A/N: I do not own any part of Naruto, only my own personal characters, this was a long time in the making as I am very lazy when it comes to typing, I do plan to make this a long story and comments including criticism will help me get motivated, thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy it!
Side note: Any and all religious figures and beings that are mentioned are used as plot devices and not in an attempt to sway you the reader into a certain religion. This was the only way I could think to make the story work- Valaxis
My name is Michael, or at one time it was. See I wasn't famous, and I never will be. I never did anything outstanding, I never even made my local town's news. I led a small quiet life, swim team during the summer and high school. The only pole vaulter on the track team. My only real accomplishments being winning swim meets and flips with my friends. I was athletic, well liked, and a secret anime and manga "nerd" particularly Naruto, I loved that series with a passion. I led a quiet life, but I enjoyed it. However that all ended at age 17, I had recently gotten my license and was enjoying the freedom that came with driving. There I was, driving home after hanging out with one of my friends, happy as could be, then suddenly, "Bam!" one loud crunching noise and darkness, nothingness.
After what seemed like an eternity my consciousness came back into focus and there I was floating above my own funeral. I looked around and my entire family was there, all my friends, an ex, and some people I barely knew. I wandered the pews hearing the sobs of my loved ones from what I gathered from side conversation was that I was t-boned in an intersection by a drunk driver. I had instantly snapped my neck so that explained why I felt no pain. I watched as my mom and dad came toward the casket where I lay and whispered their final goodbyes sorrow and loss on their faces. One by one my friends, all with a dead look in their eyes and tears running down their cheeks said their goodbyes, all telling me how good of a friend I was and how much I would be missed. The ceremony drew to a close and everyone filed out of the church, I attempted to follow them all out but was stopped by an unseeable force, I collapsed to my knees and began to sob, I had lost everything, my life, my loved ones, the girl who had gotten away, my future. I opened my eyes and noticed that the church around me was crumbling away, the pews fading into nothing, the glass shattering and raining down, and the ceiling breaking and revealing a void above me. I stared into the void instinctually I was terrified by the sight and began to run, where I was planning to go I'm not sure. Despite my efforts to run I was torn from the ground and flung into the darkness, upon entering I came to the realization that my body was no longer there I was in nothingness
Again there was nothingness. It seemed to go on forever, I lost all perception of time and let myself go. I was broken from watching my family and friends mourn my own death, and from losing them, during the time I was in nothingness I slowly began to give and let myself fade. As I was about to give up entirely, something happened. In the nothingness a bright white light began in the distance and rapidly came closer, it began to be too bright and the scene changed.
Suddenly everything snapped into focus and I was sitting in a large room. The room was white, too white. The chair I was sitting in, the clothes I was dressed in, the desk I was facing, the chair behind the desk, all blindingly white and pure. It was too much, while it was a beautiful office It was close to blinding. I looked down and that my body had returned and… was dressed in pure white... joy. Suddenly a voice came from behind the chair I was facing.
"Sorry about the wait Michael, you have nooo idea how many people I've had to go through today alone"
The man behind the voice spun around in his chair. He was a man with a halo and 6 wings dressed in all white, his barely readable all white name tag read "Gabriel Archangel", in his left hand there was a pure white Iphone, his thumb moving at incredible speeds across the screen, his right hand holding a surprisingly black pen, his pure blue eyes on me, painfully white and somehow glowing teeth showing in his smile.
"Its sunday so God's resting." The man now named Gabriel paused. "I mean he doesn't need to, he's God, but he chooses to, so that leaves us Archangels to fill in for the time being, now let's get your next life started shall we?"
Extremely confused I raised my finger in a questioning way
"Question Michael?"
"Umm, well yeah, a lot of questions let me get this straight. Im dead, God's resting for the day, your GABRIEL, like Gabriel from the bible, and your giving me a new life?"
"Well aren't you the observative one? Yes I am Gabriel, God is currently resting, and you get a new life!" Gabriel said, his teeth flashing, looking and sounding disturbingly similar to a salesman.
"Okay, umm, not that I'm ungrateful, but why give me a new life? And why can't I just go back to my old life" I said hopefully as Gabriel kept up the salesman smile except it seemed to be sadder.
"Plain and simple, God made a policy about 300 years ago that states that anyone on earth who dies before they turn 20 gets a new life that they will enjoy, unfortunately you cannot go back, you died, and that's that, however you can get a more exciting better life where you're going. For you that seems to be…( He glanced at a screen on his desk) The Naruto universe, interesting choice I must say, I'm actually a fan of the series myself. Now this is a warring universe and they have chakra and abilities beyond what your normal body can handle, so I will be putting you in with a body configured for that world."
I looked at him confused "A body configured for the Naruto world?"
"Yes like increased natural abilities above the average of their world, which is much much higher than the average of Earth"
I nodded at that honestly made sense for the Naruto universe
He he began jotting some notes on a ipad on his desk while speaking
"Now I want you to be more than a cannon fodder ninja as it wouldn't be a good life so I will give you the choice of when you are born there, where you are born, and I'll let you create a special chakra nature, essentially a kekkei genkai which you will be able to make techniques off of or i'll let you choose a pre existing one, and actually while I'm at it I'll let you become a main character if you want along with the power. I can't let you become one of the main characters like becoming Naruto, but if you want you can become a sibling to a main character and hold a place as a main character, go for it"
He flipped the ipad towards me and I grabbed it.
