A/N: Chapter 5, I'm sorry for the late update, took some time to get a good rest and also had been out of town for almost a week. This is a good progress for this story so I hope that you will enjoy this chapter my dear fellow readers and a big thanks to all who had been reviewed and support this story, it is such a great pleasure for me. And I have realized that there's a few spelling mistakes that I've done on the previous chapters so for that I'm sorry because some of the spelling quite confused me.

Warning: As usual, might contain some vulgar languages or such.

Disclaimers: Can't say that they are originally mine T_T

Chapter 5: Training, Start

Hermione take a good look at her wand, it had served her good since she had bought it after she was accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She smiles at herself when Professor McGonagall came to her house to informed her parents about her being a witch and at first none of them believed it until McGonagall herself showed them some magic by transfiguring some item in her house into different item. What a shock and sweet memory there.

Hermione is now at the training ground where she and both her best friends had come yesterday along with her brother. This time around it is their turn to begin their training and Yamato wants to teach them on how to control their mind and learn how to block from any foreign telepathy to enter their mind especially if it is tries to control or twist their mind. She had already been into that part years ago and now she needed to learn more advance of it in which to rebound or counter it back and used her energy, or chakra, as her brother had told her before.

She turn to look at both Harry and Ron and could see how anticipated the two of them of this training though she also know that they both are a little worries and nervous as well, not knowing how this training will do them. They know that if they want to block their mind from being manipulated or twisted by the Horcrux or from Voldemort himself then this is the only way.

Hermione take a good look around the training ground, it was a very wide open area surrounded by forest. Harry and Ron looks pretty nervous as Yamato is making some preparation for them and along with them are the members of Team Kakashi along with Kakashi himself who at the moment watched the two boys with unknown face expression in his masked face and Hermione begins to notice that from the first day they met until today he never took off that mask and Harry and Ron had told her the same while they stayed at his place. She wonders if he wears that mask to hide his face for some reason.

"So Kakashi-sensei, are we going to train with them as well?" Hermione could hear Naruto asked his teacher, or former teacher, about their training.

"No, you will do your own training and they will do theirs, but since Yamato had to teach them as well as controlling you at the same time so he had to bring them all here and that's why Sakura and Sai are here as well because they will going to assist him," Kakashi responded to him.

"Hmmm…how about you then Kakashi-sensei, what are you going to do?" Naruto asked the grey-haired copy ninja again.

"I'm here to see your progress from your training," Kakashi simply answered him but he didn't notice that Naruto seems to have something else in his mind.

"And," Naruto asked him again as he grinned at Kakashi.

"And, what, what is it that you are trying to say?" Kakashi asked in confused as he stared at his former student who is still grinning at him.

"And you tries to keeps your eyes on her, right Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked mischievously while Kakashi stared at him, still confused.

"She who, is it Sakura?" Kakashi asked again, he still doesn't get of what Naruto meant.

"No, not Sakura," Naruto answered mischievously.

"Well if not her then who….," Kakashi asked when he suddenly realized of what, or who, Naruto had meant as he stared at him in disbelieved because the only girls around them at the moment are Sakura and Hermione.

"Hehehe Kakashi-sensei seems that you're caught this time around," Naruto spoke as he grinned at him.

"I don't know what you are talking about?" Kakashi asked as he tried to act coolly though he was quite shocked as he begins to blush a little. He never thought that the other seems to notice especially his former student. But then there's no way he is going to lose it pretty easily on them.

"Hehehe, don't try to think that you can fool me, I know that you always looked at her, especially if Yamato-senpai didn't notice it, right Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto whispered to Kakashi as if he is trying to blackmail him.

"Naruto, I think that you're having some nonsense mind in your head right now," Kakashi spoke back to him, trying to talk and act coolly because he did not want to attract any attention especially not from Hermione who stood not far from them and definitely not Yamato who is not far from his sister. There's no way he'll going to face the wrath from his younger peer if he hear about this.

"Yeah yeah say whatever you want Kakashi-sensei, but we always noticed that you will steal some glances at her when Yamato-senpai did not seem to notice about it, seems that Hermione-san had caught your interest, right Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto spoke quietly as he grinned at him.

