Well, here's another chapter for the misty vortex, and I hope everyone likes this chapter as well. i don't have all that much to say at this point, as this chapter is, so I hope to hear from you guys.

Disclaimer: I do not own any canon characters or events, everything non-canon in this story is mine though.

This chapter is a revised version of the original.

Ok, getting everything out of the way and said, Kasumi had a bad feeling about today. She had turned 4 not to long ago, and her sister was still being home schooled, something her parents hadn't don't with her yet, but that wasn't it. There was a tension in the air that was starting to drive Kasumi crazy. It was like something was about to explode, and she didn't like it. She wasn't stupid, far from it actually, but for whatever reason the feeling wouldn't go away. The seasoned Shinobi were a lot more tense than she was as well, but for whatever reason that wasn't what caught her attention. It was a sight outside of the walls of Uzushiogakure. There was a light of some form in the sky, but it hadn't moved either. Whatever it was, seemed to be watching them more than anything.

Kuina had noticed her daughter's stare at the same time, which made her frown. For the first time in almost six years, she had to put her shinobi gear, and the whole village was waiting. There were transportation seals under every house to send children all over the shinobi nations if need be, as there was always that threat of someone trying to destroy their home. It was always some place where the Uzumaki were welcome no matter what, and that would help a lot in terms of what where they would be sent. The only exception was with her two daughters. They would be sent to Konoha, and they would be sent without an adult.

Kuina jumped up when she saw something heading towards the wall, exploding in the process. She cursed loudly when she realized that it was more towards the elder's section of the village. Right now she was thankful that everything important, including uzumaki history, would be sealed with blood seals. Without thought, however, she grabbed both her children, ignoring Kushina's yell of what was going on, before hitting the floor to show a small chamber under the house. She rushed into it, her daughters in both her arms, as she set them on the seal with a sad expression.

"Listen to me Kushina-chan." Kuina said with a bit of worry in her voice "No matter what happens, i need you to protect your sister, ok?"

Kushina gave a confused, and panicked, look as she asked "Okachan? Why would I-?"

Kunia quickly shushed her daughter before saying "Just listen to me Kushina-chan. I don't know If i'll be able to see you again, so please, protect your sister no matter what, ok?"

The Uzumaki matriarch didn't even let her daughter react before she activated the seal, sending her children to a safe room under the Senju compound in Konoha. With that out of the way, she gave a small sigh. In a flash, however, she had a kunai in her hand, it gleaming red as two Shinobi with an Iwa headband fell to the ground behind her. In an instant, the calm and collected Kuina went from her normal expression, to one of complete and utter fury.

Who were this shinobi, attacking

home and trying to kill

family like they didn't matter? She growled deeply before she pulled a paper tag out and threw it straight up. She was still in the seal room, so when the explosion went off, it didn't touch her, but fried about twenty shinobi that had a mix of three headbands. Iwa, Kumo, and Kiri.

So, she had these three hidden villages to thank for having to send her daughters away earlier than expected. She didn't know what they were trying to pull with this, but she wasn't going to let them get away with it, as she jumped out of the whole, and with a flash of movement, she had killed another three enemy shinobi that were attacking.

Heading towards the tower that would have the head of the village working, she saw that there was fighting all around the village, but no children among the dead bodies. The few Uzumaki that had died so far were the ones that were among the old and weary, but even then, they had a good baker's dozen worth of enemy Shinobi surrounding them, dead as well. It seemed they were even going for the Forbidden Fuinjutsu now that they knew there was a large probability that they were going to die, if the explosions around the village were anything to go by.

The reason it was forbidden was mainly due to the fact that they were extremely dangerous to allies, and in circumstances other than now, they would kill allies. The Jisatsu Fuin(1) was the perfect example of this. It created a large enough explosion, in a quick enough time frame, that the killer would almost always die with the dying. There was almost no way to dodge it either, and that tended to be the reason it was forbidden. The fact that it was being used, showed just how bad the situation it was.

With a frown, she continued on her way to the tower, killing anything in her war, which ended up giving her a body count of seven Kunoichi, all from Kumo, thirty Shinobi, and twelve animals, which she suspected were summons. When she arrived at the tower, however, she saw her husband clean off the katana blade that he had just used to kill several enemy shinobi that surrounded him.

"Its bad out there." Kuina said with a frown, which her husband gave a nod to.

"I know. But we need to keep fighting. The Fuinjutsu masters have managed to seal a majority of the most important things away, but there is still a lot that they need to do. We will lose, there is no doubt about it, but we will die trying." Was the Uzumaki clan head's single response, which was enough to give Kuina a smile of understanding.

It was the truth, something that both Kuina and her husband knew. They were going to die, and there was nothing they could do about it. Even the best seal's could only do so much. She was thankful now, that she had managed to send Mito a couple of trinkets for her children's next birthday last week. If she didn't, then she was sure that they would never have gotten the gifts. It was also a little thing that showed that there was a blood seal on the biggest information they had. No one could destroy the room that the blood seal contained, and only an living Uzumaki could get in, but before the enemy would realize that, they would have killed all of the Uzumaki in Uzushio.

Kuina gave a nod of understanding, as she said "Than, we need to make sure they stay away from the sealers. We need to make sure that as much information can be reclaimed by the next generation as possible."

With that, the two walked out of the building, knowing full well that they would never get to see their children again, until after they were dead. Despite this, they both walked out with smiles on their faces, and hands held together between them.

With Kushina and Kasumi, however, the younger of the two Uzumaki was crying her eyes out. She wasn't stupid like most four year olds. She knew what had happened to her parents, and she was crying in grief that had Kushina as well. They would never see their parents again, and that, more than anything else, was what caused them to start crying. At the same time though, Kushina was crying silently, being the stronger older sibling, while Kasumi cried into her sister's shoulder. Kushina was doing everything she could to comfort her little sister as she cried, but it didn't seem to be enough.

