First things first, I have realized that my style of doing dialogues isn't as good as I would like it, so I will be changing it, that means that when I'm free I will change the prologue according to my current style.
Also, I'm using the manhua version yet I will include as well some elements (mainly names and places) from the novel.
Dialogues: "Hello"
Thoughts: (Hello)
Techniques: "Amateratsu"
And so, without further ado.
/Southwestern Heaven Dou Empire / Holy Spirit Village/
Two kids were currently fighting in the mountain forest near the village.
One of them, the tallest one, standing at 1meter and 25 centimeters, was dressed in a red, short sleeved, t-shirt and black short cargo pants. His hair, dark as the night, was spiky and cut half hair with two jaw length bangs at both sides of his face, which was in a frown while his jet black eyes analyzed his current opponent.
Standing at 1meter and 18 centimeters, dressed in simple black shorts and a yellow, white and mainly blue t-shirt, blue sapphire eyes, and black short hair, his skin showing a healthy color, was a boy with a normal looking yet still handsome face.
With his brows furrowed in concentration the second child shouted, "Long Tian start moving or I will beat you up without trying"
"I'm afraid you won't get the pleasure Tang San, not now, not never", said the now identified Long Tian (Madara), as a smirk grew on his face while he dodged a kick to the chin.
"Besides when we fight It almost always ends in a draw and when id doesn't I win, what makes you think you will win this time?", continued Madara as he dodged a flurry palm strikes.
Tang San, not replying, focused on sending attack after attack trying to discover any hole in his guard, however with no progress after 5 whole minutes of sending punches and kicks to his opponent only for him to either block or dodge with ease he grew impatient and tried something new.
"Way of Movement – Shadow Track"
In an instant, his figure seemed to become a dozen shadows, and in a second he arrived behind his foe, his hand performing a perfect hand chop on his bare neck, barely millimeters away, when-
"That's new" said Madara while having caught the striking hand with his own, holding it with an iron grip.
"You almost got me there, if it wasn't obvious you would hit me from behind I would have lost" he continued, before looking at the horizon.
"And, as much as I enjoy sparring with you, it's time for us to be on our way. Remember that today is the awakening ceremony"
"You are right. So, see you later?" Gaining a nod from his peer Tang San took the path to the village leaving the former Uchiha alone.
And in that loneliness he found peace, a peace that lead him to remember how was his short time spent in this world .
First, he thought of his first day, his birth. At first he freaked out not expecting to be reborn as a newborn but more along the lines of transmigrating into a recently dead body, that and seeing a woman a few times his size didn't help. But once he calmed down everything became easier, even learning the new but strange language hadn't been difficult at all, heck!, he was even called a genius.
(Not that I wasn't back in the Elemental Nations) He thought
And so his first couple of years in this new land were spent in just learning the language, and relearning how to crawl and then walk, and even reading, something that shocked his elders and even draw his mother to tears, of happiness of course.
Another thing he hadn't adapted to, his mother.
While he had had a mother back at his old world, he wasn't and only child who could monopolize her love and there was also the clan wars back in his time that forced everyone to mature early and leave to the battlefield.
So been able enjoy a somewhat 'normal' childhood was still something new to him.
Of course that didn't mean he didn't truly enjoy it, his mother was a sweet and kind woman that cared about everyone in the village, and helped whenever she could, but she always was there for him. In time he had come to care about her not just because she was his mother, she had wormed into his heart in a way that few, even before his death, had done, not even Senju Hashirama had spot as big as his mother in his heart.
Besides that, there was something that had called his attention ever since she mentioned; Spirits.
When he had asked about it, imagine his surprise when instead of replying him, she did something that made him open his eyes wide as plates.
/Flashback/
"Mother!Mother!" asked a 4 year old Madara to his mother while running to her.
"Easy there little Tian, tell me, what is it that you want?", said his mother while gently hugging him.
"Mother what are the spirits everyone is talking about?"
"My, my, is that time of the year already? Well then, let me show you"
Before he could reply a light enveloped his mother and the next second a pair of eagle wings appeared her back.
"This little Tian is my spirit, the eagle spirit, a beast spirit" she said, while moving her wings around while trying to not hit anything within the house
He stood there, gawking, eyes big as plates trying to comprehend what just happened.
/Flashback end/
Afterwards he asked a variety of questions to his mother and to his surprise this world had an energy they called spirit essence.
Once he heard that he immediately begun to try feel his spirit essence and while he could actively feel it and move it, he couldn't make it grow like chackra.
Talking about chackra, he had tried to recreate the energy he used in his last life but so far all attempts gave no result. He didn't know if it was because he already had spirit essence or because this world haven't had a Shinju Tree.
What he did know is that he could use the chackra controlling exercises like water walking and so on to improve his control over this energy, but so far he couldn't recreate the ninjutsu he was so skillet at, and so far his attemps with genjutsu gave the same results, so he begun mastering taijutsu so that his body became stronger and so as to engrave his battle instincts into these new body of his.
