A few hours after the operation Tomoka started regaining her consciousness. Her entire body still felt numb from the anesthesia while her mind was kinda slow. As she began to move her mother stood up from the chair near her bed.
“Tomoka! I was so worried!” Hugging her daughter with all her strength, Himiko began crying her eyes out. She had been worried and stressed for the last six hours! As she thought of how much her daughter worried about her she became angry.
“Mom… can’t… breathe” Tomoka was trapped in her mother’s death grip. Her lights were going out as she felt her ribs about to crack. Fortunately her father came to the rescue.
“Honey you should be careful, Tomoka still needs to recuperate and have her final checkups” Even though he said that he wouldn’t let Tomoka go easy. If his wife was the hot-headed type then he was the cold anger type.
A second later Himiko let go of her daughter as her expression shifted from anger to worry and back to anger. Seeing this Tomoka knew that she was in big, no, huge trouble now.
[Should have listened to me. Now you are in trouble. Seeing this will be fun]
‘Kurama, I will drag you down with me’
[Now that is just unreasonable]
A moment later doctor Motoi came into the room as the nurse in charge had just informed him about the patient waking up. Without saying anything he went to Tomoka and began inspecting her right arm.
“Does it hurt? Can you move it?”
Tomoka looked at her arm for the first time after waking up and was surprised to see the black markings. For her, it looked like tribal tattoos from her past life. After a moment of inspection she began moving her arm then her fingers. It didn’t hurt, as a matter of fact her arm felt just like before the accident.
“It doesn’t hurt but… what are these markings?” She thought that perhaps it had been doctor Motoi the one that placed those markings on her for her treatment or something.
“Actually I was wondering if you know. A lot happened during the surgical procedure on your arm” Motoi didn’t have any expectations for the little girl to know. If her parents didn’t know then how could a one year old be any better.
Unexpected to doctor Motoi and Tomoka’s parents something happened. Curious Tomoka decided to command her chakra into the markings. Something in the back of her mind was telling her that by doing so something would happen.
Indeed something happened. From the markings in her arm a black substance appeared and covered her arm from the fingers all the way to the elbow. A moment after a black carapace was formed. Tomoka could feel how the black carapace was constantly absorbing her chakra to sustain itself.
“What is that!? Tomoka what did you do!?” In panic Himiko couldn’t help but scream and worry for her daughter. Her arm was now covered by a black shiny carapace that made her arm look cursed or some such.
“Eh? I just flowed my chakra into the markings?” Tomoka didn’t know why her mother was panicking so much. Her arm felt just fine, no rather it felt stronger now. Though the amount of chakra needed to keep it up was rather large.
“Stop, stop it!” Himiko worried that the markings were a cursed seal or something like that. She worried that her lovely Tomoka would be completely covered by that evil looking carapace.
Taking into account her mother’s panic, Tomoka decided to stop supplying chakra to the carapace. In all fairness she would have to stop soon anyway. Her chakra was near the limit with only a few seconds of having the carapace on her.
As the supply of chakra disappeared the carapace cracked and before long fell apart revealing Tomoka’s arm. Her arm looked just like before with no change to it or the markings on it.
“Ahem. Himiko-san please calm down. While your daughter was sleeping I got to study the remains of the first carapace and a sample of the liquid it’s formed from. The structure is a crystal-like biological armor resembling spider chitin.”
“Spider chitin? What does that mean?” Nagi was confused. Why would his daughter suddenly have spider chitin forming on her arm?
“Precisely that Nagi-san. We believe this might be some kind of new kekkei genkai. The fluid sample I collected the first time brought some insight into the process. It is mainly made of a soup of different proteins that when exposed to Tomoka’s chakra becomes the chitinous armor.
As you can see. When the armor stops receiving Tomoka’s chakra it loses its stability, becoming fragile and brittle. However, we theorize that the more chakra she feeds it the tougher it becomes. It is truly an interesting substance.”
After Motoi’s explanation an awkward silence fell in the room as everyone thought and process the information. Tomoka was happy since she believed this was something like a power up. Himiko was worried that it might have some costly drawbacks or backlash. Nagi was trying to think of a reason why this power would appear. After a while Himiko broke the silence.
“Is it dangerous? Will the markings spread?” She needed an answer. If the answer was not satisfactory she would have the markings sealed at all costs.
“Well, there is no definite answer to that question but I believe it is safe. The markings seem to be part of her as well as the armor. There are traces of her DNA in it so it most likely has something to do with her DNA as well.” With that said Himiko released a sigh of relief. As long as her little Tomoka was safe nothing else mattered.
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I think you have a plot hole here. Before she thought she couldn't speak normally because she was only a year old yet she is casually speaking and no one batting a eye. Also please just skip the one year old stuff it is really offputing seeing her out and about as a 1 year old. All these events would feel much more natural if you edited her age to like 5 and it wouldn't effect much of the story up til now.
5 is a bit much since there is a time skip later on. Most I could do is 2 years old
@minimi22 5 is still way way way too young for any of this. No way do her parents allow her out of their sight at that age. How they treat her after would make sense from the beginning. No matter her adult mind a 1 or 2 year old wouldn't be leaving the house without their parents. Even Naruto in the orphanage didn't have that kind of freedom.
@minimi22 I think you might've tried a bit too hard to make the MC a prodigy like Kakashi, and several elements of the story got completely f*cked over in the process..
Then again, with her abilities and mind-set, it makes perfect sense that she'd develop quickly. Issue lies in everyone else's reactions to the stupid sh*t she does
If you do smthn like this again, she just can't get caught, then nobody would have to deal with.. How silly the adult's reactions were.
@minimi22 she is still 1 year old and it's quite wierd, one year old having fluent conversation. Atleast make her 2-3 years old
@Draecath when I was almost 3yo I snuck out of my house, took my cousin (2yo at the time) and we both decided to go and meet our other cousin (also 2) who lived about 4km away. We walked about half the way, when some people called tobmy father, and he picked us up.
And as far as I know, when I was a but over 1.5yo I already learned to read words letter by letter.
So, considering this novel's world is Shinobi world - not really that unbelievable to me.
Maybe 1yo is a bit too early, but if it were about 2yo - I can totally believe it.
Just remember Sasuke, who could throw shurikens at the start of academy. Which meant, that he was trained prior to academy. Kinda like MC now, just a bit later.
@doltramir that's what I said 1 year is a bit too early, 2-3 year would be fine
@LittleDemon47 yeah, I saw, and I agree with you. My replies was to Draecath, about how 5yo would be too early.
@doltramir it came in my notification so I thought it was a reply to me, my bad
@LittleDemon47 no worries. I don't know why it works that way, but it does. At least it marks to whom it is written (or not, when it's reply to original comment).
@LittleDemon47 I don't know about you, but there are records and proof of me reading books and having conversations before I could walk.
@minimi22 Have you been having conversations with a one-year-old child for a long time?
@Goose832 I mean, meaningful conversation? not even close but one of my cousins was and still is a chaterbox. He began speaking at like 1 and a half years old. Not fluently mind you but you could understand what he was saying.
I don't think I metioned it but I did a tiny bit of research when writing this and it said that kids started to properly vocalise and tend to say their first words in between the ages of one to two years old.
Taking into acount that A) she is fluent in the language and B) people in the naruto verse develope extra fast, I thought it to be apropiate.
@minimi22 yes, I already realized that I wrote garbage, I just vaguely remember my childhood, but I'm sure that I was not so quick-witted))). but it's still hard to read knowing that the MS knows about Danzo, I would be more careful was