"We, who do you means we?" Kakashi asked him as he tries to acted cool yet serious but at the same time he could feel his heart beat faster and he could feel his palms sweating, seems that not only Naruto was not the only one to notice about it.

"Well, you can say that besides me, Sakura-chan and Sai had noticed about it too," Naruto spoke quietly at him as his smile is far from being mischievous and Kakashi could sense that his eyes is looking at something else. Kakashi slowly followed and turns his gaze towards Sakura and Sai and saw them smiling at him knowingly especially Sakura who had that glints on her eyes.

Kakashi now could feel himself in big trouble right now, though he is always the cool type of person especially when being with his students or fellow ninjas, this mean danger for him. If Sai, he may had not much problem about it because he knew that Sai will not try to pester or push him or even blackmail him much but with Sakura, it will going a lot of problem for him because he knew that girl so much and knew what she will do or what she capable of, and he was really hoping that the three of them will not try to tell Yamato about this or he will face lot of problems from his fellow ninja, especially when he know how protected Yamato is of Hermione. He sighed heavily when both Sakura and Sai walks toward him and that smile still stuck on their face. Luckily for him that Yamato, or Hermione for that matter, didn't seems to notice it much because the brain of the Golden Trio is now helping her brother and they are joined by Harry and Ron.

"Yes, is there anything that I can do for the two of you?" Kakashi tried to be formal but failed since the two of them still had that smile in their face especially Sakura who seems to have something playing in her mind and that means trouble.

"No, nothing," Sakura answered as she tried to act sweetly but Kakashi knew that she is up to something. He is about to speak when Yamato calls them.

"Alright, I think that we are ready for…is there any problem here?" Yamato asked as he saw the four of them flocked together and each of them seems to act weirdly.

"No, no problem here," Kakashi responded fast as he sounded a little nervous and he could hear Naruto and Sakura giggled quietly while Sai just had that smile in his face. Damn these teenagers as Yamato looked at them weirdly but then he chooses to ignore it.

"You are saying, Yamato?" Kakashi asked him coolly as he tried to act normal but at the same time he could hear Naruto and Sakura snorted as they covered their mouth with their hands. These two teenagers can be the death of him.

"I say that we can start our training now, that if everyone's ready," Yamato spoke as he eyed Naruto, Sakura and Sai strangely and then just simply shakes his head. He then turned away from them to join his sister who is currently having a chat with her two best friends.

A moment later all of them begin to start their training for the day.

"Remember, focus on your energy and tries to empty your mind slowly, make sure that you did not think of anything at the moment even you are still worries about your current situation. Use your energy, or chakra, and focus on one thing at a time. Tries to feel your energy flows within you and then when your mind is completely empty tries not to let anything come across it and if you could detect anything foreign tries to enter your mind, you must tries to push it away or at least tries to block from entering your mind completely."

Harry and Ron still remembered of what Yamato had told them earlier as they are now on their way back as it is late in the evening and all of them are very tired especially the two of them. Hermione is having a different kind of training since she already had passed that one long time ago and now she is trying the hardest one compared to them and she insisted that they should do the same after completing their current training since they mustn't allows the enemy to tries to control them or their mind.

Harry and Ron still having a problem but so far they had managed to slightly control of their energy and from what Kakashi had told them, it was not that easy to do in a short time but if they willing to give it a try later, he might give them a hand even because he knew that they actually didn't have much time to idle.

Kakashi could only smile a little to see the quite frustrated boys whom so far are not yet doing pretty well. He understand that this is not easy for them since that they had never learn anything like this before but somehow their only girl best friend is going pretty okay for her part. Knowing Yamato he might going to start training Hermione non-stop later that night.

"Hey mate, you know that all this training makes me really hungry."

Kakashi could hear Ron slightly complaint to Harry and this redhead teenager really reminds him of Naruto since the two of them loves eating.

xoxoxo

"Hermione, how do you feel when doing this training?" Yamato asked his sister as they are about to have their dinner that night.

Hermione looked at her brother and to be honest, she didn't sure if she could surpass this training easily since they had to do it in a very limited time and she and her best friends cannot linger longer in Konoha for they still had their mission going on.

"To be honest, I'm not sure if I could do it better than before. I may able to learn but that doesn't mean that I can achieve it easily because of some circumstances. This training is lot harder than before and I don't know if I am able to master it before the time comes."

