Summery: When Trowa meets a starving child near his sister's circus he can't, not do anything; and when the child's ninja friend's family gets involved, things only get crazier.

(Part Four)

"We strongly suspect that he is." Naruto said with cold eyes as Tom gave the list to Minato Sr.

Minato's eyes grew huge as he read the list then angry. "And these were found on my student and Family?"

Fugaku was hesitant. "Minato-kun, I don't want to know do I?"

Minato looked up his eyes cold, "no, my old friend, you don't."

"According to Tsunade-baa-chan, Itachi-kun had the most blocks of the whole team, and he spent two years in a potions induced coma, in their prison." Naruto informed them.

Fugaku's eyes went flat, but that was nothing compared to the fury in his wife's eyes.

"And that was done to him because he was trying to save Sol and Haku from that... place..." Naruto looked from his father to Sasuke's. "In addition to that, after a time with no word, we had to assume that he had either gone rogue again, or that he was dead. We knew that he is as loyal as he could be so that left us with..."

Sasuke's eyes still held the lingering grief that he felt when he thought his brother was dead. Naruto put his arms around him.

It was Fugaku's turn to have a murderous look in his eyes.

"Excuse me," Sol said hesitantly, "May I ask a question?"

Naruto nodded. "Of course Sol, what is it?"

"Um...," he looked uncertainly at Tom, "aren't I suppose to kill you, and aren't you supposed to kill me?"

Tom blinked. "That thing? That is about him."

"So..." he said hesitantly, and rubbed his forehead, "this ..." he lifted his hair showing his scar, "this is another lie, right? But he absolutely believes it."

Tom nodded. "That night I was trying to convince your parents to come with me to Konoha. I was labeled 'Dark' because I also use Chakra."

Sol looked over at Lily and James, "so who killed you then? Who did you scream at, 'take me, not Harry, not Harry?" he asked than shuddered and turned to Trowa for comfort.

"It might have been Him... Because we were thinking about coming here... Remember James?" Lily answered. Lily bit her lip. "Dumbledore wanted us to stay put, hide us from him... and the night we died... well, he had threatened to kill you if we didn't cooperate..."

Sol sighed and looked up nodding giving them a hesitant smile.

Lily smiled back, wishing that she could go over there and hug her baby.

"Okay, so what can we do to bring him down?" Sol asked, his eyes hardening a bit.

"I don't want to send you back without backup." Naruto looked thoughtful.

"Well the house I've rented in Hogsmead has a lot of rooms in it," Quatre piped up.

"Sasuke, should I send a team?" Naruto asked, giving his father a quizzical look when he began to dig something out of his kunai pouch.

"I am not letting my student go back into hostile territory without me." Minato told his son as he pulled out a three-prong kunai.

Kakashi was glad that his mask hid his pout, he wasn't a pre-teen anymore. He took the kunai anyway. He could take care of himself darn it!

"Rin is a medic," Minato told his son. "I suggest she come also. With Tsunade-sama retired and Sakura pregnant..."

"I agree," Lily said, shaking her head. "I don't trust Pomfrey she is firmly on Dumbledore's side."

Naruto nodded. "Alright. Sasuke, we have an ex-Kage and a medic on the back up team. Who else should go?"

Sasuke looked around the room weighing strengths and weakness, "Obito, I think."

"Yes! Old Team Seven!" Obito grinned.

Rin smacked him on the back of the head.

"Owe! Rin-chan…"

Naruto nodded. "Right. This is an S-Rank mission." He looked from his Father to Kakashi's old teammates. "You are to provide any aide our main team may need. You are to pull the team out if you feel things are getting too heated. Rin, you are to be their healer and will have to check on the main team at most every other week."

She nodded, "what exactly is our mission? Are we just to watch, or assassinate Dumbledore and/or his support?"

Naruto sighed. "Naru let them read your letter."

The girl ran to her bedroom and came back with the letter handing it to him.

He in turn gave the letter to Minato Sr. and Rin to read.

Tom came over and read over their shoulders, helping them translate the words that they didn't know.

Minato looked at his son. "Were you hesitant to send them?"

"Very," Tsunade spoke up and told him about the attack 6 years earlier.

"He almost killed you?" Jiraiy asked incredulously.

"Yeah, it was touch and go for a while," she said, "If not for Heero and Wufei, I would have died."

Minato nodded, looking pensive. "I see..." He pulled out more of his kunai and gave them to all the students. "I have a feeling that this will be worse than the war..."

"Dumbledore is well connected, well liked, and very powerful," Tom said, "the last time we fought..."

"You came home limping, I remember."

"No, I died," he said gesturing to Lily, James and Harry.

"What about us?" Ayame asked.

"Then no I don't. I died long before you did." Minato turned back to Naruto. "When do we leave?"

"School starts in two days," Naruto said. "Everyone's homework done?"

"Hai, Naruto-sama!"

Minato turned to Rin. "Get everything you think you will need."

"You will leave at first light," Naruto said and made sure to make eye contact with the late comers of the group, "it will give you an extra day to get the layout of the castle and grounds."

Minato nodded, smiling. "We are proud of you Naruto." Minato turned to Obito and Rin. "You heard him. Get going."

"Hai!" Rin left to the hospital and Obito to his room.

Minato pulled the students aside and started to teach them how to use the seals on the kunai. It was going to be a long night, but well worth it. The next day three members of the Old Team Seven left at dawn.

Before Rin left she cast jutsu on the teachers and students to mimic the charms and curses that had been put on them and had gotten together with Quirrel and Snape to have students sent to her secretly to see if any of them were bound. It was nice to have a medic on their side for once.

The students got on the train and Kings' Cross, ignoring the frantic Molly looking for her youngest son.

