Well, it seems like the afterlife is very dark and tight. I should probably be freaking out right now, but I can only feel calm. Before I planned on dying in my sleep my life has been mostly a feeling of numbness. My goals have changed more times than I can count from wanting to gain unnatural power to save people to wanting to create a situation where people would have to gain powers if they want to survive. I have never told a single soul these goals of mine and never fully pursued them for two reasons: I wouldn't be able to forgive myself if one of goals succeeding would cause the majority of people to have their lives ruined or endangered and I didn't want to be stopped from being able to pursue them. I started having these goals when I watched my first shonen anime during my time in the second grade. It started with Dragon Ball and as time went on I continued to watch and read series focused on the idea that humanity can surpass anything with just their mind and body. When I first tried to pursue these goals I just tried to copy what I saw in each of them to see if it was possible. I'm a little embarrassed to say that up until my death I would still do it on occasion just to make sure it wasn't possible that way. After releasing that it was most likely wasn't going to work that way I decided to go down another path to pursue them; I would use science. It was when I was in the 7th grade I decided to learn about chemistry, computer science, physics, and robotics. I hoped that I would find a way to replicate what I saw in the series. Either I would create a device or drug to do so. I did this for 30 years by getting my masters in both computer science and physics, getting a comfortable desk job so I could pay for rent, food, research material, and keeping social interaction to a minimum so that I could have the most time to continue learning just to find a way to achieve my goal. It was during those 30 years that I started to think about the consequences of achieving my goals. I started to think about what would happen if I died after achieving my goal.
Would the world for most people be like the average people I see in the series? Whenever I watched these shows my first thoughts weren't about the lives of the background characters and how the bullshit events of the show would affect their lives. What is it like to live on earth as a normal human in the dragon ball world? They live with the constant fear that there is going to be a new alien that comes to the planet that has so much power that they destroy the planet with a finger and that if they die they might be brought back with the potential of having PTSD from experiencing their death and the only thing they have to reassure their safety are protectors from outer space that bring the problems most of the time.
I knew that I probably wouldn't be the cause for a new wave of change for the world especially due to the fact I don't see myself being able to convince people to do mass change, but if one of my creations helped cause a situation like the Dragon Ball world I would regret it. So after the 30 years, I finally decided to stop pursuing my true goals. For two years I tried to find a new goal that I wouldn't be fearful of completing, but no matter what I did I would constantly think back to my past goals and I couldn't think of a goal that would make me happy. I didn't like to drink, food barely tasted different to me, and action series would only cause me to feel pain about not being able to follow my true goals.
In the end with nothing else to do, I decided to end it by starvation. If during the time I thought about something I wanted to do I had food and water next to me to save myself. In the end, I couldn't think of anything and that leads up to where I am now.
The afterlife is not what I expected. I don't know how long I have been here and the only way I can tell time is passing is because I hear noises sometimes. I tried to talk and move but no matter how much energy I put into doing so all I can do (I think?) is move my arms and legs slightly. All I have been doing here is sleeping, thinking, and moving with futility.
SPLASH
I've been woken up to the feeling of being very wet with noises that sound like screaming in the background. I may not believe in there being a heaven and hell, but if I start feeling heat I'm going to freak out. My head now feels cold aaannnd something is touching it. After feeling a tug on my head I was blinded by the light. Ok so probably not hell, but I still feel very uncomfortable so not betting on heaven. I think something up my nose and I have the feeling of something holding my body.
"Sore wa otokonokoda!"(It's a boy!)
...what? That sounded like someone talking so I think I'm around people now. So I start to open my eyes and see something unexpected. Giant human-like beings. The thing that is holding me is dressed like they're a doctor, there is another one that looks like a male with spiky blue hair, and I'm unable to see the other person in the room.
"Kare wa naite inai?"(He's not crying?)
Wait, are they speaking Japanese? I try to speak, but due to not talking for a while and the feeling of my mouth being different than before I was only able to spout gibberish.