Yamato just listened to his sister as he knew how hard this training can be for her for he had been through it before. Besides this training really took a longer time before anyone able to surpass it, even though he really wanted Hermione to be able master it well but time is running out for them.

"I believe that you will be able to do it, though this training took much longer time but I know that there's nothing impossible for you, right?"

Hermione just looked at her brother as he smiled at her and from his face she could see that he is being honest with her and did not lie just to cheer her up. She then decided to believe in what he had said to her as she smiles at him. Even though she did not really convince that she will be able to do the training successfully but having Yamato to actually believe that she can and able to do so had her change her mind and she convince herself that she will have it done successfully.

"Thank you," Hermione could only thanked him but deep in her heart she was really grateful for having someone to believe in her.

"So, do you think that you are able to continue with our training later?" said Yamato as he grinned at her.

Hermione could only smile as she nodded her head.

Days had been passing by as the Golden Trio had been practiced with their training and once in a while they will try to practiced it while wearing the locket to see how far do they able to block their mind as the Horcrux will test them at the same time and so far both Harry and Ron still struggling because as the two of them tries to block their mind from being manipulated the Horcrux will try to penetrate deeper into their mind and because of that both Harry and Ron was running out of energy since they tried to win the inner battle. Ron was almost gave up but seeing that Harry and Hermione had tried their best he convince himself that he is able to do as good as them.

Yamato was a little relief though he still worried for them, the Golden Trio had stayed in Konoha for weeks now and he knew that from day to day time had passed by fast and the three teenagers will leave Konoha sooner when they had managed to pass their training and trial that had been set up for them in order to defeat the enemy. He also aware that the three teenagers might have a strong heart and high resolve in order to beat their enemy but none of they are being trained like any of the ninja or shinobi which makes them lacking of certain skill even though he had taught Hermione some of it years ago but he will make sure that he and Kakashi will teach them on how to defend themselves or how to defeat their enemy apart from using any magic so that they can balance the strength of their physical and mental and how to use minimal energy so that they use the rest of their energy wisely.

Hermione could sense the feeling that currently lingers around her brother. She knew how worried he was of them, especially of her. Hermione really did not want her brother to be worried of her all the time but knowing what kind of danger they are facing in the future makes her worries as well. If they couldn't face or overcome the training or trial that they are currently faced she knew that they are unable to face their enemy when they returns to England and eventually the Wizarding world. She knew that Voldemort is waiting for them and currently the Dark Wizard is controlling the Wizarding world likes his own alongside his loyal Death Eaters. She really did not allows any of that to happen, to let people to live in fear, biases among the witches and wizards because of their blood status, the Wizarding world is no longer a safe place to stay as long as Voldemort still live and rule the world. And because of that Hermione had set her mind up, she will not give up no matter what happen and she will make sure that Harry and Ron will survive this training and trial in order for them to defeat their enemy and bring back peace to the Wizarding world.

The two siblings often had a talk almost every night. Yamato wants to know how far did Hermione had achieve in her training while Hermione wanted to know if she had been doing well in her training, both physically and mentally. Yamato know that Hermione had been doing pretty well but she had taken the training pretty seriously and sometimes she was into the training until her energy had reached its limit and she will succumb into tiredness and this had worried Yamato so much.

Their training is getting lot harder from day to day and sometimes some of their ninja friends will come to join and eventually help them. Shikamaru often discuss with Ron regarding any strategies since both of them are strategist in their respective teams and Shikamaru taught or give some advice on strategies to Ron on how to defeat or escapes from their enemy if their situation did not allows them to fight. Once in a while Tsunade along with Shizune and even Iruka will come to see their training and the Konoha Hokage taught a thing or two about medical to Hermione so that she can help to save or tend to any injuries in the future. And for Harry he was trained pretty hard since he is the leader and currently the most wanted wizard in the Wizarding world. He was pushed harder when doing his training since they did not have much time to linger and do nothing. The Golden Trio was pretty much beaten up while doing their training but they cannot complain or give up for the faith of the Wizarding world is in their hands. With this time and chances given to them they took it and used it wisely to train much harder so that they are able to defeat their enemy when returns back to the Wizarding world. And along the way of their training they had tried many times to destroys the locket but still couldn't prevail and this had really tiring them.

