Chitose brought all the Uzumaki children into the room.
"Listen closely as this is the history of our clan's founding and it started with one Woman, Uzumaki Asura." The awed a little confused, because the oldest there was four. "Unlike many other clans, our clan's history starts not from a shinobi but an Onmyoji. She was a mistress of seals and was tasked by many daimyo to seal beasts and Oni. In one journey she traveled to the water country and was swept by a whirlpool where she met the Shinigami." They all screamed, making the older man laugh. "Don't worry he won't catch you, unless you are naughty."
They shook their heads. "Good, now the Shinigami told her that she was dead, but Uzumaki Asura was smart and wished to have a drink before leaving this plane, so she and the Shinigami drank for eight nights and eight days till the Shinigami fell over drunk. At that moment Uzumaki Asura placed a curse mark on the Shinigami and took the ledger of the dead and changed the age which she would pass, the Shinigami awoke screaming with rage but he couldn't take Uzumaki Asura. So he cursed her with red hair and when one bit her, they would take from her chakra, she would later marry a shinobi and start our clan's history of fuinjutsu but after her death the Shinigami would place her in changes and place in the deepest depths as punishment, even she escaped and each time an Uzumaki uses Adamantite chains it's her gift upon us." They all smiled at that. "Now get out, before I summon the Shinigami." They screamed and ran while the elder chuckled.
Kushina came. "It's sweet that you told them that story, but is it true?" Chitose shrugged. "Crazy things have happened. But honestly never mess with Shinigami either you end limbless or your mind gets trapped in your worst nightmare. I like the flesh eating Shinigami mask, you trade your flesh for chakra and Kami seeing it happen is horrifying" both cringed at the image.
I*I
The Iwa nin and Fugaku squad were being bombarded with the explosives corp launching rocks that at contact exploded. "I thought we killed those bastards!" Emumi yelled as a stone landed near them *BOOM!* The squad then saw lava balls and realized what was coming to the jinchuriki Roshi, yet the Roshi decided to stay back as he knew how dangerous they were.
Roshi though as he waited. "Two of them were able to kill a platoon of Kuro and the woman could stand a match with Han. The wicked eye Fukagu had made multiple enemies go insane yet the boy who had been promoted from genin to chunin was a mystery."
They all looked to the Chunin of the group. "Haruna, are you ready?" He nodded and let multiple ink ninja out all wearing Shinigami masks which surprisingly caused some of the veterans to scream and flee as flashes of Uzukage came to them, the newer troops attacked the surprise ninja reinforcements only touching them did the these ink ninjas explode into clouds of paint hitting most of the Iwa as curse marks appeared like a disease on their skin.
The squad fled as the Iwa nin attempted to go after them only to realize that they couldn't use their chakra. Roshi was shocked and decided against chasing them, if he left the shinobi would be defenseless.
The rest after getting enough space from between them. "What did you do to them?" Emumi asked before Haruna threw up, he panted heavily. "He's suffering from chakra exhaustion." Emumi sighed and offered her arm, Haruna bit her taking in chakra. "That curse will only last a few hours at best. We need to move before they regroup." Haruna explained being refilled with chakra.
Then they heard Iwa nin and Fugaku ordered them to split.
Haruna ended up in the Grass villages hiding his Hitai when he entered the village and requested a place to stay.
With the eyes of Haruna.
The village was pathetic, unlike Konoha the ninja were weak, their shinobi no better than thugs and bandits, undisciplined. I continued my way toward the inn. Then I saw a woman with red hair and chakra like that of an Uzumaki. I followed her and found a hut at the edge of a village so I decided to follow her to hear an infant crying.
I knocked on the door once the child had stopped crying. "Can I help you sir?" He looked at the home, it was simple and easy to say she had no funds. "You're an Uzumaki." She said shocked and I nodded.
"Yes, I am an Uzumaki." She let me in and took out a few snacks. "Thank you, I am Haruna Uzumaki." He scanned the area and my senses told me no one had followed me and I didn't even think that these backwater ninja's even had sensors.
The woman let out a sigh. "Are you from one of the villages?" I showed her my hitai and she gulped. "O-oh I didn't think that there were any other survivors." I looked at her arm and neck, it was easy to say they were abusing the Uzumaki healing curse. "If I'm allowed to ask, where is your husband?" She looked down mournfully and I could see they had devoured his chakra like Shinigami from legends.
My chakra flared up and I was furious. Any of my clan being mistreated was a crime no matter where it was. The doors were pounded on and I jumped to open. "Where's that whore, we have ninja's to heal now." At that point I had enough and stabbed the man through the heart, the other ninja looked shocked as a pulled out a scroll and multiple ninja art works erupted each wearing and using superior weapons against to the Kusa nin as many, Ninja were marked with the chakra curse marks making them useless against the Uzumaki Ink shinobi. I contemplated if I could simply kill them all here and now, slit their throats. Yet that would be cruel, better to have them stay and possibly starve to death.
We left the village. "I forgot to ask what your name is," She looked toward me with a smile. "I'm Rei Uzumaki, this is my daughter Karin." I nodded, the clans going to be so happy. "I'm Haruna, don't worry the clan will take care of any injuries you have. Once we reach the camp." She nodded and we continued to walk, Kusa would never know that a Konoha nin was the one who beat their entire village and they wouldn't dare tell anyone that they were beaten by a nine year old.
Emumi and Fukagu met while returning to base and he kept remembering the biting. "Emumi, could you explain why you wanted Haruna to bite you?" He asked in a gentle tone not to sound acquisitive as he knew the temperment of the kunoichi.
"Since you're the captain, it's a curse in the Uzumaki bloodline. It pops up once or twice in a random generation and entire lines of family can be affected by it. It allows those affected to share their chakra with others and even heal them, but it was often abused especially when the member got captured." Fugaku nodded understandingly. "Me and Shinta have it but don't blab about it alright. Don't want the enemy to find out I'm free medicine." Smiled. "Ofcourse." Haruna came out of the tree line with two red heads. "Speaking of Uzumaki." Enumi turned to see multiple redheads. "Can you confirm this is real?" Fugaku activated his sharingan and smiled.
Emumi ran at them hugging Haruna, almost crushing his spine. "Oh come on." She turned to Rei to hug her. Then saw the bite marks, glared at Haruna who looked offended. "He didn't do this, if you're worried." Emumi chuckled awkwardly.
Authors note: If you have any questions, do ask. I will answer them in the next chapter.
