A/N: I present my first ever attempt at writing. It is not canon compliant and will be AU since I will be manipulating the timeline as i wish. English is not my first language. Constructive criticism is welcomed but don't be rude. I am writing for fun and hope you enjoy as well.

I don't own Naruto and never will.

"bijuu speking"

characters thinking/emphasis on a word/a simple narration

"characters speaking"

Pay attention to the chapter names as they sometimes signify a deeper meaning...

Chapter 6: The red thread of love

Training Ground 44, the forest of Death, a perfect place where no one will be disturbing her. She sat cross-legged; in a meditative position to clear her mind (Though it can never be clear as it will forever be plagued with nightmares of bloody war and death) and make sense of why she felt unsettled near Shisui and the mystery surrounding her eye.

She unmasks her Chakra little by little and enters sage mode for the first time since she arrived in the past. She can feel trees near her growing does that mean I still have Kurama's chakra? and immediately directs her senses inwards. She gasps when she senses nine different chakra signature mixed with her own. That is why the Kurama's red chakra thread got absorbed in me. "-we have all given you our Chakra and powers, but remember you will have to train very hard to master them-" She remembers it all now.

"Oh man" she flops on her back in the mindscape. "With nine times the chakra reserves that I previously had, my chakra control will be shot, I don't want to practice climbing trees again" she whines to no one in particular. Her voice echoes giving her goosebumps, she remembers why she was a loudmouth in the first place. To stave off the silence always haunting her, expecting that maybe one day someone would hear her voice and reach out to helphelphelp-

5 stages of grief are a sham she thinks. She remembers Ino saying that acceptance is the last stage and then you move on, but she doesn't quite believe in her right now. Certainly she can say, she has accepted their deaths (she is only fooling herself) but that doesn't mean that she is not angry, (with the time travel and all) and that's when she felt it, a huge mass of hatred making its way towards the Hokage tower.

She jumped up from her position, still in sage mode, concentrating and sensing she does not recognize Minato's chakra because edo tensei had altered it, nor does she recognizes Kakashi's chakra because having the sharingan had altered it slightly as well, she does not even realize that her parents are alive in this time period because, her parents were always dead to her (before meeting the chakra imprints), she did not even harbor a single thought of her parents being alive in her heart. And finds that the mass of hatred is suppressed by chakra so warm that she nearly stumbles at the comfort it provided. "Wait, suppressed?" a jinjuriki in the leaf village before we were born, her mind whispers, can only be our beautiful red-haired mom, her heart states And she disappears in a yellow flash.

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Kushina has been feeling that something is wrong with the furball in her gut. Just this morning it roared saying something along the lines of "impossible!" and "it's my Chakra dammit" so she closed her seal a bit more tightly. However as she was coming out of the Hokage tower after debriefing Hokage-sama about her mission, she sensed something, and her stomach lurched. Or more like the Kyubi lashed out The Kyubi's chakra was leaking from her body traveling in a particular direction through a barely visible chakra thread. She was only able to feel it because she was so in tune with the beast's chakra otherwise only skilled sensors will be able to tell what was happening.

So she ran in the same direction despite the pain that was starting to grow in her abdomen. She skidded to a halt in front of an alley near the tower and choked on her breath as the pain suddenly increased tenfold, falling on her knees. She looked around to see what or who was responsible for the cause. Even though her eyes were squinted due to the pain, she caught the sight of dark blue eyes before they disappeared into the darkness. Her breath stuttered as those eyes looked at her with so much fear as if she was the Shinigami himself. She was not a threat to a fellow leaf citizen for sage's sake But no, that was not the reason of her stuttering, it was because, before disappearing into the darkness those eyes showed infinite longing when they were casted them on her stomach, as if they knew there was something hidden inside it and wanted to keep it for themselves to love and cherish.

She was wrong about the fear in those eyes. They were not scared "of her" but "for her". And the longing was for both the the nine-tailed beast and Kushina which she will not realize until very late in the future.

The pain went away so suddenly (like in a flash) that she thought it was just an illusion. But no, she realized that the Chakra thread was still there but it had become invisible and she was not able to sense its direction anymore.

She stood up and decided to go talk to Minato and check on her seal with him to see what was wrong and maybe ask the Kyubi what his problem was and yell at him to stop shouting and raging in her mind.

TBC

A/N: Well how do you think Minato will react? I will be replying to your comments in the here only.

I will be updating this fic frequently, so keep up!

Signing out

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