Time Skip and First Friends (Edited)
AN: I mainly fixed the tense to be consistent past tense. If I missed anything or you find any typos please let me know in the comments.
Time flew by and soon half a year had passed. During this time I managed to learn the local language and spoke my first word.
I made sure to make it 'mama' to thank her for loving me and so I would not seem strange. After all I had lived for several centuries already and now I am a baby. If I was not careful I would look like an extremely weird kid and I would like to avoid that as I believed it would be better to avoid drawing attention to myself before I have a clear picture of this world.
Yes I did believe I was in a different world as I could no longer feel any reiatsu at all but instead there was a different kind of energy that I could feel. I would have to ask my parents soon.
Also I learned how to control my limbs to some extend and I managed to start crawling around. Walking was still not quite possible yet but I could at least start exploring my room a bit. After all being a baby is mind numbingly boring.
As a baby the only thing you can do is literally just eating/drinking, sleeping, crying and laughing.
So finally being able to talk and crawl was a huge step to alleviate my boredom.
My mother was a very loving and beautiful woman. Her hair was a beautiful shade of deep red and her eyes were a clear light gray just like mine. Her name was Tsunami Senju and her husband was called Tobiretsu Senju. Apparently he was the grandson of the second Hokage whoever that might be.
Now my dad often left for several days to weeks and sometimes came home with injuries of varying degrees - though never too bad - which my mother healed by using that strange energy I sensed. She would coat her hand with it and a green glow would appear. Then my father's injuries would always magically disappear just like with the fourth division's Kaido.
From this I deduced that this world I found myself in was not a peaceful one or at least my dad had a job that was all but peaceful.
At least my mother was gentle and loving and was taking great care of me as she only left home to go grocery shopping and even then she would take me along.
On these occasions I found out that we were living in a rather peaceful and prosperous town called 'Konoha' that was protected by a profession called ninja or shinobi and my father appeared to be one of them.
I also saw people running over rooftops at incredible speeds. I could feel them using that same energy my mother used for healing, which only increased my curiosity.
Sigh... So many things to ask my parents about...
Time flew by and soon my third birthday approached.
I had learned how to walk at 8 month old and asked my parents all kinds of questions. I learned that my parents were both ninja and we were part of the Senju clan, one of the founding clans of Konoha.
My father was a jonin, the highest rank below the Hokage and my mother was an irionin tokubetsu jonin, which meant she specialized in healing and was only at the jonin level in this discipline. Though she was also very adapt at sealing as that was apparently the speciality of her birth clan.
Her original clan was not from this village but from one of our close allies. Her maiden name was Tsunami Uzumaki.
The energy that ninja used was called chakra and was created by combining mental and physical energy in the body.
They would use hand seals to direct and mould chakra in specific ways to unleash different jutsu from breathing fire through moving earth, creating illusions all the way to healing broken bones and deep cuts in almost no time flat.
My mother warned me not to try anything with chakra yet as it would be harmful to my young body especially as I apparently had an enormous amount for my age. She told me I could safely try unlocking it once I reach three years old.
This brings me to today as this was my third birthday. I woke up early in the morning, excited to finally start learning more about the supernatural part of this exciting new world.
My father was home today as he didn't want to take a mission on my birthday, so when I ran downstairs into the kitchen I found my dad eating breakfast while my mom was preparing her own and my portion.
After a harmonious breakfast, my parents took me to the yard outside as it was time to try unlocking my chakra.
"There are two different ways to unlock your chakra" my father stated. "You can either have someone help you by channelling their own chakra into you and carefully following your chakra pathways thereby opening your chakra network. However this method while easy and quick has a big disadvantage. By using foreign chakra to open your chakra network it adapts to this foreign chakra instead of your own which means your chakra control will suffer for it" he explained with a serious face.
Seeing me nod he continued "This is not much of a problem for people with low chakra reserves as it is much easier to improve chakra control the less chakra you have. You on the other hand have exceptionally large chakra reserves even for our clan so having bad chakra control is very detrimental for you."
Once again seeing me nod in understanding he went on "So for you the second option would be much more suitable especially since you are very patient and clever for your age."
I rolled my eyes internally at this praise. I had lived more than ten times longer than him after all so my patience was to be expected though he didn't know that of course.
