Chapter Fifty-Nine: Choosing Family

  The smell of blood is so heavy, it's not the taste of my own blood, but someone else's. All around are the sounds of clashing weapons and screams, my eyelids feel so heavy I can't open them, all I sense is someone checking my breath, then picking me up, with a tone of excitement "She's still alive!"

  "Take her to the infirmary, we'll go report to Lord Hokage."

  "Hi!"

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  "...Is this the only child left in the Mizu Island family?" The Third Hokage sighed after hearing the report from the Anbu, took a puff of his pipe and blew out white smoke.

  "What's the current situation with that child?" The Third Hokage put down the documents in his hand and looked up at the masked Anbu. The Mizukage family had a unique bloodline limit from ancient times. This bloodline limit was unknown to anyone outside of the Mizukage family, and it was said that people who possessed this bloodline limit could recover from any injury no matter how severe, they had a strong life force and destructive power that ordinary people couldn't match. Many people feared and coveted this power, but didn't expect such a powerful clan to be annihilated overnight. Who did it?! Was it the same person who released the Nine-Tails several years ago? The top priority now was to properly settle the only surviving member of the Mizukage family.

  "That girl's injuries were very severe, with serious wounds on her arm and abdomen. But when we tried to treat her, the girl's wounds miraculously began to heal slowly, just like the rumors said, Lord Hokage."

  "......It's indeed the case." The Third Hokage lowered his eyes and fell into deep thought. Now that the Mizukage family only had this girl left, there would definitely be more people who want to get their hands on her. He must find a safe place to protect her. However, it wasn't about locking that child up like a bird in a cage within the Hidden Leaf Village, but rather letting her live happily just like ordinary children. It seemed that the only option was to settle her into one of the big families within the village. The Mizukage family was once one of the top three families, second only to the Uchiha and Hyuga clans, before they were nearly wiped out. This girl was the eldest daughter of the main branch of the Mizukage family; he believed that they would take good care of her.

  "Hokage-sama, the girl has awakened." The person wearing a fox mask suddenly appeared in the Hokage's office, with striking silver hair that was styled somewhat like a broom.

  "Let's go, Kakashi."

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  I gazed at the old man with a red headscarf and a large "fire" character on it, as well as another person with a broom-like haircut and a fox mask. Although I knew I would eventually leave for other worlds, couldn't they have given me a chance to say goodbye? And before coming to this world, could they have at least told me what my identity was here? Must I always pretend to be an amnesiac?!

  "What? Amnesia!" The Third Hokage let out a quiet sigh, thinking that for such a young child, losing their memory was probably for the best, at least they wouldn't have to bear so much.

  "Child, your name is Mizushima Akira, you are the child of the main house of the Mizushima family. Last night, the Mizushima family was annihilated by an external enemy, and you are the only surviving child..."

  After hearing the information about my current identity from the silver-haired man, I secretly twitched my mouth. Last time it was an abandoned orphan, this time it's a pitiful survivor of a family extermination. What is God doing?! Always messing with this kind of background, why not make me a girl who got dumped by her boyfriend, died in a car accident due to extreme grief, and miraculously came back to life?!

  "Child, you can choose a family to be your home, and the family of that house will become your guardians." The Third Hokage looked at the child in front of him with a kind face, afraid of scaring her.

  "Oh, what family?" Lowered her head and took a glance at her own body, still her own body, still the 5 or 6 year old Loli body.

  "There are the Uchiha clan, Hyuga clan, Nara clan and Yamato clan."

  I took a glance at the Third Hokage, now he's an old white-haired grandfather. So it should be around Naruto's time, and the Uchiha clan hasn't been annihilated yet. However, the Nara clan seems to be in charge of managing nature, I only know Shikamaru from the Nara clan. And what about the Yamato clan? I only know Yamato Ino.

  "... the Uchiha family." It's still a wise choice to choose the Uchiha family, the Hyuga family's guard work is too poor, Hinata was always getting kidnapped. And the Uchiha family is in charge of the guard work, so no one should dare to kidnap someone from the Uchiha family, right?