(25 Years Old)
With a final swirl of her brush on the paper, Kazeshini had created the seal to end all other seals, the Hirashin. The seal of seals that allowed for true teleportation from one place to another by warping both space and time to allow her to slip between the fabrics of reality around her. Her earlier teleportation seals had not truly been up to the Hirashin standards of instantaneous teleportation, but now she had completed it.
With it complete, she could finally go home without worry of being seen. She could protect her first home from the shadows and not worry about others seeing her as power hungry for trying to live beyond her normal lifespan.
The last year had allowed for her to settle into the life she was currently building around her, full of just enough people that she was self-sufficient without wasting time in being so. While not everything had gone perfectly so far, she was content with where she was currently at.
Her own personal shinobi corps was just in its infancy stage and most of her people were still illiterate. This would just take time, not something that Kazeshini didn't currently have in abundance. She knew she couldn't change the timeline too much lest she step on the wrong 'butterfly' and kill off a line of descendants that would befriend one specific person who would be able to learn an important life lesson and cause someone else to fall in love and marry and have the right children who could go on to save a Konoha shinobi who could inspire Minato to become a shinobi.
If she stepped on that one butterfly without knowing it, she could kill one person and their descendants wouldn't befriend a specific person who then wouldn't be able to learn an important life lesson who then wouldn't allow for another person to fall in love and marry and have the right children who then wouldn't exist to save that one nameless Konoha shinobi who would die and never inspire Minato to become a shinobi.
These were all what if's, and she could also do nothing that wouldn't have already changed the timeline. She could also try and try and try to change the timeline but it could be set on a certain path where only minor changes were possible.
Kazeshini flipped over her desk, ignoring the paperwork that had started piling up, and ran out of her palace. With a quick explanation to a few of the inhabitants that Kazeshini had invited to her new home, Kazeshini ran towards Uzu as though the hounds of hell were nipping at her heels.
Taiyo was located in the Land of Rain, right on the border of the Land of Rivers and the Land of Wind. It was in an opportune spot that allowed for the ease of access between all the great nations while being centered in the middle of the continent. She had found just the perfect place, where the rains had carved into the land to create the dangerous cliff area before a sharp drop in the land above sea level caused the river to spread out into multiple rivers. The river Taiyo was situated near, the river in the middle of the cliff, was just one of many run off points that the rains from Ame drained into.
So, without much further ado, Kazeshini ran to her birthplace. She ran swiftly, with her feet barely seeming to touch the ground she sprinted over, until she hit the shoreline. Then, without much pause, Kazeshini ran with all her might, bounding over the great swirling vortexes, towards Uzu.
It was in the village proper that Kazeshini disguised herself with a genjutsu seal that turned her invisible by bending light waves around her figure and stamped down on her chakra until it was compressed and undetectable by even the greatest of sensors. That was practically impossible to do, especially since her immortality seal turned her into a chakra construct with tangible form.
She avoided all the Uzumaki shinobi and made her way home, and she felt tears welling in her eyes at the sight of her home. With care, Kazeshini slipped into the backyard and watched as Kikyou walked out of the house with a small little five-year old at her side. The small child had Ukitake's straight jaw line but Kikyou's high cheekbones, he looked like the perfect mixture of both his parents especially when he shared both of their vibrant red hair and bright purple eyes.
"Come on Haruki-chan, let's go help kaa-san with the garden." Kikyou said while smiling brightly down to her son.
"M'kay, kaa-san." The small five-year old held his mother's kimono skirt in his fist as he navigated the steps off the porch and into the small garden that Kazeshini remembered helping take care of. The small child was happy and smiled brightly when he showed his mother a small lady bug that he had in his small little hands.
Kazeshini watched them carefully, relaxing on the roof where she had escaped to so as not to be easily noticed and have a good line of sight down into the backyard. Kazeshini watched for hours as Haruki both helped his mother with the garden and play as well, having fun and constantly asking questions about anything and everything under the sun.
A little while later and Kazeshini saw her father stepping out into the backyard wearing a nice yukata and carrying two practice swords with him. Haruki gave a cheer at the sight of Ukitake and ran around his father with excitement to begin more swords practice.
Kazeshini smiled fondly as she watched her parents help and teach her younger brother even as she noticed the prominent streaks of grey decorating her father's crimson hair and the laugh lines and little crow's feet decorating her mother's face as they both grew older.
She watched them for hours as the three enjoyed a mild summer's day, laughter a constant source of music to Kazeshini's ears. Then, when they went inside, Kazeshini went to the clan head's home to check on the little Uzumaki princess, Uzumaki Mito.
The little seven-year-old was currently sitting down with some stuffy old tutor while she diligently copied down kanji that had been set in front of her. Kazeshini let out a near silent chuckle at the sight of little Mito puffing her chubby little cheeks, as even with training some residual baby fat still clung to her adolescent body, and gave a cute little glare at her tutor for taking away her sheet of paper and making her do it over again.
It was cute, but nowhere as cute as her little brother Haruki as his messy red hair was tousled by his father or when Haruki's little cheeks grew a dark red from blushing as he handed his mother a bright little dandelion.
Those were the moments that Kazeshini would cherish, those were the moments that made Kazeshini plan murder on all those who would try and destroy her family.
With a smile, Kazeshini went back to her former home and carefully planted a Hirashin seal on the roof before activating the brother seal that currently sat on her desk in Taiyo.
The minute she reappeared, Kazeshini had to just sit in her comfortably padded swivel chair, and cry. She cried her heart out, letting out loud wails and sobs, wanting to desperately to give up all her plans and just go home to be with her family.
It took over an hour, with a massive migraine creeping up on her as well as exhaustion from being so emotionally wrung out, before Kazeshini stopped crying and shuffled her way through her palace and to her bedroom.
The room was massive, with a massive feather bed that felt as though she could be sleeping on a cloud, and she simply stripped out of her clothes and collapsed into the comforter. With a few last sniffles, Kazeshini wiggled herself underneath the covers and wrapped herself up in the midnight blue Egyptian styled cotton sheets. There, she clenched her puffy eyes shut and promptly fell asleep.
A/N: Senju Hashirama will be thirty-five by the time he gets his genin team with Sarutobi on it. Konoha won't be 'complete' until Hashirama is in his late twenties. Sarutobi will be mid-fifties when Minato dies and Naruto is born. So, I will have Konoha be around sixty years old when Naruto is born and seventy-three when Naruto becomes a genin. This means that with Kazeshini was 18 when Mito was born and Kazeshini will be roughly 38 when Hashirama and Madara create Konoha (this is if Hashirama is 3-5 years older than Mito).
The First Shinobi War will be when Sarutobi is a genin at ten and the Second will be when Sarutobi is in his mid to late thirties with his genin team being proclaimed the Sannin. The Third war will be when Sarutobi is in his mid-forties and will proclaim Minato as Yondaime Hokage when he turns fifty. Five years later, the Yondaime will die and Naruto is born.
This translates to Kazeshini being 38 when Konoha is built, 53 when Sarutobi is put on a genin team and the First shinobi war breaking out, 80 when the Second war breaks out, 88 when the Third war breaks out, 93 when Minato is Hokage, 98 when Minato dies and Naruto is born, and 111 when Naruto becomes a genin.