Fear, a mixture of fear and terrior with just a pinch of dread. These were the things he's felt as he stood there in front of the sea of wizard waiting for his enevitable fate. The black slits of his blue eyes quickly scanned the large room, looking for the slightest aggressive gesture. He nerviously squeezed his tail, ruining the fluffy coat he'd spent well over an hour brushing. Large furry ears on the sides of his head flickered in the direction of the slightest noise. Long spike blonde hair entirely untaimed, a perfect match for his furry tail and ears, gave at least an extra three inches to the boy's height and he still qualified as short. His cheeks decorated by three black lines were slightly pinked due to nerves.

Naruto was doing his best to look brave as he stood before them but was clearly failing. At least he knew he wouldn't end up in Gryffindor. Those guys would case him around the school and try to skin his tail for 'the glory of the hunt'. If he was lucky he'd be a Hufflepuff. Hard working, loyal, honorable Hufflepuff. It seemed a match made in heaven.

"Kiba Inuzuka" Another boy was called, one that smelled of dog and chocolate chips.

Naruto recognized the boy from one of the estates just outside Hogsmeade. Most of the larger and wealthier families had one within a few miles of the small wizarding village. Naruto had spotted their kids running around the village. Unlike them Naruto had no choice but to stay in Hogsmeade, the ministry forbidding him from interacting with the muggle world to any degree.

Naruto squirmed ackwardly hugging his tail even tighter. He wasn't normally this timid but... Wizards really hated people like him. "Partial humans" was the group they lumped him in or worse "sub-humans". His mother was a kitsune that had a one night stand with dear old dad then left a baby at the man's doorstep 5 months later (demon fetuses mature faster). So Naruto was a genuine bastard in addition to being "less then" human.

He'd prove them wrong though. Naruto would prove himself the greatest wizard in the land. He'd reveal his weakness to be an advantage. He'd rule over all of Britan and change the way people saw his 'lesser' race. He'd show them all just what his demon blood could do.

"Gryffindor!" The boom of clapping made the hanyou flinch and look about in every possible direction like a farrel animal. He couldn't help it. He did this very time they clapped and/or cheered. There were well over 40 students lined up to be sorted and so far he flinched every time. He continued to do so right up until a voice caught his attention.

"Wasn't a witch or wizard that went bad wasn't in Slytherin" a red head whispered to a raven haired child

"What about Merlin?" Naruto couldn't help but interject

"What?" The red head sneered at him, his eyes becoming even more suspicious after seeing the 'creature' that spoke to him.

"Merlin" Naruto continued hugging his tail even tighter for strength "He was a Slytherin"

"One wizard"

"The greatest wizard!"

"You Know Who was in Slytherin" the ginger hissed as his Naruto didn't know that.

"One wizard" Naruto turned his arguement against him "One horrible wizard who did horrible things. Blaming an entire group of people because of Voldemort is wrong" the red head gasped at the name but Naruto was taught not to let anything as trivium as a name stop him "Isn't bigotry what allowed him to get to power in the first place?"

"Leave it to a demon to defend a house of monsters"

"Thank you"

"For what?"

"For proving my point"

"Listen you-"

"Voldemort killed my father" Naruto interupted "I don't blame the house he was in no more then the food that he ate! I blame HIM because that is were it belongs!" At this point Naruto noticed he was yelling and the entire school was apparently listening to this debate.

A loud clapping turned his eyes towards the teacher's table to find the headmaster the source of the noise "Well said Mr. Uzumaki" the old man smiled his eyes twinkling brightly.

Naruto's face turned tomato red and he quickly ducked behind another first year, oddly thankful for the first time in his life that he was so short.

"If your quite finished lets get back to the sorting" McGonagall's voice remained stern yet a tad more forced then before.

"If we must" The headmaster sighed

"Harry Potter" the entire school erupted in hushed whispers as the raven haired boy the ginger was talking to approached the stool. The raging debate completely forgotten.

Naruto's ears flattened into his skull as he realize he'd just made a fool of himself infront of the Boy-Who-Lived. This would be one of those moments, they were frequent and easily provoked, where his godfather would rant about there being a bizzilion sacrifice spells out there so it didn't make any sense for anyone to think a baby was responsible for the dark lord's death. How it was just common sense the boy's parents were responsible and should be rightly credited so.

