Near a wooden building built on a forest clearing, several children could be seen scurrying about, pying with each other as a gentle looking woman, face showing the lines of time, looked over them with a snow white haired unnaturally perfect baby with gleaming violet eyes in her arms.

  That baby had received the name Ryumon Shiki and even as a life, it carried an importa, it had awakes previous life's memories.

  Carefully analyzing his surroundings as best he could, Shiki discovered his reination was successful but he was still figuring out his situation.

  He had already realized he was a child in an orphahe Konoha Orphanage based on the forest biome around the pce.

  Shiki was not quite sure about the timeline however. He was certain he was not in the Boruto Era from the ck of teology and he remembered Kabuto was in charge of the orphanage in said era so definitely an earlier temporal pt.

  Only a few days after his awakening did more information e to Shiki, he spotted a group of visitors that came to the orphahey had e to take some of the older children to a pce called the Academy.

  It was quite uling for Shiki to see essentially orphans being taken to be made into child soldiers because that is exactly what the situation was.

  The Konoha Orphanage on the vilge's outskirts.

  A pce that gathered orphans from all over the nation and instilled ihe so-called Will of Fire, after which they were inducted into the Academy to be used as expendable shinobi forces uhe and of the born shinobi of higher status.

  The show and manga had left a lot of cruel details out of the show but an Orphanage funded by a military anization like a Hidden Vilge? The purpose couldn't be more obvious.

  Then again, though it was dangerous, it did provide a ce to increase one's standing and power and as orphans indoated from a young age, they would have the trust of the higher ups which was a double edged sword.

  While it could mean who would be trusted with important tasks and duties, it also meant that thankless roles of sacrifice that required a trusted minion to perform would be given to them.

  Either way, Shiki knew showing himself as a talented shinobi was the way to go. And from the uniforms of the shinobi that came, he was able to deduce the timeline as well.

  He was definitely signifitly earlier iimelihan the main series. The fk jackets worn by the shinobi that “graced” the orphanage were in an older style, gray and with no scroll pockets.

  ‘This style is the one shown to be used in the Sed Great Shinobi War, though I’m not quite sure whether the current timeline is pre-war, mid-war or post-war.

  The general state of the people he saw did not seem to be that bad but there was certainly some tension in the shinobi he saw, something which was curiously obvious to Shiki, a result of his enlightened spiritual self allowing him to read the spiritual states of others.

  ‘Konoha came out of the Sed Great Shinobi War quite favorably if I remember correctly. But I don’t get the feeling of that tension before a big win.’ Shiki began theorizing

  Not like he could do much else as a barely born baby. His ck of autonomy in his previous life was now serving as a blessing since being cared for as a baby did not feel like much of a ge.

  In fact, he ain free and mostly fortable so it was a massive improvement.

  Back to his thought process however, Shiki began narrowing it down.

  ‘The vilge is probably not in the best dition as the orphanage was fag money and food problems while the shinobi that came by always seemed tense so a post-war recovery period seems unlikely as well.’

  ‘So either the pre-war tension or mid-war tension and war fatigue is what I’m getting from the shinobi around here, though it is hard to tell these feelings apart with my ck of experience.’

  ‘Based on the gear, it is either the Sed Great Shinobi War or perhaps the First. If it’s the First then we could be at any point from pre-war to he end as it was a flict with no victors that ended in armistice after everyone ran out of resources to prolong the fighting.’

  ‘Oher hand, if it is the Sed Great Shinobi War which turned out favorably for Konoha in its ter stages, then it be assumed we are in pre-war to mid-war.’

  ‘Trying to figure it out further would require more info that I don’t have.’ Shiki came to the clusion and decided to turn his thoughts to other matters more directly reted to himself.

  Shiki had read some xianxia novels about certaiical buddhists seeking enlightehrough all manner of worldly pursuits such as power, food, alcohol, female panionship, wealth and various other vices.

  As such, being an “Enlightened Soul”, one supposed to be in search of further “enlighte”, he simply decided to do sh such ways.

  Cause why not?

  It should definitely be more enjoyable.

  Unfortunately, there was little a baby could do to train himself in order to attain the power required to enjoy the other things on his list. Regardless, Shiki still found himself p.

  He checked his state, represented by a status s, just as the voice had predicted.

  *

  Ryumon ShikiTraitsTrikayaTitlesNoneRankCivilianStatsStrength: F RankAgility: F RankEndurance: F RankChakra Capacity: F RankChakra Potency: kChakra trol: (0%)Hand Seal Mastery: (0%)AffinitiesLightning Affinity: (30%)Wind Affinity: (20%)Fire Affinity: (40%)Water Affinity: (10%)Earth Affinity: (40%)Yin Affinity: (50%)Yang Affinity: (50%)TaijutsuGeneral Mastery: (0%)NinjutsuGeneral Mastery: (0%)GenjutsuGeneral Mastery: (0%)BukijutsuGeneral Mastery: (0%)FuinjutsuGeneral Mastery: (0%)SenjutsuGeneral Mastery: (0%)Hidden JutsuNoneKekkei GenkaiNone*

  'Is there truly nothing I do?' Shiki internally asked himself.

