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Third Person POV
Konoha.
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Kushina was having a rather lively day, as she had been off the village protection team since she decided to take on a team for the first time in her Shinobi career. After all, she could never do that since she was a jinchuuriki, and as soon as she stopped being one, she had to take care of her three children in their early years.
And two of them would be graduating today while she was excited to meet her two daughters, plus the adopted one, at the academy, where they would come out as official shinobi, starting with their genin rank.
She was watering the flowers that she, Mizu, and Karin used to take care of when she felt something watching her. Her gaze immediately fell to the sky, looking for the origin of the sensation.
But she only encountered nothing in the air, thinking she was just having an empty premonition. After all, her sensory power didn't detect anything, and the Anbu weren't alerted, watching over her house.
So Kushina finished watering after that and went back to change clothes, putting on a dress, and then heading to the ninja academy.
Naruto sighed as he continued running through the sky, heading west, his gaze a little sad but happy to have seen his mother. 'It's not time to meet yet, but soon...' Naruto commented, feeling that he would soon meet her and the rest of his family. He was very pleased to see his mother there, well.
Meanwhile, at the ninja academy, the atmosphere seemed very cheerful after Iruka-sensei started giving out headbands to everyone who passed the final tests.
"Good luck, my dear students!! May you succeed in your ninja career!" Iruka-sensei spoke cheerfully as all the students left the room.
"Finally, we became genin! Isn't that right?!" Sora said happily.
"Yes." Mizu commented in a calm tone, leaving with the teacher.
"..." Karin remained silent as she followed her two sisters; they were a common trio, always walking together in the academy.
The three continued walking down the corridor until they turned to leave and encountered a commotion. They came across Sakura and Ino arguing about Sasuke, as always.
"Hey, you idiots, can you stop yelling in the middle of the way?" Soru raised her voice with an arrogant tone.
Sakura was a little startled by the Hokage's daughter's approach and remained silent, while Ino didn't take it well. "Hey, are you an idiot or what? Stop talking to her like that!" Ino argued with Sakura all the time but didn't like seeing her so down.
One thing Soru always did with the girl since she had broken the boy's arm, and Sakura naturally feared that girl's fury. She really didn't take it easy and developed a grudge against Sakura since she had insulted her brother a few years ago.
Sakura had been suffering from Soru's wrath this whole time, and Soru was a woman who could be worse than her own mother back when she was a violent teenager.
"No need to be so harsh, sister... the academy is over. Forget everything that happened." Mizu commented beside her.
"Tsk. I don't care about your opinion, Ino. Now continue being fan-girls somewhere out of my earshot." She said in the same arrogant tone.
"..." Ino looked angrily at Soru but said nothing more as she watched the Uzumaki girls leave the academy, encountering a large crowd of adults waiting for their children or already celebrating with them. It wasn't just Class A that had graduated; many other classes of the year had also graduated.
"Mom!!" Sora called for Kushina as soon as she saw her waiting for them.
"Girls, I see you are all comfortable with your headbands..." Kushina murmured excitedly.
"Mom." Mizu approached.
"Miss Kushina." Karin murmured.
"What is this 'Miss Kushina'... Call me Mom too." Kushina approached Karin, kneeling and kissing her forehead while Karin blushed.
Kushina smiled at this and went to her two daughters, giving them both a kiss on the forehead, proud.
After that, Kushina stood up. "Let's go home, your father will leave the office early today to congratulate all of you." Kushina said while Mizu and Sora opened big smiles.
"So you passed... that's good... our clan is just a remnant of what it once was, and we need new jonin. In all these years, we have only managed to produce six of them, along with a few chuunin we had. We are now the weakest clan in the Leaf." All the red-haired women heard a group of Uchiha murmuring, looking at the new genin who had graduated from other classes.
In Sora, Mizu, and Karin's class, there was only Sasuke from the clan. As he left the place alone, the clan members didn't like him because of his relation to the one who betrayed the clan and almost destroyed it completely. It was evident that the boy had been spared by his brother, which made many people irritated, although no one attacked Sasuke, but kept him away from everyone.
The Uchiha clan was getting back on track. A large number of genin who could even use the Sharingan was the clan's hope. With them growing again, a leader was also chosen to represent the clan, and since the village was responsible for the clan's downfall, Minato had reserved a seat for them whenever something big was done in the village, and all the major clans participated, even the Uchiha clan being the weakest now.
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Kushina returned to her property with her three daughters. As she entered, the girls went to their room to change and prepare to enjoy the rest of the day since they were free from training that day.
It was a few hours later that Minato appeared with his Raijin. It wasn't even dark yet as he looked at Kushina, who opened a smile for him. "Welcome back, Minato." She said.
