A black cloak billowed in the wind as the hooded figure stood outside the gates of a grand village, his eyes swept across the city. He stepped thru the threshold of the village, when he noticed a man leaning against a tree he had silver gravity defying hair, his left eye covered by a head band. His other eye buried in a book.

"What are you doing here?" Kakashi asked.

"I must speak to your leader," the stranger said.

"Very well," Kakashi said putting his book away, and started to walk the hooded figure followed Kakashi but he had a feeling that someone was watching them. They walked into the tallest building that stood in the center of the village. Kakashi knocked on the door.

"Enter," shouted a very angry voice, the door opened and a blond woman who looked as if she had been sleeping, "what is so damn important that you had to wake me?"

"I am Severus Snape and I have come to request the service of a team of Shinobi," Snape said looking at the irate blond sitting behind the desk.

"What does this mission entail?" Tsunade asked looking into the dark emotionless eyes of Severus Snape.

"It will be a protection mission. There is a certain boy that unfortunately must be protected," Snape said.

"Why does this boy have to be protected?" Tsunade asked.

"It is believed that this boy will be the one who will bring an end to the Dark Lord's reign," Snape explained.

"I wish we could help, but we have just finished fighting a war and we are still searching for a very dangerous man by the name of Yakushi Kabuto," Tsunade said.

"Tsunade-Sama if I may, why don't we just ask her to go," Kakashi said. Tsunade frowned at the statement.

"Call her," Tsunade said after a second in a soft voice. Kakashi pulled out a strange kunai; he dropped it and the next second someone in a red cloak with black flames she had blond hair and blue eyes, she wore orange pants a jack that was orange and black and a black t-shirt. She also wore a head band but it was different it had kanji on it. She looked as if she was about Harry's age but here eyes looked as if they belonged to some much older, someone who has suffered much pain.

"Naruko, would you be willing to take a mission?" Tsunade asked looking at the girl before her.

"For you Baa-Chan, I will do anything you, but who is going with me?" she asked a little nervously she hadn't seen any of her friends since her seal had broken and she no longer look like Naruto.

"You will be going at this mission alone, it is an S-ranked mission," Tsunade told her.

"You are sending just one girl the same age as the boy she is protecting?" Snape asked not looking too pleased with this bit of information.

"She is more than capable of protecting this boy. She is the most powerful Shinobi I have ever met," Kakashi said in his lazy tone. Snape looked between the three of them waiting for someone to tell him he was in the middle of some unpleasant joke.

"Look you can either take her help or leave," Tsunade said coldly.

"Very well, but if she dies on this mission then don't blame me," Snape said coolly.

"What are the details of this mission?" Naruko asked surprise Snape that she could speak such fluent English.

"It is simple you need to protect this boy from every threat. You need to keep him alive until he is ready to face the Dark Lord," Snape said as he handed her a picture of Harry Potter.

"Very well," she said looking at the picture, there was a boy with a lightening shaped scare on his forehead, he had green eyes and he was smiling, there was a red head boy to his right grinning and a bush haired girl to his left with a slight smile. She got a shock when she saw the people in the picture were moving.

"The one in the middle is the one you are to protect, but no one can know you are following him, no one. And only show yourself if his life is in danger and there is no other way," Snape said very well.

Six months later

Naruko was sitting in a bar called Hogs Head; she wore a black cloak her face hidden by the shadow of her hood. Harry had just walked in with two friends, soon more students started to walk none of them paid any attention to her which was good because she need to go unnoticed but it was starting to feel lonely. She wished that she could talk to someone.

"Well I am sure you all know we are here, we need a proper teacher. Not only to pass need our exams, but we also need to be able to defend ourselves," Hermione said.

"Why," a boy name Zacharias Smith said.

"Because Lord Voldermort has returned and Harry fought him," Hermione said.

"Says him," Smith replied.

"Says Professor Dumbledore," Ron cut in.

"Because he says so, maybe if he told more about…" he started.

"Look if you are here to hear about what happened when Cedric died then, you are wasting your time because I am not going to talk about it," Harry said, "I told you this was a bad idea…"

"Is it true that you can produce a Patronus?"

"Well," Harry started to say.

"Yeah it's a Stag, he fought off like a hundred Dementors in your third year," Hermione said.

"And in our second year he killed a Basilisk with the sword in Dumbledore's office," Neville said.

"And in our first year he save the Sorcerer's stone," Ron said everyone looked amazed at what Harry done.

"So if you want to learn from Harry write your name down on this piece of paper so we can get back to you with the date and time of the first meeting," Hermione said. But at this everyone looked a little nervous but Fred and George got up and wrote their names down on the parchment, then everyone else got up and put their names down.

Harry left with Hermione and the four Weasley all of them discussing possibilities for meeting place. Naruko's attention left Harry and fell on someone who was covered in bandages. They got up and head out the door. Naruko had a bad feeling about this so she followed him. He was talking to a toad like woman.

"Harry is making a group to teach the other students magic," the mummy like man said. Naruko cut her thumb made a few hand signs and a little toad appeared.

"Tell Snape-San about Toad lady and Potter and his little gang, if he wants more information he can call me," she said to the toad and it hopped off and she vanished.

About an hour later she was summoned into Snape's office, it was creepy it reminded her of one of Orochimaru's hide outs with all the things in jars, the smell made her sick to her stomach.

"You called me Snape-San," she asked in a soft voice.

"Yes I want you to get into the meeting watch Potter and tell me about everything that they are doing, but remember don't discovered," Snape said, she gave him a slight bow before vanishing. She found her way into the Gryffindor common room. But she heard two voices making their way down. She quickly hid out of sight as two twins were whispering about something that sound like Joke boxes. But she noticed their hands; it looked like someone had been cutting them with a razor.

Habataitara modorenai to itte
Mezashita no wa aoi aoi ano sora

Kanashimi wa mada oboerarezu
Setsunasa wa ima tsukami hajimeta
Anata e to idaku kono kanjou mo
Ima kotoba ni kawatteku

Michi naru sekai no yume kara mezamete
Kono hane wo hiroge tobi datsu

Habataitara modorenai to itte
Mezashita no wa aoi aoi ano sora
Tsuki nuketara mitsukaru to shitte
Furikiru hodo
Aoi aoi ano sora
Aoi aoi ano sora
Aoi aoi ano sora

Fred and George both grew a dazed look on their faces, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu," she whispered as two more of her appeared they caught the falling twins. Her hand started to glow green as she healed their hands. Her clones vanished then, she stepped back into the shadows before releasing the genjustu.

The twins woke up, wondering how they ended up on the couch, when they left from sight she ran up the stairs and found Harry's room. She looked at his hand; she placed her hand on his and began to heal it.

Harry opened his eyes and he was alone but his window was wide open, but he didn't remember opening it maybe someone else did. He rolled over and went back to sleep.

Naruko smiled to herself, as she glanced back into the window, she jumped off the wall before vanishing.