Chapter 1 - Meeting Harry
Amelia Susan Bones, current Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement was sitting in the Leaky Cauldron mentally seething. Her conference with Albus Dumbledore had been less than fruitful because regardless of evidence to the contrary, Harry had been placed behind blood wards at the Dursely residence. Considering they were working meant Harry's own magic was powering the wards all on his own, leaving him weaker than he should be.
When she went to Privet Drive she met with Arabella Figg who stated after a solid week of owl's trying to deliver Harry his Hogwarts letter Vernon Dursely packed up the entire family and ran. When Amelia brought this up later to Dumbledore, he stated he had someone sent to fetch Harry and bring him to Diagon Alley to get young Harry his school supplies.
So here Amelia was waiting to meet her godson for the first time officially and bring him to Gringotts to meet his actual blood relatives. Her real anger was on Dumbledore, mostly at the older man's aloof reactions to her hard evidence almost like he didn't care or knew about it and chose to ignore it. The old wanker better watch it from this point on, one toe out of line and I'll have his wrinkled arse in Azkaban! she clenched her teeth in frustration watching the muggle entrance for a young boy that had Lily's eyes with James's hair.
Barely an hour later she spotted Hagrid entering the pub with the boy, she been wanting to see for the past few days. She met Sakura Uzumaki the night before and could painly see Lily's facial features easily in the younger woman. Standing up walking across the pub to stand in front of the half-giant, "Hagrid."
"Ah, Ma'dam Bones pleasant suprise," Hagrid smiled lightly. Harry looked up at him, "Harry, this is Madam Amelia Bones she's the Head of the DMLE."
"What's that?" Harry asked looking confused.
Amelia chuckled slightly, "Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Mr. Potter."
Harrys eyes widen, "Really, that's pretty cool."
"Why, thank you," Amelia turned her gaze back on the half-giant. "Don't suppose Professor Dumbledore told you what happened since Tuesday Hagrid?"
Rubeus Hagrid while slow on the uptake on many things he could trace a small amount of accusation in the red-head's tone. "Not sure, wat ya mean Madam Bones?" the half-giant asked in confusion.
"Allow me to some it up for you, I've been trying to get a hold of Harry for the last two days," Amelia stated.
"Um, did I do something wrong?" Harry asked looking concerned and confused.
"No, Harry," the red haired woman smiled faintly. "However something dreadful has happened in your placement with your 'Aunt' Petunia, she isn't your aunt biologically."
"What's that mean?" the small boy asked.
"Your mother was adopted by the Evans family shortly after she was born," Amelia explained. "Petunia Dursely nee Evans is your Step-Aunt."
Harry looked down at that point, "I see."
"Harry, Gringotts has located your mother's biological family, all very much alive," the head of the DMLE stated. "Your mother's younger sister has even agreed to meet with you and take you in if that alright with you, and if not then I'll gladly take you in."
"W-Why would you?" Harry asked softly tears beginning to well up in his eyes.
"Now, I didn't know this until a few days ago so please keep an open mind, I was named your godmother," Amelia explained.
"Have you met my real Aunt?" Harry asked softly quickly changing the subject fighting his tears.
"Aye, I did," Amelia smiled faintly. "She seems to be very friendly, also pregnant at the moment so she's not very mobile."
The boy who lived brows knitted together in thought he just found out that the people he had been living with for the past ten years weren't really his relatives. He knew enough from primary school to know just enough about genetics to draw some rather childish conclusions some more outlandish than the next. "I think I like to meet my aunt then."
Hagrid watching the whole play out was confused, Lily was adopted, guess that makes more sense now than before she looked nothing likePetunia or acted like her. The trio left the pub into the back alley. "Right then, um, how's Susan?"
"Staying with Hannah for another week," Amelia chortled. "Girls have been fretting the last four weeks about which house they'll be sorted into."
"House, sort?" Harry piped up.
"At Hogwarts, there are four different house dorms you'll be sorted into, Gryffindor the home of the Brave and Bold, Ravenclaw, the home of the Wise and Witty, Hufflepuff, my old Alma Mater, the home of the Loyal and hard workers, and finally Slytherin, Home of the Ambitious and cunning, let me tell Harry do not buy into whatever rot people will tell you of Slytherin House, not every witch and wizard going into that house comes out dark. I know a fair share of good people that are from Slytherin," the head of the DMLE explained noting Hagrid looked to blush. "Mind you the worst of the worst came from that house."
Harry nodded looking a bit confused. "Not sure what house I could get sorted into."
Amelia chuckled tapping the bricks in front of her, "None of us do until we're sorted. Your real Aunt didn't have that though, she's a kunoichi."
