Naruto SI
Working Title: Chakra and Ninjas – Oh My!
Chapter 4 – To Konoha! Part 1
2015/03/21
'Waking up to the sound of birds and sunlight on your face is not unpleasant, no matter where you are.' I silently declared as I drifted back to the waking world. My dreams from the previous night were fading by the second, as dreams are wont to do, and by the time I opened my eyes all I remembered of them were flashes and loud noises.
The building looked a lot different in the light of day, bright sunlight streaming in from the holes in the roof made the room look rather pretty, albeit still very run down.
I started getting up, not one to lie in bed when I am no longer tired, and realized that today was the day that I would have to begin getting back to Konoha, and clear up what I had done here.
That being my goal as I got up I started setting up my priorities for the day: Get some breakfast in a few minutes as I was not yet hungry, put the curtain back in place, and do something about the masks, before heading out.
My first step was going to have to be the curtain and the masks. It wouldn't be very smart of me to just leave them around for some power seeking fool to mess around with them, or even worse, an oblivious fool, considering I did not even know what they truly did yet. And, if they were Uzumaki possessions as I suspected, then they rightfully belonged to me, well Naruto, but anyway.
I would decide my next steps after I completed my first, and thus I began.
I needed a place to hide the masks, and seeing as I did not have a place to actually put them where nobody would find them I decided to collect them in the curtain. I also had to be careful not to touch them, seeing as they had a strange reaction to me/Naruto, and would have to pick them up with the curtain.
I got up, picked up my jacket and shook it out vigorously, before debating whether or not to put it on. It was a rather warm morning, and would change into a mildly hot day later on, so I decided to just tie it around my waist. Then I dragged the curtain over to the floor in front of the steps leading up to the mask wall, took a corner of the blanket and tentatively picked up the mask that had bitten Naruto before my awakening.
Seeing as there was no visible reaction from the thankfully inert mask I quickly placed it on the curtain and folded a piece of fabric over it. After that it seemed to be a good idea to use my jacket to take the rest down off the wall so that I could put them on the curtain as well and fold it up.
I started at the bottom right, and I was much too short at the moment to reach the higher ones without assistance at the moment so the lower mask stands would have to act as footrests for when I took those off.
The first mask, and all of those following it, came off without any struggle and by the time I had reached the second row the curtain was getting slightly crowded. I got on the railing to take down the last row of masks, which all came off similarly easily, barring the third mask from the right, which seemed to tug at my abdomen. Not wanting anything else to happen to me, I quickly pulled it off the wall and put it in the curtain as well before finishing the rest.
Once I had put all of the masks in their new home for the foreseeable future, I folded the curtain up and looked around for a place to hide it.
A few of the floorboards along the left hand wall looked to be a bit loose, so I quickly pulled them up to see a gap between the bottom of the building and the actual floor about half a meter deep. I then dragged the mask bundle over and dropped it in, before covering the hole back up with their floorboards, and putting some rubble over it for good measure.
My first order of business now complete, I was feeling a bit hungry so I looked around to see if there was anything else that needed to be taken care of, which there wasn't, put my jacket back around my waist and walked out.
Something that stuck me as I walked outside in the early morning light was how clearly I could see everything. In my previous body I had needed to wear glasses, and this was even clearer than those! I could see every blade of grass in striking detail if I focused and it amazed me!
As I went back into the garden for a nice breakfast of 3 apples and 3 pears, knowing that I would need the energy for the upcoming day I admired the beauty of being able to see unaided and picked the fruit and ate them while enjoying the fresh morning air.
They tasted almost exactly the same as the ones I had had last night, so once I finished them I ate the cores as well and got ready to move out.
The forest around the shrine was very thick as I had noted the night before, although now that I had light I could see that it was more because of the overwhelming thickness of the trees themselves instead of the amount of trees. The smallest of them was at least two meters wide!
I slowly walked back around to the front of the shrine, just looking around with my newly realized eyesight and gazed down the path. It seemed like it went on for at least a few kilometers and I looked around for anything else that was attention-worthy, decided not, and began walking.