'Seriously though, how could he lived like this for a long time?!' Sakura comtemplated, after seeing state of Naruto house.
She was expecting his house to be a mess, but his fridge ingredients that bothered her the most.
Even tasting a spoil fruit could sent her to hospital, yet every ingredients Naruto had were spoil or going to be spoil.
Good thing she brought newly ingredients and made quick easy meals so that Naruto get up early for training after organising his house or else what kind of punishment their sensei may give for being late for their first training.
Though it made Sakura irked at those shopkeepers who were that terrible at him just because they fear him.
'Now that I think about it, why...did we fear and hate him in the first place?'
Sakura does not know.
She simply copied from adult like others kids do.
'Saying he was dangerous fellow and monster who ruined people lives.'
'Yet if it was true, then how do we openly hate him?'
'How do we have openly able to attack him?'
'How do we openly able to mistreat him?'
Recalling her times in Academy, Naruto was sometimes accompanied by Kiba, Shikamaru and Choji.
But most of the time, he was alone and almost no one helped him when he was bullied.
She never questioned why, because she found him annoying when he tried to interfere between her and Sasuke.
But now recalled, was he envious Sasuke was liked despite not trying?
Was he envious because I like Sasuke?
Or I was the only who replied to him, so tried his best to talk by interfering?
'Now I recalled, other than me....none of them who liked Sasuke really bothered to talk to Naruto...'
As if he did not exist.
Considering he just wanted some attention and admiration like Sasuke...it one of the greatest pain everyone gave to him.
It made Sakura unconsciously frown at his classmates and made her realise one question she never did not though befkre until today..
'Where is his parents?'
He obviously did not born out of nowehere.
But his hair and face were unique, making it diffcult to say whether his parents in foreign nation.
But she knew, their is must be connetion to him and vest Iruka and Kakashi wears, that had his clothing symbol on the back.
'It was said that symbol belong to village that had ties with our village...and nothing else mention.' Sakura recalled, wondering whether Naruto belong to that village.
Despite questions everyone asked at that time, Iruka did not know as well as village never publish about it.
Their is so little information Sakura could work out with to arrived on a conclusion.
However, out of curiosity she weave hand signs to perform a jutsu she was not supposed to learn when adult came to pull it out from the library yesterday.
"Interrogation Genjutsu!"
A jutsu like name implied made specifically for to interrogate person by accessing ther 'will'.
Regardless of person appear conscious or not or went to coma or not, it will worked as long as target 'will' was not stronger than the user.
She believed that Naruto must had hide something from them, as condition of his living did not make sense to Sakura.
Good thing she learned that target such as Genin or civilains that was aimed during sleep may not notice it what happened, presuming what they seen was a dream.
So she was successful to connect with Naruto's mind.
But she was stucked inside a bizarre situation she did not imagined.
She found 4 individual 'will' she could performed interrogation!
Sakura assumed they might people outisde the apartment accidently got caught in her jutsu due to her lack of experience, but none lived close to him and people doesn't walk in this street, so she ruled out the possibility.
And it also does not include animal or insect, where it does not worked on them.
So she was thinking whether did she performed jutsu incorrectly.
But if she failed, she could not connect at the first place.
While thinking up a reasonable justifucation for this phenomenon, among the will, one of them let their guard down by a huge percentage, having no resistation to interrogation.
'Its looks like...it is calling me.?'
Sakura did not know what inside of Naruto was calling her, and fact her presense is known by something gave her a good fright.
However, she felt a unmistakable warmth from that will, so she decided to took the risk.
***
When her mind entered to interrogate the will, she found herself in a room, covered with yellow clouds.
"Thank you coming, it had been a while since I able talk to soneone." said by a unique red haired woman.
She was a fair-skinned slender woman of feminine build with violet eyes with red hair that was straight and reached her ankles with shoulder-length strands that framed both sides of her face and a black clip that parts her hair to the left who wore a high-collared, sleeveless blouse under a long, loose-fitting dress with a wristband on her left wrist and standard shinobi sandals.
Sakura taken back a bit, expecting a second personality of Naruto, not another person!
"Uhmm sorry, where in my manners!, I got excited ya know after seeing soneone." the woman flustered who could not wait to talk to Sakura.
