Celebwen Telcontar: Here's another new fic!

Balrog: Another new Fanfiction? Why don't you just finish the ones you already have?

Celebwen Telcontar: Because this plot bunny attacked me. Don't be fooled by their cute appearance: they have fangs and aren't afraid to use them.

Balrog: Plot bunnies remind me of Chappy from Bleach…

Celebwen Telcontar: Me too. (Shudders) Please review, people!

Balrog: Aren't you going to say something about the fact that you don't own Naruto or Harry Potter? Or Bleach, for that matter?

Celebwen Telcontar: You just did that for me.

Most people don't think of the tectonic plates. The Pacific Plate is the largest of all plates without a continent. But that isn't true; the Pacific Plate does have a continent. Or it did, at one point. This continent was called the Living Land by the people who dwelt there, due to the powerful magic flowing about it. The inhabitants were peaceful, and lived in harmony with nature and the great animal spirits living with them, until the Outer Islands, known today as Japan, were invaded. Then, Kage Kami, the wise and respected leader of the People of the Living Land, sacrificed his life to keep the mainland from falling victim to the scourge of Outlanders by sealing the Living Land in a pocket dimension.

The Living Land was renamed the Hidden Land, and the people on it formed themselves into settlements. The animal spirits retreated from the people, and the fighters formed mercenary groups that roved the land. Eventually, the mercenaries formed a great many people, fought, and the countries grew, shrank, vanished and were revived. The four lands that remained the longest were the Land of Fire, the Land of Lighting, the Land of Wind, and the Land of Earth.

The people have not changed much, and though there are some modern advances in technology, they are not at all as numerous as the outer world.

Millennia after Kage Kami sealed the Hidden Land away, a group of four magicians decided to form a school. The Founders were rather prolific, Godric Gryffindor and his wife having ten children, Helga Hufflepuff and her husband having six, Rowena Ravenclaw and her husband having three, and Salazar Slytherin and his wife having two sons. Gryffindor's bloodline became the Longbottom family, Ravenclaw's family became the Bones family, Hufflepuff's line became the Abbot family, and Slytherin's main line went squib and ended in the Evans family. Hogwarts was a place of commerce and diplomacy for the Highland sorcerers, and the castle was protected by four guardians: Windrider, an eagle native to the Alps; Sakura, a badger from the Hidden Land; Hector, a Neaman lion from Greece, and Sasha, a basilisk from Africa. After the Founders died, the protectors continued to watch over the castle. Then, a farmer mistook Windrider for a dragon, and a young knight named George killed her. Sakura had a tendency to raise werewolf pups, which were killed outright otherwise, and was killed by angry citizens. Hector left with the eldest son of the main Slytherin family, and never returned. Then, when Sasha was the last protector, she was driven mad by the loneliness of the castle where no one knew her or even that she was there. A young student, Tom Riddle, found her and preyed upon her weakening mind until she killed a student. The killing brought Sasha back to sanity, and she nearly killed the young man who manipulated her.

About the time Sasha killed Myrtle Thompson, a pair of twins were born. Their names were Daniel and Danielle Evans, descended from Salazar Slytherin. Daniel stayed in England, married a woman named Rose and had two daughters: Lily and Petunia; Danielle was more adventurous. She wanted to see the world before she married and settled down. Three weeks into her tour of Japan, she found a way to enter the Hidden Lands. She married a man named Mitarashi Kisuke from the Land of Fire, and returned from time to time to see her brother and nieces. Both Lily and Petunia met and grew rather close to Anne Constance, Danielle's daughter, who was often called Anko because she liked red bean paste so much.

Then, Daniel and Rose were killed in a Death Eater attack, Danielle retreated to the Hidden Lands and died from an illness soon after Kisuske was killed during a Shinobi mission, both when Anko was ten. Soon after, Anko became a Gennin, and was in a squad headed by Orochimaru, who she began to look up to as a father figure. Orochimaru manipulated and used Anko, branding her with his first successful Seal of Heaven. Anko realized what Orocimaru was doing and fled, leaving the Hidden Lands to stay with her cousin Petunia for a time.

Lily married James Potter, and Petunia married Vernon Dursley, both of which were attended by Anko. Both had one son, Harry and Dudley, respectively, and, on Halloween evening, Lily and James were killed by Tom Riddle under the pseudonym Voldemort.

Celebwen Telcontar: Okay, that was just to set things up!

Balrog: Not too shabby. Are Orochimaru and Voldemort related?

Celebwen Telcontar: Huh. They very well may be. That would be interesting.

Balrog: What about the Defenders? What happened to Hector?

Celebwen Telcontar: There's a scroll in the Mitarashi household from Mitarashi Danielle. You'll just have to read it.

Balrog: I'll do so. Please review, people. Celebwen lives off of them. You don't want to see her when she hasn't had her reviews! It's terrifying!

Celebwen Telcontar: Balrog!