Minato Namikaze was many things. A hero, a Shinobi, the supposed child of destiny, and probably the greatest genius of his generation. He specialized in one rarely used type of Ninjutsu, and as he looked at the seal, he had drawn on the ground, he smiled.

"Alright then, now to apply a little Sennin Mōdo…" Minato clapped his hands together, drawing natural energy in from around him.

He flinched when it was taking too long, 'good grief, despite Ma-chan's cooking and Fukasaku-san's help…I'm still too slow at this!'

"Honey!" Minato's concentration was broken, and the form left almost immediately afterward.

Minato turns to the owner of the voice that called out to him, a lovely redhead. The woman was leaning against a tree, she took notice of the seal on the ground and smiled.

"Still doing experiments with Jikūkan Ninjutsu?" She asked him. "Dinner's getting cold, I made your favorite, Dattebane!"

"Right…sorry Hime, I'm just out here trying to see what I can do with Jikūkan and Sennin Mōdo," Minato told his wife as she walks toward him, he helped up his hands expecting her to explode on him.

She had been having mood swings lately, she then smiled before quickly pecking him on the lips, "you're lucky I'm carrying something too important to start a fight."

"Eh?" Minato looked confused before trying to look behind her. "You bring the food with you or something?"

"No~" She teases as she moved closer to him with a smile.

He felt her wrap those soft arms around him, those same arms that made him feel like heaven was embracing him. She hugged him, very hard, but not enough to crush him against her like she usually did. Tsunade had taught her a lot, even how to use her famous strength, and it's kind of scared Minato if she ever got super angry.

That and her bringing out The Kyubi when she was in a mood swing one time. It was over Miso Ramen, and Minato kind of felt bad for once for the large Tailed Beast inside of Kushina, of all things to force its chakra to be used, it was over a bowl of noodles.

"Um, you have another little amulet to give me?" Minato guesses again only for the hug tighten, sweat began to roll off him, "Kushi-chan…your…kind of squeezing me hard."

"Well, I'll give you a hint, remember a couple months ago? You know, in the hot springs, when we were by ourselves?" Kushina teases him more before breaking the hug and rubbing the back of her head, "that we had to pay for the damages for…hehehe."

The hamster in Minato's head stopped, proceeding to fall off and die of a heart attack. The blonde man stood there wide-eyed, he pointed at her, then to him, she nodded in confirmation. He felt his body go limp, dropping back onto the ground.

"Minato!" Kushina yells.

The man was out cold, she pinched her nose, "can face down a thousand-man army…and hearing the news that he's going to be a father makes him pass out."

"But," she smiles as she sat by him, "that's why you love you…you're my big dummy."

Minato suddenly lurched up, "wow what a dream!"

"What dream?" Kushina questioned him with a smile.

"That you told me you were pregnant and that I was going to be the father," Minato rubbed the back of his head. "Honestly, best dream ever!"

"Well," she grabbed his hand and placed it on her stomach, "you're not dreaming."

Minato felt like crying, in fact, he did as he picked her up and slung her around. "I'm going to be a dad! Woohoo!"

"Easy there," Kushina laughs while being slung around. "You're gonna have to be more careful with me."

"I know," Minato sets her down before giving her a kiss. "But when I haven't, I been?"

"The hot springs…that we had to fix because we both just couldn't control ourselves. Then again, that was one hell of a honeymoon ender." Kushina nodded, and lightly stroked her husband's cheek.

"Yeah considering how many times we had to delay it," Minato admitted as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Oh, the food's probably cold now." Kushina laments.

"I don't care about it, I'll take us out to eat, in fact, I'll cook from now on!" Minato declares only to get a small whack on his head.

"I said I'm pregnant, not disabled but come to think of it…Ichiraku isn't half bad right now." Kushina bashfully says while rubbing her chin.

"And we'll go to Ichiraku, Ayame-chan and Teuichi-san will love to hear about this." Minato walks her to the seal and looked at her, though she was confused.

