Chapter 1

School guards?

"Why do we need guards this year?" asked a boy with jet black hair. He was sitting at a large table surrounded by his friends and some of his old teachers. He was sitting across from a man with graying hair and ratty old robes on.

"because professor Dumbledore thought it would be a good idea to have some extra protection for Hogwarts now that Voldemort is back." The man said. The boy looked over at his tall, fiery red haired friend as he cringed at the name.

"Let me guess, the protection is for me." The boy said coldly.

"Harry, the protection is for the whole school, not everyone will be for you. But yes, one person will be assigned to you."

"But professor Lupin, what do you mean not everyone? How many people are coming, and who are they?" asked a girl with bushy brown hair.

"Dumbledore didn't tell us everything, but we're guessing around six of them. And we don't know who they are. We'll be meeting them after your hearing."

"That's enough now! Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, go to bed. You two too." Mrs.Weasly said, indicating her twin sons. They all sighed and walked out of the gray kitchen.

"She's right Harry, you should get some sleep, your hearing is tomorrow." Hermione said to her friend. He nodded and turned the corner with Ron while Hermione walked up another flight of stairs with Ron's little sister, Ginny.

"Who do you reckon is coming tomorrow?" Ron asked as he crawled into his bed.

"Dunno. But whoever it is, I don't care as long as they're on our side." Harry said.

------------------------------------A few days earlier in another place------------------------------

"Ok, we need to choose our team members. Now Tsunade baa-chan said that Dumbledore-samma said to only choose two for each house, one of the ones in Gryffindor will be watching the Potter boy, and Tsunade already said that was me, so we need five more, already counting you two. She gave us a list of what the qualifications for each house so lets see here…" said a young man with spiky blond hair as he looked down at the list. His two friends were sitting next to him, one picking at her bowl of miso ramen and the other one deep in thought.

"Naruto, I've never seen you so caught up in work like this." Said the pink haired girl. Naruto looked up from the sheet.

"Well, this is a year long mission and the first important one where I call the shots. Now that I'm ANBU captain I want to make a good impression." He said, "by the way, we can't wear our masks, Dumbledore samma said they could make a bad impression."

"What? That doesn't make sense." said the raven haired one, snapping out of his thoughts.

"Well, that's not really up to me or the Hokage, so deal with it." Naruto said as he wrote something on the page.

"Sakura, do you think you can handle Hufflepuff with Hinata?"

"Sure, I'll go ask her now." She said as she stood up and paid for her meal. Naruto smiled at her then snapped his head toward the other.

"Sasuke, you can handle Slytherin with Gaara. Luckily he's here to visit with Temari." Naruto said, "I'll get Shikamaru and Neji and Kiba." Sasuke stood up and left to go find Gaara. Naruto also stood up and left to find the others.

"Hi Sakura. What brings you over here?" asked a young woman with shoulder length black hair.

"Hinata, would you like to come on a year long mission with me, Sasuke and Naruto?" sakura asked.

"Sure. When does it start?"

"In a week. We're going to protect Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."

"What's wizards and witchcraft?"

"I don't know, we'll find out in a few days." Sakura said. She explained more on the way back to Ichiraku's noodle shop.

"Neji! Hey Neji!" Naruto called to the long haired boy.

"What is it Naruto?" he asked. He spun on his heels and faced him.

"Want to go on a year long mission? We need to protect some school in England. We're leaving in a week."

"Fine. Is there teams or something I need to know about?"

"Actually, yes. You will be guarding a house of students called the Ravenclaws. You will be teamed up with Shikamaru." Naruto informed. He continued to explain everything as they walked to Shikamaru's house.

"Oh, it's you. What a drag." He said when he opened the door to see them standing there, "what do you want?"

"We need you to go on a mission with us. It's a year long one." Naruto said, trying to get him to come. He opened the door wider and said, "I'm listening."

"You will be guarding the same group of students as Neji at this one school in England. So waddya say shika?"

"Sure, but only if you don't call me Shika again, only my full name." he said. Naruto nodded in agreement.

