Journey of Desires

Have you ever felt like you were in the wrong company? Those situations when you somehow ended up in a group where all the other people were talking about some topics that you didn't understand? Well, that's exactly what Hikari is feeling right now.

Ask why?

Well, it's actually pretty simple, when Naruko came to them, at first the conversation was quite ordinary for this world, but then the conversation turned to topics that are simply impossible to discuss with someone who is not a reincarnated person like you, considering that Ban, Kiliya and Naruko lived at about the same time in their past lives, they have quite a lot of topics.

Various conversations about new products, about politics, about new dishes in eateries, all this has long been irrelevant and is no longer interesting to the reincarnated people themselves.

But imagine that you died and were reborn in a new life, and after a while you find another person with the same fate, only he, unlike you, died, for example, a year later.

What questions would you have?

Well, because of Naruko's hobby, she started asking Ban about all sorts of things. For example, it turned out that in her past life, she read the manga Freeren, but she didn't live to see the film adaptation, while Ban managed to watch all the episodes but didn't read the manga.

So Hikari sat there, not understanding anything that the other three were discussing. It's true that it wasn't interesting to her, since they were discussing various plots, retelling interesting moments. For Hikari, listening to the retelling of the Spice and Wolf arc that was missed in the old version of the anime, which was shown in the updated version, is quite interesting. It's like bedtime stories from your parents when you're little, a very entertaining thing. And considering that Hikari had never experienced anything like this, it was a total novelty for her.

But everything comes to an end, and in our case, the conversations to satisfy our curiosity ended, and we had to get down to business.

- Naruko, what did you decide? Do you want to go with us or have you decided to stay?

The mood immediately became serious, after all, the topic turned to the whole future life of Naruko, if she chooses to leave Konoha, then she will forever be wanted, making her a renegade nukenin of course will not work, she has not even graduated from the academy and has not become a ninja, but no one will just let her go.

- I would like to go with us, but by making such a decision I will set you up, a weak Jinchuriki who ran away from his village... Not only Konoha will be looking for us, but if they find out, then any other ninja village, not a single kage will refuse to reseal the strongest bijuu in one of their own and increase the strength of the village.

In response, she heard not quite what she expected. Naruko was counting on one of two options, either they will tell her that this is her choice and will not force her, or they will try to take her somewhere to make her stronger, and she could protect herself. But all I heard was Kilia's laughter, the blue-haired girl's joy was palpable.

- Ha-ha, listen... You're worried about the wrong thing, Ban only enjoys fighting, and if someone comes after us with the goal of getting the jinchuriki, then Ban will only be unable to restrain himself again and will satisfy his inner masochist, taking all the attacks in a row on himself and then ending the fight for a couple of seconds.

While Kilia was saying this phrase, her brother looked at her very displeased, although her words are partly true, but he does not get pleasure from the pain. Another aspect of fighting in this way plays a role here, when Ban sees the faces of enemies who are shocked by what they see, for him it is like the most popular, delicious, memorable moment from some kind of reaction cuts to an epic scene on YouTube. That is, what he lacked after rebirth, he still needs to have fun without technology somehow.

- Simply put, additional battles are only a joy for Ban, and your presence will only add more battles. More battles = more joy for this psycho. Although he behaves quite calmly most of the time, but...

At that moment, she turned her head to Ban, narrowed her eyes and continued looking at him intently.

- He has a child inside him, and not an ordinary one, but a hyperactive one obsessed with everything related to fights and cold weapons.

- Listen, sister, you certainly have a point, but in my opinion, these words will only scare her off now. Naruto, as far as I understand, you don't like battles, right?

Naruko just nodded, although she didn't understand why this behavior of Ban's should scare her off, someone who will take on all the fights is, on the contrary, good. Of course, she understands that she will have to take control of her powers, and it may happen that there may be no one nearby, but she needs to protect herself.

- I don't know why you decided that I would be scared, as for me, your character is convenient. Of course, I can't dump all the dangers on you, remaining a "princess in trouble", but in the coming years, I'm unlikely to become a formidable force.

- Don't worry, even if I'm not around, that is, Kilia, and even if the situation gets even worse and she also disappears somewhere...

Turning his head towards Hikari, who was silent almost all the time, just listening to their conversations, he nodded towards her and continued.

- There she is.

- Listen, Ban, of course I understand that she must be strong, but she is not much older than me, how can you say without the slightest doubt that she can protect me in any situation? Is she really a genius at the level of Itachi, does she have Tsukuyomi, or some other powerful technique?

Now Naruto didn't even understand how accurately she hit the center of the target. Ban put on a very wide smile after her words, this situation reminded him of a friend from a past life who often played games after Ban had played them, and constantly discussed the plot and moments while he was playing, so the situation when a friend said something and built theories and it turned out to be true or not was quite common.

- He-he, you have no idea how right you are!

Getting up from his chair and approaching the Uchiha, who was still sitting on her chair, who was a little tense from not understanding what he wanted to do next, he put his hands on her cries and then abruptly spread them apart, leaning left and right like some crazy sales consultant trying to present a product as expressively as possible.

- Please love and not complain! Hikari Uchiha, the fear of the Senju clan of her generation, is improved by fuin tattoos and has an eternal Mangekyo, initially owned 1 strong technique, but after the experiments of the Uchiha clan, as a result, she has Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu and owns a unique technique for her, Yachihoko! Her power was so feared that the Senju clan had to unite with Sarutobi just to seal her.

With the end of the phrase, Ban calmed down and headed to his seat. Hikari still didn't understand what was going on, Naruko didn't care about the strange behavior of her interlocutor and Kiliya just put her hand to her face, keeping only one thought in her mind "Idiot..."

- So, she's more dangerous than Itachi?

