Chapter 1: An Unexpected Adventure
Kushina Uzumaki is thankful that her and her son's life is easy; it was a challenge at first in raising Naruto after the death of her husband but with the help of her friends and the fact that Minato left her a huge fortune they came out fine. But she kept a few big secrets that only a few people in Konoha know not even her son: first is her marriage to Minato was kept secret from the rest of the people and only a dozen people knew of this fact, second is the fact that she came from a prominent clan that no longer exist, and last which is the biggest and closely guarded one is that Minato sealed the Nine-Tailed Fox into their only son thus making him the new Jinchuriki; all of this was done so she and her son can have a normal and healthy life, not worrying too much of assassins or shinobi attempting to kill or abduct Naruto. Of course Hiruzen was planning on telling the whole village naively believing they would see him as a hero for keeping the mighty beast at bay, thankfully Kushina nip it in the bud with a thinly veiled threat of castration, Hiruzen's idea was squashed before it began.
And thanks to her efforts Naruto is able to grow up happy and safe, making many friends throughout his childhood, one of his first is Hinata Hyuga the daughter of her dear friend Hiromi, the two became very close when Naruto came to Hinata's defense when she's being bullied by three boys; then came Shikamaru and Choji and Ino, even children who came from normal family became good friends such as Rock Lee, Tenten and Sakura; what's even amazing is the fact he made friends Gaara, Temari and Kankuro during the time the Kazekage visited the village for an important meeting with Hiruzen, marveling at his ability to defend himself without lifting a finger, this may looks like a normal friendship to the regular citizens but to the higher ups like the Hokage and the Clan Heads this can further strengthen the alliance between the villages of Konoha and Suna.
Though not everything is perfect, a tragedy happened, Itachi Uchiha for whatever reason had slaughtered his own kinsmen, killing half the clan mostly the men and women who are shinobi the rest are spared, no one understand why he did it why he committed such a heinous crime. Kushina's questions are answered when Mikoto who was thankfully spared told her everything, apparently there was a conspiracy Fugaku was planning to launch a coup d'état against the Leaf Village, while Hiruzen was planning to talk to him in hopes of reaching a compromise Danzo just went for the violent and bloody solution, he'd given an order to Itachi to kill all who take part in the coup, sadly Itachi accepts and rest is history, she begs Kushina to keep everything she heard a secret so to preserve the honor of the Uchihas. Kushina's dislike for the old war hawk grew further as the order basically left many Uchiha children without their mother or father. Sasuke was deeply affected by this event as it was his own brother who did the deed, luckily Mikoto is there to love and care for him, to put him in the right path and not of blind vengeance.
Then there's the attempted kidnapping of Hinata though many called it the Hyuga Affair, Kumo decided to make peace and hopefully build an alliance with Konoha had sent an envoy who will sign the peace treaty, but it was a sham the Kumo shinobi used this as an opportunity to enter the Hyuga compound and entered Hinata's room, thankfully Hiromi and Hinata was at the Uzumaki residence at the time, the intruder tried to find another victim but by this time he was discovered and was apprehended, since no death had occurred Hiruzen had managed to peacefully settle this, with the Kumo shinobi in question now banned from ever entering the Land of Fire and the Hyuga members who caught the intruder aren't punished.
Along with being a single mother she also keep on training herself and go on some mission as a shinobi though she do this in very few occasions, this is so she keep her body, skills and abilities in top shape, ready to defend herself and her son from anyone who wishes them harm, she would also train Naruto in the ways of shinobi to prepare him to the many challenges ahead, learning the Shadow Clone which became his trademark and most used jutsu, with such a large reserve of Chakra thanks to being a Jinchuriki he is able to use it effectively in tandem with other jutsus, able to use combos and unique combination, tricks he used during the mission on the land of Wave battling Zabuza's companion.
Speeking of mission they're now in a restaurant with close friends celebrating the success of Team Seven, Naruto telling how they fought Zabuza and Haku while Kakashi recounts the whole experience, from Tazuna lying how dangerous the situation is to the villagers finally standing up to the tyranny of Gato, It was a hard battle but they manage to come out at top, even telling how Zabuza change sides when the greedy businessman foolishly decided to cut him off.
