Blood and Tears.
That was the last thing that Karin remembered of her mother. Blood poured out of her mouth as she took her last breath and tears ran down her eyes as she looked at Karin one last time.
As long as she could remember her mother was the only person who loved her and cared of her , her dad died while protecting her mother when she was pregnant from some Shinobi who wanted to capture them and after that her mother took Shelter in the hidden grass village and the only thing they cared about was their special ability to heal others.
And so they used her mother to heal others until she was nothing but a hollow puppet following their every order and even then they didn't let her go. Only in death did she find her peace. On one hand she was sad that her mother was dead and on the other relieved that at least now she was free of her tormentors.
After her mother died Karin had fled the village so that she could escape the same fate as of her mother but she was caught before she could even cross the border and then he came.
A man who is nothing like a human . A powerful and dangerous person who single-handedly killed all the Shinobi chasing her. He looked at her and immediately knew that something was special about her , that she was an Uzumaki and offered her refuge. He promised her power to defend herself and in return he only wanted her loyalty but Karin's loyalty only lies with one person and he doesn't need to know that . All Karin needs to do is survive and become strong enough to search.
Search for the child that was promised. The child that Uzumaki believed will be born to avenge them and their clan . The child that would reunite the remaining clan and change the world. But until then she would wait and preserve and as her new master called her for a new mission she remembered the tale her mother used to tell her every night so that Karin knew where she belonged.
The tale of the founder and the prince of storms and whirlpools.
Flashback : Karin's POV
"Mother are you alright?" Karin asked fearfully. As long as Karin can remember her mother was sick and with time her sickness seems to get worse and worse.
"Yes my dear child" her mother replied. "Is something bothering you my love?".
"I am afraid, mother. Afraid that you'll leave me like father did . What will I do without you? Please don't leave me alone." She cried to her mother.
Her mother tried to speak but again coughed some blood. Karin ran to give her some water.
"Thanks my child. Karin dear never think for even a second that I will leave you. Maybe I won't be with you in the flesh but my soul will always watch over you and my love will always be with you."
Karin melted at her mother's words. The dam of her eyes broke with full force. To even think of a world where her mother would not be there to love her , to protect her scares her and she lets it out to her mother who promised her again and again that she would not be alone , that her parents would always watch over her.
"Dear child, don't think too much of me dying. For other people maybe death means the end but for us who share the Uzumaki blood death is nothing but a start to a new journey. Always remember that death is not our enemy but our protector and we are the childrens of death."
Maybe Karin was so consumed in her grief that she might have heard wrong. Is her mother saying that Death is their guardian. How absurd. If Death was their protector then why would it destroy her clan , take her parents away from her. Death was nothing but a curse to Uzumaki.
"You might think that now my dear." Her mother replied to her inner thoughts like she was reading her like a book. "I also thought of it after I lost you father. That maybe instead of being our protector all death does is take from us.
Maybe we are not the children of death but it's sacrifice. But now that I am taking my last breaths I can hear it's calling , the warmth of it's embrace. Your father and my family are waiting for me, Karin and the time has come for me to go.
I can see that the All father has come to take me back to my clan but before I go I must tell you of something.Something very Important , something that I have hidden from you for so long. You must understand what we are and what makes us special. You must understand your duty to the empty throne of Uzushio and towards the child that was promised."
The Empty Throne, the child that was promised, The All father all of it is confusing Karin. Her mother looks very serious like what she is about to tell Karin might be the secret of life itself so Karin braces herself because these might be the last moments she spends with her mother and she doesn't want to waste a single second.
"A long time ago there was a man who fought a beast so powerful that it can bend nature to its will." Her mother started telling her a story with slow and steady breath. Like she was clinging onto every one of them so that she can spend as much time with Karin as she can. "And The beast wanted to destroy all of humanity so to stop the beast a man rose to fight it and they fought for days and the man finally defeated the beast by sealing it inside himself."
That man is now commonly known as the Sage of six paths and for some people he was a god. The Sage travelled the world to preach his teachings and spread his religion of Ninshu. He was the person who gave us chakra and taught us how to use it. After establishing peace during his time he settled down and had three children. Two sons and a daughter.
Indra , Ashura and Devi the two sons and one daughter of the sage of six paths. The Senju, Uchiha and Uzumaki are all direct descendants of the sage. We are the childrens of his daughter Devi who instead of following the footsteps of her father like her brothers choose to follow her own path and that led her to Lord Sosuke Aizen.
Lord Aizen was part of a sect of gods who was responsible for guiding the souls to the next life and they were known as the Shinigami. The Shinigami were gods who never interacted with humans because humans could not see their real form. All they saw whenever they looked at any Shinigami was a demon because the gods didn't want the death gods to interfere with humans so they stayed away from them.
But upon meeting Lord Aizen Devi saw the real face of Lord Aizen not the face of a demon and that fascinated Lord Aizen. How can a human see his real self? And this fascination led Lord Aizen to Devi again and again.
At first they were only friends, Devi who wanted to explore this world and enjoy it for all it offers and Lord Aizen who wanted to understand Devi but in all of his years as a Shinigami he never met a more free soul like that of Devi and surely he became enchanted by her.
They fell in love and started a family. Devi inherited chakra directly from the sage and lord Aizen was a god so their children were also special. They inherited the strong chakra from their mother and the body from their father and that is why Uzumaki have such a long life and strong life force.
Lord Aizen was the one who taught his children the art of the sword and sealing. He loved his family more than his life. Slowly he gained popularity among the common folk for his kind and helping nature and people started looking past his demon self and together they built a home for his family and his people and that home is now known as Uzushio.
