MC POV
Two years can be a long time, a short time or maybe somewhere in between or just the time it takes for a nap for some, it's just a matter of perspective but two years is how long I've been living in the wet bone (shikkotsu) forest or at least the time I spent here consciously.
In the past two years, a lot has happened, or maybe not, but at least I have come to understand the foreign language of Japanese or was it the native language(?).
Anyway, apart from language, I have come to learn a few things. First, I was a premature baby, like half the time in the oven kind of premature. I had a great mother who loved me and was probably an amazing ninja and a genius as well given that I survived the past two years.
Secondly, according to Katsuyu, my body is not well because of being underdeveloped from extremely premature birth let's just say I was born too early, according to what I gathered from the words of Lady Katsuyu and other animals when I was born I was just the prototype of a baby as I would like to call myself and due to that incomplete development before birth I lack some essential aspects a living being needs for basic survival in this world.
So yeah, I am fu**ed, but somehow alive when I should be dead, and I can thank my late mother for that.
Now in the Naruto world when one hears such a thing the first thing one would think of is 'chakra' which would have been true but apparently, my mother's final jutsu somewhat overcame that deficiency of mine and the only reason that I am alive is that my body uses some of the abundant natural energy I take in with each breath which means I can die just by leaving places with a high concentration of natural energy or being cut off from the chakra from my mother's body coming through the umbilical cord which has not been severed and is covered in sealing symbols so bye- bye my dream of travelling all over the world.
How, you ask? Well, she made her casket into my crib, so yeah...
Now, I am trying to maintain a cheerful persona, but I cried myself to sleep for months when I first learned what my mother did for me.
I was told by Lady Katsuyu that from the wounds she had when she arrived in the Wet Bone forest, one should have been a dead person.
But through sheer will, she made a miracle for my survival; I never had any parental affection in my life, but for now, I felt I had more than enough for both my lives, and I am proud to be my mother's son.
So, I made a promise to myself that no matter how long it takes, I will bring my mother into the world of living. I know something like this is possible in my current world. It just needs some special eye power or something; there may be other conditions, but I will try my best to figure out a way.
Now, in the past 2 years, a few changes have taken place; let's talk about the casket. First, the casket was redesigned, so now my mother lies in a fetal position in her casket that has wheels. I have improved the quality of my shed, and the ground near my shed has been levelled.
Of course, I didn't do it. I asked for help from the animals. It just took them a few hours.
I had begun turning over at 2 months old. At four months, I started crawling and walking at 8 months old and now, at around 21 months, I can pull the casket somewhat with a harness made of vines around my tummy and shoulders like a hiking bag strap.
After 2 months of hard work, making a road and travelling on it I finally pulled my carriage and moved my shed to the lakeside, and when I finally reached the lakeside I realised I wasted a lot of effort because I belatedly realised I could've just asked someone from the forest to just pick me up along with my throne crib(Yes, I modified my crib to have a Throne mode).
Forget about all that, I finally got the chance to take a look at my face. Oh! And for those wondering about my hygiene, well, I had good nannies to take care of me; you see, I don't know where Lady Katsuyu called them from, but my caretakers were from a tribe of sage monkeys, so yeah, I was washed and fed properly.
Now for my looks, well, I look like a handsome baby. For now, my hair appears to be black, and well, I can't really tell my facial features from my face with baby fat, but I am a handsome baby, alright.
Now for the past two years, I have spent most of my time learning language and training my crawling, walking and cart pulling but aside from that since I learned about my survival and its dependency on natural energy I tried to ask about the sage mode from katsuyu and she discouraged me to practice it since I have no control over my chakra.
After some discussions with her, it was decided that I should focus on meditation which could clear my thoughts, enhance my mind my attunement to natural energy simultaneously while I try to figure out how the resonance created by my mother's technique works so I can survive on my own because according to katsuyu my mother can only provide me for 4 more years so I have to find my way to survive.
And so four more months passed and I have practiced meditation and sensing of natural energy for a total of 11 months.
I felt my mind become sharper, my mood swings have calmed a lot, and I can now maintain a more peaceful state of mind even though my memory has improved.
Now I can somewhat sense my physical state which helped with physical training as I now know when to stop or continue for best results; but just as I thought things would go on like this, my routine was disrupted when the animals informed me of a human's arrival.
An unexpected visitor has come to the forest and believe me, it certainly wasn't someone I expected.
(A.N.- and so the plot begins)