Chapter 3: Time skip

(AN: Hey ya'll!! Little note, those lovely guys up there are the bandits who always attack Akali XD anywho enjoy the chappy!)

Akali's POV

[To Miss Detective, Happy 9th birthday!!🥳✨✨You should've started ninja academy at 7 but meh.

You stayed alive again this year~

Rewards:

+10 points

Level Up!

+1 to each stat]

I smiled with satisfaction as I panted like a dog, sprawled on the ground with a contented mind. For the past year, I've been grinding so hard on the ID create world that I haven't actually had time to roam around. I've also discovered that time totally doesn't work in ID Create, so I could stay there for as long as I can and fight until my stamina runs out, but due to my mental fortitude, I had to stop and rest. So I arranged myself to have this routine every day for the past year.

7:00-9:00 amEat, bathe and hunt for food(only if stock runs out)

30 minutes rest and meditation

9:30-10:30Exercise, run around the base and kill of some bandits that tried to capture me or steal my eyes.

30 minutes rest meditation and loot

11:00-2:00 am/pm Dungeon grind.(I have to go back and forth from the real world to rest my stamina so time still works)

2:00-3:00Complete meditation to enlarge my chakra reserves even more.(I also practice chakra concealment, tree climbing, water walking and making a leaf stick to my forehead to have perfect chakra control)

3:00-4:00 pm Swim. Yes, I don't know how to swim. And this is the land of water. If I wanted to get out of here, I should have the muscle strength to swim for hours on end or to just build a boat.

And the rest of my hours is just spent on defending me and my base from low bounty hunters, D-rank rouges and some bandits that heared of me. Why, you ask am I targeted by these fools? Simple. The mask that Oka gave me was completely disintegrated to dust by a wyvern that I fought in a dungeon in ID create, and damn it attracted a lot, and when I mean a lot, I mean a lot of small time bounty hunters. Why am I targeted like that? It's not like my eyes are valuable crystals! Those fools actually think that I'm some kind of stepping stone for them to beat and for their ranking to increase, well guess what happened? I'll tell you anyway. Countless bandits swarmed at my base that I actually had to hide in one of the caves and use my stealth for almost a whole day just to get out of their sight!! It was like living in the purge I tell you. Even the bandits were fighting amongst themselves and in MY territory? They have some nerve alright. I can't really fight them that time so the second they left my base, I immediately planned how to counter that situation somehow.

Though I thought of fighting with my eyes closed, I had my doubts since it's going to take a lot of time and effort to master and I don't think I have that kind of commitment. Though if I have time, I practice between 5:00-6:00 and then scout for enemies.

I actually tried to fight a low bandit with my eyes closed and it didn't end well. My hp was left to one and I was miraculously out of chakra even though I don't know any jutsus! But hey, I'm just getting started aren't I?I know I'll be used to this soon.

By the 8th or 9th month, I started to get the hang of closed-eyes fighting. The technique was to spread steady amounts of chakra which supposed to be unnoticed by my enemy to actually fight them like I had sight. So I became a sensor-ish type. Plus, system also said that if I get the skill that I got from blind fighting, which is "Blind Master", to level 30, it would seem like I'm fighting normally but in dark mode! And I don't even need to spend chakra to do it! So I definitely did some hard grinds on that as well as "SNC" and stealth.

Now I'm those closed eyed guys in animes that's dangerous when they open their eyes. Like that ramen guy Teuchi. Kishimoto said that he was the strongest in the Narutoverse as a joke but I won't take any chances. This world shall know ramen.

11th and 12th month was nearing when I leveled up "Blind Master" to 30, though "SNC" was only at level 9 since system put an age cap. It says that "Miss Detective can only level up [Sen-ri no chikara] two times in a year due to information that can't be processed by her current body."

I'm guessing that some techniques can't be learned with my current age so I guess that was nerfed.

It was actually hard to multitask and level everything up from the past year since I can't use "stealth" if I had no one to hide from, and I've already observed everything in this forest, which made observation stagnant at level 27, stealth at 20. As for intimidation and manipulation, they were stuck at level 15 and 5. I only ever intimidated animals and some bandits already shits their pants with one glare from me, plus I can't really manipulate animals right? The Manipulator's Cloak was wasted....but hey, it made my movements faster and my VIT higher, so no problem there.

Speaking of fast, my DEX being 169 (noice) is the highest stat that I have now, with VIT and STR being tied at both 50. My luck hasn't increased one bit and my INT is at 254. Which was good? I don't want to be too intelligent or I might become crazy and become a bad guy. They say smarter people convert to the darkside faster sooo.......