"Miho-hime mite! Watashitachi no shōnen wa hanasou to shite imasu!" (Miho look! Our boy is trying to talk!)
The one holding me hands me off to the person I couldn't see before and once I see them, even with the giant aspect still freaking me out a bit, all I can think is beautiful. They appear to be female with ruby red hair with two hair buns that seem to be roughfulled. Her eyes had the color of emerald, natural beige skin that looked as smooth as porcelain, and light red lips. Due to suddenly being so close to her I clam up and stop speaking.
"Asahi-kun no sekai e yōkoso."(Welcome to the world Asahi.) she tells me with a smile on her face.
I may not understand what she just said to me but I can feel the warmth radiating off that smile. It reminds of what I used to feel like with my mother back when I was alive. Wait… people who look a lot bigger than me check, a doctor in the room check, and a male standing over me in the hands of a female check. I think I'm a newborn. With that in mind, I start to look around the room to find out where I am. I take a closer look at the man I assume is my father and see something that made pause. He wore a green flake with a red circle on the shirt where the shoulder is but what confused me was the head plate on his head with the symbol of a leaf on it. Is...is that what I think that is? I think my father wouldn't be cosplaying on the day of my birth, but that head plate doesn't make sense otherwise. Although he does have blue hair, my mother has unnaturally red hair, and the doctor's hand has a green glow around it.
...the doctor's hand is glowing holy shit I think I'm in naruto. How? Is this reincarnation? Did I take over a person's body? Well fuck it I can figure that out later I can accomplish my goals here! I felt so happy I started to laugh.
-Break-
I like to think I got the best features between my parents. I got the hair and eye color from my mother and the hairstyle from my dad. It has been three months since birth in the elemental nations. In that time I spent most of it eating, sleeping, and training motor control. Due to not knowing about my reincarnation or body stealing status, my parents believe me to be a genius. I tried to act like I was just a very chill baby that didn't have future knowledge, but I didn't have enough patience to not try to do things that I shouldn't know about yet. Whenever they would talk they would see me try to understand what they were saying, I would look like I was trying to read, and it didn't help that I once got caught with a piece of paper on the top of hand and staring at it for 30 minutes. Well, at least they seem to just brush away those oddities and just think that I'm smart. I have now started to walk and I'm pretty sure chakra is helping me have enough strength to walk. My walking training was halted by okaa-san's arms wrapping around me.
"Asahi-kun you did it! You took your first steps and so early as well! You should feel proud!" okaa-san tells me with joy in her voice.
"Yes, okaa-san." I say with a neutral tone.
"Aaahh come on Asahi-kun why aren't you happy about this!? Most kids would still be crawling much less talking! You don't have to be so serious all of the time and you know you can act like your age sometimes right?" she tells me with a pout.
"If that will make you happy I will try."
Sorry, okaa-san but can't act my age and it's not just because I'm over 40 years old mentally. I sometimes wish I could tell parents why I'm trying so hard to learn everything, but I obviously can't tell them about future events and I also can't tell that I know about the dangers of the world of shinobi. I have to keep learning so that I can keep up with the heavy hitters of this world. Also doesn't hurt that chakra is really exciting to me. I'm pretty sure most kids my physical age would be excited as well if they could understand it.
"Ashai I'm not telling this for me I just want you to have a happy childhood. You won't be able to act like a child forever."
"But I like what I'm doing now."
"Ok I'll let you do this now, but when you get older I'm going to make you do activities that a kid should do. I don't even have any stories to embarrass you in the future."
And I'm grateful for that. I'm already embarrassed about having to piss and shit on myself. I don't need anything else to add to that. Breastfeeding is almost on this list but I can just close my eyes and imagine I'm drinking from a bottle.
"Are there any more books I can read?"
"I have some about the history of elemental nations if you want to read those."
"What about the scrolls in the closet of you and otou-san's room?" I ask her with the most innocent voice I can muster.
"What scrolls are you-. Ooh, you can read those when you're older." She says with a nervous look on her face.
