#6) Naruto crossover with Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu plot bunny attack~!
1) Death
"Ah, I'm sorry Hinata. It looks like I'll have to wait for you there..."
"Don't worry honey. Save your energy."
"Hehehe, that's still one thing I have a lot of you know. Boruto."
"Yeah dad?"
"That care of the family okay? It's up to you to become the man of the house now."
"I'm already doing that even without you telling me, old man."
"Hehehe, keep it up then. Hey Sasuke, don't make me wait on the other side, kay?"
"...Like you could actually sit still for long enough, dobe."
"Cough. Yeah, you're probably right on that one. Take care of the village, alright? Don't make me Edo Tensei myself back to life to kick your ass."
"Just go to sleep already dobe. It'll hurt less, for both your sake and my ear's."
"A bastard til the end huh. Whatever, I'll be seeing ya. Remember, I love you all."
With his final tidings given to the ones he loves and trusts the most. The seventh Hokage of the Hidden Leaf village closes his eyes and passes on happily to the afterlife. His chest falls as his last breath escapes him and he slumps into the bed he was on with a serene smile.
Surrounding him, his wife gives a silent, almost untraceable sob, his son lowers his head and grips his father's hand one last time and his brother in all but blood flow chakra into his mystical eyes to send the Hokage off, as per the blonde's last request.
With a fast sink into the inky nothingness that opened up under the blonde but above the bed, the former Hokage disappears to a place not even Sasuke could know off. Everyone who could've sense the death of the blonde lowers their heads to give a small moment of silence and a farewell prayer. Further beyond the oceans of the Elemental Nations, nine gargantuan beasts turns their heads towards where the blonde last existed and give their own sendoff tidings. After a moment, all of them, save for one large fox, returned to doing the task they had at hand.
"May your journey to the afterlife fare you well, Naruto." The giant nine tailed fox sadly growls at nothing in particular and lays to rest its head on its front paws. If a moment of silence is to show respect for the passed, then the fox is willing to stay in silence for as long as forever to show his respect for the blonde.
2) Family
'Well, this is... new? Is that the right word?'
"Who's a good little boy, you! Oh yes you are~ Oh yes you are~."
'Yup, I never got called that before. I'm also pretty sure you're not suppose to hold a baby like this. Whoa! I'm definitely sure throwing babies doesn't come until they can crawl!'
"That's right! You're a good boy aren't you!"
'...Hehehe, this is actually kinda fun, WHEEE~!'
"Master Adam! That is not how you treat a child!"
"Eh~? Don't worry Lucine, Noa is a strong boy. He's my son after all!"
'Oi, don't say that and accept it like a normal adult. I swear, if you drop me on my head I will- OH GOD NO!'
"NOA!"
'Oof!'
"...Adam, would you care to explain to me why I just caught our son flying into my arms?"
"Ehehehe, well, you see... I'llgochecktoseeifwehaveanymorefirefuelbye!"
"Oh no you don't! Get back here mister! Lucine, please look after Noa."
"Of course, Madam Merilette."
'Wow, Adam isn't any Yellow Flash but he sure can run.'
3) Connection
'So apparently there's a wait time between when someone dies and when the Shinigami comes to collect the dead person's soul. There's also a vague connection from the soul to the body even after the death. Something to ground down the soul so that it doesn't wander off before the Shinigami comes if I'm correct.
That was the problem. Sasuke should've waited a bit before he sent me away to gods knows where here is! Doesn't the guy have any decency? I even asked him to wait after the funeral procession! Lazy prick probably just doesn't want to go because he's too cool to crowd.
Even so... I'm pretty sure this isn't how reincarnation work... or is this transmigration? I'm sure Kurama talked about the theory behind it a few times in the past. I can't remember it too well though... must be old age. Yup, old age. Not because I wasn't paying attention or anything, it's old age.'
"Noa? Are you still awake honey? Go to sleep..."
'You shouldn't have put me down for nap time earlier then. I'm filled to the brim with energy now. I can't sleep even if it's midnight!'
"...ZZZ..."
'Haaaa, being a two month old baby is boring~'
4) First
'Kuh! You think you can stop me? You've got nothing against me, you hear me? Nothing!'
"That's it Noa! You're almost there! You can do it!"