"Use this to choose what you want, it will allow you to choose pretty much everything"
I looked at the screen and saw how many choices there were. Over 300 separate sections for everything from hair color to family. As I filled out what I wanted I noticed one large wright in section at the bottom, it was titled, "Special powers and abilities" I glanced up at Gabriel and saw him typing on 6 different ipads at once, clearly busy, I filled it out, once I figured out my special technique and how I wanted it to work I had one last field to enter, my own moniker, after a little thought I entered it in and pushed it back to Gabriel who in the meantime had somehow begun using 12 ipads, 6 of which with his wings.
He looked up and smiled at me, he freed one of his hands and scrolled through my choices. Nodding in appreciation, upon reaching the last two sections he carefully read and poured through my specifications and notes.
"I see you found a loophole and gave yourself a upgrade to a kekkei genkai by putting yourself in a clan that already had one" Gabriel pointed out with a humorous tone
I chuckled slightly, nervous that he would be upset but he just seemed to find it funny that I had found out a loophole.
"It's interesting though, not overpowered, but once you become a high level ninja and grasp its full potential it will be terrifying, it's also extremely versatile" Gabriel remarked
"Yea, I thought about it and I wanted something that would make me strong, but would still make things a challenge"
"Well I'm impressed, you even took the time to explain how your upgraded kekkei genkai makes it work, but you are aware that this is impossible until you awaken it and even then will most likely be near impossible to use it in any sort of battle until you put months into training it?"
"Yes I wanted to focus on the basics and improve myself before I started using it, although I plan on awaking it early one way or another."
Gabriel nodded and smiled, I noticed he had added another ipad and had amped up the speed. Curious about this I asked him
"What are you doing on the ipads? You've been using them nonstop since I got here, and you seem to keep using them more and more."
Oh, thats because im talking to you, see normally we just send people straight to their next lives or heaven or hell, whichever one they deserve. However I know for a fact that your next life will be exciting, so I wanted to meet you in person and give you choices. That way I have an excuse to watch over you on my off days"
I sat there shocked, but before I could say anything he glanced at his clock, again all white, so white I couldn't see the hands on it, and said
"Darn! I'm behind, I would love to chat more with you but I don't really have the time, so good luck as a ninja Michael! Or should I say, "Sora Uchiha of the Solid Lightning? I'll be watching over you!"
With a wink and another blinding smile he snapped his fingers and I was gone, everything was dark.
My life as Michael was officially over, I am no longer him, I will never be him again, I am Sora Uchiha, Ninja of the Village Hidden In The Leaves.
Chapter one: Excitement
It was warm, not hot, warm, and comfortable, my lord it was comfortable. Being in a mother's womb was awesome, yes I realise how weird that sounds. However, just imagine the most comfortable bed you've ever been in, then imagine that for 8 months you didn't have to leave. It was better than that. Now aside from my rant about my mother's womb ( and again yes I know exactly how weird it is), things were very strange. People are not conscious or remember being born. Imagine, feeling yourself grow, yea it freaked me out a lil bit. I had all the memories of my past life, all the knowledge, but I was in the womb. For the first little bit things were peaceful, just floating there somewhere between asleep and awake. However when my body gained a chakra network is when things got interesting, I could feel the chakra in me and around me, my mother's chakra and mine, also a separate chakra which I identified as Nature chakra, which I decided to stay far away from and not mess with anytime soon. Chakra is… indescribable. It's like , if you tap into it it's like a pure adrenaline shot... on steroids, everything is on overload. If you're not tapping into it it's like a faint vibration or warmth in your chest. Granted I couldn't really move around as I had just barely grown muscles, I began to expound upon and strengthen my chakra network by Moulding my chakra and releasing it out of my hands, I did this many times while I was awake, once I felt I had a sufficiently strong chakra network I began to shift my chakra around my body, increasing my control and amount. At first i was very confused why it seemed to be easy do even access my chakra, but I realized that by living 17 years without chakra I was super aware of its presence now that I had it, which allowed me to access it much much easier. After some time I became very good at shifting around my chakra and began to experiment with the effects of changing it, applying it to different parts of the body to judge and measure what they could do and the limits I had. I continued to do this until I was fully formed, small but fully formed. I was able to move a little, only small amounts and slowly. I figured out how to buff my muscles and slowly increased the time I could buff them. That feeling was something else. Chakra just being tapped into gave heightened energy, but buffing muscles added power. By buffing my leg muscles I was able to move them much more and felt like I could move them much much easier. Eventually when I was moving my arms around I bumped into something just a little higher up and in front of me. I smiled inwardly, there he was, my new brother, Sasuke.
Yea, I chose to become Sasuke's brother, and yes I know its a basic choice, but come on, like you wouldn't get your hands on a sharingan if you had the chance. Plus I needed it to make my special jutsu, and two it made me into a main character as I would be the same age as Sasuke putting me into the same class as the rest of the Konoha 11, minus Team Guy that is. As time drew on my chakra control and amount increased by a lot. I learned an extensive amount about the way that chakra reacted in certain body parts and what happened when chakra was sent to a single point. I was fascinated with it, obsessed, every single second I had awake I played and tested different things with my chakra, very soon however the day of my birth came. It was a experience I never want to live through again. First, the fluids I lived in for 9 months drained out, then the walls around me began to convulse and squeeze me out, several hours later I came out and it was cold. After 9 months of warmth anything less felt freezing, the temperature of the air was positively frigid. I began screaming as to keep up appearances, and I felt myself shift from one pair of hands to another and I began to be toweled off, cleaning and drying me off, as I was getting toweled off I heard Sasuke come into the world, he was screaming much louder than I was, soon I decided to stop screaming and I felt myself get wrapped up in another towel and passed to someone else. I decided to open my eyes, everything was very bright, much like Gabriel's office, however unlike my experience in heaven my eyes soon adjusted and the first thing I saw was my brothers face, Itachi. He looked at Sasuke and I with loving and joyful eyes, holding us close. I glanced around and didn't see Fugaku, our father. Soon we were passed off to our mother who hugged us and cried in happiness. She rocked us and I felt tiredness creep over me. I glanced over and saw Sasuke asleep, I should have realized he was earlier as his screaming had stopped. Letting myself succumb to the temptress known as sleep, the world faded to black.
