The Uzumaki Prince

Author note: Sorry guys, I decided to reread Lord of the Mystery to refresh my memory and I ended up not being able to stop myself, When I read it the first time my English was still very bad and now I feel that I'm reading it for the first time, it reawakened my novel addiction. I ask for your forgiveness for the late update.

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At the door of Uzushiogakure

The soft glow of the morning sun was illuminating the village of Uzushiogakure.

Akashi, who had been woken up early by his mother Kana, looked sleepily at her.

Kana's expression was perfectly neutral as she looked at the massive gate before her as if waiting for something.

"Are you sad?!"

At that question Kana raised an eyebrow and looked at her son a little surprised.

"What makes you say that?" she asked seriously, after all, nothing on her expression would make him come to that conclusion.

"Well, I felt that you were sad…"

Kana's eyes seemed to shine in satisfaction when she heard that,

'Soon he will awaken then,'

"…plus isn't it normal to be sad when you leave your home, leaving?"

After a few seconds, a sad smile appeared at the corner of her lips

"I guess so,"

She answered calmly before looking at her right eye, it was unknown what she was looking at before smiling at her son.

"It's time for us to go, try to follow," she said with a light and teasing tone before jumping on a tree branch.

"Here I come," The childish voice of Akashi followed as he tried to copy her movements.

A few minutes later Kana and Akashi jumped out from the forest.

"The sea!" Akashi exclaimed in delight

"Why are you acting like it's your first time seeing the scenery when you come here all the time?"

She was genuinely curious after all.

As she rarely brought him inside the village, she had to find other ways to entertain her son, and bringing him to the beach was one of those ways she entertained him.

"Well, I always like to come here."

He answered sincerely

"So who are you going to summon this time, is it the giant tortoise, the sharks, the dolphins, the seahorses, or maybe we are going to fly on the eagle, or the pelican,"

Kana just looked as he named all her summons one after the other.

All the creatures that he had cited were summons that his mother had used to entertain him at some point.

While most ninja would never manage to get even one summon in their lives, but not a Uzumaki.

The Uzumaki had the massive chakra pool necessary for the summons, they are experts of sealing techniques and have a rich history of capturing and making contracts with strange creatures, throughout the years.

Nearly every ninja family has at least one summon.

"Today. You will use..." She let the silence stretch for a few seconds to create anticipation before.

"Your feet!" she said curling her lips into a smile

Standing there Akashi felt like he had been splashed with a bucket of cold water.

"What!?"

"You heard me."

"My feet, like running?" He asked his smiling mother

"Yes, like running,"

She confirmed and he felt cold at those words.

"On the water," he asked, and Kana nodded.

His gaze turned back toward the turbulent sea in front of him before continuing, "With those whirlpools around?"

"Yes." She confirmed

"You can do it!"

Akashi couldn't help but feel perplexed for a moment.

'It will take a long time,'

Even though he appeared cheerful and carefree right now he knew very well than the reason why they were going to Konoha was to escape death, brought by an imminent attack that could potentially destroy Uzushio and having a four year old genin that barely manage to properly learn water walking move between the natural barrier around Uzushiogakure would take days.

As he was thinking that Kana talked as if she could hear his thought, she reassured him "Do not worry, we still have time before any danger arises, and even if they manage to surprise me I have a way to get us to safety, still try your best."

Akashi nodded at his mother, deciding to trust her.

Turning around, he started to run on the water with a dexterity, yet as he did, something told him that this journey would not be as peaceful as he thought.

As he ran forward toward the whirlpool, his steps became the turbulent sea, making his progression harder, slower, and more deliberate.

But of course it didn't take long for him to falter.

"Ploof," After one wrong step, Akashi found himself in the water.

Before he could sink deep, Kana grabbed his hand and pulled him up.

"I can do that," He encouraged himself before resuming his advancement. 

Soon, Akashi found himself completely drenched, yet he resumed the exercise, walking forward with his mother behind him giving him pointers and encouragement when he needed them.