"Minato, shouldn't we head toward the village?" She asks him.

"We are, we're just taking a quicker way there. You see I've designed this seal as a hub for all my seals and kunai. It is still in its first stages, I was going to use it before you came along. I figured that for the maximum range and power I'd have to enter Sennin Mōdo. My target was actually was in the middle of Konoha." Minato answer while revealing his new Jutsu.

"So," Kushina looked flabbergasted. "You're making a super seal?"

"Based on Uzumaki Fūinjutsu, in fact, I read in one of the scrolls that your clan back in the day had a master named Arashi that was able to teleport miles away at a time." Minato then rubbed the back of his head as he proudly declared the name of his project.

"I call this Jutsu in his honor, Jikūkan: Arashi No Hiraishin No Jutsu Han Futatsu. It so far only requires five hand seals. Rat, Serpent, Tiger, Ram, and then finally Bird!" Minato stated whole using the hand seals.

"Oh wow, that's awesome!" Kushina praised him as she rubbed her stomach. "Hear that in there, your daddy is a genius…though he could work on the naming a little bit."

"Yeah…I know its long." Minato confesses as he rubbed the back of his head.

"No," Kushina shook her head. "Since you'd have to use it with Sennin Mōdo…shouldn't it technically be Senpō: Arashi No Hiraishin Jutsu Han Futatsu?"

"You forgot a phrase," Minato teased. "No Jutsu Han Futatsu."

"Nope, I say shorten it to what I said formerly. After all, it makes more sense, since it'll be a literal storm of teleportation." Kushina then smiled, "you could place one in Konoha as another hub!"

"And then I can start placing them around the village!" Minato added on.

"Creating an all-around literal Jikūkan Seki. Wow, that's amazing Kushi-chan, and it'd pretty much make Konoha unassailable…well so long as someone doesn't go rogue with my Jutsu." Minato laughs as he rubbed the back of his head.

"True, but enough talk, let's give it a try. What's the worst-case scenario?" Kushina inquired.

"Hmm, well I figured that it'd initially be highly inaccurate. Teleporting me to a random kunai and judging by the amount of power I wish it could easily teleport us well over forty miles away. So basically, we could end up near Takigakure or we can be transported to the border of Konoha's influence." Minato explains to Kushina as he chuckled, "but if that happens, I guess we can stop somewhere and get something to eat from a nearby village.

"True…" Kushina huddled next to him, "ready to give it a try?"

"I've been gathering energy since we've talked, and…" Minato closed his eyes as an orange pigment came over them, "bingo."

He opens them revealing golden irises and pupils in the shape of a toad. Minato began to form the seals, each one letting out an echo of the energy being gather. Kushina clutched his shoulder tight, kind of afraid, but excited at the same time.

"Alright…" Minato called out the technique, "Senpō: Arashi No Hiraishin Jutsu Han Futatsu!"

Suddenly a black portal opens beneath their feet, Kushina yelps and Minato grabs her as they are dragged down into it by the Jutsu's. Minato and Kushina both yell as they feel the pressure of the Jutsu and power of it.

"Holy…crap!" Minato yells as he clutches his wife, "this is unexpected!"

"No kidding, I'm seeing Konoha! Wait there it goes, we overshot Konoha!" Kushina yells as sees everything fly around them, with the sound of ticking in the background.

Both clinched their eyes shut.

Minato then noticed strings around them, "unbelievable…these are Time Strings…and this is the fabric…"

"What kunai did you lock on to?!" Kushina yells as they floated in the void for a minute.

Minato looked around, "I…I didn't I…was about to and we just got sent here."

"WHAT?!" Kushina screams as she looks around the area, both are floating toward nowhere.

"Calm down," Minato reassures her with a small squeeze on her shoulder. "I'll just release the Jutsu. Kai!"

When he yelled at the phrase all sudden everything around them turned black before a bright light filled the void and both felt something wash over them. Minato felt cold air, grabbing Kushina and bracing themselves.

