This is a work of fan fiction using characters from the Naruto, which is trademarked by Masashi Kishimoto. Everything aside from the original characters are created from the wonderful mind of Kishimoto.
Most of the following unrecognizable are original characters of mine.
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Chapter 29:
"It's alright, you can stay here" both twins heard a soft voiced, inviting, and warm, urging them to not be afraid anymore. That's when they realized the atmosphere wasn't cold and unnerving anymore, but warm and welcoming, much like...home. They both opened their eyes to realized that they weren't standing before the kyuubi's mercy anymore, but in a bright place that seemed to go on for miles and miles.
Instead before them, a beautiful woman with long red hair stood.
"Naruto, Misaki" the woman smiled at them.
"Who are you and how `come you know our names" Naruto pushed Misaki behind him protectively, while she was speechless, putting her hand on her mouth staring at the woman before them.
"Oh right, can you take a guess on who I am Naruto" Kushina smiled at the younger male.
"Don't tell me, you're"
"Did you figure it out yet?"
"You're the Kyuubi's real form" Naruto pointed accusingly, an answer that Kushina ended up laughing so hard at.
"What's with that crude laugh, how dare you disguise yourself Kyuubi" this time, Naruto was hit on the head pretty hard by Kushina.
"You go it wrong you know!" Kushina scolded.
"OUCH, wait ya know?" Naruto repeated.
"Naruto, she's" Misaki was now able to stutter, making Naruto look at her, then back at the mysterious woman, then back at Misaki then at the mysterious woman. He switched glanced between the two women several more times, before his eyes widened in realization, he lost all sense momentarily, Kushina's explanation of her weird habits slipping past their ears.
"Minato didn't say anything to you? Shame on him" Kushina finished.
In a split moment, both children, already in their later teens rushed to the woman like a little child, chasing their mother's skirts and wrapped themselves tightly around her.
"I've always wanted to meet you ka-chan" Naruto cried in her mother's shoulder.
"I never thought, we'd ever get the chance to see you, to hold you" Misaki cried, beside Naruto, this time on her mother's chest. Kushina held on to her children, already all grown up, recognizing herself in Naruto's speech and Misaki's hair.
"You really are my children" Kushina said, savoring this short and fleeting moment with them.
"There is so much I wanted to ask you when I saw you" Naruto exclaimed as they broke apart.
"You can ask me anything you like, but first, we have to tame the kyuubi" Kushina said, and from outside their deep conscious, chains began erupting from Naruto's body, the trademark golden chakra of the Uzumaki clan. Wrapping themselves around Misaki's own chain, anchoring their hold on the kyuubi even stronger.
Back in their happy place, Naruto sat on his mother's right side as Misaki sat in front of her.
"Minato embed my chakra into the seal formula, so when the time comes for you to take control of the Kyuubi's power, I would be able to help you" Kushina explained, but realized that Naruto was too happy to listen to something important.
"Are you listening?"
"I'm glad ka-chan is beautiful" Naruto answered.
"Well thank you, Misaki has my hair, but inherited her father's good looks, you have your father's hair, but I'm sorry you inherited my looks Naruto," Kushina said holding on to Misaki's cheeks, almost as if seeing a girl version of Minato with her hair.
"Why is that, if you are beautiful that makes me handsome right? You and Misaki have nice long red hair, I wish my hair were like that too" Naruto pondered.
"You're the second man to compliment my red hair" Kushina smiled.
"Who was the first,"
"Your father of course" Kushina answered.
"Kaede-ka-san told me lots of stories about you and dad" Misaki smiled, trying to picture their lives together, Minato and Kushina raising Kaede.
"Kaede-ka-san resembles you more so than she resembles tou-san" Misaki told her.
"I was afraid Kaede was going to carry a lot of my bad habits" Kushina sighed
"Kaede-ba chan has quite a temper too" Naruto trembled, recalling the times he have been on the receiving end of said temper.
"Ba-chan? Didn't Kaede raise you together?" Kushina asked sighting the difference the twins addressed Kaede. Naruto and Misaki exchanged looks.
"Naruto and I were separated as soon as Kaede-ka san returned to the village, she wanted to take Naruto too, away from Konoha, but the council decided to separate the two of us, Kaede-ka san taking me with her in her travels and Naruto staying under the village's watch" Misaki explained.
"I see, it must have been hard for the two of you, growing up" Kushina's eyes were down cast, feeling sad about the fate of her children, of her family.
