Chapter THREE
Team Riki met up outside the hall before breakfast, before they headed in together. Though they couldn't eat together, it felt better to meet up and confirm things before they split.
Sakura and Itachi sat at the edge of the bench again. Sakura quietly used her Chakra strings to yank over anything that caught her eye. She sniffed it curiously, before pushing it away.
"Why isn't there any rice?"
Itachi shrugged. He was eating the plainest bread there was. Sakura quickly followed.
"How can anyone eat so much?" Sakura muttered, glancing around in disgust.
"I though you would be used to things like this, considering that you teammate is Naruto."
"Good point." Sakura gulped down a cup of water, done. Itachi followed not a second later, placing his cup on the table.
The first class they had was the Study of the Ancient Runes. Since it was mostly purely theory, Sakura felt that it was a breeze. She sighed when she saw Itachi listening to the teacher drone on and on about something.
She would read through the textbooks later.
They were dismissed after the teacher gave them homework, a fifteen inch essay, two translations, and a few books to read through.
Sakura saw Hermione marching off towards Harry and Ron, looking worried.
Their next class was Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Slytherin shared their class with Gryffindor, something both houses complained about.
Well, most of them did.
Sakura skipped up to Neji and Shikamaru, tugging a deep in though Itachi behind her. "Hi! We're in the same class."
Neji nodded briskly, sighing when Shikamaru yawned. "This lazy one here was caught sleeping."
Sakura blinked. "This one is taking classes too seriously." She nudged Itachi.
"All knowledge is worth having." Itachi said blankly.
"Hey, Neji, Shikamaru..." Sakura turned around to see some Gryffindor girl trail off.
"Who's that?" Sakura asked, eyes narrowed.
"Some annoying girl that won't leave us alone." Neji muttered. "Her name is...Lavender Brown, or something."
"Hello, who are you?" The girl asked, rudely giving Sakura a once over.
"Can we go? Class starts soon, an I think the teacher is the Snape guy." Sakura asked, turning around promptly.
"I have no reason to argue with that." Shikamaru sighed.
Team Riki ignored the Gryffindor girl and turned to face the door just as it opened and Snape stepped out.
"Inside." He ordered.
Team Riki sat down in a middle row in the order Neji, Sakura, Shikamaru, Itachi.
Harry Potter and his friends sat in front of them. Sakura eyed Snape, then looked casually around the classroom. She knew guys like this too.
"I have not asked you to take out your books," said Snape, addressing Hermione, who quickly dropped them.
"I wish to speak to you, and I want your fullest attention." Snape began.
"You have had five teachers in this subject so far, I believe." He made a few jeers at the previous teachers, before going on to describe the Dark Arts. Sakura noted Snape's obvious dislike for Harry Potter.
Itachi, meanwhile, thought Snape talked about the Dark Arts in a very familiar way.
"Now, you will divide into pairs. One partner will attempt to jinx the other without speaking. The other will attempt to repel the jinx in equal silence."
Sakura and Neji paired up, while Itachi and Shikamaru did the same.
"You do know that we don't really know any jinxes, right?" Neji asked.
Sakura nodded. She glanced at Neji, and receiving a nod, raised her hand.
"Yes, Miss..."
"Haruno, sir." Sakura said.
"Yes, Miss Haruno?"
"We don't really know any spells taught here." She said, and Snape scowled.
"Ah, yes. The transfers from Japan."
Sakura stood there as Snape attempted to glare her down.
"Very well. You may practice the spells you are taught back at your previous school."
Sakura nodded in gratitude before turning back to Neji. "Let's do this?"
"We don't know any shield charms." Itachi pointed out.
Sakura sighed. "Let's just do what we normally do, okay?
"How troublesome."
Sakura held up her wand.
Silent jinxes were very similar to techniques performed without hand signs. She then glanced around. Still, the levels of the techniques they knew were on a completely different level to what was being practiced.
"Try to tone down on the techniques." Itachi said, having noticed the same thing.
"Sure." Sakura muttered.
She gripped her wand and gave it a random wave.
'Suiton: Suidan no jutsu!'
She sent the water ball towards Neji, who swung his wand to one side, before spinning, blocking the attack with a kaiten.
"Kaiten doesn't even require the wand." Sakura said.
Neji shrugged.
Sakura pouted, running chakra to her skin and her robe so that the water just slid off.
A few unfortunate people around them got splattered by the water.
Neji held up his wand, and Sakura felt the wave of chakra approaching, even without the use of her Byakugan.
