Transmigrator and the Two Idiots

Konoha Ninja School.

"Hagoromo, good morning!"

"Good morning!"

He greeted his fellow Ninja Academy students around him in a gentle tone, but Hagoromo was actually feeling quite depressed. He was receiving treatment comparable to that deadpan Sasuke—wearing Prince Arslan's face, he had somehow become popular among the girls at school.

Seriously, was the Looks Association paying your salaries or something?

Hagoromo deeply hated his luck with draws. Really, his luck was far too good. At the hands of some unlucky, ridiculously chuunibyou God of Transmigration, he had received a chance at reincarnation after dying unexpectedly. Not only could he be reborn, but there were bonus gifts too. So he had gotten three chances to draw. The first gave him an E-rank item: the appearance of some anime character. That was great. With that appearance and the support of the Looks Association, he could thrive in any slice-of-life anime. At worst, he could become like Makoto Itou. As they said, dying beneath peony flowers... Cough, cough, wrong. He could properly enjoy a youthful romance story.

And then? He stupidly drew an A-rank skill and an S-rank talent, and tragically, the god refused returns of any kind. So, based on his abilities, he was sent to the high-risk Naruto World.

Hey, hey, he really wasn't familiar with Naruto, okay? During his chuunibyou years, he had been on the One Piece side. He often traded insults with Naruto fans online, but he only knew half of Naruto's plot.

Of course, while he wasn't familiar with the plot, he knew the characters fairly well. At the very least, he remembered every major character who had appeared. That was mainly because, during his chuunibyou years, he often wrote scientific papers like "A Study of the Practicality, Destructive Effects, and Energy Efficiency of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit and Lightning Release" in order to compare the combat strength of the characters in the two works. Those dark memories had later nearly driven him to bury himself alive. They had been sealed away in a corner of his memory, yet now they had unexpectedly become a huge help.

"It's almost time to graduate..."

Looking at the gates of Konoha Ninja School, Kamishiro Hagoromo could not help but sigh with emotion. He had come to this world ten years ago and entered the Ninja Academy at the age of seven. Now, the time had finally come for graduation and the battlefield.

Kamishiro Hagoromo was the name he had inherited from his parents in this world.

According to the universal law that transmigrators had cars and houses while both parents were busy—dead—Kamishiro Hagoromo was also an orphan.

His background was set up like this: his father had merely been an ordinary Chunin, who had sadly died shortly after this war began. His mother had been a Medical Ninja. Not long after giving birth to him, she had been drafted back to the front lines, and she never returned.

In fact, during every war, the nations had reached a tactical consensus: field hospitals were first-priority targets. As the value of Medical Ninjas to both sides gradually became apparent, they naturally became targets for both special protection and focused elimination.

That was right. It was currently the Third Shinobi World War. A war where people died every day was not only reality—it was in full swing.

Every Ninja World War had been a massive free-for-all among the nations. Even more ironically, the Land of Fire, which possessed the strongest ninja village, had always found itself under siege from multiple sides.

Land of Earth, Land of Lightning, Land of Water, Land of Wind.

Iwagakure, Kumogakure, Kirigakure, Sunagakure.

Forced to fight on multiple fronts, Konoha and the Land of Fire were severely short on manpower. The Ninja Academy's curriculum had been compressed to three years, while the minimum age for enrollment was no longer restricted.

The famous Kakashi Hatake had enrolled in the Ninja Academy during the same term as Kamishiro Hagoromo. He had been only five years old, then graduated early after half a year at the academy and headed for the battlefield...

As for why Hagoromo had joined the Ninja Academy and wanted to become a ninja?

Because being alone was too boring.

He was a person from another world. In a sense, he was also an alien, a Future Person, and an esper, yet he still found life boring. Thinking about it that way, the place he should have gone was not the Naruto World, but the "Haruhi Suzumiya Brigade That Makes the World More Exciting."

"Hey, Hagoromo, what are you spacing out for? So, are you confident about the Graduation Exam?"

Just as Hagoromo was lost in thought, someone patted him on the shoulder from behind.

He did not need to turn around. Through his perception, he already knew exactly who was behind him.

Might Guy, one of the perennial bottom-rankers, a future taijutsu master and a current little taijutsu master.

Uchiha Obito, the second perennial bottom-ranker. He called himself an elite ninja, but his grades and combat strength were actually below Might Guy's. After the girl he had a crush on died, he went mad for love and became one of the ultimate bosses.

Hagoromo still knew that much.

These two had long held the bottom two places in their grades. Hagoromo's grades definitely did not need their concern.

"I'm definitely more confident than you two."

Hagoromo tilted his head and gave the pair a dead fish-eyed glance, especially Uchiha Obito. He could not understand why someone like him could go mad for love. Did he even have the brainpower to go mad over anything?

"I don't need you two worrying about me, do I? Instead of worrying about me, you should worry about yourselves." He continued mercilessly.

There were eight classes in Hagoromo's intake at the Ninja Academy, with thirty students in each class. He remembered quite a few people, such as Ebisu, Genma Shiranui, Anko Mitarashi, Yuhi Kurenai, Sarutobi Asuma, Nohara Rin, Might Guy, Uchiha Obito, and Kakashi Hatake, the White Fang's son who had graduated early.

Of course, they were not all in the same class, so the only ones he was truly familiar with were Might Guy, Uchiha Obito, and Nohara Rin. That was mainly because Might Guy and Uchiha Obito were both loud, easygoing people who quickly befriended others, while Obito was always dragging the two of them over to Nohara Rin. Otherwise, with Hagoromo's level of presence among the boys at school being on par with that great teacher's, it would have been impossible for him to have friends.

"Of course we'll graduate smoothly... as long as the Graduation Exam doesn't include ninjutsu and genjutsu!" Might Guy's confidence came from nowhere. Was he saying the Graduation Exam should be limited to taijutsu only?

"Hagoromo is such a pain, especially that hair of his. It always reminds me of some arrogant guy!" Uchiha Obito, meanwhile, showed no appreciation at all for Hagoromo's concern.

Wasn't the arrogant one you? Did he think Hagoromo wanted this restricted white hair? This was the will of the gods, okay? God said there would be light, and so there was light. God said he had to go gray young, and so Hagoromo could only go gray young. It was not as though he could spit in the God of Transmigration's face over it.

Besides, did Obito think he had not tried? Would Hagoromo reveal such vital intelligence as the fact that the god's face was like a lotus leaf and nothing could stick to it?

After the group entered the Ninja Academy, they did not head to their classrooms. Instead, they gathered in the small square in front of the school, because the Graduation Exam would be held outdoors.

Note 1: The protagonist's name came from Mone Kamishiraishi and Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo. Mone Kamishiraishi + Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo = Kamishiro Hagoromo.

Note 2: Information that can now be made public: the E-rank appearance was Prince Arslan. Some people might know that he was quite a manly prince.