The Forest Between Leaf and Mist Village
Kakashi, the back up squad and Inari quickly scurried through the forest back to the Leaf Village to tend the injures done to Kushina, Jin and Torrah.
" Up the branches!" Kakashi said jumping up tree branches first.
" Uhh, I'll just stay on the ground!" Inari continues to keep up with Torrah on his shoulders.
" Hurry, must hurry!" Kakashi thought then momentarily loses his balance on one of the tree branches.
Kushina falls from Kakashi's grasp still unconscious.
" No!" Kakashi jumps off from the tree branch and catches Kushina injuring himself more in the process when his shoulder separated by crashing against a tree.
" Argh!" Kakashi writhes in pain placing his free hand behind his right shoulder.
" Kakashi, are you all right!" Guy stops to check on him.
" Here, let me take her Kakashi-sensei you're in bad shape!" Ino said.
" No, she's my student she's my responsibility!" Kakashi refuses help.
" But sensei, you need treatment as well you can't overexert yourself in your condition!" Ino protested.
" My student, my responsibility!" Kakashi turns and continues swiftly back to the village on ground.
Leaf Training Fields
Naruto weaved hand signs while concertrating his chakra creating winds from his body.
" I'm close, I can feel it now!" Naruto thought.
" Amazing!" Hinata said from watching with Tsunade.
" It amazes me since the fourth shinobi war is over because of his power and Naruto still keeps up with his training it's like he's not satisfied." Tsunade said.
An Anbu black ops member appears before Tsunade and Hinata.
" Lady fifth, Lady Hinata we received an urgent message from Kakashi's squad!" The Anbu member said.
" Hm?" Naruto overheard then uses super speed to appear where Hinata, Tsunade and the Anbu member are.
" What is this about?" Naruto said.
" Lord Hokage, Kakashi and his squad were involved in an A-rank mission and have all been injured greatly, they are proceeding to the hospital for treatment!" The Anbu member relayed the message.
" No Kushina! Naruto!" Hinata buries her tearful face onto Naruto's chest.
Naruto began fighting his tears while Tsunade looks on with shock.
" My daughter, what about my daughter is she alive! What of Jin and Torrah!" Naruto demanded.
" I'm sorry lord Hokage, their injures were not mentioned I'm sorry." The Anbu member regrettably said.
" Hinata, listen we have to go to her she needs us!" Naruto said.
" Naruto, why did we send our only daughter far away from us, she could be gravely injured or worse!" Hinata cried.
Hinata's words caused pain within Naruto's being as he had no reply but looks of regret.
" Hinata, Naruto had no way of knowing that they would encounter a life and death situation, you know as well as he does that missions can change at any given moment it's part of being a ninja!" Tsunade defends Naruto.
Hinata looks down at the ground taking in Tsunade's words.
" Naruto... I'm sorry." Hinato apologizes.
" Let's...Let's just see if our daughter is all right." Naruto abandoned his training and sprints to the hospital with Tsunade and Hinata.
Konoha Leaf Hospital
Kakashi and the back up squad arrives at the hospital of the Leaf Village not a moment too soon.
" We need to begin treatment immediately for these three!" Ino said handing paperwork to a receptionist at the desk.
" Jin, my son!" Sakura runs through a few of nurses and snatches Jin away from Guy.
" Kakashi-sensei, what has happened to my son!" Sakura asked with tears in her eyes.
" Sakura, take it easy Kakashi-sensei did all that he could to make sure Jin is alive!" Ino said to defend Kakashi.
" Get out of my way!" Sakura again runs through nurses to take Jin to a room to begin the healing process.
" Sakura!" Ino called out.
" Let her go, Sakura has every right to worry of her son." Kakashi said then crashed to his knees with Kushina still in his arms.
" Kakashi!" Guy trying to help Kakashi up.
" Kakashi!" Shizune runs into the hospital to help Guy get Kakashi to his feet.
" Kakashi let me take her to begin her treatment." Ino takes Kushina from Kakashi's hands.