Snapping her head up as the door to the room started to open up, Kushina gripped the Kunai that her mother had given her the day before as a way to show that she trusted the younger Uzumaki with weapons. As the door opened though, she threw the weapon at whoever it was, and to immense disappointment, the figured ducked, but not before the Kunai cut through something ,causing the person, who looked elderly, to have her hair fall out of the buns she had on before.

The woman was on the older side, but it was obvious that she had once been a really beautiful woman, as she didn't show that many age lines like many old people did. Her hair was a subdued red color that showed her age, unlike Kushina and Kasumi who's hair was a vibrant red color that all Uzumaki had, along with the violet eyes.

The Uzumaki in front of them, gave a frown, as she said "Now that wasn't very nice. I was waiting for a couple of months now for my great grandchildren to come, and the first thing one of them does is throw a kunai at me."

"G-great grandchildren?!" Kushina yelled, startling Kasumi, and making her cry louder before. Kushina gave a pained look at this as she held her sister tighter than before trying to get her to calm down. The older Uzumaki didn't get any closer than she was at the moment as she watched the two siblings try and comfort each other. No matter what anyone would say, Kasumi was just as much a comfort to Kushina as the older Uzumaki was to the younger.

After a few minutes, Kasumi had fallen asleep, on Kushina's lap, while the older Uzumaki gave a soft look towards the children in front of her. Right away she knew that they were survivors of the Uzumaki. The clan was now spread across the nation as the children, and what adults that were sent with them, went into hiding as a way to protect the next generation. Maybe one day, the remnants would find each other, but not in her lifetime it would seem.

The elderly Uzumaki gave a sigh, before she said "Pick her up and follow me. I have some place that she can sleep. Itll be a lot nicer to her than sleeping on the floor after all. I'm Mito by the way."

Kushina gave a look towards the Uzumaki in front of her, but listened to her. It wasn't in an Uzumaki's nature to be deceiving with words. Emotions were completely different though. Actions and words were some things that uzumaki never got as well as anything else, but there were the exception to the rule every once in awhile. Kasumi was an example of this.

Kushina gave a nod of acknowledgement, before she said "Kushina." But nothing else. It seemed she wanted her sister to introduce herself instead of telling Mito her name. The last time she did that, Kasumi got angry, as she saw it as a way of her family babying her. It was found extremely early on that Kasumi did not like being babied. She had almost ripped Kushina's hair out once for doing it. It was an accident as the two year old, at the time, was grabbing at her sister's hair. The second she heard 'Babying' words, she pulled a little to hard on her sister's hair, and it took both her parents to get the smaller Uzumaki off her older sister.

Mito gave a soft, and warm, smile towards the older sister, as she said "I'm not going to hurt her you know. I would just like to know her name is all."

Kushina gave a bit of a laugh, as she said "Even if she's only four, she hates being babied. She tried to rip some hair out once for us doing that..."

Mito gave a quick chuckle at that, but more in the sense of 'I understand your pain' which was reinforced when she said "Siblings can be like that I guess. They want to prove that they can do things on their own, which can cause them to do some things they normally wouldn't."

The older Uzumaki gave a small laugh at that as well. It seems that the elder of the three knew what she was talking about. As she followed though, she saw several doors in the hallway they were in, until they eventually reached a room where there was a futon already laid out. It obviously hadn't been used for awhile by the slight dust on it, but with a quick fuuton jutsu, courtesy of Mito, it was clean. Kushina eventually set her sister on the futon, with a smalls smile at the sight of her sister sleeping soundly, Kushina turned towards Mito with a frown.

"Where are we?" The oldest of the siblings asked with a frown.

Mito grinned slightly "Konohagakure no sato."

Kushina's eyes widened at the mention of the village, but she really couldn't believe it. They couldn't have gone all the way to Konoha so fast. There had to have been at least a thousand miles between Uzushiogakure and Konoha. Despite this though, Kushina could believe it when she thought back to the fact that it was a seal that was used. It would probably take a lot of chakra, more than what an adult Uzumaki could get, which made her think over something else. How did they get that much chakra for the seal?

"A chakra storage seal." Mito's voice said breaking Kushina out of her thoughts and giving a surprised look towards the older woman "You were thinking aloud."

That caused Kushina's face to heat up in embarrassment, though she did say "I think I get it. They stored up chakra for when the would need the seal?"

Mito gave a nod to that "Correct. The seal would take almost three times the chakra a normal adult Uzumaki. They needed to constantly be on guard due to the war, but at the same time they needed a lot of chakra to send the many Children all over the elemental nations."

Kushina frowned at that. Despite being only six years old, she knew why they werent all sent to the same place. Doing so could make wherever they were sent a target as well. Eventually they could probably regroup, but that wouldn't be for awhile. Tears threatened to escape from Kushina's eyes at that thought. She wouldn't be able to see anyone she knew for a long time, if ever, and that was enough to make the normally strong Uzumaki, cry.

Mito gave a soft look towards the child that was in front of her, and with a small smile, she hugged the girl to comfort her. The older Uzumaki gave a small sigh of what could only be weariness, as she got ready to help both girls move forward in their life.

Here's another chapter done and over with, so I actually hope you guys tell me what you think of this chapter! I'm done with my piece at this point, so I hope to hear a review or two.

Jisatsu Fuin: Suicide seal= A forbidden Uzumaki seal that was only able to be learned by those of Jonin rank and above. The seal, as it sounds, is a seal that activates upon death, but in this case, it causes a large explosion that is incredibly hard to dodge due to there being no warning for the explosion.