The real chapter four is here! Things should continue smoother from now on. More development and a bit more time before dramatic plot points drop. Lemme know if you like it this way. And I'm gonna let Draco in on the secret to. Not just on a whim, but because of a real reason.

Draco stood outside the quiet DADA classroom, hands behind his back. He knew what he was here for. He knew it in the gut of his stomach. Professor Snape wanted to talk to him in private. He was found out. He knows what the Dark Lord wants him to to do. What other reason could it possibly be?! He was doing exceptional in his classes, so there's no need to worry there. It had to be...

The door opened, startling the boy. His shoulders tensed up, but he immediately relaxed when he saw who opened the door. "Kakashi?" But he wasn't wearing the white medical mask he usually wore. He had a black mask that didn't seem to end as the black cloth went down his neck and under his shirt.

The shorter boy nodded and stepped back, not looking affected by Draco's reaction. "Please. Come inside, Draco." He said in his heavily accented voice.

"What- Where's Professor Snape?" Draco demanded. He wasn't sure if he was confused or upset. If Kakashi was here, then it must have to do with his transfer student business. As prefect and his roommate, it's only natural for him to be included in on it.

"He's right in here." The boy answered, taking a step back and holding the door open so Draco got a good view of what, or who was inside. Facing each other were the two other transfer students. One with brown hair and purple marks on her face. The other- Was his face covered in scars before?

"What are- What's going on here Hatake?!" Draco stared at them, using the other's last name to show he was serious about this and partially concerned.

"Oh, sorry for startling you," Rin said with a smile and a wave. An immediate apology, a trait Draco noticed in the majority of Hufflepuffs.

"Nice to meet you Malfoy-san!" Obito greeted with an equally wide smile. He's a Gryffindor, right? How annoying.

"Good. Now that everyone is here..."

Draco turned around only to be roughly shoved into the classroom, Professor Snape stepping in and closing the door behind him. "Professor-" He began as he regained his balance and looked down to check the condition of his robes. Robes, which he noticed the transfer students weren't wearing. They were wearing some weird getup. Weird for even a Muggle.

"What we discuss here cannot be told to anyone. Not even your mother. Am I understood?" Snape said in a voice that was soft, hissing like a snake.

"What is this about?" Draco wanted to know that before he made any promises. "And why mustn't mother know? You know how much she already knows."

The Professor was gone, now replaced with Severus Snape, a Death Eater, a spy for the Dark Lord. "Am. I. Understood. Draco. Malfoy." Each word came as harsh as the last. Admittedly, it scared Draco.

"Fine! Fine! I won't tell anyone, not even my mother!" He said, scrambling backward until he hit one of the transfer students.

Severus stood up to his full height and strode swiftly around the afraid boy to stand beside Kakashi. He pulled a small vial of clear liquid out of his robes. "This is Veritaserum. I believe you know what this does."

Draco nodded. "Are you doing to use it on me?"

"No. I'm going to use it on Kakashi here."

"What?!" Draco took a step, to do what he did not know. He couldn't imagine being forced to tell the full truth in any situation. He still didn't even know what going on. But why was Kakashi about to be-

Two hands on his arm stopped him.

He looked over his shoulders to see it was the other two. "How are you two okay with this? Do you dolts realize what is about to happen?"

"We do." Obito nodded. "Just listen, and sit down."

Rin kicked a stool over and, with the strength it did not look like he should have, Obito sat him down on it.

"Now." Severus held up a glass of water and made sure Draco saw the Veritaserum added and immediately disappearing into the water. And in the swiftness that he usually had at meals, the water was gone, drunken by Kakashi.

Draco was on the edge of his stool, waiting to see what would happen.

"What is your name?" Severus asked.

"Kakashi Hatake."

"How old are you?"

"Thirteen." Kakashi made a face of confusion. Is that not what he wanted to say? Draco caught his eye and he would swear anything that he actually saw the boy was nervous. He was thirteen! Barely a teenager, still a child!

"Who is Draco Malfoy to you?"

"My charge." There was that face again.

Draco looked on either side of him, at Kakashi's friends. They didn't look fazed by this! Obito actually had a very steady look in his eye, it almost matched Kakashi's. Rin glanced at him, met his worried gaze, and smiled. "Are you two really okay with this? What does a charge even mean?" He directed this last question towards Kakashi temporarily forgetting he had to answer it truthfully against his will.

"A charge is one who I must protect and assist." Kakashi began to shift in his seat and is eye flickered up at Severus who stood tall beside him.

"Assist me with what? Why?"

Kakashi made a face as he spoke as if he was trying to hold back his words. "Assist you with your mission. It's the job given to me to."

Draco felt a feeling of dread slowly ascend as Severus Snape asked the next question.

"And what is Draco's mission?"

"To kill Albus Dumbledore."

Draco shot to his feet, the stool falling over in the process. Two hands grabbed his arms again. "Let go of me- How do you know about my mission?!"

"Your mother hired us to help you, or to kill in your place."

