Troubling old women
Mikoto's POV:
When it was raining outside. Both in the outside world and the Private world.
"Hahaha"
Naruto's loud, upbeat and usually catching laugh pervaded the Pokecenter's hall.
Seeing, hearing her little husband, Mikoto didn't want to laugh now, though… She didn't feel the contagion. She only felt cockblocked. Potently so.
"T-This… How…"
She was at a loss for words after she saw, took a clear glimpse of the woman standing next to him.
The woman, that beaming, cheerful-looking fury, that red-haired, spicy habanero, was her lifelong crush. Her friendship crush.
Her sworn sister and best bud, Kushina!
"Mikotooo!!" Seeing Mikoto, Kushina's expression which was already, as always, lovely despite the uncharted, worrying island situation, which she perhaps wasn't informed of, Mikoto theorized, turned even better.
She ran, jumped into Mikoto's arms.
"Lord! Mikoto! An afterlife reunion?!"
"Wa-hoo!!"
"Hahaha, Naruto, take a look at this! Take a look at us!"
"This is your auntie, my best friend, Mikoto!"
"Did I tell you about her that time?!"
Saying to her son, Kushina pressed her cheek against Mikoto's, displaying even more affection, philia, and continued telling.
"Mikoto! I never thought I'd see you again, Dattebane!"
"How have you been doing?"
"Also, what's going on here?!"
"What's this place? Are we in my homeland, the land of Waves, or somewhere in the Water Country?"
"I saw a tropical, rainy jungle out there, there's no such place in either of these three…"
"Is this the afterlife? Did you die too?"
"Oi! Is someone gonna tell me? What happened?"
"Hey... Well... Go easy mom… Hahaha."
Wheedling out of Kushina hassle, lovable hassles, endearing troubles familiar to Mikoto, Naruto laughed and reminded.
"Ano… Aah, about this…"
Mikoto suddenly remembered how much of a talker, a light bearer, a room warmer, Kushina was.
Galling, chafing with surplus energy at times, she was still the same delight. An absolute one Mikoto had always been matched, compatible with.
A minute, then two, passed.
Listening to Kushina talk, and answering a few times of her own going, Mikoto was affected, woken up back to rational motive, not just by the recollections or the innocent, childhood, sisterly oaths.
She noticed how close, how buddy-buddy her best friend and Naruto were. Mother and son didn't look estranged at all.
Remembering something Naruto told her yesterday about his life, she eventually stopped finding it odd, nonetheless.
The boy's life story was tragical here and there…
Ignorant, she participated in the tragedy.
"Naruto, come on, give your mom a tour of this place. What do you call it again?"
"Pokecenter, Ma." Naruto replied. Standing with Kushina, who had grabbed his hand.
Meanwhile, she turned her head and asked, "What's wrong with you Mikoto, why are you so silent?"
At that moment.
Wondering if her own children, her boys, were doing well, hopefully better, Mikoto finally smiled after a long sigh.
She answered, "Sorry, I've been a bit under the weather with this whole island thing."
To which, Kushina smiled back and said cheerfully. "It's okay. I'm here now. Our hardcore, unbeaten sister combo picks back up here. Right, Dattebane? We'll figure this thing out."
Radiating warmth, hope, when she spoke again, Kushina looked like a mini sun, "Not sure how I got here, or why we all did, but friends gotta stick together in tough goings, right?"
"..." Mikoto was a bit awkward. She wanted to stick with something else. Something not sororal.
"Come on, let's have a look at this place." Unaware, Kushina, the head of this dual-membered sorority, which never extended in decades, reached for Mikoto's hand.
Holding Naruto's with her other, as they walked, she had them explain this building, the mystifying island trial, and other stuff under consideration. Such as food and the brine sterilizing device.
They transformed seawater into drinkable water using it.
Kushina was stunned. She never knew such an advanced, useful tool could exist. She asked more to Naruto.
Standing between her friend and Naruto, Kushina's accidental symbolism, caused Mikoto to exhale another, internal sigh at that time. Because she hadn't given up, couldn't.
... She knew that something bad would happen sooner or later…
She just trusted, hoped Kushina would be understanding. She was mature enough.
Thinking about something else, not to stress, Mikoto remembered her sons.
'How are you doing, Itachi, Sasuke?' Her oldest aside, Naruto, had told her that Sasuke was still alive when he left the world. So, whatever happened was unclear.
It was left for her to hope, to wonder.
As a mother, Mikoto naturally decided to think for the best.
No mother, with motherly nature at least, would want to think their child was suffering. They wanted to think, hear about them doing well. Being strong and healthy.
...…
Naruto's POV:
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[Name: Kushina]
Level: 1
Talents: Stamina, Body, Water, Fire, Earth, Fistfighting, Chains, Swords, Weapons
Devil fruit: N/A
~~~
Minutes earlier. Naruto closed, immediately brushed aside the window.
"Mom!"
"Wake up, mom!"
"Damn! I can't lose you twice! Not like this!"
Shaking his mother's shoulders, Naruto suddenly regretted how he never learned CPR earnestly. He learned it like a ruffian.
Back then, Naruto was too focused on stinging, prickling Sakura's ass cheeks with his teeth and his hard cock, in her newlywed bed. He gave it a good smack. Several, uncountable smacks.
Naruto didn't have the mind to recall the good past now, though.
When he saw, rescued his mom from getting pulled back in the ocean, drowning again, he got two nice surprises.
One of them was a notification called *Stranded Schedule.
On the shore.
He was sitting on the wet sand, his mother's head resting in his lap, when he opened the notification.
... Notification which confirmed the suspicions he was beginning to get. About this whole island matter.
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[Stranded Schedule]
[....]
Islander Kushina surfaced!
Next islander: Kaguya Otsutsuki (-15 days)
Reschedule next islander? (Do it in the next 14 days)
~~~
Eyeing, reading the preposterous, the bullying name, another *mom* of his, Naruto's first reaction wasn't to fuss over how wrong he was about the time stamps he was speculating.
"Fuckkk!!"
Dread on his face, horniness occupying his crotch, he just swore out loud!