Disclaimers: I do not own Naruto or any other world I use as reference. I only owe my main OC and any other OC I may create.
Chapter 3: The clan orphanage
For three days we had to stay in the Hokage Rock. In this time I was feed by one of the women there from a milk bottle and I have to say that it was not satisfying. Even after drinking half of the bottle, I was still hungry and they didn't let me drink any more.
On the fourth day I was placed in the orphanage of the clan. It was a small orphanage only for children of the clan who have lost they parents and didn't have any other near relatives. It happened seldom, but it did sometimes.
There were 6 other with me in the orphanage. Four of them were new like me, the other two were already here before the fox incident happened.
I was the youngest, with not even three months. The youngest of the six was two years old and the oldest was eight.
For the next few months nothing of importance happened to me. I was feed to little for my liking, but it was the normal amount for a baby. I was treated like any other child in the orphanage and I definitely didn't do anything that would make me look like a genius or prodigy.
In true, I could understand the spoken language at two months old and speak it at three months. My body had all requirements to walk at four months, but I didn't begin to crawl before my eight month of live, the reason being that I didn't want the attention on me.
My first word was 'food' at the age of 13 months, one month after I began to walk. It was too the time the staff of the orphanage began to teach me how to speak properly, how to read, and how to count.
I continued to look and behave normal on the outside, while on the inside I continued to cultivate my energies, mostly spiritual and physical. My spiritual energy is now a small pool of transparent liquid with a weak purple hue and my bloodstream isn't anymore a weak yellow but a saturated yellow.
Not long ago I finally found a good use for my spiritual energy. By spreading it outside of me, I can feel everything in its radius. At the moment my max radius is 300 meters, but it is growing everyday by a few meters. The best thing is that I don't consume the spiritual energy, I can simple will it back in to me and I gain every drop back.
I have been doing it since I found it out and until now no one has reacted to it, not even the few ninjas, that I feel sometimes. The feeling of ninjas is more colorful, their trained and often used chakra is like a headlight for my spiritual energy.
In the mean time I was training my control over my body – I found out that I don't need strength training, because I was already at least as strong as a normal adult without chakra at an age of one thanks to my physical energy in my bloodstream.
I trained my walking style to be silent, but at the same time natural, with my head straight and not downward. It took a while to learn how much strength I needed for what.
My hands I trained by learning calligraphy, drawing and spinning a coin between my fingers – while doing all that I destroyed more than a few brushes and pencils.
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This continued until seven days after my second birthday. Three days before that my blood stopped to take in any more physical energy and it began to gather near the heart. The production speed of the physical energy has increased many times in comparison to the beginning.
Now three days after, I have enough to improve it like I have done it with my spiritual energy. Not knowing how long it would take, I hide myself in one of the less noticeable places in the orphanage and began the process.
While the grinding of the spiritual energy is unpleasant because you feel nausea from it, the grinding of the physical energy is unpleasant because of the pressure you suddenly feel in your chest, but it was worth it. I feel lighter than ever, and I haven't even infused it in my blood.
Not wanting to wait any longer I moved the physical energy that was now a drop of clear liquid with a weak yellow hue, in my bloodstream and felt … pain.
The drop began to move along the bloodstream, every where it moved, the blood loosed its yellow coloring and with every movement it does I feel a blazing pain from there.
It lasted only a few minutes, but it took me everything I had not to cry out from the pain. At the end I was simple lying on my back panting, feeling as if I had run for days.
After getting myself together, I looked in my body by meditating to find out what happened. As I looked at my bloodstream that was ever yellow with physical energy, I didn't see any yellow in it. It was as if my blood was cleaned form the physical energy, but then I would feel it.
I would feel weak if that would happen, but I didn't feel weak, on the contrary, I felt stronger than ever, even if I am tired.
I decided to take on the wait and see tactics, and opened my eyes. The first thing I noticed wasn't something I saw but something I smelled. There was a stench in the air. As I tried to find it, I found that it was coming from me.
When I looked down on myself, I found that my entire body was covered in a black substance. The stench came from this oil like substance.
The only thing that comes to my mind about this is the cleaning of the body from the impurity that is talked about in Wuxia. If this is true, then I should have reached a new level in my cultivation, the only problem is, that I'm the first to do this in this world and as such don't have any references about it.
Another problem is that I now have to explain how I got covered by this oil.
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I was lucky that no one has asked me about the incident after I said that I fell into a hole that was filled with this stuff and after I washed myself clear, in a lake near the orphanage, this incident was never called up again.
In the next few days I had noticed a few changes. The new physical energy that was infused in my bloodstream was automatically refined by the physical energy that was already there, as such I didn't need to refine physical energy myself anymore.
Furthermore after the fifth day, I noticed a yellow hue on the sides of my bloodstream, going into the muscles lying near them. After thinking about this for a few days, I came up with a theory that was at least reasonable.