'Let me concentrate dad! This is my first monumental battle in this world! Take this gravity, Rahhh!'
"Adam, what's all this racket abou- Oh? Noa is already walking?"
"Yup! He's starting it early. I expected nothing less from my boy! Isn't that right Noa! Let's go celebrate!"
'Haaa... haaa...haaa, it was a tough battle. But I finally got my first step against gravity. This is good enough for today I guess.'
"Oh no you don't, Noa is suppose to be having a nap soon and you have a meeting with the town mayor in an hour for your job. Go get dress."
"But Noa wants to spend some more time with me~ Isn't that right Noa? You want some more time with daddy right?"
'Yawnnnnnn, yeah. A nap sounds good right about now.'
"You heard him, go get ready."
"Alright, fine..."
"...Haah. Noa, please don't grow up to be as childish as your father."
'I wasn't planning to mom. I learned the hard way as a Hokage that childishness only causes me more work. That's also why I didn't go painting the Hokage Mountain with Boruto when he was small. Those would've been some fine father son bonding right there... Yawwnnnnnn.'
"Well, let's put you to bed."
'Yes, let's.'
5) Discovery
'Huh, so the shadow Clones Jutsu does work. I thought I would've needed more chakra. Apparently not.'
Naruto raises a finger and pokes his clone on the nose which causes the clone to slap the offending hand away in indignation. The blonde yips a bit in pain and glares at the clone. The clone recompenses with a glare of his own. After a few tense moments, Naruto looks away with a pout and an order for the blonde clone to see which jutsus he can still use in his "condition".
Ten minutes later, the blonde happily flops into his bed with a satisfied sigh. He has discovered that his basic move set is largely unchanged. Shadow Clones was still viable if he did it in small amounts. The henge and kawarimi works as it always has. The Rasengan looks a bit malnourished but that's only because his body doesn't house an ocean of chakra to spare and his basic chakra control is not that bad.
Needless to say, the blonde is pretty happy with his discovery.
6) Reading
'Okay good, my mom's not a scholar, she's a hoarder.'
Flipping through a few pages of individual books that he managed to "borrow" from his mother and replace with fake henged shadow clones, Naruto tries to read the strange new text and understand the new language. He has never been very adept as being a visual learner so it takes him time to discern the differences in text patterns and how they connect to what few pictures are drawn in the books.
Even with six other clones out doing the task alongside him, Naruto still haven't made much of a breakthrough for the last few weeks. Hearing and understanding is one thing but learning to read from scratch is something else entirely.
'So this book is about... swordsmanship?'
Though he said not much progress, he is still at a point where he can read and understand some of the basics lettering, the bare minimum to understanding the gist of the books. From his perspective, the words start making sense after he looks at it for a long enough time. He's not exactly sure how this worked out but he didn't question the sudden increase in ability to understand things.
'Oh? A book about natural medicine? I might be able to relate with that more.'
A shadow clone pops to tell Naruto of his new discovery and the blonde crawls over to where the book was left sitting. As he sits, he creates another clone to keep up on trying to read the swordsmanship book while he reads the one about the healing herbs. Though he wasn't actively aware of it through his fervor for learning the new language, the maximum amounts of clones he could create steadily rose with each passing use.
7) Learning
'I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner.'
Looking back in hindsight, it would've been a lot quicker if he had just sat down with his mother and get her to read some of her books for him. In all honesty, that thought had never crossed his mind. Well... technically, it did, since it was one of his clone who suggested the idea, after spending a good month and a half trying to decrypt the walls of handwritten text.
"And this is the Hyphicaena Onghinba, a naturally growing plant in the island isles off of the Bagaritt Continent. It is one of the special plants that's use as a regent for the..."
Though he's definitely learning to read at an accelerated pace compared to his last endeavor, he now faces the problem of not knowing what the heck he's reading. Strange words pops up from time to time and each time he hears one, he gets a bit more lost.
On the bright side, his mother is energetically teaching things to him without even once questioning if he can understand these things or not and this helps with his reading ability, to a certain extent.
The family's maid, Lucine, sighs on more than one occasion when she sees her madam go off on another tangent and almost made to rescue her young charge one time until she noticed that her lord, Adam, is seriously doing his job now that the young lord is not there to occupy his time. After weighing the choices of potential trauma to her young charge or some peace for once now that her lord is doing his work properly, she left her madam to continue her tangent to the infant. At least the boy looks interested in what is being explained to him, even if it makes about as much sense to her as it did to him.
