The Elemental Nations
Just as the name suggests it's a mass of land with the basic elements for the name of their countries.
Fire, Wind, Lightning, Earth, Wind
We're now in the Land of Fire in the village hidden in the leaves, Konohagakure no Sato.
In the empty street of the village a lone boy is walking with snow crunching under his boots and the night sky draped over him like a blanket. All around him the doors and windows are shut on every building he crosses as if the ward of the chill and to keep the warmth inside. Yet the boy walks on as if the cold doesn't bother with only a scarf on his neck, his cloths light. Even the scarf was given to him by a kind old as birthday present, which was just a week ago.
The boy can be described as cute with his sunny blonde hair and ocean blue eyes, even with the whisker like birthmark on his cheeks. He wears a soft smile like he has gotten something he'd always dreamed of but couldn't get no matter what. Currently the boy is focusing on his hand.
In his right hand, he was holding a ball of snow focusing on it with a look of intense concentration. From time to time a small droplet of water will form the snowball only to freeze over the next instant. He doesn't know how long it has been since he started this exercise. Thinking back, he lets his mind wander to a few days back.
The first thing he registered was the sharp pain in the back of his head. Glancing up he saw someone shouting something at him in Japanese(?). He tried to get up slowly wincing as his head throbbed, He looked up only to be met with door slamming at his face. Jerking back, he looked around only to find trees and plants of various sizes around him except for the building in the front of him. He tried opening the door but it won't budge. He tried knocking, no one answered. After waiting for some time, he decided to leave, whoever that was clearly didn't want him there so he felt it best to just leave.
As he wandered around, he took in his surroundings, there seems be a festival of some kind going on given the crowd and their enthusiasm. Based on the decorations, the clothing and the Japanese speaking woman from earlier, he deduced to be in a rural area of Japan. Based on his looks and size he seems to be reincarnated or something, that too to some hard-core Naruto fans. Else who'd name their kid Uzumaki Naruto. Even if you named him after him shouldn't the surname be yours?
After crossing into a side street, he stumbled into what seems to the main road of this place. He was pondering on what to do next when he came across a site that stopped him dead in his tracks. There before him in a distance was a tall mountain cliff. What's odd was not the cliff but the faces carved on the cliffs. Faces he knew well, too well. Faces that shouldn't exist on earth as far as he knew. That means...
He took off in a dash towards the mountain. There before the mountain stood the iconic building of Naruto world, the Hokage tower. He collapsed right there wondering what's going on
What Happened?
Who am I?
Where am I?
How did I end up here?
Am I in the Naruto world?
WAIT...
AM I UZUMAKI NARUTO?
He needn't wait for long as it was confirmed in the next moment. For the villagers around him were giving him an wide berth. Muttering things he couldn't hear. Then he saw them, Ninjas/Shinobis, wearing the standard Konoha uniform strolling around or running across the rooftops. He swears he even heard an shout of "YOUTH" in the distance. But that's not the point here. The Point is,
He is NARUTO.
The most unpredictable knucklehead ninja of all time, who used the sexy jutsu of all things to punch Kaguya on the face. That Naruto.
He didn't know how long he sat there, afterwards he got up and trotted off to who knows where. He began wandering the village trying to piece together when and where he was. What's he going to, how's he going to survive. He has lived a sheltered life with all the luxuries of the modern world.
Now, he's orphaned and homeless. Where to live, What to eat and more importantly Where's the damn bathroom around here.
With no one deigning to acknowledge him, he roamed the streets only to stumble upon what looks like a training ground of sorts and the forest beyond. First things first, he went into the forest to take care of his business near a stream. Although transmigration/ reincarnation sounds cool, being in a kid's body where even 5-year-olds can kill you like swatting away a fly, it's a little terrifying. Thank the gods I didn't make a mess in my pants, This is going to be my only set of cloths till that decrepit old man shows up. How long was is again three weeks, months, years???
Damn I can't even last for three days. COME SOONER YOU DAMN MONKEY.
It's been a few weeks since I (transmigrated? /reincarnated?) woke up as Naruto. The past days have been riveting at the least. I've visited all the noteworthy landmarks I could remember such as the hokage mountain, the academy, the clan districts even the library both civilian and the shinobi one. The ones the shinobi use is called shinobi archives which allows access to only official shinobi.
