AN: Please read AN, at the end of chapter it will clear many things about the story and I will always post an AN; at the end of a chapter. Thank you.

Chapter 2 - Reality came crashing down!

In the Era long forgotten, there was no chakra available to people, there were no mystical powers to bend reality, people cannot control forces of nature on their whims. If someone got ill, then they only had herbs and village healer to treat them, rather than the power of chakra and Iryo Ninjustu (Medical Techniques). Conflict and warfare were done in rather mundane ways, using weapons large armies clashed with each other in fields. There were no godly powers or even proof of existence of any god. There was just the existence of the existence of a mighty tree, in the place called The Land of Ancestors that reached the heavens, as people called it Shinju (The God Tree). It was so mighty and huge, that people started worshipping it thinking that it connects the land to heaven, never mind the strange sense of power that seemed to emanate from it.

Arrival of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki changed the very future of the people living in this world. Before her arrival, it was just to be another world which Ōtsutsuki Clan planned on harvesting. Kaguya's arrival and subsequent attachment to humans due to their unique nature, led her to try save this world from her clan. Her situation led to her eating the Shinju fruit, as she wanted the power to both establish peace in this world and to protect it, which she got after eating it. Her powers and vision caused her to enslave the entire world, which became the norm for several decades. During that time she returned free will to a part of the total human population, so that life can continue on.

She had two sons, Hagoromo and Hamura Ōtsutsuki, who inherited her powers. Hagoromo inherited a base form of her Rinne-Sharingan, while her younger son Hamura inherited her Byakugan. When they grew up and saw that their mother has enslaved the whole world, they confronted her about that. She became enraged that her own sons will take humanity's side against herself and tried to take their powers, their chakra, in the delusion that all the chakra in the world belongs to her. In the end she was defeated by the brothers with the help of the Toad Sage Gamamaru, who helped them in learning to harvest the vast power of nature itself The Sage Chakra, which empowered them exponentially. Their battle last for several months and it almost rend the world apart, countries were split, mountains got eroded, continents broke and new oceans formed, but in the end she was sealed inside an exo-planetary structure with her powers broken, which will be called moon in the coming time. Before getting sealed she manifested a part of her will to resurrect herself in the future called Kuro Zetsu (Black Zetsu).

Hagoromo had sealed a very large part of that power into his own body and decided to use that power, to fulfill his dream to bring peace into the world. His brother has already decided to stay at the moon and establish Ōtsutsuki clan there, and keep guard over their mother's body. His journey started alone, he wandered the lands teaching people how to use their Spiritual Energy to connect with each other, to understand others and spread peace and established the religion of Ninshu. He also collected various students, who also decided to follow his example and began their own journeys to spread the power of chakra. During this time he broke the chakra he absorbed into himself into in nine parts and use his Rinnegan to give them identity. This led to the birth of Bijuu. His power and the ways of peace led him to be touted as god in a human form, and he was given the title of Sage of Six Paths.

After completing his journey and establishing peace in the world, he settled down and had two sons Indra and Asura Ōtsutsuki. Indra was touted as a genius from his childhood; he inherited the Sage's eyes kin the base form called Sharingan and Sage's spiritual energy. He saw that people cannot use the chakra with the same ease as his father, and even then it took them several decades to use chakra properly. So he invented twelve hands signs which helped ease the process of controlling chakra, which led to increase in the speed in which chakra spread around the world. Contrary to Indra, Asura inherited Sage's body and physical energy, but he was slow and showed little promise in Ninshu.

In the end Indra's genius and unknown to anyone else Black Zetsu's manipulation became the reason of conflict that started within the Ōtsutsuki family. Hagoromo decided to name Asura his successor, after considering both, Indra and Asura's ways of achieving peace. This led to Indra being jealous and resentful of his brother as he always thought that he will lead this world to peace after his father, and that he will be the inheritor of Sage's power and Legacy. This led to open conflict between Asura and Indra, Indra attacked his brother after achieving his Mangekyo Sharingan that he activated by killing his friends. Eventually Indra got defeated, after Asura awakened power of the Sage of Six Paths; which he inherited from the Sage. Even in defeat Indra vowed that he will never stop until he got his rightful position.

After seeing Indra and Asura's power, other people also started to connect their spiritual energies with their physical energies, rather than following the Sage's path of connecting spiritual energies and understanding. As this phenomena spread during centuries, similar people started to come together, having same Kekkei Genkais, which was the result of Sage's chakra and various clans were established. The strongest of which were the Senju Clan and the Uchiha Clan, descendants of Asura and Indra Ōtsutsuki respectively. Many of these clans started to work as mercenaries for hire and an era of bloodshed started. This era was called Clan Wars Era. Many things of importance happened in this time, the most important of which was in middle of this Era. The rise of Shinobi started here, various clans started to sell their services as full-fledged ninjas, working as assassins, protectors and every type of job thinkable. With many clans slowly reaching the top of food chain in various lands like the Senju and Uchiha clans in Hi no Kuni (Land of Fire), Yotsuki in Kaminari no Kuni (Land of Lightening) etc. Another important event was the splitting of various likeminded people from Senju clan, and them settling into an island beside the Land of Fire and establishing the Uzumaki clan in the later called Uzu no Kuni (Land of Whirlpool).

During the end of this era Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha, the strongest of their era established Konohagakure no Sato after joining their clans in an effort to bring peace to the war torn world. After seeing the world's strongest clans joining together to form peace, other clans in the world scrambled to do same the same and other major and minor villages were established. This is how a mediocre of peace was achieved, and even then almost eighteen years after that The First Great Ninja War happened.

