I dont own naruto, its a fanfic.
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Its almost, and the key here is 'almost' funny, how things work really. One moment you are stumbling in nothind but the deepest abyss, with nothing but small sparks of energy for company and the very next, of course after a not pleasant on the soul body transition of worlds. You end up in white hall, so vast your eyes can't see the end of it.
"Wait, eyes!!!... how???", i blurted out shockingly, which in turn gathered me attention of my counterparts.
'One thing that i can be sure of is that it wasn't my body, or any one's body to be precise. It was almost similar to everybody else present in the accursed white place.'
'Never really liked that colour, it bothered me more than i would care to admit, how alone i felt in that hell after my mothe...FOCUS.'
'The body appears to be made out of something similar to porcelain, at least it looks like it. there's no other features present except the eyes and slit for the mouth on the face, you can speak but the mouth doesn't move, more than anything else, all of us present looks more like an android or somthing, with small variations of course', I continued musing to myself, while the others took in their surrounding with shock evident in their eyes.
"Welcome, Participants", A woman appeared on the throne, which was fashioned as a pedestal, clearly the most beautiful woman i would have ever seen, if i could see her over the thich veil of black smoke surrounding her.
In front of the throne, In the middle of the hall, there was a well dug deep into the void.'The dichotomy of black and white ever present in my life, i guess'.
The next fifteen minutes were spent in "them" trying to establish dominance over us with the guards playing with porcelain dolls that got out of line or tried to raise their voice out of defiance and also 'fear'.
Panic never helps, after the first one got his head smashed in, the one behind him panicked which got him done in too. That just kicked off the stampede.
"SILENCE",came the order of the matriarch, which had the dolls froze completely.
"Deal with it", she took her leave after ordering her lieutenant to take over.
The dolls were restored, while their consciousness kicked in, they appeared more befuddled than before, but none dared to try anything, in case history repeats itself, 'looks like dying again wasn't much of a pleasent experience',i mused imwardly.
"You have all been brought here for a very special purpose", the lieutenant spoke.
The monolouge of a speech continued and frankly, many point were elaborated. The most important of them was karmic relation.
"...Every action has a consequence", the speech was over, but the waves of question wasn't, which was as expected completely negated by the scowling faces of our enforcers.
As death mentioned, we have been selected to play a game. The game being reincarnated into another world as its natives. The world being the world of Naruto.
Its gets proceedeingly more hilarious, the more that i think about it.
I wasn't completely oblivious to the the concept of transmigration, due to the concept being exceedingly famous cultural component in web literature of my time, but its still unbeliveable.
Well, not like its exactly the same as the anime/manga, but can be considered to be an alternate version of it. Multiverse is real, i guess, not really surprising after talking to death personification.
The time period, we are being inserted in co-relates to the warring states period of naruto.
I am aware of the general concepts and canon story from the anime, but I reckon its not going to be much use to me as of now. But, i guess something is way better than nothing.
Then comes the most important question, that at some point of time comes in the mind of every human being - "why us?", a doll which most likely appeared to be female shot her question.
The question was answered with everything, but without the actual answer.
'our nemesis inducted some unknown variable in the equation of the world, which muddled the waters, now we will introduce more unknown variable to muddle the water further, so they arent able to take advantage of it', or at least that's what i gathered from the condescending speech laced with propoganda.
As for 'why them?', the karmic realtions in our case, are not conncted to that world, our souls doesn't belong to that world, so the influence that world or the council's opponents can have on us are minimum.
All of us never wielded a weapon much less... killed anybody, which makes us easier to slip by the world conciousness. Something about our souls not being tainted, being pure enough.
When we were born, in our past world, we had substantial positive karmic bonds, whatever that's supposed to mean, but i sincerely doubt that we were very good people in our past life.
In our last life, for one reason or another, we suffered extensively despite having exceedingly postive balance. from my understanding, it meant our cycles of life were coming to end, closing the accounts for the financial year, tallying good and evil sides of the balance sheet.
No more suffering positive or negative karma white resting forever being one with the source. But, as fate wills it, we were conscripted in the name of redemption.
On the brighter side, barely. I get to keep who i am, my identity, my exsistence, rather than losing it all by being one with the source.
Give and take, i guess.
Admiringly, we were alloted points, that were converted from the postive balance we had and the atrocities we suffered. the utility of these points were to write our own fate, by our own hands for our next life. Decide our starting lines, talents we possess, the aptitude we would like to have regarding different disciplines in our next life.
KARMIC POINTS BALANCE : 27500 pt.
It was clearly on the higher side, maybe due to my past karma or maybe because of what i went through in my past life. Never going to find that one out, i guess.
One can decide on his clan, geographical location of birth, conditions of upbringing. But the catch remained, as always.
As all of are imposters from outside this world, the checks from world's conciousness remains more thorough and precise in our case.
