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So yeah, I used to have a pretty shameful account on this website back in the day, and I decided I'd get back in writing, so this plot was kind off stuck in my head cause I like isekais and I like hyugas so I thought I'd try to shape it into something.

I passed away.

At least from what I can remember, which honestly isn't much except from slipping, so on the plus side I might only be comatose ! I might have thought this if I hadn't just spent the last several hours being given birth to, a gruesome experience you might guess – and you'd be right. Post-natal nightmares aside, I can only guess I've been one of the lucky few who get to experience direct human reincarnation – imagining the whole theory about having to go back up the ladder from insects to animals and finally human to be true.

My new Parents seem nice, my mother a ray of sunshine (considering her long labor is finally over, it might be more from relief then from actual happiness at seeing me) and my father seems like one of those stalwart-but-kind guys, and quite oddly had very faint eyes as if he had no pupil and only a beige iris covering the entirety of the center of his eye. I might have found my mother's purple hair unsettling, but as my best friend has gone from purple to pink to blue in the span of maybe three years, I'm pretty much only marveling at how natural she managed to make it seem. You might think I'd feel robbed of my last life, but honestly seeing as I wasn't transposed, and experienced reincarnation, I honestly feel blessed more then anything. Yeah it sucks, I'll never get to see my girlfriend, friends and my family ever again, but better this then eternal unconsciousness.

I vaguely heard my parents talking, and finally got a clue as to where I was reincarnated – Japan.

Don't get me wrong, I don't speak Japanese, but I can more or less identify Asian languages from each other (which isn't really much of a feat, seeing how different they are.) Being born in Japan seems cool, it'll change from my previous life at least.

One thing bugging me is my father's getup; the hospital, the staff and the tools all seem modern, but my father is dressed like someone from 18th century Japan, so I hope he's not some hardcore traditionalist.

I'll continue thinking later, for now, I need sleep.

I realized quite fast upon waking up that I wasn't in the hospital anymore. My room, as bare as it was, didn't look very modern and I worried that my father's Chunibyo tendencies had already invaded our living space, but from what I could gleam from my time outside with mother (who seemed to have followed my father's outfit frenzy) it seemed like we lived in a huge old style compound. The people around had all, except for my mother, the same eyes as my father, which made my spider-sense tingle. I couldn't for the life of me remember what, but my brain was screaming at me that I needed to understand all these clues for what they were.

I spent a whole year before understanding, and shamefully it was only because I had finally grasped the language well enough to understand my parent's talk of 'ninjas' and 'clan duty'. It was then that everything made sense, the antiquated culture mixed with the modern appliances, the eyes, the compound. I was reborn in f-ing Naruto. After the thirty or so seconds of joy at being able to wield chakra and being a part of the hyuga, I remembered that I remembered next to nothing as I finished naruto a few years prior and my last contact with it was playing two hours of Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 with a friend. This also meant that I'd never be able to hear music I like again. Before that I had the faint hope of being reincarnated not too far in time, but now no such hope. The most important point being that I was rather unprepared for it. The shinobi world is a cruel world, had I been born in it I might have the right mentality for it, but to adapt after 22 years of civil life, where my biggest problem was an upcoming poetry essay? No, I wouldn't be godlike, I'd just focus on what I can do best. I seem to be an hyuga, which is already a big plus in my favor. I could have been reborn as the son of an eternal chunin in kirigakure, where my life would have ended early and brutally.

So what exactly do I want to achieve exactly? Enough power to live? Not really, everyone dies eventually, I want the power to chose how and when, and preferably of old age. I want the power to prove my existence, as gaara would say. The real question is how? And what do I do of the hyuga clan juinjutsu? Even if my mother isn't an hyuga, as long as I have the chance of having the byakugan, I will get branded. But even then, the caged bird seal has become synonymous to power for the main branch, so even if I might not have the byakugan, they will not hesitate. Should I study seals? Try to find a counter-seal? Run away? Or even let myself be branded, to be a slave for the rest of my existence? I probably won't have much luck trying to emancipate myself through sealing, and I don't want to end up as a slave. The question is, when in the timeline am I? The branch members get sealed when the heir hits three years old. So If I am at least 6 to 7 years older then Hinata, imagining we're even in the same time frame, I might try running away. But if we're the same age, how am I going to survive by myself at 3?

I should focus on chakra control, identify if I have the byakugan, and then understand when I am.

