#3 New Home

The next morning, me and my mother were discharged from Konoha hospital.

My mother was healed by the medic ninja's, it almost looked like she had never been pregnant.

What the women of my old world would have given for that?

My aunt Yoshino accompanied us back to the clan compound.

On the way I saw my reflection for the first time.

I had dark red hair and looked pretty cute.

And I wanted to know why my grandfather had such a problem with my father.

I was just wondering, weren't Kushina and Mito the only Uzumaki in Konoha?

Probably not since my father must have been one too, but what happened to him.

Did he die?

Too bad I can't ask my mother about him yet.

Well, I can ask her later when I've learned to speak.

Before I knew it we arrived, it took about 20 minutes, because the compound was at the other end of Konoha.

Many clan members greeted my mother and wanted to see me, so many old women pinched my cheeks.

It was very uncomfortable.

But what can I do?

And so after much talks, we finally arrived at a medium sized japanese looking house, that will be my new home from now on.

Upon entering I saw a large garden with a pond and many garden areas with herbs and vegetables, a large oak tree in the middle of the garden and a small shed and a huge grass area.

The property is fenced with wood.

I thought it's a nice house, we have a kitchen with an oven and stove and a glass door that opened to the garden.

We have my mother's bedroom and my room in which were some wooden carved toys.

I think my mother already got these to decorate the room.

A fuest bedroom, a bathroom and a living room.

Three weeks later, me and my mother visited my aunt and uncle in the hospital.

My cousin Shikamaru was born and my mother wished them both congratulations.

He was also quite cute as a baby, it was the first time i saw him like that, as he was never shown as a baby in the manga or anime.

Otherwise there was my grim grandfather again, but this time I was prepared for him.

I've been practicing showing him my middle finger for the past few weeks.

Seeing his face at that moment when i showed him was worth it.

Of course grandpa said:

"Apparently he takes after his father."

And when he said that I started to cry loudly and pointed my index finger at him.

My Grandmother came to me and she took me in her arms and said:

"Its all alright, did your grim grandfather scare you?"

I had a grin on my mouth and looked at him without anyone else noticing.

But that was enough to tease him for today.

Later we parted from everyone and went home.

The next day we also picked up my aunt from the hospital Shikamaru slept most of the time.

We went to her home, my mother and aunt talked about missions which I found very interesting.

I found out my mother is a jonin and has at least as much skills as my uncle.

And that my aunt was chunin.

Mom and her seem to have been on the same team, but because of their pregnancies they broke it up and want to focus on their children for now.

After about 2 hours my mother walked me home in her arms.

Our house was two houses down the street.

For the next two weeks I tried to crawl, but it wouldn't work, at least I learned to sit up.

Which is definitely progress.

Mom was happy when she saw it.

She guessed it was because of the physical conditions of my father's family, who were known for their strong bodies and vitality.

So she thought it was pretty normal and didn't pay any attention to it.

It was a pretty ordinary day until evening .

My mother ran into my room and quickly got me out of my bed and ran out of the house with me.

She ran towards the Hokage rock with me in her arms.

We were on a street, when I suddenly heard a loud scream that hurt my ears.

Only then did I realize, that nothing in the village looked destroyed after my birth and that the scream probably came from the Kyuubi.

Now I was afraid for myself and my mother.

I saw many people who joined on our way and ran towards the mountain.

Everyone was panicking, people were trampling each other.

There was a constant sound of collapsing buildings and noise that sounded like explosions.

And suddenly a gigantic claw slammed into a house directly next to us and the debris started flying towards us.

Mother quickly created a mudwall that protected us and others.

But the next moment another claw came forward us all, it broke through the mudwall and threw me and my mother and many other people back.

My mother turned protectively in front of me, to prevent me from impacting some of the debris, which were scattered around the area, then she flew against a stone boulder and I passed out.