Sakura Haruno was crying her heart out in front of her burnt down home. It had been the worst few months in her entire life. First she gets put on a team with her childhood crush Sasuke. Whenever she builds up the confidence to talk to him. He instantly shuts her down and calls her annoying. It got so bad that her team had gotten a mission to wave country. Sasuke constantly told her she was worthless, would never amount to nothing and that she would be forever annoying. Kakashi her jounin sensei did not even stick up for her.

He just looked like couldn't care to bother with her. All he would do is send to Sasuke to be nice while telling Sakura she should work on herself so she wouldn't be bothering everybody. Then Sai, her other teammate rarely talks. When he does, he just calls her the stupid nickname he gave her ugly. Sai also sometimes join Sasuke when he belittles her.

Sakura hated being treated this way. Whenever she tried to stand up for herself. Kakashi blatantly ignores her. Sasuke threatens to burn her to ashes with his jutsu. Sai just agrees with whatever Sasuke says.

The insults and treatment from her team started from day 1. But after wave, Sakura just couldn't take it anymore. Add to the fact that her parents have been distant with her lately. Which was eating her up. So she finally gets the courage to ask them about it on her way home. She soon finds out that she won't be able to get that chance. As he house was burning down the pinkette got home.

Sakura couldn't believe that no one was bothering to come help put the fire out. She didn't know where the ninjas patrolling the village were. Sakura just sat that and watched the fire burn down her home. Once it died down, she instantly ran into what was left of her home. Sakura was able to discover her parents in their room. Only to see that they were dead. Their burns were so bad that her parents were barely recognizable.

She sat there for 10mins just staring at her deceased parents. Sakura's mind was going through everything that had happened to her recently. All of her negative pent up emotions were finally breaking through. Before she broke down, her body simply walked back outside. Sat in front of her door. The pinkette cried her heart out.

She was heartbroken, depressed, angry and tired. Sakura couldn't help but to just sob loudly. Not caring who heard her. This would go on for 10mins before she felt someone touch her shoulder.

Sakura looked up with tears in her eyes. Imagine her surprise when she sees Kushina Uzumaki next to her. The wife of the deceased fourth hokage. She was supposed to be a mother but her son died the same day as Minato.

Kushina was looking at Sakura with worry in her eyes but she had a smile on her face showing.

"Hey there dear, care to tell me what's wrong?" Kushina asked softly.

Sakura tried to answer her. However more tears just came flooding as her voice got choked up. She couldn't get a word out to explain what was going on.

Kushina then asked. "How about I take you to my home? It's better than staying out here crying by yourself. Maybe once you calm down you can explain what's happened."

The pinkette could do nothing but nod slowly. Kushina smiled at her then took her hand. Kushina shunshined them to her home.

It was an instant before they appeared in Kushina's house. Sakura was trying to stop crying. She really wanted to. Unfortunately she couldn't because she was just so sad.

Kushina guided her over to a couch in the living room. The red head sat down while gently trying to get Sakura to sit. Sakura obeyed seeing as she was in front of a legendary kunoichi. It was odd just seeing the one person you look up to and also have a small crush on appears out of nowhere to help you.

"Mind telling me your name sweetie?" Kushina asked her in a comforting tone.

Sakura finally got herself to stop crying as much so she could talk. Some tears still dripped from her eyes. She took a deep breath before saying. "Sakura, Sakura Haruno." In a upset tone.

Kushina smiled. "Good, it's nice to meet you Sakura-chan. I'm Kushina Uzumaki, you may or may not have heard of me." She voiced a bit sheepishly.

The pinkette couldn't help but giggle a bit. "Of course I know you Kushina-sama. You're a living legend to all us upcoming kunoichi. Well I don't know about all since some girls aspire to be like Tsunade-sama. But you are truly what I envisioned as a kunoichi growing up. But I kinda became the exact opposite.." Sakura looked away embarrassingly.

The red head looked curious to know more. However right now that was not she brought Sakura here for. "That's flattering to hear Sakura-chan. Please just call me Kushina or Kushina-chan. I'm really not for all the honorifics shit." Kushina waved off. "Can you tell me what were you crying about?"

Whatever slight change in Sakura mood that had been there disappeared. She looked ready to sob her heart out again. Kushina winced slightly seeing she might've pushed it too early.

"You don't have to if you don't want to! Sorry I just wanted to help! Didn't mean to make you cry again." Kushina freaked out.

"N-No it's fine, I'll tel you since it's probably best talking it out rather than keeping all of my problems inside." Sakura reassured her in a shaky tone. Then she took another deep breath to get herself to calm down somewhat.

"My life is a complete hell right now. My team treats me like I don't matter. I'm a disgrace to kunoichi's all around. I lost my best friend over some guy who isn't what I thought he was. My parents just died in a burning house 10mins or so before you found me. Even before they died they were growing distant towards me." Sakura said to Kushina.

Kushina's eyes widened. "Oh kami, I'm so sorry to hear that Sakura." She pulled the pinkette into a warm embrace. Sakura just cried in Kushina's chest while Kushina said comforting words to her.

Sakura eventually cried herself to sleep though she ended up hugging Kushina back at some point during her crying. The red head had picked her up gently to not wake her up. Then took Sakura to one of her guest rooms. Kushina tucked Sakura in and left the room.

