The Deformed Ninja World

Ninja missions were often fraught with danger, and regular training to maintain combat readiness was essential for survival. So even early in the morning, ninjas without missions had already begun training at the Training Ground. The simple belief that the day's work began in the morning was universal.

Minagawa Uchiha now stood quietly before a ninja practicing ninjutsu, his Three Tomoe Sharingan activated as he carefully memorized the other man's Chakra flow and hand seals. His intangibility within the dream was more like being in another dimension, so the ninjas he observed did not even feel that they were being watched.

In this manner, Minagawa Uchiha passed by one ninja after another as they trained, firmly copying the ninjutsu and Taijutsu techniques they performed into his mind. He could not help but marvel at the power of the Sharingan, this Kekkei Genkai. Not only did it provide incredibly strong combat support, but it could also continue evolving until it became the Rinnegan, capable of commanding life and death.

The Sharingan's copying ability alone, if used properly, could save countless hours of study and greatly widen the gap between its user and ordinary ninjas. No wonder any Uchiha Clan Member who awakened their eyes could so easily earn the title of genius.

Even Orochimaru, hailed as a genius, could only marvel at the pinnacle of what an ordinary ninja could achieve after seeing the young Uchiha Itachi's training methods—yet the Sharingan could accomplish it with ease. Thus, an obsession with the Sharingan was deeply planted within him.

Afterward, Minagawa Uchiha visited every Training Ground and even wandered through the territories of the other secret technique clans. Although the Sharingan could not directly copy secret techniques, Minagawa Uchiha, with his intangibility, could simply eavesdrop. Anything that might prove useful, he committed to memory.

For three days, Minagawa Uchiha copied other people's ninjutsu while practicing in Dream Space. Though he had not mastered those techniques to the point of perfection, learning through the Sharingan's copying ability spared him many detours. At the very least, his proficiency with those ninjutsu had reached a level no less than that of the people he copied.

Of course, that only applied to casting them individually. If he combined them in actual combat, he naturally could not use them as smoothly as ninjas who had practiced them for years.

"There are three days left until the Night of the Uchiha Clan Downfall. I already have enough ninjutsu. Continuing to practice for another three days will not bring much improvement. It's time to take a look at the Root Base. It would be even better if I could take the opportunity to set something in motion."

Standing quietly before the window of his home, Minagawa Uchiha raised his head to look at the sky, where the moon was nearing fullness. His thoughts gradually drifted away as memories of the warmth he had known in this life, from birth until now, surfaced in his mind.

Although his parents had died near the end of the Third Shinobi World War, Minagawa Uchiha had already begun to remember things at the time. He still recalled that, aside from the Kumogakure battlefield, fighting on every other front had already ceased, and every nation had withdrawn its ninja forces. Yet many scattered groups of ninjas from other countries—some too afraid to fight, some separated from their units, and some deliberately left behind—still wandered within the Land of Fire.

Minagawa Uchiha's parents had accepted a mission to eliminate the remaining foreign ninjas within the Land of Fire, hoping to earn more income for their newly invigorated little family. Half a month later, only their corpses returned. At the time, Minagawa Uchiha was barely over two years old and had not yet awakened his memories. In a daze, he buried his parents with the help of neighbors and several clan elders.

After that, it was also through the care of those neighbors that he gained the ability to support himself. Because Minagawa Uchiha was quite talented, he did not encounter any melodramatic bullying within the clan. Instead, he received considerable benefits and care from them. Therefore, he could not possibly stand by and watch these lovable clan members be slaughtered by the Konoha High Command, Uchiha Itachi, and Obito Uchiha.

From the perspective of an outsider, Minagawa Uchiha could have ignored everything. For an ordinary person from a world where the supernatural was absent and fantasies ran wild, arriving in a world where great power could be wielded personally and immortality was attainable—who would not want to experience the view from the heights?

But Minagawa Uchiha had not awakened his memories from the very beginning. Human hearts were made of flesh. His parents' love and the care and affection of his neighbors and clan members had invisibly but firmly bound his heart. Even after his memories fully awakened, he was still himself, not someone else who had replaced him. Those feelings were naturally still his own.

Therefore, Minagawa Uchiha made up his mind. Not only would he revive his parents and save the Uchiha clan members, he would also ensure they lived better lives.

But the Ninja World was a distorted world. A group of major villains all pursued peace. Even Kaguya Otsutsuki, the final boss, had her pitiable side and was jokingly called an "innocent fool." As netizens from his previous life would say, there was not a single truly bad person in Naruto.

And if he wanted to ensure that his family and friends had a good environment and better lives in such a world, then changing the world—though thankless and arduous—was something he had no choice but to do.

The Ninja World's distortion was not only reflected in the ideals of powerful individuals who could influence the world: Naruto wanting people to understand one another and achieve peace, and Sasuke wanting to make himself the target of all hatred to force peace upon the Ninja World.

It was also reflected in the ninja system, the daimyo system, and the mindset of civilians.

Ninjas clearly could have used their power for production, yet they begged the daimyo for funding while fighting to the death over mission payments. They created slaughter while calling for peace. They obeyed daimyo who lacked even the strength to truss a chicken, yet also wanted autonomy.

The ninjas were completely throwing away the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds.

The daimyo were the same. On one hand, they were relatives who ate, drank, played, and enjoyed life together; on the other, they waged war against the nations ruled by those same relatives. They relied on ninjas while also guarding against them.

The daimyo had simply stopped treating themselves as human, and they did not treat anyone else as human either.

The civilians were even worse. They feared and hated ninjas while spending money to hire ninjas to do things for them.

The civilians were raising themselves like pigs, fattening the butcher only so he could slaughter them later.

It was easy to imagine how deeply entrenched the people's fixed ideas were in this world, how difficult they would be to change, and how much resistance he would encounter. That resistance would likely come not only from those with vested interests; even the exploited and oppressed civilians might rise up to oppose him.

But this world possessed something capable of breaking everything: Chakra!

Chakra could not only control others and alter their thoughts, but also allow one person to stand against an entire nation, physically send all dissenters to the afterlife, blur the line between life and death, and travel through time and space. This was also the source of Minagawa Uchiha's confidence—the foundation that made him believe he would eventually change this world.