Naruto: From Novice to Grave

After returning home, Higashino first went to the bathroom to wash up, and then sat properly at the dining table to prepare for dinner.

The food was already laid out on the table. Although the style and taste were quite different from his previous life, he was used to it and it wasn't a big problem, as long as it wasn't some filthy, moldy porridge.

Across the table sat his birth mother from this world, a beautiful young woman with long brown hair.

Her name was Higashino Megumi. She was an ordinary person without a surname. Before marriage, she was called Megumi, and after marriage, she took her husband's surname, Higashino.

In this life, Higashino Makoto's father is named Higashino Jiro. He is an ordinary-looking but tall and strong Konoha Chunin, but he is currently away on a mission for the village.

Yes, Higashino Makoto is not an orphan in the Naruto world; he is fortunate to have both parents, but he doesn't receive any magical buffs.

Moreover, his current appearance is completely like his mother's. He is not even four years old yet, but you can already see that the mother and son look five or six points similar. This makes Higashino Makoto believe that as long as he doesn't grow up to be ugly, he will probably become a handsome man.

Of course, it's also possible that it will grow into a boy or a girl.

It's highly unlikely, because he's quite certain that no one in his family has the bloodline of the Snow Clan from the Land of Water, and he wasn't a proctologist in his previous life either.

When Kei Higashino had her child, she was only 20 years old. Now she is 23, and Jiro Higashino is about the same age. The two were even classmates.

They are very young, so young that Higashino's mental age is more than ten years older than theirs.

But now, he has to call them Dad and Mom.

Higashino wasn't embarrassed about this at all. He hadn't transmigrated and taken over someone else's son's body; he had been directly reincarnated into Higashino Megumi's womb. The couple were truly his biological parents who gave him life and raised him in this life.

There's nothing wrong with calling them "father" and "mother." In his previous life, Li Sen wasn't the kind of person who was ungrateful or pretentious.

During the meal, Higashino Megumi asked curiously, "Shin, I remember you've been training this early every day since you were three years old, right? Is it tough?"

"It's not hard, Mom. On the contrary, I feel very happy. I like the feeling of becoming stronger."

Why do you want to become stronger so much?

"This is Konoha Village. I'm going to be a ninja. Do I need a reason to become stronger?"

"Don't you need it?"

"Do you need to? Okay, I hope to become a strong ninja and protect you and Father in the future." Facing his birth mother, Higashino Makoto didn't engage in political correctness like he did outside, talking about protecting the village and his comrades.

"Shin, thank you." Higashino Megumi smiled, reached out and ruffled Higashino Shin's hair, and said happily, "But you got it backwards. It should be your father and I protecting you."

Compared to that, what makes me even happier is that the way you talk big finally looks like a child your age. You know, you've always been a bit too precocious.

You're not even four years old yet! How can I put it? It makes me feel so unfulfilled as a mother. I remember you've never even wet the bed.

Even when you were a baby, you would cry to remind me to take you to the toilet, giving me no chance to even change your diapers. This is different from what everyone says; being a mother doesn't feel hard at all.

Faced with his mother's long string of complaints, Higashino was a little helpless and could only make a joke: "Oh, it seems I won't wet the bed. I'm really disappointed in you, Mrs. Higashino."

"Bang!" Higashino Megumi punched her son on the head: "Call me Mom? Which bastard did you learn that from?"

"Okay, Mrs. Higashino, I learned this from Uncle Kuroda downstairs."

"Bang!" "I said I'd call Mom!"

"No problem, Mrs. Higashino."

"Bang!"

After breakfast, Higashino Megumi went back to her bedroom to change her clothes and hurriedly prepared to go out.

Before leaving, she told him, "Zhen, Mom is going to work. Take good care of yourself. If anything happens, come to the hospital to find me."

"Okay, I understand, Mom."

Like her husband, Higashino Jiro, Higashino Megumi is also a ninja, and even surpasses him by half a rank in terms of professional ninjutsu. She is a special Jonin who is skilled in medical ninjutsu and currently works at Konoha Hospital.

Back then, Tsunade of Konoha, moved by the deaths of her younger brother Nawaki and many of her comrades, proposed that the village should strengthen the training of medical ninjas and recruit them into ninja teams to reduce the mortality rate in wars or missions.

