Chapter 1- A New Existence

Reincarnation is an incomprehensible concept for me. I had obviously heard of it, even in great detail, as my own uncle during his childhood remembered things of his past life and I mean everything. He even met his own wife of last life after growing up who broke down crying after seeing him. He successfully let his past go and was a manager in a chemical company and had his own family now, but I was always confused about how it is possible in real life. It is like some farfetched story spun to gain attention even if many Asian cultures believe in it. So obviously reincarnation is an incomprehensible concept even if I'm familiar with it.

So when I woke up to find myself in a similar state I was obviously terrified, as the recent memory of my life was of an explosion. It was the work of the terrorist standing beside me in a hostage situation, along with 50 other students of various post-graduation courses. After that I only knew intense cold which seem to seep into my very being. A state that lasted for eternity and a single moment simultaneously, and suddenly I'm here.

After my awakening in this new existence, I tried to stand but my body won't listen to me. My cry of help came out as a mix of wailing and gurgling and when I shifted my head with obvious effort and a lot of time, I found myself looking at my tiny hands and body from an odd angle. The situation hit me like a rampaging bull, especially when I saw my reflection in the shiny surface of the crib.

After my freak out about the situation and conclusion I felt terrible, especially remembering what I left in my last life - my loving family, girlfriend and my career. After thinking for several hours of the night, I realized that there was nothing I can do except accept it and try to move on. If not then I will never find peace within myself, which is not easy at all as I'm a rather selfish person and couldn't let my bonds go. But I was a grown man when I died and have seen much in life so I somehow managed to compose myself. Next thought came to me as why are these memories of past life are not passive and repressed, as opposite to me feeling like my brain got downloaded in new body. I remember my uncle telling me that there was no emotion with the memories, they were just there, like some boring information you read for which you weren't excited at all. I tried to think any reason for that but came up blank, so I left the matter at the back of my mind.

Life after that night became very awkward to me, my parents expected me to be a normal baby but I was anything but that. I would cry very less and only when I wanted food or because of some discomfort, both situations were embarrassing to say the least. I didn't act like any 3 months old baby, which was strange for my parents and my sibling.

I learned various things about my new life in the following months, like I am born into a very traditional Japanese family. Obviously I can't understand the language, but some words like "kaa-chan" or "tou-chan" of my sibling hinted at this and with my limited interaction with the language (which comes from anime and manga in my previous life) I bet my money on Japanese. I learned that my name is Indra Uzumaki with my elder brother of two years being Sora Uzumaki, my parents names are Honoka and Daisuke Uzumaki and we have a large family, some of whom comes to meet us from time to time. Our house is a small round traditional Japanese house with a modest garden and koi pond in the back. From what I can see from the back perch on which my mother is burping me after my meal, there are many large trees and excess of vegetation circling our house and there are no other houses or buildings nearby. A strange situation is me accepting my new mother, as initially I even refused to consider her that but the loving smile and affectionate look and warmth filled brown eyes got to me in the end. I slowly accepted her as my mother even if she cannot replace my mom; similarly I accepted my new family even if they cannot replace my lost one.

Did I forget to mention that all of them are redheads? Even me, yes that is a rather strange thing I noticed. My mother had waist length crimson red hair with a slightly round face and warm brown eyes and a beautiful face. She is about 5 feet long and wear yellow color clothes with red obi. My father also has red hair with rather bright green eyes filled with life and an angular face. He is about 6 feet long guy that I normally view in dark green clothes. My brother inherited brown eyes from our mother, and his facial structure is exactly the same as our father. While in my case I got round face with bright green eyes and both of us have burning crimson hairs.

Today my mother decided to take me with herself to the market; I was in my crib when she entered the room.

"Come Indra-chan, we are going to market today. We are going to buy more toys for you. " she said with a loving smile while coming towards me to pick me up from the crib.

Obviously I can't understand fully what she said, but in these past few months I picked up some words of the language. As in my past life I knew 4 languages, I find it learning a little easier than any mono or bilingual would have but I knew it would take a long time to become fluent in.

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I was very happy and was looking over everything with amazement, which suddenly overcame me. Everything looked so traditional, people wearing yukatas and kiminos, traditional lamps and everything that I really started to wonder if this is some backwater village in japan. I really don't mind it as I grew up in a metropolis and was always fascinated by various cultures of the world and quietness of rural places. I was distracted from my thoughts by my mother's voice.

