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First Person PoV Main Character

I was 16 when I died and everything started.

Hmm? That came out wrong? I was sure I made my point clearly.

Yes, I did! Everything started when I died at the age of sixteen!

How, you probably ask. Well, if Hagoromo-jiisama did as I asked, this was uploaded as a Naruto FanFiction in my original birth world. You have three guesses as to how, and the first two don't count.

Yes! I self-inserted! Or reincarnated. Either way really.

Thinking that this is an actual FanFiction and not a nonfictional autobiography, you might curiously ask yourself, 'how?'

Did I piss off a random ROB?

Did I die by Truck-kun?

Did God accidentally strike me down with the Master Bolt and reincarnate me in the Elemental Nations as apology?

Did I piss off God and he reincarnated me into the Elemental Nations as a punishment?

Did I die saving my fellow high schoolers from a school shooting?

Did a random ROB decide to reincarnate me for entertainment?

Did the Sage of Six Paths decide to take my soul in order to help Naruto save the world?
Did I get the Gamer ability upon death and chose to be reborn into the Elemental Nations?

No, nothing so cliche as that!

I had been daydreaming and I decided that no religion made sense. Then I remembered how in Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Lightning Thief, one of the characters mentioned that the afterlife appeared like whatever you thought it would. Or maybe believed it would, or hoped it would.

I thought, 'Maybe that's what the Afterlife is like.'

Apparently, I was the first soul on my planet to figure that out, or even guess this, that wasn't also a previously reincarnated soul.

Apparently, this is grounds for Kami-sama herself to kill me off intentionally in order to congratulate me.

Needless to say, I wasn't amused.

"So you killed me since I guessed that the afterlife was just whatever one believed it would be without even truly believing in it?" I had asked, incredulous. Even if she was more gorgeous than any teenage girl -if only in appearance- I'd ever laid my eyes on, digital or real, I would not forgive her for killing me for such a stupid reason.

"W-ow," She drawled out, her voice completely dry, "Aren't you a grateful mortal. I gave you the chance to meet Kami-sama herself and you respond with an accusation," I swear I heard a 'Tch, stupid mortal. I'll show you-'

I ignored that.

Oh, how I'd regret that.

"You killed me," I stated. "Mortals, or at least humans, tend to not want to die before they reach the end of their second decade."

She didn't seem to understand.

I pinched the bridge of my nose, "Alright, this isn't going anywhere," I clap my hands together, "Is there anything else, or are you going to shunt me off into eternal blackness since my belief in the afterlife is a paradox." Since the afterlife is whatever you believe it to be, and I believe it to be whatever I believe it to be, the afterlife would be whatever I believe it to be, which is whatever I believe it to be, etcetera.

She blinked twice, "No, for people like you I choose whatever you hope the afterlife is like. Which is being reincarnated to a place of your choice with your memories intact and a few special abilities." She tosses a tablet to me, "You have thirty earth minutes. I have to deal with some RAOBs skirting on my turf. Those almost-omnipotents think they're so tough…" The last part was said in a low mutter.

I looked at the tablet. First thing I had to choose was the universe I wanted to be reincarnated in.

The list includes One Piece, Fairy Tail, Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Bleach, Ranma ½, Detective Conan, Sword Art Online, Log Horizon, Fullmetal Alchemist, Charlotte, [A/N: Charlotte is a superpower anime] Boku no Hero Academia, Familiar of Zero, FullMetal Alchemist, Accel World, Naruto, Re:Zero, My Youth Romantic Comedy is Wrong as Expected, Fablehaven, Ender's Game, and Yaoshenji (Tales of Demons and Gods).

All stories I've read or watched before.

I quickly chose Naruto. Why would I choose the one which would guarantee that I'd have the hardest life out of all the stories, with the exception of Yaoshenji?

I didn't want to become a cowardly civilian with little more motivation than to get into a good college and getting a job I won't hate. Out of all the choices, the only choices that had a somewhat decent chance of motivating me to train before the story even starts were Bleach, Ranma ½, Re:Zero, Ender's Game, Yaoshenji, and -you guessed it- Naruto.

Bleach was too insane to even seriously consider willingly reincarnating into. Ranma ½ could involve me turning into anything from a girl to an infant Cthulhu. If I reincarnated into Re:Zero I could possibly be forced to live my final moments in a time loop. I don't think I'm smart enough to be of any use in Ender's Game. Heck, I think Ender was smarter than me at age six. Yaoshenji is basically a fix-it story, but I'd have to live through the original timeline, even if I don't end up remembering it before the good timeline occurred. Assuming it did occur. I could accidentally stop Nie Lie from getting the relic that allowed him to time travel.