"But you know ka-chan when Misaki and Kaede-ba chan returned to the village, Misaki and I became istant friends playing pranks on everyone, and Kaede ba-chan and Iruka-sensei and Kakashi-sensei watched over us" Naruto cheered their mother up.
"I recall you were playing pranks and I was keeping you out of trouble" Misaki countered.
"Eh Misaki you were in on it too." Naruto began shaking his smaller twin, urging her to back her up on this.
Kushina began laughing at her offspring's antics, glad that they were able to make the most of their situation.
"Minato would be so happy if he could see this right now"
"oh yeah that's right, hey hey, there was always something i wanted to ask you if ever i met you" Naruto remembered, halting his shaking of Misaki whose eyes were already spinning dizzy.
"What is it?"
"How did you and dad fall in love?" Naruto asked, at the sound of his question, Misaki brushed off her dizziness to listen to the love story of her parents.
"Kakashi probably took on tou-chan's sleek talking, and used it to sweep Kaede-ka san off her feet" Misaki commented as Kushina finished telling them the part where Minato came to her rescue when she was kidnapped by kumogakure ninja.
"So Kaede and Kakashi did end up together after all, tell me how did Kakashi propose to Kaede?" Kushina asked.
"Wel, Kakashi took a page from Naruto's book and vandalised the hokage cliff to tell Kaede-ka san how he feels" Misaki said.
"I thought Tsunade no ba chan was going to kill him" Naruto laughed.
"that's one thing I'm right about again, take that Minato" Kushina punched the air in glee.
"Uh, you're getting off topic, ka-san" Misaki reminded.
Kushina smiled boyishly for a while before going on with her tale, the story of her life as the new jinchuriki, the fated love between her and Minato that unfortunately ended on the day their lives began.
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Kushina's voice echoed around the hideout as she pushed for her life, and for the life of their child.
"UGHHH IT HURTS SO BAD YA KNOW!" Kushina groaned, her whole body sweating, she was already tired. Next to her Minato too struggled to keep the kyuubi who was struggling to take advantage of this moment, and escape from Kushina's body.
It was a long struggle before they heard the strong wailing cries of a baby.
"Naruto" Minato saw his baby boy in Lady Biwako's arms, with hair a mop of blonde a lot like his.
"The mother gets to see the baby first" Biwako snubbed him to let Kushina have a good look at their son.
"Alright, have some rest while we get him all cleaned up, you better save some strength while the second child is yet to crown" Biwako advised and left the room with the medical nin.
"Misaki, your brother is here now, you can come out now, we're so excited to see you" Minato leaned down to Kushina's belly where Misaki still resided.
In the spur of the moment, Biwako and her assistant lay in the pool of their own blood, dead as a masked assailant held Naruto on the end of his kunai blade.
"Naruto!" both parents exclaimed seeing their wailing new born in the hands of a dangerous man who has shown no qualms in murdering people.
Just then, Kushina felt a familiar and terrible pain hit her, making her groan, hiding her scream, to not show any form of weakness against the man who held their son and his life in his hands.
"Minato, Misaki, she's coming" Kushina panted to her husband, holding on to the hand rails for strength, and to make matter worst, the seal formula was begining to spread and loosen across Kushina's skin, without him keeping the kyuubi down, it might just result in the escape of the bijuu.
"Looks like you're in a bind yondaime-sama, let me help you make a decision" the masked man said and tossed Naruto in the air, forcing him to catch him mid air whilst Kushina gave birth to Misaki.
"You're as fast as the rumors say, tell me can you keep up with the next one" the mystery man said activating the paper bombs attached on Naruto's blanket, forcing Minato to take the drastic move of leaving his wife and his seconds old daughter alone.
Once Minato was sure Naruto was safe and comfortable jn his hideout, he set out to return to the cave where Kushina was giving birth, but when he got there, Kushina was nowhere to be found, but lying there exposed and probably cold was a silent little things and Minato feared for the worst, his little Misaki was already dead, she wasn't moving, wasn't even crying, like Naruto was the moment he left Kushina's body.
"Misaki" Minato touched her little hand, but when the tiny little fingers wrapped around his finger he felt her life, her strength, her will.
"You're a little fighter aren't, my little Misaki" Minato gently cut the umbilical cord still attached to the placenta crudely left there with her on the birthing bed.
