Akuma

I slowly open my eyes, blinking as they adjust. I can't keep the bitter smile off my face. Jayden, one of my most promising students; a child I had personally rescued, after his home was bombed, had betrayed me. Of course, after all of the betrayals, I've suffered in my long life. A small part of me always expects it.

That was one of the things that had allowed me to survive on numerous occasions. Though that doesn't make it any easier, 17 years of trust gone. In an instant.

The smile turns cruel as I think of the fate that awaits my betrayer. Does he honestly think he will get away with this? Does he not think that I would have protocols in place for such an occurrence. Foolish, I'm the fucking bogey man for a reason.

I stop my train of thought as there is work to be done. And I become startled upon taking in my surroundings. This is not my personally designed lab, I have tucked away. I inspect my body. This is not the clone body, that I designed for when I "died."

"Rebirth." I mentally call out. … No response. "Project: Destiny designation Rebirth respond," I command. … Again no answer. I break out into a cold sweat. The software that I designed for my bodies wasn't responding. This wasn't one of my bodies.

'How could they know? I covered my steps well. No one even knows about rebirth.'

'Gurlgee....tem re..cessing….reestablishing host connection. Hello Akuma, systems now operational.' I hear an echo in my mind as I calm myself down and check over my condition. I seem mildly injured. I'm not restrained. I can't see any monitoring system. So, I was captured and stuffed into a new body, my captures seem confident they can handle me.

Well, we will see about that.

Taking a better look at my surroundings, now that my initial panic had passed. I first notice the side of the island I had washed up on was facing east, had a rocky shallow shore, and does not appear to have any neighboring islands as far as the eye can see. Looking west, deeper into the island, is also not very telling. Trees, hundreds of feet tall, as wide at the base as a house. Thick canopy preventing a lot of light from coming through. The plant life that did survive on the forest floor was thick and tangling. The leaves barbed stems having small thorns.

' Rebirth, where are we? Wait Akuma?....argh....….fffuck. What's happening?' I think out in a grunt as thousands of volts of white-hot electricity rips through my body and nails are hammered into my skull. 'Integrating unknown energy, 'soul' or consciousness.' I hear from a voice 1000 miles away.

I can barely understand what she is telling me as my vision turns blue with yellow-orange and red patterns here and there and every inch of my body inside and out is in searing agony. Memories play themselves out in my mind. They tell the story of my new body Akuma, being born into the prestigious Uzumaki clan but having a mutated bloodline.

His father was the youngest son of the clan head and brother of Mito Uzumaki. Had died during a war campaign in lightning country before I had turned 3. My mother of the Terumi clan had died during childbirth. Her clansman wanted nothing to do with me as I had a mutated bloodline. And tensions between the villages were again on the rise.

When the pain receded my vision was still in blue yellows, oranges, and reds, but I now knew it was a secret part of Akuma's mutated bloodline. The Obsidian release. ' Rebirth, what's happened to us? Go over it with me. I'm not crazy am I?'

'No, you're not going crazy. Although currently unquantifiable we have somehow transmigrated in a previously assumed fictional world. My processor is no more and I seem to have merged with an energy source present throughout your body though most prevalent in the heart and brain. I am terming this new energy as the soul. We are now inhabiting a young Akuma Uzumaki's body."

" Said body, due to the mutation in the Yuton bloodline, and unique eyes had been the recipient of several cruel attacks. This time the attack left his body, and soul, severely wounded. A faulty slave sealing tag was applied to him moments before he slew all the attackers. Falling into a nearby river on the process. In an attempt to fix it his soul, which must carry traits of his Uzumaki heritage, instinctively changed the seal tag a bit to allow for another soul to merge with it. Our soul was simply stronger having gained more spiritual energy with our long lives and the combination of the two of us. We have absorbed the remnants of Okami's soul, and are, for the time being, trapped in an alternate dimension.'

'So it's real.' I think to myself. Both amazed and appalled. 'I'm in Naruto.' Naruto is, or was, a fictional Manga/anime in my home dimension of earth. It was incredibly famous during the beginning of the millennia. It focused around its main character and namesake Naruto. An orphan shunned by his village who becomes a ninja, discovers he's the vessel for a demon' and saves the world

' Is there any conceivable way to make it back to earth?' I ask my oldest 'friend'. 'Calculations suggest that although the chances are very, very small there is a chance. My suggestion is to not concern yourself with returning."

" You have tasked me to find a way for you to get out of the war, and it has happened. Jayden betrayed you, my calculations show a 91.763 percent chance that Thalia will have already disposed of him, before your fail-safe, and assumed control. Thalia is an excellent leader even better than yourself at times. Let her handle the affairs of the life we have left behind.'

It was true, and exactly what I expected to hear. After having fought the elitists for as many years as I had. I had grown sick of the world. But I just couldn't stop trying to help people. Even if my help had lead to the death of thousands. I still saw it as the ultimatley right thing to do. I could never just surrender and let all of humanity be under the control of a few rich assholes, or cowards who were willing to enslave humanity. Work until you are old and feeble, then please go die quietly while we siphon 50 years of money you paid in to retire. Nevermind the fact 50% wont live that long. They would do anything to maintain the status quo, or even to change public opinion. From releasing a manufactured virus, population inflation, food shortage, gun problem, whatever lie the elitist published, they would have celeberties endorsing it. Anyone who went against the "norm" was publicly shamed, or worse. Sometimes losing their homes, and families.

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'Systems check, scan area, the design plan for where we go from here.' I commanded. Pushing back the 150 plus years of nostalgia. To a world I may never return to.

'Current systems unnamed. All Protocols in place. Estimated processing speed 220 geoflops, storage capacity greater than 1024 exabytes, access to new energy detection through the extrasensory perception of the new host body. The current scan range extended from 5ft to 15ft. Energy types identified. Chakra, soul, nature chakra. Connection to host 'soul host and system are one energy source indistinguishable.

Injuries, bruised ribs, dislocated shoulder, bruised femur, black eye, freshly healed broken nose, recovery time three days.'

'Three days?' I ask amazed.

'Correct the Uzumaki bloodline has an increased healing factor of 1400%percent compared to base earth humans. I calculate a further increase as a result of having a more powerful spirit.'

'Distance to the village' I ask.

'We are on a separate island distance unknown.'

'Recommended course of action.'

'Recommended that you gather supplies to heal here while you get used to the new body and energy manipulation techniques associated with chakra. Its recommended Memory technique Mind palace, and mind partition techniques, be learned immediately. System already running background programs to compile chakra techniques, fuinjutsu knowledge, taijutsu, kenjutsu, shuriken jutsu, and all other known techniques of this world both fictional, and those personally experienced by Okami.

The state of this world is very chaotic. Even more so than could be expected of a warrior world. The first shinobi war just ended and the second is due to start... Recommended mastery of techniques replacement jutsu transformation jutsu, hiding like a mole jutsu, earth release earth wall justsu.....physical body training. Including advanced calisthenics, yoga, ... taijutsu adapted with jujitsu, Taekwondo, muay Thai,........chakra control including, surface clinging, water walking.....fuinjutsu mastery recommended... .'

'What are my current chakra levels and ninja ranking?' I ask my once computer assistant, now a fellow inhabitant of my soul. 'You have the chakra reserves of an Uzumaki high Gennin or a seasoned chunnin to clans with less naturally large reserves. As far as skills and rank officially Akuma is an academy-level student. Unofficially he is a well-rounded genin-level shinobi. Once you familiarize yourself with chakra, Akuma's skills, and combine them with your own I would conservatively place us at low chunnin due to battle experience strategy and ruthlessness.'