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"...so show them that we will not give up, in the name of the will of FIRE, let us defend our families, village and country." - Hokage stood on the roof of the building and gave his fire speech, with which he started the 3rd Shinobi World War.

Eh, finally it started, I think I'm ready, but my hands are still shaking, it's not better with other inexperienced ninjas. *A lot of Genins will die in this time.

I looked at my previous team, they weren't as nervous as others, it's not surprising since they will mostly stay in the village, no one will send Kushina to the front without 2 or more Bijus. Even if they do, she will be accompanied by at least 2 S-ranked Jonins.

Perhaps I should have stayed with them? NO, my goal in this life is not to stay within the safe walls, I don't know which world will be next, I don't even know if I will be able to travel to other worlds. So I need to gain as much as I can to increase my chances of survival.

For the past 2 weeks, I have been doing what my father advised, staying in the village to finish my project and train a bit in ninjutsu. Right now, I know all the ninjutsus up to A rank, but I can only use 8 C rank jutsus, and let's tell the truth, I need too much time to use them. 2 Genjutsu, 2 Earth, 1 Water, 1 Fire, 1 Wind and 1 Lightning. The best situation is with genjutsus, water and earth walls, but I have to do every hand seal + I'm not very fast + I have about 60% chakra loss.

Maybe I should focus more on ninjutsus, but I really can't do everything at the same time. Even shadow clones aren't working as well as I'd hoped.

Oh about this cheating technique with a lot of limitations that I want to remove or solve, say how you want, the point is that: a) to return memories and chakra, they must be within my sensory detection range, which is about 1km(I can only detect chakra, not say who it is if I haven't met him and I can't see him like hyugas), otherwise they will just do what I tell them and then just dispel, b) 1 clone really takes half of my chakra, yes if you make only 1 clone it's no problem for him even to train a ninjutsus but, BUT, if they don't use chakra, with the chakra reserve of an average genin, they only last half an hour, and c) when the yin chakra comes back and fuses with my yin, the yan must be at least 40% of the yin amount, otherwise I start getting headaches, which means I can't do too much physical exercise while using this technique.

"Ichimaru-kun, are you listening? Come back to earth." - The blond man with the emblem of Konoha put his hand on my shoulder and pulled me back from my thoughts.

"Oh, sorry, hello Gimisu-san. How are you, child?" - I bowed slightly and smiled apologetically.

"Haha, it's okay, it must have shocked you, but don't sleep on the battlefield if you don't want to sleep forever." - He said with a serious voice, "Anyway, why did I come to you this night, I want you to put a defense on my newborn's mind, can you do it?"

"Of course, Gimisu-san, I will come at 9:00 tonight, you can count on me." - I said with a straight face.

"Okay, I will tell the clan leader and the elders about the time." - We nodded to each other and parted.

You might be confused as to why Ginsu Yamanaka asked me to put a barrier on his daughter's mind. Let's start with the barrier, it protects someone's mind from genjutsu that can be "implanted" into it, like when you grow up killing your parents or something like that. Since babies don't use chakra, it's not hard to make it permanent.

As for why he's allowing me to do this, it's a tradition 2 in 1. Look, one, it's like a baptism from my previous world, and two, it's an exam on a branch of mind techniques, to be exact, on "stationary" mind techniques, which means not using abilities in battle. I will be recognized as a master in this field, but of course the elders will verify the construct, so it's not dangerous. Before our clan joined the village, you had to be 15 years old, but now you have to be a chunin.

I went home to prepare for tomorrow. I'm leaving the village for the buffer land with Kumogakure(Lightning Land), by the way, Orochimaru is our supreme commander.

 At 6 o'clock, I meet my friends in a restaurant near the center, knowing that we might not see each other for a long time or ever again.

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"Good evening, how are you?" - I greeted my comrades, trying to sound as carefree as possible.

"Oh, hello Ichimaru-kun." - They returned the greeting at the same time. I think they were talking to each other with some uneasiness. Eh, what a pity, I guess we won't be able to sit and chat with each other 1 day before we leave.

*Sigh*"Okay friends, I see we can't just have fun 1 day before the start of our first and hopefully last war." - They exchanged glances and sighed - "So let's not waste our time and go home to prepare." - They looked at me with a sad expression, I understood that they expected something more from this meeting when they got up and wanted to leave. - "But before that, I want to make a promise to each other." - I looked into their eyes. - We must promise each other that no matter how bad things get, we won't give up until the end to come back and meet here in this restaurant and drink sake after the war. Hope can only die after us. - I said, raising my fist.

They understood and clasped their fists over mine.

""" Hope must die only after us."" - they shouted, attracting the attention of everyone in the restaurant, but no one said anything against it, they could understand why we did it, and some ninjas looked at us with approval and drank their sakes with fire in their eyes.

After that, we went outside and separated without saying anything, I have to prepare for the ritual. Yes, ritual. I have to wear the old traditional clothes of a clan, which I have to get from the clan's storehouse.

<<9 o'clock at the clan chief's house>>

*Huff* "Done, you can check this now." - I turned to the clan elders and the clan leader, the clan leader looks like Inoichi, but he has the same hairstyle as Naruto at the beginning of Boruto's arc and a scar on his elbow, he was wounded in the last war, luckily he didn't lose his eye.

"Okay, Ichimaru-kun, I will check him out." - A man to the left of the clan leader nodded and went over to the sleeping newborn to check on my work. I went to my father and started to wait, I wasn't nervous, I am one of the best in our clan, but I don't show my abilities, I know that in a fight, the one who has more information about his enemy and of course can use it properly wins, but a ninja can't use information, he dies on the first mission.

The shield I placed will last until she starts actively practicing with chakra, on mine, in addition to this, was placed a seal, but when I started training I should have weakened it to be able to learn mind techniques without backlash. Seals like the one my mother put on me are rare, only Uzumakis have them, at first glance they are a perfect defense, but they can't defend against active attacks of a master.

"Everything is fine, the structure is stable." - The elder concluded and smiled at me.

"Good, then starting today, if you want, you can be a mind reader in the interrogation team, here are the documents." - The clan leader smiled and dismissed us.

"Thank you, Ichimaru-kun." - Gimisu smiled and patted my shoulder before leaving with his wife.

"Hoho, my son is finally grown up. Now you can marry someone. Do you have any candidates?" - he said and left me dazed.

"Don't joke like that."

"I'm not joking. It might be better to marry you before the war, but we can't do anything in this situation, so when you come back tell me your answer, and if you want to marry someone, then tell me when you come back, but if not, then we will look."

Damn it, I don't want to marry anyone, only in my world this happens in some underdeveloped countries. However, I understood long ago that it's not the same world and they have different traditions.

"Fine, but only, ONLY if I don't find anyone."

"Of course." - He nodded satisfied. F**k, I still don't like this, but if the fiancee doesn't mind or isn't younger than 18 it's fine, I guess. OMG I'm fu**ing underage I don't want to get married. Stop, does my last life count? If it counts then... . No, stop thinking.

"But she can't be under 19, 20 would be perfect." - I said with a serious tone. He looked at me for a few minutes and when he saw that I wouldn't back down, he sighed in defeat. So, from tomorrow my life will change, I hope I don't end my journey in this world too quickly.