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~Konoha, year 26~
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- Ryoichi's P.O.V -
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In my previous life, I was an overachiever, I topped my class, had many athletic accolades, won a bunch of awards, and had many achievements-heck I even represented my country in archery before I landed on that accursed hospital bed.
Yet, out of all my accomplishments, I have never been as proud as I am at this moment- I can finally stand on my feet!!! How long has it been? Ten years? Maybe more if we count that hell hole *Shudder*
"Kya!!! My Ryo-chan is such a genius!" Before I can even revel in my achievement my giant of a mother picked me up and started rubbing her face with mine.
Sigh~ God why did you have to make this woman so clingy?
Ignoring her antics, it's been two months since Ayame became wet nurse for Hime-sama. Nothing much happened, my progress has been the same except for my senses that has started to improve drastically. I don't know whether it's due to my infant body developing or if my improved brain just processing the information better. If I have to guess it's probably both, I mean if I focus on something, the world around me starts to slow down as it does for Speedsters or Sharingan's ability.
Talking about Sharingan, I finally managed to find which world I reincarnated in…Naruto world.
To say I was shocked was an understatement, it took days and a worried Ayame calling the doctor a few times for me to reel back to reality.
I even considered being in a fanfic written by some shitty Author. All my struggle and suffering for nothing, just to give me a tragic background, but I closed that can of worms the moment I opened them. I'm already questioning my existence, I don't want to sink into that hole any further…in the back of my head, I can hear a bald man with bugatti calling me a pussy for not escaping the matrix.
But forgetting my existential crisis, I'm in a world where achieving Immortality is possible, and if a guy with shouta fetish can achieve it then so can I with my modern knowledge and still improving brain…but just in case I don't, I need a way to spy on Orochimaru…maybe a hidden camera in his brain that can see through matter? Or a simple voice recorder?
Forget about making such advanced technology in this backward world. That guy changes bodies even faster than a teenage girl changing her crush.
"Ryo-chan~ what are you thinking so deeply, don't ignore Ka-chan~," Ayame interrupted my thoughts with a pout.
It's good that the Senju clan care about its members so much or else I can't imagine this stupi-ahem-not so sharp woman surviving this cruel world, I mean even if I try to hide my activities, I still get caught doing them, but this woman just shrugs my abnormality and accepts them as traits of a genius.
Ohh hello, woman! Which three months old crawls to a bookshelf in another room, or even crawl at that age for a matter of fact? Let me tell you…A Reincarnated one goddammit!!!.
"Ryo-Chan~ let's change your clothes, it's time to go to the Patriarch's house." Ayame said as she puts me down and went towards the dressing table.
Ohh! It's already time to feed that loud brat. For God's sake, my ears drum gonna burst one of these days.
Just thinking about that brat's inhumane cry makes me remember the first day I visited the Senju Patriarch's house.
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~Flash back~
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- Narrator's P.O.V-
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It was like any other day, Ryoichi was trying to find the energy with his ever-improving senses when Ayame entered the room. And like every day Ryoichi ignored her baby words and weird baby faces and focused on his task. Just as Ryoichi was thinking Ayame would leave after changing his diaper, she picked him up and carried him to the bathroom.
After bathing and changing his clothes. Ayame brought Ryoichi outside the house for the very first time.
Ryoichi's eyes darted from one building to another. His molten gold eyes can't hide sparks of intelligence and intense curiosity that a three months old shouldn't have.
Ryoichi scanned the relatively newly built buildings, yukata-adorned people, and even the stone masons who were building something on the mountain.
But unfortunately for him, It did not take long for them to reach the Patriarch's house where a maid led the mother and son duo to the Mistress of the clan.
Once there Ayame bowed and greeted a blonde buxom woman politely which the woman replied with a weak smile.
Lady Hanami was still tired after giving birth unlike Ayame who is a Senju and a Jounin, and recovered from her difficult delivery after a good night sleep.
"Ayame it's good you're here, I can't describe how much I appreciate your willingness to become a wet nurse for little Tsunade." Lady Hanami's voice was weak like her smile, but it did not hide her noble charm which even affected Ryoichi slightly.
"Please don't say that Hanami-sama, it's an honour to feed the granddaughter of Lord First."
"But still as a normal civilian and not carrying the blood of Senju, I had doubts whether I could provide necessary nourishment to little Tsunade." The blonde buxom spoke again as she tried to bow but Ayame nearly teleported beside her with her Jounin speed and stopped her.
"Please Hanami-sama don't embarrass me…"
'Tsunade? Lord first? Senju? It can't be…' while Ayame and Lady Hanami was talking, Ryoichi repeated the familiar words, his improved memory instantly reminded him where he heard all three names.
And just as he was thinking about all this the door of the room *Slams* open revealing a caramel skin man with long brown hair. Ryoichi's thoughts halted and he scans the man carefully, but then his eyes landed on that iconic red hat the man was wearing.
Ryoichi's face paled as he realised who the man was. The man was none other than the first Hokage of Konoha, the Reincarnation of Asura, and Shinobi no Kami: Senju Hashirama.
