Chapter 3: The First Day

'Let's get the other item too.'

He put his hand in the inventory and pulled out a pair of earrings that looked extremely similar to the ones Zoro wore. A golden hoop up top that was connected to a dangly rod around a couple centimeters in length, they were stunning.

'How do I put these on? I don't even have my ears pierced. System any help?'

Suddenly the earrings started floating and began to approach his ears. Once they were close a quick snap could be heard and the earrings were attached.

[Gift Pack Items Redeemed!]

[System Initialization Quest Started: Stay and train in this valley until you reach your peak physical age and your aging halts. Then you can begin recruiting people to your village.]

[This quest cannot be declined. Failure=Death | Success=Full System activation]

'I guess it was never going to get handed to me without doing any work.'

[It's just that the host needs to get stronger for the system to support you. The stronger you are the stronger the system, you grow together.]

'That makes sense. How long will I be staying here anyway?'

[The system evaluates your peak age to be 26 years, 4 months and 24 days old.]

'I will be staying on this mountain alone for 23 years. Won't I go crazy?'

[Why is 23 years so long, aren't you immortal?]

'I guess so but to go that long without any human interaction is a bit crazy, humans are a social species after all.'

[Don't worry I will keep you company host.]

'Well thanks for that.'

'What timeline am I in anyway? If it's too late there won't be too many free agents to recruit.'

[It's 73 bNb.]

'BNb? What's that?'

[It means before Naruto's birth, you were born the same year as Hashirama and Madara.]

'Im early, it's still the Warring States Period. There are no shinobi villages formed yet so I can easily get some strong clans to join me. I will be able to provide them with power, safety and comfort. It would be hard to refuse that.

'Well no need to get ahead of myself. I still need to train for 2 decades and see what kind of benefits the full system can give. But first I need to sleep. I'm ridiculously tired from all the life changing events happening and I need to let my brain rest and adjust to this new life, I have too many thoughts flowing.'

Shibai walked up to the wooden hut and looked at the huge door.

'I guess the door was never big, I was just so tiny,' He sighed.

He tried reaching for the door but he was too short so he had to get on his tippy toes to reach it. He pulled the door open and entered, closing the door behind him. A warm and comfortable feeling enveloped him, this place felt like home. The hut was small so there was only a bed and next to it a table with a chair under it.

'This is where I will be spending the next 23 years? I'm lucky I don't have claustrophobia.'

[No, this is only where you will be resting. You will be spending most of the time under here.]

'Under? How would I spend time under here?'

[Look at the floor on the right.]

Shibai turned his head around to stare at the floor and found a part of the floor that was made of a different kind of wood than the rest.

'What is it? Is it some kind of secret entrance to paradise or something?'

[Well you could call it paradise, a paradise for training.]

'So that's where my training will be happening. How exciting, I get to train in a secret room!'

[I suggest you leave the exploration for tomorrow. It will take a while to go through everything there.]

'You're right, I should sleep first.'

Shibai walked to the bed and climbed on it since it was too high up for him to reach normally. He sat on the bed gathering his thoughts and suddenly he was reminded of something. *Growlll* His stomach started making noises and he remembered that he hasn't had anything to eat in a while and his growing body needs a lot of food to work.

'Uhhh where do I get food? Am I supposed to go hunt for my own food? I'm not sure I could beat a squirrel with this body.

[The system will provide the host with food that is full of all the important nutrients like proteins, minerals, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and make sure the host is well hydrated so you can focus on training and leave the boring stuff to me.]

'Then can I get it now?'

[Yes. Please wait a moment while the system prepares it for you.]

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[Ready! Please grab the meal from the inventory. ]

A hand could be seen making a grabbing motion and then a huge plate of all kinds of different foods appeared out of thin air like magic. The food wasn't anything like what Shibai was used to in Japan but you could only know if it was good by trying it.

'There is a lot of weird stuff here… Some kind of meat and odd looking vegetables. What ingredients are there in this?'

[They are all ingredients from different worlds meant to make your body stronger. You may recognize sea king meat from the world of One Piece.]

'You sure know your stuff, well let's try it.'

After a quick itadakimasu , Shibai began wolfing down the food as fast as he could. Every single bite of the food made him almost tear up due to how good it was and he could feel something warm in his body. Soon the plate was completely empty and even a dog wouldn't be able to find anything on it.

'That was the best thing I've ever eaten. Wars would be fought over food this delicious in his previous world.'

After putting the plate back into the inventory his eyelids began to droop and he was getting closer and closer to falling asleep. The system gave him a toothbrush and toothpaste and he completed his nightly routine on the bed. After that he went under the warm covers of the bed and entered blissful sleep and got some much needed rest from a hectic first day in a new world.