The last thing I remember was darkness.
Then pain.
Small lungs burned as air forced its way in and a shrill cry escaped my mouth—my mouth
I wasn't dead I was crying like a baby
I wasn't supposed to remember this babies don't think, babies don't reason, and babies definitely don't panic.
But I did
The ceiling above me wasn't a hospital ceiling from earth. It was wood. Paper walls, the faint scent of incense and when the woman holding me whispered
"Welcome to the world my son."
I understood every word.
Japanese.
Not translated. Not subtitled.
Understood. That was the first problem the second was the headband hanging on the wall
The leaf symbol burned into metal konohagakure.
5 years later
My father had died before I was born making me more appreciative of my mother so when shinobi came to my house when I was 4 years old telling me that my mom died in the line of battle I felt heartbroken and I also grieved for a long time but felt empty after because I couldnt have done a thing about it not a thing it so I went to their grave and I promised them to work hard and make them proud and hopefully never feel that empty feeling ever again.
So for the next one to one and a half years, I made a plan for myself I would train I would make money and then I would enter the konohagakure academy
So for the next year that I trained I made myself test my limits I did not do it like rock lee where you do 1000 push-ups until you collapse I decided to very very very slowly push past them so that I did not push my body so far as to get hidden injuries.
I did figured out that my maximum run without hurting my self to much was 2 or 3 kilometers I knew that had I been the same as in my previous life that I would 1000% not be able to run this much at barely 4 years old I figured it was because even if I couldn't feel it yet it was because of my 130 trillion cells that contained my physical energy half of chakra I also made sure to stretch a lot before I trained so that I would not damage my body and even if I did it would minimize the damage I obviously did reps of like 10 push ups 10 sit ups and 15 squats 2 times so I could do 20 push-ups, 20 situps, and 30 squats isn't that amazing to do as a 4 years old even if it hurt a whole lot but if my muscles trembled to much for too long, I stopped. Because shinobi retire (or die) early enough without helping it along.
Speaking of training I have also been meditating a lot in this year I unlocked my chakra and after a lot of times falling, getting wet, and also passing out from chakra loss I managed to get down and master tree walking and water walking isn't that awesome that only took me 6 months It only took naruto 1 week im definitely not crying or anything.
Afternoons were for work
Civilians don't get war pensions fast.
So I carried crates.
Swept floors.
Delivered packages to shinobi who never remembered my name.
Every Ryo went into a medium sized box beneath my floorboards. Not for comfort. For independence. I managed to save up 100k Ryo that is a like 1000000 yen
I have done a lot of other part time jobs like helping people rebuild fences after minor skirmishes, being a delivery boy (as ive already mentioned), assisting shopkeepers, carrying lumber, working at small restaurants, and the place I worked the most at was the weapons store because the owner allowed me to train using kunai, shuriken, and also allowed me to use basic sword art manuals learning the basic sword style for all konoha beginners in the art if the sword.
So now by the end of the year I could run 10km without stopping I can do 10 reps of 10 push ups, 10 reps of 10 situps, and 10 reps for 10 squats I can stick to trees and walk on water for hours my hands are calloused from the hard training I've been doing over the year I eat properly I sleep at ten but I can wake myself at anytime immediately if I feel danger or something and I had pretty good money saved up overall I was doing pretty good.
So by 5 I wasn't to stong but I was not helpless either tomorrow is the day the academy starts I've also figured out I am at Kakashi's timeline seeing as the the White Fang Sakumo Hatake is alive and that the 4th hokage Minato Namikaze didn't have a statue yet meaning that he was not the hokage yet I already applied to the academy and I am gonna go tommorow im guessing Obito, Rin, Kakashi, Asuma, Kurenai and all the others will be there tomorrow is really about to be a long day I mean "guess every thing is starting this is gonna be the start of a new future if I hopefully get the strength to change the tragedies that I can later on im gonna sleep well tonight because I know that im gonna be very tired tommorow dealing with the third hokage and hiding my strength so that I can get stronger without being killed by Danzo Shimura or the third hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi well that's something for the future me to think about...."