CH. 2.  ABANDONED

 EDITED BY DIEDE

It was a still night. The air was damp from the rain and there wasn't even a breeze. Nonou stands at the front of the orphanage she works at and breathes the late night summer air. She sighs heavily, “ These damn kids are a chore.” She goes back inside in an attempt to get some sleep. As soon as she goes back inside she hear knocking from the door. ‘ That's odd, I didn't see anyone coming.’ She grips a kunai and does a couple hand seals in preparation for a fight. She pushes the door open slowly then, suddenly kicks the door open to find no one on the other side. The only thing there is a box with a tag that says “ Name’s Ame Iburi. “ Not trusting it she whistle with a bit of chakra and a dog runs out of the house. The dog sniffs the box and pokes it with its paw. He gives a reaffirming nod to Nonou and she opens it. There’s a sleeping baby inside.

Nonou proceeds to silently fume in her anger. Why and who the fuck put a baby in a box? There’s not even any holes or blankets! She holds the baby close and cant help to notice the baby smells of maple. Mentally shrugging she brings Ame inside preparing to give the other caretakers a doozy in tonight's events.

I wake up to another new environment. I’m already sick of this happening.

I’m in a room. Narrow with beige colored wood floor and ceiling. A big wide window accompanies about a half dozen cradles. And I'm in one of these prisons. There's no one around and my body says crawlings a no go right now. That only leaves meditation and failing madly/, failing to scream. Meditation it is. Using the corner of my crib I sit and clear my mind.

It takes a while but it's done. I start to think of three things: my previous memories, the changes to my body and where I am.

Hm, that’s weird. I’m oddly numb to my past memories. Not that they're cloudy or altered. It's more like watching a movie. You feel the characters going through hard times, can empathize with hating Mr. Murphy, practically feel every bar fight and know the darkness of the abyss but at the end of the day your not them. I guess I should feel comforted by this. Not having to miss the family I left behind or the technology is great. But I can’t help to think I’m missing out, once again the opportunity to grieve was taken from me.

Secondly, my body is different. I know, obvious but there's something fundamentally different. I still have the same heart and limbs. I still have an able mind. No so much my voice but everything else is perfectly fine and working. Just something inside,  it doesn't pulse, it more like flows within me. gathering a little a certain spots but it all flows to one area in my stomach. The whole process reminds me of the readings of chi that I read about in my pursuit of meditation.

Also, I’ve come to find I’m not fully an adult in my mind. Im split somewhat in who I used to be and baby me who gives me certain instincts, thoughts and things it wants to do. Things like ‘find mother’, ‘flail’, ‘drool’ and ‘cry for breastmilk’ are namely some of them. And it’s comforting to know that I’m alive.

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In fact.

I AM ALIVE. FUCK YES. OH MY GOD. I’D SKIP IF I COULD.

It’s been a long journey boys! But we’re finally here.

I take in a deep breath and release through my nose, relishing the feeling.

I haven’t lived in far too long and I can get used to this.

As my mood gets bubblier something else clicks in my body. It feels quite literally like I'm dispersing into a cloud and becoming free. It’s nice until I open my eyes and literally realize I'm a cloud hovering over my crib! KfrsdVRFWN DSvreqtgfre! What in the seven hells is this?!

After some time of being a spasming cloud, I calm myself down and see what I can do.

I have 3-dimensional movement and can manifest different parts ( or all ) of my body on command. Though I can’t really describe, trust me, it’s pretty awesome. It's like the Iburi clan’s shin-ding in the Naruto filler episode!

I drift to the only door and use both of my tiny hands to push open the behemoth of a door and enter the room across from me. In there is a toilet and a sink with a big mirror. I reform on it and look at myself in the mirror. Olive skin, hazel eyes, no hair, notably female and notably naked. Not sure of hair texture but I assume I completely take after my mother. Before I can soak in the horrid future in store for me I hear,

Stomp, stomp stomp

“ Akachan wa dokodesu ka?!?!?!”

Where is the baby?!?!?!

Shocked I didn't move. And before I can make a quick getaway to my crib the door blows open. There I see a frazzled woman. With light brown hair covered by a coif and emerald green eyes surrounded by rectangle wire-framed glasses. In short, she's pretty. And looks oddly like what a real-life Nonou Yakushi would look like.

“ Koko ni ki nasai. Imasugu!”

Come over here. Now!

Even though I don't understand a lick of what she's saying, body language is a bitch. Baby instincts say act stupid. I attempt to crawl toward her and grab at her face. Both fail and end up in a face plant and a big splinter in my cheek. God that burns. Baby me says to cry hysterically. I do it  soundlessly. It works.

“ No, no, no, no, no.“

She rushes over, scoops me up and cradles me and that feels heavenly. Baby me calms down then she calms down and smooches my forehead. Looks me in the eye with a smile only saying,

“ Ame Iburi “

Wait.

She process to send a wave of warmth through me. It goes over each part of my body slowly and carefully.

“Tch, Seitai o sonshō shita. “

Tch, Damaged vocal cords.

She brings her other hand towards my face. And it glows greenish.

WAIT.

The splinter pops out along with any indication it was once there.

I’m left in awe.

She’s a witch! Burn her at the stake!

Wait no...

The “chi”.

Iburi-like smoke.

Her literally calling me Ame Iburi.

REAL LIFE medical ninjutsu!

I'm in the Naruto-verse.