Sleeping.
Waking up.
Boredom.
Eating.
"Oh look at him! You must've been very hungry, don't worry, I'm here for you" said a woman that I've come to appreciate in the past...months? I really didn't get a chance to keep track of how much time passed.
Her name is Kioko, a very caring volunteer in what I guess was an orphanage.She is a young adult woman, with a very kind smile, she seems to have taken a liking for me, and I must say, that with age, you come to appreciate every flower for its color. I don't know If I got my point across.
I've learned that I was found during what has been referred to as the "Nine-tailed beast attack", and apparently many other children became orphans during it.
Thinking about what could have caused such destruction,a foe worth of confrontation, It makes me..
"e-e-exited"...
"His first words!!" says Kioko with a smile so wide she is probably under the effect of some Nen Ability illusion that shows what she always desired. It must be that...
Damn woman why you always make me feel so fuzzy? And also... tired... *yawn*
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It is yet another day. I have adapted to this new weak body of a child. I don't wish for anyone to experience it though. I am always tired and that annoys me so much that I always start crying. I want to take my anger out in other ways but it seems that's the only way my body conveys any feeling that isn't happiness. That is usually expressed through a smile that more often than not makes other people other than Kioko laugh. What's so funny?! They even referenced it as an expression of someone that "has reached spiritual enlightment" little do they know, I did.
{Time Skip- 4 years old}
"Isaac! come here, today is your turn to help me with the chores!" said Kioko, her voice coming from downstairs.
with a swift move I get off the bad where I was sitting, and sliding on the handrail I reach soon for the damsel that asked for my help.
Standing at 1,1 m (43 inches) I was now a healthy 4 years old boy, I maintained my old appearance, and when looking myself at the mirror, it seems like watching an old photo. My hair was straight, white and down to my forehead, and my strong nose was still there. I'm going to be honest, I enjoy this newfound youth, being careless and energic as a 4 years old was not so bad, while is it true that those hellish days where I was so weak that I couldn't move and I was always tired were so boring I thought I was being tested by The Divine, those are only a far away memory. My brain probably removed it after categorizing them as trauma. Obviously, even if I hid it and my body does its best with its hormones to be a kid, I can't really be one, and so my social life is been as poor as it could ever get, I feel like I have talked to the other kids in the orphanage a handful of times, nothing more. I wasn't really missing out on anything, but obviously I was going to stand out for this particular behavior. I don't think that's too bad, as it's balanced by myself being an orphan nobody in all but in name, which thankfully remained the same. I don't think I would ever be able to get used to another name.
What has made me curious as a little kid, isn't too far from my new home, in fact I'm completely immersed in it. Following what I gathered, I was now in a world, where the warriors that dominated it were the so-called shinobi, which I recall being warriors who specialized in stealth and assassination from the country of Jappon. There was even a candidate that was a Shinobi in the 287th Hunter Exams, which featured Ging's son, I remember him going all out at the start against Gon but in the end he couldn't end it and surrendered.
In this world they were different though. They patrolled the city, and had different military jackets, and obviously their levels were on a completely different level than normal soldiers in my world, they had some sort of mastery of the energy of this world, and they seemed to get military training since a very young age.
{Flashback}
After finally I started to get a hold of my body and started building my first muscles, I had to make sure of a crucial thing. And so, I concentrated and confronted the existence of Nen in this world. To the surprise of nobody, I found myself unable to enter the state of Ten. My mental process was perfect, I was a master afterall, but it seemed like my life energy wouldn't manifest itself as the superficial shield surrounding my body.
I tried for a while, and then I felt something. It was not coming outside. It was INSIDE me, and given the perfect flow of it, it felt like it was its place of belonging for now. The energy stayed inside the my body, and given I heard bedtime stories from Kioko of those legendaries shinobi that manipulated the "elements" and fought bravely, I started to connect things.
The body in this world was like an engine, which was activated by the energy, and then the energy created those elements, like fire which in the bedtime stories was spitten by those shinobi, the problem was how to get this energy in the right place.
Moving it to the palms and externate it from there resulted very easy. Years and years of training in the 100 type Guanyn Bodishattva made it almost natural to move energy to the palms.
Soon I began to tire myself out. I noticed it immediately. I did not have perfect control over it. There was a difference between Nen and this energy. This energy seemed more dense, more connected to the physical, as it was a flame that stayed inside the body, which could be cultivated, made bigger and stronger. Nen was more abstract, as it was the manifestation of the mental strength of the indivual, and could be made stronger using conditions that made up your mind to be more resolute.
