Bookworm

When I showed the picture to my dad by pointing at it, he said to me that he was my uncle. He had a sad face on him when he said that. I couldn't make out completely what he was saying, but apparently, he died on some mission. I guess everyone in this world had someone they lost to some BS ninja business, and my uncle was that someone in our family. I wonder if he left any notes on ninjutsu I could look at.

As I got close to being 3 years old, I could now understand a bit more of the world and its language. I realized that my mom's name was Mino, and my dad's name was Kai, both of whom were Uchiha, of course. I was relieved when I found out we weren't directly related to the head family, since I didn't want to be bothered being friends with Itachi or Sasuke.

Since I reached the age of 3 and could control my body pretty well, I wondered if it was a good time to start doing my passion for fitness again. I know in my world it was better to start bodybuilding and fitness sports after 10-12 years old, but since we were in a different world, I wondered if the age of 3 would be alright. I tried asking my mom to take me to the library and read me books there since I couldn't read for shit. My mom was surprised at first and said, "You're gonna grow into a bookworm if you're already trying to go to the library," but I gave her the puppy look, and she couldn't say no. When we reached the library, I was shocked by the size. It was like 4-5 times the size of the library I had on Earth. I asked my mom to go to the fitness section. She didn't want to at first and just wanted me to get some kids' stories, but the puppy look worked wonders again.

When we reached the taijutsu place, there were a lot of manuals, but most of them had locks on since only ninjas had permission to read them. I went looking for anything that looked a lot like pictures and looked like it was meant for kids. I ended up finding one; it had a picture of a young man with a green jumpsuit, giving the thumbs up. There was no mistaking it, it was Might Duy, no one else had those thick eyebrows.

I asked my mom to read the manual. She explained to me how the book was basically a lot of stretches to do before and after a workout and how to start beginning the body for hard taijutsu training. She then went on to say the book said around the 4-year mark was when people can start doing the basic stretches and workouts based on village research done before. I guess I had one more year to go until I could work out.

I decided between now and till I could work out I need to learn to read books, so I could learn things on my own instead of having to give my mom the puppy look. So I decided to ask my mom to teach me how to read and write. She said, "It's better for you to make friends and have fun than to learn how to read and write; you will learn all this at the academy later. There is no need for you to learn now." I ended up convincing her, saying, "I want to grow up to be a scientist, and it's better for me to start sooner so I can have a head start." She sighed and agreed.

I started getting lessons from both my mom and dad and sometimes the maid. The maid's name is Nina, by the way. From what I could gather, she was a civilian orphan that didn't have much talent for anything, so she ended up as a maid. It's not the worst; there isn't any sort of disrespect or anything for maids in this world for some reason, so that's pretty good. Anyway , the language was pretty hard to learn since it wasn't like I could translate anything to English. You just had a word and a picture to remember words. Eventually, after 9 months, I could read and write at a 3rd-grade level. Pretty good if you ask me.