Chapter 3

Shiro is sure that he is going to have the best night's sleep ever

This is the first time since ages he was going sleeping being full.

At first, he'd tried, laying down, prepared to sleep, then tossing and turning for a few hours before giving up and reading scrolls and books for most of the night.

'Why do you wish to become a ninja, what's your dream'

"What's my goal?"

Muttered Shiro while still in bed

"I just wish to live"

He clenched his heart

Shiro liked a girl when he was young...

Her dad smiled at him lied to him and took him somewhere...

It was a dark place, a place with many other kids like him.

He was tormented with other kids, they experimented on the kids.

Later after some time, he found out the girl approached many other kids like him, She smiled at them, and then her dad would sell them here.

Orochimaru, Shiro, remember his name... The Bastard one doing all the experimenting and killing the children in the name of Science

And the Girl and her family are Just doing the child Trafficking.

Shiro, the one who managed to survive was not a failed experiment, no he wasn't.

Orochimaru was tired of having sacrifice the power for the experiment to be succeeded

But that was it... If he couldn't reproduce the true powers of the Bloodline limit then he would have to go out of the way.

Countless children died, and many just exploded after crying in pain for hours.

Shiro was the one who cried in pain for hours and days and weeks.

But somehow a miracle happened... Shiro didn't explode

Shiro survived and managed to get out of this hell hole.

What Shiro didn't know was that Orochimaru let him go, Orochimaru was almost sure that his experiment was a failure once again. Since Shiro was almost looking like he would die any second.

When Hokage subordinates found the boy, He appeared frail and broken, flesh hued with pale white skin. Fragmented and cracked

Shiro looked like that of a toy that had been broken and put back together again, missing a section of his chest, and revealing an empty inside, where a heart of living ice lay.

Short and not very threatening to anyone, Shiro stands at a meager height and baring a slight weight.

Cold to the touch, and empty to look at, the young Boy just fainted in the arms of the White Hair Anbu.

It was... Disturbing to see the ugly boy.

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Shiro who was lying and clenching his heart almost moan in pain.

'You have to trust someone'

He could hear Iruka Sensei's voice in mind

He is fainting---

'Come on, Shiro. I'll buy you dinner'

His heart is giving out... again, he barely moves towards the drawer on the side of the bed.

'There are people in this world who prefer solitude. But there is no one who can withstand it'

Using the time left, He immediately took out the seal given to him by Hokage and activated it.

He passed out right after---

The experiment wasn't a failure, no it wasn't... But it wasn't a success either...

It just gave Shiro a lifetime of a pain

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(At the hospital)

"How is he", ask Hokage to the doctor curing Shiro

"Hokage sama I know this is going to sound ridiculous but, Through his veins, runs not the red blood of a human being, but a form of special ice that circulates through his body"

"I know"

"Yes... Wait, you know?"

"Yes, it was an emergency this time, that's why we couldn't get his regular doctor on the line"

"S-So, this boy"

"The boy does not have blood or heart"

"What?"

"Like you just saw, through his body does not run blood but the ice... and his heart is made of living ice"

"T-The living Ice?"

"Yes, his heart is made of Ice... Since it's to save him I am going to tell you what is necessary, you know that this is a secret on the need to know basis right?"

"Yes, Lord Hokage please rest assure... I won't tell a single soul"

"The magically imbued ice acts as it's own organic life force, it empowers and gives him form. While this unique form of imbued ice does not act in itself different from the way blood does for a human. Shiro is something all-together more spectral. An ethereal spirit, given shape by ice, given its heart by the cold"

"T-The boy isn't human?"

"Oh, he is a human alright, He is just... Experimented on by a madman"

"So this boy can---

"Yes, he can eat, sleep, reproduce and do whatever a human can"

"That's a Relieve lord Hokage but... I don't see a problem he is having right now

"Sigh... the problem is the heart"

"The Heart?"

"A heart of beating ice, that thums with life, Keeps him alive while reducing his body temperature. With these attributes of soul and body, comes manifestations that are passive to him, or can be actively utilized. Right now, Shiro becomes something much more than he ever could be, a being of the potential powerhouse that breaks past the limits of normal human beings---

"But--

"Do not interrupt me"

"I-I am sorry"

"While these traits may be minor to him, it does have adverse side effects. A continual drop in heat from inside and out gives him a very feeble body that has a hard time living. But what's worse is, The Heart is a Living time bomb. His body is being frozen from inside to the point where it might become brittle and easily shattered... The boy is usually able to control himself and not freeze things whenever he touches... but I guess Iruka may have made him out of control"

"So, the long story short, the Time bomb blasted?"

