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Key-

"Kyuubi talking"

'Naruto talking in his mind'

"regular talking"

"Talking in Japanese"

Chapter Five: Madness and Magic

Sasuke's POV

Is it considered insubordination if you plot ways to assassinate your Captain? If so, I was extremely guilty of it, but my Captain was also to blame.

Our first true confrontation was the second day of training when he decided that I would be the demonstration for the next exercise, and quite honestly, I couldn't care less. I hadn't cared about anything since the day that—never mind. Point was I just didn't care. Then he had to go and call me that.

Flash Back

"Come on teme, you're going to have try harder if you don't want to get hit." Teme. I hadn't been called that since that day. I hadn't cared since that day. Now I felt a spark of anger, I cared. I cared enough to want to rip out the Captain's throat.

"Do not call me that." I hissed at him, throwing all of my hatred into a killer glare, and you know what he did? He laughed at me. He dared to laugh at me. My emotions that I had thought dead, that I hadn't cared about, came back in a rush: anger, hatred, pain. The things that I had suppressed, the memories, came back.

"What, the great Uchiha is afraid of a little name? Come on teme, you have to be stronger than that."

What did he know? What did he know of the things I went through? I had killed the only one who had ever called me that. I had killed my best friend, the only one who tried to save me. What did he know?

I lunged forward and tried to stab him with my katana, only to hit air. He was too damn fast. I growled and flung an assortment of kunai and senbon at him while regaining my balance on the lake's surface. I looked back up, and he was gone.

I stiffened when I felt the cold metal of his sword against my neck and heard his voice in my ear. "Nice try teme, next time don't act rashly due to your emotions."

What did he know?

End Flash Back

It was still true that I hated him. Every other thing he did brought back memories of him. His obsession with Raman, his rude nickname for me, his way of moving were all so similar to his. The one who had saved me when Orochimaru had tried to take over my body, the one who I had tried to kill before, the one who I had killed the second time, the one who saved me by sacrificing his self.

It was still true that I was anti-social, but it seemed that whenever I was around this Captain, I would end up in a shouting match with him always coming out the victor.

The only difference was that I now respected him. I wanted to kill him, to stab him with thousands of senbon, creating a slow and incredibly painful death, but I respected him in a twisted way.

My newest reason for wanting to murder him in the most painful way possible was the predicament that I now found myself stuck in. That damn pole he had us grab had somehow transported us to a field, and not expecting the sudden move, everyone except for him was on the ground in a dog pile, with me on the bottom. He was going to die in his sleep for this.

I jumped to my feet as the others got off of me and stared expectantly at Fox. This mission was promising to be an interesting one. From what I had been told, we were supposed to guard a school and its students for a year while acting as students so no suspicions were raised. This school was one for 'wizardry' as they called it, which was basically the manipulation of chakra for those who didn't have that much of it to start with.

An impossibly old looking man in something that resembled a dress walked over towards us, and from the way that he and Fox greeted each other, I assumed that he was our employer. Ten minutes and another odd trip like the one with the pole later, we were standing outside of a dilapidated looking house.

Normal POV

"Lupin, will you get the door? I'm pretty sure that it's Dumbledore back with whoever it was he went to get." Mrs. Weasley shouted from inside the kitchen where she was struggling to get the pots and pans back in order.

"Of course Molly, just give me a moment." Lupin strode over to open the door only to reveal a very tall man with a menacing looking fox mask on. Only one word ran through his mind: Deatheater.

"Molly! Grab the kids and run! They've found us!" Lupin shouted to Mrs. Weasley from over his shoulder while pulling out his wand to face the invader.

"Now, now, no need for worry Remus." A bemused Dumbledore stepped up from behind the masked man and smiled at Lupin. "Meet Shadow Fox and his team. They are the ones that I have hired to protect Harry and Hogwarts this year."

Lupin stared at the masked fox in front of him and then looked past him to see several other rather intimidating masked figures.

"Dumbledore, are you sure—" Lupin started to voice his concerns before Dumbledore cut him off.

"No need for undue alarm. They are trustworthy, I assure you. I have hired them through an old contact of mine whom I happened to run into while exploring Japan. Did you know that there are several hidden villages there? Now are you going to have us stand in the doorway all day or are we allowed to enter?"