"A female ninja, really?" Harry had heard plenty on that from some boys playing video game called Ninja Gaiden in the store he went to before Dudely and his friends decided they wanted to play Harry Hunting.
"In the far east between Japan and Korea hidden behind some very elaborate seal work is the Elemental Nation, they are our equivilant here in the Isles only instead of calling it magic they call it Chakra, your Aunt and your grandparents hail from the second largest village in the Elemental Nations," Amelia explained some more as the trio walked along Diagon Alley. Harry was so enthralled by his godmother's explanation he didn't take time to really look around.
"W-Wait my grandpartents are still alive?" Harry asked.
"Yes, according to your Aunt, your maternal grandparents came to England during a very tribulent time in the Elemental Nations history; they called it the Third Great Shinobi War. Came here as refugees, virtually penniless endured a year of hardship. It was during this time your mother was born, Lily Haruno."
"They couldn't afford to raise her," Harry stated.
"No they couldn't, your grandmother was heartbroken over this fact but they couldn't support themselves much less an infant daughter, as I take it from your Aunt's face they made the only choice they felt was right, they gave her up," the red-haired department head wiped some tears away.
Harry asborbing the information his admiration for his grandparents skyrocketed, while didn't completely understand everything. He did understand how hard it must have been to give up his mother so she could live a good life. "Did they try to find my mom when they got back on their feet?"
"Yes, they kept it a secret for the most part but they tried, but adoption agencies keep information confidential," Amelia stated stopping a few feet from the bank. "Anyway a bookkeeper for Gringotts found information on file about your mother that led us to the present. I'm sure your grandparents will meet you during the Christmas holidays, as for your Aunt and Uncle they are here ready to meet you now, now your Uncle let's just say he and your father would get along really well."
Hagrid caught the tone, "Ah, another Marauder, figures someone like Lily marry one like James."
Amelia sighed shaking her head. "He's not as subtle as James or Sirius for that matter according to Sakura he painted the entire Hokage Monument in broad daylight and no one caught him until he was all done."
Hagrid looked stunned, "Bloody hell, not sure that not brilliant or insane."
"Aunt Sakura," Harry rolled his aunt's name off his tongue.
"Right well, let's go I'm sure your Aunt has been patient enough," Amelia paused. "Now Harry we're you shocked at the attention you got back there in the Cauldron?"
"Um, yeah Hagrid said I was famous, didn't tell me why yet."
"Sorry about that," Hagrid said looking a bit sheepish.
"Well your Aunt and Uncle can easily make your fame look rather tame in comparison, see there was a Fourth Great Shinobi War around the time your parents married. Your Aunt Sakura and your Uncle Naruto pretty much ended that war," Amelia said.
"Wow," Harry muttered as the trio entered the bank.
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Sakura sat quietly waiting for Amelia to bring her nephew to the meeting after explaining the some of the headaches the older woman had trying to find Harry. The biggest one was apparently the Hogwarts Headmaster, Sounds eerily like something Danzo would do, Naruto was off to her left conversing with one the bookkeeper while the bank manager sat at the far end of the conference table going over statements.
Mebuki Haruno had given a very heartbreaking reveal about leaving Sakura's older sister in the orphanage, the event itself nearly killed her in grief. The moment the older woman calmed down Sakura hugged her mother apologizing for dragging up the old wound, only to be rebuked stating she had every right to be angry. In the end both women tearfully hugged each other and quickly set about plans to welcome Harry into the Haruno and Uzumaki clans.
Chuckling quietly to herself the rosette haired woman mind shifted focusing on her husband, if someone had told her in the academy who she'd be happily married to in ten years she would have proudly said Sasuke Uchiha. And at first after the war it appeared to be right on course to becoming fact, only two things stopped it.
The first was Sasuke himself, had become so determined to redeem himself, anything else was placed on the back burner. That redemption came at a price, leaving the village for prolong periods of time, leaving Sakura alone and miserable. The second was Sasuke only cared about reviving his thrice damned clan; as such he selected her at the time to become a simple baby factory. Sakura paused looking down at her stomach, No this is different you guys weren't forced I've wanted you more than anything in this world. She thought softly gently rubbing her belly. They broke up outside of three miserable years, Naruto didn't even last that long with Hinata they barely scraped by after four months, Naruto stated Hinata just wasn't ascertive enough with him.
The year before Naruto became Hokage she took her shot with him and never looked back, she never imagined how happy and content she was with the blonde goof. My sunshine, my everything, her eyes watered thinking back, married when they turned twenty just a month and a half before he became Hokage, spending the majority of the time working but when they got home always falling into each-other's arms for cuddling and talking about their day, kissing, or just plain making love no matter how tired they were.
