The match of Gryffindor against the Slytherin was nearing and everywhere the word 'quidditch' was repeated.
The ninjas were quite confused about this new word. The translating spell casted on them didn't translate the foreign word into their native language of Japanese.
Naruto wandered over to Harry and Ron, who were just descending the tacky (in his opinion) silver staircase from Divination.
He asked, "What's Quidditch?"
Ron gasped as if he was just stabbed in the heart with Sasuke's katana.
"Y-You d-d-don't know Qu-Quidditch?!"
Ron nearly fainted onto the floor as he clutched his heart.
As Naruto looked on with wide-eyes at Ron's behavior, Harry quickly covered for him by explaining the term.
"Sorry about that, Ron's a serious Qudditch fan. Quidditch is a sport we play here, sort of like a competition of sorts played on brooms."
Naruto imagined himself flying on a broom...Yeah, no. He can't, he can only see a broom as something you sweep the grounds with, not as something you sit on and zoom around in the air like Harry described it to be.
Seeing Naruto's befuddled expression, Harry sighed.
"Maybe it's best if you and your friends come see out match tomorrow. You'll get what I mean when you see us play."
"Sure, dattebayo! See you tomorrow, Harry!"
With that, Naruto leapt onto a stair banister and jumped away.
Ron sighed at Naruto's departure, "Wish I can travel like that. No more walking would be nice."
Harry grinned at that, "Let's just go to Potions, Ron."
Ron scowled at the mention of Potions as they went off.
The rest of Thursday came and went by in a flash.
Soon, it was Friday and classes were suspended for the upcoming Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Slytherin.
Naruto was hyped, "Sakura-chan, Sasuke-teme, hurry up and eat! I wanna get good seats for this Quidditch thing!"
Sasuke sighed at Naruto's immaturity, "Why do you go there in the first place?"
Naruto wiggled his eyebrows at the brooding Uchiha, "They fly on brooms, teme~"
Sasuke imagined himself seated on a spindly broom and couldn't help but shudder at the thought of trusting his life to a long piece of stick.
Naruto grinned in delight at the reaction he brought out.
Abruptly, Sasuke stood up and sped off to catch a seat in the Quidditch Stadium with Naruto tailing him as a mischievous smile was plastered on his face.
Sakura sighed wearily and chased the two.
A few moments later, her friends sat in the seats next to Team 7.
As they got comfortable in the benches, the match soon began with two teams walking in from opposite sides down below.
One wore red and gold while the other dressed in green silver.
Shikamaru knew that the red-and-gold was their charge's team while the green-and-silver team was the arrogant platinum-head's team.
As the ninja watched in bated silence while those around them continued to chatter about in loud tones, they saw the two teams reluctantly bowing to each other while the two captains shook hands.
The head coach spoke to them with a stern face, most likely she was warning the two rivaling houses about much-needed etiquette on the field before she released four balls of varying sizes.
Kiba followed the tiny, golden ball with intricate designs with delicate wings fly off in the distance.
Tenten scrutinized the two, medium-sized balls hovering in the air. Looking at it with a professional eye, she deducted the two balls were meant to inflict heavy damage when contacted.
Neji watched the seemingly-normal mahogany ball tossed into the air by the coach.
Immediately, a red-cladded person caught it and swept off with it, two of his teammates following him.
The rest of the Gryffindor team separated; two of them held bats, another flew off to the strange hoops, while yet another angeled off into the air.
The Slytherin separated as well. Three of them split off to chase the three holding the ball the commentor labeled as the 'Quaffle', two holding similar looking bats splited up as one of them hitted a 'Bludger' towards a member on the Gryffindor team. One went to guard the other three hoops while the final one also flew higher to spectate.
The Quaffle was tossed to one another as other people attempted to steal it, points pinged about, Bludgers were smacked in all directions, dives were made, insults were shouted about by both players and audience, shouts were roared in either approval or disappointment, the commentator narrated high above the rest on a podium, and the people on broomsticks swept about down below.
Despite all the chaos surrounding them, the ninjas watched with bated breaths. They could scarcely believe what they were watching; people actually can fly about on spindly broomsticks. From what they catch from snippets of yelling, these brooms were specifically made for the purpose of flying and other impressing tricky maneuvers. They cringed every time when someone performed a dive midair or changed direction with sharp movements, they really hoped nobody fell.
~TIME SKIP TO END OF MATCH~
The winning team was the Gryffindor team with a deafening roar of mixed pride and approval of said-team's House members.
The score was 200-50, with the Gryffindor team having the overwhelming points.
The ninjas later learned that the golden ball Kiba had watched zip off in the beginning gave the team a extra 150 points when caught.
As the students dispersed back to their dorms and the team members went back inside to clean up, the ninjas slowly got and jumped down below into the sandy field.
Chouji mused, "What if we played this...Quidditch?"
Shikamaru caught on to what Chouji was trying to say and smirked a bit, "You mean, we play our own version of Quidditch?"
Naruto smiled, "We'll use ninjutsu instead of brooms, right?"
Sai affirmed it all, "Let's do it."