I have a theory that my mother is an Uzumaki and I'm not just basing that on her hair. Both of my parents say that they are clanless but I have been experiencing some oddities while I have been training. I don't know how much chakra a three-month-old has, but I doubt that they have more chakra then they need to live. If I remember correctly academy students would get tired the same time I do while doing the leaf sticking exercise. I think they are hiding her clan status out of fear of what will happen to me and her. I mean I can't blame them due to the Uzumaki being so feared that three villages teaming up to eradicate them. So with that being the case, I think the scrolls are about sealing.
"I'm home!" I hear otou-san from the front door.
"Welcome back dear! Great news Asahi-kun just learned how to walk!"
"That's my boy, a prodigy at such a young age! The leaf might have just gained another Kakashi." he says with a smile on his face.
Please don't jinx me, almost every prodigy in this world has had something fucked up happen to them. Kakashi's father killed himself, forced to kill one of his teammates, and lost his sensei. Itachi was forced to kill his clan, had an incurable illness, and had to make his little brother try to kill him. This world doesn't like prodigies.
"Adachi, I have to talk to you about something. Asahi me and tou-san have to talk so why don't you make more of your drawings."
"Ok, okaa-san."
To help me remember what happens in the future I would draw future scenarios using stick figures. I have no way of hiding my writing so I'm doing this to make sure I'm not interrogated for creating a different language. I have drawings that only make sense to me from the battle of Hashirama vs Madara to Pain attack the leaf and I'm working on Danzo's information right now. From what I heard Minato is the Hokage right now and Kurama hasn't attacked the village yet so I'm going to assume I'm in the same timeline. I assume okaa-san is telling otou-san about me asking about the scrolls right now so I have to think of a way to convince them to let me read from them at least.
-Break-
"Son we have something to talk about with you that concerns the scrolls you asked about." otou-san told me with a serious tone.
"Ok, so what did you want to tell me?"
"How did you find those scrolls?"
"I was moving around one day and I think someone left it on the floor. When I got a hold of it I couldn't open it at first."
"So how did you open it?"
"Well I started to think really hard about how to open scrolls to see if I forgot something then the scroll glowed and opened. I wasn't able to read back then so I just closed it. When I started to learn how to read I looked for it again but I couldn't find it. Okaa-san was looking through the closet one day and I saw multiple scrolls at the top of it. Whenever you don't want me to touch something you would put it out of my reach, but I didn't know if you didn't want me to read them specifically or it was how you used to stop me from reading books by myself."
Ok, hopefully, they buy that lie. I was telling the truth about how I couldn't read it before but it didn't just randomly open. I had to push my chakra into it for it to open. I can't tell them that I used my chakra because I shouldn't be able to use it right now much less channel it into something. That is why I tried so hard to learn how to walk so that it would look like I used it on an instinctual level.
"Do you know what chakra is?"
"Isn't chakra what shinobi use to fuel their Jutsu?"
"Did you know that you channeled your chakra into the scroll?"
"But I'm not a shinobi, how was I able to use chakra?" I ask with as much innocence I can muster.
"Well, you don't have to be a shinobi to use chakra. It's just that shinobi are the majority of people who are trained to use it. We just want you to know that to use chakra while untrained is very dangerous. So if you ever feel really tired stop what you're doing because you might be using chakra."
"Is there a way for me to get training right now?"
"No, it's way too early for you to learn how to use chakra! Most kids would only start learning about it at four years old and two years old being the earliest. But I know that you learn a lot faster than other people so I will make you deal. If you can relax for six months and you still want to learn, we will teach you. How does that sound?"
"Ok, can I read those scrolls in the closet while I'm relaxing?"
"No, and if we catch you reading them we will call off the training and you won't be allowed to read them until your at least a genin. Those scrolls are very dangerous and you are nowhere near prepared enough to follow its instructions. Are we clear." They tell me with the most intense glare I have ever seen from them.
"Yes"
"Good now that's over I think it's time for you to go to bed."
Okaa-san picks me up and puts me to bed.