He saw snow on the ground as they fell from the sky, "hang on!"

"Why did I agree to do this?!" Kushina screams before both impact the ground, getting knocked unconscious.

Minato shot up and looked over to Kushina. He was scared as he placed her hand just near her mouth and nose but was relieved when he felt her breathing. He looked around and took note of the snow falling. The cold air made him shake a little bit, but he still bent down and picked up Kushina.

"Kushi-chan?" Minato called her name in trepidation, scared. "Baby…can you hear me?"

"Hmm…five more minutes Minato, I'm so…tried…and for the sake of the will of fire…turn off the AC." She grumbles as she turns in his hands, "not…good for the baby."

She was alive that was good. Slowly he began to limp along the snow-covered ground, he sensed the area around him. Though he didn't find any nearby chakra signatures, well, normal chakra signatures for that matter. He did find that they weren't exactly alone, though still far away, he could sense a very distorted and very dark chakra.

Not wanting to really put his wife and future child at risk the man took to slowly walking in the snow. Using his chakra to hold Kushina tighter as slipped off his cloak and placed it around her. If there was one thing he felt, besides the pain in his sprained ankle, was the fact he felt horrible.

He had nearly gotten himself and his pregnant wife killed. Over wanting to test a Jutsu, a Jutsu that was genius, but even then, it was too dangerous. What was in his mind, was it Kushina's excitement over her clan's knowledge being used. Something they both would be the first to do in nearly a hundred years or was it the fact they just wanted excitement.

It was stupid, it was very reckless. However, what's done is done, and he needed to focus on finding some woods or a family willing to let them stay in for a night until they got their bearings. The wind began to kick up however and Minato cursed his luck.

He clutches Kushina closer to himself, she must be really knocked out. He noted something wet on his arm from where he was cradling her head. He looked down, it was blood. Almost possessed by some unseen force Minato ran as fast as he could.

Ignoring the pain in his foot.

He nearly fell as he plows through a snowbank, running faster and faster until he was nothing more than a shadow. The winds whipped him, the cold burned him, the howling winds carried a foul feeling in them.

He then took note of something. The thin air, the feeling of lightness, it was obvious. They were on a mountaintop, it had to be somewhere in Iwagakure!

This sent Minato into a panic, he was strong, but if Iwagakure knew he was here they would come after him. They would come after him in troves, and while he could easily hold them off, Kushina was a different story.

Being pregnant messed with your chakra, lowering it so that it could use some to help the baby grow and maintain its health. It is why many Shinobi children were born with powerful chakra reserves that were more potent than normal civilians. Its also why their children were able to run at blistering speeds, leap bounds, and have incredible durability.

Compared to the average human, Shinobi were very much superhuman.

Minato leaped over a snowbank. He saw the mountain's peak, as frost nipped at his hair. He jumped over it, and then his whole outlook sank. It was nearly night, there was no doubt, but what made his world sink was the fact that the moon…wasn't their moon.

He stood there and for once the man was unable to move, "it can't be…"

It was, the moon he knew was whole and very far away. The moon he saw was shattered, broken as if the biggest Bijūdama he would've ever seen. Slowly things fell into reality for Minato, and he wanted to create a clone and have that clone punch himself in the face.

Minato had screwed up big time, and he started to figure out why.

The Kyūbi No Yōko, but more specifically his own fault, the seal draws power from the individual inside of it. He figured that Kushina's chakra would give it a little boost, but he didn't think the damned Kitsune's power would be a factor.

He thought very wrong.

So, for the first time in his life, Minato looked at himself as a failure. He clutched Kushina, no telling where they were, perhaps when they were. But he, for now, he had a duty as a husband and father to try!

He leaps off the peak and uses chakra to brace himself as he impacted the ground. He ran fast, ignoring the pain in his ankle, looking around the boreal forest. Trying to find any sign of life, or at the very least find a cave somewhere.

