Chapter 19

A kid was running aimlessly with fear on his face. Sweat covered his whole existence. His heart was thumping faster as he ran. The kid was Yoshi.

He don't know where to go, so he just ran straight ahead. Sometimes he ran to the left and sometimes to the right. The place he's at right now was dark, filled with fog. The only things he could see was some trees that stood tall around him. Not so far behind him, there was a black and shadowy monster that was chasing him. The monster has long claws in both hands, two pair of legs and it's face was fully black. It ran in four using his hands and legs, as times passed it became faster and faster.

'S***! S***! What the hell is going on?!! How long was I running around like this??!! Ahh!!!'

Yoshi screamed inside his head.

Several hours passed, Yoshi felt tired from running, he doesn't have any energy left. He felt his legs started to give up on him and soon, he fell to the ground. His whole body was trembling. As he was tried to get up again, he heard a thud right behind him. Yoshi turned his head slowly and saw a big black monster was standing in front of him. He knew there's nothing he could do so he closed his eyes, prepared for anything that'll come next.

The monster brought it's right hand up to the sky with the sharp and long claws, ready to slash Yoshi with them. But before it could do that, suddenly there was a light coming from the opposite direction of the monster. Because of the blinding light, the monster screamed and ran away from there to save itself.

Yoshi was glad to see the monster has ran away. He let out a sigh of relieved. As his head was getting heavier, his surrounding became blurry and the last thing he saw before he passed out was the light that shined brightly. He wondered if the light was the same light that he saw back in the void before. But he was too tired to think of anything and soon his eyes were closed shut.

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*Yawn*

Yoshi woke up with a big yawn. He rubbed his eyes tried to focus his vision. He looked around for awhile and saw a tray of food beside his bed and a medicine, must be his breakfast. Yoshi then got out of the bed and went to the toilet to wash his face and brush his teeth before eating his breakfast.

After he done with breakfast and medicine, he went to the window and open it fully wide. Let the morning wind came into the room and brushed his pale and smooth white skin.

'It's been a long time since I feel this peace.'

Unfortunately, the peaceful moment didn't last long when suddenly he heard a door being opened roughly with a loud 'bang'. He then turned his head towards the door and saw a yellow haired kid filled with sweat. The kid was huffing and puffing, gasping for air as he made his way towards Yoshi.

"Naruto. What's wrong? Are you okay?" Yoshi asked.

"The- there's nothing wrong, Yoshi. It- huff, I heard from Gramps this morning that you are going to join the academy this year. Is it true?"

"What? Don't tell me you came running here just to get me to confirm it? Well, yes. I'll be going to the academy together with you this year and until I graduate." I said as I walked back to my bed.

Naruto who heard this has a wide smiled on his face. Obviously, he was happy. He then walked to Yoshi's bed and sat on a chair. After that, the two of them started talking to each other, Naruto told Yoshi about the academy and his soon-to-be-classmates. While Yoshi just listened and sometimes asked some questions regarding the academy since he doesn't have any particular topic to talk about. They talked until it was the time for Naruto to go back home.

After Naruto left, Yoshi did the things that he normally do around this time. Daily checked up, eating dinner, medication and went to bed. He felt so tired today maybe because of the nonstop conversation with Naruto from morning till evening. Once he laid his head on the pillow, he drifted to sleep just in a second.

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(Next morning)

Today's the day Yoshi would be discharge from the hospital. He doesn't have anything to be packed instead for the toiletries. He's already changed his hospital clothes to his black shirt and knees length shorts that he asked Naruto to bring from his house.

He was sitting at the end of the bed while reading a comic, waiting for the nurse to come and give him permission to leave. Naruto was not with him at the moment. After he was done delivered the clothes, he ran out as fast as he could and said that he couldn't accompany Yoshi home. Yoshi of course have no trouble with that. Whatever Naruto was doing at this time, he doesn't want to know nor did he care. After sometimes, the awaited nurse came into the room and told him that he could leave after sign out at the receptionist. He just followed what the nurse said, he went to the receptionist and after he done with all the paperwork, he went out of the hospital and got to see the sun shining brightly while emitted a warm sensation to his skin. It's been a long time since he walked under the sun.

Yoshi walked slowly to his house while looked around the village. He tried to appreciate the lively an happy surrounding even though himself doesn't feel like that. He's still glad to see people around him were laughing and smiling happily with their friends or family.

A few minutes of walking, he arrived at his house doorstep. He went in and saw that the house was in a good condition, no dusts or spiderwebs on the ceiling. Everything were cleaned, nothing changed.

'Someone probably took care of my house when I was at the hospital.' thought Yoshi while still looking around his house.

After he done checking the living room and the kitchen, next he went to check his bedroom. Same like the kitchen and living room, there was nothing be changed here. It's just that, there was some items on his study table that he doesn't even got to use yet.

Yoshi walked closer towards the table to get a better look at the said items. Once he closed enough, he realised that they were two brownish envelopes and a black envelope neatly placed on the table alongside each other. The two brownish envelopes has his name on it while black one, just black.

'Black envelope? That's strange. Whatever, I'll check the two others first.' Yoshi monologued to himself.

