Kushina had long red hair. Although she usually tidied it, it often looked a little messy because it was so long. Although the hairpin was small, it helped keep her hair in place. Her eye color was similar to Minato's, making her eyes look very bright and energetic. When she first came to the ninja school, her face looked a little round because of baby fat, but after a year of training, her face had become more refined. This is why there are very few fat people among ninjas. The most basic tasks of ninjas are mostly physical work.
"Do you like it?" Kushina stared at Minato's expression, raised her eyes slightly, and reached out to touch her hair. Her long hair often covered her left eye, but with this hairpin, it wouldn't happen.
"Since Minato likes it, then I'll always wear it." Kushina chuckled. In more than a year, her life had changed dramatically. Minato looked at her smile and felt that there was nothing better in the world.
"Next weekend, let's go shopping together?" Minato suddenly said.
Kushina was stunned and became silent. She would not refuse Minato, but the people around her would not allow it. Minato was stunned for a moment, and then he knew what she was thinking. He smiled and said, "No problem, we can just leave secretly like last time."
The Third Hokage had promised him that as long as they did not leave Konoha, nothing would happen. Kushina nodded and agreed without hesitation. Although she had been in Konoha for so long, the places she had been to were only where she lived, the ninja school, and the back mountain that Minato had taken her to.
After chatting for a while, the two returned to the classroom. As soon as he entered the classroom, Minato noticed that some eyes were continuously cast on Kushina. Most of them were boys. For the first time, he felt an inexplicable hostility towards the owners of these eyes.
"What's wrong?" Kushina didn't pay any attention to those eyes at all. She felt that the expression in Minato's eyes had become very strange. Minato retracted that gaze, then laughed awkwardly and said, "It's okay." However, he was calming himself in his heart. What happened to him?
"Kushina, your hairpin is so beautiful. After putting it on, your whole temperament has changed." Takenouchi Rin noticed the gaze of the boys around her and immediately looked in the direction of Kushina and said in surprise. Her seat was in the first row of the class, so she was not far from Minato and Kushina at the moment.
"Thank you," Kushina said with a slightly red face.
In the days that followed, Kushina always wore the hairpin that Minato gave her. Minato didn't know that she never took it off, even when she went to bed. The ordinary hairpin seemed to have magic. Every time someone came into the room to check at night, she would always have a happy smile on her face when she was sleeping.
Soon, the time for the two to meet was approaching. Konoha, Mito's mansion. In front of the big bed, Kushina quickly formed seals with both hands, and then placed her palms on the person in front of her. Suddenly, a formation pattern spread from her abdomen and soon covered her whole body. The expression of the person in front of her changed slightly because her whole body of chakra was not controlled.
"Yeah, finally succeeded!" Feeling the woman's chakra fluctuations gradually becoming weaker, Kushina jumped up in joy and looked at Mito lying on the bed. However, in Kushina's perspective, the chakra she sealed only lasted a little before it came back to normal. After only a few seconds, the chakra fluctuations immediately returned to normal.
Kushina's expression suddenly became a little depressed. Mito heard this and smiled, comforting her, "In just ten days, you have already mastered the chakra seal and sealed the chakra of a Chunin for a few seconds. This is already a very remarkable thing."
Although the Uzumaki clan's sealing jutsu is domineering, it is extremely difficult to master, so even in the former Uzumaki clan, there were not many clansmen who could really apply the fuinjutsu in actual combat. Kushina had only been learning this seal for ten days. To be able to do this is enough to be called a genius. Moreover, her perception ability seemed to be subconsciously enhanced, but she herself was not very clear.
"You all go out first." Then, Mito ordered, and everyone in the room left.
Mito looked at Kushina and asked with a faint smile, "Are you worried about something?" From the moment she arrived today, Mito saw that Kushina was different from usual. Moreover, she, who never paid attention to her appearance, had been wearing a hairpin every day recently. As a person who has been through it and knows Kushina's information well, she naturally knew the situation, but she pretended not to know and asked.
"Grandma Mito, can I ask for a leave from you? I have something to do tomorrow." Kushina rarely stuttered, and she was nervous and had a strange ending.
Mito smiled and said, "You mentioned that little guy called Namikaze Minato, right?"
"Yeah." Ever since she met Mito, Kushina knew that she could not hide anything from her, and she could always guess what she was thinking. Looking at Kushina's expression at this moment, Mito couldn't help but smile. At the beginning, when she and that guy first met, he was not much older than Kushina and Minato are now, right? Who would have thought at that time that the guy with a pot-cut and a cute personality would be able to pacify the troubled times when he grew up and be worshipped as the god of ninja by countless people.
"Of course." Mito smiled and responded.
Kushina smiled and continued to practice.
Not long after she left, a middle-aged man walked in. When everyone outside the room saw him, they all looked respectful.
"Little monkey, you are here." Mito smiled when she saw the person coming. This person is the Third Hokage. In this world, Mito was the only one left who could call the Third Hokage by this name.
"Mito-sama, are you doing well lately?" The Third Hokage asked, standing in front of Mito with great respect, without any dignity as a Hokage.
"Ahem." After he asked, Mito began to cough violently, and the nurse rushed in and gathered around Mito. The Third Hokage frowned. After a long while, the elderly Mito finally recovered. She looked at the Third Hokage and said, "The Nine-Tails has been moving more and more frequently recently, and I am afraid that I will not live long."
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