xoxoxo

Almost a month had been passed by since the Golden Trio been staying in Konoha and they had been doing their training none stop and they only took a day or two to rest per week since the beginning of their training in order to regain back their energy. Hermione is now doing three kinds of trainings, energy and mind control in which she is able to block her mind and at the same time she is trying to penetrates into her enemy's mind and to see what do they have in mind but this really need a higher concentration and used lots of energy or chakra, then she had self-defend training in which she was trained to fight and defend herself by Sakura, Yamato and even Kakashi and lastly the medical training where she was taught by Tsunade, Shizune, Sakura and even Ino. Kakashi and Yamato took turn to taught the Golden Trio along with the rest of Team Kakashi where Naruto is training Harry while Sai is with Ron. Other teams or shinobi sometimes joined them and seem that Maito Gai is more than grateful to join them and for that he often drag his team to join the training.

And within a month the Golden Trio had met and befriended with a lot of people. Once in a while Jiraiya will come back to Konoha and shares some stories or adventures with them while travelling around the neighbouring countries and amused to hear Naruto called him the pervert sannin. Harry and Hermione had confirmed that Chouji is another of the Weasley's missing relatives and they along with Ron had learnt to avoid using the word 'fat' when being around him and not even to tease him with that word if they wanted to avoid from being beaten up by him. Shikamaru, who famous word is troublesome is a strong shinobi who is master in strategy, hated being troubled but sometime it is hard for him to say no when people asked for help except for certain reason. Sakura and Ino often called each other names and loves teasing each other which eventually end up in an argument, Kiba and his ninja dog Akamaru, Shino and his bugs, the shy Hinata who had a crush on Naruto while her cousin Neji is always being serious, Rock Lee who loves hard training and Tenten who often had that big scroll with her, and the three Gryffindors also had heard about Sasuke. They also had met with the ninja hounds belongs to Kakashi, and how Hermione loved to play with them even though she loves cat more but they just being adorable and able to communicate which not only amazed her but both Harry and Ron as well though none of the ninja hounds are as big as Fang or the Three-headed dog that they had encountered while on their first year in Hogwarts. They even become friends with Iruka who was Naruto's former teacher before he became part of Team Kakashi, formerly known as Team 7.

Not only that but Hermione, Harry and Ron also had met some of other shinobi such as Kotetsu, Izumo and Genma, where the Golden Trio had met them when Yamato and his fellow teammates were being sent on a mission which took about less than a week as the three shinobi were asked to protect and assist the Golden Trio upon Tsunade request, and also Shikaku who happened to be Shikamaru's father and how the resemblance between father and son are pretty obvious and the genin Konohamaru and his fellow teammates and some of the female ninja such as Anko and Kurenai and Hermione get along pretty well with them along with Shizune who had taught her about medical and herbs that can be used as medicine.

Yamato is glad to see his sister to cope well along with his fellow shinobi in Konoha though some of them seems to be quite friendly with her but somehow he always kept her identity from being known to other shinobi and even to the villagers to avoid any problems and yet from day to day he often think about her and the two boys for they will leave Konoha as soon as they had done with their training and thus continues with their mission and Yamato really did not want to let her go but seems that it is hard for her to stay and do nothing. Yamato knew that if she had left the village it is hard for him to track her down since he is busy with ANBU and he did not know whether the Hokage will allows him to left the village to go after them if anything goes wrong and this had left him no choice but to contact them and hope that they will keep an eye on her. He knew that this should be his duty as her older brother but he really did not want anything bad happen to her if he is not allows leaving the village since Akatsuki is still on the move, searching for Jinchuuriki so he cannot leave Naruto alone at the moment. It is really hard for him to make the choices for he had two top priorities at this moment and both are very important to him.

xoxoxo

Somewhere in the Wizarding world Voldemort had grown restlessly since there's no news of Harry Potter and his best friends being caught whatsoever. The Dark Wizard still felt the threat for The-Boy-Who-Lived is still on the run and none of his Death Eaters or Snatchers or even the werewolves knows of their whereabouts at the moment, seems that they had lost track of the Golden Trio. Even though he had gain control of the Ministry and eventually the Wizarding world seems that none of it could satisfied him when Harry is still on the loose. They had been searching and searching but none prevail for they really don't have any idea where to find the Golden Trio and this had angered Voldemort very much.

