Akihara Kagura

Akihara Kagura was a transmigrator.

In his previous life, Akihara Kagura had still been called Akihara, an incompetent office worker.

After all, it was hard to make money as an office worker. Akihara had only wanted something to do; he had a steady income, and his life could be considered stable.

Employees who could not be bound by money were always troublesome.

Naturally.

Akihara had always been walking the line between unemployment and employment.

After casually sending out his résumé, Akihara received an interview invitation from a strange company, asking him to come in for an in-person discussion.

Akihara agreed.

However, when Akihara woke up from a nap, he had appeared in this world and become a youngster named Akihara Kagura.

Akihara Kagura was one of the orphans adopted by Orochimaru. He spent all year in an Experiment Base, where his main job was cleaning the base and his side job was serving as consumable material for human experiments.

Fortunately, a system called "Work Hard and Your Boss Will Surely Appreciate You" had activated within Akihara Kagura, granting him a trait that allowed him to conduct human experiments.

The system's name was fake, but its function was quite real.

As long as Akihara Kagura chose a superior and diligently completed that superior's tasks, he could obtain certain task rewards.

If Akihara Kagura wanted to leave this world, he only had two choices. The first was for this world to perish—once the company went bankrupt, he could surely quit. The second was to find a way to get fired by this world and continue looking for work in the next one...

Both of those seemed rather difficult.

Besides, Akihara Kagura did not want to leave immediately. This was a rare life experience, and as long as he chose a superior, the system would also issue a New Hire Welcome Package.

Unfortunately.

The newly arrived Akihara Kagura could only choose Orochimaru as his superior.

From the New Hire Welcome Package, Akihara Kagura had drawn a super trait called Ninja Science, allowing him to survive this human experiment involving Hashirama Cell transplantation, which had a mortality rate exceeding ninety-nine percent.

Name: Akihara Kagura

Gender: Male

Age: 10

Date of Birth: Konoha Calendar Year 43, April 4th

Chakra Nature: Fire, Wind, Lightning, Earth, Water, Yang

Total Chakra: SSS (His physical constitution had been greatly enhanced. His strength and speed far surpassed those of a regular ninja, his sensory abilities had improved, and his total chakra had reached the limit of an ordinary ninja. Derived from Hashirama Cell transplantation.)

Skills

[Wood Style: Wood Clone] (A Clone Technique evolved from the [Wood Style Kekkei Genkai]. After a Wood Clone was destroyed, it could transform into branches and entangle the enemy. Furthermore, because Wood Release Chakra could serve as the source of life, Wood Clones were even harder to distinguish from the original than other Clone Techniques, including the more advanced Shadow Clone Jutsu.)

[Wood Style: Wood Replacement] (A Substitution Technique evolved from the [Wood Style Kekkei Genkai]. Upon being attacked, he could instantly switch places with a wooden substitute.)

[Wood Style: Wood Transformation] (A Transformation Jutsu evolved from the [Wood Style Kekkei Genkai]. Transforming into someone else with Wood Style made it harder to detect than an ordinary Transformation Jutsu.)

[Wood Style: Impaling Technique] (Awakening of the [Wood Style Kekkei Genkai]. He could extend wooden spikes from all parts of his body. After stabbing those spikes into an enemy's body, he could form hand seals to make the spikes branch and grow again, piercing through the enemy's body.)

[Gene Modification Technology] (He could forcibly alter genes and inscribe special abilities at the genetic level, making it more convenient and safer than cell transplantation experiments.)

Traits

[Instantaneous Healing] (An immensely powerful self-healing ability. He could heal his own body without forming hand seals. Derived from Hashirama Cell transplantation.)

[Wood Style Kekkei Genkai] (The Kekkei Genkai of the legendary God of Shinobi, Hashirama Senju. An extremely rare bloodline in the ninja world, one that even Hashirama Senju's blood descendants could not inherit. Derived from Hashirama Cell transplantation.)

Ninja Science (When the host conducted human experiments, any experiment that conformed to Ninja Science theory was guaranteed to succeed. New Hire Welcome Package reward.)

Superior: Orochimaru

Obviously.

To the system, choosing a good boss was important.

Orochimaru's abilities as a superior were all about technology and ruthless methods.

From Akihara Kagura's observations, the system's task rewards were issued according to the superior's circumstances. His career in the ninja world would likely require changing jobs many times.

Just now, under the pretense of losing control, Akihara Kagura had tested attacking Orochimaru and discovered that attacking his superior was not a problem. The system had not imposed any punishment.

Perhaps the system encouraged job-hopping?

After all, this employee system seemed to require many superiors...

No, it would be more accurate to say that this system, which exploited workers, definitely encouraged Akihara Kagura to work for more superiors.

Akihara Kagura also planned to find another superior in the ninja world, because Orochimaru's character was not particularly good. He had begun coveting Akihara Kagura's body...

"Kagura."

Orochimaru had no idea that the youngster before him was already considering changing jobs. He was still making plans for the future; he needed Akihara Kagura to learn Wood Style Ninjutsu.

"Next..."

"Go to Konoha."

"I still have an ally in Konoha."

When Orochimaru mentioned his ally, an odd smile could not help curling across his lips. "Learn Wood Style Ninjutsu from him, and let me see just how far you can go..."

"Besides..."

"Monitor the pact between him and me as well."

"Yes."

Young Akihara Kagura agreed, then looked up with some confusion. "Konoha, Lord Orochimaru's hometown?"

"...That's right."

Orochimaru nodded, his voice becoming somewhat casual. "Go take a look at my hometown. The scenery there is beautiful..."

However, the memories in Orochimaru's eyes quickly faded. His lips split into a strange smile as he said softly, "One day, I will return there."

"..."

Obviously.

Orochimaru bore no good intentions toward his hometown.

Akihara Kagura was noncommittal about that.

As a transmigrator...

Akihara Kagura knew a little about Konoha's affairs.

Konoha.

The strongest hidden village in the ninja world, and also Orochimaru's hometown. It was located in the Land of Fire, the most prosperous nation in the ninja world. Konoha's highest leader was the Hokage.

Orochimaru and his two friends were known as Konoha's Three Sannin. They had rendered tremendous service to Konoha and had even nearly become Hokage, only for his teacher, Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, to veto him outright on the grounds that his heart was too dark...

That was simply unreasonable...

Which ninja in the ninja world was truly righteous?

Yet Third Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi had chosen a man as gentle and warm as the sun to become the Fourth Hokage. It was hard not to be impressed...

Unfortunately...

Not long after the Fourth Hokage took office, Konoha was struck by the Nine-Tails' Rampage that shocked the ninja world. The Fourth Hokage sacrificed himself to resolve Konoha's Nine-Tails' Rampage...

However...

Orochimaru's opportunity did not arrive. Instead, a crisis came.

The Third Hokage rejected every candidate and returned to power himself. He also discovered Orochimaru's secret human experiments and personally led the Anbu to arrest Orochimaru...

Orochimaru had no choice but to defect from Konoha, becoming a wanted missing-nin. He fell from a once-popular Hokage candidate all the way to an S-rank missing-nin in the ninja world...

Orochimaru's unorthodox behavior was the main reason, but that ally of Orochimaru's who remained in Konoha surely had to shoulder quite a few of the blame as well...

That ally...

Really was not a good person...

Orochimaru wanting to send Akihara Kagura to that ally's side was an opportunity for Akihara Kagura, allowing him to obtain an official position in Konoha.

This was an official position!

An official position within one of the Five Great Official Organizations!

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