Although this policy was not implemented before her boyfriend, Dan Kato, was also killed, Konoha officially implemented her proposal after the war ended.

Keigo Higashino is a beneficiary of this policy.

While her ninja combat skills were limited, she possessed considerable talent in medical ninjutsu.

Medical skills require exceptional chakra control, an area in which women have a natural advantage.

Since giving birth to Makoto Higashino, Megumi Higashino has taken a two-year break to care for her son while also learning and improving herself.

Since Higashino Makoto said he could take care of himself, she went back to work at the hospital. Because medical ninjas are relatively special and difficult to learn, no matter how much training they receive, there are not enough people.

Fortunately, Higashino has always acted very maturely, which puts his parents at ease leaving him alone at home, saving them the money they would have spent on a housekeeper.

As usual, Higashino Megumi went straight to work, while Higashino Makoto, after washing the dishes, picked up his books and studied diligently at home.

Children in the ninja world are generally precocious, let alone a reincarnated person with an adult soul like him.

When Makoto Higashino was around 2 years old, with his mother's help, he completed his initial education in ninja script and then began reading various books about the ninja world.

To live well in this world, you must first understand it.

This mainly includes the geography and history of the ninja world.

Geography is easy to understand; whether in one's own study or in the Konoha Library, one can find a wealth of non-classified materials introducing various countries, large and small.

As for history, there are very few related records. It seems that few people in the ninja world specialize in recording history, especially the thousand-year Warring States period, which is almost entirely blank.

I wonder how much effort that particular filial son in black put in here.

Perhaps some records can be found in some ancient families, such as the Senju, Uchiha, and Hyuga clans, or the noble families of various countries.

But this is clearly not something he can borrow right now.

Fortunately, Higashino's goal is not to become a geographer or historian. The geographical knowledge of the ninja world that can be found on the surface has already given him a basic understanding of the large and small countries in this world.

As for history, with the added benefit of memories from his previous life, he probably knows the general outline of the ninja world over a thousand years better than 99% of the people in this world, which is enough.

He completed all of these learning tasks before he turned three.

After he turned three, he began the second stage of his cultivation and learning, which was mainly divided into three directions.

The first step is to start daily physical training. The parents will design the program based on their experience, while the student will focus on their own endurance and increase the amount of training every now and then.

Secondly, they learn the basics of chakra and the human body, as well as practice hand seals, in preparation for refining chakra and training in ninjutsu.

Thirdly, it involves studying several categories of natural sciences, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and cryptography.

Yes, ninjas are required to study these subjects. Just look at the questions Naruto took in his first Chunin Exam in the original manga to see that, although the knowledge involved in that exam was only required for Chunin and above.

A qualified ninja, while not necessarily an all-rounder, should at least have a basic understanding of these things, excluding hot-blooded idiots like Naruto who only know how to fight.

The curriculum at the Ninja Academy also includes those subjects, but it doesn't require students to go into too much depth.

This is Konoha Village, a key military location in the Land of Fire. Its main task is to train combat personnel.

Combat ability is the primary criterion for judging a ninja.

Only students who are screened out and lack combat skills will choose to study necessary subjects based on their own interests and talents.

They can become various types of talents needed by Konoha in the future, including sealing, code development and deciphering, basic scientific research, medical care, etc., but they will not become front-line combat personnel.

Although Tsunade requires medical ninjas to also have combat capabilities, not everyone is like her, blessed with the bloodlines of the Senju and Uzumaki clans, possessing a broad mind and astonishing punching power, being both gentle and strong.

Higashino Makoto's goal is the same: just like with his previous geography and history subjects, he will only study them in a preliminary way, but he will not become an expert in these subjects.

He learned these things only to become a more well-rounded ninja.

Now, Higashino Makoto is about to turn four years old. His initial studies in the above subjects are coming to an end, and his next goal is to strive to become a ninja.

This is his study plan for the past two years. He does it every day without slacking off. His self-discipline is terrifying.

His motivation for self-discipline stemmed from his past life. He was once a bright and talented student who always came first in every exam.

Unfortunately, his laziness and playfulness ruined his future and his life.

Now that he has a second chance at life, he will never repeat the mistakes he made when he was Li Sen.

Now, all I want to say is: learning makes me happy, and cultivation brings me boundless joy.