The next time I woke up I found myself on a soft blanket. I still could see shit, something was breathing silently next to me, maybe my sister Tsunade. I got reborn as the older brother of Tsunade. This is..., I don't know. There is scarcely little known about the time before Naruto canon. I know next to nothing about the time right after the First Shinobi War.

  Only that Tsunade got Genin under Sarutobi and that Hashirama, as well as Tobirama, died during the first war. There Sarutobi became the Third Hokage. But that couldn't be right. Elite Jonin would not be tasked with training Genin during a war, that is a waste of their war strength. And Hokage don't train Genin, that does not happen, too little time. Which makes it impossible for her to be Genin after the first war.

  Tsunade must have become Genin under Sarutobi during peace, which either means that she was born before the first war and became Chunin during it or shortly before. However, she looked to be at most in her early twenties when she fought against Hanzo, which makes being born before the first war happened impossible as well. She was also around 50 when she appeared in Naruto.

  So, she can't have been a Genin after the first war, as that would mean for Sarutobi to have a Genin team as a Kage. Kage don't have time for Genin teams. But she can't have been Genin before the first war or during it as well. That would mean for her to be too old when she appears in the Naruto canon. Both Tobirama and Hashirama have also seen her in her younger years.

  I think there is a plot hole in the timeline.

  It's way more likely for Hashirama to die at the start of the second war, he was also present at the peace talks at the end of the first war. Tobirama must have died shortly after.

  Anyway, if I'm this early, might as well further fuck up the timeline. And who says this isn't a completely different universe. With me being here it is already AU.

  Thinking about this will change nothing. First, I called for someone, but I am not yet able to speak, only baby gibberish came out when I tried to ask for someone close by. If communications aren't working then let's do the next best thing. Finding out how to access the game statistics.

  I knew that speaking isn't possible, so I thought hard about the word 'options'. And lo and behold a window named Option plopped up in front of my eye.

  It did not have many options, only that I could activate and deactivate specific announcements. I could add my health-, Chakra-, and stamina-bar. Which I did. Three lines were now up on the left side of my view. From up to bottom they were red, green and blue. They must be life, stamina and Chakra.

  Then there was also a tutorial option, it was deactivated, so I activated it. The options menu closed and a new window opened.

  I did just that and my menu opened.

  Hmm, okay, I already knew most of that. But Charisma is interesting.

  That's one pretty useful thing. I've never seen a game with such a feature. Normally these Learn Points are only for one thing, but never for everything. Gaining level has suddenly a much higher priority.

  Luck definitely was the best option to choose, as was endurance. Both are extremely important. The first because it influences everything, the second because it has a role in all my energy bars.

  My charisma has a bonus of +20. Let's find out why.

  Okay, that's useful. Don't want to think about what would happen to me if my own parents wouldn't like me. Probably favor Tsunade over me. Anyway, let's continue the tutorial.

  I did just that and a list of my Perks came in front of my inner eye.

  Well, those are useful. None of them sounds overly OP, with the exception of Gamers Mind and Body. But Body of a Senju and Lucky Shot are working with %. That means the stronger I get the greater the difference. And 20% more critical damage is fucking good.

  Okay, what's next. I think Titles and my Inventory are left. What an info dump.

  Yeah, not really great. I mean Heir of the Senju Clan may be useful but can be as much a hindrance. I don't know if only the activated title shows its effects or if all of them are constantly active. Welp, can't do much about it anyway, let's continue with the inventory.

  I dismissed the last message and opened my inventory. An old school inventory opened in my mind’s eye. It has the form of a normal tiled square. The currency, Ryo, was shown at the top left. Each square is probably an inventory slot. I can see fifty tiles right now, but I have the extra Unlimited Inventory.

  That either means that there is no limit to one stack, I will get a down scroll option or both. Things to experiment with once I am no longer a baby.

  I had just closed the inventory when something suddenly cast a shadow over me. “Look Daikuma, our little Kenshiro is awake.” That was the voice of my mother, she was also no longer sounding tired.

  I got picked up and placed in the warmth of my mother’s arms. “Our two little angels,” whispered mother lovingly. She kissed the top of my head and moved away from my bed. “You must be hungry.”

