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As promised, Harry and Ron saved their friend some dry food as they both knew Hermione was going to be working up quite the appetite after extensive research in the Library was done.

When Hermione arrived early for Professor Binn's (boring) lecture, they gave to her some salvaged pumpkin juice and some finger sandwiches.

As Hermione ate it, she told them what she found out, "Ninjas have a complete different history compared to ours. For one thing, the Muggles know of their existence and would sometimes employ them for missions. Depending on the danger that will be present, a certain ranked team that can be as young as 12 can do it, receiving the negotiated pay after. Another would be that they can practice their 'magic' freely. In fact, the casualties we saw before in Hagrid's class is to expected when ninjas train or fight each other."

Ron was amazed, "Wow, what I wouldn't give to do magic in front for Muggles."

Meanwhile, Harry focused on Hermione's second sentence, "So." He said slowly, "They basically can be anything. Like assassins, murderers, kidnappers, soldiers, killers for a certain amount of money. That sort of thing, Hermione?"

Hermione fidgeted, "That's only one of their facets. But, basically yeah. Going by Japan's history, ninjas were employed mercenaries trained to do the dirty work in the feudal times. Their fighting style can be compared to guerilla warfare. Still going by Feudal Japan'stimeline, their functions include sabotage, assassination, infiltration, and espionage."

Ron gaped and Harry reeled back in disgust; so these ninjas had the blood of multiple people's lives on their hands and they still had the audacity to smile?

Hermione would've reported more of her findings if it wasn't for Professor Binn floating in.

"Good afternoon, class. Today we shall be reviewing in extent the Goblin Wars of 1845. Now-"

The class began the familiar routine of looking out of the windows and/or drifting off to sleep.

Hermione's hand shot up in the air, disrupting Binn's lesson.

Looking quite ruffled and surprised that someone actually raised a hand, he called on Hermione, "Yes, Mrs. Granger?"

"Yes, Professor. Sorry for the disruption, but what do you know of the Hidden Shinobi Nations?"

Half-asleep students perked up and nudged their already-asleep friends awake.

30 pairs of curious, expectant eyes laid upon the flustered Professor for the second time since his death. (Remember the Chamber of Secrets?)

"Yes, well. They never revealed much about themselves, even when there was no shield separating us wizards and the shinobi. What we do know is the very basics."

Hermione waved past his feeble excuse, "It is better than nothing, Professor. Please?"

Binn sighed in defeat, "Very well. Mainly why we don't know much is because many of them are village secrets. We say village because the countries in the Shinobi Nations are in actuality large villages."

Hermione nodded her head while quickly writing everything down.

"Each village is led by a powerful ninja individual who has a variety of 100 different jutsus, acknowledged and elected by the townspeople. It is the Kage who leads the village and formalizes alliances with other Hidden Villages."

Harry suddenly knew why Kiba and Naruto both wanted to be the Hokage back home; it was to the acknowledgement and the respect included with being the Kage that appealed to the both of them.

"Within each village are clans and within every clan is either a special characteristic or jutsu only the family can perform. These special type of jutsus reserved only for the clan is called a 'kekkei genkai', a bloodline limit. For the sake of your understanding, I shall explain the clans our guests are from. The Uchiha and the Hyuuga clan are prestigious clans in Konohagakure; considered to be noble. In a way, the Uchiha and the Hyuuga clans are their equivalent to a pureblood family here. Both has some type of visual jutsu. The Uchiha clan possess the Sharingan and Rinnegan. Much isn't known about their Visual Prowesses, but we do know that it can hold the victim in a illusion and that it can only evolve through the killing of your loved ones. With every killing, the power of the Sharingan grants the user with more powers. On the other hand, no information was divulged from the Shinobi Nations about the Rinnegan. To this day, it remains as a mystery among the wizarding community who still care to research ninjas."

Ron and pretty much everyone else gasped.

