The tale of the ninja wizard

Chapter 1: I'm a what?

A/N: Greetings to all that already follow me and to you who discover me with this story. I would like to precise that English is not my first language so I'm sorry for all spelling mistakes. Welcome to this crossover fanfiction of HP and Naruto, no it will not be a "guard the school" story but one where Naruto will go to Hogwarts. Before we start you have to know that this Naruto will be similar to the one of my other story A different version, when the story starts he already met Kurama (the kyubi for those who didn't know) when he was four years old and became friend with him, and he trained with him so he has the same original jutsu and fighting style (I won't spoil more for those who wants to discover this in the story ^^). Oh and Sakura is not his friend in this story and still a fan girl and no, this is not a NaruSaku even though I love this couple. My OC Toyama exists but you will see that much later. Now I think I talked (more like wrote) long enough so let's start the story shall we?

Disclaimer: Hey, guess what? I own nothing else than my imagination, a shame for me but both the HP and Naruto universe are good enough like that don't you think?

"Dialogue"

"Thoughts"

'Mental dialogue'

"Kurama dialogue"

"Kurama thoughts"

It was a peaceful morning in the hidden village of Konoha, the sun was slowly rising and the villagers started to wake up for a normal day of work. Well everyone except our twelve years old blond hero, also called the demon brat, Naruto. He was currently on his way home after a normal early morning training in the forest, thanks to the early hour he didn't have to deal with a lot of insults or glares from the villager and had all the time he wanted to talk to his only friend, in his mind. As weird as it can be Naruto's only friend is the source of the villagers hate toward him, the nine tailed fox Kurama that is sealed in him. They were talking about the training Naruto did earlier as usual when they saw something not so usual waiting at Naruto's home, on the floor just in front of his door was a grey owl. And as if this wouldn't have been weird enough the owl seemed to want him to take the letter that was on its leg. After taking the letter and opening it carefully, a habit he took because the only letters he ever got were trapped, and reading it Naruto went from curious to confused before being completely pissed off. So that's how there was now an angry young Naruto going straight to the hokage manor with an owl circling above his head. When he got to the manor Naruto went without second thoughts to the hokages office despite the screams of protest of the secretary.

"We need to talk old man!" exclaimed Naruto when he busted through the door of the office, giving the hokage an interruption from a meeting with his advisors that he mentally thanked him for,

"I'm sorry Naruto but I'm in a meeting so can you…" The old ninja started with a smile but stopped when he saw the letter the boy was holding, it's crest and the owl that was sitting on his head, much to the kid displeasure, "Of course Naruto" he turned to his advisors "We will continue this conversation later, for the moment I need to speak to Naruto if you excuse us" the hokage sent them a cold glare when they tried to protest that silenced them before they got out, sending glares at Naruto who couldn't care less about it.

"So Naruto, how can I help you?" he asked with a smile,

"Some jerk put this owl in front of my door with a letter saying I'm accepted in a wizard school, seriously, how dumb does they think I am? Everyone knows that magic is just a fairy tale that parents tells their children!" he exclaimed, his voice going down on the last part, making the hokage cringe but he recomposed himself,

"Naruto, what I am going to say might seem difficult to believe but… Magic is real" there was a tense silence before Naruto's outburst,

"Yeah right, if magic exist why I haven't seen it before?" he asked, thinking he had won the argument, but…

"Maybe I will be a better choice to explain that if you don't mind" said a new voice behind Naruto, making him jump back instinctively in front of the hokage with a kunai drawn. He saw the intruder, an old man with a long purple robe, glasses the shape of a half moon, a twinkle in the eyes and with a white beard that went down to his waist. The intruder and Sarutobi smiled at Naruto who seemed ready to defend the hokage,

"You can put away your weapon Naruto, I know him. I expected to see you since he had this letter" Sarutobi said, Naruto looked between his pseudo-grandfather and the supposedly not intruder before putting back his Kunai,

"I thank you for putting your weapon away Naruto, let me present myself, I am Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, it's a pleasure to meet you" the stranger said while extending his hand, Naruto shook it warily, he noticed that the man was stronger than his appearance let's out, but not enough for a ninja to worry, but he was sure that Albus was powerful in his own way. The hokage couldn't help but to feel a bit proud and a bit sad that Naruto seemed to analyse Dumbledore, proud because it is an important skill for a ninja but also sad because it wasn't the academy but how he was treated in his life that taught him that, unknown to him Dumbledore had similar thoughts.