XXX Indra – 4 years old XXX

Indra'sP.O.V

I sat cross legged and started writing various kanji with precise and fluid brush strokes. As I continued doing this; I contemplated everything I had learned in the last two and a half years. I had learnt that I am a descendent of Ashina Uzumaki, The First Uzukage. His son had four children, and my grandfather was the youngest of them named Akio Uzumaki. My mother Honoka Uzumaki is the only child of Akio Uzumaki, and had enjoyed a lot of prestige in the clan for being a member of main line of Uzumaki clan. That changed when my mother married my father; admittedly someone way below her station. My mother used to be a middle A-ranked kunoichi of the Uzumaki clan and everyone respected her, especially as she was very good in Fuinjutsu traps. Her father died when she was very young, so to not have everyone pity her constantly she worked hard, and became very good in fuinjutsu trap making, Suiton ninjutsu and kenjutsu eventually reaching jonin rank in Uzu forces. My father was an orphan and a low jonin, but he was a ninjutsu and taijutsu specialist and had passing knowledge in fuinjutsu. Along with this he was way below the totem pole in standing inside the clan. Sometime during the war she met my father; it was a joint mission with several jonins and chunins near the end of first great ninja war. They began liking each other since then, but not acted on their feelings because of my mother's standing in the clan. They still met each other during those times, but finally acted on those feelings and got married after some months. This didn't sit well with the elders and the clan head, and they banished her from the main line of the family. After being banished my mother and father built a small home near the outskirts of Uzu and settled there.

After some months my mother fell pregnant and decided to retire from the active ninja roster of the village, which further earned her the scorn of the elders and the clan head, for not doing her duty to the village. My brother was born just after the first great ninja war ended, and me two years after that. My mother stays at home now to take care of me and my brother whereas my father still takes missions, but not at the same pace as regular jonins.

Honestly I wasn't very impressed by the Uzumaki clan. In my past life, I had read many fanfics about them being very friendly and easy going people, always caring about their family first before everything else, ramen loving people, always willing to help and what not, but reality is a lot different. They are just the same as any other clan of great social standing like Senju's, Uchiha's or Hyuga's. There are many people who are good but the number of greedy people who want more power and extremists who follow strict rigid rules of clan are also in great numbers. My own mother had great standing in the clan but now is an outcast in the clan, just because she had not adhered to the whims of elders.

I of course understood that in such a world soft-hearted people will not survive, but I had still expected something different from this clan after seeing the character of Naruto and Kushina in the anime. Guess I was wrong. Many of the branch clan members are jealous of the main line members for their power and standing in the clan. Many in the branch family were happy when my mother was banished from the main line, as it allowed members of the branch family to fill the space and gain more influence in the clan. Already not many people are willing to interact with the outcasts of the clan, but some who did are not that kind. Several of the cousins that used to come to our home, used to subtly insulted my parents by making snide comments, but nothing can be done about it now, guess bad and jealous people are present everywhere.

I already knew that Uzumaki clan members are descendants of the Great Sage's younger son Asura Ōtsutsuki, which our clan already knew but had forgotten the names of Great Sage and his son's. Along with this I also know that some Senju clan members founded the Uzumaki clan after they settled in an island, weary of fighting Uchiha's and other clans in the mainland, also that our clan is famous for our vitality, our large chakra reserves, our healing capacity, fuinjutsu, our longevity and our red hair.

But there are also many different things that I learned about my new clan by badgering my mother, be it regarding techniques or structure of the village, its working and several other things. Like there are many different sealing styles in the world, but all Uzumaki style techniques have clans spiral symbol in its center and is very expansive and strong as opposite to others, which are rather limited in their uses. She told me that we are the best fuinjutsu users in the world, and a lot of our trade is also from selling our sealing services. She also told me about the academy that I will enter when I am 5 years old and that there is a common library for our clan, and also that the comprehensive sealing knowledge is also preserved in the secret place in the main line compound in the case of any disaster, which also included our forbidden techniques. She knew about this from her time in the main line, but this information about the location of secret knowledge and place needed a lot of whining and acting on my part to get. She was greatly reluctant to tell me all about this at my young age but relented thinking that this is my birthright, even if we are banished from the main line of the family.

She also told me about our clan's kekkei genkai Kongo Fusa (Adamantine Sealing chains), which is selective like Sharingan of the Uchiha clan and not everyone but very few of Uzumaki's can activate them, but those who did have the chance to become the greatest seal masters of our clan. It is a Yin Release technique and these Chakra Chains are capable of suppressing chakra of anything, but using these as conduits very strong barriers and other Uzumaki Secret Techniques can be performed. These chains manifest in the form of giant links of chakra interconnected with each other, with the starting point of the chains in the form of a pointy head, each links of chains have small point protrusions on both sides, and are very strong and are capable of suppressing even Bijuu. Yeah I got a valid reason to discuss about Bijuus with them after I read about them in a book about chakra origins. It mentioned them as creatures of hate, rage, chakra and whatnot. So after that I simply asked my parents about them, who were rightly reluctant to discuss them with their not even four year old son, but in the end told me about them knowing how much mature and smart I am for my age.

