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Chapter Two: Revelation
Two Years Later
It's been two years since I've been reincarnated and I must say it feels good to be walking again, stupid developing muscles. Even though I can walk and can almost talk in full sentences again, I still don't know where I am. Every time I get close to the door to see what's outside, my mother Akane always seems to know what I'm up to and carries me back into the living room.
"Really Kojiro." Akane said exasperatedly smiling in amusement as she held me. "I know you want to go outside, but not until daddy comes home."
"When daddy come home?" I asked inwardly cringing at the sentence that came out of my mouth. I meant to say 'When is daddy coming home?' but it came out as that, god I hope I can speak normally soon.
"Daddy won't be back for a few more days Kojiro." Akane replied playfully tapping me in the nose which I let out an unintentional giggle when a tickling sensation ran through my system. After we were back in the living room, Akane placed me down in the middle of wooden blocks that were scattered around a rug. "Why don't you go play while I make us lunch?"
I nodded as she entered the kitchen which was across from the living room. I sat on the rug and looked out the window to see a couple of birds flying by chirping, I can also see a few trees branches filled with green leaves. If there was one thing I learned of where I am, it's that I'm definitely in Japan, probably somewhere around the edo period because I haven't heard a single car from the time I was born. I started to play with the blocks to keep myself busy while I think not paying attention to what I was doing.
"Kojiro, lunch is ready." Akane said coming out of the kitchen wiping her hands with a small towel which she dropped from her shock at seeing what I made with the blocks. I looked to Akane in confusion before I look to see what I made with the blocks. I made a turtle with three tails next to a nine tailed fox.
'I made Isobu and Kurama? I must have been deep in thought if I did that.' I thought as poked the block structures causing them to crumple which seem to snap Akane out of her shock. I looked over to her with a confused look on my face. 'But why did seeing my structures surprise her so much?' I walked, more like waddled, my way to her and tugged on her kimono a little causing her to look down to me to see my concerned look. "Mommy, what's wrong?"
She shook her head kneeling down to place her hands on my shoulders smiling at me. "Mommy's fine dear, you just surprised me that you can make such interesting animals with your blocks." I tilted my head in confusion as she picked me up. "Now about that lunch, we wouldn't want it to get cold now do we?"
'I am so booored!' I mentally shouted as I stared out my room's window before looking around. Inside was a single drawer with plush toys on top with a single picture of Akane and Kojiro behind me as I stared curiously at a cake with a single candle in the middle. The picture was taken during my first birthday and it was kinda funny watching my parents scattering around the house like headless chickens trying to put up streamers and blowing up balloons. Anyways, there was also a blue circular rug in the center of the room next to a crib that was on the right side of the room next to the window I was staring out of, blocks and other toys scattered around the rug. 'Reincarnation sucks, and everyone who would disagree with me should just screw themselves.' The only thing I know about outside is that I live in a two story house surrounded by other houses and businesses.
"Kojiro." Akane called opening the door with a bamboo basket in her hands. "I'm going to the woods to collect some herbs, do you want to come with me, or do you want Mrs. Shinomiya to watch you?"
'Finally!' I mentally shouted a big smile on my face. 'A chance to go outside to see where I am!' I ran over to my mother and nodded gripping the bottom of her kimono so I don't lose my balance and fall. "I want to come!"
Akane looked down to me smiling before adjusting the basket against her hip and reaching a hand out to me. "Then let's go, I bet you'll really have fun out there." I took her hand we both walked out of the house. We walked through the small village that we live in with many of the villagers greeting my mother as we walked by and a few of the elderly women knelt down to me saying how cute I was and lightly pinching my cheeks.
'Oh how I wish I can tell them that I'm not cute.' I thought in embarrassment as another woman pinched my chubby cheeks. 'But ever since I looked at my reflection yesterday, I can't disagree with their statements.' I looked to my right to look at a window to see my reflection again. looking back to me was a toddler with short spiky blue hair and lime green eyes with chubby cheeks wearing a blue kimono with light blue along the bottom resembling waves and straw sandals. 'I hope I don't end up looking like a girl when I get older.'
"Akane, has Kosuke come back yet?" The woman who was pinching my cheeks asked my mother resting a hand on her cheek as a look of worry made it's way across her face. "I hope he and my brother come home safe."
"No he won't be back for a few more days." Akane replied as she used her free hand to pick me up and held me to her side as I held on to kimono and my legs around her waist so I wouldn't fall. "I worry about him of course, but I know he's doing this for our village so the children can live without worry." She looked to me and smiled before turning back to the woman she was talking to. "All I can do is have faith that he'll return to me and Kojiro in one piece." She politely bowed. "Well, we should be going now."
"Going to collect more herbs again?" The woman asked noticing the bamboo basket she was holding in her other hand. "I hope you find everything you need. It's getting hard to aquire the herbs you use Akane."
"I know." Akane nodded in agreement. "I'm sure I'll find plenty of lemon balm, though I'm concerned that I won't find that many lavender since the soil in this land might be too moist for them with all the mist."