But, after a few more steps,

"Ploof,"

Akashi found himself once again in the water before being rescued again.

The process repeated itself for a long time.

At some point the sun rose high in the sky, but due to his extreme concentration, Akashi didn't even notice that, at that moment, he was standing in between two whirlpools threatening to swallow him at the slightest mistake.

His blazing red eyes inherited from his mother and his sharingan from his father seemed to perfectly mixed together to give him an enhanced mastery of his chakra and perception of his surroundings.

In the beginning, Akashi was full of fire and excitation, but after hundreds of falls, his fiery passion made way for a calm and quiet determination.

He had unconsciously ended up activating his sharingan and had even combined it with his sensing abilities, it allowed him not only to see but also to regulate the chakra in his body with care, but also to feel the slightest change in his immediate environment.

He no longer needed Kana to pull him out of the water, every time he fell he immediately got back up to resume his training.

After hours of trial and error, without Akashi even realizing it, the sun that had risen high in the sky and was now about to set.

With his mother behind him, the four-year-old Akashi walked out of the barrier of the whirlpool surrounding Uzushiogakure.

"I did it…" Akashi said softly in an unsure tone as he looked at his mother behind him.

After seeing her nod in confirmation, joy appeared on the face of the four-year-old boy.

"I did it, I knew I could do it, I never doubted myself, hahaha…"

"Congratulations, I knew you could do it," Kana, behind him, praised as she looked at her son who was jumping around like a frog with a mixture of joy, pride and amazement.

After a few seconds of happiness, the vision became blurry

"Oh, what!?"

Akashi's body went limp, and he lost consciousness and fell into his mother's arms.

After hours of intense concentration above the current capacities of his body, the moment he relaxed the focus that kept him awake disappeared, and he fell unconscious.

"My angel! Your talent is monstrous." She said lifting his sleeping body in her arms

Even though she said that she knew that he could succeed, the truth is that she hoped that he wouldn't succeed in that challenge.

It was a spontaneous training idea that appeared in her mind at the last minute, and even though she had used a secret technique to lower the intensity of the whirlpool not to make it deadly for Akashi.

It was at a level such as even a full-fledged chunin would have trouble navigating those waters, and yet Akashi, a four-year-old kid, had succeeded.

Of course, a lot of that could be attributed to his cheat-like abilities, such as the sharingan of the Uchiha and the extraordinary perception of the Uzumaki, it didn't change the fact that it was an extraordinary feat.

"You were supposed to fail that one, my little angel," she said, letting out a sigh.h

"This way I could use that as an excuse to move to the cruel part of your training, I'm sorry love, I would have loved to push back that part but with what may be coming you need to be ready," she said to the sleeping Akashi.

She put the sleeping Akashi on her back before swiftly moving to the land of fire.

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Land of fire 

In an underground hideout of the Uzumaki clan after putting her son to bed, Kana 

Uzumaki arrived in a massive room.

The only thing present in the room other than Kana was an immense aquarium taking one fourth of the room.

After biting her finger, she let a drop of blood drip on the ground, creating a massive invocation seal.

At that exact moment, all around the world, thousands of little creatures flying, swimming, crawling, and walking that had been disseminated around the world and were monitoring the situation of the battlefield stopped moving and after moving to a safe place disappeared in a puff of smoke, without attracting any attention.

"poof, poof..."

In an instant, hundreds of creatures appeared around Kana.

"Those invocation rooms are really useful,"

She sat down on the ground and released a long and tired sigh. 

 Another of the reasons that she didn't use any invocation to travel is that she was already at her limit.

She was using thousands of creatures to monitor the situation of her village, on the battlefield, and on nearly all the roads that could be used to invade Uzushiogakure at the same time.

Even for her, that had enough chakra to compete with a tail beast, it was incredibly taxing.

"What did you see? What did you hear?, tell me everything," She said, and the creatures slowly moved toward her.