Chapter 2: One-Tail Fox
The first thing that he did when he saw a white fluffy tail on his back was that he tried to chase it for a few minutes.
Before stopping to realized how ridiculous it would look.
"Ha."
Shiro used the whitetail that was on his back to attack a tree.
It hardened and extended a bit before it hit the tree.
"Takk."
When the tail hits the tree it causes a small dent and shakes a bit.
Some of the leaves even fall from the tree.
"Amazing. I wonder what this could do."
He tried to pick up the leaf that was on the ground with his tail but it was unable to do that as it didn't have anything to grab small things like the leaf properly.
But he could use his tail to pick up branches and fruits as they are big enough to be able to be grabbed by his tail.
"Rustle."
He turned his head towards a random direction as he heard a noise.
He saw that a few leaves that were near the tree seemed to have lifted a few centimetres into the air before falling back down like someone just walked over them.
"Who is there?"
He said as he slowly walked towards the place where the leaves moved.
He turns his head around, right then left.
"Ha."
He had a sigh of relief when he discovered that no one was there.
He can't let someone discover that he has a tail on his back right now.
If someone knew about that he would be hated by everyone in the village because of how much different he was compared to everyone else.
Of course, if people found out about it much later after he had already become competent enough to protect himself it would be a different matter.
"How do I even get rid of this thing? It's cool that I have it but others would lynch me if I went around with this thing hanging on my butt." He said.
But as he said it it started to unfold as the white hairs on the tail started to scatter and disappear.
"Uhmmm. Tail out," he said as the tail popped out again.
He thought that it should disappear and as soon as he said it it started to unfold and scatter into the air again.
He can control it with his mind and speech.
It was only a tail and did not have much power but it still was better than nothing.
*****
"...."
A man who was wearing a straw hat, and a dark cloak with red cloud-like patterns appeared after the boy finally moved away.
"It seems like a Kekki Genkai."
Another man said as he appeared near the man while wearing the same attire.
But he seems to be taller and is also carrying a huge sword on his back.
"It does not seem to have sensory abilities. Since It was not able to locate us after I made some noises."
"So that was an intentional action. I knew you were too good to make such as rookie mistake."
"Now let's go back. I have already finished my business here."
The two disappeared after that.
*****
"Where were you? Don't you know that you can't just go around without telling anyone?"
The man who comes to help the orphanage scolded Shiro.
He was not exactly a worker as the orphanage did not have enough money to hire one.
He was just there to help the parentless kids because of the goodness in his heart.
But even such people have some kind of resentment as troublemakers like Shiro.
Shiro just didn't say anything and stood still while he was being scolded.
He didn't apologise or he didn't fight back.
"Haa. I am only saying this because we are in a terrible situation."
He put his hands on his face.
"You are going to Konoha Elementary two years later. And you keep doing this childish thing."
"Wait. Konoha Elementary?" Shiro asked in confusion.
"It's it kind of pricy? I mean I thought I was going to be sent out on odd jobs to support the orphanage."
"Huh. You are a two-year-old. Apart from being a suicide bomber, there is nothing that you could do that could earn enough money to help this place stay afloat."
"Kabuto was able to impress many different Shinobis. To the point that our orphanage is offered a scholarship at the Shinobi Elementary. But he can't join anymore since he has now started to work for lord Danzo."
The man said to Shiro.
"Luckily for you, lord Danzo allowed us to change Kabuto's scholarship to one of the other kids from the orphanage if we could teach him a Genin-level jutsu."
"You are chosen since you are the only one other than Kabuto who has some semblance of Chakra control."
He said while not looking very pleased to tell Shiro about this.
"This place is going to be closed no matter what and the least that we could do is to make a decent Shinobi before closing down."
"I am going to train you starting the next day. And don't dare accept Marcy. Since this is the last thing I could do for Nono."
He said while looking serious.
Shiro didn't know that time that the man was a former Anbu(Special Assassination and tactical squad) who worked under the Hokoage before he was discarded due to a seemingly career-ending injury.
But he was starting to recover from his injury and if he did he would be able to go back to work.
He was a shell of his former self as even Danzo, an elder from the village who was always spying on Hokage's troop didn't even pay any attention to him anymore.
But he was still a competent ninja who could teach Shiro the basics about being a Shinobi.
"Since I will be training you I guess I can tell you about my name. I am Gekko Hayate. You can call me Hayate sensei."
He introduced himself.