" Take care of my students." Kakashi said.
" You got it!" Ino turns and takes Kushina to her room.
" I'll take this young man to begin his treatment." A female nurse said to Inari.
" He's all yours." Inari hands Torrah over.
" Stay with us old buddy, we'll get you all fixed up." Guy assured Kakashi.
" Guy, wait out for Naruto I'll take him and treat him myself he's my husband." Shizune said.
" Take care of him, I can't have my old rival die on me yet." Guy said releasing his hold on Kakashi.
" According to your reports he'll be fine." Shizune said.
" What a relief, come on kid let's greet the Hokage." Guy said leaving to the front with Inari.
Naruto, Hinata and Tsunade arrive at the hospital a few minutes later.
" Sensei, how is my daughter, where is she!" Naruto panics.
" Easy, easy lord Hokage, your daughter is being treated by Ino and her nurses in the upper level at 12-C." Guy said.
" Thanks!" Naruto quickly runs upstairs.
Kushina now laid on a bed wears an air oxygen support mask to help regain her consciousness.
" That's odd." Ino said reading her report on Kushina.
" What's the situation?" Tsunade walks in the room.
" Lady Tsunade." Ino greets.
" We managed to stabilize her condition, she received quite a beating but she'll regain consciousness soon however that's not what puzzles me." Ino began her report.
" Go on." Tsunade said.
Naruto and Hinata came into the room slowly then sat on their knees beside Kushina's bed.
" Kushina." Hinata places her hand on Kushina's bandaged face.
" Who could have done this?" Naruto silently but fiercely thought.
" While running a test on her chakra network I found something rather unusual in her chakra lines but it suddenly disappeared." Ino said which caught the attention of Naruto.
" Could it be the nine tails chakra?" Tsunade said.
" No, her normal chakra is completely leveled with the nine tails chakra so we're completely aware that the nine tails chakra is known in her body but the thing is for a moment there was a third chakra present alongside." Ino said.
" Third chakra?" Tsunade repeats.
" I know it seems impossible but Kushina has a third chakra within her body perhaps since her last battle." Ino said.
" What do you mean a third chakra?" Naruto said.
" Let me explain." Ino pulls out a chart of Kushina's chakra network.
" As you already know Naruto, that being a former Jinjuriki you possessed two types of chakra inside your body, one side blue and the other side red, correct?" Ino said.
" Uh huh but what's this golden section doing there?" Naruto said pointing at the third section of her chakra network.
" Exactly my point and what's more is that it suddenly disappeared from her chakra network as if it was no longer needed." Ino said.
" So as of right now she has only two types of chakra?" Tsunade said.
" Where's Kakashi-sensei, I want to know exactly what happened to my daughter?" Naruto said.
" He's four rooms down the left." Ino said.
" I'll come with you too, Naruto." Tsunade said.
" Hinata, I'm going to ask Kakashi-sensei about what happened to Kushina, I'll be back soon." Naruto said.
" I'll be here, I won't leave her side." Hinata said.
Naruto leaves Kushina's room with Tsunade to go to Kakashi's room.
Kakashi sees Naruto enter his hospital room and couldn't help but feel disgraced.
" Naruto, I'm... I'm sorry for your daughter I wasn't able to keep her from getting hurt like I promised." Kakashi apologizes in a sorrowful tone.
" Don't beat yourself up sensei, I know you protected her with all of your power that explains why she's going to live." Naruto said.
" Though I won't lie to you, I was going to yell my lungs out on you but I know your injured and me shouting at you won't change what happened sensei." Naruto said.
" Again I'm sorry but if it makes you feel better, Sakura gave me a verbal beating." Kakashi said.
" Fair enough, but in any event I'm happy to know that everyone is going to live." Naruto said.
" Yes but it was too close we might not have made it if you hadn't send Guy and Ino." Kakashi said.
" He's telling the truth lord Hokage, he used his Mangekyo Sharingan twice, separated his shoulder and took tremendous amount of damage done to the bones of his body." Shizune showed Naruto her report.