"I know you want to keep learning about the world but if you don't slow down life is going to pass you by without you ever experiencing it. We just want to make sure that you aren't going too fast."
"I understand okaa-san"
"Good! Now good night Asahi-kun." She kisses my forehead and leaves my room.
Ok, so I have to relax for six months. I can do that and I got a perfect way for me to seem relaxed and possibly train my chakra control at the same time. I don't know of any meditation from naruto that will help me with chakra control, but I do know of some from Hunter x Hunter that helped with aura control. Maybe that would help here. I got some time to kill so why not. Ten, Zetsu, Ren, Hatsu here I come.
-Break-
So it has been six months and I have learned some possibly dangerous information. Chakra might actually be nen. I came up with this idea after one of my meditations and seeing an aura around my parents. I thought at first that it couldn't be nen, but then I started to think about the similarities. Both are considered your life force, Every single ability in naruto can be attached to a Nen type, aura nodes are similar to Tenketsu points, hand signs could be the condition for jutsu because you don't have to do them to cast Jutsu they just help, and the list goes on. It's actually harder to find things that don't fit into nen. Now, this wouldn't be dangerous information if everyone used it correctly. I haven't seen a single person use Ten.
They appear to be usually in a Zetsu that only leaks a tiny amount and whenever they have to use 'chakra' they go into Ren, but since they don't know how to use Ten so they are wasting a lot of aura. Somehow sensor types are using En but not in 360° more like 180°. The worst part is that they are able to do techniques that can devastate villages with their lack of control and most only have the aura nodes on their eyes, hands, and feet open. They have so much aura that even with the bare minimum they can still use abilities. I mean it's good for them because they don't have the control to survive with all of their nodes open. The elemental nations are in constant danger of people who haven't even scratched the surface of the power they possess. I doubt there's more than 1% of the shinobi population that has developed a Hatsu much less understand what they actually did like the dust release and Konan's paper. They would probably think it's a kekkei genkai or a new jutsu. The only ones with all of them open appear to be the Hyuga clan which explains why they can use the byakugan so well. I think it forces them into an En state and they are able to do that for hours while most would be tired after an hour. With all of this information, I think Kage level fighters have aura levels close to Meruem if they had all of their nodes opened. The same guy who was so strong the government was considering nuking him just to make sure he died…
Yeah, I'm gonna keep the secrets of Nen to myself for now until I can find someone I can trust. During the six months, I opened the rest of my nodes and learned how to use Ten, Zetsu, Ren, and started on my Hatsu. I hope I'm a transmuter because I want to be able to control and produce air. It seems to be one of the perfect elements for a shinobi. I could control sound waves, make silent and invisible attacks, kill a person from the inside, deflect attacks, have a constant amount of it most of the time, nullify fire and lighting, and more utilities will be thought up in the future. It just sucks that I'm still a baby so I can't fully train yet, but that isn't what I hate the most about it…
"Alright, we're all done! Had a lot today didn't we?"
"This is humiliating. Are you sure there's nothing I can use to reach the toilet on my own? "
"As I told you before, yes I'm sure and besides you don't start doing that until you're at least a one year old. I heard crying helps relieve stress. You could do that. I'll even hold you to make you feel better!"
"Yeah, you would like that wouldn't you? You always like it when I 'act my age'."
This woman is doing this on purpose. I know there's something in this house I can use, but she just wants to keep reminding me that I'm physically a baby. Well, that's fine because today's the day they have to let me train my aura control.
"Okaa-san it has been six months since we talked about chakra training right?"
"Sigh, you have been counting the days haven't you?"
"Yes."
"Well, at least you're excited like a child for this. You know chakra training would just be a lot of meditating and sticking leaves to yourself do you still want to do it?"
"Yes."
"We just can't seem to stop you huh? Very well let's go to the back yard."
The backyard was 729 square meters flat with training posts in the middle.
"Now what do you know about chakra?"
