As he abruptly sat up in Mito’s bed, Shiki struggled to grasp the unfamiliar surroundings.

  It seemed like his state of deep focus, while certainly miraculous, took its toll. Now that he was out of it, Shiki felt pletely mentally exhausted.

  Mito, despite being forcefully pushed out, was not shaken at all, her mental resilience proving itself solid and strong.

  “Be calm, child, you are not in any trouble.” She calmly spoke though she could feel Shiki seemed to be quite calm . . . Or perhaps he had simply not processed everythi.

  ‘As far as the child knows, he passed out in the middle of a forest and woke up in an unknowo a face he had no way nizing.’ Mito thought to herself.

  “I am called-” She attempted to speak again but Shiki preempted her.

  “Uzumaki Mito-sama.”

  Mito’s eyebrow rose with a question.

  “And how would you know that?” She asked.

  “When I reactively pushed Mito-sama out, the collision of our spirits seems to have given me some insight over Mito-sama.” Shiki replied.

  He was telling the truth. Though he first identified Mito inside his mind from his knowledge of the series, the followi led to him grasping what he could only describe as a piece of the “Truth” of the individual known as Uzumaki Mito.

  “How curious . . .” Mito pondered.

  She could tell he was not lying, or at the very least, that Shiki himself believed what he cimed to be the truth.

  Perhaps, having anain, possibly deep insight on her and her secrets should have bothered Mito but the way she saw it, Shiki was just a child, a very likeable child with a pleasant feeling spirit and soul so it did feel problematic at all.

  Besides, it was all the result of an involuntary rea to her intruding into his mind without permission.

  Even if she took that a to help him, Mito had no oo bme for possible sequeher than herself.

  “I sensed a fallen child in the forest from my mansion and had a servant bring you here to try and see what was wrong.” Mito expihe situation.

  “So, would you mind telling me what happened?” She inquired.

  Shiki shook his head in response, indig that he indeed did not mind and proceeded to expin his process of using chakra in an attempt to deepen his meditation.

  Mito looked at him with a bit of a strange look.

  Her face did not reveal that but Shiki could “feel” she was looking at him like so.

  Apparently, Mito too, noticed he realized that as well.

  ‘Looks like that insight he got on me was really quite good if it allowed a child to read me so easily.’ She thought.

  ‘But still . . . What kind of child es up with those kinds of ideas without any sort of guidance?” Mito wondered.

  She truly doubted genius alone could expin that away but she had no other more pusible expnation.

  ‘I was not watg him sihe beginning so it is very possible he simply picked up the basics from a shinobi that visited the orphanage and built upon that.’ Mito cluded.

  After she quickly sorted her thoughts, Mito intuitively reached an unspoken uanding with Shiki where she ignored some of the stranger aspects of his existend he would pretend not to notice the things Mito seemingly let slip whily he could pick up on.

  “So how about I adopt you into my household?” The redhead skipped several supposed steps with a sudden suggestion.

  Calm as she was, being an Uzumaki, Mito was a woman of a, perfectly willing to gloss over minor details she sidered unimportant.

  Shiki’s presence iritually healing for her so Mito decided to keep him close sihe ihat just occurred introduced them to each other. That was it.

  ‘She has definitely been using her Uzumaki sensory abilities to watch me for a lot lohat I realized.’ Shiki’s uanding of Mito truly seemed quite effective as he could just intuit things about her.

  Mito herself was very sensitive to the thoughts aions of others due to her sensory abilities as previously said and so, she naturally picked up his accusatory probing g just as naturally, the redhead preteo miss it.

  Ag ignorant for the sake of venience was an art she had perfected.

  In the end, Shiki only had a gut feeling to go on and the proposition was something he would very much appreciate so he let it go.

  “Thank you Mito-sama. I would love to bee a part of the Uzumaki household.”

  “So polite.” Mito praised and so, the decision was made.

  Shiki checked his status, seeing the results of his self training before heading towards a new life.