8) Appearance
'So this is what I look like. Huh, I thought I'd look the same as before but apparently not.'
While on one of his many adventures through the house under his parent's nose, Naruto happens to pass by a large mirror in a closet area. For once, he got a good look at what he actually looks like after five months.
Similarly to his past life, he took on the appearance of his father in this life. Semi-spiky locks of brownish blonde hair sticks out from his scalp to cover a light skin colored face. He took the warm brown eyes of his mother and the quirky edge on her lips when she smiles.
'Still, I guess I can see the resemblance. These weird hair spikes for one.'
He turns around to get a better full body look at himself and tries to flatten his hair a few times to see if he could push down the spikes. His hair still stubbornly stood out after many attempts and he just about gave up when something catches his eyes.
Within his many blonde locks lies a single streak of green. Before he could contemplate it anymore however, footfalls sounds out near the closet area and he made to quickly hide himself. It wouldn't do to have anyone catching him during his supposed nap time after all.
9) Dinner
"Say ahhh Noa~"
'Dad, I may be stuck in a body of an infant but I'm not stupid. There's no way I'm saying "ahhh" for mash vegetables.'
Because he gave the impression that he grows fairly quickly, Naruto's mother decided to ween him off of breast milk quickly as well and suggested to giving him solid food. Of course, since he's also teething, Lucine thought it would be best to give him vegetables with high nutrients for growing bones cooked in some sort of animal milk. The maid's thoughts for his welfare warms his heart and all but not enough that would make him eat the gunk in front of him.
"...Come on~ Open your mouth, Lucine's cooking is really awesome y'know~ The best in all of the Central Continent!"
'Oh yeah? Then why don't you have some!'
Moving with quick ease, Naruto snatches the spoon that's loosely held in his father's hand, shoves it into the grown man's mouth, dumps the content in said mouth and pulls out to use it to slap him under his chin.
The action was surprising enough that it causes Adam to close his mouth and swallow the strange gruel involuntarily. His eye widen and his face contorts into shock, surprise and then lemon lipped. He joins his son in the pleading puppy dog eyes against the feeding of the strange baby food mixture.
"Haah, I'll go heat up the milk." Lucine holds her composure against the puppy eyes of doom for a grand total of three seconds before caving in and taking away the meal she had prepared for her young lord. Since it was her first time making baby food, she didn't know how to make it delicious for him and apparently fail in her attempt. Because Merilette is still eating her meal, Lucine decides to not let her be bothered with breastfeeding and goes to heat up some of the leftover milk from she has from her attempt at making baby food.
'Kukuku, just as planned.'
As the young maid turns her back, Naruto smiles Orochimaru-like and chuckles darkly in his head.
10) Maid
"Young master? What are you doing here?"
'Ah crap, she caught me.'
While on another one of his many adventures around the house, Naruto found an interesting looking leather back book hidden behind some other books in his mother's "library" and decided to take a look. He got extremely absorbed into it since the book itself is similar to a guide on how to use elemental chakra manipulation in a way that he has never heard of: Magic and Spells.
"Aren't you supposed to be asleep? You should not wander around like this without adult supervision young master!"
As the maid chides him for not being where he was supposed to be, the blonde secretly cancels the shadow clone currently occupying his bed at this very moment and internally sighs in relieve when the memory withdraw informs him that nobody went to check up on him the last twenty minutes.
"Haah, I guess I should've been checking up on you more often. Hmm? What are you reading, young master?"
'Some book on chakra control that I don't understand. Can you read it to me? Half of it didn't make any sense when I tried.'
Lucine picks up the book on the ground in front of him and flips through a few pages. She closes it with a thump and looks down at me with more then a bit of surprise in her eyes and expression.
"I know that you've learned to somewhat read from madam Merilette but to think that you're already dabbing into magic at six months of age. Will your blood never cease to amaze young master?"
She mumbles something and sets the book aside so that she can carry him. Halfway down the hall to his room, she breaks out of her trance and smiles brightly while looking at the infant in her arms.
"Do you want to see magic in real life young master?"