Naruto made a shadow clone of himself and formed a medium-sized Rasengan, his clone poofing away once the A-ranked jutsu was formed.
He held out the swirling blue ball to his friends as they looked on.
"This'll be our Quaffle. I added Sage Energy to it, so it shouldn't explode that easily."
Sakura loomed behind him, a black aura surrounding her.
"You sure about that, Naruto?"
Naruto sweatdropped, "Eheheh, I'm sure, Sakura-chan..."
"You better be, Naruto."
Tenten sweatdropped.
Kiba impatiently butted in, "Let's split into teams and start playing already!"
"Hai, hai."
The teams were decided on a game of Japanese rock, paper, scissors with Shino deciding to opt out and be the referee. ("Janken pon!")
Team A:
Naruto
Hinata
Sakura
Kiba & Akamaru
Chouji
Lee
Team B:
Sasuke
Neji
Tenten
Shikamaru
Sai
Ino
Shino explained the modified Quidditch rules so that it would better fit the way they would play.
"No intent to kill and nothing that would cause severe injuries. You will be using jutsus to both defend and play on the field. Forms of movement: running, jumping, wall climbing, the basic ninja skills."
The two teams nodded their assent to the rules.
"Naruto, you better make sure your Rasengan won't explode on purpose during the game..."
Naruto sweatdropped at the ominous aura looming behind him.
"Don't worry, Sakura-chan. It won't explode that easily...I hope."
Sakura arched a eyebrow, "You hope?"
Naruto quickly replied to his scary team mate, "I added Sage Energy, like I said earlier. It'll only pop when someone scores."
He walked up to Shino and handed it off to him to hold.
Sakura validated his reply,"...It better be that way, Naruto...or else."
Kiba and Akamaru sweatdropped at Tsunade Jr.
Shino counted down, "3...2...1...Begin!"
Shino tossed the Rasengan into the air and quickly jumped back as the game began.
Naruto and Kiba from Team A and Ino and Sai from Team B jumped forward to catch the Rasengan.
Naruto caught it and playfully stuck out his tongue at Ino. He turned around mid-air and passed his Rasengan to Sakura.
"Sakura-chan!"
Sakura was ready and cocked back her fist.
She planted her left foot behind her body; when the Rasengan got within hitting range, she slammed her fist into it into reverse direction.
The poor Rasengan nearly got bent in half by her fist.
It flew off toward their goal.
Team A would've won if it wasn't for Tenten jumping up in the air and snap-kicking it toward the Hyuuga Prodigy.
"Neji, Kaiten!"
Neji got the memo and started watching the Rasengan hurtling him.
Like Sakura did earlier on, he waited until the Rasengan got within a favorable distance.
When it did, he spun around at a fast pace, "Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven!"
The Rasengan glanced off of the rotating blue chakra shield and flew off toward his goal.
Chouji helped by expanding and going into his Human Bullet Tank Technique.
He rolled into a huge ball of mass destruction and went into the Rasengan's path.
The two revolving objects fought each other for control before Chouji won.
The ball had such a sharp increase in its kinetic energy that it flew at a speed rivaling Mach 20 towards their goal. ((Ansatsu Kyoushitsu/ Assassination Classroom, anyone?))
Lee saw this and desperately leapt off of the ground with a outstretched hand to try to prevent Team B from scoring.
Shikamaru saw this and immediately paralyzed Lee with his shadow.
The Rasengan zipped by his trembling fingertips and went on to sail through the goal.
True to Naruto's word, the Rasengan exploded when it passed through.
Ino whooped as she celebrated, "WE WON, FOREHEAD!"
Sakura held up a clenched fist at her frenemy, "FOR THIS ONE, INO-PIG!"
Naruto sweatdropped at the two kunoichis.
Fred heard something explode outside.
Was it a rookie first-year trying out one of his and George's newest prototype of Whiz-Bangs?
He opened a window and peered around.
A gray cloud of smoke drifted from the Quidditch Field.
He was able to look at it, but just barely.
Any further and he could fall off.
He closed the window and grabbed George's hand.
He dragged him out of the common room, despite his protests.
Of course, this alerted his little brother and sister, along with Harry and Hermione to follow him.
Hermione most likely followed us to maybe snitch to our nagging mother, Fred rolled his eyes at his assumption of Hermione tailing him.
After all, he was still smarting from the time Hermione had confiscated his batch of newly made Skiving Snackboxes and shipped it off to his mother via owl.
His mother was prompt in sending them a Howler for 'wasting their time on pointless things.'
The group exited out of the common room and went to the Charms classroom, where it got the second-best view on the Quidditch Field. (Top viewing point in the Castle was DADA room but no one goes to Umbridge's room voluntarily unless you were a Slytherin teacher-sucker.)
Flick was back in his office at the Raveclaw Tower, so no one was there to reprimand them for being out after curfew hours.
Ginny, Fred, Harry, Hermione, Ron, and George all popped open the large glass windows and looked over to the Quidditch Field where the explosion sounded.
Jaws widened and eyes popped.
The ninjas were playing Quidditch...in a entirely different way!