But it came at a price, Kurama had partially infused himself into Naruto for one reason, to provide protection against Kaguya who was now sealed in with the fox. The protection was mostly against influence from the rabbit goddess but the side effect was an increased life span, the moment she and Naruto made love as husband and wife the fox infused a bit of his chakra into her through Naruto fluids. She didn't realize it until her first major check-up with Shizune, when the tissue sample area was healed quicker than normal red flags started flying in her mind. She quickly ran tests, had blood drawn on that day, and ten years later she compared her recent samples to the old ones and found that they hadn't degraded one iota. We age a year for every five of Ino's I'll look like I do now when she's in her eighties, Naruto is right many of the next generation wouldn't understand, so in away finding out about Harry was Kami giving us a miracle.
Her thoughts were interrupted when she felt a hand come to rest on her shoulder looking up she saw Naruto staring down at her, "What?"
"I was going to ask that," Naruto said softly reaching down and wiping away some tears she didn't realize she shed.
"Just realize we might not see our friends again, that's all," Sakura whispered as Naruto handed her a tissue.
"We can, just need to find a way to create an illusion that'll make us look older next time we go back there, one that the Byakugan can't see through," the whisker marked blonde stated.
"Guess so, I can use that genjutsu Master Tsunade used only I'll need to reverse it," Sakura sighed.
"Well in the meantime, I think I may have found something you can do after the kids are born," Naruto smiled. "Well more or less anyway, that bookkeeper guy says St. Mungos hasn't had a decent Supervisory healer in years. Maybe after we've settled in and found a place to live might be awesome if you applied."
Sakura thought about it, "Wouldn't be to hard to do, I practically ran the Leaf Hospital for the last five years. But what about the twins and Harry, Naruto?"
"Hmm," Naruto quietly turned the gears in his head. His job no doubt thanks to the bank manager would be to sit in proxy for Harry in the Wizengamot until Harry came of age, so he'd be busy doing what he did as Hokage, dealing with backstabbing politics. "We'll work it out Sakura-chan we always do," he smiled softly kissing her softly.
The rosette haired woman sighed when the door opened, Amelia held the door open when a small boy roughly looking about nine to her entered. Short stature, looks lightly malnourished, clothing is clearly second hand, rapid eye movement, nervous twitch, silently fuming at her clinical overview, she gently grabbed her husband's hand and squeezed it glancing up. Abused and neglected, Naruto, she indicated using her eyes.
Naruto nodded grimly before watching the boy approach cautiously. "Yo," Naruto stated raising his hand mimicking his old sensei, giving the same eye smile.
Sakura huffed swatting him in the arm, "The first thing to pop into your head, is to act like Kakashi-sensei, you baka."
"Meh, always worked for him," Naruto shrugged.
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Harry's first impressions of his Aunt and Uncle were leagues ahead of Petunia and Vernon. However he wasn't sure if this was just a public face or this was real, Petunia and Vernon had a friendly public face just not to this decree. Seeing his Aunt struggle to get up he quickly walked over.
Sakura smiled gratefully, "thank you," she leaned a bit forward but obiviously couldn't lean all the way forward. The two stared at each other absorbing their faces, Harry found his nose, cheeks, and forehead looked remarkably like his aunt, things he never saw in Petunia. "My, my such a handsome boy you are," Sakura giggled gently ruffling his hair, he stiffened involuntary at the contact. The woman frowned slightly before moving her hands into a series of movements ending in a double grasp when they seperated they started glowing green. Uncertain what this meant he edged away, "Easy Harry this is called a diagnostic jutsu, where I came from I'm a doctor."
Harry's eyes widen, "R-Really."
"Oh yeah, your Aunt is the best doctor you ever meet, believe it!" Naruto then winced. "Damn, I thought I got over that."
"You tend to revert back to a child when you're excited," Sakura stated mirth in her eyes. "Which is about ninety-five percent of the time."
Naruto crossed his arms pouting, "Sakura-chan," he whined a bit before chuckling. "What can you see?"
Sakura sighed gently hovering her hands over Harry letting only the green glow touched him as she ran the scan over his body the more Harry's aunt's face lost her smile. After a few minutes she dropped one of her hands pinching the bridge of her nose then glancing over at Amelia Bones. "Might want to take this down down in your official capacity as the Head of the DMLE, Madam Bones."
"Oh?" Amelia asked looking concerned fishing into her robes for her dicta quill and some parchment.