"Nice to meet you too old man" Naruto said with a smile that Dumbledore, to his surprise, returned

"This smile… It's not forced, and he looks at me as if he's happy I'm here, apart from old man hokage nobody looked at me like that" Naruto thought,

'What do you think Kurama?'

"Trust me, listen to what they have to say" the demon fox replied,

'Ok then' Naruto looked at Dumbledore,

"You said that you would explain the letter and why I haven't seen magic if it exist, right?"

"Of course, the reason you haven't seen magic in the elemental countries is because the use of chakra seems to negate the flow of natural magic in your bodies, meaning than extremely few people in the history of the elemental countries were able to use magic, and nobody use chakra outside your country." Naruto nodded in understanding,

"Wait, you said there were extremely few people that could use magic here in all our history, how many are we talking about, thousands? Hundreds?" asked Naruto,

"Actually you are the tenth person in the history to have this gift. Naruto, you are a wizard"

"I'm a what?" Naruto had his mouth open in shock, in all the history of this country there were only nine people with this gift before him? A wizard, him? It had to be a joke,

"So for the letter, I suppose you are the headmaster of this school" he said,

"Exactly, you will learn all about magic here, if you accept of course. Truth to be told you should have had this letter last year but my old friend right here had hidden you very well" Dumbledore said,

"Well of course, he is the hokage you know!" Naruto exclaimed, bringing a smile to the two old men but Naruto wasn't finished,

"But seriously, I have trouble believing you, it seems too unreal. I will need a proof that magic is real" Dumbledore's smile grew wider at that as he began to take his wand out,

"With pleasure, see this chair Naruto?" the whiskered boy nodded, the chair had nothing special until the old wizard pointed his wand at it, transforming it in a cloud of butterflies. Naruto was in awe, after Kurama assured him that he was not in a genjutsu, he had his answer, magic is real, and he will be able to learn it too but…

"I believe you, magic is real but I have one question left…"

"And what will that be?"

"If I accept to go to your school, will I have to quit being a ninja, to abandon my dream to be hokage one day? If this is a choice I have to do, I will choose to be a ninja you know!" Naruto exclaimed with a determined look in his eyes, making the two old men to smile at him again,

"You will still be able to be a ninja Naruto, right Hiruzen?" Dumbledore said while giving a knowing smile at the hokage,

"Of course, I will give you scrolls for you to train with so don't worry, your place as a shinobi of Konoha will be kept" the old ninja told Naruto, who seemed happier than ever at this.

"Then I accept to go to this school" he said excitedly,

"Good, for the moment we will go to buy what you will need while Sarutobi prepares those scrolls" Dumbledore said with a smile, Naruto was going excitedly to the door but turned around confused as to why the old wizard wasn't coming,

"We will not go by normal means of travels" he said before pulling his wand again and motioning Naruto to come closer, he extended his hand that Naruto took but before they can go the hokage interrupted him,

"Naruto, it would be wise to let your headband here while you're in the wizard world, you will have to hide that you are a ninja in their world, understood?" as much as Naruto wanted to protest he understood why, since both worlds have powers that the other doesn't have it will create envy and in the end a war might start. So he did as he was told with a pout on his face that he didn't managed to hide, much to the amusement of both wizard and ninja, before he got back to Dumbledore and took his hand. What happened next Naruto could only describe it as torture, the world was shrinking and spinning around them, light and shadows mixed together, he had the sensation that he was squished, there was no sound nor smells in this space and that was disturbing because of his enhanced senses he had because of the kyubi. And then it ended as suddenly as it started, they ended in an old cobblestone alley, Dumbledore slightly floating in the air before landing but not Naruto, as soon as he crashed on the ground he curled up, the sounds and the smells assaulting him, he never felt as bad as now except for the time were he was covered in blood after some villagers tried to kill him, he had to go to the hospital despite his healing abilities given by Kurama. Dumbledore looked at the sorry trembling mass that he guessed was Naruto with an apologizing look,

"I'm sorry Naruto, I forgot that the first time a person appariates is not pleasant" he said in a soft voice, they spent some time waiting for Naruto to feel better, which he did pretty quickly considering the state he was in, he analysed quickly his surroundings before asking where they were,

"We are in London, in the muggle part of it"

"What's a muggle?"