The talk snowballed from there and mother told me that it was the Uzumaki clan who developed the seals necessary to seal Bijuu in a human to make a Jinchuriki; at the request of then Shodaime Hokage Hashirama Senju, when he captured them and sold them to other nations for establishing peace between major countries. These seals were also sold to them by the Uzumaki clan. She told me how the big sister of my grandfather, Mito Uzumaki sealed the Kyubi within herself after the fight between Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju in the Valley of the End. This secret was only known to Main line of the family, which I'm thankful to being born into, as it gives me a lot of leverage in knowing certain important things. But still it took me off guard knowing that Mito Uzumaki is my grandaunt.

After the time I had learned that I am in Naruto world, first thing I did was confirm if I was in canon world or if some things happened differently. Turns out this is canon world. I read many history books and finally confirmed that everything happened exactly as told in the canon. Hidden leaf village was founded twenty four years before I was born and the first great ninja war ended about two years ago with an armistice between the great nations. So, at that time I had approximately fifteen to twenty years before second great ninja war begins and about same years before Uzu got destroyed; since Uzu got destroyed during the ending time of second ninja war, as second great ninja war was all about destroying smaller villages. I had a list in my mind about the things I wanted to do and prepare for this, but my mind and morals always get stuck around the thought of letting the Uzumaki clan get destroyed or not. It's not as if I can do anything about it now, but letting the clan get destroyed saves me the timeline and saving the clan will render the knowledge of future obsolete. People may say that it is easy but it is a rather frightful decision to make. So, I left this question at the back of my mind for now.

I started bugging my parents for knowledge after that, listening to their stories about everything gave me much needed knowledge that anybody worth their salt would know in this world. I started reading various books and scrolls in our modest library, although the scrolls regarding various ninja techniques were forbidden to me. I had even asked my parents to start my ninja training early but they strictly forbade it, saying that training at this age will only hurt my development. They told me that I should give time for my chakra coils to develop normally, especially as an Uzumaki it is essential to me because of my large chakra coils and any physical training will only strain my body right now, which again will hurt my development in the long run. They also said that they wished for me to live a normal life a little longer and enjoy my childhood. In the end I accepted that, but imposed my own conditions to be taught theory and fuinjutsu, which my mother was all too happy to pass on.

Training had started for both me and my brother when I was three year old, as he had joined the academy after turning five. It was nothing big, while mother taught us both fuinjutsu basics and gave us characters to memorize, father helped Sora in his academy homework and told us stories about his youth and about some missions in exaggerated manner in hopes of getting us excited, which seems to work on Sora but he can clearly see that I was unimpressed. After some months it became obvious that Sora was struggling with fuinjutsu, so they told him to take his time and that they can start it later, while I was memorizing it like a thirsty person greedily drinking water. So mother continued to teach me and keep introducing new characters until finally two months back she told me I had memorized them all, which she confirmed after taking rigorous tests. There must have been several thousands of them known to mother. She was very impressed by the feat, as my rate of learning them was unprecedented and was never seen before for a child my age, even older children than me took years to learn even half as much as me. Well I can't exactly tell them that I was a genius student in my past life and is at a time limit; also this new thing was very very interesting. As an avid reader I had the burning curiosity to learn new things in my past life and that trait still exists in my personality, especially as knowledge here is literal power. In the last two months mother had me perfecting my calligraphy and gave me very basic seals to practice like a weak seal formula which when applied between two clothes sealed their surfaces to each other.

I also got to see the island country where we lived, whenever my mother took me with her during her outing in the city. There is only a single city on the island, but it is very big. The housing here is a mixture of traditional Japanese houses and huge buildings built with the help of seals. I am sure there are no fucking engineers here after all. The buildings are several stories monstrosities built with cement and a large river goes through the city. The ninja population of Uzu mainly consists of Uzumaki clan members and counts in several thousands. Although civilians are allowed to become a shinobi, they are very less in numbers as people prefer doing trade here. The area in the center of the city is the place where all the work regarding ninjas is done, so sometimes the city is called hidden village for convenience's sake. Although we live on the outskirts of the city where there is peace and quiet.

Third person's P.O.V

Indra is again practicing seals, when his mother entered the house with a sour and apprehensive look on her face; she went to the kitchen and after drinking a glass of water sat down in the living room near him.

He stopped writing and looked towards her and began to think any reason for that look on her face. She had gone to meet the village elders and the clan head, honestly he can't think of any reason those assholes wanted to meet her would be good.

So he asked, "what happened kaa-chan, you were gone for several hours and why do you look so troubled?"

'Sometimes I still can't believe how perceptive and smart Indra-chan is for his age; all other children his age would have focused on playing but here he is. He really is a genius and I think with his dedication will be a great shinobi one day.' Honoka thought and gave her son a soft smile "Don't worry Indra-chan; it was nothing important just some trip to Hi no Kuni."

At his rather insistent look, she sighed and explained, "You know about the ninja war that happened, well it led to economic depression in various countries and I was asked to negotiate a new trade deal for some new equipment and materials."

"But why are they sending you? Aren't you banished from the main line and retired from ninja roster. They just can't assign you a mission just like that, can they?" Indra asked her seemingly confused.

"It's not so easy Indra-chan, I may be banished but I was part of the main family and learned diplomacy for these situations, and anyone else is not available on short notice. Our various cousins are busy in other missions, and when your clan head and Kage orders you to do something, you have to do it." she replied.

"So, how long is this mission is going to take? And are you going alone?" Indra asked her thinking about the time it would take her to complete the mission.

