Ch. 3 Baby days

The world of Naruto is one of war and beasts. Before the main character himself came into the picture, there were already 3 world wars between the warriors - shinobi - of the five existing nations. Because of this, violence is constantly present for everyone involved, including children. In this world, there are fighters as old as 9 able to do some crazy shit and the world’s energies don't help.

One of the energies is called chakra is a combination of physical ( being the body’s condition ) and spiritual energy ( being one’s experiences ). Once you use it you can do many things with it like improve your body or perform things that are normally mythical. Chakra is a lot like stamina; you can train yourself to have more and can train to be more proficient in using it. Things like skyscraper-sized frogs, shooting fireballs from their mouth and moving quickly enough to leave an afterimage are nothing new to this world.

This same energy gives select families mutations, called kekkai jenkai ( Bloodline limit ). These let people do things a normal human cannot, even with chakra. These abilities can do things like turn to smoke on command, see the future, see chakra pathways in someone’s body, control plants, wield your own skeletal structure, break your body down to a molecular level, absorb Chakra, control blood the list goes on.  Plants and animals in this world have the same changes but to different degrees.

Another aspect of the Naruto-verse is the tailed beast ( Biju ). These are behemoths of living and weaponized chakra. There are nine of them and everyone has a number of tail that pertains to the beast’s power in reference to the other ones. But, don’t let it fool you. The One Tail can level a city of super soldiers if not sealed into someone. The person who holds the tailed beast - Jinchūriki - gets a couple boosts like a bloodthirsty beast in their head, possible immortality, extended chakra reserves and if you eventually get close you get aspects of the beast themselves. It’s pretty overpowered. Also pretty horrible because as a Jinchuuriki they treat you as if you're the beast, resulting in undeserved open hate.

THIS PLACE IS DANGEROUS AS HELL.

And awesome because I'm in a world I’ve actually dreamed about and know the future events of. That doesn't mean I can slack, this world is beyond harsh and most things and people can kill you.

I don't know how to feel about this.

I DO know I’m pissed and depressed that my mother ditched in an orphanage. WTF really? We played and everything….

For a few days, I threw silent tantrums.

A month passes and on a better note, learned to clap to substitute for my voice. I clap for chakra ( Substitute for breastmilk), clap for diaper changes, clap to be let out of the crib and clap for pretty much anything. The dog of the orphanage, Poppu, sleeps near my crib and gets a caretaker for me when I clap.

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His autumn orange and white fur and narrow snout have me suspect he's just a wolf-sized fox but, I can't help but love the guy. The way he rolls his eyes but still gets up when I clap is just hilarious. I’d laugh if I could.

Here at Konohagakure ( Hidden Leaf Village ) Orphanage, there are 3 caretakers: Nonou Yakushi, Raak Va’tal, and Maikeru. Raak is a plump woman with wrapped scarlet hair and is short tempered. Maikeru is a tall old man with a calm and brooding demeanor. Nonou has a bleeding heart, generally sweet/ encouraging and at times, playful. And the latter always checks up on me, I mean it. Seems like she cares for me a lot more than my mother.

When they're not showing me around to the other kids, singing or doing baby stuff with me I explore what I can do.

First off, willingly directing my chakra is work and tons of concentration. I suspect it's because I don't have the muscle memory quite yet and don't quite know what I’m doing but it's coming along slowly. I can now surge chakra into a part of my body, not by much at all but small steps for small children.

I'm also practicing on how I can ghost ( it’s what I’m calling smoke form now) correctly. Switching to and from forms is easy but fine control is not. It's a lot like knowing how to throw a punch or kick, but not knowing how to fight professionally.

Feeling impatient, I felt like practical practice is how I should go about getting it right. So I had a thorough and completely mature conversation with baby instincts on how to go about doing this. I’ve concluded that trying to ride Poppu from my cradle is the right way to go.

1. He can't really talk either ( though he’s super intelligent so he’ll snitch at some point )

2. He’s always readily available

3. If/When I fail he can get the caretakers to lift me back in

4. I never got to ride a dog before and baby me wants it badly

Poppo quickly grew bewildered by my constant attempts to ride him. The first time he was spooked that a baby randomly appeared on his neck. He jumped up. I fell off. He looked horrified when I looked like I was about to hit the floor. A 2 to 3-foot drop is huge to a child. As I was about to hit the ground I ghosted.

He was seconds from fainting.

I didn't want to emotionally scar poor the fox-dog so I reformed and beamed at him. The poor dog was very confused. I started clapping and he crept to a caretaker. Maikeru came in and saw me happily clapping on the floor. Not really caring since no one's hurt and it’s just a baby on the floor she picks me up, puts me in the cradle and leaves. I wait 5 minutes, rinse and repeat.

A good 7 times later Poppu looks like he needs a drink and I’m pretty sure they're discussing how I keep getting out.

From my times ghosting and the quick movements from Poppu, I found out that unlike my family I don't really blow away in the wind. This is a HUGE plus because my clan’s fatal flaw is ultimately dying from a breeze at the wrong time. How I came about this blessing I'm not sure.

I also played with my ghost form abilities.

I changed my density from mist to nearly solid and tested movement speed. I can go as fast as an adult can walk for the moment in my mist form and go as fast as a worm in most dense form.

Enough about ghosting. This baby brain is amazing! My mind soaks in passing information by the gallon full and I’m quite on my way to learning Japanese. This was mostly gained by watching the kids and caretakers talking and interacting with me but I’m well on my way to learning.

My first year of life will not be wasted!