The Ultimate Defense

I do not own neither HP or Naruto.

"In the country of Japan, there is a village hidden from city life. A village that is so secret, that not even the best wizards could find. That village is called Konohakagure, the Hidden Village of the Leaf."

"In this said village, children at very young ages are trained to kill, to become shinobi, a tool for the village. However, in this special village, unlike the other hidden villages, shinobi treated each other like family, they were raised to care; to actually have a heart and not kill mercilessly," Professor McGonagall read from the book.

Professor Dumbledore had asked for her at dinner and when she arrived, he showed her the book and told her to read it. Knowing nothing better to do, she did.

"What a load of rubbish!" She exclaimed, "Children raised to kill! I would say..."

Professor Dumbledore cut her off, "It is their tradition, my dear, and we have no right to speak of them in this way."

"Of...of course we shouldn't, Albus, but do you really believe such a village exists?" She asked.

"I do, Minerva. In fact, I've asked five of these shinobi to come here, to London," Dumbledore said, stroking Fawkes who was perched on his shoulder,

"They will assist the Order and protect Harry while he is in school."

McGonagall sputtered, "Can we trust these people? For all we know, they may be working for him."

"I trust them with my life. Their leader, the Hokage, is a dear friend of mine who had saved my life more than once," Dumbledore countered.

"Okay Albus, I'll trust your judgment, just give me their names and addresses," McGonagall said, giving in to their argument.

"Send 4 6th year letters to Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, Nara Shikamaru and Hyuuga Neji and a letter to Hatake Kakashi inviting him for a job as our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Give me the letters after you're done instead of sending them. I'll do that myself."

"Sure, Professor," Professor McGonagall said as she exited the room.

Moments later, she returned with 5 pieces of parchment in one hand and 5 yellowish envelopes in the other, "Here professor, I've written down all the names already."

She dropped the items in her hands onto his desk before she left with a curt 'good night'. Returning the good night, Dumbledore took out his wand and started writing down their letters. To the students he wrote:

HOGWARTS SCHOOL
Of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

Headmaster: ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock,
Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. Of Wizards)

Dear Mr.,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on September 1 but I sent a portkey with Hatake-san's letter that is scheduled to work at exactly 3:30. You will arrive at Number 12, Grimmauld Place, London and the people there will help you with whatever needs that have not been done. Do not be startled by what you see there. In addition, please do not show off your 'magic' to the other students before you arrive at Hogwarts, unless need be. Yours Sincerely,

Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster

Satisfied with the four letters, he went on to write the letter for Hatake Kakashi:

HOGWARTS SCHOOL
of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY

Headmaster: ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock,
Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. Of Wizards)

Dear Mr.Hatake,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been appointed as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher for the year. Tsunade-san probably told you this before so I will not describe everything again. It is partial that you do not let leak any secrets. You probably know this already but I am just making sure.

Term begins on September 1 but I sent a portkey within your letter that is scheduled to work at exactly 3:30. To operate a portkey, all you have to do is touch it at the exact time along with everyone else. If you wish to bring anything, just touch it with your other hand. You will arrive at Number 12, Grimmauld Place, London and the people there will help you with whatever needs that have not been done. Do not be startled by what you see there. In addition, please do not show off your 'magic' to the other students before you arrive at Hogwarts, unless need be. Yours Sincerely,

Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster

Finally finished with the letters, he tied them to Fawkes' leg before it flew off into the night sky. Dumbledore tiredly rubbed at his eyes before blowing out the lights and going to bed.

In another part of the world, it was 3 o'clock in the afternoon while it was midnight in London. The summer day was unbearable and many stayed inside or swam in a body of water.

However, five people where stuck in one hot stuffy room, awaiting the arrival of their Hokage. Minutes later, she burst in through the door.

"Everyone is here I presume," Tsunade asked. When she received five voices of agreement, she sat down before leaning forward with her head resting on her intertwined fingers.

"I have called you five here because of your skill as a shinobi. All of you are the only ones who can accomplish this mission. Kakashi—you are an ANBU and high classed jounin for many years and the rest of you have risen to ANBU status in less than 4 years since you graduated. I've also called you because I trust the five of you the most. Your mission is to protect a boy. However, before we get to that, have all of you heard about wizards?"

Everyone nodded. "Good, good, now tell me what you know about them, even if it is only a sentence."

