Naruto : Warring state survivor

A woman, in her early twenties was walking towards a very old weary building under the evening sky. she was carrying a lot of luggage. As she stumble upon the entrance iron gate that she heard a noise presumably of an infant crying.

"UUWAAAA UWAAAAAAA"

she was started to see an infant crying who was no more than a week old beside the gate.

She drop all her luggage and took the infant in her embrace. She rushed inside the building and collided with a overweight woman in her late thirties almost pushing her down.

"Shizuku, this is your first day as a care taker and you are already causing trouble. For god's sake you are not a child." said the women in an annoyed tone. Then she noticed the infant in her arms.

she took the infant in her embrace and asked,"Whose child is this your relative or yours?"

"No ma'am I found him outside the Gates."

"you already got your hand full. Are you sure his parents are not looking for him?"

"No ma'am but I will take care of the child until someone comes looking for him."

"Okay" the woman said with a sign.

[Protag-kun prospective]

It has been 2 years and 6 months since then.

This place is an orphanage. My name is Reo. This name was given to me by Shizuku the only caretaker here besides the wardon. She gave me this name because she hails me as a genius. I learned to speak, write and read from her along with maths. I guess she is right partially since I am only three and also the only one interested in learning. I think she is a good teacher.

There are other childrens in the orphanage. Only a few of them are older than me others are younger than me. A handful of them are my age.

I usually go out with shizuka to buy groceries. My only objective was to information. I am in howling wolf village in land of medicine. The land of medicine is not necessarily a country. The land of medicine is the name commonly used for the region surrounding the "Three Wolves" mountain range, because of how many medicinal plants grow there; using just the plants that grow near the Howling wolf Village, over three hundred different medicines can be produced. Therefore it is targeted by many clans for medicine. Kodan clan resides here and provide protect to us inhabitants.

The citizens are not wealthy even though they have medicinal plants and experience using them yet they are always cheerful of their lives. The environment is not gloomy. It was a facade.

Kodan clan would take away most of the ration from villagers leaving only essentials behind.

Granted the state of the village the orphanage always had food and resources for the childrens. This piqued my suspicions.

So I always roamed around Warden to find the source of this luxury. Wardon always scolded childrens for slightest of mistakes and beat them for major ones. she never talked nicely or showed any affections. The only warmth we could expect was from Shizuku.

6 months passed by like this.

One day I heard wardon and shizuku talking in her office.

" Grow up suzuku world is in shambles. Every clan out there is thirsty for each others blood.

We cannot provide food to all the childrens."

said the wardon in a low but strict voice.

"B-but there has to be a way. We cannot give away children's to the ninjas." replied Shizuku

"Again with this argument how many times do I have to tell you. We give kodan ninja those childrens who they want and they provide us with resources for rest of childrens."

"They are childrens not their disposable toys"

" I know I am not nourishing these children for them but this way those who are left behind have a future. They might grow up to have kids of their own. You have grown attached to them shizuku even though I told you not to. I know it's not in your control but this is the harsh reality. You will soon grow to be custom to it."

" Besides even those have a slight chance of becoming powerful ninja and survive. Go and gather all the five year olds ,they might be coming soon, You should best say your goodbyes" wardon turned around with a heavy heart.

I thought she was a bitch'

I thought I knew her.

That day I learnt the first lesson of my life," Never judge anyone based on what they show."

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