"Let's go get you somewhere safe, Misaki" Minato wrapped his arms around the tiny baby, keeping her warm. Tiny Misaki didn't squirm or flinch nor cry, the o ly assurance Minato had of her life was the grip she had on his fingers. Compared to Naruto, she was a lot tinier and paler, with a mop of head identical to her mother's.
When Minato placed Misaki on the bed next to Naruto, it's as of the twins quickly took notice of each other's presence and locked arms, before nuzzling towards each other.
"There there, let's go save your mom" Minato said and disappeared once more, this time to save his wife, leaving his newborns lying there, innocent little munchkins who had no idea that the first moments they had with their parents is also their last.
When Minato returned, he already had Kushina in his arms, but it was too late, the masked man had done what he did and released kyubbi from within Kushina.
"You should get some rest here, I'll be back" Minato said placing his wife next to his children.
"Minato, Misaki is she?" Kushina began to cry thinking of the worse.
"She's fine," Minato assured, and when Kushina nuzzled her tiny little cheeks, baby Misaki grabbed hold of her hair, giving it a little tug.
When Minato returned, he took their children in his arms and and held on to Kushina as he transported them to another location.
In the middle of the forest.
With the kyuubi rampaging behind them.
'Damn it, I still have to put up a barrier, my chakra, it's almost' Minato thought, Kushina recognized his struggle, and elected to place it herself, restraining the kyuubi and erecting a large barricade of golden chain around them, intending to seal the kyuubi in her until her death, but Minato had other plans.
One that devastated Kushina so bad, placing the burden that she endured on her children to save the village, Minato sacrificing his life, and her children, her beloved children growing up as orphans, but Minato reasoned with her something even Kushina could not deny.
So using the Reaper Death Seal, the only Fuinjutsu he knew powerful enough for someone who isn't a jinchuriki, he sealed half of the kyuubi inside himself, something that he will take with him inside the death god's belly.
Summoning the ritual for the eight signed seal, the altar appeared, tiny little bed like altar forming something that resembled a yin yang sign. Carefully he placed Naruto on the Yin and Misaki on the Yang.
Kushina, in her weakened, state, began to cough up more blood, weakening her hold on the tinier version of the kyuubi as half was already sealed within Minato, and capturing the attention of her husband's worry.
"Kushina!" as Minato rushed to her side, unfortunately, for the couple, the kyuubi seized this opportunity to eliminate his host before it can even become his host.
"NO!" both parents gasped, running for their children, despite their best efforts, they were both already weak and the kyuubi still a lot faster, so they didn't have time to move their children at a safer distance.
So they did what any parent would do for the sake of their children... They shielded them from harm, at the cost of staking themselves in the process, further shortening their already fleeting time together as a complete family, their blood spilling on the tiny bodies of their children at the end of the kyuubi's long claws.
Minato summoned Gerotora and gave him the formula to give to Jiraiya, instructing him carefully for Jiraiya to hold on to the scroll until such time Misaki is strong enough to keep it.
Then Minato extended his hands towards his little girl, inscriptions of the seal appearing on her right arm .
"Kushina, out time's running out, I'm going to start the eight signed seal now, I want to store some of my chakra too in the seal, it would take quite a while before we can see them" Minato told Kushina, giving her the time to say her final words of wisdom to the children they haven't even spent a day with, but loved wholeheartedly.
"Listen, don't be picky, eat lots and grow strong, especially you Misaki, you're so tiny, Naruto don't try to steal your sister's food to, make sure you bathe everyday and stay warm, I guess, that would be a daily occurrence for you Misaki to always remind your brother, also, don't stay up late, you need lots and lots of sleep, remember to always look out for each other and make friends, you don't need a lot of friends, just a few ones, ones that you will really trust. I'm not very good at it, but keep up with your studies and practice your ninjutsu hard, remember that everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses, so don't get depressed if you can't do something very well, respect your teachers and your upperclassmen, oh and this is important, about the three prohibitions of a shinobi, be extra careful about lending and borrowing money, put your wages straight into your savings account, no alcohol until you're twenty, too much can ruin your health so drink in moderation, another is women, I don't know much about this, but all you need to remember is the world is made out of men and women so it's natural to take interest in women, but don't get hooked up on bad women okay Naruto, find someone like ka-san, speaking of women, be very wary of Jiraiya-sensei. Make sure Misaki to protect your little sister okay, she's really tiny so make sure no one hurts her, oh yeah and no suitors until she is old enough, make sure that the boy will treat her right okay? From now one, you're going to face a lot of pain and hardship, it would be alright as long as you're together, be true to yourselves, have a dream and the confidence to make that dream come true, there is so much, so much more I want to pass on to you, I wish we had more time together, I'm sorry Minato I used up your time" Kushina apologized to her husband, who she had no doubt was dying figuratively of having to leave their children.