They all looked at each other before deciding to start from the left (of Tsunade). That meant that Neji had to start, "Wizards and witches are names given to the people that have some chakra but not enough to perform a strong jutsu. Instead of training to make more chakra, they use a stick; a wand; to channel their chakra. They call this magic. The more a wizard or witch performs 'magic', the stronger their chakra will become and the harder the 'spells' they can perform."

Sasuke, who was next to Neji, took it from there, "The wizards have a form of government called the Ministry of Magic, which is made up of many witches and wizards. Cornelius Fudge is the current Minister in England. There are many different ministries around the world, there is even one here in Japan."

"The wizards are foolhardy and think they are better than muggles, the term they use for normal, chakra-less people. They will not use the inventions made by the muggles and live nearly like us with no cars or the like. We don't use electronics and such to save the environment, they don't use them because they depend on only magic to do everything," Shikamaru drawled from his position on the couch.

"A man named Lord Voldemort came to power at some time I can't remember," Kakashi stated, head still buried inside his book, "He, like Orochimaru, had an interest in power and snakes. He tried to rid the world of muggles and mudbloods; witches and wizards with no 'magical' parents. He succeeded in killing many, causing fear among the people before a little boy, only a few months old, managed to stop him. He wasn't killed but he lost all of his powers, which level could've matched an ANBU's."

"Aaaww, they said everything that I know about magic! That's not fair!" Naruto pouted. He thought for a few seconds before adding, "Oh yeah, and only a handful of people know about us. The others who have heard of us believe its bullshit. There's also a book about shinobi, but they only published one copy of it."

"Is that all? Good, I don't need to describe magic to you now. Okay, Voldemort has risen to power again and a wizard hired us to protect the boy who stopped him in the first place. The boy's name is Harry Potter, and the wizard is an old friend of mine named Albus Dumbledore."

"There's a school in London for wizards and witches, which he is the headmaster of. Harry also attends this school. He has a knack for trouble and always ends up in a situation concerning Voldemort. He has always managed to get out of them safely with the help of others, but he may not be so lucky this year. Albus has hired you five to guard Harry while he is in school. There is also a group of people called the Order of the Phoenix that consists of witches and wizards that also protect Harry and rebel against Lord Voldemort."

"However, they cannot protect Harry in school because they have all graduated but you can. The four of you will be students there and Kakashi will be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Keep an eye on him and watch out for anyone who looks, smells or acts like a snake. Voldemort has many followers named Death Eaters and they will not hesitate to satisfy their leader."

"Remember, be like ninja and blend with the background. Do not draw attention to yourselves. And don't perform any jutsus; direct your chakra through a wand. It will be provided to you later on. Now all we have to do is wait for the phoenix to come. It will have letters that invite you into Hogwarts, that's the name of the school. And don't ask me why they would name a school Hogwarts and why they use phoenixes to send letters," Tsunade announced. Everyone nodded before settling in comfortable positions to wait for the bird.

Sasuke leapt onto the table and lied there. He wore a black muscle shirt and beige khakis along with black ninja sandals. His blue-ish black hair was shoulder length and tied with a leather strap. As everyone predicted, he became a genius like his brother and was just as handsome with dark onyx eyes and feminine features.

He and Naruto had searched for Itachi and killed him two years ago. They had already killed Orochimaru after Naruto convinced Sasuke to come back to Konoha. Since then, he has become protective of the blonde and harbors feelings for him; the only problem is that Naruto is the only one who can't tell.

Neji also leapt onto the table, but instead of lying on it, he sat at the opposite end of the table, leaning back on the wall behind him. He wore a loose white muscle shirt and black shorts along with black ninja sandals. He still had the same hairstyle but his forehead protector wasn't on his head anymore.

Ever since, the Chuunin Exam and his battle with Naruto, the relationship between the Main and Branch Houses got better. Later on, the difference between them disappeared, the Branch Seal along with it. Therefore, he didn't have to hide the seal anymore. He too had become even more handsome and powerful and had the same feelings as Sasuke for Naruto. They were self- proclaimed rivals for his heart.

Talking about Naruto, he was as clueless as ever. Although he had matured, he still was a dobe when it came to love. As he grew up, he looked more and more like the Yondaime before Tsunade finally announced that Naruto was really his son. Since then, the villagers' attitude towards him changed. With his good looks and skill as a shinobi, he becomes even more popular than Neji and Sasuke with the girls and a lot of the boys.