"My name is Kushina Uzumaki..and yes..my surname is similar, not just because Naruto and me are from same clan....it is because I am mother of his." Kushina said with a bitter smile.
Sakura, went blank for a moment and her brain began to short circuit.
'Wait, huh?'
'Like..how?'
'Why, you here?'
'Wait, is it possible?!'
Everything she was seeing, far beyond common sense she learned in her life.
"Umm...you are fine?" Kushina asked, worried by seeing her pale complexion.
Sakura nod, quickly come to her senses: "Could you tell me more about you?"
Kushina surprised by the question, and was hit with nostalgia when remembering her old memories.
"I came from Uzushiogakure, after it was destroyed during a war and became a Jinchūriki."
Kushina then proceed to explain what Jinchūriki meant and tell about Jinchūriki in other nation their Academy conveniently left out in their curriculum.
It made Sakura more curious:" If Jinchūriki are main power of a village, then why don't we know about it and why is Naruto mistreated?"
For a moment, Kushina tried to suppress her killing intention, disgusted by her village and everyone inside.
Disgusted by those people she and Minato entrusted to their son.
However, Kushina said nothing and only give off a bitter smile.
'It best you don't know for your safety.' Kushina thought, aware that Sakura was just a civilain.
So she deflected Sakura's question by telling her time in Academy.
"Ya know when I began to introduce myslef and told them I wanted to be the first female Hokage, those fucking jerks laugh at me!" Kushina yelled in comedic manner, still pissed when they called her tomato.
She also began to tell her love life; how she fall in love with Naruto's father and entrusting him for her entire life.
Her time with Minato were almost memorable, remembering as if it yesterday.
"Its also feels bad that Mikoto son faced cruelty in his childhood." Kushina mourned, casually revealed her relationshio with Sasuke's mother.
Sakura was surprised and wondered does Sasuke knew about it?
He was not that good terms with Naruto when they picked fights in Academy, but their were rare moments were he protected Naruto, excusing it as 'they pissed him off' if a bully was about to go to far.
Afterwards, both of them were in idle chats, from asking about their favorite food to Sakura asking love advices from Kushina.
They got along well, since they had similar personality, though Kushina was matured than Sakura since Kushina was older and suffered a lot after seeing both of her guards and her parents died while protecting her.
"I wish Rin was here as well, it would been a...ohh.....I think my time has already come." gently said by Kushina, realised that she used good chunk of chakra to communicate, and don't have much time before she loses last inch of chakra to communicate in mortal world.
Sakura mood went dark, can't believed that it was over so soon.
'Their were so much left to talk to...'
"Hey, it's okay, not everything goes way we like." Kushina said, trying to a muster a smile and was patting Sakura.
However, before she disappeared, Kushina embraced Sakura in her arms and whispered into her ears.
"Please give that brat some food or he will stay short forever..."
"Make sure he learned how to organise his house and learn how to cook food...."
"Always forced him to sleep and wake up appropriately...."
"He is dense so show him who should he trust in his life and not become lonely anymore..."
"Remind Mikoto' child to push him to train and scold Naruto if did not take his study seriously...."
"Don't let him handle money, he might gamble away like my cousin does haha..."
"Make sure that brat does not fall in love with a wrong woman and does not become a jerk when loving her..."
"At last....please take care of yourselves....or I feel guilty to give all my responsibility to my kindred spirit I just met today hahaha."
***
After Kushina chakra depleted, Sakura connection with Naruto' s mind ended, causing her mind to return back.
When the sun rise, the morning glow shoned on Naruto, causing him to wake up and openned his eyes
"Hey, are you okay?" Naruto asked with concerned, seeing tears on Sakura's face.
"Of yeah, just dust entered my all of a sudden." Sakura said, while rubbing off the tears.
~At last....please take care of yourselves....
or I feel guilt to give all my responsibility to my kindred spirit I just met today hahaha.~
'I'll do my best, aunt Kushina.' Sakura vowed to Kushina with her new determination.
While Sakura went to make breakfast for them, Naruto scratched his head, trying to remember his dream.
'Why was the red haired woman .....
apologising to me?'
'Why did she feel familiar?'
'Why did she felt...warm?
Naruto does not know why he was crying by remembering someone he does not know.
Curious, whether she exist in real world.
Curious could he feel her warmth again, just a bit longer...