Chapter 501: Attack of the Kyubi

Who would have thought that Naruto's mom is friends with Sasuke's mom? this was shown on Chapter 500 during Naruto's birth. It was a complete background check from Kushina as she finally shows herself to her son-helping him uses the chakra of the Kyubi. Chapter 501 presents the continuation of Kushina's story when Madara attacked them.

AS the seal weakens during birth, Kushina was kidnapped by Madara to steal the Kyubi. it's known that he was controlling the Kyubi when he fought the first Hokage; however the Hokage's wife had then sealed the beast within her thus letting Konaha have the nine-tailed beast in their possession.

After delivering Naruto to the world, they were attacked by Madara who took the baby with him. The flash used his ninjutsu in order to save his son but had left Kushina defenseless. He had taken her and had freed the Kyubi while Minato took Naruto to safety. Afterwards Minato went to rescue Kushina but came too late as she was weakened with the Kyubi breaking out from within. It was fortunate that Minato was able to reunite Kushina with their son before he went out to save Konoha from the Kyubi's destruction.

The preceding chapters are indeed a background search for Naruto fans on what made Naruto the host. It’s another plus as we learned about how Konoha was saved from the Kyubi 16 years ago; however that treat is saved for another day. It's definitely another week of waiting (although not in vain) as we learn more on Naruto's past and his parent's heroism...

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