I smiled at the moon that I saw through my closed eyes, feeling the grass around me tickle my skin as I embraced the feeling of being alive in this ruthless world. All in all, I was satisfied with my current stats. Key word satisfied. I could fight off anyone that comes across me except for the cannon characters of course. They were a complete different story.

I sighed and said "Character Info"

Character Info

Name: Akali (no last name available)

Title: Miss Detective

Age: 9 (yay🥳)

Gender: Female

Level: 31 (1/30 000)

HP: 1000/1000 contented-tired (regen 5.00 per sec)

CP: 30 000/30 000 (regen 5.00 per sec)

STR: 50(+1) 51

VIT: 50(+1) 51

DEX: 169(+1) 170

INT: 254(+1) 255

LUC: 15(+1) 16

STY: 84% (still sane)

Money: 10 000 RYO

Unspent points: 144

Runes: 10 000

Once was a ruthless detective, she was cold hearted towards the ones she brought to justice even if each of them had a reason why they did each crime. She was challenged by Deus ex Machina to change her ways, to be in the shoes of those she turned a cold shoulder, to kill in order to survive.

I frowned when I saw the description once again. It was one of the system updates and it sure was an offending sight. Though I don't remember solving crime or passing verdict, somehow my emotions went haywire when this showed up. I guess I still had a part of me from my past life huh?

I raised my hand and watched as the rays of the moon spilled through it's gaps, some shining down my eyes and some being blocked by my palm.

Even though I could fight properly, this year was still unproductive. Now that I saw my stats of course.

I hoarded much more points when I was a noob, though as my level got higher, the only points that I got were plus fives and tens. The EXP drops were only ranging up to 500 to 1000 and it wasn't really helping much. But hey, I can take whatever they offer. But what was infuriating was that those drops just happens every fucking level up. The loot was almost trash and there's no lucky pick scroll anywhere. The only things that I got from dungeons were materials that I don't even know how to use or equip, and the EXP rewards are always just 500 or 1000. It's so fucking irritating but it was a good opportunity to level up my skills so it's fine. I intentionally saved the unspent points for the day of my departure but I can't help but be disappointed.

"What if I suddenly got across one of the Akatsuki huh? I bet their stats are more than one hundred and their hps are more than a million"

I smiled bitterly and swipped the tab in front of me. I could probably hold them off for what, 10 seconds? 30 seconds? Maybe a minute being the maximum. But hey, I'm still a nine year old. There's still so much room to improve, so much jutsus to learn, so much weapons to choose from and so much time to train. That is, if I don't die.

I have a save point yes, but I can also be killed permanently if I die in an important event. One that's cannon. I proved that much since I always die in mines.

Oh and speaking of mines, runes can actually be mined! Those shiny rainbow looking crystals was actually the purest form of a rune so system said they would accept it, and boy did I mine hard. I almost spent a whole month ignoring training just so I have that 10 000 runes that I have now! It's a time well spent for me since I died there so much, due to cave ins and multiple bears and I got to test that theory!

I stood up and patted myself off of the dust that clung to my clothes. Right now, my current objective is to leave the land of water since this is literally a hellhole for people with Kekkei Genkai, and I'm afraid to think that I might be one of them. I mean, just look at my chakra! Where can you find a nine year old kid with 30 000 CP in this world huh? That might be even higher than that of a tokubetsu jounin! I could be the second tail-less beast for all I care—

Wait.

Realization quickly dawned on my face as I opened my eyes, slightly flinching from the sudden burst of colors before looking at my reflection in the river, blinking every now and then to adjust my eyesight.

I don't know if it was just the water, but my hair was no longer the bluish-white that I was born (probably) with. There was no big change really, but the shade of blue became darker and more noticeable, making my hair look like much more pale baby blue in color. My eyes were as sparkly as before, but then again, maybe it's just the water. But what's strange was the two boomerang shaped lines under my eyes. It made me look like I was sleepy, but the beauty of my irises saved the whole ordeal.

Bluish hair........blue eyes and this lines, I didn't want to assume, but am I.......

Am I a Hoshigaki?

I quickly shook my head, making my long hair cover almost all of my face except my eyes.

It's probably impossible that I'm a Hoshigaki. I don't have blue skin like Kisame has, though mine was still deathly pale. And I still don't have sharp teeth so I guess I'm not a Hoshigaki! Yes that's it. And it's just a coincidence that I'm spawned in the land of water.....right?

[...]

"Oh don't give me the dots. I know there's so much similarities for it to be a coincidence but I just don't want to confirm it yet! I don't think my heart can take it if I'm actually related to one of the cannon characters........"

I trailed off as my fingers subconsciously touched the lines under my eyes.

"Maybe these lines are tattoo? Imma just-"

I placed my fingers above the lines to rub them away when I suddenly felt breathless.