Minato and his team swept through the school, learning what they could. They found a pattern to the staircase's movements. They made contact with most of the creatures in the forest

"Rin, you check out the medical wing." Minato ordered after their time in the forest.

"Yes Sensei." When she came back, her mouth was a thin line.

"What is it Rin?" A concerned Minato asked.

"Most of the so called potions are laced with obedience draughts and suppression potions," she said, "that woman isn't fit to remove a splinter."

Minato's eyes narrowed. "What do we need to do then? This is not how a school is run!"

"We need to talk to Professor McGonagall."

"I'll do it." Minato told her. This was bad news... it was better for it to come from a fellow teacher. He appeared in Minerva's office.

She gasped and went diving for her wand.

"Minerva, I am Namikaze Minato, Kakashi's teacher."

She narrowed her eyes, "What book is he always trying to read?"

"Icha Icha, It is written by my sensei, Jiraiya."

She gave him a disapproving sniff, "the man's a pervert."

Minato nodded. "I have bad news."

Minerva held up a hand, "tea always helps when giving bad news, would you care for some?"

"Yes please. What is it?" Minato asked.

"Itachi has introduced me to the wonders of white tea," she said tapping the pot and setting it whistling.

"Yes, it is wonderful on stress." Minato agreed. "Another of my students, Rin found something in your medical wing."

Minerva's shoulders slumped, "what was it?"

"She found the potions laced with obedience and suppression potions. If you find yourself in need of anything like that come to Rin, she is our medic. She found those in all the medicines." Minato explained.

Minerva's eyes grew sad, "I remember Poppy when she was my student she was so bright and eager to help; I don't know what could have happened."

"You want Rin to look at her?" Minato asked.

"And me," she said, "I have to take them for my heart."

Minato nodded. We'll take care of you."

He retrieved Poppy and brought her and Minerva to Rin, to check them.

Poppy glared at them, "what do you think you are doing?" she said indignantly, "Dumbledore will make you pay!"

Minato knocked her out. "Rin, check the local medic first."

"She has suppression charms on her, but no obedience charms," Rin said after examining her.

"Hmm... What would happen if we took them off? What is being suppressed, can you tell?" Minato asked her.

"It looks like memories," Rin said.

"Anything else?"

Rin shook her head, "not that I can see."

Minerva gasped, "He surprised her memoires of her parents turning to Tom."

Minato put a slight Genjutsu on her to keep her sleeping. "If so, then... We'll release her memories later… Check Minerva."

"You said there was something wrong with your heart..." Rin checked and grew pale then green, "there is some kind of charm on it that if you ever see Tom Riddle again you will die."

She gasped. "Can you take it off?"

"I..." Rin grew silent as she worked, "I'm not sure."

"Maybe the potion only renews the charm?" Minato asked.

"It seems to, like a battery needing more power," Rin agreed.

"Then..." Minato smiled. "All we need to do is take her off the potion, right?"

"Yes, but if Tom comes back and she sees him before the 'battery' is completely dead," Rin trailed off.

"We need to warn them then." Minato pulled out the phone that Naruto gave him. "Rin, you keep her monitored and take off the memory suppression while I call Musuko."

"Wait, Tom's dead," Minerva said dazedly, "my husband is dead and has been for 10 years."

Minato shook his head. "He is in Konoha."

Naruto's face appeared on the screen. "Otou-sama?"

"We have a slight situation here," Minato said (trying but failing to ignore the thrill of his son, HIS SON, talking to him).

"What is it?"

Minato quickly explained the 'time bomb' on Minerva's heart. Naruto swore quietly, not wanting to corrupt the children.

"He was looking forwards to seeing her again... Any estimates on how long it will take for the charm to expire?" They needed to establish a timeline.

"Rin isn't sure but it should expire in less than four months or the 'explosion' will be light enough that the damage will be easily repairable."

Naruto nodded. "Yes Father, I trust you on this, you are in charge after all. With some of the blocks we found, it's a wonder anyone there is able to function normally..."

"Don't worry son," Minato said, "we'll bring him down and make him pay. How long until the 'political' team is here to start working on the ministry corruption and his powerbase?"

"They should arrive the day after term starts." Naruto smirked. "I was tempted to send Shikamaru, but we need him here."

Minato wrinkled his nose, if the son was anything like his father... but Naruto was right it would not be wise to deplete Konoha with enemies about.

"Gaara wanted to go, as did I but we are needed here and can't really leave..." Naruto bit his lip. "Do what you will with their healer."

Minerva smirked, "maybe it's time to have an ally in Dumbledore's inner court; can your healer change and be her for the next foreseeable future? Sev will be able to help with potions and stuff."

Naruto grinned. "Father could do it even. Henge is one of the most basic jutsu, in fact, it's the first one learned in the academy. But that is a good idea..."

"I believe that Pomfery is one of his very close confidants, is there any way you can transfer some of her memories, so Albus doesn't suspect?'

"Ah, my dear Minerva, we are ninja. It is our job to deceive others." Naruto reassured her.

She rolled her eyes at him, "I need to get back, papers to grade and all of that."

"Then go." Father and son had identical grins on their faces.

She snorted, "Don't think for one moment that I am fooled by those 'innocent' smiles."

"Who us?" Minato asked. "We'd never plot against you my dear..."

"I've been a teacher for nigh 50 years, I know a pair of mischief makers when I see them. If Kakashi can't fool me with just seeing one quarter of his face I don't think you will. Good bye Poppy, you had been a good friend a long time ago."

Minato laughed. "I taught Kakashi."

She smirked, "Tom taught me better." With that she popped back to Severus's office and hurried back to her office. The students would be returning in a few hours.

