[Whomever doesn't give me STONES is antisemitic.]
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[You sick bastards. Now you won't give me stones because you WANT to be and are anti-septics! What a sick world we live in.]
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2 years later/
In the tranquil garden of a traditional Japanese house, a tall youngster was sitting, his brow furrowed in deep thought mixed with irritation. Despite his young age, his frame was not skinny but rather showed signs of emerging muscle. He wore a casual shirt and shorts.
Around him, the garden exuded a serene atmosphere, with carefully trimmed bonsai trees, a small koi pond reflecting the sunlight.
"Dufuck?!" I let out as I lost again gambling my money to this old geezer.
"Rahahaha Little shit! you are too green to contend with me! You see this compound in front of you?! I built this shit, brick by brick before you were even in your daddy's balls! Don't underestimate these old bones! And...give me that money suckerrr!" The usual foul mouthed old Arata-san laughed as he took away all my money I fairly lost in some card games, or that's what I naively thought as I didn't realise the old fart cheating.
It has been 2 years since I started training. Nothing particularly interesting happened except for the war getting so intense that the Damiyos urged the hidden villages to stop this senseless slaughter at once.
The orders from them got ignored, and that forced the Shogun in the land of Iron to threaten going an all out war on the hidden villages if it was not stopped.
And that's equivalent to America, Russia or China declaring an all out nuclear war on a certain continent or stuff like that.
The shinobi war didn't only involve the Great hidden villages but every shinobi and people around the world.
At first, it was only between Shinobis, but the collateral damages and the insane amount of sabotages spread this disease of war simply everywhere, even neutral countries.
Some small countries got absolutely annihilated, villages razed, people got sold or forced to fight for the ninjas or local authorities, countless women and children are dead or missing or used as currencies and got sold for minimal amount of goods and resources.
Some Damiyos seeing the opportunity, started to expand their territories and their only source of man power are the local army, civilians, and a good chunk of ninjas or independent mercenaries like rogue Samurais.
The Samurais don't engage in Damiyos fights. Only with the order of the Shogun they will move. So that's why the Damiyos depend on unconventional methods to fight wars.
The global economy right now is collapsing at an alarming rate, trade is near or a big fat zero. Near 8.5 out of 10 of the population of the world live in extreme poverty and starvation.
There has also been severe cases of mutiny and revolts in some countries which are now nothing but ruins with the only thing left there is some very few people dying of starvation.
And let's not talk about the psychological and strategic warfare going on which caused every kind of sickness and diseases to spread around the world with no way to stop it.
Mass migration, cannibalism...etc.
Shortly speaking, outside Konoha life is a literal Hell!
The ninjas messed up very big this time and earned the eerie of the Shogun who is right now threatening to get involved and pull out the big guns then send a million or maybe millions of enthusiastic and moral zealous Samurais to raze every hidden village to the ground.
Normally, if this happens, then the world will literally go back to the stone age, and this event is very unlikely to happen; Some Kages may think like this.
Even though the Kages are confident enough with them having tailed beasts under their command to drop tailed beast bombs on the Samurais and Ashigaru who are local armies under the Shogun and Damiyo respectively, the collateral damage would be so great that even if they won, it won't matter when everything dies and lands become unsuitable for life. The Ninjas can't even use the Tailed Beasts without permission from their respective Damiyos and the Shogun, but if push comes to shove, they might.
Another problem is this new Shogun who is said to be blunt and straightforward, if he said he will join the war if it's not stopped then he will join in without a second thought. The whole political world is under the Shogun, but now seeing the system collapse because of some greedy fools who can't keep their hands to themselves, the Shogun is now angry.
And surely, we don't want a dictator like Kim Jong Un with a mix of Trump wannabe to be angry, right?
Anyways, every great and small hidden village took very huge tolls, and anymore than this then they will be no more, so after so much unnecessary contemplation and delayed thoughts, the Kages are in the 'process' of stopping it finally!
They were reluctant to stop it mind you!
Like seriously, fuck ninjas! I haven't eaten meat in a good restaurant or other places for months now because of this stupid war and have to go to the forest to catch some birds or if lucky, a chakra bear or any animal I can get my hands on.
Even the animals are migrating knowing they are being hunted by everyone.
The hustle and bustle of the village is long gone, money is not circulating, trade is shit, people are turning vegan. There are not enough farms to produce food for everyone. I even heard some kid died yesterday because of starvation.
Only the clans are having it better. As for civilians? They can eat shit or die, no one cares at this point and everybody has become so self-centred. You wouldn't be surprised if you woke up the next morning finding yourself naked in an alleyway or in a huge pot being cooked.
