Chapter One - Death and Reincarnation

'Where am I? What's going on?'

'The last thing I remember is walking down the street. Now I'm surrounded by an endless white void…'

'Oh, I've read about this. I must have died, and now I'm going to get to reincarnate into a fantasy world with a selection of strong -'

"Well, you're somewhat correct with that line of thought." A deep, omnipresent voice resounded throughout the void.

"You had a stroke and fell out into traffic. An unlucky and tragic death… And you're being reincarnated.

Now the part where you're wrong. Usually, you would get to pick a world and abilities…

Your unlucky streak hasn't ended though. You happen to be my last job before my retirement, and I don't feel like dealing with you."

'Is this even allowed? What the hell?!'

"So here's what you're getting; reincarnation into the world of Naruto, born in Konoha on the same day as Naruto.

You'll have no special bloodline, no divine abilities.

The only advantage you'll have is your memories of your past life.

With that being said, off you go. Enjoy."

Before I could even protest my world blinked to black.

I floated around in the void for what felt like an eternity before I finally came to my senses.

What the hell is wrong with that guy? Thankfully I was a major fan of Naruto in my past life or I would be screwed. Absolutely, one hundred percent screwed, in this world full of war and people with the power of gods.

Even knowing all I do, I'm still up shit creek without a paddle. How am I supposed to survive in this world as just a regular guy? That bastard said I'm going to be born on the same day as Naruto, which means that I'm going to be born on the day that the Nine Tails attacks the village. Hopefully, I won't die immediately…

Now that I mention dying immediately… Why is everything still black? Have I not been born yet?

At least I can do some thinking and try to come up with a method of survival.

I have no idea how long I've been here.

It's impossible to tell the passage of time when I can't even feel my own body.

I did have time to come up with a possible way to make sure that I can survive and even flourish in this world.

Bloodlines.

I think that I've figured out how bloodline abilities are created. The Rinne Sharingan is awakened by eating the Chakra fruit or being the Ten-Tails Jinjuriki. The Rinnegan by possessing the chakra of the Hagoromo. The common link between them is chakra.

Every living being on this world has some amount of chakra. I believe bloodline abilities are mutations caused by chakra. If I can manage to control my chakra and direct it within my body while it's developing, I might be able to trigger a mutation and create my own bloodline ability.

From what I remember, chakra is divided into two parts, physical energy, or the strength of one's body, and spiritual energy, or the strength of one's mind. Since I'm able to think, I should at the least be able to get a feel for my chakra.

Hopefully, I'll be able to do this.

More time has passed and I've finally managed to sense my chakra. It's... Weird to say the least. It's hard to explain something that I've never felt before. Something that somehow manages to feel like it's been there the whole time, a hidden well of strength waiting to be drawn upon.

Now I just need to figure out how to control it… Which has proven to be difficult. Ninja have been shown to perform jutsu and other uses of chakra without hand seals, but I'm having very little luck.

I just need to keep up with it. I can't give up if I want to survive in this world.

I've had a breakthrough. It seems my body had to develop enough for me to be able to wield my chakra. While I had the mental side of chakra in spades, I didn't have enough physical strength to even generate any chakra that wasn't used in sustaining me.

While I was waiting for my body to develop and continuing to try to control my chakra, I managed to develop my sensing ability further. This led to me being able to sense my mother's chakra encasing me, blocking me from being able to sense anything in the outside world

I did it! I finally managed to control my chakra. The feeling of energy flooding through my body at my direction was invigorating.

I decided to focus on my brain. I want to improve my mind generally and try to add some spacial abilities. With improved thinking capacity, faster reaction speeds, perfect memory recall, and any other enhancements I can add, I think I can have some similar abilities to the Sharingan. Spacial abilities have a plethora of uses, everything from increasing sensory abilities to teleportation and more.

Hopefully, my chakra will cause the changes I want. At this point, it's taking all my concentration to keep my chakra focused on my brain.

As I became more skilled in controlling my chakra, I made a few changes and improvements.

I started trying to, for lack of a better method, impose my will on my chakra. This was the only method I could think of. While high level ninja can use jutsu without hand seals, they still have to shape and even change the elemental composition of their chakra. I haven't been able to figure anything other than basic shaping out. It has to be something similar to shaping, which is done by the force of my will.

I think I almost killed myself by accident.

I was violently jolted by which I can only assume was mother falling. As a result, my control slipped and I drew too much chakra from my core. The usual lake (puddle) of chakra was quickly sucked dry before I could even react and try to regain control. I could almost seem to feel my life ending as my word somehow managed to get darker than the void I was already in.

Suddenly my mother's chakra flared like a match thrown into a lake of gasoline. At its peak, her chakra suddenly rushed into me and proceeded to reinvigorate my core, bringing me out of the darkness… Well, the darker darkness at least.

After I managed to get over my terror, I had an idea to siphon my mother's chakra and use it to increase the chakra I flowed into my brain. Eventually I was able to do so by lowering my chakra pool low enough that my mother's chakra flowed into me.

Now I just have to make sure I keep control, and don't lose my life from chakra exhaustion.

It's time, I'm being born. The bastard that sent me here, really meant it when he said I would be born on the same day as Naruto. I can feel the evil chakra of the Nine-Tails, and I haven't even been born yet. It seems that I'm to be born right in the middle of the attack. I was hoping it would be before or after it, but it seems luck is against me.

Soon I hear screaming and feel the effects of gravity for the first time in this world.

"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH," I immediately start crying. Not from the sudden chill, the pain of being born, or the pain of a new set of lungs being inflated. No, I cry from the sharp pain of sensory overload.

My plan worked. I can feel my mind expanding and speeding up. I can sense everything around me in a radius of 10 feet. Within that range, I can see without really seeing from every angle. I can measure distances and calculate trajectories. It feels like my brain is a super computer, processing every bit of data it can get. It's overwhelming. If the beating of my heart wasn't subconscious, I'm positive that my heart would have stopped.

I hear an incredible roar, and the very air itself seems to become lighter.

'The Nine Tails' chakra, it must have just been sealed.' I note through the haze of pain my senses are still causing.

I eventually get enough control over my senses to focus on my mother, only to realize she's no longer among the living.

'She didn't even get a chance to name me,' I think as my consciousness fades before I could even shed a tear.