She offers up a presentation and Naruto nods immediately to the idea with a squeaky "Yes!" accompanying it. She has apparently predicted his answer and instead of continuing down the hall, she makes a left turn to the courtyard. After opening the lawn door, she sets him on to the grass and walks off to put a log onto the tree stump which his father uses to cut wood for fire fuel. She then walks back to me and pulls out a slender stick from her sleeve. He was impress at how well she hid it, seeing as she had been carrying him with it on her body without him noticing.
"Alright, young master, the spell I'm presenting to you today is an elementary rank water class spell. If you wish to try, please tell me before so that I can watch over you and guide you through the proper procedure, alright young master?"
She bends over to make eye contact with her blonde charge and begins to ask him a question that will decide whether or not he will be allowed to learn magic. Of course, he nods an affirmative and she smiles at his eagerness.
"Very well, I shall start now."
'Eh? But what about a water source? I thought all water jutsu needs a source unless you have a lot of chakra to use.'
Unknowing of her small observer's confusion, Lucine raises her hand wand and begins focusing mana into it.
"Bestow the protection of water on the place thee demandest, let thine crystal clear flow here, WATER BALL"
An orb of water merge from dozens of tiny droplets, each appearing from thin air, at the tip of the wand and shoots itself at breakneck speed before hitting the wooden log with a loud crack. The maid then lowers her wand and looks back at the wide eyed boy in more than a bit of satisfaction at his expression.
"Young master, would you like a try?"
The young maid asks her charge after a while and offers him a wand. He numbly stares at her still with wide eyed amazement. His only thought being
'To be able to pull water from the very air itself and use it at will without breaking a sweat... Did my maid just pull off a Second Hokage?!
11) Spell
'Advance elemental manipulation is not supposed to be this easy, ttebayo!'
"That's it young master, you've stabilized it well. Now let the leftover remains of the mana you've put into the spell disperse from the tip of the wand and eject your spell."
Standing outside of the house, Naruto takes aim at the log before him and follow his maid's/magic instructor's advice. He pushes the chakra that had built on the end of the stick in his hand and watches as the ball of impossible water glides through the air and hit the wood piece. Behind him, his dad gives a loud round of applause and his mother smile with a hint of pride mix in with a lot of proudness. Exasperatingly, he turns around and gives a large bow while saying squeaky "Thank yous" to his audience.
"Good job on accomplishing your first spell, Noa! Not even a year old yet and you're already becoming a master magician huh? You do your father proud!"
After Naruto returns the stick that Lucine had handed him for using the spell, Adam immediately rushes towards his firstborn son and gives the boy a large hug. His mother walks in after a bit and gives him her own hug. Lucine stood back and smile. Mentally, he made note to skip the next bedtime in order to look over the differences between jutsus and magic.
That train of thought was cut off when Adam accidentally threw him too high again.
12) Magic
After days of re-reading the book on elementary ranked spells and a few magic lessons with Lucine, Naruto can now confidently say that he has no idea how it works. He understood the basics of both jutsus and magic, weave a few hand signs and chant a few lines to blow up the things that needed blowing up. Anything after that basic formula however, is a mystery to him.
The differences were easily noticeable. In jutsus, the more chakra added and maintained, the more powerful it becomes. It works perfectly in utility since chakra shape manipulation can give the jutsu any form it's needed for. In magic however, the spell chanted decides the limit of chakra (or mana) for the user, and gives no leeway to change. It works perfectly in variety since spells are numerous and has many times more useful effects compared to jutsus, elementally wise.
He does have a few theories however but none were really concrete since he was never much of a theorist himself. His most reliable one is the fact that chakra usage was made differently from one dimension to another. In the Elemental Nations, the Sage of Six Path taught Ninshu which evolves into ninjutsu. Perhaps magic is the same, taught down from someone then evolved into what it is today.
Whatever the case, he couldn't help but be jealous of how easy it is to create water using Magic. The month long harsh lessons under that waterfall seems kind of pointless now. He didn't pout over lost time however, Hokages don't pout.
13) Dad
"Noa~ Looky looky! Daddy's home and he brought a Ferskun!"
