Uzumaki Kanna is envious.
She has always wanted a partner like everyone else on Uzushio but there is an odd number so she has never had one. It wasn't that her cousins tried to push her away, it was just how things ended up. She tends to do her missions with the older ones who have lost theirs but often, she longs for her own.
The others understand and she gets that they can't simply make one appear. It doesn't mean that she doesn't want one to, though. Partners on Uzushio are special. You love them and cherish them whether platonically or not. Either way, they are yours however you wish to love them. Partners have a deep connection and Kanna wants that for herself.
But right now, she doesn't have a partner to laugh and cry with her so she has to hurry up and finish this work before it gets too late. Aomi-ojisan will have her hide otherwise. At least it is much easier to create seals now - ever since Mizuki's impromptu lesson.
The adults don't know what she's going to choose but Kanna has a bet on sensei. Or maybe explaining things but it doesn't sound so cool when you say that and Mizuki is... maybe not cool. But she does more than just survive Kushina and Kanna knows that Mizuki could power a fire for years with willpower. So, no, Kanna's family is not wise. All of them, including (especially) Mizuki are mad. And she loves it.
She'd also love it if she could decide herself.
She could go for healing - everyone who bites her is healed - but it's uncomfortable and she doesn't like it. The only reason she even knows if because one of the children bit her hand once. It wasn't even on purpose but the entire family could sense the chakra transition.
She doesn't like it though because it hurts and is deeply uncomfortable. She doesn't want bite scars for the rest of her life! But she's not sure she should go into healing - her entire family has warned her that if anyone else ever finds out, they will take advantage of it and she doesn't want to let anyone die if she can help it. It wouldn't be a good combination.
Inevitably, she'd end up healing someone not from the island that way, they'd tell the others and she'd be hunted for it. People try to even avoid mentioning what she can do. The island is as secure as possible but time defeats everything so they need to be careful.
Kanna turns her attention back to the seal and tries to envision what she wants.
Kanna loves the sea.
The sea is wild, untameable, fierce and angry but also soft and caressing. It reminds her of her family. Red is quite far from blue but still, water is their element and she just likes to watch it. Somedays, it is content to simply settle and make small waves. On others it is passionate and the waves rise much, much higher than her head. And on some days, it is a little mischievous, alternating between small and medium waves. She really does adore it.
She adores it even more when she can see red hair near it because then she knows her family are out there either leaving for some sort of a trip or coming home, back to where they belong. Both are equally as exciting and she enjoys watching the boats fade away as they leave until she simply can't see them anymore or become even clearer and bigger as they approach.
As she squints, she makes out not two but three redheads and one gold. As Kushina and Mizuki are the only ones who aren't on the island right now, she knows exactly who two of them are. So who could the other two be? She doesn't know but they seem to have brought guests. Kanna's grin is way past mischievous. It's time to greet their visitors - Uzushio style.
Minato's been thrown in the deep end. The worst part is that he's the one that threw himself into it. It's fine when you can blame someone else but he can't. It was his choice to come. It was his choice to beg the redheads to teach him more Fuuinjutsu, to master the Uzumaki ways. He can't pin that on anyone else.
What wasn't his choice though was to be welcomed by around four hundred people with maniac grins on. He really shouldn't have obeyed Kushina when she told him to set his stuff down because the next thing he knows is being tossed into the air and falling into the cold, cold water. As he splutters in indignation, the people of Uzushio laugh at his plight. No one is quite laughing as hard as Kushina so he takes the opportunity to splash her. Seconds later, when there is no retaliation, he cracks one eye open and sees another gleeful redhead hugging his two new senseis.
It's only when they reach the shore that Kanna realises just what her present is. She jumps up and down with glee to the amusement of Mito and the bafflement of Kushina when she tackles her in the water. Mizuki takes a split second to realise what she means and smirks in amusement, embracing her cousin. Then, Kanna prances over to Minato and grabs his hand.
Before a wave of water comes for her face, Mizuki catches sight of Kanna who's practically dancing as she drags a still wet Minato along with her. She has a partner!
Growling, Mizuki turns to her own partner and the water fight begins in earnest.
Meanwhile, from the dry shore, Minato's still questioning his choices and why the best masters of Fuuinjutsu had to be these crazy Uzumakis. He's resigned himself to being dragged around by this redhead but it doesn't mean he enjoys it. At least, no one is going to know he actually doesn't mind. He's meant to be grumpy - he's more than earned the right to be.