"They are non-magical person, ninjas would be considered muggles since they can't use magic, even though they are far from ordinary muggles." He answered before heading toward an old broken down shop, Naruto noticed that they seemed to be the only ones to see it so he supposed it was hidden by magic. When they entered Naruto stopped to look at his surroundings, more people with weird robes and the shop that seemed better on the inside than the outside, once he realized that Dumbledore was going on without him he ran to catch up to him in the back of the shop, in front of a brick wall. Before he could ask the old wizard had his wand out and tapped the bricks in a counter clockwise motion around a hole in the wall, the bricks started to move away from the centre revealing an alley full of people in weir dress, wizards he guessed, walking in different shops. Naruto gasped at the sight and turned around frantically, analysing his surroundings once more, shops selling clothes, animals, weird plants and objects, even brooms (thought he had no idea why they displayed brooms like that). Dumbledore watched him amused at his reaction, especially the confused look he had when he saw brooms displayed at some shops front, before talking again,

"Welcome to Diagon alley, one of our little pieces of the magical world hidden in the muggle one. There every wizard can buy everything they can need for every need they have" he exclaimed, catching Naruto's interest,

"So I will be able to buy the things on the list here?" Dumbledore nodded, "But Dumbledore-sensei, I don't have any money of your world" Naruto stated while following Dumbledore,

"And that's why we are going to Gringotts, our bank and the safest place in the wizard world, except Hogwarts" Dumbledore said with a reassuring smile, making Naruto nervous,

"But I don't have an account in this bank"

"We are going there to create you one"

"No!" Dumbledore looked at him, confused by his outburst, "I don't want my money in a bank" he exclaimed,

"But why don't you want to? I'm going to give you a decent amount of money and it will be safer in a bank" Dumbledore stated, not understanding the boy,

"Because the bank back home never gave my money back" he answered,

"Then I assure you that I will personally make sure they give you your money back, and if ever they don't then just tell me and I'll help you, I promise"

"Really?" Naruto asked, when the professor nodded he finely agreed and after a quick trip to Gringotts to deposit some money and give Naruto a new account and his discovery of goblins, they went out and Dumbledore gave Naruto a good amount of money, saying that he will come back later because of he had some work to do and that Naruto should start to buy what he will need. Naruto didn't complain about being alone to buy his stuff, it was a good opportunity to explore this place, Dumbledore also explained to him their money system so there should be no problem right? That's what he thought when he started to walk around until he saw a bushy brown haired girl crying and a black haired boy in front her who were obviously bullying her, having been bullied all his life he didn't think twice before going towards them.

"You filthy mudblood shouldn't be allowed in our community, you will only stain our purity" said the boy with an arrogant voice before a blond haired boy with blue eyes whiskered birthmarks appeared in front of him,

"I don't know what you said means but it's obviously insults, stop bullying her" he said, making the black haired boy angry, who was this guy to tell him what to do, at him, a pure blood. The girl looked up to look at the person who was helping her,

"And what will you do if I refuse?" asked the arrogant boy smugly,

"I'll arrange a meeting with your face and the ground" Naruto answered confidently, the boy in front of him had no idea that he could easily do that while keeping hidden the fact that he was a ninja. This of course infuriated the boy who tried to punch Naruto who easily blocked it before punching him in the chin, controlling his strength as to not knock him out in one punch as it might be suspicious, and used the fact that it made him unbalanced to sweep his legs that made him fall, his face hitting the floor. The black haired boy got up with some difficulty and the girl looked impressed at the fact that he took out a boy that looked tough in two moves,

"If you don't want more go away" Naruto said coldly,

"You bastard!" said the boy, humiliated in front of passer-by who stopped to see what was happening, before going away. The little crowd that gathered scattered and Naruto turned to the girl who stopped crying and had a small smile on her face,

"Are you alright?" he asked, the girl nodded, "I'm Uzumaki Naruto, and you?"

