Uzumaki Kushina was in high spirits today because she was about to take on a subordinate—and a highly talented one at that. This was the first step in her campaign towards the path of the Hokage.
However, the excuse Uzumaki Kushina used to ask Namikaze Minato out wasn't that she wanted to beat him up; instead, she had invited him under the guise of a sparring match. Remembering the thrilled expression on Namikaze Minato's face at the time, she figured she could go a little easy on him later, since he admired her so much.
At the same time, because Namikaze Minato was about to become her first underling, although Uzumaki Kushina felt he was a bit too effeminate and lacked manliness, she believed she could tolerate his shortcomings. After all, she was a woman destined to become the Hokage in the future, and she needed the breadth of mind befitting a Hokage—even though she didn't really understand what "breadth of mind" meant, having only heard Mito use it as a joke.
Chapter 27