"Here's the problem, since most of the higher ranked shinobis are on missions, only your father is in my security detail and since we can't leave you and your brother here, you both would have to come with us. It will take approximately a month and a half; I would have to stay several days to negotiate the prices." She replied

Indra sat pondering on the things she told him and was going to ask more questions, but she just looked at him and said, "Don't worry Indra-chan; I will discuss this more with your father this evening". Indra decided to drop it and returned his focus on practicing his seals.

Indra's P.O.V

After some hours father came back home from his duty at the Uzukage tower, on the way he also picked Sora from his friend's home. Sora after seeing both me and my mother came running towards us and excitedly talking about how he and Koji had been playing ninja. As mother tried to calm him down from his sugar rush, father came towards us smiling softly looking at us. After explaining something which I honestly didn't listen, Sora turned towards me and said, "Look Indra-kun, I brought this for you". He showed me his palm, on which laid a spinning top. I gave him my best impression of an unimpressed look and said, "No thanks nii-san, you can play with it. I don't want to waste my time on such useless things". He pouted and complained "So mean Indra-kun, why are you always reading those books, they are so boring, you have to play sometimes. Come on I will show you how to play with this top properly". I once again gave him a dry look and said "No thanks again nii-san, I will rather read my books and if you had done the same, you could have started learning interesting things". He gave me a depressed look and muttered, "So mean". Our mother and father were laughing seeing our antics. 'They look so cute when talking like that' thought Honoka. Honestly, Sora's personality reminds me of child Hashirama but I know that this childhood phase will pass and he will become more pragmatic with time.

Several hours after that we had finished eating dinner, mother asked us to come to the study, after we all got settled in she told us about the mission to the capital of land of fire. Sora was very happy about going to visit Land of Fire's capital while father was in a pensive mood. Eventually he asked, "Why I was not informed about this earlier Honoka-chan?" She replied, "We will be given official mission documents and briefing tomorrow Dai-kun, they called me today just to tell me about and prepare accordingly to move in two days". He just hmmed and nodded after considering it and then looked towards us with a seemingly happy expression and asked, "So, are you two ready to go to the Land of Fire's capital. It is a beautiful city and I'm sure you'll like it a lot after seeing it". Sora was bursting at the seams with happiness at the chance to go somewhere, and started asking questions about the capital from our parents.

Contrary to him I was apprehensive in leaving the relative safety the village provides us. I know that war ended some years ago, and majority of the countries are facing recession and lack of manpower and there is relative peace between the countries. But as Uzu was allied with Konoha, we came into conflict with other villages especially our good relations with Kirigakure no Sato were destroyed and our shinobi met in battlefield. We stopped Kiri and other ninja villages from entering land of fire through water. Our sealing techniques are also a thing to be feared. They will be more than happy to kill any Uzumaki they encounter, and the increasing number of missing ninjas in the elemental nations is also a cause for concern.

When I raised my concern with my parents, they assured me that they have a plan. After answering some more of Sora's question, mother and father tucked us in bed.

Next day was rather hectic as after collecting their mission assignment, my parents begin their preparations by sealing various necessities and other things for our safety in sealing scrolls, whereas Sora went to say goodbye to Koji. Academy is closed for next two months, so he normally goes to Koji's orphanage to play with him. My brother doesn't have any other friends except Koji who is an orphan, as nobody wanted their child in the company of our outcast family, which I call bullshit as Sora is such a likeable child that I bet if it weren't for our situation he would have had many friends.

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Third person's P.O.V

Green eyes fluttered open and Indra sat up groggily on his futon, he looked out of his window saw the dark sky filled with stars, and the cool breeze of night entering into his room through window alongside the fluttering of curtains. He guessed that there is still some time left before sunrise. Normally he won't wake this early but yesterday his parents insisted on them retiring early, as they will begin their journey towards land of fire today. He stood up and went towards his mirror and looked in it. The same face as his stared back, but the hair color was rather different. Rather than the burning crimson hair, he saw soft brown tresses fluttering in the breeze entering through the window.

This was another part of his parents plan. As Uzumaki's are easily identifiable via their hair color, his parents decided to dye their family's hair color brown, to add an extra layer of protection to their rather low security. They will travel as a family of four, going to capital of Land of Fire to look for better living conditions. Father will act as a mason looking for better opportunities in the capital and is taking his family with him there to settle down. Admittedly it is a good cover; he explained the severity of situation to us yesterday. Sora acts all goofy and trigger-happy most of the time, but yesterday he saw his serious side which made him remember that he has been training since a year in the academy to become a shinobi. Indra obviously accepted whatever his parents told him.

As Indra went outside his room, he heard voices from the study room, without thinking about it Indra started walking towards it. He stood outside the door and pressed his ear to hear clearly.

"…do this mission" came his mother's voice.

"I understand that Honoka-chan, but this is still suspicious. Why send you to diplomatic mission? And with a rather small security detail, normally these missions are for elites of the village. I understand they want those medical equipment and supplies badly but they can send someone else, someone will definitely come back in the next two weeks from their previous mission. And why we have to take Sora-kun and Indra-kun with us? This situation is giving me a headache." His father replied.

"I know Dai-kun, but I already told you that there was nobody available and my name was nominated by Elder Kirihito, as I was trained in diplomacy in childhood. This can help us regain our standing with the clan. You know Sora-kun and Indra-chan suffers because of it, they don't have any friends. I don't want them to be living this life. I want them to be happy and have friends. So if I can increase that by doing some missions like these, I will be happy to do them. You know I can't take active missions like you do as I have to take care of Sora-kun and Indra-chan by staying at home. At Damiyo's court we can make connections, we can increase our influence with the nobles, which will surely reflect better on us when we come back. This is a valuable chance Dai-kun. As for children going with us, it will surely be good for them to visit such prestigious place and get out of Uzu once, and our cover will also be solid with them, nobody will suspect anything so there is no need to needlessly complicate it by asking for more members in security detail." His mother replied back.