His current battle capacity was by his old worlds standards, the same as a genin, and although the reason was because his body was still adapting to his movements and skills in taijutsu, not to mention he hasn't even grown fully, it did not please him to know his current power was even weaker than most of those he considered ants back at his peak.
So he decided to train himself even harder, and imagine his wonder when he discovered he was not the only one of the kids his age with such mentality, that's how he met Tang San, mysterious kid, almost as much as him.
"Little Tian, come here!"
Coming out of his musings he turned out to the speaker who he recognised as the village elder.
"Elder, what do you want?" asked Madara with annoyance at the man who interrupted his inner musings
"Hurry kid, don't you know the spirit awakening ceremony is in just ten minutes, hurry up and get there, less you don't get to awaken your spirit. Now go!" shouted the elder, already chasing him in direction to the village, his carrot spirit in hand waving back and forth in a 'threatining' way, or at least i would be if not for the image of and old man waving a stick-long carrot like a mace being so amusing.
/Ten minutes later/ Spirit Hall/
"Now then. I'm the examiner today. I'm a level 26 Great master, profession spirit master. I shall guide you today to your spirits" said a blonde man about twenty or so years old affiliated to the spirit temple.
"Today, you will awake your essence spirits. You will also have your level of essence tested. Those worthy will become a spirit master" he continued not noticing how some of the boys, cough Madara cough, weren't even listening to him.
"Now i'll show you a spirit from a true spirit master"
"Lone Wolf - transform" he said gaining animalistic traits like wolf ears, silver fur and longer and sharper fangs and claws.
Next he began explaining the types of spirits; tool spirits and beast spirits.
Afterwards he began to lead every boy and girl to the spirit awakening array, and while not all them were useless there were quite a few of what he called 'junk spirits'.
(Junk spirits my ass, if I was still at my prime I could kill anyone here with just a thread, let alone a handkerchief. But even I admit that the river grass spirit doesn't seem to have any uses, at least none that I can think off) Thought Madara while looking at the results of the people tested.
"Next one" said the, by some reason still transformed, examiner while looking at Madara.
"Now enter the array" commanded him the examiner with an authoritarian tone.
He just scoffed and did as he was told, seeing no reason to argue about his tone, not when he still didn't have a reputation as scary as he once had.
Suddenly the array light up and the runes and symbols within it shined with a golden light.
When the light dimmed down he was staring at something he never thought he would see again.
"What the hell is that?" whispered the examiner not recognizing the weapon he was looking at.
"A war-fan" he muttered. And not just any war-fan, it was his war-fan, his günbai, one of the treasures of the Uchiha clan, the very weapon with which he slaughtered countless enemies on the battlefield and the weapon he chose to face Hashirama Senju in single combat.
However while he looked at his beloved weapon he couldn't help but notice a pair red blood eyes with one black tomoe slowly rotating looking back at him.
(The sharingan!)
He was honestly surprised, not only his most used weapon, but also his kekkei genkai were now his spirits.
(It seems like my name will once again spread as the greatest warrior of all, and this time, there is no Hashirama with his mokuton to go above me) He thought, thinking of how humiliating was to be considered beneath the first Hokage even though everyone knew he could go toe to toe with the Senju.
"Let's now test your essence level, shall we" the examiner said, taking him away from his thoughts, and changing his tone to gentler one, noticing the powerful spirit the boy had.
Madara just nodded and brought his hand to the orb.
"Essence level harmonization!" he shouted at the time alarm bells sounded inside his mind telling him once more that the boy before him was a genius.
"Congratulations young one, your scholarship will be paid by the village, now you can be a spirit master" the examiner spoke to him, while trying to butter up to him.
"Hum"
As expected of a former Uchiha, his way of replying answers with grunts had long since reached the peak.
Sighting, the older man could only continue carrying out his duty.
"Last one; Tang San" the examiner said, bringing Madara back to the real world from his thoughts.
(Let's see what will your spirit be, Tang San)
"River spirit grass" said the examiner
"hahaha another junk spirit"
"Even more so, a river grass, he must be another retard"
The crowd jeered seeing another boy with the worst kind of junk spirit.
Madara on his part was just frowning, his brows furrowed, thinking intensely.
(Tang San, a retard? No, he is a genius able to compete with me in a way no one here can, I refuse to believe that this is it for you. You are someone with enough will to reach the top of this world)
His thoughts stopped there as a bright light suddenly appeared in the room.
Quickly adjusting his eyes he looked towards the source instinctively using his sharingan.
Locating the origin of the light, the ball in Tang San's hands, he noticed a strange flow of his essence in his left hand.
(As I thought, you don't disappoint me Tang San, or should I say, my rival)
"It can't be! Another essence level harmonization! Ahh, and for it to happen with a junk spirit" sighed the examiner while shaking his head.
Turning around he looked at everyone and spoke," The spirit awakening ceremony is now over, you're free to go back with the rest of the village", finished, he went out of the spirit hall.
/Later that afternoon/Long family household/
"No, I don't wanna, you should stay with mommy and not go to some school"
"Please let- uwah- go-need- to- breathe- you- crazy - woman"
"No, not until you promise me to stay, you hear sweetie!?"
