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Naruto patted his stomach feeling sated as they walked through the halls of Hogwarts and up the many staircases to their new temporary homes following the prefect.

'It's a bit ridiculous though. Why the hell are there so many staircases? I mean it's pretty good for me considering everything but everyone else seems quite squishy…'

He doubted they'd survive the fall but what did he know? Maybe it was charmed against it?

Still he didn't complain about it. Not after getting his huge fill of food!

Beside more hat signing, freaking ghost and a lot of hushed whispers about some Harry Potter guy, Naruto could say with confidence that this place was pretty cool. His new housemates seemed just like the sort of people he could hang with.

He especially liked the no magic in halls bit!

That meant he didn't have to worry about getting jumped when he wasn't looking. Of course he really didn't rely on it. After all he would have no problem breaking that rule, so why wouldn't anyone else?

Looking around he saw many of the tiny first years that had arrived along with him walking around him as they had been directed to bed time. It was really strange for Naruto considering he could be up as long as he wished.

He hadn't even considered he would be essentially placing himself under someone's else's rules. It was kinda lame but he was a ninja. He understood listening to your superiors when they made sense.

The concept of 'bed time' certainly had never been in his dictionary before either. Not here and definitely not in Konoha. He wondered how he would cope, especially knowing magic was pretty wonky.

Who knew if they had some spell that could catch him if he didn't follow the rules? Maybe he would be floated up by his ankles again?

Well that wasn't what he was really focused on right now however. He shuffled backwards a bit as his paranoid eyes glanced back and forth.

"What's the problem blondie? Scared of a few ghosts? Only babies are scared of ghosts!"

"No I ain't!" The quick rushed reply came when he heard the low laughter and bit of taunting in the voice as his face twitched.

He whipped his head to the side looking at the triumphant eyes of the angry red head wondering if this girl had actually been waiting for him to show weakness.

After all he had caught himself masterfully only sweating deeply when the spooky specters came out scaring the living daylights out of him. He had blanked out for a bit before reigning himself in masterfully.

'So how the hell did she find out?! Is this girl watching me?' Naruto was confused however he stepped up to defend his honor. No one was allowed to slander him like that. He couldn't lose his reputation like that!

However he was a step too late as right when they stepped off the stairway to whenever they were going his friend had immediately shouted.

"Oh look! It's Harry Potter!" The blonde said with her typical dreamy voice raised quite a bit, startling the crowd as many immediately looked back with wide eyes catching the glance of a silhouette before it passed.

None more so than the aggressive redhead whose head nearly snapped backwards as her face quickly contorted from mocking into meekness as she looked around desperately.

Naruto who was completely and utterly dumbfounded at the change looked over to the blonde who was gazing at him with an oblivious smile.

Naruto knew better though.

'...best friend ever!'

"That's enough, all of you. I'm sure you'll get your fill of Harry Potter later. Come along now we've arrived at the common room." The male voice said sternly as the kids quickly lined up behind him.

Naruto glanced at a nearby staircase spotting a mane of bushy brown hair hiding pacing quickly in anxiety and raised an eyebrow before looking away.

Strange. Did they keep fuzzy floating hair around too?

"Damn. That's one big lady." Naruto spoke candidly as everyone froze. He hadn't quite seen anyone like her except for maybe Choji and his dad. Though he instinctively described them as big instead of fat, remembering how scary Choji got when someone said it by accident.

Nearly as bad as when Iruka sensei took his chips away.

He shivered.

Naruto stopped and looked around in confusion not hearing anyone say anything. Blinking he saw the crowd moved to the side of the staircases in front of him as the prefect and portrait looked at him with wide eyes.

"What?" He scratched his head confused walking up squeezing in. Clearly they wanted to talk with him after all.

"Hey lady, what's your name and why are you here? Seems pretty boring to me." He asked the living portrait as it slowly came to blinking at the strange child. Man, this place had so many cool things!

A moving portrait was way too damn insane and he couldn't keep in his curiosity. When could he make one?

The portrait painting couldn't keep up as she was quickly bombarded with questions.

"How are you inside a painting? Are you stuck?!"

"Why the heck can you talk? What kind of magic can do that?!"

"Can I come inside too and-" He stopped seeing her hold up a hand scratching his head sheepishly.

"In that order? You may call me the fat lady, I'm an enchanted painting, no I'm not stuck, again I'm an enchanted painting, I have no clue and no you can't come inside." She smiled.

