Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Harry Potter. You know what would've been cruel? If I'd written the last chapter just to give people a false sense of hope and then waited a year or more before updating again. But even I'm not that mean. Plus, I don't have the patience.

Ten-Ten, Neji, Fred, George, and Hermione quickly ran in the direction they'd heard Naruto's scream come from. They froze when they reached him and Neji and Ten-Ten's faces seemed confused at what they saw before them. Or more specifically, who.

"A-Anko sensei?" Ten-Ten stared at the jounin

"Hey, what's up?" Anko grinned at the group

"Nooo! Of all people to come here why did it have to be the crazy one?" Naruto blurted out and Anko was suddenly behind him holding a kunai knife to his neck

"What was that?" Her tongue quickly darted out

The three wizards felt scared, but took some comfort in Ten-Ten and Neji's calm demeanors. More Ten-Ten's since Neji was basically always calm as far as they knew.

"Hey, I'm Mitarashi Anko." Anko released Naruto and introduced herself

"Wait, is she just noticing us now?" Hermione silently wondered

"Fred Weasely."

"George Weasely."

"Hermione Granger."

the wizards introduced themselves

"What is your reason for being here?" Neji rephrased Naruto's earlier question in a nicer way

"Your Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher seems to have a habit of missing classes, so I'm supposed to be assisting some guy named Severus Snape teach it. Make it easier for him to teach two different classes, you know?" Anko explained to them

Neji noticed the expression that flashed across Hermione's face when Lupin's absences were mentioned

Fred, George, and Hermione weren't sure how safe they felt with her. The twins wanted to prank her, but remembered as a shinobi practical jokes weren't likely to work on her.

"Well, I'd better get going." With that Anko took off leaving the others staring after her for a moment

"She was...interesting." Hermione searched for a word to describe Anko and settled for that one

"Does she rank lower or higher than you guys on the ninja scale?" Fred asked

he and George were still considering that prank

"Much higher."

The twins faces fell at Neji's answer

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The Gryffindors and Slytherins were at each other's throats again until Snape silenced them by taking points away from Gryffindor causing the Slytherins to snicker and the Gryffindors to glare. Then all of them turned their attention to the purple haired woman before them.

"This is Miss Mitarashi. She will be helping me teach this class." It was obvious Snape wasn't happy about this arrangement

Harry heard a strange whispering. He recognized it as a snake. No, several snakes, and all of the voices were coming from Anko.

Throughout the class Anko and Snape remained at odds, but still manged to teach class together.

One of students started getting cocky and declared they could take on anything. Before Snape could put a stop to their foolishness Anko said,

"Oh really? What was his name again? Voldemort, right?"

All of the students' eyes widened

"Don't say the name!" the student snaped

"Voldemort. Voldemort, Voldemort, Voldemort." Anko repeated over and over her voice getting faster and faster each time. She was clearly enjoying their torment

"No, stop it." they begged, completely terrified

"Stop saying the name!" the other students agreed

"Quit complaining." Anko frowned at them "In a real battle you don't have time to get psyched out. Besides," she grinned, "The fun doesn't even begin until someone starts screaming in agony."

All the students took a step back from her.

"Maybe she's not so bad after all." Snape thought, looking at her with new eyes

"It looks like I have no choice but to take 10 points from Slytherin." Anko decided

"But I'm in Gryffindor." the student blinked at her

"Oops. Well, I guess it's too late to do anything about it now." Anko rubbed the back of her head in embarrassment "With so many students Its natural we'd all forget which student is in which class from time to time."

"What's she talking about? She's the only one who forgot." All the students thought to themselves

"I take it back. She is a pain." Snape thought

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"Blimey, was she a nutter!" Ron commented on Anko after class was over

"I need to talk to you guys about something." Harry told them and indicated it was private "I could hear snakes talking in Miss Mitarashi."

"That's spooky, mate." Ron's eyes widened

Hermione realized it probably was because of her technique, but couldn't say anything about it to Harry and Ron so the two boys spent the rest of the day trying to figure it out.

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It was dusk and the Shinobi were running across the lake finally on their way to their first lead on Kiba's whereabouts.