A/N: HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!-confetti- Yep! It;s been one year since I started this NarutoxHP crossover. Seems like only yesterday I was still writting Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura in GENIN character.... I miss those days ;u;

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Harry and Ron burst thRough the doors into the Gryiffindor common room and ran towards the Anbu, thier cloaks billowing out behind them.

Harry stopped for a few momments, panting. "Guys! The wierdest-"

"Scariest," Ron muttered.

"Thing just happened. We were in the library looking for Hermione when suddenly I couldn't control myself. It was like..." He paused, searching for the right words, "like something had invaded my mind. I knew what it was going to make me do before I -it, whatever- did it." he explained.

"He kept casting Stupefy at me!" Ron added.

The Shinobi exhanged a glance at each other and then down at Mortel.

"Do you know anything about this?" Naruto asked, arms folded over his chest.

"Unfortunatly, Voldemort and Orochimaru never cared to share thier entire plan with me. They didn't feel the need too, because of this spell. It allows them to control... ," he glance solemly at Sakura "whoever bares the scar. They simply told me that it didn't matter if I refused to listen to them, because they could Just use the spell." He said.

"So, whatever they have planned, involves using mind control on you, Sakura and me?" Harry asked.

Mortel nodded his head.

"No problem." said a certian elder Uchiha from his perch on the window sill.

"I was wondering when you'd decide to show yourself." Sasuke stated.

"What? I thought you'd gone to the courtyard to read." Naruto said.

"Nah, I just felt it would be best if I waited outside."

"In below freezing whether?" Sakura asked.

"Alright, enough with the interogation. As I was saying, the seal I put on this kid will keep any dark powers at bay. Mind control would be a pain in the $$, so I'll make one for Sakura and Harry."

And so, Itachi got to work on two more seals. Though it didn't settle the unnerve in the other Uchiha's mind.

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Later that evening, Sasuke and Sakura were walking around the castle grounds, finishing up thier patrol. It had been only three weeks since the first attack on the school and Christmas was in only a few days. Garland wound around the pillars in the courtyard and twinkling lights hung from the trees, decorated with ornaments. All in all, it wasn't exactly the best time to-

"Sakura." Sasuke said, getting her attention.

"Yeah?"

Sasuke stopped, and looked into Sakura's bright emerald eyes. "I want you to bail out on this mission." He said with a strait face.

"Excuse me?" Sakura asked, offened.

"I don't want you here. Not when Those two freaks can get into your mind like they did to Harry."

"I have Itachi's seal." She said, showing him the paper stuck to her fore arm.

"Yeah, but I still don't want to take the chances."

"Sasuke, I appreciate the concern, but I can handle myself."

Sasuke started to raise his voice. "Sakura, you don't understand how dangerous this is! If that seal fails for even one second, it could be all over! And even if it doesn't! They could still send thier goons to come for you. You realize that to extraxt your power, you don't have to be alive right?! This isn't child's play!" Oh, wrong choice of words.

"Is that what you think of my strength, Uchiha? Suitable for child's play?! Well maybe you've forgotten how amy times I've saved your $$!" Sakura shouted, turning on her heels. "Come and find me when you remember." She hissed before jumping off and disapearing in the night.

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"Come on!"

"There's no way."

"Don't be such a baby!"

"I said no!"

"There's a good chance you'll get a good one."

"Would you give it a rest?!"

"If you don't, I'll tell everyone about the time when you got stuck on the-"

"Alright!.... Ugh! It was earwax!" Ron exclaimed, spitting the jelly bean onto the ground. Harry couldn't stop laughing, along with the other boys in Gryiffidnor. They were all in their dorm, doing pretty much what they did everynight.

"I'm sooo bored." Naruto sighed. "Hey! Let's prank Slytherin!" He suggested, a mischevious grin growing on his face.

"Not a chance." Kakashi's voice rang from upstairs, where he was bunking.

"You suck the fun out of everything." Naruto muttered under his breathe.

"I heard that!"

It was then that Naruto noticed something missing. He stood up and looked arounf the room. There seemed to be a missing nin (no pun intended).

"Hey, where's Sasuke?" Naruto asked Itachi, who Bunked on the other side of the room.

"Last time I saw him, he was sitting up on the roof. He looked pretty bumbed about something." Itachi answered, while TRYING to get some sleep (not that the other boys were helping).

Naruto walked over to the window. "I'd better go talk to him." He said before the darkness outside seemd to swallow him whole.

After a few minuted of walking around on the rooftops of the castle, Naruto spotted the raven hairring Anbu sitting on on of the towers. He walked up beside him and sat down. Sasuke seemed to take to interest in his presence.

"Hey." Naruto, said in an effort to break the silence.

"Hey." Sasuke mirrored in monotone.

"So, you gonna tell me what's up?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke sighed and shifted his gaze to the full, bright moon over head.

"Sakura hasn't come back yet. Isaid the wrong things earlier and-"

"You didn't imply that she was weak did you?" Naruto cringed.

"Didn't mean to."

"Oh-ho, you're sunk my friend."

Sasuke sighed. "It's just that this whole thing has me worried about her, and I can't concentrate on the mission knowing that she's in danger here."

"You don't have to worry about Sakura-chan. She's a lot stonger than you may thing. Like one time, when you were gone, we were on a mission together to bring some of Tsunade's special medicine to a man who lived far up in the northern mountains. Turns out, the guy was sick cause he had been poisoned by some missing-nin gang because they tried forcing him to build them a weapon and he refused. We were attacked before we got there, six against two. We managed to take out the first two together, but we got separated and two of them went after Sakura. They used an earth jutsu to bring boulders down around them, like a barrier. I thought she was a goner." Naruto laughed lighter before continuing, "But by the time I had taken care of my two guys and blew the bloulders to bits, she had already finished off her guys and was trying to get out. The vile with the medicine had broken, but she used herbs she found on the mountain side and her water cantine to make more." He turned t look at Sasuke. "She's strong, and smart enough to be able to look out for herself. I'm guessing she thinks you still think of her as a weak little girl. And if I know Sakura-chan, then she won't stand for it."

Sasuke stayed silent for a few more moments, staring off into the night sky. "You're right." He slung an arm around his best friend's shoulder. "Thanks man." He said before standing up.

"Where are you going?" Naruto asked.

"To find Sakura, baka." Sasuke smirked before jumping off.

"Oi! Who are you called Baka! Teme!" Naruto shouted.

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Sasuke searched everywhere he could think of for Sakura, tracking her chakra, footprints, anything that would help. But even after half an hour, he came up with nothing. He was strating to panic when he realized that she might have gone back to her dorm to sleep. Sure enough, when he hung outside her window, he found her peacfully asleep. The first thing that came to mind was that she looked like an angel and half of him didn't want to wake her up. But the other half wouldn't be able to rest until he apologized. So he knocked litle on the window,

Ever thing light sleeper, Sakura's eyes opened, on alert for danger, and darted towards the window. She got up and opened it.

"What are you doing?" She whispered harshly.

He stretched out his hand. "Care for a midnight stroll?"

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Ya, kinda short, but hey, it's pastmidnight and I'm pooped. Enjoy!