"Ok, I understand Honoka-chan. We are obviously doing this, and there is no turning back now. But do you really want to do this? You know we could always settle for a civilian and peaceful life, perhaps somewhere in Land of Fire or in Konoha. We won't have to raise our children at the fringes of society; your aunt Mito-sama is still alive in Konoha, perhaps she can help us out. We can teach them ourselves and let them choose whatever they want to become." His father replied with passion.

"That is just wishful thinking. You know that is not possible Dai-kun, I may be banished from the main line but I still know many secrets of Uzumaki clan, they won't just let me go. Even Mito-sama was married in Senju clan due to necessity. The rising power of Senju clan and the increasing danger from various clans forced our clan's hand. They even stopped her from learning anything more and removed her from the workings of the clan, when her imminent marriage was announced. If I wasn't from main line and we both were civilians then this dream was possible, albeit a little difficult. But we are not and the chances of them leaving us alone will be nil. I know our children are forced in the shinobi life but I believe they will become very strong and would help in making this a better world. As a parent, I will trust my children because that is the duty of a parent." she started morosely and softly and in the end her voice was full of conviction and love for her children.

Indra became rather moved by her mother's passionate words and quietly walked away from the door feeling very happy. He suddenly remembered the quote from his past life "With great power, comes great responsibility". He thought if this situation applies to him, and this great power of chakra given to him, should he use it to bring peace or use it selfishly. Whatever he may decide, he knew he will need power to achieve that in this world. Indra felt very happy to be reborn to such loving parents and he promised to himself that he will make them proud. He also felt very angry with his own clan; because of them his parents have to take such extreme measures to give them a normal life. Honestly he is still looking this world through tinted glass sometimes. This world is not like his last one, where educated people have come together to solve their grievances with each other. In this world exists a mystic power, so everything is based on the strength of a person. Only the strong makes the rules here. He was sure that if his mother was more powerful, the clan had to swallow their indignation regarding her marriage. With these thoughts he returned to his room.

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Indra's P.O.V

Our journey started in afternoon; we reached the port in two hours. From there we boarded a merchant ship going to the only port of Land of Fire; apparently the others were destroyed during the last war. The ship was generic looking ship built for long sea journeys; the only interesting thing about the ship was the flag of Land of Fire on it. The ship wass carrying trade supplies from Land of Water and Whirlpool country to land of fire, some merchants were going to fire capital and some to Konoha. Whirlpool Island is between Land of Fire and Land of Water; the ship continued east and reached land of fire after two days of sea travel.

After reaching land of fire, our group rented some carriages from the port town and started travelling at civilian speed. After a week of travelling, Konoha was only a day ride away from us. This is where a group of people separated from us and the remaining people started travelling towards fire capital which was about at three days travel distance. Sora was very sad to say goodbye to some friends he made during the trip, but we continued on.

A line of horse driven carriages were passing from thick foliage of trees in the forest, some people were sitting atop the carriages keeping an eye on the road. I was sitting inside a carriage reading a scroll on sealing given to me by my mother. My parents were also sitting beside me while my brother, was hanging from the carriage window looking at the view it provided. Suddenly a blasting sound reached us, my mother took me in her arms and raced out of the carriage and I looked back to see my father doing the same with my brother. Just after that a kunai with an exploding tag went off and our carriage also got blasted to smithereens. Our carriage was near the end of the line, so mother and father stopped at the center of the road at the back of all carriages, with me and my brother in their arms respectively.

Suddenly two Kiri shinobi landed at the front and back of us, they both were full grown men and I can clearly see them wearing headbands of Hidden Mist village and according to their flak jackets both were Kiri jonins. My brother looked terrified and I am sure I have the same look on my face. My parents tried to look calm but I can see they are rather apprehensive. My mother is holding me tightly and trying to keep me away from the shinobis view.

My father stepped forward hiding Sora behind his back and asked the shinobi in front of us, "Why have you attacked us shinobi-san? We are simple civilians going to fire capital."

The shinobi in front of us laughed in a rather cruel and mocking manner and answered, "Nice try Uzumaki trash, but we know you four are certainly no civilians. We know you are those read headed bastards". He looked towards his partner and said, "This is our lucky day Renji, these red headed bastards gave us a lot of grief during last war. I was just a chunin then, but these bastards used to destroy our supply lines through sea and because of them we lost to those tree huggers. Our country has still not overcome the losses they dealt to us at that time. We'll get to kill a whole family of these scums today". Here the killing intent in the area kept increasing and I started having difficulty in breathing.

Daisuke listened to all this with a stoic face and then put on a little meek face and said, "Alright, you are right we are Uzumakis, but we are only civilians. Surely there is no need to kill us".

The shinobi standing behind us said, "Yeah right, we know that she is from the main family of Uzumaki clan, as if we will let a chance like that slip us by" indicating towards mother .

'This is not good, they know too much, we can't fool them and they will surely have more shinobi with them. We can't fight like this, Indra-kun's and Sora-kun's safety cannot be promised in such a fight.' Daisuke thought while keeping a stoic face, outwardly he asked "How do you know so much, this is classified information that shouldn't be known to anyone else".

