Real Traveler

"Ichimaruuuu over here, good morning aunt Akino." – said a boy approximately 5 years old, he had brown a little spiky hair, which almost doesn't change shape no matter what you try to how much effort do you put in this. It's a bit interesting fact that in the shinobi world almost it is almost impossible to change hair style, if it grows spiky it grows spiky whatever you do, its phenomenon happens because of the chakra. When chakra flows to any part of baby's body because of the lack of a control over the chakra it didn't fully flows back. Depending of the chakra control, body or to be precise CCG starts to lose some chakra through the tenketsu. When chakra goes to head its best way out is through the pores and they start to constantly harden the foundation of hair, it actually can be avoided it your family places special seal that will move your free chakra to the seal which, either will store it, or will let it spread in the environment. But almost no one uses first seal, because of the price and even if someone pays it is better to use on some a.d.u.l.t ninja which generates much more chakra than for some kid that barely can stick 3 leaves on his skin. As for the second option, it didn't have much difference what kind of hair a kid has.

"Don't scream Arata at the early morning, gosh I wonder how you can be so energetic?" – muttered Ichimaru last sentence. He was already 6 years old; his hair was platinum gray and eyes blue with some hint of green. He was 137 cm height slightly bigger, than the kids of his age.

"Arata-kun good morning Biwako-san" – slightly bowed Akino Ichimaru's mother her head and gently smiled. The same smile was on the face of her elder friend Biwako Sarutobi. It was a smile of happiness and pride for their kids, because today they were going to the academy of shinobi. For every ninja clan or family, it was very happy and exciting day.

"Where are Shiradai and Kosuki-san" - asked Arata nervously changing his standing position.

"How can we know, we just came here." – responded Ichimaru annoyed as he knew when his friend was nervous, he was always like this. The day when they tried to sneak and steal some B Rank Ninjutsus and succeeded, only because of the Arata they were exposed next day. When he arrived home, he was so nervous that his mother and father noticed it when he went to breakfast with his family. Although they were exposed and punished, Ichimaru already remembered the main Information from the scroll and after he was able to use it properly he taught it them, but they were not able to repeat it as to be able to use B rank Ninjutsu you must have enough amount of chakra reserve and not the least enough chakra control, which almost no 5 years old kid had. I say almost because in the future there will be born Itachi Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake which may be able to use it maybe with much effort and maybe they will faint after that, but still.

"Oh, what will happen if they can't come before father's speech starts. Oh my god I must go and find them and help to come on the time." – said Arata and started to walk to the direction of the gate. But he was grabbed on the collar from his mother which sighted.

"Stop crating mess on empty place. They will come soon I can already sense their chakra in 633 meters away." – explained Biwako with soft smile, because she knew her son and she knew that it was somehow her fault that he grew so restless and impatient. She loves her husband and don't says anything when he comes back home late at the night, but Arata needed more time with his father. It's not like a mother can do everything, she was working in the ANBU's headquarter after he gave a birth, Hiruzen complained that she must rest and it lasts almost 6 years until last year she said to him, that she is ready to come back to field work, however here we are and Biwako is almost 4 months pregnant, is this coincidence? I leave this question for you to answer.

"Aunt Biwako your sensory feeling is really amazing, to be able to recognize on this distance someone." – praised Ichimaru his friend's mother. – "in our village only Byakugan can be considered better than your ability." – if you wonder why I think that almost 670-meter radius is so impressive, even if I know that a.d.u.l.t Hyugas can see someone in 3.4 km radius. It is because chakra consumption and the pressure on their eyes and brain from Byakugan is too high to be constantly active. If they constantly use Byakugan more than 5 minutes then they have headache and after 8 minutes their eyes start to hurt, it's probably because of the chakra threads in their eyes are not suitable for so much chakra without breaks. But Biwako can almost constantly feel her surrounding in this radius, other thing is the quality of the detection if this is passively active.

"Thank you for your praise Ichimaru-kun someday you will be able to do the same, you just need to have patience it." – smiled Bowako, she really enjoyed the company of this polite kid, he was not like her son, who always was trying to find something new and mostly it is some {cool} Ninjutsus to defeat his father and be next Hokage.

"I understand it, but 4 meters radius is still not enough." – sighed Ichimaru.

"When I was 6, I could sense only about 7 meters and this with my clan's bloodline sensors affinity." – shook her head Biwako, she admitted that it was good to want to be better than you are right now, but this kid already had big chakra reserves among the kids under 9 years, if we don't count some clans like Terumi, Senju, Uzumaki or others, which one of the main passive skill was big chakra reserves. Some day when Ichimaru came to Arata he asked her if she could teach him basics of the sensors, although it was not hard to learn sensors, the main factor was user's chakra flexibility, although chakra reserve and some other factors, like chakra thread density and tenketsu's bandwidth, played role, however if ninja couldn't turn his/her chakra into something like liquid energy fast and without much effort, it was useless for someone to learn sensors, no one gives you time on enemy territory to spread and amplify your chakra senses, so ninjas without specific chakra focus on more useful techniques.

"Oh, there they are." – said Akino looking in the direction of the gate. Everyone in their small company looked in the same direction. Arata ran towards his friend while Ichimaru just slowly moved close to newcomer boy, with black hair and average Nara face, only difference that someone could see on his chin was a small birthmark in the shape of shuriken. He was always sleepyhead, like other Naras. Ichimaru concluded, that because of the genetically advanced brain computing power, human's soul is not ready for so much compute ability and they start to consume their mind power. This situation is easy to see with their children until 16-18 years, after that they start to adapt with their brain, also they become some help from Yamanaka's to block some amount of their abilities, while they don't need it. But after they break the so-called Mind Restriction Seal it must be placed again. If you wonder, why someone will let foreign people in their heads you need to know that, in the beginning operation was made only under the supervision of 2 people with Sharingan and Byakugan, also there always was some medic ninja. With their eyes, in some time after the operation they can see If some foreign chakra was left in the patient's head in the area that was not supposed to be touched. However, in so many years' nothing happened so only now only one ninja monitors the situation with his/her special eyes.

"Morning Biwako-san, Akino-san." – said Shifumi Kuri, Shiradai's father. He was middle aged man ex-ninja, he helps his Clan with the business after his wife's death on the battlefield against third Raikage, but as he had a little son to carry about, he came back from the war and abandoned ninja career. However, once being ninja, you always stay ninja. So even if he stopped being ninja, but he must defend village in case if the direct attack.

"Good morning Shifumi-san." – greeted in unison 2 moms. Ninjas don't have much respect towards the people that abandoned their job without serious health issues. In these years, Akino and Biwako could see, how hard did he try to care about his son and how hard did he help in the Clan. So, they respected this man in front of them.

"Good morning Shifumi-san." – greeted kids Shifumi and received his bow with tiny gentle smile on this face.

After greetings parents start to talk to each other and Ichimaru started to observe people around him. Like last year when he, out of curiosity, came here with his friend's he noticed some groups of big clans or groups with some different small clan's. There was standing a group of orphans too. They standalone and were observing clans most of their attention was focused on large groups of Hyugas and Uchihas.

Sometime later he noticed his father, he smiled and waved his hand to him. When his father saw him, he smiled and came to him and hugged him tightly. But their reunion after so long time (1 Hour after the breakfast) was interrupted.

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"Young ninjas I congratulate you for joining ninja academy …" – started Hiruzen after he appeared on the scene.