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On with the story!

"I cannot believe those stupid, idiotic boys would even think of doing this!"

Naruko ran down the hallways at Kunoichi speeds, heading towards the girls lavatory where she could smell the troll at. When Quirell had run into the Great Hall spouting nonsense about a Troll in the Dungeon, Dumbledore had automatically shot her a look, and Naruko had complied by jumping over the table and shooting off out of the Great Hall to find the Troll. She had gotten turned around once or twice, especially at the moving stairs, but when she got a lock on the scent, she also got a whiff of Potter's and Weasley's scent heading in the same direction.

"If that Troll doesn't kill them, I'll do it myself!"

She skidded around another corner, only partially aware of the screams and shouts coming from inside the girls' bathroom, and with her shoulder, Naruko rammed into the door. She stopped just inside the doorframe and quickly assessed the situation. She automatically noticed Weasley, Potter, and, for some reason, Granger, huddled up against the bathroom wall, with the Troll looming overhead. Noticing a broken sink beside her, she lifted it up and flung it at the Troll's head.

"Hey fugly! Try messing with someone your own strength!"

The Troll stumbled when the sink made contact with its head, and whipped around to snarl at Naruko. Raising its club high above its head, it charged at her. Naruko braced her arms out in front of her, and when the Troll swung its club down at her, she easily caught it in her hands. The Troll seemed more than confused when it realized the small human had stopped its club, and so it was easy for Naruko to rip the club from the Troll's grasp.

Swinging it back over her shoulder like a baseball bat, she whistled at the Troll.

"No one messes with my students and gets away with it!"

Gripping the club hard enough for her to hear the wood creak under her grip, she swung it with all of her chakra infused might. When it connected with the Troll's chest, the Troll's eyes seemed to bug out of his skull as he went flying through the air, where he finally collided with one of the walls with a loud 'BANG'.

The Troll seemed to be imprinted into the wall, before he groaned and fell forward out of it, landing face first on the ground where he didn't move.

Naruko breathed a sigh of relief and set down the club. Looking over at the three first years, she called out to them.

"You three okay, over there?"

It seemed as if time suddenly unfroze, because the moment she spoke to them, all three scrambled up off the floor and over to her, where they wrapped their arms around her middle in a large group hug.

"Thank you for saving us, Professor!"

"Yeah, I don't know what we would've done if you weren't here!"

"Sensei, how'd you lift the Troll's club like that?!"

Naruko smiled down at the three and wrapped them all up in her arms, "10 points to Gryffindor for calling me Sensei, Mister Potter, and I'm glad all of you are alright. But why in God's name were you down here in the first place?!"

Hermione peeked her head out of the hug, "That was my fault, Sensei. I was already here in the bathroom. Harry and Ron knew I was in here, but I didn't know about the Troll so they came to get me. The Troll was already in here by the time they got here to get me."

Naruko made to comment on stupid Gryffindor bravery when her sensitive hearing picked up on the sound of footsteps running down the hallway.

"It seems the rest of the Professors heard the commotion and are heading this way. Let's get out of the bathroom, alright?"

The three nodded and walked with Naruko out of the bathroom just as the Professors ran around the corner. Quirell, Minerva, and Severus stopped as soon as they saw Naruko hustling the Harry, Ron, and Hermione out of the now destroyed girl's restroom, before questions started being fired at her.

"P-Professor U-Uzumaki what ha-happened in th-there?"

"Naruko, you shouldn't have tried taking on that Troll alone, you could have been killed!"

"You're injured."

Naruko waved her hands at the three Professors, "Now hold on just a minute. Firstly, I just killed the Troll, or at least knocked him out. Quirell, you can check on that for me, can't you?"

Quirell shakily nodded his head and scampered past them and into the destroyed bathroom.

"Secondly, Minerva, I knew what I was doing. That wasn't the first time I've ever had to fight something larger than me, and it most certainly won't be the last either. And when Quirell first said there was a Troll loose in the school, Albus sent me to go take care of it."