Minato shook his head. "Rin."

Rin turned to the unconscious woman and nodded at Minato, "wake her up." she said her voice cold. She needed to learn.

Poppy opened her eyes and began glaring at them, "when Dumbledore gets done with you..."

"Do it Rin." Not even ninjas condoned what she was doing. Minato glared at her, radiating Killing Intent.

She tried not to flinch away; Severus glare could be just as bad too... she told herself.

Rin went to work.

Poppy bit back her screams until... When it was done, she was a broken woman. Obito picked up the woman and put her in a cell, Heero and Fei would take her back to Konoha when they got in later tonight.

She would be given to the Yaminaka.

"Rin, you are to take her place, if anything happens..." It was more of a warning then a threat, especially with what happened before in the school.

She nodded and concentrated shifting her appearance. She looked down at the medi-nurses robes, "how the hell are you suppose to move in these?"

"I don't know." Minato shrugged. "Kakashi and the main team are using a jutsu to make their clothes look like robes..."

"I can see why." She concentrated on her clothes as well, "so do I look the part?"

"Perfect." Minato gave her the thumbs up. "Now get going."

She gave him a mock salute than stuck her tongue out at him before flashing away to Severus's quarters, a kunai vibrating in the wall where she had been moments ago, Minato chucked and shook his head. He had taught his students well... "Cheeky brats..." Minato muttered affectionately.

Hermione was very quiet and subdued on the way back to Hogwarts. So were the rest. Naru nudge Ayame and nodded to Hermione's wrist where they could see a dark bruise.

Ayame's eyes widened. "What happened Mione-chan?" She would need to go to the healer! Not good!

Hermione hastily pulled her sleeve down, "nothing." she said defensively.

Sol pulled it back up. "You had better tell us!"

"It's nothing really," Hermione said her voice slightly panicky, "he didn't mean it and he apologized afterwards."

"So a sparing accident? Ok. But we still want to know what happened..."

"It wasn't sparring," Hermione looked down and bit her lip, "daddy didn't want to leave his practice in London is all."

"Practice?"

"But he was really sorry afterwards, cried and... He and mommy had a very successful dentist practice in London, when we moved here..."

"It was an accident that's all..." Sol sighed. "Mione-chan, are we a team or not?"

"Is this anything like the accident you had when your father smacked you across the face for not getting his tea fast enough?" Neville asked, Hermione paled.

The ninja's eyes narrowed. Abuse?

"He's my daddy," she said waving her hands helplessly.

"Just like the Dursleys were Haku's?" Sol asked.

"I have the list of charges with me if you want to see them Mione. We are your team, you need to trust us."

"But..." she said as tears sparkled in her eyes, "I love him and he's my... daddy." She ended in a whisper.

Haku nodded. "I understand that, but ninja don't take abuse of any kind lightly."

She nodded miserably, "I just don't want him to stop loving me, ya know?"

Sol and Haku looked at each other. "Yeah..."

They needed to say something... Ayame and Naru put their arms around her. They looked up when Draco opened the door smirking, "you know who is missing from the train?"

"MoRon?"

Draco smirked "Apparently he has been adopted and is now out of the country."

"Awesome!"

"My father told me that Mrs. Weasley is frantic."

They snickered. "Good riddance!"

"Time to get ready." Sol said as he looked at the time, "we'll be there soon."

They all nodded, doing the hand seals.

"Ah... Mr. Potter," Dumbledore said as Sol was getting ready to leave the feast, "please follow me."

Sol shot an almost panicked look at his team mates.

Dumbledore put his arm around Sol's shoulder and began leading him in the direction of the Hospital Wing, "What happened to young Mr. Weasley?"

"You told me to take him with me, so I did."

Sol secretly made a Kage Bunshin and switched places with it.

Dumbledore frowned, "than why were you not taken by social services?"

The Bunshin thought fast. "I was; they gave me back to my adoptive parents."

Dumbledore nodded, "Ah Poppy, do you have that potion for Mr. Potter?"

Rin nodded. It was really colored water, the best she and Severus could do on such short notice.

She used hand signs to identify herself to Sol when Dumbledore wasn't looking.

He took the potion and took a step back when Dumbledore pulled out his wand, "Imperio, now tell me where you have been and what really happened…"

The Bunshin looked at Rin hopelessly. 'Help.'

"Madam Pomfrey," Naru said coming in dragging a near tears Hermione after her, Ayame bringing up the rear, "Hermione's been hurt."

"Hey! Let me g- Oh hi Sol."

Dumbledore glowered at them then smiled grandfatherly, "that's alright I was just leaving. Goodnight."

Rin sighed and let her Henge down. "That was close... That man is creepy," she said as she gently tugged Hermione to a bed.

Hermione nodded. "Yeah... we don't like him..."

Naru nodded. "He's mean and tried to take us from Baa-chan."

Rin hummed a bit in answer as she gently healed the bruises on Hermione's wrist, "I need to see the rest of them Herm-chan."

Hermione sighed. "Ok..."

She undressed until she sat in her sports bra and shorts, "Kami, Hermione, I thought he only hit you once." Ayame said in dismay.

She looked down, ashamed.

"Hermione," Rin looked at her with sad eyes. "Loving parents don't hit their kids."

"But he said he was sorry," Hermione whispered.

"Hermione, until we can figure out what's going on, I think its best you stay with Sol ok?"

"Okay," she said, stifling.

"We only want you to be safe Hermione." Rin hugged her. "Until we know exactly what is going on you will have to stay with Sol. We are not going to arrest your father, don't worry... In fact, we might add him to the Torture & Interrogation department if we like what we find. Worst case scenario is that we need to lock him away."