It was then Hinata pulls out a three books and hands it to Kushina. "Miss Kushina, mother bought these as a gift for Naruto, story books that mother believed that Naruto would like." The Hyuga Heiress is still a bit shy around Naruto but she's learning to overcome this thanks to her Hiromi.
"Oh, thank you, Hinata, he'll appreciate this." She take a look at the books, the first is titled "The Wandering Shinobi" a story about a rogue shinobi trek through the strange and foreign lands, the second one is "Rise of Gozen Hime" which featured a princess who took her father's armor and sword to protect her domain, then there's the last one is called "The Tale of the Four Heroes". She doesn't know why but she has the sudden urge to read it.
"Mom, what are you reading?" Naruto curiously asks wiping his mouth with his sleeve.
"Story books bought by Hiromi," She opens the last one and read the first paragraph.
"Word tells of a final prophecy that speaks of another world. In order to save our own from calamity, heroes are called forth from the other world to aid us. The four heroes each possess the Legendary Weapon: The Sword, the Spear, the Bow, and the Shield."
When she flips the page is when they notice something very odd. "Hey, why is it blank?" Naruto asks incredibly. "Did they give a wrong book or something?"
"M-maybe they made a mistake," Hinata reasons.
But before Kushina utters a single word she felt a sudden exhaustion drifting into a deep sleep and closing her eyes, and the next moment she opens them is when she realizes that she's in a totally different place. Fully alert she looks around with guarded look wondering if a hostile shinobi manages to summon them, and that's when she realizes that Naruto and Hinata is here with her already in a near troubled state.
"W-what happen, where are we?" Hinata hugs Naruto not fully understanding the situation.
Naruto comforts his friend and then notices that a shield is attached to his arm and tries to take it off. "What is this thing? I can't take it off."
Kushina hold their shoulder and calms them down taking a closer look at the shield that seems to be glued to her son's arm, and then she looks at the three boys and a group of men in robes.
"I can't believe it, the summoning is a success," Said one of the robed men then pleads. "Oh Great Heroes, please save our troubled kingdom! We worked hard in this ritual to bring you all to our world."
Kushina studies the men and whispers to the two genins. "Follow my lead, be on guard, and don't bring attention to yourself."
"Yes Mom/Miss Kushina." Naruto and Hinata reply as they stay behind Kushina and are on high alert, not knowing they're in enemy territory.
Kushina listens intently as the robed man explains even further, the biggest calamity struck their nation, this phenomenon called the Waves were cracks appear up on the skies and monsters and demons pour out, only the Four Legendary Heroes and the Vassal heroes have the chance to stop it, there she learns of the Four Legendary Weapons: Spear, Sword, Bow, and Shield. Now it all make sense to her, her only son is chosen to be the Shield Hero, but since she and Hinata are here does that mean they're both going to be Vassal Heroes? They might find out soon enough.
Then the three other Heroes spoke up.
"I have to say no in this so forget it."
"Me too, do you guys feel guilty in taking us from our world without consent?"
"If you guys are thinking of throwing us away after all is said and done then we might have a problem."
The three shinobi are quite appalled by their words, these people and their world are in danger and they just brush it aside because they summon them at random? Naruto is about to say something until Kushina hold his shoulder signaling him to not say anything, he hesitantly nods his head.
"You don't have to worry, Great Heroes," The man hastily said in attempt to appease the three boys. "You all will be greatly rewarded for your glorious deeds, you must first talk our King at the castle, you can discuss of treasures and prizes to him."
"Well, if that's the case, lead us to him." The blond Spear Hero said as he glances at the redhead beauty and winks at her.
Kushina merely just ignores him as she Naruto and Hinata follow the robed men. While walking through the halls the shinobi listen in to the three boy's conversation, it's obvious that they're excited that they're in a different world but what they pick up some interesting info is how they compare this kingdom to a continent called Europe and the Mediterranean Sea.
