'Huh, what a strange dream…' I thought with eyes closed lying in bed, slowly waking up.

'I had a dream about me being a small child named Yuta. I had a mother that cared for me and loved me, always smiling and laughing… Such a good feelings I had in that dream. Mother used to go to work every day and I always felt sad in that dream when she did, and always felt happy when she came back. That was just a good simple dream I had, up until the end of it, when loud scary roar and explosion occurred, and I woke up.'

I stretched my arms and slowly opened my eyes and when I saw the place I'm in, strong feeling of fear and shock gets to me, the place I'm woken up is unknown, I don't remember how I get here! I instantly remembered the strange black empty space and floating text that told me that I'm about to reincarnate!

I looked around me and saw that I'm in a large room with rows of beds alone the walls, most of them occupied by kids and me being one of them. I saw my small hands and body and it felt weird, I used to be much older than that. And then it clicked in my mind 'That was real! I died and then reincarnated, everything is real!'

I'm trying to calm down and clear my mind but it's hard. My heart beats fast and heavy. 'I actually died and now I'm in a body of a child in a world of shinobi!' I started sweating hard, still not able to calm down. I heard the sound of footsteps coming close to me and looked at its source of it, it was the woman around 40 years old coming close to me with worried expression.

"Hey you, you are finally awake! Everything's fine now, no need to worry, everything is already over!"

'What is she talking about? What is over?' I started to understand now. That dream about me being a child named Yuta, and this is probably not a dream but the memory of this child. And he probably died in that explosion in the end of the dream before I overtook his body restoring it.

"You are very lucky little one, you've being found in a wreckage of a house, completely unscathed! What is your name little one?" Woman asked.

"Yuta" I answered. Probably it's better to act as that child from my dream. "What happened? Where am I? Where is my mom?" I asked.

"Please calm down! The Demon Fox attacked the village, but you don't need to worry about it, the Hokage killed the Demon Fox, and everything will be alright now! You are at the orphanage now, but don't worry, all unattended children are brought here. When peace in the village is restored, your mother will come to pick you up. Are you was at home before you are found and brought here?"

"Yes, I was at home. Mom goes to work every day and I stayed alone at home. Then I heard a loud explosion. I don't remember anything after that" I said.

"Ok then, just stay here and relax, we will find your mother!" Woman said and went away to attend to other children in the room.

'So that how it is then. Well, the text in a black space said that my background will be of a civilian orphan, so I highly doubt they will find Yuta's mother alive.'

With that little chat with old woman, I finally managed to calm down and start thinking straight.

'My current situation being that: I'm a 4 year old orphan in Konoha village, in the dark and cruel world of shinobi. Soon they will find out that Yuta's mother is gone, and they will place me in to the orphanage for real.'

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'And then what? Then I will aim to enter the shinobi academy, that's what. Required age for entering should be around 6, so I have some time before that.' I closed my eyes and tried to ignore all the noises in the room and think about my situation and plans.

'First of all, now that I died and reincarnated, I need to accept this new reality and my new identity as Yuta. Now I am Yuta and now I have to live a new life. My previous life, my family, friends, work, hobbies and internet – it's all gone now!'

'And worse part of it – I don't even know what happened there, am I really died? Maybe I'm in a coma and I can return to a simple and convenient life with internet eventually?'

'Wait! Do I really want to return? Do I really want to return to the world without chakra that is very similar to magic of fantasy worlds that I always dreamed of? No thanks! I mean, letting go of my old life, getting used to a new world and securing my place in this new world will be hard, but this is worth it!'

'And it's not like I can return to my previous life now anyway, so I can assume for now that this is not possible.'

'Now that I'm here there's no point thinking about my previous life and how the damn I ended up in the fictional world of Naruto. Let's think about what I have now and what to do next.'

'And what I have now is the Time control ability. I instinctively knew what it is now, and how it works, and this is amazing! If I manage to get it working as I want to, it will be totally broken, the choice I made back then is the right one for sure!'

'Time control ability is ability that integrated directly in to my soul. It theoretically allows me to travel back and forth in time and do much more than that with time itself, limited to only my imagination and strength. And there is a problem with that of course! Its capabilities are limited to my spiritual energy. By strengthening my spiritual energy, I will be able to use my Time control ability to a greater degree.'

'Spiritual energy is the one of the two components of chakra. The other one is physical energy.'

'Physical energy should grow with time and training. Spiritual energy as I remember depends on mind and experience.'

'A way to increase the spiritual energy is to practicing ninjutsu and getting experience, something like that should work if I remember things correctly. But that is for the future, I can't practice ninjutsu before the academy.'

'For now, it felt like I can use Time control only in simplest and easiest form – to travel back in time, and that is also in a simplest way – travel without a physical body.'

'That meant that I would travel only with my soul but not body. When my soul travels back in time, it replaces my existing soul in the past that should be there in the first place for time travel to work. So, I can only travel back in time to point in time when I reincarnated here, and by traveling I will return to that point in time and lose everything except my memory and my own soul.'

'My soul in the past will be replaced – it doesn't mean that I will kill myself of the past or anything like that, my soul in the past will simply be replaced as it can't exists in two instances at one point in time, it's just how the time travel with the souls works.'

'There is only one timeline, there is no parallel timelines or worlds here, nothing like that, this is what my understanding of Time control ability tells me. Well, it just works, no point to think about it any deeper.'

'With my current capabilities it felt like I can only travel back in time up to 3 days to the past. For it to work it doesn't require chakra at all, it needs spiritual energy to work, but it not consumes it or chakra, it just limited by spiritual energy strength.'

'What this ability actually consumes to work is some kind of energy that my soul has, and this soul energy will replenish with time. Everything about that soul energy needs to be tested later, I don't know how much of it will be used by time travel and how much time it will take to replenish.'

'And that's all that is there about my Time control ability for now. It's pretty weak for now, and some aspects about it are unclear, but I am sure that this ability is nothing short but my personal cheat in this world of shinobi. Even now if something happens, I can use it to travel back in time and escape danger! But I don't know how long it will take to replenish soul energy after that, so it's better to use it only as a last resort.'

'But I need to become strong the sooner the better, because if something kills me too fast and I will not be able to use time travel fast enough, I will die! It will only need a second to use this ability, but it's not instant, at least not for now.'

With such worrying thoughts I slowly fall to sleep…