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Day 90

Just because you transmigrated into a different, albeit more interesting, world doesn't mean you suddenly become successful.

I was still the same lazy-ass coward of a guy, as I was in my previous world. In fact I was much worse off here, there was no internet, no cable tv or online gaming. At best there were fantasy novels.

All those fanfics were utter bullshit, the protagonist wakes up in a new world and suddenly becomes super productive. If they could do that they would have been successful back in their own world too.

I am now in the world of Naruto, although much earlier than canon, there were just three faces in the Hokage Mountain.

I ... have yet to feel any motivation, to being the strongest ninja or saving 'my' people. I do not believe anything like that is going to happen to me.

I was an introvert, I am an introvert. Just talking at the counter of a convenience store is a task for me, I am not going to get any more popular here, so that means no responsibility of saving 'my' people.

Whoever sent me here must be a cruel, sadistic person, one world was not enough, now I need to suffer here too.

My now... past life, was bad in some aspects and good in some. I had my parents, they loved me, though they loved money more. I had friends, not many but enough. Though I was not able to meet them once I started working, as I had move to another state and we naturally became distant.

I lost my trust on my parents when they started asking for money, for me to take loans and give to them, I helped them but over the years the only calls I received were for money and when I couldn't give them more, no calls came.

I didn't like my job, I wanted to leave it and do something else, but the shackles that my parents became, made me unable to do that. So I hated them, my parents, my job even my friends.

So despite my grumbling about being transmigrated here, I was glad I came here. Away from all the things I hated.

Remembering my previous life, I felt like screaming but it was night time and people were sleeping. Just because my issues kept me awake doesn't mean I should wake up others too. I had manners.

But... really what should I do now.

In this world I was Satoru, a ten year old, final year, ninja academy student.

It has been nearly three months since I woke up here, in Konoha. After my initial confusion and panic, I got used to my daily life.

I had to cook and clean and in general take care of myself and the one room house that the village had provided me.

Then there was academy.

When I woke up here, memories of the person before me also integrated with me, for which I was immensely thankful.

I wouldn't have survived if I couldn't even communicate.

The ... person who occupied this body before me was an orphan. A quiet kid who kept to himself and didn't had any friends.

I... hope he is now in better place.

But coming back to academy, my final year was just going by, I attended my classes daily , took my notes, did my tasks, did my homework and whatever I needed to do.

Unfortunately unlike in fanfics that I read, I did not suddenly became a genius. There was some maths that I could easily tackle, being a college graduate, but my curriculum involved more than just that. There was taijutsu, ninjutsu, kunai and shuriken throwing and worst of all, physical conditioning.

Even if you leave out the physical stuff, academic part was different, a different history and geography. We were taught battle strategies, weak points of a human body and other ninja stuff that was brand new to me.

And lastly it was not easy because chakra which had improved their physical attributes to super human level had left impact on their brain too. If you leave out issues with their lack of interest they were able to understand and remember better than any ten year old back on earth, unless my memory was failing me and I had just become stupid... I was not.

So all in all... I was just average here.

And after everything that I did in a day, I hardly felt like doing more.

Though I did experiment with chakra, I could feel it, like I could see my nose, with just little bit of concentration. It was such a foreign feeling that no person from my world would have missed it.

A warm tingling sensation, almost like you are feeling your blood flowing, except you could control it.

For the last three months I had been practicing chakra control, to be specific, tree walking, except on the wall of my room. With nothing to entertain myself with I had started doing this and it had been going well, my fear of height had me cautious and perhaps slowed my progress a bit but now I was able to reach top of the wall in a slow pace.

Tomorrow after class I should head to training ground with a lake, it was time for water walking.

Beep... beep beep...

Also it was time to sleep.

I adjusted the clock and just fell on my bed.

One good thing about such a busy routine was that I fell ... asle .eep as soon as... I lay down.

Day 91

Next day, I was bit excited to try water walking, I endured through the class and was out the moment bell rang.

Regarding training ground there were some for which you needed permission, then there were some which were reserved, generally for Jounins or the Chunins and lastly you got the free ones.

I ran through the grounds looking for a small lake. After a bit more searching I finally found it.

Quickly changing to just swimming trunks, I was glad weather was still warm. I concentrated moving chakra towards my feet, after few seconds I took my first step and to my surprise it held, quickly taking my second step also held but then my next step was not so lucky and I was in water, again thanking that the weather was warm.

I practiced for almost three hours before my hunger got the best of me. My best was ten steps, it looked like I will be mastering water walking sooner than tree walking. I was not sure why.

Changing back to dry clothes, I slowly walked back to my room, enjoying the atmosphere. One thing I had to admit that I came to like about Konoha was this, this peaceful and friendly atmosphere.

People were happy here and it showed. They were polite to each other and quick to help anyone in trouble, there were hardly any conflict and people tried to be mindful of others. It didn't mean they neglected their own work, in fact they had a deep sense of pride in the work they did, no matter how trivial.

All of this, somehow impacted me too, I felt not quiet happy but... content, I felt like I would be willing to help someone if I saw them in trouble.

I would never have done that back in my world it was always best to avoid trouble and helping others might have landed you in trouble too, so you avoided it.

I bought some food and reached my room, I felt like treating myself today so I had bought some expensive stuff, there was no homework assigned, so I had plenty of time to cook my delicious meal.

And so my day ended, I went to bed with a content feeling.

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