During my next few days I went from sleeping to laying awake in my crib either pondering what else I could test with my chakra now that I wasn't in the womb. I was still seriously limited, my muscles only allowed me to move a little without assistance, with chakra I was able to crawl for around 3 mins before I collapsed. It was exhausting beyond belief, after my chakra ran out I quickly felt the effects and was exhausted. It was the most pathetic and helpless I had ever felt. I would quickly pass out afterwards of exhaustion. I continued to ponder ways to increase my control and amount of chakra, when several days after my birth, 18 days if my perception of time was correct, Naruto was born and the nine tails was released on the village.
My experience of that day wasn't as intense as most as A: I was pretty much expecting it and B: I knew the outcome and did not fear the attack, however I was not expecting the amount of killing intent and the level of chakra the nine tails was throwing around. Once it was summoned I immediately woke up and broke out into a cold sweat. Its presence was terrifying even from the distance I was at I could feel it and it shook me to my core. Sasuke woke up and at once began to cry in fear of this level of malevolence, and I couldn't blame him. I was scared out of my mind and I myself was on the verge of tears. Itachi dashed into the room and checked on us both. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw us both ok. He gathered us up into his arms and carried us to the outside of our house on our patio. From our viewpoint we couldn't see much besides the occasional flick and swish of a tail or arm of the Kyuubi. However his killing intent was still palpable. I closed my eyes and began to calm myself down and stop shaking. As soon as I stopped I focused on becoming accustomed to such a ridiculous level of killing intent, slowly but surely I became used to the feeling and was able to breathe normally. Steeling myself I opened my eyes and stared straight towards the area. Sasuke was still crying and Itachi was surveying what we could see of the kyuubi. Itachi looked at me and noticed how serious and unflinching I was. He leaned in and whispered
" You're already so tough Sora, you're going to be an amazing ninja someday."
Not letting him see the smile that crept to my face I nuzzled into his shoulder. Trust me, getting an compliment from Itachi would make you smile too. He continued to hold us tight until the kyuubi disappeared and we felt his presence much farther away. He gathered us both up and walked us back into our house. We sat there until I felt the Kyuubi's presence vanish. Soon afterwards I managed to fall asleep in Itachi's arms and woke up a few hours later to Fugaku returning to our house. He dropped off his shinobi gear and took off his sandals in the doorway. He sat down on the floor by the door and rested his head on his hands for a few moments and took a deep breath. He turned and came over to where we sat. As he approached I noticed the look in his eyes, dead, beaten and defeated. His entire visage seemed to exude defeat and sorrow. He came closer and picked up Sasuke and I, as he held us I noticed him shaking. Itachi was watching and asked Fugaku
"Father… how many died?"
Fugaku responded, voice sounding detached and dead
"Too many… much to many"
"Anyone we know?"
"Several of our clan.. and Minato."
Itachi quickly breathed in in surprise
"What about Kushina?"
"She died as well.."
"What of their child wasn't he due last night?"
Fugaku didn't respond and Itachi nodded slowly
"I see"
Sasuke had fallen asleep, but I was wide awake, I had always heard in the fandom that Kushina and Mikoto, our mother were very good if not best friends, but I had never heard of Fugaku and Minato being friends, apparently, as I later found out the Namikaze family were close family friends and it hit the entire Uchiha clan hard as they were among the few people allowed into the Uchiha compound. This was surprising needless to say, but I quickly accepted it as a truth, what mostly confused me is why no one spoke of Naruto, I knew he survived but no one seemed to mention it. I realized that he must have just gone straight to the orphanage, most likely against the Hokage's wishes. It was frustrating to think about, the fact that I couldn't help him out yet, in fact it was frustrating that I couldn't really do anything yet. I laid here in my father's lap, helpless. Scratch frustrating it was infuriating, a 18 year old mind stuck in the body of a newborn. Somewhere along the line I let myself fall asleep.
Over the next year I had found a new resolve, I became more obsessed with learning just how my chakra worked, so I would meditate, focusing on one thing at a time. Over the next year I discovered a way to toughen my arms by pushing chakra into the network in them and finely distributing it evenly throughout, however this ate through my chakra at a much faster than merely buffing my muscles as it required, keeping just the right amount evenly through the whole arm, keeping the flow stagnant, and adding the necessary chakra to keep it going. At the beginning it took all of my concentration just to keep it going for 10 seconds. Eventually I managed to get it to around a minute with my whole body. However I typically passed out right afterwards but it was good training for my chakra network. During that first year my amount of chakra multiplied by around 20. With my constant training it grew much faster than normal but it still wasn't where I wanted it to be. I had began to crawl after 3 months and at 6 months I began to walk. This surprised my parents as that was very advanced for my age.