"H-He's got over fifty different improperly healed broken bones, like his chakra healed him, none have been set. Recently faded bruising, I believe my nephew was abused by this Petunia and her husband," Sakura growled softly her other hand subtly moving up toward the scar on his forehead the moment she hovered over it she jerked her hand away in shock. "Naruto, code black."
Naruto's eye narrowed before walking over as his wife pointed at the scar, he moved through his own hand movements before hovering over the scar with his jutsu. "Oh yeah, not Heaven's Curse seal level but still pretty nasty. How he'd get this scar?"
"He got it the night Lily and James died, was there me self," Hagrid explained. "Was it, mean this code black?"
"It's a dark soul container basically, a former missing-nin from our own village created his own version calling it the Heaven's Curse seal, you people would probably call it something else. It's basically a container for a person's soul, used through infusing Dark Chakra by committing an evil crime, like murder or rape," Naruto explained.
"Horcrux," Ragnok scowled. "That's what we call it here, foul dark magic."
Naruto nodded grimly pursing his lips cupping his chin looking down at Harry's before smirking, "Lucky you Harry, I'm probably one of the few in recent history who can remove it without killing the person or destroying an object that has such a container, not only that I might be able to use this one to find others."
"How do you know there are others?" Amelia asked.
"There are always other's, Orochimaru always had seven at any given time, said it was a lucky number," Naruto said stated.
"Sounds like you know this guy," Harry spoke up.
"During the last part of the war he provided us aide and was pardoned because of it, currently running research and development under heavy guard, a real snake bastard," Naruto sighed bitterly.
"Snakes?" Amelia asked.
The whisker marked man nodded, "I don't know how much of our history you know, but he was part of the legendary Sannin, the Snake Summoner, former student of the Third Hokage," Naruto smiled faintly. "My favorite Granny, the Slug Princess Tsunade Senju taught Sakura-chan everything she knew and the Pervy Toad Sage Jiraiya taught me, while Orochimaru the Traitorous Snake taught our teammate Sasuke."
"So you're like the next generation of these Sannin or something?" Harry pointed out.
Naruto raised an eyebrow before chuckling ruffling Harry's hair. "Never thought about it before but that does make all kind's of sense."
Sakura nodded smiling slightly, "Yeah, it really does."
"Yep, he's definitely got the Haruno brains," Naruto smiled softly leaning in closer examining the scar again. "We'll need to take care of this before you can start school, right now it's dormant because you haven't been using your chakra except for outburst of accendental magic but if it's anything like the Heaven's curse seal it will leech off your chakra and start trying to take you over."
"We'll need to take him to St. Mungos when you do to monitor him after the horcrux is removed," Amelia explained.
Sakura sigh before nodding turning to the goblin chieftan, "are there any housing options, Naruto and I plan to stay for the forseeable future and we have enough saved up between the books Naruto writes," she said the last bit in a strained voice, "and through my medical practice we can buy something here."
Ragnok snorted, "You need not waist your galleons, the late Lord Potter's family home had been damaged back in the 70's but in anticipation of young Heir Potter's return I've had some of best construction crews set to repair the damage it'll be finished shortly after young Harry leaves for school, in addition young Harry has properties in California, New Zealand, Godric's Hollow though that property has been given to the Ministry of Magic claimed as a historical landmark. Finally there's the house on Spinner's end bequeathed to your sister Lady Uzumaki by her adopted parents, apparently they didn't trust Petunia Dursely with the upkeep."
"After finding out what kind of person she is, I'm not really surprised," Sakura stated coolly. She picked up the housing layouts for each mention home, and admitted the Potter family home was the most ideal of the three, however the one in California would be a good summer home since it was closer to Japan's Elemental Nations, and her parents could visit when time allowed. "Potter family home it is."
Ragnok nodded pulling out several keys, ring, and a ledger. "We'll have rooms set aside at the Leaky Cauldron until the construction has been completed. The keys are for the various room's in the house, the ring is a portkey that allow you access to the interior long enough for you to establish a floo network. Seeing as Lord Uzumaki is a Seal Master I believe he'll be in charge of the Wards and security of the grounds?"
"Yep, but I'm going to need a list of the wards that are currently working on the land so I don't screw anything up," Naruto explained. The goblin nodded wrote down some instructions and handed them to the Bookkeeper who quickly left.
"The list will be ready before you leave," Ragnok turned to Harry holding out a bag. "This your personal coin purse, seeing as we took up a significant amount time I had the forethought to fill it with the correct amount of money you will need for you school supplies, plus extra encase something strikes your fancy, if you are anything like your mother something probably will," the goblin snickered slightly.
Harry nodded a faint smile on his face turning to his aunt who with the help of Naruto was able to stand. "Where to first?" Sakura asked.
