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CH5

"It doesn't matter what suffering I was put through when I was young. I more than made up for it in recent years." said Naruto looking at Hermione, again that guilty back full force in his eyes. "More importantly: we are perfectly safe from the tailed beast. Which is good to know for certain since not an awful lot of this info is of any use. It's mostly lies and a censored report." he finish seeing Hermione questioning look.

"Why would they lie so much?" asked Hermione, not really expecting an answer. She was therefore surprised to get an answer of more fact then opinion.

"It's what we do best: lie, cheat and sneak. It's the very thing our lives work on where my friends and I come from. It's the difference between live and death." Naruto was speaking completely unguarded now, seeing no point not to. Shikamaru would probably have a go at him later, but what the heck.

"You live in a very different place, don't you? But how can you be so sure that we are safe?" Hermione said, closing her book, and leaning forward, knowing that she probably shouldn't be hearing this.

"Most are sealed away inside humans, myself included. One is free and the other are all captured by a group know as the Akatsuki. They are the main problem. They would do anything to get me, but they are far away and will first want to get over there, the weeker ones. We are safe for now." Naruto leaned back and looked at Hermione with a small smile.

"What do these Akatsuki people do with the demons?" said Hermione., now looking at Naruto realising that this is the first time she has really seen Naruto. He was unguarded and just being himself.

"They seal them in some shrine of some sorts."

"So they would take it out of you then? So is that not a good thing, to free yourself from it?"

"Yes, beside the fact that it would be my death. Taking a demon out means only death for its holder."

"Then why do it?"

"Power." He looked at her seriously. "Tell me do you know how a wand works Hermione?"

"It controls and amplifies your magic."

" Yes, but mine doesn't, mine just control it. I have no need for it to amplify. Thanks to the fox, I have more magic than I could ever use. It's why I am so good in the lessons. All I need to do is control it and since the wand does that for me, it is easy enough."

"So, would they kill you for power?" said Hermione. in a sad tone.

"Definitely. Even some of my own neighbours would kill me because of fear or hate. Well, they can try all they like, they will never succeed in killing me."

"So that where the scars come from?"

"Mostly, I have gotten into many fights over the years. I have seen plenty of blood, and not all of the blood on my hands is my own."

"It must have been horrible for you!"

"You could say that... If you want the truth, I love it. To fight for you very life daily. To feel the cold hand of death on your shoulder. To see the light go out in your enemy eyes." Naruto said, watching as Hermione face got more horror struck. "Yes Hermione, we live in a very different world. In my world you would either have been killed or had killed by now... Don't look at me like that Hermione. It's all my choice and it only a job, a job that need doing like any other."

"A job, you have a job? And it's to kill people?" Hermione asked. She was truly was scared now. After all, she had become good friends with Naruto and there was always a glint in his eyes which was now obviously showing that he was here to kill someone. Maybe it was her. She couldn't see reason to kill, but why else would Naruto try his hardest to be friends with her?

"Yes. Now Hermione, remember that I shouldn't be talking about such thing. They don't happened and aren't real as far as anyone here is concerned. No one know where we truly come from besides Dumbledore, and that the way it should have stay. But I was too careless from the start now wasn't I? So don't tell anyone. There will be a price to pay if you do, for me and you. The only reason we're here is that Dumbledore wanted to make links between our two worlds. I suppose I painted quite a bad picture of our world haven't I? But it's not that bad really. It's just a world based on ninja or men for hire and that's what I am,"

"You're a ninja? So you just kill people for a living!"

"We do a lot more than that. In fact since it's a time of peace we haven't had many assassinations. No, mostly we are hired to protect travellers, take messages, weed gardens, or build homes and bridges. All we really are are over-trained handy men. It doesn't seem that bad if you look at it that way."

"No I suppose not, but it sounds like your not in school in your world."

"No we're not. we learn a lot at school But We prefer to do on the job learning mostly. When you pass the exams, you get split up into small 3 man squads with a sensei for each. This year will be a pleasant relief for us."

Hermione was once again won over by Naruto. Of course he wasn't here to kill someone. As he had said., they were in a time of peace. They did more, of what Hermione saw as, useful thing like building and helping old people. However was it really a time of peace? If Dumbledore wanted to make link, was it just for the sake of it or was there something more? After all, having a group of people who basally lived for war as an ally was a good move. "How come no one else knows were you came from?"

"Our lands are cut off from the rest of the world by some sort of magic barrier older than any records seem to go. However it does seem that even if no one knows, things still get from one side to the other."

"Why do you say that?"

"All of the tailed beasts are in our lands on the other side of the barrier, yet here we are in a school library with a pile of book about them in front of us. Now how is that possible, when the gap between the world only opened 3 year ago or 6 on this side? Our time seems to run slower in the barrier, so how would your side know about anything like this?"

Hermione would have loved to carry on this conversation, they was much more to learn. Of course, she knew it wasn't going to happened since Naruto was getting restless as he did almost at the same time every day. Soon, he would decide that it was time to go find Shikamaru, and, as if on cue, that is what he did. So Hermione follow him back into common room.

It was fair to say that Naruto's friends had soon seen the changes in Naruto. For instance, this morning when he had come down he looked awful: his hair untied and his clothes were just a pair of baggy trousers with a black top. His look was what you would of expect to find Naruto in the morning before his tip, but not after his return. For the first weak or two after his return, he keep to very normal ninja clothes, but after that he really gave up and just wore what ever he damn well liked. A few times he even won fights because the enemy (although all young and of low rank) couldn't fight a boy wearing a mini skirt and fish net stockings with some very sexy underwear. He was also openly gay though he may not say as much. It was no secret that he had many yaoi manga in his bedroom, which he didn't bother to hide. That and he did girlie things with girls. There were also two rumours which were the talk of the town. One was that he and Shikamaru were lovers. The other was that Naruto spent an awful lot of time and money down dark alleys and in back street clubs.

He was a very different Naruto and yet much the same as always. Naruto had mainly kept from wearing too girlie clothing at school. Of course, he wears a lot of female kimono, but that was about it. Though Kiba knew that Naruto did have the girl's school uniform in his closet. Of course, Kiba accepted this, and he accepted that Naruto could be calm. As he had seen him watching clouds or reading books, even before his trip he had his calm moments. But still he has looked at the wand in his hand twitching this way and that. He couldn't work out how Naruto was able to have patients to make the beautiful wand, the dogs carved so persistently with love and care. Naruto had sure changed thought Kiba. None of which Kiba really cared about. Naruto was his friend and a good friend whether he was wearing a skirt or not or whether he had long hair or not. However just because Kiba accepted it didn't mean he didn't worry. There was still something Naruto was hiding. Kiba didn't really know a lot of Naruto past, only meeting him in the academy, but he did know from Hinata that he had a hard childhood. Well ,Kiba thought, without a family it would be.

Naruto came into the common room with Hermione who when straight to Harry and had a conversation in which Harry left quickly to the dorm. As soon as he was back, he left the common room with Ron and Hermione.

Naruto mean while went straight to Shikamaru and saddled his lap. Naruto hand fished into one of Shikamaru pockets as he talked and then Naruto rolled off Shikamaru as Shikamaru made to slap him away, moaning about troublesome blonds disturbing his sleep. Naruto laughed and said thanks before he left moments after Harry and Co did. Kiba then decided it was a good time to have a walk also.

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