Naruko blew a piece of hair out of her face before turning to Severus, "And thirdly… I'm injured?"

She looked over herself for a moment before seeing a growing stain of blood on her right bicep. She blinked in surprise.

"Oh, it seems I am. I didn't realize it. Must have been when I caught the club in my hands…"

Minerva tsked and walked over to her, "You need to go to the Hospital wing to get that checked out while I take these three back to their dorms."

Naruko shrugged but winced at the burn the cut caused her, "Don't worry, I have a medical kit in my classroom that I can use. It doesn't feel that deep anyways."

Minerva gave her a look before nodding, "Alright. Severus, could you walk her to her classroom? I'd feel better if someone went with her."

Severus nodded, "Of course, Minerva. Come along, Naruko."

Naruko huffed under her breath, "I'm not a damn student you can order around."

Harry, Ron, and Hermione laughed softly, making Naruko wink at them.

"Good luck, you three. Severus! Wait up!"

Naruko ran after Severus, who had already made it halfway down the hallway by the time she tried to catch up with him. When she finally caught up to him, she noticed he was walking with a limp. She didn't mention it, as they made their way towards her classroom, but she could see him wincing every time he took a step on his right leg. By the time they made it to her classroom, her sensitive nose had picked up the scent of blood, and it wasn't coming from her.

Grabbing his wrist before he could walk off, she dragged him into the classroom and forced him to sit on one of the stools. When he made to protest, she sent him a hard stare.

"As soon as I'm done patching up my arm, you're going to let me take a look at your injury, and don't tell me you aren't injured, cause not only were you limping the entire journey here, but I can smell the blood on you."

Severus sat still as she left his side and made her way into the back room. Moments later, Naruko reemerged from the room, this time carrying a little wooden box. Coming over to sit next to Severus on another bar stool, she sat the box on the table and carefully opened the lid.

"One of my old team mates put this together for me a few years back. I tend to get myself injured a lot, so this has helped in those cases."

Severus merely watched over her shoulder as she pulled out a roll of gauze and a small tub of balm. She gave a small hiss of pain when she peeled her long sleeved shirt from her body so that she could reach her wound. As she started to clean it with a small piece of gauze, she looked up at Severus, only to find him looking the other way with a small blush. She was confused until she looked down at herself, only to remember that all she wore under her shirt were her chest bindings.

"Sorry! I'll be done in a minute."

He nodded his head stiffly and continued looking out the window as Naruko covered her wound in the balm Sakura had made before wrapping it up tightly. Deeming it acceptable for the time being, she walked over to her desk and pulled a green tank top out of one of the drawers and slipped it on.

Finally, she walked back over to Severus.

"I'm decent now. Now, where are you injured?"

He looked back at her, taking in her now wrapped arm, before motioning towards his right leg.

"I would show you myself where I'm injured, but it's painful to the touch."

Naruko nodded as she carefully moved his robes, "I'll keep that in mind. Just tell me if I'm hurting you any, alright?"

Severus merely nodded his head as Naruko pushed aside his outer robes to get to his leg, only for her to pause when she saw his leg.

"Severus! What the hell did you do?!"

His right leg was covered in gashes and scrapes, which had completely shredded his right pants leg up to his thigh. Blood slowly oozed down his leg, but his boot had stopped the blood from dripping onto the floor.

"Hope you weren't too fond of these pants…"

Severus snorted, but held back a smart remark as Naruko pulled a knife out and started to cut away the useless material. Once Naruko removed the fabric, she unzipped his boot and set it to the side before beginning to clean his leg.

"Story time, Sev. Who the hell did you piss off? Mrs. Norris?"

Severus grunted when Naruko pressed down too hard on one of his wounds, "Try a three-headed dog."

Naruko paused to stare up at Severus, "…What?"

