The Japanese Ministry

Chapter 9

Team seven was discussing what they had seen so far in the forest. They had decided that the forbidden forest was probably the best place to talk, due to the fact that the wizards hardly ever entered it. That, along with the fact that it reminded them of home.

"Based on what I've seen, the children are useless." Sakura reported.

Naruto blinked in surprise and almost tripped over a tree root. "Isn't that a little harsh?"

She shrugged and continued walking, "No, it's the sad truth."

"They're not that bad, some of the stuff they can do is pretty useful." Naruto argued.

Sasuke shook his head. "But without their wands they can't do any of it dobe."

"Teme, didn't we see Dumbledore do some magic without his wand?" Naruto reasoned. "He clapped or something like that."

Sakura hit him on the head. "Baka, I said the children were useless not the adults. Listen and think before you speak."

Sasuke frowned, "But Naruto actually does have a point."

His two teammates blinked owlishly at him wondering when he had suddenly begun supporting Naruto.

"Some of the wizards don't need wands to do certain magic, like apparition. We need to find out how that works and if any of the wandless magic is a threat."

Sakura nodded. "Yeah, I guess so."

Then Naruto spoke up. "The children may need their wands but that doesn't mean they're completely helpless. I mean, think about Gaara for a second."

"Gaara?" they echoed.

Naruto's head bobbed up and down vigorously. "Without his sand he can't do much, but with his sand he can do anything."

Sakura looked puzzled, "That's a strange analogy."

Naruto grinned. "But true. Right?"

Sasuke nodded slowly. "I see what you mean. The kids could be fairly dangerous with their wands. But when you think about it, it's hard to get Gaara away from his sand while with the children…. we're faster than them. It'll be easy to take their wands."

Sakura's smile turned evil. "If no one had their wand when the invasion started…"

Sasuke smirked. "Then we'd win without a single casualty."

Naruto's smile was huge. "Awesome…but we really need to stop comparing them to Gaara. He would take that as an insult."

"Agreed."

Somewhere in Sunagakure Gaara sneezed. His two siblings stared. They had never heard Gaara sneeze before.

He looked up from his paperwork and frowned while Shukaku screamed about the importance of using soap and other hygiene facts.

"This is your fault Naruto."

Kakashi was enjoying his time spent here in the ministry. The minister knew better than to complain when he showed up late, but the other three that had accompanied him on the mission were ruthless. They couldn't just leave him to his devices could they? No, of course not, they were Anko, Asuma, and Kurenai. The crazy trio who couldn't leave Kakashi alone!

They had sent him down to see how the wizards dealt with the civilians; or as the wizards said, muggles. They would need to know these things worked for when they took over England. That way no one else would know about how control of the country had changed hands.

So now Kakashi was questioning a red-headed man who was apparently in charge of the department. The man in question went by the name of Arthur Weasley. After learning many, fairly useless tidbits about muggles he bid the man good day, surprisingly, and left his office.

Kakashi was musing about this invasion that Japan had put together. There were too many holes in the plan. Not enough information had been given out and it left Kakashi thinking about whether or not this was just a big joke the Hokage was playing on them. Mentally he shook his head. It wasn't a big joke, but it was very annoying.

How was this all going to work? How many troops were they sending? Who would lead them? Once conquered, to whom would the lands belong too?

Konoha was obviously doing the espionage, but would they do the fighting as well? If they did then England would surely belong to them. But then there was the problem of ruling over a land that was far away. How was this going to work?

Kakashi's head was starting to hurt with all of the questions. But more questions suddenly arose all at once. He had been thinking under the impression that England would be easy to conquer. Now all question pertaining to how to conquer were arising with renewed fervor. It wouldn't be impossible, but it wouldn't be as easy as walking in and laying claim with a few words.

Or would it?

He wondered if England would give up if they were sufficiently intimidated. He abruptly put a stop to all this thought. He would follow orders but it wouldn't hurt to ask the Hokage a few questions.

After all, he didn't want his team to get caught in the middle of something like this. They already had more than enough excitement as it was. That brought up another thought: genin on such a serious mission.

What if his team was chosen for a reason. Naruto being the Kyuubi jinchuuriki and all. He wondered if Konoha's plan was to use Naruto like Suna used Gaara. Surely they wouldn't?

But he cut off that thought quickly. 'Surely they wouldn't'. What a laugh! Surely they would if it suited their purposes.

So were Sasuke and Sakura there simply because they didn't want him to suspect anything? Or did they have another purpose?

Then he felt his eyes widen. Sakura might not, but Sasuke certainly did.

The Sharingan.

He and Sasuke were there to control Naruto. He felt himself panic slightly. How could they expect him and Sasuke to control the Kyuubi?! He shook his head slightly. Naruto would never agree to let the beast out.

Never.

And then there was the question about whether or not Naruto was capable of doing so anyway. The seal might prevent it.

Another question was if the Hokage knew. Whether or not she did or didn't lead to the same question: Why?

He shook off all these traitorous thoughts. He was panicking about something that probably wasn't even true. He had to get a grip.

If he didn't this would end badly no doubt. For who it would end badly was the only question.

AN: Hey everyone! I know I haven't posted in a long, long, looong time! BUT, that is because I was busy working 10 hours a day at a lab! Awesome huh? Makes me sound old right? Working……

I finished up this wonder job after about five weeks or so and I thought you deserved a chapter. This chapter isn't really finished but I thought you deserved something so I wrote it really fast. That's why it's so short…Sorry!

Anywhoo, I have lost inspiration for this mostly…I'm just disgusted with Naruto right now and I haven't read the HP books in a while so I'm thinking about taking a break…or…something like that. WRITER'S BLOCK ALERT!!!

When I get my inspiration back you'll be the first to know. I will finish this...hopefully.