She quickly waved her wand, disrupting the flow within the Vacuum Palm...er...wand? with the same technique of her own.
"Okay. I really think this isn't what we should be doing." Sakura muttered.
Meanwhile, Itachi and Shikamaru were having similar problems.
Well, problems in terms of how much damage they cause to the area around them. That, and they weren't really taught defense techniques.
Shikamaru decided to use his Shadow mimicry technique, and Itachi 'defended' against it by summoning his crows, and using them to cover every source of light there was in the room.
Shikamaru sighed, a sign of defeat, and Itachi sent back his crows.
Itachi summoned a simple fireball, and Shikamaru waved his wand with another sigh.
Itachi was slowing down on purpose to let Shikamaru catch up, and all of Team Riki knew it.
An earth wall popped up in front of the Nara, and Itachi, with a sigh, weakened his attack even more before sending it towards the Nara.
After all four of them were done, they glanced around to access the damage. Snape glared disapprovingly at them, but didn't comment, even as the other students muttered to each other, shooting them looks. The DADA professor waved his wand, clearing the mess they had created, including the huge puddles of water from Sakura's Water bullet Technique, the scattered pieces of paper from when the two Vacuum palms collided, the crow feathers, and the remains of the brick wall.
Luckily, for them, Snape's annoyance was soon directed at Harry, who just couldn't seem to hold his tongue.
In the end, he earned himself a detention.
Team Riki headed out for their short break a while later, ignoring the looks shot their way.
Sakura was bursting with excitement for the coming class, Potions.
Apparently, Narcissa had played with a few strings, and they had been allowed to enter the classes that usually, only the people who had gotten the required O.W.L grade, but they were allowed to go through without the exams.
Then again, none of them would fail anyways.
They entered the classroom and found that only a few people were taking this class. There were four Slytherins apart from Sakura and Itachi. Draco was one of them. The four were sitting at a table. There were four from Ravenclaw, occupying another table.
Harry and his friends were sitting at a table with some Hufflepuff.
Neji nudged them, and they sat down at an open table, and not a second later, their teacher trotted into the room.
The man greeted Harry and Blaise enthusiastically, before turning to the rest of the class.
"Now then...Scales out, everyone, and potion kits. Also, don't forget your copies of Advanced Potion-Making..."
"Sir?" Harry raised his hand.
"Harry, m'boy?"
"I haven't got a book or scales or anything. Ron hasn't either. We didn't realize we'd be able to do the N.E.W.T., you see..."
"Ah, yes, Professor McGonagall did say something...Don't worry, m'boy. You can use ingredients from the store cupboard today, and I'm sure we can lend you some scales. We've got a small stock of old books here. They'll do until you can write to Flourish and Blotts..."
Slughorn strode over to the cupboard in the corner, and pulled out two copies of Advanced Potion-Making by Libatius Borage. He passed them to Harry and Ron. He also gave them each a set of scales.
"Now then." Slughorn returned to the front of the class. "I've prepared a few potions for you to have a look at. These are the kind of thing you'd be able to make after completing your N.E.W.T.s. You must to have heard of 'em, even if you haven't made 'em yet. Can anyone tell me what this one is?"
He pointed to one of the cauldrons.
Hermione was the first to raise her hand. "It's Veritaserum. It's a colorless, odorless potion that forces the drinker to tell the truth." Hermione said.
Sakura shot Itachi a look. They'd have to watch out for things like this. In this world, where potions like this existed, they would have to watch out for everything,
"Very good!" Slughorn pointed to another cauldron. "Now, this one is pretty well known. Featured in a few Ministry leaflets too...Who can-?"
Hermione's hand was first again.
"lt's Polyjuice Potion, sir," She said.
"Excellent, excellent! Now, this one here... yes, my dear?" Slughorn, now looking slightly amused, gestured to Hermione again.
"It's Amortentia."
"It is indeed. It seems almost foolish to ask but I guess you know what it does?" Slughorn looked pretty impressed.
"It's the most powerful love potion in the world."
Sakura turned to Neji and snickered. "Bring a little back for Hinata. Maybe she can use it on Naruto."
It took everything in the Hyuuga to not jump to his feet in horror.
"Quite right! I suppose you recognized it by its distinctive mother-of-pearl sheen?"
"Also the steam rising in characteristic spirals." Hermione continued. "It's supposed to smell differently to each of according to what attracts us, and I can smell freshly mown grass and new parchment and-"
She trailed off, suddenly embarrassed.