Hermione looked up tearfully at Sol, her expression filled with pain, guilt and hope, "You don't mind?"

"Nope!" Sol grinned. "Not at all."

"Now, what was that potion suppose to do to me?" Sol asked, "Was it the 'obedience' potion?"

Rin nodded. "It was, but since we only had minutes to prepare it was only colored water."

Sol nodded, "so a good little puppet again."

"Yes, but don't worry, we've got your back." Rin told him. "I need all of you to come in once a month to make sure that what happened before doesn't happen again."

"I'll pass the word," Sol said as he motioned with a bow for Hermione to precede him out of the room, she gave him a mock curtsy and stuck her tongue out at him.

Rin giggled as she watched them. Then she pulled out her phone and called her sensei. "Infiltration successful."

"As if you could do any less," he said smirking over the phone.

He was the Yondaime, and as such, his students were held to high expectations. "I am a bit worried though... The old man is trying to make a puppet out of Sol..." Rin confided in him.

He frowned, "I'll let Quatre know, he might need to move a bit faster than we originally thought."

Rin nodded solemnly. "Indeed. But our move depends on how long it takes for that potion to be flushed from Minerva's system..." Rin sighed. "I will report in next week Sensei."

444

The five ninja students met on the top of the astronomy tower, "you know," Sol said as he nodded thanks to Hermione for casting the warming charms, "we need a good prank."

She smirked. "Any ideas?"

"Something that will get ALL the teachers, but especially Dumbledore."

Draco perked. "Even Kakashi-sensei and Itachi-sensei? We haven't gotten them since the hair coloring incident last summer, Kakashi is due."

They all nodded except for Neville and Hermione. "Hair coloring incident?"

Draco smirked, "we put a chemical in their shampoo and another in their conditioner. The two separate did nothing, but together. Let's just say Kakashi's hair was a wonderful shade of purple."

"I found a potion that creates slime," Hermione said shyly.

Draco jumped her. "Share!"

She giggled and pulled out a library book, Naru eagerly leaned over her shoulder as she and Ayame joined the group handing out hot chocolate, "oh... and when they 'banish' it, it multiplies and gets slick!"

"Perfect..."

"And it's an 'upper' level potion so they will be looking at the higher grades not at us," Ayame snickered, "so what color shall we douse our teacher with?"

Naru's mind raced. "How about... 'Kill-Me Orange'?"

She pulled out Naruto's first team picture. And pointed to his jumpsuit. "This orange."

"And lurid pink!" Haku snickered, "let's make it for Valentine's day."

"Yeah!"

Sol nudged Hermione who hastily put the book away, and not a moment to soon, "YO!"

"Kakashi-sensei!"

He waved to them, "good evening," Itachi said as he came across the roof, "we need to decide training schedules for this quarter." He and Kakashi smirked as the seven groaned.

"Oh right." Sol grinned, remembering what Rin had told him to do. "Rin-san wants us to report to the Hospital Wing once a month, for obvious reasons."

Itachi and Kakashi nodded making the mental note, "she said to make sure you don't skimp, Kakashi-sensei," Hermione admonished, as she had been pulled aside and told of Kakashi's hospital reluctance.

Kakashi shivered. At least it was Rin and not Tsunade... Rin was his best friend, other than Obito. And probably wouldn't break his legs to make him stay long enough for the exam. Probably. Tsunade-sama was scary... Rin... not as much, probably right down on the same level as Sakura. And Sakura was his beloved student, right next to Naruto. So she wouldn't hurt him... couldn't... he hoped.

He made a mental note to just go. It would probably be less painful for him. Besides, Rin was his teammate and knew how he felt about hospitals...

"Right Kakashi?" Itachi said smirking as though he knew his partner hadn't been paying attention to the new schedule.

Kakashi blinked. "Sorry, what was that?"

The group laughed and he rubbed the back of his head wondering what he had missed. "You will take the evening training," Itachi said, "I'll take the morning this term."

"That sounds fine."

"Night all," Sol said helping Naru and Hermione to their feet, "see you in the morning."

"Good night."

444

Molly Weasley paced in front of Dumbledore's desk, "Where is my son!" It was time to begin looking on the continent.

Arthur Weasley tried to placate his wife. He had gotten a letter from Ron last week telling him that he was happy and content where he was. Where he wasn't the butt of Fred and George's pranks and wasn't overlooked or forgotten. That had hurt, but he understood. She had only glared and him. Ginny was thankful starting to get weaned away from the boy-who-lived and hero stories and he hoped her childish crush on a boy she never met. Even if his wife still tried to keep her that way...

Dumbledore rubbed his forehead after the shrew left and wondered how Arthur put up with her. At least she could cook... He eyed the dish of treacle tarts on his desk; at least he thought they came from her.

444

Meanwhile the ninja were in the Hospital Wing.

Rin huffed, "I can't believe Itachi made you walk on water when it is below freezing out there and the lake isn't frozen over!"

The kids were pouting, and sneezing, "he was making us dodge waves of chakra powered water too!"

Rin's eyebrow ticked. "He has been spending too much time with Obito..."

Naru shivered under the blanket, her sister Ayame pushed up against her trying to steal her warmth, "punish them," they whispered hoarsely, and grinned when Rin smiled evilly back.

"Oh I will... And I'll get Kashi's help too... and Sensei's..."

Sol sneezed and groaned, "I hate being sick!" he whined, and took the pepper-up potion ignoring the snickers as his ears started steaming.

Rin sighed. "Don't worry. I'll get them for you."

Itachi felt a chill go up his spine, he usually only got it when he pissed Sakura or Ino off, but they were in Konoha.

Obito felt the same way.