"Slytherin!" The school stopped dead save for the echos of a glass crashing against the table as it slipped from the Slytherin Head of House's fingers.

No one clapped as Harry took his seat, his fellow Slytherins too shell shocked.

"See!" The ginger growled."It corrupted Harry Potter!" staying true to the biggest demon clichie in history.

"Congratulations Mr. Weasley" the headmaster smiled "you just broke the record for quickest detention ever earned. Before even being sorted yes it will be an awfully hard record to beat"

"Yay Ron!" Two red heads at the Slytherin table cheered. They were tall boys and obviouse clones of eachother, for someone with a less sensitive nose they would be impossible to tell apart "That's our brother, woohoo!"

Suddenly one of the older Slytherins stood up along side them, his hair long and tied back into a ponytail and his eyes as jet black as his hair. He screamed at the top of his lungs "In your face Gryffindorks, We've got Harry Potter!" At that all the other Slytherins finally burst into cheer, the shock evidently over.

The rest of the sorting was pretty uneventful after that... until his own sorting. He felt his insides turn as he approached the stool. The hat being slipped onto his head appeared to be even slower then this world usually turned.

"Now lets see here... Uhm an amazing work ethic, very loyal, a strong sense of fair play, not the slightest bit patient that's a vircue you know"

"I know" Naruto rolled his eyes as the hat parited his godfather

"Quite clever as well, resourceful, but not particularly caring of knowledge found in books. Oh some world domination plans in the mix. You're quite ambitious aren't you?"

"Won't call it 'world domination' persay" Naruto thought but the hat ignored him

"Rather shy but equally as brave, an impressive hero complex in here. But where to put you. Hufflepuff I see, it's what you expect and you could find a place to belong, but it's not the best place for you. You need a challenge an obstacle to cross, you crave such things even if you won't admit it to yourself. I know where to put you there's only one place that will truly help you on the path to greatness. It better be Slytherin!"

"See!" The ginger roared

"Yes!" the same boy that started the cheering for Potter screamed "We have the corrupter"

"The corrupter is ours!" Four other boys cheered. One of them, Naruto happily noticed, was blue skinned. Another Hanyou in Slytherin... maybe it would be so bad at school after all.

Naruto was forced to take a seat at the end of the table. It wasn't like the name 'Uzumaki' got him a seat near the center, damn alphabet.

He nerviously watched his housemates. One of them stood out the most. His scent angry and possibly volient. He was a young boy but hadn't been sorted with the others so he was probably in his 3rd or 2nd year. Gray eyes without pupils glared, not at the fox but across the hall. Naruto followed them to find a girl with the same eyes looking shamed faced at her table. Hinata... Hyūga was it? She'd been sorted into Hufflepuff and it looked like her family disagreed with her choosen house. They smelled of family, closely related, first or second cousins? First, definatly first.

Naruto tested the air, with so many people in one place it made it hard to tell were all these new scents were coming from. One paricularly nasty scent filled his noice, it was like someone bathed in garlic, and it was coming from the the professors' table. A small man wrapped up in a turbin was seated beside Naruto's new head of house. There wasn't anything particularly wrong with the garlic man that Naruto could find just smelled bad.

Naruto jerked his head and snapped it in a new direction, to a new scent. Potter? Why'd he smell so stongly of pain? He didn't look injured. The boy who lived eyes seemed to be focused on the man with turbin as well. The kid was rubbing his scar? Beyond that the world's savior smelled... sickly almost, ill feed.

Naruto logged it away and continued to look around. It was just instinct to examine new scents and sounds like this. It made him feel, and probably look, like a farrell animal but it was hard to ignore instincts. Seriously he had no idea how normal wizards did it but it seemed to be so easy for them.

Their whole world moved in slow motion and he did his best to let it set the pass. His muscles were acking from the constant strain but after so many years he was just used to it. They walked slow, talked slow, even thought slow but he had to force himself to move at their speeds or they'd be screaming in fear every time he twitched his little finger. He was curious if humans were like this to all demons or if it was just a kitsune thing. That would make sense why fully human scholars thought of kitsune as absent minded with short attention spans. It was hard to stay interested or interpret words that took so long to say. Naruto had spent his whole life around humans so he managed to deal with it but to a full blooded demon, if Naruto was right, humans must appear just barely sentient.

Naruto's ears perked as food appeared before him and whatever philosophical conclusions he made were instantly forgotten.