Chapter 1: The New Beginning
I died.
That's the conclusion I made after waking up in a place of utter darkness with a feeling of being suspended in the air yet not having a body
Was it of old age, from an illness, overwork, or a fatal accident involving getting hit by a heavy-duty vehicle?
I don't know. Or rather, I didn't have any memories of how I died.
The same goes for some important things such as my identity, whether I was a male or female in the past, or what kind of life I have lived up till before I died. They were vague at best when I tried to recall them.
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How much time has passed since then? A day? A few weeks? Or maybe years? Time became irrelevant since I lost count after twenty-three.
It's a wonder in itself as to how I can still stay sane, or am I?
Maybe.
Since no way a sane person would narrate themselves like I am.
But seriously though, this is such a boring afterlife.
I can't do anything and even what is left of my memories, which was the only source of entertainment I could get, were beginning to fade away.
The worst thing is, there is no ending to this... or so, I thought...
[Do you want to start a new life?]
[«Yes» «No»]
—when all of a sudden, a light in the shape of a rectangle sprung up to my face if I had any, that turned out to be some holographic screen you might see on a sci-fi film.
Upon closer inspection, I recognized this screen to be that thing called the system that appeared a lot in fanfics, courtesy of my memories of the various media that were not lost yet as I reminisced them the most.
What are you?
Though just to be sure, I asked the thing, or to be precise conveyed my thought to it.
[We are a program made by the Administrators to assist the souls who were trapped in the void and survived its corrosion.]
The-WHAT?
[The souls who have fulfilled this requirement are then allowed to start a new life in a world of their choice. Please note that you can refuse this but you will forever be trapped in the VOID.]
Hm... «Yes».
There is no way would I want to stay in this sanity-sipping void.
Its corrosion might as well be the reason why my memories are fading away unnaturally with the passing of time.
[You have chosen to start a new life.]
[Please choose your destination from the list of available worlds below:
━ ... ]
The list of worlds was massive. I scrolled through for some time but still haven't reached even a quarter of the list. Thankfully, there is a search bar function.
I compiled a select few worlds that I would like to visit from my botched-up memory.
[Please choose your destination from the list of available worlds below:
━ Bleach
━ Demon Slayer
━ Naruto
━ Hunter × Hunter
━ Game of Thrones
━ JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
━ One Piece
━ Avatar]
At the same time, I chose them because I still have a general knowledge of these eight, though incomplete, it was more than what I could ask for.
Next, I picked a random number... 69, then started counting from up to down then up again, and repeat until I get to my picked number. Ended up on Naruto so that's what I chose for my destination.
[«Naruto»]
[Level: ✯✯✯☆☆☆]
[Please select the timeline!]
Timeline, huh?
After the third shinobi world war. It's a period of peace that will go on for several years and won't take long until the plot kicked in.
[«Naruto» will be selected as the destination. Please note that once you choose a world, you can not change it later.]
[«Yes» «No»]
Shrugging off the note, I selected «Yes» and another screen showed up.
[For choosing a world with a danger level of three stars and above, you have received a chance to draw a random ability.]
[Do you want to use your draw?]
[«Yes» «No»]
Oh, there's such a thing as well? Of course, draw!
[Congratulations! You have obtained «Creation» ability!]
[«Creation»]
[Allows the user to create anything only limited to the creativity of the user as long as the user provided the equivalent worth of energy (Light, Heat, Mana, Ki, Chakra, Lifespan, etc.) as the cost.]
[**The energy cost can be decreased by using materials related to the product of creation.]
This is good, right? No, this is awesome! It's a broken ability that is only limited by my creativity and energy. Moreover, this ability is not limited to the creation only, I can, in a sense, upgrade something too.
For example, I have a dull knife and by sacrificing it to be the material, I can create a sharp sword after providing some energy, an upgrade.
While I get hyped up by this ability, something unexpected happened to the space surrounding me, breaking me out of my thought.
The void began to bend and crack in an odd way and before I knew it, I found myself in an open space with stars and planets. A bluish planet in the likeness of Earth was right below me.
Woah...
I would be gaping with my jaw touching the floor if I had a proper body right now, awed by the fascinating sight before me.
Another screen appeared at this time, waking me up from my trance as I looked at it. The next phase was another free ability but only limited to the destination world.
My choice of ability will also influence my background, partially.
For example, if I chose «Sharingan», then I will most likely be born as an Uchiha, «Magnet Release» then I will be in Sand Village, and so on, and so forth.
Considering the cheat ability of «Creation» I have, I started to search for an ability that can help me in using my cheat better. Aaaand, found it.
[«Sage Transformation»]
[Allows the user to access a plethora of power such as predating Chakra, transferring Chakra, regenerative healing factor, and absorbing natural energy and making use of it to perform various feats by transforming the body at will.]
[**The user's attunement to natural energy allows communication with animals possible.]
[**The user may go berserk when absorbing too much natural energy.]
It's unfortunate that there's no acquiring Bijū or having Chakra reserve the size of a Bijū in the list of abilities I could choose. Well, this one will do just fine as a charger of sorts to supply my «Creation» ability.
I just hope that I won't be waking up in one of Pedomaru's labs.
[«Sage Transformation» will be selected as the ability. Please note that once you chose an ability, you can not change it.]
[«Yea» «No»]
Having solidly made up my mind, I selected «Yes» again.
[Please enter your name!]
A name...
I don't even know what my gender is. It could be male or female. So a unisex name that is good sounding, uh... I'm very bad at this.
System, give me suggestions!
Unexpectedly, the system did as ordered and showed me a list of good-sounding names that suited this world's setting which is Japanese.
In the end, I decided to go with Kazuha.
Soon after confirming my name, the space around me bend and shift in a strange manner like last time before everything turned black.
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"Is that a human baby? Ma, where did you pick it up from?"
"She was lying in a basket at the entrance to our realm. Her body is quite unique as it attracts natural energy by itself so I picked her."
"Hm, now that I looked at it. Indeed, natural energy is getting attracted to her body but she didn't turn into stone. This is very peculiar... Is she a part of that clan? But they should have gone extinct as far I know."
After an indefinite amount of time, I was finally woken up by two voices of what seemed to be a pair of old people.
It's, to be frank, weird to understand their words that were spoken in a different language than what I use to speak in my head.
Another perk of my reincarnation, perhaps.
I tried opening my heavy eyelids but my vision was blurry and could only make out the shape of what was in front of me.
There were two figures as I expected but by their shapes, they don't seem to be a human.
What the heck? Where the hell am I?
For now, I can only listen to them in hope that they would drop a hint or two about this location. Though their silhouettes looked a bit familiar at a glance like I have seen them somewhere before.
"She's waking up... Oh right, Ma, do you want to raise her?"
The voice of an aged man could be heard coming from the figure on the right side as he looked at the other figure.
"I'm thinking of adopting her. What name should we give to her? Pa, you have any suggestions?"
Answered the figure on the left.
So, I'm born as a girl. I wonder if I was also a female in my previous life.
"How about Gamako? Or Gerome?"
Wait, Gama? Gero?
Uh, it's no wonder I felt familiar with their silhouettes.
As it turns out, this should be Mount Myōboku, the realm of the toads and the place where Jiraiya, Naruto, and arguably, Minato trained how to use Senjutsu.
But that's beside the POINT.
Did this old toad just suggest that horrendous names?
And the old toad lady that I forget her name also seemed to be thinking about it. I can't let this be...
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