"Professor, who is Sasuke?" Naruko froze as she turned to face Harry. He stood there before her; he had waited until the others had left just to ask her this.

"Where did you hear that name?" she asked, he voice was calm but the second Harry asked the question he realized that he shouldn't have.

"You…" he said nervously.

"I have never said that name before…unless," her eyes became cold. Harry knew he was in trouble now.

"You will forget that name you will forget what you saw in the forest and you will stay out of my business do you understand me Potter?" her voice was still calm, but he could tell it was under great strain to keep it so.

"But Professor…"

"What! What do you want? What is it that you want me to tell you?" She shouted tears running down her face. Harry had never seen someone so broken; he wanted to know what he had done to her to cause her such pain.

"I am sorry Professor…if you ever want to talk…" he said not know what else to say he turned to leave. He looked back and she was gone.

Over the next few weeks she seemed to be back to normal for the most part, but she seemed to be a little more distant with him. And that was the least of his problems Ron and Hermione were fight about something that happened back in their fourth year and then Ron's new girlfriend Lavender Brown. And to top it all off he had to go to one of Slughorn's parties, the worst part was he had to find a date soon or bad things might happen.

He couldn't ask Ginny she was going with Dean, it would have been too awkward to go with Hermione. So he made his way to Naruko's office. He stopped outside of it he noticed a strange light coming from under the door. The door was cracked slightly, in the room there were two people standing over something, neither of them were Namikaze, but he had seen them both before it was the pink haired and silver haired man from the Three Broom sticks. Then he noticed what they were standing over. It was a person and it had to be his Sensei. The two spoke in rapid Japanese so he couldn't understand a word that they said.

"What are you doing?" A bored voice asked from behind him. Harry turned to see the ponytail bored look.

"I wanted to talk to Professor Namikaze," Harry said quickly, "What is going on in there?"

"Oh…that…Namikaze has…a special condition so we have come to check on her," the man said glancing in the room.

"Is it life threatening?" Harry asked concern filling his voice.

"I don't know, her condition is…well…unique," he said rather lamely. Soon the silver haired man walked from the room.

"How is it?" Shikamaru asked lazily.

"The seal is more complex than anything that I have ever seen, it looks like she learned a some Fuinjutsu from someone…but it seems strong enough to keep anything from escaping while she is alive," Kakashi answered while pulling out an orange book, and without looking at Harry he asked, "Who's the gaki?"

"I don't know I thought it was too troublesome to ask," Shikamaru said lazily, "can I go in?"

"Not unless you want to die, Sakura and Hinata are giving her an exam right now, if Minato or Jiraiya things would be so much easier…they are better with seals than I am," Kakashi said still reading his book.

"I thought you were supposed to be the best with Fuinjutsu?" Shikamaru said leaning against the wall.

"I was until she surpassed me in that field too."

"What are you talking about?" Harry asked annoyed he couldn't understand a word they said.

"If we wanted you to know then we would have said it in English," Shikamaru asked. After a minute the two men walked back into the office. Harry knocked on the door

"Come in," a cheer voice called. Nervously Harry opened the door, he say Naruko sitting on her desk. Two of the most beautiful girls he had even seen stood on each side of her. So much beauty should be allowed in one place, he thought to himself.

"Mr. Potter what can I do for you?" she asked smiling.

"Professor I was wondering…" he didn't know how to ask her, she looked up at him with a slightly confused expression, Harry didn't like the fact the silver haired man was snickering and the pink haired girl to her left was smiling devilishly.

"Would you go to Slughorn's party with me?"

"I am sorry Harry I can't that wouldn't be appropriate," she truly did look sorry. "I heard from Hermione that girls have got love potions and they are trying to slip them to you."

"If I wasn't your Professor than I would," she said smiling at him.

"Well…okay then…and I want to apologize for…" He started but she smiled at him.

"Don't worry about it the past is the past nothing you can do to change it no matter how much we want to," Naruko said, Harry smiled as he left two good things did come from this one he knew that she wasn't mad at him and two he had a chance with her. But he didn't like the fact he heard giggling as he left her office, he turned to see his Professor pouting and her pink haired friend with her arm around her. As he made his way back to his dorm he ran into Luna and decided to ask her to the dance.

Ron couldn't understand why Harry who could have any girl in school chose Luna Lovegood, but Hermione and Ginny thought that it was nice of Harry to take her. A small part of him was happy he was Luna said yes but the rest of him wished that she would have said no. He wished…his gaze feel on Naruko as they ate breakfast.

Near the end of breakfast Dumbledore stood up, "I would like to make an announcement," he said his eyes twinkling as he waited for the silence, "Professor Slughorn would like me to tell you his party next week has been extended to all those above the fourth year unless previously invited."

This brightened the mood of all those in the upper classes while seriously disappointing all the younger students at the same time, but it gave them hope that they would get an invitation. Over the next week mayhem ensued as people scrambled for dates.

The other Professor's looked disapproving as Professor Namikaze turned down what seemed like the hundredth student to ask her to the party. It felt like Harry had to turn down just as many girls; it seemed that no one believed that he was going with Luna Lovegood.

He wondered how the party would be tonight and if Professor Namikaze would be there and if she would bring a friend. The thought of someone else with her didn't make him very happy.