One day, Adam comes back from his work for the mayor of the town calling out to his son while opening the walkway into the house from the yard. Said son pokes his head out from the book that he currently has covering him and whistles loudly at the giant carcass his dad is lugging around unassisted on his shoulder. The creature looks like some drunken god mixed a bear's head onto the body of a deer while still keeping the antler. The scaly hind leg and claws only made it look more impressive. The young blond read about it once. Supposedly, the antlers can be used to make a powerful Advance-ranked healing potion bordering on Saint-rank strong since it was rumored to be strong enough to reattach limbs.
"I know right! The mayor's been talking about some crops and livestock disappearing and hired me to take care of it. Turns out it was a wandering Ferskun! You should've been there Noa, daddy was awesome!"
'I'll bet, that thing looks pretty muscular for a lean bodied frame and bone structured animal. Would've fit right in with high mid-class summons in the Elemental Nations.'
"But before I tell you how awesome I was, give me a hug! I've miss you so much~! Did you miss daddy? You did didn't you!"
Mightily tossing the carcass of the once strong and powerful beast aside, Adam runs up to his son and pulls him in for a big bear hug. Naruto chooses to relax his body and lets himself be pulled into the hug. Even if he was rolling his eyes at the man, his father deserved at least some compliance. The man must have worked hard to track down the beast since it lives in the forest areas a day's worth of walking away. Him coming back, with the carcass, after only three days is extremely fast.
"Such noisiness... Welcome home, Adam"
"I'm home Meri~! Lookie, lookie! I got you a pair of Ferskun antler and some herbs from the eastern forest!"
Merilette's eyes immediately lights up and locks onto the scaly behind of the dead carcass the moment Adam mentions it and she gives her husband a quick "welcome back" kiss on the cheek before practically glomping the dead corpse. Adam took it in stride and accepted the hurried welcome with a wide smile before pushing his full attention back on his son.
'Oi, what's up with this dysfunctional relationship! Go hug your wife not me!'
14) Merilette
'So mom was actually a researcher?'
With each day spent in the strange family he's landed himself into, Naruto starts to figure that he'll never figure out everything. First is a pointy eared maid/magic instructor who claims to have served his family for more than three generations while still looking to be in her early thirties at most. Next is his lackadaisical father whom is apparently some sort of super samurai/monster hunter. Now it's his mother whom he'd thought to be a huge bookaholic but is actually a researcher with a wide variety field.
"Noa, did I ever tell you about our reclusive family?"
'Nope, not that I can think of.'
Merilette is a strange one, she's always detached yet always attentive. At times she would spend hours alone in her library just reading while at others, spend hours just keeping anyone who's in the house accompanied. At times she would just walk up to Adam and nap on his lap. At times she would stalk behind Lucine for hours on end and help with chores. At times she would play with him and watches him "sleep" only for him to "wake up" again so that she can continue playing. In short, she's even more of a challenge to understand than both his maid and his father. And today, she decides to tell him family stories while dealing with some strange mixture that he's sure is not supposed to be beeping.
"The Olstein family is an old one which is supposedly predated back to the the Laplace War in legends. Perhaps it's true, perhaps it's false but we have some books within the library which claims to have been re-written from the original texts dating back to then. Whichever the case, I guess our family is an old one. At the same time though, we're also hermits."
'...Hermits is synonymous to sage and I technically am the son of the Sage of Six Path. Now I'm the son to yet another sage... Coincidence? I think not!'
"Rather than attempting to attain a good stature in society or obtain more acknowledgement, we did the exact opposite. We withdrew ourselves into our studies. Did you know Noa? All these books within this library was written and re-written by our ancestor. Some claiming to predate back from the time of legends to almost modern. This is... the pride of our family."
'Really? You don't seem to be very prideful of it with that sad smile you know?'
"Noa, when you grow up. Take after your father, okay?"
With a strange request, Merilette returns to her research and leaves Naruto to sit on the couch she had laid him on. Lucine walks in not ten minutes later to carry him out as well as dropping off a pot of tea for Merilette. His mother never seemed to have notice him leaving.
15) Conspiracy
"Lucine... is dad strong?"
"Lord Adam is most likely the strongest swordsman I've had the pleasure of meeting in life."
"He that strong?"
"Yes, he has obtained the title of Sword God Style Saint quite early in life and I believe that his strength diminished in no way even after marrying the madam."
"But, he doesn't train..."
"Well... I'm sure he... The lord must probably have some sort of hidden training schedule... maybe?"
"He only uses a sword when he's working."