  *

  Ryumon ShikiTraitsTrikayaTitlesNoneRankCivilianStatsStrength: E RankAgility: D RankEndurance: E RankChakra Capacity: kChakra Potency: B RankChakra trol: (60%)Hand Seal Mastery: (0%)AffinitiesLightning Affinity: (30%)Wind Affinity: (20%)Fire Affinity: (40%)Water Affinity: (10%)Earth Affinity: (40%)Yin Affinity: (50%)Yang Affinity: (50%)TaijutsuGeneral Mastery: (10%)NinjutsuGeneral Mastery: (0%)GenjutsuGeneral Mastery: (0%)BukijutsuGeneral Mastery: (0%)FuinjutsuGeneral Mastery: (0%)SenjutsuGeneral Mastery: (0%)Hidden JutsuNirvana Art: Three Bodies Breathihod: (9%)Kekkei GenkaiNone*

  The ge was trated on his stats with the only other differences being Taijutsu as Shiki had gotten a good grasp on how to move with precision and use chakra to enhance his body.

  His hidden jutsu was noted on his status as well, with a very low mastery rate as it was still in the early stage of development.

  As for the stats, the only thing that surprised Shiki was his chakra potencreasing because it is generally one of those things determi birth. Though that would not be a limitation for him, the boy had no idea he could increase it this soon.

  ‘It seems my enlighte-like state affected me in ways I don’t fully uand . . .’

  *

  The adoption process was smooth and easy though it raised several eyebrows.

  As a critically important individual for Konoha, every aito overtly took would be heavily scrutinized.

  But in the end, indug a young orphan as a servant to the Uzumaki branch of Konoha which was currently limited to just herself, did not seem like anything signifit.

  And so, despite raising eyebrows, it ultimately came to nothing. As for covert iigations, probing around the possibly greatest sensor currently alive, was not a very good idea.

  Even old men with severe cases of paranoia knew better than that.

  Shiki wondered how his life would ge now that he had a home and if he would have duties as a servant of Mito as he officially was just that.

  Mito oher hand, had a very clear idea on how she wahings tress and so she offered a trade he couldn’t refuse.

  “From my trip into your mind, it became very clear that you do a lot of experimental training and have talent as well as great itment to growing as a shinobi and developing new jutsu.” The Uzumaki matriarch started.

  Shiki merely nodded, w where Mito was going with the versation.

  As for the breach of his privacy, he held no real grudge or dissatisfa, it had been doo save him from perceived harm and nothing too important eeked at.

  “What I want you to do is stop all that experimentation for the time being.” Mito tinued.

  Shiki opened his mouth to speak but the older redhead held up her hand calmly, motioning him to wait and fully hear her out before responding.

  “Experimenting without solid fuals is very dangerous. So until I determine you have mastered all these fuals, I want you to promise me not to experiment further.” Mito said.

  “If you make that promise ao it. I will grant you access to the noricted se of my personal jutsu library.” She tinued.

  “Just so you know, my personal library tains copies of all jutsu records left by my husband, the First Hokage’s Senju , the personal records left behind by my brother-in-w, the Sed Hokage, in addition to my own and the Uzumaki’s jutsu records.” The redhead added.

  ‘I wao immediately begin to verify the improvements I made to my breathing teique within my enlighteate as well as try out the self-genjutsu but . . .’ Shiki thought to himself.

  ‘Even if it is just the noricted se, it no doubt tains a ton of knowledge other s and vilges would kill for.’

  With such temptation there was only one choice for Shiki.

  “Okay Mito-sama. I promise not to experiment anymore until Mito-sama thinks I have pletely grasped the fuals.” He decred.

  With a dignified but gentle smile, Mito the expected response, worded very politely too. Quite unlike a four year old child. Chakra helped with mental and physical development but it was still an anomaly for a child to act like Shiki.

  Still, Mito did not mind and even appreciated the mutual uandiablished between herself and Shiki, something impossible if he was mentally too childlike.

  “Then shall we begin our lessons?”

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