Reincarnation of the Aburame God (Naruto Fanfic)

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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Since arriving in the Ninja World, I have solved two major problems that the old Aiden had.

First was the rejection I suffered from insects. Second, I was the only man in the Aburame Clan who couldn't control Kikaichuu.

Since the talents I had chosen were related to chakra, solving these two problems was relatively easy.

Yet, the universe tends toward balance, and this meant that when I solved problems, others appeared.

At the moment, I had three other big problems to solve.

The first was my army of Kikaichuus. With the birth rate being ten evolved Kikaichuu a day, I had few Kikaichuu, and this made me a below-average Aburame power. After all, I compromised my ability to learn and use techniques unique to our clan. I needed to find a way to increase the birth rate or supply it.

The second problem was my mother's illness. I needed to find out which insect could sense and 'vibrating' so that I could find out what the situation was with her chakra channels.

The third was money. Although I had put the Gacha System to one side for the last few days, I hadn't forgotten about it. Thus, it was essential that I earned money to spin the roulette wheel more often. This would give me a better chance of winning items that make me stronger.

I couldn't put it down and forget that it was only thanks to the Gacha System items that I could beat the ninjas Juro and Roku.

Putting these problems into a simplified list, they looked like this:

1 - Army of Kikaichuu.

2 - Autoimmune Chakra Disorder.

3 - Money.

Thinking rationally, I had some ideas about how to solve each of these problems because, as a CEO, in my old life, my job was to solve problems.

I bet that if I could solve the Kikaichuu problem, the other two would become easier for several reasons.

So, I stuck my face in that book about the Kikaichuu that I had taken from Torune's hand and tried to find a solution.

There was a lot of interesting information in that book. It was a book that mainly described how the Kikaichuu colonies inside the hosts worked.

As I've already explained, there were three vanguards of insects to protect the host - their home. However, these parasitic insects weren't just in the host's clothes, lungs, and organs. They spread in smaller quantities all over the body, from the feet to the head, and had different functions that not even the book knew how to describe yet.

If the book didn't know, I thought it might be productive to talk to Queen Kikaichuu herself.

At first, I thought that Queen Kikaichuu had talked to me because she was in my brain. But I discovered that listening to the Kikaichuu and other insects was a skill of my clan's Kekkei Genkai, and there were records of shinobis from my clan even being able to see them when they slept. That's what happened to me in that dream before I woke up after five days asleep.

It was believed that this could happen to an Aburame who was asleep because almost all the basic senses were turned off. Thus, the Meikyugan could function at its most potential.

This meant that the only way I could talk to her would be in a dream, right? Wrong.

I just needed to induce my body into a state of total relaxation, where my normal senses would be rendered useless by my mind at peace. The only way I knew to achieve this result was through meditation.

So, on the balcony of my room, I crossed my legs while my palms rested on my knees.

Keeping an empty mind was harder than it looked, especially with so many worries.

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.

The delicate scent of the cedar wood that made up my house was something unique to this life, something I had never smelled before since I was here. Then, just like that smell, all the sounds were clear. I heard the rhythmic chirping of a cricket from the forest. The breeze rustled the leaves of the trees. In the distance, water dripped onto a stone.

I took a deeper breath, pacing my breathing to the same rhythm as the crickets' song.

With each breath, my heart beat slower until I lost track of where my body ended and began.

My back relaxed, and my shoulders, which I had often felt were heavy, finally gave way.

A stillness took over my mind.

Thoughts that had previously floated restlessly dissolved in that stream that was embedded in my memory.

All that remained was a sense of existence at the moment - without haste, without effort, just being.

"Oh, dear home, you're back," said a loud voice, suddenly.

I opened my eyes and saw myself in that white world once again. In front of me, there was a bluish sun on the horizon and also that same creature that was in that jar. She was Queen Kikaichuu; only she was different. She looked like an albino cicada, so white.

"You find it very easy to enter your subconscious. Your spirit is spotless for someone who has already died..."

"I came to ask you something," I said, cutting him off.

"As you wish, sir. Sir, if I am able, I will be honored to answer any questions you ask."

"My father told me that I won't have an army as big as someone my age should have for a few years. I had read about the birth rate of the Kikaichuu being low among insects, but I did not know it was that low."

"I only lay ten eggs a day. After a few hours, these eggs hatch and my babies feed on a part of their chakra. I can double the amount of eggs I lay in a single day without compromising the health of those eggs, but that would compromise a larger part of your chakra, and that could affect your long-term health."

"Think about it, every day you have access to a smaller amount of your chakra because our numbers are only growing. And we also feed ourselves every day. This cost will increase exponentially if we also increase the birth rate. Maintaining a rate of ten births a day is best for the host and for us parasites."

I put a hand to my chin and thought about the situation. Put that way, the Queen was correct in her prepositions. As I hadn't used my chakra for many jutsus, I had no idea how much chakra I had. I only had a vague idea that it was quite a lot because I had Divine Chakra, and such a skill title wouldn't fit with a small amount of chakra.

"In other words, I need to be a little more patient. If ten Kikaichuus are born every day, in one year I'll have 3650. In ten years, it will be 36500."

"From your father's memories, I can tell you that the average adult has forty thousand Kikaichuus," replied the queen.

"Okay. What about the other insects? Earlier, you said that I needed to talk to you if I decided to share my body with other insects. Adults usually have how many other insects apart from the Kikaichuus?"

"The other insect species aren't used to cover numbers but for specialized tasks, as far as I know. But I know that there are usually problems between these insects and their host. We Kikaichuu are ideal to live with. We're not greedy and we're intelligent. As parasitic insects, we understand our host is our most valuable asset. Other insects don't have the same notion of the common good and think only of their own survival."

"Sadly, my knowledge of other species is a bit limited, Aiden. I was just an egg in your father's brain until a week ago, so I didn't get to live with the insects he has."

"And do you know what insects he has?"

"Lots of them. A huge variety. Your father is the head of your clan, and that's just a consequence of the talent of his body. I think it would be good for you to talk to him now that you're trying to reconcile."

In front of that queen, I felt naked. With free access to my mind, she could see my memories of the two worlds, my plans, and my ideas. In a way, it was like having a virtual assistant, like Jarvis from Ironman, only much stranger and more difficult to access. At least it kept me from feeling lonely.

I was avoiding talking to Shibi about other insects. I didn't want to risk him thinking I was looking for a way to cure my mother. But I was at a dead end. My excuse was that I needed to increase my insect numbers. It was a good reason to explore this subject without raising suspicion.

I had already read books and even talked to Queen Kikaichuu, but my father, as leader of the Aburame Clan, probably had much more information than either of them.

So, I awoke from my state of deep relaxation, got up, and went to his office on the second floor.

With my right hand raised to knock on the door, I realized it was already cracked open. Curious, I peeked inside and saw my father's desk completely messed up. There were papers and books covering practically every cubic meter of the room — which was unoccupied.

'He's not here. Has he left for an important meeting?' I asked myself. 'Torune's at the academy now. The house staff shouldn't show up until high noon. That means I'm home alone... Would it do any harm to snoop around the contents of this office?'

Shibi Aburame always forbade Torune and Aiden from entering his office, saying that he didn't want them to mess up the place. However, the place already looked pretty messy. This way, nobody would notice if anyone read any documents about the species of insects used by the Aburame.

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