Another Sudden Death?

Gojo Yoru was six years old, a transmigrator.

A sudden death had turned him from a twenty-five-year-old adult into a newborn infant.

Thanks to the Japanese elective he had taken in high school, as well as his part-time work with a translation group during college, Gojo Yoru had learned what kind of world he had arrived in shortly after being born.

It was not some unfamiliar otherworld, but a 2D World where the entire universe spoke Japanese—and one of the Big Three shonen series at that: Naruto.

When Gojo Yoru learned that he had transmigrated into the Naruto World and been born into a family without a Kekkei Genkai, he felt as if the sky had fallen.

The Big Three shonen series were also known as the Big Three bloodline series. Every protagonist began as an ordinary person, then ended as the world's favored child.

A Paramecia-type Rubber-Rubber Fruit that had existed for over a thousand chapters suddenly turned into a Zoan-type Human-Human Fruit, a Mythical Zoan Nika Fruit. Could you believe that?

Before the Rubber-Rubber Fruit became the Nika Fruit, Naruto had been the bloodline series that received the fiercest criticism.

This was a cruel world where bloodlines reigned supreme, where the entire story was about the Otsutsuki Clan's family feud.

No matter how talented a ninja was, the pinnacle reached by the Five Kage, such as the Second Tsuchikage Mu and the Third Raikage A, was their limit.

Only by connecting oneself to the Otsutsuki Clan, or becoming a Nine-Tails Jinchuriki and earning the complete Nine-Tails' recognition, could one hope to become a Super Kage Level powerhouse.

Being born a civilian without a Kekkei Genkai was already a disastrous start. Then, when he was three, his father, an all-round Jonin, his mother, a Special Jonin, and his parents' comrades had all died during a major mission, leaving Gojo Yoru seeing black.

His backing and connections were all gone!

Logically speaking, such a cursed, solitary start should have been the treatment reserved for a protagonist.

Yet ever since his parents' deaths, Gojo Yoru had never discovered his Golden Finger.

If not for the faint possibility of turning things around, Gojo Yoru would have wanted to end his own life and see whether he could transmigrate again.

Opening a locked chest, Gojo Yoru retrieved a palm-sized red scroll from beneath the pile of scrolls inside.

He poured Chakra into the seal on the scroll, and the character for "seal" slowly vanished. He then unfurled it, revealing a blank surface.

Gojo Yoru bit his thumb, smeared his blood across the scroll, formed hand seals, pressed his palms onto it, and shouted, "Release!"

With a poof, white smoke filled the dim basement.

When the smoke dispersed, the blood on the scroll had vanished, replaced by several stacked notebooks and a box of pencils.

As usual, Gojo Yoru sat cross-legged before the scroll and picked up the top notebook.

It was filled with memos written in pinyin and Cantonese. Even though this world had Japanese, English, and Chinese characters, no one could decipher them unless they read the memories inside Gojo Yoru's mind.

Gojo Yoru rapidly flipped through the notebook, reinforcing his memories to avoid losing a transmigrator's greatest advantage.

Main Plot Outline, Key Characters' Personalities and Experiences, Complete Akatsuki Organization Member List, Vague Chronology, <Speculation on the Years in Which Flashback Events Took Place>...

After flipping through notebook after notebook, Gojo Yoru picked up the last one while drawing a pencil from the pencil case with his other hand.

He still reviewed the notes inside, but this time, he read exceptionally slowly. His eyes were profound, as though he were thinking—or organizing something.

The title on the first page of this notebook read: <On the Possibility of Defying Fate and Changing One's Destiny!>

What followed was a Game Guide that Gojo Yoru had devised specifically for himself, making use of his familiarity with the plot and understanding of the Original Work's characters as a transmigrator.

Shortcuts to Acquiring Status and Resources!