"Hermione Granger, thanks for your help" she answered,

"No need to thank me it's normal to help in these situations" he said casually "Are you alone?"

"No my parents are in the book shop" she answered

"Oh, so it's your first year, like me!" he said excitedly, making Hermione's smile grow larger,

"You're getting to Hogwarts too this year?"

"You bet, I only learned that magic exist today thought" Hermione was shocked at that,

"But the letter should have arrived in the beginning of July, the terms starts in two weeks, how is it possible?"

"Well I guess the owl had some troubles to find me" he answered nervously "By the way what did this guy meant when he called you mudblood, if you don't mind me asking?"

"It's ok, a wizard can come if the two parents are wizards, what he called pure blood, if one of the parents is a wizard or a witch, that he would call a half blood and finely a wizard can be from two muggles with no magical backgrounds, it's what he called a mudblood. But mudblood is a horrible insult to all witches and wizards, the official term is muggle born witch or wizard. It's what I am, a muggle born" she explained, but to her surprise Naruto seemed confused by her explanation, a thing that never happened before,

"I don't understand… How is that important? I mean a witch will still be a witch and a wizard a wizard no matter where they come from right?"

"Most wizards think this way but some thinks that pure bloods should be the only ones to access to the wizarding schools, they call wizards that live with a muggle blood traitor and thinks that muggle born should not be allowed to learn magic"

"Basically a bunch of bastards" Naruto simply said, making Hermione laugh at how he resumed the situation,

"By the way, where are your parents?" she noticed the sadness in his eyes when she asked,

"I don't have any, old man Dumbledore came to bring me here" she nearly fell over at that,

"Dumbledore brought you here?" she asked in disbelief,

"Yeah, why is this so shocking?" he asked, after a long detailed explanation of who Dumbledore was, Naruto had even more respect for him. When she finished, he told her that he should get buy what was on his list only to have Hermione dragging him towards the library, saying that she just started to buy her stuff and that her parents wouldn't mind if he came with them. Naruto was nervous upon meeting her parents because of how he was treated in the village but discovered that they were really kind, he bought his books plus one other on magical creatures because he was interested in the subject, much to Hermione amusement because of his birthmark whiskers that gave him an animalistic appearance. They went to buy potions ingredients, a pewter cauldron and other things they needed, Naruto never had that much fun in his life and couldn't help but to consider Hermione a friend.

They went in the animal shop to by a familiar, Naruto felt uneasy when he saw all the caged animals but went in, there were owls, cats, frogs, rats and tons of other birds, one in particular caught his interest, it was a beautiful bright red bird, when it saw him the bird chirped and spread its wings. When Naruto approached and put a finger through the cage the bird pushed its head on it to, wanting to be stroked, a wish he happily fulfilled. Naruto jumped a bit when he heard a voice behind him

"Well this is unusual" he turned around to see the vendor,

"What's unusual?" the vendor pointed to the bird Naruto was still stroking,

"This, usually she ignores anybody that comes in the shop, she is a phoenix and like all of her kind she is extremely proud and will only serve those with a pure and heroic heart"

"She must have made a mistake" but the phoenix chirped in protest as if she understood everything,

"Be careful because they are extremely intelligent creatures and I don't think she will let you say otherwise" he said with a slight chuckle,

"Are you going to buy her? Normally it will be very expensive but since you're a kid and I doubt that she will choose somebody for a few hundreds of years I'll sell her to you for 15 galleons"

"I'd love to buy her" Naruto exclaimed without hesitation, after he paid the vendor was going to take a cage but Naruto stopped him,

"The cage won't be necessary"

"You're sure?" Naruto nodded,

"Ok then, while we are waiting for your friend other there to find her happiness let me tell you a few things about phoenixes." the vendor said to Naruto while his new phoenix went on his shoulder, making him smile, "They are extremely loyal creatures that will never betray their master, when they die they burn themselves to be reborn from the ashes, their tears have healing powers that no wounds or poisons can resist and they can carry heavy loads that exceeds the strength of ten strong men and still be able to fly correctly." Naruto looked at his new companion on his shoulder in awe, such a beautiful and incredible creature had chosen him for master? It was unbelievable but yet, he though the same thing about magic this morning so he will just have to accept all of it, even if it is so surprising. A few moments later Hermione and her parents came back with to take the vendor and they soon got out, Naruto with his phoenix and Hermione with a ginger coloured cat she called Crookshanks, they then made their way to Olivander's wand shop.

