A/N: Last chapter didn't turn out o be as long as I wanted it to be, but oh well. I can't have my way all the time, or else writing would be completely a waste of time… and that circle from the previous chapter, think along the lines of the human transmutation circle that Ed and Al used in Fullmetal Alchemist.

I am so not looking forward to writing Hagrid's accent… oh the agony of writing accents…

Disclaimer: I don't Naruto or Harry Potter. Although, I would like to own Neji... but sadly I don't...

"Japanese" "English"

Chapter 2: Contemplating the Arrival

After making sure that the newest enrolled students at Hogwarts were comfortable in the hospital wing, Dumbledore went back into the grounds to find Hagrid.

Spotting him coming out from the Forbidden Forest, "Hagrid!"

"Oh, it's yer Professor Dumbledore."

"Yes Hagrid, we have some new students starting this year, and I would like you to take them to Diagon Alley to get their supplies."

"Alrigh'."

"Thank you Hagrid."

Once that was done, Dumbledore returned to his office and sat down at his desk. He began mulling over the information that the one called Gaara had given him.

A circle.

A flash of white light.

It didn't seem to make much sense, even to Dumbledore's mind. This could be very old magic they were talking about, the place the circle was located in could be critical to how these shinobi had arrived here.

Nothing fitted into place, and Dumbledore knew that this topic could take months of extensive research, time he felt he couldn't spend on with Voldemort's return to power.

The students were at risk, particularly Harry.

If this organization called Akatsuki managed to open the portal and arrive here in their dimension, there was the chance that they'd join Voldemort if their interests intertwined.

Dumbledore didn't know the half of what these shinobi faced.

During his conversation with Gaara, Dumbledore had gleaned a little useful information, the two eldest, were both high-ranking elite shinobi from their village, and he was the leader of his own, the kazekage.

The older two shinobi would be difficult to place, as Dumbledore estimated them to be in their twenties, much too old to enter Hogwarts. This fact alone gave him a whole other predicament to deal with along with finding a way to send them home.

Slughorn arrived and knocked on the door, Dumbledore responded, "Enter."

Striding into the office, Slughorn sat down in one of the chairs in front of Dumbledore's desk.

"Horace, do you know of any way to open a dimensional portal to another world?"

"Well, there probably is, I just don't know about it," Slughorn replied with. "This is about those new students?"

"Yes," Dumbledore responded. "They are all ninja from another dimension, while eight of them will attend Hogwarts, the other two are too old, and I need to find them something to do while we try and a way to send them back."

Silence reigned for a while, until Dumbledore came up with an idea, "I think I know what they could do…"

His eyes felt like thousand pound weights had been placed on them as Sasuke struggled for consciousness. Finally, he managed to open his eyes and sit up. His muscles ached, and he felt as though a thousand kunai had been stabbed into every part of his body.

"Hey, you're finally up," Naruto's voice greeted his ears. "Now we just have to wait for Sakura and Shikamaru."

Sasuke cast his eyes about, and found his Sakura. Her breathing was heavy, signifying her unconscious state, but she looked otherwise unharmed, Sasuke heaved a sigh of relief.

"Where are we?" Sasuke asked.

Neji responded, "Some place called Hogwarts. We've been enrolled as students here until some way is found to send us back."

"More learning and we have to use a weird stick thing to use jutsu!"" Naruto told him. "The uniforms here are dresses and I am so not wearing a dress!"

Naruto's last comment was met with all around agreement, Sasuke merely grunted.

"Dumbledore-sama said that if we didn't want to wear the Hogwarts uniform, we'd be allowed to wear the Japanese Imperial Institute of Mana's uniform. He showed us a picture, and it's much better then their dresses," Neji informed him, he handed him the picture.

Sasuke nodded his head, the uniform was much better then wearing a dress. After a few minutes of silence, Sakura and Shikamaru finally joined the land of the living.

It took a while, but the others quickly briefed them on what had happened and what was going to happen.

Sakura seemed to have noticed that two people weren't there, "Where are Kakashi-sensei and Maerin-sensei?"

Gaara responded to this, "Dumbledore-sama took them to his office to speak to them about their arrangements about staying here. They're too old to attend the school."

"So what are they going to do?" Sakura asked.

Shikamaru answered this time, "Maerin-sensei was training before the mission. She was doing some research on fuin jutsu, or on the curse marks."

There was silence for a few minutes, then Sakura spoke.

"She's amazing at them already, why is she doing more research?"

"According to her," Sasuke began. "Just as seals can be removed or undone, the same things should be possible with the curse mark. The curse mark, Maerin says, is very similar to fuin jutsu, so there has to be some technique to remove it. Despite the enormous boost to chakra it gives, the downsides are immense, and not really worth it. The chances of one surviving the reception of it are slim."

Again, silence fell, then a tall man entered the room, "Alrigh' now yer all must be the new students I'm Hagrid. I'll be taking you to Diagon Alley."

"What's a Dagon Alley?" Naruto asked.

"Diagon Alley."

"Yeah, that."

(sigh) Well, four pages, that's longer then the last chapter was… and I thank my first two reviewers, random reader, Dragonheart0000 and Miss Anonymous hp.

Miss Anonymous hp, you asked how the characters could speak English. Well, in almost all of the Naruto Harry Potter crossovers I've read have had them have to have language charms performed on them, and I thought, since they're shinobi, maybe they know English already because it was a skill they were required to learn. Meh, I'm just guessing, and that's what I think.