He took an envelope from the right which is the brownish one and checked there was a letter inside. He took the letter out and started reading it.

[ Dear Yoshi,

First, I want to say that I was glad you woke up. Second, I want to inform you that you will be attending the academy one week from now. Third, I have left you your two months allowance in another envelope. You know what to do with the money and I hope you can use it well. And four, take care of yourself.

From,

Third Hokage]

'Okay. That...was a really straight to the point letter.'

Yoshi went to the next envelope which there was a plenty of money in there like it was stated in the letter. They were 2000 Ryo in total. Totally a big sum of money for a kid.

'Heck, if Naruto try to save up his monthly allowance right now, he will be filthy rich after add up with the money he collected in the missions. Damn!'

Put the thoughts about money away, Yoshi's attention turned to a black envelope which was already on his hands. He scanned the envelope, tried to find any abnormalities of it. But to no avail, it was a completely normal envelope. He then took out the letter inside and surprisingly, the color of the letter was also in black while the writing is white.

'So the abnormalities here is not the envelope but the letter. Interesting.'

He began to read the letter with full attention as the writing was kinda small and not gonna lie, it was like an essay. Not to mentioned there was two letters there, so he doesn't want to miss anything that'll cause him to read the letters again.

[ Dear Mr. Yoshi,

How are you doing? Are you okay in your new world? I know you have a lot of unanswered questions, but rest assured 'cause in this letter, you might find some answers to your questions. Before I start with my explanation, I introduce myself first. My name is Reaper. Yes, that kind of Reaper you're thinking about. It's just that I have a handsome face, not a skull one. And now, let's get down to the explanation.

As you may already know, you are dead in the past and got reincarnated in Naruto world, or should I say transmigrated since you didn't born in this world. You must questioned yourself why did this happened or how, right? Well, it's simple Mr. Yoshi. As to how, because I'm the one who did it and as to why, you could say it was like my apology gift to you. And yes, you read it right, APOLOGY. I want to apologize to Mr. Yoshi for not meeting you beforehand and just threw you here as I was so busy with other lost souls. I was so caught up in my work to the point that I don't realised another lost soul which is you. Based on your memory, I knew this world would be perfect for you since you have vast knowledge about it.

Since I was the one who threw you here without any cheat or lead. I decided to give you some missions for you to do. With this, you would have an interesting, adventerous and full of danger life or in short extraordinary life. Yeah, you could thank me later. Anyway, the missions will be send to you via letters periodically and of course after you've done with the previous one, and there'll be a reward if you get to finish all the missions. I would say here that the missions is limitless means that no one knows when the missions things gonna stop. But I'll tell you this Mr. Yoshi, this letters of missions will stop operating after you have a clear desire of yours. Why I said desire? It's because the reward that I will give you in the future is base on your desire. More clear you desire is, more easier for me to grant it. There was a list of missions in another letter I sent you. You are free to do the missions in order or not, and I would like to say that you can decline the missions if you want to and live a normal life, no consequences. But I hope you accept it as there'll be a reward that I would love to grant. When in your missions, you don't need to worry about mess up the plot of the story, heck you can mess it up if you want. There'll be no consequences that will happen on you. Or you can just leave the plot as it is, it's all up to you, Mr. Yoshi.

I wrote much enough. I hope this letter answered some of your questions. To end my letter, I would like to say good luck to you Mr. Yoshi and live your life to the fullest. We will meet again someday.

Sincerely,

Reaper ]

''Ehh...what? That was a lot of information that I need to digest first. Alright, so this Reaper guy was the one who did all this and he said he prepared some missions for me to do, huh. Hmm....let's read the missions letter first and decide later."

Yoshi grabbed another letter from inside the envelope and read it.

[ Letter of Missions:

1. Become a top student at Konohagakure Academy.

— Max: 4 years straight

— Min : 2 Years straight

2. Master all the basics Ninjutsu and Taijutsu in prior of 4 years or less.

3. Master 2 or more Kinjutsu or Forbidden techniques from the Scroll of Seals.

Please burn this letter if you decline the missions, and keep it if you accept it. The letter will self-burn itself once the missions done successfully and will be replace with the next letter of missions.

(p/s: Take note that once you accept the first mission, you have to complete all the missions that'll come in the future. There is no turn way back.) ]

Yoshi was stunned after reading the letters. He doesn't know what to say about this, but there was something or more accurately, a line of words that piqued his interest. 'The reward that I will give you in the future is base on your desire.', that's the line. It would be a lie if he said he doesn't have anything he want, there was only one thing in his heart that he always wished he would get it someday. And now, the opportunity was in front of him, the opportunity for him to reach his goal and get the thing he desire the most.

'There will be no consequences if I decline the missions, but it will give me a lot of benefits if I accept it. If I accept this missions, I'll have to put my suicidal plan on hold and start to enhance myself. There'll be so much to do. Sigh, let's think properly about this tomorrow.'

Yoshi put the black letter inside the drawer properly and walked to his bed. He lied down and started to feel drowsy. In just a few minutes, Yoshi drifted off into his dream and continued to sleep for the rest of the day like a baby.