Lord Aizen and Lady Devi shared their power with all of Uzushio. They taught them sealing and how to use chakra. Together they all lived a lovely and peaceful life as one big family.
But for all the powers that Devi inherited from her father she was just a mortal and with age she withered. Lord Aizen could not comprehend losing his love so he devised a plan to make Devi immortal.
Instead of taking her soul to the next life he sealed it inside a summoning mask of the Shinigami so that he could summon her soul whenever he wanted and live with her forever.
But when the other gods found out about this they punished Lord Aizen. They cursed him to never be able to see Devi again and if he summoned her ever he would lose not only his wife but his children too and that he must leave the Earth immediately and never to return.
They cursed him to be forever remembered as nothing but a monster known as death to all humans.He bowed down to the might of the gods and left the earth but before leaving he outwitted the Gods once again by leaving his very own summoning mask along with his wife to his children so that they can call him whenever they want.
The Gods can stop him from coming to earth all they want but he will never abandon his family. And that is how the Uzumaki had the power to summon the death god to help them.
But with time people forgot the true history of the Uzumaki and when the age of Shinobi villages started the Uzumaki remained in their little island supporting and protecting their family because for Uzumaki family comes above all and with the special powers that the Uzumaki wielded comes the fear associated with it.
People grew scared of how easily the Uzumaki can do things that seemed impossible for others and the true fear towards Uzumaki started when lady Mito who married Hashirama Senju became the first jinchuriki of the nine tails fox and that initiated the true campaign to wipe out the Uzumaki because even the tailed beast were nothing against their might.
I don't know what happened clearly because I was a little girl at the time but somehow the allied forces of Kumo , Iwa and Kiri entered Uzushio in the cover of the night and when everyone was sleeping peacefully they started massacring our people .
It was brutal , chaos was everywhere. The allied force had only one motivation and that was to kill Uzumaki, not capture or subdue, just kill , kill and kill. Our leader at that time was Lord Yoshino who saw that the destruction of Uzushio was the only outcome of this invasion; he felt the only way to protect what little of his family remained was to sacrifice himself.
And so he created a barrier around Uzushio that trapped anyone who didn't have Uzumaki chakra in them and the remaining members of clan Uzumaki left the barrier with heavy hearts and sorrow.
Lord Yoshino summoned the Shinigami to devour the souls of all the invaders that were present that night and when Lord Aizen came as a Shinigami he saw only what was left of the beloved home he and his wife had built. He saw the dead bodies of not only the enemy but of his children as well. He has never felt so angry in his entire life.
Lord Yoshino apologised to the All father for failing to protect his family. He didn't have much time left and the barrier was necessary to end all their enemies so he urged the Shinigami to take the soul of all those trapped inside the barrier at the cost of his own life and that was exactly what Lord Aizen did.
He devoured all the souls of enemy shinobi and they all died screaming and kicking unable to escape the fate that welcomed them and now they all are trapped inside the Shinigami's stomach to suffer a fate worse than death for all eternity and with that Lord Yoshino finally fell.
The Uzumaki that survived all stayed behind to bury all of their fallen family and to give them a proper farewell and the All father also stayed with them.
Filled with anger at being unable to do anything for his fallen family he cursed the god for their inaction, for letting the innocent be killed without any consequences and he used the power he regained with time to compel the gods to his will and the gods finally listened to his anger.
A prophecy was told by the skies of a boy who will be born with the blessings of death, one who will attain what no other before him has and that boy will be the one to fulfil the will of the Shinigami.
I was there little Karin when the prophecy was told and I saw the power that the All father wielded even in his weak form. Even the skies bowed down to his might. He promised his children that one day they will be able to rebuild their home again and avenge their fallen family but until then they must leave this place and survive.
Before leaving he sealed Uzushio and promised that only the boy chosen by the gods who will bend the very nature to his will and only that boy will be able to undo the seal and when that happens a mark will appear on all who share the Uzumaki blood and when that time comes you all must unite together and rebuild our home and with that the All father left us.
I was a small child and with time I forgot the true meaning of my exile, why I was here hiding in this village in the first place but now that I am about to depart this world I remember everything Karin and you must also remember.
This is what we are living for. The day is near and I can feel it in my blood. The boy has already been born in this world. You must survive and find the boy Karin.
Promise me that you will fulfil our destiny, promise me that our true home will be rebuilt and we will avenge our family.
Promise me Karin that you will not lose hope."
Karin promised with all her heart and with that Yumiko Uzumaki died with a smile on her lips and hope in her eyes.
She left the village after the funeral of her mother which was attended by only one person other than her, the doctor that mother used to work with and he also helped Karin leave the village.
And now she is here serving the Snake Sannin of Konoha and waiting for the opportunity to go and find the boy that will change her life.
Author's Note.
Thank you all for reading this.
My Exam has started that's why this took so long to write and the next one might be late too so sorry in advance .
In this Chapter I gave a little tribute to the Goat Sosuke Aizen.
I just wanted a name for the Shinigami and what better to name him than the great Shinigami Lord Aizen of bleach universe
first of all this is not a crossover with bleach and this story will not use any of the bleach powers like Bankai.
Also I have taken the liberty to change something's of the Naruto Universe. Indra and Ashura were inspired by Hindu Mythology so I made up A little sister for them Devi who us also inspired by Hinduism.
Things and lore behind things will change according to my needs so if you don't like this then you can stop reading this fic.
But If you still continue than thanks for you support.
that's all for now , God bless you all.