A/N: Gahh! Sorry I'm late! Guess what I was doing all spring break? Avoiding all my old relatives and watch + reading Bleach! Oh my god... I love that series so much. It was so funny watching all 77 episodes in Japanese with subtitles. What do you guys like better (if you've read/watched it), you know how the show almost exactly follows the manga, but then after they return from Soul Society, the show goes off in the direction on the Bantuo people (I can't remember how to spell, but this is vaguely what it sounds like) while the manga goes off in a totally opposite direction of the Vaizards (again, I can't remember the exact name x.x). I like the manga better at that point... Oh yeah! Plus, in September, Bleach is starting on Adult Swim! No more subtitles! But they're probably going to crap up the voices, still... can't wait... Sorry about the rant, I had to let it out. (-listening to the opening song for Bleach at this very moment '- I have all four opening songs on my iPod)
Reviewer Stuff: I keep trying to say Sasuke will be very OOC. I suppose that over the years, Naruto has dulled down Sasuke's attitude, plus, a lot of the reason he was stoic and such was because all he cared about was avenging his clan, but in the fic, Itachi is gone, dead, I don't care, it's irrelevant, but he's not around, so Sasuke has no reason anymore to push people away.
Hikari no Kurai, DAMN! Who told you? You've found out my diabolical plans of matchmaker-ness. I've got to increase my security so this knowledge leak won't happen again...
Scorpia, DAMMNNN, You've got a VENDING MACHINE that gives you Naruto characters in KEYCHAIN FORM? Lucky! -pouts- Now I'm depressed, I want a Gaara keychain, all I've seen are Sakura at Hot topic -burns Sakura-
CyanideSlavery, that's EXACTLY how I was picturing Naruto, I mean, is there any way some one couldn't be in that pose when in Fangirl-mode?
Trekiael, -looks off into space- The-Boy-Who-Moaned... -nosebleeds then dies from lack of blood- Can girls do the who 'nosebleed' thing anyway? Blah, either way, that was such a dirty picture right then
Aisu no Doragon, I dunno, I suppose writers, including me, just want to know that their story is acknowledged, that someone would like it enough to let them know that they've read it instead of, when they finish the latest chapter, just put it on their alerts and leaving, also, I'm pretty sure that those who only put a story on their alerts never reads the A/Ns or anything, they just scroll down and start reading the story without caring what the author has to say, just what I think -shrugs-
Warnings: Language, slash, and OOC-ness. Note that I accidentally said 'AU-ness' last chapter BUT I MEANT ooc-ness, mmkay y'all?
Disclaimer: Still don't own em. Nothing clever to say -sigh-
Notes:
"Talking in English"
'Thinking in English'
"Talking in Japanese"
'Thinking in Japanese'
Letters and Stuff
Previously:
"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.
Chapter 9
.battles.
Harry Potter crumpled the paper in front of him.
"Another letter?" asked the person across of him. Harry sighed and looked up to his companion, Ginny Weasley, "They're persistent, aren't they?" she tried to look sympathetic for the famous boy.
"I just don't know how to make them go away..." with that comment he pushed his plate further away from himself and laid his head on the table.
Ginny took that opportunity to throw a death glare at some of the girls at the Ravenclaw table, the look obviously said, 'Lay off, bitch. He's mine.'
"Harry, you could always use my idea and pretend one of your friends is a girlfriend." Ginny looked down the table, keeping her voice as sweet as possible, "Hermione probably won't do it, though, you'd definably be able to get Lavender to do it, but she might take it seriously..." Harry let out another defeated sigh, "Of course, Harry, if it'd help you I'd-"
She was cut off when Harry rose from the table, "I know you're trying to help, Ginny, but I don't want to drag you into this." He smiled kindly at the red head, "Anyway, I have to finish my Charms homework. I'll see you in the common room later." Harry waved at the girl before started towards the exit.
A lone shinobi watched the exchange. The blonde frowned.
'How dare she try to intervene!' Naruto thought, 'She's trying to stop the wonderful, forbidden love affair of Harry and that Malfoy kid!' his thoughts were saying dramatically, 'Just like manga, the two lovers and the villain...' he giggled, thoughts going back to the books he had at home, "I won't stand for this!" he yelled out loud, startling some of the Hufflepuffs at the table near him, "Bitch. Must. Die!" after that comment, he disappeared in a cloud of smoke, leaving some very confused Hufflepuffs.
