Chapter 190 - Cap 176: Mistakes

After making everything clear to Kakashi, Kurama headed home, only to see Jiraiya hanging by his limbs outside the gates of the mansion. . ."

"Help..." - the Sannin murmured in pain.

"What did you do this time?" - Kurama asked as he frowned.

"This time I did nothing..." - said Jiraiya as he began to cry - "All I did was ask them how they were and they attacked me"

"Oh, you're back, Kuro-chan," Kushina smiled as she looked at the redhead.

"Why is Jiraiya in such a state?" - asked Kurama as he pointed at the poor white-haired man.

"Because he is not Jiraiya" - snorted Kushina - "Everyone knows that the first thing Jiraiya would do is try to get information out of us for his perverted book"

"That's the only reason they did this to me!" - roared Jiraiya in fury.

"Kushi-chan... he is the real Jiraiya" - said Kurama with an almost neutral look.

"Really?" - asked Kushina as she blinked innocently.

"For the thousandth time! I am the real Jiraiya!" - roared the Sage of the Toads - "I swear they only attacked me because they have no other way to de-stress!"

Kushina tilted his head uncomfortably.

"I knew it!" - roared the Sannin in fury.

". . ." - Kurama only shook his head. Then he would talk to all the girls to stop doing this kind of thing to Jiraiya.

Even though he was a pervert, it didn't mean that they would have the right to hurt him for no reason, especially when he didn't do anything to them.

"I'm sorry, Ero Gama" - said Kushina with sorrow.

"Just get me out of this place, Kushina" - said Jiraiya with a scowl - "Keep this up and one of these days I'm going to lose my patience..."

* * * * *

"I see you're making yourself at home..." - said Kurama as he watched Mei play with his little princess.

"Daddy!" - exclaimed Izumi as she pushed Mei aside and jumped up to her father - "You're back!"

To Kurama's relief, her children were immune to the fact that he could not touch them because they had a small amount of Nature's Energy inside them, which was strange but he would not complain.

"Hello Princess" - smiled the ginger one as he took his daughter carefully.

"Tousan! Wosh!" exclaimed Naruto as he ran to his father.

"Okay, we'll do it in a moment," Kurama nodded as he watched Ryu come to him. "'How is my little boy?"

"Fine, Otousan," said Ryu with a smile.

Each of his children was beginning to show a different talent or special interest in each other because of their slightly more accelerated development than a normal child.

Naruto was a joker par excellence, he always found a way to slip away to complete his goal, which was surprising for a child under 3.

Izumi was the most refined of the siblings, she, unlike Naruto, was always with her mother learning about traditions such as flower arranging and dancing, possibly learning how to make tea in the future, which would not be bad for the little princess, after all, she would be one of the faces of the clan in the future.

Ryu, for his part, had begun to take an interest in numbers, being the most academically accomplished, having the ability to count easily.

"Your family is like you said, everyone is kind" - Mei smiled as she walked to the ginger one with her children.

"Onee-chan is kind too" - said Izumi with a smile as she hugged her father.

"Although I'd like to be called Mommy or Okaasan" - said Mei as she waited for the children's reaction.

"Okaasan?" - They tilted their heads in confusion, though the reddish-brown-haired woman had to admit that they looked cute.

"Is she our new mommy, daddy?" - Izumi asked as she looked at her father.

"No," Kurama answered as he shook his head.

"I'm sorry to tell you that I'm in the process of becoming one," answered Mei as she lifted her c.h.e.s.t proudly and pulled out a sheet - "Look"

". . ." - Kurama frowned when he heard Mei's words, so he left the children on the floor to take the sheet the woman was showing him - "Let's see..."

'By the following statement, I, Uzumaki Kushina, the matriarch of the ancient Uzumaki clan, allow Terumi Mei, former Mizukage of Kirigakure no Sato, to join the Uzumaki clan through an alliance by political marriage with the leader, Uzumaki Kurama to create an alliance between Kirigakure no Sato and Uzu no Kuni'

". . ." - Kurama's expression began to change slowly to one of fury when he saw what had happened because Kushina had 'solved' all this without his consent even though the doc.u.ment was beneficial for the clan as they still needed support to be able to bring Uzu no Kuni back to its former glory and Kiri was a good ally for this.

