When looking back at the start of this new life I would have to say the part that I wished I could forget was breastfeeding, sometimes when looking at my mom now I still get flash backs. Just happy now at my ripe old age of 2 and a half that isn't something I have to worry about anymore. Now I just have to figure out what to do for the rest of my life. While I know being a ninja is definitely going to be a big part of it as the son of Hyuga Hiashi, yeah that threw me thru a loop also. While being male still is nice what happened to Hinata? Did I just take her place or was I born before her? I've been trying to figure out the time based off canon but its hard at the age of 2. But today would be the day I found out. It seems my Uncle has come to introduce his own son Neji. finding out he is older then I settles it, I've replaced the sweet heart that was Hinata. That is a shame she was also so nice and helped Naruto a lot. But back to Neji, his adorable little face is still looking at me and WOW if he wasn't feminine enough at the age 13 he looked so much like a girl now.
"Hikaru I would like for you to meet your Uncle Hizashi's daughter Neji she is a year older then you and will be helping you from time to time." My Father said. My brain just kind of restart as he pushed me forward.
"Hello Neji-chan" I say with a small bow trying to make sense of this, does this mean others could also be other genders? Is Sasuke going to be female? Kiba? Is Ino going to be a boy? Well we will just have to wait and see I guess. I look up to see Neji bowing back a bit lower then mine but smiling. Oh right, her dad isn't dead she is still happy. OOOH shit I'm going to be kidnapped soon huh? I can't say anything tho, that could end up a one way trip to T&I.
"Why don't you to go play" That was Uncle Hizashi's pushing Neji forward, it would be nice to try to make friends with her before she comes to hate me I guess. I wonder if she will still be a Genus ninja with a capital G or if she will even go to the academy as a branch female.
While following after Neji my brain turns back to the academy, do I have to start training then or can we start anytime? I start to sit down near the pond and close my eyes trying to feel out my chakra. My eye's fly open with a gasp, it came rushing forward wanting to be used, I've never felt so alive, so light and strong! I truly believed I could do anything with it, it was like a drug and I was hooked! From this day forward finding what I can do with this new power was goal 1, ok not getting kidnapped was goal 1, but goal 1.1 was learning to ninja magic!
Over the next year trying to get Hiashi to train me was hard! He didn't want to push my body until I could walk without falling down randomly! Ok.. that makes sense I guess, so I went to find other things to study. Our clan didn't use jutsu's much and was told that would come after learning the gentle fist if at all. So, what else could I do? They wouldn't give me anything to throw, they wouldn't give me a weapon of any kind really. Not that our clan used them too often, but we didn't even have dinner knifes! Chopsticks for everything! Oh and spoons.. hmm maybe I could sharpen a spoon? No, that wouldn't help. So I needed something else. genjutsu? Need teachers for that too. Seal's? There's an idea, we had to have at least a few books for them, unless we just past that info from teacher to student. No we had to have something in books so I set off to find them.
My minder Koi a very nice older branch member follows as I head to the library, I really do think at this point she has giving up trying to figure out my whims and just sighs as I start looking for books and while I had never thought of it before she must have been a ninja, or had a few kids her self, as half the books I pulled out she somehow put back without me seeing. Sneaky lady, but it gave me a start on calligraphy and some basic sealing theory. Did make me think what else she was able to sneak past me tho hmm.
It seems tho as soon as I had started to try to learn some sealing Hiashi started me on some gentle fist so had to start spiting my time between the dinner he was telling me the times for our practice when I grabbed Koi's hand adding more veggies to my plate after I was nearly finished with them! "Ah ha, not this time you sneaky woman!" Both my father and her looked surprised and she started blushing and the broke out in giggles.
"I'm sorry Hikaru-sama but Hiashi-sama wishes for you to have more." The branch lady said smiling down at me while I turned a glare, yes glare it wasn't a pout so shut up, at my dad while he just raised an eyebrow at me. Fine I started eating them while not letting up on my glare while Koi kept giggling. I hear more giggling and see my mother smiling and laughing behind her hand.
Quick as I can I duck under the table and crawl over to her and wrap her leg in a hug, she had been seeing the medics and no one wanted to say what was going on so yes I was a bit worried. She just pats my head as more giggling is heard from other branch members but I ignore them as I am just happy. She gently pulls me away and crouches down to talk to me. "I have some wonderful news, you are going to be a big brother! Sorry if we had worried you little one."
I blinked up at her and then looked over at Hiashi, he was smiling at both of us. I can't remember him too much from the manga but I swear he was more.. sour, stoic? Ok he had a stick up his ass as far as my memories go. Maybe something changes before canon starts, nearly having Hinata kidnapped or losing his brother? Having such a kind and pure hearted girl like Hinata while the clan complained about their next leader maybe? Well I'm going to try to give anyone kidnapping me a surprise when I Juken their face off! After breakfast I went back to training with dad, pushing myself harder then before thinking of the look on everyone's faces if I'm able to save myself. The Lightning village won't be able to safe face if they ask for a soon to be 4 year old's head now will they?