Rin let them skip class and after only a token protest by Hermione they made their way to the second floor girl's bathroom where Hermione was brewing the 'slime.'

Oh... this would be fun... At the same time, Rin was contacting Kakashi and Minato.

"He did what?" Minato said shaking his head, "they could have gotten seriously ill!"

Kakashi growled.

"That's why I need your help." Rin said smiling.

"What did you have in mind, my dear Rin?"

"Well... It's like this..."

Kakashi started giggling

Minato smirked. On top of the slime, which Kakashi didn't know was also for him, they were going to add a fake Seal like Sasuke's. Valentine's Day was going to be memorable. The seal would imitate Sasuke's. And it would last the whole week.

Valentines was getting closer, "more orange?" Hermione asked as she stirred the shocking orange slime, "the pink is perfect."

They tested it against the picture. "It needs to be a bit brighter."

The others were busy putting the pink slime in clear balloons than making them invisible. Minato and Rin came in and picked up the invisible balloons and quickly ducked into the great Hall and walked on the ceiling to over the teacher's table.

The orange was for Kakashi and Dumbledore. The pink would look so nice on Itachi and Severus.

Minato couldn't wait to see it. He was going to film the event and then send it to Naruto.

The ninja seven had also conned Rin and Minato into putting up a chakra barrier so that Kakashi and Itachi could 'flash' out and not get slimed or substitute someone or something.

Not that Minato needed to be conned. Naruto had gotten the love of pranks from his father... mostly.

And Rin had invited Obito to breakfast that morning, true she was going to get some slime, but it would be worth it in the end. She would wear her pink with dignity! And so when Minato and the kids were gotten back, she wouldn't be caught in the cross fire.

Minato set up his video phone to record the prank. He couldn't wait. His son would get a kick out of this!

Breakfast was in full swing, the new annoying defense teacher, Lockhart wearing pale pink and beaming at everyone. The ninja's could see through his glamour and compulsions and made sure never to let anyone be alone with the man, he had too many leanings towards being a pedophile.

Minato was reminded of Orochimaru. But Orochimaru hadn't written books and had besot women after him, this pervert did. Minato shivered. "He's like a bad mix of Sensei and Orochimaru!" He crouched upside down, keeping the camera trained on the high table as the kids came into breakfast. Many looked revolted by the pink hearts that were around the room. Minato couldn't agree more. Pink didn't belong if it wasn't part of a prank.

Dumbledore came in the room, his face placid as he took his seat and looked over as Lockhart stood.

Minato turned on his radio. "Now Rin!"

She caught the kids' eyes and gave a small nod and they all waved their wands under the table casting the charm to burst the balloons. She grinned as she felt the pink slime land in her hair.

Lockhart got a full mouth full of the slime, and after he sputtered he waved his hands, "I can banish this headmaster, a simple spell really."

Kakashi pulled on some of the slime. When he saw it was the 'Kill-Me-Orange' of Naruto's old genin outfit he started to laugh.

Itachi blinked as the slime spread and got slippery, Snape just sighed as he scouragfied his plate and ordered a new breakfast.

He then felt a pain on his shoulder. He swallowed hard and turned to look, pulling back his shirt. It looked like Sasuke's curse seal... He narrowed his eyes as he looked around the room, Kakashi was slimed and laughing, Rin was slimed and smiling, Obito was slimed and horror stricken, that left... Minato-sama or the kids. The kids looked 'innocent' and Minato... had to be around somewhere. He was probably watching from the roof. Itachi activated one eye and looked around at ceiling level'

Minato waved, grinning. He didn't care that he had been caught.

"It's too high up for first years," Severus muttered after scouragfying Itachi's plate, "I say it was the Twins."

"No." Itachi muttered. "I'm sure it was Minato-sama..."

Dumbledore stood up, "while I like a good prank as much as anyone else..." he spread his arm and an exceptionally large balloon of pink fell on him, mixing with the shocking orange.

Minato was now having trouble holding his phone steady.

The students were crossed between howling with laughter and shock.

Rin couldn't help it. She started laughing. Soon the whole teachers table was roaring, except the orange and pink headmaster who stood there frozen. Minato could only snicker. Otherwise he might miss something.

"Don't worry headmaster, a quick banishing spell," Lockhart said, his white teeth now splashed with pink

Obito looked up at his sensei. 'I hope you're getting this... Naruto and Sasuke will get a kick out of this!'

Several of the students sitting close to the teacher's desk shrieked when they got slimed as Lockhart banished the slime, making it grow in leaps and bounds.

"Oh... Mercy... I can't breathe..." Naru whimpered between laughs.

Hermione and Ayame were holding each other up. Sol was leaning on Haku and Draco. Neville had slipped to the floor and was currently laughing under the table. This was the most fun ever! They knew that what ever prank was done to them, this had been worth it.

Kakashi had gotten the reference. Which was cool.

That night they kids met with Minato and Rin to send the video to Naruto. Naruto tried to talk to them after he saw the video but was laughing too hard. Naruto ended up thanking them and then calling for Sasuke to come see what the team sent. Sasuke held off for a full 67 seconds, before his laughter bubbled forth.

"We are glad you like it Naruto." Minato grinned. "Just remember to show the rest of the family."

"Don't worry," Naruto grinned, "it will be part of the annual festival from now on."

The annual festival had been created by Naruto to remember the dead Ninja whose lives gave them freedom and funny things that happened on missions.

Minato blinked. "I think you forgot to mention that to me... you can tell me later."

Naruto nodded and hung up then groaned. Sasuke raised an eyebrow, "how are we going to show the dead when they are alive now?" He fussed.

They had totally forgotten to tell the rest of Konoha that the Yondaime, his wife, and the main Uchiha parents were alive again...