He wore a leather camouflage muscle shirt with buckles (think Yugi); black, loose fitting shorts and black ninja sandals. His blonde hair was still spiky but it tilted more to the back now that it was longer. His bangs always fell into his eyes, for he didn't put his forehead protector on his forehead anymore.

However, although he was clueless when it came to others loving him, he was also a perverted idiot (with Jiraiya and Kakashi as teachers, who wouldn't). The only difference is that he is only perverted to his friends and that he is bi, whilst Jiraiya is straight and Kakashi is gay. He had also grown a lot since he was a genin but he was still shorter than everyone else. He was 5'5 while the others were around 6.

Finding no comfortable position in his chair, he leapt onto the table and lied down with his head on Neji's lap and most of his body on Sasuke's. Both boys blushed light pink before forcing it back down. They did it quickly but not quickly enough to escape Naruto's eye. Smiling widely, he wiggled around even more, seemingly trying to find a more comfortable position on them.

Kakashi, who was watching them behind his book, chuckled softly before continuing to read Come Come Paradise. He still had spiky silver hair that defied gravity and his black facemask. However, he had a rolled up black bandana over his right eye instead of his hatai-ite. His outfit is the same as it was 4 years ago, except he had a shiny, silver ring on his left ring finger. He had proposed to Iruka 2 years ago and they were now happily married.

On the couch lay Shikamaru, snoring soundly, the only sound amongst the group. He still had his pineapple 'do' and was even lazier than ever, if that was possible. However, he had also grown more handsome (like everyone else) and smarter through the years. He wore a fishnet shirt under a jounin flak vest (even though he is an ANBU) and long black pants with black sandals.

All of them had a tattoo on their left bicep (like Kakashi's) and their hatai-ite wrapped around their right one; meaning that they were the Hokage's personal guards and the most important ANBU in the village.

15 minutes later, the phoenix flew through the window and landed on Tsunade's desk. She untied the letters on its leg and gave it a treat from inside her desk, which the phoenix smartly refused.

It took flight; wings spread like the flaming sun and soared out the window before Tsunade gave out the letters to their respectful owners.

She handed Kakashi a package that he quickly opened. He looked confusedly at the beat-up brown boot that he found inside before reading his letter. There was a moment of silence as they all read their letters, Tsunade peeking over Kakashi's shoulder.

"...I guess this is the portkey..." Kakashi said as he held up the old boot; sweat dropping along with everyone else.

"Yeah, it has to be......Wizards are too weird to understand. Anyways it's 3:25 now. Go get your bags and get hear in 5 minutes..." Tsunade ordered.

They were gone before she was done talking. Three minutes later, they all came back, duffel bags in hand.

"Okay, so we're supposed to touch it at exactly 3:30.... Why don't we just hold it and wait for the magic to happen," Naruto stated.

Everyone nodded and the five of them grabbed the boot, waiting................and feeling stupid. Nothing was happening so far.

"Okay, 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2..."

Everything started spinning around and around, colors mixing with each other before coming to an abrupt stop. Only their ninja skills stopped them from having a nice meeting with the floor.

Sasuke POV

All the spinning came to a stop and I nearly feel down. I saw several unfamiliar faces in front of us and I grabbed a kunai from my holster before jumping in front of Naruto. Neji stood next to me in the same fashion while the others just stood there, alert but doing nothing.

"Cool knives! Where'd you get th..." A pair of twins from my right shouted. They both had flaming red hair and many freckles all over their faces. However, a plump woman with the same hair color and freckles interrupted them, "Oh be quiet you two."

Then she turned to us and said, "We mean you no harm, you must be the people Dumbledore sent. Please, can you put done your weapons and follow us."

Kakashi spoke up, "They will lower their weapons if you lower your wands."

I finally noticed that a man with long gray hair, another with shaggily ginger hair, and a girl with spiky violet hair all had their wands pointed at us.

"Moody, Mundungus, Tonks—put down your wands," she warned. They glanced at her before reluctantly bringing down their arms. I followed suit and stood up straight.

"Okay, now that this is sorted out, why don't we go into the kitchen," she suggested.

"Okay!" Naruto shouted before running to her side before I could catch him, "Hiya! My name is Uzumaki Naruto but you can call me Naruto! Is it true that you're a witch?" His eyes were wide and filled with curiosity, all suspicions gone.

