Chapter 22 - 22

A/N: Sorry for not posting for awhile, I had some issues going on and wasn't in the mood to write even when I told myself I need to start posting again before people who read and like my stories start thinking I actually dropped my stories like 60% of other Webnovel authors.

So just to let you all know officially, I'm not dropping any of my stories but the chapter update schedule won't be consistent at all so don't be surprised if I go awhile without updating. I will definitely try to update one or two stories once a week but again no promises.

End of A/N

As time continued, now there is only less than two months for graduation. Kushina has been considering applying for earlier graduation, her shadow clones are bored and tired of going to class in place of herself. Luckily her wood clones don't complain and do as they are told. Outside of building relationships and wanting to become a ninja the same way most do, another reason for joining the academy was to watch the development of her peers.

The Hyuga brothers Hiashi and Hizashi were very talented. Both brothers are essentially prodigies of their clan with Hiashi being slightly better. In her opinion, the two of them should become Jonin before turning 16. If she were to help them then they would reach that Jonin-level strength within a couple years depending on their drive to improve. Shikaku, Inoichi and Choza are all very talented as well. She never understood why their clans were so nerfed in the original story. In her opinion, the Yamanaka Clan should be capable of telekinesis with their affinity for mind-related abilities. Imagine a clan full of Tatsumaki's or Jean Grey's? The Akimichi with their ability to become giants could utilize elemental ninjutsu. For example, Choza as a giant could engulf his fist in fire to create a giant flame punch attack or even lightning depending on his nature affinity. It would take more chakra but it should be possible. The Nara Clan could use shadows in ways similar to other shadow affinity users like Rogue from Fairy Tail. It's possible they can use actual darkness affinity techniques since they are already using shadows. 

Imagine a squad of Nara clansmen being able to fade their bodies into shadows. Phasing through attacks and practically being untouchable to most enemies. Entering their own shadow as a method of travel or catching the enemy off guard to deliver a killing blow. 

Then there's Shibi, for whatever reason Kishimoto didn't truly utilize the Aburame Clans' usage of their bugs. Is it really that hard to use a swarm of flying bugs to sneakily infiltrate a camp to poison the opposition? Like why not use mosquitos to kill off the enemies of Konoha. It would be so easy to take out a village that way since most wouldn't pay much attention to the mosquitoes at night. They would not believe the mosquitoes are actually infiltrating their village to deliver a deadly mass attack.

Anyways Shibi is definitely strong, he may keep to himself but the guy is far from weak. She makes an effort to talk to him at least once or twice a week. 

Outside of Minato, Tsume is her closest friend that's her age. So Kushina took it upon herself to train Tsume here and there. Though she doesn't push Tsume like she does Minato. Still, she's certain Tsume will definitely be an S-rank ninja in the future. Kushina will make sure of it, the Inuzuka Clan has a lot of potential like the other big clans. 

What if Tsume turns into a three headed wolf and uses lightning release to enhance her strength and speed?  Or spat out fire attacks from each mouth? 

As for Jinta…Kushina is honestly disappointed, while he may have been second to Minato before she got here. Jinta's capacity is actually fairly low, even with intense training it will be hard for him to reach Kage-level strength in the future. Sure, he could unlock Mangekyo Sharingan. Though how long until before he goes blind from overuse? Without implanting another pair of Sharingan he's pretty limited. Of course she could change that but why should she? Jinta doesn't like her at all for some weird reason so she doesn't feel like being nice to him. 

She may help his clan but she won't do much for him directly. 

Then there's Minato, speaking of him he's actually unconscious due to being knocked out by her from training. Right now with all the training she's put him through ever since their first time training together. Kushina is confident Minato can handle any Chunin. Once he gets real field experience, his strength will quickly leap to Jonin level. 

Once she teaches him the Rasengan, he'll certainly be able to take out a low to mid-level Jonin with it as long as Minato plays his cards right. Especially given his insane reflexes and speed. Outside of the Flying Thunder God, Kushina also plans on teaching Minato how to use Lightning Release Chakra Mode.

Like she said before, Minato is going to be her right hand man. She's going to make sure he's at least 10 times more powerful than he was in canon before dying. 

They were at a training ground close to the Forest of Death. Kushina had gotten permission from Hiruzen to use the Forest of Death as a training spot. Sure, she doesn't need it with her ability to travel to her personal dimensions or really any dimension. But she still asked regardless. Of course the old man gave her permission seeing as Kushina wasn't a regular academy student by any means. 

At this moment, Kushina is sitting on the ground with her legs crossed and eyes closed. She had been sitting like this ever since she knocked Minato out. So only about 40 minutes if not less, lately she's been trying to focus on the spiritual part of her chakra. 

After several attempts, she can feel she's about to make a huge breakthrough. 

Taking a breath, she reached within her body, grasping the spiritual energy of her chakra. Slowly she continued to focus solely on her spiritual energy and eventually she succeeded in separating it from her physical energy. Kushina was excited by her success, now she tried to manipulate her spiritual energy and bring it out of her body. She wanted to see what would happen if she tried to exert it from her body like an aura. 

Controlling her only her spiritual energy, slowly she drew it out of her body. A dense golden yellow aura began to surround her form as a strong pressure was exuded from her body. The entire training ground was quickly affected by the pressure coming from Kushina's body. Cracks and small craters are forming as the ground shakes. The trees were affected as leaves could be seen swirling violently in the air. Some branches are not strong enough to handle the pressure which resulted in them breaking apart from trees. 

It was as if the air itself was screaming under the pressure generated from Kushina's spiritual energy. Shockwaves traveled as her golden yellow aura shot into the sky like a pillar of energy. She brought her pillar of aura back down before anyone would notice anything.

She opened her eyes, excitement mixed with awe was displayed strongly in her amethyst orbs. She really did it.

"T-This…this…this is spiritual pressure from Bleach! I fucking did it!" She squealed in excitement like an excited child who got the gift they wanted for their birthday. 

She noted how her spiritual pressure definitely felt stronger compared to when she releases her chakra pressure. 

While having a Zanpakuto would be extremely cool, the main reason why Kushina experimented with her spiritual energy is because of the Kido techniques of the Bleach universe. With those abilities at her disposal, combined with her One Piece physique, Haki, chakra and Uzumaki and Otsutsuki bloodlines. Kushina will be a force never seen before.

Although she is no fool, she knows she is nowhere near god-level status yet. She's strong, sure, but she's an ant compared to the true powerhouses from other universes such as DC, Marvel or even Dragon Ball. So she has a long way to go and the journey to godlike strength excites her greatly.

Still, that's far, far into the future. Right now her only main priority is to continue training and enjoying her current life in the Naruto universe. She needs to focus on what's in front of her. 

Any potential plans for universe hopping won't be taken into consideration until at least decades from now or maybe less depending on the situation at the time.