"What is your name, my dear?" Slughorn asked.
"Hermione Granger, sir."
"Granger? Could you possibly be related to Hector Dagworth-Granger, the founder of the Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers?"
"I don't think so, sir. I'm Muggle-born."
Sakura could hear Draco and Theodore snickering.
"Oho! 'One of my best friends is Muggle-born, and she's the best in our year!' I assume this is the friend you spoke of, Harry?"
"Yes, sir." Harry nodded.
"Well, take twenty well-earned points for Gryffindor, Miss Granger." Slughorn smiled.
Neji shot Sakura a smug look, oozing smugness like he practiced it every day.
He probably did.
Itachi nudged her, and she noted that he had seen too.
"You are so on, Hyuuga." Sakura sneered.
"Bring it, Haruno." Neji said, amusement in his eyes.
"And now." Slughorn said. "It's time to start work."
"You haven't told us what's in this one." Ernie Macmillan said, pointing at the cauldron standing on Slughorn's desk.
"Oho." Slughorn smiled. "Yes. That. Well, that one, ladies and gentlemen, is a curious little potion called Felix Felicis. I take it that you know what Felix Felicis does, Miss Granger?" He turned to Hermione, who had gasped.
"It's liquid luck." Hermione said. "It makes you lucky!"
"Quite right, take another ten points for Gryffindor. Yes, it's a funny little potion, Felix Felicis. Very tricky to make, and disastrous to get wrong. However, if brewed correctly you will find that all your endeavors tend to succeed ... at least until the effects wear off."
Sakura tensed.
A potion that made you lucky?
Team Riki exchanged glances. Even Shikamaru was wide awake.
They shared a single glance, then nodded.
It was a dangerous thing in their career to depend on things like that. Become too dependent, and it could cost one their life.
It was tempting, though, and if they really wanted it, they could always just...
They turned back to Slughorn, who was talking again.
"And that-" He was saying, "-is the prize of this lesson."
There was a moment of silence as it sunk in.
The next hour or so was filled with people attempting to make the Draught of the Living Death. Itachi and Sakura, Neji and Shikamaru each teamed up without really sharing any words.
They always had the 'new students' card if they needed. Besides, if a pair won, they would only get half of the Felix potion each.
Sakura frowned at the instructions, sniffed the beans, then told Itachi to crush the beans instead of cutting them.
Itachi raised an eyebrow, and so did Slughorn, who had been wandering behind them to watch the work of the students.
"It's the same when making medicine." Sakura said, choosing her words carefully so that she gave nothing important away. "These beans aren't the freshest. If you wanted the beans as a whole, it wouldn't matter if you tossed them in whole. This means we need the juice. If the beans were fresh, it wouldn't matter, but these are kind of old. Crushing them is the most effective way for the juice to come out."
Itachi shrugged, then did as told with precise flicks of his wrists.
Slughorn nodded with a bright smile on his face.
"And time's... up! Stop stirring, please!"
Sakura looked up from where she had been folding paper cranes. After she had done what she claimed to be 'her part', she had left the potion making to Itachi. She had already made a hundred or so out of a scrap piece of paper she had gotten from somewhere.
One thousand cranes granted a wish too.
Slughorn moved around the tables, looking into cauldrons. He passed Team Riki's table. He nodded at Neji and Shikamaru, and looked very impressed with Sakura and Itachi's potions, which was very pale compared to the others.
He walked over to the last table. He nodded at Hermione's, smiled ruefully at Ron's, ignored Ernie's, and looked incredibly delighted with Harry's. "It seems like we have a slight problem..." Slughorn turned to Sakura and Itachi. "But before that, I overheard an interesting conversation between he two of you."
Sakura blinked.
"You crushed the beans instead of cutting them up." Slughorn said. Harry shot the pair a look. "Why is that?"
'He heard us talking about it!'
"Because it's a more effective way to get the juice out." Sakura said, unsure of where this was going.
He smiled. "Very good. Ten points to Slytherin for good understanding and reasoning."
Sakura shot Neji a look.
"Also, you said something about medicine?" Slughorn pressed.
"I took healing classes before." Sakura said.
Slughorn hummed. "You must the the transfers I heard about." He nodded to himself. "Now, it seems like we have two winners..."
"I shall prepare a second bottle for later." Slughorn said. "For now-" He turned to Harry. "It's clear you've inherited your mother's talent. She was very good at potions! Here you are, then, here you are." He passed the bottle over. "As promised, one bottle of Felix Felicis. Use it well!"
