Chapter 1: The Love of a Mother

"Be a Mother who is committed to loving her children into standing on higher ground than the environment surrounding them. Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth."

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Late one October night, there was a small child born to two strong Shinobi, well strong in their own special way. Minato Namikaze was known as the fastest man on earth, having decimated almost an entire army all by himself, in the blink of an eye no less. Then there was Kushina Uzumaki, Jinchuuriki to the Kyuubi no Kitsune and a skilled Kunoichi in her own special ways, which mainly included her legendary chakra chains. Both of these people were dead now, killed by the Kyuubi itself before the massive chakra construction was sealed into their own child. Said child's name was Naruto Uzumaki, last known survivor of the Uzumaki clan and the only child of the Hokage.

Crying for the loss of his parents, who had sacrificed their own lives to keep him safe, but his young mind didn't realize, or even comprehend, that they were dead. All Naruto's young mind knew was that he was covered in gooey stuff and that he was very cold. So Naruto cried into the blood covered night, the full moon shining down on just him, like a sign from the heavens of how special Naruto really was. Then, out of the shadows of the nearly destroyed forest, walked a very strange looking woman.

This woman possessed very delicate facial features, her skin looked to be as smooth as glass. She had long, sweeping light colored hair that literally reached the ground, giving her an even more majestic look than most other women. The most noticeable thing about her were two horn-like protrusions which stuck out from her head, almost like rabbit ears. Here eyes were a beautiful pure white, which would cause some to mistake her as a member of the Hyuga clan. However, unlike most humans, this woman possessed a third eye located vertically on her forehead. This eye was completely red with several rings in it and, on each right, were three tomoe. Her eyebrows were cut short and she wore a dark shade of lipstick and a dark shade of nail polish on her long nails, which almost resembled claws. Finally, this mysterious woman wore a high-collared hime-kimono, which had lines weaving in the design and a line tomoe running down the center and edges of the dress.

As this strange, yet extremely beautiful, woman walked through what could only be considered a war zone, the menacing chakra that had belonged to the Kyuubi seemed to part like the red sea, not even so much as touching her. Each step was equally measured, no sound came from her steps, and her pale white eyes never wavered from the crying child in the middle of the clearing. Curiosity had brought her out this late October night, curiosity about the chakra she felt in this child, who had been born in the middle of so much bloodshed. Reaching down, the horned woman picked up the baby Naruto, the blood moving away the closer her hand got as if by some magical force, and finally she picked him up, not a drop of blood on him.

"Are you my son Hagoromo, no maybe you're his son Asura?" the woman asked, her voice was both strong and soft, even if her facial expression didn't shift, you could still tell she was interested in the baby Naruto.

The strange woman tilted her head ever so slightly, as if it would give her better knowledge of what she was looking for. This child, currently snuggling into the warmth that she provided, was very interesting indeed, but those other chakra signatures approaching would distract her from the baby in her arms. They weren't particularly strong, not when compared to herself, and they were no doubt coming for the child, which she just could not let happen. She was interested in the child now and wouldn't let him be taken away until her curiosity was sated, which could take a while.

"Who are you?" the woman didn't even so much as look over at the aged warrior and his large group of soldiers as they ran into the clearing.

The woman simply turned around and began walking back towards the forest, holding the baby Naruto close to her chest, only to be cut off by more masked soldiers, their weapons drawn. There was no doubt about it now, they wanted her child for themselves and would try to take him by force if she didn't give him to her. Yes, she considered herself the child's new mother, having washed the blood from his body and given him her warmth when he was in the cold night. So, in response to this hostile stance, she faced the oldest man among them, who was dressed in different armor and had a staff in his hand.

"I am taking my child away from this atrocious spectacle, you will not be able to prevent me from departing this area," that was all she said before taking a single step towards the aged man, yet somehow appearing not three feet from him with her free hand stretched out.

"Wha-!" was all he managed to get out before the fingernail on her index finger simply touched his forehead, then his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he fell like a puppet that just had its strings cut.

"She attacked Sandaime-sama!" one of the masked men yelled in horror before all of them jumped at her.

What happened next, happened in the fraction of a blink of an eye. The moment they got within a few yards of the strange woman, they all seemed to freeze before blue energy seemed to force its way out of their body and into her outstretched hand, forming a tiny ball of blue energy, no bigger than a bean. With another wave of her hand, the foul chakra that had been expelled by the Kyuubi, in its attack, flowed into the blue ball, turning it a light purple.

"Are you hungry my son?" the woman asked in a much kinder voice than she had ever used before, aside from her own sons.

The baby in her arms, not understanding a word that she just said, simply tilted his own head to the side before a giggle escaped his lips. Meanwhile, while the baby snacked lightly on the ball of energy she held, the woman walked back into the forest, vanishing the moment they exited the clearing with baby Naruto in her arms.

"Hm, now what should I call you? Surrounded by chaos and yet causing me such a fuss just by taking you away. Oh yes, I think I will call you Naruto, my little maelstrom."

For the next several months, people would search for this strange woman and the stolen son of the Hokage, but neither of them would ever be found for several years. Not many would remember the name of the woman, since it had faded in the pages of history many years ago, and even those few that knew her name wouldn't believe she had even been real.

Her real name, a name that had both awed and struck fear into people for many centuries was none other than Kaguya Ōtsutsuki, the Rabbit Goddess and Demon of the ancient just like always, history was bound to repeat itself.