I Want to Be a Good Person

After entering the Ninja Academy, Uchiha Chen began his formal ninja training.

The first year's training was simple. Aside from basic theory classes, the first thing they learned was how to refine chakra.

Chakra was the foundation of all Ninjutsu. During their first week at the academy, the teacher taught them how to refine it.

As for that, Uchiha Chen had already learned how to extract chakra when he was four.

However, his chakra reserves were only Level 2, which could be considered excellent among children his age.

After all, the Uchiha Clan's bloodline gave him a natural advantage, leaving him with somewhat more chakra than ordinary people from birth.

But only somewhat more.

After all, the Uchiha Clan had never been renowned for having abundant chakra.

He was completely incomparable to Nawaki, who sat in front of him.

He could sense that the other boy's chakra reserves were several times his own.

That was an issue of innate physique.

Although his current chakra reserves were enough for Uchiha Chen at this stage.

No one would ever complain about having too much chakra.

Uchiha Chen had no desire to become like Kakashi Hatake in the future, turning into a useless lump after casting just a few Ninjutsu.

Uchiha Chen greatly envied the First Hokage's chakra reserves. The First Hokage's chakra was something Naruto, even with half of the Nine-Tails added on, could barely rival.

That amount of chakra was simply absurd.

Even calling him a humanoid Tailed Beast would be an insult to the First Hokage.

Fortunately, Uchiha Chen had the Ninja System. As long as he had points, he could continuously add them to his chakra attribute.

As for Taijutsu, Uchiha Chen had not been much of a fitness enthusiast in his previous life. Rather, he had belonged to the group with overdeveloped brains and underdeveloped limbs.

But in this life, Uchiha Chen had arrived in the world of Naruto and chosen to become a ninja. He could only keep pushing himself to train hard and avoid falling behind others.

He had set up many imaginary enemies for himself. Whenever he wanted to slack off, Uchiha Chen imagined his future self being too weak and getting effortlessly killed by those powerful enemies.

Therefore, after constant training, his Taijutsu was the strongest overall in every aspect. He had simply hidden that fact very well.

Keeping a trump card in reserve was always necessary for a ninja.

Having lived two lives, Uchiha Chen's original soul had crossed over into the world of Naruto. Thus, his most outstanding trait at present was none other than his spiritual energy.

A five-year-old child possessed the life experience of an adult in his twenties, so his spiritual strength was naturally exceptionally powerful.

Perhaps it was because his spiritual energy was strong, or perhaps this body had originally possessed a talent for Genjutsu.

Even before awakening the Sharingan, Uchiha Chen was already extremely skilled in Genjutsu.

After all, he would have a son who was absurdly good at Genjutsu in the future. From the perspective of genetics, Shisui's father's Genjutsu could not possibly be that bad, right?

Uh, something about that felt really awkward.

Every day, Uchiha Chen persisted in running to build his stamina, doing frog jumps, skipping rope, Push-ups, striking wooden posts, sit-ups, and other simple physical exercises.

After all, those were his most reliable source of points.

A year passed just like that. Uchiha Chen successfully advanced to the second year as the strongest student in his grade.

At that moment, Uchiha Chen lay sprawled across his desk, looking at his points panel.

Host: Uchiha Chen

Land of Fire

Age: 6

Comprehensive Strength Index: An invincible existence among Ninja Academy students.

Chakra Level 3 (0/2000)

Taijutsu Level 5 (0/6000)

Shuriken Level 4 (0/4000)

Hand Seals Level 3 (0/2000)

Ninjutsu Level 3 (0/2000)

Genjutsu Level 4 (0/4000)

Wind Release Level 2 (0/1000)

Fire Release Level 3 (0/2000)

Lightning Release Level 2 (0/1000)

Water Release Level 0 (0/100)

Earth Release Level 0 (0/100)

Yang Release Level 0 (0/100)

Yin Release Level 0 (0/100)

Remaining Ninja Points: 600

The levels on the panel had changed greatly from a year ago. His Taijutsu had finally reached Genin Level. Among his other attributes, Shuriken throwing and Genjutsu were undoubtedly the highest.

Uchiha Chen's talent in Genjutsu was beyond doubt.

He had also begun adding points to his other attributes.

After all, they had started learning some simple Ninjutsu.

He had been born with Wind, Fire, and Lightning affinities. Therefore, he chose to invest points in those areas.

He had painstakingly farmed all of those from his classmates in the same grade.

He felt a sense of guilt. Now, whenever the Uchiha Trio saw him, they would take a detour.

He felt that he had already become most people's childhood nightmare.

At that moment, the devil and angel in Uchiha Chen's mind began conversing.

"Give me a chance."

"I had no choice before. Now, I want to be a good person."

"Fine. Go tell the system and see whether it will let you be a good person."

"Then you're telling me to die."

"Sorry, I was forced into it."

"Who would know?"

"..."

"Chen, have you been unhappy lately...?"

During break, Mikoto saw Uchiha Chen lying alone on his desk in the classroom. He had neither gone to the academy rooftop to enjoy the breeze nor read the books he usually read. He looked utterly lifeless, so she asked worriedly.

"I'm about to become a Cross-dressing Master. Just leave me alone."

"Ah?" Uchiha Mikoto seemed not to understand.

The lifeless Uchiha Chen waved at Mikoto, signaling for her not to bother him for the moment.

Mikoto and Uchiha Chen sat at the same desk, so she worriedly leaned closer to him. In the end, he very skillfully reached out and patted her head.

"Honestly, Chen." Uchiha Mikoto said nothing further, merely letting his hand move around atop her head.

"Chen, what's wrong? Are you unhappy?"

"How about a spar during break?" A gentle voice sounded from beside them.

"Minato, is that you? What is it?" Chen raised his head and watched Minato Namikaze, who was extremely familiar with everyone, sit in the seat before him with a warm smile.

"Want to spar?" Minato asked again.

"Better not." Uchiha Chen decisively refused. There were no points to be gained from defeating Minato now.

Minato was not disappointed by Uchiha Chen's refusal.

"Oh, right. I just heard the other students say that Teacher Nishimura won't be teaching our outdoor training class later. Apparently, it'll be a young Jonin from the village. He's even a disciple of the Third Hokage." Minato looked like he knew everything about the ninja world.

"A disciple of the Third Hokage?" Uchiha Chen froze for a moment, then carefully searched his memories. He finally remembered—weren't they the Three Sannin of lust, gambling, and poison in the future...

Oh, no, that was wrong. They were the legendary Konoha Sannin, who would later become famous throughout the Shinobi World.

Pervy Sage Jiraiya, who specialized in writing lewd books to corrupt young people; Princess Tsunade, Konoha's princess who would gamble away her entire fortune; and Cold Lord Orochimaru, the scientist who abducted children.

"Yeah, yeah. They just returned from a mission and are quite free right now, so the Third Hokage sent his three disciples over. Apparently, they're going to teach at the Ninja Academy."

Had he already noticed that the atmosphere in the Shinobi World was not quite right? Was that why he had started scouting for outstanding talents at the Ninja Academy early? Uchiha Chen narrowed his eyes as he pondered.

The future Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, was still a child and appeared extremely excited.

Unlike Uchiha Chen and Uchiha Mikoto, Minato did not belong to a ninja clan. Therefore, at his age, aside from the Three Basic Jutsu, he had no opportunity to come into contact with any other Ninjutsu.

So at this point, Uchiha Chen, who had already begun extensively training in Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and Genjutsu, could utterly dominate the future Fourth Hokage in terms of strength.