Past Events

Under a bright sky and white clouds, trees cast dappled shade—the scenery here was uniquely fine, truly worthy of the name Taoyuan.

Madara's Impure World Reincarnation retained his Sage Arts, and he immediately sensed that what made this place uniquely fine was not just Taoyuan's landscape.

"Such dense Natural Energy..."

Though they had only crossed a single gate, the concentration of Natural Energy differed by several times.

"The legendary Three Great Sage Regions—Mount Myōboku, Ryūchi Cave, and Shikkotsu Forest—their Natural Energy is probably no more than this."

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

Chen spoke as he led the group along the ancient stone-paved path through the mountain forest, continuing forward.

Madara asked, "Chen, you said that in the past, you were violent and irritable in nature, and that you caused the death of both your parents. What happened?"

"..." Chen's gaze dropped, and the unknown past churned in his mind.

A person's character is shaped by their life experiences.

In the real world, Chen's original name was 'Lin Chen.' He was a left-behind child. His parents were forced to work far away to make a living, leaving him in the care of his grandparents in the countryside.

His grandparents were old and in poor health. All they could do was feed him so he wouldn't starve.

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

Later, he attended a middle school whose student body consisted mainly of left-behind children, surrounded by troubled youths shaped by childhood neglect and failed education.

Fortunately, Chen's nature wasn't bad, and he had a sharp mind, able to distinguish right from wrong. He didn't immediately fall into bad habits.

But good times didn't last. In the second year of middle school, his grandparents passed away one after another. His parents, busy making a living, neglected to care for him.

Chen felt an unprecedented loneliness... It was from that point on that he befriended a group of bad kids and began heading down the path that teachers and parents called 'corruption.'

In truth, he knew that whether from his grandparents' perspective or his parents', none of them were wrong.

So was it his own fault? Perhaps. He lacked the ability to self-regulate and couldn't overcome loneliness on his own—that was his fault. He lacked self-discipline and couldn't become the obedient, sensible child teachers and parents wanted—that was his fault.

Knowing his faults yet still committing them made it even worse!

Later, he became the only graduate from that rundown middle school to score in the top hundred of the entire city and gain admission to the city's key high school's elite class.

Though the outcome was good.

But... the bad habits of those delinquent kids—irascibility, impulsiveness, a tendency to solve problems with fists first—had deeply stained his character.

Carrying this ticking time bomb, Chen began his high school life.

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 passion.

At first, he was drawn only by the flashy Hand Seals and dazzling ninjutsu effects. Gradually, he was moved by the bonds of love, hate, and fate between the ninjas, and he deeply yearned for them.

If only he could be born into the world of Naruto—this escapist thought would pop into his mind from time to time.

Though he had now become a 'good student' in the eyes of parents and teachers.

A deep sense of alienation from the real world always lingered in the depths of his heart.

Oh, and that 'ticking time bomb' went off just before the college entrance exams.

A girl Chen had never even seen before, along with her thug boyfriend from the streets, claimed that after evening self-study, Chen had cornered her in the girls' bathroom and assaulted her.

Without a word, the thug brought people charging into the classroom, beating and humiliating Chen in front of the teacher and classmates.

From then on, Chen's reputation was ruined. A top student was branded as someone who entered the girls' bathroom to assault a female student. The school, considering his good grades, gave him a probationary punishment.

His classmates kept their distance, even pointing fingers.

The teacher told him outright how disappointed he was, saying it was a waste of such good grades, and that he'd grow up to be scum in society anyway.

When Chen privately confronted the girl and asked why she slandered him, she looked into a small mirror, applying rouge to her face, and told him arrogantly that it was his fault for looking like her ex-boyfriend who had cheated on her.

Chen said nothing. He pulled out the compass he always carried, unscrewed the needle, and stabbed it directly into the eye beneath her fluttering lashes...

He pulled it out, and amid her screams, he stabbed again and again into that face, until the stainless steel needle bent against her cheekbone...

Then, amid the wailing of ambulances and police sirens, and under the light of phone cameras held up by the watching students and teachers.

Because of a moment of impulse, the rest of his life was ruined.

But he had no regrets.

So be it.

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

In this fierce manner, he paid tribute to that 'sense of alienation' from the world.

And the world seemed to 'retaliate' in return!

In the real world, Lin Chen's body turned to ashes and returned to the village where he had lived with his grandparents as a child, but his soul broke through the shackles of dimensions and arrived in the Naruto world he had always longed for!

After ten months of darkness and chaos in the amniotic fluid of a mother's womb.

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

The heavens seemed determined to make up for everything he had lost in the past!

They gave him parents who cared for him with unwavering attention, compensating for the parental love he had lacked!

After Chen was born, the High Monk at the temple had read his fortune.

He said that this couple was fated to have no children, but this child was destined to have brothers!

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

Chen felt he had found his place in the world and vowed to protect this hard-won happiness.

But nothing is perfect. The small mountain village where Chen's family lived was extremely hostile to outsiders.

His parents had hidden themselves in this village under false names to escape pursuit from their enemies. To raise their two young children, they had to swallow their pride at every turn.

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

This was a world of shinobi, free from the rigid constraints of reality—a breeding ground for violence.

But to avoid making things difficult for his father and mother... Chen resolved to endure.

No matter how much the locals insulted, cursed, or even beat him, Chen always gritted his teeth and reminded himself: endure, endure! This small mountain village could only trap him for a time... a broader world awaited him outside!

Until that day, when his brother Jin was lured by those people to a jackal and bitten... nearly losing his life!

The violent beast within Chen, suppressed for years by warmth and affection, finally lost control completely.

He only remembered grabbing a kunai from his father's bottomless ninja tool pouch and charging out. The fists and kicks that he usually couldn't dodge no matter how he tried didn't land on him even once.

When he came to his senses, twenty-seven corpses lay on the ground.

And in each of his eyes, two Magatama had appeared.

Just like back then, after venting his violent emotions, he felt relieved... but he dragged his parents and brother into two years of wandering and fleeing!

Born in the Land of Lightning, the truth of their Uchiha bloodline was eventually discovered by their sworn enemies, the Chinoike Clan!

And the one who came to settle the score was the Chinoike Clan's strongest expert, Miyashiro En—the father of Chiyo, the same man who even gave Sasuke trouble in Sasuke: True Light Chronicle!

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

The Ketsuryūgan was a brutal power, trapping opponents in genjutsu and then manipulating their blood into 'human bombs.'

Chen would never forget the moment he witnessed his parents' deaths... his tears fell from his chin, mingling with the flesh and blood of his father and mother into a single pool!

The dark, oppressive emotions spun his two Magatama, leaping straight to the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan!

That year... he was ten years old.

From then on, Chen's eyes were completely consumed by hatred. He transformed into a violent Asura and began hunting down the Chinoike clan across the entire world!

It took him three years to slaughter every survivor of the Chinoike clan, including Miyashiro En, completing his revenge!

At that moment, he truly understood that so-called revenge was ultimately a form of self-gratification. The dead received no solace from it, and those around him would suffer the consequences.

During those three years of revenge, even his crybaby brother Jin—kind-hearted, gentle, the complete opposite of Chen's violent nature—had mistakenly believed Chen was dead in the battle against Miyashiro En. In that moment of despair, he awakened the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan!

Leaving aside his past in the real world, when Chen recounted this part to Obito and Madara, he said with deep emotion, "That guy Jin never knew to the very end... I deliberately fell into the Ketsuryūgan's genjutsu back then to trigger his eye-opening..."