Sakura and Itachi shrugged. They didn't really want it anyways.
"He did something, didn't he?" Sakura murmured under her breath.
Itachi nodded. "Keep an eye on Harry Potter during lunch." He ordered Neji and Shikamaru. The two nodded, for Itachi was team leader, no matter their usual team dynamics.
They split at the entrance of the dining room. Sakura and Itachi sat down in their usual place and eyed the food that was already set up.
Sakura pulled a bowl of something towards herself and sniffed it curiously. She picked up what she had learnt to be a 'spoon' and dipped it into it. The spoon was like a smaller, not-made-of-wood version of an otama, which was basically a large wooden spoon used to scoop ramen soup.
Sakura would know a lot about this, seeing that Naruto dragged them to eat at Ichiraku often.
Believe it or not, she missed ramen.
She brought the spoon full of red soup to her mouth. "Tomato." She muttered.
Itachi turned to her, then eyed the soup in front of her. "Tomato?"
Sakura nodded. She took another mouthful of the soup. "Kinda good."
Itachi hummed. "Do you think my brother will like it?"
Sakura grinned.
The next day was what they had come to know as 'Saturday', which was the sixth day in the week, and a part of the two day holiday known as the 'Week end'. Sakura had complained that it was 'Unfair' and that Shinobi should have 'holidays where no one was allowed to go on missions or fight each other'.
A few people were hanging around the Common Room, working on the homework that had been given to the earlier on that week. Neji and Shikamaru were working on some essay on 'The Principles of Rematerialization'.
A sudden movement alerted them both of their moving target. Neji and Shikamaru noted Harry Potter about to leave the Common room.
Shikamaru ran chakra to his ears and heard the last few words shared between the three, whom they had come to know as the 'Golden Trio'.
"Good luck!" Hermione called. "We'll wait for you. Tell us what he taught you, okay?"
"Good luck!" Ron said, and the two of them watched their friend leave through the portrait hole.
Neji activated his Byakugan, keeping an eye on Harry Potter as the boy walked down the corridor. Shikamaru sighed, then wandered over to Hermione and Ron, who were now talking about the homework.
Hermione noticed him first. She smiled and gave a little wave. "Hey, Shikamaru!"
Ron turned around. He fixed Shikamaru with a wary look, before it melted away into a tiny smile. "Hey."
Shikamaru yawned. "Hi." He plopped himself down onto the space Harry had been occupying before and stretched. "I'm so tired."
Hermione giggled. "You're always tired." She said, repeating what she always heard Sakura say.
"Aren't you?" Shikamaru asked, yawning again. "I'd be asleep now if I didn't have homework to do. I know we have tomorrow, but I'd rather do everything today, then sleep through tomorrow." He squinted at the clock, then rubbed his eyes. "Darn. I can't even see the time."
"It's almost eight." Hermione told him. "Which is still kind of early."
"Oh." Shikamaru sighed.
"If you're that tired, you should sleep more, you know?" Hermione said.
Shikamaru opened his mouth, but Neji beat him to it. The Hyuuga had wandered over, and was now standing behind his teammate.
"He's always asleep." He said. "He naps all the time and sleeps through most of the classes."
Hermione gasped. "But...then...if you don't pay attention, you might fail, or something!"
Shinobi life had always been more to do with physical skill and ability. When it came to a battle situation, knowledge that came from books didn't help much, unless it was come forbidden scroll that taught you a technique that got you out of whatever situation you were in. Even if it did, if you couldn't perform it, it didn't help anyways.
And besides, Shikamaru was a genius. He knew things without ever being taught.
All in all, he had never seen the need to focus in class.
He yawned again. "I won't." He rubbed at his eyes.
Ron raised an eyebrow.
"Aren't you guys tired?" Neji asked.
Hermione shrugged. "We're used to staying out late." She said, a tone akin to annoyance laced into her voice.
"And we need to wait for Harry today." Ron chirped.
"Harry? Oh, where'd he go?" He looked around as if he had just noticed that the boy wasn't here.
"He's training with Dumbledore." Hermione said, eyes shining.
Bingo!
"The principle?" Shikamaru asked. "Wow. What for?"
Ron shrugged. "We don't know. We're waiting for him to come back so he can tell us."
Hermione glanced around carefully, then leaned forward.
Neji and Shikamaru took the cue and did the same. "Since you're transfers and come from Japan, I don't know how much you know about it, but I'll tell you the basics, okay?"