My first meeting with ichiraku teuchi went the same as cannon. I was roaming the streets looking for the mark which'll provide me today's meal. Out of nowhere it started to pour, while the shop keepers were scrambling about taking cover, I swiped a few fruits from a nearby cart and made haste. As luck would've it, I slipped and crashed into another cart.
YOU DAMN THEIF….
I didn't even wait for him to finish his words I bolted out of there as soon as my legs could carry. After running till my legs couldn't take it, I stumbled upon the ramen stand battered, bruised and soaked to the bones. Looking at my state teuchi wordlessly placed a ramen bowl on the stands and beckoned me to come. I hesitated for a second but eventually went in when my stomach made that decision for me. After taking a sip from the hot soup, I finally understood why Naruto proclaimed this the food of gods. Cuz, In this situation even a warm water would've been heavenly much less such as appetizing meal. That was how I too became a regular at the ramen stand.
After a filling my tummy to the full I left the place a thanks and a promise to pay back soon. I retuned to forest next to the training where I marked my territory. I caught a glimpse of something peeking out from the bush. Turned out it was a cardboard box with a set of cloths, a jacket and a scarf. Clearly, I'm being watched, but where's the damn monkey. Will he come only when I learn to grill fishes.
…..
And That's what he did.
The bastard came only when I learned to grill meat, that too after the trail and errors I went through. Thank the lords for chakra and naruto's physique, without it my second life would've ended before it even started. Anyways, the creep came out as some kind old grandpa out to do social service and took me to my apartment gave me some money and left.
It's been a year since I came to this world, I was terrified at the start not knowing what to do, nearly starving to death. After adjusting I decided to make the best of it especially if I'm a walking cheat like naruto. It was shown in the anime that itachi's father had taken him to the battlefield near the end of the Third Great Shinobi War, where he killed an enemy ninja at three years old.
Taking a leaf out of itachi's book, I started to train as soon as I was able to secure a sustainable source of food. Since I barely had the essentials to survive, I was able to train diligently without any distractions and it started to show. My appetite got bigger, I was able to catch small games even with my bare hands. I was able to train my endurance with running, jumping and swimming. I can even stick to walls similar to tree climbing exercise.
Today I was training something new, I started training my chakra nature transformations after my birthday a few months back. I started with wind, trying to cut the leaf and with fire by burning it. Each took about a month of non-stop training all day long. Now I'm trying with water, I started off with trying to move the water in a cup with my chakra, progress has been a little faster than fire as moved from a cup to a glass to a bowl.
It has started to snow today and I decided to take it up a notch trying to separate water from snow. I decided to take a break from physical exercises since it hard to hunt in this weather. I learned to cook simple dishes and grill meat from uncle teuchi, who also happens to supply me with groceries. Unlike the OG Naruto I only eat at their place when I'm lazy or too tired to cook myself or as a small reward for completing a task I set for the day. I gave half the money the old monkey gave to me to teuchi as I can take anything from his stock, which is always full even buying something I need before I even ask.
Today's goal is to separate a drop of water from the snow completely, if finished ichirakus else emergency rations. So here I am with a snowball in my hand chakra covering it trying to wring out the water from it. However, it is easier said than done, every time the water starts to form it immediately freezes. Even my hands are starting to feel numb from holding the snow too long. Just as I was debating on stopping or continuing the exercise, I almost tripped over something. Looking down, peeking out from a mound of recently piled up snow was a sandal, an expensive looking one too.
I blinked looked at it and blinked again. Only then did I take a good look at my surroundings. I was in the middle of what looks to be like a junction. The streets were empty, shops closed, no one was out in the snow. Sighing I turned to just go back home only to come face to face with a small figure hunched over shoulders shaking. It seems to be a kid around my age judging from their size.
"Hey, Are you Okay? Did you fall? Are you hurt?" I asked approaching the little kid. Though something about this scene is oddly familiar, Like I've seen it somewhere. I put my hand on their shoulder and slowly turned them to face me. The first thing I saw was the pair of pupilless eyes glazed over with tears. It was as described eyes as beautiful as the moon itself. Then I looked at their face, their cloths, the hair and the little ornaments all over.
This kid is a girl and a cute one at that. Not to be a pedo or something but this girl really really cute just like a porcelain doll. Looking at her face (I really wanna pinch those cheeks) and eyes for some time my sense of déjà vu was only deepening. As I was contemplating this overly familiar feeling, then it hit me. I knew who this little girl was
"Oh"
Its Hinata.