It was with absolute shock that the blood work came back. Minato had them quadruple check the results and when the tests came back saying the same thing he gave Naruko a shocked look.

"Did you know?"

"After I was told by Tsunade-baa-chan before the first repeat. I didn't even know who my parents were until Jiraiya was killed."

Naruko had learned the hard way that trying to hold onto those she cared about during a repeat only made it more painful. The Third still died, but because of her he went through a lot more pain than before.

"How am I going to tell Kushina?" he despaired.

"Let me. I think she'll take it better if I tell her," said Naruko. This was going to be fun!

Kurama couldn't wait to play the prank on his former container.

Kushina stared and her finger pointed at Naruko, the girl she viewed as a younger sister. Naruko was grinning with her hands behind her head...a head with a pair of crimson fox ears that were framed by nine long tails behind her.

"WHAT THE HELL!?"

"Chill out Kushina-chan! After all, Kyuubi doesn't hate you nearly as much as you think!" said Naruko, grinning.

"But...How...Why...?"

"I recommend sitting down for this Kushina-chan, it's a sorta long story," said Naruko.

Kushina nearly collapsed on the couch as Naruko explained exactly who she was. When she got to the part of who her parents were, the poor kunoichi was suffering from information overload.

"Who are your parents?"

"Why don't you ask Minato that?" she grinned.

Minato, who had been silent the entire time, glared at her.

He handed Kushina the test results and she did the only sane thing.

She fainted.

She woke up to the smell of Ichiraku ramen and a grinning Naruko...her daughter.

"Why didn't you tell us outright?"

"After the third repeat, I didn't want to get too close to you. Do you have any idea how painful it is to see the people you treasure killed again and again and not being able to do a damn thing about it? Besides, it was funny to see your face," she replied.

Kushina put her hand over her stomach, where the still growing form of her child was. She still couldn't believe the adult form of said child was sitting before her, and in perfect control of the Kyuubi.

"How did you gain control of him?"

"Easily. We both hate the same person. 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend'. After the fourth repeat, I no longer needed to fear him. He's one of my best friends and I wouldn't trade him for the world."

Kushina grinned at her, finally on even ground.

"I always said the only way to temper his rage was with love."

"Or an equal hatred in the same person. Either way, he's awesome...and by the way, he really hates the chains you have him in. He doesn't mind the collar, which is what I've managed to put him in after finally finding a scroll on chakra chains, but he hates being bound."

"Finally? You should have been aware of your heritage before the Academy!"

"I didn't even know who my parents were until the first time Jiraiya died, and then Kakashi had to break it to me that my dad was Minato Namikaze. Coincidentally I have the perfect nickname for the announcement next week," said Naruko grinning.

"Oh ho? You mean the one about the new Hokage?"

"Yup. He's going to get it. Orochimaru was never a good leader, and he's a damn pedo," said Naruko.

"What?"

"Orochimaru of the Sannin has an unhealthy fascination for boys, particularly teens and preteens," Naruko clarified.

"Another problem in the future?"

"He tricked my best friend into abandoning the village and joining him and became an S Class criminal all so he could kill his own brother," said Naruko quietly.

The two talked quietly about their genin teams, which seemed a safe topic up till the point where Naruko told her about Sasuke leaving.

Kushina agreed that her sensei was a fool trying to force them into being a team when clearly there wasn't any team camaraderie to work with.

Eventually they drifted off onto the Kyuubi, who was very pleased with the change in Kushina's mind. She no longer chained him like a beast, but rather like a pet which he could live with.

And when Minato was given the Hokage hat, Naruko cheered the loudest...and immediately set the groundwork for Kushina's new nickname.

Minato would never live down the nickname Blondaime, which had haunted Naruko until the first repeat. Frankly she could live with the nickname if it meant that damn Madara had gotten his ass kicked.

Kurama rumbled in agreement. After the third repeat, a lot of things had changed and the two had finally patched things up enough that Naruko no longer had as much difficulty. It was the third repeat that gave her an almost full control of the fox.

It was also the only time she had ever managed to meet Nagato before the attack...and convinced him that Madara was up to no good.