Actually, I heard that some group of people outside the village started cannibalism and disgusting stuff like that.
Thankfully, my clan was dying from the beginning and very few old people are alive which left their houses and wealth to us.
I have strictly banned entry to the clan compound long ago for the outsiders when I saw those zombie faced civilians outside the compound search for food and stuff.
That's all the news in these last two plus years.
As for my daily life:
I have been training like David Goggins on steroids bro. The moment that I got OG Garou's Indomitable Will, something inside my soul snapped! as if my useless ego got destroyed by a shriek of my soul whom desperately wanted to do something, to live for something, to have a Goal!
Now, I have become an unhealthy levels of a motivated mf when things are related to training or combat. Probably not a bad thing, especially for someone with severe cases of ADHD, laziness, and a mobile addict, but I can't say it's good either because you tend to act hyper energised sometimes, like those black dudes at the gym with Hulk-like bodies but got a voice of a squirrel.
Though the good part is that, I still sleep and eat as much as I want. The IndomitableWill is only a tool to create a strict disciplinary life thankfully and it isn't much controlling.
So, the training might be intense, but not extremely so as I always find time to relax.
For my training in itself... I have stopped training with my mom long ago. I don't have chakra, and besides Taijutsu, she doesn't know what to teach me which I can benefit from.
As for Shuriken jutsu and Kenjutsu... fuck those.
My mom looked at me at that time with a raised eyebrow when I told her I will go down a path of hand-to-hand combat, because the Hatake clan are known for their powerful Kenjutsu, but what can I sayyy?
My Assimilation with the essence increased and some of my traits and tastes changed in somethings, one of them is the great disgust I have for cold weapons.
The philosophy behind this kind of thinking is this:
I have a mind. I have a body. The Yin and the Yang. If you can't turn these two... the most trusted companions of your entire life into becoming the most powerful thing that there is, then you were never meant to be powerful.
Cowards who depend on special items and tools to compensate for their weakness are just... weak.
'Don't blame my twisted way of thinking because this is just who I am-! Wait! This is not who I am at all! What the fuck?!' I thought with my eyes widened in realization at how absurd this situation was, but a second later... I...I, I shrugged? at the thought... a...and I... don't...care?
Let's get back on track people...
I have come to realise that most ninjas only know one Taijutsu style, and that's Wing Chun, which is used by the Ip man, Bruce lee's Master if you don't know what and who that is.
The only difference is how the style is slightly brutalized through chakra. Another difference is just how every ninja prefers to use Wing Chun differently, but they ALL have something in common which is how every single ninja only aim for the heart or the brain because, well... they are ninjas?
Some very few also use free style Taijutsu but that's it, nothing special to be honest.
If My??? Master Bang came to this world, I can easily imagine how he will dog walk the whole world if this was the best of what ninjas can really pull off in close combat. Like seriously, I bet my heart and lungs that in terms of close combat skills, every single ninja in the One Punch Man world can make most of these so called ninjas here eat shit.
Now just imagine what happens when you give One Punch Man ninjas Chakra!
I mean, look at the battle between Momoshiki and the Gay duo. It was all Wing Chun and a slight Uchiha Kenjutsu for SUSuke. The whole battle everyone used Wing Chun which might look cool, but that's all there is to it, to be cool in battles of that scale.
There are many ways where you can come to the conclusion that the answer to your math question is = 4, but what's important here is that, how efficient and easier can you reach number 4?
They beat Momoshiki, yes, even though it was pure plot armour bullshit... but just imagine, instead of Wing Chun, what if you gave those 2 a proper Martial Arts technique?
For example the God Of The Highscool's "Renewal Taekwondo?" Bro, Scratch that freakish martial art of that world! What if you gave them Six Styles Rokushiki? Maybe even Kaiwan style from the Kengan Ashura.
Literally game changing.
Anyways, except for a very few then Naruto world ninjas are all Wizards at heart.
Maybe except for people like Dai, Guy and Ay, I shouldn't expect much from Naruto ninjas.
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As for my mom...
She doesn't exactly know much on how to build muscle mass efficiently, because all the ninjas here do to get their bodies stronger most of the time is exhausting their chakra, refill their chakra then repeat the cycle with some Yoga stretching for flexibility.
Through this cycle, after sometime, the Yang energy inside the body will slowly build up and finally, the body becomes stronger, which explains why most ninjas are skinny because It's not the muscles that become stronger, increase in number, and more elastic, but only the very cells becoming more active.
So, whoever had more cells and a healthier body, the better will be the chakra quality and quantity.
