>> Unless things have changed, she spent more time getting information off people as they came and went from canon update comas to the point where she realized there wasn't really anything for her to go back for short of... remaining dead.
>> So she doesn't really want to go back.
>> Soon after getting all sixteen badges, she went back and did the elite challenges. Because why not.
>> In said gym matches, she's set fire to every gym at least once. Not her fault some of them use flammable decor!!! LOOKING AT YOU BUGSY AND ERIKA But she's not entirely sure how she managed it in Cerulean's gym. Even Misty was baffled.
>> While she continues to train a metric butt-ton of Pokemon, she still specializes in fire types.
>> Due to box restrictions, she's said goodbye to some old friends, passing a bunch of the stronger ones (read: level 100) to other people.
>> Somehow her starter, Kyuubi (long since evolved into Ninetails), is always at her side. Very rarely boxed. ...She's not even sure when she came to trust him so much.
>> She's gotten the family to finally settle down between a few neighboring houses in Cianwood City to form the Uzumaki Compound. The main house and the other two for Naruto, friends, and other assorted visitors.
>> This was a second choice, since if she could've lived on the Whirl Islands, she would have. But sadly, that wasn't an option. So, Cianwood it was.
>> Still, the Whirl Islands are close enough for the occasional exploration. And camping in there for a couple days isn't so bad.
>> She and Minato figured once they had the Uzumaki clan settled, that they were pretty safe from one of them vanishing and decided to try starting up a family another shot.
>> The result was a baby girl named Nori (already sporting mom's bright red hair) and Minato's hand bandaged for who knows how long after Kushina broke it while in labor. Oops.
>> At this point, Nori's a few months old and almost every minute of it is recorded to her PokeGear. Some of it's even made it onto the network. Because come on. What proud parent isn't going to take videos or pictures then shove them at other people going WOOK AT DA BEBEEEE. Also gotta keep the husbando informed on what he's missing while he works at the welcome center in Cherrygrove.
>> Naruto-- though in his 20s-- is not exempt from the recording treatment either. Because that's her son gdit and she doesn't want to miss anymore of his life if she can help it. And when she's not shoving her 'Gear into his face, she's teasing and picking on him. Because in her late 30s (probably 36 or 37 by this point), she lost what few fucks she had left to give in the first place.
>> So while husbando's off doing that, she mostly trains everywhere between the islands up to the Safari Zone gates. Also the rumors of a legend resting in the Whirl Islands keeps her going back to find out more.
>> You bet she wants to catch it.
>> Yes, even while she was pregnant. And yes, still after Nori was born. She just strapped that baby right to her back if Naruto or Minato weren't around for babysitting and flew out to have some mother-daughter adventures.
>> Despite life in a relatively quiet city (compared to most of the mainland cities of Johto), she always manages to keep busy. Otherwise she'd go crazy. Hence the constant field trips or just training like crazy for a few days in a row.
>> However, she does go to Cherrygrove every once in a while to help out at the Welcome Center. Whether it's offering advice on what she knows from being in the Pokemon world to any kind of personal advice for any of the girls to serving ramen food different varieties of ramen every night for dinner. Until she goes back home or one of the senior volunteers happens to tell her she needs to make something else. Even if she argues she only makes it for dinner, not breakfast and lunch too!!!
>> She got her wedding vows renewed about a year after arriving, and their honeymoon in Blackthorn went so well until a certain Hokage couldn't keep his mouth shut they were banned from the hot springs and still aren't allowed back.
>> She's gotten some of her more unruly team members to behave... Most of the time.
>> Seeing as how Ryuutarou (now a Togekiss) still plays pranks on her or knocks into her 'Gear for "accidental" recordings sometimes. And Oriro won't stop chewing on her hair or trying to perch on her shoulders (or both) whenever she lets him out... Just for examples.
>> Also after a reminder of her promise, she kept her word to Morgiana to explain what adult content was, three years later. Or seven years before the meme.
>> OH RIGHT. She's got a battle theme now too! Had one for a good while now. It's just... really hard to find one that fits her. 8| So I'm yanking this one from Road to Ninja, because it's the closest I can find to matching her intensity, at least in terms of the tempo. 8T
>> It probably took a long time and a bit of nudging, but she's probably buried the hatchet with Obito in Route. Unless something happens in canon where he kills Naruto, because then she'd never forgive him.