The lady laughed out loud, "My, my, aren't you cute, Naruto. My name is Molly Weasley, and yes, I am a witch. What would you like to eat?"

Naruto's cornflower blue eyes were brighter than ever at the mention of food, "Do you have ramen?" he asked shyly. When she said yes, he did a little dance and walked even faster than before.

Some of the people around him chuckled while I slapped myself in the forehead, Naruto would trust just about anyone if they offer him ramen.

The four of us followed the strangers clad in black robes while Weasley-san and Naruto led the way to, what I think, is the kitchen.

We went down a flight of stairs and into the kitchen. It was scarcely less gloomy than the dark colors of the halls above. Most of the light was coming from a large fire at the far end of the room.

A haze of smoke hung in the air like battle fumes, through which loomed the menacing shapes of heavy iron pots and pans. Many chairs were crammed into the room, and two tables were pushed together to form one long one.

Weasley-san led us to some chairs in the back of the room and told us, "All of you sit down and I'll fix some ramen for the 5 of you." We sat down while she walked over to the fire at the other side of the room.

I activated my sharingan and watched as she took out her wand and said some words before several packets of ramen zoomed into her hand. In my eyes, the words she said activated a small stream of chakra in her arm that went into her wand.

Then it came out and twisted a little before turning into a hand and grabbing the ramen. It flew back to her, ramen and all. That looked simple enough but what I don't understand is that why can't they just do it themselves, are they that lazy?

Suddenly I felt a nudge and turned my attention back to the others.

All of the people who were in the hall before, sat in the chairs around us. A black-haired man stood on the table; he had raggedy clothes and many tattoos on his body, some of his teeth were rotten, too.

"Hello, my name is Sirius Black and I'm the owner of this house. It would do you good to remember the address. We," He gestured at everyone, "are the Order of the Phoenix; a group of people who try to thwart Voldemort's plans before they start. You guys probably know this already so I'm not gonna explain everything again. It is your job to protect Harry while he is in school. We don't trust you yet and you probably don't trust us either but..."

"It is not a matter of trust," Kakashi suddenly interrupted, all eyes suddenly turned on him. "We have a mission from our Hokage while you want to save the world from this guy. It doesn't matter if we trust each other as long as we get this done. Naruto trusts you so I trust you. Please continue."

He, of course, was still reading his perverted book. Next to me, the violet-haired girl leaned over to Naruto, "Is he always like that?"

"Yeah, you'll get used to it," Naruto whispered back.

"Why does he wear that face mask?"

"Who knows, I've never seen him without it."

"Wanna try to get it off."

"I've been trying since I was twelve."

"Oh, how old are you now?"

"Sixteen, how old are you."

"Really, you're 16!? I thought you were 13."

"...Thanks."

"No, I'm sorry. It's just that well...you're so short and cute, I didn't think you were that old..."

"Yeah, a lot of people make the same mistake. The others are the same age as me and Kakashi is 29."

"I'm 26, do you think you can get me a date with him? I bet he's really cute like you guys under the mask."

"Sorry, no can do. He's married."

"Oh, dammit."

They both started giggling and I shook my head. Naruto can make friends with anyone. Then I diverted my attention back to Black-san.

"......Why don't we all introduce ourselves before we get to bed. I'm sure everyone wants a good night's sleep. Why don't you start 'Dung."

The ginger-haired man who pointed his wand at us before, stood up. He sat at Sirius' right side so I'm guessing we're going in that order.

"Im Mundungus Fletcher buh y' can call meh Mundy o' 'Dung, doesn't matta."

He sat down and a bald, black man stood up, "My name's Kingsley Shacklebolt, you won't see me or Mundy here much so you don't have to remember our names if yeh want."

A tall man with grizzled gray hair and a large chunk missing from his nose stood up. He stared at us with a small, dark, beady eye while his other electric blue eye swiveled in every which-way, "I'm Mad-Eye Moody but you guys can call me whichever one ya want. I don't think you'll mind my eye much with you three's." He pointed at me, Neji and Kakashi.

Everyone looked at us and I realized that I hadn't deactivate my sharingan yet. When I did, some of them gasped in surprise. Now that my eyes were normal, he took away the finger pointing at me and just pointed at the other two.

Neji I could understand, with his white, pupil less eyes but how did he know about Kakashi's sharingan? "How do you know about his sharingan? It is cover with cloth."