"It's okay, my message to you my dear children, will be the same as your nagging mother, well then" Minato closed is eyes and with the last of his strength, sealed the remnants of the kyuubi inside Naruto.
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Once Kushina finished her story, she apologized non stop to her children, for putting the burden on their then baby shoulders, for letting them suffer orphanhood, apart, for leaving them alone, for not being there for them.
"Everything I've been through, everything we've been through, we never held it against our parents" Naruto began, contemplating his sad childhood before he met Misaki. Misaki smiled and reached for his hand, holding it tight in hers.
"I admit, I didn't really know what parental love was, but I had a feeling, I know that you and dad gave your lives for us, just so we can live, and now, I realize that more than the kyuubi, my seal held my parent's love, so that's enough to make us happy,"
"We're glad we are your children, the daughter and the son of the red hot habanero and the yellow flash, so that makes me the red flash and you the orange spark" Misaki pointed to Naruto.
Kushina launched herself to hug her children, her conscious being already fading, their fleeting and bittersweet moment about to come to an end.
"Minato did you hear that, our dreams managed to reach our children, Naruto, Misaki, thank you, thank you for letting me be your mom, thank you for letting Minato be your dad, thank you for being born to us" Kushina said, her body beginning to fade, the less is seen of her, the tighter the twins held, memorizing everything about their mom, and committing everything into memory.
"Don't worry, mom, I may be small but I sure eat a lot, but Naruto still tries to steal my food especially if it's Icharaku's Ramen, Naruto loves bathes, so I don't have to remind him to take one, though I do have to make sure his laundry is always clean he does tend to wear dirty laundry, oh and we have lots and lots of good friends you would have loved them and he likes a girl too ka-san, but don't worry, because she is a good woman, much like you in lots of ways, there is this boy that I like, too, I love him too, I just wish someday he'd learn to love me back and, and and, I wish we had more time together too, you and tou-san and me and Naruto. But it's okay ka-sanI love you ka-san" Misaki, the less talkative twin, began speaking non stop, cramming in more than a decade's worth of emotions.
"I love you too" Kushina said finally disappearing from their sight. Misaki, cried, her head hung low, whilst Naruto hugged her, rubbing her back as he said his monologue to their mom in silence.
"You know what, I just realized something," Naruto pondered.
"What" Misaki sniffled, wiping the tears from her eyes.
"We finally know who the older twin is" Naruto grinned, hand on his hips standing in front of Misaki making a peace sign, or rather a V for victory sign with his fingers. Misaki, laughed hard, clutching on her stomach, in between wiping her tears.
"Thank you, Naruto-niichan" Misaki smiled.
"That's right that makes you my imouto, believe it!" Naruto said.
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Outside of Naruto's mind, the three men waiting patiently, marveled as the the kyuubi's cloak slowly ebbed away in itself from the twin's bodies.
"How, what happened?" Yamato stuttered.
"Let's ask them" Itachi pointed out that the twins finally opened their eyes, identical eyes looking at them with victorious grins, and whilst Yamato hecked Naruto for answers, the young jinchuriki opted to rile him even more, communicating through physical contact with Killer Bee.
Misaki laughed at the chaos before him as she stood next to Itachi.
"I take it was a success" Itachi inquired.
"It was more than that, we met our mom, she told us everything" Misaki smiled, a wistful smile playing on her lips, as Naruto showed everybody the kyuubi's cloak under his control.
"But before that, we have something much more important, right Misaki" Naruto turned to her sister who nodded her head before unsheathing her katana and slicing off samehada off of Killer Bee's back, all in a matter of mere seconds.
"Misaki, what has gotten into you?" faces etched with shock at Misaki's attack against the hachibi's jinchuriki.
"Misaki, why did you attack Bee-san?" Minato asked, sweating with worry.
"No, she wasn't attacking him, she was targeting, the sword. You really think you're that well hidden huh?" Naruto explained before confronting samehada
"It seems that you two can detect hatred and the feeling of evil, the limitations that sensory types don't apply to" a blue faced, sharp toothed, gilled being emerged from the mouth of the samehada.