Then the Bow boy asks them. "How about you three, have you been travelling outside of Japan before?"
They have no idea where or what Japan is but Kushina gave him a vague half-truth answer. "We rarely leave our small town, and when we do we mostly visited the neighboring villages."
"I see," The boy didn't think too much of it and went on to talk more topics with the other two.
Kushina whispers into the ear of Naruto and Hinata telling them to remain silent and let her handle all the talking.
When they got to the throne room they get a glimpse of an elderly man wearing expensive garb of gold and purple, crown and rings on his fingers, but one thing that Kushina notices is that there are two thrones, the king's thrones is much smaller than the other which is bigger but it is vacant, she wonder why.
"So these are the Legendary Heroes," He studies the newcomers but is very curious when he saw the redheaded woman and a girl who seems to be blind. "I am Aultcray Melromarc XXXII, King of Melromarc. Please introduce yourselves, Great Heroes."
Before any of the before can say a word the woman beats them to it. "I am Kushina Uzumaki, and this is my son Naruto and his friend Hinata," when they look at the young genins Naruto merely said "Hey" with a big grin and Hinata take a bow to show respect. "Though I don't know how the summoning works but it seems me and Hinata are summoned along with my son who is the new Shield Hero."
The royal court is surprise that the ritual had summoned more people than intended as it is very rare for it to happen, though it is said that the summoning tends to be unpredictable and random.
"I guess it's my turn, Kawasumi Itsuki, a seventeen year old highschool student."
"Amaki Ren, Age sixteen, I'm a highschool student as well."
"And I'm Kitamura Motoyasu, twenty one year old college student."
"Kushina, Hinata, Ren, Itsuki, Motoyasu, and Naruto, is that correct?"
Kushina took notice of the king's moving her son's name last and giving him a glare that have hate behind them, already she's having a bad feeling about this, not trusting this man in the slightest. The king went on to recap what was already said about the waves with few more information, stating that the first Wave had already happened and the kingdom suffered massive casualties.
The robed man from before approaches them. "If you want to proceed please confirm your statuses."
"Our what?" Naruto asks not understanding what he just meant.
"What's he talking about?" Motoyasu adds.
"You haven't noticed it yet?" Ren said looking rather bored. "It's an icon at the bottom right of your vision, just look and concentrate on it."
Interesting enough it seems Kushina also have this including Hinata judging by her reaction, and looking at their stats is where she find it very noteworthy.
Kushina Uzumaki
Shinobi
Level 80
It seems her past experience in missions and trainings have carried over giving her a powerful advantage, the same can be said about Naruto and Hinata, the Hyuga having level three while Naruto is level seven, not surprising considering that Naruto and his team had finished a mission that is considered to be a high ranking one around A or S. Another thing that is interesting that being a Jinchuriki also have an effect.
Vessel of a Tailed Beast
Increase base HP and MP by 200% and other stats by 100%
Effect can be increase through training or by leveling up
Now this is very advantageous, looking at the other heroes and she can tell that they're just civilians judging by the fact that they're level one and appears to have no past combat experience. Then she saw Ren looking at them with incredulous look, definitely not expecting that one of the summoned people is already on a high level.
"It is also important for all of you to know that you must form your own party or group as the Legendary Weapons naturally repels each other." The man adds.
And sure enough a phrase appears to tell them of the negative effect if they're fighting together, luckily Kushina and Hinata aren't Legendary Heroes and it looks like they're automatically listed as Naruto's companions so no trouble there.
"Worry not, Great Heroes, we will find volunteers from adventurers and warriors who will join and fight for you, in addition in handing you funds for every month," Aultcray said to the Heroes, giving Naruto a glare with concealed hatred which again Kushina notices now Naruto and Hinata also caught of this. "Now please, enjoy your stay and the hospitality we will provide."
