"No one can replicate such a Kekkei Genkai! And the Uzumaki Clan is now very rare and precious."
"So they wouldn't use the rare Uzumaki Clan for such a thing!"
Rie looked at Kushina with shock and astonishment: "You really are Kushina!!"
"But, Kushina, aren't you..."
"Dead, right?" Kushina finished Rie's sentence.
"Heh, that's true." Kushina recounted the reason they had fabricated: "It's just that I've been revived now, because of him!"
Kushina looked at Sora beside her, her expression natural with a faint trace of affectionate attachment.
Clearly, this was an attitude one would have towards someone very close, even a bedmate!
"Him!" Following Kushina's gaze, Rie's heart was shaken.
Because the 'him' Kushina mentioned was remarkably a handsome, tall, and upright man with an ethereal aura, the kind of beautiful man you'd want to lose yourself in at first sight!
Without exaggeration, Sora was five levels more handsome than the famously good-looking Minato! It was almost a handsomeness transcending humanity, even carrying a peculiar divine quality!
'Is being with such a beautiful man meant that now Kushina no longer liked Minato?'
Rie thought uncertainly in her heart.
But as an older auntie, she could still ponder such things.
However, her teenage daughter, Ino, couldn't!
Looking at Sora, Ino almost instantly had her heart stolen!
Earlier, Ino hadn't paid attention. Only now did she discover there was such a handsome man in this world.
Compared to him, a little pretty boy like Sasuke who hadn't fully grown up was nothing! Sasuke wasn't even fit to carry this man's shoes!
What Sasuke had, the man before her had. And what Sasuke didn't have, the man before her had even more!
He simply stood there, seemingly radiating light, like a rising sun… only the sun's rays weren't scorching, just carrying a cool, chilling sensation that was refreshing!
Subconsciously, Ino had already begun thinking about getting entangled with this man before her.
'And for the first child's name, it would be...'
Ino started thinking about what to name her future children.
However, looking at her mesmerized daughter, Rie was also very helpless.
But given the current situation, being mesmerized was fine. She didn't need to worry about saying something wrong later.
Rie looked at Kushina again: "So, what's this about revival?"
"It's like this..." Kushina began the prepared reason she had woven.
Roughly, Sora was an extraordinary person from the mountains.
Back then, his master made a pact with the Uzumaki Clan for the next generation to marry.
Unfortunately, before the next generation could grow up, the Uzumaki Clan encountered great upheaval, and Kushina wandered without a home from then on.
So, after Sora grew up, Kushina had already married someone else and died in the Nine-Tails Attack.
Fortunately, Sora's master's teaching had a secret technique that could summon souls for people they had pacts with.
He summoned Kushina's soul, then crafted a new body and revived her. And having the same treatment as Kushina was Pakura.
However, Pakura didn't get a newly crafted body… she was revived on the basis of her original body.
And because it was a crafted body, there were some issues. All these years, Kushina had been recuperating and only recently finished.
So she returned to Konoha, wanting to see how Konoha had been these years, and of course, the son she originally had with Minato.
Moreover, Kushina also wanted to investigate who exactly caused the Nine-Tails Attack and who acted.
And she didn't want to hide from people this time.
Hence, she came to find Rie.
"So... that's how it is..." Hearing Kushina's account, Rie somewhat understood.
Regarding revival, her doubts weren't great. After all, the Ninja World was so vast. Forget revival, Orochimaru even changed bodies!
Currently, she didn't know Orochimaru's secret techniques, but as the head of the Yamanaka Clan, her husband had long obtained information about Orochimaru's research directions from his subordinates' minds.
So Rie truly wasn't surprised, not surprised at all.
And besides the revival part being fake, everything else in Kushina's story was true. She really was Kushina, just not from this world.
And she indeed wasn't avoiding people.
Thus, Rie believed eighty percent of the story in her heart.
The remaining twenty percent was just some doubts about Kushina's feeling!
"Regarding the events of that year, we also don't know much. Now the Third Hokage-sama also died fighting during Orochimaru's invasion. I can't help you in this aspect, Kushina. I'm sorry!"
"And as for your and Minato's son..." Rie's expression turned grim.
To be honest, this was something that made her ashamed towards Kushina the most!
What kind of life her friend's son lived, others might not know much, but with her flower shop's constant flow of people, how could she not know?
It was truly pure bastardry-like treatment!
This 'bastardry' had a double meaning: one referred to the Third Hokage, the other referred to Naruto's animal-like life.