In that incident, my siblings got out without any permanent injury. All thanks to the nine tales.
As for me. I was not so lucky.
My hands were covered with scars.
That's not all; my chakra network was also damaged.
It was still working, but the problem was that my chakra network would not develop properly, and it took me more chakra to perform any ninjutsu or genjutsu.
You will think after an incident like this my parents will pay more attention to me, but that didn't happen.
They did pay attention to my health and well-being for, like, 1 day, and after that I was back to being forgotten.
But I will not let this discourage me.
This world was a place where the weak would be killed without exception, and I was going to live no matter what.
-Time skip to the next day-
As the rays from the sun hit my face, I began to wake up.
My body was in pain due to the training from yesterday.
I was focusing a lot on physical exercises due to my chakra problems.
But I still did some chakra control exercises and practiced with the chakra chains.
--
Stretching my body, I got up from the bed.
Looking at the sun, it should be around 11 in the morning.
Man, I sure woke up late, I said to myself.
I was currently in the Uzumaki Namikaze clan state.
I really didn't want to be here, but I really had nowhere to go.
The previous Naruto's memories also affected me.
Calling it his memories didn't feel right.
It was like I was always in this world.
Everything he experienced, I felt it through his memories.
The sadness of being ignored, the anger of being scolded for doing something he never did.
Being called a failure by the villager and my siblings, I felt it all.
I will become stronger for the both of us, I muttered to myself.
--
- After some time-
After I got dressed, I began to head down staries.
The house was being decorated for our birthday party.
Even if I say "ours," it was more like my siblings' birthday.
Honestly, what kind of parent forgets their own child?
Ohhh, well, I couldn't care less for something like this, I said to nobody but myself.
Talking to myself was becoming a habit now.
Probably not good for my mental health.
Even though I said I couldn't care less, a small part of me felt sad.
I could hear the cheerful laughter of my family, and that made it worst.
I wanted to be a part of that laughter, a part of the family.
Stomping those thoughts, I began to move to the door of the house.
I was going to train to get all those stupid thoughts out of my head.
-Another time skip because I don't know what else to do -
I was back in my room after some time of training.
Looking around the room, there was not much really.
The walls were painted blue.
There was nothing on the walls except some papers that had drawings on them.
Looking at the drawing, you could see a happy family of 5 and one lone boy in the corner of the drawing looking sad.
All the drawings were like that; either they showed a happy family of 5 or a sad boy.
I don't know why I never took them off the wall.
Maybe I felt connected to the drawings or some other bullshit the author thought of.
The room had a bed, a table, and a chair.
That's it, nothing else, not even a clock.
Sighing to myself, I thought of going down for something to eat or drink, as I had not eaten anything except ramen that Teuchi and Ayame gifted me as a birthday gift.
They were some of the few people that acknowledged me and the previous Naruto's presence.
Side note: the ramen was delicious; no wonder Naruto in the anime liked it so much.
As hunger got the best of me, I went downstairs to the party.
The party was going really well, so much so that even when I entered, nobody paid any attention to me, as if I didn't even exist.
I went to the kitchen and found something to eat.
As I was eating, Minato suddenly requested everyone's attention, saying he had something to announce.
Having an idea of what he was going to say, I got my heart ready.