Then there's Naruto. While I would be forced to murder, I would have the chance to learn super awesome Ninjutsu, Fuinjutsu, Kenjutsu, Taijutsu, and other ninja arts. More importantly, it would be a wake-up check to me. I was smart. I knew I was naive. On an intellectual level, I knew people could be scumbags. I knew there were Danzos and Orochimarus. But if I was faced with such inhumanity I would be stunned by it. Most importantly, I knew I didn't know the meaning of hard work. Not even intellectually.

Assuming that every time I died I came back here and got to reincarnate again, I need a wake-up call now. I can't live the rest of eternity naive and lazy.

I chose to ignore the possibility that being forced to do nothing but cry, sleep, and eat for over a year might make me more hard working without being forced into a world where you either work hard or die.

So, I finally chose the world of Naruto.

Then I had to choose the location and time.

I obviously chose Konohagakure no Sato in Hi no Kuni. Almost everyone important was either there or from there. Not to mention Maito Gai is there. He might be able to help with my laziness problem.

I shudder at the thought, but if I can't get myself to be hardworking, I will resort to that.

For the time I chose a month before the Kyuubi attack, September 10th.

Next was my clan. There were Civilian, Uzumaki, Uchiha, Hyuga, Inuzuka, Aburame, Yamanaka, Nara, Akimichi, Hatake, Sarutobi, Shimura (I'd sooner reincarnate myself in a world where MPreg was a real thing than to be reborn related to Danzo *Shudder spasmodically*), Kurama, and Senju. I quickly narrowed it down to Uzumaki, Uchiha, Hyuga, Aburame, Sarutobi, and Senju. Not Uzumaki, I don't want to be a Jinchuuriki, and I definitely don't want to be Naruto. While the Kyuubi attack in Canon was October 10th, Kushina was the only Uzumaki in Konoha, so that might make it so she has a premature birth. Everyone would be less prepared and more people would die. I don't want to end up with the Caged Bird Seal, so not Hyuga. I'd prefer not to have bugs inside me, so not Aburame. I know nothing about the Sarutobi, so not them. And I don't want to be murdered before I reach age 8, so not an Uchiha. That left Senju.

I pray my father isn't Jiraiya. People would automatically assume I'm a super pervert. Like father like son and all.

That left blessings.

It seemed I was allowed to take two minor and one major blessing.

After a skim of the minor blessings -I only have five more minutes- I decided to take the Minor Blessing of the Child, and the Minor Blessing of the Mind Fortress. The Minor Blessing of the Child would give me the mental flexibility of a child while still allowing brain development, make me act and think like a child (during childhood) when it isn't a serious situation, and suppress any embarrassment during my infant life so I can get used to the life of a child without trauma. The Minor Blessing of the Mind Fortress would make me immune to any attacks on my mind unless I allowed them to enter or affect me. It would also increase my mind's storage space, memory recall, memorization, processing speed, and reflexes. The downside to this is that it would make it hard for me to learn genjutsu.

The major blessing I had chosen was the Major Blessing of Youth. This blessing would make it much easier to motivate me, and much harder to lose my motivation. It would also make me stubborn. While seemingly minor, Might Gai became one of the strongest Ninja in Hi no Kuni with his determination.

Not a second after I clicked confirm on the bottom of the tablet did Kami-sama appeared behind me and shouted, "Times up!" right in my ear.

"Now, before I reincarnate you, do you have any questions?" She asked.

I thought for a second, and nodded to myself, "When I die again will I reincarnate again?"

"As long as you wish to. After all, I decided on what your afterlife would be from your hopes on what the afterlife would be," She answered.

"Are the mechanics of the afterlife in the Naruto world the same as the ones on Earth?"

"Of course! I do manage all death in the Multiverse after all," She then looked thoughtful for a second, "But some universes do have their own afterlives. In which case after they fade from that afterlife they come to this one."

That made sense. After all, Bleach was on the list of possible universes.

"Then I'm ready," I shrugged.

She had a devious, no, not devious, evil smirk on her face.

"Have a nice life, Senju Tsuru, daughter of Senju Tsunade and Jiraiya!"

I didn't even have enough time to curse before I found myself in a very dark, comforting, and cramped place.

My first thought, rather than 'WTF' or 'TURN ME BACK INTO A GUY!' was 'Please, let me be Lesbian! Or at least Bi!'

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