Chapter 1 "Rebirth"

My name is…well it doesn't matter anymore because I m dying. I can feel the life being slowly sapped out of my body. As a scientist, death is like another mystery that has yet to be discovered. I do not fear death because of my curiosity of the unknown. Finally the hand of time moved its final click for me, my vision turned black, my other senses also stopped and I m no more.

When I finally regained my conscious, I was waiting in a line. There were many others just like me standing in this line. I tried to move my body but I couldn't move a single muscles. Somehow I got this feeling that others were just like me. We were just moving along. I didn't know how long had I stood in this line, but finally I could see the end of this line.

At the end of this line, there stood an old woman, dressed in a simple black robe and behind her there seemed to be a bridge. Where did this bridge lead? I couldn't see, because most of the bridge was covered in mist. Whenever a person stood in front of this woman, she would just hand that person a cup, and asked him or her to drink from it.

"You must be thirsty?" she would ask.

"Here take a sip and leave all your worries and troubles behind, before you continue your journey"

It was finally my turn to stand in front of this old woman in black.

"You must be thirsty?" she asked.

After she asked the question, I felt this sensation of thirst from my throat. This feeling was so strong; I felt I was dying from it.

I wanted to reply and ask her so many questions, but my body once against acted on its own. My hands reached out for the cup as she handed it to me.

"Here take a sip and leave all your worries and troubles behind, before you continue your journey"

As I slowly raised the cup to my lips, but just before the content of the cup reached my mouth, there was a strong pressure in the air. Something was not right…suddenly there was a scream.

"Get your hands off me!"

"What is this place?"

"Where are you taking me?!"

For a split second, I regained some control of my body, and I didn't drink the content from the cup. I didn't think the old woman noticed it because she was also distracted from that incident.

My body once again returned back to autopilot and returned the cup backed to her. Strangely the cup was empty when I returned it. 'What happened to the liquid?' I thought to myself.

Slowly I began to walk past her, and continued to walk up onto the bridge and into mist…my consciousness once again slipped away.

When I finally regained my consciousness, I noticed that I was no longer in my original body; I was in a form of a baby.

'I….had been reborn' I thought to myself.

6 years later

It has been 6 years since I was reborn into this new world. Everything about this world was fascinating to me.

'My new life' I often wondered about it. I lived in a ninja hidden village called Konoha, which means hidden leaf. In this world, people could used 'chakra' as source of power to do amazing things, such as super strength, super speed and even manipulated the elements to the user's will.

'Fascinating!'

'Would I be able to do it too?'

'How did they do it?'

'I want to learn it!' I often thought to myself when I saw it being use by the other shinobi in the training ground.

I was so lost in my thought; I didn't notice someone was calling for me.

"Naruto, my boy! What are you doing over there all by yourself?"

I looked to the person that spoke to me and smiled.

"I was thinking of course, Hokage-sama."

The Hokage smiled and sat down next to me.

"How come you don't go play with the other children over there?" he pointed to the other orphans by the jungle gym playing.

I pouted a little before replying to him.

"I don't think they would want to play with me…I don't think they like me very much, but I don't know why. I was nice to them but they just didn't want to play with me. Also I don't think the caretaker here like me…" I said the last softly almost to a whisper but I made sure that was loud enough for the Hokage to hear.

When the Hokage heard me, he gave me a questionable look and asked.

"Oh? What made you think that?"

I signed and began to explain myself.

"Well, I don't know… I m not 100 percent sure…I mean she didn't hurt me or abused me, but from time to time, I could catch a glimpse of resentment in her eyes. She is kind to other children here, even to the naughtiest one, but to me, she is…distance."

The Hokage was surprise and pleased by my explanation.

"Naruto-kun, you are very observance"

"Well, maybe I m just paranoid, but I think the other children here also picked up on her attitude toward me, and distance themselves from me too…" I lowered my head, but when I felt the Hokage's hand touching my head, I looked up. He smiled and said.

"Naruto-kun, do you want to be a shinobi of this village?"

The shocked expression from my face was clearly shown when I heard him.

"Hokage-sama…r..really?"

"Well, I can't guarantee that you could become a shinobi, because you will have to work really hard and graduate from the academy first. However, once you enrolled in the academy, you will be technically consider to be an adult and you could leave the orphanage"

There was a period of silence before us. I had to think hard and carefully before giving him an answer. There were so many things going through my mind. 'Where m I going to stay?' 'How could I feed myself?' 'What responsibilities would I have to face as an adult at 6 years old?' '6 years old adult?' and finally 'Why would the Hokage help me?'

"Hokage-same, I…."

He cut me off before I could continue.

"I have an vacant apartment available for you, and you will have a monthly stipend while you attend the academy. Consider it as a loan, when you successfully become shinobi of the village, you will repay the village back from you successful mission and if you failed to become a shinobi, you will have to get a job and repay it back."

After hearing his explanation, I felt a bit relieve about the living situation if I do leave the orphanage, but that still didn't answer my question of 'why would he want to help me? Or care?' I had a hypothesis but it would have to wait.

"Thank you Hokage-sama! I would love to attend the academy!" I got up and bowled.