Cleaned chapter 3.

Remember when I said that Uchiha were nice people?

I'm not taking it back. But I've got an amendment to add.

They're completely cuckoo.

I remember somewhere that the ages between one and three are the years where babies learnt the most.

Obviously the Uchiha knew that.

So the moment I could wobble around on my chubby legs was the moment my mother hauled me outside to teach me how to use chakra.

Er yeah. You heard right.

(My mother is one crazy bitch)

So the feeling of chakra?

Like blood.

Oh don't look at me like that! It's not the horrible thing you're probably imagining!

Basically, chakra runs through a second set of 'veins' in our body. So just as blood runs through our bodies, chakra does the same.

But you can't feel blood running through your body!

Exactly.

Well, actually, mom told me you can. When it leaves your body.

Anyway.

No, no, I didn't lie. I can feel my chakra. You know how sometimes your heart beats and you can feel your vein 'beat' as well?

…Yeah. My chakra usually flows as per normal, but if I concentrate (and by concentrate I mean cover my ears and close my eyes and squat down in a ball) I can hear it.

…Yes. My mom blindfolded me, put ear plugs in and made me squat until I felt my chakra.

(Again: Crazy!)

How did I know it was chakra and not blood?

Because I heard my blood too. And believe me, when you're used to one set of 'lub dub dub' and hear two sets instead, it's weird. Like having two hearts or something. Except of course, when you're in the body of a baby and not only is it the first time you've heard your chakra in physical memory, it's also normal for a baby born in this world.

Uhuh, yeah I know. I have a 'memory' of my past life.

Funny thing really, muscle memory is a lot more than simply the endless repetitions of actions that we thought it to be. The 'memories' I have are completely separate from the body I have now. Anything I didn't experience in this body did not affect it. So if hearing two sets of heart beats was the first I ever heard, then two sets was normal to my mind.

Hmm? You didn't realize that when my body couldn't remember how to stand? Or even the motions of it?

Oh. You thought that I intentionally started clutching at stuff so that I could stand up?

If by 'intentionally', you mean 'I wanted to reach the sofa and needed up', then yes. If by 'intentionally', you mean 'I decided to utilize my past experience in order to assist in my physical development as a baby and thus knew that I needed to grab onto something to pull myself up', then AHAHAHAHAHA no.

Yeah. There you go.

Chakra.

So? So what?

You didn't think that I knew how to use the stuff, did you?

Oh boy, you really are dumb, huh?

Yes, my mother hauled me outdoors to listen to my chakra. No, she wasn't insane enough to make me mold chakra when my pathways were still developing. She just kept me blindfolded and ear-plugged and with my head tucked between my knees until I fell asleep where I sat.

Why outdoors?

I have no clue. Ask my mom if you're so interested, I'm sure she'll oblige your questions, being the naturally kind and sharing Uchiha that she is.

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So during this 'learning period' of a toddler, I managed to walk, sense my double heartbeats, and send my parents into hysterics whenever I crawled into boxes.

Why did I crawl into boxes?

I don't know. Why were there so many boxes for me to crawl into?

Yeah, my parents weren't very good at baby-proofing the house. I think they were relying on their ninja-sneakiness to keep track of me.

…Not a very effective method.

And sometimes my mother would put me in her lap (with blindfold and earplugs) and mold chakra.

No no no, I didn't mold chakra. My mother did.

You know that idea that children are naturally more sensitive to things that people usually can't see? Or just regular stuff like mood or emotions or whatever vibes from people or things? That translates to chakra here. So on top of the Uchiha sensitivity, I had the added bonus of my physical (and probably partially mental) youthfulness.

…Okay, ignore what I just said. Ignore the green, ignore the green, ignore the green!

So! When my mom started shaping her chakra, I could feel it.

First thing first, did you know you could move your chakra into weird shapes?

I'm sure you did. So you know all those peek-a-boo and shape recognition games the adults would play with babies?

We have the chakra version.

With my senses (except for touch) muffled, I had to rely on chakra-sense to 'feel' my mother's chakra. At first, it was just like when I was newborn, where everything was blurry and blobby. And then, it progressed to the point I could see the funny shapes she was molding her chakra into.

Rabbit, Cat, Sheep, Bear, Spiral and etc etc.

Oh, don't worry. Internal molding doesn't cause damage. Unless you're channeling it to a specific purpose, chakra is completely neutral and inert. So basically a kind of shining play-doh.

It was fun and interesting.

So the next step was obviously, for me to emulate her.

…That took a lot longer.

Like, a little over half a year longer.

Yes yes yes, I know I'm behind times okay? You don't have to tell me that I should be ahead instead with my 'experience'!

But that was the moment I stepped onto the path of chakra. At age two. Making funny faces out of my chakra.

Not very well. I could only shift it a little, and the default shape was a sphere. A solid one, not the whorly one a la Rasengan. That's actually really really hard. Even a regular spiral shape is difficult, and a constantly swirling one is basically a chakra exercise. So more like making dents in a blob. Again, like the ninja version of play-doh.

(By the way, if you want to ask my hair whorl direction, it's clockwise)

It was surprisingly not taxing on my body. Moving my chakra around didn't really deplete it, so I could poke and prod at it all day and not feel too drained.

Of course, staying still in one position made my body protest. But my brain was satisfied with the new game.

xXXx

So I bet you're wondering: You can't remember anything as a baby, you can't remember anything as a toddler, so what use are you?!

I DON'T KNOW GODDAMNIT.

You think I asked to be put in the body of a baby belonging to a clan that's not only famous for insanity in the blood, but a propensity for betrayal? Oh, and it gets wiped out by its resident genius.

That sounds like a death wish, don't you think?

Oh, you want to know how I came to this world?

I died. Duh.

Ohh, you want to know how I died?

Car crash.

Now you want to know what kind of person I was before?

Human. Duh. And female. Duh.

How old was I? Twenty turning twenty-one.

What, you want to know if I died on my birthday because it could be of some significance?

Er, no.

What do you want from me? My whole life's story?!

What, really? What does it even have to do with my new life? Besides, don't you know anything about privacy?!

So I should just spill everything to you? Fat chance.

I was a normal human being with a normal name with a normal family and a normal education who had an interest in Naruto manga. There. And my hobbies were reading manga and playing online games. My dreams for the future were—oh what the hell I'm not doing a genin-intro.

No I wasn't an otaku thank you very much! I don't even wear geeky glasses!

Don't stereotype? I'll do what I want, when I want, and you can't stop me!

Uchiha pride? What does that have anything to do with me?

…Shut up! Do you want to hear the rest or not?!

Ahem. So.

Basically, I don't know why I'm here, I don't know why I remember, I don't know if there even is a reason for me to be here. I just know that I am a baby, chakra funny-face is fun but hard, my mother is not food, and I am developing slower than most babies.

And it's not my fault.

Shut up!

Yes, yes. In addition to unknowingly unreliable narrator, there's also knowingly defiant and difficult narrator. Why? Because I want to. Duh. Where's the fun in spoon feeding you these things? XD Reading my story is a little like fishing. Patience and a keen eye is needed. Or just dogged persistence. How does one person get to know another? You can't read each other's minds so how do you learn? You observe of course.

When I get started writing, I'm actually getting to know my character almost the same as you readers are. As I write, I learn more, as I write, I see a clearer picture. The first chapters are always fuzzy because I can't understand much. I guess that's very different from how other writers write, but that's how I write. It's probably not very productive. My muses are always going off on their own and sometimes they leave me on a cliffy for ages. I want to know the rest of the story too! But nooo...

Haha, okay, okay. No more rambling.

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