Chapter Text
Prologue
Well, she must say she'm rather torn on her new life. While this orphanage is certainly more Japanese than her last it appears just as archaic, and on top of that if she can judge anything from the small blonde hair blue eyed toddler that the matrons refer to as her onii-chan, she will look more like she did in her second life than the first. Knowing that Being X would never allow her to be reborn in modern Japan, even if in a horribly impoverished orphanage, means that there is something unusual in this world.
Confirmation of this thought comes from both the chakra she can sense in those around her and feel directly within. Although she can say with some certainty that this is not the world of her second life, as her current magic is much more malleable. In fact, it is naturally physically enhancing her body to a small degree, and after seeing the acts her fellow orphans were capable of. After seeing three-year-olds jumping over fences in the yard, and her own body being able to walk much earlier than her last life she had no fear of becoming as self-sufficient as soon as possible.
she will admit that her brother Minato is rather disruptive to her attempts at self-sufficiency. Holding her hand whenever she tried to walk anywhere, helping her change her clothes, or reading books about super powered ninjas before bed. The only time she had to herself was when the orphanage supervisors forced Minato to play with the kids his own age and even then, she was always sitting somewhere he could see her. While she can understand the orphan's attachment to his only remaining family member it left her rather smothered.
Through her observations of those around her she've concluded that she have a larger than average amount of magic, or chacra as the people of this world call it. The only person in the orphanage with a similar amount to herself is the elderly lady who runs the place, and the next closest is Minato. Speaking of Minato she will admit that she rather lucked out in this regard as he is rather intelligent for his age, making her own intelligence not nearly as unusual. Not that there was much use that intelligence on with the orphanages' small selection of books being nothing but children's stories.
With no way to learn about the political and economic situation of her new home she settled for practicing with the chacra of this new world. After witnessing several of the oldest children here using their magic to hold leaves on their foreheads, she began doing this herself. she quickly learned that her larger pool of chacra was a detriment to this activity destroying the leaves with the slightest loss of concentration, and since she was not allowed to bring leaves inside, she started using water. Sticking water to the palm of her free hand as often as possible has given her a pleasing amount of control, which gave her the ability to hold water on her skin practically subconsciously.
“Mi-chan, I know they didn't listen when you said you no, but they were just trying to play with you. You're not supposed to hit so hard even if you are playing ninja.”
Just when she thought things couldn't get worse first, she'd been told she needed to play with the others, an unbearable task on its own, but no one even tried any of her game suggestions just because they thought her mathematics-based game of addition sounded boring. Instead, they decide we're going to play ‘ninja' and just jump and attack her after one of them pointed and yelled she's the enemy nin. Worst of all, when she retaliate and fight back, they all get upset and tattle on her so that they can feel better about losing to a single combatant that just so happens to be the smallest and youngest of the bunch.
“I wasn't trying to hurt them I'm simply smaller and assumed that I would need to hit as hard as I can to keep up.”
The head matron looked like she had swallowed something sour before responding, “You and your brother may be here in the orphanage, but you come from a shinobi clan of Tanigakure and as such you and your brother are just going to be stronger and have greater chakra than the other children. So be careful going forward.”
“If we're from another village, why are we here?”
“As I understand it there was some sort of treaty signed, but it hardly maters now the Tanigakure and all its people are gone. Now go clean yourself up its almost time for supper.”
Are you serious, that's just two types of unfair! To be sent to another village to be raised in an orphanage instead of a clan, but if that hadn't happened, she'd be dead anyway. This has being X written all over it. she'm surprised that he didn't have her captured and raised as a slave of whoever destroyed the village just to watch her suffer even more.
“Tsukimi, you're not in too much trouble, are you?”
Looking at her brother, she begin to wonder if he remembers Tani at all, as that would explain why he's so overprotective. she probably shouldn't ask the last thing this day needs is another child crying.
“No. She just told me to be more careful in the future, but didn't even mention how she was the one to make me go play with them in the first place. I just wanted to sit with my bucket of water, but no I had to go make friends.”
“I mean you are by yourself all the time, and even I was starting to worry you were getting lonely while I played.”
“I've seen you're playing, and it looks far too much like babysitting, and I have no desire to suffer through the same if I any say on the matter.”
Minato looks somewhat sad but cannot argue against her point. The two of us are just too advanced compared to our peers. If she didn't have him to talk to, she certainly would have gone crazy by this point. she can't stand it when he's off playing with the other kids and the others come over to ‘keep her company.' Why try to have a conversation if you can't understand her intellectually and then call her weird and run off when she try to explain her thought process.
“They didn't even consider my game. I would have taught them what they needed to know to play, but all they wanted to do was fight like a bunch of animals.”
“Why don't you teach me, and we can play it by ourselves?”
See, this is how someone should carry themselves calm and understanding. Why can't all children be like nii-san. Playing a game like this while practicing her water manipulation will be a great way to practice multitasking. Maybe this won't be a horrible day after all.
“All right, so you pick a number to start with, and then someone else gives another number and you the two. Then when you call out the sum you pick another number, and the other player does the same with those two numbers. If it gets too easy, we can start adding in subtraction and multiplication.”
“That sounds like fun. I choose 13.”
This is so much more fun than running around hitting each other when we don't even know proper forms, and the sooner the other's figure that out the more parable this place will become.
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Looking over as Tsukimi finally starts smiling as she gets into the game already throwing in subtraction making this harder than it already is she can't help but get worried about how she'll survive after she start at the academy. Maybe they will let her start at the same time as her, since she's so smart. Minato was forced to stop thinking about such things as if he wasn't careful, he would start getting his answers wrong and he didn't want to look dumb in front of his younger sister.