Disclaimer: Don't own. Don't care. Writing this for free.

AN: I was really happy with the response to this fic. I'm trully thankfull to you all. You are awesome.

I hope you enjoy the update! ^_^

Edited: 24/07/2015

Chapter 3: Doers

Yoshino Nara, Harry decided, was a wonderful woman. She was gentle yet strict, and had a fierce temper. She reminded Harry a lot of the women the doe had loved in her life: The kunoichi had the harsh-edged tone Hermione used for chiding Harry and Ron for not studying (which Yoshino used to whip the lazy husband out of his butt), the mix of harshness and sweetness of Harry's late wife, and the motherly smother capabilities of Molly Wesley. Not to mention she had a literal killer body.

Harry looked at the Nara sprawled on the floor scratching his stomach.

Nara Shikaku was a lucky bastard.

Or maybe he would be, if he knew how to deal with dominant women –which Harry had fortunately learnt before Ginny's first pregnancy, otherwise that would have been the only kid Harry could have ever produced. However, since the man didn't know how to deal with his wife, and he was as afraid of Yoshino as any regular first year would be of McGonagall on a transfiguration class… well, let's just say the man was whipped.

As far as Harry knew, Pineapple-head Jr. was also oblivious on how to behave around dominant females too, so Harry would be forever free of lean back and enjoy the protection her new status of "favorite pet" entailed.

"Ne ne, Rai-chan. Are you hungry?" Yoshino asked kindly and the doe looked up to the vegetable soup she was being offered.

A burst of warmth enveloped harry-doe as she basked in the positive attention the woman gave her. So far, Yoshino had made her multiple deer-friendly meals a days (which were doing wonders for Harry's weight), given Harry a big pillow and nice spot on the living room to sleep… heck, the woman was even knitting a scarf with a lightning bolt on it (among other clothes) just for her in case "Rai-chan" felt chilly... which she didn't, for deer were built to handle the cold and stuff.

Still, it was a heart-warming gesture.

Yes. Harry loved Yoshino. She was growing more and more to be the mother Harry never had.

Now that the boy-turned-doe knew what she had been missing and she was not planning to let go. Fuck the dangerous and exiting adventures of the ninja world, Harry Potter, hero of Great Britain, would remain as a pampered pet as long as she could.

Harry doe could almost be grateful to Death for his fate.

Almost.

The ex-wizard had barely eaten half of his vegetable soup, when a door opened and Nara Shikamaru came into the house with a "Tadaima."

…

"Okaeri, Shikamaru. How was the mission?" Shikaku asked his son, who winced slightly with each step. The young Nara had been hurt in combat. It wasn't a very big wound, just enough to come back with a limp, so he was not surprised that his parents had not shown any worry -albeit he was a bit thrown that his mother hadn't even acknowledged his arrival.

Shikamaru came back in one piece from his mission, and his ninja relatives couldn't ask for more. Still, the lack of a motherly greeting was odd.

"Fine," Shikamaru replied to his father inquiry, however his eyes weren't on him, but in the doe that was being feed by a uncharacteristically sweet-looking Yoshino (who was still too busy 'conversing' with the doe to even pay him attention). Her attitude took Shikamaru into a loop: he had never seen his mother shown a kind expression since… ever.

It made him feel both suspicious and confused.

The doe, as well, looked different from the last time he saw it –which was barely a week ago-: it had gained weight. The ribs on both sides of her torso were less noticeable, it had gained about an inch in size and now sported a bright green ribbon in her neck that seemed to enhance Mendo's green eyes.

"What happened while I was gone?" Asked Shikamaru to his father, in a low voice; not that he needed to, Yoshino was still ignoring him.

Shikaku sighed. "I'm not completely sure… but I think your mother loves that doe more than she loves me."

Shikamaru's eyes met Shikaku's. A silent conversation seemed to go on between the two, and Shikamaru just KNEW that his father was no longer thinking him crazy for his weird behavior about the doe.

Still, Shikaku telepathically let him know he wouldn't get involved. The adult couldn't be bothered to willingly jump into his son endeavor… or maybe, Shikamaru assumed, it was just the fright Shikaku held for his wife that was keeping his hands tied.

His father sure was a spineless coward.

…

Shikamaru didn't know it as he reached his conclusion, but his father would keep an eye on him as well as on the doe.

Watching them both was, on the older Nara's mind, just more productive than actively doing something since he would see how Shikamaru fared in such an odd situation… it was also less work for Shikaku to do. So he would sit back and watch, unless he was really needed, or his son was in danger. Which was unlikely. How much phisical harm could a doe –smart or not—truly cause? If it tried anything funny, his wife would find out instantly, since those two spent practically every waking hour together now, and, surely, his son would observe the doe the times his wife wasn't with it.

All in all, his work was cut for him.

Why do a troublesome job someone else, some capable, was already doing? Sure, there was a bit of him that was curious, but the laziness outweighed any drive to satisfy said curiosity.

Still, he would probably do a bit of research on his own. He needed to be aware of as much as he could going on in Konoha (him being the adviser of the past Hokage and the logical option to advise the new one) and being unaware of something going on in his own complex would be neglecting things a tad too much. Even on Nara standards.

Yep, keeping an eye from a distance, nothing more troublesome than that for Nara Shikaku to do.

…

It took while for Yoshino to even notice her son was home. When she did, she simply ordered him to go shower and fix his room –which he had left a mess before going away, it was too troublesome to clean—and then come back in an hour for dinner. And, of course, Shikamaru couldn't stay up there and rest –no matter how tired he was from the mission and the debriefing. If he did, his mother would make sure he had nothing to eat until the next day.

