It has been 3 months now, since my father started supervising my training and I have to say it has been tiresome months. My daily schedule had been something like that:
07:00 am - Breakfast
07:30 am - Morning run and stretching
08:00 am - 'Gentle Fist' training
09:00 am - Break
09:15 am - Sparring
10:00 am - More running and stretching
10:30 am - Byakugan and chakra exercise
12:00 am - Lunch
13:00 am - Education in different arts with mother (zither, dancing, go/shogi, calligraphy, mathematics, etiquette, tea ceremonies, painting and even more)
16:00 am - Freedom
18:00 am - Dinner
22:00 am - Sleep
It had been exhausting, but I still like the time I could spent with my parents. I noticed how much time I was now spending with my father and I really liked it actually. He also seemed to like the time we spend together, which is pretty awesome.
I also found new hobbies thanks to my mother. After our first shogi session, I started playing against Minion01 on the day right afterwards. The game is super fun, but the actual reason why I started playing is that after a few games, my mental stats started increasing. So I have been constantly playing shogi until it took about 50 games to see any improvements and am currently thinking about switching to go.
Painting has also been super fun. It was relaxing to just sit back for a few minutes everyday and paint a picture of my own mindscape. Every time I started painting, I could finally relax from the exhausting training and just sit back and enjoy recreating the frozen island. Somehow the action of painting out my mindscape, left me with a profound understanding of myself. Each stroke had me thinking about past events and made me stop for a few minutes to reflect about it. In fact I am spending around at least an hour each day only by staring at the canvas in deep contemplation. I would add one new stroke to the canvas and then reflect about it for a few minutes and then do the next stroke.
One of those topics had been about my stay in Konoha.
I originally planned to leave Konoha as staying in would start attracting attention from individuals like Danzo, Orochimaru and even the Hokage. Getting the attention from them is won't be funny. Danzo might try sublty influence me to join his side; Orochimaru may start getting funny ideas about my 'unusual' Byakugan and actually try to kidnap me, but will do so without a way for me to escape; the Hokage might try to find any faults at all with me to question my loyalties and just be a complete pest.
But at the time I was thinking of leaving, I didn't feel this closely connected to my current world. Right now I truly feel like being here in the Hyuga compound might just be the place to be and live out my days.
Should I stay in Konoha, I could have my genin exams early on and start being a ninja at an early age like Itachi is doing soon. If I ever get bored from staying cooped up in here the whole time, that might actually sound like a viable option.
Heck, maybe it is not even such a bad idea to stay in Konoha.
Of course there is that Kaguya problem looming in the background and I still have no real idea what I plan to do with her.
Anyway that question will probably plague for the next few months and I even have about three years left to come to a decision about me actually leaving Konoha via my kidnapping ruse.
I also started using the Byakugan and it has been awesome to do. Seeing peoples chakra system is interesting and sometimes even reflects their mood.
I played a game of shogi against Ko and had my Byakugan activated most of the time. During the game I noticed how his chakra would sometimes move weirdly and started to link it to his frustration, whenever I made a really troubling move for him. Since then I have been using my Byakugan more often to learn more about reading peoples chakra flow and linking it to their emotions and it had been tricky to do around Hyugas.
Hyguas are widely known for their controlled emotions and you would seldomly meet a Hyuga openly showing their emotions. Of course my parents stopped doing so around me, but they are still hard to read sometimes. The only real emotion I could clearly connect with anyone has been adoration, whenever people saw me talking with Sir. Fluffykins, walking with Sir. Fluffykins on my head, pouting and so on.
Oh right! I finally learned how to do the leaf sticking exercise! Of course did I know how to do it, but I had my father explain it to me and mastered in less than a week. I could have started doing the exercise even without anyones help, but I somehow wanted to have my father feel proud about my achievements.
Anyway I learned the leaf exercise and started applying it to Sir. Fluffykins! For two months now, he has been accompanying me everywhere, while being safely deposited on my head. I would even occasionally use Qi strings to have him move around and make gestures. Minion01 even had the glorious idea to learn ventriloquism or a sound jutsu to have Sir. Fluffykins start talking!
It is moments like these, when I am truly thankful to 'Parallel Processing'. Use your split mind to decapitate your enemies? No, instead use it to confuse your enemies with a talking plushie. No enemy ninja will suspect a talking, fluffy toy to be a harbinger of death.
This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it.
I really have to learn ventriloquism...
So this is how I have spent the last days.
Currently I am sitting on my bed and was about to sleep, when I noticed a change in my chakra. All the natural chakra I had inhaled, currently filled out my whole dantian, except for a small amount of Liquid Qi, and makes it impossible to absorb more. The whole situation actually had been bugging me for the whole time now.
At the time when we just learned to use Qi, we never noticed how only a small portion of our energies are actually converted into Qi. Once we had around 200PE and 200SE completely converted into Liquid Qi, we couldn't convert more energy into Qi. Since then we had been waiting for some kind of breakthrough, which I seem to be currently experiencing.
I concentrate on my dantian and do the same thing I did last time. I have natural chakra, physical energy and spiritual energy spin around and move closer to each other trying to condense it. It takes me 15 minutes of pure concentration and I finally finished. All energies start mixing and turn into Liquid Qi.