She had nearly lost her eyes, but Nagato had decided to act on clan loyalty and with the help of a nearly exhausted Tsunade had given her the Rinnegan.

It had vanished when she went back for the fourth time, but she could still tell that something in her eyes was different. She had yet to unleash the doujutsu since she didn't have a clue how to activate them.

Considering that it was a very odd combination of Sharingan and Byakugan with a few extra abilities, there was a chance that she could turn them on and off. She had spent the fourth repeat trying to do just that.

Naruko couldn't help her reaction when she saw the five-year old Itachi. She cooed and rustled his hair to his annoyance. It was hard to believe he would grow up and kill his clan.

If she did things right, that would never happen.

And Madara would get his ass kicked when he tried to take advantage of the weaker seal the day Kushina gave birth.

At least this time she didn't have to work her ass off just to get back at the level she was at, since her body had remained at the same age she had attacked him at.

And since this time Obito wasn't going to be his new body, there was a chance that he wouldn't be able to do that damn time jutsu on her.

It surprised her how the bane of her existence (originally Sasuke, then Kyuubi and finally settling on Madara, the undead pest) could end up being so much like her they were practically brother and sister. They even had the same issues with their team. The only difference being that Minato was a hell of a lot better teacher than Kakashi had ever been.

At least this Team 7 could work together under normal circumstances and the fan girl wasn't a useless waste of space.

Kakashi took little time getting used to his new Sharingan, though when word got out the Uchiha raised a hell of a stink. Even more so when he told them bluntly that he had no idea who the hell it had originally belonged to.

Eventually Naruko allowed him to send the Uchiha her way, and every time they tried to force her to tell them who it came from she fought back with the fact she knew how to seal the Sharingan permanently and didn't give a damn who she used it on.

About the only Uchiha who would talk to her civilly anymore were Itachi, Mikoto and of course Obito. Fugaku she hissed at like a cat.

Of course that didn't stop the oh so subtle attempts to capture and kill her by the Uchiha Elders. They didn't try to kill her when she was at home asleep (only an idiot would attempt to kill a girl in the same house as the new Fourth Hokage and his girlfriend) but they did their best to have her killed during missions.

Right up until the point when October 10th came around.

Naruko was by her mother's side every step of the way, having helped a few people bring their children into the world, like Hinata-chan and Ino-chan. Hinata had married Gaara (in an attempt to foster stronger bonds between villages) and Ino had married a rather amusing ROOT agent named Sai.

Naruko still missed her friends and godchildren. It was the reason why she always tried to pair them up during the repeats.

Right after Kushina had broken her hand, again, she managed to push out her new child. Since Naruko was already alive and in the village, they decided to keep the name they had agreed on but would call the baby 'Naru' instead to keep them apart. It wasn't like anyone could tell the difference.

Rin was about to hand Kushina her new daughter when Naru stiffened. Kurama had been quiet the entire time, as this was the day his favorite partner had been born and he didn't want her to become a still born.

Madara had arrived and he planned to unleash the Kyuubi.

He didn't expect to find a full on hanyou who was already pissed at him and ready to rip him a new one if he came anywhere near the red-head or her new child.

Naruko could be quite terrifying when she went hanyou, no matter how cute she had looked. It was something that baffled Jiraiya every time she did a repeat.

Something about how the Kyuubi chakra was so laced into her own that she was no longer fully human. It certain explained why she never suffered the nasty side effects of the demonic energy when she went bijuu form.

As long as it meant she could pwn Madara once and for all, she didn't give a damn. She liked foxes!

"How interesting. I was lead to believe Kushina was the jinchuriki. How strange that my...sources...were so mistaken," he said amused.

"Fuck off you dried up old has been. You've manipulated people long enough. Hashirama was a better ninja then you'll ever be," sneered Naruko.

He glared at her.

"How is it that you are aware of who I am and aren't afraid?"

"Simple. I don't give a flying crap that you are the founder of Konoha. You're a washed up old geezer who can't survive without stealing bodies. I bet it must have pissed you off when you realized Obito and his team survived," said Naruko smirking.

"I'd wondered how that happened. For that I will take great pleasure in killing you," he snarled.

