Chapter 4: Children

  (After 9 hours...)

  'Oh! I slept well, and this is my first sleep without painkillers. It sure feels nice,' Kaida thought after waking up in the m.

  After waking up, Kaida went to do his daily activities and took a quick bath. When he came out of the bathroom, it was already time for breakfast, so he went to the ground floor for breakfast.

  "Oh! Look, here es the prince of Konoha. Wait, he's also just an orphan like us with no parents," came a voice from behind.

  Hearing that, Kaida did feel embarrassed. Not because of what was said, but because there was a time when the real Kaida got angry after hearing such remarks. But teically, it wasn't him, so he decided to ig, recalling a useful quote from his previous life: "Silence is the best answer for fools."

  Kaida just went to the breakfast table, took a hearty serving, and sat at a er table. While eating, he heard it again.

  "Oh ho, look! Now the prince is also a pig, hahaha!"

  'What do you wao do? Fight you? 't you see I am already injured? Man, 't I eve in peace,' he thought in his mind, sighing but still didn't say anything.

  But the boy became increasingly angry and decided to push it further. He walked over to Kaida, shoved him, and said, "Hey, don't you know it's basio reply when someone is speaking to you?"

  'This is almost like the previous time,' Kaida thought. In his mind, releasing a chuckle from his mouth, being a high school student he was not o bullying. In fact, in his previous world, things were much more severe, but ohing he knew is if you let things go too much, it will beuch worse.

  Just when he was going to speak, someone came between them.

  "Suri, don't you remember the old man told you to stay away from Kaida?" a young girl almost the same age as Kaida, with plete bck hair and eyes. If one doesn't know, they may even sider her from the Uchiha .

  And yes, she was the reason this goril was so hell-bent on making my life miserable. She is the cutest girl I have seen so far in my life. This goril likes her, and since she is my "friend," he decided to take out his frustration on me.

  'Why the hell does a seven-year-old boy even like someone? Shouldn't he be out pying with his friends at this age?' Kaida could only sigh.

  Just when he was thinking about these things, that goril suddenly pushed Yomi onto the floor.

  Before Kaida could think, he lifted the iron pte he was eating from and hit him on the head. Normally he would not go to such extreme measures, but the anger he felt when Suri pushed Yomi aside and she fell was unusually high. Like he REALLY was her friend, but now that the deed had been do was time to plete it.

  Since a simir i had happened before, where real Kaida had also tried to hit him but only managed o, Suri was fier taking the blow and had beaten Kaida quite badly afterward. So this time, just as he was about to turn his head, Kaida thought, 'I am not going to repeat the same mistake twice,' and hit him on the head again at the same spot. This time, he was on the floor due to disorientation from the sudden impact.

  Since Kaida was just four and he was seven, and even bigger than his peers, hand-to-hand frontation was out of the question. So the only option to such a frontation was to always be the first oo hit and never give them ce to give that hit back to you. Being a weak boy for all his life, Kaida khis clearly.

  After the sed hit, he turo Suri's "friends" cum ckeys who were on their way to save their boss. Kaida looked toward them, arranged his on (the pte), and again hit the head of Suri, but at a different spot, since he didn't want to kill him—after all, he was just a seven-year-old orphan boy, there was o bear ament toward him.

  Seeing the third attack, both of his ckeys stopped. With another bang, both of them turheir legs and ran in the opposite dire, calling the caretaker for help.

  While seeing them leave, Kaida could finally release a sigh of relief. Then, remembering something, he moved toward Yomi.

  (Kaida's perspective...)

  "Are you all right, Yomi?" Kaida asked while bending a little, but Yomi didn't reply for quite some time, and then:

  "You didn't have to fight for me. What would have happened if he had beaten you again like yesterday?" Yomi asked, puffing her cheeks while still sitting on the ground.

  Kaida, too, sat on the ground and said, "So why did you jump in when he was trying to pick a fight with me then?"

  "Because we are friends," Yomi answered in a hurried voice.

  "Exactly. Since you are my friend, how you think that I will sit still when someone bullies you?" Being a teen, it was almost too easy to win an argument against a five-year-old.

  When the i was happening, Hiroshi (the caretaker of the orphanage) was just sitting and watg the whole se unfold. When Suri's friends went to call him, he acted like he was busy with something, and when they pined about Kaida to him, he went to Kaida and said, "Kaida, e to my office." Meanwhile, a nurse applied medie to Suri's injuries and tied a bandage around his head. Sihere was not even blood, there was o take him to the hospital.

  Kaida just nodded and started to walk with the old man, but suddenly Yomi came in front of Hiroshi and said, "U was not Kaida's fault. Suri started the fight and even pushed me. You ask anyone present here. Please don't scold Kaida."

  "Don't worry, I am not going to scold him, child. I have something important to discuss with him," the old man said while gently pg his hand on her head. Kaida smiled, seeirying to save him once again. At least now, he really had his first actual friend in both his lives.

  After ing to his office, Hiroshi sat on his chair and said, "Kaida, I know I said I would train you to bee a ninja, but being a ninja is not as simple as you think. After you bee a ninja, you will be many times more powerful than any average civilian." Kaida just kept on looking toward him for more expnation.

  "I have been watg this whole thing from the start, so that I decide whether I should first teach you about morality and values or should we start with the physical training, and you excelled in the value department. You didn't react to provocation even when you had the means to. You decided to fight to save someone against all odds, though that anger could get a little ma work, but nothing too big of a problem, so we are good to start with your main training."

  Kaida just smiled back at him, even though his reason for not reag was the opposite of what Hiroshi was thinking. The result was very good.

  "So, uncle, we start our training tomorrow?"

  "Yes, e to the east se of the forest garden behind the orpha 5 a.m. tomorrolease go and tell your friend at the door that she doesn't have to worry about you," Hiroshi said with a smile.

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