Naruto: I, Shikotsumyaku, Byakugan Princess

Chapter 1: Bamboo Cutter? Hyuga?
tired!
So...so tired!
Her body felt as heavy as a stone, her eyelids seemed to have been sewn shut, and the girl, covered in blood, lay on the ground struggling to open her eyes, her small chest heaving with heavy breathing.

Under the cover of night, the dim, yellow crescent moon was lackluster, exuding a sense of listlessness and despondency.

The pervasive fog seemed to solidify, and with just a normal breath, the strong smell of rust mixed in with the fog filled the alveoli, bringing a terrifying feeling of drowning.

Where is this?

The unfamiliar setting quickly brought the girl to her senses.

Lower your head.

As far as the eye could see, it was all black and red.

blood.

So much blood.

On the land that had been plowed by the giant beast, red blood and black mud mingled together.

Countless mangled corpses lay scattered on the ground. Congealed black blood mixed with the scattered body parts, forming a heap, with limbs and fragments indistinguishable from one another. Shattered skulls, stark white, and internal organs, red and green, lay in pools of blood like peeled and chopped fruit flesh in jelly.

As the girl gradually regained consciousness, a chill ran down her spine; the scene, resembling a human slaughterhouse, was truly terrifying. She had worked overtime until 5 a.m. the previous night, and upon returning to her cramped rented room, she collapsed onto the bed, disoriented.

When I woke up again, this was the scene before me.

Am I dead?!
Is this... hell?

Ugh... my head... my head hurts so much!

A sudden, searing pain shot through his brain. Clutching his head, Hui Li rolled around in the pile of corpses. It felt as if his skull had been drilled through, his brain matter churning, fragments of memory appearing and disappearing in his mind.

Until I opened my eyes again.

The milky white pupils reflected specks of gray light.

a long time.

As the excruciating pain subsided, Hui Li finally managed to sort through the memories in her mind and discovered an absurd reality.

She traveled through time, or rather, she was reincarnated.

The body's name is Taketori Hairi.

Female, 6 years old.

The shared bloodline of the Taketori clan of Kirigakure in the Land of Water and the Hyuga clan of Konoha in the Land of Fire.

Her mother was a member of the Hyuga main clan. During the Third Shinobi World War, she was captured by Ao, a ninja from Kirigakure, causing her to lose her Byakugan bloodline limit. She was later rescued by Taketori Hairi's father, and the two fell in love and had a daughter. Because she inherited her mother's Byakugan, but her pupil had a faint grayish tinge, she was named Taketori Hairi.

Hyuga? Taketori? ...Is this the Hokage? So the current timeline is...the massacre of the Taketori clan?
Looking at her childish little hands covered in blood, Hui Li couldn't believe her suspicions.

It's ridiculous.

The memories flooding her mind made Hui Li feel as if her worldview from the past thirty years had completely collapsed. Her arms trembled as she supported her body, her muscles aching and tearing as if she had been in the gym for a year.

She stood up unsteadily, the headless corpses scattered around her and the overwhelming bloodstains making her feel both dizzy and familiar.

The scene from my childhood, which should have been blurry, reappeared as if time had reversed.

Suppressing the churning in his stomach, he reached inside the corpse's blood-stained clothes and quickly pulled out a small white medicine bottle from the inner pocket.

The medicine bottle felt cold to the touch.

The surface is printed with a red circle, with two red dots on either side of the central axis inside the circle, basically coinciding with the circumference. In Hui Li's memory, this is a unique symbol belonging to the Bamboo Clan. The two dots on either side of the circle symbolize authority and balance.

With practiced ease, he pried open the bottle, and a brown pill the size of a thumb rolled smoothly into his palm.

Gum!

Without the energy to count how many pills there were, he dumped them all into his mouth. The pills were dry and hard in his mouth, and his mouth struggled to produce saliva to help him swallow. Even after half a bottle of soldier's ration pills had been down his throat, he still couldn't taste anything.

The stomach and intestines worked together to grind the pills, and soon the power surged back into the body, warming the somewhat stiff and cold body.

Soldier's ration pills.

In the Naruto world, compressed biscuits are rich in nutrients and can replenish a ninja's chakra. Clan rations are limited in quantity, distributed to adult clan members to maximize their fighting power.

The existence of this bottle of pills further confirmed Gray's belief in the reality of the world.

Stepping on the blood-stained ground, while waiting for the soldier's rations to be digested, Hui Li silently sorted out her current situation.

Based on memory.

Last night, the Taketori clan fought a fierce battle with the Kirigakure ANBU who were surrounding their territory.

The original owner, who possessed the Byakugan bloodline limit, broke through the encirclement with the main force of his clan as an intelligence agent, and encountered the ANBU captain known as "Ferocious Fang" and his large-scale ninja force.

Needless to say, the result is obvious.

Her parents and entire clan were wiped out, and Hui Li was also killed instantly by an unknown member of the secret service who pierced her chest with a single knife.

and so……

How did I survive?

Touching the small but intact chest, the large bloodstains on the clothes and the cuts made by the blade filled Hui Li with doubt.

That's it.

How she survived wasn't important; the key was how she would continue to live. The situation was already set in stone, and her first thought was how to escape her predicament and do her best to survive.