"Let's play, old man!"

What happened next was a clash of wind, fire and a lot of kunai and expletives. It surprised Madara how much the girl hated him when he had no idea who the hell she was. Once she realized that, and the fact that his Mangekyo wasn't nearly as strong as before (she had studied the body jumping technique and suspected Orochimaru got his originally from the Uchiha, because that would explain a hell of a lot) which suggested he had recently acquired that body.

She pressed even harder and he attempted to use the Sharingan on her. It was a well-known fact that the Copy Wheel Eye could manipulate the bijuu.

Too bad for him Kurama and Naruko had spent the last repeat training to break just that. The implanted Rinnegan from Nagato, before she was sent back and her eyes returned to normal, was just the thing she needed to break that control.

Suddenly she felt the shift in her eyes as the Rinnegan finally activated. Madara's surprise was gratifying, to say the least. More so when he became confused as to what her new eyes could do, since he had never seen anything like it before.

When he finally displayed something akin to the rather irritating vanishing trick, which had always irritated her something fierce because it was hard to land a blow on him, she really let him have it.

Madara didn't expect her to appear right as he let the technique go, or for her to land a solid hit. What shocked him was the amount of KI she was producing at him.

She nearly ripped his arm off with her claws!

Minato watched his daughter in shock. Her eyes had become like ripples in a sea of pale blue, and he would have thought she had the rinnegan if not for the coloring.

He knew Kushina didn't have that doujutsu and he had something entirely different. So where did she get it from? He quickly went to check on his wife, and found her cradling their daughter protectively.

"Minato, it's the one who she's been hunting. She's letting him believe I'm not a jinchuriki!"

He could see why Naruko had taken the credit. She was more used to fighting Madara and Kushina was weakened from giving birth. At least he knew now that her assessment of the Kyuubi was correct, because from what he could tell the fox hadn't even stirred once.

Suddenly there was a wave of horrible Killing Intent, and it felt like a demon. Minato looked outside the cave and saw his daughter going Nine Tails on Madara, who was barely holding his own. The man had become little more than a shade after all these years, always jumping from one body to the next.

Much like Gaara had done during her first ever Chunin exam, Naruko allowed the fox to vent his rage at the man.

Shinobi all across the village watched the show in shocked horror, thinking the demon fox had escaped and was now attacking them. It took a while for Sarutobi to realize it wasn't even looking at the village, only at the one that was attacking it. In fact it seemed to be trying to keep the man far from Konoha.

Finally, the demon fox scored a hit that sent the man flying, and even Sarutobi could tell that the hit had been too strong to continue.

The fox seemed to shrink in on itself, before fleeing the village and hiding in the forest of death.

No one noticed Naruko running out of the forest and back to her parents.

Shinigami-sama, it seemed, had a sense of humor. Kushina and Minato's new daughter (it was now common knowledge that Minato's wife was Kushina, since the Kyuubi had made it easier to release it and not have a big uproar) had bright crimson red hair and blue eyes. She also had the same whisker marks Naruko had.

Naruko cooed over her baby self, even if the hair color was wrong. Then again, the only thing she had of her mother was a book she had finally found after the first repeat and her personality. She looked too much like Minato.

As far as the village was concerned she was Minato's younger sister with a recent Uzumaki ancestor. The only ones who knew who she really was were Sarutobi, Minato, Kushina, Kakashi, Rin, Obito and the one who administered the blood test.

Naruko had to admit, she liked the change.

Naru-chan gurgled and wrapped a pudgy finger around her older self's long slender one.

Kushina still couldn't believe Kyuubi had punted the Madara Uchiha all the way to the Valley of the End.

What Minato wanted to know was what Naruko had meant when she said that Madara had orchestrated Obito's death. By the time she was done explaining what had originally happened and how she had stopped it, Minato was in shock. Obito, more so.

Because Obito knew for a fact she wasn't joking about the possession. What the Uchiha clan didn't tell others was that Madara did have that power, and to be considered as a new body was an honor. But when he heard about all the crimes Madara committed in his body, Obito was upset.

Finally they all decided just to hit Ichiraku and deal with it all tomorrow.