"Satisfied?"

"Uhhh no but I don't think I should ask anymore questions." He shuffled back sheepish seeing the look the prefect guy was giving him.

Seeing the no doubt troublemaker not utter a peep the prefect looked over to the other students observing before sighing.

"You will always need a password to enter inside. It resets every year but if something happens it's liable to change. This year's password is Wattlebird." The portrait swung open as the kids stood on their tiptoes looking inside.

"Come on then you all." The prefect narrowed his eyes at the blonde hair and whisker marked kid who was in the crowd.

The children poured in the common room looking around the snug room filled with with deep velvet and filled to the brim with other students of all ages who were standing obviously waiting on something.

The prefect sighed at the predictable action knowing who they were waiting for as he heard the sighs of disappointment when the crowd didn't see Harry Potter.

2 lanky readheaded twins with rather long noses and long limbs came up to the entrance.

They grinned.

"Ah Perce! Our dear beloved brother!"

"It's just you huh? We had thought.."

"It was our heroes."

"Harry James Potter and Ronald Weasley!" They echoed at the same time swooning catching each other before they fell.

Naruto blinked.

A single red head twin looked behind Perce seeing the ickle firsties. Smiling at the new shipment of fresh meat they stepped out of the way allowing the now name Perce to do his job.

"Ugh make way! You don't want them to get lost do you?!" Perce struggled as he pushed through the crowd making sure to keep the firsties together.

It was a struggle for a minute before a loud voice echoed out.

"Okay guys! Let him get past! If you make too much trouble, the professor will come!" Naruto looked at the rather burly dude who spoke thinking his voice was pretty damn deep.

The crowd quickly parted after the announcement showing the boy was quite well respected here.

Naruto was jealous.

"Thank you Oliver!" Perce shouted as he sighed in relief herding the kids towards the spiraling staircases.

Perce called for a female who Naruto assumed was another prefect as she took his friend along with the girls up to the tower.

Naruto looked on as she left making conversation with Ginerva before the boys too were taken up.

Naruto's face turned strange when he saw the prefect call them off by name before shuffling them inside a dormitory closing it behind them.

'Perce' turned slowly before looking at him.

Naruto scratched his head uneasily, forming a hand seal behind his back. Any hasty movements and a shadow clone would boink him right on the back of his cranium.

Funny thing about shadow clones was that they had a range in which they could be summoned anywhere. Pretty convenient wasn't it?

He hadn't quite tried yet but he was pretty sure that he would be able to summon them through walls effectively breaking into anywhere.

Enough of that though he had a potential enemy he needed to face.

Naruto narrowed his eyes looking him in the eye as he walked up to him menacingly. His right hand came down ready to whip his wand out and blast him away.

Perce came to a stop before Naruto as they seriously stared down each other.

Naruto twitched as he watched the hand move in slow motion. Of course it wasn't really slow but it was to him.

He saw it held nothing so he relaxed a bit before hearing him talk.

"You must be Nawuto Uzumaki correct? I'm Percy Weasley, a sixth year student at Hogwarts and Prefect for 2 consecutive years." He posed his hand for a shake.

"How do you do?"

Naruto took a quick sigh of relief before smiling and shaking his hand. "Hello Percy nice to meet ya! But it's Na-ru-to and why do you know who I am?" Naruto probed not liking the idea that people knew of him before he knew of them.

Of course he knew the sorting ceremony told all their names but he doubted anyone had that kind of memory.

'Or maybe I'm just that memorable?!' It was more than likely.

However that wasn't the case for this time sadly.

Percy smiled nodding at the correction. "My apologies, Naruto is it?" He spoke again when Naruto nodded.

They glanced at the first years who came out before continuing their conversation "Professor McGonagall sent me a letter in advance about a transfer student who was being taught elsewhere. She said you wish to continue your studies here at Hogwarts for its prestige and that you tested into your second year. Did I get anything wrong?"

'What the fuck.' Naruto blanked out at all the bullshit the woman concocted, wondering if she was the real ninja between them.

That was some professional Ninpo crap.

Continue his studies? Where the hell was he studying before? On a roof with pigeons that stooled on it?

Prestige? The place was named Hogwarts!

Transfer student? He was never a student in the first place!

However Naruto realized the woman did this to help him out. He was sure she could have told a much different story and this guy would have been looking at him much differently.

So realizing it Naruto went along with it finding himself less and less reluctant when he realized the woman got herself mixed up in his scheme too.

