My Story

"I used to hate my hair." Kushina said. She turned to look at her son and said. "But a certain incident changed the way I felt about my red hair."

"A certain incident?" Naru asked, not sure of what she was talking about.

"I'm home!" called Kushina as she walked into her home. It was late in the day and the sun had already hidden itself behind the mountains in the distance. Her house was a large one, or at least, larger then most. It was on a stone hill that made it able to look out all around it in the distance. There were some cherry blossom trees were spread out in the giant yard that was around the house..

"I'm home!" Kushina called again, but no one answer. "Is…Is anyone home?" She called when she stopped by the kitchen. She looked inside and noticed that something was off. There was an ominous presence in the kitchen by the far window, and she hid herself behind the thin door as she stared at it, waiting for something to happen. Suddenly, three figures appeared out of no where. Kushina screamed as she tried to run away. They quickly went after her.

"Somebody!" She screamed as she ran down the hall, she could feel them coming closer and closer to her. "Help me!" but the men were too fast for her. They had caught her and knocked her to the ground just outside the hallway. She screamed again, but no one was around to hear her.

"I have a special kind of chakra." Kushina said. "Because of that, the Hidden Cloud kidnapped me."

Kushina walked quietly behind the two men as one behind her followed, holding the end of the rope that they had used to tie her hands behind her back. She was weak, tired and out numbered, so she found it best not to fight, even though they had already beaten her in.

Kushina tripped over something in the dark and fell, to tired to scream out. The men stopped and the one behind her tugged on the rope a bit, trying to get her to stand. When she didn't move, he pulled on the rope even harder to get her to her knees. She looked up at the two in front of her, a glaze over her eyes. A piece of her red hair fell in front of her eyes, and a idea came to her.

"At that time, in order to leave a trail behind as I was being taken away, I cut off pieces of my hair and dropped it without the enemy knowing." Kushina explained, "But since I was an outsider, I didn't hold out hope that anyone would come rescue me.

"We had come to the edge of the border, and I thought it was all over…"

There was a noise, behind Kushina and within a second, the man was gone. No one seemed to notice the absence of a team member as they continued on. Suddenly, there was another noise and the two cloud ninja in front of her stopped to turn around. On the ground, they found there comrade lying there, knocked on from something. Kushina didn't notice and kept on walking as if in a trace.

The two ninja jumped up into the trees and hid safety, waiting for the person to come out and show himself, but no one did. Instead, they heard another noise and the cloud ninja watched as his other comrade fell from a tree just a few feet away. He looked around desperately trying to find out what the source was, but he could not. He reached into his holster and pulled out a kunai, ready to attack anything or anyone. Then out of the corner of his eye, he saw something yellow flash by and when he looked, it was too late. He was on the ground, unconscious

Kushina kept walking forward, not noticing that the ninja that were escorting her were gone or that she was now free. She just kept walking straight until something stopped her.

"Are you hurt?" said a voice. Kushina looked up to find someone standing ahead of her. She could not see who it was. All she could make out of that the figure was standing a ways off, waiting for her answer in the shadow of the trees.

The clouds above them in the sky move, releasing the moon from its hiding place. It shinned light all around them in seconds, revealing her savor. She looked closer and found that the person standing there was Minato. "I came to save you."

It was then that she finally realized that she was safe. She was so happy, but could not express it do to the fact that was now collapsing to the ground from exhaustion, but before she hit the ground, two arms reached out in front of her and stopped her from falling.

"You'll be all right now." He whispered to her before reaching under her and lifting her up bridal style.

"Hey, wait a minute!" She said as she realized what he was doing, but before she could saying anything else, he had jumped high in the air and was now soaring through it with her in his arms.

Kushina stared up at him, the moon lighting his face that looked so peaceful and concern, that she thought this was all a dream. She then looked down and noticed that in his one hand was some of her hair.

"That's…" she started, but could not finish.

"Your hair is beautiful. So I noticed it right away." He said to her, keeping his eyes forward.

"But you've always ignored me." She said as she looked away, embarrassed by what he had said.

"Because I know that you're strong, in body and in spirit." He whispered. She looked up at him from the corner of her eye, not believing what he was saying. He then landed on a tree and looked down at her, concentrating on only her. "But this is a fight between two villages." He said. "It's different from your other fights so…"

"So?" She asked as she looked up at him, wanting to know his answer more than anything. Some wind blew by and he smiled at her.

"I didn't want to lose you."

"Even if I'm an outsider?"

"You live in the Hidden Leaf Village, so you're one of us." He said, not once taking his eyes off of her or letting his smile fade.

"Minato was a great ninja in my eyes." Kushina said to Naruto. "He was the man of my dreams. He changed me. This red hair that I used to hate brought me the mean of my destiny and it became the 'red thread of fate'. After that, I learned to love my hair. I fell in love with Minato."

Naruto smiled at her, happy to be hearing this.

"Only men who compliment my hair get to hear these precious words from me." She said happily. "Naruto, will you accept them?"

"Uh-huh!" Naruto said as he nodded his head. He looked at his mother who smiled at him.

"I love you." She said. Naruto was shocked for a moment, but got over it, happy to hear someone say that to him for the first time in his life. Kushina reached out and poked him, grabbing his attention once more. "When you put the Yellow Flash of the Leaf and the Red-Hot Habanero together…" She laughed as Naruto stood up and grabbed his jacket saying. "You get the Leaf's Orange Hokage!"

"That's cool, ya know!" She said. Naruto began to laugh. "Hokage." She whispered. "Your dream is the continuation of Minato's and my dream."

"Yeah!" Naruto said, promising her. "I won't let your dreams down!"


Hey everyone...again! I get off work at like 7 a.m. so I get home and write this. Why? Cause I have nothing better to do. I can always sleep later. I tried to make this long, but it is short. I would have continued it, but then it would have been too long since the next part is a whole new story a couple of years later and I want to keep it...something. I don't know the right word to describe it. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!

I don't not, under any circumstance, own Naruto. All rights go to the Author; Masashi Kishimoto