Dumbledore stood up smiling as he tried to brush the bright orange out of his face, "thank you who ever did this, but please vanish it now." He looked over as Lockhart tried to vanish more and the slime became even slimier and it started to creep closer to the giggling students.

Minato was glaring at the old man venomously. The slime could not be vanished; it was permanent unless you were a ninja.

Kakashi just stood up and began walking to his classroom, about half way down the Great Hall walk way, the slime vanished off of him and he giggled as he pulled out his book and ducked out the door.

Itachi quickly followed.

But Kakashi had plans. It was a good prank but he had to get back at them, at least it hadn't been pink. Orange he could deal with, and he could only deal with pink if it was Sakura's hair.

"Mr. Hatake," Kakashi turned and saw the stern faced McGonagall covered in hot pink goo... "That book is highly inappropriate," she said than narrowed her eyes, "I will however look the other way if you would..." she gestured to herself.

"Of course... and I shall try to refrain from reading it in class at least." He made the ram seal and the goo vanished from her clothes.

She gave him a tight smile and turned away and rolling her eyes at him and breaking out into a grin. That was a good prank.

Sol and the others quickly left the great hall as students started scrambling to get away from the Moron's 'vanishing' spell. Lockhart's attempts were now spraying the students who shrieked trying to get away.

Severus also left.

He went to his quarters and grabbed a bottle of potion off the shelf. Nothing could survive this stuff... As he walked back after first and second block of classes to the great hall he discovered that it had been closed off and students were eating outside. He passed Kakashi and Itachi, "we are getting them back aren't we?"

"Oh yes. Yes we are." Kakashi and Itachi smirked.

"Good," he said smirking back.

"I bet Sensei and Obito were apart of it..."

"I know they were," Itachi said, "I saw through his jutsu and he was up by the ceiling line taping us."

"They had better share it later..."

Sol and co made it to their clearing in the forbidden forest before howling with laughter many of them falling to the ground laughing so hard.

In Quatre's Hogsmead house the rest of Old Team Seven were laughing too.

Rin leaned over the cauldron and watched as Severus stirred in the last ingredient, "will this work? Will this break the time bomb on Minerva's heart?"

"I hope so." Severus told her. "If it doesn't... well..."

She nodded and took the steaming beaker, "you want to do the honors?"

"Sure."

"Minerva, we think we have it." Rin called her over.

Minerva eyed the beaker with trepidation, "I assume this tastes like last year's boots?"

Rin and Severus looked at each other. "We hope not..."

"But then, I guess if it works it shouldn't matter right? Because you'll only need to take it once." Rin admitted.

"Cheers" she said and drank down the thick goo trying not to gag.

As soon as she finished, Rin had her sit down. "How do you feel?" Rin asked.

"Much better actually..."

Rin closed her eyes and scanned Minerva's heart. It was gone.

"Well?" Minerva asked, "Is it?"

"Yes. It's gone." Rin reassured her.

"When can Tom..." the older woman said her voice breaking.

"Yes."

It was time.

Minerva closed her eyes fighting for composure, than she stood up and hugged Rin hard.

"You're welcome." Rin smiled. "Now we can get him."

Severus hastily backed away when Minerva turned to him, his face pale with a flushed patches on his cheeks. He nodded and hastily left the room and the women dissolved into giggles.

"We had better inform Minato-sensei and Hokage-sama..."

It was starting to come together, the groups were moving closer. Quatre grimaced at Trowa as they got into the elevator and listened to the annoying woman's voice, "Fudge better not be as annoying as he was our last meeting."

Trowa nodded. "I agree."

"Mr. Winner," the man's oily voice met them as the doors open.

Quatre gave a low whimper

"Nooo..." He sighed. "Yes? It is good to see you, Minister Fudge," he said as he took his hand back and discretely wiped it on his pants. He would have to disinfect it later... They were almost ready to invade.

"But Dumbledore is a great man," the Minister whined.

Trowa and Quatre sighed. Dumbledore had to at least be as old as Sarutobi, if not older... "He is passed his prime and should have retired by now..."

"But he's done so many good things."

"He is too old!" Quatre was itching for his gun, or something pointy like a kunai or shuriken.

"But what has he done in the past... fifty years?" Quatre asked.

Fudge was silent. "He saved Harry Potter when his house collapsed." Fudge said smugly

"Oh yes... that is so... impressive..." Not really... Ninja could save a child from a collapsing building and then stop the building from collapsing!

"And then he put his with his abusive relatives," Trowa said softly, "and never checked on him."

Quatre nodded. "Ninja would put a child somewhere and then watch covertly and protect them, getting the kid out if the caretakers proved unsuitable..."

Fudge ugly flushed

Quatre smirked. "What did you want to see us about?"

Fudge scowled angrily, "the Wizengamant is meeting today to discuss Dumbledore's competency."

Quatre nodded. "And...?" This was fun!

Fudge's face grew green, "he's been removed as head Mugwump." he said finally sitting down in his chair in defeat.

Yes! Now Quatre could use the signal any time!

They had already removed him from the ICW, so now he was restricted to Headmaster of Hogwarts and Lucius was already talking to the Board of Governors. Soon he would be out of their hair all together.

Sol and Haku sparred against Ayame and Naru, the girls using the inane twin senses to coordinate their attacks. It just wasn't fair! But they were getting better...

They could never beat the 'Twin Taijutsu' as they called it.

Draco joined the spar, "no fair!" Ayame growled as she fought him, Naru fought Haku and Sol flitted between them making them lose ground.

"Well, you aren't fair either."

Ayame stuck her tongue out at him and dodged a jab.

Minato was watching them as both Kakashi and Itachi had class right then.