"Everyone has chakra because it's needed to live, but we can use it to cast jutsu if we have enough. You will die if you run out of chakra and if you use too much you will have chakra exhaustion. It is a combination of both physical and spiritual energy. That is all I know."
"Good, we also have chakra pathways with 361 nodes called tenketsu. Tenketsu are the points where chakra is released. Most can only use the tenketsu in their hands and feet, but there are people who can use all of them like the Hyuga. We use hand seals to help mold chakra for jutsu. We also use chakra to strengthen our bodies to make us stronger and faster. So we first have to start with you being able to release your chakra. You will be meditating for 30 minutes to get the feel for your chakra. It should feel like your standing in a lukewarm, viscous fluid. Using the tiger hand seal can help you with doing this."
So I meditate for 30 minutes while still using Ten so that it looks like I'm trying.
"Ok stop, did you feel it? It's ok if didn't most people have to try multiple times to do so."
"I felt it."
"You did? well just to be sure try to release it right now."
I decided to try and mess with her a bit and use Ren. This causes her to fall from shock.
"STOP!" she tells me with panic on her face.
I go back to using Ten.
"Don't use that much chakra! You could cause yourself to have chakra exhaustion! Are you tired?"
"I'm not tired."
"What!? How are you not tired!? That was on the level of a Jonin!"
"Maybe I just have a lot of chakra?"
It took a while for her to calm down from experiencing my Ren. After a minute she looks at me with a serious face.
"Are you telling the truth? If you are faking not being tired you will just be hurting yourself."
"I'm not I feel like I can do it again."
"Well, it seems like you're going to have a lot of work to do. Due to you having so much chakra being able to control is going difficult. Since you seem to not be tired let's start with the leaf sticking exercise."
When she is sticking the leaf to her head I use Gyo on my eyes so that I can see how much aura she is using to do it.
"Alright now you try to stick it to your head. This is probably going to take a couple of days so don't get frustrated."
I put it on my head and it sticks instantly... I think I hear some crickets.
The air gets slightly colder.
"Asahi tell the truth. Did you do chakra control exercises during the six months."
"No."
She continues to glare at me to see if I would crack. To be honest I'm technically not lying. I was using aura control exercises to better my control.
"Fine, I doubt that but we never caught you, so we can't punish you for it. Don't think you can get away with doing things behind our back. You're smart but you don't know everything and you will get caught eventually. Do you understand?"
"Yes."
I've been able to shape my aura into numbers for two months now. That is a lot harder to do than causing something to stick to you. The only thing that takes more control is the Rasengan and it took years for them to figure out how to throw it.
"Since the leaf sticking exercise seems to be so easy for you, let's do the tree climbing exercise."
While she walked up the tree I watched her aura again.
"Now you try."
I put one foot on the tree then my second foot. I kept going up until I reached a branch. I turn around, look at her, smile, and then I wave.
"Bullshit."
"What does 'bullshit' mean okaa-san?" I say with a smile on my face.
"W-why are you smiling so much?" She asks to dodge the question.
"I can reach the toilet now!"
"Really? You do the leaf and tree exercise on your first try and all you can think about is that you can go to the bathroom now?"
"Should I not be?"
"YES! You're 9 months old and doing things that genin would have trouble with! Could you just act like a kid in something? Why are you laughing?"
"You look funny when you are frustrated."
I know I'm technically older than my mother, but me acting more mature than her still makes me laugh.
There was a knock on the door.
"Coming!"
We opened the door to see someone who when I first saw them I freaked out. Uzumaki Kushina the holder of the Kuruma, wife of Namikaze Minato, the mother of Uzumaki Naruto, and currently pregnant with the child of prophecy. This woman living or dying would cause major changes in the elemental nations, but right now I'm being hugged nearly to death because she is in baby fever mode right now.
"Aaahh Asahi-kun did you miss oba-san!"
"Too. Tight. Need. To. Breath."
"Kushina, would you be so kind and let my son breathe."
"Awww but he is so comfortable."
She finally stops hugging me and puts me down.