  The only notable information was his natural affinity for each basiature release and nothing else, no kekkei genkai so the geic lottery did not favor him.

  The shown affinities seemed quite low too even if Shiki did not know for sure since he had no one for parison.

  His trait oher hand . . . Proved a different story.

  Guaranteed effects.

  And very powerful o that.

  *

  TrikayaPossibility of perfeinion over ohree Bodies each of which carries limitless potential.

  The Maed Body, corresponding to one's physical frants a perfectly adaptable physical body that naturally seeks perfe and allows oo train themselves to achieve total trol over it, unloy and all of its tent abilities, as well as evolve them further.

  The Blissful Body, corresponding to the spirit and soul. Grants one immense spiritual prowess and the ability to achieve great success in all manner of spiritual practices. The perfe of spirit also trao the ability to ect to and influehe spirits of others.

  The True Body is exclusive to enlightened beings. While all beings possess physical and spiritual forms with the Trikaya trait merely providing greatly enhanced ohe True Body is possessed solely by those with the trait or beings with a much higher state of existence.

  Grants an immensely powerful form of “Greater Awareness” and allows oo access extremely powerful abilities exclusive to higher beings.

  *

  Although Shiki only maed a sirait when there was a ce for a total of three, he got aremely powerful one. He’d even wager his trait was one of the most powerful that could be achieved, at the very least it seemed powerful enough to warrant such opinions.

  Shiki’s future was literally limitless with it after all.

  All manner of training would show greater results and push his physical and spiritual states towards perfe.

  Physical ditioning, depending on how it was ducted, could result in not only increased strength, endurance, agility but even accelerated recovery and development of self healing capabilities.

  As for most practices associated with chakra, they ted towards his Blissful Body’s abilities regarding spiritual practices.

  He could literally perfect every aspect of chakra usage, every type of jutsu, every basiature transformation could be elevated to the highest level of affinity through training alone, something normally impossible.

  Traditionally, one’s natural affinity determihe types of jutsu and nature release one was more suited towards and the upper limit one could aspire to.

  Only with a particur affinity could one achieve the peaks of a certain nature transformation, for others, although possible to train to a high level with effort, they would iably have a lower ceiling.

  Shiki however, had no such limitations. His natural affinities would merely represent a head start and all of them could be further raised by training in them. He could thus raise the ceiling of his ability along with his profi it.

  Perhaps maxing these affinities might even allow him to develop elemental kekkei genkai.

  An endless Path of The Grind.

  A Grind that truly never ended.

  Not that any of that helped him now however, he was too young to experiment with such things, not to mention he did not even have any idea how to sense and manipute his chakra.

  Perhaps, as a baby, such things were innately locked as a form of self prote.It would be problematic if babies started to iently belch small fmes and such after all.

  Still, Shiki was uerred, sifting through his memories of the show and even other shows for inspiration to e upon an answer. Breathing.

  Even babies breathed and that could be trained. In fact, staying still without doing anything and merely fog on his breathing for meditation was one of the skills he had utterly perfected in his previous life, he did achieve an enlighte and attained Nirvana after all.

  Shiki also remembered Shira, a Suna genin that developed, or would develop, a teique for breathing he called the Seven Heavens Breathihod, which could provide him with a power boost capable of matg that of the Eight Inner Gates, at least at the first few.

  And so, the small child who could not even crawl around, dedicated himself to meditation and breathing exercises, trying to find a breathihod that granted him extraordinary bes.

  The caretakers however, had different opinions when seeing him meditate.

  "That boy sure sleeps a lot . . . Do you think he's sick?" One asked.

  "He's just zy." Another responded.

  "He's a baby, of course he sleeps a lot! Now get back to work!" Their supervisor cmored and the dies got back to it.

  Time passed and as Shiki grew older, he began to notice the effects of his relentless pursuit.

  There was teique of unrivaled power, not yet anyway but he turned out healthier and more eic than his peers. It took longer for him to get tired and he recovered his expended energy much faster.

  Since he could move around by himself now that he was older, he also made sure to roll and crawl around a lot as a form of training which with his baby body was quite hard and, when he was dead tired, sit aate while practig his breathing teiques.

  One day like any other, he felt a mysterious energy within him as he practiced his breathing which he immediately knew was his chakra, at least that was the only reasonable clusion.

  Having gotten a feel for chakra, he tried adjusting his breath in ways that affected his own chakra flow positively, which acted as a sort of measuring tool to see if he rogressing down the right path or not.

  He also tried to trol his chakra which proved uedly easy. This was because as a young child, he had very little chakra which made it far easier to trol. After all, the more chakra one had, the harder it was to trol it perfectly.

  Chakra was the bination of physical and spiritual energies. Shiki’s spirit was incredibly powerful but his physical body was that of a baby which heavily restricted the amount of chakra he could have.

  That being the case, getting access to his chakra when it was still so very little, less than any academy student due to his very young age, made it very easy to manipute and train trol.

  Soon however, he found an issue.

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