He let out a sigh, "Do you know of the reason why no one is allowed on the third floor this year?"

Naruko nodded as she went back to cleaning his leg, "It's because of the stone, right?"

"Yes. Albus set a few traps to protect the stone, one of which being a three-headed dog who guards a trap door."

"And why were you on the third floor during the Troll fiasco? Actually, hold that thought. I need to get more bandages to wrap your leg."

Naruko got up from the floor and made her way back into the back room. After a few moments of shuffling around, she came back out with a few larger rolls of bandages as well as a spray bottle and another jar of balm. Setting the new items down, Naruko settled back down on the floor in front of Severus.

"Alright, so why exactly were you on the third floor earlier?"

Severus blew out a huff of air, "Albus, the fool, wanted me to check on the stone to make sure no one would try to use the Troll as a distraction to get to it. Quirell tried to follow me, but he was scared off when the dog attacked me. I don't even know why the stupid fool tried following me in the first place…"

Naruko opened up the new jar of balm and coated her fingers in it before setting it aside. Lightly, she traced her fingers over each of the gashes and scrapes, leaving a light coating of the light green balm over each of the wounds.

"I don't trust Quirell."

Severus looked down at her before snorting, "Of course not. That fool is hiding something, I know it."

Wiping the rest of the balm off of her fingers, she grabbed the bandages and motioned towards his leg.

"I need you to stretch your leg out as far as you can."

Severus complied and did as she asked, grumbling the entire time, though he noticed a distinct lack of pain as he did so. Once his leg was out, she set to work on wrapping it; tightly around his thigh and calf, but loosely around his knee.

"Back to the previous subject, what do you think he's hiding?"

Severus shook his head and stared out the window, "I don't know, that's the problem."

Naruko hummed to herself as she tied the bandage at his ankle. Calling the limited healing chakra she had to her hands, she slowly ran her hands up and down his leg, coaxing his wounds to heal faster without scars.

"What about the stone? You said he tried to follow you when you went to check on the stone, right?"

"It's possible, but for what reason? There's no motivation to have the stone, or to use it."

Naruko cut her chakra off when she finished trying to close his wounds, and reached over to pick up the spray can. Shaking it for a second, she sprayed it a few times over the bandages to hold them in place and to keep them from slipping off of him.

"Who says it's for him, though? He could just be the delivery boy."

Severus paused in thought as Naruko prodded the bandages for a moment before nodding to herself.

"Alright, you should be good for now. The balm I used should numb the pain enough for you to walk normally, and the spray should keep the bandages from falling off while walking."

Severus stood up with the help of Naruko, and he paced a few steps around the room before turning back to her, "It's acceptable."

Naruko snorted as she picked up the supplies, "'Acceptable' my ass…"

As she went back into the back room to put away her supplies, Severus followed her and leaned against the doorway as he watched her put the ointments and bandages.

"Was that your chakra you used earlier? I don't recall ever seeing you use it."

Naruko shrugged while tossing the bandages into a basket with the other bandages, "Oh, I've used chakra around you before, but a lot of people tend to think of it as wandless magic. I usually don't correct people; it makes it easier that way."

Naruko slipped past Severus in the doorway and back over to her desk chair, where her sage coat was laid over the back. Picking it up, she slipped on and flipped her hair out from under the collar before turning back to Severus.

"What I used on you was Healing or Medical Chakra, a different variation of chakra. Medical skills were never a top on my list of priorities, especially since I have too much chakra and not enough control, but what I used on you was something everyone learns while in the Academy. Oh, and Severus, here."

Naruko reached into her desk and pulled out the stack of photos he had given her a few months previously. Carefully, she passed them back to him.

"Thank you for loaning me these."

Severus nodded and slipped the photos into one of the pockets in his robes.

"Of course. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to change clothes before heading back to the Great Hall."

Naruko nodded back, "And of course, I shall meet you in there. See ya, Sev."