"So Naruto, what are going to name your phoenix?" Naruto though for a moment before looking at said bird,

"How do you like Amaterasu?" the phoenix chirped happily, content of the name but Mr Granger, who was leading the way, turned around curious,

"Does it mean something in Japanese?"

"Yes, Amaterasu is the name of a goddess of the sun" he said while petting Amaterasu. They talked for a short while after that before finding the shop, when they got in they saw that the shop was slightly dusty and filled with boxes and an old man at the desk.

"Good afternoon" the man said as he stands up, showing wide pale eyes shining like moons and that reminded Naruto of a certain girl who stalked him back at Konoha, "I suppose you are coming for a wand?"

"Well obviously" Naruto thought but he only nodded along with Hermione,

"As you probably guessed I am Olivander"

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto"

"Hermione Granger"

"Pleased to meet you young wizards" Olivander said while shaking their hands, "Well then, let's start finding you your wand, what is your wands hand?" he asked,

"My what?" Naruto asked

"Your righting hand" explained Hermione, "I'm right handed" she answered

"Me too" said Naruto before Olivander grabbed a box, seemingly at random, before presenting it to Hermione,

"Lady's first, try this one, beechwood and dragon heartstring, nine inches. Give it a wave" nothing happened,

"No, not this one, maybe…" Olivander gave her another wand, nothing happened, after several wands and a few pots destroyed he came back with another wand,

"Vine wood, heartstring core, ten and a half inches" this time when Hermione took the wand there was a soft gush of wind, "Ah, it seems like we found your wand at last, it will be seven galleons" Olivander said, her parents paid the wand and the old man turned toward Naruto, "Now let's see which wand will be yours Mr Uzumaki"

[Forty five minutes later]

Naruto and Olivander had their head on the desk, crying anime style while Amaterasu sweat dropped, they were alone since after fifteen minutes where Olivander passed more and more wands to Naruto and the shop furniture breaking, the Granger's decided that it was safer to wait for Naruto at the clothes shop.

"Why is it so difficult to find a wand that accept me" Naruto whined, in the time he spent with Olivander he learned that it was the wand that choose the wizard and not the other way round but they used nearly all the type of wands the shop had. Olivander suddenly went up, surprising Naruto,

"Maybe…" he said before going at the back of the shop, moving a piece of the wall to reveal a safe in which he took a wand box that was tightly sealed, he opened it carefully and took the wand in it, which was covered in a cloth. Naruto was confused of all the precautions Olivander took when he presented him the wand, it was a beautiful wand that went in a swirl from the handle, brown that breathed of life mixed perfectly with an deep black that reminded the darkness of death, giving the wand an ethereal aspect. Olivander motioned for him to take it, a mixed of fear and hope in his eyes, when Naruto grabbed the wand he felt as if warmth went through his body, touching his soul itself and a golden and dark light surrounded Naruto in a spiral.

"Very interesting indeed…" said Olivander, Naruto looked at him puzzled,

"What is?" he asked,

"You see Mr Uzumaki, this wand was created in ancient times and never found its wizard. It was passed down from maker of wands to another along with what it was composed it, eleven inches, wood from the tree of life itself and for core the sessho-seki, also called the stone of killing, the stone of death. The mix of life and death make this wand the most powerful one in the world, so powerful that once it was created no one could destroy it no matter the means they used."

"Why would they want to destroy a wand they created?"

"Because, Mr Uzumaki, before you all of those who grasped this wand ended drained of their forces, some were brought to an inch from death and the only reason they lived is from the power of the tree of life that reside in this wand" Naruto was shocked,

"And you made me try it?" he exclaimed, "What if it didn't choose me?"

