Returning to Konoha

One month later, Konoha Academy;

"Next Team 7; Sasuke Uchiha, Sakura Haruno, and Naruto Namikaze," while Sakura raised her fist in happiness, Naruto and Sasuke stood up and said, "no way."

"Hmpf, I don't want to be in the same team as this loser," as Sasuke snorted, Naruto growled, "That's my line, you snob."

" Ignoring them, Iruka continued, "Team 8, Hinata Hyuga, Kiba Inuzuka, and Shino Aburame; Team 10, Ino Yamanaka, Shikamaru Nara, and Choji Akimichi..."

After announcing all the teams, Iruka further said, "now, wait here until your team leader comes." One by one, jonins enter the room and take their assigned teams away. While Kurenai took away Team 8, Asuma Sarutobi took away Team 10 with him.

AsTeam 7 waiting for one hour alone in the classroom, Naruto started to get impatient, "Argh... I can't take this anymore. Kakashi Oji-san is always late." "Eh? Kakashi Oji-san?" Sakura wondered who is Naruto talking about after hearing an unfamiliar name. Naruto looked at her and replied, "a few weeks ago, I heard my dad saying to mom that I'll be under Kakashi Oji-san after my graduation. He's my dad's student. Copy Ninja, Sharingan Kakashi."

While Sasuke's interest was piqued after hearing the word Sharingan, Sakura asked, "Sharingan? From what I know, isn't that special eye of your clan, Sasuke-kun? Is he a member of your clan?" As Sasuke replied, "I've never of such person," all of a sudden, the door was opened with a force that it made a loud sound.

"Kaa-san?" Naruto was surprised to see Kushina entered the classroom in her jonin attire, instead of Kakashi. "What are you doing here and you are wearing a shinobi uniform again?" But then, he went silent as he saw her expression seemed very serious, unlike her usual gentle demeanor. She spoke, "Team 7, meet me at 3rd Training Ground," and then, disappeared into a puff of smoke indicating its a shadow clone."

While Sasuke silently walked along with them, Sakura said, "didn't you say that Hokage-sama's student named Kakashi?" Naruto almost screamed, "how could I know that my mom would be our sensei?" Sasuke asked, "is your mom, strong?" Naruto shrugged his shoulders, "who knows? I never saw her fight. I only know that she used to be a jonin and retired after my little sisters Ikari and Imari were born, 6 years ago. Well, my dad gets afraid whenever she gets angry, although I don't know why."

Fifteen minutes later, as they reached the training ground 3, everyone was stupefied for a second to see the cracks and several small craters on the ground everywhere while Kushina was covered by a red-colored chakra and a tail as she was punching and kicking a man, who was dodging it skillfully while screaming miserably, "Kushina-Nee-san, is this how you supposed to welcome your dear cousin?"

"Cousin? Did you finally remember your family after running away without informing 5 years ago? And coming back after so long, the first thing you say is, "Hey?" How dare you dodge it. Stay there as a man and take my beatings," as Kushina growled in anger, the one who was dodging the attacks, Raiga scoffed, "yeah, right. As if I would take the attack and get admitted to the hospital. Oh! Nee-san your team is here. Is that Naruto? Let us pause our battle for a second, OK?"

Raiga immediately threw a kunai towards her, which she easily dodged but as soon as it passed her, Raiga immediately disappeared from her view and appeared in the air at the Kunai and a seal appeared on his palm and he touched her back, "Petrifying seal." As soon as the mark appeared on her back, Kushina immediately stood there like a statue with her only eyes moving.

Raiga grinned, "just cool down a little okay?" Leaving her there, Raiga started walking towards the three of them, who were stupified by Kushina's destructive power and also Raiga's last move, which seemed mysterious to them and shocking to Naruto as only he knew that it was his dad's signature move and also surprised to see his uncle, which he used to spend a lot of time with him in his childhood. Meanwhile, Sasuke thought, "Hokage's wife is so scary."

As Raiga reached them, Naruto shouted with excitement, "Uncle Rai." Raiga reached out his hand and ruffled his hair, "look at you, Naruto. You've gotten big..." Just then, suddenly, his body shivered as he heard a voice, "Oh! You became bolder, Rai. Daring to immobilize me and talking to my son as if there's nothing happened."

As he turned around, he saw a red chakra cloak on Kushina has three tails while she broke the seal and hair is rising. Raiga immediately spoke, "I'll meet both of you later, Sasuke-kun, Sakura-chan, see ya," and then disappeared from there using Hiraishin while Kushina crackled her knuckles, "we'll see how you'll escape after this."

Then, she turned towards the three of them, making them involuntarily took a step back. After claiming down and making the three tail cloak disappear, Kushina spoke, "Ok, first let's start with our introductions. My name is Kushina Uzumaki, a jonin of Konoha. I hate it if anyone dares to comment about my hair. My current goal is to discipline and make a proper shinobi out of my son. Now, tell about yourselves, first, you." She glared at Naruto as she explained about herself, who in return, gulped in fear as he remembered her earlier behavior.

Naruto calmed down and said, "I'm Naruto Namikaze. I like ramen, ranking, chill..." he stopped after seeing his mother's expression and then skipped his hates and directly said, "my goal is to not just become a Hokage but to surpass all the Hokage," which eased her and next, Sakura introduced herself, "My name is Sakura Haruno. What I like is..." she began to glance at Sasuke and then continued, "I hate when people comment about my forehead and my aim is to become a legendary shinobi like Tsunade Senju." After that, Sasuke spoke, "My name is Sasuke Uchiha. I don't particularly like anything nor do I hate anything. My goal is to surpass my brother and become the Police Commander."

Meanwhile, Raiga was standing before Minato in Hokage's office. "When did Kushina Nee-san joined again? Wasn't she already retired even before I left Konoha?" Minato replied, "only just a week ago, although I asked her to. Naruto grew up, you know, a little bit more spoiled. Luckily, you returned at the right time, my plan worked out perfectly."

Raiga stepped back a little bit in surprise after realizing the meaning behind his words, "you mean, I have to babysit the little twins this time while she trains Naruto?" Minato replied, "not for long. It's just for another couple of months. After all, they'll be starting the academy this year.

In the meantime, I would also like you to become a fuinjutsu teacher in the Konoha academy, starting from the next term. Don't worry, you will be only treated as an academic teacher, not as a Shinobi. Not to mention it's only for final year students. You would only have one each day. In return, I'll owe you one favor as a Hokage. How about it? Are you interested, now?"

Raiga looked at him seriously and asked, "What is the limitation of the one favor I can use?" Minato replied with a smile, "anything, as long as it isn't unethical and endanger our village."