However, I had made a mistake at around 8 months. I was walking around the house and I noticed that the only other person at home was my mother who was dealing with paperwork in Fugaku study. I decided to test out the muscle buff for real and quickly sneaked my way outside the house to our garden. I hopped down to the grassy area and quickly buffed my muscles. I began to run and boy, was I fast for being 8 months old. Normally walking, I could go around a mile per hour if I really tried. While I was buffed I estimated that I could run about 8 miles per hour. For a adult in the Naruto universe that was very slow, but for an 8 month old that was incredibly fast, I felt free, for the first time in a long time, the breeze in my hair the rush of being able to fully stretch my legs, it seemed to me like an itch I had the need to scratch for months, so finally doing it felt amazing. Until I slipped and hit my head that is. I had stepped on a slippery leaf and hit my head on a rock, knocking myself out. I had felt it happen and attempted to stop myself from hitting the rock by shooing chakra into my feet which caused them momentarily stick to the ground to slow myself down, however it backfired completely. In my panic to stop I put more chakra into my feet than was necessary to slow down and ended up sticking my feet completely. What this caused was the upper half of my body to continue moving, however with the bottom portion of my body stationary my upper body and face whipped around and smashed the rock with greater force than it originally would have. I don't remember what happened right after this as I passed out the instant I hit the rock. From what I gathered I was unconscious for a couple days. When I woke up my parents and the hospital staff were greatly relieved, apparently having a clan heir die on your watch was extremely bad for one's reputation as a health professional. As they continued to check up on me they constantly wondered how I had managed to hit the rock hard enough to knock myself out. Eventually they chalked it up to a freak accident. I was relieved they didn't pry into how it really happened, the last thing I wanted was to be labeled as a prodigy. If you're labeled a prodigy in this village you are constantly watched and have many expectations put on you. However just when I thought I was free and clear, Fugaku had to ruin everything. Just when the doctors had released me Fugaku demanded that another test was done.
"Sora needs a chakra network analysis done" He stated
My head snapped towards my father, mouth agape unbelieving what he was saying, if they examined my chakra network I would be labeled a prodigy for sure.
The doctor laughed nervously under my father's cold stare
" Well sir, he really doesn't, he's just 8 months old, their wouldn't be much to analyze in the first place."
" Are you saying my son, the heir to the Uchiha name is WEAK!?" Fugaku yelled, flaring his chakra and releasing a little killing intent
"N- No b-but sir he's just 8 months ol-"
" You will run that test or I will make sure you'll never run a test again"
The man just gulped and told my father he would
I just closed my eyes took a deep breath and thought to myself
'Crap'
The test consisted of a Hyuga looking over my chakra coils and then being placed in a machine that slightly drained my chakra, and from what I gathered it analyzed the density and amount of my chakra. I sat in my Father's arms as we waited for the test results. I knew right away my plan to lie low and hide my training was probably going to fail. I didn't want everyone's eyes on me, expecting me to be great and knowing how strong I was, I would much rather go unnoticed and seem average so everyone would underestimate me, which in the shinobi world is a valuable tool.
The head doctor came out (this much was evident by his much cleaner and more expensive lab coat than the previous doctor) and told my Father to follow him into his office. Still holding me we walked into the office. It wasn't as flashy as Gabriel's but it had nice wood furniture and knick knacks all over his shelves behind his desk. Fugaku sat down with me on his lap and the doctor whose name was Ishi, based off his nametag I had gotten a glimpse at. The man had several scars on his face and his eyes seemed the same of all seasoned shinobi, aged well beyond their years, his hair was greying and receding, yet he had a impressive presence that seemed to exude confidence.
"Well Uchiha-sama, I'm not going to beat around the bush, the test results are… miraculous honestly."
Fugaku narrowed his eyes " What do you mean by astounding?"
I mean for his age his chakra network and amount of chakra are astounding, during the portion of the test that looks over his chakra network we found out that his network was extremely advanced, it looked as though it had been trained on for a year or more, and what's more it's active."
My father's eyes opened up wide and he glanced down at me looking back up at Ishi
"What does this mean then? How did it become active? That's impossible without specialized training to release it and and make it such."
"Unfortunately, Fugaku- sama we don't have a clue how he managed to achieve this but from what his chakra network suggests he may have been subconsciously training it for months if not the entire time he has been alive."
My father's jaw dropped and he looked at me with amazement in his eyes, a rare emotion from him, I had certainly never seen it before. I looked up at him blankly, feigning, … well being a baby.
" That's not all, the amount of chakra he possesses even surpasses children who activated their chakra at an age of eight years"
That much I was wasn't surprised about, I had purposely trained in anything that managed to increase my chakra amount as I knew that most of the techniques I would use later in life would undoubtedly require lots of chakra. These exercises ranged from using my chakra to float a leaf, to creating ripples in our families decorative pond only using chakra. I found that all of these helped increase my control but as a byproduct increased my maximum amount of chakra each and every time I practiced them.
My father looked down at me clearly astounded
"He is clearly a genius wouldn't you say?"
The doctor nodded thoughtfully, his eyes boring into mine
"Yes, unlike any I have ever seen in my time, even surpassing his brother, Itachi"
"I must tell the clan of this, they will certainly be overjoyed with the news of another genius among the Uchiha, a clan heir no less."
I could almost cry, one stupid mistake had landed me in the exact situation I was hoping to avoid. If I was labeled a genius all of my plans would go down the toilet. I would have to find a new way to trigger events down the road.
"Actually Fugaku-sama I will recommend that you don't reveal your son's genius to anyone other than your wife and eldest son"
I would have kissed that man, I swear it, if I had been older I would have kissed him. Here I thought my plans were all screwed up, and he suggests that my Father says nothing. I was overjoyed but still cautious knowing my father to be a extremely proud man.
My father narrowed his eyes, not in anger but more so in genuine confusion
"And why would I do that?"
"Because in my time I have seen many a genius born in this village, whether it was a mistake or they genuinely were a genius, and no Fugaku-sama I am not suggesting that your son is not a genius" Noticing the look on my father's face " but in most every case they either fall into depression from not living up to expectations, are so arrogant that they go and get themselves killed believing themselves to be invincible, or are taken out by a high level shinobi fearing their potential, do you recall of the young Sarutobi child who was labeled a genius and was caught by enemy shinobi not 3 months ago?"