"I'll meet you two at the noodle shop. I have to find Kiba." Naruto said as he walked away.

"Gaara, your needed on a mission." Sasuke said lazily when he found him at Temari's house. Gaara looked up at him.

"What mission?" he asked.

"A year long one to protect some school. We're on the same team." Sasuke said. The red head thought for a moment.

"Sure, I'll go along. Who's leading the mission?" he asked.

"Naruto. I bet you could really scare the pants off some of those stupid kids." Sasuke smirked. Gaara chuckled slightly.

------------------------------------After Harry's hearing----------------------------------------------

"So, how did it go? Tell us Harry!" Hermione said anxiously when he walked in the room.

He smiled and said, "I'm going back to Hogwarts!" she ran up and hugged him and Ron clapped him on the back.

"We're supposed to go down to the kitchen to meet the new guards." Ron said.

"There here already?" Harry asked.

"No, we have to wait for them. Their coming via portkey." Mr. Weasly said as he passed them in the narrow hall. "Come on lets go." They all followed him down the stairs.

"Sirius, I'm going back to school!" he called to his godfather. The shaggy haired man opened his smiling mouth to say something when the room was suddenly full of screams.

"Ow! I am never doing that again." Said a blond boy as he stood up.

"Suck it up Naruto. It didn't hurt that much." Said the raven haired boy as he stood up. When he made sure Naruto wasn't looking he rubbed his arm.

"Gaara, don't be a show off." Said the pink haired girl. Harry thought she could be related to Tonks for a moment. He looked over to who she was talking to, only to see a red haired boy floating an inch from the ground on a cloud of sand.

"How is this showing off?" he asked defensively.

"Kiba get your dog off me!" exclaimed the boy with chocolate colored hair tied up in a tight ponytail.

"Ahem." Mr.Weasly cleared his throat. They all looked at him.

"Oh right! Hello, we are the guards for Hogwarts this year. Let me introduce myself. My name is Naruto Uzumaki." He said, "These are my teammates."

"I am Sakura Haruno."

"Sasuke Uchiha."

"These are the members that I chose to help because of their qualifications." Naruto said, indicating the others.

"My name is Hinata Hyuuga. I will be watching over Hufflepuff with Sakura."

"I'm her cousin, Neji Hyuuga. I will be watching over Ravenclaw with him." He said, pointing to Shikamaru.

"Shikamaru Nara." He yawned.

"Gaara of the desert at your service. I will be watching over Slytherin with Sasuke." Gaara said. Harry noticed that that man seemed very dark; seemed to fit that he would watch over that house.

"And I'm Kiba Inuzuka and I will be watching over Gryffindore's with Naruto. Oh yeah, this is my dog, Akamaru." Kiba said, motioning towards a large white and brown dog sitting next to him.

"Very good. I am Remus Lupin. Welcome to the headquarters of the Order of the Pheonix." He said.

"Wait a minute, your not wizards are you?" Hermione asked.

"No, we are not. We are shinobi from Konohagakure." Naruto informed.

"What are shinobi and Kono-what?" Ron asked.

"Shinobi are ninja and it's Konohagakure. Or the village hidden in the leaves. All except Gaara, he's from Sunagakure."

"Let me guess, village hidden in the, I don't know, sand or something." Harry said, guessing wildly.

"Actually, your right. Suna is the village hidden in the sand." Gaara said as his sand flew into his gourd. Harry stood there, shocked that he actually guessed right, even if he was partly sarcastic.

"My name is Hermione Granger. And – Ron! Close your mouth!" she snapped. Ron's jaw dropped when he saw the sand moved on its own. Gaara noticed and chuckled slightly.

"Ron Weasly." He introduced when he snapped back to earth.

"I'm Harry Potter." He said.

"So you're the Potter kid? What makes you special enough to need a guard?" Naruto asked.

"We'll explain that later." Mr.Weasly said.

"Ok, which one of you is going to guard me? No sense acting like you don't understand what I'm talking about, they already told me one of you is here for me. Honestly, I don't think I need you." Harry said coldly, eyeing each ninja in the room.

