Chapter Two

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It had been three weeks since Shikaku left the Hidden Countries to go to Britain to pick up his cousin's son, Harry Potter. Finally, he arrived at Surrey, but it was around midnight when he did arrive. Harry lived in #4 Privet Drive, so he looked at the map that he was able to get at a local gas station and soon he was able to Privet Drive. When Shikaku first arrived in Britain, he was amazed at the invention of cars, but soon realized that he was glad that they did not have those back home as they were sticky and noisy.

Soon he was at Privet Drive and even in the dark, he could see that every single house looked to be the same. Everything was prefect, too prefect that it was disgusting. Making his way down the street, he saw a little boy sitting on the doorstep of #4. As Shikaku got closer, he saw Nara clan traits in the boy and figured that this was Harry Potter. But why was the boy outside where anyone could take him instead of inside in bed asleep where it was safe and warm. Shikaku did not like the look of this.

Slowly, Shikaku approached the boy as he got closer to the boy, the boy looked up at him. Shikaku knelt down so he could be at the same level as the boy, and introduced himself to him, "Hello there, I'm Shikaku Nara. What's your name?"

"Freak," Harry whispered before bowing his head as he figured that this nice yet lazy looking man with a scar on his face would leave him as well.

Shikaku frowned as he saw signs of abuse. He will have to take Harry away from this place. Too bad, he could not do anything else, but get Harry and take him away. Shikaku sighed as he sat down on the doorstep beside Harry and said, "I know that is not your name. I know for a fact that your name is Harry James Potter."

Harry's head shot up so fast that Shikaku thought that his neck would break from it. Tears formed in his eyes as he said, "Thank you, sir, for telling me my name."

"You're welcome," Shikaku said. "Harry, did you know that your mother was my first cousin?"

"Does that mean that you are my uncle?" Harry asked while he could not believe that he has more family than the Dursleys.

Shikaku nodded before he asked, "Harry, would you like to come and live with my family?"

Harry could not believe his ears when the man, Shikaku asked if he wanted to go with him and live with his family. He was able to whisper his 'yes' so he would not wake up his aunt and uncle and they forbid him to go.

Shikaku smiled as he picked up Harry, but he frowned as he noticed how little the boy weigh and took off to the nearest hotel to spend the night in, before they leave tomorrow morning. Harry fell asleep on the way to the hotel and did not notice Shikaku tucking him into bed, before falling asleep in the second bed.

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Harry was a bit confused when he woke up in a warm comfortable bed instead of waking up to Aunt Petunia pounding on the door to his room which was the cupboard underneath the stairs. Then Harry remembered about what happened last night when his uncle had kicked him out and told him to be back around ten o'clock, but when he did come back, he noticed that the guests were gone and his relatives were already in their beds. He knew that if he woke them up by knocking on the door, he would be in for a major beating. He made that mistake once, but he was not going to do that again. He learned his lesson the last time he did that.

"I see that you are already awake," Shikaku said as he looked down at his new son. "Here, go take a shower and put these clothes on. I have a son that is around your age. His name is Shikamaru. I believe that you two will get along perfectly."

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It took less than three weeks to get back to the Hidden Countries as Shikaku knew the way back home. On the way back home, Shikaku explained everything about his clan, Konohagakure no Sato (Konoha), shinobi, the culture, and even began teaching him the Japanese language. Shikaku was very surprise that Harry was able to pick up on the language after just hearing it for the first time, but Shikaku shrugged it off as this was proof that Harry was a Nara as they were geniuses. He even began working on undoing what the abuse did to him and he was making a good progress on it.

When they reached the of Konoha, Harry began showing signs of being lazy and plus he admitted on the way there, that he loved to watch clouds drift passed in the sky. That made Shikaku chuckle as he knew that his son loves to the same thing.

As they made their way to the Hokage Tower, Harry was amazed at the change of scenery that the Hidden Countries had to offer. But he like cloud watching better and being lazy now that he thought of it and could get away with being lazy without having anyone punish him for it. He even taken to calling Shikaku 'dad' when he found out that Shikaku was going to adopt him into his family and make him his second son. But Shikaku warned him about his 'mom' and was told that while he can be lazy, his 'mom' would try to snap him out of it, but he did not have worry about it.

After entering an office, Harry saw a really old man sitting behind the desk reading an orange covered book while giggling silly, and with blood running out of his nose.

Tugging on dad's shirt, he asked in Japanese, "Dad, what is that man reading?"

Panicking inside, Shikaku answered, "Nothing important, son. Hokage –sama is going to put that away, right Hokage –sama?"

With a quick movement, the book and blood was gone and the Hokage was sitting up straighter than before, and he asked Shikaku, "Is this your cousin's son, Potter Harry?"

Shikaku nodded before adding, "Yes, I would like to adopt him so he can be my son and I would like to change his name to Nara Harry."

"Very well, consider it done," Hokage filled out the paper work for this to be done.

After the paper work was signed and filed away, Hokage said to Harry, "Welcome home to Konohagakure no Sato, Nara Harry."

Bowing, Harry replied, "Thank you, Hokage –sama."

"Thank you, Hokage –sama," Shikaku said, before taking Harry's hand and leading out of the office and headed towards the clan compound.

Once they had left, Hokage got out the orange covered book again, but this time he barely got it opened when he looked at his empty desk. The book dropped out of his hands when he saw that his desk was almost buried with paperwork that came out of nowhere. Crocodile tears came running down his face as he howled with despair.

Outside of the office, Harry jumped when he heard the howl and looked at his new dad for explanation, but Shikaku indicated that he would tell him later.

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