But something was amiss as he stops, the dark spots from before seemed to be moving in unison. He gritted his teeth, not wanting to put Kushina in harm's way, he began to hurry up and got away from them.

Kushina was in a familiar place, above her was a large shadow. She looked up, seeing a familiar sight. A large orange furred fox with crimson eyes laid spread eagle across a solid mass of earth. Its hands, tails, and feet impaled by red spikes.

It raised its head, the furthest it since a chain was around its neck. It glared down at Kushina Uzumaki, it snorted.

"After these long years, isolated and alone, my jailer finally pays a visit." The giant fox states as it glares down at her, "and didn't even bring me any food."

"Kyūbi…" Kushina mumbles as she held her head, noting blood on her hand.

"Ah," The Kyūbi noticed the wound. "Come to ask me for chakra to heal yourself?"

"No, I…well…" Kushina rubs the back of her head, "sort of got sent in here."

"Heh," The Kyūbi chuckled. "You're lucky you're an Uzumaki, your clan has always had hard heads."

He looked down at her stomach, seeing the light of a second chakra. "How advantageous."

"You won't hurt my child," Kushina backed up as she spoke. "I'll die before you ever lay a claw on him…or her."

"Please, as if I would be so monstrous, I'm not human." Kyūbi counters with a sneer.

"I'm not going to believe that," Kushina said. "I grew up with stories that you killed off entire cities."

"I won't deny that I've plagued humanity for thousands of years. However, to be honest, they deserved it. You can only do so much damage to the world before something has to act, and if humanity won't do it, and nature is taking too long…I expedite the process." The Kyūbi agrees but takes a shot back at Kushina.

"What did they do?" Kushina asks as she took a deep breath, "I'm going to be here for a minute."

"Oh? Well, honestly, war. They continued to go to war, killing each other and enslaving each other, even before your petty squabbles called The Shinobi World Wars, I witness wars between continents…even fought in one." The Kyūbi reveals to Kushina as it leaned its head back.

She looked at him, "so you're a hypocrite."

"Not exactly, I thought I was fighting for the right side, and then I witness the descendants of the person I fought alongside commit genocide…" The Kyūbi sneers as it spoke, "I killed them all quickly before razing their cities to the ground with hellish flames."

Kushina lowered head, "I guess I can get the reason why you started, but why not give them a chance to stop?"

"Chance, stop, child…your foolish optimism blinds you. I gave them plenty of leave way, constantly warning them, a smashed mountain there…a forest fire here. There final warning was usually an earthquake, and if they didn't heed it, I would just raze that city or village." The Kyūbi just speaks as it looked at her.

"However," it said. "Being sealed and being forced into someone is fairly recent."

"I didn't really have a choice in the matter," Kushina replied with a soft voice. "I get it, I do somewhat, after you were sealed in me the…isolation."

"Then why don't you rip away my seal and let me free," it offered up. "If you feel that I was wronged in some way, then wouldn't it be only fair to release me from bondage?"

She nods, "it would be…but I can't, and you know that. Releasing you would put a death sentence on me, my unborn baby, my husband. Not to mention the other unborn children, and children across Konoha."

"You'd raze it to the ground," she told him. "You'd probably try to raze the other large villages to the ground."

"Heh, not too far off, but no. My one and only goal is Konoha, where that bastard Madara Uchiha came from and that bastard Hashirama. However, the goal is forever gone…" The Kyūbi laments.

"I kind of feel sorry for you," Kushina admitted. "I never held any hatred for you, well…the hatred that was justified."

"I guess since you're becoming a mother the world is seen in a different view, you've toned down from the loudmouth of a girl I watched you as." The Kyūbi says as it leans his head up.

Grunting with effort as the chain pulled him back on to the stone. Kushina looked saddened by it, she watches as he struggled to even flex his wrists. The redhead slowly walked forward and raised her hand up, slowly the chain around his neck began to glow.

