Years went by...
It was a cool day despite it being the middle of summer... The villagers were about to open stalls and shops down in the village. Konoha was in the flower of it's beauty, the Hokage Hashirama had established peace at least within the boundaries of the village of the leaf.
The young Kenji, now around 5 years old was running out of his little apartment next to the Hokage's building, a place that generously offered to him not to go to an orphanage. (obviously because Tobirama didn't allow it)...
The young kid with sweet black eyes and red dark brown short hair puts on the black shoes as he exits and contently makes his way to the streets. He smiles as usual, a pretty cheerful little guy or 'brat' as the villagers affectionately named Kenji.
He walks marching down the road of his building/apartment waving at an old man that was about to open the shop of weapons early in the morning
"Hello sir Fu!"
The old man, with a curved back and a white beard, turns to see who was greeting him. Seeing Kenji he smiles and waves back his Rustic and wrinkled hand from age.
"Hey little brat, awake early?"
"Yessu! I'll go buy some strawberries"
Kenji replies contently marching backwards to face the old man. The villagers, even if they didn't knew from what clan Kenji came, got used to his presence at the village, finding him pretty adorable and feeling pity for the young one left alone. Some others had a bittersweet feeling toward the kid.
The man turn around continuing with his work while muttering under his breath: Poor boy... How will he grow on his own?
Kenji then rushes towards the nearby shop of fruits, his charming little slime plastered on his face is the perfect mask to hide the loneliness and troubles that often occurs form time to time to kenji. Holding the lute bag tightly to himself, Kenji rushes in front of the fruit stall and smiles at seeing the freshly picked and washed strawberries arranged in the crates. Just the sight brings Kenji mouth watering
"waaaaa"
"Hands off the merch, Kenji. You have to pay if you want the strawberries"
The voice of the young lady owner of the shop looks down at the kid with her arms folded at her chest. Her warning tone doesn't even bother or worry Kenji, at the point that he takes out from his bag a sum of ryos that even he didn't know how many there were. At 5 years old Kenji had no idea how to calculate the money or how much was enough to pay for strawberries and for this reason the merchants could always cheat him, happy to sell at a higher price what she sells to kenji.
The lady grins and takes out a paper bag taking some of the strawberries and putting them inside while saying
"you want the strawberries like usual right? It's 30 ryos Kenji, hand me the money, I'll take care of the sum."
Kenji innocently hops content and smiles
"Yay! Thank you! Here are the money"
The little one hands up the money he has and the lady takes them and count them... A small grin crosses her face as she gives back to kenji a smaller sum of money than required. She also gives him the bag of strawberries and waves
"Here they are... Now go go, you make me go away the other customers"
Kenji takes the strawberries without a care of her scold and bows his tiny head before running away with his spoils of nature's sweetness. As he runs on the streets he can see the peasants glance at him curious, worried or at times annoyed. Kenji despite being just an innocent orphan have always been seen with some suspicions and caution by the villagers.
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𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑜𝑛 - Naruto world (Kenji's story/Amaterasu)
Fanfiction✨🌞A little ninja becomes immortal thanks to a god. Cute sweet scenes mixed with the most cruels ones the creator have in mind. It is the story of Kenji who was born in the era of Hashirama Senju and then became a hunted man and an old rogue shinobi...