"Then I would have taken it away from you at the first sign of rejection from the wand" Naruto looked at his wand, "It is not clear why a wand choose a wizard Mr Uzumaki, but I am sure of one thing, you will do great things in the future, good or bad I do not know, but great" Olivander said while Naruto was still recovering from what he learned, "It seem that we finely found you your wand, it will be seven galleons" Naruto paid and made his way toward Madame Malkin's shop with Amaterasu who looked at him worriedly,

"Seems like your wand is as troublesome as the master it chose" said the dark voice of Kurama,

'Oh come on, I'm not bringing people at an inch from death just by touching them'

"When listening to the villagers at Konoha it doesn't seems like it"

'It's… true. They treat me like a monster, like they would treat you' stated Naruto

"But you know, there was once a seven years old kid who told me that it was better to be a monster than a foul that treat badly those they do not understand and they call monsters. I think you could take a bit from him"

'Yeah, I think I know him, but he was only able to discover that because of a kind giant fox who was consumed by hate that was sealed in him'

"Shut up dam brat!"

'But he still doesn't know how to take compliments though' he added while laughing, only to stop when he saw a confused Hermione looking at him with worry. In his mental conversation he didn't realised he arrived at Madame Malkin's shop,

"Are you all right?" asked Hermione, making Naruto blush in embarrassment, he looked at the floor while rubbing the back of his head,

"Yeah, just remembered something funny I saw" there was an awkward silence before a voice spoke

"Hogwarts, dear?" Naruto turned to the owner of the voice, a squat, smiling woman and nodded. Before he followed her he was stopped by Hermione,

"I'm sorry Naruto but I have to go, we don't live exactly near so… I'll see you in two weeks then" she said, a bit unsure,

"Well of course, we're going to the same school you know" Naruto exclaimed with a big smile that made Hermione blush a bit, they said a quick goodbye before Naruto went to buy his clothes. He was paying Madame Malkin, who he discovered as a very kind woman, when Dumbledore came back they went back in Konoha the same way they came, much to Naruto's displeasure.

Sarutobi was working on his never ending paper work, he hoped Naruto had a better day than him, with the usual paper work he also had to deal with his advisors and the council who wanted to raise the shop prices for Naruto, again, before the hokage told them that as a leaf ninja he was now one of the protectors of the village and should have the same prices than anybody else, he still had to threaten them when they tried to protest though. He was in his thoughts when he felt a soft gust of wind, he looked up only to have his jaw drop at the sight, Naruto was dressed in a black robe, white shirt, jeans and his usual black combat boots. The change was radical but he had to admit he looked better than in his usual all orange attire but what attracted his attention was the beautiful red bird on his shoulder and the bright smile on his face, a real smile he saw too rarely on the boy's face.

"I suppose that you bought everything you need for school" the old ninja said with a smile, Naruto nodded excitedly, "Listen Naruto… it will be better if you leave all your stuff here until you have to go in two weeks" the hokage said, and to his surprise Naruto didn't protest but only asked for his headband back. When he put back his headband back he told his bird to wait here until he can go to Hogwarts and left, Sarutobi was stunned by that, he expected Naruto to protest loudly, especially for having to leave his pet here.

Naruto went back to his home and went straight to his bed, lying down with a sight. In two weeks he will have to say goodbye to this village, his place in a team will be taken by somebody else and he was sure villagers will throw parties when they'll learn that he was abroad studying. But on the other hand he was going to a school to learn magic, a school far away where no one knows he is the container of a great beast and probably don't even know what is a great beast except Dumbledore, he will be able to make some friends, thing that was impossible for him here. He couldn't wait for the day of departure to come.

A/N: Whew, finished at last. So, what do you think of this chapter? I want to precise that I know the subject is not knew and there are several stories like that and that there are similarities with them. Well what can I say? It was the story that came in my head when I started writing so sorry if it bothers you ^^. For Naruto's wand I had trouble and looked for an unique core that will not be something from the Kyubi because I didn't have something really special planned with him, not that they won't be but I wanted something else for Naruto that will touch magic too. After a while I found the stone for the core, it's called the killing stone but I will change its story for the purpose of the story, same with the tree of life, the reason I took this stone is because of the killing on touch thing and the fact it came from Japanese mythology, it made a perfect match with the tree of life in my opinion. Also, yes, it will be a Naruto/Hermione pairing so I apologise for those who don't like this pairing. Well then, I really hope you enjoyed and see you next chapter :)