16 years ago in Kei was a family who lost their beloved ranka to a shoku. 16 years later, at the beginning of Queen Youko's reign, a young man and a little girl hear that the new queen is a 16-year-old taika.

Uzumaki Kushina was not only Naruto's mother. She was a jounin of Konoha, a trusted friend of Uchiha Mikoto, and the beloved wife of the Fourth Hokage. How many people would have turned out differently had the Uzumaki pigheaded yet optimistic spunk not puttered for a decade while Naruto grew up but rather blazed brightly in everyone's favourite Red Hot Habanero?

Keiki, the most socially awkward kirin in all twelve kingdoms put together. Keiki, who is so bad at explanations that he has caused two misunderstandings of national crisis proportions. Keiki, from the day he formed as a fruit on a tree to the day his liege came into her own. A foray into our most favourite inscrutable kirin.