"Lady Kushina!! Waaah..."
Obito couldn't hold it in anymore and burst into loud sobs.
Houka immediately piled up a bonfire beside her and lit it with a Fire Release ninjutsu.
The warm firelight finally dispelled the cold from Kushina's body, allowing her frozen consciousness to slowly stir.
"Am I... dead?"
Kushina's memories were still stuck on the day she gave birth to Naruto, when the Nine-Tails broke free from its seal!
She stared blankly at the sobbing Obito, her mind completely muddled.
Who was this guy?
Why was he crying over her?
Ah, wait, had she really died?
But hadn't Minato and Houka brought her to a snowy mountain?
This place... wasn't a snowy mountain.
Kushina looked utterly bewildered.
At that moment, Karin looked at Kushina's hair, then at her own. Their hair was exactly the same color. At first, Karin had assumed it was merely a coincidence, but from the instant Kushina opened her eyes, Karin had felt an inexplicable sense of closeness. As the cells within Kushina's body gradually regained their vitality and her powerful life force slowly revived, that feeling of familiarity grew stronger and stronger, making Karin feel as though she had met a relative!
As an orphan, Karin was incredibly nervous right now.
Houka was even more nervous. Kushina had revived, but judging by that innocent expression on her face, had she lost her memory? Become stupid? Or had her brain been damaged by the freezing?
Just as he worried himself sick, Kushina's gaze finally fell on his face, and her expression changed.
This face...
Kushina couldn't help reaching out her hand.
Houka cooperatively leaned his face closer. "Do you still remember me?"
Kushina's hand paused, then she grabbed his ear and twisted it at a forty-five-degree angle. "I'd recognize you even if you turned