Its been a while since i felt such dread. normally I, Lindell reyonjay, would be home right now, especially in this absolutely storming weather, but like a man possessed I just had to chase after the little puppy desperately trying to battle the waves of the river it found itself in.
The same puppy i always give treats and pets to whenever i pass by its dwelling. I wont deny this little guy became one of my close friends as sad as that sounded. struggling in college doesn't lend itself nicely to making lots of friends.
As I ran like hell, cursing the fact that my apartment complex doesn't allow animals. The squeals of a man's best friend drowning out the pattering of rain droplets on the dirt floor and the heaven defying hurricane like winds enveloping the area I made a desperate gamble, one bordering on idiotic-"No who am i kidding what I'm about to do would be completely Dum....."
Jumping-yes JUMPING, straight into the hellish river which is an obvious mistake-a costly one.
The water battering him was a painful reminder of his idiocy, threatening to bring him unconscious but he tried, desperately to cling to consciousness. The whales of man's best friend helping to fuel his determination, yet a wild sharp branch moving at insane speeds-blitzing him and then-
NOTHING.
My eyes flicker open again.
An unfamiliar ceiling.
I look to my side, a window, out the window all I see is a massive stone wall with 3 faces carved into it. A familiar sight that brought a sense of foreboding that I seemed to ignore.
".....what?"
I arose instantly, checking the simple room I found myself in-a mirror on the dresser on the right side of the room of the bed I was sitting on, what looks to be a closet next to that dresser, the window to my left, a door at the front from me that seems to be an entrance to the room itself.
Getting up from the bed, a blank look on my face.....
Making my way to the mirror I found myself in it....
Pretty Short, seeming to be a kid no older than 8, Black medium length hair, pale skin, black eyes and smooth face with a beauty mark under the left eye-the kinda face other moms will say "he'll grow up to be a heart throb in the future".
As I look at what should be "myself", it was at that time where my brain fully wakes up.
Horror creeps up to my "face".
"Wait, what?!!-this isn't me!!-why?!?-" I try to say with, a child sounding voice different from my normal voice, but I was met with pain breaking through my head.
I scream out while feeling a bunch of memories that weren't mine forcing its way in and trying to settle.
"AARGH!!" I was there clutching my head on the floor, a stabbing pain that seems to go on for minutes until-
It just stops.
I try to sit up, panting but trying to steady myself. My eyes lit up with a new form of clarity yet still filled with a form of dread.
"I see...." I say warily, speaking in a language that I didn't normally speak in.
My head chalk full of new memories of 7 years of life at the fore front. An addition to the old 19 years of memories of before.
"FUCK!" I exclaimed for no other reason than to get it out of my system, which it kinda did.....
Calming my self, I head to the window looking out at the scenery of Japanese style buildings and a mountain face with multiple heads carved onto it.
"I've really transmigrated into naruto-before canon even....." I said.
'With my new name, uchiha mutoyuki. Yes, that UCHIHA. I'm basically part of the same clan that's doomed to extinction in upcoming years' as I think that a new form of dread creeping up my very being before I push it down.
'There is still hope for this fate to change, even if things stay the same its possible I can still survive if I play my cards right.'
The more the new memories settle, the more my personality seems to mix bringing with it a new wave of calm and confidence of someone who's doing well in an academic setting.....which infact is the case as based on these memories my performance in the academy seems to be of well above average, I am an uchiha after all....
'...Shit now I'm starting to have the same cocky arrogance of them! I better stop myself before I go full on Sasuke!!'
Back to my new identity, I'm apparently a 7 year old, orphaned uchiha who's parents died in the 3rd great ninja war...a war that's still ongoing....my predecessor seems to have already made peace with their deaths and was now using their deaths as a drive and motivation to do best in the academy, graduate as quick as possible and make a difference in this ongoing war. While I can't get behind rushing towards my death in a war, I can understand doing my best in the academy.
I don't seem to be a genius anyway so even if I manage to graduate early, I'll probably just end up dead as a canon fodder, especially with the village leaders' mindset of "anti-uchiha".
'I'm in my second year of the academy it's better to hold off on early graduation and acumulate as much strength as possible before graduating, who knows maybe by the time I graduate the 3rd great ninja war would basically be at its end and I can-' I stop myself. No, it seems not just myself has stopped, it seems the whole world has paused with baited breath.
"....The conditions for unlocking the sharingan and advancing it are exceedingly harsh.....If I'm not pushed into extreme hardship, experiencing severe trauma or desperately trying to survive a life or death battle, my eyes won't mutate..." I said as I walk towards the door of my bedroom.
"Appealing to my cowardly self of the past wont get me anywhere. Being a powerful uchiha without the sharingan just doesn't feel right...afterall our eyes are our legacy" I deliberate as I reach out to the handle of my rooms door.
"I.AM.AN.UCHIHA. our clan thrives on battle, this cowardly mindset isn't something that should be maintained! As a run of the mill struggling college student, even I want to make something of myself! This new life should be used to that effect" my hand touches the knob of the door of the room. As I did the world seems to be edging towards a crescendo.
"Uchiha mutoyuki! I don't know what happened to you, I may be inheriting your body now but the essence of yourself is now flowing through me. I will become the best version of you! I will survive no matter what! You can count on that!" My hand turns the knob. I pull and the sounds of the world itself harmonizes, the birds, the people, the nature.....
"I AM UCHIHA MUTOYUKI AND I WILL BE THE NEXT GREATEST UCHIHA THIS CLAN HAS EVER SEEN!!!" The door fully flung out and blindingly gleaming light attacks the front of mutoyuki.
.....with a look of determination and resolve the new uchiha mutoyuki walks through the light all to the applause of the world itself, as if the world itself is cheering on its new champion.
Thus it begins, the story of uchiha mutoyuki trying to carving out a path for himself. Hopefully you all enjoy this little introduction to our main character this will serve as my first work on webnovel, I'm open to feedback.