Chapter 1: Distress (Ch 1)

“Look, it’s that kid.”

“I heard that he was causing trouble in the streets again, causing chaos. It’s really annoying.”

“I really don’t understand why Hokage-sama still keeps this evil, he should be dealt with quickly, after all, he is a fox…”

“Shut up! Have you forgotten what you can and cannot say?”

“Tsk! Forget it, just ignore him in the future. And tell the kids not to play with him. He’s really too dangerous. Who knows when he might suddenly…”

The mouths were over 30 degrees, but the words came out with a cold temperature, and the eyes were filled with indifference and even resentment.

This made the little yellow-haired boy walking on the street hang his head at a loss, as if he wanted to explain but didn’t know how to start. In the end, he could only leave with a lonely back.

Xia Mu stood behind the crowd and silently watched little Naruto go away.

Looking up at Hokage Rock again, the carved heads of the four Hokage seemed to be silently guarding the village.

“Sure enough, I have come to the world of Naruto. This is Konoha Village. Naruto looks like he is about five or six years old, about the same age as me. It seems that there are still about six years before the plot officially begins.”

When Xia Mu thought of this, he turned around and went home.

His home was in a remote location in the village, far from the market, and it took him half a day to walk there.

There are relatively fewer residents here, and it is not as lively as the downtown area, but the residential areas are relatively larger, and basically every household has a small yard.

Xia Mu pushed open the gate of his yard and glanced at the vegetable garden on one side of the yard. The vegetables were growing well in this season, and they were green, fresh and mouth-watering.

On the other side of the yard, there was a rack of bacon drying in the sun, surrounded by a fishing net to prevent birds and cats from stealing food.

Looking down at the wall, there were some dried sweet potatoes drying in the sun, and two strings of orange peels hanging above the window.

It feels incredible!

“I grow vegetables in my own yard, make bacon and sweet potato chips, and even collect orange peels. These are skills that are engraved in the DNA of flower growers. Perhaps, I may actually be a fetal puncture, but I just lost my memory temporarily. These operations are all subconscious behaviors. It was not until I extracted the chakra yesterday that I awakened my past life memories.”

Xia Mu remembered very clearly that he had successfully passed the assessment of the Ninja School not long ago and successfully obtained the admission notice.

So, he had been practicing hard these days, until last night when he successfully extracted chakra for the first time, and then he suddenly fainted.

Afterwards, it was like a dream, and the dream was full of memories of past lives.

In order to confirm some things, he ran to the market early the next morning.

Needless to say, he saw the Hokage Rock, he also found familiar stores from the Naruto animation such as Ichiraku Ramen, Yakiniku Q, Yamanaka Flower Shop, and Mandiantang Ninja Tool Shop.

I even saw the young Uzumaki Naruto just now, and then I was sure that I had really come to the world of Naruto.

Moreover, the current time point is roughly determined.

Now looking at everything familiar in the yard, he guessed that he might not have taken over someone else’s body, and all the memories here belonged to him. Only then did he feel truly relieved.

However, this is just Xia Mu’s psychological factor and may not be very important.

What’s important is that he came to this dangerous world!

As we all know, the world of Naruto is very dangerous and twisted. It destroys the world at any time and destroys humanity from time to time. When watching the anime, I only feel blood and moved, but now that I have really traveled through it, I can’t help but tremble.

Fortunately, this world has a savior, so there is no need to worry about the destruction of the world.

Just let go of the savior complex, respect the fate of the world, respect the fate of the savior, and strive to live a wonderful life. Don’t think too much about other things.

Xia Mu determined his own survival program, then quickly closed the gate and hurried back to the house to dig out his parents’ belongings:

A record scroll, two kunai, ten shuriken, a ninja tool bag, and 10,000 ryo of Fire Country currency.

The record scroll only records the method of chakra extraction, the three-body technique and some experience in throwing kunai and shuriken, which is not of much value.

There was no way. Xia Mu’s father was just an ordinary Genin with average strength. He only knew how to use Ninja Tool Throwing and Three Body Technique. Fortunately, he did not die in the Nine-Tails Rebellion, but was sacrificed in an escort mission afterwards. Basically, nothing was left.

It is said that the murderer has been brought to justice, so now there are no enemies left.

Xia Mu was only three years old at that time.

Xia Mu’s mother was an ordinary person. She was heartbroken after hearing the bad news. She raised Xia Mu with all her strength and passed away when he was five years old.

Starting as an orphan, the time-travel setting really does not deceive me.

But it’s okay. In such a dangerous and twisted world, having fewer ties may help you live a better life. If you accidentally become a traitor someday, you can leave in style without worrying about your parents.

Of course, humans are social animals and cannot tolerate long-term loneliness, so it is not bad to make some friends or find a partner in the future.

Xia Mu flipped through the record scroll, then quickly closed it and put it aside.

I have read the contents of the scroll countless times and even memorized the seals of the Three Body Technique by heart. All I need to do now is practice more.

He put all the scrolls and ninja tools back into the ninja tool bag, but couldn’t help but twitching his lips when he picked up the ten thousand taels of coins.

1 tael = 10 yen ≈ 0.5 yuan, 10,000 taels ≈ 5,000 yuan.

What can you do with 5,000 yuan?

A bowl of ordinary Ichiraku ramen seems to be 60 taels. If you eat a bowl of Ichiraku ramen for three meals a day, 10,000 taels will not last for two months. How can people survive?

By the way, it seems that orphans receive subsidies, but it’s less than two thousand taels a month, which is just enough to ensure that they don’t starve to death.

“You won’t starve to death, but children cannot grow without nutrition. Otherwise, their bodies won’t grow well. Poor bodies mean not having enough chakra, and not having enough chakra means limited future achievements. Although I don’t expect myself to achieve much, if I can’t even reach the level of Kage, wouldn’t it be a waste of time to travel through time?”

Xia Mu frowned, put away the ten thousand taels, and thought about how to make money.

He couldn’t let himself be wronged, and he couldn’t let himself live a miserable life like Uzumaki Naruto, who couldn’t even eat properly.

Naruto at least has the Uzumaki physique and the Nine-Tails’ energy, but he eats instant noodles and ramen and drinks expired milk all day long, and has grown into a dwarf. If it were another child, he would have died of malnutrition long ago.

Xia Mu couldn’t help but feel scared just thinking about the days of eating instant noodles and ramen every day. For a flower grower, such days would be a disaster.

“But I’m only six years old. How can I make money at six? Fortunately, before I awakened my past life memories, I knew how to grow vegetables and make bacon, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to support myself. However, I will go to the Ninja School next. The training intensity will definitely increase, and I will need more nutrition. Continuing to eat the same way as before will definitely not be enough. How can I make money?”

PS: The author has a sensitive heart, so if the writing is not good, please don’t criticize too harshly.