go me. Heh, I really don't have anything else to rant about... odd... I've been obsessing over Kingdom Hearts lately... I've gone all fan girl and started reading so many RikuxSora fics, yeah... can't wait to get the game, it should get here in a couple of days

Reviewer Stuff: Can't say anything about Voldy or Draco yet, sucks to be you guys, doesn't it? Having no clue what's going to happen -points and laughs-

I'm either thinking that the gang and Sasuke will find out about the Kyuubi either on Naruto's birthday or Halloween, which one do you guys prefer?

Just a rambling romantic, when I read your review I was like, 'Oh shizz! I know them! DD' then I realized I was talking out loud to myself O.o

Shinigami Rachi, wow... aren't you... determined to get me to update, but you made me laugh when I read it

Blah, if I ever space out words like 'shinobi' making it 'shin obi' that's because my spell check is a piece of crap and changes it automatically if it feels like it x.x

By the way, y'all, I know they say their last name then first name but I dunno, since they're in England they'll be called their names in the English way -shrugs-

WELLLL... Naruto's not being evil... he's just... overly happy to be in a new place with new people to scare and prank D

Dang... those were a lot of reviews...

Warnings: Um... slashy-ness and language, and AU-ness as well, you've been warned, but hey, who doesn't go out of character when they're in love?

Disclaimer: Um.. does having the characters of Naruto and Harry Potter tied and gagged in my closet mean I own them? I mean... -shifty eyes- Of course I don't have anyone trapped and gagged in my closet... -nervous laugh-

Notes:

"Talking in English"

'Thinking in English'

"Talking in Japanese"

'Thinking in Japanese'

Letters and Stuff

Previously:

Naruto shrugged, "You'll have to figure out all those questions by yourself. Or maybe ask that one friend of yours, she seems smart. Well... happy hunting!" he said happily, then gave the boy a wave and disappeared in a cloud of smoke.

Harry looked down at his map. There was no sign of 'Naruto Uzumaki' anywhere near that part of the building.

"Well tonight was... informative..." he commented out loud, then told himself he was going to keep this little encounter a secret from Ron and Hermione...

Chapter 8

.hints.

Hermione Granger was stumped. She had been trying to research these strange guards for days, but so far she had nothing.

She looked over the book she was reading, her lit wand trancing the page. Why yes, she was in the library after hours, and her only light source came from a spell called 'Lumos'.

She had gotten to the library with the help of Harry's invisibility cloak, she called it 'borrowing' but if they weren't such good friends then one might consider it 'stealing'.

She sighed, turning the page. There had been nothing useful when she looked up 'wizards with face masks', all that had come up was death eater information. Then she tried 'animal masks' she had found information of tribes in Africa. She even went as far as to look up 'Fox' but the only books with that key word was a potions book, explaining what potions used fox's ears, well, she had found that, and a half page in a book called, "Fantastic Creatures and Where To Find Them" about demons with different numbers of tails, one happened to be a nine tailed fox.

"Rubbish!" she exclaimed quietly, slamming the creature book closed and adding it to her growing number of failed books.

"Why am I even bothering!" she asked herself, resting her head on the table.

"Why are you bothering?" a voice asked. Hermione's head immediately shot up to see the person to whom the voice belonged to. It was the strange, blonde haired guard, Fox.

"Wait... what are we talking about again?" Fox asked sheepishly, scratching the back of his neck.

Hermione was still in shock- she wasn't used to people just popping up out of no where, especially when that person threatened to kill her.

She coughed, shaking herself out of her stupor, "Yes... well, I was trying to find some information for my potions essay..." she lied easily.

"Right... sure, so what have you found out so far?" Fox asked, she knew the man was grinning. He leaned forward with mock interest.

"Um... well, when you add fox ears to the shoe silencing potion, it'll turn the mixture green and..." she started, trying to remember what the potion's book had said, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing that she had bothered to read the article in the potions book.