Later that night at the feast hall the Heroes dine until their belly is full, the buffet is filled with luxurious food fit for nobles and royalties, Naruto stuff his plate with loads of food from steak to roasted duck though no vegetables on sight but Kushina will let it pass this time. "It's no Ichiraku Ramen but these foods are still good." He chow down at a fast pace though his mother told him to slow down.
"It's good to be a Hero; you get perks and privileges, and a lot of cute girl to serve us." Motoyasu said out loud then flirts with one of the serving girls. He would want to sit next to the Kushina or Hinata but they place themselves at the other side far from him, he don't have a thing for single moms but man that redhead is such a beautiful woman, he believe that his charm would attract all the young women but it seems that Kushina is just ignoring him but instead taking care of the two children, then there's Hinata who is the definition of Moe girl but she's focus on Naruto which make him jealous.
After sipping a cup of wine Itsuki asks. "Do you think that this place feels like a video game setting?"
"It feels like a video game because it is a video game; it's exactly like Emerald Online." Motoyasu states like a know-it-all.
"Don't you mean Dimension Web; it's the most popular game in the world."
"What do you guys mean, this world is obviously like Bravestar Online." Ren puts down his fork and turns to Naruto. "What about you, surely you agree with me."
Naruto stops eating and looks at Ren then the other two, hearing their conversation despite eating loudly, he just shrugs. "I don't know, because I have no clue what you guys are talking about." The three boys could not believe what he just said, surely a boy his age would at least know a single video game or even play consoles or computer.
Though Kushina took over and spoke up gaining the three boy's attention. "It seems to me that judging by your answers you boys may not came from a single world but came from different parallel dimensions." Before they could asks any question she beats them to it. "Let's first start with the leaders of your nation."
And so the three boys gave different answer which surprises them, then they asks questions and answers accordingly, questions such as who face in a thousand yen bill, who's the famous celebrity, the date, famous phrase, and so on. After a while of telling the differences they slumps on their seats with disbelief.
"Different worlds, parallel dimension, and alternate timelines, I can't believe but then again we shouldn't be surprise by this." Itsuki went back to eating his meal, contemplating what he learns from his fellow Heroes.
"By the way, Miss Kushina, you and Hinata never say anything about your world or yourselves." Motoyasu is now working on his manly charms in trying to woo the two.
Kushina is very irk by his behavior and is disturb by his unusual attention to her and Hinata, the young Hyuga felt a little disturb by the way the Spear Hero is looking at her. But Kushina answers, again giving vague answers. "I would have said something but the results would be the same, different leaders, different celebrities, etcetera, etcetera, and etcetera. I like to keep things to ourselves and I like my information private." She gave Ren a glance which causes him to flinch.
Ren would have said anything about Kushina's status as a shinobi or asks her about it, but judging by the way she's looking at him he respectfully keep that info to himself, let Motoyasu and Itsuki figure it out for themselves.
Naruto let out a sigh of relief as he relaxes back on his seat, turning to his mother. "Oh man, that really fill the hole. So what should we do now?"
"Now, we should rest for the night and prepare for tomorrow."
"Wait, you sure you don't want to walk around the castle, get to know each other." The blond spearman suggests to the three, though it seems that it's focus on Kushina and Hinata.
Kushina merely just looks at Motoyasu at the eyes before saying with an annoyed smile "No" then went to asks a maid. "Can we have a separate room?"
"Yes, no problem, my Lady." The maid happily said as she led the three shinobi away to their rooms.
When they're away Motoyasu speaks his mind. "Man, Hinata's really cute and Kushina is so beautiful, I don't care if she's a single mother." Ren and Itsuki look at him with disgust.
"That's a huge assumption to make, Motoyasu, how do you know she's single?" Itsuki quizzically questions him.
"Yeah, considering that all of us are summoned randomly there's a good chance that she's still married, no doubt her husband is worried sick that they disappeared, or worst he might think they left him." Ren adds it's quite clear to him that the Spear Hero is a skirt chaser and womanizer; he's just hoping that this trait won't end up in something bad.
Back with the shinobi trio they went in their room to settle in, when the maid closes the door Kushina whispers to Hinata. "Use your Byakugan; see if there's someone listening behind the walls."