We need to figure out a way to escape Kirigakure first.

boom!
A terrifying roar, mixed with several screams and towering flames, came from the east, before falling silent again.

Is the battle not over yet?

She is currently in the Kaguya clan's territory on the east side of Kirigakure, surrounded by Kirigakure's ANBU. Breaking through the encirclement would still keep her within Kirigakure's sphere of influence; to leave the village, she would need to break through another layer of ninja village defenses.

The enemy is Kirigakure, one of the five great nations of the ninja world, and what do I have?
Hui Li silently calculated her own capital.

In this life, she was considered a minor genius among the bamboo-collecting clan.

He extracted chakra at the age of three and successfully awakened his Byakugan at the age of five under his mother's guidance.

Now six years old.

His chakra reserves were comparable to those of a Chunin, he was proficient in basic Gentle Fist, and all that remained was the E-rank Three Body Technique that every ninja possessed, as well as... these corpses scattered all over the ground.

Arrange your own capital in descending order.

The ration pills in his stomach completely dissolved and digested, and a large amount of bodily energy gathered from his limbs and bones to his dantian, bursting forth along the meridians towards his heart. Invisible spiritual energy converged at the sea of ​​consciousness between his eyebrows and descended. Nothingness and existence, the two gathered and transformed at the 'chakra seed' in his heart, and the pale blue chakra rose within him like the morning sun illuminating the heavens and earth.

The heart pumps in tandem with the 'chakra seed'.

The power flows throughout the body along with the blood.

With her weakness subsiding, Hui Li didn't rush to escape.

Without breaking through the encirclement and blockade of the Hidden Mist Division, any attempt to escape will be futile. And if they wish to break through the blockade, battle will likely be unavoidable. Their immediate priority is to enrich themselves, thus creating more room for maneuver in the future.

They lifted up the corpses on the ground one by one.

Familiar figures, now covered in blood, stared blankly at the sky with lifeless eyes. Among them were Hui Li's friends, neighbors, and childhood companions, as well as members of the Hidden Mist Anbu wearing masks and ninja vests.

Soldier pellets, shuriken, explosive tags...

Hui Li dissected the corpses indiscriminately, carefully collecting the valuable resources she gleaned—essential assets for her future survival. Lying on the ground, tidying up the scattered remains, the pungent smell of blood filled her nostrils. She felt like a hyena scavenging on the African savanna.

But hyenas mostly travel in packs, and I, a lone wolf, am probably more like a stray dog ​​on the roadside.

Huh~
Seemingly amused by her own lame joke, Hui Li chuckled and solemnly folded up the few explosive tags she had left, stuffing them into her pocket. After a major battle, these resources were either completely exhausted or soaked in water and blood, leaving very few usable.

Organize your personal belongings.

Look up again.

Ahead lay another corpse of an ANBU member, its legs twisted and wearing a mask with a misty raindrop-shaped mark on its forehead. Hui Li walked over with delight, her small hand eagerly reaching into the ninja tool pouch at the lower back of the body.

Based on her experience of looting corpses, these secret agents would have slightly better equipment than the Taketori clan.

A small hand reached into the backpack.

It was warm to the touch, but completely empty inside.

and many more……

How can a body that has been dead for a long time be warm?

As the thought flashed through her mind, Hui Li's body suddenly stiffened, because she touched a... warm, large hand in her ninja tool pouch.

!!!

Suddenly.

A large hand suddenly grabbed Hui Li's wrist and dragged her over.

Hui Li's deathly gray pupils contracted to the size of pinholes due to tension. She instinctively shook her hands and struggled, but the enemy's large hands gripped her wrists like steel clamps, and she couldn't break free for a moment.

call!
The ANBU corpse, which was thought to be dead on the ground, suddenly opened its eyes. With its left hand, it gripped Hui Li's wrist, and with its right hand, it grabbed a kunai that it had somehow found and slashed at Hui Li's slender throat.

The world seemed to slow down.

The enemy's mask bore comically long, narrow, and crooked eyes, their pupils bloodshot and filled with murderous intent. Hui Li jerked her head back to dodge the fatal throat-slitting wound. The sharp kunai flashed with a dazzling light, slicing through her blood-scabbed hair. She could even see the gaping wounds that appeared on the kunai's edge after countless battles.

The man was startled to see Hui Li nimbly dodge the long-planned fatal blow. He continued to restrain Hui Li's wrist with his left hand, while his right hand, holding a kunai, drew a semicircle in the air before thrusting it towards her brow.

The movements were smooth and swift.

The attack methods were exceptionally fierce and vicious, with each move aimed at Hui Li's vital parts.

With no way to avoid it at that moment, Hui Li had no time to think.

A hint of madness flashed in his pale gray eyes. He grabbed the enemy's wrist with his right hand from his ninja tool pouch, and with his left hand, he also picked up a kunai and stabbed it towards the enemy's head and face.

Beneath the blood mist.

On the battlefield strewn with corpses.

Two lucky survivors, struggling to their feet amidst the corpses of their companions, held hands and fought desperately with kunai.

laugh!
The sharp tip of the kunai pierced between his eyebrows, and crimson blood flowed down from his brow bone, as if a red paintbrush had divided his face in two.

Hui Li's eyes widened, her arms stretched out forward with all her might, the tip of her kunai weakly tugging at the other's clothes but unable to go any further...

(End of this chapter)