Lupin stood to the side to let Dumbledore and his 'guests' enter, his mouth wide open in shock and confusion.

"We seem to be scaring all sorts of people lately, eh kit? Watch out though, this one smells of a wolf" Kyuubi muttered to Naruto as they headed into the house.

'No need to worry Kyuu, I'll be careful. It just wouldn't do to have survived Zaraki-Sempai's and your training only to die in some weird country. '

"Is everything all right Remus," inquired Mrs. Weasley as she stepped out of the kitched. Her eyes widened suddenly as she saw the ten masked people standing in the living room.

"Ah, Molly! Would you be so kind as to gather the members of the Order as well as Harry and his friends so that we can get them acquainted with the new guards?" Dumbledore smiled at her, eyes twinkling as she gathered her wits.

"O-of course. I-I'll get them right away." A rather frazzled Mrs. Weasley ran off to get the people who were scattered throughout the house.

"Who do you reckon they are Harry?"

"Blimey, that one looks creepy."

"What is Dumbledore thinking? They look like they could be deatheaters!"

The wizards gathered at number twelve, Grimmauld place all stared curiously at the masked strangers that Dumbledore had brought with him.

They were all wearing unusual clothes with random bits of armor attached and rather dangerous looking swords and knives strapped to them. They had a foreign, intimidating air about them, and one of them seemed to have bubble gum pink hair.

"Relax, relax, there is no need to threaten our new guests." Dumbledore stepped out in front of the masked strangers (1) and raised his eyebrows at the wizards who had their wands raised at the group.

"And who exactly are these guests?" Snape practically spit out the word guests as though it were a curse word and gave his best glare at the people standing behind Dumbledore.

"These are elite ninja from a hidden village that I have hired to protect Hogwarts this year. I hope that you all will do your best to make them feel welcome."

"WHAT!?"

Naruto smiled at the shocked/terrified looks on the faces of the people in front of him. Obviously his employer had not warned them of his coming. He calmly stepped forward and tried to communicate with the obviously flabbergasted people.

"Hello. I am Fox, the leader of this team. It's a pleasure to meet you all. I hope that we can get along, no?"

"Well said Fox," Dumbledore said, practically beaming at the Anbu captain. "Now if you all would be so kind as to take off your masks and intro duce your selves to us."

"What should we do Captain? We are strictly forbidden to take off our masks without permission from Tsunade-Sama, but he is our employer!" A rather nervous Sakura was staring pleadingly at Naruto. Naruto, in turn, smiled. He had been prepared for this and had placed a small genjutsu on himself earlier to alter his eye color and to get rid of the whisker shaped scars on his cheeks.

"Relax Sakura, he is our employer and it's not like we could pose as students in the school inconspicuously while wearing our masks, so every, masks off." Naruto waited as one by one, his team stepped forward to hand him their masks, their faces still hidden in the shadows. "Let's introduce our no? Include your name, age, and rank."

"I am Haru—um, Sakura Haruno, I am currently 16 years of age, and I am a jounin. Nice to meet you!" Sakura smiled at the wizards, a little bit uncertain as they stared.

"I am Ino Yamanaka! I'm 16 and I'm a chuunin!"

"I'm Hinata Hyuga, I'm 15 and I'm a jounin."

"Shikamaru Nara, 17, a jounin."

"Yo! Kiba, age 16, and a jounin, and this is Akamaru!"

"Kakashi Hatake, age 27, jounin rank."

"I'm Tenten, I'm 17, and I'm proud to be a jounin."

"Shino. 16. Jounin."

"Neji Hyuga, 16, I'm an Anbu, codename Panther."

"Sasuke Uchiha, age 16, Anbu level, codename Jackle"

"I'm last! I'm, well I can't really tell you my real name. Call me Kitsune if you need to, I'm 16 and I'm Anbu Captain Shadow Fox."

The wizards stood silently for a second not knowing what to do. These people were different, that was for sure. They were too tall for their ages, too mature looking, and they looked like muggles. One of them had a dog with him the size of a wolf and several of the others looked as if they had swords strapped to their backs. They stared for a moment more before exploding.

"What are you thinking Dumbledore! These are children! Half of them are girls. How can we expect them to keep their mouths shut about this?" Snape hissed, his eyes silted as he once again glared at the nins.