Nodding her head Hinata uses her clan's trademark ability, her Byakugan allows her to see through walls and spots a person's chakra signatures, and sure enough there are three people spying on them. "Miss Kushina, there are three of them: one up on the ceiling, second behind a portrait, and last is hiding by the window."
Hearing this Kushina then performs a few hand seals and touch the floor, due to her Uzumaki lineage she have a vast knowledge of different types of Seals Technique, this particular Seal will create a barrier around the room were outside individuals can't hear nor see that is going on inside, the only thing the spies can see are the inhabitants just standing in their spot.
Feeling really secure Naruto can relax himself, plopping on the bed. "Man, I knew I'm not alone in sensing that someone's watching us, thanks Mom, thanks Hinata."
Hinata blushes from his compliment as she deactivates her Byakugan. "Miss Kushina, how are going to tell our friends from the Leaf Village? Is there a way?"
"I don't know, but there is one thing we can try, Naruto can you properly perform a Summoning Technique?" Just recently during Naruto's last year in the academy his godfather thinks it would be the best time for Naruto to form a contract with the Toads.
"Yeah, but I can only summon small ones line Gamakichi and Gamatatsu." Naruto would love to summon a bigger Toad such as the legendary Gamabunta.
"It doesn't matter, if we can summon someone from our world and establish communications then we'll be able to summon reinforcements and make our time here easier." Kushina replies.
"Okay I'm going to do it. " It's a good plan, rising from the bed Naruto bit his finger and do a few hand seals and slams his hand on the ground, a cloud of smoke explodes and when it dissipates reveals one of Naruto's animal summons and friend. "Hey Gamakichi!"
"Naruto?" The young Toad said with a surprise look upon seeing him and Kushina and Hinata. "Where did you three go? The whole village is looking for you."
"Something unexpected happened; you might want to sit while we explain." And so Kushina told him everything that had happened from being summoned by a group of robed people, meeting the king of Melromarc, learning of the Wave of Catastrophe and Naruto is the chosen Shield Hero, and the three other Legendary Heroes. "Therefore it is important that you return to our world, tell Jiraiya and Hiruzen of our situation, and our request for reinforcements."
"Understood, you can count on me." And with that Gamakichi disappear in a puff of smoke.
"So Mom, what should we do now?" Naruto asks while sitting down admiring the softness of the bed.
"Wait till our friends arrive, in the meantime you two should rest while I'll send out Shadow Clones to gather information."
"I like to help; I can make a hundred of them, we can gather a lot of info in a short time." Naruto is always eager to help his mother.
Kushina chuckles at her son's enthusiasm and went to pats his head. "Thank you, but I must do this alone; your skill in stealth is still not developing yet."
"Okay," Naruto is disappointed but fully understands, his mother is much more capable in the field of espionage and he fears his clones will just mess it all up, thinking back to the time at the throne room he wants to tell her about this thought in his head. "Mom, I think the king don't like me, I don't know why."
"I noticed that too, when the king looked at Naruto he have this hidden hatred behind his glare."
"There's something going on here, perhaps a bad history with the previous Shield Hero? I intend to find out." Kushina performs the Shadow Clone and made four copies of herself then each use Body Flicker Technique to disappear out of sight. "While they're out learning more of this country let's learn more about that Shield."
They open up their stat screen to find out more information about the Legendary Shield, they went through the features such as Item Drop, Crafting, Inventory, Wave Summoning, and more, what Kushina notices is that the Shield grant immunity from Slave seals and mind control spells or curses, does that also mean that Heroes are immune to Genjutsu or just the type that controls the victims, there's also a good chance the Heroes are immune from the Yamanaka's famed techniques. And then the restrictions: first one that they already know is that Heroes can't gain Exp when fighting together, but Naruto bursts when he read the next line.
"What, I can't use other weapons except shields?" Naruto reaches down to his pocket and pulls out a kunai but the Shield emits an electric shock causing him to drops the knife. "You got to be kidding me!"