"She was brutally murdered wasn't she?" Fugaku responded grimly
"Yes, once the shinobi realized who she was and her genius label was revealed she was slaughtered as a precaution, all the ANBU found after killing the shinobi was various parts of her burned to a crisp."
"You speak the truth but what of Itachi, he was labeled a genius at a young age and he is doing great, he even graduated from the academy at a unheard of age."
"While that is true Fugaku-sama he has already been put into the bingo book for killing those Iwa chunin on his first mission outside the village, any shinobi who he faces now will not take him lightly and it will certainly be harder for him to operate anywhere. If Sora doesn't have this label, however deserving of it he is, he will have a much better chance to be successful and live long enough to be an amazing shinobi worthy of the Uchiha mantle."
My father nodded thoughtfully "I'll respect your expertise Ihsi-san, you've convinced me"
The doctor let out a sigh same as I did with thankfully Fugaku seemed not to notice. Soon afterwards Fugaku thanked the doctor and carried me home where Sasuke and my mother were waiting. Once we arrived at home Fugaku set me down and I walked (slowly and unsteady) to Sasuke and I's bedroom where I collapsed to the floor and took a deep breath. That was much to close, it had almost resulted in the complete failure of my plans. However this gave me a certain freedom I wasn't aware I could have, now that Fugaku knew, I didn't have to completely hide my skill anymore and chances were I with him knowing he would help me grow at a faster rate and learn until… the event I knew would eventually happen, The Uchiha Massacre. I was dreading that day because I didn't know how my being here would effect that event or anything after it. As I sat there pondering I heard shouting coming from the kitchen, I got up and wandered into my Mother and Father shouting at each other
"What if they don't want to be shinobi Fugaku! What if you force them into this and they hate it! I don't care if Sora is some ultra genius. I already regret you forcing Itachi into the life he has, he killed a man Fugaku, I've never seen him cry before but he cried for that man!" Mikoto was yelling red in the face crying.
I couldn't believe it, two times in one day I had reached a situation that threatened everything, I felt like crying whether that was my being a baby or feeling like I needed to I wasn't sure.
"Nonsense Mikoto, I cried after my first kill as did you, he's no longer a child he is a fully fledged shinobi, besides I have always said that any child of mine will be a shinobi, we need an heir Mikoto you know this. We have Itachi but he might die in the future we don't know."
My mother stayed quiet and was crying softly
" I- I don't want to force them into anything Fugaku, what if they hate it and they die during it?"
Fugaku came up to her and held her tight
" I promise it will be fine my love I swear it"
I was touched, I never had quite thought of them as a mother and father, this changed my feelings and I waddled over to them, I tugged on Mikoto's pant leg and the two split apart and Mikoto picked me up both of them holding me in between both of them. I wanted to help her feel relieved even slightly so I decided to speak for the first time, in hindsight I probably should have used less words but it worked well.
" D- D-"
Mikoto and Fugaku looked surprised
"Its his first word!"
They sat me on the kitchen table and both were looking at me expectantly eager to hear my first words, I figured they already knew I was a prodigy so I decided to cut loose.
"D- dont worry mama, I wanna be a ninja like big broder"
Both of their mouths just dropped to the floor, Fugaku was the first to respond and he laughed out loud, hysterically so, Mikoto began to cry and picked me up
"That's my son, the genius!" He continued to laugh "he wants to be a ninja huh?"
Still in Mikoto's arms I turned to Fugaku and nodded at him
"I wanna be a ninja fadder, I wanna a-ake the clan pwroud"
MIkoto started to cry again while laughing "I guess I can't argue against that"
Fugaku continued to laugh and left the house shouting about telling the clan I had spoken, soon after Mikoto led me into the crib and placed me in. I was extremely relieved to have gotten through two of my most feared situations for the most part unscathed, nothing changed and no matter how I thought of it, it seemed to be for the best. With both of my parents knowing I was a prodigy I could safely train and practice and show them my progress at a semi-reasonable rate. All in all the whole situation turned out for the best, however demeaning the last one was it was nice to be able to talk again.
Soon Sasuke and I's first birthday was celebrated I thought it would be a small occasion, however as it turned out it was a loud occasion which I was completely unprepared for as it included the entire clan… the entire freaking clan, over 600 people who 78% of which are either currently active ninja or were ninja. Oh and the celebration lasted a week, so no training no chakra manipulation or anything of the sort because the ninja population of our clan all had Sharingan. However the party was not an entire bust as I did receive some insanely helpful gifts ranging from scrolls of basic chakra manipulation techniques to various fighting style scrolls the clan had "acquired"over the years. The elder council all got together and bought Sasuke and I a full set of kunai, shuriken, 2 Tanto blades each and a masterfully crafted katana.
My Katana was astounding, 68 inches of beautiful black chakra metal with the edge being a dark red. Along both sides of the sword a line of dark red seals were inscribed, the katanas hilt was wrapped in intertwining red and black leather throng, and the pommel was made of of solid polished obsidian. Sasuke's sword was identical except where various parts of my sword were red, his was purple. Our parents were told by the council that these swords were special as the blades themselves were made with the highest quality chakra metal money could buy and that they were created by the best blacksmith available. However the surprising part were the seals on the sides of the blades, which I had originally thought of as nothing more than decoration, turned out to be a huge deal. They apparently had been done by the Jiraiya the Toad sage. This seriously got my attention I knew for a fact he was a seal master. Apparently the council, in a pretty obvious attempt to appease our father had dumped a huge amount of money into getting the seals done. The seals themselves were incredibly useful, by adding chakra into them the sword the seals cleaned, sharpened, absorbed vibrations that would cause arm numbness in battle, and fortified the swords to a ridiculous degree. As stated by one elder who was showing them off
"These swords could take a full powered punch from Tsunade-sama and not even leave a scratch much less a dent."
