Time for another philosophical examination of some fan art.
Nah, just kidding. Love the art style and I felt like this really fit with the theme of this chapter. You may cry, do not be ashamed if you do.

Thanks for reading.

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Something was wrong. Naruto could feel it in her gut, the part with the monster trapped inside of her. Something was wrong with the other Kyuubi, meaning something was wrong with her mother.

She quickly got up from the meditation practice she had been failing at.

"Where do you think you're going?" Jiriya asked, a joking tone to his voice.

"It's time." She stated simply, knowing he wold understand just what she meant.

Without packing a bag, she used her transportation kunai to get back to Konoha. She was too late, the attack had begun.

She had to find her father. No matter how much she wanted to save him, he was the only one who could save everyone and seal away the rampaging beast.

"I can't believe I used to be so primal." Kyuubi practically spit in her head.

"Oh shut up." Naruto told the demon.

"Naruto?"

She turned around to see Kakashi standing in the middle of the street.

"Kakashi, where is Minato-sensei?"

"When did you get back?" He asked, seeming to not hear her question.

"This is a matter of life or death. Where is Minato-sensei?"

"On the hill. He's trying to fight the Nine-Tails himself." He seemed to have snapped out of his daze and pointed to a hill in the distance. "We aren't supposed to be over there though. It's too dangerous, according to the adults. I was trying to sneak in when I felt your chakra appear."

"I'm sorry. I have to go, this may be the last time you see me for a while. Don't ask why, you'll understand someday. I promise." Without thinking, only seeing the Kakashi she loved, she gave him a quick kiss on the lips through his mask. "I love you."

And with that she disappeared from his sight, leaving him confused, scared, and flustered.

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As Minato fought the demon, he tried to think of a way to destroy it. Nothing came to mind.

"You have to seal it back inside of someone." A voice behind him stated.

He turned around for a moment to see Naruto standing there, looking like a battle-hardened soldier. It was a version of her that was seen rarely, but appeared on occasion. He hated seeing it. What could she have gone through?

"What?" He asked, not quite understanding exactly what she meant.

"Kurama, show him." She mumbled, grabbing the sides of his face and touching their foreheads.

He saw images of her life somewhere else. In a place that looked eerily similar to the Konoha he knew. He saw her fight and finally die before appearing in the Leaf Village.

"You-" He was stopped before he could continue.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, daughter of Minato Namikaaze, the Fourth Hokage and Yellow Flash of The Leaf, and Kushina Uzumaki, last of her clan and Nine-Tails Jinchūriki. Nice to finally meet you, Dad."

Naruto practically jumped for joy when she finished her little speech. She had practiced it so many times, knowing she would have to reveal herself at some point to her parents.

"You're my daughter? My little girl?"

"Yes." She told him, a hesitance to her voice.

"Thank god you grow up to be like Kushina. I couldn't ask for more than that."

She blushed for a moment at the compliment before remembering the situation.

"You know what you have to do, right?" There was a certain sadness to her voice that any child would have when sending their parent off to certain death.

He simply nodded and set his plan into action.

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Kushina, after being shown her memories and given Naruto's little speech, had been glad to know that her daughter grew up to be like the girl she was named after. She also mentioned something about loving Kakashi, and how they both approved, but she blocked that out.

Once everything had been put in place, Minato and Kushina ushered her away. She hadn't been there she first time, why should she be there now?

But knowing her, she couldn't stay away. She watched as her parents sealed the Nine-Tails away and died before her very eyes.

As she fell to the ground to grieve, she felt something, something powerful. The other half of Kyuubi had been transferred to her body when Minato died. She now had the whole power of the Nine-Tails within her, but she wasn't sure if she could control it.

She had one more thing to do before she would go far away to truly harness her new power, and that was to erase all memory of her from anyone who knew this version of herself, the one in the wrong time. She would just have to stay hidden, not come back until after she 'died'.

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As she quickly prepared the Memory Erasing Seal, as to finish before anyone found her next to her parents' dead bodies, she heard an instantly recognizable voice behind her.

"Naruto? What happened? Minato-sensei? Kushina?" Tears threatened to spill from his eyes.

"I am so sorry, Kakashi."

"Naruto? Wait, that's the same seal Minato-sensei used to-" He froze. "No."

"Just the memories of me. I promise it's for the best. I am so sorry. Never forget that I loved you, that I still love you, and that I will always love you." She pressed one more kiss to his forehead before completing the seal and erasing all memory of her from their minds.

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Thank you so much. Hope you like this chapter, and no, that is not the end. I don't have the attention span to write another book and I would never leave you guys hanging like that.

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