Renji laughed and asked, "Captain, what you think, should we tell them? It's not as if they will live after today"

The now identified Captain looked towards us and said, "Oh, very well, we were given a mission to assassinate your family, your entire travelling plan was known to us from the start. So, you are all going to die". He paused for a second and said, "Well maybe not, we can take this smaller child back to our village to build our own clan of Uzumakis, but sorry the bigger one has to die".

My mother tightened her arms around me even more and suddenly tension increased while a burst of killing intent emanated from both my father and mother and everyone prepared to fight. 'This is not good, how can this situation happen, this is worse than I thought possible for such an easy mission' I thought fearing for my life and my family's.

Honoka has been very slowly kneading a small amount of chakra and when these kiri shinobi talked about kidnapping Indra she fired "Water style: gunshot." The shinobi standing in the back was caught off guard, by her sealless jutsu. He tried to move away from the jutsu's path but it clipped his shoulder, which gave Honoka enough time to race past him with Indra in her arms.

Daisuke tried to follow her but a hail of kunais landed in his path forcing him to stop. He saw another shinobi land in front of him and he cursed himself for not being able to sense him. He should have known there'll be whole assassination squad for such a mission; he should have tried to use his sensing technique. By the looks of it, shinobi in front of him is a chunin. He saw the other jonin Renji and two other shinobi quickly follow his wife.

He looked towards the captain and stated in conviction, "I will not let you kill my child, and I'll fight to my last breath". The happy smile on the face of his adversary unnerved him "Oh, there will be no fight, just slaughter."

They clashed kunais and tried to find leverage over each other, at the same time Diasuke has to save his body from kunais thrown by the other shinobi, it was difficult with Sora on his back, but he managed for the time being, only receiving a few nicks. He tried to kick out the legs of his enemy from beneath him, but the ninja jumped up and sent a kick to his face, which he blocked with his hands and they engaged into a taijutsu bout, while Daisuke also continued to carefully deflect the kunais thrown his way.

He quickly learned that his opponent is stronger, faster and better than himself in taijutsu. So, he quickly disengaged and stood back some distance away from him.

"What happened Uzumaki bastard, can't keep up. You should just give up and get ready for your death. I am an elite jonin of Kiri and selected to be in the next generation of Seven Swordsman of Mist. I am Jushiro Tsuki" his opponent said.

'This is bad I can't fight him, he is an elite jonin with a backup and I am only a low-jonin caliber shinobi. I have to create a diversion and run towards the Leaf village.' Daisuke thought grimly and prepared for a diversion using the lull in battle. He quickly weaved hand signs and made three water clones and they all started running in direction of Jushiro and the chunin to engage them and buy him some time to at least hide Sora. Jushiro seeing this quickly created his own two water clones and sent them in the direction of two clones, while the chunin already went towards the final clone and he himself went after the real one who was running in the forest, going in the direction of Konoha. He quickly caught up to him in some minutes and beheaded him with a swift slash of his sword; the bastard didn't even saw it coming, he was way out of league with him. The child began crying uncontrollably and hugged the body of his father. He picked the brat by the scruff of his neck and broke it by a swift movement of his hand, silencing the child. After this he quickly moved in the pursuit of the women.

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Honoka have been running for some minutes now, she knew she wouldn't reach far like this, she had very little time in which she had been able to create a single trap using her pre made seals. The trap will restrict the person who got caught in it and pump their body full of lightning nature chakra, which will cause the heart to burst like a melon. Judging by the absence of those chunins they must have been caught in it. She kept deflecting the kunais of Renji while running. After some distance, when she checked with her sensory abilities that the chunins were really not in the area, she stopped on a tree branch to confront the kiri shinobi.

Renji also stopped on a tree branch just some distance away from her and taunted her by saying, "Finally you understand that there is no hope of you running away, why don't you surrender yourself, I promise not to kill your son if you do this", while on the inside he was thinking, 'I knew she will be a problem, according to the information we were given, she is at least as strong as me and her fuinjutsu is a problem. I am already injured due to her earlier water bullet, even if I am not showing it. I had thought that the three of us can overwhelm the bitch but those two idiots just have to get trapped in that barrier and die. I should just let captain handle her. I can keep her occupied here, by now he would have already dealt with the man. Yes, that is the best course of action'.

'I have to defeat him quickly then help Dai-kun, that captain of theirs looked strong. I doubt he can handle him for long' Honoka thought grimly. She has already hidden Indra in the thick foliage of the tree branches above them.

While all this was happening, I was trying to understand how such easy looking mission can turn into such a disaster. I had listened to that shinobi saying that they were given information about the mission, which means someone in the Uzumaki clan hired them and leaked our trip details. I couldn't think of anyone wanting to kill us, sure there were disgruntled members of the clan who do not like his family, but nobody has tried to ever hurt them. He is terrified of what will happen now. He peeked from between the leaves and saw his mother and Renji in a standoff.

They raced towards each other and met in the middle with a kunai in their hands. They clashed again and again but remained at stalemate, so they jumped back a little. Suddenly Honoka started weaving hand signs and let loose a Water Style: Wild water wave and spewed water from her mouth in a waterfall like fashion to wash away Renji. Seeing this Renji also started to weave hand signs and spewed a wall of water using Water style: water wall, but it was quickly overpowered as Honoka has overpowered her jutsu by adding extra chakra into it.