"The Hyuuga Clan has the Byaukugan, another Visual Prowess only available to their bloodline. According to them, the Sage of Six Paths and his younger brother, Hamura, were the first ones to inherit it from Kaguya, their mother. When activated, it gives the user a near perfect 360 degrees field of vision, able to see through almost anything and able to track even the fastest of movements. It is highly coveted among other villages and many attempts were made to either steal or create their own. All failed, by the way. The Sharingan, the Rinnegan, and the Byaukugan are considered to be the 'Three Great Doujutsu'."

Hermione quickly wrote that down on her parchment, quill constantly zipping back and forth from her parchment to her ink bottle.

"The Uzumaki clan has great skill with sealing techniques, called 'fuinjutsu.' In fact, the Uzumaki Clan used to be their own village called "Uzushiogakure", the Village Hidden in the Eddies. They also have large reserves of spiritual energy, which could be called chakra, other shinobi aren't usually entitled to have."

"Then, the Nara Clan, Yamanaka, and the Akimichi Clans. They have a strong relationship between one another; often working together on the same team as their jutsus compliments each others quite nicely. Quite similar to our Quidditch teams here, I must say. The Nara Clan are able to control their shadows, connecting to another's to either paralyze them or to control them. The Yamanaka are known for their Mind Jutsus; they are able to read minds and if they have enough chakra, can send messages to one another. The Akimichi Clan can expand their bodies to great proportions that allows them to bowl down their enemies...literally. Because of this and their fast metabolism, they must replenish their nutrients with every free minute they have."

Neville nudged Sean, "If their teamwork is that great, maybe they should apply for the Quidditch tryouts!"

Sean nodded back at him eagerly. If they used their jutsus on one another, then Quidditch can be even better! More entertainment for him to see!

"The other clans are considered to be average, though all have their own special features. The Haruno Clan: Known for their exceptional chakra manipulation and their skill with the medical ninja arts. Few have the ability to perform medical ninjutsu as it requires precise chakra maniplulation. The Inuzuka Clan: Known for their use of having dogs as companions or as ninja tools. Most are easily identifiable through their red cheek markings."

Hermione paused for a moment, "Dogs are TOOLS?!"

Harry sighed to Ron, "Now, not only will she worry about the house-elves, now she'll be all about Akamaru."

Ron gave a weary shake at that statement.

"Ninjas that don't have much chakra to begin with has to settle with taijutsu, or karate jutsu. They ARE NOT to be confused with modern variations of karate, tae kwon do, boxing, and the likes. In order to be a ninja using only taijutsu, one must train his body very harshly in order to keep up with others who do have chakra. If a ninja who isn't really used to jutsus or just doesn't like using it, he or she will most likely turn to weaponry. Collecting all sorts of weapons, adding a twist to them for their liking, then sealing it into a sealing scroll is the way. Miss Tenten is the perfect example."

Then Binns looked over to where Hermione was sitting, with a 12-inch parchment completely filled from top to the very edge of it.

"I believe this answers all of your questions, Mrs. Granger?"

Hermione nodded, not at the very least tired from all of the speed-writing she just did.

"Good, because this is all we know about the clans our guests belong to. Any other questions will have to be directed to our guests. Hopefully, they might be willing to answer your questions. If not, then you will have to settle for it. Most ninjas are not that willing to share secrets that voluntarily. Every drop of information gathered came with a high price, Mrs. Granger. Understand that for every secret they divulged, we also had to share a confidential secret of our own to balance it out. Ancient antidotes, forbidden curses, where each country's Ministry of Magic was located, something like that. For your sake, I hope that your curiousity won't take advantage of you."

"Yes, Professor," said Hermione with a meek voice.

"Now, back to the Goblin Wars of 1845. Wizards were already on strained relationships with goblins—"

The class setting returned to its passive attitude, prepared to waste the remaining 20 minutes away while some managed to stay awake and scratch some notes down.

The class drifted off to sleep or went back to looking at the clouds with only a few taking notes on Binn's boring lesson of the day.