The infusing of a refined drop of physical energy in my bloodstream, that was already full of inferior physical energy, must have created a reaction that refined the inferior energy at once and releasing the impurity by pressing it through my body and then out of the pores.
This impurity must have had a little bit of the inferior physical energy in it and when it was pressed through my body it most probably stayed in my muscles and opened a path from my bloodstream to my muscles.
When I now infuse inferior physical energy in my bloodstream, most of it is refined while a small part goes further in my muscles, where it gathers and strengthens them.
If this theory is right, something similar should happen when I fill up my muscle with unrefined physical energy, but this should take far longer then what it took me with the bloodstream. For now I had to concentrate myself on my control.
My strength has tripled itself with the breakthrough and I have to regain my control.
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I'm now fife years old. In the last three years few things of importance happened. Two of the children that were with me in here have left the orphanage. They both have chosen the civilian path and have found an apprenticeship outside of the clan compound.
After the first one left, the staff talked with us about our future. They explained us, that if we want to stay civilian, we can find an apprenticeship outside of the clan compound and leave the orphanage at an age of twelve.
If we want to become a ninja, we had to talk to the clan head at our seventh birthday and if he allowed it we would get an apartment in the clan compound, as well as allowance and would join the academy at the age of eight.
Two others with me expressed their interest in becoming ninja. One of them has already talked with the clan head and was allowed to become one. The other was six and would have to ask next year. I still had to wait two years.
In the mean time I was finally allowed to visit the clan library. In the last two years I have read everything I could find. I did this by going to the library to skim through the books to memories the content and read one of them. After leaving the library I would go to my mindscape and read all the other books.
By doing so I didn't get any attention on me and after two years I have finally completed the library. It took me so long because I have trained most of the time.
For example my eyes have finally reached perfect peripheral vision. I didn't need to move my eyes anymore to see everything focused in my visual field, 175° clear vision, not the same as the Byakugan, but the best someone without cheats can reach.
Furthermore I have finally gained complied control over my strength and body. I could move completely silent and at a speed the best sprinters of my last world could only reach for a few seconds. I could easily lift 300 kg with one hand and still work with delicate things.
Most important is that my range of the spiritual energy has reached 3 km. I could 'see' everything in this range. At the beginning it was only the outlines of things, but after training for so long I can 'see' the finest details.
This is the reason why I decided to take the next step in improving my spiritual energy. I split the sphere of spiritual energy in two equal parts and began to work with one of them. After I found the middle of the ten meters big sphere, I began to compress the sphere, by moving the energy form the edge of the sphere to the middle.
At the beginning it moved slow and forced but after the first meter was compressed into the middle, a suction force was created that began to make the compression on its own. The only thing I now had to do is to control the suction force, so that it didn't take something it shouldn't.
It took three hours before the suction force stopped and what was left was a one cm big sphere of transparent crystal. Because the suction force stopped I thought it had finished and left my control over the sphere slip.
Before I ever know what happened, the new crystal sphere moved to the liquid spiritual energy and began to absorb it. It took only a few seconds of time and the liquid spiritual energy was completely absorbed by the crystallized spiritual energy. By doing so, it had grown by one millimeter and changed the color to a weak purple.
I feared that I couldn't move my spiritual energy anymore, but after testing it I still could release it outside my body, by doing so the sphere would lose its purple color.
There was a change to my 'vision' with the spiritual energy. My range decreased to only one km, but I could now 'see' energies and I don't mean like headlights but the flow of energy in the persons around me.
But there were more changes to my energy system. The new sphere placed itself on the gate were the spiritual energy is generated and has increased the production speed to double, but at the same time it now absorbs all energy created and refiners it to the liquid variation.
This means I don't have any inferior spiritual energy anymore for my chakra and had to do something about it. Looking at the production of the physical energy and my bloodstream, I decide to improve my chakra by using refined energies for its creation.
The hard part was to move the liquid physical energy form my bloodstream to my dantian. I had to move the physical energy back to my heart and only then to my dantian. After doing that and moving the spiritual energy in the dantian a reaction began.
Again the suction force in the whirlpool of the dantian had increased. It sucked the inferior chakra and the liquid energies in and released pure liquid chakra that had a weak blue hue. The suction force continued but adjusted itself to the production of the physical energy.
It could now refine the inferior physical energy and the improved spiritual energy to create improved chakra, as such I didn't need to move any more of the energy in my bloodstream.
It was three days after that, that my dantian was full of chakra. The amount has doubled and the quality has improved by fife times, not that I felt a difference with my still blocked chakra pathways.
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It was two days after that I began to go outside the clan compound – the orphanage stuff allowed you to move free as long as you get back before dinner which was at seven in the evening.
My first target was the civil library. It was here I found a subject of interest, Fūinjutsu, the art of sealing. The clan library didn't have this; it didn't have anything chakra related other then the most basics.