Simply put, just like Heimdall or Baldur... twig like body but because of some wizardry shi they are strong unlike Kratos who had both voodoo shit and a strong body.
Ninjas or people who use chakra in general most of the time are like glass cannons, or like cultivators whom depend on energy for everything instead of their bodies.
So when you see Naruto and SUSuke throw each other at mountains and remain unscathed is not because their bodies are strong, but their chakra protecting their bodies in a thin layer.
I may be wrong though but I think that's the gist of it.
Anyways, my mom told me that no ninja except for the ninjas in the land of lightning focus on building muscle mass because it's really hard to do so and inefficient in the long run because muscles restrict the body to move freely, which I beg to differ but I didn't have the energy to argue at that time.
Though she had a point, because muscles need huge amounts of protien, and that's daunting on most ninja's pockets, so the easier way is to just exhaust chakra and let it refill by itself.
She also only knew basic fitness and flexibility exercises which I sadly already knew.
Actually, I got some of the memories of OG Garou that I possess now after the Assimilation increased. I already know how to build the perfect body for martial arts, so I told my mom it wasn't necessary for her to teach me useless stuff anymore.
Though we occasionally still spared.
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Throughout these 2 years, I got some few boosts to my physique from the assimilation of the Essence which ended up with me getting muscles faster than expected without inhaling protien like my life depending on it much to the surprise of my mom.
You can hardly see anyone who has a body that is not like a twig. Either they are skinny or fat. I may not be Ronnie Colman level of big, but I already had a body that was a little smaller than a swimmer build at the height of 155cm/ 5'1 feet, Which is kind of absurd because I am only 7.
"Eyy! Stop daydreaming you fucked brat! There is 100 more Ryo missing and I need to go to nap fast!" The annoying voice of Arata-san rang out in my ears which interrupted my precious knowledge googling.
"Old fart! Can't you be quite for a freaking second? I was thinking about important stuff!" I replied with irritation.
One more thing is that, after spending sometime with this shitty bastard, I have enriched my dictionary with some cuss words.
It's something inevitable for anyone who have shitty friends. Friends tend to pick up the bad traits of each other often instead of the good ones, so...
"Watch your mouth cunt! You are only 7! And I am pretty sure you are not thinking about reproduction, so fuck your useless important thoughts! There are more important things to do than thinking you dipshit!" Arata-san spat angrily as he abruptly stood up and started to walk outside the garden.
"Oh yeah? Then do tell what suddenly grabbed your attention? Some saggy old butts?" I lazily replied to the geezer who suddenly stopped with his small back facing me.
I too stopped and just stood there because we both looked at the ninja with an animal mask that suddenly appeared with a letter in his hand.
"Hatake Arata?" Devoid of emotions, the ninja rhetorically said as he looked at old man Arata.
"That's what they usually call me." Arata-san replied in a deep ominous tone after a pause which made me raise an eyebrow at.
The ninja then gave the letter to Arata-san, and just like how he came, he left.
Arata-san then opened the letter hesitantly, and finally, with a deep sigh, he read through the letter.
I just stood 1 metre away behind him as I waited for him to finish reading whatever written in that letter, which I already had an idea what it was.
Arata-san's hands started to tremble for moments before he fell backwards.
"?!"
I was surprised seeing this but I immediately held the man from behind and didn't let his back hit the ground.
"Shitty old man! What's wrong with you?!" I cried at the face of Arata-san who was as red as a tomato which clearly meant that he had difficulty with breathing.
"Hufff Hufff! T....T....Ta..ke m...m..me.. to th..e-"
"Don't die!! Don't die old fart! It's okay! Just breathe!!" I cried as I shaked the old bastard back and forth to encourage him to breathe.
"T....t..t..t.t.takkkke m...me to the... hospi-blurghhh!" Arata-san tried very hard to tell me something but I went pale as blood came out of his mouth in the middle of telling me something important.
Is he going to put his properties in my name now after he is finally dying?
"Ey ey ey ey! What's happening to you old geeze-" I was about to yell in Arata-san's face again before I felt his strong grip grabbing my collar with surprising speed and then, I heard one of the loudest voices in my entire life.
"JUST TAKE ME TO THE HOSPITAL YOU DUMBFUCK!! I AM FUCKING DYING!! IT'S A MOTHERFUCKING HEARRRRRT ATTAAACK!!"
*Silence*
For some silent moments, I looked incredulously at the now passed out Arata-san in my arms with my face filled with his spit and some blood, then without wasting another second I wiped the spit on my face with his old clothes and positioned him in a princess carry, and finally ran towards Konoha hospital at top speed to confirm if he is dead for real.
We need answers.
The End.