It was like I'm covering ny nose, but I still can breathe since my mouth was open, but the difference was that I wasn't covering my nose or mouth.

My eyes widened.

Is this.....gills?!

If so.....I was holding my breath while swimming for nothing?!

I smirked and quickly dived into the water, not bothering to hold my breath as I lost air because of my impact on the water but soon enough.......the gills under my eyes tickled as there was bubbles coming out of them. It wasn't long before the bubbles stopped, but my breathing was fine! Though I feel like I have a slight cold under water, it was nothing seeing as I can breath perfectly!

"Blubb blubb bruhsbbublub blub pop!"

"Hngrk?"

Oh yeah, still can't speak underwater, so I thought,

"Time to test how long I can last underwater!"

So I swam deeper. I only know freestyle swimming (I'm lucky I even learned to swim at all) so I didn't try and do tricks underwater, since it also might make me tired and breathless.

. . . . . .

Seconds turned to minutes, minutes turned to hours, and hours almost turned to a whole day before I was gasping for air.

"*pant* *pant* *wheeze* that m-marks 20? No maybe 21 hours. *coughs* Damn that's long! And it's going to be a big advantage since I might get attacked on my handmade boat."

I got out of the river and dried myself under the shade of a tree, it was already high noon so it might be wise for me to set sail on 3 or maybe 2, when the sun is not that high up.

"I need to think ahead. After I get out of the land of water, where exactly would I live? I couldn't just roam around the borders of villages until I grow up, I need to enter the academy too. I can't just snuck in on one because that might be the cause of my early execution. Fuck, I also can't just prance to the kage of that village and ask them to take me in, that would be suspicious! Ugh....what am I gonna do?"

My fingers found it's way to the roots of my hair, combing my baby blue locks to try and make it dry.

"Do I play the victim card? 'Accidentally' getting lost and begging for a kage to take me in? That's too risky......"

I whispered "Map" and system immediately revealed a map of the whole ninja world.

How did I get it? It was from a family of travelers that went across my base, saying that they heared of a crystal trader inside my bases borders. Seeing that they can't hurt me, even if they wanted to, I asked them about the outside world and what was happening. There's really nothing much, villages have their own political issues but none was too big of a problem that it will start another ninja war. Yet.

After they told me that, I asked them if the crystals that they were looking for was my runes, and they agreed immediately. At first they were shocked since a kid was trading rare class crystals but soon, they agreed on a price. They gave me this map, some books, and a run down boat for a hundred runes and I agreed. It was the best thing they got since they were almost finished their trips so I didn't complain.

One of those books was actually the latest bingo book so I'm really greatful, the other one was a love story and the last one was a jutsu scroll. My very first one. I celebrated by giving myself a full day, and yes I mean FULL DAY of sleep before going back to my routines and learning the jutsu.

It was a suiton, Suiton: Mizu Ranpa to be exact and it was really easy to learn, since I'm near a river and all. I also think that I have water release because it was much more easier to execute, or it was just because of my chakra reserves, I don't really know. But I'm about to. Because once I get out of here, I'm going to the nearest hidden village with the nearest ninja academy and train until I almost kill myself. Key word almost.

"I know I said nearest, but....."

I zoomed in on the map and found out that I was in one of the islands near the land of noodles, and the nearest nation was the land of fire. That is one big problem.

You see, I've decided to myself that I avoid cannon characters as much as possible, simply because they are the targets of all villains, and fuck, were talking about Konoha being my next village! I don't want that! If I want to lay low, live a life of peace and kill bad guys if and only if they approach me, I should really go far away from that whole nation.

But time isn't exactly on my side. Even if I completely avoid Konoha and go for Iwa and Suna, it'll take me a whole year to do that. Plus, Konoha has the nicest Kage for the time being which is less likely to cleave my head off after I trespass on their borders.

"I don't really have a choice huh?"

I swiped away the window and stood up, took my now dry clothes and wore them.

Then I'll just avoid Naruto as much as possible. If I can, I'll have to be completely invisible to him so that I don't attract attention of the Akatsuki. I'll have to be completely forgettable.

[Not with your eyes, you aren't]

"I'll be taking that as I compliment."

I smiled playfully and covered my eyes and gills with a piece of really thin cloth, it was thick enough not so see through but thin enough for me to inhale air through my gills. I'm still intrigued and slightly afraid by the thought that I have gills, but I push it at the back of my mind.

[Quest Alert!Leave the Land of Water with 1000 HP!

Rewards:Your life duh+500 EXP]

[Accept quest?Yes/No]

"That's weirdly specific......"