He chuckled before answering, "This eye of mine," he tapped the corner of his blue eye, "can see through anything."

I eyed him suspiciously and turned towards Neji, I made some signals with a hand, and he nodded before activating his byakugan.

"There are too many chakra holes around your eyes and they are causing your eye to swivel wildly. It is a very useful and rare case. If you let me help you, I can seal some of the chakra holes, stop the swiveling, and let you control it to go in the direction you want it to. Are you the only one who has this kind of eye?"

"I don't understand the thing about chakra holes but it would be great if you can get this damn eye to work properly again, it has been bothering me like hell since Crouch used it. And I think I'm the only one with this kind of eye cause I don't see no other mad-eye's out there."

"I'll fix it for you at breakfast tomorrow," Neji decided before deactivating his byakugan.

"Sure," Moody-san said before sitting down. His tone wasn't as curt or tight as before so I'm guessing that he trusts us a little more after Neji's offer.

Then Weasley-san came back with our ramen before standing in front of the seat next to Moody-san's. I looked at my ramen before giving it to Naruto, everyone else did the same. Naruto shouted with glee before slurping up the ramen.

"Hello, you already know my name and the 4 next to me are my family. This is my husband, Arthur Weasley," A tall, thin man with balding red hair stood up and waved before sitting back down, "This is my second son Bill Weasley,"

A tall man with long hair tied in a ponytail with a fang earring dangling from one ear smiled from ear to ear and shook our hands, laughing as Naruto tried to eat at the same time, "My oldest son is in Romania, and my third son...is not close with the family anymore.

Oh, and these two rascals are the twins. George and Fred, say hello. And I have one more son except he's still in Hogwarts and cannot attend this meeting."

The twins from before stood up and shook our hands, "Nice to meet ya. Can you show us those cool knives you had? They would be a real hit in our joke shop," They looked only about a year or two older than us and seemed very mischievous and cunning...Naruto would fit right in.

They sat down and the girl next to Naruto stood up, "My name is Tonks. That's not my real name but I don't like my real name so I changed it. There's one more person who was supposed to be here but he's a werewolf and couldn't come because today is a full moon. His name is Remus Lupin and you don't have to be scared of him."

Naruto finished his ramen just as she nudged him to get up while sitting back down. He jumped onto his chair and crouched down with his vulpine face before saying,

"All of you know me already as Uzumaki Naruto......or is it Naruto Uzumaki? Well anyways, I can't wait to work with you and I hope you can teach me some powerful spells! -."

The four of us groaned and I pulled him down from his perch, "You're too loud, dobe." He made a face at me before sitting upright.

Not bothering to get up, I said two words, "Sasuke Uchiha."

All of them blinked repeatedly before Neji finally introduced himself, "I am Neji Hyuuga and Mr. Ice next to me doesn't like to talk much with people he doesn't know real well so don't bother talking to him 'till about a week from now."

After so many years with Naruto, he started to talk more. That happened to me, too, but like he said, only to people I trust.

"I am Kakashi Hatake and the leader of this groups seeing as I'm the oldest. I will be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher this year. And the sleeping bum next to me (Shikamaru had fallen asleep when we reached Naruto) is Shikamaru Nara. He looks like a lazy idiot but in truth, he's a genius with a very high IQ. You'll probably find him staring at the clouds or sleeping in a tree in the future."

"Okay, now that everyone is done introducing ourselves, let's get some sleep. We'll introduce the kids tomorrow morning," Black-san announced as everyone got up to leave.

Weasley-san, um...the female one... came up to us and told us to follow her. As we walked through the grim hallways of the house, we passed by a pair of moth-eaten curtains that was covering a large portrait. It seemed suspicious and I made up my mind to check it out tomorrow.

Weasley-san led us through more hallways before ending up in front of a mahogany door that had seen better days. She opened it and let us in,

"All of your stuff are already in here. I know tonight's meeting was brief but it was to just welcome you to the wizarding world, if you have more questions, we'll be glad to answer them tomorrow. I bid you a good night now."

With that, she gave us a smile before shutting the door. Everyone, already tired, got ready to sleep. We were getting prepared for a long day tomorrow.

TBC.....maybe

This is something I thought of when my computer crashed and I had nothing to do. Tell me if I should continue or stop if you want. The way everything looks iz all messed up because of Flames are welcomed.