A Different Life of Uzumaki Naruto.
Imaginary Kaasan?...
When Naruto finally stopped crying, he backed away a little from the hug, and looked into the into the chocolate brown eyes of his mother, he saw her looking at him with such intensity, with such love, that it made him want to hold her to him forever and never let go.
After a while of just holding each other in complete silence, Naruto asked his mother "how are you here? Is this a dream?"
Kushina looked down at her son, and saw that he was finally smiling a little, and answered "This is like a dream but it isn't exactly a dream, we are in your mind Naruto, I have always been here, but it has taken me a while to wake up."
Naruto looked up into his mothers eyes and asked "so are you a part of my imagination? Jiji told me that I can make my own imaginary friends and play with them; did I make an imaginary kaasan?"
Kushina heard what her son asked her and couldn't help but giggle a little, "No honey, I'm not a part of your imagination." "Then how are you here, I asked Hokage-jiji about my parents, and he told me that they both died when Kyubbi attacked five years ago."
Kushina let out a sad sigh, "it is a long story, but let me try and explain it to you. When the news came of Kyubbi no Kitsune coming to attack Konoha five years ago, your father made the village start preparing for a battle. I was in my final month of pregnancy, and your father was very tense about not having the time to spend with me. Your father knew that there was only one way that he could defeat the greatest of the demons, but it required that he give up his life and the use of a newborn, but he could not bring himself to leave me to raise you all alone, and give a heavy burden to a newborn. He looked for anything he could do to defeat Kyubbi without having to give up his life and not see his son grow up, he finally found a way that he could live with you, watch you grow up into a great man, but he found out that this seal could not help him defeat Kyubbi."
"The seal your father found was a very complex and ancient seal, it sealed a person's soul into another's mind, but this seal also required the person give to give up his life. Your father tried to look for other ways, but the Kyubbi was getting closer and closer, he finally gave up and accepted that taking his life would be the only way to defeat Kyubbi. The day when the Kyubbi attacked was also the day when I went into labor, your father knew that he could not ask another person for their newborn baby when he had one himself, so he decided with a heavy heart that he would have to use you to defeat the Kyubbi. He stayed by my side throughout the labor and when you were born he told me what he was going to do, I tried to protest but even I knew that there was no other way and that your father was too noble to use someone else's newborn. But given the stress that I was in, from knowing that my husband was going to die in couple of hours and my baby was going to be burdened for the rest of his life, the pregnancy became a bit complicated and the doctor told us that I was losing my life."
"Your father was heartbroken when he saw that you were going to be left an orphan, but he could not bring himself to leave you all alone in this world, so he told me how to use the seal that he found to seal one's soul into another's mind. When I was about to die, I used the seal so that I could be with you forever and I sealed myself into you. I am guessing that after I got sealed into you, your father took you and went to defeat the Kyubbi. He used the seal to seal away the Kyubbi into you and gave up his life to save the hidden village of Konoha."
As Naruto was hearing this, his expression changed from happiness of hearing about his father to, sadness when he found out that his father had to die, to confusion when his mother talked about the seal, to excitement when he found out that his father was the one that defeated the great demon Kyubbi no Kitsune, to absolute horror when he found out that Kyubbi was sealed inside of him.
Kushina saw the look of horror on her son's face; she pulled him into a reassuring hug and asked him in a concerned voice "what is wrong Naruto-kun?"
"So I am the demon Kyubbi." Naruto said in a small terrified voice. Kushina held on to Naruto a little tighter and said "no honey, you are not the Kyubbi, but you are the container of Kyubbi, it's like how you put a wild animal in a cage so that it doesn't hurt other people outside the cage, you are the cage Naruto not the wild animal inside the cage. You are the person keeping the entire village safe from the Kyubbi; you are the hero of this village."
"If I am the hero of this village, why does everyone here hate me? Why do they look at me with those hateful eyes? Why do they call me demon? Why do they beat me up?" Naruto asked his mother, while still sitting in her lap and arms around her neck, holding her tight to him, as if to never let her go.
When Kushina heard her son, she looked horrified. She could not see yet from outside Naruto's mind, she could not see all of Naruto's memories of past 5 years. She asked him in terrified voice "wha.. what do you mean? What do you mean the villagers hate you? What do you mean they beat you?"
