a/n :Italics is Japanese for those that forgot :)

Chapter 25:

Harry rushed back into his dorms, while Sirius waited in the common room.

"Ron! Hermione! Come quick! You won't believe what's happened!"

Hermione and Ron appeared quicker than lightning, worried that something bad had happened.

"What's wrong mate?" Ron asked panting.

"Professor Nara is finally going to reveal where he is from and what he is. Furthermore, Sirius gets to finally be in a place where he will be a free man! The Ministry doesn't have control over where Professor Nara lives!"

"Huh? How could the ministry not have power there?"

"I know 'Mione, it's hard to believe, but I'm going to go find Professor Nara, so if you want to come, you can!"

"Woah, slow down. Alright I'm coming because I want to know exactly how his village can't be reached by the ministry."

Harry emerged from the tower with his two friends to see Sirius leaning against the wall calmly.

"So, your friends came?"

"Yup, now let's go look for Professor Nara."

When the group got to his office it was completely empty, save for a weasel.
The weasel noticed the presence and stood up on his hind legs.

"Ah, you must be the Potter boy, his friends and his godfather. . . I'm Kamatari."

It took Harry a moment to adjust to the fact that a weasel had just spoken to him.

"Kam..Kamatari? Are you Professor Nara's. . . friend? I've seen you deliver Howlers."

The weasel raised its nonexistent brows, but based on the expression the weasel made there may as well have been.

"I am a summons, I serve Lady Temari and by default Lord Shikamaru due to his marriage to my mistress."

Hermione gasped.

"So, you are a slave?" Hermione asked, startled, not expecting the Nara's to be like that.

"What do you define as slave girl? Sure I serve a family that may be true, but it is through a contract if you will, and to use my abilities the person who summons me uses up their own 'magic'. I couldn't feel more honored serving my Lord and Lady."

Hermione looked down ashamed.

"Kamatari? So do you know where Professor Nara is?"

The weasel nodded and signaled them to follow. Harry was slightly confused as to why Kamatari so casually referred to them as Lord and Lady. The only person who used Lord was Voldemort and he was on the bad side. Professor Nara wasn't like that, unless they had some sort of noble blood there wouldn't be a reason to call them Lord and Lady.

Kamatari lead them down the steps towards the quidditch pitch and the forbidden forest.

The weasel scrambled over and climbed up the man's leg until he reached the shoulder of the Professor. He seemed to be gazing up at the clouds.

"Kamatari. . ." Shikamaru tilted his head noticing the presence of the golden trio and Sirius. Taking that as a message Shikamaru pried himself off the tree and crossed his arms facing them.

"So.. .?"

Harry fumbled with his words trying to find the right words but was interrupted by Ron who blunty uttered out "What are you?"

Shikamaru however didn't seem to react to his tone.

"Bluntly put, but okay. . . I suppose I did promise an explanation. . ."

Shikamaru fumbled in his pocket and pulled out a cigarette and lit it, slowing blowing a cloud out of smoke he looked at the group again.

"Miss Granger, you had gotten pretty close to the truth, but let my manipulation outsmart you. Just saying if you had more confidence, you really could go far. . . I'm not a wizard as you may have figured out, and I'm not from this country or continent. I am what you call a Shinobi, or in simplistic terms a ninja. . ."

"Professor Nara? Why don't you wear a mask or go around sneakily."

"Is that seriously what is taught about Ninja these days? Ninja are stealthy yes, but in very different ways. Stealthy doesn't have to mean quiet, you can be loud mouthed energetic but still be stealthy enough to catch an opponent unaware. Anyway. . . Ninja are in a way tools. We fight to keep our nation's safe and keep common folk out of harm. At a young age we enter academy to learn how to harness an energy form known as Chakra. Your equivalent is magic, but Chakra is drawn from inside our bodies and everything around us. We don't use wands, but we use techniques that wands can't produce. The other factor is every mission we go on, we are prepared to die. They are ranked from D class to S class and this determines the difficulty of who goes on what. The levels are genin, chunin, jounin, ANBU, and Kage. Only one person in a village ever becomes a Kage but that is because he or she is the most powerful in the village and will lead. The orange leader Ino mentioned, he is a Kage. The Hokage. I come from the elemental nations in the Land of Fire, a well-known village known as Konohagakure no Sato. There are other villages such as Kumogakure, Kirigakure, Sunagakure, but you don't need to know their details to understand my point. .. and it's a drag to explain."

"Naruto Uzumaki is our Hokage. My wife's youngest brother Gaara, the one with red hair who visited over the holidays, is the Kazekage, the leader of Sunagakure. I personally work as advisor to the Hokage Naruto, but I'm well acquainted with all the Kage's."

Harry was absorbing the information like a sponge, while Hermione somehow looked like she wanted to argue something, but kept her mouth shut.

"All have the commonality of the Kage ending, what does that part mean?" Sirius asked.

"It means shadow, my clan Jutsu is called Kagemane no Jutsu for a reason since it manipulates shadows. All have the ending of Kage but the beginning of whatever they'd village represents. Hokage means Fire Shadow, Kazekage means Wind Shadow."

"Hmm fascinating! I would love to learn more about your land!"

"So if I understand correctly, the elemental nations are led by Kage's and therefore are completely separate and isolated from the Ministry of Magic?"

Shikamaru smiled.

"Yes correct, and that is why Dumbledore gave me a heads up that you might want to move to Konoha."

Sirius spoke up again.

