Chapter 3

"Hi" - Character Speaking

'Hi' - Character Thinking

Disclaimer - See the first chapter.

It's been a few days since Aisha and her parents arrived in Konoha and they stayed with Naruto in the forest of Death after Hiruzen and Team Seven left, after forcing team seven to promise that they would come back once they are summoned, Naruto and the Ctral-Ctral trio stayed in the Forest of Death with the Tigers and as the days passed, Naruto introduced the Ctral-Ctrals to his Tiger friends, the Ctral-Ctrals found this sweet but they could still see that Naruto was still depressed about what happened with his team until Aisha stood up and said, "I can't take it anymore! Naruto-Kun you listen to me, As far as I'm concerned, you are more than worthy to be one of us Ctral-Ctral just by showing that you don't give in and unleash the damn Nine-tails inside you and you take all of those pathetic villager's insults in strive, but you cannot let that pink haired, flat-as-a-board, Uchiha-obsessed moron with the forehead the size of the WHOLE Suna desert and then some, screaming banshee/howler monkey hybrid bring you down like this! You're better than her in every way and if she can't see what wonderful and great guy you are, then it's her loss. And to be honest Naruto-Kun, you can do SO much better than her. Hell, if Lady Kushina were here, she'd agree with me!"

"Who?" Naruto asked dully, barely any spark of life in his eyes.

Aisha's eyes widened as well as her parent's. He was asking...?! Then Aisha remembered that her late, to-be, in-laws and their ties to Naruto were kept as a secret. Aisha then grinned like the cat that ate a whole pet shop that was full of canaries. Oh...if this didn't get Naruto's attention off of his depression, nothing would!

"Oh...just your mother, Naruto-kun." The Ctral-Ctral girl said casually.

"MY WHAT?!" Naruto shouted, bolting up to his feet and grabbed Aisha by her shoulders. His body shaking all over, his face pale, and eyes huge as he stared at the Ctral-Ctrals in utter shock. "...wh-wh-wh-what d-d-d-did you just...?! You guys...you knew my...?!" he looked ready to faint.

Raion and Sarabi both looked at their daughter then at eachother. They both understood instantly what their daughter was doing and why, but felt that this was kinda overkill with the intentional bad timing. For all her good intentions, Aisha had more or less basically blasted Naruto's emotions with a nuclear-powered defibrillator while he was at his lowest point. They both sighed. Getting him to cope and come to grips with this was going to be difficult.

"Sit down, relax and just breath, souchi." Sarabi said gently as she walked over and wrapped Naruto in a hug, holding him close and slowly began rocking him in her arms; just as she done the same for Aisha when she was younger and said, "If you relax, we'll tell you about her, ok? But you need to calm down."

Naruto understood and slowly nodded while staring into Sarabi's eyes as she then said, "Now, Kushina Uzumaki is indeed your mother and one of the most wonderful people you'd ever wish to meet, she also was a very powerful kunoichi as she was called "The Red Hotblooded Habanero" she was also a friend to the whole Ctral-Ctral clan, but most of all she was very excited to be your mother, why I still have her last letter telling me how happy she was to know she was pregnant with you."

Raion nodded and then said, "Indeed, she was also a good friend with Sarabi, also when they were young, both Sarabi and Kushina used to have "Friendly Rivalries" with eachother by sending their personal summon messengers to eachother with written letters and "Challenges" for one another..." Raion shivered at the memory of the "Challenges" both his wife and Kushina used to do with eachother.

Sarabi smiled at the mention of the "Challenges" that she and Kushina used to do together, then thought Naruto would like to hear some and said, "Ah... Those were SO much fun. Like Raion, remember the one time, where I challenged Kushina to steal one of Jiraya's newest Icha Icha book drafts and to use it as a tissue until it was covered from top to bottom in her snot and she had to take a picture of Jiraya's reaction to seeing it in snot?" Once Sarabi saw the picture, Sarabi laughed so hard at Jiraya's face she fell off her chair laughing in tears. She even remembered that Kushina sent one of her hyena summons to send a message from Jiraya saying that she is a terrible, terrible monster person, with tear stains all over the letter.

Then Sarabi said, "Oh! Raion, remember that challenge Kushina sent me? You know... the one with that tasty dish I made especially for you..." Raion paled after hearing Sarabi say that... he knew what she was talking about alright... Kushina challenged Sarabi to put a Carolina Reaper chili pepper into Raion's food for dinner to see if it'd make him shoot fire out of his mouth like a cartoon character and to get a photo of it to prove it as being possible. He still had nightmares of both Kushina and that dammed pepper to this day...

Hearing this, both Naruto and Aisha soon burst out laughing at their mothers' "challenges" to each other, and both Sarabi and Raion then smiled to see Naruto already showing he was getting better; but then after the young couple got their laughter under control, Raion spoke, "Yes, well Naruto...Kushina and Sarabi's challenges aside, Kushina also knew when there was a time for jokes and there was a time to be professional in her line of duty, like the time she and your father meet the both of us to invoke the C.U.B agreement pact."

Naruto looked like he was about to ask about his father, Raion interrupted Naruto by saying, "That is another subject for another day, I know it must be hard for you but don't worry Naruto, you will learn who your father is but you must be patient that's all."

Seeing Naruto regretfully nod, Raion then began to tell Naruto about the meeting for the C.U.B pact, he remembered that day all to well as he told Naruto, when he and Sarabi met both Minato and Kushina for the agreement for the C.U.B pact, Kushina did most of the talking for Minato and she also looked over the scroll describing the terms and agreements for the pact, making absolutely sure that the terms were fair and the agreements were reasonable for both clans, Raion had to admit that he was very impressed by Kushina as she carefully read the scroll from top to bottom three times just to make sure she didn't miss any small details.

After carefully reading the scroll enough, Kushina, Minato, Raion and Sarabi all agreed and sealed the deal on the Uzumaki and Ctral-Ctral C.U.B pact.

When Raion was finished telling Naruto this, He saw Naruto's eyes shine with renewed spirit and he then stood up from Sarabi's arms and said, "Thanks you guys, I feel much better now, now that I know who my mother was at least and how awesome she was and how that she loved me. I'm going to make both of my parents proud, by holding my clan's end of the pact, So let's call the others and give Hokage-jiji and Team Seven a duel they WON'T ever forget. Who's with me!?" as all of the tigers and cubs roared together as if to say, "WE ARE!"

Aisha, Raion, Sarabi were pleased to see that hearing everything that the Ctarl-Ctarl could tell him about his mother seemed to give Naruto his spirits back. and reignite his fighting spirit as Aisha looked ready to duel with Naruto as she just said, "You're on, Naruto-kun!"

AN: A short chapter I know, but don't worry this was to snap Naruto out of his depression and to get his fighting spirit back. Hope you guys enjoyed it, cause the next chapter is what you've all been waiting for... The Duel between both Naruto and Aisha!