'Impossible…' Ryoichi's brain went blank the moment he realised which world he was in. He ignored Ayame's kneeling, or Lady Hanami's standing up to greet Hashirama, he even ignored Hashirama who abandon his all dignity and started playing with the baby in the crib while making funny faces.
'No, no, no, no, no, no, it can't be…It's just a coincidence, Yes! A coincidence. There are infinite numbers of universes out there, so having a Tsunade, Senju clan, and Lord First is not that rare…' Ryoichi thought delusionally, completely denying the fact that he was inside a world, he once read in a book.
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~Flashback ends~
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'Dattebayo!'
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~Konoha, Year 28~
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Like the progress of civilisation, the flow of time is also unstoppable, and in a blink of an eye, a year and a half passed.
During this time many things happened in the hidden leaf village.
The biggest of them all was the First Hokage Senju Hashirama passing his hat to Senju Tobirama.
After taking over the position of Second Hokage, Tobirama made many reforms and laws, he showed his genius in politics and the military aspect of the village, and his deep thinking led to the creation of many secret Shinobi branches and organisations such as Anbu and Jutsu research organisation. But the biggest change he made was to found an Academy where civilian children can learn the arts and ropes of being a Shinobi.
He ordered the clans to also send their children to the academy which many protested, mainly Uchiha and Hyuga, but the with complete backing of Senju and other clans he forced them to comply with his demands.
His action made Uchiha more dissatisfied with the Konoha and Senju clan, of course, Tobirama realised that and immediately came up with an idea to placate them, but decided to wait.
Inside the Senju compound's training ground a weird scene was taking place, a small kid was doing pushups while multiple leaves were sticking to his naked back, and rotating slowly.
"45, 46, 47…48…4-9…50!!!" Ryoichi fell down after completing his targeted number. He can feel his arms shaking, his biceps burning, but despite all that his face was showing a gleeful smile.
'Ahh~ how much I missed the grind, the soreness and burning of muscle tears are the best especially when I can feel my Chakra seeping in and healing them quickly, making them stronger' Ryoichi thought as he lay down.
'With my physical conditioning done, I just have to practice the basic Taijutsu katas and I will be done with today's routine.' Ryoichi stood up after five minutes and started performing katas, he especially focused on the footwork as he had read many times in his past life how important those are. Although he has already memorised the katas to its last details, he still performs them daily to built muscle memory.
'As a legend once said, I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.' Ryoichi repeated the same sentence throughout whole boring practice.
Over the course of a few months since Ryoichi started his secret training, he has realised that his improved brain doesn't only helps him in controlling his emotions but also his body, his dexterity has gone off the charts, he can control his body so flawlessly that it shocks him everytime he practices his parkour routine.
He also realised that his brain can sense and process all his inner body activities like how some foreign substances effect his bodily functions, or like now where he can feel his Chakra and healing factor kicking in to mend microtears in his muscles. He can even feel how his mental and physical energy naturally combine to become Chakra.
Ryoichi's second brain growth has given him an ability similar NZT-48 although not at that level quite yet, but if his brain keeps improving at this rate he might reach that level and even surpass it. But recently he has noticed his brain growth slowing down, and if he couldn't find a way to pressure his brain to adapt again, his growth speed might return to a normal human infant level…at least what considered normal in Shinobi world.
The second ability his second brain development has given him is the massive amount of mental energy production, which has led his Chakra to heavily tilt in Yin nature, something completely unheard in Senju's.
Having a huge amount of mental energy for Ryoichi is quite normal after all he has lived 30+ years spiritually if we don't count the Void, but his Senju bloodline should eventually even that mental energy out with its massive stamina and vitality.
But unfortunately, the massive amount of lifeforce the Senju's are known for is making no difference-heck Ryoichi can even feel his Chakra becoming even more Yin dominant each day. Although Ryoichi believes when he grows older, his stronger body will provide much more Physical energy than now, but so will his even smarter brain.
And if he couldn't find a way to generate a huge amount of Yang Chakra to even out his Yin Chakra, his body will corrode, and he will become bedridden again…at best.
"Sigh~"'Hashirama has stepped out of Hokage's position already that means it will be very soon he will die…and triggered the First Shinobi War where Tobirama will die as well.' Ryoichi thought as he took off his pants and jumped into the pond.
'I have to become as strong as possible before that. I still don't know how the Senju clan went extinct other than some fan theories.' Ryoichi cleaned his body carefully before dressing again and making his way towards the playground where his mother left him before going to her job.
'Should I consider myself lucky that the Senju clan has no other young children beside me and Tsunade, or unlucky that it also brings too much attention from the adult members of my clan?' Ryoichi thought as he reinforce his body with Chakra and start jumping from one tree to another.
'Whatever…it's good that there's no one to train here because it's easier to hide my training in an abandoned training ground where no one visits.'
Ryoichi reached the playground pretty soon where he saw a bunch of kid playing, of course, all of them were older than Ryoichi by a year or two.
"Hey look it's Ryoichi-sama," One of the kids noticed Ryoichi and called the other kids.
'Heh~Senju clan sure is treated like Royalty, even if it's a side branch member.'
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