Stalking strangers is not a good hobby
Kagami Uzumaki died at the age of 11 during Uzushio’s evacuation when Kirigakure invaded. He was obsessed with Fuinjutsu and wanted to become a Fuinjutsu master ( he blamed his dad for that). He was a good student, top three in his class. He wanted to earn Flee on sight in the bingo book when he grew up. He liked to read trashy romance or adventure novels. It's how he got half the knowledge of obscure knowledge that was half the time true when he researched it and random fun facts sometimes that were true.
His mother liked to joke that a shinobi wrote the half with useful information because if you ever needed an obscure fun fact always ask the Uzushio or Konoha Anbu off duty, Konoha shinobi were usually in Uzushio because of the ambassadors.
All in all, he’d say he had a pretty fulfilling life for a 11 year old but he’d be lying if he didn’t say that he still missed his parents and he felt so guilty for burdening them like this, god he should’ve never hid the fact he was sick until too late from them. He still wanted to go to the bakery near their house, he still wanted his mom to help him and his sister with their taijutsu when she was free and he still wanted to complain about his classmates to her.
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Uyehara Kagami was a quiet and well behaved child, well at least until the age of 6. He started crying at the slightest of things and very frequently, so much so that his parents ended up taking him to the doctors.
Look, it wasn't Kagami’s fault that he missed his parents and that apparently being in a toddlers body made you way more immature and emotional than a teenager's body. But it was okay!!! His(?) new parents were not told he was insane! Or a demon possessing their son! At Least he didn’t think he wasn’t possessing their kid, he had some…. Ish memories from his? Body. Well the amount you’d expect a 6 year old to remember.
He hopes he didn’t possess the body of a six year old and kill them because frankly that would make him feel like a bad person and he'd be a demon technically and also his new parents would not like that very much, frankly he would be furious because he has a six year cousin and he wouldn't want a random 11 year old academy student to possess her.
The doctors had said some shit about a quirk and how that sometimes made children more emotional when it was coming in. Now, he had no fucking idea what a quirk was, unless their talking about personality traits, in that case.
Fuck you, doctor. I have a perfectly fine personality, it’s you who has a fucking problem since you’re being so rude about everything. I didn’t start this, I didn’t call you an incompetent fool who’d be dead in the field because you looked so naive, did I?
Kagami was very spiteful,short circuited and impulsive. Because that’s what 6 of constant nightmares and being separated from your family and world does to you mentally.
When the doctor kindly explained what a ‘quirk’ —which is a shitty name in his opinion— is to Kagami’s confused expression and asked if he wanted to be a hero. He put on the brightest fake smile and answered yes, Akamatsu-Sensei lessons in infiltration were really paying off. Kagami thinks she’d be proud.
He was internally apologising for what he said to the doctor inside his head but oh well.
Now he didn’t really care about becoming a hero, mostly because; they can’t kill people and it’s more of a fame type of profession from what he’s inferred. Which shinobi try not to do. Also god were people's morals skewed or maybe his morals were skewed? Still in this sense to a Kiri shinobi Uzumaki Mito would be a villain but to Uzu shinobi she’d be a legendary figure of admiration.
On a brighter side, he still had red hair— familiarity was always welcomed and nice. He was able to go to his… body’s parents home without much fuss. He was gonna laze around for a few days, yeah that would be nice.
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Kagami stared at himself in the mirror.
He looked almost the same… almost— his eyes weren’t as round… and his face was more chubby, although that was probably because he was a child. Reminded him of the Uchiha Ambassador.
Pfft— He could pass for an Uchiha if he was reborn in the Uchida clan but with black hair.
Why couldn’t I have reincarnated to my own world's future or another world but with chakra.
He thought to himself pouting as he went back to his homework, it wasn’t hard but god was his handwriting horrible. He hasn’t tried using chakra yet because well… he felt his reserves but his pathways were seriously underdeveloped, he’d have to wait atleast 2 years to even try to use Chakra. He’s already started directing some of his chakra to slowly kickstart the development of his chakra network.
This will be fine, probably. Hopefully. Well he hopes he’ll pass the 11 year old age marker this time.
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It took 4 years for his ‘quirk’ to finally manifest, but late for society’s standards but he had already convinced his classmates he had a minor intelligence quirk because how else was he getting top marks on every test. He was stealing the answers from them or just knew what it was to be honest.
After seeing one quirkless kid— He didn’t want to get bullied because he would want to punch someone and he would make them cry, he has experience in saying hurtful things to make children cry, mostly his cousins when they’re not behaving, sometimes kids he sparred with— it was all fair game in a spar and everyone knew it. Also just because he was older than these kids and should’ve been more mature mentally does not mean he was. He blamed it on his younger brain.
In another life, Kagami would be the model of a perfect student. This is not that life but he is still the model of a perfect student and that has led to, how many pranks can he pull off on the teachers till he gets caught? He hasn’t gotten the answer yet. He doesn’t know if many people know but being a model student is just a game of how many rules can you break without getting caught.
It was just a harmless seal he put on his table— he had no idea it’d work— nobody had used chakra in this world till now in his perspective. Satoshi-Sensei had a passive quirk that allowed him to change the color of any inorganic object he touched - inconvenient, yes. But still a quirk— also the same thing that activated the seal.
Water dropped on the whole area around the desk as well as Satoshi-Sensei.