" That must have been some opponent you took on sensei, is this the same person who put my daughter, Jin and Torrah in the hospital as well?" Naruto said.
" His name was Kentaro Kaguya and because of my carelessness my squad had to suffer." Kakashi said.
" Easy sensei now take it from the top." Naruto said.
" An unknown shinobi appeared in the Mist Village and starting annihilating the villagers with ease using the pinnacle of his clans kekkei genkai the Shikotsumyaku techinque." Kakashi said.
" Shikotsumyaku? That's when the user manipulates his or hers bones to attack in unique styles?" Tsunade said.
" Precisely, only that it's different than a standard Shikotsumyaku much different." Kakashi visualizing how Kentaro killed the villagers and how he first attacked Kushina, Jin and Torrah.
" We fought evenly for a while until I caught him in a trap against my kamui and it went downhill from there." Kakashi said as he imagined moments of his fight with Kentaro up to the moment he used his first kamui and how Kentaro used his bone shield to protect himself unexpectingly thus became Kakashi's weakness.
" There was no way I could have anticipated that guy creating a nearly impenetrable shield that made my kamui have no effect whatsoever and because of it the tide of the fight was turned." Kakashi said while imagining how he lost his stamina while trying to survive Kentaro's onslaught.
" He attacked me in I guess you can say bone to bone level so your daughter tried to help me but got pummeled by incredible combinations on his bone powered jutsus." Kakashi reliving his pain from bone bullets and Kushina getting the life beaten out of her.
" Jin was outraged and not only awakened his Sharingan but his Mangekyo Sharingan as well." Kakashi remembering the look in Jin's Mangekyo Sharingan and the powerful supernova flame ball that nearly destroyed Kentaro.
" But suddenly is when it all happened, when I thought Jin and Torrah were both killed when they were impaled by Kentaro's bone blade another amazing thing happened." Kakashi said.
" What?" Naruto said.
" Kushina displayed such an enormous amount of chakra from which the likes I've never seen in even you Naruto, she's the one who stopped Kentaro once her nine tailed cloak and a strange golden chakra that outlined her body in one enraged explosion of power." Kakashi said never forgetting the rage that Kushina had displayed and how her nine tailed rasengan destroyed Kentaro's shield and gravely injured Kentaro as well.
" Naruto, this strange golden chakra that Kakashi says outlined Kushina's body could be the third chakra that Ino was talking about." Tsunade said.
" You.. you witnessed this... how, how many of her tails appeared before you...?" Naruto asked with shock and disbelief.
" Just one tail." Kakashi said.
" And... she was... able to overpower someone stronger than you...?" Naruto said.
" Yes, Naruto now I know this may be hard for you to believe.." Kakashi spoke.
" MY DAUGHTER IS STRONG!" Naruto shouted as Tsunade, Shizune and Kakashi looked on Naruto's unexpected response.
" To think she had surpassed Kakashi-sensei in her first life and death match is just what I'd expect in any daughter of mine!" Naruto said with pride.
" Be as it may Naruto, she is still much too young and from what intel we have from Ino that chakra is gone now it's not something she can control just yet even the nine tails power alone would be too much for her." Tsunade said.
" Well why do you think she has me and you, grandma Tsunade? It should be no different from the time old octopops showed me how to control my nine tails chakra maybe we could do the same for her." Naruto said.
" Have you forgotten that the Chunin Exams is coming up, if you planned on signing her up like you said she won't have time to learn." Tsunade said.
" It's no big deal I got faith my Kushi will make it through the preliminaries no sweat and we could have a month to help her control it before the real bouts at the exams." Naruto said.
" Impressive as she may have been, don't forget their going to be a whole a lot more competition this time around than from the time you participated, Naruto." Kakashi said.
" That's right, you got competition from the Sand, Rain, Cloud and Stone Villages this time since we're at peace now." Shizune mentioned.
" I've got faith in my daughter!" Naruto smiled and thought of his daughter as she lays on her hospital bed.