To those that brought it up, I went back and fixed Kushina's eye color.
Ch. 26 Kushina
"Kit, say hello to your mother." Kyuubi said.
At hearing those words, Naruto froze up like any normal orphan would. It wasn't out of belief or disbelief or anything similar, but out of sheer surprise.
"My... mother?" Naruto said out loud without realizing it, making everyone, including the redheaded woman, give him their full attention.
"Your mother? Naru-kun what do you mean by that?" Hinata asked before anyone else could.
"Kyuubi says... she's my mother." He added, still in shock.
"How would he know?" Anko asked.
"Kit, don't have a meltdown here, but I can explain this for you." Kyuubi said to Naruto. "Your mother was actually my host before you."
'So that's how you know her?' Naruto asked.
"Yes. But unlike you, she and I never had the chance to make the bloodline deal so I was trapped in her in a bad way. I think the seal on her was different so I couldn't communicate with her like I do you. When you were born, the seal was at it's weakest so I took the chance to break free so I wouldn't die with her later on. I guess fate wasn't on our side because that piece of shit Madara Uchiha showed up and took control of my mind. I can't remember what happened after that, but I always figured your mother was dead."
'Why didn't you tell me this before?' Naruto asked.
"When was I supposed to tell you? The timing never felt right. And if I did have the right chance, what was I supposed to say? 'Hey Kit, I knew your mother but she's dead now as far as I know?' Besides, I figured if those three guardians of yours wanted you to know about that night by now, they would have told you and then I would have too. But now it's unavoidable. Go ahead and tell the others what I told you. And if you don't believe me, ask her if her name is Kushina." Naruto knew the name for the same reason he knew the name Minato.
Naruto sighed and faced his group. "Kyuubi tells me that my mother was his last host but he thought she died the day I was born." He then faced the woman who was his presumed mother, who had been looking solely at him this entire time. "Is your name Kushina?" Her eyes widened more and she tried to say 'yes' but her voicebox didn't cooperate so she just nodded. "Kushina Uzumaki?"
She tried again, and got a whisper out this time. "That... was my... maiden name... My current name is... Kushina... Namikaze."
That convinced Naruto better than anything else. No one else besides the sannin, Anko, and Hinata knew his father was Minato Namikaze. Only his real mother would know this too. "What was your child's name?" He asked.
"I had a... son. His name's... Naruto." Kushina said as she tried to sit up, her atrophized muscles protesting.
Forgetting any previous suspicion, Naruto helped her stay up. "I can't believe this. How is this possible?"
"Naruto-kun, are you sure this really is your mother?" Isaribi asked.
Kushina tried to look at Naruto again. "Is your name... Naruto?" Her voice had gotten a little louder now.
He nodded. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki, son of Minato Namikaze and student to Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Orochimaru." He used those names in hopes she would recognize them.
It worked, for Kushina started crying. "My son? But how? How long was I out?"
"My guess is about thirteen years if you haven't seen Naruto here since he was born." Kurenai answered.
Kushina kept crying. "Thirteen... years?" He tried to hold Naruto. "My son... I'm so sorry."
"Wait, if she's been in a coma for thirteen years straight, why'd she wake up now?" Fuu asked.
"I can answer that one for them kit." Kyuubi told Naruto. "You see, in my time here I've noticed traces of other chakras in the seal keeping me in here. One I immediately recognized as your mothers, and I think the other one belongs to your father too. I think they were put in here as a sort of failsafe if the seal started weakening and you and I were on bad terms. When you and I helped increase her chakra levels, I pushed the bit of your mother's chakra in here went back into her body as well. And I think that combined with my own chakra, which her system is used to dealing with, helped jumpstart her back to consciousness."
'Wow that's great.' Naruto happily thought, then proceeded to tell everyone what the fox had told him almost word for word.
"So you really are my son?" Kushina asked after hearing he had the kyuubi in him. Her voice sounded at normal strength now. She then pulled him into a hug, which would have been bonecrushing if she were at full strength, which not even a former jinchuuriki could be right away after a thirteen year coma. "I'm so glad I can see you grown up now. You must tell me everything that's happened. Who raised you? How did you do in the academy? Do you have a girlfriend yet?"
Naruto patted her back. "Settle down Mom. You don't want a stroke do you?"
"Sorry, but I thought I lost you. I have so much catching up to do and I want to do it all right away."
"Well I can tell you he does have a girlfriend if that helps." Hinata said, leaning against Naruto for emphasis and trying to ignore the small glares she got from the other girls.
Kushina smiled, then stopped. "Wait, Naruto, why are you and all these girls wearing those hitai-ates. That's not the Konoha symbol."
Naruto gulped then, dreading this. "Well Mom, umm... it's kind of a long story."
"I can barely stand up. I've got time to listen." Kushina told him.
"Uh Kushina-san, perhaps it would be better if I told you." Anko interjected.
"Why? Who are you?"
"I'm Anko Mitarashi, your son's sensei and older sister."
Kushina looked surprised. "So your family took care of my son?"
Anko paused. "Well technically you're right, but not in the way you're thinking of."
"What do you mean?" Kushina asked.
"Otouto, do you want me to handle this for you?" Anko asked Naruto rather than answer the question.
"Maybe it would be best if you helped me tell her." He told Anko.
Anko nodded. "Okay, let's get her into a tent. Too many people around will make us all uncomfortable for this. Kurenai-chan, can you keep everyone busy for the time being?"
Kurenai nodded. "Okay, Haku, Fuu, Sasame, patrol the area for any threats. You know what counts as threats. Isaribi, Hinata, check on Momochi-san in the other tent." Zabuza had been asleep then whole time Kushina was here.
