Two years had passed since Akira’s mom died and Mito took him in.
He could proudly say that being a baby, sucked, like a lot, but Akira felt he had it worse.
Luckily they had baby milk and bottles here so he didn’t have to suck on some woman’s breast.
He wasn’t some pervert that enjoyed seeing a woman get turned on from a baby sucking her nipple.
Because of his pure Ashura bloodline that came from his father, who by the way, he learned was a mix of Senju and Uzumaki lineage like Tsunade, he had a lot of energy.
Just like Naruto in his younger days where he had the energy to play pranks on almost everyone in the village and climb the hokage rock, whenever Akira was awake he would always feel the need to move.
Even Kushina during her academy years physically beat up her bullies and earned the name ‘Red Hot Habbanero’ because of the vitality from the Ashura bloodline.
As a result, Akira tried channeling that energy to control his body better.
Thankfully he was able to gain basic control over his body at six months and started to walk at seven.
He was even able to become ambidextrous.
The months before that though, were a nightmare.
He couldn’t control anything and at the earlier months when his body was still developing, most of the time was spent crying, feeding and sleeping, he couldn’t even control his bladder.
And because his high spiritual energy due to his previous life memories and the pure Indra bloodline from his mom, he remembered everything.
The most embarrassing part was that a teenage Tsunade always spent her free time with him.
At this time Tsunade was in her teens, if he had to guess around 13.
When Naruto found her, Tsunade was 50 and he was around 13.
Kushina gave birth at 24 and since Akira assumed he was born the same age as Kushina and Minato that would put Tsunade at around 13.
At 4 months old he just started saying words and the first words he decided on was mama.Tsunade and Mito were surrounding Akira in the crib playing pekaboo while Akira was having the time of his life seeing them act like that.
“Pekaboo! Yes pekaboo! Kyaaa whose a good boy?”
“Ma.. ma. Mama!”
“Oh my god, did you hear him grandma he called me his mama! He’s so cute!” exclaimed Tsunade.
“No he was calling me, isn’t that right Akira? Can you say it again? Say mama! Mama!” countered Mito
Tsunade muttered,”You’re too old to be a mama though.” And suddenly the room’s temperature went down so fast that Akira thought Mito had used ice release.
“What did you say dear?” Mito asked with a smile.
“N-nothing! Uh I think I hear sensei calling me for a mission, bye!”
“Hold it. You haven’t learned the yin seal yet have you? We don’t want you to start looking old right?”
The protagonists of the reincarnation novels of his previous life stated that it was tiring acting like a baby all the time but Akira genuinely enjoyed their care.
Sure the liked to pinch his cheeks and pat his head but he didnt mind, especially because he was going to get revenge on Tsunade later.
‘Just you wait, Tsunade.’
Both Tsunade and a 5 year old Nawaki spent time with him but Tsunade was already an excellent medical chunin so she spent most of the day doing missions.
Nawaki on the other hand started the academy when he turned 6 and Akira turned 1 so he had most of the day with Mito.
Honestly after spending so much time with Tsunade, Mito and Nawaki, especially since they treated him like real family, he began seeing them in the same way and he never forgot the love he heard from his mother that day.
He even began calling Mito grandma and Tsunade, Tsunade-nee.
Feeling the love and affection that these people had for him was a very big part of his motivation to get stronger and protect this happiness.
Akira didn’t have a hard time accepting that this world was real.
He read a lot of novels in his past life where the protagonist thinks that they are in a fictional world so they can act without consequences and winds up regretting it.
The love from his new family just cemented that belief further.
Both the being who brought him here and his mother wanted him to live a full, happy life and he definitely wasn’t about to ruin it by doing something stupid.
After Akira learned to walk the next thing he did was learn to read.
He asked Mito if he could learn to mold chakra but unfortunately she said he was too young to try.
Some fanfics in his past life said that starting to mold chakra too early might be detrimental to one’s health and may cause a terminal illness like Itachi.
He wasn’t sure if that was true but since Mito advised against it he listened.
Even with the healing that came with the Ashura bloodline he wasn’t about to take any unnecessary risks like that.
During his infancy Akira also showed that he liked reading.
Because of his robust vitality, he wanted to make it look like he was using his boundless energy to read books instead of play.
Luckily for him he didn’t require an act because he found that reading about ninjutsu was actually fun.
At first he started with normal books like history but after a month he started to crave more.
Mito’s home contained her books on fūinjutsu and all of Tobirama’s and Hashirama’s personal notes.
He started with Tobirama’s notes and because he was the one who created the academy, there were plenty of stuff fore beginners like what is chakra, basic math and he even read some notes that he had on ninjutsu.
Tobirama was a genius when it came to ninjutsu so any of his insights helped.
Unfortunately since he couldn’t mold chakra he stuck to theory.
He read about the different nature transformations, yin release, yang release and even medical theory.
People assume that Tsunade was the only medical genius but, she could have only got that far because of Tobirama.
He created Forbidden techniques like Edo-tensei by studying the human body during experiments.
Even his study on the Uchiha required medical knowledge.
There was a saying back in Akiras previous life:’ Tobirama knew the Uchiha better than they knew themselves.’ His knowledge on how the sharingan worked was probably because he dissected some poor Uchiha to find out.
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After a few months of constant reading, Mito was starting to get a little jealous of him spending most of his time on books.
“Akira, why don’t you come and play with me?” asked Mito, while pinching his cheeks.
“But I like reading and this book is suuupper interesting. Can I read for five more minutes, pleeeaaase?” He used his special move, puppy dog eyes.
‘Grr she’s molding my cheeks like it’s clay.’
‘He’s so cute!!!’ Thought Mito, “Ugghhh, alright but you will start reading with me from now on. If you like reading that much maybe you can start with the theory on fūinjutsu.”
“Really!!? Thanks grandma! Your the best!” He jumped and hugged Mito.
Fūinjutsu was, in his opinion a very powerful art that had a very wide range of applications.
Jutsus like Flying thunder god, four symbol seal, summoning contracts and even Mitos yin seal were fuinjutsu.
Just like any other transmigrator, he wanted to learn the flying thunder god because of how broken it is.
Combine that with his sharingan in the future and he would be on par with a jonin with just those two.