Which was a incredibly bold statement considering from what I saw in my past life she could easily crush large buildings with no effort whatsoever. I wasn't sure I believed him totally but understood that these were extremely high quality swords. Which begged the question, where was these swords in the show? These swords were not in the regular storyline so did that mean that my involvement had already changed it? I had only been here for a year and apparently several things had already changed. I was taken from my thoughts as I saw Itachi ask to see my sword, Fugaku nodded and passed him my blade. I didn't mind him using it at all, Itachi was a great older brother he was kind and always seemed to be willing to take care of Sasuke and I. He held the sword and tested its balance, swinging it around and performing basic katas with it. Suddenly he stopped and the sword blade began to flow red, the seals flashed white and turned black. The sword was beautiful. Soon Itachi sheathed the sword and handed it back to my father, who in turn ordered them to be stored into the Uchiha vault in our house. The rest of the party was uneventful and boring but I enjoyed talking to the people, granted it wasn't very good conversation because I had to act like a baby but it was still conversation nonetheless.
Now I don't mean to skip ahead and lose too much but in full honesty… the next like 3 years were really uneventful and boring. Only 1 main thing happened, Sasuke and I were tested for our chakra affinities. Granted Sasuke was only barely able to push any chakra into his chakra paper but he was able to nonetheless. Which was exactly what father had been waiting for. However when we were tested the results were very….. Interesting. Sasuke had a very high affinity towards fire and a light affinity towards lightening. Our father celebrated this as it was the same as Itachi, who had the same fire affinity to about the same degree. I know that's confusing to hear but bear with me, if you could hear some of the lingo and terminology actually used in this world about chakra you would go crazy. The show and the manga of Naruto really simplified it and made it so we as an audience could understand it. Apparently with chakra natures your affinity level is based off the surface mass of the paper changed by the chakra. So the total area of the standard Konoha paper was 32 square inches. Sasuke's paper burned up to 25 square inches and wrinkled around 6 square inches. Usually a strong affinity is labeled as 10 or above 15 is considered very high and 20 and above is in the genius category. Itachi's had been 27 for fire but that was his only affinity. I know they don't either reach a full 32 but in all fairness they had both were four at the time and had just unlocked their chakra. All things considered it made sense that both of them had such a ridiculously high affinity towards fire, they had access to Amatarasu once they unleashed their Mangekyou Sharingan after all. However the amount the paper changed and to the degree that it changed weighs in also. The intensity of the heat produced or how many bends there are in the wrinkled paper are two such examples. I bet some of you are very confused and are probably thinking of when Naruto discovered his chakra nature. All his paper did was cut across the paper, wind chakra is different as it isn't measured by surface mass but by the fineness of the cut. I won't delve much into that because it just gets convoluted and annoying to deal with. You may be asking however, "Well Kakashi shows Naruto the paper before he tested it and made the whole paper wrinkle." Yes you are correct, however Kakashi had mastered the lightning style completely and he was 29 at the time. The earlier the age the closer and more accurate representation of their affinity.
Sasuke's results were great and was labeled a prodigy of fire ( Not a real thing but he boasted about it nonetheless.) My results however were… well exactly as I had requested with Gabriel. A perfect 32/32 square inch lightning release reaction with the most wrinkles ever recorded. Apparently as I soon was told, the only person to receive over a 30 in any release ever in the history of Konoha were the First and Second Hokage, but I was however the first to have a perfect affinity EVER. A very serious oversight by myself, when I filled out the form in Gabriel's office I did not realize that filling out 32 out of a possible 32 points solely into lightening would not be a good idea and would only lead me to get more unwanted attention (Yes, in retrospect it sounds dumb as hell). At the time I figured that having the highest affinity towards lightening possible would only make my goal for my own jutsu become easier. While I was not incorrect in thinking this, it pretty much made my plan of staying low that much harder. While my father was overjoyed that I had scored so well, he was miffed at the fact that I had no affinity towards fire but he vowed to build one from scratch by practicing fire release along with controlling my lightning affinity. While Sasuke was mildly upset that he had been beaten, he perked up at the thought that I only had one affinity while he had 2. And thus our sibling rivalry was born.
Now I bet your thinking along the lines of " So what, you made yourself OP, boohoo for you" and in response I will say, "Shut the hell up". Yes, my lightning affinity is great yes, but it causes so many damn problems. For example:
1. Channeling any chakra anywhere near electricity of any kind caused my network to become all screwy as my chakra immediately tries to change. Granted this was eventually overcome but it took months of effort just to get my control back to normal and act normal with electricity present. I had noticed this before I knew what my affinity was. Afterwards it totally made sense
2. ANY other jutu or nature change besides lightening becomes almost impossible as my chakra naturally only wants to change into lightening, and lightening alone. This was a serious problem as my father was drilling me every single day on fire nature changes. Which after a year, had proved fruitless, as I had only managed to produce the most basic fire jutsu in the Uchiha library.
3. It further cemented the idea in Fugaku's head that I was an incredible genius and needed special tutoring.
However, when it came to actually performing lightning release it was really easy. Like, insanely easy. The first day I was given training for lightening release was one I will never forget.
"Sora" Fugaku called
I glanced up from the chakra control scroll I was pouring through and looked towards him.
"Yes father?" I was slightly worried because he didn't seem pleased
"We will be foregoing your fire release training for the month so you can focus on lightning style."