His struggling paused. "Does she not think I can handle it myself..?" Then it resumed. "I was chosen to do this! I have to do it alone! She can't just-"

"She is your mother, Draco. And she cares about you. It's not easy to kill someone." Rin spoke up. "It's not a matter of she doesn't think you can. It's a matter of she wants to protect you from the pain of murdering someone."

"And what do you know of killing? Why does she think a bunch of children can do my job for me?" Draco was still upset by that answer.

"Because we have killed before," Kakashi answered, his eye had closed by now and his muscles were tense.

Draco stopped, looking at the three around him. "You... all three of you..?"

All three of them nodded.

Severus handed Kakashi another glass and stepped in front of him. Rin and Obito let go of Draco, stepping backward before suddenly running forward to their friend, their feet not making a sound as if they made it over in one jump.

"Now do you understand why you mustn't tell your mother?"

"No. Why can't I tell mother?"

"Because she told us not to." Came Rin's reply.

"Then why did you tell me?!"

"They didn't say a word. It was the Vertitaserum Kakashi... accidentally drank." Severus answered.

Draco knew that tone. His father used it all the time. It's a lie that he is to treat as truth. He wasn't sure what to think of all of this. First, he finds out that his mother hired someone else to help him kill the Headmaster, and she hired people younger than him people, who are foreign and obvious suspects. What was she thinking?! And the Kakashi Hatake he knew, the quiet awkward transfer student who stuck to him like glue, that image is gone. Now it's replaced with a thirteen-year-old with eyes as cold and dark as a Death Eater's. Just like his father. Not to mention there's more of them. The Gryffindor with a face of scars, the Hufflepuff with purple on her face.

"What really happened to Kakashi's eye?" Draco asked. A strange thing to focus on, but if he was going to get a bunch of information dumped on him at once might as well get as much as he can.

The shuffling and Japanese whispering from behind Severus paused. Obito and Kakashi revealed themselves and stood just in Draco's sight. Both of them revealed their eyes.

Obito's was gone, completely. Closed shut with nothing to open it up. Kakashi did have an eye, but there was a long scar cutting through it. The eye itself had a weird red coloring to it. A side effect of it literally being cut in half like that, maybe?

Then the eyes were covered a second later.

"Kakashi had lost his eye protecting me," Obito said. "And in return, I gave him my eye."

Draco was not expecting that answer. "You gave him your eye?!"

"Yep!" The annoying cheerful attitude was coming back.

Draco scowled, glaring at every one of them.

"Professor, what's your involvement in this?"

"I'm just keeping an eye on you." The air around him slowly moved back into what it was like when he was in front of a class. He was back to being Professor Snape, Professor of DADA.

Draco, not having any other questions, turned on his heel to storm out of the room. But just before he left the room, he paused for a moment. "Come on, Hatake. Don't want to be caught out after curfew." He heard the short goodbyes in Japanese as he walked out. Kakashi's soft footsteps right on his heels.

He wasn't going to lie, it was nice to know he had help in the long run. He had some ideas on how to get this done as quickly as possible. And it just might happen now that he isn't working alone.

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Kakashi, Rin, and Obito sat in a circle outside in the courtyard. Three books and one scroll sat open in between them. The one in front of Rin was The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection. The one in front of Obito was Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. And the one in front of Kakashi was The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 5.

"Here's the knock back spell they were talking about in Defense Against the Dark Arts." Rin pointed. "The incantation looks to be... flipendo. The wand movement looks like you're knocking something off balance as well."

"Really?" Obito leaned over to look. "Looks like a check mark to me."

"Oh, I can teach that one to you guys if you want." Kakashi said before flipping the page of his book. "I got it down last week."

"Great!" Rin smiled. "What spell are you looking at?"

"The Summoning Charm." Kakashi turned his book over so his teammates could read it. They had finished their homework due on Monday and now is usually when they trained in the Forbidden Forest. But with the classes picking up speed and throwing out stuff that should be prior knowledge, the shinobi had to rethink what they do in their free time. "It doesn't work on people, but you can summon something they're touching like their clothing. But anything you summon seems to move at the speed of light. Further the distance, more concentration is required. But the clearer you visualize it, the easier it is."

"So we can randomly summon each other with this?" A smirk began to show itself on the Uchiha's face.

"No." Kakashi and Rin both glared at him. But Rin quickly started laughing.

"We can't move the speed of light. We'll get hurt. Or worse, expelled."

"Why's that bad?" Obito asked. "I'll have freedom and I don't have to learn all this wizard stuff."

"If you aren't here, then you can't help Malfoy. Meaning, you failed." Kakashi answered. "And you'll be holding the both of us back if we try to make arrangements to let you in and out."

"Oh yeah..."

"Now, the Summoning Charm is on page 64 in the grade five book. I suggest studying that."

"What is one of your electives, anyway?" Obito looked at Rin. "I have Care of Magical Creatures and Kakashi has the Ancient Runes thing."

"Oh! I have Muggle Studies." Rin turned to her bag and pulled out another book titled Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles. "It's all about the normal non-magical civilians here. The first lesson was on electricity."

