In the Village Hidden by Whirling Tides there was a legend of a land beyond the elemental nations separated by an invisible and virtually impassable barrier. Every couple of generations a child would be born without chakra. Then around the age of seven strange things would begin to happen around the child. They would then be taken by the elders into a special room in the Shiokage's tower where an old coin would take them away before reappearing on the pedestal to await the next child.

What the people of the Village Hidden by Whirling Tides didn't know was that the coin was a portkey and would take them to a country where their ancestors had once come from. Lillian Uzumaki was taken at the age of eight into the tower and never reappeared, she arrived at Gringotts Wizarding bank and was promptly adopted by a Squib couple, becoming Lily Evans younger sister to their one year old daughter Petunia Evans. But she had never forgotten the home she left behind or the twin sister that had left for the Village Hidden in the Leaves just days before she herself had left.

In the years before Hogwarts she learnt how to speak proper English and lost her foreign accent completely so that when her Hogwarts letter came there was no one who would guess she wasn't born in England or as anything but an Evans.

When she went to Diagon alley she purchased an owl as soon as she could and sent it to her twin hoping the owl's magic would allow it to find her. The owl came back and she learnt of the destruction of the Village Hidden by Whirling Tides and loss of her parents but had also regained a sister she thought she might never see again.

Now, 19 year old Lily Potter née Evans smiled as she bustled about the kitchen of the cottage she and James had purchased to begin their life together. She was making James' favourite as today was the day that she would tell him that they were pregnant.

She heard the door open. And a set of footsteps immediately heading upstairs.

"Lily, are you there?" James called.

"I'm in the kitchen," she called back.

She felt James' arms wrap around her waist as he kissed her neck. His head was a comfortable weight on her shoulder.

"You spoil me," he told her as she giggled at the feeling of his breath on her neck.

She turned in his arms with a laugh and kissed him properly feeling the warmth of love filling her heart as she looked at him.

"I love you," she told him.

She disentangled herself from her husband and led him into the sitting room. She flicked her wand at the counter where the kitchenware continued to make dinner without her. She pulled him by the hand to sit with her on the couch.

"I have something very important to tell you," she placed her hand on his knee, "We are having a son."

Unlike muggles who had to wait for the parts to develop magic could tell not only that she was pregnant but also the gender. She waited for him to speak but based on the goofy absent smile on his face he wasn't going to be speaking anytime soon. She smiled softly filled with happiness that their family was growing, even if the world outside their home was growing dimmer by the day here in this place and this moment there was only light.

"I call godfather," Sirius said happily walking into the room.

She screamed in shock though she really shouldn't have been surprised given that Sirius was around so often that he had his own room. She grabbed one of the cushions off the couch and threw it at him.

"Do not sneak up on me again," she said through clenched teeth.

"Yeah Sirius, we're carrying precious cargo here," James finally seemed to come out of the giddy stupor he had fallen into and placed a hand protectively on her stomach.

"We'll go to Gringotts tomorrow to set up his trust fund, and we'll need to send a letter to Albus to enrol him in Hogwarts, and we need to think of a name, then the ministry to register Sirius as his godfather," he began to ramble and list all the thing they needed to do.

Lily placed a hand on his shoulder, "We have time, I'm only a month pregnant."

"Can you afford to wait?" Sirius said from the comfy chair he had decided to sit in, "There is a war going on out there Lily, better to be safe."

"I know," she said softly putting her hand on her stomach. Her happiness dimmed replaced by a terrible worry.

It was another month before they got the most devastating news imaginable. She could barley breathe through the pain enveloping her. Why her family? Why her Baby?

"I'm sorry Lily, but the prophecy specifically states that your son and no other will defeat You-Know-Who. We had considered the Longbottom boy but Alice is due end of June so unless Neville is several weeks late, it will be Hadrian," Albus said twinkle absent from his eyes.

"What can we do?" James asked his hazel eyes screaming desperation as he looked at the headmaster.

"We will put the cottage under the fidelius charm," Albus said pulling out his wand as if ready to perform the spell immediately.

James looked over to Sirius eyes pleading, "Will you be our secret keeper? I would trust no one more."

Sirius stepped forward glancing over to his left where Peter was trying to disappear into the wall. He kept looking at Lily who was trying very hard to stay conscious as the panic for her child overwhelmed her mind.

"It's too obvious James, every death eater and You-Know-who would know I was your secret keeper the moment you vanished," he glanced again at Peter, "Let Peter be the secret keeper, no one would think it would be him."

Peter startled as his name was suggested. He glanced around at both Sirius and Albus before meeting the desperate eyes of James and Lily, "Please Peter."

Feeling like he was backed into a corner, Peter stuttered out his reluctant agreement. Albus cast the spell and the Potters appeared safe for the time being. When Albus and Sirius left with Peter he told them the address. He promptly turned into a rat once Albus had disapparated and went to find somewhere safe that he could hide.

The next day Lily sat at the kitchen table nursing a cup of tea as she watched the rain fall outside. She didn't feel safe. She re-read the last letter from her twin sister. This particular letter was informing her in great detail of Kushina's semi-secret marriage to one Minato Namikaze. Her hand drifted down to her stomach as she thought of the news she had to share in return. Hadrian James Potter, or Harry for short, had a vault in Gringotts, a place in Hogwarts tuition already paid, and a godfather that loved him enough to perform a blood ritual that would allow Harry to inherit everything if Sirius died without his own heir. He was loved so much already that the thought that He Who Must Not Be Named was trying to kill her to stop him from being born was more than she could handle thinking about.

The problem was that her baby wasn't even a bump yet and already she was in hiding to prevent her baby being killed before he even got the chance to be born. You-Know-Who was hunting her and her baby. James understood as it was his wife and son, but he believed in Peter, he believed they were safe and she just, didn't.

She came to her decision carefully. She wasn't just sending a letter with what should be the happiest news of her life but a request to the Hidden Leaf Village. Her early life was surrounded by shinobi and though they did not possess the variety of spells and potions that witches and wizards do they were powerful in their own way. He Who Must Not Be Named knew nothing of shinobi, she would get her sister to come as a shinobi to protect them. She could only hope that they received her letter and arrived on time. She knew Kushina would not rest until they had accepted the mission.

She heard the front door open. Quickly before anyone could come in she slipped an illegal portkey into the envelope and sent off the letter before going to discover the latest news about the war from her husband.