"It's a boy." a nurse said as she pulled out a small ugly baby from his mother's womb.
The baby doesn't have much hair as it was a newborn but he possesses a few strings of jet black hair.
He looked like any other baby with only one major difference.
He was born with a pair of golden eyes.
"Wait. The mother. The mother is not breathing." The doctor said.
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He was originally supposed to be named Tatarigami as in someone who brings misfortune to the world because of his mother's death during his birth.
But because his father was a war hero who died in the third great shinobi war and his mother also served the village as a highly respected ninja he was exempted from such humiliation and was named Ishikawa Kagami instead.
Ishikawa as in stony river and Kagami as in mirror.
His life in the hidden stone village was not hard despite being an orphan.
That was because as the son of two powerful shinobi in a village that can be said to be very patriotic.
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"Kagami. Do you still have vegetables at home? I got a fresh batch of carrots and potatoes freshly harvested." An old man who was selling vegetables said to Kagami who was twelve years old.
"No thanks. I still have not finished the one you gave me." Kagami replied.
"You should eat more. You are supposed to be entering the academy in a few weeks. If you are weak you will make us sand villagers look weak. Here take them." The old man said as he forced a bag full of potatoes and carrots into Kagami.
The village hidden in the stone is not a place known for fertile lands so growing food is considered to be very hard compared to other villages except the hidden sand village.
In fact, most food grown in the village is root plants that can be grown in harsh environments.
"The Academy is going to start soon? Huh?" Kagami said as he took a raw carrot from the bag and started to chomp it as he walked back to his house.
During the last twelve years since his birth, he has lived as a normal child.
He has to go to elementary school to read and write.
But he has never learned ninjutsu or been in combat.
He would be lying if he said he was not nervous at all but he was also kind of looking forward to it.
His life was not hard but it was also not very easy.
He has never suffered injustice but he has also never gotten particularly close to anyone.
He was an orphan and although his parents are respected because of their contribution to the village they were not notorious outside of their village and nor famous in their village to the point where there are people who idolized them.
Because of this no one becomes particularly close to him.
After all, there was a limit to how much attention and love you can give to someone who is not related to you.