Then disappeared.

The Kyūbi's eyes were wide as he looked down at her, it was a small gesture, but it was a powerful one.

"I can't trust to let you fully go, because I know if I do…I die." Kushina rubs her stomach, "and I don't want to do that because my child never did anything to you."

"Life isn't fair…" The Kyūbi retorts.

"I know," Kushina agreed with a sigh. "But I think you need me alive as well."

"Very true, until you go into labor." It chuckles.

"W-what?" Kushina looked horrified.

"Foolish girl," The Kyūbi laughed. "I don't give a damn about your child, or your sense of morality. Your seal weakens, as all Jinchūriki women does."

She stood there, wanting to slam the chain back on his neck, maybe even try to break it. However, though she knew he could sense the negative anger rolling off her, she did something unexpected. She just looked at him right in his eyes.

"You won't break free, because I plan on having my child…and then I'll have more children!" She declares.

She looked right into his very being, "and each time I will survive. I will hold them, I will sob because a mother's love is more powerful than a demon's hatred!"

"You want to bet your life to just pop out children, how pathetic are you?!" The Kyūbi screams back at her.

"I'm not pathetic, my one dream after getting married was to have a lot of children. I don't give a care in the world if you're so ultimate demon, some city destroying ancient being, you won't stop me from having what I dreamt of for the last two years being married!" Kushina yelled at him and surprisingly jabbing her finger into the toe of the massive beast that was hanging off the rock.

It got annoyed fast, "cease that at once, you annoying tomato headed witch!"

Kushina roars out in anger stubs the massive chakra beast's toe with a massive punch, it roars out in pain, "you pest!"

"Don't call me tomato!" Kushina yells at him.

She then huffed, but then sighed, "I'm sorry…I hated being called tomato as a kid."

It glared down at her, "what does it matter to me?"

"Well…" Kushina shrugs as he looked up at him, "I guess nothing really."

"Heh…" The Kyūbi smiled. "What does it matter, the moment you go into labor I'll be free."

Kushina looked down, "not without a fight on my part."

"And I'll relish in your screams of horror," The Kyūbi mocked her. "But if you think Konoha will be of assistance…you'll be sadly mistaken."

"Why's that?" Kushina inquired.

"You'll know when you awaken, you'll feel despair, and I'll laugh at you as you become scared and afraid." The Kyūbi then chuckles, "but until then I would recommend avoiding whatever those black spots moving about outside are."

Kushina shot up from a small bed, she shook as she looked over at Minato. Her eyes were red and foxlike, but slowly they turned to their normal blue. Her head wound steamed making her hiss. She felt the wound close, better than Minato's rudimentary stitching could provide.

She looked at him, "Mi-Minato…where?"

"Kushina," Minato rubbed her cheek as he dropped the book he had been attempting to read, but there was a layer of fear in his voice. "I can't explain it."

"Did something happen to…our baby?" She asks, fearing to look down.

"No," Minato reassured her. "Nothing happened, you're fine…and she'll be fine."

"Heh, still on about having a daughter, I want a son," Kushina says as she leaned against the wall.

But she took notice of the state in which the room they dwelled was, "Minato did you…?"

"No, Kushi-chan, I didn't. I came across this village, town, whatever it is. It was abandoned, and I managed to find a more secured building and settled us here for the night." Minato tells her.

She looked around, "what's wrong?"

"Kushina," Minato took a deep breath, scared to reveal what he learned. "I don't think we're in any of The Shinobi Countries."

"W-what, but how, are you sure?" Kushina asks him as he looked away. "Minato!"

"I'm sure," Minato lamented. "Its all my fault Kushina…I…got us in this mess."

"No," Kushina lowered her head. "It's my fault, I pushed you to do the damned Jutsu…"

Minato sighs as he looked at her, he then walks over toward the small fireplace. "I managed to rummage through the house we're in. I found some soup cans, at least, from what I tasted."

