Chapter 2: Bearings, maybe I'll live?
(1st POV)
(A couple of days later)
I am sitting in my room and thankfully not in the damn crib. I have learned a lot about this place during our walks. First of all, Uzu has ninjas, ninja ranks, and a ninja leader as well. There is also a second leader, the leader of the Uzumaki clan. I haven't heard what they specifically do but given their titles I'm guessing the ninja leader handles all the military while the Uzumaki leader most likely handles everything else. Why the other villages haven't thought of this instead of piling everything on one person, I don't know. Poor Hiruzen
Anyways I found out what year it is, 976, the same year Kushina and Minato were born, which also dreadfully means I've got 7 years to find a safe escape and become at least a little bit strong, cause there is no way in hell I'm going to become strong enough as a 7-year-old child to fight off 4 village's armies. Though maybe I can bring a few others with me so the clan may someday repopulate.
Also, this place is way more advanced than Konoha, at least in architecture. It's a city without modern technology like phones or big flat-screen TVs or cars driving around. There are radios, box TVs and others though.
Surprisingly, I'm taking this reincarnation thing unnaturally well. Maybe I have some calming power? But I still got angry at that woman, Sara and nothing calmed me down. Investigation for a later date.
An important thing is that I saw a library. With my photographic memory, it should be a piece of cake to learn all the seals, get knowledge, and other stuff. Problem is, I'm a damn baby, I've never felt so weak until I had this body
To fix said problem I started doing light exercises, naturally without anyone looking, like trying to walk, though unsuccessful. I don't want anyone to think that I'm not some normal baby so I keep it on the down low
As I thought that the door clicked and opened revealing Yua, my mother
Yua is very calm, kind, perfect almost, except for the fact
''Oh, Yuki, you should be in your crib, who knows what could happen'' Yua says as she picks me up and places me in said crib
Except for the fact that she's overprotective. All the baby toys don't have even a remote edge to them. On that note, either my father is dead or on some long-term mission because I've only seen photos of him around the apartment. I think that has something to do with her overprotectiveness
''Alright time for bed'' She says as she tucks me in
''Goodnight, Yuki'' She kisses my forehead and leaves my room.
As I hear her footsteps get farther away until I can't hear them I open my eyes and sit upright and look towards the corner side of the crib, I crawl over there and push the broken-in-the-middle post open and just about get out. Apparently, she doesn't ask how I get out of the crib and only puts me back in. The reason for not just walking in the crib is because of the soft bed which would make it harder to stand
I prepare myself, breathe in, breathe out and put all my power into my legs and!...
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*thud*
I fall face first to the wooden ground after standing up
''Damn baby body...'' I mutter to myself as move to sit upright
(Timeskip - 2 years)
''Mom... Please... Can I just go...''' I asked, dejectedly, in the kitchen to my mother who was cooking
''Oh... Well since you keep asking so much I guess you can go, BUT ill be going with you'' Yua, my mother, says as I regain the light in my dark red eyes and with a smile, I say ''Finally!''
I have been asking to go to the library ever since I could talk and walk 6 months ago and she hadn't even budged until now, sometimes, having an overprotective parent sucks but I guess I shouldn't talk since I at least have a mother. I had also confirmed that my father was dead, he had died on an important mission, of which I didn't get details.
In the 2 years, I had fully accepted her as my mother which wasn't that hard since my real single mother had died in an accident when I was a baby, and my father that had adopted me died by the time I turned 19.
On a happier note, I had finally started to fully sense my chakra and even move it around a bit, though nothing more than that, still an improvement
I still haven't found a safe way out, this place is a damn fortress, surrounded by whirlpools so I would need a boat and also find a route through the whirlpool, not to mention this place is surrounded by barrier seals. Even though that will most definitely be taken down by the invasion, I cant carve out even a small piece of the wall nor scout out a place for the boat, if I can even get one
Now I see why there weren't many left, they were trapped by their own defenses. The front gate is the only way out or in
Shaking off the gloomy thoughts I go to my room to get dressed
I put on a black t-shirt with the Uzumaki swirl on the back alongside dark green shorts.
Looking into the mirror, I see a short boy with short red hair and dark red eyes. Unlike my mother, I have a somewhat sharp face protruding through the baby fat
(A/N The cover art, but younger. Also, I can't draw so that obviously isn't my work)
I run out of my room back to the kitchen to see my mother finish cooking and after lunch, we head out the front door ad towards the library
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As we step into the library I get amazed by the sheer amount of books and scrolls
(Fuinjutsu. Taijutsu. Ninjutsu. Chakra. General knowledge. Ah, can't decide. Ninjutsu is out since I can't even move my chakra that much, but I could remember hand seals, Fuinjutsu for the same reason, Taijutsu... Can't really go there with my mom hanging around, so Chakra or GK. If I read through chakra exercises I can do them while I read other books, so it's decided. I'll act like I'm skimming through them so mom won't stop and I can quickly commit them to memory. When she isn't around later ill read through all of them)
My plan created, I enact it
(Maybe... I can actually get out of this fortress, with this much knowledge and 5 years, I can make something work) I think as I read through a few chakra exercises
(A/N Another day, another chapter. Yesterday this story had 42 views and after the last chapter it went up to 1.7k. Damn. Thank you for the power stone Caciqxe. Also, if you care: 1178 words)