The guard cocked his head to a side, "Heh, that's funny. I was in your class today and I could have sworn your Snape- sensei said to do more research on the Polyjuice potion..." he let another hint slide, maybe she would catch on to the 'sensei' part.

But, her thoughts froze when she remembered that Fox had been watching over the class that day, her mind was too busy reeling for an excuse to notice his hint.

"Well, um..." she stuttered.

Fox sighed, standing up and saying, "Is this obvious enough for you?" he was getting bored at her non progress.

Though, of course, he knew she didn't understand a word he had said, he hoped maybe she knew what his language sound like.

She blinked, giving him a confused look, "Wha-"

"Sayonara!" Fox said happily, then disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Hermione didn't move for a good couple minutes, but it finally dawned on the smart girl.

"Japanese!" she yelled, eyes lighting up. A break through!

Harry Potter snuck through the hallways. He wasn't able to sleep- the nightmares were back. Whenever this had happened the previous year, he'd just grab his invisibility cloak and go off to the lake, but ONE of his friends, he didn't drop names, had been borrowing it, 'stealing' he thought, lately.

But it wasn't like the guards couldn't see through that trick anyway, so it didn't matter. Unless of course, a stray teacher came wandering past.

He reached the bottom of a stair case when he heard a sigh from behind him.

'Let it be Fox, let it be fox...' he chanted over and over in his mind as he slowly turned around.

It was the black haired guard, or 'Sasuke Uchiha' as his map informed him earlier.

The guard was sitting on the railing of the stairs, then asked emotionlessly, "You do know you're not suppose to be out this late..."

"Um... well I was-" Harry started, this guard was much more intimidating then the other.

"Fox has been telling me all about you and your friends..." Sasuke interrupted, finally turning towards the wizard, "Or should I might as well refer to him as Naruto?" Harry gulped, "He told me that you wander the hallways a lot at night..."

Harry was confused now, he hadn't really talked to Naruto since the night he discovered his name- that had been almost a week before.

Sasuke watched the boy before he continued with another sigh, "Just because he doesn't just come out and talk to you doesn't mean he isn't watching."

The Boy who Lived coughed, "So, shall I just call you Raven or Sasuke then?" he asked nervously.

"I'd prefer you call me Raven when there are others around to hear..."

No one spook for a while afterwards, Harry was thinking about Sasuke's name. Ravens sometimes stood for 'revenge' or 'avenging'. He'd have to ask Hermione later.

Finally, Raven spook again, "I've also noticed you have quite a lot of fan-girls..." he paused then fixed his earlier comment, "fan-personnel following you since the beginning of term..." Harry cringed, so it seemed that Raven noticed the fan boys as well.

"Yeah..." Harry sighed, leaning on the stair railing, "I just have no idea what to do about them!"

'Maybe if I just acknowledge them they'll go away...' Harry thought desperately.

"Ignoring them doesn't work, by the way." Raven said, seemingly reading Harry's mind, "They'll just get more aggressive, the fan girls love the 'loner', 'mysterious' type that they think they can tame into a boyfriend."

"It seems like you've dealt with this before..." Harry commented, watching the guard carefully.

"Almost every day of my life..." Raven shuddered.

Harry nodded in sympathy, hopping up on the railing next to Raven and sitting down, "One of my friends suggested that I just just pick one, then maybe the others will back off..."

Raven shook his head, "They'll just attack the girl that you choose, where I'm from that kind of idea could be fatal to the girl..." he shuddered at the thought of some of the girl shinobi he knew.

"I suppose..." Harry quietly answered, out of ideas on how to keep the admirers away.

"Well, if you get any more ideas make sure you run them past me before you start them, I don't want to be blamed for any blood they have to clean off the floor..."

"Where are you going?" Harry asked.

"I have a feeling that Naruto is trying to give away our secrets..."

With that, a cloud of smoke blocked Harry's vision, but once the fog cleared, Raven was gone.

