Kushina looked at the red-haired girl in front of her and suddenly froze.
She murmured, "So alike, way too alike."
Then, she stepped forward and immediately grabbed the red-haired girl's hand.
"You're called Karin, right? I heard Obito mention you. You're that Uzumaki girl who's been following Uchiha Sasuke?"
"You… look so much like a relative from my memories. Can you tell me, Uzumaki Kana… what is she to you?"
Karin was dumbfounded. She looked at Kushina, whose hair was the same color as hers, and said, "Kana is my mother. May I ask, who are you?"
Kushina suddenly pulled Karin into her arms and broke out crying, "Wuu! Wuu! Karin, I'm your aunt!"
"Your mom and I were so close when we were little. Later, when Uzushio was destroyed, I thought she had died…"
"Kana… she was the brightest, proudest little princess of Uzushio. She grew up pampered in luxury. How could she have endured the suffering of a wandering life?"
The more Kushina thought about it, the sadder she became, and the louder she cried.
Karin, on the other hand, felt a little uncomfortable. She gently pushed Kushina away, "This… sis— cough! cough! Auntie, you know me? And you know my mom too?"
"Could it be… you're like that Obito, someone from twenty years ago? You're… my mom's biological older sister?"
Kushina quickly nodded and wiped her tears dry, "Yes. I'm Uzumaki Naruto's mother. This time I came here especially to see my future son, but I didn't expect to meet you."
"I'd long heard that you have a special healing constitution, as well as wide-range sensory ability. Even in the history of our Uzumaki clan, that's very rare."
"The sensing ability aside, especially the healing constitution, before you, only Kana had that. Back then, I had already suspected a little, but I never dared guess in that direction…"
Karin suddenly froze on the spot, "So… you really are my aunt?"
Her voice began to tremble.
"Which means… my mom really was the brightest, proudest little princess of Uzushio, just like you said?"
Kushina said firmly, "Of course it's true!"
"Kana was the youngest daughter in the family. Our father, mother, and I all gave her the most love. She was the precious pearl of Uzushio."
Karin couldn't help but take a step back.
There was no reason not to believe what this aunt said.
After all, could Uchiha Obito, after finishing the Fourth War, really go find someone just to deceive her? Did she deserve that much effort?
But her mom being a princess as a child, she had never known that.
In her memory, her mom was a timid, cowardly person, eyes devoid of light, bullied in Kusagakure, no different from other women.
Yet from her aunt's words, she could almost imagine how dazzling, proud, and confident her mother must have been as a child.
For no reason, Karin's tears began to fall. She took off her glasses and wiped them with her hand over and over.
Kushina calmed down, took a deep breath, and said, "Karin, can you tell me, who is your father?"
Karin fell silent. After a while, she muttered, "I don't know. Maybe just some ninja from Kusagakure. There were too many such ninjas… I can't tell."
Kushina's face instantly turned pale. From Karin's words, she could hear that her own younger sister seemed to have been vi*lated by many, to the point she couldn't even tell who the father of her child was.
Her fists clenched tightly, her whole body radiating a sinister aura. She gritted her teeth and spoke each word clearly.
"Kusa! Gakure!!"
At the side, Obito quickly said, "Mistress, don't get too worked up. If you really can't stand it, I'll wipe Kusagakure off the map for you."
But Kushina only grew more anxious, "Obito, we can't stay here any longer. I need to go back immediately and find my sister. I absolutely cannot let her suffer harm again!"
Obito tried to comfort her, "Mistress, don't worry. Miss Kana is safe now. She… together with her cousin, Uzumaki Kasui's son, she's with him. With Kasui's son taking care of her, she won't be bullied."
Kushina was stunned, "Aunt Kasui… her son is who?"
"And… Obito, how do you know all this? Or could it be… you had a hand in it?"
Obito glanced at Kushina cautiously.
Of course, he was the one behind it. Ever since he saved Kana's maid, Ibuki, Kana's fate had changed.
He just hadn't expected things to turn out so coincidentally, Miss Kana actually turned out to be Mistress Kushina's own younger sister.
The key was, he had forgotten to tell her right away.
He sneaked another glance at Kushina, trembling as he spoke, "Mistress, to be honest… Nagato is actually Uzumaki Kasui's son. That makes Miss Kana his cousin. So now she's been taken into the Akatsuki."
"You know how that group is. With Akatsuki there, the chances of Miss Kana facing danger are almost zero."
Kushina let out a huge sigh of relief, then was shocked, "Ha, Nagato is Aunt Kasui's son? My cousin?"
"No, Obito, this is such important information. Why didn't you tell me?"
Obito scratched his head awkwardly, "I only found out when I went on a mission to Amegakure. And even though I fought and won a Fourth War in the meantime, not that many days have actually passed. I just happened to meet you now, Mistress…"
Obito thought Kushina was probably about to flare up again as the Bloody Red Hot-Blooded Habanero and beat him senseless. He had already braced himself for her rage.
But this time, Kushina only showed a sorrowful expression and started laughing.
"Hehe, heheh, hehehheheh, hahahaha, hahahahaha!"
Looking at the Mistress losing it like that, Obito suddenly felt this was even scarier than her giving him a punch.
He quickly said, "Mistress, what's wrong? No matter what happened, I can solve it for you. Please don't hurt yourself, or else… what about Naruto?"
At the mention of Naruto, Kushina regained part of her reason, though her eyes still showed despair.
She spoke faintly, "Obito, I suddenly realized something."
"Do you know why all these years, I never tried to look for my own family? Did you really think I was that heartless of a person?"
Obito suddenly had a bad feeling.
Sure enough, Kushina continued, "Because back then, the ANBU who took me back to Konoha told me they had personally witnessed my sister, my father, and my mother die."
"They even brought the disfigured corpses before me, telling me, 'Look, these are your relatives.'"
"Because the bodies were so badly damaged, and I was still young, I didn't dare look closely. So I believed their lies!"
"I thought I had nothing left, that I was all alone, without anyone to rely on. Only then did I follow them back to Konoha!"
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