She looked down at his ankle, "Minato you're hurt."

"I'll be fine," Minato reassured his wife. "I ain't clocking out any time soon."

She chuckles, "you always find a way…to make me laugh Minato-kun."

"Oh? Using honorifics Kushina, I am making progress…" Minato got the pillow thrown at him as chuckles.

She just sighed, "can you get us back?"

"I gathered chakra an hour ago, it's the middle of the night…I ran an experiment while exploring the house. My chakra is fine, it still works, so yours does as well. I was able to use the Hiraishin No Jutsu. But when I tried expanding my range using Sennin Mōdo I found that no other kunai was there…confirming my suspensions." Minato laments as he revealed some more troubling news.

"But you just said you didn't think we were in any of the nations," Kushina pointed out. "Why would you try to…oh, you were trying to create an anchor."

"Yes, and it failed, wherever we are…it isn't any place Shinobi have been before. However," Minato reaches up as spoke and pulled a picture down. "I discovered that life wherever we are isn't foreign to us."

Kushina looked at the picture, "Ningen? Wow, so if we're not on The Shinobi Nations where are we?"

"Kushi-chan, I think the question you asked is more troubling then you realize. I found this device," Minato holds out a glassy object before using Raiton chakra to charge it up.

The Uzumaki looked at it, "that's…highly advanced technology."

"Yeah, but its nothing like we've got in our world." Minato tinkers with it, "I managed to make it take a picture."

The woman looked down and saw the various other photos in the phone, noting children. She looked around, saying a silent prayer in her mind that whoever was the owner of this device got out safely. She then scrolled to a picture of the broken moon, gasping and dropping the device which clattered on the ground.

The man looked at her, holding her hand, she then started to babble out. "He was right, the Kyūbi was right…no…no…no!"

"Kushi-chan!" Minato yelled to get her attention, "look at me, we'll be okay…I promise."

"Minato that's not it, when I got to give birth to our child the Kitsune will try to get out. I…I…" she started to cry as she held him, "I'm so scared…I'm scared!"

Minato was stunned by this information but slowly wrapped around his wife in a tight hug. "Then we'll face this challenge, together."

"He won't hurt you, or our baby, I promise Kushi-cha. I swear on my life," Minato stated as he held her. "I don't care if we make it back home…I just want to make sure you're safe."

"Me too…" Kushina mumbles while sobbing a little bit.

Minato held his wife tight and slowly loosen the hug, "I got something that smells like chicken if you want it."

Kushina couldn't help it, "that what he said."

"Really, going from crying to joking, mood swings?" Minato inquires as he poured her a bowl, making sure to have a lot of broth in it.

"Maybe…I'm just…scared for our baby and you. If the Kyūbi tries to escape while I'm giving birth, and if we truly are in a separate world, I am afraid of the possibility of innocent people being killed." Kushina lets loose, "and I don't want that to be my legacy."

Minato handed her the bowl, smiling. He then placed his hand on her stomach, leaning in and kissing her cheek.

"Your legacy, my lovely Hime, is the love that we will give to our world if we find a way back…or if this one if we can't." Minato comforts her.

"You're awfully calm about this Minato…" Kushina sighed.

"I screwed up, but I've had a few hours to come to grip with the possibility of being stuck. But if anything, my loyalty lays with my family, and you're my family…the baby inside of you is my family. If we're stuck here, your wellbeing and the wellbeing of my child is the top priority." Minato speaks while getting his own bowl of soup.

The redhead looked at him, suddenly having another bout of tears fall from her face, "I don't deserve you…you worked so hard to become Hokage and it…it just…"

"I worked hard to be Hokage for us Kushina, you're dream and mine are the same. I want to be Hokage, but it is not worth it if I can't grow old with you. I want to hold you at night, I want to chase away all your frights, and I want to have our children see this and carry our will of fire. That same fire that glows brightest when around the people we love, that we cherish the most. To never go back on our words, to become the best of ourselves, and no matter what home isn't just a village…" Minato took a pause in speech to reach out and stroke Kushina's cheek.