"Tsk... I wish I could do that..." Harry mumbled, still sitting on the stair railing. He looked down and started swinging his legs in thought.

After about fifteen minutes, Harry was too deep in his own thoughts to acknowledge te world around him, thus, he didn't notice when a blonde walked near him.

"Potter, what are you doing out here so late?" the voice demanded. (A/N: Betcha thought it was Naruto, eh?)

The voice startled Harry, he tried to swing around to face the voice, but seemed to miscalculate.

In an instance, he couldn't feeling the stone railing under him any longer.

As in he fell. Off the rail.

"Potter! Don't do that!" the voice screamed. Harry blinked in surprise.

'Wait- didn't I just fall. But... they caught me?' they must of, he convinced himself, or he would have been about eight below, and quite a bit flatter then he was before.

He finally looked up at his savior.

A pair of concerned silver eyes met his gaze. But as soon as they made eye contact, the eyes turned cold and steely. Harry could defiantly recognize them now- Draco's.

"Are you going to just let me fall or what!" Harry demanded, of course, you would be in a bad mood too in you almost fell to your death, "Pull me up!"

Malfoy's eyebrow twitched din annoyance and he pulled his rival back to the safety of the stairs, "Bloody hell, Potter! You're like a twig! What have you been eating lately, air?" Though he would definitely not let the dark haired boy know it, Draco was somewhat concerned on how light Harry was.

Harry sat down on on of the steps and Draco brushed off his robes.

"Usually, someone says 'thanks' when another person saves their life..." Draco commented, sitting down a few stairs above Harry.

"It you didn't just appear behind me like that you wouldn't have startled me off my seat..."

"Well if you weren't as zoned out as you were you would have heard me coming..." Draco paused, running a hand through his pale blonde hair, "What got you so zoned out anyway?"

Harry considered telling his enemy, he had noticed how many girls had been chasing after the blonde, but then, the stream of girl eventually dimmed down. He sighed, deciding to just go on and ask, "I was thinking about the whole... fan person problem I'm having. How you you get rid of them?" he asked desperately.

Draco's frown quickly turned into a smirk, and from that to a laugh. Harry raised an eyebrow, the only time he had ever seen the blonde laugh was when he was making fun of the other boy.

Draco laughed for at least a minute or so before he lowered it down to a chuckle and wiped his eyes on his sleeve, "Well, I just slept with some of them, of course, then broke their hearts the next day. The news spread, then BAM! Most of them were gone."

Silence.

"You WHAT!" Harry practically screamed.

His laughter was back, "You should have seen the look on your face, Potter, a bit jealous, are we? But who are you jealous of, I wonder? Of Me? Or of the girls..."

Harry growled threateningly, causing Draco to wave his arms defensively.

"Kidding! Kidding! You just can't take a joke, Potter! The girls mysteriously disappeared when Pansy got news of them... quite a possessive little woman she is..." he shuddered.

"You don't like Pansy?" Harry asked curiously, leaning back on the stairs.

"By assuming I like her, you're quiet insulting my taste..." Draco said somewhat coldly, "At the moment, we're arranged to be married, but I'll find a way out of it eventually..."

Harry nodded, not noticing that he and his rival were having a civilized conversation.

A few staircases up, two guards were watching the scene with interest.

"Aw! They're so cute!" the blonde guard squealed.

The taller guard smacked him in the back of the head, "Shh!" he whispered, not wanting to get caught, "And if you try to play matchmaker..." he threatened.

But the blonde just returned his glare with an innocent look, "Why of course not!" he said with a mischievous glint in his eye.

A/N: Well, there ya go, a new chapter. Anyways, I went to the mall today and you know what I bought since I'm such a nerd plus I love spending money on useless junk? That's right, I bought a Forehead Protector thing. Yup And I'm ashamed to say I'm wearing it around my neck as we speak. It's for the Sound and it's the coolest thing ever. The clothe stuff is purple and I have a feeling I'm going to be forced to take it off eventually, but until that day comes... it will be attached to my neck.