Yomi was a neighbor of Kaida. As Kaida's parents were out on missions most of the time, he usually stayed at Yomi's house. Needless to say, they became friends during that time.

  When the ails attacked the vilge, both of their parents died. However, before Kaida's parents died, they were able to save Kaida, Yomi, and many more civilians. Unfortunately, they were not able to save Yomi's parents.

  When they were brought to the orphanage, Kaida became a supp pilr for Yomi, who cried for many weeks after the i. Kaida tried to stay strong for her and cried alone so that Yomi would not see him and remember those bad feelings.

  Before his death due to that fight, Kaida always tried to make Yomi smile.

  Oher hand, Yomi was devastated after her parents died, and the only person who remained with her was Kaida. That's why when he said that he would bee a ninja, she became dowed. Only when he said that she would also bee a ninja with him did her heart stop ag.

  He was the reason she tihe grueling training daily, so that she could always be with him and protect him from danger, as he was the st person she could call family. Slowly but tinuously, this became an obsession for Yomi.

  Oher hand, when Kaida first came into the body, he thought he had just ied the body of the boy. But the reality was differe only received the memories but also the feelings aions of Kaida. So, it was more like Kaida received the memories of a 13-year-old boy from Earth, but since a person is just a colle of different memories, it would be more correct to say that somehow two people merged on that day.

  So, he felt genuine care for Yomi ahe same way for her as she felt for him, except for the obsession.

  …

  Sihey had decided to focus on increasing their chakra reserves, Kaida and Yomi made three and one es, respectively, and all six of them went to the library to learn about many things, such as the world and its geography, tactics to use in fights, and even biographies of various ninjas, mainly written by elite Jonins and above. Most importantly, they studied shogi.

  Each of them went to a differeion and started reading. Each of Kaida's es went to Yomi and expihe topic they read, and Yomi's es did the same. They dispersed themselves before the information became too overwhelming and caused severe headaches from receiving memories.

  At lunch, they just went out for a stroll as by then, all the es had dispersed.

  After eating a nutrient bar, they went back to the library and started abs knowledge again.

  They repeated this for four days, and by the end of the fourth day, they had already read and uood most of the books in the civiliaion. Now, they had a basiderstanding of many things in the world. They also started pying shogi at night—one game with each other and another between their es.

  On the fourth day, when they were reading books in the E and D ses of the library, they discovered a book oopic of spiritual energy.

  When they read the book, they uood that what Hiruzen had told them was right: spiritual energy increases with an increase in knowledge and the thinking capacity of the mind. But at some point, it will stop increasing with just knowledge and will fully depend on experiehis means it will also increase gradually, like physical energy—through experiences of friendship, helping others, using others, or beirayed. Everything ts and increases your spiritual energy.

  Sihey still had quite a rge margihey could increase their chakra by increasing knowledge, they decided to tinue increasing their chakra/knowledge for the time being.

  While they were learning in the library, another debate was taking pce between some of the most powerful people in Konoha.

  "The work in the shadows requires specialty and talent; I hose two so that our vilge will remain peaceful."

  "Don't try to persuade me like with other orphans, Danzo. I know how most of them don't even have a say left in their own lives—you trol them like puppets.

  And using the same reason, you have already added many young talents to Root. Don't fet, one of them has Uchiha blood. I don't want the ire of a full just to satisfy someone's greed for talent."

  "No one will know about their disappearance, so you don't have to worry about the Uchiha."

  "I already said no—end of the topic. Just like the dark, some talented ninjas should also be present in the light of Konoha."

  Danzo just stood up a, as Hiruzen was dead set on not giving him those two new bloods.

  One of the reasons Hiruzen decided to keep them from Danzo was because it was Kaida's father's dying wish that Kaida should bee one of the most respected shinobi of Konoha.

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