"Well to bad. Your stuck with me you little brat. And a quick word of advice, don't get on my bad side. Or any of our bad sides for that matter." Naruto snarled.

"And why's that? I doubt you can do anything worse than what we can do, seeing as you don't have any magic." Harry growled, starting to get ticked off. Naruto moved forward and leaned in so that he could hiss in his ear.

"You have no idea what we're capable of. Gaara could kill you with a swift movement of his arm. I can hurt you with two moves. Sasuke could torture you're mind with a single glance or kill you with a few moves. Shikamaru could control your every move. Kiba can seriously hurt you, and I should know. Neji could kill you in a matter of hours with around three moves, and so can Hinata. Sakura could hurt you too; even the sweetest girl needs a hard core. And if you tell anyone what I just said, you'll see what I'm talking about the hard way." He snarled. He backed off and smirked when he saw the horrid look on Harry's face.

"What did you tell him Naruto?" Hinata asked.

"Just what we're capable of." He said, smiling to himself.

"all right you three, go take care of your school supplies, you are leaving tomorrow after all." Mrs. Weasly instructed. They nodded and walked out of the room.

"What did he tell you?" Ron asked when they walked into their small room. He opened his mouth, but then shook his head.

"N-nothing." He said.

"What, did he threaten you not to tell or something?" Ron asked sarcastically.

"Let's just pack." Harry said, trying to get off the subject.

'I think he did threaten him.' Ron thought. He shook off the thought and went back to his packing.

"So that's it. Makes sense to me." Sasuke said after the adults explained the situation.

"Yes. Now, is there anything we need to know about you?" Mr.Weasly asked.

"Well…" Naruto looked over at Gaara, who then nodded as if to say it's ok to tell them everything. "Gaara and I have some issues involving demons."

"There are no demons at Hogwarts, so you don't need to worry about them, only a few minor creatures in Care of Magical Creatures." Lupin said.

"No, it's not like that. By 'issues with demons', I mean we have demons in us. Nothing dangerous, actually, wait… forget that last part, but we do have better control over them. I assure you we are not dangerous." Naruto said.

"What demons?"

"Well, I have a nine tailed fox demon in me that has been there since I was born. They placed it in me when Kyuubi, the fox, attacked our village."

"My demon is Shukaku, the sand demon. My father placed t in me before I was born as an experiment. I can control my sand in any way I please and that's about it for me." Gaara said, "oh yeah, I used to kill people, but only because they were trying to kill me. I don't do that anymore though. Only if it's absolutely necessary. And I don't sleep, so I will be patrolling the grounds at night."

"That's pretty much it. Sakura is well trained in medicine, so she is able to help students if it's an emergency." Naruto said.

"Who else thinks this year is going to be rough?" Hermione asked when she walked into the boys' room.

"Gee, what makes you say that?" Harry asked sarcastically.

"Those sheenooby guys are strict." Ron said.

"It's shinobi Ron, and yes they do. Especially that Naruto guy." Hermione agreed, "Something sure is different about those guards."

"Yeah. Something's really different about him; I noticed that when he backed away, his eyes were red, and kind of like slits. It was weird because the next thing I knew was that they were blue again." Harry said. He looked at them and they were looking at him with a very odd expression.

"Maybe you just imagined it Harry." Hermione said.

"Come on mate, nobody's eyes can do that." Ron said. Harry nodded and looked out the small window. It was dark outside and he looked at his watch. It was getting late.

They started to talk about Harry's Hearing when they heard footsteps outside the door.

"Probably Kreacher." Ron said.

"Who?"

"He's the old house elf here." Ron explained. The footsteps were still outside the door, only louder this time. They heard banging on the door and someone calling out to them.

"Oi, you in there! Go to bed!" Naruto called. Hermione walked out the door and walked up to her bedroom, leaving Naruto examining the small room from the doorway.

"Like I said, go to bed." He said as he closed the door and walked away.