"No, I'm not Uzumaki-san"
"Oi, I thought I told you to call me Kushina-san if you won't call me oba-san dattebane."
"If you stop trying to kill me with your hugs I might consider it."
"Why are you trying to act like you're older than you are. You're 9 months old. You still have to wear diapers, so there is no need to be so serious all the time."
"This is just who I am and I actually won't be needing diapers anymore. I can reach the toilet now using chakra."
"What!? you taught him how to use chakra!? why!?"
"He was already able to use it without even knowing it. To make sure he doesn't hurt himself we planned on just teaching chakra control exercises. We just didn't think he would learn so fast."
"Wait how fast could he possibly have gone through them?"
"Right before you got here I just started on getting him to use his chakra. Not only does he have jonin level reserves, he instantly is able to stick the leaf to his head, and is able to walk up the tree."
"Come on do you really expect me to believe that he has Jonin level reserves."
I use Ren to release my aura. Right after I did that an ANBU officer with a dog mask comes rushing in and stares at me.
"Hey Inu-san"
I go back to using Ten.
"H-h-how!? Not even Uzumaki babies have that much!"
"Made I'm just special?"
The reason I'm just blatantly showing my abilities right now is because I need the higher up to know I exist because if either Orochimaru or Danzo come looking for me I won't just have my parents protection. I will be training my Hatsu before I enter the academy and I'm not confident that I will be able to escape their notice until I'm ready.
"Kai" "Kai"
Both Kushina and Kakashi try to break out of a genjutsu that isn't there. If I wasn't supposed to know what they just did I would be laughing right now. They both look at me like I am a bijuu in human form.
-Break-
It has been 3 months since I started to openly train my aura. I have been practicing Gyo, En, Ken, and my Hatsu.
Thanks to my En training I have noticed that I'm being watched by some ANBU or I at least hope that they are just ANBU. Who am I kidding Danzo is watching me. What I'm afraid of is if Orochimaru is looking for me. Now that I'm able to reach the sink I was able to fill a glass with water so that I could do water divination. Using Ren on the glass I changed the taste of the water so I'm a transmitter. My current plan is to make a Hatsu center around air. I remember people in the naruto universe being freaked out about the second Hokage being able to make water out of thin air,
but no one else was known for a single element unless it was a kekkei genkai. Hell, the only things I remember wind users doing in the series is cut and push. Tamari the person we have only seen use wind release only made or used jutsu that cut or push.
You can't tell me that you can't make anything more complex with wind when we have lighting techniques that are shaped and move like an animal. It's the only element that can nullify the element it's weak against. Oh, you send my attack back at me with fire well I will just send nitrogen gas to stop the attack from being able to burn or create a current to send it somewhere else.
I also found out you can still control it even if you shot it out. Which means that you could potentially kill someone from the inside with enough control. It is tasteless and you can't smell it so unless you are a sensor or able to see my aura you would probably be too late to stop it. My point is wind style should have been more versatile in the series.
In one more month, it will be October 10th. That day will determine if my future knowledge will be usable or not. I doubt that Kushina had known another Uzumaki in the village besides Mito, so this world could be very different, slightly different, or exactly the same but I'm causing a butterfly effect.
"Asahi-kun come inside we have a surprise for you."
I stop my training and head inside to be greeted by-
""SURPRISE!""
In the living room is my father, mother, Kushina, and even Kakashi. What I'm shocked by is that Namikaze Minato, the Yellow Flash, the creator of the Rasengan, the fourth Hokage is here as well. I guess my use of Ren really paid off.
"Hokage-sama what are you doing here!?"
"I'm here to help celebrate your birthday today."
"Wait, my birthday is today?"
"Don't tell me you forgot about your birthday."
"Sorry I just got so caught up in training that I forgot."
"No need to apologize. Why are you training so much anyway? Sure most kids are excited to learn about chakra, but you seem to be preparing for something."
Yeah, I have made a lot of progress for a 1-year-old. Due to my training, I have almost lost all of my baby fat. I look like a four-year-old that is a little shorter than he should be.
