My name is Alexander, and with introductions out of the way, I apologise for any lasting affections or alterations I made to your universe.
~Standardised introductory paragraph of the Traveller's Diary.~
The experience of being in one universe while lifting your foot is normal, the experience of being in another universe when putting that foot down is something I believe to be unique to me entirely.
The sensation lasted an extraordinarily long time, and trying to estimate how long that step took would be pointless since I doubted the numerous universes kept their laws of time in sync.
You think I seem quite relaxed? You are quite correct my friend.
*Clink* "Ah thank you, truly a believer of the will of fire." A thin man spoke as a coin fell into his cup, his build may have once been lean but intermittent meals had started to gnaw at his body.
Due to the being homeless for the last week or so, my panic had its spotlight stolen by with more immediate needs. The bustling village was as breath-taking as one imagined, various shops all catering to different customers, large patches of greenery spread like spilt ink on a map.
Alexander raised his head to make vague eye contact with four faces carved into the cliff face, they overlooked the Leaf village and were a constant reminder of the previous Hokage's achievements and sacrifices.
'Of all the anime I watched, it had to be Naruto I turned up in? Ninjas who can atomise people with hand signs, immortal walking and talking calamities and then all that shit with the Otsutsuki?' He sighed before picking up his stuff and setting off, the sun was at its peak meaning the various food stalls were going through their lunchtime rush.
'I at least remember most of the main story for Naruto, but why the hell can I remember 1 ryo equals 10 yen but not how much a pound is worth in yen? Ugh my sense of currency is all out of balance. Oh nice some rice balls.' A quick rub against his shirt and they were good as new, a nice sizeable meal for his lunch, probably hadn't been in the bin for long either.
One of the little things that the manga only showed a few times is how hard it was to get away with theft. On his third day he had been particularly desperate and tried stealing some crackers from a busy shop, sticking out like a trash heap in a forest and not being a dab hand at stealing made the attempt short lived.
It wasn't until he turned around after apologising to the owner did he realise a ninja was standing barely half a meter behind him. Unluckily, or luckily depending on your thoughts on a well discussed glass of water, the man had been shopping at the same time as Alexander.
It only made him feel more depressed when he thought about it, however he had been sent into the world of Naruto, it was certainly a hands off approach. As a regularly everyday earthling, he lacked chakra in any sense of the word.
He had spent days trying to perform leaf concentration training but the leaf would barely stick, and he didn't feel any sort of energy at all no matter what he tried. He tried activating a storage scroll inside a fuinjustu shop but nothing happened presides being chased out by the owner.
Setting down his blanket, cup and makeshift sack, Alexander resumed an honest day of begging in a different part of the Leaf village, this time closer to the popular bars. Drunk civilians were often kind enough to give more than a few ryo.
'Without chakra I can't perform any kind of justu, even taijutsu required spiritual and physical energy from what I remember, so maybe I could copy the moves but I'd still have my body's natural limits.' He brainstormed while putting his hair into a ponytail, due to all the dirt it was hard to tell if his hair was naturally brown. Luckily the Leaf village had remarkable number of rivers and ponds.
'Dojustu requires chakra too if I remember right, Kakashi kept his covered meaning even the passive effects possibly require chakra. While ignoring the impossibility of becoming a jinchuriki, even ninjas with their willpower are influenced by their tailed beasts, let alone the cases where the tailed beast takes over.' The more he thought about it, the more he wished he was in a different world.
'Maybe Shion's dojustu? Though it probably required chakra as well, ignoring if it could be transplanted or if she exists at all. The world is already doomed enough as it is without the somehow world ending threat nearly every movie had, that's assuming the world was based on the manga, with none of the anime only and filler stuff.' With a sigh he stood up and started making his way to a quieter part of the village.
He had considered becoming a labour, but considering he didn't enter the village via its entrance, he decided to keep a low profile where possible. The chances wouldn't be high anyway, the human's of this world seemed to have no limit to their bodies strength, ignoring the countless children who either failed to enter the academy or dropped out of the academy.
By now he reached a small wooded area near the outskirts of the village, near a quiet residential area but out of the way enough that only a few people stumbled across his camp in the woods.
'If it wasn't so dangerous in this world, I would be able to travel to some small village and add to the work force but if you are a civilian you don't stand much of a chance against even the weakest of ninja.' He sighed as he climbed down a small hill.
His camp was behind the hill near the village's wall, he hoped making it harder to stumble upon by accident though with ninjas being as fast and unbound to roads as they were, he doubted it was exactly out of the way for them.
A few ninja had stumbled across his camp before but rarely cared enough to spare it more than a glance. He tried his best to avoid ninja in general, having not set foot anywhere near the Uchiha or the Hyuga compounds nor any of the important buildings for one simple reason.
'If I'm right about having no chakra, it means that sensor ninja won't be able to sense me while dojustu capable of seeing chakra will just see my physical body, the lack of chakra and a chakra network would be enough to draw a fair number of questions.'