"Look there Indra-chan, there is the toy store, you can choose whatever you like." she said pointing in the direction of the shop and started walking towards it. It was a medium sized shop with green colored flaps hanging at the entrance. She entered by sidestepping the flaps and greeted the shopkeeper, then looked towards me expectantly. After a long expectant look from my mother, I simply indicated towards a simple plush rabbit among the rather large number of different sorts of toys, which is the maximum I can keep up with this child act that I decided to keep up so as not to freak out my family. Lately I have started to regret it, even if most times I act serious and mature as much as I can for a year old child. But for the normalcy of life and the happiness of my family I think I can keep the act for a little more time.

As she started moving towards the counter for paying after picking the plush rabbit, I started looking at various toys. Some toys I noticed were rather different from what I am used to from my past life, like some wooden kunai or stars like shurikens. There are smaller ninja like clothes and other interesting antique looking things. Honestly I am wondering if it isn't some antique shop rather than a toy shop. I found all these things fascinating as I didn't think that there is still ninja culture remaining in japan. I was removed from my musings as my mother led me outside the shop in her arms, humming happily after having a small conversation with the shopkeeper which I had spaced out observing the ninja toys, which I think I wouldn't even have understood.

"Now let's buy some groceries, after which we will go home Indra-chan. Your father and brother will also reach home by that time." she said and began talking excitedly to me about home which I can't fully comprehend. After several minutes she bought the groceries and started walking towards home.

My eyes were roaming about the streets observing everything when suddenly my gaze went towards the rooftop of a nearby building, where suddenly four people appeared. One among which was an adult and the remaining three were children. I noticed other things like all four of them having bright crimson hair like my family. I also noticed some other strange things like their overall ninjaesque appearance, various pouches on them, bandages on their limbs, metal headband on their foreheads or the jacket of the adult. They looked really cool to me in this strange appearance. They were talking to each other when suddenly the adult held his right hand in some sign and in his place a spiral of fire appeared and when it died down he was nowhere to be found. The children didn't appear even a little startled and began grumbling and suddenly vanishing from my eyes. At the same time I began to breathe heavily seeing the strange phenomena and thinking about the fuck sort of weird place I got reborn into. My mother tried to calm me, seeing me fussing and after a moment I began drawing experience from my twenty three year old past life and started to calm down and tried to analyze the situation.

My mind started coming with possibilities about everything, if it is some sort of technology but I discarded that notion immediately as I haven't seen even any basic technology in my house. If it is an illusion but the idea went same way and after that I began possibilities and discarding them according to observations of this world till now, but couldn't come up with anything. I resigned myself to ask my parents when I grew up a little and started talking properly, rather than the broken words that I could barely pronounce. As we were exiting the market I was thinking if I could ever do something like that with a dangerous element like fire, it sure will be cool.

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Seven months passed slowly and my education started early, as my parents think me some kind of genius for starting to speak and walk properly. I'm currently one and a half years old and have learned to read the language properly, although speaking it properly still eludes me. I sometimes mispronounce words and writing is even worse than that, especially it is a bitch to write all kanji and romanji properly. My writing looks terrible with my jelly like hands that I can't control properly, while my mother insists on me writing perfectly with proper brush strokes in each kanji. It is a rather tall order for me right now and when I asked why it is so important ,she just winked at me mischievously and told me it is a secret and she will tell me when I mastered the calligraphy practice. I simply nodded and dropped the question, at which I saw her pout as if she was expecting me to complain to answer my question like any other one and a half year old would have. Honestly once or twice she even complained to me as why her cute little Indra-chan have to act all emo and mature at one and a half years of age and why can't I act like my sweet brother who honestly, I think is an idiot, which is something I expect from a child who is not even four years old.

Lately, tales of my genius reached even to my relatives who came to see me, but I was not particularly happy about it. I just want to remain in background and live normally with my family, whom I started to love very much. My sweet mother so full of love for our family and my idiotic older brother who tries very hard to make me laugh, and spectacularly fails at that while I laugh internally, and my father a very soft hearted amazing man who loves his family with all his heart. My attachment to my relatives is not that much especially as they are distant cousins. I have only met them two or three times and even most of the time they act rather stoic and dismissive of my parents, brother and me. It's as if they came to meet us just because of an obligation and we are not worth their attention and are beneath them. In my last life I was a very intelligent person, not only academically but socially as well. I had many friends through school to university and not even a single of them connected with me to be called my best friend. As I grew older I realized that they are with me because of my smarts and reputation and I got detached from them. Smiling and spending time with them just for show and that detachment turned to apathy as I grew older. Only my family was in my heart and my girlfriend Sofia wormed in it, in a romantic way. I had seen a lot of success in my past life, be it in education receiving top marks or repot with various teachers or sports which I didn't pursue. I even had PhD Proposals after my post-graduation course in mathematics. So I know success intimately which is why I want to take it slow in this second chance of life, I am already an adult with pretty impressive knowledge in my hands and could easily carve out myself a career. Now if only I can find out how the fuck that idiot on the rooftop manipulated fire like that or how those children moved so fast, I would be content. This is just another facet of my personality; I have a great curiosity regarding things that pique my interest.

