An Unexpected Encounter

It's now been a few months since my little encounter with Danzo.

I'm now one year and three months old!

The schedule I've been going by has helped me a lot with what I'm meant to do next to get stronger.

I'm being limited by obviously my age and reserves. So the most I'm allowed to do is swirl my chakra and moving it towards certain parts of my body. These type of exercises really tire my out after 30 minutes.

While physical/Kenjutsu training was just me increasing my endurance and properly learning how to swing a ninjato.

I was a complete training maniac as even I get like four days to myself to just relax or wonder about the clan compound talking to distant cousins, I'd still do work on the off days because why not?

Was there really anything else to do.

Crazy right?

Apparently the Shimura Clan was originally made up of merchants that ended up using their brains and made connections with shinobi, they ended marrying said shinobi to raise strong children. This snowballed until they could match up with the Sarutobi and other smaller clans.

Another interesting fact is that the Shimura and Sarutobi were allied before Konoha.

Money was really the key to success sometimes.

Right now though even though the whole clan when Konoha was created were all shinobi, soon after the clan went back to their roots as merchants and business owners which makes sense as being a shinobi isn't the most attractive job in the world.

So they became a Shinobi Clan out of necessity to survive and went back to their roots after establishing power which was an extremely smart play by them.

Speaking of the clans.

The first Kenjutsu style I've decided to focus on is the Senju Power Drift Style for the simple reason of me wanting to first focus on a defensive style as I'm not going to be on the battle field till I hit the age 10 which is still about 9 years anyways.

Plus it's ten times simpler and easier than whatever the Shimura style was.

I've been called a genius by my root teachers who taught me. Because of this Danzo has been visiting me more frequently which is either a good or bad thing.

With this Kakashi said with my progress it will only take me untill the age of three to finish all the academy work before even reaching the academy. Although that's with the speed, it might slow down in the future.

With this show of prowess I of course got gifts from Danzo which in all fairness is something I look forward to.

A month ago Danzo gave me a starter painting kit with the brush and everything. He ended up giving me a swing as well for the reason I assume is that a "kid" like me might not like sealing as it's "boring".

He's oddly thoughtful when he wants to be.

I haven't touched the thing yet but I will ask Kakashi to help me with it soon.

Speaking of Danzo though I'm currently battling him in a shogi match right now.

Moving one of my pieces to defend my king I hear Danzo speak.

"You have been progressing faster than I expected Raiden," Danzo says speaking up.

"I will finish stuff, so only train," I respond making him nod, satisfied.

"A simple plan and straightforward, fair." Danzo says. Right after eyes widen after I fall for his trap. Danzo quickly takes my King as my blunder of a move fumbles the match.

'Damit another loss. This guy is bullying a child'

Before drowning in my misery though a sudden noise made me turn around as the moving door to my room opened.

'Who is it?' Looking at the man he was by himself. Wearing a huge robe that covered his body. His grey goatee and old looks quickly reminded me of someone.

Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Professor.

"Hiruzen, it's nice of you to show up." Danzo simply states nodding.

Looking at back and forth, grand uncle did not looked amused.

"Sorry for barging in, I've never seen you so invested in things other than root. I guess it's because of little Raiden here!" The now identified Hokage says in an apologetic tone.

Seeing his warm smile I stand up and do a quick bow in respect. After my classes and teachings from Bird, basic manners were ingrained into me.

"Let's go take a seat." He swiftly says wanting to rest his bones.

"Okay, Grandpa!"

The clearly amused Hiruzen started to chuckle as he took my place on the table as my new position was to the side.

"You good friend Ojisan talked about?" I asked in excitement fumbling my words a little. Hiruzen looking at me with a raised eyebrow just let me continue. "He lost arm protect you! And you beat 1000 shinobi!" 

Danzo who didn't interrupt slightly flinched at the former sentence. 

Hiruzen though chuckled a little and looked at his friend.

"Yes, your Granduncle saved me..." He says, a warm smile adorning his face. Danzo who was off to the side just disappeared from the conversation.

Like a ghost…

"Tell me more!"

As time went on Hiruzen and I with the watching eye of Danzo, started to converse about certain topics like how I'm going with my subjects in training.

I told him was going quite well as I never had to much difficulty with any subject so far.

"Danzo, little Raiden would make a good war commander like Shikaku Nara and yourself." He comments impressed at my studies.

"No, that is not gonna be his path. Even then it's too early to tell." Danzo quickly retorts making Hiruzen adorn a helpless expression. The Hokage wanted to say something but knew any reply would get a witty response.

His friend really knew how to retort.