The kids shuddered, sharing glances, "Scary..."
The other nodded, "Who ever this 'bitch' is, I'd run. And fast."
Hermione tugged her two best friends through the hallways.
"Mione! It's almost midnight, can't you show us tomorrow?" Ron asked tiredly.
"No! I've found out something about the guards..." he trailed off. Ron immediately stopped, causing Harry and Hermione to stop running as well.
Ron pulled his arm away from the girl's grip, "You're dragging us out after the curfew just because of this guard nonsense? I could care less about those two!" he continued yelling. Hermione just rolled her eyes while Harry looked off to the end of the hallway.
He had noticed how obsessed his bushy haired friend had became with the guards. It was honestly starting to worry him. But he knew that Hermione wouldn't stop searching until she had all the answers- that's just what her personality was like.
Ron's ranting continued, but almost inaudibly, Harry could hear footsteps. He knew it wasn't either of the guards, they're footsteps didn't even make a sound.
"Um... guys..." Harry whispered nervously, but Ron didn't shut up.
The footsteps were coming closer and Harry was getting even more worried.
"Ron-" he said, but Ron continued. The black haired boy was getting fed up. He ran over to his best friend and smacked him over the head, "Run!" he yelled, grabbing his friends' sleeves and bolting down the hall.
He turned a corner, thinking he was getting himself lost. At another corner he finally found something that he recognized, they had run to the entrance to the courtyard, (A/N: You know, the place where it has the hallway and there are those giant window/opening things down to the outside? Sorry, my mind's going blank on how to describe it.).
'If we can just get through to the library-' his thoughts were interupted.
"Potter! Weasley! Granger!" was the yell from behind them.
Harry cringed, 'Too late...' he stopped running and let his friends go, then looked over his shoulder at their pursuer.
"It's past curfew, if you haven't noticed..." said the voice.
"We know that, Malfoy, but what are you doing out this late!" Ron snarled.
Malfoy simply raised an eyebrow and pointed to his prefect badge, "That answer your question?"
"So what? We're prefects too!" Ron yelled out, stamping his foot.
The blonde rolled his eyes, "Well, you two are, but he isn't." he pointed atHarry and the boy looked back at him.
'Draco seems colder then usual...' Harry thought, 'He was much nicer when Ron or Mione weren't here...' he lingered on that comment before he Ron started yelling again, he could barely even hear himself think.
He watched Ron spit out insults to the Malfoy, and the boy just stood there impassively. Harry sighed, wondering how many detentions he was going to get for this little run in. He tried to block out Ron's yelling and looked out one of the massive windows.
"You guys mind toning it down a bit?" a voice asked.
Hermione, Ron, and Draco as jumped in surprise and looked over to the sound. The sight that greeted them were the two guards on the window ledge. The Raven-masked one was leaning of the side of the opening, arms crossed, while the Fox-masked guard was sitting on the ledge, swinging his feet.
Harry was not surprised. He had already seen the two when Ron was yelling.
Now that Fox had everyone's attention, he waved at the group in greeting, "Like I said, try to keep it down to a dull roar."
The two disappeared, only to reappear in front of the group of four.
"You four do know that there are rules against roaming around at this time of night..." Raven asked, "Though Dumbledore did say that you had a total disregard for school rules..."
Fox nudged Raven, then turned back to the wizards, "So what's your excuse this time? Moonlit romantic meetings, perhaps?" Behind the mask, hidden from the four teens, Naruto was grinning mischievously as his eyes flickered from Draco to Harry and back again.
Ron was scowling, he finally yelled, "What are you two doing here! Shouldn't you be in the castle somewhere?"
The guards shared a glance at each other then Raven shrugged, "Training." to emphasize, Fox took out some of his Kunai to show to the wizards.
"You can't be serious..." Ron yelled.
Naruto shrugged, juggling three of the Kunai, Sasuke seemed about to say something, but the four teens watched as the guards froze.
There was silence, well, besides the sounds of fallen Kunai hitting the floor.
"You felt that, right?" Naruto asked in a calm but serious voice.
Sasuke nodded, "They're are maybe...six?" he asked, "They're going to break in..." At the moment he finished his sentence, the sound of a large crash rang through the hallway.
"You kids, remember, eat your veggies, brush your teeth, get eight hours of sleep. We're got to go." a nervous wave before the guards disappeared.