"Like- hell- will- I- do- that"
"Mouu~~~, you're no fun little Tian"
If you are wondering what's happening now between Madara and his mother, Long Xue'er, we have go back to the time he gave his mother the news on his free fee for school.
/Flashback/
"Mom, I have awakened my spirit and the examiner said something about a free scholarship for Nouding academy" said an excited, or what she thought of as excited, Madara. Sometimes she thought her son was too cold, no, maybe expressionless was the right word to describe him. Honestly, It worried her to no end that his only friend was the blacksmith's son (Tang San), but that could be said as well for the boy.
"I see, then, can you show me your spirit first?" ahe was pretty curious about his what kind of spirit he had awakened.
He nodded quickly and summoned his günbai.
"Mmh, I have never seen that kind of weapon before. But it' kind of unique just like you, so I think it rather suits you" ahe said patting his head, as he grunted something she didn't hear.
Squatting she looked at his eyes, they were the same black as hers.
"So what is this you said about a school"
"About that, it seems the fees will be paid by village, so I can go and learn how to be a spirit master, also I will by living in the dormitories that they provide, so I won't be coming home till the next holiday"
Blinking, she looked at her son, mouth agape and trying to say something before reason left her eyes and enveloped her son in a crushing hug while spitting random excuses so he would not go.
/Flashback end/
And that brings us to current situation.
After calming his mother promising her to write a letter every week, and somehow to try and make friends (he didn't know why she made him promise something like that), he somehow managed to let him go, even more so after learning he wouldn't be the only one from the village going there as he had explained to her that Tang San would be going him.
Having taken care of his mother, he got out of the house and begun to walk towards his and Tang San's training grounds.
Once he arrived, seeing no sign of his friend he sat in a meditative position, his legs crossed and started practicing his control over his essence doing the leaf-sticking exercise placing one leaf on his forehead and one in each of his fingers.
He noticed that after the ceremony his current essence was, unlike before, passively increasing his strength although it was only to a basic level. Also it seemed as It was easier to control it, to make a comparison. Before, his essence was like some syrup, and now it was like oil, it could move within his body at a faster rate and needing less concentration to do so. And now he could also move it outside of his body, he didn't' know what he could do moving it outside of his body but for now he could use his essence to act as a sensor that worked like echolocation by expanding his essence and then returning it to his body, giving him the location of every creature around him in a radius of 50 meters, which was what his current reserves allowed him. A handy trick nonetheless.
(But with the sharingan I can also do the same, I can even measure the level of any being I look at by paying attention to its quantity of essence, the downside is that I can't do it in a 360 º like the byakugan and that It also makes me spend my own essence, howev-)
"Long Tian"
Ceasing his inner monologue, he glanced towards the speaker only to find the person he was waiting for all along. He stood up and walked towards him.
"We need to talk"
"About?" Replied the blue eyed boy with frown marrying his features.
"This morning in the awakening ceremony, when you were testing your essence level, what happened to your left hand?" He inquired looking towards the smaller boy's left hand, now covered by some straps, with suspicion in his eyes.
Glancing towards his hand Tang San spoke "I don't know what you are talking about" trying to sound convinced, "i just injured myself while training"
The former Uchiha just scoffed, obviously not fooled by his lie.
"We both know that's not true, so tell me, what was it that happened back then?"
"How do you know something happened?. Nothing- You know what, I tell you if you tell me how did you know about this matter. Deal?" Sighing he said as he looked at his friend with a complicated look in his eyes.
"Deal"
"Alright, i'll go first. I have twin spirits" he raised his hand making a small hammer appear while he just glanced at his friend with a face that seemed to say 'happy now?'.
In response Madara just closed his eyes for a brief moment before opening them again, his black irises no longer there and in their place there was a red iris with one black tomoe spiraling endlessly drawing him towards it, as if trying to hypnotize him.
Losing his composure he glared fiercely at him," You-You-YOU HAVE TWIN SPIRITS AS WELL" he roared.
He just shrugged looking as if it was nothing special, as if having twin spirits was as something as common as grass.
Pinching his nose Tang San just shook his head not knowing what to think of his current situation. His best friend (his only one) was just like him having twin spirits. Thing is, he couldn't tell anyone (he didn't know why his father said to not show it to anyone) while Madara could but still he didn't. He didn't know why but he was sure he had some scheme in mind, even if it was just to annoy the hell out of someone.
(Or maybe he just did so so as to have a trump card) He thought as a light bulb lit up in his head.
And while Tang San was thinking about this our protagonist he just stood there, smirking, ideas floating in his mind, about what, no clue, but one thing is for sure.
(This is gonna be one hell of a second life) He thought while chuckling, and then it became a laughter as loud as thunder.
By the side, Tang San was watching this happen while a shudder traveled down his spine, and he instantly had a sudden urge to run for his life.
And end~~~~~~~~
This is it for the second chapter and the true beginning of the story.
Hope you liked it; don't forget to make a review and tell me what you think about it.