"I want to make sure that I am able to protect the people I care about. I know that I'm very unique compared to other kids and due to that I'll have an easier time in most areas of being a shinobi, but I can't let myself slow down. One of the reasons why is because I am nowhere near the strongest. Hokage-sama you could tie both of your hands behind your back, not be allowed to use jutsu, and you would still beat me with little effort. The second reason is that once more people know about me there are going to be people who will want to kill me early before I'm a threat or kidnap me for their own goals. I have been reading the books and scrolls you have given me and I know my chakra levels and control at that level are highly abnormal for my age. For most kids my age, they don't even have 1/20 of what I have. When I first released my chakra I had the chakra reserves of a Jonin and I feel I have at least doubled that now. By the time I'm a genin, I will probably have at least Kage level reserves. I know that if they can't get to me directly they will go after the people I care about. I think you'll agree with me Hokage-sama due to you having ANBU watching this house and me. Thank you for that by the way."
"You were able to notice them?!" Minato asks with shock evident on his face.
"Yes, I'm a very good sensor."
There was silence for a full minute after.
Okaa-san looks at me with concern in her eyes "Asahi-kun do you actually want to be a shinobi? If you're just doing this because you feel like you have to, you don't need to."
"I want to be a shinobi. I am mostly driven by what I just told you, but don't forget that I'm a kid still, and doing chakra techniques still seem cool to me and I want to be strong."
"Ok then, that actually makes me feel better about giving you your gift, but before you get to the presents let's eat. "
We had ramen with cake...I'm blaming Kushina for the ramen being here. I mean ramen is good and all, but I don't want it every day. When I told this to Kushina for the first time she looked at me like I said blasphemy and my mother looked down too surprisingly. Every day since then she has been trying to make me a ramen addicted which I assume is an Uzumaki thing.
"Alright let's start giving away the presents."
"I'll go first," Kakashi says with a laid back voice while handing me a box.
"These are practice shrunken and kuni. It will be hard to cut anything with them but that is also to protect you until you're ready for real ones."
"Thank you Inu-san." I say with a bow.
"Yeah, you really are a good sensor. Call me Kakashi when I'm not wearing the mask gaki."
"Alright Kakashi-san"
"What!? You call him by his given name but you won't do it for me!?" Kushina asked me with an indigent look.
"I said I would consider it if you stopped hugging me to near death, but you haven't stopped."
She looks away from me with a pout. I'm actually ok with calling her Kushina. I just like to mess with her, it's fun.
"Well, I will go next." Minato says while taking out a scroll and unsealing a box full of balloons and rubber balls.
Wait! Is he going to teach me the Rasengan?! I thought I was going to make up some bullshit story about how reversed engineered it. Now I have the perfect excuse to know it. Ok calm down you shouldn't know what this is so you can't be too excited.
"What do you want me to learn from this Hokage-sama?"
"I could have just given them to you to play with."
"Well, I don't think you did for multiple reasons. I think you know that I have been training every day for three months so you would know that I haven't been playing with toys for that long. My second reason is that there are too many balloons and rubber balls. If it was just balloons, maybe, but there are also over 10 rubber balls. So unless you think I'm going to lose over 10 rubber balls they are to help me do something."
"Very perceptive aren't you? Well, you would be right. These are to help you on the path of being able to do a very famous jutsu."
"What is it?"
"I'll tell after you complete the third step."
"Thank you Hokage-sama I'll do my best to complete the steps."
"There is no need to rush it. Now Kushina I think Asahi was just messing with you so you can stop pouting."
"Fine but you better get strong fast because when you get out of the academy I will show you why you don't mess with one of the leafs strongest kunoichi." She tells me with a smile and a menacing aura around her.
Man if I didn't know that she would be dying soon I would probably be worried...dammit don't think about that right now. It's not like I can change it anyway. She hands me a few scrolls.
"What are these about?"
