Soon, we arrived at the main gate of the Hyūga compound. The large wooden gate with the wooden sign —oak, or some other expensive tree— with the kanji for Hyūga beautifully carved.
"T-thank you!" I stuttered as my teeth were chattering from the still dropping temperature and bowed to show him how grateful I was.
"You're welcome." he said, turning away.
"W-wait! What's your n-name?" I said, stuttering slightly (again) because of the harsh weather that caused my teeth to chatter like some low grade skeleton monster.
"If fate allows, we'll meet again." he coolly said without facing back.
Chuunibyu or something, that was what he reminded me of. The japanese term for someone who is immature and drowning in their delusional world of fiction despite being an adult or approaching adulthood.
I squinted at his disappearing figure even though I know we both headed to the same direction where the side branch families where located.
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"Miko? Where have you been! Do you know how worried I was?" Mama put her hands on my shoulders and shook me. Her voice was a tone overflowing with worry, even a person as dense as me could tell.
The amount of relief I felt after arriving back to this small edo-Japan styled house was undoubtably the most emotiontional I've felt ever since arriving here in the Narutoverse.
Unstoppable tears trinkled down my cheeks and I croaked out a muffled, "I'm home."
Upon seeing me cry, my sister and mother drop their angry frowns and embraced me. I coud tell they understood from my actions that something must've happened.
My nose was dry, clogged and somehow buzzing—numb— and so were my bare feet because I lost my sandals in the snow. It was probably forever lost and I can only light a candle that mama and nee-chan would go easy on me.
They quickly ushered me in and wrapped quilts over my shivering body as the temperature contionously drop without care.
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My adaptability surprised me. Life as a Hyūga maid in training was sailing smoothly and I was able to ask some random mob shinobi about chakra.
They gave me some downgraded answer to my questions seeing that I was a toddler, answers that would make a kid aspire to become a ninja (a propaganda-ish answer).
Still, I hate to admite but I took the bait.
It was cool, chakra. With this chakra shit, everything became possible. You want to walk vertically and defy gravity? Sure.
You want to do some elemental magic shit? Possible.
You want hypnosis or you want to clone yourself? Too simple.
Point was, chakra was a superb solution to everything. It defies logic and scientific laws.
So this all-in-one solution coupled with various other anime power moves, I can come up with alot of effective simple jutsu turned powerful.
All I have to do is unlock my byakugan and attempt to mold my chakra. Simple.
Or not.
Now you see, chakra works differently for every person. If you had too much chakra, you have a higher chance of releasing too much but if you had too little chakra you have to exert more force(?) to complete a jutsu.
Since chakra is connected to the circulatory system, I don't know how to sense my chakra. That's like asking me if I can try to alter the flow of my blood in my blood vessels.
It circulates around my body and often times shown in the anime that it starts from the core, the centre of the body. But how does one learn to feel and mold their chakra?
That was something I kept questioning.
When asked, the random chūnins on the streets often times reply with a pause and then a chuckle before they ruffled my hair.
Not. helpful.
Plus, it was getting on my nerves and I was tempted to get kidnapped by Danzo (old guy might be hungry for a Hyūga in his anbu wouldn't he?) so that there would be some improvements in the magical chakra shenanigans. Key word, tempted.
Aside from the obstruction in my training montage, everything was sailing as smoothly as can be for a transmigrated degenerate weeb.
Yes, so smoothly that there didn't seem to be any problem as of the moment. Too suspiciously peaceful for my liking. Not that I'm complaining about the tranquility, but it feels peculiar for a transmigrator to not have any conflicts in the new world.
Well- it's not exactly zero conflicts because I am currently being shaped to become a servant for the Main branch of the Hyūga clan.
All is well that ends well, right?
This is my new home afterall.
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Sorry for the short chapter. . . Don't worry, it's going to go back to being 1000+ in the next chapter.
Get ready because things are about to get chakra enhanced. XD