(Edited 7.05.2015)

Chapter One- Three Years

"I can't believe it's been three years!" Natsumi shouted as she looked at the cliff in front of her, the Hokage's faces. "Naruto, they've added grandmother's face to the mountain."

"A lot of things can happen," Naruto told her. Looking at the happy fifteen year old. Jiraiya just sighed and smiled at them. He was happy, but at the same time sad that his time with them had ended. "Besides, she's the Hokage. Which will also mean Kushina will be with her."

"Who's with Tsunade?" a voice asked from behind him. Turning around he saw his sister long messy hair, which now reached the back of her knees. "It's nice to see you again, big brother."

Natsumi could only smiled as she watched her sister hug Naruto. Tears going down her pale checks, even if three years had passed, but Kushina was still pale as ever. "Kushina, we're happy to see you and sorry for being six months late!"

"You better be," Kushina shouted at her while she glared at Jiraiya. Said man just put his arms up in surrender. "We'll be talking later… Jiraiya and it better be good."

"Of course it is!" Jiraiya told her. "I'll go to talk Tsunade. I'll see you in a bit Natsumi, Naruto and Kushina."

Natsumi only smiled as her sensei disappeared in a pool of smoke. Turning around to her older sister, she pulled the raven into a hug. She had missed Kushina, but the two would write to each other every month, until six months ago. "Kushina, I could barely recognise you. Your hair as finally taken over half of your face."

"I'm glad the clothes I've sent you fits," Kushina told her while dragging them to the park. Tsunade could wait, she hadn't seen her brother or sister for three years. "Same with yours, brother."

"Why did you sent us clothes?"

"I don't trust white toad not to pick out something that's…"

"Pervert-y?" Naruto suggested. Kushina only nodded at his words and they finally find themselves at the park, sitting on the grass hill Kushina gave them a bento from the seal on her wrist.

"I missed your cooking," Natsumi told her while her knee length dark orange skirt pooled around her legs, showing her black tights and knee high grey wedged boots. Looking around the field she took her jean jacket off, showing her neat figure and tight black shirt. "Sensei can't cook and most the time he was peeking on bathing houses."

"So you only missed my cooking?" Kushina asked. Both she and Natsumi were wearing the same type of outfit, in fact, the two liked wearing the same clothes. The only difference was the colouring. While Natsumi still like wearing orange and Kushina couldn't image the girl without it, it just didn't suit her, so she stayed with her normal dark red. "And here I was thinking you missed me."

"Of course I missed you!"

"Natsumi, I was playing with your head."

"Kushina that's mean."

"Still playing with people's heads," Naruto said a smile on his lips. He had kept his hair to his shoulder, since he didn't want to look like a mini-clone of his father. "You'll never change. Can you tell us what happened in the last six months?"

"Only if you tell me," Kushina told him. "You stopped sending me and Tsunade letters. We thought you were killed, until an ANBU told us that they saw you."

"Sorry about that," Natsumi said after Naruto told her what happened. Kushina looked like she was ready to kill someone. Naruto also looked ready to kill someone, in fact, he did every time the snake was brought up. "Anyway it's your turn."

"You know how Tsunade was training both me and Sakura, along with the fact that I had to keep an eye on Sasuke?" Kushina asked getting nods from both Natsumi and Naruto. "Well, five months ago. I was sent on a mission and when I came back. The snake convinced Sasuke to leave and he did. He wasn't a kidnapping like the rumours around the village say it was. However, when he left Sakura tried to stop him, but he killed her."

"She didn't train?"

"She did."

"I'm surprised Tsunade didn't go all out on her," Naruto said while looking at his sister who just sighed. "But then you did tell us that she wasn't giving up her fangirl ways and Tsunade didn't want to waste time on her."

"How did Min react?" Natsumi asked. She didn't like the women, but she had just lost her daughter to a duck-butted psychopath.

"She blamed me," Kushina told them glaring at her navy skirt. "Will she did anyway. No matter how many people told her I was away on a mission and that I don't control 'darling Sasuke's' actions, she wouldn't leave me alone about it."

"So, she didn't blame him?"

"What do you mean 'she did'?" Naruto asked thinking about his sister's words. Something about them didn't make sense to him.

"No she thought he was a victim, forced to go to the snake's side," Kushina said while looking at the necklace around Natsumi's neck. The one Tsunade gave her when they were training with Hiruzen. "Last week, we found her body in the same place Sakura was found. Min never believed her daughter was dead. She would wait at the gate for Sakura, but when she accepted the fact her daughter wasn't coming back, it looked like she killed herself, but we could be wrong."

"I'm a horrible person," Natsumi said while looking at her chopsticks. "I don't feel sorry for her. She was such a pain in the rear."

"Natsumi, she made your life a living hell," Naruto told her. "I don't feel sorry for her, I'm sure Kushina doesn't, even though she found the women's body."

"Never said I did," Kushina told him.

"Your face did."

"We better go to Tsunade."

"Why?" Natsumi asked she was having fun catching up with her sister. Tsunade had told them that Kushina was doing great with her training, while Jiraiya told Tsunade and Kushina that Naruto and Natsumi were doing great with theirs. "I want to talk to my sister more! Grandma can wait."

"I wish," Kushina said while rolling her eyes. "Plus Natsumi, we live in the same house and I'm going to be cooking dinner tonight, your favourites. We can even have Iruka and Kakashi over, celebrate the fact that you're finally back."

"Natsumi, Naruto… why didn't you come back with the pervert?" Tsunade asked the three teens in front of her. She was sighing her last piece of paperwork, when Hiruzen asked her how she did it, she simply said 'Shadow Clone' which left him hitting his head against the wall, the same reaction she had when Natsumi and Kushina asked why 'Kages just didn't use clones to help them with paperwork?' "Has Kushina told you what happened? Also Jiraiya told me what happened on your end. Since Kushina doesn't look like she wanted to kill him, I'm guessing you told her."

"Kushina told us about Sasuke's runaway and Sakura's murder," Naruto said while crossing his arms over his black jacket and dark red top. "Kushina also told us in her leaders about Haku and Zabuza's probations, along with her own. She also told us about Min's suicide. Is there anything else?"

"One more thing," Tsunade said a smile on her face. "I'll be joining you for dinner, along with Shizune. From now on you're Team Kushina because you lack one teammate, we'll sometimes give you an extra teammate or you can join another team for missions, if needed."

"Hai Hokage-sama."

"Tomorrow, I'll allow you to get familiar with your teams fighting style, but afterwards you'll need to come here to get missions."

"Of course, now I need to cook, while Natsumi and Naruto need to get some rest," Kushina said a smile on her face. "We'll see you at the Uzumaki Compound."