Neji tossed a shuriken at him, cutting a few strands of hair and his cheek before he even knew what was going on. "I hope you didn't include me in your count of the girls, and even if you were, I will assure you that they are just as strong and dangerous as a man can be. In case you 

didn't notice, we are ninja's, trained from birth in our art, we were no longer considered children since we graduated the academy, and I assure you that we are more than capable of doing our jobs."

Snape visibly paled and gently touched the bleeding cut on his cheek as the rest of the room fell silent. The older wizards looked cautious and distrustful, while several of the younger ones looked as though Christmas had come early.

"Hehe, perhaps it would be best if we gave you a quick demonstration of our skills. Do you have a backyard or some kind of open area? I would think that you want this house still intact after wards." Fox broke the awkward silence. If the wizards didn't believe in their skill, it was going to make the mission ten times harder.

A minute later, everyone was standing in the large field where Naruto and his team had first landed.

"Oi! Teme, you want to show them what we've got?" Naruto realized that he had slipped up a couple of weeks before when he had called Sasuke by his old nickname, but luckily, no one thought anything of it.

"I'd say we face one of them against one of us, to see how they'd fare against a wizard." A grizzly old man with a wildly spinning blue eye spoke up, carefully looking over the nins. Sure they looked like teenagers, but his eye and sixth sense he had picked up from being an Aura told him differently.

"Of course, Fox if you would be so kind as to spar with Tonks?"

Naruto smiled as a peculiar woman with hair as pink as Sakura's stepped forward. This was going to be fun.

"Begin!"

Tonks took out her wand and said a simple stunning spell, not wanting to hurt the boy in front of her, but he was already gone. She felt a tap on her back and came face to face with the leering fox mask he had been wearing earlier. She belatedly brought her wand up, but he was gone again. Several kunai whizzed by her, creating a perfect outline of her shadow on the ground and it was then that Tonks realized her wand was gone. She shivered in fear as the edge of a knife traced her neck and a voice whispered in her ear: "Dead". He had just been toying with her.

"What the bloody hell was that? " A rather shocked looking red head, actually there were quite a few red heads, shouted. Naruto let out a low chuckle. If it weren't for the eye color and the absence of a killer demon it could be a small clan of Gaaras.

"That was nothing. You should see him when he's somewhat serious." Tenten laughed as the wizards bombarded her, all asking the same question.

"He wasn't serious?"

"Of course not, our Captain isn't that weak."

"Mr. Kitsune, perhaps you would give us a small demonstration of your more serious side?"

"Hey teme, you up to showing them what a real spar looks like?"

"My pleasure, Captain."

"Um, Fox-Sama, maybe we should set up some rules so that there aren't any accidents." Hinata looked nervously at her Captain but relaxed when she saw him smiling.

"Good idea Hinata-Chan. Okay teme, we'll be limited to taijutsu only, and we aren't allowed to kill each other." Sasuke merely nodded as they both got into position. "Oh! Dumbledore-Sama, you might want to set up a barrier or something." A shield went up around the wizards as Sakura shouted the beginning of the match.

"What the bloody hell is going on?" The wizards were staring at Sasuke and Fox with a mix of awe and horror. The two teenage boys were moving faster than the eye could see and hitting with enough force to send each other flying for miles.

Sasuke ducked a punch as he lashed out with one of his own, but was forced to jump back to avoid an axe kick from his Captain. Fox jumped forward and kicked again, missing Sasuke and creating a small crater in the ground. He jumped into the air as Sasuke came at him, his punches coming one right after the other, barely avoiding contact. Fox pivoted on his left leg and brought his right leg up for a roundhouse kick straight to Sasuke's chest, leaving him winded and dazed enough for Fox to get behind him and deliver a strong kick in-between his shoulder blades. Sasuke fell to the ground as Fox stood over him, smiling as usual.

One day he was going to kill his Captain.

Wow, so how was that? I think that was my longest chapter ever, and I have realized that I am horrible at fight scenes, but oh well. Please review, it gives me energy to write more when you do and if you have any interesting suggestions or critics, I would love to hear them. On a side note, this story has now gotten over 1,500 hits! Eiralyss