Chapter 3

Woosh! 

The bathroom was filled with glittering light like confetti. The light started to gather at one spot, converging into the shape of a human woman. 

As the light faded, the appearance of the woman became more clear. She had long burgundy hair, dressed in a dark green dress over a white high-collar shirt that made her look gentle and endearing. 

This woman was none other than his good brother Naruto's mother, Uzumaki Kushina! 

The red-haired lady slowly opened her eyes and looked around sharply, an instinct engraved in her body through her life experience. 

Finally, her gaze landed on the young man standing in front of her. She opened her mouth to say something, but then… 

Bang. 

There was a muffled sound, and a large piece of confetti-like light burst out from Kushina's body. The clothes covering her body completely disintegrated and vanished into thin air without any trace of strands. 

Damn it! 

Arata was stunned when he saw this scene and quickly lowered his head after coming out of his trance. 

There's a problem! 

There is definitely something wrong with the technique the system gave him! How could she suddenly lose her clothes? Why did the others who were reincarnated by Orochimaru not come out without clothes? 

Kushina was also stunned by this sudden situation for a few seconds, then she quickly squatted down and crossed her arms over her chest. 

But if someone noticed her closely, they would find that her current state was completely different from the reincarnated person in the original work! 

There were no "cracks" on her body or other parts like the ones people who reincarnated from the original technique have, and her body was also in a semi-transparent shape. 

Compared to "the impure world reincarnation," she was more like a complete soul body that had been resurrected! 

"I am sorry!" Arata was a little embarrassed and immediately apologized. From the corner of his eyes, he could only see Kushina's curled toes. They looked so cute that he suddenly had the urge to play with them. 

'No, wait!' Arata suddenly recalled something. 'Is it really the time to care about someone's toes?' 

[Warning: Please convey your love to your confession partner within five seconds.] 

Shit, you really won't let me go without going through with it, huh? 

Can you have some humanity and leave me alone this time, system? I don't even have a single piece of hair there, and you want me to convey my love? 

What a perverted system! 

The system ignored him completely, and the countdown continued on as usual. 

'Fine, fine, I will remember this!' Arata took a deep breath, kept his head down, and suddenly exclaimed loudly, "Kushina-san, I like you! Please become my woman!" 

Kushina, who was hiding her chest with her arms, looking all confused and ashamed, shivered a little. She raised her head and looked at the boy, her eyes widening a little as if she could not believe what she had just heard. 

The perverted boy not only summoned her out of nowhere but also tore off her clothes, and now he was suddenly confessing to her? 

Kushina's mind could not keep up with what was happening. She should be enraged, but the absurdity of the situation made her unable to do so. 

'Were youngsters these days so proactive and perverted?' If it weren't for the fact that her state was very fragile and she was feeling very weak, she would have taught the boy how to behave with her fists. 

[Optional mission: completed!] 

[Congratulations on obtaining the Soul Strengthening Pearl.] 

Soul Strengthening Pearl? What was that? 

A blood-red ball suddenly appeared in Arata's hand, making him feel that he had a faint connection with the bead, as if it was a part of him. 

After looking at the pearl for a moment, the function of this ball suddenly appeared in his mind. 

The soul pearl could be used to nourish the soul and enhance the strength of the soul placed inside of it. It can be stored in his body, without having the need to carry it around all the time. 

Awesome! 

No matter how he looked at it, this thing was a good thing! But to the current Arata, such a thing was useless; he was not a soul body after all! 

"Sorry, Kushina-san." Now that the task was completed, Arata did not intend to make things more awkward for the poor lady in front of him. He suddenly made an excuse with a straight face. "I was joking just now. I will remove the impure reincarnation technique and send you back to the Pure Land." 

"Um?" Kushina's eyes were originally fixed on the blood-red ball that suddenly appeared in Arata's hand. She felt a deep attraction towards the pearl for some reason. Hearing his words, she let out a sigh of relief. "You took your joke a little too far, young man!" 

"I'm sorry." Arata apologized sincerely while taking some sneaking glances at her. Disturbing the souls of the dead was considered a taboo that he broke. No matter how you look at it, his actions were indeed a bit "too much." 