I furrowed my brows, he had not allowed me to actively train lightening since… ever. His pride had not allowed me to as he believed that a proper Uchiha should be able to use fire style over everything else. His ever growing frustrations with my lack of progress had caused him to make me focus entirely on fire style. I didn't know what made him change but I was glad as I only had been able to work on the basics, just converting my chakra into lightning chakra and releasing it into leaves to try and make them wrinkle so far.
"Great, I've been itching to try it out for a while, what changed your mind though?"
Fugaku sighed and said "Itachi wore me down, he pointed out that since your struggling to learn fire release I should let you learn your natural element first"
I started to get excited and set the scroll down on my bed. I stood up and got on my training outfit which included 5 year old sized ninja sandals, loose black and purple training pants, elbow pads similar to what Sasuke wore later on in the series, and a Purple shirt with the Uchiha crest on the back.
I glanced at the mirror and took in my appearance for the thousandth time. My face resembled Itachi's very closely, eye troughs and all, but my hair was very different, I had told my mother I didn't want to cut my hair for years, its natural style was almost exactly like Madera's as was its color. Yes I did that on purpose, and I looked badass, or at least I knew I would look badass in the future when I filled out more.
During this process Fugaku had left my room and had gone into the study, I reached across my bed and cinched on the ninjato I had been training with for a year and continued into the study as I had every time my father told me it was time for training. I opened the sliding door into my father's study, it had a single table in the middle of the room with pages and forms scattered on it, the little paperwork that clan heads had to do. Other than that the room had several chairs and couches that were used in case of a meeting with father, several swords sat behind the seat Fugaku sat on. As I entered the room I noticed Sasuke already sitting on one of the couches rocking back and forth impatiently. As he noticed me enter he perked up and smiled at me, a smile which I reciprocated and sat next to him waiting for father to tell us what to do. As Fugaku was still signing papers Sasuke turned to talk to me
" Sora are you going to train with me again today?" Sasuke asked while smiling/ smirking
I didn't take this bad even with the smirk as that was our sibling rivalry kicking in, he had been smug for a long time as he had managed to complete several fire jutsu, albeit very small ones. However in out rivalry he was only barely ahead as I had managed to learn the wall walking technique while he could barely keep his foot on the tree long enough to get another foot on the wall. Granted wall walking was technically a harder technique than basic fire jutsu, but to both of us it was more a rivalry of fathers approval, and in that respect Sasuke had me outclassed as Fugaku had praised his progress in fire style more than he ever had praised me with my basic chakra techniques.
" I don't really know, all dad said to me was that he was going to let me finally practice my lightning release." I said with a small chuckle
Sasuke smiled wide momentarily forgetting our rivalry and became excited for me
" That's great Sora! That means soon we can have jutsu spars!"
I smiled at his blatant excitement as it seemed as that he had been wanting me to progress as well. What he did not know is during our regular practice and taijutsu spars I always held back quite a bit. Sasuke always went completely all out in order to beat me, but I rarely went over 25% effort against him, he used chakra empowered kicks and punches and I usually didn't strengthen myself with against him. I had started training physically around 3. People's bodies were different here, I was able to start training then because children here didn't have any problems with their muscles by training them. It was the same as a teenager training essentially.
At that point Fugaku looked up and tossed his pen to the side.
" Sora, for the time being I'm going to assign you to a new teacher to start you in lightning release, you will meet him at training ground 8, it's just outside the compound so I trust you know where to find it."
I nodded, I had been there many times, as my father had started letting Sasuke and I leave the compound alone since we had just turned 5.
"Now, your new sensei isn't a Uchiha member, unfortunately we have no one in the clan that is a master of the lightning nature change surprisingly. However he is very skilled and will be an excellent sensei."
This surprised me as I thought his pride in the Sharingan would stop him from ever letting Sasuke or I take lessons from anyone without it. Granted I already knew that almost no one in the clan even used lightning jutsu but I didn't think no one had bothered to master it. It wasn't that big of a deal to me however. I was just happy to start training for real.
" Sasuke I would like for you to go with Sora and train with your new sensei, I have asked him to train you between jobs and he agreed to do so for a decent amount of money, so I expect both of you boys to so your best for him and learn all you can, in one weeks time I will assess what you have learned and I will see if I will continue to have you train under him. Do both of you understand?"
Sasuke and I nodded understanding completely what was expected of us.
"Good, Now you will meet him there in 15 mins"
We both got up and bowed to our father then stepped out of the room. As soon as the door was closed Sasuke grinned at me and shouted " Beat you there!" Grinning back at him we took off running, a mad dash through the house over our houses fence and sprinting through the streets of the compound, we both rounded the corner onto the main street and felt a familiar hand catch us both by the backs of our shirts. With this sudden loss of momentum Sasuke tripped and fell on his butt. I however used the force of my momentum and to flip myself making use of the hand holding on to the back of my shirt, I pulled out my ninjato and mid air, flipped it into a reverse grip, placing my hand on the butt of the sword, at this point I was completely upside down above my assailant I attempted to stab downward where I knew the hands shoulder would be but the hands owner scoffed and pulled out a kunai, and flicked my sword away from his shoulder essentially deflecting the blade. The hand suddenly let go as my momentum carried me behind him. I flipped through the air and landed on my side, I had managed to sheathe my sword so I didn't stab myself with it but the fall still hurt a lot.
"No fair big brother!" Sasuke complained, and I heard a light laugh, I glanced up smiling as I knew exactly our "assailant" was, Itachi.