"If. . . If it isn't too much trouble, I would do anything to be a free man."

"Very well, you can join me on my return trip then."

"Just a quick question. . . how would I afford rent and such?"

"Ah right we have a different currency, I can see if I can get you a job that doesn't require chakra. . which sounds more appealing, cooking or weapon selling and sharpening?"

"Uh. . . the latter?"

"Ah good that what's what I thought, I will talk to Tennie for you!"

"Tennie?"

"Tenten, she is the owner of a weapons shop, I'm sure she would appreciate the help since it is just her with her teen son(a/n : no I don't mean Metal Lee, Tenten and Lee were never confirmed to be together. . .)."

"Thank You so much Mr. Nara, your help is much appreciated."

Suddenly Harry remembered his other question.

"Uh Professor Nara? Why are you referred to as Lord. . ?"

Shikamaru gave a low chuckle.

"My clan is a prominent clan, the clans are considered royalty in a way. I'm clan head. Other prominent clans are the Hyuga, Uchiha ,Uzumaki, Yamanaka, Akimichi, and other part is my position as Hokage advisor."

"Oh that makes sense!" Harry said in realization.

"Do the other clans have special abilities like your clan?"

"Mmhmm, Yamanaka's have Mind Transfer and Mind Destruction, Akimichi have expansion, Hyuga's have X-ray vision, Uchiha have copy eyes, and Uzumaki have high stamina and an abundance of Chakra flow."

Shikamaru talked with them for a while, telling them little bits of information and overall just watching clouds … well at least Shikamaru was until Kamatari bit his ear.

It was getting dark so they hurried back inside so that Professor Nara could continue packing. Dumbledore had announced the existence of Shinobi that dinner, which causes plenty of chatter. Soon it was time for Professor Nara to go, they were supposed to use a portkey that would lead to the Hokage tower apparently.

Shikamaru gave the trio one last glance. "You can visit this summer if you want, to visit Sirius and such, until then, don't get into trouble."

"I second on that." Sirius said.

Harry hugged his godfather before the two held on to the portkey and disappeared from site.

Le time skip to Hokage office.

Temari stood impatiently tapping her foot waiting for her husband's return. Those that didn't know her would think she was pissed, but she was actually worried that he was taking long.

They were interrupted by a rupture of wind and Shikamaru appearing with Kamatari perched on his shoulder and another man with him.

Temari didn't care that there were people in the room, and bolted forwards knocking Shikamaru into a bookshelf with a tight embrace.

Shikamaru grinned and kissed her.

"I'm back Troublesome Woman!"

"I missed you crybaby!" Temari replied with equal endearment.

"What don't I get a hug Dattebayo?" Shikamaru turned around to see Naruto grinning.

"Nah, you get a punch for sending me on a yearlong mission, it was such a drag!"

"Awww I thought we had something Shika!"

"Shut up Nanadaime Knucklehead!"

Sirius watched the interaction amused not sure what was going on since it was in a different language. Shikamaru turned around and handed Sirius a paper.

"Use this spell, you should be able to understand Japanese with it since that is what language we speak!" Sirius thanked him and performed the spell happy to see he could understand loud arguing coming from the outside.

"What a drag Boruto, my Tou-Chan is coming back and you are holding me up."

"Come on Dattebasa! Besides I'm coming with since I need to ask my Tou-Chan something."

"Fine, but hurry up!"

The voices got louder until they entered the office.

Sirius was surprised to see two carbon copies of the adult men in the room. The brown haired green eyed boy he recognized from Christmas, but the other boy he didn't know. He had messy blonde hair, sky blue eyes, and two whisker like marks on each cheek.

Shikadai Nara grinned as soon as he saw his father and ran over jumping into his father's arms, not caring that he was twelve and acting like a five year old. He wouldn't admit it, but he was a true Daddy's boy, and Temari knew it so she just smiled at the scene. Naruto noticed Boruto and smiled.

"Hey Boruto! What's up Dattebayo?"

"I wanted to know if I could train with you after your work Dattebasa!"

Naruto smiled.

"Sure thing Boru-Chan, I'm getting off in Two-ish hours, does that work?"

"Hai! Arigato Tou-Chan!" Boruto ran off full of energy.

"Shikamaru, you get today off to spend time with your family, but tomorrow I finally get my paperwork buddy back!"

"What a drag!" Shikamaru groaned but lead his family out the door.

Naruto looked up at Sirius.

"You are Sirius right?"

"Yes, Lord Hokage!"

"Okay, Shikamaru spoke of you, TenTen has agreed to let you work for her. For now I'm going to place you in the apartment complex. It's actually newly renovated so I expect you to be quite comfortable."

"Thanks so much!"

With that the Shikamaru returned to his normal life, and Sirius began working in Konoha. Everything was quite peaceful in Konoha and the golden trio would be visiting in the next few months!

A/n: so we only have a few chapters left and wanted to thank everyone for sticking with me! It means so much seeing the comments and watching the likes and follows grow! I really enjoyed writing this fanfic sooo… I am considering writing a sequel. The plot would follow some hogwarts students visiting Konoha as a sort of cultural interaction and exchange program. Voldemort in the meanwhile isn't having too much success with his plans in the wizarding world since Shikamaru took out many death eaters ,so he wants to try to go after The Elemental nations. If this sounds like something you would read and would like me to write this sequel I need to know. I created a poll in my profile so if you could vote yes or no, just so I have an idea on whether or not I should write this!