  She did something with her free arm and then put something in my mouth. Is that her breast? Am I expected to suck now? Why is this so freaking uncomfortable?

  My mind forcibly calmed down before I could really freak out and I noticed that I indeed was kind of hungry, so I began to eat. I noted calmly that breast milk was sweeter than cow milk.

  I ate until I was full and tried to move my head away from my milk dispenser. Iria, my mother, noticed and patted my back for me to burp. Just that I didn't need to, I am perfectly able to keep my food in, thank you, “Burp”... never mind.

  “Come, I can hold him while you give Tsunade her meal. She looks kind of grumpy for not being first to eat,” chuckled my father.

  I got picked up again and sat down on the knee of my father, he bounced me up and down and was trying to make me laugh by doing something. I couldn't see much more than a black blotch moving around in front of me.

  So, I ignored him and tried to get a feel for my body. I now have Chakra, that is supposed to be inside me and moves around in an extra set of pathways like my blood does move through arteries and veins.

  At first, I felt nothing and I concentrated harder to reach out to that special something that wouldn't have been there in my old life. Then suddenly it was as if a switch got turned on and I could clearly make out something that was inside me.

  It felt warm and moved through every part of my body, starting by the heart, going through the whole body and then ending back there. The same as blood does, just that this stuff was also bleeding out of me and into the air.

  This leakage must be what sensors can feel, the more Chakra and less control someone has the more leakage he will produce. Which makes it easier to sense them.

  From my close proximity to father I could feel his Chakra as well, it was completely enclosing me, protecting me like a warm blanket. It felt soothing and protective. Karin Uzumaki, a sensor in the Naruto Anime, was saying that people's Chakra was having emotional characteristics.

  I focused back inwards and on my own Chakra. It was still moving around with a slow pace, not in any rush to get anywhere, but at the same time still reaching every part of my body.

  Being able to move it around will be the first step in getting control over it.

  I concentrated on a part of my Chakra that was in my left hand, there I can do less damage than in my head or heart. I tried to will more of my Chakra into my left pinky, filling it with this energy. At first, it was hard to do, the Chakra didn't want to stay back and concentrate in one place, but then it was just as before as if a switch got turned on.

  The Chakra was still not moving faster, nor did all of it stay back, but a small part was staying in my pinky. The finger got warmer than before and I opened my eyes to inspect it for any changes. That was when I remembered that I could see shit.

  But, there! There was something glowing on my left hand, it was just a tiny light, almost impossible for me to notice, haven't I focused so much on my hand. I raised my glowing pinky and moved it close to my face.

  When suddenly I started to fall down, just to be snatched out of the air. “Oh shit!”, cursed my father.

  “What the hell are you thinking?! Why did you drop Kenshiro?” shouted mother angrily. It made Tsunade start to cry, which I should copy, but had no desire to do.

  “I didn't mean to. He just suddenly used Chakra. His left pinky had a high concentration of Chakra as if he's manipulating it towards his finger,” defended father himself.

  It must not have been convincing. Mother grabbed me out of his arms and moved me around, trying to find any possible injury. “That's not possible, they aren't even a day old. How do you think he should be able to access his Chakra?” She was pretty angry and it seems like father will have to sleep on the couch for today.

  “Come Kenshiro, let's go to sleep. Tsunade and you will stay with mommy tonight, while your careless and idiotic father can sleep on the floor.” Yup, poor daddy. Mom left the room with my weakly protesting father behind.

  We got our diapers changed, something that was embarrassing beyond anything and then put on the chest of mom. Her heartbeat was soothing and she was warm, falling asleep like this won't be hard.

  But there's something that I have to take a look at before falling asleep. I opened my Jutsu and Skill menu and took a look for any new content. Skills had no entry, but Jutsu had two.

  No numbers? A lot of games have hard data for their skills. Sure, this makes it more realistic, processing everything into numbers would need freaking much processing power. But turning someone's body into that of a Game Character should have been hard enough, a step more or two shouldn't have been such a problem.

  I was just about to dismiss the Jutsu menu, when a blue screen popped up.

  Great, so the creator is watching me. My life has its very own big brother, what joy. Hmpf, well, it's not as if I could do anything against it. Time to sleep.