"Forget it, don't do this kind of thing again next time." Kushina's lips curled up, and she forgave the other party generously. It was definitely not because she was afraid that the boy would have some evil intentions toward her; what could a little kid like him even do to her at his age? 

And there was nothing she could do if she didn't forgive him. She was so light that even her full-force attack might not hurt the boy. At least it was a good thing that the boy was willing to let her go back; she did not want to stay in her current embarrassing state any longer. 

"Arata, how are you doing?" Just then, Naruto, who had been waiting outside for a long time, spoke up, sounding a bit confused and suspicious. "Who are you talking to in my bathroom?" 

'Someone else's toilet?' Kushina was stunned and looked at Arata with a deadpan gaze. 'You summoned me in someone else's bathroom just to confess to me? Are you sick in the head?' 

"Ahem, I'm reading a comic." Arata let out a sigh and said with a stiff expression, "I was just reading it out loud." 

"You came to my house to use the bathroom, and you even brought your own comic book?" Naruto asked in shock. "Are you serious?" 

"Wait, I'm almost done!" Arata awkwardly changed the subject and said, "Good brother, please wait for me in the living room." 

"Hmph, you bastard, you really know how to order me around. I am the great Uzumaki Naruto!" Naruto snorted with dissatisfaction as he walked away from the toilet door. 

Silence! 

In the bathroom, the atmosphere suddenly became very quiet and heavy. 

Kushina stared at Arata, her expression no longer gentle as before. She looked down at him with sharp eyes and said coldly, "Who was your good brother outside?" 

"Ummm, Naruto." Arata felt his face heating up in shame, like a skinned lamb roasting on the fire. "Uzumaki Naruto." 

Kushina took a deep breath and looked at Arata as if she was looking at a scumbag! 

Running into the toilet at a good brother's house to summon his long-dead mother and confess your love to her while he was on the other side of the door. 

Were all kids like the boy before her?! 

"Kushina-san, I have a reason for this." After swallowing, Arata spoke in a deep tone as if he was a helpless man. 

"What kind of reason?" Kushina raised her eyebrows lightly. 

"I'm cursed..." Arata decided to go all out and told everything that happened to him. Well, not everything; he slightly changed the details and described the "Golden Finger" as a curse. 

It was indeed a curse to him! 

He just wanted to be a lazy, quiet, and handsome young man, but the emergence of the love choice system deprived him of his own choices! 

Arata had a vague premonition that his future would be a life-threatening run on the road of losing integrity! 

'What is it if this system is not a vicious curse?' 

"In other words, if you hadn't summoned me from Pure Land and expressed your love, Yoshina would have been obliterated?" Kushina, still squatting on the ground with her chest covered, asked, looking thoughtful. "It's really a weird curse." 

Logically speaking, no one would believe such a bizarre thing, but Kushina could somehow feel that the young man in front of her was not lying. 

First of all, there was something obviously wrong with his "Impure World Reincarnation technique." 

Secondly, Arata's attitude seemed very sincere, making Kushina instinctively willing to believe it. 

(T/n: I Call that BullSh*t) 

"To be honest, I would rather kill myself." Arata sighed and confided to the wife in front of him: "This way, things would not have to be so weird." 

"Don't keep thinking about death. You are still young; you have a whole life ahead of you." Kushina lovingly stretched out one hand to touch Arata's head, while the other hand was still covering her chest. 

"Kushina-san..." Arata was very moved and wanted to say something, but before he could say anything, Kushina's soul body flashed towards the spirit-containing bead in his hand.

?

Arata was confused by this turn of events, Can you actually talk to me before entering my things?

"As you said, this bead can nourish the soul." Kushina's voice came from the Soul Strengthening Bead, and her tone was slightly excited. "Please give me more advice in the future, Arata-sama~"

"Uh, you don't plan to go back?" Arata asked tentatively, ignoring her teasing tone.

"I want to stay temporarily to watch Naruto grow up." Kushina said softly, after all that was the only regret she had while dying.

"But..."

"Young man, Naruto still has part of my chakra in his body. You don't want Naruto to know about the fact that you not only saw his mother naked but you also confessed to her in that state, right?"

Arata's face suddenly changed, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch wildly.

Oye, red-haired woman, are you going to blackmail me?