"regular talking"
"thoughts"
Chapter 1: The beginning
So… this is my life story so far, my life isn't all that great, as far as living goes I haven't done much or at least it feels like that. For most of my life it was peaceful but as you all know all the happiness and joy that comes with life can come and go in a blur which is what happened to me. I remember it as if it was almost yesterday me and my family were sat around celebrating and the next thing I knew, they were gone, I was feeling lost, there were scorch marks on the ground and blood was splattered all over the wall, but the thing that left me in the most shock wasn't what I found, it was what I couldn't find that scared me the most… there were no signs of my family, my younger brother was nowhere and the same could be said about my parents, there weren't any corpses anywhere, but the thing I least expected was that my families compound was completely burned and in ruins, I tried calling out the names of the people who I knew, I even called out her name but to no avail there was no answer. All of this brought tears to my eyes because the most likely scenario was that rogue Ninja attacked us.
Not soon after this I fell unconscious for a few hours, after all of that was said and done I decided to take what belongings I had left and headed out the door leaving my past behind me. The first few hours of my trip were uneventful, and to say the least, the hardest for me as I had been sheltered for most of my life and had never really ventured that far outside of the place I called home. Soon darkness was settling in so I found somewhere to camp out, I made a fire, foraged around for food, and then went to sleep after attempting to eat, this resulted in me throwing away the rest of the fish, however catching the fish was not an easy feat as I first thought, I first attempted to use a sharpened stick to harpoon them and then pull them in however I had no luck in doing so because each time I tried I ended up stabbing somewhere else in the water or just lodging it in the ground, after many failed attempts I gave up and tried the only thing I was good at doing, this was throwing rocks and even some kunai that I had on me, in the end I only managed to catch at least two fish, but hey that for me is an achievement in itself as it was my first time around doing this sort of thing.
In the morning when I woke up I decided to pack up and try to head for the closest town or village, however the most apparent thing that became clear to me was that I lived very far away from any civilisation. The only sounds I could hear were the sounds of the birds chirping and the leaves rustling in the gentle breeze. However, despite all the serenity I could hear someone grunting, which could mean that someone was training, or doing something completely different, I glanced through the thick bushes and saw the most god-awful thing ever. It was a young boy wearing a bright orange jumpsuit and in places it had blue on it, I decided to ignore this, but as I pulled my head out of the bushes an old man appeared behind me, he was glaring down at me and then he asked me one thing "So what are you doing here young man", the only thing that I could come up with was "just passing through, and what about you, good sir". We just stood there staring at each other until a voice pierced through the silence asking "Where are you, Erosennin?" the only question in my mind at the time was "Who the hell is Erosennin" I gave the man a confused look and he simply just ran through the bushes towards the voice and then he said "Shut it Gaki".
After that I just headed off, just walking in any random direction hoping to get somewhere, however I had absolutely no clue as to where I was, If I ran into any bandits I would just hide, or run away because I have no knowledge what so ever about fighting so they were my best options, the only thing I was ever good at was Fūinjutsu, this meant that all of my items were stored inside of scrolls so that I can keep it away from others but luckily only I know how to release the seals that I use, I like to combine different seals in order to make them more intricate and more difficult to unseal. Still heading in the same direction which I assume to be north, I wasn't lucky enough to have packed a compass with me because, like most of the items inside of the compound, had been destroyed in a very powerful blaze.
After a while of walking I decided to rest up and set camp for the night but something was feeling off about the area, it was as if there was someone watching I quickly placed a seal down on the ground, this seal was one that revealed the chakra signatures of things around me, this excluded natural chakra as that would be very crazy and there would be way too much and I had drawn a seal that filtered out all natural chakra, the only thing in my current vicinity were trails of chakra, which was most likely from ninja passing through, that was my first suspicion as there were new trails appearing and from what I could tell, they were most likely skilled in chakra control, a seasoned ninja, chuunin or above.
Not soon after, two kunai flew by me, one implanting itself inside the bark of a tree while the other was in the ground, there was the most familiar sound of an explosive tag fizzing from one of the two kunai so, I rolled out of the range of the explosion, after that, the person who threw the kunai at me stepped out from the shadows. On her head was a Hitaiate however I couldn't make out the symbol that should reside on it, I was feeling slightly nervous as she approached my voice trembling slightly I asked her "Who are you, and what do you want", the woman replied with "How rude, is it not polite to speak your name before asking for someone else's, either way my code name is Neko, but you can just call me Neko-san and I have a mission to find the source of a strange chakra that has been said to be moving from the south, but for some reason I cannot get a read on your chakra, do you care to explain? ", "Alright Neko-san, my Name is Kazuki, as you can tell I'm not too familiar with these areas and to answer your question, I have a chakra suppression seal that I use, hopefully that answers your question" I replied with a slight grin