In the end, the day was quite fun.

The sun now setting, Hiruzen and Danzo left my house separately as Hiruzen had Hokage duties and left earlier. While Danzo gave me a set of kunais to practise with as a gift for doing extremely well in my classes.

And just like that the months went by until I finally hit the age of two... 

[Time Skip]

"Dog I want to go outside!" I shout giddily giving Kakashi a smug smirk

Yes, that's right.

I can finally go outside the compound!

It's been a week since my second birthday and I've been buggin' Kakashi about it for a while now.

To play outside and just walk around.

"Just stay safe I'll be behind you just watching," Kakashi replies making me do an eye roll.

The guy just wants to read his smut books, the balls on this guy are immeasurably big enough to read it in front of Bird but I guess she didn't care too much.

Opening the door of the house I start to make my way through the entrance to the Shimura compound. We have an entrance similar to U.A. in MHA but smaller if you have ever seen it, A wall made of wood with an entrance having a stone exterior with a lot of plants covering the entrance making it seem infested.

Facing from the Hokage statues point of view the Shimura Compound is located near the left corner of the village near the Hyuga and the Aburame clan which are two clans which like to keep to themselves for the most part.

Towards the left of the Hokage statues was the Shinobi Academy which I'll preferably graduate early.

The first goal though, graduate before Uchiha Massacre.

If not possible then my future ranks with be limited by age as Itachi troubled the higher ups a lot.

Too many problems that are easily avoidable by rushing.

Walking through the streets filled with snow, I take a turn and find a park where kids galore,

'Let's make some friends.'

Kakashi is probably having a great time reading smut...

Walking forward I meet a few kids and introduce myself. They seemed about the same age as me with a few others being a bit older.

"Hello, I'm Raiden!"

The five kids seeing who just arrived, curiously looked at me. They all wore kimonos and probably had their parents sitting on a bench close by. One of the kids who seemed the oldest went up to me.

"Hi, I'm Tatsuki! Wanna play ninja?" Nodding at his words, the kid's eyes lit up in excitement.

Taking my time, it wasn't hard to get along with kids. Playing a game which was a mix of hide and seek with tag. 

"Damn, these guys are quick," I say breathing a little roughly chasing the kids older than me. Seeing Tatsuki behind some swings, my attempt to fake going left and running right almost worked.

But the little bastard was unnaturally fast for my standards.

"Raiden get someone else!" He giggles out as I smirk.

"No chance!"

Doing a few more circles I finally get him as he then chases someone else. Giving me time to hide. Playing such simple games like this reminds me of how fun and blissfully unaware being a kid is, such joy.

Not needing to worry about much.

'I'm enjoying this too much for a past adult...'

Physical activity was always nice.

After a few hours and not taking things to "seriously", I let myself get caught and caught some of them to keep it "competetive" enough. Finishing up and saying some goodbyes to them and their parents.

Before I turn my self back though I see a kid with black hair and a white jujitsu training looking kimono currently watching from afar.

Seeing this my curiosity got the best of me as I walked towards them.

Getting closer the image of pure white eyes hit my sight.

"Hey, I'm Raiden! Who are you?" I ask still quite a few metres away from the kid

The kid flinching at my voice starts to look even more downward than before sinking their self in the snow.

My confused ass looking at them proceeds to walk up to them.

"H-Hinata," She says almost in a whisper.

'I thought it was a boy.' I awkwardly thought to myself.

But either way, it was a cannon character!

"Do you want to play ninja?" Hinata hearing this quickly shakes her head as there were some tears in her eyes.

"I'm lost, I want home..." Seeing her wide eyes my heart gave up. I didn't really feel too much seeing her but she was cute I guess. In the grand scheme of things, she is sort of not that important for a while.

She did save Naruto from rebelling twice I suppose...

Keeping her alive would be the priority.

"I'll take you home, let's go." The girl's eyes widen and she cutely nods.

--POV Kakashi--

"Dog I want to go outside!" I hear a little squirt shout in excitement as

Taking out my first edition icha-icha paradise book the Hokage gave to me as a gift I reply.

"Just stay safe I'll be behind you just watching," I say lazily as I start to flip to the 106th page of the book

Taking my time, a few hours pass as I look back to see Raiden talking to some boy? Looking closer it was a Hyuga girl which was confusing, why was she by herself out here.

Holdup

'This looks like the start of the icha-icha two.' I giggle inwardly

Raiden now helping the girl back up proceeds to turn around and when he does I spot the girl's expression.

'I can see it in her eyes, she has succumbed to the void.' I facepalm

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