"A-at least it doesn't restrict you from using your jutsus, you can still use Shadow Clones and all the other jutsu Kushina taught you." Hinata cheers him up which really helps him, she thinks that the Shield would suit her far better due to the fact that her primary fighting style revolves around her clan's famed Gentle Fist.
"And it seems that the Shield will restrict you from travelling other worlds, which means you can't be Reverse Summoned until you finish in dealing the Waves, unless you get permission from a Guardian Beast." Kushina read that restriction again; it seems that they have to deal with whatever comes their way, and her motherly instinct is screaming at her to take her son and Hinata away from this kingdom, she's sensing that these people are intending to harm her only child. "It's getting late we should get some rest, but first bath time, you like me scrub your back, Naruto?"
"M-Mom, I-I'm not a kid anymore!" Naruto embarrassingly said while Hinata giggles at the exchange.
Later on as Naruto and Hinata are fast asleep on the bed Kushina takes out her weapon's pouch, two scrolls containing many of her items, the first one contains clothing: a standard forehead protector and flak jacket, black pants and shirt, footwear, and women's undergarments; the second scroll contains all of her weapons and other tools: kunai knives and shurikens, explosive tags, wire strings, flash bombs, smoke bombs, one Fuma Shuriken, and her most treasured weapon the Black Star Katana, the history of this sword is this was forged from a fallen star though technically it's a meteorite, a blacksmith went to collect the material from the crash site and tried to forge a new type of blade, it was a huge success for he forged a katana that is fifty times more durable than most katana, a sharp blade that is near impossible to break nor chip, the metal's properties also allows the user to channel chakra through it making another layer of blade that can cut or pierce through armor with ease; Minato had bought one as a birthday gift for her which soon became her trademark sword. She changes from her housewife's outfit to that of her Shinobi uniform.
After waiting for another hour the clones all dispel and a wave of information flood her mind, her clones gathered as much as they could from reading in royal and public libraries to listening to gossips, and apparently the king hold a lot of information from them, it appears that this kingdom is a matrilineal nation meaning the queen have the true authority but is currently away in a diplomatic mission and what's more is that Aultcray don't the rights to authorize a summoning ritual, Aultcray's action may have severely cripple his kingdom's international relations with the other nations because only one Hero can be summoned in one country, but what disturbs Kushina the most is the history and religion of this kingdom mostly the Three Heroes Church which demonizes the Shield Hero and Aultcray's past grievances with Silvelt and the previous Shield Hero, all in all this make Melromarc a hostile nation for her son and his allies. Kushina will not allow it, if they dare lay a finger on her son with the intent to harm then she'll make them suffer through hell and make their death slow and painful.
Chapter ends
AN: Regarding my other story the "Amazonian Shield", I'm not really sure if I should continue it or not, a few questionable plotlines and then retcon them really suck my motivation to go on, but I will try in rewriting them and make a better chapter, for now enjoy this new story I come up with.
It really makes me think what will happen if Naofumi got a female relative who is summoned along with him to defend and help him (e.g. mother, sister, or cousin), I think that the accusation will be less severe due to a female vouching for him and Melromarc's matriarchal culture or Aultcray immediately call for her execution, but if it comes to a successful execution then Naofumi will forever despise Aultcray, Malty and Melromarc, and when it comes to the eventual trial of the king and princess Naofumi will demand the two's execution to avenge his relative, Mirellia will try to curb his anger but knew it was futile thanks to Aultcray's foolish mistake to execute Naofumi's relative.
It'll be a story in it self though I might set it up as a story for adoption.
Before this I was thinking of Madara who then bought and taught Raphtalia, Keel and Rifana in the arts of shinobi, or Kaguya Otsutsuki who goes in a redemption story and adopt Raphtalia, Keel, and Rifana as her daughters.
Also I'm a huge sucker for naruhina fic so sorry for those who want Naruto to be paired with Raphtalia or Melty (unless you want to end this in a harem story).
I might do some fixes in this chapter on occasions, fix the grammar, add some details and such, what do you all think?