Another crash was heard as the four glanced at each other, "Should we try to help?" Hermione asked nervously.
There was a short scream before all four ran towards the sound. They had to go through about 3 hallways before they opened a door to a classroom.
The scene that greeted them surprised them greatly. (A/N: Next part may be a wee bit gory)
There were about eight Death Eaters in the room, one was already passed out, 'Dead?' Harry asked himself, on the floor.
Naruto took out five of his Kunai, throwing them all at once at one of the Death Eaters. The force of the weapons caused the man to skid to a wall, pinned. One Kunai caught each sleeve. Two more pinned the man by his side.
The last knife- pierced through the Death Eater's throat.
Harry heard Hermione squeak in fright as she clung to Ron, but he couldn't tear his eyes away. He watched as Sasuke dodged multiply spells, then ran to the men in a blur. After he ran past the two men, he ended up in the spot where he started. The men looked at him with a confused look before blood starts running out of their throats and mouths.
Draco had also seemed to get paler, Harry noted dully, but also noticed how his stomach felt a bit queasy because of the scene.
"What's going on in here!" asked a frantic voice from behind them, scaring them all witless. Harry turned around to see Lupin running down the hallway.
"Professor!" Hermione yelled, relieved, "Death eaters attacked the castle!"
Inside the classroom, Naruto cursed. The Death Eaters had not noticed the younger wizards until the girl started talking. The one he was fighting with at the moment took the opportunity to throw a curse at the group of four. He immediately run over to kill the wizard, but the spell was already engaged and going towards the kids. Sasuke also seemed to busy to save the kids at the moment, he was preoccupied with the three wizards attacking him at once.
A loud cry was heard and Naruto looked over to the doorway. The professor who had helped them when they first came to Europe, Lupin, pushed the teens to the floor and shouted a blocking curse.
Naruto could have cheered, but he then felt something strange hit him, for the first instance, it tingled, but then in exploded in pain.
He let out a scream and fell to his knees. He might have fallen down completely though- he wasn't sure. All he could do was concentrate of the pain rippling through his body.
If his eyes weren't closed, he'd be sure his vision was going black, and the last thing he heard was someone calling out his name.
Sasuke yelled Naruto's name desperately, watching his teammate go down. He growled and turned back to his three opponents.
Pulling out a single shuriken, he threw it as the closest guard and watched it implant itself in their skull, then flitted over to the other two guards and hit the back of their necks with the side of his hand, both were knocked out instantly.
When he was sure that none of the Death Eaters were going to be getting up again (besides the unconscious ones) he finally cringed and grabbed his left arm- he must have been hit some time during the battle. But he ignored his burn and ran to his friend.
"Naruto. Naruto!" he yelled, pulling Naruto into a sitting position.
When he turned to the five people in the doorway, they still seemed to be in shock at his actions, he growled again and asked franticly, "Where's the Hospital wing!"
Most of the eyes were still focused on the dead bodies, but Harry broke from his stupor and turned to Sasuke, "I'll show you, I know a shortcut."
Sasuke nodded, picking up his friend and following Harry out of the room.
Harry was true to his word and got Sasuke to the hospital in less then five minutes. Sasuke slammed the doors open and put Naruto down on one of the beds.
"Where did he get hit?" Harry asked nervously, looking at Naruto form the opposite side of the bed.
"His back, I think..." Sasuke said simply, dully noticing Madam Pomfrey running into the room. He held his breathe as he pulled the back of Naruto's shirt up.
Sasuke remained quiet, but Harry gasped, not necessarily at the severity of the wound, though. They both watched as Naruto's discolored, burnt back began to to weave together again.
He was healing himself, and at an alarmingly fast rate. The wounds slowly closed and areas of red were replaced by normal colors.
Harry was still gapping, "Um... this might be a rude question, but what is he?"
Sasuke sighed, "I'm still not sure enough to answer that question." And the rest of Naruto's healing was watched in silence.
A/N: There we go. -Rereads battle scene- Wow... I didn't know I was this twisted O.o I'm a bit worried. Okay, big question, do you want Kakashi to come to Hogwarts? Or is that too cliché?
Tsk. I had to add the 'What is he' thing. It's stuck in my mind after reading Bleach. If you've ever read it, you should know what I'm talking about, cause when Ichigo's fighting in Soul Society, there are like 70 different occasions where someone asks him or thinks to themselves, "What is he?"
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