Past Events

Under the clear blue sky, with lush trees casting deep shade, the scenery here was uniquely beautiful. It truly deserved to be called Taoyuan.

Madara's Impure World Reincarnation retained Senjutsu, and he immediately realized that Taoyuan's scenery was not the only thing exceptional about this place.

"Such dense Natural Energy..."

They had clearly only passed through a single door, yet the concentration of Natural Energy was several times greater.

"Even the Natural Energy of the legendary Three Great Sage Regions—Mount Myōboku, Ryūchi Cave, and Shikkotsu Forest—might be no better than this."

"My Hidden Ninja Village is located within this secluded valley of Taoyuan."

As Chen spoke, he led the group onward along an ancient stone path through the mountains and forest.

Madara asked, "Chen, you said you used to be cruel and hot-tempered, and that you caused your parents' deaths. What happened?"

"..." Chen lowered his gaze as memories unknown to anyone else surged through his mind.

A person's character was shaped by their experiences growing up.

In the real world, Chen's original name had been Lin Chen. He had been a left-behind child whose parents had gone away for work to make a living, leaving him in the care of his grandparents in the countryside.

His grandparents were old and in poor health. The only thing they could do was make sure he had food to eat and would not starve to death.

Companionship and education were out of the question, and this caused him to develop a self-centered, undisciplined personality far too early.

Later, he attended a middle school filled with left-behind youths, surrounded by troubled teenagers shaped by childhood deprivation and failed education.

Fortunately, Chen was not bad by nature, and he had a sharp mind. He could distinguish right from wrong, good from evil, so he did not immediately follow them down the wrong path.

But good times did not last. During his second year of middle school, his grandparents passed away one after another, while his parents were too busy making a living to care much about him.

Chen felt an unprecedented loneliness... It was then that he met a group of bad kids and began the decline that teachers and parents saw in him.

In truth, he knew that neither his grandparents nor his parents had done anything wrong.

So was he the one at fault? Perhaps. He lacked the ability to regulate himself and could not escape his loneliness alone. He was at fault. He lacked self-discipline and could not become the obedient, sensible child his teachers and parents wanted. He was at fault.

Knowing he was wrong but continuing to be wrong only made his mistakes worse.

Later, he became the only graduate in that terrible middle school's history to enter a top high school's elite class with grades ranking among the top hundred in the city.

Although the outcome was good.

Still... the cruelty, temper, impulsiveness, and habit of solving problems with fists first that he had picked up from those bad kids had seeped deeply into his character.

Carrying that ticking time bomb, Chen began high school.

The heavy academic pressure of high school forced Chen to devote most of his energy to studying.

By chance, he became obsessed with Naruto, an anime centered on battle and fiery passion.

At first, he had only been drawn in by the flashy Hand Seals and dazzling ninja techniques. Gradually, however, he was moved by the bonds of love, hatred, and conflict between ninjas, and he began to yearn for them deeply.

How wonderful would it be if I had been born in the world of Naruto? Thoughts of escaping reality surfaced in his mind from time to time.

By then, he had become the good student his teachers and parents admired.

Yet deep within him, there had always been a profound sense of alienation from the real world.

Right, that ticking time bomb exploded just before the college entrance exams.

A girl Chen had never even met claimed that after evening self-study, Chen had cornered and molested her in the girls' restroom. Her boyfriend was some street thug.

Without another word, the thug brought people into Chen's classroom and beat and humiliated him in front of the teacher and students.

From that day on, Chen's reputation was ruined. A top student had been branded as someone who went into the girls' restroom to molest girls. Because his grades were good, the school only gave him probationary punishment instead of expelling him.

His classmates kept their distance from him and even pointed fingers behind his back.

His teacher told him outright that she was deeply disappointed in him, that such good grades had been wasted, and that he would still become scum once he entered society.

When Chen confronted that girl in private and asked why she had framed him, she applied rouge to her face while looking into a small mirror and haughtily told him that he only had himself to blame for resembling an ex-boyfriend who had once treated her badly.

Chen said nothing. He took out the compass he carried with him, unscrewed its sharp needle, and drove it directly into the girl's eyeball beneath her fluttering lashes...