If I had known that I could get the answer to that large question in our seemingly small library, I would have tried to get my hands on these books a little early. I was always given children books to read and understand the language, so I couldn't know that answer to such mysterious act will be here. Till now I have always read books from the lower shelves, till which my hands could reach, but today I decided something different. After some time with the help of a chair I reached the middle shelf among which came some titles which caused me to become startled like "History of Elemental Nations" or "Chakra-Basic theory" and several like these. I quickly pulled first two books and started reading and begin sweating as I continued to read both those books until they were finished. After that I sat dazed as I tried to comprehend the situation as how the fuck it is possible? Surely it would explain all these things I observed like how that fucking 'now for sure' ninja vanished, my Uzumaki family and clan, lack of technology in this world and all other anomalies. But question is how the fuck can all this be real, that was just an anime. You can't just get reborn in an imaginary world right. Scenarios started unfolding in my mind such as if someone is fucking with me and I'm in some Matrix like world but I discarded it immediately, as Matrix is also an imaginary world. Also by the time I died, there was no technology that can interact and interface with anyone's brain to build some life like illusion in it. Many more scenarios came and discarded immediately and finally I was asking myself again how the fuck this can actually happen?

Suddenly all the information about my favorite anime that I watched religiously till my death and greedily read about in fandoms rushed into my head like a tidal wave, and I did the only thing that any person in my situation could do. I started hyperventilating and nausea crept up and my head begin to whirl and suddenly I fainted with a single question in my head- How the fuck I got reborn into Naruto Ninja World?

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I woke up in my room. I think my mother tucked me in the bed, when she had found me asleep with the books. My room is a small cubicle room with my bed near the window. There are various types of toys in the corner and various children's books are placed neatly in a pile near them. Other than that it is rather bare. Now that I am awake I started to think what this would mean for me. I know this is ninja world and it is very dangerous for me, but there are real powers in this world and that is a thing that can't be ignored easily. Suddenly I remembered the fate of Uzumaki clan in the second great ninja war and a knot started formed inside my stomach, thinking about the fate that awaited me and my family. I calmed myself and thought about the situation. It is possible that it won't be the same Naruto universe that I know and many different things can happen, but I read names of different clans like Senju, Uchiha, Hyuga etc and their territories in the books, also about the formation of different ninja villages. So I think I am right in thinking that, this is Naruto ninja world, especially with names like Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha establishing Konohagakure no Sato (village hidden in the leaves), it is a no brainer. My situation is giving me a headache, so I thought of asking questions from my parents and decided to confirm my suspicions and establish the time of the storyline in which I am born. It will be best to ask questions discretely and as much childishly as I can.

This is another dilemma that I have been having, I thought about telling my family about my past life like my uncle did, but several things stayed my hands. Like I don't want to freak them out by telling them, that I'm basically an adult in a child's body and have our relationship turn awkward, which is something my uncle faced with his family. I had also thought that I was born in another country and even then in modest family in some backwater village, due to which we obviously cannot travel to another country for contacting my family from my past life. Also I haven't seen any technology and I don't know for how many years I have been dead, which makes my knowledge of my last family redundant, as oppose to my uncle who was born two generations after his death and four cities apart from his last home. But now, from what I knew of this world, I shouldn't even let this information leak to anyone because even if a single ninja came to know about this phenomena, then I will detained and questioned thoroughly till my mind broke, in fear of a spy from another village or I will be on an experimentation table, for the obvious benefit of making soldiers that are loyal even after death. So for the safety of myself and my family I decided to never reveal this to anyone.

I had started walking when I was 9 months old, even if it was childlike wobbly at best, but now that I grew up a little I can walk properly. So I quickly raced out of my room and reached the back garden where Sora was running around and my parents were watching him from the porch. I reached them and my mother sat me in her lap and pointed towards my brother and said, "Look Indra-chan your brother is playing, do you want to play with him?" But I was in a very serious mood and decided to ask my questions directly and asked, "Kaa-chan what is chatra? And what is a ninja?" It pained me to ask this in such a childish voice, but I think it will be better for everyone, if I can keep this charade of being a child for as long as I can in this world.