At this point in their conversation, Naruto points at Adam who is literally sprawled out on the grass sleeping in the yard snoring his head off. This is a relatively normal scene since Adam makes it a habit to always lay down at around noon and sleep if he's free of chores and work.
"Perhaps... that is part of the lord's training."
"Part of his training?"
"Yes, throughout my various years serving your mother and her family, I've come across various text and preferences mentioning obscure sword styles that does not fit in with any known standard style or is a distant branch of the main styles. Perhaps the lord is training in one of the branch style of Sword God Style."
"Wait, I remember reading a style like this in one of the achieved books. I think it was called... the True Strike Style. A distant branch of the Sword God Style in which the user focus their everything for exactly one quick, powerful and deadly attack."
"Focusing everything... Does that mean... that the lord is not actually sleeping but is saving energy for when he needs it?"
"He could very well be saving his strength for the next time the mayor calls on him. What a fearsome technique, to be able to be charged so far ahead of time."
With their conclusion drawn, both the maid and her young charge nods at each other and leaves Adam alone in his "preparation" for the upcoming fight that he may of may not have.
16) Bird
"Hmmm? What do you have in your hand Noa? Are those Kirlets?"
'Five baby Kirlets actually. Ones, that I've somehow imprinted onto myself. Don't let their looks fool you though, they're not even an hour old.'
On one of his few trips outside of the house without anyone's assistance/attendance, Naruto came upon a small ruined Kirlet nest. There were a few broken eggs of varying contents, some blood and bones and six almost undamaged eggs. Quickly figuring out what happened, the blonde checks on the condition of the surviving eggs and finds that five of them are almost ready to hatch safely while the last is too "scrambled" to save.
Embedding some Yang based chakra (a property that he picked up from being an Ashura Transmigrant) into the shells, Naruto reinforces the life force of the animals inside and allowed them a one way expedite trip out of their shells. He might've overdone it however since what came out of the eggs weren't small dull green baby fowls but five fully grown (or rather, overgrown) birds.
'I think this happened once in the Elemental Nations... Wasn't it that time when I was taking care of Old Man Gamaman's tadpole? Yeah, I grew him up to be a ten meter tall, fire breathing toad within an hour on complete accident. That one didn't turn out well.'
Naruto wonders about the abnormal growth as five colorful 140 centimeter birds fly around his dad giving the man play pecks while he panics and runs to escape them.
'Well, at least they're not breathing fir- nevermind... I hope Lucine will let me keep them.'
17) Name
"From now on, you shall be known as Ichi, you shall be Ni, you shall be San, you shall be Yon and you shall be Go."
After a few large servings of puppy dog eyes for everyone and a large hug from his father, everyone consented to let Naruto keep the small flock of birds so long as they didn't try to burn down the house or anything important. Once inside his room, the birds lines up on the headboard of Naruto's crib/bed and looks at him expectantly.
Seeing as he couldn't differentiate them at all, he asks jokingly if they could line up age wise and they surprise him by rearranging themselves from youngest to oldest. He also asks if they could talk, just out of caution, but they shook their heads and chirps out a small ball of fire.
A few more odd questions later and a few changes in perch locations, Naruto decides that it's best to give them names so that he could at least call them apart. Sure the names he gave them might be viewed as a lazy attempt but in his opinion, his native language didn't exists so he's technically being very creative. Go gives him a doubtful look and a small puff of fire to his face. For something with a birdsbrain, Go is pretty adept at calling out his lies.
18) Hunting
"Ichi, San, Go, circle around and corner him. Ni, up top. Yon, with me"
With fives nods and a bit of rustling, Naruto's flock of birds descends upon their mutual prey. As instructed, three of the birds went in different directions while circling in while one ascends towards the high heaven.
Once at the peak of its flight, Ni turns and flaps its wings mightily for a powerful descendant. The prey notices the danger immediately through instinct and dodges Ni's nosedive charge at the last moment. The prey immediately was trapped by the three who circled around and could only go in one direction to evade. Towards Naruto and Yon.
"Geh! Kirlets?! Noa?!"
With ten quick strides and a loud "Dattebayo!" Adam's face got a new mud facial.
19) One
It's been one full year since Naruto's newest reincarnation/transmigration into the new world. In the past, he would've probably celebrate it with his close ones or at least let them treat him to something but this new world is different. Instead of once a year for a celebration, it's once for every five years up until the age of fifteen.
