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Who: Kushina and whoever
When: Arriving March 1st, late morning, until leaving March 9th, mid-afternoon
Where: In and around Konoha, between the village gates and the travel seal if you really want, ...seriously, just everywhere when she's not spending quality time with her family
Notes: Just come say hi 8| Aforementioned quality time with family will be most mornings from March 2-9, and all nights. But family teammates are always welcome to dinner. >3>

No matter how many times she came back to Konoha, she always made a point to walk around different parts of the village. It felt necessary to reacquaint herself with the streets and various landmarks after spending so long away from home. And meeting up with friends is a must too. On a couple afternoons she even takes some time in one of the training areas by the river. No reason not to keep sharp, even if she's technically on vacation.

Whether you're looking for her or not, that bright red hair of hers isn't hard to miss.

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"Don't try to wave it off like nothing! Look at your reflection in the water! We're taking you back to my house for something to drink. And to patch you up and feed you."

She pulled one of her clones over to give her an order.

"I need everyone up in the trees immediately. Ten seconds after getting this message, the clones maintaining the barrier need to release it on the side facing away from the village first. Do not release yourself until we get Obito secured in one of the trees."

"Got it!"

Obito huffed softly, but didn't keep arguing, moving a hand to his head to poke at the cut there and wow okay that was really red fingers. "...Okay yeah... bandage is needed here."

He turned his head to blink at her and gave her a sheepish smile. "At least I'm not on fire?" Just sopping wet. Barely out of winter.

She nearly took a swing at him for the wisecrack, but stopped her fist inches from his head.

"Shut up and come on," she said.

Two of her clones came to support him in order to bring him up into the nearest tree. His water whip restraints were released as the other clones went up into the treetops to avoid accidental destruction.

He gave her a sheepish smile and leaned more heavily into the clones than probably was reassuring. "I don't think I've used that much chakra in ages..."

"And tonight and tomorrow, you're gonna be paying for it. You'll be lucky to move. But I think this game idea of ours might have to be shelved."

Once everyone was out of range of the water, the clone Kushina had given the order to released herself. And like clockwork, part of the barrier retracted and the water flooded out in a raging torrent after ten seconds.

"Once this all goes down, we'll get moving."

"I'll be fine. I'm sure Rin will find me and give me stern disapproving sighs for having damaged myself too. I'm just going to have to suck it up and make sure I do stretches before bed and in the morning so I don't gimp around like some old man tomorrow." He gave her a sheepish smile.

"So. Um. How long ago did my sharingan off mode anyway? I think I missed it. Couldn't have been too long though."

"Minato will probably give me some kind of lecture," she said with a sigh.

Ah, and there went the water. She and her clones carefully jumped down the tree. A few released themselves after they landed in the soggy ground that could now pass as a marsh or swamp.

"Not sure how long your Sharingan's been off though. Looks like my strategy to burn out your chakra worked though."

As the barrier retracted and the clones maintaining it vanished, Kushina could feel some of the exhaustion hitting her. Damn it. How much chakra had she used up? Maybe some of her remaining clones could make dinner.

He hopped down with extreme care, having no desire to hurt himself and give her justification to carry him. Even if he did stumble on landing. "If you can wipe me out that fast I obviously have to try harder. We weren't even at that for an hour."

"That fast?" she echoed with a raised eyebrow. "Please, if you were still a genin, I would've had you begging for mercy in five minutes. You did good, and you really gave me a run for my money."

Poof. Poof. Poof. Poof. Poof. Some more clones vanished and the combined energy spent was spread more heavily between Kushina and her remaining half dozen clones. Damn. But as she was determined to walk home without any support, the other clones would stick around. At least they waited until she was on the ground again.

"C'mon. Let's go. You're staying for dinner with us after you get patched up."

"Okay good! I don't think I could have done the whole 'manage a stove without burning down the kitchen' thing tonight anyway." He gave her a sheepish smile, one hand pressed over the cut to put pressure on it because damn but head wounds bled a lot.

Way too much if he was truthful.

"Not with that much blood leaking from your head, Hokage-kun."

She led the way back to the Uzumaki house, mercifully not too far from the training grounds. Please don't let Minato or Naruto be home yet. Please don't let them be home yet.

He hadn't even thought of that. Don't mention that they should be home to him, Obito doesn't want to deal with the blonds while his head is starting to pound and the world won't hold still, okay? Okay.

"Yeah that part is not so good. Maybe it'll stop soon?"

Maybe.

Almost there. Almost there. Made it! She opened the door and got no answer to her automatic "I'm home!" Another mercy.

"Alright you, sit," she ordered, pointing at the kitchen table. Then the clones were getting ordered around. "You, get the first aid kit and two bowls of warm water, one soapy. You, start making dinner. Make sure there's enough for four people. You... I think the rest of you are done. You can go."

As soon as the words left her mouth, the remaining clones vanished in a cloud of smoke. Her earlier chakra usage now spread between three. Wow... so much exhaustion she leaned slightly more heavily over the table. Maybe she used more chakra than she thought to keep up with Obito.

Obito sat, giving her a sheepish smile as he blinked at her a few times, hand not budging from where it was pressed against his head. "It was a fun match up to the head wound though."