Seeing this Renji quickly tried to move but due to his earlier injury he was not fast enough and his ankle got hit by the technique and his body is sent spinning. He finally stopped when his body hit a tree brutally and he fell on the ground. He felt disorientated and his leg felt broken, his ribs were also broken. He tried to stand up but suddenly found a liquid whip wrapped around him and suddenly thousands volts of electricity flowed into his body and he knew no more.

Seeing that her technique has managed to injure the Kiri shinobi, she quickly landed on the ground to take advantage of the situation and weaved more hand signs for Water style: water whip and sent a whip of water to wrap around Renji and restrict his movement. After this she focused on flowed lightening natured chakra into her whip and fried the Kiri bastard, as she thought him.

Seeing that Renji is not a danger anymore, she removed her gaze from his smoking body and quickly jumped in the foliage of branches above to see Indra. She removed some leaves to see a white faced but relieved Indra. Suddenly she felt intense pain in her chest and looked down to see a red colored sword sticking out of her chest. She coughed blood and painfully moved to looked behind herself to see the captain of the Kiri ninjas had stabbed her in the heart from the back. "Bastard, you waited for me to put my guard down." she coughed more blood from her mouth. Her enemy just grinned revealing his sharp teeth and replied, "Of course, I know you would be problematic due to your fuinjutsu and because we specialize in same things. I didn't want to take any chance so after finishing with the others, I decided some caution is necessary and just as you lowered your guard, I acted." He explained in a happy voice. She looked heartbroken and simply asked, "So, Dai-kun and Sora-kun….." she trailed off after that light leaving her eyes.

Jushiro felt very happy by killing this Uzumaki bitch and grabbed the other brat by his collar and descended on the ground. Suddenly another Kiri ninja landed beside him. He turned towards him and asked in a snide voice, "So you are alive, I had thought you wouldn't even be able to handle the clone of that weakling". Said chunin just shrugged and replied, "I was fighting it when it suddenly burst". The chunin looked towards the brat and looked back towards his captain and asked, "Don't tell me you are intending to take this brat back to kiri, captain"? Jushiro just snorted and put the crying brat in front of the chunin and said, "Nah, I was just messing with them, the mission perimeters were very clear, we have to exterminate of all four of them. So, say goodbye brat". He pulled a kunai to slit the throat of the wailing child and suddenly all he felt was pain and everything went black.

I became relieved when mother had overpowered the Kiri shinobi and swiftly neutralized him. I quickly tried to put a relieved face when mother came towards me. Just as she was starting to say something a sword burst out from her chest with a squelch and her face contorted in pain. Everything slowed down for me and I became rooted in the place. Tears started flowing from my eyes and they scrunched up in pain. My every fear regarding this world is coming true in front of my very eyes; the Kiri shinobi told us that he has already killed my brother and father and I started feeling very hollow. This world is such a cruel place; I had made a new life in this world, loved my family and feared for my and their life during Uzumaki clan's demise. I had not thought that such day would come so soon and I wouldn't be able to do anything to save my family. As the Kiri shinobi taunted me about my coming death, all I felt is hatred for him, for brutally killing my family. I felt anger bubbling beneath my skin and finally I felt fear for my second life which is also about to be snuffed out. I felt desperation to save myself. I don't want to experience dying again, that soul rendering cold. I had thought that I will be ready to die again but all I could think is that I want to live, that I don't want to die. My soul screamed inside of me and suddenly power poured out of my body. I felt as if an ocean of power has been opened inside me. So much power, that I can bend steel bars with my bare hands, power to shatter mountains with my fists and ride the wind itself. From my body many spike tipped chakra chains erupted and stabbed the bastard in the chest, who couldn't react swiftly and died instantly. Several chains stabbed the chunin behind me in his abdomen, arms and legs and wrapped him tightly in their embrace and immobilized him.

I looked at his now pain filled face and suddenly I understood how naïve I have been acting. I had thought that I could live normally here, my experience of living peacefully in 21st century in last life and what I knew of Naruto from it, colored my expectations. I forgot that this is a world of bloodshed and misery. I was a pragmatic person in my past life but here living peacefully only with my family for so long, made me go soft hearted and underestimate what awaited me outside my home. Instead of preparing to face the dangers of this world, I had been living normally in it. I would have tried to fit in this world, instead of exploiting it. I would have eventually tried to bring peace to this war torn world. But now after losing everything, I understood. I got a new perspective as to why so many people wanted to bring peace to this world. I had the reality came crashing down around me. This world is a cruel place and has every evil imaginable in it. Every day so many people suffer in it, they lose their loved ones and all that remains in this world is grief and despair.

I now have my goal and to fulfill that, I will need power. So much power that this earth will tremble beneath my feet. I will play by these shinobis rule and do everything- lie, cheat, steal, manipulate and kill to obtain this power. I would exploit this very world. I became a soft hearted person in this life and all I got in return is hurt, but now I will harden my heart to stone and become ruthless. I will become so powerful that this world will bend to my very whims.

I know that my parents wouldn't have wanted this for me, but what does it matter? They are dead. I already lost everything once and now second time my heart has been ripped from my chest. All I feel is suffocating despair, knowing that I am alone in this world, knowing that there will be no sweet mother and loving father waiting for me. There will be no irritating big brother trying to make me loosen up. 'I will never be so weak again.' With these hollow thoughts I picked a kunai from the ground and took the first step of my journey. I slit the throat of the Kiri shinobi from ear to ear. I felt nothing doing this. I felt no disgust, empathy or anything else. All I felt was utter satisfaction at my revenge.