Hermione told them about Harry's history, of how he had lost his parents to the Dark Lord, Lord Voldemort, and how he had been the only person to survive some killing curse.
"We don't say his name." Hermione said. "Here, people call him You-know-who or He-who-must-not-be-named."
"That's a mouthful." Neji murmured.
Hermione cracked a smile. "I'm sure you remember from the feast at the start of term, but he's come back."
Ron spoke up then. "Dumbledore's trying to teach Harry to fight him, or something."
Shikamaru hummed. "Oh. That sounds...scary."
Not really.
"But we'll stay with him till the end." Hermione announced. "Because we're friends."
This time, when Shikamaru smiled, it wasn't an act.
That was something he liked to hear.
And they had information which should keep Sakura off their case.
This day couldn't have gone any better.
Now, if only he didn't have to do homework.
Sakura, Itachi, Neji and Shikamaru met up whenever they could to share information. They noted everything down on a scroll, so that they could sort through everything when they were alone. Sakura kept it stored in her arm.
Classes seemed to go on smoothly as well.
Sakura and Itachi got their vial of Felix Felicis, which Sakura also stored in her arm.
They now practiced non-verbal 'spells' not only in Defense against the Dark Arts, but in a few other classes as well.
Not that it mattered, seeing that hand sign-less techniques weren't that difficult. They actually learned a few useful spells, such as the one that let them return everything to it's normal state and stuff, but they decided to stick to their techniques when it came to combat.
The daily letter delivery service interrupted their breakfast. Among the many owls, one bird caught Sakura's eye. "Hey! Isn't that..."
Itachi looked up and caught sight of what Sakura was talking about. A few Slytherins, who had been sitting close by, looked up curiously after overhearing them.
Across the room, Neji and Shikamaru had noticed as well.
A very loud screech made everyone look up, the cry bringing shivers up more than one spine.
The magnificent hawk stood out among the owls.
"That's Iroha!" Sakura got to her feet and spread her arms. The messenger hawk, Iroha, let out another screech before swooping down towards the pinkette. It tore through the cloud of the other birds, knocking more than a few from its course. Feathers rained down below.
The hawk landed neatly on Sakura's arm and held up it's leg, where a message scroll was tied to it.
Sakura took it and handed it to Itachi, then fed the bird some sausages from some plate.
"Hokage-sama expects a report from us within this week." Itachi said, having quickly read through the scroll. "Iroha will come back in three days, and we are to hand it to him then."
Sakura hummed. She petted Iroha on the head one more time before she tossed it up into the air. The bird screeched again, before swooping down and grabbing some beacon off the table. It vanished out the way it had come in.
Later, Neji and Shikamaru overheard the Golden trio talking about some 'Hagrid' and Quidditch tryouts.
After breakfast, Itachi relayed the Hokage's message to them. Since it was a Saturday, they had no classes, but Sakura and Itachi soon departed, saying that they would finish off the mission report.
With nothing really left to do and curious about this 'Quidditch', which they had heard about often in the Common Room, Neji and Shikamaru decided to check it out.
A girl, whom they knew to be Katie Bell, smiled when they approached the group of people, all Gryffindor, hovering around the Courtyard.
"Are you here for Quidditch tryouts too?"
The shinobi glanced at each other. "Quidditch tryouts?"
Neji eyed his broom in one hand, then at all the people flying around on them as if they were nothing.
It hurt his pride, but-"Neither of us know how to fly."
And they spent the next fifteen minutes learning that.
Katie was impressed, seeing how quickly they had picked up the skill.
Well, they were shinobi. Adapting and quick learning were in their blood.
Shikamaru tossed what was called the 'Quaffle' into the air, then caught it. "So you throw this thing into the hoop?"
Some kid who had been enthusiastically telling him about the rules, nodded. "Yeah. It's worth ten points."
Shikamaru turned to where Neji was fiddling with a bat.
The Hyuuga turned to the dude who was introducing the other equipment.
Harry Potter was standing it the side, watching them.
The boy released the 'Bludger', and Neji blinked when it flew at him. Not knowing what else to do, he hit the thing with the bat, sending it towards Shikamaru.
The Nara, who had been hovering over the ground with some other guy dodged the thing without even looking.
After the Bludger flew off somewhere, the Nara fixed the Hyuuga with a lazy halfhearted glare. "I'm telling on you to Sakura."
Neji smirked. "We'll see about that." He scoffed, somehow making that rude noise sound poised. "She likes me better."