"Electricity?" Kakashi asked. "We know what that is. Do the wizards not?"

"Apparently not. They use magic for everything. Lightning, pictures, transportation, and communication."

"How obliviously stupid."

"Kakashi!"

"What?"

The three shared a laugh before Kakashi turned serious again.

"So, you all know where we're meeting tonight?"

"Yes."

"Don't go to the old location, I won't be bringing Malfoy there. That's a little bit of information we'll keep from him. The less he knows about us the better. Rin, Snape suggested one of us learn to shut our mind to magical intrusion. For there are many spells in existence that tamper with the mind, not just read it. Any ideas?"

She closed the book and leaned forward to point to the scroll. "Is that what this note is about?" She pointed to words unfamiliar to her. "Occlumency and Legilimency."

Kakashi nodded. "Legilimency is the ability to see into ones mind. Occlumency is the counter to it. That's all he told me. The rest we have to research on our own."

"Oohhh." Obito nodded. "Like the Yamanaka Clan and a way to block them? I thought there was no way to block it, only dodge."

"Well, it may be the same thing. Who knows." Rin shrugged. "I'll look into it later. What will you be doing during that time?"

"Some private lessons with Snape, or a meeting with Malfoy about his next action." Kakashi aswered. "Obito, can you ask your Housemates anything about a Hogsmeade? He mentioned the next trip he had something planned."

"A trip? Yeah, I'll ask around about it." The Uchiha nodded.

"Good. I think that settles everything then? Unless there's something else you'd like to announce?" Kakashi looked at his teammates and his eye stopped on Rin. "What is it?"

"I found surveillance tags throughout the Hufflepuff common room this morning." She said in a hushed tone. Even speaking in Japanese, one can never be too careful with this subject in particular.

"Tags? Like-"

"Yes. Those kinds of tags."

"Someone else is here? What else did you gather about them?"

"I couldn't remove one of them without alerting the owner. But I did draw a copy here in the corner of my notes." She pulled out a slip of paper from the textbook and turned it over to the back. It was indeed a lot of writing, but the rectangle in the corner was unmistakable.

"Good job Rin. Obito can study that while you keep alert."

"I can?"

"You can and you will. You have the best chance at understanding foreign chakra tags with how much you and Minato-sensei talk about it."

He groaned in response. "How come I got two jobs on top of everything else we're already doing?"

"Because one job is easy. Just ask what is Hogsmeade and what happens there. They're going to tell you and I know you'll remember." Kakashi answered. "And I already stated the reason for the second job."

"It seems to me like Rin and I are doing most of the hard work for you. Why's that?" Obito huffed, crossing his arms.

"Back to being childish, now are we?" The sudden change to English didn't go unnoticed. They had company. "I thought you were such a big shot, you could handle this on your own. Who is it?"

"Hufflepuff." Obito glanced at Rin, as if glaring at her.

"Don't change the subject, Uchiha." Kakashi scowled. Gosh he hated acting like this. It was so stupid. "Leave Rin out of this."

"Oh so now you care about her?"

"What's going on, Rin?" Said the girl. She had curly light brown hair, a book clutched in her arms.

"They're just fighting. Again." It was Rin's turn to glare.

"Over what?"

"It's none of your business!" Kakashi barked, immediately regretting it.

The Hufflepuff flinched and froze for a moment. "It's just, I wanted to help you guys out. Seeing as Rin has been studying really hard and-"

"It's his fault Rin is overworking herself! He doesn't even look sorry!" Obito pointed.

"How?" The girl asked.

"It's none of your business." Kakashi repeated, making a show of struggling in his tough act. This is how all Slytherins act when they get caught in a situation like this. It was pathetic. Next part is one he hated even more. The physical dramatic flare and exit.

"It is if my friend is hurting! I thought you were her brother!" The Hufflepuff shouted, surprising Kakashi.

He stood up quickly, his robes forcing him to be more expressive with his movements. "All I do is ask her to help me with some homework. Is that really such an evil thing to do?"

"You make her do all of it!" Obito chipped it.

Kakashi turned to face the Gryffindor as Rin and him stood up as well.

"Ever since you became friends with Malfoy you've only gotten worse!" Obito accused. Which is something that would make since from an outsider's perspective. "What would Minato say about this?"

Kakashi let it be silent for a couple beats before responding. "He isn't here. Leave him out of it."

And finally he could leave! At first he thought these old childish bouts whenever someone was looking would be fun. He takes it back. After watching the Gryffindor/Slytherin interactions and Draco's influence on others, he came to the conclusion that this was all petty and for show. So there's no way he can mess up in the eyes of the rest of the school. But it was so tiring to keep doing this. He'll complain to Minato-sensei in his next letter.

How do y'all like this? Took me a while to regather my thoughts and edit my internal story plans. But now I have it written down in a document and saved in other places so it'll be a lot harder to loose it.

Disclaimer: I, Kristen Skull, do not own any of the people, spells, or places in this work. Those belong to their respective authors.