"The Uzumaki Clan's rate of aging?"
By the veranda in the courtyard of the old Uchiha Sasuke residence, Left Mysterious Kushina was watching two young men spar in the distance when Left Mysterious Tsunade suddenly asked her about it. She was quite surprised.
Swinging her legs like a girl, she tilted her head and thought for a moment, then scratched her head with an embarrassed smile. "I was very young when I left Uzushio Village, so I really can't say, Lady Tsunade. But there used to be a lot of people in our village who looked very, very old—older than anyone I've ever seen in Konoha."
Uzushio Village had earned its reputation as a village of longevity precisely because of the Uzumaki Clan's powerful vitality.
The truth was that this powerful vitality was limited to the small portion of the Uzumaki Clan with red hair.
Blond-haired Naruto Uzumaki had lost consciousness the instant the Nine-Tails was extracted from his body. By contrast, his red-haired mother had the Nine-Tails extracted after childbirth, when she was already exhausted, yet she not only remained conscious but even had enough strength to restrain the Nine-Tailed Fox with Adamantine Sealing Chains for a while. It was practically absurd.
The red-haired and non-red-haired members of the Uzumaki Clan were practically two different species. No wonder the white-haired Uzumaki woman at Orochimaru's Southern Base had such a bad temper. The moment anyone doubted that she was really an Uzumaki, she flew into a rage.
"Left Mysterious Kushina, how old were you when you were brought to Konoha?" Left Mysterious Tsunade asked, watching the three figures fighting on the Uchiha Training Ground in the distance.
"I remember it was... nine?"
Left Mysterious Kushina tried to recall. "No, no, it was ten! That's right, ten. It was the year