That Foreign Ninja
Remember how in most stories you would read, that Kushina was always told as a woman from a foreign country not native to Konoha? Well no matter how her character was portrayed, Kishimoto knows her true origins, ones not speculated by fans. How she and her clan originated from Uzushiogakure no Sato, and how after her clan split and fled to other parts of the world after Uzushio and Uzu no Kuni was destroyed. However this story isn't about that or true facts... it's a story that broadens that view. What if Kushina truly WAS a foreign woman? And I mean that quite literally...
"Naruto! Did you drink out of the damn carton again?"
"No I didn't!"
"Don't you dare lie to me young man!"
We start this story with an argument between a mother and her son, in a once rundown two story building owned and renovated to livable conditions, in Brooklyn, New York.
"How many times, son, must I tell you to not drink all the milk and then leave the empty carton in the fridge?"
"Enough to get laid, mother?"
Smack!
The wooden laden smacked the top of his head firmly, leaving that bit of sharp pain in his head.
"Well with no milk, I can't make my Super Cheesy Spicy Cheeseburger Helper I was planning on making. So you're going to the store to buy some new milk."
"Mom!"
"Now, Naruto," she said with a glare.
He pouted, but relented and got up off the couch he was lazily lounging in and hit the pause on the video game he was currently playing. He went to his room, and began to pull out his usual clothes. They were of the following: dark brown pants, a pair of white socks. The t-shirt was yellow, and around his neck was his favorite pendant necklace he received from his best friend. He also made sure to attach his wallet to a length of chain two feet long to the back of his pants' belt loop, before stuffing the wallet itself into his back pocket.
"Card's on the table, hon," Kushina says from the kitchen having heard Naruto's door open and then close shut. Naruto snatched his mom's debit card, and puts it away into his wallet. The front door shuts after he puts on his white and red sneakers, and was slipping on an orange jacket with a white hoodie, unzipped of course.
As Naruto walked down the street...
"Hey, Naruto!"
The blue-eyed, spiky-haired blonde looked around before the voice calls to him again, and saw from the top of a roof a girl his age with raven black hair as long as his mother's hair, with blood red streaks of color running in jagged lightning bolts, and the most stunning green eyes you'd ever see.
"Tori, yo!"
"Where ya off to, huh?"
"Market. Mom's pissed I drank all the milk."
She just smirked. The Goth girl told him to hold up before she disappeared. Five minutes she's heading out the door and up to Naruto. She wore black leather pants that fit her slim figure, platinum-plated platform black boots (the plates only guarding the shin and toes) with blood red laces. Her shirt hugged her frame and with the sewn cut at the front of the v-neck line allowed her cleavage to show just a tiny bit. It was also made of fishnet so she wore a rich dark purple silk tube top to cover her breasts anyway (Naruto can still see her bit of exposed cleavage through the material). Her forearms are also covered fishnet sleeves which extend to cover the backs of her hands, index, and middle fingers. Add her usual make-up, painted red nails, and spike-studded choker, and you have Naruto's only female friend, Tori Scuito.
"I'll come with you then. Miku's ignoring my calls again."
"Maybe there's the fact that Sekai lives in Singapore, and if I'm right, it's night over in his part of the world."
She shrugs, and clings to him as usual. Naruto in response makes sure that his slim sunglasses stayed firmly in place; perched ever so slightly loose off the bridge of his nose making him look cool. Tori however cared not a bit.
At the house, Kushina was reading a letter addressed to her by her great grandparents in China. Basically it was about the energy fluxations coming from the gateway in the Forbidden City that led to the pocket dimension that was the Elemental Nations and how the energy detected was tied to the Kyuubi no Yoko. It somewhat frightened her, as her family for many generations since the ancient Feudal Era, have been the guardian protectors against the Nine Demon Lords. But now, it seems that Kyuubi was once again acting up, and if she were to awaken once again, then it would be trouble not only for the pocket dimension that is the Elemental Nations, but also Planet Earth.
The first time the Nine Lords caused too much trouble to ignore, her great several x times grand ancestor, Rikudo Uzumaki, gave his life to defeat the Nine Lords, and use his energy to seal the rip between the worlds into a gateway now hidden deep within the Forbidden City. Of course, it was also where she had also conceived her son Naruto, if only on one drunk night with some blonde guy who had immediately left her without another word. She gave a sigh, as all she knew of the man, even in her drunken haze, was that the man wore some headband with a metal plate having the insignia of a leaf etching.
"I hope Naruto understands his future roles as part of our great clan... Mito-baachan, I hope you know what you are doing..."
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"Bye Naruto." She gave him the usual kiss on the cheek as she enters her home, and Naruto walked back to his place.
"About time," her mother said one she heard the front door slam shut. She made sure to hide the letter into a secret drawer until she felt it was time to reveal everything to her son.
The fifteen year old Uzumaki dropped two gallons of milk on the kitchen counter of the interlinked living room and kitchen, plus his mother's debit card, before he returned back to his chair and resumed playing Call of Duty: World at War.
"What took you so long, Naruto?"
"Tori hung out with me as I went to the market."
"I see. You know, despite being Gothic, she'd be a good girlfriend to you."
"Mom," Naruto moaned, as a blush heated his cheeks.
"Why I just remember when you were both little, and back then she was a ball of sunshine and flowers."
And Kushina began to flashback about the days Naruto and Tori would always hang out at the house or at her apartment. And Naruto started to tune his mother out. So, what if he had certain feelings for Tori? The two teenagers have established the fact that they would always remained best friends. So why did he wish he could take Tori into his bedroom, strip the Goth of her clothes, and make her grunt and moan until part of her black makeup runs from the accumulating sweat as they screw like cats in heat?
... Where the hell did that thought originate from?
Clearing his thoughts of such vivid images he returns to his video game, unaware that lurking up ahead of his overall life, what many otakus would call "an adventure of epic proportions" was rearing around the corner... and it involved ninjas.