The following day, I decided I need to get moving or my sorry ass would get caught in the crossfire badly. The cyclops named Danzo isn't gonna wait until I get level 50 or get strong enough to cut his head clean off of his shoulders. First up, I must be mobile first.

MISSION!

HAWK VERSUS EAGLE

Defeat Danzo!

REWARD(S)!

Right to be Clan Head

7,000 EXP

PERMANENT 2 to BASIC STATS

SIDE MISSION! (OPTIONAL)

Expose Danzo's plans to Hiruzen and the Civilian Council.

BONUS REWARD(S)!

ACCEPT DECLINE

Wow, that's a lot of EXP! I wonder how much my current stats amount to? How do you pull the character sheet out anyway? Ugh, if only I played more RPG and less Outlast and some other VR shit. I don't know, 'Stats?'

A light blue dot had made itself apparent, blinking rapidly and when my eye landed on it, my character sheet appeared.

USHIJIMA KEN

LEVEL: TWO(2) [0/300]

AGE: 6 MONTHS

VILLAGE: KONOHA

BASIC STATS

STA 5

PER 7

CHA 7

INT 7

AGI 7

LUK 10

PERKS!

NONE OBTAINED YET

HP: 150/150

CP: 5,000/5,000

Oh wow. 5K chakra points?! For a baby that's barely even half a year old? Megami gave me a lot to work with.

'Thanks, Megami! This'll help me alot.'

A tinkling sound like little bells went off gently in the back of my mind and a warmth enveloped me for a few seconds. I smile to myself and mentally pat myself on the back. Okay, now that I found out how to check my stats, I should work on getting myself up and start walking or something. I grip the sides to the crib as hard as this body could, and roll over to my stomach. I know babies should learn how to crawl first but I ain't no normal baby! Walk first, and then crawl. Okay, good plan. Now, if only I could use something to balance myself with. Maybe this sausage pillow can act as a cane.

I pull myself up and stand, leaning on the pillow slightly. I force my right foot forward and do the same with my left. It took me half an hour of trying to walk with support and another half without. Ma seems to be engrossed in whatever she is writing, while I quietly train myself. After making sure that I got walking down to the last letter, I deliberately push against the side of my crib and cry.

"Uwah! Mamman!"

I swear Ma used to be jonin or I will bang my head against the wall. There is no way she's a kunoichi below jonin with how fast she got to me and scooped me out of the crib. She hugged me to her chest, making me sigh contentedly. So this is how it feels to be near your mom, huh? I never got to know my first mom. Well, there's no point in mulling over things in the past.

She set me on my high chair, played with me a little and soon left to go get my bottle. I wait patiently on the chair, swinging my feet and looking around her office, and seeing a hitai-ate that had seen better days. Wow, I'm from a ninja family. Maybe my dad is KIA? I hope not. Is the Ushijima actually a canon clan? Maybe we were overshadowed by the other major clans? That doesn't matter.

Ma came back shaking a bottle and I made grabby hands at it, why? Because I'm hungry. She laughed and gave the bottle to me, making sure I held onto it firmly. She stared at me for a while and I stared back at her. Her eyes are a pretty pair of light lavender, but not light enough to be considered a Hyuuga. Her eyelashes were pretty normal looking but were curled and turned upwards. Her hair was navy blue, pretty much the same shade as mine. She cracked a smile and I smiled back, showcasing my gum's barely there upper tooth.

A loud crash came from the door of her office and out came Kazu. His stomach was bleeding, and he was dripping blood on the pretty tatami floor. Ew.

"Eugh." I gagged as he grimaced, and laid down on the floor, making more of a mess. I whined loudly and pointed at him. Ma, he's ruining the floor!

"You don't like blood, Ken?" He asked as he ripped off his ruined shirt, exposing his bellybutto— wait, did someone stretch out his bellybutton?

I nod my head at his question and put a hand on my nose, pushing it down since I still cannot fully utilize my fingers by the pairs to pinch my nose. He chuckled and blood dripped from his open stomach and holy shit— icanseehisdigestivesystemeww.

Ma knelt down next to him, hands glowing light green and slowing closing the wound whatever you call that while I drink from my bottle, quietly observing from my high chair. He was sweating profusely, so much that my baby brain actually thought he could water the parched lands of Suna.

He was gripping Ma's arm tightly but Ma didn't seem to mind. Her hands kept on pulling at the skin, closing it slowly but surely. Like magic, she took a needle out of thin air and slowly stitched him up, but now he had a thin, barely there line of sewn skin on his tummy instead of a bellybutton. He laid on the floor, knocked out cold and left Ma to carry him over to his room. Heh, ANBU Black Ops but still gotta get tucked into bed. I have something to hold over his head now. A few seconds later, Ma reemerged from the hallway with a wet rug and started to rub at the blood-stained tatami floors. My bottle was halfway done and was starting to lose warmth.

"Mamman. Botel." I wave the 3/4 done bottle around to get her attention, and she stopped what she was doing, went out of the room, and came back holding another one. She switched the bottles and put the other one in the side of her office table, leaving me with a warm new bottle. I wriggle on my high chair, wanting to explore the house now that I got the walking down.

Ma must've noticed me and she stopped what she was doing, and stared at me. I stop wriggling and hit the chair twice in a 'let me out' kind of way and kick both my feet.

"Yes, yes. I'll let you down now." She chuckled and I stay still as she let me down and went back to scrubbing the floor. I stood on my feet and wobbly walk over to her. Trying to find the 'film of warmth' as the fanfics described chakra inside my body, I stay completely still. I felt the chakra in me start to buzz in a comforting way under my skin once I found the chakra coil in my stomach. Either that's the coil or what I'm pulling is Megami's chakra. I figured it's mine since there's no resistance. I tried to channel the chakra to my feet so I don't wobble and it actually worked. I bounced over to Ma and she looked up at me, eyes widening.