So my time for the following year was separated between acting as a normal child, and randomly sticking leafs to my body and trying to walk on walls, which is easier then you might think.

I can proudly say that I have control good enough to be an iryo-nin, but it's only a small feat considering my nonexistent chakra reserves. Sadly I haven't managed to activate the byakugan. I want to say yet, but I don't know how genetics work for the byakugan, and I might never get to awaken it. I don't know what time I was thrown into yet, but all I know is that I'm somewhere before the kyuubi attack, Hizashi doesn't have Neji yet and his wife doesn't look pregnant, which puts me at least three years older then Hinata, and I hope a bit more. I haven't started any formal training yet, but I've started training my accuracy in lieu of trying to awaken my byakugan, as I've had no success yet. I could ask my father, but he already seems like he has enough on his plate, marrying an outsider is already not something the hyuga clan loves, but they tolerate it to prevent inbreeding. Sadly, my mother also has the unfortunate background of being from kumogakure, which ostracized both her, my father and me from the rest of the clan. Not enough for me not to get training with the rest of the clan kids when the time comes, but enough so that nobody will give me much positive attention, and even occasionally a jeer or a glare. I do understand their fear, and if I have my way, it will come true in part. They fear I'll suddenly disappear one day, and that kumo will end up with their hyuga clan a dozen year later. I don't plan on ever going to kumo, but I do hope to run away if I don't manage to evade the caged bird seal.

Basically my situation is this: the clan's adult feel apprehension toward my continued existence, the children don't interest me enough for me to invest myself in knowing them, I can't seem to awaken my byakugan and I have between 4 to 7/8 years of freedom left.

The biggest L life gave me however was that my own parents don't really like me that well. Of course at first they were happy, but I guess having a child that learns how to eat, shit and goes to sleep on command is somewhat disturbing. I also think they wanted a girl, but that's only a suspicion. For now, let's put all thoughts of family drama aside and let's focus on the most important skill of my reincarnation. Shadow clones.

I had already gauged that I had larger then average reserves, which is good since I don't have the sharpest mind around, and I decided that I'd try to see if I could reverse engineer the shadow clone from what few memories I had of the show.

First of all, trying that at two might have been biting off more then I could chew, as I made a full clone and was on the verge of chakra exhaustion (only my stellar chakra control saved me), and then came the headache from dispelling it. I don't understand how naruto managed to use them so much without realizing the shadow clone's memory transfer. I only did one, which stayed alive two hours, and it was enough to make me feel as if I had two monkeys using my head as a trampoline.

Evidently, I won't be able to use the shadow clone for training in a long while, but at least I know I'm able to do it.

My father seemed more distant day by day, but with a growing unrest which transmitted to my mother and I. We were in the sixth year of the Third Shinobi World War, which didn't help me much in term of timeline due to my lacking information, and my father had heard whispers that the hyuga elders were going to send out more branch members to try and end the conflict faster in fear of branch members dying out in the field. Being only two, I was quite reassured that I wasn't going to have to participate in the war and I was pleasantly surprised that I might be even earlier in the timeline then I thought. My chakra control couldn't be trained further for the moment, the shadow clone was too taxing and thus my focus went back on awakening the byakugan. I had several plans for it. The step after awakening my byakugan would be trying nature transformation, seeing as I didn't want to tax my young body too much by exercising too much and thus stunting my growth.

Having no luck with my father, who considered that I was too young to learn how to awaken the byakugan (his wording about learning vindicated my belief that it wasn't as simple as pushing chakra to my eyes), I tried learning from others with no luck. I could of course randomly channel my chakra to my eyes until I get the right pattern, but I was far too afraid of frying my eyes by accident. So back to square one…. I mean, stealing a scroll always was a possibility, but in a compound full of hyugas my chances were rather slim, and I doubt the konoha public library has a method to activate the byakugan. So I spent a few weeks making baby steps with different chakra patterns, far slower then I could have done but with safety as the number one principle, and it was precisely one month later that I finally got it.

So yeah that's a wrap for the first chapter, it's not much and I feel like it goes a bit too fast, something which I want to improve in the future but well, practice makes perfect. Contrary to what one might think, I do know where I want to end up with this, and I'm not as clueless to the timeline as my character is so hopefully it'll end up making sense. Review if you feel like it, I know I'll appreciate it.