Naruto's eyes almost went flat as Kyuubi explained how his people, the Bjuu, were all abused by humans, there was literally no reason to enslave them as the First Hokage had. It broke Naruto's heart to realize how... broken and wrong his heroes were. They each, even his father ( His father was fourth, wasn't that trippy.) hurt the world around them in some major way. The First enslaving the Bjuu, the Second allowing for ROOT and the Enslavement of the Hyuuga Branch family, the Third being just a general waste of space and... well his father for hurting him, so pointlessly when his mother had literally offered him a better option to allow Naruto a chance at life.

It hurt him, hearing all of this, but in a way he was lighter. Not happier, but like the obsessive weight that came from being a fanboy had faded away leaving a healthier whole.

"So, mom, are we going to leave Jiriaya? Oh and why are you meditating again?"

She smiled at him, looking up her meditation. "I was subtly gathering my chakra, so I could sever your ties to the Toads so you cannot be reverse summoned. It is a jutsu I taught your father, in case the Toads were treating him poorly."

Naruto cringed. "Will I ever get another summons?"

"It's best you don't give others that power over you."

"I guess..."

"We will leave tonight and I will take over your body, long enough to get you to the Land of Eddies,... where I was born, and lived my life until I was made a Jinchuuriki."

Naruto cringed again, this time in anger at how his mom was treated by the Village. "How do you take over my body?"

Kushina was by his face suddenly. "Like this."

And Naruto felt his body move, his mother's chakra taking of his body. He saw suddenly, through his eyes, as his arm reached out, and lines of seals spread between him and a drunk, sleeping Jiraiya. The man was wrapped in seals who's power he could not understand.

'What does it do?'

His face smiled. "It will keep him unconscious for a few extra hours, about six. He won't notice us leaving... Jiraiya was never half the ninja he dreamed of being."

And then she was gone, moving with speeds Naruto never knew he could manage. Over the course of a few hours, he watched the landscape blur by as they rushed toward a land his ancestors once called home. Soon, far too soon for normal Naruto to manage, they reached the Land of Eddies and Naruto saw, with some heartbreak, the shattered remains of their Hidden Village.

"What happened?" Naruto asked, begged, when he saw how utterly wrecked the remains were. It looked like a bomb went off in the center.

She sighed, his mother. "Three Jinchuuriki and Onoki's Particle style..." She leaped past down the cliff, making her way to a particular goal, one he had no idea of. Until she reached a sudden cave, one that only appeared when they landed. Before that it was gone, a flat piece of rock. "This was where we hid, or were supposed to, in case of invasions. It was a hidden place, created with sacred seals that no one but the main family knew. Our Family. It has hidden caches of food, armor and weapons, and leads under the landscape to safety. I know our cousins never got here, I checked... no one made it this far...

We will use it for training, it is a perfect place to develop your skills and powers. No one will ever know you are here. Our chakra is perfectly masked here, as is our presence. Now, as to how we train, we will be using Shadow clones. They can bolster your skills mentally, but to give you the physical results like your friend Lee, you'll need gravity and resistance seals on your skin. I will write those down, the same that made your father to fast. To fight the Masked man, you'll need it.

We will need to work on your chakra control and levels. I will show you how to use a blade of course, and seals... and we will be training in your mind at night as well. Taijutsu training, circuit training, throwing skills, wind and water elemental manipulation..."

Naruto gaped. "Wow..."

"I will release control, then you need to make a hundred clones. Only a hundred, so you do not damage your brain."

As she released, Naruto obeyed. "What next?"

"Ten clones on sticking leaves to their skin, silly technique but it does help. After I teach you my taijutsu style, I want n twenty the pond in here working on that. Same with another twenty on my kenjutsu style. That will help you develop your skills in combat and control all at once. Ten will work on the replacement, while another ten use those ten as targets for throwing weapons. The last thirty will be sparring you Naruto, I need to get a good idea of how to train you, see where you are now... actually scratch that, make it twenty. Have ten go out and get a look at the area so you can find your way around..."

"That's a lot. Wait, what about the seals?"

"I will put those on after I see how fast, strong and skilled you are. Now... let's get started."

:::

It killed Kushina, but she was not dumb. 'I have a year with him, maybe two, before my connection fades and I return to the Pure lands. I have until then to train him into the greatest warrior I can... it will kill me, but if I can give him this gift, than maybe I did not fail as a mother.'

Ignoring the need for tears, she created clones and began to instruct her son's various clones in all they would need to one day become all he needed to be...


Chapter end, tell me what you think in the reviews.

This was a joy to write.

Love, your Ninja Overlord,

Mika.