{Flashback end}
Given the situation, I then concluded that the best course of action was to observe. Like an hunter does to its pray. Learn the patterns, the rules and use it better. Dedicate single-mindedly to an objective, find inner peace in achieving it, as hard-work betrays no one. That has been my life way, and it will come to me in this other life as well.
So I quickly developed a thing similar to En, an application of Nen that expanded your life energy allowing you to sense everything in what, for Nen-master would be a 50 meters radius. but I soon realized that Chakra, that is the name of the energy that the Shinobi use, was much more present than Nen. So myself being a beginner with some previous experience in something similar, was able to get a 5 meters radius. With this Chakra En I've been able to confirm my suspicion, as I was able to feel the Chakra of others very clearly within the radius, my instincts where right, the military forces of the "Village Hidden In The Leaves", the village in which I woke up 4 years ago were nothing to be messed with, they almost all had a bigger Chakra reserve than mine, this probably means that increases with age, as there were low class soldiers, most of them in their teens recognizable only by their headbands, most of them had less Chakra than the older ones, that usually wore a light green jacket. I obviously trusted my instincts not choosing those that had me warned, as they will probably sense that I was using the Chakra for analyzing them, especially at the close range that I had available. After all this seems to be a village with an authoritarian leader and in general a military state, scouting its best soldiers, especially as an orphan which could be easily a spy given he has no previous record, and the circumstances I was found, is not the right move to do.
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"Thanks Isaac, you are always so diligent." I've helped Kioko with the chores.
"Why, it is a pleasure to help a fine lady like you" I said confidently.
"Where have you learned to be so smooth? They grow up so fast!" says Kioko, patting my head. Well, being a 4 years old is not so bad, but it's definitely not good either, it has downsides, my pride must endure.
After finishing helping Kioko with the chores. I go outside and search for other clues to how to develop the control and the strength of Chakra.
"Be careful, and remember you can't go farther than the park!" says Kioko going up the stairs. She is probably going to tide up some rooms. How diligent.
"Yeah, sure. " obviously I wasn't going to keep the promise. I was much more aware of my surroundings than Kioko. I already memorized the village by now.
And so here I go, to the training grounds, where I hope to be able to spill some information from low class kid soldiers.
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Jackpot.
A clueless girl is holding a leaf? Right in front of the training ground, which is very lucky for me, as I can't enter it yet, she is staring at it intently, and there seems to be sweat on her brows.
"What are you doing Onee-chan?"
The girl appears a little taken aback and turns her face to me. She has brown hair, brown eyes, and marks under her eyes, but the most striking feature were two canine that resembled those of an animal. Kinky. She doesn't appear very bright, in fact, she appears the opposite of it. Couldn't ask for better.
"I am training! Working hard for protecting Konoha, you see." she says smiling to me.
"Oh, I see, keep up the good work." I said smiling. I activate my Chakra En to visualize the situation... She is flowing her Chakra through the veins of the leaves, probably to an exercise to have a better control of it. It isn't what I need though, an exercise like that for me would be easy, as I already know how to perfectly move Chakra to my palms given my experience, while it certainly will be something, I need something more... Well trying doesn't hurt anyone.
"Onee-chan but how are you going to become stronger by holding a leaf? You don't look like a strong Shinobi! " I said with the most childish smile I could muster, trying to taunt her into slipping some information.
"eeeeh??? You were acting all cute before! You know Onee-chan will soon be able to climb trees without using arms!" she said beaming. After the such a revelation, her not so bright features appear to me as not so bright but cute features. Thanks sweetie.
"That's incredible!" I say suppressing a smirk, my two finger go to where once my goatee was and search it for straightening it. They only find the chin and it seems like I'm pinching it.
"Pfffftahahaha, what are you doing?" she says laughing.
"Oh, it's a bad habit of mine, don't worry! Well then goodbye!" I ran away from the girl like the energic boy I was supposed to be.
Climbing a tree using only your feet. Clever. This training probably involves focusing a fixed amount of chakra to the bottom of one's feet, and using that to climb a tree without using one's hands. If the stream of chakra is too weak, the user will lose their footing on the tree. If it is too strong, the user will be pushed away from the tree, with this, I could start training in Chakra control, before I get some training in the "Academy" where the child soldiers were formed.
Jackpot indeed.