Kabuto Yakushi

Across the vast land, the smoke of the Third Ninja World War had consumed countless lives and left behind innumerable helpless orphans.

Kabuto Yakushi was one of them. Compared to the children who had silently perished amid the dust of war, perhaps fate had shown him a sliver of mercy.

He had been far too young then. In his hazy memories, even his parents' faces and names had vanished without a trace, and he had no way of knowing his own name.

Alone, he could only wander, like a dead leaf drifting in the wind, never knowing when he would be crushed in some corner of a hopeless battlefield, with no one even left to collect his bones.

Just as the flame of his life was about to burn out, a gentle figure named Yakushi Nonō became his only salvation from the abyss of despair.

It was this compassionate nun who found him on a battlefield strewn with corpses and brought him back to the Orphanage she had painstakingly built.

That humble yet warm place not only sheltered him from the wind and rain, but also gave him the meaningful name "Kabuto Yakushi."

His surname came from Yakushi Nonō, who had given him a new life; his given name carried her deep, motherly hopes and blessings.

Life at the Orphanage was poor, nowhere near comfortable. Coarse food and simple surroundings were the norm for him and his companions.

Yet to Kabuto Yakushi, who had endured those freezing years of wandering, this place was heaven.

More importantly, it gave him a precious gift. Because of his congenital vision problems, Yakushi Nonō took off the black round-framed glasses she had worn for years and personally placed them on him.

In that moment, the blurred world suddenly became clear. That gift, filled with