He could use her to catapult himself up!

"You have a very good memory." Naruto nodded with a grin.

"I've read all about Hogwarts and I know it's one of the most prestigious schools in the Wizarding world." He glanced at him, slowing his words making sure he was right as he panicked a bit realizing his stupid clone had decided to space out instead of reading Hogwarts: A History!

'Dammit! Change of plans!' He could imagine a million tiny clones in his mind running on a wheel.

He needed to pivot away from this conversation!

"And you're a prefect at Hogwarts too? You must be pretty smart…Percy. Can I call you Percy?" Naruto grinned as the boy raised an eyebrow and nodded slowly.

"So why did you single me out Percy? Shouldn't I be unpacking or something?" Naruto turned away from all the academics as he scratched his head genuinely confused.

Percy's face turned strange. As if he himself wasn't quite sure. "Ah you see about that…"

"The Hogwarts castle is a bit strange…it changes to accommodate the students you see? 5 students to a room for each year and you're the sixth so-"

(Break)

Harry poked Ron in the ribs as they finally trudged up the stairs from the common room and the massive commotion that was inside.

The red head was still smiling like a fool after the rush of attention that assaulted him.

The boy grinned rubbing his hands together. "Sorry sorry. I know I shouldn't be enjoying it but it's just a bit exciting. Haven't really…"

The boy trailed off as they both came to a stop at their dormitory.

Why, because they were looking at their dorm mates Seamus, Dean and Neville crowded around a door.

A door exactly like their own dormitory down to even the nameplate 'Second year'

'But…" Harry looked over with wide eyes to an identical door that looked just like it! Did he hit his head during the car crash?

"Bloody hell. What do you reckon this is about mate?" The redhead looked towards his best mate with similar wide eyes as Harry shook his head.

"No clue. Let's find out." They both quickly arrived at the trio as they turned around hearing the feet.

"Harry, Ron! Heard you did something pretty crazy!" Dean said calmly as he glanced at the two with slightly widened eyes, the other boys nodding along with him.

Harry tried holding in the grin but failed as he looked at the door before losing it. "Guys what's this about?"

"No clue. Still trying to figure out who will go in first!" Seamus responded as they all turned to the door.

Ron looked at the door shivering feeling like whatever was behind it wasn't at all friendly.

"Guys maybe we should just leave it?" He tried saying as Neville quickly nodded in agreement.

Harry glanced at the door a bit apprehensive, swearing he heard something inside before looking back to his dorm mates.

"...what are you doing?" He asked, looking in confusion, seeing them hold their hands out.

"Rock paper scissors to decide who goes inside!" Ron said as he beat out Neville who sighed in relief.

'Wait how does that work?'

'Does the person who wins go inside or the person who loses?' Harry raised a confused eyebrow seeing Ron so happy at winning.

Did he not know?

It was his turn now and he looked complicatedly at his best mate who looked extremely confident but didn't say much else. He didn't want to go inside either after all.

You could guess exactly who lost.

Ron walked up shaking at the door as he pulled out his wand shaking and whispered the unlocking spell.

Harry watched as his best friend walked to his death glancing over to his mates who looked similarly scared.

10 seconds passed.

They flinched hearing 3 three spells spoken calmly as they immediately got up wand in hand.

However they froze watching as the redhead's frozen body was floated up by his shirt before being dumped onto the ground in front of them.

His body was hit with another flash of light and they only got a tiny glimpse of the familiar insides before the door slammed shut and it audibly locked.

They looked down to the now groaning redhead sweating.

Taking his body in their hands they dragged him to the next room, glancing at each other promising never to speak of this again.

(Break)

"Damn that was a good sleep! Haven't slept like that in ages!" Naruto yawned as he woke up rolling in the bed and onto the floor. Glancing around at his personal room that coincidentally had 4 empty beds he smiled seeing it was still night.

Or well not really night but the sun still had some ways to come back up. He couldn't exactly say how he knew it but he could tell you it wasn't from his stupid watch!

He looked down at the dumb thing, sighing, placing it back on the stand. He didn't know why but yesterday the faulty thing had completely stopped working.

He hoped he could get some kind of Wizarding version because this definitely wasn't good. Ninjas needed to be punctual.

Still the boy yawned, getting up as he took out a change of clothes and some toiletries before going inside what he knew was the bathroom.

Closing the door he shuffled, getting his wand out, yawning again as he sleepily mumbled Colloportus, flicking the locking charm onto it.