Shikamaru scowled. "She doesn't."
The Bludger came back towards them. Shikamaru dodged it and Neji whacked it again, this time with much more strength, towards Shikamaru. The boy's eyes widened at the sudden speed and he flipped off his broom, sticking himself to it's underside by his feet. The Bludger flew over the handle with a few centimeters to spare.
It would have hit him if he hadn't dodged.
And that was how the two of them earned their positions, Shikamaru as a Chaser and Neji as a beater, on the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
They were on a mission, but they could have fun, right?
Besides, Harry Potter was on the Quidditch team, so they could keep an eye on him this way, right?
The two weren't really sure those reasons alone would be use in pacifying Itachi.
In their defense, they hadn't really gone to the tryouts because they wanted to join the team. They wanted to...uh...see what what Quidditch was.
And they also picked up how to fly.
Maybe it wasn't that bad.
Luckily, Itachi saw past the fact that Quidditch was considered a 'sport'.
He agreed that it was important to keep an eye on Harry Potter whenever they could.
Sakura pouted that it was 'unfair'.
Draco overheard the last bits of their conversation and marched over to them. He nodded briskly at Neji and Shikamaru, probably unsure how to treat them now that they were in a rival house. He turned to Itachi and Sakura. "They Slytherin Quidditch team tryouts are being held tomorrow." He told them.
Sakura's eyes glinted and Itachi sighed before he was dragged off.
The next day, Sakura and Itachi went through the basics of flying as well.
They ignored Pansy, who kept sneering and glaring at them from the sidelines.
Draco flashed through everything they needed to know, and if they hadn't been Shinobi, they would have had to ask the boy to repeat everything he said, which was most likely the reaction Draco was looking for.
They heard of the positions, and they quietly discussed the positions which matched up with their abilities.
Itachi followed some dude named Vaisey, who was a Chaser, to try out the Keeper position.
Draco mumbled something about being 'Extremely busy' these days, and led Sakura in the other direction with the snitch in hand.
Sakura noted the hint of fear in the boy's voice as he said this and filed this away.
Sakura cast a genjutsu over her eyes and activated her Byakugan. With her 360 vision, finding the Snitch wouldn't be hard at all.
Draco released the Snitch, and ten seconds later, told Sakura to find it.
Sakura had no idea if what she was doing was cheating, but she had been tracking the snitch the whole time with her Byakugan. Deciding that it was better to the be safe than sorry, she flew into the air and spent a while pretending to look for it before she flew off towards where the Snitch was hovering around fountain.
She quickly calculated the position of the Snitch and everything around it. She noted the speed of it's movements and briefly wondered if Itachi would be better at the job. She then decided that if she had both the Byakugan and the Sharingan, she would be very good at this, as the Sharingan allowed the user to read and follow movements.
The Byakugan to find the Snitch, and the Sharingan to follow it.
She quickly shook her head. She noted the positioning of everything around the area the Snitch was flying around and narrowed down the possible directions the Snitch would fly off depending on where she swooped at it from.
This was all done in a span of three seconds.
She shot towards the Snitch from behind the fountain, not really sure how the Snitch detected players and moved away.
it wouldn't matter if it tried to run, for within Sakura's Byakugan range, nothing could hide. The Snitch zoomed away and Sakura flew after it. She jumped to crouch on the broom and attached her feet to the handle. She calculated the distance between herself and the Snitch and focused on keeping the same distance. She attached a chakra string to her broom, then broke the connection of the chakra sticking her to the handle.
Sakura reached out and snatched the Snitch midair.
She heard a commotion from below and focus her Byakugan below a split second before she began to fall.
People were shouting and pointing at her.
She saw Itachi look her way, before she saw his chakra signature shrug.
She yanked her broom towards her, landing neatly on it. She then hovered herself slowly towards the ground, jumping off when the ground was close enough. She darted over to Draco and showed him the gold sphere in her hand.
Draco looked at her and blinked a few times in shock before he nodded slowly. "That was...acceptable." He muttered. "I guess you'd do as my replacement."
A little away, Urquhart was watching Itachi block Quaffle after Quaffle. The Uchiha hadn't missed a single one so far. He didn't even seem to be looking at where the Quaffles came from, just kicking them or knocking them away when the came close.
He turned away in the middle to watch Sakura catch the Snitch and nodded to himself.
These two would do fine.
So...chapter three!
We don't really know how we could fit Quidditch into this thing, but judging from all the research, it sounded fun, and we really wanted to include it...
Yeah...
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