For two days I remained in the same place. First I collected my family's bodies and buried them near the bank of the river considerable distance away. I also buried all the scrolls which had the sealing knowledge of my family with my mother meager as they were. I knew that the role that I would play now will not pan out if they are with me. I promised myself that one day, I will come back to collect all this. I went back to the carriages and saw that everyone there was also dead. I placed the bodies of other dead civilians near the Kiri ninjas in proper disguise and left them in the forest where battle took place, such that it will look like they have taken each other out. So, if any Kiri ninja came looking for them, it will look like that they died but also completed their mission. This will later give me an alibi of being an orphan child of merchants. I collected all the food that I needed and burned everything to the ground; I also shaved my head bald, so that nobody would suspect me being an Uzumaki, especially after my brown hair color is washed away. I knew that this new act of his life will begin as an orphan, so I decided to embrace it fully.

Now I only needed to approach konoha, I knew that I will not found the power that I needed anywhere else. Konoha is like a focal point of the elemental nations. Most powerful shinobis originated from there like Hiruzen, Danzo, Minato, Sannin and many others. Even other strong shinobis were affected by them like Nagato or Gaara.

After two days a civilian caravan passed through the route. I told them how I woke up two days ago in this wreckage. I told them I can't remember anything that happened here except my name, that being Indra. They looked at me in pity and asked if I remember even anything regarding my life, which I denied. So they asked me to come to Konoha with them, where they will leave me in an orphanage. I readily accepted this. The first chapter of my life began from here, with nothing but a pair of clothes on my body.

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AN: So, hello guys how are you and how did you like this new chapter? This is my first time writing a story and if you are an experienced writer you will see me changing styles often in this chapter. I will settle for one style if I like it, but for now I will mesh what I know to keep it smooth. If you liked it then please comment and increase the reviews. Although writing such a long chapter was a bitch in itself. This chapter has more than 10k words.

I will try to adhere to canon as much as possible like there being only a single port town in land of fire, which a Summon terrorized in the future. Wherever needed, I will try to invent something, to give the explanation of things canon left us guessing about and fill that hole. My goal is to not to make it a magical world, where everything happens without no reason, but try to bring life into the world. But for all this I have to research a lot and read a lot of background information, which takes time and hence updates will be slow, especially since I don't know anything about Japanese culture.

Lastly I want to say sorry for various problems in my last chapter, there were many grammatical mistakes and several other things. I was so excited for my own fic that I wrote everything in a single day and uploaded it.

There is another confusing problem for me. This is a self-insert fic, and I write it in first person. But in author's notes I can't exactly write I decided to do this and that. It just feels wrong. So here I refer myself as Indra and say things in third person.

Some Explanations:

Firstly some history in which I tried to explain how various clans and ninja creed established over the centuries and what Indra had been doing all this time.

About Adamantine sealing chains, I think every Uzumaki has the potential to activate them but they required certain situations and emotions like sharingan among which the least is dense and huge amounts of chakra. In canon only certain Uzumaki had them like Honoka, Kushina and Karin who activated them while fighting Suigetsu.

Every jutsu I used till now had been simple and according to canon, except fuinjutsu, although I will branch out later. For fuinjutsu I know I had to do something new. For such a vast aspect of Ninjutsu, canon shows very few and only high level techniques. So I have decided to spin fuinjutsu to my own understanding and create new techniques. I mean seriously they manipulated space-time with it.

Now I have observed that every villain in Naruto series has the same back story, they lost someone precious and this led to them following the path which they took. Be it Madara, who lost his brothers, Obito who lost Rin, Orochimaru who lost his parents and began fearing death, Sasori also lost his parents and went to become a puppet master hell even Kakuzu lost his village. When you look at them it is hilarious that all villains have same problems. So, obviously I kept to the theme and decided to do the same. I know that Indra is already a person of this mindset, but I have to create a condition where he loses something, which he can use as an excuse to justify his extreme measures which he will take in the future. I don't plan on making him super powerful with whom nothing goes wrong; which is bullshit as nothing like that happens in the real world, which is the ninja world is for him now. His development will be gradual and he will also suffer failures, but with his mind and persistence he …Ok enough spoilers.

His final goal – you will become very shocked if I told you that. You can clearly see that he will need power but what he will do with it and how will he develop it, still remains a mystery. I could tell you but I will not, I already hinted so much in summary and last chapter's author notes.

Now this is something I think is valid for Mito. I don't think any clan will let someone, who is going to marry in some other clan, learn their secret techniques and their knowledge. They surely will be cut off from everything, as society is rather patriarchal in Naruto series except some places. I think Mito's power came from the fact that she was exceptionally talented in fuinjutsu from the beginning and was a quick learner. By the time her marriage was arranged she had already become a kunoichi of renowned strength, skill and knowledge. Obviously there are many secrets which are only for the clan head and the heir of the clan, but she had already mastered the Uzumaki sealing style by then.

Just something that I will not be doing from next chapters:

Kekkai genkai - Bloodline limits

Suiton ninjutsu - water style techniques

Kenjutsu – sword style fighting

Bijuu – Tailed Beasts

Kyubi - Nine Tailed fox

Jinchuriki – human sacrifice

Shodaime Hokage – first fire shadow or first hokage

Kirigakure no Sato – village hidden in the mist

Uzu Island – Whirlpool Island

'This will be an awesome fanfic'-thoughts

"Sure it will be"-normal speech

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