Mrs Weasley was very worried of her missing son, she had no idea where is he and his best friends at the moment. The grandfather clock had shown that Ron is currently travelling and Mrs Weasley somehow knew that her son is not in the Wizarding world or in England for she had a strong motherly intuition and believes that Ron is somewhere else for she could not feel him being around in the Wizarding world. Her husband had told her not to worries and even said that maybe Ron along with Harry and Hermione are somewhere in England but Mrs Weasley had brushed him off telling him that she could not sense them being around England. The twins had often came back to their Aunt Muriel's home since the Weasley had stayed there when Voldemort and his Death Eaters had took control of the Wizarding world. The Weasley had took some of their belongings from The Burrow which including their grandfather's clock so that Mrs Weasley know what her family is currently been doing.

Ginny and Lavender are so worried about their boyfriends while Luna and Neville worry of their friends. School are no longer fun since the Death Eaters had taken over and everyone had lived in fear while in Hogwarts. The Slytherins are roaming around freely and lavished themselves with everyone else's fear as no one dares to oppose them since the Carrow siblings had becomes teachers in Hogwarts and they makes Umbridge look nice instead since they teach the students in an extreme way in which had planted fear in the students' heart except the Slytherins. The Carrow siblings are very bias towards the muggleborns and those muggleborn witches and wizards had lived in fear since as news of muggleborn witches and wizards had been murdered almost every day had been printed by the Daily Prophet and thus had worried the students in Hogwarts so much especially the Gryffindors, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff since the bias in not only towards the muggleborns but also those who opposed the Dark Wizard as well, whether they are half-blood or pureblood. All of them are hoping for it will over soon but they know that it is not easy since Harry, Hermione or Ron is not around them and for that Neville had took over as leader of the remaining DA members in Hogwarts.

"Bloody hell, this is getting nowhere," Ron uttered angrily after another attempt of destroying the locket had failed. Even though he and Harry had managed to learn to block their mind from being invaded by the Horcrux but since they are unable to destroy it, it really had frustrated them.

Harry and Hermione had no idea of what to do and Hermione had run out of idea of what spell to use to destroy the locket. The three former Gryffindors is at the training ground and had done with their training for the day and they took the time after to try to destroy the locket with many attempts but each had failed. The three of them took some distant away from Yamato and his team for they had training to be done and did not want to bother them with their trouble for they had done a lot for them.

Hermione sat on a rock while Harry sat on the ground looking at Ron who had been walking back and forth uttering angrily and swearing non-stop, his face clearly shows the frustration as he gripped the damn locket tightly in his fist. Luckily for them that Hermione had cast a silencing charm so that they won't create any attention from the others with their swearing and such. Getting tired of sitting on the ground Harry stood and sit next to Hermione as the two best friends watched their redhead best friend rambling, muttering and swearing.

All of them are into themselves thinking of a way to destroy the locket that none of them had realized that Yamato and Kakashi had approaches them as the two shinobi looked at the three Gryffindors with amaze to see Ron talking or muttering without any voice or slightly noise coming from him while Hermione and Harry just sit there watching him.

Kakashi and Yamato looked at each other and they are really astonishes with what they had saw, they knew that Ron usually a loud person but this time around he is kind of mute, muttering with no voice coming but Yamato could guess that this somehow had to do with magic. He can see that Ron is gripping on the locket as he saw a burned mark on a rock not far from them, he can guess that the three of them had attempt to destroy the locket again but did not succeed as he can see frustration and anger coming from the redhead wizard.