She went into the kitchen to get a snack. That's when Kurama, the nine tailed fox appeared in a miniature form.

"That kid sure has some shitty luck." Kurama said.

Almost 14 years ago a lot of shit happened. Kushina was supposed to give birth to her son named Naruto. The seal of a female jinchuuriki weakens greatly though child birth. Also Kurama and Kushina were not real friendly towards on another at that time. Kurama didn't appeared the way he was contained. He could hardly moved the way by how tight the chains were that were holding him. Kushina never wanted to really associate with Kurama at all. All she did was take what chakra she could from him by force. Once she learned how to draw his chakra. But then some guy proclaiming with a sharingan appeared. Held Naruto hostage, kidnapped Kushina, released Kurama from the seal to ensnare him in a genjutsu to destroy konoha and fought against Minato. Eventually Minato was able to force him to retreat.

Then the blond hokage had the greatest idea to use to shiki fujin to seal Kurama back into Kushina. The red head wanted to beat Minato's head in for using this forbidden jutsu to reseal Kurama back inside her. However she didn't get the chance when Minato informed her that Naruto suddenly stopped breathing once Minato was able to save him from that explosion. When Minato checked his pulse. He found out that Naruto had no pulse. So he quickly hiraishined him to the hospital to see if they could save him.

Kushina world felt like it had shattered after learning that. Using the remainder of his time. Minato comforted him wife, he told her he wanted her to continue to live her life even without him or Naruto being there with her. He didn't want her to wallow their grief of their deaths for the rest of her life. The last thing Kushina saw was Minato kissing her saying goodbye before dying. Soon afterward Kushina passed out due to strenuous strain of her chakra could. From having a bijuu extracted from you to having it real sealed not long afterwards can cause that.

Kushina didn't wake her until 5 days after the attack. Tsunade was the first one she saw when she woke up. Tsunade hugged her then cried saying how sorry she was that she couldn't save Naruto. From that point on Kushina was depressed for a whole year. She kept to mainly herself and stayed a retired shinobi. She was grieving over the loss of her son and husband. But she was still pissed at Minato for using the seal he used. He used the eight trigrams seal. Which means that her chakra would be merging with Kurama's. She didn't want that. However during that year, the two met face to face. Had a long heated argument. Then came to an agreement to be cordial with one another. As long as Kurama didn't have to be sealed like previously then it didn't matter to him.

During the years the two become important to one another at some point. Now Kurama was her familiar in battle when needed. But back to the point.

Kushina shrugged. "I don't know, can't be all that shitty if all that led her to me."

Kurama looked slightly intrigued at her response. He knew Kushina well enough to know that she was planning something.

"What are you up to Kushina?" He asked in amusement.

Kushina grinned at her familiar. "I want to help her. I want to hear more of her story. I didn't recognize her face. But I recognized her name when she told me. I saw her records when the newly fresh genin were announced. Sakura's physical skills are lacking greatly. But she has a very intelligent mind. Second by just a small margin to Shikaku's son Shikamaru. She called herself a disgrace to kunoichi's everywhere. That means she's either already tried or is willing to change. I want to know who her jounin instructor is. They have to know about the girl's intelligence. She could turn out to be something incredible if she gets the right person to guide her along the way. And if her chakra control is at the percentile where I believe it could be at. She could turn out to be a very promising shinobi."

Kurama was right. He knew she had something planned. "I see, well hopefully she catches a break from her misfortune." He voiced.

Kushina sighed. "I do feel terrible about her parents. If my memory serves me correct. She may be that lady Mebuki Haruno's daughter. Since she's the only other Haruno I've seen in the village. I know she was married too. Sakura being their daughter would be too far off I just hope she can learn to move on in life."

Kurama agreed although he had another thing on his mind. "Did you ever see a picture of her husband?"

The red head looked confused at his question. But she thought about an answer. "Uhh actually I think so. I only met Mebuki three times. To be honest she was kinda a bitch but I've dealt with worst. But yeah I do remember seeing a picture of him and her, why?" She asked.

"Did either one of them have pink hair" Kurama asked.

"No...?" Kushina answered still not catching on.

"How the hell did she get pink hair?! Seriously is that natural?" Kurama yelled but not loud enough to wake up Sakura.

Kushina face palmed herself. "Baka-fox does that really matters? Besides I'm willing to bet that it is since her name is Sakura. Cherry blossoms are pink so it would only make sense if she was naturally born with that color." Then the red head paused for a moment when a realization hit her. "Oh my god that so cute! Yeah it's official I'm definitely not letting her go." Kushina gleefully said.

Kurama snorted. "Of course your simple minded ass would point that out." He mused.

3 kunai were quickly thrown at the fox. Kurama barely dodged them in time. He looked to see that sweet yet very deceiving smile that promised pain. This was one of the only times Kurama felt fear. When Kushina makes that face, it usually doesn't turn out to well to the receiving end of the smile. Quickly he disappeared back into the seal.

Kushina face returned to a normal small grin. "Baka-furball." She said to herself.

Afterwards, Kushina went to take a shower then red a book about seals until she fell asleep for the night.