He pulled it out, then stabbed viciously at her face again and again amid her screams, until even the stainless-steel tip had been bent against her cheekbone...

Then, under the urging sirens of ambulances and police cars, and beneath the lights of the phone cameras raised by the surrounding teachers and students—

Because of one impulsive act, his life was essentially ruined.

But he did not regret it.

So be it.

With a trace of guilt toward his parents, Chen pressed the bent compass needle, along with the entire leg of the compass, into his temple.

In that fierce way, he paid tribute to that sense of alienation from the world.

And the world seemed to offer him a return tribute as well!

Lin Chen's body in the real world turned to ashes and returned to the village where he had once lived with his grandparents, while his soul crossed the barriers of dimensions and arrived in the Naruto world he had longed for with all his heart!

After ten months of darkness and chaos within his mother's womb—

Uchiha Chen was born in a remote village in the Land of Lightning.

It was as though heaven intended to make up for everything it had once taken from him!

It gave him parents who cared for him in every possible way, making up for the parental love he had lacked!

After Chen was born, an eminent monk from a temple had read his fortune.

The monk said that the couple had been destined to have no children, but this child was destined to have a brother!

Two years later, Chen's younger brother Jin was born, and the family of four lived together in happiness.

Chen felt that he had found where he belonged and swore to protect this hard-won happiness.

But nothing in life was perfect. The small mountain village where Chen's family lived was extremely hostile toward outsiders.

His parents had hidden their names and fled to this village to escape their enemies. To care for their two young children, they could only swallow their pride at every turn.

The personality Chen had developed in the real world came with his soul into this brand-new body.

This was the world of ninjas, free from the countless restrictions of reality, and even more fertile ground for violence.

But so as not to make things difficult for his father and mother... Chen resolved to endure.

No matter how the locals humiliated, cursed, or even beat him, Chen always gritted his teeth and reminded himself, Endure it. Endure it! This mountain village can only trap me for a while... A wider world is waiting for me outside!

Until that day, when his younger brother Jin was bitten by wolves maliciously lured over by those people... and nearly died!

The violent beast that had been suppressed in Chen's heart by warmth for years finally broke completely out of control.

He only remembered grabbing a Kunai from the ninja tool pouch at the bottom of his father's chest and rushing outside. The punches and kicks he had never been able to avoid before did not land on him even once.

When he came back to his senses, twenty-seven corpses had already appeared on the ground.

And two Magatama had appeared in each of his eyes.

Just like before, after venting his violent emotions, he felt relieved... but he had dragged his parents and younger brother into two years of desperate wandering and flight!

The fact that they lived in the Land of Lightning yet carried Uchiha blood was ultimately discovered by their hereditary enemies, the Chinoike Clan!

And the one who came seeking revenge was the Chinoike Clan's strongest expert, Miyashiro En—the father of Chiyo, who had even made Sasuke suffer in Sasuke: True Light Chronicle!

His father and mother chose to lure Miyashiro En away, buying time for their two children to escape!

The Ketsuryūgan was an exceedingly cruel power. It trapped its opponents in genjutsu, then manipulated their blood and turned them into human bombs.

Chen would never forget the moment he witnessed his parents' deaths... Tears flowed from his chin and mixed into a puddle with his father and mother's blood and flesh!

The dark, suffocating emotions made his two Magatama spin, directly leaping into the Mangekyō Sharingan!

That year... he was ten.

From then on, Chen's eyes were completely consumed by hatred. He transformed into a savage asura and began hunting Chinoike Clan members across the world!

He spent three years exterminating the Chinoike Clan's survivors, Miyashiro En included, and completed his revenge!

Only then did he truly understand that revenge was ultimately just self-satisfaction. The dead received no comfort from it, while those around him would be dragged into suffering as well.

During those three years of revenge, even Jin—the crybaby whose heart was kind, whose personality was the complete opposite of Chen's violence, and who was gentler than anyone—awakened the Mangekyō Sharingan in despair when he mistakenly believed Chen had died during his battle with Miyashiro En!

Skipping over his past in the real world, Chen told Madara and Obito this part of the story with deep emotion. "That guy Jin never knew that I deliberately fell under the Ketsuryūgan's genjutsu back then just to provoke him into awakening his eyes..."