'Come to think of it.' I thought as the two women said their good-byes and I got pinched on the cheek again. 'There's mist here year 'round, I wonder why.' We walked through a tunnel that lead to a forest.
"Okay Kojiro." Akane said getting my attention as she knelt down so she at eye level with me and pulled out a lavender flower. "We're going to try and find some of these but be sure to stay where I can see you alright?"
"Okay mommy!" I replied childishly with a big smile on my face while I was inwardly cringing. 'I'm only talking like this because of my limited vocabulary and that it would be weird for a toddler to sound so mature.' I repeated that thought in my head like a mantra as I waddled to the nearest patch of green and started to look for lavender.
'How hard can it be to find a single plant?!' I mentally shouted, my eyebrow twitching as I finished checking another patch of greenery. 'I swear, all this mist makes it hard for lavender to grow in this environment.' I ran my fingers through my hair in frustration as I got to my feet and started to look somewhere else walking along the edge of a stream getting lost in my thoughts. 'I finally get out of the house and I still don't know where I am. I know where I am is not as technologically advanced as my past life.' I sighed before I tripped on an exposed tree root making me lose my balance and fall in the stream letting out a startled yell which was silence by a big splash.
"Kojiro!" Akane called out when she heard the splash and ran over to the stream with a worried look on her face to see me sitting in the shallow part of the stream soaking wet. She put her basket filled with herbs down and knelt down to pick me up and carried me to shore. When she set me down, she placed her hands on my shoulders frantically gave me a once over. "Are you alright, you aren't hurt are you?" I winced when I applied pressure to my left foot which she noticed and look to my foot to see it was a little red and swollen and gasped. "You sprained your ankle!" She had me sit down being careful of my ankle.
"Mommy?" I looked up to her in confusion and looked around to see she didn't had her basket of herbs near her.
"Shh, it's alright Kojiro." Akane said giving me a gentle smile. "Mommy will make it all better." She held her hand over my injured ankle for a moment. I was confused as to why she was doing that and was going to ask until I saw her hand started to be covered in a green aura. My eyes widened when the aura started to cover my ankle. I felt a tingle go up my spine at the warm and gentle feeling I was getting from the aura as the pain from my ankle slowly faded away. The aura faded and Akane removed her hand giving me a smile. "There, all better now." I couldn't say anything as I was too shocked at what I just saw. My hand went to my ankle and I felt no pain when I lightly poked it with a finger. I looked up to my mother as she reached and picked me up and she giggled at my surprised face. "Did I surprise you Kojiro?"
"Uh-huh." Was my only response along with a nodded as I looked back to my ankle. 'How did she do that? What was that green aura around her hand? Was that magic or something?' I was so lost in my thoughts that I didn't notice Akane walking over to pick up her basket and walked back to the village. It was quiet as I continued to get lost in my thoughts and Akane humming before I finally broke the silence. "Mommy?" She looked to me giving a hum as a response and I tried my best not to outwardly cringe for what's about to come out of my mouth. "How you make owie go away?"
Akane just giggled and gave me a playful wink. "Now that's a secret." I pouted puffing my cheeks at that response which made her giggle some more. "I'll tell you when you're older, okay?" Knowing I wasn't going to get anything out of her I just continued to pout and nodded my head as I let her carry me. She just smiled as I clung onto her to feel her warmth when a shiver reminded me that I fell in a stream. "You're so cute Kojiro, I bet you'll be as handsome as your father and all the girls will be after you when you get older."
'I hope not.' I thought shuddering as an image of me being surrounded by girls popped into my head. 'I don't want a fan club like a certain Uchiha.'
A month has passed since the incident at the stream happened, and now every time Akane takes me out to gather herbs with her she always makes sure that I'm at least a meter away from her so a repeat doesn't happen. Two days after my father Kosuke came home covered in what I think was dirt and scratches. I noticed that he was wearing a black skin tight shirt and grey pants. I saw a piece of cloth hanging out of his pocket and when I tried to reach for it he just laughed and picked me up saying I shouldn't do things like that. For the rest of the month I spent it at home where I practiced reading which was hard since I didn't know how to properly translate kanji and ended up confuse when I tried reading some of my picture books out loud.
'I knew I should have bought a book to learn japanese in my past life.' I mentally berated myself as I walked around in my house as I heard my mother Akane cooking and my father Kosuke sleeping on the couch snoring loudly. When he came home earlier today, like always he looked like he was totally exhausted and that he just left a war zone. I always see him wearing some kind of head band whenever he leaves the house in what I think was suppose to be combat clothes, but I couldn't see what was on it because I was usually in another room. 'Now that I think about it...' I stopped walking as I was about to pass the living room to see Kosuke in his everyday kimono sleeping soundly on the couch wearing the head band over his eyes like an eye mask. 'I feel like I've seen that head band before.' Curiosity getting the better of me, I slowly and quietly tip toed to my father not making any sounds. When I was in front of the couch, I got on slowly being careful not to stir him as I sat on his chest that rose and fell. My eyes widened in shock when I saw the four wavy engravings on the metal of the head band. 'But that's...'
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