"Im impressed Sora!" came a voice over my shoulder, which I recognised right away as Shisui
"I wasn't aware you had progressed that far in your sword training, color me impressed"
I got myself off the ground and dusted off my shirt and pants grumbling
"Yea, what does it matter though, I didn't come anywhere close to hitting him"
I pouted at Itachi and I saw him just smile at me
"Oniisan why won't you let me just get you once!?" I childishly whined
Itachi gave me a dry look and said "Because you always use a sharp blade" he turned around and looked back at Sasuke and said loudly "At least you did better than SOMEBODY" I could hear Shisui snickering and I attempted to not laugh myself as Sasuke still had a dirt stains all over the seat of his pants which he was brushing off furiously with a bright blush on his cheek.
Suddenly seeming to forget his prior embarrassment completely Sasuke lit up and bounced over to where Itachi was standing, grinning like a madman he asked Itachi
"Big brother will you watch Sora and I train? Were getting a new tutor today so it should be special!"
I walked up to him as well but I pretty much knew what to expect, Itachi just glanced to Shisui who tapped his wrist signaling that they didn't have the time, Itachi gave a sad smile and poked Sasuke and I in the forehead, "Sorry you two, Shisui and I have to check in and get our next assignments, maybe next time though"
Itachi dealt with Sasuke's whining and I glanced at Shisui who just smiled weakly and mouthed "Sorry"
Itachi and Shisui walked away leaving Sora and I standing on the street corner. One glance is all it took for Sasuke and I to pick up our race. Noticing Sasuke was directly on my heels I smirked to myself and used a slight bit of in my legs and burst forward almost twice as fast as we had had been running. Deciding to take a faster path instead of going through the front gate of the Uchiha Compound which was located two streets over from the main road I charged straight at the border wall and jumped. My right foot landed sideways in the middle of the wall an I used it to flip myself sideways over the 15 plus foot barrier. I had a bad habit of doing flashy moves like that but it was hard not to. For years in my previous life I dedicated myself to parkour and freerunning, it was a hobby I was very passionate about. However in this world, and especially with the usage of chakra the impossible in my past life was easy, borderline basic. It was incredible. The feeling of running far faster than anyone in my past life could have as a 5 year old was a crazy thought to me. I managed to get 3 flips in over the wall before I let out and landed on the sidewalk on the other side. About 300 feet from where I landed, in the middle of a small forest, was the entrance to training ground 8, I glanced around then grinned to myself again, not seeing Sasuke yet, I fully cut loose and flooded my entire system full of chakra and sprinted to the tree line. I had estimated that at full speed I currently could run about 120 mph ( and to those thinking that was really really fast, a low rank chunin could top out at speeds of 800 mph in short bursts, I won't even get into Jonin, when I heard how fast they traveled on average I nearly crapped myself, and that's not even getting into jutsu that were considered teleportation.) At that speed I outpaced all new genin and some mid rank genin, this was to be expected however as for the most part I trained speed above everything else, what can I say? Being insanely fast in a fight had its advantages. Granted I had to downplay how fast I really was to everyone but myself for now, and it made taijutsu sparring with Sasuke feel like I was moving in slow motion, but I needed to lay low for now. As I sprinted I came upon the tree line and jumped 40 feet into the air and landed on the first branch I could reach, as I had seen in the show the trees grew to a massive size in Konoha and the surrounding forests, so maneuvering around in the trees was super easy. I tree traveled for about a minute before I found the clearing that served as a meeting place for people in training ground 8. The clearing was all grass except for a relatively small tree ( in comparison to the ones I had ran around in) smack dab in the middle with a giant 8 carved into the side. I reached the tree and sat down next to one of the roots. I grabbed a leaf that was laying on the ground and closed my eyes. Focusing I could feel my chakra, I could feel it flowing, I gathered a small amount of chakra in the hand the leaf was in and willed it to vibrate. Instantly I could feel electricity. Pure and simple it felt.. Good. Whenever I made the change in nature it just felt right. I chalked it up to my insane affinity for the element. I pushed the chakra into the leaf and heard it wrinkle. I cracked open my eye and saw the leaf, like the times before that I had done the exercise it was in fact wrinkled. I smiled and closed my eyes again. I sat there practicing changing chakra in my body into the lighting element at random places. In my self study I had found that it burned through time and helped my chakra controll a great deal. Shortly afterwards I heard Sasuke appear, he was panting heavily but sat a few feet from me. We sat there patiently and I continued with my exercise. After what felt like a long time I opened my eyes and saw Sasuke asleep on the ground. I glanced at the sky and realized something. It had been at least TWO HOURS since when our sensei was supposed to meet us here. I had lost track of time with my exercise but the sensei had not come. I was insanely confused as I began to wonder if the teacher had gotten lost or had not come. I got up and walked over to Sasuke, I prodded him and he jolted awake. He stretched and got up.
"Sora what time is it?"
He asked still blinking the sleep out of his eyes. I jerked my thumb towards the sun and he gaped at me.
"It's been that long?!"
I nodded grimly both of us had no clue what was going on. We stood there for a bit then Sasuke spoke up and said
" Maybe our new sensei is someone who is just late often?"
I scoffed at that notion
"Yea right Sasuke, like father would hire anyone below Jonin level, and what kind of Jonin would possibly be 2 hours late for…"
Suddenly it came to me, I started to laugh uncontrollably, it all made sense, father had too much pride for Sasuke or I to learn under a non sharingan user, he had one but wasn't part of the clan, and as for being late it totally made sense.
Sasuke just gave me a confused look and I slowly stopped laughing wiped my eyes and let out a sigh.
I lifted my head up and chuckled "It's friggin Kakashi"
END CHAPTER 1
AN: Wow that was super long in the making, after lots of times of motivation crashes and confusion on my part this chapter is done. I would love to hear responses on how I can improve and friendly words of advice. Thank you reading the beginning to this story! I have so many ideas for this I can't wait to get going into the better parts of my storyline. Again thank you for reading!