Chapter 23: Aelita… UZUMAKI?!

"HOW?!"

"I-I'm not sure, but most of your DNA matches up!" Jeremie said.

All of a sudden, Naruto and Aelita's mouths gaped open, both of their mother's ghosts (or polymorphic specters as known by the Lyoko Warriors) floated out. "We can explain." they said.

"KUSHINA-SAMA?!" The shinobi (Yes, Yumi, but not Naruto) said, surprised.

"Mom…" Naruto said, not seeing her after two years.

"MOM?!" Yumi asked.

"Yeah, she's my mom." Naruto said.

"Yeah." Kushina said.

Aelita couldn't think of what to say… she hadn't seen her mother since she was three years old.

"AELITA! My darling!' her mother yelled, and wrapped her in her arms.

"M-mom…" Aelita said, stunned. First she was related to Naruto, and now her mom comes out of NOWHERE?! She started crying tears of joy, the way Naruto did when he first saw Kushina.

"This is… Aelita's mom… and…. Naruto's mom?" Ulrich asked. "What's going on?"

The two ghosts pulled away from their embraces. "Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, you fought the Kaguya in the Fourth Great Ninja War and won, right?" Anthea Schaeffer asked the Konoha shinobi.

"Yes, because of Naruto and Sasuke." Shikamaru said.

"Do you know why the Kaguya fought you?"

"She wanted all the chakra in the world, didn't she?" Naruto asked.

"She also fought for another reason, one which I never knew until the last minutes of my life." Kushina said.

"What?" Naruto asked, anxious to hear what his late mother had to say.

"X.A.N.A. and the Kaguya established a link, and X.A.N.A. added the Elemental Nations to Lyoko, in return for half of the chakra in the Jūbi (or Divine Tree)'s body. However, Kaguya betrayed X.A.N.A., so the Elemental Nations were removed from Lyoko, and two children and a certain pink-haired woman came along with it and onto Lyoko, named Aelita Schaffer, Anthea Schaffer, and Yumi Ishiyama." Kushina said as she looked at the women.

"Is that… why the Black Ops or whatever took you away, mom?" Aelita said, her voice trembling like it was to bust.

"Y-yes, my pink haired angel." Anthea said.

"Princess. That's what we call her." Jeremie said.

"Jeremie!" Aelita said. She'd probably be blushing if she was in the "real world".

"Okay, my pink haired princess." Anthea corrected.

"So… Konoha was once part of Lyoko?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah… It was Obito who told me, as he extracted the Nine-Tails- "

"Kurama." Naruto said. "Sorry."

"Kurama out of me."

"What did he say?" Sasuke asked.

"I don't really remember, but I think he said that the Kaguya and their dream world of Genjutsu would solve it all… and nobody would have to worry about a thing… until everyone died of age. Even then, they would be under Genjutsu, and they wouldn't even know they died until another ghost who died before the jutsu was activated to snap them out of it." Kushina said.

"Heh, pretty deep for the mother of Naruto." Yumi said.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" Kushina said, with veins popping out and her eyes blank whine with rage. She raised a fist.

"N-nothing! I was just surprised that Obito would tell you that much!" Yumi said, panicking.

"YOU'D BETTER HAVE SAID THAT!" Kushina said. She automatically changed back to her normal self. "Now, where did I leave off?" Everyone (Yes, Ulrich, Odd, Aelita, Anthea, Yumi, Jeremie, Naruto, Shikamaru, Hinata, Sakura, and even SASUKE for goodness' sake) stared at the red-haired woman in a shocked state.

"Um…" Hinata said, poking her two index fingers together nervously. "When Obito explains the Genjutsu world to you."

"Thanks," Kushina said. "So, to forget about the Kaguya's actions and the wage of war, she decided to make a Genjutsu world… that's about all I know."

Everyone was left speechless. Then, Naruto broke the silence.

"Then how is someone as smart as Aelita my cousin?" he asked.

"We don't really know." Anthea said. "But you, Naruto, you never studied in class. That could be why. If Kushina was around, she might've been able to evoke you to learn, and you would be as smart as my little darling."

"I guess that makes sense." Naruto said.

"Now, pardon me for asking this, but how do we attack things here?" Sakura asked.

"Oh, yes! Sorry!" Jeremie said. "The monsters on Lyoko come in various sizes, and they all have an eye of X.A.N.A. somewhere on them. To devirtualize (kill) them, you need to hit that eye. You need to defeat the monsters to get Aelita to the tower, deactivate it, and bring the world to peace."

"I see. That's it?" Sasuke said. "Sounds easy."

"It's not quite easy once you have to face a wall of Bloks." Odd and Ulrich said.

"What are Bloks?" Shikamaru asked.

"We'll explain later." Yumi said.

"Well. Now that we've gotten our briefing of Lyoko, should we go back to Konoha?"

"Sure!" The others said.

"Wait, you can't leave your mother's ghosts on Lyoko!" Anthea said. The two were sucked into their children's bodies. The event was as horrid as when they escaped the bodies. The team was gonna have to get used to that.

"See you, Jeremie!" The group of 9 said.

"See you!"

And the team was off to Konoha yet again.

Hey hey hey! So I know that Naruto ended this week... so sad, so sad. But Boruto's coming out on April 5th... I'M SO EXCITED!

That's pretty much all I had to say... See Ya! :-)