I said to no one in particular before tapping yes. The second the tab disappeared in pixels, a familiar, almost obnoxious voice blared from behind me.

"Oh it's you again. What's your name? Was it Pako? Koko?"

I said with a deadpan to the bandit and his goons who repeatedly attacked me this past few months. Seriously, this lil shit doesn't know how to quit! It's the same face I come across every.single.bandit.attack and I'm not amused. Is the system that low on manpower that they are making the same people attack me every time? Or it's just them who's persevering?

"How dare you! I'm Koko and He's Pako! Get it straight!"

He said with a battle cry as he ran at me with his katana in a sloppy position. I sighed and dodged him, flickering to his back to deliver a chop at his nape, instantly making Koko sleep. I faced the rest of his crew, which is also his six brothers. I was almost near on thinking that the dwarves from snow white had a career change and went to an anime.

"Even your moves are so predictable that I don't have to break a sweat anymore. Do we really have to do this?"

The six of them were dumbfounded for a second before bursting into murmurs, they did a group huddle and peeked to look at me with a narrow-eyed look before aggressively whispering again.

"Hear me out."

I said a little loudly to catch all of their attention.

"If you send me letters of the current happenings here in the land of water after I get out, I'll give you 100 of my runes. It'll be enough to bail your poor mummy out of jail right?"

I smirked as their eyes followed the crystal that I had in my hand. I quickly wore the orange hamster cloak that instantly made me a chibi, (to add manipulation points of course) but whatever.

(A/N: And if you're asking, yes, I have a million more where that came from.)

"What, you're leaving?"

Toko, the youngest of the brothers asked. I nodded silently.

"Where are you going?"

"When will you be back?"

"Bring me souvenirs okay?"

I deadpanned. These fools are acting like their so close to me, and some are even crying! Well, wow. I didn't know that our bond was deeper than just prey and predator. Meh.

"Look, I don't know okay? And I'll try to send you stuff. Now do we have a deal or not?"

I was slightly annoyed by the sight of their snot and tears but hey, it was sweet of them. Now that I'll leave, I shouldn't be completely clueless. I'm going to need every important information I get to survive and this is just the first step. Am I recruiting them to some cult that I made? Probably. But it's necessary so I could take hold of this land. It's just like they say, the one with the information controls the tide for better or for worse, and I'm planning to have that advantage.

"C-can we atleast walk you to the sea side?"

I rolled my eyes and nodded. The six (Koko is still asleep) buff men squealed in joy like school girls before rudely mandhandling me and placing me on the bald one's head. Due to me still being a chibi, I fitted almost perfectly before they ran like shinobi.

Wow, are these goons actually ninjas?

It wasn't long before we were in the sea side, the said place shimmering under the rays of the sun like crystals. Why not diamonds? Cus diamonds don't shine. They REFLECT. Get it straight peeps.

I rolled my eyes in my mind and jumped off the bald head, waving goodbye to the buff men who cried and waved their towels at my departure. Seriously, such drama queens.

I neared the barely intact boat and removed my cloak, returning me back to my normal height before pushing the boat farther in the water until it reached my knees. That was my cue to jump in the boat.

"Bye my sweet child ~!"

"Stay safe~!"

"Avoid sharks at all costs, okay!?"

"We'll wait for you!!!!~"

I smiled and waved back before rowing away from them. The sight of sand slowly getting farther and farther until it was gone.

The next island was not really that far, it'll probably take me 5 hours or so before I reach there, but that island is also a part of the land of water. What I'm aiming for is the shore of the land of noodles, and it was at the farther left of that island. If I keep at this pace with short breaks, then I might touch land for about 5 days to one week. Not really bad. I have a big stock of food and I don't really eat much, there's some kunai and paper bombs inside my inventory in case of pirate emergencies and I could swim and hold my breath for almost a day, I see no flaws with my plan. Yet. I just hope that it doesn't rain.

Oh no wait I might jinx myself!

Oh wait I'm pretty lucky.....

But not as of lately....

Oh whatever.

Character Info

Name: Akali (Hoshigaki?)

Title: Miss Detective

Age: 9

Gender: Female

Level: 31 (1/30 000)

HP: 1000/1000 determined-on guard (regen 5.00 per sec)

CP: 30 000/30 000 (regen 5.00 per sec)

STR: 51

VIT: 51

DEX: 170

INT: 255

LUC: 16

STY: 100% (sanity restored)

Money: 10 000 RYO

Unspent points: 144

Runes: 10 000(-100) 9 900

Once was a ruthless detective, she was cold hearted towards the ones she brought to justice even if each of them had a reason why they did each crime. She was challenged by Deus ex Machina to change her ways, to be in the shoes of those she turned a cold shoulder, to kill in order to survive.