"Mamman. Blad." I point to the stain on the floor. Ma's eyes started to water and she let go of the rag. She pulled me aside and backed up a few steps.

"Come to Mama, Ken!" She urged and I resisted rolling my eyes and quietly walked over to her, chakra pooling at the soles of my feet so I do not wobble when walking. The knees of this body is hardly even that developed but with chakra it should be easily covered. She beamed at me and went to a place further away. I sinply walked over to her again, using more chakra to glue myself to the floor.

ping!

MISSION!

Explore the house and find the [HIDDEN ROOMS]

HIDDEN ROOMS FOUND: 0/?

REWARD(S)!

[SAFE ROOM] unlocked

100 EXP

Jutsu Scroll x5

Okay, seems I can't choose whether I accept or decline this one. I swipe at the notification in my mind and it went to the back of my head. I walk over to the door, leaving Ma inside who was trying to find her pen, already clutching her notebook. Maybe to record my progress? No time to think about what she's doing, I gotta escape and finish the mission!

I wobble-ran to the hallway and immediately spot a glowing dot on the wall, just across Ma's office. I reach for the dot and tapped it, immediately met with the smell of Kazu, mixed with a small hint of something iron-y smelling. Huh, Kazu's room is a hidden room? Figures, since it's hidden behind a wall. I got a notification that said I found one of ? rooms. I fist pumped and looked around for more glowing dots.

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In the end, I found all 7 hidden rooms inside the house. The first one was Kazu's room, then there was a room just below the hallway floor, a room under the rug in the middle of the living room that had another room underneath the hidden room, a room underneath the coat hanger, the entrance big enough for someone, let's say, Kakashi to wriggle through. The last two hidden rooms inside the house were actually Ma's bedroom and my nursery. The EXP I should have gained once I found the rooms that I thought was all of them, still didn't appear in my Stat Sheet. I figured there must be some hidden rooms outside the house.

Ma had seen me trying to open the door leading to the garden and thankfully, opened the door for me. She followed me outside and sat on the porch that overlooked the fishpond in the middle of the garden. I see a glimpse of a blinking, blue dot in the middle of the pond and immediately, I knew that the last one would be underneath the pond.

A ping let me know that I have found all of them and received the EXP. Where are my scrolls though?

Huh, do I have an inventory or something? Ugh, RPG games are so complex, I cannot.

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A month later, I had finally found out the mechanics of this game. The settings and other stuff could be activated when you think of it and you could also get subtitles and language options. Ofcourse, I went for japanese but my subs were in english. Now I know what they're saying, and strangely enough, I automatically knew the japanese translation of whatever it is that came out of my mouth. I have also discovered the Perk List and the tutorial option. I had a quick rundown of what was what and what did what. It was a confusing but strangely fun experience. The first hour was me trying to get used to reading of the corner if my eye, since I discovered that I needed to crane my neck if I want to read something from the menu. It was different from reading subs that much I can tell you. A few months passed since then. I also discovered that Sasuke was still a sperm and therefore, the Kyuubi accident would be quite a long way to go and I still have time to get a butterfly effect going.

I took to learning the basic kanji to start my fuinjutsu training real early. Apparently, what I had been doing to stop my wobbling was chakra control (I didn't know lol) and I got accustomed to it pretty quickly. I always bugged Kazu whenever it was his free time to teach me ninja stuff while he reluctantly complied. He looked at me weirdly at times but would later steel his eyes and limit whatever it was that he was teaching me.

(=)人(=)

Ken was a weird child, Kazuhiko had come to accept that fact. The thing is, Ken was strangely aware of what was happening to his surroundings, like he's hypersensitive to the things that move within a certain amount of radius. The kid was also very, very perceptive and smart for someone as young as him, walking and using a few words at a time. The few weeks that passed cemented the thought of Ken being a budding genius into Kazu's mind.

The child walked towards him, chakra pooling at his knees down, as if to prevent him from wobbling. Ma had also told him about Ken purposely looking for the rooms that were supposed to be hidden in the estate. The scariest thing that happened was actually just a days ago. He was bery called into the Hokage's office, and he was told to just relax until further notice. He had been lounging at the safe side of the gardens, overlooking his Ma's very deadly and very poisonous garden. Ken cane waddling towards him, holding a rubber kunai, his sketch pad and a box of what looked like his coloring materials. He dumped the stuff infront of Kazuhiko and promptly demanded to be taught the basics of fuinjutsu, Kazuhiko, despite being ANBU, had to do a double take and dumbly processed what his baby brother just said.

"Teach seal. Now." He said, looking positively excited in his childlike way. At first, Kazu tried to bribe him out of training but the child seemed to have realized something.

"Teach seal. Now please." He repeated, showing off his gummy smile at the mere age of almost 12 months old. He sighed and taught the kid how to seal toys into his kid-friendly scroll that was specially manufactured for the clan kids.

This had went on for a few days, until he caught his brother murmuring complete, adult-like sentences to himself.

"...if it's a few months from now, I have less than a 0% chance, maybe bump that up to 2 if I'm hoping for a miracle, to stop that from happening..."

"...if I try to do that I have 75% more cons than pros, no no, but, let's say if they do fall for it..."

"... ah, I can use that but it'll be suicidal..."

So imagine his shock when he stumbled upon Ken drawing what looked like a spider diagram with his own invented code. He wrote with a neat handwriting, scribbles that shown him a few letters he had recognised, namely A-D and S, and underlined or circled those with what looked like the ones with the highest percentages at the side. He suddenly stopped murmuring to himself and stuffed the paper under his shirt, and then slowly turned.

"How much did you hear?"

Kazuhiko readied his kunai.