"Who ever loses has to do extra laps," he called out as Hermione and Neville joined in and now it was boys against girls.

They all groaned. Yondaime-sensei, as they had taken to calling him, was even more creative with punishments and stuff like that then Kakashi-sensei, Obito-san, and Itachi-sensei!

The girls formed a triangle their backs protected and the boys circled them, and they slowly pushed the girls towards the lake.

Minato was amused.

The boys didn't realize yet that they were fighting clones, until they were close to the waters edge when the clones disappeared and the boys were ambushed from behind and pushed in the water themselves.

The girls giggled. "Did we win?"

The boys came out of the water sputtering.

"Ok boys, start running!" Minato called.

The girls waved as the boys began running on the water, "girls follow," he said after a moments pause, "you only have to run one less."

They grumbled quietly.

The seven were giggling as they came into the Great Hall. They had to hold their breath as Lockhart walked by, his clothes a horrible contrast of the Pink and Orange.

Minato was with them, under a Genjutsu. He had honestly missed teaching...

Dumbledore walked by as well, several letters in his hands, a frown furrowing his Orange brows. Most of the teachers had figured out ways to remove the goo. Severus had made a nice profit in the afternoon.

The students too had been able to get it off.

And though Itachi and Kakashi's new squad was different, it didn't matter to Minato.

Dumbledore moved to his office and threw some powder into the fireplace to make a fire call.

Minato smirked; soon that old man would be out of their hair!

"Grisilda," Dumbledore said kneeling in front of the fire, "why was my petition to remove Harry Potter from his present guardians denied?"

She frowned. "I don't know; I wasn't at the meeting. But according to the information that I have, you were denied because his parents have approved his current guardianship with Misters Barton-Winner."

"His parents are dead!"

Marshbanks blinked, "no," she said looking at the paperwork on her desk, "this is a magical contract, and the signatures are James and Lily (Evans) Potter. It was sent by special courier."

Dumbledore blinked. Now all his plans were ruined!

How had someone... resurrected Lily and James! His face darkened, that was dark magic and they had to be destroyed. But how to do it?

He fire called Severus into his office, the man had to be reminded that he owed Dumbledore his freedom; he just had to keep Severus from finding out that Lily was one of the targets. He would be looking at mutiny other wise.

Severus fumed behind his stoic mask; he was glad that Kakashi was listening in on the conversation via standing outside the slightly open window. "You will create this poison so that we can kill these... monsters."

He nodded. He knew that Lily was alive he had spent a lot of time with her and James while he had been in Konoha.

"How long will it take you to brew it?" Dumbledore asked.

"Three weeks..."

Dumbledore narrowed his eyes and Severus could feel the mind probe and pushed the brewing process to the front of his mind.

"I was going to try and create a new poison to use, which is why it will take so long..."

Dumbledore nodded and dismissed the Potions Master.

Severus sighed in relief. He had to get a message to Naruto...

Kakashi joined him as he passed the window, "that absolute bastard," Severus hissed.

Kakashi nodded. He would be telling Minato-sensei and then reporting it to Naruto.

If Dumbledore was going to try and kill the 'monsters' that included his Sensei and friends and that was NOT going to happen.

They informed Quatre over the phone before Kakashi went to tell his sensei.

Quatre clutched his fist, "we need to remove that man now." he said turning into Trowa, "they will not take my sons. Have we found out which Aurors are faithful to Dumbledore yet?"

Trowa shook his head. "The Black family is tight but they are worried about a daughter..."

"Daughter?" Quatre blinked.

"Yes, Nymphadora, they call her Nymph for short."

"She's at Hogwarts?"

Trowa shook his head. "She's an Auror."

"And why are they worried about her? Is she in Dumbledore's back pocket or does he have a grip on her mind?"

"It could be either or both they suspect..."

Quatre blew out a breath, "what if we have Heero and Wufei take her out of the picture temporarily."

Trowa nodded. "Good idea. When is the rest of the group coming in from Konoha?"

"Not soon enough..." Quatre leaned his head against Trowa's chest, "I will be glad when this is over and we can go home." he said softly.

Trowa nodded, running his fingers threw his lover's hair. "I know."

Tom, Lily and James were on the railing of the boat as it pulled into London's harbor they were... HOME.

"This isn't home anymore..." Lily muttered. The air felt wrong... The magic tainted somehow. No, this place would never again be home. Home was the warmth of Konoha... the quaint little Shinobi village that they had grown attached to, home was with the Namikaze-Uchiha clan.

They caught sight of a group of people waiting at the docks to meet them.

They smiled. "It's time." Tom intoned. And rather than waiting for the crew to tie up the ship, the group apparated into the small circle that had been left in the group for them.

Heero and Duo began to brief them; Minato wasn't there because he didn't dare leave his team in such a hostile environment alone.

He'd lost Rin and then died himself so he didn't dare risk leaving them alone especially after what had almost happened to Obito.

Quatre and Trowa filled them in on where they stood with the ministry and Dumbledore's now lack of political power.

"Now we can destroy him, good."

They still had to tread carefully as Dumbledore currently held the wards on Hogwarts and with a twist of his magic he could kill Minerva and the teams.

That had the parents and children, (though Naruto and Sasuke couldn't really be called children anymore) fearing greatly for their loved ones.

Minerva was currently working with the adult ninjas to find a way to get Dumbledore out of Hogwarts. Once out, his hold on the wards weakened and could then be transferred to a new Headmaster/mistress before he was aware of it.

It had to be one loyal to Konoha; they were thinking Minerva herself or Severus.

Tom considered, he wondered if Minerva would consider a joint role, if she consented to marrying him.

They met with Minato and Obito in Hogsmead.