"Give me a moment..." - said Kurama as he walked in the direction of his wife.

"Do you need anything, Kuro-chan?" - asked Kushina with a smile but paled when she noticed her husband's neutral look, one she hadn't seen before - "Kuro-chan?"

"We need to talk, Uzumaki Kushina..." - Kurama said seriously.

"Oh... Okay..." - Kushina nodded weakly because she knew she was in trouble listening to the way he had called her.

Kurama quickly put on special gloves to block all contact with the woman and took her to a spare room and put a time seal on it.

After a few minutes, Kurama emerged with a still-present neutral look on his face, so that after a few seconds, Kushina emerged with tears in her eyes. The two Uzumaki had 'talked' for quite some time about not making decisions for other people that might cause problems for others.

"Okaasan?" - Naruto asked as he saw the tears streaming from his mother's eyes - "What happened?"

"It's nothing, Sochi," smiled Kushina as she took her son.

"Why are you crying then?" - asked the little boy as he looked at his mother with concern.

"Don't worry, I just got something in my eye" - smiled Kushina as she shook her head.

"Oh... Okay!" - Naruto nodded with a smile.

"Okay, I'll allow it," sighed Kurama as he looked at Mei. "Let's go to Kakashi to witness the alliance between Kiri and Uzu"

"Ok" - Mei nodded.

"By the way..." - added the redhead as he looked Mei straight in the eye - "You do something like that again, and I swear I'll extinguish the Terumi clan... Okay?"

"O-Ok!" - Mei exclaimed in terror.

"It's good to hear..." - Kurama replied as he squinted. He was no longer bothered by the situation for two reasons, one, this was all beneficial to his clan, and two, after spending some time with Mei, he knew she was not a bad woman - "Now let's go"

Mei and Kurama left the mansion in silence and headed immediately for Hokage Manor so that they could end all this.

"What did he do to you?" - Mikoto asked as she saw the state of her friend after Kurama called out to her.

"I don't want to say..." - Kushina muttered as she sighed ruefully. What happened inside the seal was not as bad as it appeared, first Kurama spanked her for a full week, then they were talking about what she had done, and finally, he threatened that if that happened again, then she would be in serious trouble that it was better than telling others even if they were clansmen. Kurama had made it clear that he was furious with her actions, as she had when she discovered that he had been unfaithful to her years ago.

"Though I still wonder why you would agree to something like that," Mikoto said as she looked at her sad friend.

"Because it is important to the clan," sighed Kushina as she shook her head. "First, Kuro-chan is a part of the CRA, so it is not too much trouble for one more woman to join. Second, I can feel the veracity of that woman's feelings after talking to her for a while so it's one more reason to accept the deal. Thirdly, as one of the leaders of the clan, I have to think about this even if I don't like some things, like sacrificing my husband"

"Would you do the same with Naru-chan?" - Mikoto asked with a scowl.

"No," answered Kushina almost immediately, ". . ."

"I don't know what to say, Kushina," sighed Mikoto as she watched her friend.

"Neither do I..." - Kushina murmured as she shook her head. "The idea only crossed my mind and the more I thought about it, the more benefits I found..."

"I just hope you don't repeat it, Kushina" - said Mikoto seriously - "Because I won't allow it..."

"I don't plan to do it after the conversation I had with Kuro-chan..." - sighed Kushina sadly.

"To be human is to make mistakes, Kushina" - said matriarch Uchiha again as she looked her friend straight in the eye - "We have all made them, I by not being able to do more for my clan, Kurama-kun by having his orgy with the nurses, Tsunade by harming Shizune-chan... and right now you with your actions..."

". . ." - Kushina nodded weakly as he analyzed his actions well - "I know. . ."

"Don't look so sad... do something to make things right" - Mikoto said with a scowl - "I'm paying for my actions with a nearly extinct clan, Tsunade is compensating Shizune-chan, Kurama accepted his punishment... why can't you do something like that?"

"Ok," Kushina nodded as she looked up.