To counter that all of us were issued with the trait free of cost, it adds five hundered point in the points balance. So, no complaints, i guess.
FAR FROM FORTUNE.---- Some children are born with a silver spoon in their mouth, and a golden one in their behind. You are clearly NOT one of them.
it basically reduces the starting line by having us born as an orphan, maybe clanless or worst of them all, 'Civillian'. Basically Mob characters. Depending on the circumstances. This world also doesn't care about unfortunate souls enough to give them a proper frisk. Not surprising, really.
GEASS was an another trait given to us, more than anything it was an promise we were made to ourselves, it mainfested as a quest. That was evidently the most interesting part.
A doll promised to stay chaste all his life, yielded fifty points. 'not much interest in the nightlife, i guess', i mused.
Some vowed to develop a kekkai genkai, some wanted to establish a harem. The doll behind me inspired with his geass,"I vow to become a jinchuriki, that is my geass."
While, the idea was entirely absurd, mainly an orphan, if not from UZUMAKI CLAN had no chance of becoming a jinchurki in advantageous position. Being born in that clan at random was next to impossible, as the cost of being born there on purpose was 25000pt. More than half of the entire dollhouse had less than 15000pt.
Being an orphan from NARA was 17500pt, INAZUKA and HOSHIGAKE were just a little bit affordable. SENJU and UCHIHA costs an arm and a leg much like the UZUMAKI. Clearly, not worth it, with Indra and Asura incarnate sitting right outside the room.
"I vow to never become a jinchuriki despite having the advantageous knowledge of treating them as friends, and making them comply, despite the handicap, i will establish one of the strongest hidden village, that is my geass."
after the internal declaration, as I absolutely would not say that aloud. I recieved a response,
《GEASS ACCEPTED : 3500PT and 9000PT ADDED》
With the extra point i gained, i did the most sensible thing i could have possibly thought of, and took the gamble on my second life, leaving the clan, pedigree and geographical location on random selection without investing any sort of points in it.
Considering the far from fortune trait, its not surprising if somebody cooks me in a stew, the moment right after i was born.
Being a risk it was, a calculated risk was preferable to the life of mediocrity, and death of despair. The reason for the confidence was,
FICKLE FATE.-- Everchanging and Evergrowing are the threads of fate. The more you struggle, the more they entangle. only one who will win, is the one who surrender first.
Despite being, the biggest load of bullshit, i have came across in a long time. The words surrender and letting go of futile struggle really appealed to me. So i guess i let go of the concept of clan giving me security. For only 5000pt I signed up for what seemed to be a nigerian prince scam.
There are obvious upside to it as well. With the points I saved from not selecting the clan of which i would be an orphan at best without any sort of backing, I was able to get traits that would be of use, even if a end up a damn Civillian.
For eight thousand points each, i was able to buy literal diamonds in the form of,
TAILLESS BEAST.-- Not one of the tailed beast, but your chakra reserves are way more than they should be, Increases your base chakra capacity by half of it without comprimising with chakra control.
SPIRITUAL ATTUNEMENT.-- You are closely connected to the spiritual aspects of your being. Increases base chakra control ny half of it without compromising chrakra capacity.
Their utility being undeniable in any form or kind, there is always use for extra fuel and a better engine with more mileage.
The next one was a bit of a double edged sword, the most expensive sword to be precise.
PRODIGY.-- The prodigious talent you show in the comprehension of Ninjutsu and Taijutsu are terrifying. Increases exp gain rate for ninjutsu and taijutsu half, decreases exp gain rate by half for genjutsu and poisons.
For fifteen thousand points, i got an edge for taijutsu and ninjutsu, but lost on other front. Well taijutsu was more essential in the warring era than it might appear, and the prospect of ninjutsu is as vast as the sky.
While there was a bit of pain in my non exsistent heart at loss at the genjutsu front, didn't had much of an inclination towards poisons anyway. 'Well its not like, I am getting a sharingan or something.' I coddled myself.
The next one wasn't that profound or something. But, a strong body does have its own utility. For forty-five hundered points, i gained the chance of being the best version of myself.
WARBORN.-- Bred through war, bred for war. Increases the rate at which your strength and agility and vitality grow. Pushes your genes to the limts increases the upper limit of your speed, reflexes, durability and power.
The reason behind the choices were simple, being able to adapt to whatever circumstances, i would face in the near future.
With enough time, enough intimidation by the guard and enough optimism for our next life. All 1586 of us were lined up.
"This is the begining of your new life, fight, survive, win, and await furthur instruction, that is all," 'at least that was motivating,' I mused sarcastically.
Almost instantly the dolls began to crumble into dust, while a spark of light rose up from the said piles of the said dust and went forward towards the well in the middle of the hall.
As my new body started to crumble into dust, i muttered aloud, "onto my new life then."
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