"Where are they?" Minato asked in a calm tone.
"Outside." Kushina said while preparing a cake in the kitchen.
Minato went outside, finding the girls and congratulating them. "The cake is ready, Dattebane!" Kushina exclaimed as they entered.
"Do we need to go to the academy tomorrow?" Sora asked in a dissatisfied tone.
"Of course, it's the norm." Kushina said.
"But we're all on the same team..." Mizu murmured.
"..." Karin remained silent, looking amused.
"Even so..." Kushina murmured, picking up a piece of cake.
"But we already know that Team Seven is the four of us here! That sounds so boring." Sora complained as usual.
"Tomorrow we will do your test, so don't be in a hurry. You have to take pictures and fill out some forms." Minato said to his most rebellious daughter.
"How boring... I want to go on missions right away, how about we take an S-rank or higher?!" She exclaimed.
"Bfff! Hahaha." Kushina couldn't hold back and laughed at her daughter's comment.
"You want too much, Sora... We'll start with E-rank missions, Dattebane." Kushina said, still laughing with her characteristic strange laugh.
"Don't laugh, I want to see the world! Go outside the village, see the Land of Fire, the Uzumaki lands, and even the Land of Water!" Sora exclaimed.
But as soon as she mentioned that last place, Kushina stopped laughing, and the entire table fell silent. "Yes... we'll visit many places." Kushina said.
"And that last one, are we going there?" Sora spoke again with a stubborn tone, with Kushina unable to respond.
"The Village Hidden in the Clouds has been completely closed for over a year, Sora. Not even Jiraiya-Sensei can enter there, and even so, we cannot invade other nations without permission. After all, that could cause an international incident." Minato responded.
"But I heard you and Mom talking the other day, he's there, isn't he?" Sora exclaimed.
"Sora..." Mizu murmured.
"Are we going to leave him there? We should bring him home." Sora ignored her sister, asking her not to start another fight over Naruto.
"We can't do anything for now, Sora..." Minato commented.
"Of course we can, he's family! We should bring him back!" She insisted. "That's why I'm so strong now. Jiraiya mentioned that I'm even at a jonin level! I intend to invade that country!" She said with determination.
"..." Everyone fell silent as Kushina and Minato looked at each other at that moment since, once again, a fight would start in that family when Naruto's name was mentioned.
"Tell me, how did Naruto defeat Danzo?" Sora was in the yard the next day, asking Karin.
"I don't know... that girl's clone was protecting me from a distance... but I heard explosions and a strong light illuminating the place... I don't know the details." Karin commented while recounting it once again among many other times.
Sora was insistent and always asked this type of question, but this time even Kushina was curious beside her. "It can't be just that... I mean... he must have some kind of jutsu or technique... after all we've heard of him doing..." Sora insisted while Karin sighed.
"I don't know the details, but as I told you once, I saw that around the place where he found me, he had taken down dozens of Sound ninjas, and he carried me in the air as if he was walking on it. It was strange." Karin commented, remembering that remarkable day since it was the day her mother died.
"Did you hear that, Mom?! Naruto can walk on air! I've tried doing that several times, as she described... but I never managed, you know?" Sora turned to Kushina while she just shook her head.
"I've heard of ninjas flying in the sky, but none that could walk on air..." Kushina commented as they headed once more to the academy to start filling out the official forms, taking pictures for their IDs and files, while Kushina would also do the bell test on the same day with the three redheads, officially finalizing Team 7.
Meanwhile, in another country to the west, in the Land of Wind, Naruto was running through the desert more than a kilometer away, where he felt the wind was stronger here than any other place he had been. He could see many ninjas running through the desert sands, from the Sand Village, but he continued on, transforming into light, heading to the other extreme of the country, almost to the limit of the continent known as the Elemental Nations, until he finally saw an ancient ruin and began descending at that moment, heading toward it, while falling unnoticed in that empty desert.
Naruto looked ahead, seeing what looked like a sand castle, but destroyed by time. He was in a special clan that lived during the Warring States period, which refused to join the Sand Village and was destroyed for trying to maintain independence in this land. Like many of the clans that refused to join the great villages, those who managed to stay independent formed alliances with other smaller clans and created small countries, but some weren't so lucky.
Like this clan before him, which became just a footnote in history. But as he saw in some ancient Uzumaki scrolls that the Mist Village had in its vault, after attacking them in the battle that caused the destruction of the Whirlpool Clan, Naruto studied them and found something interesting. After all, this was the Kazehara Clan (OC), and there was a sword guarded with powerful Uzumaki seals that no one had been able to break since the clan was broken. Naruto could feel the Blade below him.
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