Concentrating on my dantian I can also notice a certain trend. I could have around 10 times the amount of Liquid Qi, before todays event, inside of my dantian, at which point I might have to look for another way to cultivate. 10 times my 200 Qi would force me to have around 2000PE. The last time I checked my status, I still had to reach that number with my spiritual energy and my mental stats were about 80.
It seems that if I wish to start growing faster, I will have to start gaining levels.
Speaking of levels, I have to find a way to actually get any sort of experience points. I originally expected to get experience points by winning spars, but I never felt different. There are also no quests popping up anywhere.
The only thing that could have me gain levels is killing, but for some reason that is not an option at the moment. I am sure my current age is in no way related to that.
I never really thought about it, but how much experience would I actually get by killing a genin? 50%? 10%? Maybe even a whole level? What about killing a jonin?
There is no real way for me to know how good others are in relation to myself. Do people even have level in this world?
I never found a way to 'analyze' or 'observe' other people status screens and obviously I don't think they can see their own ones too. It just got me thinking how I am actually going to be awarded experience points.
Maybe I will find a way to 'analyze' people in the future, but for now I will lie down and have pleasent dreams.
----------------------------------------
In my dream I am walking around a frozen field, during a heavy snowstorm. Looking down at myself, I can see a body that could be considered that of my future self or at least it is what I imagine myself to look like in the future. Long black hair, a well curved body and fair skin wearing a white kimono with blue lotus flowers on it. In fact I am looking really close to a 16-year old Hinata.
It is freezing (Why am I not at least wearing a damn jacket!?) and dark and I have no idea where I am going.
In the distance I can see movement and find a white rabbit with white eyes and a weirdly shaped horn protruding from its forehead. We both look at each other without moving, until the rabbit starts hopping away.
Without any real idea where to go, I just follow the rabbits trail.
Minutes later, the trails successfully lead me to a cave and I am finally away from the heavy snowstorm. Willing chakra into my hand, I have it work as a torch and keep following the trail deeper inside the dark and cold cave.
I come to an exit that leaves me in front of a completely frozen lake or sea. Oddly there is no snowstorm in this area and I kind of get a weird sense of deja vu.
Looking into the distance I can see the rabbit, which is currently watching me and sees to actually waiting for me.
Not wanting to disappoint my fluffy companion, I keep following it until I can see a weirdly familiar island in the distance with a lone tree on it.
The island is completely different from everything else around it.
First while everything around here seems to be either frozen or covered in snow, the island is completely free from it.
And secondly it is the only place that is filled with an aura of life. On the island are actual animals and even blooming flowers.
Of course I am immediately walking over and can finally stop shivering as the moment I stepped on the island, my body is filled with warmth.
Meanwhile the animals are looking oddly at me and I just look once again around the area.
The island is filled with different types of flowers that are in colors ranging from white to pink and occasional purple, but the flower that I can recognize are pink and purple Hydrangeas. I may have taken a small peak inside the flower book from the Yamanakas.
Anyway it is a beatiful sight and that thought has me remember where I have seen the island before. This island oddly similar to my the frozen island in my mindscape!
Thinking about it. This whole dream is giving me the creeps. In fact the feeling I am getting is closer to a nightmare.
"Beatiful island you have here."
This voice...
"You are truly an interesting child to have something like this inside of your mind."
Oh my god please don't do this to me. Not now.
"I hope you don't mind that I had it changed slightly to make this conversation more comfortable."
Oh crap. Right where the blue rose should have been, is a beauty with 2 horns on her head reminiscent of rabbit ears and white hair that is so long that it even touches the ground. On her face you can clearly see her white Byakugan eyes and a third eye on her forehead. Unlike the blank and white Byakugan eyes, the eye on her forehead is a red eye filled with circles and tomoe inside of it. Her cut eyebrows and red lipstick somehow give her a regal look, but all I can really think about right is how fucked I am.
"I liked the way it looked even if I am not a fan of snow and ice, my Lady."
"The frozen island certainly had its charm. Don't worry I will reverse everything I did, if the old island is more to your liking."
"Please don't worry about having offended me, my Lady."
How the fuck get she into my mind? Crap. Did she see my memories?
"Hm~ I also took a look inside of your mindscape. It truly is a magnificent place. A frozen sea that house fish, which in turn each keep a memory of your past live. Truly interesting. Alas I couldn't find your current memories as I had not enough time. I hope you don't mind me having taking a look around to know more about my champion, dont you?"
Is she saying the truth? Is it so weird to assume that all stars in the nightsky have memories inside of them? I can't really assume that she didn't take a look around and then there is the thing with her having seen my past live. Actually she should have known about me being reincarnated anyway as she had granted me her blessing during my reincarnation process.
"If you like I can show you memories of my current life, my Lady."
"Hm~ I don't mind if you just call me Kaguya. Afterall it seems that you have recognized me somehow."
Oh crap. I hope Minion01 completely had my Naruto-related knowledge completely hidden.
Now the question is what am I going to tell her? Do I want to try lying to her?
"I originally thought of you as an ancestor as you are obviously having the eyes of our clan and managed to enter my dreams, or mind."
This isn't exactly wrong so I hope there won't be any repercussions for it.
"Ah interesting conclusion. Ancestor hm~ you are not entirely wrong with that idea.
My name is Kaguya Otsutsuki and I am the known as the 'Rabbit Goddess'.
You are my chosen champion and I have blessed you with my chakra.
I have come to you with a mission young one."
Fuck my life.
"I want you to help with my eventual revival."
I really don't like where this conversation will be going...