Fūinjutsu is one of the hardest arts to learn, but most important, one didn't need chakra to create them and only little chakra to use something like a storage scroll or an explosive tag, because of that it could be used by merchants and because of this it was here in the civilian library and not in the ninja library.
I have read the entire library in only three months, not because it was so small, but because I didn't had anything important to do and didn't need to be so secretive about my behavior in here.
At the end I read everything about Fūinjutsu and still hadn't understood it. It wasn't about how it worked but more why it worked. As far as I could see, Fūinjutsu was based on writing ones desire on paper and fueling it with chakra. Sure it has logic behind it with math and physics, but then comes a seal that uses a "symbol", a "symbol" that the author has created, only for this one purpose.
Only here in this library I have found seven different languages that can be used for Fūinjutsu. Every one of them was created by a different person. They could be the same but with different grammar, or completely different and only using symbols.
At the end the only thing I could compare Fūinjutsu with was programming, there were many different languages but all did the same. And if this is true, why shouldn't I create my own Fūinjutsu language?
This was now my new aim. I wanted to create an Fūinjutsu language with which you could do anything. For this I used everything I know about programming, natural science, and the three new energies.
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Even after nearly two years I am still not finished with my Fūinjutsu language. It isn't that it didn't work, it was simple not completed. Something like a storage scroll could be easily created, but if I try to create an infinity storage space that can use a bag as a way gate, than there is a compiling error.
For those who ask how I can use chakra if my pathways are still blocked, I don't. I don't use the pathways, I work exclusively in my mindscape, the reasons being, that I can use my chakra there and an error isn't as bad as one would be in the open – even if my Fūinjutsu language has measures against the backfire of wrong working seals.
At the moment I am on my way to the clan head house. I am seven now and have to express my wishes to become a ninja. It would be the second time we meet, but the first time we meet I was only two months old.
I had already planed what I will say and what I will not. I will tell him about my perfect memory. It wouldn't bring me anything to lie about that. If he looks in my mind, he will find a library that is filled with the knowledge I gathered in this live – minus the knowledge about physical and spiritual energy.
With the knowledge that I remember everything, he wouldn't have any reason not to allow me to become a ninja. And if he asks why I didn't say something to someone, I will simple answer that no one asked and that I had no reason to say anything about that.
As I had these thoughts, I entered the flower shop of the clan head Inoichi Yamanaka.
I was lucky because he stood behind the register.
"Welcome to the Yamanaka flower shop, how may I help you?" asked Inoichi Yamanaka with a smile.
"Inoichi-dono, my name is Hiro Yamanaka and I came to express my wish to join the ninja academy next year." I answered.
"Hiro, Hiro hmm one of the orphans I assume? Why do you want to be a shinobi?" Inoichi Yamanaka.
"Yes I am and I would like to be a shinobi because it was the last wish of my mother." me.
"Hmm, if I remember right, you were only two months old when your mother passed away. Who has said you it was her last wish?" Inoichi Yamanaka.
"No one, I remember her saying it a day before the kyubi attacked. I remember everything since the day I was born." me.
"Remember everything, you say?" Inoichi Yamanaka.
"Yes everything that I have ever heart, seen or felt, I remember everything since the day I was born." me.
"If this is true, why didn't you say anything in the past?" Inoichi Yamanaka.
"No one asked. At the beginning I didn't know that it was something special and even since I found out I had no reason to say it to someone, until now, that is." me.
"If this is true, what did your mother said to you?" Inoichi Yamanaka.
"That I will someday be a ninja and defend my home, my village." me.
"Hmm, I will allow you to join the academy for now, but before you can graduate someone from our clan will have to look in your mind to confirm your memories." Inoichi Yamanaka.
"I understand and thanks you Inoichi-dono." me.
"I will send the papers to the orphanage, goodbye." Inoichi Yamanaka.
"Goodbye, Inoichi-dono." me.
'Hmm he will only look before I graduate, this is good, not that he would have found anything, but more time to work with is good.' I thought to myself as I left the building.
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It took two weeks to finish the papers. After that I moved in my new apartment. I didn't own many things, three shirts, three trousers, two jackets and one pair of shoes that I nearly never wear because they are sandals and I hate sandals – not enough grip.
The apartment was small, one bedroom, one living room/kitchen and one bathroom. Not that I needed more.
But the most important was that I finally got my own allowance. I could finally buy and cook my own food. The food at the orphanage was at best edible and I was never full in the last seven years. That had to change.
And so began my waiting time for the academy. I still had 16 months until I could join, and until then I want to complete my Fūinjutsu language.
Time table:
End of chapter 28. August (Age 7)
Birthday 01. August (Age 8) +338 days
Academy begin 08. January (Age 8) +153 days
491 days ~ 16 months