And so Naruto told her about his life up until this point. He told her about how he lived the first four years of his life in an orphanage where he received regular beating and didn't get the same amount of food as everyone else there. He told her how all the villagers would call him "demon" and how when he went to play with other kids at the park, parents would drive him away from their kids. He told her how the villagers would throw rocks at him and spit on him, and how whenever he went to a store they would kick him out. He also told her how after he got kicked out of the orphanage, he lived on the streets for a week before the Hokage Jiji found him and gave him a small apartment to stay in. He told her how only the old man Teuchi and Ayame-chan would play with him and give him food at the ramen stand. Naruto told his mother his heart's every little sorrow.
As Kushina heard her son, her expression turned more and more horrified, she held Naruto closer to herself and started silently crying for her son, while still listening to him. After Naruto finished telling her about his life, her expression slowly changed from one of sadness to one of anger, an anger that would stop the Kyubbi in its track, an anger that would make the Kami himself afraid to go up against her.
As Naruto looked up onto his mother's face he saw that she was looking very angry, thinking that he said something wrong, he asked "Kaasan? Are you angry at me? Did I do something wrong?"
Kushina looked at her son and said "no honey, I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at the Villagers, I'm mad at Sarutobi, I'm mad at my husband sacrificing his life for an ungrateful village. You should be hailed as a hero, just like your father is."
Naruto calmed down a little after hearing that his mother wasn't angry at him but she was angry at the villagers, but then he realized something her mother had said earlier and asked her "Kaasan?" "Hmm?" "You said that tousan defeated the Kyubbi, but Hokage-jiji told me that the Yondaime killed the Kyubbi."
Kushina looked at her son and smiled a little, "He did. The Yondaime Hokage of Konoha, the Yellow Flash of Konoha, Minato Namikaze was married to Kushina Uzumaki of Whirlpool in secret, and had a beautiful baby son named Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze. He was a very brave, very noble, and very handsome man, just like how is son is growing up to be." As she was saying this, she looked at the awestruck expression of her son at hearing that Yondaime Hokage was his father; she couldn't help but giggle a little. Then her expression changed, and she said "you should have been raised at the Namikaze estates, not at some orphanage or a dingy apartment, Jiraiya should have raised you himself, he was and still is your godfather, he promised your father and me that he would take care of you. If not Jiraiya then, Kakashi or Sarutobi should have taken you in. You should have had a 24 hour Anbu protection until you turn 11 for being the son of a Hokage and the son of the yellow flash, but none of this happened, this village turned its back on you. The village turned its back on its savior."
"But I promise you that I will never turn my back on you my son, I will never leave you, even though I cannot meet you in the real world, and even though I cannot yet talk to you in the real world, I promise to always be there for you, and I will make you strong enough so that you can protect yourself from the hatred and ignorance of villagers of Konoha."
Naruto just sat there in his mother's lap and enjoyed being embraced in his mother's arms and took in all she said. He was very happy that Yondaime Hokage, his hero, was his father, but he was also sad that tousan had to die to protect this village. He was comforted very much by his mother's words, and promised to make her proud of him one day, and to never let her down.
Kushina saw that her words had comforted Naruto very much and noticed that it was almost time for Naruto to wake up, Naruto had told her about the injuries the drunken men had given him yesterday and knew that it would take a little bit of time to heal them all. "Naruto, it's time to wake up, get up and brush your teen and get some breakfast and then come back to bed and rest. I will meet you again when you are asleep."
Naruto looked a bit reluctant to leave his mother's embrace but finally said "Hai, Kaasan" and faded out of his mind.
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Authors Note: Hello Readers. Thank you for your reviews. I am sorry about the first chapter, I did it in a hurry, I just thought what the hell why don't I write a story rather than just reading it, so I did and well after twenty minutes of thinking and fourty minutes of writing came what was known to be the first chapter of my story. Anyways, I will try to make as many paragraphs as possible, so that reading it will be easier to read.
Also about the harem, I was just thinking of mini harem like Naru/Hina/Ino or something, nothing too big, but if the readers don't like a harem then I guess it will probably just be Naruto/Hinata. Still it's a long way away from any sort of romance in this story so I don't have to worry about it now.
Once again, Thank you for reading and keep reviewing.
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Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto- the character, the idea, and the world- They belong to Masashi Kishimoto.