It didn't even seem to matter to her that he had been gone for a week.

Oddly enough, he was a bit relieved: that was the mother he knew, not the weird, kind-looking woman he barely recognized when coming home.

Shikamaru was unhappy nevertheless. He did have to go up and clean his room, and no one liked doing that.

"Mendokusei," he let out, more out of habit than anything else, before nodding to show that he would be obeying the order. He needed a moment to think of the new developments, and it wouldn't be the first time he did that while completing the very bothersome task of leaving his room neat.

Before he left the room, though, he could hear his mother revert into a cooing, sweet woman, completely infatuated with the doe; so he turned back to look how she kindly petted Mendo, who quickly buried herself into his mother stomach as though it were an overly-affectionate kitten. His mother, on the other hand, looked very happy and squeezed the doe gently.

Shikamaru didn't know exactly why he was surprised when Mendo rose its head to look at him, giving him the most irritating triumphant look he had ever gotten.

That thing had won over his mother, and was rubbing it in his face.

Clearly, that thing was smarter than he first thought it was. It had tamed the monster, and it was clearly a master in manipulation.

And he had thought Tora The Cat had been a troublesome animal.

Deeming Mendo as a threat now, Shikamaru left the room. The whole week he had been away, he had debated whether to tell his teammates or not. He almost did, several times, but he decided he better gather more data before getting them involved: It would certainly be less of a hassle to handle matters on his own for the time being than having his teammates as obnoxious tag-alongs… or so it seemed, before Shikamaru learnt the doe had gained protection of the most troublesome woman he knew.

Shikamaru wouldn't seek for help right away. He had a room to clean, food to eat… plus he would be seeing his team the next day. No need to track them down now.

The lazy ninja certainly didn't want to explain to their families why he wanted to talk with them now. That, without a doubt, would be a bothersome thing to do, specially so since they were together not an hour ago.

Besides, now that he was back, his duties handling Mendo were his again; meaning, he had tomorrow morning's feeding time (which he would no doubt need to continue because Mendo was still underweight) to confront the doe.

…

"Good morning, Shikamaru," Yoshino greeted Shikamaru, who just stared at his mother and the feeding doe. His mother had given It breakfast despite him being home to take back his duty. Shikamaru instantly knew what it meant, but he got an explanation regardless. "Son, you had been complaining a lot about taking care of Rai-chan. So I'm taking care of her from now on… Don't worry, you don't need to take care of another deer if you don't want to."

Being relieved of his duties was something Shikamaru was not happy about, even if he would have been in any other circumstance.

He also needn't an explanation on who "Rai-chan" was. It was just too obvious.

"But—" Shikamaru tried to protest, gaining an instant sharp look from the fearsome Nara Yoshino. Needless to say, the battle was lost before it even began.

"Mendokusei."

Apparently, it was time to get his teammates involved, after all.

To be continued.

...

EXTRA: Weirdoe

Nara Shikaku was, for the second time in two days, standing by the door of his living room seeing things he never expected to see. The first one had been his son attempting to teach a doe how to play shogi, the second being Yoshino cooing over the exact same doe, which was carrying a piece of cloth in it's mouth and had a light layer of dust on top of it's nose. Predictably, the doe sneezed, dropping the piece of cloth, and his wife gave the little animal a look he hadn't see in Yoshino's face since Shikamaru's toddling years.

It made him stop and stare.

And keep on staring.

All the while the stern woman he married cooed over the doe they had put in charge of Shikamaru. As soon as the doe stopped sneezing, resolve closed it's eye and it bent down to pick the rag and imitating the cleaning Yoshino was doing.

Pretending he hadn't seen anything, again, he closed the door and shook his head. He was tempted to get a second look to make sure he wasn't seeing things, but restrained. If he did anything to disrupt his wife's current mood she might toss him a broom and demand his help there.

The impossibility of what he had witnessed was bugging him. There was something about that doe that was making his family act weird.

Suddenly, the Hokage adviser had a flashback to the scene of the doe being tought shogi (a memory he had been doing his best to pretend didn't happen) and tried to focus, not on the implications of his son sanity's, but on the reactions he had seen the doe have to the explanation... Now that he thought about it, it had looked like the doe had been listening while looking on the board.

An idea, one so silly he wouldn't have attempted if he hadn't seen the doe wrap Nara Yoshino around it's little finger, crossed Shikaku's mind. Latter that night, the man looked for the doe in the living room (where his wife had deemed to give Mendo a cushion for it to sleep), then dragged the doe the short distance from there to the shogi set. The doe looked at him blankly, then down to the board. With no small amount of expectation, he made the first move, all the while keeping a keen eye on the doe. The doe looked up at him once more, then down to the board and... it started chewing on a wooden piece.

He had to take the piece back before the doe accidentally swallowed and died by choking on it.

Realization on what exactly he had been attempting hit not a moment latter.

Great. He was acting weird too.

End of the Extra.

.

AN: Sorry for the delay. To those I told I would be gone two week, let me tell you I was out 3, plus some days on the beach. Now I just started the semester so I had a bit of time in hands. I have an idea on what to write next, so you can be sure there is a next one.

AN 24/07/2015: Oh, gosh, is that new content I spy? yeah it is! I took the OMAKE out and it felt empty. I hope you liked the extra :D

Ps: Can anyone help me think of words that contain "doe" in them? (°~°)