Santoshi-Sensei had not taken the prank as kindly as the rest of the class had and naturally put the girl with the quirk related to water manipulation in detention for the rest of the day. Kagami felt pretty shitty for that, the world wasn’t fair but it didn’t mean he should be a jerk and contribute to it.
“So, I’m sorry for what happened yesterday.” Kagami started while the girl— The brunette raised an eye.
“I was the one who pulled that prank and I’m really sorry that you were blamed instead of me? And uhh…. I hope you won’t tell the teacher, you can beat me up if you want?” Kagami offered sheepishly, sparring was usually a good way to apologize. “I got you Dorayaki as an apology gift? I don’t know if you like Dorayaki but still.”
Two things happened in quick succession; Kagami got hit in the head and the dorayaki was snatched from him.
“I don’t like dorayaki, but I’ll take it. Don’t think you’re off the hook yet!”
And that’s how he gained a partner in crime but more like she’d use him to prank her bullies most of the time and Satoshi-Sensei. Best way to make a friend ever, she listens to his opinions, talks to him and is generally a nice friend although dragging him to places most of the time. He should teach her some Academy Kata’s or maybe force her to learn taekwondo to spar with him sometime.
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Chikari was the definition of a hydromaniac IF that word exists, it’s fine though- his sister was also a hydromaniac. It wasn't without saying that Kagami was enabling her too since he would give her ideas in the form of water jutsu’s he remembered reading about or seeing. In turn she enabled him into figuring out how chakra worked in this world and how to commit property damage using his chakra. It's fine ‘it’s not illegal if you don’t get caught’ according to Chikari— yea that was partially his fault.
So far Kagami has found out, due to Chikari’s help- that Chakra networks have manifested in this world in the form of quirks, which was…inconvenient in his opinion. Each chakra network is unique to the quirk due to this, as for quirkless people. The pattern is, either they have a normal chakra network like his or that their chakra network and pathways are severely underdeveloped.
“How likely is it that I can make this box explode with water pressure?” Chikari asked while she happily walked beside him with the box in hand.
“Maybe, don’t talk about illegal quirk usage in public but pretty likely.” Kagami responded, slightly nudging her shoulder for what she said.
Now he wasn’t quirkless from what the doctors said and got his parents to just get it registered that he just had an intelligence quirk like his lies which, oops? But like…. His parents would get fined if they had to change his quirk on the registration so uhm… yea and like nobody could suggest him to become a hero either.
Chikari wanted to be a hero which was fine, on the other hand he didn’t know what he wanted to do. He knew he wanted a job that let him make a lot of money but that was about it, he didn’t want to be a doctor or a lawyer because there was too much effort and time spent on it.
Also he had passed his death date by 3 years! He was fourteen and not dead yet so he’d say life was great!
So far he was pretty lucky, hadn’t died yet, top scores, not caught for pranking his teachers, alive parents and a ride or die best friend. He was pretty sure Chikari was only like that because he knew a lot of her secrets as she also did his.
It was a good year to turn 14 years old.
Nothing could go wrong until he met a fucking Hatake, how does he know it was a Hatake and not some look alike with a fucking porn book in his hands? Firstly, he moves like a shinobi. Secondly, he looks like a hatake! Thirdly, Kagami has seen The Hatake Ambassador— almost an ambassador from each clan of Konoha has been to Uzushio once in a while, except for the Hyuuga. They had once but it caused an uproar because of the Hyuga clan Seal so nobody talks of them— and also Kagami knows what a Hatake looks like and when they move like a shinobi!
He’s not an idiot, if he was stupid he would’ve became a vigilante or villain a lot sooner. But he might as well be for his next course of actions—
“Chikari, I’m going to stalk that white haired-” before he can say anything she shuts him up by slamming her fist into his shoulder.
“-and who was talking about not talking about doing something illegal in public?” She asked in her faux cheery tone. “And that’s a U.A student, if you wanna stalk him, be my guest.”
“Well, he probably heard us anyway but c'mon, that’s not stopping me.” If the Hatake Shinobi figured out how to use Chakra in this world, Kagami was pretty dead. Cause like, he went to the academy but he wasn’t really able to graduate or get into a Genin Team before his death.
“Good luck, I guess and don’t get arrested.” She continued on her way, not at all bothered by what he was about to do.
God Kagami hopes the Hatake isn’t on his way home— on the nice side he’s so glad he learned how to blend into crowds.
please please please go into a store, I beg you.
He’s pretty sure the other should know he’s being stalked, if he doesn’t well- he’s concerned.
Oh— goodie.. The Hatake enters a cafe.
Well, here’s to subtlety. Kagami enters the cafe and walks straight up to the Hatake— it’s no use trying to order something if he slips away while he’s distracted— and smiles up at the teen and cheerfully starts.
“So, Konoha Hm?”
The Hatake face looks surprised for a moment before going back to neutral. “Maa, kids these days are so rude. Not even offering their name before starting a conversation.”
“Kagami and you must be Hatake-san?“
Look, Kagami wasn’t letting fellow reincarnators avoid him at all, call it a sense of familiarity or what.
“And you must be an Uzumaki.” The Hatake’s analysing him, paranoid as always.
“I thought the Red hair was a clear hint. If it wasn’t I could always make a seal that’ll explode on activation.”
The hatake was quiet for a moment before sighing.
“Kakashi Hatake, currently Hitoshi Shinsou.”
“Nice to meet you Kaka-senpai! My name is Kagami Uzumaki and I'm currently Kagami Uyehara.”