He smiled at her, "it's where the heart is."

She pushes her face against his palm, "I love you."

"I love you too," Minato replied with a warm smile. "Now eat, C'mon, we need to discuss a game plan for the time being."

She then looked at him, "have you tried summoning then Toads?"

"Yeah…and it didn't work," Minato admitted. "My original plan was to call Ma-chan and have her use the Gyaku Kuchiyose No Jutsu and we'd just be reversed summoned to Mt. Myōboku."

"I never been there, is Ma-san's cooking as good as mine?" Kushina inquires.

Minato rubbed the back of his head.

Minato looked at the pile of worms on a plate, his face became green, "okay serious Jiraiya-Sensei!"

"I'm being serious," Jiraiya, an older man with white hair said. "They actually help with the mastery of Sennin Mōdo."

"Eh?!" Minato backed away, Ma looked hurt as she looked at Fukasaku.

Jiraiya smacks face, "forgive me guys, I kind of spoiled Minato when he was younger with Dango."

"You do know that The Great Gama-Sennin has told your future, correct, that you aren't the chosen child that our student continues to search for." Ma inquires as he comes back over.

The boy nods, "yeah, but still, I made a promise that if Jiraiya wasn't able to find him…I would."

"You'd take your teacher's burdens?" Fukasaku questions Minato as the young teen got his chopsticks ready.

Minato smiles, "my teacher has been the closest thing to a father, and family shares burdens."

He took a deep breath before trying a bite and immediately regrets it. The slimy head of the worm still wiggled as he swallowed it down his throat, Mt. Myōboku food was an acquired taste. However, Minato had the grace to press on and finish his plate.

"That and his redheaded girlfriend would kick his ass if he came back a failure," Jiraiya boisterously points out while drinking some sake from a saucer.

Minato almost flung the bowl at the man, growling at him before pouting. "At least I have someone."

Jiraiya punches the youth across the head, "and as your "father" I'll knock you on the head for being a little shit!"

Ma suddenly appears behind Jiraiya, smacking him with a cane, "no cursing in my home!"

Minato and Jiraiya had two large welts on their head, "sorry Ma-Chan/Shima-Sama."

"Ahh, well, it wasn't horrible. After I got used to milk worms and caterpillars. Turns out the entire spiel about the food making Sennin Mōdo easier was a little bit of a lie." Minato tells her, "and Jiraiya said you'd kicked my ass if I came back a failure."

"I would've, I told I would, it seems like another lifetime ago, Dattebane." Kushina laughs as she remembered her and Minato from back then.

The awkward looks, the time Minato had been made to dress like a girl and got hit on because he lost a bet to Kushina. What was it, when they were fourteen and shared their first awkward kiss? Minato and she moved like tree sap, ever so slowly down a tree.

After the Third Shinobi World War ended Minato and Kushina got married and wanted to have a child. However, the first go around she had suffered a miscarriage about two months in. then the death of a student of theirs, Rin, died. Which set her and Minato back another year before trying again.

Kushina was two months pregnant with her current child, she would've probably found sooner if she didn't ignore her last appointment.

All of that didn't matter to her now, she was here, and she was alive.

She was going to live, no matter the cost, for her family.

After finishing the meal, the two snuggled into bed, waiting for first light in order to relocate and try to find civilization. Hopefully, this new world, whatever it held, would be easy enough to adjust to. She knew well enough as she slept Minato would probably keep his eyes open, making sure she would be safe.

And with that, The Namikaze Family rest their heads on their first day in a new world.

Jutsu Translations.

Jikūkan (meaning Space/time style.)

Senpō: Arashi No Hiraishin No Jutsu Han Futatsu (Sage Art: Storm of The Flying Thunder God Technique version one!)

Jikūkan Seki (Space/Time style: Gate.)

Fūinjutsu (sealing arts.)