Kakashi on the other hand, only pay attention to Hermione who seems not to notice them as she had her back on them and luckily for Kakashi that Yamato is two steps ahead of him. Kakashi had never seen anyone as beautiful as Hermione before, well there's a few but somehow it is Hermione who had caught his attention. Hermione reminds him of Sakura, strong and caring but Hermione is full of determination and unlike Sakura who will beat both Naruto and Sai if they pissed her off, Hermione will not do such thing and she will try everything to stop both Harry and Ron from fighting because he had saw what the effect from the locket had done to them when they had to wear it or when they had failed to destroy it. He had saw Hermione being sad before, he knew how hard the girl had tried but her effort failed since they had no idea how. Kakashi had heard from Yamato how Hermione hated being failed on anything but this was different. He had heard from both Harry and Ron that once while in school if Hermione had failed in either class or duel, she will had a bad temper, but this time around if she had failed, she often cries and isolated herself from the others because she did not want them to see her cries. Kakashi pitied the girl and he knows that she tried to be strong for the boys. Yamato is such a lucky man to have Hermione as his sister and Kakashi is very jealous of them because of their closeness towards each other. He knew how protective Yamato was towards her and Kakashi hope that he too could protect her from anything that could harm her. Kakashi had to admit that he really likes her and maybe more than that.

Both Harry and Hermione watches Ron muttering and rambling angrily non-stop and none to realize the two shinobi who had been watching them from behind when Harry suddenly aware of the present of another person there near them. He turns around to see both Yamato and Kakashi looking at them as the two shinobi smile at him. He quickly nudges Hermione on her arm and pointed at her brother and his fellow shinobi. Hermione turned and surprised to see her brother and Kakashi standing there watching them as she quickly removes the silencing charm but forgot to inform Ron who had been rambling and did not realizes that the two shinobi are there.

"…stupid, bloody hell this thing give us trouble, damn it that You-Know-Who, I wish he is burn to hell, arghh…bloody idiot…," Ron rambled with that angry expression written in his face, while both Yamato and Kakashi watched in amused to hear him swearing and muttering.

"Ron…hey Ron…," Harry whispered loudly to Ron who seems not to listen. Hermione looked slightly embarrassed as Ron keep on muttering about the bloody locket that contained the soul of Voldemort.

"It's okay just let him be," Yamato said and Kakashi smirk, knowing how upset the redhead was as the two shinobi walks towards them. This has got Ron stop from his rambling and looked at the two shinobi with eyes wide open and he was slightly red either from embarrassment or anger. He slowly turned to his two best friends who are both slightly red as well and he can see the sadness in their eyes.

Yamato looked at Hermione and saw her eyes are slightly red and glassy, wet from tears. He knew that she had tried not to cry but her eyes are filled with tears as sadness and anger written in her face. This really broke his heart to see her in such condition. He even realized that she tries not to cry in front of them especially to Harry and Ron and to Kakashi because she did not want to show them how weak she is. He walks towards her and holds her hand tightly and indicates her to follow him. He knew that she wanted to cry but not in front of them so as her brother he really understands her well. Hermione stood up and follow his lead as they left the others behind and Yamato signalled them not to follow.

Yamato and Hermione take a long walk away far away from the others until they had reaches a small stream and an open area. Yamato let go of Hermione's hand and wrap his arms around her and hold her tightly.

"Let it out, it's okay to cry," Yamato told her softly and slowly tears begins to fall from Hermione's eyes as she cry in her brother's arm. She felt herself as a failure and unable to do anything as if she had let them down.

Yamato held her tightly in his arms and hear her cry. It's really broke his heart to see her down, he never see her in such condition before.

"I'm such a failure. I had let everyone's down," Hermione choked in her cries as Yamato rubbed her arm softly and wiped her tears away from her delicate face.

"You're not a failure, and will not be one. You listen to me, maybe right now you are unable to do this but trust me one day, maybe today or tomorrow or the day after, you, Harry and Ron will make it successfully. As long as none of you had given up then everything will be fine," Yamato spoke softly as Hermione had almost stop crying as she cling to her brother and buried her face in his chest. She felt protected when being with him, though she is able to look after and protect herself, she felt lot safer when she is with Yamato, her only and older brother.

After felt a little relieves both Yamato and Hermione walked back to their friends and fellow teammates who had been waiting for them as evening approach.

Finally the fifth chapter for you guys, so hope that you will enjoy this chapter as much as I do though I took a bit longer time to write this one.

Our heroes are still in Konoha so the KHR characters are not yet to make their appearances here though I do insert some scene (my own scene) on the Wizarding world.

Any review or comment or questions please do not hesitate to ask. Sorry for any grammatical or spelling mistakes.