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Chapter 4 - The second first breath

After the four got their new (slumbering) powers, the Elder spoke, "I will send you now to your new world. Don't be afraid by the strangeness of this world. We will see us again when the time is right."

When the Elder ended, a transparent bubble appeared around the four souls. However the bubble continously became less transparent and physical until each of them was surrounded by a pitch black sphere. And soon their consciousness faded away.

Jiraiya's mind remained in this state for about nine months. But suddenly a smal part of his consciousness awakened. Everything around him was dark and wet. But it wasn't scary at all, in fact it felt quite relaxing to him. The temperature was also fine. So he relaxed and floated there for a while without thinking about something particular. But after a while a sudden realization appeared in his mind. 'I am in a womb!? So now I'm getting while I feel so good here. But how do I know such stuff after all I wasn't even born yet?' More and more confusing thoughts appeared in his mind. Thoughts that require much more knowledge and develobment than a normal child can ever have. However the reason, why he isn't fully consciousness, is that he has the body of an infant. So his brain needs to develob more in order to completly awaken his consciousness. This process should take a couple of years. But still his knowledge and comprehending skills will exceed that of a normal child by a lot.

While Jiraiya was still thinking about his unusal knowledge, he suddenly felt a change in his environment. A light panic arose in him, because he didn't knew what was going on. The only thing he knew is that the changes won't be without pain for him and his mother. 'Again! Where does this knowledge come from?' he asked himself again with a certain degree of fury about his lack of -helpfull- knowledge.

The changes continued for some time and Jiraiya couldn't do anything about it. This frustrated and scared him equaly, because he could just wait until everything was over. He couldn't do a think about neither the pain of his mother nor his own pain. Eventhough something keept telling him that this pain is quite natural and he shouldn't worry about it to much. Then the changes intensified and Jiraiya knew that everything until now was just the prelude. The real change is about to happen soon. His birth is about to happen soon. He then knew that he had to turn himself. But this knowledge was different from the strange thoughts he had before. This time it was his body knowing instinctively what to do and how to react. Somehow this felt more natural and less concerning to him than the knowledge from before. So while he turned his body, he thought again how strange this was and wondered what might be the reason for this. But unfortunatly for him, he had not a single glue about it. So he stopped thinking about it to much, at least for now. Then he saw a bright light and he knew again instinctively that he must head to this light. But he had to bend his head in a strange angle to get to the light, eventhough it didn't cause much pain and didn't feel to unnatural. Finaly his head was free. 'Interesting so the world looks like this.' He thought, admiring everything around him like only little kids can. But some part of his mind knew, that there would be so much more to see out there. This time however he didn't waste a second thinking about it, he was just to courious about his surrounding. He turned again to see more around him and just as he did this, he recognized that the pressure on his shoulders became much less. So he was able to move quicker than before into this new, astonishing world.

Then he was outside. He finaly took his second first breath and begann to cry like a normal baby. But he was soothed soon. They wrapped him in some cloth and gave him to his mother. All this happened while Jiraiya was quite exhausted through the birth, after all he is still an infant. So the older and grown-up part of his mind had fallen asleep during his birth. His body was tired, too. So he quickly feel asleep, while he lay on his mother's belly.

Soon the majority of the people, who were in the room during the birth left it. Leaving only a young woman and a young man laying on a bed with their little son between them. "He sure is cute. I'm quite happy that it's a boy." the male finaly broke the silence. "I'm certain you would love him as much if he were a girl." "You're propably right. After all this is our child. But I think it will be easier if our heir is a boy." "Let's not talk about politics right now. Just be happy." "Alright. But we won't be able to protect him from politics forever." "I know. But right now we can." The woman answered with a sad smile on her face.

Meanwhile in a big conferenc room, several men were standing around an table. There expression showed that they were discussing a serious topic. Only one of them seemed like he wasn't part of the discussion. Neither did he talk nor did he focus on one of the other people, who were talking. But despite the appearance of this discussion, the conversations circled only around the young man. Every one tried to get his attention and to explain his point of view. He also wasn't disinteressted in the topic, he had to remain neutral until he declares his decission. After all he is the Fire lord and therefore the most powerful man in the Fire nation. But he is young and much kinder than he will be at the end of his life. The person around him are all important members of the Fire nation. They form a council which should "help" the Fire lord to make the best decission. But in reality they are just the mere try of many powerful families and buisnesses to limit his power and make him weak. So the Fire lord swore to himself that he will get rid of them as soon as he can. After he listend for a while to their talk, he suddenly stood up to reveal his opinion.