"How many days... no... months. how long have I been floating in this cursed fluid?"
A single month had gone by since he had awakened. Jin was bored out of his mind. He had no Idea what was happening to him and at this point, he started to think that he was never going to see the light of day ever again.
"I guess I'll just fall asleep since it really is the only thing I can do... Sigh..."
He mentally sighed and instantly fell into deep slumber.
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Three months passed by very slowly, and something finally happened. A force started to move Jin in a certain direction. Welcoming the much-needed change, he followed along vigorously. At one point he even felt something like a hand reaching to grab him, although it was abnormally huge, which somewhat frightened him.
"Finally! Am I finally going to leave this place?! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"
Being a fetus brought Jin to the border of insanity, as he laughed maniacally in his head. He had never felt an emotion so vividly before, other than frustration, that is. Slowly but surely, he made his way out of his mother's belly.
"It's a boy! congratulations on your firstborn lord Inari!"
"Congratulations madam!"
Inari and hanami both looked at each other. Seeing the smile on each other's faces. Not being able to translate their feelings into words, they opted for silence. The nurses cut off Jin's umbilical cord and he started screaming for his life.
"You bitch! why!? The pain! AHHHHHH It's unbearable!!!"
Of course, the only thing that could be heard was his incomprehensible crying, making the nurses approve of such a healthy baby. They then handed him to his mother after a quick bath in hot water.
Jin somehow felt the urge to fall asleep, so he did. After all the effort to free himself from that fluid, and the searing pain of having a part of him cut off, he hadn't even noticed that he was born as a baby.
Hanami looked at her child and warmly embraced him, happiness overflowing in her heart. She then looked at her husband once more who gave her a reassuring nod. At the moment, she was the happiest woman in the whole entire world. Seeing saw her son's features that closely resembled his dad's, and that placated expression as he lay in her arms, she fell n love all over again.
"What will be his name, Inari?"
She emotionally asked her husband without taking her eyes off her son. As Inari closed his eyes, he said softly:
"I've been preparing for this moment my whole life, His name will be Jin (靭), meaning strong and resilient. A fitting name for an Uchiha."
Hanami closed her eyes and fell asleep with an expression that could only be described with one word, content.
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A week had passed since his birth, And Jin was feeling better than ever. He seemed to have become a baby, and he could understand what people were saying around him, which was very surprising to him.
"I seem to have been reborn... But where am I?"
With that thought, he heard the sound of footsteps as his dad came to pick him up from his crib. When he saw his dad, even though he was hetero, he couldn't help but think that his dad was an extremely handsome man, on the level of those models he saw sometimes in magazines. A part of him was praying that he inherited his dad's looks.
"How is the youngest descendant of the Uchiha clan?"
As soon as Jin heard those words he froze on the spot. not knowing how to react to the endearing talk he received from his supposed father.
"Wait... Wait... WAIT!!! Did he just say Uchiha!? Am I dreaming?"
Jin felt a foreign feeling heat up his whole body... this was... excitement. He had never felt so happy in his whole life! was he going to be reborn in the Naruto world? Just like in the web novels he had spent nights reading on his phone?
While Jin couldn't hide the excitement in his face, Inari smiled and said:
"Uchiha"
As soon as he said that Jin's face lit up like never before. Finding it funny, he repeated the same thing a couple of times and realized his son was proud of his blood even before being aware of it. With a feeling of pride swelling in his chest, Inari lifted his son up in his arms and took him to his mother.
As soon as Inari left the room, Jin noticed the upside down fan embroidered on the back of his father's shirt. Making him feel even more excited.
"I wonder in which era I was born... this must be before Naruto's birth because the Uchiha clan seems to be fine..."
While in his mother's embrace he started thinking and formulating a plan. But first of all, he had to gather information. This was going to be a huge challenge since he wasn't even able to walk. So he decided to just let it go, for now, enjoying the warmth of the parents he never had, and the fresh air he missed so much.
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A year passed by pretty quickly for Jin, all he did was eat sleep and answer nature's call when he had to, but around this time he started to be able to say some words, although not many at a time, due to his underdeveloped Body. He knew what he wanted to say, but his brain and mouth could not reciprocate, which was very frustrating.
Swallowing it up, asked his mom:
"Date?"
Hanami looked at her child with surprise, did he know the meaning of a date? At this point she and Inari had realized that their son was very smart for his age, he had an intellectual gleam in his eyes that made them notice he could somehow understand them as they spoke.
At a mere ten months of age, they gave him a baby puzzle made of wood to keep him distracted, but he completed it in minutes. So they decided to give him a harder one, but he also completed it with ease. Today he was completing puzzles that even adults would find challenging, meaning his intellect was already on par with that of an adult.
Although it was strange, this was the world of shinobi, where mystical things happened every day, so they did not think too much about it.
"today is the day you, Fugaku and Hideki celebrate your first birthday."