Off to the side while getting ready saw my uncle and Neji watching. With my Byakugan on I can see surprise on his face. Guess the using my chakra to speed my body up as well as blast off the floor at my dad would be a bit shocking to see a child of less then 4 do, but it wasn't nearly enough to get the drop on Hiashi, even if he was looking proud as hell.
The next few month's got busy for everyone in the compound getting ready for my baby sibling so it left me with some time to wonder back to get the books on sealing without Koi seeing and it was sure was worth it! I found a seal that would help train my body up much faster! Resistance seals, slowed your body down like you were trying to move thru water. It was like Lee's weight training but you didn't have to worry about crushing people with your legs on accident. But from reading more I found while others didn't use them nearly as much. Putting them on was super easy to apply, taking them off was.. well you didn't. Or at least there was nothing in the book about it. So wasn't going to place them on me. Needed something easy to split on and off that wouldn't look out of place.
There was some other idea's I had going for some seals but didn't want to rush until I had a better grasp of them. One's that would siphon chakra bleed off to power other seals was what the clans cursed seal. That made a lot of sense too, seals had a base amount of chakra they took and to use them again you had to add more chakra to them. But for ones that are always "active" would need some way of powering them. Food for thought there.
A few month's later I had a little baby sister! Part of me was thinking she was going to be named Hinata but that wasn't the case. Hanabi was born and joined my family. I was now a bit over four and a half and there was still no attempted kidnapping. Wasn't sure if they had went after another clan head or it was shut down before they got close to me or what. Wasn't about to lower my guard tho, kept pushing myself hard. And I had found away to add the resistance seals! In the soles of my house shoes and sparing sandals. As well as some on my house coat and outside jacket. It took just the bleed off of my chakra to power so was very light on how much it slowed me down at first. During spar's I would get slower and slower and Hiashi was starting to show concern. But it was my uncle that started to get angry, I could feel the killing intent coming off him right before my father dropped him with the cursed seal.
Around the compound for the next few days was rough, word was going around about my uncle dropping his killer intent on us and my mom was just back with my sister. Then it happened, cloud came to kidnap a main branch member, just it wasn't me. It was Hanabi, right out of crib in the middle of the night. They didn't make it to the front door before my dad liquified his brain. Would find out years from now that was part of the issue with trying to find out if it was an ordered mission or not, the Yamanaka's mind jutsu couldn't learn anything from the bottle of brain that was handed to him.
So I lost an uncle, Neji lost her dad. The tenses running high was felt by us all, then spars between myself and Neji where to start. Not sure if it was to try and bridge the gap that had started to grow or to try and push us to be better. But it felt like it was to give Neji an out let for her anger. I won all our spars tho, she would just get madder and madder, never lashing out and trying to hold it down. Then as time went on and our spars started to get longer she started to win, sure I could have taken off my seals but I didn't mind losing in order to get stronger.
Plus Neji started to clam down. She never had an easy win tho, made her work for them all. Sometimes by using moves out side of our normal Gentle fist. Hiashi was not happy tho, even if the kick landed clean and knocked her silly. So stopped (mostly) using outside moves until I started the academy at the end of the year.
That was something I was really looking forward to, even if I had a free pass to do what I wanted with little to no oversight anymore. Wanted more freedom outside of the clan, to meet and do things without people watching my every move!
"It's time to get up Hikaru-sama, you have an hour and half before your first day at the academy" Neji stated while standing at my door. I wave her away as I flop over to my other side and hear her sigh. "Hiaski-sama requires you for breakfast please get up" I roll back over and open my eyes and see the black eye I gave her last night staring back at me with no emotion, she really has got better at hiding that.
"Hai hai, I'm getting up let father know I'll be there soon." She looks skeptical but nods and walks off. Slowly pulling myself up as my legs are still sore from the night before. She was not happy that my elbow struck her so clean. Like I said, MOSTLY stopped using none gentle fist moves. After a very preachy breakfast about not embarrassing the clan I was off to my first day of ninja school!
After being dropped off and seeing a bunch of 2nd years looking oddly at Neji, I swear I didn't laugh, I was moved into a class room trying to see chibi versions of the rookie 9. Half worried about who else was gender bent. I guess it shouldn't matter, other then maybe for teams. But was still weird to think about. But so far it seems like everyone else is the same. Until a small blond with pigtails runs in and I swear my brain just turns off. Naruto is a girl, and adorable little one at that. What the fuck?