Naruto's Rasen...thingie replaced the Quaffle and they attacked each other instead of resorting to the Bludgers, there were no point system or Snitch...it's like they were playing a complete different game!
Brooms would've been useless to them; they made up for the lack of height with their superhuman muscles.
"Are they even human?", whispered Ginny to Ron. No answer came from her lanky older brother.
They propelled themselves into the air and ran along the walls during the game.
Harry stuttered out something in a attempt to break the silence, "Ninjas really are amazing, a-aren't they?"
Her friends could only nod in acknowledgement of her question.
They continued to watch on in silence, as they were stunned and amazed.
Homework can always be done later on, right?
Naruto made another Rasengan and handed it to Shino.
The two opposing teams got serious, as Round 1 had only been practice and served as a warm-up session.
Shino tossed the ball high up and jumped away to spectate.
Lee and Kiba dashed forward while Sai and Ino rushed forward.
The remaining members watched the scene while holding their breaths to see if their team or the other would get the fast-descending Rasengan first.
Lee made contact first as he gained a advantage before the other team through his jump.
Seeing Lee catching it, Hinata ran ahead to a spot close to the three hoops.
Lee cocked back his fist and pitched the Rasengan toward her.
Hinata leapt into the air to catch the Rasengan hurtling toward her.
She would've made a successful catch if it weren't for Sasuke moving in on to her right side with the intent of crashing into her.
Hinata was forced to swerve away from the Rasengan in order to avoid a possible injury.
Sasuke smirked and activated his Susano'o.
His purple avatar with flickering flames around it appeared and surrounded Sasuke, elevating him to a height well over 10 feet.
He readied his katana like wizards did earlier with their bats.
As the Rasengan got within a favorable distance, Sasuke swung his sword forward.
Naruto was having none of that.
Spotting Sasuke about to score yet another goal, he tapped into his Kurama Tailed Chakra mode.
His clothes flickered into a familiar flame-themed outfit while another avatar made entirely of flames appeared, rivaling Sasuke's in both height and power.
Three chakra hands formed and aided Naruto in the formation of a Rasenshuriken.
Once done, he spared no time and threw it towards Sasuke.
Sasuke was focused on hitting the Rasengan and realized too late another spinning blue ball (surrounded by a shuriken-shaped wind) zipping towards him.
The Rasenshuriken slammed into his side and pushed him away from the Rasengan.
Sasuke could only watch with frustrated angry eyes as the Rasengan zipped by him to be seized by a smirking Naruto.
"Looks like you need practice in catching stuff, don't 'cha Sasuke-teme?"
Naruto always wanted to say that to Sasuke's face ever since their genin days, and the day finally arrived!
The elated boy held his chin with his thumb and pointer finger, a sparkle gleaming near his smug expression.
Sasuke smoldered in both frustration and humiliation, "Wipe that look off your face, dobe."
Naruto grinned before turning serious, his head back in the game.
Finding Lee open, Naruto wound up his arm as he prepared to launch it toward Bushy Brows.
"BUSHY BROWS!"
Lee jumped onto a wall and sprinted to where the Rasengan would eventually land.
He calculated the general angle of where he thought the Rasengan would crash into and took a chance.
He leaped off the wall and stretched his arms out for it.
"FOR THE SPRINGTIME OF YOUTH!"
Lee got lucky and caught the Rasengan; said-jutsu shuddering a bit at the sudden stop it was brought into.
He hurled the ball towards a waiting Hinata.
Hinata knocked the Rasengan through the shortest hoop with a bent elbow, her inky blue-black hair dancing with the wind currents.
Naruto whooped for her, "Yeah, Hinata-chan! Nice shot!"
Sakura gloated, "TAKE THAT, INO-PIG!"
"YOU GOT LUCKY, FOREHEAD-CHAN! WE'LL WIN THIS FOR SURE, JUST YOU WAIT!"
Shikamaru and Chouji sweatdropped at their aggravated teammate.
Word Count: 2,654
A/N #1: Some of you might be wondering, "Where the hell are the Gokage doing? Shouldn't they had already noticed Naruto and his friends missing?" Yeah, I'm getting there. Sometime during the next chapter, I'll have the Sand Siblings and Tsunade teleported to Hogwarts. Sadly, when that happens, it'll mean that this fanfic is slowly becoming completed. Oh well, at least I'll be part of the very few who actually completes a 'Naruto X Harry Potter X-over', right? ;P
A/N #2: Thank you for the supportive reviews- OO ZOO MAAA KII, zezily, GM NASAI, KittyKattUzumaki, and guest reviewer Fuguruma on Chapter 14! Virtual cookies and hugs from me to you over the Internet, thank you soo much! Blessings, mis amigos!
A/N #3: IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE WAY HOW I AM CONSTRUCTING MY STORY OR HOW AM I SUPPOSEDLY 'WRONG' ABOUT SOMETHING, DO NOT REVIEW AND GO BACK! EVERYTHING WAS RESEARCHED BEFORE APPLIED ONTO MY STORY, OKAY? (OKAY)