Crap that came out more dazed sounding than he'd intended. He needed a nap so bad.

"Yeah, it was."

She moved away from the table for a moment, digging around in a cabinet for a basket of rags that she brought back to the table. She set it down as she dropped into a chair. And right on cue, the requested water was delivered. Ah, and a spare bowl for the dirty water that she hadn't asked for. Perfect.

"Thanks, now do us all a favor and just rest over on the couch for a while. --Wait, no. Get tweezers first."

The clone obeyed as the real Kushina soaked a rag in the soapy water and reached out for Obito's head.

"Move your hand and lean forward."

He made a face at her that told her exactly what he thought of that idea... then complied, pouting as he moved his hand away, which was greeted by a rush of blood and him trying to figure out what to do with his hand.

"This sucks."

She ignored the face and pushed the bowl for dirty water right under his forehead. Spare them all some extra cleaning. Another thing ignored was the return of a slight twinge of guilt at the damage done. Almost immediately, a rag soaking with warm, soapy water was in place of his hand and mopping up his face. She wrung it out in the bowl, then soaked it once more to clean the wound a little more thoroughly.

"It wasn't supposed to end like this," she finally said, realizing she'd been so quiet. "I got too carried away, forgot some of the broken branches would've gotten caught up in the whirlwind. I'm sorry I messed up your face."

Well. More than it already was. But so not rubbing that in his face. Just the soapy water.

He scoffed and rolled his eye, the one he didn't have closed, to look at her. "Please, we both know there's not much you can do to mess up this face Kushina. Well. On that side anyway."

"I guess you haven't lost too much blood from your head if you're still able to crack jokes," she said, a small grin appearing again. "Still, maybe a few new scars would work in your benefit. Finally get you a date with someone."

She traded the washcloth for the just-delivered tweezers, leaning in closer to pluck out splinters, dropping them one by one into the dirty water bowl. After several were removed, she leaned back in her seat frowning.

"Go get a bright light and a needle or pin, I don't want to miss anything that might be hiding in his scars or got buried into his skin. And get a dry towel too, for later. Please. Then you can rest for a bit."

She went back to slowly examining his face for the splinters she could see until her clone returned with her requests.

Obito was so not thrilled to get the bright light treatment, but held still for it with a huff. "Yeah, well, I just got smacked upside the head, I didn't get maimed Kushina. Yeesh."

He cracked open his other eye, peeking at her from the less hurt side. "And don't you talk to me about dates, I get plenty of dates. They just expect things I don't have the time to give em."

"And what sorts of things don't you have time for anyway?"

No rule saying she couldn't play armchair therapist with his love life while working. Pluck. Pluck. Pluck. A folded towel was eventually set on the table as she continued. A small flashlight was set on top with little box of pins.

"Thank you."

She paused to turn on the flashlight and focused a small amount of chakra at her temple to stick it there. Then she continued pulling out splinters and slivers with the tweezers.

He squinted at getting a flashlight beam to the face but huffed. "Consistent never cancelled or delayed dates, a lot of the time, seems to be the lucky winner with the people I keep ending up with. And then, half the shinobi nope out on me on declaration that dating the Hokage is weird. Weird? Really? They couldn't even make it personal?"

She leaned in closer, squinting at his face as she kept picking at his face. More tiny slivers were dropped into the bowl, not even making a sound.

"Well, that's their loss. But I can see how some shinobi might find it weird to date the current Hokage. Especially if they didn't know you as well before you took office."

She paused a moment to grab a pin and use it to dig out a tiny splinter in danger of getting pushed in entirely.

"Still, it goes back to what I said in the first place about the ones who don't understand the Hokage's schedule keeps getting altered at the drop of a hat. I've been there, I know what it's like to have plans get moved up or cancelled because some emergency came up. Yeah, it sucks, but those things happen. The same would go for any medic. But it's their loss, y'know? They don't bother getting to know a charming young man and miss out. But really, it's not that hard to do quick lunch dates or stuff like that, even if you eat in your office. You can lock your door to keep out interruptions, it has a sliding lock for a reason, y'know. Now turn the other way."

Without missing a beat, she put the tweezers above the flashlight and clamped down on the pin with her lips. Her fingers gently guided his head to the other side before reclaiming their tools once she had a good angle. A few more splinters came out before she paused to shift the flashlight to the other side of her head.

"Have you tried asking out any medics? And I don't just mean Rin only, before you say anything."

"Well that's good because at this point I'm preeeetty sure that Rin's made it clear she's not interested." His tone was kind of dry, but he let her maneuver him around easily enough, even though his expression was thoughtful.

"But no, closest I got to that was flirting with Tsunade and I think we can both agree she's a little old for me. I never really much care for crashing in on people who are already way busy. Haven't actually tried to ask anyone out in months, in fact."

"Hmmm."

A soft hum, almost sounding disappointed. Or perhaps it was coincidence as she carefully dug at a splinter with her pin before plucking it out. But she forced herself to let the tweezers hang an inch above his face when he caught her off-guard. The surprise quickly turned to cackling laughter.

"You flirted with Tsunade?! She's like twenty years older than you!"

Yeah... That's all she's coming away with for the moment.

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