"Has he suspected yet?" Lily asked.

Minato shook his head. "No not yet... But I fear..." He couldn't voice it. He didn't want to lose his family again so soon... there were grandkids to spoil after all...

The ninja kids and the Weasley twins were in a prank war, which was keeping all of the staff busy and thoroughly distracting Dumbledore. Thankfully.

"Any move we make, we have to make soon." Obito told them.

Duo played with the end of his braid, "we got word of a problem going down in Magical France... Heero is talking to Amelia Bones right now to have Tonks assigned to our team to act as a liaison between Magical England, France and Konoha."

"That's a good idea. But how do we get... Him out of the school...?" Minato asked, his mind going a mile a minute.

Minerva bit her lip as she leaned against Tom; a sparkling diamond on her finger, "what about..." her smile grew mischievous, "Norbert."

Tom smirked. "This is why I love you Minerva. Will you marry me?"

"As if there were any doubt," she said and kissed him lightly than blushed at the whistles in the room.

"So... tonight then?" Minato asked, with a positively evil grin.

"I will have Hagrid take Norbert just north of Hogsmead," Minerva said, "she's shedding so she itches horribly. The rocks and shale will give her a good scratch and raise up enough ruckus to send Dumbledore running as he doesn't know that Norbert has bonded with Hagrid and things of him as her mommy."

Minato's grin spread to the rest of the group. "Perfect. Let's go."

Hagrid was eager to see Norbert again, Charlie had written him how much she pouted when he wasn't around. While Hagrid was too big to be a dragon rider, Norbert had agreed to let Charlie ride her and bring her to Hogwarts.

They arrived just before sunset. Charlie barely managed to get off the dragon before Hagrid was weeping and throwing his arms around the beast. Minato had provided them all with radios.

Hagrid in very simple terms told Norbert that when the sun rose tomorrow, she could roll and roll to stop the itching of her skin, but she was NOT to hurt anyone.

She had nodded happily.

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Minato chuckled. "Is everyone in position?"

Minerva sent a messenger patronus letting them know that Lily, James and Tom had made it into Hogwarts via the tunnel and met up with Sirius, Severus, Remus and Lucius to plan to take action as soon as Dumbledore stepped out of the wards.

Sirius was there for the pure bloods, Remus was there for the creatures, Severus was there for the teachers and Lucius was there representing the school board.

"Then get ready..." Minato's voice sounded playfully deadly. "We strike at dawn..."

Kakashi and Itachi had sent the student ninjas to lock the dorms while they locked the teachers' quarters. They didn't want interference on that quarter nor someone 'accidentally' leaking their plan.

Kakashi had missed hearing his sensei like this. It meant that victory was imminent. "Minato-sensei, all the sleeping quarters are sealed off."

Itachi clicked on, "all the house-elves had been dosed and are sleeping."

"Good..." Itachi had never heard anyone speak as Yondaime-sama was. It gave him a kind of confidence he had never really known before. Not even when he was spying on Akatsuki for the Sandaime and then the Godaime.

Minato chuckled in that playfully deadly tone. "Head to the Astronomy tower, at Dawn's first light you are to give the signal, two of your most powerful fire jutsu."

"Hai," They said and got into position. Dawn was little more than an hour away. "Shit," Itachi whispered as something crooned at him, "Fawkes," he hissed, but stopped when the phoenix just watched him, "are you for us or against us, beautiful bird?"

He sang. Uplifting their spirits.

Dawn broke and Kakashi and Itachi blew out their fire jutsu. Fawkes surprised them by joining them in the air and as the ground trembled sounding the alarm to wake up Dumbledore.

Minato's eyes glowed as he watched. This was the kind of thing shinobi like him lived for, and this was why he had been chosen as the Yondaime.

Dumbledore burst out of his tower, not noticing the seven figures darting up the stairs before the gargoyle could close and seal the tower.

Minato watched, calculating. "...Now!" He snarled.

The look on the old man's face was priceless when he felt the wards disconnect. He stumbled, but Norbert rolled hard and he only wavered a moment, the dragon and saving Hogsmead was more important right now, he would find and punish the others later.

"Now we can totally destroy him..." Minato licked his lip. "Ready?"

Dumbledore came in and seeing the crowd of spectators, posed as he swung his wand up ready to fight the dragon. He froze however when he heard the giggling children as they ran over to Norbert and helped her scratch her skin, the dragon crooning in happiness. ...What the hell? The shinobi students were among them.

They were taking large branches and scratching the dragon, and the children were gathering the scales. The potion masters in England were going to be quite happy by nightfall and Hogsmead would be just a bit less dependent on Hogwarts visits.

"You may get him whenever you like little shinobi..." Minato purred into the student's radios.

As one, all of the students turned to the headmaster and smiled, it wasn't a nice smile. They struck.

Dumbledore hesitated, he did not attack children, and his hesitation cost him as his wand was ripped from his hand by Sol's well time, "Expeliarmus!"

They laughed child's play! They had ninja coming after them already!

Dumbledore tried to shout something, but he was hit was some kind of sticky mess that filled his mouth! Cream? Than he poofed into a canary and couldn't speak at all.

"Now, you die." Sol told him.

Dumbledore's eyes widened, and Sol snickered, "just kidding!" He turned to look back at Amelia Bones, "Dumbledore by order of the IWC and the Wizemgamat, I am to place you under arrest for crimes too numerous to say and sentence you to be stripped of your magic and sent to Azkaban for what's left of your life." She smiled at him with grim satisfaction.

Sol handed the man off. "Now... we are free..."

Haku turned to look at Sol, Naru and Ayame and they smiled and fell into a group hug. Now, they could go home.

(End Part Four)