Konoha

I was a little upset to be stuck in a babies body but there was nothing I could do about it. Besides the girls in my mind were absolutely loving it. There was no way however I could go into my mind realm with Kushina around. You think a grieving mother is going to let her darling baby anywhere out of her sight? Not fucking possible.

The whole village was being repaired and fixed up. The fox had destroyed quite a bit of it. There was a mass funeral for those that had died in the attack including the tragic loss of minato.

The council bought the story completely. Apparently it wasn't widely known that Minato and Kushina were together for safety reasons. Those who did know kept their mouth shut as they knew there was something more at play. However they fully believed the story that minato sacrificed himself for the village. Nobody knew I was a jinchuriki as death had hidden it. They figured the fox would reform in a few years down the line since chakra beasts can't really die. Even the akastuki and Obito believed that to be what happened.

This would give me time to myself. Also being forced into a baby body let me slow down for a while. I always seemed to be rushing around. The time in the other worlds was slowed down. Death also allowed for the exception of Lily, Emily and Amanda to join in the mind realm to visit me whenever since they were family.

However they were all crazy with baby fever seeing my new body. It was a calamity death had caused me.

For the first few years there was nothing I could do besides act like a child. There was of course a few things that were different than normal children. Kushina started teaching me extremely early on how to read and write properly. Like almost as soon as I could talk. Apparently children are trained in clans at a super young age. If I remember correctly Kakashi was a trained Killer at the age of like 6.

Kushina however was an extremely doting and loving mother. Even if she was quite childish at times the love she had for me was astonishing. She had taken leave from the ninja forces to raise me so she could spend all her time with me. The old man of course granted this.

She never let me more than a few feet out of her sight. We slept in the same bed, ate at the same time, bathed together. She would have me sit in the yard and do calligraphy while she trained with her sword and kept in shape. I don't know how she did it with the amount of ramen she ingested but she had a smoking figure.

There was a single time that she had left me with someone else and it was with kakashi when I was about three. He often came over to visit. He knew about Kushina and minato and knew who I was and loved to come see us when he wasn't busy working. The old man also dropped by on occasion to visit and have lunch with us.

Now the reason Kushina left was because she had gotten word somewhere that a couple of uzumakis had survived and she was head of the uzumaki clan right now so she went to go and fetch them.

She ended up bringing back two people. A slightly older woman and a small red haired girl with glasses by the name of Karin. Having a talk with the old man they were allowed to stay here since they were technically part of the uzumaki clan. The mother whose name is Mina got a job at the hospital. They would both still be staying with us and Karin would start learning with me. She was excited to have someone to play with and a new big brother in a way and quickly latched onto me always wanting to be close. Didn't matter if it was naps, eating, studying or playing she always had to either be next to me or touching me. Apparently she liked how I felt. I was confused about this until death mentioned my purified chakra and how she was a sensor and it was kind of like being bathed in the most comfortable feeling when she was around me.

I was fine with this. I wasn't allowed to really leave the house since who really let's small children run around outside unsupervised? We did get to go to the park a few times and to the ramen stand where they gorged themselves on insane amounts of ramen.

Til we were 4 we just learned basic stuff no real jutsu or anything mostly just how to do hand signs, practice for sealing arts which was calligraphy. Stances for combat which were basic.

Our usual day would be wake up. Change into some training clothes. Do practice stances until we work up a sweat. Bathe. Eat breakfast. Do a few pages of calligraphy. Do a few rounds of hand signs practice. Head into the back yard and do a few throwing practices with practice shuriken and kunai. Do more practice stances and a few exercises. Enjoy lunch before being sandwiched between two red heads for a nap. Then have some free time to play or do whatever we wanted.

Occasionally either Kushina or Kakashi would show off with some jutsu or swordplay for us which was cool.

Once we hit 4 years old we would finally get to use chakra or we'll start practicing with it. Every child in ninja families at 4 years old has their chakra unsealed by an adult. Mine was already unsealed but they didn't know why. This was usually to prevent the child from harming themselves or stressing out their chakra coils. Most of the kids seemed to have a bit higher than normal intelligence or they just learned quickly with their brain growing at this stage in life. Either way 4 years old was apparently the right time to start teaching a child how to blow fireballs that can destroy buildings I guess.