He didn't let the lack of celebration bring him or his birds down however and taught them the value of their birth date along with the fact that one is supposed to celebrate it every year with their closed ones. Go, being the one who can always somehow spot the blonde's lies and hidden half truths, gives him a "Really?" look the whole explanation and a bird equivalent of a shrug of its shoulder when the crash course on birthdays ended.
Once the explanation was done with, the birds all took off in different directions and left the blonde half-uttering about how he was going to spend the rest of the day with them as his celebration.
The birds came back at around dinner time through his bedroom window and the blonde went to bed finding five very shiny gifts. He almost cried as he charged them in tears and snuggled them up all in his arms when he finally slept, gift left on the table in favored of close interaction with those he wants to stay with. Around an hour later, he pulls out of bed and drags his five birds to the master bedroom while deciding that his parents could make babies later.
20) Growth
"My, my... Did you grow again young master?"
'Eh? How would I know? I don't even have daily access to a mirror. Wouldn't you know more than me?'
This scene happens very occasionally but not on the rank of time Lucine gives Naruto a bath, she would point out things about the blonde's physical feature that he never noticed himself. Things like fast growing hair to lost of body fat to growth in height.
"Yes, you've definitely grew three centimeter taller since the last time I've given you a bath and that was only four days ago too. You grow not only mentally but physically fast as well..."
'Oi oi oi, stop looking at me with those eyes. You'd scare even Orochimaru with those things you know!'
This scene happens very occasionally whenever Lucine gives her young charge a bath.
21) Bonding
BOOM!
"?! Meri, Noa! What happened?!"
"*Cough* Noa, please note down that Kirlet's dried feather mixed with grounded Hyfloswer and ten drops of distilled mana liquid will cause a exponentially larger and louder explosion than with nine drops but lesser in comparison to the soundless thirteen drops. I will set up the experiment for twelve drops."
"Un!"
"Ten drops? Twelve drops? What are you even talking abou- Meri! Is your hair on fire?! What is going on here?!"
"To answer your question in order Adam, I am talking about the the experiment that Noa and I set up, yes, my hair is still on fire thank you for pointing and putting it out and I am bonding with Noa over quality time together."
"...Your idea of mother son bonding involves massive explosions?"
"Massive explosions only occurred three out of four times, the other reaction is the creation of an Intermediate-rank toxin."
"...Noa? I had expected more common sense from you."
"Art is a bang."
"Yes, quite."
"...The both of you, go clean up. I'll air out the room of possibly poisonous gas."
""Yes father/honey~!""
22) Magic crystal
"Good conductor of chakra and is color coded to fit the elemental affinity. I wonder if the stone is a stone itself or if ore can come from it..."
Sitting on his bed in the middle of nap time, Naruto flips two magic crystals that his birds found for him on his request. Being birds, the Kirlets found the shiniest thing they could for him on his birthday as an offering and two sizable crystals came out of it. Afterwards, he asked if they could find him more and they respond by returning to the house with a crystal once every few days.
A few minor chakra experiments over the course of the weeks since then led him to the conclusion that the crystal is this world's version of chakra metal from the Elemental Nation. A natural source of conductor for external chakra. He's tried many things with the crystals so far. Grounding it up to create ink for sealing tags, mixing it together with Earth Manipulation to create more bulk and shape for weapons and plain blowing it up to test limitations. Only the last experiment yielded any good results however as the ink came out too grainy and reduced the sealing tag's effect to almost zilch and the final stone being too brittle to be anything but decorations.
"Not much I can do with this huh. Maybe if I- Ouch! Hey Ichi! Stop that! You guys don't need to collect more of these!"
His bird caws at him (he's pretty sure cawing is not a part of their natural anatomy) and flies out the window once more to look for more crystals. The blonde rubs his head and looks down at the lightly shining red crystal in his hand before tossing it under his crib along with all his other crystals. At first, he only wanted some to study but the birds took a liking to the collection hobby and made it a thing to collect as much as possible, with his room as the storage.
"...Aren't these things supposed to be rare?"
23) Sword Saint
"Ah Noa! Wanna watch daddy show you something cool~?"
'Hmm..? No armors but has a sword... Training? Nah.'