He placed down the weapon knowing he himself was his greatest weapon not really feeling reluctant to part with it despite how familiar he became.

"Shadow Clone Jutsu." The boy smiled in amusement as his clone popped up glancing at him before taking his wand to stand guard and practice excitedly.

"Sadly they don't stay up when I go to sleep." He pouted remembering learning that particular truth the hard way.

Humming the boy got under the shower before pausing seeing the washing materials by the shower? So they provided some things to use?

He knew he said it before but damn this place was cool.

"Hah~ To be clean!" The boy smiled with the towel on as he stepped out.

Glancing at the mirror he looked down at the toothbrush and paste sighing.

Walking out feeling cooled down the boy glanced down at his clothes. They were all form fitting and dark colors which he didn't like much but he couldn't find any in his favorite color. He was also wearing shoes that were made to fight against slipping.

Though at least the pants were comfy.

He wondered if he should ask for some help to find magical clothing. Maybe they had something that could attach on his body and automatically become clothes?! Or maybe armor that could change forms at will!

The possibilities were endless!

He had taken some time to buy things, not really sure what he would need. He had of course taken inspiration from books.

Yes, books! Surprising!

It was weird for him to see a book on ninja when he was in the library trying to learn English. He had come across the term and was shocked to see this world actually knew what they were. Or at least some of what they were.

That had set off many fireworks in his mind making him wonder about a lot of things. The main one was if he was still in the same world?

Was his country just hidden from these normal people's eyes? He didn't know and had no way to find out so he just stopped thinking about it.

'Eh where was I? Oh yeah! I need to exercise!' He couldn't get complacent just because he was in this school.

So opening his door, the ninja with bright blonde hair held his wand lightly and hosted his book of charms in his arms, shifting it in his shirt.

You could tell which magic branch attracted the boy's interest the most.

In fact he nearly had fallen for transfiguration but he felt it was too much like elemental ninjutsu for him to pick it.

Not that it was anything like it of course! Just a bit similar.

He'd rather dive in something completely new!

Walking out he jumped down the middle of the winding staircase that climbed up the seven dorm floors landing lightly on the base floor. He didn't make any sound so the two people in the common room didn't see nor hear his arrival.

Naruto smirked, he knew he didn't need to do this as he made his way down the boy's spiral staircases with haste.

He still placed his feet on the wall slowly walking upwards defying gravity as his spiky locks hung down.

He knew he probably wouldn't get many chances to be a ninja here so he thought he might as well get it out of his system.

He just loved being sneaky!

Walking up the wall he angled himself out of their sights the entire way as he sprinted across making sure not to damage the portrait and accessories on the wall.

Landing in front of the entrance he muttered "Wattlebird" as it immediately swung open. Dashing out he gave the portrait no time to see him as he jumped down the many moving stairs free falling with his head down, smiling as he nearly cackled.

Flipping mid air he gripped onto a staircase lightly sticking there stopping his momentum before dropping slower landing on another.

Jumping off the staircases pushing himself downwards he glanced at the portraits that could only see a blur as he landed onto the ground. The boy sprinted out of their sight immediately, glancing around before coming to a stop after reaching far enough.

There were no more observers so he sighed in relief whistling as he strolled out into the great hall and out to the grounds. It was the only path he knew so it was the only one he could take.

The boy glanced around before taking off into the forest the old man had specially said not to go.

His eyes lit up and he pushed himself even further seeing tall trees. They weren't like back home but as he landed onto them standing sideways on the thin trees he couldn't help but take a breath of fresh air.

"That's what I'm talking about." He took a deep satisfying breath out. He definitely preferred this to the stuffy air at Hogwarts. Not that it was bad or anything but the outside was his oyster. Not in stuffy buildings.

The boy perched on the relatively branchless tree glancing into the forest. The silence was deafening but it didn't get to him. It was actually comforting.

It wouldn't be comforting to any who saw a random blonde sitting in a tree though.

Kicking off deeper inside he made sure not to change directions so he didn't get lost.

Actually… He made a clone, leaving it there as he explored deeper seeing the larger trees become more common.

Landing down onto the floor the boy summoned his clones ready to spar after scoping the area out. However he stopped glancing up after hearing a slight flap before it disappeared.

However, trusting his senses he squinted in the direction it came before he opened his eyes widely seeing the owl glide over.

"Archimedes? What are you doing here?"

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