She and my father stiffened all of a sudden and after a moment they sighed while my father asked "Where did you learn these words from Indra-kun?"

I showed him the book about chakra in my hands and he sighed again after looking at it and said "You were always the smart one among you and your brother. I expected you to one day find these things, but I just wished if you could have at least enjoyed as much childhood as your brother did." His face had a hint of sorrow while my mother also looked pained and suddenly I understood the situation. As Uzumaki Clan is still alive, then that means that the second great ninja war has not happened and in this time very small children were forced to become shinobi by entering into academy early.

My father looked at me "Come inside with me Indra-kun, I had planned to tell these things to your brother only for now, but you are very smart and mature for your age. I am sure you can understand these things and learn about our place in this world."

With that he and mother called Sora, and with him we sat around in our family's study room and he explained various things regarding chakra, our clan and world to both of us with mother helping from time to time.

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I am in my bed after my parents tucked me in and I started to think about chakra, forgetting everything else my parents told me about for now. CHAKRA from what I learned from my last life, the book and my parents is that, it is a composition of actual physical and spiritual energies that our body produces. In my past life I learned that our body produces energy which we cannot use externally but here it is opposite to everything I learned in my previous world. Not only manipulating the energy is possible but through it we can control the reality itself in every way thinkable. It can solve so many problems and can answer so many problems of my last world that it isn't even funny. Engineering, Medicine, Clean energy and every other aspect of life can be improved with it. Hell space-time manipulation, space travel and everything conceivable can be accomplished with chakra and all this world has done is made super powered assassins with it, who would sell their very soul and destroy everything just for some money. Chakra is a power that can help us reach divinity or the reason of our very existence. We can trace our roots and the cause of our evolution. We can make ourselves immune to poisons and diseases of every kind, we can cure Cancer or even AIDS with chakra. We can even develop panacea (which now that I think about Ōtsutsuki clan already did) with chakra. With chakra we can live in harmony with nature, we can run faster than jet planes, we can control natural disasters, we can even help the evolution of other species like the summoning clans and even achieve most ambitious wish of our species- Immortality. We can live forever, which is definitely every human want the most, even if they deny it openly. Truly the applications of chakra are limitless.

Chakra is made up of Yang and Yin chakra, both of which govern vitality and form of the product itself respectively. Shinobi use chakra to perform Ninjustsu, Genjutsu, Taijutsu, Fuinjutsu and various other things. Ninjutsu are the various techniques performed by chakra, Genjutsu are the illusionary techniques, Taijutsu is essentially martial arts enhanced by chakra and Fuinjutsu is the art of sealing and various other branches of Ninjutsu came to my mind.

I remember chakra being a gift to mankind from Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki (Sage of Six Paths), who after defeating his mother in battle with the help of his brother decided to establish peace in the world with chakra. Then I started to recall the things regarding the Ōtsutsuki clan told in Boruto series and I started to dread the future again. I started breathing deeply and tried to stay calm thinking that it is very far in the future, that I will be in my sixties or seventies at that time and this thought gave me some peace and after some time I fell asleep.

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AN: So I started this story because I'm a fan of Naruto fandom and personally I wasn't impressed. There are only a few good ones about Naruto and almost none are good self-inserts. In many goals of M.C was not clear and in others Naruto started searching peace just because his master said so. So I started my own Naruto self-insert as I particularly like those. I know the title is not particularly creative but it just got stuck in my mind. This is my first time writing anything, so I hope you will enjoy it.

Now about the story-

I am basing it on myself mostly except some things and I want the characters development to be good enough to explain his goals and his personality.

M.C is Indra Uzumaki, which I chose because of its irony and similarity here which you will understand as character develops and story progresses.

I will mostly try to remain canon and introduce any new character or techniques if I find it reasonable and necessary. Canon Naruto world is so vast that its characters and techniques were not used properly.

Now if anyone is asking how after reading only 2 books he came to the conclusion of it being Naruto world? Then let me tell you that the book on chakra is very detailed on how to access it and also explains its various applications, also the history book is also very detailed and even have maps with borders in it, like those political maps that you read in school. Such detail is not possible if it's not real.

I mentioned MATRIX because it is hilarious, as that is what Madara Uchiha tried to do.

'This will be an awesome fanfic'-thoughts

"Sure it will be"-normal speech

Highlighted things are important..xD

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Naruto or its character other than my M.C and O.C's