- Well, in some ways, yes, she should have less experience and fighting skills, but due to various improvements and the presence of an eternal Mangekyo, she is in no way inferior to him. In general, I want to make her as strong as possible, in case a mega super duper battle with Madara begins, then it would be possible to watch the battle of two incredibly strong Uchiha. But then it's up to her to decide, she wants a peaceful life like you, and I'm not sure if she wants to become stronger. Am I right?

The question was already addressed to the Uchiha, hearing the last words, Naruko focused her attention on Hikari, sincerely not understanding her position. In case she hears a positive answer, Naruko wants to ask her the question herself. Seeing the nod and hearing "Yes", a service question addressed from Naruko to Hikari immediately sounded.

- Why?

- Aaa? Why what?

- You want a peaceful life, safety, so that no one bothers you. And at the same time you have incredible powers and huge potential. Why do you want to live in peace, but you don't want to get it?

Hearing these words, Hikari herself did not understand anything, she was very confused, and it was clearly visible from her facial expression, Naruko decided to continue.

- Do you know the saying "If you want peace, prepare for war"? If you become incredibly strong, then those who can potentially harm you will think ten times whether they need it, and by abandoning your talent and opportunities you simply remain weak and allow more people to be on an equal footing with you, therefore a large number of people can attack you, well, for example, with the goal of taking away incredibly strong and unique eyes.

Hearing the explanation, Hikari thought about it, she had previously lived the life of a living weapon, and had never even thought about something like this. As she understood from the words of her interlocutors, she was very lucky with her powers, well, at least she got something good from all the horror that she experienced.

- Will you answer?

- I didn't think about it before... I generally didn't think about much before.

Having heard a rather uninformative but very sad answer from Hikari, Uzumaki directed her gaze at Ban with a question in her eyes.

- She lived in the role of a living weapon, moral bullying, bad environment, life in a cage full of fuin seals, in short, a completely depressed person, such people usually do not think about the opportunities that they have or can have.

- I understand, well then I want to ask, what is her level of power at the moment? No, of course I understood that she is dangerous, but I did not receive any examples.

- Well, for starters, as far as I remember, she and Boruto, using Yachihoko to strengthen herself and him, were able to easily defeat the elite Uchiha squad from the Warring States era. Even in the fight before that, she was able to send Boruto flying 80 meters with one kick until he crashed into the wall. And Boruto, under her Yachihoko strengthening, could fight a huge strengthened Susano.

- What the hell was going on there? Why the hell is she beating Boruto and then strengthening him?

- From what I remember, she was on the enemy's side, and then went over to Boruto, Naruto and Sasuke, and they fought the Uchiha squad... And why did they fight?... ... ... Oh! Right! There was also something connected with time travel, I don't remember to be honest.

- Well, we won't find out even if we wanted to, considering that I'm here instead of Naruto, and Hinata is still a girl, and you've already freed Hikari, this plot can't be repeated in principle.

- There's a chance that we'll be able to get to the modern world someday where Naruto and all the games about it will exist.

To be honest, when Kiliya and Ban went to another world, they had a great desire and hope that they would end up in the modern world, at least to buy a huge amount of different equipment and experiment trying to create technomagic. After all, repairing and creating equipment with magic is much more convenient than trying to get to a world where you can replenish supplies.

- So what? What have you decided? Will you go with us, or will you still stay, and by the way, you could have looked at Hikari's statistics and found out her powers, have you forgotten?

- Oops, right now!

"Status"

Name: Uchiha Hikari

Race: Human, Chakra User (Shinobi)

Title: Uchiha Weapon

Age: 144 (Body age 14 years)

Level: 127

HP: 6020/6020

MP: 0/0

CP: 26090/26090

RP: 988/988

Ki: 4100/4100

Prana: 1030

Strength: 600

Stamina: 1320

Speed: 1130

Agility: 790

Wisdom: 83

Intellect: 42

Control: 21402

Achievements: Uchiha Weapon, Fearsome, Strongest Man of the Generation, Sealed Longevity

Passive Skills: Uchiha, Ancient Soul

Active Skills: Non-elemental Shinobi+ Techniques, Elemental Shinobi+ Techniques. Sharingan, Mangekyou Sharingan, Yachihoko, Tsukuyomi+, Amaterasu, Inferno Elemental Techniques.

Negative Effects: Spiritual Decline (Low).

Elemental Affinity:

Wind: 1.9%

Fire: 98%

Water: 1.4%

Lightning: 8.8%

Earth: 5.2%

Life: 34%

Death: 27%

Yin (Adaptive): 81%

Yang (Adaptive): 61%

Inferno (Adaptive) 89%

After looking at Hikari's status and then quickly transferring it to a sheet and handing it over to Kiliya's curious hands, Naruko finally gave her answer.

- Okay, I'll go with you, but it will be good to prepare well, at the very least I don't want to break through with a fight and run to the very border.

Ban's happy face immediately disappeared after the last words, a sour expression appeared. Naruko didn't understand what had happened and looked at Kiliya, who had already handed the paper to Hikari, with a question.

- He wanted to have an epic fight in the middle of the village, beat up a dozen jonin and Hiruzen, and then leave by teleport.

- Oh, I see. What did I expect?

- Okay! Enough chatter, welcome to our squad!

After Ban's last words, a system notification started beeping in Naruko's head, the girl became curious about what the system wanted to tell her.

"Experience gained through a unique action"

Unique action: Joining a squad of a thousand-year-old creature.

Multiplier: Two thousand-year-old creatures

Multiplier: Joining a squad from another world

Multiplier: The squad leader is a famous character

Multiplier: The squad contains a rare character

Multiplier: The squad contains a hundred-year-old creature

"Congratulations, your level has increased: 10>42"

- What?