"It has a mouth, I never knew it really was alive, I just thought you were being roguishly poetic about the sword's properties, it's quite fascinating really, I'd like to meet the swordsmith who forged it" Misaki wondered.
"This is not the right time to be fascinated Misaki" Yamato scolded.
"You're that shark guy from the Akatsuki, I thought we chopped your head way back then, clones disappears when they're struck, yours stayed post mortem, that's for sure, and if someone else turned into you, Cee would have sensed it, so it's a perplexing consideration" Killer Bee said, or rather rapped, despite the situation.
"It was a special kind of clone, a parasitic clone that i can control remotely" Kisame explained.
"Anyway, enough about this subject, in between two jinchurikis, a wood style user, Misaki, my I'm in a serious predicament," Kisame pointed out as one of samehada's spikes pressed the hidden button opening the entire place.
"Where did you know how to find that?" Killer Bee asked surprised.
"I seriously doubt that's the only thing he knows after he's been hanging on your back since the last time you saw him" Misaki's eyes narrowed with apprehension before disappearing out of their sight.
Kisame's eyes narrowed, he had a pretty good idea where she had literally disappeared off too, and if he doesn't hurry all the information he had will all be for nothing. He tried to escape the room as soon as he can, when Naruto just flashed before him, though a minor set back since the young jinchuriki was still trying to grasp the concept of his new strength.
"Woah, it's almost as good as the yellow flash and Misaki's" Killer Bee remarked, Yamato noticed that Naruto couldn't pursue the further fleeting Kisame because his foot was stuck within the very crater that his landing made.
"Nope not yet" Yamato commented before running after Kisame.
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"I've told them about what happened earlier, Shukaku-san is now reviewing strategies with the kages," Misaki informed Yamato who welcomed her as soon as she returned.
"Gai-san managed to neutralize him, but we need to take precautionary measures just to be sure. Right now, Itachi is going to try to get more information out of him" Yamato retold the events to Misaki as both made their way wherein Kisame knelt in front of the disguised Itachi, shackled and unconscious.
Itachi closed his eyes, hiding his red irises as his pupils surged behind his lids, as he searched his old comrade's mind for information.
Itachi saw most of Kisame's life as a part of the Kirigakure's village, how he was forced to kills his comrades following orders, but he wasn't able to press further when Kisame himself blocked him and came face to face in him, in their internal personas.
'So you really did survive, good for you Itachi-san. I'm sure no one would see that coming, I'll let this go, but I can't let you know any further" Kisame bid his own version of farewell before…
Everybody left back, imitating Itachi's actions as Kisame, already death exhausted managed to escape Yamato's hold. Might guy tried to reach him, but it was too late, he had imprisoned himself in his own water justu and summoned sharks,
That devoured him, leaving them the scroll of intel he made.
Their mistake was they opened the scroll containing the information, they did not expect the trap set by Kisame, of water prison jutsu that released sharks.
None of them were able to escape as one of Kisame's shark ran away with the scroll containing the information he was able to collect while hiding at Killer Bee's back inside samehada.
By the time Misaki returned, they were a wet, panting mess.
"What happened here?"Misaki asked, helping Naruto and the other up.
"It's Kisame, he committed suicide, but the scroll was rigged, and the intel got away" Yamato explained.
"Well, the kages already know of what happened, but we need to move fast, now that the enemy knows where their targets are hiding, they'll contact us as soon as they have reached a decision on what our next move will be, in the meantime, we must remain vigilant and on guard " Misaki decimated the instructions of the kages.
Once everybody had piled out, Misaki felt her knees give out, good thing Itachi caught her in his arms, knocked out.
"You need to get some rest Misaki, we both know what the kage's decision would be" Itachi said, helping her lay down by the tree trunk.
"I know, but now that our location is exposed, I can't just leave Naruto out of my sight, who knows what would happen" Misaki reasoned with her oldest friend.
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Voilà Chapter 29 and as usual, this is the part where I rant and make excuses hehehehe.
Notice how I didn't really recount Minato's battle against Tobi and all that jazz regarding what happened on the day of Naruto and Misaki's birth, it's because things not mentioned in this fiction will remain the same, and as much as I want Minato and Kushina to live with their children, as Lemony Snicket have said at the beginning of their movie this isn't that story.