Chapter 03

2 months after the apparent horrific death of the Strauss brothers, it was possible to find Naruto on the edge of a cliff looking at the sunset with an unreadable gaze.

This was the first time in his short life that he had the feeling of losing someone important, and he wasn't taking it very well, for him the Strauss were a family, like his brothers or cousins, and losing them impacted him a lot.

Naruto is someone who since the age of 7 has made his clan's motto his philosophy of life, so to know that the only people he considered his family besides Wasser died in such a horrible way and that if he had gotten there the day before he could having saved them was filling him with guilt and self-loathing.

'Maybe if I had taught them some kind of magic or at least placed protective runes in their house they might still be alive… it's all my fault…' It was these kinds of thoughts that had been in his head for the last 2 months, he would pass most of the day in 'mission mode' as he was not yet ready to go back to his normal happy self, but his mother was starting to worry that he would never be the same again.

When thoughts of him turned to his mother his mood lightened a little and he turned to go back to where his mother was.

'I wonder what she hunted for dinner…' That was as far as his thoughts went before he heard an explosion in the forest just ahead and a black blur flying out of the place.

"That explosion was close to where… Oh No! Kaa-chan!" With that he ran towards the explosion site with all his speed, he was just a blur running through the forest.

In less than 30 seconds he arrived at the scene and the vision he had was one that would be in his nightmares for years to come.

What used to be a beautiful clearing with a lake passing in the middle was now a huge crater that was filling with water due to the lake current that was still running.

But what would really stick in Naruto's mind for the rest of his life would be the image of Wasser at the bottom of the crater with several holes in her body, one arm missing and she still half alive looking at him with regret.

Naruto quickly thawed and ran full speed towards his mother, he reached her in less than two seconds and with a look of panic and tears already running down his face he began to do an incantation for a healing spell in an unknown language.

"Усны агуу элемент, шархадсан хүмүүсийн зовлонг эдгээхийн тулд ариун бороо авчрахыг би танаас хүсч байна ..."

"Uzumaki Secret Magic:

Rain of the Thousand Cures"

A giant golden Magic Circle appeared just above the clearing and from it rained small drops of golden, which when they fell to the ground caused grass to grow and closed the slightest wounds on Wasser's body, but to Naruto's dismay, the holes that she had Scattered around her body showed no signs of healing.

The Spell he used is a secret clan Healing Spell that was created by the first clan leader, Shunsui Uzumaki who was known as Akai Suijin (God of Red Water.) because of his red hair and his mastery of water magic , it is said that in his heyday he could make a giant tsunami that could destroy an entire country with his magic, but in addition to being feared for his destructive power, he was also known and respected for his healing abilities, in the history books Uzumaki was said that he once used the Rain of a Thousand Heals to fully heal an army of 30,000 men.

After 30 seconds of uninterrupted rain the magic circle in the sky began to disappear and took the rain with it, Naruto, seeing that his mother's most serious injuries were still the same, began to do the incantation of his healing magic stronger, a spell that would utterly drain him of his etherano.

But he was stopped by the sound of his mother coughing up blood before she could begin the spell, Wasser, after coughing, looked at her son and spoke;

"Naruto, Don't do this, there's no way I can be saved, you're just going to wear yourself out...*Cough*... I'm practically dead already, just listen to me...*Cough*..."

The Red Haired Boy, upon hearing this, only had an expression of horror and despair at seeing the last person he considers family at death's door.

"But… But… You… I…." He tried to say something, anything, but nothing came to mind.

"Listen Naruto, I don't have much time in this world so I'll talk quickly, please, when I'm gone… *Cough*… try to find other people to be your family, don't try anything silly like isolating yourself… .*Cough*... for thinking you have something to do with it and that your presence only brings disgrace to the people around you or something stupid like that...*Cough*." She paused to cough up some blood.

"If you become an emo, I'll come back from the afterlife just to put sense in your head, listen, this wasn't your fault, the enemy who did this to me was too strong, you would die with just one sneeze from him. ..*Cough*…"

"Who?…"

She was interrupted by Naruto before he could continue. The half-dead dragon gave his son a questioning look.

"Who did this to you?…" Naruto asked in a dark voice.

Wasser grimaced (Or what might be considered a grimace for a Dragon.) and answered a name that would be the target of Naruto's hatred for the rest of his life;

"Acnologia..."

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3 hours later we found Naruto at the edge of the crater which was now filled with water looking at a tombstone he made with his own hands.

Here lies Wasser, The Water Dragon

A Wife, Mother, Teacher and Friend

September 23, X778

He buried Wasser's body at the bottom of what might now be considered a small lake, he shifted his vision to his left hand, where he held an aqua-blue orb and made a determined face.

"I promise I will find someone worthy to inherit your Kaa-chan legacy…"

After saying that he took a small chest from his re-equip space, placed the orb inside and returned it to pocket dimension.

Naruto looked up at the sky with a determined look that had a metaphorical fire burning inside.

"I swear I will grow stronger, strong enough that no one I consider family will ever die because of my weakness… Never again…"

He then turned and walked towards the forest, but not before turning one last time and uttering;