In the massive castle that served of house, Akashi Uzumaki could be seen lays on his bed
"What a day!" he exclaims reminiscing about the intensive journey he had.
When he woke up he immediately received the information of his past life, he jubilated for a while at the prospect of becoming a ninja and weald cool ninjutsu, he then received his first chakra training and was praised as a genius by his mother due to his massive amount of chakra and the control that he had over it.
"I wonder what that circle of seal around me was? I don't think that it is as simple as Mother says," he didn't have any base for that, still he thought it was not a simple seal to help in his chakra control as she said
He also learned about the war that had just started and that he and his family were in danger of extermination lied or rather hid some truth about himself from his mother and finally learned that he was not just an Uzumaki but also a Uchiha.
"Really what a day!" he said letting out a sigh as he closed his eyes hoping to get a good night of sleep while at the same time hoping that his mother believe in him when he heard
"On that, we agree,"
It took Akashi a few seconds to register what he heard before immediately jumping out of his bed.
In one jump he was on the other side of the room looking at an old man with white long hair and a beard nearly as long seated on the bed where he previously was.
"Good reaction time and you have a good physique, I see that you were trained, and indeed the Sharingan with two tomoe no less, I'm impressed by your progress," said the old man with some kind of pride in his voice that was imperceptible to Akashi
"Who are you? And what are you doing here,?! I warn you all I have to do is scream and you will immediately be surrounded by high-level ninjas," said Akashi loudly after a series of questions to attract the attention of the guards
From the bed, the old man was looking at Akashi with a smile on his old and decrepit face.
'He reached the edge of the room in one leap, he didn't try to reach any escape route as he was just focused on getting away from the source of his worry other than speaking loudly to attract attention he was on guard with his Sharingan opened observing me and looking for a way out at the same time, he as an enormous potential,' thought the old man.
"Do not worry Akashi i do not mean you any harm," said the old man trying to reassure him
"That's exactly something that someone with bad intentions would say" Akashi retorted still thinking about how to escape his predicament.
"Huh, smart but I'm not here to waste time," the old man replied more seriously.
"I'm Ashina Uzumaki, your great grandfather, I am here about your dream about the destruction of my family talk to me about it,"
Hearing the words of the old man the speeding heartbeat of Akashi slowed down as only someone close to his mother could know that and he realized that the old man was probably saying the truth.
"Ah," bending a little forward Akashi respectfully greeted "Good evening great, huh great grandfather,"
"Is the title too long, or are you surprised that you didn't know I exist or that a ninja that old even exists?" asked the old man
"I-huh,"
"Relax young man and take a seat beside me," said Ashina patting the bed beside him employing a more soothing tone
After Akashi sat he took a deep breath to gather his courage and like requested he told Ashina about what he knew like he did for his mother
After a few minutes where the old man listened patiently without a word when Akashi was done, he took a few seconds before saying anything.
"I see everything you told me is true!" said the old man and Akashi relaxed hearing that happy that he was able to convince the old man
But after that, the old Ashina said something that made Akashi subtly shake.
"Now how about you tell me the whole truth young Akashi!!"
Akashi tried his best to keep his calm and replied "What do you mean by the whole truth?!" he asked Ashino who just looked at him for a few second
"Boy you were three years old yesterday, I, however, am one hundred and fifty-something years old," he said calmly.
"I may very well be the oldest ninja in the world I started killing and interrogating people when I was myself a child and those people more experimented and trained have tried thousands of different ways to trick my mind eye without success..."
"Tell me do you think that you can?!" he asked his tone a little colder this time and Akashi could feel it
"N-No, I don't think so..." Akashi responded truthfully with a trembling that he tried his best to hide.
"You told me that my whole family is clan is in peril, I believe you so I want to know what your hiding dear great-grandson or I will my one hundred-something-year-old experience pry it from you myself,"
Looking at the impassible old man who was looking at him without moving a muscle Akashi knew that he didn't have any other option than to tell the truth.
"Fine!" exclaimed Akashi before taking out a deep breath
"Do you believe in reincarnation great grandfather," he asked seriously
"I thought about that, but never really that seriously, why the question?" he retorted
"Because that's what happened to me!" he said and could clearly see for the first time a hint of surprise appeared on the face of the old man
"so… you mean that this isn't your first life," he said trying to get some clarification
"Yes! That's what I think at least," before continuing he looked at the old man and he could see that he was in deep thought
"I don't remember it really, it's more like I know I had another life, I remember that I was somewhere between sixteen when I died, that I met something that I think was a god but my life there is just a blur like a dream that anything," he explained what he knew as truthfully as he remembered
"I remembered that this morning, at first I thought that I had taken over that body,"
"Oh I see, and if you came to that conclusion you thought that there is the possibility that Kana could come to that conclusion as well, huh," the old Ashina laid bare his worries
"…"
When the old man saw that he didn't respond he knew that he was right,
"You seem a little more mature than just yesterday so she would have noticed eventually, the Uzumaki are very perceptive plus we have the mind eye,"
"What do you mean I seem a little more mature than yesterday, you do not know me," said Akashi to the old man
"This is where you're wrong I know you very well, you just don't know me," When the old man said that Akashi realized that the old man had probably spied on him from time to time
"Anyway, I was thinking about not saying anything and enjoying life to the fullest but…" he stopped for a second but it was Ashina who ended his sentence
"When Kana talked about the second great ninja was about to start I had to say something or everything would just disappear and me with it,"
"I see," getting up after a while Ashina said
"Thanks for the honesty great-grandson, you were very helpful, now go back to sleep," after that word he disappeared like a ghost.
****
Meeting room
"Do you believe him" Azuno to his father in the presence of his two son
"Everything he said was true! Plus I have seen weirder things in this world," the old man answered calmly to his son's question
"Reincarnation doesn't explain his sight into the future!"
"What about you Kana, this is your son after all," he asked his daughter who was the more calm of the group right now.
"Of course everything he said was true," she also responded
"No, he meant about that reincarnation thing?!" her brother rectified
"Oh," she exclaimed
"I'm shocked of course but no, he is still my son, that doesn't change anything to me!"
"I see,"
"Let's focus on the point, the survival of our clan!" said the old Ashino
"Should we contact Konoha then, after all, they are our allies, we can still try to ask for help," asked Kana
"No, I doubt that the four-nation were able to form a combined force march in the country of fire for most until Uzushio in time like that and destroy us without the elite of Konoha knowing that, such a force travel through their country,"
"Someone of Konoha is backing or at least covering for them,"
"Let's be honest it's understandable Konoha may not want to have to be dependent on a force outside the village for their tail beast and now that they have Kushina they have about fifty years to find another solution," said KANA citing one of the reasons why Konoha may want them gone
"No need to talk about the other country, but their also another reason why Konoha may want us gone," said the patriarch Ashina
At the same time, he said that he made a massive book appear on the table,
"Is it our book of seal," Kana asked
"You aren't very involved so you don't know when we share our fuinjutsu with Konoha at its creation, we get something in exchange, even though we do not really use it,"
"The secret justsu created by the genius second Hokage, Tobirama Senju,"