"Well I know that you have good chakra control already, but your reserves are just going to keep growing so normal exercises won't be able to cut it forever. These scrolls hold techniques from the Uzumaki clan that will help you with that in the future."
"Wait but these are your clan's techniques aren't you supposed to keep it inside of your clan?"
"Clans generally keep their techniques inside the clan, but when someone is on good terms with a clan they could be considered an honorary clans member. Though you might be a cheeky gaki I know your heart is in the right place and you will use these techniques for good."
"T-thank you oba-san."
I instantly regret saying. She must've not been going all out with those hugs before because this one is making me fear for my life.
"See! Now was that so hard!?"
I try to respond but only a wheeze comes out.
"Ok, Kushina I think you should let him breathe now."
She finally lets me go.
"That… that is why I don't… call you… oba-san." I say while trying to catch my breath.
Even though I hate those death hugs I'm still grateful that she sees me like family. I promise you that I will do my best to take care of Naruto after you die.
"Now that you have caught your breath son it's time for my gift." He tells me while giving me three scrolls.
"These are the academy three. You're already learning a lot on your own so I at least want to make sure your training is effective."
"Thank you otou-san."
"Now my gift. I don't know why but you seem to be drawn to these scrolls. Maybe it's just in your blood so who am I to deny them to you if you are ready. These are scroll on fuinjutsu from the Uzumaki clan."
"So I was right I'm half Uzumaki."
"Wait you knew?"
"I had a hunch that I was. I have red hair, large reserves, and like you said I was drawn to the sealing arts."
"Why did you never ask?"
"I know I would have a target on my back if people knew I was an Uzumaki. You would have a target on my back as well okaa-san. I know that I don't know everything so I was willing to wait and see when or if you would tell me. I don't hold you not telling me against you."
Okaa-san proceeds to hold me tight and starts crying.
"I was afraid about us being found out. Our clan was attacked directly because we were feared. If an enemy ninja were to find out that you are from our clan they would do anything to either kill you or capture. If that were to happen to you I don't know what I would do."
"I won't let myself be killed or captured for you, the people I care about, and myself. That is why I train so that I will be prepared for the future."
There was a large pause where no one said anything. Due to my knowledge, I'll be knowingly letting people die. If I were to tell Minato right now that someone is going to sabotage their child's birth he would at least take precautions, but I'm a coward. I'm afraid that if black Zetsu or Obito find out I told him about them they would kill me and my family. So to make up for letting these people die I will become the strongest person in the Elemental Nations, stop Madara, Obito, and Black Zetsu from capturing the bijuu and resurrecting the ten tails and protect the Leaf village from future harm.
"Hokage-sama, what is the first step to the technique?"
He fills one of the balloons with water to the size of a ball that can fit in the palm of his hand.
"The first step to the technique is using your chakra to create enough rotations in the water to pop the balloon."
I watch with Gyo to see what he does to the balloon. He pops it. He then fills another balloon and hands it to me.
"This is a very high form of shape manipulation so this might take a wh-"
POP
"..."
"What is the next step?"
"Y-yeah uhh, the next step is doing the same thing to the rubber ball. It's going to take a lot of power so don't try and strain yourself."
I grab a rubber ball and do what I did before with more power.
POP
Minato starts sweating.
"What is the next step?"
"Aaah well you see umm. You have to combine steps 1 and 2 and do it inside of a balloon. It is complete when you are able to do it without it popping or moving."
He sees me going for a balloon and starts panicking.
"Someone is calling one of my makers so sorry I gotta go bye." He says before teleporting away in a yellow flash.
"I think you scared away sensei." Kakashi tells with his eye twitching.
"Was he scared that I went through the steps so fast or was it that he just realized he gave a one-year-old the equipment to do the Rasengan?"
"You knew it was the Rasengan?" Kakashi asked me.
"The first and second steps were both ball shapes that required high shape manipulation and power. The Rasengan is the only famous jutsu I know of that would require that and is the shape of a ball."
"You are a scary gaki, you know that?"
"I guess I am huh."