<Balancing the Sharingan and Hashirama Cells equals a Wood Style test subject guaranteed to survive!>

<Can becoming a Jinchuriki and creating the identity of the Child of Prophecy earn the favor of the nine Tailed Beasts?>

The best opportunity to seize the Rinnegan!

Whenever inspiration struck, Gojo Yoru would improve or revise this guide. This time was no exception.

Thus, as he flipped through it, Gojo Yoru would occasionally erase the pinyin and writing within, replacing them with new content.

When he reached blank pages, Gojo Yoru repeatedly wrote down and erased new strategies.

After revising it countless times, he finally closed the notebook when he could think of nothing better. He returned the pencil to its case, then stored both back inside the Storage Scroll.

When he emerged from the basement, night had already fallen. The clock on the living room wall read 7:52 p.m.

Rather than merely filling his already ravenous stomach, Gojo Yoru took ingredients from the refrigerator and prepared himself a dinner that was not lavish but nutritionally balanced.

After eating, he went out for a walk so that his withdrawn personality would not draw the village's attention.

His "cool and aloof" and "school bully" personas at school were already antisocial enough. Taking them too far would easily backfire.

After returning from his walk, Gojo Yoru tidied the house, took a quick shower, and went to bed.

It was nearly nine o'clock.

Early to bed, early to rise, three proper meals, balanced nutrition... Having experienced sudden death once, Gojo Yoru treasured his body greatly in this life and knew how to care for it.

This was also the main reason he was taller and had greater stamina than Namikaze Minato.

At six o'clock the following morning, the alarm clock pulled Gojo Yoru out of sleep right on time.

After washing up and changing clothes, Gojo Yoru began the first morning run of his vacation, returning home drenched in sweat only at eight.

Cooking, bathing, reading... Once he had finished the routine, Gojo Yoru began refining Chakra.

Gojo Yoru's physical fitness ranked among the best for his age. With both parents being Jonin, he could be considered something of a prodigy, though he was far inferior to those cheating monsters.

His Chakra far surpassed that of ordinary children his age as well.

Combined with the inheritance left behind by his parents, provided he did not die young, Gojo Yoru would certainly become an all-round Jonin in the future—but no more than that.

To become an Elite Jonin or a Kage-level powerhouse, he would need to master at least one S-Rank ultimate ninjutsu.

Before a Super Kage Level powerhouse, however, the Five Kage were merely somewhat larger cannon fodder.

In the eyes of Six Paths Level powerhouses, they were even lower life-forms.

Gojo Yoru would never be content with that, so he had to defy fate and change his destiny.

But to defy fate and change his destiny, he needed the strength to seize and fight for those opportunities.

The greater his goal, the greater Gojo Yoru's motivation was now.

The first semester's vacation was long, lasting over a month.

Over the following month, Gojo Yoru went to bed early and rose early every day. In the mornings, he exercised, read, and refined Chakra; in the afternoons, he trained in ninja fundamentals; at night, he stayed in the basement organizing his guide, then went to sleep before nine. He was as disciplined as a robot running a program.

During that time, Gojo Yoru even celebrated his own birthday.

In this life, he had been born on August 18th, Year 24 of Konoha.

On that day, Gojo Yoru turned six.

And on that same day, Gojo Yoru's body underwent a tremendous change.

"Th-this... what's going on?!"

Gojo Yoru had still gone to bed before nine as usual, yet for some reason, he could not fall asleep tonight.

His blood and vitality were abundant, and as someone still growing, he should have fallen asleep easily.

Yet tonight, Gojo Yoru tossed and turned in bed without being able to sleep, while his mind grew more and more excited.

After midnight, Gojo Yoru noticed that his temperature had risen slightly, but it was not a fever.

His heartbeat accelerated, pounding like a drum.

That unfamiliar yet familiar sensation made Gojo Yoru's eyes widen. He said in disbelief, "An irregular heartbeat? How is that possible? I'm so young, and I go to bed early and wake up early every day. How could I be showing signs of sudden death?!"