"The second method is to meditate and feel your own chakra in your abdomen. Once you feel it you need to make it move all around your body following the chakra pathways until it completes a circular path throughout your entire body, ending back in your abdomen."
"I understand"
My father nodded in approval and warned "This process is not easy and most children are unable to even sense their own chakra without help and even those that do will take several days or weeks to finally make it move and even longer to compete a full rotation."
After making sure I understood exactly what I should do my father told me to start meditating.
I sat down in the lotus position and started feeling the chakra within me. Just feeling it came naturally to me. I could not only feel my own but even that of the people around me since I was born.
Now the only hurdle was making my chakra actually move.
Taking inspiration from manipulating reiatsu I tried to move my chakra in the same way as I would reiatsu but my chakra didn't react at all no matter how hard I tied.
I tried to analyze why this was happening and realized that reiatsu is only spiritual energy while chakra is a combination of both spiritual and physical energy so trying to only move the spiritual part would obviously fail.
Having reached this conclusion I modified my approach accordingly and within moments I could feel my chakra start to move.
It moved reluctantly and sluggishly at first but the more I moved it the faster it obeyed my will.
Within minutes I had finished the first rotation and suddenly my chakra started moving on its own in the pathways I just cleared and strengthen my whole body passively.
My parents seeing me succeed so fast are first astonished and then ecstatic and start hugging and kissing me and praising me for my genius.
I rolled my eyes internally at their exaggerated reaction and squirmed around in embarrassment trying to get out of the group hug though secretly I enjoyed their affection.
After finally getting out of their grip my mother showed me how to train my chakra control by attaching a leaf to my forehead using nothing but chakra and told me to train whenever I can.
In the afternoon it was time for the formal party. There were two different parties for me to attend. First there was a meet and greet type party where all the important people of the village get to formally meet me for the first time.
Apparently I was the future patriarch of the senju clan as my dad's brother was the current patriarch but he didn't have any children.
After that would be a feast where all the children around my age were invited to play and enjoy some free food.
The meet and greet was as dreadfully boring as it sounds. All the major clan heads and heirs, as well as the elders and councilmen came to introduce themselves while bringing meaningless gifts and brag about their own importance while flattering me with flowery words.
The worst of them were the elders and councilmen no doubt. The Hyugas seemed to have a massive stick up their ass while the Uchiha appeared to have a major superiority complex. The most bearable and relaxed representatives came from the three Ino-Shika-Cho aka Yamanaka, Nara and Akimichi clans.
Shikaku Nara and I got along especially well as he was unbelievably smart and mature for his age(4 years) so he was quite fun to talk to compared to other children our age.
Luckily he would also be coming to the second party so we would have some time to get to know each other better later.
After two hours the torturous meet and greet was finally over and the fun part began.
The guests for the second part are about 370 children of ages 2 to 8.
The characters that I took note of were the Hyuga twins Hiashi and Hizashi who were 7 years old and among the more mature children here.
Among the Uchiha children I noticed Mikoto for her elegance and refined character despite her young age (7 years old).
The youngest I took note of was Tsume Inuzuka, a truly feisty little 2 year old girl with a huge voice that can wake even the dead. She was quite fun to tease as she didn't take crap from anyone and growled cutely at anyone she thought was challenging her. When that inevitably failed to intimidate them she then tried to bite them which was fun dodging.
Then there was the inseparable trio of the Ino-Shika-Cho whom I got along with quite well mainly because Shikaku and I had bonded over our shared passion for naps and cloud watching and the truly refreshing experience of not having to dumb every single sentence down so kids my physical age could understand me.
Apart from all the clan heirs and heiresses there was one other kid from the civilian orphanage that surprised me with his maturity and intellect at such a young age (same as me).
His name was Minato Namikaze and while a bit shy at the beginning, after realizing that we (clan heirs) were not that bad, he quickly warmed up to us and managed to keep up with Shikaku and my conversation which impressed all of us.
Thus we quickly accepted him into our little group of friends (Ino-Shika-Cho and me) and spent the rest of the afternoon talking eating and playing together.
After a few hours it was time to say goodbye and we agreed to meet at the playground the next day to play together.
Several years passed by in a flash and soon it was time to enter the academy.