Chapter 8 - My SI Stash #8 - Perseverance by okmangeez (Pre-Naruto) (1/2)

-I don't really wanna spoil it but the SI will be in a team along with Shikamaru's father and Sasuke's Mother, I really liked how the MC gets stronger and stronger chapter by chapter! You will too.

Sypnosis: When my senses came to, I realized that I was no longer in my a_d_u_l_t body or bedroom. Instead, I was in the body of a seven year old kid that lived in Konoha, right before the outbreak of the Second Shinobi War. With no way back home, I decided that I was going to preserve and survive, even if it meant changing the future (OC Self Insert, Pairings will be revealed later).

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Timeline of the Naruto Universe (timeline will diverge):

25 BN (Before Naruto)- OC is born.

24 BN - Minato, and Kushina are born

18 BN - OC's mind is transported from Earth

16 BN - Kushina comes to Konoha

14 BN - Second Shinobi War Begins

11 BN - Second Shinobi War Ends

7 BN - Uzushiogakure is destroyed

4 BN - Third Shinobi War begins

3 BN - Third Shinobi War ends

0 AN (After Naruto)- Naruto is Born

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

- Lao Tzu

AN: Just a warning: the dialogue will sound awkward and rough in the beginning. I was trying to portray the awkwardness after Hiro's sudden transfer to a seven-year-old body, but I understand

the dialogue is very rough regardless. The writing does get better after Chapter 2, so please do

not be deterred or disinterested. Thank you so much for reading! :)

I died.

Just kidding, that would be an extremely cliche way to start off a story. Thankfully, that trope isn't used that often. Because if dying made you appear in another world, I'm pretty sure that a lot of people would attempt to kill themselves in order to escape their mundane lives on Earth.

What really happened was simple. On a perfectly average night, I silently prayed that I could escape my continuous cycle of working, sleeping, and resting on Earth. I was only twenty-four years old at the time, yet I was already getting tired of what life had to offer. Sure, I was still young and had decades remaining in my lifespan. Even so, I wanted to live somewhere with more action and adventure, a place where I couldn't predict what would happen the next day. I wasn't very religious, but I prayed to every deity that I knew of. As I finished praying, a voice in the back of my mind whispered gently, stating that my prayers would be granted.

I almost snorted at the imaginary voice in my head, but I asked which deity had answered my prayers instead of answering with a snarky response. The voice answered immediately and claimed that a deity from another world wanted my presence in his world.

I woke up.

Another cliche way to start off a story, but that single action was what began my journey in the new world. Like a Chinese philosopher once said, ”A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

Now, what that quote didn't tell people was what would happen after that first step. The first step was always the easiest... the steps that followed? Not so much.

For me, the second step of my journey consisted of panicking at the fact that I was no longer in my comfortable bedroom in California. Instead, I was in a rather uncomfortable bed in a dimly lit room with a single window. Panic turned into horror as I looked down and realized that I was no longer in an a_d_u_l_t male body but in a tiny child's body. I would've freaked out very audibly if I didn't see several children sleeping around me.