Looking up from a book that he has in his hand, Naruto watches his father curiously as he leans outside the doorway with his sword hanging loosely at his side. He has his ever-present grin on his face and a left thumb pointing outside towards the yard where Naruto sometimes practice magic with Lucine. Thinking for a bit, the blonde sets down his book and springs towards his father. The man's grin grew three times its usual size and he sweeps out into the yard.
"Alright, just sit over there and I'll show you something really cool. I've heard from Lucine and Meri that you've had a bit of an interest for the books in swordsmanship so I wanted to show you a presentation of it in real life. Sort of like what Lucine did with magic."
'Oh, so that's it.'
Naruto sends his father a look of interest and the man's smile glows. He points at the target, a log at a distance, with one hand and grabs his sword's handle with the other.
"Look closely~ Or you'll might... missed it."
With a flash of silver and a clink of metal on the word "might", the log standing at least twenty pace away from Adam is cleanly sliced into five equal sections. Naruto widens his eyes in slight disbelief as he spectate the scene and gives an internal applause at the display of skill. Even if his senses were horribly untrained compared to his last life, he could tell that the skill his father just demonstrated, "Longsword of Light", was watered down just enough for him to watch.
"Awesome right~? It took me forever to get the speed thing right but that's pretty much the gist of the Sword God Style! Hit hard, hit fast! Ahahaha!"
As he laughs, he sets the sword down and asked if the Naruto had liked the demonstration. The littlest blonde nods and Adam grins before asking if Naruto would like a try. Naruto nods vigorously at this and touches the sword that his father all but thrown at him. Before Naruto could do anything however, Meribelle catches Adam being Adam and chases him for handing Naruto something so dangerous. The man ran away in his best imitation of the Fourth Hokage.
Encyclopedia of Things
Monsters
Furskun: A Magic Beast native to the western parts of the Central Continent. A head of a bear on the body of a deer with antlers attached. It has claws as well as scales on its hind legs and is well known for its agility and evasiveness, both in and out of battle. It's horns is regularly used in the creation of higher tier healing potions. High D-rank to low C-rank on guild postings and B-rank on rarity.
Kirlets: A bird base Magic Beast native to the Central Continents. A regular sized Kirlet vary from 40 to 60 centimeters in length and has a wingspan of 110 centimeters but Naruto's is roughly 140 centimeters in length and has a wingspan of 310 centimeter. For unexplainable reasons, Naruto's five Kirlets has the ability to breath fire on the scale of an elementary rank fireball. Mid F-rank to low D-ranks on guild postings and F-rank on rarity.
Magic
Water Ball: A simple magical ball of water... or is it? Elementary ranked water spell.
Cast History (Unless stated otherwise, Naruto will be implied to have known this or have a basic grasp of the knowledge)
Meribelle Olstein: Born on Spring of K370. One of the remaining members of the dying Olstein household. She grew up in seclusion and developed a lack of common sense as well as a social apathy towards everyone, even her family. She has high intellect and a basic grasp in almost all fields of study (Orsted Wiki ver. 0.09) but no physical or magical talent. Met Adam on one of her few journeys to town in place of Lucine and fell in love at first sight. She tries to be more expressive upon the birth of Noa Olstein but would, more often than not, fall back to her default apathy.
Adam Olstein: Born on Winter of K372. An orphan at birth. He grew up in an orphanage within one the Fittoa Region. He joined the army at the age of fourteen and quickly rose in rank with his mastery in the ways of the sword. On one of his expedition through the lesser protected towns within the Fittoa Region, he chances by Meribelle and falls in love at first sight. He retired from his station and transferred over as a guard of the town to live with his wife who was adamant that she stays.
Lucine (?): Born on Summer of K213. A member of the magical elf race from the Demon Continents. Through currently unexplainable reasons, she came under the contract of the Olstein head at the time of K260 to serve the Olstein family for as long as they need. She is gifted in magic through long experience in using it and has a wide variety of knowledge to pull back on through years of serving the Olstein family.
Noa Olstein: Born on the spring Fall of K406. Is the firstborn son of Adam and Meribelle. Transmigrant of Naruto Uzumaki.
*Cannon starts at K407/Rudeus' birth so as of Chapter 4, the story is now around Cannon. Heil Roxy*
