Setting looks aside for the moment, Naruto had not perfectly inherited the fine genes of either his father or mother when it came to appearance.
But after serving as the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki for so many years, how could Kushina fail to sense the Nine-Tails within Naruto, as well as the Chakra she and Minato had left inside him?
The Chakra they had left within Naruto was a safeguard meant to prevent the Nine-Tails from going berserk, and it was also their final message to their child.
But now that they had both been completely resurrected, those previous arrangements were clearly rather redundant.
Seeing her son again after so many years apart, Kushina had been mentally prepared to some extent, but when the moment truly came, she was still clearly overwhelmed with emotion.
As a member of the Uzumaki Clan, she was quite sensitive to Chakra. At a glance, she could tell that because of the Eight Trigrams Seal used to contain the Nine-Tails, her son had not grown as outstandingly as she had imagined.
Naruto should already have been twelve years old, yet he was still only a genin.
Back when they had been that age, Minato, Yoru Machi, and the others had already been chunin, or even jonin.
Moreover, although Naruto possessed an astonishing amount of Chakra due to being both an Uzumaki and the Nine-Tails Jinchuriki, his strength seemed to be rather mediocre even among genin.
Kushina could also tell at once that the gourd-carrying kid confronting Naruto and the others was a tailed beast Jinchuriki as well, and his strength far surpassed those Konoha brats.
"Who is Naruto's teacher? Has that person truly been teaching my child properly?!"
In Kushina's view, Naruto's talent was quite good. He simply had not received the right guidance, otherwise he would