The Doctor asked

Hokage nodded

"Then what do you need me to do?"

"Drop his body temperature even more... and move him to the isolation chamber with full of Ice"

"Can I ask why?"

"That Heart is incredibly mystical, It allows him to tap into the ice... causing the cold and ice itself to renew his reserves gradually and to heal his injuries over time"

"So, the ice that is freezing his body should heal him... not kill him"

"The problem is his heart can not beat fast, he can not get excited, or else if his body temperature rose, it's a death sentence to that guy"

"I understand Lord Hokage"

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When Shiro opened up his eyes he found himself, he found himself in the hospital, he was feeling cold that must mean that his body temperature must have been dropped several degrees in order for him to live

"I see that you are Bunking your Classes again"

Shiro turned his head to see Hokage sitting there smiling and staring at him

He turned his face to the other side, "Iruka-Sensei is going to kill me today"

Hokage Chuckle

"My people for years have been making a Vaccine that would reduce your Body temperature to a bare minimum permanently"

"You have been telling me that for the last 3 years already"

"Yes, but today I just got the news that the vaccine is ready, we are ready to freeze your body inside and out"

"There is always a but"

Hokage was serious at this point of time

"Do you want to live"

"Excuse me?"

"If you choose to live, then the Chemical inside the vaccination and the Heart inside of you will continue to clash. Creating the Coldness that would freeze your insides to extreme levels. You will feel intense pain that feels like your insides are exploding daily, no, every few seconds. And you would feel it your entire life... Your Body that is already feeble might even break down"

"I want to live no matter what"

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After being cured at least cured internally, His hideous appearance underneath his clothes would make anyone vomit. Not to mention the pain he feels always.

He sits in the back of the class the next day...

'How the hell does it not make sense that I should have my own place, at least not to get caught'

When the Class ended...

"Shiro, meet me after the class"

Shiro gulped

'What a pain in the ass'

Sure enough, Shiro got in trouble for bunking another day.

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Iruka pinched the bridge of his nose, trying to fend off an onrushing headache as he stared at the embarrassed looking boy giving him a pleading look.

The irate looking chunin kunoichi holding a kunai gave him an expectant one. "So you're the one who gave him the homework assignment of watching me bathe?" she asked, clearly skeptical, but also clearly willing to gut the party responsible, as soon as she figured out who it was.

Pinching his nose wasn't working. Iruka sighed. Shiro hadn't been the same since their little chat over ramen, the boy was smiling yesterday even today he is smiling, not his everyday smile of deception but the real smile...

"Come on, all you have to admit is that you never gave him any such assignment and I can get on with carving him into cutlets."

'Ah, well, time to save the kid's hide'

"No, it wasn't my idea for Shiro to watch you... bathe."

The kunoichi smirked and turned towards Shiro, who, Iruka was somewhat alarmed to note, had murder in her eyes for an instant. But no matter.

"The assignment was to practice following a ninja throughout their daily routine," Iruka continued smoothly, not giving either a chance to interrupt.

"He was supposed to pick a fresh genin, someone with a non-combat specialty, someone that a student like him would have a good chance of observing without being seen. Not a chunin."

For a moment, the chunin looked crestfallen, then turned back to Iruka in anger. Iruka held up his hands placatingly, noticing as he did so the look of relief and something else on Shiro's face.

"I suppose I should have been more specific about who he followed and allowing private time. I'll make a male to male rule next time. I'm training shinobi, not peepers, I swear..!!"

She glared at him. "Well, you can't prove it by me. The little bastard is lucky I didn't just kill him first and ask questions later."

"Shiro…" Iruka began.

"I wasn't trying to see her naked, I just wanted to catch any conversations she had in the bathhouse! People talk to each other all the time, and I didn't want to miss anything."

"But why did you pick a chunin of all people?" This, Iruka was genuinely curious about.

"Cause I thought I could."

This Idiot, he is worse than Naruto

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Another two weeks passed. Shiro's class performance remained the same, getting quite a bit of frustration out of Iruka.

He spoke with him several times after school, and Shiro had dropped all pretense of not being smart as hell around Iruka, but when he was in class, it was snores, goofy comments, and pranking that seemed mischievous to everyone but Iruka, who was really beginning to understand just how afraid of people Shiro was.