My Ninja Cat Thought I Was Too Weak and Stole the Rumble-Rumble Fruit Overnight!

Konoha Year 54.

"Failed again."

Kaze stood before the full-length mirror in the living room, scrutinizing his reflection.

Sharp brows, bright eyes, fresh and handsome features, with a tall, slender build.

Even among the Uchiha Four, he was considered exceptionally handsome.

It had to be said that the Uchiha Clan's looks genes were indeed powerful.

The men were handsome, and the women alluring.

But it was worth mentioning that...

Kaze was not originally from this world. He was a Transmigrator.

He had arrived in this world roughly fifteen years ago and become a member of the Uchiha Clan.

His previous self's parents had treated him well too, pouring countless efforts into raising him.

Near the end of the Third Shinobi World War, five-year-old Kaze had been forced onto the battlefield with his parents.

To protect him, both of his previous self's parents had died before his eyes.

He had thought that after returning to the village, they would receive proper burials. Instead, Root members had secretly taken their bodies away.

Considering Danzo's nature, it was easy enough to imagine what had happened.

Yet Kaze had only been five years old. Even though he knew everything, he had been powerless.

Still, under that intense emotional upheaval, he awakened his Sharingan.

Relying on his Sharingan and the Art of Stealth, Kaze had survived the Third Shinobi World War.

"If I turned my life story into an online novel and uploaded it to Qidian Chinese Network..."

Kaze could not help mocking his own experiences.

Ever since the Third Shinobi World War ended, he had often cast Genjutsu on himself.

Over and over, he replayed the scene of his previous self's parents dying.

By now, Kaze had watched them die with his own eyes no fewer than two hundred times.

Of course...

He had not done this out of any twisted psychology.

He was doing it to stimulate his brain.

Using the pain of losing his parents to force himself to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan!

Like many transmigrators in web novels...

Before arriving in the Naruto World, Kaze had been fortunate enough to watch the anime.

He had some understanding of its settings and plot developments.

He knew that if the brain received enough stimulation, one could awaken the ocular technique known as the Sharingan.

If the stimulation intensified further...

An ordinary Three-Tomoe Sharingan could evolve into a Mangekyō Sharingan.

Unfortunately...

Kaze had never been able to turn that theory into reality.

No matter how many times he tried, the stimulation always fell just short.

Today was another day of failing to awaken the Mangekyō Sharingan.

"It's already been ten years, Tama."

Xu Fan muttered to himself in the room.

The Tama he spoke of was neither a younger sister nor a younger brother.

It was a stray cat he had found in the village several years ago.

It had just been born at the time, abandoned and left dying by the roadside.

Thinking that he too was all alone in this world, Kaze brought it home.

He had even named it Tama.

Under Kaze's careful care, Tama not only grew up healthy, but could also spit fireballs.

Kaze immediately realized that it was a Ninja Cat.

After Kaze trained it, Tama could already release the Great Fireball Technique just like the Clan Head's youngest son.

And...

It did not even need hand seals!

However, Tama was unlike the toads of Mount Myōboku and could not speak human language.

"Meow!"

Tama lazily stretched, which counted as a response to Kaze.

Taking three steps in two, Kaze walked over to Tama, crouched down, and gently scratched beneath its chin.

"You probably can't understand what I'm saying anyway."

"Sigh..."

"Kumogakure has decided to enter a truce with Konoha. In a few days, they'll send people to sign a peace agreement."

Ordinarily, no sane person would remember even the dates from an anime.

But Konoha Year 54 and Konoha Year 55 saw two major events occur.

That was why Kaze remembered certain things.

In Konoha Year 54, Kumogakure's leader kidnapped Hinata.

"Next year will be the Night of the Uchiha Clan Downfall, when Itachi Uchiha makes his move and massacres the entire clan."

"Tama, remember Itachi? He's that guy who keeps eating your dango."

Kaze simply sat cross-legged on the floor and began complaining to Tama.

In truth, he had realized this problem from the moment he arrived in this world.

He had even tried changing Itachi's way of thinking.

But it had been useless.

His Brainwashing Technique was nowhere near as effective as Hiruzen Sarutobi's.

Itachi had ultimately developed the Will of Fire.

Less than a year remained until the Night of the Uchiha Clan Downfall.

He had failed to brainwash Itachi.

"Build a bond with Itachi Uchiha?"

"When that guy goes crazy, he'll kill even his parents and wife, let alone an outsider like me."

"Maybe that lunatic sees me as a steadfast Uchiha Supremacist."

After all, over the past few years, Kaze had repeatedly instilled in Itachi the idea that an Uchiha could become Naruto too.

"Tama, what do you think I should do?"

"Leave the village?"

"Meow~" Tama opened its mouth and yawned.

"You think leaving the village is a good idea too?" Kaze looked at Tama in its cat bed, but still shook his head.

The moment he left the village without permission, he would be branded a Missing-nin.

Never mind whether Sarutobi's faction would let him go.

He was only an ordinary Chunin right now.

No system, no cheat ability.

If he just left the village like that...

Never mind whether Obito or Orochimaru would set their sights on him.

To the other ninja villages, he would be a conspicuous slab of prime meat.

"Should I seek refuge with the Third Hokage?"

Kaze asked again.

"Meow meow meow?"

Tama could not help wearing the confused expression of a cat who was just a cat.

"That won't work either. Even if Sarutobi wants to take me in, Danzo will kill me for the Sharingan."

"And I might even get branded with the Tongue Root Technique."

"My death would just be worse."

This would not work, and neither would that...

The Mangekyō Sharingan still refused to awaken.

Kaze suddenly felt that his future was completely dark.

Other transmigrators started out with absurdly powerful systems or mighty bloodlines.

But when it came to him, he had nothing at all.

After ten years, he had only climbed from Genin to Chunin.

Thinking of that, Kaze leaned backward and sprawled flat on the Tatami.

"Could this really be a dead end?"

Kaze stared at the ceiling.

Suddenly, a sound came from beside his ear.

He instinctively glanced over and saw Tama leap out of its cat bed, jump onto the windowsill, skillfully push open the window with both paws, and vanish into the night.

All it left behind was a moonlit nightscape for Kaze to admire.

Although Tama was a Ninja Cat, it did not like staying home and often ran outside.

Kaze had long since grown accustomed to it.

He withdrew his gaze and continued staring at the patterns on the ceiling.

"Maybe I can take advantage of the information gap and trick Obito?"

The moment that thought surfaced, Kaze could not help smiling bitterly.

At the end of the day, he was just an ordinary person.

If he appeared before Obito claiming he could foresee the future...

He would probably be hit with Genjutsu the very next second.

And then...

Crack.

"So does that mean I really have no way to survive?"

The more deeply Kaze thought about it, the more despair he felt.

If he had known things would turn out this way, he might as well have faked his death during the Third Shinobi World War.

He could have left the village early and lived as an ordinary person.

Second by second, time passed, until even Kaze had no idea how long it had been.

Then a commotion suddenly sounded by his ear.

Kaze raised his brows and immediately became alert.

It was Tama, the cat that had just run out, squeezing back through the gap in the window.

But...

This time, Tama had not returned empty-pawed.

Its small cat mouth was clamped tightly around a fruit.

It looked like a large pineapple, but the patterns on its surface resembled spiraling lightning.

Kaze blinked hard, unable to help wondering whether he had seen something wrong.

"Why does what Tama brought back look so much like a Devil Fruit..."