Chapter 1: Chapter 1
Naruko Uzumaki was a lonely child. At four years old she understood that she was different. Though what the reason was she didn't know. Other children in the orphanage where kept away by the Matron and workers at the orphanage. All though they were never hostile or mean to her, Naruko was left to her own company.
As a child with no structure or social norms to learn from. What she could understand was left to her own interpretations of the world around her. She knew she would have to make connections of her own. Gifted in intelligence Naruko looked to make her own social network. She found it in the cockroaches that lived in the area. Though wary by instinct of humans, they had learned that she was through time a safe haven.
Naruko did not attack what most considered repulsive. She fed them and wasn't disgusted by the lowly insects. In her own room she fed them pieces of her meal and even pet the small creatures.
As time went by she found more of them coming to her. She observed them and the other insects that interacted with them. The scorpions that preyed upon them. The spiders though not insects themselves as well. She took to seeing how they moved mostly unseen in the world. Her solace as it was, was indeed the the creatures considered the lowest of food-chain. She watched the spiders forming their intricate webs. How the millipede moved across the ground.
At age five she began to become more in touch with them. Noticing how they adapted to survive. The hard outer shells for defense and the various ways of attacking prey. She loved watching the butterflies as they gracefully moved through the air and she envied them. The average life span of her tiny companions was small. She understood death through it.
A month later she began to feel a sense of pattern with them. They all depended on the other to keep their species alive. More and more she felt kinship with the insects around her. It was through this that her worldly ideas were formed.
Though the Matron did teach the children including her to read and write. To speak the language. Naruko was more interested in learning from her own friends. She began to see them more as something to learn from. Their infinite patience and simple understanding. She knew they weren't talking to her or anything like that. She didn't imagine silly things such as that. However she had become part of that network. Generations of the insects had learned she was a safe haven and food provider for them.
Naruko had began to feel that connection on an almost instinctual level. What she didn't know was her body was feeling the natural chakra and being synced to it, generated a natural feeling. As it grew she was channeling it into her social group. Naruko was forming the beginnings of an awareness through them.
The breakthrough came when to her shock she could feel the roach near her. It's small instinct driven mind. She explored it as she began to understand that connection. It was slow, but without the distractions that other children have she focused on it with all her child's mind could. Soon she began to feel more of them. Then the scorpions were next. She was captivated by the power and speed as she felt them move. The split second the stinger slammed its poisoned tip into their prey.
Finally the spiders as they captured their prey in the web. Cocooning the catches into a meal for later. Naruko explored this connection more as time past. Months in and just shy of six she felt a collective feeling from all her little connections. A drive which she could direct. With the connection she could be aware of everything around them. She began to realize she could get this collective to move or do as she desired. Naruko found as it grew she could add more insects and arachnids to it. Growing the collective with each new member.
Naruko Uzumaki had created a hive-mind.