The kunoichi nodded, and left to do their tasks, but not before Hinata managed to give Naruto a comforting kiss. Kushina smiled, and was carried into a tent by Naruto and Anko to hear of Naruto's past.
Kakashi was keeping an eye on his two male students Sasuke and Kiba with his dog Akamaru, who were working on treewalking that night and reading his coveted smut at the same time. His female student Sakura was at the clients home doing domestic stuff to help out Tsunami, or so Kakashi assumed. While his two students were about to reach the top, a huge wave of KI all of a sudden washed over the area, making them stumble, fall to the ground, and piss themselves. Kakashi even dropped his porn book and almost wet himself as he lost his balance on his crutches and fell down like his students.
'Holy crap. I haven't felt KI like that in thirteen years.'
"What the hell was that?" Kiba asked with Akamaru whimpering and trying to hide in his jacket.
"I don't know." The cycloptic jounin answered. 'It reminds me of the Kyuubi, except angrier.'
At the same time, one of Naruto's clones, which had been taking to Inari about their pasts together and trying to show the boy others have rough times too, felt the KI as well and instinctively disspelled to avoid being caught by the perceived threat. Inari wondered what was going on, but also kept the clone's words in mind and spent the rest of the night thinking it over.
Back in Konoha, Danzou was not happy. "Care to repeat that?" He said to the monitor he was observing in his residence.
On the screen was one of his ROOT ninja, currently away on assignment. "I'm sorry Danzou-sama, but our station in Wave has been destroyed and the prisoner has yet to be found. It's probable they drowned, as I've heard no word from Ukishi or Sarigi."
Danzou stomped his cane into the floor. "Dammit. All these years of trying to revive our rightful weapon wasted. Do you have any idea who's responsible for this?"
"Unfortunately no Danzou-sama. The distress beacon informed us of the damage being done in the base but we have yet to find any evidence of the culprit. With Ukishi and Sarigi who were watching the base and prisoner at the time unaccounted for, I'm fairly certain they're dead and at the hand of a competent ninja used to watery terrain."
"So Kiri is the most likely culprit?" Danzou asked. His agent nodded. "Is it possible that whoever did this took off with the prisoner?"
"I suppose it is sir, but why would they do that? Surely you're the only one who knows that she's even still alive or what exactly she is." The ROOT nin replied.
"Perhaps there has been a leak. After all, how did this threat even know to look for a ninja base underwater in the first place?"
The agent nodded. "I see your point Danzou-sama. My partner and I will see if we can locate the prisoner and bring her back to you."
"But not directly to Konoha. We don't want that soft idiot Sarutobi to see her. Report back to me upon further discovery. Dismissed." Danzou ordered before turning off the monitor.
The semi-crippled war hawk then stood up and sighed. 'Dammit all. It was nothing less than a stroke of luck that I found that bitch unconscious instead of dead and got her body hidden before anyone else could confirm it. For years I've been trying to get that jinchuuriki to revive so I could seal her and get her under my control like that demon brat should have been a decade ago. Sarutobi if I didn't know better I'd swear you were interfering yet again.'
Before he walked away he said only one thing out loud. "Nidaime, why did you choose Sarutobi over me?"
Before Naruto and Anko told Kushina everything there was she tried to storm out of the tent and find someone to kill in a horrible horrible way. The only things that stopped her were her son's pleas to wait and the fact her body had yet to recover. Thanks to the chakra Kyuubi had given her, her body was quickly returning to normal, but she would need to work out a bit before she was ready to do much with it again. By the time the two were done, Kushina still wanted to kill some people from Konoha.
After they finished, Kushina held Naruto maternally and began to tell him how her own life. How she got to Konoha and why the Kyuubi was put in her. Her own dream of being the first female hokage, and her growing connection to Minato. And especially what happened the day he was born. Naruto interrupted her only once to ask one question. "Wait, you said the Kyuubi's claw pierced you, so how did you survive?"
Kushina thought it over. "To be honest, I'm not entirely sure. Your father took a good amount of the hit too so I wasn't as hurt, but I don't think that's the real reason."
Kyuubi added in his own opinion. "Kit, I think when I left her, some of my chakra must have remained in her system. How else would she be so mobile after giving birth and having half of her chakra suddenly gone in an instant? Maybe after I pierced her, the remaining bit healed her wound and afterwards the loss of so much chakra sort of shocked her system into a coma until it could stabilize."
Naruto repeated this theory out loud. Anko nodded. "Yes, I can see that happening."
Kushina tightened her hold on her son. "Naruto, Kyuubi, thank you. I swear I'll never leave you again."
"So you're okay with going to Oto when this mission's done?" He asked to confirm his suspicions.
"Where else would I go?" Kushina asked. "Uzu's gone and if I go to Konoha I'm not leaving until everyone who deserves to die does."
Anko pulled out some paper and started writing something down. "In that case I better inform Otokage-sama of your arrival." Once she finished writing about Kushina's presence and a gist of her history, she summoned Kogyoku. "Please take this to Jii-san, and if you can, bring any messages from him to us."
"Will do, Anko-san." The purple snake said before taking the message in her mouth and disappearing.
"I bet his return message will be quite colorful." Anko muttered non-irritably.
Back in Oto, Orochimaru got the message just before he was about to get a shower. He read it, and called for the Alto's. "Bring me Tsunade and Jiraiya right now!"
They came to him in less than a minute, and he showed them the message from Anko. Tsunade was the first to respond. "What the fuck?"
"How is this possible?" Jiraiya added.
"I don't know, but it looks like Konoha has more to answer for than we thought." Orochimaru said hostilely.
"How much worse do you think it can get?" Jiraiya asked.
"I'm afraid to find out, and yet I'm afraid we will find out." Tsunade answered wearily.