My Story
"Ma, where are you going now?" Naruto asked, looking at her worriedly. Kushina reached out and grabbed Naruto's hands and squeezed them. They were now standing up and looking at each other happily.
"I can finally go and join Minato." She said, smiling. Naruto looked at her, shocked at what he was hearing. She was leaving him already. The time they had spent together was soon going to come to an end, and he knew that, he just didn't want to believe it. Naruto looked down at him mother's hand with a frown as the smile on her face began to slip.
"Naruto." She called. "There's something I must tell you before I go." She said sounding serious. Naruto looked up at her, waiting for her to continue. "Naruto…It's about when you were born sixteen years ago. I'll tell you what really happened. "
"What really happened…sixteen years ago?" Naruto asked, wondering what she was talking about.
"I was the Nine Tail's Jinchuriki before you." Kushina said, now being serious. "Let's start from there."
"You were the Nine Tail's Jinchuriki, Ma?" Naruto asked, unable to comprehend what she was saying. He had known that there were other Jinchuriki's before him, but he never would have thought it was his own mother.
"Yes." She said, looking down. "Before I can tell you what happened sixteen years ago, I need to tell you a little more about myself." She looked up at her son and said. "I was chosen as the second Jinchuriki host of Nine Tails. Truth be told, I was brought here for the express purpose of being the Nine Tail's Jinchuriki…"
"Why?" Naruto asked, confused on why they would do something like that and angry because they did. "Why did they have to choose someone from another land!"
"You're right. I'm from a different land, and village but the Land of Fire and the Land of Eddies as well as the Hidden Leaf Village and Hidden Eddy Village share a deep bond. The shinobi of the Senju Clan of the Hidden Leaf and the shinobi of the Uzumaki Clan of the Hidden Eddy were distant blood relatives. Our people lived long. So the Hidden Eddy Village was also known as the Village of Longevity and we specialized in Sealing Jutsu. We were also a rowdy bunch. The Tetragram Seal on your abdomen is based on a jutsu from our village. And Minato, your father, learned various sealing Jutsu from my mother." Kushina explained. "Naruto, the symbol on your back…" Naruto looked over his shoulder and down to the red swirl that appeared on the back of his jacket. "That is the symbol of the Hidden Eddy. Even today in the Hidden Leaf Village, that symbol is a symbol of friendship, isn't it?"
"So the Hidden Eddy Village…?" Naruto asked, but trailed off, not needing to finish the sentence.
"It no longer exists." She said a sad expression on her face. Naruto could tell that she felt upset about losing it. "During the era of war, our sealing jutsu abilities were greatly feared, so the village was targeted and destroyed. Those who survived feared for their safety, so they hid their identities and scattered throughout the region."
"Still….why were you chosen!" Naruto yelled. He knew the pain and sorrow that came with being a Jinchuriki and he didn't want to imagine that his mother went through the same.
"It seems that even among the Hidden Eddy, I was born with powerful chakra able to suppress the Nine Tails." Kushina explained. She looked at her son and saw how upset he was and could tell he was on the verge of tears. "Do you know about the battle between the first Hokage, Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha?" Naruto nodded his head. "The Jinchuriki before me was the woman who became the wife of the First Hokage. Her name was Mito Uzumaki. In order to help Lord First Hokage who had obtained the Nine Tails in his battle with Madara, Lady Mito sealed the Nine Tails inside her body with a Sealing Jutsu and became its Jinchuriki. From then on, the Hidden Leaf maintained possession of the Nine Tails, but when Lady Mito's days were coming to an end. I was brought to the Hidden Leaf as the vessel for the Nine Tails.
"You were just being used!" Naruto yelled, trying to show her that she was. She just smiled and pushed the comment away.
"When I was first brought to the village, I wasn't told a thing. It was quiet a shock when I was told why I was there. This was a closely guarded secret and the only ones who knew were the Third Hokage and a few of the top officials. Not even the Legendary Sannin were told about this. I was nearly overwhelmed by the pressure of being the Jinchuriki and the loneliness I felt." Kushina stayed quiet for a moment for two, collecting her thoughts. "But Lady Mito, the previous Jinchuriki, summed me…"
"Come closer." said a weak voice. Kushina took a step closer into the room, not knowing what was going on. On the far side of the room, was an elderly woman. She was sitting on the edge of the bed, her hands hold in her lap. Kushina recognized her as Lady Mito, the first Jinchuriki of the Nine Tails.
Lady Mito waited patiently as Kushina walked over to her. She reached out her hands and grabbed Kushina's, pulling her a little closer to her bed. Kushina was shocked by this and pulled back silently, but not enough for the woman to notice the movement. Lady Mito smiled at her for sometime before Kushina got down on her knees and placed her head in the woman's lap. Tears started to fill her eyes, but she did not let them go any further. Lady Mito placed her hand on Kushina's head and stroked it, trying to calm her down.
"Like you, I was brought here to become the vessel for the Nine Tails" Lady Mito said after a short pause. "I can imagine your shock when you learned of this." Kushina looked up at her and the woman smiled sadly at her. "How sad you must have been. How you have suffered. You can tell me the truth."
"Yes…"Kushina said as she pulled back from the woman and looked up at her.
"Now listen carefully. Indeed we are the vessels for the Nine Tails. However there is a way to find happiness even if you must live as a Jinchuriki." The woman explained as she smiled down at her. "First by filling ourselves…"
"By filling myself with love first, I would be able to live a happy life despite being the Nine Tails Jinchuriki. That is what Lady Mito taught me."
"So you were happy even if you were the Jinchuriki, ma?" Naruto asked, sounding happy. Naruto watched as his mother smiled brightly at him and nodded her head. Tears began to fill his eyes at the sight of it and the thought of knowing that she was happy and didn't suffer.
Naruto reached up and wiped away some tears as he heard his mother give a nervous laugh.
"Naruto…now why are you crying?"
"Wait…"
"What is it?"
"That time sixteen years ago when the Nine Tails attacked the Hidden Leaf Village….Dad said a man wearing an Akatsuki mask was behind it. So how come you had the Nine Tails, Mom?"
"I see that your father didn't tell you all the details." Kushina smiled to herself as she closed her eyes. "Of course." She said remembering something from before. "Back then, there was so much going on and Minato didn't have much time." She said more to herself then to Naruto. She then looked up at him and continued in a louder voice. "It's true. The fact is that, sixteen years ago, the Nine Tails that attacked the village. But moments earlier, I had the Nine tail sealed and in my possession."
"Then why?" Naruto asked.
"That masked man. I don't know how, but that masked man knew…"
"Knew what?"
"He knew about the one chance he had to weaken the seal, which kept the Tailed Beast locked inside the Jinchuriki. He waited for that moment to steal the Nine Tails."
"The one chance to weaken the seal!" Naruto asked, taking a step forward. He didn't think there was any at all. "What was it?"
"It was childbirth." Kushina said. Naruto stared at her in complete and utter shock. "During the approximately ten months from the time a female Jinchuriki gets pregnant and gives birth, the Tailed Beast Seal weakens proportionally as the energy normally used to maintain the seal is diverted to the growing baby."
"Then…" Naruto started but never finished. He could not get over the fact that what she was saying was true and that the reason all this had happened was because of him.
"Sixteen years ago…on October 10th…"
Hey, I know this part is a little boring, but its something that I really couldn't skip over since there is a ton of information in it. And I know, again its short but like I said earlier, if I had continued it, it would have been way too long. Plus I'm tried from my job. I got home an hour and a half ago and well...that's how long it took me to write this out. So I hope you enjoy it.